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No. 16,243,

LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING SUN, SEPTEMBER 6, 1844.

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STAG AND PHEASANT. COMMERCIAL AND FAMILY
HOTEL, LEICESTEIt.
MRS. CHARLES PETTIFOR begs to thank
her Commercial Friends and the Public for the very liberal
support she has experienced since her return to the above Hotel, and
at the same time to assure them that the greatest attention will con-
tinue to be exercised in every department so as to ensure the conti-
nuance and increase of their favours.

THE NEW MINISTRY IN GREECE.
ATHENS, AEG. 20, 1844.—The following proclama-
tion was issued yesterday by our new Ministry :
" Ills Majesty has deigned to honour us with his
confidence, in calling us to the direction of the affairs
of the State. The circumstances are grave and
critical ; but, trusting in Providence who has so
many times succoured us,—full of confidence in the
patriotism of which you have again given new proofs,
your love of order and respect for the laws which
characterise the Greek people, not less than your
disposition to advance peaceably the social state of
society—trusting in these, we have accepted the task.
" We propose nothing which shall not be avowed;
we announce plainly, and with sincerity, the spirit
which shall direct us. We hate exclusiveness. Jus-
tice and Impartiality !--this is our motto. To exe-
cute religiously every portion of our valuable Consti-
tution ;—to apply rigorously our laws ;—to prefer for
public offices those who have made sacrifices in the
cause a independence, when accompanied by neces-
sary qualifications ;—to reward the honest, and to
punish the guilty ;—to administer the strictest eco-
nomy which it will be possible to adopt :—these are
what we propose. Having for our support in the
accomplishment of this task the confidence
of the King, and for encouragement your assistance
and co-operation ; be assured, fellow-citizens, that
with the aid of the Most High, our efforts for the pros-
perity of the country will be effectual; and that we
shall ever have in view the dearest object of our hearts
—the glory and the dominion of the constitutional
throne of his Majesty Otho, our beloved monarch.
" One of the duties which now devolves upon us
we hasten to accomplish—that is to open the
Chambers. " The President, J. COLETTI.
KITSOS TZAVELLAS,
A. METAXAS,
Z. J. BALBI.
" Athens, Aug. 19, 1844."

BARONETAGE OF SCOTLAND
AND NOVA SCOTIA.
The general meeting of the Order took place in
Glasgow on Thursday, the Bth August, the lion. Sir
John Campbell, Baronet, in the chair, for the purpose,
first, of receiving a report from Sir Richard Broun,
of the steps taken since the year 1835 for the revival
of the rights of the Order in the province of Nova
Scotia as anciently bounded (which comprehends New
Brunswick, Prince Edward's Island, Cape Breton,
Gaspe, &c.), and of the circumstances which have oc-
curred to suspend these proceedings since October,
1842 ; 2(1, To sanction a renewal of negotiations with
Lord Stanley, Colonial Minister, and with Sir W.
Colebrooke, Lieutenant- Governor of New Brunswick,
for grants of land to the Baronets whose creations
are subsequent to 1637, and for new grants in lieu
of those originally given for such concurring Baro-
nets as inherit titles of a prior date ; and 3d, To join
in a specific course of action for substantiating the
chartered rights of the body, and making them avail-
able for the national ends for which they were
bestowed. After hearing the report read, and con-
sidering the correspondence opened with the Lieu-
tenant-Governor of New Brunswick, resolutions were
passed to the effect, that the meeting received with
satisfaction Sir R. Broun's report, which was ordered
to be printed and circulated amongst the members of
the Order, preparatory to another general meeting
to be held at Edinburgh, for the consideration of a
series of resolutions to be grounded upon the same.
A vote of thanks was passed to Sir R. Broun
for his valuable services to the Order, in raising
and advancing the proceedings to their present
state ; and also one to the Hon. Baronet who pre-
sided. Amongst the documents laid before the
meeting were copies of Sir R. Broun's " Letter to
Lord Stanley, explanatory of the charges made against
the late British American Association," and of the
petition presented to the House of Commons on the
24th of April last, praying for a Committee to inves-
tigate the same. There was also laid on the table a
copy of Dr. Rolph's recent work on " Systematic
Emigration and Colonization," dedicated, by permis-
sion, to Lord Stanley. The report made set forth,
inter alia, that since the recent action, Lake v. the
Duke of Argyll, legal proceedings have been adopted
by Sir R. Broun against the proprietors of the Globe
newspaper for libel, the issue of which, it was stated,
would afford to the public an opportunity of judging
as to the real character of the attacks upon the asso-
ciation made by the press.—Glasgow Chronicle.

MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR.

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At Queen- square on Tuesday, Martha Boddington,
alias Garrett, Eliza Harris, Eliza Smith, William Lear,
and Edward Collins, were charged with being con-
cerned, with two others not in custody, in stealing a
pianoforte, two chests of drawers, and other articles to a
considerable amount, the property of the late Alfred
Dark.

The whole of the Hotel has undergone a thorough repair, and the
bed-rooms are in first-rate condition.

CONVEYANCING.—A SOLICITOR, of seve-
ral years' practice, PREPARES CONVEYANCES on the fol-
lowing terms, viz.:—Leases, 21. 10s. ; Assignments, 21. 2s. ; Bills of
Sale, 11. 10s. ; Wills, Bonds, and Deeds in general, on equally mode-
rate terms. Purchasers of property at public auctions will find a
saving of 50 per cent., and the title thoroughly Investigated, by ap-
plying at the Offices, 1, Bouverie-street, Fleet-street. Letters for
LI. M. attended to. Debts recovered, free of all charges to creditor,
for a commission of 10 per cent. Unexceptionable references.

Mrs. Elizabeth Dark said, my husband died, as I am
informed, yesterday morning. I have not lived with
him for the last eighteen months. He occupied a house
at No. 3, York-place, Pentonville, where he resided with
a girl named Eliza, whom he had met with in the country
shortly after the time he had left me. I frequently
saw my husband, who allowed me a sovereign a week for
my maintenance, and I have seen the furniture in the
house, which was his. I went to the house yesterday
morning, but found it locked up. Yesterday evening I
saw part of the furniture of my late husband at a beer-
shop, kept by a man named Boucher. I saw that furni-
ture safe in his house on Friday last.
Cross-examined—l saw my husband last on Thursday
afternoon. He said he was going into the country for a
month, and gave me four sovereigns in advance of my
allowance. My husband went into the country at the
time he left me, seventeen months ago, for the benefit of
his health, and he brought this girl, with whom he after-
wards lived, to London with him. I visited him at his
house in York-place three times. I never saw the furni-
ture in his possession before. I saw it at that house six
months ago. My husband was badly off when he left.
/ understand he was very ill in tile country. He was a
baker, sometimes in work, sometimes out of work. I
can't say that he has had a day's work for the last
twelve months. I believe not. I called at his honse on
Friday evening, but he was out. I then saw the pri-
soner, Eliza Smith, who openid the door to me.
George Towel), of 55, Baldwin's-gardens —I knew
the late Alfred Dark intimately, and have frequently
been to his house in York-place. Yesterday morning
I heard that he was brought into Westminster dead,
and that he was brought to a house in a very mys-
terious manner. I immediately apprised his wife, and
on finding his house shut up, and that the property
had been removed, we went to the Bank and stopped
some money that he had there. I went to a house in
Orchard-street, where I saw the prisoner Lear and
the female with whom Mr. Dark had been living.
I told Lear that I understood Dark was dead. Lear
told me that it was the body of another man that was
in the house, and if I was a friend of Dark's I should
say nothing about it, as some person had abused the
female he was living with, and Dark bad knocked him
on the head, and was keeping out of the way until it
was all blown over, which would be in a month or two,
when he would come back. In consequence of some
suspicions I immediately went, accompanied by the in-
spector and another officer, to the house in Orchard-
street, and on going up stairs found the body of Mr.
Dark; the prisoner Smith was in the room with it.
Thomas Tunstall, a police-constable—l went last
evening, in company with Inspector Moran, to No, 15,
Orchard-street. In the front room on the first
floor we found the body of a man. Prisoaers Lear
and Boddington came into the room, and asked
by what authority I was there. Collins then
joined the party, and they became so boisterous
that I sent down stairs for Mr. Moran. By his
directions I took Lear to the station-house, and returned
to the house. At Mr. Moran's request, Boddington pro-
duced a bundle of clothing, a gun in a case, and some
other articles belonging fo the deceased. Harris then
came into the room, and`Kaid that she had come there
to see a man that had been shot, and wanted to know
who it was. She was with the other prisoners taken into
custody.
William Boucher, of 4, Pear-street, who described
himself as the conductor of a beer-shop, then proved
that a roomful of goods had been brought into his house
before he was up in the morning ; there was a piano and
two chests of drawers, and a sofa, which the room s ould
not hold, and which the police had taken possession of.
Witness had been asked on Sunday evening by George
Boddington (not in custody) to let him the room to pi
some furniture in, and he had done so.

