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intellig en t direction, and he could fully add to that
°wn humble assurances that it was so; there
*as none more so in London. The members of it
Were not to be found now here, now there. No!
theY were also at their work.—(llear hear.) He
legged leave, then, to move tbat the report and
l_tatement just read be approved of, adopted, and
filtered on the minutes for the use of the members,
and for general circulation.
Ur. Wax. WALLEN seconded the resolution, and it
Was carried unanimously.
Jr. SOWTER proposed that the thanks and con-
gratulations of the meeting be given to the Chairman
and Directors on the successful labours of the past year.
Jr. MASON seconded the resolution, which was
also carried.
CROFTS rose, on the part of himself and his
tether Directors, to return their best thanks for
lue resolution which had just been passed.
t would be their best reward for past exertions, and
powerful incentive for the future. The main success
°r the Institution, as had been well observed, was
tLOT owing to the sound principle on which
.4d been based, and to the unanimity
that •
their reigned universally in the Court. That was
lie math anniversary, and, in that time they
*:1 Only lost two of their original Directors,
he.,that, in fact, the same hands, the same
*4B, and the same hearts, if he might say
-) Were at work for the success of the Institution
°W as at its original opening. They hoped to
meet them on many future such occasions, and he
;21sted that the Institution would go on increasing
7 giant strength until it took its place with the
ant in the City of London.—(Loud cheers.)
144. SCRIITTON proposed a vote of thanks to the
medical directors for their efficient assistance. It was
I,:onded by Mr. Smyth, and Drs. Conquest and
van returned thanks.
st_lilanks were also accorded to the other officers of
En Institution,
up.
tiotution, and to the chairman, and the meeting

FLANDERS MAIL.
u.l.l2ktresms, DEC. 18.—The Monitcur Beige publishes
10, a law of the 9th, by which, independently of the
IC° of credit allowed by the law of the 30th December,
lal3, 18th February, 29th May, and 30th June, 1844,
,
47,1tional credit is given to the War Department of
u:`30.000f., which makes the expense of that depart-
nt for the year amount to 28,130,000 f. The advan-
or the new line of steamers between Ostend and
Dover has become inestimable since the cold has closed
11.
I,Bchelde.
he Antwerpen did not leave yesterday. The Soho
Ito' not leave to-day. The Princess Mary cannot be
PPed by any obstacle.
kt letter from Antwerp, of the 12th, says :—" The
sldt is fuller of floating ice than it has yet been ; the
mgold continues, and the sky is perfectly clear."
Oteteorological Observations at the Royal Observs-
-1-12 at Brussels.—The cold, which decreased yesterday,
-.4 become more intense to-day :
Centrigrade Therm.
Dec. 11. at Noon 6.3
Two o'clock
Pour o'clock
Eight o'clock
Midnight lo'2
Eight o'clock
t Noon
4ittiatTBBF.LS, DEC. 13.—At the commencement of the
110,41,g of the Chamber to-day, the Minister of the Inte-
tp,,Lald on the table all the documents relative to the
klotibetween Belgium and the Zollverein. On the
tud °II of the Minister of the Interior the debate on his
get will commence immediately after the close of the
rent discussion.
l
Chamber then proceeded in the debate on the
Y With the Zollverein. The general debate was not
zed to.d
The a-
te Ministers of the Interior and of Public Works
v.tred into a long discussion on the commercial policy
tp„it'ille Government, and on the effects of the convention
44.1)131,r11,,zida, but the debate will be resumed to-morrow,
itrittp into having announced that he intended to
tatinto a thorough examination of the treaty.
h 9 Senate in its sitting yesterday commenced the. de-
!Nu on the budget of ways and means. To-day it ills-
Nebte.d ,the Project of law on the budget of the public
Vie b `ac project of law, giving an additional credit for
*se
"udget of the year 1844, was agreed to, as was like-
TLthe budg of the wTyo-a and means.
e cold haet s abated. s day, the 13th, it was—
Centrigrade Therm.
At midnight
/'ollr o'clock
Fight o'clock 8 deg. 7
Noon
Two o'clock
Act,. ZELGIAN FUNDS.—BitusseLs, Deo. 13.
ItoCtipebt. 234 per Cent., _
14144 "J.ll'll Loan, Fire per Cent.
',Arty Millions, Four per Cent 911%
Three per Cent 7.77
-........._Thirty-seven Minims, ditto 704
(180) lO3
103
CitY, 1813, Four per Cent lO2
_tank 0„ 1832
_tank n` Commerce, Four and a Half per Cent —
'in* of arum, Five per Cent
_54 le
t, AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VnorwA, Dee. 6.
.14 Nr Cents. Metalliques.....« IIOU
....... .... 100%
.nree r Cents
Loan,
Ditto, 1930
%.,_lrsterhary's Loan
—.Leming Zeitung, Des. 10.

