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THE APPROACHING POLISH
BALL AT GUILDHALL.

ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
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ments.

Yesterday a very full meeting of the Committee
appointed to superintend the arrangements for the grand
hall and concert, to be given on the 19th instant, at the
Guildhall, took place. Deputy Peacock in the Chair.
The CHAIRMAN rejoiced to communicate to the Com-
mittee that they had every prospect of a most prosperous
issue to their labours on the forthcoming occasion.
Lord DUDLEY STUART said he felt great pleasure in
seeing so full an attendance at the Committee, and was
very happy to congratulate them on the prospects before
them of a most successful ball. He had received on all
hands, both in the west-end of the town and in the City,
assurances of support the most encouraging. The long
list of distinguished persons who had signified their de-
sire to patronise the ball, headed by the illustrious lady
who never failed them, her Royal Highness the Duchess
of Kent, and graced by such names as the Duke and
Duchess of Sutherland, Lord and Lady Wharncliffe,
Lord and Lady Stanley, Lord and Lady John Russell,
and not least in importance Sir Robert and Lady Sale—
(Cheers)—was evidence of the favour with which their
undertaking was regarded by persons in high stations of
different parties; and though, even last year, they had
met with such kind assistance from the public, as had
ultimately produced a most satisfactory result, he per •
ceived, this year, amongst all classes, a still greater in-
terest in the object in view, and still greater readiness
to come forward to promote it. This he attributed
partly to the improved condition of the country, trade
being generally less depressed, and partly to the circum-
stance of the Polish cause being better understood, in
consequence of its having attracted a greater share of
public attention ima ettect of
the recent visit to this country of the Emperor of Russia.
However that might be, the friends of Poland had before
them the prospect of being enabled to derive the greatest
advantage from the liberality of the Court of Common
Council, which by granting to them the use of the Guild .
hall, would be found to have afforded them the means of
carrying on their labours in behalf of the brave and un-
fortunate men, now reduced to destitution in conse-
quence of their resolute attachment to their country and
of their defence of its rights. It was impossible for him
(Lord Dudley Stuart) adequately to express his appre-
ciation of the important boon thus conferred on the
Poles and their friends ; but he thought it no wonder
that the Corporation of London, ever famous in his-
tory as the friends and champions of liberty, should feel
sympathy for men who were sufferers in its cause ;—no
wonder that they could not bear to leave them without
bread, and without a home in the midst of their busy
and flourishing city ; no wonder that when a mode was
pointed out of relieving them, without detriment in any
way to the interests of other claimants, they should wil-
lingly adopt it. Far be it from me (said Lord Dudley
Stuart), as far, I am sure, it is from the wish of any of
those with whom I have the honour to act, to turn from,
or undervalue the claims of our own poor. I believe
that the humble individual now addressing you—l be-
lieve that the members of the Association to which I
belong, cannot be charged with indifference to the suffer-
ings of their own countrymen—and that we are at least as
ready as other people to contribute to their relief. We
have not come into the City seeking to divert the benevo-
lence of the citizens from other channels, or to intercept
assistance, which but for us would be bestowed on the
destitute of our own country ; but we have sought to
employ, for a benevolent purpose that, which, to all ap-
pearance would, but for us, not be used at all. For
some time past there has been a Polish Ball at Guildhall
almost every year; but there have been years when the
necessities of the Poles not requiring it, we have for-
borne from asking for the Hall ; for we have no desire
to take undue advantage of the generosity of the public,
or to collect more money than is absolutely required. In
those years we have not seen the Hall employed for
any other charitable purpose ; but it has stood empty.
We have never competed for it with any other charitable
association ; and when our petition was presented to the
Court of Common Council last week you heard a mem-
ber of the Court of Common Council make this state-
ment :—That when some years ago the Association of
the Friends of Poland were about to ask for the Hall, a
report was circulated that the Committee of the Greville-
street Infirmary wished to obtain it for that institution ;
that on that occasion I Hailed on him, as a member of
the Committee of the Infirmary, accompanied by some
of my colleagues, and inquired whether there really was
any foundation for the report, stating, at the same time,
that if so, we should not think of standing in the way
of the Infirmary, and that, on the contrary, we should
be ready to do anything in our power to promote its
success. His answer was, that there was no intention of
asking for the Hall for that Institution ; and we then
presented our petition, which was granted.—(Hear.)
