The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-23 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY MORNI NG, JANUARY 23, 1844

Mr. Donaldson, at the conclusion of ballot, entered the
room, and was received with great cheering.
Mr. WI rAouGnsv, the then Chairman, addressed him in a
very feeling manner, congratulating him upon his appointment,
and expressing his conviction that from his former conduct in
the chair,the dignity of the Court would be maintained, as it
always had been by him for the last nine years.
Mr. DONA LDSON, after returning thanks, took the chair
amid much cheering.
Votes of thanks were then carried to Mr. Donaldson and
Mr. Willoughby, and the regular business of the Court was pro-
ceeded with.

After the rest of the routine business had been gone through,
Mr. LESLIE moved, pursuant to notice, •
" To rescind the orders of the Special Court of the 22d De-
cember, 1843, as to the appointments of a new assistant sur-
veyor and a fourth clerk of works, because—
" First, The repeated statements-of the late Chairman of the
area of the Eastern, Western, Ranelagh, and Counter's Creek
Districts being 23 square miles, of which—
Mr. Bell has to superintend f' square miles
Mr. Jenkins....... ... 9 square miles
Mr. Aslat 7 square miles

25 square miles
are most inaccurate, the late Chairmaa being in error in the
superficial measurement of the four Districts at least 28 mil-
lions o' scivare yards.
s' Second, That such appointments by Special Court afore-
said, if carried out, would be illegal, contrary to the orders of
Court, the laws, ordinances, and constitutions of sewers."
After some discussion, a show of hands was taken, when
there aeared—
Fr Mr. Leslie's motion 5

Against it
Majority against the motion
The motion was eontequently lost ; and the Court, at hal
past fire o'clock, adjourned to Friday next, the 26th inst.

ARUNDEL, JAN. 23.
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
This town is expected to be unusually gay the ensuing week,
owing to the influx of company on a visit to the Duke o
Norfolk.

The Duke of Cambridge arrives on Monday, the Dukes of
Richmond and Sutherland on Tuesday. Mr. Sloane Stanley and
Lady Stanley are also on a visit for a few days. The dinner
parties will consist of about twenty each evening. His Grace's
yeomanry band is to be in attendance. The noble room of the
Baron's Hall, it is understood, will be temporarily fitted up on
the occasion.

Lord and Lady Arundel and Lord Edward Howard, Lady
Mary and Lady Adeliza, are also here.
The Duchess of Norfolk, Ladies Mary and Adeliza Howard,
with Mr. Sloane Stanley, Mrs. Stanley, &c., attended Divine
service at our church on Sunday morning and afternoon.
The Duke of Norfolk will be present at the great county
meeting of the Cmservatives, in opposition to the Anti-Corn-
law League, to be held at Steyning, on the 29th inst.

