The Sun.
London, England, 1835-03-16 00:00:00

in TO LORD JOHN RUSSELL

go-4 been determined by the Reform Members of the
the Fee Commons to give a dinner to Lord John Russell, at
the :rlasons' Tavern, on the 28th inst., on which occasion
adopt will be taken by Lord iliorpeth. This resolution.
Att,, tod at a meeting held on Wednesday last, and which
,tlsitivebed by the following circular letter :
ellienr,.."-cit having been proposed by a large number of. gelid-
'at tt"'ao voted in the two majorities on the Speakership an
t"f,tiss 1-ei,lkirbent, that a Dinner should be given to Lord J.
,13,:i0t"„7 as many of those who joined in either or both of
i;taiolse-t;;I as may be so disposed, we, the movers and seconders
avers tais ti- blotions, are requested to invite you, if you concur
on tet, to attend a meeting at the Thatched House
gragern4t2 for e,rednesday next,
.at two o'clock, to consider of the
carrying it into effect.

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4qateh n
1,,.. I'l 1835.#.

" WM. DENISON,
" W. ORD,
" MORPETH,
" M. BANNERMAN.

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Ali 4- r", RN CAMPBELL'S BILL FOR
SHIN G IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT.
t Altho
f4lshis-a4terfil______,E,„____
1-3
41' VI we üblished a full abstract from this Bill, upobrei
enessotOPPeararipee two ears ago, we are now induced, by t
Portanco' of the measure, and the time which has un-
til, L Y elapsed in attempting to obtain for it the sanction
tfth egislar lay before our readers a short summary
e eh, ure, to
~ Plaintiff
clauses of the Bill.
:'qe, "illriff on a bond, or bill of exchantre, or promissory
„11,.thesi„7it'g that such is due, and that 'demand was made
got] -•eoat before the commencement of the suit, to b. e
he pled to a
.. ,
For signed rule of Court, giving.
404 unless
~ defendant give, within ten days, security
'the sin,ark( costs or shew cause why judgment should
"etl, liezied against' him. If not, judgment, shall b. eso
111 t, debt be paid within ten days after judg-
toil tilt defendant not
summoned before the Com-
p .0 shall be
his
10,""4, r4i,sio_'er be examined. touchinga property. The
ittr aufaci_n will then assign to Trustee, appointed by him-
tile Shoriecrnt of defendant's property to discharge the debt.
to plaintiff of
be Proper 11 or other officer to deliver executiono_ tat'lti 7atY (whether freehold, copybold), or other tenure, t.
to- °es efea-,allt. All stock, funds, or annuities of the defendant
kba- oe.atr—sferred toplaintiff, and all obligations and securities
C Navin assigned to the latter. Any debtor owing 2.0.0/
the Coa,:"g assets to the amount of 501., may petition
"'et ts, '4l by furnishing a true account of his debts and
. aild giving notice of such intention to each
oboes eredito
ll'oh'il by creditorsAn official
e,41.14 and
securities shall ointed by Court, and all
Is idle, fore ~be transferred e
to him. Petitioner to ap-
ned • and if he do not,
he ref Commissioner when summoned ,
;Ile,;kaybe,ise to answer on oath the Commissioner's enquiries,
0 over—,e,°romitted to prison until he does. The same power to
--'e
titio info,. . ieof a petitioner,
f., 4,,, lation upon, or connected with,
the affairs of a pe-
mit 1••• Persons -, of a petitioner to for-
b Ow concealing property
Assig-
'el'ho '' or double the value of property concealed. . . _
lel ac
,
h, kseri Wits to be audited within six
be released from
13 debt 'bin twelvemonths. Petitioner to
to, ;„
his crech-
" 012 his certificate be signed by four-fifths.. of .
t, r 0/,
141) q or six months after filing his petition, if signed
14:4111ere%,.fift,118 in number and value, or by nine-tenths in
s„, %if
-'4l also if Commissioner certifies that haftseiioneh vlia ruled to the Act, and if petitioner swear uc
41 ekt ~,,
t,,,e, 1,,'" obtained without fraud. If estate pays lOs. i'n
1-°l3° '''', petitionerto be allowed five per cent. on
Nit skotnt
exceeding
4001. ; if 12s. in the
lii (1, 71 ' if not . • 5001. ; and if 15s.
it th, Per cent., if not exceeding
111/1111d t/ • but
not exceeding GOO . ,
to "Rate d_
what, en per cent.,o
ifin the pound, petitioner only
to rotate oatssi-irodeusceanld
sc.ommissioners think fit, and not
f
:'11111bs",,(1 3 Per cent., or 3001. Petitioners convicted.
11l 1- or fraudulent 'practices not to receive the foregoing
kg_ sites, Persons
..
1,1„, oR fr„., obtaining goods under false pretences, or
fraudulent transfers of their
p,'Pesty lualdently, or making N.'" uc 141 '' -1 for two years. A petitioner
th •io. prisone. one or
for
t 5 enye"irc'e concealing his property may be transported.his
ac_
1148• A petitioner making a false statement in .
q nor
h.hriiis,absconding or concealing himself, to be deemed guilty'
o,l`elheanor. No person to be arrested unless on oath that
ekee "'Jut to ab ot „ , or in scond.; and all persons
in custody on mesne
fo,.`:l4's Act, to elLecildt.lonh t on the commencement
of Judd. gmpeenrs,ens
may
be imprisoned 4kkktitslaetion of tort olsretraersgpeass to person or property. Upon
ce04,1:4 a creditor for 20/., that he believes debtor is about to
It , theY8an that an action will be commenced within. four
4 C°M
• • Justice of the Peace may issue a
ptr, kit fo tnissioner or a
ttilerty r aPPrehension of such debtor. No arrest to exempt
t:rtgm to of debtor from liability to his debts. Debtor so ar-
y, and renlain in custody until examined respecting his pro-
1, dek he shall haveconformed to this Act.—No attorney
hie, am mo .
a t° he
hung up in re than the fees fixed by tho Court, a copy of
uethe Court.

