The Sun.
London, England, 1847-01-14 00:00:00

IN KEN,.

FREEHOLD RENT-CHARGE IN LIEU OF GREAT TITHE,
ARISING FROM A MOIETY OF THE PARISH OF WESTER-
IIAM, PRODUCING NEAR FOUR HUNDRED POUNDS
A YEAR.
MR. GEORGE ROBINS begs to announce
for SALE by AUCTION, at the Mart, on THURSDAY,
February ,at Twelve o'clock, in One Lot,
A PERPETUAL RENT-CHARGE, in lieu of Great Tithe, secured
upon a Moiety of
THE PARISH OF WESTERHAM, IN KENT,
the minimum amount of which, under the Commutation Act, has
been settled at 3801. 17s. 2d. a year, but which has varied during the
last few years below and
ABOVE FOUR HUNDRED POUNDS PER ANNUM.
This charge becomes the first upon the land, and is now in the cha-
racter of a freehold, being in perpetuity ; it is secured upon
SEVERAL WELL-CULTIVATED FARMS OF 3,220 ACRES,
besides smaller tenements, altogether thirty-six in number. There
are likewise about
EIGHT HUNDRED ACRES OF WASTE LANDS,
which are gradually being brought into cultivation, and will in a few
years add very considerably to the income. The outgoings for rates
are about 701. a year. Property of this description is now rendered
as secure as any that can be offered for sale ; and from the impossi-
bility of any diminution or loss arising, becomes the most eligible for
safe and permanent investment.
Particulars will be ready twenty-one days prior to the sale, at the
King's Head, Westerham; Crown, Seven Oaks; of Messrs. Arm-
strong and Jones, solicitors, 38, Red Lion-square; at the Mart; 'and
at Mr. George Robins's offices, Covent-garden.

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DESTRUCTION OF WORTR-PARK
HOUSE BY FIRE.
This handsome residence, the seat of Joseph Monte-
fiore,
Esq., the eminent merchant, was completely de-
stroy ed at an early hour on Tuesday morning. Railway
travellers from London to Brighton will rememher the
mansion,as seen from the Three Bridges station, where
Crawley is a little on their right hand, and Worth-park
about a mile on their left. The house consisted partly
of a very ancient building, formerly a large farm-house,
hut Mr. Montefiare had laid out -several thousands in 1
modernizing it, and enlarging it to more than double its
former size, till it both presented an imposing aspect ex- ,
ternally, and was a fit abode for a gentleman of fortune
and consideration. He had been staying there on Sun-
day, and was out on Monday with the Crawley and
I lorsh am hounds; he returned to lunch, and left at about
four o'clock for London. The fire in the dining-room,
which was in the older portion of the house, where he
had been sitting, was then allowed to die out. About
half past ten o'clock on Monday night the saferhousek,
was going through the rooms to see that all
was wasaced
and perceived a strong smell of fire ; this tr
to the dining room, which was found full of smoke,
and soon after the door had been opened flames broke
out, and the house bt gan to catch fire rapidly. The
neighbours were alarmed as quickly as possible, and
ower
hastened to render all the aid in their p. Mr.
who was for-
Savage, the station clerk at Three 13ridgest
merly superintendent of police on the Brighton Rail-
way, was able to give some valuable directions for the
emergency, and the labourers from all parts spared no
exertions ; but little or nothing could be done beyond
removing hastily some of the more costly and portable
articles of furniture. The nearest engine is at Reigate,
tea miles off, and a message was sent for it by the up
goods train, but some mistake occurred, and the engine,
instead of being brought to Worth-park, was taken to
Lord Monson's, on the other side of Reigate ; and, in
fact, no engine arrived from first
he to last. T
se h fire, there-
fore, had complete mastery of tpremis, and burnt
e white
on freely and rapidly. A larg cat, a great favou-
rite, provided fur its own safety by mounting a tree in
the garden and looking quietly on. In less than two
hours the mansion was on fire to end. The
roof fell in portions ; the noble billiard-room, and the
chambers over it, were the last to
yield ; but before
five o'clock yesterday morning the entire place was
burned to the ground, nothing remaining but a few
fragments of walls and SOW° chimneys, parts of which
have been falling by scraps since. Mr. hiontefiore, for
whom a mounted express was sent, arrived in the course
of the morning, and thanked his friends and neighbours
for their assistance, remunerating the labouring men
very liberally, and congratulating all that no injury had
impossible for
occurred to the person of any elle- He is said to be
greatly beloved by the poor, and it was
people to work more willingly and eagerly than those
who assembled on this occasion. The fire is supposed
to have originated in the chimney of the diningi
It is seen now that there was a large cross-
beam
bn about
ea-r()m.
