The Sun. — London, England, 1847-12-02 00:00:00

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At a GENERAL MEETING of the Subscribers, held at the Horns Tavern, Kennington, on Friday Evening, November 2Gth, 1647, _7 LAURENCE REDHEAD, Esq., in the Chair, The Report of the Committee appointed to superintend the collec tion of subscriptions, and consider the most desirable method of car rying out the object of the subscribers was read by the Secretaries, hotuwhlch It appeared that the Subscriptions received amounted to 1 ., and they recommeqded that alter payment of all expenaes, 'knout 1001. should be appropriated to the purchase of a Piece of Plate or other similar Testimonial, to be presented to Mr. Hawes, and that the remainder of the Fund should be applied to aid Mr. Hawes in his return to Parliament as soon as practicable. Whereupon It was moved 3b - J. 11. Hann )11 Esq seconded by J. C. Sim, Esq., and carried unanimously, " That the most appropriate manner in which the Electors of Lambeth could exhibit their estimation of the valuable pablic services "d Private worth of their late Member, Benjamin Hawes, Esq., w "lit be to hold the Testimonial Fund available in aid of the Itt2CoS air and legal expenses of promoting the return of that gentleman Parliament for any constituency which in this interim of a Ge it*rni Election may express a desire to secure the benefit of so vain rin a repr esentat i ve, an d t h at out o f t h e sa id f un d th e s um of about Mi• be expended for the purpose of presenting to Mr. Hawes a Piece * r Pieces of Plate, bearing an Inscription expressive of the respect ' W hich the Subscribers entertain for the talent Mr. Hawes has se "lin entlY displayed in the discharge of his important public duties, luld the steady zeal with which he has endeavoured to promote and Protect the local interests of his late constituents, the Electors of L ambeth, and showing the amount of subscriptions finally received, Mt the objects to which it is to be applied." It was moved, I n• Cory, E sq , an and carried unanimously, that L. Redhead, Esq., d J. C. Sim, Esq., be the three Trustees appointed carry eat the wishes of the Subscribers thus exprssiied ; and thanks having been voted to the Chairman, and alio to the Honorary i Se cretaries, for the assistance rendered by them to the Subscribers Promoting the object, the meeting separated. Ry onler, JAMES J. BLAKE, IHon. Secretaries. W. 11. 'MILLEN, ?Sol% 26th, 1 t t 7 BY COMMAND OF THE POSTMASTIZR-GENHOLI_L. NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC. GENERAL POST-OFFICE, Ne'rEdnun, 1847. Under the 34 and 4th Vic., cap. 04, and 10th and 11th Vic. cap. 85, Cl Persons sending Letters by the Post Unpaid, which from any ..." 61, whatever cannot be delivered to the Partied to whom they are rdreosed, are liable to pay the Postage charged thereon , wh ich, Wl ulr the Ist Vie. cap 36, may he recovered with costs, by enmmary ROCess before a Magistrate. . In future, on such Letters being returned, the senders will be com -1).44ed to pay the I'oetage charged upon then, THE LATE MR. ROOKE. A GrIAND CONCERT, for the BENEFIT of the 'WIDOW aid SEVEN CHILDREN of the late Mr. Rooks, ander the special patronage of her Majesty the Queen and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, will be given at the Hanover-square Rooms, TIES EVENING, the 2d of December, on which occasion a selection of favourite pieces front his operas will be per forated. The following eminent Vocalists and listrumentalists have kindly tendered their services :—Misses Dolby, Poole, A. Williams, • Williams, R. leases ; Messrs. Wilson, Hobbs, Allen, Leffler, Machin, Williams, W. Sterndale Bennett, Richardson, and J. E. thattortoa. The Band will be complete, many of the late Mr. MOoke's former associates and admirers paving cheerfully offered their valuable assistance.—Conductors, Sir Henry R. Bishop and Mr. alfe.—Leaders, Mr. T. Cooke and Mr. W. Thomas. Tickets, 7a. each ; Reserved seats, 101. 6d., with Programmes, rally be had at all the Music Shops. Donations in behalf of the Widow and Family will be most thank 11111.Y received by the mem►ers of the Committee ; or by Mr. John It r llson.47, Gower-street, Treasurer to the Fund. ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. TWO LECTURES by Dr. BACHHOFFNER --ene on the Lawe of Nature, in reference to the important sub -4".„,t C . SANITARY MEASURES; the other In the varions I P.rell of VENTILATION, in which the PHYSICAL PRO atTIES of a JET of STEAM will be exhibited, with Novel and 1,1 7 Interesting Experimen:s, daily at Two and Half-past Three r P •c, k- Three Lectured will be given alternately in the Evenings , at t o'clock, except on Saturdays. The ELECTRIC TELE "AAPIIS worked. The WORKING MODELS, explained. An 7 tir ° l 7 New Series of DISSOLVING VIEWS. DIVING BELL and ER, with HYDE'S NEW APPARATUS for CONVERSING %ege t WATER, ice. Icc. Admission, Is. ; Schools, Half-price. ND RAILWAY. CA NEW 501. SHARES. T fOr a FOURTH INSTALMENT of 51. per SNARE (making Net 15/. per Share called up). ice is hereby given, that a CALL of Si. per Share en the New ' l 7. Shares in this Company has been this day made payable en t he of January, 1848, at any of the undermentioned Bankers, Messrs. Glyn, llallifax, Mills, and Co., London. The Bank of Liverpool, Liverpool. The Birmingham Banking Company, Birmingham. ?area' Leicestershire Banking Company, Leiccuter. Messrs. Crompton, Newton, and Co., Derby. The /Loyal Bank of Scotland, Glasgow. Interest at Five per Cent. per Annum will be charged by the re !Deetive Bankers on all Calls not paid on the &NM-mentioned day Ittail the time of payment. Aa Ns transfer of these Shares will be registered until this Call is GEORGE HUDSON. Chairman of the Board of Directors. JOHN F.LLIS, Deputy-Chairman. Derby, Ey order. J. F. BELL, Secretary. Y. Norember 27, 1847. MIDLAND RAILWAY. (a SIXI4II.7CISTE PER CENT. SHARES (L ATE BRISTOL AND 1,1 R). CALL of V. par SH.kRE on the 501. SHARES (making Ir, called up), and THIRD CALL •f 31. 14s. 6d. on the 371. he. -11 A RES (making 111. 3s. 6d. called up). SIX given, that further CALLS of 2/. per SHARE on 0 1 .the 501. pe CENT. SHARES, and of 31. 14s. 6d. on the • SIX per CENT. SNARES in this Company have been this ,1 7 Made pay ablo on the Ist day of January, 1848, at any of the un orreentioned Bankers. 'Il : Iltesen. Glyn, Hallifax, Mills, and CO., London. Tile Rank of Liverpool, Liverpool. The Birmingham Banking Company, Birmingham. pares' Leicestershire Banking Company, Leiceater. Messrs. Crompton, Newton, and Co., Derby. The Royal Bank of Scotland, Glasgow. yri;tt zest at Si. per Cent. per Annum will be ckarged by the re he Bankers on all Calls not paid on the above-mentioned day the time of payment. kra, transfer of theca Shares will be registered until this Call is GEORGE HUDSON, Chairman of the Board of Direetors. JOHN ALLIg, Deputy Chairman. By order, J. F. BELL, Secretary. .12"bY, By 27, 1347. MIDL AND R AILWA Y. , The MIDLAND RAILWAY COMPANY are prepared to re Qeive LOAKS, •n security of their Debentures, for periods of Th rte. Five, or Seven Years, In stuns of 1,000/. each and upwards, at In tereet after ' the rate •f 51. per cent. per annum, payable half- Yearly. Application to be made t o th e S ecretary, at the Company ' s Office, Derby. By order, November 24, 1847. J. F. BELL, Secretary. EXETER, YEOVIL, AND DORCHESTER RAILWAY. NOTICE TO 811AREIIOLDERS. Notice 1g hereby given, that the Subscribers' Agreement and Par liantentary Contract for the Session of IS4a, will lie for Signature at the London Tavern, Ilishopsgate-street, Louden. on FRIDAY and SA- I t r abaY the Ed and 4th days of December next, b etween the hours or Ten o'clock in the Morning and Four o'clock in the Afternoon. such of the Shareholders as may not already la ve rece i ved a copy er the Letter recently' addressed by the Chairman to the Proprietors, placatory of the arrangements made by the Directors as to the re in troduction into Parliament of the 8111 vrhich•was sanctioned by ~t h. 6 Rouse of Commons and suspended at the close of l ast Session, - "th Privilege to be resumed in th e p resent Session, are requested to letter with the undereigned , who will f orward a copy of each etter without delay, together with any further explanation which Rla Y be required. By order of the Directors, JOHN CLEXCLI, Secretary. Z Xster Ledford - circus, d-circum, NOT. 30, e. 13, B or 1847. VAj e tT , .ALE STOCK of ENGRAVINGS of Messrs. E. GAMIIART JUNIN, and CO. SOUTHGATE and BARRETT will SELL by a nd AucTIo N at their Rooms, 21, Fleet-street, This Everitt/in, as out I r aIDAT and SaTtieeeT EvasirGe next, at Six for sev en b an, ?snitardor of thuiving partner of Messrs. Cam. 