The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-19 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, rITESDAY

steamers had been got ready at Cherbourg and the
northern ports to make a dash at Portsmouth and
burn the dockyard, had war been declared. All we
can say is, that there was nothing at Portsmouth to
prevent the execution of the threat, nor is there.
Were Lord Haddington and Sir Robert Peel
Ministers of Charles 11., and bought by Louis
XIV. to deliver up to him the naval power
of England, to be crushed and insulted without
possibility of defence, they could not have earned
the money more fully than they have done. There-
fore, with all his folly, his petulance, his contempt
of civilian and commercial interests, we should wel-
come Lord Ellenborough to the first Lordship of the
Admiralty. In the Cabinet there are abundance of
tame elephants to render the wild one harmless. But in
his department Lord Ellenborough would at least
bestir himself, and get in order and preparation those
materials for a row, which, when copious and at hand,
go so far to prevent other parties from provoking it.
Even at the risk of strengthening the Tory Adminis-
tration, and rendering it somewhat respectable in these
departments, in which it has fallen below contempt,
we pray for the riddance of its somnolent non-enti-
ties. More than once have we been driven to the
very brink of war, because Lord Aberdeen had dog-
gedly determined to keep on his night-cap, and not
raise his head from his pillow. We know, on the
most positive authority, that in the Morocco affair
Lord Aberdeen was warned, six or eight months
before anything occurred, of the inevitable difficulties
that would arise, unless Great Britain took steps to ob-
viate and prevent them. Of this Lord Aberdeen was
not only repeatedly warned by his own consuls and
servants, but, we learn, by the French Government,
itself! What steps di? Lord Aberdeen take in con-
sequence of this very fair warning of the French
Government ? How did he exert himself? What did
he do ?—Nothing ! We could point out another
case in which English influence has suffered annihila-
tion, and in consequence of which English trade will
suffer curtailment, in which Lord Aberdeen was
most fully and fairly warned to exert himself, and
obviate the evil results to his country. But this,
as every other warning, his Lordship answered
with his usual pooh, pooh And the French
steamers would have been in Portsmouth harbour
ere any other ejaculation more lively or to the
purpose would have been elicited from his Lordship.
With such facts before our eyes, we do ardently
pray for the paying off of the present hulks which
occupy the Admiralty Board and the Foreign-
office, and the substitution, if not of Lord Ellen-
borough, at least of some active clerks, who, if
they do nothing to further the nation's interests and
augment its force, will, at least, not act as checks and
dampers. The activity of the French in their naval
department is quite wonderful; nor do they make a
secret of it. Day after day the Moniteur comes forth
with a fresh ordonnance for docks, founderies, schools,
and colleges for gunnery, hydrography, and every
department of naval art. In addition to the money
lavished on their dock-yards, their anxiety for raising
a supply of well-instructed officers is prodigious.
They prepare to officer fleets after fleets, making up
her cadres of a naval force superior to our own. And
all this time the Single-ship Administration of the
navy is resting on its oars, with one flag-ship to guard
three ports, and an experimental squadron under the
command of the most inexperienced seamen on the
navy list. In order to get up and bestow a kind of
premium upon our Ministerial schoolboys for slum-
bering over their task, the Times puts forth a solemn
boast that they have preserved peace. Peace, indeed
The awe, so long and so wisely inspired by the power
and the spirit of the British lion, has been up to this
period sufficient to keep at a respectful distance the
curs which bay at him. In Lard Palmerston's time
the French talked of war, indeed, but they seriously
thought of it as little as they did of restoring the
Roman empire. It is only since the fall of the
Whigs, and the reign of their pusillanimous succes-
sors, that the French have become emboldened, not
merely to talk war, but to brave it. And we have
not only borne this, but the Tories have provoked
them to insult us, in order that we might practice
meekness and habitually swallow shame. In Ota-
heite, our Prime Minister himself cried out that we
had suffered a " gross outrage," and that he would
have reparation. Well—he got no reparation, and he
swallowed the outrage. And we are now called on
to congratulate Sir Robert for keeping peace 1 The
Times might as well congratulate the hound that has
run to his kennel submissively, after a good horse-
whipping, for having kept the peace. Peace is
always to be purchased—at first cheap enough
—a spirited nation has but to abate its spirit
and barter its honour in order to satisfy a rival.
But the satisfaction is brief, for the cowardly pur-
chase of peace but emboldens the rival to ask
each day for concessions more substantial. It is
Otaheite, our Consul, and our missionaries one day—
it is the occupation of Morocco another—it is the
right of search given up next. In fact, since the ad-
vent of the Tories we have paid a yearly tribute, in
one shape or another, to French ill-humour ; and that
French ill-humour is not the least abated. The
causes, and elements, and materials of war have aug-
mented with every year and every act of Tory rule.
The policy has been to meet this with pusillanimity
and obsequiousness, not with spirit. Now, we main-
tain that every concession does but embolden the
French to demand more; whilst, had they been met
from the first with spirit, we should have long since
heard no more of either their caprices or demands.
The result of Lord Aberdeen's policy has been to con-
vert one of the most timid, and cautious, and uneasily
seated of French monarchs into a conqueror and a
hero. We do not say that had Lord Palmerston
remained in the Foreign-office, but even had any
Tory of spirit and abilities represented England in
that department, one of the two kinds of policy
which were before a Minister would have been fol-
lowed with something like consistency and success.
Either the maintenance of the old English tone of
spirit would have defied and silenced clamorous
brawling and empty threats ; or if the contrary policy
of deprecating French wrath by conciliation were
adopted, then a certain degree of vigilance and of
address would have been employed to prevent those
collisions and causes of quarrel which have been per-
petually starting up. The untoward and disgraceful
events of Otaheite ought to have been prevented.
The merest idiot must have foreseen such results from
the way in which things were abandoned there, with
authorities which must clash, and with the English 11
flag on board a " ketch "—a thing just sufficient to
provoke insult, not repress it. The same story may
be told of Morocco, of Greece, of Spain. No spirit, ,
no foresight anywhere. Ministers had neither the
wisdom of courage nor the wisdom of timidity. They ,
on two occasions employed the language of the bully,
and shrunk from it ere they could appreciate its
effects ; and they showed the meanness of the sneak
without even a sneak's prudence. There is but one
opinion in all Europe with respect to the foreign po-
licy of the present British Cabinet, and that is, the
somnolent pusillanimity of the head of the Foreign
Department is only to be equalled by the total and
dense ignorance of the Premier on all subjects not
exclusively domestic.

FROM THE EVENING PAPEES 07 TESTEEDA.Y.
GLOBE.—The Bishop of Exeter's judgment in
the matter of the charges against Mr. Blunt, the
curate of llelston, is a subject of too much conse-
quence, in various points of view, to be disposed of
in a summary manner. The public will learn from
it that a curate is right in refusing to bury with the
Church service persons baptised by Dissenters--in re-
fusing to marry persons unless they can show that
they have been baptised by clergymen of the Church
of England—in refusing to pray—refusing to use the
universal prayer of the Christian, with a pa-
rishioner and a fellow-Churchman, because the poor
man had been baptised by a Romanist priest in Ire-
land? Not because we cannot be "in communion"

