The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-19 00:00:00

S 11 0 P- WOMEN.

_ -
The number of young women employed in drapers'
shops is said to be about 2,500. In some of these
shops there are as many as thirty girls occupied from
morning to night at the counter. These girls have, for
the most part, received a fair education, and are re-
markable for the gentility of their appearance and man-
ners. They invariably board and live in the houses of
their employers. Their yearly salaries, in addition to
their board and lodging, vary from 10/. to 301. In
perhaps about a dozen instances, when the parties are'
known to be very experienced shop-women, 35/. and
40/. are given. In one single case, that of a young
woman, who is, or lately was, in the employ of a house
in Blackfriars-road, the princely salary of 100/. was
given. This young woman is said to exhibit wonderful
resources as a saleswoman. She discovers the oharac-
ter and peculiarities of her customers, as if by a species
of intuition, and so completely adapts herself to them,
that it is impossible to withstand her insinuating man-
ner, when pressing on them the purchase of articles.
Her persuasive powers are so great, that she not only
induces ladies to purchase articles for which they have
no immediate use, but in cases where they did mean to
snake purchases, she induces them to purchase three
times the quantity of articles they contemplated before
entering the shop. In many, if not most of the drapers'
shops, a small commission, varying according to cir-
cumstances from one shilling to halt-a-crown per pound,
is allowed to the young women who can prevail on cus-
tomers to purchase shawls, gown-pieces, and other arti
Iles, which have gone out of fashion. This commission
is allowed them as an inducement to put all their inge-
nuity into requisition to get rid of articles which have
ceased to be in demand. And some of the more inge-
nious of these saleswomen thus add, I understand, very
considerably to their fixed salaries. I know one in-
stance in which a female adds in this way, on an ave-
rage, 110/. to her 40/. salary, making in all 1501. per
annum. It is right, however, to mention that I am
not aware of any other shop-woman who turns her bu-
siness talents to an equally profitable- account.--Lights
and Shadows of London Life, by the Author of " The
Great Metropolis."

The Liverpool Mcchanics' Institution is by far
the most extensive and splendid Institution of the kind
in the kingdom. The buildings of the Institution cost
no less than 15,000/. ; it contains upwards of 3,300 mem-
bers,-850 pupils in three day schools,-600 pupils in
fifteen or sixteen evening:classes,—it has fifty teachers
regularly employed, whose salaries amount to 5,0001. a-
year,—a library of 7,000 volumes, with 1,300 readers
and a daily distribution of 200 volumes,—and public lec-
tures twice a week, attended by audiences varying from
600 to 1,300.

The Lyons papers state that the storm of the
2d inst. made sad ravages in the Jura mountains. Ten
houses were either entirely thrown down or seriously
damaged by the hurricane in the Communes of Sept-
moncel and La Maura. More than 2,000 pine-trees were
torn up by the roots, or broken to pieces, some of them
being 150 years old. Part were cut off, by fragments, of
the roofs of houses, and carried to a distance of more than
a mile. Much minor destruction was of course done.
Three persons are said to have been wounded, but no
loss of human life is mentioned.

TILE BALLOT.---A Correspondent writes :--.
The Tories of this city have become not only converts
to the Vote by Ballot, but have resolved on carrying
has been established at a public-house, and it has
their conversion into practice. -A Tory Friendly So-
ciety
been announced by advertisement that tlae members will
be elected by ballot. Whether a band-box will be used
for the blue candidates, or whether the Carlton Club
ballot-box will be lent for the occasion,. we' have no
means of learning.—Hereford Times.
ACCIDENT ON THE GHENT AND BRUSSELS
RAILROAM—We have often noticed with uneasiness a
dangerous practice of the railway conductors--that of
passing from one carriage to another while the trains
are in rapid movement. A fatal accident happened on
Saturday in consequence of this fool-hardy habit. One
of the conductors in a train travelling from Ghent to
Brussels fell off while passing along the side of the car-
riages and had'both his legs cut off by the wheels, which
went over him._Brussels Paper.
• THE NORTHERN WHALE SHITS.--DUNDEE,
OcT. 16.-13 y the arrival of the Princess Charlotte at this
port to-day, the success of the fishery is reported as
having been extremely deficient. The above vessel left
the-ice on the 21st of September last, bringing a eartg:
of four fish and sixty tuns of oil. The condition of
mnb.i..
other ships fishing in those seas is reorted by the Cfish,
mender to be as follows--viz. Alexander, "q
thirty-eight tuns of oil ; Caledonia, clean; tall:
ciambier,
1 four fish, ninety butts; Abram, one ditto; Lord
one ditto; Lady Jane, clean; Chieftain, three n
the night
EXTRAORDINARY ACCIDENT.
ckeeper of Mr.
of the 24th of September last, as the ln _ro,
f hunting
Thomas Walker was proceeding south
of the Marquis
quarters in, Glendochart, the propel
cart, with four-
of Breadalbane, in a spring eove
that had been tamed
reueelove,
teen dogs and two white hares
horse,
when about one
by the son of Mr. Walker, the
men Inn, suddenly
,and all ar, dogs, a ,were
man' c ' • No
became restive, and backing,
us
rushing river. person
precipitated into the impe_tillover
and how he lived to give
saw the accident but the driver, 'for on being questioned
mile and three quarters from flyer ,
the alarm is still a
with twelve of the dogs
he could say
he was in the wael,butd
how he could not tell. Next
had got out a2;3l"' horse with the shafts was found
e r, the.
very little
alongthe matter, excepting that
morning; how- veters of a mile below where the accident
about thr:e-e
the(
precipitated over a number of falls
90 feet in perpendicular height. The
-quarters
dead, of course, for in that dis-
tance
from 10 to ..,
varying '• 80
discovered about i 0 or yards only from the
cart was
.1 had left the road.
where it i
place
tanee happened, i t 1 v
OF TRADE:—At the weekly meetin
DECAY
of the Birmingham Anti-Corn-law Association last
week
Mr • Joseph Sturge said he had been at Gloucester,
where he had been informed by one of the clerks, that
one hundred and eight large vessels, laden with timber
had landed in that port last year, and that this ear '
, in
the same period, they had not had fifty timber vessels in
port.—(Bear.) He (Mr. Sturge) attached importance
to that fact. They knew that the timber thus imported
was chiefly used in building houses and making ma-
chinery, and so great a falling off showed an evident de-
cline in the trade of the country.
THE GARRISON OF PARIS.---The Commerce
states, that the garrison of Paris is composed of 25,000
men, which, added to the troops employed at the forti-
fications, raises the number to 50,000. " With such 'a
force," observes the Commerce, " Paris ought to be well
guarded."' a. .

The net fishing for salmon in Tweed closes this
\ay (Friday). Tho take during the week has been good,
bt consisted principally
of trouts, which are now getting
oti of condition. The season as a whole has, as we have
i staid on former occasions, been considerably above an
1 averse.---Berwick Advertiser.

F, VEN'ING SUN

Si?ll4,ll'. of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

MORAL TAM WORTH. •
(From the, Ex,Eniner.)
A miniature statue of the Premier, a full-length not
.3 span long, was exezutel the other day, to the admira-
tion of the curious in small matt.m.s. Toffs miniature
statue would nevertheles be a gross ex t geration of
the size of life, if the height of the great original were
to be measured by some of the little d0in,.73 imputed to
hint. We do not place credence in all that the world
says even of S:r Robert Peel, nor do we rest implicit
faith in the subjoined statement, which is published as
" an extract from a letter from Mr. Acland," and re-
mains unetntradieted

1.3.031 THE DAILY FAI.EiLS OF YE.'sTERDAY.

GLOBE.—One by one have thie journals of the Gd-
vcrament abandoned, as untenable, the strong-holds from
which, when in oppo,.:ition. they kept up an incessant
volley of vituperation against the Whig,. Ministers ; I adeec',
they now confessedly find themselves reduced to the ex-
tremity of making the humiliating admission, that the ex-
isting Ministry obtained office by falsa pretences. Instead
of there being irraConellcablo differences between the
Whigs and Tories, there are, we are gravely told, really
no differences worth speaking of between them. The
former are assured that they may, with very great pro-
priety, afford to the latter their support, in order to
enable them to carry on the Government—which, be 't
remembered, they obtained by continually assert-
ing that the principles and policy of the former
would inevitably sae the foundations of the Con-
stitution, and destroy the Altar and the Throne!
An entire article in the Times of Thursday Was de-
voted to this insidious proj ; and on the following
day the Standard, in an elaborAte disquisition, demon-
strated that it woul I be highly impolitic, and, indeed,
be manifestly unconstitutional, for the Government to
interfere with the Itcpi al Association of Ireland.
Experience has abundantly proved," said the Stand-
ard, " that there are two, and bat two, effectual modes
of obviating the ill effects of a seditious movemeat. The
first is to put the sedition down with a strong hand—
and this must be resorted to when immediate danger to
the Sta.e is threr.tened. The other is to leave the evil
to burn itself out—neither feeding it by concession, nor
fanning it by feLble opposition. This litter is the
course which a prudent and a firm Government will al-
ways prefer when it can be adopted with safety ; and this
is, we doubt not, the course which the present Administra-
tion will pursue with regard to the O'Connell sedition in
Ireland." In this counsel, offered to the "present Admi-
nistration," derived from " abundant proof," the result of
" experience," is found a complete vindication of' the
course adoptel by the late Government with respect to
Mr. O'Connell and the Rereal Association. A fresh
illustration is also afforded of the unprincipled opposi-
tion to which that Government was subjected by the
Tories, both in Parliament, and by their organs out of
doors.