We have not heard this year that any other parties were
ready to take the Hall and employ it to advantage. The
entertainments given here are not conducted to a suc-
cessful termination without much preparation, or without
great and sustained exertion. This we had made ; and
being prepared to make the Hall conducive to a purpose
which we were confident was good, and finding that there
were no other persons in a similar situation, we came
forward with the petition to which it has been the plea-
sure of the Court generously to accede. The ball, then,
which will be given, will interfere with no other charity,
will form a magnificent entertainment fer those
who attend it, and will cause at least as much
money to be circulated amongst the tradesmen of
this City as will be devoted to the relief of
the Poles. The funds collected in this manner
are employed in relieving the sick among the refugees,
and those who are the victims of accident and other
casualties, in enabling others to proceed to foreign coun-
tries, in assisting some to procure employment, and in
providing for the wants of those who have no other re-
source, by granting them allowances which, in every
case, were of very small amount. It is our constant aim
to repress misconduct, to discourage idleness, and to pro-
mote
success—many industry
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though individual instances of misconduct may doubtless
be pointed to amongst the Poles, as amongst all large
bodies of men, I am not afraid to say that on the
whole, they conduct themselves well ; and I doubt if
any other• set of men in a similar situation would be
found to conduct themselves so well, although the whole
number of the Poles in this country has within the last
five or six years, been very materially reduced (for, in
1838, it reached nearly 700, and now amounts scarcely
to 500), the number of those depending
exclusively on
the Association for support (which had also diminished)
has, since last year, been somewhat augmented. The
chief cause of this is the following:—Some months ago a
Russian man-of-war, bound for Kamschatka, was driven
into Portsmouth by stress of weather ; on board of her
were a number of Poles, who had been compelled
to serve as sailors, and were destined to become in-
habitants of Siberia. On finding themselves in
a British harbour, they took advantage of that glorious
privilege, which is common to the white as well as to
the black slave fortunate enough to reach our shores,
and escaped from the service into which they had been
forced.—(Loud cheers.) Some of them have since
entered on board British merchantmen, and others have
found different employments, but they have not all been
so fortunate, and some are still without work. Some
others who, escaping from Russia, had obtained leave to
remain a certain time in Prussia, on the expiry of the
time prescribed found themselves reduced to the alter-
native of returning to the Russian dominions, or of taking
ship from Hamburgh for England. What would have been
their fate had they decided to return may be inferred
from the treatment experienced within the last two
months by a Polish clergyman, of unimpeachable cha-
racter and exemplary piety, who havin:g ventured to
proceed from Prussia Into that port of Poland now
under Russia, was immediately seized, and condemned
to receive 150 lashes from the knout. Russia boasts
that she has no capital punishments ; but the knout,
severely applied, answers all the purpose of the gallows;
and at the 147th blow the wretched man expired ! A
report has been circulated that the Emperor of
Russia has this year published a general amnesty,
and some people ask why the Poles do not
return to their country. Without stopping to dis-
cuss the motives which might prevent them from avail-
ing themselves of it, if it existed, it is important you
should know that this amnesty is wholly imaginary.
There has been no amnesty ; and the only foundation
for the report is this :—About a dozen Poles residing
here petitioned for leave to make submission to the
Emperor, and to return to Poland. It was accorded to
five ; and who and what were they wha received this
mark of imperial indulgence ? All persons of infamous
character. Three had been convicted of felony in
France ; one, struck off the list of refugees at the desire
of his countrymen here, had been bound over to keep
the peace towards me ; and the fifth, a convicted felon,
committed an assault on me last year.—(Hear, hear.)
