The Sun.
London, England, 1847-01-11 00:00:00

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY).

why the verdict should not be entered for the defendant
)r in arrest of judgment. There were three counts, but
he verdict of guilty, he understood, was only taken in
he first, which stated that the defendant, in an open
and public place --
Lord DENMAN—I unlerstand the defendant is not
,n Court.
Sir F. THESIGER—Iie is under recognizances, my
Lord. lam merely applying for a rule to show cause
why the verdict should not be entered for the defendant.
If your Lordship thinks it would be more convenient to
wake my motion when the defendant comes up for judg-
ment, I will defer it until then.
LORD DENMAN said that was the invariable rule.
The matter then dropped.
SIMS AND WIFE V. HENDERSON.
This case was tried before Lord Denman at the last
sittings after term, when a verdict was found for the
2laintiffs for upwards of 10,000/.
Mr. MARSTON now applied to have the verdict set
Lside, and, with the leave of the Learned Judge, to enter
nonsuit, and also to have the judgment arrested.
The case arose out of certain proceedings in the Su-
)rerne Court of Newfoundland, which, it was contended,
had exceeded its powers.
The COURT took time to consider the various objec-
tions raised.

CORN-EXCHANGE.-MONDAY.

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The arrivals of English Wheat, up to our market last
week, were on a very moderate scale, while those of all othe
grain of home produce, including Flour, were unusually
small. From Ireland and Scotland scarcely any corn cam,
to hand. The imports of Foreign Wheat, Barley, and Peas.
were trifling ; but those of Oats, Beans, and Flour—the
latter exceeding 23,000 barrels, chiefly from America—wen
moderately good. Fresh up coastwise, as well as by land
carriage and samples, a fair average quantity of Wheat of
home produce came to hand from Essex and Kent; but from
the other home counties, the receipts of that article wen
trifling. The stands being scantily filled with samples, and tilt
attendance of both town and country buyers good, the demand
for English Wheat was firm, at an advance in the quotations
paid on Monday last of from is to is per quarter. This im-
provement was realized on Friday, consequently prices were
not higher than on that day, and a total clearance was not
effected. With free foreign Wheat we were scantily sup.
plied. All descriptions commanded a ready, but not to say
brisk inquiry, at a rise in the currencies of from is to 2s per
quarter from this day se'nnight. There was a very good
demand for inferior foreign Wheats in bond for shipment 1,
Ireland, at is to 2s per quarter more money. Selected
and middling qualities were not dearer, although
a good business was transacted in them. The show
of Barley, both English and foreign, but especially
that of the former, was trifling. The malsters being in want
of supply, the demand was active, at a further advance in
the quotations of from is to 2s per quarter. Scarcely any
Malt was on offer. Those parties in actual want were com-
pelled to give from is to 2s per quarter more money than
last week. Several parcels were disposed of for forward de-
livery at that amount of improvement. The show of Oats
was wholly inadequate to meet the demand, which was, in
consequence active, at Is to 2s per quarter above last Mon-
day's figures. Very few Beans were on offer, owing to which
holders refused to sell except at is to 2s per quarter more
money. All kinds of Peas moved off readily, at a rise of from
Is to 2s per quarter. Flour was in good request at the late
advance in value.
CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE
Wheat—Essex & Kent, Malt—Chevalier • • • • • • 845 to 888
Red, New 69s to 778 Oats Yorkshire and
Ditto,White, New 74s 85s Lincolnsh., Feed. 28s 30s
Norfolk and Lin- rOtatoo ...... 345 361
coin, lied. •• .. 69s 74s Youghal and Cork,
Ditto, White. ••• .• 755 Black .
Irish, Red •••••• .. —s 79ss Cork, White . 30s 34s
Ditto,White ••• • .. —s —s Scotch, Feed..... 30s 34s
Rye—Old ••.• • • • —s 5 Beans—Tick .. 44s 485
New. ••• • • • 42s 44s Pigeons .... Os 52s
Barley—Grinding. •• .. 42s 46. Pease—Grey ..• . • .... 485 50s
Malting .• • • 548 57s Maple • 49s 51s
Chevalier .• . • 568 62s White ••• • • 523 56s
Malt—Suffolk and Nor- Boilers

