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EAST INDIA HOUSE,
/1111 E COURT of DIRECTORS of the
Nov. 11, 1846.
Bin _ EAST INDIA of
do hereby give notice that all
s,e_l)* engaged in nature by the East India Company for the. Con-
t-44nee of Troops or
tria„ will Ammunition to any of the Presidencies in
, be required to be fitted with LIGHTNING- CON-
Attm"'-'.S, Euid that a Preference will be given to such Ships so CON-
""117 ma° hereafter be engaged fcr the Conveyance to India of
Stores.

JAMES C. BIELVILL, Secretary.

lIIRKENIIEAD DOCK COMMISSIONERS.
LOADS OF MONEY.
Ofll/.4,ene Irkenhead Dock Commissioners are ready to receive Loans
their acts fore eriod: or five or seven years, under the authority
her
intercst wg rliament, at the rate of 5 per cent, Per
annumd
.1Z of
Paid halt-yearly, on the Ist of January an
4814,11,112-,°ndobistor elsewhere, as the parties lending may prefer.
tilen,„ ;'.. tenders, stating the amount and term of years for which the
etxkrie,3 t,o,Posed to be l to be addressed to the Commissioners,
lender for Loan"—Birkenhead, Sept. 21, 1846.
By Order, RICHARD BIND, Sec.

No. 16898.,

FOREIGN BLACK AND COLOURED VELVETS.
QEIVELL and CO. have bought from a Ma-
nufacturer, in Crefeld and Lyons, several Lots of FLACK and
COLOURED VELVETS. are now ready for inspection.
In consequence of the great reduction in the Duty (viz. from
225. Gd. to >9e. per lb.), they will be enabled to offer tkeir rich Vel-
vets several shillings per yard lower than last season. The Blacks,
from Crefeld, 7s. 6d. and Si. 6d.; Colours, 9i. 6d. Those from
Lyons, I Is. 3d. and 12s. 9d.
Compton House, Frith•street and Compton-street,
Soho-square.

THE IVIALT-4TEALING CASE.
ABINGDON, SATURDAY.
This extraordinary investigation still "draws its slow
length along ;" but every day elicits fresh facts and im-
plicates additional persons, while the interest and exite-
ment consequent upon the discovery of so systematic and
wholesale a robbery have been much enhanced within
the last few days by the arrest of two highly respectable
brewers of Oxford, named Miller and Evans, who are
now in custody, and under examination with the other
prisoners at the justice-room, before Mr. B. Collingwood
mayor of this borough, Mr. Alderman Hyde, Mr. W. D.
Belcher, Mr. E. J. Trendell, and Mr. J. Copeland
The examinations are conducted by Mr. Frankum, the
clerk to the magistrates, and the following are the
names of the prisoners:--Benjamin Blagrove, 50, Joseph
Edney, 65, James Edney, 30, John Seymour, 45, William
Pead, 24, George Bowler, 34, Joseph Dutton, 24, John
Havzell, 23, Charles Trinder, 30, John Huggins, 39,
Malyn Huggins, 40, George Heycroft, 34, William
Hazel, 60, Richard Jones, 35, George Peck, 22, Thomas
Prior, 30, and Thomas Giles, 40, who are charged as the
stealers; and William Miller, 31, Joel Evans, 40, and
William Westbrook, 34, as the receivers.
The examination, which commenced on the Ist of
October, originated in a somewhat singular Manner,
affording another proof how "strange events from little
causes spring." Some time in September a farmer, named
Badceck, addressed Mr. Fowler, maltster, of this town,
and congratulated him on the extensive business he was
doing. Fowler replied, that he believed he had his share.
Badcock rejoined, he should think more than his share
to be at work all night, and sending malt out at three
or four o'clock in the morning. Fowler expressed his
ignorance of such a fact, when Badcock told him that
he had himself seen his horse and cart out at that early
hour, with two of his men. This circumstance caused
inquiries to be made, the result of which was that Bla-
grove was identified as one of the men who had been
seen with the cart, and he was taken into custody, when
he made statements which led to the detection of other
persons, his confederates in crime, and to the exposure
of as extraordinary a case of plunder carried on without
detection for the long space of six years as was ever pre-
sented before a court of justice. Blagrove is what is
called a general dealer. Jones and Pead were confiden-
tial servants to Miss Spendlove, a wealthy lady, who
has a large malting-house and brewery ; the Edneys and
Trinder being in the employ of Mr. Fowler.
It appears that large quantities of malt, hops, and
coals, were taken from the premises and consigned to
Blagrove,-who, with the assistance of the other prisoners
always managed to dispose of them, sometimes by re-
moving the property in boats down the river in the dead
of the night, taking it away in hired carts, or conveying
it to some hiding-place until opportunity occurred to
more profitably dispose of it. Blagrove purchased from
time to time the silence and assistance of his subordi-
nates by money, but it would seem did not find his chief-
tainship to be of a very enviable kind, as he was con-
tinually threatened by one or the other unless he yielded
to their pecuniary demands.
Strange and almost incredible as it may seem, Bla-
grove on several occasions absolutely had the impudence
and hardihood to sell the very property which- he had
stolen at the current marketable price to the parties of
whom it had been stolen.
Upwards of forty witnesses have been examined at
great length, but the above is an outline of the case,
which is now nearly brought to a conclusion, as far as
regards the preliminary inquiry. The evidence affect-
ing Mr. Miller is chiefly his own statement, made in
the presence of the other prisoner, which is as follows:—
William Miller—l am a brewer in St. Ebbe's-street,
Oxford. I have known Blagrove since the 27th of Ja-
nuary last, when he came to my brewery and inquired
for me. I was not at home, but he showed my brewer a
sample of malt which he was selling. He called again
when I was at home, and produced some malt in a
sample bag which he said he would sell me cheap, and
that I should have five quarters for 131. I said, I thought
I had sufficient malt by me, but I would give bim
121. los. for it. He said he could not take that, but
ultimately agreed to do so, saying that Mr. Evans would
give more for it, but he (Blagrove) wanted ready money.
I went with him, my man, and a horse and cart to the
Folly bridge wharf, where the malt was measured. The
first bushel was very filthy, and I said it bad not been
screened at all. I said to Blagrove, " I think there is
something wrong, are you sure you are doing right in
selling me this?" He replied- he was, " for he had it
from a man who owed him money, and he had to take
it in the dust, or he would not have got it at all."
The whole of the malt was about ten sacks, which was
taken on my truck to my malthouse in St. Aldate's,
by Jackson, my man. I paid Blagrove in gold arid sil-
ver. It was about eleven o'clock in the morning when
this occurred. There was a man with Blagrove, to whom,
I think, he gave part of the money. On the 29th of
July Blagrove came to my malthouse again, and said
he nad a pocket of hops and some malt he would sell
me ; would Igo and look at it ? I went with him
to the Anchor Inn, and saw the malt in the stable.
I asked how much there way. He said, "Five quarters
and a half, and a pocket of hops." He asked me 24/.
for the lot. I refused to buy them, and went home. lie
followed me, and said, if I would buy them he would
have a few barrels of beer, as he thought he could get
me a customer or two in Abingdon. After a few words
a bargain was struck that I should have them for 21/.;
Blagrove to nave a barrel and a half of ale and one
barrel of strong beer, the remainder to be paid in cash.
I then went with him and my man to the Anchor, and
fetched away the malt and hops in my truck. While we
were removing Blagrove said, " Have you any silver'
Mr. Miller?" I said, " Yes." He said, " Will you
give me half-a-crown?—l want it to pay the hostler for
warehouse room." I did so, and took the malt and
hops home to my brewery. I gave Blagrove a cheque
on Messrs. Wootton's bank for 151. 155., and he was to
let me know when he would have the beer. He after-
wards sent word that he would take three barrels of
beer, which made a difference of 48. 6d. in favour of
Blagrove, to whom I afterwards sent the beer and
4s. 6d. by Mr. Payne's waggon. This bargain was re-
duced to writing, and signed by Blagrove, on a blank
leaf of my brewing-book, and I have now a copy of it.
These were the only two transactions I had with Bla-
grove. I did not understand how long the malt and
hops had been at the Anchor, but from seeing him pay
half-a-crown for the warehouse room, I thought it had
been there some time. _ _

