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London, England, 1844-01-12 00:00:00

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LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1844.

The conduct of the Duke of BORDEAUX in this
country does not tend to raise the BOURBON race
in public estimation. Every Englishman at first ,
welcomed him as an unfortunate exile fromi
France ; his sad lot, and the sufferings of his
family for three generations, called forth thee
sympathy of every Renerous heart, and all, from:
the SOVEREIGN to the peasant, would have been:
anxious to pay a due tribute to his reproachless,
life, and his position, as the last remnant of a.
ROyal Family that had performed a great part:
for ages in the affairs of the world. But when he
assumed the character ofa Pretender, when he en-
couraged the relics of the old bigoted and cowardly
noblesse to come in crowds to England, and, j
taking ed., antage of her liberal institutions, to j
raise a standard which he could have done in no
other European State (with the exception of
Hanover), he was classed among the incorrigible
despots who would rule by divine right, and set:l
the people at defiance. Lows PUILIPPE MIS; 't
elected Svereign of France almost unanimously I.
,i)

—if there were any dissentients they belonged
to the part who had not the courage to express
their sentiments, and who have now come over
in shoals to pay court to the Duke of BOR-
DEAUX as HENRY V. It is unfair to make
England the scene of such an exhibition.
England had done and suffered much for
the BOURBONS ; but on finding them, from
the blind folly of CHARLES X., and the puerile
conduct of his son, utterly irreclaimable, even
the Tory Government of WELLINGTON at once
cast them off. What madness now to make an
attempt to resuscitate the worn-out dynasty, and
at the same time, by glaring indiscretion, to
offend a State that had done more than all
others to restore them to the throne ? Were he
not as blind as any of his fatuity, he would see,
that if a revolution take place in France, it will
not be in favour of the young HENRY.
Young France and Old France, too, are
sick of masses and monks and Catholic
bigotry ; the fatal impressions made by the his-
tory of the last hundred years have sealed his
fate, and the revival of the CAPETS is as hopeless
as that of the STUARTS. True to the character of
the family, he yields when it is too late. He left
Brighton privately—he has remained for some
days in private at Belgrave-square, and he has
made his escape privately to some part of the
country. Even the loyal chronicler of his move-
ments leaves us to guess what is become of him.
The same journal has accurately recorded how
often he attended mass, as if that religious cere-
mony would raise him in the estimation of
Frenchmen.

