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

DUTCH AND FLA NDERS (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) 13au ssELs, JAN. 20 . —The reports that have been Spread by the Dutch and German journals, of an in disposition of the Emperor of Russia, are completely l ' e foted b recent accounts from St. Petersburgh, dated the 7th of this month, which announces that his kajeqy the Emperor Nicholas, accompanied by the 4rtuld Duke Alexander and a brilliant staff, had a VIM review all the troops of the garrison on the 4th instant. iiub.,ll,reu announced some days ago a report that M. de ,en. Mu s s on, the Ambassador of Holland at the Court tbeeltim, had been appointed Governor-General of • ,'"Iltoll possessions in the East Indies. This news is as good as certain. The Amsterdam Handles- I giving an account of the reception of that testnen by the King, the Princes, and the most distioguishe,l persons in Holland, congratulate country on the choice that has just i en mule of M. Rochussen as Governor- General of 14a---achoice it says, which seems to combine every thin that • ' g at it required to promote the increase of the eirdimercial intercourse between the mother country a L'its colonial possessions. Our countrymen, M. . me M. left in 1841 on a scientific mission i t° South America, returned us to' Brussels a few days 4 - ged lie has explored successively, in three years Gre it half, the Republic of Venezuela and New nada, Jamaica, and the eastern part of the Island of c u b a. I)._ , ~ This who is known to the learned world 1 7 , els preceding visits to Brazil and Mexico, has er ased the vast ebain of the Andes, between the i l l 74 &bores of Venezuela and the chief coast of the itiaf ac e lil x e t e ? ti. 7 which is above six hundred leagues a n; gloomy and pestilential forests ti pper the P la ms of the Tierra Caliente, as well as the regions of the Cordelleras, known in South tios_,ea by the name of Paramos, were ultimately ex -I;n:weg He passed several times the limit of perpetual ts; a ft ve ntured to ascend to the three highest eillritda°'l'6'ew Grenada and Venezuela, the Nevadode fe e , ' ,437 feet, the volcano of Folima, , h end th e s. 16,500 feet s b ni , Sierra Nevada de Santa Maria, 17 240 ex c .._ . e the level of the sea. During these dangerous 1114: ) rs s l ens he as sn also visited the Indian can- Who i t GlAiira d the ferocious Auruhuacos, tt4o% t!t Alaria, de ~itnn abit the cold and temperate side of the Nevado and he sojourned for whole months frozeL'he frightful solitude of the Quindice, and the ttut o d: i c'ns of the Folima and of the grand P . a: it etmee Ruiz,„ These dangerous researches in im visited i°l4l4ries, some of which had never before been d lornevjo particule lit an : .ale been fertile in numerous discoveries, an I Linden for r, is indebted to A . bu rain undired spe—cies of new plants, collected from the of th i Plans of the Apiore to the gigantic summits tr,, e 4 lndes -tee 0.,„ ' news fi. rn;.bersed Prussian Gazette of the 19th has Protaoti° - -t. Petersburgh of the 11th, relative to motion in the army of the Caucasus. VSTRIAINT FUN DS.—VinzniA, JAS. 14. 4 Per v -eat. bletalliques ................. 11114 _ per -eat. Ditto ........................... 101% Lo an t i re i 83e ,, t... Ditto ........................... 78 i . . 41, , 1 g e t i e i u:44:e k rt izilB,ae II : g s i i b itto, i=B,3. ............................. 0. j a ... a a .: 11 ..... ........ ; . ........*:*:• . .......: . .....................................16_17 unGH BORSENHALLE, JAN. 18. Bills. Money. • 113 A,ustrian 5 per Ceuta ****** tank Share s ** ***************** 1650 Anglo-Russian Loan .................... --1 1-051/4 ......................... Aktasian 5 per Cent., ll'amb. Certificate 105 A _ bitto Ist series Inscription .............. —1 Ditto, 1-105 e irt,. • and Co., 3d and 4th series 99? , ••,,, in ercate ................... 99 2 _ - leliv 4 per Cent Rene .... d C 0........ 91 Ditto stieglitz . " -an ....... 90 I .1 APAnish Xew 5 .... cent.... ................. 20 /2 L2uDitto 3 c!).......... 361/2 _ _ per nt. ........................ =liglo-rortufuese Loan 2 1 / 2 per Cent. sd. _ , .ch Actua Debt 2'per-Cent ...... 63% .. uimishstae.w.s4, ker Cent. Loan, 844 • .. .. 8 7 71 • 8-7% Natioual : n _ 'I L oan, 3 per Cent......, _ _ Bank Shares ..................... Exchange on London. Ntersburg, Three months ......... .....t. tiontien, Two months ............... 14141104rg torsenballe, Jan. 19. DUTCR FU n. Jill' 21. Bills. Money. 64r ictual Debt, 2% per Cent ......... 64S 791 ilia.% 3 per Cent. ............. 78p 99 to;tto. 4 per Cent. ........... 98i. _ .... Z Ditto,. Per Cent. ..• . . Aniort Slylle. ...... 99:14 100004 -,endle, ‘lte-per..de ... t ...... 99F 93 Letio, 31)(i_per in. .... 920 148 Coinnircia/lCompany,4l.p.;;Ct. 147 /2 - East India Loan, (per Cent ...... 20 Exchange on Lodon, one month 12 15 TWO" InOnthB ............ 12 At siglit ................. 81 2-10 On Ha Va g ........ 35 56 2-10 Two months ............. 35 a 2-13 On Pang ............. 57 68 2-10 ` --1 : 1 11t,, ) , , Two montleN ............ 56 "" Papers, Jan. 22. 1111r-ISSIAN EUNDS.--BeltuN, End Sch. 3% per Cent ........ 1001,4 _ 99 /4 R.-mlactlagli8111301:16 4 p er Ct. Jill/L.28. Money. ...t , • -`'eange on London ), 2 o' ths ..- invenial i1ru5........1,........_44 azette, IJ-ton. 19. tt,Sithr Ijobert Peel arrive din town this morning from ntil.el(l43l°. be I diapatt`,""--, An extra mail, Via Marseilles, will . tette '4%1 front the Postoffice to-morrow Madras. th r , f,h°l' go b should be also addressed ria is . the f k". 44WELL.-...The present Mrs. Tawell lior"thtr 4, 0 f the late Mr. Edward Appleby, formerly of y elps a hillciii, but who died at Houghton -le -SpriniF, ,b -%%0r, r her first husband was a Mr. Cutfoasta Y mar tied to ,eltss one daughter, still living. 144)4je11% Tawell •(accused of the muSrhdeerwofSinaraauht 1)1 ta k-lilt ill! the Issu e of Which marriage is an f b 0y.,-010 Months old.-- Tyne Mercury. named f-stotli , jo t Mont h s a small farmer 41‘ heiriing* at Norton-jutta-Kemee was, hear t i 4 .: It r tire two-raile stone on the d i g g i ngSetchiey-road, Ithichil Se al, he discovered something buried in a cloth, i*vielfe,.._4oll exaniination, proved to be a quantity of kAptb2:, such i s carried about by pedlars, and which '''q to haves'''.4"arceiter ,„0 he en in the ground %considerable time. Dg h , ,- le, 41'0,4T- 4-40 k Ha -bROPUOBIA.—On Saturday night dr ttll4°--64,114:47V %nee, aged twelve years, died of hY The disease made 11,4 •uoYntaghs, tear Lurgan. bekrl ,IrMee on the Wednesday morning retch ttotaYth'urteeu months a.fter he had received a sc at the I tt itb e he lh ' tee th of a dog on the hand —the wound ~ ern previous, ' , 41 9. - 1 80 slight, that rho blood appeared.—Nertft . b t , tate taat „,-411 0* LORD AsToN.--We regret of thiau: obitttary 1,4% '41%1141414 Noble day Which occurred atthe ,contains a notice of tthe 4111,..e Ifh,ehhigg, in this county, yesterday (Tuesday).vdsejacath. L o r f1i741-i'''°ll. Lad Re Walter Hutchinson e°l- tg.ig,lveliiaa Irish peer, v i;nd the last surviving member tlet,' ~Y, male or female ; consequently the title is ' 3l ', te 41's Lordship's loss will be severely fel . t v b i y u_ th o e f kil'll,4ttlet,il/4003 he Was a kind benefactor. The .!'.. p 6, o f tadt,ell ta.,(of W. hieh the Hon. R. H. Clive, Ottheuge,L3 patron) becomes vacant by 4111 AND Worcester Chrontc/e.. —The °111e,.., 8 Worcester POR THE lirs.L.ord- POOR. itoll --e.tee ~,.._ :_ i t e 4ec tral hlt yePeteoeridantt: at the late meeting on theabove - i ll P ro od e Lis submitted a one which was very highly at the London Tavern, when among ,L.lv king r 44/4111e -1 hayin for its Object the making vaer:louudsedaivniy tlylitoZe, as department, so as to p with re tjleeveteitt iCtl'llee,inTl overlooked by a neighbour . r and thereby 4k - -•,, th e easant ob servations or feeli f n t g h s e I tht t et /enure, quality, or quantity o Ah 1,' 4 °e ashed, al Itk.,'',4ll.tottnint ItY I' ILY.—Sarah Whiteside, ar articles and ()as .." e 'll le, near G 4 t Aimed eighty - nine daughters,Year‘ b,411 °f gash, has now living' sons and their 'llift-erii, in good health, visited r and dined • 04 g ti ,,4 ihoi. oltl Christmasay, at her house ,rand 'll4 ` ett,lll4l customs She has forty-two -- - 4db eN 4141 • i ar in w ßa it wcliffe, Aetteib a s ty-nine great gran c B qt Flleh. thhip -atreet Police•court to, (air. • t of th yesierdayt Mr. ; tiolvi m, the magistrate, announced the receipt 411viyaeell NMI for the assistance of the . poor woman PNO: f ill v' jeY, whose family had latelziaustaineclthe Boost ittatiea, it out of eight Chi ten having, in 1 Nt'oxlti 14.4 au,teonth,. died of scarlet fever and dropsy Q tee, 5 4 3' s TY ' and the Rev. J. S. 31;,.. MutL;man, U; 11;1.14c 104. ;ft te-17'4 2_lll;‘t L)olie.,tyli.a;t "e a Essex }lead, 444 A 4 1: k: 11.. 7s.n's let A. 13-, 11 - ; fl. t. 55. ; IL W. FA, 3/. 10.• G. It 14 bI ~Q.ll I'INE' AP. PLES ,--In consequence of thethe ~,cal ..teidg .. , a the iiriporta.tion of pine apples ft.?" additional allegeslilts 1 --` year, upwards of ten thousand . 1N1'41444 beenset apart: for their cultivation at Nes! Pro )1,41:1 dabem an qual quantity at the small island tt",°tlisltier.e, In ord.; to improv e the cultivation, some .-t l ei ; eilaets of the moat approved sorts were !lent itNl t t;' /ear front this country. Letters just received i,YE`tittFulY of the p rospect of the'crops, and at I mports 14 Ilt APP likely to be very extensive. . ,t:lippolle`iPiliTactt t )1, SPRlNG.