The Sun.
London, England, 1851-12-12 00:00:00

EVENING, DECEMBER 12) 1851.

FRIDAY

LITER ATURE.

GOLDEN DI?EAM S AND WAKING RE-

ALITIES. By William Shaw.
PAST AND FUTUIS:E EMIGRATION.
7HE SIX COLOZdES OF NEW ZEA-

LAND. By Williaan Fox.
The first of these works is the adventures of a gold
seeker in California and the Pacific Islands. The
author was in Adelaide .when he first heard the news
of the new El Dorado, for which he immediately
started ; he found the re ality, however, by no means
consistent with his golden dreams; and certainly the
volume before us affords no inducement even to the
most adventurous to try their fortunes in California.
The administration of justice seems particularly
faulty, as a murder is passed over almost unheeded.
The work is interesting from its details of what life
really is in that country.
" Past and Future Emigration" suggests many im-
provements in the arrangement of the Cape Settle-
ments, and precautions against the Kafirs. It is
edited by the authoress of " Five Years in Kafir-
land," which is alone a recommendation.
"The Six Colonies of New Zealand" contains
three chapters. The first a general description of
the islands ; the second on the natives; and the third
on the government. It is interesting and explicit,
and is supplied with a large and commodious map.

CHAMBERS' PAPERS FOR THE PEOPLE

Vols.. X. and XI.

These volumes contain their usual variety of sub-
jects for all readers. Among them may be noticed
" The Childhood of Experimental Philosophy,"
"Troubadours and Trouveres," and " Harriette ; or
the Rash Reply," an interesting tale. There is also
an article on Thomas Moore, though the author
scarcely renders justice to the poet.

PITCAIRN'S ISLAND and the ISLANDERS.
By Walter Brodie.
In the month of March, 1850, the author of this
work happened to be left on Pitcairn's Island. Four
of bis fellow-passengers were placed in the same con•
dition, and the hospitality of the islanders and their
attention to the travellers was so grea,t that the author
feels bound to make public this account of their
community, the materials for which he collected
when at the island. The volume contains " A true
copy of the Pitcairn's Island Register, from 1790 to
1850," and the reports to the Admiralty of several
commanders of ber Majesty's ships who have visited
it.' The author represents it as a virtuous and well-
conducted community, and considers that it may be
safely affirmed that they are free from the vices of
civilization, while their moral goodness is worthy of
our example.

KAMENSKI'S AGE OF PETER THE GREAT;
with Notes a and Preface. By T. van Golovin.
This work contains sketches of the chief Russians
of the time of Peter the Great. They are well written,
and contain much information connected with the
period of the reign of that monarch.

