The Sun.
London, England, 1850-01-07 00:00:00

IN RE RUGHESDON AND MACKAY.

Mr. Rogers appeared on behalf of Mr. William
Kirkman, the trade assignee under this fiat, to obtain
his removal from that office. Mr. Kirkman's wish to
retire was alleged to be owing to the other assignees
and creditors having instituted legal proceedings
against Messrs. Henderson far the recovery of certain
property which it was alleged belonged to the bank-
rupt's estate.
Mr. ROXBURGH opposed the application. Mr. Kirk.
man, he alleged, had been acting throughout as the
friend of Messrs. Henderson, and that the effect of
his removal would be prejudicial to the bankrupt's
estate, by releasing him from the liabilities conse-
quent upon his position.
His HONOUR said he would look into the authori-
ties before he gave his decision.
Mr. Whitmore, the official assignee, informed the
Courtthat the only assets in hand were about 4,0001.
Messrs. Henderson had become possessed of nearly
the whole of the bankrupt's other property. Be was
persuaded that if his Honour should accede to Mr.
Kirktnan's request, the result would be to leave the
creditors almost entirely in the power of Messrs.
Henderson.
His HONOUR said he would give his decision on an
early day.

INSOL VENT DEBTORS' COURT,,lein. 5.
IN RE MAGNIER.

This insolvent, a clerk in the Post•uthce. was op-
posed by three creditors. Re had petitioned under
the Protection Act in April last, and a quarterly sum
out of his salary was set aside for his creditors. He
got involved in a short time on an accommodation
bill, and now applicd under the other jurisdiction of
insolvency, making his second appearance within a
few months.

After a long examination, the insolvent read a
statement in extenuation.
Mr. Commissioner PHILLIPS addressed him on his
conduct, especially with reference to a young woman
•froth whom he had obtained Cl. It was high time
that he and all others should know, that the Commis-
sioners had come to the united determination to deal
with persons who accepted accommodation bills in a
summary manner. In future such debts would be
held to have been incurred without reasonable or pro-
bable expectations of payment. His Honour adjudged
the insolvent to an imprisonment of four months,
under the discretionary clause.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
GUILDHALL.

Daniel Blackmore, aged 60, formerly boot-maker
to the City police, was brought up for final exami-
nation, charged with stabbing Henry Alexander
Mattham, City police•constable. Prosecutor having
on the 9th December taken into custody prisoner's
wife for creating a disturbance, when intoxicated, at
a coffee-stall in the Old Bailey, the prisoner had ex-
pressed an intention to be revenged on the prosecutor,
and meeting him on his beat in the Old Bailey on the
night of Sunday, the 23d December, stabbed him in
the abdomen, just above the navel, inflicting a wound
two inches deep and seven-eighths of an inch wide.
The knife with which the wound was inflicted w, as
afterwards picked up in the Old Bailey, and pro-
duced in court, showing that it was a very sharp and
formidable weapon.
Henry Alexander Mattham, the prosecutor, who
appeared very weak, and was accommodated with a
seat, deposed to prisoner meeting him on the night in
question, and to having interrogated him with respect
to his wife's incarceration, and in reply having said
" take that, you -," at the same time stabbing him.
The prisoner, on being asked if he had any questions
to put to the respective witnesses, replied with the
greatest indifference, " No, sir."
On the production of the prosecutor's clothes, which
were saturated with blood, it was shown that the knife
had struck one of the buttons on the prosecutor's great
coat, which it had severed, and thereby weakened the
blow.

The prisoner, who repeated his previous declaration
that he was too much intoxicated at the time to recol-
lect what took place, was eventually fully committed
to Newgate for trial.
James Osborne, of 12, Tyton-street, New Kent-
road, and Joseph Pointer, of 5, St. Andrew's-road,
New Kent-road, were brought up for final examina-
tion, charged with intent to rob a Government
pensioner under the following circumstances :—lt
appeared from the evidence that on Wednesday
last, the prosecutor, a Mr. E. Askell, of 20,
Henry street, Hampstead road, stonemason and
pensioner, from Devonport dockyard, went to receive
his pension ; after which, on his return home from
the Navy-office, while passing up St. Martin's-
lane, a pair of spectacles were dropped at his feet,
and a 'man picked them up and said to him, " You
have dropped something.' The prisoner Osborne in-
stantly said they were his, and the prosecutor accord-
ingly handed them to him. The former called him
an honest fellow, and insisted upon treating him.
They went to various public-houses, and kept it up
from one o'clock in the afternoon until seven o'clock
in the evening, when Pewter joined them, and than
they had more drink, until he become insensible.
A cab was called, and at first the prisoners directed
the driver to go to the Hampstead-road, but shortly
after they told him to turn round and drive to the
Surrey Theatre. The cabman looked into the vehicle,
and, seeing the prosecutor insensible while the pri-
soners were perfectly sober, began to suspect that
they intended to rob the man, and, acting on that sus-
picion, he drove them along until ha met two police-
men on Blackfriars.bridge, whom he enlightened on
the subject, and they all proceeded to the station-
house, the officers accompanying them thither, walking
on each side of the cab. It was clearly shown that
the prisoners were well known as what are termed
" magsmen," and that they were the associates of
thieves.

Alderman SIDNEY said he had no doubt of what
their intention was, had it not been for the upright
conduct of the cabman, Charles Butler. He should,
therefore, commit them to hard labour for three
months.
The ALDERMAN afterwards told the cabman that
his conduct was highly creditable, and ordered 103.
to be given to him as a reward.
Alderman WILSON, who was also sitting, told the
prosecutor, he ought also to make a present to Butler,
as he had been the means of saving all his money for
him.

The prosecutor was understood to agree with the
alderman in the proposition.
CLERKENWELL.

A very showily-dressed female, named Williams,
was put at the bar for re-examination, charged with
robbing Mr. Arnoldson, described as a commercial
traveller, in Bride place, Liverpool-road, of a gold
watch, with a guard chain, his purse containing be-
tween twenty and thirty sovereigns, and nearly the
whole of the wearing apparel he had with him when
he became enamoured with her.

It appeared that the prosecutor met with the
prisoner, who induced him to treat her with
brandy and water. He was seen with her by
two or three policemen, who cautioned him
as to the dangerous character of his companion,
but he despised their advice and accompanied
her home. Here he undressed, leaving the prisoner
to mix him a little more grog. She did so, and from
circumstances that have since transpired, it would
seem evident that she added thereto some deleterious
stuff, as he immediately afterwards became insensible.
On coming to himself he missed not only the pri-
soner but the whole of the property he had with him
when he first saw her, even to his wearing apparel.
His first step was to obtain wherewithal to clothe his
nakedness, after which he made his misfortune
known to policeman Coll ins,a detective dicer of the N
diiision, who apprehended her after a search of seven
hours.

