The Sun.
London, England, 1850-01-12 00:00:00

useless if employed in the perusal of these sketches.
Some of the articles are of an amusing or interesting
character • such as " The New Governess," "My
Grandfather's First Marriage," " The Wife's Ambi-
bition," and others are suggestive of profitable
thoughts. " Single Houses and Married Couples" is
a valuable exposition of the blessings of home.
" Undeveloped Greatness" is full of truthful wisdom.
Alluding to people who are always complaining of
what they night have been and might have done had
circumstances been otherwise, but now "it is too
late," it is justly remarked "True, it is too late—
and for people who complain in this tone it always
was too late or too early. The time is never come,
or it is past. The present is never in their power;
as it must be in the power of those who doom them-
selves to greatness—it is never a time of trial, cf
effort, cf painful struggle, of continual striving
and doing. They do not know such a present as this,
and therefore it is that when they look upon the f ict
it is a blank to theta." " The Ihppy Family" cor-
tains a moral frequently verified in daily lif..
volume will be a welcome guest by the Christmas
fireside.

THE ILLUSTRATED YEAR-BOOK of
WONDERS, EVE.N7'S, and DLSCOVE-
RIES.
The inhabitants of Auburn (before it became the
D2serted Village of immortal memory) used to regard
their learned sccolmaster with surprise and admi-
ration,

" And more the wonder grew
That one small head could carry all he knew."

Similar must be the feelings of all who examine this
most, attractive little volume. In little more than
three hundred pages of narrative (not condensed to a
mere summary, but replete with interest and infor-
mation), we find ourselves now delving for " gold in
California," now watching the progress of
the patient teachers of " ragged schools,"
then hurried across the Menai Straits in the
" Britannia Tubular Bridge, " and thence
making a steam excursion from Southampton, and
threading the mazes of the city of a thousand mi-
narets. A change comes over the spirit of the dream
—from the gaiety and glitter of romantic Stamboul,
we are precipitated into " the bowels of the harmless
earth," and witness the horrible spectacle of " a coal-
mine on fire." Rushing from one extreme to the
other, we escape the flames only to encounter the
perils of an expedition where
" Winter barricades the realms of frost."
Quitting the "Franklin Expedition," we turn cour-
tier' and accompany the " Queen in the Royal Visit
to Ireland." Then, after pondering over the
vicissitudes' of the " Conquest of the Punjaub,"
we follow Mr. Layard in an investigation of the
marvellous sculptures of Nineveh. Repeating the
lines of Campbell, we watch the departing emigrants,
and then curious to learn their fortunes, we track
them to their homes beyond the sea, returning thence
we contemplate the " French Expedition to Rome,"
and finally the volume closes, and we find ourselves
enriched with much delightful knowledge, and grati-
fied by the very interesting manner in which that
knowledge has been revealed to us. This first " Year
Book of Events, Wonders, and Discoveries," is not
likely to be the last.' Judging from this specimen it
promises to become a valuable addition to the youth-
ful library, nor is it without attraction for chitdron
of larger growth. It is elegant in its appearance, and
is adorned with many illustrations.

THE FAMILY FRIEND.
The title of this book is anything but a misnomer.
Every family into which it enters will hail it as
a friend. Its pages abound in matter of amuse-
ment for the circle round the fireside. Here we have
conundrums which would perplex 2Edipus himself.
Here we have patterns for work which Penelope
might have envied. Now we are instructed by some
piece of information, and now entertained by some
ridiculous absurdity. " Treasures " and " Trifles"
alternately fill the pages, while the hints for wives
and advice contained in the " Housewife's Friend,"
are full of practical usefulness. Young and old may
obtain mirth and wisdom from the pages of " The
Family Friend." Among the amusing " Trifles" is
the following, which we do not remember-to have
seen before :

" A boy, selling newspapers at the railway-station at
Ely, was calling out one Saturday evening,—' To-day's
Times, gentlemen,' upon which a passenger, attempting
a witticism, cried cut,' What's the use of to-day's Times?
I'll give you a shilling for to-morrow's!' and the boy im-
mediately handed him the Sunday Times when the
passenger refused to give him more than sixpence, but
his fellow-travellers made him keep his word, and give
the sharp• witted lad a shilling for a sixpenny paper!"

