The Sun.
London, England, 1846-11-30 00:00:00

THE SITN, LON_DON. MONDAY FIVENING, _NOVEMBER 30, 1846,

liberation, not of 761 pounds of pepper, but of 3,761, and
purported that an amount of duty had been paid, not is
the sum of 191. 19s. 64., but of 791. 19s. 6d. If the
quantity of pepper had been correct, even then the
duty would have come to as much as 981.:145. 6d.
In the register-book of the-Customs' offices an alteration
had been made in one of the entries relating to the quan
tity of pepper, the subject of the present information.
The numbers upon the dock warrant and delivery order,
which should correspond to the same number in the
ledgers of the office, instead cf doing so, had refer-
ence to another vessel altogether, •from Algoa Bay,
the cargo of which, instead of being pepper, was goat-
skins.

plainant and three other females, with whom they en-
deavoured to enter into conversation, but were repulsed,
and at a lonely part of the road the prisoner laid hold of
Miss Vinell's arms, and committed the assault corn
plained of. The prosecutrix called a policeman, but the
prisoner being determined to have the advantage of
making the first accusation, made a charge against her
of having attempted to pick his pocket.
Mr. GREENWOOD, after hearing all the evidence
which occupied nearly two hours, said he considered the
charge to be fully established, and that the mode taken
by the prisoner to rebut it was disgraceful. He should
fine him 51., and in default, ordered him to be committed
for two months to the House of Correction, with hard
labour.

Mr. Woripsworan, on the part of the defendant, con.
tended that there was no evidence to fix his client. Ii

was quite true that some fraud had been committed, but
it was quite another question to say that the defendant
had been guilty of those frauds. The period at which
the fraud was committed was an unusually busy period,
in consequence of a resolution of the House of Commons
during the passage of the, New Tariff Bills to admit
coffee and other articles at the reduced rate of
duty contemplated by the Act, and the deli-
very order might have been filled up by a mere error,
in consequence of the press of business; then this order
was countersigned by the defendant, but his name was
nearly, if not the last which was affixed to the document.
The defendant, therefore, had not been proved to be the
person who committed the fraud, and it was the duty of
the Crown to have brought forward some evidence rela-
tive to the earlier history of the transaction. Mr.
Fennell, the owner of the pepper, should have been
called, and some other officers who had been
dismissed lately for misconduct. The Crown had failed
to make out the case, for the issue to be made out was
clearly whether or not the defendant had committed the
fraud in question. In conclusion, he stated that although
the name of the defendant had been mixed up with
former prosecutions, and he had been suspended from his
office, still that fact should not be allowed to operate
against him in. the present case.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL replied at some length.
The LORD CHIEF BARON summed up, and the jury
returned a verdict for the Crown—Damages, 202/.lBs.

WORSHIP STREET.-(THIS DAY.)
Henry and Elizabeth Gobey were charged with having
in their possession a variety of articles, the alleged pro-
perty of Mr. Atkinson Morley, proprietor of the hotel
bearing his name in Old Burlington-street, Bond-street.
Police-sergeant Price said that in consequence of
information he had received, he proceeded to Mr. Morley,
who accompanied him to the prisoners' lodgings in
George-street, Shoreditch. They wore both at home.
On a table in their room were perceived three decanters
and some wine-glasses, which Mr. Morley identified at
once as his property. The female prisoner said that one
of the decanters she had found in a dust-hole at Mr.
Morley's, whilst she was a servant at the hotel; that the
others were his (Mr. Morley's) property, as well as the
glasses, but that she did not take them. During this
search, the male prisoner kicked against one of the de-
canters, which was lying upon the floor under the bed,
and broke it. Witness then sent for another constable,
and the male prisoner was conveyed to the station-house.
Witness continued his search, and in a box found some
linen articles, bed-furniture, carpeting, and a hearth-
rug, &c. &c.; some of these the female prisoner said she
had found, and others she had purchased whilst in Mr.
Morley's employ.
The articles were now produced, and Mr. Morley
identified some of them. The female prisoner was house
or chambermaid in his employment about a year and a
half ago. He did not believe that the male prisoner had
any knowledge of the robbery.
Mr. CoOntnn said he should admit the male prisoner
to bail in two sureties of 20/. each, fur his appearance on
Saturday, but that the wife should be remanded until
that day. -►

PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 28.—This port is to be placed
in as effective ,a state of defence as possible. The whole
of the fortifications are to be furnished with the neces-
sary guns (321b5.) as soon es the remaining portion of
the carriages arrive from Woolwich. Charges of 101bs.
each to the number of 700 have been made up, and are
to be kept ready for immediate use in the magezine at
tached to the Queen's Bastion in addition to which more
powder is there deposited than at any time during the
last war.

