The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-06 00:00:00

FREE TRADE MEETING.

Yesterday evening a numerous meeting of the fre,-
traders, and others opposed to monopoly, was held in the
_ Theatre, :emington. The chair was announced to be
taken at half-pst seven o'cicck, but the proceedings did
..fit commence for some time after. Several respectable
. inhabitants of the neighbourhood occupied seats on time
platform, a,,d the building- was in every part crowded.
On Mr. Thompson, Mr. Moore and other gentle men
connected with the Anti-Corn-law League ascending the
platform, they were most loudly cheered. The chair was
taken by Samuel Lucas, Eq.. It may be added that
several of the agents- of the monopolist party showed
their great alarm and consternation by distributing large
quantities of anti-League tracts.
The CHAIRMAN, having expressed his satisfaction at
being called to preside, stated that he was of opinion the
present movement of the League was likely to, strike
more terror into the enemy than any other of that
body. Meetings were being held in Lancashire, Cheshire,
and other counties, ifor the purpose of augmenting the
free-trade registration. Such also was! the case with
Middlesex. He therefore trusted that the people of
Kensington district would come forward and exert them-
selves in the cause. After some further remarks the
Chairman concluded by introducing
Mr. R. R. MOORS, who commenced by saying that, on
entering the meeting, he had a tract placed in his hand,
which set out by stating that while there was great ad-
vocacy of free trade throughout the country, there was
no consideration of the effects which would be produced
by the carrying out of those doctrines.—(Hear, hear.)
He (Mr. Moore) wondered how such an assertion could
be made at the present time, as no subject bad ever more
engrossed the attention of the League, than the condition
of the working and labouring classes. Since they had
last met in the neighbourhood. the state of" things had
altered considerably ; there had been agitation for free
trade when food was high, and wages low. Since then
wages had become higher, and the price of food had
lowered.—(Cheers.) Wheat was reduced nearly fifteen
shillings per quarter ; still the advocates of monopoly,
and the members of protection societies, asserted that
free trade would be injurious to the labouring classes.
The Dukes of Richmond, Buckingham, and other ad-
vocates of monopoly, professed, while they were merely
serving their own purposes, to be the friends of the
labourers. Now, he (Sir. Moore) considered that they
would be more benefiting their country, by stating how
a man with a large family was to live on little more
than 191. per annum.—(Hear, hear.) In the agricultu-
ral districts, able-bodied men, as he stated on a former
occasion, did not receive more than eight shillings per
week.—(Hear.) The monopolists had also asserted that
those employed in the manufacturing districts were most
cruelly treated. Mr. Moore very\ably refuted this state-
ment, by extracts from several documents, and showed
that those who left the agricultural for the manufacturing
districts, were much better remunerated for their labour
in the latter.—(Cheers.) The League, however, had at
length forced the aristocracy of the country to admit
even at their agricultural dinners—(Laughter)--that
the labourers were in a most deplorable condition, still
not a single measure as a remedy had been proposed.—
[A voice—Cricket!l--(Laughter.) Yes, continued Mr.
Moore, Lord John Manners had proposed cricket, but
for what purpose he knew not. Perhaps while playing
at cricket the hunger might be diverted from them.—
(Laughter.) Another had proposed agricultural dinners.
—(Laughter.) Still an agricultural dinner might not be
a bad thing, for at it a labourer might be able to obtain
a dinner for once in the year.—(Continued laughter.)
Others had proposed allotments of land; but the people
did not want allotments in charity—they wanted and were
entitled to the use of the /and throughout the world.
This right the corn-laws denied to the people of this
country.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. Moore, at some further
length, and with his usual eloquence, showed the ridicu-
lousness of the long arguments advanced against free
trade, and more fully alluded to the pamphlet before
spoken of. He next said that there had been long state-
ments made to the effect that the League was dead. The
present state of the registries was, however, an answer
to such assertions. At the last election for Lancashire
the free-trade candidate was beaten by more than five
hundred votes; notwithstanding, by great exertion the
League had changed the state of affairs, and now there
was a free-trade majority-On OK registry of nearly
1,300 votes. At the next election there would be a re-
turn of two free-traders.—(Cheers.) They were also
exerting themselves in Cheshire, Yorkshire, and other
places. To the boroughs much attention had also been
paid. He could at once come to the great metropolitan
county of Middlesex and impress on those connected
with it to register as soon as possible. In Middlesex
there were not more than 13,000 voters, while in a divi-
sion of Lancashire there were at present 20,000.—(Hear,
hear.) A freehold, he might add, could be obtained very
easily—it s ould not cost more than 50L, and a more
eligible investmentcould not possibly be made.—(Cheers.)
Mr. Moore next alluded to the forthcoming Bazaar, and
expressed a hope that the contributions from the inhabi-
tants of London, and the ladies in particular, would be
such as to reflect credit on the metropolis. After im-
pressing on the meeting the necessity of attending to
the registration, Mr. Moore retired amidst continued
cheering.
Mr. GEo. THOMPSON next came forward and addressed
the meeting at great length, and was heard most at-
tentively throughout. The Learned Gentleman did not
conclude until a late hour.

