The Sun. — London, England, 1847-10-21 00:00:00

LAMBETH. —(THIS DAY.) A young fellow, of an appearance half-rustic, half sailor, was charged before Mr. Norton with stealing a dozen bottles, the property of Mrs. Pearce, of the Ship Inn, Kennington -road. The waiter of the Ship met the prisoner coming out of the yard of the inn, about half-past ten o'clock this morning, with the bottles, tied up in a handker chief. On being asked where he got them, he said they were his own. But the waiter took him back into the house, and on examination it was found that the bottles had been taken out of a building in the yard. Some of them were remarkable and easily identified. The prisoner denied having stolen them, and protested that he bought them, and he was going to the inn to " make something of them." The waiter thought it was quite clear he was going to make something of them—(A laugh)—but not be lieving the story, and having seen the bottles safe ten minutes before, he gave the prisoner into custody. The prisoner stated that he had been at sea for some time, but had not been employed since February, and had passed a great part of the interval in an hospital. The MAGISTRATE considered the case clear enough, but as it was believed that other charges of robbing public-houses would be brought home to him, he was remanded. THAMES.—(THIS DAY.) John Hart, the mate of a vessel was charged with carrying and conveying lilbs. of cigars and cheroots, contrary to the statute. James Swinger, gatekeeper in the employ of the London Dock Company stated that about five o'clock Yesterday evening, he stopped the prisoner coming Out of the principal entrance of the London Docks, and found the cigars produced, part in his trousers' pocket, and part in a cloak which a porter was car rying behind him. The prisoner complained that he had been locked up all night, and bail refused. Mr. YARDLEY—It was unfortunate that you were taken just at the hour you could not be brought here direct. How was it bail was not taken for this man. Inspector Forbes—We never accept bail your wor ship in any revenue cases. Mr. YARDLEY—Oh, stun' I would take bail. Inspector Forbes—Yes your worship, but our au thority is more limited than yours. Mr. YARDLEY—I think bail ought to have been accepted, and that the prisoner has been punished Sufficiently. I discharge him. At this decision a respectably dressed individual in f ront of the Court clapped his hands, at which the magistrate observed, "if that individual conducts himself so indecently again turn him out of Court." MEETING OF MIDDLESEX MAGIS MATES.— (THIS DAY.) A numerously attended meeting of magistrates for the county of Mirldlesex was held this day, at twel v e O'clock, in the Court-house, Clerkenwell-green, Mr. Pownal in the chair. The Deputy Clerk of the Peace read the report of the Co visiting justi ces f or t h e H ouse of Correction, ld bath-fields, fr om w hi c h i t appeared that the 2 __l9 number of pris oners confined there was 821 males and females. The general health of the prisoners was good, and the chaplain reported most favourably of is:l h n e . the result f rom the educational system adopted in the pr report r eport was unanimously adopted. Port of th e _e Committee on Accounts having the motion ofMr. H ALL , an or d er u p on th e y Treasurer was given for the several sums named in the report. o_f _ The report of the Vi s i t i ng J us ti ces f or th e H ouse I West m i nster, was l a id b e f ore t h e Court, from which it appeare d t h at t h e num b er o f prisoners in custody was 705 ; of whom 502 were males and 203 females. The general health of the prisoners was stated to be above the average, the per centage of cases of illness to the number of prisoners being only 21 in the case of males, and 51 in that of femal es . The Court then proceeded with the appointment of vis ting justices for the several county prisons until the next court day, in the room of those gentlemen who retire. __ e lrtE BEL GIAN T ARIFFS.— Th e Belgian Govern- En nt, had, at the beg inning of the year, charged a com- M_ission to revise the average value assigned to goods !Imported into Belgium or exported from it, in order to fopart greater exact i tu d e to ;the official returns of the feign commerce of the country. The tariff, which serves as the basis of the usual valuation, had been established i n 1833, and was no longer in unison with the present prices of goods. This commission has just terminated its labours, and a royal ordonnance has fixed the adoption of the new official values. Among the changes introduced by the commission are the follow ing t—Cotton thread has been reduced from 4f. 50e. to 2f. 25e. the kilog.; woollen thread from 13f. to Bf.; slates from 40f. to 22f. the thousand; red quinquina is raised from Bf. to 24f.; resin is reduced from 2f. 40c. to 10c., or is twenty-four times lower; refined sugar from lf. 20c. to 86c.; sulphur and tobacco are lowered more than one-half, and coffee more than a third; spirits and turpentine is more than doubled; cotton, wool, and silk tissues are diminished when exported 30 aad even 40 per cent.; glass is diminished two-thirds; raw zinc is reduced from 90c. to 57c. ALLOWANCE TO OVERSEERS.--Mr. M'Christie, the Revising Barrister, has been playing sad havoc with the charges for " refreshment,' made by the over seers, in the Registration Courts. These gentlemen have been in Atch a very languishing condition during the preparation of the lists, that they have been obliged to saturate themselves in beer, with a view to the debi litating business. We hope that, after the experience they have had of a necessity for good living under hard work, they may begin to reflect that paupers cannot very well pick oakum or break stones upon water-gruel. We recommend Mr. M'Christie to call for the diet-table of the parish to which the overseers belong, and make it the standard of the allowance of refreshments that those functionaries may be permitted to claim in the discharge of their duties. There is something pitiable in the extreme weakness the officials seem to have la boured under in making out the lists, for cab-hire was frequ ent l y charged, in consequence, we presume, of the overseers having lost the use of their legs about the time When activity was required. Mr. M`Christie evinced no a r y tnpathy with this i n fi rm ity ; and we have no doubt t hat at the next registration the overseers will be found to have resumed their ambulatory faculties, as the cost of any temporary suspension must come out of their own Pockets. —Punch. -A• SHARK.—On Thursday morning last a shark Was discovered at a short distance from St. Sampson's h arbour by a fisherman of the name of Bichard and hid cr ew, who were in a b oa t o ff t h at spot. Th ey h appene d , have with them a harpoon and a musket, with which they attack e d t h e voracious stranger. The former was .., u e u ged in it s b o d y, b ut so far from disabling it, only rt n -1.1 red it furious ; and it was not till it had been pierced °Ysfive bullets th a t i t was deprived of life. The shark brzv_a. then, w i t h some difficulty, got into th e bo a t an d o ught on s h ore, and proveu to be about two years old ;_": 1 °no of th e bl ue species, and measuring nearly eight ) t • It had tw o rows of teeth, and the mouth vas I , n i t it a foot w id e. We understand that a shoal of orals of this sort w as seen a few days ago off Sark—a ee of v et s an eY Star. y rare occurrence i n this latitude.— - b" 11,11_1' of in ce Ment se hik ow, the Russian Governor ueralof replu_ Finnlanci, has been deprived of his post, and by Baron Seroffiski. In °filer kinds of stock only a moderate business was doing. licef, from 3s 8d to 4s 6d; Mutton, 3s 6.1 to 5s 2d ; Veal, 3s Sd to 4s 4d; and Pork, 4s to 4s 8d per Sibs. RUMFORD, OCT. 20.—We had a fair trade h, re to day, on the following terms :—Beef, from 3s Gd to 4s fin ; Mutton, Is 8d to 5s 2d ; Veal, 4s to 4s 4d ; and Polk, 4s to 4s 8d per 81bs ; Suckling Calves, to 28s: Quarter-old Stole Pigs, 16s to 19s; and Milch Cows, with their small Calf, 161 to 181 each. LEWES, OCT. 20.—Beef from 3s 8d to 4s 6d; Mutton, 3a 8 d to 5 s 4 d ; Veal, 4s to 4s 4d ; and Pork, 4s 2d to 101 6d per Blbs. A moderate supply and a steady trade. CORN AVERAGES. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN For the Week ended Oct. 21, 1847, made up from the Returns of the Inspectors in the dif f erent Cities and Towns in England and Wales per Imperial Quarter. WHEAT. !BAXLEY.' OATS. I RTE. I I BEANS. PEAS. PRICE• I 5 4s 3d 32s 6d 22s 7d 33s Od I 46s 3d 45s 4,1 The Duties on Foreign Grain are now suspended. IIAI1L BRO ; -STREET—(THIS DAY.) Rosetta Pendergrast, Ann Jones, and Jane Fender grast, were placed before Mr. Hardwicke, charged with creatin g a disturbance in St. James's Work house, and assaulting Mary Ann Edwards, one of the inmates. The complainant stated, that about four o'clock yesterday afternoon, as she was proceeding along a passage from the lying-in ward, she met the defend ants, who accosted her with the filthiest language a woman could utter. The elder defendant, not satis fied with abusing her, seized hold of her, while the defendant Jane Pendergrast struck her in the face. She called out for help, when the elder defendant said, " I will stop your bawling, and if I had a knife I would put into you." Subsequently some other of the inmates came to her assistance, and the defendants Were given in charge to the police. Ann Weedon, a pauper in the workhouse, said she heard the elder prisoner swear at complainant. She also prevented the younger prisoner from throwing her down stairs. Mr. Dore, the relieving-officer, and the master of the workhouse, said the defendants were the worst characters they had in the house, and at times their language was dreadful to hear. The prisoner Jones vas enciente, and near her confinement, notwithstand ing which she called complainant by the foulest epi thets that could be imagined. The prisoners denied in toto the charges brought against them, and instead of being the characters re presented by Mr. Dora, they were generally well conducted and peaceable to all the inmates. Mr. HARDwIcKE said he should discharge Jones, in consequence of her being enciente. The other two he should commit to the House of Correction for 14 days, with hard labour. "' Tilt! @TINY. HAYMARKkIT THEATRE. A new five act play, from the pen of Mr. Westland Marston, entitled .7he Heart and the World, was ixoduced here last evening, with Miss Helen Faucit ;is the heroine. We say emphatically with Miss Helen Faucit as the heroine, because it is entirely to her exquisitely beautiful delineation of the c'naracter of Florence Delmar that the success of the play is to be attributed. Mr. Westland Marston is a true poet, and possesses in a remarkable degree the power of conceiving and of developing character, but he is not as yet a dramatic artist--he knows not how to build a play. Could he develop a plot as well as be can develop a character, he would be a great dramatist—and this i s k now l e d ge which may be acquired. Let Mr. Marston condescend from the study of the Eli za beth an d rama ti s t s f or a while, and go to the playwrights of modern France to learn the mechanism cf pl a y ma ki n g. This is a species of knowledge which Mr. Marston may despise, but without it no one in the present day can succeed in debted writing an actable play. Th e L a dy o f Ly ons is for its success infinitely more to the skilful ness with which the plot is developed than to all other causes put together. Mais revenons a nos moutons, thus runs the story of " The Heart cud the World." Sir George Hallerton (Mr. Brindal), (who has mort gaged his estates far beyond their value), in order to extricate himself from his difficulties, con cocts a scheme for bringing about a match be tween his sister Laura (Miss Julia Bennett), a heartless coquette, and Vivian Temple (Mr. Cres wick), a young man of heart, who has recently come into possession of a great fortune, and in whose per son the combat between the heart and the world is exhibited. He is full of noble sentiments—his heart Is in the right place, but he wants decision, and dreads ridicule. " I can meet its frown," says Vivian Temple, speaking of the world. "It will not in dulge thee with a frown," is the reply; " thou must brave what is worse—its sneer." Here we have the key to the whole character. Temple, amongst a host of other gallants, is paying court to Laura, and in the course of conversation she mentions the name of Florence Delmar. In the days of her prosperity Temple had plighted his troth to Florence Delmar : he hears she is in poverty, his love revives, and he quits the gay company. We are next introduced to FlorenceiDelmar (Miss Helen Faucit), her mother (Mrs. W. Clifford), and her cousin Walter Ashbrook (Mr H. Vandenhoff), a student. They are in a humble lodging, where Florence maintains them by her labour. She bas been invited by Laura Haller ton to spend a few days with her in the country, and this invitation gives rise to a querulous complaint, on the part of the mother, of the neglect of Vivian Temple. Warmly is he defended by the confiding Florence. At length a letter from him arrives, which explains all. She is still beloved, and he is coming on the morrow to visit her. The acting of Miss Faucit in this, the last scene of the first act, was beautiful exceedingly, and more especially at the close where, handing her mother Temple's letter, which she had half read through, she almost whispers in accents tremulous from emotion, "Read it, mother," and sinks upon her mother's shoulder. This scene secured the success of the first act. The second act passes at Sir George Hallerton's country seat, where Laura, Florence, and Temple are assembled, where we also find Osborne (Mr. Wigan), a heartless man of fashion, and Thornton (Mr. Howe) a man of intrigue. Sir George sees with anxiety the passion of Temple for Florence, and Temple, stung by the ridicule of his companions, is more than half ashamed of it himself. The coquettry of Laura at length completely enthrals him, and the sensitive Florence perceives that he is ashamed of her. Still, as a man of honour, he is determined to keep his word. " 'Twas his oath's extent ; What could he more than yield the rights she claimed ?" The scene thus continues : " Florence—The rights of love. They are so easily phrased —so soon restored ; Heart-strings a touch untunes, a touch repairs. Oh, sir, thou canst not love! Love bath no rights, It doth not know the word. Earth's substance ta'en, Earth's laws may give thee back. Thy lair repute Maligned, earth's laws may vindicate. But love That in it bath no property of earth— Hath no appeal there. Rights it casts away, Is proud to be defenceless ; all its bond The nature it confides in. Break that bond, It feels its beggary—but pleads no rights. Temple—Madam ! That stately pallor stirs my soul Mere than a Hebe's blush. It is the form Haunted my youth ; but crowned, as a throne's heir Had passed into a monarch. [Aside.] I concede You triumph here ! But show the vanquished pity. Florence—Ay ; pity ! There's the loss, that we mus learn To pity what we worshipp'd—Vivian Temple ! W“at is the master-pang—there is but one— That wrecks a woman's future ? Pours the world Scorn on her chos, , n ? Well ; she takes his hand, And drops the world's. Is want that crushing pang ? I tell thee, when of nights her slender hand Smooths his brow's anxious lines, and soul-filled eyes Glorify pale, worn faces—she thanks heaven That taught her, through her very penury, How love can grow by suffering. Is it death? Temple (breaking in, with much emotion)—.No, no Florence—l say no too. Then what? Temple—Oh ; nothing, nothing! Florence—Yes; his fall from worth ! Faith rides o'er mountain billows by one light We deem a star. Prove that a meteor—then, We strand, we strand!" The superb acting of Miss Helen Faucit in this scene saved the play. It had dragged heavily through the second and the greater part of the third act, but this scene electrified the audience, re awakened their attention, and kept it up to the end. Thornton has taken advantage of certain circum stances to induce a belief that he has succeeded in undermining the virtue of Florence. Temple, who still loves Florence sincerely, but who is betrothed to Laura, plunges into dissipation ; and Laura, who loves Walter tishbrooke, is determined to ascertain whether Florence loves Temple, and if so, to bring about a reconciliation. Florence mean while, with health and prospects blighted, and with fame tainted by the calumnies of Thornton, is living with her mother and Walter, to whose exertions they are indebted for subsistence. Walter ardently desires to marry Florence, and her mother urges Walter's suit, and asks how it chances . that she could bear him such regard and yet not love him ? Florence replies— " Oh ! speech is poor to paint a difference I feel so vast ! Trust, honour, tenderness— The all that friendship asks—compose not love ! Friendship still keeps distinction. Friends are twain, But lovers one 1 Friends are two kings in dear confederance join'd, That still rule separate empires ; but in love Both realms united, take one name, one tongue, One law, one faith, one consequence, one crown I Friends are two banks a kindly stream divides ; Lovers—twin clouds into each other blent And bath'd in the same beam. Friends are like trees That stand with arms enlaced but parted roots ; But that we love is grafted on one stem, Fed with our sap, and nurtur'd by our dews, • And wither'd in our blight 1" Laura Hallerton, in an interview with Florence, has discovered the secrets of. two hearts, of Florence's and of her own—Florence loves Temple, she loves Walter Ashbrook. Temple, stung to the quick by the inuendoes of Thornton against the character of Florence, forces from him a confession of his falsehood. Laura weds Walter, and Florence weds Temple, who frees Sir George from his embarrassments, and thus ends the story of the Heart and the World. As we have before said, its success was entirely owing to the exquisitely beautiful acting of Miss Helen Faucit. Cresswick was full of power and energy, but his un fortunate habit of emphasising monosyllables marred his efforts sadly. Wigan made the most of a weak cha racter, and Miss Julia Bennett did her best for one completely out of her line, and succeeded in making it very effective. At the conclusion Miss Helen Faucit was called before the curtain, and the author bowed his thanks from the stage box. The piece was announced for repetition every night of Miss Helen Faucit's engagement. The house was crowded, • Mx. JOHN REEVE, JUN.