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when he wanted to scour across the country in double:
quick time." He left the Griffin at ten o'clock, and the
tire, which was three miles from that public-house, was
first teen at eleven. At half-past twelve he was seen
skulking under a wall at Honington, a place midway
betwixt Rymer's-point and his own house, which
he reached at one o'clock. He told the
woman who was sitting up for him, that
1- there was a noble fire at old Gaylord's, and his
stacks and all were levelled with the ground, and he
wished Gayford was burnt as well." He added, he
should like to serve two or three more of them so ; that
was the only way to get rid of Kersey Cooper. (Mr.
Cooper is steward to the Duke of Grafton, the prose-
cutor's landlord). He further said, the proper way to
be sure to get rid- of Cooper was to set his ricks on fire,
and drop a note for the Duke of Euston-hall, saying
" Duke, if you don't get rid of your steward, you'll hear
more about it" On the morning after the Ere the foot-
steps of the - prisoner were traced from a gap in the
hedge of a field which adjoins the prosecutor's. stack-
yard, in a direction from the Griffin to the property that
was burnt, and also from the stacks in a direction that
led to Honington and Tapston. The prisoner was after-
wards apprehendedon this charge, and gave an account
to the constable of the way in which he went home from
the Griffin, which was consist-nt with his innocence, but
wholly inconsistent with the evidence of his being seen
at Honington, and of his footsteps being traced-as
already mentioned. In. addition to this evidence, one
Shadbolt a convicted felon, who was in the gaol with
the prisoner, depoied to a circumstantialconfession whit h
he said the prisoner made to him. _

Mr. DmiENT addressed the jury for the prisoner,
whom they found Guilty after the Learned Judge had
summed up the evidence, and he was sentenced to be
transported for life.
After the-prison Pr's condemnation, he was handcuffed
to another convict, and taken from court in order to be
removed in the van to prison. As he was passing from
the door of the court to the van, he contrived to get his
hand free of the handcuff, and to make his escape through
the crowd. It was past eight o'clock when this oc-
curred, and it was of course dark ; for a minute or two
he was not missed, and he has not since been heard of.
No blame whatever is attributable to the gaoler or his
assistants.

Mr. Justice PATTEsort (assisted by Mr. Sergeaw AT-
CrIERLEY) then disposed of two or three other cases 01
arson, and the assizes for:the county and the circuit ended,

CENTRAL CRI VIINAL COURT.

The sixth session of the present Mayoralty commenced
yesterday;' before the .Right lion. the Lord Mayor,
Recorder, Sheriff, and other Civic authorities.
There are at present 260 prisoners for trial ; but that
number will eery probably be increased to about ario
before the Grand Jury are discharged.
Upon the Court being opened,
• The LORD MAYOR said that he wished to allude to the
circumstance of the public being refused admission to
the galleries of the Court, which were the only places
where they could be accomm,idated without paying sums
of money, varying from five to twenty shiilings, accord-
ing to the importance or interest of the occasion. lie
thought that this ought not to be. The public had a
right to admission to a court of justice, and no money
should be demanded from thein.
The RECORDER said, undciubtedly, as a general rule,
the public were entitled to admission, but at the same
time, care should be taken that order was-preserved, and
the Court protected from inconvenience. If any rules
had been framed relative to the admisSion of parties to
the Court, it wasn question whether, upon a sudden,
those rules should be interferedegith without considera-
tion, or that the public should-be admitted indiscrimi-
nately without some regulations for the preservation of
order.
The LORD MAYOR said that all that was required was,
that an officer should be in the gallery to see that .the
persons con-lucted themselves properly. It was mon-
strous that when any case of public interest, such as that
of Barber and Fletcher was brought forward, the public
should have to pay for admission to hear the trial.
Mr. Sheriff MUSGROVE wished it to be distinctly un-
derstood that he was no party to the taking money for
• admission to the galleries. The Sheriffs had the charge
of the Court, and were bound to keep order in it, and so
far they were responsible; but he had determined to have
nothing to do with the subject of remuneration,- er the
receipt of money fur :the admission of persons to the
gallery.
The LORD MAYOR *was not aware what was done with
the money, but he believed that some portion of it had
h en applied to the payment of the Lord Mayor's sword-
hearer. He, however, would .not receive any portion of
it, and it Was his desire that the public should be admitted
freely to the Court. •
The RECORDER expressed his opinion that this was
hardly an occasion to discuss so important a question,
and he would. merely remark, that the charge of the
Court was vested in the Sheriffs, and it was their duty to
preserve order, Under the authority of the Lord Mayor,
who was the head of the Court. There could be no
doubt that it was illegal to demand money for admission
to a court of ;usticei and any persons who received money
would do it at their-peril, and would subject themselves
to be indicted.
• . .
. Mr. Sheriff MOON begged to be allowed to state that
he had nothing to do with the .receipt of money for ad-
mission to the galleries.
The conversation then droppede -and the Grand Jury
were sworn. ' •
The grand jury having been sworn,
The Reconuen proceeded to delieer his charge. The
calendar, he said, contained the names:of more than 260
prisoners, a great number having been committed since
Friday last. He feared, therefore, that the 'labours of
the grand jury would be somewhat protracted. The
offences contained in the calendar were some of. them of
a very serious character ; but he did not apprehend that
there would be any difficulty with respect to the de-
cision
them. There were several charges of forgery, and ut
tering forged instruments, and
the grand jury wouldan have
d one
e
oftothecs(eimheadt9creu-apotedil.
enti,
a great deal of publiC interest, and in which' several
persons were implicated. These persons were charged
with obtaining, by means of forged instruments,
dividends which had remained for a considerable
time unclaimed. It appeared that by obtaining the
names of the persons to whose credit certain unclaimed
dividends had been placed, the names of the relatives
ptsuch partiei, and the whole history, of the parties
themselves, they were enabled to forge wills, which
purported to have been made by such parties ; and by
those wills they. were enabled to appropriate the un-
claimed dividends to which. the ferged wills related to
themselves. Of course, in conducting such proceedings
as these several persons must-be engaged, end these
persons had aeieral parts assigned to them for the pur-
pose of carrying on the Theejury would have to
take into their consideration the Whole, evidence which
would be laid before them, and they
:would have to say
whether there was sufficient evidence to implicate the
whole of the partie&, indicted, or only part of them.
The evidence would be laid before them, and it would be
for them to consider whether that evidence was sufficient
to justify them in returning a true bill on the ground
of the parties knowing that the wills in question
were forged. No doubt there would be such'
evidence laid before them as would lead to the
conclusion that other parties besides those
in custody had been engaged in the frauds which had
been committed. (The Learned Judge then read section
nine of the 7th George
.IV., C. 64, which bore upon the
tae to ';which he was then referring.) The- evidence
ould be presented to the grand jury, and the question
inquired into before the petit jury.
they would have to decide would be merely whether
theth a t evidencease to
There was another case to which he would turn their
at•ention in particular—it was a charge which had been
instituted against the owner and commander of a vessel
of casting her away. The ca
be w as
fully sufficient
ptain was charged with the
act itself; and the owner with-instigating, counselling,
and abetting him in Si) doing. It' would be fer the jury
tint to consider the case as against the captain, because
if the case against him should fail, of course there would
he no case against the other person accused. He
next adverted to a charge of rape'which had occurred
under somewhat peculiar circumstances, the young
woman who had made the charge having, previous to
the offence being committed, been some time engaged to
the-person who was charged. It would be for the grand
jury to apply their own common sense and experience
to this case, and to say whether, under such circum-
stances, the young woman could be expected to make
the same outcry as she would have done had the party
been a stranger. It appeared that she had made no
outcry w hatever. He (the Recorder) lamented to say
that the calendar contained the names of
.two persons
charged with murder. He did not, however, think it
necessary to make any observations upon these cast s,
because they were merely cases of fact. His Lordship
having briefly alluded to the minor charges contained
in the calendar, then remitted the, grand jury to their
duties, and the Court proceeded to swear the common
jury,

