The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-24 00:00:00

CHRISTMAS IN FRANCONIA.

J. Bcemus Aubanus tells us that in Franconia,
on the three Thursday nights preceding the na-
tivity of our Lord, it is customary for the youth
of both sexes to go from house to house, knock-
ing at the doors, singing their Christmas carols,
and wishing a happy new year. They get, in
return, at the houses they stop at, pears, apples,
nuts, and money. Little troops of boys and girls
still go about in this very manner at Newcastle-
upon-Tyne, and other places in the north of Eng-
land on the eve of Christmass-day, and on that
day itself.

CHRISTMAS IN ENGLAND.

England is merry England when
Old Christmas brings his sports again,
'Tis Christmas broaches mightiest ale,
'Tis Christmas tells the merriest tale.
A Christmas gambol oft will cheer
A poor man's heart through half the year.
SIR WALTER SCOTT.

CHRISTMAS CAROLS.—CaroI is said to be de-
rived from Cantare, to sing, and rola, an inter-
jection of joy. The song of the angels was the
first carol, and anciently bishops carollod among
their clergy at Christmas. An old sheet of
Christmas Carols headed, " Christus natus est,"
" Christ is born," has a picture of the nativity,
with our Saviour at Bethlehem, surrounded by a
sheep bleating, an ox lowing, a raven croaking,
a crow cawing, a cock crowing, and angels sing-
ing, in the sky. The following colloquy passes
between them. The cock croweth Christus
natus est, Christ is born. The raven asks,
Quando? When? The crow replieth, Hac
nocte, This night. The ox crieth out, Übi?
Übi? Where? where ? The sheep bleated out,
Bethlehem, Bethlehem. A voice from heaven
sounds "Gloria in excelsis," Glory be on high,
and the angels join in full chorus.

THE YULE-LOG OR CHRISTMAS-BLOCK.—The
Yule-log is that immense log of wood which
was put upon the fire on Christmas-day, a
custom which is still observed in the county of
Lincoln. The yule-log seems as old as the
Cyclops of Euripides. The size of these logs of
wood, which were in fact great trees, may be
collected from the fact that in the time of the
civil wars of the last century, Captain Hosier of
the Berwick family, burnt the house of Mr.
Barker, of Haghmond Abbey, near Shrewsbury,
by setting fire to the yule-log.
THE FEAST OF LlGHTS.—Christmas, says
Blount, was called the Feast .of Lights in the
Western or Latin Church, because they used
many lights or candles at the feast, or rather
because Christ, the Light of all lights, then
came into the world. Hence the Christmas
candle, and what was its succedaneum, the yule-
block, before candles were in general use. A
large coal is often set aside at present in the
North for the same purpose.
MUMMING.—This is another Christmas custom.
This festive sport consists in changing clothes
between men and women, who when dressed in
each others' habits, go from one neighbour's
house to another, partaking of Christmas cheer,
and making merry with them in disguise.
HAGMENA.---It is ordinary in some parts of
Scotland to go about from door to door at
Christmas, crying out Hagmena, a corrupted
word from the Greek ayicz e. the Holy
Month. John Dixon, holding fbrth against this
custom once in a sermon at Kelso, says, " Sirs,
do you know what Hagmane signifies? It is,
the Devil be in the house !' that's the meaning
of its Hebrew original."
Another Presbyter preaching against the ob-
servance of Christmas, said, " Ye will say, Sirs,
good old Yule-day : I tell you, good old Fool-
day. You will say, it is a brave holiday : I tell
you, it is a brave belly-day."
CHRISTMAS PRESENTS.—The number of basket*
that enter London at this season is astonishing :
exclusive of those for sale, the number and
weight of turkies only would surpass belief.
From an historical account of Norwich it appears
that between Saturday morning and the night of
Sunday, Dec. 22, 1798, one thousand seven hun-
dred turkies, weighing 9 tons, 2 cwt. 21bs., value
6801., were sent from Norwich to London ; and
two days after, half as many more.
DEVOUT OXEN.—According to Mr. Brand 44 a
superstitious notion prevails in the western parts
of Devonshire that at twelve o'clock at night on
Christmas-eve, the oxen in their stalls are
always found on their knees, as in the attitude
of devotion ; and that, which is more singular,
since the alteration of the style, they continue
to do this only on the eve of old Christmas-day.
An honest countryman, living on the edge of
St. Stephen's Down, near Launceston, Cornwall,
informed me, Oct. 28, 1790 (says the same au-
thority), that he once, and some others, made a
trial of the, truth of the above, and watching se-
veral oxen in their stalls at the above time, at
twelve o'clock at night, they observed the two
oldest oxen only fall upon their knees, and, as
he expressed it in the idiom of the country,
" make a cruel moan like Christian creatures."
He seemed to" marvel at my unbelief."