It was perhaps unnecessary to enter into such details in
addressing gentlemen who, by their attendance on the
present occasion, showed that they needed not to have
the claims of the Poles impressed on them ; but, seeing
many members in the room who had joined the Com-
mittee for the first time, he (Lord Dudley Stuart) had
thought that the statements he had laid before them
might not be uninteresting, and that they would tend to
confirm them in their conviction of the soundness of
the cause in which they had engaged.—(Loud cheers.)
This year of 1844 (continued his Lordship) will long be
memorable in the eyes of the Poles, in consequence of
the marks of sympathy they have received from the
British public—greater, perhaps, and more striking,
than any they have ever before received. In this year
they have seen the leading members of our aristocracy
employed for the purpose of relieving Polish distress,
undisturbed by the presence of the Autocrat himself, and
deterred by no slavish fear of their benevolent exertions
being met by imperial frowns ; but there is no sym-
pathy more grateful to the Poles than that which has
alwaysbeien so generously awarded them—the sympathy
ofcitizens of
tosee that the Corpoarat ofosttihone
who Lon updoeene.lyt is most
the
cheeringeit to he
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con-
spicuous a position—those on whom the eyes of the
world have lately, even more than usual, been turned, in
consequence of the magnificent solemnities, graced by the
presence of royalty, which have lately taken place in

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this city ; those who were accustmei to have Sovereigns
for their guests, that they still remain steady in their
humane consideration for the sfferings of the exile.—
(Loud cheering.)
Mr. EAGLETON (the Treasure, to whose exertions the
Poles have long been deeply indebted) rose, and ex-
pressed the high gratification he felt at the detailed ac-
count given by Lord Dudley Start, interesting and im-
portant as it was to the cause ofthe persecuted Poles, in
removing the erroneous impresion which had gone
abroad, that they had it in thir power to return.—
(Hear, hear.) He had taken cae to make it known to
all parties with whom he came n contact, that it was
impossible for the brave but unbrtunate men to specu-
late upon the mercy of the Euperor of Russia. The
knout would be their doom if tiev built upon the com-
passion of that monarch ; and tle fate of the clergyman
alluded to by Lord Dudley Stuart would, without the
shadow of a doubt, be visited urn those who would en-
gage in so rash an adventure.—(Clear, hear.) The day
would soon arrive, he hoped in God, when those noble
and patriotic heroes would be possessed of their country.
Mr. IioLT made a few observaions on the glad anti-
cipations of the success of the tall, and the Committee
adjourned.

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alliance with the squirearchy to carry the New Poor-
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been stripped of his existing protection, without se-
curing for him the theoretical substitute. We have
taken from him an ancient vested right which to him
was hard money, and given him instead a promissory
note payable to the n-th generation of his children.

MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS
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9th of November, 1844." The Table is issued from the Office
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ve Tears
Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases 214 178
Diseases of variable or uncertain seat 95 111
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses 147 157
Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of
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IRELAND.
MEETING OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC
BISHOPS.
DUBLIN, Nov. 12.—The annual synod of the Roman
Catholic Archbishops and Bishops of Ireland commenced
this day at the Presbytery, Marlborough-street. On
account of the importance of the business to come before
them, the attendance was much fuller than usual. One
of the first subjects that will engage the attention of the
Prelates is the Charitable Bequests Act. It is stated
that an important communication from Rome is to be
laid before the meeting.
Amongst the Prelates in attendance were the follow-
ing :—The Most Rev. Dr. Crolly, Primate ; the Most
Rev. Dr. Murray, the Most Rev. Dr. Slattery, the Most
Rev. Dr. M'Hale, the Right Rev. Dr. Cantwell, Right
Rev. Dr. Keating, Right Rev. Dr. Kinsella, Right Rev.
Dr. M'Nally, Right Rev, Dr. Browne, Elphin ; Right
Rev. Dr. Feeny, Right Rev. Dr. O'Donnell, Galway;
Right Rev. Dr. Higgins, Right Rev. Dr. M'Nicholas,
Right Rev. Dr. Denvir, Right Rev. Dr. Browne, Kil-
more ; Right Rev. Dr. Ryan.