STATISTICS OF THE STEAM NAVIN -A corre-
spondent of the Times, in defending the Government for
raising the status of the .first-class naval engineers by
making them ward-room officers, furnishes the following
statistics of the steam navy of this country. The steam-
engines employed in the navy amount to 38,938 horse-
power, which, at 50.. per horse, costs 1,946,4001.; and
the spare gear for ditto, at 5 per cent., 97,345/.; making
a total of 2,04-1,245/. for the value of our steam machinery
afloat. To work this machinery we should, at the rate
of 101 b. of coals' per horse-power per hour, consume
4,172 tons of coals per day; take the average price in the
different parts of the world in which they would be used
at 30s. per ton, and we find we consume 6,2581. worth
per Tay. Allow the whole fleet to be employed one-
third of the year at the same rate, and we incur an ex-
pense of 763,4761. for coals ; say for tallow, oil, &a.,
38,5241.; and for replacing and repairing machinery (per
naval estimate), 450,000/. ; and we find our annual ex-
pense for 'Working this machinery amounts to 1,252,000/.

ABBY FOLSOM DISSATISFIED WITH AN ,EASY
VICTORY.—On Saturday Mrs. Abigail Folsom appeared
in the justices' court to answer to a writ of ejectment
brought by. Mr. Whithridge, her landlord; but as he did
not appear to assert his right to turn Abby out of doors,
the court ordered him to be defaulted, and gave judg-
ment in Abby's favour. As this peaceable settlement of
the case cut Abby off from her intended speeeh, she ex-
pressed great dissatisfaction, and insisted upon appeal-
ing. It was in vain that she was told she could not
appeal, as the judgment was in her favour. Failing
to carry her point in that court, she mounted up to the
common pleas room, walked into the chief justice's
crimson-bound'sauctum, called his attention to her by
tapping him on the shoulder, stated her grievance to
him, and insisted that he should receive her appeal. The
chief justice, as soon as he had recovered from his sur
prise, ordered officer G. Andrews to remove the lady
from the bench and the court room. It was not without
the use of some physical- force that the officer ejected
Abby.—Boston Post.
A HORSE'S REVENGE.—Two days ago the owner
of a horse, at the time standing in Mr. Lamontague's
stable at Point Levi, while in a state of intoxication,
entered the animal's stall, and it is supposed began to
tease him, when the horse threw him down, and falling
upon his knees, worried him like a dog- would. The
groans of the man brought the ostler and one or two
other persons to his assistance. When these entered the
stable, they found the horse kneeling and the man lying
on his back. The brute had his arm firmly wedged be-
tween his teeth, and it was with much difficulty he was
made to loosen his hold. The poor man had both his
arms broken by the furious bites of the horse, and the
bone of one, the left, was so ground to pieces, and the
flesh so lacerated, that amputation bad to be resorted to.
His face is torn, and his body severely bruised in several
places. Ile is now under Dr. Racey's care, and likely
to do well. The horse (a stallion) is said to be ex-
tremely vicious, and only manageable by his owner,
who is known to have severely punished him on frequent
occasions, to reduce him to obedience.—Quebec Mer-
cury, Oct. 15.

TIIE LATE EXTRAORDINARY ROBBERY AT EALING.

—lnspector Lano-ster, of Ealing, who conveyed for iden-
tification, on Saturday, at the Old Bailey, the property
stolen by Esther Elizabeth White from Mr. Jones, found
that during his journey he lost 102 gold and silver coins,
which constituted a portion of the stolen property
through a hole in his pocket..
THE RAZOR-STROF MAN.—The liberality with
which this celebrated individual gives for charitable
purposes is well known. An instance occurred on Tues-
day last at Canandaigna. He left the cars at Blossom's
Refreshment-house, and taking his stand before the
building sOoddrew the crowd from the tables to listen to
his peculiar eloquence. During the "ten minutes" he
had sold nine strops, and just as the bell began to ring,
he espied in the crowd a poor old man who was peddling
pea-nuts and candy. Instantly the razor-strop man
threw 18a., the proceeds of his sale, into the old man's
basket, and stopped on board the cars, leaving the object
of his benefietion. aitonished' -at so: sudden and AvelCome
•an exercise of bounty.—Rochester Amaican.
A TRIM' DROWNED DY HIS PLUNDER.--OD Thurs-
day last, as a man named George Harding was attempt-
ing to escape, by means of a boat, from the yard of
Mr. Kennett, railway contractor, Bristol, he over-
balanced himself, and fell into the water. The weight
of the stolen iron upon his person caused him to sink
to the bottom, and before he could be got out life was
extinct.

