The Sun.
London, England, 1847-01-13 00:00:00

.JANUARY 13,

1847

PRINCESS'S T.HEATRE.
An English version of Donizetti's opera Annl Bolena,
was produced here last evening under the title of Anne
Boleyn, for the purpose of in•roducing Miss Bassano to
an English audience as the heroine. The follo.vine. is the cast of the opera :
Henry VIII. (King of England) Mr. Leffler.
Percy (Earl of Northumberland) Mr. Allen.
Rochford (brother to the Queen) Mr. Walton.
Harvey (Governor of the Tower) Mr. Wynn.
Smeaton (page to the Queen) Miss Sara Flower,
Anne Boleyn (Queen of England) Miss Bassano. 1
Lady Jane Seymour Miss Smithson.
Our readers will, no doubt, recollect Miss Bassano
some two or three seasons since, as one of the most;
promising of our concert singers, (if we mistake not,.
she was a pupil of the Royal Academy of Music, and.
she does honour to her tutors). Since that time she
has studied in Italy, and has practised on the Italian
stage, and she returns to us not only an accomplished
musician, but, that which so few of our singers become,
a great actress, There is is an energy and a power
about the acting of Miss Bassano that quite carries
away an audience. Her features, too, are most ex-
prsssive, and in the impassioned scenes she is magnificent.
Her voice is a mezzo soprano of considerable power, and
it is completely under command. Her opening cave,
tine, "Speak not again of by-gone days"—the "Come
lisnoesnte" of the original, was beautifully given, and
vess much sWsucled. Her nest great hit was in the
euin!ett is Fee second scene, "Jo Setatii."- in which
she was most admirs'oly supported by Sara Flower,
Allen, and Leffler; aiid in which her acting told
with greet ekot. Then came the sestett "In questi
~..Leusrcli," and the finale of the first act, " Ali segnata,"
which completely sealed the success of Miss Bassano.
She was cii'led for at the conclusion of the first act, and
speeised with loud applause. In the second act, the
scene of which passes in the Tower, in the prison of
Anne, who is condemned to death, the acting of Miss
Bassano wftS inOSt effective. The scene with Jane Sev-
iaoon was most beautiful, and the duet, with which the
scene closes, " Vu Infelice," was given with the most
intense pathos, both by Miss Bassano and Miss Smith-
The trio, " Ambo morrete," was well given by
Allen, Lefler, and Miss Biussano, and was splendidly
acted by the lady, as was the trio immediately follow-
ing it, " Salo dtl'lnghitterra," As the opera proceeded,
so did the powers of Miss Bassana seem to rise with the
call made upon her. Her " Ali! dolce guidami," was
given with exquisite pathos. In her manner of giving
" Preghiera Cielo a naiei lunghi spasime" which may
be eousiderod as the finale of the opera, was
perfectly thrilling. Miss Bassano is not only an aecom-
plished singer, but she is a great actress. Her debut
was most successful, and the opera was announced for
repetition amidst the loud and unanimous applause of a
crowded house. The success of the opera was, however,
not owing solely to Miss Bassano's exertions. The cast
was remarkably strong. Of the Percy of Allen it would
be unjust not to speak in the terms of the highest praise.
Had he physical power equal to his taste and his
science, he would be the first tenor singer in the world ;
as it is, his Percy is the nearest approach to the Percy of
Rubini that has yet been made. Exquisitely did he give
his opening cavatina, "Da Quel Di ;"' delightful
was ho in all the concerted pieces ; but the
great triumph of the night was the " Vivi tu,"
followed by the " Nell veder la tua costanza." This
was a perfect triumph of taste, genius, and science—
the triumph of taste, genius, and science, over
physical difficulties, a triumph, such as Rubini alone
has been enabled heretofore to achieve, and which re-
minded us of Rubini's triumphs, because it was a
triumph over similar difficulties, accomplished:by similar
means ; and, with the exception of Rubini, we have
never heard any one superior to Allen in the " Vivi tu;"
and this we say, with a perfect recollection that Signior
Mario has, in the absence of Rubini, been accustomed to
sing this cantina. The Smeaton of Miss S. Flower was
very fine ; her rich contralto tones told most
effectively in the music of this part, and her
" Deh non voles" and "Ah Pares were every-
thing that could be desired. Great praise is due to
Miss Georgians Smithson, for the admirable manner in
which she both sung and acted as Jane Seymour ; and
Leffler, although not quite a Lablache, was a very effi-
cient representative of bluff Henry VIII. The opera
was most efficiently conducted by Mr. Loder, and it
was well put upon the stage, No doubt it will have a
run. The house was crowded before the commencement
of the overture.

