The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-28 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 28

DRURY-LAN E lIEA.T RE.
We were led to expect great things from the pro-
duction of Balfe's new opera, The Daughter (f St.
Mark, at Drury. lane last evening, and we hare not
been disappointed. Bunn has surpassed all his for-
mer, and has produced the most splendid, the most
gorgeous, the most magnificent, spectacle that has ever
been represented upon the boards of any theatre. The
libretto, which is by Mr. Bunn himself, is based on the
poem of M. de Saint Georges, but the author has in-
troduced such alterations as the requirements of the
English stage rendered requisite. If we mistake not,
a dramatic version of the same story was produced
some years since at the Adelphi, under the title of
The Queen of Cyprus. It is somewhat curious that
this same plot should have been recently chosen by
four eminent composers as a subject—Lachner, in
Germany ; Halevy in France; Donizetti in Italy ; and
Balfe in England, have each composed an opera on
the story of Catarina Cornaro. But to the opera of
last evening. The opening scene represents a festive
ball in the Villa Andrea, near Venice. Catarina
Cornaro (Miss Rainforth), niece to Andrea Cor-
naro (Mr. Borrani), a rich Venetian noble, is
about to he united to Adolphe de Courcy (Mr. W.
Harrison). Andrea has jointed the hands of the lovers,
who have left him to prepare for their nuptials, when
Moncenigo (Mr. Weiss), one of the Council of Ten,
enters and informs him that the State has deter-
mined that Catarina shell become the bride of the'
King of Cyprus, and commands him to forbid the
nuptials. Cornaro is horror-struck, but dares not
disobey. The guests arrive—the priests are there—
the bridemaids commence their chorus—the proces-
sion is on its way to the church, when Andrea ap-
pears and commands the nuptials to stop. All is in
confusion. Adolphe threatens revenge. Catarina
entreats in vain—Andrea is inflexible. The friends
of Adolphe and the partisans of Andrea are about to
rush on each other, but, are, restrained by Catarina,
who,' overcome by the agony of her feelings, falls
senseless, and the act-drop falls on the tableau. The
first act consists almost entirely of concerted music ;
in the second act we meet with several gems of me-
lody. The first scene is the oratory of Catarina, a
beautiful Gothic chamber, looking like one of Prout's
most finished architectural paintings. We hear
a very pretty chorus of gondoliers in the distance.
To this succeeds a barcorolle, beautifully sung by
Miss Rainforth. In her prayer-book she finds a letter
from Adolphe, in which he tells her that he will come
at midnight to set her free, and the gondoliers' song
shall be the signal of his approach. Andrea enters,
and tells her not to peril herself and Adolphe by re-
fusing the match which Venice has proposed. In this
scene is introduced a fine solo, " When all around our
path is dreary," which was most touchingly sung by
Borrani, and deservedly encored, and which will no
doubt be the bass song of the season. As soon as he
has left Moncenigo enters, and shows her three
assassins concealed in her oratory, who have orders to
murder Adolphe if she does not at once reject his ad-
dresses. Adolphe immediately enters, and here oc-
curs another of those beautiful melodies, in the com-
position of which Balfe is so successful ; it is the air,
"My bark which o'er the tide." It is exactly suited
to Harrison's peculiar powers, and was rapturously
encored. She rejects him, and he leaves her, believing
her false. In the next scene we find Moncinego congra-
tulating himself on the success of his plots of revenge
against Andrea's family; and then follows the concluding
scene of the second act, and by far the most mag-
nificent scenic effect ever accomplished on any stage.
The scene represents the battlements of the Palace
of Famagosta, in Cyprus, with a view of the port
seen under them. The stage is crowded with
people making merry in honour of the mar-
riage of the king. There is a grand procession of
the clergy; the clergy and the people join in a
preghiera ; then in the distance is heard a chorus
of sailors. The Venetian fleet pass in the distance,
and salute ; the bells ring ; there is a flourish of
trumpets. The king, preceded by his pages, squires,
and heralds, and followed by his court in grand
procession, descend the steps of the palace ; the
State galley with Catarina arrives; the pages ,
sa
down a rich carpet, which the bridesmaid s strew with
flowers. Catarina, who is accompa"'Led by Moncenigo
and Andrea, is received by 'I king, and
presented
to the people ; and sn'ads‘: the -waving of the
banners, and tb
shouts of the people, the proces-
sion still
continuing to stream down the
battle7ilents, the curtain falls. The opening pening scene of
the third act, the gardens of the Royal Casino
at Nicosia, is also very superb. It is filled with guests
merrymaking. When the guests leave, Moncenigo
enters, accompanied by a band of masked assassins,
whom he directs to murder Adolphe, of whose arrival
in Cyprus he has been informed. A clashing of
swords is heard, and Adolphe enters, accompanied by
the king, who has saved his life. A beautiful duet
ensues, and the king leaves him, without disclosing
his rank. Catarina enters—the lovers meets She
entreats his pity, and Adolphe replies, in one of the
most beautiful morceaux of the opera, "Oh ! smile as
thou wert wont to smile," a ballad, in which Harrison
is quite as great as he is in the far-famed "When
other lips," and in which he will be quite as popular.
It is needless to say he was encored. She explains to
him that, on the night she rejected him, assassins
were in waiting, who, on the least sign from her,
would have taken his life; and then follows a beautiful
duet, " Despite this tortured brain." Moncenigo enters,
attended by the guard, arrests the lovers, and conducts
them to the citadel. Moncenigo hastens to the king
to accuse them, and, notwithstanding the entreaties
of Andrea, they are condemned. The last scene re-
presents a public place in Nicosia, with a scaffold
erected, and the headsman ready; monks are kneeling
around, and the stage is thronged with soldiers and
populace. Catarina and Adolphe are led in. Andrea
rushes to the feet of the king, who is on the throne,
and entreats for pardon. Moncenigo urges the execu-
tion, when Andrea tells him that Catarina is his own
child, and gives him such proof that he cannot doubt
the fact. Adolphe is led forward and questioned by
the king, who not only pardons him, but gives him
Catarina in marriage. The finale, by Catarina, " This
spell too bright to bear," admirably sung by Miss
Rainforth, and the chorus, " Envied for ever be," fol-
low, and end the opera. All the performers were called
for at the close, and richly did they merit the
honour, for they one and all exerted themselves
to the utmost. Mr.l3alfe was called for, and then Mr.
I3unn ; and both author and composer were received
with loud plaudits. We have particularised the more
important portions of the music as we have proceeded.
The whole of the music is in recitative, and Balfe has
in general overcome the difficulties of adapting Eng-
lish words to recitative admirably. The opera has
been most expensively put upon the stage ; and we
must conclude, as we commenced, by repeating that
The Daughter of St. Mark is by far the most gorgeous
spectacle ever produced. The house was crammed
to the ceiling lorg before the rising of the curtain.

