The Sun.
London, England, 1850-03-14 00:00:00

ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.

RENCH PLAYS.
One of the ear Fliest, and perhaps because 00e of

.s
the earliest one of the freshest,ap of Auber's oPeri/6
.
Le Magon, was produced at this theatre last' evenl"no.S
for the benefit of Mademoiselle Charton. AltPeliis
never before represented in its complete form In the
country, the plot of Le Aragon is familiar to t
English playgoer ; it is neither more nor less than t 13!:
of the Mason of Buda, once so popular at the Adelio".
when under the management of Mathews and YI sD.:
the principal male characters were sustained by f
Sinclair and Mr. T. P. Cooke. The scene
the original opera is laid in the Fallu°„r'g
with
St. Antoine at Paris, and the opera commencesa
the jollifications attendant on the celebration ej
mason's wedding, the said mason having been rewarded
by a young noble for having saved his life, ois
having been thus enabled to marry the sister of tJo
neighbour, a locksmith. Suddenly the mason and
locksmith her;
are both seized and conveyed to t"_
residence of the Turkish Ambassador, vi
they are compelled to rivit to the /tie
of a room and to immure a bands°.-6
young Frenchman, whom the mason recd 18
as his benefactor, and a lovely Greek fellanr
slave, who has been flirting with the rill
French noble. Having completed their theta
they are brought back blind-folded to
11
place from whence they had been taken, and thie
reply to the reproaches of their respective wives
.n'a
mason relates the night's adventure. By comparing
notes with each other, the assembled neighbours coat
elude, that it was to the residence of the Turk that
elude that it was to the residence of the Turd 50d
the mason and his brother had been conveyed, ,
they rush off armed with pickaxes and strove
they find it deserted, and commence pulling it d°wf
in
.time to save the immured captives, who,
being chained to a wall are chained to each other
for life. The music is of a light sparkling character,
and the chorus, while the mason and locksmith are .r
work, in which the time is marked by clinking-of their
hammers, produces a very pleasing effect. Idaclein°,ld
instead o
selle Charton, as Irma, the Greek slave, sung 111
acted charmingly; M. Lac, as the mason, did In,
Justice to the music, and exhibited considerable
humour as an actor. M. Killy Leroy, as the young
nobleman, sung the music allotted to -him with greed
taste and judgment, and M. Chateaufort was most
amusingly quaint as the locksmith, who is the cool
character of the opera : he is a henpecked husband,
rank coward, and a great arguer. Chateaufort revelled
in the part. There is not on any stage at present
any artist who delineates abject fear so ludicrouslydoes Chateaufort. Keeley is very great in this /111's
but even he must yield the palm to Chateaufort. 1"
actor can approach him in a " quake." The °Peril
was preceded by the Perruguiere de .111eudon, ane.,
followed by L'
_Esclave ➢du Camoens. Her Mlies`./h
and Prince Albert honoured the performances wli"
their presence, and we know of no artiste who is
more worthy of the honour implied by a royal visit
on a benefit night than Mademoiselle Charton. The
theatre was crowded by the elite of rank and fashion*

_LONDON WEDNESDAY CONCERTS.
The fourth concert of the second series took place
at Exeter,hall last evening. The performances con;
sisted of an orchestral symphony from the Jupiter 01
Mozart, a selection from John Barnett's exquisite
opera the Mountain Sylph, and a miscellaneous 8"
lection. In the course of the evening Ernst per-
formed a magnificent solo on the violin, and r*
Sims Reeves sang " The Death of Nelson"better
than even he himself has ever sung it before. The
other vocalists were Miss Lucombe, the Misses ,Wil-
liams, and Miss R. Isaacs ; Herr Formes, Mr. Lac"'
and Mr. H. Drayton. The hall was crowed to Wee.

