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London, England, 1835-10-07 00:00:00

all these fellows ?" I cannot answer for the fact ; but it is
characteristic, and I believe it. It showed the firm resolve
of a brave and determined soul ; and it showed the just
confidence he had in the stamina of his troops.—From
Captain Blakiston's "Twenty Years of Retirement."
The friends of Lord John Russell throughout the
county have expressed much solicitude to have the honour
of entertaining his Lordship, but we have learned that, on
the present occasion, -his Lordship is reluctantly compelled
to decline the high gratification of meeting his kind friends
at public dinners.—Western Times.
There seems every reasonable prospect of the diffi-
culties which have presented themselves in the application
of steam navigation to the Danube being speedily over.
come. There are now four steam-vessels on that river ;
one between the Cherdaps and Fetislaw, a second between
Orsova and Pesth, a third between Pesth and Vienna, with
a spare boat to replace the others in case of accident.
The Lords of the Admiralty have chartered the
ship Asia for the conveyance of 290 male convicts to Van
Diemen's Land.

IRoN.—A further advance of 10s. per ton in the
price of bar iron took place on the 30th of September both
in Wales and Staffordshire. This, in addition to the ad-
vance on the 10th of that month, makes the price of iron
the same as before the late temporary depression ; and
such is the general briskness of trade, that there is every
reason to believe the present price will be fully maintained.
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, OCTOBER 5.
Our Market to-day has been rather dull, there having been
only 2,000 bags sold at last week's prices.
In the night of Sunday the stable of Shear-
man, Esq., at Kingston, was broken open, and the harness
and other articles were stolen therefrom ; and in the same
night the premises belonging to Mr. Russell, the proprietor
of the George Inn, on Kingston-hill, were forced open, and
a large quantity of valuable harness was carried away. It
is supposed that these robberies have been effected by the
same gang that plundered the stable and harness-room of
Mr. Roots the week before in the same neighbourhood.
On Friday night also, the whole stock of poultry belonging
to Mr. Towns, at Kingston, was carried off.

On Monday night, the Appeal Registration Court
for Stirlingshire closed its proceedings. The decisions, we
hear, have generally given satisfaction ; but it w,as held that
a farmer who sub-let grass enclosures for the summer, was
not entitled to include his rent in the amount necessary for
registration.—Glasgow Herald.
LIVERPOOL.--The revising barristers, Messrs.
Greenwood, Heywood, Abrahall, and Blanshard, held a
Court on Thursday, at the Sessions Room, Chapel-street,
for the purpose of completing the revision of the list of
voters for this district of the southern division of the county
—a task which they accomplished about two o'clock.
During the day 61 cases of disputed votes were decided, of
which 41 were struck off, namely, 22 Reformers, and 19
Tories, ten of each party being retained on the list. The
following is the general result of the registration in this
township compared with the last : Numbr of voters regis-
t -.Ted in 1834, 1,022 ; Number of voters registered in
1835, I,44l—lncrease, 419.
STIRLINGSHIRE.—AItogether, the present year's
registration has been a most harrassing business for the libe-
rals of Stirlingshire. The immense purse of Mr. Forbes,
of Callander, with the Carlton Club at his back, seems to
have been brought into operation against the reform inte-
rest of that unfortunate but not devoted county ; it gives
us sincere pleasure, however, to say, that a total majority
of 62 additional voters has now been added to the liberal
ranks, and it will be recollected by our readers that the
county was lost at the last election by a narrow majority
of 22. It is understood that the Tory party have ex-'
pended 5,0001. in the Stirlingshire registrations this year,
and from the host of lawyers and agents which we saw, and
which we understand they keep constantly in their employ,
we would not be surprised if their expenditure exceeded
that sum.—Glasgow Chronicle.—[We rejoice at this result.
The numbers at the last election were—Mr. Forbes, 551 ;
Admiral Fleming (a stanch Reformer) 529.)
THE WILL OF LATE WM. COBBETT.—After
some controversy in the Ecclesiastical Court, the will of
the late Wm. Cobbett has at length been proved in the
Prerogative Court of Canterbury, and the effects of the
deceased sworn to be under 1,500/. In the first instance
a citation had been issued at the suit of a creditor, to call
upon William Cobbett, the son and sole executor, either to
accept or refuse probate of the will of his father, and he
has agreed to administer to the effects, which are to the
amount above stated. There are no specific legacies, but
the testator bequeathes the copyright of his works, and all
other property, to his eldest son, William Cobbett, and de-
sires to be buried near his father and mother in the church-
yard of Farnham, Surrey. The will is dated the 14th De-
cember, 1833.

