The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-01 00:00:00

TIRE srJN, LONDON, FRI A Y EVENING-, NOVEMBER l, 1844.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING,--(THI.S DA V.)

LONDON, Nov. 1.--Wind this days% noon, E.S.E.
DEAL, OCT,. 3!..---Wind moderate ; 9 P.M., S.E.,
fresh breete.—Arrd. Johan Carl, Talberg, Trinidad de
Cuba for Bremen; her Majesty's steamer Lightning,
West. Sid. Natchez, Boston; Medora, Halifax. _

PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 31.—Wind Sid her Ma-
jesty's steamer Eclair, coast of Afriea. Arrd. her Ma-
jesty's ship Fair Rosamond, Halifax, 9th inst.
PLYMOUTH, OCT. 31.—Wind E.S.E , strong gales.—
Arrd. Tweed, Lakeman, Quebec; Susan, Abrashank,
Labrador. Sld. William Bromham, Sierra Leone; British
Queen, Ichaboe.
FALMOUTH, OCT. 31.—Wind, S.S.E. to S.E., strong
breezes, and sqaally.—Arrd. Daddin, Newcastle for
Oporto, leaky, with loss of sail ; Young Captain, Pratt,
Ichaboe, Aug. 28; Norma, Bahia.
LIVERPOOL, OCT. 31.—Wind S.S.E., fresh.—Arrd.
Georgiana, 111`Grath, Quebec. Sld. Monarch. Shang-
hae ; North Pole, Manilla; Jumna, Calcutta ; Manley,
Colombia River ; Ida, Africa ; Whitehaven, Barbadoes;
Peggy, Jamaica; Sapphiras, New Orleans; Dumbarton,
Philadelphia ; Kathleen, St. John's, New Brunswick.
Off, England, Quebec.
SCILLY, OCT. 28.—Arrd. Eliza, Gallon, Grenada. A.
boat, apparently a stern or quarter boat, marked " Nel-
son, of London, Robert Wright," was picked up the 23d
instant on this island.

4fI7,SOITTIIAMPTON, OCT. 31.—S1d. Royal Tar
Steamer,Lisbon, &c.

OFF ICHABOE, OCT. 28.--;
eva, of Hull.
SooLoo EicA,
370 barr 1 6.—Gra,,hopper, out eight months,
e...; sperm; Griffin, out Ulm months, 300 barrels
YARMOUTH, If3Lt 01' WIGHT, OCT. 30.—The Ham-
burgh brig Catharine (iron laden) is reported to have
sunk off St. Catharine's last night; crew landed at Fresh-
water-gate Bay.
SLIGO, OCT. 28.—The Jane, Campbell, of Greenock,
got aground at Oyster Island, and was subsequently in
contact with the steamer Rover; the former lost bow-
sprit, &c.
lIULL, OCT. 31.—Arrd. Normanton, St. John's, New
Brunswick; Cove, Lien Burning, and Leadbetter, New
Brunswick; Guadiana, Quebec; Ocean, do.
HAI-mien, OCT. 31.—The Alexandre, from St. Peters-
burgh to Bayonne, has been assisted in here leaky, and
with loss of rudder, having been ashore on the Kentish
Knock.

THE GAME MANIA.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN,

SlR,—The game-preserving gentry and the game
enactments are now becoming a by-word and matter of
ridicule. There is as much squabbling amongst them
(for the sport and the profit they have) as with so many
boys about their playthings.
The mania is really contemptible, and it is time some-
thing was done to put down the nuisance, for such it has
really become.
Nov. 1, 1844.

LOOKER-ON.

LIMERICK AND WATERFORD RAILWAY: The
shares in this project are being taken with the greatest
avidity. Ere many days more the entire will be dis-
posed of. So favourably is the enterprise received in
this district that nearly 2,000 shares have been taken in
the city alone.—Limerich Reporter.
We have great pleasure in informing the friends
and contributors to the testimonial to Rowland Hill,
Esq„ that upwards of 1001. has been raised in this town,
and that after paying all incidattal expenses, 1011. 10s.
Bd. has been remitted to the secretary in London.—Ply-
mouth Journal.

