The Sun.
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THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 12, 18 4.

COURT CIRCULAR.

CORONERS' INQUESTS.
DEATH OF A DECAYED MERCHANT.-REPUGNANCE
TO ENTER A WORKHOUSE.—YestaJay forenoon Mr.
Carter, Coroner for Surrey, held an inquest at the Marl-
borough Arms, South-street, Omit e well, on view of the
body of John James Masor, aged seventy years.
Miss Frances Ann Mason, a daughter of deceased,
clad in a workhouse dress, over which she wore a faded
black silk cloak, upon being sworn, burst into a flood of
tears, and appeared deeply to feel her condition. Upon
being questioned, she said she lived in the Camberwell
workhouse ; that the deceased was seventy years of age.
He had formerly been the principal partner in the firm
of Mason and Meyes, lead-merchants and refiners of
antimony, Hill-street, Blackfriar's-road. About two
years ago he had been unfortunate, and in consequence
had been reduced to the greatest straits ; and, to sup-
port themselves, they were compelled to part piecemeal
with every article of furniture they had been enabled to
save from the wreck of their former home. When the
whole of the furniture was gone, deceased and herself
were compelled to remove to a furnished lodging in East-
street, Walworth. They subsisted principally at first
from donations of friends who had known them in their
more prosperous days. These at length failed, and
they were compelled to apply for temporary
relief from the parish of St. Mary, Newington, in
which they then resided. A friendly parochial order
was also given to deceased for his removal to the work-
house of Camberwell (in which parish deceased had a
settlement), but deceased refused to make use of it from
repugnance to go into the workhouse. By the assistance
of some kind friends they were, however, enabled to keep
on their lodgings for a time. Their circumstances con-
tinued to get worse, and witness was compelled to pawn
her trinkets and every article of wearing apparel, until
they neither of them had more than they wore. They
were obliged to quit their lodgings for a small back room
in White-street, Borough, for which they paid -is. a
week. They both slept in the same room. Witness and
deceased had occupied their last lodgings about a month.
They were occasionally without food. About ten days
before his death deceased, unknown to witness, applied
for relief to the parish of St. George's, Southwark. In
the evening the parochial authorities sent them a portion
of a quartern loaf, some tea and sugar, and oatmeal.
Deceased was in a very debilitated state arising from
want of food. He had ulcers on both legs. On Friday
last deceased kept his bed and became quite insensible.
We did not apply for relief to Camberwell parish, be-
cause deceased and myself were afraid of being required
to go into the workhouse. It was most abhorrent to de-
ceased's feelings, but at last we were compelled. On
Thursday last he was accordingly taken in a cab to
Camberwell workhouse, where he died within two hours
after his admission. The landlady paid for the cab.
_ _ .

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

WINDSOR, MONDAY.—The Queen and Prince Al-
bert walked to Frogmore House this morning to
visit the Duchess of Kent. Her Majesty and his
Royal Highness returned to the Castle in a pony
carriage.
The unfavourable state of the weather prevented
the Soyal Family from being taken out this morning
for an airing on their ponies.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert left the Castle, at-
tended by the royal suite, at twelve o'clock, for the
Slough station of the Great Western Railway en route
to Buckingham Palace, escorted by a troop of the
Royal Horse Guards, commanded by Lieut. Baillie.
The royal party left Slough by a special train for
Paddington.
The Earl of Morton, Captain Meynell, and the
Hon. and Rev. C. L. Courtenay, remain at the Castle.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert, attended by
Lady Portman, Lady in Waiting, the Hon. Georgiana
Liddell, Maid of Honour in Waiting, arrived at
Buckingham Palace at one o'clock yesterday after-
noon, in a carriage and four, escorted by a party of
Lancers, from the Paddington terminus of the Great
Western Railway. Colonel Arbuthnot, Equerry in
Waiting to the Queen, and Colonel Wylde, Equerry
to the Prince, followed in another carriage and four.
Her Majesty and his Royal Highness were received
at the Palace by the Lord Chamberlain and the Mar-
quis of Granby, Lord in Waiting to Prince Albert.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by
Mr. George Edward Anson, went yesterday after-
noon to the office of the Duchy of Cornwall, in
Somerset House.

OXFORD, Nov. 9.—There will be an election at
Balliol College on the 29th inst., to fill two scholarships
and two exhibitions. The scholarships are open to
candidates who shall not on the day of election have
exceeded the age of nineteen years. The exhibitions are
limited to natives of Somersetshire. Candidates for
each must present to the Master, on the 25th inst., cer-
tificates of birth and baptism, together with testimonials
of good conduct.

The Bodleian Library opened this day, having been
closed for the visitation which took place yesterday.
His Grace the Archbishop of York, Lord High Al-
moner to her Majesty, has appointed the Venerable
Samuel Wilberforce, of Oriel College, to be Sab-Al-
moner, in the room of the late Dean of Carlisle.

The Rev. George W. Newnham, of Corpus Christi
College, has been presented to the perpetual curacy of
Monckton Coomb, Somerset.
The Rev. Robert G. Swayne, of Wadham College, has
been appointed to the curacy of Slimbridge, Gloucester-
shire.

