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DEATH OF COLONEL DAVIES, LATE M.P. FOR
WORCESTER.—CoIoneI Thomas Henry Hastings Davies,
a distinguished Peninsular and Waterl.m officer, died on
the 11th instant at Elernley Park, Worcestershire, aged
58. The deceased, since the early age of 16, was con•
netted with the British army. His commissions are
thus dated:—cornet, June 2, 1804; lieutenant, Jan. 31,
1805 I captain, February 4, 1808 ; lieutenant-colonel,
July 3, 1815 ; and colonel, January 10, 1837, In 1818
he was returned as Member for the city of Worcester,
and continued to represent it until 1841, when he retired.
and was succeeded by Sir Thomas Wilde. He always
supported reform measures, and. generally voted with
the Grey and Melbourne Admnitstration.
Colonel Sir Richard Doherty has been appointed
Inspecting Field Officer of the London Recruiting Dis-
trict, in saecession to Colonel (now Major-General)
Pitt ; Colonel Baumgardt, from the Queen's Royals, re-
places the late Lord John Somerset at Bristol ; Colonel
Bush, at present of :the Ist West India Regiment, is tc
be Inspecting Field Officer at Leeds ; and Lieutenant-
Colonel James Campbell, on the unattached half-pay, is
to be posted in the same capacity at Coventry. Colonel
R. C. Manse' succeeds to the Deputy Quarter General-
ship in Ireland ; and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel F. A.
M. Fraser has been selected for that appointment in
Canada.— United Service Gazette.
COBDEN AND BRIGHT TESTIMONIALS.—The sum
f 3811. has been subscribed by Bradford gentlemen to
Mr. Cobden's testimonial, and 1611. to Mr. Bright's.
The latter, under the circumstances, is considered a
very favourable index of public feeling here to Mr.
Bright. The subscriptions are far from being closed.—
Leeds Mercury.
CAPTAIN WARNER.—In allusion to the reports
which were circulated last week, of the failure of Cap-
tain Warner's " long range," the Naval and Military
Gazette says—" So far from Captain Warner's having
failed in his experiments, he performed them, notwith-
standing considerable obstacles, to the perfect demon-
stration of his ability to carry out his designs, as we
will before long, when disclosure of facts and figures is
allowable, abundantly prove. But while the subject is
yet under the consideration of the highest officer of
Government, adhuc sub judice lis est, we do not deem it
decorous to enter into details."
DECORATIONS FOR THE VETERANS OF THE WAR.—
We have unbounded gratification in announcing that a
decoration is at length to be conferred on the veterans of
the war, hitherto undistinguished, who have served be-
fore the enemy. Her Majesty, ever gracious, has issued
her commands to this effect, and the Board of General
Officers has been instructed to consider and report upon
the best mode of carrying her Majesty's behest into
effect. Need we say how heartily we congratulate the
parties so deeply interested in this testimonial upon the
consummation of ;,heir long-cherished hopes and oft-re-
newed struggles, and how sincerely we sympathise in
their attainment of an object for which we have so
earnestly and perseveringly contended.—Naval and Mili-
tary Gazette.

LITERATURE.