Some uneasiness has been occasioned at the west-
end of North Shields during the last few days in conse-
quence of the surface of the earth having in several
places, principally adjacent to the old gig-road leading
from the Bull Ring to the Newcastle Turnpike, sunk or
slipped from fifteen to eighteen itches. So singular a
circumstance has, as may be supposed, been attributed
to various causes, but the most common alleged one is
that this movement of the earth has been occasioned by
certain mining operations in the coal beds which inter-
sect the bowels of the earth in that locality.--Tyne
Mercury.
NEW MA/SUFACTURIL—A new feature in the silk
glove trade has come to light, gloves being now made of
silk without and cotton within. This is effected by having
two carrier needles, the inner needle laying a silk thread
at the same time that the outer needle is laying a cotton
one under the jack-sinker nebs. The method is simple,
and it is a desideratum that has been long sought for, to
make a good plated article from the stocking-frame.
There is an advantage to the wearer in these gloves, as
they have all the elegant appearanc of silk, and pull on
and off with much greater facility than gloves all silk,
which, when the hand is damp, are difficult to be got off.
—Nottingham Review.
Silt WILLIAM FOLLETT.-Dr. Bright, whose pro-
fessional services were devoted to the Attorney-General
since his departure for Italy, returned to this country on
Saturday last from Milan, leaving his patient there
greatly improved in health. Sir William Follett does
not intend returning to England before February

NEWCASTLE AND CARLISLE RAILWAT.--(511 Wed-
nesday, the six o'clock train from Carlisle, when be-
tween Prudhoe and Hag Bank, went through a drove of
eleven cattle which had strayed upon the line,
and passed over and killed three belonging to
Mr. Laws. It appears that the regular watch-
man proceeded along his beat and found the line
free from impediments, but it is supposed that the
gate had been opened by some poachers, as very shortly
before the servant of Mr. Laws had been to the field and
seen everything to be correct. Though the engine was
thrown off, no accident occurred, neither was any shock
felt by the passengers, to convey whom to Newcastle
coaches were sent. It seems that, from the numerous
roads crossing the line, the Company exercise great
vigilance in watching it, and have men stationed at regu•
lar distances, whose duty it is to see it clear previously
to a train passing ; in this instance, both the engineman
and the patrol saw each others lanthorns.—Newcastle
Advertiser.

TAMAR SILVER AND LEAD MINING COMPANY.--
Yesterday, the annual meeting of this company was
held at the office, 44, Finsbury-square, Mr. Joseph
Grout in the chair. The report was read by Mr.
Stainsby, one of the directors, from which it appeared
that the prospects of the mine were much improving. At
the north mine operations had been conducted with a
view of developing the lode and communicating with the
operations at Wheal Hancock, which was fully expected
to be successful. At Wheal Hancock the nature of the
ground was highly encouraging, and a school had been
established, through the efforts of Mrs. P. Johnson, for
the education of the miners after the hours of labour, at
which a hundred and forty persons attended. The di-
rectors recommended the smelting of their own ores, in-
stead of getting them done by other companies, from
which a great saving would arise towards an increased
dividend. The total receipts for the ores sold in the
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THE IRISH GREAT SMOKERS.--The Irish peasantry,
with scarcely an exception, are great smokers. The
remark applies to the women as well as the men. The
men usually begin smoking very young. I have seen
lads with their pipes in their mouth who were not more
than fourteen or fifteen years of age. The women do
not begin until they are past forty. There are excep-
tions no doubt, but they are few. I could not learn a
single instance of any unmarried female smoking before
she had got to the wrong side of forty. When strangers
speak to the Irish peasantry about their habit of smok-
ing, and point it out as one which is at once unpleasant
to others and injurious to themselves, their invariable
answer is, that it is forced upon them by their poverty.
This may, at first sight, seem a contradiction, and yet
it is, in a sense, quite true ; for the tobacco operates as
a stimulant, and many of them who have no means of
procuring a breakfast, manage to do without one by
what they call a " draught " of the pipe. It is this con-
sideration alone that prevents some great effort, similar
to the temperance movement, being made by the more
influential friends of Ireland to induce the peasantry to
renounce the habit of smoking.—lmpressions of Irelv,i,d
and the Irish, by the Author of "Random Recollections."
ESCAPE OF AN ELEPHANT.—After the performance
at Van Amburgh's Amphitheatre in Chapel Field, on
Friday evening last, the elephant was removed to a gig-
house at the Tuns Inn, opposite the city gaol, and
chained to two largo iron stakes, which were driven a
considerable way into the ground. The keeper locked
the gig-house door, and retired to bed at the Tuns.
Between twelve and one o'clock, the neighbours were
dreadfully alarmed at finding the huge animal had left
his house, and gone for a little country air. They im-
mediately gave the alarm to the inmates at the Tuns, and
the keeper dressed with all speed and pursued his ward,
accompanied by Mr. Kemp, Jun., with a lantern. After
they had passed Mr. Unthank's, they were enabled to
discover the route of the huge creature by hearing his
chains rattle. He had got about three-quarters of a
mile on the road, and the keeper, when within a hundred
yards of the docile animal, gave the word to him to stop
and turn back ; the mandate was instantly obeyed; and
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in consequence of the keeper having given the elephant
a little more chain than usual, the sagacious beast had
taken advantage of it, by forcing the bolt of the,lock.
with his trunk.—Norfolk Chronicle.
THE COXLODGE COLLIERY EXPLOSION.--An in-
quest was held on Wednesday night, by adjournment,
at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, on the body of William Collin,
who, it will be remembered, received severe injuries by
the recent explosion of Coxlodge Colliery, and who died
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MR. STURGE A TEETOTALLER..—CASE OF CON-
SCIENCE.--A good deal of amusement has been excited
by the announcement in the last monthly Corn Circular
of the Messrs. Sturge, that the firm intend in future to
decline the sale of malting barley I—Ten Towns' Mes-
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ORTING INTELLIGENCE.