The Rev. Edward East, of Magdalen Hall, has been
appoientdevt.o the curacy of Long Ashton, Somerset.
r
Bc kerdiko, of St. Edmund Hall, has been
appointed to the lectureship of the church of Bradford,
Yorkshire.

The Lord Bishop of Ely has presented the Rev. Wm.
Biggs to the vicarage of Tharston, Norfolk, value 1181.
per annum.
The Archdeacon of Taunton has presented the Rev.
Thomas H. Sotheby to the vicarage of Milverton, with
the curacy of Llangford Budville, Somerset, value 4491.
per annum.
The following notice has been issued : -

"An examination for the purpose of electing a Sanscrit
Scholar, on the foundation of Colonel Boden, will take
place in the Clarendon, on Monday, Dec. 9th, at eleven
o'clock. The Scholarships are open to all matriculated
members of the Colleges and Halls in Oxford, who shall
not, on the day of election, have exceeded their twenty-
fifth year, and who shall produce a satisfactory proof of
their age, and a written permission to offer themselves
as candidates, signed by the Heads of Vice-regents of
their respective Colleges or Halls.
"B. P. SYMONS, Vice-Chancellor.
" Wadham College, Nov. 9."
CAMBRIDGE, Nov. 9. DIVINITY. The Norrisian
Professor has given notice that the subject for the pre-
sent year is—" .Hath God cast away his people ? God
forbid." (Rom. xi. 1.)
CIVIL LAW.—The Queen's Professor has commenced
his course of lectures. Days of attendance in each week
during the present term—Tuesday, Thursday, and Fri-
day ; at twelve o'clock on Tuesday, and at ten o'clock
on Thursday and Friday. Days of Examination—Wed-
nesday, the 13th of November ; Wednesday, the 27th of
November ; and Wednesday, the 11th of December.
To be conducted on each day from nine to twelve, and
from one to half-past three o'clock.
PHYSIC.—The Anatomical Museum.—The late Vice-
Chancellor, Dr. Hodgson, Dr. Haveland, Regius Profes-
sor of Physic, and Dr. Thackeray, have reported favour-
ably of this institution, and declared the collection to be
in excellent order, and that several important and valua-
ble additions have been made to it by the Professor, in
the course of last year.
TRINITY COLLEGE.—The prize for Latin Elegiacs has
been awarded to Mr. Macleane. Subject—" Andromache
Grzecos orat ut parcant filios."
ST. JouN's COLLEGE.—The following gentlemen have
just been elected scholars upon this foundation :—Bur-
nett, W. B. Smith, R. Allen, Spurrier Cox, Parkinson,
Clubbe, Body, F. Brett, Mudden, Willink, Foster, Vas.
sail, J. M. Clarke, G. Frost, Ottey, Manby, Newham,
Maudson, Pearse, Calvert, J. B. Mayor, Valentine,
Leicester.

Her Majesty, attended by the Hon. Miss Liddell
and Colonel Arbuthnot, visited her Royal Highness
the Princess Sophia yesterday afternoon, at Ken-
sington. Her Majesty afterwards visited her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, at Gloucester
House.

Prince Albert inspected the lighting of the Chapel
Royal, at Buckingham Palace, in the evening. The
chapel has been fitted up with gas-lights, inclosed in
large glass globes, ornamented with appropriate in-
scriptions, and fixed upon handsome ormolu columns.
They are ventilated upon Professor Faraday's prin-
ciple of conveying away from the lights all the
noxious products of combustion by means of a de-
scending draught, which is obtained, in this instance,
by the assistance of Dr. Reid's ventilating shaft and
apparatus. The Prince expressed himself much
pleased with the perfect success of this application of
that invention, as well as with the chaste and brilliant
effect produced by the lights.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert, attended by Lady
Portman, the Hon. Georgiana Liddell, the Earl Dela-
warr, Col. Arbuthnot, and Col. Wylde, honoured
Drury-lane Theatre with their presence yesterday
evening.
The band of the Coldstream Regiment of Foot
Guards left town yesterday morning, at seven o'clock,
to attend at Burleigh House during her Majesty's
visit to the Marquis of Exeter.
The Duke of Cambridge visited her Royal High-
ness the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday, at Gloucester
House. _

Mrs. Ann Tupper, 41, White-street, Borough, the
landlady, stated that when deceased took her lodgings
he was in a very weak and debilitated state. They were
very badly off. Witness often gave them food and firing,
as much as she could afford. Deceased had no shirt,
and their whole stock of clothes was what they had on.
The CORONER summed up the evidence, and said that
it was evident that if it had not been for the repugnance
of deceased and his daughter to enter the workhouse,
in all probability he would have been alive at the pre-
sent time.

