The Sun.
London, England, 1850-11-06 00:00:00

LONDON', WEDNESDAY pvENING, NOVEMBER 6, 1850.

A police?-constaWe sta7(,i that, the medal end franc
0i,4.3.3 wore found upon Elatni.:ton.
den:'.,2d the ehh.rgo, an+l ilamiltua said tLa,t the
things giveu nor. _

Tb,: jury returned a verdict of Guilty t:gainst Hamil-
ton, hi.ti acquitted Ingram.
Tlitt i7riioncr Hamilton was then sentenced to six
months hard labour in the House of Correction.

MARLDRO'-STEEET-( T HIS D.
mTJ ADE 11.0 US ASSAULT ON A FEMALE. - William
Benton, a stout oung fellow, about six f( et high, was
brought before Mr. Hardwick charged with violently as-
saulting Elizabeth Harris, an unfortunate woman re-
siding in Cromer-street.
The prosecutrix, whose Lee and head were covered
with blood, and who altogether presented a dreadful
appearance, deposed that about three o'clock this morn-
ing site: WAS in Oxford-street, when the prisoner, whom
she had never seen before, came up to her and requested
her to give him some money. She said she had not got
any, and bade him go on. He then 1-tid hold of her
and put his hand down her bosom; she struggled with
him and eventually got from his clutches, and was
running away when he caught hold of her
agaiin and struck her a tremendous blow on
her face and knocked her down, and while she was lying
on the pevement he kicked her about the head and
other piers of the body with heavy-nailed boots. She
culled " Police" and " Murder," and a constable came to
her assistance and took the prisoner into custody. Tee
prosecutrix was subsevently conveyed to the hospital,
where her wounds were dies,ed, and she was now in a
very dangerbus state from the injuries she had received.
Jevons, 89 0, was on duty in Oxfird-street when he
heard screams of " Murder" and 'ePelice," and on
running to the corner of Dean-street he saw the
prosecutrix lying on the pact nent in a pool
of blood which was flowing from her head
and mouth. V itness placed her in a door-way,
and with another constable went after the prisoner, who
was running away. Directly the prisoner saw them, he
said, " You b-, if you attempt to take me, I will kick
the front of your skulls in." They then closed with
him, and attempted to take him, but such was his vio-
lence that they were obliged to have the assistance of
five more constables to convey him to the station.
The prisoner denied the charge, and said his boots
were too thin to inflict such wounds as the woman bore
about her.
The prisoner's boots, by the direction of the magis- 1
trate, were examined by liobards, the assistant gaoler,
and found to be an inch thick in the sole, iron-tipped, and '
thickly studded with nails. A kick from them would be
sufficient to kill an ox.
The prisoner was remanded for a week.

GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY.
Having very recently had occasion to travel from
London to York and back upon the Great Northern
Railway, which our readers will remember was
opened to the public in August last as far as Peter-
borough, it affords us the greatest pleasure to bear our
testimony to the general merits of the line, as a safe,
speedy, and commodious means of transit from the
metropolis to the ancient city of York. For the first
ten or twelve miles from London, the line runs
through a series of short tunnels, working its way
into the open country among and underneath the in-
numerable small picturesque hamlets which cluster
around the vicinity of this metropolis. It then pro-
ceeds through Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire, in a
straight line, to Huntingdon, passing in its course
Hatfield, Welwyn, Stevenage, Hitchin, Arsley, Big-
gleswade, Sandy, and St. N cote. From Hatfield it ap•
pears originally to have been the intention of the company
to throw off branches right and left, to Hertford

and St. Alban's, and from—Sandy to the town of Bed-
ford, but those works for the present remain in a
state of abeyance. From Huntingdon the lines goes
on to Petc,rborough, through Holme, and several
other small towns; thence, going through Lincoln-
shire, it diverges by a loop further towards the sea
coast, to the Wash and Boston ; thence it proceeds to
Lincoln ; and thence on to York, by way of Bawtry,
Askerne, Doncaster, and several other important
towns in the East Riding of York. From Bos-
ton there is a very important branch to Hull and
Great Grimsby, running parallel with the sea coast
throughout its entire length, and intersecting the

principal towns in its way.— Up to the present—time
the direct line from London to York is only com-
pleted as far as Peterborough, but the unfinished por-
tion, running straight across the country from Peter-
borough to Retford and Bawtry, by way of Newark-
upon-Trent, is now in course of rapid con-
struction. Some faint idea may be formed
of the magnitude of this gigantic undertaking, when
we state that the line from London to Peterborough
cost no less a sum than 3,000,0001. The importance of
that portion of the undertaking, irrespective of its
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forming a considerable part of the direct line from
London to York, is indicated by its now affording
a new and Continuous route from the metropolis, by
Peterborough, to Boston and Hull ; by Lincoln and
Retford to Sheffield ; by Doncaster to Wakefield,
Leeds, York, and the northern counties of England,
and thence into Scotland. The distance by this route
from London to Hull is 173 miles, including the
New Hulland ferry, and to York 210 miles. The
distance saved between London and York, even by
the present comparatively circuitous route, is nine
miles, and between London and Peterborough and
London and Lincoln nearly thirty miles.
Such is a concise description of the general direction
which the Great Northern Railway takes. The object of
its directors is to develope the local traffic of the dis-
tricts traversed by the main line and loop, and to afford
the utmost facilities for the interchange and transmis-
sion of passenger:, and merchandise from and to the lines
of other companies communicating therewith, without '
injuri.iusly competing with them. It is considered,
as a whole, one of the best constructed lines of rail-
way in the kingdom by persons who have travelled
upon it, and who are competent to form an opinion
of its merits. The engineering works throughout are
of the most ample, substantial, and permanent kind,
whilst the carriages and general appointments of the
line are characterised in a remarkable degree by taste,
skill, convenience, comfort, and completeness.
The country it traver:es is remarkably picturesque,
with the exception perheps of Lincolnshire, which
our readers know is flit and marshy. Imagination
cannot conceive more beautiful landscape scenery than
that which the line intersects on its way from the
metropolis to Peterborough. Woodland and water,
bill and dole, meadow and arable land of the [richest
quality, sweetly commingling, and dotted over and
diversified in every airectim by towns and hamlets,
chateau, houses, and church spires, the traveller is en-
chanted as he speeds on his way through Hertford-
shire, Bedfordshire, and Huntingdonshire. Seen, as
was our lot, in early morn, when the sun, just peep-
ing above the horizon, bathed the woodland
heights in a sea of golden light, and under an
autumnal sky, when the gladsome earth bore on its
bosom the fruits of an abundant harvest, and the va-
riegated tints of the umbrageous woods spoke both of
beauty and decay—when air and sky were vocal with
the melody of birds, and the jocund song or whistle
of the ploughboy as he " drove his team afield"—the
exquisite repose and beauty of landscape scenery so
endlessly rich and varied as that, sheds over the mind
arid heart, susceptible of emotion, an influence touch-
ing and ennobling in the enjoyment, sweet in the
recollection.