The prisoner, who laughed heartily, was remanded.
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LAMB ETU.

Francis Aguila, alias Frederick Phillips, an ex-
policeman, was placed at the bar, before the lion. G.
C. Norton, on a charge of feloniously intermarrying
with Martha Mary Clare, his wife Mary being living
at the time.

From the testimony of Sergeant Quinnear, P 1, it
appeared that, on the 3d of November, 1837, the
prisoner, who was at the time a constable belonging
to the K division of police, was married at the parish
church of St. George's-in the-East to Mary Bridger,
and in the same month he was discharged from the
police force. On the sth of February, 1838, the
prisoner was apprehended on the charge of obtaining
a twelfth-cake, of the value of 31., from Mr. Miner, a
pastrycook, in Cheapside, and for this offence he was
tried, convicted, and sentenced to two years' im-
prisonment.
The prisoner, interrupting the officer, said, the
Marquis of Normanby, who was then Home Secre-
tary, had sent him his discharge at the end or ten
months.
Quinnear, in continuation, said that, on the llth
of July, 1848, prisoner was married a second time at
Whitechapel Church, in the name of Frederick
Phillips, to Martha Mary Clare, and in six weeks
after he deserted the young woman, having first ob-
tained from her a Si. note a'ad all the cash she had.
Soon after he joined a gang of swindlers, and in
October last was committed to take his trial at the
Surrey Sessions on a charge of obtaining two coats
by false representations. On the 31 of December he
was put on his trial on one of the charges, and having
been acquitted on it, he traversed the second offence
to the present session. On Thursday last he was
tried and acquitted on the second, but on leaving the
court was given into custody on the present charge.
In reply to a question from Mr. NORTON the ser-
geant said that the second wife, and her father, who
had been present at the marriage, were in attendance,
but he had not been able to find out the witnesses to
the first marriage; their names were Charles and
Mary Pilcher; and he, Quinnear, had to request a
remand, to give him time to produce them.
The prisoner, who offered nothing in his defence,
was remanded for a week.