ANOTHER MURDER IN CLARE.
A letter was received in town this day, statiag that
the land steward of the late Arthur Gloster, Esq., whose
assassination was announced last week, was murdered
near Yilkishen, on Sunday night last.
The Clare Journal, of yesterday, contains the follow-
ing :
" THE MURDER OF MR. GLOSTER.—The magistrates
of the district in which the late Mr. Gloster was mur-
dered have called a meeting of the maistrates and gentry
on Thursday next, at Quin Petty Sessions-house, to
consider such measures as may appear most conducive to
the ends of justteer-:s.promoting the discovery of the
perpetrators of that diabolical murder.' A requisition
is in course of signature to the Lieutenant of the county,
to call a meeting of the magistrates at the County Court-
house, to divise measures for the same effecttatt the ma-
gistrates of Bunratty have so promptly c together
of the gentry of their division of the county. It was cur-
rently reported here yesterday that a gentleman was
fired at and wounded in the arm, in the neighbourhood
of Broadford. We could not find out that there was any
good foundation for the report."
RAILWAY FROM DUBLIN TO WEXFORD.
Mr. Brunel, engineer of the Great Western Railway,
has arrived in town to complete the survey of the atmos-
pheric line from Dalke7 to Wexford.
THE REVISION O 1 THE DUBLIN JURY LIST.
In the course of the revision before the Recorder yes-
terday,
Edward Clarke, Esq., of Stephen's-green, claimed ex-
emption from serving, on the ground of his being an
attorney.
Mr. CLEMENTS—Were you not objected to on that
ground last year ?—I was.
Mr. CLEMENTS—And did you not then insist upon
being put on ?—I did.
Mr. CLEMENTS—You succeeded ?--Yes.
Mr. CLEMENTS—You were on O'Connell's jury?— Yes.
Mr. CLEMENTS—Is it to your professional skill the
public are indebted for the special pleading on the issue
paper ?—I cannot say.
Mr. CLEMENTS—Now, Sir, may I ask you wherefore
it is that you, a retired attorney, seek for exemption now,
while under identically similar circumstances last year
you pressed and insisted upon being on the panel.
Mr. Clarke—The fact of it is, I got quite enough of it.
The RECORDER ruled that, not being an attorney ac-
tually practising, his name should remain on the list.
Mr. CLEMENTS (addressing Mr. Clarke)—And, fur
my part, I have no objection to you, Sir ; for, after the
lesson that was read to you in the House of Lords, I
don't think you'll be likely to find such a verdict again
during your life.—(Laughter.)
At the adjournment the list of Andrew's parish had not
been gone through ; but all those who presented them-
selves from other parishes were duly attended to, and ad-
mitted or rejected.
NEW HIGH SHERIFFS FOR IRELAND.
The following is the official list returned by the judges
to the Lord-Lieutenant, who is to select one name for
each district :
DUBLIN CASTLE, NOVEMBER, 1844.—Names of gentle-
men returned by the Judges of Assize to serve the office
of High Sheriff for the ensuing year.
Antrim—James Leslie, John White, John Thompson,
Esqs.
Armagh—Viscount Newry, Thomas Morris Jones,
Maxwell Cross, Esqs.
Carlow—Robert La Touche, Robert Doyne, jun.,
Philip Newton, Esqs.
County of the Town of Carrickfergus—Stewart Dunn,
John Legg, Hill Wilson, Esqs.
Cavan—The Earl of Bective, Anthony O'Reilly, Henry
Theophilus Clements, Esqs.
Clare—Edward Fitzgerald, Hugh Palliser Hickman,
Michael Finucane, Esqs.
Cork—The Hon. Hayes St. Leger, James H. Smith
Barry, Edward Deane Freeman, Esqs.
Cork City—James Morough,Williara Coppinger, Ho-
ratio Townsend, Esqs.
Donegal—Lord George A. Hill, George Young, Wm.
Fenwick, Esqs.
