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10. E. Jones, barrister-at-law, tried at the Central
Criminal Court on a charge of sedition at a Chartist
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7 imprisoned two years, and enter into heavy recogniaan ces
14 to keep the peace for five years. The same term of im-
-121 prisonment was pronounced on five other Chartists.
28 22. Lord John Russell brought in a Bill to suspend
the Habeas Corpus Act in Ireland, which was passed
4 the same day.
11 24. The Bill passed the Lords.
)18 25. It received the Royal Assent.
27. A proclamation for the suppression of political
1 clubs in Ireland. In the south the people in a state of
15 insurrection. Warrants issued for the apprehension of
22 S. O'Brien and others for treason.
29 29. Smith O'Brien and the rebels attacked by the
police at Boulagh Common, near Ballingarry. After
6 some fighting in the house of a widow (M‘Cormack), the
13 police made them disperse.
AUGUST.
?7 5. Mr. Smith O'Brien captured at Thurles, and con-
veyed to Dublin for trial.
3 10 8. A resolution in favour of the Ballot carried in the
17 House of Commons, by a majority of 5. This triumph
,4 was recorded with great exultation.
12. The jury in: the case of Mr. O'Doherty were din-
-8 charged without coming to an agreement.
- 16. Martin, proprietor and printer of the Felon news-
paper, tried for sedition, and sentenced to transportation
for ten years.
17. An awful conflagration in Albany-600 buildings
burnt, &c.
24. A collision at Vienna between the workmen and
military, and lives lost on both sides. By the vigorous
exertions of the authorities the disturbance was sup-
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I. Two children strangled by a woman, named Parker,
in revenge for the misconduct of her paramour.
2. An emeute at Milan, occasioned by an attempt on
the part of the Austrian Government to make the people
smoke tobacco.

7. General Espartero arrived at Madrid, and found an
enthusiastic reception from the people.
10. An alarming conflagration among the coffins in
the vaults of St. Saviour's Church, Southwark.
13. A revolution in Naples and Sicily. The city of
Palermo bombarded by the troops of the King of Naples.
20. Christian the Eighth, King of Denmark, died at
Copenhagen.

29. Ferdinand the Second, King of Naples, by pro-
clamation, offers the people of Sicily, a new constitution,
founded on the bases of the Frfnch charter. The
Sicilians refuse the offer, and require a Legislature
selected from their own body.
Advices from New Yolk of this date mention
that General Scott and Mr. Trist had forced a treaty of
peace upon the Republic of Mexico.

—. The Boston packet ship "ocean Monarch," burnt
at sea, with emigrants for America. One hundred lives
lost.

SEPTEMBER.
2. Lord John Russell in Ireland—at the Viceregal
Lodge, Dublin, received the Attorney-General and
others belonging to the Government.
3. IThe Queen prorogued Parliament, and at five
o'clock embarked in her yacht at Woolwich, bound to
Aberdeen, in Scotland, the object being to visit the
Earl of Aberdeen's residence on the river Dee, and
Balmoral, the hunting seat of Prince Albert.
7. The Neapolitan troops took Messina.
19. Letters from New York of this date mention that
gold had been found in the Sacramentos River, in South
America, and that the people of California were in
search of it.

21. Prince Louis Napoleon elected Member of the Na-
tional Assembly.
—. Lord G. Bentinek, M.P. for King's Lynn, died of
disease of the heart at Welbeck Abbey.
27. Field-Marshal Lemberg having been appointed an
Extraordinary Commissioner to make peace with the
Hungarians, shot dead whilst passing the Bridge of
Perth, on his peaceful errand.
21. Smith O'Brien indicted for high treason.
30. Five Chartists tried and found guilty, in London,
and sentenced to transportation for life.
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OCTOBER.
5. Another insurrection in Vienna. The people sue.
cessful, and the Emperor forced to leave the capital.
7. Smith O'Brien found guilty of high treason, al
Clonmel. The jury gave a recommendation to mercy.
22. 400 National Guards from Paris (in uniforms;
came to London as visitors.

