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THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, FEBAUARY 12, 1844.

mittee. He was sorry the Honourable Member
for Finsbury had so misunderstood him as to
imagine that a violation of the law and a breach
of the peace had been necessary to daraw his attention
to this subject. The attention of the Government had
not been directed to the subject until after themajesty
of justice had been fully vindicated in South Wales.
What he had stated was, that he was aware that not
only in South Wales and the north of Eng•
land, but throughout the country generally,
public opinion was very strong on the subject of the
bastardy clauses, and that in deference to that opi-
nion, he had thought it his duty to re-consider the
subject. He had not proposed to revert to the ancient
law, but to separate the subject of bastardy alto-
gether from the subject of the poor law—an altera-
tion in which In thought the House would acquiesce.
He had two questions to answer, one from the Hon,
Gentleman opposite (Mr. Berkeley), and the other
from his Hon. Friend behind him. The former
question was, whether parish officers would be justi-
fied in refusing relief on the ground that no order
had been applied for ?
Mr. BERKELEY—No. It was, would they re-
quire women who had bastard children to affiliate
those children ? _ _ _

Sir J. GRAHAM said the claims for relief in such
case would be decided in exactly the same manner as
the claims of widows with children born in wedlock.
He thought the answer would be sufficient for his
Hon. Friend the Member for Kilmarnock (as we un-
derstood), namely, whether in the case of illegitimate
children a different provision would be made to those
children born in wedlock. In answer to his Hon.
Friend the Member for the West Riding of York-
shire, he had to state that the schools would extend
over a district of fifteen miles to each school. The
Hon. Member for Rochdale had inquired whether,
in the present Bill, there would be any alteration in
the law of settlement, and he (Sir James Graham)
had to state that, since the recent decisions in the
Court of Queen's Bench, it had been determined to
re-model the law of settlement, and to introduce a
separate and distinct measure on the subject.
Mr. J. S. WORTLEY begged to express his gra-
tification at the nature of the measure introduced by
the Right Hon. Baronet, which would be a consider-
able relaxation in the present law—without believing
that would entirely satisfy the Hon. Member for
Knaresborough (Mr. Ferrand), and others who
were strongly opposed to the present law. He
thought it would be hailed with great satisfaction,
and he hoped a, still further relaxation would be in-
troduced of that severe provision of the acts which en-
forced the separation of aged men from their wives.
The question was then put from the Chair, and the
Bill was introduced and read a first time. _