Down—Hugh Montgomery, William Keown, Richard
B. Blackiston Houston, Esqs.
Drogheda Town—James Gernon, St. George Smyth,
William Cairnes, Esqs.
Dublin—Hon. Edward Preston, Hon. Edward Law-
less, Thomas Thompson, Esq.
County of the City of Dublin—Arthur Guinness,
Thomas Crosthwaite, Alexander Boyle, Esqs.
Fermanagh—William Archdall, John Richardson, J.
Neterville Blake, Esqs.
Galway—Denis Kirwan, Esq., Sir James Fitzgerald
Ross Mahon, Bart., Christopher St. George, Esq.
Galway Town—Patrick M. Lynch, Lachlan M'Lach-
lan, Michael Browne, Esqs.
Kerry—Christopher Galway, Wilson Gun, William
Talbot Crosbie, Esqs.
Kildare—Lord William Fitzgerald, Edward H. Cole,
William Palmer, Esqs.
Kilkenny—Charles Hely, James Sandford Lane,
Chambre Ponsonby, Esqs.
Kilkenny City—Clayton Savage, John M'Craith, Mi-
chael Cahill, Esqs.
King's County—Richard Warburton, Henry Peel
L'Estrange, jun., Guy Atkinson, Esqs.
Leitrim—Edward King Tennison, Guy Lloyd, Loftus
Anthony Tottenham, Esqs.
Limerick—Edward Cripps Villiers, William Barring-
ton, Edward Croker, Esqs.
Limerick City—Michael Gavin, Henry Watson, Wil-
liam Roche, Esqs.
Londonderry City and County—Sir Harvey Bruce,
Bart., John Barry Beresford, Leslie Alexander, Esqs.
Longford—George Lefroy, Francis Edgeworth, Wm.
Ledwith, Esqs.
Louth—Frederick J. Foster, Lewis Upton, George
Macartney, Esqs.
Mayo—Thomas S. Carter, Charles Kirwan, Henry
Wm. Knox, Esqs.
Meath—Lord Killeen, James Wailer, Henry Codding.
ton, Esqs.
Monaghan—Samuel R. Bayley Evatt, Andrew Allen
Murray, Thomas Oriel Forster, Esqs.
Queen's County—The Hon. H. G. F. Walker, Chidley
Coote, Horace Rochfort, Esqs.
Roscommon—Sir Gilbert King, Bart., John Fitzgerald
Grace, Garret O'Moore, Esqs.
Sligo—Edward Joshua Cooper, Philip Perceval, John
W. King, Esqs.
Tipperary—John Bayley, Esq., Lieut.-Colonel Wm.
Purefoy, John Trent, Esq.
Tyrone—George d'Aroy, Francis Gervais, Richard
Lloyd, Esqs.
Waterford—John Bowen Gumbledon, John Henry
Keane, Simon Bagge, Esqs.
Waterford City—Jacob Penrose, Thomas Sheppard,
Wm. Smith Sewell Doyle, Esqs.
Westmeath—Hon. L. H. King Harman, Sir Francis
Hopkins, Bart., James Howard Fetherston, Esq.
Wexford—Patrick Walter Redmond, Harry Alcock,
Edward Westby Nunn, Esqs.
Wicklow—Robert Archibald Gun Cunningham, Wm.
W. Fitzwilliam Hume, Charles Tottenham. Esqs.

Organs of Digestion ..