THE VISIT OF THE COURT TO ARUNDEL CASTLE.—
A detachment of 36 troopers from the 12th Lancers,
from Hounslow Barracks, under command of Lieutenant
Sutton, arrived on Saturday at the George Hotel, Ports-
mouth, to form a royal escort to her Majesty and Court
on their journey to Arundel Castle, on Tuesday next.
Twenty horses from the royal stables, one carriage, and
a number of domestics, arrived at the George on Sunday
morning.
THE LAST HIT.—A man is doing a smashing
business by letting post-coaches run over him, and then
commencing suits for damages. He has c1eared...1,172
dollars in the last nine months.—American paper.
THE EXPEDITION OF GENERAL FLORES.—The
ship. Glenelg, one of General Flores's squadron, arrived
at Blackwall in tow of three steamers, and was safely
moored there on Saturday morning last at 9 o'clock,
having been brought from Gravesend for greater security,
by order of the Board of Customs. Mr. Ferguson, the
well-known river pilot, was entrusted with the manage-
ment of the ship in her passage up the river ; and Mr.
Forsayth and other officers of the Customs, as well as
Inspector Evans and another officer of the Thames
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if she, together with the Monarch and Neptune steamers,
be condemned, which we have reason to think is all but
certain, the ambitious views of Flores on the quiet state
of Ecuador will, doubtless, by the loss of such a squadron,
be effectually crushed for the present, if not for ever.
' CURIOUS RELIC OF ANTIQUITY.—Within the last
two months, as the workmen who were forming the line
oil the new railway at Bevtirly were digging about nine
feet deep, near the old Friary, in order to fix a gate post,
they came in contact with a large sten, which, when got
out, proved to be an antique quern, and is supposed to
have been one of the domestic utensils used by the
ancientof
cu
c circular
rns for grinding, or rather powdering their
corn to separate it from the husks or chaff. It is of rude
and simple construction, the centre being hollowed out,
shape, and somewhat resembling an in-
verted punch bowl. It is conjectured to be nearly 2,000
years old, and is now in the possession Of Mr. George
Ent taey.— Yorkshirentan.

FOREIGN POTATOES.—The arrivals of potatoes from
abroad during the past week have comprised the follow-
ing:—The Gypsy, from Jersey, brought_4s tons, the
produce of that island; the Ruding, from Oporto, 10
baskets of Portuguese produce; the Johns, from Rouen,
the large quantity of 135 tons, the growth of France)
the Giraffe, from Rotterdam, 20 baskets, of Dutch pro-
duce; the Faith, from Rouen, 105 tons, of French pro-
duce; the Charles,. from Gravelines, 50 tons also of
French produce; the Perseverance, from Dunkirk, 10
tons, the produce of Normandy; the Ocean, from Rd:
terdam, 4 hampers, 6 baskets, and 12 bags, of Dutch
produce; the Rob Roy, from S. Petersburgh, 225 bags,
the production of Russia; the Sir Robert Peel, from
Rotterdam, 6 bags, of Dutchfproduce; and the Artemus,
from St. John's, Newfoundland, 10 barrels, the growth
of that British province of North America. it will be
observed that this list of the principal arrivals during
the past week comprises supplies from France, Holland,
Russia, Normandy, Portugal, and the Channel island
first mentioned, and from which latter place v'e have re-
ceived parcels of the vegetable on former occasions. of
them, those from France are especially noticeable on
account of their extent, and the individual importation
from Russia on account of its increased extent, and from
Portugal owing to its partial or entire novelty. With
respect to the arrival from Newfoundland, we are not
aware that a. similar one has before taken 'plats, and,
although t g, ilt the iti-i-yetY.,t;:!, on re-
count of itg''novelty, would` appear 'to :pciisoSs a consi-
derable degree of interest,, and to be wq rthy of particu-
lar and separate notice.• '

