The Sun.
London, England, 1849-12-31 00:00:00

Iid".II,IIITGATE AND I.M2l.ll3llDIElikruL.
The receipts of country-killed Meat for these markets
since Monday lat 4 have been small. The supplies on
ctiir killed in :he m"tropolii have proved limited; tieVt r-
th,less, iha general cb has ruk.d inactive. Prices
of Beef hev dEciined from 2d to 4,i per 8,t.. In the ,e
of other kinds of Meat we have no material chane to
report.

AN ADVENTURE BY" MAJOR
El) W ARD ES.
We (Shrewsbury Journal) have been favoure d with
a copy of the following private and interesting; letter,
received from the hero of the east :
" The heat is already terrible in tents, under these
hills, yet I em glad of the trip, as I know notching of
tribes who hold the hills from Tank to Dera Gbezee
Khan. Now I can filling my head and note-books
with the Nukshuh of their passes. I shall retrem-
ber the Tukhti Soliman as long as I live, for,
underneath its snowy peaks, 1 more :narrowly
escaped death than ever I can remember before—even
during the last two years. Among the Caubul mer-
chant tribes, who frequent the Dannum, is a large
one called the Nassurs ; and among them is a
Zegee rascal, named Shahzid Khan, who at one
time or another has tussled with Dost MahoL'led,
the New ab of Deva, and all ti e Seikh authorities in
these parts. I sent for him to answer some complaints.
He did not come (I was then in llunnoo) ; I :sent
again—same result, but talki.d of sending his brother
when quite convenient. Ile wes encamped then
close to Kolachee, and I told the Khan to send him
by force, if he would not come of his own accord.
Hearing this, he bolted to the hills; but when al!
was quiet came back again. The Kardar wrote in
vain to hint to pay his trinnee. He would not ;
when therefore I came myself to Kolachee, I made
inquiries as to Shabzid Khan's whereabouts; and
finding he was encamped close under Soliman's
throne, about nine knoss off, I determined to make a
rapid dour on him, and try and seize him.
" One night, therefore, I quietly got together 200
Dooranee Sowans, 60 Seikh Regulars, and about 30
or 40 others of different sorts, forded the Loonnee,
which was much swollen, and nearly did for us all, and
made for the encampment, telling 200 infantry sol-
diers and 12 Zoombooruks to follow in the rear as a
reserve, in case of any serious business. We reached
the camp at daylight, and I drew up my men in a
nullah, to give the horses breath before going at it.
Judge of my surprise to find that of 60 regular
Seikhs only 20 were forthcoming, and about 40 of the
200 Doorannees. The rest had lost their way in the
dark, it was said; but I learnt afterwards the cow-
ards turned back in the middle of the Loonnee, so
that I had 60 men out of 300. For all the world I
could not go back without trying at all events, and,
taking no notice of the defections, pushed on. The
Doorannees at first, when some hundreds of yards off,
could not be kept back, but yelled " Illahr and
shook their juziils and shumshers in the air, as if
they were coming to eat up the Nassurs without salt ;
but as we neared the camp they became quite ma-
nageable, and fell into line. The Nassurs turned out
like roused wasps with juzails, swords, sticks, stones,
and all sorts of combustibles. I called on them all to
surrender. A barefaced proposition, which was
received with a handsome volley. Seeing nothing
left, I drew my sword, and calling on my " heroes'
to follow, rode into the ruck. Of sixty men, on my
honour I do not slander them, when I say ten may
have charged along with me, including a son of
Sirdar Synd Mahommed Khan, Barrukzee, and a
young cousin of the Kolachee Uallah; so you may
fancy we had to give and take pretty thick. One
ruffian that I got involved with actually proposed to
blow me up like Ghunzee Gate, crammed the muzzle
of his juzail into my stomach, and fired I Nothing
on earth could have saved me but what hap-
pened. The priming flashed in the pan. I cut him
over the head, and we parted even. How we ever
got through alive is a mystery ; but emerging safely
with two men at the opposite side of the camp, I
looked round for the rest of my friends. They were
circling and caracolling round the edges at prudent
distances, and were, I believe, sincerely glad to see
me come out as an excuse to get away. But my eye
fell on the Nassur herd of camels, tied in a circle, and
the soul of a cattle-lifter took possession of me. I
thought if we carried away a good bey of camels, it
would turn defeat into victory; so made rush No. 2
at the herd, which probably saved me by springing
up between me and their masters, and leaping about
in the most ridiculous manner, half fettered and half
loose. Assisted by a thief whom I had pardoned and
taken into sevice a few weeks before, and who quite
entered into the business professionally, I succeeded
in driving off 75 of these camels ; and though the
Nassurs followed up like madmen, and one fellow
felled me with a stone as big as my head (we were
on horseback, and they on foot), and, putting the
oonths before us, we pricked them on in the true
Arab style, nor drew bridle till we made a km.
" Halting to count heads, I was much disgusted to
find the young Khan of Kolachee missing. "Who
saw him ?" A Sowen had seen him knocked off his
horse with a stick, and never helped him. What was
to be done ? Go back my men would not had I asked
them; and, if I brought up the reserve of infantry, the
first shot would be the signal for Kalvo Khan's murder
by the N assurs. The only thing was to make
reprisals; so "I sent word to the reserve to get posses-
sion, if possible, of a Mullock or two of another Nas-
sur camp in the rear, which being pitched close to a
large village, was not likely to resist. They executed
their orders, and brought off the Mullock who divides
the Nassur tribe with Shand, and also upwards of
200 more camels. Unfortunately this Mullock
proved to be on bad terms with Shazad, and the
latter would not swap Kalvo Khan for him, but
walked oft' into the Tukti Solinaan, where he
knew I could not follow. Indeed I have
been unable to walk ever since, having got a
severe contusion from a stone on my right knee,
which has given me great pain. (I forgot to say that
only four of our party, besides myself, were
wounded.) At last I gave Kalvo Khan's father
the 75 camels I had carried off, and told him to
make his own bargain. A Tukeer was found, and
the young Khan recovered. No sooner did he
arrive than he said, Have you not got some
more camels besides the 75 you gave my father ?'
Yes,' I said, upwards of 200 of Sir Must
Khan's.' All right! They are not Sir Must
Khan's, but Shazad's own, he having sent them for
safety to graze with Sher Must's herd. lie thinks
you don't know it, and will let them go, of course,
now lam returned.' Sir Must corroborated this
statement, only claiming 10 out of 245 ;96 were
afterwards proved not Shazad'a, and released ; but
we confiscated 139. A tolerably good set-off to Mr.
Shazad's trinnee. He has since fled to Khorassan.
" As long as I am in this district I shall go on
the same principle, and never let any fellow
rest that does not knuckle down to the
authorities. They must either pay trinnee, and
come to the Adawlut when summoned, or clear out of
the Dannum. But I certainly will not rely on cold
steel at the head of a Dooranee and Seikh Sowans any
more. Once to try is very well, but the result dis-
couraging. I expect another wig from for this
business, and think I see the sentences already de-
rogatory to the judicial dignity of an assistant
resident, and suited only to the character of a
Northumbrian cattle lifter !'"

