The Sun.
London, England, 1835-03-09 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR,—The Parliamentary Inquiries into the intentions of Minis-
ters, as to a second dissolution, have not been by any means well
managed. The candour and generosity of Lord J. Russell's nature
have induced him to rest contented with replies, which I am per-
suaded will not satisfy the public at large.
The first omission which I shall notice is, that the disposition of
the Premier alone was enquired into ; and he, to a certain extent,
denies contemplating such a measure. But, Sir, he may be
OUTVOTED in his own Cabinet. The question ought to have
been (and I trust still will be) put—WHETHER ANT MEMBER or
THE ADMINISTRATION HAD GIVEN COUNTENANCE OR CAUSE TO
THE. RUMOURS OF AN INTENTION TO DLSSOLVE PARLIAMENT
AT AN EARLY DATE, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES?
The second error was, resting contented with Sir Robert's vague
observation, that he could not consent to "place any prerogative
of the Crown in ABEYANCE." I shall not stop to comment on the
convenient phrase " prerogative of the Crown," used for "power
of the MINISTER ;" but shall merely observe, that " abeyance"
signifies present non-use—and, as the King can dissolve Parlia-
ment any day that the power is constantly in " abeyance," while
Parliament sits—it has been already in " abeyance" from Feb. 19.
But Sir Robert " remembers to forget" that the " prerogative
of the Crown" is one thing—a Minister's determination To AD-
VISE ITS EXERCISE another ! He might have said, " I cannot
engage that his Majesty shall not dissolve Parliament this Ses-
sion, BUT I CAN AND DO ENGAGE THAT I WILL
NOT ADVISE IT." He has the power over his own actions,
though not over those of his master.
Had he meant fairly, his course was, to have said :—" If the
House disapprove of any measures, I shall not presume to advise a
dissolution, but shall bow to its decision and resign ; or, if he meant
to stick to place, I shall endeavour so to alter them as to remove
the objections of the majority." A patriot Minister would have added
—" Under no circumstances shall I be tempted to so unconstitutional
a course, as to advise my Sovereign to prefer the opinion of his
Ministers to that of the representatives of his people, and turn
them back on their constituents because they do not agree in
opinion with the Administration of the day--especially when those
representatives must, from their very recent election, be fairly
presumed fully to express the sentiments of the people."
I cannot therefore help thinking, that whatever may be the in-
tentions of Sir R. Peel individually, the Tories in general are by
no means disposed to abandon the project of a second dissolution of
Parliament. This indeed is clearly evinced by the language of
their tools, the Times and Morning Post.
The former (which by-the-bye now finds the question of the
Speakership " signified nothing,' although three weeks back it was
to produce a revolution if carried against Ministers) does not hesi-
tate to state, that— _ _

" We should be among the first to recommend the most fearless
use of the powers granted by the Constitution (alluding to a second
dissolution, which it characterizes as a strong measure of self-de-
fence!) were it really necessary to hold the Constitution together;"
—that is, to keep in the Tories, whose possession of power it now
maintains to be synonimous with the preservation of the Constitu-
tion ! It moreover asserts, in distinct terms, that—
" There is nothing unconstitutional in a Minister continuing
to hold the Government, EVEN AGAINST THE EX-
PRESSED DESIRE OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS,
THAT HE SHOULD RESIGN HIS OFFICE !" Pretty
stiff, Mr. Editor !
The Post says— _ _

" We say boldly, and without hesitation, that it will be
the duty of the King's Government to dissolve the present Par-

liament, IN THE VERY FIRST MOMENT IN WHICH IT SHALL
SHOW A DETERMINATION TO EMBARRASS AND OB-
STRUCT THE KING'S MINISTERS ON ANY SUBJECT
WHATEVER !" Bravo ! bravo! Messieurs of the Post ! And

. . • ---
I say that it will be the duty of the Parliament which succeeds
one so dissolved, to IMPEACH THE MINISTERS WHO
ADVISED SUCH DISSOLUTION, within twenty-four hours
from its assembling !
This most sapient Print further discovers that " his Majesty's
Ministers cannot, as faithful servants of the Crown, surrender
political power to the hands of their opponents, without having
first laid before Parliament some of the measures of improvement
which they intend to propose as an earnest of the policy they have
determined to adopt, and without, in the second place, TAKING
THE SENSE OF THE NATION as to the value and efficiency
of these measures !"