— The Liverpool Chro nicle, in speaking of the deblit of this gentleman, says, " The principal event of the week was the Liverpool debiit of Mr. John Reeve, the son of `John of glorious memory.' We went to hear him with forebodings that he would not prove an exception to the usual run of sons of great men ; we were, however, agreeably sur prised to find ourselves mistaken. Mr. John Reeve, certainly, is not the racy comedian which his father was at the close of his career, but we much question if his father was as good an actor at the commencement of his histrionic life. As Bill Downey, in the Unfinished Gentleman, he leaves but little to be desired, and that little will soon be supplied by practice. His voice is rather weak, or perhaps he wants the power of managing it, which can only be acquired by practice and perse verance. Mr. Reeve is certainly the best young actor we have seen ; there is no exaggeration in his persona tions ; all he wants is power. lie possesses a good ap preciation of character, and great capabilities for repre senting it. In the society of Mr. Buckstone he will learn much of his father's peculiarities, and we believe no man will better perpetuate them than the son, who in some particular scenes reminds us forcibly of him whose merry jests have heretofore enlivened half the kingdom." Lord John Russell received the Earl of Auckland and a select circle at dinner on Tuesday last, at his residence at Richmond Park. The Earl and Countess Grey gave an elegant din ner on Tuesday to a distinguished party, at their man sion, in Belgrave-square. The guests included his Excellency the Duke de Broglie, the Marquis of Lans downe, the Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde end Lady Emily de Burgh, Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston. Viscount Anson, the Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay, &c. A FRAGAISNT.—" And will you always—always, (leare,t Alum le, love me thus?" said Constance. "Ever, whit , this heart beats with life !" passionately exclaimed A lberic. Then could you lend me 5/.?" murmured the lady, " for really things are so bad in the City, that I," &c. &c. &c.—Punch. 44 MN 13 0 N, LITERATURE. STORIES AND STUDIES FROM THE CiiRONICL, .S' AND HISTORY OF EIV G LAND. By Mrs. S. C. hall and Mrs. .1. Foster. 2 Vols. Of all the branches of study which occupy the attention of youth, it might be supposed that history would be universally the favourite. Treading as it does so closely upon the borders of romance, com- bining so effectively the marvellous, the terrible, and the mournful, exciting by turns every varied emo tion, anger, sympathy, admiration, pity, and amaze ment. Yet, not withstanding these attractions, to render the study of history agreeable to the young reader much depends upon the manner of the historian. All children, whatever their age or disposition, have in variably a great predilection for anything in the shape of " a story," and almost as invariably as great an antipathy for all manner of dry details, dates, &c. A history combines, to a certain extent, the characteris tics of both, and in proportion as it approaches nearer the one or the other, as it resembles more a dry epitome of barren facts or an amusing se• , ries of marvellous adventures, so do its at• tractive powers diminish or increase. The great secret of writing history for the young would seen] to be the knowledge of how to combine the greatest amount of amusement with the greatest amount of information. This juste milieu has been very nearly Charles'sS t ' A Ib a enrnT: others,tsg. attained by the authoresses of these little volumes. They do not profess to give a regular history of England, their avowed object is only, by giving the young reader a sample of the interesting treasures of historic lore, to induce him to seek further into them for himself. Accord ingly they give but a brief sketch of every reign, followed by a story illustrative of each epoch. These " stories" are of a most interesting and novel character, not consisting, as might have been ex pected, of a repetition of a few well-known incidents familiar to the reader of every historical abstract, but of a happy selection of striking and suggestive narra tives, taken not only from modern histories but . also from the old chronicles. Many of these are given in the quaint language of their ancient writers, and are curious and instructive as specimens of style. The first story commemorates the " British Veturia," a heroine of times long past, and the last page, of course, closes with the British Victoria, and tells of a very different epoch. Between these many most interesting narratives intervene ; one of the most at tractive, " The First British Martyr," gives a beauti ful and touching account of th death of the first Christian whe suffered martyrdom in England, on the spot which now bears his name— -1 aae rn ded ‘ .'f render cß The Toom eeb first ninbfteeehi u:: s, elittle,flau last t Britishh instructionew reigns Po Porteousrrki nte r deserving, ' ' w have: Mob," h l i i e i bnno, beeng; t a en tertainment, r d t a manyin generalm treated in almost too summary a manner, neverthe less we find one remark about William IV. which we do not remember to have seen before, namely, that he was the first, second, third, and fourth sovereign of his name—the first William of Hanover, the second of Ireland, the third of Scotland, and the fourth of Eng land. THE ENGLISHwomAa's FAMILY LIBRARY. A series of works intended especially for the perusal of the mothers and daughters of England, could hardly commence more auTiciously than with a volume of the tales of Hannah More. Some of these, " The Two Wealthy Farmers " in particular, in which the vices of worldly vanity, and a lore of display are so truthfully and inimitably portrayed, cannot be studied too attentively by the domestic fireside. The conductors of this new library have shown their discrimination in commencing with this work. The second volume of the series contains Montgomery's " Sacred Meditations." JOYCE'S SCIENTIFIC DIALOGUES. By Pinnock. "Joyce's Scientific Dialogues," in which the per plexing rudiments of science are rendered facile of comprehension, and, consequently, full of interest, are happily too much known and too much appreciated to require either comment or criticism. This new edition is more especially deserving of attention from its having been revised and arranged by Mr. Pinnock, of catechism celebrity. WORKS OF G. P. R. JAMES. Vol. X. The last volume of Mr. James's works contains his romance of " The Brigand"—the last volume that we have seen, that is to say, certainly not the last of the series, for the appearance of his new novels almost keeps pace with the re-appearance of his old ones. However, in process of time both new and old will be collected in this edition, which will, without doubt, be most welcome to his numerous admirers. CHRISTOPHER TADPOLE. By Albert S m ith. ___ Part XIV. In this number Christopher meets with and is re cognised by Dr. Aston, and the two proceed to Chester, and the tw o proceed to the inn where Chris topher was born. They find the old waiter still there, and dispatch him in search of Sam Piper, the post boy who had driven the unfortunate mother of Chris topher to the inn. In the mean time Sir Fredei ick Arden pursues his disgraceful career of low black guardism, and involves himself and his mother inex tricably in the clutches of Gudge, until, at length, they are unable to raise even the smallest sum of money. At this juncture he meets with Fanny Hamper, a t th e sc h ool ball at Mrs. Sadler's, and recollecting that she has a few hundreds in her own right, he proposes an immediate elopement, to which she consents, and they set off that very night, in Sir Frederick's dog -cart. VANITY FAIR. By W. M. Thacheray. Part X. The fate of poor worldly-minded Miss Crawley is settled in this number. Mr. Pitt Crawley goes to Brighton, and introduces his aunt to the pious Lady Southdown, the mother of his affianced bride, Lady Jane. Mrs. Bute Crawley, as a last resource, dis patches her son James to the rescue. He is at first received graciously, and installed as a guest in Miss Crawley's house ; but he gets drunk, and smokes a pipe in his bed-room : " That pipe of tobacco finished the business : and the Bute Crawleys never knew how many thousand pounds it cost them. Firkin rushed down stairs to Bowls who was reading out the ' Fire and the Frying Pan' to his aide-de-camp in a loud and ghostly voice. The dreadful secret was told to him by Firkin with so frightened a look, that for the first moment Mr. Bowls and his young man thought that robbers were in the house ; the legs of whom had probably been discovered by the woman under Miss Crawley's bed. When mad© aware of the fact, however—to rush up stairs at three steps at a time—to enter the unconscious James's apartment, calling out, Mr. James,' in a voice stifled with alarm, and to cry, For Gawd's sake, Sir, stop that 'are pipe,' was the work of a minute with Mr. Bowls. 0, Mr. James, what 'ave you done,' he said in a voice of the deepest F vv hatpathos. 