The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-20 00:00:00

THE SUN
_LOI%rDOI4; MONDA.V
_MORNI:IO3 JANUARY 20, 1845.

PING.
LONDON, JAN. 18.—Wind southerly breeze, and cloudy.
DEAL, JAN. 17.—Wind S. to S. by W., a gentle
breeze, thick weather.—Arrd. William Prowse, Bartlett,
China Sld. Nancy, Algoa Bay ; Hendrick Hudson,
New York.
PLYMOUTH, JAN. 17.—Wind S. by E.—Sld. Eliza-
beth, Antigua ; Vigilant, Antigua. The Mary Nixon
has come into cutwater, to discharge.
PORTSHOTJTH, JAN. 17.—Wind S.S.E. to S.—Arrd.
Plantagenet, London, for Madras. Sid. her Majesty's ship
Cockatrice, eastward.
POOLE, JAN. 17.—Wind S.S.E.—Arrd. Ceres, Martin,
Newfoundland.
FALMOUTH, JAN. 17.—Wind S., strong breezes.—

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

Stows, FRIDAY AFTERNOON.—Previous to the ban-
quet last night, Mr. Smith, the Mayor of Buckingham,
presented the addresses of the borough of Buckingham
to her Majesty and Prince Albert.
In the evening Jullien's band performed several fa-
vourite pieces of music, of which her Majesty expressed
her approbation. The Life Guards' band played dur-
ing dinner. Her Majesty retired to rest at half-past
eleven.
In the course of the day Mr. Smith, the librarian, and
Dr. Buckland exhibited and explained to her Majesty
the contents of the museum.
This morning her Majesty rose at seven, and remained
in her private apartments till luncheon.
At ten Prince Albert went out shooting to Stratford-
hill-wood. He was accompanied by the Duke of Buck-
ingham, the Marquis of Chandos, the Earl Of Jersey,
Colonel Bouverie, Mr. Anson, Colonel Carrington, and
Captain Robarts.
The party returned at about one o'clock, the Prince
having shot 80 pheasant, 66 hares, and 2 rabbits.
After luncheon her Majesty and the Prince planted
each a cedar and an oak in front of the Temple of Con-
cord. Her Majesty left the mansion soon after three
o'clock, and walked with the Duke of Buckingham to the
spot. Prince Albert walked with the Duchess, and the
chief guests followed. As soon as the trees had been
duly planted, according to custom, the Duke of Buck-
ingham cried out " God bless Queen Victoria." Those
who accompanied her Majesty cheered and waved their
hats, as did some spectators at a short distance.
The dinner party to-night will consist of the royal
party and the guests in the house, with the addition of
Mr. and Mrs. Duprite, the lion. Captain Fitamaurice,
M.P., and Mrs. Fitzamurice, Mr. Rice Clayton, M.P.,
and Mrs. Clayton, and Mrs. Scott Murray.
The following have received invitations for the
evening :
The Duke and Duchess of Grafton, the Duke of
Rutland, the Duke of Marlborough, Lord and Lady
Southampton, the Marquis of Anglesey and Lord Alfred
Paget, the Earl of Buckinghamshire, Lord Alvaniey,
the Hon. Colonel and Mrs. Anson, the Hon. Miss Eden,
the Hon. Miss Copley, the Countess of Bridgewater,
Baroness Wenman, Sir Thomas and Lady Sheppard, Sir
George Nugent, Lieutenant-Colonel and the lion. Mrs.
Nugent, the Marquis and ...larchioness of Blandford, Sir
Hugh and Lady Hoare, Sir 11. and Lady Verney, Lord
Boston and the Hon. Miss Irby, the Hon. George and
Mrs. Irby, the Rev. George Chetwode and Miss Chet-
wode, Mr. Grenville Pigot, Mr., Mrs., and Miss Ricketts,
Mr., Mrs., and Miss Arnold, Sir John D. King, Mr.
