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London, England, 1849-08-27 00:00:00

N°. 17,760 d LONDON, MONDAY Eli '4hcY N
AUGUST '27 1849.

SALES BY AUCTION.

TO BE PEREMPTORILY SOLD, pursuant to an Order of the High
Court of Chancery, made in a Cause DAVIES v. DAVIES, wills
the approbation of JonN EDMUND DOWDESIVELL, Esquire, one of

the Masters of the said Court.
INTR. ROBINS will SELL by AUCTION, at
t.7";._ the Rooms ever the Town hall, Ludlow, in the county of
.Salop, on WEDNEsnAT, t,e 29th day of August, 1849, at One for Two
o'clock in the Afternoon, precisely, in 34 Lots,
The valuable FREEHOLD and LFASEHOLD ESTATES, late
the Property of EDMUND LECIIMERE CHARLTON, Esq., -de-
ceased, oonsisting of Arable, Meadow, and Pasture Land, Plan-
tation and Orcharding ; the Charlton Arms Inn ; Water, Corn,'
and Paper ; Farm and other outbuildings, Messuages,
and Tenements, comprising altogether abom 582 ACRES,
situate within the liberties of the borough of LUDLOW,
and in HIP. ssrveral porishes of Ludlow, Richars Castle, Ashford,
Carbone], and Bromfield, and in the townships of Overton and Ste-
vcnton, in the parishes of Ludford and Richards Castle, in the several
counties of Hereford and Salop.
Printed Particulars and Conditions of Sale may be had (gratis) at
the said Master's chambers, Southampton-buildings, Chancery-lane,
London ; of Mr. Tucker, solicitor, 6, Raymond-bui:dings, Gray's
Inn ;• :Messrs. J. H. and- G. Lake, solicitors, 10, New-square, Lin-
coln's Inn ; Mr Gregson, solicitor, 18, Bedford-row ; Mr. J. H. Ben-
bow, solicitor, 1, Stone-buildings, Lincoln's Inn ; Messrs. Parke,
Freeth, and Parke, solicitors, 63, Lincoln's Inn-fields ; and Mr.
Robins, Piazza, Covent-garden, all in London; of Mr. J. Loyd,
solicitor, Ludlow ; cc Mr. William Shepherl, Sun Inn, Ludlow, who
will point cut the property; Angel Ism Ludlow; Royal Oak, Leo-
minster; City Arms, Hereford; Lian, Shrewsbury; and of Messrs.
Hobbs and Sons, auctioneers, Worcester.

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ISLAY TONTINE LIFE ASSOCIATION
Provisionally Registered. _

Capital, 600,0001., in 12,000 Shares, at 501. each.
DIRECTORS.
John Bali:, Esq., of Morriston, Glasgow.
Archibald Murdoch Burrell, Esq., banker, Provost of Port Glasgow
Alexander Campbell, Esq., of Bedlay
Robert C. Cumming, Esq., of Barremman, Dumbartonshire
Henry Dunlop, Esq., of Craigton, Glasgow
Archibald Falconer, Esq., of Glen Park, Port Glasgow
James Ilay„Esq.; merchant. Leith, Director of the Royal Bank of
Scotland
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ditty

Eagle Henderson, Esq., Director of the NatiOda Bank of Scotland
W illiazn Imrie, Esq., Dean of Guild, Perth

John Burn Murdock, Esq., of Gartencaber, E,finburgh
David Murray, Esq., Provost of Paisley.

BANKERS.
The Royal Bank of Scotland and its Branches ; Messrs. Coutts and
- • Co., London.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Turner and Wallace, 37, Virginia-street, Glasgow ;

Messrs. Goodwin, Partridge, WMBrims, and Edwards, Walbro-ol
House, London.
MANAGING Draecron—Archibald Murdoch Burrell, Esq.
SECRETARY—James Murdoch, Esq.

The barony and estate of 1511.'7, comprising the island of Islay
arid small adjacent islands is in the same latitude as Edinburgh and
Glasgow, and is one of the richest and most produetive properties in
the west of Scotland. It ceutains about 140,000 acres, of which
31,030 are arable, the rest being luxuriant pasture.
The present rental of this magnificent property amounts at present
to 20,0001.; but a Government grant of 30,0001. is now being ex-
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and legitimately increased as the leases fall in, and it is evident that
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larger return. The purchase, it is expected, will be effected for
about 509,0001., and it Is proposed to raise a capital for this purpose,
arid contingent expenses, of 600,0001., in 12,000 501. shares, each
shareholder to nominate a life, and the whole body of nominees to
be insured out of the rental, so as to secure the repayment of his
subscription to every shareholder whose nominee lapses. The
remainder of the accumulated rental is to be divided every ten years
amongst the surviving shareholders, the last survivor to inherit the
estate. On the basis of 12,000 policies, in respect of the 12,000
nominees, it is further contemplated to ingraft the general business
of a life assurance company, so as to secure an annual dividend of
profits.

