The Sun. — London, England, 1847-09-06 00:00:00

I sully behind him. Before he could look round the efendant came in front of him and spat in his face, t il e d ntr ked hi m ( w i tness) " how he dared to spit on a ena an ?" Compl a i nant rep li e d t h at h e was not ware that he had spat upon any one, and if had done 4 0 , e he w ou ld most readily apologise. The defendant c o n taunt e d hi m to spit upon him, saying, " Why do LIA taunted spit—spit at me again. " Complainant, after kt in th at manner for some time, did spit endaLt, who took a heavy stick which he carried an d struck w i tness several severe Llt.ws on the head m bio Sc ; race omplainant, tram the violence of the 0.2 v s , eamed out for assistance, and a consta bl e op to see what was the matter. Complainant gave the defendant into custody. ~:1_15!. reply to th e c h arge, the defendant ma d e a most '`°, l ing statement, t o th e e ff ec t th a t a cons pi rac y b een existing against him for three years past for kiiititlarPk in Purpose of drivi ng him from the streets. He could any public street without being insulted to spit upon. His path was beset with girls of the for , 1 1! men, and boys, who ineited others to j?in them e , to ..`",e purpos e of annoying and assaultin him. The c_"4l3lainant in this case spit upon him (defendant) . 4rst. H e t o , went up to remonstrate with him upon his 1110 17 conduct, when he was assailed by the abuse of a e , l People w h o h e ( comp l a i nan t) had collected. pq iti 'elt annoyed, an d cer t a i n l y did act as the com e i l 3ant had d escr ib ed. brae4r. BINGHA M said it was a very filthy and nasty 1 0 , k l e i e ; for, if people w ill spit, they should always a oout them before they did so. In this case, the or e alit could no t b e justified in spitting in the face & eti qoplainant, nor c o uld the latter person be justi hid in actin g in the same manner. The defendant ( t h gone rath er t oo f ar i n s t r iki ng co mplainant and he t h Magistrate) th oug ht it w ould meet the justice of take some if he a ll owe d th e d e f en dant to retire, and ti le s ome compensation to the complainant for the J uries,,, he h a d rece i ve d . th'ne def en d ant sa id h e s h ou ld d ec li ne d o i ng any ing of the kind. He never compromised anything. fir' 14 „ -'llionasi said, that if defendant declined act h'ilo his suggestion, he had no other alternative s t ii.r ° ' l him to bail in one surety of 501., and him - -11 I ° o /., to attend at the next Middlesex Sessions. 1 THAMES.—(THIS DAY.) ‘ 4417 0 FT Page —uff was charged with the following out ous assault on three ladies named Howard, re lo. g . in the E ast India-road, P op l ar. appeared from the evidence of the two Misses oward j a red (their mother having been so severely in -04 s Y the prisoner as to be unable to attend), that 11 so aturday evening, about six o'clock, they caught '4„ 11 of the prisoner in their garden, stealing pears. veY detained the lad and sent for a policeman, ahorti .y afterwards, the mother of the boy t ee e and demanded her son, but as their garden had re Peatedly ro bb e d, they refused to give him up, tf n. xi g Caught hi m i n th e f ac t, with his pockets full ar3 . The woman went away and fetched the k a ,;, r l l .er, her h us b an d, w ho came cursing and de ding his son. He broke open the door, knocked t a tmard down, and then kicked her so dread ree,',lv , 'at it would be some days before she would be t} .ere ,d• He then seized the elder Miss Howard Waltflair of h er h e ad, dragged her along the gravel oh about f our t een y ar d s , inflicting sundry kicks 4 - 4 ,7 1 :Person, and, dragging her back to the door (1.4, n ? exclaimed, " Now I will kill you," and h oed her head twice against the step. His wife, 1 04 was standing by, said, "Don't murder her, or ky Wil l have t o su ff e r f u r it ;" to which he replied, tlle ti el 'and I will have to suffer for her, too." He k r i v t ‘ruck her again, when the policeman fortunately p o e i 'l, and h e was g i v en into custody. 14 1 . le-con s t a bl e K 239 having produced the gowns, le Whi ch bore evidence of the outrageous treatment to 4i n the w earers had been subjected, yA.RDLEY observed, that were it not for the ei llence of the ladies, who had already suffered trii t i lle b, he should certainly have committed him for ad eci ' as he did not consider he had power sufficient ket tl p e t,e l Y to punish so enormous an offence. But tag e , e ilows must be taught that conduct so out -144,111 'would not be allowed with impunity, and he t4 4 ,'„lnflict on the prisoner the very highest punish to b ,: b `a° law allowed him. He should sentence him 1 111 a fine of 51., or be imprisoned, with hard urn for the space of two calendar months. e was locked up in default. RECENT FATAL STEAM BOAT EXPLOSION.—(THIS DAY.) b : e laClUiry into the cause of the death of the un :thrlate persons who lost their lives in the recent at', l °lll°4 of the Cricket, was resumed this morning o'clock, before Mr. Bedford, in the board r of the St. M ar tin's workhouse. 41 3 on the l as t occas ion, the various parties con nected officially and otherwise with the boats were se nted by th e i r so li c itors. e r . l l. Chambers, Q.C., attended on behalf of the -t ePany. The Proceeding s ha v ing been opened, and on the likt, 9 .L b eing called over, da 3 , A- 7 Lr. Fry said he declined to sit on the jury to- The CORONER inquired the cause of so extraordi bk, 4 d - germination. %tt t r i; l'l 7 said somebody took his place last Monday, Te t ,that person was sworn for him. mule P `doaoriEsi inquired if he answered to his 4 r ; Fry said he did, but . he was not sworn, and Viith (h - sa r e Were sixteen without him he wished to The (I v ' ',°loNzia. said he swore seventeen.. th at i t t '• Jones (the foreman) reminded the Coroner tllebf• Jenkins, one of the jurymen, withdrew on fi r ' F ry f.,r3' was, therefore, allowed to withdraw. t tav e oaorma then said—Gentlemen, I shall not e to detain you long to-day, as an in hits ..o n of the boat, on the part of the Government, di j e t et be en made. Af ter th e l as t me eting I imme- Pte e . e. „ ). PIA myself into communication with the fori l ,` a uthorities. I wrote to the Secretary of State the : dome Department, calling his attention to aUce -arf ul nature of this occurrence, and the import• ti gat . er instituting a full and thorough inves ho I°4 into th e whole of the circumstances in the t h at the G overnme nt would think proper toa.p -eXaenbtB°Me one on their part, to make the requisite Neh,Th ati Cin• A reply to that letter was immediately i nstil n e ,hY me, stating that the Government would tion e n inquiry, and I was put into communica. ti n with that v i ew , w ith the department whose pro -I;asceb,,i i s to make such examinations, and the result _ iie` en, that on S a t u rday Mr. Thomas Lloyd and t eat ehert Hughes were nominated by the Govern 'f t° Make an investigation of the machinery, and th ou : remain s o f t h e boat. The high reputation of finytilentleruen make it unnecessary for me to say ree et respecting them, except that their appoint moat . 4 sufficient a ssu rance to the public that the the e ;;',EMI and scientific inquiry will be made into Plltet• -48 e of the disaster. They are men of great teztrieivailestlyknowledge and experience. They will im proceed to make an investigation—indeed I of in; th ey have commenced it to-day. The course oor eni : s tigation which I felt myself pledged to re xlanaeiv' " tut the p rev ious meeting was acquiesced in, Preter 4 ,, 2 't the inspection should be made in the ~4 18 0 of l th the en g i ne er and proprietors of the boat, 41E1141f7c e ngineer of Mr. Joyce, and of M r. J o y ce This er r he thinks it necessary to be present. est 'gat ..g 4 eme nt will insure a thorough and fair „, ; ,','he evidence which I will trouble you 211 edie e i merely be sufficient to complete the Y o ur testirnon Y commenced on the last occasion of 1311 rd to ee f t b ill gi and as some link in the chain with re- Pital, re removal of one of the bodies to the hos ,and shall hall then adjourn the inquiry for a week, kav e restrain all further evidence, except that 1 at eltrlti m enti° l l ed, until you assemble again; and, in the cour se - t I Shall consider what will be the best it s u, ,e adopt with regard to the manner in which ' e nv tin e of the inquiry c be adduced. For the more convenient con ' wish to say that the most ti la i re lt!ri,`• course to adopt will be to let each witness Li tz , th i ng statement, and then to put any question to t ) rrn a Wiltttns:24 1 11:-`y think p ro per. Putting questions whilst making his statement causes in maPt", and, besides, interferes with any questions deal °f Cl ink fit to put to him. It will save a good d at i n i'rue, and is, besides, the proper course adopted oh of this kind. J-07n!s_t this examined was b a d Martin Young, house-surgeon, stated that he th e de l de a post mortem exa m i na ti on o f the head of tou rid e t "at tesed Thomas Shade on Monday last. He fractu r the de cease d h a d susta i ne d a compoun d win •che of the sk u ll an d a l acerat i on of the b ra i n , were the causes of death. No post mortem shr mation had been made of the body