By yesterday the Times seems to have got aware
that it had grasped at a subject too big and hot to
handle, at least in the above summary style. Accord-
ingly it " aggravates its voice, and roars you like
any nightingale :"—" As for Lord Clanricarde's pro-
found surmise, that if not an inquiry into the ' land-
lord and tenant' question, it ought to be termed one
into fixity of tenure,' we acquit Lord Devon of
being such a mountebank as to undertake a
grave examination into the merit of a thing
which, like ' fixity of tenure,' if it have any significa-
tion at all, must mean unblushing confiscation of
every landlord's property, and nothing else in the
world. Fixity of tenure must be perpetuity of tenure
—that is to say, if a tenant have his occupancy at
will, or for a short lease, this new talisman called
' fixity,' is to transform a short term into a long one,
and the tenant into the owner of his farm." The
Times has evidently become wary of pursuing its
slashing style of Tuesday, about " the right
to live, original and inalienable, against the right
to possess, the creation of conventional society."
Every relation between men, excepting cutting each
others' throats, is the creation of society. What does
the original and inaliernible right to live amount to in
the case, for instance, of the savage, who has laid in
no store of provisions for the winter ? We remember
a description, in one of the recent voyages of Polar
discovery, of groups of starving beings gathering round
the travellers, who had made a cache of provisions
for their winter use. These savages tacitly recognised
"the right to possess, the creation," as the civili,ed
Times calls it of conventional society,"—even when
it was exercised, as in this case, with inevitable inat-
tention to " the right to live, original and inalien-
able," in their own persons. Their supplications
were mute ; they flitted famishing, but not raging,_
round the food which they might not taste. In a
sound system, there is ne opposition between the right
to possess, and the right to live. Indeed the former
arises from the latter. There would be no living if
there was no possession. Life would be reduced to
its most precarious and lowest terms. Society has,
doubtless, an indefinite right to modify the tenure of
possession ; but, in doing so, it must have constant
reference to the stability essential to undisturbed pro-
duction, and to that unbroken confidence in law
under which only the means of production will freely
distribute themselves. We see what results even from
the partial impairing of that confidence in Ireland.
We see that the most attractive natural powers of
manufacturing production, and great cheapness and
command of labour—fail, however, to attract manufac-
tures to her shores. This is not now the fault of
England. All our home and colonial markets —all
such channels of commerce as Belgium lost, when
she separated from Holland, lie open to the sister
country, through the whole extent of the British
empire and dependencies. What prevents her profit-
ing by them ? What prevents her profiting by out-
lets enviable to half Europe ? What prevents her
obtaining capital lavished (lately): on Illinois, or
Louisiana, or Mississippi ? Nothing but her
state of internal restlessness restlessness, a
misfortune, it may be, rather than a crime
—but restlessness which, whatever may be
the misfortune of its origin, has produced habits
which, most assuredly, the true friend of Ireland,
while he would remedy all evils which law can
remedy, would denounce fearlessly—not less fear-
lessly than Dr. Doyle denounced them—than Mr.
O'Connell has denounced them in former times. Re-
peal of the union, if attained, or attainable, could
remedy the effect of these habits, which, of course,
is felt most strongly in Ireland, but has tinctured our
operative masses in England too (we refer, amongst
others, to the habit of violence in Trades Unions,
which actually drives old manufactures out; and, unless
curbed, must necessarily discourage the rise of new
ones, and which Mr. O'Connell himself has repeatedly
stigmatised with the strongest emphasis)—repeal of
the union, we say, could remedy the effect of law-
less habits in no other way than by bringing them
(the restraints of English power removed) fairly
to a head—curing agrarian and operative disaffec-
tion to law by letting loose its last extremes—
exhibiting, in short, in Ireland, one more popular
purgation of blood and 'fire—one more utter demo-
cratic revolution—to be followed—by the sort of
regimen that does follow, when those volcanoes burn out.
It is certainly not beyond possibility, that, some time
or other, English power may be unable to prevent
this Irish internal combustion. And Providence may
doubtless, in the end, educe good out of evil. But a
wise and far-sighted Government would seek strenu-
ously to obviate these extremities—not by one inquiry
or one measure—but by every measure within its
power. We shall revert to some of the suggestions
concerning the material condition of Ireland put forth
by the Edinburgh Review—by Mr. Wiggins, the
land-agent, in a volume just published, and by the
author of a pamphlet, entitled " Remarks by a Junior
to his Senior."
STANDARD.—From the commencement of the
state trials in Ireland, it has been our most anxious
wish to avoid allusion to them ; but this wish we have
not been permitted to indulge. Scarcely a day of the
last two months has passed in which we have not
been compelled to protect the interests of truth and
justice by exposing some direct falsehood or correct-
ing some miszepresentatioriput forward by those who
embrace the party of the traversers. It is a signi-
ficant circumstance, but dne which ought not to
4, reflect injuriously upon the case of the gentlemen
upon their trial—that throughout their professed
friends have been the aggressors in this matter.
From the party opposed to them in politics, no
uncandid censures of their line of defence has been
offered ; no captious objections to their evi-
dence or arguments have pioceeded, though,
if we had been disposed to take that course,
we surely could not want occasion. The ut-
most length to which the Conservative press has
gone has been to answer falsehood and the perver-
sion of indifferent facts ; and even to this length we
have proceeded with reluctance and pain. Had our
adversaries permitted, the process would have
gone on in the decent silence out of Court
due to the ad:ninistration of justice. We do not
pretend that vi e have not formed an opinion upon
the case. No man, who has paid the least at-
tention to what has been passing in Ireland for the
that he has not formed an
journals themselves, by
olaspitn dear, r, can
The honestly
Oppositionsay
the magnified the importance
of the nrepealnern whichagitation, they ebyy
their incessant taunts to
manner
the Government for so long permitting its continuance,
without some attempt to suppress or appease it,
have forbidden that any one should be without
a formed opinion upon the subject. They were suffi-
cient prompters of the prosecution if other prompters
had been wanting; and it is disgusting to see them
now crossing every step of the proceeding which,
four months ago, they urged, whether directly or in-
directly, with such factious violence. Let them say
what they may, they are as much responsible
for the prosecution as the Ministers by whom it
was instituted in their official capacity. The Oppo-
sition journals, it is true, may have urged the prose-
cutions in the hope that they might be defeated by dis-
honest means, and their conduct for the last two
months has been perfectly consistent with that
design ; but they will scarcely avow a scheme so
treacherous and disgraceful, and so repugnant to
the best interests of the country. The Morning
Chronicle of this day has another long article
upon the subject of the ten Roman Catholics set
aside upon the formation of the jury. It will be
remarked that the number of these Roman Catholic
gentlemen is now reduced from eleven, the number
originally stated, to ten—a circumstance not un-
worthy of consideration in a question where the
perfect knowledge of the religious profession and
political opinions of every person upon the panel,
assumed to be possessed by the Crown solicitor, is the
gravamen of the accusation. Hitherto, it has been
alleged that eleven Roman Catholics were set aside,
the number is now reduced to ten. There has,
therefore, been evidently a mistake as to the religious
prOfession of one gentleman, on the part of those who
have had their attention earnestly directed to the sub-
ject for weeks; but the subject of complaint is now
reduced to the mistake of the Crown solicitor as to
the political connections of two gentlemen, upon 24
hours of inquiry, with little motive to inquire
with extraordinary diligence.;, but it will, we sup
pose, be admitted, that a gentleman's temporary poli-I
tical connexion is a matter less easy to be ascertained
than the faith which lig-has professed through life.
After many weeks of dose investigation, the com-,
plainants have mistaken one Protestant Repealer for
a Roman Catholic, doubtless because he is a Repealer.
The Crown Solicitor, having twenty-four hours to
study the list, mistook two Roman Catholics, who
are not Repealers, for members of the Association.
Here is the whole of the case.

On the whole there is more business doing than for some
years past at the same period of the year, and prices,
particularly in low goods, are looking up. The ship-
ping houses still continue busy, and there has been
many buyers for the home market in the town during
the week ; in consequence a fair amount of goods
have been sold in the warehouses.

BRADFORD MARKET, FEB. B.—There is nothing
new in the piece market since our last. A consider-
able business is doing, and on all hands higher prices
are sought. Yarns continue to meet ready sale, and
the spinners are unwilling to take further orders.
There is no falling off in the demand for wool, and
as the consumption is now considerable, it is not pro-
bable that any reduction can take place for a long
time to come, as the large accumulation in the
growers' hands has been brought to the market, and
the holders here evince a disposition to seek still higher
rates than last week's quotations.
MANCHESTER, THURSDAY EVENING.—We are all
out of joint here, arising out of the advance in cotton
in Liverpool ; the prices asking are so various that it
would be absurd, or rather impossible, to quote the
selling price of any kind of cloth except printing
cloths, which are in very great demand, and at prices
quite satisfactory to the manufacturers, notwithstand,
ing the advance in the staple. The usually large
buyers are literally doing little or nothing, and as
stocks are now increasing, it will soon be seen whe-
ther the spinners and manufacturers, or the buyers,
will first give way.—Leeds Mercury.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
BAIL COURT, Feb. 10.
(Before Mr. Justice WILLIAMS and a Common Jury.)
WESTERMAN V. MADDOX.

