The Sun.
London, England, 1846-12-16 00:00:00

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.

LONDON' DEC. 15.—Wind W.N.W., moderate breeze and
fine,
clear, frosty weather.
DEer., DEc. 14.—Wind N.W. to W.N.W., moderate. Arrd.
Charlotte, Drury, Quebec. Sld. Robert Matthewr, Phillips,
Launceston.

FALMOUTH, DEC. 14.—Wind E. moderate.—Arrd. Carron,
Stoddart, Quebec, for Stockton • Edward, Mailer, Collinborg,
for Dublin, leaky, and pumps choked.
13th, Speed, Grundell, Savannah, and not
Livnitrum, Disc. 14.—Wind N.N.E., moderate.—Std.
S ,Pringle, for
Manilla. as reported.. Margaret, Morton, Mobile; Saranak,
Turley, Philadelphia; Garlick, Trask, New York ; Frede-
peed
rick, Gower, St. John's, New Brunswick.
WnrrsvAßLE, DEC. 14.—The Friends, from Saguenay,
came off the main this morning without apparent damage,
and proceeded for London.
NEWHAVEN, DEC. 14.--The Ouse, Banks, arrived here
from Rotterdam, was in contact 10th inst., off Weimer
Castle, with a schooner, name unknown, and both received
damage.
FALMOUTH, Dec. 14.—A brig, waterlogged, with bowsprit
gone, and stripped, was passed 25th ult. jn. lat. 40,N., long.
17 W., by the Carron, arrived here.
Sr.IVEE, DEC. 12.—The Marquis of Lore, Clark, is
aground on the Western Spit.
PADSTOW, DEC. 13.—The long-boat of the Hope, of Liver-
pool, with six living and ten dead men in her, coma ashore
to-day near here.
MILFORD, DEC. 12.—The Mary Roberts, Perry, of this
port, from Cork, struck on the Block House Point yesterday,
and sunk; crew saved. The Pekin from St. John's, New
Brtniswick,,arrived here, experienced severe weather, and
passed through quantities of wreck.
YARMOUTH, DEC. 13.—A mast, with main-boom, and a
ship's boat, bottom up, were passed, 11th inst., near Sher-
ringham, by the Penelope, arrived in the Downs.
PORTSMOUTH, Dac. 14.—Wind N.N.W.—Off port, Inde-
pendence, Bractish, New York.
OFF THE WIGHT, DEC. 13.—Andromeda,
Hamburgh.
Coax, DEC. 12.—Wind N. to N.N.E.—Off port, Dykes,
America.
YARMOUTH ROADS, DEC. 14.—Ajax, Chater,- St. John's,
New Brunswick. Havannah, for
DUEIPANAOIIY, DEC. 12.—A large schooner, with a flag of
distress flying, is on shore on the island of Inisfofin, about
seven miles to the west of this town, and it is feared she will
become a total wreck.
Gmsisny,--Dsc. 14.—The brig reported on shore is the
Margaret, of Newcastle; the schooner belongs to Leith. The
St. Jacob, Domanssky, hence to Dantzic ; the Norfolk, Bart-
ley, from Shoreham to Newcastle; and the Cornelius, An-
derson, bound to the north, have lost one or more anchors.

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MYSTERIOUS DEATH AT THE RESIDENCE OP ED-
audscia.7amir.pt.rafonr-
%Mlro•Pdeho•—Auses,
the Western Division of Norfolk, last week. Mr. Wode-
house resides
at Thorpe by Norwich, and in the service
of his lady are three sisters. One of these (the lady's
maid) on Monday night was found a corpse in a private
part of the premises, with her throat cut in a most
dreadful manner, and only a few minutes after she, had
dressed her mistress, and had been observed to be in
good spirits. There appears to be some mystery in the
affair, and some attempts are being made to smother the
matter, so far as the public are concerned. An inquest
was held the next day before Mr. Pilgrim, one of the
c,ounty coroners, but at which none of the reporters of
the public press were present, when the verdict of the
jury was, " That the deceased had_ cut her own throat in
a state of temporary derangement."