'rei, 4 7 ) 1" 11, 1. and Co. the se cond h and last , portion of the STOCK of rrin ist.o.ns linpr e eonsisting of Choice Proofs and Picked lif the most celebrated productions of the Italian, if stu % ° : u erman, and English schools , together with a great vari ety Stibj, se ; s, '" bY the best naasters, a quantity of scri p tural and g ra ceful a , books of prints, &c. tiot' l4ll . would beg to c a ll the attention of c ollectors to this im "teir o, pOrtstaloe as an opportunity that seldom occurs fo r e nriching or th e HOS with the choicest engravings in the differen t states lARITISII COLLEGE OF IIEALTH, New.tAe Landon.—The following MEDICINE, at MORISON'C VEGETABLE UNIVERSAL is a of the AGENTS for ito* and its vicinity : nO, Strand—Tke Bygeist-office. r 3, Quadrant, R egent-street — Mr. Fi e ld. .. Ca mbridge -street, Edgeware-road—Mrs. Good. Park -place, Mile•end-road—Ur. Lofts. 63, Lor nbard-street, Cornbill—M r. Chappel. Oxfo rd - street—Dietrichsen and Flannay, perfumers. New-reail, St. George's-in-the-East—Mr. J. Kaines. W atling.street —Mrs. E. Dare. . 3 , Great Tower-street—Mr. Baldwin. 1 23, Strand —Mr. E. Griffin, perfumer. !, To wnsend -street, Old Kent road—Mrs. Foulse. .4 8, Tott en h am-court- road—Mrs. Boucher. _ alham-groen—Mrs. Merchant. Brantford (rust-once)—Mr. Norbury. Clapham --fir. Batten's Library. 463, Great Chart -street, Mast-road, Mouton—Mr. H. Langley. _a, Cornhill —Mr. R. Johnstone, perfumer, 840- 9, High Holbora—lir. William Hallett. Aandolpk-street Camden -town (Post-office)—Mr. J. Foster. Deptford —Mr. Perritt, bookseller. Staines —Mrs. Norris's Library. o ekemist or druggist Is authorised to sell this medicine. DR. LA'MF.IIT ON TIIII SECRET I NFIRMITIES OF TOUT? AND MATURITT.—WITII 40 COLOURED RNGRATINGS ON STEEL. dust published, and may be had in French er English. In a Sealed Envelope, IL fml„ or pest-free from th e Stamps, ' A uthor, for forty-two Infelicitous end Unproductive SELF - PRESERVATION ; a Apical Treatise on the Physiology if Marriage, talons, and the Secret Infirmities and Disorders ef Teeth anndat:rea-i turity, usually acquired at u early period •i - life. Vvlith emervate the physical and mental powers, diminish and enfeeble the ruel r,. Ingo and exhaust the vital energies of Manhood ; with Practice: , o f Nervous Debility and Indigeation, . o lerratlons on the Treatment .- close study, or the influence 1 W hether arising front thee. causes, , s resul ting from Intl tt °- Meal climates: Local and Constitnt m lo e n n a t t Weakness, Syphilis eorleturo, and all Diseases and Deran g e ments 4.ereHon. With Forty coloured En gravings, R illustrating du Organs, the 5 Reproductive the va rious --- "` .°lll Y, Physiology, and Discase a s nd of fu t n h e e tt. e i z nous UPllidning their structures, uses, iwur ios that are produced in them by solitary habits, excesses, and LareC tiOn. •SQUARE, BY SAMUEL Li'M u E t R D T, F 3 Q I.D R . D , S. lIRDFORD-STREBY,ON. motor of Medicine, London, Honorary Member Matriculated Member P Member of the University of Edin ofbarßh, Lioentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, h' London Hospital Medical Society, Affirm tilment of sever fat age requires the nil kc a . l conditions, in order retchedness, be raised, -.• May be really the cause of mutual happiness. Coeld the yen, which covers the origin of domestic w „, in hew many oould j L I 11 0 true source in every instance disc es • , trac e d te _.. o'4llb:tient& Y are always injurious ; the becomes, when PU sicsa disqualifications and theiroatitt,etwidhaileithdwisiaimp asei Ex ce sses I:h._ t o moderation is fraught with ad o—`•uu,,prolific source of mischief, and o particular excesses, en ~ 'nu co nstitutional and vital powers. vaaftagree'ater—orless injury ...", nature and consequence of width this Th Tr i oatise te th e kerne' frame, Zi a r° Productive of greater severity of misery professes to dilate, Itia any ether to which it is subject. 1, work contains as accurate and complete acce n u s nt of . the , :1... °11.1 Y and Physiology of the Reproductive Org t a c i es,,ry l ud r y l Letl'llcireerein'tthir cenclitions In health sad disease. I closest attention and study, for wha t f subject can .....of More importance than the preservation • , __„ NT °I the physical capabilities of which every man s hou l d r...: °°BB cused. It unfortunately happens that flu Unhappy fI`UM of excessive Indulgence aid vicious habits, whether acquired ees ly Life or from the follies of advanced age, while suffe rin g Lin,heir Invariable consequences, unwisely entertains a fear of aQp gto a qualified physician for relief. Shame and the dread ..o , 1....,,;, * " 111 . 1 Y, but erroneously entertained that these complaiuts are •.' 514 the reach of art, alike restrict ]list and prevent his seeking to assistance where alone it can be procured. In acting thus, he d a t at_its that accurate discrimination in ascertaining the causes of z i.7"f'. sTmpathy With the sufferer, and, above all, secrecy, inva _ aoly characterise the intelligent and practical physician, and to the _ ;rsodical man who can show by his posse Rion of the requisite legal I _ll_ med i cs that he Is entitled to esteem and respect in his profes i'.T ' 3 , 1 ;t 1 1 Pursuits, the utmost con fi dence should be extended. Dr. ERT has obtained the highest medical honours', as his diplomas ... e _, and the great extent of his practice fer many years is al 11-•o 6. lae : l l l: l o s " C fo d e r b t y r h e.e i t s h t p em r A o e f i tt s h s o i cif o r n t,h al e : e xp d e is r e le a n se e s e . , which has reference almost and may be had of Kent and Richards, -_-turnoster-rovv; Hannay, G 3, Oxford-street; Starie, Tichborne !4 11 1-strcet, London ; ...41,en_ Raley-market ; Mansell, 115, Fleet -street ; Gordon, 146, " a ' be Aut atzealectter, dellor, free by post for forty-two stamps, her, W ho may be consulted on these disorders personally 7, fr sm Ten till Two, and from Five till Eight at his Once '. 8W -ford-street Bedford-square Loudon. ,~~` N' G. 17,220.] LONDON, L RSDAYEVENING GUI LDIIALL, N0v.30, 1647. THE COMMIT fEE for LETTING the CITY'S LANDS, will meet at Guildhall, ex WEDNMPAY, the Stilt day oi December next, at One o'clock precisely, to receive tenders for I,ETTIPIG on BUILDING LEASES, for sixty-en, yea's, from Christmas next, a Piece of Ground, •o the north side of Narrow-street, Ratcliffe ; anti a large plot of rround on the east side of Puddle Dock, on the south side of Upper Ili:tines-street, and en the north side of the Inver Thames. Also to receive Tenders for Letting on Leases, for twenty-one years from Chri-tnias next, a Boast., No. 19, on the nerth side of ]Broad-street, alLtinga; and Nos. 7,6, 5, and 4, on the north side of eres cent-place,illackfriars • and also for 12 1 ,i years, from Christmas next, a house in Beehive-passage, Lime-street. Further particulars may he obtained, and plans seen, by applying at the Office of Works, Guildhall. THOMAS SALTI - DERS, Comptroller. rrII E QUEEN'S BISCUITS, Manufactured solely by J. D. CARR and Co., of Carlisle, Biscult-manufacturers by special appointment to the Queen and 110: al Faiuily. "By virtue of the power to me given, I hereby appoint Jcnathan Dodgson Carr, of Carlisle, to the place of Biscuit-baker to her Majesty In Ordinary. lic.ia to have and enjoy all the rights, prollts, Privileges, and advantages to the said place belonging, during my wit and pleasure. . _ ~ : ;ieer; under my hand, this Eighth day of May, 1841, jn the Fourth year of her Majesty's reign. " ERROL." " Entered in the Office of the Board of Green Cloth, the 20th day of May, 1841. "CHAS. 1111,L." J. 1). CARR and Co. have opened an Establishment for the sale of their Biscuits at 111, Strand, where purchasers, Wholesale and IZetall, may at all times have a perfectly fresh and extensive supply With a BEAUTIFULLY ENGRAVED PORTRAIT of JENNY - - LIND. Now ready, at all Booksellers, in a new binding, 21s. THE KEEPSAKE for 1648. Edit e d by th e COUNTESS of BLESSINGTQN, assisted by the Highest t, nary Talent of the day. With Twelve beautiful Plates engrared under the direction of Mr. CHARLES HEATH. D. Bogue, 86, f:leet-street. HORRID MURDERSTWIRELAND.—These events wore thus mentioned under November InZA.DKIEL'S ALMANAC, for 1647.