This was an action brought by the plaintiff, who had been en.
gaged as a flute-player in the Princess's Theatre, against the lessee,
for an assault, alleged to have been committed on the 9th of No-
vember last

Mr. Erle, Queen's Counsel, and Mr. Pearson appeared for the
plaintiff, and Mr. Platt, Queen's Counsel, for the defendant.
J. Loder, examined by Mr. Pearson, stated the circumstances of
the case. He said in substance that he was the manager of the
orchestral department of the theatre. The plaintiff having been
dismissed he came to the defendant on the 9th of November to
claim money which he said was due to him for a broken flute and
extra services!; Mr. Maddox, in the presence of the witness, refused
to pay the amount ; words ensued, Mr. Maddox took a stick from
the defendant, and on his refusing to leave the room proceeded to
turn him out.

Cross.examined by Mr. PLATT—The defendant had been guilty
of impertinence during his engagement. During the defendant's
absence at Paris, an order was obtained by the plaintiff from the
Court of Requests, which was reversed on Mr. Maddox's return.
Mr. Maddox only used that degree of violence which was neces-
sary to put the plaintiff out of the room. After the plaintiff was
ordered to leave the room, he kept on talking.
Charles Henry Fountain examined by Mr. PEARSON—Was
under.treasurer of the Princess's Theatre. Was present at the
interview between the plaintiff and the defendant on the 9th of
November, in Mr. Maddox's private room. His attention was first
called to what was passing by observing the defendant take a stick
from the plaintiff. The defendant afterwards took hold of him
by the collar to turn him out of the room, having previously
ordered him to leave it; which the plaintiff refused to do. Mr.
Maddox did not shake the plaintiff. Did not hear Mr. Loder
remonstrate with Mr. Maddox on his conduct. The latter put the
plaintiff's stick in the fire, and part of it was burnt.
Cross-examined by Mr. PLATT—When Mr. Maddox rose to take
the stick the plaintiff had raised it on the other side of the table,
and was near enough to strike him. The plaintiff, on being re.
peatedly ordered to leave the room, said he would have his stick.
Mr. Maddox had first placed it in a corner of the room.
Mr. PLATT addressed the jury on behalf of the defendant, con-
tending that the action had been brought merely for the purpose of
getting damages, and that one farthing was what the plaintiff was
entitled to receive under the circumstances of the case. He re.
marked especially upon the circumstance that the stick had been
valued by the plaintiff at 21., as showing the object of the action.
In the whole matter, the defendant had shown no desire whatever
to commit an assault.

The Learned JUDGE, in summing up said, the plaintiff was un-
doubtedly entitled to the verdict, as the laying on of hands consti-
tuted an assault. The simple question was what should be the amount,
and that must of course be lett to the jury. The Learned Counsel, in
opening the case, had mentioned amongst other things, that blows
were given, but there was no proof of violence of any kind. Ifa person
came to the private room of another, and was impertinent,or remained
there longer than was desired, and after being requested to leave
would not do so, the party so requesting him might use that degree
of violence which was necessary to put him out. Although it did
not cover the roasting of the tail end of his stick, it was a justifica-
tion for turning him out of the room ; and if therefore the jury
thought the plaintiff was impertinent, or intruded himself upon the
defendant in his private room, after being desired to leave it, that
should be taken into account in considering the amount of damages.
The jury retired to deliberate, and after being shut up several
hours they were discharged by the Judge, there not being the least
prospect of coming to an agreement.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(SATURDAY.)
MANSION-1100SE.

Wm. Henry Albert, a German merchant of same re-
spectability in the City, who resided at No. 40, Wat-
ling-street, was placed at the bar before the Lord Mayor,
charged with having uttered a forged bill of exchange
for 160/., well knowing it to be so, and obtaining a large
amount of property under fraudulent pretences.
Mr. Wilkinson, solicitor, of Cheapside, conducted the
prosecution.
Mr. John M'Crae, Manchester warehouseman, of Ave•-
Maria-lane, stated that on the 22d of last October, he
sold upwards of 601 worth of goods to the prisoner, and
in payment was tendered a bill for 160/., which the pri-
soner said was a genuine German one, and was made
payable at one of the first houses in Paris, viz., Bolte
and Co., and that it could be easily cashed at any Ger-
man house in London.. Witness accepted it as payment,
and gave him a cheque on Messrs. Grote and Prescott
for the balance due to him, after deducting certain in-
terest. The bill was drawn for three months, and was
endorsed by the signature of Messrs. Bolte and Co.,
Paris, as also the prisoner's. It has been since ascer-
tained that the former signature is a forgery, as no such
house is situated in Paris.

Mr. Julius Galghani, German merchant, of City
Chambers, deposed that he discounted the above bill,
and sent it to Hamburgh, from which place he had re-
ceived information that it was a forgery, as the name of
such a firm as Bolte and Co. is not known in Paris, but
at Bremen. He also stated that a short time ago a
number of acceptances, -endorsed by that house, were
sent to England, and by, some means or other, the
whole were lost. Several of them had since been forged
and put into circulation, and the one in question was
one of them.

