The Sun.
London, England, 1837-04-13 00:00:00

DUTiES ON FORF.IGIsr CORN.

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Wheat ...... Sd. 1 I Oats
Barley ;5;. 4d Rye

THE MARKETS--('TIE DAY.)

HAY MARKET S.—(At per Load of 36 Trusses.)
CUMBER] AND.
. _

Coarse heavy Lowland:Meadow Hay,,..,. E4 0 t.. £4 5
New Meadow Hay 0 0 0 0
Useful Old Ditto
fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay
Clover Hay
Oat Straw .£2 6to .£2 S I Wheat Straw 2 6 2 10
SMITHFIELD.
Coarse heavy Lowtuni Meadow Hay
Nvw Meadow Hay
Useful Old Ditto
Fine Upland Meadow and Rye grass Hay
Clover Hay (extra fine ......£6 0 . Generally ~
Oat Straw .12 2to £2 4 I Wheat Straw.

£3 10 i..£3 Is
.. A 0 0 0
..... 4 8 4 5
..... 4lO 415
C 0
...... 2 6 2 8

WHITECHAPEL.

Coarse Meadow Hay
New Meadow Hay
Useful Old Ditto

.XS 15 to £4 0
.. ...... 6 I 0 0
41 4 5
4 10 4 1j
55 6 9
..

Fine Upland Meadow and rlye.grass Hay
Clover Hay
Old Straw £2 2to £2 4 j Wheat Straw

COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURIN

G THE WEEK.

NOTICE OF SALE. Wheat. i Barley. I Oats. Beans. Pease.
BANKRUPTS' GENUINE STOCKS. - -- Per Quarter. s. to s. s. to s. s. to s. s. to s. s. tl 8.
NIR. SAMUEL LOVE has received instructions Abingd0n................ 44 50 30 34 22 30 38 _
from the Assignees of Mr. FRAS. HUITSON, of New- And0ver....—..... 47 32 29 31 25 43 _
gate-street, Woollen Draper, and of Mr. THOS. PRESTON, of Birmingham......... 3633 485
g(2) 40 g 302 - 33 _-
Cateaton-street, Woollen Warehouseman Bankrupts, to SELL by Cirencester 44 51 27 32 20 25 32 40
AUCTION, on THURSDAY, the 27th April, 1837, at the George Paringdon...—...— . 35 46 25 30 26 30 46 _
Hall, George Tavern, Aldermanbury, the GENUINE STOCKS Guildford .—........... 38 54 28 35 20 30 46
Hen1ey...............:—... 42 58 26 32 23 26 41 belonging to the above Estates. Hereford 35 49 26 32 22 29 46 40
Full Particulars will be given in a few Days. High worth —....... 42 60 32 42 28 34 55 _
19, Basinghall-street, 13th April, 1837. Maidenhead ......... 32 58 124 36 20 29 34 44 34 38
M0nm0uth............. 46 48 32 31 122 29 31 40
NEAR to ABERGAVENNY.—The MOUNT PLEASANT Reading _ . 34 57 25 35 28 27 13 42 35
ESTATE for PEREMPTORY SALE.-165 ACRES of Stlisbury...—....... 44 54 30 34 20 28 41 46
EXCELLENT LAND, CAPABLE of a CONSIDERABLY gtoruotuhrepton ........ V,
4341 33 40 282) 32,
_- 46
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IMPROVED RENTAL, in the most BEAUTIFUL PART Tewkesbury . 51 —35 —22 32 40 --
of this HIGHLY-FAVOURED COUNTY; with Capital Uxbridge . 40 48 23 32 17 28 40 42
MARKETS CLOSE at HAND, and LOTS of AMUSE- W.ratage..............—,. 32 52 24 34 20 25 33 42 33 48
MENT to a SPORTING GENTLEMAN. W4rminster..,—. 30 40 27 , 34 22 26 36 4
Windsor—..... 39 21 22 35
TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, Worcester.- 53 56 32 36 30 32 46 46 48
By Mr. GEORGE ROBINS,
CHELTENHAM MARKETS.
At the Angel Inn, Abergavenny, on TUESDAY, the 23d of May, Per Bushel. s. d. to s. dI _ Per lb. d. tc d

TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION,
By Mr. GEORGE ROBINS,
At the Angel Inn, Abergavenny, on TUESDAY, the 23d of May,
at Twelve o'Clock, in Lots, and peremptory.
A Valuable and highly improvable FREEHOLD
ESTATE, which will offer tempting advantages to those
who would invest their Capital in perfect security.
" THE MOUNT PLEASANT ESTATE,"
which includes

Per Bushel. ----;:,1.t
Wheat
Barley 3 6
Oats
Beans
Pease 4 9
Hay 5l,

:NH A
to s. d
80
40'
4 0
66
68
. 10s

Beef
Nltatten
Veal
Pork
Lamb
to N. 6:. ad. p-r tt,n.
KF'

d. tc d
6 7
6 7
7 R
7 S
0 0

ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-FIVE ACRES,
is situate within four miles of the far-famed town of Abergavenny,
on the mail-road to Pontypool and Newport. It is within a ring-
fence ; the Lands arc judiciously divided into a full proportion of
rich Meadow, Pasturo, Arable, and Woodland, besides

LEWES MARKEL—ApriI 11.
Per Quaver. s. d. to s. d. Per Quarter. s. d. to s. d.
Wheat, White ... 51 0 60 0 Oats 24 6 26 6
--- Red 52 0 56 0 Pease 32 0 37 0
Barley 49 0 43 0 Oil Cake...ll/. ts. per Thousand.

HULL MARKET.—ApriI H.
Wheat, Old 523. 51s. 58s. New ...... 40s. 50s. 545.
Foreign —3.-3. —s. In bond... —s. —s —s.
Oats, Poland —s. 225. 245. Old —s. 21s. 261.
-- Small or Feed.... —I. —s. 20s —s. —s. 235.
-- Foreign
Barley, Norf. & Sur
-- Foreign
Beans 30s. 3.5. 483. Foreign
Pease, White..,.._. 415. 455, 483. Grey 325. 265. 40s.
Tare. ~.

THRIVING FRUIT PLANTATIONS.
The woods, as they progress, will form a belt on one side, and it
need hardly be added, that it will tend materially to ornament it.
The present Residence may, with a little outlay, be conveniently
adapted to the occupation of a Gentleman of pretensions ; it is placed
on a commanding position, by which it partakes, to a very consi-
derable extent, in the almost endless variety of Hill and Dale which
encompasses it : indeed, the Scenery, which partakes of a com-
manding view of the beautiful valley, may be said to claim to be the
most favoured of this interesting county.
THE SPLENDID VALE OF USK, AND ITS
ORNNMENTAL AND FRUITFUL RIVER,
takes its course near this interesting Property.
THE FINEST SALMON AND TROUT THROUGHOUT
ENGLAND
are caught within sight of the abode.
THE BRECON AND ABERGAVENNY CANAL
passes through the demesne, offering a facility that the honest, in-
dustrious Yeoman will know how to appreciate. It carries away
the produce to more favourable markets, and returns laden with
lime, manure, and ovals ; there is also a very powerful stream of
water meandering through tha, meadows, with a fall of 50 feet,
which may without difficulty be made exceedingly ornamental;
and if profit be
IN THE " MIND'S EYE" OF A PURCHASER,

Rapeseed. In bond none Free, jeer last 32/. 331. 06

LEWES MARKET.—ApriI 1.
Beef
Mutton 3 8 5 2 I Pork 3JO 4 4
A moderate supply; the trade with prime Beef and Mutton rather
brisk, but otherwise dull.