REPRESENTATION OF BATH.—We have authority
for stating that a letter was received on Friday from
Lord Ashley declining to become a candidate, at the next
dissolution or vacancy, for this city.—keene's Bath
Journal.

The Right Hon. Thomas Grenville, although still
M(ARayAseuvertinsTgA.TE:hEeNTD.—ukeLaosft Bsuucnkidnagyhaampecritlhle.dinti-o
yert that he had sent more
severely indisposed, Was considered somewhat better onmd
saying ' that he did not
inquire after his venerable relative on S,atmuradd
ae-yanlasatttack
n:ster, during his discourse to his flock
ohne
soi
tuart
en at
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ephoiemt
,Baunr nds
a,
sbs
souls to hell during his life than all the ministers have
been able to ' send to heaven since his death.' This
Night."—Edinburgh
statement gave offence to many of the more liberal and
intelligent of his congregation—one of whom,
on ar-
riving at home, took Burns' Poems, and read to his wife
A PATRON .-_(fin I
LORD TUuRLOW AS .--va one occasion
a considerable living fell vacant in the Chancellor's gift,
aEn.iclpfrAemai.ly, "The Cottars' Saturday
rector which was solicited by Queen Charlotte and promised
to her protegg. The curate, who had served in the
parish some years, hearing who was likely to succeed,
modestly applied for the Chancellor's intercession, that,
continued
thanks, Thurlow introduced the case
of the curate,
might
tlibe to return
calling
which he represented with great strength and pathos ;
but the answer was, "I should be much pleased to oblige
your Lordship, but unfortunately I have promised it to
inn the account
of
curacy. his
large
ge
expectant family,
o
he
ec t
a friend." Thurlow : "Sir I cannot make this gentle-
man your curate, it is true ; but I can make him the
rector ; and, by .........-., he shall have the living, as he
cannot have the curacy." Ile instantly called in his
secretary, and ordered ,the presentation to be -made out
in favour of the curate, who was inducted, and enjoys I
the living many years.—Lord Campbell', Lives of the
Chancellors.
SERIOUS ACCIDENT AT THE QUEEN'S THEATRE,
TOTTENHAM. STREET.--At the close of the performance
on
_Monday evening, a young man, about 20 years of age,
named Sharpe, fell from the gallery into the pit, and was
removed, to all appearance dead, to the Middlesex Hos-
pital; fortunately the audience were leaving the theatre,
so that the unfortunate young man fell on the seats or
' the pit, and no one else was injured.

MALTA, DEC. 4.—The French Government steamer
Tancrede, with mails from the Levant, arrived late yes-
terday.
Mails for Italy, Sicily, and Marseilles will be closed
to morrow per Leonidas.
The French steamer Cairo from Bey rout and Alexan-
dria:arrived to-day. She will continue her route to
Marseilles direct without loss of time.
Her Majesty's steamer Flamer, with the London mails
of the 24th ult., arrived here last night from Marseilles,
and will proceed to the lonian islands and Greece to-day
with the mails.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Ripon, with mails and passengers fir India, bringing
London dates of the 20th ult., arrived here last night,
and will proceed this evening to Alexandria.
By a letter from Corfu, of the 23d ult., we learn that
her Majesty's ship Fantome was to sail on the following
day for Athens, to relieve the Amazon, ordered to join
the Admiral.

Her Majesty's steamer Meteor had been cruising for
pirates, but had, of course, been unsuccessful. She re-
cently enjoyed a pleasant trip with his Royal Highness
the Prince Albert of Prussia round the islands, thence
to Corinth. His Royal Highness was much pleased with
the vessel, and left a remembrance to the crew, and a
handsome gold snuff-box, with the cipher of his Royal
Highness engraved on it, was presented by him to her
commander, Lieutenant G. Butler.

The French steamer Oronte, from Marseilles and Leg-
horn, arrived on the 28th ult., and continued her voyage
to the Levant on the same day.
The French Government steamer Osiris left port on
the afternoon of her arrival here (27th ult.), for Alex-
andria and Beyrout.

