The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-29 00:00:00

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.

GLOBE.—Railway accidents have of late oc-
curred so frequently that it is only in cases where
the slaughter has been on a large scale that pub-
lic attention is drawn to their occurrence. In
ordinary cases, involving merely the sacrifice of
individual life, or confined to the destruction of
limb, or the suffering which saps the constitu-
tion and delivers its victim over to an early
grave, the affair is disposed of by the public
Journals in a short paragraph with a side-head,
or, what is more probable, is not known beyond
the spot where the accident occurred, or the
limited social circle of which the sufferer was a
member. The public is too much taken up with
what is present to bestow much regard upon the
past; and seldom pauses to add up the amount of
slaughter and the collateral calamities produced
by these occurrences, so as to possess their ag-
gregate for a given period, so far as it can be
ascertained. Every one can remember the pain-
ful shock, the almost breathless excitement,
which two or three more than usually destructive
collisions, and running off the rails by trains on
different lines, produced on public feeling in the
course of last year. Inquests were held on
the bodies of the sufferers—heavy deodands
were given by the Juries,in the hope that self-in-
terest would operate upon the Directors ofßailway
Companies to exercise the most active and unabat-
ed vigilance, in order to secure, as far as possible,
the safety of the passengers by their carriages.
For a short time this result was obtained. But the
public feeling recovered from the shock it had
received. The number of passengers were again
raised to the usual average. The verdicts of the
juries became inoperative against the funds of the
Companies, in consequence of the Coroner'sinqui-
sitions being quashed by the Court of Queen's
Bench for technical informalities. Another, and
yet another, followed by a third catastrophe, ex-
ceeding, in the numbers of the slaughtered and
the mangled, those which preceded it, have again
roused public feeling to a painful pitch of appre-
hension as to the state of the arrangements made by
the Directors for the safety of passengers by loco-
motive carriages, which are, it is evident, loose,
imperfect, and exceedingly unsatisfaetory. It
will be seen whether the unprecedentedly large
sacrifice of life and limb by the accident which
occurred on the Great Western Railway on
Friday last, will prove as inoperative as those
which preceded it;- or whether it will induce
the Directors of the several lines to establish a
perfect system of inspection both of the car-
riages and rails,. and of the state of the cuttings, on
their lines, with every other precaution calcu-
lated to give all possible security to a mode of
travelling which involves dangers so tremen-
dous, and destruction so extensive and inevi-
table. It is obvious, beyond controversy, that if
by the slightest obstruction in its course, or by
a deviation from the prescribed and well-ascer-
tained laws of locomotion, the train be forced
from the line of rails, and the carriages, impelled
with their accustomed velocity, be, as they
necessarily must be, overturned, and engines,
boilers, carriages laden with passengers, with the
mighty masses of ponderous machines and lug-
gage, be crushed and commingled together—that
in such a case a miraculous interposition can alone
prevent fearful destruction. The verdict of the
Jury in the case of the eight unfortunate beings
who were deprived of life by the accident on
the Great Western on Friday last (another is
since dead), will produce a salutary effect on the
most vulnerable point of the Directors of public
Companies—that of their pecuniary interests. That
verdict is unencumbered with any matter ofdoubt-
till legal validity. It is plain and powerfully ex-
plicit; setting the acumen of lawyers at defiance
to discover a point on which to hang an applica•
ioLi to the Supreme Court to set it aside. It im-
votes- gross incaution to the servants of the Com-
pany, and therefore fixes a deodand of 1,0001. on
the engine and tender attached to the train ; but,
avoiding the error of former juries impannelied on
inquiries of a similar kind, it does not impute
criminal negligence to the Directors or any per-
sons in their employ : this would have stultified
their verdict, and rendered the inquiry practi-
,!ally inoperative against purse or person, in a
vain attempt to reach both.
STANDARD.—This morning we find the
authority of the late Mr. Ricardo quoted, to
p ove what it would seem scarcely necessary to
prove, the fact, namely, that the sellers of corn
like good prices. This, as we have hinted, ap-
pears to be an unnecessary proof; but we find it in-
troduced for the purpose of a contrast with the
sellers of cotton goods, who, we are assured,
like bad prices. This seems to be a riddle.
We cannot tell why the sellers of cotton
like bad prices ; and we, for ourselves,
never met with one of the liberal dealers in
calicos and muslins who manifested the inclina-
tion said to be characteristic of their order. Bad
prices and good prices, high prices and low
prices, are relative terms, marking a difference,
to be measured by the degrees of profit and loss;
the price which yields much profit is a
good or high price, whatever its absolute
amount; and the price which yields a small
profit, or no profit, or involves a loss, is a had
or low price, independently of all other consider-
ations. Why, then, should landowners only wish
for high prices, and millowners desire low prices?
There is the riddle. The Morning Chronicle,
which has resuscitated the ingenious conundrum,
explains :—The landowners wish to sell at good
prices; the millowners wish to buy, or, which is
the same thing, to produce, at bad prices. Prices,
in reference to the landowners, are spoken of
as verified by market notes, but the mill.
owners' prices are collected from the mill,