DIVIDENDS.
At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street.
C. Killick and J. Sadd, paper stainers, Blackman-street,
Borough, Jan. 22, at one—F. Glass, woollen factor, Basing-
hall- street, Jan. 22, at eleven—L. Kennedy, pawnbroker,
Rochester-terrace, Stoke Newington, Feb. 3, at half-past
twelve—P. Kerr, bookseller, Harley- street, St. Marylebone,
Feb. 4, at twelve—H. Docker, oilman, Pall-mall, Feb. 4, at
half-past twelve—J. Hunnybun ironmonger, Cambridge,
Feb. 4, at half-past eleven—J. Holstead, tailor, Hampstead-
road, Jan. 22, at eleven.
In the Country.
J. Parsons, edge-tool manufacturer, Wolverhampton,
Feb. 9, at half-past twelve, at the Birmingham District Court
Parfitt, engineer, Bristol, Feb. 8, at twelve, at the
Bristol District Court—D. Davies, sen., anil D. Davies. jun.,
flannel manufacturers, Llanidloes, Montgomeryshire, Feb. 5.
at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court—T. Rees, brewer,
Liverpool, Feb. 5, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court
R. Barker, druggist, Manchester, Jan. 21, at eleven, at the
Manchester District Court—J. Garsed, sen., and J. Garsed,
Ln., flax manufacturers, Leeds, Feb. 5, at eleven, at the
eeds District Court.
CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown to

the contrary, on the day herein mentioned.
J. Eckstein, ironmonger, High-street, Notting-hill, Feb, 4
—J. Vowles, teazle dealer, Compton Bishop, Somersetshire,
Feb. 4—D. Cook, wheelwright, Liverpool, Feb. 2--W.
Barker, hosier, Nottingham, Feb. 5—G. Chesterton and J.
Woodall, glass manufacturers, Birmingham, Feb. 10—J.
Jarvis, wine merchant, Cannon-street, City, Feb. 2—T.
Miller, oilman, Mansell-street, Goodman's-fields, Feb. 2—R.
Baker, farmer, Christchurch, Monmouthshire, Feb. 2—F.
Holmes, ship builder, Little Yarmouth, Suffolk. Feb. 2—J.
Jenkins, cowkeeper ymond's-street, St. Luke's, Feb. 2.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
T. Lees, jun., and J. R. White, jun., land agents, Man-
chester—W. Smith and W. Scampton, cheese factors, Leices-
ter—R. Banner, S. Clegg, and W. Law, patent metalization
timber manufacturers-4. Smith and T. Bosbery, linen-
drapers, Regent-street—J. Young and J. Farrell, City—R.
H. Price, J. B. Deakin, and W. Dent, attorneys, Wolver-
hampton—W. Barratt and W. H. Rickards, calico printers,
Manchester—P. Heron, A. Al'Kean, and S. Tetley, stuff mer-
chants, Bradford, Yorkshire (so far as regards P. Heron)—
R. P. Church and J. S. Wood, cotton brokers, Liverpool—E.
Jones, and S. Huggins, builders, Liverpool—J. W. and S. P
Carr, ale merchants, Colchester—T. and J. Holvoak-e, pin
manufacturers, Redditch, Worcestershire—J. ?orritt, J.
Moorhouse, and J. Cunliffe, cotton spinners, Tottington
Higher-end, Lancashire-4. S. Miles and R. Bellin, East
India agents, Cornhill—W. Hendry and J. Glover, iron-
founders, Charles-street, Drury-lane—J. Leach and W.
Milligan, worsted stuff manufacturers, Wilsden, Yorkshire—
W. Howard and F. Binns, chemists, Paddock, Yorkshire—J.
H. Ridsdale, G. Ridsdale, and J. Rogers, share brokers,
Wakefield, Yorkshire—J. Schofield, W. Cookson, J. Kirk, T.
Marshall, and H. Goulding, cotton warp makers, Aldmond-
bury, Yorkshire (so far as regards 11. Goulding)—J. and J.
Atkinson, linendrapers, Leeds—M. Ainsworth and T.
Thompson, cotton waste dealers, Oldham, Lancashire—H.
Holland and W. Matthews, brick makers, Preston, Lan-
cashire—G. Tanner, sen., and G. Tanner, jun., tailors, Chip-
penham, Wiltshire—J.: and W. R. Hall, merchants, Liverpool
—T. Thomson, sen., and T. Thomson, jun., stone masons,
Cambridge—J. Garratt and J. W. Beal, ale dealers, Roch-
dale—G. England and T. Davies, haberdashers—J. Bentley
and R. Bradbury, cotton waste dealers, Oldham, Lancashire
—A. Wright and W. Lucas, refiners of nickle and cobalt,
Attercliffe, Yorkshire—G. Street and M. M'Evoy, hop mer-
chants, Borough—E. Lyne and S. Peter, attorneys, Liekeard,
Cornwall—J. W. and A. Furness, confectioners, High Hol-
born—R. S. Cuming and C. Stokeman, linendrapers, Wy-
combe, Buckinghamshire—G. Duxburg, J. Ingham, and J.
Seaton, engravers to calico printers, Manchester—D. T.
Sharpe and R. Hale, butchers, Paddington-street, St. Mary-
lebone—T. Welch, W. Welch, and T. Wood, ironmongers,
Kidderminster.

SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
Patrick Sandeman, upholsterer, Edinburgh, Jan. 18 ard
Feb. 8, at two, at the chambers of Mr. Nielson, Edinburgh.
Arthur Abercomby, insurance broker, Banff, Jan. 16 and
Feb. 6, at one, at the Banff-hotel, Banff.
Donald Fraser, glass merchant, Edinburgh, Jan. 18 and
Feb. 8, at two, at the Royal Exchange Coffee-house,
Edinburgh.

A KNACLER'S TRICK. SUFFOCATION OF A
HORSE.—At the Chelmsford petty sessions, on Tuesday
last, Edward Bentley, of Runwell, knacker, was charged
with killing a horse, the property of Mr. Thomas
Stock, of East Hanningfield. Mr. Duffield, solicitor, of
Chelmsford, appeared in support of the charge. From
the evidence adduced, it appeared that on Monday night
James Mason, a labourer, in the employment of Mr.
Stock, and who lives at his farm, had been attending his
club, about four miles distant, and on his return home,
about twelve o'clock, when within a few rods of his
master's yard, he heard a groan, and on getting over
the gate into the yard he saw the prisoner kneeling
down close to the horse's head, and on calling out to
him the prisoner immediately jumped up and ran off
so quickly that Mason could not stop him. Mason then
went and procured a light, and on going into the shed
found the horse dead, and four pieces of hay
twisted up very tight, and a halter lying
close to the horse's head. Mason then went
and called up his master, who lived half a mile from
the farm, and also a neighbour, who proved finding
the horse dead and the pieces of hay and halter as
described. The witnesses stated that from the shape of
the hay found, and also from the fact of their being
damp, they believed them to have been forced up the
nostrils of the horse, and which, with the assistance of
the halter, had produced suffocation. The witness
Mason spoke positively as to the identity of the prisoner,
having known him many years, and it being a very light
night. Mr. Duffield requested that the prisoner might
be remanded, when he should be able to produce further
evidence, and he was accordingly remanded until this
day (Friday), when the whole of the evidence will be
gone through. During the last few weeks several horses
belonging to farmers in the same neighbourhood which
had been turned out at night apparently in perfect
health, have the next morning been found dead, and the
cause of death remained a perfect mystery, until the
discovery of the above diabolical act has given grounds
for the belief that thay had been subject to the same
cruel death, especially as the prisoner was in several
instances very early on the premises to purchase the
earease.—Essex Standard.

