The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-27 00:00:00

THE DUEL NEAR WINDSOR.

WOODIN'S " CARPET BAG."

A delightful entertainment is now being given nightly
by Mr. W. S. Woodin—a gentleman hitherto unknown
to any audience in the metropolis—at the charming
little theatre once popular as the " Adelaide Gallery,"
and recently frequented as the arena of the Marionettes.
As we had the gratification of ourselves witnessing on
Monday evening the skill of Mr. Woodin, as a caterer
to the public taste for amusement, we can speak authori-
tatively of his very genial humour and really surprising
abilities. Since the famous " Evenings at Home," of
good, wry-faced, limping, merry-conceited old Charles
Mathews, we have had nothing at all comparable to the
" Carpet Bag and Sketch-Book" of our young Polypho-
nist. We say this without without any disparagement
for Love—for Love is principally admirable for his mar-
vellous powers of ventriloquism. Love, for the most
part, surpasses others mainly by his astounding capacity
and awszing adroitness in the more eccentric class of
vocal imitations. He will bring clearly before you every
cry that can be heard in the farm-yard, as clearly as
over could Paganini on that one miraculous string of
his violin. Charles Lamb used to say of Munden, that
"he understood a leg of mutton in its quiddity." And
so may we say of Love, that he seems to have
penetrated as fully as ei1,3,F.0p himself, the mysteries
of the language squeaked, grunted, chirped, hummed,
quacked, gabbled, barked, or mewed, by the vari-
ous denirance of the animal, the bird, or the insect
kingdom. He will give you a bee in a beak as
you might fancy could only be done by a bee in a bottle
itself. lie will describe the whole of a fight between a
couple of dogs—fierce, fast, and furious—until you shall
really begin to have serious thoughts about hydrophobia.
It is in this way that Love continues, to our mind, alto-
gether to this moment unrivalled. But Woodin's talents
are of a totally different character. He does entirely
what Love attempts only, so to speak, incidentally.
He represents in his own person a whole mob of imagi-
nary personages. Ono feels inclined to read the Riot Act
to him, as Sir Walter Scott said he felt disposed to do
when he first listened to Alexandre. Never was such a
Proteus! Captain Absolute was nothing to him. And
as for Cerberus—here is a head that seems to be multi-
plied, not by three, but thirty. Mr. Woodin possesses,
in truth, a flexibility in the features and an adaptability
in the organs of articulation, that must prove to every
visitor to his entertainment, matter for absolute astonish-
ment. We should like much to know the opinion enter-
tained in regard to his bumps of imitation by some
practised phrenologist. The very character of
these entertainments at the Marionette's Theatre
is singularly clever, and distinguished, moreover, by the
somewhat rare merits of being both novel and diversified.
Upon one side of tho stage is she customary desk and
lamps of a lecturer. Opposite these there is propped up
against the wall a gigantic carpet bag, such as one might
expect our old friend Blunderbore would carrY; supposing
he should ever take it into his head to pay a visit to his
cousins in the land of Brobdignag. In the back ground,
or, as they say in the prompter's books, in the flat ap-
pears a sketch-book of correspondingly vast dimensions.
Furnished with these accessories, Mr. Woodin talks to
his audience pleasantly over the top of the desk, telling
them all sorts of queer anecdotes—especially that one of
the speculator, who was driven by untoward circum-
stances to be at once " money-taker " and " concert "--
and flings at the heads of his hearers from between the
two !slips as many quips, cranks, and, peas, as M.
itoteTitAtsludiu used to toss out of.liis hat Showers of
floeiere nad bonbons. Tb;'i •pians ineprticulai
etoyse . - a
were pelted at ea unmercifully on Monday,night—some.
e'ei them; 'too, ealixcenciatingly good or (which is pretty
Much the came thing) so deliciously eXecrable! Through-
the- evening, moreover, the magic sketch-
book in the back ground was continually die-
closing a new picture of some old familiar spot in or near
the metropolis—showing sometimes really very meritori-
ous powers on the part of Mr. Woodin as an artist,
powers more particularly visible, we may remark, in the
paintings of the Tower of London and of the Hospital
at Greenwich, of One Tree Hill, and of the view at Rich-
mond. Besides all this—rather, we should say, immea-
surably beyond all this—there are the vocal and visual
illustrations or impersonations, which constitute the chief
delight of the entertainment. Under new names, we
meet with a store of old acquaintances, There is the
servant of all work, Martha Mivins, who has (we are
sure of it) lineally descended from Miss Miggs, being,
moreover, a blood relation (we are certain) of Susan
Nipper. Then there is Sir Benjamin Bungle, with his
capital stories, the point of which he never can recollect,
any more than the gentleman in cloth boots, who spent
the evening at Bob Sawyer's lodgings in Lant-street,
mentioned towards the close of the historian's narrative
of the career of the immortal Pickwick. As to Major
Bluster, who is never to be humbugged as an old tra-
veller, lie is unquestionably a brother in arms of Arthur
O'Leary, if he has not been also on bowing terms with
both Major Bagsteck and Major Pendennis. No doubt,
again, that Mr. Sampson Busty has dined before now,
sipping wine and cracking walnuts, with that honest old
drysalter, Ephraim Hardcastle. Little Mrs. Muddle, also,
wonderful little Mrs, Muddle, must, we would wager,
trace her genealogy on one side to the family of Miss
Mowcher, of corn-cutting renown, and on the other to
that of worthy Mrs. Jarley, of wax-work celebrity. Ben
Binnacle is, in another way, a very accurate copy from
one of those " genuine old originals," the Greenwich
pensioners. But what shall we say, what can we pos-
sibly say, of the oldest inhabitant—good, gentle, bene-
volent Mr. Oliver Oldstyle? What—but that it is a
creation, and a very beautiful one, moreover. The song
sung by Mr. Woodin in this character is charmingly
clever, and we doubt not must command a wide and
lasting popularity. With these materials, and an operatic
illustration, the first part of the entertainment is brought
to a conclusion—the operatic illustration, by the way,
being (although with several capital bits in it) rather
too much of an extravagance. In the second and con-
cluding part, we learn, through a huneourous ditty—
admitting, notwithstanding, its drollery of some judici-
ous curtailment—all about the sorrows and calamities
befalling Mr. Tobias Traddles (no relation of Tom) on
the occasion of his visit to the metropolis, to see the
Great Exhibition. Other "country cousins" are as-
tonished after a different fashion, by a comic beef-eater
at the Tower, spoken of in the programme, as " a well-
known personage." Added to these impersonations, we
have a capital specimen of a Scotcbman, in Sandie
M‘Whittle—trolling off among other things with the
" burr," the whole of Macbeth's soliloquy. Then there
comes a full-length portrait of a Yankee clipper, true to
to the life; and then of Mr. Cavil, quite as true; and yet
others in the forms of Mr. and Mrs. Lapses Linger—the
latter always having slips of the tongue (even in singing)
and the former living entirely in the midst of the events
of the reign of Cromwell. And so with " vocal and visual"
accounts of the pleasures of a pie-nic, the "Carpet Bag"
and the Sketch Book" are both shut up by the entertainer,
who is anything but shut up himself, seeing that thereupon
crowns his very singular performance by wonderfully
admirable imitations of the Lions of London—speaking
successively with the exact voice, and the identical
manner of Albert Smith,and Henry Russell, and Wright,
and Compton, and Buckstone. A pleasanter entertain-
ment we don't know of, at this moment, any-
where in London or Westminster. Its merits will soon,
we doubt not, become more generally appreciated. The
" Carpet Bag" must, indeed, in the course of things, ex-
tend its popularity, and, by so doing, tend to establish
Mr. W. S. Woodin's reputation.

