The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-12 00:00:00

TEE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1841.

EXTRACTS FROM THE RECORDS
OF THE CORPORATION OF LONDON ON
THE BIRTHS OF GEORGE 111. AND IV.
The following is an exact copy of the proceedings of 1
the Corporation of London, as stated in the journals of
that body, in the year 1738, upon the birth of George 111.
" A Common- Council holden in the Chamber of the
Guildhall, London/ on Wednesday, the 7th ofJune, 1738,
and in the eleventh year of the reign of King George 11.,
of Great Britain, &c., before Sir John Barnard, Knight,
Lord Mayor of the said City, &c.
" A motion being made that this Court do address his
Majesty to congratulate him on the happy increase of the
Royal family by the birth of a Prince, the same was re-
solved in the affirmative, whereupon the Court doth
nominate and appoint Sir John Eyles, Bart., &c., a com-
mittee to withdraw immediately and prepare an address
for that purpose:
"And the said Committee withdrewaceordingly, and
soon returned and presented to this Court an address by
them prepared, pursuant to the above resolution, which,
being read several times, was agreed to, and follows in-
these worth t--
"' To the King's Most-Excellent Majesty,
" ' The humble Address of the Lord Mayor, Alder-
men, and Commons, of the City of London, in Common
Council assembled :---
" ' May it please your Majesty,—Your most dutiful
and loyal subjects, the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and
Commons, in Common Council assembled, do with hearts
full of joy approach your throne, and humbly beg leave
to offer our congratulations on the happy increase of
your Royal family by the birth of a Prince, and therein_
the strengthening and establishing the religious - and
civil rights of this country, and the liberties of Europe.
" ' We are so sensible of the many blessings of your
Majesty's reign, that from interest, as well as- duty, we
wish it long and prosperous, and when, in course of
time, this_ Prince shall come to reign, may he, by the ex-
ample of his Royal predecessors, have learnt to rule a
free but obedient people, and become the guardian of
those liberties whichi- by their precepts, he will have
been taught to protect, ~• -
" ' We should be wanting in that duty we owe to your
Majesty, if .we did not take this opportunity, pf testifying
our joy, and assuring your Majesty of our fidelity and
affection.' .
" And it is ordered that the said address be-fairly tran-
scribed,and signed by the town-clerk, and preisented to
his Majesty by the whole Court.
' . "It is ordered, that Messrs. the Sheriffs, attended by
Mr. Remembrancer, do wait on his Majesty, to know
the Royal will and pleasure when the Court shall attend
him with the said address.
" It was reported that his Majesty received them very
graciously, and was pleased to make this most gracious
answer, viz.:—
" ' I thank you for your congratulation on this occa-
sion, and for this mark of your duty and affection to me
and my family. The City of London may always depend
on my favour and protection.'
" A motion being ade that this Court doth agree to
compliment their *,al Highnesses the Prince and Prin-
cesse of Wales on t increase of the Royal Family and
birth of a Prince
" The same was nnanimously resolved in the affirmative.
"A Committeepresented a compliment in writing by
them. prepared (or the purpose aforesaid, and the same
being several dines read, was agreed to in the following
words :
.;
" ' May-itllease your Royal Highnesses,
" ' We, the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Common
Councilmen of the City of London, beg leave to attend
your Royal Highnesses to express our joy on the increase
of your family' by the birth of a Prince, and on the re-
covery of her Royal Highness.
" ' May your Royal Highnesses become the happy
parents of a numerous offspring to be a delight to his
Majesty and your Royal Highnesses, give joy to his
and strengthen every part of our
Majesty's
, Constitution.
o
We dubt subjects,not
but by your Royal Highnesses' care
this young Prince will be early taught those virtuous
maxims which alone can make a Prince and people
happy, and that by the example of his Majesty and your
Royal Bightimes he will learn that the glory as well as
security of tho "throne must be founded in the hearts
and aff'ectiona , the people.'
" It is re'=F red that the said compliment shall be
Made to thei ' oyal Highnesses by the whole Court; and
his Lerdsli. ' now informing this Court that his Royal
Highnes&; ad appointed Tuesday next, between two and
three P'e .ck, at Norfolk House, in St. James's-square, to
receiv: he said compliment, this Court doth resolve to
attend accordingly, and doth desire the Recorder,in their
names, to make the same."
On the 12th of July, 1738, the Journals have the fol-
_