and Mrs. W. Cartwright, the Hon. P. S. and Mrs.
Pierrepont, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Hibbert, Mr. and
Mrs. G. H. Dashwood, Mr. and Miss Ponceford Dun-
combe, Mr. G. S. Harcourt, Mr., Mrs., and Miss R. Har-
vey, Mr., Mrs., and Miss C. H. Hoare, and Miss Prince,
Mr. C. Penfold, Mr. and Mrs. T. P. Williams,. Mr.
J. P. Deering, the Rev. Mr. Coker and Mrs. Coker,
Mr. Barnes, Mr. T. T. Drake and Mrs. and the Misses
Drake, Mr., Mrs., and Miss Jenny, and Mr. S. J. and
Mr. A. H. Jenny ; Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Lowndes, and
Miss Hartmann, Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Lowndes, the Rev.
H. Fowles', Mr. and Mrs. John Bent, Mr. S. Murray,
M.P., Mrs. and Miss Murray and Miss Nixon, Mr. G.
Carrington and Miss Carrington, Mr. G. Carrington,
jun., the Rev. Mr. Harrison, Mrs. Harrison, and Idiss
Harrison ; Mr., Mrs., and the Misses Dayrell ; the Rev.
J. Drake and Mrs. Drake, Mr. J. Dupree and Miss
Dupree, Mr. and Mrs. B. Full-r, Rev. Mr. Gleed, Mr.
and Mrs. Lowndes cChesham), Mr. J. Palmer, the Rev.
C. Erle, Mr. J. Norris, and Lady Young, Colonel H.
Vyse, and the Misses Vyse, Sir T. F. Russell, and Lady
and Mrs. Russell, Mr. P. H. Wykeham, Mr. and Mrs.
J. Stone, the Rev. Mr. Martyr'. Mrs. and the Misses
Martyn ; the Rev. Mr. Barron and Miss Barron, Mr.
T. T. Bernard, Mrs. and Miss Bernard, the Rev. Mr.
Young and Mrs, Young, the Rev. Mr. Wroth, Mrs. and
the Misses Wroth ; the Rev. Mr. Wright and Mrs.
Wright, the Rev. Mr. Rich and Mrs. Rich, the Hon. C.
C. Cavendish and Lady Catherine Cavendish, Mr. W.
G. Cavendish, Mr. and Mrs. George Mergan, Mr.
Davis, the Hon. Colonel Hutchinson, Mrs., and the
Misses Hutchinson, the lion. Colonel D. Pennant, the
Warden of Merton and Lady Anstruther, the Warden of
the New College, lady, and family, the Rector of Lin-
coln and Mrs. Radford, Mr. C. G. Mansell, the Rev. H.
Winfield and Miss Winfield, the Rev. Mr. Alhawes and
Mrs. Alhawes, Mr. W. G. and Mrs. and Miss Bailey, the
Rev. J. Beard, Mr. T. A. Boswell and Mrs. Boswell, the
Rev. T. D. Broughton and Mrs. and Miss Blickley, the
Rev. A. Chester and Mrs. Checkley, Mr. J .Denison, Mr.
and Mrs. and Miss G. Lucas, Mr. and Mrs. M. Knapp,
Mr. W. T. Praed, Mrs. and Miss Praed, Mr. and Miss
A. G. Roberts, Miss Smythe, the Rev. F. and Mrs. Rose,
the Rev. L. Smythe and Mrs. and Miss Smythe, Colonel
Hall, the Rev. Mr. and Miss Cookerley, Mr Grenville
Penn, Mr. Christopher Fane and Lady Sophia Fane, Mr.
M. Swabey, Mr. and Mrs. P. Wroughton, the Rev. G.
and Mrs. Phillireore, Sir T. Aubrey, the Rev. A. Owen
and Mrs. Owen, Mr. and Mrs. W. Richford, Mr. J., Mrs.,
and Miss Hale, the Rev. T. Carter, Mr. R. and Mrs.
Sutton, Mr. J. R. Barker, Mr. Benjamin D'lsraeli and
Mrs. D'lsraeli, Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Freeman, Colonel
Iligginson, Mr. R. Hammond, Mr. J. Newman, the
Rev. J. King and Mrs. King, the Rev. J. Pigott and
Mrs. Pigott, Mr. T. C. and Mrs. Higgins, Mr. and Mrs
C. Clover, Mr. T. H. Worley, the Rev. James Pigott,
Mr. T. Dorien. the Hon. Captain and Mrs. Fitzwarren
Mr. C. G. Dupre, M.P., and Mrs. Dupre, the Rev. E.
and Mrs. and Miss Neale, Mr. P. Dauncey, Mr. H.
Smith and Mrs. Smith, Captain Anderson, Mr. and Mrs.
R. Sutton, jun., the Rev. Mr. Andrewes and Mrs. An.

