The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-09 00:00:00

AMER

NEWS. COMIERCE OF THE UNITED STATES-VALUE OF IMPORTS
AND EXPORTS.
Imports.

THE SAVOY CHAPEL.
The following Notice on the Savoy Chapel WA?
originally privately printed for circulation among the
parishioners. From the high interest, both architec-
tural and historical, which attaches to this, the onl.
remaining portion of the Savoy, we have thought that
it would not be i.ninteresting to the public generally.
to be made acquainted with what has recently been
done for the restoration of this beautiful specimen of
Tudor architecture, snore especially when it is recol-
lected that the Savoy Chapel was the place in which
the English Liturgy was for the first time publicly
read in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and that it was
the scene of the memorable Conference between the
Episcopalian and Presbyterian Divines on the Book
of Common Prayer, in 1661 :
" On the death, without issue, of Brien de Insula,
or De L'lsle, in the year 1233, certain scattered
houses,' and their gardens, lying without the walls
of London, on the way or street called the Strand,'
reverted to the Crown. This property was grantee'
by King Henry 111., in 1245, to Peter, Count o'
Savoy, on his arrival to visit his niece Queen Eleanor :
and it would appear that a mansion of some conse-
quence had already been erected on the site of the
scattered houses,' for the Count lodged here during
his stay in England. The manor retains the name
which it received from this possessor. He bequeathed
it in 1268 to the Convent and Hospital of Mont Joux :
but Queen Eleanor, having formed an attachment is
the place, was anxious to recover it from those legatees.
They parted with it for the sum of three hundred
marks ; and in 1283 she bestowed it on her favourite
son Edmund (created in 1267 Earl of Lancaster).
who obtained from his brother, King Edward 1., a
royal licence to embattle with a wall his manor of
the Savoy,' and here fixed his residence. His grand-
son Henry, third Earl, and created in 1351, Duke of
Lancaster (being the second English dukedom), re-
paired, or rather rebuilt, the castellated mansion at
the then very large cost of 34,6661. 3s. 4d.; according
to the chroniclers he chose to make this use of moneys
which had accrued to him in consequence of his dis-
tinguished services in France, more especially at
Bergerac. Camden describes the Savoy of this the
first Duke of Lancaster, as one of the fairest manors
in all England unto which there was none in
the realm to be compared for beauty.'
" In this Palace King John of France was lodged
and entertained during his captivity in 13.57. On his
second visit to England he again took up his abode in
the Savoy, and he died here in 1363.
" On the failure of the male line of Edmund. A.D.
1361, the Dukedom of Lancaster merged in the
Crown ; and on the 13th of November, 1362, King
Edward 111. bestowed it on his own illustrious son,
John of Gaunt, he having married one of the co-
heiresses (who became, ultimately, the sole heiress)
of Henry, Duke of Lancaster.
" During the latter years of his father's long reign
this Prince resided usually in a style of extraordinary
magnificence at the Savoy ; but the protection which
he afforded to the principles of Wickliffe having ex-
cited the populace against him, his palace was sacked
by an insurgent mob in 1381, his treasury rifled, his
moveables carried away, or cast into the Thames, and
the whole building finally burnt to the ground. It
appears from a letter of the Duke to the treasurer of
his household, Sir John de Norfolk, in February,
1382, that his Castle of Hertford also was seized and
plundered, par les memes communes rebels en le temps
del grant rumour. The Duke directs that allowance
shall be made to his butler for wines thus destruz et
perduz ; namely, 18 tonneles et une pipe et trois
quarters d'une pipe des diverses vignes en notre
Manoire de la Savoye,' and a smaller quantity in
nostre Chastel de Hertford.'
" Thus perished the Palace of the Savoy. The
manor descended to John of Gaunt's son, 'Henry et
Bolingbroke, and on his accession to the throne as
Henry IV., it was vested in the Crown as part of the
Duchy of Lancaster, and thus acquired its peculiar
dignity and privileges as a royal manor.
" There appears no evidence that any royal per-
sonage ever resided here during the period between
the accession of Henry IV. and the hitter years of
Henry VII. ; but the records mark from time to
time moneys paid for the improvement of the Savoy
gardens and repairs of the ancient prison attached to
the Liberty. The appointments of the stewards and
high bailiffs of the manor are regularly noted, and
some names of celebrity occur among the successive
holders of these offices.
" In the will of King Henry VII. (dated 31st of
March, 1509) it is recited that the establishment of
royal hospitals cloth tend to the performance of the
seven great works of charity and mercy, and that the
same seven works do stand most constantly in six of
them ;—to wit, in visiting the sick, ministering meat
and drink to the hungry and thirsty, and clothing to
the naked, and lodging to the miserable poor, and in
burying the dead bodies of Christian people. It is
then stated that the King had begun to erect a
common hospital in his palace, called the Savoy,
beside Charing-cross, and intended, with God's grase.
to finish the same according to a plan which was de-