of George sv e ,sh e .; from all th e appearances o f t h e deceased i t T her 'A opinion that death was caused by drowning. he ad e Ic'as an appearance of congestion about the the a quantity of frothy mucous, filling the mouth, se e , e ,Yes Par:ially open, and the pupils dilated. There produce-°eararice of external wounds calculated to eath., tl ia ‘l t e o e rge Selby, p o li ceman , 138 F di v i s i on , s t a t e d th e r ' Friday, th e 27th o f A ugus t, th e morn i ng o f th _ explosion, he was standing about ten o'clock on Iva Ter at the Fox-under-the-hill, when he saw a th e P l uto pull out of the water, by means of dregs, 'ettd body o f a man. Ile did not know the de ll- He assisted i n taking him to the hospital. d did not know the persons who were using the i\ re gs; they were i n a boat, and the body was taken of the wa t er b y them near th e s p o t w h ere th e rickit steam-boat was lying- Air. Chapman was then called, and stated that he Rave the body to Policeman 138, the last witness. b e t e 'l , the policeman, also identified Chapman as g 1 4 1104 from whcru he received the body. & John Nathan Bainbridge, surgeon, of St. Martin's, here stated, that on Tuesday last he made a post mortem examination of the body of Littleton, aged 33. He found that putrefaction had made consider able progress in the body, the face and head were quite livid, and much swollen. He examined the wound on the right temple, and found that it was about one inch and a half in length ; and he found it extended quite down to the bone. It was not a mortal wound. He found on opening the head, that there was no fracture of the skull ; neither was there any injury to the brain sufficient to account for death. From the appearances of the body, the suffused state of the countenance, the livid state of the lips. and the rapid decomposition of the body, he thought that the deceased had died by drowning. He had not examined the lungs, he had made an in cision in the chest, but the friends of the deceased were very clamorous, and he did not proceed further with the inquiry, apprehensive that some " row" would hare ensued, there being present several Irish women, whose conduct was very violent. He was satisfied however, from the inquiries he had made, of the cause of the death of deceased. The effect of the blow on the head would, no doubt, have been to cause insensibility, and thereby prevent any exertion on the part of the deceased to avoid drowning. He had also made a post mortem examination of the body of John Buckley, aged 18. There was a fracture of the right thigh, about the middle of the bone which was comminuted, there being two loose pieces, and the lower portion was drawn up about three inches by the action of the muscles. On examining the head, there was a large patch of dark extravasated blood towards the left side of the forehead under the scalp ; there was no fracture of the skull in any part; there was a little bloody fluid in both ventricles of the brain. In the chest there were proofs of his having suffered from previous pericarditis, as the membrane covering the heart was adherent in almost every part. There was no blood in the heart. There was redness of the lining membrane of the air-tubes passing into the lungs, but neither fluid nor froth. I believe that neither the injuries of the head or thigh were suffi cient to account for his death, but that he was drowned (as in the other case), having been stunned, and con sequently unable to assist himself. George Henderson, beadle of St. John's, Lambeth, stated that the body of a man was removed by him on Sunday evening, about nine o'clock, from the vaults of St. John's Church, Waterloo-road, to this workhouse, and was delivered into the hands of the master. The CORONER then stated that it was his intention to adjourn the inquest, in order to allow time for the production of the other evidence. Mr. M. Chambers said that he wished to make an application to the coroner on the part of the pro prietors of the Cricket. The machinery of the vessel was now occasionally subject to the action of the water. Every person was aware that the action of that element would tend materially to depreciate the value of the property. The proprietors were anxious that they should not be laid open to the suspicion that they had allowed their pecuniary interests at all to interfere with the course of public justice or to the fullest and most ample investigation into this subject. They had desired him to ask the coroner to give per mission, so soon as those eminent gentlemen who had been named by the coroner to inspect the vessel should have made their examination, to take pos session of the machinery when it would be of no further use. He would suggest that a certificate should be given by the engineers when they had con cluded their examination authorising the proprietors to take such possession. The CORONER said that as soon as the examination was concluded of course there could be no wish to keep possession of the vessel or machinery. He could not see any possible objection to the proprietors taking it under their charge, when the necessary examination was completed. A Juror stated that he wished to call the atten tion of the Coroner to certain reports which had been circulated in several of the journals, purporting to be written by Mr. Galloway, the engineer. The Illustrated London News contained a very severe article on the subject. The CORONER said that he hoped they would all dismiss from their minds any reports which might appear upon the subject. They were chosen from an excited public, and it was their duty calmly and dis passionately to deliberate upon the matter. Mr. M. Chaters said the article in the Illustrated London News was a very strong one. A Juror—lt is so strong that the more frequently it is read, the less meaning can be found in it. In fact, there was no meaning at all in it. The inquest was then adjourned till Tuesday week. FATAL ACCIDENT IN A SEWER. For 'ome time past the South Shields Commissioners have had men employed cleaning out one of the prin cipal sewers of the town, running along what is called the Mill Dam, and draining a very large extent of property. In length it is 732 feet, and in breadth 3} feet by 2 feet 2 inches. To escape the water that came from St. Hilda's pit, and the drainings from Messrs. Swineburne's gas works, the men had, up to Monday, worked at night with comparative comfort. On Monday, without consulting the authorities, they changed their system, and commenced working during the day. A draught of air coming in from the end and wafting their candles, they had boarded it up, and stopped the means of thorough ventilation. Working in the sewer were James Orr and John Park; and at bank were George Heron and Thomas Coll. About twelve o'clock Park's voice was heard to fail him, and he was heard to fall across the bottom of the tub. Alarmed by the circumstance, Coll lowered himself down with the rope, but no sooner had he got to the bottom than he fell down choked by the horrid atmosphere. Heron, seeing the imminent peril of his companions, had presence of mind to pull the boards down at the end and run for assistance. He met a man of the name of John Dodds, a cartman with Messrs. Allan, soap-boilers, who, in the most gallant manner, rushed to the spot, pulled of his jacket, lowered himself down the shaft, and, at the risk of his life, got Coll safely to the bank. Another man, a mason, whose name we have not as certained, went down and got Park up. Dodds then went down again, and armed with a rake, was enabled to get Orr under the shaft, and bring him up. As the men were got to bank, medical aid was procured, and by great exertions Coll and Park were restored to consciousness. Poor Orr was dead when brought up. Coll has recovered, but Park is lying in a pre carious condition. Orr has left a widow and seven unfortunate children to lament the deplorable death of an industrious father. The blame lies with the unfortunate deceased, who was manager of the gang. The Commissioners, very properly, intend doing something for Dodd, but for whose exertions there is no doubt the other two men would have been suf focated.—Durham Chronicle. FIRE IN WHITECHAFEL.—Yesterday morning, about two o'clock , flam es were discovered i ss u in g from the first floor of the premises belonging to Mr. Hugh M'Leod, carpenter , 36, William-street, New-road, Whitechapel. An alarm was given, but the occupiers of the top part of the house were fast asleep, and it was with much difficulty they could be roused. They were, however, got out in safety, but had not left the place above five minutes before the top floor and roof were com pl e tely wrapped in flames. The engi▪ nes quickly attended, and by carrying the hose up the stairs the firemen were enabled to prevent the further spread of the flames. The upper part of the building is burned out, the furniture consumed, and the remainder of the premises severely damaged. A spark from a lighted candle, it is understood, was the cause of the misfortune. REFUSAL OF AN ALDERMAN TO OBEY AN ACT OF PARLIAMENT.