The French Government steamer Pericles left port on
the evening of the 27th ult., for Athens, Sinyrna, and
Constantinople. Both these vessels carried mails.
The barque Priscilla, Captain Purdy, twenty-one
days from Odessa and twelve days from Constantinople,
passed off this port on the 27th ult., all well, bound to
England.
The schooner Firefly, Captain Holland, which arrived
here on the 29th ult. from Odessa, spulte on the 22d, in
lat. 36, lon. 20.30, the English brig La Bella, in ballast,
bound to Constantinople.
The Russian brigantine Themistocles, from the Pirmus,
arrived here on the 30th ult.

Her Majesty's ship Amazo❑ arrived here on the 30th
ult. from the Pirmus. She will sail, we hear, in a few
days to join the squadron under Sir W. Parker, Vice-
Admiral in command of the fl-et in the Tagus, when a
court will assemble to inquire into the corporal and other
punishments lately inflicted on board.
The Neapolitan steamer Maria Christina arrived here
from Marseilles and ports of Italy and Sicily on the 2d
inst., and left last night on her return voyage.
The French steamer Hellespont, expected here on the
30;h ult. from the Levant, arrived here on the 2d inst.,
and-'proceeded on the same day to Leghorn and Mar-
seilles.,
er Maj,sty's steamer Jackal, whose commander,
Lieutenant Pasco, has been recently promoted, is ordered
home, and may be shortly expected here from the
Pirmus.

Her Majesty's steamer Trident is still in port, and
nothing (L2Enitive is yet decided as to the period of her
getting under way to relieve the Ardent, Commander G.
Spong.
We understand that her Majesty's ship llocla will
shortly proceed to Constantinople to relieve the Blood-
hound in those waters.

Her Majesty's brig Siren is, it is reported, about to
relieve her Majesty 's ship Inconstant at Beyrout, and will
probably convey his Lordship the Bishop of Jerusalem
to Jaffa, a short distance from his see.
ADMIRALTY.

APromTmENT.—Commander—J. W. Finch, to study
at the Steam Factory, Woolwich.

ALLEGED HIGHWAY ROBBERY.
We last week recorded a somewhat romantic story, as
told by a travelling stationer at the City police station
on Saturday night week, that story being that the said
hawker of Bath post, whilst travelling to Gloucester,
was joined by a youth of about 15 or 16, who entered
into conversation with him about buying shoes, and on
being told that the stationer had a few shillings about
him which he intended to invest in second-hand shoes,
the youth fell Lipp him with murderous violence, and
knocked him about the head with a bludgeon, but that
in the struggle which ensued the man of paper got the
boy's nasal organ between his teeth, and actually bit it
off, leaving the juvenile highwayman to make his way
home to his friends minus his nose. We had our sus-
picions that the whole story was a fabrication; but it
appears to have had some foundation in truth, with this
trifling discrepancy, that the fellow who made his com•
plaint at the police-station was in all probability the first
assailant, and no doubt with felonious intent, and
that the poor boy whose nose was so unpleasantly
gripped was really the aggrieved and the innocent
party. It was unfortunate that no information was
given of the circumstance to the superintendent of the
county police or to any of the officers of that force, so
that the first intimation given to the county station
reached there through the newspaper on Saturday last,
since which time, we understand, Mr. Superintendent
Griffin has been indefatigably engaged in investigating
the matter, with the following results:—He discovered
the boy, whose name is John Wells, who resides at
Elmore, and who is about seventeen years of age, and
who states that about six o'clock on Saturday evening,
the 28th ult., he was met by a travelling man on the side
of the Gloucester and Berkeley Canal, and walked with
him for some distance until they arrived at the second
mile post; that as they walked along the man asked him
what he gave for his boots, to which he replied eleven
shillings. The man said he wanted a pair himself, but
could not afford to give so much money for them. He
also remarked that if the boy had been at Gloucester
fair that day he could have earned some money, to which
the lad replied that he had been there, and had received
-two shillings for driving some sheep to Charlton Kings.
The ruffian then knocked him down with a blow from
his fist in his fare, knelt on him when he was on the
ground, and began feeling for his pockets. The boy
cried " Murder," and the man seized him by the throat,
threatened to throw him into the canal, and in the
scuffling did get the poor boy's nose in his mouth and
bit it, but only left the marks of his teeth in it; he did
not bite it off. The boy begged for mercy. and the
fellow ultimately let him go, giving him back a knife
which he had taken out of his pocket; but the boy missed
his 25., and supposes that the man appropriated them to
himself, or that they were lost in the struggle. The boy
Wells states his willingness to come forward at any time,
and his story is, to a certain extent, confirmed by his
having been met not msny minntes after the rencontre
by a neighbcur, who saw the state he was in, and to
whom he related the attack that had been made upon
him With regard to the pedlar, whom we think we
must now regard as the real Dick Turpin in this curious
adventure, all trace of him has been lost, and it seems
probable that, for fear the boy should make cemplaint
to the police, ho determined to turn the tables upon
him and be the first to have his story heard, pre-
ferring to appear in the character of a prosecutor
rather than to stand at the bar as a criminal charged
with highway robbery and violence. There is good
reason also to believe that in that part of the story which
related to the dreadful injuries he pretended to have re.
ceived about the head, he was clever enough to deceive
the vigilant and experienced eyes of Mr. Superintendent
Williams, to whom ho told his story. It has 1:402 ascer-
tained that the fellow arrived at Parry's lodging-house
in Leatherbottle •lane on the evening in question ; that
he did not appear to be hurt except on his head ; but
that he tied up his head with a handkerchief, went to
the police-station, and on his return retained the same
uninjured appearance, and, after sleeping at Parry's that
eight, went away the next morning. The activity of
superintendent Griffin in so far unravelling this affair
is creditable to him as an officer ; but it is right we
should state, on the other side, that this new version of
the whole story does not obtain implicit credence, and
that mystery is still supposed to attach to some of the
circumstances of this singular narrative.—Gloucester
Journal.