—Afsaptnt. &lion of of the ltinallaeY of hielhtlPNhe:i "ring"' 443% betels spe, ens as to a rh e a s nd s evaerperoaond long. winter with h v Pthell'vere to be 'afflicted, we may mention that au neg of LwOelt there hu's been to from thecop_r. Pty std )1144_0.,rcht_ird sitnulhe!l theeournestid sencicuean:" r-171 i of t Ne t i o JI;r : of Silvertolt, in this cklihsh,...l°4l p Lull arid perfect- bloom—Plls:lith Times. . ,rssueis Egerton h ts, we regret to say, been ,'11ahr,.::4411 an attack of vut, At Ilatehford-hall. His stt,ot',,`ll, howe'rer, again ,eonva:.,seeut. Mr. Francis , 110,-„'4 an the Excellent, at Portsmouth. ti'triplith•---kitayaariocx.-The usnal two months tiliteh-:,,.,°° dulness of trade preceding'. epAtel -Zu. over, and an active resump'ion is imme the new year '41)1 -",ciP ted. The rintfields here irre somewhat o f ,o i:4 isith uioreign ordePrs at present, at, d a month 14 4ie IPet'atl to--h present, ill be fully engaged thh, 4)1.41,, _, elapse ere t ey w Plo:;11 th'er:4lloe. Our manufacturers a.ntiipj . .t y e that ijo4sdo4,lth. orattei dt/r)irngheliiist 3 ear, rlateet.priinTipe littooesele_ 414'044i:4s Witsh some homer markets, are ex he a ted to 14' tiz,V:e ia.vogue. The activity of last ynotajae_ 4,1,, .to tamed in .this branehhilfs. mulae prwepozikthedtwheithparitiTtalli e h nts in s'IC;111;:rfully al 1 al ataaccommodation• lii;(141 Il:°"' j°a"° to tirsd • '4 Wk s k 4Y, the 9th instant, a remarkably fin.e. t t 41 '..0 by Sir T I). &laud, Bait, at his vol. *note, THE TAXATION. In talking of the taxation of Great Britain, landlords always insist that the land bears peculiar burdens, equal to, in their way, if not greater, than those with which the remaining kinds of property are loaded throughout the kingdom. This assertion is made every day, and with reference to the present time. Look at the facts of the case. During the reign of King William 111., according to the state ment of Sir John Sinclair, in his work on the Revenue, the annual average of the land-tax was 34 per cent., that is, more than a third of the whole revenue of the kingdom. As Mr. Macintyre states the same fact, his deductions being taken seemingly from one individual year, more " than a fourth of the public revenue was derived (in the reign of William of Orange) from the land- tax. At that time the whole of the revenue was about 4,600,0001., of which the tax on land was about 1,300,0001." Now, no man can deny that the species of property which has increased most enormously in the ratio of productiveness, since the close of the seventeenth century, is land. The rents of the landlords have been doubled, trebled, and quadrupled—much more, indeed, in many cases— ithin the last few score years. The land-tax should then have been greatly increased in common fairness, with the increasing revenue which has been exacted from the country. Has such been the case ? "In the year 1842," we find " the total amount of revenue is 62,000,0001., of which the taxes on land amount to less than 1,200,000/." The land taxes redeemed since 1798 ought to be added to this, since the annual payment was sold for a value equal to it, and the land-tax ought to be stated at about 2,000,000/. But taking this latter sum as the correct one, what an enormity of increase on the burdens of the other classes, while the land stands comparatively at little more than the same rate as in William the Third's time ! A third at the utmost has been added to the land-tax, while the common taxes have been raised to nearly twelve times their amount in the same period, notwithstanding that the vast increase in the productiveness of land would have justified so fully a proportionate augmentation of the burdens thereon ! HER MAJESTY AT STRATH FIELDSAYE. WHITE CONDUIT HOUSE THE PAST AND THE PRESENT. (From the Sunday Times.) We have little record of the pastimes of our fore• fathers ; Strutt has, it is true, described the games in which they " delote " to unbend themselves, but he has presented us no picture of the people. Sam. Foote's " Tea Parties" are but a name, it was only through a verbal description by old Byrn, the veteran ballet-mas ter, that we could at all imagine the effect of that enter tainment, and Byrn, who died at the age of ninety, was but twelve years old when he witnessed Foote's per formance ! The publications of that day entered into no detail ; that everybody went to see, the editors deemed it unnecessary to describe, as if all records of events were not meant for posterity. Thus it is with the old household words that spoke of the enjoyments of our predecessors. We read of Ranelagh, and ask where and what it was ?—of the Ridotto at Marylebone-gar dens—of the Apollo Saloon in St. Georges' fields—of the famed Dog and Duck in the same vicinity—of Bag nigge and of Tunbridge Wells (London) —scarcely a vestige remains to depict the site of one or eitherofthem. Ere steam had gained an empire upon land and water, visitors to Brightheltnstone were few indeed. Margate had its hoy boat, the miseries of which Charles Dibdin has perpetuated in a song ; the voyage frequently lasted three or four days—it is now accomplished in five or six hours. In those "good o ld d ays that our grandmothers tell of" Islington, Highgate. Ilatnpstead, Hornsey, and Finchley were the Brighton, the Ramsgate, and the Broadstairs of the middle classes. It was with a view to put upon record some picture of the past that we some time since gave a sketch of Bagnigge and Sadler's Wells in the olden time, and in the same spirit we speak of White Conduit House, as it was when our progenitors called a visit to it a "country jaunt." A magnificent tavern—where the O'Connells, the Broughams, and the Duncombes have assembled thousands—now stands upon the spot formerly dedicated to the revels and innocent diversions of the citizens of the last century. The amusements of former days might literally be described as " life in the fields." Hornsey-woed House, the Wells, Copenhagen House, the Spa, and White Conduit were all situated in the midst of meadows. While the citizen enjoyed his ale or cyder, and smoked his pipe, his dame drank her tea and demolished the Conduit cakes, and the children plucked buttercups and gambolled at their pleasure. The bowling-grown had its attractions for lusty youth, and the coffee-room formed a snug retreat for afflicted age. All this would be deemed coarse and vulgar now, for the new school teaches every man to assume a station above his own. Appearance has taken the place of reality, and with far more show, we fear there is much less happiness. After this explanatory sermon, let us to the history of the house which gives a name to this article. The " Conduit" from which the house took its title was in an adjoining field. A spring there was, in the 14th century, resorted to by the Carthusian Friars. In 16111538 Thomasthis t t t o w n a sf founded e e d n d t e h r e e d c h t a o r t H e r e y HouseV ll o l n . p a l r n t of the site of the old monastery. " This charitable foun dation for pensioners and scholars, is (was) supplied from the Old Conduit, in the field to the west of the vil lage of Eyseldon" (Islington). A few years afterwards the New River Company became incorporated, but it was many, many years ere water from this source was car ried to the neighbourhood of West Smithfield. Conduits were things of great importance with our forefathers. About 1236 a great want of water prevail ing in London. occasioned by the encroachment of build ings on the fresh water canals about the City, a scheme was set on foot for bringing water from six fountains "in the towne of Tyburne." In 1285 the first conduit was built at the west end of Cheapside, near the centre of the space between the corner of St. Paul's-churchyard and St. Martin's-le-Grand. STRATIIFIELDSAYE, WEDNESDAY EVENING.—LittIe or nothing has occurred to vary the even tenor in which matters here are proceeding. The frost has gone otf, and to-day has been mild and pleasant, with a little rain in the forenoon, not sufficient, however, to prevent the Prince from enjoy ing field sports. The dinner party last night, in addition to the former guests, embraced three officers of the Hamp shire Yeomanry. In the evening were also present Sir H. and Lady Russell, Captain and Mrs. Brown, and Miss Walms ley, Mr., Mrs., and Miss Beauchamp, and Mr., Mrs., and Miss Anderton. The band of the Foot Guards performed as before. After dinner the gentlemen of the party amused themselves in the billiard-room. Her Majesty retired about eleven o'clock, con ducted to her apartments by her noble host. To-day she rose at her usual early hour, break fasted in private with the Prince, but did not take her accust.med morning walk. Just opposite one of the fronts of Strathfieldsaye House, and forming a part of the range of building principally appropriated to the stables, is a spacious tennis court, roofed over. Here her Majesty and the Prince proceeded after breakfast, the Prince amusing himself by trying the sport peculiar to the place. After this interlude, the Prince sallied forth to shoot. Thorpe's Copse, chosen for the scene of the day's recreation, is a cover about two miles from Strathfieldsaye. The beaters mustered in great force, and the shooting party consisted of Prince Albert, the Duke of Bedford, Col. Bouverie, and Capt. Brown, a gentleman residing in the neighbourhood. Lord Charles Wellesley and Mr. Anson were present, but did not join in the sport. The party rode to the ground, the Prince and Lord Charles Wellesley heading the group of horsemen. After a short stay at Thorpe's Copse, the party abandoned it for the pheasantry close to the Noble Duke's park, behind the rectory of Strathfieldsaye. The following is the amount of execution done on the furred and feathered denizens of Thorpe's Copse and the pheasantry :—The grand total of game killed numbered 71 ; of these 39 were pheasants, 25 hares, and 7 rabbits. The Prince dispatched 23 pheasants, 12 hares, and 6 rabbits. Look, vain, at the different proportions