The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-08 00:00:00

OUR MANU

FACTURI

G SYSTEM.

A recent number of the IVestininster Review
contained two Letters to Leonard Horner, DA., on
the " Capabilities 9f the Factory System," com-
bined with a series of observations on the elevation
of the labouring classes. At the time the article
was published it attracted much attention, and re-
ceived much praise, which have probably induced
Mr. Hooper now to publish it as a separate pamph-
let. It treats of two subjects intimately connected
with the present and future welfare of the country.
England is doomed for many years to come to be a
manufacturing nation, m to be annihilated ; and
while the condition of the masses engaged in manu-
factures can never cease to be interesting to the
statesman and philanthropist, it is palpable that it
cannot remain what it now is without danger and
demoralisation to the whole community. The eleva-
tion of the labouring classes in our manufactures is,
therefore, a subject of the deepest interest to the
whole community.
With the observations of the Reviewer, we have
no intention to meddle, except that we must ex-
press our dissent from the proposition, that " the
melioration of the physical and moral state of the
great body of the people is one of the duties of
Government. When their moral and physical state
is much worse than► that of some small portion of
the people—particularly if that small portion ex-
clusively administer the Government—there arises a
great presumption that the Government has grossly
neglected its duty ; but from that evidence, not
merely of its inutility, but its mischief to the
great body of the people, we cannot, with the Re-
viewer, jump to the conclusion that it is the duty
of Government to :neliorate their condition. They
must do that themselves. The first step to their
improvement is their independence. The mural
and physical condition of a people is good or bad
by comparison, and what is now considered good
may half a century hence be extremely bad. The
present condition, for example, of the bulk of our
gentry and middle classes, both morally and physi-
cally, is far superior to the condition of those classes
half a century ago. Society has a principle of pro-
gress inherent in itself ; Government has, on the
contrary, a tendency to be stationary ; and if we
make it the duty of Government to provide for the
melioration of the physical and moral state of the
great body of the people, we shall authorise it to
divide the nation into castes, and fix the labouring
classes, with some petty improvements, contrary to
the course of society, in a permanent condition of
inferiority. We do not think that desirable ; while
it is very desirable, both for the case of rulers and
the advantage of the ruled, to limit the sphere of
We duties of Government as much as possible. If
Government limit its duties to protecting the rights
of individuals from encroachment, it will best serve
the purpose for which it is said to be instituted.
The two Letters are written by a benevolent in-
dividual, but he seems to us, like the bulk of

iiersons in a similar situation, to expect a great deal
too much from drilling the people, and to rely a
treat deal too little on the people helping them-
selves. There is a sort of diseased desire on the
part of benevolent educationists to make the work-
men like the gentry in their habits, tastes, opinions,
and amusements. For example, the kindly author
of these Letters no sooner got his factory hands
about him than he provided gardens in the fronts
of the cottages, in which the men might dig at
their leisure and cultivate flowers. Now that gen-
.lemen who toil not may find pleasure in digging
and cultivating a flower garden is very natural ;
but that a man, bent all day over a loom, or over a
mule, shut up in a heated room, should find no
more 'agreeable occupation for his leisure than
digging in a garden, is not to be expected. Some
of the workmen may ; and the great evil of the
benevolent man thus laying down a standard of
excellence, as it were, by no means suitable to each
individual, is, that he who neglects his garden be-
cause he prefers sauntering in the fields with his
children after his toils are over, gathering wild
flowers, or observing wild animals, or perhaps com-
muning with his own heart, or with Nature, is set
down as an idle, thriftless man, and is very likely
to be dismisseu from his employment, and become a
bad one. That a poor man should be enabled to
command the use of a garden, if he desire it, is
highly proper ; but it is not desirable that
gardens should be provided for all factory workers,
so that any one of them who does not act up to the
fancy of the proprietor, having rational pursuits of
his own, should be set down as less worthy than

