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- there . as diri GLI e. h yoloP; i t 0 1 1 a Pe! ary . IV Dein r ed, i s b lur j o g I Tor/ Wit h h . go c c ots, „ 'so I " 0 rdk le t rif! • w - rpOth er e and t 11; ex h err'i e for A d o o tsl'e .e. 3 1411' 11 , 4 t1 011 - g e s• rgaii's s ott l 9 . , the lw- na , ,clicai 0 0 1 f sud .ire cie 10 f ir r sea v 7O l - 0 eatir e 011 DO . 01 13 1"' re he re t 1 froz e cliv.% sb _____.,„ ...... ............ interest of its incidents and the spaikie of its stye bY " Truth and Falsehood." Mrs. Thornton has no ambi tion_ in this book to acquire either the sickly fame of a preposterous notoriety depictor of fashionable life as it is now-a- days, nor the y struggled for by the cultivators 0_ " 6 "virtuous indignation" line. The three volumes sre pure romance, and the tale is situated in the attest atozinante. ?, 1111 d for the romantic, the laud of Gil Blas and crime, Spanish scenery, Spanish character, Spanish and Spanish passion, are among the most appro priate a dj uncts of the romantic, whether it relate to love or to adventure ; and these adjuncts Mrs. Thornton has Most skilfully employed. IrIVIG ErS MONTHLY VOLUME. No. Xl. Rambles e. by Rivers: The Thames. Vol. I. By James Thorn Another pleasant series is here commenced , a nd a 8e rtes Which i s calculated to diversify the character of the • general publication. After rambling in imagination gown the biographical course of some rem•irkable per :Page, or alon g the broad stream of the eve nts record' d _ country, it is agreeable enough to follow the track ?. 1- our beautiful island-rivers. Among them, of course, the Thames --cld Father Thames—the silent Highway , —j a paramount. A n d F a th e r Thames is accordnigly int selected f or d escr i pt i on by Mr. Thorne, With a Va riety of clev er woo d cu t s , b eg i nn ing with the source of th• e river at the Seven Springs near Cheltenham, and ter uating with a representation of Windsor Castle, the litt• le volume presents a most attractive appoarance. It is rendered instructive by a multiplicity of historical and antiquarian facts elicited by the associations of the different venerable localities traversed by the monarch of English rivers. .NIGHT'S WEEKLY VoLUMES, No. CXIV. Canterbury Tales f r om Chaucer, Vol. H. By John B stenders. Charles has been recently and justly remarked by Mr. I'llarles Knight that Mr. John Ssunders has conferred tgreat boon upon the future students of old Geoffi e y ?slicer by the composition of these volumes. A greater Z ° °n We regard it than the " Tales from Shak s p -re " b y Charles Lamb and his congenial sister ; for whereas the latter are only suited to the innoc-nt taste.; of children. the former have a vigour and boldness about them most. suitable to the theme, and such as must impart the fullest Vessure to the h e arts of the &dull lovers of true poesy. 11 ,• stories are daintily told, partially in prose an d par 'l2 in quotations, giving us the very marrow and cor e e ESSAYS ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND THEIR POLITICAL GUARAA TEES. By E. P. Hurlbut. An American writer, but especially an American political writer, never had a more flattering introduction to the readers of Great Britain than the one here afforded to Mr. riurlbut by the brief but suggestive pre face of George Combe. The simplo announcement, "A Preface and Notes by George Combe," was a thing pre cisely calculated to attract the attention of the very many thousands of admirers of that philosophic and argumen tative mind. Mr. Hurlbut, therefore, comes befbre as with the prestige, of bei ,, g a friend of George Combe, and as such we welcomed him cordially ; - and the more so, let it h.? said, from finding, on inspection, that neither the manner nor the thoughts of this E. P. Hurlbut are unworthy of one who has communed with George Combs. As the annotator observes in his introductory remarks, " the aim of the Work is to determine the foundation and objects of Go vernment, and the powers with which the Legislature and the executive should be invested, to enable them to perform their functions to the best advantage to the °rate." The object of the work is, in other words, a c omprehensive inquiry into the problems, " Whence Comes Government ?" and " How shall we ensure good Government ?"—problems of unutterable importance. The author treats both queries with the skill of a prac tised " counsellor at law" (which he is, in New York), and his essays are printed of the Corm and at the price oi the popular edition of the "Constitution of Man." Alto tether it forms a sort of sequel to the "Constitution of Man," seeing that it relates to the "Constitution of So c'ety," society being, as it were, the noun multiple to the Word man, PA RLIAMENT ARY BUSINES& ‘ ll roln the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Conunons. ) FRIDAY, APRIL 16. N OTICES GIVEN AT THE PKIVATE BILL-OFFICE. _The Select C ommi ttees on Groups Nos. 7, 25, 31, 41.42. 11, and 49, will be selected from Panel No. 4, which will be 1 attendance during the week commencing Monday, .gay 3. PANEL No. IV. Mr. Ackers Mr. Leslie Sir T. D. Acland air. T. Mainwaring Viscount Alford Mr. Marshall Mr. Brainston Sir Charles Morgan Mr. Broadwood Mr. Morris Mr. C. Bruce Mr. Blunts Mr. Burroughes Colonel lure Bon. S. Carnegie Mr. Joseph Neeld Mr. Christi e Viscount Newport Lord A. Churchill Mr. Mark Philips Viscount Clive Sir R. Pigot Sir T. E. Colebrook. Hon. C. F. Ponsonby Colonel Connolly Mr. Protherne Mr. Cripps Lord Charles Russell Mr. Curteis Colonel Reid Mr. Dashwood Mr. Reptun Mr. S. Davies Lord Seymour Mr. Divett Right lion. F. Shaw Sir John Duckworth Hon. F. To llemache Vis e -.. °our Deucaunon Mr. Tomlin. Lur. Milani Gabkill Sir John frollope Lord It. Grosvenor Sir F. Trounrutge Lord C. Hamilton Mr. Tumor Mr. Horsrnan Hots. T. Vesey Lord Hotham Mr. Weihv Hon. E. Labcelles Lord C. Welierley Sir Charles Lemon Mr. C. Wyndham Lord Charles Lennox Mr. Redhead lorke. RAILWAI S. Select ConiEiTtTeeo; Group No. 5. Mr. Trail! discharged U. (1.4 e selected, and added to the Committee. Select Committee on Group No. 28. Mr. Aglionby discharged; Mr. T. D. Aciail seketed, aid appointed Chairman of the Couttuittee. Select Committee on Group No. 51. Mr. Hutt discharged; Mr. John tonetnache selected, and added to the Committee. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS. (From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Coinnon..) FRIDAY, APRIL 16. LANDED PROPERTY (IRELAND) BILL. ead a third time; Clause added; Amendment proposed, t r ,..egs 6, line 13, after the word •' stone,,," at the end or the ust, to add the words " erecting and makin g Corn Alias, w t a vith the necessary buildings and wa t e rcourses for the use of the ol:tars, Mlle, or otherwise, in the opini on of the said Commis a • permanently improving Lands in Ireland :"—Ques tion Put," That the proposed words be there added." Toe house divided : . _. lAiricixcidaijic.:tai— • MINORITY—. AYES, 351;wdegatc, C. N. it Ar ueen k : w est ri to f rd h r t h , Fitzmaurice, W. Newry, Viscount lli ti P p eor s gs Gore, Montague O'Connell, M. J. Granby, Marquis of Pollington, Viscount u sht inolt, Lord G. Grogan, E. !town, O. W. , Major Halsey, T. P. Verner, Sir W. C rooke. Lord Chichester, Hill, Lord E. Worcester, Marquis chester, Lord J. M'Carthy, Alexander Ch ristopher ' It Lawless, Cecil TELLERS. CUTS, Vise R. yy C . Manners, Lord J. Ra wdon, Colonel son, T. V. March, Earl of igk, Q. Crawford, W. S. Maxwell, Hon. J. P. MAJORITY—NOES, 100. Acland, T. D. Fielden, John Mergan, 0. Adderley, C. B. Forster, Mathew Murpeth, viscount fin, Colonel Frewen, C. ii. Morris, David Arnndel, Earl of Gibson, Thomas lit. Napier, Sir Charles Austen. Colonel Gill, Thomas Nichol!, J. Milne, Walter Gisborne, Thomas O'Cotior, Don Bannerman, A. Gladstone, J. N. Ogle, S. C. Baring, F. T. Gore, W. R. 0. Paliner,'ltobert `lteson. Thomas Gore, Robert Parker, Julia Bellew, R. M. Goulburn Henry Pertect, Robert Il erkeley, Craven Greene, Thomas Poasonby, C. 1. Berkeley, Captain Grey, Sir G. Rice, E. R. Berkeley, U. Grosvenor. Lord B. Rich, Henry Blackburne, J. I. Hall, Sir Benjamin Itumbold, C. E. Bodkin, .t. J. Hamilton, W. J. Russell, Lord J. Bouverie, E. P. Bonnier, Sir John Rutherford, A. Broadley. Henry Hustle, Archibald Seymer, Henry Keg Brotherton, Joseph Hawes, tied). Seymour, Lord Busleild, William Hay, Sir A. L. Shed, R. L. Cardwell, Edward Henley. J. W. Smith, Vernon Colebrooko, Sir T. 'Lindley, C. Somerville, Sir W. Cowper, W. P. llobhouse. Sir J. Stanley, W. 0. Craig, W. G. lictwitrd, P. 11. Sutton. Henry Davies, D. A. James, Sir W. C. Talbot, C. R. Deed..., W. Jervis. Sir John Thorneiy, T. Dickinson. F. A. Jones, Captain Turner, Edmund Douglas. Sir C. B. Labotiehere, Henry - Vivian, J. H. Duckworth, Sir J. Langston. J. IL 11' a d. H. G. DIMCI3I, Lord Le Merchant, Sir D. Wawii, J T. Liaises, Aetuiral Lindsay. Colonel Wyse, Thomas Dundas, F. Linds ay. Col N. Dundas, David x`Neill, Duncan TE.LLBILS. East, J. B. Maitland, T. Tufnell, II Ebrington, Viscount blank, lox Dill, Lard Marcus Evans, William Mo' ahan, J. 11. Amendment proposed, press 6, hue 13, after the word " stunes," at the end of the-Clause, to add the wont -or erecting substantial farmhouses or buildings :" Question Put," That the proposed words be there added." 'lnv House divided MINORITY—AYES, 30. Aillx, J. P. Deeded, W. M`Carthy, Alex. Archdall, Captain Dick, Q. Manners, Lord J. Arkwright, ti. Douglas, Sir C. March, Earl of Austen, Colonel Fitzuniuriee, W. Newry, Viscount Bennet, P. French, F. Itawdon, Colotael Bentinck, Lord G. Frewen, C. LI. Repton, G. W. J. Brooke, Lord Gordon, Hon. Capt. Verner, Sir W. Chichester, Lord J. Gore, Montague Worcester, Marquis Christopher, K. A. Granby, Marquis cot TtiLLL.b. Clive, Viscount tialsey. T.: P. Berestord, .