with Rome—not because Rome is a false, or a cor-
rupt, or an anti-Christian Church, as vulgar low
Churchmen hold—but simply because a Romanist in
the United Kingdom is a schismatic, according to the
interpretation which the Rev. Mr. Blunt, in the ex-
ercise of his " private judgment," puts on the legal
effect of certain transactions which occurred three cen-
turies ago ! They will learn, too, that the more in-
tense the feeling of discontent excited in the minds of
some Churchmen who have the misfortune to be under
the care of such fanatics, by these wretched acts of
bigotry—the more utter the disturbance and inter-
ruption of spiritual comfort to others, pious and
humble church-goers, who take no, part in the theo-
logical contests of the day, by the endless succession
of unmeaning changes in the ritual, by the monoto-
nous bitterness of weekly denunciations against
schism, by the violence of manner and language, the
brawls, the scandalous indecencies which are certain
to follow the ministrations of such a man—the more
determined countenance and support the clergy-
man is sure to find from his diocesan, if he have the
felicity to be planted within the diocese which en-
joys the superintendence of Bishop Phillpotts.
Our object to-day, however, was to compare what
has passed at Helston with the goings on in another
diocese. The charges against Mr. Blunt, brought by
the churchwardens and a great body of parishioners,
as we have said, were manifold : many wilful changes
in the service, many practices in the peeformance
of clerical duties which the complainants knew to
be utterly unwonted, and believed to be illegal.
They have been severely reprimanded for daring
to make such complaints at all. The excellent
eharge of their pro-Tractarian Prelate has been
the subject of the Morning Post's leading articles
of panegyric. Now, in a parish in Berkshire,
the clergyman has thought proper to introduce
one change—to establish the weekly collection
of the offertory. This is con3uct of which, for
our own parts, we disapprove, simply because we !
judgment,"n
believe that
on he pretext ht:iat, for any clergyman, of his own "private
ttoinptrreodxut of his ownceinniovationinstferropmrettahtn
the ordinary nary
practice,the
Rub
a folly, to call it no worse, which almost
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invariably leads to bad
"Imequences ; as hundreds of 1

instances have verified. Still, of all the crotchets of ,
Tractarian gentlemen, our readers will probably be of ,
opinion that this is one of the least ungraceful and the
least offensive to any common feeling or prejudice.
Not so thinks Mr. Walter of Bearwood, whose soul
Mr. Cameron has in charge. As the former gentle-
man has given all the publicity the press can afford
to his controversy with his spiritual instructors and
superintendents, we cannot be trenching improperly
on personal privacy in making it matter of fair com-
ment ; and we promise, beforehand, to treat him with
much more respect and civility than the leading
correspondents of the Leading Journal treat the
Bishop of London. We are acquainted, then, by
Mr. Walter through the press, with the steps he
thinks it right to take when his spiritual instructor
proposes something he does not approve. We
do not undertake to say he is wrong in his
" private judgment." Far from it; we think that
if individual clergymen may start innovations, indi-
vidual parishioners may resist them ; nor do we admit,
in any case, even the collective right of the clergy to
act as the Church, as if the laity were no component
members of that Church. It is not for the purpose of
censure, but of somewhat piquant contrast (to which
we shall come presently) that we notice the case in
question. Mr. Walter, then, "agitates" among his
fellow-parishioners. He remonstrates with his spiritual
superior about the change he has introduced. Mr.
Cameron persists. Mr. Walter procures a legal opinion
—he consults Dr. Addams as to the validity of the
collection at the offertory from non-communicants. It
will not be forgotten that one of the greatest griev-
ances of the Tractarian party is the presumption of
lawyers in deciding questions of priestly authority ;
no matter : Mr. 'Walter gets his opinion. And it is
an opinion infinitely creditable to the astuteness
of Doctors' Commons, at once saving the adviser's
credit, and tickling the client, by giving an answer
from which it is impossible to collect anything
except that the Learned Doctor has doubts on the
law, but quite agrees with Mr. Walter as to
the bad taste of the thing. Fortified with this
valuable document, Mr. Walter next complains
to the Bishop. The Bishop of Oxford, whose part
in recent controversies all know, and the great ma-
jority of the laity of the English Church deeply
deplore, treats the complaint as was to be expected ;
ho justifies his Tractarian subordinate, and be-
stows on Mr. Walter a rebuke resembling
that of his brother of Exeter, with this only
difference, that the Bishop of Oxford, whether he
praises or condemns, always writes like a gentleman.
How does Mr. Walter behave under the rebuke of
his diocesan ? Does he thank him for his paternal
chastisement, like an obedient son of the Church ?
He appeals from the Bishop to his fellow-parishioners,
and to the " Times." He undertakes to call a meet-
ing, and get the opinion of a " majority "—a ma-
jority of laymen in a parish to decide on the pro-
priety of a ceremony of the Church and, should the
said majority be with him, and Mr. Cameron
persist, he intimates, by a guardedly gene-
ral but pretty intelligible threat, that he and his
friends will act as their " bounden duty " may
require. Now, here is a case ;in which, not, we
believe, the official representatives of a parish, but a
party of parishioners, large or small, with a leading
man at their head, oppose and thwart their clergy-
man, get a legal opinion against him, complain of him
to their Bishop, threaten to call a " meeting" on him,
show him up in the Times—practise, in short, all the
methods of parochial warfare short of going to law ;
all for introducing a single change into the
ritual, and that a change recommended by the
Bishop of London. We were anxious, we confess,
to see in what way the Times would deal with
these two' cases of Mr. Blunt and Mr. Cameron,
happening, unluckily, to excite publie attention just at
the same moment ; in what matter it might be possible
at once to crush the rebellious churchwardens of Hel-
ston, and to support the rebellious parishioners of
Hurst. Nor do we yet see how this feat of dexterity
is to be performed. At present the last part of the
task only has been executed. Mr. Walter is an
ecclesiastical llampden ; Mr. Cameron an impertinent
meddler—not, indeed, so much for changing the
ritual on his own authority, as for introducing a
little bit of Tractarianism before his audience was
sufficiently " saturated " with " Catholio truth "
to swallow the whole. The surplus bitterness
of the writer is reserved for the Bishop of London.
It is no business of ours to take up the cudgels for
that active prelate; neither is it our pleasure to
narrow a large question to a small newspaper con-
troversy. But the Times carries a weight of metal
to the " working " of any public question, which
renders it fair to point to its columns for the
most signal illustrations of the real temper of
any party it espouses. We have a right to
point to the columns of the Times for proofs the
most pregnant of that pervading inconsistency, which
we have already denounced as characterising the whole
Ultra-Anglican agitation. It is nothing astonishing
that any individual should resist a parochial innovation.
It is nothing astonishing that the Bishop of London's
zeal of half-measures should excite discontent. But
what is astonishing, or rather, what would be asto-
nising if human nature were consistent—is that the
party who contend a routrance for the apostolic suc-
cession and sanctity of Episcopacy—are the party
whose organs set any given Bishop at moat blunt de-
fiance—the moment his powers—sacred from all pri-
vate judgment—are exercised against theirs.
STANDARD.—Some of our Contemporaries
have taken a great deal of useless trouble to account
' for Mr. O'Connell's last step, dos-a-dos with the
federalists, sliding back to simple repeal. Nobody,
however, who has even slightly observed the
course of the old Saltinbanco's capers and
curvets can be at a loss for the reason of his last
movement. Yesterday was the day fixed for his
benefit, and as on every former year of the last 20,
he prepared for it by
.bringing out something very
highly seasoned. Here is the heading of the an-
nouncement :—" The National Collection for the
O'Connell Tribute for the present year 1844, is to be
collected simultaneously on to-morrow (Sunday),
the 17th instant, in all the parishes of Ire-
land." Then follows an appeal to " the ragged
man," and to the starving man, to the
husbands of the unclad, and to the fathers of the
famishing for their halfpence and their farthin s ;
and, honour to whom honour is due, the vile docu-
ment is signed by Sir John Power, Bart., and
Cornelius INPLoghlin, Trustees ; and Vincent
Fitzpatrick, Secretary. Does not this sufficiently
account for the mendicant's abrupt " right
about face," even had we not the evidence of
twenty years' experience, that his rancour and
violence always swell with the November storms,
at the approach of bad weather and of privation
to the poor and why at this particular
season ? Because, if postponed to a later period, his
unhappy slaves—dupes they are no longer—would
have eaten up that which he extorts to feed his own
luxury and avarice. Such public enemies are not
to be reasoned with, they are to be punished ; because,
to reason with them would imply a doubt that they
are ignorant of the loathsome selfishness and utter
shamelessness of their practices—a doubt which, after
the experience of the last twenty years, it would
be idiocy to entertain. We have already avowed our
opinion that the time has arrived when such sys-
tematic robbery of the poor ought to be prevented
by a stringent law; but until the Legislature
shall adopt some such measure of protection,
let the malefactors be at least punished by the
loudest and most universal expression of public
scorn. Thick-skinned as they may be—and in
this respect the Irish mendicant can challenge
a comparison with the rhinoceros—still the punish-
ment of loud and universal scorn will reach them.

because it will awaken their slaves to the disgraceful
condition of the thraldom to which they submit, and
cause them to withhold their "halfpennies" and their
" farthings." For arguments are necessary to persuade
men generally to refuse to give money which they can
ill spare; but the strongest of all arguments,
with an uneducated people, is the assurance that
all the world are laughing at their stupidity.
Without giving the Irish credit for all that intel-
lectual superiority which they modestly arrogate,
and which empty travellers like Mr. Grant and Mrs.
Hall allow them, we must suppose even the most
ignorant among them elevated in understanding
a degree or two above " the beasts that perish,"
but to this elevation they can scarcely pretend if they
submit to be robbed by such gross and transparent
frauds as the O'Connell tribute and the repeal rent—
frauds which never would have deceived them so
oflr. his O'
giantCon-
long if we all had not aided them, as our contempo-
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and
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scheme of swindling.

