The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-22 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDOIN, TUESDAY EVENING OCTOBER 22 1841.

to pass through any part of the line after nine o'clock
in the morning ; while, to prevent a rush by the
people, barricades are to be placed in different parts,
through which no one will be allowed to pass except
up9n business. The 600 additional constables have
been selected, who are to receive ss. each for the
day's duty.
GUARD OF lIONOUR TO THE QUEEN.
The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor received from
Sir James Graham, her Majesty's Secretary of State
for the Home Department, the following letter, com-
plimentary to the Royal Artillery Company:—
" Whitehall, Oct. 18, 1844.
_ _ _

" My Lord,— I have the honour to inform your Lord-
ship that a communication has been made to his Royal
Highness Prince Albert, Captain-General and Colonel
Commanding the Honourable Artillery Company, in-
forming his Royal Highness that her Majesty has been
graciously pleased to signify her pleasure that the corps
above named should attend as a Guard of Honour at the
Exchange on the occasion of her Majesty honouring the
Corporation of London by being present at the opening
that building on the 28th inst.
" I have the honour to be, my Lord,
" Your Lordship's very obedient servant,
" J. R. G. GRAHAM."

THE THEATRES.

LYCEUM.

Ever since the appearance of " Les Mysteres de
Paris," the name of Eugene Sue has been a tower of
strength to publisher and manager. The manage-
ment of the Lyceum, therefore, has exhibited its
usual tact in producing at the present moment, under
the title of The Seven Castles of the Passions, his
drama Les Sept Chateaux du Diable, at the perform-
ance of which all Paris is (to use a French idiom)
nightly assisting. This drama is described in the
bill as a " Romantic, Diabolical, Celestial, Terres-
trial, Legendary tale of Enchantment," and this de-
scription is true to the letter. We have two pairs of
lovers—Raymond (Mr. Craven) and Azele (Miss
Fertescue), and Canuche (Mr. Keeley) and Re-
gaillette (Mrs. Keeley), on a pilgrimage to the shrine
of our Lady of Grace. Satan (Mr. Diddear) endea-
vours to get them into his power by subjecting them
to the temptations of Envy, Pride, Idleness, Rage,
Avarice, Love, and Luxury—•while their guardian
angel, Sathaniel (a somewhat anomalous designa-
tion for an angel of light), invariably interferes just
as they are about to succumb to the evil influences,
-and conducts them in safety to the end of their pil-
grimage. As a spectacle this piece is beyond all
praise. Nothing can exceed the magnificence of the
castles of the respective passions. We are not de-
tained too long in any of them, and whenever the
serious sayings and doings of the sentimental pair of
lovers " darken to sublimity," the Keeleys begin the
fun, and afford a most agreeable relief. It is by far
the most agreeable allegorical drama we have ever
seen, and which will be just the thing for the ju-
veniles during the holidays. The acting was excel-
lent. Miss Fairbrother as Sathaniel wss the most
fascinating of guardian angels ; and the pilgrims cer-
tainly showed excellent taste in submitting themselves
to such delightful control. His Darkness was per-
sonated with becoming majesty by that excellent
actor, Diddear. In the Castle of Love, an incidental
divertissement was introduced, in which Miss James,
as Cupid, danced in the prettiest and most graceful
style imaginable. There were several admirable
scenic effects—all of which told admirably. The care
and expense bestowed in getting up the piece must
have been immense. At the fall of the curtain it was
announced by Keeley fur repetition every evening
amidst loud applause.