The following resolution was then unanimously car-
ried:—" That this meeting has heard with pleasure the
progress made by the League in the registration courts
during this year, and is deeply interested in the present
movement to increase the number of free trade county
freeholders, and pledges itself to the most strenuous t x-
ertions to increase the number of freeholders in the
county of Middlesex. And this meeting further pro-
mises its most cordial support to the great League
Bazaar, to be held in Covent-garden Theatre in May
next."
After a vote of thanks to the Chairman and the other
gentlemen who took part in the meeting, the proceedings
terminated.

THE FACTORY QUESTION.
Lord Ashley, it igto be presumed, has laid in a new
stock of courage and resolution since he handed over to
the Home Secretary the cause...of-Ms helpless manufac-
turing clients. The smart of a failure is the best of all
stimulants to some minds, and that stimulant certainly
has been applied to the Noble Lord. It will be warning
strangely thrown away if, with his present experience,
of the warfare, he repeats the capitulation of last Easter.
There are some whom the :ensuing session will not see
at their post ; and, on the other hand, there are causes
Thewh claims
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humanitypressedw will
h growingnot, on
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ne-
glected. Amongst other subjects, there is reason to ex-
pect that the case of the agricultural labourer will be
handled more thoroughly than ever since it first came to
the light of political day. Lord Ashley, of course, will
take care that he is not the chief defaulter, and that
other grievances besides those: of the smock-frock shall
be attended to. At present his Lordship has committed
himself with all that generosity and fulness we expect to
find in the first promises of an aristocratical agitator.
In reply to a question from the Manchester Short-time
Committee, he announces, in a letter which we published
yesterday, that he sees no reason why the question of the
Ten Hours' Bill should not be renewed at the earliest pos-
sible period; and will endeavour, on the first night of tke
session, to fix a day for bringing the subject again
under the consideration of the House. So there can be no
doubt but that we shall have two or three good speeches
on the subject, containing the fruits of much reading and
many interviews, and giving to the contents of bulky
reports that publicity which, but for the cognate inven-
tion of opening addresses they would seldom attain.
But something besides proclamation of war and impetu-
ous attack is necessary. Rome was not built, Troy was
not taken, or the Peninsula cleared of its Imperial in-
vaders, in a day. Staunch leaders and disciplined armies
are mutual necessities, without which neither can
escape discomfiture. Shakespeare has drawn the charac-
ter of an agitator a little above his work, who, having
given his hand to articles of peace rather too easily,
while expecting to see a triumphant parade of his army
' previous to their formal disbanding, was told—
" My Lord, our army is dispersed already ;
Like youthful steers unyoked, they take their courses

