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No. 16,889. LON DON, THURSDAY EV E NING S Ny NOVEMBER 5, 1846.

BOSTON, NEWARK, AND SHEFFIELD
RAILWAY.

DRURY

EATRE

MAGAZINES—(CONTINUED).
DOUGLIS JERROLD'S.
The plot of " St. Giles and St. James" begins to
thicken. In the present chapter we have an account
of the forced abduction of Clarissa, while out riding
with St. Giles in attendance on her, by Robert Willis,
the murderer, assisted by Tom Blast, who knocks
down St. Giles, and threatens to denounce him as an
escaped convict should he venture to raise an alarm.
The paper entitled " T.me v. Labour," is a well put
argument against the Ten Hours' Bill, a measure
which would deprive the poor man of one-sixth of his
only estate—his time. 4 The Advance of the Masses"
is an eloquent pleading for non-sectarian education,
and the paper which immediately follows it is a caustic
satire, by Paul Bell, on the absurdity of feasts at
funerals. " Fables for Foolish Fellows" are continued,
and in a poem, entitled "A Vision of Old Fames,"
we have a prophecy (may it be a true one) that
"there shall be no mcre war." One of the most
amusing papers in the number is Angus Reach's
" Signs of the Olden Tines." It is delightful to find
plain common sense brought to bear in this amusing
way against the not altogether harmless absurdities
of the romantic Young Englanders, who are eternally
regretting the old feuds!. times. Listen to Angus
Reach's common sense description of those much be-
lauded feudal times, and—
" The feudal times were no doubt very nice times in-
deed to write novels about, but, on the whole, I think,
they are best admired at a distance. Ruined castles are
very beautiful th;ngs—in ruins. I doubt much, how-
ever, whether there ten-feet. thick walls, garnished with
'Loop-hole grates where captives wept,'
were such agreeable objects of contemplation to the un-
protected foot traveller, as now-a-days when we catch
sight of their crumbling remnants from a speeding rail-
way train. The truth is, that the baronial keeps of old
were very much of the same nature *with the= estab-
lishments, which, in modern thieves' dialect, are deno.
minated "kens.' and' fences,'—in other words—refuges
for robbers, and receptacles for stolen goods. The
man,' said King James V. of Scotland, pointing to a
Border Castle, the man who built that tower was a
thief in his heart.' Indeed it is a pretty patent fact,
that not a few of the 'great old families' of England
would be, at this present moment, 'great old families
in Norfolk Island, had an effective system of metropo-
litan and detective police existed in the times of their
founders—the Burke-lamented days of chivalry.
* *
"No doubt both the ' House' and the Castle dealt, and
still deal in monies and merchandise ; the difference
simply is, that the former makes ventures with its own
property—the latter, whenever it could, operated upon
other people's. Thus the merchant, now- a-days, enters
upon a speculation—the feudal gentleman rode a foray :
he of the counting-house has dealings with other count-
ing houses—he of the castle had dealings with other
castles ; but they were confined in most cases to the
pillaging line of business. The man of the ledger col-
lects his debts—the man of the lance gathered in his
black mail. The one has his clerks, the other had his
moss-troopers. The first has his correspondents, the
other had his spies. The former rears cities—the latter
burned villages.
" Taking this view of the case, and looking at a good
many of the founders of our ancient families as gentle-