the gardeners.
Again, the benevolent factory owners, as soon as
he got his people about him, established schools.
Far be it from us to sneer at any kind of learning,
but book learning is not for all dispositions. Some
persons like investigating machines, or making
Instruments ; and the same objection that we have
wade to the gardens applies to the schools, namely,
that it establishes an artificial standard of excel-
lence, very agreeable to the individual [proprietor,
`Jut not equally agreeable to all the factory workers;
and those who do not seek the schools are neces-
,:arily set down by the owner as less worthy than
those who may really be as rationally and usefully
,q-riployed as conning over the alphabet or learning
a Methodist hymn.
After a time games were established, and as this
part of the plan is particularly amiable and kind,
we shall quote a long extract :-
1 We set apart a portion of a field near the mill, that bad
.riginally been designed for gardens, and, taking advantage
at' a holiday and a fine afternoon, I called some of the boys
together and commenced operations. We began with
quoits, trap and cricket balls, and leap frog ; and as I saw
eat many others soon joined us, and our playground con-
tieued to fill more and more every evening it was opened,
e gradually introduced other games, and established a
few regulations to preserve order, assigning a particular
part of the playground for diferent games, and appointing
certain individuals to distribute and !preside over them.
The girls and boys each took their own side of the field,
and generally followed their games separately. The fol-
lawing summer we erected a swing, and introduced the
game called Les Graces, with bowls —a leaping-bar—a
tight-rope—and afterwards a sec-saw. Quoits are gene-
rally the favourite game of men—the hoops and tight rope
among the boys—and the hoops and swing with the girls.
The last is in perpetual requisition. With the hoops, the
boys and girls now play a good deal together, and we en-
courage this companionship as being extremely favourable
to the cultivation of good manners, kind feelings, and per-
ception of their proper place and relation towards each
other. When we first began these games, this was a thing
that had yet to be learned, and instances of rudeness and
improper conduct did occasionally occur; but as 1 made a
point of being always present on the ground, and gave our
young ones to understand that I wished my leaving it to be
the,signal for the breaking up of the party, I had the op-
portunity of observing any breach of good manners or good
temper, and gradually succeeded in breaking them into soy
system. We are now near the close of the third summer
since the play-ground was opened, and during this season
we have not once had to remark upon any breach of order
and decorum. Indeed, the system is now so well under-
stood among us, that 1 no longer feel it necessary to be
present among the games, though I generally am so, be-
cause I enjoy them as much as any of the party, and it is
one of my chief opportunities of social intercourse with the
ople. 'rite play-ground is open only on Saturday even.
:ng, or holidays, during the summer.
In the autumn of the same year, 1834, we began our
drawing and singing classes. The
."drawing class meets
every Saturday evening ,during the winter, from six to
half past seven, and generally spends half the time in draw-
ing, and the rest with geography or natural history. This
class I teach myself; it consists of shout twenty-five boys,
and some of them have made considerable proficiency.
They occupy themselves at home during the evenings of
the week with copying drawings that we lend them for the
purpose, and this affords an interest for their leisure hours,
and an attraction to their home fireside, which it was one
of my chief objects in introducing this pursuit to supply.
U: ring the summer they continue the occupation or nut,
a, :iiey choose; but our regular lessons are given up, as
our Saturday evenings are then spent more profitably in
the play-ground, and we return to our winter occupations
veith much more zeal and relish, after a long vacation, that
if They had been continued without interruption during the
whole year. Some variety and change in our pursuits, we
fire! as necessary to keep up our own interest and attention
as theirs.
As soon as the 'drawing class breaks up, at half-past
MOP, the singing class assembles and remains till nine.

