The Sun.
London, England, 1846-11-04 00:00:00

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that were undermined and shaking, propped by great
beams oi' wood. Here, a chaos of carts, overthrown
and jumbled together, lay topsy turvy at the bottom of
a steep unnaturet hill ; there, confused treasures of iron
soaked and rusted in something that had accidentally
become a pond. Everywhere were bridges that led no-
where ; thoroughfares that were wholly impassable ;
Bable towers of chimneys, wanting half their height ;
temporary wooden houses and enclosures, in the most
unlikely situations ; carcases of ragged tenements and
fragments of unfinished walls and arches, and piles of
scaffolding, and wildernesses of bricks, and giant forms
of cranes, and tripods straddling above nothing. There
were a hundred thousand shapes and substances of in-
completeness, wildly mingled out of their places, upside
down, burrowing in the earth, aspiring in the air, moul-
dering in the water, and unintelligible as any dream.
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dilapidated walls
and fiery eruptions, the usual attendants
upontal
scene. Boiling
; whence,
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flames came issuing forth ; and mounds of ashes blocked
wilisnaet,er also,
up rights of way, and wholly changed the law and cuss
tom of the neighbourhood.
"In short, the yet unfinished and unopened railroad
wra in progress ; arid, from the very core of all this dire
disorder, trailed smoothly away, upon its mighty course
of civilisation and improvement.
"But as yet the neighbourhood was shy to own the
railroad. One or two bold speculators had projected
streets ; and one had built a little, but had stopped
among the mud and ashes to consider further of it. A
bran-new tavern, redolent of fresh mortar and size, and
fronting nothing at all, had taken for its sign The Rail-
way Arms ; but that might be rash ent rprise—and then
it hoped to sell drink to the workmen. So, the Exca-
vators' House of Call had sprung up from a beer shop ;
and the old-established Ham and Beef Shop had beef me
The Railway Eating House, with a roast leg of pork
daily, throu h interested motives of a similar, imme-
diate and popular description. Lodging-house keepers
were favourable in like manner ; and for the like reasons
were not to be trusted. The general belief was very
slow. There were frowzy fields and cowhouses, and
dunghills, and dustheaps, and ditches, and gardens, and
surnmer-houses, and carpet-beating grounds, at the very
door of the railway. Li!tle tumuli of o3ster shells in the
oyster season, and of lobster shells in the lobster season,
and of broken crokery and faded cabbage leaves in all
seasons, encroached upon its high places. Posts, and
rails, and old cautions to trespassers, and backs of mean
houses, and patches of wretched vegetation, stared it out
of countenance. Nothing was the better for it, or
thought of being so.'lf the miserable waste ground lying
near it could have laughed, it would have laughed it to
scorn, like many of the miserable neighbours.
"Staggs's-gardens are uncommonly incredulous. It was
a little row of houses, with little squalid patches of ground
before them, fenced off with old doors, barrel staves,
scraps of tarpaulin, and dead bushes ; with bottomless
tin kettles and exausted iron fenders, thrust into the
gaps. Here the Staggs's Gardeners trained scarlet
beans, kept fowls and rabbits, erected rotten summer
hour, s (one was an old boat), dried clothes, and smoked
pipes.; Some were of opinion that Staggs's Gardens
derived its name from a deceased eapatilist, one Mr.
Staggs, who had built it for his delectation. Others,
who had a natural taste for the country, held that it
dated from those rural times when the antlered herd,
under the familiar denomination of Staggses, had re-
sorted to its shady precincts. Be this as it may, Staggs's
Gardens was regarded by its population as a sacred
grove not to be withered by railroads ; and so confident
were they generally of its outliving any such ridiculous
inventions, that the master chimney sweeper at the
corner, who was understood to take the lead in the local
politics of the Gardens, had publicly declared that on
the occasion of the railroad opening, if it ever did open,
two of his boys should ascend the flues of his dwelling,
with instructions to hail the failure with derisive jeers
from the chimney pots.
As a companion piece of topographical portraiture,
here is an account of Princess's- place, West-end :
" Miss Tox inhabited a dark little:house that had been
squeezed, at some remote period of English history, into a
fashionable neighbourhood at the west end of the town,
where it stood in the shade like a poor relation of the
great street round the corner, coldly looked down upon
by mighty mansions. It was not exactly in a court, and
it was not exactly in a yard ; but it was in the dullest
of No-Thoroughfares, rendered anxious and haggard by
distant double knocks. The name of this retirement,
where grass grew between the chinks in the stone pave-
ment, was Princess's-place ; and in Princess's-place was
Princess's Chapel, with a tinkling bell, where semetimes
as many as five-and-twenty people attended service on a
Sunday. The Princess's Arms was also there, and much
resorted to by splendid footmen. A sedan chair was
kept inside the railing before the Princess's Arms,
but it had never come out within the memory of
man ; and on fine mornings, the top of every rail (there
were eight-and forty, as Miss Tox had often counted)
was decorated with a pewter pot.
" There was another private house besides Miss Tox's
in Princess's-place ; and not to mention an immense pair
of gates, with an immense pair of lion headed knockers
on them, which were never opened by any chance, and
were supposed to constitute a disused entrance to some
body's stables. Indeed, there was a smack of stabling
garments
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fri-rs, who in 1821 lived with M. Mignet, in a
miserable garret in the Passage Montesquieu, Polais
Royale, Paris, and who now resides in his superb
mansion in the Place St. George, after having been
Prime Minister of France, and after acquiring an
European celebrity, as the historian of the Revolu-
tion, the Consulate, and the Empire ; the other on
Leman Blanchard, who somewhere about 1824, stood
on the parapet of Westminster-bridge with the in-
tention of drown* himself in the Thames, and who,
after nearly twenty years more of toil and anxiety'
died the death of a suicide. The memoirs of Thiers
closes so abruptly that we are inclined to hope it may
be continued. As an example of how much may be
achieved from little, how distinction may be won
from obscurity, how affluence may be acquired from
destitution, this paper is most valuable. Bjrn at
Marseilles on the 15th of April, 1797, the son of an
industrious locksmith, Thiers commenced life
without any promise of distinction, without
any apparent means of elevating himself to
anything above mere respectability, without
patronage, money, or even expectations.
Nevertheless, by the aid of his own genius alone, of
his own perseverance, of his own quickness of percep-
tion he has rendered his name illustrious, not merely
in France but throughout the civilised world. With
a diminutive body, features of a common caste, -figure
ungainly, slovenly and vulgar; with a voice intole-
rable for its nasal twang and provincialism, restless
and fidgetty in his movements. and remarkable for a
grotesque habit of swinging his body from side to
std ; this unpatronised, penniless, neglected man
insinuated his way from the garret to the editorial
office, from the editorial office to the fashionable
salons, from the salons to the palace, from
the palace to the Ministerial Cabinet—from being
engaged as a writer upon the Constitutionnel, and ori-
ginating and editing the National newspaper, he ul-
timately became one of the principal instigators of the
revolution of 1830, and subs'quently directed the
affairs of the French Government. It must
have been a startling alternation for Thiers—
his journey from Aix in the banquette of a diligence
to seek his fortune in the metropolis, and his entering
the Cabinet of Louis Philippe, when the King sa-
luted him with the interrogation—" M. Thiers,
are you ambitious ?" and immediately after-
wards tendered him the portfolio of finance. Before
we close our notice of this clntribution, we would
transcribe one paragraph which occurs in the outline
of the revolution of the three days. It is this :
" Among the most conspicuous of the journalists of
that day, was an individual of tall and lank figure,
abrupt but noble impulses, and serious aspect. At the
first report of the fire-arms, he shook his head mourn-
fully, Then he went, unarmed, except with a walking
cane, through the town, indifferent to the balls which
were whizzing around him, and braving death without
seeking for victory. This individual, destined after-
wards to play a sad but illustrious part, was then little
known: his name was Armand Carrel. ' Have you even
a single battalion?' said he incessantly to his more san-
guine friends. On the morning of the 28th, meeting
M. Etienne Arago (the brother of the astronomer of
that name) who evinced much ardour, he said to him,
Stop !' and pointing to one of the populace, who w,s
greasing his shoes with the oil of a broken lamp, he
said, Beheld the people !—such is Paris !—ever the
same levity—indifference—the appropriation of the re-
sults of great and important actions to the most trifling
uses.' "