—At the city police committee on Sa turday, Mr. Gill, the pass master to the city of London, attended with several Irish families betore Mr. Alderman Farebrother for the purpose of passing them home. One of the persons, a woma n with fi ve children, i▪ nformed the Alderman that she was sent home against her will, for she had no person in Ireland living to whom she was related. The family had, like many others, come to England through want, and were landed at Liverpool, from whence, although they were ill , they were sent to London, where her husband died the next day. They had since been in the City of London Union, but the guardians had now determined to pass them back to Ireland. Mr. Alderman Farebrother said he should certainly not sign the order of removal, and directed Mr. Russell the clerk to the board of guardians, to be sent for. The officer subsequenav attended, and said it was the wish of the woman to go " back ; besides it was necessary to send back the she chassdu, with alpaup te e a rs r . s in her Mr.A Alder man Farebrother told him a very different story , and although it was , ne cessary to send some of them back, he certainly would not sign a pass to send . back a poor woman who declares that she has not got a single relative left, and thus force her and her five children to die for want of food. He certainly would not be a party to such proceedings. Mr. Russell submitted that he was compelled by the Act of Parliament to carry out the law; but the worthy Alder man maintained that he would not carry out an Act of Parliament that, for aught ho knew, might cause the poor creatures to die from want as soon as they arrived in Ireland or on their passage. ROBBERIES AT THE DEAN OF CHICHESTER'S. -- On Saturday information was given, that on Friday evening a Russia leather writing-case was, stolen from No. 36, Mortimer-street, Cavendish-square, the Dean of Chi chester's. It had been delivered from a tradesman of whom it had been ordered, but shortly afterwards a young man called, stating that he had been sent to take it back as it was not of the proper size, and it was ac cordingly given to him by a servant. He is described as about, 17 years of age, stud five feet three inches high, dressed in a blue frock-coat and trousers, and with black and r ed n,lc pipes r e r c le k cs e r oT c f , h Et i hL e eE f , TELEGRAPH: Electric c. w alking rather lame. d ucEJO n Telegraph Saturday Company, open ing the communication between the central station in Lothbury, now rapidly approaching completion, and all ts : ee places south of the metro p ol is, were being s e t r r e t. lhatis company will d downin ping William-street and Princes - street. open direct lines of communication from this statioa ` to fifty of the principal to wns in England dar ing the eusumgtbleo months. THE SUN, LONDON, btrti U-bttton TATTERSALL'S-THIS EVENING , HALF-PAST FIVE O'CLOCK. LEAMINGTON STARES. 5 to 2 agst Morpeth 3 to 1 agst Wolf-dog ST. LEGER. 5 to 4 on Cossack 8 to 1 agst Van Tromp 8 to 1 agst Planet 10 to 1 agst Eryx 18 to 1 agst Philosopher GREAT YORKSHIRE HANDICAP. 7 to 1 agst Palma 8 to 1 agst Pilgrim 10 to 1 agst Sir Tatton Sykes FLANDERS MAIL. FEARFUL ASSASSINATIONS AT PLACE ST. GE RY. BRUSSELS, SEPT. 4.—A most atrocious number of assassinations was committed yesterday at the resi dence of M. Evenepool. The sister of that gentleman and two female servants were in the house. The man-servant, coming home soon after nine o'clock, was surprised to find the door open, and going into the hall, found the two servants, terribly mutilated and covered with blood, lying in a corner. He in stantly gave the alarm, and, accompanied by the police, rapidly followed the course of the traces of blood, when, on arriving at the room of Mademoiselle Evenepool, an old lady fifty years of age, they found her assassinated with the utmost cruelty, lying on a bench. The most minute investigation has been made. It is evident that the murderers must have had per fect knowledge of the interior of the house. M. Evenepool was at the theatre when this tragic occur rence took place. No trace has yet been discovered of the murderers, but it is supposed that they got in by the garden, and then entered the house by means of false keys. The object of the assassins was to possess themselves of Mademoiselle Evenepool's jewels, which they succeeded in taking, and likewise some money. It is quite impossible to conceive the emotion which this terrible affair has caused. The house is now surrounded by gendarmes, and every exertion is being made by the magistrates and police to find out the assassins. The man-servant, after a long investigation, has been set at liberty. The lovers of the two young women are being strictly guarded. A former coachman has also been arrested. The marks of footsteps traced from the blood about the house have likewise been measured. The property con sisted of gold watches, brooches set in brilliants, &c., gold chains, jewellery, fourteen pieces of 3 florins of the Netherlands, and other money, and some English coin ; minute descriptions have been sent to all the pawnbrokers. The bodies of the three unhappy victims are to be officially examined this evening by M.M. Jolly and de Roubaix. BRUSSELS, SEPT. 4.—The price of corn, the week ending Aug. 31st, was :—Wheat, 25f. 30c. ; rye, 15f. Olc. ; being a fall of—Wheat, Olf. ; rye, 80c. From the 25th to 31st August thirteen vessels entered the port of Antwerp, laden wholly or in part with grain. The importations were : Wheat 565,600 kil. Rye Barley Flour Rice 2,140,530 kil. FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT. SIX LIVES LOST. On Wednesday last, the neighbourhood of Waun cae-gurwen, in the Swansea Vale, was thrown into a state of the greatest consternation, in consequence of the occurrence of another of those melancholy colliery accidents which have so often taken place during the last few years in the principality. It ap pears that on Tuesday evening last, about six o'clock, David Matthews, aged 36, Evan Rees, 37, John Lewis, 28, John Mainwaring, 30, Richard Williams, 18, and Thomas Rees, 17, all colliers, went down Mr. Townsend Kirkhous Wood's coal pit, and re mained there until three o'clock the following morn ing, when Morgan Davis, who had had the care of the engine for the last nine years, heard the blowing of the horn at the bottom of the pit—the signal usually given by colliers. The platform was then at the bottom of the pit. After the signal had been given, the engine was put to raise the carriage or platform up. Soon after Morgan Davies saw the flash of the men's candle from the top of the pit, and heard the crash of the carriage, when a short distance from the top, falling down. There was not one per son present at the time but himself. lie then went to the house of William Williams, and gave the alarm,, and Williams and several others were imme diately let down by a chain the other side of the pit. They were shortly afterwards drawn up, and re ported that all the men were killed. On viewing the chain, it was found that one of the links, which had a small flaw in it, had been broken. This caused the accident, and the precipitation of six persons to a depth of nearly ninty fathoms. As might be ex pected from such a fall, the poor fellows were literally dashed to pieces, and when brought up their remains presented a sad spectacle. On Thursday an inquest, on view of two of the bodies, was held at the Leigh Arms, Waun-cae gurwen, before Charles Collins, Esq., when, after a minute investigation, a verdict of Accidental death was returned, to which was appended a suggestion that a proper person should be placed at all times at the mouth of the pit. David Matthews has left a wife and three children, Evan Rees a wife and three children, and John Lewis a wife and two children, to lament their unhappy fate. The other three were single men.—Cambrian. EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE. The county coroner held an inquest on Saturday, at Blanchardstown, upon the body of a man named Matthew Nugent, who committed suicide on the previous day by cutting his throat with a razor. The Jury, after examining two or three witnesses, found a verdict of " Temporary insanity." The following letter was written by the deceased on the day before he terminated his existence : " Dublin, August 26, 1847. " When true hearts lie withered, And fond ones are flown, Oh, who would inhabit This cold world alone!" After years spent in a distant country, I return to my own, and find the affections of my kindred wi thered and decayed, when I thought to meet with them as fresh and as green as those within my own breast. lam annoyed with the petty chicanery and trickery of the world. Every man suspects the rest of the world to be endeavourinx, to deceive him. There is no sincerity in it. I have seen too much of mankind ever to expect to be happy in this world. I will therefore try what sort of place is the next. I know it will be said that I labour under temporary insanity ; on the contrary, I never was so perfectly sane in my life. I know I have been a sinner, but I have every dependence in the mercy of the great God. Some would-be philosophers have said that suicide is cowardly. What cur would im peach Cato with cowardice ? Some creature that dare not prick his flesh with a pin to escape from the most degrading slavery. I wish I had an oppor tunity of staking my life in the service of my country, but as I have not, I hope God will pardon me for thus disposing of it. To two dear friends, from whom I could have expected but little sympathy or affection, I am indebted for the most sincere and genuine kindness ; I sincerely thank them ; they will understand that I allude to them. Farewell, my dear friends, farewell. If my opinions of mankind are unjust, I crave pardon; I have my own share of faults, and should deal " lith others. MATTHEW NUGENT. " To the public, if the public like to read it." FORGED BANK OF ENGLAND NOTE 3.