The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-18 00:00:00

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" Who runs may read.'

The ball at the Tuileries on
Tuesday niche was of
ta
very brilliant description. Their Majesties, accompaniel
thy the Princes and Princesses, entered the rooms to
calf-past eight, and at nine the dancing commenced. At
about twelve o'clock the Arab chiefs, accompanied. by
Colonel Joussottt, arrived, and were most grin:amble re-
ceived by the Royal family. A splendid supper, at
which their Royal highnesses Duke and Duchess de
Nemours presided, was served in the Salon de Diet,.
The Royal family retired at two o'clock. Amengst tile
guests were all the Cabinet Ministers, the Foreien Are-
hassadors, a great number of Peers, Deputies, and
foreignersv of distinction.
,orr
Numerous workmen, says Galigi:ani's Messc, , , 1
Thursday, are en the
stage night and day preparing
Stage at the Theatre of the Tuileries. for the perioneanee of Hamlet, which the English company will have the
honour of acting before the Court. It will be 1 s,,,eit.thzJl
they definitively
close their representations in foes to-
morrow night, the entertainments being for the benefit
of Mr. 3,litchell to whose spirit and enterprise the lovers
of Shako dare are indebted for the gratification affordedfthem by this brilliant, but too brief, series of per-
ortnances. Mr. Macready will appear in an imposing
fragment of one of his greatest characters, Henry IV.,
Which includes some of the noblest passages that ever
leak' . sitdiet, sli
'se,. Proceeded from even Shakspeare's pen. Romeo and
ghtly abridged, will follow, the principal chit
4,:,,`' racters by I,liss Faucit and Mr. Graham ; :eel, to col-t-
-elude, the charming Mdlle. Plessy, of the Francais, wil;
4,
It. parPePtetyalscionmaendyEnglish character, Lady Freelove, in ;he
of A Day after the Wedding, a part io
which Mdlle. Plessy received the greatest applause in
143 e ,kridein, when she acted it before the Queen l 1
ant. e'nece
-'")ert, and in which she will appear this evening before
their Majesties at the Tuileries.
it The mayors of the different arrondissements of Paris .11;re received the following letter from Baron Fain, the
ellig's Secretary: "I have the honour to announce to
';°4 that the King has been pleased to renew this year
ie gift of two thousand francs which his Majesty
t.ees at your disposal to be distributed in your arron-
soin3Zraiyenktntoownpootro families whose misfortunes are per-
you as worthy of interest. Be se
fe°,l, Sir as to address to me the names of the persons
to be relieved, with their address, and the amount of
relief to be ply an I wll alws take ae that
Your rin
eora°e 'den'.
n anonsd i
shall obtain a
tyhe resultc thrat you
desire.
aMajor-General Paixbans, Member of the Chamber of
t!eeised tDuties
o, and of the Committee of Artillery, has beet,
ra the rank of Lieutenant-General.
The statement that the Wallis and Gambier
Island
t•tere taken tattler the protectorate of France is confirmed
by the following letter from M. Dudoit, FrenctConsul
i
loat the Sandwich Islands, dated the 12th of July, 18414,
the Minister of Foreign Affairs :---` I have the
Zlonour to inform you that official dispatchesf ttiliiist I\eirost
announcing that the Government
.0 ristian Mit'est't has just ranted, in principle, the teti pro-
t;444demandedj le's L agvelua, King of ti.e Wallis
(18, and Pileto, King of the Island of Fontana ; anden
thoereover that, in consequence of a convention
King of
the ,commander of the frigate La Charte and the.•
ij .
Iltatibliasmileb!er Islands, the protectorate of France is tqu e
Batton in this last archipelago, subject to
.the ael,i,,-
4of his Majesty the King of the French. '1) we read in a letter from Florence, of the Bth :!—"Tlic
aolltneebe,BB Cl. Q Berry and her. husband. have been here for
winter aftes, and intend, it is said, to remain fiir. the
at se „, Her Royal Highness was the other eveeing
bilk- :,et hditre de la Pergola, in the box of the Grand
te•riTihire Sentinel& of Toulon announces that Lieutenant'
in eheest of the Retry, hung himself about eight o'ciuck
hatai evening of the 11th instant, by means of a silk
4 apart --Ql‘eiltel fastened to the bar of the wiedow of his
,t been ehp
ro
b eat• He belonged to the Montezuma, and had
tel, ir, tged to leave his ship, and come into the hospi
'l7;a The - e°43equenee of the fracture of one of his arms.
letTtewc°4lBe of
his
suicide was unknown.
4f the evening journals of Wednesday state that
soons. hoe
T, been received in Paris from Ainsterdem. ai I -
11 el"
g• the de thof the Emperor of Russia. The
rtissels • ` 4 '
*43 earrj°4rnals of Tuesday state that such a report
steef G eta there, but give no credit to it. The Dosed •
terlin,a7tte announces, on the authority of letters Iron:
i'lel ; butetCert6th, that the Emperor was dangerously Irons that '..""ln Gazette of the Bth, and other letters
rant the state of
the same date, contain nothing to war-
At of the Dusseldorf Gazette.
A4t Gulkihtiri7 AND PO ice. .
thin - Ann Fitzgerald, an Irishwoman,
Aldeneee -?....ve years r bane ees Musgrove sO, age, was brought. before Air.
~ii
itee,:fhoobti3ainiyiin
,e, charged with ill-treating her
.hus-
eworn-hin. lig nelplessly ill in Holborn-buildings,
ot,
lteh her husband'sgili
habit
inontbpoorshinan,
o:Poryiseher, it appeared, was in the
Ender,
the charitable, orfinalc.,coaunndt
, is beating of beating. the it St of spending it in d i
..
, el, Lit Bed ,i
,Tor, a three
itted to Bridewell
... tortaight, and dir • who has been confined to
e Was corlar9
—.i* ;11 letil'TlVCllbw(' •
elle, mwoviteidiarnto
gateman,
ections were given that the bus-
ii'lltr Vivford-utreet surgeon, residing.
Will 4 drunk
~ Bryttnstone-square, was charged with
she, t„ and riotous and assaulting police constable
lete47° G.--. w '
coal a tabeth Joe, as fined 20s.
elle: td pee.. Mt Manley, who was described.i aws,aaa
kerTd tei,.,!` teoe-dealer, in Long-alley, Shorechte 1,
set, eartntB2" braining four tons of coals from two coal.. fA. er lied , Prom the evidence it appeared that the pt;i_...
-tent given
deli Wharf orders orders to several coal merchants at dofn to..ivery, rrh.., ,),.. two tons of coals, promising to)the
I:4w ou ht; 'e Prisoner prevailed on the men to shoot
a ft, 4blcleaPiernises, and when they did so he told them.
neer on their employer the following day a ith
mie_
order .
f e ;1 the a,._ • I his, however he neglected to do,, and
o(it, he etorunt of the coals delivered had been ce,ll,e.d
.
let,‘tebt, and the the parties the matter was one merely
seeetoill was 7 must recover it in the usual way. 311'
•
o,"e ter to° (,),I. a different opinion, and remanded Moe,.
againicr charges a haul.° day, when it was said a number t n him, of a similar description would be brought
A 0.,,,,,,, to„, aseweeattn,
oruee (tf the
1, describing himself as Captain H amial-.
IViteiliviels p i!tia Royal Lancers, was charged t
fe ' heal °"ce Court, with the following conduct :-
44natet
to tdrunk and furiously riding on the
tha, With assault} he great danger of the eieseenge,rs,
before the ,itri_ng the police. The constable sta.,ed
Acct,,,l re tte 3_4l.er said he did not care about iletearfilgt
W onared
at n'augtstrate, AS he had on a forme! occasue
he escape Greenwich Police-court for being drunk,
stte",;de, 110"thPi,n,,1 scot free, and he knew the magistrate
air was th gto him. The defendant was asked if
GrO,„
4e cate, and he frankl admitted the fact.
ui '"!° Mark his sense of the defendant's dis•
Pehalt Conduct ent, y the lass d should certainly inflict the heaviest
tiad the defendsaw llowed. The worthy magistrate then
Oeg, and t ss. for being drunk, 40s. for furiously
ttle Ponee." the further sum of 40s. for the assault upon
ta of constable
teed;
Paid
_ •
.The defendant,
.who had a large -iittely ,aii, "Pon him when taken into custody, rim
Li the amount, 41. 55., and was discharged.
„Its ..p,, gc:otrzt..,
.ilsie -,cell" , , - --- riassuxoreasies .
tie r) peel
visits c the Duke de Sotomayor (Spanish 11i-
,,,
otte of ,at yesterday to his Royal Highness the
.11, „
Beige,aanbrid the Lord Chancellor, Sir B. Peel,
TliMcao, i
Po , 1 ~,tich,ss,g an, and Dutch Ministers, Esc. _
lei 3.1 er nuke ot Gordon, widow of the celebrated and
,t4.k.n, i, ,ee of Gordon, is at Huntly Ledge, le oi th
43:trh.e.Aittr4i,en of excellent health...
~
__ ,
,The
1 i (session " Bute is staying at Dumfries louse,
i'i,u, -I, •
r ittori„--arl of
-I_, Yarborough arrived by train at Abbey's
13w„ing n'°el, lull, on Saturdaylast, and oti the f-el-
e -1.'4 Lerl'ing proceededtoßrocklesbv.
'eork. t,'3wager Countess of Glasgow, with the Hon.
Lear 'v.'• and Lad Diana Boyle,have 1 ft Etal House,
Weeks .„,?°ler, vvhereytheCountessliasbeeen staying seme
tebeet f;ii.tliti Lord Frederick and Lady Augusta Fitzela-
eaCoaet bee Ladyehips residence at Edinhuigh.
.'44llviteiiettsTliircle'3.lPll liinsky has left Mivart's Hotel, for
I,l,4re:drGeneral Sir James Cockburn has arrived at the
1 INtiuterls .1.!?v1, Leamington Spa, on a visit to the
4 queles 8 Yaleutia.
°4l, for ,:1_• Newdegate, Esq., 11. P., has left Mivart's
ses seat, Arbury Hall, Coventry.
tAxl.;storde.y forenoon, the Commissioners of the income-
eoretti.et, for
the
London sat at their office, in 13aeing-
iita l';',l,"ione,. met tpnrnose of hearing the appeal:. The
in the Board-room at eleven o'clock,
18tioili'lleejUdede. the consideration of the cases of the
Me Nai7l2P Hants at two o'cleck. It is calculated that
Pee„.seejit.inr
_e_t:n:Zppe.llante.have been reduced about fifty
`t!i ~,
te •!4 panson with the number of the first year.
!._iodideeb fee Board will assemble, for the last time, upon
e.Petis • 41* The Commissioners, of whom Sir G.
ete Is th f
kilatlt 1 e oreraan, consist of some o the first
iletlirines;,"4l3„ekwer,S, and, traders in the City of London.
1,"to F-14,468.141",,t . days frost which prevailed last month
r use e octelety offered the attendance of an iceinto;
tif Prose t•
%a, ton of Prince Albert, who replied to the
et;• orldettineeaettoent. tatiiiilseßhn,:tyt
14 th , That •
al Highness thanked the Suet
the
respectfully begged to decline the
din;_te:ti,daY 1i:tomb:I n"
.
g, as.some labouring men were pro-
'eta ,' '''' work in s e fields at Wandsworth their at-
till; - 148 arrestedlib
teel.ll"ing at what y a dog
belonging to one If the
liTtli lea) upon
in appeared to be a bundle of rags ;
illt_elt44g(l,neittotit,tieniingstPheeetbilil'y otufrniiende
wototron bfeettarapteienctett,,
uZilill kuthor9 (.1
and cold, and upon being
4141), siderable taken to the
4, but ities inquiry was i
„• 43 yet without a • camediately
i"--
excite
titti,,; to
the
course
which
prevails in the City
ny satisfactory result.
ion-freeltechenhlasi with re•
unsbeeheonidtitekrseioifbtyh•
eth the
te:. r p (.:1-
t 4,7.1 againgt /
141 V
tWheitB
LheelgdistiaWtoui?or three days since,
V ttn
when il peti-
‘,Il
4,_
~.._ . .
so
oloWealis
oafdtchTetvedruvainsidonrsluoir zu6stlyi
ith PraYiag that
l' , knu.._,l- v., c. `6, as relates to the abolition of freeedotu-
s ,xteuu_, all exclusive Privileges of
tter
~,nueel to the Citt? of trading, mad nu
London, and that such fur-
eb4-
ott+easures
nacted for checking existine
tetiitcosoft.mel-adraiYnisterateion, and reducing the amount
Is it h e "ev'Y local hcl 4viog been discovered by the revenuet, officers at
~..eteouth
i7.„'.,,d,fe„..,,,;;;_ri
erezy7iansinCgonstoanaineinegaskpsitewhh,ihtfla.tad..ibeen en-
, and constructed in siz • and ) •
14e to tea, 30]
t tel two
"et resembl
tel_eun the,, e a common red brick, each L'-:lx,''ug-
wce;
were and four pounds net of Ununell.t:•t",rinl
54,‘'.,8ira of thee cmieealed in the Centre of the pit4ch 1,.*
itll' rts ,)i ~ revenue at this port, and at the several
• • . thel
0 1,4441,1 'Toe LT Kingdom, have been 1 e ilsecelrsad
feZ4tltheir rbe: defraud the revenue, and eatijorined io
Itth-ass et ettd4avours to detect and prevent any
a vrui e
ca may be attempted by similar means,