Two accusations have been made against Thiers
during the course of his political career—one of pecu-
lation in office, the other of poltroonery during the
oneutes of '3O. Of both these he is tolerably well
cleared by the writer ; but of his ingratitude to his
unfortunate worshipper Schubart, too much can
scarcely be said in reprobation. The history of poor
Laman Blanchard is an extraordinary contrast to the
successes and renown of the historian-statesman. The
circumstances of that melancholy career are too
fresh in the public recollection to require
any particular enumeration. From his birth, in Great
Yarmouth, the 15th of May, 1803, to his entrance
into the Proctor's office, to his casual appearance as
an actor on the stage at Margate, down to the miser-
able 15th of February, 1845, when he cut his throat
with a razor, all the incidents of his gentle life, and of
his violent death, have been already eloquently and
pathetically detailed by the pen of Sir Edward Bul-
wer Lytton. We have ourselves paid a tribute to
that beautiful and moving composition. Hood dying
of a broken heart, Hayden shooting himself in a mo-
ment of despair, Maginn perishing in misery,
Blanchard driven to madness and suicide by the
ceaseless labour of his mind, have successively and
recently afforded us testimonies of the neglected con-
dition of literary and artistic intellect. We need not
recur to Otway and Chatterton, we have had in our
own days spectacles as appalling and instructive.
We cannot, with a vivid remembrance of these
things, but participate with the writer in
his expression of astonishment at "genius starving,
and blockheadism and blackguardism revelling in
turtle and champagne." We cannot hut feel amazed
and indignant, as he is, in thinking that " Sheridan
Knowles, the honest, the kind, the generous, is
struggling with the difficulties of existence." We
cannot ourselves but sympathise, as he does, with
those neglected beings, who are " working, working,
working, not by the sweat of their brows,—for that
toil is light and wholesome—but by the sweat of their
minds, and memories, and souls, and hearts." This
article is admirably corroborative of the noble and
winning character given of Blanchard by Sir Edward.
The writer emphatically says, that Leman Blanchard's
soul was " like a divine and noble temple, where truth
and candour, and white-robed virtue sat eternally
enthroned." He describes Blanchard as a guileless,
honest, kindly-tempered creature, and declares, as
Sir Bulwer Lytton had already declared, that, to his
knowledge, Blanchard never made an enemy through-
out his life. Here is a description of his disposition,
and it is one the memory of which all good men must

"At this other private house in Princess's-place,
tenanted by a rotired butler who had married a house-
keeper, apartments were let furnished, to a single gen-
tleman ; to wit, a wooden featured, blue-faced, Major,
with his eyes starting out of his head, in whom
Miss Tox rccognise.i, as she herself expressed it. some-
thing so truly military,' and between whom and hers( lf,
an occasional interchange of newspapers and Pamphlets,
and such p!at.inic dalliance, was effected through the
medium of a dark servant of the Major's, whom Miss
Tox was quite content to classify as a " native," without
connecting him with any geographical idea whatever.
" Perhaps there never was a smaller entry and stair-
case, than the entry and staircase of Miss Tox's house.
Perhaps, taken altogether, from top to bottom, it was the
most inconvenient little house in England, and the
crookede4 ; but then, Miss Tux said, what a situation !
There was very little daylight to be got there in the
winter ; no sun at the best of times ; air was out of the
question, and traffic was walled out. Still Miss Tox
said, think of the situation ; so said the blue-faced
Mi.ijor, whose eyes were starting out of his head ; who
gloried in Princess's place; and who delighted to turn the
conversation at his dab, whenever he could, to some-
thing connected with some of tne great pc, p'e in the
great street round the corner, that he might have the
satisfaction of saying they were his neighbours.
" The dingy tenement inhabited by Miss Tox was
her own, having been devised arid be qu athed to her by
the deceased owner of the fishey eye the locket, of
whom a miniature portrait with a powdered head and a
pig. tail, balanced the kettle-holder on opposite sides of
the parlour fire-place. The greater part of the furni-
ture was of the powdered-head and pig. tail period, com-
prising a plate-warmer, always languish ng and sprawl-
ing its four attenuated bow legs in somebody's way ; and
an obsolete harpsichord, illuminated round the maker's
name with a painted garland of sweet peas. '
" Although Major Bagstoek had arrived at what is
called in polite literature, the grand meridian of life, and
was proceeding on his journey downhill with hardly any
throat, and a very rigid pair of jaw-bones, and long-
flapped elephantine ears, and his eyes and complexion in
the state of artificial excitement already mentioned, he
was mightily proud of awakening an interest in Miss
Tox, and tickled his vanity with the fiction that she was
a splendid woman who had her eyes on him. This he
had several times hinted at the club : in connexion with
little jocularities, of which old Joe Bagstock, old Joey
Bagstock, old J. Bagstock, old Josh. Bagstock, or so
forth, was the perpetual theme : it being, as it were,
the Major's stronghold and donjon-keep ()flight humour,
to be on the most familiar terms with his own name."

love :
There was about him an exuberant good nature—a
tone of graceful charitableness for the errors and weak-
nesses of others—a distaste for satirical comment or
bitter observation, or just, though perhaps severe, criti-
cism on the m=nds and manners of his contemporaries—
a sweet and beaming benevolence of voice and gesture,
which to one who had known and tried what mankind
really are, and in the bitter school of experience, learned
to despise, to pity, or to loathe them, appeared to be at
first a mere affectation—assumed, like a robe, for the
occasion—and intended by its wearer as a dress for cer-
tain times and seasons and companions, rather than for
ordinary nse. But this mistaken idea gradually faded
away as Blanchard became better known. There was
evidently, in his case, no hypocritical assumption of a
virtue which he did not really possess.. If his kindness
were fanatical, it was at all events sincere."
Here is an account of the personal appearance of that
accomplished and unfortunate author
" In figure he was slight and small, but fairly propor-
tioned. His features were dark ; but it was that soft
eastern darkness

' Like the night
Of Orient climes and starry skies,'
which is, perhaps, more agreeable to the eye in a man,
than the blended red and white which belongs to our
northern races. Intelligence shone out of every line .
his countenance like a light ; and there was a flash in
his eye, which at times made him look absolutely beau-
tiful. His hair, like his eyes and features, was also dark,
ar.d was as fine as silk, with a natural curl ; and his
entire appearance wne characterised by a delicacy, a gen-
tleness, a thoroualtbr dness of manner which one looks
for and finds in- an Arabian steed—all lightness, ele-
gance, and ease. His hands and feet too were small ;
and his whole appearance was so entirely prepossessing,
that the sternest critic might well pause before he in-
flicted pain on one whose entire nature seemed as soft
and gentle as a woman's ; but who, nevertheless, was as
perfectly free from any effeminacy of look, or tone, or
manner, as man possibly c,.uld be."
Of the paper upon the "British Theatre," we shall
abstain from speaking in its present state of incom-
pletion. Carleton's tale of " The Black Pro, het" is
continued with undiminished ability. A capital
series is commenced called " A Scamper in the Long
Vacation," as also another upon " Guernsey," by-
gone and prospective The entire number of the
magazine is the most excellent that has been pub-
lished for many months.