The Earl of Ellenborough, the Earl of Clarendon,
Viscount Strand,►ford, Sir Edward Codringto:i, the
Earl of Jerky, Lord Ernest Bruce. Sir George Cock-
burn, Sir George Murray, the Right Hon. George
Dawson Kamer, and Sir Arthur Aston, took their
departure from the Castle to-day.
The Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess
Royal, and the Princess Alice., were taken for pony
and walking exercise in the course of the morning.
The Royal Family were again taken airings in the
afternoon.

The Earl and Countess Couper, Lord and Lady
Willoughby de Eresby, and Lady Peel, arrived at
the Castle to. day, on a visit to her Majesty.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited
the Queen and Prince 1A lbert this afternoon.

The Duke of Wellington accompanied the Mar-
chioness of Douro in an early walk in the pleasure.
grounds of the Castle.
The band of the Scots Fusilier 'Guards was in
attendance during dinner at the Castle to-day. Her
Majesty's private band afterwards attended.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert honoured Mr.
Wyon, of the Royal Mint, with a sitting for the por-
trait of his Royal Highness, for a medal.

Yesterday was the birthday of her Royal Highness
the Princess Mary. The Duke of Cambridge arrived
at Kew at an early hour, from Windsor Castle. The
Duchess of Gloucester arrived in the Effenoon, to pay
a visit of congratulation, from town. The royal party
afterwards left Kew for town.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester
gave a grand dinner in the evening at Gloucester
House, in honour of the auspicious event. Their
Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cam-
bridge, the Hereditary Grand Duke and Duchess of
Mecklenburgh Strelitz, the Princess Mary, and a
select party, were present.
Sir Frederick Trench had an interview with the
Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone yesterday, at the office
of the Board of Trade.

Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office from the Governor of Gibraltar.

LIEUT.-GENERAL SIR JOHN
CAMERON, K.C.B.

This Peninsular officer died at his residence at Guern-
sey on Saturday last. The deceased, whose health had
been declining for some time past, was second son of
Culehenna, and nephew of Cameron of Caltort, Inver-
ness-shire, whose ancestor was a younger son of Loehiel,
chief of the clan. He was born in 1773, and married in
1803, Miss Brock, eldest daughter of Mr. Henry Brock.
of Belmont, Guernsey, and niece of the first Lord de
Saumarez. Sir John entered the army as ensign in the
43d Regiment of Foot, in September, 1787. In 1794, be
served under Sir Charles Grey, in the West Indies, and
was present at the reduction of Martinique (including
the siege of Fort Bourbon and other minor engage-
inents), at St. Lucia and Guadeloupe, and particularly
displayed his gallantry at the defence of the latter in
the same year, and at the sortie from, and at the wsault
made by, the enemy on the fortress of Fleur d'El65. He
was at the action of the 30th of September, at Berville
linrl.?r Brio-adier-Generel Graham, and in the
action of the 7th October, he was severely wounded and
was taken by the enemy. He remained a prisoner of
war during a period of two years, and then came to
England ; but his military duties at home were of
short duration, for in six months he was was again or-
dered with his regiment to the West Indies, where he was
on foreign service for nearly four years. The General,
on his return to his native country, was ordered
with his regiment, the 9th Foot, to the seat of war in
Portugal, Sir John at that time holding the rank of
Lieutenant-Colonel in that gallant corps. His services
in the Peninsula were acknowledged by several honorary
distinctions. At the battle of Vimeira ho commanded
the 2d battalion of the 9th Foot. He was at Corunna,
under the unfortunate Moore, and by the intrepid bra-
very he displayed at that sanguinary conflict, the -I
ceased gained the approbation of his sue— • -
wand. In July, 1809, he ernbeei- coal-
expedition to the Schell on the 9th • on the
_., then commanding the Ist bat-
talion,
-and r....urned., in September to 'England. In March
he was sent out to increase the force of the
army in Portugal, then commanded by the Duke of
Wellington, and he continued in active service under
that great commander until the termination of the war
in 1814. He particularly distinguished himself at Bu-
saco, where he had a horse shot under him ; also at Sa-
lamanca and Vittoria. In July, 1813, previous to the
assault and capture of San Sebastian, he carried, with
the 9th Foot, the fortified convent of San Bartholomew,
in front of Sau Sebastian, thus gaining a position which
contributed greatly to the advantage of the allied army.
He subsequently took an active share in the battles of the
Nive of the 9th, 10th, and 11th of December, and in those
encounters he had, another horse shot. During those
services he was twice wounded, and twice severely
contused. In acknowledgment for his eminent services
in the Peninsula, he received the decoration of a cross
and three clasps. Sir John. in 1814 and 1815, proceeded
to Canada, but was recalled from North America, owing
to the warlike aspect Europe had assumed, and the return
of Napoleon to France. He reached Ostend in August,
and immediately proceeded to join the allied army occu-
pying Paris. He was subsequently appointed Lieutenant-
Governor of Plymouth, and had the military command of
the western district, the duties of which he discharged
for a period of fourteen years. In consideration of his
eminent services, he was nominated a Knight Commander
of the Military Order of the Bath by his Sovereign, and
on the 31st of May, 1833, he was appointed to the Co-
lonelcy of the 9th Regiment. The Portuguese Govern-
ment conferred the Order of the Tower and Sword on
Sir John, for the able services he rendered to that nation
in the course of the French war in that country. His
commissions were dated as subjoined i---Ensign, 25th
September, 1787 ; Lieutenant, 39th September, 1790 ;
Captain, 11th July, 1794 ; Major, 9th October, 1800 ;
Lieutenant-Colonel, 28th May, 1807; Colonel, 4th June,
1814 ; Major-General, 19th July, 1821 ; and Lieutenant
General, 10th January, 1837. It will be seen from the
above, that Sir John had filled all the intermediate
grades to that of Lieutenant-General. The Colonolcy of
the 9th Regiment is, by his demise, vacant.