Mits. SIDDONS.—A statue of this eminent tragedian
is to be placed in Westminster Abbey. The execution
has been intrusted to Mr. Thomas Campbell, the
sculptor, who has just finished the model, which may be
seen in the studio of the artist. The original intention
was a half length figure, in bas relief, which may also
be seen in the artist's studio. The half•lrngth leas relief,
however, was abandoned for a full length figure, in ideal
drapery, with a scroll in the right hand and nothing in
the left. The deign was originally set on foot by Mr.
Macready, who placed his name at the head of the cata-
logue of persons who contributed to the expense of the
monument.--Musical World.

"Merrion-square, Dec. 12, 1846.
" Sir,—l return you the resolutions which you sent
me unsought for on my part. I return them, lest by
retaining them I should be supposed to acquiesce in the
gross inaccuracy they exhibit of the real state of the
question touching the conference proposed by me.
" In one of these resolutions you talk, as of a mater
of doubt, whether any legal question would arise at the
conference.
"It is, perhaps, my duty—at all events it is my incli-
nation—to inform you that the primary, if not the ex-
clusive object of the proposed conference, is to ascertain
and define matters of law.
" In truth the affair stands thus:—
" First—The Repeal Association is, beyond any sha-
dow of doubt, a lawful assembly, not impeachable for
any breach of the law.
"My proof is this. The Repeal Association has stood
the ordeal of the state trial—not only without any
prosecution, but without any officer of the crown, or any
one of the court, intimating against it the slightest
charge of illegality.
"The Repeal Association is a legal body, because it
disclaims any use of force and arms to achieve the repeal
of th? union statute. Because it disclaims the use of
physical force to achieve the repeal of the union statute,
every member of the Repeal Association is at present
perfectly safe from any prosecution.
" Would the members be equally safe if it were to
admit any intermixture of the physical force principle
as part of the means for obtaining such repeal?
" I urn decidedly of opinion that the members would
not, in such a case, be safe from a well founded prose-
cution.
"I take these propositions to be clear in law:--
" First—That any asssembly admitting any species of
physical force as part of its means of obtaining a repeal
of an Act of Parliament is an unlawful assembly, liable
to be dispersed by any magistrate, and its members to
be punished by indictment.
" Secondly—That any such assembly is not only un-
rawful, but that any acts done by it in furtherance of its
object constitute a treasonable fact, rendering the mem-
bers liable to conviction and execution for treason.
" This opinion, in point of law, I have at repeated
public meetings proclaimed.
" On one occasion, in the Association, I brought down
the legal authorities, and quoted them chapter and page.
" It is observable, that often as I have repeated this
legal doctrine, no one has had the hardihood to deny its
accuracy.