DIAMOND DUST.
(From Eliza Cook's Journal.)
He who teaches religion without exemplifying it loses
he advantage of its best argument

No summer but it has a winter; he never reaped corn
Fort in his adversity, that sowed it not in his prosperity.
Replies are not always amwers.
It is happy to hive so much merit, that our birth is
ho least thing respected in us.

Hide not past for your marriage; if you do, you may,
in the period of your journey, take sorrow for your inn,
and make repentance your host.
An honest man is bdieved without an oath, for his
reputation swears fur hire.
It is the great art arid philosophy of life to make the
best of the present, whether it be good or bad.
Idleness wastes a man as inaen3ibly as intluitry im-
proves him.

SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY.
Last evening, Mendelssohn's oratorio, St. Paul,
was given by this Society at Exeter-hall, to a very
tall audience. The high character attained by the
performances of the Sacred Harmonic Society, more
especially since the musical arrangements have been
under the direction of Mr. Costa, was a sufficient
guarantee that this great work would be rendered in
all its fullness and integrity. Indeed it is scarce:y
too complimentary to say, that the public frequent-
ing these oratorios do not attend so much in a
critical spirit, as in the full faith that all that
enormous vocal, instrumental, and choral resources,
under the most efficient control, can contribute
to wards the realization of the conceptions of the
most illustrious composers of sacred music will
here be insured. The doubts at one time enter-
tained of the capacity of Mr. Costa to give the ge-
nuine rendering of Handel's oratories, were speedily
dissipated, except with a comparatively few; no
such doubts could have arisen with respect to the in-
terpretation of Mendelsshen under the same auspices.
This performance of the St. Paul is in all respects
equal to the magnificent rendering of Elijah, already
so often given here under the direction of Mr. Costa.
Higher praise it would be impossible to accord. The
addition of Miss Catherine Hayes and Herr Formes
to the solo singers provided a special attraction on
this occasion. We are happy to see Miss Hayes now
taking her proper position in the metropolis among
executants of sacred music. Those who heard her at
Liverpool, and especially at the last Birming-
ham festival, were much struck by the purity
and fervour of her style. Her performance last
night, though her opportunities were not great,
frilly confirmed the high opinion then formed.
Miss Hayes invariably impresses in proportion to
the attention with which she is listened to, her execu-
tion being full of fine and delicate touches of expres-
sion, not always found in vocalists of more dash and
pretension. Her solos were all given with a fine and
true appreciation of the demands of the text, and there
could be no doubt of her having produced a most fa-
vourable effect, which the rule against encores scarcely
withheld the audience from testifying. Herr Formes
had also proved, at Liverpool, although he then sang
under great disadvantages, that he was capable of fill-
ing effectively the post of bass in these oratorios.
Since his first essay in this line, he has evidently
studied much the peculiar character of vocalization re-
quired for sacred music. His style is more subdued
and better toned; and there are not those violent con-
trasts and transitions which marked his earlier efforts.
His aria, " 0 God ! have mercy upon me," was ren-
dered with fine feeling and pathos, with the full devo-
tional tenderness of an abased spirit craving for mercy.
The passage " And take not thy Holy Spirit from
me, Lord 1" was a triumph of expression. The same
praise applies more or less to his other solos ; and
this artist may ba pronounced now fairly and firmly
to have seised a position of great difficulty, in which
he will prove a permanent strength to the oratorio.
The other vocal pieces were given by Miss Dolby,
Mr. Lockey, Mr. A. Novello, and Mr. Smythson.
Mr. Lockey improves in mellowness of tone, and
force yet purity of style, at every new effort in pub-
lic as a singer of sacred music The instrumental
execution of the oratorio was given with the full
power and precision for which this orchestra is now
proverbial ; and the choruses were also given with
the same perfection, completeness, and attention to
light and shade, which have. already earned for the
chorus here their high reputation. Among the most
effective were " Stone him to deal'," " Happy and
blest," and " Rise up ! arise ! shine