At per stone by the Carcase.
ds
s. d. to s. d. d. o s.
ter Inferior 2 2 8 Mutton, inferior •. 2 8 210
910 3 2 ( middling •• 3 0 3 4
3 6 310

Ling • • • •

-- prime large 3 2 6 a , pLiwu ••• • -
prime xinull 3 4 3 6 j Pork, large •• • . . 2 8 3 4
‘,l- •••• • • • .• .. 3 0 310 - small . .

BonoUGH NOP rart72.lElYr.
Our market is very scantily supplied with really fine
II pe, the demand for which is z.teady, at very full
p:ices. In the middling and inferior kinds only a limited
bm,iness is doing, at late rates. The imports into Lon-
dim last week were twelve bales from Antwerp, and
twenty ditto frtna (Mend. New Mid and East Kent
vekEts, 6/ 103 to 121 ; Near Weald of Kent ditto,
61 5i to 81 0.; New Su-sex ditto, 5/ 15a to 61 15s ;
New Farnhams, :2/ to 13/; Yearling Kents, to
4/ 12,; Yearling Sussex, 21 8s to 3/ 17s; Old 11,ps,
1/ to 41 per cwt.
13col3.oUGH AT ID SPIT.II.34rIELD3,
The art.:vets of Pot:ltoes up to our market I,st week
Crum various parts of England, including those by land
carriage, were 3,850 tons, nearly the whole of which
came to hand in good condition. The imports trim
abroad were large, or as follows:—Antwerp, 867 ;
Amsterdam, 84; Dunkirk, 528; Bruges, 114; Rotter-
dam, 371; and Rouen, 90; or not less than 2.054 tons.
Although the weather has been more favourable for an
increas-11 consumption, the trade, owing to the large
supplies off,ring, has ruled dull, on the following
terms :

Per Ton.
York. Regents 80s to 110 s
Ditto Shaws ... —a to - s
Scotch Reds . 60s to 75s
Ditto min. Cups 40s to 60s
Ditto Buffs ... 50s to 5s
Blues 553 to 60s
Pink Eyes
Lincoln. Regents Bss to 95s
Wisbeach ditto 60s to 75s
itto Kidneys
Newcastle Regts 6os to 75s

Per Ton.
Common Whites 50s to 55s
Kent Kidneys ... 70s to 85s
Essex Regents ... —s to —s
titto Shaves —s to - s
Ditto Kidneys ... sto —s
French Whites ... 60s to 65s
Ditto Red 5......... 65s to 70s
Belgian ditt0...... 35s to 608
ll tto Reds ... Eos to 65s
Dutch ditto
German ditto

TALLOW.
Our market continues in a very sluggish state, and
prices are quite 3d per ewt lower than on Monday last.
Today P.Y.C. on the spot, is selling at 38s 3d to 385 6d
per cwt. For forward delivery very little is doing. Town
Tallow, 39s 6d per cwt net cash ; Rough Fat, 2s 3d
per Sibs.

1845.

1846. 1847.

1848. 1_1849.

Stock this day • • .... 28,564
Price of Y. C. •• E,t"Os9edd
Delivery last week ••
Dittu from June 1.. • . 61,339
Ar. ivals last week . 719
Ditto from June 1 ... 74,103
Price of Town ••• • .. 45s Od

22,924 L 7,827
51s 6d 458 3d
to Os Od to 45s Od

34,741 47,190
428 Od to 388 3d
Os Od t 0383 6d
1,713 1,536
60,228 56,576
1,507 222
87,436 78,293

1,833 2,364
55,271 58,700
496 10,091
67,672 68,424
545 Od 493 6d

45s Od 14211 Od

BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.)
Two girls, named Rosina Francis and Frances Edger.
ten, and Mary Edgerton, the mother of the latter, were
charged with creatame a disturbance in the public streets.
Police-constable F 126 stated that he was on duty
last night in Castle-street, Leicester-square, about
twelve o'clock, when he heard a noise at the top of the
street, and on going to see what was the matter he
found the two younger prisoners fighting. He was
endeavouring to part them when the third prisoner came
up and joined in the scuffle. Ultimately the two first
prisoners threw off their bonnets and shawls, and struck
out at him as a man would do, and it was not until the
assistance of a brother constable and a stretcher bad
been procured that they could be carried to the station-
house.
Mr. HALL discharged the elder prisoner, and fined
the others 10s. each, or a wet k's imprisonment.
The fines were not paid.
A respectably-attired, gentlemanly-looking man, who
gave the name of Ball, was charged with annoying
Miss Mary Ann Pateman, a householder in Surrey-
street, Strand.
The complainant stated, that about half-past twelve
o'clock this morning a person came to her door just as
she was going to bed, and brought a note for a lodger
named Smith, which the person said had been sent by a
g,ntleman from a neighbouring public-house. She told
the person that Miss Smith, the lodger referred to, could
not be seen at that hour, and the person vent away;
but in about ten minutes afterwards the prisoner came
up to the door and began ringing and knocing. declaring
that he would not desist until he had seen Miss Smith.
The note which had been previously lett ran thus:—
" Will you come up to Wilson's, as I am determined to
see you once more?—D. C. B. I shall wait ten minutes
and no longer." Finding that the prisoner was resolute
in his purpose, she sent for a policeman and gave him
into custody.
Mr. HALL—Why did you not admit him? Com-
plainant—Because I did not like the appearance of
the man.
A solicitor, who attended on behalf of the prisoner,
cross-examined the complainant with the view of elicit
;ng that t`!e house in question was little better than a
brothel, and that the complainant was a married woman.
Mr. HALL said if that were so it would Rot alter the
case. Admitting that the house was an improper one,
or that the complainant was no better than she should
be, it did not follow that she was not entitled to the
prowiction of the law.
The solicitor asked the complainant if the prisoner
hid nat been in the habit of visiting Miss Smith at the
house. —The complainant said he had.
The solicitor—And has slept with her there re-
peatedly? Complainant—l suppose so.
The Solicitor—Now, did you not prevent Miss Smith
seeing him? Complainant—No, I did not; on the con-
trary, Miss Smith wished me to protect her from the
prisoner.
The pris•lner said he could call Miss Smith to prove
that it was not so, if the magistrate would postpone the
case to enable• her to be sent for.
This having• been done, Miss Smith was shortly forth-
coming; and in' answer to questions from the prisoner's
solicitor, she answered that he was a friend of hers,
and she was prevented seeing him this morning by the
people in the house.
Mr. HALL—Is this a brothel? Miss Smith—No, Sir.
Mr. HALL—What is it, then? Miss Smith—lt is a
house where apartments are let out to ladies.
The Solicitor—And can a lady take a gentleman there
to sleep? Miss Smitls—Certain-ly, I think so.
Mr. HALL did not th ink this altered the case in the
least. No person had a right to disturb another in his
house without lawful cause; and it was no excuse what-
ever, that the prisoner wanted to get into the house to
commit fornication. Wha.t was the prisoner? The pri-
soner said he was a wine-Merchant.
Mr. Hann told the prisoner he had behaved very ill,
and ought to be ashamed of himself. He was surprised
to see a person in his station of life exhibit so little de-
cency as to maintain that he was right in a case like
,his; and fined him 205., or eight days' imprisonment.
The fine was paid.