BEAUTY OF ENGLISH WOMEN.—Certainly our
fair countrywomen do bear away the palm of beauty.
Much of this depends on our climate ; something on our
simple diet ; but more, I think, on our language, which re-
quires less movement of the muscles of the face than that
of any other European nation. The French, in particular,
from the pronunciation of their language, have, after a
certain age, the lines about the mouth very strongly de-
fined, which certainly does not add to their beauty. The
gesticulations of the English is also much less than that of
foreigners ; but whether this arises from the copiousness of
our language, which needs no accessories to convey the
meaning of the speaker, or from the phlegmatic character
of the people, is more than I can pretend to say. This,
however, I have observed, that after having been long ac-
customed to the faces of Englishwomen, the features of the
French appear hard ; and, vice versa, when in the habit
of seeing French countenances, those of my countrywomen
appear insipid.—Front Captain Blakiston's " Twenty Years
of Retirement."
DURHAM AND SUNDERLAND RAILWAY..--A
general meeting of the proprietors of this important under-
taking took place on Tuesday last. From the statements
elicited in the course of the meeting, there is every prospect
of this great public work being brought to a speedy and
satisfactory termination. One half of the work has already
been completed, at an outlay some thousands within one
half of the instalments ; and if no unforeseen difficulty
should be encountered in its further prosecution, the whole
will be completed, at an amount considerably within the
original estimate.—Sunderland Herald.
Extract of a letter of the 24th ult. from Florence :
—" There neither is nor has been any case of cholera
whatever in Florence. It is true that about the com-
mencement of this month, a very few suspected cases oc-
curred in the Lunatic Asylum, but which have long since
totally disappeared. The entrance into Tuscany is free on
every side, save from Piedmont, which is owing to a cordon
sanitaire being formed by the Lucca Government on the
little slip of their territory which runs between the Tuscan
and Piedmontese States."
QUEEN ELIZABETH'S LEARNING.—Roger As-
chain, who was her tutor, after extolling the docility and ap-
titude of her disposition, thus describes the classical attain-
ments of the Virgin Queen :—" She never yet took Greek
or Latin Grammar in hand, after the first declining of a
noun or verb ; but only by double translating of Demos-
thenes and Isocrates daily, without missing every pronoun,
and likewise some part of Tully every afternoon, for the
space of a year or two, bath attained to such perfect under-
standing in both the tongues, and to such a ready utterance
in the Latin, and that with such a judgment as they be few
in number in both Universities, or elsewhere in England,
that be in both tongues comparable to her Majesty."
FIESCHI, THE ASSA SSIN.—The physicians and
surgeons appointed to attend Fieschi, though they for a
long time apprehended fatal consequences from his wounds,
have at length pronounced him to be perfectly cured.
He was on Friday and Saturday confronted with Nina
Lassave, and after the examination on Friday he gave her
10 francs to buy a gown. " He," says the Journal du
Commerce, "believes that he has not killed any one, and
that be will escape with transportation ; and this idea is
designedly kept up, by his being supplied with a false edi-
tion of the Journal de Paris printed on purpose. Nina
Lassave was on the point of undeceiving him, when she
was stopped by the Magistrates present. We are told
that he amuses his leisure hours by dictating his memoirs to
the Sergeant de Ville appointed to watch over him, and
has even written several sheets with his own hand, of
which the above officer hoped to make a considerable
profit by publishing hereafter fac-similes, but 'M. Gisquet
has taken possession of them all. The woman Petit was
set at liberty on Saturday. When the order for her release
was communicated to her she fainted."
FALMOUTH, OCT.4.—The Earl of Roden steamer,
Wilson, CoMmander, arrived here this morning from San-
tander, whence she sailed on Wednesday last, after disem-
barking on the 21st ult. the major part of the, 10th regiment,
under the command of Colonel O'Connell, from Cork. Sub-
sequently she took on board 450 English auxiliaries, urfder
the command of Major Ross, at, Santander, awl
them at Portugalete, from whence the hundred Sr,anish
troops were embarked, with which the Earl of Roden
again returned to Santander. There was one paanger by
the steamer, who states that about the 20th, ult. Colonel
Tupper, at the head of his regiment, (the (-qh) 700 strong,
Ailed out of Bilboa, and succeeded in tali tng a whole Car-
list battalion, in number six hundred, wither at losing a single
private or officer. Some few Carlists well, killed—the re-
mainder were made prisoners, after surrendering their arms,
and marched into Bilboa. The force nol,v at Bilboa and
Portugalete, under the command of Gerwrals Evans and
Alava, are computed at 5,000. The two latter officers,
with 5,000 of that force, were expected speedily to march
for Vittoria, when it was thought they wq,uhihave occasion

