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London, England, 1852-11-09 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 9, 8 5

that subjtct. Lord DERBY long since—in the
beginning of March, 1851 when announcing
the failure of the attempt to form a Protec-
tionist Ministry, emphatically stated, that un-
less the country, on the next appeal, pronounced

distinctly in favour of the principle, the question
- - - -

should be set at rest for ever. What bas since oc-

curred shows that the declaration was made in the

most perfect sincerity—that the most talented col-
league of the Noble Lord fully concurred in the
decision, and that the new policy has been accepted
by every person of any importance or influence con-
nected with the party. In the absence, then, of such
impost, the Property-tax mast be renewed, either in
in its present or some modified form, unless we are
prepared to submit to a permanent deficiency, and
a regularly increasing excess of expenditure a
course which Mr. DISRAELI will not be prepared to

propose er sanction.
Will it then be renewed in its present form ? Such
a proposition might emanate from Sir CHARLES
WOOD,—who so frequently showed his stubborn and
unyielding obstinacy on the point, and who pre-
ferred the destruction of the Cabinet of which he was
a Member, to any graceful concession to public
opinion,—but not from Mr. DISRAELI. That Right
Hon. Gentleman was one of the Committee appointed to

inquire into the working of the tax, and to consider
by what means it might be'rendered more equitable ;
he is, therefore, thoroughly cognizant of the injustice
and impolicy of the present system, and also of the
various remedies that have been submitted for its
amelioration. He has had ample time to reflect

thereon ; and has, doubtless, fully determined on the
plan on which he will stake his fiscal reputation, and
the permanence of the Government. _ That, however,