On Tuesday last, a couple, Hotly pursued, and
" flying on the wings of love," to that far-famed shrine of
lovers—Gretna-green--passed through Carlisle. It was evi-
dent, from appearances, that an old tawdry post-chaise, under
ordinary circumstances, could have nothing to do with two
postillions or four horses ; and, consequently, on arriving at
the Bush Inn, Carlisle, crowds began to assemble instan-
taneously ; but they only assembled to " wonder and amaze ;"
for ere curiosity could be gratified, the flying fugitives were
off at their utmost speed, and scarcely had they skirted the
borough, when a party arrived in pursuit. It is only neces-
sary, however, to observe, that ere they could be overtaken,
the " winged lovers" arrived before the wished-for shrine in
time enough to bedeck themselves with the laurels of matri-
mony, ere their pursuers could reach them.— Whitehaven
Herald.

the report of an eminent engineer has given to the site a cha'racter
most favourable for the erection of

TIN AND WIRE WORKS ON A GREAT SCALE;
AND GRIST MILLS, REQUIRING
the aid of a never-failing supply of water.
The neighbouring markets are all good : it is distant 3 miles
from Blaen Avon and Varteg Iron-works (the latter would alone
consume all the produce at high prices) ; 4 from the flourishing
town of Abcrgavenny, and 6 from Pontypool. The Estate is di-
vided to meet the wishes of every class; with the residence is ap-
propriated about 134 acres : the remaining seven lois include
James's little Farm, and sundry enclosures and cottages, all let, or
rather underlet, to tenants at will. The Estate possesses singular
advantages to a sporting man—the covers are numerous, and game
is in great abundance.
Printed Particulars may be had twenty-eight days before the
Sale at the principal Inn, Carmarthen; Bush, Bristol; the new
London Inn, Exeter; the Cheltenham Chronicle Office; the Angel,
AbernAvennv ; the Castle, Brecon ;of Mr. Alostyn, itor,
; anti aL Mr. George Robins's offices, Covent
Garden.

The Edinburgh Advertiser states that " the friends
of Applecross consider his return for Ross-shire certain, and
that too by a considerable majority." Credat Judaus
Our beautiful local theatre was burnt to ashes this
morning, about five o'clock. How the fire originated is at
present a mystery. There was a performance in the early
part of the night, at which there was not more than the usual
attendance of persons. It is supposed, however, that the ca
tastrophe was purely accidental. The building was formed of
very inflammable materials. We regret that the scenery, war-
drobe,‘ &c., became a prey to the devouring element, by which
Mr. Seymour, the deserving manager, loses a good deal of
property.— WaterArd Chronicle of Saturday.

At about half-past two o'clock the RECORDER came into
Court, where a great. number of the civic authorities had
already assembled, for the purpose of passing sentence upon
Greenacre and Gale. So secret had the intention of the
Court been kept, that hundreds of persons who were in the
adjoining building were not aware of its existence until the
solemn ceremony was half over.
As soon as the buzz had a little subsided,
The RECORDER said, James Greenacre, have you any
thing to say ; if so, the Court will hear you ?
Grecnacre then with a firm voice addressed the Court,
and said, " My unhappy situation in this unfortunate affair
has been the means of raking together evidence to promote
a conviction from persons whom I believe would be in-
duced to sacrifice my life for a treat at a tavern or gin-
shop. My Lord, it is quite contrary to reason or common
sense that I should have meditated the death of a human
being. Had money been my object I could have possessed
it by marriage.

RECORDER—Prisoner, you are called upon to state whe-
ther you have anything to say why sentence of death should
not be passed upon you ; but if there are any merits in
your case so as to induce you, you may forward a state-
ment to the Secretary of State, where, be assured, they
will meet with due attention.

Greenacre—Very good, my Lord. Allow me to state,
standing as I do upon the verge of the grave, that this
woman is as innocent of the offence charged as any lady
or gentleman in this Court ; indeed she did not know any
thing of it until we were together at the police office before
the magistrates. I feel it, my Lord, to be a religious duty
to exculpate her from all participation in this unfortunate
affair. With respect to the articles disposed of and pos-
sessed by her she never knew by what means I got them.
RECORDER-With respect to the female prisoner I can
only say, at present, that if there is any thing in her case
of a favourable nature, so as to induce a mitigation of her
sentence, she may refer to the Secretary of State, who, if
he see cause, will review the proceedings, and act under the
advice and discretion of the responsible officers of the
Crown.

The female prisoner was then ordered to stand by for
a short time, and Greenacro remained at the bar to re-
ceive his awful judgment.
Mr. Cheffinch, the crier of the Court, then made procla-
mation, and commanded all manner of persons to keep pro-
found silence while sentence of death was being passed
upon the prisoner.
The RECORDER then addresssed the convict to the follow-
ing effect, his Lordship being, even at the commencement
of his his awful duty, deeply affected :—" James Greenacre,
after a protracted trial, which has occupied two entire days,
upon a patient and impartial investigation of the circum-
stances by a jury of your country, they have found them-
selves compelled to pronounce you guilty of the heinous
offence charged in this indictment. You have been con-
victed upon clear and conclusive evidence of the dreadful
crime of murder. The appalling details of your dreadful
case, are fresh in the recollection of all those who are
within the sound of my voice, and will long live in
the memory, and may I not add, in the execration
of mankind, and go down to succeeding generations.
You have, indeed, acquired an odious celebrity—an
awful notoriety—in the annals of cruelty and of crime.
The measures to which you have been permitted by
Providence to resort for the concealment of your dreadful
crime were attended for a season with partial success ; but
it was only permitted that during the short interval accumu-
lated evidence and irrefragable proofs of guilt should be ad-
duced. During that period the amputated limbs and the
severed trunk have been united to the bloodless head of
your wretched victim. It has been proved that one of the
injuries on the head was inflicted, in all probability, in the
lock of the canal, where it was cast; and it was also proved,
without a sense of compassion, you must have inflicted
other mortal injuries, and imbrued your hands in the life's
blood of your wretched victim before that life was extinct.
The horrible spectacle which the mutilated remains pre-
sented proved the fact that slaughter must have been com-
mitted, and that death was not occasioned (as you insinuate)
by accident. Science had been called in aid, and it has
proved to a demonstration that the contusion on the eye
was inflicted before the death of the unfortunate woman ;
and it is plain that you washed your hands in the
blood which flowed from wounds of your own in-
fliction. The horror of contemplating this spectacle
compels me to draw a veil over this examination, and
refrain from recapitulating the particulars of your fright-
ful and heinous sin. It may be better to consider
what benefit may be derived in a moral point of
view from your transgressions, through the agency of an
Almighty power. Your offence in the first place excited
alarm. The mystery, however, in which it was enveloped,
and the publicity which followed, were the means of the fa-
mily of the deceased having their attention directed to it
and the cause of her identification, and ultimately produced
the apprehension of the delinquent, and the bringing him
to the bar of public justice. This shows that, however
guilt may be hidden for a time, sooner or later the guilty
will be discovered and brought to condign and deserved pu-

UNROLLING A MUMMY.

