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DUTCH, GERMAN, and BRUSSELS

PAPERS.
CRACOW, DEC. 2.—lt is stated that the Police De-
partment, where they expected to arrest John Schubert.
at the barrier of Zwierzynice, were in the hopes of disco-
vering thereby an important secret. His disappearance
has, however, frustrated their expectation. Report points
out the said John Schubert as one of the ringleaders of
the new conspiracy, which is said to be brooding against
the Austrian Government. It might have been inferred
that in the present state of affairs, every thought of a
conspiracy would have been given up as utterly futile.
The report, however, is so often repeated, and frequen*
with such certainty, that apparently there must be some
foundation for it.

...
VIENNA, DEC. 3.—Two days after, we received the
intelligence that the well-known Polish insurgent Chief,
Dembinski, who appeared after the defeat of the Gali-
cian Nobles at Lisa Goroe, and had not been heard of
since, has been arrested in Cilli. He had been kept in
concealment on the estates of an Hungarian nobleman,
but had latterly obtained a passport for himself and a
ale, and, under a false name, had weeded in getting
as ,r as Cilli, where he was arrested.
ELIN, DEc. 5 —The King of Hanover is said to be
on the point of expending a pretty considerable sum (re-
port says five to six million dollars) in the purchase of
landed estates within the Prussian dominions, and that
several negotiations have already been commenced with
large estate owners. It is, however, added, that there is
danger that the entire plan may fall to the ground, as a
difference has hitherto subsisted in regard to the forma-
lities which the King of Hanover, as soon as he shall ob-
tain estates in Prussia, will be obliged to observe towards
our King, as landowner, and which have been observed
by other sovereigns who have possessions in Prussia; for
instance, the King of the Netherlands, the Duke of Bruns-
wick, the Duke of Dessau, &c., &c, _ .

VIENNA, DEC. 6.—The day before yesterday, the im-
perial Russian Lieutenant, General Von Bibikoff, ar-
rived from St. Petersburgh, with • a rltmerous retinue.
He is charged with the commission to accompany the
earthly remains of her Imperial Highness the late Grand
Duchess Maria, to St. Petersburgh. Her Imperial
Highness the Grand Duchess Helen has recovered from
her indisposition. Our mails from Constantinople have
for some time arrived very irregularly; the mail of the
25th November arrived here two days after date.
BRESLAU, DEC. 6.—Letters from the Polish frontier
state that the time in which the kingdom of Poland is to
cease, is approaching, and that it is no secret that Prince
Paskewitsch has orders, on the slightest revolutionary
movement, to fire on Warsaw from the citadel, and utterly
destroy it.
KONIGSBURG, DEC. I.—With respect to the marriage
contracted by 1)r. Falkson with his wife in England, the
Procurator-General has instituted proceedings for de-
claring this marriage between a Jew and a Christian
lady to be null and void. The tribunal has resolved to
require the opinions of the Consistory and of the Rabbis,
how far a Jew could comply with the Christian laws of
marriage.
BERLIN, DEC. 3.—The Crown Prince of Sweden is
gone to Hamburg, having first obtained from Prince
Charles and Princess Louisa the final promise of grant-
ing him the hand of the Princess. His Royal
Highness went to the King from Weimar a week
ago, and immediately received his Majesty's ap-
probation of his intended marriage. The bride,
however, is so far from having recovered from her
illness at Genoa, that the King has lately sent his own
physician, Privy Councillor Grisma, to that city to take
part in the consultations of the physicians in attendance
on her Royal Highness.
The affairs of Cracow seems to very much occupy the
attention of our Minister for Foreign Affairs, and while
we can only confirm our former statement that Russia very
reluctantly agreed to the incorporation of the Republic,
it appears now that our Cabinet is ready to approximate
on certain terms to the Western Powers. The protest
of Lord Palmerston has already been received here, and
is expressed in unlocked for mild terms with respect to
the Prussian Cabinet, whereas the reply to the Russian
Government is said to be very severe.
We have now a contradiction of the report which was
purposely spread, that the Western Governments, or at
least one of them, had been secretly informed before-
hand of the intended incorporations.
BERLIN, DEC. 2.—Though earnest representations
and wishes for a favourable decision, respecting our
commercial interests at Cracow, ha'l been sent from
here to Vienna, doubts are entertained of their being
complied with, because it is foreseen that they will be
opposed by the Russian Government. The free trade
of Cracow has hitherto been offensive to that Govern-
ment, and Russia considered Cracow not only as the
focus of revolutionary ideas, but also as a great depot
for a contraband trade in Poland. The commercial se-
clusion of that kingdom, whose complete incorporation
with the empire is near at hand, as the first consequence
of the new convention at Vienna, is one of the results of
the system which has latterly obtained so great a vic-
tory, of which we will hope, that it may not be found
diametrically opposed to the German interests.
HANOVER, DEC. 9.—Their Royal Highnesses the
Crown Prince and Princess, and the Hereditary Prince,
arrived here-to-day from Celle beith exiiress train, and
alighted at tho Royal Arife3t Palace, which is assigned
to their Royal Highnesses for their future residence.
BERLIN, DEC. 9.—The bankruptcy of the house of
Schiller and Muller, which was made known yesterday,
has excited a great sensation on 'Change. Their debts
amount to 800,000 dollars, of which,
as far as is just
known, 80,000 dollars fall upon a house in this city. The
alarm is increased by the apprehension that the blow
will not be the only one, since it was supposed, on one
hand, that it has some connexion with the affair at
Cracow; and, on the other, it was found extraordinary
that the bankrupt house was unable to obtain timely
assistance from the other influential houses of Breslau.""
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for Paris. Their absence will not be prolonged above a
week.