'ave you ashetht e, rioenwthseir;Missesimp lement can't abide em. otit ufthewipdow. " • Missis needn't smoke,' said James with a frantic misplaced laugh, and thought the whole matter an ex cellent joke. But his feelings were very different in the morning, when Mr. Bowls's young man, who operated upon Mr. James's boots, and brought him his hot water to shave that beard which he was so anxiously expecting, handed a note into Mr. James in bed, in the handwriting of Miss Briggs. " Dear Sir,' it said, Miss Crawley has passed an exceedingly disturbed night, owing to the shocking manner in which, the house has been polluted by tobacco; Miss Crawley bids me say she regrets that she is too unwell to see you before 3ou go—and above all, that she ever induced you to remove from the ale-house, where she is sure you will be much more comfortable during the rest of your stay at Brighton.' " And herewith honest James's career as a candidate for his aunt's favour ended." The Rawdon Crawleys are in Paris, where Rebecca is the admired of all observers ; but even these suc cesses fail to mollify the heart of Miss Crawley, whose rage knew no bounds when she read in the papers the announcement of the birth of Rawdon Crawley's son and heir : " The intelligence, expected as it might have been, caused a crisis in the affairs of the Crawley family. The spinster's rage rose to its height, and sending in stantly for Pit', her nephew, :and for the Lady South down, from Brunswick-square, she requested an imme diate celebration of the marriage which had been so long pending between the two families. And she announced that it was her intention to allow the young couple a thousand a year during her lifetime, at the expiration of which the bulk of her property would be settled upon her nephew and her dear niece, Lady Jane Crawley. Waxy came down to ratify the deeds—Lord Southdown gave away his sister—she was married by a bishop, and not by the Rev. Mr. Bartholomew Iroas—to the disap pointment of the irregular prelate. " When they were married—Pitt would have liked to take a hymeneal tour with his bride, as became people of their condition. But the affection of the old lady towards Lady Jane had grown so strong, that she fairly owned she could not part with her favourite. Pitt and his wife came, therefore, and lived with Miss Crawley and (greatly to the annoyance of poor Pitt, who con ceived himself a most injured character—being subject to the humours of his aunt on one side, and of his mother-in-law on the other) Lady Southdown, from her neighbouring house, reigned over the whole family— Pitt, Lady Jane, Miss Crawley, Briggs, Bowls, Firkin, and all. She piteously dosed them with her tracts and her medicine : she dismissed Creamer, sbe installed Rodgers, and soon stripped Miss Crawley of even the semblance of authority. The poor soul grew so timid that she actually left off bullying Briggs any more, and clung to her niece, more fond and more terrified every day. Peace to thee, kind and selfish, vain and generous old heathen!—We shall see thee no more. Let us hope that Lady Jane supported her kindly, and led her with gem le hand out of the busy struggle of Vanity Fair." The agonizing struggles of pride and affection in old Osborne's heart, on hearing of his son's death, are most thrillingly described. He goes to Brussels and visits the spot where George fell, but refuses to recognise or assist his widow, who has been in a state of deranginent since her husband's death. Poor L I Amelia, thanks to the kind-hearted William Dobbin, Tliti RSl).ll_ ule mvawrival ' OCTOBE THE COMIC HISTORY OF ENGLAND. By Gilbert Abbott a Beckett. No. XVL The reign of Charles I. is concluded in this number, and the author thus discusses the question raised by the manner of its conclusion : " The king being now dead, the Republican beggars were on horseback, and began at a rapid pace the ride whose terminus we need not mention, On the sth of February, 1649, a week after the execution of Charles, the Commons had the impudence to vote the House of Peers both useless and dangerous.' One of the next steps of th e L ower 'louse was to vent a sort of brutal malignity upon unfeeling objects, and having no longer a king to b u t e h nr, i t was resolved to break up all his statues. The C ommons thought, no doubt, to pave the way to a republic by macadamizing the road with the emblems of royalty. " Considerable discussion has been raised upon the question of the right of a nation to decapitate its king; and, of course, if the people may do as they please with their own, they may do anything. The judgment or posterity has very properly pronounced a verdict of 'Wilful Murder' against the regicides, and we have no wish to disturb this very fair decision. It is very unlikely that a similar state of things will ever arise again in England ; but, it such were to be unhappily the case, there are, in these enlightened times, numerous pacific and humane modes of meeting the emergency. Betwe«-n dethroning a prince and punishing him, there is,' as Hume well observes, a wide difference;' and unless the professed humanity-mongers should get fear fully ahead —unless the universal philanthropists should gain an ascendancy over public opinion —there is no fear that kings or aristocrats will ever be butchered again, for the promotion of ' universal love' and brotherhood."' The fun is kept up with great spirit, and the descrip tion of the dissolution of the Long Parliament is capital. The illustrations by Leech are full of humour. POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. A most ingenious contrivance for re g i s t er i ng th e speed on railway trains has within th e l ast wee k b een deposited in this establishment, and if adopted gene rally on railways would, no doubt, prove a great check to those who have the man agement of the train whilst on the journey,inasmuch a s it wou ld show, beyond the train had been d.spute the pre c i se ra t e at which travelling throughout e ver y record of the journey, what time they arrived at the different stations, how long they stayed there, and, in short, every particular connected with any c h ange of speed that m i g ht arise. It is, however, one o f t h ose things that a description, unaided by diagrams, will barely be sufficient to convey an adequate idea of; we may briefly say that the pap er w hi ch is to receive the register is a long slip, about one inch broai, and length proportioned to the time the t ra i ns may b e upon the journey; this paper is rolled upon a small cylinder in the first instance, and one end i s ma d e fast to a cyli n der o f a larger size (ab ou t e i g ht or n i ne inches i n di ame t er ), this cylinder is then made to revolve by means of a clock attached to the apparatus, so that it turns once round every half-hour, conse quently about three-quarters of an inch of the paper passes any given point every minute. A pencil is now fixed to the upper part of the apparatus, so that it presses on the paper, and, consequently, as tht. paper moves round would make a straight line upon it, were it not that the pencil itself had a lateral mo tion given to it; the arrangement is so attached to the train that the pencil moves from one side of the paper to the other every quarter of a mile that the train travels ; by this compound motion a series of diagonal lines are produced upon the paper, the num ber o of lines indicatinguas the trai n arr i ves at a station a strai g ht li ne i s merely produced, a n d b y ces time; distance, as coon whilst the len g th observing th e l eng th o f thi s lineit indicates how long the train has at the station. The apparatus is the invention of a gentleman by the name of Richard Ricardo ; the idea is certainly ingenious, but the mechanical p or ti on o f th e arrangement will admit of simplification to a great extent. _UICIDE OF A MAN OF COLOUR.—Considerable excitement prevailed in the neighbourhood of Clement's lane and Clare-market during the whole of yesterday, in consequence of a report to the effect that a man of colour had destroyed himself under the following singular cir cumstances.—The name of the deceased was William Douglas, by trade a cooper, residing with his wife at 17, Clement's -lane. On Tuesday night he went to bed about eight o'clock, apparently quite well in health, but about four o'clock his wife was awoke by the sound of the fall of a heavy substance in the apartment, and upon getting out of bed she discovered her husband upon the floor, bleeding profusely from the head, and quite insen sible. Supposing that he had injured himself whilst in a fit, assistance was obtained, and he was conveyed to King's College Hospital, where he shortly after expired. Mr. Baker, the beadle of St. Clement Danes, upon hear. ing the above particulars, about eight o'clock the same morning- went to the house of the deceased, and upon looking around the apartment, discovered beneath the bed a pistol,. and in a corner of the room a bullet, and a subsequent examination of the body of the unfortunate man showed beyond the possibility of a doubt that his death had been caused by a pistol shot. In the after part of the day it was ascertained that the deceased had obtained the pistol found by Mr. Baker from a shop in Great Wild street, in exchange for an old sword. Neither the wife of deceased, or any one in the house, 1 beard the report of the pistol. MURDEROUS AFFRAY.