The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-03 00:00:00

LONDON, TUE7,DAY, AUGUST 3, 1841.

CLERICAL, MEDICAL, and GENERAL
LIFE ASSURANCE OFFICE,
No. 78, GREAT RUSSELL-STREET, BLOOMSBURY.

Notiee is hereby givett, 'that a DIVIDEND of FIVE PER
CENT. on the SHARES of the SOCIETY will be PAY-
ABLE on and after the 20th day of August inst.
By order of the Board of Directors,

GEORGE H. PINCKARD, Resident Secretary.
August 2.

NATIONAL LOAN FUND SOCIETY
FOE. GRANTING
LIFE ASSURANCES, DEFERRED ANNUITIES, &c.

No. §ti, CORNHILL.
Capital £500,000.
Empowered by Act of Parlament.
EIRECTOR S.
T. LAMIE MURRAY, Esq., Chairman.
J. Elliotson, M.D., F.R.S. I John Rawson, Esq.
John Grill' tit Frith, Esq. I Jehn Riddell Stodart, Esq.
Hunter Gordon, Esq. Clement Tabor, Esti.
George Lungley, Esq. Joseph Thompson, Esq.

FOR LIFE.
A. B.
Age. 'Without With For One For Five
Profits. Profits. Year only. Years only
£. s. d. X. s. d. X. s. 41. X. s.
d.
20 1 13 7 1 17 4 0 17 0 0 17 6
30244293 0 19 6 1 0 0
40 2 13 Sl 5 3 1 3 10 1 5 0
50 4 4 2 4 13 6 1 13 0 1 16 6
60 613 6 1 7 8 4 ( 3 0 0 3 .9 6

:Two. thirds of Profits divided annually amongst the Assured.

DEFERRED ANNUITIES DEPARTMENT.

By the plan exclusively developed by this Society, a single
Deferred Annuity is made, nGt only to answer the same object,
but to far exceed in amount the entire benefit of all the ad-
vantages heretofore only obtained by the middle and industrious
classes through separate investments in Savings' Banks, Be-
nefit Societies, and Loan tanks.
1. A small yearly or weekly contribution will secure the
most ample return for after life; thus.-21. 12s. per annum (Is.
a week) at the age of 20, will give the policy holder the fol-
awing option, at the age of 65
Annuity for remainder of life... ......... £47 16
Cask 394 11
Policy, without further contributions,
.of 466 0
Other periods of life (of 50, 56, and 60) may be
with similar lidvantitgus.
IL Two-thirds at any time lent 9n deposit of policy, being a
and always available during sickness or want of employment.

0 or a

0 at death.
also taken

S. Two-thirds of all payments returned to representatives in
case of premature,death,
• - . . _

N. B. Policies, RI caltOrlit Miley-security, for per;octs of
one to Atte years, effected at lower rates than are charged by
thy other Office, (See Tables A. and B.), with option of con.
tinuance for Life at the usual rates.
F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Seek

rrHE LONDON, EDINBURGH, AND
AL. DUBLIN GUARANTEED MUTUAL and PRO.,
PRIETARY LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY,
3, CHARLOTTE.ROW, MANSION HOUSE, and 19,
REGENT-STREET. LONDON.
21, ST. ANDREW-STREET, EDINBURGH.
And 64, FLEET-STREET, DUBLIN.
DIRECTORS,
Alexander Anderson, Esq. Kennett Kiti.,,dsß3rJ,
John Atkins, E. M‘Gunia, Esq.
James Bidden, Esq John Maclean Lee, Esq.
Captain P. Brandretb J. Marmadukc Rosseter, Fsq.
Vice-Admiral Robert Honyman Alexander Robertson, Esq.,
Benjamin Ifill, Esq. Managirg Director.
John Johnson, Esq., Alderman
SOLICITORS.--Messrs. Palmer, France, and Palmer.
SEC RETA RT.—F. Edgell, Esq.

IMPORTANT IMPROVEMENTS have been introduced
into LIFE ASSURANCE PRACTICE by this COMPANY.
The POLICIES are INDEFEASIBLE and INDISPUT-
ABLE, unless they have been obtained by fraudulent misre-
presentation.
The Board of Directors satisfy themselves upon the va.
rious questions proposed before they enter into the contracts
of assurance, and frame their policies in such terms as to pre-
elude all future questions as to their validity, and thus ren-
der them indisputable and negotiable aoluments of future debt
against the Company.
Parties may be assured either upon the participating or non-
participating plan ; the assured are relieved of all responsi-
bility, and the participating clam is entitled to the whole of tha
profits upon that branch of the busintss.

Table to Assure £lOO, with addition of profits :--

Age 25. I Age 35. I Ago 40. I Age 4b. I Age 50. I Age 55.
£2 2 7 4'2 lb 10 I £3 5 0 £3 15 5 £4 10 7 £6 13 8

Persons interested in the lives of nominees or debtors may,
for a trifling extra premium, be relieved from the risk of their
Policies being forfeited by the parties going to foreign court.
tries.

614-lIAI.P of the PREMIUMS MAY REMAIN UN-
PAID for SEVEN YEARS,

Affording f greater facility for Loan Transactions and Fa.
mily Pro►isions than any other plan which has been sug-
gested.

Credit Tab'e to Assure 4:100 Payable at Death.

Age 20. Age 25. I Age 30. I Age 40. I Ago 45,. Age 50:
£0 18 01f £1 0 7 !XI. 3 71 £1 11 5 !Li 16 611 E 2 3 9

The usual Commission allowed to Solicitors and Agents,
and Medical Gentlemen are in all cases remunerated for their
reports.

PATENT LEVER WATCHES.
['ORTON and CO. (Late AVE RY), Watch-
makers' &c., 36, Ludgate-street, St. Paul's (opposite
Everington and Co.'s), offer to their Friends and the public
their celebrated PATENT LEVER WATCHES, capped and
jewelled in four holes, double bottom silver case maintaining
power, &c.. at Six Guineas, and with 3A plate Eight quineas,
of workmanship of the highest class of excellence, equal to
those charged 25 per cent. higher. Gentlemen's Lovers, in
gold CIMS, Fourteen Guineas and upwards ; Ladies', with
gold dial, at Twelve 'Guineas and Fourteen Guineas, Good
new Silver Verge Watches at 525. 6d. A warranty with
every watch for twelve months.
N.B.—An immense Stock of Jewellery and Fancy Goods
at 25 to 30 per cent. below the usual London charges.

