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in its deep cha'.nel with resistless power. He does not
deal largely in tropes or metaphors; and yet, occasionally,
he delights with the most poetical passages. His style of
oratory is not the ornate, but the massive, and he is rather
clear and forcible than florid or captivating. Appealing
to reason and good sense, rather than to feeling and pas-
sion, he produces almost marvellous effects. Ile softens
his audience by the beauty of his style and dic-
tion, and then, down he comes with the pon-
derous sledge-hammer of his eloquence, and moulds
them to his will. His eloquence, contrasted with that
of another distinguished American orator, Mr. Choate, is as
the simple grandeur of a pyramid in opposition to the ele-
gance of a Corinthian temple. The effect of his speech on
the occasion to which I am especially referring cannot be
better described than by adopting the unconsciously correct
criticism of a Yankee from Connecticut, who stood near me,
and exclaimed at its conclusion, " Well, I guess, as every
word in that ere speech weighed a paound." Sidney Smith,
when asked what he thought of Mr. Webster, after hearing
a speech which the American made at an agricultural dinner
in Oxford, expressed the same astonishment in a different
manner—" What do I think of him, Sir?" said the witty
canon, " why, he is a steam-engine in breeches, Sir."
Mr. Webster is unquestionably the foremost man of Ame-
rica, and v-ell may the citizens of the Old Boy State, as well,
indeed, as those of the entire Union, be proud of him. His
name is never mentioned but with admiration, and seldom by
Massachusetts men without enthusiasm, and he deserves the
almost universal homage which he receives. As a debater he
has not his equal on the floor of the Senate, aad'
his crushing defeat of Mr. Hague who was, a few years since,
pitted by the South against him, will long deter any new an-
tagonist from entering the lists with him. An American writer,
with whom we only disagree when he places him above
Burke, says of our subject—
" Daniel Webster has written his name i❑ our history. He
has graven it indelibly on the rocks of our hills. He has as-
sociated it in some way with all that is grand and peculiar
about us. Whatever may be the effects of Time upon his
reputation as'a politician, unless the world return to barba-
rism, it cannot destroy his fame as an author. If I were to
compare him to any foreigner, it would be to Burke. But
he is a far greater man than the Irish Colossus. llis genius
is more universal. He is more chaste. His style and argu-
ment are more compact. His learning is more various and
profound. The literature of the language has no more
splendid rhetoric or faultless logic. Born almost contempo-
raneously with the nation, he has grown with its growth,
strengthed with its strength, and become an impersonation
of its character."
As of all other great men, many amasing anecdotes are
related of Mr. Webster. I will only inflict one upon the
reader, who will, I think, agree with me that it is not a bad
one. The distinguished man, just before Lafayette's last visit
to America, formed one in a fishing-party in Massa
chusetts Bay. He had been selected to deliver to
the welcoming speech to the Frenchman on his ap-
proaching visit, and during his occupation of hauling
up cod-fish and tantog, he was observed to be very abstracted.
It appeared afterwards that he must have been studying
that part of his speech in which he afterwards addressed
Lafayette, for a gentleman who was fishing next him ob-
served him pulling in his line, hand over hand, with some
difficulty, as if a large fish was hooked, yet without exhibit-
ing any satisfaction on his face at having captured a prize.
At length the fish was seen approaching the surface and
gleaming through the green waters, like a lively bladder of
quicksilver ; still Webster's face gave no smiling welcome ;
but just as the fish came to the surface, he burst out with
" Venerable man ! the representative of the two hemispheres,
welcome to our shores," and down flopped the "monster
cod" on the deck ! _ _ _

The recent speech of Mr. Webster, in Boston, has added
new lustre to his already bright reputation. It has been
hailed with as much satisfaction by politicians on this side of
the water, as to the men of Massachusetts in Faneuil Hall;
and from a personal knowledge of the latter, I hesitate not to
say that a more high-minded and enlightened race of men
nowhere exists. Well would it be for America if, in her high
places, were seated such clear-headed politicians as Daniel
Webster; and higher than it is would be her position in the
scale of nations were all her citizens as just and as generous
as those of the " Old Bay State." WHIZ.

BRITISH MUSEUM-NEW MODEL

OF THE PARTHENON RESTORED.

