The Sun.
London, England, 1847-12-29 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, IVEDNESDAV EVENING, DI4iICIOIBER 291 1847.

111••••••••=sr me.
THE NEBULA OF ORION
RESOLVED.
The eighth annual meeting of the American Asso-
ciation of Geologists and Naturalists has been held at
Boston, and been attended by a large number of
scientific men from all parts of the Union. The fol-
lowing letter from Mr. Bond to President Everett,
of Harvard University, announcing the resolution of
the nebula of Orion by its means, and communicated
to the association, is worth adding to the particulars
which have already been given of this Transatlantic
marvel :—" You will rejoice with me that the great
nebula of Orion has yielded to the power
of our incomparable telescope. This morn-
ing (the 22d of September) the atmo-
sphere being in a favourable condition at about
three o'clock, the telescope was set upon the Trape-
zium in the great nebula of Orion. Under a power
of 200, the fifth star was immediately conspicuous ;
but our attention was immediately absorbed with the
splendid revelations made in its immediate neigh-
bourhood This part of the nebula was resolved
into bright points of light, The number of
stars were too great to attempt counting them;
many were, however, readily located and
mapped. The double character of the brightest
star in the Trapezium was readily recognised
with a power of 600. This is Sturve's sixth
star;' and certain of the stars composing the nebula
ere seen as double stars under the power. It should
be borne in mind that this nebula and that of Andro-
meda, have been the last stronghold of the nebular
theory ; that is, of the idea first thrown out by the
elder Herschel, of masses of nebulous matter in pro-
cess of condensation into systems. The nebula in
Orion yielded not to the unrivalled skill of both the
Herschela, armed with their excellent reflectors. It
even defied the power of Lord Rosse's three-foot
mirrors, giving not the slightest trace of resolv-
ability,' or separation into a number of single sparkling
points. And even when, for the first time Lord Rosse's
grand reflector, of six foot speculum, was directed to
this object, not the veriest trace of a star was to be
seen.' Subsequently his Lordship communicated the
result of his further examination of Orion as follows:
—' I think I may safely say that there can be little,
if any, doubt as to the resolvability of the nebula.
We could plainly see that all about the Trapezium is
a mass of stars, the rest of the nebula also abounding
in stars, and exhibiting the characteristics of re-
solvability strongly marked.' This has hitherto been
considered as the greatest effort of thelargest re-
flecting telescope in the world, and this our own
telescope has accomplished."

THE ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL.
PAINLESS OPERATIONS.
We were yesterday invited to witness some opera-
tions at the Royal Free Hospital, Gray's Inn-road,
for the purpose of testing the comparative merits of
chloroform and ether vapour. Considerable interest
of one of the operations never having been performed
before, namely, the removal of a diseased os calcis and
astragulus, the bones which form the heel portion of
the foot. Mr. Thomas Wakley, jun., was the opera-
tor in all the cases, and the ansesthetical agents were
administered by Mr. Robinson, of Gower-street,
with his newly-invented apparatus. The first
case was one of strabismus, or squinting, in
which the cure is effected by the division of cer-
tain muscles of the eye. The patient readily
inhaled the chloroform, and after some spasmodic
twitching of the limbs a state of coma was pro-
duced, and he remained perfectly passive and quies-
cent under the hands of the operator. The lower
eye-lid was now drawn down, two or three slight
cuts were made with the knife, and in half a minute
the operation was over, the value of the chloroform
in this case being shown by the complete insensibility
of the eye, and the facility which it consequently
afforded to the surgeon in making the necessary in-
cisions. A little cold water sprinkled over the
patient's face revived him immediately, and-he walked
away apparently doubtful if the operation had been
performed. The next case in which the chloroform
was also exhibited was the excision of a large fatty
tumour from the shoulder-blade. In this case
the patient, a female, was very much excited,
and, after two or three inhalations, vehe-
mently protested against the operation being pro-
ceeded with. This was partly owing to nervous
irritability, and partly to having a short time previ-
ously taken some brandy, which had been injudi-
ciously gives to her to sustain her courage. She then
became sick, which appeared to relieve her, and Mr.
Robinson having expl tined the object with which the
ohloroform was administered, and what its effects
would be, she expressed her willingness to try it
again, and after inhaling for three or four minutes she
became insensible. The tumour was now very dex-
terously and rapidly removed by Mr. Wakley, not
more than half an ounce of blood having been lost,
and the patient was then allowed to recover gradually.
She was profuse in her expressions of gratitude, com-
plained of lassitude, expressed a wish to lie down, and
was removed to one of the hospital beds. On question-
ing her shortly afterwards she appeared quite uncon-
scious that the tumour had been removed—she felt no
pain, but complained of weakness and depression of
spirits. She also stated that she was frighstueneoduande
ttly
number of gentlemen by whom she was surrounded,
and felt no inconvenience from inhaling the chloro:
ferm. The third and most interesting case was the
removal of a portion of the foot. The patient, a
man apparently 35 years old, and of a delicate
scrofulous habit, had been attacked with caries of the
bones forming the heel, and had strenuously resisted
amputation of the leg, which had beenaadvlise,dans
the only means of saving his life. Mr. wke3 the
suggested the removal of the diseased bones, to
which the patient assented. He exhibited great
nerve and determination, and after shaking hands
with Mr. Wakley, stretched himself upon the couch,
and commenced inhaling with great vigour. He
was soon in a state of insensiWity, and the ope-
ration commenced. It would be out of place in
a non-medical publication to detail the difficult
and complicated process by which the bones of
the heel were laid bare, and detached from their
articulation with the ancle joint; but when it is con-
sidered that the whole weight of the body is sustained
by this single joint, which possesses at once great pli-
ancy and enormous strength, the operation will ap
pear sufficiently formidable. Mr. Wakley was ably
assisted by Mr. Erasmus Wilson, and after a portion
of the tiba, the large bone of the leg had been re-
moved to make an even surface, the divided vessels
were taken up, the flaps turned down, and secured
with 15 sutures, and the whole operation terminated
in 2.5 minutes from the time the patient bad com-
menced inhaling. The loss of bloo was between 4
and 5 ounces, and the patient, on recoveringappeared
in
again,hi
shook hands with the surgeon, and
spirits on finding that all was over. The lastg
case was an operation for fistula, in which the
vapour of ether was administered, and the result in
this instance was equally satisfactory. Nothing could
exceed the coolness, precision, and dispatch with
which Mr. Wakley performed the several operations
we have detailed, and the medical gentlemen pre-
sent expressed themselves highly gratified and inte-
rested by what they had witnessed. The general
impression appeared to be in favour of chloroform ;
but it is evidently an agent of much greater power
than ether, and requires considerable care and caution
in its administration. Among the gentlemen present
we observed Mr. Erasmus Wilson, Mr. Gay, Dr.
Marsden, Dr. Bolton, Mr. Childs, Mr. Wakley, M.P.,
Mr. Churchill, Mr. Douglas Jerrold, Mr. Robinson,
Mr. Bullock, Mr. Elliott, &c.—Herald, Dec. 29.