The coroner's inquest on the body of M. Frederick
Cournet, killed in a duel near Inglefield-green, on the
19th instant, was resumed yesterday before C. J. Woods,
Esq., at the Barley Mow Ion: The inquiry created the
moot intense interest, and amongst those present were
General Sir-John Cathcart, Bart., Colonel Galwey; Cap-
tain Seymour, J. Bonnell, Esq., W. Newnham, Esq.,
T. R. Ward, Esq., J. Dobinson, Esq., county magistrates,
and many others of the neighbouring gentry. It was
nearly 4 o'clock before the proceedings commenced, the
Coroner, who resides at a distance, having been detained
an hoar beyond the time fixed on Thursday last.
The Coroner said, since Thursday last, through the
exertions of the very active superintendent of police,
Mr. Biddlecome, a mass of additional evidence, of a very
important character, had been obtained, which he-trusted
woulctenable them. to conclude the inquiry at the present
-sitting. • - , .
Henry Hand, of 5, Harpur-street, New. Oxford-street,.
deposed that hais the proprietor of the Assault of Arms
snd secretary:.-to., -Mr. .Green, the. proprietor of- the-
Shooting Gallery; Leicester-squar4Lontion. On Mort-
doxeventng,..the 18th of October, about.: balbpest,seveu
o'clock, three foreigners came into the gallery, too
pistols for practice. They were supplied with a brace of
pistols, on leaving a deposit. Witness did not know the
parties. The pistols now produced they did not approve
of ; another brace of pistols. was procured, and
they took them. (The pistols were here produced;
they were a brace of rifle pistols, the same as
they used in the: shooting gallery.) The foreigners
left 81. as a deposit. The pistols were returned
about 5 o'clock on the evening of Tuesday, the 19th inst.
The pistols were brought back by a stranger, who ap-
. peaked -,:waikerakone ,nf the neighbouring, hotels.
AtAlie_tjtoe the .messenger fieliiiered the, piatels to wit-