NAVAL INT) 3LLIGE:IICE.
We stated on Wednesda:r that it was the intention
of the Admiralty to form bra:ateb establishment for
gunnery instruction at De vo;port. We may now
state that the charge of this dervice has been entrusted
to one of the best office--S in the service, Captain
Hewlett, who was Pr`dmoted from the Excellent.
That officer has been, appointed to the Hotspur fri-
gate; and with a so,all staff and complement from the
parent ship will at once commence duty. It is to be
hoped, however, ere long an efficient sea-going screw-
ship will be appropriated to this important and valu-
able service.,
Lieuter.ant T. P. Bar: ow (1825) has been appointed
to take charge of the Edward transport.
Lietlienant the tlon. P. Curzon (1843) has been
appointed to the royal yacht Victoria and Albert.
DEATH OF A DISTINGUISHED VETERAN.—The
n'Avy will regret to hear that one of the oldest and
tnost distinguished veteran seamen of the war—one of
the finest, best, and most skilful boatswains that ever
occupied that position in the royal service—the man
who, under compulsion, hoisted the red flag at the
breaking out of the general mutiny at Spithead, and
the gallant young seaman who, when the Ad-
miral's flag was shot away on board the Royal
George, in the battle of the "glorious first of June,"
recovered the lost colours and nailed them to the
stump of the broken mast—" William Burke," the
man who was presented to his late Majesty, when
Lord High Admiral, as the " first practical seaman
in the world"—this veteran, who was in the active
service of the Crown for more than sixty years, who
was respected by every one who knew him, from the
flag officer to the cabin boy, and who retired some
years since as boatswain of Devonport Dockyard, died
on Wednesday last at his residence, Caroline-place,
Stonehouse, in the 83d year of his age.
Rear-Admiral Reynolds. C. 8., in the Southamp-
ton, 50, Captain Corry, having been relieved at
Monte Video, by Rear-Admiral Henderson, C. 8., in
the Centaur, 6, steam-frigate, Captain Cannon, has
returned to Rio, and was to leave that place for Eng-
land, Nov. 18. Lord F. Russell, in the Tweed,lB, was
also at Rio, and was to leave for England on the 16th.
Havannah, 19, Captain Erskine, and Fly, 14, Com-
mander Oliver, are being fast dismantled at Devon-
port. The former will be paid off on Friday next,
the latter to-morrow. The officers and crew of the
Acheron steamer, who came to England in the Ha-
vannah and Fly, were paid off on Wednesay.
Saracen old brig at Devonport is ordered to be fitted
for surveying service.
Messrs. Ed ward Lamb, John Trego, and Charles
John, having served the required probationary terms,
have been confirmed as supernumerary boatswains of
the St. George, 120, at Devonport.
PORTSMOUTH, THURSDAY.—Viscount Palmerston,
accompanied by a party of gentlemen of the corps
diplomatique, arrived at Gosport this morning by the
South-Western Railway, and were conducted by Mr.
R. Willoughby Stevens, the company's superinten-
dent, into the Royal Clarence Victualling-yard in
the railway carriages. They were received on alight-
ing by Mr. Davis, the master attendant, who con-
ducted them over the harbour to the new stairs of this
dockyard, where they were received by Admiral Sir
Thomas Briggs, G.C.M.G., the Commander-in-Chief,
attended by Flag-Lieutenant Pasley. The Admiral
escorted the party to the King's stairs, where he em-
barked them in his galley, and put them on board her
Majesty's yacht Fairy, which conveyed them to
Osborne, to an audience with the Queen, and after-
wards returned with them to this port, and disem-
barked them at the Clarence-yard at 3 30 P.M., whence
they departed for London.
The Britannia, 120, Captain Goldsmith, has been
undocked to-day, and hauled alongside the jetty to
fit out. She sent up her topmasts to-day.
The Rapid, 8, Commodore Blane, sailed from
Spithead to-day for the East Indies.