MYSTERIOUS DEATH.—Yesterday Mr. William
Payne, the City Coroner, resumed, at the Bricklayers'
Arms, Earl street, Blackfriars, the adjourned inquiry
respecting the death of Mrs. Eupheme Scott, aged 72.
Elizabeth Scott said that the deceased was her mother.
She lived R ith her son, who kept the above house. On
Christmas-eve the house was closed at twelve o'clock,
and about two o'clock the deceased left for the purpose
of [going up stairs to bed. Witness noticed her until
she got upon the first landing. Shortly after that time
witness went to bed, and she neither heard or saw
anything of the deceased from that period until eight
o'clock ou Christmas morning, when she found her
lying on her right side in the prssage at
the foot of th
fit e
stairs. She was dressed, and appearedbe in a .
Witness tried to bring her round by sprinkling water
upon her face, but she was unable. Informed her brother,
who was in bed asleep, of the state her mother was in.
He got up and sent for a surgeon. Robert Scott corro-
borated the above evidence. Mr. Hutchinson, surgeon,
said that he was called in to see the deceased on Christ-
mas-day. The cause of death was concussion of the
brain, which must have been caused by some external
violence, inflicted with a flit surface. The Coroner,
having summed up, the jury, after consulting, returned
a verdict, "That the deceased died from concussion of
the brain, caused by a blow on the right temple, but
how occasioned there was not sufficient evidence to
prove."
A CHRISTMAS BARGAIN.—Last week a labourer,
after his hard week's toil, entered a hostelry at Wood-
ham Mortimer, and, warmed by a pint of XX, began in
the pride of his heart to exhibit his wealth, which con-
sisted of two half-sovereigns, snugly secured in a tobacco-
box. The host, and a brother boniface wbo was there
quaffing a neighbourly glass, eyed the treasure, end
having caught the complaint of joking—an epidemic
that commits sad ravages about Christmas—bid him a
sovereign for the lot, calculating upon the bird's-eye and
box as their legal profit. The bid was at first refused,
but pressed again' later in the evening. The bargain
was struck, the money paid, and the box handed over ;
but lo: in the interval the gold had been transmuted into
silver. John, with an adroitness for which his cus-
tomers gave him not credit, had substituted a shilling
and a sixpence; and it is needless to say he enjoys the
j,,ke amazingly—for if there were returns in the box
there were none in the bargain—while the merry laugh
that goes round the vale is worth all the money in these
dull times.---Esscx Herald.
A STRANGE Fisu.—A fine specimen of the three-
bearded rookling (mostello vulgaris, Cuv.), a scarce and
pretty-looking fish, was taken on our coast, near Cadur-
'lock, on Tuesday last.—Carlisle Patriot.

AUDIT OF RAILWAY ACCOUNTS.
The following Bill, intituled " An Act to provide
for a more effectual Audit of Railway Accounts in
certain cases," has been introduced in the Hcuse of
Lords by Lord Monteagle :
I. Whereas it is expedient to afford to the share- '
holders of public companies which now are or which
hereafter may be duly formed and constituted by law
for the construction and management of railways ad-
ditional facilities for the due and effecting audit of
their accounts : now be it enacted by the Queen's
most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and
consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and Com-
mons, in this Parliament assembled, and by the
authority of the same, that at any ordinary general
meeting which after the commencement of this Act
shall be holden by the shareholders of any such
railway company, it shall and may be lawful
to and for any or greater num-
ber of shareholders of any such company holding in
the aggregate not less than of the capital of
such company, by writing under their hands, to call
on and to require the directors of any such company
to submit the balance-sheet of the said company, and
all accounts and vouchers thereunto relating, for the
examination and report of an auditor to be appointed
as hereinafter provided; provided, nevertheless, that
it shall not be competent to any shareholder to sign
any requisition for the appointment of a special
auditor under this Act unless he shall have acquired
his shares or stock in right of bequest, inheritance,
or marriage settlement, or shall have purchased or
otherwise acquired the same, six calendar months at
the least before the date of such requisition, nor unless
all calls due in respect of such shares shall have been
first duly paid in full.
11. And be it enacted, that whenever any such
requisition in writing, duly subscribed as aforesaid,
shall be presented to such ordinary general meeting,
the directors of such company shall be required
within days of the receipt thereof, to transmit a
copy of the same, signed by the chairman or deputy
chairman, or secretary, to her Majesty's Commis-
sioners for Railways, who shall thereupon proceed
without delay to select, nominate, and appoint, by
writing under their hands and seals, one fit and com-
petent person to examine, audit, and report upon the
balance-sheet and accounts of such company as afore-
said ; and every such auditor so appointed shall forth-
with proceed in the execution of his duties under
this Act.
111. And be it enacted, that the said auditor so
appointed shall have full power and authority, and
shall be and is hereby required, to inspect and examine
the accounts kept by such company of all the sums
received or expended on account of the company by
the directors and all persons employed by or under
them, and of the matters and things for which such
sums of money shall have been received or disbursed
and paid, and to call for and require the production of
all vouchers and cataonsn such re.
,vain 3 Linn payments, and also to examine, as touching
the balance-sheet of such company, into the capital
stock, credits, and property of every description
belonging to the company, and the debts due by the
company at the date of making such balance-sheet,
and to report his view of the profit or loss which shall
have arisen on the transactions of the company in the
course of the year, half-year, or other period to which
such balance•sheet relates.
IV. And be it enacted, that every such auditor so
appointed shall prepare his report in duplicate, one
copy to be forthwith lodged with the directors of the
railway the accounts and balance-sheet of which he
has examined, and another copy to be transmitted to
her Majesty's Railway Commissioners.
V. And be it enacted, that such report of the
special auditor appointed under this Act shall be laid
before the next ordinary meeting of the shareholders
of such railway company, and shall be open for the
inspection of the shareholders in the manner pre-
scribed to public companies under the provisions of
an Act passed in the eighth year of her present Ma-
jesty's reign, intituled " An Act for consolidating in
one Act certain Provisions usually inserted in Acts
with respect to the Constitution of Companies in-
corporated for carrying on undertakings of a public
nature."
VI. And be it further enacted, that this Act shall
commence and take effect from and after the
day of next after the passing thereof.

AN EXTRAORDINARY MISTAKE
AT A WEDDING.
It may appear to some of our readers as almost
incredible that two persons so deeply interested in a
marriage ceremony as the bride and bridegroom
should have allowed such a serious mistake to occur
as the one which we are about to relate. In a small
town in the county of Suffolk, not fire-and twenty
miles from the quiet and ancient town of Hadleigh, a
wedding party, not many weeks since, repaired to
their parish church to have the holy rite of matrimony
solemnized. The bride and bridegroom, as is the
custom, were accompanied by a bridemaid and
" daddy," and others, as is generally the case
on so interesting an occasion. The party, on
the arrival of the officiating clergyman, proceeded
to the altar to have the marriage ceremony com-
menced, gone through, and concluded. This having
been done, the parties retired to the vestry for the
purpose of recording their names on the register, but
on the bride and bridegroom being asked to attach
their names thereto, some of the parties whispered
and stared at each other, and commenced laughing
outright. The clergyman inquired the reason of
such strange conduct, for the person who was to
have officiated as "daddy" had been actually married
to the bridemaid. The important truth having
been made known, the wedding party again
laughed very heartily, but the clergyman told there
the mistake was one which required from them a
rather different demeanour to that which they then
manifested; and after explaining the extreme unplea-
santness not unlikely to ensue from such downright
carelessness, if not ignorance, the rector was sent for,
to whom was represented what had taken place. The
party after a short time assumed a more becoming
air, having come to the conclusion that the affair
was one of a very serious character, and not to be
laughed at. One thing was certain—the gentle-
man who was to have acted as " daddy," and the
lady who should have acted as the bridemaid, had,
to all intents and purposes, been made man and
wife ; and, perhaps not unfortunately for each,
the " daddy" had been previously married, and
his wife was then alive, and in good health and
spirits. The stupidity of the parties, however,had not af-
fected the marriage of the happy couple further than
delaying its consummation, and they left the vestry,
and went to the altar for the second time, not to be
disappointed, for they were, after the second attempt,
married without any mistake occurring. It may be
wondered how such a mistake could have been made.
The only cause that we can assign is, that the wed-
ding ring was placed under the strict charge of the
" daddy, who, as has been seen, made a very im-
proper use of it, and, but for his having been pre-
viously married, might have repented of bis careless-
ness or folly.—lpswich Express.

MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS

NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN
THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, DEC. 25, 1547.
Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases ..
Diseases of Uncertain Seat ... ••• ••• ••
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses... ..
Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs o
Respiration ••• .•• ... 39
Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 24
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs
of Digestion... ... ••• •••
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c. .•• ..•
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c.
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles
Diseases of the Skin, &c. •••
Old Age, sr Natural Decay
Deaths by Violence, Privation, or Intemperaneo .
Causes not specified ...

~ 389

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BRIBERY AT ELECTIONS.
The Anti-Bribery Society have presented the fol-
lowing petition to the House of Commons :
To the Honourable the Commons of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland it Par-
liament assembled. _

The petition of the undersigned, on behalf of him-
self and others, the members of the Anti-Bribery
Society,
Humbly she weth,—
That from personal knowledge, and from evidence
given before Committees of your Honourable House
and in the courts of law, your petitioners have heard
with deep distress and alarm the vast amount of crime
practised at elections of Members to serve in the
Commons House of Parliament.

That your petitioners, after mature deliberation,
are firmly convinced that this vast amount of electoral
crime is fostered and covered by the maintenance of
the property qualification required of liniOlts of shires
and burgesses, and by the subjection of candidates at
elections to expenses on account of hustings, travel-
ling, registration, and other charges, all of which your
petitioners believe are most unjust in principle, and
give the unjust sanction of the law itself to the crimes,
misdemeanours, and iniquities, which deface and de-
prave the representative constitution of our country.
That your petitioners further believe that the ex-
isting tribunals for the trial and punishment of offences
against the representative system, on account of the
enormous expenses attending them, tend really and
truly to protect the criminalities they are meant to
suppress.
Your petitioners therefore pray your Honourable
House to take into early and retentive consideration,
the nature, extent, and operation of the aforesaid pro-
perty qualification required of knights of shires and
burgesses, and to repeal the same. And your peti-
tioners humbly pray your Honourable House to
enact measures for the transference of the expenses
now charged on candidates for election to your Ho-
nourable House from the candidates to the consti-
tuencies. Your petitioners further pray your Ho-
nourable House to consider, devise, and enact some
kind of cheap and efficacious tribunal for the trial and
punishment of offenders against the electoral system,
instead of the present expensive and inefficient ones.
Your petitioners finally pray your Honourable House
to take into serious consideration whatever other
measures may seem expedient and necessary as pre-
ventives to deter candidates, preventives to deter
agents, and preventives to deter electors from com-
mitting the crimes which at present vitiate the repre-
presentative system of these kingdoms, and deprave
the morality of all classes of the people.
And your petitioners will ever pray.
Signed by and on behalf of the Anti-Bribery Society,
JOHN ROBERTSON, Chairman.

MEETING AT MANCHESTER ON
THE TEA DUTIES.
MANCHESTER, TUESDAY, FIVE P.M.—This after-
noon a rather numerous and highly respectable meet-
ing of merchants, manufacturers, trader, and other
persons directly interested in the reduction of the duty
on tea, was held in the Council-room of the Town-
hall, in this city; Elkanah Armitage, Esq., in the
chair. Among the gentlemen present we noticed J.
Bright, Esq., M.P. ; J. Duncuft, Esq., M.P., Old-
ham ; T. Baggley, Esq. J. A. Turner, Esq.; the
Mayor Uf Salford and the ex-Mayor ; and, in fact,
most of the trading commercial men of the district.
The room proving too small, the meeting adjourned
into a larger room.
W. RATHEONE, Esq., of Liverpool, moved the first
resolution, and after adverting to the state of the
trade with China, where the loss must have been,
taking the trade in and out, from 35 to 40 per cent.,
he next adverted to the vastness of the population, and
the immense market which was open to this country
with the Chinese, when their duty on our goods going
there was only 5 per cent., while we imposed a duty
of 200 per cent. on the best teas, and of 400 on the
lower teas.—(Hear.)
T. BAGGLEY, Esq., Chairman of the Chamber of
Commerce, seconded the motion. Ile referred to the
monstrously disproportionate rate of taxation between
the two countries, and pointed out the operations of
the taxation on the working class as cruelly unjust.
China, too, contained nearly one-half of the world ;
and, surely, such a population and such a market was
worthy of some signal effort,
J. A. TURNER, Esq., Chairman of the Commercial
Association, rose to move the second resolution. He
said that at that time great efforts were being made
to supply the Chinese with our manufactures. Ile
goods were made and sent there, and the consequences
were that the goods were sold at a set ions loss. The
only objection to the reduction of the tea duties WO
the amount of the revenue which it yielded But he
would ask, were they sure that the same amount of
revenue would continue to be received ?—No ; it was
not to be expected that merchants and manufacturers
would continue to send to Chine, if their goods were
to be sold at a loss.—(Cheers.)
Mr. FIELDING, of Blackburn, seconded the resolu-
tion which was carried unanimously.
R. GARDNER, Esq., moved the next resolution.
reviewed the progress of the reduction of the duty on
tea, and showed that by the reduction of the duty,
the increase of consumption had risen from little
more than 700,0001., when the duty was 3v 6d., to
fifteen millions and a half sterling. The consumption
of tea was now about 45 millions, but if the duty
were reduced to Is. a pound, he had no doubt it would
be 90 millions. He then pointed out the numerous
evils of the tax on tea. The working classes had tea
to supper as well as the other meals of the day, and
they used it by grains. After dwelling on the sub-
ject for some time, he said to the Government, if you
want money, let us have a property tax of 5,7 i, or
10 per cent., but don't ruin all in the trade.
Mr. JEFFERIES7 of Liverpool, seconded the resolu-
tion, which was passed unanimously.
Mr. MALCOLM Ross then moved the fourth reso-
lution, and characterised the trade with China as
having been most disastrous since the signing of the
treaty with Sir H. Pottinger, and declared it to be
his opinion that nothing but a large reduction of duty
could enable them to continue the trade at all.
Other resolutions were then passed; thanks were
voted to the Chairman, and the meeting dissolved.