" It follows, if I be right, that the seceders cannot
safely be admitted into the Repeal Association, unless
upon the fullest and most explicit disclaimer of resorting
to any physical force means to achieve the repeal of the
union.

" In order to be enabled to receive the seceders into
the Repeal Association again, it should be ascertained
beyond a doubt whether I am right in point of law or not.
" At former periods in my struggles for advancing
the popular cause my judgment in the matter of law
was found eminently useful, and my opinion of the
state of the law was trusted to with implicit confidence.
And I have the comfort to know that such confidence was
never regretted nor shown by any fact to be misplaced.
" Now my mist anxious desire is to lay the founda-
tion of perfect conciliation ; or, if that be refused, to
have the universal people unchntand who it is to whom
the continuance of the dissension is justly attributable.
" I stand altogether upon the law. My solo difficulty
rests upon the legal objection to the admission of the
seceders.
" What, then, is to be done ?

"Is it not the wise course to ascertain beyond a
doubt what the law is upon the subject ? If the law
will admit of any relaxation I am quite ready, of course
I a-n, to give the seceders the full benefit of that re-
laxation.

" I repeat the question.
" What is to be done ? My answer is ready, and I
propose to do the thing—that is, to hold an amicable
conference, to ascertain, in the first instance, the state
of the law.

" This should be a preliminat y inquiry. It would
be idle to talk upon the terms upon which the seceders
should be re-admitted, if we are prevented by the law
from re-admitting them, except at the peril of our lives.
" Let us, then, ascertain most amicably the state of
the law, and leave every other question (if other ques-
tions thtri? be) undiscussed until the state of the law
is ascertained.
" It was with a-view to ascertain thus amicably the
law of the case that I proposed the conference. I se-
lected the most unexceptionable persons to be members
of that conference, including even myself,- for I named
before Mr. Smith O'Brien. I also named four barristers

—three of them more eminently successful in their pro-
fession than any gentlemen of their standing in the
British dominions; the fourth possessed of talents
equally entitling him to a success in his profession, which
I believe ought not to be far distant.
" The four are—

Sir COLEMAN O'LoGHLIN,
Mr. O'HEA,
Mr. O'HAGAN, and
Mr. DILLoN.

" It 7s not likely that any man will be found who will
dispute the accuracy of their conjoint legal opinion. If
that opinion be identical with mine, there are many of
the seceders who will acquiesce and submit to the law,
and join the Association once again in its struggles for
Irish nationality. If the law be declared otherwise
than I think it is, I shall acquiesce at once and admit my
error. But in either case, no question of terms. can
arise until the law is ascertained, and fully and' unequi-
vocally submitted to. .

" There can be no paltering in a double sense. The
law, when once ascertained, must be the rule of all our
actions ; nothing else would be just—nothing else would
be wise—nothing else would be safe.

" The conference cannot do any harm ; it may, and I
think must, do good. It will show that I am ready to
carry out conciliation to the full extent of law.

"It will also show who they are who would prevent
conciliation ; or, at all events, not avail themselves of its
influence.

" I am bound to say that I have not been met with a
spirit corresponding to my own, in the desire to put an
end to dissension,

" A most respectable clergyman, of the mildest con-
ciliatory demeanour, and a high order of intellect-
- " Such men as he
Give grace to holy ministry,"
took the trouble of going down to the county Limerick
to Mr. Smith O'Brien, with my message of peace.
" He, alas! had his journey in vain. I have his au-
thority for saying that Mr. Smith O'Brien decidedly re-
jected the conference.