The grand jury then retired.
In the course of the day, Mr. Under-Sheriff ANDERTON
addressed the Recorder from the gallery, and said, that
although he bad given directions that the doors of the
galleries: should be kept locked, some one had opened
them, and sever :1 per:ons who were then in the gallery
had'informed him that they had paid money for their
admission.

The RECORDER gave directions that the person who
had received the money should •be brought into, the body
of the Court, and this was accordingly done.
In answer to questions from the RECORDER, this person
said that he took the money under the authority of Mr.
Dornton. who rented the gallezies from the Sheriffs.
The RECORDER said there could be no doubt that he
was taking the money at the peril of being indicted.
Mr. Under-Sheriff ANDERTON requested the Court to-
give an order for the restitution of the money that had
been receiver.

The RECORDER said he could not take upon himself to
make such an order, but the parties who had paid it
had their remedy.
Mr. Under-Sheriff ANDERTON said he was informed
that the doors of the gallery had been firced open by
order of the Lord 'Mayor. It was impossible for the
.Siwritis to keep order in the Court if they were not per-
mitted to adopt their own measures for that purpose.
The RECORDER thought it would be better not to dis-
cuss the matter any farther at that moment, particularly
as the Lord Mayor had left the Court. All that could
now be done was. to: place an officer in the gallery
to preserve order, and the public would be admitted

without interruption.
THE WILL FORGERIES.
The followint; is the form in which the several parties
charged with being concerned in the Will Forgeries,
stand indicted in the calendar :

Thomas Griffin, 60, tailor ; William Heitry Barber,
35, solicitor ; and Joshua Fletcher, 50, surgeon; are in.

dieted for feloniously aiding, abetting, and assisting a
female unknown, to personate an owner of certain stock,
called the Long Annuities, standing on the books of

the Bank of England, to wit; the sister of one John
Stewart, &c.

William Saunders, 47, fishmonger, Barber, and Flet-
ch,r, are indicted—Saunders for forging and uttering,
end Barber for feloniously uttyrin,r, a testamentary do-
cumentary writing, purporting to 'be the last will and
testament of Mary Hunt, deceased, with intent to de-
fraud our Lady the Queen. - Fletcher is charged with
feloniously meeting, and procuring Saunders to commit
the felony.

