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GRAVESEND and LONDON, by the BLACK-
WALL RAILWAY and the STAR PACKETS.
REDUCED FARES, and only ONE PAYMENT THROUGHOUT.

The Public and the Friends of the STAR COMPANY are respect-
fully informed that the DIRECTORS of the BLACKWALL RAIL-
WAY COMPANY have made arrangements by which Pa►3engere
will he conveyed between GRAVESEND and LONDON, at the fol-
owing Prices :
Fore-cabin and Second-class Train—One Shilling.
Saloon and First-class Train—One Shilling and Sixpence.
The STAR PACKETS leave the Brunswick Wharf, Blackwell,
Morning, at a Quarter to Ten and Eleven ; Afternoon, Four and Six.
From the Terrace Pier, Gravesend, Morning, at Sevetiand Half-past
Nine ; Afternoon, Four and Seven.
On Sundays from Blackwell, Morning, a Quarter to Ten and Eleven;
Afternoon, at Six.
From Gravesend, Morning, at Seven ; Afternoon, Four, Five, and
Seven.
Tickets to be obtained for the Down-passage at the Fenchurch-
street, Mineries, Cannon-street, Shadwell, and Stepney Stations of
the Blackwell Railway; for the Up-passage on board the Packets.
Star-Office, Gravesend, April 18, 1844.

INTERESTING AND CLASSICAL EXCURSION.
ASIX WEEKS' rouß by STEAM to
ATHENS, SMYRNA, and CONSTAN'fINOPLE, calling at
GIBRALTAR and MALTA, with the option of visiting en route
VIGO, OPORTO, LISBON, CADIZ, and GIBRALTAR,
The PENINSULAR and ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION
COMPANY'S well known splendid steam-ship TAGUS, 900 tons,
and 300 horse power, will start from Blackwall on THURSDAY, 20th
June, for the above ports. Time occupied in the passage out and
home about six weeks. Very superior accommodation for pas-
sengers.
For terms, apply at the Company's offices, 51, St. Mary Axe,
London, and .67, High-street, Southampton ; also at 33, Regent
Circus.

GUARAN-TEE SOCIETY.
Estahlished by Act of Parliament.
SECURITY GIVEN for the FIDELITY of PERSONS ix
SITUATIONS of TRUST.
Particulars may he obtained daily, at the Society's Office, No. 26,
Poultry, between the hours of Nine and Five o'clock.
AGENTS.
Messrs. G. Edwards and 50n........8ri5t01.
Messrs. J. H. and G. Ridsdale......Leedc.
Messrs. Tiughec and ltonald ..... • • •Liyerpool.
Mr. Nathaniel Lea ................Birmingham.
Mr. Samuel Taylor •
Mr. H. Ca11ender.........• ........Edinburgh.
By order, THOMAS DODGSON, Secretary.

MONEY. GRAND DISTRIBUTION of
70,1701. sterling, authorised by his Imperial Majesty, and
the Government of Austria, on the Ist JUNE NEXT, at Vienna.
Highest Prize, 23,0001.; Lowest, 501.: 700 Prizes.—Apply for pro-
spectuses, to Messrs. F. E. Fuld and Co., Bankers and Receivers-
General, Frankfort ; or, to save postage, at 26, Bouverie.:street, Lon-
don, by letter only, from Twelve to Three.

FREEHOLD ESTATE, BLL'TCHINGLEY, SURREY.
TO BE PEREMTORILY SOLD, pursuant to
an ORDER of the HIGH COURT of CHANCERY, made in
Two Causes of CAMPBELL v. FOSTER, and CAMPBELL v. WAL-
TERS, by Mr. JOSEPH NASII, of Reigate, with the approbation of
Sir GIFFIN WILSON, one of the Masters of the said Court, at the
Auction Mart, in the City of London, on THURSDAY, the 30th day of
May instant, at Twelve Clock at Noon,
A FREEHOLD FARM HOUSE and THREE COTTAGES, late In
the occupation of John Campbell, Esq. ; together with Barns, Stables,
and other requisite farming Buildings, and several pieces or parcels of
Arable, Meadow, and Pasture Ground, Plantation, and Woodland,
situate at Underhills, in the parish of Bletchingley, in the county of
Surrey, containing in the whole 170 A. la. 28p.
Particulars may be had (gratis) at the said Master's Chambers,
Southampton-buildings, Chancery-lane; of Mr. Henry Ward, Solicitor,
51, Lincoln's Inn-fields ; of Messrs. Whitmore, Romien, and Walters,
Solicitors, 9, Lincoln's Inn ; of Messrs. Fosters and Evans, Solicitors,
John-street, Bedford-row ; of Mr. Joseph Nash, Auctioneer, Reigate,
Surrey ; at the principal Inns in the neighbourhood ; at the place of
sale ; and of the tenant, on the premises.

NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR-
ANCE SOCIETY,

26, CORNHILL, LONDON.
Capital £500,000.
Empowered by Act of Parliament.

The many novel and varied advantages bestowed by this Institu-
tion, both in its life assurance and deferred annuity departments, par-
ticularly the power to borrow two-thirds of premiums without ex-
pense or forfeiture—the great reduction of rates on short policies—
the option of selecting benefits and converting policies so as best to
suit the interest or necessity of the policy-holder during life, as well
as to afford the full benefit to his family at death, and annual division
of profits, have already been so well appreciated by the public, that
the society's great success and growing prosperity enabled the Di-
rectors, at their General Meeting in May last, to add to each policy
on the profit scale a bonus averaging fifty-five per cent. on the
amount already invested; alp( this bonus, according to an equitabie
scale, may either be paid in cash, or applied in reduction of future
premiums

ECONOMIC LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY,
34, BRIDGE-STREET, riL A CKFRIARS, LONDON.
Established 1R23.
Empowered by Act of Parliament, 3 William IV.
DIRECTORS.

The Right Hon. THOMAS FRAM K LAND LEWIS, Chairman.
HENRY FREi)ERICK STEPHENSON, Esq, Deputy .Chairman.
Lancelot Baugh Allen, Esq. Thomas Edgar, E..q.
Stephen Nicolson Barber, Esq. Sir Alex. Duff Gordon, Bart.
Henry Barnett, Esq. Archibald Hastie, Esq., M.P.
Robert Biddulph, Eq. John Mendham, Esq.
Robert Davies, Esq. William Routh, Esq.