books, and are adroitly styled " natural prices."
Thus the riddle is solved,:and we learn from its

solution the not very novel truth, that land-
owners and millowners, like all other persons
who trade, like to buy cheap, and sell dear. We
know not whether the Morning Chronicle or Mr.
Ricardo has the merit of this profound dis-
covery, and it does not matter much; for of
stuff like this—of the abuse of words, employ-
ing them now in one sense, now in another—
all the books of political economy— Mr. Ricardo's
among the rest—are made up. Is there, however,
no contrast between landowners and millowners in

respect to prices, using the word in its plain com-
mon sense meaning of market prices ? Yes there is.
It must be always the landlord's interest, that the
manufacturer's prices should be high, because the
high prices of manufactures give him more and
more richer customers; but it need not be always
the interest of the manufacturer that the
landowner should obtain high prices, but the
reverse must be the case were it not for
the Corn-laws because the impoverishment
of the landowner, and of all classes de-
pendent upon him, that is, of five-sixths of the
nation, would diminish the cost of production to
the millowner, by giving him more labourers, in
the first instance, at a cheaper rate, and in a con-
dition so miserable as to enable him to reduce
wages far lower than any reduction in the price
of food could warrant.

TRUE TORYISM.—The Tog " guardian" of
the poor of a village near Wakefield (who can write
his own name, if he keeps going, but, should he break
off, is unable to finish it, and cannot write or 'read any-
other word), considers sixteen pence a day too much for
a certain poor man, within the limits of his guardian-
ship, with a family of seven children, and complained of
that extravagant sum having been paid by a brother
Tory, who, to the deep regret of the poor, is tyrannizing
over them as surveyor of the highways. These village
t
determination
after laying their heads together, came to the
ueterrnination of reducing the wages of the poor men to
One 8/4ing a_ day, in consequence 6 of their fearing they
That the
11177111dg hfoa:feN all the able bodied men in the township ap-
plying
Leeds Tintevs°rk.—This surely shows the state of trade.—
Leeds
OUR 4.
A ..TACHMENT TO LlFE.—Charles Lamb
observes,
young man till thirty never feels
practically that hei
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need be, he could
as the years lessen and shorten, we
life. In proportion
upon
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set more count upon
grevaivtpidstaorfeatlhleblessins of
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eventhe whilegrat
!ay our ineffectual tinrrer
life—health. To
remembrances of suffering
wheel." We cannot °help
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atn("miloinwd, whose existence
t"1-ie enjoy that
how
many affectionate
proceedinc, on
friends
sd fromca variouseachl
of
t!s causescal
'isterininating, 61V with
has been prematurely closed, from. that prolific source of
nearly all the "Ills that flesh is heir to ~,
. , namely, colds
~tyraidrdinflttoienczoan,
sfurmomptiNovhn i, chfraergisueencitTyg
that, if possible, still more afflicting disease, asthma.
These disorders, hitherto deemed incurable, are
now,
4 the aid bf .medical. science, which has happily ied to
the discovery of that admirable invention, Ilolland's
Balsam of Spruce, from the use of which sufferers
are not only relieved in all the above cases, but cures,
which had been considered hopeless, have been elll?eted,
as hundreds of sufferers have already testified.
THE CLERGY.—There is not a single great mea-
sure of reform or amelioration of the condition of the
people that °tn. Established Church has not st:•enuo:isly
opposed. We challenge the Churchman to point out one
measure of human progress that has been instituted or
supported by " the Church." The Bishops defended
negro slavery te the last ; they resisted the amelioration
of the penal code ; they refused emancipation to the Ca-
tholics ; they voted against the Repeal of the Test and
Corporation Acts ; they helped to pass the Corn-laws ;
they opposed the Reform Bill ; they have always been
the alders and abettors of Government in its wars with
foreign people ; they are steady and invariable opponents
of national education ; they hate the name of reform ;
a free press is their detestation and abhorrence ; they
are the enemies of freedom and civilization all over the
world.—Leeds Tines.

FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE.

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The Gazette of last evening contains a list of 162 ad-
dresses of congratulation, transmitted for presentation to
his Royal Highness Prince Albert, on the occasion of
the birth of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales,
and presented to his Royal highness by the Right Ho-
nourable the Marquis of Exeter.

WAR- OFFICE, DEC. 28, 1841.
2d Regiment of Dragoons—Lieut. D. J. M. Macleod to
be Captain, by purchase, vice Forde, who retires ; Cornet E.
Barnett to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Macleod ; H. T.
C. S. Pigott, Gent. to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Barnett,
Dec. 28.
?d Regiment of Foot—Brevet Col. Sir C. W. Dance, from
half-pay Royal York Rangers, to be Major, vice Brough, pro-
moted ; Brevet Major G. D. J. Raitt to be Major, by pur-
chase, vice Sir C. W. Dance, who retires ; Lieut. S. W. Jeph-
son to be Captain, by purchase, vice Raitt ; Ensign G. G.
Webb to be Lieut., by purchase, vice Jephson ; H. W. B.
Cleveland, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase' vice Webb, Dec. 28.
4th Foot—Ensign W. Crawley to be Lieutenant, without
purchase,' vice Palmer, deceased, July 29; Ensign P. L. G.
' Anderson, from the 88th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Crawley,
Dec. 28.
7th Foot—Second Lieut. W. H. Hopson, from the Ceylon
Rifle Regiment, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Persse,
who retires' Dec. 28 ; Lieut. C. W. Tupper, from the 69th
Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Craigie, who exchanges ; Ensign
H. B. Bertles, from the 34th Foot, to be Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice Troubridge, promoted, Dec. 30.
10th Foot—Ensign J. T. Gorle to be Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice Cane, who retires; J. Taylor, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Gorle, Dec. 28.
16th Foot—Ensign L. R. Elliot to be Lieutenant, by pur.
chase, vice Fairtlough, who retires ; R. Lawton, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Elliot, Dec. 28.
26th Foot—Lieut. J. W. Johnstone, to be Adjutant, vice
M'Donald, who resigns the Adjutancy only, June 4.
47th Foot—Staff-Surgeon of the Second Class R. Battersby
to be Surgeon, vice Mair, who exchanges, Dec. 28.
57th Foot—Lieut. H. Hill to be Captain, without purchase,
vice Bate, deceased; Ensign E. D. Armstrong to be Lieute-
nant, vice Hill, Sept. 11 ; Ensign L. N. MacLachlan to be
Lieutenant, vice Armstrong, whose promotion on the 19th
November has been cancelled, Nov. 19 ; Lieut. J. M'Namee
to be Adjutant, vice Hill, promoted, Sept. 11.
69th Foot—Lieut. R. C. Craigie, from the 7th Foot, to be
Lieutenant, vice Tupper, who exchanges, Dec. 29.
79th Foot—Lieut. R. Ferguson to beCaptain, by purchase,
vice M.Dougall, who retires ; Ensign T. J. Reeve to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Ferguson; 'H. J. Gordon, Gent.,
to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Reeve, Dec. 28.
86th Foot—Capt. H. J. Sharp, from half-pay Unattached,
to be Captain, vice R. N. Everard, who exchanges ; Lieut. C.
W. Gore to be Captain, by purchase, vice Sharp, who retires;
Ensign W. Edwards to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Gore;
Wm. H. Weaver, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Ed-
wards, Dec. 28.
88th Foot—Gentleman Cadet E. Corbett, from the Royal
Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Ander-
son, appointed to the 4th Foot, Dec. 28.
2d West India Regiment—Ensign C. Steevens to be Lieute-
nant, by purchase, vice Geddes, who retires ; G. Cary, Gent.,
to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Steevens, Dec. 28.
Ceylon Rifle Regiment—H. Agar, Gent., to be Second
Lieutenant, without purchase, Dec. 28.
UNATTACHED.—Lieut. W. O'Neill, from Staff-Adjutant at
Edinburgh, to be Captain, without purchase, Dec. 28.
HOSPITAL STAFF.—To be Staff-Surgeons of the Second
Class—Assistant-Surgeon R. H. A. Hunter, from the 2d
Foot, July 2; Surgeon J. Mair, M.D. from the 47th Foot,
vice Battersby. who exchanges, Dec. 28.
BREVET.—Lieut.-Col. G. Macdonald, on half-pay of the
16th Foot ( Governor of Sierra Leone), to have the local rank
of Colonel. on the western coast of Africa, Dec. 24.
Capt. H. J. Sharp, of the 86th Foot, to be Major in the
Army, Nov. 23.
OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, DEC. 27.
Royal Regiment of Artillery—Captain and Brevet-Major
P. D. Stewart to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Stopford, re-
tired on half-pay ; Second Captain W. H. Hennis to be Cap-
tain, vice Stewart; First Lieutenant W. E. Heitland to be
Second Captain, vice Hennis; Second Lieutenant W. P. Pol-
lock to be First Lieutenant, vice Heitland, Dec. 20.
Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Somersetshire.
North Somerset Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry--H.
Fitzgerald, Esq., to be Captain; J. W. Eastment, Gent., to
be Cornet, Dec. 17.

Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of the County Palatine
of Chester.
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King's Regiment of Cheshire Yeomanry Cavalry.—Arley
Troop.—R. I3rooke, Esq ,to be Captain, vice Warburton, re-
signed, Dec. 20.
Tatton Troop—T. J. L. Brooke, Gent., to be Lieutenant,
vice Leycecter. promoted, Dee. 20.
DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY.
RICHARD WATERS, iron-manufacturer, Newport,
Monmouthshire.
THOMAS WOOSTER, jun., ship-owner, Peckham-rye-
terrace, Surrey.
THOMAS FOR TY, hotel-keeper, Richmond.
BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.
CHARLES JOSEPH CARTTAR, banker, Greenwich.
RA NKRUPTS.
JOEL GARDINER, common brewer, Bristol, to surren-
der Jan. 14 and Feb. 8, at eleven, at the Commercial-rooms.
Bristol. Gingell, Henbury ; Meredith and Reeve, Lincoln's Inn.
JOHN STEVENS, brickmaker, Limehouse, January 14,
at two, and February 8, at eleven, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Groom, Ahchurch lane, official assignee; Tucker,
Bank Chambers, Lothhury.
THOMAS FITT BALLS, coach and omnibus proprietor,
Brixton, Jan. 6, at one, and Feb. 8, at twelve, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee; Gaunt, Newgate-street.
JOSIAH CLOSE, glove manufacturer, Worcester, Jan. 6,
and Feb. 8, at eleven, at the llop Market. Worcester. Bed-
ford, Gray's Inn-square, Loudon ; Bedford and Pideock,
Worcester.