Georgiana Dorey, 32, and Barber and Fletcher, are
indicted—Doi ey for uttering a forged writing, purport.
ing to be the last will and testament of Eliza Burchard,
deceased ; and the other two prisoners are charged with
inciting Dorey to the commission of the offence.
Lydia Saunders, 38, and Barbs and Fletcher are
charged upon a fourth indictment—Saunders with utter-
ing a forged paper, purporting to be the last will and
testament of Anne Slack deceased ; and the other pri-
soners, as in the former indictment, with counselling
and prccuring her to commit the offence.
The trials are not expected to conic on before Mon-
day next.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)
CLERKENWELL. • .
Two•inen, nimed Lee and -Porter, were charged as
fol'ows:--

It appeared.from, the evidence that on Sunday,niorr.-
ing the prisonevs we.:e knocking at the door of a man
namned Day, in Elder. walk, Islington, without any law-
ful purpose. Po!iee-constable, 422 N, desired them to
away.go They did So, but -returned again as soon as
the officer had left the walk. The constable,' again hear-
ing knocking at the door, went hack, and saw the pri-
soners striking at the'-same door, Mr. Day'begged of
the officers to remove them ; but 422 had no sooner
placed his hand on Lee's collar' than the latter turned
upon him, and struck him three bloc s on the breast, but
not so as to produce any serious injury, Porter did not
strike the constable, but threatened to do his business
for him. Walker, 88- N, came up, and with his assistance
the prisoners were secured.
Police-sergeant Pagin, N 19, said Lee had three times
undergone six months' imprisonment for assaults on the
police, and was not more than a day or two out of pri-
son. Porter had undergone three months' imprison-
ment for a similar offence.

The prisoners, who could urge nothing to palliatetheir
conduct, wer. s,ntcnced—Lee to pay afine of 10s., and
Porter to find hail.

UNION-HALL.
William Kellich was charged with committing a most
violent assault on his wife, whose life is at present con-
sidered in danger.
It appeared that on Sunday morning the defendant
went into a house where his wife happened to be, and,
havinc, had a previous quarrel with her, he again renewed
it; and, having knocked her down, kicked her in such a
dreadful manner that her life is in danger.
The prisoner's defence was, that he found a man
named Potter in bed with his wife, and that he inflicted
summary vengeance oh the guilty pair. •
Potter, the man alluded to; was present, with his head
frightfully cur, and he denied that any improper con-
nexion took place between the prisoner's wife and him.
Mr. Trail! remanded Kellick until the state of his wife
will allow her to attend.

• WORSHIP-STREET:
ROBBERY AT A BROTHEL.—Yesterday Robert
Wendover, a tall thin man, who wore a shade over
his eyes, and Thomas Dennis, a short and thick-set
man, wearing a smock frock, were placed at the bar
before Mr. Broughton, the Magistrate, on suspicion of
having been concerned in stealing a valuable gold
watch, which was now proved to be the property of
Mr. Bennett, a surgeon, resident in Upper Southwick-
street, Hyde Park.
About noon yesterday the prisoner Dennis offered
a gold watch in pledge for 51., at the shop of Mr.
Peachy, a pawnbroker, in Goswell-street, stating that
he had been sent with it by Mr. Richards, of North-
ampton-square. Mr. Peachy detained him in order
that he Might make inquiry, as he suspected the watch
to have been stolen, but while he turned his back the
prisoner ran away, but was pursued and taken back
to the shop. He got away.again, however, but was
again pursued, and after a hard run and much
chasing, in the course of which he was lost sight of
for a few minutes, he wiis at last found concealed in
a cow-shed, and was given in charge to police-con-
stable 92 G. ;He then said the fact was, that he had
not been sent to pawn the watch by Mr. Richards,
but had it from a man with a shade over his eye, and
he mentioned where that person was then to be found.
Policeman 142 G, said that he went to the St. John
of Jerusalem publx-house, Jerusalem-square, where
he found in the top room the prisoner Wendover, who
had a shade over his eyes, and answered .the descrip-
tion whiCh the other prisoner had given. Wendover
being told that he was taken into custody on suspi-
cion of stealing a gold watch, said he would say no-
thing about it till he got to the station-house, where
-he made a statement to the sergeant on duty.
Sergeant Ellis, who received the charge at the sta-
tion-house,.said Wendover told him that he had found
the watch in Tottenham-court-road, and that he did
not know what had become of a gold chain whioh he
admitted was then attached to it. On searching him
a knife and case, now produced, were found upon
him ; and also a document, produced, which pur-
ported to he the Queen's free pardon from seven
years' transportation.

Mr. Bennett, the surgeon,• now identified the gold
watch, and also a knife and case now produced; and
stated that on Thursday se'nnight he went to a place
in Brook-street with a female, whom he had met in
the New-road. and there lost his watch with gold
,Chain, &c., and also his gold pin, silk handkerchief,
tooth pick, knife and case, and about 19s. in cash.
The prisoner Wendover, who felt his way as he
moved as if nearly blind, now repeated that he had
found the watch; and sent his fellow-prisoner tb pawn
it. He admitted that he had been convicted 'and trans-
ported, but afterwards pardoned, as shown in the pro-
duced document ; but neither he nor the other pri-
soner would state' where they lived. _ ,
Mr. BROUGHTON remanded them both.

OCCUPATIONS-OF THE POPULA-
TION, ACCORDING TO THE CENSUS
OF 1841.