EXTRAORDINARYDEATIL—On Friday last
Mann, aged 16, died suddenly at Kidderminster in
le Oat eallecrthe Sarah and Jane, which was on its way
te474 Tipton to Gloucester by the Worcestershire and
kffordshire Canal, before medical assistance could be
tutled. At the inquest held on the body at the Phea-
)ll; Inn, on Saturday, before Mr. W. S. P. Hughes, coro-
sk„,t appeared from the evidence of Mr. Cornelius
thaea Philbrick, surgeon, that he was called to attend
kei"°Y on Friday about a quarter before 1 P.M. and that
tee:ire he could arrive, the lad had expired. Mr. Philbrick
tile 11 It Post mortem examination of the body, and found
ft, abdomen filled with fluid that had escaped
t 4" a hole in the stomach, about two inches from
Nepflet, on the left-hand side. He found in the sto-
tea a large round worm, about a foot long. The sto-
11,,Proughout its entire surface presented appearances
4utriamation. He gave it as his opinion that death
ilieLeluited from the perforation, which was the effect of
Iforp,ation, probably produced by the presence of the
111 The father of the boy stated that he was taken
Itatroti° violent vomiting on the Sunday night previous,
en Monday he applied to a druggist at Wol-
"ef, iPt°ll who furnished medicine, which gave no re-
.`recia he goat was on its journey from Sunday till
keel so that there was no opportunity of obtaining
tittle'', advice till it reached Kidderminster, when the
*tepele,rit took lace The jury returned a verdict of
L-- by the vipsitiltio. n of God."— Worcester Herald.
•tik t::!;13 ARRIVAL OF TUE LONDON MAIL. On
On
lalea,•°aY the London mail did not arrive until fifteen
tee 'eh' after twelve o'clock, owing to a heavy fall of
`14)" ej,"etween Chudleigh and Ashburton ; and on Fri-
"q colt: mail was two hours and a half behind its time,
maie—equenee of an accident having happened to the
of v -oa,Pring of the engine when about ten miles this side
~
--011.—Devonport Independent.
pro :"NCHOLT ACCIDENT.—FIVE LIVES LOST.—
• ep live this week to record another fearful accident
ecred
4 .oe,„
~-49 g that dangerous reef of rocits called the
with ,e' by which five unfortunate beings have met
kid untimely end. Between the hours of eleven
irate twelve o'clock yesterday (Friday) morning,. a
irrorellnana boat, containing five persons, was proceeding
leie4l:leteoaze to the Deedalus frigate, lying in the
f‘icie IA and when crossing the ~bridge, under sail, thed
bo al,,,lwing strongly, by some means she upset, an
Lueeten;le party were precipitated into the, water. Te
"Ltel:10-„‘ Zv..as noticed by W. Walker, Esq., Queen's
*lit?
.hs.4l'alaster, who immediately proceeded to the spot_
the 4s. boat, and succeeded in picking up a sergeant of
trlne; named Skinner, whom he conveyed with the
enneti Promptitude on board the Firebrand steamer,
4,014„-h -Barnpool, but the poor fellow survived only an
tiekefra a half. The other bodies have not yet been
let:, up. They are supposed to be two watermen
thierg to this town, and two seamen of the Dtedalus.
test f•,' the third accident which has occurred witkin the
en months in this dangerous locality, and all have
leiei,iketnt,e,eded with a frightful loss of life.—Devonpert
b eeat.
teei
,44RLIC AT DROITWICII.—Our neighbours of this
~ati‘,l3;t; saline borough, it would seem, abound so in
4.4 '"es and things of " days lang syne," that, as in
eta e
of most other articles with which the market
tikhaeLe to be overstocked, they set a diminished value
het ilieru• The writer of this, on the occasion of a re-
the 6r sit to the Town-hall of Droitwich, observing near
vi
e..
*ere A Place a singular- looking metal vessel, in which
lion `teposited the municipal coals, made a closer inspeo-
be4a,hd found that it was one of the ancient Winchester
Vl :41, sent down by Queen Elizabeth's Government to
littie-°rPorate towns as the standard measure for regu-
eoe,g Periodically the market measures. It is made of
it Irt, is circular in shape, and stands on feet ; around
. litit:hluseription in Latin—. Elizabeth. Queen of Great
is ibt°, France, and Ireland," and the date is 1601. It
f'4o" excellent preservation, notwithstanding the un-
Vte arable circumstances through which it has passed to
eLresent undignified use ; and ought at once to be
kt,,se-,care of, or presented to the Worcestershire
*etki-cri• There was no further use for the article, it
'nape. etleeni, after the passing of the law which appointed
abeus tors of weights and measures ; it was then kicked
the market for many years, and was finally rescued
throughdrat the ignoble duties of a coal-hod. The
Which at.utes relating to measures is in Richard 1., 1197,
bore, aPpeints an individual in every county, city, and
and ugh, te Supervise the assize, or standard of weights
%to lueasure; and by the 16th of Charles I. salt was
eedtanded to be sold by measure, and not by weight ;
°PonQ the duty was formerly paid to the Government
city willYerY bushel of salt made at Droitwich, the neces •
chequer-
,be manifest of having a standard in the Ex-
ettllineuse (as the Town-hall was until recently
th wherein these duties were paid and registered,
t„"e "collectors" of the Crown.—Joureal.
AT
oti A,L ACCIDENT.—A waterman, called Miller,
ateid "gay afternoon last, whilst plying in the harbour,
Etcl:titll.Y slipped one of his paddles overboard, and in
the -b-Yealring to regain it, the Weight of his body heeled
the °llt on her side, and precipitated the poor fellow into
boalvater: The accident was observed by the seamen on
heetvd,,°,rie of the ships in ordinary, but assistance was
was.,„a"'ng, as the body never rose after its immersion. It
utterelted up in a short time by the exertions of an
Pendernt°f her Majesty's ship Stag.—Devonport Inde-