NOTICE to PASSENGERS.—The QUEEN,
D. M`Leod, fbr CALCUTTA, being now at Portsmouth,
passengers are requested to be there ready to EMBARK TO-
MORROW EVENING, the 7th instant.
Apply to Garratt and Gibbon, Portsmouth ; or, to Nimble and
Allkort, 98, Gracechurch-street, corner of Leadenhall-street.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
WARWICK RACES—THURSDAY.
The Castle Park Stakes of 10 sovs. each; 2 yrs, a
feather ; 3 yrs, 7st 81b ; 4 yrs, Bst 81b ; 5 yrs, 9st;
6 yrs and aged, 9st 41b. One mile. (4 Subs.)
Sir C. Cockerell's Aurungzebe, 4 yrs ...(H. Darling) 1
Mr. Bristow's Freystrop, 3 yrs
5 to 4 on Freystrop.—Won by a length.
Tho Stand Handicap Stakes of 15 sovs. each, 10 ft, and
only sif declared, with 50 added. Once round and a
distance. (18 Subs., six of whom declared.)
Colonel Anson's Marquise, 4 yrs, sst 121b...(Abdale) 1
Lord Brooke's The Mule, 3 yrs, sst 71b 2
Mr. Richardson's Ermengardis, 6 yrs, 6st 101 b 3
Mr. Collett's Cattonite, 5 yrs, Bst
7 to 4 on Marquise, 4 to 1 agst Ermengardis, and 5 to 1
agst The Mule. Won by half a length. Ermengardis
beaten about two lengths.
The Queen's Plate of 100 guinea ; 3 yrs old, Bst 21b ;
4 yrs, 9st 61b • 5 yrs, lOst ; 6 yrs and aged, lOst 31b.
Heats, two miles.
Mr. Collett's Corranna, 5 yrs (Whitehouse) 1 1
Mr. Mostyn's Brunel, 3 yrs
Mr. J. Day's br gby Mazeppa, out of Buck, 3 yrs 3 dr
6 to 1 on Corranna, who won in a canter by two lengths.
The Selling Stakes of 5 sovs. each, with 25 added ;
three yrs old, 7st 101 b ; four, 9st ; five, 9st 101 b ;
six yrs and aged, lOst ; mares allowed 31b. Winner
to be sold for 2001. if demanded ; if for 150/., allowed
71b ; if for 100/., 141 b ; if for 501, 251 b. One mile.
(7 Subs.)
Mr. Mostyn's Al-a-mode, 3 yrs (501) (Copeland) 1
Mr. Copeland's Assay, 3 yrs (ICO/.) . 2
Mr. Quin's Loadstone, 3 yrs
Mr. Collett's Rory O'More, aged (501.) 4
Mr. Collin's fby Voltaire, Eminah, 3 yrs (500 5
Mr. Wellard's Mandarin, 4 yrs (1001.)
5 to 2 agst Al-a-mode, 3 to 1 agst Assay, 3 to 1 agst
the Voltaire filly, and 4 to 1 agst Rory O'More.
Won by about three parts of a length.
BETTING AT WARWICK-THURSDAY AFTERNOON.
7 to 2 agst The Cure—t. 12 to 1 agst Foig-a-ballagh
9 to 2 agst Ithuriel—t. 50 to 1 agst Lightning.
7 to 1 agst Red Deer 66 to 1 agst Vattel—t.
9to 1 agst Bay Momus--t. 1,000 even between Ze
9to 1 agst The Princess nobia and the Devil-to
—taken pay.
12 to 1 agst Valerian
Lord G. Bentinek has lent
St. Leger, his Lordship to re,
the horse win.
Bloodstone, or the horse that ran as such at Ascot,
was sold yesterday, at Warwick, for 205 guineas. He
goes into S. Scott's stable, at Ascot.
ECCLES RACES—WEDNESDAY.
The Hurdle Stakes of 3 sovs. each, with 20 added ; for
three yrs old, 9st 51b ; four yrs, lOst 71b ; five yrs,
list 51b ; six yrs and aged, 12st ; half-bred allowed
71bs ; winners of a Hunter's Stakes, &c., once, 51bs ;
twice round and a distance, over four hurdles (4 sub-
scribers), were won, in 2 heats, by Mr. Bretherton's
Marengo, aged (Owner), beating Mr. Lamb's Bessy
Bedlam, aged, and Mr. H. Bennett's Jack, aged, easily.
The Selling Stakes of 2 sovs. each, with 15 added, the
second to save his stake, for three yrs old, 7st 71b ;
four yrs, Bst 101 b ; five yrs, 9st 41b ; six yrs and
aged, 9st 101 b ; half-bred allowed 71b ; mares and
geldings 31b ; winners once 51b, twice 81b extra, the
winner to be sold for 50/., if demanded, twice round,
(10 subscribers), were won, in 2 heats, by Mr. Hall's
Viscount, four yrs (Frost), beating Mr. Thompson's
br g, by Shrigley, out of Fenella, five yrs (Stagg), Mr.
Robinson's Wasp, aged, Mr. Smith's Ten of Trumps,
six yrs, and Mr. Fowler's Sunflower, six yrs, easily,
and was claimed.
The Ladies' Purse of 10/., twice round, was won, in
3 heats, by Mr. Fowler's Marvourneen, beating three
others.