I had been accustomed to suppose that the Representatives of
the people expressed " the sense of the nation"—but this I find
by the Post doctrine is an old fashioned error—on the new and
improved system, of course, dissolution must follow the introduc-
tion of EVERY "GREAT IHEA SURE"—for even Tory impudence
will hardly venture to assert, that the " SENSE OF THE NA-
TION" is to be held to be TRULY expressed by the House of
Commons, if it AGREES with Ministers—and trlcritur.Y if lt
differs with them !"
The Post tool also holds, that a second dissolution will be
necessary should the House give Ministers only " a mock trial"—
that is, if it should pronounce against them—of course if a real
trial is never to be held to have been granted till the House agrees
with Ministers, the second dissolution must be followed by a third,
the third by a fourth, the fourth by a fifth, evc., ad infinitum—for
I will venture to pronounce that no House will ever be found to
support Tory domination.
I trust, Sir, that Mr. Hume, Mr. Harvey, Mr. Gisborne, or some
other Member who has learned to speak PLAIN ENGLISH, will
FoRCE the Minister to a direct answ‘r to the following questions :-
Ist, Have any of the Ministry (not limiting the question to the
Cabinet), used language calculated to give currency to the report of
an early dissolution ?
2dly, Should Ministers be outvoted on any great measure, will
they resign ? Or,
idly, Will they alter the measure, to suit the ideas of the House?
These questions should be put, and replies, direct to the point,
elicited, before the supply question be further proceeded with.
I am, Sir,
YOUR CONSTANT READER AND FRIEND. i

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, who have
been absent from this country more than two years, are shortly
expected in England. Their elegant mansion in Piccadilly is
in a state of preparation to receive them.

The Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria
were received with the loudest possible acclamations by the
immense populace on their way to and from the Court at St.
James's, on the birth-day. The young Princess gracefully
acknowledged these popular demonstrations of attachment to
the heiress presumptive to the crown of England.
The Duke of Devonshire will give the first of a
series of grand dinners at Devonshire-house, on Wednesday.
Lord Granville, our late Ambassador at Paris, the Earl of
Burlington, Lord Mulgrave, Lord Carlisle, Lord Morpeth,
the Duke of Norfolk, the Duke of Argyle, Count Pozzo di
Borgo, and other Foreigh Ministers will be of the party.
Lord Stanley entertained a large party of his Par-
liamentary friend's to dinner, at his residence at Carlton Ter-
race, on Saturday.
Earl Grey and Lord Spencer are expected to arrive
in town to-morrow.

Lord John Russell is gone to Woburn to meet Lord
Grey, and returns to town to-morrow.

The Right Hon. Edward Ellice, M. P. is expect-
ed in London every day. The last letters received from hint
were dated at Rome, and ho intended to quit the imperial
city within a day or two of the departure of the post. Mr.
Ellice has entirely recovered his health by his journey to Italy,
and when he arrives in town, he will immediately resume his
very active duties as a legislator.
The Right Hon. and Reverend Lord Ward, Lady
Ward, and 'Miss Ward have have arrived in town for the sea-
son, and have taken up their residence at iNlivart's Hotel.
We hear, from good authority, that the effect of
Lord Chandos's motion will be, to take off one-half of the
malt-tax at November next, and the other half at the May fol-
lowing.— Observer.
The poets, Thomas Moore, William Wordsworth,
and Robert Southey, are all at present in London, and each of
them preparing to publish a new work.
On Monday last, Dr. Abercrombie, first physician
to his Majesty for Scotland, was elected Lord Rector of Ma-
risehal College, Aberdeen, for the following year.
Five election petitions were presented on Friday
night —From P. W. Redmond, and others, against the return
for Wexford county ; John O'Donahue, and two others,
against that for Dublin University ; Richard Smith, and
others, against that for Lichfield ; Richard Sharman and
Thomas Bacheldor, electors, against that for Windsor ; and
another against the return for Dublin city.
Manchester-house, Manchester-square, has, we un-
derstand, been taken by the French Government for the resi-
dence and business of the French embassy. The rent is said
to be one thousand pounds a year, unfurnished. The house-
hold of the late ambassador, Prince Talleyrand, are attached
to his successor.