ENLISTMENT OF PAUPER CHIL,
DREN FOR THE ARMY.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

RESPECTED FRlEsD—Permit me to invite thy attention to
the following statement of facts connected with the enlistment
of pauper children for the army, and to request thy powerful
aid in putting cown a practice which must, I think, be regarded
by every humane man as dishonourable to the age and country
in which we lire.
Hcving personally collected the facts on which the statement
is founded, with great care, I am prepared to give such detailed
information as may be necessary to justify its allegations.--I
am, respectfully, &c., FREDERIC WIEELER.
Rochester, Ist month 15th, 1841.
The public may not perhaps be generally aware, that a prac-
tice has grown up of late years, of supplying the army with
little boys for drummers, selected from the healthiest inmates
of the union workhouses round about the great military garrison
of Chatham. Facts of a painful nature relating .o this subject
having been brought under the notice of the writer, it appeared
to be a duty to prosecute certain inquiries into the circum-
stances, and extent of the practice, from which investigation it
appears that the following eight unions have all furnished boys
for the army, namely, Chelmsford, Cranbrook, Dartford, East
Ashford, Hollingbourne, Medway, Maidstone, and North
Aylesford, comprising in all 143 parishes. To these may Le
added the large metropolitan parish of ht. Marylebone and the
establishment for pauper children at Brixton. Other unions
have been applied to for boys, and particulars, more or less
minute, of upwards of 60 cases have been collected.
It appears also that, in twenty eases, boys have been thus
disposed of before they have attained " the prescribed age of
fourteen years," one of them, indeed, having been sworn when
under elesen and a quarter years oldl It is melancholy to re-
flect on the large amount of false swearing that is involved in
this feature of the case. That the oath thus taken is consi-
dered to bind them to the military service for life, thus de-
priving them of the opportunity of choosing a profession on
attaining the age of 21, a protection which the Legislature
carefully secures to the apprenticing of any ordinary calling ;
recognising therein two very important considerations, first,
the incompetency of a child to decide on what shall be his em-
ployment through life ; and secondly, his natural right to choose
a trade for himself on arriving at manhood. That on attain-
ing the age of about 18, they are trained in the dehumanising
art of administering the military cat, a punishment at which
the public mind revolts ; and many of them are quickly sent
to distant parts of the world. That the parochial funds have
in some instances been employed. in effecting these arrange-
ments.
The above is an outline of the practice ; the following are
the heads of two individual cases, showing how the system
affects the fate of the children .and the feelings of near rela-
tives. They are taken as being the first two cases which came
under notice, and which led to subsequent inquiry :
Case 1. James Potter, an orphan, inmate of the North
Aylesford Union, was enlisted in the summer of 1842, in the
3d Buffs, as having attained the " prescribed age of 14 years,"
required by the regulations of the Horse Guards, but appear-
ing by the register of baptism, as well as the union register,
as under that sge. The relations state that they were not
consulted in the matter, that they knew nothing of the pro.
ceeding until it was completed; that they are much disatis-
fied therewith, and were, in fact, concertiug measures for placing
him out in some situation on attaining a proper age. In a memo.
rial to the Commander.in.Chief, embodying theabove allegations,
they ask for the discharge of the bey, stating it also to be his
wish to be released. The reply authorises his discharge on pay:,
ment of 201., and "on no other condition." Application was
made to the Guardians of the Union, who replied that they can
render no assistance in the case ; and the boy consequently re-
mains in the military service.
Case 2. John Mitchel, an orphan, inmate of the Dartford
Union, was removed to the pauper school at Brixton, and in the
spring of 1843, was enlisted in the 25th Regiment, being, then,
as appears by the register of baptism, under twelve and a half
years old. A ter being at Chatham a few months, he was seen
by the writer, crying bitterly on Rochester bridge, and then
made known to him his ease. In less than a week from that
time, he was observed by the same person, marching with five
other little boys, with a draft on their way to Caunanore, in the
East Indies. His step-father knew nothing of the enlistment
until completed, applied to the Commander-in-Chief for his
restoration to his family. alleging his tender age, &c. The'
reply contains a copy of the schoolmaster's certificate, declaring
him to have " obtained the prescribed age of fourteen ;" and
states that the request cannot be complied with. except on cer-e
tain con•litioos, one of which is the payment of 40/. On ap-•
plication to the Guardians of Dartford Union, no explanation
can be given as to the certificate of age, but, on the contrary, a
reference to one of their books proves that the lad had not ob-
tained the age declared. No redress, however, could be obtained
from them, and the child must remain in India an exile from
his family.
Here then we see two powerful bodies, the military authori-
ties and the executive of the poor-law, taking advantage of the
helplessne-s and ignorance of an orphan child, who has as yet.
scarcely looked abroad into the world, who is impatient t;f the
restraints of a Poor-law Union, and dazzled with the tinsel
prospect of a soldier's life ; and thus becomes the willing victim
of the bargain which binds him for the term of his natural life.
And, we ask, is it the intention of the Legislature or of the
public that our unions and workhouses should bemade wholesale
recruiting establishments for the army, and their operations be
carried on at the expense of the rate-payers?

LAW OF DIVORCE.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
is with the utmost gratification I read in
your paper the aniwer given by Dr. Nieholl to the
deputation who waited upon him, upon the subject of
the existing law of divorce in this country. kTothing
could be more honourable to the learned gentleman,
as well as satisfactory to the petitioners. The public,
Sir, are most (specially indebted to 3-ourself, as, if
mistake not, your journal was the very first to bring
.the question before the Legislature; therefore, any
reform that may be effected, will be mainly due to
your exertions.
The present system, Sir, is little less than a pre-
mium upon conjugal infidelity, by the ruinous ex-
penses it entails upon the injured husband who seeks
redress by legal means ; whilst an unprincipled
woman, if so disposed, can literally harass him out
of his life. Surely the power of dissolving marriage
should be vested in the Court itself (as in Scotland),
and the House of Peers relieved from any jurisdiction
in the matter. In the session now about to open, T
trust this crying evil will be done away with, and
the course of justice and morality effectually vindi-
cated.—l am, Mr. Editor, your obedient servant, '
ONE OF THE SUFFERERS.
Gloucester, Jan. 19, 1844.