HABEAS CORPUS.—JERSEY.
(From the Jersey Gazette of Nov. 25.)
We have the pleasure of announcing that an offer from
the Royal Court to Mr. Wilson, made through Advocate
Hammond, to liberate him on his own bail, has been this
afternoon unhesitatingly spurned. By no trick or de-
vice can Mr. Wilson be induced to damage the cause of
which ho is the representative.
TO THE BRITISH RESIDENTS IN JERSEY.

Gentlemen and Friends,—Let not the apparently un-
favourable news which arrived from London by this
day's mail occasion you any anxiety. It has had no
effect upon my spirits, nor upon my hopes, rwr upon my
conviction, that at the end of perhaps a long vista, more
or less varied, we shall safely arrive at last at the Tem-
ple of Victory and of Peace. Before the week is closed
I hope to offer to you for your perusal the affidavit of
the Procureur de la Reine, on which his application to
the Bail Court was based. In the mean time let us not
prejudge its contents or its effects. "Sufficient unto the
day is the evil thereof."
Remember how our foes chuckled, day' after day, be-
cause the habeas corpus did not arrive. Remember their
looks when it had arrived. Did I prophesy falsely that
it would come ? Judge me, then, for the future by the
past. I prophesy again. I shall be discharged from this
vile custody sooner than you expect. And I add to this
prophesy, that I shall be discharged by habeas corpus,
and by habeas corpus only—or in a coffin.
Fancy not that I hold my life so cheap that I would
commit suicide. Fancy not that I hold law to be so
despicable that I would accept my liberty upon any
terms but lawful terms ; or that I would, for a few
weeks of disgracAul freedom, enter into a recognisance
at the instance of the corrupt Royal Court in Jersey, or
at the command of any court in London.
It shall only be by a coffin, or by habeas corpus, that I
will be
havree n
thoev ed
ho fnrooum this I
r to
be,
ec,u stody.
gentlemen and friends, your
faithful servant,

CHARLES CARUS WILSON,
A prisoner by lawless violence,
Jersey Gaol, Nov. 24, 1944,

REGISTRATION Or THE BIRTH Or HIS ROYAL
HIGHNESS PRINCE ALFRED.—Her Majesty having
commanded that the registration of the birth
... of the in-
fant Prince Alfred should take place at Windsor Castle,
on Sunday, Mr. Towers, the district registrar for Wind-
sor, attended at the royal residence, in pursuance of her
Majesty's commands, for the purpose. There were also
present,:in the apartment adjoining the Queen's boudoir,
where the registration took place, the Right Honourable
Sir James Graham, Secretary of State ; Major Graham,
the Registrar-general ; and Mr. William Cole Long, the
superintendent registrar for the district. The Castle
and its precincts being extra-parochial, it was necessary
to register the birth of the infant Prince in the books of
the parish contiguous to where the birth took place ; but
in consequence of upwards of six weeks having elapsed
since that period, a fee. of 7s. 6d. was incurred. The
Prince was registered in the names of Alfred Ernest
Albert. Ills Royal Highness Prince Albert was present.,
and appeared to take great interest in the ceremony.
KiNG's COLLEGE HOSPlTAL.—Yesterday afternoon
a meeting of Governors was held in the Board-room of
the Hospital, to receive the report of the HOLM Com-
mittee for the last half year. T. Butterfield, Esq., was
called to the chair. The minutes of the last Court having
been read and confirmed, the Secretary then read the
report for this half year, ending 29th September. At
that time there were remaining in the Hospital 101
patients ; admitted since, by letters of recommendation,
197 ; urgent cases, without letters, 339 ; casualties, 52 ;
total, 588. Of these there had been discharged, cured
or relieved, 566 ; incurable, 4 ; disorderly, 4 ; died, 43;
remaining in the house 29th September, 72. The num-
ber of out-patients relieved during the same period was
6,312, besides 163 poor married women attended during
confinement at their homes. Total number of in-patients
since the opening of the Hospital, 5,330 ; out-patients,
including 616 poor married women in the midwifery de-
partment, 44,171. The report was received and adopted,
and after the transaction of some routine business, the
meeting separated.
A letter from Munich, of the 15th, says :—" A
dreadful crime was committed here yesterday. While
Captain N— was attending his duties at the Ministry
of War, his wife, only twenty years of age, and the fe-
male servant of the house in which she resided, were
murdered. A razor, with which the crime was perpe-
trated, was found near them, and all the closets and
drawers had been piundered of their most. valuable con-
tents. The man servant of Captain NTT—, who is sus-
pected of being the murderer. has fled.

IRELAND.
REPEAL ASSOCIATION.
DE-BLIN, Nov', 26.---The weekly meeting of the Repeal
Association took place this day, at the Conciliation-ball:
and as it was the first meeting which Mr. O'Conn4-3-11 was
to attend after his return from Derrvnant, there was the
utmost anxiety evinced to be present. Every part of the
building was densely crowded for a considerable period
before the hour fixed fur the commencement of the Igo-
ceedings, and the enthusiasm throughout the day was
extreme. Mr. O'Connell arriv,,d at a few minutes before
one o'clock, accompanied by Lord Ffrench, Capt. Lever,
ex, J.P. and seveoal prominent members of the Commit-
tee. Hei was received with loud and continued cheering.
On the motion of Lord T'FREN,R, seconded by accla-
mation, Mr. Maurice O'Connell, M.P.. was called to
the chair.

Mr O'CoNNELL here put on a. new crown-shaped cap,
of velvet s.nd gold, amidst loud cheering. lie then pro-
ceeded—Before entering into the immediate business of
the day, he wished to offer his most hearty congratula-
tions to the repealers of Dublin, on the triumphant result
of the municipal elections on the preceding day. The
repealers had behaved in the noblest manner on the day
before, and the effect would be most salutary in the cause
of Ireland. Having made these observations, he would
beg to hand in some money—(Cheers)—but, in the first
place, he wished the secretary would read a letter ;that
had been receised from the Right Rev. Dr. Blake, the
bishop of Drumure.