" I regret extremely ; but it makes it only the more
imperative duty upon me to redouble my exertions for
the sole remaining object of my political life—the repeal
of the union. "I am, Sir. your obedit-nt servant,

" DANIEL O'CONNEa.

" T. Devin Reilly, Esq."
STATE OF THE COUNTRY.

There is no part of Ireland exempt from the terrible
calamity by which we are now afflicted. The northern
districts, heretofore comparatively free from destitution,
are now suffering deep distress; and even in the manu-
facturing towns, Drogheda, Belfast, and Lisburn, there
is a vast amount of destitution.

In Drogheda, on Tuesday last, a meeting attended by
all the leading inhabitants, was held at the Thobel, to
adopt measures for affording relief and employment,
until the Board of Works should be enabled to extend
operations in the district. _

The Roman Catholic Primate, Most Rev. Dr. Crolly,
addressed the meeting on the necessity of prompt exer•
tion. "We must," said that excellent prelate, " call on
the inhabitants to subscribe liberally, although it is not
very long since we called on them before. But we
could not, no one could, foresee the greater calamity
which has since befallen the country. That calamity is
far more deep, and more extensively spread over the
country, and we must appeal to all for aid "

-- ---
Arrangements were niecle for a general subscription.
DEATH OF THE SON OF CAPTAIN KENNEDY
FROM HYDROPHOBIA.
The Limerick Chronicle says—" Sad gloom prevails
over the neighbourhood of Newcastle, in consequence of
the death, from hydrophobia, of a fine boy, seven years
old, son of Capt Kennedy, agent to the Devon estates,
who was bitten five weeks ago by a stray cur dog."
Ludy Blessington (Miss Power), the authoress, and
friend of Moore, the poet, is at Besborough, the seat of
the Lord• Lieutenant.
LIMERICK, DEC. 12.—Three vessels arrived in our
port from Odessa, Vigo, and New York, with cargoes 01
Indian corn, since Wednesday, besides four vessels fron►
London, Glasgow, and Waterford, with flour and grain.
We are shipping corn and provisions every day for Lon-
don and Glasgow! The Isabella, from New York, with
Indian corn, arrived here yesterday, and was purchased
at 151. per ton. J. N. Russell and Sons, of this city,
have entered notice of application to the grand jury for
2,3001., amount of loss sustained by them in consequence
of the plunder of their ship, the Sea Lark, and her cargo,
at Ballybunnion, last month.
THE " FAIRY WOMAN. "—On the Bth instant the
county coroner held an inquest on the body of a man
named Denis Roche, of Knockraw, barony of St. Mu'-
lins, under the following circumstances :—" It appeared
that the deceased, who was employed on the public
works, had suddenly disappeared, and was not beard of
by his family during the last fortnight. After being
paid his wages on the day he was last seen, he went into
a public house at Bahana, to drink with some of the
workmen, and as his body was found last week in a turf
bog at Cranagh, it is supposed he lost his way, had 1
fallen into a turf bog, and was drowned. His family
having searched the diitrict in vain for the body, pro•
ceeded to Enniacorthy to a fairy woman,' that is, one
who held communication with the invisible world, and
gave her 11., on condition that she would inform them
of the particulars respecting the death of the deceased.
Having taken two clear days to consult her invisible
friends, the fairies,' she announced that she had sten
deceased himself, and that he was murdered by twa !men,
one of whom had deceived a fair haired girl in the neigh-
bourhood, but the fairies threw no light on the locality

ST. JAMES'S-PARR.—In this park the number of per-
sons venturing on the ioe were about 250, bat they were
mostly confined to the west end, opposite 'Buckingham
Palace. At the east end the ice was considered to be so
unsafe that Szporintendent Godfrey caused the edges to
be broken by the icemen. About half-past two o'clock
an ac2ident h-ppened by which a man named Wright,
potman at the King's Areas, Brewer street, Pimlico, lost
his life. It appears that a young man named George
Piney, a paper-hanger, of 169, Goswell-street, broke
through the ice, near the fountain, into seven feet water.
Thomas Thomas, of 5, Grove, Mile-end, went to his
assistance, but the ice also broke with him, and they both
became immersed. The unfortunate deceased went to their
assistance, but before getting near them the icebroke with
him also, and he disappeared. Iceman Pav€y succeeded,
by means of a "breaker ladder" in rescuing Thomas,
and Winnett, another man belonging, to the Royal
Humane Society, rescued Piney. The drags were then
put in requisition, and in al,out four minutes Wright was
brought up. The whole of tee men, much exhausted,
were conveyed to the marquee, where they were attended
by Mr. M'eann, surgeon, and Thomas and sPilley reco-
vered, but all efforts to restore Wright were unavailing.
The body was removed to St. Martin's workhouse to
await the coroner's inquiry.