Arrd. George Canning, Harvey, Ichab:e ; William
Murray, Gubow, Ichaboe, with loss of bulwarks and
foreyard ; Louisa, Newman, Pernambuco, with loss of
bulwarks, sails, water-casks, wheel, stern-port started,
and cargo supposed to be damaged, having been struck
by heavy seas, sailed 10th ult. ; Elizabeth Hunter,
Taganrog, with loss of sails, boats, &c., and the vessel
much strained, having experienced a continuance of
violent gales. Off, Commerce, Ichaboe, and sld. for Hull.
SWANSEA, JAN. 16.—Arrd. Maca, Hardy, Cuba.
GLOUCESTER, JAN. 17.—The Blucher, Bowles, hence
to Cardiff. sunk off the Light Ship, after being in
contact with the Marvel Ann, from Cardiff to Bristol ;
crew saved.

FALMOUTH, JAN. 17.—The Cadiz packet, of New-
castle, arrived at Pernambuco on the 9th ult., from
Gibraltar, with the loss of the master and four of the
crew at Fernando Noronha, where the boat was sent
ashore in search of guano, and swamped.
PORT ISAAC, JAN. 15.—The Favourite, Hoskin, sailed
to-day for Padstow to repair, having taken considerable
damage during a heavy ground sea on the coast. The
John, Mitchell, parted her stern moorings, and is be-
neaped.
Cons, JAN. 15.—Wind strong.—Sld. Hornet, South
America ; Glanmire, Barbadoes.
DUBLIN, JAN. 16.—Wind N.W.—Arrd. Princess,
Vaughan, St. John's, New Brunswick.
LIVERPOOL, JAN. 17.—Wind S.S.W. to S., light.—
Arrd. Crusader, Jeffrey, and Royal Bride, Ichaboe ;
Orozembo, Rockliff, Benin ; Norval, Paraiba; Meteor,
Turner, Tampico ; Leonidas, Snow, Natchez, Charle-
magne, Fales, New Orleans ; John Baring, Charleston ;
Minongahela, Finley, Philadelphia. The box of soap
marked W. B. 100, &c., picked up at Dingle was thrown
overboard from the Flor, hence to Havannah, which put
into Corunna 21st ult. The Brilliant, Dix, bound to
Marseilles, was in contact this morning with the steamer
Athlone, and received damage to rigging, &c.
CLYDE, JAN. 16.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrd., Charles,
Gilbert, Ichaboe. Ski., Bowling, Trinidad ; Paragon,
Demerara.

Gloria, ISLAND. JAN. 11.—Arrd., the Norman, Cooper,
St. John's, New Brunswick, for Belfast, leaky, and part
of cargo thrown overboard.
MONTROSE, JAN. 15.—Arrd., Ocean, Garden, Ichaboe.
BRIDLINGTON, JAN. 17.—The Perseverance, of Shields,
and two other vessels, are ashore to the northward. The
Jessamine, from Shoreham and Hartlepool, got ashore
near here last night, but came off and proceeded.
CLAY, JAN. 17.—The Sarah Bell, Stevens, from Shore-
ham, which was abandoned on Haisborough Sand, 14th
inst., was brought in here on the following day.

(Irewes, Dr. and Mrs. Langley, the lion. Captain and
Lady Elizabeth Villiers, Colonel and Mrs. Delsop, Sir
James Watson, Messrs. Bartley, Dewes, &c.
Sir James Graham left Stowe this morning for Ox-
ford. He returns this evening.
The royal party leave to-morrow (Saturday) morning
at ten o'clock. The train is ordered at Wolverton for
half-past eleven, so that it is probable her Majesty will
arrive at Euston-square at about one o'clock.
Last night there was a display of fireworks in the mar-
ket-place of Buckingham, much to the delight of the
good people of the town.
The weather here to-day has been very fine.