23. The special commission for the trial of rebels at
Clonmel adjourned. M'Manus, O'Donohoe, and Meagher
found guilty.

26. The mercy of the Crown extended to the Irish
state prisoners. O'Brien, and the other leaders found
guilty of high treason, had the sentence of death miti-
gated to transportation for life.
31. The Peace Congress met in Exeter Hall.
NOVEMBER.
1. Tha Imperial troops re occupied Vienna—great
slaughter ensued.
9. Sir James Duke, the Chief Magistrate of London,
entered upon the duties of the Mayoralty, and gave the
customary entertainment in Guildhall.
15. The Adelphi Theatre at Glasgow burnt.
17. Tho Hibernia, which left Halifax this day, brings
news of the election of General Taylor, as President of
the United States.

18. Viscount Melbourne, of Brocket Hall, Hertford.
shire, died.

23. Sir John Barrow, Secretary to the Admiralty, died.
25. The Pope having quitted Rome in disguise,
arrived this day at Gaeta, the frontier town of the Nea-
politan dominions.

28. Mr. Jermy, Recorder of Norwich, and his son
shot dead. Mrs. Jermy also shot, and her maid servant,
by the same assassin, wrapped up in a cloak and wearing
a mask. Rush, a farmer, accused of the murder.

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COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
LOSS OF ONE DOWNS AND TWO COWES
PILOTS.

Accounts were brought to Cowes on COW ESu
DEC. 31.
Satrday, morn-
ing that a boat with three hands in it from the pilot-
vessel No. 4, in attempting to land at the back of the
Wight, between the Needles and Freshwater, had been
capsized on the preceding day, and three pilots drowned.
The crew of the Hero were William Jacobs, Thomas
Burton, E. Moth, and C. Nutkins, the latter being at
home at the time, and the three former only on booed.
Great hopes were entertained that the report might prove
untrue, Jacobs having a wife and eight children, Burton
a wife and seven children, and every prospect of another
being added to the number in a short time, Moth a sick
wife and large family. No further news was received all
the afternoon, and as Friday was a fine day, with only
a very light wind off the land, the unfortunate fami-
lies buoyed themselves up with hopes that as the
vessel would certainly not be left without one of the men
on board, it could not be three men (as that would be
the whole crew) from the Hero. In the evening, however,
all doubt was removed by the arrival of one of the Rural
Police, who came in to give notice to the Coroner, and
to summon the survivor, C. Moth. He stated that ONO
of the bodies had been washed on shore, in the pocket
of one was found some papers, by which his name ap-
peared to be Johnson, a Deal pilot ; the other name was
not known, but supposed to be Burton. The body of
Jacobs was washed on shore next morning. The pilot
vessel is not yet returned, but it is understood that they
had taken a Downs pilot out of a ship, and when attempt-
ing to land him near Freshwater, the boat (which is con-
sidered one of the best in the employ) was swamped by
one of those tremendous rollers which are so common
on this dangerous coast; the boat was on a smooth
and glassysea, close in with the shore, but
there was a heavy ground swell, and the Preven-
tive men on the shore waved to them, but they seemed
not to understand the. object of it, and laid on their
oars, when a mountainous wave rolled in upon them,
and no vestige of the boat was seen afterwards. An in-
quest will be held on the bodies at twelve o'clock on
Monday. Scarcely a year passes but some of our pilots
are swept from this life in following their dangerous
calling. In this instance two widows and. fifteen chil-
dren are thrown on the charity of the public. Johnson
may also have a family, which by his untim .31y end
may be deprived of their only support. On the books
of the Compassionate Fund of this town there are
between 70 and 80 poor widows.
The earnings iof the sea going pilots of this port
have been very much reduced within the last few years,
and if some alteration for the better is not made there
will soon be no pilots outside the Wight to guide the
mariners from the dangers of that rock-bound coast.
Even on Friday, when the channel was so still and
smooth, the ground swell and rollers were so heavy that
the sea broke over the Needles rocks. The pilot who
braves the storm for weeks in the channel, looking out
for ships, if he brings one in bound to Southampton
gets superseded by a Southampton pilot at the entrance
of the river, and the latter takes the ship out without
being liable to be superseded after leaving the river.
Thus the Cowes pilot for all his knocking about gets
only ss. per foot to divide amongst the vessel's crew,
where formerly he got 15s. for taking in and out; while
the Southampton pilot, who has only a boat,
with no
crew to share with him, and never goes outside the
Needles, gets 10s. per foot !