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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ulAtt f 4) ptaton.

" Who runs may read."

TOB.EIGIV.

On Thursday evening their Majesties the King and
Queen of. the French received the British Ambassador,
Lord Cowley, the Ministers of Brazil, Bavaria, and Hol-
land, the Charge' d'Affaires of Spain, Baron de Bour-
queney, the President of the Chamber of Peers, Marshal
Duke de Reggio, Marshal Count Molitor, Count de Per-
thuis, Baron Girod (de l'Ain), M. Casimir Perier, M.
Vatry, and M. Lavalette.
The Duke d'Aumale, with his young bride, arrived at
the Tuileries on Friday afternoon, and were received
at the foot of the staircase of the Palace in the most af-
fectionate manner by the whole of the Royal Family
assembled, including the King and Queen of the Bel-
gians. At seven o'clock there was a grand dinner of
1.50 covers, and all the windows of the Tuileries were
in a blaze of light. The Prince de Joinville had also
arrived. The King and Queen are, therefore, sur-
rJuuded by the whole of their family, forming perhaps
the most happy domestic circle in France, and we
believe a model of good order and morality to the rest of
the nation. _

A Council of Ministers was held on Thursday at the
Tuileries, at which the King presided.
Some of the journals state that the Paris and Ver-
sailles Company (right bank) have agreed with Pro-
fessor Wheatstone for the establishment of his system of
electrical telegraph on the whole of their line.
The Journal des Debuts announces that the six
months' interest on the Spanish Three per Cents. will be
paid in Paris, by M. Pillet, Will, and Co., from the Ist
of January next.
A complete change of weather has taken place at
Paris. On Friday night a thaw commenced and con-
tinued during Saturday.
The Minister of Public Worship has addressed a cir-
cular to the French Bishops, stating that, having been
applied to by one of their body to know whether, as the
fete of the Ascension and that of Louis Philippe fall, for
the year 1845, on the same day, they are to be celebrated
at the same time, he had to reply that he saw no reason
why this should not take place, the ceremonies usual on
the King's fete in no way interfering with the service in-
cidental to the Ascension.