Thus it will be seen that every person taking a share in the Ton-
tine, will, under any circumstances, receive back the amount of his
investment out of the assurance fund, and will also, by way of in-
terest on his shares, receive an annual dividend out of the profits of
the general life assurance department (and the basis and guarautle
indicated cannot fail to make this branch most extensive and tucra-
tive) ; he will, moreover, participate, every ten years nominee
survives, in the accumulated and constantly improving rental; and,
in the eve nt of his nominee being the last survivor, will become
the abso:ute owner, in fee simple, of the entire estate. It is also
to be observed that, as the nominees diminish in number, the
marketable value of the shares will year after year be greatly en-
hanced.

The principles of the proposed Tontine have been maturely con•
sidered by F. G. I'. Nelson, Esq., the eminent actuary of the Me.
dical and Invalid Assurance Company, and received his entire ap•
probation. _ . .

The estate is to be vested in three trustees, resident in Scotland.
The affairs of the Society shall be conducted by a board of seven
directors in Scotland, communicating with a board of correspondence
in London. Two general meetings shall be held in Scotland in the
months of June and December.

The preliminary deposit to be ss. per share (being the maximum
allowed under the Registration Act), and a call of 11. per share shall
be made en cfluplete registration. The remainder to be called up
by such instalments as may be found necessary to meet the payment
of the purchase money.

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whom prospectuses and forms of application for shares may
had:—Messrs. John Robertson and Co., 47, George-street, Edin-
burgh ; William Bell, Esq., 2, North-street, David-street, Edin-
burgh: Messrs. Buchanan Aitkin and Co., 41, St. Vincent-place,
Glasgow; J. C. Foulds, Esq., Canada court, Queen-street, Glasgow;
William Gordon, Esq., Aberdeen ; James Thomas, Es 4., writer,
Perth; A. Abercrombie, Esq., Paisley; Messrs. Joseph King and
Sons, Liverpool ; L. L. Lamming, Esq . Manchester ; Messrs. Flint
and Tootal, ; Messrs. Beardshaw and Co., Leeds ; W. B.
Greenfield, Esq., 38, Throgmorton-street, London ; of Archibald
Murdoch Burrell, Esq., Royal Bank, Port Glasgow; and William
Bridges, Esq., at the temporary offices of the Association, 38, Throg-
morton-street, London.

THE BERMONDSEY MURDER.

At a late hour last night no intelligence had been re-
ceived by the police authorities at Scotland-yard of the
appre4nsiou of Manning. Yet his will be one of the
most remarkable cases upon record if, for a much longer
time, he escapes the pursuit of justice. The extraordi-
nary atrocity of the murthr with which ho is charged
has raised throughout the country the deepest anxiety
for his arrest, and wherever a suspicious looking man is
seen at all answering to the description given by the
Hue and Cry, he is immediately you❑ced upon. At least
half-a-dozen mistakes of this kind have already been
made. The governor of Bath Gaol fancied he saw Man-
ning pass Basingstoke in a third class up-train to Lon-
don: The fact was telegraphed to London, and informa-
tion forwarded to the Commissioners of Police, who sent
Inspector Haynes to the Waterloo station immediately
with two or three officers, to whom Minning's person
was known, Mr. Stovin, the manager of the railway,
placed a. special engine at the disposal of the officers
and accouipanied them to Wimbledon, where the up-
train was stopped and examined. The suspected party,
who had been not a little alarmed at the observation his
presence excited at all the stations where the train
stopped, was at once ascertained not to be Manning,
and the officers returned to town. Ia the evening
another individual was taken into custody at a beer-
shop in the Caledonian-road, Islington, on suspicion of
being the supposed murderer, but this also proved to be
a mistake. On Friday afternoon a man somewhat ans-
wering the description of Manning was observed enter-
ing a wood in the neighbourhood of Carshslton. One or
two persons instantly gave chase, and were speedily
joined by others equally anxious to share in the capture.
The individual, ascertaining from the cries of the crowd
the nature of their suspicion against him, led his pur-
suers a run of two or three miles, and then turned round
and laughed at them. _ _