‘lajor Hill, Lord E. Newdegate, N. above re.rend übjeCt nce of - 1 - ti the r el fore w be an a'• in an _ ressive every ;lie la p pOSi" it E du" Crawford, W. MAJORITY —NOES. 86. Acland T. D. Gibson, T. M Morris, David Adderley, C. B. Gill, Tnomas Napier, Sir C. Anson, Colonel Gisbome, Thomas N iclioll, John Arundel. Earl of _ Gladstone, Captain O'Connell, M. J. Bain% Walter (lore, Itobvrt O'Conor, Dun Bannerman, A. Ottilburn, Henry Ogle, S. C. Baring, F. T. Greene, Thomas Parker, John Bellew, N. M. Grey, Sir G. Perfect, itab.rt Berkeley, Craven Grosvenor, Lord R. toosontiy, C. F. Berkeley, Captain Hall, sir IL Rice, E. it. Berkeley, H. F. . Ils.milion, W. J. Rich, Henry Blackburn., J. I. Hamner, Sit J. numb Id, C. E. Bodkin, J. J. Hustle, Archibald Rutlierfurl, A. Bouverie, E. P. Hawes, Benjamin Seymer, 11. K. Bowring, Dr. Hay , S ir A. Seymour, Lord Brotherton, Joseph Henley, J. W. Shell, R. L. BUsfeild, W. Hindle), Charles S hel l , R. V. Cardwell, Edward Robhouse, Sir John Somerville, Sir W. Colebrook% Sir T. Howard, P. IL Stasaey. W. 0. Cowper, W. F. James, Sir W. it ansfleld, W. R. C. Craig, W. G ; Jervis, Sir John Talbot, Dickinson, F. H. Labou,chere, Henry Thorne'''. T. Duckworth, Sir J. . Langston, J. HTurner, Edmund Duncan, Viscount Le Marchant, Sir D. Vivian, J. H. blinds', Admiral Lindsay , Colo nel Ward, H. G. Dundas, F. M'Donnell, J. M. Wawn, J. T. Dundas, Sir David Maitland, Thomas Ebriugroo, L or d Maule, Fox TELLERS. Evan', William Monahan, J. H. Tuftiell, Relay Forster, Matthew Morpeth, Viscount Hill, Lord Marcus BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, APRIL 16.—The market continues exceedingly dull, and although importers here show a diiposition to meet the buyers by a further con cession, in prices, it has not led to business of moment, The assortment of West India sugar is very indifferent, V-rticularly of anything suitable for scale purposes.- 450 - 4 so Merctoy. 11 14 . t.4' " ;:;•;; :;"- STATE OF TRADE. - FOREIGN WOOL, LEEDS, APRIL 16.—We have no vs riation to rt.port in the foreign wool trade from our last. The accounts from Austria and Prussia continue to ad vise of large contracts being made for English and con tinental houses, at an advance of 2d. to 3d. per lb. on last fair's prices. The Netherland manufacturers, and French and Saxon cowbers have almost entirely cleared the German markets of useful wools. ENGLISH WOOL, LEEDS, APRIL 16.—The demand for combing and clothing wool this week has not varied; it continues languid, and prices without any material al teration. Down combing wools are not plentiful, and go off more freely than the deeper grown kinds. WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, APRIL ls.—We are still without alteration in our trade; no doubt the late strin gent measures of the Bank of England have caused us to have less doing than otherwise we might have had. Wethers are fiat, and the stocks of them at market be• ing large, prices are barely maintained. In hogs, though we have not a large demand, it is quite equal to the supply, and stocks are decreasing. so that it our supple does not increase, which is not likely . before clip, the price of them must imnrove a little, tat the censumptioe be dr.ven on wethers; the latter is more likely, as we believe the *pullers are carrying on en wireinueerative business. LEEDS.—We have had very quiet markets at the Cloth Halls on Saturday and Tuesday. Tbero . was rather more dime in fine goods. but . n lo w qualities there was considerably less sold tl m for smile weeks past. The advance ot the rate of dtscount by the Bark of Eog ;and has the effeet of stopping speculation, and induces great caution on the part of the merchants. The cold fleas ot the seeson causes the spring trade to be dull, and few buyers having made their appearaice in the town, the business in the warehouses has been less than au average as compared av , th the sales of the last few weeks. BRADFORD. APRIL 15.—The demand for wool is slug gish. The spinners buy with great caution and for pre sent use, as ta , ey expect that, when :hit new clip comes into the market, the article will be at an easier tit ice. There is a eteady improvement in the yarn market, so tar as dotnand is concerned but prices are still on an un profitable scale. The Russian houses are busy, a: , d ate expnrting large quantities of yarn In ..he pieite rnarset 'sere was an aver.ge bus'ness done in dress goods. Ms.reens and , tiier heavy goods are dull of sale. MANCHESTER, THURSDAY.—We have had as gloomy a week in our cloth and yarn markets as can wed be conceived. In the face of a continued ads ance en the staple, no higher rates are submitted to. The impossi - Witty of di,counting India bills added greatly to toe dull 'less, otherwise a large hte.iness would be done to the East. The orders from America are conshkrablo. IMPROVEMENT in LOCOMOTION. An invention has ju.:t been projected by Mr. E. Gallo way, which promises to supply a n3ost serious deside ratum in the present construction of locomotive engines, and to exercise a very important influence on the pro gress of locomotion generally. It has long been ac kiniw thel,alg ai y e r dt lw ha a t one of the greatest difficu lties with which steam-engine had to contend was that of acquiring a bite upon the rails superior to that supplied by gravitation. The am cunt of n ipping or biting power derived from that principle by the vertieal calving-wheel now in use has been found quite insuffi cient in foggy weather, when the rails are in a greasy state from the moisture upon them, and upon inclines with severe gradients. Under such circumstances the driving-wheel slips and the engine makes little or no progress. :tit.. G.Aloway's invention is principally in tended to overcome this difficulty in working the present comotive engine, and from the experiments made the other day, first with a working model at the western gallery of Hangerford-market, and afterwards on the Great Western Railway, at Maidenhead, there appears to be very little doubt as to its complete success. The invention consists in adding two drivng-wheels, hori zontal or inclined, to the present locomotive; these wheels acting on each side of a middle rail laid between the ordinary rails, and being pleased simultaneously against the opposite sides of the rail by means of ad justing screws acting upon springs with any required degree of force. By such an ariangertient it is manifest that a bite or adhesion may ba obtained far beyond what is due to the weight of the engine, and that thereby the difficulties may be obviated which at pre sent arise from greasy rail. and heavy gradients. Mr. Galloway contemplates the application of his inventton to engines as at present cenbtructed with vertical driving•wheels, and expresses his conviction that such combination will not lie found incetisi-tent with high velocity. Ili the meantime, however, he has, we think, prudently coillitied himself to demonstrieing the Ftfi c•ency of the horizontal driving-whe , ls, unaided by vertical driving-wheels, in overcoming steep inclines. At Hungerford-tuarket, the working model with hori , zoiital driving-wheels went with great ease up an in cline of 1 in 6, and the following ,tatement, drawn up by Mr. Gooch, locomotive superintendent of the Great. Western Railway, with reference to experiments made on a previous dry, apply equally to the results of those made at Maidenhead:— " The following is the result of the experiment I made with Mr. Galloway's locomotive engine, in which the driving wheels are placed horizontally, and act again ,t the sides of a centre rail:— Weight of engines Ditto of load 33i " Tnis weight was taken at a 4.)w lip an in cline 1 111 19, witn a pro ,, LICO Oit boil-r 6thi. the hien. titti calculating the rner of the engirt , and actual duty pertorrae I, NV,` h ore W. f.! ,ream ni the Kotler, tit' , Avorage t•tt •clive pres. nine in they aftor ii,ducting back ii,eNsure. be about 501 b. the inch, Caen the Area of the to• i.lind,rs 308 >1 50=15,10 1 1ib, and double stroly, I) }Aston ..qua 32 inches, and eireander , nee of driving wheel 116 inches. Th, rehire, as 116 inenes : 15,400 32 : 4.248 tractive p..er ootiteriro of the wtie.:l. A arkvlty rr ton 1 in 19=-11816. Friction ditto 710. 125 ;433 5 twis=- - 4,18711 , . ance ov reome. " Therefore, 4,245--4,187=6116, the total loss from he Iriciion of the w• ,rking parts of the riigiike, which 1 think is as smad a loss as can be hoped for in any cla„ of engines. And from the of appl:,ing screw, increa:e the weight on the driving-wheels to any re• quire.' amount, theme is no intfiitulty from slipping. " DANIEL VOUCH. " In explanation of the preceding, ILI, necessary to state that the tormer diameter of the driving-wheeis of the experimental engine was eight feet, and the horizantal ones are three feet. The tractive Riwer of the engine before alteration was about 1,60010. The itwrease of tractive force, therefore, is as 4,1.871 b. : 1,6001 b." It is also only fair to explain tint the experiment was mada with " Bacchus," the oldest engiiie iii the coat pany's possession. arid long ago worn ou' and disused. The leadidg, ativalitages claimed by Mr. Galloway tor his invention are, that the adhesive power being inde pendent Of grAvity can be a justed accoreling to the gra. dient or load. ..4 hale the train is in mothin ; tleat by ap plying- a brake at once to the middle rail, the train in deseending any gradient may be retarded independently of the wheels. and also the risk of c..ilisiotis lie a void.-a that sharp curves may be traversed almost as easily and quite as sat*: ly as straight line, ; that punctuality on railways will thereby he better stkcured, and The neces sity for tunnelling. heavy cuttings, and embankmenta tt. a great deg' - ee e , bviated. Whether all or any of the - . e advanlaees will be se• cured try Mr nallowav's invent: U. it mint ',Amite. for a course of detailed praeticut exp rim , ,nts to decije; butt in the meantime the cre-dtt of a very ingenious, a very simple. and, to all appearances, it very practicanh e,intrivatice, cannot be denied tin him, The difficulties which he claims to have overetriie h eve. for any ye,i,r , ° coupled the 7irentian and eluded the ingoluity of ,n -gin e , s. S ime ti ma ago the notion of a i,titre rail :,tai a horizontal dial/jug-wheel was projected by Nlt. V q 4- tiolles ant Mr. Errixon, bn , as they oily terouneet ep plying it t,ri the ..ne side of the rail, they were wn.,,tiii cessful. Mechanical contrivances of a similar character have sine. , ',peen iittetnyed troth in Vits e ,, untry an I abroad, out •he) havei always turned out to he tailni.e.i., and if Mr. Galloway's invention earn be tiori,bincil with the pre , 4,ent. consti uct ion of the locomotise. ~,i as to fulfil his ear= ctations in recard to'it, the only wonder will be how for 'vv.:lv%, of 16 years so ready simple an expe dient for oliviatine: admitted difficulties Ctitild have es caped ut ali,,covered. - Mr. Galloway states, that he can secure on the narrow gang", horizontal or inclined, driving wheels of six feet diameter, and on the broad gauge eigh: feet, so us ti act in conjunction with the ver tick drivic,r, a heel:. lle state, too, that this is practi catila a: i. vefry moderate expense. ARRIVAL OF MADLLE. JENT. , Y LIND —This cele grays{ iniigstit.,s arrived in Saturday aliernom accoinp:iiik , t t'ltle came by he General Ste,:to Company's steam-::hip Sir Edward Banks, that left Ostend in the morning. In the evening she was present at the performance of the opera at her Majesty's Theatre, and occupied a box on the first tier. The Swedish nightingale is a lady of kindly countenance, fair hair, and fresh complexion ; her eves are soft and mild, and the ex pression of her five is intelligent and ingenuous. The Italians have a phrase. eai,'n sciolto, to indicate the combination m in tellect and truthfulness which i 4 maoifested in her features; and the Gmnans generally term it fre4adhelt. Neither words hay.. a literal meaning ie English, as applied inhuman expression; but ability and candour are their synonyms in our tongue. Jenny Lind is of the middle - height, well firmed, and of some seven or eitzlit der years of age— as far as appearances can beercdited der aspect is pleating; her most prominent character seems to ha mode-ty. In her deportment she has the air anti bearing of a pertect Lady; that, is to say, she is calm, quiet, and perfectly to,lf-pesiessed in manner and address, with that "most excellent thing hi woman"—a voice soft, low, and sweet. It is behaved that she will make her debut in about a fortnight. RAILWAY IN AUSTRALIA.