still rests in his own mind, or has only been cotamu-
nicated to a few leading Members of the Ministry
The public, however, have as yet no certain data, we
can therefore only speculate on what ought to be,
taking into account the disturbing influences that
will operate unfavourably to, and very probably pre-
vent the adoption of, any sound and equitable adjust-
ment. Mr. DISREALI is not one to exclaim, " Video
rneliora proboque, deteriora sequor." We do not
believe that he would willingly bring forward a mea-
sure of which he did not conscientiously approve ;
but great allowance must be made for his position,
and the materials with which he is obliged to work ;
and we fear that complete justice cannot be ren-
dered to the industrious classes in a Parliament
constituted as it now is. Considerable progress may,
however, be made in the right direction, and that we
anticipate from the Right Hon. Gentleman.
The Tax, then, will be modified, and most probably
increased to some extent, and rendered more general
in its application. There can be no sufficient reason
why Ireland should be exempted from its operation.
Assistance, and that of the most valuable description,
might be rendered to the people, and to the full extent
of the amount levied ; but property, wherever situated,
is the legitimate subject of taxation—end exemption
to Ireland is neither more nor less than gross injustice
to Great Britain. We know not whether Mr.
DISRAELI will take this view of the subject; but should
he do so, he will be sustained by the Parliament and
people of the United Kingdom. And even in Ireland
the measure would be popular when it was ascertained
that Ministers were in Earnest in their efforts to de-
velope fully the great, but sadly neglected, natural
resources of the country.
The basis of the taxation will also probably be ex-
tended-1001., or perhaps 601., per annum being made
the starting point in place of 1501. as at present. The
number of contributors would thereby be doubled
or, if the smaller sum were selected, trebled
by the change. It would be far better that no
exemption whatsoever should be allowed. It is in
consequence of the " exemption " that fraudulent
evasions are chiefly resorted to. But so long as " in-
come" is taxed as well as property, there must be
exemptions. There is a scale of earning so low that
it cannot be charged. We cannot come on the wages
of the labourer earning 15s. or 203. per week.
If accumulated and realized property alone were
taxed, and industry freed, until its profits were in-
vested, when they would of course become liable—
the exemptions might be abolished, and the evasions
would be hardly practicable. It has been truly
stated, that the "returns under Schedule A are made
by disinterested, under Schedule D by interested,
parties. In the one case there is great facility for
detection, in the other detection is very difficult."
Mr. PRESSLY, in his evidence on the subject of eva-
sion, says—" We get every penny upon the dividend,
and every penny upon a man's salary; all that we do
not know is the profits of a man's trade, but in all the
other schedules it is collected to a penny without any
disclosure whatever." Mr. TILL gives similar testi-
mony. He says " Under Schedule A there is
little or no difficulty. A man produces his lease, and
the question is settled as to the value of his property;
but with regard to Schedule D, there is no doubt
that considerable difficulty presents itself in the
Commissioners satisfying themselves that they are
making a right decision; it in reality must be taken,
generally speaking, according to the conscience or Trill
of the party who comes to appeal or make the return."
The frauds and evasions, so demoralizing in their
operation—the inquisitorial character of the Tax, so
loudly and justly complained of—are all ascribable,
therefore, to the attempt to tax industry ; and all the
reasonable objections to the impost would be at once
removed, by rendering it really a property and not
an Income-tax.
The reduction would not be so very great. The
amount of temporary incomes from trades and pro-
fessions, &c., may be taken in round terms at one-
third of that arising from accumulated and realized
property. This is the proportion generally adopted,
and it nearly agrees with that of Mr C. Weeldeu,
whose excellent letter on the subject appeared in our
impression of yesterday. Mr WiLLicer is a compe-
tent witness ; he has entered into very elaborate cal-
culations on the subject, which he thoroughly under-
stands. If, then, anything like a fair allowance were
made for the difference between fixed and permanent
incomes and fluctuating and temporary—if the latter
were only charged at one-sixth, or even one-fourth,
of the former (either being much higher than its just
proportion), the total abolition of the tax on income
would only lessen the receipts by one-eighteenth or
one-twelfth of the total amount to be received. But
as the capital embarked in trade, commerce, manufac-
tures, or agriculture, would still be fairly chargeable,
the loss would be far less—not more, probably, than
one-thirtieth or one-fortieth part of the entire receipts
a matter of comparatively trivial importance, when
compared with the vast benefits that would result from
rendering industry perfectly free, and conciliating the
affectionate respect of the working classes for the
honest Parliament that recognized their claims. The
frauds and evasions, too, would be avoidel the
demoralizing influence that unfortunately induces so
many of our fellow-subjects to become habitual
violaters of the law of the land would also be removed.
These blessings would be cheaply purchased at a
much higher price than one-thirtieth of the charge;
but even for that there would be an ample equivalent
in the removal of all exemptions. Property, whether
real or personal, if producing only a single pound per
annum, is fairly liable to taxation; and there would
be no necessity, in such case, for either exemption or
graduation of the Tax. Both, however, become essential,
or at least judicious and proper, when industry is
charged. We, therefore, feel convinced, that as
much, if not more, would be realized by a Property-
tax alone a Property and Income-tax. Can
there,
doubt or difficulty as to what
then, than
be by
any
course ought to be pursued ? What will be done is
another question. We fear that the masses are not
sufficiently represented, or the humble voter suffi-
ciently protected in the exercise of the franchise, to
induce the Legislature to take so sagacious and equi-
table a view of the subject. There is still too much
class legislation. The Parliamentary Dives is
sticaeatareacde
andrealized
yet prepared to relinquish his hold on the
pursenef
oft the
the g Lax `32 trus, or to place the entire
liquidation of the
ed
eteheee
Bboeunedontented prirminatiOnal liabilities, and the main
national establishments, en accumu-
pwriotpherty. The people must there-
by moderate instalments:l' gradual approximation to
pi e, and to obtain their just rights
;y,

ous among the Citizens of the United States in our gene-
ration shouldhave passed awayalmost immediately afte r
the display of the most lamentable incapacity as an ad-
ministrator. Had DANIEL WEBSTEU expired only a
few months previous to the actual period of his de-
mise, he would have left a reputation unmarred by
the remembrance of many undignified blunders, and

much unstatesmanlike vituperation. It is a curious
circumstance, however, that the renowned orator has
disappeared from the stage of life under an aspect
somewhat similar to that which marked the closing
scene in the existence of one of his most eminent

contemporaries. QUINCEY ADAMS died, it will long
be borne in recollection, but very shortly after the
utterance of those intemperate words of scorn directed
against Great Britain, which all but rang the tocsin
of war, and all but lighted one of those brands of
popular fury,?,which, in the generality of instances, re-
quire the exhaustion of rivers of human blood before
they can be effectual extinguished. The departure
from this world of DANIEL WEBSTER has, in truth,
occurred under similar auspices. He has breathed
his last, whilst there are still ringing in our recollec-
tion his haughty and irritating references to the
course lately pursued by the English Government.