three feet above the grate, and some of
the materials
which usually shield,d it from theh.eaayt
after may probably
i tbheee the
stovehd
a hard
have get detached, and crumbled away
frost. There had been a large fire buruing
nutter
on Sunday and Monday. No estimate has
flounced of the damage done ; but of course
yete
the n
ut
destruction of a gentleman's mansion, with most of its
be to some
costly furniture, must cause a very heavy lo
party or other. Mr. Montefiore is said to
to some extent at least,in the Alliance insured,
Assurance Com-
pany.

A WOMAN KILLED BY HER HUSBAND.—An in-
quest was commenced at Bristol, on Monday, on the
body of the wife of Thomas Welsh, who, on Saturday
night, aften having beaten her severely, threw her down
stairs, by which she lost her life. The inquest was ad-
journed.
CONVEYANCE OF THE NORTH MAIL—We under-
stand that the Post-office authorities have just deter-
mined. that on and after the Ist of February next the
mail trom Loudon shall be conveyed by railway as far
as Carlisle, instead of being so conveyed only to Lan-
caster as at present. By this arrangement the arrivals
in Glasgow will be considerably earlier than heretofore.
—Glasgow Argus.

CHRONlCLE.—lnsignificance is the character of the
speech of the King of the French. If worthy of remark
at all, it is rather for what it leaves unsaid than for what
it says. Hitherto we have been in the habit of locking
in such a document for a stereotyped phrase about the
cordial understanding subsisting between France and
Great Britain, and although many may think such a
form of expression merely one of the banalities usual on
these occasions, the absence of it now may almost be
slid to be a European calamity. We look up and down
the speech in vain for anything like a mention of the
relations subsisting between the two leading countries of
Europe. We find nothing but an expression of the hope
that their mutual efforts may be successful in the pacifi-
cation of the River Plate ; and a general intimation (in
which we presume Great Britain is included) of King
Louis Philippe's belief that the peace of the world may
be preserved. And yet, strangely enough, by the side
of this paragraph we find a lamentatioe over the
breach of a treaty which is the basis of that general
peace ! What, then, are to be the keystones of the future
policy of France, if we are to go upon the authority of
the royal speech at the opening of the Chambers? Spain
certainly; probably Russia. The insignificant commer-
cial treaty lately negotiated with Russia (from which it
is difficult to see the advantage to be derived by French
subjects) is thought deserving of especial notice. A de-
cent veil is thrown around the mystery of the abortive
negotiations with the Czar subsequent to the Montpen-
sier marriage. " I have concluded," says the French
King, " with the Emperor of Russia a treaty of naviga-
tion, which guarantees to us, by a just reciprocity in
our maritime relations with that empire, advantages
which it was important for us to secure." Baffled twenty
times in his efforts to conciliate the Imperial Court,
King Louis Philippe returns to the charge with un-
wearied pertinacity. If the Czar will receive a compli-
ment in no other form, he must needs receive it in the
royal speech, and feel convinced of one thing at least—
how much the King of the French is his obedient
humble servant. We do not, however, wish to strain a
point, or to discuss as a probable contingency any inti-
mate relation between France and Russia. There are two
very strong reasons why such a relation should never
advance beyond its inchoate form in the brain of King
Louis Philippe. The first is, that the Emperor of
Russia, for various motives, personal and political,
would never for a moment entertain the thought; the
second, that the French people themselves would never
consent to the necessary sacrifices of liberty to Abso-
lutism in Spain, Italy, and Germany, which must be
given in such a case, as a guarantee of the sincerity of
the French King. The bugbear of a Russo-French
alliance is the merest hallucination of a professional al-
liance-monger. We turn next to a topic which precedes
this velleity for a Siberian system in King Louis Phi-
lippe's speech—the mention which is made of Spain, and
the late manoeuvres of M. de Bresson in the Peninsula.