Tuesday night Mr. Pettigrew proceeded to unroll the ce-
lebrated mummy which formed one of the chief ornaments
of the collection of Signor D'Athanasi. Mr. Pettigrew,
in his preliminary observations, gave his opinion that the
mummy was a Graeco-Egyptian mummy of the Ptolemic
wra, consequently more than 2,000 years old. He adopted
this opinion from the appearance of the external hierogly-
phics, and other appearances. The external wrappers of
this specimen were oblong pieces of cloth, in length from
one to two feet, and in breadth about nine inches or one
foot. They were in remarkably fine preservation, the tex-
ture of the cloth was perfect, very fine, and of the colour
of nankeen. On many of these wrappers were delineated
in black the figures of the deities of the Egyptian mytho-
logy. The delineation of these figures and emblems was
in a style of great accuracy ; indeed, some of them were
described with peculiar elegance, and very elaborately. Be-
neath these external wrappers there was another class of
bandages of considerable length, but not more than two or
three inches in width. These wrappers were not orna-
mented by drawings of any sort ; they were of similar linen
to the first set, and were disposed transversely, crossing each
other and forming innumerable angles. Beneath these was a
third set of bandages disposed lengthways from head to heel
of the corpse. All these wrappers were removed with great
care, but beneath them the body was encased by bandages
secured with strong applications of asphaltum, which it was
obvious had been applied in a hot and fluid state. The
mummy was, in fact, almost embodied in this substance,
and it .became a work of absolute labour to Mr. Pettigrew
and his assistants, by dint of cutting, hammering, and chop-
ping, with very strong tools, to remove the impediments
which intervened between them and the object they were
seeking to expose. They proceeded far enough to discover
that the legs were separately bandaged ; that the arms
were crossed upon the breast ; that the toe nails were gilt ;
and to discover a small searabseus and some other minute
emblems. • Mr. Pettigrew having proceeded thus far, after
a labour of nearly two hours, told the company it would
be impossible in any reasonable time so fully to unease the
mummy on that occasion, as to reduce it to a state fully
elucidatory of the object for which they had attended. It
would take many hours, and great care, to scrape off the
asphaltum. No doubt gems and other objects would be
discovered attached to it, and it would when completely
uncovered be exhibited to the public, and every person who
had attended on the occasion would have access to view it.
The company after this announcement retired, highly gra-
tified with what had been exhibited, and with what had
been explained by the operator.

Last night a numerous meeting of the inhabitants
of Hampstead was held, at the Castle Tavern, Hampstead-
heath, for the purpose of taking into consideration the plan
proposed by his Majesty's Ministers for the abolition of
Church-rates. Several gentlemen having addressed the
meeting, a petition to Parliament was ultimately agreed to,
to be presented by Lord Brougham and Mr. Hume.

The Finsbury Reform Dinner which takes place on
Wednesday next, will be one of the greatest political treats
of the year. The Chairman, Mr. Ward, the chosen future
representatives of Sheffield, will be supported by all the
leading Members on the Liberal side of the House of Com-
mons, and a splendid display of oratory may be expected.
Many foreigners of distinction have signified their intention
to be present, and the demand for tickets has been already
very great. The Committee have been actively employed in
the arrangements for the dinner, and have taken every pre-
caution to ensure the comfort of the guests.
Last evening, shortly after five o'clock, a fire of the
most -destructive description broke out in the extensive gas
manufactory, belonging to Messrs. Wilson and Edwards, Brom-
ley New Town, near the East India Docks. The flames, by
dint of great exertion, added to a good supply of water, were at
length subdued, but not before the factory was totally destroyed.
Between the hours of ten and eleven o'clock last
night the body of a new-born male child, wrapped in a piece
of fine new linen, and carefully tied round with tape, was dis-
covered thrown over the garden wall of an unfinished house by
the London and Birmingham Railroad, at Camden Town.
Professional assistance had not been rendered at the time of the
birth, but the appearances of the body arc strongly indicative
of the child having been born alive, and from marks of com-
pression on the neck death is supposed to have been produced
by strangulation.
A valuable discovery has just been made at Rome,
namely, of a manuscript life of Pope Alexander VII., attri-
buted to Cardinal Sforza. This work has been brought to
light from the dust of the old libraries by the learned Abbe
Titto Ciccomi. It contains very full details of the epidemic
which was communicated from Naples to Rome in 1476, and
speaks of the wise precautionary measures adopted by the
Sovereign Pontiff. It appears that 2,000 people died per day
at Naples of the disease, which is supposed to have been the
cholera, and upwards of 8,000 persons fell victims to it at Rome.
It appears that it was the fashion then, as it was of late, to deny
the contagion of the disease ; but the Pope, who was of a dif-
ferent op►nion, had every possible means employed to prevent
communication with the sick.

Pendarves, Sehokfield. vNow we imagine that. it will
hardly be asserted that any of these gentlemen staid
away from being averse to the Bill. It appears, there-
fore, that of the twenty—

I changed aides.
I not general supporter of Government, paired off for the Bill.
2 of the same shade of opinion were absent from London.
16 were absent, being either Members who had paired off for
the Bill, or were included in the above list.

It does not appear, therefore, that any defection ex-
cept that of Mr. Martin, of Sligo, an invariable op-
ponent of the Government, except on Lord F. Eger-
ton's instruction for destroying the corporation which
gave him birth, bad occurred ; and that the falling off
in the majority is to be attributed to the mere accident
of unintentional bad attendance. The Tories, on the
other hand, had five more than on the last division—
On the third reading there were present who had not
voted before
On the third reading there were absent who had voted
before

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Exactly equal to the difference between the two
divisions. Of these fire added—
I changed sides, viz., Mr. Martin (Sligo.)
2 voted who had not voted before, from repugnance to Lord
F. Egerton's motion, viz., Mr. Blackstone and Sir R.
Vyvyan.
2 must be placed to the account of better attendance.

Thus it appears that the difference was caused by—
st. The change of Mr. Martin, of Sligo.

2d. The accession of Sir R. Vyvyan and Mr. Blackstone.
2 additional whipped up on the Tory side.
16 less detained from attending on the Liberal side.

There is one element Of difference on which the
Tories will be sure to lay great stress. If we do not
dispose of that pretext, we shall be told that the dif-
ference in the majority was produced by the late
wonderful Conservative re-action, which has altered

the relative numbers of the parties by putting in
Tories in the place of Liberals. Now it appears that
by changes in the House—.

The Tories have gained 2.—viz., Farrand and Lord Hills-
borough.
The Tories have lost 2—viz., Canning and Entwisle.
The Liberals have gained 2—viz., Collins and W. 0.
Stanley.
The Liberals have lost 2—Vigors (temporarily) and S.
Mackenzie.