CHRISTMAS IN THE COURTS OF LAW,

There were anciently great doings in the halls
of the Inns of Court at Christmas time. At the
Inner Temple, early in the morning, the gentle-
men of the Inn went to church, and, after the
service they did " presently repair into the hall

to breakfast with brawn, mustard, and malmsey.'
At the first course at dinner, was " served in, a'
a fair:and large Bore's head, upon a silver plat-
ter, with minstralsaye," says Dugdale.
This custom is still observed at Queen's Col-
lege, Oxford, and tradition represents this usage
as a commemoration of an act of valour per-
formed by a student of the College, who, while
walking in the neighbouring forest of Shotover,
and reading Aristotle, was suddenly attacked by
a wild boar. The furious beast came open-
mouthed upon the youth, who, however, very
courageously, and with a happy presence of
mind, is said to have "rammed in the volume,"
and cried, Grcecum est, fairly choking the savage
with the sage.

noUnshed says, that in the year 1170, on the
day of the young Prince's coronation, King
Henry 11., " served his son at the table as
sewer, bringing up the Bore's head, with trum-
pets before it, according to the manner.

THE SHIPS EREBUS and TERROR.
Extracts of a Despatch from Captain James Ross, of her
Majesty's ship Erebus, dated Van Diemen's Land,
April 7, 1841, and addressed to the Secretary of the
Admiralty :
I have the honour to acquaint you with the arrival of
her Majesty's ship under my command, and the Terror,
under my orders, this afternoon at this port.
I have further to report to you, for the information of
my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, that in ac-
cordance with the intentions expressed in my despatch
to you, - dated from Hobart Town on the 11th of Nov.
last, I proceeded to Auckland Islands, and satisfactorily
accomplished a complete series of magnetemetric ob-
servations cn the important term-day of November last.
Under all the circumstances, it appeared to me that it
would conduce more to the advancement of that branch of
science for which the expedition has been more expressly
sent forth, as well as for the extension of our geo-
graphical knowledge of the Antarctic regions, to en-
deavour to penetrate to the southward, or about the
170th degree of east longitude, by which the isodynamic
oval, and the point exactly between the two foci of
greater magnetic intensity, might be passed over and
determined, and directly between the tracks of the Rus-
sian navigator Bellinghausen and our own Capt. James
Cook; and after entering the Antarctic Circle, to steer
S. W. towards the Pole, rather than attempt to approach
it directly. from the north, on the unsuccessful footsteps
of my predecessors.
Accordingly, on'leaving Auckland Islands ion.ehe 12th
December, we proceeded to the southward, touching for
a few days at Campbell Island fur magnetic purposes
and, alter passing among many icebergs to the southward
of 63 deg. latitude, we made the Pack Edge, and entered
the Antarctic Circle on the Ist day of January, 1841.
This pack presented none of those formidable charac-
ters which I had been led to expect from the accounts
of the Americans and French ; but the circumstances
were sufficiently unfavourable to deter me from entering
it at this time, and a gale from the northward inter-
rupted
our operations for three or four days. On the
sth January we again made the pack, about 100 miles
to the eastward, in latitude 66 deg. 45 min. south, and
longitute 174 deg. 16 min. east, and although the wind
was blowing directly on it, with a high sea running, we
succeeded in entering in it without either of the ships
sustaining any injury, and, after penetrating a few
miles, we were enabled to make our way to the south-
ward with comparative ease and safety.
On the following three or four days our progress was
rendered more difficult and tedious by thick fogs, light
winds, a heavy swell, and almost constant snow show-
ers ; but a strong water-sky to the S.E., which was seen
at every interval of clear weather, encouraged us to per-
severe in that direction, and on the morning of the 9th,
after sailing more than 200 miles through this pack, we
gained a perfectly clear sea, and bore away S.W. towards
the Magnetic Pole.
On the morning of the 11th January, when in latitude
70 deg. 41 min. South, and longitude 172 deg. 36 ruin.,
land was discovered at the distance, as it afterwards
proved, of nearly 100 miles, directly in the course we
were steering, and therefore directly between us and
the Pole.