AMERICAN AFFAIRS.
NEW YORK, OCT. 31.—We are in the midst of preli-
minary arrangements for a strongly contested election in
this state. On Tuesday, the 3d of November, the con-
test is to be decided. Both parties profess to be san-
guine. Ten days since I considered the chance of the
Locofoco candidate for Governor decidedly the best, and
I so stated in my letter to you; but I have changed my
opinion as to the result with te change of the times. I
now belieie that the Whig candidate, John Young, has
the best chance of success, and that he will be elected
Governor of the State of New York.
The Governor, however, is not the great prize for
which the political parties are contending. The ques-
tion—and the important question—is, who shall have a
majority of the Members of Congress from this state ?
Because, in the next House of Representatives the tariff
will be under consideration, and the men to be elected
next Tuesday will have to vote on that question. Be-
sides, from the convulsed state of parties, it is highly
probable that the next President will be designated by
the Congress now being chosen.
If no one candidate for the office of President of the
United States has a majority of all the electoral votes
given, then the House of Representatives, in Congress
assembled, shall proceed to elect a President, voting by
states; that is to say, each state in the union shall have
one vote, and no more. A majority of the representa-
tives in each state shall decide the vote of the state.
Thus, you perceive, Delaware, with only one representa-
tive, has the same power in deciding this question that
New York has with her thirty-four representatives. Of
the thirty-four representatives, I think the Whigs will
have a majority.
About one-third of the whole number of states have
already chosen their members of Congress. In not one of
the states who have voted has the Locofoco party gained
a member; but, on the contrary, in the ten states which
have elected; while the Whigs haea_ained ten, their
opponents have lost fourteen members
In the present Congress the LocOfocos have, from
Maine, Vermont, Missouri, Illinois, Arkanias, Georgia,
South Carolina, Florida, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, 55
members, and the Whigs 27 members ; while in the
same States (the elections having been held) the Loco-
focos have 41 members and the Whigs 37. So far as
the elections have progressed these are the results.
The public journals which accompany this letter will
afford you ample details of the movement of the Ameri-
can army. Since my last letter nothing of any importance
has been heard from General Taylor ; but, as the Pre-
sident has ordered him to disannul the armistice which
he entered into with General Ampudia, we may shortly
anticipate some important movement in that quarter.
During the last 48 hours our city has been filled with
rumours, on which little reliance can be placed. It is
said that General Santa Anna had arrived at Saltillo
with an army of 13,000 troops, which, added to those
under Ampudia, would embody a force exceeding 20,000
men. No confidence, or very little, is placed in this
rumour. General Santa Anna may have left the city
of Mexico, but not with an effective force of more than
4,000 bayonets.
A Mexican brig of war, while lying in the port of
Mazatlan, was captured by five launches from the Ame-
rican sloop of war Warren. As soon as the Mexicans
discovered that they were to be attacked, they aban-
doned their vessel and fled.
On the meeting of Congress early in December, it is
generally supposed that the tariff of 1846 will e as-
saulted. If it is, there is not the least prospect of suc-
cess. And every attempt to procure a repeal, or a
Senate. The tariff
House,
which is highly
improbable,
material alteration, will be defeated. Even if a Bill for
theein the
such purpose
it
would
be
pass
question may therefore be considered settled for at least
18 months to come. lust
Congress at their last session authorised the calling
out 50,000 volunteers to invade Mexico. Subsequently
25,000 were deemed ample, and their services to that
extent were accepted. After the three actions that have
been fought, the last the capture of Monterey, the im-
pression became general that the remaining 25,000
would be forthwith ordered into service. We are now
told, however, that no further requisition will be made
until after Congress have convened. This notification is
given demi-officially, and has excited much inquiry and
conversation in certain Administration circles. Every
citizen gives his own explanation of the case. A majo-
the American army is already sufficiently strong to effect
rity seem to consider that no further call is made because
the object the Government has in view. I have a dif-
ferent opinion, which I will give you.
The question recurs—What is the reason that the
President does not make a demand upon the several
states for an additional volunteer force? My reply is,
because the Government is not prepared with the neces-
sary funds to meet such an event. When the war com-
menced there was in the Treasury 12,000,000 dolls. un-
employed, with a tariff in operation producing at least
half a million of dollars per month more than all the de-
mands upon the Tteasury in time of peace. In addition
to which Congress authorised the issuing 10,000,000 of
Treasury notes, bearing an interest of 6 per cent., or
10,000.000 of 6 per cent. stock. It is not yet six months
since the war expenditures commenced, and what is the
state of the Treasury? The 12,000,000 of surplus is
expended—the whole of the revenue collected since
May is gone—about 3,000,000 of Treasury notes have
been issued—and a war debt of at least 20.000,000 dolls.
has been contracted and remains unpaid,
to meet which
the Government has a little short of 3,000,000 dolls. ;
thus showing an actual expenditure of 40,000,000 dulls.
in less than six months.
Now, what- is to be done in the next six months ? The
revenue is decreasing, while the expenditures are in-
creasing. Money must be obtained by loans. Here I
pause—the subject is too delicate for comment. I will
only add, our capitalists, in general, are unwilling to
lend money to prosecute an unnecessary war of aggres-
sion and invasion, while they would cheerfully advance
not only millions, but hundreds of millions of dollars,
to defend their native land, and their own firesides.
This subject shall be further noticed hereafter.
I repeat what I said in my last in relation to flour.
On the arrival of the steamer it took a rise of 50 to 75
cents. per barrel, but has fallen 25 to 30 cents. per barrel
The market has been heavy during the past week.
Flour is now 5 85-100 to 5 95-100 per barrel. We
have yet a large surplus on hand, which must be
exported. .

