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defendant could not therefore complain of his being brought into court by the plaintiff. He did not think that there was any evidence to warrant any suspicion, and the judgment of the Court would therefore.be fur the plaintiff—Damages, 201. and costs. CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY au) could: (Before the COMMON- SERGEANT and Mr. Alderman MUSGROVE.) PLACING STONES ON A RAlLWAY.—Williant Ash croft, alias Jameson, described as a cooper, aged 39, was indicted with having, on Monday last, placed some large stones on the line of the Eastern Counties Railway, so as to endanger the safety of persons travelling upon it. Mr. Sergeant Wilkins and Mr. Ballantine attended for the prosecutor, and the prisoner was defended by Mr. Mellor. Mr. Charles Johnson, an independent gentleman, living at Leyton, Essex, stated that on the 25thh o.,tober he was fishing in the river Lea, and abont half-past four o'clock in the afternoon he noticed the prisoner doing something on the line. He laid down hii rod and watched him, when he fuund that he was throwing large stones upon the line. The prisoner then left the railway and came up to him, and he asked him whether he was clearing the line ? He replied that he was not. Shortly afterwards the half past four o'clock down train came in sight, and as soon. as the prisoner saw it he walked hurriedly away. He: was engaged altogether about a quarter of an hour on the line. When the train arrived at the spot it wr‘s stopped by the guards, and witness pointed out the prisoner to them. Cross-examined—The prisoner was rather fresh in liquor at the time, but knew what he was about. Edward Kilburn, the guard on the train, said the driver of the engine made a signal to apply the breaks when the train reached the river Lea, which was done, and the prisoner was pointed out to him as the person who had placed some stones on the line, and he was then taken into custody. The prisoner was running away at the time. On examining the line, twenty-two stones were found upon it, some of which were placed on the up and. some on the down-line. Several were crushed by the " life-guards," which are placed in front of the engine to clear the line from any obstruction. Crqss-examined—The prisoner appeared to have been drinking. Thomas Davison, the stoker, said the train was going about twenty-five miles an hour, and when it al rived at the river Lea he noticed six stones on the u;)-line, and the train was immediately stopped. He got off the engine, and ran back to look at the line, when he found twelve stones also on the down line, some of which were crushed by the train. Mr. John son, the first witness, then pointed out the prisoner, who was pursued. Win. Young, the driver, corroborated the above evidence, He said he heard a crushing noise under the engine, and made a signal to the guard to apply the breaks, and the train was stopped. The depositions were here put in, from which it appeared that the prisoner, in reply to the charge, admitted he had placed the stones on the line, but said he had no motive in doing so. Mr. MELLOR addressed the jury on behalf of the prisoner. Several witnesses were called, who gave the pri soner a very good character for steadiness and re spectability. The COMMON SERGEANT hating summed up, the jury found the prisoner Guilty of a misdemeanour. The COMMON SERGEANT, in passing sentence, said a man who committed an act of this sort, by which hundreds of lives might have been sacrificed, ought to be punished as severely as the Act of Parliament allowed. The plea of drunkenness was no excuse 'whatever for a man being guilty of such a serious charge, and in order to protect the safety of the public he should sentence him to two years' impri , gonment and hard labour. BURGLARY.—Joseph Pemberton ' aged 30, described as a muffin-baker, was indicted with entering the dwelling house of Mr. George Hodson, Augustus square, Regent's-park, and stealing theretrona a looking-glass, four pair of trousers, a pair of boots, One coat, &c., the value of 101. It appeared that on the 25th of September the wife of the prosecutor, on returning home in the evening, found the house had been broken into, and that the articles in question had been stolen. The prisoner hnd been seen loitering about the house. He was taken into custody, and some of the articles were found in his possession. The jury found the prisoner Guilty. A police-constable stated that the prisoner was Convicted of felony in 1839, and sentenced to seven Years' transportation. Transported for ten years. Charles Sylvester, 28, and Thomas Collings, were indicted with feloniously breaking and entering the d welling -house of John Morris, watchmaker and si lversmith, in the Harrow-raad, and stealing there from eight watches, one watch-case, and one chain, l'alue 201. The prosecutor, it appeared, on entering his shop about midday, there found the prisoner Sylvester, who struck him, .and ran out of the shop. He was i mmediately pursued, and on coming up to a cart, in hich the other prisoner (Collings) was sitting, he threw the property in question into it. It wa s proved that the prisoners had been pre piously convicted. The sentence of the Court was that Sylvester should be transported for ten years, and Collings for seven years. _ tIA RLBRO'-STREET—(THIS DAY.) John Eaton, a notorious thief, was charged with 'bein g found concealed in the house of Dr. Leonard I Coecker, No 5, Conduit-street, with intent to com init a felony. Ann Paget stated that she was servant to Dr. IC-oecker. On the previous evening, about seven °'elock, she had occasion to go into her master's bed -1."11)) when she was alarmed by hearing the bed 'curtains rustle. Thinking the cat had got into the t c '°rn she t oo k no further n o ti ce o f th e c i rcumstance, ut went on w ith h e r work. Sh e , h owever, was st i ll Ailrther frightened by seeing the valance of the bed Z' l ake in a very remar k a bl e ma nner . Thi s so a l armed her that she shut the room door, and ran down stairs th e told h er f e ll ow servant w h at s h e h a d seen. Being e ° llly persons in the house at the time, they both s : itn to the s t ree t d oor , an d h av i ng p rocure d th e as 'stax)ee of two men from the cab stand opposite, 14() eeeded t o searc h th e h ouse , an d f oun d th e pr i soner i t ?neealed un d er h er mas t er ' s b e d. Th e men pu ll e d c irr i out and took him down stair s and gave him i n t o tti t : st° dY. She subsequently searched to see if any , ( l i n g had b een t a k en f rom th e rcom , an d f oun d th a t res sin-case drawer had been opened, and several vai tait u en abale w a a cles of jewellery ready packed up to be th in defence the prisoner said he was passing along .0e street, when he was suddenly taken ill. Seeing the .. " 10 7 of No. 5, open, he went in for a certain pur- Tl.)ut hearing some person on the stairs he ran up hiel himself under the bed. re „',Ye prisoner was committed to the House of Cor ' A uon for three months, with hard labour. vi ;n 4 Jones was placed before Mr. Bingham charged Saiduttering a counterfeit half-crown. r. William Cross, dairyman, 64, Jermyn-str ee t, o nSatarday night the prisoner came into his With !li e d Purchased three eggs, which she paid for span In half-crown produced. He gave her the 4 "gel and after she had left the shop he discovered t hat it w h _ as a counterfeit. He went after her, and saw her g o 111°110Y.upThe toman i n th e street and give him some u , ut Ile manage rn cl to ran away dire c tly h e saw w it ness , o det a i n the prisoner till a constable cam e up, when e gave her in charge. The prisoner said she met a man who told her to go for the eggs. 11:1r.13INGuAlst discha rge d h er. 47,14eiimaiddle-.aged woman, who stated her name to be Matilda Georgiuna Horatio Nelson .Augustus cgs, was charged by Constable Byron, C 39, with ' , tug drunk and disorderl y . The c ons t a bl e said he was on duty in R egen t- Street, a b out twelve o'clock last night, whe n h e saw the defend an t i n a state of intoxication, tion surrounded by a mob of p eo pl e , to whom she a pedigree. lie relatingdispersed b a long tale about her noble emob, and requested defendant t o go about her tbusiness. She refused to do so ; he then took her t o the station. The defendant said she was an injured woman. She was the widow of Lord Nelson, to whom she Vas married at Devonport. She had since that been married to Prince George of Cambridge, and had a Particular liking to Prince Albert. Her property, which she was justly entitled to, had been taken from her . _, and sh e w i s h e d t o see herself righted. Mr. BINGIIAM said the unfortunate woman was decidedly insane. He thought he had better commit her to prison for a short time, and he would direct the Prison surgeon to look to her state of mind. C LERKENWELL.