-1 THE SWEDISH POET TEGNER,
We have already anuoanced the death of this highly
f gifted man. The Berlingsche Zeitung of the 12th says:—
" The Skald (Swedish bard) of Axel and Frithioff,
Bishop Esaias Tegner, is no more. After having expo-
f . rienced very indifferent health for several years, and
' after having been exposed to not less than six strokes
of apoplexy, he fell asleep without pain, tranquilly and
peacefully, on the 11th day after the last attack, viz.,
on Monday, the 2d of November, at half-past eleven at
night, aged 64. Esaias Tegrir was born on the 13th of
November, 1782, at Hyf kerad, in the Bishopric of Carl-
stadt. At the age of 17 he was a student in Lund; in
the year 1800 he was amanuensis there in the Academi-
cal Library; he received the best character (laudatur) at
the examination of the candidates for philosophical de-
grees from all the professors, and was in this way
tnagister primus, and soon after a professor of aesthetics.
Some time afterwards he was academical adjunct in Lund.
In 1806 he was simultaneously appointed to the vice-
bibliothecal chair, and notary to the Philosophical Fa-
culty. He thereupon married a young lady belonging
to the family in which he had at an earlier period of his
life been domestic tutor, Mademoiselle A. M. G. Myhr-
man, and in 1811 the Swedish Academy honoured his
Skald poem, Swea, with their high approbation. A year
afterwards, he was, with a suspension of all the cus-
tomary forms, elected Professor of Greek Literature to
the University of Lund, and appointed pastor-prebend
of Staeije. It was on his induction into holy orders
that he wrote the poem, so resplendent with celestial
beauty, on The Ordination of Priests. Axel was now
composed and published ; then The Night Watchtower
Sentry's Child; subsequently his " epilogue to the pro-
motion in Lund in 1820, and " Song on the Tun,"
which Leopold places in the first rank amongst all his
minor poems, as well as the celebrated Frithioff Saga,
which, according to Franzen's judgment, raised Tegter
to the rank of the most eminent poets of modern times,
and diffused his name, not only throughout Europe, but
even to the other extremities of the globe. The poet
now assumed Oxenstiern's place in the Swedish Aca-
demy; and in 1824, the same year in which his Frithioff
immortalised his name, he was made Bishop of Wexiii.
Of the manner in which, as president of the schools and
churches, he fulfilled his sacred calling, evidence is af-
forded by several of his discourses, and the remarkable
proceedings of the assemblies of preachers in 1836. Im-
mediately after his appointment to the bishopric he be-
came a Knight-Commander of the Order of the Northern
Star, the small cross of which be had already received
when professor. From this period he only sounded his
tuneful lyre on casual occasions; but there is ground for
hope that a by no means inconsiderable number of new
and longer poems will be found bequeathed by him to
posterity. Francis Michael Franzen, who some years
ago wrote a biography of Tegrer, concluded it in these
words:—' Although the northernly element forms partly
the spirit, and partly the staple of his poems, his poesy
is nevertheless deeply imbued with southern luxuriance
and beauty. With respect to his fresh and brilliant co-
louring, and the richness of his imagery and ideas, he
might be compared to an orange tree, whose powerful
and wholly green tints are adorned with ripe fruit by the
side of newly-burst blossoms. In short, Tegner's death
is an almost irreparable loss to the lovers of Swedish
literature, the most beautiful, of its kind, that exists in
a language.' " I

INQUEST ON TIIE CANON RIEGO.—The inquest
on the body of Michael Riego, who was found dead in
his lodgings in Seymour-street, was resumed this day
before Mr. G. C. Mills, coroner, at the Coronation
public-house, Seymour-street, New-road. Rear-Admiral
Sir Charles Malcolth, G.O a, Mr. Macdounell, and other
frietids of the deceased, and-the female and boy attend-
ant, who resided in the house with the deceased up to
the time of his death, were examined, after which the
jury, without hesitation, returned a verdict of " Natural
death." The deceased was brother to the 'celebrated

JOHN KNOX'
_HOUSE.