oi q11,,,,..p
°ll NI 4aLAcLet any body enter one of these
e
loll;
retajimememiums, and survey the countenances of _
tA otee, ion.s there assembled. The inebriated. eye and sal-
of
eof
ttit_ w.ill meet his view on all sides, proving the inag
I,,?litit .ne. evil. At night, more especially, intoxication,_
}',ette„rat.l,fied its thirsty ropensity, stalks forth primed for
'thin th:nu ready for crimep -Vice and folly hold their court
h;tilf,,Poll3l:-,41, and are rendered trebly vicious and foolish by the
th 'nations furnished from the vile tubs which, as it were,
(4)4lth :
„battery of these villainous holds. How much the
otNtirli.rl,li Morals of the lower classes are deteriorated by the.
litiljuipdtz,n of the stuff vended in these wholesale laboratories
livllla trp re' the medical practitioner knows full well. De-
ItIZ 411d-rnotehns, i.r-digestiori, and an endless train of diseased
Veas er, viscera, claim this as their cause, while the
itt,ilts,,,ercitement induced by throwing large quantities of
JPii,% %et's' It (or some compound which sets analysis at defiance),
% tt'inach, leads to results mischievous in the highest
4riica.° Morality and decency. —London Med. and Slay.

LITERATURE.

HISTORY OF ENGLAND. VoL. XIV.
Valpy, London, 1835.

