The Sun. — London, England, 1847-08-24 00:00:00

PHE SUN, LONDO,Isi„ TtritSD Ay THE RIVER PLATE. PORTSMOUTH, MONDAT.—Her Majesty's du Curacoa 24, Captain Broughton; arrived at Spithead early this morning from the River Plate bring ing the latest intelligence from that quarter (26th of June). Mr. Gore Ouseley, late Minister from the British Governtornt to the Argentine Republic; Mr. Vere Foster, attache ; Captain Austen, R.N., promoted from the Alecto steam. sloop; Lieutenant Domville, R.M., from the iVelainpus frigate ; and Mr. White, midshipman, from the Raleigh, have come home in C ura co a. The French Admiral, with the French (recalled) Minister on board, left Rio for Brest a few days prior to the sailing of the Curacoa. The Empress of Brazil expected to be brought to bed every instant when the Curacoa sailed for Eng land. Mr. Ouseley left Monte Video in the Rattler screw sloop the 13th of June, at which date Lord . Howden, British Ambassador and Minister Plenipotentiary, had only just bi•oken ground at Buenos Ayres. Nothing whatever is known as to the nature of his Lordship's proceedings, but much was not expected by the mercantile community. The rate of exchange at Rio was 271 , „ and likely to go down, because, in the event of the atlairsof the River Plate being settled, there were fears of a war with Rosas. The Curacoa has brought home a small freight on merchants' account, which has been consigned to the agency of Messrs. Casher, freight agents and wine merchants, of Portsmouth , conveyance to the Bank of England. SPORTING IN TELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'a—YEsTzRDAy. The Leamington Stakes, the Great Yorkshire . Han dicap, and the Derby were slightly touched upon 1. but the only betting of any importance was on the St. Leger, on which we have two or three changes to notice. The crack, as will be gathered from the quotation, had the call of the field, 6 to 5 on him, laid in several quaiters. having been offered currently at -the close. Planet was in constant demand, and, although very little money was invested, sprung three or four points on the lowest taking prices at York ; he was unquestionably second favourite. Eryx suffered a decline of several points, and although nominelly at a better price, was not so good a favourite as Philosopher, who was in immense request, arid from 1,000 to 30 rose to 1,000 to 60 (taken). The other transactions do not call for obser vation. LEAMINGTON STAHEL 5 to 1 agstrLord Chesterfield's Game Lass filly 5 to 1 agst Lord Warwick's Gwalior THE GREAT YORKSHIRE HANDICAP. 7 to 1 agst Mr. Most) n's Sagacity—taken 8 to 1 agst Captain Kennedy's Sir 'Patton Sykes—t. 10 to 1 agst Mr. Merry's Pilgrim—taken 12 to.l agst Col. Peel's Palma—taken Some bets - were made about the two favourites at a point less than the prices quoted above. ST. LEGER. 6 to 5 on Mr. Pedley's Cossack—talc. and aft. offer. 13 to 2 agst Mr. Mostyn's Planet—tak. and aft, offer. 8 to 1 agat Lord Eglinton's Van Tromp 15 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Eryx 1000 to 60 agst Mr. L. Fox's Philosopher—taken 20 to 1 agst Mr. Pedley's Foreclosure—taken 1000 to 20 agst Mr. Mostyn's Swallow—tak. and aft. off. DERBY. • 17 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Springy Jack—taken 40 to 1 agst Mr. B. Green's; Swiss Boy—taken. COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT. (FROM GUN OWN CORRESPONDENT.) AUGUST 23. ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON REGATTA. FIFTH DAY. The following yachts started for the Duke of Beaufort's Cup, with a fine breeze from the northward :—The Lark, Capt. C. Hamlyn Williams, 65 tons; the Gauntlet, Wan. Yeareth, Esq , 65 tons; Noran, Sir Harry Bold Hoghton, Bart., 70 tons. The Lark took the lead, followed by the Nora!) and Gauntlet, rounded the vessel off Yarmouth in fine style. having gaineri considerably on both vessels; passing Cowes for the Nab she was three minutes a head of the Noran, the Noran well ahead of the Gauntlet, the Lai k proved too strong on the wing for her competitors. and carried off the Cup. The Gauntlet, an iron vessel, succeeded in beating the Noran in the latter part of the race. The Lark is a fine sea - boat, .and was built by Mr. Joseph White; this was her first trial, and she has ;nova' herself a good one; there was no drifting to-day, but a spanking breeze through the match. EXECUTION AT CARLI.•LE —On Saturday last, John Toomps: , u, who at the last Carlisle assizt s was tried and f and guilty of peisoeing his wile, Mary, with , whom he lived at Carlisle, underwent the extreme penalty of the I iw. It being market nay, the city was dere.ely creed, d. rne9ve o'clock at noon was the time six d by the sheriff foe the execution to take place, but hate berire that time thousands of people began to con gr; gate about the galloes, which had been in cted very early in the eve ruing in front of the gaol, and a little tefore noon 10,000 people are said to have been present. Abp ut two minutes before twelve o'clock, the solemn tell of the dealt' bell proclaimed that the culprit had left his cell, and exactly at twelve he made his appear ance upon the platform, accompanied by the chapl a in o f the cue!, the gaoler, unit the executioner. Thompson appeared very little e ff ected , and the chaplain, having read a part of the burial service. in which the culprit seemed ni- ist fervently to join, the executiemer proceeded to fieseti the rope; the bolts were drawn, the drop fell, and, after a struggle of a few moments' duration, death put an end to his existence. His body, having hung the proper time, was cut down y lid burie:i within the pre eincts of the prison. The vast multitude dispersed in the most peaceable and orderly manner. ROBBERY IN PORTSMOUTH DOCX.YARD.—A la bourer named Miller, who has been forty years in the dockyard, and employed on good wages in a responsible .sitth.tion in the central store, was stopped by the police on Saturdr.y night with about 20 lbs. w copper bolts in 4 bag round his person ; he was immediately transferred to the borough gaol. A search was made in the place where he hid been occupied, and several parcels of bolts in bags, &c., were found . secreted ; one packet with the nark filed tiff; other men are suspected to be concerned in the Peculation—one of whom has been rn fits, d adinission to the yard for t he present. DEATH IN GILTSPUR- STREET PRISON. --Yesterday Mr. W. Payne held an inquest - at the Giltpur-street prison, en the body of William • Burfeot, alias Daniel O'Connor, aged 30. It appeared that on the night of the 4th instant d, ceased gave himself into custody, say ing that he was miserable, in consequence of his having robbed his employer of a pair of boos. He was taken toilette the sitting aldermen and remanded until the 14th. When deceased was brought to the prison, he was in a most deplorable state of filth end rags, and very weak from want of food. He was put into a warm bath, cleaned, and shaved. On the 14th he became ill, and was ordered into the infirmary, where he died on Sunday. Verdict, " Natural death." MR. VERNON'S GIFT TO THE NATION.—The ru mour which bus prevailed for some time, that Mr. Ver non intended t o p resent hi s fi ne co ll ect i on o f pi c t u res to the nation, is no w a certa i nty , th a t gentleman having placers it at the immediate disposal of the trustees of the National Gallery. For this noble act the public is most deeply indebted to Mr. Vernon, and it is to be hoped that some public acknowledgment of it will be made. Consisting for the most part of modern works, this oel lection will form the nucleus of a really national gallery of British art, which the trustees will now feel compel led to increase. Fear of the imputation of favouritism and jobbing has hitherto prevented the trustees from purchasing modern works; but this must be overcome. . One other advantage likely to result from this important gift is an early alteration it the 'National - Gallery; 'lts enlargement has been commenced; bat it seems clear either that a fresh building for the national collection must be found, sufficiently large to encourage constant donations, or that the Royal Academy must be pro vided for elsewhere, with the same end in view. Our opinions as to the necessity of this have been long ago expressed.— The Builder. We read in a letter- from Nap les of the loth : " The conduct of the brigands in Calabria has been and continues to be very serious. They muster, his said, about 500. They stopped a waggon laden with specie belonging to the Government, and stripped it of. its con tents. At first a regiment of gendarmes was sent to disperse them, and arrest the ringleaders, but were met by such determined resistance from the brigands that many of the soldiers were killed, and the commanding officer severely wounded on the head. The remainder retired from the conflict. General Stutella is now there brigands direnton stationed with a regim en t, b u t it i s f eare d he will not be more successful th a n th e ge ndar mes . 'The and ioned themselves on th e h e i g ht s in everythe soldiers in the glens are shot elf like flies without being able to follow them up the hills. in some instances they could te y could not see from whence came the shots that killed or wounded them."