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Part VIII., Semptember 1. Price Sevenpelice.
H MITTS JOURNAL OF LITERATURE
AND PROGRESS.

Edited by WILLIAM and MARY HOW ITT.

This Part contains Six splendid Ei,gravings—Mademoisselle Ra-
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Twelve Illustrations,

HIGHLAND SPORTS AND HIGHLAND
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By HERBERT BYNG HALL, Esq.
Author of " Spain, and the Seat of War In Spain ;"
" Scenes at Home and Abroad," &c., &c.
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EA and PERRINS' WORCESTERSHIRE
1.4 SAUCE is universally allowed to be the most Piquant and
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CAUTION.—To protect the public from fraud, the lion. Commis-
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MR. TRIG G E R, THE SPORTSMAN.
Let me give you a sketch of my friend, Mr. Trigger,
A sportsman who outs a respectable figure;
When only a troy, Mr. Trigger reveal'd
A firm predilection for sports of the field;
And still ke retains (as he ever has done)
The highest respect for his dog and his gun.
Mr T. takes the highest delight, as be ought,
In whatever may chance to pertain to the sport.
He rubs up his "stock," and he sponges his barrel,
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He brightens his flask, and his pointer and setter
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As soon as the season for sporting comes on,
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And many a coat for the field has he bought,
Neat, novel, and fitting, and durably wrought.
Ile went to the warehouse a few days ago,
Ills favours on MOSES and SON to bestow;
For MOSES and SOY'S are the coats he prefers,
And ne'er on their dress does ho cast any slurs.
My friend, Mr. Trigger, has often avow'd,
That any but these could not pass in a crowd.
May every good reader who sports with a gun,
Learn duly to value E. MOSES and SON ;
And dress for the field like my friend, Mr. Trigger,
Who cuts such a very respectatile figure.
LIST Of PRICES.
MAIM TO MEASMIX.
Cashmere Codrington, from .... •••• .. •• •......... .£ 16 6
Taglionis, silk collar and cuffs .. •.• • • . •••••••• • • • • 1 2 0
Cambridge Coat, lined throughout •• •• .. • • 2 5 0
00
1316 06
Tweed Coats • •• •• • • .• • • •• •• •• •
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SDBest quality manufactured ••••••.. • • • • • • ••••• • • • • 2 15 0
proertssincgoaCt ..tao.. ..................... .. . ••••• • • • •
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Best quality manufactured ••••• • • • • •
Rich pattern Vests •• .•
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Tweed Trousers •••••• •• •• -• •• ••••• • • • • •
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Sporting ditto
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0 6 6
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. 0 0
Frock Coat ..
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0
Extra Superfine, a superior coat • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Roll-Collar Vests .. • • • • • • • • • • • •
Fancy satins ..
Cloth, or C 4 6
0 4 6
Fancy Cassimere or Doeskin
Boys Tunic and Hussar suits •••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • ..
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application, or forwarded post-free.
Observe.—Any article purchased, ready made, or made to mea-
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money returned.
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Ladies and Gentlemen, 154, 155, and 156, 157 Minoriea, and 83,
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o'clock.

A R iZ I A U E.
31 One half the world are desolately single, and the other
supposing them married, questionably contented. Diffidence, or a
sense of right determ ne the former, and miscalculate) hopes em-
hitter the latter. The solitary one may shield himself under the plea
of caution and worldly prudence, and the indissoluble, regret un-
comprosing hurry ; but the truth lies deeper. Physical incapacity,
and broken health, are the great hindrances to domestic happiness
and social content. The dowry should not be the only marriage set-
tlement. Honour and justice demand that health should form an item
in the compact ;it alone dignifies the alliance. Blighted hopes or
neglect wound more sorely than poverty or misfortune. Reader, if
these surmises concern you, procure Dr. CULVERWELL'S little
MEMOIRS "On Single and Married Life, " pub. in 2 vole., Is.
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refined, or prudish feeling deter you, by their titles, nor be hindered
by misinterpretation. of their supposed contents, from obtaining
them. They are not intended certainly for mere idle curiosity, but
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they are offered as antagonistic to the empyrical trash put forth on
the above subjects, by unqualified authors, which alone or
together, are a disgrace to the age. Furthermore, two other
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by post le. 6d.) called " What to Eat, Drink, and
Avoid," and " How to be Happy." They are not merely
pamphlets, but equal in quantity a library volume, nor are they the
mere ephemeral scribblings of the hour, but the study of the author's
life, who owes his present existence, health, and position to this ob-
servance of the maxims he would inculcate—to do unto others as he
would be done unto—to live after nature's laws—and to keep always
on the " sunny side of the way." The above works may be had of
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ON THE CONCEALED CAUSE THAT PREYS ON THE
HEALTH AND SHORTENS THE DURATION OF HUMAN
LIFE.