lowing:—
" The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor acquainted the
Court, that on Tuesday, the 27th of June last, they did
attend their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of Wales, according to his Royal Highness's appoint-
ment, at Norfolk-house, with their compliments on the
increase of the Royal Family and birth of a Prince ; that
their Royal Highnesses received them very graciously,
and his Royal Highness was pleased to return this most
gracious answer (that is to say):—
"My Lord and Gentlemen—l return you my thanks,
and those of the Princess, for this new inatanoe a your
duty to the King and of your nefection tame,
My son, I hope, may come in time to deserve the
gratitude of a free people which his Majesty now enjoys;
and it shall be my oonstaut..eare to instruct him that true
loyalty can only be the result of liberty."
'The following is the account of the City proceedings
upon the birth of George IY. (The Court of Aldermen
used not at that period to go, up with addresses to the
Sovereign of themieives, but accompanied the Court
of Common Council,: of which the Aldermen were also
members) 1—
Common Council, holden in the Chamber of the
Guildhall of the City, on Friday, the 13th day of August,
1762, and in the second year of the reign of our Sove-
reign Lord George la, King of Great Britain, &c., be-
fore Sir Samuel Fludyer, Knight and Baronet, Lord
Mayor, &c., and the greater part of the Commons of the
SRid City, in the same Common Council, then and there
assembled,
" A motion was made that an Ikumble address be pre-.
sented to the King to oongratulate his Majesty upon the
cafe delivery of the Queen, and' the birth of a Prince.
The same was unanimously rlyolved in the affirmative.
" And the Committee presented unto this Court an
address by them prepared, which being several times
read, and an amendment Wade thereto, the same was
agreed to in the following words z-
-44 TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.
" The humble address of the Lord Mayor, Alder-
men, and Commons of the City of London, in Common
Council assembled.
" ' Most Gracious Sovereign,—We, your Majesty's
ever dutiful and loyal subjects, the Lord Mayor, Alder-
men, and Commons of your City of London, in Com-
mon Council ns.4elnhled, humbly beg leave to embrace
the earliest opportunity of congratulating your Majesty
upon the safe and happy delivery of the Queen and the
auspicious birth Qf a Primp.
SO important an event, and upon a day ever sacred
to liberty and these kingdoms, fills us with the most
grateful sentiments of His divine goodness' that has
thus early crowned your Majesty'a domestic happiness,
and opened to 311,1 r people the agreeable prospect of per-
manence and stability to the blessings they derive from the
wisdom and steadiness of your Majesty's victorious reign.
44.4 May the same gracious Providence now restore
your Majesty's most amiable and beloved consort, and
give perfect health and length of days to the Royal infant.
" Long, very lung, 'nay your Majesty live the guar-
dian and protector, the ornament and delight, of Great
Britain, and by your instructions and example to form
the mind of your Royal son to the government of a free,
brave, and generous people ; and, in the fulness of time,
May that son succeed to the virtues, as well as the throne
of his Revel father, and preserve for a long succession
of years the glory, happiness, and prosperity of this
country.' "
On the Ist of October, 1762, the journals state as
follows:
" The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor acquainted this
Court, that on Saturday, the 14th of August last, his
Lordship and this Court did attend his Majesty at St.
James's, according to hiS Royal appointment, with their
address which was agreed to at the last Common Coun-
cil, that his Majesty received them very graciously, and
was pleased to snake this most gracious answer:—
" I receive, with the greatest pleasure, the very af-
fectionate expressions of your duty and attachment to
me and to my family, and thank you for your congra-
tulations upon an event so interesting to me, and to the
future welfare of my pule, with which my own happi-
ness upon this and every ether occasion is inseparably
eonnectel
" "rhe City of London may always depend upon my
constant favour and protection."'
[ln another part of The Sun is given a very different
version, both of the address to George 111. by the City
of London, and of his Majesty's answer ; but, as: the
preceding account is copied from the Journals of the
Corporation of London, we presume it . is the ,more
,
correct.l