FALL OF AN AEROLITE.—The inhabitants of Min-
dethal, in Bavaria, were scared from their Christmas
festivities and yule-logs on the 25th ult., by the unex-
pected arrival of an aerial visitant. We subjoin a tex •
tual recital of this meteorogical phenomenon from the
Augsburg Gazelle. "On Christmas-day, at 2 o'clock in
the afternoon, a noise was heard in the environs of Min-
&that, in a circumference of at least 18 leagues diameter,
resembling, in the first instance, a distant cannonade.
After 20 almost uniform discharges, this noise changed
to a rumbling, the sounds of which strikingly resembled
withble
those of a kettle-drum, tuned in F, and ended
The whole
sounds like those of distant truppetss:
n
phenomenon lasted about three miente
in the same manner throughout the entire wairedsishteraiertd.
Every auditor imagined that he eard the noise over his
head' but nothing was seen explanatory of the pheno
menon. In the village of Schonenburg, however, west-
ward of Mindethal, several persons remarked, above
the houses, a black ball rapidly descending, and a man
saw this ball fall into a garden. The news of the event
was soon spread abroad, and all the inhabitants, aban.
doning their firesides and family festivities, ran to the
spot pointed out. They found an opening in the earth
which emitted a sulphurous vapour. On digging with
great zeal a stone was discovered two feet below the sur-
face, in the form of an irregular, truncated pyramid,
with four narrow lateral surfaces, and a fifth somewhat
wider ; the base is smooth enough. The summit is
prismatic, and the corners rounded. It weighs almost
8 kilogrammes (441 b. and upwards). Its dimensions are
8 inches in height, 7 in breadth, and 3 in thickness
This stone bears marks of volcanic origin, and resem-
bles a grunstein (greenstone). The fracture is grayish
white, spotted with white, and several crystallized me-
tallic fragments were remarked on its surface, especially
some octohedral crystals of iron which attract the mag
netized needle. It is thought that other similar stoner
have fallen in the vicinity, but hitherto none have been
discovered.