-0 wing to the vigilance of Inspector Wilkinson, of the Nottingham police, a man of the name of John Brazier, aged 31, has been apprehended on a charge of forging Bank of England notes. Brazier is very respectably connected, and resides on Prrk.hill, adjoining the town of Notting ham. He was apprenticed to Mr. Nunn, now a magis trate of the borough, but formerly a chymist and druggist in Bridlesmith-gate, and at the age of 21 became possessed of property to the amount of 3,0001. His father being accidentally killed by falling from a horse, he took to his father's lace factory at Blooms-grove, where he continued in business till 12 months ago, when, having got through his property and involved himself 2,0001. in debt, he became a bankrupt. For some time past he has been suspected of passing forged Bank of England notes, and at length sufficient evidence has been obtained to cause his apprehension. He was taken before the magistrates at the police-office on Friday, and remanded. On Wednesday he was brought up again, when several depositions were taken, in which he was charged with uttering a 51. Bank of England note, on Monday, the 26th of July last, at the shop of Mr. Palethorpe, druggist, Carrington-street, where he presented a written order for one gallon of sperm oil, at the lowest figure, for Messrs. Walsh and Windley. He received 41. lls. in change, with which he left the shop. Evidence was given, showing the order to be in the handwriting of the prisoner, and not sent by Messrs. Walsh or their agents, and that the note was a forgery. There being depositions to be taken on another charge, the prisoner was again remanded. The note purports to be issued from the Birmingham Branch Bank, for Si., bears date April, 1846, and is signed " J. Roberts." Ten other forged 51. notes, all from the same plate, have been passed, and evidence is collecting which will impli cate other parties as well as the prisoner. EXPORT OF GOVERNMENT STORES.—On Saturday notices of freight, being required by her Majesty's Go vernment for the conveyance of 1 , 140 tons of naval and military stores to the Me d iter r an e an , Canada, and the West Coast of Africa, were given at Lloyd'44=ism • 4." MONDAY EVENING, SE PTEMBER 6, 1847. " Why, upon my life,' said Cousin Feenix, there's nothing in it; it really is not worth repeating: in point of fact, it's merely an anecdote of Jack Adams. I dare say my friend Dombey;' for the general attention was concentrated on Cousin Feenix; may remember Jack Adam's, Jack Adams, not Joe ; that was his brother. Jack—little Jack—man with a cast in his eye, and a slight impediment in his speech —man who sat for some body's borough. We used to call him in my Parlia mentary time W. P. Adams, in consequence of his being Warming Pan for a .young fellow wh o was i n his mi nority. Perhaps my friend Dcmboy may have known the man?' " Mr. Dombey, who was as likely to have known Guy Fawkes, replied in the negative. But one of the seven mild men unexpectedly leaped into distinction, by saying he had known him, and adding—' always wore Hessian boots!' " ' Exactly,' said Cousin Fesnix, bending forward to see the mild man, and smile encouragement at him down the table. ' That was Jack. Joe wore—' " Tops!' cried the mild man, rising in public estima tion every instant. " Of course,' said Cousin Feenix, you were intimate with 'ern?' " I knew them both,' said the mild man. With whom Mr. Dombey immediately took wine. " Devilish good fellow, Jack?' said Cousin Feenix, again bending forward, and smiling. Excellent,' returned the mild man, becoming bold on his success. One of the best fellows I ever knew.' " ' No doubt you have heard the story ?' said Cousin Feenix. " I shall know' replied the bold mild man, when I hare heard your I:udship tell it.' With that, he leaned back in his chair and smiled at the ceiling, as knowing it by heart, and being already tickled. " point of tact, it's nothing of a story in itself,' said Cousin Feenix, addressing the table with a smile, and a gay shake of his head, and not worth a word of preface. But it's illustrative of the neatness of Jack's humour. The fact is that Jack was invited down to a marriage—which I think took place in Barkahire?' " Shropshire,' said the bold mild man, finding him self appealed to. "' Was it? well! In point of fact it might have been in any shire,' said Cousin Feenix. So, my friend being invited down to this marriage in Anyshire,' with a pleasant sense of the readiness of this joke, goes. Just as some of us, having had the honour of being invited to the marriage of my lovely and accomplished relative with my friend Dombey, did'nt require to be asked twice, and were devilish glad to be present on so interesting an oc casion.—Goes---Jack goes. Now, this marriage was, in point of fact, the marriage of an uncommonly fine girl with a man for whom she did'nt care a button, but whom she accepted on account of his property, which was im mense. When Jack returned to town, after the nuptials, a man he knew, meeting him in the lobby of the House of Commons says, ' Well Jack, how are the ill-matched couple?' 111-matched,' says Jack. Not at all. It's a perfectly fair and equal transaction. She is regularly bought, and you may take your oath its is as regularly sold!' " Mrs. Chick leaves the party in dudgeon ; Mr. Dombey quarrels with his lady (before Carker) when in t an interviewheguests with m have departed ;rs. Dm nestobmorey, has morning sMr. that C lady under his thumb ; and Mrs. Skewton is struck in her diamonds, and short sleeves and rouge, and curls, and teeth, and other juvenility—before her glass----by paralysis. She lay there " like a horrible doll that had tumbled down." " They took her to pieces in very shame, and put the little of her that was real on a bed." Mrs. Skewton, however, gradually recovers, though—" it was a tremendous sight to see this old woman in her finery leering and mincing at Death, and playing off her youthful tricks upon him eas if he had been the Major." Forlorn Lucretia Tox, denied all in tercourse with the Dombeys and the Chicks, resolves to cultivate the acquaintance of Mrs. Richards, other wise the Toodles, that she may pick up a casual scrap of news about the august family from which she is an outcast. This inclination introduces us, as well as Miss Tox, again to the domestic arrangements of the Toodles. Mr. Toodle is there, cindery and swart, in the bosom of his home, for he is described as having three stages of existence. "He was either taking refreshment in the bosom just mentioned, or he was tearing through the country at from twenty five to fifty miles an hour, or he was sleeping after his fa tigues." Mr. Toodle is mentioned, also, as shovelling in the bread and butter with a clasp-knife, "as if he was stoking himself;" and, in regard to tea, swallow ing, in his own phrase, the indefinite quantity of " a sight of mugs." To his children—and " Mr. Loodle was never out of children, hut always kept a good supply on hand"—he distributes irregular morsel- of his own meal, as possessing a relish—after partaking of which these young Toodles performed private dances of ecstacy among themselves, and stood on one leg a-piece, and hopped, and indulged in other salta tory tokens of gladness. The number is rich in the development of characters and the delineation of scenes—besides which it abounds with passion and drollery, and an interest that enlarges and deepens as the story progresses. MAGAZINES-(CONTINUED.) BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY. Cooper gives us the 11th chapter of " Captain Spike" in this month's Bentley, containing the adventures of Mulford, Rose, Jack Tier, and Biddy, in their voyage from the rock. They go back to the Swash and put Biddy on board without discovery, after which Rose, Mulford, and Jack sail in the boat for the Dry Tortugas and take possession of the light house. They have only been intalled a few hours when a sail appears in sight, and as the ship ap proaches the island they recognise her to be " The Swash." The most valuable paper in the present number is a description of the tack of Rome, in May, 1527, by the Imperialists, under the Constable of Bourbon. It is translated by Sir Alexander Duff Gordon, from an original Spanish letter of the time, directed to the Chancellor, Gatinara, and which is to be found in the archives of Simancas. It will be read with particular interest at the present moment, when the Imperial Huns are again marching towards Rome, if not with the aid, at least by the connivance of a Bourbon, who prefers his own personal aggran dizement to the promotion of the interests of