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In other kinds of stock only a moderate business was doing. Beef, from 3 s 8d t o 4 s 6d ; M utton, 3 i G i to Is 2a ; Veal, 3s 8d to 4s 4d; and Pork, 4s to 4s 8d per 81bs. RONFORD, OCT. 20.—We had a fair trade here to-day, on the following terms :—Beef, from 3s 6d to 4s 6 , ►; Mutton, Is 8d to 5s 2d ; Veal, 4s to 4s 4d ; and Polk, 4s to 4s 8d per 81bs ; Suckling Calves, 18, to 28'; Quarter-old Store Pigs, 16s to 19s; and Mulch Cows, with their small Calf, 161 to 181 each. LalvEs, Ocp , 20.—Beef from 3s ed to 4s 6d; Mutton, 3s ed to 5s 4d ; Veal, 4s to 45 4d ; and Pork, 4s 2d to 4s 6d per Blbs. A moderate supply and a steady trade. CORN AVERAGES. GENERAL AVERctAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN For the Week ended O. 21, 1847, made up from the Returns of the Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in England and Waive per Imperial Quarter. WIINAT.. BARLEY. RTE. I BEANS. I. PRICE .- 1 54 1 3d I ' 32s Gd 22s OATS. I7d S3s Od 146 s 3d 453 PEAS 4d The Duties on Foreign Grain are now suspended. . A RLBRO'-STREET—(THIS DAY.) Rosetta Pendergrast, Ann Jones, and Jane Fender grast, were placed before Mr. Hardvvicke, charged with creating a disturbance in St. James's Work house, and assaulting Mary Ann Edwardi, 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 utt er . Th e e ld er d e f en d ant, 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 was 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. Dore, they were generally well conducted and peaceable to all the inmates. Mr. HARDWICKK 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. 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 be 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 I fibs. 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, stuff. 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 front 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 MAGISTRATES.—(THIS DAY.) A numerously attended meeting of magistrates for the county of Middlesex was held this day, at twelve o'clock, in the Court-house, Clerkenwell-green, Mr. Pownal in the chair. The Deputy Clerk of the Peace read the report of the visiting justices for the House of Correction, Coldbath-fields, from which it appeared that the number of prisoners confined there was 821 males and 219 females. The general health of the prisoners was good, and the chaplain reported most favourably of the result from the educational system adopted in the prison. The report was unanimously adopted. _ The report of the Committee on Accounts having been brought forward and approved of by the meeting, Count the motion of Mr. HALL, an order upon the y Treasurer was g iven for the several sums named in the report. The report of the Visiting Justices for the House of Correction Court, from Westminster, was laid before the which it appeared that the number of 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 2. i n the case of males, and 5f in that of females. The Court then proceeded with the appointment of visiting justices for the several county prisons until the next court day, in the room of those gentlemen who retire. T ATTERSALL'S-THIS EVENING. Six o'CLocK. CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES. 9 to 1 agst Geraldine 10 to 1 agst Giselle. 12 to 1 agst Prior of St. Margaret's 12 to 1 agst Patriot 13 to 1 agst Collingwood 16 to 1 agst Hydrangea 16 to 1 agst Foreclosnre 17 to 1 agst Queen Mary 17 to 1 agst George Hudson 25 to 1 agst Newcourt 25 to 1 agst Lady Wildair 30 to 1 agst War Eagle 30 toll agst Reminiscence 30 to 1 agst Wanota CRITESION STAKES. 5 to 4 on Foreclosure. DERBY. 15 to 1 agst Springy Jack 18 to 1 agst Flatcatcher. 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 such 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 livin g un d er h ar d work, they may begin to reflect that paupers cannot very well pick oakum or break stones upon water-g ruel. We recommend Mr. M'Christie t o ca l l 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 frequently 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 svmpathy with this infirmity ; and we have no doubt that 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 SHARE.—On Thursday morning last a shark Was discovered at a short distance from St. Sampson's harbour by a fisherman of the name of Bichard and his crew, who were in a boat off that spot. They happened to have with them a harpoon and a musket, with which they attacked the voracious stranger. The former was lodged in its body, but so far from disabling it, only ren dered it furious ; and it was not till it had been pierced by five bullets that it was deprived of life. The shark was then, with some difficulty, got into the boat and brought on shore, and proved to be about two years old and one of the blue species, and measuring nearly eight feet. It had two rows of teeth, and the mouth was about a foot wide. We understand that a shoal of animals of this sort was seen a few days ago off Sark—a C ircumstance of very rare occurrence in this latitude.