The volume before us is the first of the Rev. Mr.
Hughes's continuation of Hume's and Smollett's His-
tory of England. It is introduced by a preliminary
essay, something after the manner of " Robertson's
Summary of the Leading Events of Modern Europe,",
from an early period down to the birth of Charles the
Fifth, and displays much and patient research. Mr.
Hughes is a temperate, and, so far as we have been
enabled to judge, an accurate historian, though he
occasionally betrays a defect of judgment in giving
undue importance to trifles. Thus he dilates on the
coronation of George the Third, giving all the gossip,
and anecdote, and tittle-tattle that occurred during the
• ceremony, rather as if he were a newspaper recorder,
than a historian, of the event. What do readers of
the present day care to know that Earl Talbot, the
High Steward, " contrived to offend as many persons
as possible during the ceremony ; and took away the
table of the Knights of the Bath, and that of the
Barons of the Cinque Ports." Gossip like this is be-
neath the dignity of the historic character. If we ex-
cept these occasional blemishes, Mr. Hughes's history
is just what such a history should be—clear, nervous,
and singularly faithful in its details. His portrait of
the Earl of Chatham exhibits a union of all those qua-
lifications ; though, after Macauley's late splendid
sketch of that consummate statesman, in the Edin-
burgh Review, all other sketches 'appear common-
place.

DEATH; WITH OTHER POEMS.
EY ROBERT MO:VTGOMERY, B.J.
Ffllll Edition. _London : Simkin and Marshall, 1835.
This little volume, which we have no doubt will
become an especial favourite with the, public, contains
a very pleasing poem called the " Stage Coach" which
is now published for the first time. It is more chaste
in style, simple in detail, and natural in scenery and
developement, than most of the author's highly prized
productions. It recalled to our memory some of the
sweetest and most graphic lines of Goldsmith's
" Deserted Village." We have always thought that
the first poem ill this volume, " Death," contained
the germ of more poetic feeling than any of Mr.
Montgomery's other pieces ; and it is with pleasure
we observe that in this edition, he has spared no pains
to perfect it by a most careful revision. several lines
of great beauty have been introduced, and the frequent
exuberances of diction have been pruned, with every
regard to critical taste, and sound judgment.
There are few poems of the same length, in any
language, in which such a variety of striking passages
are to be met with as in Mr. :Montgomery's " Death,"
although in most instances too laboured. The follow-
ing are fine conceptions, breathing throughout a spirit
of imaginative poetry :
Alone upon the leaping billows, lo !
What fearful Image works its way ? A ship !
Shapeless and wild, as by the Storm begot ;
Her sails dishevell'd, and her massy form
Disfigur'd, yet tremendously sublime :
Prowless and hclmless through the waves she rocks,
And writhes, as if in drowning agony !
Like valour when amid o'erwhelming foes,
The vessel combats with the battling waves,—
Then, fiercely dives below !—the Thunders roll
A requiem; and the Whirlwinds howl for joy !
The scene bath chang'd into a curtain'd room,
Where a wan semblance of the mourful sun
Lies dreaming on the walls ! Dim-eyed and sad,
And dumb with agony, two parents bend
O'er a pale image, in a coffin laid,
More exquisite than death in marble looks,—
Their infant once, the laughing. leaping boy,
The bud of life, the nursliag of their souls !
Pain touch'd him, and the life-glow fled away,
Swift as a gay hour's fancy: fresh andcold
As winter's shadow, with his eyelids seal'd
Like violet lips at eve, he lies enrobed
An offering to the grave ; but, bright and pure
The infant martyr hath to heaven return d,
To lisp its hallelujahs with their choirs
Of sinless babes, imparadised above.