From Peterborough to Lincoln, by way of Boston,
the country through which the line runs being ex-
tremely fist, is almost wholly destitute of interest.
One sight, however, on this portion of the journey,
gives rise to some degree of reflection. For miles
over miles thereabouts, the line runs alongside—on
the very banks, in fact—of one of those large river-canals
which used, not many years ago, to carry on their
bosoms the passenger traffic and merchandize between
all the important towns of the midland counties of
England especially. As the train sped along
the banks of this great highway, it was cu-
rious to observe how completely its waters were
deserted, and how the traffic which aforetime it
wafted from place to place was now divided and borne
to its destination by a rival power with almost the
velocity of the wind, and which mocks the highway
it has supplanted by travelling along its very margin.
Could the Duke of Bridgewater have had but the
faintest foreshadowing of this mighty change when
he conceived and was working out his great canal
scheme, how he must have faltered in the execution
of his purpose. The expectation of the directors at
present we believe is, that the station at King's-cross
will be erected and fit for use, and the remainder of
the direct line to York be completed towards the end
of next year, thereby realising one of the prime ob-
jects of the company—the shortening the journey
from London to York by thirty miles.

We referred some days ego to the fact, for which
we have the best authority, that Ministers intend, immedi-
ately after the re-assembling of Parliament, to introduce a
measure for the extension of the electoral qualiticc.tion. We
are now enabled to add, that not only will the contemplated
measure greatly enlarge the number of voters in cities and
boroughs, but that it will make a great addition to the county
constituencies. One of its leading provisions Ira been men-
tioned to us; but it would be premature to promulgate it
until it has formally received the sanction of the Cabinet.
We may, however, mention, that should the provision in
question be adopted, of which we believe that there can be
little doubt, it will add nearly 300,000 to the county consti-
tuencies of England and Wales. We can farther state, that,
with the view of making the intended measures as complete
and satisfactory as possible, Ministers have lately caused in-
quiries to be made into the operation of the present electoral
system in different parts of the country.—Advertiser.
ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY.—The usual monthly
meeting of this society took place on Monday evening, Mr.
G. R. Waterhouse, President, in the chair. The Rev.
Joseph Greene, Miss Stopford, and Thomas Thompson,
Esq., were elected subscribers to the society. Mr. Shepherd
exhibited a specimen of nonagria cannx that was herma.
phrodite. Mr. S. Stevens exhibited three cocoons of a
bombyx, from Columbia, in each of which he had found
two pupal; he also exhibited the four new coleoptera, de-
scribed by Mr. Newman in the Zoologist. Mr. J. P. Stephens
exhibited specimens from Scotland of dictyopterus aurora
and Linea ochraceella of Tengstrom ; the latter had been
found by Mr. Weaver in ants' nests. Mr. Bond exhibited
several rare lepidoptera, taken at Ventnor in August. A
specimen of deilephila celerio was exhibited by the pro.sident
on the part of Mr. G. Ransome. Papers, by- Mr. Saunders,
on Australian longicot us ; by Mr. Hewitson, on new papili-
()raw and by Mr. Westwood, on evania, were then read,

THE FIFTH OF NOVEMBER.
Yesterday being the anniversary cf the gunpowder
plot, the appointed services were read in the several
churches, together with the Act of Parliament passed
in the 3u Juuies I. for the obeervance o the day.- The
royal standard was hoisted at the Tower, Somerset-
hou,e, the Admiralty, the church of St. Martin-in-
the-Fields, &e., and the shipping in the river and the
docks were decorated with digs. At one o'clock
salutes were fired from the Tower, St. Jemes's-park,
Woolwich, and at the several forts and garrisons
throughout the kingdom.
The recent unpopular proceedings of the Pope has
had the effect of giving quite a new character to the
—of late years—almost forgotten celebration. From
an early hour yesterday morning the bye streets of the
metropolis and its suburbs were rife with the effigies
of " Guido Fawkes," while crowds of urchins in all
directions called upon her Majesty's liege subjects, in
sonorous tones, to
Remember, remember, the fifth of November!
Gunpowder trc assn, and plot.
As the day advanced, " Gays of larger growth"
presented themselves in the more frequented tho-
roughfares, attended by numberless idlers, who kept
up a running fire of pellets against the Pope and
Popery. In some cases an attendant earned a howl
of whitewash and a brush, with which ever and ate n
he inscribed on the walls and pavement, in rude
characters, "No Popery," "No wafer-boas," "No
Catholic humbug," and similar anti-Romanist ex-
pressions. The. Guys were received with more than
usual welcome by the populace, and the conductors of
the several groups found no difficulty in levying
handsome " mail" on the pissengers.
An impression having obtained that some demon-
stration on a large scale would be made in the vicinity
of the Catholic cathedral in St. George's-fields, a great
many persons assembled at that neighbourhood about
mid-day. Beyond the occasional appearance of an
itinerant " Guy," however, these parties found nothing
to gratify their curiosity. Two or three householders,
probably apprehensive from the proximity of their
residences to the Romish church, that they might be
considered "followers of that faith," and thus meet
with rough treatment, exhibited placards, bearing
loyal and anti-Romanist inscriptions. One lusty
Protestant, in letters three inches deep, called upon
"God to preserve Queen Victoria from the Pope and
Popery ;" another inveighed against the worship of
" wafer -gods ;" and a third expressed his unmitigated
contempt for all "Catholic humbug." In brief, with
these few exceptions, there was nothing to distin-
guish the district of the Romish cathedral from any
other part of the metropolis.
About half an hour after noon, there issued from
the purlieus of Farringdon-market into Fleet-street,
a "group of Guys," which—as well from their
colossal size, as by the amusement and laughter they
occasioned on their progress through the streets—
must be fairly pronounced the pageant of the day.
This group had evidently been "got up" by some
zealous anti-Romanists, regardless of cost. It con-
sisted Of about fourteen figures—animate and inani-
mate—presided over by a colossal Guy, about sixteen
feet in height, who elevated in his chariot—a van
drawn by two horses—was compelled to bow down
considerably before he ci)uld be made to pass beneath
Temple-bar. This pageant included an animate
effigy of the new Cardinal Archbishop of Westmins-
ter, attired in the gaudy canonical robes of the
Romish church, and wearing the red and broad-
brimmed hat appertaining to his office. The cardi-
nal was supported on the right by a waggish fellow,
habited in the robes of a nun, and upon the left by a
jolly fat monk, who leered impudently under his
mask at the passers-by. There was also a second
figure of a monk looking very lugubriously,
and labelled " St. Guy—the Martyr !" An
animate figure, holding a brush and a
pale of whitewash, inscribed, " Holy water
for the penitent!" A man in barrister's robes,
and three or four masks, completed the group. The
van bore two large inscriptions, the one " Cardinal
St. Impudence going to take possession of his diocese
in Westminster ;" and the other " Guy Fox going to
be canonised in St. George's fields ; " and several
smaller ones, such as "No Popery I" &c. On its ap-
lweehtostgrereetetetdhisitgrwouitph altotaradcotehdeearna
aimnd-
and, accompanying the procession to the confines of
lmpaeueagnrshaetnePc'rer.oivinrSdle'veral police officers were in attendance,
the City, gave to it something of an official character.
After passing through Temple-bar the " cardinal " i
and the " Guy" were conveyed through the Strand
and Covent-garden Market, thence back into the
Strand to Charing-cross, and after passing up Regent-
street and down Bond-street, returned through
Whitehall over Westminster bridge to St. George's-
fields, where they arrived shortly after four o'clock.
Although a great concourse of persons attended this
procession throughout the whole route indicated, there
was no attempt at disturbance of any kind during the
day.

