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about her; there is the true roguery h% the eye, the
true espieglerie about the mouth. Silvia lv the trost
successful portraiture of the three. Looking upon
the chastity of her comeliness, we can well compre-
hend that impassioned exclamation of Proteus—

" And to your shadow will I make true love."

•
THE REGISTRATIONS.
CITY OF LONDON.
The Revising Barrister, at half-past ten o'clock on
Saturday morning, proceeded with the revision of Vie
householders' list.
Henry S. Redpath, 13, St. Swithin's-lane, claimed to be
put on the list. A claim was served on his behalf, but
a blank was left in the document where the premises
should have been inserted, and in consequence of the
omission the claim was disallowed.
Henry Houghton, of Wa'brook-buildings, claimed to
be registered.
It appeared that Mr. Houghton had attended last yoar,
and that his claim was allowed, but not% ithstanding that
!act his name was omitted fr( in this car's list, and it
consequently became necessary to serve a NEW C:aiin for
him to be put on the rate. A complaiet was made by
Mr. Wsnscy, on the part of the complaiasnt, of the hard-
ship of obliging him, under those cireum itances, to attend
the Court.
The Vestry-Clerk was interrogated by the Barrister
with reference to the omission, but was unable to state
satisfactorily how it had. occurred. He admitted that
he was responsible for the omission.
Mr. Wansey submitted that the Court should fine the
overseers in that case.
BARRISTER—BLit Mr. Philips, the vestry-clerk, says
he is responsible for it.
The Vestry-Clerk declared that he, and not the over-
seers, was responsible for the omission.
Mr. Wansey again urged that the overseers might have
made the omission.
BARRISTER—We will understand how that is, and I
am sure Mr. Philips will assist us to do so.
Mr. Philips said if he could find out the lists on his re-
turn home, he should do so; but he could not pledge
himself that he would find them, as his clerk was out of
town.
The BARRISTER intimated that be would be prepared
at any time during the present registration to investigate
the matter. '
The lists of the parishes of St. Stephen,Walbrook, and
St. Swithin,London-wall,were revised, thereby finishing
the revision of the wards of Bridge, Candlewick, Wal-
brook. The lists of Allhallows on the Wall, Broad-
street ward, were also revised.
Result of the revision, as furnished by the Liberal
agent :

OBJECTIONS.
Sustained. Failed or withdrawn.
Liberals. Tory. Double. Liberals. Tory. Double.
Il 25 7 31 39 1
Liberal claims sustained, 4: disallowed, 1$
The result of the day's proceedings according to the
Conservative return is as follows :

Sustained. Failed or withdrawn.
Conservative objections... 28
Liberal ditto
Double 6
Liberal claims
The court, at rising, adjourned to half-past ten o'clock
Monday (this) morning.

SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY: --
With respect to the effect of the advance of fares on
this railway, the Dover Chronicle has the following
statement :—" On the Ist of September the South-
Eastern Company raised their passenger fares—say, at
an average, 20 per cent. This advance, it was no doubt
calculated by the directors, would increase their returns
in a corresponding ratio. What has been the result of
their extortion ? The returns for passengers, for the
week eliding August the 29th—the last week of the low
fates, showed 9,098/. ; while the week ending-the 19th
of September, when the high fares may be said to have
come into full operation (both weeks being on a par as
to the travelling season), the returns for passengers had
fallen to 8,7681. ! It is true that for the first week of the
rise, and before the public were aware of it till they
reached the pay table, there was an increase in the re-
turn for passengers of some 5001. over the preceding week;
but after that, the returns steadily declined ; thus prov-
ing the great fact ' that low fares are the most profit-
e
Soath-Eastern increase of fares, not only
haabslaWafditteehcrratehlales.e of passengers taken place; but many of
those passengers who were wont to travel in first-class
carriages now travel by the second, while former second-
class passengers now go in third-class carriages. Our
steamers to and from London now carry large freights;
and many of the most respectable families, who, but for
the unwarrantable increase of fares, would have travelled
by rail, now go by steam, while coacheA and omnibuses up
the old road are now daily filled from the same cause."

ANOTHER. FATAL RAILWAY A CCIDENT.—I is
again our melancholy duty to record another fatal acci-
dent upon the railway, which occurred about nightfall
on Thursday last. The sufferer in this instance was
named John Archer, a native of Norfo.k, but better
known in company of his fellow-workmen under the
cognomen of " Seedy Jack." At the time above stated
he was in the act of detachiek some heavily laden earth
waggons on the incline on the Kendal and Windermere
line, in the immediate vicinity of Parkaide. Having
placed himself between the buffers in order to
unloosen the chain, the waggons unexpectedly moved
forward, dreadfully crushing his abdomen and the small
of his back as the buffers came in contact. lie was im-
mediately removed from this dangerous position, but
alas! he had received the stroke of death. On being
conveyed to his lodgings in Allhallows-lane, Mr. Brum-
well, surgeon, was in attendance, but his aid was abor-
tive. The deceased is represented to have been a young
man of higher moral bearing than is usually found in the
ranks of railway labourers, and in some instances, it is
said, his piety was exemplary when those around were
giving utterance to language below Christian notice.--
Kendal Mercury.

