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,a,clc again, anti desired the prisoner, as he was ac-
quainted with the value of the bond, to procure change
for it elsewhere. The prisoner said be could not do that,
as it was tea late, and would rather the prosecutor
changed it. After some further conversation, during which
the prisoner said he was a friend of the Prussian Ambas-
sador and Baron Rothschild, witness allowed him to
leave with the money; he promising to get the bond ne-
gotiated on Monday, and call and give him the amount.
On Monday he called according. to promise, and apolo-
gised for not bringing the money, alleging as an excuse
that he had not been enabled to disprove of the bond,
without consenting to the loss of 101(the bond purported
to be for 251.) Prisoner then wanted witness to make a
further advance, which he declined. Defendant then
left, and from subsequent inquiries which ho made he
was informed that the bond was spurious, and that his
acquaintance wiJi the Prussian Ambassador and Baron
Rothschild was purely imaginary. Prosecutor then gave
information to the police, and defendant was taken into
custody last night at his lodgings.
Mould, 123 C, proved taking the prisoner into cus-
tody at his lodgings in Park-place, St. James's. He
found nothing upon him but a passport and 31.
Mr. Lewis denied that the bond was worthless. His
client would in a few days be in possession of 5001., and
would then pay Mr. Thiery the amount.
Mr. BINGHAM would afford defendant an opportunity
of settling with the prosecutor by allowing bins till Mon-
day to do so. In the meantime he would take good bail
fur his appearance on that day.

LITERATURE.
BLEAK ROUSE. No. VIII. By Charles
Dickens.
Rick seems to be altogether incorrigible. Among
the other intentions of our author connected with the
development of the story now in course of publication
—is that, we conjecture, of showing how a blithe
young mind may become darkened and soured, and
how a promising career may become blighted and
lost by the influence of the Upas of the Court of
Chancery. We question even if Rick's affection for
Ada will he of very long continuance. About the
cleverest passages in the number before us, the one
issued from the press with the commencement of this
present October—are those in which Caddy's intended
love-match is revealed to Mrs. Jelly by and to Mr.
Turveydrop. Than the latter nothing could be more
delightfully ridiculous, as scarcely anything could
be more painfully true to the reality than the
former—Mrs. Jelly by being one of those abominable
pretenders to philanthropy without the fervour of
Mrs. Fry or the genius of Mrs. Chisholm. Sweetest,
tenderest, and most beautiful of all the incidents just
recounted is that in which Chorley finds herself in-
stalled as the maid of Esther Summerson. It is an
exquisite little scene, described as only Charles
Dickens could describe it. Among the characters
recently introduced we begin to like more and more
Mr. George, the fencing master, and Mr. Bucket, the
police detective. The last mentioned is a personage
very new to the regions of fiction, and
the employment of his agency adds somehow
very wondrously to the fascination of the romance.
It is evidently no mere fancy sketch—but as vivid as
actual, as true to nature as a figure moving across
the living picture of a camera obscure. Poor Gridley
dies just as Bucket finds him out, secreted at George's
Fencing Academy—defended by Phil, and tended
gently by Miss Flite. The description of the death
scene is touching even to solemnity. Happily, from
this sombre locality we turn off to the familiar one of
Cook's-court, Cursitor-street—where we find Guster
restraining her " fits" to give a morsel of supper to
poor, hungry Jo, and where the spiritual instead of
the corporal food of the said Jo is attended to by the
Rev. Chatband, after that Apostle of Humbug has
invested a great deal as usual—decidedly more
than is pleasant—in the oil trade, to the edification of
his partner (not in the oil trade but in life) and the
suppressed amusement of the apprentices. Suspicion
has entered into the heart of Mrs. Snagsby as to the
reservation of some secret by her partner in the
Rubber of Existence—until the house " becomes
ghostly with creaking boards and rustling garments,"
Mrs. Snagsby dogging the heels of Mr. Snagsby un-
known to himself, in perpeual watchfulness—" bone
of his bone, flesh of his flesh, shadow of his shadow."
" Phiz" contributes to the eighth number of Bleak
Rouse two of his most ingenious and characteristic
illustrations.

COURT CI RCU LA R.
BALMORAL, OCT. 4.
Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert
attended Divine service yesterday in the parish church
of Crathie.
Toe service was performed by the Rev. A. An-
derson.

Viscountess Canning, the Hon. Mary Seymour,
the Right Hon. Sir John Pakington, Colonel the
Hon. C. B. Phipps, and Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. A.
Gordon, attended her Majesty.
Sir Edwin Landseer remains at Balmoral.

The Dean of St. Paul's had an interview with Mr.
Secretary Walpole yesterday at the Home-office.
The Earl of Kinnoull and Lord James Stuart had
also interviews with the Right lion. Secretary.
Dispatches were received from the Governor-
General of Canada yesterday at the Colonial-office.