" Violet-hill, Newry, Nov. 25, 1844.
My dear Sir—Sincerely and affectionately I congra-
tulate you on your liberation from unjust confinement—
on the glorious manner in which you have been ac-
quitted—on the public sympathy with which you have
been honoured—on your recovered health, and the re-
sumption of your public labours, and on the auspicious
prospects which, as the effect of more united national
feeling, and a more generally just appreciation of Ire-
lsnd's rights
hope, will The time, I andwal
son
wants, seem
rie nowv to open before us.
when the resources
of our tine country shall be made subservient to the hap-
piness of our people. A domestic Legislature, judi-
ciously constituted, would accomplish that, awl would
make Ireland the happiest, instead of being, as it has
been for centuries, and still is, the must unhappy of all
nations ; but in uo other way, by no other contrivance,
can we arrive at that object. Reason, experience,
human nature proclaim it. Until we have a domestic
Legislature, the poor will never be relieved as they
should be ; until then, industry will never receive here
its due measure of encouragement ; until then, the rich
proprietors will never find their own happiness inter-
woven with that of the other classes of Irishmen ; until
then, Ireland will always be the sorest, the most dis-
contented, and the most dangerous part of the British
empire. We should all, therefore, struggle with Ire-
land's illustrious Liberator, and exert with him our ut-
most energies, in a constitutional and legal manner, fur
the attainment of that one grea! paramount object. For
my part, I am so convinced of this, that for the sake of
the poor, and for the sake of all Irishmen, and of our
common humanity, although it is far from being conve-
nient to me to increase my annual contribution to the
Repeal Association fund, yet I feel myself constrained
to do so, that I may do whatever is in my power to put
an end to the innumerable and intolerable evils which
afflict our fine people. My original annual.subscription
was 11. I now send 3/ for the year 1845; and as I have
contributed every week since the period of the monster
trial a shilling to the weekly rent which is collected in
Newry for the same purpose, so I will continue to do as
long as it may seem necessary.
" I have the honour to be,
With great esteem and respect, my dear sir.
" Your faithful humble servant,
MICHAEL BLAKE.
" To M. Rae, Esq., Secretary to the le:, al National Re-
peal 1)
After the letter had been read.