NEWMARKET HOUGHTON 'MEETING.
TUESDAY NIGHT, TWELVE C;CFOCIL---,The following
match wfts not, deeided when our eipinss left
Atr. .t,helleys Prince of Wales, 3 yrs, 80t 71b (Nat),
beat Lord Exeter's Pergularia, 3 yrs, Bst 21b (Mann).
100, h ft. T.Y.C.-7 to 4 agst the Prince, who made
all the running, and won in a canter, by three lengths.
Match (Friday).-6 to 4on Oakley agst Naworth.
THE RATAN AEFAIR.
The report of the Committee has been laid before a
general meeting of the Club, and will be published
officially next week. We understand that Rogers and
Braham will be warned of the Heath, and that the
former will be prohibited from riding at Newmarket, or
any other place under the control of the Stewards of
the Jockey Club. The parties supposed to have been
implicated by the evidence of Rogers and his confederate,
are, we hear, exonerated from all dishonesty of pur-
pose ; but the Committee express their disapprobation
of the practice of gentlemen receiving and executing
commissions for jockies) and others intrusted with the
charge of race-horses. It is not the intention of the
Club to publish the evidence.
The match between Alice Hawthorn and Foig-a-
bfiagh will not be run ; Mr. Irwin receives 150 forfeit.
The following matches are made for Saturday :
Mr. Irwin's Foig-a-ballagh, 3 yrs, Bst, agst Lord
G. Bentinck's Naworth, aged, 6st 31b. D.I. 200, h ft.
Mr. Irwin's Mickey Free, 3 yrs, Bst, agst Lord George
Bentinek's All-round .my-hat, 3 yrs, ist 51b. Ab.M.
200, h ft.

Several other matches are on the tapis.
THURSDAY'S RACES.
Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, for three yrs old, 7st 41b;
four yrs, Bst 41b ; five yrs and upwards, Bst 111 b.
A.F. Mares and geldings allowed 3 lbs. Winner to
be sold for 2501., &c. (5 Subs.)
Mr. Bamsbottom's Pine-Apple, 4 yrs (Bell) 1
Mr. Booth's Priscilla Tomboy, 5 yrs 2
Mr. Gregory's Barricade, 3 yrs 3
Mr. Payne's Walpole, 3 yrs
6 to 4 agst Walpole, and 2 to 1 agst Pine-Apple. Pine-
Apple made steady running all the way, and won easy by
a length.
Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, for 2 yrs old, 7st ; and
3 yrs, Bst 121 b; fillies andkeldings allowed 21b; winner
to he sold for 80 sovs. T.Y.C. 11 Subs.
Lord Maidstone's f You-don't-Say-so, 2 yrs (Abdale) 1
Gel. Peel's f by Slane, out of Mary Ann, 2 yrs
The following also started, but were not placed :
Lord Exeter's Dr. Hill, 3 yrs—Mr. Dawson's Teresa, 3
yrs—Mr. Francis's Seven's-the-Main, 3 yrs—Mr. Law's
Mainstay, 2 yrs—Mr. Rogers's St. Domingo, 2 yrs—Mr.
Edwards's Hedgehog, 2 yrs—Mr. Hesseltine's Jessie
Hammond, 2 'yrs—Mr. Gurney's Landlord, 2 yrs—and
Mr. Hook's Wild Roe. .
Betting-7 to 4 agst Jessie Hammond, 4 to 1 agst
Mary Ann filly, 6 to 1 agst You-don't-say-so, 6 to 1 agst
Hedgehog, and 7 to I agst St. Domingo.
Four or five false starts, in two of which Jessie Ham-
mond overpowered her rider, and ran nearly half the
distance. At the final start iledgehog jumped off with
a lead of four or five lengths, and with You-don't-say-so,
Colonel Peel's filly, and Dr. Hill in her wake, made
strong running into the cords; it was then taken from
her by You-dont-say-so, who went on with it unchal-
lenged to the end, and won easy by a length ; Jessie
Hammond lost start, but reached the first ruck at the
finish, and made a dead heat for third with St. Domingo,
both well up; Hedgehog was a capital fifth.
Handicap Sweepstakes of 15 sous. each, 10 ft, foz:,..two yrs
old. D.M.I