RELEASE OF VERNON, THE CHARTIST.—OH Friday
morning a communication was received by Lieutenant
Tracy, the Governor of the House of Correction, Tothill-
fields' from the Home-office, intimating that her Ma-
jesty had been pleased to extend her pardon to Vernon,
the Chartist leader, who, it will be remembered, was con-
victed in June, 1848, with Ernest Jones, Fussell, and
others, of sedition, and sentenced by Chief Justice Wilde
to two years' imprisonment, wi h other penalties; and,
at the same time, the Governor received the Secretary of
State's order for his immediate liberation, which, of
course, was obeyed. During his incarceration Vernon's
Conduct received the warm approval of the authorities,
and it is understood that the sentences on other Chartist
prisoners will be mitigated.
APPOINTMENTS.—Thomas Horne, E•q., Attorney-
General at Van Diemen's Land, is promoted to be
Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court in that colony,
vacant by the removal of Mr. Montague ; Valentine
Fleming, Esq., Solicitor-General, succeeds Mr. Horne
Iv= Attorney- General; A. C. Stoner, Esq., is appointed
Solicitor General in the room of Mr. Fleming; Francis
Smith, E.g., is appointed Crown Solicitor for Van
Diemen's Land; Sidney Stephen, Esq., is appointed
Judge of the Supreme Court at (Atop, New Z-aland;
IL T. Jarvis, Esq., is appointed Superintendent of Con-
victs at Bermuda; Algernon Montague, Eqq., is ap-
pointed Stipendiary Magistrate at the Falkland Islands;
S. Frazer, Esq., is appointed a Stipendiary Magistrate in
British Guiana.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
TIMES.--We are inc Listed , to Mr. Bright for a
, very gre plessure and a still greater disaipointnient
in the perusal of his spsesh to his Irish constituents. I
The circumstance were such as taxed his powers to
the utmost. Besides the intrinsic gravity of the sub-
ject, it has been for ages the Gordian knot of British
statesmanship. Mr. Bright has just returned from
the magic soil which dooms its inhabitants to an
endless circle of miserable errors, and with whose
rnys'erioue influence its rulers and visitors are also
affected. His heart still throbbed with the horrors
he had witnessed, when he spoke from its fullness at
a meeting of the Society for Financial Reform.
What he said on that occasion, however, was of a
nature to provoke rather thin satisfy curiosity,
and the result was, that while we, on our part,
challenged Mr. Bight to propose some positive,
practical, and sufficient measures for Ireland, the Irish
residents in Manchester and Salford, who amount al -
together to 60,000 or 80,000, were equally anxious to
:ear him out on so absorbing a theme. Thus stimu-
lated and primed, piqued and invited, Mr. Bright did
iris very best on Thursday evening, and we have
seldom read an address which sustained its iateresr.
so well and so long. Yet we must add, and we add
it with sorrow, Mr. Right leaves the subject very
much where he found it. No sober judgment can
assign a higher character to the speech than that of
whichf t the e has
.0 O inhabitants
eloquent and clever electioneering harangue. Tile
speaker, as too often happens on that stage, is lost in
his audience. He sinks into the obedient mouthpiece
0 affordedoo them a
of the 80,000 men who remember the country they
lhave
toinel, avideftbewttielor tfohragnetthtahtatof
of Manchester and Salford, nearly all, like themselves,
are exiles, or the descendants of exiles, from over-
stocked agricultural districts. In fact, it is the post
of O'Connell which Mr. Bright here assumes. Lest
we should overlook his new character, he writes it
himself. " I can never lose hope of a country," he
says, " which numbers amongst its sons such men as
Grattan and O'Connell. I will never despair of a
people that have known how to admire their genius
and to venerate their patriotism." What is this but
an attempt to ascend the vacant throne of a dema
gogue who conducted Ireland to famine and rebellion,
and to a tenfold aggravation of all her social ills ?
The measures proposed by Mr. Bright, in reply to
our challenge, are very soon stated. They are, the
restriction of entails to lives in being, and the conse-
quent diminution of life interests; the equal division
of property among the children of those who die in-
testate; a registry of property, with other arrange-
ments for its cheap and easy transfer ; an ad valorem
duty on settlements; the greatest possible multiplica-
tion of freeholders; compensation to all existing
tenants for any improvements they may henceforth
make in their holdings ; the admission of all rate-
payers to the franchise ; a larger share in the Imperial
representation; a fairer distribution of the Irish con-
stituency ; and the abolition of the Established Church.
We are not aware of having omitted anything from the
list, yet neither does it present any startling novelty in
its details, nor does it show unusual judgment in the
:election. Had we been asked to say what Mr.
Bright was likely to propose, we think we could have
found him a catalogue of grievances very similar to
the above, and perhaps we might thereby have saved
him his visit to Ireland. All these propositions have
been so often discussed that is scarcely necessary to
re-open the controversy on their merits till they
come before the nation in a more tangible form. So
far as regards the emancipation of property, the Le-
gislature has already taken a very great step. Under
the Encumbered Estates Act so large a mass of pro ,
perty will soon be freed from its encumbrances, di-
vided, and thrown on the market, that land is in some
danger of being unduly depreciated. Compared
with this sharp and decisive remedy, Mr.
Bright's own measures promise but a tardy
relief, excepting only one which would, in our
humble opinion, amount to the immediate con-
fiscation of every acre in Ireland. We mean his
plan of tenant-right. Taking the Irish as they are
—their want of a conscience in dealing with land-
lords, who, as Mr. Bright tells them, are their enemies
and oppressors—their imaginary arithmetic, their
habit of agrarian combination, their invincible liti-
giousness, and their inexhaustible ingenuity—we
entertain no doubt that every tenant would set up
such claims as would soon oust the landlord from all
interest in his freehold. We expressed this opinion
, long ago on the Bill Lord Lincoln brought before
Parliament, and unless Mr. Bright can produce a
very different sort of measure, our remarks on that
' occasion apply to the brief outline in the speech now
before us. Perhaps it is not very necessary to be ever-
lastingly explaining to the Irish how it comes to pass
that they lie at the bottom of European society.
The subject should not be very palatable either to
' the lecturer or to the pupil. When, however, an
• Englishman of no common ability, and the repre-
sentative of our largest purely manufacturing consti-
' tuency, tells the Irish that all their misery and
degradation arise from one cause, and one cause only,
viz., British oppression, it is time to throw in a word
or two just to save the Irishman from a delusion as
hurtful to himself as it is injurious to us. The
lamentable result which Mr. Bright refers to one
cause is owing to a vast concurrence of causes. The
' unmixed Celtic origin of the people, their excitable
and imaginative temperament, their religion, their
remoteness from the centres of civiliz ition, their not
having passed through the ordeal and discipline of
the regular feudal system, the natural fertility of a
soil which yields food without tillage, the indulgence
of a climate which allows huts to do the duty
of houses, and turf to answer the purposes of
fuel, the discovery of the potato, and the com-
parative want of minerals—these and other causes
must be added to a cause which confessedly has'
occupied a very high place in the authorship of
Irish misfortune—viz., the neighbourhood and do-
mination of a mixed, an energetic, a calculating, and
a political race, that which is commonly called
the Anglo Saxon, but which does in fact combine the
active elements of all the most dominant European
families. Ever since Ireland, then in a state of utter
anarchy, was annexed to the English crown, it
brought a continuous succession of difficulties to our
statesmen, who, often with the best intentions, backed
, by the greatest abilities, never attained anything but
, a superficial and short-lived success. The necessities
ef Government compelled them to adopt rough
summary measures, confiscations, and severe coercive
laws, end although it is very easy fur gentlemen in
the middle of the 19th century to criticize the conduct
of soldiers and statesman in the 16th, 17th, or 18th,
or even now, at the beginning of the 19th, it is still
possible that the men of those times did the only thing
, possible, rough as it was. The difficulty certainly is
rather older than Mr. Bright would make it. " To
' tell the literal fact with regard to Ireland,"
, he says, " the soil of that country has
been, for two or three centuries past, in the
, possession of the .enemy. The present possessors of
the land are the successors of those who were the
possessors of it through conquest and through confis-
cation ; and the laws of this country—of the Imperial
Legislature, and of your Legislature, when it was
, under the power or the corruption of ours—the laws
which have prevailed in Ireland from that time to
, this have made it impossible for the Irish people to
, become possessors of the soil of their own country.
In fact it is in the possession of those who have neces
sarily been regarded—if I may quote the very not°-
, rious expression of a very notorious individual—' as
, alien in bloodein language, and in religion.'" Three
centuries ago Spenser described the condition of
Ireland at very great length and from actual experi-
ence; and his description applies to the letter to the
present der, excepting that, out of the mass of indi-
genous barbarism, which has continued nearly un-
changed from 1550 to 1850, there has meanwhile
risen up, under the auspices of British proprietors
and settlers, here and there, an Oasis of
indus-
try and civilization. That such a people, white
it derived some benefits, should also suffer some
evils from the contiguity and connexion of a more
civilized race, is, unfortunately, in a too close accord-
: ante with a thousand examples to be thought an im-
probable charge. Alternately corrupted and repressed
by British faction, and ever hoping to gain something
by our intestine divisions, it was always thrusting it-
. self into scrapes from which it could not fail to come
, off the worst. A great deal may be done slowly
and gradually, by the application, not exactly of Mr,
Bright's measures, but of the general policy indicated
by them—namely, the deliverance of the land from
settlements and mortgages, and the subdivision of the
large estates into portions accessible to industrious and
rising men. At present, as if to show the feebleness
of political contrivances, the most effectual remedy
is that which Providence has applied in the failure of
' the potato and in emigration. For two or three
years nearly a thousand a day have quitted Ireland
for a country which they may now almost call their
own. " In fact," as Mr. Bright says,
the export of Ireland consists now of
Irishmen." Of course there is danger, as there
has already been mischief, in the final alienation and
the accession to another state of so many unfortunate
men disaffected to our rule. Doubtless, if a war
should arise to morrow between this empire and the
States, the Irish citizens would hold up their hands to
a man against us. Yet, on the whole, the two countries
have been drawing closer and closer of late years ; all
sober and reasonable parties in the Union wish us
well, and even the Irish mobocracy will favour us in
the matter of free trade. Nor is it impossible that,
on quiet reflection, after the efforts we have made for
Ireland during the last few years, they may at length
allow the alleged injuries of the 16th and 17th cen-
turies to descend with their authors to the grave.
The true and sufficient reply to the angry memories
which our peacemaker has thought fit to conjure up
is „hat which he himself has suggested. The great
mass of the people of England are, and ever have been
in exactly the same social circumstances as the Irish '
populatio—e- Lancashire is a county of outcasts, an
Adullanee,4 settlement of voluntary exiles, from

every nook and corner of these isle 3, o,lle in
that county. they start all fair: and, if a
man does rm.; p,;..t on it is his cwi fault. "
thi3 neighbourl:r.od," zay.i Bricrl,t,
that Pearly all the manur'icturers were