ILLUSTRATED WITS COLOURED ENGRAVINGS,
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CONTROUL OF THE PASSIONS : a Popular
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suffering from the destructive consequences of excessive indulgence,
terminating in Mental and Nervous Debility, Local or Constitutional
Weakness, Indigestion, and Consumption. Including a comprehen-
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Illustrated with Coloured Engravings, explanatory of the various
Cases, &c.
By C. J. LUCAS and Co., Consulting Surgeons, No. 60, Newman-
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Member of the London College of Medicine, &c. &c,
CONTENTS OF THE WORE,
Chap. L.—Bodily and Mental Exhaustion induced by inordinate
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Chap. 2.—Baneful Results of a Secret Vice on the Mind and Body,
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Duties of Married Life, and on the unhappiness caused by Unfruitful
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the imperfect performance of the Marital act, caused byt he practice
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Chap. s.—Syphilis, and its attendant maladies and treatment. Cases,
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COLLINS'S ODE on the PASSIONS will be
recited by Mr. J. RUSSELL, with Illustrations in a Series of
DRAWINGS magnified by means of the OPAQUE MICROSCOPE,
accompanied by Music by Dr. Wallis, on the Mornings of Tuesday,
Thursday, and Saturday, and on the Evenings of Tuesday and
Thursday, at the ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. Dr.
liachholfner's LECTURES on NATURAL PHILOSOPHY will
comprise the subject of the ELECTRIC TELEGRAPHS, &c. CHE-
MICAL LECTURES by Robert Hunter Simple, Esq., ou the Eve-
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It is sold, throughout the kingdom, at a moderate price, by Chemists,
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CLEREENWELL COUNTY COURT, Aug. 26.

(Before THOMAS STARKIE, Esq.)
CLERC V. JONES.