SPEED, THE MURDERER.
MANCHESTER, TUESDAY AFTERNOON.—The extra-
ordinary case of this unfortunate man, who was
tried at the late Liverpool assizes, for the murder of
his children, and the attempted murder of his wife, in
this city, in the latter end of last summer, seems to
have excited general attention and commiseration.
His sentence, it seems, is to be commuted to transpor-
tation fur life. This morning Mr. E. Stanley Bent,
the unfortunate man's unpaid solicitor, received a
letter, of which the following is a copy, from Mr. S.
M. Pkillipps, the Under Secretary of State, announc-
ing this very satisfactory intelligence :
" Whitehall, Dec. 27, 1847.

" Sir,—Secretary Sir George Grey, having care-
fully considered your application on behalf of Joseph
Speed, I have the satisfaction to acquaint you that,
under all the circumstances of the case, has felt war-
ranted in advising her Majesty to commute the pri-
soner's sentence to transportation for life.
" I am, Sir, your most obedient humble servant,
" S M. PIIILLIPPS.
" M. E. Stanley Bent, 6, Brown-street, Manchester .'

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INSURANCE COMPANIES.
' Dividend Amount
Name of Company. I per of I Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
£ e. d. £ s. d.
Albion • • • • • • • • • • •• • • 3/. 10s. 500 0 0 50 0 0 75 .
Alliance Brit. and For. 6 per cent. 100 0 0 11 0 0 17 .
Ditto Marine.• • • • • • 6/. per cent, 100 0 0 5 0 0 5% 1
Atlas . • • • • • • • •
British Commercial .. 7s.per share 50 0 0 5 0 0 6% 1
Clericl,Med.&Gen.Life 51. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 20% 1
3L 100 0 0 10 0 0 -
Crown •• ............ 13s. 50 0 0 5 0 0 11 1
Eagle • •
Eng.& Scot• Law .... 51. per cent. 50 0 0 2 12 6 - i
European Life • • • • • • 5% per cent. 20 0 0 All paid. - ,
FamilyEndowmet Soc. 41. & be. 4 0 0 4 0 0 - i
'Freemasons' . - • 1
'41014 - 120 i
,iittardian .... • • • • • • • • 51. per cent. 100 0 0 36 10 0 44%
!mperial Firo .... • • • • 12 per cent. 500 0 0 50 0 0 214 1
imperial Life • • • • • • • . 12s. 100 0 0 10 0 0 14% 1
indemnity Marine.... 11. sh.& bs. 100 0 0 5 13 1 - I
Law Fire • • • • • • • • • • • • - 100 0 0 2 10 0 3 ,
LAW 1 Ife• • • • • • • • • • .. 11. Bs. 100 0 0 10 0 0 45
Legal and General Life - 50 0 0 2 0 0 - I
1.,-.salcn Fire • • - • . • . 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 13% 1
London Ship • .• • • • • . 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 13%
Marine . • • • • • • • • • • .. - 100 0 0 15 0 0 -
Sled. luvlid& Gen. Life 4%1. per ct. 50 0 0 2 0 0 2%
Satlonal Lean Fund.. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 2 10 0 -
,;ational Life• • • -
Palladium Life 5l. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 -
PelLan - • • • • • • • • .. • - - - 37
Pticenix • • • ......... • • 3/. p. et. & bs. - - -
Pi elector Life• • • • • -
Pr,Aldent Life ll. ss. 100 0 0 10 0 0 -
Cock Life .• • • • • • • • • • • 4s. 5 0 0 0 10 0 4%
Royal Exchange 5l. per cent. Stock. - -
Sun Fire .....• • • • • . - - -
Ditto Life . 11. 6s. - - -
Universal Life lO%l. pr cnt. 100 0 0 8 10 0 -
Viacria Life . .. - - 4 0 0 3%
LIST or SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
---
X s. d. 1 X s. d
Bank of Scotland
British Linen Company 81. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 201
Caledonian Bank •• .• • 81. per sent. 10 0 0 I 2 10 0 4%
City of Glasgow Zank . 6/. per cent. 10 0 0 , 10 0 0 11%
Clydesdale Bank•• • • •• 6/. per cent. 20 0 0 I 10 0 0 1210 s
Commercial Bank • • • • 71. per cent. 500 0 0 100 0 0 160
Eastern Bank • • • • -
Edinh.&Glasigow Bank 61. per cent. 5 0 0 5 0 0 5118 s
Exchange Bnk of Scot 6l. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 49
Isle of Man. Company 71. per cent. 10 0 0 7 0 0 8%
National Bank 6/. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 13%
Northof Scotiandßank 71. percent. 20 0 0 5 0 0 5%
No"th BrLish Bank • • - 50 0 0 10 0 0 5
Itayal Bank of Scotland Cl. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 146
Union Bank of Scotland 8/. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 84%
Western Bank. • • . •
Aber 'een Fi-e and Life 12/.per cent. 12 10 0 2 0 0 ;815.6d.
B. Accord. Life and Fi. e - 20 0 0 0 11 0 \ 98.
British Guar,iitee Ins. - 10 0 0 1 0 0 12s.
caledonian Fire Insur. 101. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 22%
Church of En; and Ins. - 50 0 0 2 0 0 1 2
Cite of Glasgow Lite- 51. per cent. 25 0 0 2 0 0 21. 8s
Edinburgh Lite Incur. 51. per cent. 100 0 0 12 10 0 I 171 i
East of Selland Life.. - 10 0 0 0 15 0 ; 12e.
Eng. t...-, Scot, Law Life 51. per cent. 50 0 0 2 17 6 I 2%
Ilereules insurance Co. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 I 11%
incur. Co. of Seetln4• • 51. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 1, I
Life Issoe. of Scot'and 51. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 ' I/ 58
Mercantile Life .. • • .. - 10 0 0 0 10 0 ' 85,
Notional Fire and Life 51. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 245.
North British Incur. -5% /.pr cent. 200 0 0 20 0 0 , 23
North & West of Scot. - 10 0 0 1 0 0 11. is
Scottish Life and , nar. - 20 0 0 0 11 0 %
Scot. Ala, and Clen.Life 5!. per cent. 1 0 0 0 15 0 13e. 5,1
Scottish Union Insrnca. 6%!. pr cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 I 11. 2e
S' an aid • Ire . • • •
United Pep. Assurance Si. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 12s.
DOCHS.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
-- -
£ s. d. £ r. d.
C anmercial .• •...... 41. per cent. Stock. - 70
East and West India... 61. pr cent. Stock. - 119
East Country • • .• • • .. 1/. per sh. 100 0 0 - 21
l L =don Si. pr cent. Stock. - 93
. I,ltto Bonds • • • • • ... 4/. per cent. - - -
St. K atharine • • • • • ... 5 per cent. Stock. - 81%
Ditto Bonds • . • • .. • • 141. pr cent. - - -
Smithampton • • • • .... 21. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 i 25

been of a limited nature in all kinds, whilst the supply
is plentiful, and the consumption small. There are
sellers of Boiled from West India Molasses at 16s 6d to

l7s 6d, Patent 18s to 20s, and of Gulden Syrup at 22s
;0 23s 6d. Bonded Crushed Sugar is wanted for ex-

porta tion, but for immediate aelievcry, however,
not much is to be obtained, whilst the re-
finers evince firmness, and are getting 30s to 31s for
first and 29s 6d for second sort, upon which terms
several contracts were likewise concluded for forward
delivery. Purchases to a fair extent were made in Wet
Lumps at 28s to 295, and the stock is yet small. In
Dutch Crushed Sugar several sales have been made, but
at moderate rates. Belgian has been in demand to a fair
extent from 255 6d to 29s for common to fine quality.
The demand for loaves made here under bond has been
good for exportation, and prices tend upwards, the supplies
being small, whilst there are several orders unexecuted.
MAURITIUS.—There is firmness on the part of holders,
and they have refrained from submitting any to public
competition. On the part of grocers and refiuers more
disposition has been shown to do business, and they have
taken several parcels by private treaty. Prices com-
pared with those of this day week show a small advance.
There are, however, further arrivals of the new crop,
and the stock is much larger than it was at this time in
1846; prices are, however, considerably under those of
that period for every kind.