DEMAND FOR HIGHER WAGES.
In many of the manufacturing districts there has
been a general movement among the factory opera-
tives
for an advance of wages. The following are the
accounts from the provincial papers :
AIIIITON.UNDER-LINB.—For several weeks past,
various meetings have been held by almost
every
branch of factory operatives, at which preparations
have been making to adopt some steps to obtain an
advance. On Wednesday evening the power-loom
weavers again met in the Charlestown meeting-room,
where they were addressed by IL Pilling, " General"
Lee, G. Hough, and others. The following resolu-
tions were agreed to, viz. :—" That it is the opinion
of this meeting that each weaver is in duty bound to
pay Id. per fortnight, for the purpose of enabling the
committee to forward delegates to the out districts,
to get up an agitation for the purpose of endeavouring
to obtain an advance of wages. ' 2. " That it is the
opinion of this meeting, that lists be obtained from
other districts, and that deputations be sent for that '
purpose."—The meeting then separated.
STOCKPORT.—The turn-out of spinners and self-
actor minders in this town, still continues to some
extent, but not so generally as at the beginning of 1
the week, the hands at several mills having accepted 1

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the price offered by the n
st price, six
twelve mills are fully at we
partially at work • and there .
the spinners are all out, two of \ which 8. re standing in
consequence of repairs.
OLDIII.I4.—On Wednesday mot tin g last, the ope.
ratives at the cotton mill of Messrs. -Wild, Moss He.,y,
Shaw, Crompton, returned to their . employment; .0,
the understanding that their wage s should be ad-
vanced about a; shilling per week ; but the d'ispute
does not appear to be yet fully settlE 41 On SP.turday,
the turn-outs at Mr. Wrijley's factory, Littlewood
mill, Hey Side, returned to work at at i advance of
about one shilling per week. On Saturday, the hands
of Messrs. Milne, Travis, and Milne, . of Skaw,
Crompton, struck work for the purpose . of obtaining
an advance of wages, and they are still of it.
WARILINGTON.—ifessrs. Hadfield and . Frost, cotton
manufacturers, have advanced the wag es of their
work-people ten per cent.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS,.,Nov, 18,
(Sittings in Banco.)
ECKERSLEY V. 13ARILER.

This was also an appeal from the decis'ion, of the re-
vising barrister for South Lancashire. The vote was
objected to on the ground of imperfect de.scriv tion of the
qualification, and the barrister decided agar► Ist the ob-
jection.
After hearing Mr. Cockburn for the appellant, and
Mr. Sergeant Kinglake for the respondent,
The COURT took time to examine the schedules„

QUEEN-SQUARE.
On Tuesday Mr. Taylor, the second clerk, wrote
to the chief constable at Hull to inquire into the truth
of the statement made by Miss Hayes, whose case
has excited so much sympathy, and yesterday re-
ceived the following reply :
" Town Hall, Hull, Nov. 16.
" Sir,—l beg to acknowledge the receipt of your
letter of yesterday's date, referring me to a report in
the newspapers respecting the case of distress of Miss
Georgiana Hayes, and requesting me to inform you
something of her history.
" In reply, I beg to acquaint you that I was inti-
mate with the late Mr. Picard and the family of Miss
llayest and that the whole of her statement 113 re-
Porteal and detailed in your letter is perfectly correct.
I have inclosed you a Post-office order for 205.,
'flooded to me by John Bark worth, Esq., one of the
magistrates of this place, after having read the state-
ment in the Times.—Your obedient servant,
" A. M‘MANUS."
The following note, addressed to Mr. Burrell, was
also yesterday received:—
" Miss Hayes, whose case has called forth so much
deserved sympathy from the public, is, ere this, I
have no doubt, better provided for, but the poor wo-
man, Carr, who took her starving from the streets, to
share her scanty meal, and when she could no longer
supply Miss Hayes with food, made known to you
and the public her distressing situation, what sym-
pathy or relief has been afforded to her ? If she has
not been brought up in the lap of luxury, she has
been brought up in disposition which would do credit
to those who have been better educated. Will you
be kind enough to forward to Mrs. Carr the enclosed
sovereign from one who much admires her kind-
heartedness and generosity to her former mistress.
"J. A. S."
In the course of the day two sovereigns were re-
ceived from J. H. and a trifling sum from D. D. for
Miss Hayes, and 2/. for Mrs. Carr, whose conduct the
writer much admired.
UNION-HALL.
RORIIRRY 137 A SERVANT.—Caroline Taylor, a
respectable-looking young female, was placed at the
bar before Mr. Traill, charged with stealing five
silver table-spoons, a German silver coffee-pot, a pair
of trousers an album, and other property, belonging
to Mr. Bird, of 13, Clapham-road-terrace ; and
George Dean, a young man, was charged with
receiving the trousers and album, knowing them to
be stolen.
The female prisoner had been in the prosecutor's
service. On Sunday the spoons and coffee-pot were
missed from the drawers in the parlour where they
were deposited safe about three weeks ago by Miss
Bird, after they had used them. No person had
access to the room but the prisoner, who acknowledged
that she had taken one of the drawers out, and put
her hand in the one underneath, from which she had
taken some cards. The plate was in that drawer.
A gravy-spoon and a table-spoon were left behind.
The male prisoner had been in the habit of assisting
the female in cleaning the windows, and his having
been found with a pair of trousers on belonging to
the prosecutor, he was given into custody. At his
lodgings was found an album belonging to the pro•
secutor's son.
Mr. TRAILL asked whether the plate had been
found P—An officer of the P division said that he had
searched the female's box, and the male prisoner's
lodgings, but he could get no clue as to the plate.
He would endeavour to trace it by inquiry at the dif-
ferent pawnbrokers.
The female prisoner denied all knowledge of the
plate. The trousers she acknowledged giving to the
male prisoner, and the album was lent her by the
prosecutor's son. She lent the latter to the sister of
the male prisoner. As for taking the cards from the
drawer, the daughter of the prosecutor was present
when she did so.
Mr. TRAILL said it was a very suspicious affair,
and to give the officer an opportunity of tracing the
plate, he should remand them until Friday next.
Yesterday several persons were summoned by the
P division of police, and amongst them some poor
women for selling fruit in the streets.
The evidence adduced against the defendants was
that they had boards or stalls by the road side at
Walworth, with fruit, and that they created an ob-
struction, and being warned to desist, and not paying
any attention to it, were accordingly summoned for
the offence.
One of the defendants, an elderly woman, said that
she had no other means of support, and that it was to
keep out of the workhouse she endeavoured to sell
fruit in the Walworth-road to support herself. She
added that the tradesman opposite whose door she had
her little stand gave her permission, and that being
on the road side it was no obstruction to the pas-
sengers.
Mr. TRAILL said that it was illegal, and that the
tradesman had no power to give her such an authority.
In reply to the Magistrate, she said she had been
summoned before for a similar offence, and had been
committed for seven days in default of paying the fine
inflicted on her.
Mr. TRAILL said that after such a punishment one
would have supposed she would not have repeated the
offence.
The defendant said she had no other means of get-
ting her living, or she would not have resorted to it.
Mr. TRAILL said that as she had again broken the
law he should commit her.—Committed accordingly.
Another woman, in defence, said she had five chil-
dren dependent on her for support, and asked what
she was to do if she was prevented from selling a little
fruit by the roadside—that the workhouse was staring
her and her children in the faco if she was obliged to
abstain from it.
In reply to the Magistrate she admitted that she
had been summoned before the P division, and that
she, on that occasion, left off selling fruit, but being
nearly starved she was compelled to begin again.
Mr. TRAILL told her, that lot the consequences be
what they might she must not be permitted to go on
in that way breaking the law. She should assuredly
he committed to gaol in default of paying the fine.
That he should now inflict a fine of 20s, but should
not impose it unless she was found in the same situa-
tion again.
A third defendant said that she had a sick hus-
band, and that she tried to keep him and herself out
of the workhouse by selling fruit, and if she was de-
prived of the means of doing so that must be their
fate.