CITY COMMISSION OF SEWERS.
Yesterday a Court was held at the Guildhall, Mr.
Deputy Peacock in the chair.
Mr. H. L. TAYLOR moved that the resolution of the
Court agreeing with the report of the Committee on
General Purposes to offer a sum of 3001. per annum
for offices for the use of the surveyor, instead of his
present offices, held at a rent of 601.
per annum, be Fe-
soinded. He stated that as no doubt the unoccupied
apartments in the town-clerk's house under the roof
of the Guildhall could be appropriated to the purposes
of the increased business of the surveyor, there could
be no pretext for additional calls upon the poor.rate
Payer for what might be considered dy some to be a
necessary, accommodation for their officer.
The Court agreed to the motion, and also to a motion.
by Deputy Harrison to the effect of conferring with
the Court of Common Counbil on the subject—an
alternative which seemed to be considered necessary
upon the occasion.
Upon the motion of Mr. ELLIOTT, a return was
ordered to ba made of the number of places wherein
Cows are kept in the city of London, and the number
of cows kept in each place.
Letters were read from the Chartered and the City
Gas Companies expressing the willingness of each
company to have its gas tested by scientific men.
Entered upon the journals.
—Adjourned.

11:he vicarage of East lang on, Kent, has become
vacant by the death of the Rev. P. De Chair, M.A. ; it is
worth about 2001. per annum, and is in the gift of the Earl
of Guildford. The rectory of Manton, near Kirton-upon-
Lindsay, Lincolnshire, has also become vacant by the death
of Mr. De Chair. It is worth 160/, per annum, and is in the
gift of Mr. W. Denison.
The rectory of Aston, near Rotherham, Yorkshire,
has become vacant by the death of the Rev. William Alder-
son. The benefice, which is worth about 9001. a year, is in
the gift of the Duke of Leeds.
DESTRUCTIVE WHIRLWIND.--Oo Sunday last, be-
tween three and four o'clock in the afternoon, the town of
Lyme Regis, in Dorsetshire, was visited by a terrific whirl-
wind, by which a stack of hay in the Home Bush fields,
Weighing upwards of five tons, was carried up into the air
and scattered about the country in every direction. A field
of flax also, at a abort distance off, was torn up by the roots
and scattered about the neighbourhood. The damage done
to the farm and land upon which the storm fell with its
greatest fury is very considerable. In addition to this, an
immense body of water from the sea, just off the end of the
Cobb Walk, was drawn up into the:air on high, like a water-
spout, to the great astonishment and alarm of the good people
of Lyme. Happily, the waterspout did not discharge the
ady of its contents upon the town itself or the ad-
as in.that case the damage done must have
joining lands,
been incalculable. During the whole of the day the sky had
assumed a very strange and lurid appearance, as if a violent
renteit(tceontinued for about
thunderstorm had been coming one.a But no rain actually
fell until after the whirlwind
' torrents
he words of
half an hour to pour in heav
earth were te m i
an eye-witness), as if heavenand
partial in its visilttg"ltltttd
The storm, however, was
eery
yalong the coast. The
road,
did not extend far either way
d away near the immediate
however, has been partly washe
. ,
ncene of disaster.
FORTIFICATIONS OF MILFORD HAVEN.—The emu-
Mateo of fortifications, on their recent tour of inspection.
visited the large martello tower which had been erected on
the Stack Rock for the defence of the arsenal, and the idea
occurred that the building was easily accessible by means of
scaling ladders. Accordingly the captain-superintendent of
the dockyards, Sir Thomas Pasley, Bart., wasdirected to take
of this im-
the proper measures for the due ascertaining
head of a party
portant point, and a few days ago, at the
rovided with
of seamen and Marines, who were properly p
erintendent
ladders and other equipments, the captain-sup
seamen
landed on the rock, and in a short space of time the
proved to a certainty that the fortification was very ineffi-
_ace
cient. This was found to arise from the fact that the /of the rock had not been sufficiently cleared, and some rising
points offered every facility for scaling. These will haveto
be cut and cleared away, and it is hoped that the whole can
be done without injuring the foundations of the building.
The workmen are progressing with the sinking of the ground
for the erection of a
martello tower on Thorn Island, and,
doubtless, every care will now be taken that the rock is pro-
finnperly and efficiently scarped, so as to avoid the necessity
y additional expense when the work has been considered
hed
Rovat An,
tain
TILLERY.--W OOLWICH OCT. s.—Cap
Taylor's troop of RoyalHorseArtillery assembled yesterday
forenoon for the •
C. 8., K.ll
Commandant, inspection of Colonel Whinyates, *;
Bloomfield ' Who was accompanied by Lieutenant-Colonel
' commanding offic r of the Royal Horse Artillery,
e
and Captain Riddell ral of Artillery.
TieD9uty-Assistant Qual rtermaster-Gene-
in the east
square in conseciatineii3nspection took ee
P astate of the
weather. The troop willtheunfavourablei marcht on Thursday,
the 7th inst.,
Recruiting ar-
ties have been recently
d:taocilee stationed.
companies Psta-
d from the .
tioned at Devonport, and it ' expected an augmentation
both of men and horse will is
tly take place. There are
now only two troops of the Horoser Brigadeat Woole, the
head-quarters of the Royal Regiment of Artillery. The late
Master-General, now Commanding-in-Chief of the British
army, has always placed great reliance on the artillery
branch of the service, and it is said to be in contemplation
to send four companies to the Cape of Good Hope, to aid in
putting an end to the war in that colony.
DUPLICATE TELEGRAPH BETWEEN LIVERPOOL
AND bIANCRESTER.—A econd line of teleg constructed at a cost of 5,5000/. for the thirteraph has been
tweea Liverpool and Mailchoter, with y-eight miles be-
-14, message rates.