SOUTH AMERICA.
LIVERPOOL, MARCH 13.-The Columbus, Captain
Greene, which sailed from Pernambuco on the 7th of.
February, has arrived off Queenstown, and landed her
dispatches, which came to hand this morning. She
brings advices from Bahia to the 22d, and Rio Janeiro
to the 15th of January, both inclusive.
There is_ not any political intelligence of importince
by this arrival. The province of Pernambuco was to-
lerably quiet.
Our previous accounts by the Swordfish informed us
that yellow fever had broken cut there. The ad-
vices now to hand inform us that the epidemic had been
raging with fearful effect. Many sailors had fallen vic-
tims to its malignity, and some vessels, in consequence"
had been disabled, and others prevented from proceeding
to sea. We also regret to say that the disease had made
its appearance at Bahia, but was not near so terrific as
at Pernambuco.
Our commercial advices by this arrival inform us that
at Pernambuco exchange on London was quoted at 28k.
The principal shipments which had been made in sugar
were in execution of unlimited orders, which bad kept
up prices notwithstanding the rise in the course of ex-
change, and as there were several vessels in port still to
be provided for, prices would, it was expected, be main-
t lined. The prices quoted were whites, first and se-
conds, 255. lid. to 265. sid. per cwt. ; common assort-
ments, 225, 611,:d. to 24e. Od. ; low, 19s. 6id. to 20s. 91d.
Muscovadoes super, 16s. 6d. to 16e. lOid. ; average qua-
!ides, 15s. 71(1.; ordinary, 155. 2id. The stock of white
sugar in bags was large, but consisting principally of the
lower qualities ; fine whites were scarce, and also Mus-
covadoes, and both in good demand. The price of cotton
was well supported, and the daily supply was taken off
on arrival at prices varying from mil. 5.500 to mil. 5.600
per arroba. There was no stock in the market. Hides
were in good demand, and scarce at 3} per lb.
Respecting freights, we may observe that several
charters had taken place at rates ranging from 30s. to
255. for the Channel, to unload at a port in the United
Kingdom, ss. extra fur the Continent between Havre and
Hamburgb, and 20s. to 30s. for the Mediterranean, all
for sugar in bags, and 5 per cent. primage. No sugar in
ballast was offering.
d.
The
ot
prices
sa
oefxcshuagnagre
was
ss
tlhouoskinrepg'ourpt quotedh
t s
2.100, and browns, mil. 1.700 per aroma, or 19s. 7d. to
w te reported-whites,
2 m 8
15s. 11d. per cent. on board as freight. The stock was
1,390 cases.
In freights there was little doing. A Belgian had
been taken up for the Channel, at 375. Gd. per ton for
sugar.
Accounts from Rio inform us that coffee had ad-
vanced, and mil. 6.400 per arroba was asked for superior
sorts; and mil. 6.000 for good. The stock was stated
to be 30,000 bags. Freights were almost nominal; 155.
per ton had been accepted for coffee to Trieste, and at
that low sum no employment was obtainable, and the
vessels in port would almost all leave in ballast.
Exchange on London had advanced to 280. and
28kd.
The export market of Pernambuco was quiet, and
sales progressing slowly and prices steady.

UNIVERSIT I INTELLIGENCE.
OXFORD, MARC" 12.
At a meeting of the Vice-Chancellor, Heads of
Houses, and Proctors, in the delegates'-room, March
11, 1850:---
Whereas it has been represented that several mem-
bers of the University have lately been concerned in
the practice of horse-racing in Port Meadow and
elsewhere, contrary to the express prohibition of the
statutes : All persons are hereby warned that the
penalties enacted by the statute hereunto sub-
joined will be enforced, without mitigation,
against those who :,shall be found, after this
public notice, offending in that manner. And all
members of the University are desired to observe,
that if they are implicated in any manner in such
proceedings, either by subscribing towards them or
being present as spectators, they render themselves
liable to the same penalties as those who take an active
part in the race.
Extract from the Statute, "De reprimendis sump-
tibus non Academicis," tit. XV., sect. 15 :
" Statutum eet,—Quod in posterum nullus Acadensite
alumnus aut principalem aut consorters in cursu equorum
so adhibeat, vel ipse equitando, vel pecuniam collatitiam
ad ea m rem subscriben do, aut alio quocunque modo; neque
equorum cursui . . . adsit, aut ullo modo se immiz-
ceat; sub rcena amotionis ad Academia pro prima vice
per tres menses; pro secunda, per sex menses; pro tertia
ro, in perpetuum."
"F. C, PLUMPTRE, Vice OhaLIC01191."

LITEHATUR.E.
ANTONINA ; or the Fall of . Rome. By W.
Collins 3 Vols.
The author of the " Lila of William Collins," has
here adventured upon a more ambitious undertaking
the son an I biographn of the painter, has, in de-
pieting the scenes attendant on the fall of Rome
evidenced a power of painting with the pen
"inch few contemporary writers have ever
equalled and none have surpassed. Many of
the incidents in " Antouina " terrible, sublime,
and almost impossible though they he, are, by the ma-
teal power of the language which describes them,
ves"ed with an air of positive and appalling reality.
greater contrast could hardly be imagined to the do-
mestic novels cf tbe day than this masterly glimpse of
'nen and manners of a bygone day—a glimpse,
moreover, given at a moment when the races of the
North and the South—the effeminate inhabi-
tants
° f imperial Rome and the hardy
81,,,idiers a the dauntless Alaric were arrayed in death-
stel_l_ antagonism—wham (to quote the opening of the
b L'(),[lo volunme of " Antonina") "an army of bar-
,'"dns had indeed penetrated for conquest and for
In'eeageanc,! to the city of the world ! The achieve-
',apt which the invasion of six hundred years had
4.tnerto attempted in vain was now accomplished,and
il'eemplished by the men whose forefathers had once
Loa a,
bef like hunted beasts to their native fastnesses
°re the legions of Caciar —the Goths were at the
gateslii a Rome." Grandly is the scene described
a ere Alaric stood contemplating the walls of the
reat ,•
utY " the only invader since Hannibal by
th"o4l th,y bad b:ea beheld." Contrasted with
84i'll1Plicity and severity of manners of the Gothic
pleasures
5, the lavish magnificence and intemperate
asures of the luxurious Romans are detailed with
very •
skilful ef4.eet. The gentle, childlike Antonina,
very skilful eliece. The gentle, childiike Antonina,
lally out of
place among her dissolute countryman
Llid the savage inva lers, glides through the streets of
of another
and th 6 camps of the Goths, like an inhabitant
another and a purer world, her momentous life
ery
aariina admirably as a connecting link between the
as "5 passages revealed in these volumes,
hateillustrative of the fall of Rome. We
1,. marked several paragraphs for extract
h want of space compels us to defer. We shall
le:" take the opportunity of noticing, at greater
tliarh, this, Mr. Collins's first essay in historical m-
in ce ; in the meantime, we congratulate him on his
toaclint.oB,ucces,ful achievnaent, and commend. "
An-
all Who
Wore especially to the attention of
tin,-"° can appreciate and enjoy a masterly delinea-
ex; °I great events and colossal characters—aach, for
InPle, as the fiendish Goisvintha, almost magnifi-
veeeont in the fierce pertinacity of her horrible thirst for
la‘age'neP, as she stands over the timid, graceful,
ing Antonina.

