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sending to the Zoological Society for an army of
anteaters. Mr. Tite, however, thought that some-
thing would now be done to get rid of this worse
than Egyptian plague, since the other day, when
dining at his club in Pall-mall, he discovered one of
his red acquaintances upo❑ his plate.—(Laughter.)
Dr. BUCKLAND was much grieved to say that they
had reached the Athenaeum, and were there continu-
ally found in the teapots.—(Great laughter.) Nothing,
he feared, would be found available for their destruc-
tion but poison.
After some further conversation, the Noble Chair-
man amounted that Dr. Buckland would read a
paper "On Artesian Wells " at the next meeting•,
and the proceedings terminated.

THE CONDEMNED CONVICTS.

Yesterday, at eleven o'clock, a messenger from the
Home-office arrived at Horsemonger-lane Gaol, bear-
ing a respite, during her Majesty's pleasure, for the
convict Alfred Stephen Jordan, alias Dowland, capi-
pitally convicted of attempting to murder a woman
with whom he cohabited, in Dulwich-wood. The act
of clemency was communicated in a letter from Sir
George Grey addressed to the High Sheriff of Sur-
rey, who lost no time in forwarding the intelligence
to the Rev. William Sloman Rowe, chaplain of the
gaol, who immediately visited the convict and informed
' him of the fact. The wretched youth received the
intelligence with stoical indifference, betraying no
emotion of gratitude, and appearing perfectly careless
as to what became of him.

The convict Manning was yesterday permitted to
have another interview with his brother Edmund
Manning, who arrived at the gaol about one o'clock,
accompanied by a married sister, who had come to
town for the purpose of seeing her wretched relative.
The Rev. Mr. Rowe and Mr. Keene, the governor of
the gaol, were present at the interview, which was of
an extremely painful nature. After the first
outburst of feeling had subsided the convict was
addressed by his brother at some length, and
urged to communicate all he knew on the subject
of the murder. Manning expressed his readiness
to do so, and commenced by reiterating his former
statement to the effect that his wife shot
O'Connor as the latter was proceeding down stairs
to wash his hands. He further stated that
O'Connor had
,noticed the hole dug in the back
kitchen on the occasion of former visits paid to
Mit-o'er-place, and that he had been told by Mrs.
Manning that it was a drain they were making. On
the day of the murder, when the unhappy man went
down stairs, Manning states that on reaching the
back kitchen he heard him address his wife, and say,
" What haven't you finished the drain yet ?" These,
he says, were the last words O'Connor uttered, for
immediately afterwards he heard the report of a
pistol, and then a heavy fall on the fluor. The
wretched man, in answer to other questions put to
him by his brother, has confessed that he pledged a
pair of pistols, with one of which the deceased was
shot, on the evening of the day his wife left town,
being at the time almost penniless. He has also
confessed where the watches belonging to the late
Patrick O'Connor, and the crowbar with which the
murder was completed, may be found. The brother,
Edmund Manning, on taking leave yesterday, pro-
mised to see the convict again on Saturday, but the
sister took a last farewell.

Manning is more resigned to his fate than he was
for two or three days after conviction. At first he
would neither eat nor drink for some hours together,
but he now takes his meals regularly, and expresses
himself prepared for the awful change he has to
undergo. He is not less anxious than heretofore to
have an interview with his wife, but she positively
refuses to see him. Edmund Manning, when at the
prison yesterday, sought to obtain an interview with
her, but she declined to see either him or his sister.
There has been no application to see the female
convict on the part of her own friends ship her con-
viction.

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE
OF TUESDAY.

BY THE QUEEN.-A PROCLAMATION FOR A

GENERAL THANKSGIVING.

Vicronra, IL—We, taking into our most serious con-
sideration the indispensable duty which we owe to
Almighty God for the manifold and inestimable
blessings which we and our people have received
at His hands ; and desiring, by prostrating ourselves
before His Divine Majesty, and offering up i❑
ihe most public and solemn manner our praises
and thanksgivings, to manifest to our faithful and
loving subjects, and to the world, our deep and devout
sense of His lite mercies in having abated the grievous
disease with which many places in this kingdom have
been lately visited, which mercies have established and
confirmed in us the surest trust and confidence in His
protection acd good providence, have thought fit, by the
advice of our Privy Council, to issue this our Royal
Proclamation, hereby appointing and commanding that
a General Thanksgiving to Almighty God for these His
mercies bo observed throughout England and Ireland,
on Thursday, the fifteenth day of November instant;
and we do earnestly exhort that the said Public Day
of Thanksgiving be reverently and devoutly observed
by all our loving subjects in England and Ireland
as they tender the favour of Almighty God. And
for the better aad more orderly solemnizing the same,
we have given directions to the Most Reverend the
Archbishcps and the Right Reverend the Bishops of the
United Church of England and Ireland, to compose a
Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving suitable to the occa-
sion, to be used in all churches and chapels, and other
places of public worship; and to take care for the timely
dispersing of the same throughout their respective
dioceses.