The next most imposing " Guy" prearobulating the
streets was an equestrian effigy—also of colossal size
—which confined its wanderings to the eastern dis-
tricts of the metropolis, and, like its western proto-
type, was accompanied by a very great crowd cf
spectators. Other " stnaler fry" thronged the streets
until a late hour.

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displays -
in some of which very extensive bonfires and other
suburban districts of the metropolis,
demonstrations took place.
works The
to the
At seven o'clock several thousands of persons as-
sembled in the Cambridge-heath-road, Bethnal-green,
and the various avenues adjoining, for the purpose of
witnessing the destruction by fire of the effigy of Car-
dinal Wiseman, with those of the eleven bishops.
The piece of ground selected was the green, whi▪
ch
was granted for the purpose by Aliss Eastman, the
freeholder. On this space a pile of several loads of
faggots, under which were some tar barrels, was
placed. The effigy of' the Cardinal was raised on a
stage properly suspended in the centre of the pile, and
those of the bishops were attached to poles. A
splendid display of fireworks followed, a band playi▪
ng
the National Anthem, which was enthusiastically
responded to.
About dusk, notwithstanding the precept from the
Lord Mayor:some thousand of peryns took possession
of Tower-hill, and a continuous discharge of pyro-
technics was kept up without the least intermission
for several hours. Whilst the fireworks were being
let off, a large figure, representing " His Holiness"
on a donkey, was led into the ground. The animal
wore a cardinals hat, and on its tail was placed
a large
,placard. , on which was printed " This is
Wiseman," which produced roars of laughter. Se-
veral persons, representing "right rev. fathers,"
walked at the side of the animal. So great did the
crowd at length get that it was found necessary to
have a large body of police under Mr. Inspector Tod-
hunter, to preserve something like order, and guard
the property of the inhabitants.
At Bonner's-fields the effigy of the Pope, in his
full canonicals, was destroyed in the presence of an
immense number of persons, who testified their. ap-
probation by hearty cheers, mingled with cries of
"Down with the Pope" and a continuous discharge
of fireworks.

At the Surrey side of the water similar expressions
of public disapprobation were evinced last
nights;siaonnds
owing to the large number of fireworks discharged
it was apprehended that some mischief might ensue.
The firemen of the London Brigade were, therefore,
ordered to be in constant rearlines2, in
case their
services might be required. Up to k last
importance
night, however, no accident of any ten o'clock
had
happened.
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WI Richmond the inhabitants showed their disap.
proval in every conceivable way of the appointment
made by the Pope. The discharges of fireworks, and
the destruction of the Pope's effigy, proceeded with
great spirit.
At Hampton Court, Kingston, Blackheath-park,
Guildford, Godalming, and various other places, there
were also anti-Popery demonstrations.
At Exeter there was a grand procession of Guys,
in which the Popes, the Cardinal Archbishop of
Westminster, the Inquisitor-General,. the new Popish
bishops and the kimish priests disguised as Puseyite
clergymen, all appeared in appropriate costumes.
The priests disguised as Puseyites chaunted the fol-
lowing song as the procession proceeded :
" We stick firm to the loaves and fishes,
And hold fast with very great care;
It is clear if we give up cur
We cannot yet live upon air.
Sing fal do lal, Btc.
" The world no doubt hypocrites call us,
And bid us tic; holiest and fair,
But what can we do with our wives then,
For they cannot yet live upon air.
Sing fal de lal, &c."
The procession entered the Cathedral-yard about
half-past eight, and moved round the yard. The
procession stopped at intervals, for those who likal it,
to kiss the great toe of the Pope, and then proceeded
to the bonfire, where the Pope and Cardinal were
hanged on a gibbet, and burnt with all the indignity
heaped upon them, which their late daring and impu-
pdoenwte,rboult,earttthheeßsarimtiesh people
contemptible usurpation of
The bishops and the inquisitor general were then
kicked round the bonfire, and then kicked into it, the
band
iplaying "God Save the Queen," and the people
sin

"Frustrate their Popish tricks,
Confound their politics,
God save the Queen."
Notwithstanding these general expressions of the
popular feeling, no outrage of any kind appears to
have taken place.

A Committee of the Lords of her Majesty's most
honourable Privy Council is ,
appointed to meet in the
Exchequer Chamber, Westminster, on ruesday next,
the 12th inst., to settle the roll of Sheriffs for4he en-
suing year.