TIER. MAJESTY'S BUCK HOUNDS.—The celebrated
stag, Rory °Wore. afforded yesterday one of the best
runs this season ; the meet, at which Lord Rosslyn and
a field of nearly two hundred were present, taking
place at Gerrard's Cross Common. Rory, oa being
uncarted near the Pig and Whistle, on the Beacons-
tield-road, made for Chalfont St. Giles's, across
Bo!strode Park, to Hedgerley village, and Burnham
Beeches, crossing Littleworth and Woburn Com-
mons, and thence to Bone End, where it crossed the
Thames to Berkshire, the hounds being taken over Cook-
ham Bridge, Upon being again laid on near the village
of Ccoltham, the stag went away to Quarry Wood, where
it doubled to the left, and swam the Thames a second
time, landing on the Bucks side, and was taken at Great
Marlow, after a capital run of an hour and a half.
SINGULAR DEATH OF A CHILD FROM EATING A
PIECE OF CANDLE.—Yesterday a fine little boy, named
Thomas Morgan, two years and a half old, a son of
Captain Morgan, residing at No. 13, Wathey -street,
Consinercial-road, St. George's-in-the East, by some
means obtained a piece of candle, and contrived, before
he was discovered, to eat a considerable portion of it.
About three hours afterwards he was seiz-d with a yin-
-14-rt vomiting, by which some part of the candle was
e;..cter! ftom the stomach. Mr. Hawkins, surgeon, of
the Commercial-road, was called in, and, upon being in-
armed of the cause of the attack, administered the ne-
c,t,sary remedies; but in vain, for the child died in a few
hours.

'l* II E RETRIBUTION STEAM- FRIG A TE.—This mag-
nVicent vessel, the largest steam-frigate in the service,
left Blackwall on Thuasday morning for Chatham.
She got under way at tea minutes past seven A.M., and
pros. eded until she reached Gravesend, at a re-
duced speed, in consequence of the numerous vessels
coining up the river, it being nearly high water when
she started. Upon her arrival at Gravesend she
stopped her engines for ten minutes to land a gentle-
man who had proceeded thus far in her, and upon
resuming her course, it was resolved to try her, at
full speed, in order to test her own as well as the
capabilities of the engines. The trial was particularly in-
tereating, and the result was most satisfactory, as the
speed of the vessel after leaving Gravesend was fifteen
mils per hour, and it was the general opinion of all on
board, that when she gets deeper in the water she will
even increase her speed. The total weight of the whole
machinery is nearly 600 tons ; yet, notwithstanding this
immense weight, and their extraordinary size and power,
the eLgines worked with the greatest ease, and were as
readily controlled by the engineer as any of those in the
aniallest river steamer. It might have been supposed
that when this immense mass of ponderous machinery
was set in motion with such velocity, that
the vibration would have been very considerable. Such,
however, was not the case ; for when the vessel was
going at her greatest speed nothing of the sort was in
the least perceptible, and persons below would not have
known but that the vessel was at anchor. She brought
up in the Medway, within four miles of Chatham, at
10 50 A. 31., the tide not enabling her to proceed further.
There is no instance on record of any vessel having made
such an extraordinary quick passage before, as the whole
distance was run in three hours and forty minutes. She
was taken from Blackwall for Chatham under the com-
mand of Captain Smith, of Woolwich Dockyard. Mr.
Llo, d, the engineer-in-chief of that establishment, was
also on board, as well as several other scientific indivi-
duals. Upon the making of the flood tide she got under
way again, and proceeded on to Chatham.
SiGiss OF PROSPERITY.—We are glad to learn that
within the last fortnight the Carlisle manufacturers have
advanced the handloom weavers' wages fully nine per
cent., making a total advance of 20 per cent. on wages
since the spring of 1844.
BRADFORD.—REPRESENTATION OF THE BOROUGH.
—A good deal of talk has been occasioned by the ap •
pearance among us, during the last two or three days, of
Mr. Wilberforce, one of the borough candidates at the
last election. Whether his visit is connected with a
political object or not, we cannot ascertain, but certainly,
taken in conjunction with the fact of Mr. Hardy's late
illness, it looks suspicious. He was staying at Scarr Hall
with Mr. Pollard, and visited his old political supporters.
-- Leeds Times.
The Hon. C. A. Murray, who is now convalescent,
left Windsor Castle on Wednesday for town, and is ex-
pected to proceed, in the course of a few days, to.
Naples, to enter upon the duties of his new appointment,
as Secretary of Legation at the Neapolitan Court.
NEW THEATRE IN SHOREDITCH.—The new theatre

which has been fur some months in the course of erection
in Shoreditch, facing the Eastern Counties Railway, has
;:t length been completed, and is to be opened on
Jlonda evening. It is one of the most elegant and
capacious minor theatres in existence. The building has
been erected under the entire direction of Mr. Gibson,
the architect. It will contain an audience of 2,200
people, namely--gallery, 700; pit, 1,000; and boxes, 500.
The gallery is so constructed that an entire view of the
stage can be obtained from every seat. The front rows
of the pit are rather below the level of the stage, it then
rises on a slope and the back rows are on a level with
the stage. The boxes are so divided that no inconvenient
pressure can arise from a full house. An excellent

arrangement is made with regard to the approach,
so that those who have an objection to a saloon can enter
and ieave the theatre without coming into contact with
it. The saloon is large, and fitted up with every regard
to com:ort and ease. The stage is thirty-seven feet from
wing to wing, and nearly fifty feet from the foot lights
to the back. Beneath it is au arena for horsemanship
(during an equestrian season) forty feet in diameter.
To display this the stage will travel with the greatest
ease to another part of the building. so that the delay
in prepaving the arena will be as short as if a usual
interlude followed.. The proscenium boxes draw back
to prevent any obstruction to the view, and, as the
curtain iises, a pair of very elegant Corinthian gold
moulded pillars draw off at the side, leaving the stage
its entire size during the dramatic representation, and
closing again as the act drop falls. The divisions of the
boxes are supported by Corinthian columns, gold
moulded, and the dome is in strict accordance with the
saute style of architecture. The interior of the boxes is

hung with crimson. The ceiling is divided into six corn
liariments, with the following devices :—'• Tragedy,
Music, the Dramatic Poet, attended by Fame and Ap-
pl.iuse; the Comic Poet creating his subject; the Painter's
:1: cam, and Romance borne by two youthful poets." 'Hie
rtircle bet!, een the boxes and gallery are decorated with
ni,utical and equestrian sketches in thepanels, whilst the
circle between the boxes and pit are in the arabesque
!,iyie, with vignettes and various devices. The house
iii be lit by a chandelier of a novel description. The
building lays great claims to external elegance, and
o;)ens wilder the joint direction of Messrs Johnson and
Nelson Lee, late lessees of the Pavilion Theatre.