It is said that after the promulgation of the law on
the promotion of the Princes of the Royal Family in the
army, the Duke of Brabant will enter the Regiment
d'Elite, and the Count of Flanders the Regiment des
Guides, both with the rank of sub-lieutenant.—Brussels
Papers, Dec. 14.

THE HAGUE, DEC. 9.—A1l the boats, except one,
have now returned, God be praised, in safety, from the
English coast, to Scheveningen. The number of herrings
that they have brought is nearly four and a half mil-
lions, which is more, by half a million, than last year.
The fishery has been very successful, only two of the
owners are said to have barely covered their expenses,
the rest have all ample reason to be satisfied. The prices
have lately risen.

AMSTEIIDA3I, DEC. 9.—This morning there was
general meeting-of the shareholders of the Dutch Com-
mercial Company, in which it was resolved, with the ap-
probation of his Majesty the King, to prolong the grant
to the Company, of the 31st of December,. 1849, for a
second period of 25 years, that is, till the 31st of De-
cember, 1874. We shall revert in the sequel to the re-
solutions taken by the Assembly, and communicate it at
length. .

THE HAGUE, DEC. B.—His Excellency the Minister
of the Interior, has given notice to those persons inter-
ested, that conformably with the public advertisement,,
the public! lottery, for drawing ten shares in the loan of
950,000 florins, for the construction of a causeway from
Maostricht to the frontiers of Guidersland, took place
ou the 7th of this month. The ten series drawn, were
Nos. 6, 152, 165, 196, 198, 203, 418, 636, 735, and 804.

flourishes there are always guarantees of tranquillity,
order, and the security of our institutions.
Senor Don Fetnando Abarzuza (who, of all that
were present, with the exception of Senor Urtetegui,
contributed most to the establishment of the associa-

tion) next addressed the meeting, amidst general marks
of approbation. After expatiating on the advantages of
free trade to society, he said—Eternal gratitude to Mr.
Cobden, who has carried this glorious principle into
practice, presenting those admirable doctrines with in-
domitable perseverance, until they triumphed in Great
Britain ! That tribute of gratitude which mankind
owes him, we now rejoice in having this opportunity of
paying, assembled as we are for the purpose of founding
an association for the diffusion of his salutary principles.
Senor Abarzuza concluded an eloquent address, by
calling on the meeting not to suffer any more time to be
lost, but to constitute immediately the society that they
so much desired.

Senor Zulueta, and some other gentlemen having ad-
dressed the meeting to the same effect, the proposition
for forming a junta, or committee, to direct the efforts of
the association was received with enthusiasm ; the junta
to be composed of a president, vice-president, eight
members, and a secretary. The following were then
unanimously elected to those offices :—President, Senor
Don Jorge Urtetegui ; Vice-President, Senor Marques
del Pedroso. Members, Senors Don Juan de Dios La-
sante, Don Rafael Lobo, Don Pedro Pascual Vela, Don
Francisco Paul, Don Jo:6 Lopez Bonal, Don Jose Nico-
las de Oviedo, Don Francisco A. Conte, Don Antonio
Gargollo. Secretary, Senor Don Antonio de Zulueta.
The Comm cio concludes its article by a quotation from
the speech delivered by Mr. Cobden at the last League
meeting in Covent-garden Theatre, in which he described
the apparently insignificant origin of the Anti-Corn-law
League ; and expressed a hope, that however small the
association now founded in Spain, it might ultimately
achieve similar success.