MAGAZINES, &c.—(CON TIN UED.)
FRASER.
We commend to the attentive perusal of all re-
actionaries, Young Englanders, Protectionists, Char-
tists, Socialists, Communists, c! hoc genus oinne,
perusal of the opening article of Fraser for this
month. It is entitled " The Comfortable Doctrine of
Compensations," and it proves by various instances
that every one of the magic changes of these eventful
times, howsoever they may have ovtrwhelmed some
with sorrow and perplexity, have more than compen-
sated for the temporary and partial evil they have
occasioned by the permanent good they have brought
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does not raise, but which he requires for the-Leding of
stock; thirdly, if he have
.previouily paid wages duly
propo:tioned to the then price of food, he you saf:ly re-
duce them, and if a just rent, he may demand a reduc-
tion at least proportioned to the landlord's gain in the
shape of cheap provisions. Farther, as chip f,jd re-
sults from large production, ho must of ticulesity employ
rather more than less labour, and so still further reduce
the pour-rate already diminish,2d by the low price of
food consumed within the workhoue. The burden of
county-rates is also diminished; for cheap food mesas a
lower expenditure on the inmates of pristine, and a re-
duction in the number of commitments. All these com-
pensations, however, are trivial when compared with the
great gain to the nation by a diminished price of the
first necessaries of life. Does not all history teach us
that cheap food means, not merely less crime and less
pauporism, but less political excitement—in orderly com-
muuities fewer riots, in turbulent ones fewer revolutions?
Riots and revolutions are, as we all know, the common
consequences of want of employment in dense town po-
pulations; and that want of employment is always co-
incident with a high price of provisions, and rapidly dis-
appears as the price of food falls. In our English towns,
with our liberty of action and speech, dear food and
scanty occupation, if they proceed beyond turbulent
public meetings, show themselves in conflicts with the
police; but in Paris the same causes work out into revo-
lutions. We are convinced that all the revolutions of
France have been really due to these cattail, and not to
mere political theories; and just because the price of
food is now very low, we do not look forward to another
revolution emanating from that centre of turbulence till
we again enter upon the cycle of dear food. One obvious
advantage of this view of the case is, that it lowers dis-
turbances and revolutions from the high dignity of chil-
dren of the intellect and conscience, to the less flattering
parentage of the appetite cheated of
its due supply of
food. If we are right, and more faith is really to be
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rest of the world, may thank what he regards as a per-
sonal calamity fur the peace which is so necessary an ele-
ment in the prosperity of all nations, and of all the in-
dividuals of which they consist.
" The rationale of this order of compensations is very
simple. A low price of food immediately affects every
consumer in the kingdom. He pays less for the loaf of
bread, and the pence which he thus saves are spent in
clothing, books, and other common necessaries, and in
luxuries bordering upon them. The demand on the retail
dealer is soon felt in the wholesale warehouse, and
thence is transmitted to the great seats of manufacture.
In this way the depression of the agriculturist leads in-
evitably to the elevation of the manufactaring interest.
The two will then, for the first time, flourish in harmony,
when cheap food shall be fully compensated bytincreased
production. This, according to the modern school of
political economy, is the destined work of free trade, with
its corollaries of free labour and diminished taxation."
The writer gives us a still stronger case, viz., the case
of the slop system. Of this system he says :
"Even this evil is not without its bright side. By
providing cheap clothing• for the masses, it has met a
demand which it was of the first importance to supply,
and has been instrumental, to a curtain dee:,ee, in di-
minishing tho manners of ragged and ill-dressed people.
But it has had another good result. It has brought,
within much narrower limits the old system of doing
business at tho West-end, by means of long credits and
high-prices—a system which oompelled the punctual
paymaster to discharge the debts of dishonest noble-
men and gentlemen, who were accordingly clothed at
his charge, very much to their own satisfaction and his
disgust. Through the competition of Messrs. Moses,
Hyam, and Nicoll, this system has happily received its
death-blow, to the great relief of poor parsons, doctors,
and lawyers."
Very rich men, who know not the value of' money,
or very unprincipled men, who pay their debts by a
periodical appearance in the Insolvent or the Bank-
ruptcy Courts, may magnilcquently rail against the
purchasers of cheep goods ; but the industrious man,
who honestly pays his debts, hails the cheapness
of provisions and of clothing as a blessing. Our
friend, the Naturalist, gives us much curious infor-
mation concerning the habits of the turtle tribe, and
intersperses his communication with much gastrono-
mic lore touching the cooking and feeding of the
green species, the furnishers of Callipee and Calli-
pash ; and a New Yorker continues his sketches of
American Society. We have also reviews of Captain
Hervey's " Ten Years in India," of SI.-Itomieu's
work on Cresarism," of M. Colmache's " Life of Tal..
leyrand," and a very interesting paper on the Wal-
lachs in Transylvania

BENTLEY.
The present is an excellent number of the Miscel-
lany, the papers are numerous, arc all well-written,
and the charm of variety has been effectively secured.
The opening paper, " A Sketch of the Siege of Mool-
tan," by John James Cole, will be read with much
interest. Mr. Cole was assistant-surgeon in the
allied army —that army which was created by the
genius and exertions of Major Edwardes, of whom we
have an engraved portrait in illustration of the article.
Mr. Cole was with Major Edwardes during the whole
of the Mooltan campaign, and has, in this vivid
sketch, recorded his reminiscences of it from the rais-
ing of the troops by Edwardes and Courtland, to the
moment when the flag of England waved upon the
walls of the captured city. Mr. Robert 'dell's
admirable novel, of " The Ladder of Gold,"
is fast drawing to a conclusion; in tae present
instalment we learn that Crickey Snags is the na-
tural son of Raggles, who had intrusted 5001. for his
use to the care of Richard Rawlings, and this Ri-
chard Rawlings declares is the sl.eath-bed secret of
which Lord Charles Eton, actir4g on the information
of Bogey, had attempted to make so much. Lord
Charles Eton himself has bean most dangerously, if
not mortally, wounded in his duel with Henry Win-
ston, and his danger brings out the character of Lord
William, his haughty 'uncle, in a much more amiable
light ; the ice of aristocracy is thawed by grief, the
proud noble discovers that he has a heart, and the
lord becomes a human being. In this mood of mind
he appreciates the quiet, unobtrusive virtues of Mar-
garet, and for the first time in his life treats her with
kindness. The author of " Lord Bacon in Adversity"
contributes a pleasant, gossiping zoological paper on
lions, and Abraham Elder a " screaming " co-
micality entitled " The Prince of Z3oloo,"
which we commend to the perusal of all
well-to-do tradesman who may chance to be afflicted
with an emigration fever. Mr. Drummond Wolff
continues his amusing sketches of Spanish life, and
in the present instalment gives us an animated
description of a bull-fight. The " Inedited betters
of Mrs. Piozzi" are continued, as is the amusing
paper by Mr. Charles Lanman on "Trout-fishing in
the United States," and the comical biography of the
Louisiana " Swamp Doctor." We find also in the
present number a translation of the Count de Monti!-
livet's recently published memoir, "King Louis
Philippe and his Civil List ;" but seeing the Count de
Montalivet was himself the Intendant of the Civil
List, and is, therefore the person of all others, next to
Louis Philippe himself, the most personally interested
in making out a "good case," we must confess that it
would hove been more satisfactory to have had the
evidence of some unbiassed person in corrobora-
tion of the statements of the Count de Aloratalivet.

