The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-07 00:00:00

OLYMPIC T REATR E.

Horatius, or, the Roman Father, an adaptation from
" Les Horaces " of Corneille, was revived at this
theatre last evening, for the purpose of introducing
Miss Davenport for the first time as the heroine. In
the days of Mrs. Siddons this was a popular play on
the English boards; since her time, it has never been
performed, for the simple reason that Horatia is her-
self the play, and that we have had no actress since
Mrs. Siddons, who could, unaided and alone, sustain
the whole weight of a tragedy. If we mistake not,
however, Miss Davenport will restore this tragedy to
its pristine popularity, for never has it been our good
fortune to witness a more chaste and more tasteful, or
more thoroughly classical performance than her Ho-
ratia. The tragedy is nothing more than a dramatic
version of the story of the Iloratii and Curiatii; and Ho-
ratia is the Roman daughter, who is stabbed by her
brother, because on his return from the slaughter of
the Curiatii, she reproaches him for having slain her
Alban lover. Never has the young Roman girl been
more beautifully personified than by Miss Davenport.
She looked the character completely—her face was an
antique cameo—her form an ancient statue. Not
that we would have it supposed, from these expres•
sions, that her acting was of that "statuesque" school
which is so much in vogue at the present day ; on
the contrary, there is not the slightest attempt at
melodramatic clap-trap ; there are no " poses ;" all is
beautiful, all is natural ; the countenance is
the index to the mind, and the varying
features express clearly the feelings of the heart.
At the opening of the tragedy we find Horatia, the
young and affectionate girl, confiding to her friend
'aleria the secret of her love for Curiatius, and
expressing a wish for the return of that peace between
Rome and Alba which shall enable her again to behold
her lover. Beautiful exceedingly is her expression of
03' when her father enters and informs her that no
battle ss ill take place between the two armies, but
that each is to choose three champions to combat for
the empire. A slight cloud of melancholy passes
over her features when she hears it announced that
her- three brothers are to be champions of Rome, but
that melancholy becomes agony when she knows that
the three champions of Alba are the three Curiatii,
and that her lover is pitted in this deadly contest
against her brother. The scene with her brother
Publius, which immediately follows, in which she
clings to him, and begs him to spare her lover, was
most exquisitely and most naturally given, and
the struggle between the stoicism of the Roman
maiden and the natural feelings of the warm-hearted
and affectionate girl was admirably depicted. The
catastrophe now approaches. The combatants meet
—two of the Horatii are killed, and the third flies.
The old Horatius curses his degenerate son, while
Horatia, endeavouring to comfort her father, feels a
calm joy in the knowledge that her lover is safe.
Suddenly a messenger rushes in, and announces that
the victory is Rome's. The flight of Publius Horatius
was but a stratagem to withdraw the then wounded
Curiatii from each other. He has returned and slain
the whole of them. Pale, breathless, motionless, with
features expressive of the intensest agony, of the most
hopeless despair, Horatia stands—she listens to the
story—a slight convulsive tremor agitates her frame.
No word is spoken, no shriek is uttered, but she
sinks to the earth:death-struck beneath the weight
of unutterable woe. The acting of Miss Davenport
in ,this scene was transcendently fine—most artis-
tically did she work the part up to a climax.
An inferior actress would have given vent
to her feelings by shrieks and moans, but
with that intuitive sense of the true, the
natural, the beautiful, which is ever the accompani-
ment of genius, she felt that such woes as hers,
were too deep for utterance. Tears, and shrieks,
and sobs, betoken a grief which admits of consola-
tion. The grief of utter despair, the grief which
admits of no comfort, is ever silent. The play should
have ended here, but following in the footsteps of
Corneille, the author gives us another scene, in which,
recovering from her swoon, she taunts her brother,
and is by him slain. This scene was very beautifully
given by Miss Davenport, but we could but feel that
such a conclusion is an anti-climax. Miss Davenport
has in this character achieved a great triumph. She
is now among the very first, if she be not already the
very first of English actresses. She was called
for at the conclusion of the tragedy, and received
with the most enthusiastic applause. She was well
supported by Waldron, whose Horatius was a very
careful and excellent performance. The pantomime
of Old Bogie, which is one of the best and most
amusing of the season, followed, with Mr. Flexmore,
as clown. This gentleman, of whom we do not be-
fore recollect to have heard, is an admirable clown,
one of the old Grimaldi school, full of fun and acti-
vity and practical jokes. We were almost afraid that
the race of Clowns had become extinct. The mantle
of Old Joe, however, has fallen on Mr. Flexmore,
and long may he continue to wear it. The con-
cluding scene of this pantomime is very magnificent,
and the various characters pay homage to the Queen
and Prince Albert, who most graciously and conde-
scendingly accept the same, and among the lieges
appears General Tom Thumb, in his carriage. We
know not whether it be the General himself, in propria
persona, but if not it is, as his own countrymen
would express it, " a considerable good imitation of
him." The house was very well attended.