Although this circumstance was viewed at the time
with considerable regret, as being likely to defeat one of
the more important objects of the expedition, yet it re-
stored to England the honour of the discovery of the
southernmost known land, which had been nobly won,
and for more than twenty years possessed, by Russia.
Continuing our course towards this land for many
hours, we seemed scarcely to approach it. It rose in
lofty mountain peaks of from 9,000 to 12,000 feet in
height, perfectly covered with eternal snow; theglaciers
that descended from near the mountain summits, pro-
jected many miles into the ocean, and presented a per-
pendicular face of lofty cliffs. As we neared the land,
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ing, we found the shore so thickly lined for some miles
with bergs and pack-ice, and with a heavy swell dash-
ing against it, we were obliged to abandon our purpose
and steer towards a more promising looking point to the
S.E., off which we observed several small islands ; and
on the morning of the 12th I landed, accompanied by
Commander Crozier and a number of the officers of each
ship, and took possession of the country in the name of
her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria.
The island on which we landed is composed wholly of
igneous rocks, numerous specimens of which, with other
imbedded minerals; were procured. It is in latitude
71 deg. 56 min. S., and longitude 171 deg. 7 min. E.
Observing that the east coast of the mainland tended
to the southward, whilst the north shore took a N.W.
I direction, I was led to hope that, by penetrating to the
south as far as practicable, it might be possible to pass
beyond the Magnetic Pole, which our combined obser-
vations placed in 76 deg. S. nearly, and thence, by steer-
ing westward, complete its circumnavigation. We ac-
cordingly pursued our course along
this mag,nifieent land,
and on the 23d January we reached 74 deg. 15 min. S.,
the highest southern latitude that had ever been attained
by any preceding navigators, and that by our own coun-
tryman, Captain James Weddell.
Although greatly impeded by strong southerly gales,
thick fogs, and constant snow-storms, we continued the
examination of the coast to the southward, and on the
27th we again landed on an island in latitude 76 deg.
8 min. S., 168 deg. 12 min. E., composed, as on the for-
mer occasion, entirely of igneous rocks.
Still steering to the southward, early the next morn-
ing, the 28th, a mountain of 12,400 feet above the level
of the sea was seen, emitting flame and smoke in splendid
profusion. This magnificent volcano received the name
of Mount Erebus. It is in latitude 77 deg. 32 min. S.,
and longitude 167 deg. E.
an extinct crater to the east-
ward of Mount Erebus, of a somewhat less elevation, was
called Mount Terror. The mainland preserved its
southerly tending, and we continued to follow it, until,
in the afternoon, when close in with the land, our farther
progress in that direction was prevented by a barrier of
ice stretching away from a projecting cape of the coast
directlyT his
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the E .S. E
barrier presented a r
.
face of at least 150 feet, rising, of course, far above the
mast-heads of our ships, and completely concealing from
our view everything beyond it, except only the tops of a
range of very lofty mountains in a S.S.E. direction, and
in latitude 79 deg. a

Pursuing the examination of this splendid barrier to
the eastward, we reached the latitude of 78 deg. 4 min.
S., the highest we were at any time able to attain, on the
2d February, and on the 9th, having traced its continuity
to the longitude of 191 deg. 23 min. in latitude 78 deg.
S., a distance of more than 300 miles, our farther pro-
gress was prevented by a heavy pack, pressed closely
against the barrier; and the narrow lane of water by
means of which we had penetrated thus far, became so
completely covered by rapidly forming ice, that nothing
but the strong breeze with which we were favoured
enabled us to retrace our steps.
When at a distance of less than half a mile from its
lofty icy cliffs, we had soundings with 318 fathoms, on
a bed of soft blue mud.