The fancy balls, recently given by the King and
Queen of the Belgians, at their palace at Brussels, have not
been exceeded in modern times for their splendour and magni-
ficence. The English of rank, who are residing at Brussels or
in that neighbourhood, have been constantly invited, and re-
ceived with marked attention by the Court. The Countess of
Westmoreland, Lady William Paget, the Scymours, and the
Jerninghams, have been present at each of these princely en-
tertainments

The approaching meeting of the Bank proprietors,
which will take place in the week after next, is looked for-
ward to in the City with considerable interest. Mr. O'Con-
nell's having qualified as a proprietor of Bank Stock has pre-
pared the directors for a more strict questioning on the state
of their affairs, and on the principles on which they are con-
ducted, than they have hitherto been accustomed to. It is said

that a good deal of uneasiness exists in the Bank parlour on
the subject. An expectation prevails also that some opposi-
tion will be made to the re-election of Mr. Pattison as Go-
vernor of the Bank, on account of the part he has lately acted
as a political partisan, to which many of the proprietors, even
those agreeing with him in his political opinions, deem highly
unbecoming in the head of that corporation. These, of coure,
look at the matter merely in a pecuniary light, and consider
in how many ways their interests may be compromised in the
necessary intercourse with the Ministers of the day by having
such a chairman. Any proceeding to alter the ordinary rou-
tine of election at the Bank would be a very unusual step,
but a great number of merchants and capitalists would be by
no means sorry to see the thing done, were it only to afford a
chance for the introduction of a better system.— Times.
IfM. ROTHSCHILD.—The Courrier Beige of the
inst., states that M. de Rothschild, during his late visit to
Belgium, authorised a person at Brussels -to look out for an
extensive property, which he might make his residence du-
ring the summer season.
Charles Matthews, the comedian, accompanied by
Mrs. Matthews, are expected to arrive at Liverpool from New
York on or about the 13th instant. The American packet is
due that day, and so extremely regular are these vessels,
that it rarely occurs the time is exceeded more than 48 hours.
Mr. Bunn went to Paris on Friday last, his princi-
pal object being, as is supposed, to witness the first represen-
tation of a new drama by Victor Hugo, under the title of
Angelo, le Tyran de Padua. This author's productions,
though exhibiting undoubted and singular genius, are sel-
dom qualified for performance on our stage. It is said that
Mr. Bur.n is accompanied by a capitalist, who has recently
become connected with him in the management of the two
winter theatres. It is stated that they are about also to en-
gage several new dancers for the ballet department.

We understand that it is in contemplation among
the electors of Newcastle to call upon Sir M. W. Ridley to
resign his seat in that borough—as they have no ambition to
permit the votes of their representative to be dependent on the
orders of that " pert master," Lord Stanley. The " tail" may
depend upon it they are in bad odour in every place.—Carlisle
Journal.

Brighton, within these few days, has been shorn of
nearly all its fashionable visitors, and houses of the first class,
in the most frequented parts of that enormously-inci eased
town, may be hired for the next six months at a moderate rent.
In the " youthful days" of the late King, when he was Prince
of Wales, the best house on the Old Steyne, opposite the Pa-
vilion, could be obtained at half-a-guinea a week from Novem-
ber to June ; and in the summer months, which at that period
were considered " the season," the same house easily produced
eight guineas a week.

The races at Chantilly this year, will take place
on April 26, and, being under the patronage of the Duke of
Orleans, will be greatly increased in interest and brilliancy.
His Royal Highness has appointed the Mayor of Chantilly
steward of the course, and directed that stands may be erected
so that the company may be able to view at their ease the
whole of the races without interruption. Independent of the
three following principal plates, there will be some with leap-
ing over bars. The first principal plate cf 2,500 f., giver► by
the Duke of Orleans, is for thorough bred horses and mares
foaled in France or Belgium. The second will be the Aumale
Plate, given by the King for thorough bred horses and mares
of all ages, foaled in France or Belgium ; and the third, the
Chantilly plate of 1,000 f., given by the town for horses and
mares of all ages and countries, which have never run before
at any public race.