" There is in Tamworth a grammar school, founded
by Sir Robert's father, for the gratuitous education of
the children of the inhabitants, so long as a Peel shall
represent the borough ; and I am credibly informed
that the master (Savage by name, and, as it should
seem, servile by nature) informed the boys a fear days
since that be had received a letter from the Prime
Minister, ordering him to discharge the children of all
those who had signed the petition ? The way being
thus prepared, the relieving officer and his colleagues
went round to the parents of the children to inquire'
if they had signed that important document. And the
public may believe that some disclaimers were the con-
sequence."
If there be any truth in this statement, some invalu-
able moral lessons have crowned the system of tuition
adopted in the Tam worth Grammar School. Tne few
lines, indeed, arc full of them—they overflow with
morality.
First, there is an established temple of knowledge
wherein electors may be legally bribed, by the gratui-
tous education of their children, to return a Peel mem-
ber, whatever may be his opinions or qualifications—
the school to be shut up the moment the borough
ceases to be open to the descendants of its founder ;
thus realizing one of the evils (that of offering a bribe
in the shape of a reward contingent upon success) which
it. is said the Ballot would produce. The infamy to be
born of the ballot-box is bred already, it seems, in the
Tamworth Grammar School.

Next there is the teacher communicating to his pu-
pils, on the authority of the Queen's Prime Minister
himself, the instructive and affecting lesson, that their
parents have been guilty of some dark offence, whereof
ingratitude to the dispenser of gratuitous education is
the very least ingredient ; yes, guilty of something too
mysteriously criminal for little boys to understand, but
demanding the visitation of the sins of the fathers upon
the children, by instant dismissal and disgrace.
Then comes the edifying spectacle of the parents,
when questioned by the scrutineers, disavowing their
own petitions, and proclaiming their genuine signatures
to be forgeries ; perhaps, fasteaing their proper pothooks
upon other people, in their eagerness to avoid suspicion,
and tracing their own legitimate crosses to a neighbour
over the way.
Sir Robert, when he boasts of the morality that
abounds in Tamwortb, does not do it justice ; he should
describe the agencies that are vainly employed to extin-
guish it. He would best show its triumph, by showing
the workings of Toryism for its destruction. Recent
events, sufficiently authenticated, would aid him, with-
out the assistance of this more apocryphal, though un •
contradicted, story of the Grammar School.

STANDARD.—" The waters are out; and the
question is, are our new rulers engineers enough to let
them off safely, ere they force a ruinous channel for
themselves! The waters are out, physically as well as
politically ; and the great statesmen, who, in default of
corn, may ask us why don t we eat potatoes, will be well
mew ered by the counter-question—will they guarantee
us potatoes to eat.? We tell the party who now stand
at the helm of power, that they are responsible for
whatever may ensue from their long-protracted policy."
Such is the exulting tone in which an ex-Ministe-
rial Journal predicts the greatest calamity that can
befal a people—a famine. Words cannot describe
adequately all the horrors expressed in that one word ;
but to announce 'amine as at hand, is an occasion of
triumph, and even of mirth, with the Whig-Radical
writer, because he assumes that for a famine the 'pre-
sent Ministers can be made responsible. It is, says he,
the effect of their long-protracted policy. How long
protracted ? They have been in office about six
weeks, and these six weeks comprehend no part of
" seed time," and but little of " harvest time," and if
the six wteks comprehend both, earthly rulers aro
not responsible for the weather. If any Ministers
can be held responsible for the threatened calamity,
surely the responsibility rests upon those who ruled
for eleven years preceling its arrival, not upon the
men who have occupied the station of Government
for barely six weeks. But " the wish is father to the
thought." We trust that there is no reason to apprehend
famine or even scarcity. " The waters are not out," and
if they were, thanks to the wisdom that suggested the
Corn-laws, and to the firmness that maintains them, even
the most unfavourable condition of the weather would
not leave the country without a sufficient supply
of food. Has the effect of the Corn-laws been
to cause a greater or less amount of corn to be
raised en our own soil ? Every one must answer
that the effect of these laws has been prodigiously to
augment the domestic supply. Here, then, is one
mode, and that the most effecteal and satisfactory,
in which the Corn-laws have operated to obviate
famine. Let us suppose that but one-third of the corn
land of England had been put out of tillage by a re-
peal of those laws—and the orators of the League
anticipate one-half--what wool] be the effect of a de-
ficient harvest—a harvest yielding but half a crop?
Why, Mr. M'Culloch, if we are not mistaken,
has shown that to supply all the corn necessary for con-
sumption, would employ the whole marine of England,
military and commercial. Let men judge, then, what
would be the effect as regards famine, even supposing
that prices would not rise abroad, of being driven to
import three quarters ? Freight would of course rise ;
profits would be made to rise enormously ; and this is
the object of the share that the moneyed capitalists have
in the present agitation. The effect of a repeal of the
Corn-laws would be to at least double the price of food
in a time of scarcity.
COURIER.—That much and deplorable distress
prevails in the manufacturing districts has never been
eithar doubted or denied, but that its extent is, and for
the last two ears has been, wilfully exaggerated to
suit the dishonest views of unprincipled and
revolutionary factions is just as undoubted and un-
deniable. Sir Robert Pce!, whilst admitting
and lamenting the existence of the real evil,
with much justice, and not less moderation, excised
the wound of all the peg and dirt foully accumulated
upon it by the false Menchester quacks of Gibsons,
Cobdens, &c., so as to fester and inflame it the more,
by way of a heartless job at the cost of the un-
suspecting victims. 'These street crying tinkers,
who never mend one hole in the kettle without at
the same time preparing two more for another day's
occupation, swelled loudly and loquaciously in the
Commons' House, where they had promised their ope-
rative hearers in the country such a terrible onset before-
hand, about the dreadful decrease in the funds of friendly
or benefit societies, from the increase of claims arising
from the alarming spread of destitution, a decrease of
which in its amount they could know nothing, and of
which they pretended to afford no authentic statistical
details whatever, but rested its proof solely on the
hollow ground of their own unsupported and valueless
allegations. It may be conceded at once, that the
funds of friendly societies could not be flou-
rishing in a season of depressed trade and de-
ficient employment, and singular would it be were
such a fact possible. Courteously t /king for granted
the veracity of statements so defective in evideece, how-
ever, Si: Robert procred :d to show from reel and
official returns that, however benefit clubs might have
esperieaccd the pressure of the times, savings' banks
exhibited little sympat:.ctie accord riith the melancholy
talc on a comparison of their actual condition and pro-
gress with that of former years. When rudely chal-
lenged with having unfairly limited himself to the years
moat favouratle to his argument--the same years as
those previously referred to by the empty declaimers
themselves—lie answered only by
ran ;e of taking' the wider
. years required, and still conclusively proving
the same result.