ROMAN TIC AFFAIR.

NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSLi.
• ANCE SOCIETY,
26, CORNIIILL, LONDON.

Capital S-500,000.
mpowered by Act ef Parliament.
Zith res,,7_,,itiltion embraces important and 3ubstantial advantages
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ttlre Of :c-444715, the power to borrow, without expense or for-
e" the .",! Polley, two-tkirds of the Dremiuras paid (see Table) ;
tc3ts le i,l-1,,t1,111 Of selecting benefits, and the conversion of his ia-
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FORGERY.-FIFTY GUINEAS REWARD.
Whereas JOHN MORSE, late Deputy-Postmaster of Barnet,
in the county of Hells, (where he carried on the business of a Chy-
nist and Druggist) stands charged with FORGERY, and has ab-
sconded. Ile is about 35 years of age, 5 feet 8 inches high, slight
made, light hair, thin whiskers, fair complexion, thin face, several
of his front upper teeth are broken, the cartilage of his nose is very
thin and more than usually extended below the nostrils. Ile is sup-
posed to be accompanied b 3 a female.
Whoever will give such information as may lead to the apprehen-
sion of the said JOHN MORSE, shall be entitled to a reward of
FIFTY GUINEAS, payable on conviction.
Apply to M. B. Peacock, Esq., Solicitor to the General Post-office,
London.
General Post-office, Nov. 4, 1846.

DITISION OF PROFITS.
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TIARIVICH and EASTERN COUNTIES
JUNCTION RAILWAY AND PIER,
FROM HARWICH TO THE EASTERN UNION RAILWAY AT

ARD LE IGH.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN.
That application is intended to be made to Parliament in the en-
suing session for an Act to authorise the construction of a railway,
with all proper wharfs, stations, and conveniences connected there-
with, commencing within, the port or harbour of the borough of Har-
wich, In the county of Essex, at or near Bath Side, and at or near a
certain street or road called or known as Out-part of town westward,
both in the parish of Saint Nicholas, Harwich, in the said borough,
and terminating by two several junctions with' the Eastern Union
Railway, one at or near a farm called Home Farm, in the occupation
of Edward Abbott, and the other at or near the Ardleigh Station of
the said Eastern Union Railway, both in the parish of Ardleigh, in
the said county of Essex ; and also to authorise the erection, con-
struction, and maintenance of a pier or jetty within the said port or
harbour of the said borough of Harwich, in the said county of Essex,
in connection with such railway ; and which intended railway, pier,
or jetty, and the wharfs, works, stations, and conveniences connec-
ted therewith, will pass from, in, through, or into the several pa-
rishes, townships, and extra-parochial places hereinafter mentioned,
some or all of them, that is to say—Saint Nicholas Harwich, Lower
Dovercourt, Upper Dovercourt, Little Oakley, Great Oakley,
Ramsey, Wrabness, Wicks Green, Wicks, otherwise Wickes, other-
wise Wix, Bradfield, Watley, Manningtree, Little Bromley, Great
Bromley, Lawford, and Ardleigh, all in the said county of Essex.
AND NOTICE IS HEREBY FURTHER GIVEN,
That duplicate plans and sections, describing the line or situa-
tion and levels of the said intended railway and pier or jetty and
works, and describing also the lauds proposed to be taken far
the purposes aforesaid, together with books of reference to such
plans containing the names of the owners or reputed owners,
lessees or reputed lessees, and occupiers of the said lands, will be
deposited, on or before the Thirtieth day of November instant, with
the Clerk of the Peace for the said county of Essex, at his office
at Chelmsford, in the said county ; and that a copy of so much of
the said plans, sections, and books of reference as relates to each of
the parishes in or through which the said railway and pier or jetty
and works are intended to pass or to be made, will be deposited on or
before the said Thirtieth day of November instant, with the Parish

For
Whole Life,

Jerks of such parishes respectively.
And It is also intended to take powers in the said Act to make
iateral deviations from the line or lines of the said proposed railway
and pier, or jetty, wharfs, works, and stations, to such extent as will
be defined in the said plans, and to cross, alter, divert, or stop up
such turnpike roads, parish roads, and other highways, streams,
rivers, water-courses, navigations, canals, and railways, witnin the
several parishes, townships, and extra-parochial places before men-
tioned, or such of them as it may be necessary to cross, alter, divert,
or stop up for the purposes of the said railway, pier, and works.
And it is also proposed by the said intended Act to incorporate a
company for constructing and carrying into effect the said railway
and pier, or jetty, wharfs, works, stations, and conveniences, with
powers to purchase lands and houses by compulsion or agreement for
the purposes thereof, and with powers to levy tolls, rates, and duties, in
respect of the said railway and pier, or jetty, wharfs, works, stations,
and conveniences, and to grant such exemptions from such tolls,
rates, and duties, as to such company shall seem meet.
And it is also intended to vary or extinguish all existing rights
and privileges connected with the lands, houses, and other property,
SO to be purchased, or which would in any manner impede or in-
terfere with the construction, maintenance, or use, of the said in-
tended railway and pier, or jetty wharfs, works, stations, and
conveniences, and to confer other rights and privileges in respect
thereof.
And it is further proposed by the said intended Act to enable the
Cofnpany thereby to be incorporated to sell, transfer, let, or lease,
the said intended railway and pier, or jetty, wharfs, works, and
stations, or any part thereof, to any other Company, and to autho-
rise such other Company to purchase or rent the same, and generally
to inter into and carry into effect such arrangements in reference
thereto as may be mutually agreed upon between, the said two Com-
panies.
Dated this Fourth day of NovembßOer, 1846.
URDILLON and SONS,
Great Winchester-street, London.