--Lata on Thursday night the precincts of the Royal -square were the theatre of a savage attack made by an Itali an on two young men. It appears that a young man of the name of Nowlan had some words with the Italian, when the latter drew a large clnsp knife, and stabbed him twice, once in the abdomen and once in the chest. A comrade of Nowlan, named Treadaway, who w as w ith him, went to his assistance of Dr. J. Dickson, jun assistance, when the Italian struck him several times in different parts of the body ; once under the region of the heart. The fellow immediately made off. The who dressed the wounds of the iwo sufferers. The stab under the heart must have proved fatal, had not the fame, yr. Centenier Du Parcq' blade of the knife touched the bone and glanced off obliquely. Treadaway is not out of danger. The assassin (named Buenoforte, a painter, aged about 23) was besteda early on Friday - morning in a house of ill and,was speedily procured, taken to gaol.— Guernsey Star. THE LOST AERONAUT .--A letter from St. Peters burgh of the sth states that no intelligence has been re ceived of the French seronaut M. Ledet, who, it will be remembered, ascended in a balloon on the 1 2 th from that city, and h as not since bee heard of, though his balloon fell into the Lake of Ladoga, On the evening of , at the the day on which M. L; let made ''his ill-fated ascent, his sister was attacked with sickness of which she died the next day. Madame laldet, hi s wife, who was at Mos cow, immediately on learning that he had disappeared, set out in the hope of finding h' notwithstanding her advanced state of pregn him, env, MALICIOUS AND UNFOUNDED CHARGE OF POISON ING A WlFE.—Yesterday afternoon Mr. Baker resumed, of Good Hope, Com mercial-road East, an inquest on the body o Mrs. Louisa Brown, aged 37. The deceased was the wife of for the third time Mr. James Brown, who formerly practised as a surgeon, Cape though unqualified, but recently was employed as an accountant. She died on Tuesday week; and since, these rumours had been ci rculated—that her husband had given her some medicin e to procure abortion—that the child was killed — and that she herself died from the effects of the medicine. Dr. Letheby, lecturer on chemistry, at the London Hospital, has been for the last five days engaged in testing the contents of the stomach, stated the result of and yesterdaythe analysis. He said, that he thought he perceived traces of arsenic, but upon analysing the contents of . the stom ach, he was not detect the existence o f enabled to any poison. Mr. Cummings, surgeon, said he attended the deceased, who inflam was suddenly attacked withinflammation of the stomach, and died the next d on Monday week, _ longft giving birth to a dead child. The jury,cr ter a discussion, returned a verdict—" That the_ ,the died a natural death, from inflammation . 9.l„.,,he___ stomach, and after giving birth to' a dead child . There was not the slightest cause for suspicion against the husband of the deceased. We ANECDOTE OF PIUS .1 X • find the following anecdote in some of the Paris .... .jour na l s ~.. Cardinal Lambruschini wrote to several religious communities en gaging them to offer up reyer tba the P o p e m i ght b e removed from his state of blindness. One of the s e letters was sent to Pius IX, who o caused the Cardinal to be invited to come and see him:, The Cardinal having replied that he was ill, and could only go the next day, the Pope sent a message that h hastened would wait on the Car dinal. On this the Cardinal e Pope, ened to the Quirinal, and on being introduced to th placed in his hands the letter which he had addressed to the communities. When the Car d inal had read it, the Pope said, You now understand that I cou ld not go to '„ a bed without pardoning you t DOING PENANCE.—It hav i ng b ee n reported that, in consequence of a decision of the Ecclesiasti ca l C our t, a young mail named L a urence would do p enance i n Saturday Cheltenham parish church, a t t ten o'clock on the char ac t er o f a M rs . morning, for having defame d w as filled by several hun dred Lucas, the venerable edifice specified. Half an hour dred per s o ns a t the hour elapsed b e f ore th e penitent e appeared, a n d th en h e imme vestry-room. Th ere , we imme diately disappe a red into t readsome words from a p a p er were informed, a proctor —an acknowledgment, we suppose, of the offence— which th e p en it en t declared to be true, Mrs. Lucas, at the sam e ti me , facing hits- This was the commence merit and conclusion of the c eremony, much to the dis appointment of the persons P resent, who fully expected white sheet, with taper in to See the ma n enve loped in a hand, standi ng u p i n the churc h to do penance.— Chel tenham Journal. • is conveyed to her father's, and recovers her senses on giving' birth to a son. William Dobbin still loves her to distraction : " This child was her being. Her existence was a maternal caress. She enveloped the feeble and uncon scimus creature with love and worship. It was her hie which the baby drank in from her bosom. Of nights, and when alone, she had stealthy and intense raptures of motherly love, such as God's marvellous care has awarded to the female instinct—joys how far higher and lower. than reason —blind beautiful devotions which only women's hearts know. It was William Dobbin's task to muse upon these movements of Amelia's, and to watch her heart ; and if his love made him divine almost all the feelings which agitated it, alas ! he could see with a fatal perspicuity that there was no place there for him. And so, gently, he bor e hi s f ate, k now i ng it, an d con tent to bear it." COURT CIRCULAR. WINDson, WEDNESDAY.—The Queen and Prince Albert took their usual early walk. The Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, took walking and pony exercise this -morning in the slopes adjoining the Castle. The Princess Helena was also taken an airing. Her Majesty rode out this forenoon, in a pony car riage and four, attended br the Duchess of Suther land. The Equerry in Waiting was in attendance on horseback. His Royal Highness Prince Albert went out shooting this morning with his Serene Highness the Prince Lowenstein. His Royal Highness was attended by the Earl of Morley and Colonel Seymour. The Duke of Wellington, the Right H on . Si r Fre derick Poll oc k, and General' Sir George Pollock, left the Castle to day. The Countess of Desart has arrived, and succeeded the Countess of Gainsborough as the Lady in Wait ing to the Queen. The Earl of Morley and Mr. R. Ormsby Gore have arrived at the Castle, and have succeeded Lord Byron and General Sir Edward Bowater, as the Lord and Groam in Waiting to her Majesty. The Duke and Duchess of Argyle are expected to arrive this evening on a visit to the Queen. The royal dinner party at the Castle this evening is expected to include her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, his Excell ncy the Chevalier Bunsen, the Duchess of Sutherland, his Serene Highness Prince Lowenstein, the Duke and Duchess of Argyle, Lady Anna Maria Dawson Baroness d e Sp e th, Miss L. Dawson Darner, and Sir George Couper. The Band of the Grenadier Guards will attend during dinner. Her Majesty's private Band after wards attend in the Castle. The Band of the Royal Horse Guards attended yesterday evening in the Castle, and performed the following pieces : Overture—" Stradella" Selection —" Huguenots" Meyerbeer, Waltz—" Hyacinthe" Andante e Final—" E i g h th S ymphony " Beethoven. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge left town yesterday morning for Fawsley Park, North amptonshire, to honour Sir Charles Knight with a visit. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. - - - - PORTSMOUTH, WEDNESDAY. The Birkenhead iron steam-frigate, Commander Ingram, is having the damages caused by her collision with the brig Ho ratio repaired in dock. She seems to have had her starboard sponson stove in, and a portion of the wheel next it carried away. The Birkenhead is receiving a coat of composition to prevent the adherence of rub bish on her bottom. The Comet steam-vessel, Commander Johnson, will tow the dredging machine to Portpatrick, should not the Myrmidon be ready or considered equal to the work. Since our remarks appeared relative to the recently promulgated order from the late Surveyor's office, touching the seasoning of the timbers of all new ships before building and launching, Mr. Fincham, the master shipwright of this d.ckyard, has received orders or permission to proceed with his new sloop the Plumper in this yard. The Amphion, screw, 36, Captain Williams ; th e Arab, 12, Commander Morris ; and the Recruit, iron, 12, Commander Slade, await orders at Spithead as to their future movements as does the N au til us , 8, Lieutenant-Commander Rivers, in Blockhouse hole. The Arab wants a few petty officers and seamen. Half a dozen mates in the Excellent have just been promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, but the second officer in seniority of that rank serving on her books has been passed over. The reason alleged is that a mistake was made in sending up the seniority of the officers advanced ; if this be true, we hope the First Lord will immediately promote Mr. Veitch. The Cambrian, 40, Commodore J. H. Plumridge, returned at sunset last even to St. Helen's, for what reason we do not know, as the wind, though contrary, was moderate, and the tide had just made in her favour. She finally sailed to day just after noon. The Maria Somes transport, Lieutenant Matthew B'ack agent, with the second division of the 81st Regiment on board, from Quebec, arrived last night at the Motherbank, and came to Spithead this morn ing. The troops are to be disembarked at Devonpurt. Wind W. by S., moderate, and fine weather. The Duke of Wellington arrived at Apsley House yesterday, at half-past nine A.M., from a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle, and left town in the afternoon for Walmer Castle, where his Grace is expected to remain until early next month. SOUTHAMPTON, OCT. 20.