East,"west, north, south; or, like a" school broke up,
Each hurries towards his home and sporting place ;"
and while the intelligence still rung in his ears,
found himself a helpless captive in the hands of a
crafty and uncompromised foe. Should his Lordship
benefit by his experience, and that so far as to carry the
object which the future historian will associate with his
name, it would be some consolation if the delay had
brought to pass that it was not carried just in the shape
and guise it wore last year. It cannot be denied, that
on the whole, spite of a few inconsiderable salvos, it had
the very ill look of a hostile inroad on the manufacturing
interest, considered as a faction of the political world.
As far as it had this look, we do not hesitate to say that
it deserved a present defeat. To consider the manu-
facturers by position an injury to society is an absurdity
too gross to admit of illustration or comment. To con-
sider them generally less humane than the average of
other capitalists and employers, is a calumny too shame-
ful to be seriously refuted. In position, of course they
are benefactors—more than benefactors—absolutely
necessary. In character, they are much like other men.
A hearty recognition of these two facts we believe to be
requisite to the ultimate success of Lord Ashley's cause.
Something more than words too, is, or will be, wanted
to show the sincerity of this recognition. Humanity
as well as justice must be even-handed. Burning
indignation at the twelve hours' slavery of the
female operative must not go together with an eco-
nomical endurance of the workhouse test, and rural
families existing on Bs. a-week. The factory and the
cottage must be regarded with equal eye. Charity
begins at home. The most studied protestations will
not save an agricultural Lord from the reproach of a
factious philanthropy, if he husbands the yearnings of
his bowels for a brief spring campaign in Parliament,
and still briefer autumnal tour in the manufacturing dis-
tricts. He must not see only what he annually looks
for, and be wilfully blind to what is daily obtruded on
his eyes. A sentence or two, a demonstration or two, a
feeble proposition about better cottages whispered before
a select London auditory, and a chimerical prospectus
charily circulated by post, will seem but tame expe-
dients, hardly befitting the boldness of a man who, for
one peculiar and adopted class of clients, can ,shake
Ministry to its basis, face assembled populations of ope.
ratives, and, what is more than all, hold private corre-
spondence and intercourse with public-house committees
and fustian delegates. Tliese are the things which show
a man sincere—sincere, at least, in his impulses and
first endeavours. If Lord.Aahley, too, wishes fairly to
grasp the subject, and.meet its real difficulties, he must
not shirk the commercial view of the question, The
profitable employment of increasing millions within this
narrow isle is as muck a matter of figures as the affairs
of a domestic household. It is child's play, and worse,
to spend without income, to sit idle when the shelf is
empty, and advocate a different view of economical ques-
- Lions on Monday morning and 04 Saturday night. As

t.fen ventured to remind Lord Ashy
so we remind him now, in time for a fe.v
He asks the nation to be benevolent. It is the
which must be benevolent, if it adm;ts of reason
proof, as is alleged, that the manufacturer, with hi,
existing burdens, cannot.— Times.

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CORONERS' INQUESTS.

DEATH OF MR. RIDLEY, OF THE NEW BELL'S

MEssENGEn."—Last bight an inquest was held before
Mr. Higgs, at the George the Fourth, Clare-market, as
to the death of Mr. J. Ridley, aged 33, for many years
connected with the New Belts Messenger.
Mr. James Duncumbe, the surgeon of King's Collee,f-
Hospital, said he had been attending the deceased's wife,
and was called in to see him on Monday. He was
almost insensible, and did not appear to know what was
said to him. He was instantly removed to the hospital,
but died about two o'clock on Wednesday. There was
a bruise on the head, and two large fractures on the
base of the skull, and these injuries caused his death,
probably from the effects of a fall.

- Ann Andrews, of No. 9, Grove-place, Kennington,
stated that the deceased was her son-in-law, and in con-
sequence of his wife's confinement, she had been stay-
ing at their house in W3ch-street. On Sunday he left
home at two o'clock, and at one on Monday morning
she heard him fall at the foot of the stairs. Blood was
then flowing from his head, and he was quite senseless.
She requested a policeman to take him to the hospital,
but he said he must first go to the station, to which he
was taken on a stretcher. The surgeon there imme-
diately attended to him, and applied plaster to the
wounds. He had not been in bed when she saw him at
the station -house, nor was there any fire in the cell. On
Monday afternoon she and a policeman took him home.
On the Saturday night he had been brought home very
drunk.

John Wood, 131 F, said that when he was called into
the house, No. 6, Wych-street, he was lying down in
the passage, and as it was thought he was woumlud he
was taken to the station-house. The magistrate dis-
charged him, as no complaint was made against him.
He was able to walk home and up stairs by himself.
Inspector Black stated the cell was heated with hot
air, and he was taken in more out of kindness, and he
was attended by a man the whole night.
Mr. Baker, the beadle, said the potman at the Printer's
Arms, New Church-court, Strand, told him the de -
ceased had been pitched into on the Saturday night, at
the Cock and Magpie, Drury-lane.
The potman was called, and then stated some one had
told him.

After a great deal of evidence, the jury had the room
cleared, and returneJ a verdict, that the deceased died
from the effects of a fall, or otherwiie, but the imme-
diate cause the jury cannot ascertain.
One of the jury, after the Coroner had written it, said
that the verdict must be altered "to a blow or other
violence," and that was accordingly inserted amid much
laugh ter.