-p„ THE CREAM OF TILE POETS.
4,, -neY a little, yellow, pocket volume, containing
n
hire Poems, some of the masterpieces in our litera-
vetz printed in excellent type, with admirable com-
o4 ne3s, with scrupulous accuracy—and its price
Such is the charming book before us, a
G4Jewel of cheapness—the cream of the writings
el,i:raY, Burns, Crabbe, Kirke White, Cowper,
frii„Qalith, and Coleridge ! One of each of their
Ivh,.,tecis compositions has been selected, and the
nto" of those seven poetic stars grouped together
balethe
constellation like the Pleiades , Of Burns,,, we
'EI the "Cotter's Saturday Night ; ' of Gray, the
Elegy in a Country Churchyard:" of Crabbe, the
1'1"P ;'' of Cowper, " Conversation ;" of Kirke
ttlt bite'
" Clifton Grove ;" of Goldsmith, the "De-
ke;'„ ;" and of Coleridge, the "Ancient
to „,t-",".." Out of these three, if we were required
tli—'rie our choice we should unquestionably select
CoElegy," of Gray, the " Deserted Village," of
la" smith,t and the Ancient Mariner," of Coleridge
"Elegy" as the most perfect, the "Deserted
ti~eap," as the most beautiful, and the "Ancient Ma-
ple r the most extraordinary : the first a master-
koste of metrical composition the second one of the
gild delightful of our national favourites, the third a
1441 and startling effusion of genius conceived in the
140: enthralling mood as "Frankenstein," only
81‘ ,-11,,ed as " Frankenstein" is not adorned, by all the
h naB,,of poetic art. After what we have observed it
the 'euless to commend this exquisite little volume to
Perusal of the multitude.