Several new characters are introduced, as the mys-
terious Mr. Carker, and a fellow of infinite humour,
called Major Bagstock, who styles himself indis-
criminately Joe Bagstock, Joey Bagstock, J. Bag-
stock, Josh. Bagstock, and even sometimes J. 8., 6, it
being, as it were, the Major's stronghold and donjon-
keep of light humour to be on the most familiar terms
with his own name." We might, did we list, cull a
number of ludicrous and touching fragments from
this single number, as the account of Miss Nipper
administering a lecture upon moral conduct to
Florence, and " punctuating it with thumps," or Miss
Nipper softening under the deferential behaviour of
Mrs. Richards's sister, insomuch that " she caught up
little Miss Toodle, who was running by, and took her
to Banbury Cross immediately." Miss Nipper indeed
is a triumph. The Marchioness is eclipsed—Miss
Miggs is not entitled to any comparison—Tilly Slow-
boy is altogether superseded.

DOMBEY and SON. No. H. By Charles Dickens
If possible, the present are superior to the preceding
chapters We are introduced again to Son, other-
wise the infant Dombey, in his morning ablutions and
in his evening gymnastics preparatory to bed, when
he took "a short walk uphill over Richards's gown, in
a short and airy linen jacket." In his account of
Miss Nipper's smothered indignation in the nursery,
" Boz" writes a little grotesque sentence that reads
like a quotation from Fielding :
" As the knight-errants of old relieved their minds by
carving their mistress's names in deserts, and wilder-
nesses, and other savage places where there was no pro-
bability of there ever bang anybody to read them, so did
Miss Sthan Nipper curl her snub rose into drawers and
wardrobes, put away winks of disparagement in cup-
boards. sherl derisive squints into stone pitchers, and
contradict and call names out in the pa-sage.

.
IJEATII BY FIRE.-011 Monday a poor old woman,
named Ann Sweeney, aged above 70 years, who lived
at No. 30, Chick•lane, Whitechapel was burnt to
death, by her clothes accidently taking fire. A neigh-
bour passing by saw the blaze through the windows,
and, on busting the door open, the poor old woman
was found enveloped in flames, which were extin•
guished as speedily as possible, and she was conveyed
to the London Hospital, where she died soon after her
admission.

A CATHOLIC PRIEST CHARGED WITH FELONY.—
Stafford Swain, an elderly man of respectable appear-
ance, and who was formerly a priest of the Roman
Catholic Church, was charged at the Liverpool police-
office on Friday, with having stolen a sheet, a pillow,
and some towels, from the house of Robert Smith, the
person at whose house he lodged. The prisoner, who
had been in custody several times for obtaining money
under false pretences, said he had given the things to
his wife to pawn, on the condition that she would re-
deem thcm. A pawnbroker, with whom some of the
things had been pledged, said they were brought by a
man. Fined sixpence, and twenty shillings; or in de-
fault fourteen days' imprisonment.
The new Recorder of Bristol, It B. Crowder,
Esq., Q.O , successor to Sir C. Wetherell, took his seat
on Monday. This gentleman is also appointed judge of
the Tolzey Court. It was expected that in his first
charge to the grand jury lie would have introduced him-
self to the citizens by some reference to the circum-
stances which led to his appointment, but he entered at
once upon the cases enumerated in the calendar. It is
stated that counsels opinions have been taken by some
parties as to the legality of this appointment, by the
overnment, to the judgsjiip of the Tolzey Court. his
salary as recorder is 4001 per annum, and as judge of
the Tolzey Court 2001. ; in addition to which 1004 a
year is allowed for travelling expenses.

The description of the christening party in the
fireless parlour, with the leaves " coming down sorrow-
fully" in the garden, and Mr. Pitt "turning up his
nose at a cold collation" from the top of the bookshelf,
is admirable. The christening itself is drawn with a
dismal power. Of the various adventures crowded
into the after pages it would be scarcely fair to ab-
stract from their interest by speaking in epitome. We
cannot do better than transcribe two of those descrip-
tions of London locality for which Mr. Dickens is
already so famous. Here is a minute and truthful
picture of Camden Town before the railroad was com-
pleted, and also of Staggs's-gardens : --
" The first shock of u great earthquake had, just at
that per;oel. rent the whole neizhhourhood to its centre.
Traces of its cowrie were visible on every side. Houses
were knocked down : streets broken through and
stopped ; deep pits and trenches dug in the ground ;
enormous heaps of earth and clay thrown up buildinv