in which land pays to the public revenue in other leading Eu ropean countries :—ln France, the land and pro perty-tax brings 23,200,0001., while other taxes fetch 17,500,0001.; in Austria the former rates at 8,795,0001., and the latter at 7,700,000/. ; and in Prussia the land brings to the revenue 3,990,0001., while the re maining taxes stand at 3,667,000/. And yet our British landholders have the impudence to talk of their bearing " peculiar burdens"—paying, as they do, but about two millions of the fifty composing the pub lic revenue! The whole time occupied in shooting to-day did not exceed an hour and a half, the party returning at one o'clock to luncheon. The keepers and beaters praise the Prince's quick ness and steadiness in taking aim. The number of head shot to-day was not so great as that dispatched yesterday ; and both days' returns fall very short of the battue slaughtering at Stowe • but his Grace of Wellington is by no means so keen a sportsman, or so strict a preserver of game, as the Duke of Buck ingham. After luncheon there was a grand match at tennis. The whole party, or nearly so, adjourning to the court. The game was played by Lord Charles IVellesly and Mr. Phillips, the tennis-master, against two professional players from Hampton. Her Majesty expressed herself much gratified with the sport, which was conducted with great spirit and vigour. . _ _ Nor is this all. We have yet to reckon what the landholder gains by the laws on food which he has established, and place them against the taxes which he bears. He may be easily shown to be in the posi tion of a gainer by the corn-laws to an extent far ex ceeding what he contributed as a tax-payer. Such is the sort of contribution which the British land holder makes to the revenue of the empire. There will come a time when men will wonder at these things as monstrosities unparalleled in the history of nations. Nay, the time is fast coming. The League are not working in vain.—Scotsman. LITERATURE. 7 the dinner party to-day will include, in addition to the former circle, Lord and Lady Carnarvon, Sir John Cope, and the Speaker of the House of Com mons. AUNT MARY'S STORY-BOOK. Barton and Clark, London, 1845. In 1438 Sir W. EastfieTcl, Lord Mayor, at his own ex pense brought water from Tyburn, Highbury Barn, and from the Islington fields. He erected conduits in Fleet street, Aldermanbury, and Cripplegate. In 1443 the Common Council granted 1,000 marks to wards erecting a " new conduit, near St. Paul's-gate, at the upper end of Cheapside" (no doubt the side pre viously alluded to). Spring water at this time was evi dently a scarce commodity. The price of the best ale was then three-halfpence a gallon. In 1541 orders were issued for repairing the conduits of London, and for bringing water from Hampstead, Marylebone, Hackney, Islington, Muswell Hill, &c., indemnifying owners of land from damage by such water courses. A new conduit was erected at Walbrook corner (the water being drawn from the Thames). A writer, in 1750, says, at the west end of the Poultry, where Bucklersbury meets Cheapside, stood the great conduit. The south end of George-street, Hanover-square, ter minates in Conduit-street, built upon the site of Con duit Mead. This conduit supplied the then west-end of the metropolis. In 1577 Wm. Lamb, citizen and cloth-worker, drew several springs of water into one bead at the upper end of Red Lion-street. It was denominated Lamb's Con duit. From it he supplied (through leaden pipes*) Snow-hill, and where an old conduit (repaired by him) received the water. This conduit was taken down in 1706. The Foundling Hospital now stands on its site. The chapel in the court at the north-west corner of Monkwell-street, was originally erected by the same Wm. Lamb. We have here a new edition, carefully revised by the author, of one of the prettiest children's story-books we have met with for some time. The language throughout is simple and natural, without being at all feeble, the incidents are skilfully put together, and the volume is embellished with several pleasing coloured prints. Her Majesty is expected to leave Strathfieldsaye for Windsor to-morrow, at eleven o'clock. The mansion of Bramshill, the seat of Sir John Cope, which the Queen yesterday visited, is a very curious and interesting old English manor-house, built in the Elizabethan age, and racy of the time. Modern Elizabethan mansions are common enough, but it is a rare as well as a beautiful sight, the veritable old residence of an ancient English family, grey and weather stained, with its trim ter races and carved balconies, and elaborately sculptured balustrades—its heavy-arched doorways, its long echoing passages, and tapestried halls and galleries— all cold, and stately, and rigid as centuries ago, when hawking parties rode, with ringing horns and jang ling bells, forth from its massive portals, or when rude masques and quaint gambols charmed away long winter nights, within its torch and faggot lighted halls. You pass from gallery to gallery, and chamber to chamber, all still furnished and decorated as when the gay courtiers of the time of Elizabeth and the first Charles paced them. There are the old oaken floors and carvings upon the walls, the quaint chisel ings of grotesque forms and grinning faces, which stare at you from dim corners ; there are the pointed and groined projections from the roof, the glorious old fire-places, big enough to roast oxen ; their de corations piled up in storied hatchtnents to the ceiling, and putting modern mantel-pieces to the blush ; there are the old wavy tapes tries, gorgeous with groups from the classic stories of Greece and Rome ; there are the vast erect old chairs, with backs like steeples, the massive tables, the quaint escutcheons, and devices in needle work—the unending employment of some fair damsel when foul weather forced her to hold the embroidery needle in her fingers, rather than the hawk upon her wrist. All these signs and tokens of the stately past —its lofty dignity, its quaint pageantry, and still its lack of the modern refinements of comfort, have all an abiding place and a home in the mansion of Brams hill. Nor is this all. The beauties of Charles the Second's Court look down upon you from the walls— their eyes still lustrous, and their cheeks still breath ing the peachy ripeness of the pencil of Sir Peter Lely. The more staid portraits of Kneller are also there; and mingling with the long array of family likenesses we have a number of curious quaint spect nullc of the early Flemish school portraits—of dismal scowling monks, and landscapes with figures of boors, and hunternen, and revellers—all hard, and stiff, and angular, but ;;till wrought out by those who laid the foundations of the nature-copying school of Teniers and Ostade. Here are, besides, a vast number of tqouiariens,t and o d old articles . of desks--inla i d d rn w i t i n th re—c gan a d b y i n a e h ts e 1 , 1 s, and esc wroughtru into odd kaleidoscope-lige forms and devices, and altogether the "plenishing" of the old house—its pic tures and its ornaments, its deep arched windows, its tapestried walls, its long echoing galleries, and sombre chambers, are admirably adapted to lead the imagi nation back to the olden time, the image of which it so vividly brings before the mind. Her Majesty expressed herself highly delighted with the antique beauties of Bramshill. Mrs. Cra shay, 'the doorkeeper, acted as cicerone. Sir John Cope was absent dining her Majesty's visit—not having had timely information of the royal intention. Sir John is a really " fine old English gentleman ;" who, although in his 77th year, still rides up to the hounds as vigorously as he might have done half a century ago. SINGULAR MISTAKE.—Last Friday afternoon a clipper schooner belonging to Newcastle, took a pilot at the mouth of the river, and brought up in Montrose harbour. On coming on shore the captain inquired immediately for his consignees, designing them as mer chants in Aberdeen, and was surprised to find that he had entered Montrose Harbour instead of that of the " city of the North." Such a mistake occurring in the 19th century certainly betokens a lamentable want of knowledge, and is another proof of the great need of a properly constituted board for ascertaining the qualifi cations of masters and mates previous to their being en trusted with the care of life and property.—Montrose Standard. W e are sorry to learn that the lobster fishers in the Hebrides have not been so successful in their specula tions in the English markets since our last notice as we could have wished them, or their exertions merited. Owing to the stormy weather and intervening fogs, the steamers to and from the Highlands, but more particu larly from Glasgow, have been prevented from sailing at the stated time; and, in consequence, the lobsters being too long out of their native element, the greater part of them died ere they reached the English markets. We learn that proposals have been made to have the lobsters boiled and prepared here before they are trans mitted to the sister kingdom, so that they may be fit for the market there.—Caledenian Mercury. We are glad to learn that the gingham weavers in Whitehaven, in the employ of Messrs. Chambers and Co., of Carlisle, have lately bad an advance in their ,-eges of one penny per head, which will amount to from 6d. to 9d. per week to ordinary workmen, and perhaps to ls. er *Tic to the quickest hands in their employ ment. p Cumr..94" acque t d P • WIGAN.--FAT. L ACCIDENT ON THE NORTH UNION RAILWAY.