SOICIDE IN THE SERPENTINE.—Mr. Higgs held an
inquest yesterday at the Rose and Crown, Knights-
bridge, on the body of a girl of genteel appearance, name
unknown, who drowned herself in the Serpentine.
Robert Harvey, police-constable 48 A, said that on
Wednesday morning last, while on duty in Hyde-park,
his attention was drawn to a bonnet which had been
washed on the banks of the river. He shortly after-
wards saw the deceased's body not many yards distant,
and having called Mr. Williams, the superintendent of
the Royal Humane Society, it was dragged ashore.
From the marks on the gravel he thought that she had
rushed in head foremost. Her person might be de-
scribed thus :—About twenty years of age, dark brown
hair, blue eyes, five feet four or five in height, well pro-
portioned, with round limbs and features, and a large
scar on the right arm. The following was the dress she
wore :—Straw bonnet with blue ribbons, black shawl
with red border, gown of mouselliue-de-laine, striped
with blue, jean boots, cotton stockings, and under gar-
ments of the usual description. In her ears were a pair
of solid gold and rather valuable earrings, and her dress
altogether was extremely good. Mr. Herbert Williams
said that no one saw her go into the water, indeed he
had often noticed that persons who went there to drown
themselves took great care not to let any one see them.
The Coroner said it was rather a strange thing that
females nearly always took off their bonnet and care-
fully folded up their shawl before they leaped in, whether
from the bridge or bank. Verdict, " Found drowned."

COWES, DEC. s.—This morning arrived here the
Swedish barque William of Gothenburg, from Torre-
'feeble, Alicant, laden with salt, having been run into
by an unknown vessel, during Tuesday night. She was
fallen in with the next morning by her Majesty's Revenue
cutter Stag, Lieutenant Clark, about four leagues to the
southward of St. Catherine's Point, Isle of Wight, from
whence the Stag towed her into this port. The barque
has lost her main and wizen-masts, also her headyards,
and is otherwise in a very crippled state. She has on
board part of the figure-head of the vessel which run
into her. The monster steam-ship dock, constructing at
this port by Messrs. Thomas and John White, is ex-
pected to be completed in about three weeks, when one
of the large steam-ships will be taken into it.—From
our Correspondent.
ALEXANDRIA, Nov. 22.—Great43reparations are
being made for the opening of the dry do k, which is to
take place in a few days. The town is to be illuminated
on the occasion, and Mehemet Ali is expected from Cairo
to be present at the ceremony. Mr. Bourne left for
Cairo, where Artin Bey, the Prime Minister, is at pre-
sent, immediately after the receipt of his letter by the
English steamer. The Pacha has contracted with a
Greek firm of this place for the whole crop of senna for
the next five years, at eleven dollars per canter, and with
another Greek house for the whole quantity of saltpetre
which Egypt may produce fur the next two years, at 85
piastres per canter, payable in assignments, now at a
discount of 12 per cent. So much for free trade ! The
Great Liverpool steamer arrived on the 20th from Malta
and Southampton with 90 passengers, half of whom
were ladies. The facility with which the overland jour-
ney from England to India is now performed is prov. d
by the great number of ladies who undertake it alone,
and without any mishap ever occurring. On board. the
Great Liverpool there was a very young lady, daughter
of a General in India, who was quite unattended. She
herself had to settle for her transit through Egypt, and
started from Alexandria for Suez with the rest of the
passengers with the fullest confidence of joining her pa-
rents in safety. 'rho Great Liverpool will sail on her
return voyage to-morrow morning, although the mails
reached Alexandria yesterday evening. This delay has
been caused by the non-arrival of the Bombay passen-
gers, who cannot reach here before to-night, having been
detained at Cairo by the want of a steamer there, all the
Nile boats being at Atfeh. Had the Pacha granted per-
mission to the Peninsular and Oriental Company's new
iron steamer Delta to enter the Nile, this detention
would not have taken place.
A FIGHT IN A MENAGERIE.—We find the follow,.
ing in the Verdad of Barcelona of the 25th ult A
sanguinary combat took place yesterday between the
wild beasts of the menagerie of M. Borelli. A jackal
threw himself suddenly upon a wolf. The wolf having
recoiled from the attack, the jackal became elated with
his easy victory, and flew at a female hyena. This ani-
mal,-in her fury, revenged herself upon the wolf, and
the male hyena, irritated at the insult to the female,
joined in the attack upon the innocent wolf, and tore
him dreadfully. M. Borelli was absent, but his daughter,
with heroic intrepidity, entered the cage, to the great
horror of the spectators, who expected that she would
be devoured. She seized the jackal, and forced him into
another den, and, striking the female hyena, drove her
from the wolf, and so confined her apart. The combat
between the male hyena and the wolf, however, continued
until the arrival of M. Borelli, who had great difficulty
in separating them, and not before the poor wolf had
his legs broken and his belly ripped up."
The Gazette of Tuesday last contains an Order in
Council regarding the admission of sugar from Vene-
zuela into this country. The order recites that portion
of the last Sugar Duty Bill which alludes to the admis-
sion of this produce from China, Java, Manilla, &c., at
a duty of 345. per cwt., and five per cent., a certificate
being given that this sugar is not the produce of slave
labour, and of course that it is not refined. The present
order extends the benefit of this Act to Venezuela, the
order having force from the 28th ult. A considerable
stir has been made as to the existence of slavery in this
State, though we think the fact, if it is so, ought to be
first ascertained.