BANK OF ENGLAND.
(Prom the Newcastle Journal.)
The monetary affairs of the country have been
threatened with some disturbance of late, and they
have, indeed, had to encounter it not from one cause
naflotnhee,
Bbuatnkfrnomf more. A few days ago, the Directors
during the
advance money on stock,
Eshnugtltainngdaodfaeelared their readiness to
re-
duced rate of two andpayha
of the dividends thebnid otherboaks
lar approvedthe
arrange-
ment securi-
ties,
of the metropolis at this measng
per cent.s' Great was
the consternation excited among half per
on consols, at the
prospect before them of per-centa The Quaker
mo-
ney lenders " groaned in spirit," as the discountbroker
as did the Jews, Or,
gensdgrowing " small
by degrees and beautifully less,"
street, where business might be done onin
attracted to the great paper marta ' retiringantetrl
terms
s equally
clients,u ally
abuann
and no
nTor
doubt
oa
usdbritee
promul-
gated le
most
cheap
awiths
re thosegalat i
nwgh
theic ha r e s o
outfitting,
useful establishment otfraMdeesasnrsd. Mehonsaepsneasnad a
uthsee
Sons, in
order of the day, the alpha and omega of there
in which we live, and that the free-trading, timesthe
g
somewhat degenerate Bank of England shou'ld be
prepared to emulate the economy of Messrs. Moses
and Sens, is by no means surprising. That there is
ability of the first order in the councils of the Bank
of England is not to be denied. We name no names.
There can be no necessity for doing so, but we have
it in our memories on the testimony of a Minister of
the Crown—a Minister of the Whig clique, of course
—that some five-sixths of the board of directors were
ascertained to be in favour of the repeal of the corn
duties, when that great question was mooted. They
became so, we believe, not as the result of any con-
viction of their own, but because other people were.
Mr. Samuel Jones Loyd, that was, is a rich man
and an influential. These City influentials, by the
way, are most pretentious personages. We could
name several of them who are too—much too—re-
spectable for the society of the plain jog-trotting por-
tion of the community. They appear often, as we
perceive by the Court Circular, before the Minister
in the character of deputations, and it goes forth to
the wondering world that they have had, at Down-
ing-street, an interview with the Right Hon. Lord
This, or Mr. Secretary That. Mr. Samuel Jones
Loyd, whose pedigree is now graced with a title,
may not have been one of those pragmatical gentles
men. We do not remember that he ever was, nor
shall we dwell upon the point further than to say, in
candour, that we have not any imputation of the
kind to allege against bim. He became, as we judge,
the Lord of Overstone by dint of his amiable politices
and his disingenuous support of that pink of a City
candidate, Lord John Russell, who, under auspices
so all-predominant, found himself what he has the
felicity of being, namely, M.P. for the City of Lon-
don. Well, we have called Lord Overstone an
" influential," and so he has been. He was, and
perhaps is, despite the greatness that has been thrust
upon him, a constant attendant at the general meet-
ings of the Bank of England, nor have we to charge
our conscience with the delinquency of having for a
moment forgotten the deference that was ever paid
by the directors to the suggestions of the noble
banker, Lord Overstone. Would that he had in his
communication with the Minister, when proffered
admission to the peerage of Great Britain, suffered
himself to be dubbed the Lord of Lothbury, because
this would have been in accordance with the great
deeds of the individual. He has not, like Jervis, dis-
tinguished himself at sea, or like Wellesley in the
field. Those illustrious men, the Earl St. Vincent and
the Prince of Waterloo, did so acquire distinction each
for himself in one element or the other, and their
titles are appropriate, but why, we ask, why should
the most worthy patronymic of the Noble Lord be ob-
scured by a dignity not of accordance with his merits
in another shape of usefulness ? Mr. Jones Loyd
knew well the meaning•of a bill of exchange when
he saw one, and equally well did he know what use
to make of it. He was a master of his craft, and
Lothbury ought to have been honoured by an identi-
fication with his performances in the moneyed world.
Loyd and Lothbury are, or ought to be, synonymous
terms, and we, therefore, complain of the robbery
committed on the latter in favour of the village of
Overstone in Northamptonshire, of which one knows
little and cares to know less. What we have said of
Lord Overstone's choice of title may, however, be
supposed to have nothing to do with the measures of
the Bank. This is not the fact. Mr. Samuel Jones
Loyd was pr. eat in his day both as a banker and a
Liberal. He wrote a number of specious treatises on
the banking and monetary system, and did much,
in our opinion, to destroy the power of the National
Bank—the Bank of England. He was ever going
upon the widely-spread fallacy of cheapness—that
crotchetty dogma which has brought England to the
humiliating condition of having to come down on her
knees and implore the co-operation of other countries
in the consummation of the proposed blessing. Mr.
Samuel Jones Loyd was never particularly happy in
the capacity of a pamphleteer. We could never sub-
scribe to his doctrines as the result of nice thought
and anxious calculation. Neither could we ever see
that there was anything in the position and practice
of a private banker that should entitle him to foist
his opinions upon a body of persons placed at the
head of the Bank of England, between which and the
private bankers a clashing of interests must con-
tinually exist. The recommendations of Baron Over-
stone may have been most conscientious—most plau-
sible. This we readily concede. We concede also the
claims presented by the incident, that his Lordship
was the proposer on the hustings of Lord John Rus-
sell, but still we are not compelled to admire the
choice he has made of a title, nor his acceptance of any
title at all. Nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus. We
totally ignore the claim to a title wen preferred on the
score of political partiz anship or enormous wealth,
for assuredly there can be nothing to be found in Mr.
Lloyd's pamphlets worthy of a coronet. The Bank
directors are, as we have intimated, not all of them
endowed with the sagacity of Solomon. This, how-
ever, they do know in common with the rest of
mankind. They know that some value attaches to
the support of a very great man. At thebiddianfgthoef
Mr. Loyd and his school, the banking system
country was wholly changed, and the national bank
bas in consequence no more command over the
affairs of the country than a private bank, otherwise
than that she has the advantage of the ancient and
well appreciated prestige belonging to the foundation,
as well as an unlimited command of capital. Thus
the reduction of interest by the directors in their
charge fur discounts tells upon the profits of the
smaller establishments, and had it not been for poli-
tical causes, having a neutralizing influence, money
would by this time have been a drug in the London
market. At the very moment the expectation of
such an occurrence was formed advices were obtained
from the French shores of the event we have long
auticipated—the severance of Louis Napoleon and
the more potential sod other military leaders of the
National Assembly. An immense speculation had
set in upon the public in the concoction of mining
and other companies, but the Bank of England, with
its Overstone school, and the whole corps of miners
and financiers, have been suddenly brought to their
proper bearings. Our national stocks have fallen
upwards of two per cent. ' • dealing in shares has bean
paralyzed, and though the Bank has in gold and silver
coin and ingots more than 16,000,0001., yet money
is now more judiciously invested than was the case
a week ago. Our domestic funds have, as we have
said, sustained a severe shock, as well as our railway
properties, but Louis Napoleon's appeal to the people
of France has had a magic effect, and prices are by
no means so depressed as they were at one moment,
either at the Paris Bourse or in London. The moment
is pregnant with change for good or for evil, and we
must await the issue. Meanwhile we would suggest
that forty shilling discounts are no more compatible
with the national prosperity than a three-and- six-
penny bat on the head, or a scaramouch jacket on the
back, of a reduced gentleman.

