The Sun.
London, England, 1850-01-30 00:00:00

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4-;z1/NT ; or, the Threads ry. Life. 1 Vol.
Sonie persons take interact in Fihtories abounding
with adventure, and others are more especially fasci-
nated by those works which dwell upon passion rather
than action, and detail thoughts instead of incidents.
" St. Leger" appertain=, in a degree, to both th 7 se
classes. The lovers of the marvellous and the mysti-
cal will, without doubt, be charmed by the auto-
biographer's preliminary annouLcetnent, " at the aga
of twenty-three I End myself upon the threshold of
two worlds. I have fini,hed my upon earth,"
Trey will furthermore he delighted by an intro-
duction to the mysterious and villanous Count
Vautrey, who either alienates or fascinates all
with whom he comes in contact ; they will
linger with horrible delight over the mournful
prophecy which overshadows with gloom the early
years of the unfortunate St. Leger. The terribly
tragic story of love, deceit, murder, and madness
recounted by one of St Lager's fellow-students, the
isolated Weelallah, and the strange bridal of his
daughter Leila, these and innumerable other most

roinntic themes are to be met with in the pages of
this one volume—a perf,ct feast for the lovers if
strangely romantic adventure. For ourselves, " Sr.
Leger" in this point cf view is without attraction. Its
incidents are too improbable, not to say impossible,
and some cf its characters too unnatural, to excite on
our pare any interest in the work as a tale. Taken
in its other character, however, as the de-
velopment of an inward lif', as a book
of thought, it is both attractive and excel-

lent, co much so that we gladly overlook the
improbabilities of the tale, for the sake of the moral
reflections which it strings together. We are willing
to linger in the company even of the terrible Vau-
trey and the amazing Wcelallah, in order to become
better acquainted with the pure-minded Theresa, or
to dive in'o the reccsses of the doubting heart of
William Sr. Leger. There are in this volume so
many truthful thoughts, so beautifully expressed,
that its perusal cannot fail to give pleasure, and very
probably to prove beneficial, to all who read it. It is
difficult among so many to select any passages for
specimens. The following are, perhaps, among the
lyist