At BagniggeWells-road Station a mistake of the same
sort was al made. A men was seen to jump from the
wrong side of a- Grbenwiclatrain yesterday afternoon,
and immediately suspicion was aroused, and steps were
taken to ascertain whether it was the accused. Even in
Dublin the police authorities were thrown into a state of
great exeitewent by receiving a positivo assurance that
Manning had made his way there. Jersey and Guern-
sey have been visited by an inspector of the detective
force, but as yet no intelligence has been received of the
result of his search there. Manning, it is known, went
there on a fot rner occasion, when it was prudent to be
out of the way; and there certainly is some reason to
believe, from information received, that he has now re-
peated the experiment. If this be so he has had a long
start of his pursuers, and has had plenty of time to dis-
tance them by flight to the Continent. Yet it is positively
ascertained that he had only 12/. in his possession when
the search for him commenced, and that rum would not
go far in travelling expenses. Some believe that he is
still in London ; and, at a late hour last night, informa-
tion was brought to the police station at Stone-end, that
as late as Thursday last he was seen in the shop of a
barber named Burrell, in Litchfield-street, Oxford-street.
The truth is, however, that up to the present time nothing
positive is known as to the whereabouts of the suspected
murderer, and that notwithstanding the unceasing efforts
to arrest him made by the police and by all who know his
person, be still re mains at large.
Mrs. Manning remains in custody at Horsemonger-
lane Gaol, where she has not yet been visited by any
person. She is constantly watched by female turnkeys,
to whom she occasionally addresses observations, but
none of her remarks apply to the crime with which she
stands charged. The loss of the money taken from her,
and the scantiness of the wardrobe at her command, ap
pear to annoy her very much. Among the letters found
in Mrs. Manning's luggage is one in the handwriting of
Mr. O'Connor, the contents of which are
curious It covers three sides of a large sheets
o' letter paper, and seems to have been
wri.ten about that period of their connexion
when O'Connor discovered to his surprise that Mrs.
Manning was married. It is dated " Custom-house, St.
Katharine's-docks," and commences "My dearest
Maria." After reproaching the accused with her faith-
lessness to him, the writer proceeds in a lachrymose
strain to bewail his fate in having lost " an angel who
might have been his guiding star through life." In one
part of the letter his own deceptive character creeps out
in a remark to the effect that if he were a rich man and
could afford to pay for the journey he would hasten to
Erskine-house (Lord Blautyre's seat in Scotland), where
Mrs. Manning was then staying, and upbraid her per-
sonally with her cruelty to him. The signature to this
letter, which was written in the corner of the third page,
has been neatly cut out, but of the identity of the hand-
writing there is not the slightest doubt. The letter is
directed to "Mrs. Manning, care of Lady Blantyre,
Erskine- house, N, B."
Singularly enough there were found in one of the
boxes of Mrs. Manning, conveying away the property of
the murdered man, the Psalms of David, in French, a
collection of sacred poems, and a work entitled "Family
Devotion for Every Day in the Year." This little inci-
dent is nearly on a par with Rush's family worship.
Among other matters found in the prisoner's boxes were
letters of recommendation for situations in or near Lon-
don, given by two distinguished personages, in which
she ie described as being kind, affectionate, and piously