That portion of the census which relates to the'oc-
cupations of the population is only completed. as to
27 counties ; those not yet finished being the follow-
ing thirteen, viz. :—Lancaster, Salop, Somerset,
Hants, Stafford„Suffolk, Surrey, Sussex, Warwick,
_ Westmoreland, Wilts, Worcester, and York. These

,
13 counties inducte the principal manufacturing
counties of England—viz" those of •Lancashire, York-
shire, Staffordshire, and Warwickshire; and there-
fore it may be presumed, that ,the proportions ex-
hibited in the other 27 counties will become still More
favourable to the manufacturing and trading portion
of ..the people, when these great manufacturing
.districts. .are intluded. The proportion: of the
various Classes in 27 counties .in
Bedford, Berks, Bucks, Cambridge, Chester, Corn-
wall, Cumberland, Devon, Dorset,. Derby, Durham,
Essex, Gloucester; 'Hereford, Hertford, Huntingdon,
Kent, Leteeqter, Lincoln, Middlesex, Monmouth,
Norfolk, Northampton, Northumberland, Notting-
ham, Oxford, and Rutlandshire, comprising a popula •
tion of 28,048,321—are as follow :
Farmers, graziers, yedmen

Agricultural labourers 523,294
640,222
Persons employed in trade and othefoceupa-
tions

Persons returned as of independent means 249,635
Residue of population, consisting of almspeo-
ple, pensioners, paupers, beggars, other per-.
sons (of course including females not in
trade, and children) 4,871,609

Total population
The decimal proportions of the different classes may
therefore he thus anted :
Farmers and agriculturid labourers 8 per cent.
Persons t mplo_,,cl in trade and other
occupations - 28.50 „
Persons of independent means
Residue of population " 60.36 „

100• per cent

BARRACK ALLOWANCES.—It has been decided by
the authorities, upon a return called for of all married
officers in Great Britain and Ireland living nut of the
barracks, that cads married officer so living out of bar-
racks in Great Britain shall receive 2s. 6ci. a week for
oals and candles, and in Ireland 2s. 93.
As EXTRAORDINARY FRACAS.—On Saturday
morning, about half-past eight o'clock, a gentleman was
observed limiting in front of the White Horse Tavern,
Fetter-lane, armed with a riding whip of unusual dimen-
sion.;, and apparently in a state of great agitation. On
the arrival of one of the omnibuses connected with the
London and Birmingham Railway, the person in ques-
tion loudly called out to those inside, " Is Mr.
there ?" A gentleman, after a short pause, answered
that his name was that of the individual for whom in-
quiry was made. The interrogator, thereupon, furiously
told him to get out of the omnibus, but. which the
other declined doing, at the same time desiring to know
for what purpose he was required. " I want to horse-
whip you," replied the enraged gentleman, " for your
infamous conduct to my daughter last week." He then
seized the person so charged by the leg, and endeavoured
to drag him out of the vehicle, applying also the formi-
dable weapon in his hand to the boby of the said alleged
delinquent without mercy. The assailant repeatedly
vociferated, " Mr. Chaplin, come out, come out, and see
me horsewhip this miscreant." Ile likewise used many
other epithets of the most opprobrious description. The
byestanders at length interposed, and the omnibus finally
drove off.—Sunduy Times.
HOLLOWAY'S PILLS.—The virtue of this most ex-
traordinary medicine is so admirable and efficacious, that
it wonderfully preserves man in health and strength of
body, and of all the powers and faculties of his mind.
It is a sovereign remedy for all diseases, however bad,
that admit. of a cure. All persons suffering from gene-
ral debility, nervous affections, liver, or bilious com-
plaints, sick headaches, indigestion, want of appetite, as
well as every complaint brought on by sedentary habits;
for all such these pills will be found to give almost im-
mediate relief. Sold (also Holloway's Ointment) at
Professor Holloway's establislunent, 244, Strand (where
advice may be had gratis), and by almost all respectable
medicine vendors throughout the civilised world.

THORWALDSEN.
ne first efficient patron of this great artist was an
ishman. In the year 1800, Thomas Hope, who
had heard of the skill of the young Danish sculptor
at Rome, ordered from him a copy of his colossal
statue of " Jason," in marble, and enabled Bartel
Thorvaldsen to remain and prosecute his studies in
the capital of the arts.

Thorvaldsen (it is thus he wrote his own name)
was born in 1770, during a journey made by his
family from Iceland to Copenhagen. His father,
Golskalk Thorsvaldsen, was a carver of figure-heads
for ships, his- mother the daughter of a clergyman.
The child showed an early disposition for drawing,
and was placed by his parents, whose circumstances
were narrow, at the Arts Academy of Copenhagen,
where he was received without charge. He began
early to exercise his skill, it is said, upon the figure-
heads at which his father laboured, and at which the
young Thorvaldsen would work when he carried his
dinner to the carver at the wlrtrf. At the academy
he gained no prize, however, until 1787, and the
great silver medal two years later, when the historical
painter, Abild,gaard• took a_ fancy to him, and gave
him fukther instruction in the general principles of
art. In 1791, Thorvalclsen gained the small gold
medal for his composition of " Heliodorus chased
from the Temple," and at the same time the pa-
tronage of the Minister of State, Count Reventlow.
In 1793, his mezzo-relievo of "Peter healing a Lame
Man at the Gates of the Temple," obtained for the
young man the great gold medal and the three-
years' travelling studentship.. But before he took
advantage of the means thus afforded to him for
visiting the wonders of art in the south, he devoted
a couple of years to labour at home, and completed
several pieces of sculpture.
On the 20th of May, 1796, Thorvaldsen left Co-
penhagen in a Danish ship of war; but the voyage of
the young sculptor was so tedious and dangerous that
he did not reach Rome till May, 1797, having passed
by Malta, Naples, and Palermo. The presence of the
great works of art which here surrounded him, if they
inspired him with energy and emulation, filled him
often at the same time with despair; and stories are
told of works which were "completed by the young
man, and then broken to pieces and thrust aside in a
corner of his studio. However others might praise
him, he was the last to be contented with himself.
His three years' salary was come to an end, and he
had made preparations to return to Denmark, with
the clay model of the Jason statue, which he had
completed for the academy (after having broken up
the first figure of the natural size), when Mr. Hope
ordered the marble of him, and enabled him, by, his,
munificent remuneration, to remain in Rome. It is
to this timely patronage that we probably owe much
that has been left us by the greatest of modern
masters.