JOstilw "Wed, that one vof them was .loaded.-. ;Witness
put
10*P' on nipple,:: enafterwards - gupsome
p400.4i1,-,Pw:Aippe,kin 00 0401.; Misilad., -both.;
:W4/44.estAikp ‘.(4acol4isrpia.,4l4l found. 94#:
rag produCed, anal, ball (aliologeed) in the chamber.
The, rag renderedkit bost to an *possibility that the.
.possfler should_ explode. ow:rag:vow Whop . the g4n.,
Pqn4o4. ii4o4l4..heve, been. Witneeit hadinot-since_becs _
able to trace the:messenger. who brought-back tlietfistbi.
'The pistols were not loaded when the foreigners took
them away. They had just previously been used in the
gallery, The parties who hired the pistols touk -about
two dozen caps, and the same number of bullets. One
of the foreigners came back about half-past eight o'clock
on, the Monday evening, and said he wanted more balls.
Witness gave him ten or a dozen more, and saw nothing
more of the foreigners after that time. Mr. Green vo-
lunteered the information in consequence of seeing the
account of the proceedings in the newspapers, and find-
ing that a powder flask had been found upon one of the
prisoners (Allain). The bill produced (found upon
Allain) was the paper in which witness wrapped the
balls. A certain sum was paid for the use of the pistols,
and for the powder flask, which was not returned. The
pistols were taken away without being cleaned—there
had been many shots fired from them on Monday, the
18th inst., but they were not very foul.
In answer to questions from Mr. Ashurst (who ap-
peared for MM. Baronnet and Allain), witness said the
pistols were cleaned on the Monday morning, but not
afterwards before they left the gallery on Monday. The
pistol in which the wadding (or rag) was found was in
use on the Monday, and so was the other pistol. The
pistols were cleaned with tow, never with rag, like the
piece produced. He could identify one of the parties
who hired the pistols.

In answer to questions from the Coroner, Mr. Super-
intendent Biddlecombe said the four persons taken up
upon suspicion—MM. Barthelemy and De Mornay
(friends of the survivor), and MM. Baronnet and Allain
(friends of the deceased), had been lodged in Horseinon-
ger-lane Gaol.
Mr. Bryon, of the Mansion-house police, having been
sworn as interpreter, _ _ _