'' yen find

their fatht7rs, or their grandfathers, in the mks
labourers—they were mechanics aol so forth ;
through the openings which have ati.ien continuidly
in this ilktrict, by their superior skill and industry,
aril by something occasionally which men call good
fortune,' they have emerged from the ranks in which
they found themselves, and have become men t,c
tal, directors of great industry, and great lyeiefuctors
to the population amongst whom they live" Very
true and very well put. It exaetly the same with
this overgrown metropolis, which is a vast mess of
provincialism. Nine-tent-;s or our tradesmen and
merchants are of rural (eight ; so are n'ne
tenths of the men you meet in the streets.
titey any reaso,i to .hat their fathers
grandfathers were younger brothers. anil left ii;iithci.
land ; that they were oppre-sed ilefr
they could not obtain the steue, teoericv 4 te,
farms, and were sent adrift. without c tiip'ns -"
for improvements; that as lahouri-rs hid e".
of becoming farmers, or as farmers they hail
of bec.ening. proprietors; that they paid itiies to a
parson they hated ; or that. they tel not the
exercise of their religion ? N. feey are now all
the better for tilese afferd to smile
at their doineAic traditions to. tribul.ition and wrong.
S 3 we may say of the Irish and their presenZ
troubles. .Forsan et /me neminisse juvabit.
POST.—We are by no ,assns disp.ise.l to regtvd
with favour those systeens of education which teed
to relax the restraints of wholosorw discipline in the
training of youth. "Order." s:1)-' the "iF
Nature's first law ," and it is impossible to iiaplant
too soon in the human mind a !ease Of the -value of
authority. On the general question of punishments it
is not our intention here to enter. It is admitted on
all hands that they should be proportioned to the
offence, and of such a character as not to interfere
with the sense of self-respect on the part of the
sufferer. Our attention has been called to this sub-
ject by certain proceedings in the Caledonian Asylum,
which have recently been the subject of investigation
by the authorities of that noble charity. Our readers
are aware that this institution was founded for the
support, education, and final settlement in life of
destitute children of soldiers, sailors, and marines,
natives of S3otland. The good conduct of an esta-
blishment so valuable to society, and so creditable
to the country, is matter of vast importance
and universal interest. It is not without deep
regret that we perceive, from a mass of corre
spondence now lying before us, that the case to which
we refer demands more ample explanation, or more
satisfactory redress, than it seems hitherto to have
obtained from the governing body. It appears that,
so long ago as the 29th of October last, the Duke of
Buccleuch, as President of the Caledonian Asylum.
announced to Captain Charles Forbes, one of the co-
treasurers, the receipt by his Grace of a complaint
preferred by one of the guardians against Mr. Renton,
the superintendent of the institution. The statement
sets forth that Mr. Renton had caused four girls,
inmates of the establishment, to be stripped and
flogged, and that not on account of any culpable mis•
conduct, but for acts which were the involuntary
result of constitutional debility or bodily exhaustion,
"for which rest and medical treatment were the pro-
per remedies." The Duke of Buccleuch observes—
I nothing of the case beyond the complaint ;
but it is one that must not be allowed to
pass without notice—it is one that requires
a most strict investigation, which I trust
will be instituted without delay, and be strictly and
fairly carried out." The matter was accordingly
brought by Captain Charles Forbes before a meeting
of the directors which had been convened, not for
that purpose, but for the consideration of certain al-
legations made by the superintendent against some of
the officers of the establishment. It is of less moment
to notice that those allegations were found to be
groundless, than that the complaint directed against
the superintendent himself was so far established
that he was ordered to be admonished by one of the
directors. Notwithstanding this decision, a certain
number of the directors, whose opinions appear to
have been in sympathy with Mr. Renton, succeeded
in preventing any record of the affair from appearing
in the minute books, and no resolution was passed
to prevent a recurrence of the proceedings which
had thus been condemned. In short, the investi-
gation, if, indeed, the proceeding can fairly be so
designated, was not conducted in that spirit of fairness
and justice so strongly recommended by the Noble
President. The girls who had been subjected to the
unmerited and degrading punishment were not exa-
mined, nor was the evidence of the matron, the
schoolmistress, or the maid servant who had been pre-
sent, sought or received. The superintendent himself
appears to have been the only witness in his own
case. Ile was directed to draw up an account of his
conduct in the business, and to transmit it to the
president. His statement, we learn was directly at
variance with the written account proffered by the
matron, whose testimony derived weight from an ex-
cellent character, proved through a period of eight
and-twenty years. Tne statement made by the
governess, or schoolmistress (Miss Mackenzie), is to
this effect:—

Hare

" In re,pect to the flogging of girls in this asylum, I
beg to state that, on the morning of the day on which
the superintendent had the girls flogged, I was informed
by the servant of their conduct; and as I have always
found it sufficient to act on the emotions of the mind
rather than to inflict corporal chastisement, I admonished
them ; and it was not until the next day that my atten-
tion was celled to the fact thet three girls had be€n
flogged, in the presence of the matron, during my
absence, and without my knowledge; and that they were
to stand in the corner of the room while their com
panions took their food, and not speak or have any in-
tercourse for three days, which punishments they un-
derwent, as I had no power to interfere with the
nweass
floi:gdge order. Onor t h thee sa followingme conduct,
without.o:iday
saunPocthrienrtegnidr;
my knowledge, although I was in the asylum."
Mr. Erasmus Wilson is next applied to by one of the
directors, and is asked, in a letter from that gentle-
man, for his opinion as to the " moral and medical
effect of such punishments." Of the " moral" effect,
the director himself was, or ought to have been, as
competent a judge as the gentleman to wh,m he
appliei ; on that point, therefore, the reference was
unnecessary ; but Mr. Wilson's answer to the second
part of the query is pertinent and valuable. He says
that " the punishment of flogging for the cause men-
tioned—namely, for a disease—is in the highest
degree cruel and inhuman ;" and he adds, that " where
physical punishment is employed as a remedy against
the disease in question, and where a state of fear and
apprehension is kept up, it is perfectly possible that
the result may be an increase of its irritability, and
even the establishmentof a permanent and more serious
disorder." Such is the character, and such, very briefly,
are the facts of this revolting case. The system of
flogging girls, especially girls who have attained an age
of twelve years, under any circumstances, is offensive in
the highest degree to every rightly•constituted mind
We question, indeed, if the cause, so there be a cause
at all, be of much importance, when we are consider
ing the moral effects of so unjustifiable a degradation.
But, in this instance, it would seem that the victims
of a contemptible and cruel tyranny would have more
properly been the objects of increased care and atten
tion than of any punishment whatever. The super-
intendent appears to be entrusted with unlimited
authority. In such an institution such a power ought
not to rest in the hands of any individual officer. A
committee of directors ought to superintend the entire
adminhtration of the charity, and so prevent the pos-
sibility of abuses so fl4grant anti inhuman as this.
The business cannot be permitted to rest where it is ;
the public who support the invaluable institution
which has thus been disgraced will require with
peremptory and irresistible authority that such prac-
tices shall cease at once and for ever.

RAILWAY 1-t s: ~*6 A ETS
BRISTOL, JAN. 5.

STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market to-day was much the
same as yesterday. The only alteration in prices was—
Great Western, New Shares, TAI dis.

LIVERP6(if., JAN. 5.