BAIL COURT.-(THIS DAY)
Mr. Justice Erle took his seat in this Court this morn-
mg, at half-past nine o'clock.
The business transacted was of no public importance.

w.
folk ............ 77s 803 Flour—Town-made. • • --a
Brown ..... • ..... 72s 74s Suffolk ••• • • • • • 60s 65s
Kingston and Ware 803 82s Stockta & Norfolk 48s 52s
SMITHFIELD.
The imports of live stock into London during the past
week have been very limited, viz., 20 Cows and 250 Sheep
from Boulogne, together with 3 Oxen, 46 Cows, and 356
Sheep from Harlingen. At the outports, about 200 Beasts
and 600 Sheep have been landed from Holland, and 20 Oxen
from Spain, in moderate condition. To-day we had on offer
20 Beasts and 80 Sheep from Holland and 2 Oxen from
Spain, the whole of which found buyers at somewhat im-
proved currencies. With home-fed Beasts we were, the time
of year considered, scantily supplied; while the general
quality of that description of stock was by no means first rate.
The weather being favourable to slaughtering, and the
attendance of buyers numerous, the Beef trade was steady,
and in some instances a trifle more money was obtained for
the best Scots, Devons, and Herefords. At the close of busi-
ness a good clearance had been effected. The arrivals from
the northern districts comprised about 1,100 short-horns ;
from the eastern counties, 300 Herefords, short-horns, and
Scots; from the western and midland districts, 700 Here-
fords, runts, Devons, &c. ; and from other parts of England,
500 of various breeds : the remainder of the supply being
chiefly derived from the neighbourhood of the metropolis.
The numbers of Sheep were small, but of excellent quality.
All breeds commanded a steady though not to say brisk de-
mand at fully, but at nothing quotable beyond, last week's
prices. With Calves we were moderately supplied, while the
Veal trade was steady, and previous rates well supported.
There was more inquiry for Pigs, but in prices we have no
alteration to report.
Per Sibs. to sink the offal.
a. d. s. d. s. d. to s. d.
Inferior Beasts ••.• 3 2 3 6 Second quality ditto 4 0 4 2
Second quality ditto. 3 8 310 Coarse-woolledditto 4 4 4 8
Prime large Oxen.. 310 4 0 Southdown Wethe, 410 5 0
Prime Scots •.•• • . 4 2 4 4 Ditto out of the wool
Large coarse Calves 4 2 4 6 Large Hogs • • .• 3 8 4 6
Prime small ditto 4 8 410 Small Porkers ••.. 4 8 410
Suckling Calves lB 0 29 0 Quarter old Pigs ..16 0 19 0
Inferior Sheep • • • 3 8 310 Lambs .. ••••• • . • 0 0 0 0
SUPPLY AT MARKET.
yeasts. I
Sheep. Calves. I Pigs.
I 2,852 18,030 62 270
NEWGATE AND LEADEN/SALL.
The past week's arrivals of the country-killed Meat up to
these markets have been considerably on the increase; while
the supplies on offer slaughtered in the metropolis have been
seasonably good. Generally speaking, the demand has been
in a very inactive state, and all kinds of Meat have sold on
somewhat easier terms. Only about twenty caresses of
foreign Beasts, and 100 ditto of Sheep have appeared on sale,
in very middling condition.
At per stone, by the Carcase.
a. d. to s. d. I. d. to s. d.
Beef, inferior 2 8 210 Mutton, inferior 3 2 3 6
middling • • 3 0 3 2 -- middling.. 3 8 3IC
—. prime large - prime ••.• 4 0 4 4
-- prime small 3 6 3 8 Pork, large ••••. • • • 3 6 4 4
Veal •••••••• • • • • •• 3 8 4 8 small •••• • • 4 6 410
Lamb. Os Od to Oa Od.
BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS.
The imports of Potatoes in the past week have consi'ted of
462 tons from France, in fair average condition. Coastwise,
the receipts have been unusually small. Although the de-
mand is heavy, prices have an upward tendency. York Re-
gents, 160 s to 200 s; Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire Re-
gents, 140 s to 160 s; ditto Kidneys, 140 s; Kent and Essex
Regents, 1603 to 200 s; ditto Kidneys, 160 s to 200 s; French
Whites, 130 s to 160 s per ton.
BOROUGH HOP MARKET.