John Samuel Clerc, Georgerthe Fourth, Copen-
hagen-street, Islington, plaintiff; and John Henry
Jones, of Church-row, High-street, Islington, and of
the New Bunhill-fields Cemetery, Church-street,
Islington, defendant.
This action was brought to recover the sum of
51. 18s. 6d., which the plaintiff claimed of the defen-
dant as follows-31. 3s. for money paid by the plain-
tiff on the Ist of May last for the purchase of a grave
in the New Bunhill-fields Cemetery, and 2/. 15s. 6d.
the burial fees charged for the interment of plaintiff's
mother, Mary Clerc.
Mr. WAKELING said his client complained that he
had paid his money in consequence of the defendant's
representations that the burial-ground in question
was consecrated ground.
The defendant called his brother, Evan Jones, who
stated that Mr. Clerc called upon him, a day or two
after taking the ground, and expressed his dissatisfac-
tion. He thought he had taken ground to bury his
mother in that was consecrated ground, and that the
service would be performed by a clergyman of the
Church of England. lie found it was not so, and he
therefore required his money back again, which was
not given.
The JUDGE—WeII, I think this proves that Mr.
Clere did consider that he was about placing the
remains of his mother in consecrated ground, and
that the Church of England service was to be per-
formed by a clergyman of the Church of England,
and it appears that this was not the case ; and, there-
fore, I think the plaintiff is entitled to have his money
back. The Learned Judge then gave a verdict for
the plaintiff for 51. 18s. 6d.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
LIVERPOOL, AUGUST 26,
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Birkenhead, Lance-
hire, and Cheshire 311. Shares (late Chester and Birkenhead,
5 per cent. on 22/. till 180, 3% dis. ex int.—Chester and
Holyhea 1 (preferentials guaranteed 51,4 per cent.), 11p.
Eastern Counties, 18% ex div.—East Lancashire, New,
dis.—East Lincolnshire, 111 p.—Fleetwood, Preston, and
West Riding, 2 dis.—Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock, 18
2 p.—Shrewsbury, —Huddersfield Canal and Railway, 4, p.—Lancashire and
Union),B% Ysp.....dibridLlaonnd-,
Yorkshire, Fifths (late West Riding
dis.—Lon-
don
Halves,an d 2 NIA o
pr tsh -01rVt
he s tsetranff, 0 Qr
dus ahri tree r, s
Oswes-
try, and Cheshire, Preference (guaranteed 8 per cent.), 2 p.
—York, Newcastle, and Berwick, Preference (guar. 6 per
cent. till 1850), 3 p.—Cork and Bandon, 20 dis. ex int.
LEEDS, AUGUST 26.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—East Lancashire,
New, 40s. dis.—Ditto, New, Scrip, ss. dis.—Great Northern,
3% dis.—Huddersfield and Manchester, par—Lancashire
and Yorkshire (West Riding Union), lls.6d.dis.—Leeds and
Thirsk, 10s. dis.—Ditto, Preference, 15s. dis.—Leeds, Wake-
field, and Midland, 19s. dis.—Newcastle and Berwick, New,
21. 16s. 3d. p.—North British, Thirds, 114 p.—Ditto. Quar-
ters, 16s. 3d. p.--Ditto, Extension, 2s. 6d. p. —North Stafford-
shire 21 ls. 3d. p.—North Vftstern, 575. dis.—Sheffield,
Rotherham, and Goole, 21 dis. South-Eastern atkd Quier, ,
No. 1, par. 4
MANCHESTER, "AwirsT 26. NI
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales ar4—Blackburn,Clitheroe,
&c., Preference, 11/si p.—Lancashire and Yorkillire, 321.
Shares (late Extension), VA dis.—Leeds and Thirsk, Pre-
ferentiats, 3/,i dis.—North Staffordshire, 2 1-16 dis.—South-
Eastern and Dover, Na. 4, 15-16 die.

SHEFFIELD, Atrousr 26.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Lancasbira and York-
shire, ( West Riding Union), 101. 6d. dis.—Manchester,
Sheffield, and Lincolnshire (Sheffield and Lincolnshire), Pre-
ference, 3s. p.—Ditto (Lincoln Union), 345. dis—Newcastle
and Berwick, New, 31A3 p.— North British, Extension (scrip),
3s p.—York and North Midland, 77.—Leeds, Wakefield, and
Midland, 195. dis.

NE WCASTLE-UP ON-TYNE, AUGUST 26.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—East Lancashire, New
Scrip, 4s. dis.—Newcastle and Carlisle, Alston Branch, 5:
p.—North British, Extension, Is. 6d. p.—North Stafford-
shire, 21A p.
EDINBURGH, AUGUST 25.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Ayr and Galloway,
48s. 6d.—Caledonian, New, 323.—Dundee and Perth, Quar-
ters, 643. Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton, Quarters, 10s.
Great Northern, 595. ex int.—North British, Quarters, Ils.
—Ditto, Thirds, Registered, 445. 6d.—Ditto, Thirds (scrip),
43s.—Scottish Central, 27—Shrewsbury and Chester (guar.
6d.—Edinburgh and Northern, New, Registered, 335. 6d.—
8 per cent.), 585.
GLASGOW, AuGusz 25.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Ayr and Galloway,
48s. 3d.—Caledonian, New, 32s.—Dundee and Perth, 35'4
—East Indian Railway, Scrip, Is. 6d.—Glasgow, Kilmarnock,
and Ayr (5 per cent. guar.),
44—Ditto, Halves, No. 1,
8 —Ditto, Halves, No. 2, 10% —Glasgow, Dumfries, and
,i
Carlisle, 8 —Great Northern, 605.—Manchester and South-
ampton, New, 19s. 3d.—North British, Scrip, 445.