Sroca Excaariots.—But little business was done iu our
share market to-day, and prices had a downward tendency.
The transactions were as tollow:—Birkenhead. Lancashire,
and Cheshire, 16 dis.—Lancashire and Yorkshire, Consul ,
Halves, 22 c. Halves (Huddersfield and Sheffield),
28—London and North-Western, 110—Ditto, New Quarters,
% p. —Ditto, Fifths, 34 p.—Ditto, Quarters (C), 1,34 p.
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, Preference, 7%
Midland, 43—Ditto, Halves, 23% dis.
MANCHESTER, JAN. 5. .

STOCK EXCIIALEr: --rlle market was flat to-day, but
prices are about the same as yesterday. The following are
the transactions:— Manchester and Birmingham, Quartets
(C ), 114 c. p. South-Eastern and Dover (No. 4),
Scrip, 61/2.
BIRNIINGHAM, JAN. 6.

STOCK EXCHANGE. —There was nothing done in railway
shares to-day. Quotations remain ne,rly stationary, and
few people are inclined to speculate until the approaching
dividends are made known.
YORK, JAN. 4.

STOCK EXCHANGE.—The transactions to-.day were as
follow : Lancashire and Yorkshire, 53 North British,
Halves, 4718—Shrewsbury and Birmingham, Preference, 10
—York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 16X3 —York and North
Midland, 1734:_

NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, JAN. 5.
STOCK EXCHANGE.-The transactions t• -day were as
follow :—Caledonian, Preference, TA —North Staffordshire,

THE CASE OF ELIZABETH 13IGGS.—On Wednes-
day Edward Henry Simmons, the relieving-officer of the
Southampton Ukion, Wad charged before the invis-
trates of that town with having caused, by ❑egtigeoce,
the death of Eliztbeth Biggs, otherwise Elizabeth
Harris, the untortuuate woman whose case has re-
cently attracted so much attention. The eviiiesce
given confirmed the statements which have already
been published on the subject, and the bench committed
the aecubed for manslaughter. He was subseqTntly
admitted to bail, himself in 2001. and two sureties in
1001. each.

THE LATE Mit. PATRICK FRASER

TY TLE R.
Irded dee.'

Our c;bituary re. at Great /Za'vein.
in Worcc:,tcrshire, on Christmas Eve, of Mr. Perla
Fras;a Tytier, the -well known author of the "
liis-
tory of Scotland."

A love of letters may izqs said to have been part of
gr. Trier's inbc-ritance. His grandfather,
Williain'TytTer, of Woodhouselec (born in 1711, died
in 1792), distinguished himself by his " Inquiry
lliitiri,.;2l and Critical into the iclence tt.fainst itkry
of Scots" published in 1759, ,ind reprioted in
176'7); by id, edition of" The Poe, ind Remains ofJames
1.; ii.l!o;.; of (.7(..thAnd.' (publi,h,d io 1783,1( printed in
1827) . by his " EsAay on Scottish Mo an,

,DUNE' pmers in the fir3t volume of the " lransactions
of the &,ciety of A:itiquaries of Scotiro,d," of vv, ich
holy Tytler was ono of the vice presidents.
The eldest son of this gentletnari—Alexander

rytler—vv zs eminent— lit

nit i

ietiers. Ile was for many ycars Professor of Ilia-
tory in the Uoi.v,rsity of Edinburgh, :111,1 he, (16

or outlines of the lecEures. ‘vhich he rik-liv,reii
funn th4t chair must be funiliar to every ircui
the numerous editions winch they h:vep3s<ed
Iwh ia this country w.id beyond The Atlnntic.
lector,s themsehes, as finelle ri:vised the aw h..r
were first published in I,ndon in 1834 (in six sir. l
volumes), under the of Umversial llistvrc
from the ereati,,n of the World to the Beginning' or
the Eighteenth Century," Among Mr. Tytlev",

other works we may his " Life at Lord
Kainies." and his translatii ri of. S hiller's
" The Robbers." lie was one o the early triehils iia
Sir Walter Scott, to whose writings ho
spoken of, and never without res T-et. H
raised to the Scottish bench in the year 1802, rook
the • title of Lord Woetnoris,l,., his in,t.
here.—the "Haunted " of Scott's
ballad of "The Gray Brother." lie died in the year
1811.

We are not aware of the precise date of the birth
of his son, the future historian of Scotland, but it was
probably about the year 1790 Patrick F. aser
Tytler was destined to his father's profession, and
was enrolled a member of the Faculty of Advocates
in 1830 —the same year which gave to the Scottish
bar the preent duiti,,guished Profes,, r of Loic in the
University of Edinburgh, and the learned an
accomplished gentleman who is 'now her Majesty's
Solicitor General for Scotland. But, like Sir William
Hamilton, Mr. Tytler (though holding for same
years the office of King's Counsel in Exchequer) soon
turned from the law to the pursuit of letters. It
we may trust ourselves to speak from a vague recol
lect4m, his first adventure was a volume of travels in
France, in 1814 or 1815, written in conjunction with
Alison, who then, we believe, saw for the first
time the recent scenes of those wars which he has
since commemorated in his " History of Europe."
But the work which first gave Mr. Tytler a place of
note in the world of letters was his " Life of the
Admirable Crichton"--an erudite, pleasing, ate
ingenious hook, which reached a second (and much im-
proved) edition in 1823. The same year saw the
publication of another volume of the same stamp—
" An Account of the Life and Writings of sir Thomas
Craig, of Iticcarton, including biographical sketches
of the most eminent legal characters, since the
institution of the Court of Session by James V., till
the period of the union of the crowns."