— Guernsey Star. Prince Mentschikow, the Russian G overnor - G eneral of Fi nn land, has' ibeen deprived of his post, and replaced by Bonn seroffski. THE SUN, LOWDON, THURSDA'Y EVENING, OCTOBER 21, 1847 HAYMARKET THEATRE. A new five act play, from the pen of Mr. Westland Marston, entitled The Heart and the World, was produced here last evening, with Miss Helen Faucit as the heroine. We say emphatically with Miss Helen Faucit as the heroine, because it is entirely to her exquisitely beautiful delineation of the character 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 he can develop a character, he would be a great dramatist—and this is knowledge which may be acquired. Let Mr. Marston condescend from the study of the Elizabethan dramatists for a while, and go to the playwrights of modern France to learn the mechanism of pl a y ma ki ng . This is a species of knowledge which Air. Marston may despise, but without it no one in the present day can succeed in writing an actable play. The Lady of Lyons is in debted for its success infinitely more to the skilful ness with which the plot is developed than to all other causes put together. Mais recenons a nos moutons, thus runs the story of " The Heart and 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 FlorencelDelmar (Miss Helen Faucit), her mother (Mrs. W. Clifford), and her cousin Walter Ashbrook (Mr 11. 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 hath no rights, It doth not know the word. Earth's substance ta'en, Earth's laws may give thee back. Thy fair repute Maligned, earth's laws may vindicate. But love That in it hath 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 is beggary—but pleads no rights. Temple—Madam I 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 I But show the vanquished pity. Florence—Ay ; pity ! There's the loss, that we must learn To pity what we worshipp'd—Vivian Temple ! %Tint is the master-pang—there is but one— That wrecks a woman's future ? Pours the world Scorn on her chosen ? 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 tuffering. 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 full 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 Ashbrooke, 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 arc twain, But lovers one ! 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 I " 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 inueadoes 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. MR. JOHN REEVE, JUN.— The Liverpool Chro nicle, in speaking of the de6iit of this gentleman, says, " The principal event of the week was the Liverpool debilt 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 co me di an w hi c h 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 histrioni c lif e . A s Bil l Downey, in the Un fi nished Gentleman, he leaves but little to be desired, and that little will soon be supplied by practice. His voice is rather weak, or pe r h a p s h e wants t h e power o f managing it, which can only be acquired by practice and perse verance. Mr. Reeve is certainly the best young actor we have s een ; t h ere is no exaggeration in his persona tions ; all he w an t s is power, lie possesses a good ap preciation of c h aracter, and great capabilities for repre senting it. In the society of Mr. Buckstone ho will learn much of his f a th er ' s peculiarities, and we believe vie man will better p erpetuate them than the son, who in some particular s cenes 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 and Lady Emily de Burgh, Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston, Viscount Anson, the Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay, &c. A FRAGMENT.—" And will you always—always, dearest Alberic, love me thus?" said Constance. "Ever, while this heart beats with life !" passionately exclaimed Alberic. " Then could you lend me 51.?" murmured the lady, " for really things are so bad in the City, that I," &a &a &a—Punch, LITERATURE. STORIES AND STUDIES FROM THE CIII?ONICLAS AND HISTORY OF ENG LAND. fly Mrs. S. C. Had 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, corn 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, notwithstanding 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, date-, &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 seem 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 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 arc 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 the death of the first Christian who suffered martyrdom in England, on the spot which now bears his name— St. Alban's. " The first British Printer," " King Charles's Tale of Boscobel," " The Porteous Mob," and many others, combine useful instruction with en t ert a generali n m e r n e t g , a a r n d d . render f t e h w e l l i a t s t l t e wok reig r e s d e h s a e v r e v i n b g e e o n f 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 ENGLISHWOMANS FAMILY LIBRARY. A series of works intended especially for the perusal of the mothers and daughters of England, could hardly commence more auspiciously 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 love 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." OYCE'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 Smith. Part X I V. In this number Christopher meets with and is re cognised by Dr. Aston, and the two proceed to Chester, and the two 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 Frederick 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, at the school 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. Thackeray. 