KING'S COLLEGE, LoNnoN.--The following gentle-
formerly students of this college, are on the. list of Wranglers
in the late examination at Cambridge, via.:—Messrs. Stephen,
Woodhouse, Gutch, Fenn, and Edwards.
TIVERTON.—COMPLIMENT TO LORD PALMERSTON.
—The constituents of the Noble Lord having expressed a desire to
have a lasting token of his Lordship's connection with them, have
requested him to sit for his bust to Mr. E. H. Stephens, the
sculptor. Lord Palmerston has expressed his acquiescence, in
terms which show that he appreciates the compliment which his
friends and admirers are so desirous of paying him.— Western Times.
ACCIDENT TO COUNT PHILIPPE DE- ROMAN CIIA-
-110T.—The Count de Chabot, who has been staying during the
last month on a visit to Viscount and Lady -Isabella Chabot, at
Golden Hall, Thomastown, has been prevented from returning to
Manchester House to resume his duties as First Secretary of Em.
bassy, from the effects of an accident. The Count was in the
stables lookng at the stud, when he received a kick from one of
the horses, which caused some bruises, and confined him to a
sofa for some days, He is going on well, and expected to return
to the embassy in a few days.
THE FAMILY OF THE LATE MARQUIS OF ILlST-
rms.=-The juvenile family of this lamented nobleman arrived at
Southampton on Friday evening last. from Donnington Park,
Leicestershire, and proceeded on Saturday, accompanied by the
widowed Marchioness, to Southsea, where this afflicted lady, and
her infant family, will remain In close retirement for some long
period; and where, at a time not far distant, it is expected the
Marchioness will give birth to a posthumous child. Until the com-
mencement of lest year, the late lamented Marquis had never in.
sured his life. In March last his Lordship- was persuaded to de so;
and, fortunately for his family, he immediately took out policies at
various officei to the amount of PO,OOO/, and upwards,
MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE OF'AN IDIOTIC BOY.
—The family of Mr. D. Horton, of 5, Queen's-row, near the
North-roatLbridge Hoxton, have been for several days in much
anguish and anxiety, through the absence of his son, an idiot, be.
tween the age of )5 and 16. He left his home on Wednesday
last, and, notwithstanding that notice has been given at every police
station, and a description of his person circulated there, and adver-
tised in the newspapers of Friday last, no information has yet been
obtained (Whim, and the greatest fear for his safety is now enter.
tained, as he has not sufficient knowledge to give his name and
address.

DEATH OF MAJOR•GENERAL CHURCHILL

C. 8.-

J.JUI:
Antelligence of the death of the above distinguished officer,
Deputy Quartermaster-General to her Majesty's forces in Bengal,
has been received at the War-office. He had been in the service
thirty-seven years, and had served at Corunna, was subsequently in
the Penitistia, France, Flanders, and at Waterloo, and held the
local rank of Major-General in India.
EARL GHET.—The accounts from Howick this
week convey the gratifying intelligence that the venerable Earl
is going on favourably, and daily improving in health.-zNeteciestle
Chronicle.
ANTI-LEAGUE MEETING IN KENT.--On Saturday
last a large and respectable meeting, composed chiefly of tenant
farmers, was held in the Globe Tavern, Canterbury. There were
between 400 and 500 pers.ns present, and the object of their
meeting was to agree to a petition for protection to theinterests of
agriculture, Sir Brook Bridges was called to the chair, in which
he was supported by Sir E. Daring, Mr. J. P. Plumptre, M.P.,
Mr. William Deedes, Mr. Knatchbull, Mr. W. 0. Hammond,
Mr. G. Gipps, Mr. G. C. g. Bering, Mr. T. Papillon, Ms. W. J.
Hilton, Mr. W. Delmar, Mr. G. M. Taswell, Mr:f.l‘. Ililton, Mr.
C. H. Hallett, Mr. W. Kerr Brown, Mr. James, Mr. Lake, Mr.
J. Neame, Mr. Cramp, Mr. Hyder, Mr. Hughes, Mr. Collard, Mr.
Boys, Mr. Aildash, Mr. Munn. A petition to Parliament was
agreed upon, and the meeting expressed their determination to re-
sist to the utmost the progress of the League, and to do everything
in their power to support the interests of agriculture. The gentle-
men who addressed the meeting dwelt strongly on the ruinous
effects which would result from the repeal of the corn-laws, and'
elbowed the necessity for protection to the farmers, on account of
the heavy and peculiar burdens to which land is subject. The most
cordial good feeling prevailed, and the tenant farmers especially
seemed to be highly gratified with the steps which were being
taken all over the country to resist the further progress of the
League, and to prevent any change in the existing corn.laws.
THE DOWAGER COUNTESS OF CLARE.—The death
of the Dowager Lady Clare took place under the most awful and.
distressing circumstances. On Tuesday afternoon ber Ladyship
and her daughter, Lady Isabella Fitzgibbon, were sitting by fire-
light, when the latter retired to dress for dinner, and was absent
about half an hour. On returning to the drawing-room her
Ladyship found that lights had not been brought : as she entered
she observed, " Mamma, I have put on your favourite gown,"
and, receiving no answer, again repeated it, adding, 4, Mamma,
why don't you answer me ?" Alas! on approaching the fireplace
the unhappy daughter found her mother extended on the hearth
rug perfectly lifeless. Her Ladyship's grief and amazement are
indescribable—indeed, the whole family are weighed down by this
sad event. We understand Lord Clare; who was absent in Ire-
land, has arrived, and is now with Lady Isabella and the Hon.'
Colonel Fitzgibbon.—Court Journal.