--The woolen railway at Port Arthur is thus descrined in the f :Molly Adver tiser :—" This railway, or rather tramway. is termed from the hard wood of the country, and passes over a spice 0;f five miles, thereby affording a rapid and easy -means of transit between the heads a Norolk and Long Bays, the latter of which leads directly to lion Arthur. this traur.vay, the projection of Capt. Booth, has proved to bus work of ;he utmost utility'; shortening the distance betwixt Hobart Town and P, , rt Arthur, and ensuring a rapid and certain communication at times when the long sea-passage might be impracticabhe Lilt , i many men of • superior intellect, it was the fortune of Captain Booth to encounter the sneer of the common herd, who, in their narrowmindedness, predicted - nought but failure to his enterprise. Nothing daunted, and possessing the confidence of the Gnv'rnor, Captain BoothJoileri on till they that came to , jeer went back to - admire. No horse, no ox, no fixed or Licomotive engine ' traverses its course, or assists i n th e wor k o f co nvex arise; the waggons are propelled by gencjally allotted to do the worfkek'oifise—aethhrweaeu.g7ntwbehiinegh is capshle of conveying half a ton of goods at each Lean sit. Upon emergency, the same .three journeys end back, thirty miles g slay, have made their thus Ilea toe per man either way. 41 "aveYieg THE SITN, LONDON, MONDAY MORNING, APRIL 19, 1847. ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE AMERICAN AFFAIR S THE HOUSES of PARLIAMENT. The following estimates r« quired for the year ending March 31, 1848, are extracted from the estimates of Public Works and Buildings, issued on S iturday, by order of the Muse of Comrno-s:— THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT. NEW YORK, MAacirt 31.—Although it is nearly two years before .he Presidential election takes place, yet the campaign has fairly opened. The Charleston (South Carolina) Courier has commenced a defence of Mr. Cal houn. and assails in no measured terms the Washington Union and its editor. The South Carolina paper charges Mr. Ritchie with abandoning the true interests of the south, and with succumbing to northern men, with northern notions and feelings on the question of slavery. Air. Calhoun is calling (in a speech recently made) upon s outhern statesmen to organise and unite on the existing topic of slavery, which -IT conceives vital to the slave -holding population. On this ground he thinks the Presidential question should be fought. In the speech referred to he denounces a "caucus," or convention, held for the purpose of nominating a candidate for the office of President. Whatever may be said of Mr. Calhoun's views on other subjects, his remarks in relation to party conventions merit calm and serious deliberation. They never fail to exhibit a scene of low intrigue, and some times the most profl gate and audacious corruption. I regret to add, there charges are not i xclusively confined to one political party. The Union, Mr. Pelk's mouthpieces, replies to this assault with great bitterness. He insists urinn a con vention to d,signate the candidate of the party, and is prepared to expel as an unbeliever ani a heretic the man who does not sustain and support the usages of the party, and this usage in particular. It is very generally understood awl believed that Mr. Calhoun is determined to be a candidate for the Presidency at the next el -ction. If he consents to go into the convention, he will he bound by its proceedings, and mi matter what pledges or assurances are elven to him, he and his friends will he voted down. This fact Mr. Calhoun understands. He knows he will be cheated. IN PRUSSIA. The Universal Prussian Gazette, of the 10th instant, contains the following Cabinet Order of the King, re specting the admission of the public to certain criminal examinations regulated by the law of July 17, 1846, as well as to civil processes : " I have given effect to two projects of law, presented tome along with the report of my Ministers of State of the 6th of this month, respecting the admission of the public to certain examinations regulated by the law of July 17, 1846, as well as to civil processes same to my Ministers of State, comman ding them to make them public. An estimate of the probable sum that will be required to defray the expense of providing temporary accommo dation for the Houses of Parliament, committee-rooms, offices, and temporary official residences for tie Speaker of the House of Commons and -ether offieers of the House, &c., for the year ending 31st March, 1848. Seventeen thousand seven hundred and nine pounds. For temporary approaches to the new House of Lords from the royal gallery, and from the present House of Commons ; additions and alterations at the Parliament office; a tempo rary access for Peers from the new House of Lords to the committee-rooms in the river front ; suit( s of rooms temporarily fitted up for the Private Bill-office, the offices of the Clerks of the Fees and Journals, and for the Librarian of the House of Commons. and other " FREDERICK WILLIAM. " Potsdam, April 7, 1847." 4 ` ORDINANCE RESPECTING THE ADMISSION OF THE PUBLIC TO EXAMINATIONS IN CRIMINAL MATTERS. " We, Frederick William, by the grace of God King of Prussia, &c., find ourselves induced to introduce in the examinations regulated by the law of July 17, 1846, a publicity which shall answer to the true necessities of the case, and aeclrdingly ordain, on the suggestion of our Ministers of State, repealing all statutes to a con• trary effect, as follows :- 1. Admission to the oral proceedings in the exami nations abotenatni-d shall from this time forth be per- witted to all males; all persons are, however, to be excluded who have lost the right to wear the national cock Ade, as welL as those whose exterior is of such a nature us to awaken fears for the violation of decency during the proceedings. " 2. All persons, however, who are not iaterested in the ca,.e must withdraw when the court deems this to be necessary, either on account of the public good or of morality. The court, in this respect, is to he guided by the representations of the State Prosecutor. temporary accommodations which will probably be required during the current year £lo 250 Ditto for furniture, fittings, and c ,sual removals 1,000 For the expense of furniture and fittings con tingent upon occupying the new House of Peers in the present session For the expense incurred for furniture, end in the preparation of the temporary rooms for the Private-bill, Journal, and Clerk of Fees offices, and rooms for the use of the Librarian HOUSE OF COMMONS. For the probable expense of furniture, including , the hire of chindeliers, in the levee and pub lic dining-rooms at the temporary residence of the Speaker, No. 71, Eatorksquare Ventilation, &c., under the direction of Dr. D. B. Reid. Mr. Benton entertains strong hopes and expectation:, that he nosy be selected as the candi late of the Palace. All such hopes are worse than vision ,ry. It was with the view of promoting that darlit,g olti et that he struggled so stoutly to obtain the command of the army. There are, however, so many obstacles in the way of Mr. Benton's ascending the throne, that I con sider the attempt as v6iert..r;. - , and un Northy notice. The aspirants in his own part, are numerous, while the Fend between Beaton and Calhoun is violent and uncom promising. The Whig party have made no movement as yet indi cating whom they would meter as their candidste for the office of President; hut there is no doubt a very large majority of the Whigs; would isreer Henry Clay, if he could be induced to permit his friends to use his name for that office, which is very doubtful. Mr. Clay seeks retirement, and while he enjoys the society of his family and his friends, he delights in rural pur suits, and the cultivation of a superb farm of which he is the proprietor and the occupant. having settled on it some thirty years or more, when the surrounding country was a wilderness. In a few days (the 12th of April) Mr. Clay will he seventy years old. He possesses a robust consti tution, and is in most excellent health. His friends " Given at Potsdam, April 7 1847. " FRED,ERICK WILLIAM." " ORDINANCE RESPECTING THE ADMISSION or THE PUIt- LIC IN CIVIL PROCESSES. " We, Frederick William, by the grace of God KingWe, of Prussia, &c., find ourselves induced to intr oduce into those provinces in which the ordinance of July 21. 