Verdict of " Natural death from serous apoplexy."
The unfortunate lady subsequently stated that she
should be most thankful if any kind individual could ob-
tain her a situation.
SUSPICIOUS DEATH.—An inquest was held yesterday
by Mr. Wakley, M.P., at 'the Silver Cup, Cromer-
street, Gray's Inn-lane, on the body of Henry Williams,
aged 38, an attorney's clerk,. late of 18, Constitution-
row, Gray's Inn-lane. The inquest-room was crowded,
in consequence of a report that deceased met with his
death by foul means.
Mrs. Mary Anne Williams, widow of deceased, de-
posed that deceased was brought home in a cab between
two and three o'clock on Sunday morning, the 3d inst.,
in an insensible state. On Monday he rallied a little,
and recognised Mr. Osborne, proprietor of the Crooked
Billet, Tower-hill, with whom he shook hands, and also
asked him how he was. He told witness that he had
been struck by a person between a man and a boy in size.
He then relapsed into insensibility. About mid-day on
Tuesday he again rallied, and she asked him if he could
tell who struck him ? lle replied that he could not, as
the blow was so sudden, and, pointing to his left eye, in-
timated that he was injured there, adding that he would
have fallen had not his companion, Mr. Strickland,
caught him in his arms as he was struck. Mr. Fogarty,
a surgeon, was sent for, and attended deceased as quickly
as possible after his arrival at home.
Mr. F. W. Fogarty, surgeon, 31, Great Percy-street,
Pentonville, attended deceased between three and four
o'clock on Sunday morning, who was then perfectly in-
seasible and drunk. On the following day the effects of
the drink passed away, but he was delirious, and it was
ascertained that his brain had been injured. He died on
Wednesday. Upon a post mortem examination, it was
pr
found that the orbital plate of the frontal bone over the
left eye had been fractured by a blunt instrument, such as
brainth the endupwards
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causing death. From the first moment deceased's case
was hopeless. Deceased had an umbrella with him on
the day of the accident.
Mr. Hakes, house surgeon, University College Hos-
pital, confirmed the last witness's evidence, respecting
the result of the post mortem examination.

Sir Robert Peel arrived at his residence in White-
hall-gardens yesterday from Brighton. Sir James
Graham had an interview with the Right lion.
Baronet.