THE CENSUS MDCCCXLI.
(From the Spectator.)
The returns of the Census lately completed, we are
informed, will show an increase of upwards of 30 per
cent. on the population of 1831 in the great manufac-
turing districts, and a decrease of 2i per cent. in
the agricultural districts. The rate of increase on
the whole nation is about 12 per cent. The most rapid
increase has taken place in Lancashire, Lanarkshire,
and Forfarshire. These facts suggest two observations,
which we address to the serious attention of all who
have it in their power to influence the measures of
Government or the Legislature.
The first regards the bearing of the facts upon the Free
Trade controversy. The rapid increase of population
in the manufacturing and slight decrease in the agricul-
tural districts, have been mainly caused by the migration
of labourers from the latter to the former. Ceteris
paribus it will be found, that the ratio of children born
in the country to the population there is at least as
great as that of the children born in towns, and that
the proportion of children who survive is not less.
The population of the manufacturing districts has been
increased by families flocking into them in search of
employment and food ; the population of the agricultu-
ral districts has been diminished because numbers who
could not find there the means of subsistence have gone
to seek it in the manufacturing districts. The number of
individuals who can support themselves within the com-
pass of Great Britain by cultivating the soil has passed
its maximum ; all future additions to the population
must earn their support by manufacturing industry, or
they must starve. But, owing to the restrictions im•
posed upon trade, narrowing nur market, the present
field for manufacturing industry is already ;
there are more people willing to work in the manufac-
turing districts than can find sufficient employment and
wages to provide them adequately with the necessaries
of lire. There is only one way to relieve our already
superabundant population, and provide for inevitable
increase—that is, to extend our markets by removing
every restriction which prevents men from trading to
any place where a profitable return is to be had. The
produce of our soil can feed, clothe, and otherwise
maintain, a certain number of human beings ; the
fabrics into which our native mineral and other raw
products, with those we import from abroad, can be
worked up, avid buy food and other means of mainte-
nance from other countries for a certain number more :
the ficl I of agricultural employment is filed up and
running over ; the only resource for the surplus is to
leave the country, or to add to the numbers of those
already employed in manufacture 3. The restrictions on
commerce, which narrow the field of menufacturing in-
dustry, are neither more nor less than laws for keeping
down the people to a lithited number by starving them.
Our second remark relates to the hearing of the facts
stated above on the question of L'aeliamentary Repre-
sentation. At present the Representatives returned
by the influence of the landowners constitute the ma-
jority of the House of Commons. How long will this
be tolerated, seeing that a process is going on by which
the population of the manufacturing districts is rapidly
increasing and that of the agricultural districts
gradually diminishing ? The returns of three firmer
censuses give the following comparative proportions of
families, in centesimal parts—

Engaged in Engaged in Engaged

Agriculture. Tia-Lf(?, &c. other;v'ise. Total.
1811

1821
1831
The seeming addition to the proportion of families not
engaged either in trade or agriculture, in 1831, was
owing to an improved mode of classification. On the
two former occasions, labourers in the agricultural
districts employed in mines, road-making, and the
fistieries, had been classed as agriculturists, wherever
they were accustomed to cultivate their own gardens or
work in the fields during harvest; in the manufacturing
districts, all pe-sons engaged in road-making, inland navi-
gation, cartaae,&c., had been classed as engaged in naanu-
factui es. In 1831,the families Of all such individuals were
moved to the third column. Now, from 1811 to 1831
there had bcea a steady increase in the number of per-
sons employed in transporting goods, making roads, and
the management of inland navigation in the manufac-
turing districts ; while the class of half-manufacturers
half-labourers had gradually been diminishing in the
agricultural districts, from the greater development of
the factory-system. The progressive decrease, there-
fore, of the number of families dependent for support
upon agriculture, as compared with the number de-
pendent on trade and manufactures, must be if any-
thing underrated in the table quoted above from the
Population Returns. It appears, then, that the num-
ber of farali,,s dependent for support upon trade and
manufactures, had for twenty years previous to IS3I
exceeded that of the families dependent upon agricul-
turetoaring
; and since 1831 the population of the inanufac-
districts has increased thirty per cent , while
ii,a,at ()dr.,
mthiOnuntgioini7ltyyaladisstter.aicatla, haaesdexperriened a posi-
tthe agricultru„risetsma:e
.becoming a smaller and process,
miaority. Iler and smaller
embrace execflustihv:lym
diicit
and The majority this case is not a mere ia -
ajtohreityw;eati!tlielyrniannodrityindteolelisgennott.
and moncsed eapitalt investeda
Imines,ef
tile
The value
aienh i nt
trade,
, aleast
e buildings,qual
the agricultural e 4 aatndle
latter
country ; and the former
is increasing while the seems nearly to have
reached its utmost limit;' The unskilled labourers of
the manufacturing districts are quite e
intelli-
gence to the agricultural labourersequal in
; while in the skilled
artisans there will be found a class to which
The agri-
culturists an produce no parallel.upper and
middle clams of thealanufacturing interest are in point
of natural abilities and acquirements
those of the agriaultural interest. Eyein point of
quite equal to
mere physical strength, it is a mistake to Supposethat
the agriculturist? as a class excel the manufacturing
labourers. In every other respect the manufacturing
classes are at least equal to the agricultural, and in
aptitude of combined operation they surpass theM as
much as the do in numbers. Under these circum-
stances, it dnot in the nature of things tbat the " landed
preponderAncY" in the House of Commons should much
longer bf tolerated.
we,,,nelely state facts : the application is left to be
made 0Y the parties interested. Where the wealth,
numbers, and intelligence of a nation reside, there will
the dower be also. The transfer of power from a retro-
graling to a growing interest cannot be averted either
Is declamation or logic.

31-It.-17-74ERN1AN
The Honourable
forleO the Purpose
Captain
G )rden
viAt to Alaerdeen, during his recent
the form of reelection, state of
going through
that Mr. Bannerman would be
to some of his friends
be deprived of his
Comtnissionership, and as ,I e
were informed at the
time, went so far even a; teorceation the Gazette in
which a successor would b
, appeared, That Gazette,
nos
iwtiithout any new ap-
and several others
poirttnent to Greenwich
and,B as it had
been most confidently alleged tlia'ataMr
his place for life, our good citizens I;
i‘ietilber
had
been
to imagine
annerinan held
that the Gallant County
with tehne v i e playingw
a hoax, or getting up an idle story, w
per-
bur, of keeping people front talking of a se?' '
ition to himself. It turns ont,hewe,,e. t_ serious Op po-
• , hat.he was so
fir perfectly right ;—Mr. Bannerrnan's patent office has
been taken from him and given to another.
The Tories of Aberdeen ig,,efess to be very sorry for
Mr. Bannerman, and very indignant at Sir R. Peel, and h
VrOuld be uncharitalde to charge them all with insince-
rity ; but there can he little doubt that the qniat chuckte
of the Constitutional is a truer exposition of the re.d
feelings of a majority of them, than the lugubrious looks
end sympathetic expressions they have been indulging for
the last few days. Such of them as have a personal
friend hip for Ms. Bannerman are no doubt grieved
that be should have been so hardly dealt with, but the
others arc right glad to find a Whig disappointed, even
if it should be at the expense of Tory honour.
One thing is clear ; the Tories will have no cause
to blame their chiefs for imitating the suicidal policy
that the Whigs practised on their first accession to
office. So far from allowing places over which they
have complete control to be held by political oppo-
te.ntr, they seem resolved to err rather on the oppo-
goesrid!, asd make a clean sweep, even where their
we
Is questionable. Mr. Bannerman had every
reason to believa that his situation was one that could
not be affected by a' change of Ministry. It was con-
stituted byeiv_ta patent, for the completion of which an
paid fr„„7 ,tamp was necessary ; the salary was not
charitarletneinstiblic exchequer, but from the funds of a
by at least one Member
and it had been held previously
the opposition. of Parliament who voted with
As yet, we are •
in
ntglorant of what steps Mr. Banner-
man has takennis
Wan matter ; but, if he has not by
any act of
Mr. llope, we d'o acquiesced in the appointment of
not think that he should his place, and set sir
en all bands case is admittedßobert Peel at defiance. The
.ands to be a new one, and
the reasons that are a
sionership what it wa9slgued for making the Commis-
not before,
.._
m!titeL...........2u5ive
place, seem very inconcal purely a political
Aberdeen Herald. ,

The evening before last, as several gendarmes
were trying to separate some men who were fighting jia
a street outside the Barriere de la Courtille, they
were resisted, not only by the combatants, but also by
a crowd of people, who were witnessing the scene.
During the scuffle that ensued, one of the gendarmes
received a most dangerous wound in the thigh from a
knife, and was obliged to be removed to am hospital in a
coach. Two of the men who were creating the disturb-
ance were arrested.

AWFULLY SUDDEN DEATn. Shortly ate'
ten o'clock, on Satnrday night, Robert Benton, *Ce
coachman to Lord Core try, residing at 103, PiccadaY,
suddenly expired while singing in the concert-row? of
the King and Prince of Wales public-house, in rick'
street, Piccadilly. The circurnatance, as rnight ex-
pected, created an extraordinary senfttion theughout
the room.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
GUILDHALL.