GRAY'S INN.—A notice has been issued by the
Benchers of this society that there will be a voluntary
examination for honours on the Laws of Heal Property
in Gray's Inn Hall, in Trinity Term, namely, on
Thursday and Friday, the 23d and 24th of May, com-
mencing at ten A.M. on each day. The names of the
successful candidates will be published in a list, while
those who do not go for honours, or who do not succeed,
will not be placed on the list. The gentleman who at-
tains the first place on the list will, on the recommenda-
tion of the Examiners, receive the Lecturer's Prize, con-
sisting of a set of the Reports of Vesey, jun., in twenty
volumes.

CAMBRIDGE, JAN. 11.—ADDRESS TO TUB QUEEN,—
The Vice. Chancellor has this day announced that the
address et condolence to her Majesty the Queen, on th,
death of her Majesty the Queen Dowager, was press-rated
on Wednesday last, the 9.11 inst., by his Royal Highness
the Chancellor and the Vice-Chancellor, and that the
same was most graciously received by her Majesty.

THE DIGNITY OF LITERATURL.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING CHRONICLE.
Sir,—la a leading article of your journal of
Thursd.l3, Vie 31 instant, you commented upon lite-
rary perbion end 'he status of literary men in this
country, and illustrated your argument by extracts
from the story of " Pendennis," at present in course
of publication. You have received my writings with
so much kindness, that, if you have occasion to dis-
approve of them er the anthor, I can't question your
right to blame me, or doubt for a moment the friend-
liness and honesty of my critic; and however I might
dispute the justice of your verdict in my case, I had
proposed to submit to it in silence, being indeed very
quiet in my conscience with regard to the charge made
against me.
But another newspaper of high character and re-
pute takes occasion to question the principles ad-
vocated in your article of Thursday ; arguing in
favour of pensions for literary persons, as you ar-
gued against them ; and the only point upon which
the Examiner and the Chronicle appear to agree un-
luckily regards myself, who am offered up to general
reprehension in two leading articles by the two
writers : by the latter, for " fostering a baneful pre-
judice" against literary men ; by the former, for
"stooping to flatter" this prejudice in the public mind,
and condescending to caricature (as is too often my
habit) my literary fellow labourers, in order to pay
court to the non-literarrclass."
Tee charges of the Examiner against a man who
has never, to his know edge, been ashamed c f his
professior, or (except for its dulness) of any single
line from his pen—grave as they are, are, I hope, not
proven. "To stoop to flatter" any class is a novel
accusation brought against my writings ; and as for
my scheme to pay court to the nonliterary class
by disparaging my literary fellow-labourers," it is
a design which would exhibit a degree not only of
baseness but of folly upon my part, of which, I
trust, I am not capable. The editor of the Examiner
may, perhaps, occasionally write, like other authors,
in a hurry, and not be aware of the conclusions to
which some of his sentences may lead. If I stoop
to flatter anybody's prejudice for some interested
motives of my own, I am no more nor less than a
rogue and a cheat ; which deductions from the Ex-
aminer's premises I will not stoop to contradict, be-
cause the premises themselves are simply absurd.
I deny that the considerable body of our country-
men described by the Examiner " as the non-literary
class" has the least gratification in witnessing the
degradation or disparagement of literary men. Why
accuse "the non-literary class" of being so un-
grateful? If the writings of an author give a reader
pleasure or profit, surely the latter will have a fa-
vourable opinion of the person who so benefits him.
What intelligent man, of what political views, would
not receive with respect and welcome that writer of
the Examiner of whom your paper, once said that
"he made all England laugh and think 2" Who
would deny to that brilliant wit, that polished satirist,
his just tribute of respect and admiration ? Does any
man who has written a book worth reading—any poet,
historian, novelist, man of science—lose reputation by
his character for genius or for learning ? Does he
not, on the contrary, get friends, sympathy, ap-
plause—money, perhaps ?—all good and pleasant
things in themselves, and not ungenerously awarded
as they are honestly won. That generous faith in
men of letters, that kindly regard in which the
whole reading nation holds them, appear to me to
be so clearly shown in our country every day, that
to question them would be absurd as, permit me
to say for my part, it would be ungrateful. What
is it that fills mechanics' institutes in the great
provincial towns when literary men are invited to
attend their festivals ? Has not every literary man
of mark his friends and his circle, his hundreds or
his tens of thousands of readers ? And has not
every one bad from these constant and affecting
testimonials of the esteem in which they hold him ?
It is of course one writer's lot, from the nature of
his subject or of his genius, to command the sym-
pathies or awaken the curiosity of many more
readers than shall chose to listen to another
author ; but surely all get their hearing. The
literary profession is not held in disrepute ; nobody
wants to disparage it; no man loses his social rank,
whatever it may be, by practising it. On the con-
trary : the pen gives a place in the world to men
who had none before—a fair place fairly achieved by
their genius ; as any other degree of eminence is by
any other kind of merit. Literary men need not, as
it seems to me, be in the least querulous about their