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TUESDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE.
At the Court at Windsor, the 30th day of October, 1846, I Thomas Ladd Peake.
present the Queen's Host Excellent Majesty in Council, .
this day the Right Hon. Sir Thomas Wilde, Kniulit, Lord William Hendry. pAskew.
Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, and the Right Charles Nelson.
Hon. Edward Strutt were, by her majesty•sncommalld, sworn The above-named Officers on the half-pay of one pound
of her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, and took their respective places at the Board accordingly. . per diem.
DOWNING-STREET, Nov. 3. Charles Hope Reid.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Lord Harris, Henry Theodosius Browne Collier.
Lieutenant-Governor of Trinidad, to be Governor and Corn-
John Brenton.
mander over that island. William Ramsden.
WAR-OFFICE Nov. 3. John Donaldson Boswell.
,
11th Light Drugoons—Lieut. Edmund Peel to be Cap- Henry Stanhope.
tain by purchase, vice Cathcart, who retires; Cornet John Townsend Coffin.
Frederick Henry Sykes to be Lieutenant, by parchase, vice Frederick Hunn.
Peel ; Robert Dennistoun, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, Edward Curzon, C.B.
vice Sykes, Nov. 3.
Septimus Arabin.
15th Light Dragoons—Lieutenant John Clancy, from
Thomas Ball Clowes.
57th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Blake, who exchanges,
James Couch.
Nov. 3.
fat of Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards—Edwyn She.
William Henry Smyth.
rard Burnaby. Gent., to be Ensign and Lieutenant, by pur-
Richard Saumarez.
chase . vice Munro, promoted, Nov. 3. James Montagu.
Ist Regiment of Foot—Ensign William John Bampfield to Thomas Priekett.
be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Gray, deceased, Sept. Alexander Dundas Yonne; Arbuthnot.
12;; Brock Carter, Gent, to be Ensign, vice Bamptield, blia•ii Fleming Chapman.
Nov. 3.
6th Foot—Francis William Henry M'Cleland, Gent., to be J, din Skekel.Our J elmStreld art.
Ensign, without purchase, vice Sandwith, whose appoint-
ment has been cancelled, Nov. 3. George ry Lompriere.
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13th Foot—Major Arthur Aueustus Thurlow Cunvng.
Thomas
hame to be Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchase, vice Squire, J,.hri Gore (C). arren:l.
who retires; Brevet Major Arthur Philip Savage Wilkinson Charles Boger.
o be Major, by purchase, vice Culls ngbaine; Lieutenant John George Graham.
Ensign
George Mames Duncan Lt-in to be Captain by purchase, vice Wilkinson ; John George Aplin.
Jon, Longden to be Lieutenant, by pur- William Roch fort.
chase, vice Mein ; Stacton Senior, Gent., to be Ensign, by John Packenham.
pu-chase, vice Longden, Nov. 3.
Fred Pead,
16th Foot—Ensign Lovell Stanhope Richard Lwell to be Frederiels Augustus Ws therall.
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Flood, who retires ; John Henry Litchffeld.
Parke-, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Lovell, Nov. 3. William Webb.
41st Foot—Lieutenant Charles Timothy Tuckey to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Sadlier, who retires; Ensign The above-named officers on the half-pay of eighteen
shillings per diem.
Campbell Graham to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
WHITEHALL, SEPT. 12.
Tuckey •; George Skipwith, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase,
The Honourable Sir Thomas Wilde, Knt., Lord Chief
vice Graham, Nov. 3.
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Bethune to be Lieutenant, by purch'ase, vice Campbell ; the Perpetual Commissioners for taking the acknowledge
Ensign James Erskine Paterson, from 72d Foot, to be En. ments of deeds to be executed by married women, under
sign, vice Bethune, Nov. 3.
the Act passed for the abolition of fines and reeoveries, and
Surgeon, vice Garret, promoted to be., to
S urgeon
49th Foot—Henry Beckwith, Gent be A ssistant- for the substitution of more simple modes of assurance, in
Second Class, Nov. 3. Staff of the and for the city of Bath, also in and for the county of
57th Foot—Lieut. Maurice Lynch Blake, from 15th Light Somerset.
Dragoons, to be Lieutenant, vice Clancy, who exchanges,
Lieutenant George Henry Hunt to be Adjutant, vice
M'Namee, deceased, Nov. 3.
67th Foot—Ensign Robert Charles Peel to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Humfrey, who retires; Robert Blakeney,
Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Peel, Nov. 3.
68th Foot—Lieutenant William Rhodes to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Grant, who retires; Ensign Horatio Harbord
Morent to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Rhodes; Ralph
Westropp, Gent., to be Ensign, by parcase, viceMorant,
Nov. 3.
72d Foot—Archibald Alison, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Paterson, appointed to 42d Foot, Nov. 3.
79th Foot—Ensign Henry Jardine Street to be Lieutenant
by purchase, vice Fairrie, who retires, ; Charles Millns liar-
risson, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Street, Nov. 3.
96th Foot—James William Samuel Moffatt, Gent., to be
Ensign, without purchase, vice Ford, whose appointment has
been cancelled, Nov. 3.
Commiss.oa by the Lord-Lieutenant of Southampton.
John Beames, Esq , to be Deputy. Lieutenant, Oct. 8.
Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of the county of Lincoln.
The Right Honourable William John Baron Monson to be
Deputy-Lieutenant, Oct. 19.

WHITEHALL, OCT. 30.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed Joseph Morton
Barrett, of Otley, in the counts• of York, Gent., to be a
Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery.
DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY.
Edwin Church Everitt, share-broker, Sidmouth Devon-
shire.

BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED.
Henry Payne, builder, Goulden-terrace, White Conduit-
field..
William Smith, potato dealer, Deptford.
John Boland, hardwareman, Manchester.
BANKRUPTS.
Sarah W'lcke, milliner, Fore-street, Cripplegate, to sur-
render Nov. 12, at twelve, and Dec. 19, at half-past twelve,
at the Court of Bankruptcy. Alsager, official assignee,
Birchin -lane, Cornhill ; Pike, Old Burlington -street. -*KAI
Lydia Wood and Charles Henry Wood, carpenters,
Willow-walk, Bermondsey, Nov. 20, at one, and Dec. 14, at
half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham,
official assignee, Coleman-street ; Peace and Jones, Tooley-
street, Southwark.
John King, scrivener, Buckingham, Nov. 12, at half-
past two, and Dec. 17, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Johnson, official assignee, Basinghall- street ; Risley, Furni-
val's Inn.
George Knight, dealer in manure, Weybridge, Surrey,
Nov. 12, at half-past twelve, and Dec. 17, at one, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee. Coleman-street-
buildings; Sadgrove, Mark-lane.
Robert Crow, draper, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Nov. 13, at
half-past ten, and Dec. 11, at one, at the Newcastle-upon-
Tyne District Court. Waklev, official assignee, Newcastle-
upon-Tyne; Harle, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Chisholme, Hall,
and Gibson, Lincoln's inn-fields.
Joseph Hall, victualler, Carlisle, Nov. 16, at eleven. and
Dec. 15, at one, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court.
Baker, official assignee, Newcastle upon. Tyne; Hill and
Mathews, St. Mary-axe; Hoyle, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Samuel Rodent retail brewer, Wellington, Shropshire,
Nov. 14, at eleven, and Dec. 8, at half-past ten, at the,
Birmingham District Court. Whitmore, official assignee
Birmingham ; Mottrarn and Knowles, Birmingham.
Thomas Thomas, draper, Ibstock, Leicestershire, Nov. 14,
at eleven, and Dec. 8, at half-past ten, at the Birmingham
District Court. Christie, official assignee, Birmingham ; Cow-
dell, Hinckley; James, Birmingham.
Daniel Burton and John Burton. cotton spinners, Middle-
ton, Lancashire, Nov. 13 and Dec. 3, at twelve, at the Man-
chester District Court. Hobson, official assignee, Manches-
ter; Bower, Tokenhouse-yard, London; Siddall, Vickers,
and Diggles, Manchester.
Mary Dent, bookseller, York, Nov. 17, and Dec. 8, at
eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Hope, official assignee,
Leeds; Jaques and Co., Ely-place, London; Wood, York.
DIVIDENDS DECLARED.
J. Rothchild, watchmaker, Bristol—a div. of Is. 2d. in the
pound, on any Wednesday, at the office of Mr. Hutton,
Bristol.
R. Lewis woollen manufacturer, Wootton-under-Edge,
Gloucestershire—first div. of 6d. in the pound, on any Wed •
nesday, at the office of Mr. Hutton, Bristol.
T. Lovell, baker, llenstridge-marsh, Somerset, hire—a div.
of Is. 3d. in the pound, on any Wednesday, at the office of Mr.
Hutton, Bristol.
W. Jones, linendraper, Usk, Monmouthshire—a div. of
Ss. 10(1. in the pound, on any Wednesday, at the office of
Mr. Hutton; Bristol.
11. Marsden, linendraper, Brynmawr, Brecknockshire—a
div. of 2s. 4d in the pound, on any Wednesday, at the office
of Mr. Hutton, Bristol.
J. 'fa\ for, coal titter, Middlesbro'—a sixth and final div. of
two fifths of a penny in the pound (in addition to fis. 2d. and
three-fifths of a penny in the pound previously declared), on
any Saturday, at the office of Mr. Baker, gewcastle-upon-
Tvne.