At the Central Criminal Court, on Friday last,
a fellow named JONES was tried for stealing a
horse and cab. The prosecutor stated that the
prisoner had hired them of him, on the Ist of
August last, on the.plea that be was going to
Hampton, and should return in the evening;
but when the evening came, he was "reported
missing," and, what was worse, the horse and
cab were missing also, and he had never since
been able to recover them. A witness, who
described himself as a horse-dealer, deposed that
on the 3d of last August JONES offered him the
horse for sale; the price lie set upon it was
fifteen pounds, but after a good deal of " hag-
gling," lie consented to accept nine pounds,
which the witness accordingly gave him for the
animal. In summing up the case, the Common-
Sergeant—who must be a very common Sergeant
indeed—" told the jury that they must look to
the original intent of the prisoner. The ques-
tion was, did he, when he hired the horse and
chaise, intend to convert them to his own use;
or, having obtained possession, was he suddenly
tempted by the Devil to do it ? Should they be
of the latter opinion, the felony was not made
out !" We have often been told that the
Devil interferes much more than is credit-
able or agreeable in mundane affairs; but
this is the first time, we believe, that his
mischievous interference has been formally
recognised in a court of law, and a deliberate act
of felony pronounced to be no felony, in conse-
quence of such Satanic intermeddling. We now
have it broadly stated, on the authority of a
grave and important legal functionary, that if a
prisoner be " suddenly tempted by the Devil "
to enact the part of a conveyancer with a gen-
tleman's watch and seals, levant with his horse,
abruptly vanish with his pocket-book, or commit
any other felonious offence, he is not to be con-
sidered guilty, because—and here we have the
convenient Socialist doctrine brought into play—
" he is the victim of circumstances over which he
had no control." It is not he that is the criminal.
He is the mere involuntary agent of a
superior Power. The Devil is the arch-offender,
and he—and he only—must be held amenable
at law. Pleasant decision this, and one that
cannot fail to be specially agreeable to all the
various candidates for Old Bailey honours!
Imagine, for instance, a clever young "artful
Dodger "—such as DICKENS has pourtrayed in
" Oliver Twist"—who bids fair to become a
credit to the profession, and to excite the envy
and admiration of all the " Fagins" about town
—imagine, we say, such a genius tried at the
Central Criminal Court for absconding with an
eldeely gentleman's pocket-handkerchief; and,
when asked what he has to say in his defence,
urging that the act was purely involuntary on
his part—that, in fact, he could not help himself,
being suddenly tempted by the Devil to "bolt
with the old cove's wipe." He made every
attempt at resistance in his power, but Satan
was too strong for him, and needs must when the
Devil drives. Of course the Common-Sergeant
—should lie • happen to be on the bench
at the time—would recognise the validity of
this defence, and the young artist would
most likely be let loose again on society,
to undergo similar temptations whenever
an opportunity of plunder occurred. " Sud-
denly tempted by the Devil I" The
phrase is a most convenient one, every way cal-
culated to bring balm to uneasy consciences, and
redoncile a scoundrel to the commission of any
deed, no matter how atrocious. Should a man,
for instance, feel disposed to walk off with his
neighbour's wife—to forge his name to a bank
bill—to set his house on fire—or commit a
burglary on his goods and chattels—what more
easy for him than to stifle the stern upbraidings of
remorse, by the accommodating reflection that he
is " suddenly tempted by the Devil." We have
no doubt that GREENACRE was thus "tempted,"
when he left his mangled victim's trunk in a
field at Camberwell, and carried her head,
wrapped up in a towel, in an omnibus to White-
chapel ; consequently, on the Common-Ser-
geant's showing, he ought to have been acquitted
of the murder! In the political world this plea of
" sudden temptation" is calculated to be of not
less comfort and convenience than in the law
courts; and accordingly, we strongly recommend
the Whigs and Sir JAMES GRAHAM to plead it
iu justification of the marriage clauses in their
Poor-law Bill, for it will relieve them of a load
of inconvenient responsibility, by enabling them
to cheat themselves, and the credulous public,
into a belief that they were not free agents in
the matter.

The late meeting at Oxford to form a public
cemetery in the neighourbood of the city, ex-
cites some sad reflections. There is no fairer
way of testing the truth of any set of religious
opinions, than by examining their practical in-
fluence upon the every-day affairs of mankind. '
Those principles which when reduced to prac-
tice are found to be inimical to the common in-
terests of our species, may rightly enough be con-
sidered bad ; and, on the other hand, when the
real substantial welfare of human beings is pro-
moted, we may be quite certain that there is no-
thing very unsound in the religious system by
means of which this good has been achieved.

Puseyism claims our homage, and the profes-
sors of the modern creed insist most pragmati-
cally upon the divine origin of what they in-
culcate ; but if we decide upon the merits
of the system by the conduct of those who
preach it, we imagine we shall not be long
in arriving at a very unfavourable opinion
of what is presented to our notice. Oxford
is the quarter whence these dogmas have arisen,
and it is, therefore, well to direct our eyes thi-
ther occasionally for illustrations of the theolo-
gical system. The recent proceedings in reference
to the establishment of a public cemetery at
Oxford, supply us with some means of ascer-
taining the sentiments of the Tractarian clergy,
when a great public good is under consideration.
The need of such accommodations as public
cemeteries we take to be so evident that
we shall not undertake to demonstrate it to
our readers. The old system o allowing
our dead 'to be buried in church-yards, placed in
the most densely populated parts of our most
densely populated towns and cities, for a long
time escaped all attention, excited no fears, and,
therefore, met with no opposition. It was not
even suspected that the noxious vapours emitted
from putrid human bodies might exercise an in-
jurious influence upon Abe health of those resid-
ing in the neighbourhood of the church-yards
wherein the" were deposited. Fevers, malaria