EXTRAORDINARY AMOUNT OF PROPERTY TRANS.
YERRED BY A SINGLE INDIVIDUAL.-A curious and
(not a little) interesting document has lately been pre-
sented gratuitously to the select friends and clients of
Mr. George Robins, also a large body of the agricultu-
rists, and such persons as are deeply interested in the
transfer of property. We have been favoured with one
of these reports, and have read through it with unmixed
pleasure and satisfaction; as a matter of reference only
it will prove invaluable. It states the quantity of pro-
perty that has changed hands through Mr. Robins's in-
strumentality from the year 1815 to 1842, (and it avoids
noticing any of the estates he has sold at or under
2,0001.;) but it details the situation, extent, and rental
of each property, and the county wherein it is situate,
&c., with the name of the estate affixed to it. From
this condensed history we gather the following facts:
That, during a portion of Mr. Robins's professional pur-
suits, he has sold Seven Hundred Thousand Acres of
Land, the rentals upon which were Eleven Hundred
Thousand Pounds a-year, and the aggregate amount
Eleven Millions and Four Hundred and Seventy-three
Thousand, Two Hundred Pounds. It is said the pro-
perty sold at and below 2,000/. would exceed another
Million of Pounds sterling. A curious fact is appended
to this unparalleled result. In the year 1824, Mr.
Robins presided over the Sales of the Marquis of Or-
monde' a vast Estates, for which he obtained 477,000 L,
independently of timber; and he valued the remaining
portion of the Lands and Estates of the late Duke of
Athol] (not sold during Mr. Pitt's Administration), to-
gether with his sovereign rights to the government, for
530,000/. Either of these occurrences (as it regards
the extent of the amount) are without a precedent;
but, occurring as they did in one year, are not in dread
Of having a parallel case to oppose them.—Briyhten
Herald, Jan. 4.
The birthday of his Grace the Duke of Rutland
was celebrated at Belvoir Castle on Saturday, all the
members of the Noble Duke's family circle at present in
England assembling to do honour to the occasion. His
Grace has ceased to keep his birthday publicly as hereto-
fore, and the only additions to the family party on Sa-
turday were Sir Frederick Trench and Lady W. Powlett,
who are on a visit at the castle. The servants employed
on the Noble Duke's estate were regaled to their heart's
content in the castle on the same day, and upwards of
fifty sat down to dipper in the stew:Xs room. His
Grace, we are happy fo'artnounce, iaTa exedlont health*

+rip, irw, LoKnow, TUESDAY EVIltileING2 —JAN-TURN' 1843.