Mr. Wilkinson was next examined, and said that,
when he called upon the prisoner at his office respecting
the bill, he remarked that he knew nothing about it,
and referred him to his solicitor, Mr. Johnson, in Cecil-
street, Strand.
The prisoner, who,spoke English very imperfectly,
observed that he had received the bill, with several
others, from a person named Frederick, who stated
himself to be a clerk in the house of Bolte and Co., for
the purpose of getting them discounted.
The LORD MAYOR replied, that it was a very serious
case of fraud, and was of much importance to the mer-
cantile world at large, and for that reason he should re-
mand him till next Wednesday, so that the proper evi-
dence might be brought against him.—The prisoner was
then removed in custody.
Warrants having been placed in the hands of Forres-
ter, the officer, by the Lord Mayor, for the apprehension
of other parties connected with the late forgeries of wills
for the transfer of Bank stock, in the course of the
week, large placards were extensively circulated
throughout the metropolis, offering a reward of 2001.
for the apprehension of William Sanders, of Broad-
street, Bristol, fishmonger, and Lydia Sanders, his wife
(otherwise Emma Slack). The bill, after stating that
they stand charged with felony, and that war-
rants have been granted by the Lord Mayor
for their apprehension, offers a reward of 200/.
for the apprehension of both, or 100 L for
either. The following is a description of the parties :
William Sanders is a person from 40 to 50 years of age,
five feet ten inches in height, rather fresh coloured and
large boned. Lydia Sanders, about 40, dark hair and ey es,
but has been known to wear light ringlets, fresh com-
plexion (believed to be from rouge), and subject to gout
in the feet and hands. The information forwarded to
the police states that the male person formerly resided
in Poland-street, and afterwards in Berwick-street,
Oxford-street, attending Billingsgate-market, as a fish
salesman, in the year 1834, and subsequently. He also
ocupied a stall at the Pantheon, in Oxford-street, selling
articles of fancy glass and wax figures, at which Lydia
Sanders attended. The same stall was subsequently
occupied by Georgiana Richards (Mrs. Dorey). The
last time both persons were seen was on the 29th of
December last, up to which time he carried on the busi-
ness of a fishmonger, in Broad street, Bristol. From
the indefatigable exertions of the officers conducting this
case, it is expected that both parties will be in custody
at the next examination of the parties already detained
On the charge of forgery.
GUILDHALL.

Mr. Swithin, the Secretary of the United Friends'
Benefit Society, held at the Blue Posts, Salisbury-square,
Fleet-street, was summoned to this court, at the instiga-
tion of James Rouse, to show cause why he refused him
a certain weekly amount out of its funds. Mr. Hunt,
the solicitor, attended on the part of the society.
The defendant stated that, in the month of November,
1839, he entered the above society, and, after being in
it about three years, he became very ill, and was seized
with a paralytic stroke, and then was allowed 12s. a
week. After the lapse of several weeks; he was visited
by a medical man of the society, who certified that he
was in a fit state to resume his work, which he did ac-
cordingly, and also paid up his subscriptions. About a
month ago he was again afflicted, and on applying for
the usual sum allowed to sick members, he was refused it.
Mr. Hunt here inquired of the complainant his age,
who replied, fifty-two. He then observed that he ap-
prehended the case must fall to the ground, as the com-
plainant had deceived the society to a very great extent
as to his real age. One of its rules clearly provides that
no person shat ;become a member if his age exceed forty-
two; now the complainant had imposed upon the society
by representing himself to be under that period of life,
whereas he was actually forty-seven. Under such cir-
cumstances he had forfeited all claim on the society.
Alderman CHALLIS, after consulting with the clerk,
was of the same opinion as Mr. Hunt, and was therefore
bound to dismiss the summons. It was a very hard case
indeed; still the rule must be enforced, and he trusted that
thepresent proceedings would act as acaution to the public

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY.—THE BARNES SCHOLAR-
snip.—The new scholarship, instituted by J. Barnes, Esq.,
of the Middle Temple, in memory of his late brother, Thomas
Barnes, M.A., late of Pembroke College, and late editor of
the Times, is now before the University for acceptance. The
sum invested is 2,0001. in the Three per Cents., which is con-
vertible to the purposes of the scholarship on the decease of
Miss Ann Barnes, his sister, who enjoys the proceeds of the
interest during her life-time. The scholarship is to be tena-
ble four years : the candidates are to be from Christ's Hos-
pital, St—Paul'sSchool, and Merchant Tailors : the electors
will be the Vice-Chancellor and two Professors of the
University.

ESCAPE OF CONVICTS FROM THE
PENITENTIARY.

On Saturday morning, between one and two o'clock,
seven convicts made their escape, in a skilful manner,
from the Penitentiary, Millbank, viz., Peter Shields, a
native of Scotland, 18 years of age ; Edward Carden, a
Scotchman, 18 years of age ; George M`Niel, Scotch-
man, of the same age ; Patrick Little, a native of Ire-
land, 18 years of age ; John Sullivan, also an Irishman,
of the same age ; Roger Peers, a native of Liverpool, 17
years of age ; and William Edwards, an Englishman,
18 years of age. The escape is stated to have been ef-
fected by the convicts gaining the roof of the Pentagon,
or corner tower, in which they were confined. and by
means of the clothes of their beds knotted together,
letting themselves down into the moat which sur-
rounds the Penitentiary, unseen and unheard by any
of the officers. The first intimation they received of
the escape was conveyed to them by a policeman of the
B division, who was on duty close to the spot, and
seeing several men crawling out of the moat, hastened
to the entrance of the Penitentiary to give an alarm.
Prompt measures were immediately adopted by the go-
vernor to ascertain which of the prisoners were missing,
and on their identity being made certain, a description
of their names and persons was forwarded to the police
stations, and from thence distributed throughout each
division, while several of the wardens were instantly dis-
patched in pursuit of the runaway convicts. About
three o'clock four of the wardens ascertained, through
the police, that four men of suspicious appearance had
been seen proceeding across the fields between Fulham
and Hammersmith, in direction of the Great Western-
road. The wardens, having a fly with them, in-
stantly hastened in that direction, and on arriving
near the 4r milestone on that road, seeing police-con-
stable Jones 31 T on duty, they inquired of him if he
had seen any persons passing, answering the description
of the convicts, when he immediately told them he had
only a few minutes before seen four persons, whom he
took to be sweeps, go along the road, to whom he wished
" Good morning," and was answered by one of them.
•The wardens, feeling confident that these were some of
the runaway convicts, with the assistance of Jones and
another policeman, continued the pursuit, and came up
with them at a lane leading into the village of Chiswick,
where, surrounding them, they succeeded in re-
capturing Little, Sullivan, Peers, and Edwards.
The convicts were immediately handcuffed and
chained together, placed in the fly, and re-conveyed
back to their old quarters. Every endeavour was made
during the day to trace the other three, and experienced
officers were sent to all the Scotch wharfs to search the
different vessels, but up to Saturday evening we were
unable to learn if they had been recaptured. Shields is
described as being about five feet four inches high, and
of dark complexion ; M`Neil five feet five inches high,
fair and fresh-coloured ; and Carden five feet four inches
high, dark hair and sallow complexion. All the convicts
were dressed in grey cloth jackets and trowsers, marked in
red with the letters " M. P." and wore blue striped shirts,
blue stockings, with blue woollen caps. On their
clothes were pewter buttons, with a stamped crown, and
the words " Millbank Prison."