men well to do in the burglary and sheep-stealing lines
of business, nothing can be more appropriate than the
mottoes which they chose, to hint the nature of their
callings. The old legend of the Scots of Harden was
Reparabit cornua Phoebe,' in plain English, ' There will
soon be moonlight.' The hint is most suggestive. You
could no more misunderstand it than you can the Coun-
try orders carefully attended to' of the tradesmen in the
next street. Moonlight !—Can we mistake the delicate
insinuation. Diana's foresters !--Gentlemen of the
shade I—Minions of the moon !" The ancient motto of
the Buccleugh family was similar—' Best riding by
moonlight.' Yes—especially when one is burdened with
his neighbours' goods, or is making off surreptitiously
with his own.
' The Cranstoun family boasts a peculiarly self-deny-
ing and Christian legend. It is Thou shalt want ere I
want.' But as Lord John Manners will tell us—there
was such high-minded generosity in the soaring chivalry
of yore Per ignum et gladium,' the motto of another
noble family, breathes a fine spirit of peace and good-
will towards men—strikingly contrasted with the sordid
and selfish dictum, • Buy in the cheapest market, sell in
the dearest,' of modern shopkeeping
days. 'Forth for-
tune, and fill the fetters,' would be a very good legend
for a turnkey or a bailiff. It happens, however, to be
that of the Athol family, who probably distinguished
their pursuits from those of more ignoble cagers of cri-
minals, by carefully abstaining from making legal cap-
tures, and only filling their fetters' with those who
might be instrumental in filling the pockets of their cap-
tors. Grip fast' is a piece of advice we have seen on an
ancient scutcheon. It was probably quite supereroga-
tory. Ride through' is another legend, which may, I
presume, be rendered Don't stand OR bones—Go the
whole hog—Make a clean sweep.' While such maxims
as ' Spare nought' (Tweedale)—' A ma puissance,'
(Stamford and Warrington) give a fine notion of the
power and the disposition of the magnates of those good
old times which Young England would fain dig up in all
their festering rottenness from the grave.
" But no—they are gone—past recall. The workshop
and the counting-house have put down the castle and
the keep. The spirit and the symbols of the ancient age
are outworn together. Burglary, highway robbery, and
arson, would not, now-a-days, be accounted a brilliant
foray, or killing, no murder ; while the peaceful mer-
chants, who now hold the sway, once exercised but by
titled robbers and gold-spurred burglars, would hardly
think of conforming so far to the spirit oitimes gone by,
as—in forming a company, or entering upon a commer-
cial speculation—boldly to blazon a device as a pair of
loaded scales, graced with such a motto as Success to
Swindling.'
In addition to these articles we have some cleverly
written tales and an admirable paper, entitled " Social
Barbarisms," being an eloquent pleading on behalf of
the illused and much
maligned race, domestic ser-
vants—which we commend to the attentive perusal
of all masters and mistresses. Let them treat their
servants as fellow-creatures, as members of the family,
as continental masters and mistresses treat their ser-
vants, and " Chubb's Locks and Patent Detectors,"
will become superfluities. As this writer well ob-
serves, ".IN o substitute can be found for fellow-feeling
—no patent German silver benevolence can supply the
place of the genuine human heart." English servants
are, "as a body, the worst in the world," only be-
cause " they are treated as inferior, until they are
made in inferior."