BURGLARY, AND CAPTURE OF
THE THIEVES.
At the Thames Police-court, yesterday, two men,
named James Francis, a hatter, and Thomas Salt, a
labourer, were brought before Mr. Broderip, charged
with committing a burglary in a dwelling-house belong-
ing to Messrs, Brindel and Roberts, proprietors of the
Artichoke Tavern and Whitebait House, at Blackwell,
and stealing property to a considerable amount.
The house broken into is opposite the land frontage
of the Artichoke, and is occupied at night by some of
the tavern servants, and Mr. Brindel himself. On Sa-
turday evening the second cook had occasion to go to
the private house, and on leaving it all the doors and
windows were fastened and secure, and she locked the
street door before she returned to the tavern. A very
few minutes afterwards the charwoman of the tavern
went over to the same house, and upon inserting the
key in the lock she was unable to open the door. She
was making a second attempt, when she heard a
noise within and a scuffling in the passage. She im.
mediately raised an alarm that thieves were in the
house. Mr. Roberts and several domestics, both
male and female, rushed out of the tavern, and
the former very wisely directed his neighbours and
servants to form a cordon round the street in which
the house is situate and the adjacent ones, to
cut off the retreat of the burglars, and a sentinel
was placed at the door of every dwelling. A ladder was
procured and raised against the house, and a young man
named Ellis, porter at the Artichoke, having obtained
admission at the front window of the first floor, went
down stairs and opened the street door, which the bur-
glars had taken care to bolt and make fast before they
commenced operations. The thieves retreated by the
rear of the premises and got over several fences and
yards. Numbers joined in the pursuit, and the pri-
soners were seen jumping over outhouses and walls with
great dexterity, but no shelter could they find until they
reached the back of the Britannia Coffee-house, in Rus-
sell-street, about two hundred yards or more from
Messrs. Brindel and Roberts's dwelling. Mrs. Weldon,
the landlady of the Britannia, had just before gone into
her back bed room at the top of the house, and was '
startled by the hue and cry raised, and by her neighbours,
all leaving their houses with lighted candles in their hands.
She left her apartment and was making her way down
stairs, when she was met by the prisoners, who,
in a hurried manner, asked her to let them
go into a room up stairs. She instantly told
them to go down stairs, and they began swearing
at her, and declared they would go up. After a
severe scuffle, during which one of the prisoners struck
her a violent blow on the face, and the other kicked
her, she forced them down stairs on to the first-
fl or. Mrs. Weldon called out " Murder ! thieves !"
and screamed aloud for assistance. The prisoners, ob-
serving the door of a dining-room open, exclaimed
" Here s a crib, we will bolt in here." A great many
persons, alarmed by Mrs. Weldon's cries, immediately
entered the house and dragged the prisoners from their
hiding places. One was found concealed under a large
table, and the other was crouching behind an easy chair.
While the waiter of the Artichoke, and a young man,
named Robey, were conducting them down stairs,
Francis called out to Salt " Give him the knife,
Jack," and he was about to use one when he
was overpowered and lodged in the Poplar station-
house. Watkins, a police-constable, No. 310 K, was
immediately ordered by Inspector Rutt to go to the
house, and examine it. In the front room on the first
floor he found four chests open, and their contents strewed
about the place. One of them had evidently been forced
open with a sharp instrument. A silk handkerchief was
spread on the floor, in which the thieves had packed up
ready to carry away, three coats, four waistcoats, two
pair of trousers, two linen shirts, a silk stock, and a pair
of stockings, all belonging to Mr. Brindel. All
the rooms in the house were in a similar state of con-
fusion, and drawers, cupboards, and boxes, had been
broken open and emptied of their contents by the
burglars, who would have carried off a rich booty if they
had not been so opportunely disturbed. Three black silk
neckerchiefs and several articles of wearing apparel were
found in several yards and gardens right and left of the
house on Saturday night and Sunday morning ; they
had been dropped by the thieves during their retreat.
A chisel and several skeleton keys used by them were
picked up in the yard behind Messrs. Brindal and Ro-
berts's house.
Inspector Rutt said he had no doubt the thieves ob-
tained an entrance into the house by means of one of the
skeleton keys. He found upon the prisoner Francis a
box of lucifer matches, a comb, and a short knife.
Mr. Broderip asked the prosecutors if they had found
all their property ? Brindel said the only thing
missing was an old silver watch.
The prisoners, on being called on for their defence,
said they had nothing at all to say, but Francis was very
anxious for the restoration of the comb taken from him,
to comb his hair.
Inspector Rutt said it was a new tortoiseshell comb,
and the produce, he believed, of another robbery.
Mr. Broderip said the inspector must not part with it,
He committed the prisoners for trial.

THE CHURCH.

THE BISHOP OF EXETER AND DR. HAWKINS.

TO THE REV. THE PROVOST OF ORIEL COLLEGE.
_ _

My dear Sir--I have rarely been more surprised than
by perusing your letter of the 31st ult., which I have
this day received. It had not before occurred to me
that any one could construe my letter to Mr. March
Phillips as " containing strictures on the conduct of the
late Vice-Chancellor and his assessors, in the judgment
upon Dr. Pusey's sermon." For I not only used the
words cited by you, that " the authorities in Oxford had
exercised the power belonging to them, according to the
conscientious judgment of those who had to exercise it,"
but I also added, that " I did not presume to question
the justice or wisdom of that judgment."
My adverse observations were most explicitly limited
to the principles of the law which you had to administer;
and even of that law I said that it must not be judged of
without recollecting the " very special duties of caution
and jealousy" which belonged to " an university as such."
You say " possibly your Lordship did not mean to cast
any reflections on our conduct ;" I answer, that until I
read your letter I should have judged it impossible that
any person could see in what I had said the slightest
indication of such an intention.