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, Nov. 5.
Her Majesty walked this morning in the Slopes.
The Royal Family took their usual walking and
pony exercise.

His Royal Highness Prince Albert went out
shooting this morning, accompanied by Lord Sey-
mour, and attended by Lord Byron, Colonel the Hon.
C. B. Phipps, and Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. A. Gordon.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady
Augusta Bruce, Baroness de Speth, and Lord Sey-
mour, will join the royal dinner circle this evening.

Sir George Grey arrived in town last evening from
his seat, Fallodon, Northumberland.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer arrived at his
official residence in Downing-street yesterday even-
ing, from his seat, Hickleton llall, Yorkshire.

HASTINGSS OUT il -
BERWeEKR.
_NT h electric RAILWAY—
At
esl el Igi; °a
pßhp ' isReYoEnI AND
completed
and at work on this line as far as Rye. In consequence of an
extensive slip near Hastings the line will not be opened
for traffic for at least three weeks. It is satisfactory to be
enabled to state that the Commissioners of ltailways are of
opinion that the whole of the alterations made by the South-
Eastern Company, but objected to by the London, Brighton,
and South Coast Company, are consistent with the public
safety, and not prejudicial to the public interests, and that
as to some of the alterations, they are calculated to improve
the line.

Justice, and Mr. Justice Erskine the only
RETIRING PENSIONS 01' JUDGES.—Lord Denman
iis3atihsneeonJlirdgehi in England, now enjoying a retiring pension.
There is at present no judge from the common law courts in
Ireland receiving a retired allowance. In Scotland the Lord
President of the Court of Session and two other judges have
at present retiring pensions, and there are no less than five
ex-Chancellors at this moment in the receipt of the retired
Lord Brougham, Lerd Lyndhurst, and Lord
England, and Sir Edward Sugden and Lord
Cal ol twena
Plunkettnbea emi:
Ireland.

MADAME ANNA THILLoN.— We understand that
this fascinating artist will appear, in conjunction with Mr.
Hudson, the celebrated Irish comedian, in a new musical
and dramatic entertainment, to be given, in the course of the
present month, in one of our leading concert-rooms.

AGRICULTURAL TENANCIES.
THE LAW AND PRACTICE OF AGRI--
CULTURAL TENANCIES; with Forms and
Precedents. By George Wingrove Cooke, of the
Middle Temple, Barrister-at-. Law, Author of " A
Treatise on Inclosures," &c., &c. Bvo. London,
1850. •
Mr. Wingrove Cooke, of the Home Circuit, is one
of those toiling lawyers who fill up a long vacation
with a long task. When others hie away to rustling
stubbles and breezy hills these laborious sons of Thernis
retire into their inner chamber, shut their doors about
them, and, having summoned their calf-skin-bound
familiars to their aid, cast—an octavo. An example,
by the way, to our agricultural friends, how men in
other pursuits are obliged to rely upon their own
efforts, and to strive, to labour, and to compete for
business and for eminence. The result of Mr. Cooke's
long vacation is a very remarkable book—remark-
able, not because it is a good law book with cases and
statutes, and contents and index, all in good order and
well put together. A man who knows hi 4 business
has no great difficulty in compiling such a thing, and
the production generally vouches more:for the author's
power of plodding than for his power of brain. Mr.
Couke might have perpetrated a hundred profcssiunal
volumes without attracting our attention ; nor,
although conveyancing is
A science, which Lord Coke supposzs
Began about the time of Moses,
should we have cared to follow him through
a labyrinth of cases and covenants. But this
volume, without intending it, and while pur-
porting only to tell country attorneys how to
draw farming leases, and landowners how to check
their agents' valuations, in reality lays bare a state of
law and a social evil which few persons could suspect
to exist even in a code of laws made entirely by land-
lords. It seems that the law as between a farmer
and his landlord differs from that which rules the
bargains of any other classes. If a baker sets up an
oven, or a brewer sets up a set of vats for the purpose
of carrying on his business, the fixtures remain his
own, and he can take them away when his tenancy
ceases. If a farmer sets up a thrashing machine, a
barn, a feeding shed, or a steam-engine, it imme-
diately becomes the property of the landlord, who
may turn him out with half-a-year's notice, and take
possession of the whole without one farthing compen-
sation. We only wonder that the same rule does not
apply to the farmer's stocks and his household furni-
ture ; and indeed it might just as rationally be applied
to his wife and daughters. Again, it seems that if a
farmer agree with his landlord that he will spend one,
two, or three thousand pounds in draining and im-
proving the farm (and without such agreement all
the improvements might be taken possession of without
compensation),if the estate is entailed the next possessor
is not bound by the agreement, and the farmer may,
be turned out on his landlord's death without any no-
tice whatever. Such is the state of the law between
landlords and their farmers, and in the face of this our
Stanleys and Richmonds have the coolness to exhort
their tenants to spend capital upon the land. " You
want skill—you want enterprise. Why don't you
drain ? Try subsoil ploughing—buy manures—adopt
high farming—raise double crops," shout the noble
founders of Protectionist societies ; and the press re-
echoes the cry, and comfortable citizens wonder that
farmers won't carry on their business like cotton
spinners, and invest the proper amount of capital to
ensure a return of profit. No wonder that such
harangues fall upon dull ears. Swift is said to have
preached a short charity sermon in these words:—
"He who giveth to the poor lendeth to the Lord; my
brethren, if you like the security, down with your
money." The farmers do not like the security; but
as they dare not say so, they silently act upon their
Convictions, and the land is scantily cultured, and so
it will continue to be as long as landlords have the
monopoly of law-making, and use their power to
make such laws as these. Mr. Cooke sees the only
remedy in written agreements, which shall provide
the compensations that the law desire,. On tnis sub-
ject he says, in his preface—
" Written contracts, whether in form of agreements
or leases, are grown into more general, but still not into
very general, use throughout the kingdom. The ordi-
nary class of farmer—with not too much capital, no
exuberant enterprise, and little confidence in new sys-
tems, but with considerable shrewdness and great talent
for bargaining—prefers the elasticity of a parol contract.
Reductions of rent, allowances for improvements, and the
lax culture obligations of the custom of the country, are
all opportunities for constant haggling, and, unless the
agent be a very shrewd, hard man, for constant petty
victories. No wonder that a simple verbal tenancy is
preferred by this ciao, to security for improvements they
never intend to make, sad covenants for good husbandry
precisely defined.