—On Thurst:laY night last, between ten and eleven o'clock, a fatal aL7ident happened to a man, named William Round, on the North Union Railway, near Mr. Hargreave's warehouse c• luggage station, Wigan. Round had, for about three i':'eltar been en gaged as an occasional assistant in and abut Hargreave's warehouses ; and, more particularly, we believe, to help his brother, who has been a servant in the same place for many years. On the night in question, his brother being called in some other direction, it fell to the lot of William Round to attend a luggage train, at the time stated, for the purpose of removing some tarpauling sheets from the waggons, before the train proceeded from the sta tion. He was engaged in doing this when the train started, and had left his lamp on the side of the line ; he is supposed to have either jumped off the carriages, or have been so much thrown off his balance in getting upon them, that when he came to the ground he staggered backwards and fell over the aide of the bridge, his head coming in contact with some stones, and his body rolling into the river Douglas, where it was found early next morning. From some unfortunate neglect, for neglect it must be, there is not the slightest protection,*by wall or pallisading, at that side of the bridge, although the " switches," which communicate with the line leading to the warehouses, are placed on or very near it. The watchman, who attended with Round at the train, be lieving him to have done his work and gone home, went away also ; and no inquiry was made until he was discovered to be missing on the following morning, when his body was found in the river. He appeared to have bled profusely from the side of the head, and it is supposed sufficient iujury had been received to cause death before he got into the water. An inquest was held on Saturday even ing, before Mr. Rogerson, borough-coroner, when a verdict of " Accidental death" was returned. The jury also strongly recommended that a suitable guard or pro tection should be immediately placed upon the bridge, which recommendation is, we believe, about to be com plied with.—Manchester Guardian. Mr. Tufnell, M.P., is detained in Italy by the ill health of Mrs. Tufnell, but hopes to be back in Eng land in the course of the month of February, to attend to his duties in Parliament. EXTENSIVE ROBBERY OF BANK NQTES.—On Wed nesday information was circulated throughout the metro politan and City police districts, that•on the evening of Saturday, the 18th instant, Mr. J. Brodrick, a gentleman recently come from Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and residing at No. 23, Haydon-square, Minories, was robbed while sitting in the pit of Covent-garden Theatre of bank notes to the value of 8251 The notes were enclosed in a paper packet, and were deposited in an inside breast pocket of his inner coat. They consisted chiefly of Bank of England notes, and some were of the York and Stock ton banks. About 30 of them were for 10L each, and the rest of them were for 5L each, the numbers and dates being unknown. How the robbery was effected, or at what period of the evening, is a mystery. CHILD MURDER.—Yesterday forenoon Mr. W. Carter held an inquest at the Cottage of Content, Locks fields, Walworth, on the body of a newly-born female child, which was found dead in Penton-place, Walworth. Frederick Gibbs, of 14, Regent-street, Brixton, stated that on Sunday morning last whilst proceeding across the fields in Penton-place, he saw a parcel lying in the area of an unfinished house. Witness with considerable difficulty got it up, and on opening it he discovered the dead body of a female child. Police-constable 208 P came to the spot, and subsequently conveyed the body to the station-hduse. There were several marks of vio lence about the head. Mr. W. IL Dry, surgeon. said that he saw the child soon after it was found. It ap peared of recent birth. There were several contusions of the scalp and left forehead, and another bruise on the back, which injuries, he had no doubt, were the result of violent blows inflicted by some blunt instrument, which had caused the deceased's death soon after birth. Other corroborative evidence having been adduced, the jury returned the following verdict :—" That the deceased was born alive, and that she was wilfully murdered by some person or persons unknown." MORE ADVANCE IN WAGES.—The miners in the em- Ploy of Messrs. Lloyd, Foster, and Co., the extensive coal and iron masters, of Wednesbury, have received an ad vance in their wages ; the thin coal men to the amount of threepence per day, and the thick coal men sixpence a day. The iron trade is in a most flourishing condition, and it is most gratifying to find the men partaking o f the prosperity which prevails throughout the district.— Birmingkani Journal. We are happy to learn that the health of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, Bart, is considerably improved, and that hopes are entertained of his complete recovery. —Bury Post. The Marquis and Marchioness Camden are expected, in Belgrave-square, at the end of the month, from the Wilderness, near Seven Oaks, Kent, for the season . HARROW SCHOOL.—Yesterday Harrow Seilo.ol opened under its now head -master, the Rev. Charles 1 Vaughan. Notwithstanding the progress made by the New River Company, conduits were continually erected, and the old ones kept in repttir. It is within the recollection of many now living that the river burst its channel (a thing pre dicted a century before). This accident gave a handle to the numerous family of grumblers to mourn over the de cay of conduits. To the north of White Conduit House are," says Lambert in his survey, " the remains of an ancient forti• fication in a place known by the name of The Reed Moat. or Six Acre Field. This place is supposed to have beed , the spot where Faulinus, the Roman General, fled with his men, when the Britons, under Queen Boadicea, mur dered the inhabitants of London, and set fire to the city. Whether this supposition be correct or not, it is certain that a Roman camp was situated on this spot, from the remains of the General's prxtorium in the south-west angle of the field." VI " REPOII,T is r MADE IGT o u: o w N A T A E g E .,, W_ D O Ec F I D 6 A 9 L 2 S . TON AND After a long exordium and description of other places, the report proceeds thus :—" And we have also, in fur ther pursuance of the said order, viewed the springs and water belonging to the citty neare Islington, and find the same in two heads, one covered over with stone in a field neare Jack Straw's Castle, which is fed by sundry springs in an adjacent field, and is usually called The White Conduit." This document, which is very curious, and explains the routes taken from the different cow duits, will be found at length in " Nelson's Islington,'' quarto, 1811, p. 154 (curious). The Wheel Pond, by White Conduit House, was a famous place for duck hunting. Sir William Davenant describes a City wife going to the fields to " sop her cake in milke," on which her husband exclaims— " Ho, ho !—to IstaxaTox—enough. Fetch Job, my son, and our dog Ruffe; For there, in pond, through mire and muck, We'll cry—hay duck !—there Ruffe I—hay duck." Goldsmith speaks of the feast of hot rolls and butter and the tea-drinking parties at White Conduit House. Dr. Hunter tells a pleasant story of a lady, an invalid, whom he recommended to live at Islington ; she agreed for some lodgings, but discovering the bannisters to be out of repair said, " These must be mended before I come." " That, Madam, would be of no use," replied the landlady, " the undertakers' men, in bringing down the coffins, are continually breaking the bannisters ; if I did mend them they'd be just the same again in a month or so." The lady did not take the lodgings. In a collection of the writings of Mr. Edward Ward (1717), in a poem entitled " A Walk to Islington," we find a description of New Tunbridge Wells (gardens, now built over ' • the site is betwe en Garnault-place a n d Sadler's Wells) ; he also describes the latter place, then called Sadler's Music House. The poem commences thus " In holiday time, when the ladies of London Walk out with their spouses, or think themselves undone, * * * * Then I, like my neighbours, to sweeten m life, Took a walk in the fields (i. e. Islington)— * * We saunter'd about near the New River Head, Where we prattled and talked, but what 'twas we said If you'd have me discover, indeed I must fail you," &c. It appears the price of admission to the New Tunbridge Wells was 3d. Of the amusements, he says :- 46We walk'd by an outhouse we found had been made b u y ch a s w or h t i o le titrade. , F ro or g r a f e a it t ig t a h n e d io /o t tt er 'ri y e l s, s a t n oo d d s See the gamesters all frown, and the lott'ry man smile, Till, tir'd with standing, we rambled from hence, And left the poor fools to be gull'd of their pence." In a paper entitled " The Dancing School," the writer describes an Easter Monday jaunt to High -gate and Finehley, via Islington.t (This part of London was evidently the universal resort of tradesmen, their wives, &c.)daughters, 'prentices, &c.) He says All •••• lave resource into the fields." He proceeds, in verse : " In little time to Islington we came, For cakes and ale, a town of ancient fam e , Which to this days frequented for the sa me ." His diseription of Highgate and of the crowds goinf 11 to Finehley, where " the murder e r was hung ' is life-like. .At the High Tavern , where the gentry met, ' he could not get a mutton chop, though he offered crown for i t. Th e masses had literally devoured all bo fore them, At what time the first tavern bearing the titl e pf White Conduit House was built does not clearly appea r ; but in the Gentleman's - 41agazine (1760) we find the following . " WHITE CONDUIT HOUSE. fi Whitl 3 ,,C°olo t „ 11°4 " , We will go, 104 ww.' gf?