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ALAMILTON.—
A report has been in general circulation in Dublin during
the last lybv days, to which, were it not that we are as-
sured that it has originated in a quarter certain, from its
political connection with the Goverment, to be well-in-
formed, we should, ill as we are disposed to think of our
present rulers, have at once, and without hesitation, de-
nied credence. Such of our readers as have not yet heard
it, v,ill be startled at being informed that it has been de-
terthin .d by the Government to dismiss Mr. William
Tighe Hamilton from the office which he holds of head
clerk in the Chief Secretary's Office.
But so it is. The
has at last arrived at, of con-
Eve, i g Mail has not threatened for nothing, add we
hastcn to acknowledge, with the deference always due to
those who have made their power felt, the position
gCacnuncils. This, then, is the com-
sweepinz out"—the first of the
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THE CONVICT BLAKESLEY.

Since the conviction of this unhappy man, the utmost
exertions have been made by his friends, and also by his
attorney, to get up a statement of facts, embodied in a
petition to the Secretary of State, with a view to obtain
a commutation of the capital punishment, the chief
ground relied upon being, that although the prisoner
may not be, perhaps, in an actual state of insanity yet
that his mind was natually weak and feeble, and that at
the time he committed the dreadful deed, his reason was
completely overpowered by the distressing situation in
which he was placed ; and that when he committed it, he
was not aware what he was doing. How far this view
of the case is borne out by the circumstances, as they
were detailed in evidence, is a question for the proper
authorities to decide ; but although not the slightest in-
timation has yet been given of any intention to commute I
the sentence, and yesterday the workmen were engaged
in making thel usual preparations at the drop and scaf-
fold in the Old Bailey yard, yet the prisoner's friends
still entertain hopes, strengthened by the recent happy
event,-that the mercy of the Crown may still be awarded
to the unhappy man to the extent of saying his life.
After Blakesley's conviction, he was removed to the
cell in the chapel ward of the gaol, that is now ap-
propriated for the reception of murderers, and in which
Pegsworth, Lees, Greenacre, and Courvoisier were con-
fined prior to their execution. Blakesley has been vi-
sited in the gaol by his father, and some other members
of his family, and he has generally conducted himself
with propriety ; but yesterday he became very violent
and excited, and attempted to assault one of the turn-
keys, and it was at length found necessary to place him
under additional restraint, and he was secured to his
iron bedstead, and, while in this position, he continued
to rave most violently, and frequently exclaimed, " My
wife, my wife—Sarah, Sarah." The surgeons of the
gaol were speedily informed of what had taken place,
and they saw the wretched man ; and, we understand,
the opinion anymg the authorities of the gaol was, that
the violence and excitation was to a great extent as-
sumed. Every precaution, however, is taken to prevent
him from doing any violence either to himself or others;
and turnkeys remain with him night and day. Should
no respite be sent to the gaol, the sentence of the
law will be carried into effect on Monday next at eight
o'clock.

BLOCKADE OF THE COAST OF

CANTABRIA.
Consulado General de Espano en Inglaterra,
London, Nov. 10, Is4l.

SIR-I received yesterday from my Government a
despatch and instructions, of which the inclosed are
copies, relating to the blockade of the coast of Cantabria;
and, although it appears from private letters and the
newspapers that the rebellion is quite at as end, and that
ships enter freely into the ports of Biscay, yet on the ful-
filment of my duty, I have thought it advisable to for-
ward to you the said copies. I remain, &c.
JOZI MARIA BARRER°.

To the Secretary at Lloyd's, London.
His Highness tho Regent of the kingdom has been
pleased to send me the following decree, dated yesterday:
" Madrid, 18th October, 1841.