HOW COUNTIES ARE TO BE WON
(From the League.)
We need not inform our readers that the Govern-
ment of this country is in the hands of the great
landed proprietors : the corn-law is the badge which
proclaims us to the world as the thralls of a landlord
class. It was a needless insult on the part of the
Duke of Richmond to proclaim from the hustings at
Steyning, last autumn, that he and his order could
make and unmake Ministers at their will and pleasure,
for we feel their power in our stinted loaves, and
diminished supplies of sugar. Granted, then, that
we live under a landocracy composed of some thirty
thousand persons, are there no means by which
twenty-seven millions may hope to throw off their
yoke ? It can, we believe, be demonstrated, that, if
less than one in a hundred of our population could be
roused,to the exercise of the power they possess, the
domination of the Duke of Richmond and his class
might be peacefully, and legally, but totally abated.
The ascendancy of the landowners rests entirely
upon the majority they possess in the House of Com-
mons, and this they owe to the county representatives.
Take away the 252 County Members, and Mr. Vil-
liers would in two years possess a majority in Parlia-
ment. Remove one-half of them, and the present
Government would in the next division be in a mi-
nority. If we seek for the source of the power of
the landlords in the county representation, it will be
traced to the 50/. tenant-at-will voters. Wherever a
contest has resulted, as in Lancashire, the West
Riding of Yorkshire, or North Cheshire, in the de-
feat of the free traders, it has been proved, upon an
analysis of the poll, to be caused by the votes of occu-
pying tenants ; and nobody will deny that the pre-
ponderance of the same class of votes in Buckingham-
shire, Huntingdonshire, &c., renders a popular con-
test in those purely rural counties hopeless. What
must be done ? To attempt to disfranchise this de-
pendent body of electors were a vain and fruitless
task. The only plan remaining, then, is to bring an
equal number of independent voters into the electoral
field to neutralise them at the poll ; and this is the
practicable scheme to which we earnestly invite the
attention of our friends.
By the late census it appears that there are in
England and Wales 230,155 farmers and graziers
who are adult males. This number includes, of
course, all the dairy-farmers in the vicinity of towns,
besides many others paying less than 501. a year of
rent; and, if we deduct rather over one-tenth for
these, it will leave in round numbers 200,000 tenants-
at-will, whose votes turn the scale at the election of
the 158 Members who represent the 52 English and
Welsh counties. It would be wrong to assume that
the whole of those are compelled to vote against free
trade, for we know that some of the largest landed
proprietorsr
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119 seats where there is a sufficiently numerous
middle class in the towns to carry our plan into
successful operation. According to our calculation
it would require 155,000 persons to qualify _
them-
selves as county voters to neutralise the power of
the monopolist landlords in three-fourths of the
English and Welsh counties. We confine our-
selves to those parts of the kingdom, because the
40s. franchise for the counties does not apply to
Ireland and Scotland. What a glorious field is
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political powers! And how cheaply may this en-
franchisement be purchased—so cheaply that it is
within the reach of all but the very poorest of the
patopxuilaanteiohne,staesr explained by Mr. Cobden in his speech
" The 40s. franchise for a county was established
five or six centuries ago. At that time a man, in the
constitutional phraseology of the times, was deemed
to be a yeoman, and entitled to political rights, provided
he had 40s. a year clear to spend. That was at that
time a subsistence for a man. Probably it was equal to
the rental of one hundred acres of land. What is it
now ? With the vast extension of wealth amongst the
middle class, which then did not exist, and amongst a
large proportion, I am happy to say, in this district, of
the superior class of operatives, that 40s. freehold fran-
chise becomes a nominal franchise, and is within the
reach of every man who has the spirit to acquire it. I
say, then, in every county where there is a large town
population, as in Lancashire, the West Riding
of Yorkshire South Staffordshire, North Cheshire,
Middlesex, Yorkshire,
Kent, and many other counties I
could name—in fact, every county bordering on the sea-
coast, or having manufactures within it, every county
can be won, and easily won, if the people can be roused
to a systematic effort to qualify themselves for a vote, in
the way the Lancashire people rushed to the qualification
when they found that the county could be won by that
means and no other. It is a custom sometimes for men
to put their savings in the savings' bank. There are
fourteen or fifteen millions so deposited, or more. I
would not say a word to lessen the confidence in that
security; but there is no investment so secure as a free-
hold of the earth, and it is the only investment that gives
a vote along with the property. We come then to this.
It costs a man nothing to have a vote for the county.
lie buys his property, 601. in a cottage: aye, 40/. or 30/.
in many of the neighbouring towns will do it. He has
the interest for his money, the property to sell when he
wants it, and his vote into the bargain. Sometimes a
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TRINITY HALL—The members of this society hare
presented to the Rev. J. Power, M.A., Fellow of Clare
Hall, and late Fellow and Tutor of Trinity Hall, a silver
salver, bearing the following inscriptiog :—" Tutela
Auk° S. S. Trin. sexdecim jan annos administrata viro
reverendo egreglis artibus prsedito, Josepho Power,
A.M., hoc argentum ut sit grati propter singularem
comitatem et diligentian animi quantulumcunque testi-
monium D.D., Ejusdem Anise Alumni A.D. MDCCCXLIV."
THE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY.-At the anniversary
meeting of this society, held on Wednesday last,
the President, the Master of Trinity College,
in the chair, the following officers were elected
for the ensuing year :—President—The Rev. Wil-
liam Whewell, D. D., V.P. R. S., F. A. S., Hon.
M.R.1.A., F.G.S., Master of Trinity, and Professor of
Moral Philosophy. Vice-Presidents—The Rev. Joseph
Power, M.A., Fellow of Clare Hall ; the Rev. Adam
Sedgwick, M.A., F.R.S., F.G.S., Fellow of Trinity Col-
lege, and Woodwardian Professor of Geology; the Rev,
Robert Willis, M.A., F.R.S., F.G.S., late Fellow of Caius
College, and Jacksonian Professor. Treasurer—George
Edward Paget, M.D., Fellow of Caius College, and Fel-
low of the Royal College of Physicians. Secretaries—
William Hopkins, M.A., F.R.S., F.A.S., F.G.S., St.
Peter's College; William Hallows Miller, M.A., F.R.S.,
F.G.S., Fellow ; Charles Cardall Babington, M.A.,
F.L.S., F.G.S., St. John's College. The anniversary
dinner will take place on Monday, the 18th instant, at
the Eagle Hotel, at six o'clock.

THE SCOTTISH CORPORATION.
Yesterday, at one o'clock, a Special Court of the
Governors and Subscribers to the Scottish Corpora-
tion was held at the hall of the Scottish Corporation,
for the purpose of considering the propriety of remov-
ing the hall from Crane-court, Fleet-street, which
premises have been in the possession of the Corpora-
tion since the year 1665, when it received its first
Charter of Charles the Second ; Dr. Webster in the
chair.

Mrs. Williams recalled—Her husband and Mr. Strick-
land had been intimate friends, and never, to her know-
ledge, quarrelled with each other.l
Mr. Osborne stated, that deceased and Mr. Strickland
left his house at a quarter past twelve o'clock on Sa-
turday night. Although not drunk, neither was sober.
They.were perfectly capable of taking care of themselves.
Mr. Robert Cockling, coach proprietor, was called
about one o'clock on Sunday morning, by two gentlemen
who were standing under the archway of the Blackwall
railway, in the Minories. They engaged his coach. A.
policeman was present, but he (the witness) took no par-
ticular notice of them at the time. He drove them to
Redcross-street, where they left him. Deceased and his
friend were the two gentlemen who hired him. When
deceased alighted from his coach, he observed deceased's
face covered with blood, but deceased, who paid him, did
not complain of
any wound or injury. He left deceased
and his friend in a passage of a court in that street.
Mr. WAKLEY subjected this witness to a severe cross-
examination, but his answers were so dissatisfactory, and
as the policeman who was present when deceased entered
the coach was not in attendance, he adjourned the in-
quest, having first required the production of the um-
brella which deceased had on the night of the melan-
choly accident. The umbrella is an old-fashioned one,
very strongly built, having a brass ring at its end, which
was of a size that suited the wound in deceased's brain.
The end and the umbrella itself were smeared with
blood. The jury and witnesses having been bound over,
the court adjourned.
SUPPOSED CHILD MURDEK.—Mr. Higgs held an in-
quest yesterday at the Feathers, Dean-street, Westmin-
ster, on the body of a newly-born female child, which
was found in the inclosure of St. James's Park, opposite
the Wellington Barracks, on Friday morning last. The
body was that of a fine full-grown child, the cloth it
was wrapped in consisting of en old piece of black stuff
gown. There were no marks of violence upon the body,
and the medical gentleman who saw it was of opinion
that the child had not been born many hours. A ver-
dict of "Found dead" was recorded.