Mr. TR.►ILL, finding that the defendant was not at
all disposed to make a promise that she would remove
her apple-stall, said that he was of opinion it would
be a kindness to many of those persons who obstruct
the thoroughfares by selling fruit to commit them to
the House of Correction ; that it was an idle lazy
way of living, and that those who pursued it ough
to be•made to• try and earn their bread by different
means, •r.

Defendant,---I have no other means of doing so,
your Worship. It is a very cold and harassing way
of getting a living for those poor people, like myself,
who are compelled to follow it; but what are we
to do?. •.
Mr. TRAILL disposed of the remainder of the sum-
monses by fining the defendants 20s. each, but said he
should not enforce the penalties unless they were
brought up again, and in that case they might de-
pend upon it they would be committed.
THAMES POLICE.
Yesterday Mr. Broderip stated that, in consequence
of the reports which have appeared in this journal,
several benevolent persons had forwarded contributions
for the benefit of Isabella Powell, and her three
young children. The generous and disinterested
conduct of the young woman Harland, who pawned
her clothes to raise sufficient money to pay for a cab
which conveyed her afflicted neighbour to the London
Hospital, and who afterwards purchased bread for the
famishing children, had not been forgotten. The
conduct of Mrs. Harland (a sailor's wife) was indeed
beyond all praise, and, but for her kind interference,
the children might have perished. He inquired of
Douglas, the summoning officer of the Court, No.
279 K, the state of the sick woman and her little ones?
Douglas replied that the children were recovering
fast, but the mother continued in much the same state
as before, and was not considered out of danger.
Mr. I3RODERIP said it would be some comfort to
the poor woman if she was made acquainted with
the fact that money had been sent for her relief, and
he requested the officer to do so; and also to inform
Mrs. Harland that she would be rewarded on waiting
upon Mr. Symons, the chief clerk.
Douglas said the poor widow required some imme-
diate assistance, even in the London Hospital, and
that the purchase of some under-clothing would be
of great service to her. The young woman Harland
was iu straitened circumstances, hut she had informed
him that she would not accept of any remuneration
for the trouble she had taken.
Mr. BRODERIP said that Mrs. Harland had better
attend and have the option of refusing or rejecting
the money. It would be pleasant to her to know that
her benevolent conduct was fully appreciated. Her
disinterested behaviour was highly creditable.
Among the contributions received, which the Ma-
gistrate desired might be acknowledged, was 2/. from
Mr. Grant, of Richmond, for the benefit of the three
destitute children ; 10s. from P. Q., for Harland, to
assist her afflicted neighbour and her children ; a
Post-office order for 2/. from X. Y., for the benefit
of the three children, with the exception of ss. for
Mrs. Harland; a half-sovereign from a person in the
City, for the benefit of the widow and her children ;
10s. and 4s. from four little children, to be given to
Mrs. Powell's little ones, but " should the poor chil-
dren have been taken charge of by the parish autho-
rities in consequence of the mother's death, the money
to be given to Mrs. Harland."
Yesterday Mr. Robert Horn attended the Court for
the first time as inspector of the K division. lie has
been promoted from the T division, of which he had
been for twelve years sergeant.

Lord Stgnley arrived in town lot evening from
Knowsley Hall, Lucashim

THE EXPERIMENTAL FIRING ON
WIMBLEDON COMMON.
Yesterday, Mr. Buckingham, of 20, South-row,
New-road, St. Pancras, applied to Mr. Paynter, the
sitting magistrate at the Wandsworth Police-court,
for his advice and assistance under the following cir-
cumstances :
Mr. Buckingham stated that he was the inventor
of a new destructive projectile, called the " Victoria"
shell, for blowing up towns and mines. On 'Wed-
nesday afternoon last he was making experiments on
Wimbledon-common, in the presence of Dr. Ryan
and other scientific gentlemen appointed by the Go-
vernment, and in the course of those experiments he
subjected to trial two new shells, which were dis-
charged into a bank, but did not explode within the
given time (three quarters of an hour). Two hours
afterwards he began digging for those shells which
had not exploded to prevent accidents, as they were
of a very destructive tendency. In a short time he
dug up either twelve or thirteen, none of these had
exploded, indeed the principle of invention with re-
spect to all but two which were to have burst within
the hour was, that they should remain in the ground
twenty-four hours before such an event took place,
nine of the shells were washed and placed in a bag,
the remainder were lying loose on the ground, when
a man named Taylor, who had formerly been
in the Grenadier Guards, and who had been
waiting upon Dr. Ryan, took up one of the
loose balls which had some gravel adhering to it,
and while in the act of washing it, the shell exploded,
mutilating him in a shocking manner. The accident
had such an effect upon applicant that for two days
he was confined to his bed with the brain fever. He
was unable before he left the ground to remove the
balls to a place of security, but left the men to keep
watch and prevent any persons approaching the spot.
On Saturday morning he again visited Wimbledon-
common, and found that all the loaded balls had been
carried ffin spite of the vigilance of the men left to
watch them. Applicant becoming alarmed for the
safety of the public generally, and it being most pro-
bable they might have got into the possession of per-
sons ignorant of their destructiveness, he immediately
communicated with Inspector Busain, of the V divi-
sion, and through the vigilance of that officer he had
discovered six of the loaded shells, but he was unfor-
tunately still ignorant as to where the remainder were
secreted. His principal motive in coming forward
and making this statement was, that it might obtain
publicity through the powerful means of the press,
and thus be the means of cautioning any persons
who might retain possession of them, as their danger-
ous tendency now lay in moving them about after
being fired from the cannon.
Inspector Busain informed the magistrate that be-
ing applied to by Mr. Buckingham, and hearing the
danger that, might result to the public, he exerted
himself to discover who were the possessors of the
missing balls. After some time he ascertained that
a gardener in the service of a physician at Roehamp-
ton had been seen throwing some of the balls about
in the tap-room of a beer shop in that village, and
one of the balls was in the act of being put upon the
fire, when the landlord, who is an old artillery-man,
came in, and guessing what it was, got possession of
it, and, together with others, buried them in the
ground for safety. He subsequently discovered that
a youth named Marlow had had another in his pos-
session, but afterwards threw it into a pond. He had
informed the constables of that section of the circum-
stance, and they would make every inquiry after the
missing balls.
Mr. PATNTIM said it was by a remarkable inter-
vention of Providence that a frightful catastrophe
had been averted, and he hoped in future more care
would be taken to prevent the public getting such
dreadful missiles into their possession. As the police
had succeeded in discovering some of these missiles,
he would direct them to redouble their efforts to trace
out the remainder; for, until they were found, it was
impossible to state what dreadful calamities might not
ensue.
Mr. Buckingham thanked the magistrate for his
attention, and withdraw.

THE LORD MAYOR AND THE
BOARD OF GUARDIANS OF THE CITY
OF LONDON UNION.

Yesterday upwards of fifty members, accompanied
by Mr. Watkins, the vice-chairman, and the clerk,
waited upon the Lord Mayor, at the Mansion-house,
and presented his Lordship with the following ad-
dress :

" The Guardians of the poor of the City of London
Union take the earliest opportunity of offering to your
Lordship their most sincere and cordial congratulations
upon your Lordship's elevation to the distinguished and
honourable position of Lord Mayor of the City of
London.