ra; soi‘fiot)
Prince, Tn
Albert'soasna
NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
verrsa° in
harbour were dressed in colours in honour of the oc-
casion, and the salutes incidental to such commemo-
rations were duly fired.
We are happy to be enabled to allay the fears of
such as have relatives or friends in the Philomel, 10,
Commander W. Wood. We have received advices
to-day from her, dated St. Nicholas and Portendic.
All were well, and the ship had been very fortunate,
having taken a prize immediately on her arrival off
the coast of Africa, on the most remote part of which
she is stationed, which accounts for no information
being obtainable respecting her at Ascension by the
late advices.
The Britomart, 10, Commander Chamberlain, was
complete in her extra fitments on Monday, shipped
her specie (10,0001.) for Sierra Leone on Tuesday,
and sailed immediately afterwards from Barnpool for
the coast of Africa.
Rear-Admiral Shireff, late Captain-Superintendent
of Chatham Dockyard, is nominated to succeed Rear-
Admiral Sir Hyde Parker, C. 8., as Admiral-Super-
intendent of this establishment.
Sir Harry Smith and staff will go out to the Cape
of Good Hope in a man-of-war, because, although
several competent to afford him ample accommoda-
tion are fitting at this and other ports, not one can be
got ready in a sufficiently short number of weeks to
embark the gallant veteran ; consequently the General
will avail himself of the Vernon, merchantman, one
of Green's fleet. It does not augur well for the ma-
chinery of our immense marine resources, when we
are compelled to send our governors to the seats of
their commands in other than. Government vessels.
There is one morsel of consolation, however, for Sir
whether sailors or steamers,
Harry—merchantmen,
never break down !

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PRINCE ALBERT'S BIRTHDAY.
Yesterday being the 28th anniversary of the natal
day of his Royal Highness Prince Albert, was cele-
brated by the usual observances of bell-ringing and
cannon-firing. The royal standard was hoisted at the
Tower, Somerset-house, the Italian Opera, Hay-
market, and the steeples of the various churches and
public edifices. The vessels in the docks and river,
both British and foreign, hoisted their colours, and at
one o'clock the Park and Tower guns fired a royal
salute, which was responded to by the battery at
Woolwich, Tilbury Fort, Chatham, and the ships of
war in the river. The officers of the 3d Regiment of
Foot Guards, or Scots Fiers,usual banquet on the
of which his Royal
Highness is Colonel, had t ushileir
occasion.
, and also in they
WINDSOR, THURSDAY EVENING.—The 28th birth-
he latter under the
day of his Royal Highness the Prince-Consort was
celebrated here to-day by the ringing of the joy-bells
both at the church and castle, and repeated salvos of
artillery from the Belvidere battery, near Virginia
Water, and from the corporation ordnance in the
Bachelors'-acre. Public dinners in honour of the day
were
egivenham b ae tr
otfh
tehe Adelaiderro Nv ao; t et l
presidency of the mayor of the borough, supported
m by
the Members for the borough, several dignitaries of
the Church, the officers of the regiments in the garri-
son here, and a large number of the neighbouring
gentry, magistrates, and members of the municipal
council. At night the town was very generally illu-
minated.

Junes Morris, Esq., is the gentleman recommended
by the Court of Directors of the Bank of England, to fill
the vacancy of Governor, occasioned by the retirement
of William 11, Robirou, Esq.

