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SUPPOSED MURDER OP A CHlLD.—Yesterday
(Sunday) morning, shortly before eight o'clock, the
parties connected with the Royal Ophthalmic Hospital,
on going into the area of that institution, discovered
lying on the stone flags what they at first believed to be
an old umbrella, but upon making a closer inspection
they found that it was a parcel containing a heavy sub-
stance. The package was found to contain the dead
body of a remarkably fine child, and from the appear-
ances upon it there is little doubt entertained that the
child had been murdered. The police were immediately
acquainted with the discovery, and the body was forth-
with removed to St. Martin's Workhouse to await an
inquest.
The Dula and Duchess de Bordeaux and the
Duchess d'Angouleme have arrived of FrohsdorfL

SUCCESSFUL CULTIVATION,
FORTY-DAY MAME IN HAMPSHIRAI
Three weeks ago we called attention to the
mising progress Gf the experimental crop •Tif
Keene's hybrid in this county; and concurrently
our observations we were pleased to observe in
the London daily journals the fact stated that thi
patches permitted to be sown in a metropolitan park
by the Commissioners of the Woods and Forests, under
great disadvantages, had grown to perfection. The
same success, we understand, has attended the crops
on the estate of Lord Lyndhurst, in Buckingham-
shire, and on some sandy ground near the banks c,f
the Thames, in Middlesex. The seed hereabouts was
put into the ground a fortnight later ; yet, even with
this drawback, success is certain; the cobs have put out
with astonishing vigour—their size is enormous—and
they are approaching to maturity in a manner to meet
the most sanguine wishes of the cultivators. Tl.e
produce in one field we have examined at Bitterne, in
a north easterly direction from Southampton, will be
prodigiously large. Men, we perceive, are now
replo)ed in cutting cff the fl )wer tops, and tying
them up in bundles to dry as winter fodder fur
cattle, having the cobs and stout bottom stalks to
complete their ripening process. Eventually, and at no
distant day, the lusty cobs of grain, some of them nine
or ten inches long, and as thick as a stout man's wrist
in circumference—will be gathered, leaving this
large stumps to he dried for w inter fuel. All this is
well ; a new and generous article of food will be
opened to the cultivators throughout this wide and
warm district of the kingdom ; the poor will have
an additional aid at command; the disinterested
and philanthropic desires of Mr. Keene will be met;
and the statements of cavillers, at no time free from
suspicion, will be falsified to their utter shame and
confusion. To the past statements of those who were
determined to prejudge the merits of the experiment
we have paid little or no attention ; Providence has
put them beyond the pale of argument, and that is
satisfactory to us, who were only desirous of a clear
field and no favour in (to us) a disinterested battle
on the part of the poor and needy against their inve-
terate and not overscrupulous opponents. Mr. Keene
was not unknown to us when he left his charming
retreat in the south of France to try his agri-
cultural experiments on this side of the Channel—
we had known him from boyhood; and his character
was a guarantee that he was no selfish speculator or
visionist. We took him at his word; and we had au
abiding faith that he was not attempting to palm a
falsehood upon the British public. When he told us,
in his straightforward pamphlet, that he had a new
sort of maize, which, in unsuccessful potato seasons,
would come in to fill up the wide gap, and in a great
degree disarm famine, we believed him. At any rate,
as far as our influence was of value, we were deter-
mined that he should have a fair trial in the county of
Hants. There has been some up-hill work : the
strong jungle of prejudice has had to be trodden with
a heel of iron ; and to good purpose. We are not
now to be told by the ignorant or unreflcting that the
forty-day maize is "Cobbett's corn," or "agricultural
maize," or "Indian corn," or anything else but
" Keene's forty-day maize." There is no likelihood
in the sorts—comparison is at a discount. A blind
man with a single hand could tell the difference.
Parties who are dubious are invited to come and see;
there is nothing like shirking in the matter; all is
fair and above-board. At a nursery man's door, the
other day, we saw a bundle of very tall and very
green stuff, with incipient cobs, labelled " Agricul-
tural maize, 82 tons to the acre." That is not forty-
day maize—" No more alike than Ito Hercules;
Hyperion to a satyr." As we have already said, Mr.
Keene's hybrid stands apart from anything else we
have ever seen, is different in many respects, and
above all, is what it was at first represented to be,
having truth in all particulars for its voucher. It
differs from Cobbett's corn as widely as did the
talented and strong-minded author of the Political
Register from the majority of the liberally illiberal
politicians of the present day. The fact is, Indian
corn has never succeeded in this country, because the
wrong sorts have been sown—those sorts which re-
quire six months of the hottest climate of the world
to ripen them. In conclusion, we will let Mr. Keene
repeat here from his pamphlet :
" For some years I have inhabited a temperate
mountainous district of the Pyrenees, where the cli-
mate is very much like that of the southern counties
of England. I have there, in my agricultural prac-
tice, brought to perfection three new sorts of maize,
which I call forty- day maize, because the flower stalks
begin to shoot out in forty days from the time of
sowing and in 140 days from the time of sowing in
this temperate climate it is ripe. It ripens, in fact, as
soon, and even sooner, than the common dwarf kid-
ney or French bean sown with it; and none of you
doubt that the kidney bean will bear its ripe seed in
England, since you all grow it; and though you eat
it green, you raise it every year from the seed you
grow.