Spanish general, Riego, the leader of the insurrectionary
movement which took place in Spain, which terminated

in his execution. •
THE FORGERIES BY THE POSTMASTER AT BARNET.
—Some time since John Pearce Morse, a chemist and
druggist at Barnet, where he was also postmaster, ab-
sconded, as is well known, from that town, having com-
mitted forgeries of post-office orders to between 2,0001.
and 3,000/. Subsequent to the discovery of the circum-
stances; a reward of 50 guineas was offered for his ap-
prehension, and, from the inquiries instituted, it was
found that he had gone off to the continent. Peake, one
of the Post-office officers, was then sent to Bruges, Where
it was ascertained Morse had been seen, but found on
his arrival there that he had left that city for Brussels.
Peake followed him to Brussels, and from thence traced

him to Ostend, where ho was discovered under the name

of Morton, living at the house of a hair-dresser, in a
very reduced state, having squandered away all the
money he took with him, which is believed to have been
a considerable sum. He was immediately taken into
custody by the Belgian authorities for travelling under a
false name, but it is not at present known whether he
will be brought over to this country to be punished for
the crime he has committed.

THE RIVER PLATE.—LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY.—
We are informed that our Government has united with

Several paragraphs have lateli, appeared in the Edin-
burgh papers, expressive of a doubt whether it is not
intended to pull down the curious old house at the head
of the Canongate, celebrated as being the residence of
John Knox. A correspondent of the Courant of Satur-
day,thus notices the rumour, beginning first with a simi-
larreport respecting Shakspere's,house

reported in the I,Grcester Journal that there is
an intention to remove the house in Stratford-on-Avon,
in which Shakspere was born, married, lived, and died.
Can such an act of barbarism be thought of, or permitted
in civilised and high-minded England ? It would bring
disgrace not only on the country, but upon the age in
which we live. This surely cannot be. If it be true,
the authors of such an outrage ought to be banished
from England to some other country. But whither
could they be sent to ? Even young Australia would
reject them with scorn and loathing. I know no place
where such barbarians would be safe, excepting in the
metropolis of Scotland, where a similar outrage, it is
currently reported, is meditated, and where they may in
consequence be protected by sympathising friends, with
tastes and feelings as barbarous as their own.
" It is rumoured that the house in the city of Edin-
burgh, in which the great Scottish Reformer, John
Knox, lived and died, is to be treated in a similar man-
ner, and that the destruction is to be brought about by
men who profess almost to worship his memory, and
who have the name of John Knox, and his deeds, and
his reforms, and his doctrines; seldom out of their
mouths."

Our impression of the arrangements formerly an-
nonnped with respect to Knox's house, is quite different
from the above. The Free Church party, as we under-
stood, intended erecting a Knox monument and church,
and inclosing the present ancient, building with a view
y
former
ooux werreniirtio htseuropstlprahteegsesppeme
o.etrscshve,
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Robert Chambers," by the magistrates, in 1560, on being
appointed parish minister of Edinburgh. It had previ-
ously been the residence of George Durie, abbot of Dun-
fermline. On the last day of October 1561, the provost,
Wiles, and counsail, ordanis the dene of gyld, with all
diligence, to mak ane warme studye of dailies to the mi-
nister, Johne Knox, within his hoes, abone the hail of
the same with lyht and windokis thereunto, and all other
necessaris.' Knox probably lived here, while in town,
till Lis death, November 24, 1572. • A window is shown,
from which he used to preach to the people on the street,
and there is an effigy of him in the attitude of preaching,
upon the corner of the building." Can any party seri-
ously contemplate the demolition of a building thus
hallo Wed and endeared to the people of Scotland?—a
memorial, too, of the times when!Scotland was an inde-
pendent kingdom, and the force of the national character
—rugged, but fervid and undaunted—achieved the great
triumph of the Reformation.
The correspondent of the Courant is entirely wrong
in his allusions to Shaltspere. New Place, the house in
which the poet died, was pulled thiwn in 1757, and the
people of i 5 trat fo rti -on-Avon 114' the good taste to hoot
the barbarian who did it out of,the Lowe. Where the
poet was married is not known, td the great perplexity
and mortification of various antiOeries who have busied
and puzzled themselves for years About the point. Ills
marriage'liceuse he obtained at Worcester, but there is
no record of the ceremony. The';estact locality of Strat-
ford-on-Avon where he was bon is also a matter of
doubt. The small tenement shown as his birth-place
was undoubtedly his property; he , inherited it from his
father, and bequeathed it by his will to his eldest
daughter; but Shakspere's lather had two other small
houses in the town, and there is nothing but tra-
dition to vouch for the popular belief. The old
dwelling, however, is an interesting relic ; it was
once the property of the greatest of Englishmen
and of poets ; and it has :been Visited by thousands of
pilgrims froth all parts of the world. Its walls are low
and humble, but its strong oak beams and floors promiie
two or three centuries more duration. It may be sold,
but scarcely, we think, taken down. Its value as a show
house, if not its importance in the eyes of the inhabitants,
will save it from destruction. It might be well, however,
for the Commissioners of Woods and Forests, who pro-
tect and repair the ruins of castles and cathedrals, to ex-
'tend their care to such relics of genius as this
Shakspearian mansion. By directing their attention to
the few ancient historical and memorable houses in the
kingdom, likely to be sold or pulled down, they might,
from time to time, at small expense, gratify strangers,
both foreigners and natives of this country, and thus
perpetuate interesting memorials, of our national glory.
We were mortified, some years since, to find the only re--
maining Milton house in Loudon (one in which the poet
lived eight years, and where he must have commenced
" Paradise Lost") converted into a miserable chandler's
shop. To pay homage to intellect and genius, even in
the way we have mentioned, would be graceful and be-
coming in a great nation. If Alexander spared the
house a Pindar, amid the tumult of war, when he
destroyed the temples and towers of Thebes, we might
well do something, in these days of peace, to save the
" Muses' bowers" from desolation.—lnverness Courier.