COURT CIRCULAR.
vi4itos Serene Highness Prince Frederick of Hesse
, Queen yesterday at Buckingham Palace.
4ora Royal Highness Prince Albert rode cut on
Ifeuttek, attended by Colonel Bouverie, yesterday.
lON Majesty and Prince Albert honoured the per-
anee of the French Plays with their presence
eYesterday evening. The royal suite consisted of the
b;ountess Jocelyn, Hon. Flora Macdonald, Lord
Tieir4l, Lord Alfred Paget, and Colonel Bouverie.
eir Royal Highnesses the Prince of \Vales,
their e Alfred, the Princess Royal, the Princess Alice,
rincen Helena, and the _Princess Louisa, took
of accustomed exercise yesterday in the gardens
rockingham Palace.
N4° Queen's private band attended in Buckingham
ke iaeeee.°n Tuesday evening, and played the following
Over! •
tvitcLure, " La Fiancée du Brigand"
8i " Schweitzer Familie" .
111.1141iltette and Trio Sinfonia, N 0.4.... Beethoven.
Cabinet Council was held yesterday, in the
lo„lfeflg,°-office. It was attended by Lord John Rus-
q e Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Minto,
""114 Georges Grey, Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey,
ancellor of the Exchequer, the Earl of Carlisle,
to fight Hon. H. Labouchere, the Marquis of Clan-
41e,' '-'et the Right Hon. Fox Maule, and other
-tiste
trs.
he Lord Chancellor was absent, being still indis-
otVi but the Noble and Learned Lord was much
.4 Yesterday.
Te Council sat two hours.
ht American Minister had an interview with Earl
Ai te „ l
Yesterday at the Colonial-office. Mr. James
The
also an interview with his Lordship yesterday.
tc)„, e Committee on the Animal Kingdom of the
tTlinission for the Exhibition of 1851 met yesterday
tept 4 new Palace of Westminster. There were pre-
oth Lord Stanley, Professor Owen,
.Professor E.
the's, and Professor Hofmann. Mr. Mike attended
Title part of the executive committee.
'olt.e Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat
lioti'r„clay, and heard Rawson's petition for an exten-
hP Noble's patent. The case was adjourned. The
t 4 present were Lord Brougham, the Master of
k4°lls, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall,
the Judge of the High Court of Admiralty.
'ltet"h: Earl and Countess of Lichfield and Lady Hare
"neon arrived at their residence in Stable-yard,
ANu James's, yesterday, from Shugborough.
fr Lord
torl arrived at his residence in the Albany, om
seborough.
!IPA deputation in favour of the Ten Hour' Act," andnd
Sell to the practice cf working by " shifts
kikti"s in factories, that being an evasion of the spirit
4kii`Ptention of the Factories Acts, and highly pre-
te the working people, had an interview
le h Lord John Russell on Tuesday, at his official resi-
!te in Downing-street. The deputation consisted
ther, Earl of Harrowby, Lord John Manners, M.P.;
Ake. Strickland, M.P. ; Mr. Muntz, M.P.; Mr.
)04by, M.P. ; Mr. Brocklehurst, -M.P.; Mr. Ed-
cls) Mr. Bankes, M.P. ; Mr. Busfi_el_d,
41'4, Inglis, M.P. ; Sir J. Walmsley,
; Sir Da Lacy Evans, M.P.; Mr.ro
r.
"ItiPa) MP. ; Mr. W. J. Fox, M.P. •; Rev.n
tot,d4\ett (vicar of Bradford), Mr. John Wood ( rad
Mr. W. Rand (Bradford), Mr. W. Walker
'k,tt(lford), Mr. Thomas Fielden (M inchester), Mr.
Fielden (Todmorden), Mr. P. Grant (Man-
40ter), Messrs. Mills, Pitt, Wardlaw, Kay, Her-
;ves, Unsworth, Balme, and Bottornley. Sir
'4:Re Grey was present with Lord John Russell at
Croy
of the deputation.
`rotil Committee for the vegetable kingdom of the
triission for the Exhibition of 1851 met on Tues.
ht the New Palace of Westminster. There were
'rt,4:llt Mr. P. Pusey, M.P., Sir William Hooker,
Professor Lindley, Professor Fara-
\t'' Professor Solly, and Mr. C. W. Mice. The
ilitllnlittee for manufactures had a meeting yesterday,
iqtleh was attended by the Right Hon. W. E. Glad-
Mr. Apsley Pellatt, Mr. R. Redgrave, Mr. J.
014`1,Erbert, Mr. H. J. Townsend, Mr. Jobson Smith,
Mr. H. Cole. The Committee for machinery
t,lftnlet yesterday—Mr. Scott Russell and Mr.
kiNc'rcl Northcote, the joint secretaries to the Corn-
,sol4, were in attendance.
'l° Finance Committee of the Commission for
,ItiXhibition of 1851, met on Tuesday at the office
Mahe Board of Trade. There were present the Earl
Lord Overstone, the Right Hon. W. E.
rols Roue, Sir Alexander Spearman, Mr. Barry, and
4el Reid, R.E.

... Ries.

OUNDED RUMOUR OF SIR JOUN FRANKLIN
lot 4G PASSED BEURING'S STRAITS.—With reference
Ntl°110)t of Sir John Franklin's expeJition having
N't through Behring's Straits, and which report
from a person on board the ship Blakeley, dated
t ranciso, December 30, we are requested to state
;01 'otters had been received by Messrs. Leftwich and
i+o of the owners of the Blakeley, from the
Nriknder of that vessel, of the same date, viz., De-
V" 30, in which no mention whateter is made of
oumstance; and who, from his accurate habits
:+ierrespondence, Messrs. Leftwich are persuaded
never have allowed such news to have re-
't44 unnoticed if it had come from an authentic
UNITED
EMIGRATION FROM LIVERPOOL TO
tk. UNITED STATES —The tide of emigration seems
It to have set in, for we learn from our Liverpool
ta
Pondent that six vessels for New York alone lay
Mersey on Tuesday awaiting the tide. The ag-
I:1141'e number of their passengers was upwards of 3,000.
kti ,Whie hundreds of other persons are waiting to de-
'l' other ship&

PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS.

(From the the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Comannst4.,
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13.
ATHY, CASTLECOMER.
ILLAND KILKENNY ROAD
B.
Order for Second Reading rea i ; Motion made, and Ques-
tion proposed, " That the Bill be now read a second time :And
Amendment proposed, to leave out the word " now," a
at the end of the Question to add the words " upon this day
six months." Question put, " That the word ' now' stand
part of the question." The ouse divided :
MAJORITY—AYES, 68.
Adair, R. Shafto Gibson, T. M. Pechell, Sir G.
Alcock, Thomas Greenall, G. Pelham:D. A.
Blair, Stephen Greene, John Pigott, Francis
Bouverie, E. P. Greene Thomas Pinney', William
Brother ton, Joseph Grenfell, C. Pascoe Puse, P. 4
Brown, W. Grenfell, Charles W. Reudyieshain, Lord
Burroughes, 11. N. Hardcastle, J, A. Reynolds, John
Carew, W. P. Harris, Captain Rice, E. R.
Chichester, Lord J. IlmA:es, B. Simeon, John
Clive, 11. B. Ilayter, W. G. Smith, It. V.
Cobden, Richard Heald, James Somerville, Sir W.
Colebrooke, Sir T. Henry, Alexander Spooner, Richard
Corry, henry Heywood, James Strickland, Sir G.
Cowan, Charles Heyworth, Lawrence Stuart,. Lord J.
Denison, Edmund Hodges, T. L. Thicknesse, It. A.
Drummond, Henry Hume, J. Thornely, T.
Duckworth Sir J. Lewis, Sir T. Tollernache, John
Duncombe,'o.; Lewis, G. C. Vane, Lord it.
Duncuft, John Meagher, ThomaS Westhead ,J. P.
Egerton, W. T. Maxwell, lion. J. P. Wilson, .Mattliew
Fordyce, ,Sir R. Norreys, Lord
Fordyce, A. 1). Pakington, Sir J. S. TELLERS.
Fertescue. Chichester Palmer, Round French, ell Vesey, Hon. T.
Frewen, C. ii. Patten, J. W.
------ I