" The Guardians have reason to acknowledge, with
pride and satisfaction, the indefatigable zeal and ability
evinced by your Lordship as their chairman during a pe-
riod of nearly eight years • and the experience they have
thus gained of your Lordship's character and talents,
give them the highest confidence that the same ability
and proficiency will be exercised for the benefit of their
fellow-citizens at large, in the wider sphere of usefulness
which your Lordship is now called upon to occupy.
" The Guardians have no less confidence that those
kind and humane feelings for the interests of the poor
which have ever characterised your Lordship, as their
chairman, will be continued and extended to the fullest
degree in the exercise of your Lordship's authority as
Chief Magistrate of this great City. And while they
look for the most patient and benevolent attentions to
the claims of poverty and misfortune, they have an equal ,
assurance that, under your Lordship's firm administra-
tion of the law, idleness and vice will receive the dis-
couragement they deserve.
" In conclusion, the Guardians assure your Lordship
of their unabated esteem and confidence, and beg to
express their earnest hope that the blessing of Divine
Providence may attend your Lordship through the ar-
duous and important duties of the coming year, and pre-
serve for many years a life of usefulness and benevo-
lence.

" THOMAS WALKER, Presiding Chairman.
" John Thomas Rowsell, Clerk to the Board."
The Lord Mayor returned the following answer
Gentlemen,—My election to the Chief Magistracy,
after a year of severe persecution, prompted by those
whose education and calling should have taught them
better things, has been a source of congratulation from
various friends IN:lo are kind enough to entertain a fa-
vourable opinion of my motives and proceedings.
" I can truly declare that this pleasing testimony of
your good opinion as my brother Guardians of the City
of London Union, is doubly grateful under present cir-
cumstances, and a powerful incentive to exertion in the
cause of humanity, as well as in the faithful administra-
tion of my duty.
" You are so obliging as to approve of my humble ef-
forts as your Chairman during the existence of our
Union. I feel I shall not be able for some time to give
so uniform an attendance at the Board as formerly, but I
haie the satisfaction in knowing that my lack of service
will be amply made
,u,p by the zeal, and talent of my re-
spected friend, your exeellent Vice-chairman.
".I beg to, assure yoU that 'I shall dedicate my best
energies to alleviate the sufferings of the deserving poor,
but I shall strictly enforce the laws, so wisely enacted for
the suppression of professed mendicants.
"For your good wishes, so cordially expressed, for
the preservation of my health, and that I may be
enabled to fill the important duties to which I am now
called, I heartily return you my best acknowledgments,
and most sincerely do I wish that you and myself may
have a year of happy success in our endeavours to dis-
charge with efficiency our respective trusts and obli-
gations."

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.
EAST INDIA SHIPPING.
Arrivals—Patriot Queen, Devey, from Bengal, at Li.
verpool, sailed July 29 ; Peruvian, Black, from Bengal,
at Liverpool, sailed June 30, St. Helena Sept. 24 ; Supe-
rior, Bell, from Singapore, at Liverpool, sailed June 20,
Anger July 17 ; Agneda, Jaffray, from Bombay, at Li-
verpool, sailed July 5; Gilmore, Maw, from Port Philip,
off Falmouth, sailed May 2, Bahia Sept. 8 ; Grecian,
Watt, from China, in the London Docks, sailed June 20,
St. Helena Sept. 28 ; Syria, Stroyan, from Singapore, at
Cork, sailed June 22, St. Helena Sept. 11 ; Kilblain,
Shaw, from Bengal, at Liverpool, sailed June 29, St.
Helena Sept. 24.
Arrivals at St. Helena—Mary Lyon, Davidson, Sept.
24, from coast of Africa, and sailed 26th to Cork ; Ma-
cassar, from Manilla and Batavia, and sailed 26th to
Antwerp ; Osprey, Kirk, 25th, from Bombay, and sailed
26th to Liverpool; Gulnare, Chapman, from Batavia, and
sailed 25th to Boston ; Orator, Chester, from Ceylon to
London ; Laurens Koster, Reeve, from Batavia, and
sailed 25th to Rotterdam ; Caledonia, Stephenson, from
Bombay, and sailed 25th to Hull; Pilgrim, Rawling, from
Calcutta, and sailed 26th to Liverpool; Harmony, Douglas,
from the Cape ; Borneo, Hogg, 26th, from Calcutta and
Mauritius, and sailed 28th to London ; Arrow, Walker,
from Zanzibar to London ; Solide, Grasse, from Batavia
to Hamburgh.
Departures from Madras—Lynher, Browse, Aug. 22,
to Mauritius ; William, Hay, 31st, to Moulmein ; City
of Poonah, Slight, Sept. 1, to Cape and London.
Arrivals at Ascension—Elizabeth, Morris, Oct. 8, from
Bengal, and to sail same day to London.
Arrival at Cape de Verds—Precursor steamer, Sept.
26th, from Southampton to India.

SIR HENRY POTTINGER.—It gives us great plea-
sure to state that upon the occasion of Sir Henry's visit to
this town. he will be presented with a massive piece or ser-
vice of plate by the great body of our wealthy fellow-towns-
men, who are interested in the opening of the China trade.
The East India and China Association of Liverpool not
only originated the idea of entertaining him
.at the public
banquet, but were also the first to give the initiative for
the piece of plate, the subscriptions to which, however,
will not be confinad to the members of that association,
but will be thankfully received from all who are deriving
benefits from the altered state of relationship with the
celestial empire. Already several firms have put down
their names for 501. each ; and at 'Change hour yester-
day afternoon the munificent sum of 850/. had been sub-
scribed. There can be no duubt that the subscriptions
will eventually amount to between 1,000/ and 1,5001., am.
ply sufficient for the purchase of a piece or a service of
plate—and it will be left to Sir Henry to make his choice
of either—worthy of the man, the town, and tin owe.
eion.—LiverP9ol.l9lo744 of §sturdan

UNIVERSITY OF LONDON.
BACHELOR OF MEDICINE, 1844.
FIRST DIVISION.
Allchin, William Henry, University College.
Browne, Henry, King's College.
Edwards, William Thomas, University College.
Evans, John, University College.
Harling, Robert Dawson, University College.
Hearne, Edwin, University College.
llerapath, Wm. Bird, Bristol Med. Sch. and Ldn. Hos•
Jemmett, Benjamin Lancaster, King's College.
Marshall, Frederick William, University College.
Parker, Nicholas, London Hospital.
Parsey, William Henry, King's College.
Redfern, Peter, 1, Surgeons'-square, Edinburgh.
Routh, Charles Henry Felix, University College.
Timms, Godwin William, University College.
Webb, Henry March, Guy's Hospital.

• SECOND DIVISION.
Blount, John Hillier, King's College.
Cannon, Henry Mills, King's College.
Haines, Robert, St. Thomas's Hospital.
Martyn, Patrick, School of Physic in Ireland.
Scoffern, John, Aldersgate.

EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF

SUICIDE.
Great excitement was occasioned in the village of
Hawnes, near Bedford, on Sunday morning, in on;
sequence of a respectably dressed man being foul)"
hanging in a hedge quite dead. The following dal
an inquest was held before Ezra Eagles, Esq., woo'.
for the county, and the following evidence. Wes
given :
Josiah King, a labourer, deposed that on Sunday
morning he was going up Mr. Armstrong's fields in
the parish of Hawnes, and in the hedge.; about A WI,:
dred yards from the road leading from Wilsted
Clophill, he saw something hanging, which at first he
thought was a mawkin to frighten the birds
but on going nearer he found it was a man. He was
tied by the neck to an ash bough with a handkercbie
and appeared to have been hanging there for so°
time. He then told some other persons and the coo-
stable, and they removed the 'body to King's beet'
shop. It was in a high state of putrefaction. WV
witness found the deceased he was on his knees. I'
was very respectably dressed.
William Cole, the constable of Hawnes, deposed
that the last witness fetched him on Sunday morn:
ing to Mr. Armstrong's hedge, to see a man hanging'
He found the deceased suspended by the neck to as
ash stem, with two handkerchiefs. He broke the
stem and let the body down ; it was that of a poll
about sixty years old. He examined the skull,
could find no fracture. The deceased had on a b1i614
neckerchief, two shirts, pair of cotton drawers, 014,
black trousers, and a fancy flowered waistcoat. Jl3;
appeared to have been a round-faced man. His uPPei,
jaw was very round, and the under jaw rather sun;
in. His hair was dark and rather curly and whisked
sandy; they extended underneath his chin. He VI
on Wellington boots cut open up the instep. He n'A
white cotton socks. He had a black frock Ott"
lined with silk, and a black velvet collar. Tb_As—
was a hat hanging by the side of the deceased
in the stem of the tree, in which were a r;
of spectacles, a pair of scissors, a common ho
comb, and a pencil. In the small-clotb!
pocket was a piece of paper, on which °l'
written in pencil, " I ham in troble," and the figuiri
1844 and 1793 deducted, with 0047 below ; and 1879
and 1777 deducted, with 0067 below. And in
coat-pockets was a playbill of Mr. Jackman's cis
pany of the performance of Cato, and
„1"11
Silent Family; another bill, "R. Brett, b7A
and biscuit-baker, 55, Fleet-street ;" another,
tso
true Friend in need," appearing to be a
relative to a friendly benefit society at Mr. Jones "►
Backchurch-lane, Whitechapel ; and part of another
bill, relating to another benefit society, at Mr.Bowers_t
Turnmill-street, Clerkenwell. After the clothe'
had been removed, witness examined the body'
there were no marks of violence; the hsandkerchie
by which the body was suspended were figured cotton;
Upon the black neckerchief the letters " WThSsr"
were marked in white silk. On his shirt COd
ID
the letter " R." was marked in red cotton. "io
five feet three inches in height, and was a strange!. 0
witness. The body was not identified, and being 111
high state of decomposition, was obliged to be burled
directly after the inquest. The jury returned an O.Pe,,
verdict, to the effect that deceased was found hanging
—Hertford Reformer.