ELLIOTT WHITNEY, soap boiler, Liverpool, Jan. 12,
and Feb. 8, at one, at the Clarendon-rooms. Liverpool. Booker,
Liverpool; Ilolme. ftus, and Young, New Inn, London.
JAMES BEDFORD, chemist, Hunslet. Tslnorside, Leeds,
Jan. 13, and Feb. 8, at two, at the Commissioners'-rooms,
Leeds. Robinson and Barlow, Essex-street. Strand, London ;
Ward and Son, Leeds:-

SAMUEL SHINGLER, linen draper, Liverpool, Jan. 10,
and Feb. 8, at eleven, at the Ciarenden-rooms, Liverpool. Sale
and Worthington, Manchester ; Baxter, Lincoln's Inn-fields,
London.

MICHAEL MARSHALL, money scrivener, Chew Magna,
Somersetshire, Jan. 14, and Feb. 8, at one, at the Commercial-
rooms, Bristol. Burfoot, King's Bench-walk, Inner Temple,
London ' • Davies and Foster, Wells.
AMOS PROCTER and ROBERT PROCTER, coach-
proprietors, Kingston-upon-Hull, Jan. 11, and Feb. 8, at
eleven, at the George Inn, Kingston-upon-Hull. Bell, Brod-
rick, and Bell, Bow Churchyard, Cheapside, London ; Tenney
and Sidebottom, Hull.

DIVIDENDS.
At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street.
G. Anton and G. D. Mitchell, corn factors, Corn Exchange,
Mark-lane, Jan. 18, at twelve—J. A. Warren and J. F. Tay-
lor, ship builders, Little Hermitage-street, St. George's-in-
the-East, Jan. 18, at half-past eleven—G. Muirhead, tailor,
Oxford-street, Jan. 18, at half-past one—J. B. King, carpen-
ter, Old Broad-street, Jan. 18, at one-1. H. Barlow, stock
broker, Change-alley, Cnrnhill, Jan. 13, at twelve—W.
Cross, grocer, Mountnessing, Essex, Jan. 13, at two—J.
Green, draper, Cheltenham, Jan. 20, at half-past twelve—J.
Silver, silversmith, Hatton-garden, Jan. 20, at half-past one
—W. and F. J. Appleford, drapers, Holborn-bars, Jan. 20, at
twelve—A. G. W. lliddulph, J. Wright, H. Robinson, and
E. W. Jerningham, bankers, Henrietta-street, Covent-garden,
Jan. 20, at eleven.

In the Country.