This time the exultation of the King is no longer dis-
guised. He comes before the Chambers not to excuse,
but to gloat over his gains. You would think, on read-
ing the paragraph, that the cards hare not two sides.
The " funeral baked meats " of the deceased republic of
Cracow follow, indeed, in the speech closely on " the
marriage service " of Montpensier, in a reverse order
from the old instance in the play; but the
connexion between the two is as carefully
concealed. You are left to suppose that the
nuptials were a happy event, perfect and complete
in themselves, without any consequence or bearing upon
the obliteration of Cracow from the map of Europe.
Cracow again, and the destruction of its nationality,
stands out as a fortuitous event, disconnected with all
other topics of the royal speech. We are simply told,
" The republic of Cracow, an independent and neutral
state, has been incorporated with the empire of Austria."
What next? "I have protested against that infraction
of the treaty." The official protest we printed the other
day in all its unmeaning flaccidity; it must be fresh in
the remembrance of our readers. That was the official
act which was the object of the French King's allusion.
i'he paragraph in which the recent achievements of M.
de Bresson at Madrid are set forth must sound strangely
in a Spanish ear. We had thought that the occupation
of the Peninsula by the French armies during the wars
of Napoleon—the more recent armed advance into the
country, against which Mr. Canning struggled so long
and so fruitlessly—the utter neglect of the fulfilment of
King Louis Philippe's promises to aid the cause of con-
stitutional liberty in the still more recent and protracted
struggle—could not be altogether forgotten at Madrid.
But it is upon the discussion on the Address, and not in
considering this speech, that the whole of this subject
must be gone into. It is with sincere sorrow and sym-
pathy that we read the paragraph of King Louis Phi-
lippe's speech which alluded to the scarcity and distress
Wow etistieg in France. Of the reality of these suffer-
ings lie fear there can be little doubt.
TIES.—The French Chambers have seldom been
convoked under circumstances of greater interest than
those which attend the opening of the present session.
The Chamber of Deputies elected in the course of the
last summer now enters for the first time on the active
discharge of its important functions ; and in many re-
spects the position of the country in its relations to the
rest of Europe is as novel as the composition of the
assembly to which these momentous subjects are about
to be submitted. The Ministry, which has hitherto been
taunted and assailed for its alleged subserviency to
foreign influence. is now menaced by a part, at least, of
the Opposition with a directly contrary accusation, and
is attacked for having sacrificed an important foreign
alliance to a narrow view of the interests of the reigning
family of France. On the question of the English alli-
ance the leading members of the respective parties may
be said to have changed sides ; for, although we have
littlo doubt that they will vie with each other in assur-
ances of their future good-will towards this country,
this country has not forgotten the history of the last few
months, and the rapid ingenuity with which a groundless
suspicion of the good faith of an English Minster was
converted into a powerful instrument for the aggrandise-
ment of the house of Orleans and the subjection of Spain.