These changes, therefore, exactly balance each
other, and no alteration has been effected since the
first divi'iion by the constituent bodies. The whole
change of opinion, therefore, which results from this
analysis appears to be that Sir R. Vyvyan and Mr.
Blackstone have voted on the third reading, as they
ought to have voted before, and that Mr. Martin, of
Sligo, has changed sides—as he has done before. The
only person who has changed is Mr. Martin, of
Sligo. But public opinion has changed. Therefore,
Mr. Martin, of Sligo, is public opinion.—Q. E. D.—
Morning Chronicle.

There are some persons of a nature peculiarly sensi-
tive—who writhe beneath the most gentle species of
personal attack. Mr. Sheil, a few weeks ago, made
some disagreeable observations npon Lord Stanley.
Lord Stanley was present : he could refute any false
statements in his adversary, or explain any part of his
own conduct. But he had spoken ; and because lie
had spoken and could not make any regular reply Mr.
Shell's attack was most cowardly and ungenerous. The
Attorney-General let slip a few words on the discussion
of the Church-rate Bill, which did not sound to the
Noble Lord's ear in perfect harmon) with the placid
nature of his own disposition. Mr. Spring Rice, he
said, had always been friendly to him ; Lord J. Rus-
sell always friendly ; the members of the Government
in general on the best of terms. There was only one
solitary individual who, in spite of all such general
friendship, had treated him with asperity. This was his
Majesty's Attorney-Gencral ; and the Noble Lord was
equally sui prised and displeased at the extraordinary ex-
ception. The gentlemen who have always treated
the Noble Lord with so much friendship have
certainly every reason to congratulate themselves upon
their conduct. It has been repaid with peculiar
courtesy—with an almost romantic return of kind-
ness. Last night, in particular, a favourable opportu-
nity presented itself of showing the impression that
former friendship or recent intercourse had made upon
his Lordship's mind. His Right Honourable Friends
weremot in the House. That was the time to say
something handsome of them in a delicate way. Such
is just the sort of thing which the Noble Lord delights
in. Accordingly, towards- the end of the debate he
arose ; and with one of those peculiarly amiable looks,

which .shen he sat upon the Treasury benches arrayed
againet his colleagues so formidable an opposition—
pronounced one of the boldest pieces of vituperation
he ever yet delivered against the empty benches oppo-
site. "It was nrt expedient, it was not decent for the
Secretary for the Home Department (his Noble Friend,
of course), to be absent from the House." It was, of
'course, expedient and decent, his Noble Friend. being
absent, that he (Lord Stanley) should abuse him and
abuse the Government (his Noble and Right Hon.
Friends) who had all those opportunities for replying
and explaining during their absence, which the kind-
ness and courtesy of the Noble Lord could have de-
sired. Never was worse feeling or worse taste shown.
There was not a Tory Gentleman who would have
spoken, or who did speak in the same strain. But
the suiiject was exciting—the opportunity tempting.
There were former friends, who could not defend them.
selves, to be attacked, and there was a principle—one
of the principles to which the Noble Lord has within
the last year been so inviolably attached—the principle
of irresponsible Government to be defended. Cer-
tainly the Noble Lord's argument was culious. The
magistrates of England, said he, are the wisest, the ho-
nestest, the most excellent, well judging, and exem-
plary men that ever existed ; and here is that flagitiou,
Secretary of the Home Office who has absolutely leE
this great question to be decided, without any attempt
to bias or influence such authority—by these mos:
wise, most honest, most excellent, and best-judging
of men ! ! The debate was a much longer one than was
expected, and was conducted in rather a singular man-
ner, the Noble Lord's burst included. Mr. Hume
had brought in a Bill, much too crowded with details.
some of which, doubtless, were objectionable, for doing
away with the irresponsible authority of the County
Magistrates, and intrusting the expenditure and care
of the rates collected to persons appointed by those by
whom the rates were paid. The Bill last night was at
its second reading—that is, was at a point when it is
usual for the House to reject or accept the principle of
a Bill, reserving the consideration of all details for a
subsequent stage. Now, almost everybody who spoke,
on both sides of the House, Lord Stanley excepted,
allowed the principle of the Bill to be good ; but by
far the greater number of those who spoke said that
they should not vote for the principle which was goo]
(this being the second reading), but against the
details which were bad. Mr. Roebuck, who rose be-
fore Lord Stanley, rather encumbered the real subject
by the introduction of questions which were really
alien to the Bill, as well as by vituperation which was
not exactly qualified to soothe or disarm opposition to
it. He stated himself to be in favour of an elective
magistracy, and railed with his usual bitterness
against the existing magistracy. Now, an elective
magistracy may be a most undesirable thing--but
ti Bill did not appoint an elective magistracy

and the existing magistracy may be the most he-
nottrable and gentle-minded men in the world,
and vet the system under which they exercise
their functions may be a most unjustifiable and ini-
prmer one. Mr. Maule, on being appealed to.
said a few words expressive of his own opinion
as favourable to the principle contained in the WI,
and also contended that the Government were not
wrong in leaving a measure which so entirely belonged
to country administration in the hands of the countr.-
gentlemen, who, from practical experience, were best
calculated to decide upon it. Mr. E. J. Stanley, in a
very few words, spoken just before the division, put the
question, stating that he should vote in favour of it,
on the proper footing. The: most amusin4 trait in the
discussion was a remark of Major Beauclerk :—" Many
of the magistracy (said that Gallant OfficLr) are the
most high-inindej an,l honourable: of men—l am my-
e.ll a magistrate ;" while Mr. Flume closed the d.!-
bat,! by exciting a peal of laughter at his proposition—
that b,..fwe the question was put all the ma,istrates,
himself excepted, should w:thdr-aw, "in wllict case.,"
sail the Finn. Member, I shall carry my second
r:ading,"—Morning Cbro,t;cle.