Further details have come to light as to the previous
history of Manning and O'Connor. The father of the
former, was it seems, a sergeant of the Somerset militia,
and resided at Taunton, where he for many years leased
the tolls of the market and of some of the turnpikes in the
neighbourhood. At the old man's death neariy 4001. of his
property fell to the share of Frederick George Manning,
who was the favourite out of a large family of sons and
daughters. Up to the period of his marriage with Maria
de Roux Manning appears to have been well conducted
or at least to have passed as such. At the White Hart,
Taunton, his wife seems to have been Manning's evil
genius. Mutual jealousies led to constant quarrels,
which often ended in blows, and on one occasion the wife
was seen in pursuit of her husband with a large dirk
knife, with which she threatened to stab him. Things
of course went wrong at the White Hart under such
management, and one night last year Mrs. Manning left
by mail train, having, as her husband stated next day,
robbed him of money, plate, and other valuables to the
extent of 3001. or 400/. Under such circumstances
Manning fought hard to compromise with his creditors,
hut they succeeded in recovering 19s. in the pound of
their claims. He is described in the neighbourhood to
which he belongs as neither clever, nor well educated,
but filled with the most inordinate desire to rise into
stations of life for which he had not the slightest qualifica-
tion. It is said that his great inducement to marry
Maria de Roux was that he expected thereby to obtain a
situation in a Government department. Au application
for a landing waiter's berth was, it is believed, actually
made on his behalf, and was not acceded to, from his
obvious want of education.
The following incidents in the life of O'Connor are
curious, and tend to throw further light upon his cha-
racter. Oa arriving in London, from Ireland, in
February, 1832, ho presented a letter of introduction
from his brother, now parish priest of Templemore,
near Thurles, county of Tipperary, to a gentleman of
influence, living at the time in the Temple. In about
six weeks after his first introduction he called on this
gentleman, and, much to his surprise, produced a 501.
note, which he requested him to take care of for him.
The gentleman agreed to do so; and, knowing O'Con-
nor's poverty, eagerly inquired how he became possessed
of it. The latter said, his mother had sent him 151.,
with which he had purchased contraband tobacco and
cigars, and, trading surreptitiously in them, had amassed
the amount of the 50/. note. The gentleman at the time
believed the story to be true, and as O'Connor was then
endeavouring to obtain a situation in the Excise, he told
him ironically that his practical knowledge of smuggling
would, no doubt, if known to the Excise Commissioners,
prove a great recommendation in his favour. Beforo
the close of the year 1832 Patrick O'Connor had placed
in the gentleman's hands no less altogether than 1841,1
100/. of which the gentleman invested in the funds
at O'Connor's request. This rapid accumulation
of money excited the gentleman's surprise, and
almost his suspicions that everything was not right. In
the winter 1822.3 O'Connor obtained, through the in-
fivence of the late Bishop of Llandaff, the situation of
tide-waiter in the port of London. In the meantime he
had been, bit by bit, withdrawing from the gentleman's
hands the 84/. not invested, and got back the last of it to
buy a bed, which he said he was obliged to take about
with him from:one ship to another in the Thames, in the
discharge of his new duties. He had hardly been in-
stalled in his situation of tide-waiter, when he sent an
attorney's letter to the gentleman, demanding payment
of the whole sum of 1844 The gentleman had no ac-
knowledgement from O'Connor that he had received
back 84/, of it; and probably legal proceedings would
have been instituted had not the gentleman, through his
-solicitor' who was a friend of the solicitor of O'Connor,
proved the latter's dishonesty by means of the gentle-
man's laundress, to whom O'Connor, on discovering that
she was a widow, with a pension of 261. a year, and
earning in the Temple, as laundress to several legaigen-
tlemen, nearly 100/. a year besides, made a proposal of
marriage, and showed her one evening 501., which he
said he had just received from her muster, being a por-
tion of money lent to him. O'Connor's solicitor on
hearing this refused to have anything more to do
with him, and the gentleman sold out stock to the
amount of 100/., and through his solicitor returned
O'Connor his money. After this transaction the gen-
Osman made inquiries as to O'Connor's method of
raising money, and found that he had got introduced to
the late Bishop of Landaff, Mr. Darby, M.P., and other
proselvting Protestants, and that ho knew of the
Bexley fund appropriated to the conversion of Roman
Catholics. To these gentlemen O'Connor represented
himself as one persecuted for his religious doubts by his
brother, the Rev. Dr. O'Connor, and other Catholic
clergymen, and he also alleged, there not being the
slightest ground for the truth of the allegation, that his
brother had wronged him respecting money bequeathed
to the family by the Misses Tobin, who had been nuns
in the ancient Ursuline convent of Thurles. By these
representations O'Connor insinuated himself into the
good graces of the Bishop of Landaff, Mr. Darby, Mr.
Broderick, the grandson of the then Archbishop of
Cashel, the late Lady Osborne, mother of Mr. Bernal
Osborne, M.P. for Middlesex, and others, and obtained
from them not only large sums of money, but the situa-
tion that afterwards led to his connexion with the Cus-
toms as their gauger in the London Doeke. Promotion

to the latter situation was owing to the influence of Mr.
Sheil, M.P., when one of the commissioners of Green-
wich Hospital, and who- was indebted for his election to
represent Tipperary chiefly to the exertions of Dr.
O'Connor, Father Laffan, Mr. Phil Fogarty, and other
friends of O'Connor.

These facts, combined with others already disclosed,
would certainly seem to indicate that the force of a sen-
sual passion was not the only bond of intimacy betwc en
the murdered man and his supposed murderers. As the
investigation, however, proceeds, the mystery which at
present hangs over this and other parts of the case will
no doubt be removed.