GREAT ROBBERY AT THE DUCHESS OF GOR-
DON'S.—Another of those most extensive and mysterious rob-
beries of jewellery, which have of late so much occupied the
public attention, was committed at a late hour on Thursday
night, or early on Friday morning, at the residence of the
Duchess of Gordon, No. 34, Belgrave-square, Pimlico. Her
Grace on Thursday attended the Drawing-room, on which
occasion she was most splendidly decorated with jewellery of
immense value, consisting of diamonds, pearls, amethysts, eme
raids, and other costly articles, set in fine gold, which were
deposited, with other valuables, in the dressing-room of the
Duchess, on her return from the Palace of St. James's. Be-
tween ten and eleven o'clock on the following morning it was
discovered that the greater portion of the jewellery, of the
estimated value of upwards of 6,0001., had been abstracted
from the place in which it had been deposited. Information
of the robbery was instantly given at the Bow-street and
Queen-square offices, and three of the principal officers of
those establishments repaired to her Grace's residence, for the
purpose of making the necessary inquiries ; but the whole af-
-fair appears to be involved in so much mystery at present, as
to make it a matter of doubt whether the real facts will ever
be brought to light. The officers, we understand, are of the
decided opinion that no forcible entry was made into the house
to effect the robbery. There is, consequently, no doubt that
the act was committed by some person or persons well ac-
quainted with the premises. Neither expense nor trouble,
however, will be spared to bring the party to justice, and a
reward of 6001. has been offered by the Duke of Gordon ;
2001. to be paid on conviction of the party, and 400/. on re-
covery of the property, or in proportion for any part thereof.
Her Majesty having heard that the Duchess of Gordon was
robbed of her jewels on Thursday last, after the Drawing-
room, sent Lady Howe to offer her. the loan of any jewels she
might require.

NEW AND COMPLETE EDITION OF COWPER,
BY THE REV. MR. GRISISHANVE.--( From the Literary Ga-
zette.)—" We perceive from advertisements in the newspapers
and elsewhere, that there is a grand affray about the republi-
cation of Cowper. Southey, it seems, had announced it, or
been engaged as biographer and editor by those who did ; but
in the meantime, while he is mending his pen, out comes the
Rev. Mr. Grimshawe with such peculiar advantages, as almost
to annihilate the hopes of any successor. For however admi-
rably the life of the Poet may be dressed up by one or other,
it is from his own correspondence alone that we can look for
any new interest worthy of our consideration. And it seems
that Mr. Grimshawe is in possession of this attractive adjunct,
which even in this (the first) volume before us, is so full of
grace and beauty as to force us to think that this edition of
Cowper is likely to be widely popular. Cowper's Private
Correspondence (which can only be found in this edition) is
quite worthy of his highest repute as an epistolary and elegant
writer."

The returns of imports, exports, and tonnage of
shipping, recently printed by order of the House of Commons,
and to which we referred on Friday last, to show the consi-
derable increase that has taken place in the employment of
shipping, afford equal satisfactory evidence of the activity in
our foreign trade, especially in some of the most important
branches of our manufactures, the declared value of which
exported from the ports of the United Kingdom during last
year having exceeded the exports of the preceding year up-
wards of 2,000,0001., viz. :

. ,
Declared value exported in 1833 .
Ditto ditto in 1834 .

.E34,489,:3734
36,541,926

Increase in 1834
It is also gratifying to observe a corresponding augmentation
in the imports of the raw material, as exhibited in the returns
made of the quantities of the following articles landed :-
1833. 1834. Increase.
Raw silk imports ... 2,785,1091 b. 3,663,9561 b. 878,8471 b.
Ditto do. waste, &c.. 649,4511 b. 1,012,9331 b. 363,48.511).
Sheep's wool 38,046,0871b. 46,455,4221 b. 8,409,3351 b.
Olive oil 1,891,918g15. 2,320,638g15. 421,920g1s
which articles are chiefly used by the manufacturers, whilst
the receipts of the Customs on the latter article, notwithstand-
ing the great reduction in the duty, exceeded those of the
previous year, thus adding another to the many instances in
the history of fiscal regulation that a reduction► in duty is
frequently followed by an augmentation of the revenue.—
Morning Paper.