of various kinds, and the long train of disorders
which it is now ascertained owe their existence
purely to this cause, were then imputed to
irresistible agencies, which human folly or
human superstition had no hand in producing.
Hence we went on in our absurd and most in-
sane habit of crowding charnel houses with the
victims of our weakness, and they, in turn, con-
tributed to the prevalent evil.
But now we are beginning to know better.
Sad experience has taught us the folly and
danger of going on piling dead bodies, as though
they were merchandise, in the neighbourhood
of our dwellings; and there appears to be a
general desire abroad to reform what hitherto
has been done so shamefully amiss. At
this crisis, however, the friends of im-
provement have an opponent to contend
with—an opponent powerful, resolute, and
' energetic; and yet, strange to say that very
opponent ought to be a most zealous and ef-
fective ally. The Church—the Establishment
which has been called the Poor Man's Church—
appears to be most determined in her opposition
to the scheme for improving, by means of public
cemeteries, the health of our population. And
the party in the Church which has shown itself
foremost in this array is the party which is called
Puseyite. At Oxford, on the occasion to
which we have been referring, the Tractarian
clergy mustered all their local influence, with
the view of either crushing the scheme of
forming a cemetery, or else of carrying out their
project, by rendering it a cemetery for purely
sectarian purposes. How little, how puerile,
how paltry this interference with the sacred
privileges of the dead! The grave has been re-
garded as the sanctuary from all the strifes and
animosities which too much agitate us frail mor-
tals while passing through this brief and most
perplexing scene. Why, then, convert it into a
source for perpetuating what already, to a re-
flective mind, must appear far too enduring?
Surely, when we see a religious system incul-
cating such principles as this conduct evinces,
we may well regard it with suspicion ; and how-
ever much its professors plume themselves upon
their honesty, simplicity, and devotion to truth,
we may, without want of charity, exclaim, how
contrary is such conduct to everything which
Christianity enjoins ?

The Madrid papers of the 4th instant bring no
intelligence of interest. On the previous day
Mr. BULWER, the British Minister, delivered
his credentials to the QUEEN, and thus addressed
her MAJESTY :
" The Queen, my Sovereign, in accrediting me to your
Majesty, charged me with the honourable mission of cultivating
the intimate relations which have so long subsisted between
the two countries. I indulge the hope that it will net be
difficult for me to accomplish that task, if I succeed in deserv-
ing the august approbation of your Majesty, since the most
ardent desire of the Government of her Britannic Majesty is,
that Spain may daily increase in power and prosperity, and
that your Majesty may reign many years with glory and hap•
piness over a noble people, whose name is so renowned in his-
tory, and whose profound veneration for the Crown of your
Majesty and the proud spirit of national independence hive ever
inspired my countrymen with the most lively sentiments of
esteem and admiration."
The QUEEN replied—

" Nothing could be more grateful to me than the sentiments
of friendship for my person and esteem for the Spanish people
which you have just expressed to me in the name of my dearest
ally the Queen of Great Britain, and certainly the expression of
those sentiments could not be conveyed to me by a mere worthy
and commendable interpreter. I flatter myself that your missi•n
will be crowned with success ; that the ties of amity and good un-
des standing now existing between the two Governments will be
daily more closely drawn, that the kind feeling and frank assist-
ance which Spain has always experienced from Great Britain,
her constant ally, will augment the sympathies of the two na-
tions, and that our debt of gratitude and respect fur the magna-
nimous English nation will increase every day."

The Three per Cents. were done at 241, at sixty
days, and the Five per Cents. at 181, at sixty days.