RESULTS of the BATTLE of ISLY
(From the Semaphore of Marseilles.)
"It cost us 21 killed (four of whom were officers)
of the Spahis, and 99 wounded. If we were to credit
the accounts of the Arabs, the Marshal must have
greatly underrated the truth in announcing that the
enemy had only 800 killed. More recent intelligence,
exaggerated no doubt by the natives, estimates the
number of their killed at 3,000. The field of battle
was literally strewed with dead bodies, which were on
the folloWing day in a state of putrefaction—so
much so, that the Marshal, to avoid the pernicious
influence of the miasma produced by a heat of 45
degrees (centigrade), deemed it prudent to transfer
his camp to the distance of a league—that is, four
leagues to the west of Ouchdah. On the 15th he aban-
doned the Moorish camp, and ascended the Isly as far
as Condiat Abderrahman. It was there Colonel Foy
left him to embark in the Oronoque at Djemaa Gha-
zaouat, a small bay, where 500,000 rations for the
army were committed to the keeping of the natives.f
We captured upwards of 400 metrical quintals o
gunpowder, cannon balls, grape-shot canisters, mus-
ket balls in great quantity, upwards of 1,000 horse-
shoes, and a large supply of flour. A portion of this
article was distributed among the soldiers, and the
rest sent to the Hospital of Lalla Magrania, by order
of the Marshal. We also found a considerable pro-
vision of excellent tea, which our men now enjoy in
the evening, at their bivouack. Upwards of 2,000
tents remained in our power, 300 of which were for-
warded to the camp of Lalla Magrania. Our soldiers
converted the remainder into drawers. The Marshal
was to embark on the 2d at Djemaa Ghazaouat, and
return to Algiers, visiting on his way all our establish-
ments on the coast and Orleanville. He is expected at
Algiers between the 15th and 20th."

TOTNES.
THE REV. J. SHORE.