SPI ERIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
TI MES.—The Duc de Praslin has committed•sui-
cide i n the cell of his prison in the Luxembourg. The
neces cities of justice and the indignation of the people
have been equally defrauded of their legitimate
desist -e. How, or when, or where the wretched
murderer obtained the poison which enabled him to
escape s from the indignities of a trial that could have
had m o result but the scaffold for himself, and infamy
for tin children of the unfortunate lady whom he so
barbel .ously put to death, the French journals give •us
no satisfactory account. The palpable insinuations,
however, of the anti-dynastic party, and the flimsy
excuses Of the organs of the Chateau, seem equally to
point at tile same conclusion—that it was not without
permission from a high quarter that the Duc de
Praslin obtained the means of putting an end to his
most wretched existence. It is impossible, with every
desire to be credulous, to attach much credit to the
statements, put forth on authority, of the manner
in which the Duke committed suicide. Up till the
amount we published- to-day it was generally be-
lieved that laudanum was the particular poison he
had employed. He was represented as having swal-
lowed the fatal, draught at his own house. The most
eminent physicians in Paris were called in to ad-
minister remedies, but until yesterday evening we
heard nothing of any doubt as to the nature of the
particular poi Sons. More than this, no mention was
made of this attempt at self-destruction until after he
had been in the custody and under the watch of the
police. en referring back to the accounts which we
published from day to day, it will be found that there
was no talk of poisoning at all until the Duke had
been put under careful surveillance. M. Allard and
his agents are not men from whose vigilance it is
easy to escape. The prisoner could not have moved or
breathed without their connivance or their permias
sion. We can ourselves have no doubt that the
Duke de Praslin swallowed poison on two distinct
occasions. The first time was at his own house;
and when he had been recalled to life by the efforts of
the physicians it was necessary to call in, the means
were furnished him of repairing his first failure in his
cell at the Luxembourg. We have but little doubt
that on the first occasion the Duke swallowed lauda-
num ; on the second, arsenic. An explanation put
forth by the Journal des Debats, that after his arrest
a phial was discovered in the pocket of his dressing-
gown, which had contained a mixture of laudanum
and arsenic, appears utterly incredible. Do men
ordinarily commingle these poisons ? No, it was ne-
cessary to explain away the laudanum in the first,
and the arsenic in the second instance ; and, there-
fore, the idea was devised of the Duke swallowing a
mixture of the two poisons.Sln order to free the Go-
vernment from suspicion, it has been further declared
that the:swallowing of this compound potion took place
at a period antecedent to the arrest of the Duke. The
facts,- however, do not -stand so, or all the accounts
we have received hitherto must be incorrect. With
regard to the second dose (if a second dose was in-
deed taken), it must have been in the prison of the
Luxembourg, under the very eye of M. Allard and
his lynx-eyed agents, that the potion was taken.
Can we, then, resist the conclusion that, in permit-
ting the prisoner to commit an act of self-destruction,
M. Allard was acting upon high authority ? If this
he so, we much doubt whether the Government have
been well advised in permitting, the prisoner to escape
from the sword of justice. It was quite competent
for them to treat this as an isolated crime, in which
they or their policy were no more concerned than in
the atrocities of the lowest culprit who might
be arraigned before the criminal tribunals.
Consider for a moment the facts of the
case—what had they to do with politics
or political men ? A man no way distinguished in
the public affairs of his country, except by the chance
accident of station, in the dead hour of night entered
the chamber of his sleeping wife, and with a deadly
weapon, and under circumstances of peculiar cruelty,
put her to death. The cause of the crime, as far as we
can understand it, was that the Duchess had, on the
night of the murder, violently reproached him for an
improper intimacy with a lady who had been the gover •
ness of their nine children. Nothing more—nothing
less ;—these, in few words, seem the facts of the
case. Let justice be done to the Government. It
is difficult.. to ,decide how far the commission of a
particular crime may be 'attriblitoPle kar rite‘el
atmosphere and influence by vachNlie guiN
party is. surrounded. We•cannot; therefore, with
accuracy determine whet& or no, if the Duke
Praslin had been a peer ;145 the Court of Queen;
Victoria, he might haie` committed a similar crime.
But'certainly nothing could be more contrary to the
interests of the-Government than the scandal result-