A manufacturer from the country, coming to
Paris two days ago, to receive a sum of money, had the
imprudence to go with it in the evening in his pocket to
the Theatre of the Porte St. Martin. The entertain-
ments being over, he was returning to his hotel, in the
Rue du Bouli, when a youngmam unlittuntfi to 111111; atu
costed him by rime, tai t loßoilleVard, and informed him
that an hour nr, he had been robbed of all his bank-notes.
Th Victim, with the utmost promptitude, as may be well
believed, put his hand lri his pocket, and at once ascer-
tained that the disastrous intelligence he had received
was but too true. " 1)o not be alarmed," continued the
informant, " but come with me into a cafe." They en-
tered the Cafe de Maltc. here the young man, who was
well dressed, inquired how much the pocket-book con-
tained, and, being told 8,000 fr., demanded what reward
Would be given for its recovery. After a further
short colloquy, a written promise of 2,000 fr. was signed
and delivered. The informer then went to the door,
accompanied by the manufacturer, and there drew the
pocket-book from his own pocket, opened it, selected two
notes of I,ooofr. each, delivered the rest to its owner,
and fled at the top of his speed.
The Government Docks in Dublin were let by
public bidding on the 22d ult. in that city, and the re-
suit has been such as to more than gratify every well-
wisher to the commercial property of Ireland. Many of
the authorities here acknowledge that the rents at which
they were let far surpassed their expectations. We hear
that this was occasioned by an error into which the
bidders very naturally ran. These docks have been for
many years in the hands of some English capitalists, the
Messrs. Scovell ; complaints have been addressed to the
Government of what was called their monopoly, and of
the undue influence which it had over the trade of Dublin,
Lord Monteagle and Lord Sydenham had devoted much
attention to this long-vexed subject, but Mr. Baring it
was who hit upon a plan for its final adjustment. His
plan was to divide the warehouses into two lots, and to
let them by public bidding—to throw open the waters
and quayage of the docks to the public upon the same
terms that the waters of the Liffey and the quays of
Dublin are now at the public use. At the public letting
on the 22d it was evident that the former lessees were
determined to have one of the lots, in order that they
might continue their connexion with the trade of the
Irish metropolis, and disprove the allegation that their
only tie with the merchants of Dublin was that or -mo-
nopoly. The first lot was knocked down to the former
lessees for 4,3501. a-year, a sum to which they could not
have been rue up but for the exaggerated accounts of
their former profits. The second lot fell to Mr. M•Don-
neil, as trustee for a joint-stoolc company, at an annual
irent of 4,060/.
_

M. N., a manufacturer, in the Rue Montagne
Sainte Genevieve, was entering his house two nights
ago, when he dropped down suddenly dead at the door,
at the feet of his wife, who came to let him in. Mme.
N., who is thus left a widow, with several children, was
so affected by the appalling event, that absolute restraint
was for some time necessary to prevent her from com-
mitting suicide. She has since become more calm, but it
is feared her reason is irrecoverably lost.
ISLAND OF ARRAN.—By the last census, the
population of the island of Arran, amounts to 6,181,
being a decrease of !"..146 as compared with that of 1831.
The decrease is ascribed to emigration, and other local.
causes.

MEMOM OF JOSEPH HUME, ESQ.

(From the Leeds Times.)

The history of Joseph Ilume is a record of patient in-
dustry and perseverance, perhaps, unexampled in the
whole range of our country s biography. With no lofty
endowment of genius or talent, he has nevertheless been
enabled to attain a high niche in the temple of fame.. The
motto of Mr. Hume is, and has ever been "PERSEVERE:"
. it is his, high moral courage which has enabled him to do
that which higher mental qualifications alone would
never have been sufficient to accomplish.
Joseph Hume was horn in the borough of Montrose, in
Scotland, in the year 177. His father, who was the cap-
tain of a trading vessel of that port, died while lie was yet
young, leaving.a large family to the charge of his widow.
Mrs. Hume is said to have - been a person of extraordi-
nary perseverance, energy. and self-dependent habits ; and
there can be no doubt that it was the influence of her ex-
ample, her precepts, and her character, which fed, matured,
and perfected, those striking:qualities which have since
rendered her son so distinguished a performer on tha
stage of national events, and; won for him the gratitude
and regard of so many of his countrymen. Mrs. Hume
brought.up her children in credit and comfort; imbuing
their minds with those strict moral and religious princi-
ples, which are considered so important a part of every
Scottish education. At an early age our hero was ap-
prenticed to a surgeon in Montrose, with whom lie served
for three years. He was afterwards sent to Edinburgh
University to pursue his studies, where, after theus
to
course of learning, he was admitted a member of the Col-
lege of Surgeons in that City. In 1796 he made avoyage
India; and after the lapse of twelve months, and undergoing
the usual examinations, lie. was admitted a member of the
London College of Surgeons. After a considerable period
of service in the East India Company's naval
service,
been
pa Mr.ced
,
Hume proceeded, in 1799, to Bengfa, h
on the medical establishment under that Presidency.
Soon after he landed in India, he was ordered to join
Lord Lake's army, at that tivitzngaged in the Mahratta
war. During-- e*n -Itat '-unebia-nty and 'anxiety whicfr
invariably accompany a state of warfare, the active fit-
culties of Mr. Hume's mind wen: never unemployed. In
the bustle of a camp, and amid the laborious duties of
his profession, he still found leisure to devote a suffi-
ciency of time to learn the Persic language ; and when
the sudden indisposition of Colonel Achmuty, at that
time interpreter to the army, had placed the Com-
mander of the British Indian forces in a most dis-
tressing situation, the only man found able to hold com-
munication with the natives was Mr. Hume, who was
immediately selected to fill the important office of
interpreter. He contrived to continue his medical
duties, and to fill, besides; the offices of Paymaster and
Postmaster of the troops—trusts which could only be
efficiently discharged by one capable of holding direct
communication with the natives. During the whole time
the army was in the field, kis extraordinary powers of
application, and apparently natural taste for labour, ena-
bled him to unite in his person a variety. of offices, to
which not merely honours, but considerable emoluments
were attached ; and he performed his duties .with such
actitity and industry, as obtained for him the marked
appfohtitiott of the Commander-in-Chief, and recom-
mended hint to Mg, pirate friendship. Peace was con-
cluded in the year 18074, acid Mr. Hume soon after ie-
turned to England.
A life of ;lure idle enjqment of wealth did not
suit t 6 ttdlliti Atrtipilrment of Mr. Hume. His ar-
dour in the pursuit tif ktiotkledge and ,information
on ninny subjects of vital intereg, vft him no time
for repose. Those who know any thing of Air. Hume,
laid* hid &Hama, for " faCts ;" and to hunt up facts
he immediately devoted llitn"alf. But he did not go
books ouly for theses he went to men. In the
year 16119 hd ttiikid ii ithif thniiinte observation througL-
out the United Kingdom, anti Attu/111y -Visited every place
of manufacturing celebrity in England, tieVflatid, and
Ireland. The iiiforaiation thus acquired only stittlitjuted
his curiosity, and Confirmed his habits of mind in favour
of ffict.htititltig: lie neat devoted the greater portions
of tllt3'rettfs 1 ><d arid B>il to travels of observation in
Spain and liorttigiti, OripVef *hit, the lonian
Islands, Sicily, Malta, and Sardifllit, He foils Wilt/ by
the temper of his mind, the extent of his gkpfiettee
and information, his Ifabits of patient industry Mid fe.-
search, and the solidi of his fortunes in the world,
qualified to fill with effect, a sent in the Legislature of
his country, which had, fur some time past, it is proba-
ble, been the gulding.stat of his course. And now we
arrive at the commencement of the parliamentary career
of Mr. Hume,