TUE WOODTRORPE COLLIERY EXPLOSION.7On
Wednesday last the inquest on the bodies of William
Ramsden, Samuel Bacon, and Charles Stone, the three men
whose deaths were occasioned by the explosion at this col-
liery on the previous Saturday, was held at the Bull Inn,
Inake. It appeared from the evidence that the management
of the pit had been entrusted to a person who had very little
practical knowledge, and that little attention had been paid
to complaints made to him respecting fire damp. The evi-
dence of Mr. C. Morton, Government Inspector, showed that
as regarded ventilation, there had not been a sufficient
amount of intelligence brought to bear upon it, and the wit-
ness said he was sorry to be obliged to add that the bottom
or underground steward, Oldfield, was not sufficiently well
acquainted with either the theory or practical details of ven-
tilation to enable him to conduct works in a fiery seam with
safety to those employed therein. The jury, after consulting
for some time, concurred in the following verdict Man-
slaughter against Joseph Oldfield," the underground
steward ; and, moreover, expressed it to be their opinion
that Mr. John Rhodes, the lessee of the colliery, ought to
have employed a more efficient and intelligent person.
Oldfield was immediately committed to prison for trial at the
assizes.

_ol\niußD
Wednesdayß° TjS
LT UPON A LADY AT DULWICIT.
egvreenaitne
sgt,
raets five a
bonoyc,k ,r
eassi
d Ainigrsin iiiptcuhl_-
cock, a lady of the ASSAULT
wich, was on her return from Noprwood, she was stopped by
two ruffians in the High Norwood-road, close by Croxted-
lane, and was instantly felled to the ground by a blow upon
the head with some sharp instrument, which penetrated to
the skull, and was otherwise most desperately ill-used. She
succeeded, however, in catching a hold of one of her assailants,
and was imploring his mercy and protection, v. hen it is sup-
posed that the sound of an approaching cart iage alarmed the
villains, who leaped the hedge, and made off across the
fields. The unfortunate lady's cries at length brought assis-
tance, and she was then conveyed into one of the adjacent
houses. Medical aid was as soon as possible procured from
Dulwich, when she was found to have been frightfully in-
jured, the whale of the upper part of her person being
saturated with blood. She was subsequently taken to her
own residence, where she lies in a state of great suffering
, from the injuries she has sustained.

SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY, DEC. 11.--W0 under-
stand that it is in contemplation to invite the lion. J. E.
Walker, late Secretary to the United States' Treasury, to a
paha dinner iu Southampton.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTERSALL'S—YESTERDAY.
CHESTER Cur.
1,750 to 50 and 1,000 to 25 eget Black Doctor; 1,000
, to 25 agst Kno lc Knoll; 3,000 to 45 agst Nancy ; 2mo
to 35 agst Koh-i-ncor; 2,000 to 30 each agst Merry
Bird, Pitsford, and Mr. Worthington's Birdcateher filly,
all taken; nothing else named.
DERBY.
400 to 50 agst Hobbie Noble—tiken and afterwards
offered
WESTBURY STEEPLECHASES.
Acceptances for the Free Handicap of 10 sovs. each, h ft,
and 50 added.
Thurgarton, 114 71b—Baptiste, Ilst lib—The Ge-
neral, 11. t 11b—Forest Lad, lOst 121b—Hinton, lOst
31b—Venice, 103t—Flirt, last—Este Kearney, lOst—
Everton, 100—Fifteen Pounds no Object, 103t—Roe-
buck (late Bobby), 9st.
HUNTING APPOINTMENTS.
Duke of Beaufort's hds., Mon., Stanton Park; Wed.,
b Coal-pit Heath; Sat., Yalton Kennel.
i Craven bds., Mon., Tottenham Park; Wed., Knights-
bridge; Fri., Aldbourne Chase; Sat., Shaw Place— 101.
Mr. A. Smith's hds., Mon., Clatford Oakcuts; Tues.,
New Mill;
Wed., Wherwell Wood; Thurs., Combe
Wood; Fri., Brigmiston; Sat., Clarendon Park-11.
Bath stag hds., Tues., Melksham-11i; Fri., West-
bury-1211.Badsworth hds., Tees.,
Hampole Inn; There., Fry-
atone Hall-10i; Sat.,
Mr. Lumlev's hds Mo, Sparkin Hall ed.. Cant-
ley ; Fri G , '
Brayton Brampton Ball Head-10.
—loi.
Brainhana Moor hds. Mon., Mon" Stutton Mill; Wed.,
~ ringley o' n the Hill; Sa ,Stain on Village
Thurs., Lu t.-
Raiford hd
; Fri., Belby Grange;. Sat., Parlington-10i.
. Mon.,
Village;
Lord Henry Bentinck s
4-0 n; Sat., W 1 by.-10i.
Lord Yarborough's ti a es
- F bv Wood; Wed.,
Rds., Mon., ell d
Usselby House; Fri ,
' Scarliffs Tues., Ketnam;
.re Hill-11.
Kettlethorpe; Wed., Pan s"
Mon.,
Fri., Newbold Common; r; Thurs. , Stapleford Moor;
BM.r.VF. ahrgaru:sa.,rsTonu'ess. ,
Nabs
..t.., Rackthorne-11.
Mr. M. Ingram's lids.,
'°/). Rolleston Hall; Thurs.,
dh_. Braeston; Tees.,
Snelaton; Sat., Blithfield-14
hds., Mon., Shortwood; Tees.,
Nether Cerne.
Green Man Inn-11 Court, Marnhall; Fri.,