There is a fair demand for the best kind of Flops in
pockets, at fully last week's quotations. All other kinds are
much neglected, though we cannot call them cheaper :
Sussex pockets, 31 12s to 4/ 6s; Weald of Kent pockets,
41 to 4/ 8s ; Mid and East Kent pockets, 515 s to 6165.

THE SUN, LONDON, Mo2NDAY ErENING, JANUARY 11, 1847.

her while looking over a book of receipts, with the
sorrowful exclamation of " my dearest aunt,
have you any receipt for a disappointed wife ?"
" Certainly," replied Lady Eddington, turning over
a few leaves of the old book, and stopping, as if she
had found the receipt in question, " Take equal por-
tions of humility, patience, charity, and hope; mix
them well together, and then divide into daily por-
tions." In the history of the priest of Northumbria
the account of his first mass is full of interest, and
the proud feelings of the mother on beholding her
son for the first time performing the sacred functions
are beautifully described. We transcribe the fol-
lowing lines, prefixed to one of the chapters, on
account of the beautiful idea with which they con-
clude :

FLANDERS; 111:AIL. •
BRUSSELS, JAN. Moniteur of this date pub-
lishes the convention concluded and signed at Berlin on
23d November, 1846, between his Majesty the King of
the Belgians and his Majesty the King of Prussia, to re-
gulate the postal communication between their respec-
tive dominions. With this convention the Moniteur

publi3hes also the articles agreed upon between the Bel-
gian
and the Prussian post-officers fur the execution of
this convention. Sir Hamilton Seymour the English
Ambassador, who was to quit Brussels yesterday and '
return to London, has been obliged to defer his depar-
ture in consequence of indisposition. His Excellency will
not set out for London before Saturday or Sunday. Sir
H. Seymour will remain in London for a month, when
he will proceed to Lisbon to exercise the functions of
British Ambassador in Portugal, to which he has been
appointed by his Sovereign. Sir H. Seymour's
successor at Brussels is not expected till
some time in April. The Journal de Flanders
says the appeal made by the Bishop of Ghent to the
charity of the rich inhabitants of the city, will produce,
we may believe persons well acquainted with his Emi-
nence, an immense sum. A journal of this city reckons
a sum of more than 100.000 francs.

The love of happiness—alas, how strong!
All feel this instinct of their heavenly birth,
Rushing to gain this prize, or right or wrong,
In rank, or intellect,, or giddy mirth.
But this which is a madness and a cheat
A love—of what this world can ne'er bestow,
Has yet a stronger rival—calm and sweet
This secret can be purchased here below.
Love on—love more—instead of less I
Choosing thine object from thy home above,
Then wilt thou find the love of happiness.
Exceeded by the happiness of love."

The Journal of Liege mentions a serious affair which
happened a few week, ago in the Communal Councilr'
Rom:e in consequence of the departure of a priest
who was appointed by the Bishop of Liege to another
cure. That journal publishes the following extract from
the official proceedings of the sitting of the 9th of
of December: The burgomaster informs the council
that, having 11,:d a conference with the Bishop, the latter
ton him `that he intended n-t to appont any pastor at
llonD.C.l till the council sliviuld desist, from its pretensions
respecting the school attached to the parsonage of
Ronas6e.' The Bishop charged me with this communi-
cation, and desired me to tell Mr. D to wait upon
him, that they might confer together, or that the
council should go to him in a body." In consequence of
this communication, the council decided unanimously
that it has nothing to discuss with the Bishop; that ho
is at liberty to send or not to send a priest to Romsee;
and as for the school contiguous to the parsonage, the
interest of the commune in which the Bishop appears to
demand as a condition sine qua non to give a priest to
Romsee, the council intends to maintain the just rights
of the commune to the property of it.
FROM THE RUSSIAN FRONTIERS, DEC. 28.—Prepa-
rations are being made in Cracow, which indicate that
the whole territory will be immediately included in the
boundary of the Austrian tolls. In the Cracow Gazette,
however, there are several letters addressed to Austria,
which originate in Berlin; in Breslaw especially the
hope is entertained that they may not be entirely unin-
fluential on the proposed measures, nay, it is even
affirmed, on good authority, that Vienna will avail itself
of this opportunity to approximate more closely to the
Zollverein. I have been already informed that the Rus-
sian post was removed from Cracow on the 15th instant,
and is now at Buchaowitz. The Russian Post-office still
remains, and will do so till all the arrears for postage,
&c., are entirely settled.
The incorporation of Poland with Russia, which is so
much spoken of, and commented upon by the public
newspapers, has produced not the slightest impression
here, for it is well-known and felt that this incorpora-
tion has in all essential matters taken place long since.
If the regrets expressed have any signification what-
ever they must refer to the East; but Russian policy
has without doubt been long clear on this point,
and it is not to be presumed that this policy should in-
tend to set the giving up of Cracow to be the step for fur.
ther incorporations. The energy, we might almost say
vehemence, with which the affair of Cracow was pushed
by St. Petersburgh, arose from the personal sentiments
of the Emperor—they are thesame sentiments by which,
guided by a misunderstanding it is true, he was induced,
disregarding the interests of his dynasty, to treat the
affair of the King of Denmark, in the Slesing Holstein
question, in a friendly light—they are the same senti-
ments which induced him sternly to refuse the Poles who