IRELAND.
MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.
DUBLIN, OCT. 20.—Yesterday evening, Mr. John
Walsh, of Dominick-street, barrister, lost his life under
the following melancholy circumstances :—About four
o'clock he proceeded to Pinglass, about two miles from
town, for the purpose of swimming his dogs at a place
called Quarry-hole. Having thrown a piece of stick
into the water, which one of the animals refused to fol-
low, Mr. Walsh in stretching out his cane to draw the
stick closer to the edge, lost his balance, and was pre-
cipitated into the water, and sank, after a few struggles,
to rise no more, before any assistance arrived. The
body was not found for two hours after the accident, and
was conveyed to his residence late last night. An in-
quest was held, which after the examination of one wit-
ness was adjourned till to-morrow evening. A gold
watch and a sum of 161. was found on his Ferson. About
14 years ago the ill-fated gentleman held a rather pro-
minent position in the field of Irish politics. At that
time Mr. Walsh, who then followed the laborious occu-
pation of a schoolmaster, was the leading member of the
Trades' Political Union__a bad y through whose in-
fluence Mr. O'Connell was mainly, if not wholly, in-
debted for his first return as Member, in conjuaction
with the late Mr. Ruthven, for the city of Dublin. He
was subsequently, together with two other members of
the Trades' Union, prosecuted by the Crown for the
delivery of seditious speeches, found guilty, and sen-
tenced to six months' imprisonment. On his release
from imprisonment, Mr. Walsh applied himself to the
study of the law, and having met some ineffectual resis-
tance on the part of the benchers, he was called to the
bar, and after the usual probation attained considerable
eminence in the criminal and inferior courts. During
the last two or three years he rose rapidly in his profes-
sion, and succeeded in obtaining a fair share of business
on the Leinster circuit.

LAUGHABLE OCCURRENCE.
The neighbourhood of Northumberland-avenue, King-
ston, was yesterday thrown into a state of the utmost
excitement, it having transpired that a lady had made
an assignment with a gentleman who had advertised for
a wife. Accordingly at the hour mentioned, three
o'clock, the expectant inhabitants of the avenue were
highly amused on beholding, as Burns would say, " a
fine fat fagel wight " make his appearance, wiping his
fat face with a white handkerchief, the lady having re-
quested that he would occasionally place a white hand-
kerchief to his face, as the means of recognition, and
further stating that she would drive in from the country
at the hour specified. Nearly half an hour after his ar-
rival, a lady drove up in a pony phaeton, in a great
shower of rain, with a servant on the rumble, protecting
her with an umbrella. On seeing her the unfortunate
man fancied that the object of his search was at length
before him, and after a few convulsive applications of
the, handkerchief started forward, and with a spring re-
markable for a man of his size, fairly jumped into the
phaeton ; and before the astonished lady could recover
from the fright his sudden appearance occasioned, he
had encircled her in his arms, calling her by every en-
dearing appellation ; and it was not until the lady had
uttered screamafter scream, and his shoulders were well
belaboured with the umbrella by the servant, that he
appeared to think he had got into the wrong box ' • so
making his escape as expeditiously as possible, he has-
tened off to the train without staying to make further in-
quiries for his inamorata ; and it is earnestly hoped that
the lesson he has received will perform a radical cure for
his love.
IRISH POOR-LAW COMMISSION.

The following appears in the Carlow Sentinel of yes-
terday :—" We learn, from the best authority, that in
consequence of the serious charges made in Mr. Pone-
theme's report against the Poor-law Commissioners, and
the conflicting statements of Mr. Penethorne and the
Commissioners' architect, the Government have issued
a commission of inquiry, which will not only embrace a
searching scrutiny into the expenditure on the poor-
houses, but a thorough inspection of the buildings in
every union in Ireland. We have also to announce, on
equally good authority, that Mr. Owen, of the Board of
Works, is appointed a member of the commission. The
names of the other gentlemen who are to act with him
have not yet transpired, but we believe they will com-
mence operations immediately."
The Marquis of Donegal sailed from Belfast for
London on Friday.

HER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO THE ClTY.—Yesterday
numerous workmen were engaged erecting seats around
St. Paul's Cathedral, St. Clement Danes Church, St.
Mary's Church, Strand, King's College, and various
other public places in the line of the road from Bucking-
ham Palace to the Royal Exchange. The applications
at tradesmen's houses have already been very numer-
ous, and prices of from half a sovereign to three
guines have been paid, fur seats having a good view of
the grand and imposing processien.
THE MARQUIS 07 LONDONDERRY AND TIME COL-
LIERS.-" The Marquis of Londonderry," says the
Durham Advertiser of Saturday, " has written to the
secretary to the fund for the survivors of the sufferers by
the late accident at Haswell Colliery, in reply to an ap-
plication for a subscription. The Noble Lord disap-
proves of all such subscriptions, and contends that it is
the duty of all proprietors of collieries to maintain those
who are bereft of their protectors by fatal accident in
the mines. He estimates the amount of money he has
paid in this way, as coal proprietor, since 1819, at
6,1621. 17s. sd. He concludes his letter, however, by
saying that, as the Lambton Colliery and the Earl of
Durham have each given 1001. to the fund, he will give
the same sum."

