The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-24 00:00:00

THE WEST INDIA MAIL.
SOUTHAMPTON, DEC. 22.—The Thames, royal mail
' steam-ship, Lieutenant I'. Hest, RN., Commander,
arrived this day, at ten o'clock, A.M., bringing. the usual
mails. Her dates of departure are :—Demerara., 18th
Nov. ; Carthagena, 18th ; Trinidad, 20th ; Jamaica,
23d ; Barbadoes. 25th ; Grenada, 26th ; St. Thomas's
Ist Dec. ; and Fayal, the 14th.
The 'llamas brings home on merchants' account 72,788
dollars, 3,052 oz, of gold dust, 478 oz. of silver, 8501.
British coin, 400 dollars' worth of pearls, and passengers.
Her Majesty's ships Pique, Eurydice, and Rose were
at Barbadoes at the time of the departure of the Thames.
The Imaum and Scylla were at Jamaica, the Inconstant
had gone to Vera Cruz, and her Majesty's steam-ship
Styx was at Fayal.
The royal mail steam-ship Tay, and City of Glasgow,
were left lying at St. Thomas's. The Dee left Grenada
on the 26th with the mails for Jamaica and Mexico.
The Medway took the outward mails to Demerara.
The whole of the West India Islands were generally
in a very healthy state. The Governors of Trinidad
and the Windward Islands were about to proceed
to Jamaica to consult with Lord Elgin, on the
expediency of forming a final settlement for the
West Licks colonies. There is every prospect of
good crops thi oughout the islands generally. The
weather has not been so propitious for many years.
The House of Assembly was sitting at Jamaica, but no
particular business was being transacted.
The same Company's steam-packet the Clyde, Captain
Symmonds, will take out the Mexican and West India
mails on the 2d of January. The Iberia steam-ship
will leave the Docks on the 28th inst. for Malta and
Alexandria, with the view of rendering complete the
new arrangements fur a twiee a month communication
with Egypt. The Paeha will take out the Peninsula
mails on the 26dt. The Oriental Company's steam-
ship Braganza, Captain Evans, will sail on the Ist of
January for Constantinople, ; she will take out the
East India and China mails as far as Malta, whence
they will be forwarded to Alexandria by the Iberia.
The schooner Hervine, Wells master, from St. Michael's,
bound for London, was forced by the strong easterly
gales to put into Stoke's-bay on Friday. Orders were
sent from London yesterday for the vessel to proceed to
this port and discharge her cargo. The Ilervine conse-
quently arrived in the Docks this day, and the fruit
will all be sent by railway to London to-morrow, and be
sold in time for the Christmas demand ; thus decidedly
proving the great advantage which this port offers to the
fruit trade, and in all cases when dispatch is important.
The Hervine will sail again for St. Michael's on Friday ;
and in all probability, as the wind now is, will arrive
there before she could have reached London with her pre-
sent cargo.

POPISH ANXIETY for ENGLAND.
To the Hon. and Rev. G. Spencer, a brother of the
liberal Earl Spencer, and an old pervert to Popery,
is due the questionable honour of having stirred up
the sympathies of the Romish Church in Belgium,
for the sunken and insecure religious condition of
poor England. To the Rev. F. Oakeley, a mem-
ber of a sect whose teachers, though of our Reformed
Protestant Church, yet denounce "Protestants and
other herectics," and a gentleman who has pub-
lished his reasons why he does not "at once"
pass over to the camp of iniquity—to him is due
the still more questionable honour of exciting the
Romish Church to speak authoritatively of the
condition of Great Britain, with the implied pro-
mise, moreover, of listening with humility and re-
spect to its decision. We do not know whether
those gentlemen have acted in concert; but whether
or not, the hope of the one and the suggestion of
the other have not been allowed to pass by unre-
garded by the listening and attentive ears of Rome.
Not that the Vatican itself has given sign of having
heard the significant notes of the two reverend gen-
tlemen—the Roman and the quasi Roman. That has
yet to come. The parting knell of St. Cuthbert's found
echoes in the Northumbrian rocks, ere it reached the
wak.4ul hermit of Warksvorth ; and it roused the
sleepy peasants of Baniborough, before it startlei the
graceful stag on Cheviot Pell. So here the hint given
by Mr. Spencer, or that administered by Mr. Oakeley,
has only as yet reached Belgium, where it has sum-
moned the Primate, Sterckus, to action ; roused the
Cardinal Archbishop of Alalines ; and shaken the very
hones of St. Rumbold, over whom it is his privilege to
be guardian.
Here, then, in closest proximity to us, the work
has been commenced. One prieat has framed a
prayer to save us from that Protestantism which
has been anathematised by Mr. 'Ward; and another
has given his gracious sanction to the same, in
order that neither we nor the author may lose any-
thing by an unfavourable censorship denouncing
the composition. The hope of the disinterested gen-
tlemen who have framed, sanctioned, and offered it
lip, is doubtless this—that other Popish countries
will follow so good an example, and that finally it
may reach that centre of Roman Cristendom
whence may, thereupon, be expected to emanate
those decisive decretals which are to marshal Mr.
Oakeley and his followers the way that they are
going.