This class consists of girls and young men to the number
of twenty-eight. It is entirely under the management of
thso Superintendent of the Sunday school, who meets them
once a week during the winter, to teach them their diffe-
rent parts, and then brings them on S;iturday evening to
our large school-room, where they practise all together.
We confine onrKilves for the present to sacred music ;
singing in four parts, and with the assistance of two instru-
ments, make what we think very tolerable music. This
class is very popular, especially with the girls, and it is
considered a great privilege to be invited to join it.
One of the most successful of our plans, and the most ef-
fectual in civilising the manners of the people, has been
that of having regular evening parii,s during the winter.
The nent'n..r of these patties is generally about thirty.
They consist chicflv r,f tite elder girls sod boys, generally
an equal number of each. They come by s.decial invita
tion, a little printed card being sent to each, on which is
written the day and hour when the party will take place.
Much of the distinction shown to the guests depends on
this individual invitation, and it is part of my plan to show
as much respect as possible to those whom I invite to jolts
our society.

It is impossible, however, to read this extract,
amiable, most amiable as we admit the writer to be,
without recognizing throughout a strong desire to
drill the people, to make them like the driller, or
like the gentry, to inoculate them with similar tastes,
to send them after similar pursuits, and, there-
fore, to give them similar opinions. The
factory owner having a large property, and
being probably much at his ease, having many
converts under him, and saying to one, " Go, and
he goes," labours—with good intentions, we
admit, but mistakingly, we aver—to make every in-
dividual in his employment something like himself.
There is in his conduct the same spirit of overrul-
ing, the same desire to be superior to others, or to
govern, to:which,ein our observations on the cotton
manufactures, we traced much of the evil which
pervades society. The elevation of the labouring
classes is, we fear, not to be obtained. It does
well enough for one mill, and contrasts beauti-
fully with another, where the labourers'. and the
children are both rigidly ruled, and yet much ne-
glected; but it partakes too much of the master and
slave system ever to create in the labouring classes
that spirit of independence which is the first step
to becoming good moral men. The prin-
ciple is to model all classes on one class,
while the vast diversity in the business,
possessions, and dispositions of the various classes,
and of various individuals, indicates for them dif-
ferent amusements, and a different bringing up.
There appears to be more practical freedom in
Germany, according to the letter from Chemnitz,
which we quoted on Wednesday, and with that
freedom there seems to be more happiness, more
hilarity, and more real delicacy of feeling, than is
to be found amongst the best drilled operatives of
the neatest factory, surrounded with gardens, having
a play ground in the middle, and schools at each
corner. The latter partakes of the character of
Mr. Owen's parallelograms, the former seems like
the natural world.

LOCOMOTIVE ENGINES.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUIV.

SIR-It must oe matter et regret to ail interested
in the celebrity of British machinery, to kart' that the
Birmingham and Gloucester Railway Company, hive
bought ten locomotive engines, about 1,5001. each, ma-
nufactured at Philadelphia, United States ; it is the
stigma and reflection cast on the manufacturers of this
country that I complai❑ of. Surely the manufacturers
have not fallen off! Long has the locomotive and other
engines—and machinery of British invention and exe-
cution ranked superior to all others. It is entirely owing
to our pre-eminence in the superiority of machinery that
we are enabled to compete with foreigners, although
they possess the advantages of cheap food, and, conse-
quently low wages. The only advantage the American
engine has, is in travelling on railroads where there
are many curves—the arrangement of wheels allowing
of greater facility in travelling along such lines—
but it is to be hoped good may arise out of it, if it
cause greater application amongst our mechanical men,
which will tend to some important improvement in the
construction of locomotive engines, I cannot avoid
noticing the apathy and indifference evinced by engineers
and others respecting railway accidents ; they appear
to wait for the regulations and restrictions of Govern-
ment. It would certainly be more creditable to com-
mence some improvement in the system, than to remain
passive until measures, rendered necessary for the public
good, are made compulsory. L.
Newcastle-on.T)ne, Jan. 5, 1841.

MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JAN. 6.
Our market has exhibited considerable firmness and
buoyancy to-day, and we have had a Food demand for
most of the leading Railway Shares, and prices generally
have an upward tendency. The following are the closing
prices:—.,Manchester and Leeds, 801, New ditto, 31:
Manchester and Birmingham, 26 to 27 ; North Midland,
81 to 82, halves, 40 to 41 ; Midland Counties, 81, quar-
ters, 15 to 16 ; London and South Western, 60 ; Great Wes-
terns, 93 to 94, halves 62f to 63, fifths, 11 to 11i; London
and Birmingham, 173, quarters, 28 to 28.1, thirdr, 59 ; Lon-
don and Brighton, 43i to 44 ; south Eastern and Dover,
13 ; Eastern Counties, 9 to 9k, slitto debentures, 5i to 6.

REFUSAL TO ALLOW CONVICTS TO GIVE
EVIDENCE BEFORE A CORONER'S JURY.—At inquests held
an Wednesday before Mr. Wakley, in the'House of Correc-
tion, on the bodies of two prisoners, the Coroner, address-
ing the Governor, said, " He should now (after hearing
the evidence of the turnkeys) require the evidence of some
fellow-prisoners of the deceased persons to place before
the Jury." Mr. Chesterton, the Governor, '• You can
have any one you please." After some of the prisoners
had been examined, and questions put to them whether
they were satified with the treatment they received, which
they answered in the affirmative, the following colloquy
took place between the Coroner, the Governor, and a psi.
sober, named Mary Collins, an inmate of the infirmary
Coroner—la the silent system also observed throughout the
infirmary as well as the other parts of the prison ?—Yes ;
we are not allowed to speak in that place unless to a
nurse. The Governor—lt is really a strange thing.
I really do not know what bas come to the women re-
cently. I had issued positive orders that prisoners should
be allowed to speak together whilst in the infirmary.
Coroner—lt certainly is .singular that the women should
in particular, not avail themselves of such a recreation. But
arc they aware of the order ? Governor—l gave the order,
and believed it wat carried out. Sir James Williams, one
of the Visiting Justices, was understood to say that the
order emanated from the Magistrates. The Coroner said
the testimony of the prisoners was very satisfactory, and
reflected credit on the prison arrangements : he, however,
regretted to observe that attempts had recently been mad.
to prevent prisoners giving evidence-as to death, in cases
of those who had been confined with them. From the
public papers of Wednesday last he had found that in-
quests had been held at Woolwich upon seven convicts who
had died of fever, and that the authorities had refused per-
mission for the fellow-prisoners to be examined, He had
no hesitation in saying that by law the Coroner could com-
mand their attendence to give evidence, and that the au-
thorities were liable to be punished for refusing. . Such a
circumstance was most alarming, and required the earliest
investigation by Government.
The effects of the Chinese intelligence have
been already felt. The price of tea at the time we write
(three o'clock), has fallen 7d. per pound, whilst that of
East India Cotton has risen. The cause of the former
change is obvious; the cause of the latter is, that large
quantities of Cotton which, had the war continued, would
have been shipped for this country, will, when the usual
trade shall have been again opened at Canton, be sent to
that part; and we are aware that in August last the native
merchant (Jemsct Jee) had in his possession, waiting the
turn of (vents, upwards of 100,000 bales of this article,
Matters have thus already begun to settle down to the
►evel of a wholesome standard.—Shipping Gfizettc.
SINGULAR AND FATAL ACClDENT.—Wed-
nesday an inquest was held before Mr. Wakley, M. P., in
the board-room of the Middlesex Hospital, on the body
of Mahony, a fine yoking man, aged 2t3, a plasterer. On
Thursday afternoon last deceased was standing opposite
the Wheatsheaf, Edgeware-road, in conversation with a
friend, when one of the horses in a Paddington omnibus
fell dunn, through the slippery state of the road. De-
ceased immediately on witnessing the occurrence hastened
forward to assist in getting it on its legs, when the ani-
mal suddenly throwing up its head, deceased was struck
on the temple by a brass ornament affixed to the bridle,
and felled to the ground. On being picked up he was
found to be insensible, in which state he was conveyed to
the above hospital, where he died on Monday last in con.
sequence of injuries inflicted on the brain. Verdict,
" Accidental death."