J. Newham and G. Pearson, linen drapers, Ryde, Isle m
Wight, Feb. 19, at three, at the Fountain Inn, Cowes—B. R.
Broadbent, flannel manufacturer, Spotland, Lancashire, Jan.
21, at eleven, at the Commissioners'-rooms, Manchester—W.
Pilling, manufacturer of cotton goods, Droylsden, Lancashire,
Jan. 20, at two, at the Commissioners'-rooms, Manchester—
C. Benson, solicitor, Edgbaston, Warwickshire, Jan. 20, at
twelve, at the Waterloo-rooms, Birmingham—R. C. Squibb,
rope maker, East Cowes, Isle of Wight, Jan. 22, at eleven, at
the Bugle Inn, Newport—J. Copplestone, grocer, Plymouth,
Jan. 25, at twelve, at the Royal Hotel, Plymouth—S. Smith,
farmer, Pedmore, Worcestershire, Jan. 29, at one, at the
Talbot Hotel, Stourbridge—J. Price, jeweller, Birmingham,
Jan. 19, at two, at the Waterloo rooms, Birmingham—C.
Sayers, money scrivener, Great Yarmouth, Jan. 19, at twelve,
at the Bear Inn, South-town, Suffolk—R. Slack, paper ma-
nufacturer, Heafield, Derbyshire, Jan. 28, at twelve, at the
Commissioners'-rooms, Manchester—EL R. Walker and R. J.
Peel, Manchester warehousemen, Manchester, Jan. 20, at ten,
at the Commissioners'-rooms, Manchester—E. Weatherby, J.
H. Ford, W. L. Hilton, R. Addison, and R. Gibson, cotton
spinners, Manchester, Jan. 21, at ten, at the Commissioners'.
rooms, Manchester.
CERTIFICATES—JAW. 18.
W. Doxford, ship builder, Bishop Wearmouth; Durham—
G. H. Garnett, chemist, Queen Ann-street, Marylebone.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
H. J. Doogood and C. W. Wishey, printers of the " Welsh-
man" Newspaper, Carmarthem—W. H. and C. F. Mills, wine
merchants, Mark-lane—J. Adams and J. Lightfoot, lace ma-
r nufacturers, Nottingham—C. and H. Bolton, general mer-
chants, Kingston-upon-Hull—W. Wilkins and E. Cox, work-
ing engineers, Castle-street, Long-acre—G. Shaw and T.
Blinkhorn, wire workers, Manchester—T. Squire and J.
,Varing,, tanners, Warrington, Lancashire—W. and J. P.
Cruggen, surgeons, Chichester—E. Brooke and J. Sturmey,
milliners, Bath—G. and S. Grimmer, farmers, Burgh S:.
Peter, Norfolk—J. Sproule, C. Harris, and W. Cunning-
ham, wine merchants, Liverpool—R. Crossley and W. F. Ni-
cholson, worsted spinners, Halifax, Yorkshire—J. Baker and
J. Smith, wine merchants, Great Windmill-street, Haymarket
—T. and S. Lunn, farmers, Great Hampton, Worcestershire
—H. Gasquoine and A. Morris, calico printers, Manchester—
J. Sheppard, sen., and J. Sheppard, jun., maltsters, Langley
Burrell, Worcestershire—W. Wilks and G. C. Temperley,
coal merchants, Dartford, Kent—R. Wight and W. D. Bur-
linson, brass founders, Bishop Wearmouth, Durham—J. Was-
sell, sen., J. Wassell, jun., and J. Wassell, engine founders,
Coseley, Staffordshire (so far as regards J. Wassell, jun. )
E. and A. F. Christian, wine merchants, Duke-street, Port-
land-place—J. Curll and J. Glover, coach manufacturers,
Sutton-street, Soho-square—T. Croudace and W. Dunn, coal
factors, Cross-lane—J. Marlow and J. Gillson, millers, Farn-
don, Nottinghamshire—E. Blane and E. Day, silk mercers,
Manchester—J. Dalton and W. J. Capper, linen drapers, Re-
gent-street.

SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
PETER LOWSON, shipmaster, Dundee, Dec. 31 and
Jan. 21, at twelve, at the Royal Hotel, Dundee.
PETER HENDERSON, coal merchant, Perth, Jan. 3
and 25, at two, at the Chambers of D. Clark, Perth.
ALEXANDER BANNATYNE, grain merchant, Glas-
gow, Jan. 4 and 25, at two, at the Writing Chambers of J.
Monteith, Glasgow.

SUICIDE.—On Monday an inquest vas held be-
fore George Carttar, Esq., and a respectable jury, at the
Hope public-house, Loompit Vale, Lewisham, upon the
body of Georgina Caroline Death, who was found sus-
pended by a ribbon, in a bed-room of the above inn on
Thursday last. The jury were empannelled on Friday
evening last, in order to investigate the case, but stood
adjourned without going into any evidence, in conse-
at 83. Aldgate,
(pence of the person of the deceased being then un-
known. A number of witnesses were examined, among
others the brother of the deceased, an em.rraver, residing
the deceased
hadanLlritfromb e en theirin ba evidence v ihtleanl ct eh ,
a thatand
«•as liable to great excitement frotm► slight causes. Tho-
Sault' redatinte
Inas Mee Didby, surgeon, New Broad-street, City,-at-
tended deceased last twelve months for hysteria. She
had taken large doses of laudanum for three years, fir
(lie considered) the purpose of destroying life. Suffend
frequently from hysteria mania. A very trifle would
excite her ; was kindly treated at home ; a more united
family he did not know.____., Temporary derangement.'
The father of the deceased was for many years a Common
Councilman for the wardof Portsoken.
BoDILY STRENGTH—A friend of ours says,
he is growing weaker and weaker every day: HQ has
got so weak now that he can't raise five dollars. 1