There is another reflection, moreover, which cannol
fail to enhance in every generous mind, on hearing of
his demise, the consequent and profound sense o.
melancholy. His career was incomplete. He fel
in the great race before reaching the goal. He has
fallen to rise no more ; and this, too, precisely at
the very moment when his admirers were looking
forward with eager hopes, and some of them with
confident expectations, that" his dearest wishes would
prove to have been on the eve of their realization.
His hand was palsied by death at the very instant when
it was stretched out to seize the bauble of the four
years' power devolving upon the fortunate candidate
chosen to the Presidency. Although he had reached
the age of seventy—having been born on the 18th of
January, 1782, at Salisbury, and having died on the
24th of October, 1852, at Marshfield—DANlEL WEB..
3TER must still be regarded among the luckless cata-
logue of those distinguished men who have expired
while standing, as it were, on the very brink of the
fulfilment of their loftiest ambition. It is true that
he has not been stretched in his coffin while yet in
the prime and bloom of his manhood—as was the case
with poor CHARLES BULLER, when the highest offices
of the State seemed opening up to his appreciated
abilities as an administrator, or as was the case again
with poor WILLIAM FOLLETT, one of the ablest advo-
cates that ever graced the Bar of England, and who,
it can never be forgotten by those who knew and
honoured the scope of his commanding intellect,
passed away into the grave, while his fingers were
actually closing upon the seals and ermine of the
Chancellor. Not such, it is true, has been the pre-
mature decease of DANIEL WEBSTER, but still a de-
cease eminently sad in its appeal to the popular
sympathy—for WEBSTER, at the period of his dissolu-
tion, was considered by many of his fellow-citizens a
likely successor to the curule chair of WASHINGTON.
It is interesting, profoundly interesting, to us as
fellow-creatures fated to pass through the same mortal
extremities, to observe the awful serenity with which
the strong Public Man appears to have watched the
on-coming moment of his inevitable dissolution.
His entreaty to one of his intimate friends, " Don't
leave me till I am dead—don't leave Marshfield till
I am a dead man"—his muttering to himself in an
undertone—" On the 24th of October, all that is
mortal of DANIEL WEBSTER will be no more"—his
incoherent reminiscence of GRAY'S " Elegy," by re-
peating indistinctly, " Poet, poetry, GRAY, GRAY"—
his joyful recognition of the first line of it when read
to him, " That's it, that's it"—are all of them inci-
dents characteristic of the man of courage and sensi-
bility, of the scholar and, of the Christian. Imme-
diately before dissolution, he appears to have
spoken of the difficulty of the process of dying;
and on the verse being recited to him, "Though I
walk through the shadow of death I will fear no evil;
for Thou art with me; Thy rod and Thy staff they
comfort me"—he exclaimed, " The fact, the fact! That
is what I want ! Thy rod ! Thy rod 1 Thy staff 1 Thy
staff!" And these were his last words—and so he ex-
pired.