PRESENT FROM HER MAJESTY.—We gave an ac-
count in this journal of the Gth inst. of an accident which occurred'
to ber Majesty on the precedmg afternoon, near Horton, by being
nearly thrown out of a pony phaeton,which was turned upon its
side in a ditch, owieg to the bank sinking away'in consequence of
'the rottenness of the earth after a sudden thaw. Upon that oe-,
casion her Majesty returned to Windsor in a four.wheeled chaise
belonging to Mr. Holderness, of Horton, vihoie lady was driving
close to:the vicinity of the accident at the time. Her Majesty has
just commanded to be transmitted, as a present to Mrs. Holder-
Inns, a very elegant pair of silver candlesticks, highly chased, and
bearing her Majesty's initial surmounted with an imperial crown,
as a token of the estimation entertained by'the Sovereign of the'
loyal and dutiful attention of the recipient of the favour and gra.
cioisi consideration of the Queen.
THE RECENT TRAGEDY AT DEPTFORD.—In answer
to inquiries on Saturday of Dr. Arthur, at 15, High..street, the
physician who has attended the woman Dickinson daily since her
attempt on her own lite, he stated that the wounds_in her throat
are quite healed, and that no apprehension need be entertained of
her ultimate recovery, if the excitement under which she now
labours does not induce contrary consequences. For some time
after she destroyed her children she exhibited the most stolid in.'
difference to the awful position in which she stood. On Saturday,
however, she gave way to all the bitterness of
grief in consequence
of it. She remains, of course, in the custody of the police.
PARTIAL OVERFLOW OF TILE
•Sa-
turday afternoon there was an unusually high tide, the Thames
having overflowed many of its embankments below bridge. At
high water, the depth of tide at the outer lock of the St. Kathis•
rine's dock was thirty feet two inches. Several low-lying pre•
mises contiguous to the river were inundated; but, by the timely
removal of property, little damage was sustained. In Wapping,
Shadwell, Poplar, Rotherhithe, Bermondsey, and other places on
the river side,
the cellars of a considerable number of licensed'
been done. •
victuallers were completely flooded, and a good deal of mischief had

ACCIDENT TO THE. EARL OF JERSEY
AT WINDSOR
CAsne.—The Earl of Jersey, who arrived at, Windsor on Wed-
nesday last, accompanied by his Countess andthe.Litly Clementine
Villiers, upon a visit to her Majesty, met with an 'accident shortly
after reaching the Castle, which compelled his'LordshiP to absent
himself from the Royal dinner party in the evening. The Noble
-Earl, in proceeding to his apartment, fell over a box which had
been carelessly left in the vestibule leading to his Lordship's
room, seriously injdring his arm and ciusing a slight wound to be
inflicted on the shin,bone. His Lordship is now, however, nearly
recovered from the painful effects of the accident.
We have heard it more than rumoured that it is the
intention of. the, King of the French to return the visit of our
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gracious Queen, and that this Royal meeting is not.to take place
at Brighton, as was originally stated, but at the Court of London,
not in the latter part, but at the height of our fashionable, seaman—
a period at which Paris always becomes deserted by ,the Court, the
'senate, and ali votaries, of fashion. It is, probably, with a view tc
this auspicious event that the, state apartments at St. •James's
'Palace have been undergoing repairs and are_ now. receiving splendid
decorations.=Court Jo arna4
TILE LIGHT GOLD, COINAGE.-:-The number of
light sovereigns and half..sorereigns presented at the Bullion-office
of the Bank of England,•since the Rival proclamation of her Ma-
jesty of the 2d day of October last, which came into operation on
the Lit instant, has been very small, in consequence of the bankers