Guisland Patrice Denis deposed, in French, that he
resided at 53, Old Compton-street, Soho, where he keeps
a restaurant and coffee-house. He knew Frederick
Cournot, and knew Cournet had been residing in London
some time—for nine or ten months. Knew Emanuel
Barthelemy; he is a Frenchman. Had seen Edmund.
Allain at his house about fifteen times. Knew Baronnet
but did not know his Christain name. Did not know
De Mornay. Barthelemy had been in England for about
three weeks or a month on his present visit. Witness
believes that Barthelemy came direct to his house,
but could not fix the date in the absence of his
books. Barthelemy slept twice at his house, and
called a third time. Recollected Barthelemy writing
a letter from his house. Witness told Barthelemy
that Baronnet, Cournet, and Recherolles took their
repasts at his house. Witness had no knowledge
of the contents of the letter written by Barthelemy, but
the latter said he could not finish it without referring to
the last letter he had received from Cournet. He after-
% ards said he must show the letter to some one before
he closed it, and be returned home for that purpose.
Barthelemy said he did not know Cournet personally,
and witness told him Cournet was a very fine man, and
a strong man—a strong and robust man. Barthelemy held
his hand, as if in the act of firing off a pistol, towards a
looking glass, and said, "At this, I don't fear the first
comer." Ho left the house, and said in an hour and a
half he would bring him the letter. Barthelemy did not
return. Three or four days after that Barthelemy came
to witness's house and slept there. The first time
Barthelemy arrived at the house witness understood,
from his expressions, that he had a quarrel with Cour-
net. Barthelemy last slept at the house of witness on
the night of Monday, the 18th ; be came in a little
before 12, and went to bed immediately afterwards.
Robellard was at the table with him, but took nothing
to eat ; he drank. They both slept in the same room.
Witness did not hear any particular conversation be-
tween them. Barthelemy left the house alone at a
quarter to six o'clock on the following morning. Rebel-
lard came down about half-past 11. Four or five days
after the arrival of Barthelemy, Cournet said he had
heard that Barthelemy had said, in certain circles, that
he would burst his (Cournet's) belly. On the 14th
Cournet did not come to breakfast, but was at witness's
house at dinner. On that occasion Cournet said, "The
coward would not accept me to-day." Witness under-
stood that Cournet had been to Richmond. _

THE LATE TOTNES ELECTION.

Louis Joseph Soulli,advocate, of Cranbourn-street,
Leicester-square, deposed, in French, that Cournet was
his friend. - Did not know Barthelemy. [Witness was
deeply affected, and was accommodated with a chair.]
Thought he should know Barthelemy from Cournet's
description, but had never seen him. Knew that a duel
was about to be fought between Barthelemy and
Cournet. Three days before his death Cournet said he
had a desire to avoid that fatal rencontre, but he could

not. The terms of the quarrel were such as not to ad-
mit of explanation. The cause of the duel was a
menace. Did not know De Mornay nor Attain, Ba-
rennet was his friend. Knew nothing, excepting hearsay,
of the Preparations for the duel. In France the terms
of a duel are alwaysecommitted to writing. When op-
portunity, offers, the principals have ,tlvo seconds (or
witnesses); each. Among gentlemen, the privileged
weapons are ' pistols -and swords, wheat :both are agreed
It is
•a duel to- the death. It. is is seldom that both are
used:: _The offended .Party has -tlie choice of arms,: but
,that' poiht is-,somewhat difficult to 'Settle.— When the
secoridte:know that. one of the parties is, a better sbot
than the other they increase the distance, in order 'tb
place them more on an equality. They place the com-
batants at' •a distance of 40 yards generally; they each
walk up to a certain point, and then fire.' Another
mode fis to toss for the first fire. The seconds are
charged with the loading of the pistols. They show. the
Powder, and the ball to the seconds on the other side.
Each second loads the pistol of his principal. It is
always the practice to examine the pistols, and then
they draw lots for the pistols; . that is before they are
charged. Gallery pistols are the most'dangerous, and
rvquire no wadding' between the ball and the powder:
agaN.lnoiDenis'e,
Joseph Joanny, Pardigan, 78, Wardour-street, Ox
forkl,gtreet, 'bootmakei, deposed that •be knew Bar=
'!heleicy liery well. Barthelemy first came to England
t 6
Afigibutryarn• daunel .swaiiictihßecar:hthhewhlieldmtn?rei.sks,:s:o
at 1848. Three weeks last MendaY, Barthelemy wai
and wanted to fight M. Cournet. Witness
. i 01v hin:at night. Cournei had previously men-
the pistols ; for whoever put the rag in the
o.9ns;di4,rhe. ;, :
niu.'oei f witnesses, that he was: about
certainly murdered
The Coroner said the seenoandds Nvert:islunpopwo.swedh6
pistol
t-olobma:loeisndt
t e deceased. Could they not swear
jurTcylharechectioorerrdoeedrmaitishsiotlocefdtpatuilhliii,i•r;
the other seconds?
he
and there was no power to compelto make any statement,
custody. They had declined
The Coroner having summed them'
up the evidence, the
had returned a
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_FIDNESDAY Erk'NINGS OCTOBER 275_1852.