ATTEMPTED .ASSASINATION.—About two
o'clock on the morning of Saturday last, James Drum-
mond, porter toMr. Gilmour, South Hanover-street, was
attacked on the Govan-road, near Clyde Haugh Nur-
sery, by two men, one of whom fired a pistol at him,
which slightly graz,d his neck, while the other struck
him with a bludgeon, or some heavy weapon. Drummond
immediately screamed out, when the fellows made off:
but it. is his impression that they had mistaken him for
some other person. Both the men were armed with
pistols, with caps or bonnets, and they wore fustian
clothes : they were light made, and seen to pass the Shed_
dons Toll from Glasgow. It is not improbable that they
are toe persons, or a part of the gang, who had within
these fourteen days committed so many outrages in that
vicinity.— Glasgow Cironicle.
IMPORTANT TO GROCERS.—An order from
the Treasury has been received by the Irish Board of Ex-
cise, to the effect that none of the penalties hitherto im-
posed on the grocers under the spirit retail Act shall be
enforced. We understand that those penalties already
amount to 50,0001 , the exaction of which must have been
ruinous to many of those who should bear a portion of the
burthen.

MORNING 1 D ITION
THE PARIS PENNY-A-LINIR.

We call coureur dc nouvelles him who supplies the
petty news inserted in our newspapers under the head
of Fails Divers, and which in press terms is e.xled

Faits-Paris.

coureu' de nouvelles must have two
tines. As he must solicit he must be audaciebx et

find, as the solliciteur in the play. Behold the iw,",
survoy him quickly, for he will be off and escape your
view. At the office itself he appears hut to disappear.
Like the eagle he brings 11;s booty to the nest, and tiles,

off in quest of fresh japtur,s. With a slim bod.
legs, a tarn ;n1 hut, an tuntireija under lus arni, a sate t ,
lt,en eye, paper in hand, and inkstand in his pockc,.,='
sallies forth ,at a venture. Tn lounge and look anon;
by profession, to he the historian of every incidont,
solemnity, and disast.a. ; such is the lot of the couroff
de nouvelles. He is the confidential secretary of the
capital, the Tacitus of the Boulevard, the Thuoydid,:s
of the public thoroughfare.

Who marries us? Who buries us? Who examinee
for us the state of the atmosphere? Who sees monu-
ments rise and fall, empires subverted and erected ? Who
attends our funerals? Ye all will name that Argus
who, like the solitaire of d'Aulincourt, sait tout, volt
tout, eutend tout, est Fallout.
Oh! how many Kings he has seen rise and tumble
down ! How many buildings constructed and sub-
verted ! He has seen and spoken to the man impri•
soned and killed ; he knows all about you and me ; the
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thought is enough to make one shudder. But fear not ;
the good man is a very tomb of discretion ; he'repeats
only what he can honourably disclose. Scandal never
comes from him. Yet how heroic must the discretion
of a man be who has stripped more human beings and
unroofed more houses than Lesage's Diable Boitcux !
Not a slate, not a tile can be removed without his

leave. None can murder without his visa. None can
extract a hair from our head without his inquiring into
the deed. He fixes at within a line the height of the
river, the direction of the wind, and the mercury in the
thermometer. Like death, he has übiquity and omni-
potence. He has acquaintances everywhere, even under
the executioner's roof.