—The Oriental Company's steam ship Pacha, Captain Olive, arrived here at 10 A. at. this day, frdm Italy ; she left Naples, Oct. 4 ; Ci vita Vecchia, sth ; Leghorn, 6th ; Genoa, 9th ; and Gibraltar, 14th. Tbe Pacha has brought 10 passengers, and a full valuable cargo, consisting of silks, macaroni, oil, bark, steel, marble statues, works of art, almonds, gum, leeches, and packages of sundries. Distribution of ships at Genoa—Her Majesty's steamer Bloodhound, in quarantine. At Naples —two French steamers of of war. At Civita Vecchia—one French steamer. At Gibraltar—Her Majesty's steamers Atlanta, from Eng land; and Volage,:from Malaga ; one Danish corvette, and one American. Passed about 250 sail beating to the westward, between Cape Palos and Gibraltar, most of them British. The Pacha's letters were forwarded to London by the eleven o'clock train. The same Com pany's steam ship Indus, Captain Soy, left the docks at 3 P.M., for Alexandria, with the East India and China mails, under charge of the Admiralty agent. She takes out 112 passengers, and a very full cargo of bale goods. The IVashington, from New York, and the West India mail, are hourly expected. MIDDLESEX HOSPlTAL.—Yesterday the usual meet ing of the governors and subscribers of the above hospital was held in the Board-room of the institution, for the purpose of transacting general business; the Hon. Capt. Maude in the chair. The report stated that there were 210 in-patients, and 600 on the weekly list of out-patients. During the past year the out-patients, by accident and otherwise, were about 11,000, making a total number of in and out-patients, within the last ten years, of nearly 100,000. The finances, owing to a variety of causes, are on the decline, more especially during the past y ear . A Samaritan f un d is attached to the hospital for the relief of convalescent and other patients, of which the income was 193/. 135., the expenditure 1191., leaving a balance of 74i. 13s. The usual routine business having been gone through, thanks were voted to the chairman, and the meeting separated. THE NEW COUNTY Comas.—The officers of the new County Courts have not as yet been placed on salaries. All that has been done is to issue a Treasury minute of the intention of Government to take the subject into consideration. By the eighth provision in the Act no Order in Council can be made without a month's notice, and it will require an Order by her Majesty in Council to fix the salaries of the judges, clerks, and other officers of the new Courts. The salaries of the judges and clerks are not to exceed 1,200/. and 6001. a year. The judges of some of the Courts have continued their sittings to very late hours, on some occa sions to past ten o'clock at night, with the view of dis posing of the business appointed. THE BERKELEY TROOP OP YEOMANRY.—We un derstand an application was made on Monday se'nnight, by the Hon. Grantley Berkeley, to the magistrates of Dursley, for a summons against J. N. Balme, Esq., his sergeant, for penalties incurred by Mr. Balme, in dis obeying the order of the Hon. Captain to resign his situation in the Yeomanry. The Bench, thinking the order should have emanated from the Colonel, as com manding officer, and not from the Captain, declined to issue the summons as applied for.—Gloucester Journal. DESTRUCTION OF CHARTLEY HALL, THE SEAT OF EARL FERRERS.—Shor4 after twelve o'clock on Tues day morning a fire broke out at the above seat, which (with the exception of the servants' apartments) has been reduced to a heap of ruins, together with the fur niture, library, and armoury. The fire was first dis covered by Mr. Leadbetter, the butler, who was awoke by hearing a sort of crackling noise as if some persons were attempting to break into the mansion. He dressed himself as hastily as possible, and upon going from his bedroom he discovered that the house was on fire, and that the flames were issuing from the drawing-room windows. Expresses were immediately sent off for the fire-engines from Uttoxeter and Stafford, and about three O'clock tho Stafford engine, with Inspector Wol laston and assistants, arrived, but the fire had gained such an ascendancy that all that could be done was to save the servants' apartments, and it appeared that no engine was kept at Uttozeter. It is reported that the property is insured, but to what extent could not be ascertained. The mansion had lately been under repair, and the noble Earl was expected down in about a fortnight, from Staunton Harold. ALARMING EXPLOSION OF GUNPOWDER AND SE-• RIOUS ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday afternoon, between the hours of fire and six o'clock, a most alarming oc currence took place near the Fox and Grapes, Pensnett, in the parish of Kingswinford, by the explosion of a quantity of gunpowder, which was being conveyed in quarter-barrels, four in number, with some oil and other things, to Bromley, in a cart, from Mr. Cooke's, iron monger, of Dudley. The explosion was attended with such force that one side of the cart was torn away, and two men, named Thomas Bishop, a porter to Mr. Cooke, who was in care of the cart, and John Austin, a watch- man at Mr. Gibbon's works, Shutt End, were blown to a considerable distance. The sufferers were sadly burnt about their heads and hands, but some hopes are enter tained of their recovery. The poor men were riding in the cart when the accident occurred, and how the powder ignited is yet a mystery.—Birmingham Journal. HORN FAlR.—This scene of annual amusement in the pleasant village of Charlton, near Blackheath, com menced on St. Luke's day (18th of October), and closed yesterday. The origin of this fair is too well known to require explanation. It was formerly a mart for all sorts of articles made of horn. Course jokes were passed off among the visitors i but at the present day d t a h y e there is an improvement in p u bli c mariners. o first day the pleasures of the fair were nearly suspended by showers of rain. Tuesday and yesterday being re markably fine, a deal o f company came from Lon don, and partook of the good thin prepared them. There w a s an agreeable displ a ng o s f rural fo ments, flowers, and sp orts of all kind y s. The amuse fair was more interesting thi s O cto b er than it has been for some years past. 91, 1647, TRINIDAD RAILWAY. i TO THE LANDED PRdPRIETORg A meeting of the shareholders in this company was i l OF E SOUTH or IRELAND. held yesterday afternoon, at the London Tavern, for the l MY Loans AID GENTLEMEN,—It is vain to live purpose of receiving a report from the committee of ' that any attempt to regenerate the country cin oh management. Thomson Ilankey,jun., Esq., presided, made with the least hope of success, until you eetaoh The report which was circulated among the share- ; the labourers from all identification with the *i Book holders, st a t e d th a t th e comm i ttee i ntimated to t I system," w hi c h , d ev i sed by the farmers for their own shareholders, at th e mee ti ng w hi c h was held on the ! exclusi ve b ene fi t, owes its efficacy entirely to hi ad he 19th November last, that they would continue the hesion of the labourers, for that adhesion bands the negotiations in which they were engaged, for the whole people together to countenance and screen the purpose of obtaining such concessions as they con- assassin, and thus give that impunity to crime which ceived they were entitl e d to claim on behalf of the is its most terrible characteristic. Affection forms no company. In pursuance of that intenti on , and of the part of the tie which binds the labourer to the farmer; resolution then passed, the com m itt ee entered into on the cont rary , t h e ruthless oppression exercised by communication with E ar l G rey, t h e S ecretary of the former is repaid by the bitterest hatred, but State for the Colonies, who Promptly gave the subject every labourer was, a ws a con-acre, and is as a cabin attentive consideration. After some c o rrespond e nce t e n an t, dependent entirely for his retched possession and several interviews, during which Earl Grey upon some frieze -coated farmer. The labourer's but manifested an earnest desire to promote the company' s is identified with the farmer's holding, you cannot undertaking, as one of the greatest importance to the displace one defaulting tenant bat you must render island of Trinidad, and at the same time a jealous hou.eless all his dependents, it may be scones in care of all the interests of the colony, an outline of number ; hence it is that man, woman, and child a. - re an ordinance was sanctioned by his Lordship, arid re- leagued together to oppose