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DEATH OF COUNT CORBINEAU.
Few Generals have seen such service as the Count
Jean Baptiste Corbineau, who has just died, with the
title of General of Division and Grand Cross of the Le-
gion of Honour. Born at Marchiennes (Nord) on the
Ist of August, A.D. 1776, ho was, at the age of 16, a
sub-lieutenant in the Berry Cavalry, and was dispatched
to the frontiers. lle was destined to see home no more,
for he served in all the campaigns of the Republic and
the Empire from 1792 to 1815, including the battle of
Mont St. Jean. M. de Corbineau was appointed a chief
of squadron in 1305, and a colonel in 1807. Promotion
was rapid in those days of danger and glory combined.
If our readers wish to know how it was that M. de Cor-
bineau, a colonel of dragoons in 1807, merited the rank
of general of brigade in 1811, we must refer them to the
report of the Duke of Dalmatia, commander of Andalusia,
on the battle of Alcalala-Real, in the Moniteur Unirerscl
of the 20th of February, 1810. M. de Corbineau served
in the Russian campaign of 1812, and on the 20th of No-
vember in that year he threw himself, by a forced march,
between the corps of Tchitchakof and Witgenstein, and
crossed the Beresina at midnight at the head of his bri-
gade of light cavalry, in order to precede the French
army, which he rejoined near Bobr. It was he that
pointed out to the Emperor the passage of Sterdzianka.
As a reward for these signal services, the Emperor made
Corbineau his aide-de-camp two months afterwards, and
soon raised him to the grade of a general of division.
Count Corbineau then took the command of the cavalry
of the corps of Vaudamme; and when the latter had
been male prisoner, Corbineau, by an impetuous charge
of the corps d'arnza commanded by the Prussian General
Kleist, re-established the momentarily interrupted com-
munications of the French army. Taking the command
rice Vaudamme, he rescued and brought back 18,000 of
the 26,000 men composing his division. Six months
later he was included in the number of the aides-do-
camp who saved the Emperors's life when he was at-
tacked by the Cossacks in the evening of the 30th of
January, 1814, on his return from Brienne to Mez:Cres.
A month later, cn the 6th of March, 1814, he seized the
town of Rheims at midnight, and by that coup de main
separated the Russian army, commanded by M. de St.
Priest, from that of Blucher, and so enabled Napoleon to
cross the Aisne at P6.-y-au-132c. Corbineau, incessantly
attacked in Rheims by St. Priest, maintained his posi-
tion without being dislodged, notwithstanding his enor-
mous numerical inferioity. After the farewell of Fon-
tainebleau, the Count Corbineau retired to his domestic
hearth, and did not resume his military duties untl the
20th of March, 1815. Dispatched to Lyons to arrest
the progress of the Duke d'Angouleme, who wished to
cross the I e-e, he captured that Prince at tho Bridge
of St. Esprit, on the 91h of April, but restored him to
liberty in accordance with the instructions of the Em-
peror. Napoleon testified his satisfaction by a letter
to the Minister of War, inserted in the Moniteur.
Ho was immediately sent to La Vendee to replace
General Laborde, but was soon relieved by General
La Marque, and resumed his post near the Emperor.
After the battle of Mont St. Jean, he once more re-
tired into private life, but emerged again in August,
1830, when he was appointed to the command of the
16th military division, at Lille, and exercised that
office tid 1844. In 1835 he was made a Peer of
France, and in 1833 received the Grand Cross of tho
Legion of Honour. llis memory will be revered by
all his companions in arms.

