The Sun.
London, England, 1849-12-10 00:00:00

IMPHOVEMENTS AT WOOLWICH DOSKYARD.

The interior economy of this dockyard was never
in a more efficient state than it is at present, the ex-
cellent arrangements of Commodore Henry Eden
having placed every article of its numerous contents
so that hands can be laid upon it at the shortest no-
tice. In these arrangements the Gallant Commodore
has been ably assisted by the heads of the various de-
partments. In the factory departments the only
regret is that they have not more to do; not that any
of the workmen are idle, but they always desire
to see a prospect of a great quantity of work before
them, to stimulate them to exertion. The using up
of the old wrought iron in the factory, instead of
selling it for a trifle, as formerly, saves many thou-
sands of pounds sterling; and, in order to effect a
still greater economy, arrangements have been
made for erecting rolling-mills at the dockyard,
to obviate the necessity of sending the bars, as at
present, to Chatham to be rolled. This arrange•
ment will save a great expense of carriage, and afford
an opportunity of having wrought iron sheets of any
dimensions made on the shortest notice required. It
is also intended that the whole of the forging of old
wrought iron shall be removed from the factory to the
blacksmiths' department at the east end of the yard,
where several of Nasmyth's powerful steam hammers
are now in full operation, and it is contemplated that
the work shall be done and paid for by piece-work,
the present able master of the blacksmiths having
introduced a system which will enable the men to
produce an equal amount of work for about 13s. 6d.
to that which used to cost nearly 503., a vast differ-
ence where so many tons of metal are now recon-
verted into use at this dockyard. It has hitherto been
usual to make all the trenails required for naval pur-
poses here by hand, but a set of machines for the
purpose of turning and finishing them is to be con-
structed over the spacious sawmills at the east end of
the yard.

DEATU Paola SUFFOCATION.—An inquest was
held on Saturday last, at the Ram Inn, Mansfield, on
the body of Harriet Beckett, aged 21, daughter of Wil-
liam Beckett, of the Welbeck toll-bar. The deceased
was a servant of the Rev. Dr. Cursham's, Mansfield
Vicarage. On the previous Monday and Tuesday, the
deceased was ill, and confined to her bt d the greater
part of the latter day. Oa Wednesday night she com-
plaint(' of being lery cold, and told one of her fellow
servants that she should take a portable lire-place, used
in the kitchen, into her bed room with her. Thomas
Widnall, the boy to whom she told this, shortly after-
wards went to bed, leaving the deceased up. She, how-
ever, retired to bed at half-past ten. Between six and
seven the following morning, Wickall knocked at the
deceased's bedroom door several times. but could obtain
no answer. He at length went into the room, and there
saw the deceased with her clothes on in a kneeling posi

tion by her bedside. He touched her shoulder,-Cut it
felt cold, and she made no answer. He then ran down
stairs, and told the groom that she was dead. The msn
immediately went up, and found that she was dead and
quite cold. The grate, with some cincl.)rs in it, was lying
on a dust pan in the middle of the room, and a smell of
sulphur was clearly perceptibk Mc. Hurt, surgeon, ex-
amined the body, and proved that her death was owing
to suffocation, caused by the carbonic acid gas which
arose from the hot cinders. Verdict accordingly.—Not-
tingham Journal.
AMATEUR DRAMATIC PERFORMANCE..—The mem-
bers of the typographic art connected with the metro-
politau daily press devoted Saturday evening last to the
application of their histrionic talents to a dramatic per.
formance, for the benefit of the widow and seven orphans
of one of their own fraternity, the late Mr. Tattersall,
who, after a few hours' illness, was cut off by an attack
of cholera. The arena selected for the performance was
the little theatre attached to the thwer Saloon, Lambeth,
and the performance was headed with the announcement
of the play of A New Way to Pay Old Debts. A musical
Melange billows]; and with the farce of The Irishman
in London the performance closed. The house was
densely crowded, and the result has been productive of a
handsome sum for the purpose for which the entertain-
ments were designed.