You add, " But the public, I fear, will interpret your
words otherwise." I answer, that I have too much re-
spect for the understanding of the public to participate
in your fear. If, however, you still think otherwise, I
should not have the slightest objection to your publishing
your letter, together with this my answer ; nor should
I inquire whether you are, or are not, entitled, as you
assume, to any expression of my " more favourable con-
struction of your conduct," were it not for the other
matter in your letter.
Fur I protest against the injustice of your making an
unnecessary defence against an unreal charge ascribed to
me, to be the vehicle of those disclosures of the particu-
lars of the conduct of the late Vice-Chancellor and his
assessors towards Dr. Pusey which have hitherto (for
whatever reason) been withholden.
Of those particulars, I will only say, that while they
do not in the slightest degree reconcile me to the prin-
ciple of the law of the University, as a rule for myself in
administering the discipline of my diocese, I gladly re.
cognise in them that spirit of kindness, candour, and
equity, which, whether required by the academic law or
not, I should always expect to find actuating the late
Vice-Chancellor, and his assessors, in administering it.
You will do me the justice of recollecting that I
am not now for the first time distinguishing be-
tween that law and its administrators. In answer to
a letter from the committee (of which I believe
you were a member) for conducting the election of
the present Vice-Chancellor in October last, I expressed
my regret that an indispensable engagement (a
confirmation fixed on the day of the election) would pre-
vent me from making a journey to Oxford for the mere
purpose of recording by my vote my sense of the injus-
tice of the opposition to Dr. Symons, because he had in
Dr. Pusey's case conscientiously performed a painful
duty which was forced upon him.
I am, dear Sir, yours very faithfully,
11. EXETER.
P.S. If you persist in the purpose of publishing your
letter to me, which, for the reason I have given, I think
highly improper, I request that this my answer be pub-
lished with it

If my memory does not deceive me (and I really have
not opportunity or leisure to ascertain the point), a me-
morial to the late. Vice-Chancellor, subscribed by Mr.
Justice Coleridge and many others, in the last year, pro-
ceeded on those very grounds which you seem to imagine
were first put forward by me in my letter to Mr. March
Phillips.
Bishopstowe, Jan. 3, 1845.

to more respectful consideration than many similar ad-
dresses have merite,,. Indeed, the only particular which
calls for any adierse remark from me is the threat con-
tained in the second resolution, which had almost deter-
mined me to decline taking any notice of the memorial.
"Still I am more diposed to take in good part what-
ever can be so taken than to find reason for censure or
complaint.

"On the surplice, no difficulty remains. I have with-
drawn that portion of my order.
" On the offertory, I leave it to my clergy to exercise
their own diseretion. Those of their congregation who
duly feel the duty of almsgiving, if they are averse to
use the privilege of giving to God in the way in which
the Church points out, appear to me to be influenced by
an erroneous prejudice—but certainly not by selfishness
or worldly-mindedness. Those terms apply only to
such persons who have not a due sense of the duty of
Christian almsgiving, and to them I dare not be afraid
to apply them.

"-Tge Rubric being the law of the Church, I deem it
for reasons publicly stated by me, necessary to enforce
it. I rejoice to think that very few alterations will be
required in churches where reasonable attention to the
Rubric has hitherto prevailed.—l have the honour to be
Sir, your very obedient servant,

SPORTING iNTELLIC.iI.
TATTERSALL'S—YESTERDAY.
With the single exception of Pam, against whom IEI
to 1 to nearly 2001., the price quoted against the prin-
cipal favourites, were nominal. Business turned chiefly
upon Pantasa, the Miss Whip colt, Collier, and Jingle-
pot, the odds laid against the first two being the same
we have returned below, against Collier 50 to 1, against
Jinglepot I,ooo's to 15 and 20. Several offers to back
the Rebecca colt (now called Annandale), but nearly all
the layers " full," and little or nothing done. The Ches•
ter Cup betting was confined to 1,000 to 20 against New-
court, 1,000 to 15 against Cabin Boy, a small bet at 50
to 1 against Dog Billy, and 50 even on 22 against the
field, and two or three others laid in private.
DERBY.
1 1 to 1 agst Mr. Greville's Alarm
16 to 1 agst Lord Stradbroke's Idas
18 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Pam—t. and aft. off.
18 to 1 agst Colonel Anson's hedger
30 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Newsmonger
30 to 1 agst Mr. A. Johnstone's Annandale
35 to 1 agst Mr. Gully's Weatherhit—taken
35 to 1 agst Mr. Gully's Old Eng and—takun
35 to 1 agst Duke ofßichmond'sLaird o'-Cockpen--t
35 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Pantasa—taken
35 to 1 agst Mr. St. Paul's c out of Calypso's dam
—4O to I taken
35
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1000 to 15 agst Mr. Feguson's Clear-the-way—taken
OAKS.