The French Government seems determined at
all hazards to put down the Carlist press in
France. Four Legitimist journals have lately
been seized by the police, the editors :of two of
them have been tried, convicted by a jury
(though only by a simple majority), and con-
demned to fine and imprisonment. On the 9th
instant, as stated yesterday, the editor of the
Gazette de France was fined 6,000 f. (2401.), and
ordered to be imprisoned for two years. The
accused was charged in the indictment with
adhering to another form of government, with
exciting its readers to hate and despise the pre-
sent system, and attacking the principles and
form of government established in 1830. The
case of the Quotidienne was next tried, the in-
dictment being nearly in the same words. The
jury retired for an hour and a half, and returned
a verdict of guilty on four of the counts, but
only by a simple majority, which means that the
vote of one juror decided the verdict. The
editor, M. VAUGRIGNEUSE, was sentenced to pay
a fine of B,ooof. (3201), and be imprisoned for one
year. These sentences are generally regarded as
extremely severe; and when it is recollected
that the results are the fruits of theSepteinber laws,
in this country there can be but one opinion on the
subject. The Quotidienxe makes these remarks
on the trial, and the severity of the sentence :
" Brought before a jury on a prosecution con-
sisting of five counts, the Quotidienne has been
condemned by a simple majority on all of them,
and acquitted on the subsidiary questions. We
can therefore say that it is the laws of September
which have condemned us, and that, under the
old system of legislation, our acquittal would
have been complete. Nothing proves better the
character of the trial than the union of numbers
of the journal, not at first proceeded against, and
afterwards included, in order to swell out the
accusation. Another circumstance must sur-
prise the public—namely, the severity of the
sentence, after a decision founded on a simple
majority in the jury. We respect the justice of
our country, but we must take into considera-
tion, as public opinion will do, the circumstances
in which this condemnation has been pro=
flounced !"

The Committee of the Chamber of Deputies
appointed to draw up the Address, have con-
cluded their labours, and it was to be read to
them by the Reporter (President) yesterday. It
appears the Messager• committed an error in
stating that M. BIONON had been appointed to
the situation. The reporter chosen was M.
ST. MARC GIRARDIN. The Committee had ap-
proved of the Speech from the Throne by a ma-
jority of 8 to 2, and had resolved upon inserting a
paragraph in the Address in favour of Poland, as
in former years. The debate upon the Address
was to commence on Monday next.

BOURSE—PARIS, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 10.
First Highest Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price. Price.
French Five per Cents. 124 15... 124 23... 124 15... 124 20
Threes B2 50... 82 50... 82 35.. 152 35
Bank of France 3235 ...3250 ...3235 ...3250
Witte Bank I,OOOL-1110 ..1110 ...MO —.lllO
5,000f.-5075 ...5075 ...5075 ...5075
Belgian Bank ..... 685 ... 685 685 ... 685
Belgian Fives
1840 loB} 108 A ... 108 h ... 108 h

1842.... 109- ... 109 ... 169- ... 109-
Spanish Active
Old Deferred bit .. 5i .. ... bi
Neapolitan
Roman ...... ............ 1041 ... 1043 .. 1041 ... 1043

RAILWAY SHARES.
St. Germain BOO ... tOO ... 800 .. 800
Versailles, R.B 3lO ... 310 .. 310 ... 310
L. 8...
Rouen
Rouen to Havre 6bs ... 655 ... 652 50... 655
Orleans.

Strasburg to Bale 212 50... 215 ... 212 50... 213 75
Avignon to Marseilles 670 ... 670 ... 668 75... 670

RAILWAY SHARES, FOR THE ACCOUNT.
St. Germain BOO ... 800 ... 800 ... 800

Versailles, LB 167 50... 167 50... 160 ... 163 75

Rouen 825 ... 831 25... 825 ... 831 25
Rouen to Havre 655 ... 655 ... 655 .. 655
Orleans 832 50... 837 50... 832 50... 837 50

Strasburg to Bale 212 50... 215 212 50... 215
Avignon to Marseilles €67 50... 670 ... 667 50 .. 670

We regret to state that the accounts of Lady
Burdett's health up to a late hour yesterday are very
unfavourable, and that no hopes of her recovery are
entertained.