—Freneh l'aper. THE FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—An inquest was held at the Prince of Wales Tavern, Farringdon-road station, on Fri.lay, the 20th inst., before W. D. Wasbrough, Esq., on the body of Fleury Sinauer, residing in Pembroke -street, Bristol, a licensed hawker in plate and jewellery, who was knocked down by the express train from Paddington t. , Exeter, and his body dreadfully mutilated, nearly all the bone-s being broken. The jury returned a verdict of accidental death, and expressed an opinion that the railway company ot'ght to . station a policeman at the gate where the accident happened,' there being a p u bli c road act as the line for - cserriAges 'and horses. —Berk shire Chronicle. - SuocaiNG CASE or CHIL D MITYILA . TION.—A youn g wonian, named Elizabeth Strati:men; Servant in a public holise in Birmingham, i s . charged with concealing the birth at are iilegitipiateecliairls thee:Ex:MY ef•whieh, cut, o r rather tern into fragments, was leaned yesterday in s cesspool. An ippeatoit tbe 000 w4,to have heeu 'acid , . IGO 1014 VENING, AUGUST 24, 1847. FLANDERS MAIL. tisli:Hh Zo ii.eaxtr..—Th e 6 ci: , ette de - Cologne Sk‘ " -, Z ' th e Conf erence of the States says of tha Zell eit), whi c h w i ll be occupied in making moilfica- , " I d tii i i ls in the i n t ro d uction into the Legislature of 3 of exchange , _ modifications whi c h have for their !afire the e s t a blishment of a uniform system for the l'lrds Cu stoms Uni on , will fakeplace a:, Leipsig, to- Ende of September. THE YOLISEI TRIALS. keu*,l 'BERIAN' Anc. 14. In the defence of two of the die t , Persons, thi; day, their counsel, the Syn „jr.!_, Phz4nowski again maintained that the con hrs47l: was not directed against Prussia; the . Poles th e "'Lion whatever to hate the Prussians, but .t * 2 61 abundant cause to hate the Russians; that 1 ._"' net the intention of the con-pratora either i ko . take care to reserve Bromberg, but merely to use A;!cardeipot fur the arms in the contest with Russia. l end ., e tcger,-eonnsel of the superior court, in . dem ot. cie ng . the accused P.adkiewieg, spoke of the system aitial L w ithail e r l hich was so general among the the accused, would in . all likelihood indispose their dey_gt's te be favourable to them. lie alleged, ho . w i - } _ e‘.r,,, that as the preliminary examinations w o hic . 41%1'1 as theses denials had been made in the er * at ' la 'iguag,e • h which most of the defendants : -er 11 l Per - tec i ; it , or not atall, conversant, it was t, trt lnel natural that when the% had been misunder fl °CI to make certain observations they should deny -- P' P' when they eavour to wipe "ti thu s end wipe came clearly to understand th . eni, then,. off the charge against apot ft er the counsels of the various accused had /4( en, the Advocate -G enera l rose t o re ply. The 6 11 1 e m ss, he said, would be lengthened to an inde - point wtre to tier,: period, if all th e po i nts b roug h t i n t h e accuse be met, one by one ; there was one th e „which, however, he must insist upon, . namely, ri e ,''Proach es which were cast upon the functiona- T a i t ‘'' ho ih.ad been charged with the preliminary in thk,r3'iu , s'Lle present process was public; it was, Cae re re ' his duty to defend those functionaries who . ill the nct p r esent; he was, indeed, in possession of to necessary materials which would enable him but I F Y Individually to each particular complaint; . lurn e e r tntl4 Protest against the boldness with which ti oN ' 4 : the defendants had drawn very great conclu tais„ Iro tu very insignificant, and even false .. pre his ,i„• 4 Tne functi onary i n co nsci ent i ous l y fulfilling fre e i cl , " 11. 1 t seek t o h ave th e com f o rt of b e i ng that tt , ull c harges o f t hi s nature, an d h e must reflect Per4o ti 4'i "rat be nefit of publicity extorts from him th Y ofth: 4e ,,.. rif i'-es, and that these sacrifices are wor AL G ., - urnvticial results. to j u t..all,;the Commissary of Justice, endeavoured %II: 11 , h i ,a o )olf against the charge of the Advocate treatr‘,7, He replied that he always attached the. Willti teh;;TPortance to the preparatory investigation, it, i mi - ‘ lor the future he should attach a yet higher l'iliii ti -asz nueb as it alone furnished the proof of the On 4 , l i! t Y "f the accused. 41 0 , 1 :" 17th the trials were adjourned at one , S tkr•isi a jt ennimenced with the trial of Lucian nitited —' who was charged with having been ap ths,e i at th e meeting of •Sebaa-Gona, one of th n e S'aih: iill m e ers who were to conduct the insurrectio 'ir()l 'gilt j a r°ln . be rg- Many other grave accusations were 41 '0 st , "lost him, among others that he purchased c 0 p e"1 . ,, (4 ,' ol arms and ammunition, some of which s llo, e l ll4 _l` under straw in a shed used for cattle. His tli_oltirma!'llnitted that he was one of the three officers % 13 rg - r sl `,, p but positively denied all the other e t tlrq ae ,„:"h second prisoner, Mosczezenski denied ; lard tr . 4 , ation that was brought against him. .The . 141 ,1 13 ' )Il r Xavier Von Karlousk bad unhesitat ,Q »dll Xavier • llei • in his previous examination , . that he tic) eof •d 1 w as e conspirators, that a general , insurre 53.1 eon e° he , mplated, that every Pole ssas more or I tit tl w - ei• e e 4ll , ed .. !n it, and that those who refused to t o by, th ',„,nanger of being . shot. Being called ti e s‘ r,T Preis dent he admitted that he had made r,"°rlspi;" ° ", but that he had . not taken the oath to "ta t he cY, and that his assertion was founded upon i h : - a that tlijeum t t th t, _l , )y t l i : in . circulation. This was denied upon unary advocate, Schopke. who de ,,,,. th 4, taeq t he defendant . had come, to him and had }),..` no (in "L of the conspiracy in 1846 ; and added, of 4 l ) !sh ot. e e° , lll l decline joinil übder penalty of I h 'lr. Grithe declare that the sentence 4' K tr a , C I 11- e - "I -1 ought not to be passed upon Karlon o ..1, diti 41 .10 opposed by his counsel, and the 411 Urt as R' ' 4 l. `"( 1 at one o'clock.—Flanders papers, x l4. I De•trU,STit lAN FUNDS .-- VIENNA . AUGVsT 106 A l•illt. M etalligileS• ••••• • • • .. . • 96 Der Cent ditto • • • 7___per Cent. ditto... .................. 1 %31 -.ail, 18 31. •• --• • - • 121 it bitto. I h39 * **.** "..... •• • • ' • • • • ••• •.** 1602 ..-40k N h are 3 • .• .• .. .... . •• ...... .. '''' 'iterhur The Northern, orFer l drnan A d YB • • • • • ' • - • • : 1 1 6 2 9 24 4 Glegoota .. . Ferdinand ...... • - •• • 09 Legh orn Mil .. ... - • • .......... .. 91% . 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I have not a copy of it. but the purport was the 'ollowing,—A boy returned from a public school (I did not specify Winchester, but it was so,) extremely Pl. About eight years ago, from the effect of the subtraction of his proper quantum of food by the upper tyrants, the medical man that attended him declaring that it he returned to school lie Would not answer for his life. His mother, the widow of a clergyman , wi th ni g ht children, he ' d the resolution and humanity to take him entirely away, though to her great pecuniary detriment. Des could be verified on oath. Whether the miscreants were ever punished. as they richly deserved, I am t olerant. I was at a public echoel in London many years ago, where the under boys on the foundation were subjected to similar, or rather worse, treatment. We, though most of us were the sons of clergymen and .;e.ent !emelt, had the most degrading work to perfterm—had e make beds, sweep rooms, clean shoes, knives, and ,erhs, mend clothes, toast bread at a raging tire, wash plates. even, with cold w ater, till our hands had chaps in ,hem into which a gee's- quill might be insereed; nor in ,he depth of winter were we allowed to approach a fire, except to be roasted. Even at night our rest eas dis turbed some aloes by having the bed clothes taken tie a, , and we left on the bare sacking. If cricket. were to be played. the foundation-boys were to stop the ball, whether they liked the game or not. Why so? If there must be stoppers, let them be hired out of the town and paid for. If arty more dis gusting work than another were to be performed, it fell to the lot of the foundation-boys. I am thoroughly con vinced that the poor children in the workhouses ate treated with greater kindness, have more abundant food, and enjoy more real happiness that we, lads from ten to fourteen years of age, of good parentage, and destined, most of us, for the liberal professions, were permitted to have. Now all these evils, to which we were exposed, might have been easily removed by the masters appoint ing a proper person, with a good salary (and the trustees or governors would have indemnified them), constantly to be present, and supervising all the boys by day, and, if possible, by night also. This I say, because the oppideus, or boarders, have such an inspector in the same roof 4th them, with servants to attend upon them; whereas in three public schools in London that I tnyeelt know the apartme et e.e the fo u ndation-boys were at a distance, or separated from the r6t9ittice of the masters, who delegated,; to. save themselves trouble and expense, a great part of their authority to the boys of the higher class, who were pretty sure to abuse it; i.,r few men are to be entrusted with power, much less lads of from fifteen to eighteen, generally the greatest bullies imaginable, unless they be meliore luto. Dr. Arnold observed that he could not have conducted Rugby School but fur the aid of the sixth form —whether -he meant. in .a ~literary or moral point of view I know not ; sure I am, however, it he confided to the sixth the superintendence of the lower boys' moral conduct, one might say—" Sedquis custodiet ipsos custodes?" They needed a much stricter surveillance. Dr. Arnold (to his immortal credit) was the first master that ever tried to make boys religious, the firet that constantly preached before them, and the first that ever published sermons peculiarly addressed to them; and now I trust he has his reward. Dr. Moberley peaks of some good qualities (I forget how he expresses himself) being elicited by the fagging system ; but Southey, who is as good authority, says, in his " Life of Wesley"—",John suffered at the Charterhouse under the tyranny which the elder boys were permitted to exercise. This evil at one time existed very generally in English schools, through the culpable negligence of the masters, and perhaps may still continue to exist, though if a system were deSigned for cultivating the worst dispositions of human nature, it could not more effectually answer the purpose. The boys of the higher forms of the Charterhouse were then in the practice of taking their portion of meat from the younger ones by the law of the strongest, and during a great part of the time Wesley remained there a small daily portion of bread was his only food. As to our religious education, we attended church twice ou a Sunday and on saints-days, neither the oppidans nor masters (though they were all clergymen) ever doing the same on the latter. The prayers night and morning on week-days were read by one of the seniors, and made a joke of. For instance: instead of 'great marvels,' be read ' great bosses,' a Ist ge marble being so termed." Dr. Jortin observes that Lucian says, if Jupiter had a spite against a man he made a schoolmaster of him; but adds the Doctor, " Lucian would have thought otherwise now, when our masters frequently make more money in one week than many a learned clergyman makes in a whole year." The fact is the masters of the great schools are above their work: they are mostly good sche:lars, and are ambitious of making others also the same, as it reflects honour on themselves - but the religious and moral conduct of those submitted to their care (I speak of some of the masters, not of all) they make a secondary consideration, or none at all. • To revert to fagging, Dr. Collyer, a t hysician in London, four or five years ago, I think, brought an action against some of the Westminster authorities for the maltreat ment of his son: though tried before that upright Judge, Tindal, he lost it through some legal technicality. The public must take the correction of this great evil into their own hands; and I am persuaded that if they knew the existence and enormity of it, they would to a man rise up against it. Many years ago a boy (still living) was compelled at a certain public school in the metropolis, with others, to drag a sledge with its lower parts for tified with iron, whence a nail prjecting tore a deep hole in his leg; atter having fellen down, he was whipped up by the brute in the sledge and made to run aft r that; eq. is (planer of a year be was at tikyhospite l l of the institution ; and I never heard that 'the tyrant was punished.for this act of cruelty. Dr. Russell, to his honour, totally abolished fagging at the Charterhouse, but the present Master has allowed it to revive 1 have understood. I am your humble servant, A CONSTANT READER. August 18,1847. DRUNKENNESS IN THE ARMY. The practice hitherto followed in framing charges for habitual drunkenness, hiving been found objection able, the ;.lommanden in-Chief has (breezed that he•nce torth the time, place, and occasion when each instance of drunkenness occurred shall be distinctly specified in such charge.; and ir the instances of drunkenness, on which it is proposed to proceed against a prisoner, shah have taken place within six mouths of a former conviction of habitual drunkenness, the time and 'Attee of the said con viction are also to be distinctly stated, as shown in the folloviing forms of charges, which have been found to meet every variety of case : EKELEToN CHARGES. I. A. B. is charged with habitual drunkenness ; in haring been drunk on the day of -at ';. . on the day of at . . ; . _ _ on the day of at . ; on the day of at ; being four times drunk within twelve calendar months. 2. A. B. is charged widi habitual drunkenness, in hav ing been drunk on the day of at ; and on the day of at ; being twice chunk within six calendar months after the day of at , on which day he was duly con victed of habitual drunkenness. 3. A. B. is charged with habitual drunkenness, in hay ing been drunk on the day of ,on the line of search from W. to E., and on the day of on parade at F., being once drunk sn the line of march, and once on paratle, within twelve calendar months. JOHN MACDONALD, A.G. —United Service Gazette. A teL ,..... , doh a4terda .`"VEARE'S HO USE. .st r 3' afre 04140 to , w e t 'noon a meeting was held in Abing -11%44 Prutn 4. ' it ' s ter, of a number of gentlemen 4 4, 4 ° club 12;ite the object of the Royal Shaks tliwb:Oh of tberL Stra tford-upon-Avon, in the pre- Itttinip4 it pati onouse of our great dramatist in that ' 4 4 '°f Dr . ^4l monument. A deputation, con- R L te h - gai t -N eehr . ,i l‘h°4l Pson, the President, and Mr. _, 44 4f .11 ,, 141 1 , rlah 6g L e i the Hon. Secretary of the Royal gier e ;"3' ex / A u . 11 "1 eutne to London on the occasion, Y —This . f sue:" . the steps already taken, and the tit er tivne " With W h• short hue, which , ROC.IIESTEEAND has closed been GRAVESEND since November iw, 1 . r to. ral i lleot lei) they had been attended. ...otie morrow il ing at the Thatched House the day Kent South Eastern line to Dover. . was re-opened on Saturday, as a portion ih soifngthiee line of 4e lipti n olon-q t . as been already advertised, and the to Bt , will tk e for the purpose of obtaining sub- rail had been taken up, that passed through the tunnel filled up. The th tnet4 L ett to ~e " ,en be formed, Lord Morpeth having and th9t portm e n c.fthe so ca u nal terd4;ll to ita President and the Earl of Biles- Eastern Company intend working this shortselhineemeinadree pendently, until the other portions of their bece s4 :ere thi *l itlent of it. The proceedings Yes - completed. It is understood that great obstacles have the tunnel, P itt ed 7 61 arraLflY preliminary, with a vlew to the been encountered in making the road through lA' 'oat the Ms the foundations. However, ,t_ its 41. e for Thursday; but it ap- the bed of the canal there being intersected by land which undermined z,g , pe e ' t oe hut,. Stratford Club has acted, as springs, i' Ll sre L .hich, blip has yet proceeded, with a qa,, -so eMeot all thedifficulties . have been overcome, and the large t' e air I Ntel l s omewhat unusual in cases party a very perfect that accompanied M , r. M'Gregor (chairman of the company) on Saturday, found the line in ascot, eativ zeal is naturally felt. They grak:it,.• 44 . 10 filin li t , Ilre ,based. the state. In the afternoon about 120 of the most respectd able and influential of the inhabitants. of Rochester an ,premises in Harley 10,7 t liv e d ' 5 tne - house_ in which our great Gravesend sat down to ta splendid entertainment pro oth, "'eh 1 if, i,,, must r ota . u ed, he were not born in it, hia ' t he beat vided by the directors,. in the engine-room, at the Grave- Ilk hi ts , oripi o. , .ns running from one to the end terminus, which had been tastefully decorated for .:tverally °tett heed4nY have formed a single edifice. the occasion. Mr. M'Gregor presided. The usual loyal r, ..2utpwied,roplished - mainly by the funds toasts were given; and, in answer to one proposing !Ale -"'Ll he °Y Prince Albert th e stnn a eoep er ~ the Queen . Dow- cess to the railway , the Chairman expressed the deter titlitts..Most . ation of Stratford • but consider- mill ation of the company to give every facility . to the o r ti t .gaes es 'tll be raised by subscription ' before cra4) ,..., _t_y of Kent, and attributed the delay in the forma ttrut,loo to ,Peeially active in th.. tion-of their , new lines, to opposition by his Grace the ;are. ueco 'of IN el Wigton, whom he (the Chairman) denti n object are in a hie purchasers of the rest of the representative of Julius Cresar, feet era inmate Duke d si " i th n w as unani " the modern All. 11 '.inc e U raday , _. mOusly adopted yesterday to day, when it was traversed by a vast the conqueror of the world." The line was opened to • ills till of 4 11 al. three o'ch,ek and to invite the • - .114 -iy 44 • 'stele! ' wh h in ' the public yesterday , lED LADY WITH AN • t in tk et tlor tati turi v e . t er purse or person, in ELOPEMENT or A number of visitors to and l i‘ r i o A m ß ll n ochester and Gravesend. I ); lth er D *B 's dr u ertaking. An advertisement to U NMARRIED INFANTRY F Last week conside tbari - ar t of our uPi__ which.- will be found in ruble excitement was ) a k u ie s ( e ) . e ti l l : - d pement of a young married vved tha t °f the ~ PaPer, and which was subscribed city in consequence in fashionable circles in the kti oh. t it 5i....,, Judividuals present. It is to be lady with an officer belonging CO an infantry regiment at 7; "eat t 'Liar courBe will be pursued in the stationed in Dublin. l'be names of the parties, to pre 4aelthiplethat ti i : W A l i ni in the kingdom, and we rejoice vent further pain . o . ti such a subject, are for the present th ' atttl '''Yor of Birmingham has set the 111 (1 a Purpe Pr"ic k'd yest d- t. withheld. The injured Hume a high p lace vtie iv eeit , s e of _. . er ay at a public . mee ing in whose poetic talents ha d ve tk i; , %my bo ron raising subscriptions in that large English literature. It is said that up . h g u i s v b e a u nd he i r s n t u he son o . to a r‘cent pe f a lady •aki 'Ant e gh. c . . .