vised for the same, and signed with his own hand;'
that he had endowed it with lands and tenements to
the yearly value of five hundred marks 'to maintain
one hundred beds garnished to receive, and lodge
nightly, one hundred poor folks, as also a certain
number of priests, and other ministers and servitors;'
that in case the hospital should not be finished at his
death, his executors were as soon as goodly might
be done' to fulfil his design, and that for the first pro-
vision thereof, the building, the garnishing of the
hundred beds, the purchase of books, chalices, vest-
ments, &c., requisite for the Chapel of the said
hospital,' &c., he had delivered in ready money
beforehand the sum of ten thousand marks to the
Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's. In the second
year of his reign King Henry VIII. accordingly
granted to the Bishop of Winchester and his father's
other executors, by letters patent, under the seal of
the Duchy of Lancaster, the site of the manor of the
Savoy, in trust for the completion of the plan above-
mentioned ; and two years later he re-confirmed this
grant, and gave the executors licence to found a per-
petual hospital, consisting of a Master Chaplain, and
four other chaplains, to be incorporated by the name
of the Hospital of King Henry the Seventh of the
Savoy. The Abbot of Westminster was to be the
visitor of the institution, and take care that prayers
and masses were regularly said in the Chapel for the
souls of King Henry VII. and his royal predecessors.
" In the first of Edward VI. the hospital was one
of the many institutions declared to be illegal as
directed to superstitious purposes ; and the master and
chaplains by a surrender, enrolled in Chancery, gave
it up to the King. In the fourth of Philip and Mary,
however, the hospital was re-established for the old
purposes, and with its old statutes—the only difference
being, that as there was no longer any Abbot of
Westminster, the functions of visitor were to be in
the Sovereign. It does not appear to what use the
revenues of the Savoy endowment had been applied
during this brief abrogation, but Stowe mentions that
the beds and other furniture had been granted to the
hospitals of St. Thomas and Bridewell, and that on
the re-establishment 'the ladies of the court and
maydens of honour stored the same anew with beddes,
bedding, and other furniture, in very ample manner :
a thing not to be forgotten.'
" The hospital does not seem to have been again
interfered with, or its resources diverted from the
original purposes of charity, though some variations
occurred in the manner of appointing the masters,
during the interval between the re-foundation by
Philip and Mary and the Restoration of Charles 11.
" Very soon after the great Fire of London, the
Savoy suffered under a minor devastation of the same
sort. The apartments allotted to the chaplains, called
the Brothers' Lodgings, were wholly destroyed, and
it is probable that they never were rebuilt.
" Towards the end of the calamitous war with
Holland the greatest difficulty had been found in pro-
viding fit accommodation for our wounded seamen
and soldiers, and shortly after the Peace was signed—
the same inconvenience still pressing—Charles 11. was
advised to convert the dormitory of the Savoy hospital
into a military and marine infirmary. Presently
(1675) the lodgings of the sisters and servitors were
occupied in a similar manner. As the invalids re-
covered, or died off, companies of the Foot Guards
took possession of the chambers, and thus by degrees
the remaining buildings received a totally new desti-
nation. They became a regular barrack.
" The last visitation of the hospital was held in
July, 1702, by the Lord Keeper, Sir Nathan Wright,
as visitor of all hospitals of royal foundation. There
was at the time no master, but four chaplains ap-
peared, and on the allegation that the statutes had not
been conformed to—as how couid they have been ob-
served, when the chambers and beds were seized on
and detained for the use of the military ?—the visitor
deprived the chaplains of their places, and the ho-
spital was declared to be dissolved.
" A Bill was soon afterwards laid before Parlia-
ment, to enable Queen Anne to apply the revenues of
the dissolved hospital to whatever charitable objects
her Majesty might think fit. It states that the parish
of St. Mary, in the Strand, had long been without a
church—that it was expedient to conjoin that parish
and the Precinct of the Savoy—and proposed that
the minister of the Savoy should thenceforth be the
rector of the united parish. The Bill, however, was
opposed, on the ground that its objects were not in
conformity with the charitable purpose of the original
foundation at the Savoy. It was lost accordingly,
and has never been revived.
" It would appear that the people residing near the
chapel had, from a very early period, been much in
the habit of attending Divine service there, but that
it first came to be looked upon as in the nature of a
parish church, in consequence of the sweeping de-
struction of sacred edifices by which the Protector
Somerset cleared the space destined for his great
palace in the Strand and its splendid gardens.
Among the churches which he thus levelled to the
ground was that of St. Mary-le-Strand. No attempt
to rebuild that church was thought of until the begin
ning of the last century, and the existing edifice
not opened for worship unti1.1723. -