Every one who has looked dispassionately at the'
state of parties within and without the Wills of Par o
liament, must have been aware that there wai no im-
portant chaoge to be expected in the sentiments of
the House of Commons before it shall hays node-4011 e
the purifying,-,process of a new election ; and, there-
fore, that it was of very little consequence, unless to
prevent a mi.,irLpresentation of the state of opinion lit
the Tories, whether the division on • the
pal Bill presented a few votes more or less in the tea
jority than appeared on former occasions. The tr;flie;
diminution of the majority on the late division, of which
the 'Tories vsnnt so extravagantly, is not attrihutahlo
to any change or vacillation in the opinion, but to the
non-attendance, of some of the Liberal Members of
the House of Commons. Tnis will be at once eyid,m;
by glancing at the list of the division, in which not a
single vote will be found on the opposite side to
that on which it has already appeared. Therefore,
to regard the slight decrease of the majority RS
an evidence.of an incipient re-action, or of a less de-
termined feeling to carry the measure into law, would
1..! as absurd a delusion as any by which the Tories
.ver attempted to mislead the public. Even if there
were a real, instead of an apparent, diminution of the
majority in the House of Com.nons, the questioe
I%ould just stand in as favourable a position as it has
hitherto done. From the commencement of the Ses-
sion it was not expected by any party that the Lords
would accept the Bill without such imitilations as
should render it worthless ; and therefore it matters
little or nothing with regard to the advancement of the
Bill whether it passed the House of Commons with an
increased, or with a diminished majority. It is not
from the House of Commons is expected the pressure
that must popel the measure throiNh the House of
LordA, but fro.n the people. h is by the same force, too,
that a change must be operated iii the sentiments
of the house of Commons itself. Rare, indeed, arc
the instances in which Members have changed their
convictions from discussion, or force of argument ;
but innumerable are the changes which have been ef-
fected by a dissolution of Parliament, or the rerocess
of au election. We have always stated our conviction
that neither this nor any of the other great Ministerial
measures of reform could be carried without a general
and simultaneous demonstration of the national senti-
ment, similar to that which secured the Reform Act ;
nor have we had, at any time, the remotest expecta-
tion that the work of reform could be efficiently car-
ried on without an appeal to the country. Be this
appeal made sooner or later, it is on its result, and on
that only, can the hopes of the country be confidently
based. The dolorous description of the state of the
country, and its domestic and forsign relations, given
by Sir Robert Peel, and his modest insinuation that he
was ready, if called upon, to take the helm and guide
the vessel of the State through the dangers which cu•
compass it, was the most mountebank and empirical
exhibition that has lately been witnessed in either
House of Parliament. It hears a striking analogy to the
conduct of those quacks who endeavour to drive their
fraudulent trade by first persuading people that they
arc afflicted with all imaginable maladies, and then,
after exciting alarm, offer their own nostrum as the
grand Catholicon of human ill. It is not the first
time that the Tamworth Baronet has betrayed himself
by his insatiate craving after the sweets of office. But
if any thing were wanting to increase to a dangerous
exacerbation the excitement which the defeat of the
proposed Reforms will necessarily occasion, it would
be found in the prospect of Sir Robert or his col-
leagues being again allowed to usurp the Administra-
tion. Under a Liberal Ministry the delay of Reform
may be brooked by the people ; but who will set
bounds to national indignation if the Tory faction,
whose machinations caused to a great extent the
dangers which they affect to deprecate, should dare, as
the Ministers of Government, to hurl defiance at the
people, or, what would be worse, insult them, by
claiming the honour of carrying those Reforms to
which their previous opposition had been the great
source of public embarrassment ?—Morning Adver.

All parties in and out of Parliament have agreed,
that ,the argument on the Irish Municipal Corpora-
tion Bill is pretty well exhausted—that the recent
debate, so far as concerned the nature of the Minis-
terial measure, its tendencies and objects, the duress
under which its ostensible framers acted, and the pur-
poses to which its real authors, the wholesale dealers
in Irish agitation, would, according to their own no-
torious avowals, have converted it—that the debate,

we say. on all these topics had died a natural death,
and that the division ought, strictly speaking, to have
taken place on Monday evening. But to his Ma-
jesty's Ministers it did not seem good that things
should happen in conformity with the usual course.
The discussion, it is true, was worn out, but not so
the expectations of the Ministerial whippers-in, that
by gabbling against time, and by the aid of Mr.
Brotherton, an adjournment for 16 or 18 hours might
be accomplished, and another joint or two of the tail
brought up alive and in marketable condition to their
quarters in the rear of the Treasury bench. The
device was not attended with any consequences pe-
culiarly fortunate for those who practised it. They
gained the addition of just one vote to their majority,
which was swelled from 54 to 55. But they made
also another acquisition, the prospect of which most
probably was not among the motives for adjournment
on the part of his Majesty's Ministers—they got by
it the speech of Sir Robert Peel, and had their judg-
ments cleared and their spirits refreshed by those
piquant passages wherein the Right Hon. Baronet
gave so rich an historical description of the British
empire under the quadripartite sway of Melbourne,
Russell, O'Connell, and Pahnerston, further illumi-
' natcd by marginal indications of what was likely to be-
fall Great Britain should these " popular" and "
libe-
ral" statesmen refuse any longer to devote themselves
for their country,retiring from the Downing-street tread-
mill to their well-earned pensions and (those who are
blessed with such articles) to their decent homes.
The secret feelings of the House of Commons in
that respect faithfully sympathising with those of the
nation, betrayed themselves irrepressibly when the
Conservative leader apostrophised the haggard aspect of
public affairs under these Whig-Radical regenerators
•91
—" the state of our foreign affairs (at which words
the Ministerial culprit to whom that mortifying state
is attributable, had the preternatural effrontery to af-
fect a smile I) —" the position of this country with
reference to Russia and the whole of the northern
Powers—with reference to Spain," that labyrinth where
sae monster of anarchy waits to make a prey of all
who enter it—with reference to France, where, amidst
the shadows and mockeries of a pageant freedom, al-
ready obsolete after its six years' experiment, there
trembles in the remotest corner of a prison-palace,
the doomed victim of some recluse murderer, the no-
minal captain of four hundred thousand soldiers. The
majority who heard Sir Robert Peel was prepared for
a formal division upon the Irish measure, but was
unprepared for the sudden advent of this frightful
spectre, raised by the incantation of the Conserva-
tive chief. The genuine sentiment of Englishmen,
therefore, the wounded sense of national honour, and
no small portion of dislike towards the perverse arid
unprincipled agent through whom the disgrace had
been inflicted on us, burst out in a storm of cheers
from both sides of the House of Commons, in testi-
mony of the truth and power with which Sr Robert
Peel had struck the chord of universal sympathy. So
throughout the rest of his thrilling denunciation of
these Ministers, the " hundreds of questions" stag-
nant before the House of Commons, not advanced a
single stage—" numberless propositions," hut nothing
done. Where "is the Irish Poor-law Bill ?" Where
the English " Church-rate Bill ?" Where " the
Irish Tithe Bill," the boasted keystone of their Cabi-
net ? No, lock once more at the whole west of Eu-
rope, under the assumed policy of this disjointed and
decrepit Administration—cur pupil " Spain without
a Government"—our confederate France, who trusts
England, and England her, as each would " trust
an adder fanged ;,* while here on English soil, in
lieu of a Government, we see or hear nothing but
a doubt from day to day whether there exists
' a Gevernment or not ?" To that last question
every honest and discerning Englishman feels
what must be the answer. We have, in fact,
no Government, nor apology for a Government.
The very revolutionists by whom alone these melt are
maintaineetin their several offices—the revolutionists
to their faces scorn them for their imbecility, and treat
them without the least disguise as a ladder, to he
climbed upon and I hen kicked
,away. Under these
circumstances we shall not guess what may happen.
Rut something at length is gained for those waverers,
douleers, and timid though conscientious men, who
feared thet it was either Whig rate, or the rule of
anarchy. The ripened action of good sense and con
stitutional order throughout the country has forced the
Conservative leath•r to speak cut. He will not lunar
the Whigs in their distresses. He and his frieeds arc
people can off rd to wait to wait the fitting time and
season to begin. We have declared our conscientious
wish that the chanee of men, and improvement of
measures, may be slow in arriving. We desire the
change to he date, that it maybe lasting. We pray
the Ministers to indulge the nation with a fidi deve-
lopment of their characters and their projects before they
disappear from the official stage for ever.—Times.
The real merits of the question respecting Irish mu-
nicipal institutions are contained within a very narrow
compass. The Ministers rely upon the argument of
the aptitude of Ireland to be governed by similar insti-
tutions to those which Great Britain possesses. If so,
why did Ministers apply a separate Reform Act to
Indand, and one which places the elective franchise
under d Krent regulations from those which obtain in
Emit land ? How is it that the forty-shilling freeholders
of Ireland were dWranchised, with the fel; approbation
of Mr. Daniel O'Connell, who distinctly admitted, be-
fore a Parliamentary Committee, that they were un-
worthy of being allowed to exercise the elective fran-
chise ? How is it that Ministers framed and urged
forward their Irish constabulary, by which some hun-
dreds of new places were to he created, on the,ground of
the different circumstances of Ireland causing that coun
try to require a different system of local Government
from England ? How is it that Ministers framed their
Irish Poor Law measure, or rather their apology for a
Poor Law, upon time express principle.. that Ireland is not
qualified for self government, even in regard to regu-
lating time interests of its own poor, and must, therefore,
be placed under the absolute control of the pauper
despots ofSomerset-house ? Are the distinctions which
we have mentioned in the mode of internal government
as to the two countries, insults to Ireland ? If they
are, those insults have been inflicted upon the " sister
isle" by the Whig Ministers themselves, who have
either drawn those distinctions or approved of them.
Those and other distinctions constitute the practical
answer to the main, or indeed the only argument of the
Ministers in favour of granting Municipal Corporations
to Ireland, in the present state of that country. But
the argument which Ministers put forward is not the
one which weighs upon their own minds. They never
saw the propriety of what they call " Corporate Re-
form" in Ireland, but which means nothing else than
establishing a Roman. Catholic ascendancy, until the
man whom they had formerly denounced in the Speech
from the Throne, and who branded them with the
foulest epithets that the English language could supply,
became their ally, director, and patron, receiving in re-
turn the virtual government, and the actual dispensa-
tion of the Government of Ireland, and demanding, in
addition to all that, the establishment of national
schools of political agitation, to assist him in consum-
mating the grand object of Iris ulterior policy, as over
and over again avowed by himself—the dismember-
ment of the empire. The present Administration has
a pretty good sprinkling of Irishmen, and to that, per
se, we have no objection ; but we do greatly object to
the Irish mode of producing " tranquillity," by
placing in the hands of the disturbers of the public
peace additional means of agitation. What has the
" healing measure" done towards effecting, as its
zealous supporters, both Roman Catholic and Pro-
testant, promised, the pacification of Ireland ? Sir
James Graham says he supported the Roman Ca-
tholic Emancipation Bill on the most solemn assur-
ances—the most solemn oaths, that the political pri-
vileges which were by that Bill to be conferred would
never be exerted against the Protestant Church.
Miserable delusion i Except in a period of actual
rebellion political agitation never rose to such a height
in Ireland as since the claims of the Roman Catholics
were conceded. The Ministers who brought about
that concession in a manner which afforded the
strongest practical argument for Parliamentary Reform
that ever was adduced, have been ever since pecu-
liarly the objects of the ungrateful detraction and ma-
lignant hatred of the Roman Catholic agitators.
Every concession in Church and State which Minis-
ters now propose, O'Connell talks of to his Irish