St.ouGu, Fittn.ky.—Mrs. Hadler (the mother of
the unfortunate Sarah Hart, who was murdered at Salt
hill, on the Ist instant), with her husband, left the neigh-
bourhood of the melancholy catastrophe yesterday morn-
ing for Gravesend, taking with her the two children of
the deceased. A subscription has been commenced at
Salt-hill, under the auspices of a lady sojourning at
D,tham's Hotel, to which liberal contributions have been
:trade by most of the principal inhabitants of the vicinity,
the benevolent purpose of providing for their future
t%etfare. We may mention that Mr. Butham, the pro-
prietor of the hotel, hay, kindly consented to receive sub •
scriptiuns in their behalf.
GREAT LIBERALITY.—A clergyman, not far from
Exeter, was applied to by a poor woman, who had done
some service in his family, to baptize her infant, and per-
form the usual offices of the church after her confine-
ment. The service was performed, and the generous
clergyman, whilst he himself received the full fee paid by
:be most wealthy of his parishioners, strictly admonished
the clerk and sexton, that on account of the poor woman's
t'xtreme poverty, they should receive but half of theirs.
—Correspondent of the Western Times.
SKELETON FOUND IN THE NEW-ROAD.—OH Mon-
day morning a poice-coastable found the skeleton of a
young child in the New-road, nearly opposite to the
Alarylehone Workhouse. Dr. Bo)d, the physician to
infirmary of that establishment, has examined it at
the request of Mr. NValtley, M.l'., Coroner, and sent to
that gentleman the following description of it:--It con-
sists of the bones of the head and the trunk (94 inches
l ag). The extremities are wanting. There is an in-
dentation in the right parieter bone of the skull. The
te-ck of the lower jaw, on the right side., is broken
;:cross. The collar bones are broken, and numerous ribs

1-actured. The spine is nearly divided at the bottom of
!h.. neck. The thigh bones are absent, all but the heads,
:4!,d the skeleton se: ms to have been that of a malformed

child—hence a suspicion that ithas been destroyed on
-ac:ec.unt of its deformity. The Coroner awaits the result
of investigations in progress before he decides whether
or not he shall hold an inquest.

taking care to acquaint the Commissioners with any t COURT CIRCULAR.
matters that may arise tit for their cognizance.
WINDSOR, FRIDAY.—Their Royal Highnesses the
The solicitor of the Customs having, pursuant to the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal were taken
directions of a minute issued by the Commissioners, laid
pleasure-
before the Board the form of a general notice, signifying their accustomed walk this morning,,in the
that the period of eight days allowed for ascertaining the grounds aijacent to the Castle. Her Royal Highness
deficiencies on corn or grain warehoused, and subse- the Princess Alice was also taken an airing.
quently entered for home consumption, ias been ex- The Hon. Miss Murray, Maid of Honour in Wrait-
t,ed,:d to fourteen days, th,l noti:e has been approved,
mei e 100- of the same pr;nted. by ,girder of the in on her Majesty, arrived at the Castle last night.
rind delivered to the several departm.nts in London, an,l
T 11" HE GRAM) DUCHESS OF MECKLENBURGH
transmitted to the collectors and comptrollers at the , STRELITZ.
ri as outp,alsof the United Kingdom, for their govern- fhe following account of the health of her Ro3 al
steal and the information of the trade. Highness was issued yesterday :
" Cambridge House, January 17, 1845.
" Her Royal Highness the Hereditary Grand
Duchess of Mecklen burgh Strelitz continues to go
on quite satisfactorily.
" CHARLES LOCOCK, M.D."
Inquiry was made at Cambridge House yesterday
morning, on the part of the Queen and the Qaeen
Dowager, after the state of their illustrious relative.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent sent from
Froginore House to inquire after her Royal Highness.
In the afternoon the Duchess of Gloucester paid
a visit at Cambridge House.
The following members of the corps diplomatique
called and entered their names yesterday :—The
French Ambassador and the Countess St. Aulaire,
the Netherlands Minister, the American Minister
and Mrs. and Miss Everett, the Hanoverian Minister,
the Russian Minister and Baroness Brunnow, the
Mexican Minister and Madame Murphy, the Saxon
Minister, and Baron de Thile.
Among the nobility and gentry who called yes-
terday at Cambridge House to inquire after the
health of her Royal Highness, were the Duchess of St.
Albans, the Duke and Duchess of Somerset, Mr.
Culling Smith, the Countess and the Ladies Cadogan,
the Countess de Flahault (Barones Keith), Earl of
Shelburne, the Duke of Sutherland, Countess of
Jersey, Miss Burdett Coutts, Mr. and Mrs. E. Mar-
joribanks, Rev. Dr. Kuper, Captain and the Hon.
Mrs. Pechell, Lord and Lady Mahon, Marquis of
Bristol, Lady and the Misses Stephenson, Captain
Henry Murray, R.N., Countess Dowager Chichester,
the Ladies Pelham, Hon. W. and Mrs. Ashley, Coun-
tess of Mansfield, Lady Caroline Murray, Lord and
Lady Ernest Bruce, Sir Thomas Reeve, Sir Charles
Wetherell, Marquis of Douglas, General Sir George
Murray, Mr. and Mrs. Boyce, Viscount and
Viscountess Beresford, Lord and Lady Stanley,
Lord and Lady Fitzroy Somerset, the Misses
Somerset, Earl de Grey, the Lord Mayor, the
Vice-Chancellor of England, Mr. E. D. Moore, the
Earl and Countess of Erroll, Sir Henry and Lady
Wheatley, Rev. Dr. Jelf, Mrs. R. Jelf, Viscount
and Viscountess Combermere, Marchioness of West-
meath, Dowager Lady Cooper, Misses Honywood,
Colonel Sir George Couper, Mrs. and Miss Greathed,
and also a great many. others of the nobility and gentry.
The Hereditary Grand Duchess was going on fa-
vourably last evening.

CHESS.
We have received the following in answer to the
e:ndlenge which appeared in our paper of yesterday:—
" Paris, Jan. 14.
I have read in your journal of this morning a letter
from Mr. Staunton, to which I shall feel obliged by your
I,li.,hing the following brief, and, I think, conclusive
oply. I have played two matches with Mr. Staunton ;
I won the first, and lost the second. We were to have
played a third, which his departure alone has prevented
;Or the last three months I have been here at his dis-
;,,,Eal. After my having declared, repeated, and pub-
(ll,lamede, vol. iii., pp. 203, 417 ; vol. iv., pp.
38, 83, 92, 133, 182, 328, 329) that, not being a 1
chess player by profession, not accepting any con-
.rbution from my fellow-citizens, having, besides,
•o establishments in France, as well as
:oy family, it was impossible for me to sacri-
n,:e all to go to Englaad to play with him a match
any importance, and taking up a certain period of
time—he challenges me to proceed to London, and gives
himself the satisfaction (very little compromising, Imust
, to his purse) of off.ring to stake 1501. to my 1001.
A :; he is already perfectly aware that I cannot accept his
'a r. I ought perhaps to feel thankful to him for not
bluing proposed stakes more di3proportionally insulting
to me. We were to play here a third match, for 1001.
a-side, with his own men (it is all that I could concede to
him), and it is not from me, but from him, that it comes
to pass that this match has not taken place. Such is the
exact truth. and as history ought to be written.—l have
the honour to be, s r, your very obedient servant.
" ST. AMANT."

The Duke of Cambridge visited her Royal High,
rwss the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday, at Glou.
cester House.

A deputation from the Gloucester and Dean Forest
Railway, consisting of Mr. Baker, Mr. Rendell en-
gineer; Mr. Whitcombe, solicitor; and Mr. Elli-
oombe, had an interview with the Earl of Dalhousie
yesterday, at the office of the Board of Trade.
A deputation from the Shrewsbury, Oswestry,
and Chester Junction Railway, consisting of Mr.
Wardell, Mr. Brown, Mr. Roy, and Mr. Williams,
directors; Mr. Robertson, engineer; Mr. Kelsall,
solicitor; and Mr. Ellicombe, had an interview with
the Earl of Dalhousie yesterday.
A deputation Irom the Lincoln, York, and Leeds
Direct and Independent Railway, consisting of Mr.
Rowland, Morris Fawcett, deputy chairman ; the
Vice-Provost of King' College, Cambridge; Mr.
A lderinan Farncombe, Mr. Richard Dutton, Mr.
William Cadman, Mr. Leather, engineer ; Mr.
Blackburn and Mr. James, solicitors ; and Mr. Lang,
Parliamentary agent, had an interview yesterday with
the Earl of Dalhousie, at the Board of Trade.
A deputation from the Provisional Committee of
the Glasgow, Barrhead, and Neilston Direct Rail-
way, consisting. of Colonel Mure, of Caldwell, Mr.
Graham, of Ferenese, Mr. Robson, engineer, Mr.
Tennent, solicitor, Glasgow, and Mr. Dunlop, Parlia-
mentary agent, had an interview with the Earl of
Dalhousie, at the Board of Trade, yesterday.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat
yesterday. There were present the Master of the
Rolls, Mr. Baron Parke, the Chancellor of the Duchy
of Cornwall, and the Juige of the Admiralty Court.
A petition of Pierre Rousseau, from Trinidad, was
heard. The Master of the Rolls, on the part of the
Court, granted leave to appeal upon conditions.
Mr. Burge, Queen's Counsel, was heard on a peti-
tion from Trinidad, " Eccles v. Brown."
An appeal from St. Lucia, " Annet Jean Beauce v.
the Hon. William Muter," was resumed and con-
cluded. Mr. James Parker, Q.C., and Mr. Burge,
Q.C., were heard.