Professor DONALDSON stated that a committee had
been a few years in existence, which was appointed to
consider the expediency of the removal of the hall of
the Corporation. The committee were unwilling to
take any measure without the consent of the Court.
Ho had been in communication with the officers of
Woods and Forests to ascertain what plots of ground
might be vacant in any of the new lines of street of
the metropolitan improvements, and he found that
there were several between Plumptre-street and
Long-acre. Some had been disposed of for the erec-
tion of churches and chapels, and, in some instances,
the fee simple hadibeen disposedlof. The question was,
whether they woud purchase a quantity of freehold
ground, and if so, where they would choose; a site.
That of the Fleet Prison had been suggested, and, he
believed that was now in the market.

A long conversation ensued upon the propriety of
removing, when
Mr. NOBLE moved a resolution, " That it was ne-
cessary, for many reasons, to remove the offices of the
Corporation to another site, and to have a new hall
in some eligible and conspicuous situation."
Mr. MORRIS seconded the resolution, observing that
it would be for the benefit of the institution. It was
now in an obscure situation, and,he had known many
noblemen who have alluded to the difficulties they
have met with in trying to find out the hall.
Several of the Governors expressed a wish to be
informed what would be the likely expenses incurred
in the sale of the Corporation estate in Crane-court,
Upon which an amendment, proposed by Mr.
LITTLE, and seconded by Mr. ORME, was agreed to,
which was to the following effect :—" That the Com-
mittee continue their inquiry into the propriety of
removing the Scottish Hall from its present situation,
and report to a future Court."
Thanks were then voted to the Chairman, and the
Court broke up.

DEATII OF DYSON TUE SE-DEALER.—After a
long and painful illnes's,H Rarm°on Dyson died at the vil-
lage of Waltham Cross last week. He was one of the
very few horse-dealers who have amassed large for-
tunes, but the bulk of his
property was acquired
during the late war, by contracting to supply the
cavalry with horses. His illness was occasioned
by the following singular circumstance : Dyson
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had been for a long period purchased by different
persons of the King's establishment, so that Dyson
never came in contact with his Majesty until ac-
cidentally he himself one day went down to the Royal
Lodge with two riding horses to show the King as
likely to please his Majesty. Accordingly he was com-
manded to bring his horses in front of the Royal Lodge,
where, to his great surprise, the King walked out, and,
before looking at the horses, his Majesty, in his usual
familiar manner, accosted him as his " old friend,
Dyson," expressing the pleasure he had in again seeing
him, and after some conversation about horses " in
olden times," and making some remark upon Dyson's
horses, his Majesty said he would take both of them,
and ordered the page to see that every attention was
paid and refreshments given to Mr. Dyson. Dyson was
so extremely agitated by this interview, and so com-
pletely overwhelmed by his visit to the Royal Lodge, and
by the kindness and consideration of the King, that on
his return home his whole nervous system appeared to
have received a shock, which in a few days terminated
in a paralytic stroke, and from which he never afterwards
perfectly recovered, although, to the comfort and happi-
ness of the neighbouring poor, he lived to the patriarchal
age of 83.
FORGERY ON THE DURHAM COUNTY BANK.—
Much excitement has prevailed in Stockton and its
neighbourhood within the last few days, in consequence
of its having been discovered that a forgery had been
committed on the Stockton and Durham County Bank,
by an imitation of its notes. To what extent the forgery
has been carried is at present unknown ; but it is certain
that six or seven 5L forged notes have been received by
different tradesmen in Stockton. Two individuals, one
of them formerly a respectable master currier, and the
other a schoolmaster, charged with the crime, are already
in custody ; and the police are on the look-out for others
of the " establishment." Plates, moulds, notes finished
and unfinished, with all the other apparatus of a spurious
mint, have been found on the premises of the suspected
parties.—Durham Advertiser.
INCENDIARY FlRES.—Considerable Sensation has
been created in this county, by four exceedingly destruc-
tive fires, which have broken out in such a manner as to
leave no doubt of their being the work of incendiaries.
One of them took place on Monday night last, on the
farm of Mr. Samuel Pridhain, at Chorlton Fitzpaine, and
not enly destroyed the whole of the barns, stables, and
out-buildings, but also numerous ricks of old and new
hay, of upwards of three hundred seams. The flames
at one time raged with such fury that it was with the
utmost difficulty they were restrained from spreading in
such a manner as would have endangered the entire vil-
lage. The second broke out on the premises of Mr.
Hodge, of Bampton, and destroyed twenty-five acres of
wheat and fifteen of oats and beans, and other property
to a considerable amount. The third fire happened on
Wednesday morning last, at Broadclist, on a farm occu-
pied by one of the tenants of Sir Thomas Dyke Acland,
Bart., M.P. A rick of wheat, with a quantity of reed-
straw and a number of out-buildings belonging to the
farm, were destroyed. On the very same morning another
fire broke out at a farm a few miles distant, belonging to
a Mr. Calloe, but the flames were extinguished before
any great mischief was effected.—Deuonport Independent.