ELL INDIA.—The low rates that prevail for Penang
Sugar cause buyers to be more inclined to make pur-
chases, and on the part of holders less desire is shown to
sell, whereas none has been submitted to public com-
petition. Privately the parcels sold were at prices rather
above those previouslycurrent, brown :oiling at 25s to 30s,
and yellow 30s to 38s. In Bengal the operations are
upon a more extended scale., whilst the supply is less
plentiful; prices are on the advance. For Madras the

demand is more active, holders are less inclined to sell

and offered none at public sale; privately several parcels,
however, have been disposed of.

FOREIGN . —There is no inclination on the part of
holders of Foreign Sugar to submit to any further de-
cline in the value, and they have refraiL el from submitting
any to public sale, whilst there is only a moderate quan-
tity on offer in the private market. The export orders
concluded are, however, trifling, and the demand has)
been limited from our refiners working under bond.
The sales worth noticing are only 3,000 chests of Bahia
at 15s 6d to 17s for low and middling brown, and at 19s
for common white. The market is, however, not ex-
pected to continue long in its present quiet state.
COFFEE.—The home trade are little inclined to operate
in any kind of West India by private treaty, although
holders are willing to accept lower rates. None has
been offered at auction. Prices are lower than by 5s to
9s for inferior, and lOs to 20s for the better sorts.
Although the quantity of East India on offer is small,
yet a fall took place in the value of both home trade
and shipping kinds, a further diminution having occurred
in the demand for :all purposes. Native Ceylon is little
required, and prices are further depressed. None has
been brought to public sale. The sales made in Planta-
tion are trifling, notwithstanding the low rates which
holders are willing to take for all kinds. Mocha
is little required, and can be obtained upon
lower terms. Buyers of East India kinds have
been induced to operate rather more freely
in consequence of holders submitting to easier rates
privately. At auction 110 bags Singapore for cash on
the 29th instant at 25s to 25s 6d for sound. Of Foreign
Coffee none has been submitted to public sale, and pri-
vately the dealings have been of a limited nature, al-
though sellers are willing to make a slight concession in
the value.

TEA..—Holders of Black and Green sorts manifest
more firmness, and offer a less quantity for sale. In
Black the purchases made have been upon a more ex-
tended scale, and the rates obtained are rather above
those previously quoted. Green is not risen in value;
there is, however, a more active demand, and the
quantity passing for sale is not so largo as of late,
whereas merchants are less inclined to realise. In
Scented Teas the operations are upon a more ex-
tended scale; prices cannot be quoted higher, and
there is yet a plentiful supply. Orange Pekoe of
low and middling buality is only worth 7d to
Is, good to fine scented is 2d to is 6d, black
leaf 9d to is Bd, and flowery is to 3s 6d per lb.
There has been no arrival since this day week, whereas
duty was paid on 510,9601bs at this port duriug the past
week. None has been submitted to public competition.
SPlCES.—Prices have suffered no further depression
for Pimento ; and privately the sales made have been to
a small extent only. Although holders of Nutmegs are
willing to accept previous reduced rates, yet the
sales which have been concluded by private treaty
have been of a limited nature by exporters and the
home trade ; the finest brown cannot be quoted
above 3s 10d, limed ditto 3s. Macesells slowly upon
previous reduced terms. On the part of holders of Black
Pepper there ;is firmness, and they supply the market
' sparingly; all descriptions have been sought after by
shippers, and the home trade, whilst previous rates are
obtained for the parcels sold by private treaty. At auc-
tion 1,146 bags of Sumatra were sold, good clean black
2id to 20, grey 20 to 211 d; white is wanted, supply small
and the parcels sold were at 4d to 4id for low and mid,
and at 5d to lid for grod and fine quality. Pod is
little required, and 170 bags of fine at auction were taken
_ .

in at 51 per cwt for tine bright. In Ginger the sales
made are small by exi orters as well as home consumers.
Cassia Lignea is not much wanted, and the supply is
small, still former rates are not to be obtained.

SPIRITS.— Jamaica Rum is offered rather under pre-
vious rates, still the purchases made have been limited in
all kinds by exporters and the home trade; there is a
plentiful supply. Leeward Island is little wanted;
holders are willing sellers, and accept is 63d to Is 7d
for proof strength, whilst there is a lair quan-
tity on offer. Calcutta sells slowly at Is Gd to
is 6id; Mauritius is 5d to is 6id, and Penang is 6d
proof strength. Demerara met with little attention.
Hum is much cheaper than last year, although the de-
liveries continue to be satisfactory, but the stock is
heavier. Previous improved rates are well supported
for Brandy, the deliveries are exceeding the arrivals.
Holders evince firmness, and a good business has been
concluded in all sorts.
INDIGO.—For all descriptions of East India the home and
export demand has been good, whilst further purchases
have been made by speculators, and the rates paid ex-
hibit an advance on those of the last quarterly sale of
2d to 4d per lb, and the market is but scantily supplied.
That the upward tendency will continue appears to be
the general impression.
OILS. —The arrivals of Fish Oils have been to a small
extent only since this day week, whereas the deliveries
are satisfactory, and are likely to continue so, as prices
rule moderate. In Cod a good business
has been conducted at 25/ to 251 103 per tun,
at which holders are firm. Of Seal many
parcels have been disposed of at— enhanced prices.
For Southern the tendency of prices is upwards, the
supply being small and demand active for all kinds.
The market is in a tranquil state for Sperm, and there
are willing sellers. For Linseed Oil reduced rates
having been taken, occasicncd the home trade to pur-
chase largely, and caused the export demand to be good.
For forward delivery several purchases have been made at
23s 6d to 24s ; the consumption is on the increase, and
the supply is less plentiful. In Rapeseed Oil the deli-
veries are upon a more extended scale, and in
consequence of the limited supply buyers are com-
pelled to pay stiffer rates. On the part of holders
of Olive there is a desire shown to sell, although
the consumption is better than of late, whereas
there is not a large stock, and the arrivals that are
expected for some weeks are of little moment.
The market is in a quiet state for Palm; there is a
desire on the part of the holders to sell, as the stock is
on the increase, rnd 27s to 29s per cwt is the value of
fine quality. Cocoa Nut is little required, and although
the stock is small, yet holders are willing sellers.
TALLOW.—The demand has increased for Russian on
the spot, and reduced rates have been accepted. Soap
makers and chandlers operated with reluctance, and 46s
to 46s 6d are the prices taken for fine P. Y. Candle, and
at which holders are desirous to sell, as arrivals are on
1
a more extended scale. For delivery in spring months
the operations are to a small extent only. Home made
met with a slow sale.