The Judge of the Admiralty Court gave judgment
on an appeal from the Prerogative Court, "Jones v.
Godrich," affirming the decree of the Court below
in favour of the will, and also in favour of the first
codicil, but pronouncing against the second codicil,
and reversing the decree in that particular. Their
Lordships also granted costs to Mr. Jones both in the
Court of Appeal and also in the Court below.

HER MAJESTY AT STOWE.
STOWE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON.—Previous to the ban-
quet last night, Mr. Smith, the Mayor of Buckingham,
presented the addresses of the borough of Buckingham
to her Majesty and Prince Albert.
In the evening Jullien's band performed several fa-
vourite pieces of music, of which her Majesty expressed
her approbation. The Life Guards' band played dur-
ing dinner. her Majesty retired to rest at half-past
eleven.

In the course of the day Mr. Smith, the librarian, and
Dr. Buckland exhibited and explained to her Majesty
the contents of the museum.
This morning her Majesty rose at seven, and remained
in her private apartments till luncheon.
At ten Prince Albert went out shooting to Stratford-
hill-wood. He was accompanied by the Duke of Buck-
ingham, the Marquis of Chandos, the Earl of Jersey,
Colonel Bouverie, Mr. Anson, Colonel Carrington, and
Captain Roberts.
The party returned at about one o'clock, the Prince
having shot 80 pheasant, 66 hares, and 2 rabbits.
After luncheon her Majesty and the Prince planted
each a cedar and an oak in front of the Temple of Con-
cord. Her Majesty left the mansion soon after three
o'clock, and walked with the Duke of Buckingham to the
spot. Prince Albert walked with the Duchess, and the
chief guests followed. As soon as the trees had been
duly planted, according to custom, the Duke of Buck-
ingham cried out " God bless Queen Victoria." Those
who accompanied her Majesty cheered and waved their
hats, as did some spectators at a short distance.
The dinner party to-night will consist of the royal
party anti the guests in the house, with the addition of
Mr. and Mrs. Dupr4e, the Hon. Captain Fitzmaurice,
M.P., and Mrs. Fitzmaurice, Mr. Rice Clayton, M.P.,
and Mrs. Clayton, and Mrs. Scott Murray.
The following have received invitations for the
evening :
The Duke and Duchess of Grafton, the Duke of
Rutland, the Duke of Marlborough, Lord and Lady
Southampton, the Marquis of Anglesey and Lord Alfred
Paget, the Earl of Buckinghamshire, Lord Alvanley,
the Hon. Colonel and Mrs. Anson, the Hon. Miss Eden,
the Hon. Miss Copley, the Countess of Bridgewater,
Baroness Wenman, Sir Thomas and Lady Sheppard, Sir
George Nugent, Lieutenant-Colonel and the Hon. Mrs.
Nugent, the Marquis and Marchioness of Blandford, Sir
['ugh and Lady Hoare, Sir H. and Lady Verney, Lord
4i.ost,,n and the Hon. Miss Irby, the Hon. George and
Mrs. Irby, the Rev. George Chetwode and Miss Chet-
wode, Mr. Grenville Pigot, Mr., Airs., and Miss Ricketts,
Mr., Mrs., and Miss Arnold, Sir John D. King, Mr.
and Mrs. W. Cartwright, the Hon. P. S. and Mrs.
Pierrepont, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Hibbert, Mr. and
Mrs. G. H. Dashwood, Mr. and Miss Ponceford Dun-
combe, Mr. G. S. Harcourt, Mr., Mrs., and Miss R. Har-
vey, Mr., Mrs., and Miss C. H. Hoare, and Miss Prince,
Mr. C. Penfold, Mr. and Mrs. T. P. Williams, Mr.
J. P. Deering, the Rev. Mr. Coker and Mrs. Coker,
Mr. Barnes, Mr. T. T. Drake and Mrs. and the Misses
Drake, Mr., Mrs., and Miss Jenny, and Mr. S. J. and
Mr. A. H. Jenny ; Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Lowndes, and
Miss Hartmann, Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Lowndes, the Rev.
H. Fowless, Mr. and Mrs. John Bent, Mr. S. Murray,
M.P., Mrs. and Miss Murray and Miss Nixon, Mr. G.
Carrington and Miss Carrington, Mr. G. Carrington,
jun., the Rev. Mr. Harrison, Mrs. Harrison, and Miss
Harrison ; Mr., Mrs., and the Misses Dayrell ; the Rev.
J. Drake and Mrs. Drake, Mr. J. Dupree and Miss
Dupree, Mr. and Mrs. B. Fuller, Rev. Mr. Gleed, Mr.
and Mrs. Lowndes (Chesham), Mr. J. Palmer, the Rev..
C. Erie, Mr. J. Norris, and Lady Young, Colonel 11.
Vyse, and the Misses Vyse, Sir T. F. Russell, and Lady
and Mrs. Russell, Mr. P. H. Wykeham, Mr. and Mrs.
J. Stone, the Rev. Mr. Martyn, Mrs. and the Misses
Martyn ; the Rev. Mr. Barron and Miss Barron, Mr.
T. T. Bernard, Mrs. and Miss Bernard, the Rev. Mr.
Young and Mrs, Young, the Rev. Mr. Wroth, Mrs. and
the Misses Wroth ; the Rev. Mr. Wright and Mrs.
Wright, the Rev. Mr. Rich arid Mrs. Rich, the lion. C.
C. Cavendish and Lady Catherine Cavendish, Mr. W.
G. Cavendish, Mr. and Mrs. George Merge!), Mr.
Davis, the Hon. Colonel Hutchinson, Mrs., and the
Misses Hutchinson, the Hon. Colonel D. Pennant, the
Warden of Merton and Lady Anstruther, the Warden of
the New College, lady, and family, the Rector of Lin-
coln and Mrs. Radford, Mr. C. G. Mansell, the Rev. 11.
Winfield and Miss Winfield, thy; Rev. Mr. Alharies and
Mrs. Alhawes, Mr. W. G. and Mrs. and Miss Bailey, the
Bev. J. Beard, Mr. T. A. Boswell and Mrs. Boswell, the
Rev. T. D. Broughton and Mrs. and Miss Blickley, the
Rev. A. Chester and Mrs. Checkley, Mr. J.Denison, Mr.
and Mrs. and Miss G. Lucas, Mr. and Mrs. M. Knapp,
Mr. W. T. Praed, Mrs. and Miss Praed, Mr. and Miss
A. G. Roberts, Miss Smythe, the Rev. F. and Mrs. Rose,
the Rev. L. Smythe and Mrs. and Miss Smythe, Colonel
Hall, the Rev. Mr. and Miss Cookerley, Mr. Grenville
Penn, Mr. Christopher Fano and Lady Sophia Fane, Mr.
M. Swabey, Mr. and Mrs. P. Wroughton, the Rev. G.
and Mrs. I'hillimore, Sir T. Aubrey, the Rev. A. Owen
and Mrs. Owen, Mr. and Mrs. W. Richford, Mr. J., Mrs.,
and Mtss Hale, the Rev. T. Carter, Mr. R. and Mrs.
Sutton, Mr. J. R. Barker, Mr. Benjamin l)'lsraeli and
Mrs. D'lsrueli, Mr. and Mrs, W. P. Freeman, Colonel
Iligginson, Mr. R. llamnaond, Mr. J. Newman, the
Rev. J. King and Mrs. Kin, the Rev. J. Pigott and
0,

THE SUN, LON DON, SATURD

" Carmarthen—Abbergwille Rectory, 201.
"Brecknock—Talgarthen and Alawe, 35/.
" Middlesex—lslewerth and Twickenham, 261. 13s. 4d.
" London—Blossoms Inn, 161.
&c., &c., forming a total of 6611. 6s. Bd.
The copy of the charter is deposited in the Record-
office, and remains in an excellent state of preservation.
It is engrossed on vellum, and amongst other attractions,
not forgetting the autograph of the celebrated Cecil, is
a likeness of the royal founder of the order of the Poor
Knights, which is ascribed to Holbein.

REPORTED DEATH OF THE EM-
PEROR OF RUSSIA.
In reference to the report of the death of his Imperial
Majesty, which has created so great a sensation, we
shall not enter into any speculations or calculations.
We merely afford to our readers, as we have heretofore
done, the statements which have issued from the source
from which the report emanated.
Our Belgian correspondent in his letter, dated " Brus-
sels, Thursday evening, Jan. 16," says I have not
received, in relation to the reported death of the Em-
peror of Russia, any intelligence since I dispatched my
letter yesterday, which can enable me either to deny or
to confirm positively the report so confidently announced
by the Eclair and other Brussels papers of Tuesday
night ; but the authenticity of the statement, which had
obtained fur itself general credence, is now very much
doubted here."
Our correspondent at Amsterdam, writing on the 15th
inst., expresses a similar opinion, and mentions that
"the Journal de la Have states that no intelligence of
the Emperor of Russia's illness had reached that place."
Our Paris correspondent, dating his letter Thursday
evening, says :
" Berlin papers of the 6th, state that letters had been
received front St. Petersburgh, announcing the illness of
the Emperor. Great agitation was felt at the Russian
Embassy."—Herald.

