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THE STTN. LONDON, TITESDA.Ir EVENING, SANITARY 13, 1846

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verdict for the plaintiff, awarding him the full amount he
claimed.
Mr. JERVIS- now moved for a rule nisi, to show cause
why that verdict should not be set aside, and a new trial
had on the ground that the vessel was not properly
surveyed before condemnation. It was admitted, the
Learn:•d Counsel said, by the plaintiff's witness, that the
copper of the vessel was not taken off, cad consequently
the injuries she had received beneath the copper was all
matter of conjecture, and could not be ascertained with
any degree of certainty. He contended, therefore, that
due anti proper care had not been exercised in the exa
mination, and hoped the Court would grant him the rule
for which he prayed.
The LORD CHIEF BARON—Take a rule to show cause.
CALLOR AND ANOTHER, a. LYON.
This was an action of assumpsit brought to recover
the sum of 50/., the amount of a promissory note given
by the defendant to the plaintiffs, who were the trustees
of the Metropolitan Loan Society. The case was tried
at the Middlesex sittings after term, when it was elicited
that the defendant was the security of a man named
Morris, who had borrowed from the Loan Society the
sum involved in the action, and a verdict was returned
fur the plaintiffs for the full amount claimed.
Mr. PEARSON now moved for a rule nisi to show cause
why the verdict should not be set aside, and a new trial
had on the ground that the note was obtained by fraud,
inasmuch as the rules of the Society differed from the
terms of the note, and the defendant, when he signed
the note, was in a state of intoxication.
The LORD CHIEF BARON said the constitution of loan
societies was so well known, that the defendant could
hardly have been mistaken as to the nature of the note,
and he must have signed it with his eyes open. The
finding of the jury was therefore correct, and the rule
must be refused.—Rule refused accordingly.

RE BOOTHREY.
Mr. PASHLEY applied to the Court for a writ of habeas
corpus, under the following circumstances :—ln Sep-
tember last, Boothrey, the Learned Counsel's client,
was committed to the Wakefield House of Correction,
under what was called the Worsted Acts, for having in
his possession a certain quantity of silk, of which he
could give no satisfactory account. The conviction was
made on the information of the constable of the parish, and
Boothrey was committed to prison for the non-payment
of the penalty which the possession of the silk rendered
him liable to. This conviction the Learned Counsel
contended was illegal, because the law under which it
was made was defective, in so far as the statute did not
specify to whom the penalty should be paid, but said
generally that it should be paid as the law dir:eted.
Now, Boothrey being ignorant of the law, knew
not to whom he ought to pay the penalty,
nor could any of the local authorities determine
who was the party entitled to it, and hence
there being no responsible person to receive the penalty,
it was morally impossible fnr him t.► comply with the
terms of the conviction, and therefore hie; detention in
prison was a wrongful and illegal act. '1 he conviction,
moreover, deviated from the form prescribed by the
statute, for it did not set forth the value of the goods,
the owner of the goods, or the allegation that they were
suspected to be stolen goods, and it was upon those
grounds that he moved the Court to issue a writ of
habeas corpus fur the release of the prisoner.
The Loan CHIEF BARON ruled that a trifling devia-
tion like that in the present case from the prescribed
form of conviction was immaterial, provided the sub-
stance or spirit of the form was retained; and as it was
clear that the prisoner could give no satisfactory account
of the goods in his possession, which he was bound to
do by the statute, his committal in default of his paying
the penalty was valid and justifiable. With respect to its
being in doubt as to who was the party entitled to the
penalty, he thought this point was disposed of by the ge-
neral and common law of the land, with which it was pre-
sumed everybody was well acquainted, and which provided
that the penalty should be divided equally between the
informer and the poor of the parish where the conviction
took place. He was therefore of opinion that the motion
must be refused.
The remainder of the Court concurring in this judg-
ment, the motion was refused accordingly.

COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY)
POTTS AND OTHERS V. HIGHTON AND JONES.
Sir T. WILDE moved for a rule to show cause why a
new trial should not take place in this cause, on the
ground that the verdict had been against evidence. The
cause was tried at last sittings at Guildhall, and a verdict
given fur the defendant; the action being to recover from
Highton, on the allegation that he was a partner of Jones,
a sum of money due to a bankrupt concern on the ac-
count of the latter. In the defence it was maintained
that no partnership existed, for that though Highton had
assisted Jones in certain business transactions, it was
not in the character of a partner. The Learned Gentle •
man at some length went on to show that Highton was
a partner, and on that ground considered that a new trial
should be ruled for the plaintiff—Rule to show cause
granted.