There successful efforts had plumed the author's
wing, and stimulated his ambition for a higher
flight—the work by which his name has become
most widely known, and by which it will go
down to after generations. The first volume of the
" History of Scotland" appeared in the summer of
1828—the ninth and last was issued in the winter
of 1843, with a touching pet oration which we ina3
here be allowed to quote :—" It is with feelings of
gratitude, mingled with regret, that the author closes
this work—the history of his country—the labour of
little less than eighteen years : gratitude to the
Giver of all Good, that life and health have been
spared to complete, however imperfectly, an arduous
undertaking ; regret that the tranquil pleasures
of historical investigation, the happy hours devoted
to the pursuit of truth, are at an end, and
that he must at last bid farewell to an 010
and dear companion." The work thus com-
mended to the world recounts the Scottish annal-
from the accession of King Alexander 111., in 1249, to
the union of the crowns of England and Scotland
under King James VI. in 1603. A performance of
such extent is almost necessarily unequal—there are
few men who are at home alike amid the
chivalrous wars of the thirteenth and the diplomatic
intrigues of the sixteenth centuries. The earlier
portions of Mr. Tytler's work, though perhaps tht
most popular with the public, will scarcely satisfy th,
severe demands of the scholar familiar with th'
recent contributions to the study of northern antiqui
ties. It is when the historian reaches the times of
the fifth James—approaching the confines of the
age of whie'l the first works, both of his grandlathei
and himself had treated--that he appears it,
the full measure of his 'grace and strength. It is
with this period, too, that his laborious researches
begin to be mos; successful in bringing new sources
of information to light, in correcting old mistakes,
aed in combating received prejudices. No one ca.,
turn to the reigns of Mary and James, as related b.
Mr. Tytler's pages, without being struck with the
vast extent of the contributions which he has made to
the true history of that troubled day. His style,
too, we think, undergoes in these latter volumes
very marked improvement—adding to its invariable
imagination, its occasional elegance and frequent
vigour, a measure of ease and dignity which we do
always recognise in the opening chapters.
Mr. Tytler found leisure, during the composition
of hi, great work, to give several others to the world.
He contributed to Mr. Murray's " Family Library '
one of the most delightful of all his writings, three
volumes of " Lives of Scottish Worthies," (1832 3)
For the " Edinburgh Cabinet Library" of Messrs
Oliver and Boyd, he wrote an " Historical View of
the Progress of Discovery on the more Northern
Coasts of America," (1832) ; the Life of Sir
Walter Raleigh." (1832); and the " Life of King
Henry VIII." (1837). He edited for a London
bookseller two volumes of " Letters illustrative of
the Reign of King Edward V 1.," printed from the
originals in the State Paper Office. He wrote, we
believe, a few versa for one of the " Bannatyne
Garlands," about 1829; and in 1833 (in conjunction
with Mr. Hog. of Newliston, and Mr. Adam Urqu-
hart) he presented to the Bannatyne and Maitland
Clubs a volume illustrative of the revolution—" Me-
moirs of the War carried on in Scotland and Ireland
1689-1691, by Major General Hugh Mackay."
Mr. Tytler was twice married. His first wife was
a daughter of Mr. Hog, of Newliston; his second, a
daughter of Mr. Bonar, the Russian merchant, still
lives. He leaves a family of two sons and a
daughter. In private life he was a lively and en
gaging companion, of agreeable manners, and in
teresting conversation. During the present reign he
was more than once a guest at Windsor, where he
was received with a degree of favour which, no doubt,
greatly facilitated the well-merited grant of the
literary pension of 2001. a year which was conferred
upon him a few years ago, during the administration
of Sir Robert Peel.

Mr. Tytler's constitution was never robust, and it
gradually gave way under the exhausting labours of
a life of letters. During a lingering illness of mind
arid body he wandered over the continent in ssarch
of health, and returned to England only to die in the
land for the illustration of who3e annals he had done
much and contemplated more. —Edinburgh Courant.

The Earl of Carlisle's accustomed gift of 100 cart
loads of coals was distributed amlng the poor of Bramp•
ton, on New Year's Dsy.—Carlisle Journal.
THE CHILD MURDER IN HARLEY STREET. —The
trial of Sarah Drake, for the murder of her child, Lew:.
Drake, aged two years, will, it is expected, take place
at the Central Criminal Court on Wedie sday or Thur.
day next, and it is considered probable that the prose-
cution will be conducted by the Attorney-General and
Mr. Bodkin. Mr. R. P. Collier and Mr G. W.. Cox
have been engsg,d for the defence. The prisoner has
behaved herself with great propriety ever since her
committal, and we understand that she is frequently
visited by Lady Pirie, by ..hum portions of scripture
are rend to her, and to which she li,tens with the most
devout attention; she strongly denies having made a
confession to the searcher at the st,dion-house as to the
murder with which she stands charged, and is quite
confident of being able to satisfy a jury that the searcher
has sworn falsely. None of her relations have called to
see her at the prison, but she has received a letter from
one of them, in which the writer intimates that it will
not be worth her while to do anything for her as she is
almost sure to be hanged; she complains of misrepre-
sentations which appeared originally in country papers,
and were subsequently copied from them in the London
journals, as to her former oisaolute career and her m k-
ing away with one or more infants. Mr. H. rring, her
solicitor, is in daily communication with her, and every
facility and kind attention has been shown to hire
the performance of his duty by Mr. Under-Sheriff M.l-
- It further appears that the prisoner has for some
length of time kept up a correspondence with a highly
respectable person, a laud steward, and that in one o,
his letters to her (many of which are in the pus ession
of Mr. Herring), he implores of her not to thi, k of
quitting England, as an union between, them was 0,, en
tint to his future bappinesa. A vast numberrfospcifeapupblii-e
cat'ons have been made for " good seats " by
pa-sons, who are looking forward with no small degree
of interest to the trial.

[ADVERTISEMENT.]—DecIaration of a soldier who
fought at Waterloo, cured by Holloway's Pills and Ointment.
" 1 publicly state that Professor Hollo s ay's Pills and Ointment
have cured me of several ulcerous sores, which had their
origin in imperfectly healed wounds received in the battle of
Waterloo. The pain was of constant duration, and I was con-
fined to my bed always during the harvest months. I have
now for two years been enjoying the best of health, solely in
consequence of using Holloway's Ointment and Pills, which
cured me in a very sho:t time ; 'in gratitude for which I pub-
lish this testimony. (Signed) J. de Swart, of Lent, on the
Vossepels, near Nymegen, Holland, Oct. 4th, 1849." Sold
by all Druggists, and at Professor Holloway's Establishment,
444, Stcand, Leaden.

rHE COUNTRY MARKETS.
Prices to-day are unchanged
1 ,
C. 1.1. g

Spanish and Italin
red and ,vidte..
iiu garHn and
.
Odessa, Polish .

Do., hard
Egyptian

EAST INDIA DOUSE, OCTOBEI 31, 1849. •
THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the EAST
INDIA COMPANY do hereby give notice,
That 'the Transfer Books of the said Company's Stock will be
ABUT
on TzlinisDAY, the 6th Decem,er next, at Three o'clock, ant
OPENED again on THURSDAY, the 17th January, 1850.
That the Warrants for the Divi lends on the said Stock, payable on
lIONDAT, the 7th January, 1850, under the 11th Sec. of the Act 3
4,34 4 William IV., Cap. 85, wlll be ready to be delivered on that day
JAMES C. MELVILL, Secretary.