The speech delivered by King Louis Philippe on Monday
last is chiefly remarkable for the art with which the real
difficulties of the posture of affairs in Europe are dis-
guised or avoided. The lesser fact is so presented as to
mask the greater uncertainty. With reference to the
marriage of the Duke de Montpensier, the whole
policy of that transaction is boldly avowed, and if the
family compact had been renewed in precise terms, the
relations of the French and Spanish branches of the
house of Bourbon could not have been more perspi-
cuously described. After a declaration of this magni-
tude and importance, there is a burlesque affectation in
adverting to the concert of the French Government with
that of the Queen of England—in the affairs of the
River Plate! To that distant part of the globe the
entente cordiale, which was the glory and the joy of
former kings' speeches, has now receded ; and though
we sincerely share the hope that the operations of the
combined forces in the River Plate may re-establish the
security of our commercial relations there, it must be
acknowledged that the success of the united policy of
France and England in that quarter has not been so
brilliant as to compensate for the cessation of their
union in other places. In like manner, the conclusion of
a treaty of navigation with the Emperor of Russia is
ostentatiously adverted to, and it is, we believe, the first
time that Louis Philippe has had an occasion to intro-
duce the name of that Sovereign in conjunction with his
own. But a treaty of navigation is a flimsy veil to draw
over the policy of the Russian Court ; and the very next
sentence of the speech reminds us of that " unexpected
event which has impaired the state of affairs founded in
Europe by the last treaty of -Vienna," although it seems
that neither this nor any other occurrences has abated
the King's " firmest confidence that the peace of the
world continues secure." We must be permitted to
observe, that the subjects to which his Majesty has thus
been pleased to advert do not corroborate the general
assurance which serves to introduce them, and that if the,
etiquette of the royal solemnity had allowed a some-
what closer examination of the real state of Europe, at
no period of the King's reign would we have discovered
deeper grounds of apprehension and anxiety. He stands
alone, not at the close of a brief crisis, like that of 1840,
which had been exaggerated far beyond its real import-
ance, but at the commencement of a period when, in
Italy, in Germany, in Switzerland, in European Turkey,
and perhaps in Spain and in Greece, the most important
occurrences may be expected. We trust that it will
prove that the great interests arising out of these ques-
tions will unite, instead of dividing the policy of France
and England; but the destruction of all confidence in
the Sovereign, who exercises so direct a control over the
foreign relations of his own Government, is a sorry pre-
lude to a system of combined action. At this very time,
the representatives of the Northern Cabinets in Paris
and the French Court are playing a game on bath sides,
by which neither party is really deceived, but which
opens the path to as much connivance at unjust and
arbitrary acts, and as great a sacrifice of the national
dignity of France, as the King can give with impunity.
To what slender proportions, afterall,has the resentment
of France for the annexation of Cracow been reduced!
How many enormities may be perpetrated with impu-
nity, if a dispatch from the Foreign-office and a para-
graph in the speech from the throne are the sole expres-
sion of the resistance and indignation of Europe! It can-
not be doubted that all these matters ere subordinate to
the great question of the union or dissension
existing between France and this country; for
this dissension has already proved a direct en-
couragement to the aggressive tendencies of one
Power, and it may even operate upon the timorous
hardihood of another. Cracow has been extinguished
yesterday ;. Italy or Switzerland b
may
e thought of the con-
duct of the French
may be coerced to-
morrow. Whatever, then,
Government in the late transactions
in Spain, and however we must be on our guard against
the contingent consequences to which the marriage of
M
the Duke de ontpensier may
give rise, the existence
must not divert our
of a possibility on one side
atten-
tion from the existence of a probability
.on the other. It
would be the height of folly and of criminal injustice to
those nations which have a claim to our countenance
we were to abandon the cause of
and support
freedom
pendence and rf.eedom ; and if an English Minister
were to show his sense of a public wrong done to him by
France only by tolerating the encroachments of injus-
tice in other parts of Europe,
he would be conniving at
if
those acts as basely ashe had directly instigated
them. Such cannot be the views of the English Go-
vernment, and the most enlightened and dispas-

ADVERTISER.—One of the greatest legal injustices
we have met with for a long time was enacted at Bow-
street on Saturday. The recruiting sergeant of a
dragoon regiment summoned Mr. Searle, the landlord
of the Salisbury Arms. Durham-street, in the Strand,
for refusing to billet two recruits. In the absence of
her husband, who was confined to his bed by illness,
Mrs. Searle pleaded guilty to the charge, adding, that
she considered that no licensed victualler ought to be
called upon to answer for refusing to admit men who
were so badly clothed that they could scarcely cover
their nakedness, and who were "in the most filthy and
disgusting state of nastiness." Neither her husband nor
herself ever objected to admit soldiers with billets into
their house; but, rather than admit such persons as were
sent to her in the present instance, she would pay a
penalty of twenty pounds. To all this, Mr. Henry, the
presiding magistrate, replied that it was a duty thrown
upon licensed victuallers by law. and the moment
recruits were attested, although not in uniform,
they were entitled to all the privileges of soldiers !