PRAYER FOR THE CONVERSION OF ENGLAND.
" Almighty God ! Father of Mercy ! thou who hast
determined to save men, by faith, cast a propitious
ghnce upon the kingdom of England. Disperse the
darkness which heresy has spread there, and there make
the torch of truth gleam in the eyes of her children, so
that all may joyfully return into the bosom of our
mother, the holy church, through our Lord Jesus Christ!
So be it.
"Holy Virgin, Mother of God, pray for England !
" St. Peter and St. Paul, pray for her !
" St. Gregory, the Pope, and St. Augustine, the Apostle
of. England, pray for her !
" St. Thomas of Canterbury, holy martyrs, and holy
Confessors of England, pray f)r her !
" Holy Virgins, and Widows of England, pray for
her !

" Deignto be moved, 0 Lord, by the prayers of your
friends (sic.). Deliver your people; bless your heritage;
and save those souls redeemed at the cost of the precious
blood of your Divine Son, who liveth and reigneth with
you for ever and ever. So be it."
APPROVAL.
"We give our sanction to the above prayer ; and, for
every day on which it shall be devoutly repeated, we
hereby grant a hundred days' indulgence (from the pains
of purgatory). We accord the same favour to those who
shall receive the holy communion, as well Aka....to the
priests who may celebrate mass with the like views (of
bringing about the conversion of England).
" We earnestly engage all who are of our diocese,
and especially the priesthood, and the members of reli-
gious societies, to be frequent in prayer for an object so
important, and to especially dedicate the Thursdays to
;his work.
"ENGLEBERT,
"Cardinal Archbishop of Malines.

(signed)

" Malines, 1844."
Church and State Gazette.

DEATH OF LIEUTENANT-COLONEL CAMPBELL.—
rTehsiidsewnte'oll-kaitiorneeacnd h,
imuchin
s urespected officer
nd,
on },rdi his
day week.
Colonel Campbell was a native of the parish of Halkirk,
Caithness, which he left at an early age to fight the
battles of his country on foreign shores. He entered the
army as ensign, in Sir John Sinclair's Voneililes, some
time previous tp the Irish rebellion, during which event,
ful period he accompa ied and continued with his regi-
ment in that country. Some time afterwards he ob-
tained a commission in the 79th, in which regiment he
served in Egypt. He was present at the siege of Copen-
hagen in 1897, accompanied Si; John Moore in the
Vzninsula, and fought with marked courage in the battle
of Corunna, where his brave General fell. In 1809 he
accompanied Lord Chatham into Holland, returned to
and served in the Peninsula, until the battle of Toulouse
in 1814. He returned to his native country in 1817,
where he has ever since remained. About eight years
aip 4 was -4:aised from tho an of Major to that of
Lieutenant-Colonel. His Character as a soldier placed
him in the highest position as brave and undaunted; and
as an officer he was looked up by those under him with
respect and esteem. Cool, dignified, skilful, and brave,
Colonel Campbell won for himself golden honours. It
is, 4qwpver, a most remarkable fact, that although
engaged during service in ab*;ut thirty iaatties, he never
received a single scar. Once a ball penetrated his
saddle, and on another occasion a ball went through Irs
cap, and in neither instance did the least injury occur
to him. He was about seventy years of age.—Edinburgh
04seriet..
REMOVAL OF THE LIGHTHOUSE AT SUNDERLAND.
—This extraordinary work was undertaken in conse-
quence of the necessity that arose for lengthening the
pier. A wooden cradle was fiyed underpeath the baild-
frig, which weighs thiee hundred and. thirty tons, and it
was then moved on a temporary wooden railway a dis-
tance of seven hundred and seventy feet. The work was
the more difficult in consequence of an angle round
which the lighthouse had to be moved, and it had to be
elevated nearly two feet above the level it previously oc-
cupied. The far greater part of the distance was ac-
complished in thirteen hours; after all the preparations
had been completed. The lighthouse did not deviate iii
the least from the perpendicular during the removal,
and the gas lights were'kept burning all the thue.—The
_ _