" The rebellion which has broken out in some parts
of the coast of Cantabria, the assistance the revolters
may receive by sea, the defence and security which
should be preserved in all other places now in peace and
free from the evil of insurrection, claims that duo steps
be taken to secure order and safety in the rest of the
kingdom. Government is authorized by the practice of
nations, and by the right of self defence, to adopt such
measures as will terminate the evils of the revolt ; and
part of the province of Biscay being already under the
control of the forces of the culpables who have risen
against the legitimate Government established by the
will of the nation, I, as Regent of the kingdom during
the minority of her Majesty the Queen Donna Isabel 11.,
and in conformity with the opinion of the Council of
Ministers, have thought it convenient to decree '1"- •
following :

" Art. 1. The coast of Cantabria is def'2.area in a state
of blockade from Castrourdiates aria'uentarabia, ex-
cluding these two outports, and thine of Guetaria. St.
Sebastian, and Parages. ,
" Art. 2. All vessels infringing this order shall be
subject to the penalties established by the maritime laws
universally adopted in circumstances similar to the pre-
sent, and by measures now in force on the subject,
" Art. 3. For the due enforcement of this decree, the
requisite ships of war will be immediately despatched to
the coast of Cantabria to prevent 411 communication by
sea with the revolters.

" Art. 4. This &aro will be forwarded to the Diplo-
matic and Consular Agents of her Majesty by the Chief
Dlinisters of State, in order that due publicity may every
where be given, so that none may allege ignorance as the
ground of excme,;— This blockade, will be in force
from the ;La inst.

Art. 5. The MiAlger of Marine *lll issue such orders
and instnmtitans as will ensttre the due fulfilment of this
4eppep,

" I communicate the present to you by order of his
Highness that you may give it due publicity in England.
" The Lord preserve you many years.
(Signed) " ANTONIA GONZALEZ.
14 To the Consul-General of Spain in London.
The Regent of the kingdom approving the opinion of
the Council of Ministers has been pleased to determine
that in the fulfilment of the decree of yesterday's date
respecting the blockade of the Coast of Cantabria, the
following explanations are to be strictly attended-to.
Ist. All foreign ships lying at anchor in ports com-
prised 'within the line of coast, blockaded at the date
trent which the decree of the 17th inst. is to be in force,
are not comprehended in the Ist article of the instruc-
tions, and may sail freely from such ports to those for
which they are bound.
2d. All foreign ships bound to blockaded ports after the
blockade has been established, and being unaware of this
circumstance, are not liable to any penalty unless they
are duly warned of it even if they should enter the same.
3d. Foreign vessels, being warned that they cannot enter
a blockaded port, can put into any other port of Spain;
but in such case they will_ not be allowed to unload any
prohibited article.
I communicate the foregoing to you by order of his
Highness for your guidance and compliance therewith.
The Lord preserve you many years.
Madrid, Oct, 19, 1941. (Signed) CAMBA.