Wealth and honour now flowed in upon him. All the
great patrons of art throughout Europe were anxious
for works from his hands, ard he remained in Rome
until the year 1819; occupied with prodigious activity.
Having to make a monument for the Swiss who fk,ll
at Paris in 1792 (the wounded Lion), he determined
to visit the place where the monument was to be
erected, and at the same time to take the opportunity
of revisiting his native country. While in Copen-
hagen the Government ordered from him statues of
the " Saviour," the "Baptist," and the " Twelve
Apostles," for the Frauenkirche, then newly built ;
and it was with these works that he occupied himself,
especially on his return to Rome.

-He refurned to Copenhagen finally in 1837, having
completed, in the forty-two years of his labour, about
two hundred great works and a great number of busts.
A series of outlines from Thorvaldsen's works
(Stuttgard, 1839), from which the above biographical
sketch is taken, mentions the English possessors of
some of his principal pieces. Mr. llope was the pur-
chaser of the " Jason," the "Psyche," and the " Genius
and Art ;" the Duke of Bedford. of the bas relief of
" Briseis ;" Lord Lucan of the famous " Day and
Night ;" Lord Ashburton of the " Hebe ;" and Lord
F. Egerton of the " Ganymede."

We have received the following from' an eminent
sculptor, to whom Thorwaldsen was known, and the
details he gives of the character of the great man, of
whom he himself is a worthy disciple, and whose in-
tense love of art for its own sake, he shares, will be
read with interest
"Before leaving England, Lady R- took me to
Chantry's studio, that he might give me some advice
how to study. A footman opened the door, and
Cliantry's conversation was all about dukes and
royalty. He never spoke a word to me, but sneered
several times at the idea of any one going to Italy to
study.
" Three weeks after that, one fine morning saw me
knocking at a door in a common stair on the Pincian-
hill at Rome, covered with names in chalk, a mode
adopted by people instead of leaving their cards, on
not finding any one at home. I was fortunate ; and
the artist himself opened the door, in a dressing
gown, old and worn, and his long grey hair flowing
on his shoulders, round a square-shaped head, a
broad and rather low •forehead, under which shone a
pair of the mildest grey eyes I had ever seen. Bene-
volence and simplicity marked. his character. He
carried a piece of clay in one hand, and a modelling
stick in another. The room I entered, upon his cour-
teously asking us to do so (Wyatt, the sculptor, was
with me), had a plain tile floor; the tables were
covered with prints and casts, and the walls were
hung.with early pictures of young artists and parts
of his " Triumph of Alexander." He was making a
small model in clay of his , equestrian statue of
" Maximilian of Bavaria." I used the name of Lady
R- as commissioned to do. He immediately in-
vited me to call on him whenever I chose, at this, his
private studio; and said that any work I wished to
copy in the collection of his works I.was at liberty
to do; that all that was necessary was to inform the
custode of the studio, and the work would he brOught
out for me; -and that if I 11,-.d no materials of my
own, everything in that shape was at my service. I
lost no time, and commenced a. study of his Mer-
cury. • Every day this benevolent, and good, and
true artist came into the principal studio about mid-.
day; he would come up to me, praise my work first,
and then point out errors, and as the most positive
language, take the modelling tool himself, and by a
few strokes inform me of my error,
.and in a manner
which excited in me the most devotional feeling to
this father in art.
" This conduct was uniform, and during my resi-
dence in Rome, for two years, I never, experienced
any difference. I had the use of his study wheneVer
I chose; and whenever I got up a statue at my own
place, Thorwaldsen vt as ever ready to come from the
the Piazza Barbaririi, to the Piazza del Popolo; where
I was, to give me his advice; he -has come these two
miles in a day in July; found me out,. written his
name on my door with a piece of chalk, and that he.
would be back in one. hour, as it might be. He:would-
then go off to some other student to perform a
office, 'assist in arranging his draperies, and then re-
turn to• Me. All this he did for me, and he . never.
expected, 'and I never paid him one farthing. Similar
traits in his character are innumerable, and I believe
no artist yet asked his advice that he did not • feel
noxious to give it ; he really lived, as I have heard
him say an artist ought to do, for art itself. Though
simple in his
.manners, he was the companion of
princes, apparentl:, estitnating them only as they
loved art, and approximated to the artist. The present
King of Bavaria was lila pupil and friend. The Giar-
dino di Malta, belonging to his Majesty opposite
Thorwaldsen's studio, was itself a studio. Everybody
loved Thorwaldsen, and the enthusiasm of his coun-
trymen, when he returned to Copenhagen, having
bequeathed the results of his long life to them, speaks
volumes as to the man.