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Mr. Dawson's Crim Con, Bst 41b (Lye) 1
Mr. Bristow's Carissima, Bst 41b
Mr. Newton's f by Jerry, out of Pastille, 7st 21b 3
Lord Chesterfield's f by Hornsea, out of iGame-lass,

Bst 71b 4
Mr. Deakin's Caractacus, ist 71b
6 to 4 agst Crim Con, 5 to 2 agst Game Lass filly, and
sto 1 agst Pastille filly. The lot ran in a cluster for
about half-way, when the Pastille filly took the lead,
followed by Game Lass filly and Crim Con, Carissima
lying off. In this order they came to the cords, where
Crim Con went up, and after a-tolerable race, won by a
length. Carissima came at the last, and beat the Pas-
tille filly for second by a head.
Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, for two year old colts,
Bst 71b ; and fillies, Bst 41b. T. Y. C. Winner to be
sold for 150 L, &c. (3 SubS.)
Mr. Edwards' Full Sail walked over.
Sweepstakes of 50 soya. each,
_h ft, for two yrs old colts,

Bst 71b • and fillies, Bst 4111 Ab.M. (8-Subs.)
5t02 on Old England. The favourite made all the
running, followed by Prologue, Plaudit lying off, until
within a quarter of a mile from home ; the run in was
very close, Old England winning by a neck, and Plaudit
beating Prologue for second by a head.
Match, 200. R.M., T.Y.C.—Lord G. Bentinck's All-
round-my-Hat, Bst 31b, received forfeit from Lord Glas-
gow's Sister to Give-him-a-Name, 7st 51b.
Match, 200, h ft. T.Y.C.—Lord Stradbroke's Evenus,
51b, received forfeit from Sir J. Hawley's Bishop of

Romford's Cob, Bst 51b.
Match, 200. T.Y.C.—Duke of Bedford's Oakley, 9st
61b (Robinson), beat Lord G. Bentinek's Naworth, 7st
51b (Nat).-5 to 4on Oakley. Won by a length, easy.
Match, 200, h ft. D.l.—Mr. Osbaldeston s Sorella,
lOst 71b (Owner), beat Sir J. Hawley'a Venus, list 31b
(Nat.)-6 to son Venus. Won in a canter by six lengths.
The D.I. Plate was not run when our parcel was for-
warded,
RUNNING REIN AND CRENOLINE.

The following was posted in the betting rooms this
mornit, :
The Two Year Old Plate in October, 1843, has been
awarded to Crenolins ; all persons who backed her are
entitled to receive, and those who betted against Mir are
bound to pay. • " STRADBROKE.
" EXETER.
" GEORGE BYNG."
SALE OF THE LATE DUKE OF GRAFTON'S
YEARLINGS AND FOALS.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PoßrsmouTn.—Rear-Admiral Hyde Parker being
on leave of absence, his flag has been struck on board
the Victory, 104, and the duties of the dockyard are
for the present presided over by the chief master at-
tendant, Mr. W. Pardo; Captain George Moubray, of
fife yictory, having charge and command of the ships
in
- - -

Admiral Sir C. nowley's flag is flying on hoard the
tinnery-chip Excellent, during the absence of the
bt. Vincent, 120, on the trial cruise. It is confi-
dently said that the Neptune, 120, will be the next
flag-ship at Portsmouth. This magnificent ship has
never yet been at sea, having been at moorings in this
harbour for many years.
The Apollo troop frigate, Commander Maclean, is
ordered to touch at Cork, previously to going to Gib-
raltar and Malta. She left Spithead on Saturday,
having on board royal artillery and other detachments
to join their reinvents in the Mediterranean.
The Queen s steam yacht Victoria and Albert
is ordered to be taken into dock for further im-
provements. The promotion consequent on her
Majesty's marine excursion has taken place, and in-
cludes Commander Hall (who so distinguished himself
in China in the Nemesis steamer), the senior Lieute-
nant Tringham, who commanded the Nautilus brig
tender, and Messrs. the Hon. G. Douglas and L.
Pigott, mates.
'1 he Eclair steam-ship, Commander Estcourt, is to
join Commodore Jones's squadron on the west of
Africa. She has been in this harbour several days,
completing her machinery, having been hurried away
from Chatham to this port, and in attendance on her
Rbj esty.
We are still without orders for the commissioning
of any large ships. The Hastings, 72, will probably
be the first. She is intended as the flag-ship in the
West Indies, to relieve the Illustrious, 72 ; but the
name of the Admiral has not yet transpired.
The steam-ship Hecla, Commander Duffill, has left
this harbour to rejoin Sir Edward Owen, at Malta,
having been dispatched home with the news of the
Morocco treaty.—Brighton Gazette.