CARTER v. BUCHANAN.
Mr. Sergeant MusPnv moved for a rule to show cause
;or the setting aside of a verdict and a new trial granted
in this cause, on the ground of misdirection of the judge,
on which a verdict was given for the plaintiff: The cause
was tri,d before Mr. Justice Cresswell, at Guildhall,
during last sittings, and a verdict given to Mr. Carter
for 2141. The plaintiff is a watchmaker, residing in
Cornhill ; and the defendant, Mr. Buchanan, is a mer-
chant, who has been in the habit of dealing with the for-
mer for watches to send out to his correspondent in India.
In January last Mr. Buchanan went into the shop of the
plaintiff, and the contract was made, out of which the
present action had arisen. One order was for three
dozen of watches at 40s. each watch ; and four dozen
others at 365. each. It was a part of the contract that
the watches should be guaranteed to go, a point which, in
the sequel, would be seen to be most important to this
case. In March an intimation was sent to Mr. Bu-
chanan that the watches were ready, but Mr. Buchanan
was not in a position to receive them. In May
Mr. Buchanan again called, and saw the watches
and looked over some rings, which he bargained for.
He ordered two of the watches and a case of the rings
to be sent. They were not forwarded till Mr. Buchanan
sent a message for them, when one of each sor., of watch
and the rings were dispatched to the offices of Mr. Bu-
chanan. Now, the point was, were these watches and
rings to be considered as part delivery of the order, or
rather only as specimens, to see whether the order had
been properly executed, judging by the specimens, He
Mir. MurAy) admitted that an important letter had
been read at the trial, sent by the defendant to the plain-
tiff, stating, that as he had learned there was a great
glut of cheap watches in the Indian market, he wished
to know what hew ould take to allow the bargain to t e
off. On this letter the jury was instructed to give a
verdict for the plaintiff. Now, this letter was dated on
the 16th of May, whereas, looking over the evidence, he
found there were no rings named in the invoice till after
that date ; and as the two watches and rings were de-
livered at the same time, it was proof that the letter
was written before, and could not be taken as any re-
cognition of the contract. Under the circumstances,
reviewing the whole case, he thought their Lordships
ought to grant a new trial.
The LoRD CHIEF JUSTICE said that there could be no
misdirection on the part of the Judge, as there was
nothing left out in the Judge's charge to the jury. Be-
cause a Judge did not dwell so strongly on a particular
point as a learned gentleman might think fit, it was no
reason why it should he called a misdirection.
Mr. Sergeant MURPHY—Then the verdict must be
taken as against evidence, and on this ground he would
apply. Moreover, admitting the cuntract, the watches
were not what had been agreed upon. They did not
perform, and were not at all conformable to the order
given.
The watches, though kept, were not kept as a
recognition of the order, for immediately after he com-
plained of their quality, and he merely kept the sample
in order to ascertain really what the watches were.
Now, the watches the defendant had previously had
gone well.
The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE said it was necessary in a
contract to prove the delivery of goods, and the accept-
ance.wwean Now, in the present case, there could be no doubt
t shop,o of
of a contract being made. After that, the defendant
looked over
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tcthteos, the
an plaintiff's
selected two
about which the contract had been made. He desired
these two to be sent home, and had retained them till
this day, so that here was an acceptance and a sufficient
case for the jury, leaving the question of the letter out
of view. But when the letter was considered, in con-
nection with these other facts, he must say that the jury
had come to a proper verdict.
The other Judges agreed with his Lordship, and the
rule was consequently refused.

MARLBRU'-STREET•—(THIS DAY.)
Wm. H nris, a young man who is said to be respect-
ably connected, was charged with committing an out-
rage on a respectable married female, and her sister, as
they were passing through Cecil- court, St. Martin's-
ane, between eleven and twelve o'clock last night, on
their way home. The defendant was at the time intoxi-
cated, but not so much so but that he knew what he was
about.
Mr. MALTBY having very carefully investigated the
charge, told the defendant that he should commit him
for one month.
The defendant seemed astounded on hearing his sen-
tence, and earnestly entreated that the worthy magis-
trate would impose a fine in place of the imprisonment.
Mr. MALTBY refused to aiter his decision, and the
defendant was locked up in one of the cells to await the
prison van to convey him to Westminster Bridewell.

NARROW ESCAPE.—On Wednesday evening last,
as Mr. Milne, of Market-street, Cambridge, was crossing the
river on Mr. Searle's new ferry-bridge, he fell into the river
up to his neck. It seems the ferry does not reach the bank
on the Chesterton side, but that a small bank is made in the
water at the side of it for persons to step upon. Not being
aware of this, and too dark tier him to see, lie stepped forward
into the water.--Cambridge Chronicle.
The Mercers' Company sent yesterday'a donation of
101. to the poor-box of Company
Police-court.
A CHELSEA PENSIONER'S FUN ERAL.— On Sunday,
the remains of the Chelsea pensioner Bridge, No. 1 company
of the Woolwich division, were interred at Charlton church-
yard with military 'honours. The party consisted of the staff,
non-commissioned officers, and twenty-four privates, in uni-
form, but without a firing party, as the corps was not out
upon duty at the time or the pensioner's death, A portion of
!he expense of the funeral is defrayed by government, and
the body was carried to the grave on the shoulders of the
,comrades of the deceasod.
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J. H. Campbell, Esq., M.P., for Salisbury, has
kindly given to the Mayor of that city 1001. to be distributed
to the poor of the town. This gentleman, by the death of
his mother, now takes the name arid arms of "Wyndham,"
with the Otates of his lite uncle Wadham Wyndham, Esq.,
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who for many year represented tliat city, •