VANITY FAIR. Pen and Pencil Sketches of English
Society. By W. M. Thackeray, author of the ":Irish
Sketch Book," "James's Diary," " Snob Papers in
Punch," 4-c.
A serial by Michael Angelo Titmarsh, and why
have we not had a serial from the pen of Michael
Angelo Titmarsh ere this ? It boots not to inquire.
We are rejoiced to find that at length Mr. Thackeray
has undertaken to give us that which, of all living
writers, he is the most competent to execute, " Pen
and Pencil Sketches of English Society "—not cari-
catures a la Dickens, nor monstrosities a la Bulwer,
but sketches of every day life, and of every day cha-
racter, such as of old we were wont to have (as far
at least as the pen is concerned) from Hook. The
opening chapter introduces us to Miss Pinkerton's aca-
demy at Chiswick Mall, and to Miss Pinkerton herself,
a Minerva of a woman, who having been once honoured
with a visit from Dr. Johnson, ever after fancied
herself a aecond Johnson in petticoats, to her sister
Jemima the quiet drudge of the establishment, and
to two young ladies, Amelia Sedley and Rebecca
Sharp, who are about to quit the establishment.
Amelia Sedley is the daughter of a rich stock-
broker, residing in Russell-square :
" But as we are to see a great deal of Amelia, there is
no harm in saying at the outset of our acquaintance,
that she was one of the best and dearest creatures that
ever lived; and a great mercy it is, both in life and in
novels, which (and the latter especially) abound in
villains of the most sombre sort, that we are to have for
a constant companion, so guileless and good natured a
person. As she is not a heroine, there is no need to
describe her person; indeed, I am afraid that her nose
was rather short than otherwise, and her cheeks a great
deal too round and red for a heroine; but her face blushed
with rosy health, and her lips with the freshest of smiles,
and she had a pair of eyes which sparkled with the
brightest and honestest good humour, except indeed
when they filled with tears, and that was a great deal
too often; for the silly thing would cry over a dead canary
bird, or over a mouse, that a cat haply had seized upon,
or over the end of a novel, were it ever so stupid; and
as for saying au unkind word to her, were any one hard
hearted enough to do so—why, so much the worse for
them. Even Miss Pinkerton, that austere and god-like
woman, ceased scolding her after the first time, and
though she no more comprehended sensibility than she
did algebra, gave all masters and teachers particular
orders to treat Miss Sedley with the utmost gentleness,
as harsh treatment was injurious to her."
Rebecca Sharp is an orphan, and an articled pupil of
Miss Pinkerton's, who has procured for her a situa-
tion as governess in the family of Sir Pitt Crawley.
Before, however, she 'goes to Sir Pitt Cravvley's, it
has been arranged that she shall spend a week with
Amelia Sedley in Russell-square :
" Miss Sharp's father was an artist, and in that quality
had given lessons of drawing at Miss Pinkerton's school.
He was a clever man ; a pleasant companion ; a care-
less student; had a great propensity for running into
debt, and a partiality for the tavern. When he was
drunk, he used to beat his wife and daughter ; and the
next morning, with a headache, he used to rail at the
world for its neglect of his genius, and abuse, with a
good deal of cleverness, and sometimes with perfect rea-
son, the fools, his brother painters. As it was with the
utmost difficulty that he could keep himself, and as he
owed money for a mile round Soho, where he lived, he
thought to better his circumstances by marrying a
young woman of the French nation, who was by profes-
sion an opera-girl. The humble calling of her female
parent, Miss Sharp never alluded to, but used to state
subsequently that the Entrechats were a noble family of
Gascony, and took great pride in her descent from them.
And curious it is, that as she advanced in life this young
lady's ancestors increased in rank and splendour.
" Rebecca's mother bad had some education some-
where, and her daughter spoke French with purity and
a Parisian accent. It was in those days rather a rare
accomplishment, and led to her engagement with the or-
thodox Miss Pinkerton. For her mother being dead,
and her father finding himself not likely to recover,
after his third attack of delirium tremens, wrote a manly
and pathetic letter to Miss Pinkerton, recommending the
orphan child to her protection, and so descended to the
grave, after two bailiffs had quarrelled over his corpse.
Rebecca was seventeen when she came to Chiswick, and
was bound over as an articled pupil, her duties being to
talk French, as we have seen, and her privileges to live
cost free ; and, with a few guiaeas a year, to gather
scraps of knowledge from the professors who attended
the school.