Now, we beg to say, that in our humble opinion,
a suit of clothes is one of the privileges of a soldier. It
is, moreover, quite as claimable a privilege on the part
of society that men shall not, whether it be owing to
their fault, or their misfortune, be suffered to shock
public decency by appearing in the streets, or by being
forced on licensed victuallers in such want of clothes
that they can scarcely cover their nakedness. And the
conclusion we thaw from these two propositions is, that
since the law has thrown the duty of billeting on the
licensed victuallers, the recruiting sergeant, or his supe-
riors, ought to see that their recruits are in something
like a presentable appearance. We are quite ready to
accede to Mr. Henry's interpretation of the statute, so far
as to grant that from the moment recruits are attested
they are entitled to all the privileges of soldiers, although
not in uniform. But uniform is one thing, and the
form of nature is another! Nor can we agree with him,
if he would go so far as to say that it was ever intended
by the Legislature, that persons " in the most filthy and
disgusting state of nastiness" should be forced sub patnd,
into the house of a licensed victualler! The important
question of public health demands that if they are to be
billeted in rags, they should at least have received the
blandishment of a preparatory wash. Instead of Mr.
Searle being fined forty shillings, we beg to say that he
was rather entitled to the thanks of the community, and
of the Legislature in particular, for refusing to believe
that one of their Acts could admit of so dirty an inter-
pretation as was tried to be put upon this one
by the recruiting sergeant of dragoons. At
best the system of billeting is open to very
grave objections. With barracks in every part of
London, it not only seems, but it is a hardship, and a
very great one, that every " raw recruit," and, we mupt
add, every naked and filthy one, should be saddled on a
licensed victualler. We know the nuisance has been
borne, and is still borne with the greatest possible good
nature and cheerfulness ; but no one will pretend that
it is anything but a nuisance, and one which we cannot
believe to be necessary. At all events, the least return
that can be made to the civility which endures with kind-
ness rather than reproaching, is to secure cleanliness
and decency. It is no very unreasonable request, but it
is both unreasonable and morally wrong, and, in our
opinion, legally wrong too, to set a penalty on the re-
fusal to admit men who are neither clean nor decent!
We do not speak without consideration when we state
our confidence that this question, were it placed before
a judge of the superior courts, and a jury of twelve
disinterested men, would receive a very different adjudi-'
cation than that which it received from Mr. Henry.

REPEAL OF THE WINDOW-TAX.
Last night a meeting of delegates from the metropo-
litan parishes was held at the Court-house, Marylehone,
for the purpose of considering the most effective mea-
sures for obtaining a repeal of the window duties, and also
to form a deputation to wait upon Lord John Russell.
The chair was taken by Mr. G. DANIELL, who said it
was useless to attempt any sanatory measures without a
total repeal of the window duties. Upwards of 50,000
children died annually from impure atmosphere. In
Marylebone there were 15,000 houses, and 1,022 per-
sons in the same parish were disfranchised, which he con-
tended also showed the paramount necessity of abolishing
the window duties.— (Cheers.)
Lord DUNCAN, M.P., then addressed the delegates,
axpres_ing his satisfaction in coming forward. Although
he had been 100 miles off that morning, when ho re-
ceived the letter requesting his attendance he felt happy
to be present at so numerous a meeting, since it con-
vinced him that the agitation for the repeal of the win-
dow tax was gaining ground. In 1845 he brought the
subject before the House of Commons; in the last ses- '
sion that House was so engaged in the corn and other
questions that little had been done with regard to the
window tax. When, however, the matter was brought
before the House no one was prepared to de:ay that the
tax was unequal and unjust. He (the Noble Lord) had
proved that it pressed most unequally upon the poorer
classes, and had showed that if the larger houses were
visited with the same duties as the smaller houses, a
much greater amount would be collected, because houses
with a large amount of window duties gradually dimi-
nished to something like 3s. a window, while a tax of 7s.
or Bs. was levied on small houses.—('- Hear," and ap-
plause.) The Noble Lord then called the attention of
the meeting to the disfranchisement that had taken place
in consequence of the window duties.