MR. HUSKISSON'S b
STATUE., 0
At a meeting of the Town Council of Liverpool:a
Wednesday, the Town Clerk read a letter whichn
been written by the late Mayor to Mrs. Husluss°
and also a letter written by Mrs. Huskisson in rell;
The Mayor's letter was to the effect, that the seta
selected by Mr. Gibson for the erection of Huskisson
statue in the Custom-house had been declined ;
the Council expressed their regret that difficulties had
thus arisen ; and that they suggested the long room
of the Custom-house as a proper place for its creedal.
Mrs. Huskisson's reply was of considerable 1042'
She said she had been given to understand that tho
light in the long room was defective, and that In°l4
than one spot could be found in the open area snr;
rounding the Custom-house for the erection of a statue
in bronze. She, therefore, requested permission to
withdraw the marble statue of her lamented husband
for the purpose of having it cast in bronze, and, whell
cast, erected in the area outside the Custom-11(0e'
the exact site being left to the selection of Mr. Gibson'
The reading of the letter was followed by loud chea(
The MAYOR spoke in warm terms of admiration
this liberal proposal.
The following resolution was proposed amid 1014
cheers : _ _

___
" That the Mayor do express to Mrs. Huskisson
feelings of gratitude that the Council entertain I'
her most liberal proposal to substitute a bronze R .OI
marble statue, to be by her erected to the memory
our late representative, and to intimate to her, tilt
this Council will take care that the site that may be
selected by Mr. Gibson shall be made suitable for 1.4 f
reception of this magnificent gift, and that the Count;
would express its hope that the inscription to be Tea
corded on the statue's base will not omit to renull_k
the public of the party to whom it is so 11111u'
indebted."

EXTRAORDINARY LEAP BY PONT.—The ,111,
Captain Colgrave was desirous of possessing himself-A-0
a Dartmoor pony that was running wild among `4"4
herd, which had a batter appearance than his feil°,l.
0-
He got the assistance of several men, who succeeded ;$
separating this individual from the herd. They drove!.
upon some rocks by the side of a pointed hill, called I:
that district, a Tor. One of the men followed the po,
on horseback, while the Captain stood on the io
grounds, watching the progress of the chase. The P.tr.
animal being driven into a corner, and seeing no ne
pect of escape, made a desperate leap, fairly cleared t_,P
man on horseback; and flew with-such precipitation Ow-
the hill that he distanced his pursuers.:-.

BIRTH&
On the 10th inst., at Stoke Hall, Ipswich, the lady Of 11.
Phillipps, Esq., of a daughter.
On the 15th inst., at Esher, Mrs. Henry Neville, Of
daughter.
On the 15th inst., at Brunswick-place, Lewisham-road,
lady of R. B. Stewart, Esq., of a daughter. If.
On the 15th inst., the wife of the Rev. Frederick J.
Reeves, East Sheen, Surrey, of a son.
On the 15th inst., at Batheaston, Somersetshire, the lid!
of Ctain Sdney Colpos Dacres, R.N. of a son. net.
On the 16th inst., at Great Yarmouth,, the wife of the --
Henry Mackenzie, of a daughter. Of
On the 16th inst., at Chiltley House, Liphook, the lady
W. Kenrick, Esq., of a dauhter, still-born.
On the 16th inst., at Froygle, Hampshire, the lady of til.
Rev. P. Aubertin, jun., of a son.
On the 16th inst., in the Bear-garden, Southwark, the 'Wife
of Mr. Andrew Clark, jun., of a daughter.
On the 16th inst., Mrs. G. Aylwin, Brixton, of a daughtn
On the 17th inst., at the Steel-yard, Mrs. Cousene,
daughter.
On the 17th inst., at West Strand, the lady of Jacob
Del3'
penha, Esq., of a daughter.
On the 17th inst., at Ickleford House, near Hitchin,
the llon. Mrs. Frederick Ryder, of a son. eat,
On the 16th inst., at Upper Clapton, Mrs. Charles Ber'''
of a daughter. a of
On the 16th inst., at John-street, Bedford-row, the "-
William Smythe, Esq., of a son.
On the 17th inst., at Earl's-court, Mrs. Thomas yet.
Reed (late Miss P. Horton), of a daughter.

MARBLEIJ.

At Portsca, Edward, eldest surviving son of the latc,.7(
fardinge Gifford, to Rosamond Pennell, eldest dough"'
William Pennell, Esq.
On the 11th inst., at Antwerp, John Christian 8015%614
Esq., of Guadalupe-y-Calvo, in Mexico, to Jeanna,
daughter of Adolphus Hay, Esq., of Antwerp. rles
On the 14th inst., at St. Saviour's Church, Chelsea, •---$ $.
Herky, Esq., to Mary Anne, eldest daughter of the We
Bawtree, Esq., of Whitehall, Colchester.
On the 16th inst., at St. George's, Bloomsbury, to
sixth son of John Copland, Esq., of Chelmsford' Es3e—,:ell-
Frances, third daughter of John Alliston, Esq., of PI"
square, London.

DIED.
zabeth Haig, relict of David Greig, ... Ell'
On the sth inst., at Melville-street, Edinburgh, IVO'
„rice,
On the 9th inst., at Witton, near Norwich, John x" e"
Esq., aged 58. T.'Bllte'
On the 12th inst., at Shirley, near Southampton, —l-
nant James Francis Browne, RN. Esq., of Hullgreig.
On the 13th inst., in York-street, Portman-square, MO'
Warren, aged 76. late
On the 14th inst., at Clifton, Agnes, reliet of the
genial,
Archbold, Esq., of Ewell, Surrey. genial, On the 14th inst., at Hanover-crescent, Brighton, AA
wife of W.. Klyne, Eq., of the sama.
On the 14th inst., ats Durham, thee Rev James Frederic
Townsend, B.A. .' of
On the 14th inst., at Hastings, Samuel Taylor, rs‘,, -L'
John-street, Bedford-row, London.
Oa the 15th inst., at Portland-place, Isabella, widow
late General Ross, aged 79.
On the 15th inst., at Edmonton, Miss Mary glint „oire,
On the 16th inst., at Spencer-street, Northampton"
Ann, the wife of Robert Dawson, Esq., aged 72. • iridosr
On the 16th inst., in Russell-square, Hannah Marta,
of the late Rev. Dr. Richards, of St. Martin's.
of the

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NEW ASYLUM for INFANT ORPHANS
(en Liberal and Nonexclusive Principles), for ORPHANS
tinder EIGHT YEARS of AGE, without distinction of Sex,
Mice, or Religious Connexion.
The SECOND ELECTION of this CHARITY will occur on
the THIRD MONDAY in JANUARY Next. All persons
baying cases for that Election should present them forthwith.
plank firms may be had at the Office.
Subscriptions thankfully received by
JOSEPH TRITTON, Esq., Treasurer.
REV. A. REED, D.D., Sub-Treasurer.
REV. JAMES SHERMAN, Secretary.
Attendance daily ftorn Ten till Four.
Office, 32, Poultry.