THE HIGH TIDE OF YESTERDAY
Yesterday wi:l long Le reeneiebered by parties liv-
ieg near the banks of the river Thames, the tide hav-
ing risen so extraordinarily high as to overflow the
walls cf the river and inundate the various thorough-
fares along either shore. So unexpected was the
high tide that no one had made any preparation to
preserve their property and the consequence was that
mischief to aa incalculable amount was done. The
tide on the previous thy was lower than it has been
known to be for some considerable time past, whilst
that of yesterday rose two feet one inch higher than it
did in October, 1844, when so much property was
destroyed. The first notice the inhabitants received
of this fearful visitation was shortly after three o'clock,
about half an hour before high water. At that period
the water began to flow over the banks, but as that
had frequently been seen before, no particular notice
was taken of that circumstance; but in the space of
another ten minutes it became apparent to every be-
holder that a great destruction of property, if not of
human life, was inevitable. The various wharves
along the river soon presented one immense sheet ot
water, timber and other articles being forced about
with the strength of the tide in terrible confusion ;
whilst the small craft lying
on the shores of the
Thames were either filled with water, or forced into
the open streets. The following are the places which
suffered most severely :
Laranern.---The property destroyed in this parish,
and the two adjoining, must reach to many thousand
pounds. In College-street the tide rose to the end
of the dock at the bottom of the street, then rushed
down the thoroughfare, filling the kitchens of every
house, and rising several feet in the ground floors.
The inmates being so suddenly visited, scarcely knew
what to do, and many of them flew to the upper
windows, when they beheld a scene that can scarcely
he believed by those who did not witness it. The
whole of the street was one great expanse of water;
and the only means for the residents to leave their
habitations were in carts and boats. From College-
street the water rushed into the Belvidere-road,
crossed the York-road, flooded Vine-street, and
travelled as far as the terminus of the South-Western
Railway in the York-road, the whole of the open
piece of ground belonging to the railway company in
the York-road being several inches under water.
In Vine-street the water rushed down the kitchens
and forced the furniture up to the ceilings. la one
of the houses adjoining Napier's engineering Works
three children nearly perished. Their mother being
upstairs, and not aware of what had occurred,
was startled at hearing the children screaming
violently : at first she imagined one of them
had set fire to its clothes. She rushed down
stairs, and when She got into the kitchen found the
children nearly to their necks in water. Fortunately
she succeeded in getting them out, but had a few
more minutes elapsed the three must have perished.
In Edward-street, Lambeth, the water rose so high,
and beat so furiously against a wheelwright's shop
that it was partially destroyed, and the walls falling
against the back of the houses in Prince's-buildings,
knocked in the windows and nearly killed the
affrighted occupants, who had taken shelter in the
upper roomy. In the Belvidere-road, under the dry
arch of Waterloo-bridge, the water rose several feet,
so that no person could pass either up or down with-
out the aid of boats or vehicles. In the Crescent of
Belvidere -road the houses have sustained great injury,
and the furniture is destroyed. As late as eight
o'clock last evening the lower floors of the houses in
College-street were full of water. Tee furniture
belongitue to nearly fifty persons in this street is
either destroyed or extensively damaged. Fore-
street (Lambeth),
Bishop's-walk, as well as the
several wharves on the opposite side of the river
at Milbank, were all under water, the. tide crossing
the public road, and rushing down the street opposite.
At Fore-street, Lambeth, the traffic was entirely
stopped during the afternoon; the water rose so
high that boats were obliged to be used to remove the
inhabitants. Fortunately when the predicted high
tide, three weeks since, was talked of; it induced many
persons to make preparations for keeping the enemy
out; these remaining yesterday, much property by
that means was saved. Not a single house, however,
which was not so protected escaped,'and the licensed
victuallers' cellar-stocks have been greatly- damaged
by the floating and sinking of the casks. Along
Vauxhall, and the Lammas lands at Fulham and Bat-
tersea, the open country presented broad sheets of
water, in many places several feet deep.
STRAND, &c.—The whole of the wharves along the
Strand were also under water. At the Halfpenny
Steam-boat Pier the water entered the premises to a
fearful extent, so that the money takers were obliged
to make a precipitate retreat. The Fox-under the-
Hill at the Adelphi-pier was also under water, and
the stock damaged. It would be impossible to give a
list of the whole of the premises injured, as scarcely
a building on either side of the river escaped, and the
furniture destroyed must amount to many thousand
pounds. The tide completely overflowed the Temple-
gardens, and instead of the grass plats, nothing but
water could be seen for upwards of half-an-hour.
WAPPING, &c.—At the London Docks all register
of the depth of the tide was lost from the water over-
flowing the gates. At the St. Katharine's, for two
hours alter flood, the water poured over the gates like
a cataract. The measurement of the tide yesterday
morning at the St. Katharine's Docks was 28 feet,
and in the afternoon 31 feet 4 inches, making a dif-
ference, between morning and evening, of 3 feet 4'
inches. As may be imagined, great consternation
prevailed along the river-side at the unusual rise of
the tide. People, who were prepared for the fulfil-
ment of a prophecy a month ago, had made no pre-
paration f r yesterday, and the consequence has been
considerable damage to household property. In
Wapping Iligh-street the water stood 5 feet high ;
boats were plying about instead of vans, and people
moving from the lower to the upper part of the house
in such consternation as to leave their property behind.
It is impossible to estimate the damage done; unfor-
tunately it is principally confined to those who are
least able to bear it—the humbler classes—whose all
has been in a measure demolished by the erect of the
water. From ell we can learn, the wharves were
pretty well prepared for the tide, and from the num-
ber of labourers always at hand, perishable goods
were removed before they were affected, with few
and unimportant exceptions.
ROTHERIIITIIP.-0a the opposite side of the river,
particularly at .Rotherhithe, between 300 and 400
buildings, warehouses, houses, and other premioneses,
It was not until past
were partially inundated.
o'clock that any apprehension was entertained of the
approaching tide. The bulk of the warehouse owners
immediately adopted the most judicious means in ,
barricading their doors and windows, whilst others I
lost no time in removing stores and all perishable ,
goods from near where the water might reach. There
were others who neglected the slightest precaution
until the last moment, and their loss in consequence
was considerable. Before two o'clock the tide had
swept over many parts of Rotherhithe wall, and the
neighbourhood being several feet below the level of
the ordinary tide, the water rushed down the various
courts and alleys with the force of a cataract, creating
the greatest dismay to the poor creatures who crowded
the cellars and lower floors of the hovels in this loca-
lity. Several miraculous escapes from drowing oc-
curred.
By half-past two, all the lower portion of Ro-
therhithe, with its meadows,
many of the streets it was nearly two feet in depth.
In this state it continued upwards of an hour, and on
the water receding, an offensive mass of filth and mud
was left in the streets. rt were under water. In
ele damages resulting from
the tide are both numerous and heavy.
GREENWICn.---At a
quarter' past-two o'clock the
rush of water over the banks of the river and through
all the streets situated along shore was alarming.
The ground in front of the Royal Hospital, called the
five-foot way, was wholly impassable, and the whole
of the grounds
belonging to the Commissioners c f
Greenwich Hospital, formerly occupied by numerous
public-houses, &e., were completely inundated. From
the Salutation Tavern,
Waterman's Pier, nearly the
whole of Church-street, Billingstate-etreet, Thames-
street, Bridge-street the Wood Wharf—a street
running parallel with the river to the Horseferry-
road, opposite to the Dreadnought Seamen's Hos-
pital ship—were deluged by the continuous rush of
water ; and when the tide had reached its limit, were
about two feet under water. In this district of the
town nearly every cellar and warehouse were flooded,
doing serious damage to tavern-keepers and numerous
other proprietors. The reporter saw bakers' carts
delivering their bread at the first floor windows—the
horses standing up to their bellies in water. At
Greenwich the tide rose six inches higher than re-
membered by the oldest man connected with the na-
vigation of the Thames.
WOOLIVICII.-0a Monday the tide was so low in
the morning that none of the Woolwich passenger
steam-boats could leave Roff's wharf until ten o'clock,
and even then with considerable difficulty and touch-
ing on the shoals. At about two o'clock rev. yester-
day the tide rose to a greater height than it has been
known since 1841. In the dockyard considerable
anxiety existed from the apprehension that the cais-
son would give way which keeps out the water of
the river from the slip on; which the Agamemnon,
when the water began to
80 guns, is building, owing to the immense pressure,
run over it into the slip,
rising to some height on the blocks on which the
stern part of the keel has been laid. At the west-end
the water entered the saw-pits, and was beginning to
enter the slip in which the Royal Albert, 120 guns, is
being built, when fortunately the tide began to ebb.
The water entered the mast-house to a considerable
depth, filling all the saw-pits. The outer basin was
filled to nearly level with the wharf-wall, and the
water ran over from it into King William the Fourth
Dock, where the Magcera is fitting with a screw pro-
peller. The dock engine was soon set to work and
kept the water low uetil the tide turned, when it was
emptied. Tire water of tte river rushed over the em-
bankment at Lower Charlton with great force, and
soon acquired a considerable depth in the Manor.

ever-almnginr, always I einn. But that which f1...ater,,,1
r.z.v and 1 eA.e'&a.,:-,1
anguish t) myself, 6 Who will give me back my soul?'
Bat of all pangs, t'le most deeply mournful ware those
that gathered throbbing, throbbing, close in under my
heart, whenever I saw my mother. I could not enucunter
her soft, kind, inquiring eyes, raised to mice, ern:jowly
but silently askin., what it was that di3turhe d her chili'.
Thera was that iiiher azs Ivhich I dared not meet. It
eec co pure, s.o peaceful, so heaveniy—yet so troubled.
" And could my new philosophy Ie truth-inspirtd and
yet not support me under tLe:e Crests trials? In my
distress I applied to he Lisle, but received no aid."
The pure true-hearted Theresa, who enacts to-
wards St. Leger a pert similar to that of the gentle
Agnes towards David Copperfield, wins him back to
holier and happier sentiments. "St. Leger," notwith -
standing its improbable character as a story, is a
beautiful book, full of beautiful thoughts, and well
worthy of perusal.

THE MANUAL OF B 0 OK-ICE E RING,

By Henry Tuck.
The best proof of the utility of this book is that
has reached its sixth edition. It efficiently supplies
a want that had hc•en long felt, that of a clear and
concise system of book-keeping. To the cormuercial
man we need not point out how essential such a sys-
tem is, and, therefore, the commercial woild is
deeply indebted to Mr. Tuck (the well-known
compiler of railway statistics) for this useful book,
which, we are happy to find, is carrying reform
through the counting-houses of our great commercial
establishments through the length and breadth of
the land.