THE LATE FIRE AT THE TOWER.
During Tuesday a greater number of the nobility and
gentry visited the ruins of the Armoury than on any
previous occasion. Among other valuable articles re-
moved on Tuesday were six of the eight brass guns
taken at Waterloo.
At ten o'clock, pursuant to the orders of Col.
Aitcheson, the whole of the Ist battalion of Fusilier
Guards, quartered within the Tower, assembled on the
parade for the purpose of having read to them official
commendations of the conduct of the military within
the Tower during the night of the fire.
On the assembling of the troops, with all the officers,
consisting of Colonel Eden, Captain Walker, Captain
Davis, Captain De Salis, Lieutenant the Hon. James
Murray, Lieutenant the Hon. James Duncan, Esq ,
Lleutenant-Colonel the Honourable Berkeley Drum-
mond observed, that it was with great pleasure he had
the honour to communicate to the officers and soldiers
of the battalion the following testimonials of approba-
tion from their Sovereign, and other high authorities,
of their conduct on the night of the late fire, and which
he was directed by the Commandant to lay before
them. The Hon. Gentleman concluded by reading
the correspondence.
The reading of tho communications appeared to give
great satisfaction to the officers and men, and the pro-
ceeding had scarcely concluded when the announcement
was made at the Tower that her Majesty had given birth
to a Prince, which appeared to afford greater gratifica-
tion, and within a few minutes the Royal standard was
floating from the summit of the battlements of the
White Tower.
At four o'clock the Warders, pursuant to an ancient
custom on the birth of n Prince, assembled in their
Hall, near the Spur Gate, and the head Warder filled
from a silver punchbowl of great antiquity to every per-
son who chose to partake of it, a glass to drink the
toast of " Health to the Queen and long life to the
Prince of Wales."
At 10 o clock on Wednesday, pursuant to the re-
quest of the Duke of Wellington, the Constable of the
Tower, the entire garrison, comprising the Ist battalion
of Scots Fusilier Guards, a company of the Royal Ar-
tillery, together with the whole of the Wardens and
other authorities, were under arms and assembled on
the parade for the purpose of hearing read by the Com-
mandant, Major Elrington, further communications
which he had received from his Grace, inclosing others
from the Secretary of State for the Home Department,
in reference to the late fire.
Major Elrington was accompanied by Colonel Aitchi-
son, Colunel Eden, Captain Davis, Captain Bathurst,
Captain Macbean, R.A.,Captain Hamilton, Major Gage,
Captain De Salis, Lieut. the Hon. J. Murray, Lieut.
the Hon. H. Duncan, &c. He said he had received
the commands of his Grace the Duke of. Wellington to
lay before the officers and soldiers composing
the garri-
son of that fortress the following communications, which,
he could assure them, gave him infinite pleasure. Toe
Gallant Major then read the following :
" London, Nov. 6, 1841. At Night.
" Sir—l inclose the copy of a letter from Sir James
Graham, Secretary of State for the Horne Department,
in answer to my letter conveying your report of the con-
duct of the troops in garrison, and of the warders of the
Tower, on the occasion of the late fire at the Tower.
" I have great pleasure in communicating to you this
testimony of her Majesty's most gracious approbation of
their services ; and I beg you to publish in the orders of
the garrison a copy of the inclosed letter from the Secre-
tary of State.-1 have the honour to be, Sir, your most
faithful and obedient bumble servant.
" WELLINGTON.
" Major Elrington, Tower of London."
" Since I wrote this letter, I have received the In-
closed of this day from Sir James Graham :
" Whitehall, Nov. 4, 1841.
eMy Lord Duke—l have the honour to acknow-
ledge the receipt of various reports transmitted to me
by your Grace, from the officer in command of the
Tower, detailing the conduct of the garrison and war-
ders on the occasion of the late fire.
" I have laid these reports before her Majesty, and
the Queen has been graciously pleased to command me
to make known to your Grace her Majesty's high ap
probation of the faithful service of the officers, troops,
and warders, who wete on duty during the fire ; and her
Majesty desires that your Grace will notify to them this
expression of her approbation.
(Signed)
"JAMES GRAHAM."

" Whitehall, Nov. 6, 1841.

"My Lord Duke—l have the honour to acknowledge
the receipt of your Grace's letter of the sth instant, in-
closing a further report from Major Elrington, the offi-
cer commanding in the Tower ; and I beg to acquaint
your Grace that I shall have great satisfaction in for-
warding to the General Commanding in Chief Major
Elrington's statement of the gallant conduct of Captain
Walker, Captain De Salis, and Captain Davis, the ad-
jutant of the first battalion Scots Fusilier Guards, dur-
ing the recent fire in the Tower.
(Signed) " JAMES GRAHAM.
" His Grace the Duke of Wellington."
The inquiry in the Ordnance department was still
proceeding throughout the day, relative to the origin of
the fire, as was also a military court of inquiry into the
alleged misconduct of the soldiery on the night of the
fire. Towards the close of the day the interruption to
the workmen, iu consequence of the large number of
visitors, was so great that the Ordnance authorities felt
it necessary to issue the following notice :
" The public are respectfully informed, that, in con-
sequence of the inconvenience occasioned by the admis-
sion of visitors within the hoard fence, to view the ruins
of the buildings destroyed by the late fire, the issue of
tickets for that purpose has for the present been alto-
gether discontinued.—By order of the Board,
" R. BYHAM, Secretary. •
" Office of Ordnance, Tower, Nov. 10."
Nothwithstanding the caution on the cards of admis-
sion to the ruins, that persons are not permitted to re-
ceive specimens, the ladies, in particular, paid no atten-
tion to it, and many ridiculous scenes took place at the
gates of the hoarding on their return, from the police
discovering that they appeared rather more bulky than
when they were admitted. A lady of rank was stopped
at the gate with a " whole battalion" of bayonets, a mus-
ket barrel, &c., under her arm, and in her pocket a large
iron knob, which she had mistaken for a cannon-ball,
but which proved to be one of the feet broken off an
Argot stove. The lady was politely informed that these
articles must not leave the Tower, and she reluctantly
gave them up, and entered her carriage in high dudgeon.
It was understood that several gentlemen who had their
pockets filled with the relics were taken into custody.
The whole of the engines have been withdrawn from
the ruins ; there, however, still remains a large quantity
of fire in some parts of the ruins.