MEL ANCIIOLY ACCIDENT.—WiIIiam Collings, a boy
ten years of age, in the habit of going to sea with his
father and brother in a small fishing-vessel, accompanied
them as usual last Tuesday. The father returned in the
evening, leaving his two sons to moor the boat ; the
elder desired William to go home, and seeing him cross
several boats, supposed he bad landed safely. On enter-
ing his mother's room ho inquired for his brother, and
finding he was still absent, told them the child had parted
from him to return about half an hour before. Search
was immediately made in all directions for the child ;
but hearing no account of him, the next morning, as
soon as the tide was out (one o'clock, A.m.), Mr. Collings
and six men went to the Barbican. The father in
searching placed his hand on the body of the child, but
being too much affected to render any assistance, the boy
was taken up by the other men. His nose and •mouth
were filled with mud, which, it is supposed, prevented
his rising again. An inquest was held the same evening
before Mr. J. Edmonds, borough coroner. Verdict—
" Accidental death.—Plymouth Times.
SPEEDY JUSTICE.--On Saturday evening, the 12th
inst., a man, by the name of John Anderson, was taken
by Mr. I'. E. Collinson, superintendent of police, from
Ripon to Aldborough, a distance of about seven miles,
upon a charge of felony. The case was beard before
Mr. W. J. Coltman, a resident magistrate, and the
soner was committed for trial to Northallerton. On the
ensuing Monday (the 14th instant), he was taken to
Northallerton Gaol,
tried, convicted, and sentenced to transportation for
seven years. and on Wednesday last he was

Gipsy Lee, mentioned in our last as having caused
a female respectably connected to elope with him from
Margate, has since been charged with robbing a relative
of his " beloved," at whose house he lodged, and com-
mitted to prison for trial. He sobbed bitterly during
the examination, and while in the cage thrice attempted
suicide.—Canterbury Journal.
BURGLARY.--About one o'clock on Saturday morn-
ing last, six fellows with their faces blackened entered
the dwelling-house of Mr. T. Worthington, of Mansetter,
near Atherstone, Warwickshire, and whilst some of them
were engaged in ransacking the premises of the most
portable and valuable of their contents, the others were
engaged in preventing the inmates from making an
alarm, during which considerable resistance was made
by the latter, who were most of them wounded ; Mr.
Worthington most so. It would appear, however, that
some of the villains, before they effected their escape
with the booty were much cut and wounded by a sword
used by Mr. Worthington in the conflict. A reward of
1001 is offered for the apprehension and conviction of the
offenders by Mr. Worthington, and if either of the par-
ties will jimpeach his accomplices, he shall receive the
above reward, and every means will be used to obtain for
him her Majesty's most gracious free pardon.
A GOOD CROP.—Mr. Alexander Waddingham, of
Driffield, has this year produced from a field containing
about four acres, on the north side of the road leading to
Burlington, no less than seven! and a half quarters per
acre. In fact, this field has for several years been re-
markable for the abundance of its crops. In 1841, the
yield was six and a half quarters per acre, and in 1838,
seven and a half quarters per acre,—Yorkshire Gazette.
GRAND EXPLOSION OF MINES AT CHATIJAM,
OCT. 21.—For the last two months the Royal Engineer
establishment, under the entire direction of Lieutenant-
Colonel Sir Frederick Smith, K.H., have been engaged
in preparing a system of countermines in front of the
ravelin on the left of Chatham lines, not only with the
view to practise in mining, but also with the object of
carrying on the course of drillin subterraneous warfare.
The corps of the Royal Engineers will be divided off for
this occasion into distinct parties, ene representing the
besiegers, and the other the defenders of the fortress,
the operations to consist chiefly in mining against each
other, on which occasion considerable charges of gun-.
powder will be exploded. They will be highly interest-
ing to the scientific military officer, asthere is no in-
stance of a similar course having been at any time car-
ried on in this country on the same enlarged scale. It i
ill, in
carry on
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the upper ground in the ordinary work of a siege. The
operations, it is stated, will probably extend over a period
of eight or ten days. Lieutenant Penrice, of the Royal En-
gineers, will take the command. of the defence; and Captain
Wynn command the attacking party. Neither of the
two officers know anything
.of each other's plans, the
attack and defence being entirely distinct in their re-
spective duties, and the parties of Sappers and Miners
are positively forbidden to hold any communication
whatever with each other ; all that can be ascertained
is, that each party can hear each other at work with
their picks and shovels. The whole of the operations
will have the same importance as if done in actual ser-
vice. The extent of the ground occupied by the troops
form an extent of about teu acres. Captain Wynn, from
the third parallel, is pushing forward several galleries in
the expectation that out of some of these points of attack
he will succeed. Lieutenant Penrice's is a system of
countermines founded on a new plan for defending the
glacis of a fortress. At present it would be unfair to
give a detailed account of the two operations, as each
officer enters the contest with no more knowledge of
each other's operations than if they were in an actual
siege with an enemy. The subterraneous warfare com-
mences on Tuesday, the 22d instant, at eleven o'clock in
the forenoon. It is expected that. several distinguished
officers from London will be present.
The Bishop of Salisbury has offered to contribute
liberally himself, and to obtain liberal assistance from
other quarters, in aid of the rebuilding, on a large scale,
the parish church of Fisherton Anger, near Salisbury.