any and every exercise If commended in a dispatch to Lord Harris, Governor of the landlords' righ - s. There is not located up( a Trinidad; and was, in due time, submitted by him to your vast estate a sine inividual of Labourite; the Legisl a ti ve C ouncil, but they declined to entertain class who holds directly from lv (s th yourse, e exevpt tl e it. Another was substituted in the form of resolutions, few who may be in your own employment, of tl e which were passed by a majority. Even to these a millions who are located upon your properties— `here strennous opposition was made ; and a memorial from is not one who does rot bold from your immed.,:a'e a great body of influential inhabitants of the island, tenants. Is the adhesion of the labourer to the farms r, disapproving of their adoption, was transmitted to her then, to be wondered at ? You have sacrific( 1 Majesty's Government. Upon an attentive consider- thousands of pounds to propitiate the farmers—have you ation of the modified conditions thus offered by the even in part succeeded ? Let Holycross give tl a Legislative Council to the company, and of all the answer. Sl as a sinle coer upon your circumstances of it s ac t ua l position, the committee estates holds his ong miserable cabin from any hand but has come to the conclusion that it would be expedient, your own, so long you have a soldier of " ti.e not only to refuse their assent, but also to recommend Rockite" force subsidized our own property to the shareholders to abandon the prosecution of the fight against yourself. A tenthof the sacrifice's you - undertaking and to resolve to wind up the affairs of have made, and made in vain, for the farmers, would the company. have released the labourers, emphatically the people, The CHAIRMAN said he would state in as short a from the bondage of an unholy alliance with their manner as possible the object for which the meeting oppressors. You now know that upon you alone is had been called together; and in doing so he would thrown the burden of feeding the people. The take the liberty of reminding them what took place occupiers will give you no aid. From this moment at the last meeting. On that occasion the directors until next spring there is not a frieze -coated farmer were empowered to proceed with the undertaking, in the south of Ireland who will expend one shilling in the expe c t a ti on th at t h ey would be able to obtain upon employment for the people ; the " do-nothing" such a concession from the colony of Trinidad as, in system of the farmer shuts up the land in his hands their opinion, would justify them not only to recom- from contributing in the least to the general labour mend the proprietors to proceed, but in at once pro- fund, and a burden which might be easily borne, if ceeding themselves to commence the undertaking. borne equally by all, is rendered intolerable when Accordingly several propositions were agreed to and thrown entirely upon you; you have not means of sanctioned by Earl Grey, who transmitted them to giving full employment, for the land in your own the colony. The Legislative Council, however, de- hand is quite inadequate to the purpose, but you must clined to entertain them, and they sent back counter- find food for the people, and the question most ter-propositions, which were so different from those urgently requiring your instant consideration is, how originally sugg es t e d, th at the directors determined to provide that food in the cheapest manner--shall you at once to reject them, and proceed no f urt h er employ the inhabitants of other lands to raise food with the undertaking. The directors were desirous, for your people when you may with great a however, that th e s h are h o ld ers should understand that employ them to raise food for themselvesd ? Tao vantage this determination h a d no re f erence whatever to the con-acre system was fruitful in mischief; for it state of money affairs in the country at the present inevitably enlisted the labdurerer under the banners time. They had been guided solely by a desire to of Jack Rock, but it employed the otherwise waste proceed with the undertaking if they considered it labour of the people to raise food for themselves, likely to prove profitable to the shareholders, and to thus affording at the cheapest rate the two things abandon it if it would not. The reasons why they most needful—food and employment, and the best til considered it not advisable to proceed had been coin- lege on the smaller farms in the south of Ireland municated to Earl Grey, and his Lordship had con. was owing to the con-acre spade. A substitute for curred in that resolution. The directors, therefore, the con-acre system, possessing its advantages and recommended that the money which remained in avoiding its evils, might easily be devised if your at hand, after allowing sufficient to discharge all lia- tention could be earnestly drawn to the subject, but bilities, should be divided among the shareholders ,- before you get rid to form a sound judgment that 20s. per share should be returned at once, and you must get rid of that infatuation which leads you. that the directors should undertake to discharge all to shudder at recognising the right of the people to liabilities with the balance remaining in their pos- any location in the land, and induces you to think session. that the prosperity of Ireland can only be enema.. A SHAREHOLDER observed that the actual loss to plished by its depopulation. Abandon the hope of the company would tben be about 12,2001. carrying out an improved system of cultivation The CHAIRMAN replied that it would. through the farmers, but try what can be accome Mr. INNES suggested that the plans prepared by plished by the agency of the labourers employed upon the company, which were of great value, should be small model farms (not exceeding, I should say, two preserved, in order that they might be disposed of acres each) 'you may then see what may be ac come when an opportunity occurred, and the proceeds plished by the now idle con acre spade, and you will returned to the shareholders. have established a system which will afford at once A SHAREHOLDER thought it would be advisable to increased production and increased employment, and return 1/. per share at once, and not dissolve the com- you will be in a condition to coerce your " do might but leave it in abeyance. In that case they nothing " tenants by adopting it to take a fair might receive a more advantageous offer from the share of the public burthen ; they will resist no doubt, colony, and be enabled to make use of the plans. but they will resist in vain. Backed by the hard The CHAIRMAN said the directors would not take working labourer, you will be more than a match upon themselves that responsibility unless they re- for "Captain Rock. There is undoubtedly much tamed all the mo ne y now i n their lianas. Besides, difficulty in empl oy i ng the Irish labourer to - there was no p ros p ec t at present of the Colonial Legis- tage, he is unfortunately not disposed to " advan give ir lature consenting t o th e i r t erms, and to show the day ' s work for a fair day's wages," and he is totely apathy of parties at Trinidad he might state that not unfit to be entrusted with the ownership of the one landed proprietor held a single share i n the smallest allot men t o f l and ; but let him be employed company, under your di rec ti ons merely to cultivate land, After some further conversation, resolutions to the without having any ownershin it, let the crop be following eff ec t were unan i mously passed :—" That his own after deducting a fair T rent for the land, and the company be forthwith, and is hereby declared to the value of the seed and manure furnished to him by be dissolved.—That out of the sum of 685,1851. in you, you will then find that an acre of land so culti the hands of the directors, and 12,0001. in Exche- vated will, besides yielding a fair rent, leave a sur quer-bills, the balance of the receipts mid payments, plus of production sufficient to take the cultivator 1!. per share be returned to the shareholders, on sur- from off the relief list of next year, besides giving rendering the scrip, and releasing the company of him employment for three months at least of his all claims and demands whatsoever. —That the balance waste time.—l have the honour to be , y Lords m remaining after suc h payments be retained by the and Gentlemen, your obedient servant, committee to defray th e expense of winding up the S. company, and the payment of expenses, and that the plans and the surplus be disposed of in such a way as the committee shall think fit. A vote of thanks was passed to the Chairman and directors, and the meeting separated. LON ÜBDER OF A WIFE BY TIER HUSBAND. Yesterday the town of Gravesend was thrown into a state of consternation ; owing to a report which ob tained extensive circulation that a woman had been murdered by her husband, in West-street, near to the Old Pier of Gravesend. The following particulars may be relied upon It appears that a man named William Vt ilson, wlio I.r some years past has resided and been well know a in Gravesend, as a collector of marine stores, aLd whose place of business was in New -court, Vjest street, Gravesend, near the Old Town Pier, for the last few days had been quarrelling with his wife , to whom he h a d b een married but a short time. The quarrel, it app ears, commenced on .