CAPE 01 GOinbotdhieese: colon yis
posted as-
By the arrival of the Teviot, we have
() —l3 Et 0 pig
advises from
oh,osdtiivlied liedafiinrtsowtwitho
the Cape to the 4th November.
timTahteedmaats6s,ooof
in the Fish River Bush, about 30
mileognf
Graham's Town, and the other in the Wateil,;„of
about 50 miles N.W. of that town. The enemy
in
the Fish River Bush were watched on the weal by
Lieut.-Colonel Eyre, who, with a force of 500 men
covered Graham's Town; on the south by Major
Wilmot, with a small detachment at Fort Peddie ; and
on the east by patrolling parties from King William's
Town. Several skirmishes have taken place, in which
the enemy have invariably been repulsed, but no im-
portant success gained except in one instance, when a
body of 800 attempted to carry off several thousand
cattle and sheep from the vieinity of Fort Brown.
Major Horne sallied out with 220 men, routed the
plunderers, killing 10, and wounding many more. He
recaptured nearly all the spoil, without any serious
casualties among his troops.
On the 12th of October, Major-General Somerset
marched towards the stronghold of the Chia Maco-
mo, in the fastnesses of the Waterkloof, with a force
of 3,000 men, composed of the regular troops of the
21, 6th, 12th, 74th, and 91st Regiments, Royal Ar-
tillery, Cape Mounted Rifles, Mounted Volunteers,
and Fingoe Levies.
On the 14th and 16th October the Waterkloof was
penetrated in different directions by two brigades
der Lieut.-Colonels Michell and Fordyce. All tie-
counts agree in describing the operations of the troops
as being conducted in a most masterly manner ; the
result was—after several hours hard fighting on both
days—the enemy were completely driven out, and
their camp destroyed. The fugitives took refuge in
the valleys of the Blinkwater and Fuller's Hoek,
where they ware attacked on the 23d Oct., and after
some sharp fighting, routed and dispersed. The de-
tached bands still cling to the fastnesses about the
Irornme Heights, and preparations were making for
another movement against them on the 25th Oct.
The loss of our troops is reported at 6 killed and
26 wounded, amongst whom Lieutenant Norris, 6th
Regiment, was killed; Captain Addison, 2d, and En-
sign Ricketts, 91st Regiments, wounded. That of
the Kafirs has been rated from 400 to 500 killed. •

During the last month the district of Albany has been
preserved in a great measure from the marauding in-
cursions of the enemy, through the protection afforded
by the detachments under Lieuntenant-Colonel Eyre,
and Majors Wilmot and Horne ; but the other fron-
tier districts were suffering severely from heavy losses.
On the 16th of September a body of 2,000 Tamboo-
Ides made a descent upon Upper Victoria and Crad-
dock, sweeping off several thousand sheep, and a
large number of cattle ; they have also recommenced
their incurs ions into the district of Albert, and car-
ried off some hundreds of cattle. Several colonists
have been kilkciby them in these attacks.

The last reinforcements thatarrived in this colony,
viz., the 60th Rifles (2d battalion) and the 12th Lan-
cers, have reached head quarters. The Rifles have
taken the field, for the first time, under Alajor•Ge-
neral Somerset, and astonished the Kafirs by their ac-
curacy of aim and the distance from which they fired.

BRUTAL OUTRAGE AT PERSHORE.