Three p,.,rzons were yesterday charged heron) Mr.
Alderman Lainson with attempting to drown themselyei
at Blw_7kfriars-bridge.
• The first vas Henry Ten aged 40 years, whom
George Brissenden, a City policeman, saw on Sunday
afternoon standing at the water's edge in a way that ex-
cited his suspicion, and upon approaching and question-
ing him the prisoner confessed he had come there to
drown himself, and said he was determined to do it.
Witness caught hold of his collar, and the prisoner
dropped on his knees in order to full into the water.
Mr. Alderman LAINSON observed that it was, no
doubt, convenient not to do that before he felt himself
safely held by the collar. He asked him Ns hat he had to
say about the matter.
The prisoner said he was driven to desperation by ill-
usage from his wife. She had- pawned everything she
could take, and turned his children out of doors.

The prisoner was remanded, that some inquiry might
be made about him.

Ellen Sallivan, 30 years of ago, who stated herself to
be a married woman, was next placed at the bar.
Mr. C. Farina, staying at the Cathedral Co!Tee-house,
St. Paul's Churchyard, stated that about five o'clock on
Saturday afternoon, he saw the prisoner sitting on one
of the steps at the causeway, close to the water, as if
waiting there until she should be immersed when the
tide ro;e sufficiently. He called the attention of Bris-
senden to her. She was sullen, and would not answer
their questions ; but she admitted she had come there to
drown herself.

The policeman said she cried very much, and refused
to give her address. He urged her to go home, but she
said she would not ; she had determined to finish her
life. lie took her into custody, and she afterwards said
she was in great distress ; she had two children, and her
husband had been out of work a year. She gave an ad-
dress in Drury-lane, and Mr. Farina very kindly gave
him some money to go and relieve her family, but he was
unable to find her home.

The gaoler said she had stated in the prison that she
lodged in Whitecross-street.
She gave some Explanation in an undertone respect-
ing her address.

'l"slr. Alderman LAINSON said he should take care of
her for a day or two till she became more calm, and
some inquiry should be made about her.
Catherine Pretty, a shoemakers wife, who came from
St. Giles's to Blackfriars• bridge to drown herself on
Wednesday night, because her husband found fault with
her careless sewing (she assisting him in his business),
was again brought up. She was now on good terms
with her husband, and was anxious to return home.

Mr. Alderman LAINSoN gave her up to the cars of her
husband, with an admonition.
KENSINGTON POLICE.

Mr. Henry Morland, a person of fashionable ap-
pearance, described as proprietor and manager of the
Royal Kent Theatre, Kensington, appeared before Mr.
Paynter, the sitting Magistrate, on a summons to show
cause why he detained a Dutch clock, eight cane-bot
tomed chairs, one washing-stand, and other articles, the
property of James Chambers Hutchinson.
The complainant, on coming forward to be sworn,
said, " There is a lady, I see, present who is passing her-
self off as Mrs. Morland, against whom I intend to pre-
fer a charge of bigamy, if not of polygamy, and with the
proofs of which I am prepared. I have, therefore, to
request that she may be detained until after this case is
gone into."
Mr. PAYNTER said, if such were his intentions he had
better give her into the custody of the police, when the
case would come before him in the usual way.
Mr. Hutchinson then gave Mrs. Morland into the cus-
tody of Inspector Smith, of the 'l' division, who was pre-
sent, and she was removed to the charge-room.
_ _

In a few minutes afterwards Julia'Elizabeth Morland
was placed at the bar, charged with having intermarried
with James Chambers Hutchinson, her former husband,
William Cook Seward, being at the time alive.
The accused was a remarkably good-looking female,
between 20 and 30 years of age, and was dressed in a
crimson dress, with deep orange scarf shawl, and a white
chip bonnet, with a profusion of white ribands and ostrich
feathers, and wore round her neck a gold chain, to
which was suspended a gold watch.
Mr. Hutchinson deposed that he was an attorney's
clerk, and resided in Dean-street, Holborn. On the 20th
of July, 1831, he intermarried with the prisoner at the
parish church of St. Pancras, the certificate of which so-
lemnity he produced. He had subsequently ascertained
that she had been previovsly married in the city of Exeter
in the year 1826 to a person named William Cook
Seward, who was afterwards transported to New South
Wales, and he produced a certificate from the Colonial-
office, certifying that Seward was alive whoa the returns
were made in 1839.

Mrs. Morland acknowledged that she had been mar-
ried to Mr. Seward, and also to the complainant.
Mr. PAYNTER inquired at what inn at Exeter it was
that Mrs. Morland had lived ?

Mrs. Morland replied at the Wheatsheaf Inn, which
her father had kept for several years. She then proceeded
to state that she was but 12 years and six months old when
her mother took her to church, a child with a pinafore on,
and married her to her first husband, Mr. Seward, for (as
she was understood to say) a consideration of 1,0001. After
Seward was sentenced to transportation the complainant,
Mr. Hutchinson, became acquainted with her, and led
her to suppose, as did also, his Solicitor, to whom he
referred her, that her marriage with Seward was not a
legal one, and it was under that belief that she had
married him. When she married him she was quite
inexperienced, not being 19 years of age, and since then
she had kept him fur seven years in all the idleness and
debauchery of a skittle-ground, he never, from the day
of their marriage, having done a single day's work.
Mr. PAYNTER then said he was of opinion that the
first marriage was a valid one. He was, however, not
inclined to keep her locked up in custody for so long a
period as would be necessary to procure evidence from
Sidney as to her fir3t husband being still living. lle
would, therefore, take her own bail for her appearance
to answex the charge whenever required to do so.
Mr. Morland then offered to enter into the required
surety.

The charge against Mr. Morland for detaining the
things was then gone into.
Mr. Morland admitted having the articles in his pos-
session, but contended they did not belong to Mr. Hut-
chinson. The fact was, he said, that when Mr. Hutchin-
son came out of prison for debt, in January last, he
claimed one-half of the things which were in Mrs. Mor-
land's possession, which were delivered up to him. The
other half he (the defendant) contended the complainant
had never Nought, paid • for, or went to prison for, but
they were bought by or given to Mrs. Morland.
Mr. Hutchinson admitted Mrs. Morland had bought
them, but it was during the years she was living with him
as his wife. The articles in question were inserted in his
schedule as excepted articles.

Mrs. Morlandsaid, the fact was the articles in ques-
tion were all seized by the landlord fur rent, who had
given her a few of the things back, and had half kept her
while the complainant was in prison. The chairs had
been ,given her by a lady residing at No. 52, Sloane-
street, and the mattress, another of the articles claimed,
by Miss Tallont, of No. 10, York-place.
The complainant declared the things were moved
from his lodgings by Mrs. Morland while he was in
prison through her extravagance, and that before he
came out of prison she and Mr. Morland were living
as man and wife.

After a deal of violent contention between the par-
ties, the defendant consented to give up the property
claimed upon the production of an offico copy of Mr.
Hutchinson's ts:;hodule, provided they were theroin men-
tioned.

Mr. M-ari defended his. cause , said, " The case ha-,
crated a very -great interest in the public raind ; bat I
e, lie -co that the •mtention of Mr. Grove, in what hs
stated, was not prccisely in the se:cle in which it has
been taken ;" adding, he mu3t &cline re-hearing the
ease, but he Nvould recommend Mr. Drury to lay the
facts before the Police Commissioners, who no doubt
would order the case to be investigated.
Mr. Drury, after condemning Lovell for various alleged
acts of impropriety as an officer, and after thanking Mr.
Jeremy for the urbanity with which the application had
listened to, assuring him that he would prosecute
the inquiry before the Commissioners, left thi Court.
CROYDON POLICE.

ENCROACHMENTS BY RAILWAYS ON PUBLIC HIGH-
WAYS.—One of the Superintendents of the London and
Brighton Railway attended More Messrs. Sutherland,
Warrington, and Adams, the presiding Magistrates, for
the purpose of making an application, on behalf of the
Directors of that Company, to stop up one of the public
footpaths in the parish of Croydon.
The Superintendent stated that he was instructed to
apply to the Magistrates for their sanction to stop up al-
together what had heretofore been a public footpath of
the parish of Croydon, but which was at present crossed
by the railway. Persons who used the footpath were
now obliged to go across the rails, and the Directors
feeling that this might lead to some accident, were de-
sirous that the footpath, which was of very little con-
venience to the public, should be altogether stopped.
Mr. ADAMS expressed his opinion that the application
was of rather an extraordinary character. He did not
know what right the Railway Company had to lay their
rails across an acknowledged public footpath, and when
they found the inconvenience of the proceeding, that
they were to apply to the Magistrates to shut out the
public from the use of the footpath altogether. If they
had acted legally, and in accordance with their own Act
of Parliament, they should have built an arch over the
footpath, and carried their railway across it.
The Superintendent said that there were two arch-
ways within a very short distance of the footpath in ques-
tion, under which the public might pass without having
occasion to go over the railway. The only object of the
Directors was to prevent accidents. _ _

Mr. ADAMS said, that if they wished to avoid acci-
dents, they should have done in the first instance what
their own Act of Parliament directed, which was, to
make an archway for the free passage of the public,
under their railway. lie (lid not see what right any set
of speculators for their own interest, for in such a light
railroad proprietors must be looked upon, had to carry on
their line, just where they pleased, without caring at all
for the rights of the public, and when they found that
accidents were likely to ensue, that they were to exclude
the public from their rights.
The Superintendent said there were archways at a
very snor distance, under which the public might pass.