I,SUICIDE OF A YOUNG FRENCIIWOMAN.—An inquest
was held on Situ-day before Mr. Bedford, at Sr. Mar-
tin's workhous:, on the body of Justin Chaler, aged 30,
a young Freechwomnre well known at the West-end,
who was rimarkable for her prepossessing appearance.
It appeared that the deceased had thrown herself out of
a second-floor window, at 13, Panton-street, Haymarket.
From the evidence of Caroline Hemmings, a servant at
the house, it appeared that the deceased had lodged
there for six weeks, and was frequently in the habit of
getting intoxicated; that she came home on Friday
morning, ibot four o'clock, accompanied by a gentle-
man, who, after staying with her a few minutes in the
passage, lest her. Deceased had been drinking, and
witness accompanied her up stairs and closed the door.
Immediately afterwards she heard a smash of glass, and
the deceased was found upon the pavement outside. She
died almost directly. The jury returned $ verdict—
'Ti at the-deceased died from injuries received in fall-
ing from a window; but whether she threw herself out
with a suicidal intent or otherwise, there was not suffi-
dent evidence to prove."
MARRIAGE IN HIGII LIFE.—The marriage of the
Lady Elizabeth Georgiana Conyngham, third daughter
of the Marquis Cunynghatn, with George Brien; Esq.,
of Jenkiestown Castle, in the county of Kilkenny, was
solemnised by special liCence; on Thursday morning, at
the lodge of Sir William M. Somerville, Bart.., Chief
Secretary, Phoenix Park, in the presence of their Excel-
lencies the Lord-Lieutenant and Countess of Clarendon,
Lord Francis George Spencer and Lady Churchill, Lord
and Lady Bellew, the Earl of Mounteharles, Mr. and
Lady Fanny Lambert, Mrs. and Miss Fortescue, the
Hon. G. Ponsonby, Major Talbot, of Talbot Hall,
county of Wexford, uncle to the bridegroom; Major
Ponsonby, Mr. Thomas A. Joyce, Captain and Mrs.
Williams and Mr. Seymour, aide-de-camp in waiting to
the Lord-Lieutenant, and a select circle of relatives and
friends The ceremony was performed by the Rev:
Ralph Sadleir, one of his Excellency's chaplains, and.
subsequently by the Very Rev. Dean Meyler, of St. An-
drew's, Westland-row. After the usual attestation and
salutations had been gone through, the interesting event
was celebrated by a grand breakfast; and afterwards the
bride and bridegroom left by special train for Upper
Court, county Kilkenny, the present residence of Mr.
Brien.—Evening
SUNDAY TRADING.—The memorial to her Majesty
from the parish of St. Clement Danes, which was pre-
sented to Sir George Grey on Friday by a deputation,
stated that in that parish alone, which contains 738
shops, the large proportion of 220 are open for trading
on the Lord's-day, and the parishioners expressed their
conviction that the present law against Sunday trading
is in a great measure inoperative, by reason of the small
penalties annexed to its violation, and the feeble agency
through which its provisions are at present carried out.
The memorialists prayed her Majesty to direct the at-
tention of Parliament to the subject in the ensuing ses-
sion, in order that some measure to strengthen or im-
prove the present law for the prevention of Sunday
trading, and for promoting the better observance of the
Lord's-day, may be originated by the Government of
this Christian country.
The Commissioners for Inquiring into the Markets
of the Metropolis will hold their first meeting at the
Home-oflico on Tuesday next, when it is expected that
the City authorities and several deputations will be in
attendance. The commission is an unpaid one, and the
duties of secretary will be discharged by Mr. 11. Red-
grave, one of the clerks in the Home-office.
Feelings are always made the excuse of temper;
whereas temper much more frequently influences feel-
Cuok'it Journal.

A BOOK COLLECTOR'S lIOUSE.-M. Verbeyst, the
moat celebra,cd book collector i❑ Europe, or perhape in
the world, has just died at Brussels at an advanced age.
He had founded a very curious establishment, consisting
of a house of several stories, and as high as a church, and
disposed so as to contain about 300,000 volumes, arranged
according to their subjects.

SPIRIT of the 13013' IC JOURNALS.

TIMES.—The "needle women" of the metropolis
are in no sense a class, fur they coeskt of all classes,
and they suffer a pressure of competition on all sides,
as great and as universal as the pressure-of the at-
mosphere itself. They are not a trade, or. a craft, or
a calling; ior all these to rrus imply an express
education for the employment, and a virtual mono-_
pay arising from the difficulty of the alt, or the,
capital, the stock, the apparatus, or the connexions it.
requires. In. England every woman is a needle
woman. Every labourer's child is handy at her
needle before she is six years old, and hes learnt. all
kinds of mysterious stitches before she is twelve.
Unmarried women were formerly called spinsters ;
they might now, with g.-eater propriety, be called
setnpstresces, for 111 are sempstresses, an I spinning
is obsolete, except with 'the aid of steam. When
a Woman takes -to needlework, it is for want
of other employment. She is falling back
upon her simplest, commonest, and most child-
ish accomplishment. The captive women and
other miserables of antiquity were put to grinding
corn in clumsy mortars, and carrying water from
the distant spring. 411 such drudgeries, being
things that any woman can do, and none do if they
can help it, denote not a class, but a want of
class. They shOuld, therefore, be regarded in their
negative bearingi.' Instead of saying, "Here are
twenty_ thensand women living miserably by their
needle," we Might` rather to Say, " Here are twenty
thousand women with nothing else to do but needle-
work." As we hive often had occasion. to observe,
there are many other employments of " the same
negative character. For example, stone-breakers
are not a class, and it is impossible to help them as
a class; they are only men who can find no better
work. We have, then, to deal with the miserable
fact of so many thousand women—we are afraid to
say hove many—avies #re ..de,stitute oK . proper this,
. position, and employment. Idatirehem leta4.e'
lorfeited their piece in society, and can never re-
gain, it. There are many, on the other hand,
who may yet be plucked by the hand, as it were, out
of the crowd, and restored to the exercise of
higher powers, and the enjoyment of better oppor-
tunities. It is for this class that Mr. Sidney Herbert
proposes emigration to ~our Australian colonies, as
far as means can be raised for the purpose. There
is no doubt that this metropolis contains, in its
crowded streets and alleys, thousands of women
admirably qualified for colonial life. They were
born and bred in industrious and thrifty village
households; they are acquainted with the duties .
and the hardships of the labourer's lot ; it was their
superior willingness and docility which recommended
them to service; they have, it is true, had to en-
counter the dissipating and enervating influences of
London life, but if they have done their duty they
are all the better for that ordeal ; they may also have
become wiser in the school of misfortune ; but there
is nothing in all this which should disqualify the
London servant out of place even for the hardships
of life in " the bush." Go down into the most re