—" On the 23d Mars will be very near the Earth, and it is then we hear of bloody deeds, ruthless murders, and savage slaughters. Alas I for Ireland," &c. ZIDKIEL'S ♦LMANAC for 1848 now ready. Sherwood and Co., Paternoster-row, and all Booksellers. May be hod by post of sending Texpence to S. Smith, 11, Dudley-place, red (l in g ton. R OYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE OFFICE, Royal Exchange, 24th Nov., 1847. The COURT of DIXECTOES of the ROYAL EXCIIANGIAS- Si:FRANCE do hereby give,notice, that their TR.AIIiSFER-BOORS will be SHUT from Tnuaspar, the 9th of December next, to Timms- DAY, the 6th of January following ; that the Annual General Court appointed by their Charter will be holden at their office on the Royal Exchange, on WEDNESDAY, the 22d of December, at Twelve o'clock at noon ; and that a dividend will be considered of at the said Court. ♦LEX. GREEN, Sec. CLERICAL, MEDICAL, and GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. Persons of all ages, and in every station, may assure with this So ciety on very moderate terms. No extra premium is required for sea•risk, or residence In any part •f Europe. Persons wishing to visit, or reside in other parts of the world, may also effect Policies at a small increase of premium. BONUSES. The two first Divisions averaged 221. per cent. on the premiums paid ; the third 281. per cent. The fourth bonus, declared Jan. 1847, averaged rather more than 361. per cent., and from the large amount of Profit reserved for future appropriation and other causes, the Bonuses hereafter are expected to exceed that amount. Tables of Rates, with a tall Report (recently printed) can be ob tained of the Society's Agents, or by addressing a letter to GEO. 11. PINCKARD, Resident Secretary, No. 99, Great Russell-street, Bloombury, London. ATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ♦SSURANCE SOCIETY. 26, CORNIIILL, LONDON. Capital .£500,0003. Empowered by Act •f Parliament. This Institution embraces important and substantial advantages with respect to life assurances and deferred annuities. Tho assured has, on all occasions, tle power to borrow, without expense or for !elture of the policy, two•thirds of the premiums paid (see Table); also the option of selecting benefits, and the conversion of his In terests to meet other conve.niencies or necessity. Assurances for terms of years on the lowest possible rates. DIVISION •F PROFITS. The increasing prosperity of the Society has enabled the Directors at the annual meeting held on the 12th May, 1847, to declare a fifth Jonas, varying from 35 to 85 per cent. on the premiums paid on each policy effected on the profit scale. ,XAMPLESt. Perma- ;Sum the ;1.4 I Annual 'Policy Bonus in aent Re- I Assured Ads. w Pro- taken addltioa Bonus in duction of knay her c7, g ratan, out in Assured. Cash. Annual row on Premiums. Policy. s. 4. X s 4. X s. d. £ s. d. r 1837 243 9 3 112 8 5 18 4 6 494 8 10 £ t .£ sd. 1838 218 4 8' 99 81015 13 5 445 0 0 .. 60 1000;74 3 4 1839 192 110 86 9 313 4 9 395 11 1 1840 143 5 10 66 8 4 9 19 1 346 2 3 1841 138 14 2 61 17 6 9 9 2 296 13 4 1842 111 4 8 1 49 10 0 710 4 1247 4 5 The Annual Report, witk tables of rates, &c., may he kart at the Mice, or any of its branches in the country; or, on application, will bc forwarded post tree. F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Secretary. rw, REGISTERED SYRIAN PALETOT is prepared In every colour, for selection, at Afersrs. SWAIN and CO.'S, Court Tailors, 379, Oxford-street. Price 2/. IRELAND. MORE ASSASSINATIONS. DUBLIN, Nov. 30.—Accounts reached town this morning of the assassination yesterday afternoon of the Rev. John Lloyd. The Rev. Gentleman was rector of Aughrim, and read service yesterday as usual in his church. On his return home he was shot not far from the church. The Rev. Mr. Lloyd was a small proprietor, but was understood to have considerable money wealth. He was very unpopular in his district. A correspondent of the Mai/ thus announces this frightful outrage : Mr. Lloyd was accosted on his way by a man, who walked up to the Reverend Gentleman, and coolly in formed him that he had not long to live. Mr. Lloyd said he was not aware of ever having injured any one. " Oh, yes, (reponded the assassin), you have dispossessed a tenant on the Leitrim estate ; ' and then pulling a short gun from under his coat, lodged the contents in the vic tim's body, who expired shortly afterwards. Another murder was committed in the district of Islandeady, Mayo, one of the most afflicted of that county. The account is from a private source, but it may be implicitly relied upon. The victim is a porson named O'Donnell, a bailiff i❑ the service of the Earl of Lucan, on whose business the unhappy man was engaged at the time of his murder. O'Donnell has re cently been brought much into collision with Lord Lu can's tenantry. His Lordship's agent, it is understood, has been served with a threatening notice. Referring to the savage murder of the Rev. John Lloyd, near Elphin, Roscommon, the Evening Post says !—" One letter states that there were two persons engaged in the murder, both of them dressed in clothes superior to those generally worn by the peasantry, and that they appeared to be total strangers in that part of the country. All the letters concur in the statement that the deepest alarm prevailed in that part of Ros common." The same journal contains the following :—" We are happy to learn from the editor of the Tipperary Vindi. color that Mr. R. Uniacke Bayly is getting on:as well as can be expected. He continues to labour under feverish symptoms, nor can it be said that danger has altogether disappeaied ; but his excellent constitution, and the un remitting attention bestowed upon his case, give hope that he may be restored to health, though for a very long period hope was very feeble. A statement in the Evening Mail of Friday, that Mr. Bayly had been shot at in consequence of the poor-laws, Li wholly without foundation. We are informed on the same authority, that the investigation into this atrocious crime was yes terday (Monday) resumed before Major Brownrigg, at Nenagh county goal. Six or seven other persons were arrested on suspicion, but of the result we are not able to speak." The system of agrarian combination is extending i❑ the county of Sligo. A letter from that county states that " threatening notices have been served upon a clergyman of the Established Church, who has all along worked with great zeal and success in promoting measures of relief. The reverend gentleman, it appears, has become obnoxious in consequence of his exertions to have the poor-rate collected in the district. He has found it necessary for his safety to have a policeman constantly in attendance." HALF PAST FIVE O'CLOCK. —I have seen a letter from Borrisokane, North Tipperary, dated Nov. 29 (yester day), which says, "a man was discovered on the road near this town to-day murdered in the most brutal manner. He was stoned to death I One stone was actually embedded in his skull, and the doctor had to use a pair of nippers in dislodging it. The name of the unfortunate man is not known. He was dressed in the ordinary garb of a farmer. An inquest is about to be held." Two battalions of the guards and a regiment of dra goons are shortly expected in this country, to supply the place of regiments under orders for the disturbed dis tricts. The 92d Highlanders, at present stationed in this garrison, have received orders to march to Limerick and Nenagh, and they will be detached to various of the disturbed districts to aid in repressing crime. They will leave to-morrow, the orders for their march being pressing. The 71st Regiment is also under orders for the same destination. The Enniskillen Chronicle says—" Sundry companies of the 48th arrived here from the out-stations during the last week, having been relieved by detachments from this garrison. An officer and party of the 48th Regi ment left this day (Monday) for Boyle, escorting ammu nition." The Evening Post, referring to the reorganization of the General Central Relief Committee for Ireland, says —" Already the pile of letters imploring assistance is on the increase. Already have the honorary secretaries (Messrs. Latouche, Hutton, and APllonnell) commenced their active labours of inquiry, and a few weeks more will find the committee again in full operation, and the utmost extent of their zeal and their resources will be demanded by a renewal of Irish suffering." The folior,ing afflicting details are given in the Glare Journal, received this morning There are 700 paupers in the Scariff workhouse, and hundreds daily —nay, hourly—seeking admission ; with their countenances emaciated and fully depicted with the destitution that is hourly augmenting in that locality. The vice-guardians have declared a rate of 7s. 6d. in the pound all over the union. Parents are de serting their children there and leaving. One child was brought into the workhouse yesterday, four years of age, and could not tell its name." " Last week, some three or four hundred persons, men, women, and children, from the parish of Killard, entered an extensive turnip field belonging to Mr. James Shannon, of Craganock, and tore away and eat on the spot the greater part of the turnips grown thereon, to stay for the moment the cravings of hunger. About one hundred of these poor people were on the last meeting day allowed into the Kilrush workhouse." The Cork Examiner contains a long report of a tenant right meeting, held in Skibbereen on Wednesday last. IL H. Becher, Esq., presided, and some of the gentry, and several of the clergy, Protestant and Homan Catho lic, attended and took part in the proceedings. DUNDALK ELECTION PETITION.