AGRICULTURAL MEETING AT
WILLIS'S ROOMS. r 7
Yesterday, et the a.b,vo-mentioned rooms, some two
or three hundred persons assr•lnloh-d, consisting of mem-
bers of the Central Agricultural Society. His Grace
the Duke of Richmond. Pees.:dent of the Association,
took the chair shortly after one o'clock. Several dele-
gates from all quarters of the country were present, and
among the noblemen and gentlemen on the platform
were—The Duke of Buckingham, Lord Sondes, Lord
Beaumont, Viscount Ossulston, General Sir J. Cock-
burn, Mr. Miles, M.P., &c.
The CHAIRMAN, in opening the business of the day,
said, it was not necessary for turn to detail, to them at
any length the opinions wSich he entertained on the
subject of the corn-laws. He had often enjoyed op-
portunities of laying these opinions before his fellow-
countrymen, and it was not his practice to retract
any opinions which he had once deliberately and pub-
licly expressed. But, though it was not necessary for
him to enter into any d;scussion of the general merits
of the corn laws, he nevertheless thought it abso-
lutely necessary for him to say a word or two for
the purpose of explaining shortly the reasons which
rendered it necessary to call the present meeting. Of
course, they all knew as well as he did that no person in
that room possessed the least means of knowing what
were the intentions of the Queen's Government with
reference to the corn-laws. No man out of the Cabinet
could say what the measures were which the Ministers
intended to submit to Parliament ; the general iinpres-
sien, howe%er, was, that those measures would involve
an infringement of the great principle of protection—that
principle which it was the main object of their associa-
tion to promote and defend. lie lamented to say that
there was too good reason to apprehend the dangerous
tendency which the policy of Ministers had recently
assumed. He feared that the great principle of protection
was new to be departed from, but why that principle was
to be abandoned no man now present could answer.
Some people thought, but that was a considerable time
ago, that the panic respecting famine might nothave been
without its influence in exciting the fears and warping
the judgment of her Majesty's Ministers ; but recent
events had proved that all the fears respecting famine
were utterly without foundation; and yet, though nothing
could be more baseless than such a ground for attacking
the corn laws, the agricultural interest were to be sacri
fiord—and sacrifices), he would ask, to what ?—to the
money of the Anti-Corn-law League. The gentle-
men of the League told the Government and the Legis-
lature, " Give us just thus much, and we shall be satis-
fied. Let us only be permitted to succeed to this small
and limited extent, and with that small amount of good
fortune we shall be, and for ever remain, perfectly satis-
fied." He would ask any Englishman with any preten-
sion to common sense, and with the least imaginable
amount of political experience, whether there was a
shadow of probability that the gentlemen of the League
would stop suddenly short after having thus taken the
first step in their progress? When was it ever known
that success among politicians produced moderation?—
(Loud cheers.) The gentlemen of the League began by
assailing the corn-laws ; their next step, of course,
would be to assail every species of protection, and to
establish free trade in the most unlimited sense of the
word, the ultimate end being to create a democratic
ascendancy in every part of England. The,y knew per-
fectly well that the yeomanry and farmers of
this country constituted the strongest bulwark
of our ancient institutions. They knew that
they must destroy the larded interest before they
overturned the constitution. Was it necessary for him
to inform the meeting then assembled of the means by
which the gentlemen of the League intended to effect
these objects? Was it necessary to repeat that which
had been published by every newspaper throughout the
kingdom, namely—the intention of the League to use
the ample funds at their command for the purpose of
corrupting the constituencies of England ? If the
League had combined for such a purpose as that, was it
not fair for other men to associate in order to counteract
designs which were not only unconstitutional, but self-
evidently unjust?—(Hear, hear.) By one of the rules
of the Agricultural Society, that association was dis-
abled from interfering, in any respect, with the business
of the registration courts; looking, then, at the condition
of the country and the conduct of the League, he took
upon himself fearlessly to ask that meeting whether they
were not prepared to rescind a regulation which disabled
them from meeting their adversaries upon equal terms?
—(Loud and continued cheering.) He would ask them
if they did not think the time had at length arrived
when it became their duty to enter the registration
courts with as bold a front as their enemies ? The
gentlemen of the Anti-Corn•law League boasted openly
that they were determined to carry the county elec-
tions of England by fabricated votes. This threat, he
doubt& d not, they would endeavour to execute to the
utmost extent of the means at their disposal ; but he
himself had no reason to fear their influence in that part
of the country with which he was more immediately
connected. The men of West Sussex might defy the
Anti-Corn-law League.—(Hear.) The farmers of West
Sussex were not made of such slippery materials as to
change their tone at the bidding of the Anti-Cern-law
Lesgue.—(Loud cheers.) They were not made of the
same slippery materials as those who, elsewhere, were
prepared to act upon the suggestions of Mr. Cobden.—
(Renewed cheers.) They had raised their standard for
agricultural rights, and he felt convinced that nothing
would induce them to lower that flag, and his entire per-
suasion was, thet to a man they would adopt for their
motto, "No compromise and no surrender." He doubted
not that every man felt as he did, that the protection
that agriculture had hitherto enjoyed was a protection
not alone operating for the benefit of the landed interests