Given at our Court at Windsor, this sixth day of
November, in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and forty-nine, and in the thirteenth
year of our reign.
GOD save the QUEEN.
BY THE QUEEN.—A PROCLAMATION FOR A
GENERAL THANKSGIVING.

VICTORIA, IL—We, taking into our most serious consi-
deration the indispensable duty which we owe to
Almighty God fur the manifold and inestimable
blessings which we and our people have received at
His hands; and desiring, by prostrating ourselves
before His Divine Majesty, and offering up in the
most public and solemn manner our praises and thanks-
givings, to manifest to our faithful and loving subjects
and to the world our deep and devout sense of His late
mercies in having abated the grievous disease with which
many places in this kingdom have been lately visited, which
mercies have established and confirmed in us the surest
trust and confidence in His protection and good
providence, have thought fit, by the advice of our
Privy Council, to issue this our It, Procla-
mation, hereby appointing and commanding a
General Thanksgiving to Almighty God for these
Flis mercies, to be observed throughout that part of
our kingdom called Scotland, on Thursday the fifteenth
day of November instant; and we do earnestly exhort
that the said General Thanksgiving be reverently and de-
voutly observed by all our loving subjects in Scotland
as they tender the favour of Almighty God. Our will
is, therefore, and we charge, that this our proclamati,n
seen, ye forthwith proceed to the Market-cross of Edin-
burgh, and all other places needful, and there, in our
name and authority, make publication hereof that none
pretend ignorance : and our will and pleasure is, that
our solicitor do cause printed copies hereof to be
sent to the sheriffs of the several shires, stewarts of
stewartries, and bailiffs of regalities, and their clerks,
whom we ordain to see the same published; and we do
appoint them to send copies thereof to the several
parish churches within their bounds, that, upon the
Lord's Day immediately preceding the day above men•
tioned, the same may be published and read from
the pulpits, immediately after Divine service.
Giznnbaetrouinr
tChoeu3r.etaratofWnoiudrsoLro,rdthiosn
es i xtitih day of o
usan
d No-
eight
hundred and forty-nine, and in the thirteenth year of
our reign.
GoD sate the QUEEN.

At the Court at Windsor, the 6th day of November,
1849, present the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in
Council, it is this day ordered by her Majesty in Coun-
cil that the Parliament, which stands prorogued to
Tuesday, the twenty-second day of November instant,
be further prorogued to Wednesday, the sixteenth day
of January next.
WHITEHALL, OCT. 31.
The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent
to be passed under the Great Seal granting the dignity
of a Baronet of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland unto the Right lionourable Sir James
Duke, Knight, Lord Mayor of the City of London, and
the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten.
WAR-OFFICE, Nov. 6.
BREVET.--Captain Richard Johns, of the Royal Ma-
rines, to be Major in the Army, Oct. 19.
OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, Nov. 1.
Royal Regiment of Artillery—Major- Gen. James Arm-
strong to be Col.-Commandant, vice Major-Gen. Munro,
el( ceased; Second Captain the llon. George Talbot Deve-
reux to be Adjutant, vice Buchanan, promoted, Oct. 17;
Second Captain Roquier John Cannon to be Adjutant,
vice Mundy, who resigns the Adjutantcy only, Aug. 25;
Second Captain Arthur George Burrows to be Adjutant,
vice Gilbert, promoted, Sept. 18, 1848.
Commission by the Lora-Lieutenant of Southampton.
North Rants Militia—Richard Henry Fitzroy Sower
set, Gent., to be Lieutenant, Oct. 31.
BANKRUPTS.

Hugh Biers, builder, E igeware-road, to surrender
Nov. 20, at halt-past two, and Dec. 20, at twelve, at the
Court, Basinghall street. Cannan, official assignee,
Birchin-lane; Blake, King's-road, Bedford-row.
Luke Davy and Job Davy, builders, New North-road'
Nov. 16, at three, and Dec. 20, at. eleven, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee;
Minter, Bell-yard, Doctors'-common3.
William Harding, corn-dealer, Crawford-street, Mary-
lebone, Nov. 13, at half past eleven, and Dec. 24, at
twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official
assignee, Coleman street ; Long, Clarendon-square,
Euston square.
Wolf liyams, hardwareman, Portsea, Nov. 13 and
Dec. 24, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Turquand, official assignee, Guildhall-chambers; Jones,
Quality-court, Chancery-lane.
Charles Davis, importer of leeches, Frederick-place,
Newington, Surrey, Nov. 12, and Dec. 24, at half-past
twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Turquand, official
assignee, Coleman•street; Young, Parliament-street.
William llardyman Colyer and Francis Webster,
brewers, Milbank, Nov. 17, at half-past eleven, and Dec.
20, eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. johnso,