his country and of the world. For eleven days the city was sacked, " during which time," says the writer, " the greatest cruelties were committed, the which are so numerous, sir, that neither ink nor paper would be sufficient to indite, nor any man's memory capable to retain them." He thus proceeds to describe some of these horrors : " Sir, the cardinals who were in Rome, after having ransomed their houses and their persons once, had their houses and their property plundered: their persons were seized, and they were dragged on foot by the soldiery as ♦ile malefactors through the streets, without so much as a servant to accompany, or a horse to carry them. It is impossible to imagine anything which could cause greater grief. I do aver to you, sir, that I thought I should have died thus to have seen that blessed gentle man, the Cardinal of Sienna, between eight or ten lanz quenets, a prisoner —on foot—naked—without even a girdle—having only a short cloak to cover his nakedness. These men had pillaged his house, and ransacked the houses of the other cardinals, and had not left them even the value of a ducat wherewith to supply their wants. And, seeing that much people, with their linen, their jewels, and their money, had taken shelter in these houses, the cardinals did run much risk and peril: and thus, sir, the soldiers must have got an enormous booty by the sack of Rome, because, besides plundering all the linen, the jewels, and the gold, they fixed a price on every one's head, as ransom money. Men, women, and children,—all had to pay ; many were tortured, nay, many were killed with unheard-of cruelties. " The Ambassador of Portugal, sir, was in one of the strongest houses in all Rome, and, for this reason, as well as on account of his position, much people, with their linen, their money, and their jewels, had taken refuge in his house, and the ranson of these people was estimated at one million of gold. But the house was, nevertheless, pillaged, and all the rest of the people made prisoners, so that the Ambassador had not even a shirt or a cloak left him, but went about in his drawers, and in a doublet; nor had he, nor any else in his house, any one thing left to them in this world. They made no difference between Spaniards or Imperialists ;--no respect was paid to any one. Rome will not be what it was before for fifty years to come. The screams of the women and children, sir, in the streets, were sufficient to break a man's heart. In many parts there were so many dead bodies that it was almost impossible to walk; and, as they lay many days unburied, these bodies, together with the carcases of the dead horses, did cause such a pestilent smell, that for certain the plague will much increase, unless, indeed, God bringeth some remedy. " There bath not remained, sir, one church, one con vent, one nunnery, which hath not been pillaged: many of the clergy, many friars and nuns, have been put e, the torture, to force them to discover the money and the linen which peradventure might have been con cealed in their houses. The nuns did scream fright fully while the rude soldiery were dragging them through the streets, and ill-treating them;—it was enough to melt a heart of stone. " The church of St. Peter is utterly plundered, the gold and silver containing the sacred relics taken away; the relics scattered about the floor, so that nothing can be distinguished. In this same church of St. Peter many dead bodies do lie about within the very chapel dedicated to St. Peter. Close to the ♦ery altar there are pools of blood; nay, even the carcases of dead horses are to be seen there. - - - - " Brian O'Linn" is continued in this number, and is to be concluded in the next. Mr. H. Holl gives us an amusing tale illustrative of the etymology of the phrase " Neck or Nothing ; and Hans Christian Andersen, the Danish poet, furnishes us, under the title of the " Neighbouring Families," with one of those puerile prettinesses for the production of which he is so famous. Turn we, however, from Andersen to Albert Smith, and let us enjoy a hearty laugh at the misadventures of Mr. Straggles, who has a day's fishing. However much we may laugh at him, yet we entirely concur with Mr Straggles in his opinion of angling : it is indeed " the slowest twaddling any rational man could believe he found amusement in." The first paper and the last in the number are illus trated. The first, which is entitled " Mr. Richard Jones and the Polka," is admirably illustrated by Leech ; and the last, which is a brief but well written review, by Charles Whitehead, of Prescott's " History of the Conquest of Peru," is illustrated with a portrait (admirably engraved by Brown) of Francisco Pizarro, from the original painting in the Palace of the Viceroys at Lima. DOMBEY AND SON. No. X 1 1• By Charles Dickens. The indifference of the eleventh number is more than compensated by the extraordinary excellence of the twelfth. Mr. Dickens begins to develop his plot, and that with an art superior to anything of the kind evinced in his preceding fictions. The incon gruous couple, Mr. and Mrs. Dombey, return to their magnificent residence in London as devoid of mutual affection as hauteur on the one side and con tempt on the other can possibly render a married pair. Florence unconsciously deepens her father's antipathy to herself by monopolizing the affections of Edith, and thus rendering him jealous of his own daughter. In a beautiful scene between poor Ploy and her mother-in-law, the following passage occurs anent Diogenes the Dog Diogenes, who was of the party, had at first objected to the admission of Edith, and, even in deference to his mistress's wish, had only permitted it under growling protest. But, emerging by little and little from the ante-room, whither he had retired in dudgeon, he soon appeared to comprehend, that with the most amiable in tentions he had made one o f th o se mistakes which will occasionally arise in the best-regulated dogs' minds; as a friendly apology for which he stuck himself up on end between the two, in a very hot place in front of the fire, and sat panting at it, with his tongue out, and a most imbecile expression of countenance, listening to the conversation." Resolved to celebrate the felicity of his nuptials Mr. Dombey has a housewarming—politely inform ing his friends, by way of invitation, that Mrs. Dom bey would be at home on a certain evening. On a certain evening, accordingly, a grand dinner party is followed by a soirée. The proceedings commenced " in a cravat of extraordinary b h y eig M ht n an Dem dst be iff Y' ness, walking restlessly about the drawing room." Then enters an East India Director "in a waistcoat apparently constructed of serviceable deal by some plain carpenter, but really engendered in ofN e x h t i , s a l i ta l e n k placeD ire c t a o t r, K w i h n o gs t t o a n l k - s u p d o is n - the tailor's art and composed of the material called i pnraahrnaakingeie:nisg:iyvth a little bit o f a s h ru bb er y, and a poor little flower-bed or so, and a humble apology for a pinery. " Mention being made of the Opera by Mrs. Skewton," writes the historian, "he said he very seldom went there, for he couldn't afford it. It seemed greatly to delight and exhilirate him to say so ; and he beamed on his audience afterwards with his hands in his pockets, and excessive satisfaction twinkling in his eyes." Then, elderly ladies carry ing burdens on their heads, " with very precious necklaces on very withered necks." Then a young lady of sixty-five, remarkably coolly dressed as to her back and shoulders, who spoke with an engaging lisp, lisp, and whose eyelids wouldn't keep up well...then, an old lady, " like a crimson velvet pincushion stuffed with bank notes." The descent to the dining-room , is inimitable—" the young thing with the shoulders being bestowed, as an extinguisher, on the East India Director—and seven mild men being shut out in the stony-hearted hall. " When all the rest were got in s ays our author, " one of these menamnidldwe appeared, in smiling confusion, totally destitute and unpr ovided for, and, escorted b y the butler, ma de the circu it of the table t wi ce before his re s s t e il a l ted" chair could be found, which it finally was, on Mrs. Dombey 's left hand ; after which the mild man never held up his head again." While they are all sitting round the table, handling their glittering knives, and forks, and spoons, and looking, for all the world, like a grown up exposition of Toni Tiddler's gro un d, w h ere chil dren pick up gold and silver, and while Mr. Dombey himself is enacting Tiddler to perfection, the follow ing appalling anecdote is told—appalling, be it ob served, as applying with such awful emphasis to the host and hostess. It is described in the happiest style of an author than whom none has or ever had a happier : " Cousin Fenix was in great force, and looked astonishingly young. But he was sometimes thoughtless in his good humour—his memory occasionally wander ing like his legs—and on this occasion caused the com pany to shudder. It happened thus. The young lady with the back, who regarded Cousin Feenix with senti ments of tenderness, had entrapped the East India Director into leading her to the