"H. EXETER.
" To W. Davey, Esq., Redruth."

MONEY -MARKET and CITY NEWS,

PROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
CITY, MONDAY EVENING.
TIMES.—The Forth packet has brought no more
hart $6,000 on account of the Mexican dividends, and
he explanation which is given to account for the small-
ness of the remittance is of a nature somewhat alarm-
ing. The agents of the bondholders in the city of
Mexico have written to the Committee of Spanish Ame-
rican Bondholders letters dated the 29th of November,
in which they state, that in consequence of disturb-
ances in various parts of the Republic, the Minister of
Finance had appropriated to the public service the pro-
duce of the Customs duties, amounting to about
$700,000. Of this amount $340,000 belonged to the
bondholders, and had it not been for the untoward oc-
currence, $lOO,OOO would have been remitted by the
Forth packet. The agents of the bondholders at Vera
Cruz protested against this strong measure, and remon-
strances were made to the Minister at Mexico, both by
the Committee's agents and Mr. Bankhead, the British
Charg6 d'Affaires. The result of this application is,
according to the words of one of the letters, "a promise
from the Minister to replace the amount in sufficient
time to be made available for the April dividends."
The " April dividends" most likely mean the divi-
dends due last October, which are so called on an as-
sumption that they will be paid in April next. What
is the value of the promise made under such circum-
stances, and why the Minister should feel so confident
that he can get together the required amount of dollars
by the time mentioned, it is rather difficult to see.
From other letters is gathered the following short his-
tory of the movements in Mexico :
" Immediately on the news of the rising of General
Paredes at Guadalajara, the President Santa Anna put
himself at the head of the troops which were at Jalapa,
and marched on Mexico, gathering on his road the
troops which were at Puebla. Meantime the partisans
of Paredes had not been idle, and had induced the Con-
gress to pass a vote declaring that General Santa Anna
had not been called to the command of the army, and
upon this the Minister of War resigned, and his place
was filled by one named Barsabre. General Santa
Anna was exceedingly angry at hearing this, but
after some altercation with certain of the senators,
he continued his march towards Queretaro, where
he arrived on the 20th of November, with about
8,000 men. Although the plot to overthrow the
government of Santa Anna extended over the depart-
ments of Guadalajara, Durango, San Luis, Queretaro,
Zacatecas, Guanajuato, and the southern provinces, still
is is expected that General Paredes will be obliged to
capitulate, for neither his military nor political abilities
are equal to those of President Santa Anna, nor are his
troops (amounting only to about 3,000) a match for
Santa Anna's army. We have, however, seen enough of
Mexican revolutions to know that it is extremely diffi-
cult to foresee which party will triumph. It is clear
there is a poWerful party opposed to the actual Govern-
ment, or rather to General Santa Anna, who is, however
acting with great energy; and to insure present re-
sources he has laid hold of the funds, intended for the
dividends (but with a positive promise to repay them
soon), and has also ordered the custom• houses on the
coast to cease payment of all assignments, except those
of the tobacco contract."
Trade in Mexico is described as being very bad in the
interior, on account of the disturbances.
A royal decree from the Hague, of which the follow-
ing are the heads, has been received by Messrs. Raphael
and Sons:—
"To afford the holders of the remaining Dutch Five
per Cents., being now 37,385,400 guilders, another op-
portunity of voluntary conversion to Four per Cents.,
books are opened ,from Wednesday, January 8, 1845,
till further notice, or till 20,000,000 guilders are sub-
scribed, butt at all events, not later than Tuesday,
January 28.
" The price of the Four per Cents. (with interest
from the Ist of October last) to be given in exchange for
Five per Cents. so converted is fixed at 984 per cent.
The holders receive out for each 100 guilders 11 guil-
ders in money, and one-third per cent. for difference of
interest from the Ist of October to the Ist of January
last."