Sir CLIABLEs NAPIER, M.P., said he coincided in
opinion with the Noble Lord, that the window tax was
both unpopular and unjust, and that it ought to be abo-
lished.—(Hear.)
Arrangements were then made for the appointment of
a deputation from the metropolitan parishes, to wait
upon the Premier, and the meeting adjourned.

PAINLESS SURGICAL OPERATIONS.—Guy's Hospi-
tal, on Tuesday, was crowded to excess by numbers of the
medical profession from all parts of the metropolis and
the country, to witness the results of two surgical opera-
tions under the new process of inhalation of ether. The
first case was that of a boy, twelve or fourteen years of
age, for lithotonay (stone in the bladder). When brought
into the theatre and bound as usual, Mr. Robinson, of
Gower-street, the inventor of the apparatus, offered the
pipe for inhalation. At first he refused, but by some
tact the pipe was introduced and the nose closed, and in
two minutes Mr. Robinson said the patient was ready.
The operation then commenced, and in one minute more
was completed by Mr. Morgan. The boy, after his re-
moval to the ward, was visited by the surgeons, and on
being shown the stone he said, " You never took that
from me, I knows, as I never felt it." The next case was
still more extraordinary. The patient, a man, suffering
from congenital hernia, when brought into the theatre,
readily took the vapour for five or six minutes. The
word was then given to Mr. Key by Mr. Robinson to
commence the operation, and the patient was under the
surgeon's knife from fitteen to twenty minutes On
being asked by those around if he had felt pain he re-
plied, "None in the world. I have been looking at
those gentlemen outside." Ho alluded to numbers of
gentlemen who, being unable to gain admittance, had
recourse to the skylight of the theatre. Mr. Morgan
and Mr. Key pronounced the results to be perfectly sa-
tisfactory.
Nzw BRITISH IRON COMPANY.—On Tuesday the
annual meeting of this concern was held at the office of
the company in Threadneedle street. The chair was
taken by William Routh, Esq., who gave a very favour-
able account of the operations of the company for the
past year. The total of pig iron manufacture.l in the
year was 52,309 tons, and of finished iron 41,944 tons.
He had the satisfaction of stating that the company's
means of production were now so great as to enable
them to make 1,300 tons of pig iron per week instead of
1,000 as in the former year. By this time twelve months
he hoped the proprietors would find the state of their
accounts equally favourable as at present. The directors
proposed a dividend of 20s. per share, payable on Friday
next. Four directors, namely, Joseph Hoare, Charles
Kerr, John Hurdis Ravenshaw, and John Horsley
l
Palmer, Esq 3., who retired by rotation, were re-elected
re-elected
th
unanimously, and Joseph Ricardo, Esq., w
an auditor of the company. Mr. eheans resn-ioved a
vote of thanks to the directors of the. company, which
was seconded and passed unanimous)), when the meet-
ing adjourned.
ST. PANCRAS.—Tuesday a meeting of the Direc:
tors and Guardians of the Poor of St. Pancras was held
•Board-room of the Workhouse, King's
-road,
inC theamden Town ; Mr. B. J. E. Wright in the chair. Mr.
APGahey, the vestry clerk, stated to the Board, that he
had on Thursday last, pursuant to appointment, at-
tended at Somerset-house, and was examined by the
Poor-law Commissioners, Sir Francis Edmund, Messrs.
Lewis and Nicholls, and also an Assistant Commissioner,
Mr. Hall, with a short-hand writer. Mr. M`Gahey
re-
quested to be allowed to write down the questions and
answers, but was refused, and informed that a copy of
the depositions should be given him. The inquiries
were generally as to the mode of administration of relief
to the out-door poor, and other things connected with
the management of the workhouse. Mr. M'Gahey had
been under examination for about an hour at Somerset-
house, but he had not yet been supplied with a copy of
the depositions as promised. After some slight discus-
sion, it was resolved that the depositions should be laid
before the Directors as soon as they were forwarded to
Mr. M`Gahey.