" Gradually, however, cunning must give place to wis-
dom; and this class of farmers must surrender to stran-
gers, or mast be succeeded by sons who have learned the
necessity of an exact demarcation of their rights and
obligations. Little advantages gained, small reductions,
occasional allowances, are as nothing when compared
with the vast yearly difference of produce raised from
the same land, by a farmer who drains and highly
manures and a farmer who does not. Yet he must be
too improvident a man to be a good farmer, who should
invest in the land capital sufficient for high cultivation,
without some security that a change in the ownership of
the estate (whatever well-founded confidence he may
have in the present landlord) may not at any moment
bring a notice to give up farm, improvements, and capital,
and leave it all, uncompensated, to a stranger. if the
modern system of husbandry is to progress until it be-
comes universal, precise written contracts must extend
over the land with an equal pace. It w ill be conceded
that a species of contract, which thus bids fair to con-
trol the management of all the land of England, deserves
more especial cor,sideration than it could receive in those
general works. whereof it formed but a very subordinate
subdivision.!"
Mr. Cook has collectel all the precedents of agree-
ments !hat have been adopted by landlords who are
inclined to deal justly with their tenantry, and we
are not surprised to find that these are the men who
are least heard of as Protectionist spouters. Among
those who are the advocates of tenant right, and who
" —know what's right—sot only so,
But also practise what they know,"
are Lord Yarborough and Earl de Grey, the Duke
of Devonshire, Mr. Tollemache of Cheshire, Mr. Par-
kinson of Ley Fields, Mr. Woollett Wilmot, Mr.
Bartholomew of Wragby, Mr. Badcock of Launces-
ton, and many other eminent liberal landlords and
agriculturists, whose different schemes of tenant-
right allowances are all set forth in the
book. These landowners are inclined to consult
their own interest and their tenants by doing common
honesty, but there are numbers upon whom mere ex-
ample will be thrown away. When we open this book
we wonder that it never was written before ; and when
we find that no such book existed before we cease to
wonder that farming leases are on all hands admitted
to be expensive sheep skins, filled with absurd stipu-
lations impossible to reduce to practice. Mr. Cooke
has now armed the country attorney with a full
knowledge of all the mysteries of corn-rents, crop-
ping, and manuring, and the land agent with all the
legal knowledge necessary to draw a farming agree
merit. He has explained in his preface the peculiar
facilities he has enjoyed for combining the two sciences
oc law and agriculture, and obvious as was the neces-
sity of such a book to meet what the Protectionists
call the agricultural crisis, there was probably no
other man than himself, in either profession, who
could have written it. We hope it may lead not only
to the professional reputation and profit which the
author no doubt very fairly had in view, but also to a
revision of the whole state of the law upon this subject,
and a little justice to the agricultural tenant.

ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,—I trust to your truthfulness to insert this answer
to your attack upon the prebendaries of St. Paul's.
1. The prebendaries are not members of the Chapter.
2. They have not the slightest authority in the Cathe-
dral.

3. All of us who were appointed since the Ecclesiasti-
cal Mt= Act derive no revenue from the Cathedral
estates. Our appointments are entirely honorary, and
although we are happy to receive this mark of distinc-
tion from our Bishop, we have no ambition of the addi-
tional honorary title of "Twopenny Showmen of St.
Paul's." Let the blame of so odious an act rest with
those to whom it attaches, the Dean and four Canons, who
have the whole and sole control of the Cathedral.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
A BENDARY.
P.S. I enclose my name for your PRsatiEsfaction, not for
publication.

NEW PIER AT RIDE.—An earnest movement is
being made for the erection of a noble pier, worthy of Ryde.
Surveys and estimates have been made, and a plan is in
Course of execution. It is proposed to have it of galvanised
iron, about three times the width of the present one, with
head in proportion, and to be furnished with a tram-road
and carriages for the accommodation of passengers. It will
run from the Dover a little to the east of Ryde, where good
approaches can be secured easily, the ground being yet un-
occupied. There is no want of capital to carry it through
the opposition anticipated from the proprietors of the present
old pier, whose want of spirit and liberality in forwarding the
improvements proposed last year, have induced the present
movement; and those who would have been the last to re-
move, the traffic from its present site, are forward now to sup-
port the measure, from a conviction that, like the New Steam
Company, it is the only way left to keep pace with the re-
quirements of the day.

AN ADVENTURE AT WOMBWELL'S MENAGERIE.-
A youth at Durham, while visiting Wombwell's menagerie,
laid his hand upon the paw of an African lion, which was
protruded beneath the bars, a familiarity which the brute
resented in a fearful manner. With the quickness of light-
ning the animal laid hold of the unhappy intruder by the
hand, and drawing him close against the bars of the cage,
with his other paw he fastened upon his head. The cries of
the lad instantly attracted the attention of the keeper, who
flew to the spot, and after severely beating the infuriated
brute upon the paws, compelled him to relinquish his hold.
The whole proceeding was the work of a moment, but the
unfortunate lad retains traces of his fearful rencontre,
which he will bear with him to the grave. His head and
both his hands are lacerated in a terrible manner, and in
addition to which he has received several severe scratches
on the throat and neck. The tumult occasioned in the
menagerie by thin incident is indescribable.—Durham Ad-
vertiser.