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

-- -
THE POOR KNIGHTS of WINDSOR
A very important document connected with the en-
dowment of this ancient order has recently been disco-
vered among the archives of the Court of Wards and
Liveries, which promises to become the subject of legal
controversy, involving, as it does, the rights of the Poor
Knights of Windsor Le the distribution among them of
a large and hithert unapprAp..at-xl income. The docu-
ment in question is a verified copy (signed by Cecil,
Lord Burleigh) of the charter, under the sign manual
of Queen Elizabeth, instituting the above order, and
bears date the 20th of August, 1558. The following is
extracted from the indenture prefixed thereto .--‘‘ And
whereas divers manors, lands, tenements, and heredita-
ments mentioned and contained in the schedule hereunto
annexed, of the clear yearly value of 6001. and above,
are given and assigned unto the dean and canons of
Windsor, and their successors, to and for the intent
and purposes that all and singular the premises,
the revenue, and profits of the same shall for ever be
employed and bestowed in the maintenance and sup-
port ot thirteen poor knights within our Castle of Windsor
in such manner and form as in a book hereunto annexed,
and signed with our sign manual, is set forth and
declared." Following this is a covenant, on the part of
the dean and canons, " to employ the rents, revenues,
and profits of the same, in such manner and form as is
therein set forth and appointed." The charter then goes
applied
ltdstaoutet otfhatthethseam6"etuoaWl towards p
sum
ofa yi 231 L
the vicar's and
serving priest's wages, officers' fees, and in the repairing
of the lands. The book annexed to the indenture con.
i 6s. Bd. shall be
tains a description of the services to be performed, a
schedule of the lands, and an account of the privileges to
be enjoyed by the knights.
The present value of the endowment is upwards of
1,000/. per annum, although the stipend hitherto paid to
the knights has never exceeded 401. a-year. Until the
discovery of this interesting and valuable relic, which
appears to confirm the right of the knights to the full
appropriation of the endowment of their order, it was
concluded that the charter of Elizabeth, and all copies
thereof, were in the possession of the dean and canons of
Windsor, and no access thereto has ever been permitted
to the knights.
The opinion of counsel has been taken upon the sub-
ject, which is stated to be favourable to the knights, and
proceedings will be immediately instituted to recover
their rights.
The schedule of the lands is interesting, as showing
their N alue in the time of Elizabeth. The following
are some of the principal extracts from the charter, with
the annual rentals annexed:—
"Cornwall—St.
61
nwa 114—S.
; riu
t. German's
'sParsonage, 481.; Plympton
St. Mary's, Chapel,
41/.; Bradwynk
Rectory, 361.; Wimbarn Chapel, 301.
" Devonshire—lple Penn Rectory, 301.; Southmolton
Rectory, 451.; Ottery St. Mary, RV Islington, 16/.
" Wiltshire—Ambroseshire Parsonage, 231. 13s. 4d.;
Prebend Tithes of Bedwynde, 561. ; Stapelford Parsonage,
181.
" Carmarthen—Abbergwille Rectory, 20/.
"Brecknock—Talgarthen and Mawe, 35L
" Middlesex—lsleworth and Twickenham, 261. 13s. 4d.
" London—Blossoms Inn, la
&c., &c., forming a total of 6611. 6s. Bd.
The copy of the charter is deposited in the Record-
office, and remains in an excellent state of preservation.
It is engrossed on vellum, and amongst other attractions,
not forgetting the autograph of the celebrated Cecil, is
a likeness of the royal founder of the order of the Poor
Knights, which is ascribed to Holbein.

The motion was seconded by Mr. J. E. MARSHALL,
and carried unanimously, and with loud acclamations.
Mr. BRIGHT returned thanks.
The dense assembly separated about half-past nine
o'clock.