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c 9 5
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. ll 10
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles l4 6
Diseases of the Skin, &c. 2 1
Old Age, or Natural Decay 6l 71
By Violence, Privation, or Intemperance
Causes specified 9BB 942
Deaths from all Causes 989 946

STORNOWAY, OCT. 19.—The brig Mary Wylie, of
Kincardine, Wylie, bound for Liverpool from Riga, in
making out of the harbour of Stornoway on Thursday
last, got on shore at the top of high-water, ox a rugged
piece of ground. Fortunately the wind was from the
north throughout the day ; and in the evening the crew
of the revenue cutter Prince of Wales, Captain Oliver,
assisted the Captain and crew of the brig in getting
her off, for which service they were awarded, by
arbiters, 401. After being surveyed, and as it
was ascertained that she received no damage, she
sailed in two days afterwards. The barque Ma-
jestic, of Newcastle, from St. John's, for Hull, was
driven from the Pentland Firth to the Island of Lewis,
and came to anchor in the Broad Bay on Tuesday night,
mistaking it in the darkness of the night for the harbour
of Stornoway. Fortunately the wind was off the land,
and she rode the gale in safety.—Nov. 2. The harvest is
now over in the Island of Lewis, and a plentiful crop
secured in fine condition. In the early part of October
the weather was extremely boisterous, and there were
heavy falls of rain ; but for the last ten days it has been
particularly favourable for raising and housing the
potato crops, which is more abundant than it has been
for several years past..—Ross-shire Advertiser.
TUE SAURY OR SEA PIKE.—We last week no-
ticed the capture of a few of these fish in the
Conon. Since then large numbers have been taken,
and it was somewhat amusing to see women with
their tucked• up gowns in the water, throwing out
the fish. These fish are driven to the beach by
the action of the waves, are incapable of motion, on
the receding of the waves, and die immediately they are
thrown ashore. At Beauly, immense numbers have also
been taken, and in the Inverness market, as well as here
have been sold at the rate of four and five for a penny.
Several of the poor have found in them a very bene-
ficial relief, while the philosophical old women auger a
famine from their appearance in our ham—Ross-Aire
411Pertkfil
Dispatches from the Governor of New South Wales,
and also from the Governor of the Cape of Good
Uope, were received yesterday at thst colonial-office.

An extra Gazette was again published yesterday,
full of notices of intended applications to Parliament
next session for private and chiefly railway Bills.

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Birmingham has Weis'
gentlemen, who have acidi s,thq
proved modes of swinslli,---said,___consfdertng the
" subjects" which they'stelkka-Wcrpprakfipon, they
are certainly entitled to a patent for ale' discovery
It appears that a few days ago a stranger, of gentle-
manly exterior and address, about 60 years of cgs,
and having the appearance of being blind, went to the
office of a respectable solicitor, accompanied by a
youth, who acted as his guide. On being ushered
up,atairs and seated in the solicitor's room, he pre-
sented his card, bearing the name of " Mr. Charles
Rice," and proceeded to say that he had called for the
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person named Joliffe, who resided at Aston-road.
The money had been owing him for a long time
past, and having extended every conceivable indul-
gence to the gentleman, who was a man of propert-. ,
he really felt the painful necessity of taking proceed-
ings. The solicitor, of course, sympathised with his
new client, took the necessary instructions, and pro-
mised to write instantly to Mr. Joliffe; Mr. Rice
very considerately observing, that as he was a stran-
ger, and this being their first transaction, he felt the
propriety of requesting the solicitor to accept his tic-
cu stotned fee for the intended application to Mr. Joliffe.
Not having the least doubt of the respectability of
his client, the legal gentleman as promptly de-
clined the liberal offer, being quite satisfied
with the honour of enrolling the stran-
ger's name amongst his clients. Mr. Rice
then left, and, according to promise, Mr. Joliffe was
written to, and in the course of the evening that gen-
tleman waited upon the solicitor, acknowledged the
receipt of his letter, regretted very much the neces-
sity which his old friend Mr. Rice had been under
to adopt such measures, and hoped a few days' indul-
gence would be extended, when he would most cer-
tainly pay all he owed. The solicitor, quite satisfied
with the result of the interview, was about quietly to
touch his bell for another client, whea Mr. Joliffe,
apparently overcome by the polite attention and in-
dulgence he had received, put his hand in his pocket,
and tendered a guinea, as some recompense for the
trouble he had occasioned; a " consideration " which
was, of course, declined, and Mr. Joliffe left the office.
On the following day Mr. ltice, accompanied by his
juvenile guide, again called at the office of the soli-
citor, and was so well pleased at the result of the ap-
plication, that he at once proposed to commit the
management of his affair into the solicitor's hands.