A lad named Seapy, belonging to the Fate, which
was a fortnight since reported as having sunk at sea,
owing to injuries sustained from a collision with the
Glenalyn steamer, had a very narrow escape from
drowning. He had turned into his hammock before the
accident heppcned, and, strange to say, was not awoke
either by te.e shock or the subsequent uproar on the
deck of the vessel. As soon as the accident happened
the crew got on board the steamer, but the brig not
going down as quickly as they expected, they returned
to her, in the hope of running her on shore, and so sav-
ing some of her stores. They soon, however, found
this to be impracticable; but before finally abandoning
her, at the suggestion of the master, they went down
into the forecastle to secure their clothes; and in search-
ing for these, one of the men laid his hand on the face
of the sleeping boy, who had not previously been missed;
of course, he was soon aroused, but could at first scarcely
be convinced of the dangerous predicament he was in.—
Lynn Advertiser.
DEATH OF SIR SAMUEL CROMPTON, BART.—We
have to announce the decease of the above respected
Baronet, who expired on Wednesday last, at Wood-end,
his family seat in Yorkshire. The respected Baronet
had suffered from impaired health some months, but it
was only within the last three weeks that his illness as-
sumed such appearances as to prepare his family for the
worst. The deceased was born in July, 1785, and mar-
ried, Nov. 3, 1829, Isabella Sophia, daughter of the Hon.
and Rev. Archibald 11. Cathcart, by whom he leaves
issue several daughter., but no son. The late Baronet
was a great patron of agriculture, and had expended
considerable sums in the improvement of his estates and
of
tenantry. He represented East Retford in
beforethe Souse
Commons from 1818 till 1826, the year
itselected
cessetahseontewmhPen
borough was disfranchised, and then
two
18__.
3U In
Member for Derby, which he sat for e
for Tbirsk, which
1834 he was the successful candidate_
when he retired from
he continued to sit for up to 1841,h7
Baronetcy (created
that
Parliament. Failing male issue, t
n 1838) becomes extinct.
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mr.e
domestic strongaffiye
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THE PURITANS
their conduct respecting C temper
single
of the precisians than
had
been,
time immemorial,
hris-
Christmas
single circumstance
mas• day.from immemorial,
the season of joy and when
families assembled,
were children came home from
quarrels - made
school, vvben
heard in every street,
and every When up, when carols were
every house was decorated
with evergreens,
cheer. At that
kindness season all hearts not utterly destitute of
were enlarged and softened. At that
the partake
Ivor were admitted to .
o,angs of 1
the wealth
acceptable on of
season
f largely of the over-
the rich, whose bounty was
peculiarly
aays and account of the shortness of the
the severity of the weather. At that season
the interval between landlord and tenant, master and
servant, was
less marked than through the rest of the year.
Where there is much enjoyment there will be some ex-
cess; yet, on the whole, the spirit in which the holiday
was kept was not unworthy of a Christian festival. The
Long Parliament gave orders, in 1664, that the 25th of
December should be strictly observed as a fast, and that
all men should pass it in humbly bemoaning the great
national sin which they and their fathers had so often
committed on that deer by romping under the mistletoe,
eating the boar's head, and drinking ale flavoured with
roasted apples. No public act at that time seems to have
irritated the common people more. On the next anni-
versary of the festival formidable riots broke out in many
places. The constables were resisted, the magistrates
insulted, the houses of noted zealots attacked, and the
proscribed service of the day openly read in the churches.
—Macaulay's History of England.
ECLIPSES IN 1849.—There will be four eclipses in
the year 1849 two of the sun and two of the moon.
The eclipses of the sun will take place on the 2::,wi1l _
of February and on the 17th of August, but both
be invisible at Greenwich. The muon will be partially
eclipsed on the Bth of March, and again on the 2d of
September. The former willle, and the latter
be Yoib
invisible in this country, and it will end sixteen minutes
before the rising of the planet.
LUGGAGE.—A lady who had a steam-boat full of
luggage, made an excuse for it by saying, " She was
going to Rome, and wouldn't for the world be without
the Thirty-nine Articles."--Punch's Almanac,

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