....
On his return to England, the seat for Weymouth
being retideeed *atom bj the death of Sir John John-
stone, Mei Ennio *tt4 eieeted for that borough, and sat in
Parliament during tlia POgSfilnti of 1812, At that period
the lines • between Relbrmers Mid Tories were not so
clearly defined tiS tlity fith4- tires Hume went into
Parliament for a Tory bdft4ikiiii static ocenslonB
supported, on others opposed (as in eiitt ttf titer krame-
work Knitters' Bill), the then Tory Govcrnillentt
that his Parliamentary conduct was not palatable to t:#
Tory proprietors of the borough of Weymouth,is
ciently proved by the fact, that the Trestqes of Sir John
Johnstone declined to return him to tha next Pad',lntent.

His next sphere of pallid ftdtirity wits da or dean,
At that period several great social pfrpets mere its this
course of advancement, into which Mt'. Viiitie Oft**,
himself with his accustomed energy. The suppodtrfe kir
Lancasterian schools found in him a zealous co-operator.
He was long a member of the Central Committee to
effect their extensive adoption. The plan for Savings'
Banks, which was afterwards adopted, was first recom-
mended in a pamphlet by Mr. Hume. In the Court of
East India Proprietors he commenced to advocate a
system of liberal and enlightened policy ; and so early
as 1813 he stood alone, contending in the Court of Pro-
prietors for freedom of trade, against the united up-
holders of monopoly.
Six laborious years were 'thus passed. In the year
1818, however, he was solicited to become a candidate
for his native town of Montrose, and the other five towns
composing that district of boroughs, and was a second
time returned to. Parliament. His independent conduct
there soon rendered him a " marked man by the Tories,
and at the election which succeeded the accession of
George IV. to the throne, an opposition was started,
backed by all the interest of the Crown, which neverthe-
less Mr. Hume was enabled to overcome, after one of the
severest struggles which the
people of the Montrose dis-
trict had ever witnessed. Since that period, Mr. Hume
has been constantly before the public, and -has generally
pursued one uniform and undeviating course of public
conduct. Never a week has passed that he has been out
of sight. There is scarcely a page of the Parliamentary
Register which does not record some one or other of his
says and doings. In every department of reform
has he been at work—in the finances, the re-
venue, the public accounts, the excise, the army
and navy, the church, the representation of the
people in Parliament, the emancipation of Catho-..
lies and Dissenters from their religious disabilities—in
all these departments of Reform, has Mr. Hume greatly
distinguishe himself. As has been remarked, Mr.
Hume may claim the -merit of having, during a period of
twenty years, in which he retained a seat in the House,
been snore uninterruptedly active than any other Mem-
ber in it. The leader of the assembly for Cie time being
may have risen as often and made longer speeches ; but
lie Las been respited after a season, and has found re-
pose on another bench. Mr. Hume's duty, voluntarily
imposed upon himself, has been continuous. Under every
administration, his labours have been renewed. No
change has brought change to him, in the matter of at-
tendance and ei.tertion I nor can we, conceive it possible
for him to surviVe that day (nut Very likely to dawn at
present) in which, having ransacked the deepest drawer
of his desk, for Parliamentary documents, he should find
himself left without an abuse to investigate, or a griev-
ance to be redressed !

We can lic re refer only in general terms, to the sub-
jects upon which Mr. Hume has bestowed the largest
portion of his energies since his election in 1818. Finan-
cial questions have always been his favourites. With
these he began his career as a Reformer. During
several Sessions after his return to rarliament, he never
failed to show, at every opportunity, that the financial
accounts of ie Government, as laid before the House,
were imperfect, and that frauds, to an immense amount,
might be (as most probably they were) committed
without the possibility of detention. Undaunted by
defeat, Mr. Hume, year by year, persevered in his as-
saults. The man who stuck to his point with such perti-,
nacity, must have had ground for complaint. Attention
was awakened ; converts came slowly dropping in ;
and at length Mr. Hume obtained a Select Committee 'of
the House of Commons to inquire into the state of
the- public accounts. On the 31st of July, 1822, the
Committee made its Report, in which Ministers were
compelled to admit " that the then form of the accounts
neither did. nor could exhibit any balance between the
income and the expenditure," and that " no true balance
could be struck between the income and the expendi-
ture." Such had long been the mode of making up the
annual national finance statements. From the date of
this Report the annual finance accounts have been
greatly improved. Mr. Hume carried on his labours in-
cessantly, and contributed to overthrow the sinking fund
system—a State fraud that bad long cheated and deluded
the country. Through Mr. Humes exertions in regard
to financial affairs, to retrenchment, and reductions ge-
nerally, to pensions, sinecures, and salaries. a saving is
said to have been realised to the country of two millions
a-year in peace, and five millions a year in war. Surely
this is something for one man to have accomplished
even through the midst of defeat, and contumely, and
insult.
But this is not all ; it is nat one-hundredth part of
what Mr. Hume has accomplished. There is not a de-
partment of reform in which he has not been a labourer.
He has laboured to accomplish church reform, though
hitherto with but small success ; abolition of military
flogging, naval impressment, and imprisonment for debt;
reform in the criminal law, and abolition of death
punishments. His exertions greatly contributed to the
repeal of the combination. laws, and of the Act with-
holding from working men the right of going abroad.
He has been a zealous advocate for Free Trade in every
branch of industry. He has exerted himself greatly on
the subject of taxes on knowledge, Post-office :Reform,
colonial slavery, county-rates bill, election expenses, and
the fraudulent light-house system. His advocacy of
Catholic emancipation ani the Reform Bill was con-
spicuous ; and his share of the honour of destroying
the odious Orange-lodge system, and detecting the Cum-
berland conspiracy, was a large and memorable one.
His efforts at reform in every department of the army,
g. navy, and ordnance have been incessant.