lfoNay.—Notice is given to the officers and
company of her Majesty's brig Waterwitch, Lieutenant
Matson, that they will be paid their respevtive propor-
tions of prize money for the and .rulentioned slave.
VP§SCIS, op the Tuesday after Christmas-day :—Tonnage
bounty for Cabaco, seized March 14, 1840. Slave
bounty for Andorinha, seized May 28, 1840. Tonnage
bounty 'for Doze d'4utubro, or name unknown, seized
Noyernher 13, 1840. Slave F!4 tonne bounties fur
brigantine, name unknOwn, seized April 3,1843. dull,
stores, and tonnage bounty for Almeida, seized April 27,
1843.

The Queen-Dowager has caused the liberal sum of
201. to be transmitted to Truro, in aid of the fund for the
completion of fit. Paul's Church, Clemant's, Her
Afaiesty has also handsomely subscribed towards the
restoration of the ancient church of St. Mary de Crypt,
in Gloucester.

ENGLISH THEATRICALS IN PARIS. —The English
company in Paris continues to attract crowded audiences.
On Friday the second representation of Othello ‘s,4_
vpry crowded. Amongst these preent was the puke pf
liontpensier, accompanied' by the Count de la Tour du
Pin, besides a great number of the first people in Paris.
The French portion of the audience becomes daily more
numerous.

The Earl of Chesterfield has accepted the stpwaT4-
ship of the forthcoming Lichfield races, which are ap-
pointed c 9 take placc op t,4 4ist Tliesday p,ft,9r 4)ormaifte,r
faces,

LITERATURE.
LUGOL ON SCROFULA. Churchill, London, 1544.
This is a translation from the French, and the gen-
tleman to whom we are indebted for the version is
Dr. Ranking, physician to the Suffolk General Hos-
pital. The work contains a most copious and circum-
stantial account of the origin and progress of scrofula,
of its hereditary transmission, of the causes which are
chiefly instrumental in producing it, and of the best
mode of treatment for the prevention and eradication
of this distressing malady. The author has investi-
gated his subject with uncommon care, and given
several curious cases of hospital patients in illustra-
tion of some of the leading positions which he has
laid down. According to him, scrofula is a far more
general complaint than it is usually supposed to be,
and is almost always found connected more or less
with tubercular consumption. Those afflicted with
it may, and sometimes do, live the average term of
years, but by far the great majority of them die ere
yet they have entered on the autumn of their life.
The work is prefaced with an Introduction and an
Essay on the treatment of the principal varieties of
scrofula, both of which are from the pen of the
translator.

KNIGHT'S WEEKLY VOLUME. Part 26.
C. Knight, London, 1844.
The present Part of this cheap weekly Miscellany
contains the third and closing volume of " Craik's
History of British Commerce," from the earliest
times down to the present day, when the spirit of
English commercial enterprise pervades the whole
world. The author is of opinion that our modern
system, both of manufactures and trade, in most of
its leading branches, may be regarded as taking its
rise from the commenceing portion of the reign of
George the Third, and then proceeds to discuss-the
question, which he does with learning and acuteness.
The work—as we observed when speaking of the two
former volumes—is reprinted, with corrections and
additions, from the "Pictorial History of England."