ILLNESS of the KING of SWEDEN.
The following are the latest particulars relative to the
health of his Majesty, received from Stockholm and
Copenhagen. The intelligence is up to the 30th lilt: :
STOCKHOLM, JAN. 27.—This day prayers were put 4p in
the Palace chapel for his Majesty's recovery. All the Royal
Family, the Court, the superior military and civil authorities,
and as many of the inhabitants as could find room
were present. On the following days there were prayers in
the Royal Chapel, and in all the churches of the city, both
morning and evening.
The following bulletins show that the state of his Majesty's
health is more satisfactory :
JAN-. 28. it o'cLocK, P.M.—Since the last bulletin his
Majesty has slumbered several hours, and, when awake, ap-
peared more sensible than during the night. The fever con-
tinues.
7A P.M.—Since one o'clock, his Majesty has had uninter-
rupted repose and less fever, and been more sensible than in
the preceding part of the twenty-four hours.
29th, 7 A.M.—His Majesty's more composed state continued
till past 10 o'clock yesterday evening, when increased fever
with delirium ensued, and continued with more or less vio-
lence till 5 o'clock this morning, when his Majesty fell into
a quiet slumber, which still continues.
2 o'cLocw, P.M.—His Majesty has had some good sleep since
the morning's bulletin, and the fever has abated.
5 O'CLOCK, PAL—His Majesty is now quite sensible, less
faint, and almost free from fever.
JAN. 30, 7 o'cLocx, A.M.—Yesterday, towards evening
his Majesty had more fever, with delirium, but both in a less
degree than in the two preceding nights. After midnight he
had, with some interruption, refreshing sleep, which still con-
tinues.
5 O'CLOCK, P.M.—His Majesty awaking at 10 o'clock in
the forenoon, was free from fever, and took, with good appe-
tite, some spoonfuls of broth, but complains this afternoon of
being faint, and of severe pains in the right foot.
The Queen is said to have nearly fainted several times from
grief, on the 28th.
The Aftenblad publishes, at a late hour -every evening
since the King's illness, a supplement of which thousands are
disposed of, and which causes such a crowd in the street, that
part of the palace guard is obliged to be called out to pre-
serve order.
On Saturday reports were spread here of the death of the
Emperor of Russia, with circumstances which alone are suf-
ficient to show that they are unworthy of credit.
It is reported that an ordnance will be published this even-
ing relative to the administration of the government during
the King's illness.
(From the Berlin Gazette.)
COPENTIAGEN.—A private letter from Stockholm, of the
30th of January, at three o'clock, P.m., which may be de-
pended upon, says—" So satisfactory a change in the state of
the King's health has taken place since yesterday, that no-
body has the least doubt that he is now quite out of danger.
Though the fever has not quite left him, his Majesty's head
is entirely freed, and he has no particular pain. The King
himself is to-day fully convinced of his recovery, of which he
had so little hope that he took leave of his family."
RUSSIAN FRONTIER, JAN. 16.—Letters from Moscow say
that a report is spread in that city that Russia intends
again to allow the transit of German manufactures, with cer-
tain restrictions. However improbable this news may be we
thought it our duty to mention it, as :one of the letters
adds, that the Russian merchants have several times peti-
tioned the Government to adopt such a measure, because
they imagine that it will be the means of animating the
trade of Russia with China.
DUTCH FUN W.—AMSTERDAM, Fes. 8.
Money. Bills.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent 5514
Jitto, ditto 5 per cent
A inert Syndic,4% per cent 95 95
!Ditto, ditto, ayi per Cent s••••••••••.... Mk • 80%
Commercial Company, 4% per cent. ..... 140 142 N
Loan 1837, 5 per cent. ...... ..... 99 yi
Exchange on London, 0nem0nth......... 12 19
Two months 12 09
Hamburgh, One month 371 143
Two month 37 18%

Dutch Papers, Feb. 9.
BELGIAN FUNDS.—Bitusszte, FEE. 8.
Actual Debt, 9% per Cent., 5O
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent.... ........
Loan of Thirty Mllions, Four per Cent.... ....... " 99%
, _ Three per Cent -
----Thirty-seven Millions, ditto
---- (1840) lO7
Loan of City, 1832, Four per:Cent 102%
1843 10:3%
Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cent —
Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent 67%
I sue of 1841 lO6
National Society —
Exchange on London (short) ....... .......". -
-Brussels Papers, Feb. 9
AUSTRIAN FU NDS.—Vimisa, FEE. 1.
Five per Cents. Metalliques
Four per Cents. lOO%
Three per Cents .. 77%
Bank Shares _ _