- With a temperature of 20 deg. below the freezing
point, we found the ice to form so rapidly on the sur-
face, that any farther examination of the barrier in so
extremely severe a period of the season being impracti-
cable, we stood away to the westward, for the purpose
of making another attempt to approach the Magnetic
Pole, and again reached its latitude (76 deg. S.) on the
15th February; and although we found that much of the
heavy ice had drifted away since our former attempt,
and its place in a great measure supplied by recently
formed ice, yet we made some way through it, and got a
few miles nearer the Pole than we had before been able
to accomplish, when the heavy pack again frustrated all
our efforts, completely filling the space of 15 or 16 miles
between us and the shore. We were this time in latitude
76 deg. 12 min. S., and longitude 164 deg., the dip being
88.40, and variation 109.24 E. We were, of course, only
160 miles from the Pole.

Had it been possible to .approach any part of this
coast, and have found tiny place of security for the ships,
we might have travelled this short distance over the land;
but this proved to be utterly impracticable ; and although
our hopes of complete attainment have not been realized,
it is some satisfaction to feel assured that we have ap-
proached the Pole more nearly, by some hundred miles,
than any of our predecessors ; and from the multitude
of observations that have been made in both ships, and
in so many different directions from it, its position can
accuracy as if we
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It had ever been an object of anxious desire with us
to find a harbour for the ships, so as to enable us to
make simultaneous observations with the numerous ob-
servatories that would be at work on the important
term-day of the 28th of February, as well as for other
scientific purposes ; but every part of the coast where
indentations appeared, and where harbours on other shores
usually occur, we found so perfectly filled with perennial
`ice, of many hundred feet in thickness, that all our en-
deavours to find a place of shelter for our vessels were
quite unavailing.
Having now completed all that it appeared to me
possible to accomplish in so high a latitude, and at so
advanced a period of the season, and desirous to obtain
as much information as possible of the extent and form
of the coast we had discovered, as also to guide in some
February, for the north part of this land, and which, by
measure our future operations, I bore away, on the 18th
favour of a strollg southerly gale, Ave reached on the
morning of the 2t. '
We again endeavoured to effect a landing on this part
of the coast, and were again defeated in our attempt by
the heavy pack, which extended for many miles from
the shore, and rendered it impossible.
For several days we continued to examine the coast
to the westward, tracing the pack-edge along, until, on
the 25th February, we found the land abruptly to ter-
minate in latitude 70 deg. 40 min. S., and longitude 1.65
deg. E., tending considerably to the southward of west,
and presenting to our view an immense space occupied 'by
Ia dense pack, now so firmly cemented together by tie
newly-formed ice, and so covered by recent snow, as V

present the appearance of one unbroken mass, and defy •
ing every attempt to penetrate it.
The great southern land we have discovered, whose
continuity we have traced from nearly the 70th to the
79th degree of latitude, I am desirous to distinguish by
the name of our Most Gracious 'Majesty Queen Victoria.
Following the edge of the pack to the N.W. as wea-
ther permitted, we found it to occupy the whole space
between the N.V. shore of the great southern land and
the chain of islands lying near the Antarctic. Circle,
first discovered by Balleny in 1839, and_more extensively
explored by the American and French expeditions in the
following year.
Continuing our course to the westward, we approached
the place where Professor Gauss supposed the Magnetic
Pole to be, and having obtained all the observations that
were necessary to prove the inaccuracy of that supposi-
tion, we devoted some days to the investigation of the
line of no variation ; and having completed a series of
observations, by which the isodynamic lines and point
of greater magnetic intensity may be determined, and
which I had left incomplete last year, I bore away on
the 4th of April for this port.
A chart, showing more plainly the discoveries and
track of the expedition, is herewith transmitted ; and a
more detailed plan, containing all magnetic determina -
tion, shall be sent as soon as they are reduced.

I have much satisfaction in being able to add that the
service has been accomplished without the occurrence
of any casualty, calamity, or disease of any kind, and
there is not a single individual in either of the ships on
the sick list.

It affords me the highest gratification to acquaint you,
that I have received the most cordial and efficient co-
operation from my well-tried friend and colleague Com-
mander Crozier, of the Terror, and no terms of admira-

tion that I can employ can do justice to his great merit;
nor have the zeal and persevering devotion of the offi-
cers of both ships been less conspicuous, under circum-
stances of no ordinary trial and difficulty ; and whilst
the conduct of our crews has been such as to reflect the
highest honour on their characters as British sailors, it
has given to myself, Commander Crozier, and the officers
of the expedition, the most confident assurance of more
extended success in pursuing the important duties we
have yet to fulfil.