THE PROJECTED RAILWAY ACROSS
CLAPHAM-COMMON.

A large and influential meeting of the owners and
occupiers of houses ou Clapham-common and its vicinity
was held last night, at the Boys' Parochial School-
room, to adopt the necessary measures for preventing
the formation of a railway across one of the most beau-
tiful open pieces of ground near the metropolis.
The chair was taken at half-past seven o'clock by
Captain Bowyer, the Lord of the Manor, supported by
the Rector of Clapham, the Rev. R. H. Lewis, incumbent
of St. Paul's, Messrs. R. Beddome, E. Burmester, Chas.
Curling, Benjamin Field, J. P. Gassiot, T. A. Harkey,
Dr. Silvester, Thomas Howell, J. T. Knowles,
Deacon, Thomas Buckle, H. Hopley White, Soltau,
Stephen Williams, &c,
The CHAIRMAN, in opening the proceedings, remarked
that they were assembled to oppose a project which
some persons no doubt considered to be for the good of
the public, but which the majority of the inhabitants of
Clapham believed to be most detrimental to their in-
terests, inasmuch as it would greatly disturb the quiet of
the neighbourhood, and materially interfere with its
respectability. (Cheers.)
Mr. THOMAS BUCKLE moved the first resolution, to
the effect that the proposed line of the West-end of
London and Crystal Palace Railway across Clapham-
common, would, without adequate advantage to the
public, greatly depreciate house and landed property at
Clapham ; entirely alter and deteriorate the character of
the neighbourhood ; and destroy the quiet and comfort
the inhabitants. As one of the oldest inhabitants of
the parish, be considered himself perfectly justified in
coming forward to move this resolution, and it any
turihur inducement was requisite, it would be found in
the fact that he possessed freehold property to the
value of some 10,00(./., contiguous to the proposed line
of railway. His object, in common with the rest of the
meeting, was to prevent the formation cf the projected
line, which was intended to commence at Battersea new
bridge, and proceed across Clapham-common to the
Crystal Palace at Sydenham. Clapham-common being
high ground, it was necessary to make a cutting 30 feet
in depth, which was to be eventually covered over, and
converted into a tunnel.

Mr. S. SIDNEY, after exhibiting a plan of the proposed
line, proceeded to show the object of the promoters, and
the advantages which it would confer o❑ the locality.
The resolution was then put and agreed to, there
being only one hand held up against it.
Mr. J. B. GASIOT said he was sure that the proposi-
tion which he had to submit to the meeting would meet
its hearty concurrence:—" That the most determined
opposition be offered to the scheme at every stage; and
this meeting pledges itself to raise whatever funds may
be requisite for that purpose."
Mr. T. A. HANKEY, in seconding the resolution, re-
marked it was somewhat strange that the board of direc-
tors should not have made any official announcement of
the proposed alteration to the committee. He certainly
could not take the dictum uttered by Mr. Sidney as a
resolution to be carried out by the Crystal Palace Com-
pany. He submitted that some step ought to be taken
to obtain some authoritative information as to the deci-

sion of the company. (Cheers).
The resolution was then adopted.
A resolution was also passed requesting the members
for the county and the members for the boroughs within
the county to give the measure their decided opposition.
On the motion of Mr. Soltau, seconded by Mr. S.
Williams, a vote of thanks was given to the Chairman,
with a brief acknowledgment of which the proceedings
terminated.