labe, for according to the intimation of Beauchamp (Biog.
Univ. tom. ix. 286), " C'est ainsi que son genie createur
perfectionna l'art nautique, avant de mettre son grand
projet a execution." The circumstances which accom-
panied that first entrance into the watery realms of the
western ocean may be succinctly catalogued. On August
5, a rudder was damaged, and, on the following day,
they repaired the accident ; on Aug. 13, they reached the
Canary Islands, provisioned themselves anew, and, on
September 6, quitted Gomera. Here the altercation of
Christopher, with his mariners, commenced ; and when
we reflect upon his various devices to decrease their de-
spondency, and to exalt their anticipations ; his falla-
cious reckoning in the common log-book ; his ingenkus
explanation of that mysterious variation in the compass
first observed on September 13, a variation which has
been aptly classed among those phenomena " baffling the
experience of the practical, and humbling the pride of
science" (Irving, i., 203) ; his persistence in a westerly
course, so as not to appear wavering, and this despite
every inducement to a deviation ; his patient remon
strance with his refractory crew ; his appeals to their
cupidity and ambition—every circumstance throughout
that most memorable of all voyages, demonstrates the
valour, and the self-reliance, and the fortitude, and the
almost prescient certainty of success, which lived in the
bosom of Columbus. The spectacle of that extraordi-
nary man standing undismayed amongst his enemies, in
the midst of the then unknown Atlantic, is one of the
most thrilling and instructive pictures ever presented to
mankind. How affecting is the simplicity of that ex-
clamation of his, when the wind changed from E. to
S.W. on Sept. 20, and thereby afforded a temporary
pacification to his sailors, Alas, I much wanted this
contrary wind' (Navaritta, Col. de Viages, vol. i. 12),
mucheo me fue necessario este viento contrario ! Even when
his situation had become absolutely desperate, namely,
when, on October 10, there was a proposition abroad
among the mariners to throw him overboard and return
homewards, the resolve of Christopher remained un-
shaken Oviedo, a somewhat credulous writer, declares
that Columbus thereupon capitulated with his crew for
three days longer. That assertion is proved to be a
gross fabrication; instead of yielding to the importuni-
ties and threats of these ignorant seamen, he actually
changed from expostulation to upbraiding, and pro-
'aimed to them, in their teeth, that he would proceed at
every hazard. Sea weeds, birds with gorgeous and un-
usual plumage, branches covered with clusters of bril-
liant berries, land crabs floating upon casual pieces of
timber, together with a multitude of similar tokens,
assured them from time to time that the anticipations of
their commander might not prove altogether illusory.
Not, however, until the dawn of morning (Friday,
October 12), was their credulity wholly vanquished. A.
glorious island lay before them, strewn with an un-
common verdure ; its shores covered with handsome
savages, perfectly naked, saving bracelets of the
purest gold, and fantastic plumes upon their heads ;
forests of novel foliage clothing the hills ; fruits of a
surprising aspect ripening on their boughs.
" With trumpets blowing and banners waving, the
mariners descended from their vessels, and glided in
boats to the beach. Christopher Columbus, clad in a
sumptuous garment of scarlet cloth, his white hair par-
tially concealed by a velvet cap, and bearing in his hand
the gonfalon of Spain, landed in the western hemisphere,
and, as Sportono finely exclaims, "wlth a grand footstep
pressed the new world," e di grand' orma it nuovo mondo
imprima. Well does Washington Irving observe (Life
of Col. i. 234), that it is difficult even for the imagina-
tion to conceive the feelings of such a man at
the moment of so sublime a discovery !" While the re-
pentant Spaniards were kneeling around the great Ad-
miral to kiss his feet, and to implore his forgiveness,
while the sun shone with an exceeding refulgence over
those newly revealed regions, while the singular in-
habitants stood gazing at them in wonderment from the
distance, the glorious heart of Columbus must have
throbbed with a divine tumult. And worthily were his
emotions evinced : he pressed his lips to that land for
which his soul had yearned so long : he planted the
cross among that godless people : he named the island
San Salvador, an island formerly called Guanahani, and
now reckoned amongst the Bahamas. Divi Salvatoris
nomine imposui,' he reverently writes to Raphael Sanxis
(Bell. Christ. 116, date 1533), Cujusfretus auxtlio, tam
ad hanc quam ad cceteras alias pervenimus.' He there in-
augurated the political and ecclesiastical existence of a
hitherto unknown and gigantic hemisphere."