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 _ _ s " 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 hi s 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 made aware of the fact, however—to rush up stairs at three steps at a time—to enter the unconscious James's apartment, calling ou t, 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 . n w e, th s e ir i ; roge s m se e s n c t a o n u ,t t a o b f id t e he em w . ifidow. pathos, what 'aveas he you threw " Missis needn't smoke,' said James with a frantic misplaced laugh, and thought the whole matter a cellent joke. But his feelings were very different in the morning, when Mr. Bowls's young man, who operated a ex 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 Crawl e y bid s me sa y s h e regrets t h a t s h e is too unwell to see you before you 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 Pitt, her nephew, :and for the Lady South down, from Brunswick-square, she requested an imme diate celebration of th e marr i age w hi ch had been so long pending between th e t wo f am ili es. 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 Irons —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, she 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 gentle 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 derangment since her husband's death. Poor (. Amelia, thanks to th e ki n d-h ear t e d Willi am Dobbin, 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 scious creature with love and worship. It was her lire 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 tisk 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 bore his fate, knowing it, and con tent to bear it." THE COMIC HISTORY OF ENGLAND. By Gilbeit Abbott a Beckett. No. XI'L The reign of Ch ar l es I. i s conc l u d e d i n thi s number, an the auth or th us di scusses th e ques ti on raised y the manner of its conclusion : " The king being now dead, the Republican beggars were on horseback, and began at a rapid pace tlse 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 the Lower House was to vent a sort of brutal malignity upon unfeeling objects, and having no longer a king to butcher, it was resolved to break up all his statues. The Commons 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 of posterity has very properly pronounced a verdict of `Wilful Murder' against the regicides, and we have no wish to di stur b this very fair decision. It is very unlikely th at a similar state of things will ever arise again in En g l an d ; but, if such were to be unhappily the case, ther e are, i n these enlightene d t i mes, numerous pacific a n d h umane modes of meeting the emergency. Between d e th ron i ng a prince and pun i sh i ng him, there is,' as H ume 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. Tke illustrations by Leech are full of humour. POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. A most ingenious contrivance for registering the speed on railway trains has within the last week been deposited in this establishment, and if adopted gene rally , no doubt, prove a great check great management of the train o to n thosera railways whoays would, n o whilst on the journey, inasmuch as it would show, beyond the power of dispute, the precis e ra t e a t which the train had been travelling throughout every 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 change of speed that might arise. It is, however, one of those things that a description, unaided by diagrams, will barely be sufficient to convey an adequate idea of; we may briefly say that the paper which is to receive the register is a long slip, about one inch broati, and length proportioned to the time the trains may be upon the journey ; this paper is rolled upon a small cylinde r fasttoa , and one end is made e r e size (about eight or nine inches in diameter), this cylinder is then made to e i y n li t o h d e er fir o s f t a in la s r ta g n e revolve by means of a clock attached to the apparatus, so that it turns once round every half-hour, conse quently about three-quarters o f an i nch 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 the 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 of lines indicating distance, whilst the length taken up indicates time; as soon as the train arrives at a station a straight line is merely produced, and by observing the length of this line it indicates bow long the train was 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 portion of the 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 1)(11 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 whilza 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, arid 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, beard the report of the pistol. MURDEROUS AFFRAT.