—(THIS DAY.) A pretty-looking girl, about fifteen years of age, Who stated that her father and mother were dead, and that she gained her livelih oo d by selling fruit, was charged b y a constable of the G division, with ob structing th e f oo t- pavement, and leaving her basket Un attended. e appeared that the poor thin g came out w i thout ea t anything in the morning, and as soon as she rade a few pence ran to an adjacent cook shop, leas , - ma n her basket beside the thgway, when the police '444 came up and seized upon herself and it. c aUti o n Mr. Coin discharged th e pr i soner with a THAMES.—(THIS DAY.) b .. A middle-ag e d man , o f somewhat re:Te2table ap elalt`"L'e, who gave hi lI3IIY. /" , _3i es, was I , 4r ged With obtaining a Codrington great coat and a4otse cloth, the property of Mr. John lie Han, pro- THE SUN, _CONDON, MONDAY • prietor of some extensive saw-mills in Whitechapel, by means of a false pretence. It appeared that on the 24th of September last, about a quarter to seven in the evening, the prisoner went to Mr. Kellan's private residence, 12, Rodly terrace, Mile-end-road, and stated to the cook, who opened the door, that he was a servant in the employ of Mr. Dixon, horse dealer, Barbican, and that Mr. Kellan had been there to look at some horses with the view of purchasing one, but as Mr. Dixon did not possess an animal that suited him, they were both going down to another establish ment of Mr. Dixon's, at Ilford. He added that Mr. Kellan had sent him in all haste to get his great coat, also he was to bring a horsecloth and a bridle to fetch the horse home with. The servant asked him why Mr. Kellan had not sent a written authority for her to deliver the articles ? To which he replied, " Mr. Kellan would have done so, but he had not time, as he was afraid of missing the train." On the faith of this she let him have Mr. Kellan's great coat and a horsecloth. The bridle she could not find. On Saturday night as the servant, Julia Joyce, was going up Whitechapel, she again saw the pri soner, and he had Mr. Kellan's great coat on at the time. She followed him till she met a policeman, and gave him into custody. Mr. Kellar identified the coat produced as his pro perty. lie had never authorised the prisoner to obtain it, or deliver the message he had done. In his defence the prisoner declared that he had bought the coat five months since. He was fully committed for trial. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE NEWMARKET HOUGHTON MEETING. SATURDAY. Match, 100, h ft. D.I. Mr. Shelley's Tarella, Bst 71b (F. Butler), beat Lord Glasgow's f by the Provost, out of Miss Whip, 7st 121 b. Betting -3 to lon Tarella, who made all the running, and won by a length. Run in 4 min. Match, 200, h ft. T.Y.C. Mr. Mostyn's Fisticuff, Bzt 51b (F. Butler), beat Mr. Payne's Dromedary, 7st 101 b. Betting-7 to 4on Dromedary. Fisticuff made all the running, was never caught, and won by half a length. Run in 1 min. 10 secs. Match, 200, h ft. First half of Ab.M. Duke of Bedford's Villiers, Bst 21b (F. Butler), beat Mr. Payne's Clementina, Bst 41b. Betting-3 to len Clementine. Villiers made the running to the Dip, when Clementina went up, and a severe race ensued, ending in favour of Villiers by a neck. Run in 50 secs. Match, 100, h ft. First half of Ab.M. Mr. Goddard's Vanessa, Bst 71b (S. Mann), beat Lord Glasgow's f by Hetman Platoff, dam by Actaeon, 7st 51b. Betting-6 to son Vanessa, who made a waiting race to the cords, and won very easily by half a length. Run in 53 SCe3. Sweepstakes of 10 sovs each ; for two yrs old colts, Bst 71b; fillies, Bst 41b. The winner to be sold for 100 sovs., if demanded, &c. T.Y.C. Mr. Lowther's Chapelgorie Mr. Shelley's Remembrance ... Mr. Stephenson's Whipper Snapper ... 3 Betting-6 to 4 each agst Chapelgorie and Whipper Snapper. Remembrance had a slight lead to the cords, where they all closed, and a fine race ensued, Chapel gorie winning by a head, and Remembrance beating Whipper Snapper by a head. Run in 1 min. 16 secs. Houghton Handicap of 15 sovs each, 15 ft, and only 5 if declared, &c.; for three yrs old and upwards. (16 Subs., 7 of whom declared.) T.Y.C. Lord Stradbroke's Coningsby, 3 yrs, 7stl2lb (S.Mann) 0 Lord Exeter's Cosachia, 3 yrs, 6st 91b (J. Sharp) 0 The following were not placed :—Lord Clifden's Prussic Acid, 4 3 rs, 9st—Mr. Conway's Christopher, 3 yrs, Bst 11b—Mr. Penrice's Asch Asch (Barb.), 7st 101 b Colonel Peel's Vert Vert, 3 yrs, 6st 91b—Mr. Sandford's Kimblesworth, 3 yrs. Betting-2 to 1 agst Cosachia, 2to 1 agst Coningsby, 4to 1 agst Vert Vert, and 6to 1 agst Christopher. Co sachia made the running, followed by Kimbleworth and Vert Vert. On entering the cords Kimbleworth de clined, and Coningsby joined Vert Vert. A fine race home ended in a dead heat between the two favourites, Vert Vert being defeated a neck only, Christopher well up. Run in 1 mins. 16 secs. Deciding heat-6 to 4on Coningsby, who won by a length. Run in 1 min. 15 sees. Match, 100, h ft; Bst each.. T.Y.C. ... (S. Ro;,ers „ Mr. G. H. Moore's Watchdog (F. Butler), beat Lord Glasgow's Discontent. Betting -6 to 4on Watchdog, who made all the run ning, and won by a head. Run in 1 min. 16 secs. Sweepstakes of 10 sous. each; for two yrs old, 6st 71h; three, Bst 71b; four, 9st; five and upwards, 9st 41b. The winner to be sold for 2004, if demanded, &c. Y.C. (6 Subs.) Mr. W. Arnull's f by Sheet Anchor, 2 yrs ... 1 Colonel Peel's Isis, 3 yrs ... ••• ... 2 Mr. Moctyn's Tamarind, 2'3-rs The following were not placed:—Mr. Elliott's Not tingham, aged—Mr. Clifden's Spider, 3 yrs—Mr. Shel ley's c by The Colonel, 2 yrs. Betting-7 to 4 agst Spider, 7to 2 agst Sheet Anchor filly, 7 to 2 agst Tamarind, and 4to 1 egst Isis. The Sheet Anchor filly made all the running, and won in a canter by two lengths. Run in 1 min. 16 secs. The winner was claimed. Selling Handicap of 10 sous. each; for three yrs old and upwards. The winner to be sold for 70 sous., if de manded. Ab.M. T.Y C. Mr. Dawson's John Harris, 5 yrs, Bst 121 b ... 1 Mr. Gratwicke's The Flitch, 4 yrs, 7st 101 b... ... 2 Mr. Flintoff' s Th e Rhi ne , age d , 9st ... 3 Duke of Rutland's Bella Donna, 3 yrs, Bst 51b ... 4 Mr. Newton's Redwing, 3 yrs, Bst 5 Betting-2 to 1 agst The Rhine, sto 2 agst The Flitch, 4 to 1 agst Redwina: ' and 5 to 1 agst J o h n Harris. The Flitch took the lead to the bushes- hill, where John Harris went on to the end, and won easy by a length. Hurt in 1 min. 50 secs. Sweepstakes of 10 EMS. each; fur three yrs old, 7st 91b; four, Bst 71b; five, Bst 121 b; six and aged, 9st. The winner to be sold for 120 sous., if demanded, &c, Ab.M. Mr. Mostyn's Winchester, 5 yrs Mr. Drewett's Colleen Dawn, 5 yrs ... - Colonel Peel's Oregon, 3 yrs ... Count Batthyany's Mast€r Stepney, 5 yrs ... ... 4 Betting-6 to 4on Winchester, and 3to 1 agst Oro gon. Won cleverly by half a length. Run 1 min. 46 secs. Match, 2001, 1i ft. T.Y.C. (E„BuVer) ... 9 Mr. Payne's Woodcraft, Est 51b (J. Prirce), beat Lord Exeter's Circassian Maid, 7st 71b. Betting-0 to lon Woodcraft, who waited on the mare to the cords, hung upon her near the finish and forced her out of her track, and won by a head. Run in 1 min. 12 secs. On returning to the scale Lord Exeter's jockey lodged a complaint. The case was brought before the stewards after the race, and decided in favour of Mr. Payne. SA eepstakes of 5 sovs. each; for two yrs old, Est 71b; three, Bst 51b ; four, Bst 101 b ; five and upwards, B.t 121 b. The winner to be sold for 25 sovs., if de manded, &c. First half of Ab.M. (12 Subs.) Mr. Pedley's L - Aly Mary, 2 yrs ... (F. Dewsbury) 1 Mr. Drinkald's Keeley, 6 yrs . . ... 2 Mr. Hyd e ' s Will- o '- t h e -Wi sp, 3 yrs ... ••• ••• 3 The following were not placed :—Mr. Francis's Little Red Riding.bood, 2 yrs—Mr. Gratwicke's Awkward, 2 yes—Mr. Thorpe's Outpost, 3 yrs—Mr Shelley's fby Erymus, out of Peeress --Mr. Boyce's Jollity, 3 yrs— Mr. Cheshire's Ellen Horne, 3 yrs—Mr. Drewitt's Free trader, 3 yrs. Betting-5 to 2 agst Keeley, 3to 1 agst Lady Mary, and 4to 1 ngst Will-o'-the, Wisp. Won by a length. Will-o'-the-Wisp a good third. Run in 49 secs. The winner claimed. Match, 2001, h ft. T.Y.C. Duke of Bedford's Fistiana, 7st 21b (Pettit), beat Mr, Merton's African, Sst 71b. Betting-5 to 4on Fistiana, who made all the running, and won in a canter. Run in 1 min. 15 secs. Match, 200. A.F. Lord Exeter's St. Demetri, Bst 71b, received 25 sous. From Sir J. Hawley's Vanity, 7st 414 Match, 200. First half of Ab.M. Colonel Anson's Blaze, 7st 71b, received 1001. forfeit from Mr. Sandford's Kimblesworth, Bst 71b. Match, 300. B.C. Owners to ride. Lord Strathmore's The Switcher, 12st 61b, received 25 of Mr. Crawford's Humdrum, 13st. Match, 200. A.F. Duke of Bedford's Bridle, 7st 21b, received 50 soya. from Mr. Gully's Pyrrhus the First, Bst 21b. The short time allowances were again adopted this afternoon; and, as the majority of the races were matches, a great deal of business was got through with out the confusion and fatigue that the " working classes" had so much reason to complain of on Friday. Strict punctuality, however, was impossible. Although there was no event of striking importance in the card, the sport altogether was excellent; and it will be seen, from the subjoined p rogramme, that the November meeting is likely to prove a good wind-up to the season. D ERBY BETTING ON SATU R DAY NIGHT. 