themselves, but for the evident advantage of native in-
dustry in all its branches. Havinn thus shortly stated
to the meeting that the principal object for which they
were assembled was to alter that portion of the rules
which excludf d them from the registration courts, he
should now call on Lord Beaumont to move the first re-
solution.---(Hear.)
Lord Beeemoifer said a crisis of the most alarming
kind had arrived. Those who, in times past, had
strenuously maintained the corn-laws seemed now dis-
posed to abandon for ever the agricultural interest. At
such a crisis, therefore, as the present it behoved men to
come forward and support the opinion which they con-
scientiously entertained. He fearlessly avowed himself
a friend to protection. When he talked of protection, he
never meant a system which would have a tendency to
diminish the supply of food, or to increase its price. If
it had such tendencies he did not hesitate to say that all
idea of protection should be abandoned. It was be-
cause he believed the contrary that he raised his voice
in support of the existing corn-laws, and it was because
he believed the contrary that he should still exert the
small influence which he possessed to maintain those
corn-laws, and it was for that reason that he should
call on every one then present to go and do likewise.
To his mind nothing was more evident titan that if free
trade were established, there must be a general revision
of all taxation ; that there must be also a general revi-
sion of all the local burdens that pressed upon land, and
which burdens were considered to contain a compen-
sating principle for that which was called the evil of the
corn laws. He did not believe in the utility, or even the
existence of such a compensating principle ; but it was
quite evident that an alteration of the corn-laws involved
an extensive revolution, and in that change what was to
become:of the poor? From various quarters of the country
they were told that the masses demanded a removal of
restriction, but he confessed he saw no foundation for
those statements. He saw no ground for thinking that
the people of England were so full of the idea of free trade
as the gentlemen of the Anti-Corn-law League thought
proper to represent them. The Noble Lord concluded
by moving the first resolution, in the following terms:—
" That protection against foreign competition is abso-
lutely necessary to the productive classes of this country,
and that the removal or diminution of the protection now
afforded to the agricultural classes will be followed by
the removal or diminution of every protective duty im-
posed for the benefit of the home or colonial producers."
Mr. CHRISTOPHER, M.P., in seconding the foregoing
resolution, said, that for as long a time as we had
colonies, or very nearly so, it had been the practice of
England to give protection to those colonies at the ex-
pense of the agricultural interest, and if the main pro-
tection which those connected with land at present
enjoyed were to be removed at the dictation of the
League, surely no one would contend that the high pro-
tection which the colonies enjoyed at the expense of the
farmer should any longer be continued. In the county
which he had the honour to represent, there were thou•
sands of acres capable of growing tobacco ' • now if they
removed the protection which had hitherto been enjoyed
by those who grew wheat, they ought to remove any
impediment to the free cultivation of tobacco. He
did not very precisely know what was intended, but he
was sure every one would feel it to be rather a sus-
picious circumstance that a Ministry which had been
placed in office by the agriculturists had just recently
allowed themselves to resign the seals of office into the
hands of a Noble Lord who was known to be adverse to
agricultural protection. Now he thought that that fact,
if it stood perfectly alone, would fully justify him in
apprehending that further attacks upon the agricultural
interest were intended. They enjoyed a certain amount
of protection at this moment, and he should never
consent to surrender one jot or tittle of that protection,
be the consequences what it might.
generalMr election.MltE i
sM.tP.W ventured to say that at the next
would be felt that they (the agricul-
turalists) were the majority of the nation. But he would
recommend the various constituencies throughout the
county to demand an instant appeal to the sense of the
population, if they saw that their representatives wavered
fur a single moment. It was in vain that we thought of
proceeding upon free-trade principles; every step that we
took to advance those principles would be met in foreign
countries by tariff after tariff, and our best laid plans
would end in disappointment and disaster. lie concluded
by moving the second resolution, as follows:—" That
this meeting, being convinced of the great benefits de-
rived by all classes from the protective system, and being
satisfied that every branch of national industry will be
most seriously injured by the abandonment of that system,
pledges itselt to use every constitutional means to support
that principle of protection under which this country has
risen to its present eminence.
thatMse,though TnciM.e G g
er])ts,
n o
a manufacturer,
he observed that, while the
farmer and agricultural labourer could not depart from
the foregoing
ee
gt e
resoamidst much cheering, rose
to ,
he was a friend to elution. He began by saying
protec-
tion. Among other things'
the shores of England, the manufacturer could carry his
capital and his machinery wherever a prospect of profit
presented itself. On these grounds, then, he contended
that the condition of the agriculturist Wes entitled to the
highest consideration.
The resolution was then put and agreed to.
Mr. BARNR contradicted the statements made in a
pamphlet issued be the League, in which the steward
upon Lerd Ducie's estates maintained that the protec-
tion which the agriculturists enjoyed (viz., ss. Bd.) was
too trifling to disturb the tranquillity of the nation about.
He then reverted to the following resolution, which he
concluded by That the foltowing words be