STANDARD NOVELS. No. CHL—ltly Cousin
Nicholas. By Thomas Ingoldsby. •

The Standard Novels maintain the high character
which has long since been awarded to them, wid most
assuredly there is no falling off in the present number.
Poor Barham, who wrote under the soubriqiiet of
" Ingoldsby," was a genius of no common order. A
light and playful vein of bninour ran through all his
productions—fun and comicality were his essential
attributes. Like Hood, he possessed the power of ex-
tracting merriment from any subject to which he
turned his attention, although he did not equal him in
the deep pathos which Hood occasionally infused into
his writings.
" My Cousin Nicholas" first appeared, some twelve
years since, in Blackwood, and, like many of its as-
sociates, was subsequently brought out as a separate
publication. It is, indeed, a "laughter c.!rtipeliing"
volume, and we defy the most moody son of care to
rise from its perusal without in son-
off the acidity of his di!-positi(;n ar
the milk of human kindness -
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Three per Cents. Reduced, had r;',:ttlie;:sl:-.l,fltii::l off
the mortal coil—how she loved green tea, and hated
an author—and how he could pot find the heart to
commit auntycide, or take upon himself the responsi-
bility of massacreing a maiden posse sed of o much
property in the funds.
All the characters are in athnirabie keeping, and
perfectly sustained throughout. The kind, Warm-
hearted, and irascible Sir Oliver, the beau ideal of the
country gentleman of the olden time—eccentric, hot
tempered,-" with a bad habit of anathematizing," and
the most inordinate pride of ancestry, and of his
descent from the famed Sir Roger de Bolevainele,•the
Conqueror's standard-bearer at the battle of Hastings ;
but coupled therewith is the most genuine simplicity
and kindliness of disposition, that makes him the easy
butt of his mischievous son, but gains for him the
cordial goodwill and regard of the reader. Then we
have that Most patient of all possible auditors, Cap-
tain Pyefinch, a proficient in the noble science of
backgammon ; and, moreover, very excellent com-
pany, seldom interrupting-the most long-winded story
by any remarks of his own, which of Spartan breeity,
".few and far between," just served to convince his
entertainer that his narratives were not thrown away
on the listless ear of an unobservant or somnolent
auditor." And his sister, Miss Kitty, a poetess—
her - soul all tenderness, sentiment, sympathy,2and
feeling—at first wholly devoted to the services of
the Muses ; but after she has become acquainted
with the celebrated " Dr, Olinthus Broadback,
of the Grand National Institute of Intellectual
Chimney Sweepers," although not abandoning
Polyhymnia coquetting much with her severer sister
who presides over political economy, becoming a de-
cided Malthusia, speaking with horror of " thought-
less procreation," and looking forward with alarm to
" no very distant period when the world shall be
destroyed by its human vermin, as a ripe Stilton is
devoured by its own mites," discarding her flaxen
ringlets, laughing at fashion, and learning to smoke
cigars, laying down as an axiom, that those parts of
the world, where polygamy prevails, are the most
thinly inhabited, the only way to prevent ex-
cess of population is for young men to have
half a dozen wives, and at last attaining
such eminence in the science " that she is grievously
suspected by the Bishop of Exeter to have had
a hand in framing sundry questionable clauses in the
New Poor-law Bill, which are thought to press hard
on the comforts of those who love not wisely but too
well "—the Rev. Josiah Pozslethwayte " happy in
the possession of a comfortable income, a snug par-
sonage, and a housekeeper, who delights in cherry-
coloured ribbons"—Dr. Drench—the gloomy, mys-
terious, and eccentric Fortescue, devoted to the
memory of his dead love—the amiable Mrs.
Stafford—Lord Manningham, and his beautiful
daughter, Lady Bullwinkle, "by nature of a social
disposition, and sighing in secret for the less digni-
fied but more enlivening entertainments of the ser-
vants' hall, which she had so rashly abandoned,"
and "preferring a game of hunt the slipper,"
or "the mystic rites of the Christmas mistletoe," to
all the more refined methods of killing time practised
by ladies of the rank to which she had been elevated,
are all admirable in their way ; but the character of
the book "My Cousin " himself is superlative.
Although a liar, a hypocrite, wholly unprincipled.
and heartless, with scarcely a redeeming point about
him, and every way vicious, you cannot help feeling
a regard for him on account of his wit and humour,
and cannot but feel regret at his untimely end. The
aying off practical jokes, no matter how severely they
Lay affect others, appears to be the sole end and object
s existence, so that from the time he was eight years
when " the superiority of *nis talents 1-A cva ced.
h into
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itself in a variety ,r 1 wars, havi,g
the maids beds, and briin.,tone ila:
bowl, crackers into the kitchen fire, and gun-powder
into the parlour snuffer=," he never ceases the exer-
cise of his ruling passion. We find him on the cele-
bration of his own birth-day " contriving to fix a
large bonnet pin sil perpendicularly erect in the
cushion abiut to 1;e occupied by the Rev. Dr. Ste-
fins, as to occasion much inconvenience and detriment
to that learned gentleman, whose agility on the occa-
sion would not have disgraced Mr. Ellar or the Flying
Phenomenon." And, on the same eventful day,
" subtracting the chain from the deciduous body of
his papa's legal adviser, amputating the apothecary's
pigtail, and by the ingenious application of a fishing-,
hook and line, previously passed through the pulley of a
chandelier elevation, the flaxen, flowing, and redundant
tresses there before the dulce decus of Miss Kitty Pye-
finch to a situation, emulating that of Mahomet's
coffin," his after achievements, both at home and at
Oxford, are deserving of the early promise he exhibi-
bited; whether hoaxing Sir Oliver and taking his me-
dicine before him—a couple of fable-spoonsfull of
" Huxham's tincture of bark," a dark coloured fluid,
bearing a most suspicious resemblance to cherry
brandy, or when his expulsion was certain, appearing
before the board at Oxford between Sir Lawrence Thu-
backes and Mr. St. John Gomenity, the very counter-
feit presentment of Dr. Pozzlethwayte arranged in his
snuff embrowned suit of sables, wig, green gog..
gles, and pointed toe, perfect in his individuality. The
work is not without its moral, as it seeks to inculcate
the truths that "impudence is not humour, nor mischief
wit; that levity, if unchecked by principle, may de.,
generate into vice and terminate in crime.'
The frontispiece is also admirable. It exhibits Sir
Oliver falling in love with Eleanor Skillet—the
round, plump, and rosy cook—the attentions of the
middle-aged and wearied fox-hunter, divided between
the attractions of the delicious rump steak and the
buxom maid. We heartily commend the work to the
perusal of any one who can enjoy a real hearty laugh,
and we can assure him that if he takes up the work
with the intention of indulging himself therein that he
will not be disappointed. "The Tiame," a wild mystio
tale of diablerie is added, to make up the volume.
We trust that few of our readers will be satisfied
with the slight sketch we have given, but that they
will take the earliest opportunity of judging for
themselves how far we are justified in our commen-
dations.