DEFEAT OF THE HUNGARIANS.
(From the Examiner.)
We have on former occasions pointed out the advan-
tages that would have accrued to Europe, and to England
in particular, from the victory of the Hungarians, and
the maintenance of Hungarian independence. A market
would have bean opened that would go far to compensate
for any diminution of trade i❑ other parts of Europe. A
firm barrier against Muscovite aggression would have
been established. And a rational constitutional Govern-
ment would have existed in the east of Europe, as a
model for neighbouring nations.
But we must now contemplate the reverse of the
picture. Hungary, it is to be feared, must succumb in
the struggle. Could she, as a practically independent
state, have had but a few years to develop her enormous
material resources, we should have entertained no fears
for the result. We should have had full confidence
in her being able to cope, single-handed, with
any forces that might have been brought against her by
the confederated despots of Europe. But as it is, she has
been taken by surprise, and forced into a contest for
which she was not prepared. At its commencement she
was without an army, without generals, and without
arms; and, worse than all, her seaports were in the
hands of her enemies. What Hungary has accomplished
under these disaivantages, what a determined and ener-
getic resistance she has opposed to the united forces of
two empires, affords ample evidence of the internal re•
sources, moral and material, which she possesset,; and
shows how firm a barrier she would have constituted
against northern aggression, and how apt a guardia❑
she would have been of western civilization. But the
odds against her were such as history has not yet
recorded. The Muscovite Czar hoped to crush, at one
blow, the Hungarian nation and all principles of freedom
on the Continent; and for this great end, like a desperate
gamester, he has played his last stake. Already were
his last reserves—the barbarous and uncouth tribes of
the Asiatic steppes, armed not with the musket, but with
the bow and arrow, Kirgises, Bascbkirs, and Calmucke
—on their march towards the devoted country. " A
fire devoureth before them, and behind them a flame
burneth ; the land is as the Garden of Eden before them,
and behind them a desolate wilderness." Must we add,
" Yea, and nothing shall escape them."
Meanwhile civilized Europe determined to maintain
the attitude of an " impartial spectator," and to look
calmly on while the Hungarians were fighting no less
for the liberties of Europe than for their own. But let
the Hungarians now be completely crushed, let the great
principle of rational self-government once be thoroughly
put down, and the system of military despotism predomi-
nant over the greater portion of the Continent, and lately
reinforced by the government of Louis Napoleon,
will take root and flourish with more luxuriant
growth than ever. This is, and always has
been, the very essence of Russian rule. The
bureaucratic system of Austria, Prussia, and France, has
shown itself as lamentably insufficient to provide for the
wants, as to prevent the disturbances, of the respective
populations. In Austria, some years ago, no less than
140.000 officials were employed to govern a population of
21,000,000. In other words, about one man out of every
150 individuals wa,s a permanent placeman, besides extra
hands employed on special occasions; and the number
was daily increasing. I❑ France, Louis Philippe sap-
posed he should always be able to buy over his political
adversaries by the creation of fresh places of honour and
emolument. Even in Prussia, where the system shows
itself under the most favourable aspect, and where the
officials are at least men of education and intelligence,
it was a universal complaint that all individual
energy bad been annihilated, and the welfare of the
country sacrificed to routine and paper formulas. But
the inefficiency of the system has become thoroughly evi-
dent, from the events of the last and the present year;
and the real means of governing which the great Conti-
nental Powers at present depend upon, are bayonets and
cannon, and the command, by means of a forced con-
scription, over the population who are to be trained to
use those bayonets and cannon against their fellow-
citizens.

Such is the system now predominant. It stands out
in all its naked deformity. It is no less the instrument
of a President of a Republic than of an Autocrat of all
the Russias. We in this fortunate country find some
difficulty in realising to ourselves the exact state of
things that is understood by a state of siege. Accus-
tomed as we are to the equable rule of law, we can hardly
picture to ourselves the arbitrariness and brutality of
martial sway. We perfectly agree with the limes, in an
article of Monday last, that " the control of armed
power and military authority is a bad substitute for
established laws and civil justice;" but we cannot
admit that " in many parts of Europe the armies alone
have saved society, and saved whatever remains of free-
dom." The evils of seditious turbulence are at the worst
but transitory; those of military despotism are perma-
nent and enduring. They aro destructive not merely of
freedom for the moment, but of all hopes of freedom
hereafter. But, in point of fact, on which side has
terrorism been found? What excesses have anywhere
been committed by the people, at all comparable to
the atrocities of Haynau, or even to the Prussian exe-
cutions by court martial ? On this subject we have
valuable testimony in the accounts that have from time
to time appeared in moderate German papers; and,
above all, in that Diary of Auerbach concerning the
events of last October at Vienna, of which a translation
was recently published enabling the English reader to form
a correct opinion concerning the present condition and
future prospects of Central Europe. Auerbach is not at
all disposed to believe that armies " have alone saved
society, and saved whatever remains of freedom."
His reflections on the closing of the Diet after the
capture of Vienna by Prince Windischgratz are of a
different character.

