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MATHEMATICAL LECTURES, and
LECTURES nn LIGHT, HEAT, and ELEC-
TRICITY, at the ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITU-
TION, REGENT-STREET.

FRAN CE.

CONTINUATION OF THE SITTINGS OF MuNDAT.
M. Guizot.—The Chamber is convinced of the reces-
shy of the present measure, but dreads the results. And
not seeing clearly its consequence, it dreads seeing the fore
tification become an instrument in the hands of another
kind of policy, a turbulent and warlike one, instead of a
peaceful policy, friendly to civilisation and tranquillity.
This ii the cause of the Perplexity of the Chamber., It
would be inexcusable to deceive the country on so grave a
matter. We would not have accepted this measure zee(
heritage of the last Cabinet, if it were fraught with such
dangers. The measure, I repeat, is a guarantee of peace.
It was not we alone, it was Europe, which, since 1814,
had adopted defensive policy, and conducted itself ac-
cording to this view Everywhere, in Germany especially,
all the towns of the frontier were fortified, for defence,
and against invasion, and even at this moment, in the midst
of the exeitorneat of late events, what idea pre-
vails in the Germanic. Confederation ? Nothing but a
system of defence. The fortifications of Paris will have
the efloct of lessening the hopes of hostile; armies, and -of
tranqu'llizing the population of France. \Vars of inva-
sion have been talked of, but in the present day wars of
invasion are wars of revolution. If the object sef this mea-
sure be really attained, if Paris he truly fortified, you will
have placed the revolution of July hors de cause in. Etirope,
and yeti will have placed Europe hors (Petal to renew the
great coalitions of 1814 and 1/116. Do you remember
what Ives said then ? It was said that it wai not
against Fiance, but against its Government that war.
was carried on, end that by removing the Govern -
ment you would remove the danger.—( Sensation.)
Europe reignites to be tranquilized as to time disposition
which it supposes France to have for war. ?ppy will it
be by such a measure at the same time to tranglisllize
Europe, and maintain the feeling of natioual dignity. It
bas-been said that it is necessary to repress revolutionary
passions by the passions of patriotism. Ido not think
that patriotic passions are the beg rarrpart against r;.'vo-
lutionary passions ; the best ramparts against revolutionary
passions ale the institutions of order and the good ergani-
zation of the Government: these, Gentlemen, fire the true
guarantees against turbulence. An objection has been
made to the ezpcuditure vvhich.thie measure will dmision.
It is said that it will be considerable ; so much the
better. I wish that we had two, three, four capitals to
fortify._( Sensation.) I attach great importance to i:le
moral effect of the conduct of a Government over the niiiid
of the people. 31. de Lamartine, in his speech no this bill,
seemed to be deeply impressed with the approbation given to
it by parties whose principles differ so widely ; he commended
that they hoped to turn it to their own profit. lam not of
opinion that there will be any such result. We ace that
in all cases extreme parties make such attempts ; this is
the case in the elections, in the press, and in the National
Guard. But is 'this a. reason, Gentlemen, for giving up
the Chamber, the press, and the National Guard Oh no. ,
Let the extreme parties do their best, let them insinuate
themselves on
.every occasion, and on every occasion alley
will be beaten. Let the law of elections take its course
tied its effect; let the National Guard act, let the Deputy
speak, the press wri:e, and the fortifications of ;Paris. be
accoMplished. Extreme parties would endeavour to turn
all to profit, but their efforts would rebou'rel upon them.
selves. They will attempt the same course fur the forts,
tut they will fail as they hare done up to the ereseat. Be
assures:, Gentlemen, that in a great country honest. awl.
sensible men will always be masters of the grounde 'be as!.
sewed that is all questions in the elections, in the -National
Guard, they-will kuow how, with one spirit and one Mind,
to uphold the system of conservatism 'and peace, which