DISTRESSING DEATH.—Tbe following frightful
death has ❑Workhouse:—Caroline
occurred in the infirmary of St. Andrew's,
Holborn, Killeck, who has just at-
tained her twenty-third year, having been an inmate of the
workhouse from her infancy, was a few days since left alone
in the women's day room, where a large fire was burning,
over which was a saucepan, in which she was " stewing down
tea leaN;-es,7 somewhat contrary,to orders. _Hearing some
one approach, she hastily leaned over the iron guard, and in
'seizing the saucepan her
~apron took fire, and from thence
-conamniiicated With her town,- a SOft of light flimsy check
linen: The poor creature, uttering piercing screams, and en-
veloped in flames, ran: freni room to room, but the affrighted
inmates rendered her no assistance, till at length she bounded
down the halt staircase, where she was met by Mr. Aldred,
the master, who immediately enveloped her in a large mat
that happened to be handy, and wrapped up in this, she was
conveyed to the infirmary upstairs. There being no medical
man resident on the establishment, Mr. Sewell, the surgeon
to the workhouse, was immediately sent for, and the usual
remedies in such deplorable cases applied. The poor sufferer
lingered on in excruciating agony until Saturday morning
last, when she expired.
SUICIDE AT BRISTOL.—A painful sensation was
excited yesterday, at Bristol, in consequence of its becoming
known that Mr. William Gold Pugsley had rashly put a
period to his existence, by hanging himself to a bed-post, at
his residence, St. Michael's-hill, in that city. The deceased
who had been very widely known, and who was generally-
respected, had formerly kept a tavern in the Hotwell•road,
where he lived many years with great respectability.
THE STRAND KOBBERY.—At Capel-street, Police-
office, Dublin, on Monday, G. Winters and Josephine Scott,
natives of London, were charged by Superintendent
lion of the G. division of police, for having a large quantity
of broken gold, diamonds, pearls, and other jewels, of great
value in their possession, supposed to be a part of the pro-
perty stolen from the shop of Mr. Jones, watchmaker, and
jeweller, 338, Strand, London, on or about the 9th instant.
The prisoners were remanded for a week.
STRIKE IN THE BOOT AND SHOE TRADE.—A good
deal of excitement prevails in Westminster, in consequence
of a very serious dispute between the master strong boot and
shoemakers and the men in their employ, which has led to
a strike among the latter, and induced the masters to adver-
tise by bills for 500 good hands, to whom constant employ-
ment is promised, and it is supposed that this is the number
of men out on the strike. The dispute appears to have arisen
through a number of the masters, on the Ist of October,
wishing the men to sign a document consenting to a certain

amount of wages, and not to support any moil who do not
agree to that proposal, who should strike in consequence. The
prices the masters offer are 2s. 3d., and the closing to be paid
for extra, with full employment, but the men say this is a
starvation price.
ASTLEY'S.—The entertainments at this theatro have

for some weeks past consiste(t almost entirely of scenes
in the circle. Mr. Batty, however, in! ends resuming the
hippodramatic entertainment on the stage, on Monday,
November 1, with a new spectacle, from the pen of a
popular author, with scenery, costumes, and decorations
of the most gorgeous description. We understand that
Mr. Batty, after a long, active, and highly-successful
career, is about retiring from the toils of management—
having purchased the handsome mansion known as
" Bridge House," Golder's-green, on.the Finchley-road,
with extensive and beautiful grounds attached, where he
purposes to enjoy for the remainder of his life, the large
fortune ho has amassed by his indefatigable industry and
enterprising spirit. Tho theatre—which is wholly the
property of Mr. Batty—with the extensive stud, and
valuable menagerie of trained animals, harness, trap-
pings, scenery, machinery, properties, costumes, and
other appointments, valued at 30,0001, have been for
some time in the market—but no speculator has yet
come up to the large figure that has been placed upon
this fortunate house—i❑ which two successi►e managers
have, withi❑ a comparatively short time, amassed large
tortunes.—Sunday Times, Oct. 24.