—The sureties for prosecuting the petition against the return of Mr. M'Ta vish were perfected this day at the head police office. HEALTH OF THE LORD CHANCELLOR.—The Lord Chancellor did not sit yesterday, and will not do so this week. His Lordship is ♦ery ill with an affliction of his chest, caused by cold, and is under the care of Sir Henry Marsh. It became necessary to apply a blister to his chest yesterday, and to oblige his Lordship to remain at home. He resumed the duties of the Court prema turely. THE SCOTTISH HOSPITAL.—Tuesday being St. Andrew's-day, the annual Court of the Governors of the Scottish Hospital was held at the Hall of the Cor poration, Crane -court, Fleet street, to receive the re port for the past year. The Chisholm in the chair. Major Adair, the secretary, having stated the amount distributed in relief during the last two months to hare been 245/. 14s. id., produced the annual report of receipts and expenditure. The total income was 3,4421. 6s. 9d., which included 639/. 6s. donations ; 175/. 18s. 3d., one•third of the proceeds of the Caledo nian Ball ; annual contributions, 467/. 165., &c. After discharging all necessary expenses, among which was the sum of 2,683/. 12s. in relief, there remained a ba lance in hand of 1961. 6s. 6d. Of the sum given in relief 4,973 persona bad been recipients, some of whom were allowed 101. and some 31, annuities. The Corpo ration property amounted to 34,4004 Three per Cent., and 5,1001. old South Sea Stock. The report was re ceived and adopted. The ciairman then stated, that in consequence of the resignation of the Presidency by the Duke of Sutherland, the Duke of Montrose had con sented to accept the office. His Grace was accordingly elected. ANOTHER FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE OXFORD, WORCESTER, ♦ND WOLVERHAMPTON RAILWAY.— NORTON, NEAR WORCESTER, WEDNESDAY.—Another fatal occurrence has just happened here on the works of the above unfortunate line of railway, which has hurried a young man, in the prime of manhood, into eternity. A coroner's inquest has been held at a cottage here, on the body of the deceased, whose name is Thomas Poole, and whose death was occasioned by the following cir cumstances:—The deceased was at work on the line with between twenty and thirty others, when one of the earth waggons ran off the temporary rails. Deceased was endeavouring, with Henry Reining and George Suborn, to replace the waggon on the rails, when the vehicle and soil overbalanced and killed him on the spot ! Ho was picked up immediately but life was ex tinct in five minutes. Nsw EPIDEMIC. —Within the last eight or ten days a new epidemic has sprung up in the city, in the form of influenza, of a very severe character, which the present state of the weather greatly aggravates and fosters. Among the youth especially, the disease rages to an extent not known for many years, so much so as to lead to a total interruption of the routine in our principal academical institutions. Th• teachers of the Edinburgh Academy found their classes so remarkably thin towards the end of last week, that some holidays had to be granted; and yesterday the Lord Provost granted liberty to suspend attendance on the classes in the High School for a week, for the same cause. Other seminaries are reduced to a similar position, by suffering froia the disease, which, though not serious or alarming, is un precedentedly common. On Sunday the churches were all very thinly attended, and the general coughing of those present indicated plainly where the cause:lay. A safe, simple, and efficacious remedy for the influenza is to wear a good large plaster of Burgundy pitch over the chest; by so doing, it will not only subdue the distress ing cough, and other uneasy symptoms attendant there on, but will, if applied in time, act as a sure preventative. —Edinburgh Advertiser. On Tuesday, the 30th ult., died, at the house of his son, at Islington, in the 87th ye ar o f hi s age, Mr. Thomas Cobbett, the elder brother of the late William Cobbett. This gentleman was the last surviving of four brothers. A GANG OF THIEVES. (From Galignanis Messenger.) During the last few months our readers will re member to have seen in our columns accounts of the capture of a numerous band of thieves who, under the direction of a man named Claude Thibert, particularly distinguished themselves by highway robberies; and they will also remember to have read repeated refe rences to the facts disclosed by the investigations which were entered into. After several months' preparation it was determined to bring the band to trial at the first November session of the Court of Assizes of the Seine. The capture of the gang and the preliminary inquiries into its misdeeds having excited public at tention to an extraordinary degree, the trial was looked forward to with intense interest; this interest was even increased by the pretended revelations of certain newspapers, to the effect that, besides the commission of innumerable robberies, the accused would be proved to have been guilty of many a dark deed of blood, relieved, however, by acts of touching generosity and chivalrous bearing. In fact, the band was represented to be a set of melodramatic heroes; cut-throats, but noble-hearted ; thieves, but possessed of every high quality; outcasts from society, but bearing themselves as redressers of wrongs ; whilst around them a glorious halo of devotedness in friendship and fidelity in love was made to shine; and at the same time it was pretty plainly hinted that more than one lady of high degree had abandoned family, friends, station, fortune, and even honour itself, to join her fate to theirs. Unfortunately, however, for romantic readers, not a word of all this is true. The gang are not murderers, but consist of a sorry set of knaves as ever figured on the dock of an assize court; their robberies have been very common-place affairs —instead of devoted friendship and faithful love, they have displayed the basest treachery to each other, and their lady followers and accomplices are neither fair nor high-born, but the lowest of the low. Indeed, had it not been for the number of the gang and the extent of its depredations, the trial would scarcely have attracted a passing notice. Claude Thibert, as we have said, was the chief of the band, and it bore his name. Not fewer than 58 of his accomplices, 11 of whom were women, were brought to trial with him, but his band was really much larger; a and tda l hy o ce thef om7n ott hrinn, a ui a c nen c gdd u . e s : ay d eurrn s seydamdtas Sunday, changes nhwg m ei et e slh n 4h c t t ah e hd c e l , considerabl e num b er — a nd amo ng t h em an English man named Stone—ha v ing thu s f ar contrived to avoid uob exception i t Friday, n i : g s i t x a ko ofot. h es e ku T y 4 ne h t d h s e ate t , a r r, to be made in the court to find places for the prisoners. The dock was fill e d up w i t h s i x rows of seats. and on them th e accuse d were placed, eac h one be tween two g'ndarmes. The appearance thus pre sented was very remarkable. A strong farce of gen darmes was considered necessary to prevent the ac ed from making, as they are stated to have in tended, an attempt to escape on their way to or from the court, and also to prevent the majority of them from taking, as they had threatened, vengeance on those of their accomplices who had made revelations. The indictment was of immense length containing as much matter as six volumes of romances ; the reading of its occupied the greater part of two days' sittings. This document, which was as uninteresting as it was long, stated that . the number of robberies committed by the different accused was 119, and extended from 1838 to the arrest of the leader in 1846. Most of the robberies were of the same character. During the night the accused were accustomed to rob the waggons and carts which the drivers left in the public road before the inns in which they had taken up their quarters. Generally they made a choice from the contents of the vehicles, carefully covering what they did not take; but sometimes they made away with the wag gons altogether. They also stole horses and carts ; sometimes