--Late on Thursday night the precincts of the Royal-square were the theatre of a savage attack made by an Italian on two young men. It appears that a young man of the name of Nowlan had some words with the Itali an , when the latter drew a large clasp knife, and stabbed him twice, once in the abdomen and once in the chest. A comrade of Nowlan, named Treadaway, wh o was with him, went to his assistance, when the Italian struck him several times in different parts of the body • on ce under the region of the heart. Th e fellow immediately made off. The assistance of Dr. J. Dickson, jun., was speedily procured, who dre sse d the wounds of the two sufferers. The stab under the h eart must have proved fatal, had not the blade of th e k nife touched the bone and glanced off obliquely. T readaway is not out of danger. The assassin (n ame d Buenoforte, a painter, aged about 23 ) was arrested ear l y on Friday m orning in a house of ill niter fame, by Mr. Cente • D u Parcq, and taken to gaol.— Guernsey St ar . " Tau LOST AERONAUT.—A letter from St. Peters burgh of the sth states that no intelligence has been re• ceived of the French mronaut M. Ledet, who, it will he day. Madame Ledseite remembered, ascended in a balloon on the 12th from that city, and has not since been heard of, though his set out in the hope of finding him, balloon fell into the Lake of Ladoga. On the evening of the day on which M. Ledet made his ill-fated ascent, his sister was attacked with • k s of which she died the next A ar . w I c j i F IO E t r . ..._ s hisnes ' wife , who was at Mos cow, immediately on learui a that he had disappeared, advanced state of pregnancy. Yesterday 1 'l e s p t e da UNFOUNDEDy afternoon him, notwithstanding her .CHARGEBakoerr resumed,PoTsoN- ING M for the third ti me, at the Cape of Good Hope, Com mercial-road East, an inquest on the body f Mrs. Louisa Brown, aged 37. The deceased was the wife of Mr. James Brown, who formerly practised as a surgeon, though unqualified, b ut recently was employed as an accountant. She died on Tuesday week; and since, these rumours had been circulated—that her husband had given was killed her some me dicine to procure abortion—that the child —and that ahe herself died from the effeets of the medicine. Dr. L et h e b y, l ecturer on chemistry, at the London iT Hospital, has been for the last five days engaged in testing th e contents of the stomach, and yesterday stated the tr a ces he analysis. He said, that he thought he perceived of arsenic, but upon analysing the contents of . the stomach, he was not enabled to detect the existen ce of any poison. Mr. Cummings, surgeon, said h_ e. attended the deceased, who was suddenly attacked h witinflammation of the stomach, on Monday week, and died the next day, after giving birth to a dead child. The i dury, after a long discussion, returned a verdict—" That the deceased d ie d a natura l death, from inflammation of - t he stomach, and aft er giving birth tof a dead child." There was not the slightest cause for suspicion against the husband of the deceased. •-- ANECDOTE OF Pius IX • We find the following anecdote in some of the Paris journals :--‘• Cardinal Lambruschini wrote to several religious communities en gaging them to offer up p'r'ayers that the Pope might be removed from his state of blindness. One of these letters was sent to Pius IX., who w 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 he would wait on the Car dinal. On this the Cardinal h astened to the Quirinal, and on being introduced to the Pope, the lloly Father placed in his hands the let ter which he had addressed to the communities. When the Cardinal had read it, the Pope said, ' You n ow understand t h at I could not go to bed without pardonin g yo u . • DOING PENANCE.—It having been reported that, in consequence o f a decision of the Eccl es i ast i ca l C ourt , a young snag named Laurence w ou ld d o penance i n church, at teno'clock on Saturday Cheltenham parish defamed the character of a Mrs. morning, fur having ~. . edifice was filled by several htin• Lucas, the venerable t the hour specified. Half an h our dred persons a penitent appear e d, an d t h en h e imme diatelyelapsed before the into the vestr . disappeared read y There, we _-room from a paper proctor some words were informed, a pro —an acknowledgment, we suppose, o f th e offence— which the penitent declared to be true, M rs . L ucas , at ra the same time, facing hi • This was the commence mentf the ceremony, much to the and conclusion o dis appointment of persons present, who fully the in i din a white sheet, with taper to see the man enve , ope he chu rc h to do penance.