position any more, or want the pity of
anybody. The money-prizes which the chief
among them get are not so high as those which
fall to men of other callings—to bishops, or to
judges, or to opera singers and actors; nor have they
received stars and garters as yet, or peerages and
governorships of islands, such as fall to the lot of
military officers. The rewards of the profession are
not to be measured by the money standard ; for one
man spends a life of learning and labour on a book
which does not pay the printer's bill; and another
gets a little fortune by a few light volumes. But,
putting the money out of the question, I believe that
the social estimation of the man of letters is as good
as it deserves to be, and as good as that of any other
professional man.
With respect to the question in debate between you
and the Examiner, as to the propriety of public re-
wards and honours for literary men, I don't see why
men of letters should not very cheerfully coincide
with Mr. Examiner in accepting all the honours,
places, and prizes which they can get. The amount
of such as will be awarded to them will not, we may
be pretty sure, impoverish the country much ; and it
it is the custom of the State to reward, by money, or
titles of honour, or stars and garters of any sort, indi-
viduals who do the country service, and it individuals
are gratißed by having sir, or my lord, appended to
their names, or stars and ribbons hooked on to their
coats and waistcoats, as men most undoubtedly are,
and as their wives, families and relations are, there
can be no reson why men of letters should
not have the chance, as well as men of
the robe or the sword ; or why, if honour and
money are good for one profession, they should not
he good for another. No man in other callings thinks
himself degraded by receiving a reward from his Go
vernment; nor surely need the literary man be more
squeamish about pensions, and ribbons, and titles,
than the ambassador, or general, .or jtelge. Every
European State but ours rewards its men of letters;
the American Government gives them their full share
of its small patronage; and if Americans, why not
Englishmen ? If Pitt Crawley is disappointed at not
getting a ribbon on retiring from his diplomatic post
at Pumpernickel; if General O'Dowd is pleased to
be called Sir Hector O'Dowd, K.C.8., and his wife
at being denominated my Lady O'Dowd : are literary
men to be the only persons exempt from vanity, and
is it to be a sin in them to covet honour ?
And now, with regard to the charge against
myself of fostering baneful prejudices against our
calling—to which Ino more plead guilty than 1
should think Fielding would have done if he had
been accused of a design to bring the Church into
contempt by describing Parson Trulliber—permit me
to say, that before you deliver sentence it would be
as well if you had waited to hear the whole of the
argument. Who knows what is coming in the future
numbers of the work which has incurred your dis-
pleasure and the Examiner's, and whether you, in
accusing me of prejudice, and the Examiner (alas!)
of swindling and flattering the public, have not been
premature ? Time and the hour may solve this
mystery, for which the candid reader is referred "to
cu. next."
That I have a prejudice against running into debt,
and drunkenness, and disorderly life, and against
quackery and falsehood in my profession, I own ; and
that I like to have a laugh at those pretenders in it
who write confidential news about fashion and poli-
tics for provincial gebemouches; but I am not aware
of feeling any malice in describing this weakness, or
of doing anything wrong in exposing the former
vices. Have they never existed amongst literary
men ? Have their talents never been urged as a plea
for improvidence, and their very faults adduced as a
consequence of their genius ? The only moral that
I, as a writer, wished to hint in the descriptions
against which you protest, was, that it was the duty
of a literary man, as well as any other, to practise
regularity and sobriety, to love his family and to
pay his tradesmen. Nor is the picture I have
drawn " a caricature which I condescend to,"
any more than it is a wilful and insidious design on
my part to flatter " the nonliterary class." If
it be a caricature, it is the result of a natural
perversity of vision, not of an artful desire to mis-
lead ; but my attempt was to tell the truth, and I
meant to tell it not unkindly. I have seen the book-
seller whom Bludyer robbed of his books : I have
carried money, and from a noble brother man-of-
letters, to some one not unlike Shandon in prison, and
have watched the beautiful devotion Of his wife in b
W
that dreary place. -hy are these things not to e,
described, it they illustrate, as they appear to
goode t
and
do, that strange and awful struggle a
wrong which takes place in our
t
hearts and
:noral ill, or in the
world ? It may be that I work-out my
it may he possibly that the critic of the Examiner
fails in apprehension. kly efforts as an artist come
perfectly within his province as a censor ; but when
Mr. Examiner says of a
gentleman that he is " stoop-
ing to flatter a public prejudice," which public pre-
judice does not exist, I submit that he makes a charge
which is as absurd as itis unjust; and am thankful
that it repels itself.
And, instead of accusing the public of / ersecuting
and disparaging us as a class, it seems to me that
men of letters had bent silently assume that they
are as good as any other gentlemen ; nor raise
piteous controversies upon a question which all
people of sense must take to be settled. If I sit at
your table, I suppose that I am my neighbour's
equal, as that he is mine. If I begin straightway
with a protest of " Sir, I am a literary man, but I
would have you to know I am as good as you,"