"Among his principal works were the model of
the Triumph of Alexander, a bas relief, .140 feet
long and 3 feet high, conceived and executed in three
months, Thorwaldsen having volunteered to execute
it for Napoleon's residence, the Pope's Palace, on the'
Quirinal, showing the most masterly modelling ever
seen.. His Mercury slaying Argus is unrivalled, mid
among a collection of the antique appears where it
ought to be. His -equestrian 'statue of Poniatowsky
is a large work, not equally worthy of him ; brit
Poniatowsky standing is perfect, only eclipsed by
Flaxman's Sir John Moore. His great group of St.
John preaching in the Wilderness, is charaterised by
a species of Raphaelesque expression, and one portion,
a youth leaning on the shoulder of an old man, is the
most divine thing ever seen ; the intellectual expres-
sion of calm old age, and the awakening intelligence
of the youth, elevate the soul to a degree r.ot to be
conceived unless seen. His Saviour and the Twelve
Apostles, a colossal work—Christ being eighteen feet
high, and the others twelve each—are wonderful
draperied figures, characteristic to the highest degree
of the different men ; the draperies strm as if one
could raise them, they are so exquisitely cast and
executed. His great monument of the Pope Pius, in
St. Peter's, contrasts unfavourably with Canova, who
was the greatest artist of the two in the nudo— wit-
ness Palamedes, the Nixus-Theseus, and the Centaur,
contrasted with Thorwaldsei,'s Mars ; but in female
form and simple beauty of expression, Thorwaldsen
was immeasurably his superior, witness the contrast
of the two Hale s, Night and Morning, Hercules
and 10, and the multitude of beautiful little exqui-
site bas-reliefs Thorwaldsen was ever producing. Art
must feel his loss as European ; and it is to the ho-
nour of our country that Mr. Hope gave him his
first commission, Jason with the Golden Fleece. I
have always understood that Thorwaldsen was sent to
Rome Iy the academy at Copenhagen, having got a
passage to Naples in a Danish frigate, and that for
the first two years in Italy he did nothing except
study the German and Italian languages, and when
his time was nearly expired he began his Jason,
which contrasted favourably with Canova's style ; it
was a novelty; it was seen al.cl appreciated by Mr.
Hope, and thus was fixed Thorvvaldsen's career in
Rome.

" He had a natural daughter, a very- beautiful wo-

man, who has been marritil to a Baron • , Gentle'
man of the Bedchamber of the King of Denmark.
"He was :wow ri, e ft..; i;,ht.t
and a portrait, Lately punli,lied of 01/k0
may be seen at Molteno's, is a perfect likeness."

:MARKET NE WS.—(YEST E RDA V')
CORN XCHANGE. •
Fresh up, a v,-ry limited quantity of English Who;
came to hand. The finest qualities of both red and
white at prices quite equal to those noted on 'Monday'.
last. Middling and inferior kinds at barely late rates.
For Foreign Wheats at barely stationary prices. Best;
malting qualities of Barley at full quotations ; grinding
and distilling sorts unaltered in value. Malt at previous
figures. Oats- at full rates. Beans, Peas, and Flour-
without alteration.
CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE.
WHEAT—Essex & Kent, MALT—Chevalier......... 635 to:-.•
red 4ls to 58s OATS--Yorkshire and
Ditto, a hite • 52. to 63s lincolneh., feed 235 to:
Norfolk and Lin Potatoe ... ..... 2.5 s W,
coin, red 4oe to 43s Youghalt andCurk,
Ditto white 42s to 17s black
Irish, red 47. to 50s Cork, white ... ...... 19. to 20.
Ditto, wh:te
RYE—Old 2bs to 33s Beans— Tick ...... 30 30a to
New - 36 s to 38s PEAs Grey telei
BARLEY—Grinding 25s to 281' Map 'e
Malting 33s to 36s Wh.te 30s to'
Chevalier 32. to 35c Boilers. j 3- t 03160,,
MALT—Suffolk and Nor- 'FLOUR--I'9wil
_made 49t to
folk 565 to 62s Suflo . ...... 3.0 to 338
Brt,wo ..... .... . 5O. to sh, Stockton 847N"orfolk 34i to 3'
Kingston acid Ware 56a to 625! „ • ,3
• WHEAT—Dail FOREIGN GRAIN
48. to 62s AND
BE NS FLOUR
..... IN 8057 D..
to ,„,(4
, 208
Hamburgh 36s to 40s,P As ........ .. ... 43s to g
BARLEY 3os to 33s FLows.—American • f to
OATS—New
Feed l4s to 16s
SMITHFIELD.
The Beef trade was, on the whole, steady,' at prit, .
quite equal to those obtained last ii:eek, the prilffet
lots producing, without difficulty, 35 10d per Sibs. T 11"
supply of Sheep was but moderate; prune old' tiown,
4s to 4s 4cl per Sibs; the value of all other kinds
well supported. Although the Lamb trade was by na
means brisk, prices were tolerably well supported: Cta#!,
at late prices. Pork remained unaltered. - • _• :
Per 81bs, to sink the. offal.
s d. to s. d. s d, tO
Inferior Beasts 2 4 2 8 Second qualityditto... 3 2
Secon.i quality ditto 2lO 3 2 Coarse-woolled ditto_ 3 S
Prime large Oxen 3 4 3 6 Southdown Wethers 4 0
Prime Scots, &c.
I arge coarse Calves 3 2 310 Large Hogs .3 2 6
Prime'small ditto 4 0 4 'mall Porkers 3lO • • 11. ,s
Suckling Calves, each 18 028 uarter old Pigs, eachl6 '0 2!•-gt
Inferior Sheep ...—.... 2 8 3 robs ........... 4 , 9
SUPPLY AT MARKET.
Beasts. I Sheep. I Calves, I pips;
2,407 21,910 62 I 340 . .•
111 EVYGATE AND LEAD EN 72 AL le. t"
For Lamb the demand has been very active, at an sw#
vance of 4d per 81bs. In other kinds of meat very
has been doing, and the rates have had a Cownwe'.
tendency.