MARLBRO'-STREET—(THIS DAY.
ROBBERY OF PLATE AT THE GLOUCESTER HOTEL.
—William Stone, a dirty-looking fellow, who described
himself as a shoemaker, residing at No. 2, Blue Anchor-
yard, Rosemary-lane, was brought before Mr. Bingham,
charged with having stolen from the Gloucester Hotel,
Piccadilly, 27 silver spoons, the property of Mr. Thomas
Dale, the landlord.
James Brown, a waiter in the employ of the prose-
cutor, deposed that, on Sunday afternoon, about
four o'clock, he was standing behind the side-
board in the coffee-room, near the fire, when
his attention was attracted to the shadow of some
person on the wall of the passage adjoining. On going
to see who it was, he was surprised to see the prisoner
stealing quietly along the passage with the twenty-seven
silver spoons produced in his hand. Wi mess ran after
him and caught him just as he had thrOwn away the
spoons; and, having sent for a constable, gave him in
charge. Witness had seen the spoons safe in the plate-
basket, in the pantry, about an hour previous to the
robbery.
The prisoner, who declined offering any defence, was
fully committed for trial.
A " VERY RESPECTABLE" WOMAN. Ann Evans
was charged before Mr. Bingham with being drunk
and creating a disturbance at the church < F St. John
the Evangelist, in Charlotte-street, Fitzroy-square.
It appeared, from the evidence of police constable
52 E. that about seven o'clock on the previous evening
he was on duty at the doors of the above church, just
as the bells were tolling for service, when the defen-
dant, who was very tipsy, went up to the church-door
with a pint of beer in her hand, and bawled out as loud
as she could, that she be d—d if she would not have the
nuisance put a stop to, as the d—d bells were
ringing from morning to night. He persuaded her to
go away qui.-tly, but instead of her taking his advice
she loaded him with volleys of abuse, and otherwise con-
ducted herself in such an unbecoming manner, that be
was obliged to lock her up in the station.
The prisoner in the most indignant manner repudiated
the charge of drunkenness, but admitted that she did
say the bells were a d—d nuisance, as they were to
the whole neighbourhood. She could assure the magis-
trate that she was a very respectable woman, and not
accustomed to misconduct herself.
Mr. BING HAM thought her conduct anything but
that of a respectable woman, and fined her 7s. or seven
days' imprisonment.
,us ,

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE.
OXFORD, DEC. 29.—Uoldwin Smith, M.A., Stowell
Civil Law Fellow, has been appointed Classical Examiner
to the Royal College of Surgeons.
' MERTON COLLEGE.
The Worshipful M. Argics, M.A., Chancellor of the
dioc, se of Peterborough, has been collated to a canonry
in that Cathedral.
The Rev. P. Lousada, S.C.L., has been licensed to
the curacy of St. Augustine, Bristol.
EzETER CoLLUIL
The Rev. W. Bruton, M.A., has been presented to the
vicarage of Sidlesharn, Sussex.
The Rev. W. C. Le Breton, M.A., formerly Fellow
of this college, bas been appointed to the deanery of
Jersey and the rectory of St. Helier's.
The Rev. Percy Monro, 8.A., has been licensed to the
curacy of t. Anne, Westminster.
The Rev. N. Oxenharo, M.A., vicar of Modbury,
Devon, has been collated to a canonry in Exeter
Cathedral.

QUEEN'S COLLEGE.
The Rev. J. Beelis, 8.A., has been licensed to the
curacy of Patterdale, Westmoreland.
NEW COLLEGE.
Mr. Awbrey Charles Price has been admitted an
Actual Fellow of this college, being of kin to the
founder.

IVAGDALENE COLLEGE.
The Rev. E. K. Burney, M.A., late Fellow of this
college, has been instituted to the rectory of Thornham,
with the vicarage of Allinghara, Kent.
CHRIST CHURCH.

The Rev. Sir Frederick A. Gore Ouseley has been
licensed to the curacy of St. Paul's, Knightsbridge.
The Rev. M. Haggard, 8.A., has been licensed to the
curacy of St. Paul's, Bedminster, Gloucestershire.
TRINITY COLLEGE.
The Rev. A. G. Bleeck, 8.A., has been licensed to the
curacy of St. Jude, Bristol.
The Rev. R. R. Hutton, 8.A., has been licensed to the
curacy of St. Barnabas, Kensington.
ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE.
The Rev. F. Farmer, 8.A., has been licensed to the
curacy of St. Michael, Pimlico.
WADHAat COLLEGE.
The Rev. J. S. Gale, 8.A., has been licensed to the
curacy of Harrow, Middlesex.
The Rev. T. W. Hartshorne, 8.A., has been licensed
to the curacy of St. George, Gloucester.
PEMBROKE COLLEGE.
The Rev. H. Houghton, M.A., has been licensed to
the curacy of St. Peter, Cheltenham.
The Rev. N. H. M‘Gachen, 8.A., has been licensed to
the curacy of Acton Turville, Gloucestershire.
The Rev. H. Swabey, 8.A., has been licensed to the
curacy of 8% Luke, Berwick-street, London.
The Rev. S. Poole, 8.A., has been licensed to the
curacy of St. Mary, Paddington.
ST. MARY HALL.
The Rev. T. Jackson, of this Hall, Principal of the
Training College, Battersea, has been presented to a
prebendal stall in St. Paul's Cathedral.
NEW INN HALL.

CONTINENTAL TEAVELLlNG.—Arrangements that
will greatly facilitate our continental travelling have
been completed between the South-Eastern Railway
Company and the administrations of the Boulogne and
Amiens and the Northern of France lines, to come into
operation on the Ist of January. 1850. Travellers will
now be able to book themselves through, and obtain
direct tickets from, London to Paris, Brussels, Malines,,
Aix-la-Chapelle, or Cologne, and there is to be no exa-•
palpation of luggage until the passenger arrives at his;
destination. The direct tickets issued at the London-
bridge station of the South-Eastern Railway are to be
available by any of the South-Eastern Continental
Steam ship Company's steamers running between Folke-
stone and Boulogne, and by the English and French
Government mailbouts, as well as the steamships of the
South Eastern and Continental Company between Dover
and Calais. The through fares are as follows:—
First-class. Second-class.

s. d. £
s. d.
London to Paris, via Calais 2126 2 0 0
- „ Bouh gne 2106 1 17 0
Brussels, „ ... 2 50— 1 13 6
- Aix-la.Chapelle „ ... 2136 2 0 0
Cologne, ... 2196 2 5 0
- Malines, 2 46—1 13 0
First-class passengers travelling by South-Eastern ex.
press trains have to pay an additional 25., and second.
class passengers Is. 4d.

The Rev. A. Carden, has been licensed to the
curacy of St. Mark, Gloucester.
The Rev. W.W. 13. PnilLipson, 8.A., has been licensed
to the curacy of All Saints, Lewes, Sussex.