tired village, and you will often find that a large pro-
portion of the labourers' wives have been in gentle-
men's service. They do not discharge the duties of
the cottage the worse for having been pampered in
an aristocratic kitchen, for having stood by a lady at
her toilet, or spent years in making beds and dusting
tables and chairs. On the contrary, it is a very usual
thing in a village to hear slovenly habits accounted
for by the fact of the woman never having heen in
service. But whatever the prospect of transforming
some thousand London "needlevvornen" into colonial
matrons, it is far more important, and far more
within the compass of reasonable hope, iEr prevent
our village girls, and our domestic servants, from
becoming " needlewomen" at all—that is, from
being reduced to that only resource. Instead
of encouraging village girls to seek their
fortune in London, as rural authorities are always
ready to do, it would at least be far kinder and wiser to
send them to the colonies, under proper protection. We
say this advisedly and emphatically, and we address it
to the special consideration of the clergy and others
apt to take a poetical view of society. The higher-
minded
among the clergy hug the pleasing illusion
of rural innocence and simp'icity, till they are only
undeceived late in life, when their enthusiasm, and
perhaps their powers, are gone. They hear of colo•
nial degradation, and they feel the responsibility of
advising a perilous voyage and a perpetual exile.
They shrink from the idea of sending the first class
in the Sunday-schools to rough it at the antipodes.
As for the greater part of ths clergy, who are not
high-minded, they let matters take their course.
Hence the comparatively little spontaneous and self-
paid emigration from our villoges; hence, at least,
the few that go out of a superior order, and the want
of a continuous fl av to our noble colonies.
Now, we beg to advise the clergy, and
others possessing rural influence, to institute
a dispassionate comparison between the actual
results of staying at home and going to the colonies.
We beg them to compare the casualties, the prema-
ture deaths, the temptations, the evil companionships,
the stumbling blocks to religion, the moral ship-
wrecks, not only incident, but actually coming to
pass, in both courses. Let them watch the settler's
wife, if they please, to her drear home in the woods,
to her fanatical worship, or to her early grave; but
let them also track the village maid through the perils
of a gentleman's service, through the allurements of a
luxurious state of society, through the pride, the
quarrels, and the folly of the servants hall, to the ob-
scure lodging, the incessant needle, the hour of ex-
treme distress, the deceitful friend, and the irrepa-
rable fall. It' not the most numerous, at least the most
interesting and most pitiable members of the class we
are considering are supplied from domestic service.
It is a great object to atop that supply; but it will be
impossible to do that till all parties realise the great
perils that beset a servant out of place. IVithout
inquiry, no one could imagine the übiquitous and
continual nature of these perils. A servant leaves a
place which she might easily retain, and where she
could make herself as comfortable as mortals may
expect to be, for some very slight reason, for a tiff
with her mistress, or it disagreement down stairs.
She is not particularly anxieus for another place at
once, and does not dislike the possibility of a month's
freedom. Once out of service, however, she finds
it all up hill ; and as soon as her money fails,
all the world is against her. Some benevolent
persons have founded " Servants' Homes ;" but
even these have their dangers, for it is ab-
solutely impossible to exclude all unworthy and
demoralizing inmates. The hospitals to which ser-
vants in service and out of service are frequently
sent are, unfortunately, often perverted into the
means of moral injury. Bearing all these things in
mind, mistresses should make more a point of re-
taking moderately good and useful servants; and
servants, for their • part, should make a point of
remaining in tolerable situations. There is no
servant without failings, and no place without
drawbacks, so that a perfect servant, and a perfect
place, are nowhere to he found. Such topics may
scarcely seem proper to a journal, but when the
public is called upon to remedy the evil of some
thousand servants out of place, and keeping soul
and body together with the needle, it is very na-
tural to suggest some simple remedies far more
efficacious than societies and emigrations. Prevention
is better than cure; and we would rather sea fewer
domestic servants driven to their needles, than a
thousand needlewomen sent to the colonies. One
other domestic duty we will notice, bearing on this
subject. Masters and mistresses are bound to see
that their servants are laying by out of their wages.
They should all remember that " service is no inhe-
ritance." The most obvious course is that servants
should be urged to put by as much as they can spare
in the savings- bank. This, however, has its objections.
A servant will sometimes be tempted to return a sharp
answer all the quicker because she has a few pounds
at command, just as the like state of things produces
a strike in Lancashire. Money in the savings
bank, too, is sadly at the mercy of lovers and other
needy friends; and many a good servant loses the
savings of long service in one rash investment. By
far the most prudent course for persons in this help-
less condition is the purchase of a deferred annuity,
on the plan recently provided by the Legislature, and
urged on the public in a remarkable speech by the
Prince Consort. A servant who at the age of twenty
begins to pay 51. a year—generally no difficult
matter—and continues to pay that sum till she is
forty, will then be sure of 101. a year for the rest of
her life. Thus at the time when servants are begin-
ning to tire of service, or are losing their places
through the death or changed plans of their masters,
they would find themselves comparatively indepen-
dent, or with at least a comfortable addition to any
other income.