the French Cabinet in approval of Mr. Hood's proposi-

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that l[liG
mr.mAoriGsvEns —;s rwuereoaubroontottoicbeedreinmoovuedr
tion to terminate the difficulties of the River Plate. We R cu
—The
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horses
may consequently anticipate a speedy pacification of the last,
affairs of the Argentine and Oriental republics. to John Scott's stables, turns out to be premature.
SALE OF CADETsmrs.—The grand jury have re- We regret to announce that Admiral Sir George
turned a true bill for a misdemeanour against John Cockburn, G.C.B , has had a dangerous attackof
Charretie, James Rallett, Ann Stewart, and Sir Wil- • The Gallant.Admiralstill lies • lysis. in a precarious
Liam Young, Bart., a director of the East India Com- state.—United Service Gazette.
pany. The first three are indicted as principals, and , KERSAL Moog.—This spot, which for nearly 100
the latter as aiding and assisting, in the sale of a cadet-
years has een used as a racecourse will never again in
ship in the East India Company's service, contrary to lit . , . ,
the provisions of the 49th George 111., c. 126.—Atlas. .•
all probaby, witness the scenes which have contributed
AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE.—LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY. to its renown. It will be seen, on reference to an ad-
vertisement, that the whole of the building materials of
—The royal mail steamer Britannia, with the mails of the stands and booths are to be sold by auction on Fri-
the 16th from Canada and the United States, may be day next.—Manchester Examiner.
expected here about midnight. Four packet ships are
Some time ago, a denizen of the good town of
fully due from New York and Boston. Kendal who was rather addicted to Bacchanalian revel-
On Saturday the Right Rev. Dr. Short, who has been
ries, on returning late to his home, found his wife seated
translated to the bishopric of St. Asaph, appeared in the by the fire, anxiously awaiting his arrival. As is too
dining-room of the _college, and was sworn into the see the under the the
often case circumstances, intemperate
of St. Asaph.—Liverpool Chronicle. husband at first assailed his wife with hard words, and
MR. ROWLAND HILL.—The public will learn with then proceeded to harder blows.' On the good woman
satisfaction that Mr. Rowland Hill has been appointed mildly remonstrating with him, and alleging that she
Secretary to the Postmaster-General, at a salary of had said nothing to provoke his anger, he retorted, " Nea,
1,2001. a year. The appointment is a permanent one, I knew thou sed nowt, but thou's a thinkin' devil!"—
but Colonel Maberley still continues to be Secretary to Kendal Mercury.
the Post-office. The office now filled by Mr. Rowland RE-OPENING OF ST. JAMES'S CHURCH, PICCA.•
Hill is a new one, and has been created, as we under- DILLY.—This fine ecclesiastical structure, which, for a
stand, for the purpose of enabling him to carry into effect considerable time past, has been undergoing repair, and
the remaining portions of his plan of Post-office reform. redecoration, with the addition of a painted window, was
We have reason to believe that the Government has re-opened for public worship yesterday morning. The
acted spontaneously in this matter, the restoration of most noticeable feature is the painted window. This
Mr. Rowland Hill to office having been entirely un- portion of the renovation of St. James's has long been
solicited on his part. contemplated, it having been proposed so far back as
FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE EASTERN COUNTIES thirty or forty years ago to fill -up the window with a
RAILWAY.—An inquest was held at the New Inn, Rey- copy of the Transfiguration of Raffaele ; but various
don, on Friday, on the body of Elizabeth Coleman, aged circumstances occurred to prevent the execution of the
eleven years, who was killed upon the above line. The design, and it was only recently that effective steps were
deceased was, it appears, endeavouring to cross the line taken to carry out the long-contemplated improvements
at a point near the Roydon station where the Lock road by the appointment of a committee, strengthened with