ing from such an act at the present moment. It is,
more likely to exercise an unfavourable influence upon
their fortunes than a systematic sapping and mining
of the public liberties for twenty years. The Go-
vernment had but one only chance, which was to
hand the Duke de Praslin over to the public indigna-
tion. The blood of the murderer as it flowed upon
the scaffold would have washed away whatever share
even malice might have attributed to them in his
guilt. That was the only means of compurgation left
them, and that they have refused. Far be it from us
to join in the cry, but we foresee that this most
injudicious withdrawal of a culprit from the jus-
tice of the public tribunals will be turned against
the French Government, in order to father upon
them vices other than those they possess. We
do not, however, even by an insinuation, mean
to attribute any share to the leading people of Paris
in this most horrible and revolting crime. But it
would be in vain to deny that a profound demoraliza-
tion does at this moment exist in the very heart of
French society. Take the recent State trials, and
let the French officials be judged by the opinion en-
tertained of them by the French public. Look again
at the transactions which are now taking place at
Madrid. The intrigues of a brothel have there been
substituted for the policy of statesmen. It has be-
come impossible, from a regard to decency, to review
with the severity it deserves the Spanish policy of the
Rue des Capucines. We will not, however, pursue
the subject further in connexion with the suicide of
the Duke de Praslin. If the French Government
have connived at it, they will soon find cause to re-
pent their error. It is not probable that we have yet
come to the end of this disastrous tale.
POST.—The Duke of Newcastle is assailed with
sneering abuse by two " Liberal" journals because
he has corrected an error promulgated by the Times
regarding his conduct as a public man, and has ex-
pressed his indignation at the unjust aspersions which
have been cast upon him. The Times stated in one
of its leading articles, .some short time ago, that the
Duke of Newcastle had dismissed Lord John Manners
from 'the Parliamentary representation of Newark.
The words were, that " Lord John did not stand in-
spection at Newark, and has been cashiered, and he
is now looking for a more generous and more modern
patron than the Lord of Clumber." This was written
in ignorance of the real facts of the case, and the
Times is displeased that its ignorance in any matter,
whether great Or small, should be exposed. But
though the Times may, after its manner,
cast ridicule upon the Duke of Newcastle,
the fact remains that the Times pub-
lished what was not true. Lord John Man-
ners never Owed his seat for Newark to the
patronage of the Duke of Newcastle. The pa-
tronage under which he was introduced to the elec-
tors of that borough was that of the uncle of one
of the present Members. The Duke of Newcastle
neither gave nor took away the seat for Newark, and
the Times made its statement under erroneous infor-
mation. But the Times has too much pride and too
little honesty to confess this. It cannot, indeed,
maintain that what is said on the 13th instant was
true, but it evades the point, in order to prattle some
very heavy pleasantry about Dukes, and to make
another blunder respecting Lord John Manners. The
Times, without confessing its error, attempti to ac-
count for it by stating that " Lord John has mani-
fested certain free-trade tendencies," and that " the
Duke of Newcastle loathes the system." The Times
is wrong. Lord John Manners has not manifested
free-trade tendencies, and the Duke of Newcastle ap-
proves of everything in his public character except what
his Grace regards as the Noble Lord's bias to Roman-
ism- The Duke of Newcastle " wished him to remain"
Member for Newark because he believes that " a more
promising young man, one of more exalted views and
i
higher principles, of more inflexible integrity, with
perfect amiability and all the best qualities of head
and heart that can adorn the Christian andpatrio
senator, would with difficulty be found in her Ma-
jesty's dominions." This is what the Duke of New-
castle says, but the Times said, on the 13th instant,
that Lord John was cashiered from Newark because
the Duke of Newcastle no longer approved of him.
The Chronicle, which must tid
t alsolabours under the
to be sarcastic
on the occasion, evidently .
same misinformation which_meduced the Times to say
what it did on the 13th. Unquestionably, the Duke
of Newcastle has very considerable influence in the
borough of Newark, which influence he uses to the
great advantage of the House of Commons and the
country ; but that both Members for Newark owe
their seats to his influence is no more true than that
two and one are similar numbers.
CHRONICLE.—The tide of popular discontent
in France threatens to rise to a still more formidable
height, in consequence of the death of the Duke de