DEATH OF THE HON. THOMAS STAPLETON.—We
regrt t to announce the death of this gentleman, who
was for many years known as a patron of the fine arts
and sciences. He expired at Cromwell Cottage,
Brompton. The deceased was a Fellow of tho Royal
Society, the Society of Arts, the Antiquarian and other
institutions. He was brother to Lord Beaumont, a pro-
minent Roman Catholic Pcer, and was born in 1806.
The family is one of great antiquity iu Yorkshire.
A printed circular, dated November 30, announces
the fact that the Rev. J. A. Hanmer, curate of Tidcombe
Portion, Tiverton, has gone over to the Church of Rome.

HER: LA,TE MAJESTY THE
QUEEN DOWAGER.
During the past week several erroneous statements
gained currency, asserting that the day had been
definitively
,appointed for the funeral of her late Ma-
je.i•ty the Queen Dowager, and to morrow (Tuesday)
and Saturday next were both named as days on one
of which the;sOleirrn,:ceremony would positively take
AVe•Littilitifirmo,=on--the best authority, that
'fit ivArnlitclelegi4d`on4liat.alay in the present week
• ildfftintliirichayft!liiliklilittie until' after ihe visit of
nil Marshal) to her
Majesty iheiOtieen;'idtklanirie; on Friday last, and
the Worn-lath:al tpifointed day did not reach
Bentley Prioiy untirBatutday.
We may now•itate on authority, that the interment
of the remains of the late venerated Queen Dowager
will take place on Thursday next. At the early hour
of six o'clock the funeral procession is to leave Bentley
Priory, and win consist of a hearse and one or two
mourning coaches, containing the page in waiting
and dressera of the late Queen, and Fome of the
aprincipal
neo,cl domesticsoe o'clock
theirof the royal
Serene ro l household.
Highnesses
the Shortlyprinc e
Edward and Gustave of Saxe-Weimar (nephews of
the deceased Queen), the Earl Howe, lord cham-
berlain ; the Earl of Denbigh, master of the horse ;
the Hon. William Ashley, .vice chamberlain; Sir
Andrew. F. Barnard, clerk marshal ; the Rev. Geo.
T. Hudson, domestic chaplain; Colonel Cornwall,
equerry to the Queen, as well as the ladies in
waiting, bedchamber women, and maids of honour of
her late Majesty's court, will leave the Priory for
Slough, where the funeral cortege will be formed.
• His Royal Highness . Prince Albert (who will
leave Osborne at an early hour that morning), his
Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, and most
probably his Royal Highness . Prince . George of
Cambridge, will attend the ohsequies, and will join
in the mournful procession at SlougiL
.His Seiene Highness-the Duke of Saxe-kein-
ingen (only brother of the late Dosirsitir-44treonYotud'
his son, the Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Aleiningen,
are expected hourly to arrive at the Priory, in order to
attend at the solemn rites of their departed relative;
but their Serene Highnesses had not arrived at Stan-
more yesterday evening. A courier was dispatched
by Viscount Palmerston from the Foreign-office, on
Sunday evening, after the death of her Majesty, to
apprize the Duke of Saxe-Meiningen of the melan-
choly event.

'We understand that all the wishes of the lamented
Queen Dowager, which were expressed in a sealed
document opened shortly after her demise, are to be
strictly carried out, and that it was her earnest re-
quest that her funeral should not be marked by any
of the pomp which generally distinguishes that of a
personage of her elevated rank ; that the customary
embalmment, and the ceremonial of •'lying in state,"
should be dispensed with; and that the funeral
should be conducted more as belonging to a private
individual than to royalty. One request was, that
she might be borne to her earthly resting place by
twelve seamen of the British Navy. In consequence,
the pomp and splendour invariably associated with
the funeral of a member of the royal family are to
be avoided on this mournful occasion ; and, in com-
pliance with her late Majesty's request, little external
show will be exhibited in carrying out the funeral
arrangements.

No private carriages are to follow in the procession,
which is to arrive at St. George's Chapel at one o'clock
and will be received at the entrance porch by the
Hon. and Rev. the Dean of Windsor.
The stats coffin is of Spanish mahogany, covered
with rich crimson Genoa silk velvet. The panels are
formed by three rows of small burnished gold nails,
the corner platings being engraved with the royal
crown, the handles on each side, within the panels,
being of dull -gold ; the whole being finished with a
single row of large gold nails. Above the inscrip
tion-plate on the lid is a large crown, and in the
compartment at the foot a torch reversed, within the
coil of a serpent. The plate bears the following
inscription :

" DEPO:ITIIM

BERENISSIMA PRINCIPESSX

ADELAIDX,
REGINX DOTARIX.
OBIT 11. DIR DECEMBRIS

ANNO DOMINI MDCCCXLIX.

JETXTIS SU.V. LVIII."
The other coffins within which her Majesty's
remains are deposited will be placed in the state
coffin, which will be conveyed to 'the Priory for
morrow or Wednesday.