XTRACT OF A LETTER FROM
RICHARD HOWITT.

AUSTRALIA FELIX, FEB. 14, 1841.
I wonder boa these new emigrants will like Austra-
lia-102 in the shade, as it has been this last week ;
there's a climate for you ? The whole country glowing
and glimmering like one furnace. Twice the bush has
been accidentally set on fire near us, and we and our
neighbourhood have had to thrash out the flaming grass
with green boughs. If fires are not almost immediately
discovered, the whole land is in flames—grass, bushes,
trees ; myriads of insects flittering about the fire and
smoke, with swallows, martins, magpies, crows, hovering
around to catch them. In a short time the country, in-
stead of a brown, is a blackened wilderness. Go where
you will there arc on the trees traces of fire. There are
also, on the trees, marks cut in them by the nar;-ves.
These I first saw in Van Diemen's Land, and •
was much
interested by them there—marks left
uy natives, who
had themselves disappeared
Wherever human 4.-
I love th,.
I lov'

.cot has been
iaintest mark to trace ;
to linger near the fire,
Extinct of any race.
Whatever lives of dark or bright
Is there with its intensest power—
Is with me in the open light,
And haunts me at the midnight hour;
The universal soul of song
Is round me spread, above, below :
All mysteries that to life belong—
Crowd on me wheresoe'er Igo.
So far, but no further with off-hand verse. Writing
.o ycu opens old fountains of the mind and heart, and
the waters of poesy gush forth. Very few poems have
I written in this alien country. One longish poem in
praise of the River Yarra, and a few others ; a sonnet
I will copy :
Blow from the Northern regions of the earth,
Etherial winds, one point from out the west :
Awake in me what fancy loves the best,
That ye come from the country of my birth.
Toss not in tempest, dance not in wild mirth,
But breathe of heaven calm, and home-felt rest—
Whatc'er has been, is fair, is unpossest.
0, dissipate this drearness and this dearth !
Death of the soul, both of the heart and mind!
Whence now may friendly converse ever flow ?
In this strange region friends where can I find
Sate flowers,God's blessings, from the earth which grow ?
Then from the Northern region breathe thou wind !
Shine from the North, thou sun—O shine and blow !
Now, is not this a complaining sonnet ? Sure enough
it is, and ought not to have been penned in this really
excellent country. What arc kindred, or friends, or
pleasant society, or books ? To have any longing after such
things,how silly ! You are now looking forward to spring,
that will be past ere this reaches you ; nor will the sea
son have been so pleasant in your sight as in my me-
mory. How vividly lives in me the consciousness of
such a time. The first swallow—the earliest cry of the
cuckoo—the sky all melody with skylarks—violas,
snowdrop?, primroses, but above all things the fresh-
springing, deep, and deliciously tender emerald grass ;
I see the head of the skylark just peeping above it, and
the cowslip nodding in the wind. You have many other
blessings that we have not ; you have winter, tax ga-
gatherers, poor-rate collectors, the great privilege of
building 20,0001. workhouses—povertyprisons for des-
titute wretches to thank God in. Remember to be es-
pecially thankful for these.