HARKER'S YORK HOTEIL
ST. HELEN'S-SQUARE, YORK.
C. HARKER begs to inform his friends and the publ'c that be has
entered upon the above old-established Hotel, for many rmrs known
Ile the York Tavern.
~_7he interior of the Hotel has recently been thoroughly repaired,
ti!cGrated, and refurnished, and is now replete with every conve-
wernee and comfort.
The Establishment affords ample acconamhdation both for Families
arid for Professional and Commercial Gentlemen, and will be con-
tineted in every respect in the first style.
11E' 11• having taken the adjoining house, lately ocznpied by the
nii4ea Ilan, intends to set the same apart entirely for the use of
`maraercial Gentlemen as Stock Rooms. 4,
G)2d Stabling and Lock-ni Coach-houses.
January 1, 1850. •

4 ATIONAL LOAN FUND 141 FL
ASSURANCE SOCIETY.
26, CORNIIILL, LONDON.
Capital .f. 500,000. Empowered by Act. of Parliament.
The leading features of the Society are guaranteed of an ample
-"'"rietorY Capital.
Moderate Rates of Premiums.
I*o-thirds Premium Loaned to the Assured.
Annual Division of Profits
half the Premium may rem. ain as a Loan for Five Years.
Intensive Travelling Leave granted, without extra Premium.
v.oderate extra Premium for Residence in Tropical Climates.
The last Annual Bonus to the Assured varied from 27 to 65
our cent. (according to age) on the Premiums paid.
Examples of Bonuses already Declared, and Options.

4.1 - I Bonus in Perma• Sum the
Ater 11. 1 Anneal Policyl addition Bonus nent Be- Assured
- g r Pre- takes lto sum in ductien ~f may bor-
wi Miura. out in,Assu'red. Cash. Annual 1 rOw on
.......,, I •
I Prena'um. Policy.
..---- -
X s. d. £ a. d £ a.- d. X a. d.
1837 276 14 3 128 14 3 21 7 2.593 6 8
1838 251 18 10 115 14 8 18 12 81543 17 9
.„ 1839 226 6 0 102 15 1 16 2 9 494 8 10
"" ICOO .£ s.d. 1840 178 0 082 14 2 12 14 11 445 0 0
74 3 4 1841 174 0 0 78 3 4 12 3 0 395 11 1
1842 147 4 2 f 5 15 10 10 2 4 316 2 3
1843 99 18 4 44 8 4 615 111296 13 4
,_1844 62 6 8 27 13 4 4 4 01247 4 5

t,lirosPectuses, with tables of rates,
allY of its branches in the country
"%rtied Pest free.

W. S.

:c., may be had at the office,
or, on application, will be for-

B. WOOLHOUSE, Actuary.

E 11, FIRE, LIFE ASSURANCE OFFICE:

•
Established by Act of Parliament,
31, CORNHILL, LONDON.
h:Tltall 00,0007., In Shares of 20s. each, to be paid in full on allotment,
47Linn a guaranteed interest ofs per cent. inperpetnity (irrespective
dividends) upon the paid-up capital.
r‘,1"11 Pheation for Shares to be addressed to the Directors at the
O.:•": es of Me Socity. Marine, Fire, and Life Assurances granted
-he most liberal terms.
ellnedlate and Deferred Annuities granted on terms especially
vantageous for investment of capital.
By order,
AUG. COLLINGRIDGE, Managing Director.

FRE ROYAL POLYTECHNIC
INSTITUTION, REGENT-STREET.
„First of a Series of Il'nitrated Lectures, by Dr. Eachhoffner,
Philosooky of Scientific Recreation, daily at Two o'clock, and
Ileum Evenings, at Eight.—An entirely new Set of Dissolving
of London in the Sixteenth Century, and as it now is, with
14.:')esoriptIve Lecture, daily, at Half-past Four, aid in the Even-
irs„,,at a Quarter to Ten.—Tho Views of Rome, including new
fet.,:!, of the Interior and Exterior of St. Peter's, with Dioramic et-
are shown daily, at One o'clock.—Leetares on Chemistry, with
az4nant experiments, by Mr. Ashley.--Experiments with the Diver
thin IThrtn2-hell.—New Exhibition of Chromatropes.—The Ma-
er3", Alcdels, kc., explained.
Admission. Is —Schools. Half-mice.

RE POET at the PARTY

A. celebrated bard—myself I mean—
Ilas lately at a first-rate party been,
Where every single look, and every action,
Proved him to be an object of attraction.
The ladies smiled, and many struggled'hard
To giin the sitting nearest to the bard ;
Wkich honour fell, it must be understood,
On Miss Cecilia Clara Collingwood,
sweet young lady, with peculiar grace,
Whose looks adorned the animated place."
Pat never mind Cecilia Clara's beauty,
For business calls, and I must do my duty.
The poet's health was then proposed, and I,
Who ant this 'toted poet, made reply;
And as I think 'twill please you, all and each,
I'll give you, word for word.
THE POET'S SPEECH.
Ladies and Gentlemen,

I must allow
" The proudest moment of my life" is now.
The honourable toast which you propose is,
Health to my humble selt, " The Bard of Moses."
I need not say that I am proud at heart
To be connected thus with Moses' Mart
A
Mart than which no greater can be found,
Search London and the provinces around.
I cannot cast my eyes around this room,
Without admiring Moses' choice costume.
Well may the lyre be struck in admiration
Of such transcendent beauty.—(Great sensation.)
Moses and Son are stamped on every vest,
And on the coats and trowsers of each guest.
And I perceive the ladles, bless their hearts,
Have paid a visit to the " Mart of' Marts."
Lone may I live to advocate the cause
Of Moses' far-famed Warehouse—(More applause)—
And long may Moses' Dress-mart be displayed,
As now it is—The Sovereign of the Trade.

LIST OF PRICES,
REIDY MADE.

Autumn and Winter Over Coats, in every
style •£0 8 6
The Bulwer,handsomely and warmly trimmed 0 18 0
The Paletot, ditto ••••.. • • • ..... 018 0
Chesterfield, 0 0
The Albert Wrapper, a very handsome style
ef Ov,r Coat .. ..... ................. . 1 5 0
Shooting Coats
Lounging or Morning Coats .......... •• .. 4 6
Autumn and Winter Trousers, in Tweed .. • • 4 6
Ditto ditto Doeskin .. 7 6
Ditto 2 6
Black Silk Velvet Vests... • •
Dress Coats • •
19 0
-Youths and Boys' Over Coats, •7
0
in every style,
from , 14
Itas.sar and Tunic Suits ...... •• • • ..... • 0 8
'"oYs' Autumn and Winter •
Vests ••••• • • • • •

MADE TO MEASURE.
Ile'es Autumn and Winter Over Coats • .from 1 1
Th
-e Chesterfield Wrapper, in a warm ma-
terial lined •• •
The Paletot,liandsornely and warmly trimnafA 1 16 0
The Eglinton Wrapper, a very elegant style of
Over Coat • • ..... ••—•.••••••••••••••
The Strathmore Witney Over Coat, newest
Style, lined throughout ••• • • - • • ••• • • • 2 10 0
Autumn and Winter 'frowscrs, in Tweed and
•
Lest Black Cassimere ditto .. •••••••• • • • • • • 1 6 0
Autumn and Winter Vests •••••••• • • •• • • • ••8 6
Itest Black Cloth ditto ....................0 •
•
•
•
•
• 13 6
Flack Silk Velvet ditto •••••••••• • • • • • • •• • 0 18 G
Dress C0at5...... • . —from 325. to 2 15 0
e• Frock • • from 355. to 3 3 0
11Ussar and Tunic Suits ...... • • ........ from 1 0
Superfine ...... • • ..... ..... 1 15 0
ren's Shooting Coat .....................0 15 0
'legant Dressing Robes, in great variety,
from .................... .to 5 0 0
eldem d edal, containing an Almanac for the year 1850, wil be pre.
- to every customer.
Large Stock of Fur Coats, in every shape, from 60s. to 201.
Naval and Military Uniforms, Liveries, Br.c.
Mourning to any extent at Five Minutes' notice.