50 0 to 1 00 agst Sc o tt 11 to 1 a Glendower--- 's 2 lot --t gst 27 to 1 agst Backbiter—t 30 5 t t o o 1 1 s a g g s s t t s S e t i s n o g s t e r r i — s — t C 20 to 1 agst Springy. backed for 8001. Jack 40 to 1 agst Cervus—t 11 to 1 agst Surplice —t 40 to 1 agst Rosslyn—t 50 to 1 agst Oscar—t O G OO n tol N o D ag —t to about 1,0004 20 to 1 agst Assault t WATCH -DOG AND ltolll, 50 to 1 agst Fowler—t 25 to 1 agst Loadstone—t RstEWADeayth.er cock--t The stewards have given the foll •mr owing decision in this " Tho stewards of the Jockey Club are of opinion intch between Watch-deg latch :-- that the principals in t a h v e and Rough-and-Ready h the same, and the Owner of Watch -dog egfirer to compromise the forfeit agreed upon, ho is not entitled having received more, notwithstanding that the horsesitled to receive any and Watch-dog catne in first. With ran re by mistake, the stewards are of opinion, that the principals to bets, Captain Rous, who was a party to the compromise, and must abide by special arrangements between themselves, and that all other bets are off. " The stewards are of opinion, that this being a match where all the parties to the engagement are parties to the compromise, the case is not analogous to that of a sweepstakes, where parties are concerned who have not been parties to the compromise. PROGRAMME FOR MONDAY'S RACES. Handicap Plate of toot for three yrs 01l and upwards. i'pr'•iit Cour: , Sheraton, 4 )15— ritheilEu, 6 yrs kuifea, 3 yrs— Lady Wildair, 5 yrs—The Widow, aged—Lady Lure well, 3 yrs—Captain Pepper, 3 yrs. Junior Nursery Stakes, a - free handicap of 20 sous. each, for two yrs old. 'Cam bridgeshire Course. Sampson, Bst 21b—Distaffum, :Bst 121 b--Duplicity, Bst 21b—St. Ann, 7st 121b—Coatess a, 7st 111b—Fandango, 7st 91b. Swaffhom House Stakes of 2 sisovs. each. Cesarewiteh Col irse. Match, 100. T.Y.C. Distaffina receives from Kimblesworth. HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. Her Majesty's staghounds meet on Wed., the Twyford station; Fri. Woking stati on -11. Lord Parker's hds., Tues., Stowe-wood; Fri., Ibstone House. Lord Lonsdale's harrs., Tues., Aston Clinton; Sat., Long Marston-12. .Ir. Drake's hds., Tues., Charlton Town; Thurs., Grendon village; Sat., Fenny-Compton -wharf-10f. The Warwickshire hds., Tues., Mittord-bridge; Thurs., Stoneleigh Abbey; Fri., Wroxton Abbey; Sat., Church Tysoe The York and Ainsty hds., Tues., Red House; Thurs., Corgrove; Sat., Melbourne Hall - 10 - 3. Sir Tattoo Sykes's hds., Mon., Birdsall House; Wed., Aldby-park; Fri., Scawpston House-102, The Sinnington hds., Tues., Helmsley; Fri., Dial stone Inn-10. The Earl of Harewood's hds., Wed., Harevvood bridge; Fri., Ribston-moor-101. The Holderness hds., Tues., Everingham-park ; Thurs., Beeford ; Sat., North Dalton-104. The Bedale hds., Wed., Blow's Hall, Hutton-moor; Fri., Pepper Hall-102. The Hurworth hds., Tues., Croft-bridge; Sat., Leven bridge. The Raby hds., Thurs., Wakerfield; Sat., Middleton Tyas-1.0. Lord Yarborough's hds., Wed., Riby Cross-roads; Fri., Wotton Lord H. Bentinck's hds., Thurs., Burton Hall-12; Sat., Tile-house Beck-11. The Cleveland hds., Fri., Gisborough-101. The Durham County hds.; Wednesday, Mainsforth; Friday, Great Stainton-101. The Badsworth hds., Tuesday Brodsworth-hall ; Thurs., Womersl,l , -park ; Sat., Aketon-hall-101. Mr. Lumley's hds.; Tues., North Carlton ; Thurs., Wickersley-bar; Fri., Scooby-inn-101. The Rufford hds.; Thurs., Ossington ; Sat. Thoresby park-101. Mr. Brand's hds.; Fri., Warden-hills. The Puckeridge hds.; Wed., Elsenham; Sat., Cum below. The Cambridgeshire hds. Wed. Bleak hall ; Fri., Morden- heath-1 oi. The Oakley hds.; Thurs., Sherrington Toll-bar; Sat., Bushmead-1 to 11. Earl Fitzwilliam's hds.; Wed., Buckworth village ; Fri., Sawtry-gorse—at 10. The Suffolk hds.; Tues., Euston-hall Fri., Silverley Tower. The F. B. hds., Wed. 13ochin—i0i. Mr Hornden's hds. ; Thurs., Chapman's-well. The Northmolton and Exmoor Forest Club, Mond., Fairleigh's grove ; Tues., Yard Down ; Wed., Hole's. water ; Thurs., Lanase-bridge ; Fri., Northmolton village. _ The Carlisle Kars. ; Wed. the Trough (Scotby); Fri., Gatesgill—at 11. The Brighton hari.; Wed., Thunder-harrow ; Fri., Dyke —quarter to 11. HEAP STEAMBOAT TRAVELLING.-011 Saturday morning the original London, Westminster, and Vaux hall Steamboat Company commenced running their boats every ten minutes between Nine Elms and London Bridge at the reduced fare of a penny. INSTALLATION OF A MILITARY KNIGHT OF WIND• soli.—The installation of Ensign Lamb, on being raised from the lower to the upper foundation (the vacancy having been created by the death of the late Quarter master Johnson), took place on Saturday, in St. George's Chapel, Windsor. Ensign Lamb, having taken the oaths in the chapter room, before the Rev. Frederick Anson, the canon in residence, entered the choir by the west gate, during the performance of the morning service, supported by Captain C oc h rane and Major Clarke (the senior and junior military knights in attendance), by whom ho was introduced to his stall, on the south side of the chapel, with the usual cere monies. The installation would have taken place a fortnight ago, .had it not b een f or the patent having been lost after it had been transmitted from the Home Office to her Majesty, for the Sovereign's signature, in Scotland. We understand that Mr. Alderman Thomas Wood is likely to succeed to the office of clerk to the magis trates at Guildhall, vacant, or about to become so, by the resignation of Mr. Teague.—Sunday paper. PRIVILEGES OF ATTORNEYS.—At the Westminster County Court, on Saturday, an action was brought to recover the sum of 71. los. from an attorney named Lewis. The defendant pleaded his privilege of being sued in a higher court. After hearing counsel on this point, the judge decided that the 67th section of the Act abolished the privileges of Attorneys. A NEW FIVE-SHILLING PIECE.—A model of a new five-shilling piece has been presented, it is said, to the Mint. In sin it is not larger than the new penny piece, but instead of silver and brass, the centre is to be composed of gold, and the outer belt of silver. MICHAELMAS TERM.—To-morrow will be the first day of Michaelmas Term, when the Judges of the Equity and Common Law Courts at Westminster Hall will re sume their sittings about one o'clock, after the usual meeting at the Lord Chancellor's clejcuner to the judges, the superior law officers of the Crown, the Queen's Counsel, Sergeants, &c., whence they will proceed in costume to Westminster. THE BANE OF ENGLAND.—On Saturday notice was given at the Bank of England that this day, being the Ist of November, and the Feast of All Saints, would be kept as a strict holiday in the Transfer Offices and Divi dent Offices. EAST INDIA HOUSE.—On Saturday the directors of the East India Company gave notice that the books of transfer of the company's stock would be closed OA the 2d of December next till the 13th of January, 1848, and that the dividends would be paid on the 6th of January. A Quarterly Court was also appointed to be held on the 22d of December. THE LATE MYSTERIOUS RESTORATION OF THE NOTES STOLEN FROM MESSRS. ROGERS.—The restora tion of the notes stolen from Messrs. Rogers's Bank re minds us of the robbery committed twenty years since, at Messrs. Johnson's, 241, Strand, where 7,0001. worth of watches, jewellery, &c., were stolen. Shortly after the robbery, Mr. Johnson received a note informing him that upon paying to a certain party, who would meet him on a certain day and on a certain hour on Waterloo bridge, the sum of 1,5001. in hard cash, the whole pro perty would be restored to him, Accordingly, Mr. Johnson kept the appointment, paid the sum required, and was then directed to a coach close by, where he found the whole of the stolen property packed in a trunk. THE COMMERCIAL PANlC.—There was a brisk rather than a heavy run upon the bank of Messrs. Back. house and Co., of this city, on Friday last. The bank, however, continued to meet the demand upon its re sources even beyond the regular hours of business— having opened its doors a quarter before ten o'clock, and kept them open nearly an hour after the usual time of closing of Fridays. The run was resumed with con siderably less vigour, however, on Saturday morning, and shortly entirely subsided. There has been no re. newel of it since ; and public confidence in the stability of this old, wealthy, and respectable firm—which ought not for a moment to have been disturbed—is now re stored, and if possible strengthened, in all quarters.