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

SALISBURY.—FREE TRADE IN THE FIFTEENTH
CENTURY l—On Monday evening last, the tradesmen
employed by the firm of Maton and Co., brewers, of
this city, entertained their friends in a spacious room
elegantly fitted up at the brewery, in Milford-street,
when a jug, containing the modest quantity of fourteen
quarts,was filled again and again with superior strong beer.
This vessel is one of the relics of curiosity belonging to
the late Joiners' Company now extinct in this city, and
was used by the company in 1527; but-what is most
remarkable is the fact that on this jug are the words,
still legible, "Iregg Trade," 4 in the NUM
pf the evening, belonging to the Tailors' UlarnilarlY, watl
also presented to the numerously assembled guests, on
also foaming with malt and hop production. The evening
was spent in a very agreeable and pleasing manner,---,
Sherborue Journal.

"—We were 4, THE SUN.
THIRD EDITION or
fa-
voured last evening with an early copy of the Third
Edition of The Sun, containing upwards of three columns
of matter from the Gazette of last night, amongst which
was the important Report of the Board of Trade' on the
North Kept proio.ied fin?, which will be found in another
column.—Railway hies of Saturday,
COVENT-GIRL ;N THFL-. r —The following per-
sons of distinction and fashion have visited this theatre
during the week :—The Duchess of Sutherland, the
Marquis of Ifeatifort, the Earl of Essex ; Lords Tem-
pletownt liective? Gardpff, Forbes, Macdonald, Doc,
ehester, Qlenelg, Altamont, and Siclmouth i Dowager
Countess of Westmoreland ; ladies Holland, Dudley
Stuart, Mary Stuart, Caroline Lascolles 2. nnoz, and
Aylmer ; Sir Henry Hunlock, Sir John Campbell, Sir
Charles Vaughan, Sir W. Owen, Sir Edward Page
Turner, Sir George Armitage, Sir henry Webb, Hon.
Dominick Brown &c.

The Duchess of Inverness is passing the holidays
with the Earl of Scarborough, at Rufford Hall, Notts.
The Noble Earl, on Christmas-day last, had above 200
of his labourers assembled in the large vaulted hall of
the abbey, whom his Lordsllip provided with a substan-
tial dinner. The Earl and Duchess during the repast
frequently honoured the assemblage with their preseme,
—Doncaster Gasdlect

AWFUL OCCURRENCE.
On Friday, Thomas Couch, a middle-aged man of moss
repulsive appearance, and who was described in th•
police-sheet as a wheelwright, was charged at Lambeth
Police-court with being drunk on that morning, and
obstructing a police-constable in the execution of hie
duty. Thomas Messer, police-constable L 99, deposed
that about half-past two o'clock on that morning ho
heard a disturbance in Fore-street, Lambeth, and on
going to the house No. 28, in that street, he found the
prisoner at the door, endeavouring to force his way
in, while the occupier was endeavouring to keep him
out, and, at the same time persuading his wife, who
was in a state of intoxication, to go up stairs to bed.
The wife declared that she should not, anti that if
the husband did not think proper to admit the prisoner
into the house, she should leave it, for that wherever he
was there she should be also. The husband, upon seein;
him (witness) complained bitterly of the conduct of his
wife, and said that though the mother of six children, she
had formed an improper intimacy with the prisoner—
that she had been away from her home all the evening
and night with him, until that hour, and that ho knew
not on earth what to do with her. Witness, upon hear-
ing this, told the prisoner that unless he went quietly
about his business, so as to put an end to the disturbance,
he should take him to the station-house. The prisoner
still persisted in forcing his way into the lipase, and
pushed witness about once or twice. He then 'laid h•
certainly would take him to the station-house, wheni he
woman inside said she should be taken there too, and
repeated, that wherever the prisoner was there she
would be. Her husband, the instant she had uttered
these expressions, was in the act of falling, when aitness
caught him in his arms, and on procuring a light found
that he was quite dead.
Mr. Norton--Do you know of your own know-
ledge whether the parties had any struggle in the pas-
sage, or whether the deceased received any injuries ?
Witness—l don't think he did, Sir. There was no mark
of violence on him, and the doctor who examined hi ale
of opinion that he died from some internal cause. He
told me himself, a moment or two before his death, that
his heart was quite broken with the conduct of his wife;
and when some person said " the man is dead," his wife
exclaimed, " Thank God for it."
Mr. Norton—Did the unfortunate man seem mach
excited immediately preceding his death ? Witness—
Not very much so, Sir. He seemed to me to be very de-
jected and low in spirits; in fact, quite cut up.
Mr. Norton—Have you ascertained what the deceased
was, and what his name is ? Witness—Yes, Sir, his
name is Charles Ingas ; he was a harness-maker by
trade, and about 60 years of age.
James Mills, a boat-builder. said he had seen the pri,
soner and Mrs. Ingas drinking together at several
public-houses on the night before. He first saw theta
about half-past six in the evening, and heard the pri-
soner say be had come to take her away from her has-
band. He also saw them go into the house of the de-
ceased about two o'clock in the morning, and immedi-
ately after heard them both singing in the lower part of
the house. This caused Mr. Ingas to come down stairs,
and he (witness) heard the deceased frequently tell the
prisoner to leave his house, else he should give him
into custody. The other part of the witness's testimony
was confirmatory of the constable's.
The prisoner, in reply to the charge, said that ke had
known Mrs. Ingas for about twelve months, and that he
should not have acted as he had done had he not been
very much intoxicated.
Mr. Norton observed that the case was one of a shock-
ing and lamentable character, and ordered the prisoner to
find bail for his good conduct for three months, sad also
to pay ss. for being drunk.
The prisoner not being prepared with the reqntreti sureties was sent to Horsemonger-lane Gaol.
T-