\ londay morn i n3 last, when, after abusing his wife for some hour:;, he left the house, and did not return until midnight ; and, after going to bed, he still continued to abuse her, which induced her to leave the bed, and she sat up the rest of the night. He did not get up until ten o'clock yesterday morning, when, after partaking of breakfast, he left the house, and did not return till half-past twelve o'clock. High word again ensued, which continued for nearly two hours, when, upon his wife saying he was a disgrace to society, he took up a large stick, and said "Now we will see who shall be master," upon which he aimed a fearful blow at her head, which took effect imme diately under the left ear. The poor creature lame-. diately fell down, exclaiming "I am a murderel woman." In the mean time the noise from the houso had attracted the attention of the neighbours, who congregated in large numbers, and the prisoner rush. ing out of the house was a signal for the mob to glp in, when the poor creature was found lying on tho floor, with the blood flowing copiously from a woun,l in her head. Medical assistance was immediately sen t for, and two surgeons promptly attended and endea.. ffd conveyed t o th e lock-up. h v a o d u r b ed re a t t o h e r e d s h to e r r e la a s n t i . ma T tin, h o ep b ri u s t n one i r th w o l t e th e e c n t, a a p s p s r h e el , hhoeunsdeedatbthethTeopwonliache,alaln. DONDERRY and ENNISKILLEN RAILWAY. A special general meeting of the shareholders of this company took place yesterday at the company's offices, in Church-passage, Guildhall, for the purpose of receiving the report of the directors, and upon other business connected with the company. Shortly after one o'clock, John G. Frith, Esq., took the chair; and the usual preliminaries having been gone through, The SECRETARY read the report, which was re ceived, adopted, and agreed to ' • after which, the fol lowing resoluti on was proposed and adopted : " That a committee of five shareholders, not in any shape connected with the present management (three to be a quorum) be elected to investigate the affairs of the company, with power to report, as early as conve nient, to a meeting to be specially summoned for that purpose, on every circumstance connected therewith, both as to its present state, as well as its future pros pects upon the several allegations contained in the letters of Mr. Letham and Mr. Bond, and their expla nation thereof. To report also whether any and what reduction can be made in the expense of the manage ment both in London and Londonderry. That this committee be authorised to require from the directors any expense that they may incur in the employment of an accountant, if deemed necessary, in furtherance of the object for which they have been elected by the shareholders." The following gentlemen were appointed as a com mittee :—Mr. Vanderput, Dr. Conquest, Mr. Lavers, Mr. Bates, and Mr. Fuller. Thanks were then voted to the Chairman and direc tors, and the meeting broke up. MORTAL ITY in the METROPOLIS NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, OCT. 16, 1547. Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases ... 309 Diseases of Uncertain Seat ••• ••• —• 81 Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses... ... 112 Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of Respiration .. Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels ... 24 Diseases of the Stomach, Li ve r, and other Organs of Digestion... ... ••• ••• •• • ... 91 Diseases of the Kidneys, &c. Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. 21 Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles ••• 9 Diseases of the Skin, &c. 4 Old Age, or Natural Decay 46 Deaths by Violence, Privation, or Intemper▪ ance ... 14 Causes not specified ... 4 DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES „, • 953 Mr. Cobden, M.P., made his first public visit, since his return, on Tuesday, to the chief scene of his pact labours in the free-trade cause --the League-room;, Newhall-buildings, Manchester. A. great number of free traders—it being the principal market-day —were present, and gave the Hon. Gentleman a most gratify ing reception. Amongst the leading gentlemen pre sent were—James Pilkington, Esq., the new Member for Blackburn; James Heywood, Esq., the new Member for North Lancashire ; and T. Baxley, Esq., President of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Cobden is looking well, though not more robust than when he left this country. There is no doubt that the Hon. Gen. tleman will elect to sit for the West Biding of York shire, though at present no public announcement may be made of th e f act . MR. B RITTON ' S E DITION OF A UBREY ' S MS, oil WILTS.—Mr. B r itt on h as wor k e d hard for the Wil tshire b T y op h o is gr h a r p e h th ic e a r lmSeombers, and through t h at circumstance perhaps, has not b een fully secondeti in great measure, th e soc i ety has not bee; joined by the inhabitants o f t h e county, who mu, surely all feel interested i n i ts success, in such nunabetit as are required and might have been expected. In bil very valuable Leansad interesting "Memoir of John Aubrey," printed by ciety in 1845, reference was made to Aubrey's unpublished " History of Wiltshire," of which a copy is in the library of the Royal Society. Mr. Pon palnetted, bf it, t s h h a o t u this be lett Scrope, AI.P., a member of the society and who has in hand for it a " History of Castle Combe," now nearly AplrSie.,trocf bythe most inst• port the associa tion. The council concurring with him, Mr. Britton undertook to edit it, and by selecting only those portions really illustrative of Wilts, or comprising informaticn useful or interesting in itself, and adding to these his own notes, has produced a valuable volume. Ile has done much to raise John Aubre y — "Magotie-headed" John Aubrey, as Anthony a wood wrongly terms him—in the estimation of discriminating critics.—Builder. HOLLAND PARK FOOTWAY.—The following letter has been received by the Secretary of the West London Central Anti-Enclosure Association, from Captain John Percival of the Royal Navy:—" Campden-hill, Kensing ton.—Sir,—l have the honour of acknowledging your letter of the 14th of October, which I received on Satur day evening on my return to town. I am unable to enter into you r v i ews respecting the deviation of the foot-path by Lord Holland's Park. Much as I reg e r: e the loss of th e wa lk b e f ore h i s Lordship ' s house, yet there be th is no d en yi ng o f t h e public advantage which w i ll gained by opening the foot-path: dir e ctly y upon th 3 feeling ctl Earl's -court-road, neighbourlyrdrl's-court-road, an d I t hi n k that lkolland's wishes, Lord and courtesy requ i re us to consu l t L greater public samecon time, he a when, at the i offers that thei bear in mind venience. W e oug ht toal f so the path in its present di rer . beauty and advanta g es o prospect being kept ope n , w hi clx at any time may lion depends upon the impeded by a f ence , or by bil'ild• ings, if Lord Ho y ln - 1 be d should feel disposed so to enclose czve a a property.—Yours, & c., JoIIN PEltts or mk L. e —Oet. 18 use of . , his THE L ORD —ORD PROVO STSHIP OF EDINILURGII.--Airii Black has consented to retain the office of chief naagia l trate for another year. Ponulation Average weekly Deaths 1841. Enumerated, Deaths, 1842-6, i n the West Districts... 301,326 Five Summers. Week. • . 137 ... 136 North Districts.. 376,396 ... 175 ... 163 Central Districts 374,759 ... 173 ... 179 East Districts ... 393,247 ... 212 ... 216 South Districts .. 502,483 ... 244 ... 259 ----- Total 5... ..... 1,948,211 Males ••• ••• Females ... ..- 940 ... 953 ... 471 ... 482 BIRTHS IN THE WEEK. Males Females - • 620 ..• 634 Total ... 1,254 At a dinner given yesterday at the London Tavern, by the General Purposes Committee of the Corporation of London, a splendid silver salver was pre sented to John Wood, Esq., late Chairman of the Com mittee in testimony of the ability and attention dis played' by him while presiding over their deliberations during the year 1846, and as a permanent record of their high estimation of his public services and private worth. Mr. Wood has been for several years an able and most active member of the Corporation, and has, upon the occasions on which there have existed differ ences between the two Courts with regard to their pri vileges, distinguished hi mse l f b of y great fi rmness i n support popular rights, at the same time that his exertions, as much as those of any other individual, were calculated to prevent any injurious collision. Mr. Whet ham, the present Chairman of the Committee, was in the chair. Alderman Gibbs, the Chairman, and other members, warmly eulogised the conduct of Mr. Wood, whom the whole body of the Corporation considered to be remark able for the urbanity of his disposition, the stoady ap plication of his talents to the advantage of his ll fellow citizens, and th e di s i nterested views which he took of all public questio ns . Ab out f orty gentlemen sat down done justice dinner, which w as serve d up i n the finest style, an d justice to in a spirit as honest and sincere. •