THE SUF, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING,

The Rev. J. W. C. Hughes, S.C.L., has been licensed
to the assistant curacy of All S ,in=s, Lewes, Sussex.
EDMUND HALL.
The R,v. J. S. Altmann, P,A., has been licensed to
the curacy of Henfi,id, Sussex.
Professors Aclaud, Daubeny, and Powell, of this
University, have kingly consented to give a lecture
on some scientific subject of popular interest to
the members of the City Lectures. Professors
Daubeny ,and Powe'l have celivered theirs,
which were en the Constitution of the Atmosphrro, and
on Shooting Stars; Professor Aciand's wi!l be delivered
on Thursday next, and will be " On the processes of
Animal Life, illustrated from the class of Birds, chit fly
by the growth of their eggs, and the formation of their
feathers."
From a catalogue of books purchased for .the Bod-
leian Library during the year ending Nov. 8, 1849,
we perceive that the library has made several im-
portant and curious acquisitions in that time. Among
these are the valuable collection of Saescrit MSS.
formed by the Rev. Dr. Mill (now Professor
of Hebrew, at Cambridge) during his residence in-
India, in number 160, and for which the sum of 3rsol.
was paid (a catalogue is preparing, and when finished
will be sent to each college library); a collection of
various Greek and Latin authors, purchased at the sale
of the library of the. late eminent scholar, Profesior
Jt•-cobs, editor of the'' Anthologia sea," and with his
LS. notes.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
" Audi ulteram putetn."
Sls,-My attention has been called to the follow-
ing passage in your 130 w-street report, published on
Saturday evening. The defendants complained "of
having been locked up all night for merely singing in
the street, and said it was really too bad that when
the soi disant Chief Baron Nicholson tendered bail for
them it was refused. Mr.gnspector Dodd justified the
refusal, on the ground that, not only were the pri-
soners themselves intoxicated, but their proposed bail
were somewhat elevated too."
The grave imputation of having been somewhat
elevated I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny,
" Zeno, Plato, Aristotle,
All were lovers of the bottle."
Nor is a police station-house, at four o'clock in the
morning, a place which a man is expected wilfully to
enter ilia state of sober sadness ; but as my name has
been facetiously introduced, I will ask you as a favour
to make public, as a waruing. to other Bacchanalian
judges, the contumelious way in which " The Court"
was treated on the occasion referred to, even within
its own precincts, vis , Bow-street.
I had been supping, Sir, in the Temple with a
Bachelor Bencher, a circumstance which I maintain
rendered my innate spirit of moral justice more
forcibly argumentative, if not quite s legally cons
vinciug. Well, Sir, while ringing the bell at my
Chambers, I perceived a number of policemen drag-
ging along two gentlemen (whom your reporter in
" Young England's" wit calls " fast young men")
into the station-house, followed by a crowd. One
outside the crowd remarked, in a tone of remonstrance,
" Policeman, your are really exceeding your duty."
Upon this a rush was made by the police upon the
speaker; he was thrown down, and torn up, and then
thrust into the station-house. A perceptible wrong
awakens the sensibilities. I, as a judge
of the land, could not stand by and
see the liberty of the subject thus outraged. I fol-
lowed into the passage of the station for the purpose,
as I stated, of explaining to the Inspector what I had
witnessed. I was seized by two or three constables,
my clothes torn, and my body thrust into the street.
I was then told by the Cerberus that I was not every-
body—a self evident proposition I could not dispute ;
but imagine, Mr. Editor, the judicial ermine defiled
by the F division.
Perhaps you've read or heard repeated
How Captain Gulliver was treated,
When thrown among the Lilliputians.

If this is what Mr. Inspector Dodd calls
being elevated, I at once join issue. I was at
length admitted to an interview with the superior
officer on duty—not Mr. Inspector Dodd—he was
not there, and, notwithstanding my e%idence, the
gentleman for whom I interfered, and who really had
committed no offence, was locked up for the night in
a cell—and such a night ! He was discharged in the
morning by the worthy magistrate, without fine or
admonition. Further comment is needless. I leave
the matter to the consideration of better judges than
myself, and have the honour to be, Sir, your very
obedient and obliged servanti-
THE SOI•DISANT LORD CHIEF
BARON NICHOLSON.
Garrick's Head, Bow-street, Dec. 31, 1849.

THE MYSTERIOUS DROWNING
AT FENCOTT.
In last Saturday's Chronicle we gave particulars
of the mysterious disappearance of Elisabeth Stanton,
of Fencott, and of some suspicious circumstances
connected therewith. The magistrates of the
Ploughly division, in which the above place is
situated, continued, by the officers, efforts in furthe-
rance of an elucidation of the mysterious circum-
stances. Those efforts have been so far successful as
to lead to the finding of the body in the river Ray,
about fifty yards below Fencott-bridge. On the sub-
siding of the overflowed waters dragging was com-
menced, and on Wednesday last the body was feund
by Mr. Beckley, fisherman, of Islip. She was dressed
as described by us last week, and had the whole of
her scanty clothing on, including her bonnet, which,
it appears, had been tied securely on her head.
The features were fully distinguishable, and the
body was but little decomposed. The sediment of the
water adhered so closely to the body as to form a
akin-like covering. From the body having been
drawn from the water on the Charlton-on- Ottmoor
side of the river, it was, after having been placed on
a hurdle, carried to that village, where for about an
hour it was, in consequence of the peremptory refusal of
the Rev. G. Riggs, rector, to allow it to be placed in the
church, exposed to view in the road near his mansion.
The arguments of the parishioners in favour of, the
placing the remains in the church were met with a
direct negative, and an intimation that he would take
the consequences of the refusal.-Mr. Riggs suggested
that the body should be taken back and conveyed to
the cottage of the father of the deceased, but this
was opposed, for reasons stated, by the bystanders,
and the proposer of it then suggested that the
remains should be placed in the parish coal-house.
Cause was shown against this proposition also, and
ultimately the body was placed in the parish school-
room. On Thursday it was cleaned, and subse-
quently inspected by Mr. Sydenham, surgeon, of
Islip, and Mr. Dawson, surgeon, of Bicester, both of
whom intimated that the body was free from bruises
or marks of violence, and that it appeared to be
in a healthy state. These facts go to remove the
impression of murder having been committed.
.In-
formation was, on finding the body, forthwith given
to Mr. Brunner, the coroner for the district, who
appointed teu o'clock on Friday for holding the in-
quest. The officers continued their exertions in ob-
taining evidence explanatory of the mysterious case, and
relative to which there are a variety of rumours. Of
these we do not take cognizance, but shall continue to
gives such facts as may transpire. The inquest on
the unfortunate young woman was held at the Crown
Inn, Charlton-on- Ottmoor. All the evidence obtain-
able was produced and fully heard. From the late
hour at which the inquiry terminated wethiswcek
can only give the result. After a patient inquiry, a
verdict of "Found Drowned" was returned. In our
next we propose giving the copious evidence in Maim
—Oxford Chronicle.