ADMIRALTY, OCT. 31.
This day, in pursuance of her Majesty's pleasure, the fol-
lowing Captains of the Royal Navy were promoted to the
rank of Retired Rear-Admiral of her Majesty's Fleet, on
the terms proposed in the London Gazette of Ist September,
1846, viz.:—

James Wilkes Maurice.
James Prevost.
Spelman Swaine.
Thomas White (A).
James Lillicrap.
Walter Grosset.
Thomas Folliott Baugh.
Samuel Martin Colquitt.
Gustavus Stupart.
Thomas Francis Charles Mainwaring.
Right Hon. William Earl Waldegrave.
John Hollinworth.
Clement Sneyd.
John Duff Markland, C.B.
Abel Ferris.
Robert Merrick Fowler.
Donald Campbell.
Sir Henry Hart, Knt., K.C.H.
George Henderson.
Thomas Tudor Tucker, C.B.
Henry Bourchier.
Robert Worgan George Feasting, C.B.
George Morris.
John Tancock.
James Pattison Stewart, C.B.
Christopher Bell, C.B.
James Stevenson.
Hon. Edmund Sexton Pery Knox.
Right Hon. David Earl of Leven and Melville
Colin Campbell (A).
Joseph Symos.
Honourable William Henry Percy.
James Pringle.
Samuel Leslie.
Ede and Ellicott.
Petir Rye.
James Gifford.
George Le Geyt, C.B.
Henry Gage Morris.
Edward Augustus Down.
Thomas W hinyates.
John William Andrew, C.B.
Robert Mitford.
Henderson Bain.
Clem. nt Milward.
John Fordyce Maples, C.B.
Robert Bioye, C. B.
Thomas Edward Symonds.
Lewis Hole.
John M'Kerlie.
John Simpson.
John Bowker.
George Moubray, and
Alexander Barclay Branch, K• 11
having accepted the situation of Captains of Greenwich
Hospital, are to be placed on the list of Captains on re-
tired pay.
And this day also, in pursuances of her Majesty's
pleasure, the fellowi; g
Captains of the Royal Navy,
having accepted the rdtirement of their rank on the
terms p-oposed in the London Gazette of Ist September,
1846, have been plat: don the retired half-pay list at
the increased rates therein specified :
Frederick Jennings Thomas.
Henry Thomas Davis.
Honourable Henry Dilkes Byng.
George Gustavus Lennock.
Sir William George Parker, Bart.
Robert Gambier.
Charles Frederick Payne.
Colin Macdonald, C.B.
Abraham Lowe.
Charles Bertram.
George Hills.
Henry Fanshawe.
Isaac Hawkins Morrison.
George Barne Trollope, C.B.
Sir Thomas Mansell, Rut., K.C.H.
Thomas GI übe.
Hercules Robinson.
William Black.
John Harpar, C.B.
Weston Phipps.
Thomas Dick.
Bertie Cornelius Cator.
Frederick Edward Vernon Harcourt.
Right Hon. Kenelem Lord Somerville.
Henry Jenkinson.
Edward Saurin.
John Hardy Godby.
Christopher Strachey.
Arden Adderley.
James Boxer.
Richard O'Connor, K.C.H.
Thomas Ball Sulivan,O.B.
David Scott.
Richard Creyke.
Nicholas Lechmere Pateshall.
Rowland Money, C.B.
John Sheridan.
Sir Henry Loraine Baker, Bart., C.B.
George William Hughes d'Aeth, C.B.
Robert Ramsay, C.B.
John Charles Gowen Roberts.
Sir Samuel Roberts, Knt., C.B.
Archibald Tisdall.
Joseph Gulston Garland.
Joseph Digby.
Charles Ward, K.H.
JWoihlnlialmioSbetarin3h,.ope Lovell, K.H.
William Ffarington.
Frederick William Burgoyne.
John Rattrap
John Allen.
Arthur Philip Hamilton.
RobertDn Rogers.
George Bentham.
James Arthur Murray.
Thomas Renwick.
Henry Higman.
Daniel Lawrence.
Jolla Gourly.
Augustus Baldwin.
Henry Colins Deacon.
Edward Barnard.
James Wallis.
John Georgem Hewson.phers
Macpherson o Ferguson.
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William Bateman Dashwood.
Martin John
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George Rodney Phillott.
William Wolrrge.
George Brine.
Honourable John Gordon.
William Popham.
James Hay.
CoWokheiste.
by.
Charles
Hugh Patton.
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Charles Orlando Bridgeman.
Sir Henry oma
sJones, Rut.
Robert
Shiffner, Bart.
Henry Forbes.
Alexander Montgomerie.
prce Campbell.
W Honourable George
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Caere.Boa.d , •11 •
John Gore (A).
K.H.
John Cook Carpenter,
IJohilnsonWßi
Robert Hockings.
John Ledge.lrlaiadmdyMontagu.

J. J. Ayton, linendraper, South Shields—third and final
div. of 41xid. in the pound (in addition to 2s. Id. in the
pound previ.iusly declared), on any Saturday, at the office of
Mr. Baker, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
J. Scott, fruiterer, Newcastle-upon-Tyne—first and final
div. of Is. I.ld. in the pound, on any Saturday, at the office
of .sir. Baker, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
W. Robins, auctioneer, Walton, Staffordshire—first div. of
4s. 2d. in the pound, on any Thursday, at the office of Mr.
Christie, Birmingham.

T. Freeman, fi•inge manufacturer, Wood-street, Chespside
—first div. of 2s. 9d. in the pound, on any Wednesday, at the
office of Mr. Graham, Coleman-street.

DIVIDENDS.

At the Cour: of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street.
W. Poynter, warehouseman, Saint Paul's-churchyard,
Nov. 24, at twelve—E. H. Brace and J. Allen, warehouse-
men, Mitre-court, Milk-street, Cheapside, Nov. 24, at one—
J. Graham, Aitioner, Jewry-street, Aldgate, Dec. 1, at two—
W. Rowse, baker, Rotherhite, Nov. 26, at twelve—J. Thorley,
cabinet maker, Newman-street, Oxford-street, Nov. 26, at
twelve—S. R. Evans, beer-shop keeper, Maiden-lane, Isling-
ton, Nov. 20, at one—W. Kitson, soap manufacturer, White-
street, Southwark, Nov. 27, at two—J. Sewell, grocer, Great
Dunmow, Essex, Nov. 25, at half-past one—M. R. Renshaw,
shopkeeper, Liverpool-street, City, Nov. 24, at half-past one.
In the Country.
J. Clarkson, plumber, Barnsley, Yorkshire, Nov. 26, at
eleven, at the Leeds District Court—J. Park, woollen-cloth
manufacturer, Leeds, Nov. 26, at eleven, at the Leeds Dis-
trict Court—T. Hanson, builder, Leeds—Nov. 26, at eleven,
at the Leeds District Court—W. Watts, millwright, Don-
caster, Nov. 27, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court.—J.
Cockroft, J. C. Cockroft, and W. Cockroft, stuff' manufac-
turers, Addingham, Yorkshire, Nov. 27, at eleven, at the
Leeds District Court— T. Hutchinson, grocer, Sunderland,
Nov. 27, at eleven, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District
Court—T. Taylor grocer, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Nov. 27, at
one, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court—J. Holt,
banlie-, Manchester, Nov. 27, at twelve; at the Manchester
District Court—J. Clarke, innkeeper, Plymouth, Nov. 26, at
one, at the Exeter District Court—D. Antrobus, apothecary,
Audley, Staffordshire, Nov. 24, at ten, at the Birmingham
District Court.