crosses the line on a level, when she was struck by the the requisite funds. It appears that the views of the
buffer of a Cambridge train and killed upon the spot. committee were more ambitious than the result of their
The jury returned a verdict of " Accidental Death." labours would manifest, as it is stated that they origi-
Some of the officers of the line, who were in attendance, nally fixed on a very beautiful sketch in the modern
assured the Coroner that the gate at the Lock crossing style, by Corbould, representing, in various eompart-
should be kept locked in future, or that a man should ments, the Birth and Death of our Saviour. The Bishop
be placed there to prevent persons from going on the line. of London, however, having expressed a strong opinion
DEATH IN THE STREET. On Saturday afternoon, in favour of a more ancient style of art, the design,
a man about forty years of age, name unknown, and which has been so effectively carried out by Mr. Wiles,
rather meanly clad, was observed, whilst passing along was selected. The beautiful carvings of Gibbons over
Blenheim-street, Bond-street, suddenly to fall on the the altar have been judiciously touched, bringing out
pavement. Several persons ran to his assistance, and he more forcibly the exquisite richness of the foliage, and a
was conveyed to a surgeon's in Bond-street, who pro- rail of marble has been added round the altar.
nounced him dead. The body was removed to the We regret to record the death of Lady Elizabeth
Mount-street workhouse, where it was searched ; but Whitbread, the last survivor of the children of the first
beyond a rosary and crucifix, nothing was found that Earl Grey, sister of the late and aunt of the present
would lead to identification. Earl. She was married in 1788 to the late Samuel
THE GREAT BRITAIN.—BRISTOL, Nov. 26.-- Whitbread, of Cardington, county'of Bedford, Esq., by
There seems to be now no hope, from the intelligence whom she had five children, the eldest, a son, who died
which reached this city last night, of the Great Britain young; W. H. Whitbread, of Southill, Esq., for many
being got off from her present position on the sands in I years Member for Bedford; Elizabeth, who died in 1845,
Dundrum Bay. It was stated in the Commercial Rooms married to Captain the Honourable W. Waldegrave,
that a letter from the engineer, whose plan for getting now Earl Waldegrave; Samuel C. Whitbread, of Car-
her off had been approved, represents that the late gales dington, county of Bedford, Esq; who represented the
have so far strained and damaged her, that she will not county of Middlesex in two Parliaments; and Emma
repay the cost which would necessarily be incurred in Laura, who married the present Speaker of tho House
the attempt. of Commons. After Mr. Whitbread's death, Lady
LANCASTER AND CARLISLE RAILWAY.—The open- Elizabeth lived in retirement at 'Kensington, respected
ing of this railway has been delayed in consequence of and beloved by all who knew her, and in the constant
unforeseen circumstances. It will probably be inspected exercise of an active benevolence and unostentatious
in the course of eight or ten days, and will immediately charity.
afterwards be publicly opened. The general feeling is THE EXTRAORDINARY RAILWAY ADVENTURE.—
in favour of a holiday upon the occasion, in order to Mr. Markham, the gentleman whose violent attack on a
celebrate the important event with all due ceremony and fellow passenger, asid extraordinary escape from a rail-
rejoicing, and to accomplish this, we hope the directors way train while labouring under an attack of brain fever,
will give sufficient notice of the time to enable trades- recently attracted so much of public observation, is now
men to make the necessary arrangements.—Carlisle restored to perfect health, and has left town to rejoin his
Journal. family.—Britannia.
THE WEATHER.—We have had a week of dull Mr. Commissioner Burge has suspended for eigh-
November weather—frequent and heavy rains, thick teen months the certificate of Mr. W. 11. Tempest, late
fogs, and sunless skies. Nobody stirs abroad who can of Leeds, sharebroker, who had engaged in railway