Alluding to the long looked-for " Letter to the
Queen on a late Court-martial," by Mr. Warren, a
document now announced for immediate publication,
the United Service Gazette observes :—" Expectation
is on tip toe (we need hardly say) in military circles ;
and if what we have heard as to the nature of some
of the expected revelations, and the distinguished
sanction under which the forthcoming manifesto will
appear be correct, the subject will prove one of a
national importance, and must lead to a sweeping change
of system at the Horse Guards. That system we have
long thought a rotten one, and hope the blow about
to be given it will be a vigorous one—well aimed, and
effectual."
SECESSION TO ROME.—The Rev. J. M. Forbes,
D.D., rector of St. Luke's Church in New York, has
resigned his charge, and withdrawn himself from the
Episcopal Church, with the intention of joining the
Romish Church. Dr. Forbes has long been one of the
staunchest of High Churchmen. In the General Con-
vention of 1844, Dr. Forbes roundly and emphatically
denied all Romanistic tendency in the Episcopal Church,
and now, just five years after, falls soul and body over
to Rome ! In 1847 Dr. Forbes was one of the repre-
sentatives of the diocese of New York in the General
Convention, and then, as on a former occasion, he was
prominent in disavowing all sympathy with Rome.—
Edinburgh Witness
MAGISTERIAL EICIIANGE.—Mr. Seeker, the Ma-
gistrate at the Southwark Police Court, will, for the
future, sit at the Greenwich and Woolwich Police
Courts, instead of Mr. Gilbert a'Beckett, who exchanges
with Mr. Seeker, and will in future preside at the South-
wark Court.—Sunday Paper.
LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY.—The Royal Mail steam-
ship Canada, Captain Judkins, departed from the Mersey
to-day for Halifax and New York, with the usual semi-
monthly mails for North America and a full complement
of passengers. She also carries out about 700 tons of
merchandise, including 250 tons of French Foods,
brought to this port on Sunday last by the steamer Coat-
modore, from Havre.
PEDESTRIAN FEAT.—On Tuesday morning James
Perkins, fruiterer, &c., of Canterbury, undertook for a
wager to walk ten miles in three hours, and to carry a
basket of oranges, together with more ponderous ar-
ticles, to the weight of 801bs., with which he was not
allowed to rest except by placing them on his knee to
change their position throughout the whole distance.
The ground appointed was from the milestone in St.
Dunstan's to that on Beaconhill, near Ospringe ; a heavy
and very hilly road, which he accomplished 5 min. 30
sec. within the above time, by completing his task in
9 h. 54 min. 30 sac.

Cheap Edition. By TV. _Harrison Ainsworth.
A second volume, comprising the whole of the
brilliant romance of Rookwood, only confirms us in
our opinion of the merits of this marvellously cheap
re-issue of the writings of William Harrison Aies-
worth. Within little more than 200 pages are accu •
mulated together those chapters of enthralling interest
which first directed public attention to this, remark-
able novelist, at once investing him with popularity,
and inducing the most distinguished. of our Quarterly
reviewers to swell the voice of his reputation. Per-
haps of all his productions, not excepting " Jack
Sheppard," there is not one so abounding with evi-
dences of intellectual earnestness and impetuo:ity as
" Rook wood." Although modestly couched for the
most part in the language of prose, as a narrative pos-
sessing all the verve of an ode and all the impulsive
glibness of a 15tic , especially in the glorious de-
scriptive passages relating to the no morahle ride to
York, a ride completed by Black Bess in one night,
under the guidance of D:ck Turpin, the Prince ef
Highway men. From the preface to the present
m epublication it would appear that the rapidi y w ith
which this p articular portion of the narrative was
wilt ten was, in a great mete ure, cemmensurete with the
rapidity with which the ride itself was accomplished.
Mr. Ainsworth informs us that the account of
this extraordinary feat of horsemanship was
penned in a single night and a single day,
namely, within something less than twenty-
foul' hours ; in corroberetion of which
avowal it was scarcely necessary for him to add that
his pen " literally se )urrel over the pages." From
this it is sufficiently manifest that the "Ride to
York," forming the fourth book to the romance of
" Rookwood," was composed in a sort of inspira'ion—
the place of its composition being a house called the
Elms, in which the author then resided at Kilburn.
Of this singular passion of composition he says—" So
thoroughly did I identify myself with the flying
highwayman, that, once start el, I found it impossible
to halt. Animated by a kindred enthusiasm, I cleared
every obstacle in my path with as much facility as
Turpin disposed of the impediments that beset
his flight. In his company I mounted the hill-
side, dashed through the bustling village, swept
over the desolate heath, threaded the silent street,
plunged into the eddying stream, and kept an onward
course without pause, without hindrance, without
fatigue. With him I shouted, sang, laughed, exulted,
wept. Nor did I retire to rest till, in imagination, I
heard the bell of York Minster toll forth the knell
poor Black Bess." The confession is especially in-
teresting to the multitudes who have found their
imaginations affected by this surprising narrative, one
of the most brilliant descriptions to be met with in
the whole range of our prose literature. At
the very outset of the ride the attention is fixed
by the accidental death of Tom King, by
the pistol ball of his comrade, Dick Turpin, and our
curiosity is immediately roused by the sudden reso-
lution of the robber to ride direct, without stoppage
or relay, from London to York, thereby at once
escaping his pursuers, and
" Witching the world with noble horsemanship."