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

_HE LATE RosSEEY.—We find that the
Procureur du Roi of this city received a letter some
days since from Mr. Nobler, the solicitor of Messrs.
Rogers and Co., to request him to give, officially, a notice
to the bankers, money-changers, and principal hotels
here, where foreigners are in the habit of coming, of the
list of the stolen Bank of England notes, and to caution
the bankers and others that they should examine 8.11
Bank of England notes offered to them by foreigners ;
and that if they took any of the stob n notes after that
notice, loss would fall upon themselves, as the 'payment
of all the notes was stopped. We believe Mr. nobler
has taken the same steps with every British Emb,-assy
and Consulate in Europe, and the official noticr,s when
completed will be forwarded to England ; SO that let a
note come in from Paris, Brussels, or any other city or
town in Europe, there will be official proof of notice
against the banker through whose hands it may have
passed, and thus rendering it hopeless in him to expeet
payment of the note. We have learned also that the
Bank of England have issued a new 1,000/. note, dated
the 13th of November, 1844, instead of the 13th of May,
1844, which is the date of those stolen from • Messrs.
Rogers and Co., and that application has be-en made to
the bankers in London and throughout tbl'i United King-
dom, to send in to the Bank of Englezd all the 1,0001.
notes of the 13th of May, 1844, which we believe his
been complied with, so that there would now be none
returned into the Bank to be exchanged but -those that
were stolen. This extraordinary operation will, In hope, be responded to by our bankers and money.
changers, to lend their aid in preventing the robbers,
whoever they may be, receiving any advantages now or
at any future day from their ill-gotten moneya.—Brusatts
British Gazette.
THE FOUNTAINS IN TRAFALGAR.SQUARII.--FFORI
the rapid progress in every department of the works,
these long-expected ornaments will soon be put in ope-
ration. The boring for water is completed, and a very
plentiful supply has been obtained. For several days
past the engines have been employed in raising water,
which has been found quite equal to the demand which,
will be required, and a jet of water has readily been forced to a height of 30 feet in the basins. The well in
Trafalgar-square has been sunk to a depth of about 160
feet, and that in Orange-street, Leicester-square, which
is on a higher elevation, about so feet deeper. The large
cistern at the top of the engine-house will hold 38,000
gallons of water, and that at the top of the tower, which
is about 20 feet higher, about one-third of that quantity.
In addition to furnishing the fountains, these are
tended to supply the whole of the Government buildings
and offices in the district, for daily use or emergency,
cases of fire, for which pipes are now being laid down.
The ornamental iron work for the jets is in a skate of
great forwardness. The water, which rises in the borings
to about 60 feet of the surface, is pumped up by two
Cornish engines of 20 horse power.
SAMARITAN FUND OF THE ST. GEORO4 AND Si,.
JAMES'S DISPENSARY. —At the close of the 'year 1843
the six medical officers of this charity, who attend 5,000 patients annually, and visit a large proportion at their
homes, finding that an immense amount of &NW., was
incurable from want of proper air, food, and ',clothing,
proposed the formation of a fund, which, in addition to
medicines, should supply these requitits::s. The fund
was founded, and 3001. was collected in annual subscrip-
tions and donations. By means of this fund the sick
poor have been supplied during the present year,
orders from the medical officers attending them, with
10,408 half-quartern loaves, 3,004 pinta of milk, 2,859
pints of soup, 583 flannel shirts, and 465 ventilators.
The benefit has been incalculably great, bathe expen-
diture hat; exceeded the income by 8
00
Z
METROPOLITAN IMPROTEMENTB.—On Friday the