THE LAWYERS 1N LOVE. 3 Vols.
Cochrane, London, 1844.
The title of this work suggests the idea of fun and
drollery, and there is much of this to be found in it,
though it will certainly not quite answer the reader's
expectations. The tale is in the form of an auto-
biography, and professes to consist of passages from
the life of a Chancery barrister, which were written
many years since, and the manuscript of which was
found in an old musty, worm -eaten closet in the
author's chambers. Some of the characters, especially
that of Aunt Circumspect, are drawn with spirit and
discrimination, and the closing incidents of the story
are full of broad humour, and would form the
materials of an excellent farce. It is impossible to
read the account of the marriage of Aunt Circumspect
with her own brother's clerk, with whom she had
eloped, under the mistaken notion that he was a
nobleman of fortune, without indulging in a hearty
laugh, such as that which we enjoy when reading of
the matrimonial mishaps of the leading personages in
Congreve's Old Bachelor.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sra,—l think the following paragraph, from the
Liverpool Standard, so significant as to deserve a pro-
minent place in the columns of The Sun, and, more-
over, the most serious attention of the friends of the
Established Church in this country. When we hear,
as we do continually, of the munificent gifts of Roman
Catholics, Unitarians, and Dissenters, for the support
of the public worship of Almighty God, in the manner
they severally deem the most proper; when we ob-
serve that they can find money to erect large, costly,
and beautiful temples of religion, how truly con-
temptible, paltry, and disgraceful does the infliction
on the people of the halfpenny and farthing Offer-
tory, appear ! When the Pope and Socinus are
prowling about the fold, it is madness on the part of
the Shepherd of Canterbury to worry and scatter
his sheep. A CATHOLIC CHRISTIAN.

"The Unitarians of Hyde are now contemplating
the erection of a chapel of more than uncommon
magnificence, and, judging from present appearances,
in the way of donations, the plan will undoubtedly be
fully realised. The Messrs. Ashton, of Hyde, four
brothers, have, it is understood, given 1,0001. each;
Mr. Thornlev, of Godley, 500/. • and Mr. Randle, of
Hibbert, 300/. ; to say nothing of smaller sums. It is
intended to raise, by voluntary subscriptions, the
large sum of 10,000/."

SLAVERY and the FREE CHURCH
A correspondence between Dr. Chalmers and seve•

ral other 13rties, relative to the question of slavery in
the United States (as connected with the Scottish
Free Church), has been recently introduced into se-
veral of the Edinburgh newspapers. The interchange
of letters was founded originally on one sent by Dr.
Chalmers to Dr. Thomas Smyth, of Charleston, Caro-
lina, in which the latter Rev. Doctor was thanked
most warmly for the contributions made by himself
and his friends to the cause of the Free Church in
Scotland. But Dr. Chalmers went further in his
epistle. He used to Dr. T. Smyth certain language,
and gave vent to particular sentiments, which, as we
do not mean to print the correspondence separately,
we may here quote :
" I do not need to assure you how little I sympa-
thise with those who, because slavery happens to pre-
vail in the Southern States of America, would un-
christianise that whole region, and who even carry
their extravagance so far as to affirm that, so long as
it subsists, no fellowship or interchange of good offices
should take place with its churches or its ministers.
As a friend to the universal virtue and liberty of man-
kind, I rejoice in the prospect of those days when
slavery shall be banished from the face of the earth ;
but most assuredly the wholesale style of excommuni-
cation contended for by some is not the way to hasten
forward this blissful consummation." •

Here is a different view of things, indeed, from
that taken by Dr. Andrew Thomson, a leader of the
Scottish Church, who may be named at any time
with Dr. Chalmers without a shadow of disparage-
ment to the latter. Many will remember the indig-
nant manner in which the former deceased champion
of religion and liberty denounced the half-and-half
views which Dr. Chalmers now advocates. Can we
be unmindful of the noble spirit which Dr. A. Thom-
son evinced in 1830, when, by the irresistible force of
his eloquence, and the backing power of a good cause,
he turned nearly the entire people of Scotland,
if not, indeed, the majority of the British nation,
from their hasty assent to proposed partial mea-
sures of slave-emancipation—rousing them to the
demand for a full and immediate abolition of that
most unnatural species of bondage where man holds
property in man ? We turn with pleasure to the
very words on that occasion of the illustrious and
revered speaker. "If the planter had property in the
slave," said Dr. Thomson, " he must be able to plead
that it is 4 right of property given to him by God.
If man has property in man, the white must have
property in the black, and why may not the black
also have a right of property in the white His
(Dr. T.'s) argument wag, that slavery was essentially
opposed to the first principles of our nature, and at
variance with the spirit gf our holy religion. It
would not do for the slave-holders to tell him that
they did not make men slaves. Had they not taken
them as slaves they might have been free, for it was
just as bad to keep a man in Lltitery as it was to make
him a slavc,"
But without dwelling on the events of that memo-
rable struggle, we shall allow an American to talk to
Dr. Chalmers on this point—an American eminent
as an anti-slavery advocate among his brethren of
the United States—Mr, Tappan, of New York.
Writing to Air. Joseph Sturge on the letter of Dr.
Chalmers, Mr. Tappan says—,
"I cannot convey to you an adequate idea of the
immense mischief such a letter will do in this coun-
try. The tendency is to pull down what we have
been attempting fur ten years to build up. It is taking
with religious professors who hold slaves, whose
consciences have been reached by anti-slavery dis-
cussions. It is administering an opiate to northern
pro-slavery ministers, who have been placed in an
awkward position by anti-slavery arguments and en-
treaties. Such a letter as this, proceeding from the
pen of one whose writings are exerting a great in-
fluence in this country, will do more injury than all
the good that can be done by his publications in past
years.