expunged from the fourth role of the Society, viz ,' And
teat the &ciety shall un
.no account interfere in any
election for a Member to serve in Par "
The announcement of this resolution---was - received
with loud cheers..

'rho resolution having been seconded by Mr. R. SMITH,
was then put and agreed to.
Mr BALL, in a long and energetic address, directed
the attention of the meeting to the comparison of thirty
years of corn-law rule with the thirty years immediately
preceding it. He contended that no person could rise
from the investigation without a strong conviction that
the fluctuations under the corn-laws were immeasurably

less than these which prevailed in the absence of any
corn-laws After alluding to the alarming influence ex-
ercised by the press and League with the view of anni-
hilating those laws, he moved the following resolu-
tion :

OCCASIONAL SKETCHES—HERE THE RECENT RAILWAY ACCI
AND THERE. DENT IN THE ISLE OF THANET.
$
No. VII.
On Saturday last an inquest was held before T. T.
SOME PUBLIC (HOUSE) PORTRAITS "HERE.' Lesaux, Es (1-s Coroner for the eastern division G f the
county of Kent, at the Five Bells public-house, in the
One damp, dull, drizzling, dreary day (there's allitera- village of Minster, Isle of Thanet, on the body of James
tion for those who are fond of it), in the early part of Hollands, a young man who met with his death on the
last November. I landed near Liverpool, after an absence works of the Ramsgate, Canterbury, and London Railway.
of two years from this country. It was a thoroughly The Coroner and jury proceeded together to view the
English day, and from the "wet-blanket" looking sky place where the accident occurred. It is near the ut-
large rain drops came down with a dull heavy plash most point to which the works have proceeded, and
upon the sloppy ground. The wind and tide had pre- where the ballaet waggons are turned over and the con-
vented the vessel from getting nearer than ten miles, or tents thrown out to make the base upon which the rails
thereabouts, to Liverpool, and so, rather than lie in the are to be laid.
river, almost within sight of port, for a dozen hours, John Monckton, labourer, was the first witness
myself and the captain landed in a boat at Formby called. He deposed that on Thursday last he was on a
Point, and after having tramped wearily over the long ballast
u waggon with deceased, near the tip end of the
barren sands, on reaching the little inn found, to our line. By the " tip end," witness meant the point
mortification, that the omnibus had left for Liverpool where the waggons were tipped over and the con-
just three minutes before. tents thrown out. This was on the extension line
After having been so long from home, old accustomed of the South-Eastern Railway, between the villages
things looked rather strange. Whilst we were waiting
of Sarre and Minster. There were eight _waggons,
for a cab to be got ready, I sat down in the small parlour
all laden with ballast and propelled by a :Aram-
or the small inn. There was no mistaking the English- engine. They were under the wan2gement of a per:Gil
nest' of everything pertaining to it and about it. A por- named James Armstrong. On arriving at the tip &lid
trait of the Queen, so unlike, that I knew directly who
the two first waggons turned over the end of the lire.
it was meant fer, hung on the wall, which was covered Witness jumped off, but deceased, was thrown to the
ith fl ering red paper of a zigzag pattern, which it made
ground. The contents of one of the waggons fell over
one giddy to look at. A very gaudy ship, on a very him, and buried him. Witness, with others, end( avouted
brilliant blue sea, with an inflammatory mountain in an to extricate deceased as soon as possible, but be was
alarming state of eruption in the background, decorated, quite dead. Two other men were also partially buried
the chimney-piece ; and portraits of " jolly sailors, with him. It was the duty of Armstrong to h t off the
in wild ecstasies, jumping out of boats, and "capering steam at the crossing, and of another person to put on
ashore," with purses filled at both ends in their hands, the break on the tender and waggons. There was no
and bundles slung upon sticks, which they jauntily alarm given that he (witness) heard.
threw over their left shoulders ; and of despairing and Thomas Leach, of Minster, labourer, deposed that he
departing mariners, with the forefingers of their right was working on the line about seven o'clock in the
hands pointing to ships in full sal in the distance, their morning of the day in question. There was a steam-
te-ft arms encircling the waists of weeping wives or sen- engine attached to the line of ballast waggons, and he
sitive sweethearts, were displayed on all sides of the saw them between Minster and Sheriff's Court. The
apartment. Then there were stuffed birds and dried engine one, under the management of a driver named
snake skins ; and pieces of dingy coral, and branches of Armstrong. Another man, by the name of Matthew
sea-weed, like the bottoms of old sieves, disposed weep- Gomershall, had charge f the break in the tender.
ing-willow fashion over the frames of these pictures, to- Witness did not know whether any person on the wag-
gether with walking-sticks, some of glass, and others, Bons had
curiously contrived out of the back bones of voracious charge of the breaks. There ought to have
been some one. The morning was very foggy and dark,
fishes ; and all these " curiosities " had cheerful and so that witness could not Mt. any person on the seventh
comfortable associates in the shapes of rosy-faced, pot- or eighth
bellied gentlemen in the prime of life, who were repro- waggon.
B ICORONER—Did y the you, when you saw the engine
welted as in the act of blowing the froth from off the approaching the crossing at Sheriff's-court, do all you
edges of gigantic pots of vi
porter
; or of smoking with n-
could to make the driver sensible of the fact ? Witness
finite relish '`Dutch-cut, from pipes a yard long at
I did, by calling to him, and lam sure be heard me,
the least.
e h parlour for lie did all he could to stop the carriages, and so did
An omnibus cad was the sole occupant of t p
, the breaksman. There was a decline of about one in
when we entered that tobacco and Burton flavoured one hundred. The morning was frosty, and the wheels
locality. This gentleman was busily engaged in teasing passed more rapidly than usual over the rails.
a wiry snappish little terrier, by sportively flinging at By a juror—Deceased was completely buried beneath
him a crumpled copy of Bell's Life, and the making the ballast. Witness did not know where they were
the cur unwillingly bring it back. Occasionally he re- until they reached the crossing.
laxed in his attentions to the dog, and diverted himself George Low, of Minster, stated that he was at work
by plunging his nose very deeply into the recesses at Fuller's-marsh, and from thence he saw the engine
of a pot of half-and-half, the traces of whose proceeding at the usual speed. The steam was turned
travels were to be seen on the cross-legged table, off by the driver about 200 yards from the " tip." One
in the shape of half-dried, sticky rings of partially- hundred yards from the tip the decline commences. It
evaporated infusion of malt and hops. The frequent is a declivity of one in one hundred. Witness gave an
visits of his lips and nose to the pewter tankard were alarm to the men in the waggon, advising them to get off,
alternated by tremendous attacks on a plateful of what which several of them did. The caution would not havo
the landlady termed " sandwidges," and which appeared been necessary if it had been an incline instead of a
to be an ingenious compound of dirt, bread, butter, mus-
decline.
tart, and meat. Such a " cad" could hare been met with Armstrong, the driver, said that the morning was so
nowhere else than in England. As for his person and foggy that he could not see ; and until he was upon the
dress, just imagine a lump of expressionless flesh, crossing he was not aware of being so near the " tip."
wrapped carelessly in a suit of dingy fustian, with a He then shut off the steam, and Gomershall applied the
sealskin cap at one end, and a pair of " high-lows" at break to the wheel of the tender.
the other, and you have a description as near as I can This being the whole of the evidence,