THE WINDSOR GRAND MILITARY STEEPLE
CHASE.
The entries for this sporting event, which will take
place on the 25th of March, closed on the lbt instant.
In consequence of the serious accidents which occurred
last year (three valuable horses, it will be remembered,
having been killed, arising from the highly dangerous
leaps over the land then selected in the immediate vici-
nity of the town), it was at first contemplated that the
runs should come off this year in the neighbourhood of
Ascot Heath. An excellent line of country, however,
has been selected by the stewards, within about two miles
of Windsor, and close to Dedworth-green. Three
events have been announced to come off on the same
day (Easter Tuesday)—viz., a military chase, for horses
the property of officers ; a chase for a sweepstakes of
five sovereigns each ; and a hack chase for one sovereign
each. The following are the entries for the military
chase :

Lord Glamis's br g Tea-fighter, aged—Earl of Long-
ford, 2d Life Guards, names The Dentist, aged—Captain
Blane's, 2d Life Guards, br g The Martyr, 6 yrs—Cap-
tain Schobell's, 17th Lancers, Cock Robin—Lord Miles s,
17th Lancers, The Colonel—Lieutenant Langley's, 2d
Life Guards, the Cardinal, aged—Mr. Pyett's br g Usau-
don—Captain Boucherett's, 17th Lancers, The Impostor.
Mr. R. Sutton and Sir Charles Kent, Ist Life Guards,
Major Ogilvie, and Mr. Heskett, 2d Life Guards, have
paid forfeit. The stewards are Captain Mountjoy Mar-
tyn and W. A. Tollemache, Esq., 2d Life Guards, and
Major Lawrence, 17th Lancers.
Some excellent sport is anticipated, from the well-
known character of the horses already entered, and the
line of country selected by the stewards.

On Saturday a deputation from the merchants of Bir-
mingham, consisting of Messrs. Spooner, M.P., Mentz,
M.P., Chance, Martineau, and W. R. Lloyd, had an in-
terview with the Board of Trade to induce the Govern-
ment to take into consideration the difficulties arising
from the obstruction of traffic on the line of railway
between Birmingham and Bristol. The road to which
the deputation referred belongs to two separate compa-
nies, the Birmingham and Gloucester and the Bristol and
Gloucester, whose rails are of different gauges, so that
the same carriages cannot perform the whole journey,
but a trans-shipment must take place at Gloucester.
This is found to produce the greatest impediment to
the people of Birmingham, and the deputation, who
requested the Government to take some steps to
remove the inconvenience, acted under the authority
of a very numerous meeting held at that place, in which
feelings on this subject were strongly expressed. At
the same time Mr. Lloyd took occasion to present a peti-
tion, signed by various merchants of Birmingham, to
consider the injury that might be done to the trade of
the country by allowing railway companies to have the
monopoly of acting as carriers. This petition pointed
especially to the Grand Junction and the Birmingham
and Gloucester Companies, as there are no other existing
means of conveyance in the district which are felt to
operate as a sufficient check.
The advices by the West India mail give a satisfactory
account of the progress of the crops, the reports from
the various districts being favourable, not only as regards
the weather, but also as regards the exertions of the
labouring population, who appear to have lost that
apathy which was formerly a distinguishing feature in
their character, and now exhibit an interest in the wel-
fare of their employers, the planters. The return of
sugar for the next year was expected to be large, and a
positive increase upon the last exports was predicted.
Messrs. Wright and Young, of Hull, in their annual
circular, take a very comprehensive view of the state of
the corn and seed trade during the past year. They,
however, appear to dilate at the greatest extent upon the
condition of the market for linseed, which seems to have
attracted much attention amongst those interested in the
article. A very active business is reported to have been
done in the markets throughout the year, though it is
said that during the greater part of the period it could
not be considered profitable to the importing merchant,
the value here, owing to the continued and large influx of
arrivals during summer and autumn, approximating too
nearly to the prices paid abroad to allow of a return
adequate to the risk of shipment. For a short period in
the spring the case was, however, different ; and, as
regards the two closing months of the year, widely so,
the great and rapid advance that then took place in
prices leaving room for amply remunerating profits.
SUN.—The English Market went back this afternoon,
Consols being 1001 New Three-and-a-Quarter per
Cents. were 104; and the Three per Cent., Reduced,
1001. India Stock, however, was rather better, being
288 to 289.
Spanish Bonds continued rather drooping, the Five
per Cents. being 21 i; and the Three per Cents., 361 I.
Mexican Bonds were flat at 343 3, as it appears that
Santa Anna seized at Vera Cruz 340,000 dollars of the
Customs' duties belonging to the bondholders, 100,000
of which at least would otherwise have come forward by
the Forth. Remonstrances, however, had been made
upon the subject, and it was promised the sum should
be restored in time for the Apt it dividend. Colombian
Bonds were 141. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents.
were 631.
The additional transactions in Railway Shares have
been these :—Bristol and Exeter were 6; Cambridge and
Lincoln, i; Direct Northern, k; Dublin and Belfast, 23;
Great Southern and Western (Ireland), 51 5 ; Great
Western, 86 ; Ditto, Half, 46 ; Hull and Selby, 20;
Lancaster and Carlisle, 43; Birmingham, 129; Brighton,
2 ; Ditto, Loan Notes, 23 ; South-Western, 361 to * ;
Croydon, 2/ to ; London and York, 2; Lynn and Ely,
11; Newcastle and Berwick, 63; North Kent, 3; Ports-
mouth, Direct, k ; Trent Valley, 8; York and North
Midland Selby Scrip, 50 ; Lyons and Avignon, ;
Orleans and Bordeaux, 5i 1 ; Paris and Orleans, 24 to
231 ; Paris and Rouen, 20 1 3 ; and Rouen and Havre,
24 premium. Midland, and Birmingham, and Derby,
have been 14 discount.