NOTICE.
CORNWALL AND DEVON CENTRAL
RAILWAY

In consequence of the nurne;us applications for shares in this
railway which have already been received, the SHARE LIST will
be CLOSED on the 27th instant, after which no further applica-
tions can be received ; and the Committee will at once proceed to
allot the shares to unexceptionable parties, to whom notice of the
allotMent will be given.

By order of the Committee.
CCnimittee-room, Nor. 13, 1844. THOMAS HARVEY, Sec.

CORNWALL AND DEVON CENTRAL
RAILWAY,
FROM FALMOUTH TO EXETER.
Capital, 1,500,000/., in 6,000 Shares of 25/. each. Deposits 1/. ss.

per Share
Offices, 68, Old Broad-street, London.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Ron. John C. W. Vivian, M.P.
Captain J. H. Plumridge, R.N., M.P.
Sir Joseph Sawle Graves Sawle, Bart., Penrice.
Lewis William Buck, Esq., M.P., Moreton.
William Fielden, Esq., M.P.
Kimund Turner, Esq., M.P.
William James Chaplin, Esq.. Chairman,
Ambrose Humphrys, Esq., Deputy Chairman,
John Lewis Eyre, Esq.,
Vincent Eyre, Esq.,
Lleutenant.Colonel Henderson,
John Hibbert, Esq.,
John King, Esq.,
Thomas Smith, Esq.,
Francis Mowatt, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the London and York
Railway
Pascoe St. Leger Grenfell, Esq., Director of the London and Bir.
iningham Railway Company
W. A. H. Arndell, Esq., Lifton Park
Ti R. Avery, Esq., Delabole, Boscastle
.w• C. Beasley, Esq., Inner Temple
R. Gully Bennett, Esq., Tresillian House
George Stuckley Buck, Esq., Hartland Abbey
J. J. A. Bosse, Esq., Penzance
George Braginton, Esq., Torrington
John Bull, Esq., Marlborough House, Falmouth
T. B. Chanter, Esq., Bideford
Stephen Davey, Esq., Bochim
Richard Davey, Esq., Redruth
Henry John Enthoven, Esq., Old Broad.street
J. Fox, Esq., Tregedna, Falmouth
Zdrcard Gard, Esq , Exeter
Gould, Esq., Knapp, Bideford
L Harding, Monkleigh
T. Goldie Harding, Esq., Monkleigh
Conan Harvey, Esq., Pengreep
Richard Harvey, Esq., St. Day
3,..* Hill, Esq., Lieutenant, R.N., Falmouth
.reeble Peter Hoblyn, Esq., Colquite, Bodmin
Henryseph Hodge, Esq., Truro
,`' J. Hooper, Esq., Penhargard, Bodmin
„,"ohn Jago, Esq., Corran
Alevenen James, Esq , Broad-street-buildings
P• Kennard, Esq., Lombard-street
Henry Kendall, Esq., Austinfriars
B. Lawrence., R.N., Lostwithiel
Edwiny, Esq., Durrant, Bideford
-w▪ e Le) Esq., Penzance
.udgater, r.sq., Bishopsteignton
,""lee Oliver Mason, Esq., New Broad-street
• !Westerman, jun., Esq., London
"'ugh Mallet, Es 'Ash
Rob, .q ,
.irt Mitchell, Esq., Truro
William Michell, E 9 . M.D., Bodwin
td ward
Michell, Esq., Truro
J. Parsons, Esq., Lieutenant, R.N., Falmouth
G
rge B. Paterson, Esq., Truro
Richard Pearce, Esq., Penzance
t P. Peters, Esq., Crigmurrian
Rodd, Esq., Trebartha Hall
Thomas Rosevear, Esq., Barn Park
Charles A. Reynolds, Esq , Trevenson House
W. E. Snow, Esq Tredegar-square, London
William Sloggett, E"1"' Boscastle
M. C. Seton, Esq., Park-place, Maida-hill, London
6John /Militant, Esq., Coombe
Commodore Sulivan, C. 8., Mylor, Falmouth
W. Tardrew, Esq., Annery House, Devon
John Taylor, Esq., F.R.S., Duke-street, Adelphi, London
R. Taylor, Esq., Great Wood, Cornwall
B. E. Townshend, E.q., Doctors'.commons
Charles W. Turner, Esq., Truro
Matthew Uzielll, Esq., London
C. K. Vigers, Esq., Truro
M. Willyams, Esq., Carnanton
John North Woolcombe, Esq., Ashbury, Devon
Major Wren, Linwood, Bideford
( With power to add to their number.)
ENGINSER—Joseph Locke, Esq. E
Resumer ENOINEBR—Richard Thomas,
Baninits—Messrs. Willyams, Hodge, and Co., eg'
Miners' Bank,
Truro and Canaborne; Messrs Ricketts and Co., Truro, Pen.
lanes, Falmouth. and St. Colima); Messrs. Masterman and Co.,
• Sir J. Lubbock and Co., Messrs. Denison, Heywood, Kennard,
and Co., London.
Soucrroaa —Messrs. T. and F. Edwards, Gray's Inn, and Messrs.
Bircham and Dalrymple, Bedford-row, London ; Messrs. Bull
and Tilly, Falmouth.
SECRETARY—Thomas Harvey, Esq., Falmouth.
This line will, in connexion with the proposed railway from
Salisbury to Exeter, effect a saving of nearly fifty miles between
Falmouth and London over the route by Plymouth, Exeter, and
Bristol, and will be about ninety-eight miles in length from Fal.
mouth to Exeter. It will pass through the most populous and
fertile portion of Central Devon, by way of Crediton, Bow,
Hatherleigh, and Okehampton, on to Newport by Launceston, and
theme by Bodmin on to Truro and Falmouth, penetrating the cen.
tee of the great mining district of Cornwall.
It is approved by the landowners interested in the property in-
tersected by it ; it is beyond the reach of successful opposition ;
and in 1836 received the sanction of a Committee of the House of
Commons.
Application for Shares in the Cornwall and Devon Central
Railway may be made to the Secretary, to the Solicitors, to Messrs.
,
th°Pe and Son, Lothbury ; or Messrs. Charles and Henry Hill,
7reet, Threadneedle-street; or to Richard Williams, Esq., 2, Duke-
-4:
s Adelphi, London; Messrs. Neilson. Liverpool; Mr. John
Smith, Sharebroker, Commercial-buildings, Leeds; Thomas Sand.
ford, Esq., Exeter; Mr. •Edward Wilson, 9, Temple-street,
Bir-
rningt'an►; or to John Barnard Locke, Esq., Manchester—from
any of whom Prospectuses may be obtained. The Committee will
allot the Shares to unexceptionable parties in the order in which
the applications may be made. In all cases references will be
retpalred.
68, Old Broad-street, London, Sept. 18, 1844.
FORM OF APPLICATION.
To the Provisional Committee of the Cornwall and Devon Central

Directors
of the
South
Western
Railway
Company.

Railway Company.
Gentlemen _I request you will allot to me - Shares of 25/.
each, in the Cornwall and Devon Central Railway, on the terms
and conditions of the Prospectus; and I undertake to pay the de-
..ll"!' and sign the Subscribers' Agreement and Parliamentary
%/unmet when called upon.