It must have often entered into the minds of enthu-
siastic lovers of Grecian sculpture, to wish the attempt
to be made by some bold and judicious hand to raise a
model of the original Parthenon, presenting it, as far as
possible, in all the fullness of its ancient beauty and
splendour. The attempt has been made by Mr. Lucas,
the sculptor, who, availing himself of all existing re-
cords and authorities on the subject, material and spe-
culative, has, with the aid of a well-disciplined judg-
ment and fine taste, prepared a complete model of that
most perfect and beautiful of Grecian temples. He has
now furnished what has always been wanting to the pub-
lic, viz., a text-book to the "Elgin-room." To those
who are unacquainted with the history of Greek sculp-
ture, or who have not investigated that of these fragments
in particular—and thus it is with multitudes who visit
them—the marbles have appeared in no other light
than a very odd and mysterious assemblage of broken
statuary. But now they cannot fail to excite an in-
terest in the mind of every observer. It will be seen
at once that these colossal figures are portions of two
groups that once occupied and adorned the pediments
of a temple, the pediment being the framework
in which the Greeks delighted to display those great
mythological and historical representations, so interest-
ing to their religious and patriotic feelings. In the present
instance, the subjects of the pediments are—in the
eastern, the Advent of Minerva ; in the western, the
Victory of Minerva in her contest with Neptune fur the
territory of Attica. The drawings of Carrey, made
when the latter pediment was nearly perfect, have en-
abled Mr. Lucas to re-produce this group as originally
composed. With regard to the subject of the eastern
pediment, it is known from the record of
.Pausanias,
who saw the temple when perfect, that it related to
the birth of Minerva ; but in consequence of the
early destruction of the central portion, the precise
mode in which the subject was treated by the sculptor
became a matter of speculation. It has been sup.
posed that the central figure in the pediment (Jupiter)
was represented as being supported by two goddesses,
while a small figure of Minerva was seen issuing from
his brain. Homer is the authority for this idea. " But
(observes Mr. Lucas) although Homer describes the
glorious image of Minerva as rising from the brain of
Jupiter, and all Nature struck with awe at the splendour
of her form and golden plumage, yet, in the adap-
tation of that moment to sculpture the glorious form
of Wisdom, sinks into an insignificant puppet." Hecce
he rejects the notion that Phidias adopted this mode
of representation ; but rather, as would be far more
fitting in a temple peculiarly dedicated to her honour,
"by the introduction of the goddess to the august
assemblage of the gods on Olympus—a subject in the
highest degree imposing, and admitting of a sculptural
treatment of the greatest majesty." A view of the
matter in which Mr. Lucas is supported by several ex-
cellent authorities. The sculptor's reasonings for the
manner in which he has employed and connected the
fragments that remain of the central group in this
eastern pediment, are remarkably acute, and the re-
sult is, that he has reconstructed the whole into a
splendid composition—thoroughly Grecian, and strictly
harmonising with what remains of the ancient de-
sign. The ninety-two sculptured Metopes are re-
stored, and the beautiful frieze also, representing
the sacred procession to the Temple, which was cele-
brated every fifth year in honour of Minerva, and which
embraces in its composition all the external observances
of the highest festival of the Athenians. The frieze
extends completely round the Temple, placed imme-
diately below the ceiling of the porticos. Here a beau-
tiful effect has been produced by a light blue ground
to which the white carving is attached. The ori-
ginal frieze occupied, slab after slab, a space of 524
feet in length. As a connected subject, this was the
most extensive piece of sculpture ever made in Greece.
A restoration of this frieze adorns our own Athe-
neum. The shields of gilt metal, of which traces re-
main on the original walls, are here replaced, together
with the inscriptions between them, and even the
minutest embellishment has been executed with the
highest finish, that nothing may be wanting to convey
the general effect of ,the whole. The interior of the
Temple is restored in the same exquisite manner. In
the eastern compartment stands the Goddess in her
garment of ivory and gold, wearing her golden helmet
crested with a sphynx, and bearing in one hand a
figure of Victory, in the other a golden spear. Next
to the first impression of grandeur and sublimity
which fills the mind of the spectator in look-
ing at the Parthenon, is the unity of thought
which pervades its composition. Dedicated by the Athe-
nians to the worship and glory of their tutelar goddess,
the genius of the great sculptor has made every de-
tail expressive of homage and honour to the Atlie.
nian deity, or descriptive of the renown of her wor-
shippers. Thus in the eastern pediment we have
the advent of Minerva. In the western, her victory
over the god Neptune, in their contest for Attica.
The Metopes relate to actions of Minerva herself,
and of the principal Athenian heroes, including the me-
morable contest between the Centaurs and the Lapithm.
The worship of the goddess expressed in the frieze has
been mentioned. The restoration of this work is es-
pecially useful, as it furnishes the finest example ever
given to the world of the use and beauty of sculpture,
combined with architecture. In it these sister arts
are so wonderfully blended that the sculpture
is an essential element in the architectural com-
position. It has been said with truth—" Nowhere
does the genius of sculpture seem so great as in the
Parthenon." And never did we feel the truth of Mr.
Haydon's eloquent comparison of three great master so
forcibly as when contemplating this model. Speaking,
of Raphael, Michael Angelo, and Phidias—" Raphael,'
said he, " was an angel, Michael Angelo was a giant,
but Phidias was a god !" A companion model, re-
presenting the Parthenon in its dilapidated state in the
17th century, is in progress by the same artist. The
one we have described has been purchased by the
British Museum, and will stand in the Elgin room.
Each model is twelve feet long, by nearly six in width.

RUSSIA AND THE CAUCASUS.—The Government
continues to make the greatest efforts to extend and develop
the commercial relations between the Russians and the
different tribes of the mountains of the Caucasus, especially
on the eastern shores of the Black Sea, which are now occu-
pied by the most warlike savage tribes of those countries.
The Government considers that commercial relations with
those districts are the surest means of softening their man-
ners and spreading civilisation amongst them. Symptoms
of disturbance had been manifested in Livonia in conse-
quence of the numerous conversions to the Greek Church,
which have led to collisions between the converts and their
Protestant neighbours. A Cossack regiment has been sent
to restore tranquillity.—Augsburg Gazette.
CAUTION TO PUBLISHERS.—Henry Paterson, sta-
tioner, Auchtermuchty, pursued the Itev. T. Martin, Strath-
miglo, for the value of the Penny CyclopxcliA from July.
Mil, to December, 1843, amounting to 2/. ss. The Sheriff-
Substitute assoilzied the defendant, the publishers having
pledged themselves, in the first volume, to complete the
work in twenty volumes, whereas it extended to twenty-
seven volumes. The Sheriff held that the publishers were
bound to complete the work, and that the subscribers and
purchasers were not bound to pay fur more than twenty
volumes, in terms of the publishers' pledge.—Scotch Re-
farmers' Gazette.
The Earl of Carlisle is some what improved in
health, and is surrounded by a family circle at Castle Howard.