44Why will your ministers of the gospel launch such
missiles against the sacred cause of abolition P %Vhy
do they so dishearten us when we are toiling day
and night, at such sacrifices, to change public senti-
ment, win over the consciences of our countrymen,
and bring about the overthrow of the cruel system of
slavery? I have not words to express the grief and
astonishment I feel at such strange conduct. In
addition to the general character of the letter, let me
point your attention to some expressions in it that are
in themselves very reprehensible, and unworthy of
the character of Dr. Chalmers as a man and a theolo-
gian. Because slavery happens to prevail in the
Southern Rtates of America.' Happens ! Is this
proper language for a Doctor of Divinity to use in
speaking of a moral offence ? or does Dr. Chalmers
think slaveholding consistent with morality and reli-
gion ? From the emaression quoted, it -Would seem
that he does, and that he scarcely thinks it even an
offence against humanity and common justice.
Slavery prevails in our Southern States, be it known
to Dr. Chalmers, because '250,000 slaveholders will
that it shall prevail. They hold their fellpw-nin in
bondage, keep them in iguoraiicel stop their ears at
the ory of oppressiou, arid qt the retfionAtrance of the
• •
friends o the slave, because, having the power, they
Will not relinquish it. Happens, indeed !' "
Same of the distinguished adherents of the Free
Church have already attempted to remedy the pyror
committed, but. if IT? may iTora, *letter or
henry'Grey, the(y.can 'Clear themselves,
not 'their 'brethren. and colleagues. All chat
Chalmers has donD, on being-apraieci to fb.r an
planation of his sentiments, lisp' been to clefor it au

the plea of his sessional occupations as a teacher of Di-
vinity. he -rroposes, however, to make the matter
" a study" : s soon afterwards as possible. Ile and
his brethren of the Free Church would indeed require
to do so, as dangerous inferences and impressions
have followed the publication of this correspondence.
—Scotsman.