HORRIBLE MURDER.
(Abridged from the Dublin Pilot of Wednesday.)
The inhabitants of the neighbourhood of Upper Bag-
got-street and Pembroke-road were on Monday evening
thrown into a state of the greatest excitement arid alarm,
in consequence of the discovery of a shocking murder,
which took place between six and seven o'clock on that
evening. It was perpetrated in a stable-lane at the rear
of Pembroke-road. The unfortunate victim is a boy,
apparently between ten and eleven years of age ; and,
judging from the apparel which covered the body at the
time it was discovered, he evidently belonged to an hum-
ble class of society. He was however, a fine handsome boy,
with curly hair of a light colour. Although crowds of
persons visited the body yesterday, no person recognised
it. The throat was cut from ear to ear, and a large con-
tused wound on his forehead. Inspectors Finnamore,
Carmody, and Durham, are very active in their exertions
to trace the murderer ; and a person named John Dela-
hunt is in custody, on suspicion of being concerned in the
foul deed. It must be recollected that this person was
one of the witnesses against Cooney, the tinker, who
was tried for the murder of the Italian. He swore that
he saw the murder committed ; but his statement
was not credited at the time. He is a young man about
twenty years of age.
On Tuesday, at one o'clock, Dr. M'Carthy, County
Coroner, with the Jury, assembled at Mr. Fleming's, in
Upper Baggot-street, and proeeeded with

THE INQUEST.
The first witness produced was Elizabeth Waters, who
resides in the stable-lane at the end of Pembroke-road.
She stated that she was called on by her two children in
the evening ; they told her a child was dead at Miss
Brady's gate in the lane ; she then went to the place
described, and found a boy lying dead there ; did not
then examine the boy, but she saw the boy's throat cut
afterwards ;.there was blood on his clothes, and on the
road about his body a good deal ; did not know the de-
ceased boy.
John Delahunt was then called, and the Coroner told
him he was at present a witness, although in custody.
He need not answer any questions which might tend to
his own crimination. There never was, with the excep-
tion of that of the Italian boy, a more horrid murder
than this committed in this country, and he hoped the
guilty party would be discovered. Delahunt then stated
as follows:—I live in Eastmorland-place. There is no
number on the house. I was in a field outside the wall
while the murder was committing.
CORONER—Was it committed by a man or woman?
Witness—By a woman. I heard no noise, nor did I
hear the child cry. The hour was between five and six
o'clock. I saw the woman. She wore a large plaid
shawl, red and green colour, and white plain cap and
dark gown. She was from 18 to 20, or from that to 30
years of age. I could not see the coloumt of her hair, but
what I did see of it was black. I did not hear the woman
speak. I was at Mr. Clarke's, in Baggot•street, with a
letter, and was coming from that when I first saw the
woman and the boy.
To a Juror—l got the letter from a woman, but I.
don't know who she was. I dropped the letter in Mr.
Clarke's box.

By the Coroner—l saw the woman and the boy coming
from Baggot-street towards the Bridge. The woman
was beating the boy on the neck, and he was crying. She
bid the child go on. He was in his bare feet, and seemed
to be cold. I was in view of the woman to the end of
Eastmorland-lane, and saw her go down the stable-lane.
Juror—What did you do after you saw the woman
commit murder ? Did you call for the polio ?
Witness—l returned back and went out of a gap.. I
did not go back near the child. There is no lamp in the
lane. I did not pursue the woman. I did not know if
the child was dead at the time, but I knew something.
had been done to it. I made as much haste as I could
then to Mr. Barrett, of the Castle-yard, and told him
the story.
Juror—What did you tell him particularly. Witness
—I told him she cut the throat of the child ; I told him
she then threw the child from her, but I did not know
what she did with it ; he asked me if the child was dead,
I said I did not know ; I did not mention to Mr. Bar-
rett any thing about a knife ; Mr. Barrett went into
Major Brown's house, and then he came with me to Lad-
lane, and Inspector Carmody was sent with me.
The witness was then removed in custody.
The Jury requested that a medical gentleman should
examine Delahunt's foot, and see if it was sore, as
stated. Surgeon Fox, who was present, did so, and
stated that Delahunt had a sore heel, but not of such a
nature as to impede his walking or running.
Eliza Weldon, a girl about fifteen years of age, stated
that she saw Delahunt last (Monday) night, about eight
o'clock, and heard Delahunt's mother say he was gone
home with a stray child. Heard Delahunti say he left
the child in some street, and that the child found its
way home.
A Juror—You heard him say that ? Witness—Yes,
I did ; he said when hecame to the corner of a street that
it found its way home ' • this was before he said he was
going to take tea with Mr. Barrett.
Eliza Mason, a more intelligent child, about thirteen
years of age, stated that she saw John Delahunt on Mon-
day evening, about six o'clock, on the road in Upper
Baggot-street; he had a little boy with him—(Sensa-
tion)—the boy was a round-faced pretty little boy ; she
saw the murdered boy, but did not think it was the boy
she saw the night before ; this (a cap) is the very same
as the boy had on last (Monday) night.
_ _