MURDERS IN FRANCE.—Spain and Italy must look
to their laurels or France will eclipse both to the use of
the knife. The Presse of Friday last states, that "at
nine o'clock on Thursday evening a murder was com-
mitted in the Rue Laffitte, near the Boulevard des
Italiens. A trunkmaker, who resided in the Rue
Laffitte was beating his apprentice with a lath, when a
young man about twenty-two years of age interfered, but
the trunkmaker, who was offended at the interference,
struck the young man in the face; the latter immediately
drew from his pocket a dagger, which he plunged into
the trunkmaker 's breast, who instantly fell dead." It is
said that the murderer is the son of M. de Maupas.
Another version of this horrible affair states, that it was
to save a dog from being beaten that the murderer inter-
fered, but adds no extenuating circumstance. The Jour-
nal de Loir et Cher states that whilst two operatives, one
a slater, the other a mason, were passing along the high
road between Blois and Beangency, the mason re-
mained a short distance behind, and then advancing
towards his companion fired a pistol loaded with ball,
which entered the back of his head. The murderer then
drew the body of his victim from off the high road, took
possession of sixteen francs and a gilt watch. which he
probably mistook for pure gold, and fled. The follow-
ing morning the body was found, and removed to the
nearest hospital, where the unfortunate man recovered
sufficiently to tell what had happened, but shortly after-
wards expired. The police are in pursuit of the mur-
derer.

SOUTH DEVON RAILWAY.—On Thursday last the
town of Dawfish Fiesented a very animated appearance,
being thronged with visitors at an early hour, all anxious
to be spectators of the anticipated blasting of the cliffs
between the town and the Parson and Clerk rocks, for
the purposes of the South Devon Railway, which, it was
stated, was fixed to take place at eleven o'clock. Among
the distinguished persons present we noticed Sir T.
Acland, Bart., M.P., Sir R. W. Newman, Bart., Sir J.
Duntze, Bart., J. B. Swete, and H. B. Swete. Esqs., and
most of the distinguished families of the neighbourhood.
Mr. Brunel came down from London, for the express
purpose of being present at the explosion, and was
accompanied by C. B. Fripp, Esq., one of the Directors,
and W. Princep, Esq., the Secretary. The operations
were conducted under the immediate dirt ction of Mr.
Glennie, the resident engineer, and Mr. IFindlater, the
contractor for the work. The first chain ber was fired
shortly before two o'clock, and the others, nearly twenty
altogether, were let off in succession, as vapidly as might
be with safety. Nearly three thousand pounds of powder
were expended in these explosions. The resultwas most
satisfactory, immense masses of rock havi,ag been de-
tached from the position which they had occupied with-
out interruption for centuries. NQ accident of any kind
occurred —Devonport Telegraph.

- -
CALEDONIAN RAILWAY.—We learn, trpon un-
doubted authority, that, according to the late accounts
from London, the Parliamentary subscription deeds to
this undertaking has been subscribed to an :amount ex-
ceeding 1,500,0001. ; leaving only 300,0001. cif the whole
capital to be still signed for. Many of the rc turns from
the country had not been received, and it w as believed
that nearly the whole amount had been su ixicribed in
various quarters. The sum required to go to l'arliament
is only I,3so,oool.—Carlisle Journal.
Dispatches from the Governors of Ce. 3 'ion, the
Mauritius, and the Cape of Good Hope, wel7g received
yesterday at the Colonial-office.

The band of the Coldstream Regiment of Foot
Guards left town yesterday morning at seven o'clock to
attend at Burleigh House during her Majesty visit to the
Marquis of Exeter.

THE NEW FRENCH LOAN.
The Moniteur of Sunday contains a royal ordinance,
authorising the Minister of Finance to proceed to the
adjudication of the sum of 200 millions out of the 300
millions remaining of the loan for 500 millions, which
the French Chambers voted in 1841.
" ROYAL ORDINANCE.