DEATH FROM APOPLEXY PRODUCED BY EXCITE•
MENT.—The inhabitants of the romantic vicinity of
Broms-berrow-hill were greatly alarmed on Sunday, by
a report that a poor old man, 82 years of age, named
Thomas Baker, had been murdered by his son. who
had also attempted to murder his wife, and had after•
wards cut his own throat. The facts happily turned
out to be very different, and much less alarming than
the fearful colouring which they had been made to
assume. It seems that the son, who is a middle-aged
man, is a person of dissipated habits, and of exceed-
ingly violent temper when under the influence of liquor.
Coming home in that state on Sunday, a quarrel arose
between him and his wife, and it is said that he at
tempted or threatened to stab her with his knife. His
aged father, who had a slight fit in the morning, desired
the wife to make her escape, which she did. The old
man then rose and walked across the house, it is sup-
posed for the purpose of expostulating with his son on
his bad conduct, when, owing probably to the excite-
ment, he was seized with a fatal attack of apoplexy, as
was testified by the surgeon, and died instantly. The
son, who had been taken into custody, was consequently
released. It is to be hoped that a lesson has been taught
him which will induce him to become for the future a
steady, sober, and industrious man.— Glaucester paper.

METHOD PRACTISED IN GERMANY IN PAINTING
WALLS AND CEILINGS.—For large paintings it is de-
sirable that the ground should be somewhat rough. In
Munich it is prepared as follows :—A mortar composed
of three parts of sand and one of lime is spread on the
wall. When this is done, the whole surface, while moist,
is rubbed with a linen cloth ; the result is a granulated
ground, like rough paper. For small works, ornaments,
&c., the ground requires to be smooth, and in such cases
finely-pounded white marble should be mixed with the
lime instead of sand ' • the mortar so composed being
then carefully spread and made even. The encaustic
vehicle is prepared as follows :—To one pound of recti-
fied spirit of turpentine add half a pound of Damara
resin and a quarter of a pound of wax. The resin
should be pounded to powder, and the wax cut up in
small pieces. Both are then to be put into an earthen-
ware or copper vessel, and the spirit of turpentine poured
on them. Place the vessel on a moderate charcoal fire,
so that the solution may take place slowly. When the
ingredients are dissolved, the vehicle is ready for use, and
should be kept in a glass bottle well stopped, to prevent
the volatile oil from escaping. Should the mixture be-
come too thick in time, spirit of turpentine may be added.
The colours are ground in such a quantity of this vehicle
as is necessary to saturate them. If during the grinding
the pigment tends to set (dry), spirit of turpentine should
be added. For extensive paintings the colours are kept
in glass vessels. For smaller works they may be tied up
in bladders, like colours for oil-painting. The same
colours which are employed in oil may also be used in
encaustic-painting.—The Builder.
THE OVERLAND ROUTE TO INDIA.--ALEXANDRIA,
SEPT. 26.—The English transit affairs seem to demand
the particular vigilance of the Diplomacy. It appears
that on the part of England new proposals are being
made to the Viceroy for the establishment of a railroad
between Cairo and Suez ; the representatives of the
other Powers at the same time, less or more directly,
exerting their influence to prevent Mehemet Ali from
granting to the English such exclusive advantages, which
would produce manifold difficulties, and prove detri-
mental to him and to his country. To execute such a
costly undertaking at his own expense would be impos-
sible with the miserable financial state of the country.
Why spend millions, sad why withdraw thousands of
fellahs from the cultivation of the soil, to save the British
ten hours of time, and a few shillings of transport
charges, which the poor Bedouin is earning at present
with his faithful dromedary ? We must further take
into consideration what immense expenses and difficul-
ties would accrue to keep such a railroad in order, and
to guard it sufficiently, because the nitric vapours of the
desert, the moveable sands, and the Bedouins, deprived
of their earnings, would severally contribute to destroy
the railroad, or to render it at least from time to time
useless. The representatives of several other States
seem therefore to have acted quite right in dissuading
the Paoha, who formerly appeared quite willing to un-
dertake it, from building this railroad, and drawing, on
the contrary, his attention to the practicability of re-
storing and finishing the great canal between the Red
Sea and the Mediterranean. This great work, even if