Mary :Delahunt, of 9, Eastinorland-place, sistcr of the
prisoner, was the next witness. She corroborated in
every particular the evidence of the girl Mason.
Thomas Delahunt, brother to the prisoner, stated that
the prisoner on the night had a little strange boy with
him at the time. The child was about nine or ten years
of age. The child, in reply to the wife of witness, said
his name was Tom M‘Guire. The witness described
the child's dress, and the prisoner said he took the child
to leave it in Buckingham-street.
Juror—Did you see the child again ? Witness—l
did ; I was brought down to see it now ; and, to the best
of my opinion, it is the same child • the prisoner told wit-
ness that he left the child in dumberland-street, and
that it then knew the way home.
The wife of the last witness was then produced, and
corroborated his evidence. She appeared greatly affect-
ed, but identified the child most positively as that which
she saw in her room with the prisoner.
On the conclusion of the evidence, Delahunt being
called, the Jury brought in a verdict of " Wilful mur-
der" against him, John Delahunt, for the murder of
Thomas Maguire. He was then committed to Kilmain
ham, under the Coroner's warrant, to stand his trial.

DANNEEER'S ARIA DNE.— A Correspondent
has furnished us with an account of the manner in which
at Mr. Gebruder Bethmann's (or Bateman's, as English
residents call him) at Frankfort, this exquisite statue is
viewed by visitors. Mr. Bethmann's museum is situated
on the ramparts, and in an -adapt' room at the end of
his hall, the Ariadne reclining on a Panther's back, is
discovered in the middle of the floor, upon a pedestal of
grey stone. The Keeper of the Museum turns outside a
wheel, by means of which the pedestal revolves slowly
round, to enable the company to see the statue on every
side without leaving-their seats. When the pedestal has
resumed its place, the man touches a spring, and a win-
dow, exactly to fit the one by which the room receives
its light, flies up, covered with stained glass of a soft
flesh-coloured hue, so that the white Ariadne is now a
naked nymph, fresh, and as living flesh itself before you,
The groupe turns round once more, and you have seen a
composition alone worth while to go up the Rhine to"
Frankfort for. The keeper sells a tolerably good litho-
graphic print of the Ariadne, which everyone buys to
carry home as a memento of Danneker's celebrated work.
AWFUL OCCURRENCE.—One of those lament-
able and fatal instances of allowing coke or charcoal to
burn in a bed-room, occurred at the Court of Requests-
office, Shelton, on Saturday night. The apartment
which was the dormitory of the old couple who had
charge of the premises, is very small, and without
chimney or ventilator. On retiring to rest the old
people put some cinders in a pan, to supply warmth,
ignorant of the deleterious nature of the gas evolved,
even when ventilated ; and this was more so, because
the place had been some months shut up, of course was
damp, and had been recently whitewashed, with the
other pail of the premises. When a person went to the
place next Ilion-ling, no answer being given, he forced
an entry, and gave an alarm. The •old man was dead,
and had been so some hours ; the old woman was alive,
but expired about eight o'clock. A Coroner's inquest
was held on Monday, when a verdict of " Died by in-
haling sulphurous gas, while asleep," was returned.—
Staffordshire Gazette.
The Duke of Wurtemburg (widower of the Prin-
cess Mary of Orleans) and sister arrived at Brussels on
Tuesday, by the iron railway, and proceeded in a Royal
carriage, which was waiting for them, to the Palace,
where their Majesties received him.