RUNNING MATCH FOR TEN POUNDS A-SIDE.--On
Wednesday morning a foot race came off near the Earl
of Moira public-house, at Shooter's-hill, between Crisp,
the Eltham pet, and Davis, of London. The distance to
be contested was two miles, which having been measured,
the pedestrians came to the starting mark, and a good
deal of betting took place, the men being backed at even.
At the signal they went away well together, and Davis,
at a lead of fifteen yards, performed the first mile in five
minutes and three seconds. They strenuously contended
till within 400 yards of the goal, when it became quite
manifest that the pace was too swift for Davis, and Crisp
ran in the winner, accomplishing the two miles in eleven
minutes and thirty seconds.
LAUDABLE PATRONAGE.—We are gratified to hear
that, on its being recently represented to Sir Robert Peel
that Mr. Peach, a very meritorious officer in the coast
guard night service, in Cornwall, with a very large family
and small pay, has for some years past, during the in-
tervals of his duty, made valuable researches in marine
geology, which he has comMunicated to the meetings of
the British Association for the Advancement of Science;
and that be had also made collections in fossil conchology,
which have been of much service to the ordnance geo-
logical survey of Cornwall ; Lady Peel has been pleased
to confer on Mrs. Peach a pension for her life, from a
small and limited fund which long usage has placed under
the control of the lady of the Prime Minister, in con-
sideration of the scientific merits of her husband, and
testimony borne to his good character.—Literary, Gazette.
ST. MART-LE-STRAND.—Two charity sermons will
be preached on the ensuing Sunday in the church of St.
Mary-le-Strand, in aid of the charity schools of thy.
parish, and the precincts of the Savoy. So excellent an
object, in our own immediate neighbourhood, has our
best wishes, and we trust that the appeal will not he
made in vain. We may add that the boy's school has
been in existence 136 years, the time it has lasted, sup-
ported -by the benevoleuce of the public, being a proof of
its utility.
HOUSE OF COMMONS COMMITTEE-RQOMS.--In con-
sequence of several of the old committee-rooms being re-
quired, in order to proceed with the building of the new
Houses of Parliament, workmen are now busily em-
ployed in erecting temporary rooms in Palace•yard,
facing the entrance to Westminster Hail i which will be
completed before the opening of the session in February
neg.
TUE PILCHARD FISIIERY.—SeveraI shoals of pil-
chards passed through St. Ives Bay on Sunday, but none
have beg!' seen since. The drift boats are bringing it
very fine herrings, but the catches are not great, in Con-
sequence of the brightness 9f t,11,4 mom —Falmouth
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(Fl-0111 Pinteh.)
The existing railway arrangements r
perative that you should provide yoursjlp :wit);
large stock of philosophy, to emWe you to put up
with certain inconveniences, which you will be sure,
to a greater or less extent, to encounter on most
lines, and whereof a classification is hereby appended
for your benefit.

First Class.—The chief inconvenience peculiar to
this class is, that your fare will be about twice as
much as you ought in fairness to pay. You run,
perhaps, rather less risk in this class than in the others
of havingyour neck broken ; but you must not be
unprepared for such a contingency.
Second Class.—ln travelling by the second class
you will do well to wear a respirator, unless you
wish to be choked with du,t and ashes from
the engine close in front of you. Al,o, if you
are going far, you are reccinmenried to put (..n a
diving-dress, like that used at the P. technic ; be-
cause, if it should rain much duriNg your jour my,
the sides of the carriage being open, you will have to
ride in a pool of water. Your &gnity must not be
hurt, should you have for next neighbour a raga•
muffin in
.handcuffs, with a policetnan next hint.
The hardness of your seat is a mere trifle ; that is
the least of the annoyances to which you tire judi-
ciously subjected, with the view of driving you into
the first-class train.