twenty-first report of the Commissioners of Woods and
Forests was printed, from which it appears that in re_ spent to the metropolitan improvements the Commie-
stoners hove completed purchases to the amount in the
whole of 457,8841. 15s. 10d., and have contracted for
further purchases to the amount in the whole of
191,617/. 15s. 10d. ; and, besides these, the purchases)
now remaining to be made, in order to clear the whole
of the ground required for completing the several lines
of improvement*, it is estimated will cost the further sum
of 54,2561. 58., or thereabouts. In the line from Oxford-
street to Holborn the Commissioners have completed
purchases to the amount of 211,684/. 14s. 10d., and have
contracted for further purchases to the visional of
56,9694 3s. 4d. ; and besides these, there remain
to be made purchases estimated to cost the
sum of 14,5711 155., or thereabouts. In the line
from Bow-street to Charlotte-street, Bloornsbin-y,
they have completed purchases to the amount of
70,958/. 18s. 3d., and have contracted for furener purr
chases to the amount of 3,009/. I Is. 9d., and besides
these purchases remain to be made to,. about 17,59.54
In the line from the London Docks to Spitalfielda
Church they have completed purchases to 96,7421 168.
lid., and contracted for further purchases to 80,2364
Bs. 7d., and there remain to be made other purchases,
estimated to cost 6,7404 In the line from Coventry..
street to Long-acre they have made purchases to 77,0795.
58. 10d. ; contracted for others to 89,2021. 12s. 2d., and.
besides, purchases will be required to about 8,0974 I0s.;
and in the line from East Smithfield to Rosemary-laps
besides4i b;
the Commissioners have completed purchasesl2o to land
contracted for further purchases to 2,0
these, others will be needed to 7,2521 The Commie.
sioners, it appears, borrowed some time ago the sum of
500,0001 from the Equitable Assurance Company, upon
the security of certain portions of the land revenue et
the Crown, and money was also procured from MIL_
chequer-bills and the sale of materials. The fur its are
now nearly expended in the sums mentionoedf
omaapdleanti:
Commissioners are taking measures for ofAsioin a
further loan of 250,0001 for the purposA
the improvements in the metropolis.
We learn from authentic a:litre:ill ooff in.f.o.rnitearsio:
that it is not in the Conte:
with the exception.
make any reduction in t:4xation,
of tea. It is added the 4 eireurns.
coons nature have e.,,currei
at
Cherbourg.
nces of a very satpi-
erbourg„ and that a
to arliaemsenat
dtofoarpupfiroptriialla
proposition will bts ade
the surplus revenue in coast defenc
so as to guard
againsta surprise under anyn
possiblenaeveZ
and to ensure protection of the_ yards, arsenals, and
merchant navy.--bublin Evening all.
THE 13REAIEWATER LIGHTHOUSE, PLYMOUT/U--011
Thursday morning, the 16th instant, at half-past elsral
O'clock, Mr. Jones, the head-keeper of the Breakwater
Lighthouse, was unfortunately washed off that struts.
Lure by an immense ware which came in from the south-
ward. Ile was proceeding from the east end towards
the west to receive some clothing from a boatman named
Forward, who had been sent out by the lightkeeper's
wife. Forward recovered Mr. Jones's cap, but states
that Mr. Jones sank immediately. Graham, the man or
duty at the lighthouse, instantly hoisted a signal of die.
tress, and the foreman of the works, Mr. Findlatez
promptly left the Chatham hulk with a number of his
men, who used every exertion in their power, but with
out effect. Up to two o'clock the boy had not beet
found. There was no wind at the time, but it sre.§ Mgt
water, and there was a heavy ground swell on, vries. tc
the recent gales, Mr. Jones was a native o); Hama
and has left a widow and family.
BUST OF ADAM ,SMITH.--The Lord Pro=mes anti
magistrates have confided to Mr. Patrick Park the task
of executi:ag a marble bust of the pl2ii
°6 -the 'onl llke-
P—,-Ciallion by Tassy, which is beld_to_ be
, w„.
opber, tram the
ness extant. The bust, when COMPle,tr, LP he
in the C01=11'411! CisPsuildil4gL—tilaagQw