PENTONVILLE MODEL PRISON.
The last number of the Illuminated Magazine con •
tains a very interesting account of the above esta-
blishment, in which the important experiment is being
tried, how far it is possible, by the adoption of a cer-
tain discipline, to reclaim social beings from the lowest
state of degradation and crime. The principal means
resorted to, we need not say, are silence and separa-
tion—an utter denial of communication by speech or
look between the prisoners themselves, or with any
other persons except the divine, the schoolmaster, and
the prison authorities. The effect of such a change
as this, from the mode of life to which the prisoners
had been previously accustomed, was looked for with
some anxiety, in the dread that, in seeking to restore
the moral being of the prisoner, his mental faculties
might be destroyed, and this, it must be allowed, was
not a groundless apprehension ; and if such a system
of discipline were exercised without care, its inevita-
ble result would be, to change the criminal into an
idiot; but, with proper precautions, this fearful result
is avoided, and the good part of the system left to
operate with full effect.
The chief means employed are—good and sufficient
diet, constant occupation, and ample exercise, by which
the body is kept healthy, and the mind free from that
depressing and wearying influence which would other-
wise prey upon it.
The writer of the account we refer to, Dr. Luke
Roden, says—
"On entering an unoccupied cell, the inmate being
at work in a distant part of the prison, I was sur-
prised at the number of its accommodations. A
hammock hung up at the side, with hair mattress,
pillow, two sheets, two blankets, and a rug ; a wash-
hand-stand and basin fixed ; two cocks for the supply
of water, of which each prisoner is allowed six
gallons daily ; a table, stool, pint mug, plate, knife,
spoon, soap, towel, and duster; there is, also, a large
carpenter's bench at the side ; a gas light burning till
nine o'clock ; school books and slate, Bible, prayer-
book, hymn-book, one religious book, and one
secular. I noticed the Penny Magazine, Satur-
day Magazine, and Chambers's Journal. The
ventilation is entirely artificial, and is most perfect.
The air enters over the door, through a perforated
plate, and passes out on a level with the floor under
the window, into a flue connected with a central
chimney, where a fire secures a constant current.
What I have enumerated is the furniture of every
cell, with only the variation of loom, or table, for
the carpenter's work-bench, according to the kind of
trade the prisoner is acquiring—tailor, weaver, mat
or rug maker, &c.
" As when the prisoner is locked into his cell, it is
just possible that he might be seized with illness,
suddenly, and require immediate assistance, it was
necessary to provide some means of giving a signal
to the attendants—although the constant inspection,
the regularity of food and exercise, and the extreme
vigilance of the medical officers make such an event
barely possible ; but, in case of accident, the prisoner
turns a handle which immediately strikes the central
bell of the gallery, and at the same moment, and by
the same act, there starts out from the side of the
door of his cell the iron plate with his number, which
lay flat against the wall, so that the officer, at the
point where all these galleries meet, sees instantly in
which cell his aid is required. The invention is per-
fect. When he has attended to the cell he pushes
back the iron plate again flat into its place. The only
use, however, to which this very ingenious con-
trivance has yet been placed is to signify to the
teacher-officers that the inmate of the cell requires
more cloth, thread, or whatever be the nature of his
occupation, or that he wishes for instruction in some
difficulty. It is scarcely possible that the signal
should ever be wanted for sudden sickness, because
the whole of the inmates are miraculously healthy,
and are subjected to none of those causes which are
liable to interfere with the tranquil performance of all
the bodily functions."
He was present at their dinner. "It was a curi-