JERSEY GenrusoN.—The military and artillery force
at the garrison in Jersey is to be considerably aug-
mented. The militia force in Jersey is now 20,000
strong.
THE POST OFFICE.—A return has been made of the
salaries, wages, and allowances of the Post Office de-
partment in Ireland and Scotland, from which it ap-
pears that the total number of persons employed by the
Post Office in Ireland on the sth January 1851, was
1,927, receiving 73,1111.; and that in Scotland the num-
ber of persons was 2,190, receiving 79, 9061.
MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF A SOLDIER OF THE 31ST
REGIMENT.—The Cork Constitution says:—" On Thurs-
day last, between two and three o'clock in the afternoon,
the body of a private soldier belonging to the above
regiment was found drowned in the River Blackwater,
Fermony. Some women are in custody on suspicion,
but it is feared the real perpetrators will not be brought
to justice."
EXPENSE OF PROSECUTING A MURDERER.—In the
an

nual accounts of the treasurer of the county of Oxford,
ust published, it appsars that the conviction and execu-
,ion of Kalabergo, for the murder of his uncle, near
Banbury, cost tae county no less a sum than 3591. 3s Bd.
A SIGN OF THE TIMES.—In the .North British
Advertiser of last Saturday, there are advertisements for
nearly 80 situations vacant, whilst only seven persons
advertise for situations.

THE SYDNEY MAIL STEAM-PACKET.--0110 Of the
passengers bound for Port Philip, who went out in the
Sydney mail packet which left Plymouth for Australia
on the 4th of August last, returned to England in the
Bosphorus. He refused to proceed any farther than the
Isle of Ascension, on account of the bad accommodation
for passengers on board the Sydney steamer.

DUBLIN REVISION LIST.—The revision of the Par-

liamentary list for the city of Dublin closed yester-
day, but, in consequence of the expiration of the
time prescribed by law for the revision, the list
of claims could not be gone into. The result,
so far as it goes, is highly favourable to the Con-
servative party, but a very different state of
things would exist, could an adjudication be had
on the claims, amounting to 7,500, and of which
nearly 6,000 are on the Liberal side. The assistant
barrister intimated his intention of bringing the matter
before the executive, with a view of having the anoma-
lous state of the law corrected.
TALLow.—Letters from St. Petersburgh to the 18th
inst. report a further rise in tallow, 600 casks having
been sold at 121 r., and 122 r. being now the price de-
manded. Thero were 6,000 casks yet to arrive from the
interior, of which one•half at least would be delayed
until next season. Frost had already been experienced,
and there were scarcely any ships at Cronstadt.
[ADVERTISEMENT.]—THE ROYAL EXRIBITION.—A
valuable, newly-invented, very small powerful waistcoat
pocket glass, the size of a walnut, by which a person can be
seen and known 1i miles distant ; they answer every purpose
on the Race-course, at the Opera-houses ; country scenery
and ships are clearly seen at 12 to 14 miles; they are in-
valuableti ng,
Gamekeepers,dee r stalking,
and
Tourists.—Te be had
yachting, to Sports-
men,
Gentlemen,
fotlrem hno
at 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly, observe, opposite the
ense
York-hotel. Telescopes—A new and most important in-
vention in Telescopes, possessing such extraordinary powers,
that some, 3i inches, with an extra eye piece, will
show distinctly, Jupiter's Moons, Saturn's Ring, and the
Double Stars. With the same Telescope, weighing only three
ounces, can be seen a person's countenance 31 miles distant,
and an object from 16 to 20 miles. They supersede every
other kind for the waistcoat pocket, and are of larger and all
sizes, with increasing powers accordingly. Opera and Race-
course glasses, with wonderful powers; an object can be
clearly seen from 14 to 16 miles distant. Messrs. S. and B.
Solornons, Opticians, have invented invaluable preserving
Spectacle Lenses, immediately they are placed before imper-
fect vision, every object appears clear and distinct, the most
aged defective sight becomes bright and brilliant, is brought to
its youthful, natural, and original state. The Invisible Or.
game Vibrator, and all kinds of Acoustic instruments for relief
of extreme deafness.-39, Albermarle-street, Piccadilly, ob-
serve ',negate the Yea Betel. •