With this view he produced a large posting bill, an-
nouncing the sale of "a very desirable estate," only
one hour and-a-half's journey from London, in " a
delightful situation," lately the property of Frederick
Augustus Rice, Esq., deceased. The sale was an-
nounced under the authority of Mr. Winstanley,
the auctioneer, to come off, without reserve, at
the Crown Inn, Aylesbury, on the 30th instant.
Amongst the valuable effects to be put up
for sale was a "commodious residence," entitled
" Red-hill Farm," presenting, to quote the lan-
guage of the announcement, "a most attractive
retreat for a London tradesman, desirous of combin-
ing a pleasant residence with profitable and agreeable
rural occupation." Mr. Winstanley was also in-
structed to sell about 300 lots of well-made furniture,
460 ounces of plate, 37 dozen of excellent wines, with
live and dead stock farming implements, &c., parti-
culars of which were to be had on the premises, of
the auctioneer, and of Mr. C. Rice, " sole legate;
41, Great Brook-street, Birmingham." The agency
of this important and profitable transaction was at
once accepted by the solicitor, upon which Mr. Rice
said he could immediately put the deed of the pro-
perty in his possession, but that on coming down from
London he stopped at Coventry, where he left the
documents with a gentleman who kindly lent him 20/.;
as he happened, however, to have only eight sove-
reigns about him, the balance was freely advanced by
cheque by the solicitor. Mr. Rice, extremely thank-
ful for the prompt arrangement of his pecuniary diffi-
culties, speedily left the office, and it is seedless to
say had the cheque forthwith converted into cash, for-
getting, in his anxiety to arrange his affairs, to send
for the deed, or to return to the offices of his obliging
legal friend. The solicitor next day, suspecting all was
not right, made some inquiries, and discovered that two
other solicitors had been favoured with the stranger's
patronage, and prevailed upon to advance 201. each
upon the deed of Red-hill Farm. Information was
given to the police, when it was discovered that seve-
ral tradesmen had been swindled in a similar man-
ner, and, amongst others, Mr. Morley, hairdresser, of
Union-street. Mr. Rice called upon him, and after
many inquiries relative to the most improved mode of
wig making, submitted his head for measurement, and
gave an order for a very superior article. Money was
no object; a good fit, the newest style, and appro-
priate colour, were the main considerations ; and if
the article combined all these qualities, a guinea extra
would be cheerfully paid. Mr. Rice, in the meantime,
purchased a guard-chain and other articles, to the
amount of about 21., and in a day or two after called,
and tendered in payment of the order a promissory-
note for 71., purporting it to be from his tenant, Mr.
Joliffe, of the Aston-road. He said he did not wish
to run so small a note into his bank, and as it would
be due in a few days, it would, he presumed, suit Mr.
Morley to hand him the balance. Having ascertained
that the gentleman banked at Mr. Moilliett's, he
made inquiries at that establishment, and was informed
that Mr. Rice had a large sum deposited. He then
accepted the note, and handed over the balance to his
customer. In a few days after ihe articles were sent
home to the gentleman's address, when it was found
that he had decamped, leaving kr. Morley in posses-
sion of the yet undue promissory note. Finding his
customer had absconded, he went to Mr. Moilliett's,
to make inquiries relative to the " deposit," and way
informed that the Mr. Rice referred to had with-
drawn 300/. from the bank the day before, and that
he had been made the victim of an accomplished
swindler. It is scarcely necessary to add, that
neither Mr. Rice nor his accomplice has since been
heard of.—Birmingham Journal.