and merehants in the city, and the tradespeople and shopkeepers
generally throughout the metropolis, having shown a dispositiou
not to refuse the old gold currency unless it is very light, and tken
only taking a small discount, which understanding-has had a very
beneficial effect on business in general, and pleyented the panic
that was expected, which proved so detrimental two years ago tr
trade throughout the United Kingdom, when the former Royal pro.
clamation: was issued cn the light gold currency. The Bank of Eng.
land receives gold coin below the legal current, weight, in amount,
of not 'less than 51.. at the rate of
.31. 17s. 6124 a.
per ounce, end the branch' banks' in the country at 31. 171. sd. per
standard ,ounce, which has: the good effect of preventing Mspublic,
by the bullion-dealer,.
imposed u
especially,pjuewbtsi;C,anaraprlc ie gin-palacetifrsom
a golden harvest by charging 6d., and many 11., in the sovereign,
under the pretence of being light. The clerks at the Money Order-
office at the General Post.ottice are very. particular in weighinp
being
keepers p
ando shopkeepers, who male
n
the gold 'that is tendered for orders in the country, and whet.
found below the legal
:weight, are stamped so as to prevent further
circulation, which causes great inconvenience to the parties, who
are obliged to get them changed at the bullion dealers, who charge
4d. to 6d. each sovereign. At the Custom House, Excise. anc...
Stamp.office, the Goveinment cosployes arc extremely strict in the
weight of the gold they take in payment, and when light, fulfil the
Act by defacing it with the utulost rigour.,
•
The teceipts of the Durham and Sunderland Rail-
way, for some weeks. past, have exhibited a considerable In-
crease over the corresponding period of last year, which cit..
cummanee had the effect of, enhancing the value of the shares
full ten per cent. This fact is very gratifying, as it not only
leads to the encouraging hope that the property in this railway
will shortly be increased in permanent value, but suggests the
inference.that the trade of Sunderland, which. has been so long
heavily depressed, is gradually reviving into a state of activity,
—Durham Chronicle.
THE KING OF SAxoNr.--.The banner of his Ma-
jesty the King of Saxony (who was invested with the insignia
of the order of the Garter, at Dresden, in October, 1842, by the
Earl of Wilton and Sir Charles Young, the Garter King at
Arms) has just been placed over the stall of his Majesty, together
with the .crown, crest, sword, mantle, &c., in St. George's
Chapel. Windsor, The stall-of the Saxon Monarch is situated
on the prince's, or north side of the choir, 'between the stalls of
the King of Wirtemberg and the reigning. Duke of Brunswick.
The only stalls now vacant in the chapel of St. George are
thOse of the late Duke of Dorset and the Marquis Wellesley.
DISTURHANCE IN THE PARISH CHURGII AT CHEL-
TRNHAm.—During the solemnization of divine service at the
parish church, on Wednesday last, just as Mr. Close had com-
menced reading the first lesson, a wsman stood up and said in
a loud voice—" Frank Close, I have a message from God to
thee." This announceineut produced a great sensation
throughout the church,. and the speaker was .svith some diffi-
culty taken out and given in charge of a- policeman. On the
folloling morning she was taken before.- the- magistiltes•and
was dismissed, on promising not to disturb the congregation
again. She has every appearance of being of unsoiled mind
and has been at the Asylum at Gloucester three times.—
Chstiestham Free Press,

