The Sun.
London, England, 1849-08-25 00:00:00

,EVEgING, AUGUST 25, 1840.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

Deaths,

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EXECUTION OF REBECCA SMITH.

(From the .Devizes Gazette.)
The execution of Rebecca Smith, for murdering her
infant child, took place yesterday forenoon, in front of
the new prison, Devizes.
It is impossible to give anything like a correct calcula-
tion of the number of persons present to witness the
awful scene—they were countless. From nine until
eleven o'clock people poured into the town in shoals—
on foot, in waggons, in boats; and by the latter hour,
the prison-yard, the banks of the canal, every tree,
hedge, and field that cJuld command a view of the drop
appeared crammed. Still the roads were lined with per-
sons thronging to the spot. People were there from
every part of the county—old, young, and infants; but
they were chiefly of the labouring classes, and there
were thousands more of women than of men.

From the period the miserable woman entered the
prison to the moment of her execution her conduct
was most becoming. Mild and contented in her
manner and deportment, it might be thought that she
was totally incapable of the unnatural crime of
which she was convicted. Free from guile or by•
pocrisy, she at once unhesitatingly confessed her crime,
and acknowledged the justice of the punishment that
awaited her, and frequerely expressed a hope that others
would take a warning by her fate. At the same time
she was extremely ignorant, and betrayed a want of any
deep feeling. She could read but imperfectly, and what
she did read she was scarcely able to understand. The
pious and excellent chaplain had been unceasing in his
endeavours to awaken in her the true spirit of p..ni!enc e
and prayer; but, as may be supposed, he had a difficult
and a laborious task. Suspended between hope and fear,
she would at times rely on the unbounded mercies of
her Saviour, and at time exclaim that her sins were too
great to be forgiver.. For several days prior to her exe-
cution her mind appeared to be so entirely
_occupied
with the thoughts of her late in the world to come as to
destroy all feeling regarding the miserable end that at-
tended her in the pre,ant world. The manner in which
she was to quit this life did not appear to trouble her.
It was the nread of the hereafter, and if it be possible
to judge of the human heart from outward observances,
it may be said that she was at length brought to a proper
sense of her awful situation, and was truly penitent.
On Tuesday last her hus'Jand and daughter, accom-
panied by her brother and sister, and some other
members of her family, were admitted, for the last
time, to see her. Strange to say, there was such a
total absence of feeling on the part of the husband, as
to induce some remark to bo made on his conduct, but
without any good impression. The sister, on the other
hand, was deeply affected, as was her brother—both of
them wept bitterly. As ;the time approached for her
execution she appeared to feel more deeply her dreadful
situation, and she passed rather a restless night ; but
she afterwards recovered her wonted calmness, and ate
a modeaate breakfast in the morning.
Shortly before twelve the solemn tolling of the prison
bell announced that she had but a few minutes more ts)
live, and she was ushered from her cell. Accompanied
by the proper authorities, she was at once conducted to
the gallows, the Reverend Chaplain impressively
reading portions of the burial service as the
procession proceeded. During this time she did
not utter a word, nor did a sigh escape
her, but her,countenance appeared quite composed and
her step firm. Arrived en the drop, the rope was in a
moment round her neck ; sae clasped and raised her
hands together, as if in fervent prayer, and after a
slight struggle she was launched into eternity.
The orderly manner in which the whole proceedings
were conducted reflect much credit upon the prison
authorities.