— Durham Chronicle. James Stephen, Esq., one of the Under-Secretaries of State for the Colonies, is about to retire from tt.e duties of that office, which he has discharged for so many Affairs of Flanders OCT.tary. held27.—i 11N , y i e re. a nr r o s ßd: w nts i ,si t th h soLe u usc n ,nr s eg u n r unsurpassed assed zeal and ability. —Vbserver. gy m es i t t e te rd e ay f , or wh t e h n e was chosen President, and T ts h s e itti Com li ARRIVAL OF SPECIE.—The vessel Manuela, which has just arrived in the West India Docks from Callao, has brought, in addition to a cargo of guano, 38 bars, 6 several FIRST different h t : ta tis i s si boxes, and 40 other packages of specie, consigned to e ~1 3. ANKING-HOUSE.—The ce euxibeht, to Mr. Frunt ib be.l°3' by tiurnruun Messrs. Ho - area' I to 1680 . ; date back to 1620; Messrs. Snows' to 1695.—Civil and Mercantile Journal • Lady Wildair, 5 yrs-72he Widow, aged—Alboni, 3 yrs—Sheraton, 4 yrs- -Wanota, 3 yrs—Rough and Ready, 5 yrs—Doctrine, 'a yrs--Eothen, 3 yrs—'Patella, 3 yrs—Watch Dog, 4 yrs—Eiydrangea, 4 yrs—Fis tiana, 3 yrs—Lady Cecilia, 4 yrs—Captain Pepper, 3 yrs. Handicap of 15 sous. each, T.Y.C. Vice-Consul, 3 yrs—Duc-an- Darras, 5 yrs—Bow string, 3 yrs—Christopher, 3 yrs--Idas. 5 yrs—Jollity, 3 yrs—Oregon, 3 yrs. Sweepstakes for two-year-olds and upwards the winner to be sold for 50 sous. Last half of Ab. M. Bella Donn, 3 yrs—c by Don John out of Gameless, 3 yrs—Outpost, 3 yrs—Peeress filly, 2 yrs, Jollity, 3 yrs —Whipper-snapper, 2 yrs---.Villiers, 3 yrs—M oo dk ee, 3 yrs, - Match —lOO h it, Lord Exeter's Cosachia Bst 71b, agst Mr. Goddard' s V anessa, 7st 21b. , Match-200 h ft, Bst 71b each, T.Y.C. Mr. Moore's Watchdog, 3 yrs, agst Colonel Anson's Blaze. Match -100, h ft. D.M. Lord Caledon's Wanota' Bst 71b agst Mr. Moore's Watchdog, Bst 31b. Match-100, T.Y.C. Lord Chesterfield's Distaffina, 2 yrs, Est llb, receives 50 forfeit from Mr. Sandford's Kimblesworth, 3 yrs, 7st 131 b. Mr. Moore has sold Wolfdc g for 1,000 guineas, to go abroad, and Wocdcraft is also. sold to go abroad. NEWMARKET NO V EMBER—MEETING. ENTRIES F0: 1 1 MONDAY. Handicap of 15 sovs. , each, 10 ft. T.Y.C. Duc•an•Durras, 5 yrs, Bst 7 1 b—Bowstring, 3 yrs, Bst 71b—Cbristopher, 3 yrs, Bst 71 b—Vice-Consul, 3 p•s, Bst 21b—Idas, 5 yrs, 7st 91b —Oregon, 3 yrs, 7st—Jol - 3 yrs, 7st._ Handicap Plate of 100 :sovs. Clermont Course. Lady Wildair, 5 yrs, Bst 121b—The Widow, aged, Bst 71b—Sheraton, 4 yrs, 7st 71b--Pimento, 6 yrs, Est 121 b —Captain Pepper, 3 yrs, Est 71b--Doctrine, 3 yrs, 6st 41b—Lady Lurewell, 3 yrs, 6st 41b—Palma, 3 yrs, 6st. Sweepstakes. Last Half of Ah. M. Winner to ba sold for 50. Bella Donna, 3 yrs—Villiers, 3 yrs—Jollity, 3 yrs— Moodkce, 3 yrs—Whipper Snapper, 2 yrs—Game Lass colt, 2 yrs—Peeress filly, 2 yrs. The Junior Nursery Stakes. Cambridgeshire Course. Sampson, Bst 121b—Dibtaffina, Bst 71b—Duplicity, Bst 21b—St. Anne, 7st 121b—Contessa, 7st 111 b, Swaffham House Stakes. Cesarew•itch Course. Hydrangea, 4 yrs, Bst 71b—Lady Cecilia, 7st 81b— Watchdog, 3 yrs, Tat 61b—Doctrine, 3 yrs, 7st—the rest pay forfeit. EVENING, NOVEIVIBER 1, 1847. MAGAZINE DAY. BLACKWOOD. By an agreeable sympathy in name, the first article for No vem b er (" The Navigation of the Antipodes") is suggested by the narrative of the surveying voyage of J. B. J u k es, t h e naturalist of the expedition, in Torres Straits, New Guinea, and other islands of the Eastern Archipelago, in:her. Majesty's ship Fly, under the comm an d o f C aptain Francis Blackwood. This expedition, one o f the most remarkable andinterest ing of late y ears, h as already elicited the disquisition of one of th e quarterly reviewers, and now receives a favourable consideration in the pages of nlaga. The induction to the article is a rapid and succinct, but clever reminiscence, of the different efforts made by English and foreign travellers, navigators and others, as to the peculiarities and resources of the eastern continent and arc hi pelago, as well as into theinte riors of Af r i ca and Australia. The thirst for dis coveries of more recent date is regarded by Black wood as having been first evinced by James Bruce, a disappointed lawyer, some time Consul at Algiers, and ultimately the pilgrim to the source of the Bahr-el•Azrek (a branch of the Nile) through the unexplored regions of Abyssinia. Then comes the daring, but unsuccessful, exploration of the source of the Niger by M ungo Park—in Ifios the victim of hi▪ s own enterprise. Mungo Park is followed by Den ham, Clapperton and Oudney, and in 1830, Richard Lander, their more fortunate successor, "sailed down the Niger f rom Baossa, and reached the Atlantic by the river Nun, one of its branches"—having thus ac quired for hi mse lf the glory of having realised thei▪ r aspirations. Meanwhile the northern and eastern countries of the Mediterranean had been penetrated, and describ e d b y t h e German Burckhardt, by Hamil ton, Leigh, B e l zon i , Salt, Lane, and Wilkinson. Si▪ r George Staunton, who in 1792 had accompanied the emb assy of Lord Macartney to Pekin, had in hi s writings divulged some of the hithert o un i magined facts revealed by an inspection of the southern outskirts of the Chinese dominions. Macleod and Basil Hall subsequently extended th e k nowledge of those remote territories by depicting the appearance of the clusters of mag nificent islands situated along the coast of Corea. On the cessation of war consequent upon the down fal of the Emperor Napoleon, expeditions to the North Pole were successively fitted out by the Ad miralty under Parry, Ross, Back, and Franklin. Having glanced at these memorable and laudable proceedings, the writer in Blackwood refers to the charter granted by the , Legislature on the 20th of last May for establishing a steam communication between this country and Sydney, along a distance of 12,730 miles, and in a period of 64 days. He then enters into an examination of the voyage made by the Government vessels the Fly and the Bramble. Those vessels, it will be remembered, under the command of Captain Blackwood, sailed from Falmouth, April 11, 1842 ; touched at Tene rife, at the Cape, reached Van Diemen's Land in August, and Australia shortly afterwards ; started on the 19th December from Port Stephens to commence their survey, first of the Capricorn Group, then of the northern part of the great barrier reef up to the Is i l n et, tie and surveyed following year raised a I ., eyea. T orres S tra i ts, Murray e l a u e r o r n a y o n l s i l t a a n i n d e s s ; returning to Europe after Ti absence of three years, and anchoring at Spithead ir, the Jun e o f 1845. The historian of this voyage is its naturalist, Mr. Jukes, and the reviewer of Mr. Julies is the writer of the first article in the November n um b er of Backwood . for 1847. Th e paper a beautiful elucidation or commemorative illustration of the book. "American Copyright" is a pleasant continuation of the corre spondence by the author of the letter in the number for October, entitled "Naga in A mer i ca. " Those ' who coincide with the views entertained upon this subject by Mr. Sergeant Talfourd will read the com munication with interest. The second instalment of " Evenings at Sea" is a story . called " H enry Mey nell," and is narrated by armlitary officer, w h o h a d afterwards become a settler in South America. "Was Rubens a Colourist ?" is one of the boldest instances of artistic scepticism we can call to recollection. It has not, however, the preposterous and almost silly rashness of the " Historic Fallacies" not long since adventured upon in the Oxford and Catnbridge Review. "The _American Library "is a peep into the story-books of the United States, and while commenting upon the effusions of Margaret Fuller and Nathaniel Hawthorne, will startle the reader with some extraordinary quotations from the fictions of Edgar A. Poe. Mr. Poe to our thinking seems to be perpetually tottering on the frontier line dividing the regio ns o f t h e su b lime and the ridiculous. His writings are almost both, and yet neither. " Units, Tens, Hundreds, Thousands," is a capital anecdote about a love-match and a "bit of blood ;" Units being a black horse, Tens a bay mare, Hun• dreds a bay horse, and Thousands a gray—the whole the property of one Frederick Felworth. " Research and Adventure in Australia," a comment on the re cent publication of the journal of Dr. Ludwig Leichhardt, is intelligent and graphic as a piece of criticism, It contains some beautiful stanzas by a Mr. Lynd, of Sydney ; and there are immediately afterwards a passionate ballad, called "Magus Muir," by W. E. A., and "A November Morning's Reverie," CV Delta. The latter is a seasonable fragment of blank verse ; the former is a pow er f u l spec i men of versification on the tragical death of James Sharp, Archbishop of St. Andrew's and P r i mate o f Scotland. " Valedictory Visits at Rome," and a consideration of " Highland