THE SMITHFIELD CLUB CATTLE

On Saturday the arran7ements for the great An-
nual Metropolitan Cattle Show, prcduced under the
management of the Smithfield Cattle Club, were
rapidly approaching towards completion, and the
specimens of cattle which have already arrived are
stated by judges, who have had the opportunity of
seeing them, and who are members of the c!ub, to be
superior to anything which has ever been witnessed
in the metropolis.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, who, in conse-
quence of the lamented demise of the Queen Dowager,
it is feared will not be able to pay the exhibition a
personal visit on this occasion, has nevertheless, made
several entries, and has contributed some exceedingly
fine specimens of the Scotch and other breeds, and
alio in the sheep and pig classes. His Royal High-
ness the Prince of Wales, it is also rumoured, has an
entry or two made in his name. Amongst the other
contributors are the Duke of Richmond, the president
of the club, the. Duke of Rutland, the Duke of
Bedford, the Earl of Leicester, Earl Spencer, Lord
Portman, the Duke of Buccleueh, Mr. Pusey, M.P. ;
Mr. Webb, Babraham ; Mr. Fisher Hobbs, and a
number of leading agricluturists in the various
counties of England.
The entries this year have amounted to one fifth
more than they were last year or any preceding one ;
and in consequence a vast increase of accommodation
has been rendered necessary. In order to effect this
Mr. Boulnois, the proprietor of the bazaar, has added
a large building, situate at the north-western eagle,
to that portion of the show usually appropriated to
the sheep and pig classes. The main building, in
which the cattle are kept, remains much the same as
usual, with the exception of the entrance, in which a
most important improvement has been made for the
accommodation of the public. In the implement
department there has been a wonderful increase in
the entries, and consequently in the demand for places
for the exhibition of the various implements used in
husbandry, and in every department of agricultural
and farming operations. In this depaatment addi-
tional accommodation has been afforded, and that
portion of the building appropriated last year to the
exhibition of the stupendous picture of the Alderney
hull, cow, and calf, painted after the celebrated Paul
Potter, by Mr. Ward, R.A., has been added by Mr.
Boulnois to the implement department. Another
exceedingly important improvement, both for the
comfort of the animals as well as the visitors to the
bazaar, has been effected with regard to ventilation.
Very general complaints have been made, especially
before the introduction of the lofty glass roof to the
main building, of the oppressive heat of the place.
This complaint has been entirely obviated by the
introduction of a number of air-traps made in the
roof of the implement galleries, end filo ofT.et i• •vi.
dent to any one who will stand for a moment under
one of them.

NAPIER'S EXCURSIONS IN SOUTHERN AFRICA.—
"'The public mind is at this moment keenly alive to
everything connected with the Cape of Good Hope.
There is a general anxiety among all classes, to learn
how Great Britain became possessed of this colony—
what is its intrinsic villa() in a national point of view, and
what is the general character of its inhabitants. As a
large amount of information is contained i n these
volumes upon the subject, no less than other most
valuable matter relative to the tribes and climate of
different districts of Southern Africa, they will un-
doubtedly attain a greater circulation than it they had
appeared under ordinary circumstances."—Bells

ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONB.—The following
gentlemen being members of this institution, having un-
•derguno the necessary examinations, v‘e:e admitted
Fellows of the College, at the meeting of the council, on
the 7th instant:—Massrs. Walter Goodyer Barker,
Worthing, diploma dated October 25, 1839; Frederick
John Butler, Winchester, May 8, 1S40; George Wash•
bourne Charleton, t,loceater, July 3, 1835 ; William
Druitt, Wimburne Miuster, Dorzetshire, July 30, 1841;
N,thaniel John Dampier, Woburn-place. Russell-squir,e,
May 24, 1844; Tharp Mountain Girdlestor.e,Lincolu s•
inn-tields, January 3, 1845; George William Hind,
Alfred place, Bedford-square, November 3, 1827; Ray-
mond Levi Haynes, Holleway, March 5, 1841; Richard
Hodges, Rochfurd, Essex, July 31, 1843 ; Edward
Charles Hulme, M4sionette, Totnts, Devon, April 12,
1344; Robert George Mager, Highgate, May 15, 1329;
Elwin Morris, Spalding, Lincolnshire, April 22, 1539;
John Marshall, Cr( scent-place, Mornington-crescent,
August 9, 1844; William Potts, South Audley-street,
May 3, 1839; Augustin Pritchard, Red-lodge, Bristol,
October 30, 1840; Edward Ray, Dulwich, Surrey, April
5, 1839; Ebrnez r Smith, Billiter-square, March 18,
1831; George Carrick Steel, Cbadwell•strcet, Islington,
July 3, 1840; Henry Smith, Caroline-street, Bedford-
square, April 24, 1646; Juhn Wiblin, Southampton, June
2, 1837; and Thomas Henry Wukley, Guildford-street,
Russell-square, July 25, 1845.

STa.,—ln your very full and able report of the
:oceedings of the general meeting of the Caledonian
Asylum, held yesterday, at the Hall of the Scottish
it is stated that " a letter was read from
Ca9tain Forbes, presenting 1001. to the Asylum, a
munificent offer, which was much cheered." This, I
regret to say, is incorrect, as will be seen by the
Gallant Captain's letter, addressed to the chairman
of the meeting on the subject. This munificent sum
was presented by Mr. Miller, of Fenchurch-street,
through Captain Forbes. The following is an exact
copy of the letter, which was read by the chairman ;
and I shall feel much obliged by your inserting it
in The Sun of to-day :