eoth of May. and he might add to the 6th of September
again. The eyes of Europe were rivetted upon it.
Every man in every nation of Europe read the British
newspapers to try and collect n•hat eriminal act they had
been guilty ef—to learn who they had stabbed, who
they had trampled under foot ; what person they had
injured, Whoetf land they had tresspassed upon—in a
word, whether it wo. forgery or robbery, Or burglary,
or phlebotomy, or what they had been guilty of.—
(Laughter.) But if they were now to ask Mr. T. B. C.
Smith himself—could they get him for a moment iu
good humour, which he was told was very difficult—
(Hear, hear)—" Be so good as put down In fifteen lines
What crimes you have accused those persons of," he could
not do so. He talked of a deep and foul conspiracy—
of the deepest conspiracy that ever was hatched ; but
where was the bird or where was the egg? It was to
be found in his (Mr. Smith's) imagination, but nowin ea
else.—(Hear, hear.) Oh, what a hurry was that jury ur
in finding them guilty.—(Bear, hear.) But little had
been as yet said of the exertions of their counsel be-
fore the House of Lords. He felt a stain of in,grati-
tude upon him for nut having sooner poured forth his
meed of national thankfulness to their counsel. The
first of these was Sir Thomas Wilde, who was at the
very head of his profession.—(Hear, hear.) Everything
that human intellect could du had been effected for them
by Sir Thomas Wilde, and his memory would ever live
in the grateful recollections of the Irish nation.—(Loud
cheers.) The next gentleman to whom he would refer
was Mr. Hite who, he believed, was Recorder of Bit,•
mingham, and had been known as Mr. Hill, of Hull.
His argument was most powerful, and he had been fol-
lowed by Mr. Peacock, whom he had not known before,
but who made his fortune by the admirable manner in
which he had acquitted himself, as the occasion enabled
him to exhibit his great faculties in the full noon-tide of
public notice. The gentleman who, after Sir Thomas
Wilde, he was most anxious to have engaged for him
was Mr. Kelly, the Member for Cambridge. He had
at the very first stated, " If we are to go before the
house of Lords, retain for me Mr. Kelly. He had the
last word on their side, and much indeed of their success
was to be attributed to his masterly address.—(Hear,
hear.) Lord John Russell declared in the House of
Commons, that they had not had a fair trial. Some
persons say that the Whigs were as bad as the Tories.
They were bad enough, Heaven knows, and he would be
as sorry to see them remain in power as that the Tories
should continue longer there. They should guard against
them more cautiously than against the Tories, for
the latter were their open foes ; but still he made this
distinction between both parties, that whenever the
Whigs were right he was for them ; but as to the Tories,
he never knew them to be right yet.—(Laughter.) Lord
John Russell, the leader of the Whig party, pledged his
high character—and it was a high one—that they had
not had a fair trial ; but what did Peel do ? Before the
session broke up, he had the unparalleled audacity—the
indescribable impudence—to nssert that they had a fair 1
trial.—(Bear, hear.) As for the Whig press, it had done ;
more to injure the Whig party iu this country than it
probably imagined, and he hurled at it his most con-
temptuous
deflance—(Cheers)—whether as regarded the
solemn impudence of the Morning, Chronicle when talking
of the Irish lookiug for repeal, or the elanderotts mum-
mery
of the Examiner, or that of the paltry Globe, Lord
Palmerston's paper, which also indulged in insolence and
derision towards the people of Ireland. Let them argue
the question if they pleased, but let them know that there
was nothing so unsafe as to in an entire people, and
to turn their ,just. aspirations Elf freedom into unholy
ridicule.—(Hear, hear.) He wanted to know what re-
tribution would bo made to him and his fellovv-pri'-
sulfas for their one hundred days' incarceration.--
--(Hear, hear.) Ho had endeavoured to procure in
inquiry, at least, into that matter. He would also probe
the disposition of England on the subject. They had
been often told that the people of England wished them
well, and that it was the Government only that injured
them. Ho would test that delaration now. He wanted I
the Association well and deliberately to consider what
steps they should take under existing circumstances.
Since his trial and liberation advances had -been made
towards him from many quarters—from men of great in-
fluence and large property, who talked of joining them
for a repeal of the Union Statute upon what was called
the federal plan. He inquired what that plan was, but
nobody could tell him. However, as they showed a dis-
position to join for Ireland, he was bound to meet that
disposition in the spirit of conciliation, otherwise why
should he have built a Conciliation Hall ?—(Hear, hear.)
His anxious wish was to conciliate Irishmen of every
class and persuasion. Every man who would join
Ireland was his sworn brother.—(Cheers.) Federalism
should be an open question ; although he confessed that
he did not think that question ought to commence until
such tune as Ireland should have her Parliament ; be-
cause until then she would not be on a footing with Eng-
land, or in a position to make her own terms. He had
conjectured that there might be something preferable in
federalism, if carried far enough. But he had bound him-
self to no plan, and yet a cry had been raised against
him by some young gentlemen (alluding to the Young
Ireland party), who thought themselves fitter leaders
than ho was, but who, instead of reading his letter, and
discovering their mistake as to his opinions about fede-
ralism, made the mistake, and did not read his letter at
all.—(Laughter.) These gentlemen were urged on in
their declamation against him:by those violent oppo-
nents of repeal who conducted the Tory press, and who
accused him of compromising that question, because of
his letter on the subject of federalism, and of his en-
deavours to induce those who professed to be federalists
to join for repeal. Even the press of Louis Philippe took
it up ; so did the National, the newspaper of Odillon
Barrot, whom the repeaters of Ireland had treated
with some courtesy, and more contempt when he
' offered to join them.—(A laugh.) In the first place,
they were friends to monarchical government, and in the
next they were Christians, Protestants, and Catholics,
two groat offences in the eye of the National He
heard of a gentleman being so violent a disbeliever that
it was thought unsafe to be in his company. A friend
of his (Mr. O'Connell's), however, meeting him on one
occasion at a dinner party, at which he maintained his
atheistical doctrine with great violence, turned to him
and said, " I assure you I do not mean you any personal
offence, but I must aver that I really do believe in a
God." So, without meaning the National any personal
offence, he must inform that journal that the repeaters
were really Christiana.—(Laughter.) From the Con-
stitutionneltbey had nothing to fear. Thiers was out of
power, and not likely to_ get in again. In his history he
gave an account of the massacre of the 2d, 3d, and 4th
of September, 1792, when 15 bishops and archbishops,
and nearly 300 priests, were massacred in the streets of
Paris ; but he relatedthe event with all the gentle flip-
pancy of an ordinary occurrence, instead of its being
one of the most horrid and horrifying scenes of blood
that were ever perpetrated. Aye, and if he had it in
his power he would have the massacre of September
enacted over again, he (Mr. O'Connell) bad no doubt,
from the report which he published on the education
question. Next came Louis Philippe's,. paper, the
Journal des Debuts, which contained most terrible arti-
cles against Mm (Mr. O'Connell) for abandoning repeal.
It called upon him not to imagine for a moment that, if
there was a war with England, Ireland would get assist-
ance from France, for that France was too honourable to
take such an advantage of England. For Heaven's sake,
don't talk of such a thing ! cried the Debats.—(Laugh-
tor.) Why, he hurled defiance—and he spoke the senti-
ment with the most utter contempt—he hurled defiance
to Louis Philippe and his newspaper, and eould tell him
that he would not accept a repeal of the union at the
hands of France.—(Cheers.) He could not forget their
immorality and their want of religion, and he detested
their base submission to
.such a crafty and miserable
usurper as Louis Philippe. Repeal or no repeal, the
Irish people_ held him and them in the utmost abhor-
rence. He was a swindler of power—power got by the
blood of the people who deposed a King because he was
oppressing them. Louis Philippe took no part in the
fight, but he took all the prize money.—(Hear, and a
laugh.) Having reached the throne, he pledged himself
by his charter to the freedom of the press, to education,
to religion, and to the maintenance of trial by jury ;
and how had he acted ? He had enslaved the press,
by introducing laws which were more stringent than
any that ever marked the oppression of the press I
in England. He had mutilated trial by jury, and
made it a crime to publish the names of the jurors. The
man who promised that trial by jury should be main-
tained leis the very man who had trampled on it, and
rendered it a delusion, a mockery, and a snare. Edu-
cation was to be free, and he was now scheminfc to give
it into the hands of infidelity. He (Mr. 0 Connell)
would tell the Debate and its master that he cared little
for either, and that he would consider religion tarnished
if they were the means of producing it even for the
country he loved best in the world,—(Cheers.) To illus-
trate what these Frenchmen were he would tell theta a
story which he had from Lord Monteagle. Carnot, when
one of the Directory, had formed a plan, with his usual
consummate genius, for the invasion of England and
Ireland, and with a view to securing the adoption of it
by the Directory, had communicated it to only two of
the other members of it. Within a fortnight after it was
laid before them, the paper was in the hands of the Bri-
tish Minister.—(Cheers and groans.) Just such fellows
were those newspaper men. They were not rascals for
nothing, and they were brothers in nature to the rascals
who sold Carnot to the British Minister.—(Cheers.)
Having paid a tribute to Dr. Maunsell's fairness, in
freeing him (Mr. O'Connell) of tergiversation on the
federal question, he declared, that any one who
took the trouble of reading his letter must
admit that he never had conceded one particle of
Ireland's rights.—(Cheers.) The Examiner said so—
Tait said so. Every man who read it would see that he
was incapable of giving up for one moment one particle
of Irish rights.—(Cheers.) He would give his heart's
blood, his existence, everything on earth, but her rights.
—(Cheers.) What have the enemies of repeal done -by
that charge ? They had redoulded his zeal and his
anxiety to promote repeal, and repeal alone.—(Cheers.)
He would tell them a secret. Federalism (exclaimed the
Hon. Gentleman, snapping his fingers) is not worth that.
—(Roars of laughter.) He wished it no harm ; they
might go on with their talking and meetings. Much
good might it do them.—(Cheers and laughter.) He had
great respect for them, and wished them well, but they
were none of his children.—(Cheers and laughter.) Mr.
O'Connell then proceeded to comment upon Mr. S. Craw-
ford's letter on federalism, and followed up the line of
argument and stricture which ho took in his recent reply
to that gentleman's letter. He denied that he would
make a bear garden of the Irish House of Commons. He
would be too good humoured to quarrel with any one.
The Hon. and Learned Gentleman then proceeded to
refer to the mode by which the union had been effected,
and said that he would follow that subject still further
' at their next meeting, when he would have occasion to
address them at even greater length than he had done on
that day, when he intended to enter into the following
propositions in detail :-
1. That the union was not a contract, or _bargain,
between the two countries, but Was forced on the Irish
nation by unqualified force and the foulest fraud.
" 2. That the union produced the most disastrous re-
sults to WNW.

1844.

3. That if there had been a real bona fide =ion.
Ireland would hare been entitled to at least 175 Members.

4. That the most gross injustice is done to Ireland
by the limited nature of the Parliamentary franchise.
" England has a number of voters equal to 22 per
cent. ul her adult male population. Ireland not above
one to every two hundreds
5. Ireland was refused any won ei reform fur tire
years after it had been conceded to Scotland, and for
four years after it was obtained by the English.
" 6. The Irish Municipal Reform Act is miserably de-
feciive ; the franchise is rated so high as to exclude
from the burgess list about three-fourths of those who
would in England be burgesses.
" 7. All the most beneficial pover;of the corporate
bodies have been curtailed and mutilated, or totally re-
fused ; amongst others, the nomination of sheriff—even
the recommendation of a sheriff refused.