"She was small and slight in person ; pale, sandy-
haired, and with eyes habitually cast down: when they
looked up they were very large, odd, and attractive ; so
attractive, that the Reverend Mr. Crisp, fresh from Ox-
ford, and curate to the Vicar of Chiswick, the Reverend
Mr. Flowerdew, fell in love with Miss Sharp ; being
shot dead by a glance of her eyes which was fired all
the way across Chiswick Church from the school-pew to
the reading-desk. This infaraated young man used
sometimes to take tea with Miss Pinkerton, to whom he
had been presented by his Mamma, and actually pro-
posed something like marriage in an intercepted note,
which the one-eyed applewoman was charged to deliver.
Mrs. Crisp was summoned from Buxton, and abruptly
carried off her darling boy ; but the idea, even, of such
an eagle in the Chiswick dovecot caused a great flutter
in the breast of Miss Pinkerton, who would have sent
away Miss Sharp, but that she was bound to her under
a forfeit, and who never could thoroughly believe the
young lady's protestations that she had never exchanged
a single word with Mr. Crisp, except under her own
eyes on the two occasions when she had met him at tea.
" By the side of many tall and bouncing young ladies
in the establishment, Rebecca Sharp looked like a child.
But she had the dismal precocity of poverty. Many a
dun had she talked to, and turned away from her fathers
door ; many a tradesman had she coaxed and wheedled
into good humour, and into the granting of one meal
more. She sate commonly with her father, who was
very proud of her wit, and heard the talk of many of
his wild companions—often, but ill suited for a girl to
hear. But she never had been a girl, she said ; she had
been a woman since she was eight years old."
As a still further illustration of the character of Re-
becca, we will give a scene between that young lady
and Miss Pinkerton, which led to the departure of
the former from the Chiswick establishment :
" Her music she practised incessantly, and one day,
when the girls were out, and she had remained at home,
she was overheard to play a piece so well, that Minerva
thought wisely, she could spare herself the expense of a
master for the juniors, and intimated to Miss Sharp that
she was to instruct them in music for the future.
" The girl refused; and for the first time, and to the
astonishment of the majestic mistress of the school. 6 I
am here to speak French with the children,' Rebecca
said abruptly, not to teach them music, and:save tnont,y
for you. Give me money, and I will teach them.
" Minerva was obliged to yield, and, of course, dis-
liked her from that day. For five-and thirty years,'
she said, and with great justice, 6 I never have seen the
individual who has dared in my own house to question
my authority. I have nourished a viper in my bosom.'
" A viper—a fiddlestick,' said Miss Sharp to the old
lady, almost fainting with astonishment. You took me
because I was useful. There is no question of gratitude
between us. I hate this place, and want to leave it. I
will do nothing here, but what I am obliged to do.'
" It was in vain that the old lady asked her if she was
aware she was speaking to Miss Pinkerton ? Rebecca
laughed in her face, with a horrid sarcastic demoniacal
laughter, that almost sent the schoolmistress into fits.
Give me a sum of money,' said the girl, and get rid of
me—or, if you like better, get me a good place as
governess in a nobleman's family—you can do so if you
please.' And in their further disputes she always re-
turned to this point, ' Get me a situation—we hate each
other, and I tun ready to go.'"
Arrived in Russell-square, Rebecca Sharp is intro-
duced to Mr. Joseph Sedley, (or as he is always
called by his father, Jos.) the elder brother of Ame-
lia. Joseph is a fat, gormandizing hypochondriac,
high in the civil service of the East India Company,
who has returned to England for the benefit of his
health. He is rich, shy, and single, and Rebecca
determines, if possible, to catch him. p?
between Rebecca and Jos. are most grawphe fin
ice scenes
graphically
de-
scribed, and in the concluding chapter
Joseph Sedley, of the East India Company's service
so far entangled, that he is actually sitting tete-a-tete
with Rebecca, looking at her with the most killing
expression; his arms stretched out before her
in an imploring attitude, and his hands bound
in a web of green silk, which she was un-
winding. The sketching illustrating this scene is
admirable. All the pencil sketches, indeed, and they
are numerous, with which the work is illustrated, are
full of character ; but the best of all—better even than
Mr. Joseph entangled—is the sketch of the Misses Pin-
kerton. Well may Mr. Thackeray designate the elder
Miss Pinkerton " Minerva." Such dignity as hers is
not that of mere mortal—turban, feathers, dress, and
address, all prove her Majestic divinity.