-
,-, (Copy.)
" 5, Hyde Park-gate, Dec, 5, 1849.
"My deer Sir,—l ant informed, though I scarcely
believe it, that you intend to bring forward a notice, to-
morrow, relative to the suppression of the band ! Ido
intreat of you, in common justice to me, who have dis-
bursed, for the benefit of the institution, so large a sum
of money, for which I have never yet asked a return,
that while, under my present circumstances, I am pre-
vented from being present, you will see the propriety of
abstaining frees mooting a question so distasteful to me,
and, I may even add, annoying to my feelings. I need
not, to ycu, reiterate the almost universal expression of
admiration this portion of the institution produces out
of doors,' thoLga within, at our councils, we appear to
be constantly seeking for subjects of agitation. I Anew
the band to be almost, if not quite, self-supporting ; at
all events it brinks to the institution many subscribers
of enthusiastic feelings towards their country, whose
benevolence, if I may say so, without any disrespect to-
wards their more ennobling sentiments, is excited and
urged on by witnessing the interesting spectacle of the
juvenile band, putting out of the question the provision
it affords to all the boys who have no other occupation
to fall beck upon on quitting the institution. Under
these circumstances, I cannot allow this branch of it to
be suppressed without promoting, as far as lies in my
power, such a struggle as may, to my grief, possibly
tend to injure, as these constant agitations do, without
doubt, the best interests of our valuable charity.
" I am, my dear Sir, yours truly,
(Signed) '6 CHARLES FORBZS.
"James Simpson, Esq.
" P.S. I may, in corroboration of one part of my
letter, state to you that I, the other day, plid into
Messrs. Coutts and Co. the sum of 1001., from Mr.
Miller, of Fenchurch-street, one moiety of it in ail of the
band. C. F."
In deference to the gallant captain the discussion
on the band was dropped.
Another letter was received by Captain Lamont,
one of the treasurers, while ati the meeting yester-
day, from a Highland laird, Mr. Campbell, Sunthull
Argyllshire, conveying a cheque for Si. in aid of
the band. The institution only requires to be righted,
and sums will be received by Scotchmen all over the
wcrld in aid of this delightful branch of the insti-
tution.

The juvenile band was originated in March, 18443,
by Captain Lamont, and he has paid since then more
than 5001. to support it. The munificence of the late
lamented Sir Charles Forbes and his family and
friends requires no comment from me.
Captain Charles Forbes has been unanimously
elected vice-president in: room of his father, Sir
Charles Forbes deceaFed.

I enclose a copy of the report by the band committee,
which will throw some light on the subject, but you
can scarcely imagine the great difficulties with which
Captain Lamont and Captain Charles Forbes have to
contend. There is a certain party connected with
this institution who take every opportunity to put
down: the juvenile band. I know the motives that
induce some of them to have recourse to such proceed-
ings, and ii they persist in it I shall certainly unmask
the whole of their proceedings.
I have taken a deep interest in the welfare and
management of this institution—a noble institution,
and worthy of its benevolent founders : it is an
asylum for the sons and daughters of the " brave"
and unfortunate, and I shall consider it a pride, au
honour if my humble efforts shall in some degree be
the means of bringing about a better state of ma-
nagement, and of restoring public confidence.
I am determined to watch the progress of every
movement.

I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
A GUARDIAN.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sfft,—Your severe but just remarks on the horrid
practice of flogging naked females of the ago of
puberty have not escaped my notice. Nor am I at
all surprised to find Mr. Fox Alaule, Mr. Hector
Rose, and the Reverend John Cumming, advocating
its infliction, since it is well known that, up to this
time, in this enlightened age, as it is called, ani in
their country (Scotland), where so high a claim is
put forth to superior enlightentrAmt, and to purer
views as to morals and manners, and at boarding
schools for young ladies of no small pretensions to
respectability, the practice of flogging the refractory
in their public schools is, to their country's shame,
still persisted in, and considered wholesome puni,h-
ment.

I trust, with you, that the time is not far distant
when coporal punishment except for mere children,
and then v,ry sparingly, will have ceased.
With great respect, I remain, yours faithfully._

SE EX.

London, December 6, 1619.

DREADFUL MURDER OF A WIFE.
LIVERPOOL, DEC. B.—Yesterday afternocn an in-
quest was held before the borough coroner on the
body of Isabella Cheetham, wife of Richard Cheet-
ham, a collier, living in Bollan-street, Over Darwen,
who died yesterday morning in consequence of the
brutal injuries which she received from her husband.
The deceased and her murderer have been married
about five years, and were respectively aged 26 and
25 years.

The prisoner was present during the investigation.
The principal witness was Mary Knowles, a child
of nine years old, sister of the deceased, who said—
When she went in on the occasion in question the
deceased and her husband were in the house, and he
was sober. There was a pan upon the fire, and the
prisoner began to shake it and to spill the water in
the fire. Ile then took the pan off the fire, and said
it should not go on again until he had something to
eat. llis wife said she could not get it without the
money. The prisoner replied, " But I will make
thee do it," and he lifted up his fist and knocked her
down. He hit her i❑ the breast, and she fell on the
floor; he then got upon her, and knelt upon her belly
with his knees, and " began a kneading of her"
(working his knees up and down or stamping upon
her with therm). Ile then commenced pulling her
ears until he made them bleed. Whilst he was on
her he kept hitting her with his fists ma both sides of
the head. She shouted out " Oh, dear me," and a
neighbour came up and said " They are killing
Isabella." The prisoner knelt upon his wife for about
twenty minutes. He then got up and commenced
pulling her nose. This took place on Thanksgiving-
day. The deceased lingered until Thursday, when
she died.

Several other witnesses having been called, the
jury, after a short deliberation, returned a verdict of
Wilful murder" against the prisoner, and he was
comm tted to Kirk&le to await his trial.