PERSIA.—By accounts from Persia, we learn that
Dr. Ross, the civil surgeon at the Bagdad residency, had
officially announced that the plague had ceased there as well
as through Mesopotamia. It seems to have been very fatal,
from three to four thousand persons having fallen victims not-
withstanding upwards of fifteen thousand Mahometans and four
thousand Jews had fled to the desert. The Christians had
kept a strict quarantine, and the panic was so great that it
was difficult to get persons to carry the dead to the grave.
The number of those who died in the villages was not known.
At Kermanshaw the infection still existed, and the deaths
amounted to thirty daily. The disease is said never to have
entirely ceased since its first appearance in 1831, only sub-
siding in virulence during the cold or very hot weather, and
breaking out again in the spring and autumn. Fears were
consequently entertained that it would again reach Bagdad,
the wretched system of the Government precluding the
slightest hope of any measures being adopted to prevent its
recurrence. It appears that 2,000 stand of arms and 200
tons of shrapnel shells and other artillery stores had been
sent by the English Government to Trebisond for the Per-.
sians, but little benefit can be anticipated from this when it is
known that the 3.000 muskets sent some years ago from India
were still at Bagdad.
A considerable sensation has been excited at Market
Rasen and in the neighbourhood within the last few days by the
perpetration of one of the most dialeolical and daring tffences it
has ever been our painful duty to notice. On Friday morning
last Mr. John Kirman, of Walesby, a very respectable farmer,
discovered a young horse of the cart kind dead in the field,
and in the course of the day this sudden loss was increased by
the death of three other horses, which had been depastured
in the same field. Mr. Hargrave, veterinary surgeon, of
Caistor, was immediately sent for, and on opening the horses
a quantity of arsenic was found to have been administered to
each of them with their corn, and a small portion of corn
which had been left in their crib also contained arsenic. The
horses were all young ones and promised to become useful and
valuable. No clue has yet been obtained to the offender, al-
though the respect felt towards Mr. Kirman by all who are
acquainted with him will insure the greatest exertions in
bringing the miscreant to justice._Kentish Mercury.
FlRE.—Yesterday a fire broke out in the shop of
Mr. Valentine, a dealer in curiosities, nearly opposite to
Madame Vestris' Theatre, but was fortunately prevented ex-
tending further than the shop. It appears that a person called
on Mr. Valentine to sell a curiosity, and, there being no light
in the shop, a piece of lighted paper was brought in, the sparks
from which fell under the counter among sonic rubbish, which
speedily ignited.

n inquest was held on Saturday at Streatham, on
the body of Master John James Worthington, aged 13, of
Thornton-row, Clapham New Park. It appeared that the
youth had been missing some days, and was last seen near a
pond at Streatham amusing himself, with two others about the
same age. His body was afterwards discovered in the said
pond, but there being no evidence to show by what means the
deceased got into the water, the Jury returned a verdict of
" Found drowned."

SHOCKING MURDER AT BOLTON.

(From the Manchester Advertiser.)
A most extraordinary sensation has been created in Bolton
since Friday week, arising from a rumour that two children
on Bolton Moor had been poisoned by their own father. The
facts which transpired at the Coroner's inquest on the bo-.
dies of the deceased, on Monday last, are as follows:
John Orrell, the father of the two children, the eldest, is
girl named Elizabeth, aged eight years, and the youngest,
a boy, aged six years, removed from Heaton to a cellar is
Commission-street, Bolton Moor, on the 17th February
last. The mother of the two children was found on the
4th of that month suspended from the staircase railing at
their former residence quite dead. On the inquest some
circumstances came out which apparently implicated the
husband in the death of his wife, and he was taken into
custody, but on the adjourned inquest nothing could be
brought home to him, and he was consequently liberated.
He had then six children alive, but the elder portion of
them refused to remain longer with him, and he was left
with two whose lives have been unfeelingly sacrificed. As
we have before stated, Orell brought the two deceased
children to Commission-street on the 17th ultimo. He
had no housekeeper, nor was any one seen to visit him
except an uncle, who resides in the same street. The
children were observed by the neighbours to look well
and hearty but about seven o'clock on the Sunday mor-
ning after their arrival (the 22d) an old woman, Ann Pincock, a
neighbour, was sent for to lay out the little boy, who was dead.
None of the neighbours, with the exception of the uncle,
were aware that the child had been sick, no medical gentle-
man had been called in, but all had been kept secret. Orrell
expressed his sorrow at the loss of his boy, who he said had
died of sickness and a relaxation of the bowels. The boy was
interred on the following Tuesday in Deane churchyard, and
no more was thought of the matter ; but it was remarked by
some of the neighbours that on the day the boy was buried
the girl was on the cellar-steps, and looking very ill. On
'Wednesday (last Wednesday week) Mrs. Pincock saw the
girl several times; it vomited very much, and the father ap-
peared to pay every attention to it. Another woman, Chris-
tiana Seddon, a relation to the mother of the children, &so
called in on Wednesday, and the girl was then ♦omiting much.
Orrell paid every attention to the child, and remarked that it
would not be here long, and he should then have only him-
self to provide for. Seddon was in three times in the course
of Wednesday, and always found the child in the state she
had described. It complained much of its belly, and asked
for some cold water, but the father remarked that it must not
drink much water, as it would make it ill. Seddon wished
Orrell to send for a doctor to the child, but he replied that
it was of no use, as it would not take good stuff, and therefore
was not likely to take physic. The child died during the
night.