The grand arena, where insatiate Death
Drags every day his hundreds to the tomb,—
London the huge, earth's capital and queen,
In dim array magnificently spread,
Towers into vision now ! not sending forth
The hum and clamour of her myriad streets,
Made awful by the roar of life ; but stretch'd
In mute immensity, beneath a sky
Of midnight, breathless with the summer glow.
And now, within their eurtain'd chambers lie
What hosts of beings, of all age and clime !
Some laugh in dreams ; and some with laden hearts
Mutter strange secrets ; others quake and groan,
And kindle darkness with a torch of hell !
Now steals the murd'rer from his den ; now hies
The robber to his haunt ; and from their lanes
And unfrequented walks, the haggard shapes
Of poverty and crime come creeping forth,
Like spectres crawling out of dusky tombs !
The heavens are visor'd ! hark ! the dreary howl
Of Thunder challenging the night ; or, like
An unseen monster, moaning as he prowls
Awhile 'tis hush'd ; then flash the riven clouds
Asunder, and a lake of lightning gleams,
Like shining water, through the cloven dark,
While rain-drops hiss along the sultry air.
Woe to the houseless wand'rer, doom'd to walk
Through the drench'd streets barefooted, or bereft
Of life's sweet charities, at such an hour :
Glance down yon lane of gloom !--upon the cold
And dripping steps,—with garments moistly clung
Round her shrunk form,— lifeless woman lies,
With face upturn'd unto the flooding shower.
Despair bath just unlink'd the chain of life ;
And on her cheek an agoning trace
Of parting spirit, as it work'd and writhed,
And with the body wrestled,—still remains.
Approach ! and with the. lamp-beam learn her fate.
In mournful lines upon her visage mapp'd,—
A chronicle of sorrow, and of sin,
And shame, whose fountain is a brain of fire :
A heart for ever on the rack of care ;
Oppression from without, and pangs within ;
Despair,—then death, the master-cure of woe,—
Survey her features, and you read it all !

. The Morn beheld
A beauteous city, with the floods of life
Billowing loudly through her million paths !
Her temples bathed their heads in azure sheen;
Her rivers spread themselves along in joy;
The spirit of the world, within her walls,
Inspiring walk'd ; by noon the sun grew red,
And glared his fierceness through the sky, till forth
From out the swarthy womb of heaven, the Plague
Exhaled her breath, that with a viewless flow
ITnroll'd itself through all the living town,
Which, sudden as an ocean chain'd—grew dumb !
The old man faded like a blasted tree,
Then dropp'd into the dust ; and he whose cheeks
Were round and fair, with eyes of lustrous youth,
From beauty wither'd to a yellow wreck,
Distorted and decay'd, till Madness came,
And shrieking, shuddering, writhed herself to death !
Along each river crept the Plague : then hush'd,
The grinding cables ! and the barges lay
Like dead sea-monsters on the ocean stretch'd ! •
E'en on the mead with grassy fleece bedeck'd,
Where the gay urchin drove the whirling ball
Fleet as a bird along the sunny air,—
The Pestilence her burning vapour breathed ;
Each limb relax'd, upturn'd his darken'd lids,
And from his ghastly eyeballs glared the pest !
From house to house the hot infection stole ;
All gladness changed to gloom, and not a smile
In the whole city lived ! Within the fane,
Amid the pillar'd aisle, while lowly knelt
In all the holiness of virgin love
The fair-zoned bride of beauty,—;•arne the Pest !
She coil'd, and shiver'd like a wounded dove ;
Her form grew wild, and as the bridegroom watch'd
The heaven reflected from her face depart,
Contagion clasp'd him in her fiery arms,
His spirit whirl'd within him, and he fell,
And o'er his lov'd one yell'd his life away !
But in the tomb-fill'd churchyard, what a howl
From the parch'd throats of mourners came ! for there,
The graves were brimm'd with corses, and around
Unburied dead lay blackening in the air,
While shades of being stagger'd by the heaps
Of friends, and relatives together piled:—
Such was the revelry of horrid Death,
And when at last by God himself recall'd,
The Sun of health arose, his eye beheld
A city hush'd as one enormous tomb!

More than 3000 persons paid a penny each, on
Sunday last, to walk on the footpath of the London and
Greenwich railway.
HALIFAX ELEcTioN.---Thc petition against the
return of the Honourable J. S. Wortley for the borough of
Halifax, has been forwarded to London. We understand the
petitioners to be Messrs. Rawdon Briggs, George B. Browne,
and Joseph Nicholson. On behalf of Mr. Wortley, Lord
Wharncliffe has sent his solicitor from London to prepare what
is necessary for defending the petition ; and report says that
his Lordship is prepared to expend 10,0001., if it be required,
for the protection of his son's seat in Parliament. In the event
of another election Christopher Rawson, Esq., has intimated
that he shall offer himself as a candidate along with Mr. Wort-
ley. —Hull Observer.