CASE OF MRS. GILMOUR.-
We have not for years had any subject before us of
so exciting a local influence as the trial of Mrs. Gil-
mour, or rather Christina Cochran, for the murder of
her husband. Perhaps a greater romance in real life
than the circumstances connected with the fate of
this extraordinary woman never occurred ; and to a
certainty all the inventions of fiction never promul-
gated circumstances so very uncommon as those which
have taken place between the subject of our notice
and her affianced bridegroom, after they had been
united as one by the ceremony of marriage. From
s'a'ements which have already gone the round of the
press, most readers will be aware that Mrs. Gilmour
and her husband were the son ant daughter respec-
tively of two neighbouring wealthy and comfortable
farmers. Both of the farms on which this young
couple were brought up are situate in the parish of
Dunlop, Ayrshire; and both of the unfortunate indi-
viduals had little more than entered on life, which they
did with the fairest prospects. For nearly five years
before her unfortunate marriage with Gilmour, Miss
Cochran had formed a warm and devoted attach.
ment to another young farmer in the neighbour-
hood, referred to in evidence—John Anderson. The
attachment was reciprocated on his part, and he had
got settled on a farm of his own close to her father's,
but circumstances intervened which prevented him
from marrying Miss Cochran for a time. in the in-
terim Miss Cochran's young neighbour, John Gil-
mour, got most devotedly attached to her without
having the satisfaction of his love being returned, and
he having resolved to settle in life, first took the farm
called the town of Inchinnan, and then used every in-
fluence in his power to secure her as his wife, both by
exercising the warmest persuasion with herself, and by
craving the assistance of her parents in his favour.
Under these circumstances we are assured by the most
creditable authority that the parents, in accordance
with the solicitation of Gilmour, urged the marriage
on their daughter, notwithstanding her most deter-
mined opposition. Before the union took place,
she freqnently urged her parents to let- her live
as he was. She even begged of them to permit
her to live single for life. She never could
be attached to Gilmour, she said, while her
heart was with another. A short time beforo
the "marriage took place, Miss Cochran and Ander-
son formally declared their attachment to each
other, and, we are assured, separated both deeply
bathed in tears at the cruel fate which awaited her,
and which neither of them seemed to have the power
to avert. The occurrences that took place with the
young couple after the unhappy marriage will be
found fully detailed in evidence, but in addition we
have unquestionable authority for stating, that though
they lived together for six weeks, and regularly re-
tired to the same bedroom, Mrs. Gilmour never un-
dressed during the whole time. She was frequently
found bathed in tears by her husband during the day,
and when spoken to about grief by him, she generally
endeavoured to compose herself, and assured him she
would redeem her promise—she would live with him,
and work with him as a servant, but she was unable to
do anything more. In her demeanour Mrs. Gilmour
is mild even to simplicity; her manner is as unaf-
fected as a child, and under all the difficult positions
she has been placed in prior to her being placed at
the bar, nothing ruffled her countenance ; and she
was always to be found the most cool and unaffected
person present, or who took any part of the proceed
ings.—Renfrewshire Reformer.