which of us is it that questions the dignity of the
literary profession—my neighbour who would like
to eat his soup in quiet, or the man cf letters who
commences the argument ? And I hope that a
comic writer, because he describes one author as
improvident, and another as a parasite, may not
only be guiltless of a desire to vilify his profession,
but may really have its honour at heart. If there
are no spendthrifts or parasites among us, the satire
becomes unjust; but if such exist, or have existed,
they are as good subjects for comedy as men cf
other callings. I never heard that the Bar felt itself
aggrieved because Punch chose to describe Mr.
Dunup's notorious state of insolvency, or that the
picture of Stiggins, in " Pickwick," was intended as
aninsult to all Dissenters ; or that all the attorneys
in the empire were indignant at the famous history of
the firm of " Quirk, Gammon, and Snap ;" are we to
be passed over because we are faultless, or because
we cannot afford to be laughed at? And if every
character in. a story is to represent a class, not an ie.
dividual—it every bad figure is to have its obliged
contrast of a good one, and a balance of vice and
virtue is io be struck— novels, I think, would b: come
impossible, as they wouli be intolerably atui-id and
unsatural ; and there would Le a lamentable end of
writers and readers of such.compositions.—Belieie
me, :7;ir, to be your vry faithful servant,
.Reform Club, Jen. 8. 11'. A.T. MACHERAY.

SPORTING INTELLItiENUIt.
BETTING AT MANCHESTER—FRIDAY.
Very liu'e businet.s 011 racing or sleeploebasing, op ti
grand billiard match. which Rot erta won.
METROPOLITAN HANDICAP.-300 to 12 agst 131ac1C
Eagle (f).
CHESTER CUP.—Not a Lo, laid. Offers to take 35 t
1 about Peep-o'-day Bly, and 40 to 1 about Lady
Evelyn
DERRY.-500 to 5 agat Black Susan colt, and 500 to 5
agst C:ossbow.