A BonscEs..---- A.weiteratCarmago, Mexico, says
he raw a half an acre of corn at that place, the shortest
stalk of which, with corn upon it, was not less than
eighteen feet high I
THE DURATION OF MARRIED LIFE.—The tables of
the mean joint lifetime of males and females show, that
in this country husbands and wives married at the age
of 26 live, on an average, 27 years together, the widows
living rather more than 10 years (10.4) after their hus-
bands' deaths, and the widowers nearly 9 years (9.3)
after their wives' deaths. Where the hibbarici is 40, and
the wife 30, the mean term of married life is 21 years,
the widows living 13 years after their hu:bands, and the
widowers 5 years after the deaths of their wives. The
tables furnish ready answers to a great number of ques-
tions of this kind, and others in which two lives are con-
eerned.—Registrar General's Report.
ALLEGED EMBEZZLEMENT BY THE CAPTAIN OF A.
MERCHANTMAN.—BiIIs have been issued, containing a
description of Captain Thomas Leeming, of the schooner
Eagle, of this port, who stands charged with having em-
bezzled about 561., received by him on account of Messrs.
Edward Baynes, of Lancaster, and Mr. Samuel Jackson
Turner, of Dundalk, Ireland. He left
the ship at Drog-
heda, and went from thence by railway to Dublin, on
Sunday, the 29th ult. From the latter place, it is sup-
posed he sailed to Liverpool, and it is suspected that he
Will make either to Hull, London, or some other sea-
port, for the purpose of getting a ship to New Orleans,
Where he talked of going.—Lancaster Guardian.
LORD THURLOW AS A PATRON.-011 one occasion
a considerable living fell vacant in the Chancellor's gift,
which was solicited by Queen Charlotte and promised
to her protégé. The curate, who had served in the
parish some years, hearing who was likely to succeed,
modestly applied tor the Chancellor's intercession, that,
on account of his large family, he might be continued
in the curacy. The expectant rector calling to return
thanks, Thurlow introduced the case of the citrate,.
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
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 het
cannot have the curacy." He instantly caalleddeninjoyMesd
secretary, and ordered the presentation to be made out
in favour of the curate, who was inducted, n
-the living many years.—Lord Campbell's Lives of the
Chancellors.