Ir. WARRINGTON said he did not Consider that this at
all altered the question. Why were railway proprietors
to act in this arbitrary manner ? The fact was, how-
ever, that they presumed upon their power and their
wealth, and did really just what they pleased, because
they well knew that no individual could attempt to
go to law with a powerful body. In this case the Com-
pany had thought proper, without any notice, to carry
their railway across a public footpath, and having done
this, when the public found the inconvenience, they now
sought to shut them out from the use of it altogether.
The other Magistrates concurred in the view taken of
the matter by Mr. Warriny,ton, and the application was
unanimously refused.

TIE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1641.

CURIOUS CHARGE of MPOST URE.
(Abridged from the Cheltenham Chronicle.)
At the public-oflice, Cheltenham, on Saturday, the
9th instant, Mr. Williams said he had a case of great
importance to bring before the notice of the Magistrates.
There was a man in this town, under the name of Rem-
brand, who called himself a chiropodist, and professed
to kill corns. He extracted frown those corns what he
called roots, and charged ss. for each of those roots. It
appeared, in point of fact, that instead of extracting any
thing like a " root," he put a pair of pincers to the corn,
and apparently took out something, but, instead of
taking out something, he took out nothing, and showed
to the person upon whom the operation was performed
something like a fibre, which, he pretended, was the
root of the corn, but which was in reality nothing but a
piece of bristle. A gentleman who was present had ac-
tually paid him Si. 155., at the rate of 53. per bristle.
A lady, who had a similar operation performed upon
her, lead a number of these bristles in her possession,
and a gentleman in Court had anothe;. Mr. Williams
then proceeded to call the attention of the Maistrates
to the following clause in the Vagrant Act, which he
thought would reach a vagabond of this description :
" Every person pretending to or professing to tell for-
tunes, or using any subtle craft, means, or device, by
palmistry or otherwise, to deceive and impose upon any
of her Majesty's subjects." He (Mr. Williams) would
suggest that one of the gentlemen who had been im-
posed upon should go with a policeman and bring Mr.
Itembrand before the Bench.

STEAM ENGINES IN FRANCE.
(From the Moniteur Industrial.)

Mr. Henney said he was decideily of opinion that he
ought to be brought up. _ _

If intelligence be, as it is asserted, the distinguish-
ing characteristic of our population, we must confess
that good sense is a quality for which we are less re-
markable. By the t.,!rrn "good sense," we mean a
just appreciation of that which is good and useful ;
which stops not at the present, but seeks to penetrate
into the future ; it is, in our opinion, the quality most
desirable for a nation to possess, for it is the source of
many others, and the surest guarantee of prosperity
and strength. Good sense is a safeguard against the
influence of prejudice, which has done, and still con-
tinues to do, so much mischief in France.
It has been the work of many years, and of great
efforts on the part of our most distinguished manufac-
turers, to make the French people believe that it is
possible to construct steam engines in the French
manufactories.

The government and public administrations, who in
general escape with difficulty from being affected by
the common prejudices, have hitherto ordered from
England the engines which they required for their
steam vessels ; and up to a very recent period our large
establishments, although prepared to contend with the
foreigner, solicited in vain a share in their construction.
Our readers will recollect with what energy and con-
stancy we have sustained this national cause. At length
we have reason to believe we have gained our point.
In ordering engines from England we are obliged to
submit to onerous conditions, and to delays without end.
The English manufacturers, profiting by, or rather
abusing, the infatuation which exists amongst us on this
subject, but which, it must be confessed, has some
grounds in the superiority of their work, impose their
own laws upon the purchasers ; so much so, that the
orders which are addressed to them partake more of the
character of requests.
The orders given to our own manufacturers, and
given as an act of grace, have been, on the contrary,
surrounded with the most rigorous conditions. Tile
following are our remarks on this subject on the 2d of
Feb., 1840 :

A policeman was sent, and returned in a few minutes
with a foreigner, dressed in the pink of fashion, who
gave his name as Lee Rembrand. He was followed
shortly after by another gaily-dressed young man, whose
face was adorned with a pair of bushy whiskers and fine
black moustachios. He said his name was Nieman.
Mr. Rembrand—l vent to know vy I come here ?
Mr. Williams—You are brought here for imposing
on these gentlemen.
Mr. Rembrand—Who is the gentleman who vill
stan' the conseconce for taking avay my charactere, by
sending policemen to my residongs ?
The Rev. Charles Parker, of Sarsden, Oxfordshire,
stated—l came to Cheltenham on Monday last. Being
very much pained with corns I called at Mr. Beavan's,
chemist, High-street, to ask him if he could recommend
me to any chiropodist. He showed me an advertise-
ment in one of the papers, which directed me to 138,
High-street. The terms of the advertisement were—
fee, ss. per corn. I went accordingly, and called upon
Mr. Rembrand, who was engaged at the time. I saw
the taller one (Nieman) and went into his room and
took off my boot;. He called a young man (Rem-
brand), who came in to operate on my foot. He began
to touch my toe, and after he had got my foot in his
hand he said, " you will find there is more than one
corn in this toe, and my charge is ss. for every corn ;
but I shall perform a perfect cure, so that you will not
know that you ever had a corn, and your feet will be as
complete as though you had never been tormented with
one." Rembrand then began to operate, and with a
pair of pincers he pinched my cern, and seemed to
draw a point from it, with which he pricked
my hand, and said, " There, sir, that is one
corn." He put it in my hand, and it ap.
peered like a piece of bristle. I took very little
notice of it, taking for granted what he said, and blew
it off. It is the same sort of thing as that produced
by Mr. Clarke. I spoke once or twice while he was
operating, and the other person (Nieman) observed
that he (meaning Rembrand) did not speak English ;
for though he had been in England some time he had
made no use of his time, and had not learned the lan-
guage. He went on, appearing to take out several of
these things, and showed each of them to me. He
called each a corn. I forget the number he pulled out
of the first corn. He then took a great many from a
soft corn, between the toes. I think he appeared to
take twelve from that. When be had finished the ope-
ration Nieman said he thought he must look at them to
see how it was done. He said, " This is thoroughly done;
now, Sir, you will never be troubled again." When it was
finished he said, " The charge is 81. 155., being after the
rate of 53. for each of these roots." There were 35 of
these extracted from the three corns. I said " I have not
so much as 81. with me, but I will give you Si. now, and
if I find myself perfectly cured I will give you Si.
more." He took the note, and desired me to write
my name upon it. There was some conversation be-
tween them, and an apparent reluctance to receive the
.5 1. , but they subsequently took the money. After this
they presented me with a book, in which there were a
number of statements of cures performed by them, and
in which they wanted me to write my name. I said
could not do so, as I did not know that I was yet
cured. They put a 1 ttle plaster upon each of them,
which they said would smooth the skin, but on g.oing
out I found exactly the same pain as I felt before. I
then went to the Montpelier Baths, and mcationed the
circumstance to the man who attends the baths, and
who is a corn cutter. He looked at my corns, and
said that they had not been cut at all, and, to con-
vince me, pinched up a piece of the corn. He said
they were impostors, and had taken in a lady the day
before in a similar manner.