AUDITORS.
Francis Dumergue, Esq. I Charles Morris, Esq.
Capt. Robert G rdon, 11. N. John Gilliam Stillwell, Esq.
PHYSICIAN— 'ohn Ayrton Paris, M D., F.R.S., 27, Dover-strect,
President of the Rwyal College of Physicians.
SURGEON—Benjamin Travers, Esq., F.R.S., 12, Bruton-streek
Sotrcrroa—Henry Young, Esq ,12, Essex-street, Strand.
BANKERS—Messrs. Hankey, Fenchurch-,treet
ACTUARY—James John Downes, Esq., F R.A.S.
SECRETARY Campbell James Downes., Esq. ,

The following are among the advantages offered by this Society:—
LOWER RATES of Premium than those of any other Office,
which entitle the assured to participate in the profits, and con-
siderably lower than those of any other Mutual Assurance Society.
THE WHOLE OF THE PROF ITS divided among the Assured.
Three Bonuses have already been declared out of "Three-fourths of
the profits :
The first, in 1831, averaged Xlet per cent. on the Premiums paid.
The second, 1839, ditto .£5l ditto since the Ist div sion.
The third, 1844, ditto A3B ditto since the 2d division
In addition to which all Policies entitled to the absolute bonus will
receive a contingent prospective bones of £! per cent. per annum, on
the sum assured. on becoming claims before 1849.
Assurances effected on the equal scale rof premiums in the year
18)4, will participate in the 'onus to be declared is 1849.
No extra charge for reedence in any part of Europe. nor for pro-
ceeding Oa a decked, sailing, or steam-vessel), from any one port
thereof to another during ileac,, to Assurers not being seafaring
men by profession. Licenses are granted to go to any part of the
world upon terms proportionate to the risks.
Policies on the lives of persons dying by suicide, duelling, or by
the hands of justice, are not void as respects the interests of parties
to whom they may have been legally assigned.
Assurances may be effected bn any and every day.
By order of the Hoard of Directors,
CAMPBELL JAMES DOWNER, Secretary.

THE-GOLDEN CUP
Reader, don't wonder why we've taken up
A theme so " sportive" as "the Golden Cup."
We do not mean to celebrate. of course,
A light.limb'd jockey, or a fa 'rite horse;
We merely wish to pluck a few idf as
From operations in th, sporting spheres;
And touch upon • he prize that has been won
By MOSES, in conjunction with his SON.
The sphere of trade, at all times. has reveal'd
Movements like those which mark the sporting field.
The public's favour, we have seen hell up,
A strong incentive like the " G lden Cup."
And ma y (while it shone before their eye,),
Have struggied to ran the valued prize
But such attemn s' at hest, have been but small;
MOS r S and SON have far " out run" them all.
In choice appirel they are " first," we find;
And never, never, do they stand "behind."
" First" in improvements at their m'ghty mart,
And all connected with the Tailors' Art.
READY DADE.

Z s. tl.
Tweed faglionis
Ditto, superior quality, with silk c. liars, cuffs, and facings.... 0 16 0
Cashmerette coats in a variety of shapes, hand.omely trimmed 1 0 0
An immense stock of Holland and jean blouses from 0 3 6
Splendid summer vests from 0 2 6
An endless variety of cashmere and Persian vests, splendid
patterns
Wash ng satin vets, warranted
Cloth trowsers . from 0 9 0
Single milled does from 0 I I 6
A groat variety of summer trousers..... ..,
....from 0 7 0
Pres s Coals edged
Frock ditto

MADE Ti MEASURE.
Tweed goats, trimmed with silk, made in any shape, water_

........_
proofed - . .
from 0 18 0
Cashmere, fine Saxony, and ether light summer materials,
made la the first style of fashion... ....... ...... ......... from 1 5 41
Figured quilting vests, 7s. each, or three for
Cashmere vests, in recherche patterns from 0 9 6
Summer Trousers, in great variety of materials
Single mined Victoria, and plain sloe trousers....
Best quality West of England 1 2 0
Dress Coats
Best manufactured 2 15 0
Mourning to any extent can be had at five minutes' notice, at the
following prices :--
. . . _

Men's wits, dress coat, vest, and trousersfrom i
16 0
Boys' ditto, jacket, vest, and trousers from 0 18 0
IMPORT &NT.— Any article purchased or ordered, if not approved
of ,exchanged, or the money returned.
Observe—E. MOSFS and SON, Tailors, Wholesale and Retail
Woolen Drapers, Outfitter., and General Wareh ousemen, 154, Mi-
nories, and E 46, Aidgate,City, opposite the Church.
Carrtoti.—E. vloses and Son are obliged to guard the public
agailist impo.ition, having learned that the untradesmanlike
falsehood of bein z connected with them, or it's the same zoncern,
has been resorted to in many instances, and for obvious reasons.
They have no connexion whatever with any other establishment,
and those wko desire genuine Cheap Clothing should (to pi event
disappointment, &c.) call or send to, 151, Minories, or 88, Aldgate,
opposite the Church.

ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS, TRAFAL
GAR-SQUARE.
The EXHIBITION of the ROYAL ACADEMY is now OPEN.
Admission (from Eight o Clock till Seven) One Shilling. Catalogue
One Shilling.
HENRY HOWARD, RA., Sec.

THE FORTIETH ANNUAL EXHIBITION
of the SOCIETY of PAINTERS In WATER COLOURS, at
their GALLERY, PALL-MALL EAST, is NOW OPEN.
Open each Day from Nine till Dusk.
Admittance, One Shilling—Catalogue, Sixpence.
R. HILLS, Secretary.

IV IL S ON'S SCOTTISH ENTERTAIN-
MENTS,
MUSIC-HALL, STORE-STREET, BEDFORD-SQUARE.
On MONDAY EVENING, MAT 13, at Eight o'clock,
MR. WILSON will give (Second time) his Entertainment, entitled
JACOBITE RELICS,
In which he will sing some of the most popular Songs
of the 'l5 and the '45.
PROGRAMME.
PART I.—Clavers and his Ilighlandinen—Whare hae ye been sae
braw, lad ?—When the King comes o'er the Water—Mother, Mother,
hear the News—The Chevalier's muster-roll—The Blackbird—
nonald M`Gillivray-0 cam ye here the fight to slum—The Piper o'
Dundee.
PART ll.—Kenmure's on and awa, Willie—Lord Derwentwater's
Good Night—Awa, Whigs, awa—The sun rises bright in France—
Wha will ride wi' gallant Murray—Oh send Lewie Gordon hame—
He's coming again.
Pianoforte, Mr. LAND.
Front Seats, 2s. 6d. ; Back Seats, 25.; Private Boxes for Six, 155.;
for Eight, 1/. Programmes and Tickets may be had at the Music-
shops, and at the Music-hall.
In the Press, the MUSIC in MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS.
Mr. Wilson's Morning Entertainments it;,
,Tys o'clock, In the Ha-
nover-square Rooms, on Wednesdays.

IMPORTANT to FAMILIES FURNISHING.
—A considerable saving can be effected in the purchase of
Furnishing Ironmongery, by visiting the PANKLIBANON IRON
WORKS, 58, Baker-street, Portman-square, where may be in-
spected the most extensive STOCK of IRONMONGERY GOODS In
the Kingdom, consisting of kitchen cooking utensils, German silver
wares, drawing-room stoves, shower and vapour baths, ornamental
iron work, garden Implements, bed-chamber furniture, best Sheffield
plate, kitchen ranges, fenders and fire-irons, tea trays, ornamental
wirework, flower stands, table cutlery, &c. Every article being
marked in plain figures, at the lowest possible price, will fully con-
vince purchasers at this establishment of the great advantage result-
ing from Cash payments, as the proprietors warrant every article
of the very best manufacture, at a saving of at least 30 per cent.—
THORPE, FALLOWS, and Co., 58, Baker-street, Portman-square.
—A liberal allowance to merchants and captains.