IRELAND.
SUSPENSION OF PUBLIC WORKS.

DUBLIN, DEC. 15.—1 n consequence of a very heavy
fall of snow in some of the western counties, it has been
found necessary to suspend public works, and vast num-
bers of the destitute peasantry are left totally without
the means of providing themselves with food. An
order is likely to be issued— indeed that it has
ciready been decided upon—directing the inspecting
officers to call over the list of working people each
morning during the suspension of the works, and to pay
them for each day equally as if the works had been in
progress.
PRODUCTIVE LABOUR—CULTIVATION OF
THE LAND.

The Board of Works have issued the following im-
portaut and well-timed circular, with a view to the
carrying out of works undertaken in accordance with the
circular of the Chief Secretary :
" CIRCULAR, NO. 38.

" Board of Public Works, Dec. 9, 1846.

" The employment of the destitute on roads and other
public works must soon terminate, and reproductive
works be substituted for them. To render such works
really beneficial and morally useful, the landed proprie-
tors must join hand in hand with the Board of Works.
Every proprietor or farmer will be interested in the
practical success of some local work, and as the number
will be great, the success will be in proportion to the
zealous co operation which the Board may receive.
" Works connected with thorough draining and sub-
soiling with the spade must be executed systematically
and calmly—no external force, no hurry can be admitted.
The number of labourers required for each particular
work can be accurately known, and each individual
labourer should have a task allotted to him, say, suffi-
cient for a fortnight or three weeks.
" To enatle each labourer to till his own farm, or that
of a neighbouring farmer, and at the same time earn the
support of his family through employment on drain-
age works, it is proposed that the task to be allotted to
each labourer• should consist of a certain length of drain,
and the collection and breaking of stones for the drain ;
where the stones are to be gathered from the same or
neighbouring fields, the children of the labourer may be
employed by him in collecting them into heaps, and, if
sufficiently near, depositing them on the side of the drain
cut by the father.
" If, with the assistance of his children, the task,
sufficient for a fortnight, be completed in six or eight
days, the labourer will receive his money, and be at
liberty to devote the remainder of the fortnight to farm
labour, and still will have earned sufficient to support
his family until the time arrives for commencing a second
task, and so on.

" To render the drainage works substantially bene-
ficial to the landed proprietors, it is necessary that the
most approved system of thorough draining should be
adopted.,To effect this object, the Commissioners of Public
Works mean to appoint district inspectors of drainage,
whose duty will be, in the first instance, to examine the
site of every work presented for ; to determine the ex-
tent of laud to be drained, and mark its boundaries
on the Ordnance plans ; to lay out the works connected
with the main or open drains ; to determine the depth
and all the detail belonging to the covered drain ; to
estithate the cost of the drafnage per acre ; to value the
land in its present state, and give his opinions as to the
increased value which will result from the drainage ; and
report or.l the whole to the Commissioners. _ _ _

"During the time occupied by the inspector of drain-
age in the performance of his duty, the landed proprie-
tor, the agent, or steward, should attend for the purpose
of receiving instructions as to the particular works to be
executed in each case, and should recommend suitable
persons, who may be employed as local overseers to
carry them out
" The stewards or farmers, as the case may be, to act
without salary; but the local overseers recommended by
them, when approved of by the inspector of drainage,
will be paid accffding to their qualifications and ex-
ertions.

" The sanction of the Treasury having been received
for the drainage works of any district, and the number
of labourers to be employed in each determined, on
due notice being given to the Relief Inspecting
Officer of the Board of Works, he will name labourers
for each from the list of the destitute residing
within the electoral division or barony as is usual for the
road works; and it is expected that the landed proprietors,
farmers, and stewards connected with each work will use
every exertion to scrutinise the list of the destitute, to
insure that none who have other means of support be
employed. The land will be assessed for the expendi-
ture, and consequently the admission of persons not
requiring relief, by adding to the number, will propor-
tionably increase the assessment ; hence it becomes the
interest as well as the duty of all cuss-payers to limit
the admission of labourers to those who arc wholly des-
titute.