RAILWAY UNDERTAKINGS.
(From the Times.)
It is a trite remark, that associated numbers often
refuse to acknowledge that responsibility which they
would not dare to repudiate as individuals. Corpora-
tions are said to have no conscience. And companies are
sometimes found who seem to have established their part-
nership on the principal of the two thieves who severally
denied, the one that he took, the other that he received,
the stolen goods. This peculiarity, which has been
called, by a happy blunder, " the irresponsibility of
numbers," is most signally exemplified in railway under-
takings. It is the bad pre-eminence of the promoters of
some among these schemes to stand before the world as
the disciples of repudiation. Their ambition appears to
be, to wear the seal and impress of Pennsylvania and
Mississippi; to be enrolled, perhaps at some future time
among the citizens of those honourable States. May
their ambition be gratified! England, certainly, is no
place for repudiators; she has a foolish prejudice in
favour of honesty, an inveterate habit of paying her
debts, at all risks, and without consideration of loss.
She would, doubtless, if her laws allowed, transport
these gentlemen, in the ordinary way, to the congenial
climate of republican America. But, unfortunately,
theirs is a easus omissus in the books; there is no special
punishment for them marked cut and defined. The
omission may perhaps be !likened, in its causes, to that
celebrated one in the Roman Code, which need only be
hinted at. But though they cannot be conveyed to the
wished-for shores at the public expense, yet, if they will
e) at their own, they will enjoy the pleasing reflection
that " they left their country for their country's good."
It is not alleged that all, or indeed many, railway com-
panies are amenable to these remarks; but it is certain
that more than one have already suffered themselves to
be charged with swinlling and embezzlement, without
even deigning to notice the accusation. As to how many
more will follow the bright example, some estimate may
be formed from the declaration of the chief magistrate
of the city of London, that he apprehended there were
a great many cases parallel to theirs. For a proof
of the reasonableness of this apprehension we refer
to the police reports of the Mansion-house and
Guildhall, which appeared in our columns of Saturday
and yesterday. It would occupy too much space to go
into all the cases at length, but for the sake of example
we give every notoriety to the names of the companies
implicated. These are the Great Manchester, Rugby,
and Southampton; the Great Leeds and London Direct;
and the Direct Birmingham, Oxford, and Brighton.
The first, as being decidedly the worst, we shall select
for a particular notice. The letters of allotment of the
Great Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton Railway
required the payment of a deposit of two guineas per
share into a certain bank before a certain day. A Mr.
Chapple, to whom forty shares bad been allotted, paid
his 84/. within the limited time. On the following day
he received a printed circular from the office of the
Provisional Committee, signed by their secretary, to
the effect that the committee of management had de-
cided upon limiting the deposit to 10s. per share, and
that the remaining 325. would not be required until
January next. Mr. Chapple immediately applied to
the secretary for the balance he had overpaid. The
answer was ingenuous to a fault:—" The committee
of management had no notion of adopting that course."
He then asked for his scrip. The reply was equally
candid :—" It was the intention of the committee of
management to issue no more scrip." The coolness of
this proceeding would be laughable, if its consequences
were less serious. One feels something amounting al-
most to admiration for such enormous effrontery—the
sort of sentiment one is apt to entertain towards the
unblushing impudence of a Brummel or a Jeremy Did-
dler. To Mr. Chapple, however, it was no joke. He
saw himself in imminent danger of losing his money
and his scrip, and, alas ! all his promised premiums.
So he betook himself to the Lord Mayor, and sum-
moned the secretary. This gentleman did not, of
course, obey the summons. How could he be expected
to waste his time at the Mansion-house at such a busy
period as this. But he " appeared by attorney ;"
and the attorney was very bold and a little indig-
nant. He submitted -that his client had nothing
whatever to do with the matter, because he only acted
under instructions, and had no authority to pay back

the deposits. He apprehended that the committee of
management had a discretionary power in the issuing of'
scrip, and they deemed it advisable to exercise that
power in the present instance, because they had found,
under exisiting circumstances, there would be no time
to get before Parliament in the ensuing session. Then
he contradicted himself a little, and protested " that he
knew nothing whatever of the company," and was
" wholly ignorant of any of the matters connected with
it," even of the name of its chairman ; and he concluded
by expressing an opinion that the Lord Mayor bad no
jurisdiction in the premises, and that he (the attorney)
would have taken no notice of the summons but for the
respect he bore his Lordship. His Lordship was at
first a little puzzled. He thought the matter had
better stand over. He was willing to give the com-
pany a locus pcenitentice. But in the end a better course
occurred. " Why not go at once to the Mayor's Court
and attach the money at the banker's ?" Why not, in-
deed ! What more ready and simple course to arrest
the progress of such a transaction ! When the Com-
mittee can no longer get access to its funds, it must of
necessity seek a compromise. Landlords, and secre-
taries, and engineers, and stationers, and printers, all
must be paid. They look to their employers—the com-
mittee of management, who know their liability, and
have been accustomed with long impunity to look to the
deposits at the banker's to discharge it. Put these be-
yond their reach, and their panic comes in its turn.
Hitherto the Shareholders, or rather the Scripholders,
have been the only sufferers. Whilst these stood aghast
at the sight of letters of allotment that nobody would
buy, and certificates that were an abomination even in
Capel•court, the promoters of the concern stood by and
smiled. They had made their gains, and retired from com-
petition. They had depastured the field, and not a blade
was left for the poor stags to nibble. But now we hope,
with the help of the City authorities, to turn the tables
upon these thriving gentlemen. The Lord Mayor's ad-
vice is the.salt which will make these leeches disgorge.
He has on more than one occasion declared that he will
go to the extent of the law for this purpose. His deter-
mination is much to be commended, and, if strictly pur-
sued, will shed no little lustre on his term of office. But
there must be no division of opinions on the civic bench,
no hostile thunders between Guildhall and the Mansion-
house, no breaking of lances between Johnson and
Musgrove. The judgment of the worily Alderman on
a case before him not very dissimilar from the one we
have detailed, and which will be found in the Times of
yesterday, seems to warrant an apprehension of such a
conflict. It may be doubted if the law therein laid
down is stated with sufficient accuracy, and with the
necessary qualifications. Although it be admitted that a
party who has received his scrip, and signed the Parlia-
mentary contract, has contracted to bear his share of the
preliminary expenses necessary for obtaining the Act of
Parliament, it does not by any means follow that such a
liability exists where no such scrip has been given and
no contract signed. To prove this position, it must be
shown that the letters of application and allotment
form together a complete contract between the par-
ties, by which the allottee binds himself to become a
partner in the undertaking, and consequently assumes
all the acts and all the risks of the partnership: And
the proof must go further, for every agreement is mu-
tual, and there must be mutuality of consideration. If
the allottee of the so•called shares is bound to pay the
deposit in all events, and in the teeth of all hazards to
render himself a partner, it may fairly be asked, what
are the provisional committee bound to do? Can they
refuse to deliver his scrip to a speculator who has paid
his deposit, and is ready and willing to sign the Parlia-
mentary contract, and at the same time hold him to all
the liabilities of a partner? The letter of allotment is
the evidence of the allottee's title to be registered as a
shareholder in the company, should it ever be legally
constituted. It seems to be the only consideration he
receives for his money. Nay, more, the letter appears
on the face of it to express this consideration. And if it
does not, the consequence follows that the committee
have it all their own way. Such may indeed turn out to
be the law. But it will take a very long time to con-
vince the public of it—to make them understand that
they have been swindled eut of their money according to
law, and cheated by Act of Parliament.