The Duke of RICmitoND, in rising to acknowledge the
compliment ceederred by his appointment as president
of the proposed institution, and perpetual chairman of
the committee, said—Gentlemen, having been requested
to attend here to-day by your respected honorary secre-
tary, I assure you, often as I have risen in public—often
as it has been my good fortune to meet the farmers of
this country, I never upon any previous occasion rose
with such deep feelings of pride and gratitude as I do
now. I have long felt with emotions of no ordinary
nature, that I have never passed a farmer's house in any
part of the country without feeling assured that if I
knocked at the door and sought admittance, I would find
a friend within to welcome me.--(Hear.) But, gentle-
men, I must confess I did not expect to meet with any
such exhibition of feeling and attachment as you have
exhibited here to-da.y—(hear, bear.) lam well aware
that this manifestation o your kindness is materially
owing to my having, during the period I lived in this
country, availed myself of every opportunity in my power
to do my utmost to protect and uphold the agricultural
interests of the country, and not only to protect and
uphold them by maintaining those laws which I felt in
my conscience to be right, but by exerting myself to
promote the improvement of agriculture throughout
every district of Great Britain.—(clear, hear.) Gentle•
men, I believe the circumstance is by no means frequent
where testimonials of a flattering character are accorded
to individuals who have flailed in the great object for the
achievemeut of which they had confederated. If we had
beaten the AntieCorn-law League last year, then I should
not have been so much surprised at this mark of your
kindness and this great expression of your gratitude;
but being defeated, the tribute becomes more valuable,
for it plainly shows me it comes from your hearts, and I
am more delighted, as it will attest to persons hereafter,
who may occupy a position in society similar to my
own, that the tenant-farmers of England like men
who will stand forward undauntedly in their cause,
and that they feel a deep debt of gratitude for exer-
tions, however humble or inefficient such exertions may
prove to be.—(Cheers.) Gentlemen, I certainly felt
that we should have some means of taking care of those
industrious tenant-farmers who might by adverse cir-
cumstances undergo those changes which must take
place in a great country like this. Gentlemen, I know
I have been attacked for saying tleat w.i.alAed the
&bearers and their families to betake Ihemsel‘473l4.the
.workhouse. I deny tlie'imputation. I felt that some
steps should be taken to lessen the demands made on the
poors'-rate of,the country, but I know I have never
seen or heard- pf persons belonging -to the iudiritrial
classes going into the workhouse without, strong feelings
of regret.—(Hear, hear.) If then, Gentlemen, I have
felt fur them, must I not fed still more for those whe
have been brought up in, aid :hared through early life
the blessings of, better fare, lib, ref. and the enjoyment
of respectable society? Can I think it right that re-
spectable tartnt-rs should be sent into the workhouse,
there to associate with men who ought never to have
been its irmates, and p. rhaps wli never would have
been had they paid fewer visits to the beershops?—(Dear,
hear.) It is with these vies I think such an inititu•
tion ought to be formed for the benefit of the tenant-
farmers of this country. I must leave it entirely to you
to work out the details, though, as a member of the
committee, I shall feel most happy to attend and con-
sult with you, and give my best aid towards carrying
out successfully what you will permit me to say should,
in my opinion, be considered a great national object.—
(Cheers.) Gentlemen, I have now only to tender my
sincere thanks for the great patience with which you
have listened to me. The Noble Duke resumed his seat
=ld loud applause from all parts of the room.
Some routine business having been transacted, a con-
versation took place relative to the appointment of a
second honorary secretary to assist Mr. Burrell in dis-
charging the duties, which were expected to become
onerous. The expedieecy of retaining the services of a
paid secretary was also mooted, but the final considera-
tion of both appointments were reserved for an early
meeting of the committee.