"By order, JOS. C. WALKER, Secretary."
DESTITUTION.—DEATH FROM STARVATION.
The Taunt Herald contains the following :
" We regret to state that our various communications
during the week represent the state of the people of the
country as fearful in the extreme. From some of the
remote districts of our own county we have received the
most horrifying details of the sufferings of the poorer
c!asses ; and, alas ! various particulars of deaths from
starvation have reached us.

On the 6th instant, an inquest was held by A.
Hosty, Esq., coroner, at Lisheenager, on view of the
body of Michael Walsh.
" Mary Walsh, having been sworn and examined,
said—The deceased was my husband. We had neither
potatoes nor corn for the last twelve weeks, nor did de-
ceased get but six days' work during that time. There was
no public works in the neighbourhood, but one road,
and he was unable to get employment ; the only sup-
port ourselves and three children bad were a few tur-
nips, and occasionally a little meal we used to get from
a neighbour ; we lived upon one meal a day, and often
suffered from hunger for the last three weeks. Deceased
took ill on the Ist instant, and died on the Thursday
following. All the relief I could procure him during
his illness was a dose of castor oil from the Headford
dispensary, and twopenny worth of bread a neighbour
gave me. During that time myself and my children
lived on a few boiled turnips, without meal or any other
mixture, and we are all suffering from hunger.
" Such, reader, is a specimen of many of the details
that have reached us."

The following letter appears in the Tralee Chronicle:—
‘• Killarney, Dec. 9, 1846.
" Dear Sir,—Having travelled with the coroner Mr.
O'Riordan, from Kenmare, on Monday last, I learned
from him the particulars of an inquest which he that
day held at Shountore, three miles to the west of Ken-
mare ; and with the hope that publishing them may at-
tract attention in some quarter to that neglected part of
the country, I send them to you for insertion in your
useful journal.
" Tae name of the deceased was Mary Sugrue. She
and. three female children, aged ten, six, and four years,
lived in a wretched hut near the road side ; and it ap-
peared, from the evidense of Mary Reilly, that deceased
and her three children went to her house on last Satur-
day week, and told her she and her three children were
starving. She gave them some small share of food, and
they went away. She did not see her after until Satur-
day last, when, hearing a child crying near the hut, she
went towards it, and found the second child outside the
door, unable to stand from weakness. She took the
child into the hut, where she found the mother dead,
and the young child apparently so. She called in some
neighbours, who took
the children away. The eldest
child was not there ; it is supposed she went to her
grandfather, who lives near Sneem. The deceased ap-
peared to have recently died, There was neither food
nor drink of any kind in the hut—no furniture—nothing
but a little straw and a miserable blanket. She swore
she had no doubt but deceased died from want of food.
" Dr. Mayberry made a post mortem examination ; he
founa the stomach and bowels perfectly empty—no trace
of food of any description could be found, and he had no
doubt the deceased died from want of sustenance.
" There was a verdict accordingly.
" The Coroner had another inquest at Benane, near
Kenmare, about a fortnight before, on the body of a
man, named Robert llampston, who died on the roadside,
of hunger, when a similar verdict was returned.
" I have just heard another death has taken place since
Monday in the same quarter, from starvation. God only
knows how many have fallen, and how many others will
fall victims from the same cause. Where is all this mi-
sery to end ?—I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
4, H. DOWNING."

MEETING OF LANDED PROPRIETORS.
There was a meeting of landed proprietors yesterday
in Dublin. Amongst those present were the Right Hon.
F. Shaw, M.l'., Messrs. G. A. Hamilton, M.l'., Daniel
O'Connell, M.P., Lieutenant-Colonel Taylor, 51. P., Ed-
ward Grogan, M.P., Monsell, Napier, J. R.Godlcy, Chas.
Wm. Hamilton, Bolton Massey, &c.
It was resolved—" That with a view to meeting the
difficulties of the present alarming crisis, a committee be
formed to collect suggestions to be laid before the Irish
Members of both Houses of Parliament, as to the mea-
sures which ought to be brought forward."
TRALEE, DEC. 12.—A company of the 77th, under the
command of Major Clarke, proceeded yesterday morning
to Cahirciveen, together with a large police force, to pro-
tect the Government stores, threatened by some of the
hungry population of that locality.— Tralee Chronicle.