• ! , ? -71-trflirg(Trff Rigriftcp WislVtlBontlfty to ooffig -, 1 01 ,, 4 urgn t9n s oTory - fliee, And paints the rose upon the 40naemaid's q uo. Harriet or moll, more ruddy, Now 00 Of 'prentice, resident fa 41RPIP WWI Or alley kennel wash'd ; Uheapside, Cornhill, Or Cranbourne—thee for calcuments renown'd , • With joy distends ; his meal meridian o'er, With witch in hand ? he to WunT CoNDtrrr Hopm Hies Eno:v . 44oe This burlesque heroic concludes thus : " While tea and cream and butter'd rolls can pl ed While rival beaux aad jealous bell e s exist, , So long White Conduit House shall be thy fame. „ lfe kigmltnre tp this grandiloquent affair is W, w . Topham,lhe strongman, ahihiteci In the g o had thrice the strength of what is commonly termed a r ot quet o r : powerful man. He. was accustomed to. resist the draught of two horses, and doraavas of his fe en rietyo of her feats, tpp well authenticated to be dee med exa ggerations. Ihe fields around the Ponhit wPrel ee sort. A large pewter p . late tbht he dOubled tib - by its fingers is still preserved in the British Museum. The Daily Public Advertiser of August 11, 1749, las this record :—" yesterday, August 10, died ThoLtas Topham (known by the name of The Strong M an , os. for - of pi.ibli-house in , Hog-lane (Shoredite l ' ef(a a ; sioned by soveritl'irouii4o 4ill4self on u THE SUN, LONrON, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 23 13 last, after having stabbed his wife in the breast, who is likely to recover." Jealousy was the cause of this rash act. The wife subsequently recovered. Abraham Newhind, who died at Ilighbury in 1807, in his 78th year, was a frequenter of the White Conduit and the Barn House. He was noted as a " disputatious e. argumentative) person, yet generally respected by all visitors." A writer in 1774 gives this description of the place:— " The garden is formed into walks, prettily disposed. At the end of the principal one is a painting, which seems to render it (the walk) longer in appearance than it really is. In the centre of the garden is a fish-pond. There are boxes for company, curiously cut into hedges, adorned with Flemish and other paintings. There are two handsome tea-rooms, one over the other, and several inferior ones in the house." The fish-pond was soon after filled up, and its site planted, the paintings removed, and a new dancing and tea saloon, called the Apollo room, built. Christopher Bartholomew laid out the gardens and walks, and realised a great deal of money in this house; he was also proprietor of the old Angel Inn at Islington. Excessive speculations ruined him. Whilst in abject poverty, he dreamt of a number in the lottery, prevailed on a friend to go halves with him in a sixteenth, and, wonderful to relate, it came up a 20,0001. prize. Be died in 1809, at the age of sixty-eight. Bartholomew was the uncle of Frederick Hartland, the well-known Pantaloon. The small stone house that, until 1832, stood above the well, or conduit, was built in the year 1641. In Bowles' " Manly Recreations " are some capital prints of the bowling-green attached to the old house. In the early part of the present century, Mrs. Sharpe and a Mr. Warren had the house, to which a small ale and table beer brewery was attached. In 1826 a variety of theatrical experiments were made in the gardens. Mr. Lunt (celebrated as the first coffee•shopkeeper) opened them as a " Minor Vauxhall." Under his management Mrs. Bland made her last public appearance. The house and grounds are now in the possession of Mr. R. Rouse. The Licensed Victuallers hold their summer meeting here, the dinner being served beneath a canvass canopy that may be called a " monster tent." The large saloon in the house is continually engaged for dinners and public meetings, and from the size of the rooms and the extent of the gardens, White Conduit House offers facilities beyond those of any other esta blishment in or near the metropolis. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY.—Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal were taken for walking exercise this morning on the Terrace, and in the pleasure-grounds adjaceneto the Castle. Her Royal Highness the Princess Alice was also taken an airing to-day. The Duchess of Gloucester visited their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the Here ditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenburgh Strelitz yesterday, at Cambridge House. His Excellency the Turkish Ambassador trans acted business yesterday at the Foreign-office. Mr. Higham, Secretary and Comptroller-General to the Commissioners for the Reduction of the Na tional Debt, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-street. The Worshipful the Mayor of Huntingdon, Mr. Thomas Baring, M.P., Colonel Peel, M.P., and Mr. Rust, a deputation fro'n Huntingdon in favour of the London and York Railway, attended yesterday at the Railway Department of the Board of Trade, to pre sent a memorial in favour of the London and York Railway. The Rev. Dr. Smith and Mr. Lomas, a deputation from Horneastle, to present a similar memorial. The Worshipful the Mayor of Grantham and Mr. Wyles, a deputation from Grantham, to present a similar memorial. Mr. Isaac Dods and Mr. Charles Rennie, a depu tation from Spalding, to present a similar memorial. Mr. Clifford Pease, Mr. Holderness, Mr. Tall, and Mr. J. IL Smith, a deputation from Hull, to present a similar memorial. • Mr. Lindsell, a deputation from Biggleswade, to present a similar memorial.; also to present 4 tiiMilar memorial from the town of Bedford, The Worshipful the Mayor of East Retford and Dr. J. C. Hall, a deputation from East Retford, to present a similar memorial. Mr. Adams, Mr. Sturdy, and Mr. Coupland, a de putation from Boston, to present a similar memorial. Mr. Ellison and the Rev. IL W. Sibthorp, to pre sent a similar memorial from Lincoln. Mr, Atkinson and Mr. Whitwell, a deputation horn Peterborough, to present a similar memorial. Mr. Thorpe, a deputation from Newark, to pre sent a simil ar memorial lo favour of the London and York Railway, who transacted business yester day at the Railway Department of tho Board Af Wade, Serritox WALDEN.-,-Th addition to two maiden sessions in this borough in the past Epiphany we have plea sure in re c ordi ng t h at a third—the Epiphany 4e4t9110 1 has also proved a maiden one, there not being a single prisoner ror trial. The Mayor (George Youngman, Esq.), accompanied by the members of the town coun cil, proceeded ou Ainnday last to the Town-hall, and there adjourned the sessions, ktgpol*ng to, law, grati fied, we doubt not, that the year 9#/ nworaltY has commenced so favourably,,Ainca Ate .satiiffaction is so much eater in pr event i ng cr i me t h an i n p un i sh i n g i t. --Essex afraid, Leaden pipes (without solder) for conveying water, were invented by Robert Brocke, chaplain to Henry VIII. Robert Cowper, a goldsmith, first put the invention in practice. Of so much importance were these conduits, that when Oths Nicholson, MA., Christ Church, erected Carfax Con duit, in Oxford (1610), the scientific men of the metropolis crowded thither to inspect it. f It appears Ward and his mistress rode. One line gives us a graphic idea of that lazy convenience, a coach. He says—" We "Sometimes drew up our sashes, made of tin, To hide from vulgar eyes love's toys within" CUSTOM DUTIES ACT. Amongst the 349 articles in the Custom Duties Act, producing less than 1001. each of revenue, " alkali" stands at the head, the duty received on which, in 1839, was Bs. Ashes, not otherwise enumerated, 1/. 4s. 7d. ; copper ore, the produce of, and imported from any Bri tish possession within the limits of the East India Com pany's charter, gave 4s. 7d. ; camels' wool or hair, is. ; dog skins in the hair, not tanned, Is. 7d.; fish's skins, undressed, Is. ; slates, not otherwise enumerated, the large sum of Bd.; walnut oil, 35.; tanned goat skins, 6d.; steel unwrought, prepared in and brought from any Bri tish possession in Asia, Africa, or America, 6d. These are taken at random from the table in the appendix to the report of the Select Committee on import duties, which contains numerous others of similar insignificance, ranging from shillings to pounds, and vice versa. The list of 147 articles on which no duty was received contains alkali again at the head, not being barilla ; the duty being lie. 4d. per cwt., and running up to 11. 10s., according to the per centage of soda contained. Basket rods, Is. per bundle ; cinders, 2L per ton ;,and this list ends with thrown silk, on which a duty was paid of 38,452 L, and a drawback allowed of 43,850/. By the new tariff, this duty on alkali, not being barilla, is reduced to Is. 6d. per cwt. ; ashes, nut enumerated, to 5 per cent. ; and the duties on copper ores were, as is well known, materially altered, and for the better ; but the tariff was left with the whole army of unproductive duties still standing in the schedule to the Custom Duties Act ; and, therefore, it may be safely inferred that any document correctly prepared, to show the operation of the new tariff, will contain numerous sums of sixpences and shillings, denoting the amount of revenue received. As many as 1,150 articles, or nearly so, may be said to remain liable to Custom-house duties ; and yet, out of a revenue of 22,000,000 L, about 17 articles produce as much as 94i per cent., or 21,700,630/. This state of things show that the Custom Duties Act requires a complete and searching reform, and it is ma nifest that a very large saving in the expense of collec tion would thus be effected, exclusive of important ad vantages and facilities to trade.—Chronicle. GARDENERS' BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION.—About ninety of the friends and supporters of this useful In stitution assembled together last evening, at the London Coffee-house, Ludgate-hill, to celebrate the sixth anni versary of the Society. Mr. Alderman and Sheriff Sidney presided, and amongst the company we observed H. Pownall,l Esq., the ISliddlesex magistrate ; A. L. Gower, Esq. ; Captain Lamont, R.N.; the Messrs. Noble, Mr. Groom, and mos t o f th e leaing gardeners and horticulturists of London and its vicinity. The dinner was served in Mr. Lovegrove's best style. The usual loyal toasts were given and responded to, after which the secretary announced that the subscriptions of the evening amounted to 1701., the lion. Chairman and the Lord Mayor being in the list of subscribers for five guineas each. The secretary also stated that that morn ing no less than thirty new annual subscribers of one guinea each had enrolled their names in the subscription list. Several appropriate toasts were given and res ponded to, and the amusements of the evening were varied by several glees and songs, given with much effect by Messrs. Bradbury, Lloyd, and Showbridge. Miss Steele, a lady with a charming voice and consider able taste, whom we do not remember to have met before, sang Benedict's beautiful song, " By the sad sea wave," in a style which reminded us forcibly of Mrs. Alfred Shaw. A " RECK.L.E SS" COUPLE.—On Wednesday week a marriage was about to be celebrated at Boston, between a Mr. John Reckless, well known as a waiter, and Miss Eliza Procter, daughter of Captain Procter, of Boston, but who had been brought up by her aunt, an old lady named Lilly, of Leverton. The license was bought —a good dinner provided—friends and relations met—and every arrangement was made to do honour to the joyous occasion. The bride and bridegroom were present, and received the congratulations of, the assembled guests, and the aunt of the bride, in the joy of her heart, gave a cheque for 100/., as her marriage portion. On the time arriving to :proceed to church, the company were much a l arme d by the sudden disappearance of the young couple, and, although the strictest inquiries were made, not the slightest intelligence of them could be obtained. Much anxiety soon prevailed, and joy was turned into mourning. An application at the bank upon which the cheque was drawn, however, set all their fears at rest. It was there ascertained that the youthful pair had called at the bank and received cash for the cheque, and had then decamped without having the marriage cere mony performed, leaving their friends and relations to enjoy the marriage feast by themselves. It is supposed that this " reckless" pair have fled to Loudon.—Boston Herald. PROGRESS OF ITIIE PRINTING PRESS.—We have lying before us a little vocabulary of fourteen pages, being the first attempt at printing on the island of Fer nando, and the work of the Rev. Mr. Merrick, Baptist missionary there, who, having procured some English type, has printed this vocabulary for the use of the natives in learning English. It is printed only on one of the paper, and, on the whole, is a very creditable first attempt. It seems that, in the native language, or dialect, the long and short sounds of the vowels are the same as on the continent of Europe. Gis always hard ; a single H is never sounded, but tlll marks the aspirate; and KW is sounded as QU in equal. Obassi signifies God ; bubi, sin ; niolima, mind, soul, or spirit ; linggam, to love. With this book we received another, "The Adeeyah Vocabulary, for the Use of Schools in Western Africa," by John Clarke, and printed at Falmouth, Jamaica, last year, for the use of the Baptist mission. Father, in this dialect, is Boy-em, or In-ta ; mother, Efnmi, or 0-mi ; the great spirit, Al-e-hun-du ; the good spirit, Dupe; bad spirit, Mo-o ; man, Bu-bi ; woman, Wa•di.-111axchester Guardian. ORANGES AND LEMONS.—The Lords of the Trea sury have issued an order to the effect, that chests or boxes of oranges and lemons, measuring 36 inches in length, 20 inches in width, and 7 inches in depth, and having cones of'9 inches and under 12 inches in height, are to be admitted to entry at the duty of 3s, 9d. each, a s not exceeding 7,300 cubic inches, and as this result is to be arrived at by rejecting any fractional parts dim inch which may appear to remain after the deduction of the two-third parts of the cone has been made, in eon: formity with the order o f th e Commissioners, of Customs, dated 19th May, 1830, the board have issued directions authorising the officers of the revenue to apply the prin ciple to boxes not exceeding 5,000 cubic inches, so far as regards the rejection of the fractional parts of the cone. These orders have bee n communicated to the several departments in Londep i arid %t all the out-ports of the kingdom ; fpr the information and government of the officers and the trade. PVT! or I POLICEMAN.—At an inquest held on Monday night, before Mr. William Payne, the City coroner ; 9n the body of a young man who di e d su dd en l y in a cab, it transpired, in the course of the evidence, that the policeman who came up, instead of at once taking the deceased to the nearest surgeon's o l'doreki the cab man to drive to the 4t§tiue-bourse i>a black -Horse-court, Fleet-street. The coroner said the present Was the sec* case rriziph 110 Nine under his notice recently, where a person taken ill in the street had been taken to the station-house, instead of to the nearest surgeon's. In so doing much time, which was of the PivAs.t Y 441 im portance, was lost, It wits! hid that the first thinUa police Tap shpµlil CI% on coming to a fresh beat, wits'toa'sceitain the residence of all the medical men near it, so that in all cases of sudden illness o r accidents in the street, he might k now w h e re toobtainMedical aid, without first goi n g to th e statien-llow fcr cyders. he s e . He trusted th e i ns p ec t or world takeWU"' f what said, so that in iill • Wre cases orler4a4A being taken ill in ill() streets prompt medical assistance might be ob tained. The venerable Earl of Carlisle, who has been again much indisposed, was, in answer to inquiries yesterday at Carlisle House, Grosvenor-place, comevhat better. viscount Morpotia is oipected in town next month from Castle Uowara. IRELAND. = TEE CHIEF SECRETARYHIP. DUBLIN. JAN. 21 . — Intelligence of the death of the venerable Earl of St. Germans reached Lord Eliot this day, at Dublin Castle. As his Lordship goes to the House of Lords as Earl of St. Germans, it is very pro bable that he will not continue in the office of Chief Secretary of Ireland. There are already rumours as to his successor, and amongst those spoken of are Lord Dalhousie, Vice-President of the Board of Trade, and Mr. Sydney Herbert, Secretary to the Admiralty ; but, of course, everything on this point at present must be the merest speculation. Lord Eliot had arranged to receive a deputation from the Corporation at the Castle to-day ; but, in conse quence of the event above referred to, the interview did sot take place. Lord Eliot is to sail for Port Eliot, Cornwall, this evening, to attend the funeral of his father. THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CLERGY. The following is the petition for the repeal of the penal clauses affecting the regular clergy in the Emanci pation Act and the Charitable Bequests' Act. It is now in course of signature, with the cattiest sanction of Arch bishop Murray, amongst the Roman Catholic clergy of Dublin . " THE PETITION OF THE UNDERSIGNED ARCHBISHOP AND SECULAR CLERGY OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH IN DUBLIN. " Most humbly showeth—That petitioners presume to approach your Honourable House, soliciting your gra cious consideration in favour of the regulars ur clergy bound by monastic vows in this city and country. " That petitioners have had lung and constant oppor tunities of closely observing and intimately knowing the clergymen aforesaid. " That this close observation and intimate knowledge have rendered it evident to petitioners that the said re gulars have always constituted, and still constitute, a class not only of peaceable and loyal subjects, but a class entitled to great merit and great gratitude for their un ceasing, extensive, and successful labours in the advance ment of morality, education, and soci..l order. " That in the year 1829, when, in a spirit of liberal and wise legislation, your Honourable House, by the Act of 10 Geo. IV., chap. 7, commonly called The Catholic Relief Bill,' admitted to a very full participation in civil rights the Roman Catholics of the realm, to whom, on account of mere abstract religious opinions, these rights had long been denied, the regulars were, petitioners humbly sub mit, uumeritedly excluded from a participation in the be nefits which that measure of justice and of wisdom con ferred on their Catholic fellow• subjects. "That your petitioners, actuated by their intimate knowledge of the deserts of said regulars, appeared at that time before your Honourable House, by petition, stating that the institutions composed of said regulars were suited to the wants of Ireland, promoted exten sively the public good, without being, in any manner, at all known to petitioners dangerous to the Government or prejudicial to the State, and that the suppression of them would, in the opinion of petitioners, tend much to retard the progress of education, and the moral improve ment of the people,' and praying that a measure of relief and conciliation should not be rendered the means of vi siting with penalties and deprivation of character whole classes of meritorious individuals. " That, notwithstanding, petitioners saw with sorrow your Hon. House pass clauses 27 to 39 inclusively of said Catholic Relief Bill, which clauses enact most dis tressing disabilities against said regulars. " That nearly sixteen years of additional experience have confirmed petitioners in the opinion then formed of the merits of said regulars, and of their value to the morals, the education, and the good order of the people. •"That petitioners have now further to regret, that in the last session of Parliament your Hon. House thought proper to enact section 15 of 7 and 8 Victoria, chap. 97, commonly called, The Charitable Donations and Be- I quests Act,' which section, while it provides for the pro tection and conveyance of ecclesiastical property held by the parochial clergy, extends to said regulars no partici pation in said beneficial provision, and thereby virtually declares said regulars still unworthy of the rights and privileges of British subjects. "Petitioners, humbly conceiving that these exclusions I and disabilities affecting said regulars are unmerited pe nalties upon a peaceful, loyal, and most useful body, whose conduct individually and collectively petitioners most respectfully submit deserves from a just and paternal Government protection and not proscription, humbly solicit your Honourable House to restore said regulars to the rights and privileges of the other subjects of the realm, or grant such relief in the premises as your Honourable House ix its wisdom shall graciously think proper. And petitioners will ever pray." SICK AND INDIGENT BOOK-KEEPERS' SOCIETY.