MINORITY-NOES, 37•
Ansley, T. C. Gwyn, Rowel Scully,`Francis
Archdall, Captain Herbert, H. A. Staffoird, Augustus
Arundel, Earl of Hildyard, T. IL T. Talbot, J. 11.
Brooke, Lord Kershaw, James Taylor, T. E.
Chatterton, Colonel Kildare, Marquis of Tenlson, K. K.
odrlngtonSir W. Lennox, Lord A. Thompson, Colonel
Dunne, Colonel ldanners, Lord G. Wawn, J.'l'.
Ellice, Edward Miles,;W. Williams, John
Fagan, William Paces„
C. W. Willoughby, Sir 11.
Farnham, E. B. Pilkington, James
Foley, J. H. Power, Nicholas
Fuller, A. E. Repton, G. W. J.
Grace, 0. D. Sadleir, John
Grosvenor, Earl Salwey, Colonel

TELLERS.
Naas, Lord
Sullivan, Michael

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PUBLIC LIBRARIES AND MUt ionS maEUde aMS
Question
BILL.
Order for Second Reading read ; Mond
proposed, " That the Bill be, now read a second t"
ime :"
Amendment proposed, to leave out the word " now,and at
the end of the Question to add That woe
he ords " upon this day
six months :" Question put, the word ' now' stand
part of the Question." The House divided :
AIAJORITY—AYES, 114.
,C. B. Glyn, G. C. Reid, Colonel
Adderley,
Aglionby, 11. A. Greenall, Gilbert Ricardo, J. L.
Anderson, Arthur Greene, Thomas Rice, E. R.
Armstrong, Sir A. Grenfell, C. Pascoe Romilly, Colonel
Colonel
Armstrong, R. B. Grey, Sir G. Salwey,
Bagshaw, John Grosvenor, Lord R. Sandars, George
Baines, M. T. Hall, Sir B. Scholefleld, William
Barnard, E. G. Hardcastle, J. A. Scully, Francis
Bass, M. T. Harris, Richard Seyrser, 11. K.
Bellew, R. M. Basile, Archibald Simeon, John
Birch, Sir T. Headlam, T. E. Slaney,
,S. W. Henry, Alexander Smith, John B.
Blaekall
Blake, M. J. Heywood, James Spearman, 11. J.
Bouverie, E. P. Hume, Joseph Stansfleld, W. It.
Bramston, T. IV. Jackson, William Staunton, Sir G.
Bright, John Jervis, Sir John Strickland, Sir G.
Brocklehurst, ,John Johnstone, Sir J. Stuart, Lord Dudley
Brotherton, J. Kershaw, James Stuart, Lord J.
Brown, W. Labouchere, Henry Sullivan, Michael
Campbell, W. F. • Langston, J. H. Teuison, E. K.
Cavendish, C. C. Lindsay, Colonel Tennent, R. J.
Chaplin, W. J. Lushington, C. 1 hicknesse, R. A.
Childers, J. W. M‘Cullagh, W. T. Thompson, Colonel
Clay, James Mahon, O'Gorman Thornely, Thomas
Clay, Sir W. Martin, ;C. W. Verney, Sir 11.
,J. C. Matheson, Alex. Wall, C. B.
Cobbold
Cobden, It. Matheson, Colonel Wahnsley, Sir J.
Cowan, Charles Melgund, Viscount }Vann, J. T.
DUlle2.ll, George Mitchell, T. A. Westhead, J. P.
Duncuft, John Morris, David Willcox, Brodie
Dundas, Admiral Mtilgrave, Earl Williams, John
Ebrington, Viscount Mare, Colonel Wilson, Matthew
Ellis, John NOrrey6, Lord Wood, W. P.
Elliot, John E. Patten, W. Wrightson, W. B.
Fagan IV. Pechell, Sir G. Wyld, James
Foley, J. 11. Pelham, D. A Wyvill, Marmaduke
Fordyce, A. D. Pilkington, James
Forster, Mathew Pinney, W. TELLERS.
Fortescue, Chichester Power, Nicholas Ewart, William
Fortescue, J. IV. rusey, Philip Hamilton, G. A.
Gibson, Thomas 31. Rawdon, Colonel
------.