has tor ten years been our glory and our safety.
M. Gander Pages said he could not allow the last CX-
pressiens of the Minister to go without reply. I declare
from my place that I belong to one of the extreme parties
Which M. Guizot combated. - In my opinion, honest men
are those who say boldly what they think, whether in the
-National Gaard, the Chamber, or the elections; . whilst
brouilions, as M. Guizot called the men at extreme par-
ties, were in reality those who make a great noise in op-
. pesitiou, and say precisely the contrary of this Lois: when
they get into office. Do not, therefore, invite extreme
parties to a conflict. You have accomplished time mission
which you undertook from the moment of the discussion
on the address. You have attempted to tauquillize En•
rope, but you have not tranquillized the Chamber. I -de not
think Europe steed in need of traaquillizing,:j-know well
that it was not egaiust Europe that this Bill was presented.
Reaaons could nover be wanting to so clear a.person as M.
'ciders. M Carnot declared that his father was against the
fortification of Paris. BUt let M. 'Tiers alon-c, and he
will scion find in Carnot's papers some passsges iii favour
of them. He maintained that time fottifications of Paris,
instead of keeping the enemy at a distance from the -ca_
pital, would attract him ; it was to be feared that ia case
of a reverse the army would fly to Paris, not to defend it,
but to be protected by it.. Tisnopinions of Napoleon Lave
beets cited on the fertiticatione of Purls. Would you be
made acquainted with that opinion of which the practice
itself is worthy of boirig pointed out to you ? I will
not take is from an authentic writing, bat from one of the
bulletins of the grand army, from a bulletin of the 23d
May, 1809. You will see the opinion of Napoleon, on
grcat,eities,-on'cEpital cities fortified. He is speaking of
_ONDO4XLAuII-13-RIG.I4To-N—RAt L.rwsti- 7 - rti,e7orib, city of Vienna, alts. you will see he treats
edj ema.
COMPANY. „
the• project of fertfiv ing a large city as the most foolish
Incorporated by Act of nuliament, July 15, 1837. enterprise that could be undertaken. Timis is what he
At the FIALF•YEARLY GENERAL MEETING of. says on the subject, in a bulletin which I find in the
the COMPANY, held pursuant to advertisement at the London Ilioniteur The report was general in the country that
-Tavern, Bishopsg-ate-street, on Wednesday:, Jan. 27, 1841,
all the entrenchments whielt surrounded the capital were
JOHN HARMAN, Esq. in the Chair,
fortified, Redoubts had been constlueted. The people
.The advertisement convening the Meeting was read.
The Register of Proprietors having been produced by the without occupation, even the turbulent, were for defence.
Secretary, the common seal of the Company was affixed thereto Time emperor could hardly believe that they could have
by the Chairman in the presence of the Meeting. Bete. mined on so femlish an enterprise. The Archduke
The Report of the Directors was then read by the Secretary. Maximilian had opened registers to enter the names of
The following resolutions were unalimously passed those who wished to defend tic city.. Vienna contained
Reaolved—That Mr. Faithful do explain the nature of Mr. three hundred thousand inhabitants. Tnere were thirty
Isaac, Lyon Goldsmid's case. names inscribed. .At nine o'clock in the evening, twenty
Resolved—That the Report now read be received and pieces of artillery, commanded by -General Bertrand,
adopted, and a copy sent to each Proprietor. I commenced the bombardment ; 1,806 shells were thrown,
Resalver!—That the following Directors, who go out of a d
n city was soon in flames, It is impossible, without
office under the provision of the Act, be, and they are hereby , o
re-elected, viz., John Harman, John Cattley, John Hodgson, bein Shan actual witness of it, to conceive the disorder
Henry Moreton Dyer, Esqrs., and Lieut.-Col. Moody, R.E. which took place." This then is what I find in • the
• Resolved—That the declaration of forfeiture of 27 Shares, Moniteur, in the moat striking bulletin of the Grand
numbered 2,243 to 2,258,-8,962 to 8,967,—and 24,655 to - Army. I would not, therefore, that the French
24,659, made under the minute of Board of 19th June, 1840, should be made to slumber in a deceptive security. The