Dated the day of 1844.
Name
Residence
Trade or Profession (if any)
Reference

CORNWALL AND DEVON CENTRAL
RAILWAY.
Notice is hereby given, that APPLICATION is intended to be
Made to Parliament In the next session for an ACT for makingand
!Maintaining a Railway or Railways, with all proper stations,
ridges wharfs, communications, and works connected therewith,
" commence at or near the bottom of a certain street called Long-
brook-street. in the county of the city of Exeter, and to terminate
on the shore or beach at or near a certain place called Green-bank,
Which said Railway will pass from, in, through, or into the several
Parishes, townships, and extra-parochial and other places following,
or some of them ; that is to say, Saint Sidwells, Saint David's, in the
county of the city of Exeter; Saint Thomas the Apostle, Bramp-
ford Spoke, the hamlet of Cowley, Upton Pyno, Newton Saint
CYre,, Whitestene, Crediton, Colebrook or Bishop Colebrook, Clan.
taborough, Bow or Nymet Tracy, Broad Nymet, North Tawton,
Bampford Courtenay, Oakhampton, Ashbury, Exbourne, Jacob.
Welnwardleigh, Hatherleigh, Northlow, Beaworthy, Germans
ek, Halwill,
adwoodwid Ashwater, Saint Giles.in-the- Heath, Virginstowe,
Saint ger, Litton, Werrington, in the County of Devon, and
Stephens by Launceston, Launceston, Werrington, Saint
I.b'sraa,, Newport, Trewen, Altarnum, Blisland, Cardinham, Tem-
nu?, Bodmin, town and borough of Bodmin, Landydrock, Lanivet,
gLuxultan, Roche, Withiel, Saint Columb Major, Saint Enoder,
ock, Newl”l,• ancient borough of Michell or Saint Michael,
t Ethic, Perranzebulos Saint Allen, Kenwyn, Saint Clement,
Saint Mary Truro, Kea, Feock,' Perranarworthal, Gluvias, Mylor,
Mabe, Penryn Budoch
reek , and across, along, or through a certain
Penne or arm of the sea called Turnpike Creek, being a branch of
Yn Creek, in the harbour of Falmouth, and another certain
pair: of Penryn Creek, aforesaid, near the said place, called Green
)111, aforesaid, in the ounty of Cornwall ; and it is intended to
ar1:01
)0Y for powers to make lateral deviations from the line of the
plainssheder Workl to the extent or within the limits defined upon the
wart, alteernaft" mentioned or referred to; and also to cross,
oth " 'top uP all such turnpike roads, parish roads, and
IglaWaye, streams
&ca. navi at,o.
g "--8, aqueducts, railwa s and tramroads, within the
eaid,parishes, townships,
said "nal, creeks arms or branches of the
and extra.pyar'ochial and other places afore.
or
stop or some of tem, as it may be necessary to cross, divert, alter,
orlt up ,for the purpose of the said works, and particularly to stop
fill up so much of the said creek or arm of the sea called Turn-
Pike Creek aforesaid, as lies on the south-western side of the pro-
Posed railway, where the said railway will cross the same.
And notice is hereby further given, that duplicate plans and
sections of the said railway and works, together with books of re-
ference thereto, will be deposited for public inspection with the
clerk of the peace for the county of the city of Exeter, at his
Office In the said city, and with the clerk of the peace for the
county of Devon, at his office at Exeter, and with the clerk of the
Pee for the county of Cornwall, at his office at St. Austell, on
or before the 30th day of November instant; and on or before
the slat day of December next a copy of so much of the said
plans and sections as relates to each parish in or through which the
said railway and works arc intended to be made, together with a
book of reference thereto, will be deposited with the parish clerk
Of each such parish at his place of abode.
And notice is hereby farther given, that it is Intended by the
said Bill to Incorporate a Company for the purpose of carrying into
effect the proposed works, and to apply for powers for the compul-
sory purchase of lands and houses, aid other hereditaments, and
to vary or extinguish all rights and privileges in any manner con-
nected with the lands, houses, rivers, streams, or hereditaments
Proposed to be taken or interfered with for the purposes aforesaid,
and also to levy tt Ils, rates, or duties upon or in respect of the
said railway and works, and to alter existing tolls, rates, or duties,
and to confer, vary, or extinguish exemptions from the payment
of tolls, rates, and duties, and other rights and privileges.
Dated this 12. th day of November, 1844.
BULL and TILLY, Falmouth,
BIRCII A M and DALRYMPLE and T. Solicitors for
and F. EDWA RDS, Louden, the Bill.

AFIDDLE AND PRINCE ALBERT'S PATTERN PLATE.
B. SAVORY and SONS, Manufacturing • Silversmiths, 14, Cornhill, London, opposite the Bank
of
England.—The best wrought SII.VEIt SPOONS and FORKS,
Fiddle Pattern, 7s. 2d. per ounce ; the Prince Albert's Pattern,
75. rid. per ounce. Ihe articles may be had lighter or heavier, at the
same price per ounce :
The Fiddle, oz. s.d. L. pi. d , Prince Albert's. oz. a. d. £. s.d.
12 Table Spoons 30 at 7 210 15 0,12 Table Spoons 40at7 6.,,15 0 0
12 Dessert ditto 20 7 2.., 7 34 12 Dessert ditto 26 7 6... 9 1:, 0
12 Table Forks 30 72 41 IS 012 Table Forks 40 7 6_15 0 0
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Messrs. Savory and Sans recommend the Prince Albert's pattern.
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Le almost daily accounts from South. America
bring fresh news of the atrocities of a monster who,
it would scarcely be imagined, existed in the nine-
teenth century. General Rosas, the Dictator of the
Argentine Republic, still continues his work of bloat
and destruction. The last packet has conveyed.
strong remonstrances to the Earl of Aberdeen on this
subject; and the British resident at Monte Video
has addressed a very eloquent appeal to the Foreign
Minister, setting forth the dangers to which the
English mercantile and other interests are exposed
by the permissive policy as it were, indulged in with
regard to the Dictator. From the time that Rosas
first appeared as a public man to the time at which we
write, he has, it would appear, been guilty of the
massacre of thirty thousand souls—to say nothing of
probably an equal number who have been forced,
through his despotic proceedings, to take refuge in
strange lands. In the year 1836, Rosas, after the
Royalist party had yielded to the patriot brothers,
determined to strike terror into the minds of the in-
habitants, and he caused to be brought from the con-
fines of the province, a tribe of Indians who had be•
come his prisoners. On their passage they endea-
voured to escape, when, without regard to trial, or
any other ceremony, and with no respect for age or
sex, one hundred of these poor wretches, fathers,
mothers, and children under nine years of age, were
butchered in the very streets of Buenos Ayres. They
were brought from their prisons in groups of ten or
twelve, and shot by platoons of soldiers—and many
who were merely wounded, awl who endeavoured t«
crawl away, were dragged back, had their throats
cut, and their brains beat out, and afterwards left as
food for the dogs and swine of the city.. In 1839, Dr-
Vincent Naze, the President of the National As-
sembly, and second magistrate of the city, was assas-
sinated in his private apartment in the House oe
Representatives, at seven in the evening. He was.
the .intimate friend of the Governor, and had been,
heard to say that the knowledge of the waylaying-
and massacre of General Quirc.ga and escort would
cost him his life. Two days after, the son of Mazai
being suspected, by Rosas, of conspiracy, he was
arrested, and eventually followed the fate of his
father—the two bodies being afterwards cast into a
dung-cart, and thrown amongst those of other victims.
The widow and survivors of the Maza family was
even forbidden to wear mourning, or to perform any
rites and ceremonies in their church, for the victims!
Numerous other crimes, too horrible for detail,
coukl be enumerated—all of which are attributable'
to this vile Republican adventurer ; yet such a man is
allowed, in the face of Europe, to pursue his career
of bloodshed and murder, unmolested!

The conduct of our agent, Mr. Mandeville, whiclz
is extremely vacillating, is loudly and generally con—
demned, and appears to excite much indignation
amongst the English residents, especially when com-
pared with the noble conduct of his predecessor, Mr..
Hamilton Hamilton, who, not many days after his.
arrival, applied to the British Government to be re-
moved from the scene of Rosas' Dictatorship, as he
deemed any communication with him derogatory to.
his honour and the principles of our national policy..
It is to be hoped, however, that the vigilance of Com-
modore Purvis, who is in command of our fleet in
these seas, will speedily place matters on a better
footing, and the confidence reposed in him appatently
by the residents would seem to mark him as a fit pro
tector for our merchants. He is decidedly averse to
Rosas ; and probably, but for the countenance the
Dictator receives at the hands of Mr. Mandeville, that
inhuman dealer in horrors would, ere this, have been
deprived of the means of effecting further mischief.--.
Gla.cgow Saturday Post.