THAMES TUNNEL.—Last night there was quite a
gala under the Thames, a body of mem attired in full ancient
regalia, with pikes, drawn swords, banners and three bands of
music, comprising a society called the " Knights of Bur-
gundy," having marched through, en route to their destination.
The noise produced by so many instruments playing at the same
time under the bed of " Old Father Thames," was of a most
stunning description, and reverberated from arch to arch along
the whole structure.

The Right Hon. Richard Pakenham, her Majesty's
Envoy Extraordinary to the United States, left the Brunswick
Hotel, Jermyn-street, yesterday (by the Great Western Rail-
way), for Devonport, where a frigate is in readiness to convey
his Excellency and numerous suite to New York, en route to
Washington,

SUMMARY OF NEWS

AND

Vniatr Optitton.

" Who runs may read."

VOR.EIGN.
The editor of another Legitimist Paris journal, the Quoti-
dienne, has been condemned to pay a fine of 3201., and be im-
prisoned for twelve months, on a charge of bringing the Go-
vernment into contempt.
Their Majesties rece►ved on Monday evening Marshal Soult,
the Minister of the Grand Duchy of Hesse, the Duke de
Plaisance, the Baron and Baronets de Mareuil, M. Petit de
Bantel, M. Merilhou, the Countess de Castellane, and the
Viscountess d'Haussonville.

The Finance Minister had announced that he would bring
forward the budget on Saturday, the 14th.
A Madrid j ,urnal, the Espectader of the 4th, states that
the Cabinet have resolved on the disarmament of the whole of
the national militia throughout the kingdom, and that the
Captains-General of the provinces have been already com-
manded to put this order into execution.
The Chamber of Commerce and Muncipal Council of Bor-
deaux have guaranteed in moieties the interest upon the
6,000,000 f., to be raised at Bordeaux, towards the formation
of the two lines of railroad from BordeaUx to Angouleme and
from Orleans to Tours. Some days ago the subscriptions
amounted to 4,600,000 f. Of this amount the Mayor of Bor-
deaux subscribed 100,000 f.

A young man from Mezamat ( Tarn) took up his residence a
short time since at the Hotel de la Croix-de-Alalte at Mar-
seilles, and incurred a debt of '200f., which he was unable to
pay. Being requested to choose another lodging, he exclaimed,
that "if they turned him out he should kill himself." He was
allowed to remain a few days longer, and on being again urged
to depart, he ran ap stairs to his room, and blew his brains out.
The Rh6ne of Lyons states that influenza is very general in
that city.
No disturbance had yet been heard of in the provinces, and
Madrid continued tranquil, although 16 members of the Ayun-
tamiento had resigned in consequence of the new municipal
decree.