- rind the, parties lived on the m . fli t , the ti t. ,Nece a , , h,, , .?Inparatively little inexerti but that as the I9dy seemed to hav ‘‘ e . eareparticular liking exchanged, in iiie:Zitisid"'.._e 4110 b ut it must be borne .. mind for " the red coat," several billets lady vios o 'rable activity before the sale is short, and (so report goer,), in og affectionate terms ; aide.terviews took place, and the . will be necessary.—Morn- the absence of her husband,deal of time ei A let she elope( de ll -ter f ---------._____ in the officer's company. A pew days since . . 3 said li e ~,t.te ,!, I nlir u i with him, the affair *owl became known, and it i spent a good 1 trioids, has pb,74Bit ed — e.sgii.h awns informs us of a serious ac- the injured hwbiohd, by the advice of his 4 - 1 ,:" wi n : en The:tid gentleman named George Banke. rant yet decided on taking any step in the matter, ,. en The p. 444 44 e1 5 , ox , A noth( 1 1 l . Y. the field of Waterloo in- whereabouts of the fugitives is Hot at present spit r e loiih hi a ''' with .„, g 141 gentleman, also staying at The lady, who resided in a fashionable street at n P 44 ,_. tu e h ratu rn ~..1 4013 1 he had made acquaintance, north side of the city, is described as 4 • youngand very t t rm v,klasef , viole nce 418 horse took fright and threw him I handsome." It was whispered yesterday that next ~•0 4 , - s , at the datethat he became insensible, and re. may reveal something regarding this unpleasant affair. ..."'it did eoftpkir, 0 this nt The g en tl eman —Dublin Freeman's Journal. i tl i.m % ter tolisAir. Banke is " u n n o tt u ble to communicate g ' The Q u artermaster -General of the Forces. Ge -404% r i l., Bank, 1 1 , 4.41 :1ds not knowing where they re- neral Sir Willoughby- Gordon, Burt., G-.C.8., and G.C,11., 4 10 I ' -'' arne se i; ad been Wo w .. at the H o tel de has been seriously indisposed from an - attack of.evysi. 4 14Q i i„ . but h e Ina taou otter kis 4 0 4. . Feiss, but is now hug, recovering .from the iaTecta of the -** it iillainesok. - : 1 416efite.Agigi#444,0pics,Gaiwite, . . - _. _ CAPE OF GOOD HOPE,- - - From the Cape of Good Hope Shipping anil-Ilier cantile Gazette of the 11th of June, we learn that the artificers to be employed in the construction of the lighthouse at Cape Agulhas has left, Cape Town, in her Majesty's steamer Rosamond, for Struis Bay, where their debarcation will take place. The parties who had been engaged by the South Afi jean Mining Company to work the lodes of mineral ore which have been discovered in Namaqualand were on hoard ship, awaiting a favourable wind to carry them to their destination. There is no news from the Kafir frontier. -THE IRISH RELIEF COMMISSION . The following is the fifth report of the Irish Re lief Commissioners to the Lords of the Treasury : Relief Commission- (See, Dublin, August 17, 1847. May it please your Lordships, --We have the honour to transmit our fifth monthly report as Commissioners under the Act 10th Victoria, cap. 7. The greatest number of electoral divisions under the operation of the Act since our last report has been 1.826; the largest amount of gratuitous relief (which attained its maximum at that p er i o d) supported 2,920,792 persons' per daY; and the number to whom sold 99,920. The returns to the ht of" August show a gradual-re duction to 2,467,989 gratuitous, 'and 52,387 sold; the cost of each ration, including establishment and ex penes, averages The enormous number of :3,000,000 of individuals (exceeding one.thied of the entire population of the euuntt)), supported by a gratuitous distribution of mere food, deMonstrates (allowing even tor 'some extent of malappropriation)- the awful. amount of distress °Cm sioned by the failuit of the crop of potatoes. Whet e the evil was so great, and so generally spread, no indirect method of affording relief could have been of avail; nor could any measure short of distributing food to the multitude have prevented the effect of absolute famine widely extended. • When we contemplato that it has been attended with that result, which, above all, was in the humane con sideration of the Le g i s l ature, a certain d egree of abuse, to which the syst em must be liable, may be sub mitted to, although it c a n not ,b e j ustified o n t h e p ar t of those committing it, or of t h ose b y whose arrangeme nts it might hive been prev en t e d; . We have had ovcasii)h to deprecate these abuses, which, . unhappily, were but too numerous ; and our circulars, _instructions, and regulations, have naturally tended generally to repress them, giving an impression, perhap:, that the occasion for such complaints was almost universal. We may, therefore, reasonably take this opportunity of reporting that this was tar from bein. , the case ; and that, with the zed us c o-operation of the greater number of th e comm i ttees , a id e d by-soine fortuitous circumstances, th e a mount o f t h e e xpenditure on this vast measure has been less than we at first an ticipated. • We have also to report most favourably to your Lordships on the exertions of ..our inspecting• officers, who have carried on a most difficult and arduous service with a degree of temper, energy, and intelligence, highly creditable to them. Much more of the conduct of the proceedings was thrown upon them by the committees than was ever in tended, or than ought to have been required ; and, although frequently under the necessity of strenuously opposing the propositions of committees and individuals,, there has been scarcely an instance of their giving per sonal offence, or of their losing the respect of the gentle men of character and influence ; and many of their reports are highly interesting. Thu period of the year that brings with it the greatest amount of distress is notoriously that'which immediately precede§ the gathering-of .the first crops, that is, during July and the early part of August. The absolute termination of advances on account of the temporary relief has been fixed by Act of Parliament for the end of September. It becomes , therefore, necessary, within a period of six . weeks, to throw on their own resourc e 53,000,000 of, persons who had been provided with food. Although those few weeks comprise the time when the demand for labour is at its highest amount, and when the crops (which promise to be very abundant) will be in course of collection, still it is most necessary to make the transition as gradual as is compatible with so short an interval, and to endeavour. to Avoid the too abrupt ces sation of relief to such an enormous mass of the popu lation. With this view we have urgently pressed for an un compromising scrutiny, and for reduction of the relief lists, in proportion to the appearance of employment, and to the available supply of food; and we are about to discontinue, from the 15th August, making advances to the unions which, from circumstances and situation, seem to be best able to bear such a course, atiking off the others by degrees, from fortnight to fortnight. Almost every union struggles for a prolonged conti nuance, chiefly on the plea of want of preparation for the change, arising iu many cases from th e d e l ay i n esi Z t mustensiv e system be att en d e d with of relief, making them, although ,a gene ral w arning of what would take place was given so far back as the month of June. Thein hn whatever t in t t iannunaenrc; carried adis on. i distress and difficulty; - and all the energy, benevolence, and public-spirited expenditure that can be applied will be required to meet the emergency. The number of temporary fever hospitals ordered to be established "under the Act 10th Victoria, cap. 22, amounts now to 326. We annex copies of the circular instructions issued since our last report, together with the summary of the account branch, and the returns and statements con nected with our continued operations. We have, Sce.. F. BURGOYNE. T. N. REDINGTON. R. J. ROUTH. E. J. B. TWISLETON, HARRY D. JONES. D. M'GREGOR. To the Right Hon. the Lords Commissioners of her aj ^sty's Treasurs , 86e. POLITICAL IMPORTANCE OF BUILDING SOCIE (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) Among the many benefits conferred on the country by the late Anti-Corn-law League, perhaps there is not one, taken is a political point of view, for which the lovers of freedom ought to be more truly grateful, tharethe lesson it taught the. 'peupla _un the import ance of the 40, franchise. The rent charge system of the League paved the way to other modes of ob taining county qualifications ; amongst those there is perhaps not one more capable of practical develop ment than the building acciety scheme; its gradual mode of payment, comparatively light in its operation, secures to the industrious working man not only a freehold in perpetuity, but entitles him and his heirs to vote fur his representative in Parliament. That mem bers of building societies will support Liberal princi ples cannot be doubted, their interests must beidentical with all measures for the public good. One society (No. 1 House Property Association) proved the truth of this assertion on the 9th inst., at Bethnal green polling district,when.l9 members voted in right of their shares, one after another, for the liberal candidates. coi Dl iu r c . t V ei T i a w rr it e h ne g r r , ea w t who has mtfht preparation ir in o6n o o n; h fi s )od pa h s pr t thousands of the poor, by s ' invaluable system, at the Model Kitchen, Dolphin's Barn, exerted himself a much to prove the extent a nd economy o f the system, that he has been in a alarming state of health ; .but, we , are glad t o infortn h is some elopes tnat the fev er h as atta i ne d it s worst stage, veryt public that there and that he will "'n •be sa v e d to his amiabl e wile, family, and friends.