The Mathematical Lectures by the Rev. DAVID LANG,
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and Mondays in succession. The Second Course will consist
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Eiglit to Nine o'Clock, and will commence on the 2d of
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GOVERNORS and DIRECTORS of the POOR of the
said PARISH, for SUPPLYING the WORKHOUSES
for Six. Months, from the 25th day of March, IS-11, to. the
29th day or September, 1841, may deliver in their sealed
Proposals at the Board-room,-in- Mount-street, on or before.
Nine &Clock- on WEDNESDAY, the 10th day of March
instant. .

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Mount-street, as well as any further particulars. Ry order,
T. B. CHAPPELL, Vestry Clerk.

THE ROYAL BA:
No. 2, Moorgai
DIIIEC
13. Boyd, Esq., Chairman
J. W. Sutherland, Esq., Vice-

NK. of AUSTRALIA,
e-street, London.
;TORS.
Marl; Boyd, Esq.
W. P. Craufurd, Esq.
John Connell, Esq.
John Mitchell, Esq.
J. I'. Roberson, Esq.

Chairman
Thomas Meux, Esq.
George Webster, Esq.
Alexander Cockburn,- Esq.
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STANDING COUNSEL—P. Laurie, Esq.
SOLICITORS—Messrs. Parkin and Webster, and Messrs.

on which the Seventh Call has not been paid, be and is hereby
confirmed.
Resolved--That the explanation given by the Directors in
respect of Air. Isaac Lyon Goldsmid's . case, is highly . satisfac-
tory to this meeting.
Rescived—That the' Thanks of this Meeting be given to Mr.
Rastrick, for his very highly satisfactory Report.
JOHN HARMAN, Chairman.
Resolved—That the Thanks of this Meeting be given to the
Chairman and Directors for their unremitting attention to the
interests of the Company.

siege of Genoa has been spoken of ; it has been said that at
that period the city contained 150,000 inhabitants ; that is
a mistake. Theee were only 75.000 souls in the place. But
to defend by regular fortifications a city coltaining a million
of inhabitants is what Napoleon would call the most
foolish of enterprises. Ttiis, Gentlemen, was what Napc-
Icon said in 1609. (M. Gamier Pages, iu finishing the
reading of the bulletin, dwelt upon the cxprcsaions which
so energetically stigmatised the conduct of a Govergraent
barbarous enough to deliver to the horrors of siege a

THOMAS WOOD, Secretary.
London and Brighton Railway Of? e,
10, Angel-court, Throgmorton-street, Jan. 27, 1841.

lATHEREAS, by a SURRENDER made
and passed in the 20th year of the reign of his Ma-
jesty King James the First, certain hereditaments held of the
Manor of FULHAM, in the County of Middlesex, and formerly
deseribed as Two Acres of Customary Arable Land, with the
Appurtenances lying at Perry, otherwise Purr Bridge, in Ful-
ham Fields. And also, Two Closes of Arable Land, severally
lying near Counties Bridge, containing, by estimation, Three
Acres, were surrendered to the use of Sir Edward Powell, and
of certain other persons, whose names are unknown. And
whereas, by an Order of the High Court of Chancery, made in
a cause pending in the said Court, wherein her Majesty's
Attorney-General and others are plaintiffs, and Frederick
Marryatt arid others are defendans. And in the matter of an
Act of Parliament, made and passed in the first year of the
reign of his late Majesty-King William the Fourth, intituled
" An Act for amending the laws respecting' Conveyances
and Transfers of Estates, and Funds vested in Trustees
and Mortgages, and •for enabling Courts of Equity to give
effect to thzlr Decrees and Orders in certain cases," upon
the petition of the said Attorney-General, ani others, it was
referred to WILLIAM WINGFIELD, Esq., the Master of the
said Court, in rotation, to inquire and state to the Court
whether the said Sr Edward Powell and the other persons, the
parties to the said surrender, were Trustees of the Charity Land,:
in the said petition mentioned within the intent and meaning of
the said Act; and if it should be found that the said Sir Edward
Powell and others were such Trustees, then the said Master
was to inquire whether it was uneei Min which of them was the
survivor. Pursuant therefore to the said order, the represen-
tative or representativzs of the last surviving Trustee, in the
said surrender named, is or are within twenty-eight days from
the 30th day of. January, 1841, to come in before the said
Master, at his chambers, in Southampton-buildings, Chancery-
lane. London, and give notice of his or their title, and prove his
• or t heir pedigree, or other title as Trustee or. Trustees.;

ItAY,BLUNT, DUNCAN4OIINSTON, and MALTON,
42, Lothbury, 'Solicitors for the Phintifrs.
26th January, 1841.