A meeting of a few of the friends of the Rev. James
Shore was held on 'Wednesday evening, in the school-
room behind the Bridgetown Chapel, for the purpose
of adopting measures to assist the reverend gentle-
man in resisting the unprecedented prosecution is-
sued against him by the Bishop of Exeter. About
fifty persons attended, amongst whom were, John
Derry, Esq., magistrate of the borough, Mr. Thomas
Michelmore, Lieut. Boardman, R.N., Lieut. Lus-
combe, R.N., Mr. John Windeatt, Mr. F. B. Cuming,
Mr. W. F. Windeatt, Mr. James D. Searle, Mr.
Edwin Searle, of Longcomb, &c., &c.
On the motion of Mr. T. MicnELmoaE, seconded
by Mr. J. WINDEATT, Mr. Derry was unanimously
called to the chair. He proceeded to state the objects
of the meeting, and read a copy of the notice calling
the same, which had been affixed at the chapel doors
on Sunday last. After a few preliminary remarks
from the chairman, the following resolutions were
unanimously adopted :
Moved by Mr. BOARDAIAN, and seconded by Mr.
J. IVINDEATT—" That the thanks of this meeting be
given to his Grace the Duke of Somerset, for the
kind and handsome manner in which he acceded to
the wishes of the congregation attending the Bridge-
town Chapel, by securing to them the ministry of
their valued pastor, the Rev. James Shore ; and for
permitting his chapel to be opened for Divine service
under the Toleration Acts, when he found, in conse-
quence of the unprecedented opposition of the Rev.
Mr. Cousins and the Bishop of Exeter, it was the
only means by which he could accomplish the desired
objects of the congregation."
Moved by Mr. LUSCOMBE, and seconded by Mr.
J. SIII7TE—" That this meeting gladly avail them-
selves of the opportunity of expressing their unabated
attachment to the Rev. James Shore, whose zeal in
the performance of his ministerial duties, and high
moral character, during his long residence among
them, have earned for him the respect, gratitude, and
affection of all classes of his hearers; and at the same
time the meeting think it right to express their opi-
nion that the opposition offered to Mr. Shore, in a
great measure arises from personal feeling, and is an
unjust attempt to injure an unoffending man, and a
faithful minister of Christ."

Devil-to-pay to run for the
!eive half the stakes should

Jane Boucher, the daughter, was called, and said
several people brought the things on Monday morning.
Boddington and Lear were among the numbers.
Mr. Wontner submitted that nothing whatever had
been proved against his clients to justify their detention.
There was no evidence to show that the furniture had
ever been the property of the deceased ; and because
the wife now came forward and pleased to set up a claim
to it, everybody found at the house where the lady was
had been taken into custody.
Mr. BuunELL said the evidence respecting the pro-
perty was slight. lie wished to know whether anything
could be said of the previous character of the prisoners.
Mr. Moran said Lear and Bedding►ton were well
known.

TATTERSALL'S.-YESTERDAY.
ST. LEGER.

Mr. BURRELL said he should remand the prisoners
for a week, and, in the meantime, care must be taken of
the property.
On the application of Mr. Wontner, the magistrate
consented to take bail for the appearance of the accused.
In the course of the afternoon the worthy magistrate
liberated four out of the five prisoners, on their putting
in the necessary securities.

4 to 1 agst Mr. Salvin's The Cure—taken to nearly 3001.
9 to 2 agst Lord Stanley's Ithuriel—take 5 to 1
6 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Red Deer—t. to 1501.
8 to 1 agst Mr. J. Scott's Bay Momus—taken to 1001.
Bto 1 agst Colonel Anson's The Princess-9 to It. freely.
11 to 1 agst Mr. Irwin's Foig-a-ballagh—taken.

Since the discovery of the dead body of Dark, in Or-
chard-street, Westminster, under circumstances of a sus-
picious character, a report has got abroad, and ob-
tained general belief in the neighbourhood, that a
crime resembling in its leading features the case
of Mr. Weare, who was murdered by John Thur.
tell, had been committed, and this impression has by
no means subsided, although the case has undergone
an investigation. The opinion of that portion of
the detective police, who have looked into some cir-
cumstances connected with the case, and who are well
acquainted with the characters, and of those who are
unquestionably mixed up most intimately in the whole
affair, points strongly to the conclusion that a deed of
violence has been committed, and that a most searching
investigation will only be able to draw the truth to light.
A correspondent has sent us a number of particulars
of Dark's life and proceedings, which go to justify the
worst suspicions, but we forbear to publish them till
they are narrated, if there be any foundation for them,
in a court of justice, as they involve serious charges not
only against the late Mr. Dark, but against his associates.