THE PARRICIDE, MARY GALLOP.
This unfortunate young woman, who was recently
convicted at Chester of having poisoned her father,
has made the following statement and confession to
Mr. Penrey, the visiting magistrate of the prison, in
the presence of the chaplain :
" I shall be 21 years of age on the 2d of next March.
I was born in Warrington, and am the daughter of
Richard and Mary Gallop. My father was a joiner
by trade. Both my father and mother were Wes-
leyan Methodists. My father was a very pious, good
man ; but my mother. had fallen off from her religious
profession. I recollect him taking me to a Sunday-
school, in Warrington, when I could just walk. He
also sent me to a day school in the same place. I con-
tinued to go to these schools till I was about nine
years old. As my father could not get any work at
this time in Warrington, we went to live in Runcorn,
where we remained two or three years. He sent me to
a Sunday and day school during the whole of
that time. As his wages were very low, we went to
reside in Liverpool. We lived some time at Rose-
hill. I went to the Sunday-school belonging to the
Brunswick Chapel. My father afterwards removed
to Mansfield-street, and sent me to a Sunday and day
school in Springfield-street. At this time he obtained
work on the railroad, and we went to live at Windsor,
near Liverpool. 1 was then about 12 or 13 years of
age. I think we remained there about seven years.
During this time I was a teacher in Pleasant-street
Wesleyan Sunday-school, and regularly attended
chapel. My half sister lived with us, and I used to
assist her, in the week, with the mangle. When we
lived in Mansfield-street, Liverpool, I formed an
acquaintance with a young boy, a neighbour. He
was younger than myself. When we left Liverpool
for Windsor he used to come and see us. We formed
an attachment. Both my father and mother were averse
to him coming after me, but particularly my father.
The young man was then an apprentice, and is not yet
out of his time. We then went to live at Crewe. About
three months afterwards I went to Liverpool with my
mother for a few days. I saw the young man several
times. When I returned we used to write to each
other. 1 have shown some of his letters to my mother,
but not to my father. About ten months after we went
to live at Crew my mother destroyed herself in a fit of
insanity. When my mother was buried I went with
my half sister to Liverpool for some time. I used to
see the young man. I returned to Crewe in June last,
and asked my father's leave to go again to Liverpool at
Christmas. lie said I should not, and was very angry.
He said he would never give his consent for me to
have anything to do with the young man in Liverpool.
I then thought of going into a situation as servant in
Liverpool. If I had I should have been very happy
now. I heard my half sister one day talking of a
woman who had poisoned her husband with arsenic,
which she had bought under the pretence of poi-
soning rats. The idea then first entered my mind
of poisoning my father, and I thought I should be
at liberty to go where I pleased and do as I
pleased. If I could have opened my mind
to anybody, and had received a little good
advice, I am sure I should not have committed
the crime. I did not think that I should be detected.
I considered his death would be attributed to the
bowel complaint, with which he had been afflicted for
several weeks. I bought a pennyworth of arsenic, and,
not thinking it would be enough, I bought another
pennyworth. I made three cakes, one for my father,
one for my half sister and self, and one for the lodger.
I put arsenic in the one for my father. I did not
put any in the others. If any got mixed with the
flour of which they were made, it was by accident.
The cakes were for tea on the Friday night. My
father did not eat his. It was put away in the cupboard.
The lodger, my half sister, and self partook of the
others, and were taken ill. I did not put any arsenic
in them. I bought some more arsenic next day
(Saturday) and mixed it with some arrowroot. I
left my father to put the milk to it and make it him-
self. He was taken ill soon afterwards, and died
next morning. MARY GALLOP."
As a very strong impression prevails that the young
woman is insane, and was so at the time when she
deprived her parent of life, a petition has been for-
warded to the Home-office, in order to obtain a com-
mutation of the sentence to confinement or trans-
portation for life. The petition was signed by the
Lord Bishop, Chancellor Raikes, and a great body:of
the clergy and gentry. Other petitions are also in
course of signature.