HAR WICH DOCK S.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,
That application is intended to be made to Parliament in the en-
suing session for leave to bring in a Bill or Bills to obtain an Act or
Acts for making and maintaining a dock or docks, with all proper
piers, quays, bridges, basins, yards, wharfs, warehouses, buildings,
and other works and conveniences connected therewith, and all
necessary aid convenient entrances thereto, from the rivers Orwell,
otherwise Orrell, and Stour, into the said dock or docks, and which
said dock or docks and works will be situated in the several parishes
or places hereinafter mentioned, some or all of them, that is to say,
Saint Nicholas Harwich, in the borough or town of Harwich, Dover-
court cam Harwich, Devercourt, and Ramsey, all In the county of,
Essex, and within or near to the port or harbour of Ham tch afore-
said.
And it is also intended to apply, by the said Bill or Bills, for power
to alter or divert any turnpike road or roads, highway or highways,
in the said parishes or places ; or some or one of them, to the extent
shown or intended to be shown on the maps or plans and sections to
be deposited as hereinafter mentioned ; and also to divert such rivers,
streams, drains, canals, navigation, waters, a or running and to alter
and divert such roads, ways, and paths within the said parishes and
places aforesaid, as may be required to be diverted or altered for the'
proper construction of such docks and works as aforesaid. And
notice is hereby given, that it is intended to apply for powers to in-
corporate a company or companies for the purpose of carryin,, the
same undertaking into effect, and to authorise the levying,
taking,
receiving, and collecting of tolls, dues, rates, duties, and sums of
money, in respect of the use of the said docks and works, and to take
powers for the compulsory purchase of messuages, lands, houses,
tenements, and hereditaments for the purposes aforesaid.
And it is further intended to vary, repeal or extinguish all existing
rights, privileges, or easements, in any manner connected with the
messuages, lands, houses, tenements, and hereditaments, to be taken
for the purposes aforesaid, and to confer other rights and privileges
in respect thereof.
And it is farther proposed by the said intended Act to enable the
Company thereby to be incorporated to sell, transfer, let, or lease
the said intended docks and works, or any part thereof, to any other
company, and to authorise such other company so to p
nt urchase or s eat
the same, and generally to enter into and carry io effect such
arrangements in reference thereto as may be mutually agreed upon
between the said two companies.
AND NOTICE Id ALSO HEREBY GIVEN,
That on or before the thirtieth day of November, in the present
year, plans and sections of the .proposed works, with duplicates of
the same, and books of reference thereto, containing the names of
the owners, or reputed owners, lessees, or reputed lessees, and occu-
piers of the lands proposed to be taken for the purposes thereof, will
be deposited for public inspection with the Clerk of the Peace for th
said county of Essex, at his office at Chelmsfo rd, In the same county;
and that on or before the said thirtieth day of Novem er, a copy of
so much of the said plans and sections, together with a book of refer-
ence thereto, so far as relates to each of
are several paintended to be
rishes in or
tht ough which the said works, or any part thereof,
made, will be deposited for public inspection with the Parish Clerk of
each such parish at his place of abode,
Dated this 9th day orNovember, 1846.
G. K. POLLOCK, 19, Essex-street, Strand.

'The money-market continues steady, with a very mo-
derate demand.
—limes

The evidence implicating Evans was that of
Samuel Tyte, formerly hostler to Mr. Crozier, of the
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Bwiaas.
Bpulitigiirnotoresaberii(isig,
Wheatsheaf Inn, St. Aldate's, Oxford, who remembered
ntimt ha el t
grove. The malt thus brought was fetched away by
Mr. Evans's people. Evans used to come when Blagrove
was there, but had never seen him at any other time.
Whiteing, the carrier, sometimes brought malt there for
Evans. It was generally removed the same day. Bla-
grove brought a horse and cart there, with four sacks of
malt, about six months ago. Witness never remem-
bered hops being brought there but once, obout five years
ago. Blagrove always paid him for his trouble. There
were never less than two sacks brought at "a time. Should
think about twenty quarters had been brought there
altogether. Witness never knew any one except Mr.
,Joel Evans's men take away the malt brought by
Blagrove.
John Hambidge and Richard Brooks deposed to similar
facts ; and Whiteing, the Oxford and Abingdon carrier,
proved having taken malt in sacks to the Wheatsheaf for
Blagrove and Evans.
The prisoner Blagrove questioned all the witnesses in
the most impudent manner, interlarding his questions
with such :expressions as, " what a pretty figure you'll
"
cut before the judge, if you go with that tale ;" I
won't be transported by myself : we'll have it right; ni
draw others into it as well." Addressing the witness
Tyte, on Friday, he said, " I'll keep you here until 10
o'clock at night. I'll put it in you worth the money
to-morrow. I'll give it
you ou tidy. If yobeu swear until
sh yoallu
are black in the face, y will only li I
stand up before the judge from morning till night, so I
tells ye."
John liazell deposed, that Blagrove bad frequently
the
hired his horse and cart at a very early hour in
morning to remove malt, which he told him on one occa-
sion came from Miss Spendlove's, but there was so much
there that it would not be missed.
It is calculated that Blagrove has plundered to the
amount of several hundred pounds.
Mr. Brunner, solicitor of Oxford, made application
to admit Miller to bail, as he was prepared with sureties
to the amount of 5,000/. or 6,000/. ; but under present
circumstances the magistrates did not feel justified in
doing so.

A GENEVESE TRAVELLER.

DUTCH AND GERMAN PAPERS.

-------------_____ _
' FIE GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY.
CONTRACTS FOR RAILS.
The Committee of Works will meet on WEDNESDAY, December 16,
1846, at Twelve o'clock, noon, precisely', at the Com
of 35,pan TONS of
Offices,
for the purpose of receiving Tenders for the suppy 000
WROUGHT IRON RAILS (more or less).
Parties desirous of tendering for the supply of the above may ob-
tain all particulars of form, dimensions, quality, place and time of de-
livery, and Conditions or Tender and Contract, on application at the
Office of Mr. Joseph Cubitt, C.E., 2, Great George-street, West-
minster, and of Sir. John Miller, C.E.. 132, George-street, Edinburgh,
or at the Company's Offices, on and after MNDAY, 16th Nov. inst.
Parties will also be at liberty topropose O
terms and conditions for
the supply of the quantity of Rails required for the WHOLE LINE,
amounting to about 75,000 TONS, to be furnished at Intervals during
the period of its formation, in the next two years,lB47 and 1848.
N.B.—The Committee do not engage to accept the lowest tender.
By order, J. It. MOWATT, Secretary.
Company's Offices, 7, Lothbury, London, Nov. 11, 1846.
----------