COUNTY OF HERTFORD.—MF. Halsey has offered
himself as a candidate for the county of Hertford, on the
Conservative interest. He has issued an address to the elec-
tors, and met them at Hemel Hempstead on Saturday. We
understand, however, that he will not be elected without op-
position. A requisition is in course of signature to the Hon.
Spencer Cowper, brother of Earl Cowper, and of the Member
for Hertford. Efficient means have been taken to ascertain
the general feeling of the county, and it is confidently hoped
that, between the names of Halsey and Cowper, the electors
of Hertford will not hesitate to choose a member of a family
who are so well known as the consistent advocates of con-
stitutional reform. Mr. Halsey pledges himself to support
the present corn-laws, in opposition to the present Ministry
or any other party.
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ADERYSTWITII HARBOUR.--The works at the
onwowhour thaer dlsi ro-f
bour is improved by the works already executed, it may be
stated that on Sunday last the brig Elizabeth, Mr. Andrew
Riddle, master, 350 tons burthen, and on Tuesday morning
the brig Credo,
.Mr. John Humphreys, master, 410 tons
but both art wed from Quebec with timber, for Thomas
Jones, Esq., Rope-walk, in a gale of wind with a heavy sea
running. They both entered in perfect safety without any
difficulty, whereas before the work of the pier was coin-
menced, it was out of the question even to make the attempt,
without first remaining on the bar to discharge part of the
cargo in order to lighten the ship.— Ifre/s/unan.
COWES—THE F.
Fox NUISANCE.—The warren near the
Needles has from time immemorial supplied this island with
rabbits of exquisite delicacy of flavour. We regret to hear
that in consequence of the depredations of the foxes which
harbour in great numbers in the ch tls in that neighbourhood,
they have been exterminated, so that not a single couple
has been taken for sale or for the table. of the pro-
prietor during the present season. Within four or five years
there were no foxes in the island, and it is really very much
to be lamented that such
vermin should have been intro-
duced into the Isle of Wight, where there is no country for
fox- hunting, for the amusement of the few to the injury of
the many. In the present case we understand the loss to
the lessee of Headon Warren, this season, will be not less
than eighty pounds, and to the poor warrener of twenty
pounds.—Hanzpshire Telegraph.
THE BRIGHTON AND CHICHESTER RAILWAY.--The
works on this line between Worthing and Chichester (the
other portion to Brighton having been opened last week) are
proceeding with the utmost expedition, and the company are
in expectation that the entire line will be completed in the
course of the ensuing spring. Plate-layers are now engaged
laying down the second line of rail on that portion already
opened for public traffic. The line joins the Shoreham branch
of the Brighton and Kingston, and .
crossing Buckingham_
lane on a level proceeds to ariver, which crosses on a bridge
constructed on piles. 'The country here is almost a complete
flat, so that there are scarcely any cuttings, or embankments
more than two or three feet.—Hainioslare l elegraph.
The Duke of Montrose will preside at the ap
proaching meeting of the Highland and Agricultural Society
of Scotland, ou the 13th of the ensuing month.

LITERATURE.

THE WESTMINSTER RE VIE W.

It is a singular fact that the State, g,verned by the
Head of the Church, to whom all the faithful look up
as an infallible guide, should abound more with corrup-
tion, exhibit more crime, and be in a more deplorable
condition, considering her position, than any other State
in Christendom. There is no regular Government.
Anarchy prevails not only among the chiefs, the car-
dinals, and prelates, but in every department venality is
the general rule, not the exception. It begins with the
Pope, and descends to the lowest domestic of any man in
office. Never were the words of Jngurtha so applicable
as at the present time—" Urbem venalem, et mature
perituram, si emptorem invenerit." Decisions of law
and equity courts, for justice is not known, are bought
at a certain price, or made on hints thrown out by the
reigning Pontiff or the Cardinal Secretary, which no
judge can afford to disregard ; plunderers and thieves
are ennobled ; bandits, who had lung infested the
country and committed murders innumerable, are made
inspectors or commissioners of police, or reclaimed by
ample pensions. A man called Majucco, who had been
a highwayman for seventeen years, and on whose head a
reward had been set, was afterwards employed as captain
of mounted police in the district which abounded with
the victims of his crimes, and another, equally notorious,
was made commissary of police at Rome. The Inqui-
sition exists to its full extent, though the progress of
civilisation has abated the number of murders. In-
formers are encouraged to accuse falsely their neigh-
bours, and rewarded with ten years' indulgence by the
Head of the Faithful—nay, the slightest word from one
of these secret assassins, or the merest breath of rumour,
is sufficient for the Cardinal who presides over this
terrible tribunal to inscribe a name on the roll of the
condemned. Need the British public then wonder at
the constant attempts of the unfortunate People of the
Legations to escape from such a Government, and at the
humanity displayed towards the victims by the most
despotic States of Italy ? It is only surprising that
human nature can submit so long to hopeless misery and
oppression without end, and that a general rising does
not take place to put down the most barefaced and
horrid system of imposture that ever disgraced human
nature. The Pope would rule all the other kingdoms of
the earth, yet cannot preserve in tolerable order his own
petty dominions, either by Austrian bayonets, or Roman
gibbets, or the terrors of his ecclesiastical power. The
following extract, from an excellent article on these
subjects in the present number of the Westminster
Review, shows that the state of religion in that fine
country is even more deplorable than the temporal
government:—

"When, in 1831, the de facto rulers of the Roman States
issued a decree abolishing the Pope's temporal power, not a
single individual throughout their breadth uttered a protest.
When, as men seize a common malefactor, violent hands were
laid on the Cardinal Legate Benvenuti, who came to foment
disunion in the Army of the Insurrection, not a single mouth
cried out sacrilege. And when the Transtiberines, whose
blind faith is so much extolled, discover that bread is too
dear, they send a loaf with their vivas, into the stately equi-
page of his Holiness: they treat him as the savage treats his
fetiche. All the world of Italy knows, and nowhere so well
as in the Popedom, from how much intrigue results the no-
mination of him who, as the representative, we say not of
God, but of humanity, should be one filled with all intelli-
gence, and all love, hailed by the Church, by the welcome
of the faithful. All the world knows how the inspiration of
the Sacred Spirit (shame that we must so word it) posts to
Rome in an ambassador's portmanteau ; how the recom-
mendation of Gaetanino, or his like, is more efficacious with
the Holy Father than sentiments of eternal justice ; how
every severity of enactments for the observance of the Sab-
bath vanishes before the Fair of Sinegaglia—it's so profitable
to the Treasury; how, in short, all spirituality has fallen
before the interests of temporal power. And how, then, can
you look for its existence among the subjects of that power?
Urged by a blind reaction, and estimating religion by its ap-
plication under their eyes, the educated youth for the most
part lapse into materialism ; the people, save a portion of the
rural population, are without belief, even though professing
it. half from fear, half from habit, they may still frequent
the churches, may be found gazing on the pomp of cere-
monies, but with curiosity, not with reverence; their south-
ern imagination may be excited, but the heart is untouched.
The Papal power, then, is not only hated for the evil it
works, but despised as an imposture, for the sources whence
it obstinately persists in deriving the authority by whose
virtue it is existant ; and it may be conceived what degree of
bitterness this feeling adds to reaction."