— hand, standing up in t Chel tenham Journal. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, 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 wring. Her Majesty rode out this forenoon, in a pony car riage and four, attended by 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 Hon. Sir Fre derick Pollock, an d 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 Gro,lm 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 de Sp e th, Mi ss L. Dawson Darner, and ir 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" Andantee Final—" Eighth Sy m ph ony " 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. Males Females TRINIDAD RAILWAY. A meeting of the shareholders in this company was held yesterday afternoon, at the London Tavern, for the purpose of receiving a report from the committee of management. Thomson Hankey, jun., Esq., presided. The report which was circulated among the share holders, stated that the committee intimated to the shareholders, at the meeting which was held on the 19th November last, that they would continie the negotiations in which they were engaged, for the purpose of obtaining such concessions as they con ceived they were entitled to claim on behalf of the company. In pursuance of that intention, and or the resolution then passed, the committee entered into communication with Earl Grey . , the Secretary of State for the Col on i es , w h o prompt l y gave the subject attentive consideration. After some correspondence and several interviews, during which Earl Grey manifested an earnest desire to promote the company's undertaking, as one of the greatest importance to the island of Trinidad, and at the same time a jealous care of all the interests of the colony, an outline of an ordinance was sanctioned by his Lordship, and re commended in a dispatch to Lord Harris, Governor of Trinidad; and was, in due time, submitted by him to the Legislative Council, but they declined to entertain it. Another was substituted in the form of resolutions, which were passed by a majority. Even to these a strennous opposition was made ; and a memorial from a great body of influential inhabitants of the island, disapproving of their adoption, was transmitted to her Majesty's Government. Upon an attentive consider ation of the modified conditions thus offered by the Legislative Council to the company, and of all the circumstances of its actual position, the connuittee has come to the conclusion that it would be expedient, not only to refuse their assent, but also to recommend the shareholders to abandon the prosecution of the undertaking and to resolve to wind up the affairs of the company. The CHAIRMAN said he would state in as short a manner as possible the object for which the meeting had been called together; and in doing so he would take the liberty of reminding therm what took place at the last meeting. On that occasion the directors were empowered to proceed with the undertaking, in the expectation that they would be able to obtain such a concession from the colony of Trinidad as, in their opinion, would justify them not only to recom mend the proprietors to proceed, but in at once pro ceeding themselves to commence the undertaking. Accordingly several propositions were agreed to and sanctioned by Earl Grey, who transmitted them to the colony. The Legislative Council, however, de clined to entertain them, and they sent back counter ter-propositions, which were so different from those originally suggested, that the directors determined at once to reject them, and proceed no further with the undertaking. The directors were desirous, however, that the shareholders should understand that this determination had no reference whatever to the state of money affairs in the country at the present time. They had been guided solely by a desire to proceed with the undertaking if they considered it likely to prove profitable to the shareholders, and to abandon it if it would not. The reasons why they considered it not advisable to proceed had been com municated to Earl Grey, and his Lordship had con. curred in that resolution. The directors, therefore, recommended that the money which remained in hand, after allowing sufficient to discharge all lia bilities, should be divided among the shareholders ; that 20s. per share should be returned at once, and that the directors should undertake to discharge al liabilities with the balance remaining in their pos session. A SHAREHOLDER observed that the actual loss to the company would then be about 12,2001. The CHAIRMAN replied that it would. Mr. INNES suggested that the plans prepared by the company, which were of great value, should be preserved, in order that they might be disposed of when an opportunity occurred, and the proceeds returned to the shareholders. A SHAREHOLDER thought