The most renowned coureur de nouvelle s of later

times was Mathieu Donzelot, alias renfonce pave, a
nickname derived from his solemn steps, which he re-
gulated by beating time and stricking the flags
with a long ivory-headed cane. Donzelot's lodgings
were on the Quai aux Lunettes, if he may be said to
have lodged anywhere, for he was perpetually ex-
ploring every street, nook, and corner of the town. He
was at all fetes, and the witness of every mishap and
disaster. It any illustrious man were to be buried,
old Donzelot adapted his mien to the occasion. He
hoisted a crape band to his hat, and crept into IL

, .
mourning coach. He then became all ears and eyes/
gathering lamentations, intercepted sighs, shed tears
with his fellow mourners, and took notes.
In the morning, before he sallied forth, old Donzelot
consulted the sky and the barometer which ornamented
his garret ; then, taking up his cane and inkstand, he
would say—" Rain ! We shall have people slipping and
crushed under carriage wheels ;" or " The weather is
stormy ! We shall record some cases of mental derange-
ment and hydrophobia ;" or, lastly, " Cloudy and
gloomy ! Fine weather for spleen—let us hunt after
suicides." According to these probabilities Donzelot
regulated his day's operations.
One day Donzelot's weathercock lay in the direction
of an entente wind. The coureur hastened to the Puss
du Pantheon, where the students were getting up $
little riot. The moment he appeared a shower of stone°
hailed him. " Good !" exclaimed Donzelot, "it begio°
in proper style ;" and, without any dismay, he este
lished his observatory on the most perilous spot. N
friend passing by earnestly entreated him to take to hi°
heels. Donzelot, heedless of his advice, drew his waters'
and recorded minute by minute the various stages of Lb.
esneute. " Will you not go ?" roared again his Is i, nd'
Not I," replied the news-hunter ; " but since you O°
flying, hive the goodness to leave this with my news'
paper, and tell them I remain on tho spot to send them
the sequel."
An hour afterwards confusion was at its height. "111
two parties came to blows, the Municipal Guard fired, all
a bullet struck Donzelot. A surgeon hastened to hi°l'
" You arc wounded," said he. " I am," replied I.)°'"
zelot, " and severely too, for I cannot write." " 'DI
is no time to be scribbling," roughly observed the praeT
tioner, "we must attend to your wound !" "My bus''
ness," replied Donzelot, " is to relate the occurrence'
and you must do that for me. Just write the followi"
transcript :
". Three o'clock, p.m.—After a discharge of me
ketry made by the military, three wounded and o°e
killed were counted on the side of the people.' "
" Who then is the dead man ?" inquired the surgeo°,'
" I," returned Donzelot, and he expired! Ile expire'
like Epaminondas, on the field of battle ; like 'carpool
like Bayard. He died like Aloliere, on the theatre °
his achievements.
With old Donzelot the ancient and bright prototYP:
of the coureur de nouvelles was extinguished. Swe,,
him the news-hunter has degenerated. 'rho Gazete
des Tribunaux has dealt a tremendous blow upon th,,°,
wandering industry. The other newspapers borrow be
day's doings in that able record of crimes. SeartPl
have three or four of them got a coureur between th°tl/'
whilst formerly every paper had its own.
Nevertheless, the coureur de nouvelles still wears •
broad hat, slim legs, and a little eye. He runs, listen!'
and observes. Obsequious and good natured in I'l6
ordinary intercourse with mankind, he becomes haughtd'
cunning, and important whenever those vices can Yield
him the information he wants. He is insinuating. o°o
sneaks into places to which he has no admission ; rber.,
he walks with head erect, and from the height of WI
greatness drops a word that over awes sentinels ow
door-keepers. He has passed himself off twenty tin)",
for a Deputy, a hundred times for a Peer, and If he re
grets anything, it is that he is not a Knight of the e;
gion of Honour, to render his frequent usurpations aliir
probable.
There are common-place things which never Woe
the coureur de nouvelles. His narratives prefer tangle°
to men, and it is no fault of his if women be not rather,
young than old, and enceintes if possible, which reader
them still more interesting. Bricklayers that fill fr°l
a scaffolding are always married by him, and indebtee
to his humanity for a large family. He neglects 11°,Ph
of those trifling artifices which prop the main fact w'td
secondary details. Conscience, in short, has Cesertei,
the coureur de nouvelles. They have now more ilns,.g:
nation than legs, and more ears than eyes. Wuu3s
cares he if the profane know not how to appreciate "
merit. He passes as glorious as the sun, casting 1071
rents of news over his obscure blasphemers. , He tics
cheerfully reach the end of his life of self abnegatio° '
to his last gasp he will make himself useful to the °lr
grateful paper which he feeds, and which so poorly ''c's
knowledges that food. He is the man to die in seed'' 1,
manner as to supply his paper with a very curious. Pl,
Paris. He will carry with hire into the grave but °lit,
regret—that of not having been able to announce fir
and in his own fashion, the news of his death.—Par'
Print.