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RAIL WAY INTELLIGE Ct4„-- , ,
TER, YEOVIL, AND DORCI4ESTEIC 7'."
[ EXETER, A tki
lAn extraordinary general meeting - of the share-
holders of this company was held yesterday afternoon
iat the London and South-Western Railway Com-
I pany's offices, York-road, for the purpose of consider-
ing the existing relations between the Exeter, Yeovil,
and Dorchester Company, and the London and South-
Western Company, and of taking such steps with re-
ference thereto as should appear to the meeting to be
expedient; and for other special purposes. Mr. Wool-
mer in the chair.
After a few preliminary remarks, the Chairman
said that the following report had been drawn up that
morning by the board of directors, to be submitted to
the consideration of the meeting :
" In conformity with tho wishes ( apressed by the pro-
prietors present on the 27th of August last, this special
general meering has been called fur the purpose, as
stated by the notice, of considering the existing relations
between this company and the London and South-
Western Railway Company, and of talcirig such steps
with rezerence thereto as shall appear roipeiiisnt.
" The directors olnerved that, as the recont meeting
of the London and South-Nl' estern Company, powers
were given to the directors of that caurpatuy to make
such arrangements in respect of this undertaking as
should appear fitting and just ; and the directors learn
that the London and South-Western hoard have, in
order to carry out this object, appointed a committee to
meet a committee of this company. This course up-
pesrs to the board likely to lead to a satisfactory result,
and they therefore recommend that the proprietors
should appoint such a committee from their own body.
including such of the directors as ate not nominees of
the London and South-Westeru Railway Company.
And that the committee be cuthorised to confer with
the committee appointed by the London and South-
Western Company's board, and either report their res
commendations to a future meeting of this proprietary,
or proceed without such a report to carry tnem out as
may seem beat. The definition and extent of such
powers the board would leave in the hands of the
meeting, and they have deemed it right to
direct that the proper Gazette and newspaper
notices should be given in the present month of an ap-
plication to Parliament for a dissolution of the company.
and for enabling the legal completion of such arrange-
ments,between the two companies as may be found
expedient. These notices it may be unnecessary to
follow up by the introduction of any Bill into Parlia-
ment, but the board are of opinion that the time for
publishing notices should not be allowed to pass with-
out the company being placed in a position to proceed
to Parliament in the ensuing session if necessary, and
have given directions accordingly."
The CHAIRMAN then moved that the above report
should be received.
Mr. PARSONS seconded the motion, which was car-
ried unanimously.
The CHAIRMAN, in answer to questions, informed
the meeting that, in the event of their adopting the
recommendation of the directors, it would be for the
committee nominated to ascertain at whose expense a
Bill such as that alluded to should be brought into
Parliament. There were only two members of their
hoard, so far as he knew, who were not nominees of
the London and South-Western Company.
The proportion of shares held by the General• Co-
mpany and by the London and South-Western Com-
pany respectively, was as -- to ie the exact number
being—General Company, 21,000 ; London and
South-Western Company, 35,000.
It was then moved by Mr. WILLIAMS, seconded by
Mr. J. DRAY, and, after some conversation, carried,
" That a committee should be appointed, consisting
of five shareholders, namely, Messrs. Woolmer, Par-
sons, Edwards, Boyd, and Day, three to form a
quorum, though the concurrence of four members
should be necessary, to any definite arrangement that
might be entered into ; and that this committee
should be empowered to negotiate with the directors
of the London and South-Western Railway Company
relative to the existing relations between the company
and the London and South-Western Company, and
to conclude such arrangements as they may consider
for the interests of the company; and that such com-
mittee be empowered to take any steps that may be
necessary to carry such arrangements into effect."
Mr. CHAPLIN assured the meeting that in all that
regarded the London and South-Western Ilailwey
Company the committee would be met in the most
friendly and liberal manner, and he had every reason
to believe that the conference would be attended with
the most satisfactory results. The matter would be
discussed freely, honourably, and impartially.
A vote of thanks to the chairman terminated the
proceedings.

DUNGARVAN ELECTION.
Mr. John Francis ALguire, of the Cork Examiner,
is about to redeem his pledge, and has already issued
his address to the electors of Dungarvan. It is a
long and ably drawn up document, and such as leaves
no room for doubt as to the political principles of the
candidate. lie is, of course, a Repealer, and anti-
Churchman, and an advocate of tenant-right.
Touching the question of protection, Mr. Maguire
observes—

" Believing, in my inmost soul, that there cannot be
a wilder delusion than that which supposes a restora-
tion to a protecting duty on foreign corn, I shall not
dwell ou that subject, save only to say this much,
that even were protection possib!e of attainment,
which I am thoroughly convinced it is not,—as I
believe the manufacturing and trading communities
of England would rise in rebellion rather than consent
to relinquish the advantage of a five trade in the staple
article or lite,—l should not seek for it, and for two
reasons; in the first place, because I hold it to be im-
politic and inhuman to impose a tax on the food of the
puor, and, in the second, because any notion of a re-
turn to protection would only lead to a vigorous re-
newal of the worst form of rack-renting, and prevent
that equitable settlement of the land question which is so
essential to the welfare of every class and interest in this
country."
F--

_RE LATE IRE AT WICKEIAM HALL.—APPRE.•
lIENSION OF zit:: SUPPOSED INCENDIARIES.—In the early
part of last April, a fire occurred on part of the Wickham
Hall Farm, known as the " Ragged House Barns," ending
in the total destruction of some extensive premises, and also
in the destruction of a great deal of live stock and other pro-
perty. Directly after the fire, a man named Benjamin
Wager, who was known frequently to seek refuge in some
part of the premises, decamped, and from this and other cir-
cumstances suspicion fell on him; but, although every exer-
tion was made to find him, he had eluded apprehension until
the evening of Monday the 28th ult., when one of the men
in the employ of Mr. Smith, the tenant of the farm, saw
him at Hatfield Peverel, and invited him to his cottage,
where he was directly afterwards apprehended. On Wed-
nesday morning he was brought up before W. W. Luard,
Esq., together with a man named Ewers, who from infor-
mation which had reached the police since Wager's appre-
hension, was also supposed to be concernea. In order to
give time for the collection of further evidence the pri-
soners were remanded until Friday morning; and subse-
quently, on account of the absence of a material witness,
until Saturday morning. On that day, the evidence was
gone into before W. W. Luard, Esq., and the Rev. John
Bramston, when Wager was fully committed to the assizes on
the charge, but there not being sufficient evidence against
Ewers he was discharged.
MR. HENRY HALLAM.—We have received with
great regret intelligence of the death of Mr. Henry Hallam,
only surviving son of the eminent historian of the " Middle
Ages." This melancholy event took place at Sienna on the
return of Mr. Hallam and his famii from a short visit to
Rome. It will be remembered by the large class of friends
and admirers to whom Mr. Hallam is justly endeared that
a similar misfortune, almost identical in some of its circum-
stances, bereaved him several years ago of an eldest son,
whose genius and whose virtues had singularly endeared him
toAall his contemporaries. So sudden and so painful an
afilletion has seldom fallen twice upon the same family;
and it is increased by the premature close of another life rich
in every promise of personal excellence and professional c 11.,.
tinction.

TUE MURDER IN JERSEY.—The following are the
terms of the verdict of the jury which sat to inquire into the
means whereby Mrs. Carlton cane by her death :—"That
the said Mary M'llonsild, wife of Edward Carlton, or Carle-
ton, died of the consequences of a wound inflicted by the said
Carlton, or Carleton, on his said wife, with a knife or other
instrument." On Saturday Carlton was brought before the
Jersey Royal Court to plead to an indictment framed against
him by the Crown officers for wiful murder. He, through his
advocate, entered a plea of "Not Guilty," and with reserva-
tion of the point that the indictment was not in accordance
with the verdict. Carlton seemed quite at his ease before the
Court, betraying no signs whatever of anxiety or fear.
SOUTH WALES IRON WORKS.—lncreased activity
is apparent in portions of the great mineral field in South
Wales, particularly in the neighbourhood of Bridgend and
Maesteg. It is currently reported that the Maesteg Iron
Works, which have been closed during the last four years,
will very shortly be reopened under extremely favourable
circumstances. At the Garth works an increased number of
men have been employed, and in the underground works
greater activity is visible. Surveys have been undertaken
preparatory to the formation of new tramways, the opening
of fresh levels, and extension of air and ventilating pits.
The Lyhvi works are likewise to be enlarged by the addition
of a new mill to the finishing department.—Carmarthen
Journal.