it would be advisable to return 11. per share at once, and not dissolve the com- pany, but leave it in abeyance. In that case they might receive a more advantageous offer from the colony, and be enabled to make use of the plans. The CHAIRMAN said the directors would not take upon themselves that responsibility unless they re tained all the money now in their hands. Besides, there was no prospect at present of the Colonial Legis lature consenting to their terms, and to show the apathy of parties at Trinidad he might state that not one landed proprietor held a single share in the company. After some further conversation, resolutions to the following effect were unanimously passed :—" That the company be forthwith, and is hereby declared to be dissolved.—That out of the sum of 685,185/. in the hands of the directors, and 12,0001. in Exche quer-bills, the balance of the receipts and payments, 11. per share be returned to the shareholders, on sur rendering the scrip, and releasing the company of all claims and demands whatsoever.—That the balance remaining after such payments be retained by the committee to defray the expense of winding up the company, and the payment of expenses, and . that the plans and the sur pl us b e di spose d o f i n such a way as the committee shall think fit. A vote of thanks was passed to the Chairman a directors, and the meeting separated. LONDON DERRY 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 usgal preliminaries having been gone through, The SECRETARY read the report, which was re ceived, adopted, and agreed to ; after which, the fol lowing resolution 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 ir. 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. MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS , NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, OCT. 16, 1847. 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 ... ..• ... 224 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels ... 24 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion... ... Diseases of the Kidney s, &c. Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. Diseases of the Joints, Bunes, and Muscles Diseases of the Skin, &c. Old Age, or Natural Decay ... . 46 Deaths by Violence , Privation, or Intemperance 14 Causes not specified DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES ... 21 ••• 9 953 Population Average weekly Deaths Enumerated, Deaths, 1842-6. in the 1841. Five Summers. Week. West Districts... 301,326 . • 137 ... 136 North Districts.. 376,396 ... 175 ... 163 Central Districts 374,759 ... 173 ... 173 East Districts ... 393,247 ... 212 ... 216 South Districts .. 502,483 ... 244 ... 259 Totals... ..... 1,948,211 _ _ ... 953 ... 471 ... 482 NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, WEDNESDAY. - The Birkenhead iron steam-frigate, Commander Ingrain, is having the damages caused by her collision with the brig Ho ratio repaired in dock. She seems to have bad 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 dockyard, has received orders or permission to proceed with his new sloop the Plumper in this yard. The Amphion, screw, 36, Captain Williams ; the Arab, 12, Commander Morris ; and the Recruit, iron, 12, Commander Slade, await orders at Spithead as to their future movements, as does the Nautilus, 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 Back 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 Dcvonport. 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 Paella, Captain Olive, arrived here at 10 A. M. this day, from Italy ; she left Naples, Oct. 4 ; Ci vita Vecchia, sth ; Leghorn, 6th ; Genoa, 9th ; and Gibraltar, 14th. The 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 Erg 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 Washington, 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 year. A Samaritan fund 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 COUNTT COURTS.—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 600/. 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 OF YZOMANRY.—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.—ShortIy 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 the 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 Uttoxeter. 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, Pensuett, 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 'I homas 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 ; but at the present day there is an improvement in public mariners. On the first day the pleasures of the fair were nearly suspended by showers of rain. Tuesday and yesterday being re markably fine, a d ea l of company carne from Lon don, and partook o f t h e prepared f or them. There w as an agreeable display of rural amuse ments, flowers, and sports of all kinds. The fair was more interesting this October than it has been for some years pot. BIRTHS IN THE WEEK. Males Females Total . ••• 620 ••• 634 ... 