NEW PROJECTED RAIL WAYS.
(From the London Gazette of Last Night.)
RAILWAY DEPARI'MENT OF THE BOARD OF
TRADE, WHITEHALL, JAN. 17, 1845.
Notice is hereby given that the Board constituted by
the Minute of the Lords of the Committee of Privy
Council for Trade of the 24th of August, 1844, for the
transaction of railway business, having had under con-
sideration the following schemes for extending railway
communication in the district of North Kent, and in the
districts of Kent and Sussex, intermediate between the
South Eastern and Brighton Railways, Y. '—
The Central Kent Railway,
The London and Croydon—Orpington Branch,
The London and Maidstone,
The London and Ashford,
The London, Chatham, and Chilham,
The London, Chatham, and Gravesend,
The London, Chatham, and North Kent,
The Rye, Tenterden, and Fleadcorn,
The South-Eastern—Maidstone and Rochester,
The South-Eastern—Tunbridge to Hastings, Rye,
and St. Leonard's,
The South-Eastern—Branches to Deal and Walmer,
and extension and deviation at Margate,
The South-Eastern—Ashford to Hastings,
The South-Eastern—Headcorn to Rye,
The South-Eastern—Hungerford-bridge to Tunbridge
and Paddock Wood and Branches,
The t o
Chilham,S o u th-E a
.wt et
trhn —a Nb
rearntchh Kt
oe nst , h le
runnges es faonr
dd -bbrdrai
n go
he
to connect Greenwich and Woolwich;
Have decided on reporting to Parliament in favour
of the
South-Eastern—Maidstone and Rochester,
South-Eastern—Branches to Deal and Walmer, and
extension and deviation at Margate,
South-Eastern—Ashford to Hastings,
South-Eastern—Hungerford-bridge to Tunbridge and
Paddock Wood and Branches,
South-Eastern—North Kent, Hungerford-bridge to
Chilham, with Branch to Sheerness, subject to any
modifications which may appear to be desirable for
the naval and military establishments of the country;
and reserving consideration of the Branch to con-
nect Greenwich and Woolwich ;
And against the
Central Kent,
London and Croydon—Orpington Branch,
London and Maidstone,
London and Ashford,
London, Chatham, and Chilham,
London, Chatham, and Gravesend,
London, Chatham, and North Kent,
anudnb ini'edadgeet°ornll'astings, Rye, and St.
sßoyuet,h'.lE'enasteterrdn,
Tne_Leonard's (with the exception of so much of the line
as lies between Tunbridge and Tunbridge Wells),
South-Eastern—Headcora to Rye.
:..T; DALHOUSIE.
C. W. PASLEY. G. R. PORTER.
D. O'BRIEN. S. LAING.

BhaoihrsellWae watering-place. FLOCK OF GOLDFINCIII9.—On Saturday afternoon
a very numerous flock of goldfinchas, were
alight ere observed
crirvoesrs
stihdee,N,
ao North
little
Inch
to
vfreo
the
Con-
sidering that for many years the goldfinch, the most
trva t theto
beautiful of our native feathered songsters, has been a
rather scarce bird, and that seldom more than from
twelve to a score have been discovered together, such a
flock as that seen on Saturday—upwards of 100, is some-
what remarkable. Somehow or other, several bird-
fanciers in the town had so early information of the
chance of making a fine capture, that the birds were not
many minutes alighted, when. call-birds and limed twigs
were placed round them in every direction. The wild
goldfinches would not, however, take the twigs, and in a
short time they rose in a body, and flew in the direction
from whence they came, to the sad disappointment of
the fanciers, who expected to take a dozen or so of
them ; and for which, kuLd they been successful,
they would have made a very handsome sum, as
a good male I.oldfinch readily brings from 4s to
55., and a female 2s. 6d. 'The appearance of so nume-
rous a collection of these I)inis is said to betoken a storm
in the nord —Perthshire Courier.

~_

S
Mrs. Pigott, Mr. T. C. and Mrs. Higgins, Mr„.and Mrs.
C. Clover, Mr. T. H. Worley, the Rev. JaMes Pigott,
Mr. T. Darien. the Hon. Captain and Mrs. Fitzwarren,
Mr. C. G. Dupre, M.P., and Mrs. Dupre, the Rev. E.
and Mrs. and Miss Neale, Mr. P. Dauncey, Mr. H.
Smith and Mrs. Smith, Captain Anderson, Mr. and Mrs.
R. Sutton, jun., the Rev. Mr. Andrewes and Mrs. An-
drewes. Dr. and Mrs. Langley, the Hon. Captain and
Lady Elizabeth Villiers, Colonel and Mrs. Delsop, Sir
James Watson, Messrs. Bartley, Dewes,
Sir James Graham left Stowe this morning for Ox-
ford. He returns this evening.
The royal party leave to-morrow (Saturday) morning
at ten o'clock. The train is ordered at Wolverton for
half-past eleven, so that it is probable her Majesty will
arrive at Euston-square at about one o'clock.
Last night there was a display of fireworks in the mar-
ket-place of Buckingham, much to the delight of the
good people of the town.
The weather here to-day has been very fine.

MR. BRIGIEIT'S VISIT TO DURHAM.
(From the Sunderland Herald.)
On Wednesday evening John Bright, Esq., the talented
member for this city, addressed the electors and other
inhabitants in the theatre, Saddler-street. Immediately
after the doors were opened the building was crowded
to excess, and hundreds of persons were unable to
admission.

At seven o'clock Mr. Bright appeared en th
accompanied by a large nuinber of his friends and con-
stituents. He was greeted on his appearance with loud
and enthusiastic cheers.
On the motion of Mr. Oliver, seconded by Mr. J. E.
Marshall,
JOHN lIXNDERSON, Esq., was called to the chair, who
opened the proceedings in an appropriate speech, during
which he referred to the fact that fbrmer representa-
tives of the city had not been in the habit of meet-
ing the inhabitants in this manner. They were much
indebted to Mr. Bright for having introduced so good a
custom.—(Applause.)
Mr. Blamer was hailed with rapturous cheering.
His speech occupied nearly two hours in its delivery,
and many of its passages were extremely able
and eloquent. We are only able to present our
readers with a brief abstract. He commenced by stating
the object of their assembly, which was that he might
advert to his votes during the last session of Parliament,
state to them his views of the present position of the
free-trade question, and receive from them any hints or
suggestions as to their wishes for the future. He was
sorry to hear that similar meetings had not been hereto-
fore held in the city of Durham, for he was convinced
that nothing was of more importance than that Members
should frequently meet their constituents, especially when
the connexion which subsisted between them was only
of a political character. Members were far too apt to be
profuse of promises on the hustings, and forgetful of
them in the House of Commons. His professions as a
candidate were chiefly confined to one question—the
question of free tra,'-, in the fullest sense of the word
not in corn only, bu. ,:ery other article of import, and
with respect to every article of domestic or home manu-
facture.—(Applause.) The peculiarity of the circum-
stances attending his election seemed to demand that
such a meeting should take place, for he came to the city
an entire stranger, not knowing a single individual in it,
and having no reputation here, save the fleeting and un-
satisfactory one arising from his name often appearing in
the columns of the newspapers. They were satisfied with
his professions, and sent him to Parliament; he had now
returned to give them an account of his past conduct, and
ask their approbation of the past, and their support for
the future.—(Applause.) In taking a review of the mea-
sures of last session, he first adverted to the question of
the sugar duties, explaining the discriminating duties
as they existed previous to the alteration made by
Government, and vindicating himself and his colleagues
for the vote they gave in favour of Government and
against Mr. Miles's amendment on that question—.
an amendment which, he said, was supported by the
Whigs simply with a desire to outvote the Ministry.
-Next came Mr. Villiers's motion for a repeal of
the corn-laws, and on the second night's debate
the late Whig Ministers absented themselves from
their usual places in the House—it was a studied insult
to the advocates of free trade, because they refused to
vote with the Whigs to turn out the Tories. The only
exception was a nobleman nearly allied to this county,
the representative of a neighbouring borough—he al-
luded to Lord Howick—(Applause)—and his speech was
perhaps—he was going to say without any exception—
the most powerful and the most beautiful speech he had
ever heard in defence of free trade.—(Applause.) The
Whigs attempted to lessen the minority on that division,
but they did not succeed; the same number of votes was
registered in its favour as on the preceding year, whilst
from 20 to 30 voted with the League in 1844, who had
never voted with them before.—(Applause.) Later on
in the session Mr. Gibson proposed that a Government
Commission should be issued to go down into Suffolk,
Essex, and parts of Cambridgeshire, for the purpose of
ascertaining the causes of the incendiary fires which
were then raging. Mr. Gibson is a Suffolk landowner,
although he represents Manchester, and as the squires
who represented the rural districts sat and voted as if
they had left an Elysium, he felt it his duty to bring
forward the question. The commission was not issued,
the incendiary fires had gone on and are going on still,
and Government and the landowners refused to inquire
into the cause of this lamentable state of things. He
(Mr. Bright) said that the prevalence of incendiarism
showed that there was something rotten in the state of
the agricultural districts—something was out of joint,
when men, honest and well-meaning as any then pre-
sent, were tempted or driven to raise their hands against
the property of their neighbours and employers; and the
members of the League would have been wanting in
their duty if they had neglected to bring this important
matter before Parliament, especially when they found it
was a subject which the representatives of the agricul-
tural counties were afraid to grapple with. After some
further statements, the Honourable Member continued:
—No party had ever yet been able to make the Leagne
a tool or instrument to aid its purposes, and no party
should ever do so.—(Cheers.) He then adverted to the
importance of free trade, and to the increased commerce
which it would bring between this and other countries.
Their opponents knew that free trade was good, or why
did they rejoice over a free trade tariff for China? Sir
Henry Pottinger had beers feted, and eight or nine thou-
sand pounds had been subscribed (chiefly by monopo-
lists) to purchase an estate for him, because when the
Chinese were in a very humble mood, as most men are
when they are beaten, he established a tariff, by which
wheat and provisions of all kinds should enter China
free of duty, the ships which brought them being also
free from the usual port charges; by which there is to be
no discriminating or protective duties; and, according to
which all duties for revenue are to be moderate. Now this
was just such a tariff as the League wanted; audit' it was
good fur China, he did not see why it should not be
good for England; yet the very men who lauded Sir
Henry Pottinger for doing this for China heaped calumny
and abuse upon the Anti-Corn-law League, because they
were anxious to establish such a tariff in England.—
(Loud applause.) After adverting at considerable
length to the injurious operation of the corn-laws, and
showing that the present state of commercial prosperity
was owing to the cheap price of bread, arising from a
bountiful harvest (which blessing would be perpetuated
by a repeal of the bread tax), he stated the means which
the League was now employing, viz., increasing the
county constituencies by the addition of free trade
voters, for hastening the abolition of monopoly. In re-
viewing his own conduct during the last session of Par-
liament, he had only one cause of regret, and it was
that he had suffered the Night Poaching Bill to pass
without opposition, a Bill which made it equally criminal
for a man to be found armed on the high road as in his
neighbour's lands. This Bill was smuggled through the
House, and he had lost sight of it. He the more re-
gretted this circumstance, because he believed if any one
Member had fairly opposed it, it would not have passed.
He had some consolation, however, in believing that
now, when the evils of the game-laws have become so
fearful that a reconsideration of them must speedily take
place, this further extension of them would add to the
hatred against a system more tyrannous and galling than
any that ever existed—a system which in 1843 consigned
4,500 of his fellow-countrymen to gaol, and which, within
the last ten years has caused the deaths of 41 game-
keepers, in 26 of which cases verdicts of wilful murder
were returned by the coroners' juries, besides the
death of a great number of poachers. If anything could
add to the hideousness of the features of these laws, it
was the measure which was passed in the last session of
Parliament. He had already given notice of his inten-
tion to bring forward a motion in the next session for
the appointment of a Committee to inquire into the ope-
ration of the game-laws, especially as they affected the
prosperity of the farmer, and the morals and comfort of
the labourer. He hoped and believed that the Govern-
ment would grant him a Committee on this important
subject, and he anticipated much benefit from their
labours. Mr. Bright then recounted the grounds of hope
for the future ; concluding a brilliant speech by assuring
them that he should return to the House of Commons
stimulated and strengthened by the manner in which he
had that night been received, and determined to devote
himself incessantly and unswervingly to the advocacy
of those great and just principles which first recom
mended him to the good opinion and suffrages of the
electors of the city of Durham. [The Hon. Member then
resumed his seat amidst the most deafening plaudits of
the crowded audience.]
Mr. BassaWELL moved a vote of thanks to Mr. Bright
for the able review which ho had taken of the proceed-
ings of Parliament during the last session, and for his
past exertions, and expressive, also, of full confidence in
his future conduct.
The motion was seconded by Mr. J. E. MARSHALL,
and carried unanimously, and with loud acclamations.
Mr. BRIGHT returned thanks.