audiences as merely instalments—thus making present
concession a stimulus to future agitation.—Morning
Herald.

The Irish Corporation question, however important
it may be abstractedly considered, becomes a hundred-
fold more important when examined with reference to
the views avowed by those who support it, and thein-
tentions professed by those who introduce it. Mr.
O'Connell tells us—" Give me the Corporation Bill,
and I will establish the voluntary system." Lotd
John Russell tells us—" Deny me the Corporation
Bill, and I will resign office." It is not surprising that
the question whether the blessings of mayors and al-
dermen shall or shall not be perpetuated to the Irish
corporate towns—a question about which the Irish
corporate towns appear to care very little—should
cease to Interest the English people, except in so far as
it bears upon the apprehension of annihilating a Pro-
testant Church and the hope of extinguishing a pro-
fligate Administration. Sir Robert Peel regarded the
subjest in this light on Tuesday evening, touching but
briefly on those points which had been disputed between
the two parties in two sessions of Parliament, till argu-
ment and illustration were exhausted, but applying
his masterly eloquence to the connection necessarily ex-
isting between the fate of this Bill and the results
of the whole scheme of the present Ministerial
policy. His speech, therefore, is not merely a speech
on the Irish Municipal Bill. It is a speech on the
present state of public affairs, and may be read as
the manifesto of the illustrious statesman to whom,
in an hour of fearful need, our country looks up for
counsel and guidance. The remarks of Sir Robert
Peel on the present state of the Irish Protestant Church
will be read,. as they were heard, w ith the deepest in-
terest. Here is the man who, haying throughout
his whole previous political life been the leading
opponent of a particular measure, I:imself, as a Mi-
nister Of the Crown, carried that measure through
the House of Commons, sacrificing to his sense of
duty many perscnal feelings, many private friendships,
relinquishing ne ity of the ties which had bound to
him his political associates, and exposing himself for
all future time to the taunts of the bad and base
among his political adversaries. And why ? Because
he trusted the solemn declarations and the sacred
oaths of men whose declarations and oaths he now
finds to have been worth as little as the breath wasted
in the utterance of them. Surely Sir Robert Peel
may well be listened to with a more than usual at-
tention, when he, the author of the Catholic Relief
Bill, avers that he will no more rely on the declara-
tions by which he has been grossly deceived ; that he
will not again credit the oaths by which he has been
betrayed ; that he will pass no measure which shall
give an increase of political power to the ene-
mies of our Protestant Establishment in Ireland
until that Establishment shall have been secured,
so far as legislative enactments can secure it, in the
enjoyment of its property, its dignity, and its influ-
ence. But the King's Ministers are afraid of the Irish
Church question. When the premature discussion of
it, upon an abstract resolution, was likely to embarrass
a hostile Administration, Lord J. Russell was very
ready—but when the ripe consideration of it, in the
form of a specific 1311, is likely to endanger his own
pay and place, Lord J. Russell is very diffident. He
is better acquainted, forsooth, with the difficulties of
the subject than he was in 1835—less confident of
sati4ying the Irish Papists—less hopeful of satisfying
the House of Lords. Miserable cant. Nothing is
changed in the Irish Church question but this—that
in 1835 it was the question by which they expected to
come in—in 1837 it is the question by which they ex-
pect to go out. Lord Stanley, Sir J. Graham, Sir R.
Peel, may successively repeat their challenge to his
Majesty's Ministers. They will pass no Irish Tithe Bill
through their own House, the House of Commons,
in this session. The menace of the Home Secretary,
repeated by Sir John Hobhouse, and explained by the
ilarning Chronicle, that upon the loss of the Irish
unicipal Corporation Bill Lord Melbourne will either
dissolve his Administration, or suhmit such advice
to his Po-al Master as will probably lead
to its dissolution, called cOrth from Sir Robert
Peel, at the close of his address, an announcement
which the nation- will hail with tiiumphant satisfac
tion. After alluding to the difficulties which "must
surround any Minister's who shall undertake to
remedy the evils which the weakness or wickedue:s
of our present rulers have brought into active opera-
tion, Sir Robert Peel declared himself ready to en-
counter those diflieulties if the voice of his King
and country should invite him to the struggle. At-
tached as he is known to be to the studies and relaxa-
tions of private life, which no man is better fitted to.
enjoy and to adorn, many doubted whether he would
• again abandon them fur the incessant fatigues and nu:r.
beelcss anxieties which must beset a Conservative Mi-
nister in these eventful times ; and, powerful as he is
felt to be ;n the position he holds in the van of the
Conservative Opposition, some supposed that it would
be his policy to content himself with the immense
moral influence which that position enables him to
exert over the destinies of his country. All good men
will rejoice that he has spoken out, and will anticipate
exultingly the period when those mighty tasks will
he confided to him, which, for the happiness of
this nation, he is rdling once more to undertake.
We will not make so loud a noise about our di-
vision, as our adversaries made some weeks ago about
theirs. It is true that the Ministerial majority in fa-
vour of the Bill was less than it has been on any for-
mer occasion. It is true that, adopting the Morning
Chronicle's favoured reference to " the last division
on the same subject, we find our forces stronger by 25
votes. It is true that with their present diminished su-
periority, the Government cannot with any decency
prate of interference with the constitutional authority
of the Lords, however, it may be exercised on this
vital question. But the majority, small as itis, is
larger than it should be. We sball not be satisfied
with the divisions of the House of Commons until they
represent the opinions of the intelligent people of Great
Britain.—Morning Post.