ECHI'S SUPERB LADIES' CABINETS
and JEWEL-CASES, No. 4, LEADENHALL-STREET,
LONDON.
Elegant papier mache tables, chess-tables, work-boxes, card-boxes
for playing cards, visiting card cases, work-boxes, desks, and dress-
ing-casts, pole screens, hand screens, card-racks, envelope cases,
vases, netting-boxes, portfolios, note and cake baskets, superb tea-
trays, and table inkstands, presenting a tout ensemble of splendour
and elegance not to be equalled in London. The papier mache ma-
nufactures are superb and various in their design, the prices varying
from fifty guineas to a few shillings. A few high-priced elegancies
will be sold at cost prices to clear the stock. Bagatelle tables, back-
gammon, and chess-boards, table cutlery and Sheffield plate, as usual.

PORTS, SHERRIES, and other WINES, of
first-rate shippers.

_
The following unprecedented terms for genuine wines are quoted
only for cash on delivery, which will be found from 15 to 20 per cent.
under usual credit prices :—Sherries, pale and brown, at 255., 275..
305., 365., 425., 485., 50s. ; Ports, from the wood, 268., 305., 34s ;
crusted, in bottle, from 365. upwards ; ditto, very choice, highly
flavoured, from five to ten years old, from 455. to 548. ; Clarets, 335.,
405., 708. ; Champagne, sparkling and creaming, 485., 605., 725. ;
Hocks an Moselles, 405., 505., 605., 70s. ; Marsala, 235., 265. ; and
all other wines equally moderate ; in quantities not less than one
dozen ; delivered free in London.

All country orders, accompanied with a remittance or a reference
for payment, will meet with immediate attention from J. SCHWEPPE
and Co., 51, l3erner's-street, London, importers of German Seltzer
Water, in quarts and pints.

SILVER SUPERSEDED, and those corrosive
and injurious metals called Nickel and German Silver sup-
,lan+od by the introduction of a new and perfectly matchless ALBATA
PLATZ.
C. WATSON, 41 and 42, BARBICAN, and 16, NORTON-FOL-
GATE, aided by a person of science in the amalgamation of metals,
has succeeded is bringing to public notice the most beautiful article
ever yet offered; possessing all the richness of Silver in appearanee
—with all its durability and hardness—with its perfect sweetness in
use—undergoing, as it does, a chemical process, by which all that is
nauseous in mixed metals Is entirely extracted--resisting all acids—
may be cleaned as silver, and is manufactured into every article for
the Table and Sideboard.
Fiddle. Threaded. King's.
Table Spoons and Forks, per doe • • 16s. 6d. •• 3es. Od. • • 3.55. ed.
Dessert ditto,' per doz.. •• • • .... 12s. 6d. • • 255. Od. • . 28s. Od.
Tea Spoons, per doz. •• • • • ss. 6d. .. 12s. 6d. • . 13s. 6d.
sugar Tongs, each
Salt and Mustard Spoons, each •• • • 6s. Od. • • I3s. 6d. • • 13s. 6d.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.—WeII : Easter Term has commenced—and
closed. The Court of Queen's Bench has been occupied
during the whole sittings with the arguments pro and
con. on the new-trial motion in the case, " the Queen v.
O'Connell and others." The Tory journals depre-
cated the "indulgence," and affected to admire the
patience of the Judges, who ought to have stopped the
" gabble" of counsel, and proceeded at once to give
judgment against the motion. Nothing was more plain
to Tory optics than that there was nothing in the ob-
jections and arguments of the traversers' counsel ;
the only wonder was that the Attorney-General and
the Solicitor-General should deem it necessary to reply.
However, the arguments were brought to a close. There
was_yet time for the Court to do its duty: i. e. to sen-
tence the defendants to a good long term of imprison-
ment (two years was the period generally agreed upon,
with good thumping fines) in Kilmainham, or Carrick-
fergus—the latter the favourite. Monday came. The
Court sat. Tory hopes were on tip-toe. Public
expectation was on the qui vice. Steamers were wait-
ing to bear the tidings to England ; and expresses
were in readiness to post them to every town and
village in Ireland. The counsel in the case were in at-
tendance; and the accused, in pursuance of their recog-
nisances, waited their doom. The hall of the Pour
Courts was thronged; and alt the avenues of the Court
were crowded with- anxious multitudes, eagerly in-
quiring of every one who came forth from the Queen's
Bench Chamber, whether there was any probability of
the Court pronouncing judgment. The proceedings of
Monday terminated. No sign had been given from the
Bench, by which any idea of what was to be the issue
could be inferred. Increased impatience, accompanied
by manifest uneasiness, was perceptible among the
Tories. Still, they put on an appearance of confidence.
There was yet another day. T:ie decision would, doubt-
less, be delivered at the sitting of the Court on the
following morning ; which would proceed at once
to sentence the "convicted conspirators." As the
punishment was to be very severe, the delay
which had taken place was intended to give addi-
tional solemnity to the proceeding. Instant judg-
ment would have worn the appearance of precipita-
tion. Time for cool, dispassionate consideration would
divest the proceeding of every suspicion of undue haste.
But the minds of the Judges were made up. The
" monster proceeding" would close, as it ought, with
consigning O'Connell and his co-adjutors to gaol. All
that was yet unascertained was the period of their in-
carceration. Tuesday morning came. Public excite-
ment became intense; increasing multitudes congregated
in the Four Courts' Hall and its neighbourhood, while
members of the bar, and parties who had been fortunate
enough to get within the Court, waited with highly-
wrought expectation for the entrance of the Judges.
Their Lordships had come down to the Court so unusu-
ally early as ten o'clock. They remained in delibera-
tion an hour and a half. Doubtless they were giving
the finishing touches to the protracted case ; consulting
upon the topics of the speech with which the sentence
was to be prefaced. We cannot better describe the scene
which was presented to the eye at this moment, than in
the words of the Tunes:—

" The public was on the tiptoe of expectation—well-dressed
ladies in a state of moderate excitement were visible in large
numbers ; the doors were crowded with ill-dressed gentlemen ;
all came to hear what was to be stated by the Judges with
reference to the new trials in- the great case of The Queen v.
Daniel O'Connell and others.' The gentry of the bar
indeed shook their heads, and maintained a state of im-
passibility, but in vain. Public interest continued to in-
crease, and would not be pooh-poohed. The public would
not believe that the judgment of the Court could be any
longer delayed. Their Lordships had come down to the
Court at an unusually early hour; and for what but
to concoct their judgment? At ten o'clock they
plunged into their chambers. At half-past eleven
o'clock Mr. Jnstice Burton emerged, and took his
seat on the bench ; Judges Crampton and Perrin
shortly followed, wearing the appearance (it was re-
marked) of men who had been recently engaged in
warm discussioni, or, as we may more colloquially- express it
in England, hot and fussy.' The Court was very full; all the
Crown lawyers, some of the counsel for the traversers, Messrs.
Kemmis, Steele, and Tierney, were in their places. The
Lord Chief Justice entered, fraught with the great secret.
An ordinary motion had possession of the Court, which did
not stop, but ran on to its conclusion with impor-
tunate pertinacity. History records it all with that
deliberate minuteness with which she is wont to dwell
on the preliminaries to a great crisis. At last an opportunity,,
offered, and the Lord Chief Justice spoke. Mr. Attorney,4
I am sorry to tell you that the Court find they. cannot give
judgment in the case until next term.' Ibi omnis effusus la-
bor. The interest vanished—the Court was cleared—and the
only remaining excitement was transferred to the Iron Duke
steamer, and the extraordinary express which conveyed to
our own office this important intelligence in nineteen hours,
from the moment when the Lord Chief Justice was delivered
of his announcement."