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THEINCOME-TAX.—Yesterday and on Saturday
notices were affixed on the church doors of the various
parishes within the City of London, by order of the
Commissioners of the income-tax, to the effect, as stated
in the circular, that all persons ho " think themselves
aggrieved by the assessments in the said ward, in respect
of the profits arising from professions, trade, offices, and
the other profits chargeable under schedule D of the
property and income-tax for the year ending the sth of
April, 1845," should appeal before the Commissioners
fur General Purposes acting for the said district at their
meeting, " whieh will be held for the purpose of hearing
and determining such appeals at their offices in Basin
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THE KING OF TRH PRENCII.—Mr. Catlin, who
has recently returned from a visit to Paris, had the
honour during his stay there of presenting his American
Indian Portfolio to his Majesty Louis Philippe, who ex-
pressed pleasure in examining the work, and compli-
mented the author by graciously subscribing for a
number of copies. His Majesty the King of the French
has just presented Mr. B. Cubitt with a splendid diamond
ring, in testimony of his satisfaction of the conduct of
that eminent engineer, and his services in forwarding
the train along the Dover Railway on the night of the
fire at Now Cross station, whoa the King passed through
to Dover.

GREAT PEDESTRIAN MATCH
FOR TWO HUNDRED POUNDS.
The great running match between Sheppard, a cele-
brated pedestrian, of Birmingham, and Jackson, alias
the American Deer, a noted runner, for 1001. a side,
was decided yesterday in favour of the latter, who ac-
complished a feat said to be unparelleled in the annals
of pedestrianism, that of running eleven miles all but
100 yards, within an hour. The match came off on the
Hattield-road, a short distance beyond Barnet, and at-
tracted a large assemblage of spectators, as the event has
for some time past excited considerable interest of a
speculative nature in the sporting world, particularly
among those who delight in feats of strength ai.d
speed, and considerable sums were pending the result.
Sheppard at one period was the favourite at odds of
about six to four, but a rumour obtained currency last
week that he was "amiss," and a reaction in the
betting was consequently the result. The winner was
admirably trained by Fuller, the well-known pedestrian,
but who is now somewhat passe. He has, however,
kept his man at work lately, making him daily, it is
said, get.over forty miles of ground, in order to test his
speed and powers of endurance. Sheppard is also a
most extraordinary runner, his previous performances
fully justifying the confidence of his friends and backers.
For instance, on the 4th of November last, he ran ten
miles at the Vauxhall-gardens, Birmingham, in fifty-six
minutes and a half. Some of the cognoscenti attribute
his defeat to his having been trained " too fine," and
that he had been compelled but a few days since to resort
to aperient medicine, which had produced temporary
debility. Jackson has always been considered to be a
" crack" man at a long distance, and it is recorded of
him that when he ran Maxfield, the " North Star," at
Peckham, he accomplished three miles in four seconds
under sixteen minutes. The event will excite consider-
able sensation in the provinces, particularly in Birming-
ham, where Sheppard is held in high estimation.
In betting 6 to 4 were freely laid on Sheppard, and
perhaps on no other running match was so much money
speculated. One mile of road was measured, over which
the match was to be decided. The competitors started
at about the rate of one mile in six minutes. They con-
tinued nearly together till the eighth mile, when Shep-
pard appeared at an advantage. Upon the approach of
the tenth mile Jackson increased his speed, and pressed
his opponent, and on the turn of this mile Sheppard
staggered and fell completely exhausted. Jackson then
proceeded at a slackened pace for the remainder of the
way, and the one hour had passed as he was 100 yards
from the 11th mile. The performance is greater than
this, as we learn from a source on which we can strictly
depend, that this is what is termed a long mile, that in
point of fact it exceeds that distance by 21 yards. We
are indebted to a sporting man who has recently mea-
sured it for this information. During the race there was
a large body of horsemen riding alongside, the bibeds
keeping the quadrupeds in a good sweat,

FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Friday afternoon, about
three o'clock, an accident, which has proved fatal, oc-
curred to a shipwright named Atchison, whilst employed
at the stern of her Majesty's ship Comus, 18 guns, now
fitting in the third dock at Chatham. It appears that
the unfortunate man was standing on a stage suspended
by ropes, which not hanging perpendicular at the
time, caused the stage to tilt, whereby he fell into
the dock, a depth of nearly thirty feet, his head com-
ing in contact with the edge of the stone steps. When
picked up he was insensible, and blood was flowing co-
piously from the head ; the other parts of his body ap-
peared to hare received severe injury. He was immediately
placed upon a stretcher, and conveyed to the surgery,
but owing to the extent of the injuries, it was found
necessary to forward him to Melville Hospital, where he
received every medical attention from the principal offi-
cer, Dr. Rae, and Surgeon Charlton. On the removal
of the hair from the head the back was found to bee
completely shattered, Dr. Rae extracting upwards of at
dozen pieces of bone, leaving a piece of bone in the head
of about four inches in diameter. The poor fellow's
sufferings terminated at three o'clock on Saturday morn-
ing last. The deceased was about sixty years of age, and
had been in the dockyard upwards of thirty years. He
has left a widow and six children. The widow will re-
ceive 121. a-year as a pension for life.
SINGULAR INSTANCE OF STRANGULATION Sty
MaeniNear.—Yesterday Mr. Baker held an inquest at
the York Minster, Bunhill-row, St. Luke's, on the body
of William Lawrence, aged eighteen, employed by Mr.
Martin, paper glazer and embosser, of Old-street, but
whose factory is in Bunhill-row. On Friday evening
deceased was about to glaze some paper at a one-horse
power steam-engine, and was passing a proof sheet
beneath its rollers, one of which is of hollowed brass,
heated by a red hot round bar of iron, in the manner of
a tea-urn. He wore at the time a handkerchief with
the ends depending loosely. The sheet of paper he
was trying, missing its bite, slipped, and, as he stooped
to catch it, the ends of his neckcloth got beneath the
brass roller, and he was drawn in, with his neck and aide
face tightly fixed against it. He cried out, " Stop the
engine;" and two fellow-workmen hurried to his assist-
ance, and did so. They then unscrewed the roller, and
extricated deceased. He sighed heavily. once or twice,
and expired. Mr. John Matcher, a neighbouring sur-
geon, having been sent for, pronounced the cause of
death to be strangulation, and accounted for its sudden-
noes by the close contact of the deceased's visage with
the heated roller. Had it been cool ho might not haio
been strangled. Verdict, " Accidental death."
SUDDEN DEATH OF AN ECCENTRIC CHARACTER.
Mr. Wakley, M.P., held an inquest at the Dolphin, Tun-
bridge-street, New-road, upon James Leach, a master
shoemaker, aged 72. The deceased, who was a widower,
led a kind of anchorite life during his widowhood, seldom
admitting visitors, and allowing his apartment to be
cleansed but once during the past six. months. Last
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SUSPECTED
commonINFANT.
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ket, of rather bulky appearance, was brought to the
Southampton Railway terminus at Nine Elms, by a
female, directed to " P. Muspratt, Esq., Winches-
ter." It was accordingly sent to the latter placo
by the mail train, but no person of that name
could
be found there. It was shortly afterwards brought
hack to Nine Elms, where it laid in the parcel office
until yesterday, when a putrid stench from the basket
attracted the attention of the clerks. It was accordingly
opened in the presence of the superintendent, when the:
body of a new-born male infant was found inside, rolled
up in a piece of old flannel, over which was a piece of
yellow oilskin. A surgeon was sent for, but there were
no marks of external violence. It is presumed that the
infant died for want of nourishment and proper attention
from its inhuman parent. The body, which is in a very
putrid state, awaits a Coroner's inquest.
Lord Mayor Gibbs presents his compliment% to
the editor of the Great Gun, and would be oblig.Al by
being informed whether Tyler, the President of the
United States, is any descendant of Nat Tyler, who
was once knocked down by an unaccountable Lord
Mayor.—Great Gun.
Hay has attained the price of 61. 5.5. per ton
Merthyr, and it is feared will for some time continue tz
rise, It is computed that the weekly consumption •
hay in this town averages 8, 01. - worth per week, and et,
oats 510/. worth; such is the large number of horavy
employed in the works.—Cambrian.