Third Class.—Make up your mind for urmitigated
hail, rain, sleet, snow, thunder, and lightning. Look
out for a double allowance of smoke, dust, dirt, and
everything that is disagreeable. Be content to run a
twofold risk of loss of life and limb. Do not expect
the luxury of a seat. As an individual and a tra-
veller, you are one of the low( r classes—a pom•r, beg-
garly, contemptible person—and your comfort and
convenience are not to be attended to.

All Three Classes.—Punctuality may he thc soul
of business, but suppose not that it is the spirit of
railways. If you do not care whether you keep an
appointment or not, make it on the faith c: f the com-
pany, by all means; but otherwise by acne. Regard.
starting, or arriving at your destination, only half-
an-hour too late, as luck. You pay nothing
extra to attendants for civility, so you must
not hope for it. Remember that you are
at% the mercy of the clinpany, as to where
you may stop for refreshments ; for which, ac.
cordingly, be not surprised if you have to p:iy through
the nose. Beware, if you quit the train for an in-
stant, lest it move on ; you have paid your money,
the rest is your own look out, nod; you may depend,
will be no one else's. For lo3s and damage of lug-
gage, and the like little mishaps, prepare yourself as
a matter of course; and if at the end of your jour-
ney you find yourself in a whole skin—thank y our
stars.

LOSS OF THII; PRESIDENT.
INGENIOUS MODE OF " RAISING THE WIND."
On Monday morning, Mr. James Reny, the Se-
cretary of the Liverpool Guardian Society, received
a letter from Edinburgh, informing him that a prin-
ter, or pretended printer, of the name of Jo!n Neale,
had been apprehended in that city, on a charge of
having obtained money from the public by means of
the representations contained in a printed paper. A
copy of the document was enclosed to Mr. Reay, with
the view of his ascertaining whether it was genuine or
fictitious. It set forth that a meeting of the Ladies'
Association had been held in the RotundA Rooms,
Liverpool, in January, 1843, for the purpose of
raising funds to relieve the orphans and widows
of those who had perished in the President, and
that a Rev. Mr. Field presided on the occasion, and
delivered an opening speech. Then followed the
speech, drawn up with considerable tact and skill,
in which the Rev. Chairman was made to enlarge
upon the lamentable catastrophe which had occurred,
to speak of the sufferings of the bereaved survivors in
language of the most humane and Christianlike sym-
pathy, and to conclude by attributing the ad event
to one of the inscrutable providences of an all-wise,
merciful, and immaculate God. A resolution was
nett given, to the effect that the widows and orphans
of the deceased were deserving objects of comp s-
sion; a Mrs. Ferguson and Mr. Sterling were said
to have been appointed as collectors of subscriptions ;
and a statement was made that 3001. were collected
at the close of the meeting. Then followed a list of
donations, with the names of the donors. Her Ma-
jesty was down for 1001,; Prince Albert for 50/. ; the
Duke of Devonshire for 100/. ; the Earl of Sutton for
100/. ; Bishop of Chester for 20/. ; Potter, Brothers,
for 201.; the Messrs. Hornby for 20/. ; the Misses —,
who had lost their father on board, 20/. ; and so on,
all in a printed form, and executed in excellent typo-
graphy, on a sheet of letter paper of superior qua-
lity. So far as Mr. Reay's inquiries have gone, it
would appear that the whole was a most ingeniously
contrived scheme. No such meeting of the Ladies'
Association was, it seems, held at the Rotunda
Rooms ; there is not any reverend gentleman, of any
denomination, of the name of Field in Liverpool ; Mr.
Sterling and Mrs. Ferguson are unknown ; and some
of the parties who are represented as having contri-
buted 20/, deny that they ever gave a shilling. Fur-
ther inquiries will, however, he made, and the result
will be communicated to Edinburgh. - We under-
stand that a copy of a similar document has been
taken round in some of the towns in England and Ire.
land.—Liverpool Courier.