She was about 44 years of age, bad been married 18
years, and had eleven children—the eldest only, a
daughter, is now alive; the second, a boy, died of a bowel
complaint at the age of fourteen weeks; all the rest,
witu the exception of the last but one, the unhappy
women acknowledged that she poisoned a day or two
alter their birth. She was extremely ill herself when
this child was born, and it was in consequence taken to
a neighbour. It died a fortnight after, but she never
even saw it after it was taken from her. Seven of her
children she destroyed by administering to them a poison
she called " blue," used for destroying rats and mice,
and which she said she took from the ricks, where it
had been placed for that purpose. The last child she
poisoned with arsenic, and in each case she put the
poison in the child's mouth with her finger. Sheim-
plicated no other person in the crime; she, and she alone,
ft w
did , end no on else knew anything about it. Fr?m
the first week of her marriage down to the last which
she lived with her husband, he had been given to drunk-
enness; and it was that, she said, drove her to her
crimes. He scarcely ever brought home a shilling of
his wages. She herself toiled hard in the field during
the day, and at night she came home and washed, and
did alt the household work. With nothing, then,
to maintain the family but what she herself
earned, which was four shillings a week, and that
only when she could procure work in the fields, the
fear that the children would come to want operated so
powerfully upon her, that she destroyed them in the way
stated. Her father and mother lived at Bratton, and
attended the Baptist chapel at that place, her mother
being a member. They were much opposed to the
marriage ; and, knowing the husband's habits of
drunkenness, they frequently endeavoured to persuade
her .to leave him and again come to their home. As
was stated last week, on the death of her lather, she
came into possession of 1001.; and about this time she
and her husband went to live at Westbury, and rented
ten acres of land ; but the money was soon dissipated ;
and there is no doubt the woman has undergone many
and severe privations.
Two women were constantly with her night and day,
from the time of her condemnation to her execution ;
and she frequently expressed her gratitude for the atten-
tion paid her by the chaplain and by the governor of the
prison, and Mrs. Haywood ; the kindness of the latter
towards her was unbounded.

This is the fourth person that has been executed in
front of the prison since its erection in 1810 :—viz.,
Goodman and Amor, on the 20th of April, 1824, for
robbing and a,saulting Mr. Thomas Alexander, of All-
caunings, on the highway ; and George Maslen, on the
6th of September, 1838, for maliciously shooting at Mr.
Bryan Rumbold.

THE ENCUMI3ERED ESTATES COMMISSION.—The
following is from the Dublin Gazette of last night:--
" Her Majesty having been pleased, under the provisions
of the Act 12th and 13th Victoria, cap. 77, to appoint
the Rtht Hon. John Richards, one of the Barons of
Her Alajesty's Court of Exchequer in Ireland ; Moun-
tifort Longtield, LL.D., and Charles James flargreave,
Esq., to be Commissioners for the sale of Encumbered
Estates in Ireland, Baron Richards and Mountifort
Longfield, Esq., took the oath of cfflee on the 17th inst.
before the Right Hon. David llgot, the Lord Chief
Barou of the said court."

AORTBERN ClRCUlT.—Liverpool, Aug. 23.
The busin:•ss of the Crown Court concluded at about
eight o'clock last evenir,g, with the Liverpool murder
case.

CIVIL COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice WIGBTMAN and

a Special Jury.)
NEWCASTLE UNION JOINT-STOCK BANK V. EARL TALBOT.
This was an action on two bills of exchange, fur
4,0181. 10s., drawn on and accepted by the defendant.
The defendant pleaded several pleas, which the result
makes it useless to specify.
The Attorney-General, Mr. Knowles, Mr. Watson,
and Mr. Unthank were for the plaintiff; Mr. Martin and
Mr. Robinson fur the defendant.
It appeared that a Mr. Edwards and others had agreed
to purchase a large estate in Belgium, called Chiny,
somewhere between Ghent and the French frontier, and
had to pay a large di posit, and, as in many other specu-
lations, the money was not ready. The noble defer]•
dant, then Lord Ingestre, being in his youth, and
ounger son of the ate Earl Talbot, and eatutaliy 01
an active disposition, had been in the navy, but on the
premature death of his elder brother, who was unfertu-
irately drowned, he was taken from that profession. His
activity then led bite to join in various eLterisizes, and
among other, he got into the Chiny estate spe:ailatinn,end
it was ultimately arrange d that he should h -Ye one-fourth
of it. Still ready money was acatce, and certain bills
which had been negotiated with the plaiettffs becoming
due, and part of them dist:onour. d, Edwards
drew, and Lord Ingestre ectepte d, the two bills on which
the action was founded, and they were handed by Ed-
wards to the batik, who, it was said for the plaintiff, had
actually advanced ou the bills which these were to re-
place 4,0004, and the Lank received those substituted
bills without any other condition than that they were to
supply the place of 8,0001. which they already held.
Mr. MARTIN, on the other hand, for the defendant,
contended that Lord Talbot was under no obligation
either in law or honour as to the bill held by the bank.
Edwards represented to him that he had made a valuable
purchase, and led him to take a quarter share, and Ed-
wards himself was to have another quarter. It was un-
derstood that Lord Talbot would have to pay about
16,000/. for his share, and he had already heel to pay
upwards of 57,0001. It was Edwards who had to pro-
vide for the tight bills, and he got the defendant to
accept the two bills in question, he undertaking to save
the defendant harmless. Edwards sent those two bills
to the bank on the express c ,neition that they were to
give up the eight bills. This condition the bank de-
clined to accept, but having got hold of the defen-
dant's two acceptances refused to return them. This
was in April, 1845, As Edwards had entered into
an express undertaking not to part with the two
bills, except on the condition of taking up the
eight bills, he filed a bill in Chancery to compel the
bank to give up either one or the other. To this no
answer was filed, but in December an arrangement was
made between Edwards and the bank, in fraud, as it was
alleged, of the defendant, by which the bank were to give
Edwards up the eight bills, pay the costs of the suit in
Chancery, and give him 300/. This agreement, it was
contended for the defendant, did not render him liable
on the two bills. Up to that time the plaintiffs held
them wrongfully, they had loeg before become due,
and as Edwards, in consequence of his guarantee, could
not sue the defendant on them, the bank could, by an
agreement with Edwards after they became due, acquire
no better title than he had himself.
The ATTORNEY GENERAL—On the former trial we
did not show the condition performed, which was to give
up the eight bills ; now we have shown that we have
given them up, and we are entitled to hold and sue upon
the two bills.