The Post Ampt Gazette of Frankfort announces that the
king of Bavaria has dismissed from the office of Censor the
State Councillor de Lobell, for the severity with which be ex-
ercised his functions, and has appointed in his place M. Doren-
berger, a literary man, well known for the independence of his
opinions and the moderation of his character.
PUBLIC OPINION.
The Morning Advertiser, alluding to the legal preliminaries
connected with the Irish State prosecutions, says :—" It ap-
pears that, after the Recorder of Dublin had made out the list
of yersons qualified to serve on the panel, consisting of 780
persons, he handed it to the High Sheriff, and immediately
afterwards proceeded to Drayton Manor, on a visit to Sir R.
Peel. When the High Sheriff arranged the names in alpha-
betical order, it was found that the' number on the list was only
717, being a reduction from the original list of 63. The ques-
tion comes to be, how is this reduction to be accounted for?
Who is the responsible party for the omission of the b 3 names
—a majority of ti.hom, be it remembered, were Roman Catho-
lics? The blame and the responsibility attach either to the
Recorder or the High Sheriff ; it is for them to settle the
matter between them. The most generally received version is,
that the slips, when the list was alphabetically arranged, were
sent over from Dublin to Drayton Manor to be authenticated
by the Recorder, and that he omitted to return the slips con-
taining the names of the missing jurors. Assuming this ver-
sion of the matter to be the correct one, the omission may have
been accidental ; but when all the circumstances connected
with the extraordinary proceedings, from first to last, in refe-
rence to these trials, are taken into consideration, does it not
look like the result of something else than accident ?"
The Herald remarks, in an article on public cemeteries :
" Kensal-green Cemetery, popularised by the burial of the late
Duke of Sussex, has subsequently, we are informed, become a
very paying speculation; and in every direction, other trading
burial grounds are springing up around the metropolis, over
which the public authorities have no control, and in which the
Church has no interest, and from which the poor, and conse-
quently the many, are excluded. The institution of really
public cemeteries on a comprehensive plan would ruin these
places as mercantile enterprises, and would gradually bring
back to the Church, in London and the greater towns, the now
rapidly-receding tide of interment. The latter is by no means
a merely speculative opinion ; experience has already proved
that such would be the case."
The Chronicle says There are few things more amusing
than the unblushing effrontery with which the Tory press, or
rather what remains of the Tory press, are contemplating the
present aspect of affairs. They commend Lord Ellenborough
for conquests, which would hare been criminal in Lord Auck-
land. They eulogise treaties which would have brought an
impeachment on Lord Palmerston. They congratulate them-
selves on the augmentation of a revenue, which their own ob-
structive policy has been keeping for several years below zero ;
and, in total disregard of the condition of Ireland, and the State
proceedings now impending, they laud and magnify the Go-
vernment for restoring repose and tranquillity to our distracted
empire ! But what are the proofs of this ambiguous peace,
where the evidence of this ambiguous tranquillity ? In our
Foreign-office it is preserved by capitulations, at home by mi-
litary force. We treat the Irish as if they were foreigners ,
we treat foreigners as if they were our countrymen."
We quote the following from the Times :—" We have
before us a very successful exposé of A Joint. stock Building
Society Bubble,—by John Bowen.. The Society in question
is located at Bridgewater, and calls itself the • Bridgewater
Accumulating Fund and Building Society.' Mr. Bowen has
an indubitable nose for a job, and shakes his victim merci-
lessly. There is no mistake about it. The primary design of
this Society professes to be semi-charitable—so very knowin;
and refined are we become in the art of humbug ; it is
to enable persons who want capital to borrow money
at an easy rate. A person who wants money is invited
to buy one, two, or more shares in this concern. He
gives up the premium which would fall to him in course
of time, if he waited, for the sake of so much ready money, with
which the society supplies him instead; and he simply clears
off his debt to the society by the monthly payment of his shares,
spreading over a period of ten years, which is the calculated
time of the duration of the society. A tabular explanation is
given, and it is proved arithmetically how very advantageous
such a plan as the proposed one must be to the borrower. Very
fair and very good; but now we come to the lender. The so-
ciety consists of two sides,—borrowers and lenders ; it does not
profess to trade with its money ; so all the advantage that it
gives is simply derived from the money as it passes, within
itself, from one side of the society to the other. Accordingly,
if the borrower is benefited it must be at the expense of the
lender." _ _

LAW AND POLICE.
At the Sheriffs Court the following outlawries were pro-
claimed :—Thomas Hawkes, James Mills, Sarah Louisa Lane,
George De la Poer Beresford, Edward Walpole, Charles James
Vynery, Edward Tucker, Mary Parer, Henry Whittaker,
John Hunter, Samuel Bamford Homer, Henry Mirrick Elder-
ton, George Woolly Boole, Sir Henry Floyd, Bart., William
Millett Thomas, William Pyne, George Scott, John Bird, and
Charles Hon.
Mary Stubbs, the wife of a man of very good character, and
the sister of a respectable publican, was brought before Sir
Peter Laurie, at the Mansion House, charged by Mr. Bush,
the solicitor to the Committee of Bankers for Protection from
Forgeries and Frauds, with being implicated in the street rob-
bery, committed upon a clerk of Barnard, Dimsdale and Co.,
bankers. The amount of property stolen was 2,0001. in notes,
and of these the prisoner had presented 3001. at the Bank. She
was
Anotherremanded.
tahefecmasael;O said to be implicated in the for-
geries Miss Slack and Miss Burchard,
She is the wife of a respectable tradesman
h a
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arrested. s
in Oxford-street.
At Guildhall Henry Harrill, one of the men employed in su-
perintending the delivery of coals and potatoes to the poor, at
the charitable institution called the " City Kitchen," in Black-
friars, was brought before Alderman John Johnson, charged
with stealing 1651b5. of coals, and 281bs. of potatoes, belonging
to the charity. Evidence having been produced to convince
the sitting Alderman that the prisoner, to a certain extent,
was guilty, he was sentenced to the treadmill for seven days.