NON-ATTENDANCE OF MINISTERS ON THE
BIRTH OF THE PRINCE.—Much surprise has been ex-
cited that Sir James Graham, the Home Secretary, who
for the last three weeks had detained the messengers at
the Home-office during the whole night, should have
been one of the last persons in attendance at the Palace
on the recent interesting occasion. We believe it arose
in this way: his Royal Highness Prince Albert, on the
occasion of the birth of the Princess Royal, despatched
a messenger to Lord Melbourne, who was at that time
Premier, it having been understood between the Prince
and his Lordship, that he (Lord Melbourne) would un-
dertake to communicate the intelligence to the other
great officers of State. On the present occasion, his
Royal highness, either not understanding that Sir
James Graham was to be the person to -"vvhom the
information was to be forwarded, or having for-
gotten it, despatched a messenger only to Sir Robert
Peel. Sir Robert Peel, on the receipt of the Comm uni -
cation, immediately departed for the Palace, concluding
that the same messenger had left the necessary informa-
tion at the Home-office ; but on arriving at the Palace,
and finding no one there, and after waiting some short
time and no one arriving, he despatched a communica-
tion to the messengers in attendance at the Home-office,
that they might send for the rest of the Ministers, and
despatched his own private messenger, who was in at-
tendance at the Palace, to the private residence of Sir
J. Graham, who immediately made all possible de-
spatch, and reached the Palace only just in time. His
Grace the Duke of Wellington was just entering the
room as the. Royal infant was brought in. Lord Wharn-
cliffe, the President of the Council, was altogether
thrown out, and did not arrive in time.—Correspondent
of a Morning Paper.
MELANCHOLY SUICIDE.—On Wednesday
night an inquest has holden at the Royal Oak, Galway-
street, St. Luke's, before Mr. Baker, on view of the body
of Elizabeth Hobbs, aged forty-six, who hung herself
under the following painful circumstances :—lt appeared
that, about four months ago, the deceased, who occupied
the house, No. 40, Galway-street, was left a widow with
four children to support. Her husband died suddenly,
and an inquest was held upon his body. Since then she
had been most disconsolate. Last Saturday she made au
attempt to hang herself; after which she appeared to re-
pent it, and went twice to chapel the following day. On
Monday morning, about eight o'clock, she was found in
her bedroom, suspended by a piece of ribbon, quite dead.
She was spoken to by her sister only five minutes pre-
viously, and said she would be down at breakfast in a few
minutes. Verdict—Temporary insanity.
MELANCHOLY SUICIDE OP AN
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'Ce(oinruessvdaalylis,anSmolhuaeonis:pton-street, Penton-
wtlaies hotly
who cow of Mrs.
now,—uisOnofil
iietiipntattielaed
sam eEv
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Elizabeth
rie,olllll%lll,V a
agedk l ey, ,e
eighty,
(oilier-street,
self-
destruction. Matilda Hovvell
deceased's daughter, daanudg httheart,
hseari said ttlh'i 01;ihvee8d,
er
house. She had an independent income of 170/. a year,
which was left by her husband, who was a cabinet-
, maker. Last Friday forenoon, about eleven o'clock, wit-
ness
deceased's room.
ranlni nmo.cllNi.iintgenx,evillsiasiicehmnitanupgpp ehtaehria.estdo tnoilpv
ril; 00c eed from dr
alarmed them by mimomtheedriathead
hung herself. Witness found that she was suspended
by a piece of tape, which was attached to a staple,
and from which she instantly cut deceased, who was
nearly cold. She never showed any symptoms
of a deranged mind. Saw deceased on the pre-
vious night, when she was in her usual spirits. Had
heard her express her fears that she would come to
poverty, and she has observed that she would sooner de-
stroy herself than end her days in a workhouse. The
Coroner observed that he had held many inquests lately
upon persons who were living upon their independent
property, and who had expressed their fears that they
would come to a workhuse. A person having such a
be-
lief evidently showed a disorder of the intellectual f acu 1
ties. Verdict—Temporary Insanity.
THE THAMES STEAM•BOAT COMPETI-
TIoN.—The annual meeting of the
Diamond Steam Company
was•hleild
rarren, the principal
Gravesend, on Wednesday, Dr: detailed furnished
Director, in the chair. The facts
Shareholders
eoldlorws no!litahl le,
f
competition in the river.
some curious illustrations oAfterfththe
ruinouspreliminary
effects
busi-
ness ohad been despatched, the annual
of the meeting.
the boats of the Company
past year
report was read, from which
lutdetarh that
carried
duirtigatrhdes
of 255,000 passengers, tbheeintogta2lo,r4e3ceoipt ts,Tinhceluadmitoigunsutm
ofs
profits earned paid by the
duringstevc'ar
the past year was only 690/. whilst,
to pay a,divu end of five per cent. 2,6001. would be re-
quired.
FACTORY INFORMATIONS.—Mr. Beal, super-
intendant, laid complaints at Bacup, on the 4th inst.,