The effect of this announcement is to " hang up the
proceedings," in the technical language of the Courts,
" until next term." The great probability is, that
nothing more will be heard in the Court of this mon-
strous proceeding " a monster indictment—a mon-
strous defence—a monster appeal ;" and we will add,
monstrous violations of the principles, and infractions
of the rules, which the Constitution provides for the pro-
tection
je
ustice, by ehsubject against that most insufferable of
a
oppression which is inflicted in
the m
by means of the perversion of the
forms of law. We are disposed to think that her
Majesty's Ministers—and especially Sir Robert Peel—
are not sorry that the State prosecution is brought to a
dead lock. From its commencement, at every step, till
i it arrived at ts present position, ill luck attended it.
It was prolific in disgrace to those who counselled and
those who conducted it. Ridicule, indignation, and
contempt, were created by the blunderings, un-
fairness toward the accused, and disregard even
of respect for the majesty of the Court, which
were exhibited by the Attorney-General and his
agents. The impression which the prosecution
was designed to make on the public mind, and the
influence which the pre-determined verdict was to
exercise upon the Repeal Association, have evaporated.
Men are moved to laughter, rather than fear. Let tke
Government be thankful. Things might have been
much worse. 'The State Prosecution bomb-shell, which
was to have struck terror into the public mind in Ire-
land, has fallen powerless. Instead of producing con-
sternation and mischief by an explosion, its fusee has
gone out with a harmless stench. We greatly doubt
whether Sir Robert Peel will consent to a new attempt
being made to revive the now fast-subsiding excitement.
STAND. ARD.—A statement has been published by
the Associated Master Manufacturers of the county of
Lancaster, setting forth the proportions, in respect to age
and sex, of the labourers employed is factories. From
the statement it appears that of the labourers, fifty-three
per cent. are under the age of twenty-one years; that
is, according to the law of England, infants, parties
disqualified by law from entering into any impor-
tant engagement. As far, therefore, as concern con-
siderably more than one-half the factory la-
bourers, it is quite idle to talk of the right of the
labour and the poor man's liberty of making contracts.
More than one-half of the factory labourers are of an
age at which, were they children of Dukes and Mar-
quises, the law would not allow them to make
contracts ; and it is to be remembered that in
this majority of the labourers are included all
whom Lord Ashley's proposed limitation legally
affects—we say legally affects, because it is com-
plained by those who think that for the sake of more
effectually using up the old, you must abandon your duty
of protecting the young—that to limit the hours of labour
to infants will cause a corresponding limitation of the
hours of labour to adults. This, however, has nothing
to do with principles, and we contend for a principle—a
principle that, under favour, is neither new nor un-
sound—the principle, namely, that the State is bound to
protect the interests of minors or infants. If the minor
happens to be rich, the Chancellor will tell us that
the Constitution and common law give him a right
and impose upon him the duty to take to himself the
guardianship of affluent minors the common law
i:self will tell us also that minors, whether rich
or poor, cannot bind themselves by any contract, save
in one reserved case. Now, these examples prove that
the principle of protecting minors generally is not
new, and the reserved case to which we have
referred will prove, we think very satisfactorily,
that the principle of protecting minors is not
unsound any more than it is new. The one case
in which an infant, or minor, can bind him-
self by a contract, is the case of apprenticeship. This
is an institution as old as the common law ; but it is
recognized by many statutes, particularly the remarkable
statute 5 Elizabeth. In this, the one exceptional case in
which the law delegates, as it were, its protection of the
infant or minor, mark the care which it takes that the
delegated trust shall not be abused. The contract to be made
by the minor must be by indenture, not a nudum pactum,
but an engagement reciprocally. binding upon and reci-
procally beneficial to both parties. And, in order that
there may be no fraud or irregularity, the contract
must be executed in the presence of a magistrate
or other responsible authority. Is there any un-
sound principle in this provision of the law ? And
if there is not, why may. not the Legislature pro-
vide against minors engaging themselves, or rather
being forced to engage themselves, to terms which no
magistrate assuredly dare sanction in a particular case ;
as for example, that the apprentice must, whatever his
strength, work as many hours as the master's pleasure
or convenience shall dictate, and that the master
need not pay or feed or teach him except when he
shall find it profitable to do so. We are misunder-
stood if it is supposed that we claim for
infant factory labourers all the benefit of apprenticeship
—moderate labour, fair sustenance, and constant em-
ployment. We could heartily wish to see them all in
the enjoyment of those beeefits, but we are not wild
enough as to propose anything so just and humane,
and really politic T the end, in an age when the
only popular political philosophy is that which
ro pm *ses saving or gain to the wealthy, which
'
begins and ends in the breeches pockets of the rieh • We
hare no such ambitious hope—our sole purpose is

to defend a principle which has been misrepre-
sented as new and unsound, the principle that
the law of this intelligent Christian coun-
try protects, and always has protected infants
—rich infants from the effects of youthful folly,
poor infants from the twofold danger of their
weak judgment and weak condition. This principle
is, we imagine, clearly established by the proofs
that we have offered ; and, this principle once esta-
blished, we should be glad to know what becomes
of all the mass of rubbish about the " freedom
of labour" ai=d the " liberty of forming contracts,"
spoken and written against Lord Ashley's proposition
for the application to infants in factories, in the only
way in which it can be applied, of that protection which
the law owes to all infants.

THE STATE TRIALS.
FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.