Ihe Duke of St. Albans, the Earl of Yarborough,
Lord \Vorsley, M.P., Earl Browniow, the Earl of liar-
rowby, the Earl of Dysart, Sir John Nelthorpe, Bart.,
Sir Robert Sheffield, Bart, Sir Montague John Cholme-
ley, Bart., Sir William Earl Welby, Bart., Sir J. C.
Thorold. Bart., Mr. C. Turnor, M.P., Mr. G. J. Heath-
cote. M.P., are among the members who are about to
establish an association for the general protection of
property against incendiarism in the county of Lincoln.
THE GAME PRESERVING.--Odious as the life of a
poacher may be, farmers have no cause to regret their
nightly visits; but, on the contrary, would, no doubt,
be very glad if they were to carry of the entire
" surplus" game.
SAVINGS' Bamis.—Although the late Act of Par-
liament regarding savings' banks has but been in opera-
tion barely a month, much discontent is manifesting
itself in respect to the rates of interest now allowed to
depositors. Some banks allow 31. per cent., others
21. 18s. 4d., and others 2Z 15s. 6d. The Government
only now allows to trustees 21.155, per cent., to pay de-
positors' interest, and all demands upon them for nooes-
sary salaries, for rents and taxes, and for all incidental
charges, With all this before us, the Government, from
the produce of savings' banks, has an immen o sum in
their hands called " surplus money." The reduction
which has been made in the interest (and especially
where only the lesser rates are allowed) will be a serious
loss to those classes of individuals for whose convenienoe
and advantage savings' banks were established,
MISS CLARA WEllSTER.—UnfoTtuDately, the death
of this accomplished dancer has not been the only evil
attendant upon the late sad accident at Drury-lane
Theatre, A nurse of the name of Hudd, supplied on the
urgency of the ease from the Middlesex Hospital to
attend upon Miss Webster, fell down the stairs, and,
upon being conveyed back to the hospital, was found to
have sustained II serious hacture of the knee. She is
now lying in the accident ward, whilst a aiiukly husband
and three young children are deprived of the support
they obtained from her labour.
The Court of France is enchanted with the
Duchesse d'Aumale, who has won the hearts of all about
her. Though somewhat below the middle size, the
Princess is exceedingly elegant in her deportment,
affable and courteous in her manners, anti is said to com-
b! 'e great instruction with rod natural talents. The
Due d'Aumale piques himself on being the father of his
own marriage, for the Princess is known to have been
his olvu unbiassed choice.—Court Journal,
THE WEATHER AND TUN PARKS,.—ACCIDENTS ON
THE ICE —The frost within the last two days bas set in
with great severity, with a cutting wind from the south-
east. The rapid thaw which commenced on Sunday
week had not entirely destroyed the ice on the orna-
mental water in the Regent's Park, when the frost again
set in, and on Sunday the frozen surface was of sufficient
strength to bear. The ice, however, was in a most dan-
gerous condition, and, despite the endeavours of the men
belonging to the Royal Humane Society, a great number
of skaters persisted in going ca. As already stated,
the ice was very dangerous, being full of cracks, and in
detached pieces, and it was not elittlo amusing to see a
do4en skaters on a piece of ice surrounded by water.
To get off; the skaters had to jump across the chasm,
and owing to the inconvenience of skates, generally
jumped in amidst the shouts of thousands who lined the
banks. To prevent persons from going on, the ice had
been broken away all round the edges to a distance of
two yards. This was no preventative, fbr many waded
up to their knees in water to get in rather than be de-
barred from the pleasure of skating. About one o'clock,
a young tna,n, named George Thornton, residing in
King-street, Somers-town, became immersed up to his
neck, but was speedily rescued by means of ono of the
breaker ladders. He was carried to the marquee be-
longing to the Royal Humane Society, and having been
supplied with dry clothing, waa enabled to proceed home.
Several other immersions took place during the day, but
of no importance, The number of skaters upon the ice
4t any one time during the day did not exceed sixty ; but
the number of persons on the banks was far greater than
on any day this winter. The ornamental water in St.
James's Park was frozen over, but not of sufficient
strength, and no one had the temerity to venture on it.
The Serpentine wes not at all frozen. In Kensington-gar-
dens the Round-pond'was frozen over, but not to bear. The
beauty of the day, however, caused a great number of
persons to visit the parks, &c. At the receiving house
last evening the mercury stood at 32. In the morning it
was as low as 30 ; the barometer at 30 denoting a conti-
nuance of fair weather, with the wind blowing strongly
from the E.S.E.

JOHN M4GREGOR, ESQ., or THE BOARD or TRADE.
-,,Among the guests at the dinner to Sir Henry Pot-
tiager, last evening, was Mr. M'Gregor, one of the joint
assistant secretaries of the Board of Trade. We believe
this gentleman will remain a day or two in Manchester.
He is staying at the Queen's Hotel. Manchester
Gaardiao.

EXTRAORDINARY INSTANCE OF FELINE FECUN-
DITY AND LONGEVITY.—The baker at Burghley has
recently suffered a bereavement in the dee,th of a cat,
which was kittened in 1827, and died on Friday the 13th
inst., in the eighteenth year of her age. She has given
birth to 360 kittelP% the last of which is now living, and
one of the finest of the feline race, weighing upwards of
two atone.—Lincollphire Chronicle.

The Journal des Debats announces that on the 14th
inst. the regicide Tschech, who attempted to nate
the King of Prussia, was executed at 4pandau, where he
had been conveyed uodcr ei.oort of cavalry. The King
had remitted tliat part of his sentence which stated SW
ha w4ts to be broken on the wheel,
FALL OF SNOW IN SPAIN,,...A, Madrid letter of the
13th says—" The c•ity Is covered with snow a foot in
49pt4. At 1§ ten years since we had anything of the
land. From ijarcelona, the Nth, w-e learn that there
lias been heavy fall of snow in that city, and that the
cold was intense."