—Saurtder s ' 11 etas Letter. PHYSIOLOGICAL CURIOSIT T . ThutilaS Crellry, youth of 17, who was tried at Loicaster last week for a crime vrhich, if proved, would h ave subjected him to the g penalty of death, presented a s i n uler instance of mal tormation, both his h an d s b eing webbed like a duck ' s foot. His toes are said to exhibit the same peculiarity ; and we ore also given to understand that he was born w ith sevt-ti fingers on each h an d , which were educed to putatlon m the natural number by am • • c hildhood.—Pres. ton Chronicle. Three whales were captured last week at Cromarty. BALLOON Race.—Yesterday evening a more than usual number of persons were attracted to Cremorne gardens to witness the ascent of two balloons—viz., the Victoria and the Coronation balloons —the one directed by the veteran Mr. Cnarlea Green, and the other by his brother, Mr. IL Green. The affair was called an aerial race, and certainly from the rapid rate at which the balloons travelled, the term was up - propriate. The wird was blowing ee ry fresh from the north-east at the time of the ascent,' seven o'clock, and the machines were carried through the air in the direc tion of Wimbledon-common with extraordinary speed, the Victoria taking the lead. - Amongst the spectators were Lords Strangford, Charleville, Longford, Strath. erne. Sec., and many other persons of rank. On the outside of the grounds many thousands were assembled. The scene was full of excitement and may be said to have been the best aeronautic display of the season. THE FIRE IN T OT TENHAM-COURT -ROAD.—The fire that occurred yesterdermorning upon the premises belonging to Mr. J. Walker, organ-builder, of Francis street, o tten hain c our t ros (I, briefly noticed. in this journal of the same date, has proved to be. of a far more disastrous character than was at first expected. The manufactory and the timber stores occupied an area of ground considerably more than acre. ~In the several workshops were upwards of 50 organs of various sizes (some of them had been in hand nearly 12 months), which are destroyed., The foreman of the works esti mates the stock in trade destroyed as worth from 10,000/. to 12,0001., aud, with the bu ildin g s that -h a ve been le velled with the ground, and the value of the men's work ing tools, he stated to the reporter that the whole da inage could not be less than 20,0001. The insurances upon the property will not nearly cover the loss. The following is a correct statement of the damages taken from the o ffi cial. report:—" No. 27, Francis stieet, Tottenham-court -road, Mr. J. Walker, organ building damaged by fi re, builder —manufactory burned down, contents consu med; back front of d ai w u t:l A lin t g la - house -o s ifi ev c e e r s e . ly mr d . a n m ip a l g: uninsured. Messrs. Bertioseuni by fi re, _and windows burned out ; front ware house and contents damaged by fire, water, and removal; in the Atlas and Phcenix o ffi ces. building s a l n ig d ht damage insured d an i d n h th a e bi C tm ou ak nt t y r_root Collinsc optician— slight a e n n_, and contents andas i n ; g d h ca t i t‘ n td i d e da n i al t e s ,a g h em y do • : w di n en i t ..i e ue r rr : es .d by water: insured in the Sun. Tottenham -court-road. —Messrs. Dunbir's ironfoundry—roof and skylight damaged Mr. Hawk i n s, b). fire. Sadler -s kylight 7. damaged by fire: insured in the Sun. New-inn-yard.— Nos. 5,6, 7, and 8, let out in tenements—buildings and contents severely d ama ged by fire and falli ng in: insured in the Sun. No. 28, Francis street, Mr. Goodchild, op tician—*-preraisei slightly damaged: insured in the Plus nix. The cause of fire unknown. The fire was extin guished by firemen and engines of the establishment, the parish. and West of England and. County offices.. The late Admiral John Erskine Douglas, of the Red Squadron of her Majesty'g Fleet, hiui lett 40.0001. .in p,‘rsonal.property.. which "he has bequeathed between hie twt.triaughtere, subject to tin-annuity .of 1501.. to . his sister. His daughter, are the executrixes of his will, which be executed in October Wit. The gallant admiral 4194 -tP) 441/447**440:91',= • THE MURDER OF THE DUCHESS DE PR ASLIN. (From the Constitutionnel) The Duke de Preslin was conveyed this morning at four to the Luxembourg prison, and placed in the room lately occupied by M. Teste; but boards had been put up at the wiridoWs, - go as to let the prisoner see but the sky. M. de Preslin was brought down on a mattress from the room he occupied at the Se bastian' Hotel, rind placed in a dor/rime sent from the Luxembourg by the Grand Referendarv. His valet accompanied him, as well as the persons com missioned to watch him. The magistrates, physi cians, and police occupied three other vehicles. - The , prisoner, who was greatly dejected at the moment of his departure, revived a little in the open air; he was carried, still on the mattress, into the interior of the prison, but was enabled to ascend a part of the steps supported by his valet. The latter did not remain in the prison ; he returned in a coach to, the hotel with the mattress. It is now considered certain that the weak condition in which M. de Praslin has been during the last three days is the conse quence of an attempt at poisoning himself ; he is said to have swallowed the contents o f a small phial of laudanum w hen he could doubt no more of his being suspected of the Siece his arrival at the Luxembourg Led beverages have been frequently given him in order to step his vomiting, which is said to continue. Tne prison is guarded by the military as in the preceding trials. It had been said that Marine. de Luzy would be conducted to the Luxembourg. The Patrie con siders the report untounded. She is still at the Conciergerie this evening. We know not what to think of the Gazette de France's allegation that this horrible trial is to take place with closed doors. (From the Gazette des Tribunaux.) We yesterday stated that the health of the Duke de Praslin had excited some anxiety. It is :armed that it is due to an attempt at poisoning himself. The Duke has swallowed a certain quantity of laudanum; at what moment and how he made the attempt is notes said ; but it would appear that by the aide of a phial filled with nitric acid, another has been found which contained the poison. The moment the first symp toms declared themselves, the most active antidotes were administered, and the more dangerous 'effects of the laudanum were paralysed, without, however, their being completely neutralised • thus frequent vomit ing manifested itself, and it. de Praslin remained in - a sort of stony, to which is, perhaps, to be ascribed the silent and dejected attitude he has re- s tained towards the magistrates who have examined him. The remedies given by the physician having as early as yesterday (Friday) restored some strength, it was deemed that be might be removed from his mansion, and the Chancellor determined on issuing a warrant to, that effect. This morning, therefore, at four, one of the ushers of the Chamber of Peers went with the Chancellor's warrant to the Hotel Sebastiani, where the Duke de Praslin was closely watched. The usher was accompanied by Dr. Andral, physician to the Chamber of Peers, who has, in the last three days, been frequently instructed to visit the Duke and ascertain the state of his health. The usher having been admitted into the room where the Duke de Praslin was in bed, and Dr. Andral having made sure that a material improvement had taken place, and that the vomiting, which had been abundant, had ceased, and that he might be removed without danger from his residence, the warrant was notified to him, with the - King's ordonnance convoking the Peers as a court of justice. The Duke heard the notification without uttering a word; he Only made an effort to sit up, as if to denote that he was ready to comply with the injunctions of justice. His valet then dressed him, and he was soon enabled to descend, supported by two persons, to the door of his mansion, where the Duke Decases's car riage awaited him. He was helped into it. After naming the official persons who accompanied or es corted him, the Gazette adds—the carriage then moved on slowly, owing to the Duke's weakness; the whole route was watched by police agents, for the maintenance of order and the preventing of any ob stacles, whilst a brigade of town-sergeants followed the carriage at a certain distance. It took an hour to proceed from the Hotel Sebastiani to the Luxembourg Palace by following the quays and streets, which were nearly deserted; there were but a few workmen pro ceeding to, their early labour; they stopped and gazed at the passing procession, whose slow and silent march was solemn and melancholy. They who saw it envied, perhaps, the carriage with its armori a l s , an d suspected not that it was conveying to prison a Duke and Peer accused of murder. At five o'clock the car tiage conveying 'the Duke de Praslin stopped in Rue Vangirard, in front of the Court of Peers' gaol. During the whole time the Duke, whose face was vio lently contracted and deadly pale, had been silent. On being required to descend from the carriage, he proved so weak that it became necessary to carry him to the room