TIMES.—A most graphic and imposing account is given
by all reporters of the last day but one of term in the Irish
Court of Queen's Bench. The public was on the tiptoe of ex-
pectation—well-dressed ladies in a state of moderate excite-
ment were visible in large numbers, the doors were crowded
with ill-dressed gentlemen, all come to hear "what was to
be stated by the Judges with reference to the new trial in'
the great case of The Queen v. Daniel O'Connell and others.'"
The gentry of the bar indeed shook their heads, and main-
tained a state of impassibility. But in vain. Public inte-
rest continued to increase, and would not be pooh-poohed.
The public would not believe that the judgment of the Court
could be any longer delayed. Their Lordships had come
down to the Court at an unusually early hour ; and for what
but to concoct their judgment? At ten o'clock they plunged
into their chambers. At half-past eleven o'clock Mr. Justice
Burton emerged, and took his seat on the bench ; Judges
Crampton and Perrin shortly followed, "wearing the appear-
ance (it was remarked) of men who had been recently en-
gaged in warm discussion ;" or, as we may more colloquially
express it in England, hot and fussy. The Court was very full ;
all the Crown lawyers, some of the counsel for the traversers.
Messrs. Kemmis, Steele, and Tierney were in their places. The
Lord Chief Justice entered, fraught with the great secret.
An ordinary motion had possession of the Court, which
did not stop, but ran on to its conclusion with importunate
pertinacity. History records it all with that deliberate
minuteness with which she is wont to dwell on the prelimi-
naries to a great crisis. At last an opportunity offered, and
the Lord Chief Justice spoke. " Mr. Attorney, I am sorry to
tell you that the Court find they cannot give judgment in
the case until next term." Ibi omnes effusus labor. The in-
terest vanished—the Court was cleared—and the only re-
maining excitement, was transferred to the 1" Iron Duke"
steamer, and the extraordinary express which conveyed to
our own office this important intelligence in nineteen hours
from the moment when the Lord Chief Justice was delivered
of his announcement. And so ends Easter Term where it
began. Mr. Smith has spoken his speech, Messrs. White-
side and Fitzgibbon have spoken theirs. We suppose we
are nearer the conclusion of the great cause—for, after all,
human things are finite, and all finite things—even the cause
of " the Queen v. O'Connell"—must have an end somewhere.
Nothing on this. side eternity is as far from us now as it was
at the beginning of Easter Term. But what, or
whether any, appreciable progress has been made in ad-
vancing or retarding that practical conclusion in which
the world in general, and the Home Secretary in par-
ticular, are so deeply interested—whether any one obstacle
has been surmounted, any one position secured, any one ar-
gument finally answered, by the logomachy of the last two
months, is a matter which, " till next term," we can only
darkly guess with our correspondent. Meanwhile, we really
hare to thank the Irish lawyers for exhibiting to the world
in its plenitude a phenomenon not commonly seen—a fully
developed criminal prosecution. Foreign naturalists, it is
said, have ascertained that by a well-managed local applica-
tion of heat to an embryo animal, you may determine its fu-
ture proportions in the most capricious and unnatural fashion
—that a properly directed stream of caloric will induce your
chicken to break its shell all foot, all beak, or all tail, as the
operator may have devised.. An Ordinary lawsuit is apt to
be such a mishapen animal. The fostering care of counsel
has swollen to a disproportionate magnitude some single
member of the great question at issue, whether A shall be
hanged or B transported. The cause comes forth to trial in
the shape of one voluminous okection to a point of evidence—
one impassioned appeal to the prejudices of a jury—one knotty
demurrer to a point of law.." Non omnia possunzus omnes." The
same case does not ordinarily furnish material for every sepa-
rate form of opposition. The gist of the battle lies some-
where, and there is the clatter of lawyers—the rest flows on as
a matter of form, unopposed and unimportant—or, if no-
ticed at all by the contending parties, receives only the com-
pliment of a cursory notice and a summary dismissal. Not
so the Irish case. this comes before " omnibus numeris abso-
luta." Everything is develgped to the utmost. No member
has been overlooked=no aaurtenance allowed to remain in
.neglected insignificancall the capabilities of the law have
been taxed to its full' eVII. t: There is no disproportionate
protuberance, no prominent limb. All is gigantic. A mon.*
ster indictment—A monster defence—a monster appeal—a
monstrous body, with its monstrous appendages (not ex-
cluding a monstrous offender and monstrous attorneys),
have combined to show what law could do when it set it-
self in earnest to stand in the way of justice. Scientifically
speaking, the exhibition is hitherto creditable. Mr. Pierce
Mahone and his friends are earning a praise higher than
that of originality ; they are distancing all predecessors in
a beaten track. That great and elaborate system by
which justice is so successfully delayed in this country has
employed in its construction the subtlety and labour of cen-
turies. The most far-seeing intellects, the most untiring
energies, the most fertile inventions, have been tasked to
imagine and to bequeath to us, their children, that compli-
cated mass of contrivances which it is our happiness to possess
for evading, perverting, disguising, arid obstructing the judg-
ment of the law. It is against a venerable array of legal
worthies that the Irish lawyers contend for the palm of ob-
structiveness. It is a noble and complete system of instruc-
tion which they. are engaged in bettering. But we think
they are really in the way to be unprecedented. They have
shown what can be done by the law in the teeth of judges,
jury, and the law itself, with a completeness which is, to us at
least, unparalleled. They are likely, we hear, to be met by
an adverse judgment next term, so soon as the judges can
make up their minds to pronounce it. But to them over-
throw is not defeat. It is in receiving a series of overthrows
that their tactics consist ; and we shall expect with curiosity
the fresh expedient to which the coming judgments will
doubtless give birth.
HERALD.—The public are throughly sick of the Irish
State Trials, and of the Irish Court of Queen's Bench. No-
body, for the last three months, has anticipated the possible
termination of " the monster process," while the traversers
can find a quibble and the Court a pretext for entertaining
it ; and, in consequence, nobody will be disappointed at
learning that the somnolent tribunal has postponed to next
term (the fourth that the case will have been in court) its
judgment upon the motion for anew trial. The ready facility
of the judges has had the natural effect of inviting further
dilatory experiments ; a variance, it appears, has been dis-
covered between the verdict as returned by the jury and the
entry of it upon the postea. This is a matter which, in
Westminster Hall, would not occupy five minutes. The
error, if error there be, is the error of the officer of the Court.
(We mention this, that the Times may not leave it at the
door of the Attorney-General.) The record is still in the
power of the Court, and it is the right and duty of the Court
to cause to be amended any error in it, committed by its
officer. This Lord Denman would order, as a matter of
course, upon a simple suggestion ; but Heaven only knows to
how many months' delay, and to how many thick octavo
volumes of speeches, the crotchet may give occasion in Dublin.