approached his throne with their well-known petition—
in short, they are the same sentiments which owe their
origin to the unconditional disagreement of his mode of
thinking with every revolutionary tendency. We may
think what we like of the Russian policy, which is go-
verned rather by the imperious necessity than by the
will of any human being; yet it is impossible to deny
our tribute of respect to the honourable, unswerving con-
sistency of the Monarch.
We learn from Dresden that the notorious Tyssonski,
who is still imprisoned at Konigstein is to receive his dis-
missal for America; this has been effected with Austria,
with the intervention of the Saxon Cabinet; every further
punishment is remitted, and the expenses of his trans-
portation are to be defrayed by the Austrian Govern-
ment.
VIENNA, JAN. 2.—ln consequence of the very afflict-
ing event by which the families of Prince Metternich
and others of the principal nobility have been plunged
into deep affliction, the usual presentation of the diplo-
matic body to his Highness the Prince Chancellor did
not take place yesterday, New Year's Day.

Orders were issued on Saturday from the Lord
Chamberlain's office, directing all necessary preparations
to be made for her Majesty opening the ensuing session
of Parliament (on Tuesday, the 19th inst.) in person.
A SANGUINARY RENCONTRE.—Two gendarmes
have just been killed at Canet (Ilerault) by a man out
shooting. They came near him, asking for his license,
when he presented his fowling-piece at them, and warned
them not to approach further, or he should fire. They,
however, advanced, and he executed his threat, killing
one of them. The other tired in his turn, and laid the

sportsman on the ground. Agitated at what had taken
place, he proceeded to the mayor's residence, and
informed him of what had passed. The mayor repaired
with him to the spot, but the sportsman had in the
meantime somewhat recovered, and was sitting up when
they approached. Telling the mayor to stand wide, ho
fired at the gendarme, and killed him, as he had done
with his comrade. lie the then blew out his own brains

with the other barrel.—Galignanes Messenger.
TIIE LOW PRICE OF GAME AND POULTRY.—On
Saturday, in most of the London markets, poultry and

game were selling at extraordinarily low prices, caused
by the frequent continental importations. Geese were
to be had for 2s. 6d. each; ducks, 2s. 6d. a pair; and
Ostend rabbits, weighing from 31b. to 41b. each, for
Is. 3d., and hares for Is. each.