ous sight, the streams of human beings, all dressed
alike, with the vizors of their caps down over their
faces, so as to be utterly irrecognizable by strangers,
or by each other, marching regularly, steadily, and in
perfect silence, with a space of twelve or fourteen
feet between each of them, so as to make any com-
munication impossible. Each passed into his cell,
and the echoes of the gallery announced the closing
of every door in succession.
" While this was going on, up rose slowly through
the floor, sliding on the bright upright bars which
reached to the ceiling, the immense series of loaded
trays; as they stopped at each floor in succession,
the attendants took out the cases of trays, and placed
them on a sort of waggon reaching from one gallery
to its opposite side, and moving on wheels along the
edge of iron railing, which thus forms a sort of rail-
way. An attendant at each end of this travelling
apparatus, pushes it on till opposite the doors of two
cells, when he, with wonderful rapidity, un-
locks a little port-hole in the upper part of the
door, which falls down outwards and forms a shelf on
which lie places the dinner; it is instantly seized by
the prisoner, when the attendant pushes up the little
shutter, locks it, and passes on to the next. In this
manner they proceed with a quiet regularity, activity,
and precision, which would seem absolutely impracti-
cable to those who have not seen it in action, and thus
upwards of five hundred individuals are served with
their dinners in separate rooms, perfectly hot, in less
than a quarter of an hour—it can be done, and has
indeed been accomplished, in twelve minutes and a
half. The evolutions of a brigade of soldiers on a
field day are not a more admirable exemplification of
the power of system and order.
" The dinner which I saw distributed consisted of
a pint of good soup —as good as is found at the table
of a tradesman—five ounces of bread, one pound of ,
potatoes, and .feur, ounces of meat,: weigheid 'after
being cooked, and divtsted of bone, making it nearly
equivalent to half a pound of undressed meat
with the average quantity of bone—an allowance
considered sufficient in the domestic economy of large
families—an excellent dinner, and vastly better than
can be enjoyed every day by the family of the la-
bouring man. Breakfast consists of three-quarters of
a pint of cocoa, made with three-quarters of an ounce
of the solid flake, two ounces of milk (real milk) and
six drachms of treacle—a very grateful beverage;
with this he is allowed ten ounces of bread. As the
soup contains a good deal of barley, it forms an im-
portant portion of the nourishment, which would be
a very abundant allowance for a labouring man out
of prison, and master of his own time. There is no
fermented fluid whatever allowed to the prisoners;
their drink is perhaps the purest and best water to be
found in the world ; it is drawn by an artesian well
from a depth of three hundred and seventy feet, and is
forced up to the top of the prison by pumps worked
by prisoners ; from thence it is conveyed by pipes
into every cell."
" For this generous but unstimulating diet (says
Dr. Roden) the prisoners are indebted to the sound
judgment and humanity of the medical officer, Dr.
Owen Rees. No man better knows that to keep the
brain in a state fit to receive instruction, it must be
well nourished ; that when you call on the intellec-
tual organ for the highest efforts of which it is capa-
ble (self-restraint), you must supply it with whole-
some and invigorating blood; that it is in vain to ex-
pect attention to moral instruction while the stomach
is unsatisfied, and the faintness of insufficient
nourishment renders the mind listless or savage;
and that if the object is to be attained of real refor-
mation, it must be by the exercise of a healthy brain."
We recommend these latter remarks to the notice
of those gentlemen who expect religion and morality
to flourish among a half-starving population. When
will the physiological truth set forth above, that
mental and material well-being must go together, be
applied to the case of the great body of our working
population ?