Mr. MARTIN—No ; the condition was to deliver up
the eight bids in April. It was not a perlotmance of the
condition delivering them up in December.
Mr. Blskeney, the mating. r of the bank, though sub-
pcenaed by both parties, did not appear, and, after an
examination of Mr. Edwards and apothEr witness,
Mr. Justice WIGHTMAN said that none of the pleas
had, in his opiuiun, been proved, and, therefore, he
directed the jury to find fur the plaintiff, damages 5,0081.,..
including interest to the present time.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
YORK AUGUST MEETING.
THURSDAY'S RACES.—The departure of the express
train immediately after the race for the Ebor Handicap
li prevented our giving more than the result, and the names
of the starters and riders. The betting, which under-
' went several fluctuations in the course of the day, cleat d
as follows :-3 to 1 agst Westow-5 to 1 agst Ellerdale
—6 to 1 agst Glen Saddle-7 to 1 agst Giselle-8 to 1
agst Maid of Team Valley-15 to 1 agst Cockermouth-
-20 to 1 agst Castanette-30 to 1 apt Alp, and almost
any odds against The Hero, or Fernhill. Maid of Team
Valley made the running, followed by Miss Whip. Cas-
tanette, and Fernhill, several others lying in a cluster,
and the two top weights 13 ing in tho rear. with Melton
and Chantrey, except that the rearmost began to draw
towards the front, at the bottom of the course. There
was no material change until they were near the gravel
road, where Fernhill took the lead, The Hero and Eller•
dale immediately after taking their places next the
Maid of Team Valley. About half way up the dis-
tance the Hero went up, passed the filly, and challenging
Fernhill defeated bun in the last stride by a neck ; a
length between Fernhill and Maid of Team Valle) ; and
ant ck between the latter and Ellerdale. From the
time in which the race was run, 3 minutes 26 seconds,
it is clear that the di.tance cannot be tuo milts.