Destitution," terminate a valuable and entertaining number of the Patriarch of the Ma gazines. FRA SER. Fraser opens this month with an admirable article on the " Sanitary Commission and the Health of the Metropolis," in which we are happy to see a tardy justice is rendered to the great merits of Mr. Chad wick. The writer thus sums np, in a few words, the object of the sanitary movement The object of the sanitary movement may be summed up in a few words,—a sower in every street of every town and village ; a drain for every house ; a constant pure air at any cost ; th e appl i cation of the refuse of and to: vn u s ni t i o m t i h te e d purposesl)of g oo d water to every family ; ' of agriculture ; and, lastly, to secure these blessings, the removal of every impediment, physical and moral, and the destruction or reconstruction of every form of local administration which does not work well towards these righteous ends." An admirable object, and one which will be attained ere long in spite of the interested opposition of local jobbers and Paving Commissioners and Sewers Boards, which are aptly enou g h styled by Fraser " the liep tarchy of foul waters." The other p o litical article of the month is entitled " Th oughts on Jewish Dilabili ties," from the pen of the Rev. Professor Maurice, of King's College, and advocates the removal of those disabilities. " Sam Slick" continues his glorious Nova Scotia stories. The subject of the present paper is a " Pippin," a genuine Yankee horse dealer. " i ltecent Poetry" is a review of the recently published poems of Mr. Chevenix Trench, Sir Aubrey de Vere, and the author of " Moile's State Trials ;" and " The Guerilla," is the commencement of what promises to be a spirt-stirring tale of the war of independence in Spain. We have here two chapters only in which we are introduced to the then celebrated Guerilla chiefs, the Manco, the Medico, and the Empecinado. "Hints upon History" contains some amusing anecdotes of Nelson and of Sir W. and Lady Hamilton, and this is followed by an elaborate review of " Tieck's Vittoria Accorombona." We have, in addition, a short paper on the Education of Officers in the Army—a gastronomic prolusion of the days of Napoleon, before the " cheap and nasty" sys'em of dining had found its way from London to Paris—a well told narrative of a visit to "the bed of St. Kevin"— "By that lake whose gloomy shore Skylark never warbled o'er," in the county of Wicklow—a review of Mr. Burton's recently published " Biographies of Lord Lovat and Mr. Duncan Forbes, of Culloden," and several other articles of merit. On the whole this is an excellent number of Fraser. Y b er broke t k e e r d o a u y t i ( n S (Sun day then - e attended with a c belongin g t o M r . day E ri x. , T o E m N i s n w a b C o o u N t r fo L u a r G o n ,c A l T o z c o k r extensiveoonbsei Robert tersa Savage, ee,s furniture manufacturingur u r i t o u n r e of d ea p , lreor premises 146, Whitechapel r t road. When first discovered, the flames were raging in the workshops immediately behind the dwelling, and owing to the strong hold they had previously obtained, coupled with the inflammable nature of the stock in trade, their progress was unusually rapid. The police at once raised an alarm, and having succeeded in arous ing the neighbours, they di-patched a messenger to the engine stati ons . Th e fire, however, bur ne d so fiercely, that in the space of a few minutes the entire district became brilliantly illuminated, and a general turn-out of the engines took place. Notwithstanding the immense quantity of water that was thrown into the flames the firemen were unable to get them extinguished until nearly half-past five o'clock. The damage done is very considerable, and is thus officially returned to the in surance-offices :—" The whole of the back workshops and their contents destroyed, and the roof burned off. The upper floors gutted, and the stock in front shop under the same considerably damaged by fire and water. The cause of fire unknown. Insured in the Atlas Fire-office for stock in trade.—The same morning, at a quarter before six o'clock, a fire, nearly attended with very disastrous consequences, was discovered burn ing upon the premises belonging to M. Julien M ar ie, court dressmaker, situate at 114, Piccadilly. The shop and parlours were burned out, and the valuable stock in those compartments consumed. The total loss is con sirterable, but fortunately the house and its contents were insured. ADMIRALTY ESTABLISHMENTS A BROAD.—Their Lordships are about to make more important alterations in the Admiralty establishments abroad, The first step decided upon is au increase of artificers to all the sta tions. Volunteers have been called for to proceed to Jmnica, and the Cape of Gi.?od Hope. At the I.:tr,r o f ; LA_ yard men will be immediately made.—United Service Gazette. MEETING OF PARLIAMENT. (From a supplement to the London Gazette of Friday night.) At the Court at Windsor, the 30th day of October, 1847, present, the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council. It is this day ordered by her Majesty in Council, that the Right Ilonourable the Lord High Chancellor of that part of the United Kingdom called Great Britain do issue Writs for further proroguing the Parliament, from Thursday the 11th day of No vember next, to Thursday the 18th day of Novem ber next. BY THE QUEEN. A PROCLAMATION. VICTORIA, R.—Whereas our Parliament stands prorogued to Thursday the 11th day of November next, we, with the advice of our Privy Council, do hereby publish and declare, that the said Parliament shall be further prorogued, on the said 11th day of November next, to Thursday the 18th day of November next ; and we have have given order to our Chancellor of that part of our United Kingdom called Great Britain to prepare a Writ Patent for proroguing the same accordingly : and we do hereby further, with the advice aforesaid, declare our Royal will and pleasure, that the said Parliament shall, on the said Thursday the 18th day of November next, assemble and be held and sit for the dispatch of divers urgent and important affairs : and the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Knights, Citizens, and Burgesses, and the Commissioners for Shires and Burghs of the House of Commons, are hereby re• quired and commanded to give their attendance ac• cordingly, at Westminster, on the said Thursday the 18th day of November next. Given at our Court at Windsor, thi3 30th day of October, in the year of our Lord one thou sand eight hundred and forty-seven, and in the eleventh year of our reign. GOD SAVE THE QUEEN. COURT CIRCULAR. - - WINDSOR, SUNDAY.—The Queen held a Privy Council at one o'clock yesterday afternoon at the Castle. It was attended by his Royal Highness Prince Albert, the Marquis of Lansdowne (Lord President), Lord John Russell (First Lord of the Treasury), Sir George Grey (Secretary of State for the Home Department), Earl Grey (Secretary of State for the Colonies), Sir Charles Wood (Chancellor of the Exchequer), the Earl of Auckland (First Lord of the Admiralty), Lord Campbell (Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster), the Right Hon. henry La bouchere (President of the Board of Trade), the Marquis of Clanricarde (Postmaster-General), Earl Spencer (Lord Chamberlain), and the Duke of Norfolk (Master of the horse). At the Council, Parliament was ordered to be fur ther prorogued from Thursday, the 11th of Novem ber, unto Thursday, the 18th of November, and a proclamation was issued summoning Parliament to sit for the dispatch of public business on the said 18th of November. Mr. James Stephen was, by cornm&nd of the Queen, sworn of her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, and took his place at the Board. The Hon. William Bathurst was the Clerk of the Council in Waiting. The Queen gave audience to the Marquis of Lans downe. The Earl of Morley and Mr. R. Ormsby Gore were the Lord and Groom in Waiting. The Marquis of Clanricarde, Earls Auckland and Spencer, Lord Campbell, Sir George Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right Hon. 11. Labouchere, and the Hon. William Bathurst travelled from town to attend the Council by a special train on the Great Western Railway. The Duke of Norfolk travelled from his seat, Arundel Castle, Sussex. Earl Grey arrived from Datchet. dejeune was served to the noblemen and gentle men present at the Council. After the Privy Council, the Marquis of Lans downe left for his• seat, Bowood Park, Wilts, accom panied by the Marchioness of Lansdowne. The Marquis of Clanricarde, Earl of Auckland, Lord Campbell, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the Hon. W. Bathurst left, and returned to town by a special train on the Great Western Railway. Lord John Russell took his departure for his residence, in Richmond-park. The Duke of Norfolk returned to Arundel Castle. Earl Grey, Earl Spencer, Sir George Grey, the Right Hon. H. Labouchere, and the Right Hon. James Stephen also left the Castle. The Queen and Prince Albert took a drive yester day afternoon in an open pony carriage, the Prince driving. The Equerries in Waiting, Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps and Colonel Seymour, attended on horseback. His Excellency Mons. Vau de Weyer left yester , day morning. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, the Princess Alice, and the Princess Helena took their usual airings yesterday. The Bishop of Oxford arrived yesterday evening at the Castle, on a visit to the Queen. A portion of a gold service of plate for his Majesty the King of the Netherlands was submitted to his Royal Highness Prince Albert by Messrs. Hunt and Roskell, yesterday. His Royal Highness was pleased to express his approbation. This morning her Majesty and Prince Albert walked on the Eastern Terrace and slopes. The Royal Family to o k walking and pony exercise to day. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, the ladies and gentlemen of the Court, and the domestic household, attended Divine service this morning, in the private chapel of the Castle. The sermon was preached by the Bishop of Oxford, the Hon. and Rev. C. L. Courtenay reading the prayers uis Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge left town yesterday, to honour the Duke of Rutland with a visit, at his residence, near Newmarket. His Excellency Mr. MoEquera, Envoy Extraordi nary and Alinister Plenipotentiary of New Granada, transacted business with Viscount Palmerston on Friday-evening. THE COURT, &C.—WINDSOR, SUNDAY EVENING.— This afternoon there were a great number of respectable persons in the Queen's parterre, but in consequence of the death of Count INlensdorf (intelligence of which melancholy event reached the Castle yesterday evening), the military bands were not in attendance. The royal children rode and walked in the Home Park, and passed some time with her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, and at the close of afternoon prayers her Majesty and the Prince Consort, with the Princess Royal, walked across the Home Park to Frogmore House, and paid a visit of condolence to her Royal Highness. To-morrow Lord Alfred Paget and Colonel Bouverie come into waiting as the equerries in attendance on her Majesty and His Royal Highness. The Committee of the Society of the Attorneys and Solicitors of Ireland held a special meeting on the 27th ult., at their committee-room, Four Courts, Dublin, for the purpose of electing a President in the room of Josias Dunn, Esq., deceased, their late President, when their vice-President, William Goddard, Esq., was unanimously elected. PETER BORTHWICK AND HIS CREDITORS.—SatUr day a meeting took place at the office of Mr. Pennell, the official assignee, of the creditors of Peter Borthwick, Esq., Member of the Legislature. The proceedings were instituted under the provisions of the Debtor and Creditor arrangement Act, and it is stated that his debts amount to above 27,0001. The cause of the insolvency is attributed to the expense he has been put to in de fending his seat as a Member of Parliament, and in canvassing the electors ; he offered to set aside 1,500 Z per year for the benefit of his creditors, and it was re jected in the first instance, but on Saturday the creditors consented to accept the terms. Mr. Borthwick describes himself as a barrister of May-fair, and after the meeting at Mr. Pennell's an application was made to Mr. Com missioner Goulbourn, who presided at the bankruptcy Court on Saturday, for protection, and that Learned gentleman granted the same. MR. ROBINSON AND THE VISITING JUSTICES.-- Yesterday (Saturday), pursuant to appointment, the visiting justices assembled specially in Tuthill Fields Prison for the purpose of investigating the case with referenee to Mr. Robinson, the particulars of which have have been so fully laid before the public in the news. papers, in the reports of the Middlesex Sessions, during the past week. Mr. B. Rotch was in the chair, and a full attendance of the magistrates took place. A search ing investigation ensued, the result of which, it appears, was most satisfactory to the magistrates, who intimated to Mr. Robinson that he was free from imputation in the matter. The prisoner Wright was examined at great length, and he positively denied that his wife ever had any children, and that the whole story she bad told was fabricated for the purpose of exciting commiseration, and to cause a commutation of his sentence. The ma gistrates assured Mr. Robinson that, in justice to him, they would prepare their report for publication, in order to give the charge the fullest and must satisfactory con tradiction.— Observer. TIDAL HARBOUR BOARD.—We understand that a new department of the Admiralty is about to be created, namely, that of a Tidal Harbour Board. Captain Drink water Bethune, R.N., Captain Washington, RN., and Captain Veitch, R.E., are to be the members of it.— Unikd Service Gazette. ARBROATH CATTLE DISEASE.--A most virulent distemper is at present raging here amon , st our t . I which baffles th e ekill ,- ;ar ;„, . c ,e 1 el , Jury surgeons. Some byres have been completely env tied.—Dundee Advertiser. NATIONAL EDUCATION. (From the Kent Herald.) One of the important questions that will undoubt edly come under the early notice of Parliament is that of national education. The amendments introduced from time to time into the Minutes of Council have removed many objections entertained by the consci entious friends of public intelligence who yet fear the effects of a state education mainly directed by a State Church. There is certainly a growing feeling that popular knowledge is so inestimable a boon that we should not be too captious as to the medium through which it is offered; and under a Liberal Ministry we ought not to expect that an undue preference will be shown to any religious sect in the arrangements deemed necessary for carrying out the educational measures. We trust that all is but preparatory to a state of things in which instruction purely secular shall be alone imparted at the national expence -an/thing short of this involves more or less of op pression to some individuals. The question 'meanwhile cannot be too fully dis cussed in al! its bearings, and in reference to the sub ject we have pleasure in laying before our readers the following extract from the Hull Advertiser, in which testimony is borne to the merits of a t: my liberal and enlightened clergyman of - Kent, the Rev. J. Dutton, Rector of Warehorne, a notice of whose pamphlet on the subject of Nat'onal Education some time since appeared with extracts, in our columns : "In the Advertiser of last week a paragraph ap peared to the effect that, on the previous Monday evening, a meeting of the friends of Voluntary Edu cation was held in the school room of Fish -street Chapel, for the purpose of considering a motion, which was not then brought forward, in favour of an application to the Government for a partici pation in the Government grant for the endowment of ;Schools. This meeting was attended by the Rev. Thomas Stratten, the Rev. Ebenezer Morley, the Rev. Newma n H a ll, Mr. Hill, Mr. T a pp, and several other of the supporters of the Dock green and Holderness-road Schools, who had op posed the Government measure when before Parlia ment, but whose hostility, we are happy to say, has dwindled down to some vague misgivings, destined to disappear altogether in the course of a few months. We give these gentlemen great credit for having the moral courage, thus early, to enter upon a retracing of their steps in a wrong direction ; and it will afford us sincere pleasuire if, when the question is next brought forward, an unanimous resolution be adopted for accepting all the support that can be obtained from the Board of Privy Council. We know no question which has gained so much by public discussion, and even by the strong and earnest opposition made to it, as that of national education in conjunction with the State. As is well observed by the Rev. John Dufton, Rector of Warehorne, in Kent, whose pam phlet, National Education ; What It Is, and What It Should Be,' wss circulated by order of the town council of this borough among its members in June last, ' Our prisons have the extent of palaces, because our schools have been limited to sheds.' Nor is it a question between Education and Non-education. In the language of the eloquent and reverend author of this, the best pamphlet yet published on the Educe tion question, vice opens schools as well as virtue; crime has rewards for the zealous, and punishments for the refractory, quite as effi cacious as those at the disposal of rectitude. The thief is educated, the poacher is edu cated, the pickpocket most sedulously educated. There is no school in the world where more heed is given to the progress of the pupils than that in which a Fagin acts as