America, according tq our latest dispatches from
the opposite side of the Atlantic, has already evinced
her willingness to honour the memory of her great
tribune, the departed statesman. The citizens of the
United States appear to have understood the worth
of his career, the dignity of his intellect, and the sig-
nificance of his character. They appear to have compre-
hended to the full the truth that,:in DANIEL WEBSTER,
they have lost not merely the most remarkable of
their orators, but one of the noblest and one of the
truest types of a genuine American. They remem-
ber the grand old figure of his father—" a remarkable
man, six feet in height, and of commanding appear-
ance," who rose from the rank of a common soldier
to that of captain, while fighting bravely under WOLIB
during the invasion of the Canadas. They have not
forgotten that both EZEKIEL and DANIEL WEBSTER
approved themselves in after years the worthy sons of
a worthy stock as the offspring of ABIGAIL (nee
EASTMAN) and her husband, old EBENEZER—any
more than they have forgotten that the second
of these eons (the one over whose tomb
they are now lamenting) was born, by a
coincidence, sufficiently curious as having oc-
curred to a person so illustrious, in the very last
year of the memorable revolution. Everything com-
bines, indeed, to incite the more public-spirited citi-
zens of the United States, to evidence, by some
honourable tokens of gratitude, the sincerity with
which DANIEL WEBSTER is regretted, under every
consideration, by the great mass of his fellow-coun-
trymen. In testimony of the fervour and of the dif-
fusions of their regrets for the great man recently
deceased at Marshfield, we find that everywhere
the intelligence of his death was received through-
out the whole States with marks of the pro-
foundest dejection. The Courts were at once
adjourned at Albany, at Syracuse, at Pittsburgh,
and in other localities. The newspapers were published
in mourning in Charleston. Meetings in token of
respect were forthwith called together in Baltimore.
The bells of the churches, of the public buildings, and
of the workshops, were all tolled at Harrisburgh.
Places of business were closed in Rochester. The
county offices were draped in black at Philadelphia.
Flogs were half-mast high at New Orleans; the
public edifices were closed, and minute guns fired
from sunrise to sunset. America gives proof indeed,
in all directions, that DANIEL WEBSTER'S demise, in
the seventy-first year of his age, is regarded as a public
calamity by the vast majority of the United States
population. Death has in this manner, towards the
close of 1852, overshadowed the Counoils both of the
United States and of the United Kingdom—for
while America Vi 43 preparing to pronounce by public
acts the importance of the Funeral of WEBSTER,
England has been engaged in arranging all the
necessary preliminaries for the gorgeous and national
obsequies of WELLINGTON.

THE DUKE or WELLINGTON'S FUNERAL—The
works at St. Paul's are being carried on with very much in-
creased rapidity as the time for their compu'sory termination
approaches. Upwards of 700 men were employed in the in-
terior yesterday, and the number will probably be increased
between this end Saturday, when Messrs. Cubitts expect to
have finished their labours. The Emperor of Russia has
selected. t) attend the funeral of the late Duke of Wellington,
three officers of most distinguished service and high rank,
namely, General of Infantry Prince Gortzekow ;
bfajor-
General Count Benkendorf, Imperial Military Commissioner;
and a colonel.
We are requested to st3te that the second session
of the Convocation of the Clergy of the province of Canter-
bury, willi n th
beele
heldjeruosantm chelh2atmhbiners, a
t. ,t vir.
at aestt
o'clock, ianrstteernbefore 11
REPRESENTATION OF AIIINGDON.—We are informed
that Mr. J. T. Norris, of Sutton-Courtney, possessing con-
siderable influence in the borough and it s N,cinity, will be a
candidata for the seat vacant by the death of Major-General
Caulfield.
SWEARING IN OF THE -NEW LORD MAYOR.—Yo-
ay Alderman Challis, the Lord Mayor for the ensuing
year, was sworn into office in the Guildhall, with the usual
formalities.
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON.—The council held
their first session for the academical year 1852.1853 on
Saturday last. Thanks were voted to the Rev. Thomes Dale,
church, vicar o St.n
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were
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Oct.,
when the collection amounted to upwards of 1001., and Mr.
Dale was appointed a life governor of the hospital. The
prize
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professor of English Language and
the Andrews scholarships for
Mathematics, and Natural Philosophy to Mr. Thomas Key
Latin, in , Greek, Roberts;
(5010, and to Mr. Thomas Savage (700 Mr. David Mason,
M.A., was appointed
Literature.

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, Two O'CLCCK.

The cotton market at Liverphol yesterday was
steady, and prices underwent no particular change.
The sales amounted to 5,000 bales, including 300
Surat for export, and consisting of about :4,500 Am-
erican, 50 Parnam and Maranham at 6fid., 12 Bahia
at 7d.; 1,800 Egyptian at 71d. to 911 ; 800 Surat
at 3d. to 5d.; and 25 Sea Islands at 2s. ld. to 2s. 3d.
Railway shares were firm, and a good business was
done.