All these labours have been acknowledged by the ex •
tensive popularity to which they have led. The cities
of London, Edinburgh, Gloucester, and many other
places, have presented him with their freedom. In 1824
he was elected to the Lord Rectorship of the University
of the Marisehal College of Aberdeen ; and in 1830, the
distinguished honour was paid to him by the electors of
Middlesex, of returning hint to Parliament as their re-
presentative. The rage of the Tories at this election
knew no bounds ; and by dint of great efforts in the
Registration Courts they were enabled to unseat Mr
Hume at the general election in 1837. Since then he re-
presented the city of Kilkenny in Ireland.
Daring the last Parliament, Mr. Hume was as inde-
fatigable in his exertions as ever. Age, which gene-
rally brings repose, to him seemed only to add new in-
crease of zeal in the cause of general reform and im-
provement. Difficulties daunt him now as little as ever
they did, and opposition serves but to rouse hit.' to new
activity and zeal. He has also the gratification of
seeing the seed which he has sown through a long
series of years, at length bringing forth some fruits.
The principal subjects to which Mr. Hume devoted
himself during the last 'Parliament were the Bible Mo-
nopoly, which he has chiefly been instrumental in abo-
lishing; reform in the representation, on which he has
made several most able speeches ; the Bank of England
Charter, on the renewal of which he was acknowledged
by the daily Times (with whom Mr. Hume is no fa-
vourite) to.have made one of the best and most compre-
hensive speeches ever deliVered on the subject in the
House of Commons ; free trade, which he has taken
every possible opportunity of advocating ; and various
other measures of financial economy and retrench-
ment. Probably, however, the most important service
which Mr. Hume has ever yet performed—at least the
one likely to lead to the most important results—is the
exposure, which he has en mainly instrumental in
making, of the shameful as in the British tariff; which
rob the people without benefiting the revenue, and inflict
a needless injury upon every branch of British industry.
Mr. Hume moved fir the appointment of the TitipOtt Du-
tirs Committee in the House of Commons about a twelve-
month ago, and, as Chairman, was instrumental in eli-
citing that important mass of information which has al-
ready been distributed in a • thousand forms over the
length and breadth of the country, and which has un-
questionably determined the present Ministers to promul-
gate their new scheme of commercial reform, for the re-
lief of industry, as well us for the replenishment of the
exhausted coffers of the State.

The recent history of Mr. Hume is soon told. On the
late dissolution cf Parliament he was induced to stand
for the borough of Leeds, with every ;prospect of being
triumphantly returned. We need scarcely say how fal-
lacious such representations proved. Mr. Hume was de-
feated, and Leeds has affixed to it the disgrace of having
expelled from Parliament one of the most useful public
men who has ever lived. The loss is no loss to Mr.
Hume, but to his country. For himself he will be a
great gainer ; but the questions which Mr. Hume had
made his own will no longer have the benefit of his able
and felirless advocacy in Parliament.
About a fortnight ago, Mr. Hume left London to
spud a few weeks upon the Continent of Europe. For
the time being he is out of Parliament ; but we may
with safety predict that his exclusion will not be of
long continuance. Numerous constituencies await the
first opportunity to call upon him to represent them ;
and we should not wonder if before three months are
over, we may again find him in his place in the House
of Commons, watching over the national expenditure, and
contributing by the moral influence of his example to
propagate, a sense of honesty. integrity, and economy,
in the expenditure of the public money.

THE CITY ELECTION.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

you can spare.me a small space in your paper
I will tell Sir R. Peel the real cause why two Conserva-
tives were returned fore the City, and knowing the im-
mense influence set to work, it is astonishing that four
were not returned. Sir Robert, in his speech to his
Tamworth friends-on Wednesday, said, "It was not the
Chandos clause that had returned two Conservative Mem-
bers for the City of London," but attributes it to a re-
Action in favour of, or in his own words, " a vindication
of Conservative principles." The exertions,' however,
were not made by " unobtrusive individuals, who ask no
advantage for themselves," but on the contrary, by men
asking everything for themselves—by many of the most
influential men in the City—not on "public principle,"
but on the very mercenary one of filling their own
pockets.
Towards the end of last year sugar reached a very
high price, which produced a great deal of speculation,
and almost all the East and \Vest India merchants, with
some others, embarked in it. In my sphere in the mer-
cantile community I know that the " constituency" in
the City, who spared "no personal exertion, or sacrifice
of ease," and, it may be added, extension of purse, are
line holders of sugar, and have still larger speculations
4n. it coming forward ; it was the " impulse" to save
theuiZ'lVcsl rather than that " singly and solely for the
public goirl," that actuated them. They dreaded the
return of ti Ilinisterial majority, because they knew one
of Its first acts w.;:11(1 be an equalization of the duty on
sugar, which would-h„:e marred their speculations most
effectually. Their exertions ‘,yere therefore directed with
Ail &ir energy to avert this. They threatened their
servadd rifil4 tradesmen, bribed the nee,..4y, wheedled, and
talked about Oboe labour to the indepe„
silent voters.
These are the virtuous and disinterested men ,21at Sir
Robert says doerve credit of the empire."
We must have the .pallot to prevent a recurrence of
-,.„„,:::otts and good people that
this, and to make us the
Sir Robert Peel wishes us to be. •
I remain, Sir, your obedient servignt,,
Mincing-lane, July 81, 1841. A c""IZEN.