give it. The CORONER summed up. From the foggyness of
But the landlady !—decorated with the smartest of the atmosphere, and the facts that the rails were wet
smart caps, with showy ribbons fluttering like streamers with frost and thus rendered slippery, and the decline
as she moved briskly about—her trim figure attired commencing there, the accident had undoubtedly occurred
in a remarkably gay mousseline-de-laine dress—and from purely accidental causes.
her clear, sharp voice, ringing like a bell through Verdict accordingly. Deodand on the engine 11.
the house, and never stopping its clapper for a mi-
nute she was a sight, after having stared
at nothing but the stewardess and salt water for the
last twenty days. How she curtseyed as we entered
the hostelry ; and how, when she learned that Captain
C— had Just arrived, did she narrate wonderful sto-
ries, quite as strange, or stranger than fictions, of ship-
wrecks which had occurred on the sands right before
her own doors. Then she was on intimate and familiar
terms with all the captains who came to Liverpool—she
was ; for they came down to " Waterloo" in the sum-
mer-time with their wives, and " used" her house.
Such nice gentlemen, they was, too. Very voluble was
she respecting the cheerful and snug dinners she had
cooked for little parties, and could cook again, if needs
be. " Far her own part," she said, " she liked captins
—they was such gentlemanly men —'specially 'Merican
captins ; and the mates (she looked interrogatively at
me) they were so genteel." On she went, never stopping;
so to give my ears a little rest, I ordered a bottle of
lemonade, and by the time I had disposed of it the cab
drove to the door.
"Ah ! gentlemen," said the landlady, slyly, " you
should have been here an hour ago, and gone up with
some ladies' maids as left this morning. Wouldn't they
have liked your company ? The women (a sigh) is so
fond of sailors, somehow. My poor man was a sailor—
but— "
" He's better off, ma'am, I hope," said I, as the car-
riage drove off—the brisk widow, at the instant of our
departure, having thrust a hugh engraved card into my
hands, with a hope that we should call again.
We soon entered Liverpool. There it was, just as I
had left it two years before—dark and dirty (they say
it always rains in Liverpool). As we drove along, lofty
stone warehouses, many stories high, frowned on us
from grated windows and double-barred iron doors.
Ponderous carriages, with broad wheels, drawn
by gigantic horses, and driven by mighty dray-
men, threatened every instant to crush our frail
vehicle. From the main street through which we
were driving, long narrow thoroughfares diverged on the
right and left hands, at every corner of which was a
flaunting gin palace, and gazing down the dim avenues
was to be seen a long perspective of pawnbrokers' balls.
Passing the docks, the captain quitted me for the pur-
pose of going to his agents, and I drove to the Waterloo
Hotel.
1 experienced a strange, undefinable sensation, at
once mere being in England, for I had never before been
away from it longer than a month. It was not, I fear,
a particularly patriotic feeling, lion a comfortable hugging
of the idea that England was the only place in the world
to be happy in. A residence in another country had for
me, at least, exploded the popular fallacy that comfort
had any particular local habitation, and was to be found
nowhere else. I suspect that the blandness which came
over me arose from a gradual sliding into the naturalness
of old familiar things. As I stood before the bright
blazing fire in the coffee-room, before which heaps of
plates were warming. up, looked on the sleek, snug
waiters, heard the short, sharp, ready " Yes, Sir," gazed
on the brilliant barmaid, and beheld " Boots," and more
than all, when The Sun of that very morning was placed
in my hand, it appeared to me as if I had just awoke
from a night's sleep, and that the beautiful country I
had so recently quitted—the lakes, the falls, the rivers,
the forests, the sparkling houses, and the pretty women,
had never in reality existed, but had only been seen by
me in some pleasant dream. Let me touch off the waiter
who is just now amazingly busy in moving things out of
their places for the sake of replacing them. He is a
young man belonging to the " nice" genus, of some three
or four and twenty years of age ; and if you did
not see a snow-white napkin under his arm, you
would take him for the probationary pastor of
a genteel country-town Dissenting congregation. He
has a very serious cast of countenance, and his hair is
brushed and combed into the most approved pious pro-
priety. Round his neck is a faultlessly-tied white cravat,
and so tight is it, that when he has to turn his head, the
latter rotates not on the second curvical vertebra, but his
whole body semi-revolves on the heels of his highly
polished pumps, between which and the edge of his
pantaloons silken hose are displayed. His half-open
vest displays a shirt-front of amazing fineness, and a
small black brooch, most probably the souvenir of some
lady's maid. His movements are rapid and noiseless,
and his voice low and gentle. Sometimes, in his over-
anxiety to serve you, he gently slides to your table, and
asks, " Did you call, Sir ?" but if you do call, he seldom
hears your summons. He has little respect for common
waiters at common inns, and regards those at mere
eat-
ing-houses as beyond the verge of civilisaotis m. W
civilisation.
For
the
ith
barmaid he entertains respect—perhaps.
t ac uaint-
the
chambermaid he has a distant, very distan , q
ance but for boots, he owns to
sentiments of the pro-
foundest contempt. As for the porter, he is a yahoo.
Such is the coffee-room waiter. And now, as a com-
panion sketch, let me try the barmaid.
Ah ! I ought to depict her lineaments with a lady's
golden pen, on embossed and perfumed paper. Reader !
just step with me into her sanctum sanctorum—the " Bar."
It is a large apartment, glazed on all sides, garnished
with decanters, tumblers, wine-glasses, sugar-tongs, tea-
spoons by the dozen in rummers, squeezers, nutmeg-
graters, spices, and lemons. In the centre of the room
is a table, on which lies the barmaid's needlework ; her
thimble and scissors are idle now, for No. 56 has rung
three times, and boots is "nowhere." Look at her I
how daintily she is dressed in a neat morning-gown and
cap of open net work, which has killed off many a
" commercial." Did you ever see a prettier figure ?
As her tiny feet go pit-pat-tap-tap over the floorcloth,
looking, as some old poet quaintly says, like mice peep-
ing in and out, one almost forgets to gaze on her face,
which is so sweet in expression, that the young man
with ferretty eyes, who stands with his back to the fire,
says, with great originality, if she looks into a jug of
punch very little sugar is required. And, she has such a
neat way of handling everything ; and when she sits down
to write in the bar-book, or to make out a bill, she holds
the pen so gracefully, that you cannot help being curious
as to her caligraphy, which, delicate and angular,
amazingly resembles those specimens we see in cases at
the doors of private lodgings, which consist of a miser-
able scrawl, contrasted with zigzag characters, purporting
to be " a specimen of my hand-writing after taking six
lessons of Mr. —." She is, of course, a favourite ;
and so, many a gentleman brings her, every morning,
bouquets, which you may see all about the room. Unlike
the genteel waiter, the barmaid is very courteous, though
somewhat distant, to all the under-servants, who address
her as " Miss ;" yet she exacts respect ; and no one—
no, not even the flashy gentleman who goes so far as to
call her by her Christian name—would dare to take a
liberty with her. She is unkissable. The very master
of the house, who has a snug chair for himself in the
bar, looks at her with deference. Aud there she is all
day long, smiling and simpering, from early in the
morning until late at night, working and coquetting,
tripping hither and thither, always doing something,
and never for a minute idle, with the pleasant look and
the civil word for everybody—and that is the barmaid,
The chambermaid is come to " show the gentleman
t
into 49." As we follow her up stairs, we will look out
of both corners of our eyes at her, and sketch her on
vma.
some future occasian,