Notice is hereby given, that all the holders of Scrip Certificates for
shares in this undertaking who do not apply for the Midland Stock
to which they are entitled before the 20th of NOVEMBER next, will
forfeit the next half-yearly dividend thereon, and be subjected to the
expense of a stamped transfer, as all stock remaining unclaimed up
to that date must be registered in the names of the Chairman and
Vice-Chairman of the Company.

A new Ballet Divertissement, entitled Une Kermes,
was produced here last evening, for the purpose of
introducing Monsieur Paul and Monsieur Tell to the
English public. The former appeared in a grand
pas de deux with Mademoiselle Adele Benert, and
the latter in a pas de deux with Mademoiselle Anita
Dubignon. They are both excellent artistes for male
dancers, but a dancing man seems always out of
place. Nevertheless, dancing men are necessary
—the deesses de la danse require support ;
but while they are deesses, their male
coadjutors can be but mere mortal—they can be but
the Endymions to the goddesses of the night. As
such, MM. Paul and Tell were deserving of all
praise ; they are artistes in the best sense of the word,
and will add greatly to the efficiency of the Drury-
lane corps. The divertissement was preceded by the
opera of Stradella, and succeeded by .Der Frieschutz.
With regard to the latter opera, we must say that it
would not have derogated from the dignity of Signor
Schiri if he had conducted it himself, although perhaps
the music lost nothing from being entrusted to Mr.
Hughes, the talented leader of the orchestra ; yet
certainly the music of Weber is as worthy the atten-
tion of the musical conductor of a theatre, as that of
Flotow. We should have thought that, to a musician
fond of his art, it would have been a labour of love to
have presided in the orchestra over the performance
of such an opera as Der Freischutz. The house, we
were glad to see, was exceedingly well attended.

JAMES SOLMOND, Chairman
Mansfield, Notts, 2d November, 1846.

BIRKENHEAD DOCK COMMISSIONERS.
LOANS OF MONEY.
_ _ _

The Birkenhead Dock Commissioners are ready to receive Loans
of Money for periods of five or seven years, under the authority of
their Acts of Parliament, at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum. The
interest will be paid half-yearly, on the Ist of January and Ist of
July, in London or elsewhere, as the parties lending may prefer.
Scaled tenders, stating the amount and term of years for which the
money is proposed to be lent, to be addressed to the Commissioners,
endorsed "Tender for Loans."—Birkenhead, Sept. 21, 1846.
By order, RICHARD lIIND, Sec.

SADLER'S WELLS THEATRE.

Miss Laura Addison acted the character of Isabella,
in Measure for Measure, at this theatre, last evening.
She has hitherto appeared in what may be called
conventional characters. In the Patrician's Daughter,
the character in which she made her debia, it was
impossible to avoid a comparison with Helen Faucit,
and as Helen Faucit had made the character
it was almost impossible to give Miss Laura
Addison fair play in the comparison. The same
observation holds good with regard to Pauline
Deschappelles, in the Lady of Lyons, the
next character in which Miss Addison appeared ;
then, with regard to Juliet, an actress is almost tied
down to conventionalities. Her acting in these
characters have satisfied us that she possessed genius,
and we have therefore anxiously looked forward to her
appearance in a Shakesperian character in which
she would not come into comparison with any of
her predecessors; in which, while on the one hand,
she could have no recollections to assist her, on the
other, her auditors would have no prejudices of
previous readings of the part to warp their judgment.
Such a character is Isabella in Measure for Measure,
and having attentively watched her development of
the character, we have no hesitation in saying that
Miss Laura Addison possesses more genius than any
other tragic actress on the stage, not excepting Miss
Helen Faucit herself. What, for instance, can com-
pare with her grand scene with Angelo ? How fine
is the contrast between her beautiful pathos
in begging her brother's life of the stern
judge—her maiden-like simplicity in not under-
standing his dark hints, which to her pure
mind are incomprehensible, and her indignant rejec-
tion of his suit, when at last the old miscreant speaks
plainly out. It was the beautiful elevating itself na-
turally, and by the force of circumstances, into the
sublime. Again, what could be more energetic, more
powerful, more true to nature than the scene which
follows with her brother Claudio. How grandly did
she, the feeble girl, inspirit the timid brother
to accept death rather than dishonour; and
how superior in the native dignity did she ap-
pear to those who could consent to set life in the
one scale and honour in the other. We repeat
it, Miss Laura Addison has more genius than any
ether actress on the stage, but she is not such an ac-
complished artiste as others are. She has somewhat
yet to learn, but she wants nothing but what she can
he taught, and she will learn it too, and that
quickly, and do credit to her teachers. "She
will profit by the lesson they may teach
her, and it shall go hard but she
will better the example." There are many poets of
the present day who aspire to write tragedies--let
them study Miss Laura Addison's peculiar powers—
let them write for her, and we will answer for it, if
there is anything actable in their tragedies she will
make them, for it is the gift of genius such as hers to
make from its own reflected light even mediocrity
shine. She was very excellently supported.
The Angelo of George Bennett was a fine
piece of acting; and the Duke, of Phelps,
albeit too Macreadyish—(we recollect Phelps at Exe-
ter before he saw Macready, he would have acted
better then)—was very good. Marsten's Claudio
was finely conceived, and his lugubrious voice told
well in the character ; and Scharf, as Pompey, and
A. Yonge, as the Constable, were quaint and amusing.
The house was crowded to suffocation.