FRIDAY.
The Convivial Stakes of 30 toys. each.
Mr. Me iklam's b c The Italian, by Touch-
stone, Bst 9:b (Templeman) walked over.
The Great Yorkshire Stakes of 10 toys. each, with 100
added; for three yrs old; colts, Bst 71b; fillies, Bst 21b;
the winner of the Derby 71b, of the Oaks 41b extra;
the owner of the second to receive 100 soya. out of the
stakes, and the third 50 soy& ; the winner to pay 25
sous. towards the expenses of the course. One mile
and three-quarters. (165 Subs.)
Mr. Pedley's b c Old Dan Tucker (A. Day) 1
Mr. A. Nichol's br c Nanny kirk (F. Butler) 2
Mr. B. Green's b c Westow (Wintringham) 3
Lord Clifden's Honeycomb (Robi) 4
Mr. Baxter's b f nson
by Sir Hans (1839)...(G. Abdale) 0
Lord Chesterfield's ch cby Harkaway (Flatman) 0
Lord Foljambe's b f Ellen Middleton...(J. Marson) 0
Mr. Godwin's b c Hotspur (h b) (Marlow) 0
Mr. Allen's borbr c by Lanercost (W. Oates) 0
Mr. Meiklam's br c Snowstorm. (Templeman) 0
Lord Exeter's b h Glenalvon (Pettit) 0
Mr. Shepherd's br g Alp (Cartwright) 0
Even on Nunnykirk, 7 to 2 agst Ellen Middleton, 8 to
i agst Honeycomb, 8 to t agst Hotspur, 10 to 1 agst
Old Dan Tucker, and 15 to 1 agat any other. Won by a
neck; two lengths between the second and third; Honey-
comb well up.
The Filly Sapling Stakes of 50 soya. each, 20 ft., for two
years old, Bst. 41b. each. One mile. (9 Subs.)
Mr. T. Whitaker's eh f Laura (Holmes) 0 1
Mr. Bowes's b f Rybinske, (F. Butler) 0 2
6 to 1 on Rybinska. Last a dead heat. Deciding
heat;-2 to lon Rybinska. The non favourite made all
the-running, and won easily by a length.
The Consolation Scramble of 50 sous., the gift of Mr.
Smith, of the Clarence Hotel and Betting•rooms,
added to a Handicap Sweepstakes of 5 soya. each.
Five furlongs. (15 Subs.)
Mr. Lillie's borbr c The Iron Duke (Simpten) 11
Mr. Frankum's Dolly Varden, 3 yrs, 7st 131 b (Pettit 2
Sir J. Hawley's ch f Hippie, 2 yrs, sst 71b —(Hien) 3
Mr. Baker's br f Pheasant, 3 yrs, 7st 131b(J.Marson) 0
Mr. H. Stebbing's b c Malton, 9st 21b (Wintringham) 0
Mr. Wcffenden's b e Post-tempore, 3 yrs...(Holmes) 0
Mr. Pedley's eh f The Probe, 3 yrs (Templeman) 0
Mr. Bateman's ch fLa Valeuse, 3 yrs (Fenn) 0
Mr. Pedley's c The Cantab, 3 yrs, 7st 41b (W Sharp) 0
Capt. Harcourt's bc 3 yrs, 7st 31b (W. Marson) 0
Mr. J. Gill's br uiEsculapius, 2 yrs,sst 71b(Marwood 0
Mr. Pulley's ch f Lady Spec dy, 2 yrs, sst 21b (Dodd) 0
Mr. Rickaby's br t, by Touchstone, sst 21b (Osborne) 0
5 to 2 agst Iron Duke, 3 to 1 agst Malton. 4 to 1 agst,
/Estulapius, and 10 to 1 agst any other. Won easy by
half a length; a length between the second and third.
Selling Stakes of 5 sovs. each, with 25 added. One mile.
Sir J. Hawley's b f Cynthia, by Venison, 3 yrs, 6st
71b (30 ion ) .......ti........, (HiettY I
Mr. Meiklam's bk c Olterburn, 4 yrs, Bst 21b (30
soya) ...
Mr. Bateman's ch f La Voleuse, 3 yrs (40 soya.) pd
Even betting. Won by four lengths. The winner was
sold by auction after the race for 46 ga.
The Gimcrack Stakes of 10 soya. each, with 100 added
by the Members of the Gimcrack Club for two yrs
old; colts, Bst 71b, and fillies, Bst 21b; the winner of
the Prince of Wales's Stakes 31b extra; the second to
receive 25 soya., the third to save his stake; the winner
to give three dozen of champagne to the York Gim-
crack Club. One mile. (27 Subs.)
Mr. Jaques's ch c Mildew, by Slane (Flatman) 1
Lord Zetland's br c Cantab, by the Doctor (J. Marion) 2
Mr. Dawson na b c Mark Tapley. (Ctirtwrint) 3
Col. Anson's fby Touchstone—Potentia (F. Butler) 4
Mr. J. Osborne's br t Achyranthos (G. Abdale) 5
Mr. Pedley's be The Poet, by The Bard (Templeman) 6
Even on Mildew, 5 to 2 agat Potentia filly, and 6 to
1 agst Mark Tapley. Won easily by a length ; a bad
third.