The official return of the Trade and Navigation of
the United Kingdom for the month ended Oct. 10th,
has been issued. The imports of cocoa amounted to
324,165 lbs, which, as compared with those of the
corresponding month of the previous year shows a
slight decrease ; and in coffee there was a falling off
of 2,438,416 lbs. The imports of wheat increased
15,924 qrs ; cotton manufactures increased to the
amount of 9,7701, flax to the extent of 38,219 cwts,
hemp 36,485 cwts, linen manufactures to the value of
1,8691., rice to the extent of 81,276 cwts, salt-
petre 46,779 cwts, raw silk 334,391 lbs, thrown
1,5,375 lbs, European silk manufactures 7,777 lbs.
and spirits 38,218 proof gallons. In the imports of
sugar there appears a decrease of 64,623 cwts.,
but in unmanufactured tobacco an increase of
1,723,4391b5. Of wines the imports are less by
311,566 gallons.
The exports have been larger in coals and culm,
being 433,304 tons, cotton manufactures, cotton yarn
by 283,664 lbs., linen yarn by 769,308 lbs., and
thrown silk by 4570 lbs., and soap by 4,234 cwts.
Refined sugar decreased 9,404 cwts., and woollen yarn
1,886 cwts. In the declared value of the imports of
woollen mannfactures, there is an augmentation of
172,8541.
The total exports of the month were 7,382,2921.
against 6,346,9941., in the corresponding month of
1851.

_
The shipping employed in the foreign trade of the
United Kingdom during the month to October 10,
amounted to 611,066 tons inwards, and 748,635 tons
outwards, against 799,340 tons inwards, and 674,064
ton 4 outwards, at the like period of 1851.
The tonnage of vessels employed in the coasting
trade entered inwards and cleared outwards during
the month, was as follows :
ENTERED INWARDS.

1852 ...
1851 ...

... 1,124,581
... 1,028 952

Increase, ... ...
CLEARED OUTWARDS.

1852 ...
1851 ...

95,729

... 1,273.688
~.. 1,273,394

Increase this year, ... 294
The demand for bills on India has become more
moderate during the last fortnight, the total amount
drawn by the Hon. East India Company being only
41,7101., of which 26,195/. were on Bengal. The
rate is now 2s. ld. per rupee.
The advance expected in the price of silver has
taken place, all that was brought by the Magdalena
having been sold for shipment to the East Indies.
The bar silver was disposed of at ss. lid., an advance
of no less than td. per ounce. The dollars were taken
at ss. Oid. It is probable that this sudden rise would
not have occurred, for it exceeds by far the ordinary
movement in the bullion market, if the dealers in
India bad not already entered into contracts which
compel them to purchase on almost any terms.
The demand from that quarter satisfied, there
will probably be a reaction, but the ques-
tion remains what amount will the Indian mar-
ket really absorb ? The increase of cultivation in our
Eastern territories, the formation of railways by
means of British capital, and the expenditure for the
Burmese war, will all account for the large sums in
specie taken from England, as we can hardly MUM
that the balance of trade is so far against us as to
require these constant remittances. The necessity of
increasing our gold coinage, by bringing out 15s.
and perhaps even ss. pieces, will force itself ere
long upon attention, for should the drain of silver
continue, even the alloy in our coin might not pre-
vent its being purchased for exportation. French
5-franc pieces have already been bought, already
yielding scarcely any profit, as upon receipt in India
they will be melted down and re-issued in rupees.
The English Stock Market has been very quiet,
and Consols remain at 1008 1 for transfer, and
1001 I for the December Account. The New Three.
and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been 1031 to I, and
the Three per Cents. 99t z. Bank Stock is duller at
223. Exchequer Bills have been 735. to 765. pre-
mium.
Foreign Securities are steady, and in some cases
rather looking up. Mexican Bonds have improved to
251 1 ; Turkish Scrip is up to 2 and 4 prem.; The
Swedish Loan is at 1 discount; Spanish Deferred
Stock has been up to 251 to 1 ; Sardinian Bonds are
better, being 981; Dutch Four per Cents. are
97 to 4.
Railway Shares, although not much dealt in, ere
very firm ; Caledonian have risen 1 to 11, the traffic
being again reported to ba very favor 7able ; French
shares still tend upwards.
Gold Mines and Banks are supported.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.
(From the Official List.)
Business done
Bank Stock
8 per Cent. Reduced Annuities-- ..... 993 #
3 per Cent Consols Ann.-, ... 1001
dew 314 per Cent. hitac 103% 3y A
png Annuities. Exp. Jan. sth, 1860
Ditto 30 years, Exp., Oct. 10, 1859 6 3-16
India Stock 275