" With reference to the 35th article of the law of
June 25, 1841, with reference to our ordinance of Sept.
18, 1841, with reference to the 21st article of the law of
the 4th of August, 1844, and on the report of our
Minister of Finance, we hare ordained and do ordain as
follows:

" Art. 1. Our Minister of Finance is authorised to
proceed at once to the sale by competition, with publicity
and by sealed tenders, of the sum of Three per Cents.
required to produce a net capital of 200,000,000 of
francs. These rentes to bear interest from the 22d of
December, 1844. The sale shall be made to the company
offering the highest price, save the reserved minimum
fixed on by our Minister of Finance.
" Art. 2. In conformity to the dispositions of the
second paragraph of the above-named article of the law
of 25th June, 1841, the dotation of the sinking fund shall
be increased from the Ist January, 1844, with a sum
equal the one-hundredth part of the nominal capital of
the rentes which may be negotiated in virtue of the above
article.

" Art. 3. Our Minister Secretary of State of Finance
is charged with the execution of the present ordinance.
(Signed) " LOUIS PHILIPPE.
" Palace of the Tuileries, Nov. 9, 1844."
" THE CONDITIONS OF THE LOAN.

" The Minister Secretary of State for the Finance De-
partment in execution of the royal ordinance of this date,
declares as follows:
" Art. 1. At twelve o'clock precisely on Monday,
Dec. 9, at the Ministry of Finance, will be proceeded in
public sitting to the sale and adjudication, by sealed
tender, in one lot, and to the highest bidder, the sum of
Three per Cent. rentes necessary to produce, at the price
adjudged, a capital of 200,000,000 of francs.
" Art 2. The rents so adjudged shall be inscribed
with interest from Dec. 22, 1844.
" Art. 3. The payment of the two hundred million is
to be made in the following proportions :and dates:—
December 23, 10,000,000 f. 1845—Jan.23, 10,000,000 f. ;
March 7,10,000,000 f. ; April 7,10,000,000 f. ; May 7,
10,000,000 f. ; June 7 10,000,000 f ; July 7,10,000,000 f.;
Aug. 7,10,000,000 f. ; Sept. 8,10,000,000 f. ; Oct. 7,
10,000,000 f ; Nov. 7,10,000,000 f. ; Dec. 8,10,000,000 f.
1846—Jan. 7,10,000,000 f. ; Feb. 7,10,000,000 f.; March 7,
10,000,00011; April 7,10,000,000 f.; May 7,10,000,000 f.;
June 8,10,000,000 f. ; July 7,10,000,000 f. ; August 7,
10;000,000E—Total, 200,000,000 f.

" Art. 4. The Minister of Finance, on the day named
for receiving tenders, will open the sitting by placing on
the table a sealed parcel, containing a declaration signed
by him, with the minimum price at which he will con-
sent to the sale and adjudication of the rentes represent-
ing the said capital of 200,000,000 f. The said declaration
is not to be opened, except in case no tender reaches the
sum fixed on by the Minister.
" Art. 5. Sealed tenders will be received from the
hands of the different bidders, be numbered, and arranged
for opening in public court, and in their presence. A
tender delivered cannot be withdrawn.
" Art. 6. Each tender, to be valid, must conform to a
model furnished, and be preceded by the payment of a
sufficient guarantee, for which a Treasury receipt must
be produced when the tender is handed in. The price
offered must be in francs and centimes, without stipula-
tions or reserves of any kind.
" Art. 7. The said payment in guaranteo shall not be
less than the sum of 10,000,000 f., and this sum will be
received in Three per Cent. Stock, at 75 ; Four-and-a-
Half or Five per Ceat. Stock at par, or in Treasury
bonds, or canal shares, arising out of a loan guaranteed
by the State. The bidders to whom the loan shall not be
adjudged may receive back their deposit of 10,000,000
francs within twenty-four hours after the loan be de-
termined.

" Art. 8. The delivery of tenders being concluded, the
Minister of Finance will proceed to the opening of thorn
by numerical order, and he will publicly announce their
contents.

" Art. 9. The loan shall be adjudged to the company
offering the highest price, and in case of any irregularity
or invalidity of the tender, to the company next in order
as to price. The Afinister of Finance is to be sole judge
of the irregularity or invalidity of tenders.
" Art. 10. In case two or more companies shall offer
the same highest price, and that the said companies do
not declare at once that they unite in the tender, the sale
shall be again operned between them in the same sitting,
by public bidding, or by sealed tender, at the option of
either of the said parties.
"Art. 11. The payment in guarantee shall be in
creased within ten days after the adjudication to the sum
of 20,000,0001.; and if the company to whom the loan
has been adjudged shall not make good that sum within
the time specified, their contract shall be annulled, and
the original deposit ioft,to,ooo,ooor. forfeited to the Trea-
sury. The said payment of 20,000,000 f. will not be re-
quired, if the Company to whom the loan be adjudged
make, within ten days, a payment of the two first instal-
ments, for which a discount will be allowed, at the rate
of three per cent., until the period at which the instal-
ments would be leg ally due.
" Art. 12. Cert;.firates according to the annexed
model will be delivered after the payment of the two
first instalments.
" Art. 13. The two, first instalments shall be reserved
as a guarantee for tbs Treasury, until the completion of
the loan.