The Members' Plate of 501. One mile.
Mr. B. Green's b c The Arab, by Liverpool Junior,
3 yrs, 7st 31b (Fenn) 1
Lord L-Aland's br f Polonaise, 3 yrs, Est 61b (Hiett) 2
Mr Meiklam's bl c Otterburn, 4 yrs, Bst 31b
Captain 0. V. Harcourt's b cby Young Longwaist,
dam by Inheritor, 3 yrs, Est 31b (Arnold) 4
Mr. C. Peck's b t The Duchess, 3 yrs, 6st 1 llb
Mr. A. Johnston's br c Confederacy, 4 yrs, 7st 71b 6
Mr. E. R. Clark's br f Alpheia, 3 yrs, Bst 3lb
2 to 1 agst Confederacy, 3 to 1 agst Alphas, 4 to 1
each agst The Arab and Polonaise.
Won easily by a length.
The Match between Particle and Mysticle was off.
BETTING ON THE COURSE.
ST. LEGER.

5 to 2 on Flying Dutchman I 10 to 1 apt Old Dan Tucker
S to 1 agst Uric!

DERBY.
16 to 1 agst Cypress 1 25 to 1 agst Mildew
PLYMOUTH RACES—WEDNESDAY.
The Saltram Stakes of 25 sovs. each, &c. Once round
and a distance.
Nfr. Davis's Chorister, 4 yrs
Mr. Carlisle's Ceres, 4 yrs
The Plymouth Plate of 50 sous. Beats, two miles.
Mr. &obeli's Cupid, 4 yrs I I
Captain Croltou's Pell Mell, 5 yrs
Mr. Smith's Red Robin, 4 yrs 3 3

Mr. Gregory's Skudar, 3 yrs
The Ladies' Plates of 50 sovs. Heats, once round.
Mr. Trelawny nd f by Lord Stafford, out of Bird-
lime, 4 yrs
Mr. Gregory's Skudar, 3 yrs
Captain Crotton's Cambria, 3 yrs 2 3
Major Hickman's Prospect, 6 yrs 3 4
THURSDAY.
_

The County Members' Plate of 25 sovs., added to a
Sweepstakes of 3 sous. each. Heats, once round and
a distance.
Mr. tieobell's Cupid, 4 yrs
Mr. Carlisle's Ceres, 4 yrs
Iler Majesty's Plate of 100 gs. nests, two miles.
Mr. Davis's Chorister, 4 yrs
Mr. Gregory's Skudar, 3 yrs
Mr. Scobell's Cupid, 4 yrs
Major Ilickman's Prospect, 6 yrs 0 0
The Devonport and Stonehouse Handicap Plate of 501.
_ _ Heats, once round and a did.

Capt. Crofton's Pell Melt, 5 yrs
Mr. Johnson's bi by Lord Stafford, 4 yrs 1 2 0 2
Capt. Roebuck's Fusilier, 4 yrs 2 dr

CRICKET.

ELEVEN OF ENGLAND V. TWENTY TWO OF ATHERSTONX

AND DISTRICT.

This match was resum“l at Atheretoue yesterday
morning. The following is the score at the close of th•
second day's play:—

ATREESTONE-FIRST INNINGS.
S. S. Baxter, Ebq.—c Hillyer, b Clarke ... ••• 4
J. Curti:—b Ilill)er ... ... ... ... ..• 2
13
lion. R. Cu: zon—run out ... ... ... ... . -

M. Baker, Esq.—b Clark ... ••• ••• "17
: 2
W. Ihrding—c White, b HiDyer ••• •
F. Tinley—c Martingell, b Clarke ... • • ••• •
Armitage—c Chatterton, b Wisatn .••
16
Royston—b Wisden ..• ••• ••• ••
Dakin—run out 13
S. Alallaby, Esq.—b Clarke ... 2
C. Foster, Esq.—b Wisden 1
IL Clement, Esq.—run out ... 0
B. B. Smythits, Esq —b Clarke ...
W. Fenton, Esq.—b Wisden 4
Hon. W. Curzon--c Box, b Clark ... ... 4
H. Clare, Esq.—b Wisden 0
K. Fenton, Esq.—c Chatterton, b Wisden 1
J. Baker, Esq.—c and b Wisdan ... 6
S. Knowles, Esq.—run out .. ..•
1). Baxter, Esq.—c Chatterton, b Clark ... 1
S. 0. Sandford, Esq.—not out
E. Baxter, Esq.—b Clark 1
B 5, w 0 6