STATE OF THE STREETS AT
THE EAST END.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Six,—Perhaps you would favour the inhabitants at
this part of the "modern Babel by calling the atten-
tion of the proper authorities to' the disgracefully dirty
condition in which the streets are allowed to remain
for days together after rain or a thaw. The majority
of the streets here are generally in a most filthy state,
It would, however, occupy too much of your valuable
space to enumerate such streets; suffice it, then, to
say that the principal thoroughfare from the Mile•
end-road to the Commercial-road during the season
mentioned is absolutely shoe-deep in mud ; and I
can assure you, Mr. Editor, the ladies in this part
are not a little inconvenienced and annoyed thereby.
The complaints on the subject are loud and numerous,
but the cause still exists. The opinions as to whose
duty it is to cleanse the streets are various. Some
say the Commercial-road trustees are to blame, others
the surveyors, and a third clays that toe parochial
authorities should do it. If the scavengers are inter-
rogated on the matter, their reply is,That it comes not
within their contract. It is easy enough to believe
this, inasmuch as when the authorities condescend
to employ a few road-scrapers or sweepers, the mud
and dirt are swept on one side of the street, where it
remains for a length of time before being taken away.
Sir, lam convinced that nothing short of the
power of the press will ever awake the slumbering
authorities here to a sense of duty, and therefore I
hope you will kindly find room in your paper for the
insertion of this brief note.—l am, Sir, Ja: .1
Stepney, Jan. 9, 1850. AN OBSERVER.

ELIZA CHESTNEY.—It gives us great pleasure to
be enabled to state that this intrepid )(rung woman, who
is now residing at Wymondham, where she is carrying
on the business of a milliner and eressrnaker, is now so
tar recovered as to be able to walk up and down stairs,
without the assistance of either a crutch or stick. It
must be gratifying to those who have taken such deep
interest in this young woman, to learn that the poor
sufferer is at length restored to the use of her limbs.--s
Norfolk News.
Tile FISTULA INFlRMAZT.—Yesterday a deputes.
tion from the great charity of the Fistula Infirmary, in
Charterhouse-square, consisting of Mr. Masterman.
M.P., treasurer; the Rev. Dr Vivian, the chairman of
the committee; Mr. Potter, judge of the Secondaries'
Court; and Mr. Salmon, the surgeon of the establish-
ment, waited on the Lord Mayor upon the affairs of the
charity, and his Lordship fixed the middle of May for
the celebration of the festival, and pledged himself to do
all in his power to carry into full effect the benevolent
objects of the institution.
Sr. MARY, NEWINGTON.—A vestry was held yes.
terday evening in the United National School-room for
several important purpo:es, among which were the con-
sideration of co-operating with the Anti-Cholera and
Dwellings-Improvement Committee of Lambeth, the
question of erecting baths and vvasbhouses, and other
sanitary measures necessary to preserve the public
health, The chairman, Mr. Churchwarden Boyson, read
a requisition which had been signed by upwards of 5U
ratepayers, re vesting the co-operation of the clergy,
churchwardens, and other parochial authorities of St.
Mary, in forming a committee for g, neral sanitary mea-
sures. A long and keen discussion arose on this subject,
in the course of which it was insisted with reference to
baths and washbouses especially, that the parish did not
la quire anything of the kind, aid that the burden of the
poor-rates was already too heavy to p: rmit of such a
proposition being entertained. Mr. Charles Ccchrane
presennd that the establishmz.nt of baths and wash-
houses would be a remunerative undertaking, aid stated
that in two instances where they had been erecttd they
had yielded a lirge profit. Finally, an atm ndn_sitit
ott
the original motion for a committee ear carried, to the
effect that the notice of meetieg re Trired by Act of Par-
liament in such cases should he coral lied with. The
subject of the water supply was thee taken into consi-
deration, and it was resolved unaLimou:ly that the vestry
should co operate with the Parochial Water Supply A.
sociation ou the subject. The proceedings then termis
nated.

THE BRITANNIA-BRIDGE.—We learn from the
Menai that there is at length a complete roadway over
the Straits, the s« cond great tube having been safely
raised to its 100 feet elevation, and forming, by its junc-
tion with the other tubes, a continuous rigid wrought-
iron highway, 18,401 feet long and between 6,000 and
6,000 tons in weight. The workmen are now engaged,
day and night, in completing the junctions and adjust-
ments. The greater portion of the permanent way and
rails for the trains is laid. The grand approaches to the
bridge at either end, where the colossal litais re►t, are
tiniihed, including the continuation of the line of rail
to the stations on each side at Bangor and Llaidair, and
every exertion is being made to have the line complete
by the end of February, for the first trial trains to go
through.