REPEAL MEETINGS IN LOPIDON.
It is well known that we have netef advocated a Repeal
of the .Legislative Union between this towl the sister
Kingdom ; but yet so rapidly is that measuee itrogres-
aing, ao numerous are the meetings in favour of it, itsid
so fast are its adherents increasing in London, as well as
throughout the various other cities and towns of Eng-
land, ever since the public has become alarmed by
the approaching advent of the 'rotiee to jpower—that we
deem it right to give our readers some idol of the orga-
nization of the Repeal body in this metropolis, ttild the
encouragement they are now receiving in every distriCt
of it. We have ascertained that in the course of the
week just;past, the following meetings in favour of Repeal
have been holden in London :—Farringdon, Aldersgate-
street, London Bridge,Farringdon Auxiliary, St. James's,
Lincoln's Inn-Fields, Marylebone, Westminster, Ken-
sington, Lambeth ; and in addition to these, already es-.
tablished, new branches of the Repeal body have been
opened in the following districts, and all in the cotirse of
one week :—lslington, Whitechapel, St. John's‘Woodi
St. Pancras, and Chelsea. We would not be justified in
concealing from our readers that Repeal is now becoming
a question of importance. The London Political Insti-
tute is to discuss, on next Wednesday evening, the policy
of Mr. O'Connell as regards the Repeal question. Of
the many meetings held an .the subject last week, we give
a report of that convened at Chelsea. The chair was
filled by Mr. O'Sullivan, and upwards of thirty members
were enrolled. After the enrolling of members and other
preliminary business was disposed of,
The CHAIRMAN rose and said, he felt happy and
proud to have the honour of introducing to them Mr.
O'Mahoney.—(Cheers.) No man had done so much for
the advancement of Repeal in London as that Learned
Gentleman, who would now address them ; and as he
(the Chairman) knew they all felt such a desire to hear
him, he would not think of delaying them by any obser •
vations of his own.
Mr. O'ltlAHoriEv then rose amidst loud and protracted
cheering. He said, that frequently as he had addressed
bodies of the Repealers in London, and great us was the
happiness which lie invariably derived from meeting his
brother Repealers, yet never did he experience a delight
superior to that he now felt on addressing the honest
men of Chelsea.—(Cheers.) There was one simple fact
which he was desirous the Tories should know, and the
sooner it was communicated to them the better. It was
the following :—Previous to the late dissolution of Par-
liament, so apathetic were the Repealers of London, that
their weekly meetings were but poorly attended,—few of
the branches were getting any considerable increase to
their numbers, and no less than three of them had ac-
tually died away for want of the trifling exertion neces-
sary in order to sustain them. But how stood the case
at present ? It was . widely altered,—it was completely
reversed.—(Loud cheers.) Yes, the very idea of the
Tories succeeding to power has already had the salutary
effect of arousing the friends of Ireland, and the enemies
of Tory misrule, froni the lethargic state into which
they had lapsed. The Repealers of London are adding
to their numbers by the hundred. Each district is emu-
lating the neighbouring one, to see which shall have the
greatest increase. Nobody now dreams of any of the
established branches becoming defunct, but, on the con-
trary, we have a dozen of new ones about to start into
immediate existence.—(lmmense cheering.) Every night
this week, he (Mr. O'Mahony) hoped to be engaged in
opening a new branch. He need not tell them where he
was opening the branch to-night. On Tuesday even-
ing, he hoped to open a branch at Whitechapel ; on
Wednesday evening he was to be at the opening of
another at Islington ; on Thursday evening, another
new branch at St. John's Wood ; and on Friday he was
to be in Ireland, and he was on that day to open a branch
in the heart of St. Giles's.---(Loud cheers.) Oh ! he
sincerely wished that the leading men amongst the
Tories had heard that spontaneous cheer. It would
go farther to convince them of the difficulty they will
have in governing Ireland, than the most eloquent
speeches that could be, addressed to them on the subject.
That generous cheer which' was elicited from the meet-
ing by simply laying' befiire them the rapid progress of
Repeal, convinced. him that better days are yet in store
for Ireland—that her sons and her friends are still de-
voted to her cause, and that the hereditary enemies of
human liberty, who are now about to assume the reins of
power, have just cause to tremble at their formidable op-
position.—(Cheers.) But he (Mr. O'Mahoney) should,
perhaps, be told, that the Tories coming into power
with a majority of seventy, cared not for the numerical
strength of the Repealers and the other friends of Ire-
land. The Tories, who are practised dissemblers, might
pretend that they disregarded their numerical strength ;
ma organ of that base faction, the weathercock Timm
might still continue to apply the epithet " Ituffian " to
the most virtuous portion of the Irish people ; but yet
those insolent despots {tad their Billingsgate organ,