master, and an Artful Dodger as head assistant.' Education is a question of religion, a question of morality, a question of health, a question of finance, and a question of police. To what ulti mate power do we refer all questions of public morals, public health, finance, and police ? Every one knows that the decision of such questions is the proper func tion of the State, and that the State has been con stituted to discharge such functions. What is the State but society in it s j ura l capac it y — a capacity assumed to secure soci a l r i g ht s an d t o preven t social wrongs. There are important rights to be secured in education, and there are grievous wrongs to be prevented; and if the State interferes not for both purposes, those to w h om th e con d uct o f t h e State is entrusted are guilty of a gross d ere li ct i on o f d u t y. , The same able advocate of the National System con tends, with a force of truth of which we believe the members of the Hull School Committee will admit the invincibility, that it is in the nature of voluntary school subscriptions to drop off; and to be so irregu larly and reluctantly paid, as to compel the having recourse to artifices, not always of the most worthy or laudatory character, for the purpose of ' keeping up the steam.' We are far from insinuating that any such practices have yet been resorted to in the case of the Hull Schools; but, unless we are very incorrectly informed, their present financial state is such as to call for very urgent measures of relief. Of course, an application for Government aid is not intended either to prevent voluntary subscriptions, or to limit the power of the Schools Committee in regulating their management. This is admirably put by Mr. Dufton in the pamphlet from which we are quoting. Great as is the extent of private benevo lence in England,' he observes, it has not been found possible to dispense with poor-laws; interested es we all are in the preservation of our persons and our property, we are obliged to seek the aid of a police force; and, with all the excellence of our Sixon system of juries, no one has yet declared himself an advocate for a voluntary administration of justice in England. Now, for the same reasons the State in tervention is necessary in the dispensing of national charity, in establishing national security, and in enforcing general rights, we hold that State inter vention is necessary in national education, not to supersede but to aid individual and voluntary exer tion. The strongest advocate of poor-laws never recommended the destruction of asylums, hospitals, and infirmaries ; the firmest supporter of a police force would not advise us to dispense with bolts, bars, watchdogs, and watchmen; the greatest admirer of law will not withhold his praise from private arbi tration ; and, in the same way, the advocates of State intervention would not recommend a single individual to withhold his subscription or contribution from the erection and maintenance of schools.' We trust that these observations, from the pen of one of the ablest of all who have written on the Education question, will be well weighed by the members of the School Committee. We quote them in a spirit the most conciliatory, and with wishes the most sincere for the advancement of the voluntary support hitherto given to these schools. To err is human, but to seize the earliest opportunity of acknowledging error has something in it almost divine. We are ourselves very far from wishing to cherish the memory of involun tary error, and the gentlemen whose names we men tioned at the beginning of this article are not of a creed to claim for themselves the merit of infallibility." —Hull Advertiser, Oct. 15. We fully agree with our contemporary that the Rev. Gentleman's essay is the best that has appeared on the subject, and the friends of National Education in Canterbury and other towns of Kent, will do wet to follow the example of the town council of Hull, and circulate it widely in their respective localities. [We trust the excellent example set by the t own council of Hull will be followed by the other town i councils f o f t h t e h kingdom.e mo s most ‘,aiu a b The e treatise ver p published s f h lAf e d r. Dutton on the subject of national education. —En. Sun.] ASTURIAN MINING COMPANY. An adjourned annual meeting of registered shareholders in this under taking was held on Saturday, at the Company's Offices, 9, Austinfriars, Samuel Pratt, Esq., chairman of the board of directors, presiding. The report submitted on the occasion stated that at the previous meeting the di rectors were in hopes of being enabled to name an early day for the payment of a dividend, but in this expecta tion they had suffered disappointment, owing to delay caused at the mines by the failure of a clay retort, the death of one of the Spanish workmen, and the illness of others, which induced the alcade of the village to put a stop to the whole mercurial operations. It had since, however, been ascertained that the man died from natu ral causes, and the board were just in possession of the fact that the injunction had been withdrawn. The effect of this delay was, that instead of being able to deliver to the Spanish Government three or four thousand pounds' worth of mercury, as might reasonably have been expected, not more than two thousand pounds' worth was sent in. In the mean time- the produce of the mines has been accumulating, and the accounts re ceived from them went to show that the ore increased and the mine deepened. The chairman having given it as his opinion that the shares would in a short time be worth 100 per cent., the meeting separated. PRINCELY MUNIFICENCE. —The parish church of Ewell, Surrey, being in an extremely dilapidated and ruinous condition, besides being insufficient for the accommodation of the increasing population, a parish meeting was held some time since to take into considera tion the propriety of repairing the old, or erecting a new one, when Sir G. L. Glyn, the rector, offered to pa y the whole expens e i n th e fi rst i nstance (the supposed cost about 6,0001.) if the pari s h would agree t o ra i se 1,0001. out of th e a b ove sum in twenty years, t o w hi ch they agreed. Sir G. L. Gl yn gave an and a also spacious and h an d some progress from the desims of i edifice is Glutton, n architect, the contractors for the work being Mr. Myers, of London and Mr. W. Killiek, of Ewell. The sum of 300/ n. on' being doublperesent building will hold about Building Society. Th e 1 5 given by the Church about one-third of the wh ' the number of the other, and 600 persons, four o'clock, o.expopulation. itaiLwAv ACcIDENT. an accident occurrcd er at day the afternoon, St. Leonard' s est about depot o f t h e Dalkeith Railway, in consequen ce o f t wo carriages accidentally comingrThThomas the in cont ac t, w h ere b y a person o f t h e nameo Valiancepol ice tgoto hish isleg broken. li e was removed by own house, Pleasance.—North British Mail of Friday. r LIE LATE ACCIDENT ON TUE LANCASTER AND CARLISLE .iAILWA.Y.—The owner of the cattle lately 11111( .1 by the railway accident, near Alllntliorv, has been paid the full value of his stock thereby destroyed, by the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway Company.—Carlisle Journal. MYSTERIOUS CASE. On Friday an inquest was commenced at the Ct ck, Hackney, before Mr. Baker, the coroner of the district, on the body of Samuel Nelme, Esq., aged 74, a gentleman of independent property, whogr , ' dek.th took place on the previous Wednesday. The suddenness of Mr. Nelme 's death created a very great sensation. The facts which transpired at the sitting of the jury were as follows :—About three weeks ago the deceased and his grandson were in the garden at the rear of the premises, when the deceased heard the report of a pistol as if it had missed fire, at the back of his ' head. He immediately turned round, and his grandson exclainied, " Grandfather, some person has attempted to shoot you." On the following morning a pistol was discovered lying upon the ground in the garden. The police succeeded in tracing the pistol to the grandson. The matter was hushed up by the relatives, and no further proceed ings were taken by them. Deceased was greatly terrified. The deceased was always considered a very hearty man, and enjoyed very good health until Fri day, the 22d instant, when he complained of sicknesi. On the following morning he remained in bed, and in the afternoon his wife left the room, considering that he was asleep. A surgeon arrived shOrtly afterwards, and pronounced life to be quite extinct. A jurorsaid that when the deceased was shot at, he heard, the snapping of a pistol several times, as if some person was firing it off without any percussion caps. The circumstance had created great suspicion in the minds of the jury, and they could not return their verdict unless there was a post mortem examina tion of the body., The coroner considered the re marks of the jury very proper, and directed that the contents of the stomach should be analysed. The in quest was then adjourned. On Saturday the inquest was resumed at four o'clock. The first witness called was Francis Doulman, surgeon, who stated that he had made a post mortem examination of the body of the deceased. Found a dark appearance round the mouth. The lungs were slightly affected. There were diseases of the heart sufficient to cause death. Had not analysed the contents of the stomach ; there was not time for that.