COITIVT—r4S33IOI467ABLE.
The Duke of Bordeaux visited the Dock-yard, at Deptford,
on Wednesday. He afterwards proceeded to Woolwich, where
he dined and slept, and next day inspected the Arsenal, and
the other Government establishments at that place.
Lord Brougham is expected to arrive in this country, from
Paris, in a few days.
Lord and Lady Beauvale have arrived from Hyde-park-
terrace, at Brocket-Hall, where they have been stvying since
their return from Broadlands, on a visit to Viscount Mel-
bourne. Lord and Lady Palmerston are expected to join the
family circle from the Duke of Bedford's, at Woburn Abbey,
where they will pass a few days en route from Broadlands to
town.
The Earl and Countess of Limerick have assembled a large
family party at South-hill Park. The circle comprises Lord and
Lady Monteagle, Sir Henry and Lady Francis Calder, Mr. and
Lady Louisa Pole, Lady Elizabeth and Miss Standish, Count I.
and Lady Cecil do la Feld, Mr. and Lady Caroline Russell,
the Hon. Edmond Pery, the Hon. Stephen S. Rice, and Mr.
and Mrs. de Vere.
The Duke •f Cambridge lately presented to the Ojibbeway
Indians 101. in money, ten pounds of the best tobacco, two very
handsome brooohes for the squaws, and two splendid silver me-
dals for the two chiefs ; the money has been equaLy divided be•
tween the nine.

ASISCMLLANEOUS.

It is stated that the wood-engraving branch of the Govern-
ment Female School of Design has been abandoned. On the
re-opening of the school after the Christmas holidays, the
teacher was dismissed, and the pupils told they were to dis-
continue their studies. Some of the pupils are said to have
made very flattering progress in the art.
The principal landowners in East Kent, says the Kentish
Observer, are about to meet next week, for the purpose of
arranging a general meeting of agriculturists to determine on
such measures as may be necessary at the present crisis of
Anti- Corn .law agitation.
On Thursday the anniversary dinner of the Gardeners' Be-
nevolent Institution, instituted in 1838, for the relief of aged
and indigent gardeners, took place at the Crown and Anchor
Tavern, in the Strand, Mr. John Noble, F. S. A., in the chair.
From the report it appeared that the Society was now esta-
blished upon a firm basis, and that the purchase-money in
Government securities now amounted to 8001.
The general court of the Royal Humane Society has awarded
the honorary silver medallion to Mr. Henry M'Killop, late a
midshipman of the Belleisle, for having jumped overboard and
saved a seaman, at the imminent risk of his life, whilst the
ship was at anchor in one of the passages at the entrance
of Chusan.