" The English manufacturer on the day on which the
order is given, receives a third of the price agreed on.
The French manufacturer receives nothing and has to
give security. The signature of the former to the con-
tract is deemed sufficient, whilst the latter, if he wishes
to be accepted, must be provided with the signature
or security of a respectable banking-house."
It is but just to acknowledge that matters are al-
tered. Notwithstanding the many grounds which they
had for discouragement and disgust, our principal menu-
facturers,.having a knowledge of their powers and con-
fidence in the future, have at length succeeded in van-
quishing these absurd prejudices, as far, at least, as be-
ing admitted to the honour of a joint execution of the
work with the English contractors.
Our readers may have seen in our Journal of the
26th of last month the announcement of the receipt of
the engines furnished by Messrs. Schneider, Brothers,
of Creuzot, for the steam-boat Pluton. A Commis-
sion, composed of Navy officers and engineers, and
named by the Vice-Admiral, Maritime Prefect of Brest,
devoted three sittings to the examination and proof of
these engines, and came to the following conclusions :
" Ist. That all the conditions of the agreement had
been faithfully fulfilled, and that all the forge-work and
castings had been executed with remarkable care.
" 2d. That the power of the engine was superior to
that of the English engine in the Veloce, the model
prescribed.
" 3d. That in testing its full power outside the road-
stead .of Brest, the resuAs of the experiment had been
moat satisfactory, the engines having constantly worked
with the greatest regularity, and with an ease of move-
ment which proved the perfect adjustment of its diffe-
rent parts."
It has been pretended for a long time, with that want
of reflection and obstinacy of prejudice which show the
absence of good sense, that we should never attain this
perfection of adjustment which distinguishes the works
of the best English manufacturers. Here is a recent
and well-authenticated answer. We could cite several
others, less important it is true. But what a difference
was there then in the tools of our establishments !

Mr. Richard William Clarke, chemist, Cheltenham—
I went to Mr. Rembrand this morning, at the desire of
Mr. Parker, to have some corns extracted. He had a
sort of sharp instrument like a penknife, with which he
cat some small particles on the surface of the corn.
After he had cut it, be put some liquid on the corn.
He then took a pair of tweezers, and appeared to be
squeezing very hard, as if using great force, but I felt
nothing on my foot more than the pressure of his hand.
After using this force he took the tweezers from the
corn. The tweezers had something between them with
which he pricked my hand. He then told me " I wish
you to understand that this is a corn." I told him I
had no intention of paying him for every such corn.
He then endeavoured to persuade me to have more
taken out. He then went through the same pro-
ce3s, and I observed that there was nothing on
the corn. He showed me another larger. I asked
him for it, and he then pulled it out of the
pincers. It is the same as I now produce. He
wanted four pounds for the cure of both feet. I agreed
to gave him one pound for the cure of one foot. After
this one pound wa3 agreed upon no more fibres were
produced. He merely scraped and cut the corns. I
produce the corn so called, which I tank from the
tweezers. It appears to me to be a bristle. It seemed
to me very improbable that it was ever in my flesh.
Ile said he would show me the orifice where it came
out of. After the operation was over I asked him to
show mo the orifice, upon which he said, " I have cut it
out."—((,aught r.) I paid him the 1/.
. . _

Mr. sClArke cross-examined--W hen I went to these
geatle.nnn I wt not fully convinced that they were
imposters. If I found out that they were impostors I
certainly went there for the purpose of bringing tLe case
before the Magistrates. When I took the piece out
of the pincers I imagined that it was not taken out of
my corn. I agreed with him to cure my corns, and
they callel the small thing that I produce a corn.
The Magistrates committed them to Northleach for
14 days.

.•
Our principal engine manufacturers are now provided
with all the tools which are used in the most important
of the English workshops. But in addition to this, they
have improved upon them and invented other instru-
ments. The foremen and workmen of our manufac-
tories are on the road to improvement. The courageous
sacrifices of the master manufacturers themselves, in the
midst of so many difficulties and obstacles, have at
length naturalized in France this powerful and magnifi-
cent branch of industry, so little appreciated, so mis-
takingly judged of during the first years of its introduc-
tion. The success already obtained will be the source
of new successes ; and we are happy to think that Go,
vernment will no longer hesitate to afford the manufac-
ture that protection and encouragement which events
may render necessary. We hope, also, that the spirit
of association better enlightened, and recovered from
the injuries caused by a false industry, will bring new
energy to the manufacture of large engines for steam-
boats.

If we have not spoken of locomotives it is not that
we do not attach to them also a very great importance.
But the proverb is well known, qui pent le plus peut Ic
moins (who can do more can do less). The perfection
in the workmanship of copper and of wrought and cast-
iron, obtained by our principal establishments, can
leave no reasonable doubts respecting the power to
construct excellent locomotives. The great line of
railroad from Stetsbourg to Basle is very well served
by French locomotives.
The Ang!omania, which we know influences the
engineers and English stokers employed on our rail-
roads, has assured, up to this, a pi eference for English
locomotives ;'when the least accident is heard of it is
immediately conjectured that the fault must lie in a
French locomotive, whereas, it is more frequently to
be attributed to one of English construction. We
ourselves, can bear testimony to this.
The prejudices to which we have alluded were con-
tracted at an early period, and the grounds for them
cease to exist. Soon, perhaps, we shall have occasion
to judge them more severely, and to those who will
confidently assert that the French locomotives cannot
sustain a comparison with the English, it must be per-
mated to us to say that this opinion is neither just nor
national.

POLICE CORRECTIONNELLE DE

MENTAL DERANGEMENT FROM

VALOGNES.
(From L'Audience, Path Journal.)

Ether Lelandais, Paul Leboulanger (her husband),
residing at Bricquenec, and Anne Flambard, of Barne-
vill.!, were all placed on the bane des prevenus, on a
charge of practising sorcery.
Esther Lelandais is a woman of great knowledge and
science she consults the cards, and she is acquainted
both with the future and the past. To those who con-
sult her she predicts, first a few reverses of fortune,
which are generally to he followed by great happiness
and good fortune. But her power does not stop here.
Does a poor mother fear that the chances of the
drawing of the recruitment will go against her son, she
goes to Esther Ltd mdais, who will secure to him a
"lucky number." Has another, an absent child, whose
return she is anxiously awaiting, Esther Lelandais
will give her consolation. A young maiden has been
deceived, and is a mother ; she is poor, and consults
Esther Lelandais, who puts her en train to brine
„the
faithless lover to book. An old maid wants a husband,
Esther Lelandais finds her one ; or has another been
se] need, Esther Lelandais will bring the delinquent to,
book, and make him marry the mother of his child. Has
this girl quarrelled with her lover, or that desponding
one been vanquished by a rival, Esther Lelandais will
restore the lovers to e telt other's arms in the one case,
and make the rival an object of hatred in the other.
Does a woman complain of a bad husband—Esther
Lelandais will change the man's character, and render
him the most attentive of devoted husbands ; and
should there be a hidden treasure in an old house, this
" cunning woman" will convert it into a " treasure
trove."

INTOXICATION.

The drunkard injures and enfeebles his own nervous
system, and entails mental disease upon his family. His
daughters are nervous and hysterical ; his sons are weak,
wayward, eccentric, and sink insane under the pressure
of excitement, of some unforeseen exigency, or of the
ordinary calls of duty. This heritage may be the result
of a ruined and diseased constitution, but is much more
likely to proceed from that long-continue] nervous ex-
citement, in which pleasure was sought in the alternate
exaltation of sentiment and oblivion, which exhausted
and wore out the mental powers, and ultimately pro-
duced imbecility and paralysis, both attributable to dis-
ease of the substance of the brain. How far the mono-
mania of inebriety is itself a disease, and may be more
the development, the consummation, than the com-
mencement of a hereditary tendency to derangement,
this is not the place to point out ; but tliere ii every
reason to believe that it not only a,:tsuptao, and readers
more deleterious, whatever latent taint may exist, but
vitiates or impairs the sources of health for several gene-
rations. That the effects el drunkenness arc highly
inimical to a permanent healthy state of the brain, is
often proved at a great distance of time from the course
of intemperance, and long after the adoption of regular
habits. Some time since, I was called upon to treat a
remarkably fine boy about sixteen years oil, among
whose relations no case of derangement could be pointed
out, and for whose sudden malady no cause could be as-
signed except puberty and a single glass of spirits. His
father, however, had been a confirmed drunkard, was
subject to the delirium and depression following inebriety,
and died of delirium tremeps. The boy recovered. His
case presented macy points of interest. His head increased
rapidly, and the two hemispheres were of unequal size.
The disease was intermittent ; the patient passing a week
in furious incoherent madness, and the succeeding week
in perfect tranquillity and consciousness. These states
were separate] or connected by a short and pro•
found sleep or lethargy, differing altogether from the
patient's ordinary sleep, and recognised by him as the
culminating point of his disorder. At present I have
two patients who appear to inherit a tendency to un-
healthy action of the brain from mothers addicted to
drinking; and another, an idiot, whose father was a
drunkard.-1)r. Brown on Insanity.