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" Maize bread may be eaten in a variety of ways
—hot, with tea or coffee for breakfast, warmed or
toasted, with butter or meat, sugared or salted, or
under baked meat es a substitute for Yorkshire
pudding; or under a slice of bacon, or fried with
bacon, or as porridge in milk. In short, it may he
eaten in a much greater variety of modes of cooking
than bread.

" Children get quickly fond of it, and prefer it to
bread. It keeps the blood fresh, and dces not, like
wheaten bread, produce costiveness, FO injurious to
tender frames. No children are so healthy as those
nourished on it, and we know mountain villages of
ruddy-faced hardy youngsters whose principal diet
is maize bread.

'lf the author's memory serves him aright, it
was Mr. Chadwick, in his examination before the
Poor-law Committee of the House of Commons, who
said Ile had often considered that it was desirable
that the inmates of the workhouses should have some
one kind of food permitted to them without stint or
limit: This is equally called for by every humane
person, but wheaten bread is too costly, and potatoes
are not of the kind of food desirable for such a pur-
pose. The writer ventures to suggest maize bread as
exactly suited for an unlimited, economical, and nou-
' rishing diet, not only for charitable establishments,
but in every establishment where order and economy
are practised. It would, however, be a mistake to
suppose that it is recommended for family use to re-
place bread. It is meant, that like vegetables, it
should be i❑ the house with it. Let there be always
a loaf to cut without stint or limit for all who choose
it. In short, encourage the taste for it, and have it
always at hand, that a slice may be put under a
roasting joint, or fried and sugared to make up a dish
for the children at dinner; or a slice toasted with
cheese, or an egg poached upon it for supper—or
under a boiled fresh or salt herring. The result in
the month's accounts will be very evident, and every
one in the family better and happier for it. Another
advantage is, that the maize-loaf may be kept hot all
day in the oven of the kitchen range, merely leaving
the door open to moderate the heat. A sustained
gentle heat does not injure but improves it, and the
whole batch is often left in the oven to cool with it,
taking out only a loaf at a time as wanted.
" No other preparation of maize is so suitable—no
preparation of maize so wholesome and satisfying as
the baked bread of pure maize flour others are
comparatively unsatisfying, and frequently unwhole-
some, if the flour is not of the soundest kind—in
which case its manipulation, fermentation, conversion
into dough, and passage through the oven, corrects
its main defects."

By the way, we have pleasure in announcing that
Mr. Keene has, on special invitation, consented to
come down from London to deliver the opening
lecture of the season at the Botley and South lints
Farmers' Club.—Hampshire Advertiser.

THREEPENNY OMNIBUSES AND THE EMPTY HOUSES
KENSINGTON.—For a considerable time past much
annoyance has been experienced by the inhabitants of
Kensington from the want of cheap omnibuses to convey
them to and from town, the Hammersmith Conveyance
Company, and the Richmond. Conveyance Company, who
have for years monopolised the Great Western road,
still keeping up the tare to and from Kensington at
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buses to run from the railway bridge at the western
extremity
of Kensington to Hungerford-market, when it
was found that a reasonable profit might be expc eted to
accrue therefrom. Two public meetings were in conse-
quence held, one at the Gloucester Arms Tavern, Ken-
sington New-town, and the second meeting in the large
assembly room of the King's Arms Tavern, in the High-
street, at which a committee, consisting of house owLera
and some of the leading inhabitants, was appointed to
carry out the desirable object in view.
NORTH SUNDERLAND..—ArPgARANCE Or HER-
RINGS.—On Monday, the 24th instant, a great quantity
of herrings was seen at the Longstone Lighthouse,
Fern Island, by Mr. Darling, light-keeper. So nume-
rous were they that Mr. Darling caught several from the
rock with a keep-net, and might have caught several
trans if he had had salt and barrels. One of our boats
is going off to-night (Tuesday) with nets to try them
at the flood. No merchant has yet made any offer to
our fishermen for their white fish this seeson.—Berwick
Warder.