MINORITY—NOES, 101.
Ansley, Thomas C. Frewen, C. Il• Master man, John
Arkwright, G. Fuller, A• E• Miles, William
Arundel, Earl of Gaskell J..M• Morgan, 0.
Baring, H. B. Goulburn, Henry 31ullIngs, J• R.
Barrington, Lord Graham, Sir J. Mundy, William
Bennet, Php Granby, Marquis of Muntz, G.F.
13eresford, William Grogan Edward Newdegate, C. N•
Blair, Stephen ,
Gwyn, Rowel Oswald, Alexander
Bowles, Admiral Belford, Sir Henry Parke, C. ~V•
Boyle, Colonel Halsey, T. P. Pakington, Sir J.
Bremridge, Richard Ileaid, James Palmer, Robert
Broadley, 11. Heathcoat, John Palmer, Roundel!
Brockman, E. D. Ileneage, G. 11. Peel, Frederick
Carew, N• P• Ilenley, J• W. Plowden, N• H.
Cayley, Edward S. Herbert, Sidney Portal, Melville
Chatterton, Colonel Hildyard, R• B• Prime, Richard
Clive, 11. B. Hildyard, T. B. Rendlesharn, Lord
Cocks, T. S. Hodgson, W. N. Rumbold, C. E.
Coles, Sir W. Hood, Sir A. Rushout, Captain
Coles, 11. B. Hope, Alexander Russell, F• C•
Deedes, W. Hornby, John Shelburne, Earl of
Denison, Edmund Hotham, Lord Smollett, A.
Dodd, George Howard, P. 11. Sotheron T. 11. S.
Duckworth, Sir J. Hudson, G• Spooner, R.
Duff, George S. Inglis, Sir It. Stafford, Augustus
buncombe, A• Jerrnyn, Earl Stanford• J. F.
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COURT OF ALDERMEN.
On Tuesday a Court was held for the dispatch of
business.
The CHAMBERLAIN informed the Court that he
had received a letter from one of the officials of S.
Thomas's Hospital, requiring that the hospital seal
should without delay be affixed to a document pre-
sented by that institution. Application- had been
made at the last Court of Common Council
on the same subject, it being in the power of either
Court of the Corporation to
perform the ministerial
act of affixing the seal ; but the Coicmmonh is Council
referred the subject to a committee,
sent wh at pre-
sent engaged in investigating its merits.
After some observations from several members of
the court, to the effect that there
upon the part of the Court of Comon Council to
sin assembled, and
cause any unnecessary delay, the queston
poned until the latter shall have ag
the impression appeared to be that the report of the
committee would be favourable to the object of the
governors of the hospital.
The Recorder bad advised the Court of Common
Council, on the application of the governors of the
hospital, to pursue the course they bad adopted, and
the Court of Aldermen as readily acted upon his sug-
gestion, although the letter which had been transmitted
to the Chamberlain contained a threat of mandamus
if any hesitation should take place on the point of
affixing the seal.
THE DEATH OF THE COMMON SERGEANT.
The LORD MAYOR nnounced to the Court the
death of Mr. Mirehouse,a the late Common Sergeant
of the city of London.
Alderman Tnompson said he knew it to be in
complete accordance with the feeling of his brethren
that they should express their condolence
the severe
with the
widow of their deceased friend, upon
loss the Court and the Corporation and the public
had sustained by the demise cf that learned and
excellent person.—(Hear, hear.) It would be in tbeir
recollection that they had had theirehouse advantage
of the
experience and learning of Mr. M
Sergeant for 17 years, and as a pleader for 27 years.
It was not necessary to speak at any
of t lengheth;qua lifica-
t
amongs
those who had k ree. His frank-
nown him so well,
tions be possessed in so eminent a deg
ness and candour were acknowledged by all who
knew him, and it was impossible to be for a mo-
ment associated with him without feeling the force
of such powerful recommendations to e.—
(Hoar, bear.) His death was so sudden that he might
be said to have breathed his last in the performance
of his official duties, for the disease which proved
fatal to him had attacked him first in the Central
Criminal Court, and very little time had been allowed
to him after that intimation. For thirty years
an intimate friendship had subsisted between
Mr, Mirehouse and the person who at
that moment was performing the melancholy
duty of moving a resolution of condolence
to the widow of that most valuable officer of the Cor-
poration ; and it was a source of much satisfaction to
know that she would derive real consolation from the
expression of the affectionate and respectful sympa-
Thom-
shy of the Court .
—(Hear, hear.) Alderman Thom-
son then moved the resolution of condolence, for the
composition of which he was, he said, indebted to
the Recorder.
Sir P. LAURIE. seconded the resolution. It was,
he said, impossible that any man could be more
honourable or more independent than the late Com-
mon Sergeant. Not one syllable had Mr. Mirehouse
ever uttered which held connexion with mental re-
servation. The two Courts of the Corporation in-
curred by the death of their invaluable friend a most
serious loss, which they would long have reason to
deplore.—(Hear, hear.)
Alderman Hooreh said he had had the honour and
gratification of uttering a few words in the Court of
Common Council upon the announcement of the
death of his respected friend, and since that time he
had received from one of the family a communication
II
declaring the great satisfaction they felt at the BIII^
ter in which that Giurt had acted upon the occasion,
by using language so soothing to the feelings of dis-
tress and affection with which they were over
whelmed.—(Hear, hear.) He was convinced that
Mrs. Mirchouse and her family would receive addini-
tional consolation from perusing the resolution
which that Court was about to concur unanimously,
es well as in seeing that she had no small share in the
public sympathy.— (Hear, hear.)
Alderman W. Hue'rea bore testimony to the love
which the people of the place (Wales) in which Mr.
Mirehouse's extensive property lay bore to the de-
ceased, and the enthusiastic manner in which they
evinced their admiration and esteem.
Alderman PAREBROTHER said there was not a
ward of consolation uttered in which he did not
heartily agree. He would most cordially join in any-
thing calculated to heal theso heavy a loss. He, at
the same i
tme was convinced that she bad a resource
nreligion of her own mind which would enable
hthe r
er to perform the duties which were thus increased