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

DIARIES AND CORRESPONDE2VCE OF
THE EARL OF MALMESBUI?Y, Vols. 111.
and IV. Bentley, London, 1845.
These volumes conclude the Diaries and Corres-
pondence of the Earl of Malmesbury—who, in the
opinion of Talleyrand, was one of the most sagacious
statesmen of his age...and commence with the year
1793, and olose with the year 1813. If they do not
throw much important additional light on the history
of this stirringperiod, they are, at any rate, exceed-
ingly entertaining, for they are crowded with inci-
dents ; and we find in them numerous characteristic
sketches of some of the most eminent public men
with whom Lord Malmesbury was brought into con-
tact in the course of his long and active official career.
Pitt, Canning, and that bigotted old woman, Adding-
ton, are frequently bought on the tapis, and of Can-
ning the noble author says :—" He has been forced
like a thriving plant in a well-managed hot-house;
he has prospered too luxuriantly---has felt no check nor
frost. Too eady in life he has had many, and too easy,
advantages. This, added to very acute parts, makes
him impatient of control." The whole of Canning's
political career justifies this sagacious description of
him which was penned in the year 1803, when he
was yet but a statesman of promise, not of perform-
ance. Of the late Emperor Alexander the noble
author appears to have entertained no very high
opinion, and alluding to the battle of Friedland, in
which the Russians were worsted hy Bonaparte, says,
" though not decisive as a battle, it was a complete
victory over the mind of the Emperor Alexander;
from that day. all his boasted courage ended;
and fear, panic, and every dastardly feeling
terror and dismay could suggest, seem to
have taken at once possession of him." These
Diaries and Correspondence will furnish excellent
materials for the use of some future historian of the
bustling periOd to which they refer, for, generally
speaking, they are free from strong political preju-
dices, and the author was a cool, wary, astute ob-
server who was not likely to be led very far
astray from the truth in his estimate of men and
things. We have no space for extracts, or we would
quote some amusing passages from during
the ricketty administration of
Mr. A

HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF
DUBLIN. London, Cadet', 1845.
This is the most complete and circumstantial
account we have yet seen of the Protestant
versit
of Dublin, describing its origin under Queen
Elizabeth, its progress, and its present condition, and
containing, in addition, biographical notices of some
of the most eminent men whoenti haveeln receivednamed
a m
e d
T a tyhl eo i rr,
education at this celebrated Seat of learning.
it,
The
whowo richt the
evidentlyproduction ot
bestowed a g
considerable
and
ons has
.embellished it with ileveral
pains on
appropriate illus-
trati

REPEAL IN THE QUEEN'S BENCH.--Some laughter
was occasioned in the Queen's Bench, Dublin, on Satur-
day, and not a few jokes cracked in the Hall of the Four
Courts on the " advance of repeal," in consequence of
Dr. Gray, who at that time twelve months was placed at
the bar as a c mspirator, for being a repealer, having;
been that day called and sworn on the grand jury, wear-
in j
g, it is said, the same repeal button in the
ury
which he had freviouily yfyry xt the truer-- re 64r._
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Maws.