_n our report yesterday an inaccuracy occurred in the
description of a piece of silver plate. It is a group of
Sir Bevil Grenville, and not of Sir Grenville Temple.
Sir Bevil Grenville, or Granville, as he is sometimes
called, lost his life at the battle of Lansdown-hill, where
he charged a body of piketnen, who defended an emi-
nence. Mr. Cotterill is the artist who designed and
modelled the group.

THE POOR KNiGHTS of WINDSOR
A very important document connected with the en-
dowment of this ancient order has recently been disco-
vered among the archives of the Court of Wards and
Liveries, which promises to become the subject of legal
controversy, involving, as it does, the rights of the Poor
Knights of Windsor to the distribution among them of
a large and hitherto unappropriated income. The docu-
ment in question is a verified copy (signed by Cecil,
Lord Burleigh) of the charter, under the sign manual
of Queen Elizabeth, instituting the above order, and
bears date the 20th of August, 1558. The following is
extrac'ed from the indenture prefixed thereto •—" And
whereas divers manors, lands, tenements, and heredita-
merits mentioned and contained in the schedule hereunto
annexed, of the clear yearly value of 600/. and above,
are given and assigned unto the dean and canons of
Windsor, and their successors, to and for the intent
and purposes that all and singular the premises,
the revenue, and profits of the same shall for ever be
employed and bestowed in the maintenance and sup-
port of thirteen poor knights within our Castle of Windsor
in such manner and form as in a book hereunto annexed,
and signed with our sign manual, is set forth and
declared." Following this is a covenant, on the part of
the dean and canons, " to employ the rents, revenues,
and profits of the same, in such manner and form as is
therein set forth and appointed." The charter then goes
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serving priest's wages, officers' fees, and in the repairing
of the lands. The book annexed to the indenture con.
tains a description of the services to be performed, a
schedule of the lands, and an account of the privileges to
be enjoyed by the knights.
The present value of the endowment is upwards of
11,0001. per annum, although the stipend hitherto paid to
the knights has never exceeded 401. a-year. Until the
discovery of this interesting and valuable relic, which
appears to confirm the right of the knights to the full
appropriation of the endowment of their order, it was
concluded that the charter of Elizabeth, and all copies
thereof, were in the possession of the dean and canons of
Windsor, and no access thereto has ever been permitted
to the knights.
The opinion of counsel has been taken upon the sub-
ject, which is stated to be favourable to the knights, and
proceedings will be immediately instituted to recover
their rights.
The schedule of the lands is interesting, as showing
their value in the time of Elizabeth. The following
are some of the principal extracts from the charter, with
the annual rentals annexed :
" Cornwall—St. German's Parsonage, 48/.; Plympton
St. Mary's, 461.; Plumstock Chapel, 411.; Bradwynk
Rectory, 36/.; Wimbum Chapel, 30/.
" Devonshire—lple Penn Rectory, 301.; Sonthmolton
Rectory, 451.; Ottery St. Mary, 37/.; Islington, 16/.
Wiltshire—Ambroseshire Parsonage, 231. 13s. 4d.;
Prebend Tithes of Bedwynde, 561; Stapelford Parsonage,
181.

The dense assembly separated about half•past nine
o'clock.

VISIT OF THE COURT TO STRATHFIEDSAYE.—
WINDSOR, FRIDAY EVENING,—Her Majesty and Prince
Albert (who are expected to arrive at the Castle to-
morrow, to luncheon, from the seat of the Duke of
Buckingham), will take their departure on Monday next
for Strathfieldsaye, where the Court will remain until
the following Thursday. Her Majesty and the Prince
will proceed through Bracknell and Oakingham, at both
of which places stabling has been engaged for relays of
the Queen's horses. Her Majesty, after partaking of an
early luncheon on Monday, will leave the Castle at two
o'clock in the afternoon, so as to reach the residence of
the Duke between four and five. The distance from
Windsor to Strathfieldsaye, about twenty-five miles,
will be accomplished in two hours and a half. The first
stage, to Bracknell, is nine miles; the second, to Oak-
ingham, six miles; and thence to the seat of his Grace
ten miles.

ALISEURY.—FREE TRADE IN THE FIFTEENTH
CENTURY !—On Monday evening last, the tradesmen
employed by the firm of Maton and Co., brewers, of
this city, entertained their friends in a spacious room
elegantly fitted up at the brewery, in Milford-street,
when a jug, containing the modest quantity of fourteen
quarts,was filled again and again with superior strong beer.
This vessel is one of the relics of curiosity belonging to
the late Joiners' Company now extinct in this city, and
was used by the company in 1527; but what is most
remarkable is the fact that on this jug are the words,
still legible, "Free Trade." A similar jug, in the course
of the evening, belonging to the Tailors' Company, was
also presented to the numerously assembled guests, and
also foaming with malt and hop production. The evening
was spent in a very agreeable and pleasing manner.
Sherborne Journal.
The Duchess of Inverness is passing the holidays
With the Earl of Scarborough, at Milford Hall, Notts.
The Noble Earl, on Christmas-day last, had above 200
of his labourers assembled in the large vaulted hall of
the abbey, whom his Lordship provided with a substan-
tial dinner. The Earl and Duchess during the repast
frequently honoured the assemblage with their prebeuce.
—Doncaster Gazette.

EVENING, JANUARY 18, 1345.