1846, respecting civil processes is in force, a publicity which shall answer to the true necessities of th e caw., and accordingly ordain, on the suggestions of ou r Ministers of State, repealing all statutes to a contrary effect, as follows*— " 1. Adwissisn to the oral proceedings in civil pro cesses shall from this time forth be permitted to all males; all persons are however to be excluded who have lost the right to wear the national cockade, as well as those whose exterior is of such a nature as to awaken fears for the violation of decency during the proceed- For the probable expense that will be incurred for taking up hair-cloth m9.ts, &c., and clean ing dirt from under the House, and the supply of hair-cloth and mats which will be required from time to time to make good what is worn out Rents, Sm. For one year's rent of rooms to Lady-day, 1848, at the Westminster Hospital, for the deposit of papers belonging to the House of Peers For rent of house, No. 43, Parliament-street, to Feb. 2, 1848, including the cost of the dilapi dations on quitting possession.... For rent of offices, No. 11, Bridge street, taken for the sale of Parliamentary papers Rent, taxes, &c., for the temporary official resi dence of tke Speaker, No. 71, Eaton-square, for one year Allowance to the Clerk of the House of Com mons for rent of a temporary official residence Ditto to the housekeeper ings. " 2. All persons not interested in the case must with draw as soon as the court deems this to be necessary, either on account of the public good or of morality. " The public can only be exc►uded at the request of one or other of the parties when such reasons for this exclusion are adduced as the court after free considers don deems sufficient. On such occasions the court is to express its opinion by a resolution after hearing the reasons adduced by the parties or their representatives. " 3. The present ordinance does not apply to pro ceedings in suits of divorce regulated by the law of June 28, 1844. Total for the temporary accommodation of the Houses of Parliament, including rents of • premises hired for offices and official resi -17,709 dences 4 NEW HOUSES OF PARLIA MENT An estimate of the probable sum that will be required to defray the expense of the works for the year ending 31st of March, 1848, beyond what has already been pro vided for by votes of Parliamentl— One hundred and fifty thousand pounds. On further account of the carcase works of the Houses of Lords and Commons, the central hall and connecting corridors, the Victoria tower, the clock tower, the Commons resi dences, St. Stephen's hall, and the front towards Old Palace-yard, forming the public approach from Westminster Hall and St. Mar garet-street; and also on further account o' the finishings generally of the public portions of the building £68,000 On further account of the fire-proof floors, roofs, &c., and for warming and ventilating ar rangements For internal carvings, decorative painting and gilding, stained glass, ornamental floors, brass screen and nillngs; also for gas services, metal brackets, pendants. and candelabra for light ing, and for the furniture and upholstery of the House of Peers and corridors, the Victoria hall, and the public lobby, including the fit tings and decorations of the Throne, &c. in this city are making the necessary arrangements tor a large and splendid festival in honour of his birthday. There is no doubt it will be well attended, and' probably by some of our most distinguished statesmen from adja cent states. As he advances in the number of his years, the respect and esteem of his countrymen appear to grow stronger, while the asperity of party is daily be coming more subdued, losing its bitterness, so far as it applies to him. We have recently experienced a tremendous gale of wind along our seaboard. As far as we have heard, the disasters have been numerous, and we have reason to apprehend that the loss of both life and property will prove great. The exciting topics in this city are the Irish suffer ings and the Mexican war, but especially the latter. On Friday last the Government ship the Jamestown, Captain Forbes, cleared at the Boston Custom house for Cork, and sailed on Saturday. She is leaded with sup plies for the relief of the Irish sufferers by famine. About the 20th of the present month we had rumours of a great battle having been fought between Santa Anna and General Taylor, but no details. Rumours, however, were rife that the Mexicans had been repulsed with the loss of 4,000 or 5,000 men, and that General Taylor had sustained a loss of from 1,100 to 1,700 men. On the 23d the National Intelligencer published a call from Colonel Curtis, of Ohio, on the Governor of Loui siana for 10,000 volunteers, to be dispatched to the seat of war with as little delay as possible. This requisition bears date, " Camargo, March 2. 1647." and states " that all communication has for several days been cut off between Csmargo and the army above" (General Taylor's army). From the 23d of March to the present day we have had nothing but the most contradictory reports and ru mourn, without on• line that can be considered official. et - that can be relied on. On the 26th of March the Intelligencer received, via New Orleans, advices from Mexico to the 27th of Fe bruary; they announce a revolution in the city ot Mexico. Gomsz Ferias has been denounced, and Sales chosen in his stead. Santa Anna, according to the ac ecunts, retains his power and influence. The ladli gencer publishes a letter from New Orleans, from which the following is extracted:— . We have two drys later from Brazos, but nothing I -.ter from the army—nothing further, iroin the enemy ing near to Matameras, which is cowed. red safe:* We have to IN port, via Tampico, of a settle, and that Santa Anne win repulsed The report a without any jus; feuteletien. Every one is on tiptoe 'er itrther mimes. God send they may b, fevoureble." you ehould rec-ise a .1 •z n letters, you will pre ted;ey receive a doz n different ruin ors and opinions. I will give you mine in as few words a, possible. 1 be 1k ve there has been hard fighting, with great slaughter en both side. The MeNierins, however, are much the .zreatest sufferers. In my opinion, their force was as ie,st double, perhaps three times the number of Gene al Taylor, who has probably retreatsd to Monterey, e Mel) he is perfectly able to hold until he receives rein 4orcoments. General Scott. before the date of this letter, has pro -1)..13!y at tat ked and csptured the city of Vera Cruz and the Cagle of St. Juan d'Ulloa. This opinion is univer selly entertained by the best informed men in this place, Between the fri••nds of General Scott and General Tay el. there is some unkind feeling, in consequence of Scott withdrawing from Taylor his most efficient troops. Al parties unite in condemning the President and his Ca• le'net for leaving Taylor in a defenceless state. 7 imes. A GEN EV ESE TRAVELLER. " FREDERICK WILLIAM. 1‘ Given at Potsdam, 7th of April. 1847." INSTITUTIGN OF CIVIL ENGI NEERS. Mancu 30, AND APRIL 13. (o Rennie , upen s i P r. r . e R s d e h e n a t r d in s e t u h ,s e c p h a p a i e r r .) on the The ventilation of mines was continued through both these meetings, to the exclusion of any other subjects. The vari,us methods of ventilation in use in the min ing districts of Great Britain were fully described, and their peculiarities discussed. The causes of accidents by explosions and the consequent choke damp were inquired into, and the fitness of the attempted methods of preven tion or cure was debated upon. The method of ex hausting the air was contrasted with that of forcing it forward into levels by means of bellows and pipes. The system used in the north of placing a furnace at the bottom of the upcast shaft was insisted upon as that best calculated for the extensive mines of that dist• ict, while the method introduced by Mr. Gibbons in Staffordshire, of exhausting the foul air by air heads cut at the top of the coal. connected with a channel in the side of the shaft, terminating in a chimney on the surface, was received as a decided improvement upon the ordinary system in use in that coal basin, where the extraordinary thick ness of thirty feet of the vein of coal renders a peculiar plan indispensable. Variiius methods of attempting to carry off the foul air from the "goat'," whether by addi tional shafts or by boreheles, were proposed, and shown by the mining experience to be totally impracticable, and calculated to be rather prejudicial than useful. The in terference of Government was strongly insisted upon, and as decidedly objected to by those miners whose long ex perience and good judgment entitled their opinions to deference and consideration. It was shown that the foreign mines which were under the constant supoin tendence of Government engineers, far from being exempt from accident, wer" not only more liable to the effects of , deficient ventilation, but that the actual loss of human life was greater than in England ; and that if our mines were subject to the same annoying trammels the price of fuel must be unduly raised without any corres ponding ftd , antage, or an immunity from danger. There could be no objection on the part of the coal-owners to the formation of an association for reg&a:ly inspecting And reporting upon the states of the various mines, the communication between the various distric s of the methods found to su seed best under the attendant p mi lli!. circumstances ; but there were good and vale' roasons given why such a power should never be tamelx placed in the hands of any Government officers, with the examples new before the country of the utter useless ness of the various commissions that had been l ippointed to report on technical subjects, and whose whole labour a ppeared to have been directed to puffing some 't nos trum," no doubt strongly recomtntnded by some one "having authority." The subj ect of safety lamps and their uses were also fully disenssed:—Dr. Reid Clanny's first invention of the lamp in 1813, whieh necessarily failed from its cumbrous orm and general inapplicability fir working purposes. and the recentform he had adopted, cotnbining portions of the other lamps in use, so as to show a bright light, and yet be free from danger. The extraordinary co incidence of inventive thought between, Sir Humphry Davy and Mr, George Stephenson, the one acting upon Purely chemical theor, and the other up on mechanical knowledge and pract ice, and yet both simultaneously producing lamps which we-e almost identical, and which still r' mained very generally in use under the names of the " Davy" and the " Geordie." Our limits will not permit a more extended notice of these discussions, which were replete with interest from the information displayed, as well by the purely scientific debaters as by the eminent practised engineers wbo take the lead in the animated debates upon the papers read at the meetings of the institution. At the monthly ballot the following candidates were elected :—Messrs. J. T. Harrison, as a member, and T. Donkin, E. Ilighton, and W. E. Mylne, jun., as associates. ji 150,000 WHAT EMPLOYERS CAN to.