Total ... ...lib
ENGLAND—FIRST INNINGS.
U. M. Curteis, Esq.—b Tinley
Captain White—b Tinley ... ... 2
Parr—c J. Baker, b Royston 28
F. Pikh—c Royston, b Armitage 1
Bux—c Smy tines, b Tinley ... 32
Guy—c J. Baker, b Armitage
Chatterton—c Harding, b Armitage ... 2
Martingell—not out ... 5
Wisden—b Tinley ... 9
Hillyer—c Harding, b Armitage ...
Clarke—c Royston, b Armitage ... ...
B 1, er 0 1

Total ...

...103
•••

ATIIEBSTONE—SECOND INNINGS.
J. Curtis—c Box, b Wisden ••• ••"•' 1
Hon. H. Cu] zon—b Clark •• •.• "'1
M. Baker, Esq —not out ••• ..• ...
F. Tinley—c Curteis' b Wisden ••• ••• 6
Armitage—e White, b Clark •••
Dakin—e Martingell, b Wisden •••
Clement,not out •,„ '°2
IL B. Smytbies, Esq.—
J. Baker, Esq —b Wisden ,••
1
S. Knowles, Esq.—b Wisden •" • • 0
S. 0. Sandford, Esq.—b Clarke '•• ••• 1
B wO, nb ••• ••• 0
• •
•••
2
••• ...

Total
••• Gee ID,. ••• 46

THE COVENTRY GAOL. CHAPLAIN.—The Secretary
of State., Sir George Grey, has, we are inferrm d, signified
to the visiting justices of the Coventry gaol his entire
concurrence iu the course pursued by them iu the im-
mediate susponsion, with a view to the subsequent
removal, of the Rev. Richard Chasuan, chaplain to the
gaol,—Coventry Herald.

LITERATURE.
DR. MUSPRATT'S PLATT ER ON TILE
BI,OIVPIPE.
THE USE OF THE BLOWPIPE, in the
Examination of Minerals, Ores, 6-c., Qualitatively
and Quantitatively. By Professor Plattner, Assay
Master at the Royal Saxon Smelting Works.
Edited, with Emendations, by Dr. Sheridan Mus-
pratt, Professor of the Liverpool College of Che-
mistry, ;5-c.
The first edition of this celebrated work was pub-
ished in 1845. Oa its appearance it elicited com-
mendations from all quarters, and was deservedly
eulogised by the leading scientific journals. Dr.
Muspratt's treatise on the Blowpipe is too exclusively
scientific and profound to be classed with our general
reviews, nevertheless we cannot refrain from giving
a few remarks upon this edition, which may almost be
considered as a new work. At a time when Liebig's
views respecting the analysis of soils are universally
received in this country, and when a new impulse has
been gi% en to geological and mineralogical investiga-
tions in all parts of the world, the appearance of a
revised and extended edition of a wuik upon the
blowpipe must be hailed as especially opportune.
The work is divided into three' sections, the fleet
chapter of which treats of the history and the im-
proved form of the blowpipe invented by Plattn-r.
The second division of the work is devoted to qualita-
tive analysis. In this section the diagrams are
altered and improved horn the original, exhibiting in
a most perfect mariner all the changes before the
blowpipe flame. The subject of the third part is
quantitative analysis, a department of chemical
science the importance of which cannot he too highly
estimated. We need not enlarge upon the manner
in which this volume has been edited. Baron Liebig
has honoured it by a laudatory preface, and it has
met with the approbation of Sir Robert Kane, Pro-
fessors Will, Hofmann, and Plattner. We cannot
give a better idea of the object of this work than by
annexing Professor Muspratt's excellent and expla-
natory preface :
" The interest excited in this country and America by
Plettner's renowned work on the Blowpipe,' and the
high encomiums bestowed upon it by distinguished
scientific men, all concurring in the opinion that the in-
formation and appliances it contains are most essential
to the chemist, geognosist, geologist, mineralogist, me-
tallurgist, and agriculturist, have induced the call for a
second edition—a proof of the increasing aptitude for
this species of research. When this work was first issued
I felt satisfied its technical nature would prec.ude an ex-
tensive circulation, but that eventually it would come
into general use. At the present time it is a work of
reference in every laboratory in Europe. I daily witness
the truthfulness of its results with my students, who,
before dissolving a substance for analysis in the humid
way, ascertain its comportment before the blowpipe;
which enables the mere beginner to discover the presence
of cobalt, antimony, arsenic, lead, silver, bismuth, man-
ganese, selenium, sulphur, zinc, chromium, copper, mer-
cury, strontia, magnesia, and soda. A skilful operator
can prove infallibly the presence of a still greater number
of substances. I bad the pleasure, when at Freyberg,
of seeing Professor Plattner working with the blowpipe,
and the beauty and accuracy of his manipulation asto-
nished me. Ile has by long practice obtained such a
degree of skill in its use, that he can detect substances
which might often be overlooked, even in the nascent
method. In my preface to the first edition I stated the
numerous emendations in the work ; in preparing the
present one the subject of every chapter has been care-
fully reconsidered, all new minerals noticed, and recent
improvements, that I thought would be of service to the
student or philosopher, have been introduced, either in
notes or incorporated in the volume. I feel proud in
being the medium through which the English public has
been made acquainted with so useful a treatise, and, in
reproducing it, my own gratification is enhanced by the
,approbation of its author, who expresses his feelings on
the subject in the following words :—•Dr. Sheridan Mus-
pratt has published in English my ‘Probirkunst mit darn
Lothrohre' and, really, with such circumspection and
profound knowledge of the subject, that I deem it my
bounden duty to tender him my heartfelt acknow-
ledgments."