2 0 0

A. Suit of Mourning complete for li. 10s.
4; RThe hew book, entitled " The Minion of the Million," with full
„.,,?ns for Self-measurement, can he had on application, er for-
m" 4,. Post free, to any part of the kingdom.
ce—The Fur Department is now replete with every novelty
• 1.11 e season.
messerve—Any article purchased. either ready made, or made to
assure, if not approved of will be exchanged, or the money returned.
101- MOsES. and WoollenArapers, Clothiers, Hatters,
jerr, Furriers, Boot and Shoernakers.. and General Outfitters, 154,
to' LW, and 157 IC gorier., an,l and 81; Al4gate, Cvast
"mtablislunent.
gtjaution.—E. Moses and Sou regret having to gnarl the public
rle:Jt Imposition; hut having heard that the untradesmanlike
.00d of being inccted with them, or "It is the same concern,"
beenhe
resorted A. 5 in many instances, and for obvious reasons,
%Z. beg to xte Mat t',cy ht,ve with any other house
4 t stouilon, except theirl4o Branchconnexion Establishments, 314 Far-
-41€4.
tylefilela ?
Iv)19, Thornton's-buildings, Bradford, Yorkshire;
0 ~`" o requin cheap and genuine clothing, eitc., chonld call
the It 'On% t' ) the Minories and Aldgate, City. London; or either of
I.„.r_an_e). Establishments as above.
to ;Q" otico.—This F_stal;lis'.ment is closed from sunset Friday
" Saturday. when big:Mess is resumed till twelve o'elock.

.4bY A j K I A E.
Or,e halt the world i.ro desolately single, and the other
tier `°l3lag them ;harried, ine,lerfal4ly contented. Diffidence, or a
right deter,i;;:i ‘the''fz,rrner, and MlECalcultteg hopes em-
Of4th.)att.lr. The .eolitary one may shield himself under the ploy.
telitratiTi and worldly prudence, and the ir.dissoluble, regret on-
rcsaag hurry; but the truth lice deeper. Physical incapacity,
aka eroksn healthe the gret himirAnces
the The
only marriage set-
-Intt,"t• Ronour and instiee demand that health shouldform au item
teelf„,ecnElLseet; it elOna dignifies the alliance. Blighted hopes er
tbisZi"' a'iinnd snore aorely than poverty or miaortuno. Reader, if
11,.Zairicnits sea concsrn you, procure Dr. CULVERWELL'S
%eh On Single and Marrizd Life." pub. in 2 vols., le.
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i"ti• hay are net intended certainly for mere idle curiosity,
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Mir arc offered antagonistic to the empyrical trash, put forth on
Atg• ague subiects, by unqualified authors, whieh alone er
Lttie,!•, are a disgrace to the age. Furthermore, two other
air ~,,.."aclieations elates your attention (same price Is. each,
ketki ;74 Is. Ed.) called " What to Eat, Drink, and
AtfnAii and " How to be rn.ppy." They are not merely
s.here a, but equal in quantity a library volreue, nor are they the
Ute wZ4eabaral serlbblings of time hour, but the study of the author's
l'a",r.tt? ewes his present existence., health, and position to this oh-
wotti of the maxims he would inculcate—to do unto ethers as he
on done unto—to live after nature's laws—and to keep always
211erwr, kiney side of the way." The above works may be had of
ai 13, Paternoster-row ; Carvrdho, 141, Fleet-street • Mann,
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THE RUNIWAY ENGINE.—Many persons appear
incredulous as to the details of a runaway engine on the
North Kent line, which appeared in one of the morning
newspapers a few days ago, in the absence of the
slightest accident taking place, and the excellent ar-
rangements, courage, and presence of mind which ulti-
mately brought the engine safely to the London terminus.
The train due from Strood to arrive at Woolwich at 4
o'clock P.M., being nearly half an hour over due the pas
stingers en the platform bocame very anxious to ascer-
tain the cause of the delay, and the tel graph clerk
allayed their fears by stating that the engine Lad gone
back for some carriages at Gravesend, which was fortu-
nately the fact, as the carriages were all on the siding
when the runaway engine started from the Strood side
of Gravesend, and passed all the up stations at a great
speed. Some idea may be formed of the rapidity of mo-
tion of the runaway engine when it is made known that
none of the porters engaged in keeping back the pas-
sengers, or even the passengers themselves, could tell
whether the engine or coke carriage came past first; or
if there was any person attending, the engine. The per-
sons on the platform at Woolwich, where the view of the
line of railway does not extend many hundred yards,
describe the passing of the engine as instantaneous, and
some engaged in conversation had not time to turn round
to get a glimpse of it. The great speed and the great
distance it continued is accounted for by the knowledge
that the runaway engine had just been supplied with
water, and a quantity of coke put on the fire about a
minute before the ballast engine came in collision with
it, causing it to start at full speed, and the moment the
engineer had jumped off the starting engine. It is evi-
dent, from the accounts generally given of accidents on
railwaye, that the greater number arise from attempts of
the passengers or those working the lines to jump off the
trains when in motion, and that to remain seated pre-
sents the greatest chance of safety when collisions are
likely to take place.
Lord John Russell is expected to arrive in town
for the season on Saturday nex,; and on Wednesday,
the 16th, the noble Premier will give the first Cabinet
dinner this season, at which all his colleagues are ex•
pected to be present. His Lordship is now staying with
his brother, the Duke of Bedford, at Woburn Abbey.
Lord and Lady Palmerston are entertaining a large
family circle at Broadlands, Hants; the Chevalier
Bunsen, Prussian minister, has been on a visit to his
Lordship. Earl Carlisle is at Castle Howard. surrounded
by a distinguished party of relatives and friends. Lord
Grey is in town. Sir George Grey arrived in town yes-
terday from a visit to Mr. 11. Drummond. The Lord
Chancellor comes to town in the middle of the week.
Lord Lansdowne, is expected to-morrow, the 7th inst. ,
from Bowood•perk, Wilts, for the purpose of attending
the Privy Council, held on the following day. The
other members of the Cabinet will arrive in town next
week. Invitations have been issued to the principal
members of the diplomatic corps and their ladies, by
' Lord John Russell, to a grand dinner, at his residence
in Cheeham-place, on Thursday week, the 17th instant.
—Sunday Paper.