whatever be their outward appearance, inwardly trem-
ble when they ieflect on the unpurchasable virtue and
undying patriotistn of the Irish millions. Would any
man in these three kingdoms contradict him when he
asserted that the Duke of Wellington possessed as
much strength of nerve as Sir Robert Peel ?—(Laugh-
ter.) Well, though ridiculous the comparison, and
though many might think it resembled that instituted
between the lion and the jackass, yet the only admis-
sion he sought for was, that the Duke of Wellington
had as much moral and animal courage as Sir Robert
Peel.—(Hear.) They were all aware that the Duke,
only twelve short years ago, when at the head of the
public affairs of this empire, felt so nervous that he was
unable to hold the Tory reins of power, and declared
that it had become a matter of absolute necessity for
him to surrender to the united people of Ireland that
right of entrance to the British Constitution which they
had long demanded on the score of justice, but which the
Gallant Duke and his party shamefully quailed through
the degrading influence of fear. Now, when the victor of
Waterloo, the hero of a hundred fights, quailed before the
united majority of the Irish people, does there live the man
so blind as not to see that Peel must at once tremble on
coming into opposition with them ?—(llear.) But per-
haps he should be told that the Irish people have changed
since the year 1829. True, they have changed ; but it
is, thank God, a change for the better which has come
over them. What made the Tory reins to tremble in
the hands of the Tory Duke in the year 1828, was, that
one hundred thousand men came into the town of Ennis
in the morning and left it quietly in the evening, without
tasting spirituous liquors. and continued to do so for three
days.—(Hear.) Now, if the fact of one hundred
thousand men having exhibited sufficient moral resolu-
tion .to abstain from spirituous liquors for three short
days proved sufficient to strike terror into the heart of
the Duke of Wellington, what, he would ask, was to be-
come of the unfortunate Peel, when he should find him-
self dealing, not with one hundred thousand men pledged
to abstinence for three days, but with five millions of
People joined in one great moral association, and pledged
against intoxicating drinks fur the entire period of their
lives ?—(Applause.) Oh ! the calumniated Irish people
exhibit virtues superior to those of any others in the
world. They are calumniated by the Tory press, and
by all Tory hirelings, solely because they are too virtu-
ous to be purchased, and cannot be converted into in-
struments fur effecting the wicked purposes of that trucu-
lent faction.—(Cheers.) He (Mr. O'Mahony) would tell
them one of the nicest distinctions imaginable, which
was drawn by the Times within the last few days, and
which shows the true cause why they who follow an
upright and patriotic course never fail to bring down upon
themselves the vengeance of the foul Tory press.—
(Hear.) Mark this exquisitely drawn distinction. The
Times, in one of its leading articles of the week just
past, when speaking of those base Catholics, for whom
the very smell of the pottage his proved too tempting
an allurement, and who, at the sacrifice of their princi-
ples, and in opposition to the dictates of theirconsciences,
voted for the Tories, when speaking of those self-degraded
persons, the Times calls them " Roman Catholic gentle-
men." But when it comes to speak of those honest voters
who felt they had a country, and owed it a duty—who felt
they had consciences, the dictates of which they were
bound to respect ; and who have proved themselves su-
perior to all the seductive arts, tyrannical menaces, and
proferred bribes of the corrupt Tory party, how, he
asked, did the Times designate these men ? Did it call
them " Roman Catholic gentlemen ?" Oh, no ; but it
applies to them the abusive anti insulting epithet of
" Popish ruffians."—(Cries of " Oh, oh.") Yes, here is
the exquisite distinction of the venal Times. Those
wretched creatures who . vote—as the Times writes—
contrary to their well-known and long-avowed principles
—who sacrifice conscience at the shrine of pelf—who
sell their country, betray .the best interests of the empire,
risk the stability of the Throne, and deliver up our pa-
triotic and virtuous Sovereign into the hands of her dead-
liest foes,—those spiritless, wriggling, and loathsome
animals are, forsooth, " Catholic gentlemen ;" but they
who have not marketable consciences—who are proof
against the threats of tyrants—who spurn Carlton gold,
and prefer to everything earthly the retention of that un-
sullied virtue derived from their fathers—these men are,
according to the Times, "Popish ruffians." Oh, then,
if the Times be the dictionary consulted for the meaning
of terms, may I (exclaimed Mr. O'Mahoney) live and die
a " Popish ruffian," and never disgrace my country by.
becoming a " Catholic gentleman."—(Cheers.) Now,
as he had been talking to them about the Tory Press,
he would whisper one little fact in their ears, namely—
the Times -dhcl Standard are already quarrelling.—
(Laughter.) How it always pleases honest men to hear
of rogues falling out ; they laughed at that as if it au-
gured something good. Well, as that pleased them, he
would whisper another little fact. It was this—the Times
ivas quarrelling with itself.—(Cheers.) He had laid by
two copies of the Times, which he purposed preserving,
in order to exhibit them hereafter as literary curiosities
in their way.—(Laughter.) They are the Times of last
Monday and the Times of last Saturday.—(Loud
cries of " hear, hear.") The Times of last Monday,
first gives, in its leading article, a partial account of
the excitement that' prevailed in • some parts of Ireland
during the recent elections, keeping out of view as a
matter of course, the provocation given by the murderous
deeds of the Orange assassins ; and then, after giving
its garbled and partial statement of the case, it promises
to follow it up—for what purpose did they suppose ?
IVliy, t`)- the purpose of showing that the Irish people
should not be put on an equality with the English.—
(Loud cries of "Hear, hear.") Would they bear with
? Would they bear to be longer classet. as the in-
feri6l3 zf Englishmen.—(" No, no, never.") The Tories,
then, wei.T.,,:olved to perpetuate this line of distinci,:on
between English a..:1 Irishmen. Would they whom he ,
addressed submit to it r--(" No, we'll die first.") Would
-.e_re in that meeting lend
the honest Englishmen who v.
their countenance or support to a faction whose object
was t^ perpetuate distinctions, and therOy preserve and
engender feuds and animosities in the State ?—(Cries of
" Na, no.") As they had given him that promise, he
would thill appeal to them, and as there was but one
course left whereby to put a period to those mischievous
distinctions, he 0164 would they follow him in adopting •
that course ? Woithl they join with him for a Repeal of
the Union 7 (Cries of " We will, we will.") Oh, how
he would wish that the in-celning Tories had heard the
response given to his appeal. it would strike terror into
their hearts, though humanity can 4in.4 no abode there.
Dist who did they suppose the Times 11.7c1 chosen as ob-
jects of *house for Saturday's article ? Was it_ the Irish
people ? :to. Who then did they think ? irould the
meeting believe it ? Wby the Times of Saturday de-
voted its leading article to abusing the Tories. ft Caid
that the Tories were pressed down beneath an accumrla-
Lion of vices, that they became tainted with thos'
vices, whilst they were the domineering faction in
the State.—(Laughter.) But that is not all the Times
says • about the Tory Lords and the Tory Reverends of
tn,l)s.ad. hear what it so insulting'', compares them
to. The Times actually, compares the rories of the three
kingdoms to s mouldy crust.—(Continued laughter.)
They were, saye Saturday's Times, speaking of the
Tories before the EnOneipation Bill, but a mere "crust,"
which was shivered into atoms by the first thun-
derbolt that passed through the political atmosphere.
Well, after cooking all the unfortunate Tories in
this manner, what does • the Times say in order to
lull the fears of the people,. and reconcile them to
their new ,tyrants ? It says that it is only a flock of
Conservatives that they will now have to protect them-
selves from.— (Groans.) This reminded- him (Mr.
O'Mahoney) of the' time when the Orangemen got ashamed
of their name in Ireland, and changed it to that of Bruns-
Wist,ers.—(Hear, and laughter.) When parties begin
changing names, it is like sick people changing beds—
always a sign of approaching death.—(Laughter.)
The poar Brunswickers did not live long, and they dis-
appeared so suddenly that they must have all died of a
galloping consumption.—(Laughter.) When the Bruns-
wickers first started into existence—(A voice, " But
they are all dead now")—very well if they are, peace to
their ashes, and may the ghost of one of them never tor-
ment you Well, when the Brunswickers first rose np
in Ireland, he (Mr. O'Mahoney) remembered that O'Con-
nellsdntohtetyo be
wTremthiseleodid
bOyrtahnegmem,
foren th still,a t and
they h
d esai rde donthbe
people ,
truth
needioremark
more obvious
i O'Connell
them,eo simile'
changed their name, whilst they retained their ra* nc
But Mr. O'Connell was not satisfied with simply tel°liulng
..
tltepeoplethisfac He looked for
onbv appropriate
its the
t
thateY fitted exactly.—_(Hear.) He (He
said
theo ° n
whereby to make
and
e
n foundnml:h°ll
enn ella d only changed their name, just as a
sile
mano( Ali.ra.
turnse '3a
shabby coat, for the purpose 'of deceiving his
neighbours. For, although it may, when turned, de-
ceive the unobservant, who do not take the trouble of
examining it ; yet let any one look to the inside as well
as that lately put out, and he will find that it is the same
old coat all the while. —(Loud laughter and cheering.)
So it is, (resumed Mr. O'Mahoney) with the Conser-
vatives of the present day. They slyly change their
name, that they
people ; but the turning of the old Tory coat will not do
may the more effectually deceive the
for the deceitful Conservatives. The people will examine
them, they will look to both sides; if the Conservatives
now put the wrong side out, the people will look to t
side that has been turned in, and having inspected both
sides they will find that it is only the shabbyr?ldTory
coat still.—(Cheers.) Yes, the people of these kingdomsedlin
are now too wise to be imposed upon by such apd
w. go
trick as that just resorted to ky Sir Robert feel,.
which has grown
purpose of turning the old Tory
_era,
has stayed from the Continent this whole season, for the
examining thelone•er. The people, on closely
too shabby for the Duke of Wei ing.to.n to wear any
e dangerous, because not
in heart—mere cheats, the mot.
Conser-
vatives, will find they are Tories at the back-bone and
yield to expedience, what they
whose only policy,is Such retched, jobbing, turning, twist-
manly enough tb avow their real sentiments—creatures
deny to justice.
these cannot be tolerated as
the governors of men whose highest liighest object in enjoying
ing, yet, venomous reptiles,ivio
, life, is, that they el.q. sacrifice it, if necessary, in de-
fending With Peel advancing at the
their liberties.
head of his murmuring and rebellious followers, dressed
in his turned coat, with the Conservative side out and
t
the Tory side in, and e people of Ireland allow
the people Scorpion
Stanley besmearing it
with venomous froth, will
their rights to be snatched from them, and their ran-
.'
chises to be annihilated ?—(Loud cries of " No, no,"
We'll die first.") He (Mr. O'Mahoney) set as much
value an his life as any man ; he knew life was the
' greatest gift bestowed on mortals by the munificent hand
• 1 Of Providence, but yet he declared that if Stanley's Bill
' w‘49 to pass, and the gunneigation Act become emlan-