PRICE SD.

Praslin, under the circumstances related in anothe
column. Even in ordinary times, when popular sus
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the present instance, exalted station had been com-
bined with almost incredible brutality, the imputa-
tion would not have been unnatural that the autho-
rities looked upon suicide as one of the indefeasible
privileges of the peerage, and that the opportunities
left open for its commission were nowise accidental,
but accorded as a special right. Of course on the
present occasion such suspicions are aggravated a
hundredfold; and there is no extreme of prejudice
and misconception which the popular sentiment is
not prepared to accept as fact. It is unnecessary to
say that we do not ourselves participate even in the
more modified form of these suspicions, or attribute
the facility of which the Duke unfortunately availed
himself but too successfully to any connivance of
aforethought on the part of the authorities, or even
of the inferior officials who had charge of the culprit:s
person. It is impossible to believe that the.
French Government could have had any
part in facilitating an event which mu.s'
tend not a little to add to their unpop-i—
-larity, and increase the difficulties of thei'r
already most uncomfortable position. It is not,
however, in the isolated changes of which it may
hereafter become the pretext, but in its general effect
on the temper of the public mind, that the ominous
nature of such an occurrence at the present juncture
can be appreciated. Taken by itself, there is nothing
very surprising in the fact, that once in a hundred
years the peerage of England or of France should
number among its members a murderer like Ferrers
or like Praslin. The wonder to us is rather that
there should not be more frequent instances of crimi-
nal atrocity among a class who are exposed to such
powerful temptations, and whose career, at the age
when character is formed, is too seldom subjected
to wholesome restraints. Fortunate it is, indeed, that I
such instances are infrequent, for society is so con-
stituted, that one act of this nature, committed by a
man of exalted rank, not only makes more noise in
the world than would hundreds of such crimes com-
mitted by the needy, the ignorant, and the obscure,
but it is attended likewise by political consequences
which would never flow from successive generations
of common-place vulgar villains. Instances of all
this are plenty, if we had time or space to recount
them. This identical history of France, of which we
are this moment chronicling the latest chapter, sup-
plies enough and to spare. It was not, for instance,
the selfishness, or stupidity, or voluptuousness of
Louis XV. that made him odious to his people, but
the incredible falsehoods which they believed of him.
It was not the actual pare aux ccrfs, but the imaginary
baths of human blood with which that monarch was
supposed to refresh his jaded powers, that first
began to make the name of king abhorrent to the
most loyal and devoted people in the world. It
was not the average condition of the inmates of the
Bastile—often not only endurable, but luxurious—
but the special indignities inflicted on De Latude,
that made that prison the symbol of unjust authority
to such an extent, that in its fall the knell of the
monarchy itself was sounded. It was not her actual
pardonable coqueteries, but the abominable slanders
of which Rohan was the pretext, and Egalite the
abettor, that brought Marie Antoinette to the guillo-
tine. This is the secret of all revolutions. It is not
the facts which the populace believe, but the mytho-
logy of incredible imputations with which they
generalise those facts, that undermines that basis of
public reverence on which alone all law and authority
can safely rest. It is thus that the isolated offences
of Teste and Cubieres, and the guilt of Praslin, may
feed the fuel of the popular discontent, and become
the source of the most sweeping and indiscriminate
condemnation of the classes to which they belonged.
It is a long time, indeed, since individual offences
have found public opinion in France so morbidly
jealous and susceptible.. uNot perhaps since that un-
paralleled case of' thoviirstriond neektace, 141iefirjltsir,
sixty years ago, clotnqged, irretrievablyslor her. life •
time the fair falhe ssif Marie Antoinette last herstithe.
respect of her people, and became to thinking and ob-
servant men the herald of inevitable revolution.