THE ZOIST. No. XX VIII.
The Zoist for the present quarter presents us with
an accurate record of the progress made in the
sciences of cerebral physiology and mesmerism during
the last three months. The following observations
by Dr. Elliotson on the choice of mesmerisers will be
found important :
" I am anxious to make a few observations to ne
public on the choice of mesmerisers. A very large
number of those who profess to mesmerise do not a
hundredth part of the good they might, and thus injure
individual patients and the progress of the subject. It
is difficult to find a professed mesmeriser who gives me
satisfaction. Too many are full of whims of their own
and act the quack, talking as if possessed of extra-
ordinary knowledge, making all sorts of displays in
their methods, in fact, playing all sorts of antics, and
talking all sorts of nonsense. Many of say ratients
have been made so nervous by these mesmerisers as ts
to unable to continue to employ them. Some thought-
lessly talk all the time. Now a good mesmeriser works
in silence, and allows no talking in the room, nor any-
thing else that can excite the patient. The passes should
be made very slowly, or they may excite rather than
calm, and tray prevent sleep. The mesmeriser should
look earnestly at the patient, and be absorbed in the
attempt to produce a silent influence. It is in general
best to persevere with one method, for the diversifying
the attempt is very likely to excite the curiosity and
wonder of the patient and prevent repose. One sort of
passing, or mere pointing, or gazing, may, for some un-
known reason, suit one patient better than another: but
when a patient, by mere continuance of attempts, has
become affected, the method employed at the moment of
success is likely from association to be afterwards, at
least f)r a long while, far more effectual, if not even
exclusively effectual, than others. I would not allow a
patient of mine to be mesmerised by one who, while
the process is going on, talks at all, or laughs, or makes
quick passer, snaps his fingers, makes flourishes, or plays
aey monkey tricks ; or is careless and listless. All
should be done calmly and even solemnly : for mesmerism
is a serious, holy thing. There is no occasion to hold
the hands, or sit with knees against knees; or in general
to is uch the patient at all. And all may be done as
well by ne (secretor standing to one side of the patient
as opposite. There is no occasion for the operator to
vibrate his bands or head, or snake any muscular effort.
The best mesmerisers are those who do all quietly and
gently.

" Some persons, whom I have recommended as mes-
merisers, Lave taken the liberty of passing an opinion
upon the medical treatment which I Lai proseribA at
the same time; or, where there was no other treatment,
of suggesting medical treatment. One person, quite
ignorant of medicines, took the liberty of applying
lee 21ies when exhaustion forbad any such measures: one
introduced a foreigner to assist her in mesmerising, who
was a linendraper in Brussels and passed himself off as
a doctor, and he mesmerised and prescribed. Some, in-
stead of simply mesmerising, as I directed, introduced
pretended clairvoyants, absolute impostors. I advice all
medical men to allow nothing of this sort when they
employ mesmerisers. But, on the other hand, they
should not interfere with the mesmeriser, or take any
measures without conferring with him, provided they
understand nothing of it and ho is a fully informed and
discreet mesmeriser.
" Some amateur mesmerisers do injury to the cause
by their want of perseverance. If they produce no be-
nefit, or no sensible effect, in the first fsw trials, of per-
haps only a quarter of as hour each, they give up the
case. I wish such persons would never take a case in
hand, because their failures must be very numerous, and
the poor patient conceives that mesmerism, puha-LA his
last and only hope, is no remedy for him, and our adver-
saries register the more failures. In truth, mesmerism
cannot be said to have failed under a trial ef a year or
more in chronic cases. Let no one mesmerise who is
not prepared to give a daily trial of at least half an hour
for many months or still longer.
On the other hand, I must also entreat the afflicted
never ti begin mesmerism unless firmly resolved to give
it a fsir trial; and not to give it up because they are not
bettor soon, or do not go to sleep. I cfceu foolishly lose
all patience with people, to whom I have explained the
possibility of no effect cccuring for a length of time,
and of benefit without sleep, returning or writing to me
in a few days with a declaration that, as they felt no-
thing, they should not continue it. Some go about say-
ing they cannot be sent to sleep because Mr. Somebody
tried ono day without effect. If a complaint is worth
the trouble of curing, it is worth the trouble of subm

ting to a remedy cawing neither pain nor annoyance,
but requiring merely perseverance. Score give up in a
few %leaks or months. It is surprising how many per-
sons in the world have no force cf character: are only
big children—holding silly opinions on various subjects
of which they know nothing, and acting without reason
or steadine.na.'

UNIVERSITY IN TELLIGENCiI.
OXFORD, JAN. 29.—The Professor of Chemistry
will continue his lectures on Wednesday next, the
30th inst., at 8 o'clock in the evening, at his rooms
in the Botanic garden.
The Professor of Anglo-Saxon will continue his
lectures on Thursday, the 31st inst., at 2 o'clock.
Also he proposes to form an elementary class for
beginners. Any gentlemen who desire to join either
of these classes are requested to call on the Professor,
at Oriel-College, on Wednesday, the 30th inst., be-
tween the hours of 11 and 2.

DIAMOND DUST.
(Front Eliza Cook's Journal.)
It is more cal to forgive the weak who have injured
u,, than the powerful whom we have injured. He ant
has cut the lion's claws will not feel himself quite secure
until he has also drawn his teeth.

Where merit appears, do justice to it without scruple.
Tho future is always fairy-land to the young. L.fd
is like a be autiful and winding lane, on either side bright
flowers, and Leautiful butterflies, and tempting fruits,
which we scarcely pause to admire and t.) taste; se eager
are we to hasten to an opening which we imagine will be
more beautiful still. But, by degrees as we advance, the
trees grow bleak; the flowers and butterflies fill; the
fruits di: appear, and wo find we have arrived, to r( ach a
desert waste; in the centre, a stagy ant and lethean lake,
over which wheel and shriek the dark-winged birds, the
embodied memories cf the past.
You can never overtake time. It is best therefore to
be alwilys a few minutes before him.

Forgiveness of injuries—The odour flowers yield
when trampled on.