On Sunday afternoon the vicinity of Regent's•
park adjacent to the Diorama was the scene of dis-
graceful riot and tumult, in consequence of a field
preacher having indulged in the expression of senti-
ments not congenial to the feelings of his auditory. The
latter at first contented themselves with hooting and
hissing the speaker, but as he persevered in his line of
argument his hearers lost all patience and commenced
an attack upon him, and a few retainers of his who sur-
rounded his'rostruni. The preacher in turn headed his
supporters, and stick in hand turned upon his assailants.
A general skirmish ensued, in the course of which many
heavy blows were exchanged. The fight assumed a
serious appearance, when the police came in view and the
two belligerent parties fled.

In short there is nothing too ditlicult for the clever-
ness of Esther Lelandais! But all her power depends
upon this simple fact—that her patients give her their
money or their valuables.
The public prosecutor had, however, looked with
jealous eyes upon her talents, which he was illiberal
enough to regard as a system of "cscroquerie," and she
and her husband had accordingly been apprehended.
The other prisoner, Ann Flambard, was not accused of
being an accomplice, but had been detected in sending
a fee of five francs to the renowned Esther Lelanduis.

No less than thirty-four witnesses were forthcoming
on finding that the " witch" was trapped. Some had,
it appeared, become undeceived since they had paid for
their experience ; but the faith of others was un-
shaken. An unhappy mother whose son, in spite of
the sage's prescience, had found himself a sailor on
board the ship Friedland, draw back with horror from
the bench on which sat the redouLtable prisoner, and
seemed to fear that she might be bewitched by the very
contact. On the other hand, a }eung man spoke up
for the old beldame, and said that he had through
her interposition drawn a lucky number and escaped
the conscription.
A woman, whose son had been drawn in 1839, de-
posed, " I had heard of the boasted powers of Esther
Lelandais, and went to Bricquenec to consult her.
Having dealt the cards, she drew the nine of
spades and said, I our son will be drawn ; however,
if you will give me five francs 80 centimes, I will
get you out of the difficulty.' I gave her the
sum she required, and she then addressed these
word r, to her husband. Put your shoes on,
Paul, and go off to Velognes with this letter
to my Monsieur d'Afaires. On the next day I went
to her, when she told me her Monsieur d'Affaires re-
quired two francs more. I complied with the demand,
and she then produced a paper, upon which was a
number, and told me to kneel down and say five paters
and five eves for the souls in purgatory, adding that
she would be by that means enabled to change' the
number.

Other narratives of a similar character were made to,
the Court, who sentenced Esther Lelandais to five years

imprisonment for her sorcillages, and her huskincl to
er
- ---
three nil,nths' imprisonment 'for partioipallog I°
fraudulent practices.
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I( i- ;I 112:1OF theßl lilkAr :1)P1:11 i ' i 8 1° d I"
th°4lb;
THE IV S •
:.oaf. Good Bred may be had at NI
l'lth:ES OF SEEDS.
Per Cwt. I Per Quarter,
...
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....s , -
Sew English Ree Clover...sos £os St. Fein ................••.',r; ac, 40
Old I Atta Dit'o
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....'°3 ...:
s 56s SOs Pacey Grass ............. .. !oi 51
Olt DiLto DU to ... -s -s -s linseed, for fe,tling...-1 57), triS
iNzvi)Witthoitepti7tltoover 4gs tss 72s DR.°, for sowing ..........5 4EO 5.1
•ew 'fre-oil
Old Ditto
l'r foliton
12-264 -s -s
.4-163ss,
Canary......
tti,tria0:.y..f..e..r....c....r..u....5...1i...i...t1.g.........:.? :
L.4:d:
151
s •Itas 70si . Per B“shSl.od to 154/4
B gush Carraway -s 4(5s 50s' White Mnst..rd•.•••.' Vs
.-
Foreign Ditto
PRICE OF
Coriander
II
Town Tallow .. XII JO (5 Melting Stuff ............•
...i 4
Yellow Russia
White
Soap Ditto
PRICE OF -
Ro:,:k
''s 4-4
TALLOW,s. _sos;
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Price of Tallow (as stated by the 'fallow Melters) ..............
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PRICE JF OIL.
Rape Oil, brown, per ton... ........................ .......£bA g
Ditto, refined ............................. . ............... 0:1 0
Linseed' Oil ............. • .. 3'
................................... Is to
Lins-ed Oil Cake at tli. Mill (per IWO) ............... 110
Itape ,ake, per ton ..................................... ....
COAL MARKET.
Ships arrived since last market day, 0
-. d. t

. d.
. 9
Walls End Harwell. ...... . . 21
. cli 9
!
Walls End Helton ........... , 9
Wall; End Laranon •• s 0 .1!) ti
%Va.'s End Pemberton ..!..._ 9
1 Walls End Russell's Hato t 2 0
Walls End Stewart's ......... to 0
Walls End Whltwell ..... ...: ,2 9
South Pelton . ................. !„ 9
Walls End Caratloc .............. yi 9
Walls End Hartlepool ..... 14 0
Reynold's Hartlepool ...." gi 0
Tennant's Hartlepool...... 90 0
Walls End Adebide ...... ....,,/ 0
Walls End Bowburn ........ i/ 9
Walls End Evenwood ...... ifs 0
W ills End Gordon .... ...... ,cl 6
VVails'Ethi Tees Iletton ... . ; 0
Wal iEnd Tees ................ .. 6
,Blythe .......................... « l. v
'"wPen .. ................. ....... 4 •
Hartley ....................... .....
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Buddle's West Hartley lB 01
Llolywell Ma n lB 0
Old Tan MA l4
Ord's Redline)
Smith's Pontop l4 6
TanflAd Moor l9 81
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West Hartley
Wylam
Walls E d Bewieke and Co. 19 11
Walls Fnd Derwent ... 15 0
Walls End (4osforth
Walls End Hedley lB C
Walls End Hilda lB Ii
Walls:End Hotspur
Walls End Killtugworth 19 :=
Walls End Nor,humberlaad 18 0
Walls End Riddell's l9 3
Eden Main IS 6
Walls Endßelmout
W. E. Braddyll'aletton
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COUNTRY CORN MARKET•
de/Pto
Wheat. Barley. Oats. 2......„,„--°3°S. -.----..7
--- -- --...---- " tg, Ir. tO I"
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45 .0
Carlisle SS 73 33 il 46 --
38 ...: 40
Hexham 63 81.7, 33 1
Morpeth 5O C 4 26 l9 27 36 6'5 ... 40
Penrith 6B 32 2t 4O
Sheffield — 65 23 24 -- Ai 35 ,d•
WinchestLr 55 60 28 33 20 26 40 --
4.d 1.6 • 06
Per Bushel. s.. s.d. . ,., o 0 06
Carmarthen 6 d
Ii '7 9 os.t d 0 4 0 0 0 2s.d. 3 5 6 Z 3 o'' 00
Cowbridge 79 S 0 00 40 00 30 50 r, , 56
twansea 76 84 40 44 26 30 56 u 00
'0
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Per 8011. A 11 6 - A 10-
Barnardeastl 13 0 17 0 90 10 0 40 74 9 • -A- 6 9 • ii 0
Durham X 136 156 80 90 59 g 9 00 Nogo 10 4
Richmond 12 0 20 010 0 11 0 60 7410 0 n ~: 9 0 '
Stockton ILS 0 19 6 9 0 9 0 6 0 7 0 9 0 “ "
SCOTCH MARKETS. 3;
Bea
Wheat. Barley. Oata. -- --• 95
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Berwick 36 53 18 24 15 21 30 1-40 00 ~..
Coldstream -
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Cupar (Fife? 48 65 126 31 IS 22 2,/ qs- 51
Dunbar .. - 59 65 25 28 21 24 37 --cras
Elgin 53 60 26 07 22 25 49 "„,,- .... ,
Inverness
Kelso ~....,- 48 51 24 '27 17 20 30 ;I:, 43
Kirkaldy
Perth 6O 67 30 40 25 35 41 nourdrf•
Tho size of the measure varies throughout the ,
El ADDINGEON CORN MARKET. I.oooei
Wheat. Barley. Oats. 135,02, 44iod
First F6s Od 35s (16 2Ss 06 I 46° An 39 06
Second 66, Od 32s rd 25s 61 494 ... ....5.
Third. GOs Od 30s Od 23s Od 4Cs 06
Average 3/, 6.5. 3,1 11 1204. .
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Wheat. Barley. 1 Oats. Pe% 41,' 01
klrst .. . 000 ... 84s to 35s gd 80, Od 476 NA 440 J
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Second 7os Od 32s 641 ~5s 4d 4° AA"- 4°l
Third s9s 01 22s 3d 18s Ott 404 ••• d,
GLASGOW CORN Mt RKET.,,, 4, d. ;06
Wheat.. per 2401 h. s. d. s. d. 1 Oats. Per '''''''l'. /66 t° 206

6.6
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dritish, old :440 to 37 0 I Triqb .........