DARING ROBBERY AT ST. THOMAS'S CIIU,RCH,
SOUTHWARK.---On Sunday last the ancient church of
St. Thomas's, Southwark, was the scene of unusual bus-
tle and confusion, in consequence of the loss of the
whole of the communion plate, consisting of several
pieces of silver, which had been in possession of the
parish authorities for the last 200 years. It appears
that the plate had been deposited in its usual place of
safety at the commencement of the present month, and
on opening the safe on Sunday, the contents were found
to have been removed. Information having been for-
warded to the police-station in the Southwark-bridge-
road, a diligent search was made by several officers, but
no clue could be discovered. A small crowbar was found,
used by housebreakers, near the entrance of the church,
in St. Thomas's-street, and on making a more minute
enamination, there was no doubt that the thieves had
effected an entrance through a window which had been
left insecure at the front part of the building. The
police are making every exertion to trace out the stolen
property.

ALLEGED EXCESSSIVE FLOGGING,—At the Ux-
bridge Petty Sessions, yesterday, Mr. Hodder, school-
master of the union workhouse, attended to answer the
complaint of a Mrs. Church, as to his having ill-treated
her two boys. They declared ho had given them eight
stripes, so severe that the blood flowed. On the other
hand, Mr. Whatley, the master of the union, deposed
that the board of guardians had ordered six stripes to
be inflicted, that only that number bad been given, and
that they had not been unnecessarily severe, nor had he
seen any blood. The bench (most of whom were also
ex officio members of the board) dismissed the complaint.
COSTLINESS OF GA RAIARTIIENSIIIRE JUSTICE.—The
punitive part of our administrative system of law hire,
it will be thought, is rather costly, when it is stated
that the amount of property for the stealing of which the
prisoners at the Carmarthenshire Quarter Sessions, held
yesterday and to-day, is only about forty shillings, while
hv
the cost of prosecution falls but little short of three un-
dred pounds.— ilrek,liman of Friday.
SOUTH WALES TURNPIKE TRUST COMAIISSION.—
The Commissioners have .*one through most of the prin-
cipal towns connected with turnpike trusts. Everywhere
the most candid disclosures and communications have
been made to them, not only as regards the accounts of
the different trusts, but also as respects the social con-
dition of the various districts which formerly evinced
their dissatisfaction at their administration in no gentle
mood.—Cumbrian.

THE BIRKENHEAD DOCK
FESTIVAL.
The preparations for this great and important local
and national event, which takes place next Wednesday,
are upon the most gigantic scale. Rich and poor are to
be provided with the means of substantial and social en-
joyment, and the blame will not rest with the promoters
of the Birkenhead Docks, if, upon that auspicious occa-
sion,:one throb other than of unalloyed; delight fills
the breast of any of the inhabitants of the township
which their measures sea-calculated so materially and
permanently to improve and benefit. The morning will
be ushered in by the firing of cannon and ringing of
bells ; the steam-boats crossing the ferry will be deco-
rated in the gayest manner, and flags will be hoisted
from all the public and many of the private buildings in
the town. The procession will start from the Town-
hall at eleven o'clock. The Odd Fellows, Foresters,
Druids, Temperance, and other societies, are expected
to join it. The route will be round Hamilton-square,
through Church-street, round the church, up Conway-
street, through the new park, down Cavendish-street
and Corporation-road to Wood-aide, where the ceremony
of laying the foundation stone will be performed. At
five o'clock in the afternoon, the grand public banquet
will be held at the Railway Station, Grange-lane, which
will be tastefully and appropriately decorated for the
occasion. The following gentlemen have already
signified their acceptance of the invitation of
the Committee :—Lord Bateman, Sir William Massey
Stanley, Bart., of Hooton, Sir John Stanley, of
Hooton, and party honourable Lord Kenyon,
Wm. Ewart, Esq , M.P., Thos. Thornely,:i Esq.,
M.P., W.R. Collett, Esq., M.P., Townsend Mainwaring,
Esq., M.P., Wm. Entwisle, Esq., M.P., Sir Philip Eger-
ton, M.P., Tatton Egerton, Esq., M.P., J. J. Tollemache,
Esq., M.P., Peter Greenall, Esq., M.P., Joseph Bro-
therton, Esq., M.P., Sir Edward Cust, Bart., Cornwall
Lee, Esq., M.P., J. Brierley, jun., Esq., M,P., Thomas
Grimsditch, Esq., M.P., &c., together with a great num-
ber of the county magistrates. Several officers of the
sth Dragoons, now stationed at Manchester, and officers
belonging to the 6th Regiment, at Chester, will be pre-
sent, as will also several naval officers. For out-door
amusement a grand display of fireworks will take place
shortly after nightfall, and every eminence in the neigh-
bourhood will resound with the the discharge of cannon,
or gleam with signal fires, indicative of general rejoicing.
Extra steam-boats will cross the river all night, and, in
fact, every accommodation will be offered to visitors.
The fund at the disposal of the festival committee, at
present reaches the handsome sum of 2,oool.—Liverpool I
Mercury.