The article on " Railway Investment" disposes, in a
very satisfactory and summary manner, of the theories
of the currency doctors and the alarmists on railway
speculation. The commencing paragraphs, which we
subjoin, show the principles on which the writer founds
his articles ; and for his illustrations we refer to the
article:—

" The fee-simple of the resources of the British empire is
usually estimated by statistical writers at six thousand mil-
lions. The circulation of the Bank of England is twenty
millions. The real and personal property, therefore, held by
British subjects is to the amount of Bank of England notes
as three hundred to one!

" In other words, for every five pounds represented by a
Bank of England note, there are fourteen hundred and ninety-
five pounds not represented, of bond fide property, consist-
ing of lands, houses, ships, agricultural produce, and manu-
factured stock, belonging to the people" of this realm.
" We would request the attention of all persons interested
in the question of investment to this fact, and its bearings
upon the theories of currency alarmists."

r--(GRAND DUKE CONSTANTINE

OF RUSSIA.

PLYMOUTH, DEC 7.—This afternoon, at three o'clock,
his Imperial Majesty's ship Ingermanland, 74, Captain
Mofht, hearing the flag of Admiral Lutke, and having
on Loard the Grand Duke Constantine of Russia,
weighed anchor in Plymouth Sound. The corvette
Vaarschafsky, 30, Captain Gla,ssnap, unmoored at the
same time. A royal salute was fired from Plymouth
citadel, which was acknowledged by the Ingermanland.
In the Sound were—Her Majesty's ship Queen, 110,
Captain Sir B. Walker, bearing the flag of Port-Ad-
miral Sir
.John West ; the Canopus, 84, Captain Mo-
resby, C. 8.; the Rodney, 90, Captain Collier ; the Al-
bion, 90, Captain N. Lockyer ; the Vanguard, 80, Cap-
tain Willis ; the Superb, 80, Captain Curry ; the Pre-
sident, 50, Captain Stanley (Rear-Admiral Dacres) ;
and the During brig 10, Commander Matson. The
yards were manned throughout the whole of this fleet,
the Russian standard hoisted at the main of the flag-
ship the Queen, and at the mizen of the other 514,',
and a royal salute fired from them simultaneously. The
appearance of the Sound at this moment was of a most
imposing character, and rivetted the attention of a
large number of spectators, who, not,sitlistanding the
coldness of the weather, thickly studded the Hoe,
Stonehouse-point, Mount Wise, and the surrounding
heights.
The Ingermanland carried her national flag at the
foretopgallantmast-head. On receiving this compliment
from the British fleet, she hoisted the English red ensign
at her peak, and returned the salute. She then dropped
the ensign, and with a light wind from W.N.W.. made
her departure by the western channel. Outside she
again hoisted the red ensign, and with a salute of 17
guns honoured the flag of Port-Admiral Sir John West.
Of Penlee Point she brought up for her consort.
The Vaarschafsky had been anchored to the eastward
of the 74, and at first attempted to follow her Admiral
through the western passage, but the wind failing, she
eventually made for the eastern channel. She di.i not
salute. Outside the breakwater she lay to to receive
fresh stock from a tender, and then joined the Inger-
manland.

Mr. W. Luscombe, of the Vice-Consular-office, in the
Gem yacht, accompanied the Prince to the Eddystone.
The Grand Duke Constantine entered the Russian
navy about eight years since, under Captain Moffitt, his
present commander. The Prince is skilful as a navi-
gator, and attentive to his duties as a lieutenant ; has a
good voice for giving command, but a great impediment
in his profession is his deficiency of sight.
His Imperial Highness, during his stay at Plymouth,
has been much gratified with the hospitable reception
experienced from the Port Admiral, the Admiral Super-
intendent, Commander of the Forces, and other heads of
public departments, but more especially with the
courtly style in which he was entertained at Saltram
by the Earl of Morley. To this patriotic nobleman
he has confided the distribution of a purse of 100
sovereigns, in aid of the charitable institutions at Ply-
mouth.

ANOTHER CONTRAST.
(From the Examiner.)
A MINISTER OF THE A MINISTER OF THE
STATE. GOSPEL.
The personal property of The personal property of
Earl Grey, late a Prime the late Dean of Lincoln, a
Minister of Great Britain, Minister of the Gospel, was
was sworn to be under sworn to be under 140,0001.,
30,0001. exclusive of his various es-
tates of landed property, &c.
" Lay not up to yourselves
treasures on earth."

" Let your moderation
be known unto all men."

FRENCH PLAYS-ST. JAMES'S

THEATRE.

Picard's admirable comedy, La Petite Ville, was per-
formed here last evening. Plot it has none, and yet
despite this want it is one of the most amusing of
comedies. It is a series of sketches of character—in
fact, a dramatic version of some of the most piquant
sketches of La Bru) ere. The scene is laid in a country
town, and we have the jealous man of the village,
Pristard (M. Dumery), who is engaged to the belle and
coquette, a lively frolicsome widow, Madame de Senne-
ville (Mademoiselle Martelleux). Vernon (admirably
acted by Cartigny) and his sister Nina (Mademoiselle
Dumery), an old maid according to the almanac, but in
the estimation of herself and her brother a blushing,
lovely virgin—both dragons of propriety—and Madame
Guibert (Madame Croset), an intriguing old mamma,
with an excessively gauche daughter, Flore (Made-
moiselle Heloise). The part of Flore was acted with
infinite humour by Mademoiselle Heloise. Her
gaucherie was inimitable; and the little mixture of
finesse which she threw into the part when she asked,
in an aside manner, of her mother which was the
young man with the money, was admirable.
The part is a small one, but, while she was on the stage,
she made it the part of the piece. Such are the charac-
ters of the piece, and they are brought into play by the
simplest machinery imaginable. Desroches (M. Ulric),
ayoung Parisian, fancies that his lady-love has played him
false, and determines, accompanied by his friend, Delisle
(M. Pagenier), and his valet, Dabois (M. Narcisse), to
take refuge in the country. They arrive at La Petite
Ville; the inhabitants fete them, in the hope of securing
a good match for some one of the female inhabitants in
the rich Parisian. Their conflicting efforts to secure this
end furnish amusement for four acts, and, at the end,
Desroches is convinced of the truth of his lady-love, and
quits La Petite Ville to find consolation in La Grande
Ville, in the arms of Madame Belmont. The piece was
admirably acted throughout ; and we know not where
those who love the study of character could pass a
pleasanter evening than in La Petite Vile.

EXTENSIVE POST-OFFICE
ROBBERIES.