LORD DENMAN.—A few days since this Noble and
Learned Lord was taking an airing in Eyam Dale, in a
ma 11 hand carriage, which through an accident cap-
sized, and his Lordship sustained some slight injury by
a contusion of the head, which bled profusely. It is
consolatory, however, to state that his Lordship is iin-
proyiug in general health.—Derbyshire G'ourier.

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ELECTION OF LORD MAYOR.
(Continued from onr Afternoon Edition of Saturday.)
In a short time the Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, Alder- \
men, and officers returned into the hall,
The RECORDER having declared that the choice of
the Court of Aldermen had fallen upon Mr. Alderman
Farncombe, an announcement which was received
with loud cheers ; and
Mr. Alderman FARNCOMBIE, having been called upon
to accept the office, advanced to the front of the
platform,. and was received with loud cheers. Lie
said—Geeftlemen of the Livery, I have to thank you,
sad that very sincerely, for the great honour you
have conferred upon me by electing me to the office
of Lord Mayor; and be assured of this, that it will
be my most earnest endeavour so to conduct myself
as to do my duty faithfully and zealously, and I trust
to the satisfaction of the citizens of London.—
(Cheers.) I feel the great responsibility of the office
which I now take upon myself; but I beg again to
say that I shall conduct myself eo as to do everything
connected with it satisfactorily.—(Cheers.) I thank
you very sincerely, gentlemen, for the choice you
have made.—(Loud cheers.)
The ceremony of investing the Lord Mayor elect
with a new massive gold chain was then performed
by the mace-bearer, and on presenting himself with
it en he was received with loud cheering.
Mr. Dinnori then came forward and said, the pleas-
ing duty devolved upon him of moving, on the part of
the citizens of London, a vote of thanks expressing
their admiration of the conduct of Sir James Duke,
the present Lord Mayor, while in office.—(Cheers.)
His term of office had not yet expired, but that was
the only occasion on which the citizens of London
could meet for the purpose of expressing their sense
of his conduct. He was unused to the language of
adulation, and he should not then attempt to give ex-
pression to it ; but he thought it was for
their benefit and advantage, and not for
the advantage of an individual merely, that public
men when they well discharged their duties, should
have their conduct praised and acknowledged by those
who had the benefit of their ministrations.—(Cheers.)
Ile thought it well that their right conduct should be
acknowledged—well for the electors, well for their
friends, their families and connexions ; but he thought
it more important still that their successors in office
should know that if they did right and faithfully per-
formed their duties, they (the Liverymen) were as
' ready to acknowledge the excellence of their conduct
as they would be to censure it if it deserved censure.
—(Cheers.) Well, then, every acknowledgment was
due to Sir James Duke for the way in which he had
performed the duties of chief magistrate.—
(Cheers.) As far as he had observed himself
and collected from others, he had discharged those
duties ably, impartially, and in a way to give satis-
faction to the country, and to support the adminis-
tration of justice.—(Cheers.) His support of the
different charities in the City had been extensive and
munificent, and he (Mr. Dillon) had an opportunity
of seeing on a recent occasion, when an awful die
pensation of Providence appeared among them, that
their chief magistrate was the first who offered
himself for the purpose of arresting, so far as
human means would allow, the progress of the fearful
epidemic. They owed him their thanks for his able,
his independent, and his .prompt conduct on that
occasion.—(Cheers.) They owed him their thanks
also (and he was now coining to a tender point) for
what the citizens would say entitled him to it, viz
his munificent hospitality ; and it was to his praise
perhaps, that he had been impartial ; ha had not se-
lected men merely of his own opinions, or of his own
sect, or of his own party, but had opened his doors to
the distinguished men of all political and all religious
opinions ; and they owed him their thanks not only
for that, but for having on one occasion entertained
in his civic mansion men distinguished in
literature, science, and art, thus showing the
intimate connexion of city hospitality and
the encouragement of everything great and good,
which tended to enlighten and improve mankind.—
(Cheer...) For these reasons he thought the mayor-
alty of Sir James Duke had been a very distinguished
one, and therefore he begged to move the following
resolution :
" Resolved unanimously—That the thanks of this
Common Hall be cordially given to the Right Hon.
Sir James Duke, Lord Mayor, and one of the Re-
presentatives of this City in Parliament, for the up-
right, firm, and judicious discharge of his magis-
terial duties ; for the generous and liberal support he
has given to the numerous public charities and reli-
gious institutions of this great metropolis; for his
prompt and able efforts to alleviate the effects of the
prevailing epidemic; for his munificent and princely
hospitality, not only to his fellow-citizens at large,
but to the distinguished and able men of all parties in
the state, and to all those remarkable in the country