Allgetneine Zeitung, Feb. 5. - --
-
PRUSSIAN:FUNDS.--Bentits, Fen. 6.
Bills. Money
St. Schuld Sch., 4 per cent. ..... ....... 102 101
Prussian English Bonds, 1830, 4 per cent 10171 101
Exchange on London 8 24
Prussian State Gazette. Feb. 5.
HAMBURGH BORSENHALLE, Fee. 8.
Pills. Money.
Austrian 5 per Cents.
Bank Shares 1065
Anglo-Russian Loan
Russian 5 Der Cent., Ist series, Certificate lO5
Inscription, Ist series lO5
Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co., 3d and 4th
Series 99%
Ditto in Certificates ...0•
New 4 per Cent. (1840) 915 9134
Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent
Ditto 5 per Cent.
Polish Bonds —. _
New Tickets —

Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent. B4 R 4
Spanish, New 5 per Cents.

LLOYD'S SHIPPIN G.
EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

Arrivals—Helena, Lovett, from Singapoie, in the DoWns,
sailed Aug. 24, Cape Nov. 30 ; Ganges, Gibson, from Mau-
ritius, at Gravesend, sailed 14th ; Cingaluse, Hutchinson, from
Singapore, sailed Sept. 30, Cape Dec. 17.
Arrivals in Table Bay, Cape of Good Hope—Tenplek."
Brown, Dec. 10. from Calcutta to London; Favourite, Scid!,
den, Dec. 13, from Newcastle.
Departures from Table Bay—Lady Flora, Howe, Dec. 8,
to Madras ; Cassibelea, Hodson, to Mauritius ; Adelaide,
Connell, to Launceston ; Phcenix, 9th, to Algoa Bay ; Comet,
10th, to St. Helena and Rio Timandra, 12th to London ;
Gauges, Walker, to Swan River ; Louisa, M'Donald, Rose-
bud, Munson,and Margaret Drake, all to Natal ; Maid of
Athens, to Angra Pequena.
Arrivals in Algoa Bay—Rosebud, Dec. 6, from St. Helena-;
Trekboer, 7th, from Table Bay.
Arrivals at Sydney, New South Wales—Sarah Scott, Black,
from Manilla, and was loading for London ; Constant, He-
mery, from Hobart Town, and was loading for London ;
British Sovereign, from the South Seas; Frances, from Port
Philip. Wilson, Sept. 24, from Greenock; Ocean Queen,
Freeman, from Hobart Town ; Premier, Brownrigg, 22d,
from Singapore, and Adelaide Elizabeth, Jones, 28th, from
the Island of Were ; Gilmore, Maw, 29th, from Hobart Town
New York Packet, Gregory, from South America and
Tahiti ; Cressy, Molleson, 30th, from Hobart Town, and
sailed, October 1, to Ceylon.
Departures from Sydney—Artemis, Sept. 29, to Valpariso ;
Alexander, Johnstone, 30th, to Valparaiso ; Water Lilly,
Hayle, to Hobart Town._

Ships Loading at Sydney for London—Australasian
Packet, Exporter, Fanny, Reflector, Salus, Montezuma,
Standerings, Ann Persian, Tyrian. :For Port Philip and
London, Jean. For Hong-Kong, Euphrates.
Arrival at Swan River—Shepherd,; Oct. 26, from London:
Armala, from London, her Majesty's ships fly and Bramble.

CHARD.—TIGHT LACING.----011 Saturday se'nnight,
a fine blooming girl, aged fourteen, daughter of Mr. Palmer,
of the Crown Inn, after running a short distance, complained
of a pain in her side, fell down, and died shortly afterwards.
A post mortem examination was made by N. W. Spicer, Esq.,
and it was found that death was caused immediately by the
rupture of a blood vessel on the lungs, induced by the exer-
tion of running, and the pressure of tightly-laced stays.—
Somerset County Gazette.
CHATSWORTH.—It is a singular fact, that in this
era of "fashionable" novels and romances, advantage has
never yet been taken of the interest and curiosity that must
attach to laying the scene of a work of this description at one
or other of the actual localities where " Fashion" chiefly holds
her Court ; for instance, Chatsworth—the very Parthenon
among the temples of modern Fashion. That the first novel
claiming this happy distinction, under the attractive title of
" Chatsworth ; or, the Romance of a Week," should be
ushered into the world under the auspices of so popauloar
name as that of Mr. Plumer Ward, the accomplished
souf Tratteemnatiionne,''e
to the pretensions of
x"cpuseiVveeroef,"t&hec.,gumuarsatncotememtanhadtmforr.
Ward's
social social and literary. position affords, a
distinguished name.
any work bearing the sanction of his