—The annual meeting of this excellent society was held to-day, at the Commercial-buildings. The Lord Mayor pre sided. Mr. O'Connell and several of the leading citi zens attended. FEVER IN ENNISTIMON WORKHOUSE.—We have been informed that fever to an alarming extent has broken out in the Ennistimon Workhouse. The master, porter, and fifty of the paupers, young and old, are in hospital. Several of the male and female children, and adults, are also infected with the complaint called " tetters." The workhouses throughout Ireland are too large, and con sequently exceedingly cold, particularly on the ground floors, composed as they aro of flags or earth.—Clare Journal. RECRUITING IN IRELAND.—The most vigorous efforts are being made throughout the various recruiting dis tricts to raise recruits; and commanding officers of some corps have received a most formidable circular, in J. E. Napier's energetic style, to use every exertion to com plete the deficiency in their respective corps.—Cork Examiner. FALLING OF THREE NEW HOUSES IN LIVERPOOL• —On Thursday night last, about ten o'clock, three new and unfinished houses, in Upper Canning-street, fell with a tremendous crash, the walls carrying nearly the whole of the joists, floors, &c., into the cellar, and smashing the timber into comparatively small pieces. The buildings were of four stories in height, of brick, and formed the eastern end of a new row of houses on the south side of the street. Luckily no one was by at the late hour stated. We find that the lower, or cellar portion of the walls, up the datum level, was roughly built of broken pieces of soft freestone, called " nobling," and so imper fectly put together us to be inadequate to support the superincumbent weight, rising to an elevation of forty-six feet. The walls were but nine inches (or only brick length) in thickness, which is sadly short for buildings of that size. The buildings are upon what was formerly Mosslake-field, in which the unbroken ground is yet a black moss to the depth of two or three feet. The foun dations, however, were sunk below this, to apparently a stratum of soft sandstone, and the probability is that the houses gave way from the cause assigned.—Liverpool Courrier. ADMIRAL DUPETIT THouatto.--There is a pom pous account in the French Radical newspapers of a subscription to purchase " a sword of honour for Admiral Deputit Thouars, who had the command of the French expedition to (Aabeite. We are told that sub scriptions have been received in all the principal towns of }ranee," arid that "it is calculated that no less than 175,000 persons had joined in this expression of feel ing." From this it is argued how strong must be the national feeling of France in favour of the Admiral, and of all he had done against the actual or supposed inte rests of Great Britain in the Pacific. But what do our readers suppose may be the total amount of the sub scription of these 175,000 French patriots ? The sum is 19,685 francs, with the addition (in order to be exact) of five centimes, or one halfpenny ! As 19 then is to 175, so is the subscription of each patriot to the munificent sum of ninepence halfpenny ! The fact is, that 175,000 patriots have combined among them to put together 374,000 halfp ence . Each patriot has, on an average, contributed a fraction beyond one penny sterling, in order to accumulate honour upon the Admiral of the Pacific, and to impress England with a due sense of French determination to uphold her officers, however marked their hostility to British interests may be. We are of opinion, however, that this penny subscription is, on the whole, a very ludicrous affair.—Post. THE BITER BIT.—A gang of horse jockeys made their appearance before the magistrates on Saturday last, charged with an attempt to swindle a farmer in a most audacious manner. The farmer, it appears, had brought a nag for sale to the fair, &c., and an the pre vious evening fell into the company of several dealers, one of whom proposed to change horses with him, and give him 30s. "to boot." The farmer closed in with this ofllsr, knowing that his horse was considerably inferior to the one he was to receive from the dealer. On the Saturday morning the exchange of the horses took place, and the farmer mounted his new steed for a jour ney home. On arriving opposite the House of Correc tion, however, he was stopped by a jookey, who de manded in the most peremptory termswhither the farmer was taking the horse, which he said belonged to himself. The rustic at once explained the process by which he became possessed a the animal ; but was instantly met with the reply that the person who had sold him the hone had no right whatever A 4 dispose of it ; and was, moreover, ordered to aisglount, and to return to the stable for his original steed. The fhrmer at once per ceived the 4 ‘ dodge' arid knowing full well that if ho re turned to the stable on foot he would lose both horses, held firmly to that which ho had, and referred his new acquit stance to a policeman for aatisfaction. The con sequence was, that the entiro company had to make their appearance at the Town-hall the same forenoon, when it was clearly prc;ved that the trick had been concerted areong them. The magistrates ratified the bargain which had been made and the designing swindlers, lerin order to es ca p e Nai ler exposure , a dd e d another sove reign to the eaohange money, thus itiereasi n the tor- DilAtea vain to fifty shillings, and leaving h im n posses sion of an animal much av h er lor to is o wn . —Preston Guardian. It will, perhaps, be re. me THE RITI 4N q PASSION.— ntbeA TA that we s tated, been committ e d ago, that a fortnight or three week s a man named Birkenshaw had i to York, fur trial at the assizes, for robbing i a person . at Ardsley, near Wakefield, ofa oons . derabe sum e money, and , that principal witness against him was a m an to whom he the ehnticcctihis secret whilst under re man d i n the ilouseof Correction. This witness, whose na me i s jp,hp Painison, was tried at Leeds Borough Sessions and acqu i tte d. He was bound to give evidence against llirkenshaw at the assizes, D ur i ng the recent West Riding Sessions, at Wakefield, he could not resist the temptation o f a y a iii ng hi mself of the opportunity offered by a eA'oßded court to abstract a handkerchief from the pocket o'a person naineti George Haigh, of East Moor, for which he was brought up before the magistrates at the Court-house, Wakefield on Monday last, and colli mated for trial at the sessions. —Doncaster Gazette. The sum of one thousand three hundred pounds has been subscribed for the relief of the widows and children of ;con who were killed by the explosion of the bailer of the Gipsy Queen, atßlackwalLi4 November last. The relatives of the sufferers have received weekly allowances since the accidet4, and some of them have been supplied with man g l es as a means of obtainiug a livVialoecL 45. .rte NEW MERCHANT SEAMEN'S ACT Since the Act to amend and consolidate the laws relating to merchant seamen, and for keeping a re- ~/ . 