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shire, Nov. 27—8 Scott, seedsman, Bath, Dec. 3—J. T.
Fenton, brick maker, Llanelly, Carmarthenshire, Dec. 3—G.
England, clothier, Brinscombe, Gloucestershire, Dec. I—T.
Barret, turner, Stroud, Gloucestershire, Dec. 4—M. Jones,
saddler, Liverpool, Nov. 24—G. Grant, tailor, Kidderminster,
Dec. B—W. M. Higgins, laceman, Birmingham, Dec. 5—S.
Hawley, grocer, Ashton-under-Lyne, Nov. 26—E. Foley,
licensed victualler, Stoke Newington-green, Nov. 24—E.
Speller, grocer, Berners-street, Oxford-street, Nov. 24—G.
Maggs, linen-draper, Bristol, Nov. 24—. J. Kirkham, butcher,
Lupus-street, Pimlico, Nov. 24—R. Gill, grocer, Richmond,
Yorkshire, Nov. 24—W. Tew, corn dealer, Halifax, York-
shire, Nov. 24---T. Shorrell, tailor, Ludgate-street, Ludgate-.
hill, Nov. 24—J. Sorby, lead merchant, Sheffield, Nov. 24
J. Gill, wine merchant, Liverpool, Nov. 24.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
J. and G. Wragg, hardware dealers, Liverpool—A. and J.
Fell, milliners, Edward's-terrace, Kensington—J. Blackburn
and J. Puzey, linendrapers, Dorking, Surrey—J. Spendlove
and M. Butterworth, harness dealers, John-street North,
New-road—E. T. Booth and G. Clarke, Manchester—G.
rates and G. W. Yates,,,,..ornmission agents, Old Bond-street—
J. T. Bodstein and C. Bellamy, printers, Bread-street, Cheap-
side—J. Rogers and H. Cury, chemists, Newport, Isle of
Wight—J. Tatham, S. Horsfall, and J. Wainhouse, worsted
spinners, Warlev, Yorkshire (so far as regards J. Wainhouse)
—T. T. Mack, W. Mack, and G. Wiseman, corn merchants,
Burnham Overy, Norfolk—T. and W. Copland, druggists,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne—W. Bennett and J. East, licensed
victualler, Charrington-street, St. Pancras—S. Relf and F.
Burton, farmers, Framfield and Busted, Sussex—W. F. Mar-
shall, J. Field, and J. Barnett, grocers, Fenchurch-street
(so far as regards J. Barnett)—C. Dod and G. Wray, attor-
neys, Great Marlborough-street—C. Horncastle and J. Hib-
berd, stockbrokers, Kingston-upon-Hull—J. Stubbs and E.
Absolom, grocers, Rood-lane—W. Booth and B. Kellett, short
wool. dealers, Halifax, Yorkshire—T. Holdsworth, W. Trip-
plAon, and R. Gregory, East Jarrow, Durham—R. M. Preece
and T. H. Evans, stockbrokers, Lothburv—S. and B. Eastes,
painters, Sandgate, Kent—W. and R. Weston, hosiers,
Dudley—H. R. Stevanson and J. G. Cooper, commission
agents, Manchester.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
Andrew Mille-, coach proprietor, Stratlien, Lanarkshire,
Nov. 9 and Nov. 30, at twelve, at the office of Mr. Kippen,
Glasgow.
Patrick Barr Parker, warehouseman, Glasgow, Nov. 6 and
Nov. 30, at twelve, at the chambers of Mr. Hutcheson,

Glasgow.
James Strachan, ship owner. Aberdeen, Nov. 9 and N0v.30,
at twelve, at the chambers of Mr. Livingstone, Glasgow.

The Duke of Bedford left town yesterday for Windsor
Castle.
The Epoque newspaper, which was started a year
ago as a half- price newspaper, dissolved partnership,
and was sold on Saturday for 8,1001., to M. Deville, pro-
prietor of Le Droit. The Epoque, notwithstanding a
circulation of upwards of 11,000, proved a losing
concern.
THE INFANT ORPHAN ASYLUM, WANSTEAD.—
On Monday a half-yearly election of children to the bene-
fits of the Infant Orphan Asylum, which is under the
patronage of her Majesty, took place at the London
Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, when thirty children were
admitted, making 239 children in the establishment,
whose ages vary from three months to the completion of
their eighth year.