Suspicions having arisen, the police went to Orrell's cellar,
while he was absent. They picked the lock of the door, and, on
entering, the dead body of the girl was laid out on the bed.
They commenced searching the premise:, and, after some time,
Barrow found a dirty rag in one of the beams near the fire
place. The rag was opened, and inside was a small paper
package, with the words " arsenic—poison." On opening the
package, it was found to contain a quantity of arsenic. Fur-
ther search was made, and an empty paper, with the words

" arsenic—poison" written upon it, was found. About this
time Orrell came up amongst the crowd which had congre-
gated in the street, and asked what was to do? He was im-
mediately taken into custody, and lodged in the dungeon.
Mr. Heap opened the body of the child, and took out the sto-
mach ; there was the usual inflammatory appearances when
poison has been taken, and on testing the contents of the sto-
mach, it was found to contain arsenic sufficient to produce
death. On enquiry amongst the druggists it was ascertained
that the writing on the cover of the package found in Orrell's
cellar, was that of Mr. James Horrocks, chemist and druggist,
Bradshawgate. He could fix the time of selling two ounces
of arsenic on the 10th or 11th of February last, to a man
whom he should know again. Mr. Horrocks said that he had
seen Mr. Orrell, but he was not the man, nor was the uncle
of Orrell, whom he had seen. The man bought the arsenic
for the purpose of destroying rats, and had a witness with him
at the time, but he only came to the shop door, and Mr. Hor-
rocks took no particular notice of him. The constables have
not been able to discover whose hand-writing is on the other
paper found.

On Saturday morning a messenger was despatched to Mr.
Rutter, the Coroner, and he sent an order to disinter the boy's
body, which took place on Saturday afternoon. He was buried
in the same grave with his mother, and Mr. Heap, to satisfy
the public, took out her stomach and examined it, but it was
empty. The body of the boy (already interred) was then
opened, and presented the same appearance as that of the girl ;
on testing the contents of the stomach it was found to contain
a considerable quantity-of arsenic, sufficient to cause the death
of three or four persons. The Coroner adjourned the inquest
to Friday (yesterday), at ten o'clock in the forenoon, and the
bodies of the two children were buried in the same grave with
their mother on Monday afternoon. It was expected that the
inquest would have been held on Bolton Moor, but from the
state of the public mind in that quarter of the town, occa-
sioned by the belief that Orroll has administered the poison to
the children, the authorities deemed it prudent to hold the in.
vestigation near to the place of the prisoner's confinement.

THE STANDARD NOVELS AND ROMANCES.--
BENTLEY.-With pleasure we point public attention to this
popular collection, which has a most prosperous career, not
more, however, than it amply merits. The fictions of which
it is composed refer, with but very few exceptions, to existing
conditions of society, and form, therefore, added to their
amusement as stories, a series of striking delineations of ac-
tual life, which may now be studied with great advantage, and
will hereafter be appealed to as evidences of former manners
and opinions. For a small price (six shillings) the book-lover
may here obtain the very best works of the first novelists of
our time. To enumerate the names of the authors would be
to catalogue the greatest of our modern writers of fiction.
Beckford, Cooper, Godwin, Bulwer, Miss Austen, Mrs. Gore,
Mrs. Shelley, Banim, Gleig, the Misses Lee, Hook, Galt,
&c., have given their best books to this collection. In addi-
tion to these our native authors, Mr. Bentley has added, with
much discrimination in taste and knowledge, the most popular
productions of Victor Hugo, Madame de Stack Manzoni, and
Schiller, that the series may not be deficient in specimens of
Continental genius. The new volume contains Mr. Morier's
amusing " Adventures_ of Haiii Baba," complete, which next
to Mr. Hope's " Anastasius," and Mr. Beckford's " Vathek,"
is acknowledged to be the most perfect picture of the East
ever published. Should Mr. Bentley continue to present to
the public such works as he has already included in this ele-
gant collection (and no publisher has equal power with him-
self in this agreeable department of literature), the marked
success will assuredly be perpetuated.