THE EARL OF CARDIGAN AND
LORD W. PAGET.
(From the Observer.)
The following correspondence, relative to the recent action
brought by Lord William Paget against the Earl of Cardigan,
and the two actions now pending between the Noble Lords, has
been sent to us for publication:—
(No. I.) " 238, Oxford-st., 29th Jan. ' 11844.
" My Lonn Duce,—l address myself to your Grace as
Commander-in-Chief and head of the British army, odd
throw myself upon your Grace's well-known love of justice se
manly conduct to protect me, by interposing your high mar);
rity in the matter between the Earl of Cardigan and myseh,
by causing a military inquiry' into the truth of the charges
which I have brought against his Lordship, and which have
led to the following correspondence, and which I have the
honour to inclose for your Grace's perusal. My Lord Duke,
all I seek is a full, complete, and searching inquiry int° thoef
whole matter- between us : and this, the wealth and power ,
the Earl of Cardigan enables him to evade by civil proce'ss'
My Lord, I have made the same appeal to the Earl of Had'
dington, as ' First Lord of the Admiralty,' and have forwarded
to his Lordship a copy of my letter to your Grace.—l have the
honour to remain, my Lord Duke, with the most profound
respect, your Grace's most faithful and obedient servant.
" WILLIAM PAGET.
" P. S.-1 have the honour to transmit your Grace a cog
of the letter I have addressed to the Earl of Haddington.
" His Grace the Duke of Wellington, K.G., See- A
(No. 2.) " London, January 30, 14"
" Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington presents his a%
pliments to Captain Lord William Paget. He received 1.
night his Lordship's letter of the 29th inst., and several 10'
closures marked No. 1,2, 3,4, 5, relating to, or giving cause
for questions between Lieut.-Col. the Earl of Cardigan and
Lordship. The copy of the letter to the Earl of Haddingt° ;
referred to by his Lordship, was not sent. • The colestfble
are all of a social (character, and are properly cogadDooe
by a court of common law ; and it appears that A r
in which the Earl of Cardigan was defendant was ale
discussion before a competent common-law tribunal, but
re.
record was withdrawn by his Lordship's desire. In oe
spect to the other of more recent date, in which the Ear
__A
Cardigan is plaintiff, it appears that the Earl has commer,:i
proceedings before the competent common-law court, stu'oTts
proceedings must take their course. Even if Colonel Lef
Cardigan, as plaintiff, was to apply for the interference
military tribunal in these proceedings, such application coin
not be complied with, as his Lordship, Lord William Paif
the defendant in these questions, is not liable to them elt
tion. Under these circumstances, Field Marshal the na'',„
of Wellington begs leave to decline interfering in any mans
in these questions.
" Captain Lord William Paget, R.N.,
238, Oxford-street, London."
(No. 3.) " 238, Oxford-street, 31st Jams Ig4the
"My LOAD Duxx,—I have the honour to acknowledge osr
receipt of your Grace's letter, and will not again trouble Y
Grace upon the subject; but whilst I see in every line ,1
0,0
justness of the opinions your Grace has condescended to 51
known to me, your Grace will perhaps permit me to rernart,,
that in the case in which the Earl of Cardigan was defends,
the record was not withdrawn by my consent (or even "' s,
my knowledge), but that in the absence of a material witl,o
it became the duty and business of my counsel to withdraw oar
to (pro forma), but that his doing so had only referelar
to the impossibility of the cause being tried on that partteus e
day. I beg your Grace's pardon for this further intrusion, f'd
have the honour to remain, with the most profound respect an
gratitude, your Grace's most faithful and obedient servant,r.
" WILLIAM POD'
" His Grace the Duke of Wellington, K.G.,
(No. 4.) " 238, Oxford-street, 28th January, 140
"MY LORD,--I address myself to your Lordship, a 5,,,„, to
Lord of the Admiralty' and 'the ' head of the profeesr,,joet
which I have the honour to belong, and doubt net that " Jour
Lordship has the power to do so, you will afford 1100.
powerful protection by ordering an inquiry into all the cl'W
stances which have led to a correspondence between the r to
of Cardigan and myself, a copy of which I have the b°lors
inclose you. My Lord, whilst I cannot believe that two ° nye
holding her Majesty's commissions can ever be permitted to !„,e
into a correspondence conveying such grave charges as w(ss
' which characterise the letters in question with impunit,Yit is
regards the professions to which they respectively belongPA in
' equally clear to me that the wealth, and power, and no,r•ihst
fiuence of the Earl of Cardigan are sufficient (or, at lest., to
' it has been so "up to the present moment), to enable rili;4„
evade by' civil process' the consequence of his misco tter
My Lord, I have the honour to enclose you the copy !IL!' ;tore
I have this day addressed to his Grace the Duke of We'"?,,„ the
upon the same subject, and I entreat your Lordship tolls_,a,r
matter to which I have called your attention your mostri",--the
consideration.—l have the honour to he, my Lord, 11'1 god
' most profound respect, your Lordship's very_ faith, nftlre.
' obedient servant. " WILLIAM P.l"'"
" To the Earl of Haddinglon, &re, &c., &c. 1844
(No. 5.) Admiralty, 7th Feb. „inn
" MrLoan,--I have turned my attention to your Lords
--',d
letter, and to the copies enclosed therein, of the corregre-hiP
ence relative to the questions pending between your I'o the
and the Earl of Cardigan, and of your letter to his Gr7oear
Commander. in- Chief. The whole have been read by the cur
' hers of this Board, and, after mature deliberation, we CO it is
thinking that, as an action is in dependence in tfiis ca'' If see
one in which it would not become us to interfere• i, so
thought otherwise, the circumstance that Lord Card,igausible,
officer in the army would render our interposition ocdPersomo
without the concurrence of the Horse Guards. I°n nee
that the opinion of the Commander-in-Chief is in ao- bar, of
with that I have just stated as the opinion of the tnei
the Board of Admiralty.—l have the honour to be, MY -
your Lordship's most obedient, humble servant, ...of.
" HA DDING s
"Captain the Lord William Paget, R.N." R. 9 i 844
(No. 6.) " 238, Oxford-street, Jan. -- lottsc
"Mv LORD,—On the 22d December last I addressed sOO ot
! to your Lordship, and which (writhing under a succelmodo
injuries which I felt I had received at your Lordship