THE QUEEN DOWAGER.—We regret to state that
her Majesty Queen Adelaide has been indisposed for
sAne days, and requires the close atttendance of her
physician, Sir David Davies, who is now in residence at
Cashiobury Park. _ _

MAIL FOR NEW YORK.—On Saturday notice was
given at the General Post office, St. Martin's-le-Grand,
that a mail will be made up and forwarded by the new
screw steamer of 1,000 tons, called the Sarah Sands, for
New York, on the 18th instant. _

DEATH Or DR. DAVIDSON, M.D.—lt is with ex-
treme regret that we announce the death of this eminent
physician. Dr. Davidson was out in his usual practice
last week, but was a few days ago seized, as we under-
stand, with inflammation or rather affection of the chest,
which carried him off on Tuesday afternoon. His
friends, indeed, have for some time noticed rather a
falling off in his strength and appearance; but they and
the public little expected so sudden a departure of so
useful and estimable a character, one of the most distin-
guished practitioners in this city. In his younger days
he visited different parts of the continent, and succeeded
the late Dr. Abercromby as Queen's Physician for Scot-
land. The doctor was, we believe, about sixty years of
age.—Edinburgh Advertiser.
CONSERVANCY OF THE RIVER.—On Saturday a
notice was posted at Guildhall announcing the intention
of the Corporation of the City to apply to Parliament
for leave to bring in a Bill to extend the powers of the
Court of Conservancy of the river, over the River Thames
and Medway from Staines to Yantlett Creek. The
powers sought for are to pull down and rebuild bridges,
erect steam-boat and other piers, to cut canals, to deepen
the rivers, and to erect or form, or license to be erected
or formed, embankments, docks, harbours, jetties, and
quays; to levy rents, toll, and duties, and to inflict
penalties, and do all acts which may tend to improve the
navigation of the liver; the said: Act to extinguish all
existing rights, privileges and customs, and to repeal all
formeActts, eu,torns, and charters.

Tnu BLACK WALL 11. A ILWAY.—On Saturday, a
notice was posted at Guildhall of the intention of the
Blackwell Railway and Commercial Railway Company,
to apply to rarliament to extend the railway into
Crutchedfriars, Church-row, and London-street; to form
a branch from the junction in Leman-street to the
London docks, and alter the levels of the branch railroad
to the junction of the Eastern Counties Railroad at Bow;
and to alter the present gauge notwithstanding any Act
of Parliament existing to the contrary.
MILITARY COURT-MARTIALS.—The minutes of a
regimental Court-Martial were read on Saturday morn-
ing, at the head- quarters of the 2d battalion of Grena-
dier Guards, stationed at St. John's-wood barracks, on
Private James Towers, of No. 2 company, who had been
brought to Court-Marlial by order of Lieutenant-Colonel
P. S. Stanhope, commanding the 2d battallion of Grena-
dier Guards. The prisoner was arraigned for absenting
himself without leave on the 25th of December last,r and
remaining absent until the 30th.
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the prisoner to forty days' imprisonment, with hard
labour, at the Military Prevost, Chatham. On Satur-
day morning the 2d battalion of Coldstream Guards, now
stationed at Portman-street barracks, under the com-
mand of Lieutenant-Colonel H. Bentinck, were as-
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was clearly proved, and the Court sentenced the prisoner
to twenty-eight days' imprisonment at the Military
Prevost.
ISLE OF WIGHT MACKEREL.—Yesterday and Satur-
day, nearly 10,000 fine mackerel were caught off the Isle
of Wight. The last boat which went into Portsmouth
yesterday afternoon took in upwards of 4,800, all fine
fat fish, which were packed and brought up to London
by the Bh. 30m. train on the South-Western Railway
last evening.
NEW IRON WORKS AT',CLYNE, NEAR SWANSEA.
We understand, from good authority, that a company of
wealthy ironmasters have taken a lease from his Grace
the Duke of Beaufort of an extensive track of iron and
coal property at Clyne, and purpose immediately erect-
ing furnaces on the bank of the Black-pill River, half
way between this town and Oysterraouth. This, we
doubt not, is but the commencemedt of what must result
from the introduction of railways, and the consequent
development of the vast mineral resources of our district.
—Cambrian.
POISONOUS TWELFTH CAKES. Three children
narrowly escaped death at Nottingham on Thursday last
from having eaten a green ornament on a twelfth cake.
The colour was produced by Scheele's green, which is a
deadly poison.

Sir Robert Peel disclaims, we understand, the cir-
cular addressed to certain members of the House of
Commons belonging to the party of which the ex-Pre•
mier was the head, by his late Secretary of the Trea-
sury, Mr. John Young, in conjunction with other sub-
ordinates of the late Government. The Right Hon.
Baronet further desires it to be distinctly understoood,
that he does not wish to be considered as the leader of
any political party in this country.—Observer.