—An i nteres ample of the good effects of strict moral supervision on the part of the employers, is aff Tried by a silk mill, at liadleigh, near Canterbury. It is more than this; for it is also an excellent example of co-operation on tfie part of the working and middle classes, for the purpose of profitable investment for their com mon benefit. The Hadleigh silk factory was erected, in 1834, by the parishioners, in shares of 50/., and let on a lease of twenty-One years. at six per c' nt. on the capital invested, to a large manufacturer of Colchester. The shareholders reserved powers to the trustees, whom they appointed, to the following effect:—That no chil dren should be admitted to the mill, except by their appointment ; and that they should have power to sus pend or dismiss any who should misconduct themselves, either in or out of the factory—whether children, young women, overleokers, or mechanics employed about the premises, though these last three classes were all appointed by the master. Under these powers, a number of minor regulations were afterwards agreed I upon. Any young woman having a child, or guilty of improper conduct, was dismissed, and never re-admitted, The names of those found walking in the streets, in improper company, at improper hours, or fowid in public-houses, were reported !o the trustees, and dis missal followed, if the cause was deemed sufficient. Those of the female operatives who came from the country were allowed to lodge only in those houses which were approved by the trustees, or were subject to be suspended or dismissed from their employment. Ulti mately, the trustees devolved almost their entire powers as to moral discipline on Archdeacon Lyall, who took a p,culiar interest in watching over the moral condition of the factory workers. And the results were most gratify ing. After the first year, all parties—the master, the operatives themselves, and the relations of those em ployed—were unanimous in praise of the system. The master, who was also the proprietor of a large mill at Colchester, called upon the Archdeacon, and urged him to use his influence with the clergy of that town to exercise the same powers over the moral conduct of his workpeople there, which he himself exercised at Had leigh; and applications of the same kind were made to nim by other large employers of labour. A higher class of female operatives was attracted to the Hadleigh mill, by the fact of the high standard of moral conduct maintained there. An increasing number of respectable applicants, many of them the daughters of tradesmen, waited their turn for admission to employment ; and the general behaviour of the whole was acknowledged to be equal to that of the best conducted classes of the popu lation.—People's Journal. PAST WARNINGS AND PROSPECTIVE CONSEQUENCES. —Many sources of disease may be pointed out which might be removed. It may be highly instructive to in quire—how much depends upon our own conduct ? how much belongs to the action of those inscrutable causes over which we have no controul ? That many of those sources of disease are removable I am 'certain ; would that I could inspire my coun trymen with that active personal benevolence which alone can remove some of the miseries incidental to, and consequent upon, the condition of poverty. Their noble, their magnificent generosity has never been withheld, even from those who have infinitely less claim upon their sympathies. Would to God that a body, who might be called " legion," would stand forth, and in grap pling with the monster, whose gigantic proportions have overshadowed the land, make their determina tion to accept no compromise, until by a well-con sidered, well-directed, mighty effort, they have ren dered themselves more victorious than the soldier, whose reputation, built on human sacrifices, is too often based upon the number of his victims, whilst theirs shall beregis tered in the applause of the good, in the gratitude of millions. The vast numbers of burying-places within the bills of mortality are so many centres or foci of in fection —generating constantly the dreadful effluvia of human putrefaction acting according to the cir cumstances of locality, nature of soil, depth from the - Surface temperature. currents of air its ' mo isture or 'dryness, and the power of resistance in those subjected to its influence (and who is not?) as a slow or energetic poison. * * • • Who is not deeply interested in this question? Families home, kindred, relations, friends, the thousand sympathies that have grown w.th our growth and strengthened with our strength, are so intimately connected with our sub ject, that the more deeply we reflect, the more settled is our conviction of the necessity for the interference of the Legislature upon a point so inti mately involving the best interests of society. I have freely and earnestly spoken of the tremendous risk in curred by the mutilations of the resistless dead, portions of whose bodies, in various stages of decomposition, are thus made the instruments of punishment to the living. Yet no attention is paid to remonstrance, urged from conviction • no heed given to warnings however disinterested, and however urgent.— Walker's Gather ings from Graveyards. RIFLE BRIGADE —The Colonelcy of the 2d bat- TM , : LATE LO , S OF LIFE BY FIRE IN MARTLE. BONE.—On Friday Mr. Wakley, M.P , held an inquest a the St. Marylebone Workhouse, on the body of Anne Wilson, aged 74, the unfortunate female burnt to death in her bed on the morning of Wednesday last. It appeared from the state ment et Henry Wilson, a little boy nine years of age, that he resided with the deceased, who was his grandmother, at No. 10, Marylebone-court, and slept in the same bed with her. On the night of Tuesday last, when they went. to bed, the deceased, as was her custom, placed her lighted candle on a chair near the fed-side. About twenty minutes after twelve .o. the Wednesday morning he was awoke by a sense of sun cat ion, and on getting up and finding the room full of smoke and the bed on fire, he ran to the door and called for the assistance of the lodgers, but before ay.y arrived the bed and bedding was in flames, and his grandmother still lying upon it. The candlestick was found under the bed, and it had, no doubt, fallen from the chair, and having ignited some articles under the bed, caused the conflagration. Other evidence showed that before the unfortunate deceased could be rescued from the bed she was burnt in a frightful manner in various parts of the body. She was conveyed to the infirmary of Niarylehone Workhouse, where she expired from the injuries received about three o'clock the same morning. Verdict, "Accidental death." SUOULD NOT PROPER VENTILATION BE ENFORCED BY Law ? r. Toynbee has submitted the following pro positions f,r the adoption of Government to the consideration of the Royal lieri ate of Architects:-1. That no living, sleeping, or work-room, shall contain less than 144 super ficiaf feet, or sh ill be less than eight feet high. 2. That such room shall have one window at least, opening at the t,p. 3. Also an open fire-place. 4 That in every living, Ileepirig, or work-room erected in future, some method shall be adopted of all wing the foul air to escape from the upper part of the room. 5. That every such room erected in future 6. In tauh e nr e h r nue l et p :t u cofh b i c liras b n7 u st i l htt d oiEt i ae u emt g a shall have , me means of continually admitting fresh air. upon e f combus d theatres, r ts i y o u . is e' rrh . outi 7 l . B, T a h l a id t all other public banning's, shall adopt such inethode cf ventila tion a+ are approved by the medical . officer of health. The Builder. BLACK AND WHITE- DISTINCTIONS:FEET of . the h• 4,000 Ethiopian Serenaders, at present in England, ap• escape w 7r o h r i th e c . h g. paaisur. product s u u sed , e o d plo-d f r b-rths on board the Cambria, to return to their native Ethiopia, but were refused on account f their colour. It. was only when they had taken the soot off their faces. and had washed their hands of the foul dis• vracc of belly! leittline blacks, that they were allowed to as , ociate with the American passitwers. We wonder the Yankee, in their Mitred of everytl.ing black, do not, when they represent Othi 110, make him a white general. --AAA „ SureosEn S'UICIDE OF CAPT. U. LiowNEs, R.E. —A melancholy occurrence took place on board the General Steam Navigation Company's ship Ramona, plying on the Yarmouth stations, during the last trip made by that vessel. The Ramona left, Yarmouth -at five r.at. m Wednosday even ing, under the charge of captain Dqwrion, with a general cargo of merchandis., and several passengers, among whom was Captain Dowries, of the corps of Ruh al Engineers. The night turned out rough and squally, a heavy sea rolling (luring the early part of the passage; but nothing particular occurred calculated to direct the attention of those on board to the Gallant Officer whose death this paragraph announces. After leaving Yarmouth he took tea in the chief cabin, at the same table with several other passengers. Mr. Wood, the steward of the vessel, believes that he partook of no other refreshment during the evening; but about half-past one b'clock on Thursday morning he observed the Gallant Captain parading the deck and smoking a cigar. Shortly afterwards !te addressed the steward's boy, requesting him to make up his bed for the night on the sofa. This was the last that was seen or heard of the unfor tunate gentleman. Some two hours subsequently one of the seilo,s discovered a hat lying in the starboard fore sponson, and on conveying it into the cabin it was shortly ascertairied to have belonged to Captain Downes. A close search was immediately made for the Gallant Officer, but it was soon found that he was not on board the vessel. The first impression was that he must have thrown himself over heard shortly after having been seen by the steward ; and this presumption was afterwards strengthened by the fact of his manner having been remarked to have been particularly reserved during the voyage _by several of his fellow-pas. sengers. His carpet-bag was opened by the captain, to dis cover his identity, and in it were discovered three letters, which gave the desired information. The only other things contained in the bag were a night-shirt, and a brush and comb. On the arrival of the Ramona off the Custom House on Thursday morning information of the melancholy occur rence was given at the office of the company by Captain Dawson, and we understand, from inquiries which have been made, little doubt appears to exist, that the Gallant Captain must have thrown himself overboard while labouring under mental alienation. Thi weather, it should be stated. bad moderated before the Gallent Captain was missed, and there was scarc ely any swell on. The spot is supposed to have been Dear the Ulnae WWI twenty mike below Gravesend. BLACK FACES AND WHITE MONEY.