THE LATE COLONEL DAVIES.
(From the Worcester Chronicle.)
Our obituary of this week records the decease of Col.
Davies, for a long period the esteemed and independent
r representative of this city in Parliament. The gallant
Colonel was descended of an ancient family which had
been long seated in Montgomeryshire. His grandfather
was rector tof Fownhope, in the adjacent county of
Hereford, and he was the eldest son of the late Thomas
Davies, Esq., Advocate-General to the East India Com-
pany, and a great friend of the Governor-General
Warren Hastings, by Anna, daughter of Hugh Baillie,
Esq., of Monckton, Ayrshire. He married on the 17th
January, 1824, Augusta Ann, the only child of Thomas
Crespigny, Esq., who survives him. Some twelve years
ago Colonel Davies had the misfortune to be thrown out
of a carriage, whilst canvassing, and was slightly para-
lysed thereby. This gradually increased, so that for
some years he has been perfectly helpless. On Tuesday
he grew worse and was taken with slight sickness, which
continued at intervals. On Wednesday and Thursday
he was attacked with hiccup, and it became evident that
he was gradually sinking. On Friday morning, about
three o'clock, he expired without a struggle, in th'epre-
sence of his attached friend and medical attendant, Mr.
Francis Davies, of Pershore. Colonel Davies was in
his 58th year, and has left no issue. He first appeared
before the electors of Worcester, as a candidate for Par-
liamentary honours, in 1816, on the death of Mr. W. A.
Robarts, which occasioned a vacancy in the representa-
tion of Worcester. He professed himself the advocate
of retrenchment and Parliamentary reform, but Lord
Deerhurst, who had been an unsuccessful candidate at
the general election in 1812, was in the field before him,
and had made his election secure. In consequence,
after a canvass which made it apparent that it would be
fruitless to oppose his Lcrdship, Colonel Davies retired,
with a promise that he would again present himself at
the general election.
In 1818 he fulfilled this promise, and three candidates
appeared on the hustings, Sir William Duff Gordon,
who had; represented the city in the two preceding
Parliaments, Lord Deerhurst, and Colonel Davies. The
poll was kept open for seven days, and the number of
votes recorded for each candidate was as follows:
Lord Deerhurst.... 1,422
Colonel Davies 1,024
Sir W. D. Gordon 874