" The Diet closed by the troops t all the boasted
liberty of the people is illusory and an empty cheat, so
long as the soldiery are held in constant readiness to cut
short the debates with violence at any moment. In all
the movements, in Germany, therefore, the chief object
of attack is the military power. We have been, and
are still, kept in thraldom, by this power. Notwith •
standing all the professions of attachment and good
faith, of the common interests of the people and the
princes, the power of the princes is still supported by
bayonets, and the popular spirit is everywhere subjected
and kept under by force of arms The
State has abandoned its proper centre of gravity in the
Diet, and transferred it to the army. The struggle will
now begin anew."

Pending that sure recommencement of the struggle,
we shall have an opportunity of observing how far the
new theory of foreign policy adopted by a large section
of the mercantile classes is this country, and their
oracles the Times and Lord Aberdeen, is a sound one;
whether, as they assert, England ought to hold herself
aloof, whatever infractions of international law may be
committed by other states, and not even to raise her
voice in remonstrance, lest she should incur the hostility
of some powerful sovereign. We shall learn by experi-
ence (may the lesson not be taught too late!) whether
the traditionary policy of England, which watched with
a keen eye and upheld with a firm hand the balance of
power in Europe—the policy of Cromwell, of William
the Third, and of Chatham—is, as we are informed by
these modern luminaries, an unnecessary interference in
affairs which do not concern us, and
.an excess of pre-
caution against imaginary dangers from which our in-
sular position already sufficiently protects us. For our
own part, we may perhaps, until this new-fangled
doctrine shall have been confirmed by experience,
be permitted to entertain some doubts respecting it.
We may question whether, even on a mere calculation
of profit and loss, the ,balance would not have been in
favour of a system which should have encouraged the
establishment of constitutional governments and opposed
the extension of restrictive tariffs, the usual concomi-
tants of despotic rule; which should have maintained
the dignity of England, even at the risk of a depression
of some eighths per cent. in the funds; and by which she
would have discharged the duty in our judgment im-
posed by Providence on those to whom power is en-
trusted, the duty of watching over, advocating, and en-
forcing the rights of the weak. It may bo that the
conquest of Hungary, and the establishment of Russian
predominance in the east of Europe, will not be followed
immediately by the closing of the Bosphorus to British
commerce ; it may be that Ilamburgh will not share the
fate of Cracow ; and that an European war will not be
produced by an attempt upon the part of Austria, sup-
ported by Russian bayonets, to re-establish her supre-
macy in Germany. But we must not forget that a
nation is permitted, as little as an individual, to violate
duties with impunity ; and that for the one, as for the
other, a day of retribution, it may be late or it may be
early, will surely arrive,

A PLEA SURE VAN ON FIRE.—On Friday afternoon,
a large pleasure van, returning with a party from Hamp-
ton Court, in passing through Hammersmith was disco-
vered to be on fire, it is supposed from one of the smokers
having dropped a light amongst the straw strewn at the
bottom of the vehicle. Some of the female occupants
were severely burnt, their dresses igniting before they
could make their escape. From the rapidity with which
the flume travelled, and the difficulty of procuring water,
the van, with the exception of the wheels and axles, was
entirely consumed, and the party, some of whom seemed
to suffer severely from the burns they had sustained, had
to seek another conveyance.
IMPORTANT TO MONEY ORDER HOLDERS.—After
Friday next, the Act, 11th and 12th Vict., c. 74, comes
into operation for the regulation of the money order
department of the Post-offi;:e. By its pr,visions, all
money orders not presented for payment within twelve
months after being granted, become null and void; for
example, a money order granted on the 31st of August,
a
1841, if not presented for payment
will
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HERDOMADA MIRABILIS.