THE LATE MR HETHERINGTON.
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT
Among the many victims to the malady ravaging
the metropolis at the present time, our obituary con-
tains the name of Mr. henry Hetherington, the well-
known newsvender and publisher, who died in his 57th
year, at his residence in Judd-street, Brunswick. square.
Mr. Hetherington, from his well-known political
opinions, and from his fearless and indomitable spirit in
expressing them during the last twenty years, has
rendered his name familiar and respected by a very large
portion of the working classes, with whose struggles,
and for whose emancipation his sympathies were ever
engaged. He was a printer by trade, and to this circum-
stance, united with his strong political feeling, may be
ascribed his combat for the freedom of the press, by the
publication of his unstamped papers, and his enduring
courage sustained through three successive imprison..
ments, which, after the incarcrration of 500 other
offenders against the stamp laws, ended in the re duction
of the stamp duty on neaspapers, and to which may
be ascribed very much of the odium which the Whig
Government of that time deservedly obtained. Although,
after the reduction of the stamp duty, Mr. Hethering-
ton, from the stringency of the law, was obliged to de-
sist from publishing his papers, he never trequesced in
the justice or propriety of that measure, and one of his
last public acts was, in connexion with someof his own
coadjutors, directed to the formation of a society to
repeal the penny stamp, and emancipate the press from
all control exc,pt a court of law.
He was a la stryman of the parish of St. Pancras, in
which he resided, and attended and spoke at the recent
meeting at the Princess's Theatre, in favour of Parlia-
mentary Reform. He was present at the more recent
meeting at Drury-lane, for the same purpose. Ile bail
been poorly fur a short time previous, though engaged
his business so late as Tuesday last. He expired on
Thursday morning, and will be interred on Sunday at
K'usal-green, whither his remains will be conducted,
followed, we have no doubt, by many friends who knew,
and knowing, loved the sterling qualities of his honest,
manly, and benevolent character.
The funeral procession will leave Judd-street at two
o'clock in the atternnon.