BRAZILS.

LIVERPOOL, MONDAY AFTERNOON.--The following
letter from Rio Janeiro, of November 20, gives im-
portant views of the position of matters in relation to
the Brazils

" Rio Janeiro, Nov. 20.

" Our political horizon is very much darkened since
my last communication. I understand this Government
will not continue further negotiations until satisfaction
is obtained respecting that most unfortunate Bill lately
passed, and which I tear will make mischief. The Bra-
zilians complain, and with reason, that their coasting
trade has suffered serious inconvenience by the policy
and unjustifiable acts of some of our cruisers on this
coast. The Brazilians also complain that if a couple of
shackles were found in a coasting vessel, with all clear-
ances in order, she was in consequence detained ; and
as they navigate their coasting vessels partly with slaves
these were necessary to have on board ; even as on
board our vessels of war men are sometimes confined
in irons.
" Again at the Cape, vessels taken there have been
condemned for having those loose wooden boxes on
board in which the captain and mate sleep, because one
captain gave evidence in one case that these boxes were
not in use in the coasting smacks. Now we all know
well that many, if not all, coasting smacks use this kind
of boxes.
" There is no doubt but that if our Government would
limit their Slave Bill to intercepting vessels with slaves,
and not interfere with the legitimate goods trade bet ween
this and the coast, and which is as legal as the goods
trade fum Liverpool to the coast, the Brazilians would
make some sort of a treaty with us, and if we do not
curtail the working of the Slave Bill recently passed to
intercepting slaves, we shall undoubtedly have a rumpus
before long with this country, and it now behoves us all
to use extreme caution in shipments.
" Yesterday and today a large business has been
done in exchange at 26k, different length of credits
according to the quality of the paper, from one to three
weeks."