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PASSENGERS TO AND FR / '• eo
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WHITEHALL, JAN. 11, 1847. 1 The subj
Metro Olitee Railway Comm 3- e e ,N...,:-.1 ',le.,' see,
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The Queen has been pleased to appoint Sir John M'Pher- IC. Pearson to the . "-Tilt-. with respect to th A tkr4,)
son Grant, Bart, to be one of the Board of Supervision for 1 contains some cur" s ,d'to ' t 1,1
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Reliefof the Poor in Scotland, in the room of Sir George mentioned subj
M'Pherson Grant, Bart., deceased.
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missioners' report : • ' .
WHITEHALL, JAN. 11. Her Majesty's commissior er- h `4 tc'owee•lcoVuir ,e;a'un'iltloait ' ' .
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Charles Samuel - ' ''' as '‘`67. 'r d art
, call for returns from the various riti_ .c, at ez-s- ,depart
Grey. Esq., 'to the office of one of the Clerks of her Ma-
jesty's Signet, in the room of John Gage, Es deceased: the number of passengers which irril ''ke &list., ingals, '
<l-,
from their stations in vehicles and on foe,. ' =Ass /Yu°
CROWN- OFFICE, JAN. 12. ing those who go to and from the City from Ve kept
MEMBER RETURNED TO MUM.: IN Tarts PRESENT
PA RLIAMENT, go to and from the west-end ; such accounts . Net,'"
County of. Worcester (Eastern Division) —George Rush- at least at some of the stations, and where this int. '..
out, Esq., Captain in her Mast Ist R. egiment of Life tion cannot be furnished, traffic takers (after the hula,
Guards, in the room of John Barnesaby, Esq., deceased. . burly of Whitsuntide is over) might be appointed to ob-
Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of the East Riding of ftalirli a.week's returns. Ido not-hesitate to affirm that the
o owing striking facts will be drawn forth :—Of the
Yorkshire, and of Kingston-upon-Hull.
East York Militia—John Todd, Esq ,to be Captain, vice passengers going to the City from the. Brighton, Croy-
Shore, resigned, Dec. 3; Marmaduke Jerard Griinston, don, &c., station, much more than four-fifths walk, be-
to be Captain, vice Clubley, resigned, Dec. 4. Esq.,
WHITEHALL, DEC. 10, 1846.
, cause the station is close to the centre of business,
e proprtins
The whereas in to thedistant stations
Robert Viner,
i '
Lord Chancellor has appointed Roberiner, of the are reversed, regard
and of all the isseno•ez•s th
co mi to o
or
city of Bath, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the , going from the City to Paddington and the Euston-
.
High Court of Chancery.
. square termini, upwards of four-fifths ride, because those
BANKRUPTS. stations are distant from the City.
John Parsons, baker, Medway-street, Westminster, to The railway station at New C-1. .osa, and the ,station at
surrender, Jan. 21, at two, and Feb. 20, at eleven, at the the Bricklayers' Arms bear, in point of distance, about
Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basing- the same relation to the heart cf the City as the stations
hall-street ; Hohnet and Son, Bridge-street, Southwark. at Pe.ddingtori and Euston-;q-ere If instead of allowing
Joseph Thomas Hoskins, boarding housekeeper, Black- , the Dover
! vies to na;eLlaidstorge Croydon,' 'and Brighton Compae
heath, Kent, Jan. 26, at half-past one, and Feb. 23, at eleven,
theirbrestation close to the City, 'they had,
like the Great V
.stern and Birmingham, been con-
at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee,
Frederick's-place, Old Jewry; Lawrence and Plews, Old demned to drop their passenger at those distant stations,
it cannot be matter of deubt ors peculation, but is matter
Jewry-chambers, Old Jewry, City.
Robert William Samson, coal merchant, Essex-wharf,
instead of on all the five-fifths
of certainty, that,
Strand, Jan. 21, at twelve, and Feb. 22, at eleven, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Turquand, official assignee, Old of the passengers for the City would have been obliged
Jewry-chambers ; Thackthwaite, Essex-street, Strand, to finish their journey in an omnibus or other vehicle,
John Barrington Elworthy, draper, Bridgwater, Somer- and the narrow approach over London bridge would have
setshire, Jan. 21, at twelve, and March 6, at eleven, at the been encumbered with five times as many
vehicles from
Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. Green, official as- the stations as now pass over it.
street,
signee,
Cheapside AldermanbuParyin , City
dg ;
water.. Reed and Langford, Friday- The erroneous opinion which prevails as to theansoeint
;
John Pickard, jun., hatter, Exeter, Jan. 21, at one, and of vehicles from the railway stations is largely due to the Feb. 16, at eleven, at the Exeter District Court ; liirtzel, fact that a vast number of omnibuses have displayed, in
official assignee, Exeter ; Geare, Mountford, and Geare, conspicuous parts, the name of some railway, as if they
Exeter; Finch and Co., Lincoln's Inn-fields. were engaged in conveying passengers to and from the
John Gemmill, jun., ship-broker, Liverpool, Jan. 26 and stations, whereas they do but pass by the stations in
Feb. 16, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court. Mor- their passage to and from their own resting and starting
gan, official assignee, Liverpool; Kearns, Red Lion-square, places in the various parts of the suburbs of the metro-
London ; Todd, Liverpool.
polis : for example, there are 160 omnibuses,, which go
Andrew White, ship owner, Bishop Wearmouth, Durham, from Chelsea, Islington. and other placescand make a