prepared for him, which is that succes • sively occupied by General de Cubieres and Al. Pel lapi a. The moment he was brought into it, the Duke de Praslin was put to bed by his valet, who, at his request, was permitted to continue a short time with him, but soon obliged to quit the prison. Yesterday, and this forenoon, Mdlle. de Luzy, who is still at the Conciergerie, has been again questioned. She con tinues to affirm with energy that her relations with M. de Praslin have been most pure. It is by mistake that several journals have represented her to be an Englishwoman. She was - born at Paris, and the mune of Luzy, which has been the cause of some papers giving her a noble Corsican or Italian origin, would appear not to be her real or at least only name. de Luzy's real name is Laure Desportes ; she is 29 years old ; her figure is most elegant and distingue ; and her magnificent light hair adds to the sweetness of her features, which are remarkably beautiful. Her cultivated mind, her character, and her superiority as a governess, painter, and musician, had, it is said, yielded her in the Praslin family quite a confidential position, at the same time that they had secured the affection of the young persons whose education she was entrusted with. In her se veral examinations she has constantly answered with great clearness and-proprietass -It appears that she is not to be removed to the Luxembourg. It is affirmed that the physicians intrusted with the examination of the corpse of the unfortunate Duchess de Praslin have reported near thirty wounds or bruises. The aspect of Paris has changed, says the Union Monarchique, in every place, and in every class of society, this fearful drama is alone talked of. (From the Naomi of Thursday.) " What shall we dwell on if it be not on the sub ject which occupies the whole capital ? From the top to bottom of every hone, on the Boulevards, as in all the other public places, in private drawing rooms, as well as in the garret and porter's thdge, everybody talks (if yesterday's murder. Well, then, do you know of it ? The husband is arrested ! Who ? The: Duke de Praslin—himself—k Peer of France—precisely ; he has killed his wife, the reO ther of nine children. Is he, indeed, among those who are accused? Oh, how horrible ! What a world this is—good heavens ! what a world 1 Such is the exclamation everywhere, and all are lost in conjectures i • opinion is prompt in its , inferences ; justice is bound to slower and more cautious formali ties. The press duty, iii presence of so awful an accusation, also commands a great reserve. It is, indeed, a most shocking chapter to add to the melan choly pages of these times. Nevertheless, the mys tery is a strange one ; and the obscurity of the drama adds to our shuddering. A w oman, still handsome, though no longer young, is found ex piring ; her bedroom is but a pool of blood; the splendour that surrounds her is stained by crime ; broken china, a subverted table, hangings and ornaments whereupon bloody fingers have left their marks, and, amidst the confusion, the vic tim, whose neck and breast present huge wounds —the victim, with her eyes open which see no more, having but a last breath, already enveloped with the shadows of death, and expiring, without it being pos- , sible to extract from her either a word or a sign. Yet there remain - visibie -marks of a struggle i the unhappy woman escaped for a second from the blows of her murderer, she rushed to the bell-rope, which her convulsed hand violently shook. It was the last effort of the poor creature, whose breast was man gled and strength gone. Servants hasten to her, the door is closed ; it must be broken open, as groans are beard. The servants enter distracted. They hasten to the husband, who is found up ; he exhibits great sorrow. It is then suspected that the assassins have effected their entrance by the garden. Close to it is being built a house for M. Cibiel, the Deputy, and a house that is being built is usually a den of thieves. There it is-that the malefactors must have concealed themselves, and thence it is that they must have crept into Madame de Praslin's bedroom; theye must have surprised her in her sleep, done the deed, and robbed the apartment. All these suspicions one after another with the rapidity of lightning. But the physicians are sent for; there is n d h 'come j victim is dead. The terrified u ges e up to this scene of desolation. • the They at first have the same opinion as the s t e . rva e n v ts er , y search and ransack the apartme t t 3 , g The tliinyg is in its place, and nothing mur derer must have either brokenisi!wwainndwoiwnd. oorw glass to make his way in.. The a s arel)an pane - f touched, the door had remained closed. The walls are minutely examined ; every wal e i or t ste g s a a r r d ee s inspected, and n o vesti g es of damag tected. Ten hours are spent t i in this convinced fruitless th a e t x at they n ation. The magis trates are then must look, not outside, but around them. All the i nma tes of the mansion, saving the children, are kept in sight; and , immediately, the rumour spreads about the town that the husband is accused of the murder, a nd , and this rumour iasccr!firn?ed by the measures subse quently adopted by .justice. And yet the Duke de Praslin is a rich meal he is a Peer ; he bears. sisnanir e ir which his iincestarslave conferred renown ; he is attached to the royal 'household, as chevalier d'hon k oudtbp. w ows& be 48 as 'given Wu nine children. Alas! the times we live in know of no-- thing that is improbable, and would even say that the ' very rank of the man adds credence to the accusation. Justice inquires, and is reminded that two or three years ago, -M. de Praslin, having fallen in love with the governess of his children, his wife had compelled him to turn her out. He had followed her. She had returned to Paris. Police agents repaired to her, seized her papers. On her return home she was ar rested and placed in solitary confinement. Suspicions then increase against the husband. Stains of blood have, it is said, been found on his clothes. He is in terrogated, and says that having heard a noise in his wife's bedroom, he hastened to it ; that he found her wounded and struggling with the assassin. He then rushed between the victim and the murderer, and, in his distraction, he had been unable either to cry for assistance or keep hold of the assassin, who escape d, he knew not how. H e t h en returned to his room to' wash his bloody bands, &c. It is said that a pistol has been found, and a burnt dressing -go wn ; it is added that the hair tound in the victim's left hand is in every respect like that of the husband. Othercircumstances of an aggravating natureare men tioned. In short this horrible crime is accounted for by the blind passion that prompted the man to destroy his wife, in order to marry another woman. Adultery in this case, as in many others, has given birth to as sassination All these rumours have filled the town to-day, but they must be received with reserve. Other reports have also been current which would confer a very different character on the murder and its cause. In ail this there may be but vague sup positions and even calumnies. '1 he moment justice is investigating we must wait till it clear up this dread ful mystery. If we bestow attention on it to-day it is really because this horrible mystery seems a new chapter of the deplorable history we are daily doomed to Write. One wt uld fancy that the genius of evil were pleased to multiply these terrible dramas. He leaves us no rest, and his hand seems to fall with out mercy on those even whom he had overwhelmed with favours." DIABOLICAL MURDER IN KEN- TUCKY. The Louisville Courier contains an account of a most atrocious and cold-blooded murder. A few gentlemen, five in all, among whom was Dr. J. F. Pendergrast, united in establishing a school in the vicinity of Dr. Pendergrast's residence. In . February last Mr. W. W. Buchanan, of Pennsylvania, was employed as a teacher; and Dr. Pendergrast having taken a dislike to him, not only refused to send his children to the school, but in every way attempted to injure Mr. Buchanan in the estimation of those whose confidence he bad won. At length Mr. Buchanan having submitted to this treatment as long as he thought suitable, addressed a letter of remon strance to the Doctor, and hereupon, as it seems, the Doctor declared that Mr. Buchanan should never teach in the school house again. The neighbours of Dr. Pendergrast were still satisfied with Mr. Buchanan's teaching, and three of the five owners of the school house employed him for another quarter, one of the three being the husband of Dr. Pendergrast's sister. On the 14th of June Mr. Buchanan went to one of the owners of the school-house, who had the key, and requested him to go over with him and put him in peaceable possession of the house, in order to guard against a difficulty with Dr. Pendergrast. This gentleman, Colonel Montgomery, complied with the request, and took his daughter with him as a pupil. Soon after they reached the school-house, in which some six or seven children were assembled, while Mr. Buchanan was sitting on the step near the door, and Colonel Montgomery was sitting inside of the house near the door, Dr. Pendergrast was seen sally ing forth from his dwelling with his three sons and a negro man, the negro carrying a basket of rocks and the doctor's double-barrelled gun, and when they reached the school-house the doctor saluted both Mr. Buchanan and Colonel Montgomery