FOUR CHILDREN BURNT TO DEATH.---Last even.
ing, Mr. W. Payne held four inquests, in St. Bartho-
lomew's Hospital, on the bodies of four children whose
deaths were caused under the following circumstances :
—The first was respecting tho death of Louisa Ana

Hughes, aged eight years, whose parents reside at
No. 1, Thomas-street, Shoreditch. The deceased, on
Christmas-eve, was engaged lighting a fire, when, in
lifting something from the mantel piece, her clothes
becameignited and she was speedily enveloped in,
flames. The fire was extinguished as quickly as pos-
sible, and the deceased was removed to the above hos-
pital, where she expired on Saturday last.—Thesiethcond
inquest was concerning the death of Timothy Bowen,
aged five years. On Monday afternoon the deceased fell
off the fender into the fire, which set his clothes in a
the
blaze. In this state he ran out into the street. w
flames mountingerehoevdeesrchehoairsst
afterwardsly
was d.
rel'mhoev
removed
direed tothe above
hospital, havinghe
third boevae
extinguished,inquiry was ' the
touching the death of Emma Groves, aged
ten years. Ellen Jones said, that thedheceased on Sun-
daysouugsaer,
fartoNm o
t.
h2e,
man
mantel-piece,
lweek-pi e
cewas
her o n
clothinga visit
tookat a
fi friend'srsome
South-street, when, in reaching
fully burnt over the whole of her beo, da3n,. sshheewwasasdtraekaend -
to the hospital, where she expired on Saturday. The.
father of the child said, that te.t deceased had. told him.
since she had been in the
aholsiphi
lighted
tshatiab,girl,
under
named
Kitty Mitten, had placed amher
clothing and thereby caused theg accident,u This was
stoutly denied by the girl in question, and also by the
other inmates of the house.—The fourth case was re-
specting the death of Georgians Poole, aged five years.
The deceased, during the temporary absence of her
parents, by some means set her clothes on fire, on Mon-
day last. She was taken to the above institution, where
she expired almost immediately after her admission.—
Verdict in each case—Accidental Death.
THE CREAM OF TILE JORE.—On Sunday evening
last a can of milk was stolen from the shop of a milk,
egg, and butter dealer in St. Leonard's-street. The
dwentrcfoterd3;da. s Thealso
the circumstance of the milk being placed in pawn. The
theft,buoty was
we msauybsmeqeunetiilotiliy,
v‘p,aslaceqduicinklypa
broker, on being questioned on the subject, stated that
intimated
that, woman who deposited the milk in pawn
that, being in want of 3d., she would leave the milk in
pledge till the cream rose upon it. This is surely as
curious a case of theft and pawning as has ever come
under our notice.—Edinburgh .News.
SUDDEN DEATEL—Yesterday afternoon, while one
of Mr. Eyke's carmen was ascending a van in Milton-
street, Cripplegate, he lost his balance and fell, striking
his head on the pavement. lie was immediately con-
veyed into the house of Mr. Chalmers, surgeon, who was
prompt in applying restoratives, &c., but all was of no
avail, ag death appeared to he iu6t&ntaleous.