• At per stone, by the Carcase
s. d. to s. d.. s. 41. 9°'
Beef, 2 0 2 2 Mutton, inferior 4 g 2
-- middling ........., 2 4 2 Oi ---- middling 210
-- prime large 2 8 2 10, prime 3 4 a
5ma11.... 3 0 3 2, Pork, large 2
Veal
........3 -0 4 21 —small 3 8, 4-,.•
Lamb. 5s 4d to es. 10d.
ARRIVALS DURING THE PAST WEEK.
Beasts. Sheep. Calves. PikScotland s :-so
Yorkshire
Norfolk
8
Suffolk
Cambridgeshire
1'
Essex
Surrey. lB 270,
190 aws"
Devonshire
Wiltshire
Other parts
aj
•
so 1,790 750 2.01
128 3,029 1,010 3,
Difference since our last... 39 1,439 2e.0
BOROUGH AND SPITALPIBLDS•
The supply of good and sound Potatoes being Qom'
ratively limited, the demand for such is active, at -req. ,
full prices. In other kinds but little is doing. • ;
- BOROUGH HOP MARKET• '
As is almost invariably the case during the
comparatively little business has been transacted iin„
our last report, in this market, • yet prices are genfrs'.';
supported.
WOOL MARICET• „
c:/do
Privately, a steady business has been doing id tia,
Mal Wools, atltill prices 3 but the demand for 'hr
has subsided, and, in some instances, the rates
given way Id per lb.
TALLOW.• The, foreign market continues very: firm, and the"
livery is good. Town Tallow at 40s 6d net cash.
price of Russian 42s for the last three montlis, "rd.
42s eid for swparate months, trom August ,to Deceinv7; ,
inclusive. •

Total
Previous week's arrival.