A prosecution against M. Mangin, chief editor of the
Naticnal de r Ouest of Nantes, founded upon an article
entitled "De la Richesse du Clerge a Nantes," was
tried on the 9th before the Court of Assizes in that
city. The charges were, outrage in turning into deri-
sion the Catholic religion, legally recognised in France;
of exciting animosity between different classes of so-
ciety, and endeavouring to disturb the public peace by
exciting the animosity of the citizens against one class
of society. The jury, however, returned a general ver-
dict of not guilty upon all the counts, and M. Mangin
was discharged.
The Sud of Marseilles states that on the Bth there
was the heaviest fall of snow in that city that has been
recorded for a hundred years. The snow was nearly 50
sentiroatres (about 20 inches English) in depth.
LAW AND POLICE.
The Commission for the town and county of Notting-
ham was opened on Saturday before Mr. Justice Patte-
son. The Grand Jury, at a late hour, ignored the bill
against Lightfoot and Raven.
At Liverpool, George Evans was convicted of the
murder of Jane Millon, at Hulme, in the borough of
Manchester, on the 14th of August last, and sentenced to
death.
Alfred Hawke and Thomas Woolhouse, who bad been
out on bail, were charged at York with having, at
Sheffield, thrown some explosive substance into the
dwelling-house of Joseph Almond, with intent to murder
or do him some grievous bodily harm. The prosecutor,
on being examined, would not swear to the prisoners;
the case was accordingly at once abandoned, and his
Lordship intimated that he should not allow the prose-
cutor's costs.
At Bury St. Edmund's, Mary Sheming, aged 51, was
convicted of the wilful murder of John Sheming, a male
infant child, the natural son of Caroline Sheming. The
Learned Judge, in most feeling and impressive lan-
guage, passed upon the wretched culprit the awful sen-
tence of death.
csotrivr— PALAU/ lON AD
The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland and Lady Caro.
line Leveson Gower were to have arrived at Trentham
Hall, Staffordshire, on Saturday last, from Holkar Hall,
the Earl of Burlington's seat, near Bilnethorpe, where
they have been staying since their departure from the
Dowager Lady Blantyre's seat, near Edinburgh.
The Duke of Cleveland has left St. James's-square, on
his return to join the Duchess and Lady Augusta Pau-
lett at Baby Castle, Durham.
The Duke of Rutland has left town on his return to
Belvoir Castle, where the Noble Dake will shortly re-
ceive a succession of visitors.
The Duke of Di vonshire entertained a party at dinner
on Friday last, at Devonshire House.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Normanby returned
to the Clarendon Hotel, on Saturday, from a visit to Vis-
count Melbourne, at 13rocket
The Marquis of Anglesey on Friday left Uxbridge
House for Beaudesert, Staffordshire, the Noble and Gal-
lant Marquis having come to town solely to attend the
chapter of the order of the Garter.
Earl and Countess De Grey left St. James's-square on
Saturday last for Wrest Park, Beds. Earl and Countess
Cowper, Mr. and Lady Mary Vyner, and a select party
go to Wrest Park to pass the approaching Christmas.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Bath, Lord Harry
Thyane, Viscount Dungarvan, Sir G. and Lady Houl-
ton, Lady Johnstone, Hon. Mr. Boyle, and Colonel and
Mrs. Daly, are amongst the latest arrivals at Bath.
Earl Cadogan left Piccadilly on Saturday for Leaming-
ton Spa, from whence the Earl goes to Beaudesert, on a
visit to the Marquis and Marchioness of Anglesey. The
Countess and Ladies Cadogan remain in town.
The Earl of Powis has returned to Powis Castle, near
Welshpool, to join the Countess and family, who have
arrived there from Wynnstay, Sir W. W. Wynn's seat.