THE POLICE OFFICER AND HIS VICTIM.— One
evening during the present week, a police officer acting
in a borough not more than 100 miles from Preston,
being on tLe night beat, brought to the station-house, an
unfortunate delinquent on a charge of being "• drunk and
disorderly." Cruel to relate, the "keeper at the station-
house thought the " preserver of the peace" as bad as
his victim, and both being lodged in "durance vile" for
the night, were brought before the magistrates the foi-
-1 lowing morning, when they were respectively subjected
t 4 the usual fine of 58. each and costs.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT O!' CHANCERY, Dec. 14.
The Lord Chancellor sat in the Old Hill, Lincoln's
Inn, to-day, and took appeal motions, this being the
third seal.

KIRK V. THE BROMLEY UNION.
Th arguments were resumed in this part-heard
appeal, and the further consideration of the case ad-
journed to Wednesday next.

OLDYIELD V. COBBETT-
Mrs. Cobbett applied in person this morning, in this
case, for the discharge of her husband from custody.
The LoRD CHANCELLOR said he would look at the
affidavits, and give judgment in the course of a week.
The Court then pro2eeded to hear appeal motions.

POLLS' COURT, Dec. 14.
COLEMAN V. THE DIRECTORS Or THE EASTERN COUN.

TIES RAILWAY.
This was a motion on the part of the defendants to
dissolve an injunction that had been obtained by the
plaintiff on the 19th of November last. The injunction
was to restrain the defendants fr"rn entering into a con-
tract on behalf of the Eastern Counties Railway with
the Hare ich Swam-packet Company. It appeared that
the defendants and the other directors of the Eastern
Counties Railway, conceiving that it would have the
effect of bringing considerable traffic from Holland and
the northern ports of Europe, were desirous of effecting
en arrangement with the proprietors of the Harwich
Steam-packet Company, guaranteeing them a certain
interest on the principal, as well as funded capital
of 150,0001. of the company, for the conveyance of
their passengers to Rotterdam and other northern
ports of Europe. The plaintiff, who is one of the share-
holders in the Eastern Counties Railway, was opposed
to the execution of this contract, and filed a bill on be-
half of himself and other shareholders, and obtained the
injunction in question, which the defendants now sought
to have dissolved. In support of the motion, it was con-
tended that it was the wish of the majority of the share-
holders that this contract should be carried out, the ad-
vantages of it being obvious, and that the reason of the
plaintiff's hostility to such being effected, originated in
the fact of his being the secretary of the General Steam
Navigation Company, with whose interests it would of
course materially interfere to have such an arrangement
as they proposed carried out.
Messrs. Findersley, Groves, and Coolmister, appeared
in support of the motion, and Messrs. Turner, Roupell,
and another Learned Gentleman in behalf cf the plaintiff.
The case had not concluded at the rising of the Court.

VICE-CHAT', LE 1i Y CIU RT, Dec. 14.
(Before the VICE-CIIANCELLOR of ENGLAND.)

This being the third seal atter Michaelmas term the
Vice-Chancellor of England took motions to-day.
THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAM COMPANY V. GAMBLE AND

NOTT.

This case came before hii HONOUR upon motion on
behalf of the plaintiffs, the Electric Telegraph Company,
for an injunction to restrain the defendants, Messrs.
Gamble and Nott, from using the patent they had ob-
tained for a new invention of the electro-magnetic tele.
graph, on the ground that it was a piracy of certain
patents, the property of the Electric Telegraph Company.
The case was proceeding when our evening edition
went to press.