SHOCKING MURDER OF A
POLICEMAN AT BRISTOL.
BRISTOL, TUESDAY MORNING.
The inquest upon the unfortunate man White was
commenced yesterday, before Mr. J. B. Grindon, Co-
roner. The excitement during the whole of the day was
very great, several thousands of people congregating
round the police-station, in which place the unhappy
woman, Ferris, who committed the foul deed, was con-
fined, and also round the house in which the inquest
was held. The jury, after being sworn, proceeded t)
view the body, which presented an awful spectacle, the
gash in the throat extending from ear to ear. On their
return the following evidence was adduced :
Henry P. Webb, inspector of police, after deposing to
the fact of deceased being a member of the police force, with which he had been connected about seven years
said that, on Sunday eteeing, I was in the chargeroorms,
at the St. Philip's station, on duty, ebout half past five and a fly drove up to the door, and Mrs. Ferris got out of it. She rushei into the office in a frantic
n 'r
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saying, " Oh, Mr. Webb, you must take me into
cus-
tody." I asked her what for. She said, " I have cut 9,
man's threat." She did not say what inan's. She lees
affected with driek. I asked what she meant, when she
said " The man at my house ; go to him, co to him."
I immediately set out, accompanied by a ser •
roant, and on the road was informed that
White was dead. Upon that I retuun, d to the
station, and placed Ferris in custody. I afterwards wnt
to Lion-street, and found deceased lying on a press
bedstead. He was quite dead. I noticed a large wound
in his throat, and also that his shirt was saturated with
blood. It was evident that parties in the house had
been drinking, as there were glasses and spirit bottles on
the table.
Charles Sainsbury deposed—l reside at 42, Princes-
street, and am son of John Sainsbury, publican, of that
street. I did not know deceased. Yesterday evening I
was at a house in Lion-street. I went with James Ed-
wards to see his sister. I was invited by Edwards to go
there. We arrived there about four o'clock. I found
his sister in the back room on the ground floor, and a
young woman whose name I did not hear. We sat down,
and in about two minutes the deceased, a policeman,
came down stairs from an upper room. He joined our
party, sitting by the fire place, and a ith his back to the
window. He sat in an arm-chair, and sent for a quart
of beer. Elizabeth Jones went for it, at Mrs. Ferris's
request. Deceased said he
,was glad to see Edwards,
shook hands with him, and handed him a glass of beer.
Mrs. Ferris spoke to her brother and to me, but not to
the policeman. As soon as the beer was brought in
Jones had a little, and then left the room. I did not see
her afterwards. No dispute arose between any of the
parties. The conversation was kept up between Ed-
wards and his sister upon family affairs, whilst I talked
with the policeman. The latter had neither coat nor
waistcoat on, neither had he a neckerchief on. After
I had been there about an hour Mrs. Ferris went into
the back kitchen, which adjoins the sitting room. Within
two minutes she returned. On entering the room she
went behind the policeman, and put her right arm round
his right shoulder, as though she was about to whisper
to him. At this time I was conversing with Edwards,
and sitting opposite to the policeman. In a short time
I heard him make a sort of groaning noise. Upon
looking at him, I saw he was bleeding very much. He
was standing up. Edwards immediately jumped up and
said, " Louisa ! my God, what have you done ?" I did
not see that Mrs. Ferris had anything in her hand. It
was getting dark, and there was no fire or candle. I was
very much frightened, and instantly left the house. I
did not assist the wounded man, because I had not power
to do so. I heard a noise on the floor as of blood run-
ning from him. It was clear that he had received some
injury, but I did not know the nature of it, neither could
I state whether he had done it himself, or Mrs. Ferris
had done it. It must have been one or the other. De-
ceased appeared to be perfectly sober. Mrs. Ferris did
not make any answer when her brother said
Louisa ! my God, what have you done ?" I have no
doubt upon my mind but that she inflicted the injury.
Sho appeared to be sober. I had never seen her before.
We had half a pint of rum as well as the beer. After
I walked away from Lion-street, and had reached the St.
Philip's police-station, I heard a fly behind me, and on
turning round I saw Edwards driving, having his sister
inside. Sbe put her head out of the window, and called
out, "Jem, stop at the station-house." At the time the
injury was done, that is at the time Mrs. Ferris put her
arm over his shoulder, I believe the policeman was
smoking.
James Edwards deposed—l am brother to Mrs.
Ferris. lam not aware that I ever saw deceased in my
life before yesterday. My sister is a married woman,
but her husband and her do not live together. They
have been separated about twelve months. My sister
had several times invited me to see her, and yesterday I
went, accompanied by a friend, Charles Sainsbury. I
was let in by my sister, who appeared to me to have been
drinking. She also appeared as if she had just got up.
I said, " Honor, what's the matter?" when she replied,
" Oh, it's my birth-day, Jem."A bout five minutes at ter I got
into the house a policeman, who appeared to be lodging
in the house, joined us. He Ras without coat, waist-
coat, or neckerchief. We talked together, and drank
some beer and rum, and, apparently, everything was
friendl3 amongst us. After drinking some of the beer,
Elizabeth Jones, who had fetched it, left the rocm.
About twenty minutes afterwards the policeman also
left the room. A few minutes after my sister also left
the room, leaving ir.e and Sainsbury and a little girl in
the room. In a short time she returned, in a dreadful
state of agitation, and said, "Oh, that vvie teh, is this
your promise? they be both upstairs on the bed." My-
sister again left the room. White returned, and seated
himself where he had sat before. My sister soon also re-
turned. She kept on exclaiming, "Oh. you wretch,
you nasty wretch, is this your promise?" She rushed
behind me as I was in the act of pouring out a glass of
beer, and as I went to put down the glass of beer I saw
her hand coming from the policeman's throat. I did not
see anything in her hand, it was done so quick. She
immediately left the room towards the front.
Sainsbury was frightened, and ran out of
the back door. I was left alone, and saw and
heard the blood flowing from deceased, and I hastened to
assist hizn. He was falling forward. I tried to hold
him upon his chair, but he would not be held. He crept
on his hands and knees along the passage into the street,
the front door being open. I looked for Sainsbury, but
could not see him. I saw the neighbours, five or six, or
more, coming up to assist. I stated what had taken
place, and whilst I was so employed my sister came from
the back of the house, and said, " Jem, drive me to the
station-house." Considering that the policeman would
be taken care of, and in the agitation of the moment, I
did so. She surrendered herself at the station-house,
and I went to tell my mother, who is the housekeeper at
the station-house. Deceased had been smoking, but was
not smoking at the time. I believe that my sister was
very much intoxicated.
Elizabeth Jones deposed—l live in Lion-street, and
am a single woman. Ilodged in the house of Mrs. Ferris.
William Stone and William Ferris lived there, also a
policeman named Patrick White. Yesterday afternoon,
between four and five o'clock, I was at home. I did not
hear any quarrel between Mrs. Ferris and the police-
man. I dud not hear her express herself angrily towards
him. After giving evidence as to the arrival of Edwards
and Sainsbury, she proceeded to say—l did not fetch
any liquor for them ; as soon as they came in I went
upstairs to bed. I fetched two quarts of strong beer at
half-past one o'clock, and a third quart between three
and four. This the policeman and Mrs. Ferris had been
playing at dominoes for, and he had won it. The beer
was forced upon Mrs. Ferris and me by White ; he took
very little. What I had drank affected my head. I was
iesensible when I went to bed. I recollect afterwards
seeing Mrs. Ferris holding the door of the room.
White was at that time standing at my bed-
side. She left the room instantly, and so did
White. I did not hear her speak. The next time
I saw White he was crawling on his hands and
knees on the causeway outside the front door. I went
into the next house, and from thence into a house oppo-
site. As I was coming from my own bed-room down
stairs, Mrs. Ferris met me nearly at the bottom. She
caught hold of me, and said she had a mind to serve me
in the same manner, but she did not say in what manner.
I then ran out and found that there was blood upon my
'neck, but Ido not know how it came there. (The wit-
ness took off her bonnet, when it was evident that a
wound had been inflicted just below the back part of the
right ear.)
Robert Combes said—Yesterday afternoon I saw a fly
in Lion-street. Two young men who were with it inquired
for Mrs. Ferris. I directed them, and they went there.
They remained about half an hour, and then went away,
returning in about ten minutes. Between half-past four
and a quarter to five I heard the rattling of the doors of
a pony car. I went to the door of my house, and heard
a flyman say, "Oh dear, he's a dead man !" I looked
round and saw deceased crawling across the road. He
muttered something, but I could not tell what. As I
ran towards him I saw the blood flowing from a wound
in his neck. By the time I reached him Mr. Griffiths
caught hold of him, and was wiping blood from
his neck with a handkerchief. Deceased at-
tempted to speak. Mr. Griffiths pressed the wound
closely with his hands, and then White said, "Mrs.
Ferris hies cut my throat with a razor ; pray for me."
Mr. Griffiths said, " Pray for yourself, my good fellow,"
and he then said distinctly, " Lord have mercy on my
soul." He muttered that three times afterwards. We
placed his head on a pillow in the streets. He was then
dying fast. Mr. Griffiths and myself went to search the
house. We saw a great quantity of blood on the floor
of' the back parlour, and a razor on a chest of drawers.
When the razor was opened I saw some hair and marks
of blood upon it. We then returned to White, and saw
that he was dead. A medical man had arrived in the
mean time, but could render no assistance.
Richard Griffiths gave similar testimony to that de-
posed to by the last witnes.
The CORONER remarked that, though no doubt pro-
bably existed in the minds of the jury as to the cause
of death, yet it was desirable that an important point
should be proved, namely, that death was not occasioned
by internal disease, for which purpose it would be neces-
sary to have a post mortem examination. The inquiry
would, therefore, be adjourned till the following day.
Louisa Ferris was brought up in custody, and re•
moved to Bridewell to abide the result of the inquest.