MARRIAGE IN HIGH I.lrE.—On Tuesday last, at
North Mymms Church, nests, the Earl of Enniskillen was married
to Jane, eldest daughter of J. A. Casamajor, Esq., of Manchester
square. The ceremony was performed in the presence of the Earl
and Countess of Uxbridge and the Ladies Constance and Eleonora
Paget, and a family circle.
CHARACTER OF FRANKLIN'S WRITINGS. s-s- The
writings of Doctor Franklin are justly admired for a plain
popularity of style, for the distinct picturesque character of idea,
for humourous Socratic irony, and for the art of arguing to the
selfishness; the reader is constantly put in mind of the use
that will accrue to him, and such as him, from the adoption
of Doctor Franklin's premises. Even' a question of science
is never handled as a question of curiosity, where to evolve
the truth is the disinterested end in view ; it must be
hooked to some petty, practical purpose of private accommoda.
tlon, before it is held worthy of being investigated. This
concatenation of the cui boso to every footstep, is a clog to
excellence; it illiberalises science ; but it seems to be the
characteristic of American philosophy. The national foible
is readily forgotten in Doctor Franklin, when his vast eft-
cacy is contemplated; history will class him among her
great men—among the strong minds employed in directing
important events. He had, perhaps, more of craft than of
boldness, more of prudence than of magnanimity, but he
attained his ends without harshness or waste of effort; he
early saw the scope of his pursuit, and proceeded towards it,
step by step, with a singleness of purpose and an undeviating per.
severance that rarely accompany a comprehensive mind. indeed,
Doctor Franklin's range of attention and idea was but narrow.
The classical, poetical, and elegant writers had employed little
of his leisure; the moral, sublime, the heroic delineations of the
muse, seldom tinged his sentiments or actions ; nor had the
luxuries and refinements of social life attraction enough to en-
croach much on his habits of snug sufficiency. He allowed him.
self time to think, and time to say but little ; that little was
always hitting; and what especially will consecrate his memory to
the grateful veneration and growing applause of -the remotest
posterity is, that he belonged among those worthies who have
assisted the people to obtain liberty, and not among those cringe.
hogs who have assisted Sovereigns to extend their power.
Under the date of Belgrade, 3d inst., the Augs-
burgh Gazette gives the following :—" According to letters
from the borders of the Black Sea, it appears that the check re-
ceived by the Russian troops, in the Daghestan, was much more
severe than was at first represented. In fact, the Government
has issued orders for increasing the army of the Caucasus to
60,00) men ; showing a resolution of carrying on operations
upon a much larger scale, and with greater energy. There is,
above all, a great want of officers."
At the conclusion of a marriage at Holy Trinity,
on Tuesday, the venerable Dean administered the Sacrament
to the parties, and a collection was made for the Offertory.
Some of the wedding guests were embarrassed for want of cash,
not expecting Mother Church to come down upon them in this
way. Others gave gold, not having silver to bestow ; and
many were astonished thereat. But Parson Pedlar was more
astonishing, for he was stuck there as if not entrusted by the
Church to tie a true lover's kuot, and had on his black gown
when he should have worn the white surplice. The Dean of-
ficiated.—Exeter Times.
INlAacti 27, 1844.—Cabinet cogitations of a dis-
tinguishing character are manifested ; Ireland again attracts
especial notice ; her position will be relieved, and favourable
changes introduced by Government—they succeed in aught
connected with our foreign relations, treaties and enactments,
matters of revenue and finance, closely connected with the
public interests. l'slinisters are successful in their divisions,
and the Privy Council strengthened; there appears with the
foregoing, something inimical to the popular view, or a change
in an important official appointment ; much angry excitement
and hostility prevails, and the proceedings will not reconcile
public expectation, although the Government succeeds.—
Psrliamentary Predictions.
The penny postage project is perhaps the noblest
afloat in our country and time, considering the moral interests
it involves. It is, perhaps, scarcely possible to exaggerate Ills
force and extent of its civilising and humanising influences
especially in regard to its spreading the, spirit of home over all
the occupations and interest of life, in defiance of the separat-
ing powers of distance and poverty; and it will be curious if
this enterprise, besides keeping the school-child at his mother's
bosom, the apprentice, the governess, and the maid-servant,
at their father s hearth—and us sick and aged people enter-
tained daily with the flowers, music, books, sentiment, and
news of the world we have left—should prove an exception to
all others in performing all its express promises. At present
I own, this appears no matter of doubt. Essays on Life in
the Sick Room.
AMUSING HoAx.—A young farmer, fresh from the
neighbouring hills, during a visit to Cheltenham, last week,
exhilirated by the beauties which everywhere met his eyes,
had indulged in an unusual sacrifice at the shrine of the Jolly
God. In fact his potations had been so frequent and plentiful,
that he was mooning along in a state of perfect unconscious-
ness of his whereabouts, when he was accidentally seen by an
acquaintance, who, finding the predicament he was in, took him
under his protection and conveyed him to the inn at which they
had before met. Now this said inn was frequented by a party
of choice spirits, members of the Wide-awake Club, who nevet
lose an opportunity of a laugh, at whosoever', expense it may be
enjoyed. From the "gentle violence" which the friend found
necessary to use in propelling the young farmer along, a belief
was engendered that certain members of the corps of " blue
devils " had him in charge. The idea was not lost on the
merry guests, is ho, whilst he was endeavouring to recover his
scattered senses by a snooze, fitted up a back room with all the
appurtenances and properties of the charge room of a station.
house, and accoutred themselves as representatives of the stern
officials of justice. The court was opened, which consisted of
the representatives of two magistrates and their clerk, a ser-
geant, and several policemen, the latter aroused the prisoner
from his slumbers, by slating that his attendance was neces-
sary, as they were about to dismiss the night charges. He was
placed before the bench, and the evidence against him brought
forward. The magistrates declared, as usual, that they be-
hoved every word of the statement of the police, and it would
be useless for the prisoner to make any defence. The charge
was therefore admitted to be just, the mercy of the court was
prayed in most moving terms, two persons present gave him a
most excellent character, and on his promising not to offend
again, he was mulcted the usual fine and dismissed. He
was accompanied by his friends through the inn yard into a
dark back street, down which they walked till by another turn
they reached High-street. The farmer then insisted on his
friends taking a glass with him, and they speedily entered by
the front door, the inn they so recently left, and found the room
filled with those who participated in the joke, who were quaffing
the jovial draught at his east. But little inducement was re-
quired, and the farmer recapitulated the momentous events of
the evening in a similar style to " Honest Jack Falstaff" after
the robbery at Gad's-hill, and showed how he annihilated a po •
liceman by a blow under the jugular ; how the others, terrified
at his prowess, left him master of the field, until they had pro-
cured a reinforcement and mastered him at length solely by
dint, of numbers ; how he "got over" the magistrates and es-
caped with such slight punishment, to the great delight of the
actors in the late drama, who were there in propria persons,
laughing in `their sleeve at the marvellous gullibility of the
Coteswold hero.—Cheltenham Examiner.