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Front T. J. Pettigrew, Esq.,. Surgeon, Elt.S.,
to Messrs. S. and B. Solomons, 38, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly,
opposite the York Hotel, and 76, King William-street, Bank of
England.—" Gentlemen,—l have no hesitation in replying to
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improved spectacles; being in the constant habit of reading and
writing for many hours together by lamp-light, it is but justice to
say, that your newly-invented spectacle lenses have afforded me
the greatest comfort. When I employed tt -otainary pebbleS I
never failed to experience in the mor ' a great irritation in the
eyes. Since I have used your a able glasses I suffer from no
inconvenience of the kind. mil ever feel grateful to my good
friend, Dr. Blundell, for I mg drawn my attention to the subject.
—Believe me to be o , very respectfully, T. J. Ptaricanw, 8,
Saville.row, Ja . 5:39."—" M. G. Sir Howard Elphinstone begs
leave to say t the Spectacles he has now, had some time in u 4,
have fully redeemed the assurailce of the Messrs. S. and B. Soso.
mons a.; to their excellence, and having found so much comfort and
advantage from their use, far pi eferable to every other kind of
Glasses which lie has been in the constant habit of snaking use of
for a great number of years.-13, Norfolk- str,:et, Park-lane, the 6th
of November, 1840." The Messrs. Solomons' Operative Voice Con.
ductor, when fixed into the cavity of the ear, the faintest whisper
at a public assembly is heard with distinctness.—No connexion %NMI
persons of the same name.-

capital, the.cenire of the riches and the eiiilisatioa of the
country.) We have heard, continued M. Gamier Pages,
the Minister of Foreign Affairs. poiut -out, wi:h great
cleari.tsa, the expense which the fortifications of Paris
would cause ; he has told you that the plan: of the Minister
of Finance would be ample for the purpose ; but the Minis-
ter of Finance did not, however, reply in the affirm itive.
or any own part, I know that there is not money enough
in the treasury; and when there is-a necessity to have re-
sort to loans, I know that, with two hundred millions
which would be expended, with the money that it
will annually cost to keep up the fortificat'ona, and
for the staff to command. and inspect there,
hey might have wherewith to give retiring
pensions to sub-officers and soldiers after twenty years'
service, and also to keep up an army stronger and more
useful than walls ; th :re might be also railroads made to
facilitate the movements of troops from one end of France
to the other. The quantity of stone (noellons) which
would be required in three years for the fortifications of
P.iriz would, he said, be greater than that us.d in thirty-'
three years for all the buildings in Paris; and he added
that the expense of the perchase cf ground would be
enormous. Arriving at the political part of the question,
he said, I am not a friend of popular re,olt—l am not one
of those who would sec a minority enforco its will by vio-
lence ; but neither would I have Frenchmen placed in the
impossibility of asserting their rights as they did in 1830.
It is . said that French soldiers would not fire ou their fel-
low-countrymen. I was in Paris in 1320, and gained my
decoration of July as others did, and I heard officers, other-
wise patriots, give the word of command to fire upon us, for
they were tied down by the laws of discipline. I will con•
elude by addressing a few words to the Left of the Chamber.
It was desirous first that the continuous wall should be exe-
cuted before the forts, and now it talks of the simultaneous
execution of the works ; but what is there to guarantee this
simultaneous execution? The works of the forts will LC
actively carried on, and the continuous wall will be com-
paratively neglected. As to the distance of the fortseit is
not oven laid down in the Bill ; and if the forts do not
reach close to Paris, the capital will by its progressiv.e;
aggrandisement draw near to the forts. I conjure the,
Left, in the name cf that portion of it to which 1 belong,
and which has not followed M. Thiers in his projects, to
show that distrust which is the natural element of oppo-
sition, particularly after the speech of Marshal Soult,
which is anything but equivocal. It is evident that the
object is to tranquillise Europe, but no care is felt to tran-
quillise our own country.
Here several voices called out for adjournment. -
The President put the question as to the close of the
general discussion, and it was carried by a
•
it being at the same time undeirtood that the Rporter, M.
e
Thiers, should be head before the discussion on the
articles of tl.e Bill. large majority,
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left, bat etc must posiponeeg.valg
( M. 'Tillers was addressitT
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•
TIIE THAMES TUNNEL.—The shaft oti the
Wa?ping shore, in which a footway descent is to be made
into the Mantis Tunnel, is proceeding very rapidly, and
as it is built above pound, presents a vary commanding
appc.lranCe, and will be gradually sunk. Tho works be-
low have been for some time suspended, the tunnel having
been completed to within the limits of the Company's
wharf on the Middlesex shore, far beyond the low water
mark, When the shaft is completed on the with sn,le the
excavations will be resumed : and, as there is now no fear
of another irruption, the remaining portion of the tunnel
can be completed in a few wracks. It is COfitly ex-
pected that the tunnel will be opened for foot-passengers
on or before next July. The arches of the tunnel ere in
a sound state, and bear evidence of the care taken :n the
execution of this great and expensive undertaking.