The article from which the above is taken derives a

peculiar interest from the recent festivities at Genoa in
honour of the memory of the glorious but unfortunate
Columbus. "Beauty and Glory," by M. G. Keon, is
a charming poetical conceit ; and in another page of
the magazine there are some beautiful and simple
verses, " The Avowal," by E. E. M. K. " Recollec-
tions of Salzburg , and of the Sons of Don Carlos," is
a laborious and interesting contribution; and a brief,
but brilliant continuation of Mr. Keon's " Catholic
Man of Letters in London" terminates the number
for November. As an admirable specimen of the
poetry scattered through Dolman, we quote the
delicate verses of "The Avowal," already mentioned.

THE AVOWAL.
Read it in each tim'rous glance
To thine own that trembles :
There how oft revealed by chance,
What the tongue dissembles.
Read it on my burning cheek,
With thy presence lighted ;
Read it writ in letters bleak,
By thy absence blighted.
Hear it on my lips confessed,
When they dare address thee :
When in prayer ; in hours of rest ;
When they wake to bless thee.
Feel it in my trembling hand,
In my heart's wild beating,
When beside thy side I stand—

COURT OF ALDERMEN.
Yesterday a Court was held for the dispatch of busi-
ness, and for the purpose of electing officers.
Mr. WILLIAMS (of Farringdon-without Ward) asked
what had become of the reference of the Court relative
to Field•lane? He apprehended that there was an in-
tention to " Burke " the suggested improvement. His
wish was to have the improvement of that miserable place
included in the new Bill, which was about to be brought
in with respect to Holborn-bridge.
The LORD MAYOR said he understood the Improve-
ment Committee were engaged in doing all they could to
meet the views of the Court upon the subject.

When our hands are meeting.
Learn it by the look that broods—
Anxious, wistful, haunting ;
Saying crowds are solitudes,
While one face be wanting.
Trust it by a maiden's truth,
By her pride's concession :
Trust—for woman loves in sooth,
When she deigns confession.