for their eminence in arts, science, and literature ;
while at the same time he has been accessible and
courteous to all,: and this Common Hall further de-
sires to express their hope that the confidence which
has recently been reposed in Sir James Duke by his
unanimous election as one of the Members of Parlia-
ment for this City, will not only be fully justified by
a zealous desire to support the rights and privileges
of his fellow citizens, and to render himself useful to
the various important interests connected with the
trade, commerce, and shipping of this great city, but
that he will consistently and independently use his
best endeavours to promote liberal principles of go-
vernment, and the general welfare of the country at
large."
Mr. Deputy OBBARD briefly seconded the re-
solution.
Mr. Sheriff FINNIS put it to the meeting, and it
was carried by great acclamation.
The Loan Marcia acknowledged the compliment
in the following terms : Gentlemen, I appear before
you with feelings of great gratitude for the very kind
manner in which you have been pleased to appreciate
the humble benefits I have endeavoured to render
you as the Lord Mayor of this city.—(Bear, hear.)
- While I have been sensible of the high honour you
conferred upon me on this day twelve months my
experience has shown to me that it is an office of
great responsibility, great labour, and very great
anxiety ; and if I have under those circumstances
discharged my public duties, and upheld the ancient
dignity and hospitality of this great city in such a
manner as to meet with your approbation, I
shall retire from the office of Lord Mayor with
feelings of extreme satisfaction and gratitude for the
support I have received from all classes of my fellow-
citizens.—(Cheers.) Gentlemen, you have also been
pleased to refer to the proud position which you and
and the electors of London have recently unanimously
conferred upon me ; and though I fear that you will
suffer from the want of one who can eloquently
represent your views in the House of Commons, yet
I trust that sr shall be able to make amends for that
deficiency by directing a constant and zealous atten-
tion to those great interests connected with the city
of London, whether it be its commerce, its trade, or its
chi 'wing. Gentlemen, I can promise you that at all
tim4s you will find me ready to attend to your
wishes, to give effect to your representations, and do
everything in my power to justify the high confidence
you have reposed in me.—(Hear, hear.) And if,
gentlemen, acting a straightforward part, and having
no selfish views or considerations of my own to pro-
mote, and though I cannot expect that those gentle-
men who differ with me upon political principles
will give me their support, yet I do venture to hope
that when the time !arrives for me again to present
myself before you as a candidate for your suf-
frages, that I shall not have suffered in your
estimation—that I shall have shown you that I
have ever been most anxious to deserve and justify
the confidence which you reposed in me when I stood
here as a candidate for the representation of the city
of London in Parliament.—(Cheers.) Gentlemen,
again I can only assure you that the experience I
have had of my high office gives me an additional
desire to show my gratitude to you, because I believe
that no gentleman who has filled the office of Lord
Mayor has been more encouraged than I have
been, and therefore I beg not only to thank you
for the very flattering vote you have this
day conferred on me, but for your courteous
support during the difficult and arduous duties
which your kindness has imposed upon me.— (Hear,
hear.) Gentlemen, again I beg to thank you for
your generosity, and I assure I shall carry wile me,
I feel, to the last hour of my existence, a grateful
tense of the notice, kindness, and favour shown tome
during the past year by the citizens of London.
Mr. A.NDERTON then came forward and proposed
a vote
of thanks to the late Sheriffs Finnic and
Goodhart, whose conduct in the discharge of their
important duties during the past year
eulogised. The office seehe highly
sheriff had never been
better filled, though undertakentheat a very short
notice; they had well seconded
and liberalityad of the
Lord Mayor to their charities,shown the
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utmost hospitality, of which
had
more than himself.—(Laughter.) Helihedietaerteahow
ken
that he was grateful.—(Hear,) He agreed with
Mr. Taylor, that the citizens should possess the full
control of their fund, and have a free and untram-
melled voice in the election of their magistrates.
Mr. Deputy BEDFORD seconded the vote of thanks.
Mr. R. TAYLOR came forward, and in the course of
a few remarks offered by him he said, as the purse
committed to the custody of the Chamberlain be-
longed to the whole of the citizens, that officer
should be elected by the whole of the citizens. He
cordially supported the motion.
The motion was carried unanimously.
Mr. Sheriff FINNIS returned thanks, and said it

was a matter of sincere congratulation to him that he
had not been called upon, in his year of office, to
carry out the extreme sentence of the law
upon any criminal. This was a very satisfac-
tory result in a large metropolis like London ;
but at the same time he wished to state
that be could not, conscientiously vote for the abolition
of capital punishment. His experience at the Central
Criminal Court convinced him that the adniiniatration