- - T here are so many good points i n t h e Amer i can character that we deplore the existence of those prejudices and weaknesses . which go so far to neutralise their virtues. The sight of . a great work marred by some lamentable inconsistene. y s always a painful on America is not withoutgenerosity.— is n . ot without . an enlargement of aympathy an.d.tolera,t.on ..ur famine . stricken islands; and rnaßY a which in . them . selves are truly admirable qualities. Even now she giving largely to feed the starving masses in great move ment of philanthropy in this country has received an impetus from the coldjutancy of our brethren on the other side of the Atlantic. But American humanity is of a peculiar characte r . I t is essentially exclusive. The Amer icans are very tol e rant —very generous—very sympathetic —very humane; they would be the most tolerant, the most generous, the most sympathetic, and the most humane people in the would,—if there were no blacks. But even in these days, scouted as they have been. condemned as they have been,—shown their own faces as in a glass most visibly, with all the distortions and grimaces of the most con temptible, the most paltry prejudice and narrow mindedness,—their liberality cannot go oat beyond the regions of the white world. Their sensibilitieS are dull affected by the contaut of a man of colour. They . do .not-jud g e men by the hue of their souls—the complexion of their mind—but by the outer integuments of the body: It is not the mind, it is the skin that makes the man. ' The " mask of night" on the face of a Bacon or a Na poleon would sink him at once to the dimensions of a piecaniqny. Let him do whet he might, he would still he a black, not fit to herd with the most insignificant whites in the cabin of an American steam. ship.—Atlas. SUDDEN DEATH OF A MAN UNKNOWN IN THE (; .aefell-street, fell to the ground and was taken to St. Luke's work- STREETS. —Yesterday the police received information that on the preceding day a man, whose is at present unknown, whilst proceeding in stantly hou , e' to be owned.. The d eceased . was about fifty years of age, five feet seven inches high, brown hair, fair complexion , and he had a wound o m olesk i nas He was dressed in expiarleodn.g The body black body coat, figured trcesers, black vest, blucher boots, and black hat. An inquest will be held on the body this day (Saturdaas ALARMING EZPLOSION IN ST. JOAN'S-STREET. -- On Friday morning, between one . and two o' c l oc k, consider able alarm was created i n St. John s-street, West Smithfield in conseq uen ce of an explosion of gas, of a seri ous c h arac t er, ' taking place on the premises belonging to Mr. B er li n , c i gar manu f acture r and tobacconist, situate at No. 48, in the above. named street. I t appears that the gas had escaped from te burner to such an extent as to fill the front draping-rooiii. One of the inmates, not knowing that the vapour had es caped, entered the a partment , when the gas exp l o d e d w i t h a fearful noise, blowing the windows to the opposite side of the road, knocking the man down who had the li g h t i n hi s h an d , and doing serious mischief to the apartment. Fortunately no person was at all injured. Mr. Berlin was insured in the Sun tire-office. The escape of the Royal Society and the engines attended very early, but their services were not required. TUE UNCERTAINTY OF HUMAN Lire.—On Friday an inquest was held by Mr. Carter, at the Fentimore Arms, Fentimore-road, Clapham:road, es to the death of Jelin Hen sley. Esq , aged seventy six, which occurred in a most sudden manner. It appeared that the deceased was a gentleman of independent property, and resided at 4, Fentimore-road. He had not en joyed good health for some time, and on M o nday morning, having staid a considerable time in the water closet a young ma n of the name of Cartwright went aft er him, and found him apparently dead. A mrgeon was sent for, but it was discoveredl/ him that life was quite extinct. Ve ' rdi..t, "Natura l deat h .' THE GAS AND %% A . TER COMPANIES IN A FRET.— Great exertions are making Dea th different companies and commissioners to oppase the lth of Towns Bill, circulars are fl ying about in all direct ion s, .. and delegates are to be sent to London to act in combination on the Government mea sure. Jobbing is in danger—monopoly is threatened—and the occupation of the self-elected is at an end—that is, if the people support the Government. The interested are up, and the masses f .h ou ld be up and doing also, or they will not de serve the propostd Waite. COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT. (FRox OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) FRIDAY APRIL 16. Loss or THE TWEED STEAMER —The itihabaants of Cowes, in order to testify their high sense of the brave and disinterested conduct of the noble Spaniard in saving the lives of so many of the unfortunates who were shipwrecked in the R iyal Mail steamer Tweed, have at a meeting resolved that a public sub,ciiption should be entered into for the purl ose of presenting a stniatle testimonial to Captain Bernardino Camp, of the Spani h brig Emilio, expressive of their high admiratiiin of his intrepidity and humanity. ,tibscrip , ion lists have been opened at the different banks. Southampton and other towns we hear propose doing the same. The Isle of Wight Steeplechase came off nn Wednes day, and proved a most disastrous affair. Nine horst s entered, seven started, six threw their riders, two of them into brooks, one almost smothered in Blackwater mud ; one horse was killed. D•entually Birmingham came in first, attended by Lara ; the rest reached the star.ing-post after many mishaps in the course of the afternoon. EXECUTION OF CATHERINE FOSTER FOR POISONING HER H USB AN D THREE WEEKS AF TER MARRIAGrE. -HER CONFESSION. BURT ST. EDMUNDS. SATURDAY —The wretched con vict, Catherine F o ster, con d emne d to Beath by the Chief . Baron Pollock at the late Suff. , lk As,iies, for the murde r of her husband three weeks aber mirriuge, by po , ,;oning a dumpling with arsenic, expi4ted her dreadful offence this morning on the bcuifold adjacent to the c .uuty gad in this town. Those persona who have perused the ( yid-nee adduc d at the trial have doubtless been at a I.iss to c.)neeive the motive that could have induced her to destroy her hus• band, whom she had apparent! loved fr.en a child, and now that her life has been justly forfeit. al to the law, and her confession is published to the world, it will be found that it contains nothing that can be cee into a motive, and the reasons, therefore, which tempted her to commit the murder must remain enveloped in mystery. Earnest were the solicitations of those whose duty it was to attend her after her condemnation that she should divulge the whole of the facts connected with the crime for which she was about to suffer; but although she made a frank avowal of her guilt, she studiously avoided allud ing to any circumstance which might 1e ad to the motive for which she perpetrated the horrid deed. The following is a copy of her comfe.3sion:— " Bury Gaol, April 12, 1847. "To the Governor,—First of all I must confess that I am guilty, and very guilty of this awful crime, and well deserve the death that I am condemned to die; and as I am soon to stand before my Heavenly Jud,e I wish to speak the truth. I am sorry to say I bought the poison at the shop of Mr. H. Ely, ' chemist, Sudbury, three days before I mixed it in the ' dumpling which I gave to my husband. It was served to me by a young man in the shop. Mr. Ely was not present ; bad he been present ~e would have known me, as I had been frequently at his shop on errands for my mistress when I was at service. The act was entirely my own. No person persuaded me to it, and my mother had no knowledge or suspicion of it. I had no cause for complaint against my husband. He was always good and kind to me, but I never had any aff. mice( for him, and wished to go back to service. I d.) not wish to live, for I never could be happy in this world, and I hope, through the merits and blood of my Saviour, and a sin cere repentance of this and all my sins, to obtain for giveness of God, and to be received into Heaven I die at peace with all, having no complaint to make of any witness that appeared against me en my trial, ae d full of remorse for the crime which brings me to this premature death. I wish to express my grateful thanks t the W. West, the chaplain of the gaol ; th.