neuticisma.aarzoirs.
At the meeting of the Agricultural Protection Society,
held on Saturday, at their rooms, Hanover-square, Mr.
Hudson read the report, from which it appeared that a
large amount of arrears in subscriptions had been dis-
charged during the last half year, and steps had been
taken for facilitating future collections. Since the last
half yearly meeting, upwards of 300 members had been
elected, and the society now consisted of 97 life
governors, 208 annnal governors, 6,037 members, 470
life members, and 15 honorary members, making a total
of 6,827 members on the list of the society at the present
time.
The Commissioners of Woods and Forests are about
to proceed with the erection, in New Palace-paid, of
temporary Committee-rooms for the :Members of the
House of Commons, and of courts for the Vice-Chan-
cellors. They will be erected in immediate contiguity
with Westminster Hall.
There are in France, says one of the journals, 3,500 ac-
tors, 2,9oo'actresses, andl 6,000 individuals attached in one
way or other to the theatres, making a total of 22,000
persons living upoa the budget of Thalia and Melpo-
mene, which is estimated at 30,000,000 f,
On Saturday evening, the 7th inst., about 7 o'clock,
as Mr. Thomas of Grangemore, barony of Tire-
ragh, and county of Sligo, was returning home from Sligo,
on horseback, two shots were fired at him on the mail
coach road, about midway between Ballysodaro and the
chapel of Currowna ; the first ball hit him on the right
side of the head at the back of his ear, knocked off his
hat, and cut the skin to the bone; the second ball marked
him on the right eyebrow.
On Saturday night the West. end Institution for the
Nightly Relief of the Ilouseless Poor, whichfirst time,
opened for the reception of inmates, and which is capable
of affording accommodation for about 200 men, women,
and children, who have their separate wards.
The Rev. Dr. M'Caul, Rector of St. Ethelburga,
Bi.hopgate, and Professor of Hebrew in King's College,
London, having been appointed a prebendary of St.
Paul's, read himself in on Sunday, at the close of the
afternoon service.

IMPROPRIETY Or LINING WELLS WITH BRICKS.
—Two or three pieces of common brick were steeped four
days in a basinful of distilled water ; the water was
then decanted off and examined by various chemical
tests. It was immiscible with soap, struck a lively
green with syrup of violets, was rendered slightly lac-
tescent by the volatile alkali, and quite milky by the
fixed alkali and a solution of saccharine saturni. This
experiment affords a striking proof of the impropriety of
lining wells with bricks, which cannot fail of rendering
the water hard and unwholesome.—The Builder.
There has just been discovered in the neighbour-
hood of Bonn the skeleton of a monstrous crocodile, dif-
fering in its conformation from all the species now
known. These animals differ from each other according
to the countries which they inhabit. Those of the Nile
bear no great resemblance to either the caimans of
America or the animals seen in the Ganges. It would
seem that in the antideluvian ages the Rhine also had
its peculiar species.
ARRIVAL OF GIBRALTAR MAILS.---SOUTAAMPTON,
DEC. 15.—The Oriental Company's steam
-ship
in Paclia
the
arrived this morning, at half-past ten o'clock,
docks, from Gibraltar, and landed the Peninsular and
Mediterranean mails, which will be forwarded to London
by the mail train to-morrow mo.rni. ;Her d
dates are—
;
Gibraltar, 7th instant; Cadiz, Bth Lisloth
Oporto and Vigo, 11th. The Pacha has eight passengers
and a small cargo of fruit. The Braganca, one of the
Oriental steam-ships, arrived at the new quarantine sta-
tion early this morning, from Constantinople, with a full
cargo of silk. She left Gibraltar on the 7th instant.
SINGULAR DISCOVERY IN TUB TOWER.—OR Sa-
turday forenoon the men employed for some time past
removing the remains of those interred in the burying
ground on the north side of the parade, in the Tower,
preparatory to the erection of new barracks, were not a
little surprised, whilst pursuing their operations, to come
upon a coffin, the contents of which consisted entirely of
saw dust, not a particle of human bone being visible.
The outside coffia, which was made of wood and had
brass handles, contained a leaden one, in which was a
shell filled with saw dust, and nothing else. The coffin
had been in the ground 61 years, the date being ascer-
tained from the plate on the exterior coffin. This mys-
terious discovery has occasioned much gossip in the
Tower, and numerous are the surmises as to the disposal
of the body, which to a certainty never had been in-
terred, and consequently the funeral, as well as the
burial service, must have been a solemn mockery.
ACCIDENT FROM WINDOW-CLIsANING....-011 Satur-
day afternoon a young woman, in the service of Mr.
Chivers, Church-street, Hackney, while on a ladder
cleaning the landing-window, suddenly fell to the
ground. On being picked up her right arm was found
broken in two places and her body severely injured.