BERLIN, Nov 3.—Letters from Schwerin have been
received here, which state thatkthe Grand Duke is in-
deed personally inclined to the accession of this country
to the Zolverein, but the realisation of the step meets
with important and almost irresistible obstacles.
CTZLE, Nov. s.—Yesterday the Duke and Duchess of
Saxe-Altenburg, with the Princesses, their daughters,
arrived at the palace here. The Crown Prince and
Princess went to meet them as far as Lehrte, and re-
turned with them. It is said that his Majesty the King
will shortly honour Celle with his presence, and spend
some days with his illustrious relatives and children.
FROM NORTH GERMANY, Nov. 4.—We hear that ne •
gotiations have already commenced between Prussia and
llanover, for the purpose of concluding some arrange-
ments in common respecting trade and navigation. The
President of the Board of Trade, Boerne, and Baron
von Patow, are said to be very active in these negotia-
tions, on the part of Prussia, and interest themselves in
favour of differential duties, because in their opinion
these duties can only raise the commerce of Germany to
Ethneglhaingdh:heswetdicehgree of prosperity. Under these circum-
stances,commercialwilish coorntivyenextipoinreb,ewtwilelemn
oPsrtupsrsoiabaabnlyd
not be renewed on the present footing.
FRONTIERS OF GALLICIA, NOV. I.—According to the
latest accounts from Galicia, the state of things in that
country is still very unsatisfactory. It is said that four
regiments of infantry, and a battalion of jagers, will
nd these
Than
frome
shortly be seat tr reinforce the troops in Galicia. We
are informed from Czarnowitz, the capital of Bukowina,
that the emissaries of Panslavonism have appeared there,
nan
jos s encouragement
ries.
a
but were immediatelyiarrested.:They endeavoured to gain
tendtheed
Galicia, and
public of that country, who took no part in the late me-
lancholy events inwho probably saw
through the plans of t e e
be noth.
partizans, but met withh
emissaries of the Io is Propaganda, who, by
guised Panslavists are thought to ,r h ing more than dis-
their intentoifoßcoorfnin:oklosifen,saenthd ,
g the pro-
d avoured to co •
alpromise Rus-
ptember,
Nov. s.—According to certain'
FROM THE RHINE, in-
formation, the importation
to the e, nd a
notice willprobably flour,-
duty free, is know granted
openlyts eiacnti on
Cabinet. coof confessing
Russia,si ng e
n e
be pub-
lished. (Is it only for Rhenish Prussia,
or in a few day s.
' co,
or for other prom ?)
7._
The following
COPENHAGEN,
that it is pr Iflib.
Nov.
Chancery : His
ilis,,la notice has
been published by thf
anfdorththaet
under date of the Majesty
thishas
been pleased to signiy,
1847, and the necessary
Hwahmicbhur
is here
hNeerueeZeltu d
o i i ite in the
month, to the Chancery,
forbidden to send an official ‘
the authorities are
which the may ' •
'cation to that paper, . . yinsert in some
mum
other Hamburgh
paper,ublic. nannouncedg '
information of the p
pr Nov 5 ls 4
1 Danish Chaim 3', •• , 6.
" Roya 4, STEMANN, 0 RSTE,
(Signed)
kingdom to take in the
BEUTZEN, HOLLEN,
ALYREEN USSING."

THE GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAYS.
CONTRA.C'TS FOR SLEEPERS.
The Committee of Works will meet on WEDNESDAY, December 16,
1846, at Twelve o'clock at noon precisely, for the purpose of receiv-
ing Tenders, for the supply of 500,000 MEMEL FIR SLEEPERS,
(more or less.)
Parties desirous of tendering for the supply of the above, may
obtain all particulars of Dimensions, Quality, Places, and Time of
llelivery, and conditions of Tender and Contract, on application at
the Office of Mr. Joseph Cuhitt, C.E., 2, Great George-street, West-
minster, and Mr. John Miller, C.E., 132, George-street, Edinburgh ;
er at the Company's Offices, on and after MONDAY, November 16,
instant.
N.B.—The Committee do not engage to accept the lowest tender.
(By order) J. R. MOWATT, Secretary.
Company's Offices, 7, Lothbury, London, Nov. 11, 1846.

CAUTION TO TRADESMEN.—lnformation was on
Friday last communicated at the City and metropolitan
pol;ce stations of the successful repetition of a fraud,
which it had been hoped the exposure of a similar trick
some time since practised in the Blackfriaes-road, would
have saved tradesmen, using ordinary caution, from
" being victimized" by. It appears that at twenty mi-
nutes past ono o'clock on Friday, a man, having the
appearance of a gentleman, drove up
in a gig to the
drapery shop of Messrs. Early and Townsend, 324, High
Holborn, and ordered six cambric handkerchiefs, which
he expressed a wish to have hemmed. This was under-
taken to be accomplished, and paid a deposit of ten
shillings, stating that he would call for the articles on
the following day. He was about leaving the establish-
ment, when, with great naivete, he turned to one of the
proprietors, Mr. W. T. Early, and observed that he,was
anxious to remit a sum of 81. to Whitechapel, and having
nothing but gold about him, requested to be favoured
with a cheque for that amount. Mr. Early acceded,
gave a cheque for 81. on his bankers, Messrs. Rogers,
Olding and Co., Clement's-lane, City, and received from
his customer eight sovereigns. The impudent scoundrel
then left, and, it has since transpired that within twenty
minutei after his departure the cheque was presented at
the banker's, but altered in its amount from 81. to 801.
In the absence of all suspicion, the cheque for the larger
amount was paid by the cashier, and, with eighty sove-
reigns, the amount of his plunder, the victimiser escaped.
It is satisfactory to know that he can be identified ; but,
as a warning to the public, we give his description—he
lis about twenty-five years of age, his height about five
feet three or four inches, pale complexion, light brown
hair, no whiskers, and he was dressed in a dark green
great coat, black neckcloth, and hat. The gig he drove
was painted dark, and the edlour of the hone Was grey,

Tan ST..6,ThE.--The intention of removing the statue
of the Duke of Wellington fFom the probationary position
it now occupies on tne triuniphal arch at Hyde Park-
corner to some more suitable site has already been noticed
in the newspapers, and it has been all but positively as-
serted that this deposition of the. statue is in consequence
of the express desire of her Majesty. We are assured
that there are no grounds whatever for this statement,
and that the determination for the removal of the statue
has been come to by the Government before the Queen
had ever seen it. What the personal opinions of the
Severeign on the subject may be, we neither know nor
have we the means of ascertaining ; but if we did pos-
sess such knowledge, we should not deem it a proper
subject for public discussion. The resolution, be it well
or ill advised, is that of the Government, and for it they
alone are responeible.--Olverver.