"8. The people of Ireland are obliged to contribute to
the support of two churches—the one the church of the
stnaller, and at the same time the wealthy class of so-
ciety—the other, the church of the many and of the poor.
"9. That the most gross fiscal robbery was inflicted
on Ireland by the union.
" 10. The union enormously augmented the disastrous
effects of absenteeism, and all the evils of a distant and
remote legislature and judicature."
Mr. O'Connell, in conclusion, moved the adoption of the
following resolution :—" That it be referred to the Com-
mittee to report on the proper steps to procure an in-
quiry into the recent state trial."
Lord FFRENCH seconded the resolution, which was
carried unanimously.
Mr. O'CONNELL then moved—

" I. That the letters of Sharman Crawford, Esq., as
they appear in the newspapers, be referred to the Com
mittee to report their opinion upon them, with the
reasons of such opinion.
"2. Tbat that inquiry be conducted in a manner most
respectful to Mr. Sharman Crawford." •
The motions were carried unanimously.
Mr. O'CONNELL said he would postpone his motion for
the appointment of a Preservative Society of 300, as he
found there were more legal difficulties in the way than
he had at first anticipated.
Captain BRoDERICK brought forward the reports of
the Parliamentary Committee on the following subjects :
—The Irish Fisheries, the Ordnance survey, the " In-
dustrial Resources of Ireland," !and the Fiscal Relations
between the Two Countries.

After the disposal of some routine business,
Mr. O'CoNNELL announced the rent of the week to be
5411. 2s. Bd.—(Cheers.)
Lord FFRENCII was then called to the chair, and the
usual rote of thanks having been passed to the former
chairman, the meeting separated.

THE DOUBLE SUICIDE AT
MILE-END.

Yesterday at noon Mr. Baker, Coroner for the Eastern
Division of Middlesex, and a jury of the inhabitants of
Stepney, assembled at the Fox Tavern, Russell-street,
Mile-end, to inquire into the deaths of Charles William
Duckett, aged 21, and Elizabeth Williams, aged 28, the
two young persons who destroyed themselves by taking
pcussie acid, under the very extraordinary circumstances
which have been already partially detailed in the columns
of this journal.
The tragical occurrence created considerable excite-
ment in the neighbourhood, and such was the morbid
taste for the horrible, that the inquest-room was crowded
The jury having viewed the bodies, which lay in the
position in which they were discovered on Sunday night.,
a description of which has already appeared, the evi-
dence was entered into.
Mr. T. Williams, a brother of the deceased woman,
was first sworn. He said—T reside at. No. 11, Cannon- '
street-road, St. George's•in-the-East. The deceased,
Elizabeth Williams, was my sister, and resided with her
mother, who is a widow. I knew the deceased, Charles
William Duckett, who was assistant to, and resided with,
his father, a house-agent, No. 9, Raven-row, Mile-end.
' I have observed that my sister has been very low-
spirited for the last three or four weeks. She was most
affectionately attached to the deceased Duckett, with
whom she has been acquainted for some years. .1 have
in my possession love letters proving that their attach-
ment
was mutual. Their attachment to each other was
sanctioned Icy both families, an their marriage was
only delayed by Mr. Duckett's circumstances. We at-
tributed my sister's melancholy to the exceedingly jea-
lous disposition of Duckett with respect to her.
Several lettere were here produced, which were ad-
dressed to the deceased Elizabeth Williams by Duckett;
many of them were poetic effusions, written in the most
extravagant love-sick strain.
Evidence resumed—l last saw my sister on Sunday
after dmrer, when I left her at home with my mother.
She went out at half-past five on Sunday afternoon with
Mr. Duckett, with the intention, as usual, of going to
church. He told her to wrap up well, as it was a cold
night. My sister did not return from church at the
usual time, and between 11 and 12 o'clock I and my
brother went to the house of Mr. Duckett, sen., to see
if she was there. Mr. Duckett himself opened the door,
and said he had not seen either Elizabeth or his km. He
accompanied me back to my mother's, and then returned
home again, wondering where they could be. In about
three-quarters of an hour after, Mr. Duckett again
arrived at my mother's, and related the shocking occur-
rence, and how he had found them both dead athis house.
We never had any suspicion that either of them con-
templated suicide ; but, about three months ago,
Duckett borrowed the Pharmaceptr4, a medical book,
from me, saying he wanted it to aid him in preparing
colours.

The Coroner here handed to him a letter which was
found in an envelope with a black border lying on the
table in the room where the bodies were discovered, ad-
dressed " To Miss Margaret Chapman, 21, Lucas-street,
Commercial-road," a cousin of Miss Williams. Mr.
Baker proceeded to read the following, written on the
envelope immediately under the address :
" It is our last, our sacred and dying wish, that this
letter be delivered into the bands of the above lady.
Such is our final request, and whoever may this find, we
pray they may give the same to her.—Signed E W.,
C. W. D."
The enclosures were then read ; one consisted of
poetry addressed to Miss Chapman, beautifully written
and illuminated in various coloured inks, entitled " The
Last Lay of the Broken Hearts." The verses were 24 in
number, but the following extracts will afford a fair
sample of the entire composition :
" Change thou the scene—look here and thuu shalt find,
" The spirit wounded with sternest sorrow's dart :
" The madden'd brain, the wild, the wandering mind,
" The cheek that's blighted, and the Broken Heart.
" We've loved each other, joined in hand and heart,
" Firm bound together in one holy tie,
" Forsake we cannot, and we tie er will part;
" Together live, and then together die."
At the conclusion of the verses was written the follow-
ing :
" This is the holy vow, freely given from both our
hearts. We have lived for each other. We solemnly
and without reluctance mutually consent to die together
—testifying to the truth thereof we have subscribed our
names, thus proving our perfect will to share the grave
in the arms of one another.