RUGBY, DEC. G.—This town and neighbourhood have
for some time suffered considerable inconvenience from
the non-delivery of letters and newspapers; this evil at
length increased to such an extent, notwithstanding
every attempt was made to trace it to its origin, that
recourse was eventually had to the Postmaster-General,
who, upon being made acquainted with the particulars,
thought the most advisable step would be to send down
Mr. R. W. Peacock, the solicitor to the Post-office, and
that gentleman accordingly arrived here on Thursday,
when he obtained all the information he could; after
which lie came to the conclusion that William Garrett,
a young man employed to deliver the letters in Rugby,
was the guilty party, and in order to ascertain whether
he was correct or not in his suspicions, Mr. Peacock
caused a half sovereign to be marked on both sides, and
then enclosed in a letter, which was put into the
post-office at Rugby, and subsequently delivered
into the hands of Garrett. In the meantime ap•
pi:cation was made to 11. S. Gibb, Esq., a magis-
trate of the county of Warwick, for a warrant to
search the premises occupied by Garrett, the result
of which was, that he was brought before H. S.
Gibb, Esq., and Major Moultre, to-day, charged with
having stolen a number of letters containing money, &e.,
the property of the Postmaster-General, when the fol-
lowing evidence was adduced :—James Stanley is an in-
spector in the rural police, for the hundred of Kiiightlow,
in the county of Warwick. Witness knew that the pri-
soner was employed as a letter-carrier by the postmaster
at Rugby. About half-past eleven on Friday morning
witness was with Mr. Robert William Pecock, the soli-
citor to the Post-office, when he saw prisoner going
towards his own house in Railway-terrace; but a few
doors before he reached home he went into another
house, into which Mr. Peacock followed him, and said
be wanted to speak to him; whereupon prisoner took
them to his own house, and Mr. Peacock then asked
him, " What time he had done his delivery?" Prisoner
replied, "About half-past ten;" and added that "he had
delivered all his letters, and that he had not any in his
possession." Mr. Peacock told him that " a great num-
ber of letters, addressed to Rugby, had been stolen,
and that he (Garrett) was suspected of having com-
mitted the thefts." Mr. Peacock then asked him
whether he would have any objection to his house
being searched. He said he should, unless we bad
a warrant for that purpose. Witness thereupon pro-
duced the warrant, and at once proceeded to search the
person of the prisoner, when he found upon him I ls. in
silver, and Is. lid. in copper, a silver pencil case, some
newspapers, and seventeen letters, all addressed to dif-
ferent persons in Rugby. Amongst the latter was an
envelope, addressed to " Master Girado, Rev. J. Pen-
rose's, Rugby," bearing the London stamp of the 4th
of December, and the Rugby of the sth ; there was
also a note, which appeared to belong to the envelope,
stating that a sovereign was enclosed. Another note
referred to a half-sovereign, and a third was addressed
to " Miss Sculthorpe, Mrs. Betts's, Rugby," bearing
the Tamworth post-mark of December 3d, and the
Rugby of December 4th, in which was enclosed a pair
of gloves. Prisoner, upon being questioned, said "he
did not know how he came by them." Witness after-
wards searched the house occupied by the prisoner, when
he found upwards of one hundred letters addressed to
various persons at Rugby, and two or three addressed
to different individuals at Oxford, besides fragments of
others, in a partially consumed state, in the fire-place up
stairs ; in addition to these there were a great number
of newspapers addressed to persons in Rugby, and also
two silver pencil-cases, besides a variety of jewellery,
&c.—Robert Henry Fry is a wine and spirit merchant at
Rugby ; Recollected prisoner coming to his shop about
eight o'clock in the morning of the sth instant, when he
brought a letter, after which he had two glasses of
sherry ; he threw down half a sovereign and received
the full change out.— Charles Giradot is a scholar at
Rugby school, and resides in the house of the Rev. John
Penrose. Witness did not receive the letter ad-
dressed to him, and containing a sovereign, nor had he
seen it before it was shown to him by inspector Stan-
ley.—Elizabeth Beasley received 9d. from prisoner on
Friday morning, in payment of a debt that he owed.
He gave her a sovereign, and she returned him the
change that was due. Sufficient evidence having been
given to justify the Court in remanding the prisoner,
his further examination was adjourned to Thursday next,
to allow time for those parties who reside at a distance to
come forward and identify the several articles that were
found in possession of the prisoner. A case of so fla-
grant and serious a description has not occurred in the
neighbourhood within the memory of the " oldest inha-
bitant," and the interest excited is consequently of a
corresponding nature. The Court was crowded to suf-
focation during the whole of the proceedings, whilst the
pressure on the outside was so great that those persons
who were in front were forced against the windows,
which were broken.