SUDDEN DEATH. OF Ma. MARRIOTT, OF FLEET.
BTREET.—On Saturday, about a crier er after four
o'clock, Mr. Henry Marriott, the extensive scale-maker
and ironmonger, of Fleet-street, and who was formerly
a member of the Court of Common Council, entered ono
of the carriages of the South-Western Railway, for the
purpose of proceeding to his country house, near Kings-
ton. In the course of a few minutes after the unfortu-
nate gentl, man had entered he was noticed to drop his
head as if unwell. A friend of his, who was also in the
carriage, went to his assistance, and found him splech•
lecrs. He was retnov, d from the carriage just as the
whistle was blowing for the train to start, and was ear-
-1 ried into the station. ihfr. Salt el, ;wee in. and another
medical man, saw him, and at once promunced life to be
totally extinct. The body was forthwith removed to
one of the private rooms at the Hero of Waterloo-inn,
near the station, where it awaits an inquest.
LONDON IN 1543.—A very curious and instructive
work has recently been engraved, being a copy from the
drawing made by Antony Van der NV) ngrerde, a
Flemish draughtsmen, employed by Philip 11. of Spain.
Purchased by the late Mr. Sutherland, on the decease
of that gentleman it was transferred, with the rest of
his collection, to the Bodleian Library, at Oxford,
where it rema'es. Mr. Whittock has done good service
by making this vivid and faithful copy,
.and it will be
hailed with delight by all who take any Interest in the
history of the British metropolis. Having been taken in
the 34th year of the reign of Henry VIII., it is con-
sequently full half a century earlier than liollar's map,
and it includes delineations of many buildings which
had perished when Ilollal.'s plan was undertaken. Many
of the buildings here copied from Van der Wyngrerde's
sketch have yielded fresh information to many who had
familiarised themselves with every previous illustration
of early London architecture; end those who have
verythieg to learn on the subject will 1)3 both pleased
and instructed by seeing for the first time St. Paul's, the
City wall 2,:.d gate;, St. John's hospital, Buynard Castle,
Suffolk Home, the Fleet River, Holborn-bridge, &c., as
they existed in the early part of the 16th century.
DEATII FROM CIILOIIOFJEM AT SHREWSBURY.--
On Wednesday evening an inquest was field at Shrews-
bury, upon the body of a pour Welsh girl named Jones,
from the neighbourhood of the Craven Arms, between
Church Stretton end Ludlow, who di( d on the same day.
it appeared that it was necessary for her to undergo a
very painful operation, that of the removal of the eye-
ball, and with her own full consent Mr. W. J. Clement,
th 2 surgeon under w hose care she was, administered
about one-third of the quantity which he had given
other patients. It had, however, such an effect upon her
that she was seized with apoplexy, and speaking in
Welsh at the time, expired instantaneously, as if she
had swallowed prussic acid. The jury returned a verdict
of " Died by apoplexy, caused by inhaling one drachm
of chloroform."— lioreford Journal.

NEW STORY OF SCOTTISII LIFE.
Now ready at ail the Libraries, in 3 *ols.,

_ IN THI,
MR S. MAR- GA RET
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Written by Herself.
OPINIONS OF THE FRES3.
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cl 'fn cousinsiiip with the Rev. Mi ah Balwhidder."—Ath nmutn.
" Full of great power, and abounding in natural feeling. Its moral
will be held precious by all."-Observer.
" In every respect calculated to interest and amuse our readers."
—Morning Post.
The. story creates an absorbing interest by the deep and
znetstrly touches of nature with which it atounds."—Ji hn
".Our readers will enjoy this work—its genuine nationality of
one aud sentiment, its refined and poetic homeliness, and its strokes
of quiet humour. The author may be described as a refined or
feminine Galt. In the pathetic element we are hot unfrequently re-
minded of ' Wilson's Lights and Shadows,' "—Scotsman.
Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

LIFE OF
M AIT LA N D,

IOCIETY for the DISCHARGE and RELIEF
►- of PERSONS IMPRISONED for SMALL DEBTS through-
out ENGLAND and WALES.

Established 1772.
PRESIDENT.
The EARL of ROMNEY.
VICE-PRESIDENTS.

Lord Kenyon I Rt. Hen. Sir R. Peel, Bart., M.P.
TREASURER—Benjamin Bond Cabbell, Esq., M.P., F.R.S.
AUDITORS —John Pepys, Esq., and Capel Cure, Esq.

_ .
At a MEETING of GOVERNORS, held In Craven-street, on
WeJnestlay, the bth day of Dec., 1849, the cases of 16 Petitioners
were considered, of which 7 were approved, 5 rejected, 2 inad-
missible, aed 2 de.erreel for inquiry.
Since the meeting held on the 7th of November, SIXTEEN
DEItTORS, of whom 13 had Wives and 23 Children, have been
Discharged frcm the Prisons of England and Wales ; the expense
of whose liberation, including every charge connected with the So-
ciety, wasi 1351. ss. Bd. ; and the following

BENEFACTIONS RECEIVED SINCE Tux LAST REPORT :-

Sir Richard P. Glyn, Bart.