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DREADFUL ACCIDENT FROM A NEW E7ZPLOSIVR
SHELL.—On Tuesday last, about three P.M., a dreadful
accident occurred on Wimbledon-common to a man of
the name of James Taylor, an old soldier, while assist-
ing Dr. Ryan, of the Royal Polytechnic Institution, in a
series of experiments on a new explosive shell, the in-
vention of Mr. Buckingham. The shell is one of a
peculiar construction, having no fusee, and resembline''
in its external character the common cannon ball. The
inventor, however, professes to have so perfect a control
over the missile that by merely changing the position of
the shell, as it is placed in the gun, it may be made to
explode 1,2, 3, or even 15 minutes after it has been
fired ; or it may be made to explode almost as it leaves
the orifice of the cannon. Four or five dozen of these
shells.were fired during the morning under the direction
of Dr. Ryan, who had been retained professionally to
watch the results. Two of the shells, which ought to
have exploded each a few minutes after leaving the gun,
having remained quiet upwards of two hours, it was sup-
posed that a failure had occurred ; and although Mr.
Buckingham had repeatedly asserted that he could so
arrange his machinery as to keep the shell quiescent 24
hours, and then allow it to explode, yet, as tie shells in
question had not been so charged, no suspicion of any
danger occurred to the mind of any of the spectators.
However, the dreadful result proves that, either the in-
ventor had by mistake employed one of his long-timed
shells, or some error had occurred in the arrangement
of the charge. Dr. Ryan had left the ground only a
very short time to return to town, when Mr. Bucking-
ham and James Taylor proceeded to remove the exploded
shells. One of these had been already in the hands
of two or three persons, when Taylor took it for the pur-
pose of washing the earth off its surface. lie was in the
act of stooping when the shell burst, carrying away both,
the poor fellow's hands, and wounding him most dread-
fully in the legs. A portion of the shell entered the
right cheek, carrying away the lower jaw, and then
passing out on the side of the neck ; yet, strange to say,
without injuring the carotid artery. Tourniquets were
immediately applied to the arms and legs, and with'all
speed the sufferer was conveyed to St. George's Ilespi.
tal, where he arrived, as might be expected, in a state of
collapse He rallied, however, in the course of the even-
ing, and Mr. Tatham proceeded to remove the remaining
fragments of the horribly fractured jawbone, and after-
wards performed amputation on both arms, just below
the elbow. Notwithstanding these injuries, Taylor is
perfectly sensible, and some faint hopes are entertained
of his recovery, a result hardly to. be desired in his mu-
tilated state. Dr. Ryan had himself examined the shell
before leaving the ground, being perfectly convinced that
it was a failure ; his feelings, therefore, may be well
imagined, when, in two hours afterwards, he saw Taylor
in the accident ward of St. George's, an evidence of his
own providential escape.
SOCIETY OF ARTS.—At the meeting of the Soeiel
last night, an interesting paper by Mr: Milton, on Britis
and foreign honey, and the management of bees, was
read, and the thanks of tho society were unanimously
awarded to him. After this a model of the Grehior
Mobile, or rotatory granary was produced, and a short
paper, explanatory of its objects, was read by Mr.
\Vhishaw, the secretary. The machine, which is in-
tended to preserve corn, was exhibited at the meeting of
the British Association for this year. It consists of a
hollow cylinder composed of wire gauze and timber, so
constructed as to admit the air, and divided within into
several compartments for the reception of the grain. At
one end is a vane connected with a tube, by which the
air admitted through the wire gauze is carried off, and
a free current preserved. The whole machine revolves
upon an axis, and receives its motion by a slight manual
exertion. Thus the corn within is shifted at pleasure
sometbing like coffee in a roaster, by the simple motion
of a wheel instead of the present laborious method, and
fermentation, decomposition, destruction by vermin, and
all other casualties to which grain in store is subiect„
are, as alleged by the inventor, more effectually pre-
vented. This machine is already extensively in use in
France, and it is said there is one at Brest capable of
holding 800 quarters. The expense of erecting one is.
estimated at about IL fur every quarter of wheat it is
capable of containing. The thanks of the society were
then voted to Mr. Birmingham, by whom the model was
exhibited, and the meeting was adjourned to Wednesday
next.

Sir James Graham left town yesterday morning
for Burleigh, the seat of the Marquis of Exeter, to
hue the houour of meeting her Majesty.

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