COL. FAWCETT AND MR. MUNRO.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.
Sir,—l shall feel exceedingly obliged by your inserting
in your highly valued journal the following observations,
in reference to what has been stated by Mrs. Fawcett,
in regard to the most unhappy quarrel that took place
between Lieutenant-Colonel awcett and myself.
Mrs. Fawcett says that I have made highly improper
reflections upon the character of Lieutenant-Colonel
Fawcett; in reply, I wish to state that I never imagined
or stated anything of the kind.
I have again to assert that I called upon Lieutenant-
Colonel Fawcett on the evening of the 29th of
last June, at his particular request. When he asked
me to do so, he said, that when I had explained
some entries in his accounts that he did not,
understand, be would give ine an acknowledg-
ment that would protect me from any steps that might_
be taken against me. I must observe that such a re-
mark surprised me greatly, considering the spirit in
which I had been acting for him during his absence.
1 shall say but little more about the manner in which
I was insulted than I have already done ; but I
think it necessary to state that there are some impor-
t tant inaccuracies in Mrs. Fawcett's account of the un-
fortunate quarrel ; for instance, she asserts that I used
a kind of threat, viz., " that I would not stand" Colonel
Fawcett insinuations that I bad neglected his interest.
The words I really made use of where those are intro-
duced were, " that I had served Colonel Fawcett as no
other man could have done." I still assert that Colonel
Fawcett contradicted me violently, and when I
maintained my opinions, he ordered me out of the
house. When I returned to the house, it was my im-
pression that I could not call upon Lieutenant-Colonel
Fawcett for satisfaction in the usual way, but he
sneered at me when I said so, and he also said that he
hoped that the connexion that existed between us
would not prevent my doing so ; and added some-
thing about settling the quarrel like a gentleman. In
consequence of these replies, which really meant de-
fiance, I felt obliged, under all the circumstances, to
take the best advice I could obtain upon the unfortunate
occurrence ; and I made most particular inquiries if the
connexion would not exempt me from calling upon Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Fawcett for an apology, &c. I was told,
that as I was an officer upon full pay, it would not; and
I have to observe that I acquiesced in every idea of my
advisers, in not requiring reparation before the servants,
who heard me insulted, nor in requiring a written apo-
logy from Col. Fawcett, as my doing either might have
prevented a reconciliation; in short, I left the uncon-
trolled management of the unhappy affair in the
hands of my friends and advisers. I have likwise
to remark, that the instructions given to Mr. Cuddy.
by Colonel Fawcett were so imperative that he had
no discretionary power whatever, and which is so neces-
sary in the adjustment of a complicated quarrel ; he
appeared to be simply obeying the orders of Lieutenant-
Colonel Faatcett as his superior officer ; and for the
nature of those instructions I refer to the, letters already,
known to the public, and which are most unnecessarily,
contemptuous in allusions to myself. Mrs. Fawcett,
states that one of these letters was conciliatory ; to
the best of my recollection all that was admitted in it was
that Lieutenant-Colonel Fawcett did not charge me with
wilfully allowing him to be defrauded. In reference to
what Mrs. Fawcett states as to my declining to receive
an apology because it was too late, I declare most so-
lemnly that I-never did so ; and I am certain that Mr.
Grant would never have hid from me the important cir-
cumstance of the slightest having been offered. My
conduct on the ground is a sufficient refutation upon
that point, for in addition to applying to Mr. Grant
three times to endeavour to stop the dreadful affair
from proceeding, I told him that I would never forgive
him to the day of my death if he concealed anything he
knew of Colonel Fawcett's intentions from me ; his
answer was, that from anything he had seen from the
first to that time (or words to that effect), he was con-
vinced that Colonel Fawcett meant to kill me. I called
him to me again, and said, " For God's sake do not
leave me in this awful situation without telling me
everything you know, and giving me your opinion ;"
he again said that he was certain • Colonel
Fawcett intended to kill me. I have no doubt that
Mr. Cuddy was also of the same opinion, or more pro-
bably that he knew what Colonel Fawcett's intentions
were; for at hie suggestioir, I was moved off a target
upon which I shottld otherwise have been placed, and
which intimated plainly the intentions of his principal.
I solemnly declare that I would willingly, even at the
latest moment, have given over arms for the slightest
apology.
I considered from Lieutenant-Colonel Fawcett's cruel
and uncalled-for insult to myself, his reception of Mr.
Grant, and his uncompromising instructions to his
second, that he was determined to ruin me ; and this
I felt the more from being married, and having five
children, the eldest being under nine years of
age. I also know that Lieutenant-Colonel Fawcett
was advised to make me an apology, and that some
gentlemen who wished to prevent a meeting submitted a
written one to him, which contained nothing that could
be hurtful to his feelings; but he peremptorily refused
to make the slightest reparation to me from first to last.
I have to add that I never was upon any ground before
where a duel was to be fought, and that I am not a prac-
tised pistol shot, as has been repeatedly asserted.
I am, Sir, yours, &c.,
April 20. A. J. MUNRO.

THE DESTRUCTION OF THE MANCHESTER THEATRE.
—The loss which this destructive fire will cause is not easily
calculated. We believe the building cost about 10,700/. ; it
was a property held in shares ; and, besides the building, the
greatest part of the scenery, machinery, &c., belonged to the
proprietary, who insured them to the extent of 7,600/., of
which 4,0001. was in the Imperial, and 3,6001. in the County
Fire office. We fear this insurance will not cover the loss of
the proprietors. We may mention that the theatre has been
insured in these offices since the year 1810, a period of thirty-
four years. Mr. Roxby, the lessee, was unfortunately unin-
sured. All the scenery which, during his lesseeship, has
been painted for the revival of the greater part of the plays
of Shakspeare, in a spirited following of the style in which
Mr. Macready put these dramas on the London stage, was
the property of the lessee, and has perished, together with
various properties and furniture of considerable value. For
the Christmas Carol, considerable expense had been incurred
in preparing new scenery, dresses, and decorations : and a
" slider" for exhibiting the visions of Old Scrooge, alone
cost about 40/. All the new scenery has been consumed.
We believe the music and musical instruments were got out
without damage. Perhaps the most painful circumstances of
this catastrophe remain to be told. A large and exceedingly
respectable company of performers are at once thrown out of
occupation, just when they were looking forward to their ap-
proaching benefits. We believe the benefits were to have
commenced next week, and the theatre would have closed
on Monday the 10th June. Under these circumstances, Mr.
Roxby convened a meeting of all the company, which was
held last evening, at the Atheneum. We cannot conclude
this notice of so untoward an event—one which must cast a
considerable damp on the gaiety and amusements of the
town during the next Vinter—without expressing our regret,
that the handsomest and best constructed provincial theatre
in the kingdom—which was embellished, not two years ago,
at a cost of 1,6001. to the lessee—should thus have been de-
stroyed in one short hour. In various quarters we have
heard a strongly-expressed desire to contribute to any sub-
scription fund that may be originated on behalf of the corps
dramatique, whose; position is certainly one that appeals most
forcibly to the sympathies of every lover of the drama.—
Manchester Guardian.

THE GREAT BRITAIN STEAM-SHIP:—.It was in-.
tended last week to haul the Great Britain into the floating
harbour, and to moor her there while the tanks upon which
she is to be floated through the locks into the river are being
constructed. A slight impediment, however, for some time
prevented her removal. It appeared that a portion of the
timber upon which she rested had, from her great weight,
become firmly fixed to her keel, and, from want of sufficient
depth of water, she was unable, with this obstacle adhering
to her, to clear the sill of the caisson, notwithstanding that
her draught is only twelve feet. On Thursday, and again on
Friday week, the water in the float was raised about eighteen
inches, but this was not sufficient to enable the vessel, with
her encumbrance, to pass clear. On both occasions she was
hauled one-third out, but had to be hauled back again.
Various expedients were resorted to, in order to detach the
pieces of timber in question, but without success. Our fellow
citizen, Mr. J. M. Hyde (mathematical instrument maker),
subsequently undertook, by means of his diving apparatus,
to descend to the bottom of the dock, for the purpose of ascer-
taining the exact position and nature of the lmpedimenit4 ann
d
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this hazarious work he performed on Friday afternoon
most intrepid manner. He made his first descent about twenty
minutes to five o'clock, and remained under water a quarter
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several pieces of timber, which floated upwards to the sur-
face, and the vessel was liberated. She was then hauled out
of dock, and now lies moored in the floating harbour, near
he Clifton Gas Works.—Bristol Mirror.
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THE PITMEN'S
latter, since our last, having re-
cownecrkilmiatein7
thhaSej•
fresh stimulus from the various
c:t::eriwvttalehlrdeediirsar relief fund, amongst which may be sums
named subscribed
20/.
contributed by the quarrymen of Gateshead. However,
we regret to learn that the pitmen, in certain instances, are
breaking up their sick societies,• •
and dividing those hard-
earned funds which they had • •
wisety provided for days of
affliction and death. Partial w • orkings are still going on in
sevvral collieries. On Tuesday
evening a meeting of the
working men of South Shields was held in the Primitive
Methodist Chapel,
when they were addressed by a deputa-
tion from the Pitmen's Union. On Thursday a large meeting
of the pitmen was held on Tynemouth Sands, at both of
which meetings the principle of " peace, law, and order," was
strictly enforced, 'and a determination to carry out the strike
was manifested. Burdon Main and Percy Alain collieries are
partially at work, and Jarrow pit, it is expected, will com-
mence this week. A number of special constables have been
sworn in for protection. A quantity of coal is still sent
down by the Pontop and Shields Railway, which is more
than enough for manufacturing purposes. On Saturday night,
one of the overmen at Hebbum colliery was assaulted, but we
have not heard of his being seriously injured. Meetings were
held by the pitmen at Percy Main, Durham, and Gateshead
Fell yesterday, for publicly discussing their grievances ; and
this evening a public meeting, with a similar ebject, will be
held at the Music-hall in this town, and in the early part of ,
the day a meeting of the delegates from all the collieries will
take place at the house of W. Jude's.—Tyne Mercury.