only commenced during his reign, would hand the fame
of Mehemet Ali down to posterity, and offer to all sea-
faring nations, the English excepted (?), incalculable
advantages, raising at the same time Egypt to a degree
of importance for all European nations, which would be
a guarantee for its neutrality, because no State would
like to see this important point in the hands of a
powerful European Government.—German Universal
Gazette.
THE FIFTH OF NOVEMBER.—As this day of
juvenile rejoicing and prank-playing is near at hand, it
should be remembered that the Act 3 Geo. IV., c. 126,
makes it illegal to light a bonfire or discharge fireworks
within a distance of eighty feet from the centre of a
turnpike-road.
'We are gratified to learn that Lord Granville
Somerset, the Chancellor of the Duchy, has nominated
Mr. Horace Twiss Vice-Chancellor of the County Pala-
tine of Lancaster, in the room of the late Mr. Holt, with
a seat in her Majesty's council of the Duchy. It is not
by his professional brethren alone that any distinction
bestowed upon Mr. Twiss will be heard of with pleasure.
Politicians of all parties, and literary men of all ranks,
will derive satisfaction-from the success of a gentleman,
who, in times of the greatest party heats and strife, could
firmly and consistently maintain his own principles with-
out asperity or wilful injustice to opponents ; and who
has just crowned a literary life more laborious and more
important in its labours than the world is perhaps aware
of, by a biographical work, which, in point of interest
and permanent value, is not surpassed by any of the class
to which it belongs.—Morning Chronicle.
SUICIDE OF A PARISH OFFlCER.—Yesterday fore-
noon Mr. Wakley, M.P., held an inquest on the body of
Mr. Robert:Fairs, aged 49, at his late residence, No. 3,
Charles- street, Northampton-square, Clerkenwell. It
appeared from the evidence that the deceased held the
office of registrar of births, marriages, and deaths, for
one of the districts of Clerkenwell, as also that of a
collector, which latter situation he had filled for a num-
ber of years, and was highly respected by the pa-
rishioners. On Tuesday morning the deceased got up
rather before his usual time, leaving his wife in bed.
From thence he proceeded to the servant's room, and
told her to get up. Some time after this the servant
went down stairs, and on entering the back kitchen she
found her master lying on the floor weltering in blood,
he having cut his throat in a shocking manner. An
alarm was given, and medical aid procured, but life was
extinct. The deceased had been very desponding of
late in consequence of pecuniary embarrassments, and
had only a few days before endeavoured to take poison,
but was prevented. The jury ultimately returned a ver-
dict of " 'Temporary insanity."
MINISTERIAL CHANGES.—It is reported, in circles
likely to be correctly informed, that Lord Haddington
is about to retire as First Lord of the Admiralty, and
that Lord Ellenborough will take his place. The fre-
quent interruptions of health to which Lord Hadding-
ton is sub%ject, and which have materially impaired his
official efficiency, renders his Lordship's retirement from
office by no means unlikely ; while the desire which the
Cabinet must feel to propitiate Lord Ellenborough before
the meeting of Parliament, by providing him with a
good post, in lieu of that from which kis Lordship has
been recalled, gives an air of probability to the latter
portion of the rumour.—Evening paper.
On Friday afternoon the Bankruptcy Court was
crowded during the examination of Miehal Jacob, a
Jewish insolvent. The keen and cautious answers of an
ancient Hebrew, named Alexander, living in Sunder-
land, created considerable amusement, and the order of
the Court was now and then disturbed by laughter, as
the wily dealer parried the cross-examination to which
he was subjected. Among other questions, the Commis-
sioner inquired what sum the bankrupt had asked of the
witness for certain spying-glasses, to which Alexander
replied, in the true phraseology of Holywell-street, that
he had asked " a good prishe.' —Tyne Mercury.
STABBING UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF GAS.--At
the exhibition of the laughing gas, by Professor Elliot-
son, at Washington Hall last evening, a sailor under the
effects of the exhiliration cut the rope with which he
was confined, rushed amongst the spectators, and seizing
another sailor, gave him several severe and dangerous
wounds with a jack-knife. The wounded man was taken
across the street, and upon examination by physicians it
was found that a deep wound was inflicted under the
shoulder, and another, in the back, near the vertebrae.
The sailors were unknown to each other. The wounds
are not considered mortal--Boston Post.