Art. 14. Interest ,Y 1 four per cent. will be charged,
should delay occur i n the payment of any instalment,
and in case that delay be precharged to one month, the
original guarantee v rill be forfeited to the public Trea-
sury. _ _ _

"Art. 15. Receipts:, according to the annexed form,
will be delivered for all sums paid into the Treasury.
(Sfigned) "LEPLANGE.
"Paris, Nov. 9, 184-4."

CONVERSION OF THE REV. T.
JONES BURTON.

TO TIE EDITOR. OF TIIE MORNING HERALD.

Siu,—lt was stated. u few days ago, in the Morning
Herald, that the Rev. lir. Barton, curate of St. James's,
Enfield, had joined thke Church of Rome. On turning to
the Clergy List, I final that the name of the convert is
the Rev. Thomas Jones Burton, and that he figures in
the " Cambridge Cale ndlar" as a member of Trinity Col-
lege. Ilis conversion- is adverted to in the following
terms in L' Ami de la I?eligion (Sept. 10) :
" A member of the . Protestant clergy of England, Mr.
Burton, entered the bosom of the Catholic Church a few
weeks ago. He made• his abjuration, and received the
sacraments of Confirm %ton and the Eucharist at St. Ed-
mund's College."
Perhaps some of yo ur correspondents will have it in
their power to inform the public when this gentleman
resigned his curacy.
I beg also to call yotir attention to a statement of Dr.
Wiseman, recently m tide at Nottingham, that nine
clergymen of the Church of England had turned Roman-
ists. Now, I know but of seven, exclusive of Mr. Sib-
thorp. Who are the re; caaining two? Have they openly
seceded from our Churcl9„ or have they, like Mr. Penny,
according to the staten sent of his brother-in-law, Mr.
Jolliffe, been "advised by persons, whose opinions they
had be en accustomed t o look up to with respect, that
they can consistently I told their livings and their re-
ligious belief ?"—I remain, Sir, your faithful servant,
ACADEMICUS.

HEAVY GALi AT LIVERPOOL.
LIVERPOOL, MONDAY.

During the night we 1 have been visited with a heavy
gale from the north-we: ►t, and it still continues to blow
freshly. A few disaste rs have occurred, not, however,
of a fatal character :

The Albion of this corning contains the following
'rom a correspondent at Wexford :

" Wexford, Nov. 8.
"The weather during? last night was very severe,
blowing a gale of wind, , tnd with rain. I regret to say,
that the ship James Matheson, from Liverpool to
Cuching, Hong-Kong, a tad Whampoa, went on shore
this morning in North )day, near Raven Point. The
active agent for Lloyd's,. ',Mr. F. Harpur, started this
morning, at seven o'clock, .for the scene of distress. I
am happy to say the crew all saved, the captain being
the last to leave the ship. very much regret the above
melancholy occurrence, a nfl it points out most forcibly
th© necessity of putting m. light-ship on the south end
of Blackwater Bank, or cdopting some other measure
for preventing the loss of lives and property so fre-
quently occurring on this coast."
A subsequent communication from the agent for
Lloyd's states, that he expects to save the materials and
cargo, though we believe in: a damaged condition.
The Troy, from New Orleans, which was on shore
on the bar near New °dean s for some time, was blown
on shore near Wilson's ship-building yards. We under-
stand she has got off again.
The Santos, in coming it t, went on shore in the Rock
Channel. She has got off:
This fine wind will bring up the arrivals from foreign
ports in double quick till] c. Already they are very
numerous.

MEALS OF THE IRISH PEASANTRY.—But what of
their meals? I say it with sorrow, that in this respect
they are as ill off as in eitht )r of the respects to which I
have referred. For ten months in the year their sole, or
almost sole food, is potato es and a little salt; and as the
summer approaches and tl acir stock of potatoes becomes
nearly exhausted, they tyre often obliged to content
themselves with a single zneal a day. In the seven or
eight weeks which intervene between the going out of
the one potato crop and tte coming in of another, the
only food on which the Kidish peasantry live is what is
termed " stir-about," ca lied in Scotland " porridge."
This is a simple dish ; it at; made of a little oatmeal put
into a vessel with boiling water, and stirred about with
a piece of wood until it ac quires a certain consistency.
It is then eaten with a littlf~ milk, if there be the means
of procuring any, but it is much oftener made a meal of
without any accompanim.!ri t at all. The meal is gene-
rally procured from some peasant a degree above the
parties who require it. A the peas'antry have never,
at this season of the year,, a farthing of money, they
either work in return for the meal, or pay. those who
were kind enough to accommodate them with it with
the fruits of their harvest; labours. It is right to add,
that the Irish peasantry invariably make a point of pay-
ing for the meal thus given. to them, however great may
be their privations. There is with them a mingled sense
of honour and gratitude ilk all cases where they have
been thus accommodated by their neighbours.—lmpres-
sions of Ireland and the Iriz.h.
POTATO CROPS IN SOWTH WALES.—It is with con-
siderable gratification that; we have it in our power to
announce that the potato e; cops throughout the southern
principality are extremely good. The yield of this ex-
cellent edible is first-rate, :and it is a great blessing that
during the ensuing winter ;there is every probability that
the poor will be better provided with food than they
have been for many winter; put,— Welshman.