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH 16, 1835.

T. AN ACCOUNT of the NET Pt
IRELAND,—In the Year ending 51
several Revenue Departments, and o;
plied to the Redemption of unded,
&c.

P.A.RLIA.MENTARY PAPERS.

IBLIC INCOME of the UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN AND
th January, 1835, after abating the EXPENDITURE thereout defraded by the
f the Actual Issues or Payments within the same Period ; exclusive of the Sums ap-
or paying off Unfunded Debt, and of the Advances and Repayments of Local Works,

Applicable to the Applicable to EXPENDITURE.
Income or Revenue. Consolidated the Public Total.l
Fund. - Service. Funded Debt.
----- -- Interest and Management of the
•
Ordinary Revenues and Re- Pennanent Debt 24,15%879 3 Ilf
ceipts. Terminable Annuities 3,653,922 12 5.1. Customs £ 15,393,128 118 7 3,009,400 0 0 18,40 ),!128 IS
Excise
•
Stamps 7,016,726 :13 3 —7,016,72 f: 13 3 Debt,exclusive of 6,2764(6.6(1.
Taxes
Post-Office
and Four Shillings on Pen. Unfunded Del.d.
sions and Salaries
Small Branches of the King's
---.. 28,504,0,15 19 1 f
Hereditary Revenues
Surplus Fees of Regulate, Annuities and Pensions for Civil,
Public Offices 20,080 2 4 £O,OBl 2 4 Naval, Military, and Judicial
Poundage Fees, l'ells Fees, Services, &c., charged by va.
&c. in Ireland 3,9A 1 Ilk 3,993 1 11f rious Acts of Parliament on the
- ---------..- Consolidated Fund 507-?,509 17 5
£ 43,115,163 10 fli 3,009,400 0 0 46,4_5,263 10 9i Salaries and Allowances
Other Receipts. Diplomatic Salaries and Pensions 181,448 (1 10,1
Courts of Justice
Imprest and other monies ... 1',531 810 338 3 1 18,912 11 11 Miscellaneous Charges on the
Money received from the East Consolidated Fnnd
India Company
2,270,152 16 8
Money received from the
Bank of England on account
30,774,248 13 9
of Uneldimed Dividends ... 5,680 7 6 5,688 7 6 Army 6,491,025 43j
......._...,„. _....._. .--........_*_. Navy
Miscellaneous; chargeable upon
the Annual Grants of Pariia
inert
11,127,452 2 I
•
144,14.11,700 17 10;
Surplus of Income over Expenditure £; 1,003,15 i 12 -It

I.—AN ACCOUNT of the BALANCES of PUBLIC M(
1834; the Amount of Money raised by the Additions to the
January 1835 ; the Money applied towards the Redemption oi
of Advances and Repayments on Account of Local Works,
in the Exchequer on the sth January 1844

Balances in the Exchequer on the sth Janu
ary, 1934

Money raised in the Year ended sth Jan,
la'Z, by the creation of Unfunded Debt.

Exchequer Bills per Act 4 Win. IV. e. 3 14,0(0,001)
4 and 5 W. IV. c. 53 13,825,200

Publ:c Works, I and '2 W. IV. c. 44
Ireland c.:13

166,600
73,950

For Relief to Sufferers in the West India
Islands, per 2 and 3 W. IV. c. 125 454,900

For the Relief of owners of Tithes in Ireland,
per 3 and 4 W. IV. c. IOU

.--T.-i..i7

4,943,399 1 2

21),:320,630 0 0
Surplus of Income over Expenditure

£35,872.‘:04 13 W 4

146; a

Whitehall, Treasury Chambers, Feb. '29, 1335.0

.T 1 10 21-

NE Y Remaining in the EXCHEQUER on the sth January
'UNDED or UNFUNDED DEBT, in the Year ended sth
the Funded, or paying off Unfunded Debt ; the Total Amount
kc., with the Difference accruing thereon; and the Balances