LITERATURE.
MODERN COOKERY. London, Longman, 1845.
" The proper and wholesome preparation of our
daily food," says the authoress of this work in her
~preface, " though it may hold in the estimation of the
world but a very humble place among the useful arts
of life, can scarcely be considered altogether an un-
important one." Miss Acton here underrates the
science of gastronomy, which is so far from holding
" a very humble place among the useful arts of life,"
that it is considered by all right thinking people as
one of the most important pursuits to which human
invention and ingenuity can be directed. Look, for
instance, at the respect—we might almost say, the
superstitious veneration—which is paid to it in this,
the first metropolis of the civilised world ! Think of
the intense—the yearning spirit of devotion exhibited
by . our august civic dignitaries on the first
entrance of the savoury callipash and calippee
into Guildhall on that day of days, the ninth
of November ! The Ministers of the Crown,
the judges, the bishops, &c.—all these illustrious per-
sonages are lost sight of in the absorbing attention
paid to the venison and turtle, which may justly be
pronounced the " Lions" of the festival. y Then the
famous whitebait dinners at 13Iackwall ! What well-
disposed Christian but locks forward to these pleasant
episoles in daily life with repture, and remembers
them with affection, thus cultivating, in connexion
with them, both the " Pleasures of Hope " and
of " Memory ?" The late Sir William Curtis was
imbued with so profound a veneration fur the science
of gastronomy, that he never saw a haunch of venison
hanging up in a poulterer's shop, but he tcok off his
hat to it as a mark of respect; and the strongest ex-
pression of feeling we ever saw depicted in the human
countenance, was in that of a seedy epic poet who
was standing with his nose flattened against the win-
dow-pane of a cook's shop, sniffing the fragrant
perfumes that came steaming up from the kitchen.
In every age of the world almost every writer of emi-
nence has borne testimony to his love of good eating
and drinking. Homer is full of allusions to these
pleasant matters ; and in his very first book of the Iliad
he describes his gods and goddesses pitching into the
nectar administered to them by Liebe, with such un-
common vigour, as leaves an impression on the reader's
mind that they will all be dead drunk within the
hour. Descending to more modern times, who forgets
the constant references of Horace to his suppers with
Maecenas, and his sketch of the party at Nasidienus's,
where, if it had not been for the unlucky fall of the
curtain, the guests would have enjoyed their fill of
good things as completely as if they had been dining
with Lord Walbrook Gibbs at Guildhall ? In the
inimitable pages of Cervantes our delightful friend
Sancho "tucks like a Trojan"--to use a well-known
simile—and it is a remarkable fact that in the social
Scotch novels the heroes and heroines never once
lose their appetite, no matter how delicate may be
the distresses in hich they are involved. Again,
in the "Nocttes Ambrosianae "—would they could be
continued !—the redoubted Christopher NLrth takes
every opportunity of impressing his readers with a
lively sense of his gastronomic capabilities ; and even
Milton, notes-.7.thstanding the surpassing loftiness of
his theme, contrives to get up a very pretty little im-
promptu supper for Adam anti Eve in Paradise, which
they discuss with a relish worthy of an alderman. It
was Doctor J ahnson's opinion that the hour of dinner is
the most imeortant in the whole twenty-four; and
regularly as t;hat welcome hour approached, his face
—especially id he happened to be dining with Mr.
Thrale—would be lit up with a radiant expression
resembling inspiration. Had the Doctor been now
living, we cetnnot doubt but he would have been de-
lighted with the volume before us, which treats of
the best methods of preparing his favourite meal,
with an earnestness—a skill—and an animation
worthy of alt. possible laud. Like the late illustrious
Kitchener—that erudite professor of gastronomy—
Miss Acton gives no receipts but such as she has her-
self strictly tested. Eschewing the theoretical, she
confines hernelf to the practical portion of the
science ; and. some of the sauces for which she offers
receipts are :so piquant and relishing in their cha-
racter, that a man might almost digest his own
grandmother with them. But it is on soups that
she is greatest. On this important subject her genius
absolutely runs riot in its prodigality of invention ;
and her deletils respecting the best method of pre-
paring the " Lord Mayor's Soup"—what a soup that
must be !—)alight beget an appetite " under the ribs
of death." We have perused her volume in a spirit
of the profo andest reverence, and cordially recom-
mend it to the attention of all gastronomists, who
constitute by far the most intelligent portion of the
creation.

NA2OLEON : AN EPIC POEM.
Longman, London, 1845.
The red morocco binding of this epic poem is all
that binding should be; the paper and print, too,
leave nothing to be wished for on the score of neatness
and elegatifee ; but when we come to speak of tie
blank verso in which the poem is written, all that we
can say is, that it is very blank indeed ! As far, how-
, ever, as were scansion is concerned, we have nothing
, to object to in the lines, for they are correct to a
nicety ; but, alas, there is no poetry in them—no
graceful ixe sparkling imagery—no impassioned feel-
ing—all is as dull, cold and barren as the road, ac-
cording to Sterne's Smellfungus, " from Dan to I3eer-
sheba. The subject of the epic is the achievements
of Napoleon, whom the author has taken for his hero
for the :si ngular purpose of abusing him in every
page; amid " whose conquests," he tells us,
" Wh,Dse conquests, glories, crimes, and sudden fall
No feeble muse may sing. Thy mighty deeds,
Proiaa Corsican, demand Homeric lyre !"
Of cour3e the author is satisfied that his is " no
feeble Natse," or he would scarcely have undertaken
to sing of deeds which demand "Homeric lyre ;" but
we must "beg to join issue with him on this point, for
his muse is as " feeble " as if she had only just reco-
vered from a six months' attack of influenza, and is
far better qualified to sound the praises of General
Tom Tiramb, than of the Emperor Napoleon. In
the mare:7n of his verse the author is an evident imitator
of Milton, and, like him, is fond of introducing proper
names cal all occasions; but the swelling, stately,
organ-like roll of the melody in " Paradise Lost " is
wholly wanting in "Napoleon," which moves heavily
on for peges together at the dull, leaden pace of a
broad-wheeled waggon, and without making the
slightest approach to music of versification. We
know not. when we have met with so presumptuous a
production as the one before us, which, constantly at-
tempting to be brilliant, is constantly dull by mis-
take. 'The only tolerable passage in it is the de-
scription of the battle of the Pyramids, and even here
there is more smoke than fire.

DIARIES AND CORRESPONDENCE OF
THE EARL OF MALMESBURY, Vols. 111.
and IV. Bentley, London, 1845.
These volumes conclude the Diaries and Corres-
pondence of the Earl of Malmesbury—who, in the
opinion of. Talleyrand, was one of the most sagacious
statesmen of his age—and commence with the year
1793, and close with the year 1813. If they do not
throw much important additional light on the history
of this stirring period, they are, at any rate, exceed-
ingly entertaining, for they are crowded with inci-
dents ; an d we find in them numerous characteristic
sketches .sf some of the most eminent public men
with whoi a Lord Malmesbury was brought into con-
tact in the course of his long and active official career.
Pitt, Canning, and that bigotted old woman, Adding-
ton, are frequently brought on the Lapis, and of Can-
ning the noble author says :—" He has been forced
like a thriving plant in a well-managed hot-house;
he has prospered too luxuriantly—has felt no check nor
frost. Too early in life he has had many, and too easy,
advantages. This, added to very acute parts, makes
him impatient of control." The whole of Canning's
political career justifies this sagacious description of
him which was penned in the year 1803, when he
was yet but a statesman of promise, not of perform-
ance. Of the late Emperor Alexander the noble
author appears to have entertained no very high
opinion, and alluding to the battle of Friedland, in
which the Russians were worsted by Bonaparte, says,
" though not decisive as a battle, it was a complete
victory over the mind of the Emperor Alexander;
from that day all his boasted courage ended ;
and fear, panic, and every dastardly feeling
terror and dismay could suggest, seem to
have taken at once possession of him." These
Diaries and Correspondence will furnish excellent
materials for the use of some future historian of the
bustling period to which they refer, for, generally
speaking, they are free from strong political preju-
dices, and the author was a cool, wary, astute ob-
server who was not likely to be led very far
astray from the truth in his estimate of hien and
things. We hare no space for extracts, or we would
quote some amusing passages from his Diary during
the ricketty administration of Mr. Addington.

HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF
DUBLIN. London, Cadell, 1845.
This is the z.iost complete and circumstantial
account we have yet seen of the Protestant
its progress, and its present condition, and
Uni-
versity of Dublin, describing its origin under Queen
in addition, biographical notices of some
ocEfolntizhthaeibnneitinl eminent men who have received their
education at this celebrated seat of learning. The
work is the production of a gentleman named Taylor,
who has evidently bestowed considerable pains on it,
and has embellished it with several appropriate illus-
trations.

REPEAL IN TUE QUEEN'S BENCH.—Some laughter
was occasioned in the Queen's Bench, Dublin, on Satur-
day, and not a few jokes cracked in the Hall of the Four
Courts on the " advance of repeal," in consequence of
Dr. Gray, who at that time twelve months was placed at
the bar as a conspirator, for being a repealer, having
been that day called and sworn on the grand jury, wear-
ing, it is said, the same repeal button in the jury. box
which he had previously worn at the traversers' bar.—
Freeyran,