Moved by Mr. F. B. CURSING, and seconded by Mr.
E. SEARLE—" That, in addition to the injustice of
the unprecedented persecution to which the Rev. James
Shore is personally exposed by the Bishop of Exeter,
this meeting cannot but view the course adopted by
the Bishop as a fearful encroachment on the religious
liberty of Englishmen, and an attempt to render use-
less the Toleration Acts, passed expressly to protect
persons conscientiously seceding from the Established
Church ; and that it is, therefore, the opinion of this
meeting that the Rev. J. Shore, in resisting the at-
tack of the Bishop, is supporting the cause of reli-
gious liberty, and, consequently, is entitled to the aid
of every one opposed to intolerance and persecution ;
and that this meeting pledges itself to render him
every legitimate support and assistance."
Moved by Mr. J. E. SEARLE, and seconded by Mr:
T. PARROTT—" That a committee be now formed,
for the purpose of receiving and soliciting subscrip-
tions, and to determine as to the future plans to be
adopted to carry out the opinion expressed in the last
resolution ; and that such committee be empowered to
correspond with any friends of civil and religious
freedom in other towns and cities in England and
elsewhere to solicit their co-operation for the same
purpose ; and that such committee do consist of the
following gentlemen, with power to add to their num-
bers :

HINTS TO VISITING AND RELIEF SOCIETIES.—
Having entered a poor person's dwelling, behave as if it
were your own. 110 not wait to be asked to sit down.
If you are a gentlemal, keep your hat on. Address
the male occupant of the house as " My Good Man,"
and his wife as " My Good Woman ;" or if you find
it necessary to assert your dignity, omit the " Good"
altogether. Say, " Boy," and " Girl," to the child-
ren, as the case may be. Your first object is, to im-
press the visited with a due sense of their distance
from yourself. For this reason, if they remain stand-
ingin your presence, never suggest that they should
sit. Inquire in the most direct and unceremonious
way possible, what their rent is—how they are em-
ployed—what amount they earn—and in what manner
they spend it ? Insist en knowing exactly how much they
give fur coals ; what quantity they burn ; and what
becomes of the cinders? Find out their exact consump-
tion of potatoes, and whether they are economical in
Faring them. Interrogate them with similar minuteness
with respect to meat, Dread, cheese, butter, tea, coffee,
vinegar, and pepper. Ask if their sugar is sixpenny or
sever-Tem-I,y ; whether my of them take tobacco or snuff;
and, especially, if they ever indulge in beer or spirituous
liquors. Reprehend, sternly, the slightest excess or
waste that you may detect in any of the above respects,
and if the expenditure has not been limited to the merest
necessaries, lecture them on it well. Ask when they go
to bed ; at what time they get up ; at what hour they
breakfast, dine, and sup Request to be allowed to look
into their drawers and cupboards, to see what there is in
them. Smell every bottle you find. Take notes of every
pot, pan, kettle, cup, saucer, phial, and gallipot, in the
house. Demand to know what articles of apparel or
furniture they have in pawn, and to see the duplicates for
each. Make them tell you what they do with their rags,
and how they are situate in regard to soap. Insist on
being minutely informed how each of the family spends
every portion of his or her time ; and animadvert strongly
on any application thereof to rest or recreation. Having
read the whole round of them a severe homily on any
imprudence or mismanagement of their household and
affairs that you may have elicited, give them, provided
they appear sufficiently abashed, a ticket for sixpenny-
worth of relief, accompanied by a penny tract. Let
your gift be made with an air of lofty condescension ;
retire majestically, and go home to your three courses
and dessert.—Punch.

Mr. T. Michelmore, Mr. J. Windeatt,
Lieut. Boardman, R.N., Mr. Frans. B. Cuming,
Lieut. Luscombe, R.N., Mr. Thos. Parrott,
Captain Finch, Mr. James D. Searle,
Mr. Sampson, Mr. Edwin Searle,
Mr. Derry, Mr. J. D. Moysey."
Mr. Derry having left the chair,
Mr. T. MICHELMORE moved, and Mr. BOARDMAN
seconded—" That the thanks of this meeting be given
to Mr. Derry, for his straightforward and wanly con-
duet In the chair;" which ryas briefly responded to
by Mr. Derry.
A subscription was immediately entered into, and
before the meeting separated upwards of 501. was
subscribed.— Western Times.