We have this week to record one of the most
shocking cases of ruffianism which can disgrace a
civilised country, the perpetrators of which, however,
we are glad to state, are in a fair way to meet that
heavy punishment which their crimes deserve.
On the evening of Saturday week a carter of Mr.
Francis Woodward's, named William Cook, came into
Pershore with his sweetheart, a girl named Harriet
Williams, from Bricklehampton. Having finished
their marketings, they took some steaks into the
" Quiet Woman" public-house to be cooked, and sat
down to supper. They left between twelve and one
o'clock, and a party of boatmen, who had seen them
in the house, closely followed them out. They had
got about half a mile out of the town, to the bottom of
Wick-bill, when one of these fellows came up to
them, and after walking by their side about twenty
yards, knocked the man down. On the instant four
other: rushed out of the hedge upon them, and three
of them commenced beating the man about the head
in a most brutal manner, till he was perfectly
senseless. The other two meanwhile assailed
the girl, and in spite of her screams and outcries,
one of them violated her, and the other was making an
attempt to repeat the outrage when they fancied they
heard persons coming up the road, and made off. A.
young wan who had been walking with the couple,
but had run away as soon as he saw Cook knocked
down, presently brought assistance, and the poor
girl, who was iu a dreadful state, was assisted borne.
The man, when he recovered himself, found that 43.
had been taken from his pocket, but a half-soverign
was left safe. The police were soon in search, and
Superintendent Harris got some information which
satisfied him who the men were. On the following
Tuesday morning he dispatched police-constable
Aston to Oldbury, to look after one of the ruffians at
his brother's house there, but he was not able to meet
with him; however, on his return, be saw the party
he was looking after at Smethwick, and apprehended
two boatmen, Francis Compton and Jack Sheppard,
on the canal. On Friday last, Superintndent Harris
came to Worcesniatuegebremanaaebndoßa
wrtaapeanprtt re :abhinrre
don.
brought
gGeudhectost
ru,wBgpoemoiGti
beforelhr. eo ry
ebs o,a
at -6
J. Y
tmh eeony'u wnmea rmoene lddouayßd i
te
Bedford and P. Woodward, Esqrs., at the magis-
trates' office in this town, when the investigation of
the case lasted more than four hours. Besides the
abovementioned four men, who are all of Pershore,
John Hunt, of Wyre Piddle, was included in the
chaTrge' The prisoners, with the
exception
was discharged from custody,
wereof Hunt, who
fully
committed
for trial at the next assizes at Worcester—Doha
Sheppard for a rape on the person of Mary Ann
Harris Williams; Francis Compton for assault with
intent, Bce.;
for aiding,
assisting, and abetting the prisoners
reodvews,itbals ao
Compton and Sheppard.
and Reuben Brant and George Groves
stood T h e
fpurritshoenre rcsnCtnommi pttteodn,
for Brant,
trial,
gross and unprovoked assault upon the witness ancdharGii
the next assizes, and the whole o
bound over to appear against
Wil-
liam Cook. Superintendent Harris. was then bound
the prisoners at the assizes.
' office to the police-station, a rescue was at.
Oates
On the prisoners being removed. from the magis-
trates'
tempted by the father of the prisoner Groves. He was
assisted by two other men, named Collins and Woods.
The police, however, led on in a most determined
manner by Superintendent Harris, succeeded in lock-
ing
menthe prisoners,fowubrobadattempted the rescue, namely,
and also in capturing two
o
Thomas Groves, a tall, powerful man, who made a
determined resistance, and a man na d Collins,
f theu'
me from
Evesham, who were both locked up. Woods got
clear off.— Worcester Chronicle.

DEATH OF THE REV. W. GARDNER BRADLEY.--
Our obituary of this week records the death of the Rev-
William Gardner Bradley, B.A , of Brasenose College, Ox-
the :_;. 2d year of his age.
ford, and rector of St. i\lary Ca) on, after a short illness,
uain
minister of the Gospel has been cut off in the. prime
ethe Enl
and in the zenith of his usefulness. As a priest of . .
evangelical in
his teaching. He lived among
glish Church he was sound in his views,
and
ansample of the
This eminently faithful and zoef !life
faith which he professed and the doctrines.
lie was characteristic of humility
manners. His heart and hand were
trouble of the sorrowing, and relieve
tressed. ills body rests inhis.P
memory will ever be reveredan
and by all who had the
his many virtues and his
Rev. W.
was the eldest on of the
and Rector of Nether, W ,
....St. Christopher Graette. ift he taught.
spirit and mildness of
of
'v-eir open to soothe the
the wants of the die-
his floli. &owl]
c_
arish churchyard. Big
dcherishedby his parishioners,
pleasure of his acquaintance, for
unostentatious benevolence. He
IN Bradley, M.A., Rural Dean
.
hitacro in the county of Warwick,