A SINGULAR RACE OF MEN. A writer in the
League newspaper says—" I have noticed that in Wiltihire,
as in some other counties west of London, the men have no
calves to their legs. All of them, young and old, wear knee-
breeches, and a sort of tight leather legging, and this exhibits
more palpably their thin shanks. Otherwise they are generally
handsome men, mostly of a middling size, thin and wiry. I
was told by a gentleman, who seems to know the rural popula-
tion of England well, that in the counties where bacon is eaten
as a staple article of diet, the men have small calves. I cannot
see any reason for this; but whether it be bacon, or whether it
be that a bacon eating race have invaded those countries, and
have brought a peculiar formation of legs with them, it is a
fact I:tat they have caireless legs, no matter how well fed or
how starving they may be. The jolly faced farmers have the
same kind of legs as the lean labourers."
SINGULAR OCCURENCE.—An adder which mea-
sured thirty incises in length, was killed a few days tgo near
Liskeard. Having been discovered in its winter quarters by a
weasel, a combat ensued ; the weasel pounced upon its prey ;
the adder, instead of exhibiting indications of torpidity, erected
its head and darted upon its assailant ; the presence of a 147
stander, by whom the adder was subsequently carried off and
killed, iduced the weasel to retreat, probably to die from the
effects of the bite of its at, xt,rizitt.-47tmureee dfiercicle.

AN IRISH SCENE.
At the Wakefield Court-house, last week, Alex-
ander Brady charged John APDermid with threaten-
ing to do him some bodily harm. In stating his case,
Alexander, who was a gaunt raw-boned Irishman,
professed no desire to harm John, only he hoped, for
his own protection, that " their honours would bind
him to keep the pace." John here burst out in rich
Milesian brogue, at the same time pulling at a lock
of hair on his -forehead, " Your honours, he's none a
good one, for he's bound himself to keep the pace, for
running a man with a dagger." Some more cross-
firing took place between the parties about some
money Alexander owed John, on 'a balance of
account, " while up the country harvesting a bit."
The Chairman asked John—what's your religion ?
" Plase your honour I'm a Connaught man."—(Loud
laughter.) A what ?—A Connaught man, your
honour.--I did not ask you what countryman you are,
but what is your religion ? " Why,- God help me, I
sud be a Catholic, but when I get a sup of beer I don't
know what I am."--(More laughter, in which the
bench joined). Sure, yer honors, it was but a dhrop
of drink I'd got to make myself comfortable on
Christmas day,—Did you tell Father Morris of this ?
Oh, God bless yer honor, no, and I hope he may niver
know; what, it was Christmas day, and both gentle
and simple get a dhrop then, to make them merry.—
Well, but you must find bail, and pay 4s. for your
maintenance while in the lock-up.--Oh, then, yer
honors, he's no rale Irishman, at all, at all ; there's
plenty of rale Irishmen that would get twenty cuts on
the head on that day, and niver say a word about it ;
and sure I did'nt strike him.—Well, but you have done
very wrong, and you must suffer for it—Why, yer
honor, as to the bail, Mr. Brierley will say I'm no
worse a man than the other, and sure, he'll p'raps be
bound for me ; but, as for the money, it's hard for a
man to pay when he hasn't it.—What do you work at?
Oh, yer honor, I worked at Normantoni but they did
me out of my money there, and I get a job where I
can now; but, rubbing his head, he exclaimed, I can't
carry the; bricks up, yer honors. The Bench, on
hearing a good character of John, agreed to let him
have time to pay, and to bind him in his own recogni-
zance to keep the peace ; and, when asked if he would
give bail, he said, " Sure, I'll not strike him ; but, if
he strikes me, sure it will be a hard case." The neces-
sary documents being prepared and read over to him,
he was asked, in the usual form, if he was content.
" I'm content, sure; if he doesn't strike me." The
Bench explained, that if Alexander struck him, he
must not strike again, but bring him before them, and
they would fine him. This appeared to puzzle John
no little, the Irish law appeared far more to his taste
than the English ; but, a happy thought striking him,
he exclaimed, " Sure, then, he can't hinder me from
talking;" and, on being told that he might use his
tongue in a proper way, he pulled away again at his
lock of hair, and, shouting " thank you, Mr. Holds- i
worth, thank you, gentlemen," made his exit in warm
altercation with Alexander, about the ss. he owed I
him, for the harvest money.—York Courant.