upon her by the vffliction with which she was
visited.—(Hear, hear.)
Alderman HUMPIIERY also spoke in terms of high
praise of the deceased Common Sergeant and his
widow, and the resolution was carried unanimously.
The resolution of condolence was then, upon the
motion of Alderman TUOMPSON, seconded by Alder-
man floorEa, ordered to be signed by the Town
Cleric, Tarnitihed, and transmitted forthwith to Mrs.
Mirehouse.
•
Adjourned.

MURDEROUS ATTACK ON A
FAMILY IN FRANCE.
The following details of a murder recently com-
mitted on a family, by name Redaud, appear in the
Courrier de Limoges :—Paulait, a landed proprietor at
Sr. Priest le Betoux, in the canton of Chateupousat,
fired six shots at the Redaud family as they were
returning in a cart from Magnac Laval. Madame
Redaud, the mother, and her eldest son were mor-
tally wounded ; the wife of the latter is severely in-
jured, as also is M. Redaud the younger, recently
retired from the service, and married on the 11th
of
February last ; his wife, who was also in the
coach, received no damage. On the morrow of
his crime, the 3d of March, at six o'clock in
the morning, the murderer executed justice on
himself by blowing his brains out near Lussac les
Eglises, whither he had proceeded after the perpetra-
tion of his crime. Paulait, who is about 34 years of
age, was of a taciturn disposition. He was generally
considered as a well-conducted man. His fortune
consisted of 40,000 f. in landed property, and he had
received some education at the college of Magnac
Laval. He was married, but had successively lost all
his children, to the number of five or six, and
this had given him a desire to quit his native place.
With this intention he sold all his property to MM.
Redaud and Chaurnoneix for a sum of 33,000 f. Ile
soon repented of the bargain, and the sale was can.
celled at the cost of 2,000 f., which were to have been
paid to M. Redaud at a certain fixed period. Pau-
lait soon after refused to pay, and au action was com-
menced, which increased Paulali's liabilities to
5,000 f. The result of this was an excessive degree
of exasperation on the part of the debtor, which for
some time he carefully disguised. Oa the Ist of
March Paulait met with M. Redaud at the fair of
Bellac, and asked him for 50r. as a loan, which he
promised should be returned the next day at St. Sor-
nin. On the 2d of March, at eleven o'clock in the
morning, Paulait was at the inn of the Green Bull,
on the road to Magrac, when he perceived in a
char-à-bane certain persons belonging to the Redaud
family, who were going to the college in that town
to visit the young Redaud at school there. Paulait
asked the innkeeper for writing materials, and, when
he had finished a letter, asked to hole and-knob with
him fcr the last time, no attention being paid to the
expression at the time. He then went home, cast
some bullets and slugs, and ensconced himself at a dis-
tance of two kilometers from the cross-road leading to
Dompierre. Hidden behind a holly-bush, he laid at
his feet two double-barrelled guns and two pistols.
At half-past four o'clock he heard a coach coming up
the hill at a walking pace, and having assured himself
that it contained the Redaud family, when it had
arrived within ten paces of him, he rushed out into
the middle of the road. The first two shots
struck Madame Redaud in the abdomen—she
fell ; the horse stopped, and two more shots were
fired, taking effect on the shoulder and arm of M.
Redaud, the elder. He had strength, however, to
jump down and drag himself to a distance of more
than a kilometer ; his wife alighted from the cart,
threw her arms round the assassin, and entreated him
to spare her life, and she would forgive him his
debt. The wretch threw her off, crying, "It is your
life I want, Madam r and a pistol was directed at her
head. She covered it with her arm, which was pierced
through, and as she was attempting to escape another
ball struck her in the loins. N. Redaud, the younger,
had been wounded in the thigh at the same time
with his mother—his wife alone escaped uninjured
from this fearful slaughter. The assassin fled in the
direction of Lussac and arrived at the village of
Libauderic, at the house of one of his friends. His
disordered features were fearful to look upon. He
asked for a bed, and one was made up for him in an
adjoining barn, there being no room in the house.
The next day, at five o'clock in the morning, the ex-
plosion of a fire-arm was heard, and on running to the
place Paulait was found behind the barn with his
head shattered by a pistol shot. The letter written
at the inn was lying at his feet.
MURDER BY A MANIAC.