We have great satisfaction in being enabled to an-
nounce that an event, calculated to strengthen the affectionate
attachment of the people to the throne, and at the same time
increase the happiness of her Majesty's domestic circle, may
be expected to take place early in April next. —Post.
SHOOTING IN EPPING FOREST.—At the Ilford
Petty Sessions, held on Saturday last, William Blake and
Thomas Greenwood, the former landlord of the East India
Arms, High-street, Poplar, and the latter also a publican in
the same neighbourhood, appeared to an information laid
against them under the Game Act, for being, on the 20th of
November, found in Hainault Forest beating for game, the
property of her Majesty the Queen, by which they had ren-
dered themselves liable to a fine of 21. each. The defendants
pleaded guilty to being in the forest, but denied that they
were beating for game. William Labour, a keeper, proved
that on the day named he was on duty in that part of the
forest called " The Martin," when he heard the report of a
gun proceed from the " bogs." He went there and saw the
two persons at the bar walking by the bog with a dog; the
dog going before beating for game. Having ascertained
from Mr. Paulin, who came up at the time, that they had
given their names, he allowed them to go, and laid the pre-
sent information. In answer to the charge, the accused par-
ties denied that they were beating for game. They had met
Mr. Paulin, who had told them that they had no business
there ' • and they were leaving when the gamekeeper came up.
They had had no sport, and that was their first appearnce in
the forest. Mr. Paulin said that he held a deputation from
her Majesty to shoot in the forest ; but, owing to the great
number of trespassers recently, the game was nearly all de-
stroyed. With respect to the accused saying that that was
the first time they had been in the forest, it was most strange
that they should be able to find the only part of the forest
where any snipes were to be found. After some remarks the
Bench fined the defendants 10s. each and costs, which was
immediately paid.
SINGULAR DEATH BY SUFFOCATION AT ENFIELD.
—On Saturday Mr. Higgs held an inquest at the Red Lion,
Enfield highway, on the body of Mr. William Herbert, aged
sixty-five, a master butcher. Mr. Frederick Amey, landlord
of the house, stated that deceased came there on Thursday
evening last, about seven o'clock, perfectly sober, and hav-
ing drunk a moderate quantity of grog and ale, left at ten
o'clock, intending to return home. He did not do so, and
at midnight, his family becoming alarmed, came to the pub-
lic-house to look for him. Not, of course, being there, a
second search took place, and on the following morning he
was found at the end of the public-house yard, lying flat,
with his face immersed in some liquid manure six inches
deep that flowed through a drain from the privy. His watch,
twelve sovereigns, and some silver were found safe upon his
person. How he got into the yard was inexplicable. Ver-
dict, "Accidentally suffocated."
LOCK-JAW BY GAPlNG.—Yesterday morning, be-
tween eight and nine o'clock, a young man, named Robert
Bull, aged thirty, a harness-maker, of Rural-place, Mile-
end-road, was gaping whilst he was sitting at breakfast with
his family, and was seized with lock-jaw. He was removed
to the London Hospital, and after several hours' exertion the
surgeons succeeded in relaxing the muscles.
ACCIDENT TO A SUB-MARINE ELECTRICAL TELE-
GRAPH.—We mentioned on Saturday, that the wires of the
electro-magnetic telegraph were laid on the bed of the East
River, encased in a leaden tube. We regret now to announce that
the connection between the shores is already severed. The ship
Charles, from Liverpool, on Saturday afternoon, brought up
the coil on the flukes of the anchor. The great weight caused
the sailor boys to heave with a will, and when it began to
wriggle and writh near the surface, they thought they had
caught the veritable sea serpent himself. Ropes were in im-
mediate demand, but before they could be used the pipes and
wires parted, and the two shores are as distant as ever they
were.—New York Commercial.
SERIOUS ACCIDENT AT NEWBURY.—As Mr. W.
Somerset, Marlborough, Wilts, a large grazier, farmer, and
dealer, was going to the cattle show held here on Friday,
driving a spirited horse in his gig, down the hill approaching
Speenhamland, there meeting a carriage, Mr. Somerset's
horse took fright, running furiously into the town of New-
bury, dashing with frightful speed until he ran the wheels
of the chaise against a lamp-post, throwing out Mr. Somer-
set; upon his being taken up and conveyed to a surgeon's
(one happening to be near), it was discovered the fall had
caused a fearful wound on his head, and other parts of his
body. He was taken up quite insensible, with but little
hopes of his recovery, and is still remaining in a very pre-
carious state up to this time (Saturday). The chaise was
dashed to pieces, and the horse also mach hurt. It was pro-
vidential no further mischief was done, the streets being at
the time exceedingly crowed with people, having come to
Newbury to view the fat stock then and there exhibiting.

CORN-LAW FACTS.—In 1836, when the average
price of wheat was 40s. per quarter, the poor-rates of Salford
amounted to 5,000/. ; while in 1840, when wheat was 68s. 6d.
per quarter, the poor-rates amounted to 17,1001. Let the
rate-payers and the poor, whose increased distress called for
these increased demands, judge whether low or high prices
are most for their advantage.
TWO CROPS OF POTATOES IN A YEAR.—Early in
the month of March, Mr. Peter Johnson, shoemaker, Letharn,
planted out a plot of ground in his garden with the
ash-
leaf early potatoes, which he found fit for use by theend
of
June, when the ground was cleared of them. On the Ista
of
July, the ground being again well prepared,
crop of the common second earlies, which growth
et."l; erafst Of No-
he
plantedidland
promised
a fair return. They were lifted on
vember, and turned out about an aveerageycerg. lie laid
aside a portion of both kinds for seed x
ap-
pearedt
to be perfectly free of any kilidnefdisease.—wFhiifcehs/tire
Journal.
LIE GLASGOW WESTXRN BANK.—
Yesterday morn-
ing (Friday) the bank opened earlier than usual, ready and
prepared to meet every demand upon it, on the instant ; but
the absurd panic bad fairly subsided, and the business of the
bank—one of the most respectable in the kingdom—quietly
, proceeded as usual. We do not believe that a single mer-
chant or manufacturer of this city, of any standing or intelli-
gence, was in the slightest degree affected by it, or counte-
nancedi it in any manner of way. If such there be, " go, mark
fl h well !" On the contrary, we believe that every intelli-
gent merchant and manufacturer scouted it from the very
first, as well they might. But it is clear that some malicious
persons or other have been at the bottom of this business,
and we hope they will be found out and exposed, and sig-
nally punished. It is the duty of the bank to endeavour to
trace them out, and to bring them to public justice; and it is
the duty of all the banks to make common cause in the same
way, for the fraud (it is a fraud to originate and propagate a
false statement injurious to the community) may affect the
bank more or less. We say this because the banking system
of Scotland is now founded on the safest principles, and he is
a foe to his country that would insidiously attempt to assail
or undermine it in any way.—Scotch Reformers' Gazette.
LETTERS TO BETROUT.—On Monday notice was
issued by command of her Majesty's Postmaster-General,
that hencefonvard letters posted in the United Kingdom, and
addressed to Beyrout by French packet rid Marseilles, may
be forwarded either paid orunpaid to destination, at the option
of the sender.

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STOCK EXCITANGE.—The sales are— • Itenile4-", ti ~%''ll2-' ",_
ca shire, and Cheshire, 414 .—Caledo st)te,, 3 p.,4-2,ek• Atfc
kliy )
ter and Birkenhead, Nw 201. Shares, n0..-e;\ p.--..7,D .fts , " 4*f
and Crewe, 21/2 p.—Edinburgh and G5..1...0T;i;-! ;1,14!
Shares, 8 p.—Edinburgh and Perth, 1 pi.r...9ifitrd'
tion, 234—Ditto, Quarter Shares, 321,E p.--'Ditio; CATIVT ..., ki,
Quarter Shares, 313 A p.-401. Shares (L.M.) 52 p..:—Giadd lA'
Union, Is. p.—Goole and Doncaster, par—Huddersfield
Canal and Railway, 4 p.—Liverpool and Leeds Direct, 3% d.
—Liverpool, Ormskirk and Preston, 2 p.—London and Bir-
mingham, 212—Leeds and Thirsk. 3WI p—Manchester and
Birmingham, 70—Manchester, Midland, and Great Grimsby,
13s. 6d. p.—Manchester and Leeds, Fifth Shares, 1014 p.—
Manchester and Southampton, 1% p.—Northumberland and
Lancashire, 16s. d.—Nottingham and Boston, I p.—Notting-
ham and rantham, 1,4 p.—Sheffield and Manchester, 119—
Ditto, Quarter Shares, No. 3 (scrip), 3% p.—Shrewsbury
and Herefordshire, Is. 6‘.1. d.—South-Eastern and Dover,
Consolidated Thirds, DA p.—Ditto, Half Shares, 19s. p.—
Trent Valley, 1434 p.—West Riding Union, 4 p.—Dublin and
Drogheda, 54 p.—Dutch Rhiinish, 2% p.—Paris and Lyons
(Latitte's), Vs p.