OCCUPATION of tlie OREGON TER-
RITORY—ABOLITION RIOTS.
LIVERPOOL, JAN. 8.
We have received this afternoon by ti,e New York
packet ship, St. Patrick, Captain Seymour—a new
ithip, on her first voyage—papers from that city to the
18th Dec. inclusive. The St. Patrick has experienced
very rough weather; about the 24th ult. having in a
gale lost main-top-gallantmast, sprung foreti,a,t, and
received other damage. On the same day she passed
a large ship floating bottom upwards, with her stern
boat and spars floating near her.
The chief feature of the intelligence in the papers
is the introduction into the House of Representatives
of a Bill for the extension of the jurisdiction of the
United States over the territory of the Oregon. Its
reception was not accomplished without a division
upon the motion to suspend the rules, the result of
Which was—aves 129, noes 53, being a majority of
6in its favour. The Bill was subsequently read a
first and second time, and referred to the Committee
on Territories. It is evident, therefore, that the
Illeasure will receive the final sanction of the House.
The reception it will encounter in the Senate will
probably be of an entirely opposite nature. The
abuses and frauds perpetrated at the past Presiden-
tial election had attracted general attention to the
Subject of the naturalisation laws ; and we ob-
serve that preliminary steps, to procure an exten-
131°1i of the term of probationary residence re-
quired of foreigners, previous to their being allowed
the privileges of citizenship, and also to improve the
°Peration of those laws, had been taken in both
branches of Congress. The American Republicans
require
that the period prior to naturalisation shall
:" twenty-one years ; while others, and the most-
eascnable, say eleven or twelve years. The Bill in-
Liccluced by Mr. Duncan, to establish a uniform day
for the appointment of presidental electors, had
Passed the 'louse of Representatives. It runs as
follows :

Value of free goods
Zr~ us of dutiable good

524,766,082
83,668,620

Total value of imports 4108,434,702
Exports.
Value of domestic produce $100,183,497
Value of foreign produce ... 10,944,787

5111,128,284

Balance in favour of the United States ... $2,693,382
Gross revenue on the above importation 29,137,060 60
Net revenue on the above importation ... 26,183,570 94

Expenses of collection, &c. 52,953,489 66
It must be recollected, in looking on this table of im-
ports and exports, that only six months of the period of
large importations are included in these returns. and that
since the Ist July the value of the imports is very great.
For the calendar year the result will look far different,
not only as to the balance of trade, but in the amount of
the revenue.