• .( From the Commerce of Tuesday.)
The Ministry made a seizure at the Post Office, and in
,ticit offices, of the journals that have republished, under
any title or mariner whatsoever. the .letters attributed by
La France to the head of the Government. We find our-
selves included in that measure, to our great astonishment.
„•
On the 11th. of this month the Gazette de Fiance pub-
lished docuMents whieh -produced the utmost sensation.
The former opinions of the first personage-of the realm
are expressed- in a 'manner-to cause some uneasiness to
public opinion. • This high personage is made to say, that,
though "a French `Prince, •he is, however, Enylish ; en
the first place through necessity; then through principle,
opinion, and custom,"
These letters add, in contradiction to several aescrtions
which have emanated from the li9yal personago, that the
Duke of od-et:us solicited to enter into foreign service
against France, that he rejoiced la the diasters which had
befallen, the national army, and that he instigated those
disasters by his.counsels and his wishes. We doubted the
correctness of those documents ;we called open the Mi-
nistry for a disavowal of the same. The Ministry, not-
withstanding our entreaties, maintained those documents
by the authority-of its silence; it sanctioned them in some
measure, by nut giving, with respect to them, a single
• word of expltnation. Coupled with the incredulity which
arises in the press, , the Gazette de France replies by a
fresh:assurance.- It declares thAit it has seen the auto-
graphs : it states that it is ready to name the place where
they do. deposited. ,

&ow the documents published by fa France are deemed
forgeries, a fresh accusation, a new affair, is brought to
light. We shall endeavour to preserve till the impartiality
which is both,noceisary and compulsory on the accused
and accusers.. We shall scrupulously 'republish the asset-
tiortick; .we have no• other part to perform
herein'diis of al
buti that .Of 'simple reporters; and when the law
' shall hare taken its course, when the entire truth shall
have been before the tribunals, we shall not hesitate to in-
flict chastisement on. the inipostors. whoever they may be.
I:;7lffeecke.,)a commissary of pc-
'.
Oa Mornclay eNitein(i
nFgro, taut trili:e
lice, with several cite sergeants, searched oar office, and
seized the reniaining numbers of Sunday's impussion.
The object of this search was to find the originals of the
letters we have printed, and whilst it lasted nobody tv'ts'
' -allowed to have is enter the office. When it was found
to be useless the surveillance Ives removed. Several do-
miciliary visits were paid by the police to cur friends.
( From the Quolidienne.)
On itiond..iy, at four in the afternoon, a commissary of
police mode his appearance in our (Ace, in order to effect
a seizure of the Quetidienne. The warrant of which he
was lin? bearer stated that the motive for that seizure wits
the publication of the Littets extracted from the _France,
whiiih'itior pu?,lished there'd:a Suriday;-xtifhtertrt-i*tinotteet
having been taken until yesterday afternoon that they had
even'attraeted the e.ttenti,in of the Ministry.
- Other. journals were seized as well es ours. Amongst
them the Nafional, Commerce, Gazette de France, Echo
Francais, &c. The AI inistei ial silence had inspired a con-
fidence which will be punished by 'a prosecution.
At the moe;-00 when we were writing these lines we
received the Zeressauer, . the official evening journal. We
read there that the letters which had been published were
forgcti,..s. That is a polemical point to be contested be-
-tweewthe illigisterial journal and the France.
Tao 'llOW..a tihe 'Vistountitd B4ulny, M, de Gemonde,
and the Marquis do 'LarOchejacquelin have bean searched
by the police.
(From the Ga:ette de Fiance of Monti.iy niElit.)
This afternoon, at five-o'clock,- a commissary of police.
the bearer of an'order. from the parquet, made a seizure at
the Post-office ' --in our offices of the numbers or this
:day, intended
A
~„,ivincas., That til'oceed;.rw, we are
intotmed, 6. the reproduction of the letters attri-
buted to Lo. ling; and which the Flame published
on Stind- ;.
E;ght econaisseries of police were in-requisition for the
seizure I..the j nil nals which.republisned those letters.
. The üblication e,f that cerrespondcace caused a great
sensation in the Chunibe'r, env occasioned many conjec-
tures in the salle ties corifirences..
At the Bourse there was likewise much movement.