THE SOUTH LONDON NEWS.—A new paper, of
Radical polities, which has just started under the editorship
of Mr. J. Lee Stevens, recommends the electors of Lambeth
to start Mr. John Bright as a candidate at the next election,
unless Mr. D'Eyncourt will pledge himself to support the jilt-
mediate repeal of the corn-laws.
BRITISH IND FOREIGN INSTITUTE.—The first soiree
of the present session was held last night, at the rooms in
George-street, and it was attended by a large company of
ladies and gentlemen—members of the Institute. The even-
ing passed off in the usual agreeable manner, the urbanity
and address of Mr. Buckingham contributing in no small
degree to this good issue. An excellent concert was
provided, in which Miss Birch, the Misses Williams,
Mr. Machin, and Mr. T. Cooke, aided by Mr. Mull..
lenfeldt and Mr. Chatterton, were prominent features,
whose efforts to gratify were attended. it need hardly be
added, with signal success. In the course of the proceed-
ings Mr. Buckingham delivered a short address suitable to
the occasion, in which he congratulated the company upon
the prospects.of the Institute, and commented with felicit-
ous delicacy upon the attacks which had been made upon
their honour and integrity, and upon the means which had
been resorted to in justification, concluding his remarks by
taking his customary brief review of new publications. The
tables were covered with interesting books and pictures, the
conversation was friendly and animated, and the rguniat
altogether was highly pleasurable. These drawing-room
meetings are peculiar to the British and Foreign Institute,
and the success which invariably attends them shows that
one of the objects aimed at—that of social family inter-
coarse, conducted with elegance, and enlivened by amuse-
ments of a refined and intellectual character—has at least

The Marquis of Anglesea is, we hear, indisposed
at Beaudesert

been attained.
PUBLIC OPINION IN LANARKSHIRE.—The Duke of
Hamilton has convened a public meeting of the inhabitants
of Lanarkshire, to express its opinions on the present state of
public affairs. In the application to his Grace, in reply to
which he has called this meeting, the requisitionists describe
the industrious and rapidly increasing population employed
in agriculture, in commerce, and in manufactures, as all suf-
fering from an erroneous and pernicious system of monopoly
and protection, destructive alike of the real interests of
the
fresh country and the welfare of the people.
A GuAti.oiline—a mummy
impor-
tation to delight
of nature's swathing—preserv.ed by the ammonia, of lehaboa.
Atituhielamnri.—teulrsVien havethe mu quitemn ly a'
The body, which is now exhibiting at the Egyptian hall,
was found in tile course of the late excavations for guano,
which have removed half the island to inoculate with its
riches our British corn lands. It is that of a well grown man.
It was inclosed in a coffin, which remains perfectly entire, as
do the trowsers and shirt, the former of duck, the latter of
cotton, which the defunct wore. We had manual L demon-
s tration of the perfectly entire condition of these fabr'u As
for the body itself it seems tanned; the flesh has becomei in
a great measure absorbed, with all the softer animal tissues;
but the muscular development remains firm, and the veins
and tendons of the extremities are curiously shown stretched
over the bones. The teeth are still white and sound; and
the hair (rather woolly) still curls on the head. The colour
of the body is a dark brown ; and the whole exhibition, par-
ticu!arly for those who like anatomical and physiological cu-
riosities, is well worth visiting. It is impossible to say with
certainty how long the body had lain previous to its disco-
very ; but the probability is that a century has elapsed since
the mate, or one of the inferior officers of a merchant ship
running down the African coast, died, and since a party of
sailors landed for an hour to bury the body of their shipmates
on a lone and nameless island, tenanted only by sea-birds,
on the desert coast of Africa.
On Saturday evening a number of gentlemen con-
nected officially with the Royal Polytechnic Institution
dined together, for the purpose of presenting an elegant
silver vase and signet ring, of great value, to Dr. John
Ryan. The vase was designed and manufactured by
Stor and Mortimer, the celebrated goldsmiths of Bond-
street, and displays their usual taste and judgment. The
presentation was intended as a mark of esteem for the
private character of that gentleman, who, during his
official connexion with the donors, has on all occasions
displayed an affability and kindness of heart that has won
for him the respect of every person around him.
THE LAST CONVERSION FROM OXFORD.—MT
Mills, whose desertion from the Protestant faith has
been already mentioned in our columns, was on Sunday
morning publicly received into the Roman Catholic
Church, at St. Chad's Cathedral, Birmingham. The
ceremony took place at the grand altar, after high mass,
in the presence of a numerous congregation. Mr. Mills
was conducted into the sanctuary by the Rev. Mr. Ivers
and Mr. Burton, late of the Established Church, and
presented to the Right Rev. 1)r. Walsh, vicar apostolic
of this district, who received him on the episcopal throne
according to the rites of the Romish Church. Dr.
Walsh was assisted in the function by the Revs. Jr.
Moore, T. Leith, and T. Molloy.
A GOOD ExAMPLB FOLLOWED.—The gentlemen
in the banking-house of Messrs. Barclay, Tritton, Bevan.
and Co., of Lombard-street, have, we understand, each
received from the hands of Mr. Bevan a religious tract,
giving the very best advice, and abounding in the most
wholesome truths. The exc Rent principal accompanied
the acceptable gift with a pious hope that the perusal of
it would confer much benefit upon those whom it was
meant to serve, after the labours of the past year. The
clerks, it is
thatsaid, g
are
edlaneileisgshitsedgrowait gain."ththe present, in the
persuasion
The Bishop
of Carlisle has quite recovered frornbis
recent severe indisposition.
Lord Brougham is expected to arrive in Grafton—
street at the end of the week, from Paris.