The frequenters of St. James's-street cannot fail to
be struck with a forlorn and destitute figure who daily parades
up and down opposite the entrance to Pickering-place, %here
he is reported to have been plundered of the ample means of
support which he once possessed.

On Tuesday a Court of Aldermen was held for the
dispatch of business. Alderman Wood said that it appeared
to be the general feeling in society that some plan should be
adopted by which juvenile offenders might be disposed of in a
manner more likely to lead to reformation than the system
generally acted upon. The necessity was the more obvious,
as every session presented great numbers of children who have
after trial been cast upon the town without protection or the
slightest security against the repetition of the offences for which
they were imprisoned. The Alderman moved that it be re-
ferred to a Committee of the whole Court to consider of the
propriety of a change in the mode of trial as regarded juvenile
offenders, and also of a change as to the place of imprisonment.
The motion having been seconded by Sir Peter Laurie, was,
after some discussion, agreed to. Some other unimportant
business was transacted, and the Court adjourned.

SEVEN LIVES LosT.--Early on the morning of
Friday last, a party of ten, consisting of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur,-
their son, and two servants, and their two sisters, and an Eng-
lishman, named Help, set out on a vraicking excursion, in only
one boat, along the coast of St. Brelade. Having obtained
as much of the highly valued weed as could be well jammed
into the boat, they turned towards the shore, when, just as they
were nearing " La Pulente," the boat unfortunately touched a
rock, which caused a slight shock to be felt on board. On
this, the females became considerably alarmed, and, uttering a
piercing shriek of distress, very imprudently rushed on one side
of their frail tenement. The consequence was, that the boat,
crammed as it was with vraic and passengers, instantly upset,
ilunging the whole into the sea. The dreadful occurrence was
witnessed from the shore by a number of individuals, who, we
are sorry to say, for the most part exhibited little desire to
make any the smallest attempt at rescuing the sufferers from
their awful situation. As soon, however, as the mischief was
observed by Mr. Henry Renouf, and his son-in-law, Mr. Philip
Le Boulanger, who had just reached the shore with a boat full
of vraic, they unhesitatingly put out for the scene of distress,
though much against the advice of several of their more timid
friends. At the imminent risk of their own lives, they suc-
ceeded in rescuing from a watery grave Mr. Edward Duhe-
aume, one of Mr. Arthur's servants, a man named Bailhache,
as alsD Mr. Arthur's son, a young man of about nineteen years
of age--the latter in such a weak and distressing state
as to be obliged to be carried to his residence. Their
kind-hearted preservers again braved the dangers of the sea,
and brought to land five out of the remaining seven, but from
the whole of whom, dreadful to relate, the vital spark had fled !
The state of exhaustion into which their zealous and resolute
exertions had placed Mr. Renouf and his son now obliged
them to desist from further attempts that day at recovering the
bodies of the remaining too sufferers ; but, we understand one
of them was picked up early the next morning. The man
Help, however, had not been found when we went to press,
Jersey Argus.

POLICE, INTELLIGENCE.

MARLBORO UGH-STREET.

EEL-PIE V. MINCE-PlE.—Four, young shopmen were
brought before Mr. CONANT and Mr. HALL, charged by
the police with having been found fighting together in Ox-
ford-street. No little merriment was caused by a detail of
the circumstances of the case.

On Sunday night last the complainant and friend, and
defendant and friend, found themselves in front of a pie-shop
in Wardour-street. The complainant's olfactories having
been irresistibly solicited by the savoury smell of sundry
hot eel-pies, he walked into the shop with his friend to be-
speak ascouple. While masticating, with vast relish, the
little dainty, the defendant and friend, till then quite stran-
gers, came in, and called for something to eat. The atten-
tive pieman inquired which the gentlemen wou'td choose—
" Heel, weal, or mince." The defendant, turning up his
nose fastidiously, observed, " Heel-pies is only fit for snobs
give me a mince 'un." The eel-pie eater, believing that the
disparaging remark was levelled at him, turned round, and,
looking the speaker full in the face, said, with a provoking
laugh, " Vot a blessed ugly mouth to eat mince-pies vith."
This was a " touch on the raw," the defendant's mouth be-
ing one of the "annual lease," or from "ear to ear," descrip-
tion ; so, walking up to the complainant, he declared he
was competent " to yell vop any nine stun man in com-
pany." The complainant replied he weighed only eight
stone, but his pluck was equal to nine, and if anybody
threatened to" vop" him the person who did so would stand
a chance of being " yell vopped " himself. This being con-
strued into a challenge by the defendant, he struck the com-
plainant, and a general fight took place which was ended
by the police.
Mr. CONANT asked the complainant if he had made any
allusion to the size of the defendant's mouth ?

The complainant replied he had said something about it
after he had been indirectly called a •° snob."
Mr. HALL—I suppose an eel-pie is not considered so
treat a dainty as the other sort of pies ?
The pieman, who was present, conceiving this to be a
capital opportunity to display his gastronomic proficiency,
said, " Heel-pies, yer Vership, as is chalked up a penny, is
made of fish vith their heads, and tails, and hinsides, and all
in it, chopped up together. But sitch pies as I sells aint
ony made vith the werry beat sand or silver heels, cleaned in
three vorters. Now, if you wants a slap up mince, vith a
crust as"-

The pieman's description was here cut short, very much
to his mortification.

The Bench desired all parties to retire and try to settle
matters. He of the mouth for a long time refused to be
pacified, but at length an amicable arrangement was entered
into, and the case was dismissed.

Three years ago when it was proposed at the
Chu:chwarden's meeting at Banbury that they should try if
they could not raise a sufficient sum by subscription, before
making a Church-rate, one person said, " Thank God ! it is
rot come to that yet." We presume that person's pious ejacu-
lations will now cease—for at this moment a subscription, sug-
gested in a printed address from one of the Churchwardens, is
being raised to supply the place of a Church-rate, which al-
though moved and seconded, and declared by another Church-
warden to be carried, is after all but an abortion. We beLeve
the greater part of the amount required has been already
raised, two of the Churchwardens heading the list, with a
handsome sum each. These two gentlemen declare they will
not attempt to collect the rate, which the other official de-
clared was made ; if he attempts to do so, he will very soon
find that Church-rates are matters of history in Banbury.
No? thump/oil Chronicle.