RNA', G

T : WEATHiIIt.

LLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-
STREET.

NOON. JAN. 28.
.13,rometcr 3027 E.
ThermoniLtt:.
Higla/PI
Lowca
Wind.W.N.W.—Freezing.Point 32 Deg.

DREADFUL MURDER
BRISTOL:.

NEAR

On Monday the wife of Mr. A. ,Shedden, a retired apothecary,
• was barbarously murdered at liorfield,, a suburban district of
Bristol. On the moreing of the day in which the murder was
perpetrated Mr. Shedden went to Bristol to coliect the rents of
some of his houses, Called in the-city on his son, who, with his
father, walked beef; in-the evenin; to Horlield. On entering
the cottage the first tiling the son saw was the mangled remains
of his mother; covered with blued. Surgical assistance was
procured, but upan (Nlimivation it was found that the unfortu-
nate lady hadbeen dead for-some beers, her skull having bum
completely bt:aten in in three places by some blunt weapoti. The
right temple and the upper part ofahe forehead were com-
pletely beaten in. The hit temple was cut open, and there
were four olher wounds upon the taco. On an examination of
the wounds, Mr. Bell, surgeon, pronounced them to have
been iuBie ed by sonic 12tnit, instrument, probably a hammer,
such as plasterers use w lathing. There was a large quan-
tity or WWI '.ol*stotte-the too:at-am %wall's, and several articles
•of furniture, which made it evident that the old lady must
have Leen sitting in her arm-chair by the fireside when she
received the first blow, as the front which she wore lay at
the foot of it saturated ;with bluett .11Kre was also a pool of
-blood near the.ehair, and the wall by its side is sprinkled with
blood to a considerable height. Upon receiving -this blow,
which must hale so far stunned her as to prevent her screaming
(or she would Lave been heard by the neat-door neighbour), it is
apparent she struggled with the murderer, • and fell against an easy
chair, at the other side of the fire-place, which is also stained
with blood. It is supposed that while there another dreadful
blow was given to her, the iron coal-riddle and grate being
sprinkled with blood ; the unfortunate woman must have made
still further struggles for her life, as her body was found at
some distance from both these chairs, with her shoes under
her, which she had lost during the murderous attack. The
objects of the murderer, %whoever he may be, are at Frescos
completely unknown, as to robbery has taken place, nor is it
ascertained, with any certainty, that a single article is missing
from the house. The fact-of the cupboard containing the
plate being opeu without au article being stolen therefrom,
an I a silver spoon being upon the dresecr within the reach of the
murderer, shows that plunder could not have been the object.
From inquiries which were made immediately on the disco.
very of the murder, it was found that a youth, Charles fudge,
who occasionally worked for and had been met by Mr. Sited Jett
in the morning, had been at the house that day, as he was seen
by soave of the neighbours, at about, twelve o clock, with Mrs.
Sliedden, in the garden, shaking a carpet; lie was also seen
strewing ashes on the garden path : and at a little before three
o'clock in the afternoon he was met returning to Bristol by two
lads, one named •Edward Shakspeare. These circumstances
indused the pollee to apprehend bins, which they did in bed,
at his father'.; house on hingsdown, at about twelve at night.
It is said that, when apprehended, Ire said he knew what it
was about ;it was about a woman who was killed at or-
field. It is said also that there are one or two stains of
blood upon his trousers and boots, but as I have rot exa-
mined them, lam uncertain as to this fact also. Immedi-
ately upon his apprehension the prisoner was conveyed to the
house and shown the dead body ; he burst into tears, and
protestinz his innocence, exclaimed, " Oh, Mr. Shedden, do
you think I would-go to kill Mrs. Shedden ?" The prisoner
was again this morning conveyed to the house, but nettling of
importance was elicited. The circumstances under which the
Pis a 3 apprenernled were this afternoon deposed
to, before lu4e teas
‘ldr. H. W. Newman, one of the Magistrates for the
county of Gloucester, who ordered the prisoner to be detained
in the Lawfortl's-gate prison until the Coroner's inquest.
It is evident that the murder must have been committed
before three. o'clock:in the afternoon, as the milkia In called at
the- house at about that time, but could not get admission.
No weapon with which the offence could have been perpe-
trated has yet been found, although the garden has been
searched, and the neighbouring ponds &c., dragged. An
active search is, however, being made by the notice in the
neighbourhood with a view to the discovery of the weapon. It
was at first supposed that tile murder might have been com-
mitted with the iron coal-riddle, but there is no blood whatever
upon the inside corners or edges of it, which renders it impos-
sible that, that count have been the instrument.
Two suspicious characters, ballad vendors, were seem lurking
about the neighbourhood yesterday ; and it is a rather
circumstance that on Saturday evening a man (not the pri-
soner) naS seen grinding a lathing-haramer, the very descrip
than of weapon with which the surgeon thinks the murderww.s
blacksmith's
committed, at a grindstone on the roadside, byd:l's residence.
shoo, within a few hundred yards of Mr. Shed singular
using it by stealth.
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staee' enet uwronuilndg "dolt have been
Isle Jr and ea vbilde e 11:taltyl