ETIQUETTE ON THE SC AFFOLD.—A letter from
Presburg, of Sept. 23, in the Gazette des Tribunaux, says,
" The murderers of M. de Kennet, one of the Deputies
of the Diet of Hungary, have just been tried and exe-
cuted. Ono of them was Conrad Tornyi, the servant of
the deceased, and the other a shoemaker named Kowaez,
who not only aided in the crime, but afterwards robbed
his accomplice of all the articles of value which were
in M. de Kezinet's apartment at Presburg. Tornyi
avowed his guilt, and acknowledged that he had cut
up the body in pieces. The sentence of the court was,
that Tornyi should be quartered, his body burnt, and
the ashes thrown to the wind ; and that Kowaez
should be decapitated. The prisoners appealed, but
the King confirmed the sentence of death, changing
Tornyi's punishment into simple beheading. This
sentence was carried into execution two days back,
in the market-place, and a strange incident added
to the terrible interest of the scene. The judgment
ordered Kowaez to be first executed ; but this Tornyi
protested against in the strongest terms, declaring that
as he was of noble blood he was entitled to die first. His
claim being rejected, he fell on Kowaez, and endeavoured
to pull him from the block. Kowaez sent him back
with a violent blow on the chest ; and Tornyi was on
the point of giving blow for blow, when the executioner's
man seized him, and bound him so tightly as to prevent
him making any exertion. They were both executed in
a few minutes after. This singular ambition of Tornyi
to have his claim of birth attended to in such circum-
stances, calls to mind an execution at Copenhagen in
1816, where, when some men were sentenced to death
for exciting their fellow-prisoners to revolt, three of the
number had been beheaded, but the fourth refused to
place his bead on the block, on the ground that the per-
son beforo him had been a Jew, and that he, being a
Christian, could object to having his blood mingled with
that of a Jew. After some parley the magistrate granted
his objection, and the man having cleaned the block of
the blood as well as he could, placed his head down
tranquilly, and underwent the sentence."
THE BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR.—Yesterday being
the 39th anniversary of this ever memorable victory, a
number of naval officers who had been in the engage-
ment dined together at the Naval Club-liouse, St.
James's-square. At Greenwich Hospital the tars were
regaled with an excellent dinner, a pint of porter, and a
shilling being also given to each man. At Portsmouth
the usual annual dinner was given to the officers serving
in the action, and others, on board the Victory, the ship
in which the noble and lamented Admiral was killed.
INCAUTION IN TILE USE OF KNlVES.—Yesterday
the foreman of Mr. Budge, a butcher, in the New-cut,
Lambeth, was engaged cutting down the skin of a calf's
head, when the knife slipped, and entered with great
violence his abdomen, cutting the intestines to a conside •
rable extent. Immediate surgical assistance wes pro-
cured, but from the extent of the injuries sustained it was
recommended that the unfortunate patient should be re-
moved with all possible speed to St. Thomas's Hospi:al,
where he lies without hope of recovery.
SINGULAR HABITS OF A HORSE, AND EXTRA-
ORDINARY ESCAPE.—AII the world knows that the artil-
lery brigade of the Worcestershire Queen's Own are ex-
pert to a degree in the art and mystery of a cannoneer,
but it may not be so generally known that the very
horses of the brigade are something far beyond a mere
common quadr.ped, not simply as to shape and other
physical requisi.es, but in matters which so much ap-
proach the vaunted reason of their biped masters, that
no one has as yet very clearly pointed out the distinc-
tion. For example, the leader of one of the guns is
named" the Gentleman," and so proud is be of his post
and title, that though gentle as a lamb at exercise, sub-
mitting to be harnessed as quietly as a donkey, and
standing fire as resolutely as the Pyramids, he will net
allow himself to be employed in any other species of
labour. Then, he can open gates and shut them, and he
has a way of hunting out the places in his walk where
Woikmen leave their. victual_ bags, on -which he will
pounce, carry them to a place of .security, and swallow.
the contents. lie cats anything that comes in his way,
like a Christian; and one of his foraging excursions was
attended by so remarkable a coincidence that its history
is worth telling. He was roaming one day lately over
the domain of Howell. when he fell in with the provant
of one of the artillerymen who was at work in an arch-
way on the grounds. He scampered off to enjoy the
spoil, but Mr. Gentleman had been observed, and notice
of ,the robbery having been given to the owner of the
prey, he left the drain and gave chase to the marauder.
Having overtaken the thievish steed and recovered his
grog, the man returned to his work, when lo! in Lis ab•
sence, the arch had fallen in, arid sq but for the fortunate
circumstance of Gentleman stealing his dinner, and his
consequent pursuit, it must have fallen upon him, and
then, beyond a dosbt, he would have met an untimely
death.— Worcester herald.