FATAL ACCIDENT TO MAJOR BEVAN.—WC have
this day to record another of those melancholy gun ac-
cidents arising from the want of sufficient caution with
regard to loaded fire-arms. On Wednesday evening, as
Major Bevan, of this city, was returning from a shoot-
ing excursion on a car with three other gentlemen near
his father-in-law's' Mr. Brew, of Wildbrooke, county of
Clare, he had his loaded fowling-piece with the butt end
resting on the footboard, and the barrels between his
legs, while he was smoking a cigar. By some accident
or other the fowling-piece was slipping off the •car, and
he stoops-d forward to snatch it, when the hammer,
which was unfortunately down, coming in contact with
the footboard, one of the barrels exploded, and tiy, con.
tents passed upwards into the cavity of the che!',l, carry-
ing away a portion of the heart, and procee,ling between
the sternum and lungs, came out uncle'• the windpipe,
and entering again under the chin went through the
head He had only time to say " Stop ; 0 God ! lam
shot," and falling forward he vomited a quantity of
blood, and immediately expired without a groan. The
remains were conveyed to Mr. Brew's. Here was a
veteran soldier who had been 30 years in India, escaped
all the chances of battle, and well knew the use of fire-
arms, y,:t now, in the evening of his days, fell from want
of caution by his own hand. He is the author ofa very
interesting work " Field Sports in India."—Limerick
Reporter.
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SUBSCRIPTION FOR MATTHEWSON AND COOKE.—To
British citizens who stand not in awe of military des-
potism, it remains to rescue Matthewson from a repitition
of that horrible outrage of which his person still bears
the indelible marks, by purchasinc, his discharge. .-We
perceive that a subscription has already been set on foot
for that purpose, coupling with it, also, the purchase of
the discharge of private Cooke. The fund required is
501. ; and though cohtributions have already been re-
ceived by the Treasurer, Mr. G. Walter, the Blue Posts,
Shoe-lane, Fleet-street, the sum realised is yet inadequate
for the benevolent, humane, and Christian purpose con-
templated. The case admits of no delay—a few hours
and the ladder may be fixed to receive the manacled form
of the victim—the trumpets may again sound for
"punishment "—the cats may again be in the hands of
the farriers—the lash may again do its work, and the
remains of Matthewson be laid along with.those of his
late comrade White in the depths of their mother earth.
Let not a moment then be lost in affording the means,
trifling as they are, for rescuing another victim from the
calendar of military punishments.—Sunday paper.
SALT MONOPOLY IN FRANCE.—The monopoly of
salt has recently been made the subject of a report to the
French Academy by the celebrated traveller in America,
M. de Tocqueville. The Academy, M. de Tocqueville
states, is aware that the question of the production of'
salt, and its price, is one of the most important consider-
ations with reference to public health and agriculture
that can occupy the attention of political economist
and statesmen. This subject has of late years very much
agitated the public mind in France, and M. de Tocque-
ville complains that salt is, in general, only viewed by
the Government in connexion with taxation, and that
the tax bears no proportion to the value of the com-
modity, which is thus raised to an ex, rbitant price. It
appears that the salt makers in the south of France have
eneterrerdicein, a
tond i
atis even
confederacy for the purpose of keeping up
th
eared that the salt monopoly
will soon be in the hands of one individual. "Of what
not in favour of
advantage, then, is it," M. de Tocqueville asks, " for the
state to lower the tax, if the maker has it in his power
to command the market, and raise the price at his
oncettiomihe,:t
ovEeepxspnEt reoNentTshdi v
TO
Oa nTdu weak.
abolishingpkasure? ?"
individual 3l
d o
Tocquevillemnopoly fiosr the purpose f
establishing one by Government in its stead. S h ,of
measure, he thinks, would be dangerous, and that Such the
iendgatnoddeoi,ifeaenbdletdh,ustoexbpeocosimnge itsat p_toh:eiaja,- it_
state has already greatly exceeded its proper sphere ofaction, meddling with many details with which it ogh
IiNG OF THE FREN
of I:be-.2‘;citional
and decorated
'
have had the pleasure of seeing a copy
Atlas, splendidly bound in green morocco, rII --We
with the royal insignia, which is to be
presented by thet
yhrisremncaiheatf the teru, ia
3t,t
gLroartdeflu'lrocvoonsstidraoefGtiloan of thesgowto honour the Ring
paoidf theb f
to the city of Glasgow, in the person o
Provost, on the occasion of the late visit of his Lcodskiip,
to Paris.—G bislquomu/pexiitNiz/.
MONSTER
There is now growing igt
,
the garden of Mrs, Noake, at the Old Bush Inn, Wom bourn, a pumpkin measuring in circumference f -i,
2 inches, and estimated by competent judges 5 4'eL,h-
upwards of 801bs. This vegetable
monsterto ..rei'
from seed obtained from Mr. Lowe ~ wr.s reared
, seectsrnaa;
town, and grown in the open ground without
T of this
Wolve
rhampton Chronicle. g.—..
BRISTOL SUGAR DIARY ET, 0
nave
actions in raw sugar been to fair week, and pricy a, extent Ibis
v Ere unaltered. Refined goods eon-:
tinue scare. aid c
_ri omnaaucl full rates.—Brigol Mercury.