MR. ARCIIEIt'S BENEFIT.—The benefit of Mr. J.
T. Archer, the box book-keeper at the llaymarket
Theatre, whose valuable services are well known aiAl

appreciated by every frequenter of the boxes of the
" little theatre in the Haymarket," is fixed fir Friday
next. The bill cf fare is excellent. Jerrold's comedy
of Nell Gwynne will be revived, when Mr. Keeley will
appear in his original character of Orange Moll, Mr.
Webster will appear for the first time as King Charles,
and Miss Reynolds will make her first appearance as
Nell Gwynne. The comedy will be followed by Buck-
stone's force of the Christening; after which will be pre-
sented Mrs. Gore's popular drama of The Maid of
Crolvsey, in which Madame Celeste will appear in the
character of Theresa ; and the entertainments will con-
clude with the comic drama of The Maid with the
Pail, in which Mr. Buckatene and Mrs. Fitzailliain
will sustain the principal characters. Mr. Archer's own
merits are sufficient to secure him a bumper, but, with
such a bill of fare, he cannot but have an overflow.
ACCIDENT ON THE LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN
rtAILIVAY.—On Monday night last the engine of the
up-Nev castle mail train, upon the London and North-
Western railway got off the line, in the road-cuttings
about nine miles south of Wolverton, and fell over on its
side, directly across the down line. The tender was
dr3gged off the line, aad the empty van, which is usually
attached behind the tender, mounted upon it, and two or
three of the carriages went off the :line with the shock
of the sudden stoppage, but fortur ately note of them
were damaged, and the whole of the passengers escaped
unhurt. The engineer and the fireman, we believe,
sustained no other injury than a severe shock. Of
course, by this untoward accident, both the up and
down lines were blocked up ; and when the down mail
train to Manchester and Liverpool and the north arrived
at the spot at eleven o'clock, it could not proceed. The
passengers and luggage were taken out of the carriages
and conveyed over the boi!er cf the prostrate engine to
another train which was brought up from Rugby, in
which at last they proceeded, after a delay :of about
eight hours, Tho mails, instead cf reaching Manchester
and Liverpool et 3.39 A.M , did not arrive till 11.50 in
the forenoon.

AAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
PORTSMOUTH, TUESDAY.—Captain Sir Baldwin
Walker, K.C.8., Surveyor of the Navy ; Captain
Ellice, Comptroller of the Steam Department of the
Navy; and the Junior-Assistant Surveyor of the
Navy, came from London last night on an official
visit to this dockyard. Sir B. Walker and Captain
Ellice, in conjunction with Captain Chads, C. 8., of
her Majesty's ship Excellent, form a committee to
inquire into and report upon the best method of rais-
ing and lowering the propellers of screw steam-ships
in the Royal Navy, so as to dispense with as much as
possible of that dead weight near the stern-post of
ships, now so cumbersome and detrimental to their
progress. Experitnents were tried on board the
Blenheim, 60, steam guard-ship, Commander J. A.
Stevens, when, with rope tackle, the process was
accomplished in six minutes. Mr. Murray, the Super-
intendent Engineer of the Dockyard, is of opinion
he can apply a screw lever, which will do the work in
two minutes, and dispense with the manifold appli-
ances now used in performing the same duty. Sir
Baldwin Walker afterwards made an inspection of the
various ships under repair and refit, and works in pro-
gress in the dockyard. These periodical visits of such
an officer as Sir Baldwin cannot fail to be highly
advantageous.
The Hecate steam-sloop, Commander Shad well,
arrived this morning from Bermuda, whence she
sailed on the 9th inst. On her passage she expe- I
rienced very severe weather, having been in a gale of
wind nearly a week. She brought home several in- I
valids from the 42d Regiment and Royal Artillery.
She is ordered into harbour to refit. It is gratifying
to state that although her crew is one borrowed from
the Excellent chiefly, among whom are some famous
gunners, not one case of desertion to America has oc-
curred, although she lay some time off an American
port. The Wellesley, 72, Vice-Admiral Earl Dun-
donald, G.C.8., and the Plumper, 11, Commander S.
M. Nolloth, were at Bermuda when the Hecate
sailed. She has been under sail alone, with paddle-
floats off, 1,560 miles, has now arrived with nearly
half her full quantity of coals in her bunkers—some-
thing very much to the credit of Commander Shad-
well. She has brought a mail and the following pas-
sengers :—Mr. Keown, late surgeon of the Pes
tonjee Bomanjee transport ' • Mr. Pinhorn, late de-
puty clerk of the works at Bermuda, superseded, and
Mrs. Pinhorn ; Lieutenant M'Leod, of the 42d Regi-
ment, in charge of 30 invalids of that regiment, and
three of the Royal Artillery ; and Mr. Joseph Wal-
ker, second master, late acting-master of the Trin-
comalee, dismissed the service. The Admiral was
about to proceed to the West Indies in the course of
a few days. The Hecate is ordered to be kept in com-
mission and fitted for foreign service.
There have been many reports about the Raleigh,
50, Captain the Hon. G. Hope, being paid off all
standing; but she will be totally dismantled, and will
probably go into ordinary at Portsmouth. She is
entering stores and unrigging with all dispatch.
We have authority for stating that her Majesty's
ship Hastings, 62, late the flag-ship of Sir Francis
A. Collier, deceased, is to continue the flag-ship cf
Admiral Austen—an arrangement much to be ap-
plauded, both in point of economy and efficiency. No
ship ever was in better order or in better hands. She
had not lost a man by sickness or desertion since com-
missioned. Captain Morgan will come home on being
superseded by Captain Austen.
The Comet steam vessel, Commander R. C. Otter,
was paid off all standing to-day-.