UNFORTUNATEACCIDENT ON THE RAILWAY.-
We are sorry to state that an accident occurred on Saturday
week, on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, near the
St. Helen's junction, accompanied by the loss of life to one
of the enginemen of the company. Owing to one of the
switches, which had been used by a coal-engine, in passing►
from the St. Helen's line to the Liverpool and Manchester,
being left in an improper position, the engine, which was
taking the two o'clock coach-train from Liverpool to Man-
chester, was thrown off the rails, and ran across to the other
side of the road ; the engineman, by the sudden shock, was
thrown to the ground, and the engine passing over him, he
was killed on the spot. An assistant mechanic, who was on
the engine, was also thrown off, and had his foot badly hurt.
The coaches, we are happy to say, did not leave the rails,
but, after some little delay, occasioned by the above melan-
choly occurrence, were taken forward by another engine to
Manchester. An inquest was held on the body of the unfor-
tunate man, which ended in committing the gatekeeper to
Lancaster for manslaughter.—Manchester Guardian.
A LION FIGHT FOR ONE TIIOUSAND GUINEAS.

—Saturday, Mr. Charles Wheeler, the Secretary to the
" Ladies' Society for the more effectual Suppression of Cruelty
to Animals," received information that on the 11th of June
next it is intended that another lion shall be baited by dogs in
the Factory-yard at Warwick (the spot where similar exhi-
bitions took place in 1826), for no less a sum than one thou-
sand guineas ; the match to be decided in four heats, at three
dogs a heat ; the owner of the lion, whoever he may be, to
receive down before the commencement of the fight twenty
guineas, in addition to which a handsome payment will bo
made as a compensation at its conclusion. It appears that the
match in question was recently got up by first-rate sporting
characters, after the fighting of several mains of cocks, at the
New Pit, West-green, Tottenham, which is patronised and
supported b) a number of noblemen and others, and has been
built expressly for the purpose of defeating Mr. Pease's Act
prohibiting cock-fights within the distance of five miles from
the metropolis. The dogs which are to contend with the
mighty and lordly animal of the forest are to be thorough-bred
bull terriers, not exceeding 281bs. weight. It is stated that
subscription books are already open at the principal sporting
and gambling clubs in London, Liverpool, &c., in order that
the required large amount may in due time be forthcoming ;
the Ladies' Society above named is determined on sparing
neither trouble nor expense to prevent the brutalizing spectacle
taking place.

ALGIERS.—A letter from Algiers, of the 20th of
February, says—" During the late hurricane the thermometer
marked 8 7-10th degrees below zero, and the cold was insup-
portable. To-day the sea is perfectly calm, the sun shines
bright, and the thermometer is at 10 degrees below zero."
Another letter, dated Feb. 22d, states that the cholera is
raging with great violence in the states of Morocco, and par-
ticularly at Tetuan, a town about twenty leagues from Oran.
A Mussulman, ex-Secretary of the late Dey of Algiers, who
has retired to Tetuan, writes to a friend that he is left alone in
the world, the whole of his fanily, his servants, and his slaves,
having been carried off by this scourge.
ANTIQUARIAN DISCOVERY.—In the Dissenters'
burial-ground, near Dover-road, there were recently found a
sepulchral urn, fractured pieces of a metallic mirror of ele-
gant workmanship, the fragments of a glass urn, and some
glass lachrymatories in the shape of a tear. A great number
of similar urns had been previously found in digging graves
there. These relics were discovered in the old Roman Wat-
ling-street. It was the custom both with the Britons and
Gauls to deposit with the remains of the dead the ornaments
and weapons which they most esteemed in life, and to fracture
them at the time of being interred with the body or deposited
in the funeral urn.

FATAL ACCIDENT IN HYDE PA lIK.--CORO.•
NEU'S IxQuEsT.—Friday evening an inquest was held at St.
George's Hospital, Hyde Park-corner, before Mr. Higgs and
a respectable Jury, on view of the body of William Clemsey,
aged 21, late footman to Lady Buller, of No. 6, York-terrace,
Regent's-park, who was killed by falling from behind the car-
riage. Verdict--" Accidental Death."