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--new ..... ... 300 3to I British.......

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Irish
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English 24 0 28 6
Scottish 24 0 27 0
Irish

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English ...
Scottish .....
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TH JI E CANAAS IN 1841.—These at • nt.'
ing and instructive volumes, the production et. ei'slieJent
Colonel Sir Richard Bonnycastle, an officer legtiveattall
in the Colony, are not less full of .pleasant I.,anices,it;
than valuable knowledge. We meet with most ble '-
and interesting notices of the natural historYtiff clever
scriptions of the commercial resources, Outs, 141,°:
Sketches of the inhabitants of both the Catni,"-pecitvi
thing worthy of observation seems to have e's-ore Sen,„
author, and with a talent which does not oftell„F.4l',
itself in such productions Lieut.-Colonel 13°°.';ettlit.
has rendered his work as much a resource to Wood
as an acquisition to the libraries of the less arm 0..0°
at home. Besides the sterling attractions e`pv ApP"d
the volumes possess others likely to be ecri_a'',44l2,:
ciated in their way, in several beautiful eng`-tranir'
some of the most picturesque features in this
11010
nary country.—New Monthly. ei
The Seuslan Mercury of St. Etienrind
Lyons, states:—" The examining Magistrate tool
cureur du Roi, attended by a brigadier of ge7haaiee,"
went a few days since to a manufactory at St' ribi,°ll--
and seized several pieces of black and blue bl• Several warrants of arrest have been issued, 1
on whose premises these ribbons have been risel
brought in here on Saturday,and confined in °ll'
This seizure seems to be connected
1 n nue
arres made a few chi) ago at Lyons."
BELGIAN RAILROAD. The soutoerber to
will be further opened, on the Ist of Save,lll 5;41
Jurbise ; and on the 16th of December (ta.ryice `:1"
birthday) to Mons. Important changes in the °wool"
the other great lines are announced by a LiegetJiaoni a
the Tribune, as intended to. take place °l/1,
Two fat trains are to run daily between Piro Pig
Brussels, in which there will be no carriages suifiell:,
gences, which will not stop at any intermediate it, tiv:i
and which will consequently make the journsl, usiiro
hours. Two other trains will stop at all Twee'
stations. It is also said that the carriage of 0111 bt°
will be charged much higher than at present ;
hope that statement is incorrect.-11russet
with the r
nj 10S/
,100,.
SILVERTLATED CORNER —,r-nS4i,--sAit•
T. COX SAVORY, Manufacturing Silversmith, sau-,et
hill, London (Seven doors from Gracechurch-street) Car'ior
plate,io
the prices of the followity, patterns of strongly
Dishes, with silver handles and edges, and silver sm
engraving the crest or coat of arms : 10
0
The Gadroon Pattern. .00
Four Strongly Plated Corner Dishes and Covers..• - 0
Four Extra Strongly Plated Corner Dishes sea 19 lg
Covers .................. .............................
The Flower Pattern. n• 0
Four Extra Strongly Plated Corner Dishes an 13 at
tb
Covers ..
N.B. The covers are made with ...
hanforvPard
moveable. ....
they form extra dishes. Drawings of the above •
any part of Great Britain cr Ireland, postage free•
i,Oll to
tbs
C. J. DENT begs to acquaint his rec-
r.eSt
the Public that he has just had the konour of
subjoined letter from the Admiralty : 16410
(Copy.) „f
Admiralty, .I.llth use s'•
Sir—The annual trial of chronometers for the
rc, 0
Majesty's Government having now terminal-4s -'„a, to o'ol'
mended by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiral'), the,bo
you that their Lordships have directed nse to pur,ch...allistat.",
lowing chronometers at the various prices sec6oo ,
respectively, ss
Dent, No. 1,b71 55 fteloo
Dent, No. 1,606... .... . 44,g .00,;
Dent, No. b,621- (pocket). ~ SO
" Their Lordships having been pleased, in erder
i.pert'°'
superior performance of 1,571, to assign to it n
• t
increased price to that usually given. /ant'
" I am, Sir, your most obedient ser _ars .
F. BEA vfortr, }WV.
"Ti Mr. Dent, Chronometer Maker, 62, StrlA ebia'i3Ct tbs
Out of SO Chronometers, by various Makers ,1-00••i0
the late trial by order of their Lordships, t4„,....cejitiO.,
above three, with two selected for the Niger r's;
be
others, enables Mr. Dent to affirm that he beliel"%tot 11/
year supplied their Lordships with snare Cbronol't,
use of the Royal Navy than have been furnishes' Ant
teat rd
any other Maker.
It affords Mr. Dent, additional pleasure to stataii-elonallop
to their Lordships' high recemmendatien he owe the Niger
having made a Gold Chronometer, presented to
pedition by his Royal Highness Prince Albert. , sgitellsed
Dent's Lectures en Chronometers, Clocks, Op, ,0000/ •
be obtained at 12, Strand, price one shilling, "' '
customers gratuitously.
Present price of Two-day Chronometers, 't6 •
Id

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of
On
On
I.
esltosttleilyin,st., at Gower-street, Bedford-stln°e' or,
Esq., ofßaltßlauTilritSr.. 'l°l "a
c park, r" ty-
ladoyiti.tfhßoolb7etrht
iLol,ot):la,tEcsql;l,4(,,,tia
On the 16th inst., Mrs. Not'er, We •t-square, "' ,
On
the
16th
inst.,
at
' 'lteg„nter,
Chester-terrace, b
s f' ISe
Esq., of a son, still-born. - '
i iodie° .1
MARR I E D. i ras- Coo
On the 12th of August at Nuseerabad, in t"e /di, diet
the tidy
pangs Service, to Elizabeth, the sixth dau
the Rev. H. Pratt, A.M., Chaplain Hlf•C:arsitenf Prig
Kennedy, C. 13., commanding' the Rajpootsna
of General 1)01that"
youngest daughter
On the 16th inst • • • -.. Wilts, Ile )li,dyber
, at Chilton loliat, 1
Mundy, Esq., , 1 bella,
t.
roe
noYal Horse Artillery,
,Coo.fnrwrarml tin Littleoi4r. sa
folio
On the pith inst at St. Mar's 'Lambe', 'e late ''
Marten Hubert, ' •'
' . . 'daughter of the
jun., to Anne, only .fl.'
Wnollms iaug i - errace. . Tralicorge
h inst., at Warmiitster, J. LinclsaY of ~,
of Cla hter •
. pliam-park, Surrey, to Eliza, second daug
,tbari' ep
11. T. Mayne, Esq., of Park-hill, Croy(10,
North Wales, ninoin- istlP
tster.
On the 18th inst., at St. George's Church, -.' moy ,tcl,
tool, cor,
eldest daughter of George Johnstone, Esq., I"te
and Camden-place, Bath.
1 /
ire ° ' .
D III: D. 1 ne, w
On the 10th inst., in Gloucester-place, Caroline,
liiiso
Hume, Esq., M.D., of Brent-end, Hanwell.of 0
relict
Ann, A.
On the 12th inst., at Ila.mmersmith, lfrlt•
Hohner, Esq., late of Southwark. oi. ghft'rerld rt.:vole:,
L. Bewielt, aged 70. Os"'e'ldP
On the 13th inst., at Hallaton Hall, Leicestershire' ' 1415,1
On the 16th inst., at the School House, .4,4101‘
Hannah, the wife of the Rev. Stephen Donne.v,iwerth,tio`,o.
On the' 16th inst., Mrs. Betty Dawson, al 11001) IttieV'
of the late Joseph Dawson, Esq., of St. John's,
oda,
waOrinse'yth,
Esq
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On the 16th inst., at !Winger, Great Mt.;s 19
On
Nancy, the wife of Mr. George Stacy, aged s"l,leo.toco'
On the 17th inst., in Arlington .strect, Cam
f
T. Horsburgh, aged 70.
On the 17th inst., Mr. S. Ashton, of Gl'a'jrzi3°.:l:l!:.oll' :
On the 17th inst., Elizabeth, wife of mr. 0
s'
Cloudesley-street, Islington.
On the 17th inst., in Ciouked•lane, William fict'ri
ant
thews Esq., aged 3s. Lionten— 1,
On the 18th tilt., i Cecil-street, Strand,
Gaitskell, R.N., aged 37. (4114. 6J leo
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the county of Middlesex, Tuesday, October I P