chair next him ; in return for which good office, she immediately abandoned the Director, who being shaded on the other side by a gloomy black velvet bat surmounting a bony and speech less female with a fan, yielded to a depression of spirits and withdrew into himself. Cousin Feenix and the young lady were very lively and humorous, and the young lady laughed so much at something Cousin Feenix related to her, that Major Bagstock begged leave to in quire on behalf of Mrs. Skewton (they were sitting lower op posite, alittle down), whether that might not be considered public property, LITERATURE. MURRAY'S HOME AND COLONIAL Ll- BRAI?Y. Nos. XLVI. and XLVII. Story of the Battle of Waterloo. By the Rev. G. R. Gleig. The author of the " Subaltern" being no tyro as a military historian, but being, on the contrary, as practised a writer on matters appertaining to the life of a soldier as Charles Lever or W. H. Maxwell, we naturally look with some curiosity to a work bearing the above name and the above authorship upon the title-page. But that we are tolerably well accustomed to find the incongruous Reverend prefixed to pages on war and battle-fields, we should have been startled by that circumstance ; the Rev. G. R. Gleig's name is, however, familiar to us, and therefore the novelty has worn away. Every person who has emerged from boyhood or girlhood, and has received any sort of education, has read some narrative or other of the battle of Waterloo : the majority of them have read scores of accounts. Nor is this surprising, when we remember that that battle was the prelude to the peace we have now been enjoying for upwards of thirty years. The mind of this generation naturally reverts, and the minds of all future generations will naturally revert, to that most momentous crisis in the history of modern times. The lovers of legitimacy will exult when they recal its slaughter to their recollection, while others will lament in the famous couplet of Lord Byron : " We do not curse thee, Waterloo, Though freedom's blood thy plains bedew." Mr. Gleig is of the former class, and he not only exults over the battle-field, but with the true gusto of a military writer, he appears to see in the butchery merely a beautiful result of adroit manoeuvring, or a capital proof of the toughness of his fellow-country men. The coolness with which a military historian enumerates the killed or wounded, and the self pos session with which he recounts a little incident of murder in the midst of the more general cannonading is so extraordinary, that we conceive it to be the very worst class—the most inappropriate class of author ship for a clergyman. There is something mar vellously indelicate to our thinking in the calm nar rative of the destruction of human bodies penned by a person ordained for the more charitable office of saving human souls, Hence the account of the Battle of Waterloo—detestable to us at all times —is absolutely repulsive as written by the Rev. G. R. Gleig. And Mr. Gleig seems to have inspired an atmosphere kindred to that inhaled by Colonel Mitchell. The whole book is a piece cif consummate braggadacio ; and if the French Emperor was really such a blundering, obtuse, thick-headed general, as he is described to be by Mr. Gleig, there is very little credit indeed to the Duke of Wellington, or, rather, to Prince Blucher, in routing his forces. As a proof that the work is cleverly written, we give the following picturesque account of the Highland regiments at the Duchess of Richmond's ball:— " The Duchess of Richmond, of whose ball so much notice has been taken, was the sister of the late and last Duke of Gordon. The Duke was Colonel of the 92d Regiment, which, because it had been raised upon his estates, was called the Gordon Highlanders; and the Duchess of Richmond, being proud of her brother and s e a o flafdnathrh f uiaaoenene h imugi Iscer,:t dance, r e mfnblat o vewhuoc u daenthi nt.timcthromntyartThi making pgiehiis m thns. enitg a nvso d wionaane e t-i arrangements wopcsptohaoesrnemt rhtosloce oeuicdmstfl tteasuusirstoicsphrrenheeiedentdigaohumoe f issaeg o sffluens r ht cseet-hoeecibrifrt otatiso:tot exhibiting hnonatbhefl elt dato shetahibem be made Highland eouae t s o bmle dtwonl h avabec e aeinree r sdei al i w besfneotw e lwud r op e lyrdodwoif m n.fuhdtrH o oan s noii t gfses uhhespkneaioristldeliedni in rs mas superior iero m dar : tte - hoset:tether them; and of ten f ni dut t that national carefully attended to. Preceded by their pipers,ng t the specimens hera admirable r l Grace's a t bt little nature of their viisv e stillt o performancespeak rememberedo f i i n t .h r y e T e t eeyf s .a t strathspey, ltsho diminishingy like, and t he ladies who beheld them and admired, were little aware of the brief interval which should elapse ere the instruments which then stirred them in the game would cheer them to the battle. Indeed there were but few in that bright assembly who guessed that danger was near; and they who know it best, including the Duke and the officers of his personal staff, were in their manner the most entirely unembarrassed. ' It should take their leave. Orders likewise had been issued to the troops in and around Brussels to h old themselves brigade, that, been ono hin h te y d to one, the a s generals the nhtg of dr division ewon, th an y e d in readiness to march at a moment's notice; and the consequence was, that without exactly ant i c i p atin g the andßya actual u a a ( )n l iud course e ebre agrer o na f ehrge events, d utfht eer menbgeneralaa packed baggage, withdrew e r e their the y knapsacks ,lfaryomduwthn e. r Duchess's party—some on the plea that their commands were far away—others, because duty or private business called them. The Duke remained till a late hour, and gg g returned thanks after supper for the het Llth of the Prince Regent, which was proposed by the P rinse of Orange. lie soon afterwards retired, and the car upany broke up. " There might have been one IP: .ur's quiet in the streets of Brussels. The rattle of c turriages was over. Light after light had been extinguish ed in chamber and in hall, and sleep seemed to hav e established his dominion over the city, when a bugle- call, heard first in the Place d'Armes, on the summit of /he Montagne du ~1 Parc, and taken up and echoed back through various quarters of the town, roused all classes of people in a moment. From every window in the place heads were protruded, and a thousand voices desired to be informed if anything was the matter; for though they put the idea from them, few had lain down that night altogether free from uneasiness ; and now the bugle's warning note seemed to speak to them of an enemy at the g€ttee. Anxious, therefore, and shrill were the voices which demanded to be informed of the cause of the interruption to their repose. But there was little need to answer them in words: the bugle call was socn followed by the rolling of drums and the screaming of bagpipes. By and bye regiments were seen, by the dim light of the stars, to muster in park, square, street, and alley—hor ses ne i g h e d— guns rumbled over the causeways —drivers shouted —and over all was heard, from time to time, the short q u i c k wor d of command, which sold i ers best love to hear, and obey with the greatest promptitude. The reserve, in short, was getting under arms, each brigade at its appointed alarm-post; and by and bye, one after another, as they were ready, they marched off in the direction of the forest of Soignies." Although in the opening chapters Mr.Gleig confesses that " the Duke, in point of numbers, was superior to his adversary" (s ee p age 69) , he says, at page 161, that the Duke had at Waterloo a grand total of 67,655 men, while the French had a total of 71,947 men. llazlitt gives a very different calculation. Napoleon had 59,000 men, while Wellington had 90,000, the latter being increased to 150,000 on the arrival of Blucher—being more than two to one. Mr. Gleig marvels that Napoleon had not " cast his life into the same venture" with his soldiers at Waterloo, forgetting that he threw himself off his horse, sword in hand, at the close of the fight, and was only dragged away by his suite. At page 171 the reverend historian observes of the massacre that was going on—" the practice was beautiful I" The story is cleverly but partially told. To ourselves the clerical character of the narrator makes the book most distasteful. THE FRENCH POST AND THE WEELKY DISPATCH. (From the National.) A few days ago the Constitutionnel, which is the organ of M. Thiers, late Prime Minister of France, recorded its complaints against the Post-office with regard to the stoppage of certain Belgian and English papers, amongst the latter of which was the Dispatch. Thereupon M. Dejean addressed to the editor of the Constitutionnel a letter, in which the following passage occurs :—" It is true, that for some years the Go yeinment has ordered the Custom-house and Post office authorities to seize two little English news papers, Punch and the Weekly Dispatch. In doing so, the Government was not afraid of injuring the important transactions of merchants and bankers, as the Constitutionnel supposes, by suppressing those two journals, which contain nothing