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 their during the year 1846 , and as a permanent record of 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 himself by great firmness in support of 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. Whetharo, 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 steady ap plication of his talents to the advantage of his fellow citizens, and the di s i n t ereste d v i ews wh i ch he took of all to a public questions. Ab out f orty gentlemen sat down done dinner, which was s erve d up i n t h e fi nest sty l e , and justice W in a spirit as honest and sincere. TO THE LANDED PROPRIETOR S OF THE SOUTH OF IRELAND. MY LORDS AND GEN TLEMEN,—It is vain to hope that any attempt to regenerate the country can be made, with the least hope o f success , until you detach the labourers from all identification with the " Rock system," which, devised by the farmers for their own exclusive benefit, owes its efficacy entirely .to the ad hesion of the labourers, for that adhesion bands the whole people together to countenance and screen the assassin, and thus give that impunity to crime which is its most terrible characteristic. Affection forms ne part of the tie which binds the labourer to the farmer; on the contrary, the ruthless oppression exercised by the former is repaid by the bitterest hatred, but every labourer was, as a con-acre, and is, as a cabin tenant, dependent entirely for his wretched possession upon some frieze -coated fanner. The labourer's hut is identified with the farmer's holding, you cannot displace one defaulting tenant but you must render houseless all his dependents, it may be scores in number ; hence it is that man, woman, and child are leagued together to oppose any and every exercise of the landlords' righ . s. There is not located upon vast s your estates a ingle individual of th e l a b our i ng class who holds directly from yourselves, except the few who may be in your own employment, of the millions who are located upon your properties--there is not one who does not hold from your immediate tenants. Is the adhesion of the labourer to the farmer, then, to be wondered at ? You have sacrificed thousands of pounds to propitiate the farmers—have you even in part succeeded ? Let Delycross give the answer. So long as a single cottier upon your estates holds his miserable cabin from any band but your own, so long you have a soldier ui " the ttockite" force subsidized by your own property to fight against yourself. A tenth of the sacrifices you have made, and made in vain, for the farmers, would have released the labourers, emphatically the people, from the bondage of an unholy alliance with their oppressors. You now know that upon you alone is thrown the burden of feeding the people. The occupiers will give you no aid. From this moment until next spring there is not a frieze-coated farmer in the south of Ireland who -will expend one shilling upon employment f or th e peop l e ; t h e " do-nothing ' system of the farmer shuts up the land in his hands from contributing in the least to the general labour fund, and a burden which might be easily borne, if borne equally by all, is rendered intolerable when thrown entirely upon you; you have not means of giving full employment, for the land in your own hand is quite inadequate to the purpose, but you must find food for the people, and the question most urgently requiring your instant consideration is, how to provide th a t f oo d i n the cheapest manner—shall you employ the inhabitants of other lands to raise food fur your people when you may with great advantage employ them to raise food for themselves ? Tbe con-acre system was fruitful in mischief, for it inevitably enlisted the labourerer under the banners of Jack Rock, but it employed the otherwise waste labour of the people to raise food for themselves, thus affording at the cheapest rate the two things most needful—food and employment, and the best til lage on the smaller farms in the south of Ireland was owing to the con-acre spade. A substitute for the con-acre system, possessing its advantages and avoiding its evils, might easily be devised if your at tention could be earnestly drawn to the subject, but before you are competent to form a sound judgment you must get rid of that infatuation which leads you to shudder at recognising the right of the people to any location in the land, and induces you to think that the prosperity of Ireland can only be accom plished by its depopulation. Abandon the hope of carrying out an improved system of cultivation through the farmers, but try what can be accom plished by the agency of the labourers employed upon small model farms (not exceeding, I should say, two acres each) ; you may then see what may be accom plished by the now idle con acre spade, and you will have established a system which will afford at once increased production and increased employment, and you will be in a condition to coerce your " do. nothing " tenants by adopting it to take