KAT,If OF THE DUKE DE
PR ASIAN;
•
M. de Praslin died on Tuesday afternoon, about
live o'clock, in the prison of • the Luxembourg. The
cause of his death has been as?ertained. It was with
arsenic in a large dose that he poisoned himself, at
the moment when he found the charges against him
had become sufficiently grave to render his arrest and
prosecution necessary. The severe voinitings which
he experienced on Wednesday evening, and in the
course of Thursday, appear alone to have retarded
the effects of the poison, which, after being checked
on Friday and Saturday, on Sunday resumed its
former force. It is stated that since his arrival at
the prison all attempts to obtain from him in his weak
state any confession or explanation of the murder was
fruitless. The Patric states that he sometimes replied
to the questions which were put to him in a vague and
evasive way, and at other times said, " I know no-
thing." It is added that he has not had an hour's
sleep since the order was first given for his being
considered in custody garde it vue.'
The Gazette des Tribunaux, after announcing the
death of the Duke, says :
" 'We said yesterday that the precise moment at
which the Duke put into execution his project of
suicide was not known ; but from the 19th August,
as we reported, a grave change in the state of his
health created alarm sufficiently serious to cause M.
Louis, his medical attendant, to be sent for, and, as
the symptoms continued the same, and with greater
violence, up to the moment of his death, it must be
concluded that the poisoning took place on the 19th,
and perhaps even on the first day of the preliminary
examination—that is to say, at the moment at which
the Duke felt, from the questioning of the magistrates,
all the gravity of his situation. The physician who
attended the Duke attributed his state only to the
moral emotions by which he was agitated. But soon
after the result of the investigation in the house gave
a new direction to the appreciations of the physicians.
The Duke, who had been made to quit his bedroom,
was conveyed to a room on a higher story, and in a
drawer of his table the broken handle of a poniard
and a piece of the blade of a poniard, on which were
some spots of blood, were discovered. Three little
phials were also seized. In the course of this investi-
gation one of the agents placed under the direction of
the Chief of the Secret Police, and who had aided the
domestics to convey the Duke, who was too weak to
walk to the other room, deposited in the hands of the
Juge d'lnstructionms little bottle containing a white
substance, and a cambric pocket handkerchief stained
with blood. They had been found in one of the
pockets of the dressing-gown. It appears that at that ,
moment the sufferings of M. de Praslin were such
that it was impossible for the magistrates to question
him on this new discovery. The contents of ithe
three phials found in the table, as well as that seized
in the pocket of the dressing-gown, were analysed by
M. Chevalier, professor at the Ecole de Pharmacie.
The result of this examination was that two of the
three phials discovered in the table were found to con-
tain laudanum, the third nitric acid, and that which
was delivered by the magistrate to the agent con-
tained a very small quantity of white arsenic mixed
with laudanum, which had left it a yellow tint. It
was evidently the contents of this phial that the Duke
had swallowed, for the examination of the differentvornit.
morbid symptoms, and the aselysationof
of that
the
ings, showed that there had been an
ofabsorption that discovery,
double poison. From the moment
Andral, Rouget, and
Louis were employed to
all the exertions of Doctors
poison, which,
by
reason ofthtehe g effectsimmediatelycombatu anf
state of the Duke seemed
consequences.
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possible
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mitings took
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believe that his state was far from being desperate,
and it was possible for the committee of examination
to subject him to an interrogatory. The improve-
ment in the state of the Duke appeared likely to con-
tinue on Monday; but in the afternoon the symptoms
of the poisoning re-appeared with fresh'intensity, and
all the resources of science remained powerless. In
the night the danger made new progress, horrible
sufferings tortured the Duke, and all the characte-
ristics of death presented themselves. Yesterday
morning the Cur.e' of St. Jacques de Haut Pas was
called to the Duke, and conversed with him. Soon
after the sufferings returned with greater violence,
and the last agony commenced. It is said that an
examination of the corpse will take place to-morrow
in the presence of a magistrate specially delegated.
The committee of examination yesterday continued
its operations, and this day new witnesses will be
heard. On Monday an examination was
thenade b
y.
M. Broussais, the Juge d'lnstruction, at
Praslin, at the residence of Mdlle. de Luzy hotel
(Laure
Desportes), and at the houses of, several per-
sonsexa-
mination was also effected by M. Legonidec , in virtue
who might have received her pers. An