DEER-STALKING.—Numbers of the largest-ant-
lered stags, which, from the oppressive heat of the first
part of the season, roamed far and wide from their na-
tive glens, returned to their usual corries by the begin-
ning of October, and, in consequence, some of the best
heads have been secured to the deer-stalker. Sir St.
George Gore, Bart., shot, near Strathvaitch, a stag
with the largest head of horns that has been sent for
preservation this season. The length of the beams of
the horns, measured along their curves, is thirty-two
inches ; span at the greatest width of the bow, thirty
inches, and armed with thirteen sharp pointed antlers.
In course of the season, Sir St. George Gore has killed
27 red-deer and 4 roe-deer. The Marquis of Aber-
corn and party have killed in the Forest of Benalder,
at Ardverichie, this season, 29 fine stags, the average
weight of which, on the whole, was 17 stone, when
cleaned ; the largest being 20 stone 4 lbs. ; of these
15 had royal antlers, 3 of them having 13 points.
The largest head (a royal) was 39 inches in length,
following the curve of the horn ; the brow antler being
a foot in length, and the palm at the base of the three
upper points unusually large, being 10 inches and a
quarter in circumference. The remaining heads had
generally 10 or 11 points each. At Invershie, W. Evans,
Esq., and Friends, had first-rate deer-stalking, having
shot 25 in all—several of them with large heads. Capt.
Inge and party have been equally successful in the glens
of Fasnakyle. From Rhidorrach Forest we have seen
some large-horned deer—two very recently—all shot by
John Hay Mackenzie, Esq. At Coigach, C. M. Camp-
bell, stalked and shot 5 red-deer. At Ardgour, H. St.
John, Esq., got 2 during the last fortnight, making
4 for the season—all good heads. At Annat, Colonel
Long secured 6 deer ; and at Loubcroy Mr.
Jones got 2. In the woods at Ord, lately, Mr.
Mackenzie and friends had a day of fine sport among
the deer—John Mackensie, Esq., Ness House ; E. Ut-
terton, Esq.; A. Mackenzie, Esq., yr. of Ord ; and T.
Mackenzie, Esq., of Ord, having each killed a deer—
the last, a large stag, which weighed, when clean, 17
stone 5 pounds—lnverness Courier.
EARNINGS BY CONVICTS.—It iS stated, in the
Fourth Report to Parliament respecting Pentonville
Prison (printed on Monday), that the progress made by
the prisoners in their several trades had been creditable
to them. Of the 107 prisoners sent abroad during the
past year, 53 were taught trades who had never learned
any previous to admission ; 39 who had a previous
knowledge of one trade were taught a second ; and 15
were employed at their own trades. Of these, 86 were
in the first trades' class, which consists of those who are
capable of earning their living by the trade in which
they have been instructed ; 17 were in the second class,
which consists of those who, although not so far ad-
vanced as others, have a competent knowledge of their
trade. Two were of the third class, which consists of
those who are of inferior capacity, but willing and
advancing ; and only two were of the fourth class,
who, being careless and ignorant, had made but little
progress. Of the 484 prisoners in confinement at the
close of the past year, 171 were in the first class,
270 in the second, forty-one in the third, and two
in the fourth class. The daily average number of
prisoners in trades during the past year was 440. The
total earnings in the year amounted to 2,849 L I Is. 4d.;
making the general average by each prisoner 61. 9s. 6id.
The total earnings, upon a daily average, of 448 pri-
soners in 1844 were 1,9011. 6s. 9d.-' and upon a daily
average of 440 prisoners in 1845 the total earnings were
9,8491. 1 ls. 4d.; showing an increase of earnings during
the past year of 9481. 4s. 7d. Various causes have
tended to produce that increase,—the addition of four
trade instructors to the manufacturers' staff; an exten-
sion of the daily working hours; the saving of the time
heietofore employed in the pump-labour, and now given
to the working at trades; the application to trades of a
considerable portion of the time heretofore given to
school instruction, certain prisoners being allowed to
stay away from school altogether, and the whole of the
first school having only one instead of two school days
per week. The clear earnings of the pri3oners were,
after the wages of the manufacturers department were
deducted, 1,1141. 6s. Bd.

THE LATE SIR ROBERT SALE.
The LORD MAYOR stated that he had received the
following letter from the son of the late Sir Robert
Sale :

" Simla, Aug. 31, 1846.
"My Lord,—lt was with feelings of the utmost pride
and satisfaction that my lamented father looked forward
to the arrival of the vase, with the freedom of the City
of London. That satisfaction was denied to him by the
eventful battle of Moodkee. The vase has arrived at
Simla, and my mother has made it over to me, to be
considered as an heir-loom, and to descend in our
family, as a proud testimonial of the esteem in which
Sir Robert Sale was held by the Lord Mayor and
Corporation of the City of London.--I have the honour
to remain your Lordship's most obedient and thankful
servant,