Never is one's risibility so much excited as when
there is a great dearth of news, and our brethren of
the press metamorphose their pens into forceps, and
devote themselves to the obstetric mysteries of usher-
ing into the world what they variously christen
" Freaks of Nature," " Lusus -Naturee," :‘ Monstro-
sities," " Wonderful Phenomena," "Strange Fish,"
"Prodigious Cabbages," and so on ad infinitum.
Last week's papers were more than ordinarily proli-
fic of these now ordinary conceptions. The Scotch
vied with the English, and the Irish could not excuse
themselves from taking part in the struggle. We
had noticed innumerable circumstantial records of
prodigies in air, earth, and sea, in some score papers
before the thought struck us of presenting our
readers with an assortment. We afterwards, how-
ever, clipped out in the others over which we were
looking quite sufficient to answer our purpose. Be-
ginning with our own county, then, we find in the
papers published in a town within sixty miles to the
west of Hull, a precise description of a singular pig,
which (be it observed !) was one of a litter of ten
from a sow (as if it could be one of a litter from a
boar)—" It had only one eye, which was placed in
the centre of its head ; the nostril was long and some-
what like an elephant's trunk in miniature ; and
through this trunk it breathed whilst it lived, about
ten minutes ; below this was a second malformation,
in the shape of a proboscis of a rhinoceros; the un-
der jaw was like that of the monkey ; and to con-
clude, one ear was about twice the length of the
other. In fact it was one of the most curious ani-
mals we have ever seen." The conclusion who will
dispute ? The little pig is to ornament a museum.
A Bedford paper has more pluck, however, than to
be outdone by any paragraph of the kind, no matter
how marvellous, and therefore announces that " Last
week, a mare, the property of a gentleman of Isfield,
threw a foal, displaying the singular phenomenon of
having no fore legs. By direction of the owner of
the mare this extraordinary progeny was killed."
Murder of a progeny ! High treason beyond a
doubt! It is net fitting that all oddities should be
porcine and equine, dead or killed, and therefore a
South of England journal announces that "there is
now living within half-a mile of Bromsgrove, Wor-
cestershire, four children born at one birth, all girls.
The woman, at her previous confinement, bore her
husband three children, the whole of whom are also
alive, making seven children within two years. As
this very tardy increase of the population of her
Majesty's dominions renders it doubtful whether the
country will not be depopulated, a fashionable London
paper lets out the secret that in the month of Octo-
ber next (we might as well, perhaps, add on Hull
Fair day), the marriage of a certain Earl with a cue
tain titled lady is to take place. A Glasgow paper,
not content with these particulars of belluine and
human existences, is ambitious to narrate what may
live in a living woman. One of the sex feminine "in
Ardrossan parish, having taken, in the dark, a
draught of cold water, her stomach became deranged,
and two months afterwards she vomited an eel, three
inches long, which continued alive for two days, and
which has been preserved in a bottle as a curiosity."
If one beast can live in one part of the body, surely
another may in another, and therefore we learn that
" a little girl, aged four years, daughter of Mr. H.
Taylor, of Clitheroe, on the 29th of May, accident-
ally got a snail-shell fast in one of her nostrils. It
defied all attempts at extraction until Wednesday
week, when the child was seized with a violent fit of
sneezing, during which the shell fell to the ground."
Supplementary to this may be cited the substance of
one of the paragraphs which we did not extract. "A
mouse was about to make a prey of a muscle, when
the muscle closed, and the mouse hobbled away with
the muscle fast to one of its legs." Space would fail
us to tell of apples weighing four pounds nine ounces
avoirdupois, hollyocks measuring three and a half
yards round, and sturgeons four feet in girth and
eight feet long. Of these, and many such marvels,
we, however, have before us " full, true, and particu-
lar accounts." One story, that of the Ross-shire
Advertiser, must have special mention. The sky at
Balvullich, on the estate of Ord, gave birth, "imme-
diately after one of the loudest peals of thunder ever
heard, to a large and irregularly shaped mass of ice,
reckoned to be nearlf twenty feet in circumference,
and of a proportionate thickness." They must put it
"in a bottle as a curiosity," and exhibit it, side by
side, with the eel of Ardrossan. It seems that " our
own correspondents" of the daily papers, in one or
two foreign countries, have been nearly as hard up
for news. We commenced reading of a ministerial
crisis at Madrid, and were, at the conclusion, taken
aback by the startling announcement that " Narvaez
still suffers from Tic Dolbreux." Fearing to become
a fellow-sufferer from sympathy, we desist.—Hull
Advertiser.