X
1 X s. cf.
Issued to the Commissioners for the
Reduction of the National Deb',
to be applied to the Redemption of
Funded debt.
By Issues per Act 10 Geo. IV. c. 27 1,770,102 2 6%
By Interest on Donations and Be-
quests
1,-76,378 9 W 4
Paymasters of Exchequer Bills, for
the Payment of Unfunded Debt 27,832,1'50 0 0
The total Amount of Advances for
Local Works, and other purposes
under the authority of various
Acts ofParliament withinthe Year 2,014,513 0 9%
Ditto, Repayments for ditto 618,731 9 10%

Excess ofAdvances over Repayments
Balances in the Exchequer on sth
January 183:i

1,395,781 10 11
4,8;7,994 13 7

£35,872,201 •13 6

THOS. F. FREMANILE.

lchich the integrity of the empire consists, and that we shall
ever be ready with our properties and lives to rally round the
Throne in support of your Majesty's just prerogative.
[ Here follow the signatures.]

ANSWER to the foregoing ADDRESS of the Members of the
ROYAL LI: EIIER LODGE, NO. 1,483.
Whitehall, December, 18, 1834.
S►R,--I have bad the honour to lay before the King the
loyal and dutiful address from the individuals whose names are
attached thereto, which accompanied your letter of the
13th instant.
And I have the satisfaction to inform you, that his Majesty
was pleased to receive the same in the most gracious manner.
I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant,
(Sig►ned) WELLINGTON.
G. M. Forster, Esq., 7, Gardiner's-place, Dublin.

TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY

Sire—We, the undersigned, being masters, deputy-masters
and officers of the several. Orange lodges of the city of Dublin,
forming the Grand Lodge thereof, beg leave to approach your
Majesty with all that warm attachment to your royal person
for which, as Orangemen, we have been ever characterized.
We hereby reiterate our attachment to those Protestant
principles which, under God, placed your Majesty's illustrious
family on the throne of these realms. _

We humbly offer our most sincere thanks to your Majesty
for your gracious and Christian declaration in favour of the
Church, which we, as loyal subjects, are determined to main-
tain through evil and good report.
We further beg leave to express our deep-felt gratitude for
the exercise of the royal prerogative, which, as the father of
your people, you have acted on in the dismissal of your late re-
volutionary Ministers.
In humble confidence that the Almighty will vouchsafe to
your Majesty a long and happy reign for the maintenance of
those institutions established by your predecessor of glorious
memory, and that your Majesty will follow in the footsteps of
your late most illustrious father in the footsteps of your late
most illustrious Father in the support of the remnant of our
once incomparable (and we had hoped immortal) Constitution
in Church and State
And we are Sire,
Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects.
[Here follow the signatures.]

ANSWER to the foregoing Address of the Members of the
several Orange Lodges of the City of Dublin.
Whitehall, Jan. 21, 1835.
Sir—l have had the honour to lay before the King the loyal
and dutiful address signed by you and others on the late change
of administration, which address accompanied your letter of
the 23d instant.

And I have the satisfaction to inform you, that his Majesty
was pleased the same in the most gracious manner.
I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
( Signed) H. GOULBURN.
J. J. Butler, Esq., Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin.

No address from any Orange Lodge in the County of
Down has been received or laid before the King by the Secre-
tary of State, or answered by the Secretary of State.

DEATH OF THE EARL OF CHARLEMONT.—
We regret to state the demise of this nobleman, which we
understand took place yesterday from apoplexy. His Lord-
ship had, we have heard, been at the Bank of Ireland in the
morning, apparently in the enjoyment of excellent health.—
Stewart's Despatch.