TfIE SUN,

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
TIMES.—The Dean of Hereford has adopted or
acquiesced in a course of proceeding which, to the
popular apprehension, will assume the appearance of
a compromise,• but the true character of which we
leave to the lawyers to decide. In order to the vali-
dity of the election, it was necessary that it should be
-unanimous, as we believe to be generally the case
in ecclesiastical elections. The Dean and Mr.
Canon Huntingford, when it came to their turn,
voted against Dr. Hampden. Thus far 'the Dean
fulfilled the pledge in his letter of the 22d instant. On
a comparison of the suffrages, however, and on it
appearing that all the other members of the Chapter
who were present, whatever their rank or right, had
voted in the affirmative, and on its being fur-
ther proposed and carried that the customary
documents should be issued, and declaration
read, the Dean contented himself with contributing
the agency of his office to the prescriptive forms
of an unanimous election. This apparent in-
consistency is familiar enough to all governing mem-
bers of our ancient collegiate or capitular bodies.
The pious spirit which pervades the whole fabric of
those institution supposed a perfect and, so to speak,
a brotherly unanimity. The founders could not but
be aware that differences there would certainly be,
and therefore they must have anticipated the course
which, in effect, has generally prevailed. The votes
are taken preliminary to the form of election,
which, either with or without a fresh taking of suf-
frages, is concluded to be unanimous. Such is the
universal understanding, and we have never yet
heard of any protest against such formal unanimity.
What stage of the proceedings the Dean referred
to when he undertook that the election should
not be unanimous, is not for us to say. - Nor can we
say whether his formal acquiescence in the result has
relieved him from the serious consequences which
seemed to be entailed by his vote and address during
the taking of the suffrages. If an inevitable neces-
sity has overruled and nullified the Dean's own
course—if he was really bound by the majority to
yield himself a passive instrument in its hands, then
we can only most heartily rejoice that an estimable
man should still continue in the enjoyment of his
rank and position, and particularly that he should be
allowed to complete the cathedral which he has raised
almost from its ruins. Dr. Merewether has been
charged, like many other people, with disappointed
ambition, but no one has ever accused him of a mer-
cenary object. It is said that he has spent in the
restoration of his cathedral the whole of his decanal
income. Liberality such as this may be allied with
weakness, and even with vice ; but it should procure
at least a charitable construction of motives. What-
ever the legal or the moral character of the course
taken by the Dean, that of Lord John Russell is
simple enough. The " law,"— the bond,—the pound
of flesh, is the substance, and not less the style of his
communications. The nearer it is to the heart of
the Church the better pleased he appears with his
lien. For our part, as there never yet has been
the allegation of a departure from the statute
in question, and as there never yet has been
any legal decision upon it, we are not
sure that some second Daniel may not
live to discover that Lord John may possibly get an
ounce of flesh too little or too much, or may find a
drop of blood impair the validity of his process. We
are not sure of this. It is rather late in the day to
work a prosmunire the first time for three centuries,
especially when there is no Henry to quicken the pro-
cess, overrule objections, and clinch the work well
with a fagot or an axe. The Dean had received two
contradictory orders ; one to elect a fit man, and the
other to elect a very unfit man. There is just a
chance that the law might spare him the absurdity of
subscribing both to the black and to the white pro-
position. That the statute of 25 Henry VIII. is
" the Magna Charta of Tyranny" is a proposition
we feel most reluctant to subscribe. A law cannot
be very tyrannical which has been submitted to
without a murmur for more than three centuries,
the penalties cf which, therefore, it has been found
unnecessary to inflict, which has been worked
with almost uniform delicacy and discretion,
and which has therefore been productive of much
eventual good to the Church. The harshness and
opprobrium of the statute were rather in the imagi-
nation of those who wished to expose the fetters and
sores of the Church, than in the facts of the case. No
one could ever pretend that a comparatively small
society of clergymen attached to one church in one
town of a diocese had any reasonable right to select a
bishop for the whole. Had that been the law it
would not have been submitted to for a day. The
law, as it has stood from the Reformation, not to go
further back, having charged the dean and chapter as
to the qualifications of the persons to be elected, re-
serves the actual nomination or selection to the
Crown—the Sovereign being the chief administrative
organ of all estates and orders in the realm. We
are convinced that, up to this period, no
other mode of election would be either
beneficial or satisfactory. Where is the ty-
ranny in this ? There are at least as many men
of honour and indepen ience in the clerical as in other
professions, but few, if any, have complained that
their consciences were enforced to an improper elec-
tion. The most scrupulous have had reason to feel
that the person recommended by the Crown very
fairly satisfied the requisites specified in the conge
d'aire. In effect there is no part of the royal prero-
gative which has been so carefully and tenderly admi-
nistered. Sovereigns and their advisers have prized and
feared this precious and awful function. If divines
of extraordinary genius, learning, and zeal have been
rather admired than loved by politicians, the safer
virtues have nowhere shone more conspicuously than
cn the episcopal bench. Humble servitors and sis-
zars, the sons of curates and tradesmen, have been al-
lowed to win the race from rank and even from party ;
and a continuous body of men has been kept up for
which neither England nor any other country could
find a parallel. There has, therefore, been no
tyranny. But while we are forced to disagree with
• the Bishop of Exeter in our retrospective view of this
statute, we must admit that Lord John Russell's
present construction of it favours the Bishop's strik-
ing definition. The Minister seems resolved to make
it the Charter of Tyranny for the future—if he can.
CHRONICLE.—The Dean of 'Hereford has made
a bad business of it. The election took place yester-
day, when the numbers were—
For Dr. Hampden
Against
The Dean had just one canon-residentiary to support
him. We cannot say that in the conduct of this
irritated ecclesiastic during the proceedings of the
election, no more than in that remarkable ep;stle
which we presented to our readers yesterday, there
is anything to be found which can impart dignity
to so signal a defeat. Humbly as we rate the judg-
ment and discretion of the refractory Dean, we
should have felt real pleasure in applauding, had it
been in our power, the moral courage and fidelity
with which Dr. Merewether so handsomely credits
himself. The spectacle of a good man struggling at
odds with adversity, and fighting the up-hill battle
of conscience against principalities and powers, has
something in it so ennobling, that it is a thousand
pities to be obliged to accept an undignified solution
of one of the grandest looking of moral phenomena.
However much we might regret the martyrdom which
our Dean has had the gallantry to brave, and however
widely we might dissent from the martyr's peculiar
views of ethical obligation, we could never hesitate
about awarding the tribute of our admiration to the
meanest soldier in that noble army which embodies
the highest of spiritual forces, and marshals itself
under the divinest of banners. It is really a heart-
stirring story, as the Dean tells it, and as the Times
indorses it. The holy man has deliberately sacrificed,
on the altar of his " most solemn religious responsi-
bility," all that is vulgarly imagined to be nearest
and dearest to the heart of ecclesiastical ambition.
He has voluntarily renounced those golden dreams
which brightened the existence of the common run of
steady-going dignitaries, and which, in his particular
case, had, it seems, the extraordinary warranty of a
deceased Monarch's " death-bed injunction." Dr.
Merewether has had virtue enough to take his name,
of his own free will, off the Premier's list of potential
prelates. He has sternly refused, at the bidding of
conscience, to be any longer one of that privileged
and happy class denominated, in the world's dialect,
" rising men." As he modestly phrases it, " I preclude
thatmyselffropmieEnglish, which ich might otherwise have been my
t. lo" In la
Dr. Merewether has felt it his
duty to cut himself
himself
futf of a mitre. He knows that
he has spoiled
ruined his previously certraiti bishop, and has totally
prospect of having the
next see at Lord John Russell's disposal ; but he has
done it on principle. We - e are truly sorry to damage
this delightful little romance. After the Times has
been at the pains of half-canonizi the. martyred
Dean, there seems something unfeetgin throwing
cold water on so generous an enthusiasm,
e
only say it is no fault of ours. If our too credulous
can
lu
contemporary will swallow a storyof " noble deeds"
and " heroic' self-sacrifice, without informing him-
self of the facts, and pass a candidate for saintahip
without taking the trouble to eliminate the mythical
from the historical items of the claim, we can but
regret that his amiable temper and lively imagination
should lay him open to delusions which a sterner
criticism must dispel. It is not without sincere
sympathy that we find ourselves obliged to assure our
contemporary, that he has got hold of a somewhat
shabby sort of martyr, a thoroughly common-
place hero, a decidedly fictitious saint, and a
quite imagir ary specimen of a " real man." The
truth of the matter is correctly divined by
"A London Incumbent," whose communication
will be found in another column. Our correspondent
writes conjecturally and inferentially, but we are in a
position to speak positively to the same effect.
"Blighted hope and disappointed ambition" are at the
bottom of the business. When Dr. Merewether so

magnanimously offends the Premier, breaks with the 1
Crown, and "precludes himself from that which
might otherwise have been his lot," it is simply a
case of " sour grapes." We are enabled to state dis-
tinctly that the Dean of Hereford memorialized the
Queen to give him the vacant bishopric—that the
Queen referred his suit to the Prime Minister—•and
that the Prime Minister's rejection of the decenal soli-
citation was what first provoked the late obstreberous
expression of self-sacrificing heroism. It is no mere
conjecture, but an actual fact, that Dean Merewether
was a disappointed suitor for promotion before he came
out in the character of saint and martyr. Before
" precluding himself from that which might otherwise
have been his lot," he had done his very best to make
sure of that particular " lot" called " bishopric of
Hereford," and had most unmistakeably discovered
that he was " precluded " already. Before resigning
for conscience' sake all prospect of royal patronage
and mitred honours, the good man had tried very hard
for the particular mitre that lay nearest him, and
made a bad business of it. What a comfort to a
baffled suitor for a bishopric to have " principle" to
fall back upon, and to pick holes in the successful
candidate's orthodoxy ! We suppose we need say no
more to render Dean Merewether and his " accom-
plished sacrifice," and his " noble deed," and his
" high process of reasoning," and his " real manhood,"
intelligible to the meanest capacity. The Dean is
sulky ; and " virtue" is the safest and most respect-
able way of " having it out " with the Minister who
has been blind to his merits, and the brother clergy-
man who appears before him in the odious character
of a preferred rival. Is it wonderful that our Dean
found enough to shock his orthodox mind, when he
sat down, fresh from his disappointment, to study the
Bampton Lectures ? What a blessed temper he must
have been in for calm investigation and fair criti-
cism ! Only think of a baffled ecclesiastical aspirant,
with his wits sharpened by pique and ill-humour,
betaking himself to the perusal of a learned and phi-
losophical treatise by his successful competitor, with
the view of ascertaining critically whether the dis-
pensers of patronage bad not made a monstrous mis-
take, and chosen the wrong man !