AWFUL °CCU RRENCE.
Yesterday, Thomas Couch, a middle-aged man of most
repulsive appearance, and who was describcal in the
police-sheet as a wheelwright, was charged at Laufbeth
Police-court with being drunk on that morning, and
obstructing a police-constable- in the- executiaa of his
duty. Thomas Meatier, police-tenatable L t 9, depaa,al
that about half- past two O'CIOCii on that inoreiug he
heard a disturbandti' in Fore-street, Lambeth, and on
going to the house No. 2S, in that street, he found the
prisoner at the door, endeavouring to force his way
in, while the occupier was endeavouring to keep hiin
out, and, at the same time persuading his wife, who
was in a state of intoxication, to go up stairs to bad.
The wife declared that she should not, and that if
the husband did not think proper to admit the prisoner
into the house, she should leave it, for that wherever he
was there she should be also. The husband, upon seeing
him (witness) complained bitterly of the conduct of his
wife, and said that though the mother of six chiklreu, she
had formed an improper intimacy with the prisoner—
that she had been away from her home all the evening
and night with him, until that hour, and that he knew
not on earth what to do with her. Witness, upon hear-
ing this, told the prisoner that unless he went quietly
about his business, so as to put an end to the disturbance,
he should take him to the station-house. The prisoner
still persisted in forcing his way into the him*, and
pushed witness about once or twice. He theritydd he
certainly would take him to the station-home, whew, he
woman inside said she should he taken there too, and
repeated, that wherever the prisoner was there she
would be. Her husband, the instant she had uttered
these expreasions, was in the act of falling, when wtiviess
caught him in his arms, and on procuring a light found
that he was quite (I( ad:
Mr:. Nortona-a.Do yea know of your own know-
ledge whether the partit a had tiny struggle in the I-es-
sage, or whether the deceased received any injuries F
Witness-HI don't think he did, Sir. There wait no mark
of violence on him, and the doctor who examined hi A is
of opinion that he died • from some internal cauae. He
told roe himself, a inomant or two before his death, that
his heart was quite broken a ith the conduct of his wife;
and when some person said " the man is dead," his wife
exclaimed, " Thank God for it."
-Mr. Norton—Did the unfortunate man seem much
excited immediately preceding his death ? Witness---
Not very much so, Sir. He seemed to me to be very de-
jected and low in spirits; in fact, quite cut up.
Mr. Norton—Have you ascertained what the deceased
was, and what his name is ? Witness—Yes, Sir, his
name is Charles Ingas ; he was a harness-maker by
trade, and about 60 years of age.
James Mills, a boat-builder. said he had seen the pri-
soner and Mrs. Ingas drinking together 'at several
public-houses on the night before. He first saw them
about half-past six in the evening, and heard the pri-
soner say he had come to take her away from her hus-
band. He also saw them go into the house of the de-
ceased about two o'clock in the morning, and immeell•
ately after heard them both singing in the lower part of
the house. This caused Mr. Ingas to come down stairs,
and he (witness) heard the deceased frequently tell the
prisoner to leave his house, else he should give him,
into custody. The other part of the witness's teatime-ay
was confirmatory of the constable's.
The prisoner, in reply to the charge, said that tee had
known Mrs. Ingas for about twelve months, and that he
should not have acted as he had done had he not been.
very much intoxicated.
Mr. Norton observed that the case was one of a shock-
ing and lamentable character, and ordered the prisoner to
find bail for his good conduct for three months, aid also
to pay ss. for being drunk.
The prisoner not being prepared with the required
sureties was sent to Horsemonger-lane Gaol.

THE LATE DANK ROBBERY.—We find that the
Procureur du Roi of this city received a letter some
days since from Mr. Hobler, the solicitor of Messrs.
Rogers and Co., to request him to give, officially, a nosioe
to the bankers, money-changers, and principal hotels
here, where foreigners are in the habit of coming, of the
list of the stolen Bank of England notes, and to caution
the bankers and others that they should
,exenaine all
Bank of England eotes offered to them by foreigners •
and that if they took any of the stab n notes after thtti
notice, loss would fall upon themselves, as the' pa meat
of all the notes was stopped. We believe Mr. Bobler
'lei taken the same steps with every British Embassy
and Consulate in Europe, arid the official notices when
completed will be forwarded to England ; so that let a
note come in from Paris, Brussels. er atly other city or
town in Europe, there will be official proof of notice
against the banker through whose hands it may have
passed, and thus rendering it hopeless in him to expect
payment of the note. We have let.rned also that the
Bank of England have issued a new 1,000/. note, dated
the 13th of November, 1844, instead of the 18th of May,
1844, which is the date of those stolen from Messrs.
Rogers and Co., and that application has been made to
the bankers in London and throughout the United King-
dom, to send in to the Bank of Eng:and all the 1,000/.
notes of the 13th of May, 1844, which we believe has
been complied with, so that there would now he none
returned into ,the Barak to be exchanged but those that
were stolen. This extraordinary operation will, we
hope, be responded to by our bunkers and money-
changers, to lend their aid in preventing the robbers,
whoever they may be, receiving any advantages now or
at any future day from their iil-gotten moneys.--BrS
British Gazette.
THE FOUNTAINS IN TRAFALGAR-SQUARE.—From
the rapid progress in every department of the works,
these ling-expected ornaments will soon be put in ope-
ration. The boring for water is completed, and a vet y
plentiful supply has been obtained. For several days
past the engines have been employed in raising water,
a bleb has been found quite equal to the deauutd which
will be required, and a jet of water has readily been
forced to a height of 30 feet in the basins. The well in
Trafalgar square has been sunk to a depth of about 160
feet, and that in Orange-street, Leicester-square, which
is on a higher elevation, about 30 feet deeper. The large,
cistern at the top of the engine-house will hold 38,00e0
gallons of water, and that at the top of the tower, wb'lch
is about 20 feet higher, about one-third of that quas,tity.
In addition to furnishing the fountains, cheap sire in-
tended to supply the whole of the Government bruildiaga
and offices in the district, for daily use or emergency, in
cases of fire, for which pipes are now being laid down.
The ornamental iron work for the jets ;:s in a sate of
great forwardness. The water, which rises in the borings
to about 60 feet of the surface, ie pumped up by two
Cornish engines of 20 horse power.
SAMARITAN FUND OF THE ST. GEORGE'S AND ST.
JAMES'S DISPENSARY.—At the close of the year 1843
the six medical officers of this charity, who attend 5,0 )0
patients annually, and visit a large proportion at their
homes, finding that an immense amount of disease was
incurable from want of proper air, food, and clothing.
proposed the formation of a fund, which, in addition to
medicines, should supply these requisites. The fund
was founded, and 300/. was collected in annnal subscrip-
tions and donations. By means of this fund the sick
poor have been supplied during the present year, by
orders from the medical officers attending them; with,
10,408 half-quartern loaves, 3,004 pints of milk, 2,85(."
pints of soup, 583 flannel shirts, and 465 ventilators-
The benefit has been incalculably great, but the expen-
diture has exceeded the income by 302
METROPOLITAN IMPROVEMENTS.—Yesterday the
twenty-first report of the Commissioners of Woo& and
Forests was printed, from which it appears that in re-
spect to the metropolitan improvements the Commis-
sioners hove completed purchases to the, amount in the
whole of 457,884/. 15s. 10d., and have contracted for
further purchases to the amount in the whole of
191,617/. 15s. 10d. ; and, besides these, the purchases
now remaining to be made, in order to clear the whole
of the ground required for completing the several lines
of improvements, it is estimated will cost the further sum
of 54,2561. 55., or thereabouts. In the line from Oxford--
street to Holborn the Commissioners have completed
purchases to the amount of 211,6841. 14s. 10d., and have
contracted for further purchases to the amount of
56,9691. 3s. 4d. ; and besides these, there remain
to be made purchases estimated to cost the
sum of 14,5712 155., or thereubouts. In the line
from Bow-street to Charlotte-street, Bloomsbury,
they have completed purchases to the amount of
70,958/. 18s. 3d., and have contracted for further pur.-
chases to the amount of 3,009/ 11e. 9d., and besides
these purchases remain to be made to about 17,5954
In the line from the London Docks to Spimlfields,
Church they have completed purchases to 96,742/. 16s.
11d., and contracted for further purchases to 30,2360.
Bs. 7d., and there remain to be made other purchases,
estimated to cost 6,7402 In the line from Coventry-
street to Long-acre they have made purchases to 77,078 e
ss. 10d. ; contracted for others to 89,202 k. 12s. 2d., and
besides, purchases will be required to eneeit 8,0974 los.;
and in the line from East Smithfield. ao Rosemary- ass
the Commissioners have completed inerehasea to 1,421 e;
contracted for further purchases to ',2,200/., and besides
these, others will be needed to 7,252/. The Commis-
sioners, it appears, borrowed some, time ago the sum of
money
few:at was also
hsaeolsuporue
reppsrooseoeufr d from Ex.
500,0001. from the Equitable As eurance Company, upon
the security of certain portior,s of the land revenue •of
aannddarthee ts•aalit;•4g(?f' '.ll"::atesruirtteis: folrlitekftualindise gar::
Commissionersnt chequer-billsho ew Crown,
nearly expended in tne sums mentioned, and the
metropolis. compledrig
m
make any reduction in contemplationtaxatio
tthh aelt viimprovements
furthertpl
reliooasvarennnmooeftfrn2ot
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Ministers to
of tea. It is added that • circumstances if a very suspi-
cious nature have occurred t
I.Cherbourg,entt and that
ta,
the surplus revenue in coast defencesaiam and .jfoarplfircaotio.ans,
so as to guard against surprise under any possible event;
and to ensure the protection of the yards, arsenals, and
merchant navy.—DOlin Evening Mail.
THE BREAKWATER LIGHTHOUSE, PLystouTri,---On Thursday morning, the 16th instant, at half-past eleven
o'clock, Mr. Jones, the head-keeper of the Breakwater
Lighthouse, was unfiirtunately washed off that struc-
ture by an immense wave which came in from the south-
ward. He was proceeding from the east eat' towarde.,
the west to receive some clothing from a boatman named
Forward, who had been sent out by the lightkeepeis
n thort:Milie'n
wife. Forward recovered Mr. Jones's cap, but sulks
that Mr. Jones sank immediately. Graham, the mun on
duty at the lighthouse, instantly hoisted a signal of dis-
tress, and the foreman of the works, Mr. Findlater,
promptly left the Chatham hulk with a number of hi.
men, who used every exertion. in their power, but with
out effect. Up to two o'clock the body had not beer,
found. There was no wind at the time, but it was Mgt.,
water, and there was a heavy ground swell on, owing tC
the recent gales. Mr. Jones was a native of Harwich,
and has left a widow and lewdly.
BUST OF ADAM SMITII.—The Lord Provost
1/111
magistrates have confided to. Mr. Patrick Park the .sash
of executing a marble bust of th© philosopher, from the
medallion by Tassy, which. is held to be the only•
ness extant. The bust, wen completed, will btu p/aooti
in the Council-hull, City-LinilOngs.—G/asgote Aiyus.