A CONTRAST.—Rather more than fifty years ago,
the sinking sun shone bright, one fine afternoon, on the
stately tenements of Dumfries, and threw its slant rule
of light athwart the principal street of the town. The
shadows of the houses on the western side were stretched
half-way across the pavement, while on the side oppo-
site the red beam seemed as if sleeping on jutting irre-
gular fronts and tall gables. There was a world of well-
dressed company that evening in Dumfries ; for the
aristocracy of the adjacent country for twenty miles
round had poured in to attend a county ball, and were
fluttering in groups along the sunny side of the street,
gay as butterflies. On the other side, in the shade, a soli-
tary individual paced slowly along the pavement. Of the
hundreds who fluttered past no one took notice of
him—no one seemed to recognise him. He was known
to them all as the exciseman and poet, Robert Burns ;
b`ut he had offended the stately Toryism of the district
by the freedom of his political creed ; and so—tainted
by the plague of Liberalism—he lay under strict qua-
rantine. He was shunned and neglected ; for it was
with the man Burns that these his contemporaries had
to deal. Let the reader contrast with this truly melan-
choly scene, the scene of his festival a fortnight since.
Here are the speeches of the Earl of Eglinton and
of Sir John and hero the toast of the
Lord Justice General. Let us just imagine these
gentlemen, with all their high aristocratic notions
about them, carried back half a century into tho past, and
dropped down, on the sad evening to which we refer,
in the main street of Dumfries. Which side does the
reader think they would have chosen to walk upon ?
Would they have addressed the one solitary individual
in the shade, or net rather joined themselves to the gay
groups in the sunshine who neglected and contemned
him ? They find it an easy matter to deal with the
phantom idea of Burns now ; how would they have dealt
with the man then ? How are they dealing with his
poorer relatives, or how with men of kindred genius,
their contemporaries ? Alas! a moment's glance at such
matters is sufficient to show how very unreal a thing a
commemorative feast may be.—Edinburgh IVitness.
DEATH FROM CIIOKING.—Mr. Wakley, M.P., on
Tuesday held an inquest at the Freemasons' Arms, Suf-
folk-street, King's-cross, on the body of Mary Ann
Searle, aged 49. It appeared that the deceased, who had
an asthmatic complaint, on Thursday last was sitting up
in bed, when her husband offered her a cup of tea. She
had drank some, and whilst drinking the remainder she
was seized with a cough, became black in the face, and
exhibited other symptoms of strangulation. A medical
man was at once sent for, but before his arrival life was
extinct. Verdict—" Natural death."

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EXPERIMENTS ON SALMON. Numerous experi-
ments are at present making in various parts of the
kingdom for the purpose of proving unsettled points in
the natural history of the salmon. Several of th
have been made in the Tweed and its tributaries, ° ethe
last of which, we believe, was the worsted
thread of
different colours inserted in the tails of salmon fry. The
purpose of the experiments was to ascertain the precise
time occupied by the fish
pasNsVinhgeth from the lower stages
er any of these have
of its growth to maturity.
been since captured We have not been able to learn.
About a fortnight ago, however, ag •
the Shore Side Fishery, by James Dglril se
was caught on
acqueen, fisherman,
which may terow some light on ti • its interesting subject.
Among the number of other fish caught with the net,
he observed a black mark on the tail of one, of tho sixo
of a No. 4 shot. On examining it more closely, he felt
some hard substance, and
scraping the flesh to ascertain
the cause, discovered • a piece of wire twisted through the
tail. The fish had a very healthy appearance, was
about 51b. weight,
and resembled in every respect the
perh
other grilse. ups this single recovered specimen
may afford the ex e
p =enters the information desired.—
Be, :::ick War. 1 c.er.

LONGEVITY.—Among the inmates of St. Ca-
therine's alms-houses, in this pity (Exeter), is Elizabeth
Mount:oy, who completed her hundredth year in Ja-
nuary last. She is a widow, and has been the mother,
we understand, of sixteen children. By the aid of spec-
tacles, she can read, and with the assistance of a stick
she enjoys a walk.— Western Luminary.