WO OL WIC 11, JAN. 29.
APP3INTMENTS.
Lieutenant William Wollcock (a) (1809), to be
retired commander of 1830.
Lieutenant Charles Goldsmith (1825), to command
the Wellington cruiser.
Lieutenant A. R. B. Carter (1846), of the coast
guard, to command the Wicklam revenue cruiser.
Lieutenant William L. Lambert (1842), to ba a
chief officer of the coast guard.
William Wollcock (3) entered the navy in May,
1800, as A B on board the V6euve, Lieutenant-
Commanders William Eliot, William Chapman, and
Benjamin Crispin, stationed in the North Sea. He
served next frem April, 1801, until July, 1802, part
of the time as midshipman in the Powerful, 74, Cap-
tain Sir Francis Laforey, in the Baltic, off the port
of Cadiz, and in the West Indies ; and from March,
1803, until June, 1807, under Sir William Sidney
Smith, in the Antelope, 50, and Pompee, 74. In the
Antelope he was often in action with the enemy's
flotilla between Flushing and Ostend; and in the
Porrq 63 he passed the Dardanelles and assisted at the
destruction of a Turkish squadron- anchored under the
guns of a redoubt on Point Pesquies. On the Bth of
July, 1807, he was nominated Sub-Lieutenant of the
Pincher gun-brig, Lieutenant-Commanders James
Aberdour and Samuel Burgess, in the North Sea; he
was promoted to the full rank of Lieutenant on the
25th of March, 1809, and he was afterwards,
from June following until June, 1814, em-
ployed in the Persian, 18, Captains Samuel
Martin Colquitt and Charles Bertram ; and
the Iris, 36, Captain Hood Hanway Christian, on
the West India, home, and Brazilian stations.
He assisted in the Ponian at the capture of the priva-
teers Fernbuscade, of 14 guns and 63 men, and Petit
Jean, of 16 guns, only 8 mounted, and 65 men. His
last sea appointment was to the Poictiers, 72, Captains
William Henry Shirreff and Sir Thomas Bourchier,
depot-ship of ordinary at Chatham, where he served
as first-lieutenant from the 4th of April, 1844, until
the summer of 1847. In addition to the above inter-
esting details of the services of this gallant officer,
given in " O'Byrne's Naval Biographical Dictionary,"
it is also stated that he was honourably mentioned in
the London Gazette of 1809, for his gallant conduct in
command of the boats of the Pincher and Basilisk,
when he succeeded, in the early part of 1809, in cap-
turing a Danish privateer, mounting one carriage gun
and four swivels, and a galliot laden with deals. Such
a long period of service: s rewarded by placing
the gallant veteran on the retired list of com-
manders of 1830, which entitles him to the half-pay
of 7s. per day.
Commander Codrington Forsyth, having ; studied
steam at the factory at Woolwich Dockyard, was ex-
amined yesterday by Mr. Trickett, assistant to the
chief engineer, and passed in a very satisfactory man-
ner, receiving his certificate accordingly.
SURVIVING OFFICERS OF Tn a OLD SUPERB.—
Among the surviving officers of the old Superb is
Commander Willcox (late of Portsmouth ordinary,
and uncle of Commander Willcox of the Fury). He
served in the Superb, 74, for upwards of eleven
years as midshipmen, acting lieutenant, and lieu-
tenant, under Captain John Sutton and the late Sir
K. G. Keats. He was in Sir James Saumarez's
action with the Franco. Spanish squadron ; was in
Lord Nelson's pursuit of the combined fleets; in
Duckworth's action off St. Domingo and at Copen-
hagen ; and subsequently, whilst belonging to the
Superb, had charge of two gun-boats at the siege of
Flushing, and commanded one of several boats that
boarded and carried a Danish brig of 18 guns and a
cutter of twelve guns.
Reran Manreas.—The following Admiralty cir-
cular, relating to the pay of Quartermasters, has been
received by the commandants of the four divisions,
which is dated from the Royal Marine-office, viz.:—
" Her Majesty has been graciously pleased, by Order
in Council cf the Bth inst., to direct that the daily pay
of Quartermasters of the Royal Marices shall be as ful-
-1 iws, viz : --Upon first appointment, 6s. 63; after tan
years' service as a quartermaster, or atter fifteen years'
service as a commissioned or non-commissioned officer, of
which at least five years shall have been £ S quarter-
master, S.. 6d.; after fifccen years' service as a quarter-
master, or after twenty years service as a commissioned
or non-commissioned officer, cf which at least ten years
shall have been as quartermaster, 10s.
" By command cf the Lords Commissioners of the
Admiralty.

" JoHN,Owtx, Deputy Adjutant-GcneraL"

INNER TEMPLE, JAN. 29.—A further call to the
bar of students cf tle Hon. Society of the Inner Temple
was made this evening, and :they comprised the i.fier-
mentioned gentlemen:—John Thomas Abdy, of Trinity
Hall, Cambridge, B.C.L. ; William Bysm, of Trinity
College, Cambridge, 8.A.; George Robert Cumyn Chil-
ton, of Christ Church, Oxford, B.A. ; and Samuel
Shepherd, of Northallertcn, in the county of York.
LINCOLN'S INN, JAN. 29 —The after-mentioned
memt era of the Hon. Society cf Lincoln's Inn have been
called to the degree of Barrister-atasv, and they were
this evening sworr. in before several of the bencho.s:—
Eclw and P. Fi:ton, B A. ; Timothy S. o.ler, LL.B. ;
Thomas 13, cror ; William Wright, jun.; John F. Miller;
Robert W. Taylor; Arthur H. Estcourt, M.A.; Herman
L. Prior, M.A. ; Henry Thomas J. Jenkinsoc, M.A. ;
and John Sayer, ALA.
EXTRAORDINARY ACCIDENT.--pp Saturday week,
as Mr. James Milligan, hosier here, pas walking along
Buccleugh-street, he slipped on the lee which covered
the pavement. Tu save himself from falling, he caught
at the iron railings in front of the houses, when the spike
of one of the bars entered between his little finger and a
ring worn oa it, on which the whole weight of his tody
was thrown in consequence. The t piition of the
finger was torn off by the sudden wi each, and the tee-
don actually pulled out and coiled round the bar. Mr.
Milligan, with grt a, fortitude, though he must have
suffered dreaa of ully, walked to the housea sm-
geop, and lal the wound dressed. A portions of thefinger has since required amputation. —Lunfrzes
Courier.

MANCHESTER TRADE REPORT.—The market
tc-
day has been very quit t and In avy. There was a strong
determination on the part of purchasers not to buy, ex-
rapt at a reduction in price, and for some time after the
market opened little business was done, producers seem-
ing determined to hold out with equal resolution. This
feeling evaiied more or less during the day, and very
little business wits done in any article, the tarn being in
favour of the buyer, without any quotable decline in
pricer.

Lord John Hay is about to retire from the Ad-
miralty, and Captain Ikuston Stewart, RN., Comp-
troller• Gcne:al ot the Coast-guard, will succeed him.—
Times.

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY •EVENING, JANUARY 30, IMO

0.1605

T0ta15........ 1,948,369
Males ..• •••
Females

... 1,208

BIRTHS IN THE WEEK.