I had determined to give every publicity to ; but the cu c...,:ng
stance of your Lordship making known. through the colofoo
the high authority of the Times newspaper,' that so ft„,ised
having been privy to the absconding of Winter, you ro-sgbt
the most searching inquiry into the whole charge I had ureuoat
' against you, and was prepared to show it was altogether Inre.
foundation, and that it was your intention to take 1441
ceedings against me on account of the letter in question, 'tot
that it would be most improper to carry my intentions 01,4,1
respect any further, and I instantly suppressed every m--17,sr
had adopted for the circulation of it, in the. full belief that rot
Lordship really intended to take such legal proceedings sgsitse
me as could not fail to lead to a searching inquiry in
how,
whole of the charge I bad brought against you. I tied, 'vett
ever, that an attempt is being made by your Lordship t?,:st st
the possibility (30 far as you can) of the truth being elidc'ineore
all, by your taking steps, which (however offensive ,
veuient they may be to me) cannot fail to leave the rea
tion at issue between us a matter of doubt and uneerrsi.."li's;t
and this you have done by bringing an action a
des
me in the Court of Exchequer for pecuniary criieel,
(laying them at five thousand pounds) for an allegeiaeao to
instead of applying to the Court of Queen's Bench fer., 00°,
file a criminal information against me. In the ell" ice),
which you have instituted against me, your Lordshiee;ried;
aware that neither your Lordship nor myself can be °brought)
and the simple question (in the shae the action's
resolves itself into libel or no libel.' Why, MY L°res
schoolboy would in all probability say, without a morne.'lei • ; but
tation, that the letter to your Lordship is, per se, a lobe
on'
had your Lordship taken the ether course has' oath
tioned, your Lordship must have deposed °no guilt!
(' not upon your honour') whether you had beeor
of the crimes imputed to your Lordship or
isth; r-E
the same rule, and of course with the same view, me
Prito '
ceedings your Lordship has adopted, you are de " 55h0!
the opportunity and advantage of stating the fec- c 'houenge'e.
am ready to make oath. My Lord, I invite, I re
dare you, to subject yourself to this ordeal. If youllaotgoecees:
cent, why shrink from it, when, under such eircuilty,
01,
every conscientious man would believe you ?—if g and 3 'ale
my Lord, can you reconcile to yourself, as a eaan„d, / bird
dice, to have treated me as you have done? My L'e'centeoe'vre
always known and felt the fearful odds hayned
with in encountering the wealth and rank Y-00
of your Lordship, and of the host of furious partn let
and Ladies,' by whom you are supported; bu
es lOV'
tide
tell your Lordship, that in the matter between sgsee"-...-
past for any such interests to avail with you Or all this ri
There is a power and an influence greater the °{ se coot,
eratio _
public opinion ;' and that I have the commis
orsoade°i„,..
honest man and every virtuous woman I sun fully Piveroug,s
and that too amongst a class of life much more n° bat is p° apti
finitely more moral and intelligent, though somew th vou
so
rank' below the order' to which, my Lerd, 40ite tea
I belong, and where such matters are not viewcei, the
lightly as in the fashionable world.' My L°r I:ehif'
of the world are upon you, and upon me i
„r Lor sod
the attention of the British army, in which Y°''s you, re..
holds so distinguished a rank, is especially fixed ,°„,P°, ow° tr,ica
I flatter myself, that not a few of the officers °' pd
fession are equally alive to the unprecedented emutrasna towsassa
two officers, holding her Majesty's commission,e ootrj,
each other, in the persons of your Lordship
•La " our
which may not long remain so. My Lord, efi"!:cotomi- tick
ship or myself, are unworthy to hold her Majesty more of jaw
Your Lordship (and you alone) has the power,t°l and 'inter
of us is guilty, and 'which is not, in this laluTio enc°,l aef
you to do so. , Audl declare that you are afraid ou too., 03
the -examination you would have to undergoto such
(nurse by whikh you would subject yourself 1%)1$
appeal to, and test of; your Lordship's veracityl roe •„r the
My Lord; I repeat, you have put dishonour on
to he*latee•
• have made it impossible for my children ever aFiasse of se-
name of their unfortunate mother without aL: sof humid (re
nor the.:....... natrie of Cardigan without feelings to p
tiriand lorrow. 'And lam prepared to sh°l' yof dlioters
-Lordillip will'
give me the opportuLneo of, ,
that!he charge I have made as regards the an-statee,bies
and the‘ -Cause of it it not, as your Lordship avow. Lem'ettef
gether without foundation ;' and yet neithAeqe, 0010 s
nor Messrs. Powell, Broderip, and w° paid soft
have seen Winter or spoken to him, °ted the tr-t__„ her/
farthing. In doing all this, you have consnlitger to su'outhB
social and moral offence which one man can °, do Y from
and in the vain hope in the first instance (for s estate ~00
-justice to believe so) of saving the unfortunatellod her, lop
the degradation and) ruin in which you have /°_vuthe recrio•
have persisted, and still persist, in refusing er'''„, jes sty , per'
which is always accorded between man and nrt'erniitie ;hotel
Be assured, my Lord, it is in vain that you
sist in this course. Of your guilt I cannot
of doubt; and justice you must and shall ou A ciET:'
later. P;'-
" WILLIAM _
The Earl of Cardigan. lobu
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On the 7th of December, 1843, at .Agra,
s
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provinces of Bengal, of a son. T,,,eabe '
the
co West, e— ee'
On the Bth inst., at Walcet-p a
of M. French Wagstaffe, Esq.,
of a
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On the Bth inst., at the Rectory esone a the
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iri
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MARRIED. St. Peter:uhter
On the 20th of December, 1843, at
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agvlv.ueugitgdate,
On the 6th inst., Charles Mitchell, ,_n;sh.sci
On the 7th inst.. in Chandos-street,-;,Er
Dampier, relict of Thomas, late Lord Bcteano,l,',; isecoterpla
On the Bth inst., at Rodney-terra
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daughter of Deputy Commissary-
General
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London : Printed and Published by
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County of Middlesex, Monday, Februarf