with the most offensive and insulting epithets he could muster into service, and commanded them to leave his house, accompanying the order by throwing rocks twice at Mr. Buchanan. Colonel Montgomery mildly replied to Dr. Pendergrast that he had as much privilege to be there as he had ; upon which one of the boys assaulted Colonel Montgomery with a rock, in which the others joined; and while the colonel was defending himself from the boys, both the Doctor and the negro also assailed him. It is supposed that while the family were on Colonel Montgomery, Mr. Bu chanan endeavoured to take some of the assailants off his friend. All that is positively known is, that Dr. Pendergrast called his negro to hand him his gun and he would shoot the Colonel Montgomery had one of the boys down, and the others on him, and supposing the threat was for him, he turned his eyes towards the Doctor, and saw the gun was pointed beyond him, and, looking in that direction, he saw Mr. Buchanan fall on his face when the gun was fired. This stopped the fight, and when Col. Montgo mery got to the young man he found him dying—ho had been pierced with forty shots but a shade less than buck-shot. These are the uncontroverted statement of the case. It is not unimportant to mention, that after Mr. Buchanan was killed, one of the boys went to the corpse and turned his head over, to show where he gave him a blow with a rock, and another, after surveying the dead body, met with the hat of the murdered man in his path, and furiously kicked it as far as he could send it. We regret to add to ft:- horrible recital, that the cowardly murderer was sti ll at large when the courier wrote. The officers of justice (?) who were at hand at the time winked at the murder, and abstained from any attempt to arrest the miscreant, and when more faithful men were found, he had disappeared, though a magistrate boasted that he knew where he was.- Washington Globe. ARRIVAL OF DISABLED SOLDIERS FROM NEW ZEALAND.—On Saturday afternoon two detachments of regiments serving in New South Wales, consisting of two sergeants and twenty-five rank and file of the 58:h regiment, and two sergeants and twenty-five rank and file of the 99th, arrived at the General Hospital, Fort Pitt, Chatham, under the command of Major Richard Denny, 58th. The whole of these troops were at the attack of Heki'ti Pah, which they stated was impre , nable, being CUM with titinks of trees, to the height of fifteen to eighteen feet above the surface of the earth, ai d trebly stockaded, with walls, embankments, and ditches, and of such magnitude that the Pah formed a fortress for the protection of a thousand men. Major Denny commanded the Light Company of the 58th on that disastrous occasion. These troops embarked at Sidney on the 16th of last March, and sailed on the 18th, on board the ship Tasmania, Captain W. Black, 512 tons, and arrived off Gravesend after a passage of four months. Dr. Ford, medical officer, inspected the troops, and thirteen were ordered into hospital.- The remainder were conveyed to St. Mary's Barracks, to be d,ischargyil on .. pvasions. The worstdases of the wounded are B'6ll remaining at Sidber., EXTENSIVE SEIZURE OF OBSCENE PartzTs.—On Saturday Davis, an active Custom-house officer, assisted by several constables of the F division, proceeded to the streets leading out of the Strand, and made several seizures at the instance of the Society for the Suppres sion of Vice. In one establishment no less than 373 ' prints, with a quantity of• song-books and other articles, were taken, and in another 173 books of a most abomi nable character, together with other articles, were seized for the purpose of being destroyed. The officers also visited another well-known shop for the sale of such articles, from which they took 100 unbound books, with frontispieces of the most disgusting character, with 243 books of the same description, and other articles. The society has also preferred bills of indictment against a man and a woman at the Central Criminal Court, two others against whom proceedings have been taken hav ing escaped, in addition to which an aged man, named Chepney, is ordered to find bail to answer a charge at the sessions. --- THE LITTLE WONDER..:—A powerful little vessel. belonging to the Waterman Steam. packet Company. running between Westminster-bridge and Gravesend, performed her homeward trip in the incredible short period of two hours and twenty minutes—distance up wards of thirty-three miles. She landed her passenger. at Greenwich in one hour and thirty-five minutes after leaving the Town-pier; Gravesend, - les-sieg r b ,_ e : hind one -of the fast Star Company's boa _t_s o , u .lr e ic,_" . started at the same time ,- and called at lte Charlton, Blackwell, and Greenwich dis tance, Thiswonderful in cluding stoppages, twenty-five miles. with one steeple engine of 40-horse r po d is c onsidered ' little craft is very strongly constructed owleirroann,ciispantietend, paddles, manufactured by IT Thy es. yet floated on old FatherT al id receives suitable en one of the most perfect 400 passengers conveniently, pieces of w le o; "' Sh am e ca hiP rr w ie h s ic a h b h ou a ; couragetnent. co — ro A ne D r B ill ; r e : dt Hotel, ol : r d s it. : t Leiceter ed wh il st entering the above hotel on forty-eight, i Dri held s E t A r 7 , rad a t Otre th yt e rini S nr a li Ci b o ly : M er Grr e Leicester square. rq u Su a ll. r e til " Ds : . :w o ßt u a s: the who bod y d of The Signor e Vincenzo eeasedeceased Visconti,gentleman, iatgaepd. Friday evening las t. on w th h e i is 3 t d a i t n T st u an ri t n fo h r e this com c p o la u i a n t e r d y, , t o on a man, travelling with him, of a burning t i t ei t i k o ni w r . peered, until they reached f lef fea M su il r a e n . Cologne, when the pain left him. On Wednesday he, sensation a t chest, which cont inued with others of his countrymen, arrived in England, and took up their abode at the Sabloniere Hotel, the de ceased appearing in the best of health and spirits. On Friday evening the deceased dined, between five and s i x o'clock, with a party of friends at a house iu the neighbourhood of Piccadilly, and on his return was about entering the hotel, when he complained of a mist being before his eyes, and fell into the arms of one of his companions a corpse. Mr. Lenten, the surgeon, who was called in, said that, on a post modem examina tion, he found the deceased's heart to be twice its natural size, and much ossified. The jury returned a verdict of- 1 " Natural death from disease of the heart, producing apoplexy." p r . 2 sr v g A DESIRABLE NEIGHBOUR.—" Mother wants to know if you won't please to lend her your kettle, 'cause as how she wants to prese rv e would with pleasure, boy, but the truth is. th e it eo e la e sk e ti t m: we loaned it to your mother she p es - r sin ce. Well, " .. you ally they we have neve seen it s in Glidss, Wass lieedn''t brsirsy abcirt your aid a troubled you again, only we s e v c i 7 u4 full of holes when we borrowed itAand ket tle. m brin othe io r w ouldn't ghouae 4 tow oue 1".-Cisit ihrodeA .7f . CONTINENTAL TRAVELLkING. IMPORTANT TO PASSENGERS FROM. IHE CONTINENT. A complaint having been made to the Board of Customs, by a passenger arriving from the a intinent, that when e was about to land an officer of the re venue laid his hands on the pockets of his grey t coat, which was on his person, for the purpose of asces tam ing whether he had any articles in his pocket lit, kb l ; to duty ; the Commissioners have directed the pd, q cipals of departments at the various packet ports, having passenger traffic with the Continental States, to be acquainted. for the information and guidance: of themselves, and the officers under their survey, that it is illegal to sear,h the clothes of passengers when on their person, or to feel the outside of their pockets at the time they are landing from any ship or vessel, although the officers may suspect that goods, liable to duty, are concealed therein ; and hive further directed them to caution the officers stationed on board vessels with passengers, or superintending the landing of such persons, to be careful not to give offence by so doing. They have farther been in structed that the course which officers of Customs ought to pursue in this matter is as foams :—lu case they observe any package in the packets of a passenger, or have any reason to suspect that he has any articles concealed about his person, the , r s e ss u,hjei informed edd that, ue, he in usual questi on i s to be' put as to th e p ar ty hay bilelganayt gtiadssatehtisimP s e , s h pt , e j ir aving goods liable to duty the event of 111 - cl - e - nyirag i n his possession, and of suet, g oods b e i ng subse quently found . the offi cer w.:O isb y law authorised to ascertain the -truth of the- statErnent, the goods; would become forfeited, and the party be liable to a penalty of treble the value thereof; and should the answer of the passenger be in the affirmative, be should be requested by the officer to produce the goods. If , however, the passenger insists on denying that he has such goods on his person, and the officer still have good ground for suspicion, the party is then to be informed that the officer deems it necessary that his person should be searched, under the provi sions of the law ' but that he (th e p ar t y ) prev i ous l y to blng searched, is at liberty to require to be taken before a magistrate, or a superior officer of customs, who will deteimine whether there is reasonable grounds of suspicion or otherwise ; and should the party not claim to be taken before a magistrate or superior officer of customs, but still refuse to be searched, the officer is authorised by law to make such search, and to detain the party for that purpose, at all times giving bim the option of being taken before a magistrate, * Should a party who has el/doled to be taken tasekr;i4 magistrate afterwards refuse to go, is - may be detained by the offi cer an d ta k en before a magistrate. The 56th section of the Act 8 and ti Vic., cap. 87, makes a person liable to a penalty of 100/. for obstructing an officer of the revenue in the execution of that portion of his duty. NARROW ESCAPE or LABOURERS IN THE CITY.