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LON DON, MONDA Y

ANOTHER FEMALE SAILOR.—On Saturday, at the
Lambeth Police-court, as the business was nearly dis-
posed. of, Maria Rosina Cook, a young woman, dressed
in the garb of a sailor, was brought in, and placed at
the bar before the Hon. G. C. Norton, on a charge of
attempting,to destroy herself by swallowing a quantity
of laudanum.
John Constable, 43 L, deposed that about ten o'clock
on that day, while on duty at the Tower-street station-
house, a person cam? in, and requested his immediate
attendance at a coffee-house in the Waterloo-road, where
a young sailor had poisoned himself. He instantly pro-
ceeded to the house, and, finding the prisoner in a sleepy
state, he went in pursuit of a medical man. The first
shop he went into he was asked if it was not a young
sailor, who had destroyed himself ? and, on asking them
why they should know the fact, they told him that a
young sailor had been there a short time before to re-
quest three-pennyworth of laudanum, but they refused
to serve him. He subsequently removed the prisoner to
Guy's Hospital, when the stomach pump was used, and
she became • sufficiently recovered . to take her to the
station-house, when he had the charge booked against
her. From the statement she had made to him (the
constable), it appeared that she was the daughter of a
respectable veterinary surgeon, residing at Clutton,
Somerietshire, and having become enamoured of a pri-
vate soldier belonging to the 37th Regiment of Foot, she
had left her home, and had latterly lived at Chatham,
where her lover was quartered. The regiment had lat-
terly been ordered on foreign service, and was about to
sail for Ceylon, and prisoner, discovering that the object of
her affections was to proceed thither by the ship Minerva,
lying in the East India Dock, she sold her female appa-
rel, at a great sacrifice, and purchased the sailor's clothe
she then had on. She then went to the registry for
seamen, and procured a registry note in the name of
David Cook. She next went on board the Minerva and
offered herself to
.the captain as a cabin boy, but to her
great mortification found that the captain had shipped
all hands on board and therefore did not require her
services. Foiled in her object in accompanying her
lover she had resolved upon committing suicide, and her
first intention was to have thrown herself off one of the
bridges ; this she should have done, she said, had she
not been told by a sailor boy that she brought with her
from Chatham that the Thames was -so excessively
crowded with craft that the probabilities were that she
would drop on to one of them, break her bones, and die
a lingering death. She then made up her mind to take
poison, and procured a small quantity of poison at
different shops, all of which she swallowed off with some
coffee, before the constable found her. The witness
here handed to the Bench a letter, which Mr. Norton
read, and of which the following is a copy:—
" Dear Thomas,—l have overstepped the bounds of
prudence and modesty, in hopes of being able to reach
Ceylon with you. I have put on boy's apparel and come
to this sink of iniquity, London, to enter the " Minerva"
as a boy, but when I got here, the captain had shipped
all his hands. I have tried to get on board several ves-
sels, but cannot, on account of not being able to find
money enough to provide enough of clothes to get to
sea. I have sold all my own to get what I have on, and
have no money to get others. I have no friends here,
no place to go to—but I cannot blame anybody but my-
self! Think of me no more, Thomas, as it is useless—
you will never see nor hear from me again. Remember,
me to Harriet and Charles. Don't make yourself un-
easy about me. I have no more to say, but remain
yours, till death,

OPENING OF THE TUNNEL AT

EfNesMtivAeEceNlebßrAa:fin
consequen • upon
Our report of thr
(From the Carnarvon and Denbigh Herald.)
the opening of the railway tunnel through Penmaen
Bach will be perused with deep interest.
Next to the erection of a bridge
over the Menai Straits,
that should be in every respect unobjectionable, the cut-
ting through the hard rock of a promontory, so formid-
able as Penmaen Bach, was considered to be the greatest
difficulty in the construction of the entire line. Yet now
—and, as will be seen, in less than half the time origin-
ally contemplated as necessary—an opening has been
effected through the very heart of the hill.
Operations, thus successfully outstripping even the
quick march of ardent expectation and sanguine hope,
are deserving of marked encomium ; and, we feel as-
sured that neither the enterprising will that undertook
the task, the engineering mind that presided over the
operations necessary to effect it, nor the steady untiring
toil by which it has been accomplished, can be too
warmly eulogised. Contractor, engineers, and men, ore
alike deserving of all praise.
The tunnel is a curve of about six hundred and thirty
yards in length, being the arc of a circle of half a mile in
radius. In other words its curve is between one-eighth
and one-ninth of a circle a mile across—its curvature is
therefore very gradual—in fact so gradual as to look like
a straight line when inspected in detail from within. The
span of,the tunnel is ample, and its sides and roof are well
and finely hewn, so as to present no unsightly ridges, or
suggest the least idea of danger. The stone is hard, solid
masonry of nature's own cementing—gigantic basaltic
blocks, the anhydrous fused result of the creative power
that has pervaded the bygone eternity : and their hard-
ness and intractability formed the prime difficulty in the
undertaking. This difficulty was much increased by the
impossibility .of constructing shafts er openings from
above. None but lateral openings could be brought to
bear. Five openings, however, were driven sideways
into the hill, and when the workings had reached that
length which was deemed to indicate a junction with the
line of the tunnel, double sets of men were put on to
work away right and left. The result evinced the ac-
curacy of the observations that had been made ; and
practice showed the truth of the theory that guided it.
In all the parts the working proved correct, the different
gangs meeting without the slightest fault. Air and
daylight are now dancing in the bosom of the mountain,
holding their railway jubilee.
The completion of the work is going on with vigour,
for Mr. Cropper is not a man to rest too long upon his
oars ; and we trust that the period will not be remote at
which we shall have again the pleasing task of inspect-
ing the perforated hill to report the full completion of
its tunnel.

"M. R. COOK.