Males
Females

way, where a number of cottages have been built ; , ILEALTII OF LONDON during the WEEK.
bores with carts and boats were promptly brought to I (From the Registrar-General's Return.)
the spot to remove the terrified inhabitants, with I In the week ending last Saturday, the deaths re-
such furniture as they could take with them. Fertu- , gistered in the metropolitan districts were 1,034, and
nately it was remarkably calm and fine, otherwisel exhibit a decrease of 122 on those cf the previous
there would have been a far greater destruction of week. A comparison of the same weeks of form r
property.
years shows that the mortality has not been so low
PonTsmouTir, TUESDAY.-IVe had an exceedingly as at the present time since 1846 ; in the early part
high tide to-day, breught up no doubt by the high of the years 1847-9 the deaths ranged weekly
S.W. wind last night. Broad-street was inundated. I from 1,200 to about 1,450. The average of corm-
To-day we have a calm, with very thick weather.
sponding wecks in ten previous years (1840-9) is
1,089, or, if a correction is made for increase of popu-
lation, 1,183, compared with which the present re-
t turn shows a decrease of 49 deaths. The deaths from
consumption were 128, or rather less than the
average. Amongst other fatal diseases, bronchitis
is now predominant, and last week carried off
121 persons, a number which, though less
than in the week before, exceeds by 51 the
' corrected aver age of ten corresponding, weeks of
former years. It is worthy of remark that this corn•
plaint, which has exceedingly increased during the
last six years, has, since 1844, produced at this sea-
son a weekly mortality more than fourfold its former
amount. Pneumonia was fatal to only 78 persons
last work (a great majority of whom were children),
whilst the corrected average of ten corresponding
weeks is 109 ; this disease, though it has fluctuated in
its weekly numbers from 64 to 156, has not shown
i the same disposition as bronchitis to increase during
later years. The deaths of 7 nonagenarians were
I registered last week ; of these, a woman at the age
iof 96 years, and a man at 99. The deaths of 105
persons were registered in workhouses ; 57 in hospi-
tals ; and 13 in the two royal hospitals, amongst
whom were 7 pensioners at Greenwich, who died be-
tween the 18th and 24th of January, at various
ages, from 37 to 84. The mortality from epidemics
continues to be comparatively low, though measles
and diarrhoea (from the former there having been 28
deaths, and from the latter 14), are about the ave-
rage ; 11 children died of croup.
The mean daily reading of the barometer at Green-
wich was above 30 in. on the first five days of the
week ; the mean of the week was 30.050. The mean
daily temperature rose from 29 deg. on Sunday to
45 deg. on Friday ; the mean of the week was 35.5
deg., which is rather less than the average cf the
same week in seven years. The mean temperature
was 9 deg. below the average of the same day, on
Monday ; on Friday it was 8 deg. above it.
The following cases are selected from the Regis-
trar's report :
In Kensington (town), Jenning's-buildings, the
wife of a hawker, fifty years of age, died of" chronic
bronchitis." Mr. Gorham describes these buildings
as close and dirty, and the house overcrowded.
In Hanover-square (sub-district), the master of a
wardrobe shop, fifty years, died of " cynanche ton-
sillaris (ten weeks), typhus (two weeks)." Mr. Jay
reports that the house (42, Gilbert-street) where the
death occurred is neither well ventilated nor cleansed,
and that the soil of the closet overflows the area fre-
quently, causing an offensive smell.
In Berwick-street (sub-district), the daughter of
a tailor, 17 days, died of "pneumonia" (2 days' ill-
ness). Mr. Walker states that the house, 31, Poland-
street, where the death occurred, is close and un-
healthy.
In Camden-town (sub-district), at Cambridge-
crescent, Agar-town, the son of a " navigator," 1
year, died of hooping-cough (3 weeks), inflammation
of the lungs." Mr. Holl describes it as " a wretched
and unhealthy locality, with houses of two rooms,
which are damp and unfit for habitation, and occupied
by very poor persons."
In St. Clement Danes a tailor of 37 years died of
" phthisis (6 months), bronchitis (4 weeks)," in
King's College Hospital. lie had been brought
from Feather's-court, Drury-lane, which Mr. Jones
describes as "close, crowded, and badly drained."
Chapel-place, Clement's-lane, whence a cap maker,
who died of "bronchitis (2 months) pneumonia (5
days)," in the same hospital, was brought, is also
described as " the filthiest court in the metropolis."
Mr. Jones states that a house in Carey-street, where
a child died of bronchitis and hydrocephalus, " has
no back windows and is exceedingly close."
EVAPORATION FROM THE THANIES.—A larger
quantity of matter is raised from the Thames by eva-
poration than is generally supposed. Upon Mr.
Glaisher's estimate; 678,505 gallons evaporate from
an acre of water in a year, which is at the rate of
1,857.6 gallons daily. The bed of the Thames in
London is estimated approximately at 2,245 acres ;
consequently 4,170,000 gallons are raised from the
Thames on an average daily throughout the year.
The quantity evaporated at low water is, perhaps,
much less than this; on the other hand, the evapora-
tion in summer is more active than in winter ; and
the proportion of decomposing organic matter in the
water, and on the banks exposed to evaporation, is
greater at low than at high water. Upon the whole,
it is probable that in summer four million gallons, or
about 18,000 tons of water, are raised from the pol-
luted Thames daily and discharged into the atmos-
phere which is breathed by the inhabitants of London.
It remains to determine how much of the organic
matter in the water is raised with the vapour at dif-
ferent temperatures.
Mr. Glaisher was requested to make an estimate of
the amount of vapour raised by evaporation from the
Thames, and has favoured the Registrar-General with
the subjoined statement :
" For some years past I have male daily experiments
upon the amount of water evaporated from a surface of
water, and the amount exceeds 30 inches annually.
" A depth of water of fully 30 inches must evaporate
from the surface le f the Thames annually ; indeed the
quantity must be larger than this from the circumstance
of its relative high night temperature. Take i,, how-
ever, at 30 inches, and we shall have-
-2.5 04 9 >4 4840=108900 cubic feet evaporated in a
108900 year from an area of water
of one acre.
----678505 gallons of water evaporated in
one yew from an acre of
water.
08900 >42245=--244480500 cubic feet of water evapo-
rated from a surface of
2245 acres of water in
one year.
--152342991 gallons of water evaporat-
-0.1605 ed in one year from a sur-
face of water of 2,245 acres in extent, or more than 1,523
millions cf gallons. The salt water affects the water
at Woolwich : it is usually what is termed brackish
there. Lieutenant Sanders states that at Greenwich,
at high-water spring tides, the water is frequently
brackish.
" The dirt and filth in solution must be very large.
The ' Dreadnought! experiments ale made under my
direction chiefly, and I can assure you that to read the
instruments is a serious aflhir, owing to the filth of the
waters; on first pulling them up they are covered with
a slimy adhesive mud; they first have to be wiped, and
if the wind is blowing strongly, this muddy water is
blown about and over the observer. A now trunk is
no s• being made with a perforated copper-bottom turn-
ing downwards upon hinges, so as to get rid of the
enormous deposit."

MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS.
NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN
THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JAN. 26, Ibso.
Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagions Diseases *153
Diseases of Uncertain Seat ...
.>. 45
Tubercular Diseases ... 175
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses,.. 120
Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels ... 32
Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of
Respiration
..; 252
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs
of Digestion...
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c.
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, 8,?..
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles
Diseases of the Skin, &c.
Malformations...
Premature Birth ...
Atrophy •• •••
Old Ago
Sudden ...
and Intemperance
Violence, Privation, Cold,
Causes not specified ...
DEATHS FROST ALL CAUSES ...

DISASTROUS AFFAIR ON THE
GAMBIA.
The following is an extract from a letter of an
officer of the 21 West India Regiment :
" "Bathurst, Gambit), Dec. 21,1849.
About two months ago a vessel belonging to a
merchant here was trading down the coast, near I3is-
sao, about /00 miles to the south of Iv, when the
vessel was seized by a party of black fellows, who
turned out to be pirates, inhabiting an island at the
mouth cf the River Sam. Some of the crew were
shot, one of whom was a Frenchman. The Governor
here wrote an account to the Governor of Senegal,
who sent a small mat-of-war steamer, with some
marines, to assist us in punishing these scoundrels,
and retaking the vessel. The day after she arrived
here one of our vessels, the Teazer, came in ; so the
Governor determined on sending her with the French-
man and a few of our men. The day after this the
Commodore arrived in the Centaur steam-frigate
quite by chance. It was now arranged that they
should all go down. He had a number of marines
on board, and with 60 of our men, under Captain
Hill, and Lieutenants M'Court and ltFLaughlen,
sailed for this place. The action was very short. As
well as I can make out, the outline is as follows :
" The Teenr and the Ruby (Frenchman) having
gone up the creek where the island is situated, an-
chored off the place where they were to land. The
Centaur, being too large to come up so far, sent up
her boats, twelve in number, while she remained
about three miles down. Captain Buckle, of the
Centaur, and Lieutenant Selwyn, commander of the
Teazer, then went in advance of the other boats near
the shore, intending to demand the restitution of the
vessel together with the men who murdered the crew,
when he was fired at. The ball took effect on Mr

Young, Midshipman of the Centaur, dangerously
wounding him in the breast. The Teazer and Ruby
. .

17
together with the boats that had cannon, then opened
a furious cannonade, which lasted nearly half an hour.
The natives stood it without answering a shot. They
then attempted to land from the boats, however the
first that came near the bush which they had to pass
through, received a s volley which took great effect!
killing Lieutenant Crocker, commanding the marines,
and dangerously wounding eight others (sailors and
marines). They then withdrew and our men landed
without further opposition, and after beating about
for some time returned to their vessels. The first
boat was the only one under fire, unless you reckon
the shot that wounded Young, and this single shot
and the volley was the only firing from the enemy.
The next day the party went ten miles up the creek,
and recovered the vessel without opposition or seeing
a man. Thus ended the affair."

FATAL PUGILISTIC ENCOUNTER.
ANDOVERSFORD, NEAR CIiELTENIrAM, MONDA
NIGH shocking occurrence has just happened
here, which has ended in the violent death of one
man, and the committal of three others to Glouces-
ter County Gaol on a charge of manslaughter. The
particulars of the case, as summed up from the depo-
sitions of the several witnesses examined on the
coroner's inquest, may be briefly stated as follows :
Two farm servants, named William Cook and Joseph
Franklin, in the employ of Mr. Handy, farmer,
quarrelled while following their daily work, and, after
a good deal of bickering, came to a mutual agree-
ment to " fight it out." They fought together in the
road near their master's farm for a short time, the
only looker-an being a boy, named Perrin. After
two or three round,, in the course cf which they fell
twice or thrice and kicked each other while upon the
ground, a temporary truce was declared, while each
combatant sent for " a backer." Franklin sent
for his father, who quickly arrived, and a man
named George Fletcher came as Cook's
backer. They then resumed the tattle, Franklin,
the father, encouraging hia son. Cook knocked
Franklin down first, bat in the next "Aiun" Cook
was down, and was picked up by Fletcher. After
two or three more rounds Cook fell. Fletcher lifted
him up, and endeavoured to replace him on his legs,
but Cock could not stand, and appeared insensible,
while blood flowed from his earn. He was then put
in a cart and taken home. Before he was taken away,
however, Franklin went up to him, and a-ked hire,
"if he had had enough, or w heti:cc he wanted any
more ?" Cook did not reply, and never spoke again ;
in fact, there can be little doubt that he was actually
dead at that moment, and his antagonist was talking
to a corpse. While the fight was going on
Franklin's wife came up, and entreated her hus-
band, with tears in her eyes, to desist. Frank-
lin's father, however, told her to be off home,
and while the men were fighting he called upon his
son to " put it into him" (the deceased man). A
married woman named Agg, who said she went " to
see the fight," deposed at the inquest that she saw
Mrs. Franklin endeavour to separate Cook and her
husband. The deceased was considered a match for
his antagonist, being 39 years of age, while the other
was 23. The deceased has left a widow and four
children unprovided for. Mr. Gabb, surgeon of
Charlton Kings, who made a postmortem examination
of the deceased, showed upon the inquest that death
had been occasioned by a blow or blows on the head,
which had ruptured a blood-vessel in the brain. Death
was not occasioned by a fall, but a blow. The coro-
ner's verdict was, that Cook came by his death from
the effect of blows received whilst fighting with .
Franklin, and that William Franklin (his father)
and George Fletcher were aiding and abetting
Joseph Franklin, and were principals in the second
degree.