Mr. BURRELL announced that he had received several
communications from local societies, and from private
individuals, approving of the intended compliment to his
I Grace the Duke of Richmond, and expressive of their de-
termination to second the exertions by every means in
their power. He then read a detailed list of subscrip-
tions from varieus districts of the country, and informed
the meeting that many societies had promised to increase
the amount remitted.

Thanks were then voted to the chairman, and th•
meeting separated.

SUICIDE OF MR. YOUATT, THE VETERINARY SUR..
GEON.—Tuesday, Mr. Mills received information of the
death of Mr. Youatt, the celebrated veterinarian, who
committed suicide under the following melancholy cir-
cumstances :—lt appears that the deceased gentleman,
so well known in the sporting world, was in the seven-
tieth year of his age, and resided with his family at
No. 1, Osnaburgh-place, New-road. The deceased had,
by heavy pecuniary losses from unfortunate specula-
tions, become somewhat embarrassed, which at length
resulted in a morbid depression of spirits, which at
times was so perceptible that his frieiids apprehended
he was of unsound mind ; but generally after an
attack of melancholy he would bt.come so cheerful
and rational as entirely to remove all previous fears.
He was a man of good health, and, in fact, never exhi-
bited the slightest symptoms of ill health until Satur-
day last, o❑ which morning, between eleven and twelve
o'clock, he went out complaining of a pain in his head,
and rather dispirited. He returned at twelve, and then
ret'red into his room, where he remained undisturbed
until about two, when the maid-servant proceeded to his
apartment to announce the dinner, but receiving no
answer, and the door being partially open, she stepped
in and saw him sitting on a couch. Thinking he was
asleep she advanced, and discovered that he was dead.
There was a small bottle, as well as a cup, by his side
on the table, which had evidently contained poison. It
was stated that on the morning of the lamentable event
the deceased had received a bill for a large sum of
money, which he was unable to meet, and it was consi-
dered that he had gone out in the hope of procuring the
amount, and that his inability to succeed lea him to the
commission of suicide.

FOREIGN POTATOES.—The following arrivals
potatoes have taken place during the past
Marie Devine, from Dunkirk. brought roo tweseneskt,ha'endjortohf
Four Brothers, from the same place. 20orttoon28 baskets,
duce of Normandy ; the Demo, from Op
98 sucks ; the Rose, from Grave lines,
from Jacquesthe
of Portuguese p; eduction ; the Columbine,liues44frotomnsH;avget
alsoLyon,t.
frformo
trhaev e se, place,4o to nss3; tons
;ChthaerleSs
same French port, 48 tons ; and the Jane, from Calais,
an entire cargo, comprising about 100 tons, the whole
the produce of France ; the St. Leonard, from Dunkirk,
60 tons weight of potatoes and 250 bags of potato flour,
,
the production of Norman,ty ;the A lida Lselina from
Rouen, 75 tons weight ; the Omnibus, from Boulogne,
64 tons weight ; and the Maid of Erin, from Rouen, 75
tons, the produce of France ; the Pink, from Dunkirk,
62 tons weight, the produce of Normandy; the Provi-
dentia, from Rouen, 80 tons weight, the growth of
France ; and finally, 120 baskets by the Elizabeth, from
Prince Edward's Island, the production of that place.
DEATH OF LORD EDWARD FITZALAN HOWARD.--•
We regret to hear that accounts have reached town an-
nouncing the demise of the above Nobleman, who died
suddenly, from congestion of the brain, on the 21st ult.,
at Alexandria, where his Lordship had only arrived a
few days previously from Malta and a tour in Greece.
His Lordship was third son of the Duke and Duchess of
Norfolk, and his premature demise bas thrown the
family into the deepest affliction.
REMOVAL OF WESTMINSTER-BRlDGE.—Tuesday
deputation from the united parishes of St. John's and
St. Margaret's, Westminster, was appointed to wait
upon Viscount Morpeth, Chief Commissioner of Woods
and Forests, to represent to his Lordship the great
injury that it will cause to these parishes by changing
the site of Westminster-bridge.
Lord Brougham, accompanied by Lady Millet,
left town on Monday, on a visit to the Duke of Rutland,
at Bclvoir Castle.