— Yesterday morning, as several men were employed in making alterations in the warehouses lately in the pos session of Messrs. John Lart and Son, hosiers, 116, st wer t e , City, an or le ac ss ci i d n e j n o t re oc d, c o u t rre he d rs b w y ere wh p i a c r h ti f e e l ttr ly o W f ° th °d em .ree buried, and all of them narrowly escaped being crushed to death. From inquiries instituted on the spot shortly after the occurrence, it appears that about ten o'clock in the morning a labourer, named John Sheridan, with others, were employed in the lower part of the building, a portion of ,which had been removed, in clearing away the rubbish in the cellar. Sheridan was especially en gaged in excavating near to a part of the foundation in the centre of the building, upon which rested two iron pillars, which upheld a cross beam of fir of great thick ness and considerable weight, which had been intended by the builders to sustain the upper floors when filled with merchandise. It is supposed that by clearing away the rubbish the foundation had received a shock which rendered the position of the pillars insecure, for suddenly, indeed it appears without a moment's warning, the iron supporters slipped away, and the beam and all the super incumbent materials in the two floors fell with a tre. mendous crash. For some little time it was thought that the men in the cellar were crushed to death, but upon the dust having cleared off it was discovered that though partially buried, none of them had suffered more than a few slight contusions, except Sheridan, who was considerably injured about the face and head; happily he, however, had no bones broken. As soon as the men were taken out their bruises were bound up, and their contusions dressed by a neighbouring surgeon, and for tunately, in no case, though the men are much shaken, is any further danger apprehended. HORRIBLE ATTEMPT TO MURDER TWO MEN, AND SELF-MUTILATION BY A MADMAN.-00 Thuralay after noon the following appalling occurrence took place in the Holbeck workhouse:—lt appears that an inmate of the house, named Joseph Robinson, bad lately shown ,imptoms of menu,' aberration, but be was never consi- dere s d a dangerous person until last Monday, when his conduct became so strange that he was placed under the core of the medical man belonging to the workhouse. Alter the lapse of a few days his symptoms improved, and he was again con,idered to be perfectly harmless, bat during yesterday afternoon, whilst sitt►ng in one of tte wards with four men—ooe iusan?, another an idiot, the third old and tihnd, and the finrth rr v infirm person--ht suddrnty s...,ized a largo Beal shov . el, with Altich he made a mist desperate attempt to murder the two eldest men, by strilsing them with his might upon tht-ir beads. The ideitie p.aup-r, on seeing this, ran out of the ward, and, as well as. tits wu, ahle, gave an alarm, but before any assistance arrit-el liotioison Lad inflicted some severe scalp wounds 671 the poor hi blind man, whose maim is Thom - s Cooper, aed who is 77 years of One of the po'r foil.,w's fingers wiis al=t, completely sup.shed, this having appar,ritly b , --eit the ri stilt of his at!empthig to protect his head from tho blows. The other man, Samuel Gibson, who is 54 years t.,t - age, was a!so most severely injured, his face being laid bare with he edge of the shovel. As soon as the loaf m was given Robinson threw down the shovel and secreted himself in the water...closet, acd, on his being discovered, it was found that he had cut his throat and stabbed himself several timis in the abdomen, besides dreadfully muti lating other portions of his person. The knife with which he had inflicted these injuries on himself was one which he had borrowed from the old man Cooper, to cut his flesh with, as he termed eating his meat. He had also cut his shoes and destroyed his trousers with the same weapon. He was soured, and, with the two men he had s frightfully ifjured, was taken to the genera! dispensary at L:-eds. Whin this account was dispatched to London, Robinson was expected to die hourly, and the other two remained in a very precarious state. THE CONVICT BARBER.—THE WILLS FORGERIES CASE.—The triends of Ba.rher, who, it will be recol lected, was some time since tried and convicted at the Old Bailey in the wills forgery case, and who ia...enow undergoing his sentence of transportation . for l e l e f t.n 7 Norfolk Island, intend convening a public u T b s i te V 1 ith a view of laying before the public th i e ee v , si e rt t Zed in ob• tnents and documents that they are of such a nature as tend to pro. raining p, ssession of; aryl which l' th% v_ y e e. now ledge of the for c,nce of Barber in any guilty k . hare already been : t .e‘ h il e fici e e n n ti t r i) e . it' o stale plies. fiev , rid prel:minary weep i ng held, w ir h ie i n ch as. ha a N n , e d been numerously n ero i u bf s h v ig a s h tte. s r t . a d n e d d in b g y h a i n s d pt in r - - fVu n e a nce in the legal profession, who have formed them• selves into a committee for the purpose of endeavouring to obtain a free pardon ; a sub-committee has also been appointed for the purpose of preparing a memorial to Sir George Grey, the Secretary of State for the Home Departmt nt, embodying the whole of the evidence and facts that the committee are in possession of. This memorial is to be submitted to a general meeting for their approval, aid in the meantime an application rill be made to Sir George Grey to recive a deputa tion to present the memorial, and be heard in support of the prayer. The must sanguine hopes are enter tained by the commi t t ee o f no t on ly s ucceeding in ob taining an unconditi ona l p ar d on f o r Barber, but in satis factorily establishing his entire innocence. about DARING ROBBERY.—On Sunday morning, No. 6, three o'clock, the house of Mr. was broken into, and Anchor-terrace, Southwark -bridge. f P 3Ol. or 40/ carried off. plate and jewels to the am g p et a t s i s tag ge overa thieves had Perkins, and Co.'s) Brewery (Bare ay, sepa rating the Anchor . belongs to the firm, and by the terrace, which from g r a h t e e w t a ll y i . e , t entered at the back window climbing up a water p hpardoeeeffeedcithegd u,:toliu,:nu.ngtrainew then found their s ip u t p o b i n o t u e s d e , i n t finding hey a narr b o ) W (lowa of No 6, whi c h to the front wit.• they entered, way to ransack a cheff , ,neer of the property in and proceeded o pr f o N p, o e;t 7 y , but n va b l e n tn e g ,i.n d question. Fortunately au alarm was given before the robbers had time to arrive at property of greater value. Ono of the thieves left his hat and shoes behind him in Mr. Sandeman's drawii.g-room, at.d getting again through the house No. 7, leaped into the back passage of the terrace, where there was no place of exit; here, how ever, he dexterously succeeded in misleading the police who were in search; for by scaling another water-spout he effected an entrance through the window to No. 12, the house of the Rev. Mr. Mungeam, where he contrived to get hold of and equip himself in the hat and boots of the Reverend Gentleman, and then quietly unlocked the trout door, walked out, and effected his escape. TII E WESTMINSTER REFORM SoCIETT.—Last evening a numerous meeting of the Registration Coin ' mittee of th e Westminster Reform Society was held at Strand. for the York Hovel, Upper Wellington-street, the purpose of entering into arrangements .uarrister's Reform interest at the castling Revisin g m iidiTo the chair. Court. Mr. Bremner having been meeting of Mr. Huggett (the secretary) observed that a Lo S troteft the previously convened, in the committee had not canvass, and which had not re ceived during the present io r u l . It was intended rinution which he had cboeteinseueynecteloirerfacrt_hig.etlasuirgo; been ( irl i I t o reformer:% at the Revising to support t Prom moved the following ... retro have been given. fir. . . 11 -1 heretofore, to place and maintain on Larybe . t- , 1 Tilat Court, tb w , - 2 itLtrrte.regard to the votes that maw ItlS—uetel, to use lilt I rile register of voters for the c.t of Westudnater all Reformers, without reference in the smallest degree to lution: their votes at the last el: ction."--- (Hear, hear.") Ho said that he felt great pleasure in moving the resolution, as it b ß e a ti r t riste—r:s‘ endeavours I would prove that the society was Lctuated by a liberal spirit, and that its sole object was to maintain the elec nye franchise for the furtherance of Reform principles. (I.le, r; hear.) Mr. G. Pouncy seconded the resolu tion, which was supported by other members, and agreed to unanimously. Thanks-were" then voted to the chair wan, and the meeting separated.•• ' THE I'OUSR Tateas.—Tte trial of the Polish pri• ' boners at Berlin is guitz ou rapitily - ; some 01 th.e wooed latwe 6004 40(44101