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The opening article in the present number is a
mournful story, entitled the " Miser's Death," by the
Rev. E. Price—to whom all success in his editorial
capacity. It is told with a touching simplicity. Prom
the next paper—a biographical essay upon Chris-
topher Columbus—we shall make one extract. This
Catholic writer thus describes the first voyage across
the Atlantic, and the discovery of land in the western
hemisphere by the greatest of all navigators, and one
of the greatest of all men :
" After shriving himself, and receiving the
blessed eucharist from the hands of chena,
Columbus,
most
early on the morning of Friday, August 3, 1492, de-
parted from the bar of Saltes, near Palos in
of a prodigious multitude of spectators. Notwithstand-
ing the vastness of the enterprise, the instruments for
its prosecution were miserably disproportioned. Three
vessels comprised the fleet : one, La Santa, Maria, com-
mended by Columbus himself ; another, La Pinta, b
Martin Alonzo Pinzon ; and the third, La Nina, b his):
brother Vincente Yanez Pinzon, The two latter shipsy
merely caravels and the whole convoy • d
were carried only
one hundred and twenty men. Providence seems in-
deed to have smiled propitiously upon the endeavour :
the Great Spirit which had germinated such a craving in 1
the mind i ir Columbus to explore the Atlantic, glassed its
awful billows before bins, strewed its surface with sun-
beams and tokens of encouragement, and cooled its
atmosphere with refreshing breezes. And Christopher
responded to the beneficence of the Deity ; throughout
his long life he responded to it ; his piety was not inter
mittent or eccentric, it coloured his whole soul, and lent
a new majesty to his majestic nature. :his Journal, com-
menced immediately after his departure from Palos, in-
dicates the incessant and intense awe with which he re-
garded the great One of eternity: ite. opening paragraph
is written, ' In N. D. nostri Jesz4. Chri4ti.' Columbus
appears to have rendered the dread d passage across the
ocean less perilous by nertain impr4 ements in the astro-

" R. H. SALE,
" 9th Regiment B. N. 1., and Second in Command
Cady Gawlior contingent."
His Lordship also laid before the Court a letter from
Major General Thackwell, late commanding the cavalry
of the army of the Sutlej, acknowledging the receipt of
the freedom of the City, voted to him by the Corpo-
ration.
Both letters were ordered to be entered upon the
journals.

GRAND JURIES.
Mr. ANDERTON gave notice of a motion for inquiry
into the utility of Grand Juries, with the view to a.ticer-
tain whether they cannot with advantage be dispensed
with.

.......
THE LORD MAYOR'S FAREWELL TO THE COURT.
The LORD MAYOR said, that as the last Court of the
Mayoralty had arrived, he took the oprortunity to bid
them farewell. He could net help staying that, he felt
deeply obliged by the distinguished kindness with which
he had been uniformly treated by them, and that he felt
the highest degree of satisfaction in performing the
duties of his office amongst them, and he hoped they
had no occasion to find fault with him.—(Loud cheers.)
I wish you all happiness.—(Cheers.)
Mr. WIRE said, the Coart reciprocated the sentiments
which the Lord Mayor had uttered, and declared that
his Lordship had presiiied over them with ability, zeal,
and kindness. They wished him the long possession of
,health, and happin'ess' and prosperity.—(Cheers.)
The Court th'.:n broke up.

THE -NEWSPAPER PRESS IN FRANCE. The
Epoqu4 newspaper, which was started in Paris about a
year since, on the joint stock and half price principle,
after spending the whole of its capital in twelve short
months, and having attained a circulation of 12,000, was
sold on Saturday last as bankrupt property. The nomi-
nal purchaser is M. Prosper Devine, the gerant of Le
Droit, an offshoot of the Presse ; but the real proprietor
is believed to be M. Emile Girardin, the proprietor of
the Presse. The purchase price was 8,100/. sterling.
The sale of this paper gives us a curious exemplification
of the state of the law of libel in Prance. Within the
last two years the editor of a Paris journal was fined,
and, if we remember well, imprisoned fur a rather too
severe theatrical criticism. Yet, for the last month, the
columns of the Prase have been daily filled with calcu-
lations and arguments, to show that the Epoque was not
only not worth a farthing, but that it would bring certain
ruin on any one bold enough to purchase it. This new
way of excluding competition, it now appears, was de-
vised and practised with impunity, because the pro-
prietor of the Presse himself wished to be the purchaser.
TIIE STH AND 9TH OF NOVEMBER.—Yesterday the
Lord Mayor issued a notice to the inhabitants of the
City, announcing that the police were fully instructed
to stop " the firing, letting off, or igniting" of any
squibs, crackers, or rockets, on Thursday, the sth of
November (this day), being Guy Faux day, within the
boundaries of the City; and that any infringement of
that order would be punished with the utmost rigour 01
the law. A notice of a similar nature was appended re-
garding the ensuing Lord Mayor's day.