0 gister of seamen, ha s come i n t o o p era ti on, a great .1 number of foreigners have applied to the registrar of the port of Londan for register tickets, which have been in every case re f use d, t h e new l aw only autho rising the registrar to register seamen being subjects of her Majesty. It is pe haps not generally known that foreign seamen comprise about one-fifteenth of our mercantile marine, and the new law has placed them in a very awkward position. They cannot obtain register tickets from the office, and masters of ships must not take them to sea without one, believing, if they do, that they are liable to heavy penalties. This belief is founded in error. The 2d section of the 7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 112, enacts that no master shall carry to sea any seaman being a subject of her Majesty until he shall have first obtained his register ticket, which he is authorised to retain until the ter mination of the voyage. The 4th section imposes a penalty of 101. on any master of a ship carrying out to sea any seaman being a subject of ler Majesty, without first obtaining his register ticket. The 20th section enacts that any person being a sub ject of her Majesty, intending to serve on board any ship, shall provide himself with a re gister ticket ; and for that purpose to apply per sonally at the General Register and Record•oflice of Seamen in London, or the custo m -h ouses o f t h e several outports o f the United Kingdom. It will be seen, therefore, that the new Merchant Seamen's Act only applies to subjects of her Majesty, and that there is nothing to prevent the hiring of foreigners as here tofore. Yesterday two foreigners applied to Mr. Broderip, at the Thames Police-court, for a summons against the registrar of British seamen for refusing to register them. One of the applicants stated that be was a seaman, that he was born at Hamburgh, and had been for twe n ty- n i ne years sa ili ng in English ;hips. A great part of that time had been spent in the service of the East India Company ; he had mar ried an English wile, by whom he had five children, and when he was ashore he lived with her in London. The last British ship he sailed in was the barque Newton, Captain Dixon, and that gentleman had furnished him with a flattering testimonial of good conduct, sobriety, and steadiness. He had applied to the registrar to send him a ticket, which he refused to do, because he was not a British subject, but he eon sidered himself a British seaman to all intents and purposes, and had adopted England as his country. lie had obtained a ship which was about to sail from London to Sydney, but the master would not take him unless he was registered and would produce his ticket. A Swedish seamen next applied to the magistrate, and his case was a stronger one than the last. He had. been away from his native country for forty-six years, and had served in the Royal Navy of Great Britain for thirty years, and in English merchant-ships for sixteen more, and considered he was entitled to a register ticket. 'Without one he could not obtain another berth, and as to returning to the land of his birth, where he knew no one, it was quite out of the ques tion. Mr. Broderip did not think he had any power to interfere. The only question was, whether the applicants were British subjects or denizens. Mr. Symons, the chief clerk, and author of the work, " The Law relating to Merchant Seamen," said the Magistrate could not interfere with the registrar of British seamen, who was an officer under the control of the Lords of the Admiralty, and that he had nr, power to issue tickets to those who were not subkcts of her Majesty. The applicants seemed very Much troubled at the answer to their applications, and said they must starve, if no ship -masters would engage them. The desire of foreign seamen to register under the new law is very great—the pay in the British service is greater, and the supply of provisions more ample, than can be obtained in any foreign vessels. It is a well-known fact that many foreigners, who halo • been acting as seamen in British ships for many years, have registered themselves as subjects of her Majesty, and obtained their tickets. MASONIC BALL. Last night a grand masonic ball, in aid of the funds of the Asylum for worthy aged and decayed Freemasons, took place in Freemasons' Hall, Great Queen-street. This fraternity has long since passed the rubicon of pub lic opinion ; to be a free and accepted Mason is to possess a welcome passport in every quarter of the civilised world. It is, therefore, peculiarly gratifying to find that the asylum fund from year to year continues to accumu late and prosper. Through many " lets and hindrances " Dr. Crucetix, the founder, has had the satisfaction of seeing the good work proceed to completion. . The offspring of our poorer brethren alone shall not be cared for ; the aged and indigent. members alto demand our sympathy, These feelings prompted the founder of the asylum Rind ; last night he and the, ether promoters of it had a gratifying triumph in the somber and brilliancy of the company attendiug the ball; Among those pre sent were the bpanish Minister, br. Lane (President), Brothers Shaw, liodgkinson, Field, Aspull, Bacon, Barnes, Comins, Crucefix, &c. Dancing, under the able superintendence of Brothers Carlin and Marriott, who acted as masters of the cere monies, commenced about I nine o'clock, with the pretty quadrille from Don Pasquale; then follovredl Quadrille, Il Giuramento—Lancers, Prince of Wales-- Quadrille, L'Espagnole—Caledonians —La Polka and waltz—Quadrille, Cracovienne—Quadrille, Les Gondo liers—Spanish dance, Double Pousette—Quadrille, Royal Irish—Quadrille, Jullien's English—Caledonians, New music —Quadrille, Le Postillon—Le Polka and Galope, Cerito and Strauss—Quadrille, Bohemian Girl—Lancers, Adams—Quadrille, 'lite de Bronze—Quadrille, New- Scotch—Spanish Dance, Light of other Days—Quadrille, Antiques, Vocal Finale—Country dance, Sir Roger 'de Coverly. The celebrated band of Mr. Adams performed during the evening with its accustomed ability. About midnight there could not have been fewer than 350 ladies and gentlemen present; the former brilliant in the ex treme, and there being a very numerous attendance A . officers, most of whom wore their , j ewe l s an d b a d ges, t h e ensemble at the above mentioned time was really magus.. ficent. Refreshments of the best order were liberally supplied by Mr. Bacon, the courteous proprietor of the tavern; indeed, everything was so well conducted, that entire satisfaction appeared to pervade the asiembly, the elegant hilarity of which was sustained till an early hour this morning. PREACHERS IN LENT IN THE CITY AND SUBURBS. The following is a list of the preachers appointed by the Lord Bishop of London to preach in the city and suburbs of London in Lent, 1845, on Wednesdays and Fridays, in the following churches :- ST. SEPULCIIRE'B.-Feb. 5, Ash Wednesday, Mr. Hale, Archdeacon of London ; Feb. 7, Friday, Mt._ Letts • Feb. 12, Wednesday, D r . Bi r d ,• Feb. 14, F r id ay . Dr. Shepherd; Feb. 19, Wednesday, Mr. Lee ; Feb. 21, Friday, Mr. Robinson; Feb..p, Wednesday, Mr. Short; Feb. 28, Friday, Mr. Abbiss; March 5, Wednesday, Mr. Harding; March 7, Friday, Mr. Gibbs; March 12, Wed nesday, Mr. Crosthwait ; March 14, Friday, Mr. Bean • March 19, Wednesday, M r . C rouc h ; March 21, Goa l Friday, Mr. Wood. ST. MAGNUS THE MARTYR, LONDON-1111IDGE.-Feb, 5, Ash Wednesday, Mr. Jones, Archdeacon of Essex ;; Feb. 7, Friday, Mr. Sha r p e ; F e b . 12, Wednesday, Mr. Stone; Feb. 14, Friday, Mr. Lacy; Feb. 19, Wednesday, Mr. Gelling ; Feb. 21, Friday, Dr. Burnet ; Feb. 26, Wednesday, Mr. Goode • Feb. 28, Friday, M r . R o b erts; March 5, Wednesday, Mr. Blunt; March 7, Friday, Mr. Durham; March 12, Wednesday, Mr. H u t c hi ns; Al arc h . 14, Friday, Mr. Lupton ; March 19, Wednesday, Mr; Johnson; March 21, Good Friday, Mr. Leigh. ST. ANN's, Soto -SQUARE.-Fob. 5, Ash Wednemiay, Dr. Burney, Archdeacon of St. Alban's; Feb. 7, Friday. Mr. T. 11. Horne ; Feb. 12, Wednesday, Mr. Newhery ; Feb. 14, Friday, Dr. Vivian ; Feb. 19, Wednesday, Mr. Wix ; Feb. 21, F r id a y, Mr. A. Hollingworth ; Feb. 26, Wednesday, Dr. Croly ; Feb. 28, Friday, Mr. Denham; March 5, Wednesday, Mr. Rodwell ; March 7, Friday, Mr. Hall ; March 12, Wednesday, Mr. Gibson ; March 14, Friday, Mr. Povah ; March 19, Wednesday, Mr.. Amiot ; March 21, Good Friday, Dr. Macleod. ST. PETER'S, PIMLICO.-Feb. 5, Ash Wednesday, Mr. Sinclair, Archdeacon of Middlesex; Feb. 7, Friday, Mr. Ward ; Feb. 12, Wednesday, Mr. A. Cooper ; Feb. 14, Friday, Mr. Bowers ; Feb. 19, Wednesday, Mr. Dale ; Feb. 21, Friday, Sir 11. K. Dukenfield ; Feb. 26, Wed nesday, lion. Mr. Villiers; Feb. 28, Friday, Mr. Kepian ; March 5, Wednesday, Dr. M`Caul ; March 7, Friday, Mr. Tyler ; March 11, Wednesday, Dr. Russell; March 1 14 r, F da y Jennings, M r ; M. C. J. LONDON, M W ar . l c V ll . 2 E l, lli G s o ; od Al F a r re id h ay l , 9, Mr. iV i ed 'ul n l e e s r d . N.8.-Prayers will begin at eleven o'clock ; and 'here will be a sermon every Wednesday and Friday An Lent at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul. ST. CLEMENT's SAVINGS' BANR.---Tho following is a statement of the audited account of the money trait sections o f this bank for the last ye ar :—The amount re ceived of depositors during the year was 46,0091. Is. Bd. The amount paid to depositors, including interest, was a 4 m l, o l u B n lL ted lB: o . 4 6 d 04 ., 1 whilst t . t hrla9l There end c re e o en s s t ot fai exceedingds m dn a uo n rt a i g enxg e m cseot hee exceed e t ; , ty & .001 re. 536.: 2 1:1 5 9 3 0 6 d d e e p p o o s s i i t t o o r r s s, ab w o h v o e s 2 e obl. 2n a o h o o cit v le e x 5 c se o x . d t ennegdn charitable e x ; c 6 e 7 e d a i b n so g o cv e l i e o lu o s e l O . . s ; 167 abov e 1 00 1 and a lui nd d 3 n O o fi treexnedeelydisnog coipeetniesacweeoruenatslstoodbeep4, ossit4.or2s, showing the t o t a l num b er of EXTENSIVE FIRE IN IIuNGERYoRD-MARRET.-- This morning, between three and four o'clock, an alarm ing fire was discovered among the loads of hay and straw in Ilußgerford-rnarket, near the company's office. Information was forwarded to the Chandos-street fire station by the watchman on duty, and speedy assistance was procured therefrom, as well as from other stations, bat from the progress the fire had made previous to iti6 discovery the firemen were not able to subdue it till a considerable portion of hay and straw had been ow. sumed. A great mystery attends the cause of the fire, but sufficient time could not be attained to ascertain its origin. ROYAL GENERAL PENSION SOCIETY.—Last evening the usual general meeting of this excellent institution took place at the board-room, in Chapel -street, Car_e_nr jdioshhn-slsqluoarrreis., it F rom appearsthet reporthut t here of a r t e h the at secretary, Ms. one hundred recipients of the charitLeufcoonre and d k some of whom are upwards - of six years, and many of t... 0 male et huP recipients wad o of reach ninet e Indeed, one old lady is stated h tob similar ago. %k r,4 .. 0 s Ol s hort yloot e til ' 31 . $' a l " Rd on - Port of it % vol: t e l i .0, os on ir . ) on 110,