SERIOUS ACCIDENT.—A few days ago, as a lady
residing in the Lower Deptford-road was in the act of
diverting her little boy, she took up a large piece of
pho. phorus for the purpose of writing her name in a
dark corner of the room, and accidentally striking it
against the wall her hands became enveloped in one mass
of burning flame. The injury she has sustained is of
the most painful character, and it is feared that ampu-
tation will be necessary, so that she will lose one, if not
both, of her hands. What renders the accident more
remarkable is, that she had previously given instructions
to those of her household not to touch the phosphorus,
and shortly afterwards fell a victim herself to its most
dar4,—rous effects.

DESTRUCTIVENESS OF GAME.—At the last meeting
of the Bedford county magistracy, Mr. T. A. Green,
of Parcenham, alluded to the injury done to the crops
by game, and the great expense cast upon the county in
the prosecution of poachers. The magistrates of the
county should petition Parliament for a repeal of the
game -laws; any suggestion emanating from such a body
would not fail to have due influence. Mr. T. C. Higgins
expressed his readiness to sign any petition properly
drawn up. There could be no doubt but that the game-
laws worked inconveniently, but it so happened that
those intrusted with the administration of the law were
those most interested in its maintenance. He had very
great doubt whether a petition would be of any use, as
it was impossible for Parliament to say that persons of
property should not preserve game. Lord C. Russell,
M.P., freely admitted that the preservation of game was
an evil, inasmuch as it was a species of property claimed
by private individuals, and for the protection of which
the public ought not to be taxed. Ile did not anticipate
any good result from legislation, because a repeal or re-
laxation of the law would only give an additional impulse
to poaching. He thought that there was less mischief
in having a great deal of game properly preserved than
was likely to result from a little unwatched. It was
said that the game-laws had a demoralising effect
upon the lower classes ; to some extent that was true,
but there was a great dal of exaggeration on that point.
Ilis principal ground of objection to the game-laws was,
that they injured the agricultural labourers, as the
farmers were deterred from the cultivation of roots
and green crops, which were destroyed by game. The
best course to adopt would be, that gentlemen should
have no more game than they could take care of pro.
perly, for as soon as the game went on another
man's ground it was a very strong temptation. Mr. T.
A. Green apprehended that there would be no neces-
sity for game-laws provided the laws against trespass
were made more stringent. Ile knew that the subject
would he brought beforo Parliament next session, and
it occurred to him that it was fur better the proposition
should emanate from a body such as he was adlderetsesitohge,
than that it should come from persons h
game-laws. Mr. T. Harvey doubted w
of the game-laws would have all the moral
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poachers.
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further discussion, and no substantive
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be considered as interfering with. the liberty of the sub-
ject.motion having been proposed, the consideration of the
subject was postponed.
The late Mr. Thomas Brueton, of Bilston, after
leaving numerous legacies to his relatives, 500/. to the
Wesleyan Chapel at Bilston, and considerable sums to
various chapels belonging to the "Primitive Methodists,"
has directed that the residue of his property, which it is
supposed will amount to upwards of 20,000/., shall be
Missionary equally divided between the British and Foreign Bible
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Dispensary,the
Birmingham General Hospital,
the Queens hospital,
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for the Deaf and Dumb at
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