BANKING AFFAIRS.
ffieient time has now elapsed to allow the city traders
and capitalists to form a judgment upon the new project re-
lative to banking affairs, which is viewed as the most impor-
tant measure of the kind since Sir Robert Peel's celebrated
Bill of 1819. Taken as a whole, it is pronounced to be de-
serving of the greatest praise; and it is freely admitted that
all the previous recommendations and plans of the selget.pnd
other banking committees sink into comparative insignifi-
cance, when compared with the change that is likely to fake
place when these views are fully carried out. The 'subject
naturally divides itself into two main branches—the country
bankers, and the Bank of England.
With regard to the first, the irresponsible issue of paper by
individuals or companies is from the present moment effec-
tually checked—unless by some evasion of the proposed new
law, amounting almost to fraud—and becomes limited to
about the present very restricted amount which they have
in circulation; and there is every probability that within a
few years the power of issuing notes will be restricted to one
source. Most people agree that the loss sustained by the
public from country banks is not to be estimated solely by
the amount of failures, but that a very large,..though indefi -
nite item is to be added for the overtrading occasioned by
the injudicious over-issues of those who continued solvent.
This was pointed out by Sii R. Peel from the examination of
some of their own witnesses before the late Committee,

Hence the-arrangements respecting Am he are regarded as
wholesome and necessary checks to the issue of a doubtful
and insecure currency; while those which relate to the Bank
of England are viewed in the light of restrictions to the in-
judicious contraction and expansion of a currency, which,
-however safe as regards the holders of the notes, have fre-
quently operated injuriously on trade and commerce from
sudden and unexpected variations in the amount.
One main alteration is the division of the Bank of Eng-
land into two branches ; the first being simply a bank of
issue ; and the second,' merely an, establishment formed for
the ordinary purposes of banking, but without any power of
creating notes, and which will therefore act as any private
bank trading on its own capital. The issuing department
will have two very distinct functions to perform, being
authorised to create an amount of paper money to the ex-
tent of 11,000,0001. based entirely on the debt due from the
Government to the Bank, and 3,000,000/. on Exchequer..
bills and other public securities, to which extent it will he a
Government paper money, and incapable, except in parti-
cular and limited instances, of being increased, The other
means by which it may issue notes, in exchange for bullion,
will supply what has long been wanted in this great corn
mercial country—a bank of deposit, similar to that Hata-
burgh, is so far as it offers the facilities of paper in large
payments, joined with the absolute security of a metallic
currency, but superior to it in detail, because it offers the
same facility and security to smaller transactions than is
afforded by the Hamburgh Bank, where, instead of notes
issued, there are transfers made from one account to another,
which limits its usefulness to the larger class of operations.
It is clearly seen that the amount of notes which will thus
circulate will necessarily be fixed by the wants and con-
venience of the public, and form a protection against any
demand for gold on notes based on the other securities, as
before they can be presented the notes issued against gold
must have been paid in, and the paper circulation reduced
to 14 000 000/.

The new measure appears to City observers not only judi-
cious in itself, but remarkably well-timed. The amount of
gold is now about 16,500,0001., aad notes to this extent are
therefore already based upon the precious metals, so that
the transfer of the stock of bullion to the issuing depart-
ment will form a basis on which this amount will issue
and be circulated; to which amount also the currency will
be really metallic, although possessing the facilities, so far
as easy transport and freedom from wear are concerned,
of a paper currency. The remainder of the notes
in circulation is about 4,500,0001., and to this must be
added the deposits, amounting to about 13,000,0001., and
forming a total of about 17,500,000/. liabilities which are
based on securities of different kinds now in the hands of the
Bank. Of this amount 11,000,0001. is now provided for by the
new plan, against the Government debt, and the Bank will
have the power to issue 3,000,000/. more against Exchequer..
bills or other public securities they may now hold. This
forms the total issue allowed of 14,000,000/., which deducted
from the total liabilities not covered by the bullion, leaves
3,500,000/., which is about the amount of the " rest," or real
surplus capital. Hence nothing can be imagined more easy
than the transition will be into the new state of things. It
follows, that whatever alteration may eventually take place
in the total circulation must proceed from the demands of
the public. The state of trade, therefore, and the importation
or exportation of the precious metals, will in future govern
the amount of money, and not, as has too frequently hap-
pened of late years, the artificial abundance or scarcity of
money influence trade and prices.
The proposed publication of frequent and full returns is
universally approved. The great fault in the present return
is the omission of the deposits in the monthly averages,
which should have been published with the others, and
divided into the two branches of public and private deposits.
The accounts pubished by the Bank of France are an ex-
cellent model to adopt.
The only point against which anytl.ing like censure has
been directed as liable to be abused in practice, is the, appro-
priation to the Government of any further profit to be derived
from any extension of the currency, and some would have
preferred limiting the paper circulation at once to a, fixed
amount, leaving the public, by the importation of go/d, to
provide any increase which may be required. The new
branch of a bank of deposit certainly offers admirable faci-.
lities for this purpose, for the moment that money in the
shape of bullion or coin becomes redundant, it can imme-
diately be converted into notes. In connection with this part
of the subject, it is felt to be extremely desirable that the
department which issues notes against the payment of gold
should still retain the custom now adopted by the Bank, of:
being a constant buyer of bullion at a fixed price, which re-
munerates the charge of coinage, for by this means this
branch will become, to the full meaning of the term, a bank
of deposit. The holder of bullion will then have the powei•
of obtaining an immediate value for his gold, without the
delay and trouble of first going to the Mint, and the diffe•
rcncc of price will be compensated by the promptness of t'ae
return. In this manner it will become of no importayze to
what extent the issue of notes is carried, as they
all be
based on bullion which has already paid the cost of coinage,
and may, therefore, at any time be issued as coin without the
slightest expense.
These have been the current observations tif the day upon
the new plan, though the topic is not ac, yet by any means
exhausted.—Times.