AMERICAN RAILWAY CARRIAGES.—Our engineers
have not yet thought fit to give the American system of
carriages a trial, although they appear not unworthy of it.
For our own part, we are induced to think that it would be
a great convenience to be able to stand upright in a carriage
when tired of sitting—that we would rather take a cup of
coffee or a chop on the way, than be compelled to leave a
half-tasted meal at Swindle'em station (where we have paid
at a rate that justifies the present occupant giving 20,0001.
for the good will), or else have to stop at Birmingham an
hour, when we don't want to stop at all—that a little artifi-
cial warmth during winter would not be unacceptable in this
climate and that, finally, alter enduring all this and much
more, it would be a more sensible plan to take our tickets
toward the latter end of the journey than to keep us wait-
ing some ten minutes outside the station while that enliven-
ing ceremony is being performed. The complaint ofdicitdread-
evaerlrleiargtehawtntuhlde draught
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MAGNIFICENT SPECIMEN OF NEEDLEWORK.-028
of the most most ingenious and wonderful artistic productions
of the kind which we have ever seen has this week been
laid before us by a journeyman tailor, residing in Lancaster,
who intends exhibiting it in the " crystal palace" in 1851
The name of the tailor is Brayshaw, and his work consists of
a counterpane, on which with the needle he has wrought a
close
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[The following appeared in our Third Edition of
last night :—]

GERMAN Y.

According to the cologne Gazett° great delight
prevailed in the Court cire:e at rho result
of the Warsaw con‹rence. The Oesterreichischer
Correspondent declare: that there eln no 00t1ht--
" That the state o, affairs all over Gemi.oy is b gin-
ning to display itself in a light as happy as it is honour-
able for Austria and her faithful allies of the Band."
It was reported that Marshal Radetzky had been
called from Milan to Vienna by a telegraphic message.
The movements of large bodies of Austrian troops
in the direction of Hesse still continued.

A third edition of the Cologne Gazette, published
on Monday morning, contains the following obscure
telegraphic dispatch from Berlin, dated Sunday
evening :

" According to intelligence which reached this city in
the course of yesterday, Austria has drawn practical
deductions from the results of the Congress at Warsaw,
in consequence of which deductions, coupled with the
recent events which have occurred iu Hesse, a new turn
in the position of affairs has taken place hero in Berlin.

"The Deutsche Reform of this Morning contains an
article on the Cabinet Council of yesterday, which ex-
presses a firm confidence in the maintenance of peace."
According to the Berlin papers it was supposed that
the deliberations in the Cabinet had taken a turn un-
favourable to the views of M. Radowitz, who was,
however, supported by the King anfl the Prince of
Prussia. It was still uncertain what effect the entry
of the Bavarians into Hesse would have on the ques-
tion of peace or war.
ENTRY OF THE PRUSSIANS INTO HESSE.

According to advices from Cassel, of the 2d inst.,
the 18th Regiment of Prussian Infantry, accompanied
by a squadron of Hussars and a battery of artillery,
entered that town on the morning of that day, after
a very severe forced night march. These troops were
sent off by General Groeben from Warburg, as soon
as he received intelligence of the entry of the Ba-
varians and Austrians on the opposite side of the
Electorate. The military posts in Cassel were occu-
pied by the Burgher Guard. The reception of the
Prussian troops by the inhabitants was quiet but
friendly.
The Berlin Ministerial journal of the 2cl has the
following on the invasion of Hesse by Bavarian
troops :
" When we yesterday endeavoured to shadow forth
the expectations of a peaceful solution of the pending
controversies that might be derived from the result of
the conferences at Warsaw, we did not believe that so
soon, that a few:hours afterwards only, intelligence would
arrive which, in spite of the pacific exertions of the
greet Powers, would favour the apprehensions of war.
The dispatch that announces the entrance of the Bava-
rians into Hanau has again directly raised the possibility
of a conflict, which Prussia might have avoided from a
sense of the interests of all, but which she cannot avoid
if it is, as in the present case, arrogantly provoked.
" We cannot refrain from expressing an anticipation
that the readiness to enter into a common coarse of
action shown by the two great Powers will produce a
timely arrangement of the provocation that has been
thus given; and we are compelled to believe that it was
only the impatience of a subordinate Power, which did
not find in a peaceful understanding between the great
States an advantage to its specific and particular
aims, that only to the one-sided over hastiness of
Bavaria is to be attributed the blame of the completest
march into Hesse. But however that might be, this
march is, on the part of our Government, announced as
the signal of the practical intervention of Prussia, and
however willingly it would have entertained exclusively
the hope of peace, yet it will not, and cannot, in an un-
justified confidence, set aside the direct duties which the
position of Prussia lays upon it."

DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES.
The Bamburgh Nachrichten of the 2d instant,
publishes intelligence relative to the mission of Ge-
neral Hahn to the Stadtholderate, who have given
their reply to the proposals made by that officer.
on behalf of Prussia. The conditions upon which the
negotiation of an armistice will be agreed to by the
Stadthalterschaft are said to be-1. The evacuation by
the Danish troops of all that part of
Schleswig, south of the line of demarcation drawn
in accordance with the Berlin armistice,
including the island of Fehmar and the islands be-
longing to Schleswig, west of the same, together with
the Angela district, north of the line of demarcation,
and west of Rendsburg and the market town of Hoya,
the whole of which is to be governed by the Stadt-
holderate along with Holstein. 2. The removal of
the Danish vessels from the coast of the Duchies. 3.
The surrender of all prisoners of war and political
prisoners, and of all private property confiscated
on political grounds. 4. The discharge of all
persons belonging to the Duchies forced to enter
the Danish service against their will. 5. Every fa-
cility to be offered to the carrying on of trade and
navigation. 6. The armistice to be concluded for one
year, and to be continued for beyond that term by
silent consent, a notice of six weeks being required for
its discontinuance. From Lubeck we are informed
that the police authorities have put a stop to the
weekly collections of the clubs in favour of the
Schleswig-Holstein cause by virtue of an ancient
statute " against foreign beggars and their collectors."
A similar course has also been adopted in Berlin.