THE MURDERED CHILDREN.—On the subject
of the strangulstion last week at Nottingham of four children
by their own father, whose Confession was published in 'lles
Sun of Saturday, the following observations are found in the
Nottingham Review :—The records of desperation and crime
have seldom, if ever, presented a case more calculated to inspire
horror—speechless, breathless horror. That a father, whose
general demeanour towards his children has been marked by
kindness and humanity, should be urged by pecuniary distress to
adopt the terrible and atrocious plan of deliberately strangling
the four young and lovely pledges of his buried partner, in calm
and regular succession, with brief pauses of reluctance ra-
ther than remorse, followed at each interval by a stern
renewal of his first deadly and tremendous purpose—a
purpose so intense, concentrated, and terrible, that neither
the sympathizing selfsanticipating shudder of his awakened
victims, nor the soft sweet repose of his unconscious martyrs,
nor the touching humanizing appeal of the little duteous lov-
ing child, that had that very day taken him his dinner, nor the
starting blood, the gasping death pang, and the blackened
corpse of each and all the beings of his heart's natural love,
could chase, nor mitigate nor soften—is an event far more
calculated to excite surprise than even the cool, self-collected,
and deliberate terms in which the soul-harrowing confession is
recorded. ft is the nature and tendency of all stern, delirious.
and deadly purposes to leave, when their consummation is
effected, an after state of cold and sullen quiet, which shows
no outward sign nor symptom of the horrible e.xcess of pas-
si,n by whith it has been induced. We do not, therefore.,
w•-11..r at the demeanour of the unhappy man upon his
examination before she Coroner. Our sensations, intellectual
awl moral, are bound up in one deep feeling of shuddering in-
quiry as to the gloomy apprehensions of certain or uncertain
evil that could induce in the mind of this man so desperate a
purpose, so horrible a deed—a deed so unprecedented or rare
in its occurrence, as to have procured for itself no specific and
descriptive name. Our readers will doubtleSs share in this
state of painful wonder ; hut who can lift the veil, and portray
the sense of misery and hopelessness that could induce the act.
That must be left to the Great Searcher of the human heart,
that " yawning sepulchre," whose sickening recesses its owner
knows not, nor can know, beyond those outward symptoms
which trial and temptation may reveal.

LORD ELDON.-His Lordship is exceedingly fond
of the pleasures of the field ; and while walking but a few years
ago in his shooting dress, in a very private part of his estate, he
met a stranger with hii dog and gun. " I suppose," said his
Lordship, " you are aware, Sir, that you are trespassing."
" Well," said the sportsman, " and if I am, what is that to you ?
I suppose you are one of old Bags's keepers." " No," said
Lord Eldon, with the most good- natured composure, " I am
0:d Bags himself !"

A patent for ten years has just been granted by the
Emperor of Russia to one of his Aides-de-camp, for the in.
vi•ntion of a new species of road, whickit is calculated will ex-
cel all others. The plan is to place the wheels (mere friction
roilors), not upon the carriages, but upon the rails of the road
itself, and to have it travelled over by sledges, drawn by horses.
The experiment has been tried in St. Petersburgh, and it is
said that a horse can gallop at the top of his speed, and draw
a great load after him.—Frankfort Paper.

A grand antiquarian discovery has been made in
the far west, that promises to provide abundant speculation for
the learned of every civilized country. Babylon, Balbec, Pal-
myra, Thebes, and Memphis, present ruins that were once in-
habited by people who are well known to us by the records of
history. But in the back and beautiful wilds of North Ame-
rica have been recently discovered the ruins of a large half-
buried city, of the population of which nothing whatever is
known. They were probably a race of men who have entirely
passed away from the earth. Certainly the Indians of the•
present day and their forefathers never dwelt in cities. I have
seen much in the wild western regions of Missouri and Illinois,
and particularly that singular structure, " Monk's Mound," all
of which bear evidence of having been constructed by a totally
different and more civilised people than any of the (so called)
aboriginal tribes. But here is a city the discovered parts of
which are built with brick. By whom built and by whom
peopled I leave to the learned in archeology, merely remark-
ing that some of the Indian tribes have traditions of another
race of men having once lived in North America. They have
also traditions of the mammoth having roamed in the forests,
" crushing the pine trees in his walk, and devouring men and
animals for his prey, until the Great Spirit, in a dreadful storm
of thunder and lightning, killed the mighty beast; since which
the red man has fished in the clear waters and hunted in the
forest and on the prairies." It should be stated that these people
were different from the Mexicans, their buildings being dissi-
milar. But, as I before said, I leave these, and a hundred other
speculations, to the learned in antiquarian research.—Anteritan
Paper.

ALLEGED MURDER.—We noticed shortly in out
last the distressing circumstances attending the death of Mrs.
Thomson, of Gilmore-place. We have since ascertained the
following particulars respecting the melancholy event I—Cap-
tain aneMrs. Thomson were both given to take liquor to ex-
cess, and quarrelling over their cups, though in other respects
they lived quietly enough. On Saturday night they had one
of their quarrels, both of them being inebriated (and the ser-
vant also, we have heard, was not sober), on which occasion, it
is stated, Mrs. Thomson struck her husband with the tongs,
who retaliated by lifting a chair, and giving her a blow on the
face, by which she was struck down. This happened late on
Saturday night. An alarm was given to the neighbours, and
on one of them entering the parlour a shocking sight presented
itself—Mrs. Thomson was lying on the floor with her head on
the hearth rug, her face covered with blood, the bridge of her
nose broken, and her lower jaw battered in, her teeth lying flat
in her mouth, while beyond her, her husband was also lying on
the carpet, reclining on his elbow. Mrs. Thomson was still
breathing, and lingered till about half-past twelve o'clock on
Sunday morning, when she expired. There was a gash on
the back part of the head, but that is understood to have arisen
from a fall which she had a few days ago while in a state of
intoxication. The fender of the parlour was marked with
blood, from whence it is conjectured that Mrs. Thomson had
come in contact with it. Captain Thomson was taken into
custody in the course of Sunday ; he was then under the influ-
ence of liquor, and we have heard that he has been suffering
dreadfully under the influence of delirium tremens and agitation
of mind, owing to which he has not yet undergone an exami-
nation, though we understand that he was quieter on Monday
than at any previous period. The case has excited intense in-
terest here, from the respectability of the parties, and their
long residence in the city, Captain Thomson having formerly
been a merchant in the South Bridge ; after which he obtained
a commission in the army, and at one time commanded a re-
cruiting party of the 52d Regiment in Edinburgh. He was
afterwards appointed to a veteral battalion. —Edinb. Courant.

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Owing to the early commencement of the winter, and
the extreme backwardness of the spring, the cattle are begin-
ing to suffer severely from want of provender. In many places
the stacks of hay arc nearly exhausted, in all the price is enor-
mous, and in some instances farmers are compelled to feed
their cattle on corn.

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