MANCHESTER, DEC„ 8,

STOCK ExcitANGE.— he sales are—Birkenhead, Lanca-
shire, and Cheshire, 7%—Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, 8
—Boston, Newark, and Sheffield, '2 —Cambridge and Lin-
coln, 3X—Derby and Crewe, s—Eastern Counties, 201lz—
Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding Junction, 22s —Goole,
Doncaster, Sheffield, &c., 428.—Lancashile and North York-
shire, 445. 6d.—Liverpool and Bury, 22.;1i4 c.—Liverpool,
Warrington, Manchester, and Stockport, 32s.—Manchester,
Buxton, and Matlock, 92s Manchester and Birmingham,
704—Manclicster and Leeds, 124—Ditto, Fifths, 12—North
Staffordshire, 5/. 2s.—Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole, 26
West Riding Union, 6/. 14s. 6d.
LEEDS, DEC. 8.
_ _

STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—London and Croydon,
184—Manchester and Leeds, Fifth Shares, 10 p.—Great
Grimsby and Sheffield, 10—Huddersfield and Sheffield, 164
—Leeds and Bradford Extensions, 43—Leeds and Dewsbury,
18 c. n.—Leeds and Thirsk, 91/.—North British, New Car-
lisle Branch, 2—Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole, 26 c. n.—
Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth, par—Cambridge and Lin-
coln, 4—Liverpool, Ormsk irk, and Preston, 41/B—West Riding
Union, 6/. 6s.—Chelmsford and Bury, 10s. dis.—Grand
Union, 2s. 6d. p.—Lancashire and North Yorkshire, 2s. 6d.
p —Leeds and York, 7s. 6d. dis.—Liverpool, Manchester, and
Newcastle Junction, 4—Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and
Midland, 214 p.—Northumberland and Lancashire Junc-
tion, ss. dis.—North Staffordshire, s—North Western, 2%
—Nottingham, Erewash, and Ambergate, 2—South Mid-
lands, 314 p.—Wakefield and Harrogate, 12s. 6d. p.
YORK, DEC. 8.
STOCK EXCHINGE.—The sales are—York and North Mid-
land Extension, 2614.. Newcastle and Berwick, 11—North
British, Dalkeith, s%—London and York, 3%—Leicester
and Bedford, VA.
BRISTOL, DEC. 8. _ _ _

STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Bristel and Exeter,
s,B—Bristol and South Wales Junction, 21. 16s. 3d.—Cale-
donian, 14 with new,—North Devon, 13/4.
SHEFFIELD, DEC. 8.

STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Great North of Eng-
land, 101—Sheffield and Manchester, Quarter Shares No. 3,
51:x—London and Windsor, 16s.—Manchester, Sheffield, and
Midland Junction, s—North Western, 2%.
lIULL, DEC. 8.

STOCK ExcHANGE.—The sales arc—Hull and Selby, Half
Shares, 181. I Is. 3d.—Cambridge and Lincoln, 34—Hull and
Barnsley Junction, 42s.—Nottingham and Erewash,
24—Nottingham, Belvoir, and Grantham, 24—South Mid-
land, 54 2s.

HUDDERSFIELD, Dm 8.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Huddersfield and
Sheffield Junction, 16—West Riding Union, 6%—Clitheroe
Junction, 35(—North and South Junction, 2;4—North Staf-
fordshire, 54—NorthWestern, 11.19s.—South Midlands,3 p.

MELANCHOLY ACCIDENTS TO
LEIGH VESSELS.

Considerable gloom has been thrown over the fishing
town of Leigh by the loss of two boats belonging to
that place, attended with loss of life. On Tuesday,
intelligence was received that the Wave, having on
board Captain Jabez Quilter and a lad, had taken in
sprats below the Nore, and proceeded on its voyage
to London, when a sudden squall caught the boat
just below Tilbury Fort, and upset it ; the boy im-
mediately divested himself of his boots and upper
clothing, and prepared to swim to the shore, but at
the intreaty of the captain he remained with him as
long as he could, in the meantime endeavouring to
persuade him,. but without effect, to strip and take
two fir oars which happened to be on bard, to as-
sist him on shore. At length the lad reached the
shore, greatly exhausted, the cries of the captain, who
perished, ringing in his ears for help. After passing
a night in a shed, he was found by some persons who
kindly supplied him with clothes and sent him home to
Leigh. Information of the second digester was re-
ceived on Friday to the effect that the Hazard, with
Captain Jacob Gilson and Joseph Cotgrove, both single
men, had sunk at the Shears, six miles below the
Nore, while taking in sprats for London. The
Hazard was built about two years ago by Mr. John
Gilson, baker. of Leigh, for his son, the captain,
who has now been lost in her. Much sympathy is
expressed for Mr. Gilson, who about ten years ago
lost his eldest son, who perished with three other
hands in an oyster smack ; and about four months
since another son was lost by the boat in which he
was shrimping being run down by a Portuguese brig.
for which the pilot will be tried for manslaugter at the
next assizes. The Wave, we learn, was raised on
Saturday, with loss of masts and spars, and taken
to Leigh ; but in the course of the operations two
sailing beats were stove, and a small skiff was broken
to pieces and totally lost. Jabez Quilter, who was
about 30 years of age, has not yet been found. )fit ap-
pears he was about five feet four inches high, and had
a dark complexion and dark hair, with a white lock
intermixed. His dress was an oil frock and petticoat
trousers, water-boots, and a Guernsey frock. The
Hazaid, it is feared, will not be recovered, but Mrs.
Brazier, of the Hope Tavern, Southend, has lent a
barge to endeavour to raise it. The bodies of neither of
the men lost in her have been found. They were both
about twenty years of age, and each about five feet five
inches high ; they were dressed inblue Guernseys, Cot-
grove having on duck trousers and a dress frock, and
Gilson drab trousers and nearly new boots.—Essex
Herald.