but caricatures or humourous articles ; the bankers and merchants of .London would not suffer on their side by the sup pression of Figaro and Charivari." The National tof the day following, after alluding to the assertion that Punch and the Dispatch contain onlycaricatures and humourous writing, thus proceeds : " If the accuracy of M. Dejean's other assertions resemble this one, we shall know in future what value to attach to his explanations. We will inform the Director-General of the Post-office, who does not seem to suspect the fact, that there is no such thing as a caricature in the Weekly Dispatch : it is a most intelligent weekly newspaper, circulating largely amongst the English people, and printing, at the lowest figure, 55,000 copies. This journal contains a summary of the politics, commercial transactions, and literature of the week. It maintains a private cor respondent in Paris, and is intimately acquainted with continental proceedings. It criticises, often with the most remarkable sagacity, the manufacturing and commercial operations of England; and the most serious subjects of political life are treated of every Sunday in its columns with a firmness and an ardour totally uncharacterised by jocularity. Our English neighbours will be profoundly astonished to learn that a high French functionary confounds a news paper of this kind with the ever burlesque, and most frequently, witty conceptions of Punch. We have for several years subscribed to the Weekly Dispatch, and we receive it pretty regularly every Monday. The Director-General has so many errors to repair in his detestable administration, that he is really too generous to impute to himself a fault of which he is not guilty." THE REPORTED LOSS OF THE CANTON, OF HULL. The Aberdeen Herald, a few days since, contained a report that the Canton emigrant vessel had been lost, together with all on board to the number of 300 souls. The wreck of the vessel is confirmed by the Hull Packet, but the loss of life has been considerably exaggerated, as will be found from the account sub joined, which we copy from the last-named journal : " TOTAL LOSS OP - A HULL SHIP' AND OF HER PAS SENGERS AND CEEw.-A most melancholy occur rence took place on the 22d ult., which has plunged several families in this town and neighbourhood - into th• deepest distress. The ship Canton, of this port, commanded by Captain Tonge, sailed on the 14th ult., for St. John's, New Brunswick, containing 18 hands and two passengers, all of whom perished only eight days after their departure. The circumstances of this melancholy occurrence are detailed iu the fol lowing letter from theagent to Lloyd's, at Rispond, to the owners of the vessel : " Gentlemen,—l am sorry to inform you that the ship Canton, of Hull, in a terrific gale of wind from N.N.W., on the morning of Sabbath, the 22d inst. (yesterday), was totally lost on Far-out-Head, about five miles east of Cape Wrath, and, lamentable to say, all on board perished. She was seen at day light driven in amongst the fearful sunk rocks of the Head, and so far as I can learn from some people looking on at a distance, in a few minutes after striking broke up, and nothing could be seen but fragments of the wreck. From the nature of the place, where she drove amongst innumerable out-lying rocks, no art of man, were such at hand, could have possibly rendered any assistance in saving any human being on board. Fifteen bodies are now found, some of which were decently interred to-day in the church yard of Durners, and the others will be to-morrow, as soon as coffins are got ready. I was on the spot about two hours after the misfortune, with every necessary assistance, but I regret to say, so great was the devastation, that little or nothing could be saved. (Signed) "JAMES ANDERSON, Agent to Lloyd's, Rispond, Loch Erriboll, by Golspie, Aug. 23, 1847. " To the Owners of the Canton, Hull." It is confidently stated that the Earl of Dundonald will be unanimously elected one of the representative Peers for Scotland. The Scottish nobility in thus acting will be doing themselves far greater honour than the Noble Earl. DEATH or VISCOUNT KENMURE.—We regret to have to announce the death of the Right Honourable Adam Gordon Viscount Kenmure and Lord of Lochin var, Baronet of Scotland and Nova Scotia. which took place at Kenmure Castle, Stewartry of Kirkcudbright, on the morning of the Ist inst. His Lordship was born 9th January, 1792, and married in 1843, Mary Anne, daughter of the late James Wildcy, E-q. Having died without issue, his Lordship is succeed-if in the iumily estates by his sister the Honourable Louisa, relict of Charles Bellamy, Esq., LLB who now, in conse quence of the death of h.-r brother, in terms of the entail, assumes the name and arms of Gordon of K. n _ mure and Lochinvar. Whether the title, in consequence of the death of the late Viscount, becomes extinct or not, is, we believe, altogether undetermined. ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. —An accident of a serious nature, though happily unat tended with any loss of life, occurred on the Great West ern Railway on Sunday morning. The first mixed class down train, which left Paddington at half-past six, had made its usual stoppage at the Ealing station, and was proceeding on its course, when within about half a mile two of the closed boxes, attached towards the hinder part of the train, got off the rails, and were dragged on to the other line. The place where it occurred was at one of the switches, or turning points, though the imme diate cause of the occurrence is reported to have been owing to one of the wheels having caught fire.. The train not having long before started from Ea th li e ng, it id w en as t proceeding but at a slow rate, oth erwis e _ must have been attended wi th th may be imagined, however, agrfertatghest fright f ul consternation o r n e s s t n e l rt a t i A o n s was produced among of the train, the pas e sengers in the crowded carriages by all of whom instantly alighted.An express was nearly the almost sudden stoppage e immediately the line, and aid was at once _ dis patched down s f n or t the p re. , mhouvziewofintghetebotxheesoeewharicrhenheaed, b een torn off the line the train was delayed at all the intermediate stations along the line, where it produced the utmost alarm for nearly two hours. Several of the officials at Padding tonarrived at the spot , and we hear that a searching inquiry will be instituted into the origin of the accident; but at present we are not aware of any blame being attached to any party. CONSTRUCTION AND POSITION OP BEDSTEADS—A French surgeon states, that by fitting bedsteads with glass feet, and isolating them about 18 inches from the wall of the apartment, he has cured the patients sleeping on them of many nervous affections. Suspicions are be ginning to arise, too, that our well-being may be affected by sleeping parallel to, or at right angles with, the line of the terrestrial magnetic current. The house in which we live his a considerable influence on our sensations sometimes little suspected.—The Builder. MILL-WALL IRON -WORKS, POPLAR.—On Thursday the workmen attached to this establishment gave an en tertainment to their foreman, Mr. Andrew Inglis, he being about to leave his employment there. He was, in the course of the evening, presented with a beautiful gold watch with appendages (value thirty guineas), as a token of the esteem in which he was held, for his impar tial and respectful demeanour towards his fellow-work men, during the time he had been among them . WATER CONVEYED PER RAILWAY. — Tra ins of water, conveyed in engine-tenders, areLe now , in runningup the Midland Railway from Derby t o ster , con sequence of the shortness of the supply at the latter station.—NottinghamJourria 4 -7 - COURT CIRCULAR. ARDVEREILIE, SEPT 2. Yesterday, a contint, wet day. In the evening her Majesty and his Royal High ness walked in the grounds notwithstanding. Viscount Palmerston is expected to-da f. as the Secretary of State, in attendance upon her :alajesty. The Marquis of Abercorn, Viscount Jocelyn, and Mr. Popham, will join the royal circle at dinner this evening. SEPT. 3.—Yesterday Prince Albert and the Prince Leiningen went out deer stalking. Her Majesty, attended by the Viscountess Jocelyn, went out on two ponies. In the afternoon her Majesty and his Royal High ness, drove out attended by the Master of the Horse, and Major-General Wemyss, on horseback. Hia Excellency Baron de Brunnow had an inter view with Sir George Grey, on Saturday, at the Home-office. Earl Grey has arrived at his seat, Howick Hall, Northumberland, from attending the Queen at Ard verekie. Dispatches for the Governor of the Falkland Islands were sent off on Saturday evening from the Colonial-office. The Right Hon. Sir George Grey arrived in town on Friday night from his seat Fallodrn, Northumber land. Mr. Bellew had an interview with the Right Hon. Baronet on Saturday, at the Home-office. Dispatches w ere received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governor of Gibraltar. HER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO THE HIGHLAND S. (From the North British Mail.) LOCH 14 AGGAN, TnE snar.