THE LATE CHAPLAIN OF AYLESBURY GAOL.—
JOHN TAWELL'B CONFESSION.—It wills probably, be
within the re collection of our readers that the Rev. Mr.
Cox, the late chaplain of the county gaol at Aylesbury,
was compelled to retire from the chaplaincy in conse-
quence of his refusing to divulge to the magistrates the
nature of the confession of John Tawell (the murderer
of Ebza Hart, at Salt-hill), after repeated motions, to
the effect that he should confide the confession to the,
county magistrates, had been unanimously adopted at
three or four quarter sessions subsequently to Tawell's
execution. At the Epiphany Sessions, just held, Mr.
Cox memorialised the magistrates, praying that an an-
nuity might be granted him until he obtained some cle-
rical preferment, and strongly urging that his " inadver-
tence," as regards his pertinacity in refusing to accede to
the wishes of the county bench, might not have a preju-
dicial effect. The memorial was accompanied by a medi-
cal certificate, setting forth that Mr. Cox's health had been
seriously affected by the nature of the duties connected
with his late appointment. It appeared, from the act of
Parliament relating to the power of the magistrates to
grant pensions to their superanuated officials, that they
could grant an allowance not exceeding two-thirds of
the salary previously enjoyed by the memorialist. A
motion to the effect that the prayer of Mr. Cox should
be taken into consideration was then proposed by Mr.
Barker, and seconded by Dr. Lee, the latter gentleman
observing that, although he did not consider that Mr.
Cox had performed his duty in the case of John Tawell's
confession, he thought the matter ought to be enter-
tained, the memorialist being, in his (Dr. Lee's) opinion.
a modest, learned, and quiet man. The motion having
been strongly opposed by Mr. Carrington (who main-
tained that the real cause of Mr. Cox's compulsory re-
tirement from the chaplaincy was quite different from
that alleged in the memorial, and expressing his astonish-
ment that such a motion as that before the bench should
have been introduced), it was put by the chairman (Sir
T. D. Aubrey, Bart.), and negatived, the only hands held
up in its favour being two—those of the mover and
seconder.
DEATH Op A BROTHER
the pr EDITOR.
M'Cosh, editor and proprietor olnverness
Acl vejan)e
rttsers.
He was about
died here this morning (Wednesday
d3isseyaesaersof ofth
eaimmediate u)s.eof death was
laboured under a
physical weakness and malformation,
of mind a
remarkable • itu,tance
complication
are. The
thedee
amtprleine adteiroend of
his
activity
of energy.
Mr.M`Cosh had only recently established
;newspaper here, but he was long connected with the
ress in Dundee. He was a zealous member of the Free
Church, and at the time of the disruption wrote a pamph-
let on the clergy, entitled " The Chaff and the Wheat."
—lnverness Courier.
Dispatches were sent off last evening from the
Colonial-office for the Governors of the North
Ame-
rican Provinces.
CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic foe
the wzek ended Jan. 6, 1850:—C. and H. Main Line,
1,0151. 2s. Id.; Mold, 661. Bs. lid b 701.
;,steam- oats,
10s. 6d.--Total, 1,152/. Is. 6d.
LONDONDERRY AND ENNISKILLEN RAILWAT.—.
The extension of this line from Strabane to Omagh has
been actually commenced at the Strabane terminus. The
extension from the terminus here to the bridge is pro-
ceeding with great vigour and rapidity.--Londonderry
Journal.

LAW AProtriTMENT..-.-We understand that last
week Mr. James Martin, clerk to the Lord Advocate,
received the appointment of depute clerk of session, in
room of Sir James Wemyss, Bart., lately deceased.—
Edinburgh Courant.

On Ictonday last, as a woman who subsisted by
begging was proceed►ng from Upton to Gloucester, she
was seized with the pains of labour, and delivered of es
male child in the public road. Assistance was pre-
sently procured, and the woman and child were, after
some delay, removed to an inn, but the child died from
want of attention and exposure to the cold.