MAGAZINE DAY.
BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE.
Miss Elizabeth Barrett's recently published volume
of poems—which we noticed a few weeks since in
The Sun—forms the subject of a judicious and elo-
quent criticism in the present Number of this
periodical. The Reviewer justly remarks :—" If the
poetess does not always eornmand Qur unqualified
approbation, we are at all times disposed i 6 Pend in
reverence before the deep-hearted and highly-accom-
plished woman—a woman whose powers appear to
us to extend over a wider and profounder range of
thought and feeling than ever before fell within the
intellectual compass of any of the softer sex." This
is high praise, but it is not undeserved. Indeed, we
will go even further, and say that in Miss Barrett's
poems there are frequent evidences of a truer and
deeper sensibility than has ever yet been exhibited by
any female writer In the language. In all she writes,
she writes evidently from the heart. There is no
straining after effect—no hunting about for startling
or novel imagery. She contents herself for the most
part with the simplest and most obvious forms of ex-
pression ; never writes for mere writing's sake, but
comes to a halt the instant she has fully expressed
and exhausted the feeling of the moment. As we
admire Mrs. Hernans for the exquisite polish of her
language, and Miss Landon for her force and bril-
liancy, so we admire Miss Barrett for the depth and
purity and sacredness of her feeling. Her poem of
"Bertha in the Lane" is, of its kind, the truest to the
human heart of any in the language, and we defy
any one to read it without being deeply moved by its
impassioned sensibility. Alluding to this lady's imi-
tations occasionally of the classical writers, the Re-
viewer says, "The purity of their diction, and nothing
elm, has been their passport to immortality." Surely
this is a most unjust dictum ! Is there nothing we
admire in the Medea of Euripides, or the (Edipus
Coloneus of Sophocles, but the purity of their die-
tion ? Does the Reviewer forget the incomparable
tenderness of sentiment shown in the closing scenes
of the one ; or the majestic sublimity that charac-
terises the whole description of the passing away of
the aged Edipus from earth in presence of his
daughters, amid the gloom of that mysterious grove
where the awful voice of destiny alone breaks on the
awful stillness of the hour ? Again, do we admire
nothing in the gay, convivial, worldly Horace—the
fanciful and luxuriant Ovid—or the subtle, metaphy-
sical Lucretius, but the " purity of their diction ?" It
is not by their style alone that authors gain immor-
tality, but by their thoughts and sentiment ; and it is
for their excellence in these respects, as well as for
the graces of their language, that we still pay willing
homage to the genius of the great writers of antiquity.
" The O'Connell Case" is an account, evidently drawn
up by a lawyer, of the reversal of the verdict in the
Irish State'frials delivered by the House of Lords. It
is rather late in the day to discuss such a question,
but it is impartially and skilfully canvassed. "My
College Sketch " is a lively sketch, the dialogue por-
tions of which possesses ease and spirit. The " Tomb-
less Man" is an impressive poem, in which Delta
essays a higher flight than he has yet ventured to
undertake. We quote from " Marston, or the Me-
moirs of a Statesman," a vigorous description of the
first attack on Valenciennes by the allied armies in
the revolutionary year 1793 :

" But in the interval, important changes were made in
the formation of the columns. The French lines had
been found of unexpected strength, and the Guards were
pushed forward to head a grand division placed under
command of General Ferrari. The British were, of
course, under the immediate orders of an officer of their
own, and a more gallant one never led troops under fire.
I now, for the first time, saw the general who was after-
wards destined to sweep the French out of Egypt, and
inflict the first real blow on the military supremacy of
Franco under Napoleon. General Abercromby was then
in the full vigour of life ; a strongly formed, manly
figure, a quiet but keen eye, and a countenance of re-
markable steadiness and thought, all gave the indications
of a mind firm in all the contingencies of war. Exactly
at noon, the fog drew up as suddenly as it had de-
scended, and we had a full view of the enemy's army.
No foreign force ever exhibits so showy and soldierly an
appearance as the British. The blue of the French and
Prussians look black, and the white of the Austrian
looks faded and feeble, compared with ,the scarlet. As I
cast my glance along our lines, they looked like trails of
flame. The French were drawn up in columns in front
of their camp, which, by the most extraordinary exer-
tion, they had covered during the night with numerous
batteries, and fortified with a circle of powerful re-
doubts ; the guns of the fortress defended their flank and
rear, and their position was evidently of the most formid-
able kind. But all view was lost, from the moment when
the head of our brigade advanced. Every gun that could
be brought to bear upon us opened at once, and all was
enveloped in smoke. For a full hour we could see no-
thing but the effect of the grape-shot on our own ranks
as we poured on, and hear nothing but the roar of the
batteries. But at length shouts began to arise in distant
parts of the field, and we felt that the division which
had been appointed to assault the rear of the camp was
making progress. Walmoden, commanding a brigade
under Ferrari, now galloped up, to ascertain whether
our men were ready to assault the intrenchments. The
British troops are always ready,' was Abercromby's ex-
pressive, and somewhat indignant, answer. In the in-
stant of our rushing forward, an aide-de-camp rode up,
to acquaint the general that the column under the Duke
of York had already stormed three redoubts. Gentle-
men,' said Abercromby, turning to the colonels round
him, we must try to save our friends further trouble—
forward !' Within a quarter of an hour we were within
the enemy's lines, every battery was stormed or turned,
and the French were in confusion. Some hurried to-
wards the fortress, which now began to fire ; a large
body fled into the open country, and fell into the hands
of his Royal Highness ; and some, seizing the boats on
the river, dropped down with the stream: All was
victory : yet this was to be my day of ill luck. In pur-
suing the enemy towards the fortress, a battalion, which
had attempted to cover the retreat, broke at the moment
when my company were on the point of charging them.
This was too tempting a chance to be resisted ; we
rushed on, taking prisoners at every step, until we ac-
tually came within sight of the gate by which the fugi •
tives were making their escape into town. But we were
in a trap, and soon felt that we were discovered, by a
heavy discharge of musketry from the rampart. We had
now only to return on our steps, and I had just given the
word, when the firing was renewed from a bastion,ronnd
which we were hurrying in the twilight. I felt a sudden
shock, like that of electricity, which struck me down ; I
made a struggle to rise on my feet, but my strength
wholly failed me,'and I lost all recollection.
" On my restoration to my senses, in a few hours
after, I found that I had been carried into the town, and
placed in the military hospital. My first impulse was,
to examine whether any of my brave fellows had shared
my misfortune ; but all round me were French,
wounded in' the engagement of the day. My next source
of congratulation was, that I bad no limb broken. The
shot had struck me in the temple, and glanced off with-
out entering ; but I had lost much blood, had been
trampled, and felt a degree of exhaustion, which gave the
nearest conception to actual death."

BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY.

In Mr. Murray's present chapter of the " Physio-
logy of London Life" there occurs the following re-
mark, which we quote for its strict caustic truth :
" The delapidated habitations of the rich, abandoned
by their advance in the comforts and decencies of life,
degenerate into abodes of the poor. There is no such
thing thought of, with all our thinking, as providing
the poor with habitations fitted to their wants and
means, unless they become chargeable to us as pau-
pers; humble industry may hide its head where it
can ; so long as it is in working order we take no
heed of it ; but the moment it is demoralised or de-
pauperised, we have the most elegant model prisons
to correct it, and the most beautiful union work-
houses to lock it up in." The " House in the
Terrain" is an interesting account of a painter's ad-
venture in Paris, with two thieves who broke into the
chamber where he was sleeping, and attempted to
murder him. Luckily their attempt was frustrated,
and the painter escaped with a few slight wounds.
The " Gaol Chaplain " contains a clever story, illus-
trative of the crime of incendiarism, and the suffer-
ings in which it originates. The " Private Secre-
tary" is an interesting sketch of character by a writer
who signs himself Albany Poyntz. The " Gates of
Death" is an impressive narrative, by Bayle St.
John, in which the horrors of the battle-field are de-
scribed with singular force and truthfulness. The
" Fortunes of the " Scattergood Family" is some-
what prosy this month. From an article on " Eton
Scenes and Eton Men," we subjoin a brief sketch of
the Duke of Wellington when an Eton Boy .
" The first and noblest character of the present age to
be mentioned in connexion with Eton scenes and Eton
men, must be the Duke of Wellington. Wellington was
an Eton boy, and if tradition may be credited, a daring
and adventurous one. He seems to have been a lad not
given to much study and painful research into books,
Nature having already placed an original stamp upon
him, and presented him with the highly-favoured signet
of her own right hand. He who is now familiarly called
the Iron Duke,' might well have been, in the earlier
stages of life yclept the Iron Boy. Instances of the
Duke's hardiness, or rather, of young Wellesley's hardi-
ness (as then simply was) are on record ; and among
them is related, that when all the good burgomasters
and thrifty tradesmen of Windsor and Eton had
retired to rest, young Wellesley on the commence-
ment of a cold winter's night would be proceeding up
old icy Father Thames, in a lonely skiff, to the vicinity
of Maidenhead-bridge, and there, wrapt in single blanket,
and watching with single gun, he would be ready by
day-break to get a shot at the wild ducks, or other
wild fowl, which were accustomed to congregate under
shelter of the eyots, and other harbours of refuge on the
Thames.
" Every one to his taste,' a fashionably dandy will
exclaim ; but young Wellesley was no man of fashion,
and his tastes were all of the daring and grand. When
we consider the stratagem necessary at a school like
Eton to achieve what Wellesley did ; perhaps the
squeezing through a small window, and traversing
frozen roofs of houses ; the obtaining clandestinely the
gun, and the skiff, and ammunition, with conveyance of
his blanket, and the needful prog ; and then the diffi-
culty of an undiscovered return, loaded with booty.
Let us think of these things, and then acknowledge in
the very boy that something prognosticated the wonder-
ful and unexampled career of the European Duke. The
poet Wordsworth, another Wellington in his way, has