SPLENDID STAG HUNT WITII MR. POLE'S HARIERS.
—Mr. Pole's excellent little pack of hariers had a capital run
yesterday, the meet taking place at the Windmill, White Wal-
tham, Berks, at which a field of between 50 and GO were pre-
sent. A fine deer upon being uncarted at Weston Mill, about
two miles from White Waltham, made away to the left of Bin-
field Church, through the park, where it ran a circle round
the mansion, crossing the lawn to the Stag and Hounds, Bin-
field, thence to the Golden Ball, at Bracknell, where it doubled
to the left between Bracknell and Warfield to the park of Sir
John Walsh, and thence away to Holly Oak-lane, crossing to
New Lodge. through Folijohn Park, where it doubled again to
the right by Winkfield Church, leaving the church to the
right, when it took to the road by the Fleur-de-lis up to the
Crispin, within about a mile of the Royal Kennel, and was
there taken, after a run, at a tremendous pace from the com-
mencement, of two hours and a quarter, over between 20 and 30
miles of very heavy land, without a singe check. Mr. Pole,
who met with an accident while following Sir John Cope's
hounds a fortnight since, was not sufficiently recovered from its
effects to proceed throughout the run.
VERY COOL.—The Gloucester Journal gives the
following copy of a letter, sent by some person in Tewkesbury
to a gentleman in that neighbourhood, who was supposed to be
desirous of adopting a child, having none of his own ;—" Sir,
Having heard that you expressed a wish to a child and did
not mind giving a sum of money as an inducement i flatter
myself that i have it in my power to furnish you with one to
answer your purpose in every respect it is a boy exactly three
years old a good looking healthy spirited child and sound wind
and limb, and you will never be troubled concerning the child
afterwards so that you can rair him up suit your inclination you
can send word by the bearer and appoint aney time to inspect
the child."

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)

CORN EXCHANGE-FRIDAY.

A very scanty supply of English Wheat has been received up
to our market since l‘londay, consequently the stands to-day
exhibited but a limited number of samples. Although no great
amount of business was transacted the trade was firm at fully
the late advance in prices. Foreign Wheat was quite as dear,
and previous rates were steadily supported. The supplies of
Barley being large, the demand for all, except the finest malting
parcels, was heavy at late currencies. Malt came sparingly to
hand; but in the present state of the Barley trade we can no-
tice no advance in the quotations. The supply of Oats being
large, the inquiry for that article, as well as leans, Peas, and
Flour, was kactive at barely stationary prices.

ARRIVALS.
I Wheat. ' Hour
English I 4,110 qr. 11,140 qrs. 2,830 ;ads.
Irish I 1,270 25,940 —
Foreign l,‘2zo
Malt, 5,980 qrs.
siurritrami.D.
_

Our market exhibiTea;;;riscant77upply of Beasts, yet it
was fully adequate to meet the wants 01 the bu)ers. The few
prime Scots, &c., on offer sold steadily at fully Monday's
quotations, but otherwise the beef trade ruled heavy. The
numbers of Sheep were again small, yet the itlutton trade was
dull, at unaltered rates. There was only a small supply of
Calves on sale ; prime qualities of Veal sold freely, other kinds
slowly, at about last week's figures. In Pigs a fair ;.mount of
business was transacted at previous rates. Mulch Cows sold
at from 16/ to 1915 s each.
S. 6. to S. a. d. toe. d.
I derior Beasts. 3 0 3 2, Interior Sheep ...... ... 3 2 3 6
Secendmr:llty ditto... 3 4 3 6, Second quality ditto... 3 8 310
Pritne large Oxen *4 8 310 Coarsc,woolled ditto.. 4 0 4 2
Fri= Scot., Scc.
Large coarse Calves
trimc small ditto 4 2 4 6 Small Porkers 4 2 4 6
Suckling Calves„ each 11l 0 30 cl Quarter old Pigs, inhl6 U 23 U

SUtFLY AT MARKET.
B.msts. I Sheep. I Calves. l
PI"
1 589 I 2,7 : 0 133 34)
NE'LVGATE AND LEADMIN T MALL.

The supplies of both town and country killed meat being ex-
tensive, the general demand was heavy, on the following
terms :

At per stone, by the Carcase.
8. d. to s. d.l 5. d to s. d
Beef, inferior 2 4 2 6 Mutton, inferior ...... 2 6 2 8
- mickiling ... 2 6 2 8; middling..... 210 3 6
-- I rune large ..... 210 3 l.) - prime 3 8 4 2
- prime sitiall
V,al