avoid it, and those whose occupations call them out of transactions, without adequate capital.
doors cut sharp jokes ala Francais on the influences of CONTEMPLATED CHANGES IN THE COURT OF BANK-
the season. All the rivers in the neighbourhood were nurrcir.—A correspondent states that rumours are pre-
much swollen on Thursday, and the low lands in the valent that the Lord Chancellor meditates some impor-
neighbourhood flooded,—Carlisle Journal. taut changes in the Courts of Bankruptcy; among
Albert Smith dashes along in right masterly style others are the reduction of the number of commissioners
with " Christopher Tadpole, and seems to gather new from six to four, and the appointment of but one instead
• he advances towards the more complete deve-vigour asof two official assignees to each court. Two 'of the
Thoughprone to deal in bur- existing commissioners, it is said, wilt be offered the in-
lopment of the story..
lesque, in which he peculiarly excels, he hits off with be transferred P
solvency cases, which are to to Portugal-
truth and power the peculiarities and eccentricities of street. A"
.-.._unclay paper. _
__
character which one so often meets in ordinary life, TRINITY COLLEGE.—We are-given to understand-
and afflicts on vulgar assumption the castigation which that a commemoration of the foundation of this college
it so well merits, His deserivtive power is great, and a will be holden during the ensuing month, upon a scale
quiet vein
little to tht'ir effect. The cha-
scenes, which adds not a.the invited
600, and amongst
ratter of Mrs. Gudge, the personification of vulgar all the peers, the
Par-
ostentation
and insolence, is a perfect gem : as fine a liaruent, who have been graduated from the college, and
satire on a numerous class as we ever met with. Howresident blasters of Arts.We believe it as yet
all the .
the burlesque • how admirable the point ;
rich , how keen undecided whether ladies are to be invited.—Cambridge
the irony. We might quote many passages to .
illustrate Independent Press.
the merits of this story, and justify the praise wa,; c hwe THREE MEN BURIED
have felt bound to bestow. Mr. Smith is running a .inst., at Sewell, in the parish of Houghton
race,u, 13th _
in . Regis,
and a successful one, too, with Charles Dickens. '•-s three labourers emplo?i7eeie L moving earth
h for the new
aim is somewhat different, but his talent as a writer will branch railway
fro':
bturiedon adloinreahnd I:ThoertfalTiVnestlrnolpae
suffer little, if any thing, from a comparison with
its to Dunstable,wer
of earth. Their fellow-labourers,
far-famed Boz. We rejoice to know that
his
work
kthat considerablebody
in digging them out in about ten
proved eminently successful, and can aanly trust that however, succeeded
such success may continue as great as it.: merit is minutes, unhurt, ,
with the exception of some bruises.—
genuine.-Nottingham Review Hertford County Ames.
SUBMARINE TELEGRAr H.—The suumariiic .
i 4ele- THE GAME LAws.—During the past week no less
risoners were committed to the House of
graph was laid across Portsmouth Harbour to-day I
‘,5... than thtiytneei p
in this town by the Buckinghamshire magis-
turday), from the Watering Island in the Dockyard to Corree io
, charged with poaching and trespassing in search
the steps, at the Royal Clarence -yard. The former ex- tra:tes-ne, viz., two for one month, five for two months,
periments were repeated, aid they fully confirmed the of gas- ' -se months, and four for sin weeks. During
fact, that one wire, as prepared by Messrs. West and two for th.... ' "sly to the last,-13 prlsoners were also
Taylor; is sufficient for electric telegraph purposes under the week prealoa., _ vT„l,,c or C„I i cr2L,-;: f„1: effjol,., ( S
water. Several of the principal_ offieers of the D-ric- liti .• • • the it._ ,
yar., _Jading the ticat:. of ale DLI-.• - • u tit - • toe game-laws, tilt.- ~,,. , _ liAb ltt.pal i.l , t against -'
worths., Tvienty-
were pi-esnt during the trials, which proved most sans- 1;* terms of imprisonment
varying from seven days up to tilite, . .
li.E, , Bucks
ht
factor:. The experiments were conducted under the sixpoachers committed within_ a- f9rt,
superintendence of Mr. 1-1ay,...-Harnpshire, Telegraph. Gazette,