LEAMINGTON SPA, MAY 7.—To the continued fine-
ness of the weather may be attributed a large number of
visitors at this fashionable watering-place. The list of recent
arrivals comprises the Earl Talbot, Sir Henry and Lady
Fletcher, Sir Edward Colebrook, Bart., M.P. • La_cly and
Miss Scott, Lady Dyneover and lion. Miss Rice, Hon. F.
Byron, Sir Davidge and Lady Gould, Sir Arthur de Cape!
Brooke, Bart. ; Hon. Mrs. Hamilton, Sir Frederick Hamilton,
Bart. ; Lady Duff Gordon and family, &c. The erection of a
new tennis court is about to be commenced under the ma •
nagement of a provisional committee, among the members of
which are Lords Leigh, Somerville, and Brooke, and several
of the leading gentry of the town and neighbourhood.
SALE OF AUTOGRAPHS AND OFFICIAL PAPEPA or
ROYAL AND ILLUSTRIOUS PERSONAGES.—WedIIeSda7f, at ono
o'clock, a sale by auction of autograph letters of Royal and
illustrious personages, including those of Henry VII., Henry
VIII., Charles I. Georges 1., 11., 111., and IV., Charles 11. of
Spain, Leopold of Germany, the Elector of Bavaria, &c. ; the
Ormonde, Portland, Fox, Abingdon, and other official papers,
together with many hundred letters, from the principal nobi-
lity, statesmen, poets, authors, &c., of the United Kingdom,
was proceeded with at the Auction-rooms, No. 191, Picca-
dilly, being the collection of many years of a private indivi-
dual. The competition was not great, and the various lots
were knocked down at a comparatively low price. The fol .
lowing were among the principal autographs, &c. :—Kirig•
Charles, to a letter to Viscount Falkland, Lord-Lieuteiaar,s es-
Ireland, on state affairs, August 4, 1628, 17s. ; King T:fenry
VII., to a wardrobe warrant, " for the delivery of certaine
costly articles for our creste at Windsor,
'Cower of
London," 1498, 13s. • King Henry VII., to an original
of evst
wardrobe warrant, for the delivery ain clothes,
addressed to Sir Andrew Windsor, Windssir Castle, 1513,
12s. ; King Henry VIII., to an original warrant, for the de-
livery of certain articles for his Majesty's hssunds, Greenwich,
1511, 17s. ; Charles 11., King of Spain, to *King 'William 111.,
of England, on the death of his mother, Madrid, May 24,
1696, 12s. ; King Charles 1., to an original State letter of
instructions to Viscount Falkland, Lord• Lieutenant of Ire-
land, in fine preservation, dated Palace of Westminster, 1629,
17s. ; a letter from Charles James Fox, to his brother, Lieut.-
General Fox, fraaked,lBo4, 13s. ; Notice for:Colonel Stephen
to attend the funeral of Oliver Cromwell, from Somerset-
house to Westminster Abbey, on the 23d of November.
Autograph of Thomas Lord Fairfax, the Parliamentary Ge-
neral, to a printed certificate that Major Richard Stephen, or.
Sir Francis Drake's Regiment, " hath deservedly received a
medal from the Parliament and City of London, for his faitl,fta
services under my'command," two curious documents, 'j645,
1/. 12s. ; Prince of Wales, List of the Privy Council T,resent
at the introduction of his Royal Highness, who t'jok his
place-at the upper end of the board, on the right ha'ad of his
Majesty, the original document, with the Privy Coancil.-seal,
1714, 6s. 6d., &c.
THE PERILS OF STEEPLECHASING..—FATAL , LEAP.
—An inquest was held last evening by Mr• Iligigs, at St.
Caphrles raanteltihe si g
hHto.aged
Hospital,
thirtyg-eight.
de-
ceased was a trainer of horses for steeplechaser.l .g, and in the
,monthetheevibdoedeyee ofit
habit of buying and selling horses for_ differ.',' t persons. In
he taught the h
.d.ses to leap, for
his capacity of " toper,"
__, .
number of bars are rr ,quired of different
which purpose a
jump over 0
n
heights, for the animals to
4. • Thursday, the
18th ult., Mr. Blore, the
proprietor 0 , the Queen's Arms, at
as an omnibus Pror;rietor,
Kilburn, knownon the persuaskns
ased a herr.,e at Dixon's He of the deceased, purch , pi:Y....tory.
• • at Kilburn, he too.k, the horse to slur
On arriving
instead vr to a
of putting it; into
, and the stable or.i his re-
perso ,him into the yard for the
turn took him The bar purpose of trying his
leaping Powers- •t was brought out, and amidst
many spectators Elated wi, ith his w!is cle red in good style by the de-
ceased. gutted In
order. the ere bar to
raised higher, and addressing Mr. Blor, h be
e
would pay for a doctor if any accidents as ed him if he
happened. Mr.
Blore told him he had better lust the h
again. Being rather worse for tithe horse up, and not leap
iquor, he persisted in leap-.
ing. The horse cleared the bar, but the d mischance, slipped off, and alighted on his feecease'l'i, by some:
being rough, and the force with which heet. he grounek
came to tl.sft
ground, broke his right leg. He was removed to the hosr:itsis
when delirium tremens set in. He lingered for some days.
and died on Tuesday night, from mortification of the 'injured
part. The deceased, during his steeplechasing ear, •eer, had. broken his left leg on two previous occasions..' Verdict.
"Accidental Verdict.
"Accidental death."
THE ANCIENT CONCERTS.—The conieric of Wed.
nesday was under the direction of Prins.e Albert, and the
selection of music was what might haws been expected from
his Royal Highness's sound taste, en(', extensive knowledge
of the art. Her Majesty honor.rod *.he concert with her pre-
sence. On her entrance, "God Ave the Queen" was magni-
ficently performed; the two 'solo verses by Miss Rainforth
and Madame Caradori All'ars. A motett, by Cherubinit was
performed for the first Vane, from an original manuscript in
the possession of his -Royal Highness Prince Albert. The
duet from Haydret Stabat Mater "'Sancta Mater, istud ages,"
was beautifully sung by Madame Caradori Allan and Signer
Salvi. Another most interesting npvelty was the quartAt
from Gratues Passione—a work which, though almost un•
known in this country, holds the same place in German-6, that
The Messiah does in England. In consequence of bAs Ma-
jesty's presence, the room was more than usually .crowded,
and presented a brilliant appearance.
R I
A CHILD MUTILATED BY A —AT.—The following
shocking occurrence, exhibiting the ferocity of ' the rat, oc •
enrreeto Sarah Wiseman, a child a year and a half old,
whose parents reside at No. 7, Duke-street, W aterloo-road.
It appears that the father of the child is by ti Ade a ch
wat ..
maker, but having for some time been oat of, employment,
himself and wife are compelled to go out by, the evening
singing at a concert, held at a neighbourin g. tin. a
Monday evening they did so, leaving the child in bed, locked
in the room. On their return home they fox Ind the child
covered with blood, which was issuing from its right eye
nose, chin, and both arms, from wounds wl rich had been
gnawed into the flesh by a rat. The poor ch. !Id was imme-
mediately taken to a surgeon, who dressed ti ja aid
it is hoped that, although very bad, it will nit'
,h, ,ately recover.
It is said that amongst the policemis
~.. .
. on the Great
Western Railway are eight members of V Alp Royal College of
Surgeons, and three selioitor&