..... A .£2 2 0

The tlov. sir Joint New port, Bart., per Messrs. Hoare .. A. 1 1 0
The Ex, cutors of Miss Catherine Knox, Legacy, per Trea-
_ _ _

-...-.: :....... 118 0 1
The Accountant-General of the Court of Chancery, under
the will of the Earl of Kerry, per Treasurer.. .... •• •• • • 24 1 5
Ditto, under the will of C. A. F. Pleschel,Esq., per Tron-

_ _
surer.... • . •............. ..
Ditto, under the will of Mrs. A. M Stafford, per Treasurer 97 1 8
Ditto, under the will of Robert Sorrell, Esq., per Treasurer 233 16 11
Benefactions are received by Benjamin Bond Cabbell, Esq., the
Treasurer, No. I, Brick-court, Temple; also by the following
Bankers :—Messrs. Cocks, Curries, Drummonds, Herries, Hoarse.
Verse ; and by the Secretary, No. 7, Craven-street. Strand, where
the books may be seen by those who are inclined to support the
Charity, and where the Society meet on the first Wednesday In every
month. JOSEPH LUNN, Secretary.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Mr. B. Webster, bete L493eoand Manager, Old Brompton.
_____.

EVENIN(:, - -
Will be performed TILE WIFE'S SECRET. Sir Walter Amyol
. . _ _ .

Mr. Chatles Kean ; Lady Eveline Amyott, Mrs. Charles Kean.
To be followed by the Farce of SEPARATE MAINTENANCE.
Mr. Pennipother. Mr. Keeley ; Mrs. Pennipother, Mrs. Keeley Jane
Briggs, Miss P. Horton.
After which a new Farce entitled THE LAUGHING HYENA.

To conclude with the successful and laughable Farce, called an
ALLARMING SACRIFICE. Bob Ticket. Mr. Buckstene ; Susan
Sweetapple, Mrs. Fitzvvilliam.
The Boa-ofilee Is under the direction of Mr. I. T. Irate.

'lllLarltic ROYAL. ADELPIII.
Tinder the otreetton of nadame Celestc•
THIS EVENING,

Will be performed a new domestic Drama, called THE WILLOW
COPSE. Principal char..cters by Messrs. Hughes, Wright, P. Bed-
ford, 0. Smith ; Madame Celeste, and Miss Woolgar.
To be followed by an entirely new Extravaganza, entitled DO-
MESTIC ECONOMY. John Grumly, Mr. Wright ; Mrs. Gruwley.
Mrs. F. Matthews.

To conelaile with a new slippery sketch called MRS. BUITBURY'S
SPOONS. Mr. IlliMbetry Barnes, Mr. r. Redford; Bob Twinks,
Mr. Wright ; Job Smith, Mr. 0. Smith : Mrs. Banbury, Mrs. F.
Matthews; Mrs. Ilighbury Barnes, Miss Brooks.

ROYAL LYC/ITM THEATRE.
'Under the Management of Madame Vestris.
Sole Lessee. Mr. Charles Mathews.
THIS EVENING,

Will be Nrformed a comic drama, called A PRACTICAL MAN.
To be followed by DELICATE GROUND.
After which HE WOULD BE AN ACTOR.
To conclude with RAISLNG THE WIND.
1) ess Boxes 5.. ' ptwr Boxe., 4s. ; Ytt, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. No
hall-price to any part of the house.
Alt applications for ?riven) Boxes must be made to Mr. Allcroft, 15,
New Bond-street.

• riii.NUESb'S '1 tiLAI
Mr. J. M. Maddox, Sole Lessee and Manager.
Tlll3 EVENING,
W;11 be performed a new and original comic Opera called MINA
Principal characters by Messrs. W. Harrison, Weiss, Corr], Wyun;
Mrs. Weiss, and Miss Loulsa Fyne.
After which, the Extravaganza of THE FIRST NIGHT.
To conclude with A MODEL OF A WIFE.

ASTLE r'S ROYAL AMPHYTHEATRI.
Yrorrietor. Mr. W. Batty.
• THIS EVENING,
Mr. BATTY has much pleasure in announcing that he has engaged
Madile. Cotton!, the most graceful performer on the Tight hope in
Europe, who will appear every Evening.
The performance will continence at a Quarter to Seven. with the
Grand national and magnificent Spectacle of TILE BATTLE OF
WATERLOO, in which Mr. Edward Gomersal will appear in his
ori;;inal character of Napoleon.
Af cr which Bat y's SCENES OF THE ARENA, znlivened by
Messrs. T. Barre, E. Jacks-31, and Wheale.
To conclude with the new Extravaganza of Mr. BRIGGS ; or
the PLEASURES OF HOUSEKEEPING AND HORSEKEEPING,
in which the whole Company and Stud of this Establishment, a
long train of moveables, i.omprising Omnibus, Baroucke, GO-Cart,
and other vehicles, will appear.
Box-eftice open from Eleven till Four.
e °•!amour. Vr. W. West.

TEE AT L02411.)014:11EIDGE.
Tars DAY —morning, 49 min. after 10 Evening, 21 min. after 11
To-lieanow—Morning, 49 min. ;`ter 11 Evening. 0 min. alter 0

THE WEATHER.—SUN Oyzicg, DEc. 9.
THERMOMEIER Lowest, 33; Highest. 45; Noon, 41
BAROMETER, 29.92.
WIND S.E.—fine suushiny weather.
DEC. 10.

THERMOMETER, Lowest, 29 Highest, 44 Noon 37.

BAROMETER, 30.2.
Wirrn N.W.—Dull, foggy weather.

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