At the election consequent on thee death of King
George the third, in 1820, Lord Deerhurst and Colonel
Davies were elected without opposition. At the general
election, in 1826, Lord Deerhurst retired after a can-
vass, on the pretext that his appointment to the Vice-
Lieutenancy of the country would devolve upon him a
mass of public and private business incompatible ,with
the discharge of his duties as a representative. The can-
didates were Colonel Davies and Mr. G. R. Robinson, to
whom was very unexpected!y added, on the morning of
the election, a third, in the person of the late Mr.
Richard Griffiths, of Thorngrove. The poll, as in 1818,
was kept open for seven days, and the numbers at its
close stood as follows:
Mr. Robinson
Colonel Davies
Mr. Griffiths 1,036
The two first were declared duly elected.
On the sudden dissolution of Parliament, in 1831,
arising out of the question of Reform, Colonel Davies
and Mr. Robinson were returned without opposition.
The Hon. Captain Fitzroy, a brother of Lord South-
ampton, also appeared in the field, but his address, offer-
ing himself as a candidate, was immediately succeeded
by another, in which he announced his intention of with-
drawing from what he quickly ascertained would be a
hopeless contest.
At the general eleetion, immediately succeeding the
Reform Bill, Colonel Davies and Mr. Robinson were
again elected without opposition. Mr. R. A. Dundas,
now Christopher, and one of the Members for Lincoln-
shire, addressed the electors on the Tory interest, but,
as his address states, he did not receive a sufficient num-
ber of promises on his canvass to warrant his proceeding
to the poll. In 1835 Mr. Joseph Bailey came forward
upon Tory principles, and after a severe contest, suc-
ceeded in defeating Col. Davies by a majority of 17, the
numbers being—
Mr. Robinson
Mr. Bailey.
Colonel Davies 1,137
On the opening of the session of Parliament, a pe ti.
tion of George Munn and others was presented against
Mr. Bailey's return, on the ground of bribery and treat-
ing, the improper reception of votes, and other causes,
and praying that the election of Mr. Bailey should be
declared void, and that Colonel Davies should be declared
duly elected in his place. The committee to which this
petition was referred was composed of a large majority
of Tories, and of course the result, from the beginning,
was foreseen. After a sitting of eleven days, the peti-
tioners withdrew from a contest which the nature of the
decisions pronounced by the committee in regard to
certain disputed votes rendered hopeless, and Mr. Bailey's
election was confirmed.
At the general election consequent on the death of
King William IV., in 1837, Colonel Davies again came
forward. Mr. Robinson and Mr. Bailey were also in
the field, but Mr. Robinson, though put in nomination
in the usual form, annonnced from the hustings his in-
tention of retiring, and Colonel Davies and Mr. Bailey
were returned.
At the election in 1841, Col. Davies declined again
offering himself as a candidate, on the score of ill health,
and was succeeded by our late learned representative,
tho present Chief Baron Wilde. Thus the gallant
Colonel represented Worcester for more than twenty
years, and in six Parliaments, or, with the exception of
the short Parliament of 1835, uninterruptedly from
1818 to 1841. The lion. Gentlemen entered the 52d
Regiment of Foot at the early age of 15. He was a cap-
tain at the battle of Vimeiro in 1808, and went through
the whole of the Peninsular war up to the crowning
victory of Waterloo, where he displayed the character-
istic bravery of a British soldier, without a day's illness.
During his lengthened Parliamentary career, Colonel
Davies distinguished himself as the unflinching enemy of
improvident expenditure. In the cause of retrenchment
he was a fellow-labourer with Mr. Hume, whose econo-
mical motions he so constantly seconded or supported,
that he acquired the soubriquet of Smollett, atter the
eminent continuator of Hume's History of England.
Colonel Davies was the advocate of all well. considered
reforms, but opposed to rash and causeless innovation.
He was favourable to an extension of the suffrage, to
the vote by ballot, and to a shorter duration of Parlia-
ment, and, as might be expected, strenuously supported
the Reform Bill is all its stages. His vote was uniformly
given on behalf of every measure calculated to extend
the privileges or increase the comforts of the people,
while he watched with jealous supervision every item
of the public expenditure. The revision of the pension
list, the abolition of sinecures, and the reduction of taxa-
tion, were objects for which he: also contended in Parlia-
ment. By pursuing a steady, persevering, and inde-
pendent career, he secured the warm attachment of his
political friends, and was equally respected by his oppo-
nents. In his capacity of a country gentleman he led a
quiet and secluded life, which indeed the state of his
health of late years rendered indispensable, at his beau-
tiful seat of Elmley Park, which he purchased of the
executors ef the late Bourne -Charlett, Esq., shortly
after farming a parliamentary connexion with the city of
Worcester. Colonel Davies retired from the army a few
years since, having been up to that time on the half-pay
list. His late constituents will receive the intelligence
of his disease with sincere regret, for lie had won their
esteem by long and faithful service in Parliament, and
their good will by his courteous demeanour and the at-
tention which he paid to the humblest of the citizens.
An accomplished gentleman and a most humane and
kind hearted man, the dt ath of Colonel Davies pro-
duces a blank that will not readily bo filled up. In every
relation of life he was exemplary. An admirable officer
and upright' and clean headed magistrate, a kind and
benevolent master, an affectionate friend, and an in•
dulgent husband, he was respected and bel'uved by all
who had the gratification of knowing him, 'more espe-
cially by his own immediate circle, which he pre-emi-
nently adorned.
The funeral of the late gallant officer will take place
on Friday. Sir J. Pakington, Sir T. Winnington, R.
Temple, Esq., C. Hanford, Esq., E. Holland, Esq., and
E. B. Marriott, Esq., will be the pall bearers on the me-
lancholy occasion. Colonel Davies leaves two brothers,
who reside in Sussex, Warburton Davies, Esq., and
Col. Francis Davies, of the Coldstra:am Guards.

AFFRAY WITH POACHERS.—A rencontre took place
between the gamekeepers and watchers of the A.larqpis of
Anglesey, and Josiah Spode, Esq., of Armitage Hall,
near Rugeley, and a determined gang of poachers, from
twelve to fifteen in number, in a preserve on the .A.rmi
tage Hail estate, on Monday night last. After a despe-
rate conflict, in which one of the keepers was severely
wounded, and a poacher shot through the thigh, five of
the offenders were secured. They have since undergone
an examination, and been committed for trial.—Bir-
mingham Gazette.
Ties WEATtimt.—We hare had most intense frost
since Friday last ; and every loch, dam, and prnd, is
coated over with a thick sheet of ice, so strong that
skating and curling aro the order of the day every-
where. We have not as yet heard, however, of any im-
portant matches having been played. The various club:
and parish rinks are only training, as it were, for the
more serious work of the season.—Ayr Observer.
The Conde de Montemolin was occupied during
Thursday in receiving and returning visits. In the even.
ing the Conde dined as, usual, with the noblemen and
gentlemen of Lis suite.