to give battle to the Carlists, whose main, bOdv are''Sai'd-to
be congregating in that direction. It was. fully intenden3k-r--%
the auxiliaries to make Vittoria thhic., -heacl4l4o.
throughout the winter, should nothing in tit
elusive nature be brought about in the in
and Portugalete will remain well fortified ie
Carlists. At St. Sebastian the troops had all left and ar-
rived at Bilboa. Provisions were in sufficiency amongst the
army, but rather dear—a circumstance chiefli ar:sing from
supplies rendered from the neighbourhood to the Carlists,
who generally proved themselves good paymasters with
plenty of money. His Majesty's brig Arauti/us arrived
this afternoon from Lisbon—she sailed thence on the
28th ult., but brings no particular news. On the 24th
the anniversary of the death of Don Pedro was com-
memorated in a very ,imposing and solemn manner. Her
Majesty was well, and the city generally tranquil.
Two men who were arrested last week at Lyons fcr
having committed trespasses on private property, and for
uttering seditious expressions against the King, being on
their way to prison, one of them. finding himself in a crowd,
exclaimed—" I am a friend of Fieschi ; you surely will not
leave me in the hands of these brigands ;" and then at- •
t2mpted to seize the weapons of one of the gendarmes, but
the people remained passive, and a further force coming up,
they were incarcerated.—French Paper.
MARCH OF INTELLECT.—A very singular seen
was witnessed in Carrier-street, St. Giles's, yesterday morn-
ing. An Irish labourer, named Fagan, residing in the above
street, having a child lying dangerously ill with the hooping
cough, was persuaded by some of his superstitious country-
men to adopt the following expedient for the purpose of
curing it :—He borrowed a donkey of a costermonger in
the neighbourhood and brought it to his own door. He
then brought the child out of bed down stairs, and his wife
stood on one side of the donkey and he on the other, and
passed the child from one to the other, over the back and
under the belly of the animal three times, and each time the
animal was presented with a piece of new bread. The
child was then made to kiss the nose of the animal three
separate times, and the father, after muttering some indis-
tinct words in the Irish language, conveyed the child again
to its bed. This took place amidst the most deafening yells
of upwards of 200 of the lower order of Irish. To a ques-
tion put to the father after the conclusion of the ceremony,
he said that he felt confident that the disorder would leave
the child and affect the animal in the course of 24 hours.

The following extracts are made from a newspaper
published in 1633, called 21fereicrins Democritus :—" A
Kentish grazier, living near Rumney Marsh, a place very
subject to agues, in six years hath inriched himself by mar-
rying seven wives, which he bath buryed, and lately mar-
ried the eighth, which soon after died ; yet he being very
healthy, intends to marry as many more, it being the
speediest way to get him a great estate."—" A citizen being
invited last Sunday to an offering at a wedding, coming to
the bason, and not giving anything, the Churchwarden
opened his mouth and said, Sir, you have given Walling:
No, Sir, neither will I,' replied the citizen, ' for I was not
invited to a giving, but to an offering,' and so he went
away." " A perfect mermaid was by the last great winde
driven ashore neere Greenwich, with her combe in one
hande, and her lookinge glasse in the other. She seemed
to be of the countenance of a most faire and beautiful wo-
man, with her armes crossed, weeping out many pearly
drops of salt tears, and afterwards, she gently turning her-
self upon her back again, swamme away without being
seen any more."—" Two fishwomen were lately committed
to Billingsate for crying sick oysters." " A red headed,
carret bearded chimney sweeper the other night being
sweeping a chimney in Holburne, thrust out his head at the
top of a chimney to cry chimney sweep, was in that posture
espyed by a countrywoman riding home, who as soon as she
saw him cried out Fire, fire,' making hundreds of cittizens
rust with pails of water to quench the same."
The Frankfort German Journal of the Ist inst., has
the following from Berlin of the 25th ult. :—" Accounts
which have reached us from Kalisch are calculated to as-
suage the regret of persons who were denied the satisfaction
of being present at the reviews. It seems that the malver-
sation in the victualling of the Russian army was so great,
that several hundreds of men deserted to Prussia, where,
however, they found no asylum. The peasants and gen-
darmes went in pursuit of them, and conducted them back
to the Russian territory. The discovery of the peculation
in the Commissariat Department by the Emperor Nicholas
was thus made :—Walking in front of the Guards, he saw
an old soldier with whom he was acquainted, and asked him
how he fared. Quite well,' answered the man. Are
your provisions abundant, and of good quality ?' The ve-
teran at first demurred, but said, with evident embarrass-
ment, Yes, yOtir Majesty: The Emperor, remarking this
hesitation, said, What do they give you in the morning?'
Bread,' was the reply. What do they give you for
dinner?' Bread.' What at night ?" Bread. That
cannot be,' said the Emperor in anger ; nevertheless, he
caused inquiries to be made, which confirmed the fad."
THE ELM TREE AT THE CORNER OE ST.
PAUL'S.—Persons who have frequented the rooms which
are set apart for the use of mercantile and commercial tra-
' yellers, in every inn in the kingdom, must be familiar with
the " Saturday night's toast," a sentiment expressed perhaps
because at that time, more than any other in the week, the
comfort of the domestic circle is brought to their minds, and