THE ITALIAN OPERA AND THE
LEGITIMATE DRAMA.
(From the Chronic'e)
The legitimate drama is re instated at Drury-
lane, thanks to the spirit and enterprise of Mr.
An.ierson ; and what was recently by turns a nie-
i,agerie and a concert-room, has passed cnce more
under the lawful sway of Melpomene. This
auspicious revolution, the consummation of which
was duly recorded in ourcolumns of Thursday morning,
naturally revives, with new interest, the yet unan-
swered inquiry as to the destinies of the sis'er esta-
blishment—which has likewise of late years under-
gone a woful severance from her old and true alle-
giance. What is going to be done with Covent-
garden ? And, in particular, are we to have a
second Italian Opera next season ? One might, in-
deed, have thought ci priori that this was hardly a'
question which could need to be discussed seriously, at
a moulent when the lawyers are still busy with tics
d(bris of the late:t affair of the kind, and when our
columns of Law Intehigence continue to afford, from
time to time under the too-suggestive heading.
" Court of Ihnkreptcy, In Re Delafield '—ad-
ditional ill tidings of what once bore the name
of " Royal Italian Opera." But as there may be
some reason for doubting whether the true moral of
that catastrophe is universally appreciated, we are
desirous—less fur the sake of any imprudent specu-
lator who may have a fortune to throw away than for
the general interests of the lyrical drama in this
country—of stating our objections to an experiment
which would, we are convinced, prove alike ruinous
to the capitalist and mischievous in a public point of
view. Let us begin with clearing the question of
one palpable fallacy, that meets us on the threshold.
We allude to the fancied analogy between operatic: or
dramatic undertakings and ordinary commercial en-
terprises. It is imagined by many, that a " monopoly
of music," as it is called, presents an odd and unseemly
contrast to " free trade in everything else"—in other
words, that the competitive principle which answers
so well in the every-day operations of trade and
commerce, and which we are acustomed to regard as
the parent alike of cheapness and excellence, is of
necessity equally applicable to the affairs of art
and the drama. But what is the rationale of the
undoubtedly sound commercial maxim, that " two
shops are better than one ?" Simply, that the increased
demand for a particular commodity, resulting from
the opening of the second shop, stimulates an increased
supply—that increased supply very commonly means
diminished cost of production—and that cheapened
production leads to more extensive consumption. The
maxim is true or false, in any particular case, pre-
cisely according as these conditions are, or are not,
capable of being realised. It all rests on the funda-
mental postulate, that an increased demand necessarily
tends to produce an increased supply. Let this
element of the question be wanting—and the free-
trade formula at once falls to the ground. Now this
is precisely how the case stands with regard to the
public patronage of operatic and dramatic art. The
great primary condition of the successful application
of the mere commercial principle is here signally
wanting. Demand does not generate supply. The
opening of a second Opera-house has not
the remotest tendency to increase the_ available
amount of first-rate operatic talent. Prima donnas
are not worked off by steam power at so much a
dozen, like silks, shirtings, and calicoes. You can't
get a Lind, a Sontag, a Grisi, a Lablache, or a Mario
made to order. No force of the "commercial prin-
ciple" can break down this monopoly—for it is held
under patent direct from Nature herself. Double your
demand and you merely double, treble, or quadruple
the market price of the commodity, without either
improving its quality or adding one iota to its quantity.
Hence the " extravagant salaries," which have been
said—not very accurately, by the way, as we shall
presently see—to have wrecked Mr. Delafield's specu-
lation. Those " extravagant salaries" were not, as
is somewhat inconsiderately assumed, an accidental
item in the Covent-garden experiment—they belonged
to its very essence. Of course salaries will be
exorbitant when two houses are bidding against
each other for the talent which is not more than
sufficient to satisfy the demands of one. To
ask for the competition without the "extravagant
salaries" is to ask for causes without effects. Such
is the radical fallacy of the doctrine of " free trade,"
as applied to operatic and dramatic affairs. It is
simply proposing to apply the commercial principle of
unrestricted competition to a commodity which nature
has made the subject of a pretty close monopoly.
When it is further considered that the physical
dimensions of our theatres impose a fixed limit to
the " consuming power" of the public ; and likewise
that custom has fixed the selling price of the article
at a maximum which no manager can safely venture
to exceed—in a word, that this is a branch of
business in which the "returns" are not susceptible
of indefinite increase, in proportion to increased
outlay—the reader wlll see the full absurdity
of applying the " commercial " doctrine to a class
of undertakings which nature and custom alike
have combined to withdraw from the jurisdiction
of political economy. The competing theatrical
manager finds himself hemmed in between two anti
commercial necessities—he pays monopoly prices, and
his receipts are limited to a fixed standard. But let
us go a step further, and look at the et eets of this
kind of competition on the character of operatic art
itself. The same process which runs up salaries to a
preposterous height obviously makes it impossible foi
any one establishment to retain in its service a full
and effective staff of the highest talent. The corps
which, if combined and concentrated on a single
stage, would be adequate to the perfect interpretation
of the greatest masterpieces of the first composers, is
broken up and scattered. You have a star here, and
a star there—an incomparable Alice or Amina in one
house, and a superb Norma in another—but
nowhere a sustained and harmonious ensemble, com-
plete in all its parts and proportions. Nothing
could more forcibly illustrate this tendency of
the competitive system than the deplorable con-
dition to which it has brought the national drama. In
the old days, when Drury-lane and Covent garden,
instead of ruining each other by an irrational compe
tition, concentrated their respective resources—the
one on tragedy, and the other on comedy—salaries
were moderate, each establishment had the undis-
turbed command of the best talent of the day, and
each was enabled to produce the highest and most
finished combinations of excellence in its own line of
art. But competition crept in, and spoiled all. In
place of a perfect and effective corps dramatique, we
got the " star system," with its few prizes and its
many blanks. In place of a rational and well-orga
nized division of labour and combination of talent, by
which managers, actors, the public, and art itself alike
profited—we hive of late years had a little of
everything everywhere, but artistical perfection
and completeness nowhere. The consequence
was what we have seen—the British drama
went out, and French horsemanship and concerts
monstrea came in. To such a pass have matters ar-
rived, that the production of a perfectly well acted
English play on the boards of one of our great metro•
politan theatres—should so brilliant a success be
achieved by the present lessee of Drury-lane—will
really be one of the most remarkable novelties of the
age. To those who have followed us thus far, it
must be needless to say much on the particular cir-
cumstances of the case more immediately before us.
If the principles above stated are sound, it at once
follows that any project for renewing the disastrous
experiment of the last three seasons is one which all
true lovers of the lyrical drama are interested in de-
precating. Yet it may not be useless to correct one
or two misapprehensions which prevail, we believe,
to some extent, with reference to the history of that
ruinous business. It cannot be too distinctly under-
stood that the Covent-garden speculation failed, not
from accidental or remediable mishaps, but from
causes intrinsic to its nature. It was an experi-
ment tried under most favourable auspices, and one
sees no reason whatever why it should not have suc-
ceeded--except the one insurmountable reason that
the whole thing was essentially a blunder. It was
supported at the outset by a singularly powerful
combination of first-rate talent, including the ser-
vices of a musical director who had had upwards of
twenty years' experience at her Majesty's Theatre.
The financial management lacked neither skill nor
capital. In the hands, first, of an accomplished artiste
and her husband (himself a musician and composer)
—next, of an experienced music-dealer and man of
business—and lastly, of a gentleman of large pro-
perty and unbounded liberality—the enterprise had
every possible justice done to it ; yet in each of these
three successive phases it was a losing and ruinous
business. It was not, as some imagine, the heavy
original outlay that remotely caused the final catas-
trophe. All that was over before Mr. Delafield's time;
he did not come into the concern until after a fortune
had been already sunk in it by the Persianis. Nor
was it the " extravagant salaries" that brought the
establishment to the ground ; for an examination of
the accounts discloses the most material fact, that
although the attraction continued the same in 1849
as in 1848, yet the revenue declined to such an extent
(from an aggregate of 41,0001. to 27,0001), that the
moneys taken were insufficient to defray the miscel-
laneous expenditure, even irrespectively of the salaries
of the leading artistes. There is consequently nothing
in the history of this speculation to break the force of
the broad fact, that three fortunes have been sunk—
juA one per annum—in the attempt to establish a
second Italian Opera in London. We venture to pre-
sume that the obvious inference from all this is the
correct one—namely, that London does not want,
and will not support, two Italian Operas; and this
conclusion is still further borne out by the well-known
fact, that, until within a recent period, the annals of her
Majesty's Theatre have been a mere history of bank-
ruptcies and disasters. And it may be added, that
were there any reason for believing that the public
require a larger supply of operatic entertainment than
they had previously to the year 1847, the rational
mode of supplying the demand would be by increasing