• Rev. Mr. Ottle3, my parish minister ; and the Rev. Mr. Eyre, for their great attention to my eternal interest, and for the spiri tual hope and consolation I have received from their i,- structions and admonitions, I should wish Mr. Eyre to attend me in my last moments, and earnestly request that he will do so. (Signed) " CATHERINE FOSTER. " Witnessed by—J. Wlntyre, governor. Thomas West." _ _ On Thursday she took her final leave of her aged mother ; and on Friday the condemned sermon wu preached by the Rev. Mr. Eyre, from the 32d chapter of Numbers, and 23d verse. This morning the crowd assembled to witness the exe cution was .very great ; et nine o'clock the number of persons could not have been less than 10,000. A G w minutes before nine o'clock, the High Sheriff and Under Sheriff having arrived, proceeded with the other autho rities to the cell in which she was confined. when she walked with a firm step and unsuppo , ted to the drop. where she stood unmoved. The preliminary arrange ments having been completed, the signal was g►ven, and the drop fell. The body, after hanging the usuil period. was cut down and interred within the walls of the prison. The last execution of a female in this twit was 47 )ears ago, for setting fire to her master's house. ROMANTIC SUICIDE OF TWO 1,385 260 1,150 taliOnofth47)Rifle Brigade, vacant by the recent demise of Lieutenant-General Sir David Gilmour, will, it is reported, be conferred either on Major-General Brown, Deputy- Adjutant-General, or upon an officer formerly of the regi ment. The 2d battalion is at present in Canada. We have to record the demise of Major Henry R. Capel. also of the corps, who expired on the 13th, at the Vicarage, Watford, in his forty- s econd year. He was second son of the Hon. and Rev. W. Capel (uncle to the Earl of Essex), Vicar of Watford, and Chaplain in Ordinary to the Queen. He was connected with the service for twenty-one years, and ob tained his majority by purchase in October, 1820. The hosiei y trade in nearly every branch is in a dull state. Many of the houses have considerable hopes of a speedy revival. Great excikment prevails respecting the prop.sed abolition of frame rent, and the suppression t-of master stockingers. The journeymen have the great est confidence that Sir H. thilford's Bill will pass into hew. They are also in some quarters very sanguine as to the effect of the National Union, under the guidance of the Member for Finsbury. The plan proposed is to denounce all general strik..s; but where a workman member is oppressed the Union to employ him, and take off the goods produced. They have now a considerable number of frames employed in this manner.-IVottinglium Review. THE LACE TRADE. —The sales this week have been more satisfactory, and V i • market wears an improvin g • ipesrance. Mild weat her, a n d relief in the money marlut would give an impetus to buriness here, i ndependent of th e aid expected almost daily to arrive, in the shape of orders, for the United States. All accounts agree that trade there has been so large as to c har offall stocks on haul, at good pri ces , an d lead to the anticipation that we are on the eve of an excellent demand from tllnce. Tarns are firm, awl nut at all over abundant.—Notttnghans Rental°. " OUR LONDON COREESPONDENT."—Such is the title under which various provincial journals keep a contributor in town, whose duty it is to send a eei My column of exclusive intelligence. The int( lligence is certainly exclusive enough, be ing the exclu sive manufacture of the indiv'sdual who forwards it. The person engaged in the capacity of Lonelon correspondent is compete i to affect an acquaiet ance with all that is passing in the best•itirorined circles; hut as his by ' ere of observation is cot' dto the limited circle of the tavern he fr. qutnits, he is obliged to diem upon his iaitiy,ination for the "facts" hi , furnishes to the provincial joutnel. It cannot be ex pected that there wtil be much veracity in his state ments, but what they want in truth is mule rip in audacity. Upon the strength of what he ; icks ul , from his fellow-reporters on the London press, he has generally something to s,iy about the movements, in tentions, engagements, or min-engagements of the leadii.g wr i ters , about whom he knows positively not h is • Occasionally he has some grand scheme to communicate with reference to the starting of a new daily paper, which is to oppose every other journal in existence. and is to be conducted by everyte:dy who have all seceded fr..in everything else, for the purpose of putting every possible and impossible strength into the new enterprise. Pro prietors, printers, publishers, editors, contributors, re porters, and indeed the entire establishment, from the highest to the lowest, are said by " our Loudon corre spondent" to be on the point of abaselotiing profit, posi• tion, character, and everything else, to start a wilful op position to the paper in which they all have a mutual in terest. When "our London Correspondent" is asked for his authority—though it is seldom worth any one's while to do that—his announcement of a new paper is found to rest on no foundation whatever. It enabled him to fill up a portion of his required sheet, and he cannot afford to be scrupulous as to the means of doing so. " Oar London Correspondent" is of course in the confidence o• all the Ministers and all the leading members of the Op position ; and yet, upon his own showing, it his boast he true, he is betraying all the secrets intrusted to him on al; sides, for a few Codlings a week from a country news paper. He knows that Lord J .hn Russell will not Iss in office another month at least four years betere he gee• out, and thus " our London Correspoedeet" proves ite access he has to very, very early (a little too cosily') in telligence. He can tell you who is to have the next ger ter, when there is one vacant ; and has seen le e s f urn Jenny Lind or Mendelssohn, notwithstanding too leer has been written by either of these iglu=t ious indivi duals. In fact "our London Correspondent" lives in a world of his own, which enables him to see a grest deal more than is seen by any body else, and the best of it is, that there cati be no witnesses to prove the contrary o his assertions, for his facts are se truly original, that to has them all to himself, and no one else hss an oppurtu nity.of meeting them.—Punch. MISS MARTINEAU IN EGYPT.—IL?re, in these tombs, which are chambers cut out of the rock, and adorned with columns and pictured walls ; in these tombs and others were men busy sculpturing and paint ing at a time when we have beet. apt to suppose the ear liest generations were learning how to live on the rude earth. These pictures on the walls, however, show the way of life of the Egyptians so be not very far bshied our own. I have seen what the possessions of men were in those days, from these memorials in the chambers of their graves. . I have ssen their flicks of cattle, their poultry-yards, their fields in reed time and harvest, their fisheries, their bunting and shooting parties, their boats with many oars and gay chequered sails ; their beautiful furniture,— couches, easy chairs, lamps, and vases, very like the handsomest of ours at the present day : their kitchens, with the slaughtering of cattle, and the cooking of the joint; of beef ; their wine-presses, and their wardrobes of rich clothes and handsome neck laces; their arms and war chariots, and the bridges arid fortified towns they passed over or stormed. I have seen the weaving of gay cloth, and the steeping and spinning of flax; rope-maki.ig; glass' blowing, just such as may be seen at Newcastle any day ; the building of houses; the carving of statues ; games at ball and gymnastics. dancing, wrestling, and playing the harp. W hat is of far mor consequence, as occurring long before any clear tidings that we have elsewhere of men's condition of mind anti life, there are solemn pictures and sculptures abeus death and burial, and the state of the soul. I have seem, the bud/ laid out and embalmed, carried on a bier to the bolt ; and borne in the boat to the lake or river which usually lay between the cities and th burial places. I - have seen the ferryman, the dog which waited on the further shore , and the judges who were to assess a e deeds of the deceased. I have seen pthre„swebeeigehbirthoefaphpisroddsyeinegg, o a d n s, b h y is m acl ea misei d es() e into fn his sbi t t t e e d. Thus grimy—the early did symbolthe of fe.spephi e ic e ti f ls t e h i c s a e r o r u i r i 3 n , b h e i s i i.e r t v i g e i h t that tb. soul lived after the bo d y was dead, and that. Journal. s nt e s uro3 was the means of its blessedneis.—People s To THE LADIES.—The high and universal cele brity which Rowland's Kalydor continuest vicea omaintai e n,a n san active yet mild and soothi n g extir p ator of all im p urities of th i s T k h in is , pisr,cdpAurreintgiehtl,seempeinrieohdt eminently bspartsinagin,ime, restorative, pleasingly s:orative. and invi gorating, is equally celebrated for safety in application, as fie unfailing efficacy in removing all impurities and discolors. tions ; and imparting a healthy freshne s s and transparency o' t c h it e es sk th in e a c n u d pi r ty p o le f x u i l o ip r r . inc l i t p s le u d ni s e h e i r i s p a ikl l : l . "; :rp g ,e, r wr e sn a , t demand' title of " Kalydor" to compounds o f t w n t i l ti o n manufacture u t e of the most deleterious character, containing mineral th astrin gents utterly ruinous to the complexion, and, l) lent action, endanger health. It is therefore im p era tive purchasers to see that the words " Rowland's Kalvdi i' "are on the wrapper. All others are fraudulent counterfeits. FATAL FALL FROM A MAST.—On Friday an inques 4 was taken before Mr. Bakers'at the Black Horse, High-street, Poplar, on view of the body of John Bowman, aged 59 years. a rigger on board the brig Agnes. lying in the West India Export Dock. It appeared in evidence that on Wednesda , morning last the deceased was engaged aloft in furling the topgallant sail, when he suddenly lost his balance, and hi was precipitated with great violence on to the ea lye a dis c tance of thirty feet. He was immediately raises from th ground by several of the sailors belonging to the ship, bet. , hte Weefetatcl to be (Ow , astiavt, Verdict, • isecsiduntai deaths LOVERS AT LEEDS. (Abridged from the Leeds Mercury) A case of doub.e suicide, which has excited gre a t though melancholy interest, has occurred in this to wn daring the past week. The affair is singularly ro mantic. The two suicides were named Joseph Rolland years n a e n d ( I .a) a irrni r da i Maria standing notd)g , , I :.:n o ingt o rs , iefu.: t : h tudh e li,en, fat: they eri m ,ayt e Li for m er ie f o.tfil ri se a l i n , I ir. vdebel field-pl a ce, the latter : On enn,d viT New town,aeldd Te Harr 1 , hrb e t ::: [ gs l [; :at. f e thut. e . et., a : i then ,r d :r,: i f l e , , ntt ni s e l n i : , , i t t, t t hd i o as k a tea pa party farewellt w y i t o h f a round of visits to their friends. They breakfasted another,w yvgioo it suii h nt snggotnoocno• each, andt nerplaaamnt spent ipiavint alleging f lain ag t : : to . : n , s h t , h i r a ttli wereey companions that they were going to Fia , .ce, where employment had been off red them With the latter they seem to have lied an evening of uribrok,,n enjovrnent--eat intimated to their (,uraffection evening rus h ing, drinking. and ~inlling, with all the ii.di . cations of a merry reakin4,. 