-:irks thertiiiiit
that such were the feelings, Such the deliberate opinion
not of hundreds only, but of hundreds.of thousands of the
Irish people.—(Applause.) When he (Mr. O'Mahoney)
uttered that sentiment, which he had long felt in his heart,
he but spoke the feeling of those lie wo.s addressing ; and
when they responded to that setitinictiit with so hearty a
cheer, they only displayed the feelings which actuated
millions of their fellow-countrymen at the other side of
the Channel:—(Continued cheering.> The present was
not the time for milk-and-water politicians. What Ire-
land now wanted was men of nerve to devote themselves
to her cause, and, thank God, she had them amongst her
own sons. This he wished the Tories to know.—(Cheers.)
Where they afraid of the Tories ?—(Cries of " No, no.")
They were not. Irishmen, strong in .the justice of their
cause, and firm in their hope that God would never
desert them in their struggle to raise their country to
what he intended she should be, knew not what it was to
fear the Tories, when coming to rob them of their con-
stitutional rights.—(Cheers.) lie would tell them what
pas:led between an Irish Catholic Prelate and a country
farmer, when talking on this subject.—(Hear, hear.)
The farmer thus addressed the Bishop : "My Lord, is
not Scorpion Stanley going to rob us of our votes ?"
"He will, if he can," answered the Bishop. " Aye, if
he can, my Lord," repeated the Irish farmer. " And
when he and the English Parliament rob us of our votes,
my Lord, is not he then going to take away the Eman-
cipation from us ?" "That he will 'do too," answered
the Bishop. " And when he takes away our votes and
robs us of the Emancipation, I suppose he'll then drive
us into the sea," added the countryman. " Ah, may be
he will." "But, my Lord, 'tis only may be so ; for when
it comes to that, two can play at it, and may be he and his
party would find themselves deep in the water, when
Irishmen would still be onthe dry land."—(Cheer..) This
conversation was told him (Mr. O'Mahoney) by the
Bishop himself at his own table, and it shows how deeply
the sense of the injustice done them has sunk into the
hearts of the Irish peasantry. There is one way still
left of defeating Stanley and his myrmidons—there is one
course still open whereby to save Irishmen from coming
into open collision with their enemies—and that is by
all who hate despotism and anarchy, and who love peace,
order, and liberty, coming forward in time, and joining in
our constitutional demand for a Repeal of the Legislative
Union.--(Loud cheers.) The aristocracy of England,
who never see danger till they are driven to the verge of
the precipice, may sneer at the exertions now made in the
cause of Repeal; but so surely as Irishmen did the duty
they owed to themselves, their country, and the cause of
Universal liberty, so surely would they succeed, and thin
sooner than most men imagined, in effectuating a repeal
of the accursed and pauperising Act of Union.—(Hear,
hear.) Two things only were required in order to ensure
a repeal of that iniquitous Act—they were, first, perfect
unity amongst Irishmen and the friends of Ireland; and
secondly, fixed determination. Let Irishmen and Ire-
land's friends at once form themselves into one indisso-:
ble union, and then, when united in one compact body,-
subject to one leader, guided by one head, actuated by
one impulse, let them next convey to the British Parlia-
ment this simple fact:—" There are six millions of Bri-
tish subjects, composed of English, Irish, and Scotch,
and one million of men, the subjects of foreign powers,
but who narrowly watch all British movements, and these
combined millions wish for d Repeal of the Legislative..
Union between England and Ireland." Let this exten-.
sive union, he repeated, be once formed, and this wish be
determinedly expressed, and that moment the aristocrats
of England, whether Whig or Tory, would yield, be-
cause they should yield what was required by the demand •
of united millions.—(Cheers.) Let no man, then, exhibit
his shallowness of intellect and narrowness of mind by
ridiculously asserting that the Repeal of the Union is un-
attainable; for, in order to accomplish it, it is only ne-
cessary that we, who are Repealers, do our duty, exert
our influence, gather others around us, who will do like-
wise in their turn ; that we preserve order, respect the
laws, obey the constituted authorities, and that we may
every day give some additional proof of the love we bear
our country and our Queen.—(Cheers.) Mr. &Mahoney
went on to argue the facility with which Repeal would
be obtained provided each man did his duty. He in-
stanced the case of an Englishman, Mr. Wood, of Lam- •
beth, who, after he (Mr. O'M.) had adduced some argu-
ments that were considered as well calculated to show
Englishmen that they themselves would derive advan-
tages from Repeal,came forward and said, that being now
convinced of the justice of Repeal, and the'goed that would
result to the entire empire from it, he would not only be-
come a Repealer himself, but promised that on that night
week he would bring twenty others, and that they should
be twenty Englishmen. Here was an unit at once magnified
into a score, and provided that each of the twenty new mem-
bers should do the same as Mr. Wood, tile one would, in
a single fortnight, have increased to 400. Again, suppose
each of the four hundred brought twenty others, how
many would they be next week ?- He-admitted that it .
went beyond his calculation ; but one thing was cer-
tain, the number would be worth counting.—(Hear.)
This, then, was what he (Mr. °Mahoney) wanted to
impress upon Repealers. Let every man who gained
another to the cause feel proud of it, as having thereby
done a positive good to Ireland ; and as they all saw
what might be done by the well-directed exertions of a
single individual, he hoped that every man present would
resolve to imitate the noble example set them by Mr.
King and Mr. Wood, of Lambeth, two Englishmen, who
brought forward twenty new members each ; that every
man would use his influence with his friends, neighbours,
and acquaintances, and give proof on that night week,
by the new members he would bring with him, that he
was no friend to the'Tories, but was alive to the wants
and interests of Ireland.
Mr. O'Mahoney concluded his speech amid rapturous
and repeated applause.