REGENT'S PARK —The- ornamcntd ice. in this park
was visited by about 600 sivtters and sliders during the
day. The only accident worthy of notice happened
about two o'clock, when W. 11..zinett. 27, Guildford-
street, Russell-square, aThd W. Vincent, 15, New-street,
Dorset-square, broke tlrough theig,!:tie:lie,ti:l:s:r:Ce:ilca.orteenrcee;
Clarence-
gate. They were specdi!..\re:e::),2l.
ACCIDENTS IN THE FROST —On Mcnilay the inetropo-
litan streets and suburbs wero
with ice, occasioning many se.i,mi and 14151 accidents.
In the Waterloo-bridge-road, a horse attached to a cart
heavily laden with hay, proceeding up toe hill towards
the bridge, in consequence of the ,bppery condition of
the ground, fell down, and the cart beit,g overturned, a
boy named Farley, who was seated at the top, was
dashed upon the ground, and sustained a deep fracture
on the head. On the same pot, shortly afterwards, a
boy accidentally slipped dawn, and before he could
recover himself; the wheels.`kof a cab had passed
over his chest., Two ethe*r accidents of nearly,
similar nature. occurred during the day,on LondOtit
bridge, and in Fleet-itreet opposite Fetter-lame, result-, •
ing in the serious maiming of two feiraftranamed Clara
Lloyd and Emma Morgan. On Holborn-hill, a power-
ful horse, attached to a brick cart, was thrown down
opposite Shoe-lane, and several persons who assisted in
detaching the animal were severely kicked and injured
by the horse, which the owner was compelled to kill.
Very numerous accidents occurred on nearly every
bridge, owing to the horses of • omnibuses, &c., being
unable to ascend the slippery roactiegay. An unloadtd 4.!
coal barge, belonging to a merchant or-Southwark, was
found draling down the river, and it was ascertained
that the barge had left Chelsea in the charge of a lighter-
man named David Smith, and from marks on the
barge it is supposed that that individual was walking
along the gunwale, which was covered'with frozen snow,
when he had slipped overboard.

DESTITUTION AND DEATH.
On Monday night an inquest was held by Mr. Bedford,
at the Two Chairmen, Dartmoutii..,trePt, Westminster,
as to tie death of Elizabeth Doddemeade.
Mr. Lavies, of Great Ge-orge-tureci, surgeon, who bad
opened the body, said he found it very much attenuated,
but there were no external maths of violence. From the
state of the viscera, and also finding no organic disease,
he could come to no other opinion than that destitution
was the cause of death.

Mr. Barber, the landlord of the White Irart, Little
St. Andrew-street, Seven Dials, said he was the brother
of the deceased, who had been well off when she married,
but her husband had been extravagant. lie bad himself
done what he could for them, and had male them an
allowance until litely. They had an allowance from
Marylebone, but in consequence of their state becoming
known, it was stopped at the beginning of the year,
and they were requested to go into the house, but she
said she would stave first. They had been in great
want for some time, and had not common necessaries.
She was subject to fits, and was very violent and
obstinate."

James Ihddemeade, the husband, said he was now a
jobbing carpenter. They had been in great distress for
seven years. When the alto'.: ante wn stopped in Mary-
lebone, he never applied there or in Westminster, for he
would not let her go into the workhouse.
CORONER—Did you ghe Ler anything before she died?
Doddemeade—l gave her t little coffee I had, and a
piece of bread, but she could not swallow the bread ; she
soon after died in my army.