a fair share of the public burthen ; they will resist no doubt, but they will resist in vain. Backed by the hard working labourer, you will be more than a snatch for "Captain Rock." There is undoubtedly much difficulty in employing the Irish labourer to advan tage, he is unfortunately not disposed to "give a fair day's work for a fair day's wages," and he is totally unfit to be entrusted with the ownership of the smallest allotment of land ; but let him be employed under your directions merely to cultivate the land, without having any ownership in it, let the crop be his own after deducting a fair rent for the land, and. the value of the seed and manure furnished to himb you, you will then find that an acre of land so culti vated will, besides yielding a fair rent, leave a sur plus of production sufficient to take the cultivator from off the relief list of next year, besides giving him employment for three months at least of his waste time.—l have the honour to be, my Lords and Gentlemen, your obedient servant, S. MURDER 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 GraYei,eud. The following particulars may be relied upon : It appears that a man named William ikon, who f.r some years past has re,ided and been well known in Gravesend, as a collector of marine stores, and whose place of business was in New-court, West street, Gravesend, near the Old Town Pier, for the last few days had been quarrelling with his wife, to whom he had been married but a short time. The quarrel, it appears, commenced on Monday morning last, when, after abusing his wife for some hours, 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 words 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 imme diately fell down, exclaiming " I am a murdered woman." In the mean time the noise from the house 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 go in, when the poor creature was found lying on the floor, with the blood flowing copiously from a wound in her head. M e di ca l ass i s t ance was immediately sent for, and two surgeons promptly attended and endea voured to restore animation, but without effect, as she had breathed her last. The prisoner was then appre-. d conveyed to the lock-u p . h h o e u n s d e ed at by the th T e o P AVnic-he2 an. Mr. Cobden, M.P., made his first public visit, since his return, on Tuesday, to the chief scene of his past labours in the free trade cause—the League-rooms, 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 foi Blackburn; James Heywood, Esq., the new Member for North Lancashire; and T. Bazley, 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 Riding of York shire, though at present no public announcement may be made of the fact. MR. BRITTON'S EDITION OF AUBREY'S MS. ON WILTS.—Mr. Britton has worked hard for the Wiltshire Topographical Society, but has not been fully seconded by his brother great members, an h and through t e h ty a t hcircumstance rt joined perhaps, y pabin measure, the inhabitants of the county, who must, surely all feel interested in its success, in such numbers as are required and might have been expected. In his very valuable and interesting "Memoir of John Aubrey,* printed by the society 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. Pou lett Scrope, M.P., a member of the society, and who has in hand for it a " History of Castle Combe," now nearly completed, proposed that this MS., or the most ins• portant portions of it, should be printed by 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 information useful or interesting in itself, and adding to these his own notes, has produc e d a va l uable volume. He has done much to raise John Aubrey—" Magotie- headed" Julie Aubril, as Anthony it Wood wrongly terms him—in the r estimation of discriminating critics.—Builder. HOLLAND PARK FOOTWAY.—The following letter has been received 1y the Secretary of the West London Central Anti-Enclare 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 . unableto enter into your v i ews respect i ng the deviation of the foot-path by L or d Hollanu's P ar k. M uc h asl et r ul egre t the loss of th e wa lk b e f ore hi s Lordship's hous ic e k y will ere be is no de n yi ng o f th e public advantagedir which upon the gained by opening the f oo t-p at h feeling wishes, con venience. andE erl's- courtesy court require - rrd, an us d I t ( t ) h c i o n n k s t h lrt a t: neighbourly 7'llea we g at theesam o e u time, he o ff e rs a g also to bear in mind that th e beauty and advantages ht of the path ' itsoirndre Holland's atepr public resent direo• lion at any d e pends upon time Ia oyiabne t d h is e mh prospect dldedfeby yi b eadi disposed pe on k sc e ee p d, t os o or p e t bo n y , e nb vr tet h ii a ds s h . ings, if Lord o property.--Yours, &c., JoRN PER e , i vonstur or E DINESURGH.----Mr, n to retain the office of chief istiaii rr Black makea, il l -a s 10, use consented t R o . np l i S e of ." pt h PRO " d a o trate for another year. 0 54 A 90'