THE MURDER AT NORWICH.
CONFESSION OF THE MURDERER.

John Self, the young man convicted cn Wednesday of
the murder of JemitunSLimson, has, since his conviction,
made an ample confession of his guilt. It will be
in recol-
,;seted,were that he and his victim working on Saturday
weep the same field, and he states, that when they
were ge:ting their dinner he took some liberties with her,
which she resented, threatening to acquaint her mother,
and they hid some words about it. On their way home
he attempted to appease her, and to induce her to say
nothing about it; but she persisted in her resolution, and
he thereupon turned round and deliberately struck her
.a most violent blOw on the head with a spade. This
felled her, and he gave her two or three similar blows
and threw her into a ditch, where he left her. As he
was going away, he looked at the unfortunate girl, and
seeing her " quivering" in the ditch, he dragged. her
,forth and threw the body into ,the pond in which it was
afterwards found. The prism, er then continued his
journey homeward, and on his way met and conversed
with two or three young men who 1 he knew with the
utmost unconcern, and on his arri -1 at home he set
about finishing a straw hat which he wa„-t making for one
of his brothers, as coolly and unconcern&l as if nothing
unusual had occurred ! It is unneeessaunnecessaryti; add that he
is left for execution, and his untimely ,fate excites no
.
-mpathy in any quarter.
'

Tn.: SCOTT MONUMENT.—Thanks to the
zeal and
pt:severing exertions of the Auxiliary Commit-
tee, the erealn.
a of this splendid monument, intended to
hand down to futit;
e ages a memorial cf the talents and
genius of Scotland's
b-reatest writer, is at length com-
menced. On
Thursday a umber of men wore employed
in excavating for its fotialitlo,:;:,l\ On the south side of
that a considerable sum is still\tanting
Prince's-street, opposite St. David"-street. 'We under-
stand_monument to the proposed height of Abu:,
ut 189 tti,;tbitat
we trust that when the substructure is e.,mnPle ' le the
sum will not be found wanting. In the n‘sßn'tin their
to raise
_thuet
Auxiliary Committee are still zealously ?rowan,- igoured
labours ; and we understand they were last week fa., the
with a handsome subscription from the Member fa'
__
county, Mr. Ramsey, of Barnton. The
"'bole wink fhor-
been contracted for by Mr. Lind, who is now go) t-.
mold
ward with such spirit in building the General Act
Halt, at the head of Lawnmarket.—Seotsman.
A Meeting
Rawsthorne, one Of
Farnworth a few days since.
RoMberr. t Peel would be like
the speakers, observed:—Sir
gth," but David was coming
Goliah, " ory.ing.
of fifty free-traders took place a t
to aii i'gs hds.t leCig m instead of the men, they
loaf / in
lh'isg,star and then Sir Robert would be
He was certain that if they
had their requests
'ici sere
aidtltho: fall.—(Laughter.)
women 1
na— (e n
round . .
granted
would have long since; for
was the neck, and the neck could turn
yet if so, woTil ,
wasausaid that man was the head of the house,
it liked.
The Baron de Beranger relates that,
having se-
cured ick-pocket in the very act of irregular abstrae-
ithheouilgelat it twhich
,i
ay
him she
„, thimr.in his face that had procured
abstrac-
tion, he took the liberty of inquiring whether there was
a
itiii,e;„',-tingled out for such an attempt. " Why, Sir,"
said the fellow, " your face is well enough, but you had
(m thin shoes and white stockings in dirty weather, and,
so I made sure you were a flat."
MATCH AT BILLIARDS.—Last week a match,
at billiards, which excited a considerable degree of in-
terest among the admirers of that exciting game, came
off in Glasgow. Mr. John Roberts, of Liverpool, ge-
nerally known by the sobriquet of Liverpool Jack, a
celebrated player at billiards, was brought to Glas-
gow to play a match with Mr. John Fleming, of the bil-
liard-rooms. Buchanan-street. The match was for 500
up, and 50/. a-side, and after )). very keen contest, vic-
tory was declared in favour of ,Mr. Fleming by fourteen
points. At the outset the Liverpool player shot a-head,
but Mr. Fleming having made a score of sixty-seven off
the balls, a hit, we believe, unprec„.Niented in the annals
of playing in Glasgow, turned the tide of success com-
pletely in his favour.
The Scritinelle of Bayonne mentions the deser-
tion of a French soldier a few days ago, who swam
across the Bidasoa, at the port of Andayc, and, though
pursued by his comrades in a boat, got safe into Fuen -
tarabia. The French soldiers followed him into this
town, but some Spanish sailors took his part, assaulted
the soldiers, and forced them to recross the frontier.
It was said that the Spanish authorities bad sent a warm
protest into France against the violation of ' the Spanish
territory.

vy
MURDER'S MOTHER.—I went one night into
the Green-room of Drury-lane Theatre. When young
girls are called upon to perform in London playhouses,
it is customary for their mothers to come to look after
them, to adjust their dress, rub their cheeks with a.
rouged hare's foot, and prevent Viscounts from falling in
love with them. It so happened that five young girls
were wanted for the drama ; the consequence was, that
five black-bonneted mothers blockaded the Green-room,
" Did you ever see anything like it ?" ejaculated Wu--
den (then between 70 and 80), in an under tone. "
bring my 01,04 mother to-morrow night I've as Inlleh
right 44 they We It"