Mr. Thomas, the receiving. officer of Westminster,
stated, that the last time be saw them was in February,
when he wisheil them to go into the house ; but they
would not, and no other application had been made
to him.

The jury returned A ye the " delth of the
deceased was caused by the want of th., c m r.c.n neces-
saries of life."

ENGLISH WILLS IN FRANCE.—By the will of Mr.
William k;.4acpoole, which has &ready Oren Ilse to
much litigation, he left to each of two daughters a sum
of 3,0001 sterling, but ordered that if either should
marry without the consent of Mr. James Stacpoole, she
was not to receive her legacy, end it was to go to her
sister. Miss Eleanora.S7arpoole, wishing to contract a
marriage with M. Caillet, an officer of ituantry in garri-
son at Strasbourg, applied frequently to Mr. James
Sta,cp9ole_ for his consent in writtiog, but could receive
no answer. She therefore resov, d to ilimmon him
before the Civil Tribunal, in order that he might be
cwoinr
will to
hoer
.et
that the coAuf.t might
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also appeared as an intervening party. The
hthise
was heard on Thursday, when, after hearing C
ceaoai
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nes
et.
self for the plaintiff and defendant, the court declared
itself incompetent to inter fare, the parties being both
English. We extract the following from the decisicn of
the Tribunal, as pronont,eed by the President :—" It the
French tribunals take cognizance, as between foreigners,
of certain urgent and provisions! affairs, yet as this is
only a faculty which the) are at liberty to use or not,
and as in the present cause the pla.ntiff and the defend-
ant are both English, and the go, stion is, besides, the
appreciation of a will governed by the laws of England,
it is nut a case in which the tribunal can enter upon the
affair. That a- Caillet,. who ha. come fitrward with the
plaintiff, without having any quality to authorise his
doing so, cannot plead in his -favour article 14 of 'the civil
code, inasmuch as be is to.able to show that any con-
vention existed between him nod the defendant, the
tribunal declares itself incompeo nt, 'and condemns the
plaintiff and Caillet pay tne costs."—Gatignani.
THE CONDE DE AIONTFMOLIN..--HiS Royal High-
ness was occupied for the :::renter pirt of Mon' v in,
receiving and r, wining ‘i.ns. A.1,;(+!,...95t the nobility
and gentry who called up ~'t his Itoyal-Highness were
the Earl of Carnlrvon, Mr. She: iff (‘o nll Mr. Under-
Sheriff Tilleard, Mr. Bert-siord, M.P., Mr. Sinclair the
younger, of Ulhsier, Mr. Ch leis, !Hr Augustus Foster,
&c. His Royal Highness paid to Lath' Petre,
Captain Ryder Barton, R.N.' Mr. M.P., Mr,
Laurie, &e. its Royal Highness honoured. I‘l. Edwin
D. Smith with a sitting for his portrait, r.zni.in tLe even-
ing visited St. James's Theatre. _ _

UNION.—At the vveAdy meting of the
workhouse on S7,turclay, there were more than fifty
GUAarNclDJ:nysE(Rif this union, held in the board-room of the
fresh applicants for admittance into the house, or to have
oat-door allowance granted them, being the greatest
number ever known to apply on one day since the for-
mation of the union. In the union, this year, the
annual Christmas dinner is to bi-, fliatontinufd ; there-
fore, instead ol" the poor inmates 1-,avir,g good roast beef
and bier, as in former p-ars, on that d iy; this year they
will have a eheerlei Troal of bread and cheese. The
pies a4aiii.,:t it is, that 11-t number bei-g S 3 great, a suf-
ficient sum for that parpose cannot be raised by voluntary
contributions.

INIBrS ACCIDENT,—Monday evening, between
four and five o'clock, as Mrs. Gardner, the wife of a
wood cutter residing in Deptford, was mounting an
omnibus in Wellington-street, Strand, she slipped from
the steps, which were slippr,r,.. from the frast, and pitch-
ing on ht,lll, she sus:,_iir.l-1 s c,,neussion of the brain.
the was renr.red to the house of Mr. Williams, in
Exeter-street, where the lies with out hope of recovery.