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WESTERN AUSTRALIA

The following intelligence from the Swan River
settlement, on the western coast of Australia, an-
nouncing the highly important fact of the discovery
of coal in the Murray district, and also the discovery
of a new port on the same coast, has reached England
in the almost incredibly short space of eighty-nine
days. We are informed, that it was expressed by
F. C. Singleton, Esq., (Government Resident) from
the Murray district (Western Australia) to Perth ;
from thence, by the exertions of Samuel Moore, Esq.,
it was conveyed to Freemantle, and to Sincapore by
Lieutenant Helpman, R.N.
(From the Supplement Extraordinary to the Swan River
News and Western Australian Chronicle [printed in

London,] of Nov. 1.)
LATE AND IMPORTANT FROM WESTERN
AUSTRALIA.—DISCOVERY OF COAL IN
THE MURRAY DISTRICT.—A NEW PORT

DISCOVERED.
DISCOVERY OY A STRATUM OF COAL.—Mr. Samuel
Moore, in a letter to the editor of the Inquirer, dated
July 30, states that a drain running N.N.E., 100 yards
long and about four feet deep, having been cut in a clay
plain, on the lands of Mr. Beacham, 35 miles south of
Fremantle, and within a short distance of the Murray
river, a stratum was discovered, about three feet from the
surface, of clay, similar to the shale of Lancashire, run-
ning nearly horizontally along both sides of the drain,
and containing shining substances like fractured coal em-
bedded in it, which, when burnt, produced gas and flame.
On digging some yards east and west, the stratum was
again met with, dipping to the west about two inches in
the yard. On the east side a depth of 14i feet was
reached, and the following strata passed through:-1, a
yellow sandy clay.-2, yellow clay containing reddish
spots.-3, shale clay containing black shining substances
resembling cual.-4, brown clay.-5, azure blue clay,
about six inches thick, containing veins of a black sub-
stance, in which the marks of large leaves were dis-
cernible.-6, blue clay, rather lighter than the last, and
three feet thick.-7, dark brown clay, 46 inches thick.-
8, hard sand, two feet and a half thick, and, 9, strong
adhesive clay. Here the operations were stopped by
the accumulation of the rain in the small shaft that has
been sunk, but samples of the various strata were sub-
mitted to Mr. Birch (a chemist from Staffordshire), who
at once pronounced them to be coal!
Mr. F. C. Singleton accompanied Mr. Moore in his
expedition of discovery, and gives a similar report.
Both gentlemen have sent for the Swan River News
full particulars of their impressions on the subject, and
Mr. Moore informs us that he intends to send down a
boring instrument forthwith to the field of operations.
DISCOVERY OF A NEW PORT.—In Mangles Bay, at the
south extremity of Cockburn Sound, and at a distance
of three miles N. by E. from Peel's Harbour, a depth
of water has been found of five and six fathoms at 100
yards from the sandy beach, and ten to eleven fathoms
at a cable's length farther out, " on a bottom," says Mr.
Roe, the surveyor-general, " of the best possible holding
ground, consisting of soft clay." The frontage of the
splendid anchorage is the proposed town site of Rocking-
ham, and the country around being of a level character
as far as the forests, Mr. Roe suggests that railways
could be easily made to bring down the timber and shift
it into the ship, which would be in perfect shelter with
her bow or stern warped close to the shore. This port
is to be named after the ex-Colonial Minister, and to be
called "Port Gladstone." The Surveyor-General was
engaged in making the chart of this port, which is so
well calculated to supply the want so long felt of good
and secure anchorages on the western coast, the ports
on the eastern shores of the islands being hitherto the
only really excellent harbours of the colony since the
irruption of the sea into Safety Bay ; but in this new
port a line-of-battle ship may lie perfectly secure with
her bowsprit almost on the shore.