... 22

... 23

1,034
Population Deaths in corre- Deaths
Entneraied, sponding week in the
1841. of 1849. Week.
West Districts... 301,189 . . 179 ... 176
North Districts.. 376,568 .. 222 •
... 166
Central Districts 374,199
... 212 ... 183
East Districts ... 393,067 ... 245 ... 208
South Districts.. 503,346 ... 350 ... 301

... 1,034

... 508
... 526

FATAL
fromGUN
theA distressingboy
allowed to carry guns, has occurred at But ford, Oxon.
accident,
resulting fi,
An inquiry was held on Saturday, before Mr. James
Wessell, coroner, into the circumstances attending the
dea.h of Eliza Evans, a young girl aged 19 years, who
was shot the previous day by a boy about the same age,
who requested her to stand out of the way while he shot
a bird. From the evidence adduced it appeared she
stood round the corner of a house to avoid danger, but
from incautiously looking round at the moment the gun
was discharged, she received the wound which occa-
sioned her death, at the inside of the eye, close to the
ACCIDENT.—.A ca InDg Ee rrvoTu.s--A practiceof
noso. Mr. A. T. Cooke, surgecn, was promptly in at-
tendance, and used all the means that his skill could de-
vise to save her life, but the unfortunate suffarer lingered
in a state of insensibility for three hours, when death
ensued. As the melancholy occurrence was purely aeci-
dental, the jury returned a verdict accordingly. The
family of the deceased girl are placed in great distress
by the sad event.
ROYAL FREE INIOSPITAL.—A meeting of this in-
stitution was held yesterday fur the purpose of receiving
the committee's report, and ter the election cif governors
to form the committee of management, and to choose
auditors. Mr. Prichard, high bailiff of Scuthwark, was
called to the chair. The itecretary read the annual re-
port, which stated that, in the beginning of the year
1849, 154 pauper children from Tooting, belonging to
the Holborn union, were admitted to tho hospital, all
more or less suffering from cholera, but 80 of whom
showed signs of a decided and violent ,nature. Only
four of these died, whom the report stated to have been
past hope en entering the hospital. When cholera
broke out in the metropolis, the doors of the hospital
were, as is 1832, thrown open to all applicants, and
upwards of 3;000 persons so attacked had received
relief, either as in or out-door patients. During the
year upwards of 28,190 persons have IR en relieved by
the institution—on the whole a decrease in the- num-
ber in IS4B. The financial statement in the report
was highly satisfactory as to the state of the ho)piesl.
The ncripts amounted to 5,550/, upss ands a 900/.
more than those of 1848. This excess enabled the
committea to ray off old debts to the amount of
2,0004, and to re -open a ward capable cf acconstue-
dating 50 patients, which, from a pressure of debt,
had, for a time., been unavoidably closed. Should the
benevolent continue their exertions in favour of the
institution the committee would soon be enabled again
to throw open the Governor Ward, which wou'.d give
accommodation to fifty additional destitute persons.
The total payments of tLo institution during the year
amounted to 5,5211. Thu report having Lean adopted,
the election of the thirty governors was prcceetted with.
After a vct3 ( f thanks to the chairman, and to the
several authorities and officials of the hospital, the meet-
ing broke up.

766
728

Tara ...1,494
*ln this number are included 16 by Scarlatina, 27
by Typhus Fever, and 14 by Diarrheas.

THE COLONIES AND TIIE SOCIETY FOR TEE PRO,
PACATION OF TEE GOSPEL.--.At the annual meeting en
Monday afternoon of the Gloucester Diocesan Associa-
tion, in aid of the above venerable society, the Bishop of
Gloucester and Bristol, in calling the attention of the
meeting to the objects and operation of tbo society in
spreading the Gospel among our colonial possessions,
particularly directad public attention to the expectAtion
that ere long some of our colonies will bo severed from
ur. His Lordship expressed a hope, that if such a
separation should take place, it would not bo effected by
violent means; but he alluded to the growing feeling
which, ho said, existed upon this subje,t, with the view
of pressing upon nil parties who took an interest in the
propagation of the Gospel in foreign parts to a.d in thzt
great work while we have the power of extending reli-
gious help to the colonies. His Lordship was followed
by Mr. Vernon, cne cf the secretaries of the parent a
sociation, who also spoke in similar terms of the expect-
-
at;ons of our North American colonists.
-The celebrated sculptor, Bartolini, died at Flo-
rence on the 20th, aged serent3 -Lever,
after a short
ef three days.

KING'd COLLEGE, LONDON.—The names of the
following students of the college and school appear In
the list of wranglers at the late Cambridge examina-
tion :—Watsor, second wrangler ; Irving. Harrison,
Greenwood, Nertheott, Heywood, and Do Ltsle.
The Directors of the Banque do Belgique have
just convoked a meeting ( f the shareholders for
Government and the Bank, by which the
tFs,eeberiulatrhye, tGo
oyteekrnemi
latter engages to take 15,000,0001. in the capital of the
Bank Nationale about to be established. These
15,000,000 h tore divided into 10,000 shares. The Socii. é
G6rerale has entered into a similar convention with the
at the Eagli6h Mint price of 3/. 17s.
Government.
MoNEY 111ARKET.—The premium on gold at Path is
whicb,
wid. per ounce for standard gold, gives un exchange of
25.45; and the exchange at Paris on London at short
12 per trifle,
being 25.42 i, it follows that gold is 0.10 per cent.
dearer in Paris than in London. By advices from Llani-
burgh the price of gold is 4341 per mark, limb at
the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 1011 ' standard gold, gives an exchange of 13. q per ounce for•
nd e ex-
change at IlamburAh on London at short bei a the
ng 13.10 i,
it follows that gold is 0.57 per cent. d L
carer in on-
don than in Harnburgb.
INDIAN PRIZE MONRY.—The sum of 12,425/. has
been paid by the East India Company into the Bank of
England to the public account, to meet the claims of the
several parties entitled to share in the pr:zi money
granted for the capture of Ghuzneo and Lower Sinde.
CUXHAVEN, JAN. 24.—We had a strong westerly
wind, with a rapid thaw, last night. The channel is
perfectly clear, bt.t there is still a good deal ( f ice
along the northern shore ; the mouth of the harbour is
now navigable by the springing ( f the ice This after-
noon there has been an appearance of ice again in the
channel. Wind, W.N.W., with a thick fog.—llambuqh
Borsenhalle, Jan. 24.

CHILD MURDER.—George Berry, the man charged
with murdering a child two years old, Lamed Mary
Hallam, at Suttan•in-Ashfield, NuttiogLamshire, is
committed for tries Lt next Assile.i. Ile is, from esti-
molly given upon the coroner's inquest, a unsound mind.