Jan. 19, at half-past ten, and Feb. 23, at one, at the New- '; •
castle-upon-Tyne District Court. Wakley, official assignee, resting place at the Greenwich station "Brighton,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; Crosby and Compton, Church-court, Dover. and Greenwich Railway," is conspicuously dis-
Old Jewry, London; Hoyle, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. played on the omnibuses, but so little have' they to do
DIVIDENDS DECLARED. with the railway, that upon an average of three days the W. Hart, hatter, Whitechapel High- street—first div. of whole number of persons conveyed to or from the station
by those omnibuses has not averaged two passengers
pound,
theon eSfusteturde
ofay._ Jan. 9 and two • sybse-
Iqsu.e9ndt. Si ant ut the
i - each, and they have been almost entirely persons going
place, Old Jewryy4. a
C. Poile, merchant, Rye—first div. of 68.4 d. in the pound, Every omnibus to the Brighton, Dover, Croydon, &c.,
on Saturday, Jan. 9, and two subsequent Saturdays, at the station, goes to and from the west-end of the town ; they
office of Mr. Edwards, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry. are solely required for the accommodation of other than
J. Evans, silk mercer, Bristol—a div. of 2s. 54d. in the City passengers. The same may be said of the Blackwell
pound, on any Wednesday, at the office of Mr. Acraman, station ; the omnibuses from Chelsea, &c., rendezvous
Bristol.
there precisely the same as five hundred omnibuses a day
H. Deverill, corn factor, Stoke-upon-Trent—first div. of
to and from Paddington rendezvous at the corner of
3s. 4d.
Birmingham. in the pound, on any Thursday, at the office of Mr.
Princes-street, Lothbury. It is an incontrovertible fact
Valpy,
that the amount of the passenger traffic in cabs and , ;
omnibuses bears scarcely an appreciable proportion to
the whole amount of the City traffic by similar vehicles ;
and it is a fact equally capable of proof, that %what little
increase railroads furnish is almost entirely supplied
from the distant termini. •
From every trains there is a vast number of persons
who have to come to the great City establishments to
transact their business and return to the country on
the same day ; by the same- token there is a vast num-
ber of citizens who make equally short visits to the Ko-
vinces. A carpet bag is the full extent of their equip-
ment, and to and from the Brighton and Dover station
they may be always seen walking over the bridge, but to
or from Paddington or Euston-square they are obliged
to cab it, racing through the streets of the City to a
great waste of time and money ; if my plan be adopted
they may walk from their place of business to or from
the station in Farringdon-street without encumbering
the streets, and each passenger may save half an hour
in time, and half-a-crown in money each trip—objects,
which in this age of competion, are not to be despised.
When last before the commissioners, I ventured to
point out the serious interruption to the business of the
City, which was occasioned by the opening of large
establishments in our confined streets, for the reception
and distribution of goods carried by the railways. I •
have since that time pursued that branch of inquiry to
a great extent, and the information I have obtained
does far more than confirm the statement I before yen.
tured to make.
In consequence of the desertion of the old inn-yards
by the coaches and waggons, which are now superseded .
by railroads, many of them have been taken as receiv-
ing houses by the great railway coreerns: These
houses and yards are chiefly in the very narrowest and
most confined streets ; they answered well enough when
the arrivals of coaches and waggons were few and far
between ; but now when they are converted into suction
pipes, drawing together the whole trade of the
City to the stations, in carts and waggons, they
create the most serious interruption to regular trade.
These establishments are being magnified and multiplied
in our narrow streets, and the leviathan waggons and
vans of the proprietors are daily to be seen in all direc-
tions canvassing for business, sometimes creeping about
the streets, having a few articles at the bottom of the
waggons with their names as " carriers by railway " dis-
played upon the vehicle, as if by way of advertisement ;
and at other times they may be seen with loads over-
hanging on each side the foot-pavement of the narrow
streets and lanes through which they pass.
I earnestly hop. the commissioners will not lose sight
of the fact, that the most inconvenient and expensive
system of conducting the goods department of the rail-
way business is entirely called into action by the great
railway establishments having their goods stations at too
great a distance from the seat of trade to enable parties
to take their goods to the terminus at once. By the ex •
iiting practice, the goods, whether taken by the carriers
or by private parties to the receiving warehouses, or
yards, have to traverse the streets twice; and generally
speaking have to be twice removed before they are placed
in the railroad carriages. If the goods station for the •
northern railways were north of Holborn-bridge, where
I propose it should be, once passihg thiough the streets
and one removal would suffice, thus economy of time
and labour would be happily blended with egreatly in- -
creased convenience' to the public: Goods of every de-
scription would be less exposed to danger by removals,
and they would, reach their place of ultimate destina-
tion frequently before, under the existing system, they •
can be placed upon the railway truck.