they are led to acknowledge that " There is no place like
home." The toast to which allusion is made is as follows :
—" To our wives and sweethearts, not forgetting the trunk-
maker and elm tree at the corner of St. Paul's." Most per-
sons who have passed through the yard of the cathedral
must have observed near the north-cast corner a venerable
elm tree, of considerable altitude, which is said to have been
planted about the time of the Revolution of 1688. To the
root of this venerable tree the axe has lately been laid, and
it now lies prostrate. The downfall of the tree in itself
considered may justly be deemed an important affair, but
there is an historical recollection associated with this which
may render it worthy of record. On the spot where it was
planted formerly stood Paul's Cross, near to which was a
stone pulpit, from whence prelates and divines, both Papal
and Protestant, used to fulminate their anathemas, and alter-
nately preach the Gospel to the multitude. The celebrated
Wesley is said to have often adverted to this circumstance.
as a justifiable precedent for open air or field preaching.
There is also another, though less important fact connected
with the spot where the defunct tree lately stood, and which
it is presumed is not generally known. Under its shade
were deposited the mortal remains of Colonel Edward
Marcus Despard, who, with six of his associates, were
beheaded for high treason at Horsemonger-lane gaol, in the
year 1801.

LAMENTABLE AND APPALLING ACCIDENT ON
BATTERSEA BRlDGE.—Yesterday evening an inquest was
held at the Wellesley Arms, Robert-street, Chelsea, be-
fore Mr. Stirling, on the body of Mrs. Selina Heath, aged
42. Mr. Thomas Appleby, builder, of Duke-street, Chel-
sea, about 9' o'clock on the evening of the previous day
was an outside passenger on a Chelsea omnibus, on his
way to Battersea ; on the arrival of the, omnibus at the
bridge from Beaufort-row, witness observed a chaise-cart
with persons in it at the brow of the bridge, coming to-
wards them ; when within about eight or ten yards of the
omnibus, several voices called out, and at the same moment
the driver of the cart pulled in upon the near side, in doing
which the near wheel struck against the curb-stone, and the
shaft went between the iron rails of the bridge. At this
moment witness heard the screams of females, and saw one
endeavour to descend from the cart on the near side ;
whilst in the act, the cart turned over on the off side, and
the whole party were precipitated into the road ; witness
and the driver of the omnibus instantly alighted, and on
going to the spot discovered the unfortunate deceased lying
on the near side of the cart, bleeding profusely from the
head, the front of which was crushed in, and exhibited a
most dreadful and affecting spectacle ; life appeared quite
extinct. The deceased, who was the wife of Mr. Heath,
landlord of the Old Duke of Cumberland, Queen-street,
'Chelsea, was the mother of a large family, and much re-
spected. Verdict—Accidental Death.
A correspondent has sent us the following state-
ment, which, however, will, we suspect, turn out to be an
exaggeration ; he is, we know, incapable of a wilful mis-
representation, but he must have been misinformed as to
some part of the account :—" On Wednesday last at two
o'clock in the afternoon, a drunken man was beinppassisted
through St. James's-park by two women, and a few persons
followed the party until they arrived at the post of the sen-
try stationed opposite the State Paper-office, who desired
them very abruptly to move on., At this moment John
Stalker. a lad about eleven years of age, came up, prompted
by curiosity, when Thmas Cottam of the Scots Fusileer
Guards, the sentry
and hiAsayone4.., 'on duty, brought his firelock to the charge
penetrated the small of the back of the
poor lad,
`-:no was conveyed to the station-house of the A
division
in Gardener's-lane, in order that some cog-
nizan-
might be taken of the affair. It is under-
that upon application being made at the Horse
Guards, it was stated that the sentry had only acted in
the execution of his duty, although it has always
been the practice, when a sentry has been disturbed at his
pest, to confine the offender in his box until the sergeant of
the guard relieves him, when the prisoner is taken away.
From personal observation and inquiry, it has been ascer-
tained that the lad, although not yet twelve years of age,
has been for two years in the office of Mr. Francis Turner,
barrister of Lncoln's-Inn-square, and is a very intelligent
but delicate boy; he is recovering from the wound inflicted
by the bayonet, which if it had been a quarter of an inch
deeper must have proved fatal. It is but justice to the
offi-
cers of the regiment to say that they have taken the
into consideration, and forwarded some money to the
mot ier ciest-
,
ase
an industrious woman, living at No. 22, York-street, W
minster, and that the offender, who was marched from his
post immediately after the occurrence took place, will
uu-
, dergo the ordeal of a military court-martial."