—Yesterday th e Q ueen , accompanied by one of the L a di es i n Waiting, ventured out on the loch i n her b arge , which was manned by six rowers belonging to the crew of the royal yacht. There was also a fisherman on board, who baited a few lines, and after throwing them overboard, committed them into her Majesty's hands. Not many minutes elapsed till a fine trout rewarded the royal toils ; and, but for an unlucky entanglement of the lines, two more would have graced her Majesty's pis catory triumph. After spending about half an hour on the loch, her Majesty returned to the lodge. The weather presented those lowering features which have prevailed more or less since the arrival of the royal visitors. The atmosphere is almost constantly clouded, and gusty winds from the west drive up the loch with consider a bl e f ury , frequently sweeping thick misty showers before them. The natives say there is no hope of really good weather till the wind veers round to the east—a gyration which I de voutly trust it may soon perform, both for the sake of the enjoyment of the Court and the interest of the crops, which are now entering a most critical period in this backward district. Whilst her Majesty was enjoying herself for the first: time on the loch,' Prince Albert was ranging the forest in search of deer. Mists, and a high wind kept the royal stags beyond rea c h ; b u t before 'elm.' ing the forest, the keepers brought a deer within the mark, and his Royal Highness discharged the con tents of his piece with effect. It had been arranged that, upon the return of the Prince from deer-stalking, the Queen and his Royal Highness should go out on the loch to witness the results of net-fishing ; but the surly aspect of the weather caused this excursion to be postponed. To-day the weather is much improved. A gentle breeze ripples the surface of the lake, and the sun shines warmly in a comparatively cloudless sky. The hills stand out in sharp outlines, as if span new from the chisel. Locu LAGGAN, WEDNESDAY.—Yesterday her Majesty took advantage of the fine weather to ascend to Locharb. Prince Albert devoted the forenoon to cover-shooting, and enjoyed excellent sport. After luncheon, the royal party went out net fishing on the loch, and a good haul of trout was obtained. 'Though the sky at sunset gave indications of settles. weather, we have been visited by a tremen&us storm of wind, accompanied with occasional showers of rain. The gale still blows with violence, and the h ch, tossed into white swelling waves, presents an entirely new aspect. It will be impossible for her Majesty or the Prince to move from the lodge today. Earl Grey left Ardvenkie this morning on his way to the south. Lord Palmerston is expected in the course of to-day. LOCH GILPHEAD, SEPT. 2.—lt is reported here that her Majesty will return through the Crinan Canal. Capt. M‘Nicol, of the royal barge, has re ceived instructions to be in readiness, should her Majesty take this route. We learn here that the royal yacht is not able to pass through the Caledonian Canal on account of her length, and that if her Majesty decides on returning home by that route, it will be necessary to take off the figure-head and cut-water of the yacht to enable her to pass through the locks. HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE WALDEMAR or PRUSSIA.—On Saturday afternoon Prince W aldemar of Prussia went to the Earl of Ellesmere's mansion in Bel grave-square, to view the valuable collection of paintings belonging to the Noble Earl. celebrated as" the Bridge water Collection." His Royal Highness and attendants afterwards inspected the paintings at the National Gal lery. In the evening the Prince entertained his Excel cellency the Prussian Minister, and a select party, to dinner at Mivarts.—This day the Prince will make fare well visits to the several members of the royal family, Lord John Russell, and the other Ministers of State, the corps diplomatique, &c., prior to his finally quitting England. His Royal Meatless expected to leave for Germany to-morrow. Mx. COBDEN IN Rossu.—We understand that Mr. Cobden reached St. Petersburgh on the 18th ult. A letter has been received from him, dated the 19th, from which it appears that he was then about to set out for Moscow, and that on his return he would visit the great fair of Novogorod. As the Yorkshire election took place on the 7th of August, he would, in all proba bility, receive at St. Petersburgh the first intelligence of that event. We understand that Mr. Cobden is expected to return home about the first week in October. —Man chester Guardian. GERMAN HOSPITAL, DALSTON.—His Royal High ness Prince Waldemar of Prussia, attended by his Ex cellency Chevalier Bunsen, Prussian Minister, visited the German Hospital yesterday, and after inspecting the buildings and wards, and kindly conversing with several of the patients, expressed himself highly. pleased with the arrangements. His Royal Highness then attended divine service, which was performed by the Rev. A- Walbaum, chaplain to the institution, who took his text from the 7th verse of the sth chapter of the Gospel of St. Matthew. SUPPRESSION OF PROSTITIITION.—The efforts. of Mr. Spooner and other gentlemen who, in the last session Jeancertaia a a t b te o m ve p e te v d il, to are intr n o o d w ue .l e ikh a el ß y il i l n f b o s r orr th: ro su e p a : o p f re P s a si r o l n iam of e i n he ascer tainedsure i n a s much to th b a e t s a ucee lar s g sf e ul, number description, into which young and inexperienced females are inveigled, are kept by persons of the Jewibh nation, the present High Priest or Chief Rabbi (D r. Adler) has, within the last week or two, caused it to be inti mated that no member of the Jewisf persuasion who is the keeper of a brothel, either directly or indirectly, will be perm i tte d to attend the synagogue, nor be a cknowledged as ono o f t h e people; that ne..h h • sons nor their d tu ght e - s s h a l i er th e ir be nitte.v e d to b e marr i e d according to the Jevrt,h rite-tl, nut will an y o f t h e religious rite s b e per f ormed at the birth of a child; and stiou d t h e party (lie at the time of keeping such a houw, li e will be de, l i„-3 sepulture il 0 vt ; l prayers w i ll h e read, nor will theybein d ainna their krt lathers, but be buried behind h w...at are termed the boards, the same as if the party had died accursed. —(;bserver. STEAM-BOAT COLLISION. — Yesterday morning, between eignt and nine o'clock, a serious collision oo curred off Blackwall between the S enator and the Earl of Liverpoo l (steamers). It appeared that the Sen a tor was on her way outwa rds to Dublin, and when j ust b e - • be low Blackwell, on turning the point , ems) in contact with great violence with the Earl of Liverpool steamer from Yarmouth, which vessel was makin g her way in an opposite direction towards and war alarm to the p ds thePool,ear a ry ss ienn g gers. The away the bowsprit and figure - head of the latter vessel, and c reat i ng the greatest confusion Earl of Liverpool, after a short delay, proceeded to the Custom- house. Another failure was announerad on Saturday in the corn trade, the firm being that cf Thomas Booker, Sons, and Co. The amount of liabilities has not been stated, but it is considered probable it will be found to range dB in u Burnell ll exportation and C oa o between 30,0001. and 50,0001. W e have also to mention the stoppag echiefly hie ofyte Thomasceneis fir f al c coa l business l l to various depots connected with foreign steam navigation . It is supposed that the liabilities in this case a re insegni ficant.-- Times. CONCEALMENT OF TilE SKELETON OF AN INFANT. —Saturday, Mr. Wakley, M.P., held an inquest at the Feathers Tavern, Warren-street Fitzroy-square, on the skeleton of a ma l e i n f ant, found i n art attic of the house, No. 59, in that street, for the conceal went of the birth of which a single woman, named attnet Inch, a lodger in the house for the last five years, is in custody. Mrs. Tucker, landlady of the house, s t a ted that Inch, while her lodger, gained her livelib. ood by her needle, and as a charwoman. An offensive, smell having been perceived to issue from the room, vditness got in by her own key, and on examining the room, one of the boxes being found difficult to open, she sent for a carpenter, who opened, it, the skeleton was found wrapped up i n a whet. • cloth. Witness had never known Inch to be pregnant, but on qw.lationing her, she confessed at once that the child ws,a hers, that it was still-born, and that she had placed it in the box where it had been three years. The coroner was satisfied with Mrs. Tucker's evidence; but said the Police Commissioners treated the coroner's office as a nullity, by keeping the woman Inch, who was in custody for concealtrunt of birth, back, and not allowing her to appear at the inquest before she was examined by a magistrate. Under these circumstances, the police had better take the skeleton before the magistrate, aril as the evidence that had been obtained was incomPhe ,e, he would advise the jury to return an open ver.%ict. The jury found, " That the child was foul). I dead in a certain room of No. 59, Warren-street, but whet ter it was horn alive or not, there MO not sufficient e*.dence to show,"