He starts from a tavern at Kilburn Wells at about
sunset on an autumn day in 1737, hurrying along
Shoot•uplane, in the direction of Hampstead.
Skirting the heath near the path leading towards
North-end, he surmounts the hill, leaps over the
Hendon•road, passes Crackskull.common, and rushes
along the cross road to Highgate. After clearing a
gate on the outskirts of that village, he threads the fields
towards Hornsey, scuds past Crouch-end through
Duval-lane, and bounds over the high toll-bar:gate sur-
mounted with chevaux• de-frize, close to Hornsey.
Turtling into a bye lane at Ducket's green he pursues
his course towards Tottenham, "runs the gauntlet
of that straggling town," and leaps, lengthways, over
a donkey cart, in the main street of Edmonton.
Along Enfield highway he careers at full gallop,
coolly lighting his pipe of tobacco in view of the
constable Coates and his companions. Near Ware
he leaves word with a waggoner that his pursuers
will find him, if they wish, at York, a message that
naturally affords them much cause for astonishment.
By the moonlight, by the starlight, by the
flickering lamps of the town, by the
twinkling fires of the village, by the gleaming
doors of the toll-bars, chanting his songs, burning
his weed, laughing, shouting, and driving over the
crisp ground in a whirl of exultation, the crack rider
of England in that, and perhaps in any subsequent
age, speeds on in spite of every hindrance and impe-
diment. He encounters the London and York stage,
pushes on through Northamptonshire, and gives his
mare a refresher at a hostelrie near Burleigh House.
On through Stamford, through Lincolnshire, through
Rutland, through Lincolnshire again, by Melton
Mowbray—" Tantivy, lass, Tantivy I" By Gran-
tham, over Gonerhy-hill, through the vale of Belvoir,
past Newark, past Trent, through the paths and
glades of Broad Notts, through Sherwood, once
the haunt of Robin and Maid Marian, on,
on, on through the harvest fields of York-
shire! Past B wtrey, past Thorne, past
Selby, hard by the waters of the Don, past Shaith,
over the Ouse, the Aire, and the Derwent, swimming
on the back of Black Bess across Cawood Ferry, Dick
Turpin still contrives to outstrip his pursuers. Past
Fulford, on, on, until he comes in view of Hallow's
Tower and Clifford's Keep, and " the serene and
massive pinnacles" of York Minster. Bess dies, and
Dick Turpin, weeping for the loss of his beautiful
steed, encounters his pursuers, concealed under the
disguise of a countryman, on the bowling-green of a
little hostelrie. This is the narrative which the ge-
nius of Harrison Ainsworth, as a romancist, bas ren-
dered one of such matchless fascination. It is not,
however, to this episode alone that " Rookwood" is
indebted for its popularity ; its flash songs
and chiming lyrics are as good as any in the language,
and are scattered with a prodigal hand through the
chapters of the fiction. As a whole, therefore,
" Rookwood" possesses qualities to which scarcely
one of the subsequent works from the same hand
can make any pretensions, and hence we are satisfied
that the present re•issue, so remarkable for its com-
pact size and extraordinary cheapness, will command
a circulation in some measure equivalent to that to
which it is so eminently entitled.

HERE'S " CHRISTMAS 1"
Here's " Christmas"—let us boldly greet him,
Wo may as well, for none can cheat him;
He will steal on, and slily sprinkle
The first grey hair and first faint wrinkle.
And yet methinks it little matters
What seed of Ruin•moss he scatters,
So that amid it we contrive
To keep Truth's Heartsease still alive
Within our breast.
Here's " Christmas," and it seemeth well
That Conscience to our deeds should tell
The just result of all we've done,
And trace the way our sands have run.
Let us peruse the closely-sealed,
The volume ever unrevealed,
And see if we have said or thought
No evil thing that should have brought
Blots on our crest.
The heart is bat a ledger sheet
Where Right and Wrong in balance meet,
And well it is that we should see
Full often how "accounts" may be.
Old Christmas has a trick, we find,
Of bringing bills of every kind,
So ere we drain the festive cup
We'll look within, and reckon up
The debts we owe.
Too many of us get so wrapt
In "own dear self," that we are apt
To dwell much more on what our brothers
Should give to us than we to others.
Our grasp is quick to seize and hold
The kindness paid in moral gold;
But Equity, that bids us pass
The same again, oft sees, alas!
Our palms more slow.
Let us not idly shirk the task.
But face ourselves, and boldly tt.tk
Our conduct whether it has trod
The path of Mammon or of God?
A more important " day-book" lives
Than that which worldly commerce gives,
Some brighter figures must be found
Than those which make the golden round.
Of Profit's dial.

Let us take heed that no arrears
Are due to those whose silent tears
Are calling on us night and day
For debts which Mercy ought to pay;
Let us be sure that we have heard
The claims of Misery's lowly word,
And that our lips have never driven
The helpless and the spirit-riven
With harsh denial.

Let us think how " accounts" may stand
When the " recording angel's" hand
Adds up our columns—turning then
To the " great book" not kept by men.
No yellow dust will serve to hide
The errors made by selfish pride ;
False items, though on vellum page,
Will never bear the searching gauge.
Ot holy sight.
So take good caution how we let
1), lusion lead us into debt ;
And let old Christmas find us willing
To pay humanity's last shilling.
We'll pile the log and drain the cup,
But not be fore we reckon up
The " balance-sheet" that contcience draws,
And God e'er keeps by his own laws
01 wrung and right.
Eliza CooK.

Weekly Dispatch

LORD DEIOI/01.—The statements respecting, the
resignation of his high office by this eminent nobleman
are entirely erroneous. He has not tendered his re-
signation, consequently the question of its acceptance by
the Governmpnt—" most reluctantly" or otherwise—has
not arisen. The last accounts received by his family
announce a marked imprvvement in his Lordabip's
hoslth,—Sunday Paper.

the number of weekly performaLus, not, y multiply.,.,-
ing Opera-houses. We sincerely tru4 tOtlt, the lesson',
taught by recent experience will notWpsregardef
and we especially hope, for the salictiff:::malil old and
admired favourites of the public, that thty- will not
be tempted to hazard their professional.;gaips in that
strange sort of joint-stock specttilaxok-,Oich we-2241-g
have heard proposed—a scheme of wkcii-tftiviaPllY,_/
say that it appears to us to combine,lVilt4eysimtin-----
felicity, the seemingly incompatible disiervan'ttges
the two antagonist principles of competition and com-
munism.

ABERDEEN THEATRE.

Mr. Ira Aldridge has, during the past week, been
starring it amidst the rapturous applause of crowded
audiences. his acting in Othello, on Monday night,
was one of the most perfect conceptions which we
have ever witnessed, and took the audience quite Ly
s.urprie, great as were the anti-Apations fs;rmed re-
g,lrding him. In the other characters which he ie-
lected during the following nigl-os of the we k
was equally successful ; hut we lack space to 417,e11
minuttly upon th6m, and hasten to notice a novelty—
Titus ...Iwlronicus, a play little known even to the
admirers of Shakspere, and of little popularity es en
where it is known, owing to the excess of LI ody and
horrible scenes w hich it contains. Of these leatun s

it is almost entirely divested in the adaptation NN hich
was given last night, and, though the liberties tr.k( n
kith the original are great, the main features of the
plot, and the brilliant emanations of genius with whit
it abounds, are carefully preserved. We have lift le
hesitation in saying that the theatrical world ow es
Mr. Aldridge a large debt of gratitude for this
addition to our stock of Shakiperian plays. His
own acting as Aaron, the Moor, was a brilliant and
masterly display—perhaps in none of his characters
has he ever appeared to so much advantage—the ten-
derness of his amorous passion, or of his filial love,
and the terrible invective of his jealousy and wrath,
were rendered with thrilling effect. Much credit is
due to the spirited manager, Mr. Pollock, fur the
manner in which the play was put on the boards.
Considering that it was a first performance, it ex-
ceeded anything that could possibly have been
expected in a provincial theatre. Mrs. Pollock sus-
tained her part as Lavinia nobly, and Mr. Rayner
was an exceedingly effective Titus Andronicus. The
play is to be repeated to night. The Virginian
Mummy was rendered with irresistible effect, Mr.
Aldridge's part being sustained with inimitable zest.
We are glad to learn that the success of Mr. Aldridge
has been so great as to induce the manager to con-
tinue his engagement a few nights longer.—Aberdeen
Herald.