Most of the nailers in the neighbourhood of
Dudley and Kingswinford have remand work. A rise
has been given by some nailers on small work, bat the
large Dudley masters have not agreed to the scale.—
Staffordshire Mercury.
Sergeant Major Lesslie, of Albany Barracks, New-
port, Isle of Wight, lost his life owing to being thrown
out of a gig, by the horse running away, and the gig
coming in contact with another vehicle near the barracks.
Mr. Thompson, who was also thrown out of the gig with
deceased, sustained serious injury.
THE POTATO DISEASE.—Baron Liebig imagines
the essence of the disease to consist in the conversion of
the albumen, a usual constituent of healthy potatoes,
into caseine, a principal which, by its great instability of
composition, is supposed to cause the potato to putrefy
rapidly.— The Plough.
DEATH OF MR. P. M. STEW/RT, M.P. FOR REX.
FREwsraßE.—ln our publication of this day fortnight we
noticed the dangerous illness of the Hon. Member for
the county, but in the hope that he was past danger, and
in the way of recovery. From that period Mr. Stewart
lingered on in a very dangerous state, but still leaving
his aged mother, and the circle of near relations who at-
tended him, with occasional glimpses of hope that he
might recover, till about the beginning of the present
week, when the fatal symptoms of the disease continued
more markedly to develop themselves, and yesterday
morning at eight o'clock he expired. There are few men
in the country whose death would be more generally re-
gretted than that or Mr. Stewart ; or who, es active po-
liticians, will leave fewer enemies behind them. In the
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from Scotland possessed the same influence in it as the
for Renfrewshire. The deceased gentleman was
Member
active and most judicious as a man of business ; atten-
tive to his duty, and his affability and good humour,
accompanied with an incessant flow of unlaboured wit,
, secured deference at all times for his remarks, and
kept all around him, including his opponents, in the
best of humour. In addition to filling the distinguished
post of representative for his nativo county, Mr. Stewart,
at the time of his death, was chairman of the Oriental
Steam Navigation Company, vice-president of the Lon-
don Scottish Society, an institution which ranks the
highest names in the land amongst its directors ; and
was also, now or recently, chairman of the West India
Steam Navigation Company, the London and Westmin-
ster Bank, a director of the Caledonian Railway, and
many other institutions. The late lamented Member was
a decided Liberal in his religious, as well as in his poli-
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disinterestedly, did he carry his
opinions
on this subject,
that he gave much offence to his
many of best friends
during the non-intrusion controversy, and by several of
them was considered to have perilled his return to Par-
liament in the cause. In this county, the notice of Mr.
Stewart's severe illness, and now of his decease, has
been received by a universal expression of sorrow.
Rich and poor, men of all ranks of life and of every
shade of political opinion, mingle in one general feeling
of regret at seeing a gentleman possessed of such great
and varied qualifications cut off suddenly, in the midst
of his usefulness and in the very prime of his life. Mr.
Stewart was unmarried, and only 48 years of age.—
Glasgow post,

SINGULAR ESCAPE.—For some time past there hare
been works in progress to elevate the syphon of the
waterworks in Battersea-fields, the scaffolding for which
has been raised to the height of 190 feet. Last evening,
a little before six, one of the men was placed within a
piece of the suction-pipe, for the purpose of adjusting it
with the part to which it is to be connected, when just
as it had reached the requisite position the gearing
parted, and the pipe fell to the groan(' from the height o
125 feet—the man inside of it—and although the pipe
was much broken, the workman escaped with only a
little injury to one of his ankles.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF CHANCERY, NA,. 3.
IN RE PENDER.
The arguments in this cas2, which were part heard
yesterday, were resumed. The case came before the
Court upon motion and petition, and related to the taxa-
tion of a solicitor's bill.
This case came before the Court upon appeal from
the decision of the Master of the Rolls, who decided
that an unsigned bill of costs might be the subject of
taxation, and from that decision the appeal was brought.
The LORD CHANCELLOR , at the conclusion of the
argument, said he ,A ould endeavour to give judgment to-

morrow morning.
The Court then proceeded to hear lunatic petitions,
taking the unopposed.
IN THE NATTER OF DICE SOMBRE.
Upon this case being called on, which came before
the Court upon the petition of Mr. Dyce Sombre, pray-
ing the supersedeas of the commission of lunacy that
had been issued against him,
Mr. ROLT stated that he had been requested by Mr.
Bethel', who was engaged in the Vice-Chancellor of
England's Court, to request that it might stand over till
to-morrow morning.
The LORD CHANCELLOR could not allow the ease to
stand over to the prejudice of the other business of the
Court. He wished to know whether any proposition
had been made, or was likely to be made, on the subject
of the petition, or any arrangement come to among the
parties ?
Mr. BOLT was not aware of any proposition for an
arrangement.
The LORD CHANCELLOR thought it most desirable
that some attempt should be made to come to some
arrangement, as he thought it must be evident, from the
report of the physicians, what course the Court would
think it right to take unless some arrangement was come
to. He thought the best course woulsl be to let the case
stand over for a few days, to see if counsel on both sides
would not anticipate what the Court would do by coming
to some arrangement.
Mr. CALVERT was with Mr. Bethel], and was anxious
to hear what suggestion the counsel on the other side
would make.
Mr. ROLT said that of course, if the case stood over,
everything must remain in statu quo, and no further
affidavits must be filed.
The LORD CHANCELLOR—CertainIy. It is at my
suggestion that the case stands over. I think the case
had better stand over for a week to see if some arrange-
ment cannot be come to.
Mr. ROLT hoped his Lordship would appoint a par-
ticular day for hearing the case.
The LORD CHANCELLOR—Let it stand fur this day
week.
The COURT then proceeded to hear bankrupt petitions,
but no case of any interest came before the Court previous
to its rising.

ROLLS' COURT, Nov. 3.
COTTON V. COTTON.
This was the petition of Benjamin Cotton; one of the
parties in this cause, and who had obtained his majority,
praying for the payment of two sums, of 2,9211 4s. sd.
and 1,9581. 18s. 11d. Consols, which he claimed under
the will of Joseph Cotton, his father. The testator had
left one-half of his estate to his wife, after her death to
be divided between his children; and the remaining half
to be given them on the attainment of their majority.
Some of the children had become of age, and accordingly
received their respective moieties. The report of the
Master had been made, and the petition was unopposed.
Order granted.
There were several other similar unopposed petitions,
none of which possessed any public interest.
THE MARQUIS OF HERTFORD V. LORD LOWTEIER.
Mr. TURNER presented a petition from the Countess
Zichy, praying the payment of arrears of certain life
policies to which she laid claim.
From the statement of the Learned Counsel it ap-
peared that the Union Company of Asmrance at Pans
had agreed to pay the late Marquis of Hertford en an-
nuity of 22,750 francs, in half-yearly payments of 11,375
francs. In the codicil to the will of the Marquis of Hertford
there appeared the following, viz. :—" There is a green
box at Milan, with my name, containing letters front
Naples, &c., which I leave, in case of my death, to
Charlotte Stracklan, and desire that it way be given to
her unopened." The codicil also bequeathed, after pay-
ing certain bequests, &c., all the goods, chattels,
&c., of which the noble testator was pos-
sessed, to Charlotte Leopoldina, Countess de Ziehy.
On the 29th of March, 1843, the Master made his report
on the administration suit of Hertford and Lowther, and
found that the green box in question contained, among
other things, a life annuity bond, dated Milan, April I,
1837. On the 4th of April an order of
was obtained for the purpose of confirming this
report. Exceptions were then taken to certain
Polish and Austrian bonds contained in the
box, which exceptions were allowed. Several other legal
steps were then had recourse to, and the object of the
present petition was to ascertain whether the Countess
was entitled to the amount of the arrears due on the
French policy at the testator's decease, as well as the
arrear due on the Milan policy.
After hearing the arguments on both sides in extenso,
Lord LA.NODALE went through the case in detail, and
having expressed his opinion as to the impropriety of
bringing forward the case at all, dismissed the petition
with costs.

VICE• CHANCERY COURT, Nov. 3.
(Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR of ENGLAND.)
His Honour the Vice-Chancellor of England took un
opposed cause petitions, motions, and petitions to-day.