ELECTION EXPENSES OF THE WAKEFIELD
REFORMERS.—Mr. Gaskell's Committee, after paying the
whole of the innkeepers' and tradesmen's bills, had a surplus
of one hundred pounds, which sum has been deposited at the
bank as a " nest-egg" for future occasions. The bills, we
understand, underwent the strictest scrutiny, and in most of the
cases a voluntary discount of five per cent. was allowed.
Hull Obvnier.

TETBURY.—Considerable excitement prevailed in
this town last week, in consequence of R. Butler having taken
a considerable quantity of laudanum. Every effort was made
to counteract its effect, but without success. Ho died that
night. An inquest was hold before Mr. G. H. Ball, the Co-
roner. Verdict—" Febo de se." The unfortunate man was
buried between nine and twelve o'clock in the night of Friday,
pursuant to the directions of the recent Act. He has left a
wife and four infant children.

The Commission will be opened at
,Stafford on
Monday. The Calendar, we regret to say, presents a
dreadful catalogue of crime. Among the prisoners awaiting
trial six are charged with murder.— Worcester Herald.

In one department of the United States habitual
drunkenness has been medically treated as a species of mad-
ness, and that with the most successful result to the individual.
This description of maniac, having been taken in a paroxysm,
has been caught, conveyed to an hospital, blistered, his head
shaved, and the whole artillery of medicine let loose upon him,
so as to require no repetition.
ROAD IMPROVEMENT BETWEEN LAUNCESTON
AND FAimouTu.—We noticed a short time since the com-
pletion of a new line of road for avoiding the long steep and
dangerous hill at Lanivet, two miles west of Bodmin, we are
now enabled to state that Castle- street Hill, the eastern en-
trance into Bodmin, another most serious obstacle in this line
of communication, has been overcome by a new approach into
the town. This new road, commencing at the left near Cally
with Turnpike Gate, one mile east of Bodmin, crossing
Cooksland Common, and enclosures into Prior's Barn Lane,
entering the town by Vicarage, Priory House, Wright's
Brewery, and the Church-yard into Hone-street, was on
Monday last completed and thrown open.—Cornwall Gazette.
A shoemaker of Brussels has just been married to
a fifth wife. although only about forty years of age. He mar-
ried successively, and a few months after the death of each,
three sisters. He took his fourth wife very soon after the
death of the third sister, and it is not long since he followed
his fourth wife to the grave.—Brussels Paper.

AWFULLY SUDDEN DEA TII.--Mr. Thomas
Watkins, of Chepstow, went into the Lord Nelson Inn, in that
town, between the hours of five and six in the afternoon of
Saturday last, and after being seated about five minutes, fell
in a fit of apoplexy, and almost instantly expired. Medical
assistance was immediately procured, but it was of no avail.
The deceased had for many years been in the Excise, held the
office of supervisor, and was superannuated with a pension about
two years_ ago. He was 51 years old, and had been in bad
health for some time. On the following Monday, an inquest
eras held on the body, before Benjamin Meredith Bradford,
Esq. the Coroner, and a respectable jury. Verdict—Died by
the visitation of God.—Monmouth Mercury.

ROYAL INGENUITY—RICHARD THE FIRST.--
Richard himself, during his captivity, stultified, if such an ex-
pression can be used, his ow 9 letters patent in general. In a
writ or letter addressed to the then Justiciar, he directs that no
faith be given to any instrument used in his name, though pro-
duced by a messenger coming directly from him, unless the
same be to his honour and profit. Richard was beset with ap-
plicants and suitors ; and in order to rid himself of their im-
portunities, he appears to have adopted this ingenious plan of
granting hat was asked, with a secret defeazance, annulling
whatever grant or promise it might not be convenient for
him to observe. This conduct, subversive of all good faith,
utterly prevents us from ascertaining whether any particular
instrument was or was not issued by Richard, with the intent
that it should be observed. Our uncertainty was increased by
the knowledge that letters were repeatedly counterfeited in
his name by his brothers.—Palgrave.