TERRIFIC SNOW STORM.
(FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.)
PERTET, SATURDAY NIGHT, DEC. 29.—1 have only
time to send you for this evening's edition the features
of what betel Madame Sontag, Signor F. Lablache,
Calzolari, Piatti, the Count Rossi, Mr. Mapleson, Mr.
Ward, of Edinburgh, and Mr. Nugent. We left
Glasgow on Friday morning at half-past nine, intend-
ing to give a concert on Saturday morning at Aber-
deen ; when within thirty miles of the last mentioned
place, near Laurencekirk, the train was brought to a
stand-still. Some fifty labourers were engaged to
remove it, but all in vain, a gale of wind bin wing,
snow falling and drifting. In this unpleasant position
Mr. Wood, with the aid of two men, returned to the
station, in the hopes of obtaining carriages for the
party, but finding it impracticable, returned. Night
had then set in. Madame Sontag at once
descended from the carriage, and endeavoured
to gain the summit of the cutting, but in the
attempt fell twice, having, like ourselves, after some
severe tumbles and being buried in the snow, suc-
ceeded. A most bleak and dangerous walk then pre-
sented itself, the wind furiously boa ling, snow
blinding us all; but, thanks to Providence, through
the navvies and train guard we got 'towed for the
night before a blazing fire, our saturated clothes
dried at the small but hospitable farm of Mr. Wat-
son, Middleton Farm, Laurencekirk. On the follow-
ing morning (Saturday) Madame S mitag endeavcure d
to reach the station (having abandoned the concert at
Aberdeen, to return to Perth) by a carriage, but owing to
the wind and accumulation of snow, the horses swerved
and broke the splinter bar; the only rcmedy was to
obtain a cart, in which this amiable lady was at last
safely deposited at the station, and reached Perth in
sarety, though very fatigued. The Count Rossi, and
other gentlemen, say they never encountered, when
crossing the Simplon or Mount St. Bernard, such a
terrific snow storm.

COWES, ISLE OF WIGIIT.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
COWES, Dac. 30
" The tide, the tide, the monster tide."
During the latte,r part of the week all persons re-
siding in the lower part of the town have been in a
great fright about the grer.t tide, and some had an
idea that half the town would be under water. In
the business part much merchandise was removed,
carpets taken up, and furniture taken away.
At full and change our tide rises about fourteen
feet, extraordinary tides (i. e., when attend( d «ith
heavy rain and south gale..) two feet higher, filling
many of the hou3es ; and au increase of only two
inches 'would send it into double the number of
houses.
The prophesied tide was therefore looked forward
to with great fears of the cons( quences. The tide
rose higher on Thursday than before remembered at
the age of the moon, with a north wind; but since, it
has not increased in h..ight beyond the common run,
nor will it, if the wind continues. The highest tide is
expected on Tuesday.
TrIE Ice.—The weather has set in wintry, and
the ice carts have been busily at work the two last
days, filling the Royal Yacht Squadron Icehouse
and that of her Majesty at Ozborn. Not less than 100
men have been employed in this work : thus the
luxuries of the great cause the employment of, and
add to the comforts of, the poor. The weather was
so mild last season that neither of these houses were
filled ; it will take nearly a - week to finish them now.

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, SATURDAY.
The Queen and Prince Albert took their usual
early morning walk.
The Royal Family took walking exercise in the
Slopes and Windsor Park.

SUNDAY.

The Queen and Prince Albert took their usual
morning walk.
The Royal Family took walking exercise.
Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince
Albert, the ladies and gentlemen of the Court, and
the domestic household, attended Divine service in
the private chapel. The Hon. and Rev. G. Wellesley
officiated and administered the lloly Communion.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended
by the Baroness de Speth, arrived in town on Satur-
day, from Frogmore Home' and visited her Serene
Highness the Duchess of Saxe-Weimar, at Marl-
borough House. The Duchess of Kent left her resi-
dence, Clarence House, St. James's, in the afternoon,
and returned to Frogmore House.
Her Serene Highness the Duchess of Saxe-Weimar,
with the;Princesses Anne and Amelia of S.xe-Weimar
and the Princes Edward and Gustavus of Saxe -
Weimar, attended Divine service yesterday morning,
in the Chapel Royal, St. James's.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge
visited and took leave of her Serene Highness the
Duchess of Saxe. Weimar yesterday, at Marlborough
House. _ _ _

Her Serene Highness the Duchess of Saxe-Weimar
visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester
yesterday, at Gloucester House.

JENNY LlND.—Sinct this lady left England she
has enjoyed the repose she so much needed umid the
beautiful scenery of Switzerland and the Tyrol—her
health having been previously re-established by the
baths at Ems; her voice is more powerful and flexible
than ever. Russia and England are both wooing her
return to the exercise of her profession, and the King
of Sweden has sent a special messenger to her to intreat
her presence in her native city, when she was able to
undertake the journey. It will be a matter of deep re-
gret if she does not visit England next season. She is
well known to cherish the warmest affection for this
country, where she has a nation's admiration and many
devoted friends. The death of the lamented Bishop of
Norwich was almost as great a trial to the fair songstreca
as tho death of her friend Mendelssohn had been: in
one of her latest letters she intreated the friend to whom
she wrote, to place a chaplet of ivy, which she enclosed,
upon the grave of Dr. Stanley "as her tears ;" this
simple offering is in accordance with one of the customs
of her country. Miss Lind is now at Lubeck, but will
soon proceed thence to Berlin.— Art Journal.
NEW RoILNEY.—On Friday night last, about ten
o'clock, during a heavy fall of snow, the Margareths
Siebierra, a small vessel from Copenhagen, bound for
Jersey, and laden with barley, grounded on a sandbank
near the Iloy. Signals of distress having been made,
five men from the Great Stone and No. 2 stations imme-
diately volunteered to launch their boat, and attempt tl.e
rescue of the crew, who, from the darkness of the night,
were in the greatest danger. Twice did these gallant
fellows put off in their humane, hut rerilous missive, in
a tremendous sea, but were as often forced back by the
fury of the waves; and not until the certainty of their
own destruction, without the least possible chance of
reaching the vessel, was evident, did they relinquish
their adventurous task, and wait for daylight, when,
after four unsuccessful attempts, in which their boat
sustained considerable injury, and was neatly swim-yeti.
they succeeded in rescuing the grateful and unfortunate
crew, four in number, who had lashed themselves to the
rigging, and thus been exposed to the long pitiless night,
in a perishing condition, awaiting their uncertain destiny.
Every attention was paid to the poor fellows by Mr.
Wallszr, Lloyd's agent, through whose kindness they
have been enabled to leave New Romney for Dover.
Their vessel is a perfect wreck. We trust that the con-
duct of the coast guard, which is beyond all praise, may
attract the attention of the higher authorities, and meet
the reward due to their fearless and undaunted gallantry.
—Kentish Observer.