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
COWES, AUGUST 24.
ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON INTELLIGENCE.
ARRIVALS.
Aug. 17. Hornet cutter, Henry Studdy, Esq., from
Torquay; Mischief logger, R. S. Wardel, Esq., Wey-
mouth; Novice schooner, Earl of Dissart, Inland.
19. Columbine yawl, J. 11. Smith Barry, E.sq., Ire-
hind; Gitana schooner, Esrl of Lincoln, Portsmouth.
22. Gurilla cutter, Marquis of Conyngham, Kingstown.
SAILINGS.
Aug. 18. Syren, cutter, John Deavenport, Esq., Cork.
21. Gauntlet, cutter, W. Peareth, Esq., Cowes Har-
bour, to lay up.
22. Duchess, yawl, Viscount Somerton, Torcplay and
other ports; Frisk, cutter, R. Frankland, Esq., ditto;
Brilliant, schooner, G. 11. Ackers, Esq., ditto.
23. Osprey, cutter, John Prtre, Elq , Portsmouth, to
lap up; Talisman, ditto, Capt. H. N. Smith. R.E.
western ports; Gondola, ditto, W. 11. Woodhouse,
Esq., ditto.
24. Ariel, schooner, Sir G. 11. Douglas, Bart.,
Gibraltar.
YACHTS AT AND ABOUT THE STATION.
Alurm, Capricorn, Dryad, Xarifa, Elizabeth, Fair
Rosamond, Nymph, Sibyl, Gurilla, Hornet, Stormfinch,
Gipsy Queen, Mischief, Intrepid, Hawk, Aurora, Arrow,
Cygnet, Gitana.
Lord Crofton and family have left Cowes Castle for
Mote Park, Roscommon. -Sir Bellingham Graham,
Bart., the Royal Yacht Squadron House, for Dieppe.
The Marquis of Aylesbury leaves Norfolk house on
Monday next. The Earl of Wilton is entertaining a
Largo party of fashionables at Grove House.

TO THE EDlroit OF THE SIJN.
SlR,—May I, as an act of justice, beg the favour of your
inserting this letter in reply to an article that appears in
the Sunday Times of the week, entitled " The Land we
Live In," which contains a statement forwarded by a
" Commercial Traveller," respecting the charges, &c., at
an hotel at Leeds, which from circumstances I know re-
fers to the "Scarborough Hotel." I was staying in the
commercial-room at the " Scarborough" on the day iu
questiun, dining, Sz.c., with the commercial men, and on
discharging my bill I tound the charges were according
to the excellent accommodation and the genuine quality
of everything provided by Mr. Fleischman, decidedly
lair, and not a whit above the charges made at hotels
of the sam.. class, and a remark to this effect on my part
to gentlemen then staying there was fully acquiesced in.i
As to the charge for servants, it is a practice thtatcowall!
always exist with commercial men, as the amiimn
Lined of, viz., Is. 6d. per day is invariably given,_ both
a second class. lam inclined to think that in such hotels as the "Scarborough " andaatlsion ththoisse
in-
stance
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the title of a
if so, I fear
bor-
rowed, or else this is his mode!' journey;l3
intends
" commercial man" has been
iftrome
cavil with hotehe will be much l
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ford o
itn hisis routeclear
fracas" that the informant of the Sunday Times has
not yet bad sufficient experience"on " the road" to dis-
cover when ho is " well housed.
I am, Sir, your obliged servant,
A YEARLY SUBSCRIBER.

LEAMINGTON SPA, Aug. 24.--The latest arrivals
at this fashionable resort include the names of the Ear 1
~1* Beverley, Lord Lovaine, and Lady Louisa l'er
y, and
the lion. J. M. Wakefield, at the Regent Hotel- Lord
Clinton. Viscount and Viscountess Newport, Lady
Campbell, Lady Moore, Hon. Mr. Essex, Lady and d Mrs.
Blair, are also residing at the Spa. The grand horti-
cultural exhibition yesterday in the Jtphson Gardens
was attended by a brilliant assemblage, and amongst the
competitors for prizs were florists from Kent, Somerset-
dare, Glcucestershire, and various places in the mid-
land counties. The cricket match between the north
and south of England is fixed to come off here on
the 30th inst. Lord Burghley and Lord Guernsey aro
among the north players, and the Bon. li. Grimston
lends his assistance to the south. The town is rapidly
filling with company, in anticipation of the Warwick
September races.
APOTHECARIES' HALL.—The following gentlemen
passed their t xatnination in the sciecce
triedic;ne, and received certificates to practse, on Thurs-
day last :—Benjurnin etister, Morley-lodge, Leeds;
RaVi son Senior, BA,y, new Dewsbury, Yorkshire;
John Earnshaw, Clithero, Lancashire; cieorg, Burn-
, ham, Qreat Grimsby.