" ELIZABETH WILLIAMS and
" CHARLES WILLIAM DUCKETT.
" *nod at No. 9, Raven-row, Mile-end-gate,
London, Nov. 8, 1844."
The other letter bore date the '24th inst. (the day of
the occurrence), and was signed by Duckett only It ex-
hibited great despondency, and informed Miss Chapman
that when she received it he and Elizabeth " would be
sleeping the sleep of death, for she had told him if you
die without me, you will ho my murderer." The authen-
ticity of the deceased Elizabeth Williams's signature to
that which contained the poetry was denied by both her
brothers.
William Henry Duckett was next sworn—He de-
posed, I am an accountant, and live at No. 9, Raven-
row. My son assisted me in my business, and lived
with me. I knew of his attachment to Elizabeth Wil-
liams, and decidedly approved of it. Sometimes he was
labouring under great excitement, and at other times he
was' very depressed. Ile was a very abstemious young
man. He drank no spirits, and only a little malt liquor
—one pint of fourpenny ale would make him very wild.
He never spoke about getting married. His age Was 21
last July. He was not in a position to support a wife.
That preyed on his mind. About twelve months ago
he was disappointed in not obtaining a situation in the
Court of Requests, in Whitechapel ; and there had been
a marked change in his conduct ever since. I have no
doubt he committed the act of suicide in an unsound
state of mind. My son has known Miss Williams nine
years. She is 28 years of age. My sox was in the habit
of reading Lloyd's Penny Weekly Miscellany, and Penny
Atlas, which are full of crimes—love, blood, and mu-
sacre.—(Laughter.) He also read religious tracts and
lighter works occasionally. He did not read novels.
A juror—Those works you speak of are very romantic
generally.
By the jury—l have seen him reading the London
Pharmacopceia, and I thought he read it for informa-
tion on chemistry. He borrowed it ostensibly for that
purpose.
The witness here produced a large packet of letters he
had found in his sous box, addressed to him by Elizabeth
Williams. They reciprocated his affection, and one of
them, of recent date, describes the writer as very un-
happy, and stated that she cared not how soon the time
came to die with him. I last saw my son alive at half-
past five on Sunday evening, when he went out to go to
church. I went to church with his mother, and re-
turned about half-past eight. I heard nothing until
shortly before twelve, when the brothers of Elizabeth
came and asked for their sister. I went with them home,
and on my return I observed that the key was not in the
door of the front parlour, my son's bedroom. I tried
the door, and finding it locked, procured another key,
with which I succeeded in opening it. On entering I
saw my son and Elizabeth lying on the bed locked in
each other's arms and quite dead. (Witness here be-
came much affected.) I gave an alarm, and a lodger
ran for Mr. Davis, a surgeon, and I went to inform Eli-
zabeth's mother of what had happened. It is my opi-
nion that they destroyed themselves by mutual consent
on account of the world appearing
.a void before them.
and there being no prospect of their being married. I
think they must have been insane at thetime they did so.
Colin M'Kenzie, police constable 371 K, produced the
cups and phials found in the room where the bodies lay.
The phials were on the mantel-shelf. One cup turned
upside down lay on the bed, immediately above the de.
ceased Duckett's head, and the other was by the side of
the young woman.
The phials bore on them a label with the words
" Hydrovanic acid," and " Poison." They were of ex-
actly the same size, and the constable stated that he had
ascertained that it was purchased at Mr. Battloy's, Fore-
street, the party who sold the poison to Belaney.
. Mr. H. Letheby examined.—He was a surgeon, and
made a post mortem examination of both bodies. The
intestines smelt of prussic acid, and it bad got circulated
throughout the system. He had taken away the sto•
mach' for analysation, and found about half an ounce of

prussic &ell in e:icl.—!‘n.silerably trore than sulkier
to destroy lift,.
to answA-.io M tpleNtion from Mr. Duckett, se}, Mr.
Letheby p &elated that there had been no im-
proper intercourse between the deceased persons.
Elizabeth 1C,..e1y, staying with her sister, a 10d.:,.r
Mr. Duckett's hote4e, proved letting Mr. Duckett, 1114,,
and Miss t half-past six o'clock on S•tudaT
evening. :They went IJILI the parlour. and sh• Lewd
inofe of thew.
The Coroner having retuarktd On tlu' very melancholy
end tuy sterions nature of the case, •
The jury consulted, end ultimately returns] a verdiet
—4. Thu t the dfce,isetl perwns, Chitties William Duckett
and Elizabeth Williatos, died from imbibing a certain
quantity of pruNsic acid, but by, whom or how adminis-
tered there was not sufficient evidence before the jury,"

FLANDERS 3MAIL.

(RECEIVED THIS DAY.),

BaussliLs, Nov. 26.—The Chamber of Representa-
tives met yesterday, but there not being a sufficient
number of Members present no business could be done.
The price of bread at Brussels has fallen ono (minima
per kilogramme, but it is still four centimes per kilo-
gramme dearer than at Paris.
_ .

We hear that Mr. Charles Lafitte, Director of the
Rouen Iron Railway, has been engaged in forming at
London a Company for the construction of an iron
railway from Paris to the frontier of Belgium, kis object
seems to hare been attained. The English capitalists
who have just received from the Rouen Railway a divi-
dend of 10 per cent. on their original capital, they could
not resist the temptation held out. by a new and great
undertaking whish promises still more advantageous
results.

The Rhenish railway yielded in October, 1844, a
sum of .50,621 dollars. The number of passengers was
35,574 ; and the quantity of goods 223,226 cwt. In
October last year there were only 27,334 passengers, aud
114,801 cwt. of goods. The receipt was 32,528 dollars.
In the first ten months of 1844 the receipt was 464,830
dollars, exceeding by 198,783 dollars the receipt of the
corresponding period of 1843.

FRoNTIiCRS of HUNGARY, NOV. 19.-1 learn frolil
authority that may be depended on, that Colonel
Berago, in the Austrian service, who has returned from
his mission to the Black Sea, has given very farourable
opinion tin the project of opening a direct communica-
, don between the Danube and the Black Sea, bfmeans
of a canal from Chernawoda to Kustendiche. The ob-
stacles are saiti not to be great, and by no means each B 3
they hare been represented. The tt4brantages which
would result fort this new communication are incal-
culable:

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MURDER. .sr ST OC KroRT.—A coroner's inquir;;'
was held on Tuesdav might, before Mr. C. Hudson, at hie
Ace, ernon •streei, on the body of Eliza Jones, *hose:
death had been caused on the previous afternoon by the.
violence of her husband. It appeared the husband in.
question, whose name is Henry Jones, and residing- at
Cortwood, within the borough, was a bricklayer, in the
receipt of good wages, but unfortunately of very intent..
perate habits. For some weeks he had been employed
in the erection of an extensive cotton-mill in .Heaton-
lane, belonging to Lees, Kershaw, and Co., and int
stead of intrusting his wife with his earnings, be too
often squandered them away ift the beer-shop. To
avoid this as much as possible, the wife followed him
during the Sunday ; nevertheless he early on Monday
got again intoxicated, so much so that his master
desired him to quit. the ground, and return when sober.
On leaving his work he met his wife, who kept dodging
him to give her some money, two children being then
ut home in want of the necessaries of life; but he became
excited, and refused to comply or go home. After going
from public-house to public-house, he consented, late in •
the afternoon, to go home, and they were on their way
through the town, when a violent quarrel arose between
them. The wife, who was far advanced in pregnancy,
was equally excited, when, in a moment of frenzy and
madness, he threw her from him, and kicked her
savagely. She fell instantly, and died in the street be-
fore any assistance could be obtained, supposedly from
some injury sustained by a kick on the lower part of her
person. Her husband was immediately taken into custody,,
to await the result of the coroner's inquest, which is now-
proceeding. The prisoner appears extremely dejected.
and is painfully alive to the awful position in which he is
placed.
MELANCHOLY AND FATAL ACCIDNAT. Abollt
:even &clock on Tuesday morning a moat frightful ac-
cident occurred at the mills of the Messrs. Martin, ad-
j(;ining Killileugh. While a man of the name of John
Ctosbey was attending the fires, by some inadvertence
his clothes were caught by one of the belts, 'which
carried him roust] the drum attached to the engine.
When he was taken out life was extinct. lie was dread-
fUlly mangled. The poor man has left a wife and seven
children. Deceased was a quiet, industrious person.-
13eitiist Chronicle.
The proposed Portsmouth Extension of the
Brighton and Chichester Railway le the natural com-
pletion of the coast lines to Portsmouth, and will, by
means of the railway now making from Brighton to
Hastings, and a. continuation thereof, projected from
thence to unite with the South-Eastern Bealea:7 at or
near AshlOrd, complete the chain of railway comitasuni-
cation from Dover to Portsmouth. It proposes else 1,
branch to Ft:vellum, joining there the South-Western
iltilwey. The length of the intended line from Chi,
cheater to Portiunouth is about sixteen miles, the branch
to Fareliain seven, making altogether twenty-three miles„
to complete which 280,0001. is estimated to be sufficient.
The promoters, the Brighton amid Chichester Constir#
say they have the greatest right to make a line to Porte-
mouth, having already incurred the heaviest part of the
expense of the route in their own line, between Brighton
tied Chichester; and that therefore it is but fair that they
should be allowed to make the remaining, portion to Ports-
mouth, as originally contemplated. There can be no
doubt also that it is the best for the public.—Brightot
Gozette.

I • -
"'HE SCOTCH CURRENCT QUESTION.—A large
meeting of the Chamber of Commerce, Edinburgh, was
held on Friday, when resolutions were passed condem•
aatory of any change in the currency of Scotland. it
was announced by one speaker that the merchants of
Manchester were willing to assist the Scotch in petition-
ing Parliament against any change. Another speaker,
blr. Gedell,stated that all the Scotch members, with ons
exception, had waited upon Sir Robert Peel at the close
of the last session, deprecating any change. The metn-
who did not attend was Mr. Loch, an he bad since
signified his acquiescence with the others; so that it
might now by considered that all the Scotch membev
were against a change.
Nnw DOCKS', SOUTH SHLELDS.--4t is the intention
of the Directors of railwas having their termini at
South Shields to apply to Parliament next sessions for
un Act to empower them to form a wet dock at Jarrow
Slake. It is likewise their intention to make consider-
able additions to their staiths, for the shipping of cos'
at the high cad of the town.
PORT or SUlinnaLasn.---The quantity of shipping
15•Ing jn the port of Sunderland for a few weeks past has
been very eat ; last week they were said to amount to
about seven hue :trod sail, probably the greatest number
ever in the harbour tb.t once. The crowding and incons
venienee are of course Tyne Mercury.
ANOTHER ACCIDIINT oIT THE -MIDLAND LlNa.—.
Another fatal accident occurred oil the Midland line OR
Wednesday morning, near the village 'f Syston. A
guard was engaged in strapping some luggso on the:
top of a carriage, which had been taken up the
Syston station, to make it secure, when his head cam
in contact with a bridge crossing the road. The poor
man instantly fell, and, when examined, was found to be
dead, having sustained a compound fracture of the skull.
THE NSW POLICE COURTS.— A few days ago, the
Privy Council issued orders for the remora of the
business from Union Hall police court to the ,new.
c building lately erected at Stone's End, near the Queso
Prison ; accordingly, the Secretary of State has epd
pointed that the business shall be commenced at the
latter place on Monday, the 23d of December newt'.
The new court at Kennington, for Lambeth, ilsPhills.
and the south-western districts, will not he sompleted
before Lady-day ; but the Commissioners of the Police
have taken possession of the premises in the Kennington.
road, and the lower apartments are now being teisp•••
rarity fitted up for public business on the above day..
when the magistrates from Lambeth-street will be re-
moved to that court. The business of Lambeth-street
' will be transacted by the magistrates at the Thames
police court. A new police court will shortly be erected
at Somers-town.
EXTENSIVE ROBBERT or PLATE, itc., OW 11111
SoirruAipTM RAILWAY.--Yesterday informaticift Watt
forwarded to the chief police station, Great SOCotlanil.
yard, that tin the 10th ult., between the Southampton
Docks and the Nine Elms terminus of the London sad
Southampton Railway, a box about two feet long by
1 wide, "1). P." stamped on a tin plate, and a card witl
the direction of Mr. J. H. Houlton, No. 15, St. Mary
Axe, was stolen, containing six dozen knives with silver
handles, six dozen forks with silver handles, three doses
silver table spoons, three dozen silver dessert spoon,
three dozen silver dessert forks, three dozen silver tea
spoons, two large silver gravy and two small silver gravy
spoons, a silver soup kale, six silver salt spoons, a silver
sugar spoon, a large silver teapot, a silver --tigat- been, a
pair of silver sugar tongs, a silver milk lug and toes
salvers, wrought plate, marked D. P. and AL F. also
six spoons, six forks, six tea spoons. plain, marked
D. P., and a case. containing thirty spoons, twenty-nine
forks, and thirty knives, silver gilt.
The Earl of Cardigan has ordered sirenty peer
families of Deene and Deenethorpe, -to-be-each Sup
with clothing of the value of fifteen shillings, to chelt
them from the inclemency of the ensuing winter:—
Brighton Gazette.