helping themselves to a horse to put to a cart; sometimes stealing a cart to put to a horse. Twenty carts and upwards of thirty horses were thus stolen. They, moreover, at times broke into houses to commit robberies. They contrived for a long time to escape detection by making off with great rapidity to distant parts of the country immediately after perpe trating a theft; and as they had numerous depots and receivers in all directions they had no difficulty in get ting rid of their booty. Among the places at which their principal robberies were committed were Soissons, Rethel, Verdun, Villers-le-Tourneur, St. Aubin, Dombasle (Meuse), Troyes, Langres, Nangis (Seine et Marne), Void, Charcy (Cote d'Or), Valence, Sex anne(Marne),St.Didier,(Cfsted'Or),Sicheres(Yonne), Sandillon (Loiret), Bessay (Allier), Linhs (Oise), Musaey (Cote d'Or), &c. These places are com prised in a zone of about 80 leagues around Paris ; but the band rarely came very near the capital, and the thefts they did perpetrate in its vicinity were at very distant intervals. The appearance of Thibert, who is about 46 years of age, presents nothing remarkable, but his features have an expression of intelligence and determination. He exercised great authority over his hand, and was spoken of by them in very respectful terms. When, for example, any of his accomplices had occasion to allude to him in the course of the proceedings, they always called him Alonsieur Thibert. H e ostensibly carr i e d on t h e business of a pedlar and h aw k er, an d was d u l y li censed. He went from one part of the country to the other, accompanied by several men whom he called his domestics ; and when an opportunity of committing a theft presented itself he availed hi mself of it, and imme diately disappeared with his booty. His activity was extraordinary—he would commit a robbery in one spot, and the next d ay commit another at twenty leagues' distance. In the course of his business as a hawker he contrived to dispose of a good deal of his booty ; the rest he sold to receivers ' • and whe n sales were difficult he l o d ge d i t i n a depot which he had hired at Villeneuve St. Georges. He had more than once fallen into the hands of justice and had been severely punished. When he was last arrested, which was on the 29th of January, 1846, he at first seemed as if struck by a thunderbolt, and when he came to himself he cried that he was lost. After a while, however, he demanded to see the chief of the secret police, and to him he made a confession of having been concerned in forty-eight robberies. He at the same time denounced all his accomplices, both thieves and receivers. The influence which Thi bert exercised over his band did not arise from an y express arrangement between him and then), but was obtained entirely by the energy of his character. In the course of the trial he repeated the fullest confessions as regarded his own guilt, and stated with great precision the cases in which the different prisoners were concerned. When asked what was his profession, he replied, "A thief, Mr. President —a thief. I have always been a thief;" and he added, " When I was quite young I remember having committed robberies with Jews, who compelled me to steal sacred objects from churches, and then made me dance on them, saying, 'Now, then, little Catholic, dance on them !' " His mother, it appears, was a gipsy woman, and died in a hospital when he was very young, leaving him without any resource. His father was a criminal, and, it is believed, died on the scaffold ; but this Thibert denies. The accused next in importance to Thibert were—a young man named Dickers, aged only twenty-four, who was concerned in fifty-seven robberies, and who, when he heard of Thibert's arrest, broke into his store of Stolen goods and made away with the greater part of it; Dufour, concerned in fifty-seven robberies ; Prudhomme, concerned in fifty-six ; Chobeaux, an ex Arcot and a celebrated Mitni-Lepr e uil, Paris concerned formerly malefa in only two robberies ; Roche, an ex - conv i c t, concerned in a great many robb er i es. Half c tor, a c o s n k c i l e f r u n l e d p i i n e k t p w o e c n k t e y t s is avt of the band consisted of receivers of stolen goods, and among them was a man named Hermann, conju ror, a German, professedly a street who at tracted notice not so much on account of the enormity of his offences as from being a well-known character in Paris. Without going into the facts of the particular robberies in which the different prisoners participated, which would be a wearisome and useless task, it will suffice to say that most of Thibert's revelations were proved to be true, and that the prisoners in some cases admitted their guilt, others strenuously denied it. A very old woman named Roch, alias Richard, who stood accused of having knowingly purchased some stolen cloth, was particu larly decided in her denials. "Oh the liar 1 oh the liar 1" she exclaimed to every accusation of Thibert " what could I want with cloth ?" she added. "It lover," said Thibert. "My l over ; oh was for your the wretch ! I had no lover, I swear to G o d !" cried the old lady ; "he was only my man of business !" The old woman kept a public-house, and when she was asked if the society which frequented it was not what is called Lien melee,—" Not at all !" said she indignantly. "No said the President, "it was not indeed, for they were all thieves?' The man named Roche, having denied that he had committed rob beries with Thibert, because, he said, he despised him too much, the President exclaimed, " What ! you, a convict, condemned to 20 years' hard labour in the bagne, you despise him—why so "Yes," replied the prisoner, " I have the right to despise him ! I am a convict, it is true; but that does not prevent me from h av i n g sentiments of honour !,, The woman Pierrot, accused by Thibert of havingipurchased his stolen goods, loudly denied it and denounced him as a liar. " But remember, Madame,"said Thi bert, PUBLICATIONS. THE QUEENS OF ENGLAND. 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" Profits, profits !" shrieked the woman in a fury, and, tearing off her petticoat, she shouted, " Look there, gentlemen ; I gave him 3,5 centimes, a metre for this rubbish. Judge from that of the profits he enabled me to realize!" The interrogatories of the other prisoners presented nothing r emar k a bl e, neither did the evidence given against them ; but it may be stated that it transpired that one of the persons robbed by the gang di e d f ro m grief; and that severa l others were - completely ruined. It also appeared that several of the prisoners suddenly Nell on Dufour, whilst in prison, and nearly killed him for having made revelations. After hearing speeches from a great number of advocates for the prisoners, the President severally asked the accused if they had anything to add in their defence ? Thibert merely answered, that all that he had said was the truth, and he demanded the indulgence of the court. Dickers said :—" A word, I beg of you. Permit me to remind you, that in spite of great dan gers with which we were threatened in becoming informers, we have come here and told you the truth. The revelations we have made place an impassable barrier between us and crime. We have been se verely treated by the advocates of the other prisoners, we have been called cowards—infamous ; but we can bear these reproaches, for God gives strength to those who desire to lead a new life, and enables them to bear everything ! No, we are not infamous! What interest could cause us to make revelations when the dungeon awaits us P It was to break with crime for ever that we acted as we have done !" All this was said with great apparent humility. The accused named Roche said that it mattered little to him what sentence was passed on him, for the condemnations already heaped on him would not be satisfied until he should be 70 years of age ; but he made an earnest appeal on behalf of the woman named Deschamps, with whom he had lived, because, he said, he had led her into crime. Hermann cried, " I am the father of ten children, nine of whom are dependent on me for their bread. I have a father aged 87, - and a mother aged 86, who also depend on me ; they all call on me for food—let me earn it for them 1" The others either protested their innocence or made in significant observations. The President summed up the case with great minuteness, and the jury, after some hours' deliberation, returned with their verdict. The undermentioned having been found guilty, had the following sentences passed on them :—llibert, 10 years' reclusion; Dufour and Dickers, 10 and 8 years' reclusion ; Prudhomme, 10 years' hard labour at the hulks ; Chobeaux and Roche, 20 years' hard labour at the hulks; Lepreuil and Hermann, 5 and 2 years' imprisonment ; Bar thelmey 10, Lefevre 7, the woman Therese Des champs, 6, and the woman Pierrot, 5 years' hard labour at the hulks ; Masson, Villette, Roseau, and Levy, each ten years' reclusion; Lejeune and Pruvot, 8 years; Plumerland and Saunier, 7 years; Laronilly, Espagne, the woman Espagne, Broquet, Pierrot, Kauffmann, and a girl named Viollet, to 5 years' re clusion; Gosset, Larzilliere, Langrade, Bombard, Broquet, and Guerin, to 5 years' imprisonment ; a woman named Masson, Boudet, Ballet, and widow Rich, to 3 years; Forfait, a girl named Clement, and Hugo, to 1 years of the same penalty. Nineteen prisoners were acquitted, viz. :—Feret, Renard, Rueff, Commun, Bonneville, a girl named Lecomte, the woman Lecomte, Lefrancois, the woman Lefraugois, Merot, Gillet, the woman Gillet, Savatier, Goudon, the woman Goudon, Legros, Brunswick, Bonnet, and Jacques. The con demned Hermann was much affected, and cried— "Oh my wife! Oh my children !" The woman Pierrot fainted, and was carried away senseless. The girl Viollet wept bitterly, but attempted to console Dickers, with whom she had lived. The prisoners who were acquitt e d man if es t e d great j oy, an d thanked thejury by expressive gestures. THE IRISH BAR. (Continued from the Law Review.) Despite of many drawbacks, Norbury was a very ex traordinary man. Short and pursy, with grey, laughing eyes, he had the singular habit of puffing out his cheeks between his sentences. To a thorough knowledge of the world, he added, what perhaps that very knowledge would create, as thorough a contempt for it. The con ventional gravity of the judgment-seat was put to flight by such expressions as,—" Come, Mr. Everard, trier your demurrer;" and of course his Court adopted its chief's example. It could not well be otherwise. His very laugh was infectious. A stranger passing through the hall, ceuld at any time have distinguished the Com mon Pleas by the incessant merriment which i-sued from its portals. Of that Court at nisi pries, par ticularly in summer, it is difficult to convey an adequate descripticn. As a matter of course, it was always crop ded to the very ceiling, with an atmosphere to match. In this, above all things, Norbury delighted, with the exception of the heat. There he was in his glory, good humour personified, puffing, and punning, and panting, till his face became a full moon. At last, grilled beyond endurance, off went the gown, and the tails of the wig reversed, hung over his forehead. But suffer as he might, there was about him a blandness which it was impossible to ruffle. He was often severely tried. Amongst the many portents which distinguished his Court, was a poor monomaniac, whose delusion was that he was the Chief Justice. Long and good-naturedly , was he tolerated, till, when at last he threatened to de• pose the impostor from the bench, the tardy mandate might be heard,. Jackson, turn Lord Norbury out of court." A nonsuit was never heard of in his time. Some people gave a reason for it ; Norbury gave another, rather different, but less serious. "As a constitutional judge ho would not take a case from the jury." " I hope, my Lord, " said counsel (in a case actually commanding it), "your Lordship will, for once, have the courage to nonsuit." In a moment the hair-triggers were sum moned. " Courage—l tell you what, Mr. Wallace, there are two kinds of courage —courage to shoot and courage to non shoot, and I hope I have both—but non-shoot I certainly will net;" and no possible argument could in duce him. He was an inveterate punster, and a first rate one, too, if, according to Swift, the worst aro the best. Bitter things, however, at times he said, and things to be remembered. There was a gentleman of high rank once tried before him fur arson. He was acquitted —not, however, by the verdict of the mob who, in defiance of the jury. called his house " Moscow." The first place in which Norbury and he met after trial, was at a levee. " How do you do, my Lord?" " How do— how do—glad to meet you here." "Paying my farewell visit as a bachelor, my Lord, I'm going to become a Benedict." " Glad to hear it, Mr. C. Saint Paul says, you know, better marry than burn." It is singular enough that, with good humour ever in his looks, and merriment also ever on his lips, this man's nature was obdurate and callous. He had no sympathy for human suffering, no feeling even for himself. He valued not his life at a pin's fee, and it was as dangerous as it was difficult to provoke him. his friends knew this, and the fact gave rise to an incident in which his shrewdness and determination blended humorously. Towards the close of life, when the failure of his facul ties became manifest, the then Viceroy, the Marquis Wellesley, decided on giving him a hint to resign, through the well-known Under-Secretary, Mr. Gregory. Norbury got scent of it, and instantly was his decision taken. lie sent for Gregory, led him to his library, and, as he turned the key, assumed that fiery scowl with which Gregory was familiar as portending mischief. " Gregory, I have long looked on you as my oldest friend, and severely now am I about to test that friend ship. The most momentous incident of my life is at hand; I am about to be publicly and grossly insulted—l, who never brooked even a saucy look from any one! Will you believe it, Gregory, our mock-king at the castle is actually meditating a message to me to resign my office! Did you ever hear of such audacity! such poltroonry too! Of course the fellow won't fight. But my mind's made up, his ruffian messenger shall have my life, or never return with his own—no--not though he was my brother. Gregory, my old and valued friend, will you stand by me? The hair-triggers are as ready as in the days of Napper Tandy." That very day the private closet of the castle sew the horror-stricken Gre gory moat respectfully declining the confidential mission. The blow, thus for the time averted, came at last. It came, however, in writing. All Norbury asked, was a postponement, till he could consult a friend. The pro mise being given—the friend was in India—and--a year was gained. At last, however, falling asleep en the bench during a trial fur murder, a petition to Parliament compelled his resignation. His last act was characteristic. He had for his neighbour an old nobleman who had been bedridden for years. Hearing from his physician that, though he himself was in no immediate danger, still in all probability he would never rise from his bed, he very deliberately rung the bell for his servant: — "James, go next door, and tell Lord Erne, with my corn plimenta, that it's now a dead-heat between us." When he was not on the bench he was on horseback. One of his brethren in the Common Pleas deserves a passing notice. In truth, Mr. Justice Fletcher was, in his own way, almost as great an original as his chief. A good lawyer, for the time in which ho lived, and, what is good in all times, a very humane judge : but, a bear's skin disguised a kindly nature ; uncouth in manner, and independent in principle, he care!d neither what be said, nor whom he encountered. The ultra liberalism of his celebrated charge to the Wexford grand jury threw the whole country into a flame , and well inigh drew down on him the vengeance of Government. By way of propitiating them, he revised, strengthened, and published it as a pamphlet. The surliness of his manner produced a mot from Mr. French, which should not be forgotten. About five o'clock every day Fletcher became ravenously hungry ; the peasantry said he had a wolf in his stomach. One day, just ou the advent of the hungry hour, French commenced a long cross examination; euniry and wryful were the contortions of Fletcher, and dogged in proportion the pertinacity of French. At length the hoer of six sounded audibly. Flesh and blood—at all events, flesh and blood like Fletchee.s--could stand it no longer, the outburst came; EPRICE -- SD. —" Lord of heaven, Mr. French, do you mean to keep me here all night, like a bear tied to a stake?" " Oh, , no , my Lord," said French, bowing reverentially, " not tied to a stake." In allusion to this failing, Bushe used humorously to describe Fletcher, when previously pa ' ettied by substantials, as amusing himself by " playing on an eel," the process being his taking the head in one hand and the tail in the other, and then, Pandean fashion, running the body through his teeth! No two men could possibly be more dissimilar than these ermined brethren. Fletcher, humane, learned, and uncourteons, —Norbury, shallow, good-humoured, and severe. The one all sincerity, meaning what he said. The other all surface, meaning