REFUSAL OF A CLERGYMAN TO BURY THE BODY
of A BURGLAR.—It will be recollected that a few days
since a young man was killed by jumping from the roof
of a house while attempting to commit a burglary in
Oxford. street. It appears that he was the younger son
of a tradesman who resided in the parish of St. Paul,
Covent-garden, for nearly half a century, and who is now
in business in Wardour-street. The father claimed his
son's body after the coroner's inquest, and was desirous
to procure his burial in his own family grave in the
churchyard of St. Paul's, Covent garden. The usual
fees for breaking the wound were paid by an under-
taker, and three o'clock on Saturday afternoon wns the
time fixed for the funeral to take place. After the grave
had been opened, the Rev. Mr. Jones, curate of the
parish, having iv.:certained the circumstances under
which the deceased met his death, positively declined to
read the funeral service over the body. The Rev. Mr.
Hutton, the rector of the parish, being cut of town, Mr.
Jones at once sought an interview with the Bishop of
London, with a view to obtain his sanction in refusing;
(it is said), although the Bi..hop de-
clined to insist, he advised Mr. Jones to
lead the service in order to avoid any-
thing disagreeable occurring in the churchyard.
Mr. Jones entertaining strong conscientious objections
to perform the ritual in such a case, still declined, and
communicated his intention not to de so to the deceased's
family, who were equally determined to bury their
relative in their own private grave; and a very unplea-
sant scene appeared imminent. The facts having been
communicated to Mr. Wilkinson, of Tavistock-street,
who is one of the parish churchwardens, on Saturday
morning, that gentleman endeavoured to persuade Mr.
Jones to overcome his scruples, but without effect; and,
as the period for the arrival of the corpse drew near,
the greatest anxiety was entertained as to the conse-
quences of his refusal. At length Mr. Wilkinson pro-
ceeded to the Clerical Club, in Southampton-street, and,
having stated the whole circumstances to several clergy-
men present, one of their number, the Rev. Edward 0.
Morgan, late of Stockwell, consented to act, purely, we
believe, from a conviction that, when duly called upon, a
minister had no right to refuse to perform the service.
The body arrived at the church aewminutes before the
clergyman reached the sacred_ edifice,
were
but, beyond the
painful state of suspense in which the mourners
kept, no inconvenience arose. The deceased, though only
19 years of age, was stated to be an adept in crime ; and
a detective officer present painted out to the reporter,
among the crowd near thegrave, two or three well-known
cracksmen.

INCENDIARISII AT lIENDON.—During the greater
portion of Saturday night and the whole of yesterday
(Sunday) the village of Hendon presented an unusual
scene of confusion, in consequence of a diabolical at-
tempt having been made to destroy the whole of the
extensive property belonging to Mr. Jackson, known as
Coventry Farm, situate in the above-mentioned village.
It appears that at ten o'clock; on Saturday night flames
were seen to rush forth almost simultaneously from two
places iu the stack-yard. One part of the property on
fire consisted of seventy waggon-loads of hay, and the
other containing upwards of sixty loads of the same
material. Two parish engines attended; but in spite of
the most strenuous exertions of all present the work of
devastation continued. The moment information reached
town, Mr. Staples, chief officer of the C district of the
fire brigade, started to the scene with an engine and
four horses. It was not until late yesterday afternoon
that the fire could in the least be got under, and not
until a vast quantity of the property was destroyed.
The fire at four o'clock yesterday afternoon, though all
danger of its further extension was over, was far from
being entirely extinguished, and at that hour an engine
was still working on the flames. Upwards of 360 loads
of hay were standing in the same part of premises;
and the
and it was owing to the indefatigable exertions
villagers and firemen from London that thee wholesin
c
wasthe
not consumed. From the inquiries instituted
that thsumo
outbreak, not the least cw:u!..btisos,d
person. The tafire was caused by sumo 11 disposed
di-
rection the flames commencede in clearly indicate that
the outbreak could not have been caused by accident,.
Fortunately Mr. Jackson was insured in the Union Fire-
office.
J. fin LATE 31n. HENRY HETHERINGTON.—Yes-
terday, at half-past two o'clock, the mortal remains of
the late Mr. Henry Hetherington were conveyed from
his residence, in Judd-street, for interment at the Ceme-
tery, liensal green. The solemn ceremony,
which took
place in accordance with his will, was conducted by the
undertaker in a somewhat extraordinary manner, the
mourners, on the female side, wearing silk, drawn, and
straw bonnets, with coloured ribbons, and their usual
day dresses. The procession consisted of a hearse,
drawn by two horses, about 30 cabs, and 300 or 400
persons on foot. On either side of the hearse was u
blue silk coverin', with the motto, in silver letters, " It
is our duty to endeavour to leave the world better than
we found it;" and at the back, " Henry Hetherington."
We understand that the Hon. Mr. Bancroft, the
accomplished Minister of the United States at this
Court, returns to his native country in the Europa mail
steamer of the Ist of September.