Do. Bonds, 10001 B4 6
Ditto under I.ooo'. ...... ..... ... .....
south Sea Stock
Dittto Old Annuities 991/
Con:lls for Account lOO%
E xchNuer Billr 154 d. March June.
1,0001......
500/.
Small
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS.
Danish 5 per Cent.
Grenada, 1% per Cent.
Ditto Deferred
Mexican 3 per Cent.
Peruvian Bonds. 1849, 6 per Cent., ...... .• 104 3% :,4
Ditto Deferred 3 per Cent.
Portul,.aese 5 per Centr.
Ditto 1 Small
_._ _

Russian i
tto 4 p
1/4Bonds,er C
1822,ent. 5 per Ce n t ... —
Ditto
105 i
Sardinian liond:,, 5 per Cent. 94
Spanish Bends, 8 por Cent.
Spanish New Deferred, 3 per Cent... 2s* i
Swedish Loan .. 1 A die.
Turkish Loan, 6 per Cent., 1852..
Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent., 10 Gu.£
Belgian Bonds, 4% per Cent
Dutch Excha., 211 h per Cent., 12 Gull 65 3 3's
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates
Ditto Bonds ..... . 96

Consols ••• ••
Ditto Account. Dec. 9

THREE O'CLOCK.
... ... 100% !Ag
... ... looyB 1.,i

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, Nov. 8.

Prince Albert, accompanied by Prince Hermann of
Rohmlohe, and the Duke of Terceira, went out shooting
this morning, attended by Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps,
Captain lion. M. West, and Lieutenant-Colonel F. H.
Seymour.
The Duke and Duchess of Terceira, and the Earl and
Countess of Hardwicke, left the Castle to-day for
London.

The Queen will hold. a Privy Council to-morrow
(Wednesday) at Buckingham Palace. Summonses were
issued yesterday to the Ministers and Officers of State
from the Privy Council-office.
The Attorney-General for Ireland had an interview
with the Earl of Derby yesterday, at his official resi-
dence in Downing-street.
Mr. Ilibbert and Mr. Davidson had an interview with
Sir John Pakington, yesterday, at the Colonial-office.
Mr. Masterman, M.P., had an interview with Mr.
Secretary Walpole, yesterday, at the Homo-office.
The Earl of Hardwicke returned to town yesterday,
from Windsor Castle.
Dispatches were received from the Governor-General
of Canada, and from the Governors of the other North
American provisoes, yesterday, at the Colonial-office.

A Cabinet Council was held at two o'clock yesterday
afternoon, at the Foreign-office, Downing-street. The
following ministers assembled :—The Earl of Derby,
tho Earl of Lonsdale, the Marquis of Salisbury, Mr.
Secretary Walpole, the Earl of Malmesbury, Sir John
Pakington, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke
of Northumberland, the Right Hon. J. W. Henley, the
Earl of Hard wicke, the Right Hon. J. C. Herries, and
Lord John Manners. The Lord Chancellor joined his
colleagues about three o'clock. The Council broke up
at half-past four o'clock.

and The brother of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr.
James Disraeli, of No. 4, Vigo-street,.Regont-street, has
teen
amt the
irTer, caps ue
rrberysshe of the County
Courts r
Lincoln-
shire, circuits 17, IS, and 19. The salary is stated to
be 4001 a year, with 1501 a year for a clerk.
appointede Nottingtho

ILLNESS OP THE MARQUIS OP NORBIANBL—We re-
gret to state that the Marquis of Normanby is confined
by severe indisposition at Mulgrave Castle. His Lord-
ship is suffering from a slight attack of paralysis, brought
on by congestion of the liver. We are, however, happy
to state, that his Lot dship is going on most favourably.

STRANGE TIALLUCINATION.—A German, residing in
Paris, a hatter, lately lost his reaeon from grief at the
death of his wife, and fancied himself made of glass. lie
was accustomed to tell people not to approach him too
near, lest they should break him; and for the same fear
he scarcely moved, and could with difficulty be persuaded
to eat. Last week ho hanged himself. A letter left on
the thble stated that ho had voluntarily put an end to his
existeuon to avoid being brokeu to pieces.