LOVE'S DISGUISE.
An affair of rather an extraordinary Mature is
at present being investigated by t!',e Bombay
Magistrates, in which a Parsee youth of a pleasing
exterior is defendant. The young man is charged
with having induced the fair wife of a friend
to elope with him from the house of her husband
at Poonah, and bring away with 11,:r several
articles of jewellery. It appears that the injured hus-
band was for some time previous to the elopement
laid up with sore eyes; the defendant introduced him-
self as a physician, and was engag, d by the plaintiff
as his 'Medical attendant, during which time he ma-
naged to seduce the affections of his patron's wife,
and planned the elopement, which was ultimately
carried into effect, under the guise of the profession
which he had assumed ; he made the credulous hus-
band believe that he would insure him a complete
cure in one night, if he would submit to his eyes
being bandaged for that time. The bandage was ac-
cordingly put on, and kept on till the next morning-,
when he himself removed it, and found too late that
he had been hoaxed. He called for the doctor,
who was not, of course, to be found ; he then called
for his wife, but she likewise not being in the house, he
inquired of the neighbonrs if they had seen her, when
his astonishment may be conceived at being told that
she had, the night before, been seen in company with
the doctor on the road to Bombay. lie imme-
diately set out in search of the runaways, and
succeeded in reaching Bombay a day after them, but
did not meet them. On Saturday last he met the
defendant in the streets, and immediately gave him
into the custody of a policeman • search-warrants
were shortly issued, but his wife has not as yet been
found, and the prisoner denies all knowledge of her
after his leaving the house of the complainant. There
is no doubt but that the lady is well satisfied with her
situation, and is in concealment.—Agra Ahbar.

MISDIRECTED INGENIIITY.—Mr. Warner, an inge-
nious watchmaker and jeweller, who occupies a stand
at the Polytechnic Institution, has completed the
model of a high-pressure steam-engine, so small that
it stands upon a four-penny piece with ground to
spare ! It is the most curious specimen of minute
workmanship ever seen, each part being made
according to scale, and the whole occupying so small a
space that, with the exception of the flywheel, it might be
covered with a thimble. It is not simply a model out-
wardly; it works with the greatest activity by mains of
atmospheric pressure (in lieu of steam), and the
motion of the little thing as its parts are seen
labouring and heaving under the first influence
is indescribably curious and beautiful. Some months
, have been expended upon the structure of this Lilli-
putian engine by Mr. Warner; and the difficulty of
the undertaking may be easily conceived when it is
remembered how minute the valves, piston, sockets,
screws and hidden apparatus must be, end how
accurately they must be moulded and fitted, to in-
sure unbroken functional motion. It is altogether
a pretty toy, and an extraordinary instance of what
patience, persevereance, and expert artisan: hip, can
accomplish. But Mr. Warner is a practised hand
at such curiosities. His cases abound with arti-
cles manufactured for elfin use. Ile has eei„ors
so minute that some hundreds of them e.o to the
ounce ; and there are knives belonging to the came
family, which, small as they are, open and shut with a
smart disk. Quantities of other things are there of a
like kind, made with the greatest neatness, requiring
eyes of microscopie clearness to ascertain their full per-
fections. Mr. %Verner, we should imagine, works ex-
clusively for the fairies--no (I,:abt ht. is entite d. by let-
ters patent, to wear Oberon's arms over his doe.e,--.
Mechanic's Magazine.
SoUTLIEND.—A singular accident occurrA here a
few nights since. The commander of a brig bound from
Colchester to London, mistaking the lights at the new
pier works for that at " Mount Misery'point, ran upon,
the piling, and was completely transfixed by one of the
piles penetrating the bottom of the vessel, and which the
nl,xt morning appeared about four feet above her deck,
The crew were landed in safety..._Essex Herald.
THE BISHOP of EXETER.—The Rev. C. V. Le
Griee, the venerable and deservedly beloved clergyman
whom Harr of Exeter prays for so spitefully in his
" Judgment," has addressed a letter "To the Mereteees
of the Protestant Reformed Church of Englandt" vin-
dicating himself (it was scarcely necessary) from the
Bishop's aspersions, and conveying at the
.siime time a
lesson to the proud Prelate, which he Hill hot act wisely
in despising.—Patriot.
A WINDY DEATH.—A few days ago, Mr. J
Ticicell, accompanied by the organist of Cockermouth
church, proceeded to examine one of the pipes of that
instrument which did not "speak," when-they discovered
in it the body of a dead bird, with its head ont of the
ionth of the pipe.—Tyse Merely v.

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