There is no official confirmation of the reporte6
re.irernetst of Lord Hill; but it is said that his Lordship
t
is in such an indifferent state of health as to render
event by no means improbable.
BRIGHTON, JAN. 6.—The Venerable Earl 61,
Westmoreland, who has recovered from his recent Woe!,
entertained a distinguished party to dinner at his resideoc
on the Steine, on Friday last, to celebrate his birth-claP
The Noble Earl attained the patriarchal age of 82.
Countess Cadogan and the Ladies Augusta 361
Homnia Cadogan arrived at Middleston- park, on '''slo'
to the Earl and Countess of Jersey, on Tuesday last, frog
a visit to the Marquis and Marchioness of Anglesey. •
Beaudesert, Staffordshire.
RIBSTON PIPPINS.—A gardener in Scot.-0
has discovered that our finest winter apple, the Ribst%
pippin, may be preserved from the ravages of the A mcricaft
aphis or bug, an insect which has of late years been ffj,
destructive to wall fruit, by grafting the pippin on the stccto
of the jareonelle pear, which the insect is never knoso,o
attack. The engraftment also improves the fruit ia
and flavour.
The Gazelle des Tribuneaux mentions that •
Herz, stockbroker, absconded on Friday morning, leorilf
as is said, a great deficit. Ono person, whose whole f°;
tune was in the hands of the defaulter, has laid an inf°l;
mation before the Procureur du Roi, and seals have 13C 'h
put, by order of the competent authority, upon all boolia
papers, and other effects of the absentee, who is belief

to have gone to Brussels.
OPENING OF THE GREAT NORTH OF Et'lG°
LAND RAILWAY.—NORTIIALLERTON, JAN. 4.—This °I1;
long looked for, was ushered in with severe snow stare
which continued throughout the day ; notwithstandin:ol
immense numbers of people congregated together st 1,
early hour in the morning, at the Station-house, the Os,
depots, and at different places adjoining to the railcldie
especially at the Castle-hill, the Zetland-bridge on Id
Richmond-road, and the grand stand on the race.gronre;
in order to witness the arrival and passing of the engll'he
and trains of coal waggons. About half after ten in 1:0
morning, the first two engines passed by the station-he's/
without stopping, drawing one hundred and two wagg°,,ti
of coals on their route for York; in about to',
minutes after, two more engines arrived, drawing 99 take
goes laden with coals, which stopped a short time to Po
in water, and then proceeded to the southward ; the 14
two engines which arrived, drawing about the same
of waggons, were accompanied by a band of music 6-0 f
numerous flags flying, which, after taking a supply
water, also proceeded for the south. Fresh trains cell •
nued to arrive until about halt after three in the afterno°llo:i
the last four trains were for the depots at Thirsk
Northallerton. Trains of waggons will continue t" ay
rive at the different depots on the line of the said raio',
on Tuesday and Wednesday, so as to fill up each dcP:a
with various kinds of coal from the most celebrated onor'ci
in the county of Durham. On this day no iniafortneco
have happened on this part of the line of railway.----le
Journal.
Lieutenant-Ggneral Sir Edward Kerrison, nart)::
M P.. gave a grand dinner last week at Oakley 00r
near Eye, to his fine corps of yeomanry, the Suffolk 4,
&rm. About 100 persons sat down to a eutoptuota
tertainment.