nothing at all. The Chief Justice wns the most hospitable man in the most hospitable of coun tries,—that is, so fir as invitations went. He inrited every one to his country-house, and the duration of the visit conferred an obligation in proportion to its length. The invitations were all to the country, the town home being inconveniently near. There was a ludicrous story rife in those days of a simple old couple who actually believed that the " When will you kindly spend a week with me in the country?" meant what it expressed. Packing up, therefore, the requisites for a week, they in nocently presented themselves at the country-house. The hospitable inviter, but most unintentional host, re ceived them with amazement, but with his usual self possession. His presence of mind quailed not at the lady's maid and the bandboxes, and the heavy imperial and all the manifest indications of a protracted sojourn. On the contrary, he sprang forward, his whole person mantled in affability—" My kind friends—my dear old friends—this is so like you—so very good of you ; now no excuses, I must positively insist on your—staging to dinner." When some burglars subsequently paid the "country-house" a visit, the jest went that it was " by a general invitation." (TO BE CONTINUED.) COURT OF ALDERMEN. On Tuesday a Court was held for the purpose of re ceiving and disposing of Alderman Thomas Wood's resignation of the gown of Cordwainers' Ward. Sir PETER LAURIE gave notice of motion for the next Court, " That it be referred to the General Purposes Committee ofAldermen, that in addition to the clauses in the proposed City of London Sewer Bill, prohibiting the use of advertising vans and other matters, there be introduced by the Remembrancer a clause providing for the more effectual punishment of wilfully breaking shop windows." THE PEETAILING SICKNESS. Alderman COPELAND thought it necessary to make some allusion to the observations made by Alderman Sidney, with respect to the prevalence of fever. He had in consequence of the statement of Alderman Sidney at a former Court, moved for particular re ports of the surgeons of the London prisons, on the state of the persons confined, and he found that although fever had existed to a considerable extent, it had abated, and there had been no fatal result. He condemned the readiness which he thought Alderman Sidney had exhibited to listen to exaggerated state ments on such a serious question. Alderman SIDNET did not consider that he lent too ready an ear to so alarming a report as that the cholera was approaching our shores. He had com plained of the crowded state of Giltspur-street Compter, and he had expressed his very natural ap prehension of the consequence of the introduction of so awful a calamity amongst the unfortunate inmates at a period like the present. Alderman H. HUGHES thought the City prisons extraordinarily free from sickness at such a time, when almost in every family six or seven persons were prostrated by influenza. That was surely a test of the magisterial care bestowed upon those places, and called rather for approbation than censure.—(Hear.) TIIB RESIGNATION OP ALDERMAN THOMAS WOOD. • The LORD MATOR rose and said he had called the Court specially together for the purpose of handing to them for their consideration a letter which he had received from Alderman Thomas Wood. The following letter was then read by the Town Clerk : "Corbet court, November 26, 1847. " My Lord Mayor,—The position I am in calla upon m• to take some decisive step in reference to my public engagements, as well as in deference to the Court to which I have the honour to belong. Feeling that my pecuniary circumstances will not allow me to maintain the rank usually expected of an Alderman of London, and knowing also that I must be subject to the usual course of the law, I think it due to :he Court and the public at once to retire from the magisterial chair, rather than excite observation, do ought to discredit the Court, or reduce its position in ittblic estimation by any inefficiency on my part. I therefore request permission to retire altogether from the office, to which I am in duced as much by the considerations above as by the great bereavement and severe personal afflictions I have had to encounter for the last two years. I cannot close this notice to your Lordship without expressing my great gratitude for the kind and -s)nipathetic feeling which the Court, as well as its individual members, have of kte award,d to me, and I trust that, however unfor tunate I may have been, I retire in possession of the good opinion of a'l with whom I have had the honour to associate, as magistrates of the City of London. "I have the honour to remain, my Lord, " Your faithful servant, " THOMAS WOOD. " To the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor." There was a general expression of sympathy in the Court. Alderman H. HUGEIES, in moving that the resigna tion of Alderman Wood be received and entered upon the journals, said the letter just read did great credit to the head and heart of the writer. Sir PETER LAURIE seconded the motion, which was then unanimously agreed to. Sir C. MARSHALL then, after a few words, expres sive of his sense of the talent and unwearied exertion of Mr. Wood as a magistrate, moved the following resolution :—" That this Court cannot receive the resignation of Thomas Wood, Esq., of the office of alderman, without expressing its deep sympathy in his late melancholy bereavement, nor without ex pressitg its sense of the exemplary manner in which he has discharged the important duties of his magis terial office, and the valuable aid and assistance he has at all times afforded to the members of this Court, collectively and individually." The resolution was carried unanimously, and a copy was ordered to be presented to Mr. Wood by the Town Clerk. ISSUE OF THE WARD PRECEPT. The Court requested the Lord Mayor to issue his precept for the election of an alderman for Cord wainers' Ward in the room of Mr. Wood, and his Lordship gave directions accordingly. The subject of the election of a new alderman was very freely canvassed in the Court amongst the mem bers, who seemed to be impressed with the belief that Mr. David Salomons will not only be elected, but that he will not be opposed. SANITARY STATE OF THE CITY. The inquest of Portsoken Ward made a present ment to the Court, complaining of the abominably filthy condition of the lanes, alleys, and courts in the neighbourhood of Whitechapel, particularly in the locality of the slaughter-houses. The presentment embodied the vigorous condemnation uttered in the Court of Common Council by the lamented Dr. Lynch, who was the first to draw the attention of the Cor poration to the necessity of adopting some mode of cleansing the miserable habitations of the poor. The Foreman said: the inquest had appeared before the Commissioners of Sewers on the subject, but the Court of Aldermen was considered the most powerful body capable of acting upon the occasion. He called the attention of the Court most earnestly to the ques tion, and stated, that although temporary checks were given to the nuisances, there appeared to be no chance of any effective or permanent improvement, without the energetic agency of the Court of Alder men. The Loup MAYOR said the usual course of remedy was through the alderman of the ward, who would, if the nuisance was not abated, be privileged to com pel its removal, and to punish those who were instru mental in its continuance.—Adjourned. ••••• CHELTENHAM, Nov. 27.—Mr. Wilson gave one of his highly interesting entertainments hero this morn ing, which, notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather, was fully and fashionably attended. Mr. Wilson was in splendid voice, and gave all his songs with even more than his accustomed excellence. In compliance with many requests, ormance Mr. Wilson announce about the d that he would give an evening perf end of the month. The Grand Lodge of Druids, on Tuesday evening, held their sixty.sixth anniversary festival at their new club-house, Ancient Druids' Hall," Farringdon-street. At sev,n o'clock a most excellent dinner was placed on the table by the stewards, and the wines supplied during the whole entertain ment were of the best quality. Th e present N. G. A. Evans presided, and P. A. Cittadini took the vice-chair. There was not a very numerous attendance, owing to none but members having been in vited, and of winch no less than twenty •aix sent apolo gies for not coming, on account Of arising from the influenz tat p resent so prevalent. On former fes tivals visitors not b e l ong i ng to the order were permitted to attend, but the meetings now being carried on strictly in accordance with the club system, any oth er th an members could not b e allowed. Nevertheless, the party, although comparatively small in n um b ers , were not wanting in th e i r accustomed sociality and merriment. toastsTwhielliam_ were e ere given by th e N . G. A. Evans, P. A. ett, J. A. Inckes, and G. Wenborn, and each made some judicious observations on the present state of Druidism, and on the future prospects of the grand lodge. The harmony was kept up to a late hour by the singing of Brothers Bonier, Delavanti, and Frost, and by p er f ormances on the pianoforte by Brothers I Llsloble Bud Cittadini. Powers to allow the Great Western, Bristol, and Exeter, and South Devon Railway Companies to subscribe capital. Clarence— Amalgamation with the Leeds and Thirsk. Chester and Holyhead— Power for London and North-Western to subscribe capital. Power to use steam-boats. Direct London and Portsmouth-- To alter and repeal former Acts. Exeter and Crediton, Taw Vale and Dock, and Bothnia and Weybridge-- Exeter and Cowley-bridge Junction. Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester. Exeter and Exmouth-- Amendment Acts. Eastern Counties— Extension to the East and West India Docks. Amendment Acts. Extension to Epping. Enlargement of London and Stratford stations. Branch from Charleston to Basingbourne. Ilford, Tilbury Fort, and Southend, with a branch from Vange to Battle-bridge. Branch to Royston and Hitchen. Extension of time for purchase of land. East Lincolnshire— Grimsby branch. East Anglian i Huntingdon and Ely— Extension of time. Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding— Branches to Barnsley and Colliery. Great Northern-- Extension to the Isle ofAxholme. Enlargement of Boston and Lincoln stations. Great Western— Extension of Berks and Hants Railway from Hunger. ford to Westbury, with branch to Devizes. Branch from Slough to Windsor. Oxford and Rugby line. Loop line from Birmingham and Oxford Junction through Leamington. To confer additional powers with reference to the agreement for the purchase of the Birmingham and Oxford Junction and the Birmingham and Wolver hampton and Dudley Railways. Great Western of Bengal— Dissolution and transfer of powers to the East Indian Railway Company. Kendal and Windermere— Power to raise additional capital. London and Blackwall— Branch to St. Katharine's and the London Docks. London and Brighton and South Coast— Enlargement of London-bridge and New-cross stations. Extension of time for the Littlehampton and Steyning Branches. Authority to subscribe to the Direct Londe' and Ports mouth Line. Lewes and Uckfield— Lowestoft Railway and Harbour— Enlarge Acts. Leeds Central Station. Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester— Branch to Ossett. Enlargement of Dewsbury and Morley stations. Leeds and Thirsk— Branch to Northallerton and junction with the York and Newcastle line. Branch to Harrowgate and Pateley. Alteration of levels. Junction with the Stockton and Darlington line. London and South-Western— Amendment Acts, deviations, and new works. Southampton and Dorchester amalgamation. Exeter and Crediton, Taw Vale and Dock and Bod min and Waybridge Railway Companies-arrange ments. Llantwit Vardre— Junction with the Taff Vale. Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne Junction— Sale or lease of line to the York and Newcastle and Berwick Railway, the Lancashire and North York shire Railway, or the East Lancashire Railway Company. Abandonment of the line and dissolution of the corn - pally. Extension of time for the purchase of land and con struction of line. Burnley branch, junction with the Bedale branch of the York, Newcastle, and Berwick line. Midland, Gloucester, and Stonrhou , e Junction— Br anch to Ripley and branches therefrom to Del by. Widening line at Derby. Enlargement of Derby and Burton stations. Junction line to Long Eaton, Masborough, end Builw ell. Branch to Cinder hill Colliery. Branch near Walling borough. Manchester and Southampton— Line from Andover to Cheltenham, to join the Mid• land Railway, with a connecting line to the Great wesurn Railway at Swindon, with powers to the Midland Railway to subscribe towards such under takiinz. Manchester— South Junction and Altrincharn—Extension of Man chester station. Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midlands Junction. Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire— Purchase of Sheffield Canal. Enlargement of Sheffield station. Branch to the Sheffield Canal. Humber Flats Improvement. Junction line to llarborough. Junction with the Bridlington line, via Barnsley, and branches therefrom. Purchase of Ashton Canal. Enlargement of Manchester station. Enlargement of Staley bridge station. Amendment Acts. Branch to Bagaworth. Extension to Buxton. Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire— Extension to Blackwell-mill. Extension to Stockport. Grimsby Pilotage. Monmouth and Hereford— Extension of time for completion of works. North Western— Diversion of line at Skipton. Carte, and Sedburg. Branches and Extensions from the main line to the Birmingham and Oxford Junction at Leamington, and from the Coventry and Nuneaton line of the North-Western to the Mount Pleasant Collieries. A Branch to the Cra Collieries. New approach road to Tamworth. Enlargement of Rugby station. Power to hold shares in the Caledonian and Chiller and Holyhead Railways. North British— Increase of capital. No. 2, new works. Northern Counties Union — Amendment of Acts. Deviation of line. Deviation of Thirsk and Clifton line. Deviation of Auckland and Tabery line. Newcastle and Carlisle—. Alteration of branches. North Staffordshire— Branch to Ashbourne. Approaches to Congleton. Deviations at Willington. Norfolk— Reedhans and Disc branch. Extension. Newmarket— Extensiontoyston and fro Hitchen mC heste ß rf a o i r l d w a t y. o oy s ten to join the i Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton— Extemion of time. Increase of capital. Deviation of line. bury Birmingham, and Dudley R a i l _ Power to Shrews Enlargement subscribe a n o d f p v ow ar e ae rs t e ee f G in g. t e e a re t st. W estern Railway to way th t° and Greatbute to m ake line. Plymouth Docks-- to lease to Great Western , Bristol and Exeter, S o uth Devon Railways. Western and Reading, Guildford , and Reigate— Branch to London and South-Western and p nßailw or a k y i . nga. u contri Op m e a n k in i g ng o o f f li l n i o ne fo b r e p tw ub ee li n c traffic. Extension of time for the purchase o f land d Reading approaches. To stop up road at Sonning. Southampton and Dorchester— Blandford Branch. Salisbury and : Yeovil— To lease to Exeter, Yeovil, and Salisbury. South Y or k s hi re, Doncaster, and Goo! o Extensions to Dodsworth and Penistone. South Wales— Extonsion. Shropshire Union Railway and Canal. Taw Vale-- Re-introduced Bill. Whitehaven and Furness— Exten-ion of time for purchase of land and deviation of line. Branch to Whitehaven-harbour. lease or sell the line to the Lancashire Powers to and Railway. Powers lease or purchase Pile-pier and Furness the North-Western, or Furness Railway, Whi te h aven Junction — Junction, Yorkshire, the Preston and Wy re, the Whitehaven Extension of time for making line tad purchase of WiEltxs,tesnosznioenrstoct,Wannditewhaev)emn oluiathrtur. land. Windsor, Staines, and South-Western— To enable South-Western to subscribe capital. //t" NEW RA Tuesday being the Parliament for deposit., for which it is intended to apply to Parliament during the pr esent sess i on for Acts, several plans and section were deposited at the Office of the Railway Commis si6ners at the Board of Trade, Whitehall. The majority of 04 plans and sections, however, were lodged at dif ferefei*eriods d ur i ng t h e month, consequently there was non of that confusion and excitement which charac terised the 30th of November, 1845 and 1846. The following is a list of the companies who have de posited their plans and sections : Bristol and Exeter-- Taunton and Castleearey branch. Branch eet from Blead on to Wells, Glastonbury, and Purchase of Glastonbury Navigation and Canal. Bristol and South Wales— Dissolution Bill. Birmingham and Oxford Junction— Deviation from Leamington to Warwick. Purchase of Stratford-upon-Avon Canal. Cornwall— S MIT HFIE LD CLUB PRIZE CATTLE SHOW, 1847. The ANNUAL EXHIBITION of Prise Cattle, Seeds, Roots, Im plements, &c., Bth, 9th, 10th, and 11th December, at the HORSE BAZAAR, King-street, Portman-Nuare. Ladies are enabled to view this National xhibition with perfect oomtort ; and for the better accommodation of visitors, a large Sa loon ter refreshraents is this year added. Open from Daylight till Nine in the livening. Admittance —ONE SHILLING.