(From a Collo-
BATH THEATRICALS•-- .
last. week was Romeo cud -
Juliet,spotdenwtii•
Wednesday. Mr. Kean
1 and with some brilliant read-
played Romeo with
: (. however, somewhat exuberant at
ings ; with passion,
.1 I'l VVIS all that could '
as Me: ratio, was full of life and bril-
liancy, , L.,
• 1 fayed it exceedingly wt.ll, and looked it well.
sired ; s,ie P
times.ii".cslsi:;:L:.seyp2e:tfrart.bcrirtuni:erad, on
,cinc:ut.
,h.el
dx. di) r,,,,c1.11-
rteh uc:vxiacasse LI
excellent
In:
r;c\applause.liboe .t
t::,tihnl 1i?.31 i
characterslpaa!astcs;tiionang
liancy, without
his exceeding his author,
e
lir.
143"1:YthoBuotil'any execs;; never
essing sense too tamely. flis " Qunon Flab"
exz6e
wasai t er t
stronghtrulye fatalin
contiels'ed, and well sustained throu,g' bout.
ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY. A meeting of the
above Society for scientific business was held ou Tuesday
evening, at which W. Yarrell, Esq., presided. Several
preFtnts were exit:strife:l, amongst which was a dorus (hole-
thuria), an animal as yet but little known, the gift of Sir E.
Cost. L was cauglit.in the sea at Porto Rico, but al-
though great care was taken it only lived two d:.;: 'ter
confinement. lts colour is of a yellowish hr-00..,- , with
bright spots and streaks,- ilia its skirt iielt: and a.itioth. Its
length is six .inches,
and its breadth twn , A eons-
munieation %Vas feed relative to a -,5.:::. ~, or skeleton of a
.....-.',..'5.
species of sponge of exquisit9.l4oLoty; found off Helongos,
Phillif)itte- Islands:. ' It is of .. .atitisb colour, about nine
inches in length, six, is. g.: ,;....-- - krenee, and of a hollow ey-
lindrical form sornc:Tai .. .:.',..lnhntig a cornucopia. &ter-
pally It is partiaiWk..ircd with a net work of fibres, ex-
tenting
glass. It was designated tex-
as fine as the4cas of spun
from Port Philip, New
longitu4o.Aly and transversely, some of which are
tilis4inia.- Sr. 'Gould presented and . described two birds
wertralqiuguished Item others' of that fa.
milt' :by their blsek-plimiage. A paper was read regard-
, differ widely from those found
animal epei not
i(Zniler,ai asl !.inland.
anaindCalsisa‘ulrelseNcycaUdg I:.'it liiiiiiil:l':ib).: t. The
ibritrE"u'rv:la)e'n.di.4'llPeccm.l,eting then adjourned.
A rude ignorant fellow called on the late James
Iloe, tbcpaititc.r, who was. well known' for his spirited ro-
rresentatlons of the lower'animals, and inquired whether
he was " The man that drew the picture of brute beasts ?"
" I am," replied Howe; ' Shall I take your likeness ?"--
Lairtl of Lonan.

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THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN.

UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS.

THIS EVENING. JAN. 29
Will be presented Shakspere's Comedy (with Music) of
THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR.

Sir John Falstaff, Mr. Bartley ; Master Slender, Mr. C. Ma-
thews ; Fold, Mr. Cooper ; Fenton, Mr. W. Harrison ; Mr!.
Ford, Mrs. Nisbett ; Mrs. Page, Madame Vestris ; Ann Page,
Miss Rainforth, Mrs. Quickly, Mrs. C. Joncs.