The rural and secluded little village of Little Grees-
den, in Cambridgeshire (about eight miles from Cam-
bridge, on the Bedford-road) has just been the scene of
an awful tragedy, in the shape of a matricide by a ma-
niac. In the village resided an old mau named Henry
Carrington, and his wife, and one son, named John.
The old man has been through life a labourer, but
la.ely, by reason of age and infirmity, had been de-
pendent on the [wish. He had five sons, but four out
of them are maintaining themselves, and the fifth (John),
the perpetrator of the outrage, was formerly resident in
Cambridge, where he was assistant to a college shoe-
black, but returned home, on his becoming what the vil-
lagers call wonderful strange." He was in the habit in
the dull season of hawking combs, thread, &c., through
the neighbouring villages, and working in the fields in
the summer.
The following is the account of the affair, as given by
the prisoner himself:—He said that some mouths ago he
had broken a piece out of bis father's spade, while dig-
ging roots in the poor allotments, and his father had
been wrath about it ever since. When he went home on
Tuesday evening, about six o'clock, he sat down to get
his tea, and his father entered with the spade and talked
" wonderful coarse" to him about breaking it. He of-
fered his father sixpence as remuneration, but ho would
not take it, and would have struck him with it if he had
not have taken it from him. On seizing the spade, he
" knocked the old man down with it, and his mother
coming in to save his father he cut her down also."
The mother was found stretched lifeless on the floor
of the cottage, and the old man in a state that precludes
all hope of his recovery.
The above statement having teen corroborated by
witnesses at the inquest held en the body of the prisoner s

mother,
The jury returned a verdict of " Wilfal murder"
Against John Carrington, who was conveyed to the county
gaol to await his trial.
The depositions of the injured man will be taken as
soon as his state of health will allow, so that in case of
his death it may be used at the trial of the prisoner, who
evinced no emotion :on being made acquainted with the
verdict of the jury.

AN ARTFUL IMPOSTOR.
On Thursday last the attention of a number of per-
sons was attracted by a man who had fallen, appa-
rently in a fit, on the Osmaston-road. On returning to
consciousness, the man appeared distressed at being
surrounded by so many people, and informed Mr.
Webster (the governor of the workhouse, who was
present), that if he would take him to a private room
he would make known to him his name end cir-
cumstances. The case seemed to be so distress-
ing that the sympathy of Mr. Webster was excited,
and he had the man conveyed to the porter's
lodge, where every attention was shown him. He
then stated that his name was William Cleveland, and
that he was a master builder at Whitby, in York-
shire. He said he had been walking day and night
since Sunday, was in great distress of mind, and
had not a farthing in his pocket to purchase an ounce
of sustenance or to get back to his home. Ha
further stated that he had lost his wife, and having
no children he intended to adopt a nephew, who,
however, eloped with a man's wife last July, and
was the cause of all bis misery. When he discovered
tha conduct of his " dear nephew," be made up
his mind to follow him, in the hope that he might
succeed in reclaiming him from his evil courses, and
restore him to his proper position as a respectable
member of society. When he left home in search o
his nephew he took with him 1801., a gold watch,f
and the necessary supply of clothing. He followed
the unhappy couple to Americr, Egypt, and we
don't know how many other countries, frequently
being close upon the heels of the fugitives, who, how-
ever, contrived to elude his grasp. At length, broken
down in health, spirits and pocket, he retu
to England, was obliged to sell his watch and nearly
the whole of his linen and other apparel, and was
now wending his way homewards, penniless and
'
heartbroken. Big drops rolled.down his pallid cheeks
as he recounted his long catalogue of woes, and
the heart of his hearer yearned with compassion.
If he could but get home,—oh, he would give
pounds for shillings to any good Samaritan
who would thus heal his bleeding heart and
send him to his cherished birthplace. At this junc-
ture a gentleman from Belper happened to call upon
Mr. Webster, and on hearing the particulars we have
related, said it so happened that two gentlemen from
Whitby were then on a visit at his house, and that if
the unfortunate man would accompany him to Belper,
and his statement should prove correct, he would sup-
ply him with the =jarsnec amount of cash to
but enable himd
to reach Whitby: ppeared grateful,
himself from going to Belper that evening on the
ground of his being very ill and requiring a night's
rest. If he could obtain the means of remaining in
Daby all nigbt he would proceed to Belper on the
following morning. It was then arranged that he
should sleep at the Nag's Head, and proceed to Bel
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and start him by train. Again
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the reply. " Good gracious ! Why lam a member a
of the Whitby board of guardians ; what
laugh it will occasion my colleagues when they find