POST-OFFICE ARRANGEMENTS —On and after ,
12th instant, the Edinburgh night mail will arrilrki.,
Carlisle at 10 A.m., instead of 9,-20, as at present...;,
GlAsgo,,v mail will arrive at 10 A.M., instead of9..f;lPtio.
The Dumfries at 9. 53,•inste,ad of 8. 53 A:At. -The .bolt`
night Mail will arrived at 2. 35 P.M.„ insteadand after the-13th instant.—gCarlisle Juuinal. • =-:,..441;
RAiiiyirs.—On Saturday a return was issiletl.,
all monies raised under acts whereby railroad corapilTA,je,
have been incorporated, frian January 1826, to Jant,ri"
1844, distinguishing the sums raised as prineip,als ,
_
the SUMS to be raised by loanor mortgage.
contains the names of 121 railways andthe oli•
fewer than 250 Acts of Parliament, which passed:WA
years mentioned, under which the moneys were rat it)
The entire sum was "seventy-nine minions,- twenty
thousand and three hundred inciseventeeri pounds rmi
which enormous sum 57,387;785/. was 'capital in •.I°-e,„.
stock, and 21,638,582/ .to be raised by loan or Mort
'fit
From May 1833 the London and thrinilfghain RS r`
was empowered to raise 5,500,000/4 of which' adl6`l6t-,,
3,500.0001. in joint .stock, and 2,060,0001 by I°l
mortgage. This appears the largest amount set WV
the return.— Sunday Paper.
n
AVARICE EVEN IN DEATH.—Anmow aged female
dicant, named Margaret Kerslerinn, being attended'
her death-bed by her sister, who- also' livedltuniCil T„e.
tirely on charity, desired with great earnestness tha."':,,,
might be buried in the cap she then wore, as S.bC bec
greatly attached to it from its having been
given P 1
by a benefactress: The promise was" given;arid'
Margaret. died in evident contentment: ,The sister
Off the cap. to prepare it. for its last office*, but SedulP".fJ
a band round it, which she thoUght might 'be
to herself, set to work to unpick it: This cperation or,.
not proceeded far when the Omer of a pie6etber.
paper appeared, and going on with ter work, ,;(" -00
Metes, to the number of 1, came fOrth; whic,'"ino
being examined,.proved tr. be bank-noteS of 10 nt,iit%,.
each, and consequently worth 1,110 florins, or
2,500 francs.—Observer.•-",
A HARD CASE:—It is most probably KnOWn
readers that in 1830 an order emanated from the t I
Guards declaring that the widow of no officer whoto
served for a less period than ten. years should be
to a pension. It is not our present pqrpose to disTo'
the propriety of such •ari order, so far as it relgLe si
the widows of those who. have 'entered the serwrat#
commissioned. officers, but we• notice the subject .70
the most sincere wishes that the' authorities itSet
Horse Guards will, up in consideration, come to tb%-"vt
and charitable conclusion that the :ease which w for
lay before our readers does not -cerae: -wil•J'7ol
spirit of the order of 1830—a cold interpretati94!.>
bring it within the letter. The
,sadease,4 Ofs'
gallant soldier served for twentp•eight years .the 1100
of the 78th Regiment;4 for 'twenty.five 'of ..whichhfk 91
a noncommissioned officer.He rose to the' "edit+
sergeant-majOr: serving in the West: and EaSt 411,00
and was at length, through-the Unaided recomplett'sth
of his own Merits, prOinoted to an-rnsigncy intft 'the
Regiment. From 'that corps
,he Was removed Poo'
22d Regiment, and served inthe late campaigns l!d
Sir Charles Napier, in §itule,'where he fell a vivo
pea ..
that illness which, inore.th an the enemy's fire,. thinthiP
our brave army. At the time of his death tot,
'adjutant;Melo
officer was, acting to a wing of the reg
add we art 'asgured that had a vacancy occurred'ofico
gallant commander, Colonel Pennefather, who has ;doe,.
spoken of him as one of the best 'officers and sO,
he ever kn.*, would have made him adjutant
regiment. The widow of this ()Id soldier and 015,4 ff ror
plies for the usual pension ; she is met by the OrOvbe
1830, and to!d that she' has no dein),
ra
inasmuch ii!e:000
hosband hail not served his Sovereign as a oodlifq,„„'-'4O:
officer for 10 years. In the name of common j115,!!,79,01
this the fitting answer to give to the widow of a ..P;00
soldier who, though not promoted to an ensigoo44o
1838, had been faithfully serving in every subori:.7this •
grade of the profession from 1816? The case of
widow is still further aggravated by the
her having to maintain two daughters by a foriverdoe
riage of her late gallant husband. Moit sincerely „ye •
hope that the authorities at the Horse guards t.;o;ig,..
consider this case, which is not More distressing d 413°:-•
will be disgraceful to the national honour, ahc4ll,o
just claim of the afflicted widow be repalsed by t 1
tet;').
feeling interpretation of an order which never COri
plated such is claim.—Observer.

BIRTHS.
On the 2d inst., Mrs. George Putnam, of FILS
of a son. -
ftt
On the 3d inst., at Goodrest Lodge, near Rea e'
lads- of Bulkley J. M. Praed, Esq., of a son. ,
On the 4th inst., Mrs. T. P. Turaer, Bedford-row, 'J
" or
still-born.

On the 4th inst., the wife of F. H. Dickinson, Ems'
Upper Harley-street, of a daughter.

MARRIED.
Calcu tts' •
On the 10th of February, at the Cathedral, - gb
Udny, Y., Civil Servi.-- to Am-' ^nd dso

.. , Esq . . ice, __nnie Lydia, secom
of Samuel Tomkins, Esq., of Lombard-street. ugti
ste
On the 2d inst., at Southwick, Hants, William .- ,11.'
Raper, Esq., M. 8., to Mary, daughter of Charles Wink^
Esq., Controller of her Majesty's Customs, Ramsgate.
....--.... •

DIED. Glow` On the 29th ult., John Gould, Esq., solicitor, of Glou ,
street, Queen-square, aged 74.
„rv-rogiw
On the 31st ult. at Gainford-place, Barns—hlot '
Islington, Mrs. P. Allan, widow of the late G. Allan, .af
On the Ist inst., at Warminster, William Lye Se•."-
Esq., aged 30. tho
On the 3d inst., at Egliugham Northumberanul.
Venerable Edward Thomas 13igge, Archdeacon of Lindlsae,
On the 3d inst., at Worthing, John Bradley. Esq., age liter
On the 3d inst., Frances Margaret Davies, eldest dat,g
of Captain Chandler, 17th Lancers, aged 15. r foe,
On the 10th inst., Agnes, eldest child of Mr. W. Pr°
of Cheapside. rhatrt,
On the sth inst., Emily Susan, only daughter of ,
Baker,
Orr the 3 Esq E
~
lt., oth uof ndsleat ig
Writtleh-streetEssex, Mrs. Elisabeth . &I*
,
On the Slat ult., at Manchester Lodge, Warvricksm
Mary, the wife of Richard R. Je, Esq.
On. the 2d inst., at Brighton Harriet Emily, the Rife°fj‘ •
Brightman, Esq., of Lavender-Lb Surrey.
On the 3d inst., at Barnes, Surrey, Mary Margaret, th
/fife
of Henry Cremer, Esq. ' „i

London : Printed and Published by MURDO YOII. ?"13,126i,
No. 112, &rand, Printer at T Ihe Sun Office'
StFand, in' the Precinct of' the Sawn in the Counq
Middlesex, Tuesday, April 9,1844, .

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