" London, November 14, 1846."
Charles White said he was in a coffee-house in
Waterloo-road that forenoon, and perceiving a strong
smell of laudanum, he looked about to see if any person
was taking any. Immediately after he saw the prisoner
with her hand on the table, and in a drowsy state. He
shook her up and asked her if she had taken anything,
and she replied that she had swallowed poison. He then
sent for the constable, and the prisoner was removed to
Guy's Hospital.
Mr. NORTON here remarked that he was not
aware that the laudanum would have so instantaneous
an effect upon a person taking it, and a medical gentle-
man present replied that it would not, particularly when
taken in coffee.
The constable said that the prisoner had acknowledged
to him that when she had taken the laudanum she was
so exhausted for want of rest, that she was scarcely able
to hold her head up. The fact, she said, was, that she
was so much alarmed about her sex being discovered
that from the time she had put on her present apparel
till the present she had not taken them off. On the
Friday night she engaged a bed for herself and the
sailor boy that was with her at the coffe-shop, and
rather than take her clothes off and go to bed she sat in
a chair all night.
In reply to the questions of Mr. Norton, she said she
had seen the soldier, Thomas Gardner, three years ago,
when he was with a recruiting party at Bristol; but she
bad not left her home until six months ago, when she
learned that he was in Newport, in Wales, and from
there she had accompanied him to Chatham. She
declared that it had been her fixed intention to destroy
herself, and was very sorry that she should have been
prevented; and added, that it was impossible to endure
greater torture than that which she had experienced for
the last three days.
The prisoner, who is in her 20th year, must have been
a very pretty girl, and who became the sailor's dress
exceedingly well, was ultimately remanded to a future
day to give time to communicate with her friends.

THE RELIEF WORKS in IRELAND.
The following is a statement of the number of persons
employed on public works fir the week ending the Bth
of November, 1846:
Carlow ... 182
Dublin ... 48
Kildare ... ... 240
Kilkenny ... ... 270
King's County ... 1,066
Longford ... ~. 2,134
Louth ... ... 2,452
Meath ... ... 4,576'
Queen's County ... 209
Westmeath ... 1,425
Wexford ... ... 1,929
Wicklow ... 67

Clare ... ... 23,899,
Cork ... 10,566
Cork City ... 199

Total

Kerry 1 ... ... ... 8,912
Limerick ... ... 18,282
Tipperary ... ... 9,718
Waterford . . ... 3,110

Antrim ... ... 520
Armagh... ... 107
'Cavan ... 1,379
Fermanagh ... 349
Monaghan 289

THE SANATORY CONDITION OF 1 VESTA' INST ER.
IMPORTAN T NOTICE.—On Saturday a very important
notice was issued by the churchwardens and governors
of the poor of the united parishes of St. Margaret and
St. John, Westminster, which will have a most salutary
effect in that most densely-populated part of West-
minster. The churchwardens state their intention of
strictly carrying out the provisions of an Act of Parlia-
ment passed in August last, and they have appointed an
inspector for that purpose. The Act in question gives
the power to the churchwardens, upon the certificate of
two medical men that a nuisance by drains, cesspools,
or filth, which may be dangerous to the public 'health,
exists in any lane, court, street, alley, or dwelling-house
or building, to summon the parties before two of her
Majesty's justices of the peace, who, upon being satis-
tied of the existence of either of the above offence!,, have
authority to order the same to be removed, and the
dwelling, &c., to be whitewashed, cleansed, or the
nuisance abated in whatever way they may direct. This
is to be done within a time enacted by the justices, and
if not completed in that period the magistrates can em-
power the persons laying the complaint, by themselves
or their servants, to enter the premises, and have all
needful cleansing done, or directing the removal of all
nuisances; and the Act provides that any one obstructing
them in this act will be a liable to a penalty of 10
and not less than O. for each offence. The second sec-
tion of the Act empowers the magistrate to give an
order for all the costs and expenses incurred in any
proceeding of the above nature, and upon non-payment
an order of distress is to be issued on the goods of the
owners or occupiers. When it is recollected the abodes
of filth and misery there are in the lowest parts of West-
minster, it will be seen what good can be effected by a
vigilant prosecution of this Act. Other parishes would
do well to follow the example. _

Galway ... 14,714
Leitrim ... 3,548
Mayo ... ... 13,149
Roscommon ... 20,106
Sligo ... ... 6,823

•.• ... •.• 150,268

STATE OF TRADE.

FOREIGN WOOL TRADE. —LEEDS, Nov. 13.—We
have no change to report In the foreign wool trade this
week, either as regards sales or prices.
ENGLISH WOOL MAREET.—LEEDS, Nov. 13.—Sales
of English wool have not varied materially for the last
few weeks. They are very small ; and confined to the
supply of the immediate requirements of the manufac-
turers. Prices are nominally the same as last week.

WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET. Nov. 12.—There has
been rather more doing in long wool this week which
has created a firmer feeling with holders, and late quo-
tations have been better sustained. Short wool is not
heavy in stock, and maintains its price, with an average
business doing in it.
TRADE OF LEEDS.--At our Cloth Halls, on Satur-
day, there was about an average quantity of goods sold,
in comparison with the markets of the last six weeks ;
but on Tuesday, there were more goods taken than for
some time ; on the whole, however, the markets rule

dull for the season, and the manufacturers complain
heavily of the want of profit. Prices are steady. Al-
the ugh there have not been many buyers in the town
this week, more goods have been delivered to the car-
riers than has been the case of late.

I lECKIT,NDWIKE BLANKET MARKET, Nov. 12.
There has been a good attendance of buyers en Monday
and to-day, and good samples were readily bought with-
out any alteration in prices.
BRADFORD MARKET, TRIIRSDAY, Nov. 12.—There
is no alteration in the demand tor wool. Stocks are
,ufficient and prices extremely firm. Spinners are
working completely up their stocks of wool, thinking
that prices will come down. For clothing wools there is
a fair demand. The yarn market is the same as it bas
been for two or three weeks past. The spinners are
considerably curtailing their productions. A good deal
of apprehension seems to exist in the spinning trade.
We have, however, this consolation, that to all present
appearances there never were so few black sheep in the
trade, and if the spinners and manufacturers are not just
now making fortunes, there is not that anxiety that we
have seen at this season respecting men's solvency.
There was a fair attendance of merchants in the mar-
ket, and an average business done. A great number of
manufactures are busy manufacturing goods with silk
stripes. Heavy goods, such as moreens, are in firm de-
mand—prices firm. A number of manufacturers have
heavy stocks in dress goods.
TRADE OF MANCHESTER, THURSDAY EVENING —OUT
cloth market has become exceedingly irregular, and also,
if anything, less business doing, though there are plenty
of manufacturers who are disposed to quit stock in the
face of a very large reduction in the produce. Very
good printing cloth is in fair demand, and the printers,
ou the whole, tolerably well employed. Every packet
from the United States brings extensive orders, other.
wise we should have been unusually flat and depressed.
The market, on the whole, closes anything but brisk.
Yarns are also heavy sale, but we think not lower, espe-
cially fur first qualities.