—lnspector Waller, of the N division of the Hackney police, deposed that deceased called at the station on the 10th instant, and stated that himself and grandson were at the back of the house in the garden, and that he heard an explosion similar to that of a percussion cap, when his grandson said that a man had just run away, adding, " There he goes." Deceased said he did not see the man himself. His grandson said he climbed up a tree and escaped over the wall. De ceased said he was tolerably close to his grand son at the time. Witness then directed an in telligent officer to sift the matter to the bottom. On .the 414 following the deceased and the officer came to the station, bringing a small pistol, a hand kerchief, and some gunpowder and shot. The con stable said that these articles were found in a copse in the garden, and that the handkerchief was identi fied as belonging to the deceased's grandson. De ceased, in answer to a question put to him, said that he felt convinced the boy had fired the pistol, but not for anything serious, but for klark. W. Spinks, the constable referred to by the preceding witness, said —The wall which deceased's grandson represented the man alleged to have fired the pistol to have escaped by was upwards of sixty feet high—too high for any one to have dropped from. Found a quantity of shot, as well as the pistol and the flask, rolled up in a handkerchief. The pistol was loaded ; there were seventeen shots in it. The handkerchief was covered with blood. The boy's mother said the handkerchief had been taken from her a month before, and that the blood upon it had come from her nose. She thought there was a conspiracy against her boy, and that the things found in the garden had been placed there with a view of carrying out their pur poses. Deceased, after the boy's mother had stated this, said he did not think the pistol had been fired by his grandson. Some of the jury here suggested the absolute necessity, to further the ends of justice, that the contents of the stomach should be analysed, and - that the jury should adjourn until such time as a competent chemist should be able to lay the results before them. The inquest was then adjourned till Tuesday next. MAR YLEBON E VESTRY. On Saturday a very fully attended meeting of this vestry took place, for the purpose of considering a notice of motion, of which Mr. J. F. Standford had given notice last week, relative to the influx of Irish paupers. Mr. STANDFORD, in bringing the subject before the vestry, said, if he felt himself justified in bringing this subject under the notice of that board at their previous meeting, the information he had since re ceived tended more than ever to show that he was right in doing so, and that the matter was worthy of the most serious consideration. He was prepared to prove, that so far from the evils arising from the emi gration of Irish paupers being likely to diminish, they were frightfully on the increase. He had ob tained his data, not from any newspaper reports, but from the high constable of Liverpool, who proved that the influx of Irish paupers was daily increasing. —(Hear.) During the present week no less than 3,133 persons of this class had arrived at Liver pool; the numbers who so arrived in September were 10,369, and during the present month the number amounted to 11,772. These parties not only brought with them filth and disease, fever, diarrhoea, and other contagious disorders, but they were for the most part pilferers and plunderers, even in the open day. Mr. Standford then proposed that a memorial should be presented to the Secretary of State for the Home Department, setting forth the evils arising from the great increase of Irish paupers, and urging upon him the necessity of renewing the precautions adopted in the spring of the year, of instituting, under the protection of the Custom house officers at the several ports, a system of quarantine, so as to prohibit the entrance of those paupers who were dis eased. He further proposed that a resolution should be passed by the vestry, to be respectfully transmitted to the board of guardians for their consideration, by which resolution the vestry should express its wish that all the Irish poor who had not become settled for five years in the parish should be removed—that those poor who had applied for relief should first be searched, to ascertain w hether they had sufficient means of supporting themselves—that none should be relieved without also being made to work—and that no relief should be given in money. He (Mr. Standford) thought if such resolutions as these were adopted the example would be followed by other parishes. They would act as an effectual check upon Irish pauperism in the metropolis. Mr. LEWIS rose to object to the resolutions, on the ground that no notice of them had been previously given. The notice given last week did not extend so far. After some discussion Mr. STANDFORD withdrew thehis motion,mTeimE memorial and ln arni Nd G g r a eo v s ro e l u n iut o iA t o i nf c c e s Lo t z t: so t Na h tE e u rwldvoluyTli WITH GAS. bring GAs . on The VESTRY CLERK. read the memorial from the Western Gas Light Company, established at Kensall green, requesting the permission of the vestry to lay their mains throughout the parish of Marylebone. Mr. CARR rose to move the appointment of a com mittee. He considered this subject one of great im portance to the public. The high price of gas in the metropolis had long been a matter of complaint. Whilst in London they had to pay 7s. per thousand cubic feet, in Birmingham and Manchester it was ob tained at from 3s. 6d. to 4s. per thousand cubic feet, and although that was the case the companies were enabled to pay a dividend of ten per cent. Even in London the companies who sold gas the cheapest paid the largest dividend. Mr. GLAZIER seconded the motion. Mr. SODEN supported the committee, as he thought the most beneficial effects- might result to the rate payers by their putting themselves in communication with the managers of the Western Company. Mr. BELL had expressed his doubts last week as to the statements put forward by the deputation, that the gas proposed to be -supplied upon o y nn e t v‘ h e, i h s ime ‘ h : I dt V eh e ei s t e t e h r e n mists Gas Company" was both purer and stronger than that suppliedany other. th e Hdeathaadu si s hid business by toinvestigate whose names were mentioned had arrived at their conclusion rawtrkhedreerhecoohbrardercpvtl.aetasure in stati ng th at carried, and ions the resolutions theirf After ri n t c sa l on u md s i e o c n af 's rti a committee was appoi n t e d. se SUIC a I y ing D e E ven INWRI TECROSS-STREET an inquest was h e ld b y M r. W. Payne, iSnatltilirdhitecross-street prtson, on the body of Thomas mAi..ad.namosfams highly Richards, aged t wenty - f i ve, a young respectable c onnex i ons i n Monmouth formerly a clerk i n t h e P ost-office, who com ptsfhrptieeghawbrroifenuaddti ot whawiant. that the Ft ahr d eor e med t e ze r otc m hre ea i ans evidence nee deceased t b a he c ec t mot ofh f e r s s o ea u wyn i ie c nir inm ate el mil , am b Wi t t by of the prison on the 10th of June last, at the suit of a Mr. Sayer, for 102/.125., and on the 12th a detainer was lodged against him by Mr. Temple, of Furnival's for 105/. At first he seemed in good health and spirits, which, however, gradually declined, and he became .at intervals greatly depressed. On Friday week, being evi dently more diseased in mind than body, he was ad mitted into the infirmary, when he rallied ; his recovery being greatly accelerated by being made acquainted with the praiseworthy exertions in his behalf of Mr. Burden, the governor, who, on account of his perturbed state of mind and ill-health, had effected an arrangement with his creditors for his discharge, which would have taken ridayatnrnboedon, andhe was leftalone placeon Siant Saturday room y la s in h t. a e infirmary on n ar iie etntlhyocaksleieep, the et yard d tl i y n e af p te e r o w l lying had been long estranged from his family, an d hi s w i fe, to whom he was married in May, 1846, in her evidence, said that she had not seen him from the commencement of the present year. The jury having made some ob setearnvcantsiocnnsnonnecttheed y w o i u th th h of ts them melancholy end, and trheecirnceur; end, returned verdict of " Temporary insanity." I