Dr. King, of Sackville-s.reet, has submitted to
the Medico-Chirurgical Society an essay " On the
Cause of Death of Infants Preternaturally Still-born,"
wherein he insists that death is not from asphyxia, as
hitherto suppised, but from syncope; and suggests
for the consideration of the medical profession an en-
tirely new practice, by which means a large majority
of infants preternaturally (head last) born may be
saved.

THE ORDER OF QUEEN ISABELLA, THE CATHOLIC.
-It is a curious fact, says one of our contemporaries.
that the Order of Elizabeth the Catholiev4hich has jest
been confer red by the Queen of Spain on Baron Anselme
de Rothschild, of Frankfort, was founded in honour of
the expulsion of the Moors and Jews.

OMNIBUS ROBBERY.—On Monday information was
forwarded to the metropolitan and city police that a lady
named Blencorn, residing at Chelsea, whilst riding in an
omnibus which plies between Chelsea and the City, dis-
covered, on her arrival at the Bank of England, that she
had been robbed of her purse, containing ten sovereigns
The Earl of Verulam has given the munificent do-
nation of 1,5001. towards the endowment and building
of the proposed new church at Lavistock-green, St. Al-
ban's. The Nobla Earl has also given a piece of land as
the site for the church.

DESTITUTION IN IRELAND AND SCOTLAND —The
congregation of St. John's Chapel, Bedford- row, contri-
buted on Sunday last the munificent sum of 1,2401. and
upwards, after sermons preached by the Hon. and Rey.
B. W. Noel and the Rev. J. G. Garrard, in aid of our
destitute fellow subjects in Ireland and Scotia] d
GREAT RUNNING MATCH FOR 20/.—Monday a
well contested foot race came off at Tottenham, between
Rawlins, of Tottenham, and Mallet, of London, for 101.
a side. The distance was half a mile. At the start
Mallet took the lead, which he maintained for 400 yards;
Rawlins then came up, and a good race took place,
which terminated by Rawlins coming in the winner by
30 yards. He accomplished the half mile of road in two
minutes and twelve seconds.

ROBBERY AT THE SOUTH-RASTERN RAILWAY:-
On Monday morning information was received it tii•
Southwark police-station, that: the counting-house of
Messrs. Chaplin and Horne, railway carriers, near the
luggage warehouses at the Bricklayer's Arms station,
was broken into on Sunday night, and robbed of seventy
pounds in gold and silver, and three cheques of a small
amount. The counting-house is inside the premises be-
longing to the company, who have their own police.
EARL FITZwILLIAM'S PERSIAN HORSE.—ROSROU.I
Khan was purchased at Tabuz, in Northern Persia, by
his present proprietor, for the
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Tekeh Turco roans, a tribe wandering on the banks of
the Oxus or Titron, and famous for their horses. In
foray made upon a neighbouring tribe, the Hezar s :master was killed, and the horse was
captured. He did
slain in a foray, and the horse, which had:nna
not, however, long remain with his new
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a name, was bought from his third master by the Chief
of Karoee, Mahomed Khan, for 16 men slaves, the average
price of a man slave being
_about 35 Persianlomauns, or
171. sterling. Mahomed khan tried the powers of the
horse, and galloped him against a number of his best
horses, all of whom he beat. The Khan gave him over
to one of his most daring captains, Rossoul, who had the
temerity to muke a foray close upon the camp of the
Qrince Royal, Abbas Mirza, whilst the English officers
were with him, and in that foray re-captured that extra-
ordinary wanderer, the Rev. Joseph Wolf, whom, when
he could not sell him for a larger sum than five tomauna
(21. 12s. 6d.), he released, and sent to Meshed. For this
temerity Rossoul was haunted down, and he and his
chief destroyed by the prince, and eventually the horse
came into the hands of Captain Shee. The horse has all
the peculiarities, and, eminently, all the excellences of
the breed; he is cathammcd to an extraordinary degree;
very long from the bone to the hoof, and extremely fine
in the neck and shoulder. His speed, wind, and endur-
ance are his characteristic qualities. The horse is at
present in the possession of Earl Fitzwilliam.
EARLY LAMBING.—On the morning of Thursday
last, an ewe, belonging to Mr. Longwill, Nether Meadow,
near Dairy, dropped two lambs, which are both doing
I well. The same ewe had lambs last season about the
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SUN tiMe.—Edinburgh Evening Post.