FALLING OF A RAILWAY BRIDGE.—A melancholy
catastrophe has occurred at Mortimer, near Reading,
occasioned by the falling in of a railway bridge recently
erected over the Berks and Hants branch line of the
Great Western Railway, now in the course of construc-
tion. The lives of three of the workmen employed on
the line have been sacrificed : their names are Charles
Bailey, Daniel Dibler, and Francis Kimber. Oft viewing
the spot, it was found that the ponderous mass of brick-
work had entirely given way, the ruins cf which a num-
ber of workman were engaged clearing away. It was
reported that the remains of other workmen would be
found baried in the ruins, but this has turned out to be
incorrect. Several workmen, however, are now lying in
a precarious condition owing to the accident. The par-
ticulars of this melancholy occurrence will be best given
from the information gathered in the neighbourhood,
and the evidence given at the inquests held on the un-
fortunate deceased. The inquest on Dibler and Kimber
was held on Friday evening, at the Royal Berkshire
Hospital, before Mr. J. J. Blandy, Coroner for Reading;
and that on Bailey, at the Horns, Mortimer, on the
same day, before Mr. R. Clarke, the county Coro-
ner. It appeared that for some weeks past the
arch had been pronounced to be in a dangerous
state, and in consequence, on the day previous to
the inquests, the deceased, in company with seve-
ral others, according to the testimony of a fellow-
workman named William Coston, who was the prin-
cipal witness at both inquests, were sent to remove the
bricks from the arch erected over the railway, and while
engaged in taking off the parapet wall at the top of the
archway, the arch suddenly gave way, and the deceased,
with others, fell in with the ruins. Bailey was not ex-
tricated till within half an hour afterwards, quite life-
less. Medical assistance was procured, and it was found
that there was, besides many bruises on his head, a
fracture of the skull. The cause of death was attributed
to suffocation. Dibler was taken out in ten minutes
after the occurrence in a state of insensibility, and was
taken to the hospital at Reading, a distance of eight
miles, bnt died within an hour after his admission. Mr.
James Dunn, house surgeon, made a post mortem exami-
nation of the body, and found the skull was fractured,
as well as the brain and nervous system injured, which
produced death. The other deceased, Kimber, survived
till the following morning (Friday), when he expired
after considerable bodily suffering. A verdict in each
case was returned of “ Accidental Death," but with-
outnot
some strong remarks from the jury on the culpablec.on.
neglect, as well as the responsibility of the railway
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TIIE DUCHY OF LANCASTER CONDLISSION.-With
reference to the paragraph which appeared in a morning
contemporary, relative to the formation of a permanent
committee for the control of the financial affairs of the
Duchy of Lancaster, we understand that the scheme had
been in contemplation for a considerable time previous to
the change of Ministry ; and that in thus assimilating
the practice to that in force in the Duchy of Cornwall,
the sole object was to ensure a full and competent super-
vision of the revenues without in any way interfering
with the political management or patronage of the
Duchy. The new Commissioners are Earl Spencer,
Lord Portman, Sir James Graham, and the Earls of
Hardwicke and Lincoln. Lord Campbell continues to
preside as Chancellor of the Duchy, with the exclusive
control of the patronage,—Observer.

FEARFUL CATASTROPIIE.—A number of workmen
were engaged on Saturday in shoring up and making
secure the shattered remnants of the Wheatsheaf public-
house, and Mr. Moore's toy-shop, Nos. 25 and 26,
Rathbone-place, Oxford-street. The excitement conse-
quent upon the falling of the two houses in Middle-row,
and the spacious building in the Old Jewry, had scarcely
subsided, when the inhabitants of the locality referred
to were dreadfully alarmed by the sudden and loud
crashings of timber, followed by an immense fall of
brickwork. &c., and succeeded by dense volumes of
dust. Mr. T. W. Bye, with his wife and two females were
in the bar at the time; and Mrs. Bye fainted away, but
was rescued through the presence of mind of her husband,
who carried her in his arms to the house of an opposite
neighbour. Immediately after the first creaking of the
timbers the two barmaids precipitately ran up stairs, in
order to save some little valuables belonging to them,
but they were met by such a mass of falling rafters and
bricks that they were compelled to make a hasty re-
treat. While this was going on in Mr. Bye's house, his
neighbour, Mr. Moore, was paralysed by the whole of
the basement story of his house giving way. He and
his family had a narrow escape, and they are all but
totally ruined by the calamity. Mr. Bye's house presents
a melancholy wreck. In the rear may be seen nearly
twenty-seven tons of what appears to be rubbish; but
perhaps the greatest thing to be lamented is, that buried
underneath are some of the finest originals of the first
masters. Amongst others is that of Lord Lovell and
the Duchess of Somerset. The district surveyor, Mr.
Baker, has been actively engaged in superintending the
safety of the neighbourhood, and has already condemned
five houses in the same locality. Mr. Bye's exertions
will be long remembered by his neighbours, and de-
servedly so. He has been a member of the vestry, and
filled some of the highest parochial offices; and to the
discharge, perhaps, of his public trust may be attributed
the presence of mind and nerve he displayed on this
alarming occasion.
WESTMINSTER ABBEY SPIRE, AND OTHER hl-
PROVEMENTS.—We do hope that Dr. Buckland, who is,
very properly, ever ready with suggestions for the re-
storation and amendment of other buildings, will now
look at home, and lend his aid, as Dean of Westmin-
ster, to improve the Abbey church. Let him get rid
of some of the monstrous specimens of bad stone-ma-
sonry which now disfigure and injure it, giving parts of
it the appearance of a statuary's show shop rather than
that of a Christian temple. The ancient monuments
should be carefully looked to and maintained,
and Henry Seventh's Chapel, both inside and outside,
requires immediate attention. As regards the construc-
tion of: the spire, we ought to be grateful that Wren,
great artist as he was in other respects, was not com-
missioned to effect it ; and almost equally so in the case
of James Wyatt, who in later times also reported upon
it. There would be much less chance of the removal of
an incongruous disfigurement, such as would certainly
have been placed there, than there is now of a spire beim-,
commenced. We would gladly contribute to remedy the
mischief Wren did at the west end.-17:e Builder.
HEREroup.—Mr. William H. Cooke, of the Ox-
ford circuit, has been appointed, by the Dean and Canons
of Hereford, to succeed the late Sir Charles Wetherell as
counsel to that cathedra

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