1,, the mot: i t : in; trey relatives * pi ohane tarewdl f:itri:hu:nerh;.dirtianthhe ii % i i i t d h si:e 7 i7u B r:el 'es oi c a r the mop a r to , n , g w d e ti c ihi L ril : t e eti d s a : n wt. ,L er h nyd , rg ,. other's arms, and bo un d they leave their connatitobs to gather by loo.diterchi it that bad y pr.•vio,,,;• been th e rt.cipro cal tokens of affection. '1 tierg was noshing i n their cir cumstances reconeil- able with so painful an event, ex cept the want of emplopa nt for a short period; but even 'hi., at,' not seem to have either exposed then l / 4 to the *pprehi nsion of watt, or to the pangs of dis pleassre. On 'Mut-A.4 morning afternoon J. t h e t „. O leslies were taken from Blackburn, F.,q., heid au inquest upon theta at the Court the river iirr, near Kilo-trot), tiouse, when the tollot4irq.; e vidence was given: — ung woman.— Martha t. ikon, sister of d,,c,asetl yo an in the tolland' N lather of the young man who ii drowned. S h e was reside at Mabgate•green. M', sister liv ed at Jose ph and Atkinson's , months. liLte worked at Me,srs Hive was 17 years old. Ahe tiad lodged with them five but has been out of work three weeks. My sister would not come to live with us ; she would rather live with Joseph Rolland. Joseph Bollai,d had not worked for many months. He was 18 years of age. They had sweat hearted for about three years. h was know to all of us. I last saw my sister alive yesterday morning. She asked me to make her a cup of coffee. I could not make her one, as I had not time. Joseph Bollsnd was with her. They both washed thews , Ives. They had gone out unknown to the tathi.r early in the morning. She hid bought some print to make herself an apron of. She said she would give it me to make my baby a.‘ slip." She afterwards kissed the baby, and bid it good bye, saying that it would never see her again alive. In answer to a question I put to her she said they were going on tramp, I understood to Harrogate. She was not in the family way that lam aware of. They seemed both low spirited. She said nothing except that they were going to Harrogate. On Tuesday morning I saw her, and she seemed low spirited then, and told me she would do away with herself if she did not get work. Told her to get away and hold her liolish talk. This conversation took place in our house at about ten o'clock. She had plenty to eat and drink, notwithstanding that she was out of work. She was always in good spirits. They both cried on Wednesday morning, especially my sister. I was not surprised to see het cry, as I have often seen her do so before when she has seen my baby. Mrs Bodoni, [nuttier of the deceased young man, gave similar evidence. __ ------- - - Harriet Henewel!, aunt to Maria Wilson—They were both at my hou 3e yesterday, at three o'clock, and they rrinaitied until five o'clock. She asked me to make her a cup of c..ffee. He had been ge-tting a pint of beer .nd som- br. al before I came in. Ile also got a pint of beer while we were getting our coffee, and they joked 'ogether. At five o'clock they went away, both as cheerio! and kind us could be, and she promised to call again, but did not. Neither of them were low sp;rited. There was nothing said about being out of work, except that Maria said sbe would be in again atxt week. I live in Brussels-stre.l. They left at five o'clock, and went down Bridge-street. She had no bonnet on, but had a handkerchief on her bead—the same that is now r , ,utid their ho :ies. She told me she was going to b married •.n Whit Monday, and he re plied, " Yes, we think of being married then." I said, here will be time enou,th in two years, and he answered, • 6 Sooner we get married the better." . _ Mary Dins; ale, of Newtown—l knew the two de ceived. I saw them at sev n o'clock last night. I met them et the bottom of Dukb-street. I think he was quite Fober. Th4'y were both wry cheerful. She took me to Themes Wilson's, in Sykes's-row. We sat there, and he f.eut for a pint of beer. It is a ri:spectahle house. 'there wer, five of us in the house. Another - pint w.s sent for avrerwarls. We all drank it She talked about their both going to France logcher, ai.d said we ,hould never see her again. She gave mt a pocket and velvet pur. e to take care of for h, r. She never at any time toll me she would drown herself. John Ellison, of Upper Somt - -rset-street—l walked with the deceased d - iwn to the water-side at about half-past five. The priocipal talk was about their gointz to France. They said they ware going on the water at about three o'clock in the morning by a fly-boat, and would leave Leeds at half-past ten o'clock that ni;ht. They were no h cheerful. He said he had pledged his trous-rs and waistcoat for 3s 6:1., and !tad then 6,1. left. He did w.t say where he had pledged them. Ilc said he had hou,:ht something to e.it and ea-ink with the other mo: cv. Ile said he did not want iny money to go to Ft erica.. Ile said he should get a pa,s•tiote to go with. I left them at Wilson's at about nine o'clock. Maria was then asle , p. They at no time -netted low spiri , ed when I was a ich then. When I left he asked me to sh,,lte hands, and said be would not see me any more. beae l li 'i s te ris a m n I foundsearching Diar;cicn—l commenced th for the bodies in the river, near Mr. Howard's carpet manufactory, at the b a nk. They were fastened together by two hand kerchies Bout of them were tied at his back, and they were in each others' arrw. I found them at a quarter p . s t eight. Thi , ‘ jacket was und about twenty yards off. on a stoop. and this et!) and her slip were also found there, at e!even o'elook last night. The bodies were found about a yard and a half from the side. It is pro bable they dropped themaeltes off the chi foundation of a house at the river side. The foundation is a yard or more higher than :he water. At the conclusi..n of the evidence, The CORONER made some remarks upon the case, which, he observed, was , he most remarkable he had ever investigated. Though the circumstances could not be reconciled with their going into the river and drowning th« msAves. yet the pos tion in which they were found, being tied t.a.:ether by handkerchiefs, and their clothes being near the water, negatived any presumption that any holy vise had been accessory. It was clear they destroyed theinvelves, and the only question tor the jury to determine was, whether at the time they committed self-destruction ti ev wet- in-ane or not. Their whole conduct.. from the first thing in tie morning to the last hio g at !tiger, s _eaten t . be tricoosivtent with any inten ?ton to de t-..y ; and tha , , to his naiad, nega t.ved a.iy no!. It .if their tieing rns..ne. The jury reiu:ned a vvraiet. to the effect---t` That the twtl decease! persons ot stro) ed themselves, and were at the time in a s , ne a eve of mad." DESPERATE CASE OF STABBING AT Si AFF(itzi). One of those iiisgr,scv!ul case, of using the 'knife 4glinst a fe:l. w•ere.dur. ssas jays “gated be.ore the borough inag•strate , on Wednesday last The aocused is maned %Vl,' all 11. Ilin , head. by trade a shoc , mak• r, nut has lik.a n n the Artillery serviee. and lives in St. vie:i! , l is J,.ho W ,, o!r'dg , , a bailiff, living also in S'aff , ri. The prosecutor's life is in great danger, and be was therefore unable to attend the examination. Toe first witness examined was James Wahhoe, who stated that the prosecutor and pdeotier were drinking at the Maid's Inn on the pr•-•vi•;us evening, between nine and ten &dock, when sr) HitlTCatii.n took place. Atter they had been qu..rreaing vim.: time, Hollinshead made use of a foul expression to Woolridge, and said, -I will have my revenge o f you." He left the house , and retuned in *about a qua• ter of an hour, having had ample time to go to and return from his own house. On his r turn, Woolrilige eonitnetteed annoying him, and HotlinAla.ad drew a shoeumker's knife out of Lis pocket and struck at him, hut missed. 'they then nal it scttffi•-t, and Woolridge fell. Some more angry words passed, and the prisoner exclaimed, " My name is W thain Hollinshead, and I'll have my revenge." Woolm , ge went towards trim, and prisoner drew out a knife and thrust it into his stomach. He exclaimed, " Oh, he has stabbed' me." The blood immediately poured from the wound. Hollin..head then stabbed him again on the side of his face, and the wounds bled profusely. ;he witnet=ts swore to the knife, and said prisoner was in a state of great excitement. Henry Dawson' h a ir•dresser. and other witnesues, co rroborated Walthoe's stat.-mente. Mary England deposed that she lodged at the pri.. soner's, and that on the previous evening the prisoner "as from home, but returned between nine and ten 'clock, and took tr candle and went into a room, which were his shoemaker's tools, stayed there about a minute, and then left the house. Thomas ‘Voollaston, who apprehended the prisoner, produced the knife, which he received from one of the witnesses, who took it from the prisoner. The prisoner had told him that it had belonged to him. Mr. Henry Lomax, surgeon, stated that be was called in to attend the pros u e: 3 u f t i o , r, (i wr.o was bleeding profusely from the mouth. a h, punctured wound OR the pit of the stomach, a o n b d r u a n not I. large incised wound on he lower lip, in anoblique direction, to the lower part of the chat, w hich was an inch or an inch and a ball in le gth. Also a stab ever the leit wrist joint. He bled as though some large artt ry had been cut. He be bevel the wounds had been intLeted by the knife pro duced, and that h:s hie was in itri at danger. It would be dangerous to him to take his statement at present. Th, prisoner was remanded —.Staffordshire Mervery. ex. • NEW STEAM.IMAT PI Eit.—The newly constructed steam-boat pier, at St. George'A->quare Thames-bank, ;4 30 , was opened on Thursday, free of toll, to persona lancing and embarking from steam. boats. We regret to have to announce We demise of V Vil- Um Knight, Esq., the eminent dibtiller, of the firm of Gor don, Knight, and Co., of Goqwell-street, which occurred at hie residence at Cancmburi, a Ala 14th hut. The Emperor of Austria has conferred upon the, Sing of Hanover the command of the 2d Re i .iment of Flr a a. sere, which became vacant .n the death of his late Imp erial highness the Archduke Palatine. Monsieur Soyer, on his wi v from Dublin to 14 0 n. don, vie ted Liverpool and Manche3ter, and inspeeta R the ,ont -kit hems of these nommen:lst towns as well as st twat kitcheui belonging to the alverallMiODio I is,