ADVERTISER.—We—publish in another part of
our paper an account of the proceedings yesterday
at Hereford, in connexion with the appointment of
Dr. Hampden to the bishopric of that place. These
proceedings will be read with much interest. It will
be observed, that with the exception of the Dean of
Hereford, and one of the Canons Residentiary, all
who voted were in favour of Dr. Hampden. His
supporters were fourteen in number. It is right,
however, to state that the Dean protested against
the entire proceedings, as irregular and illegal. His
speech was a virtual repetition of his second letter
to Lord J. Russell. A warm altercation took place
between the Reverend Gentlemen and several of
the supporters of Dr. Hampden, in consequence
of the Dean protesting against the reception of the
votes of the honorary prebendaries. It was affirmed
by these gentlemen, who supported Dr. Hampden,
that Dr. Merewether had intimated to them, some
times previously, that he would not object to their
vating on that occasion. The Rev. Gentleman, with-
out, in so many words, denying what was thus im-
puted to him, dwelt on the fact, that as they were
neither canons residentiary nor canons non-resident,
but simply gentlemen on whom an honorary distinc-
tion had been conferred, their votes could not be re-
ceived. It remains now to be seen what course
Ministers will adopt in their dealings with
the refractory Dean. He has set the authority
of her Majesty and her Government at
defiance, and done everything in his power
to defeat their intentions. Will the State
tamely submit t 3 be thus bearded by the
Church ? Is the latter to be suffered to eat the
bread of the State, and yet raise her heel against it ?
Is the State to be insulted by an ecclesiastic who is
dependent on it for his clerical breath and being ? If
the Dean of Hereford be allowed to act as he has done
with impunity, we shall soon see the Church riding
rough-shod over the State, and treating the latter as
her mere creature, made only for the purpose of
ministering to her pleasure. It is worthy of observa-
tion, in connexion with this affair, that one of Lord
John Russell's illustrious ancestors, in the seventeenth
century, should have co. operated with the patriotic
Hampden of that era, in asserting, and suffering for,
the cause of religious liberty, and that a Hampden—
possibly a descendant of the illustrious Hampden of
the period alluded to—should now be allied with the
Noble Lord in the present contest between a domi-
neering priesthood and the great principles of civil
and religious liberty.

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE OF
TUESDAY.
OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, DEc. 27, 1847.
Royal Regiment of Artillery.
Gentlemen Cadets to be Second Lieutenants.

Charles Edmund Walcott, vice Phillips, promoted.
Gilmore Burtchaell, vice Godby, promoted.
Gr.mow Davis, vice Greene, promoted.
Edgar Grantham Bredin, vice Miller, promoted.
William .John Bolton, vice Barry, promoted.
George Bruce Traherne, vice Orme, promoted.
Samuel George Barchellor, vice Colomb, promoted.
Herbert Taylor, Middleton, vice G. W. D. Hay, pro.
motel
Frederick Close, vice Harding, promoted.
James Sinclair, rice Margesson, promoted.
Henry Lynch Talbot, vice Stewart, promoted.
Willoughby James Wilson, vice Street, promoted.
William Henry Randolph Simpson, vice Calvert, pro-
moted.
Levis William Penn, vice Woolsey, promoted.
Henry Robe Saunders, vice Drayson, promoted.
Edward Geary Snow, vice Elgee, promoted.
Richard George Handcock, vice Carthew, promoted.
fohn Duft Ramsay, vice Forbes, promoted.

William Morris, vice Blair, promoted.
John Thnrlow Leathes, vice Martineau, promoted.
Henry Renny, vice Hunter, promoted.
Charles Pauktt Rotton, vice R. J. Hay, promoted.
John Morris Savage, vice Macdougall, promoted.
Dashwood Jones, vice Spurway, promoted.
Thomas Edmond Byrne, vice Young, promoted,
Dated 18th December, 1847.
Corps of Royal Engineers.
Gentlemen Cadets to be Second Lieutenants.
Howard Cranford Elphinstone.
Charles Edward Cumberland.
Alexander Stephen Creyke, vice Phillpotts, promoted.
William Coles Phillpotts, vice J. H. Smith, promoted.
Henry Sandeman, vice Crease, promoted.
Amelius Beauclerek Fyers, vice Belson, promoted.
Joseph Wallis O'Bryen Hoare, vice Hutchinson, pro-
moted.
Lionel Charles Barber, vice Grain, promoted.

James Grantham, vice A. P. Smith, promoted.
Glastonbury Neville, vice Lochner, promoted.
James Ponsonby Cox, vice Ravenhill, promoted.
Henry George Savage, vice Siborne, promoted.
Gorge Reid Iztmpriere, vice Akers, promoted.

Dated 18th December, 1847.
BANKRUPTS.

Susannah Milton, clothier, Hounslow, Middlesex, to
surrender Jan. 6, at eleven, and Feb. 10, at twelve, at
the Court of Bankruptcy. Cannan, official assignee,
Krchin-lane; Jenkinson and Co., Lombard street.
Richard Miller Shorter, corn dealer, Camomile-street,
City, Jan. 6, at twelve, and Feb 10, at one, at the Court
of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basing-
hall street; Randall, Tokenhouse-yard.
William Lee, fruiterer, Wooburn-Green, Bucking-
hamshire, Jan. 7, at twelve, and Feb. 11, at eleven, at
the Court of BaLkruptcy. Cannan, official assignee,

Birehin-lane; Smith, Golden-square.
Robert Hayward, brewer, Landport, Southampton,
Jan. 7, at half- past one, and Feb. 8. at twelve, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee;. Low,
Chancery-lane ; Paffard, Forties.
William James Townshend, cork manufacturer, Well-
close-square, Middlesex, Jan. 3, at half-past two, and
Feb. 14, at half- past eleven, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Graham, official assignee, Coleman-street, City;
Laurence and Flews, Old Jewry-chambers.
Thomas Joshua Fenton, wine-merchant, Falcon-
square, City, Jan. 7, at ona, and Feb. 10, at eleven, at
the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Cole-
man-street-buildings ; Drake, Bouverie-street, Fleet-
street.

John Smith Maling, joiner, Scarborough, Yorkshire,
Jan. 6, and Feb. 10, at eleven, at the Leeds District
Court. Young, official assignee, Leeds ; Wigglesworth
and Co., Gray's-Inn ; Cronhelm' Leeds.
Thomas Chatto, linen draper, Morpeth, Northumber-
land, Jan. 13, at eleven, and Feb. 10, at half-past twelve,
at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court. Baker,
official assignee' Newcastle upon-Tyne; Woodman,
Morpeth ; Crosby and Compton, Church-court, Old
Jewry.
Edward Norris, commission agent, Manchester, Jan.
8 and 28, at eleven, at the Manchester District Court.
Hobson, official assignee, Manchester; Gregory, Faulk-
ner, Gregory, and Skirrow, Bedford-row, London; Cat-
terall, Preston. _

Edward Snow, draper, Nottingham, Jan. 7, and Feb.
11, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court.
Bittleston, official assignee, Nottingham ; Bowley, Not-
tingham.

Charles Norton, miller, Ellesmere. Salop, Jan. 11, at
eleven, and Feb. 22, at twelve, at the Birmingham Dis-
trict Court, Whitmore, official assignee, Birmingham ;
Tyrer, Liverpool; Hodgson, Birmingham.
Edward Evans,. shopkeeper, Wrexham, Denbighshire,
Jan. 14, and Feb. 4, at twelve, at the Liverpool District
Court. Turner, official assignee, Liverpool; Philpot,
lloutague-street, London ; Hughes, Wrexham; Evans
and Sons, Liverpool.

LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENI NG, DECEMBER 29, 1847.