The finances of the Government are fully as favourable
as anticipated. The receipts and expenditures, as given
in the annexed tables, show a very large surplus, but we
should think the expenditures were rather extravagant.
FINANCES OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE TEAR
ENDING JUNE 30TH, 1844.
Receipts.

Customs
Lands
Treasury Notes
Miscellaneous sources

$26, 183.570 94
2,059,939 80
1,677,181 35
261,007 94

Total receipts
Balance in the Treasury, July 1, 1843 10,431,507 55

$40,813,207 58
Expenditures—Civil list, navy, army, &c. 32,958,827 94

Balance in the Treasury, July 1, 1844, $7,854,379 64
ESTIMATES FOR 1845—RECEIPTS.
Customs-Ist quarter, ac-
tual
Customs-3 quarters, esti-
mated

21,071,300

Public lands
Miscellaneous sources

$31,945,018
2,139,857
120,000

$34,204,875 00

" Resolved by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress as-
sembled, that the electors of President and 'ire-Presi-
dent shall be appointed in each state on the first Tues-
day after the first Monday in November of the year in
which they are to be appointed ; provided that each
State may, by law, provide for filling any vacancy or
vacancies which may occur in its college of electors
when such college meets to give its electoral vote ; and
provided, also, when any State shall have held an elec-
tion for the purpose of choosing electors, and shall fail
to make choice on the day aforesaid, then the electors
may be appointed on a subsequent day, in such manner
as the State shall by law provide."
This arrival brings accounts of a dreadful conflict
between a party of Kentucky slaveholders and Ohio
Abolitionists. It appears that negro slaves from
Kentucky are constantly passing to Canada through
the State of Ohio, facilities for such escapes, it is
said by some, being established throughout the latter
State by the Abolitionists. On the 9th ult. a party
of "negro hunters" from Kentucky, hearing that
runaway slaves were secreted in the houses of
Robert Miller and Absalom King, two Abolitionists
residing in Brown's County, Ohio, near the town of
Georgetown, proceeded to the residence of the former
and discovered two of the slaves, who attempted to
escape, and while Miller was in the act of aiding
their escape he was knocked down and stabbed
repeatedly by the incensed Kentuckians. He lin-
gered but a few moments and died. The two
slaves were then bound, when they proceeded to
the house of King, where they were met by
four or five armed men, who declared their
determination to resist any search of the house. Both
parties being well armed, a most horrible conflict
ensued. A son of Colonel Towers was killed imme-
diately. King, while reloading some of the fire-
arms in the house, was shot by some one through the
window in the back part of the house, and was not
expected to survive. The sheriff and his posse
arrived and checked the riot, and the ringleaders
of each party were arrested. But another band
of Kentuckians soon arrived and commenced another
acene of bloodshed. One of the slaves was hung
,Without ceremony for resisting a brother of Colonel
4.0-
ers, who had captured him. The houses of
and King were burnt to the ground, with
bit
their contents. They then went to the house of
A,
tit,„‘l'lexander Gilliland, tore him away from his
Y, aid beat him until his life was despaired of.
t
Were in latest accounts add that the Kentuckians
bourbon:teasing in numbers, and the whole neigh-
hirtseif :Was up in arms. The sheriff was exerting
The
‘Ar''" suppress the riot.
11141cea ik.ew York Sun, in conjunction with others,
tions a 1"4 dreadful occurrence the ground for asser-
TheBl„inat, and attacks upon, England.
Lave o_'erold mentions a rumour that the French
Fortut:o possession of the islands of Wallace and
l'he fohnedAmericans in the Oregon territory have
aria themselves a government, elected executive
justie:glslative officers, and established courts of
The
report
oP,aPers by this arrival also contain the annual
other it the Secretary of the Treasury, and a few
lowi,B,:e__lns of news, from which we select the fol.

Total resources
Expenditures estimated 35,019,431 06

Balance in the Treasury, July Ist, 1845 $7,039,823 58
ESTIMATES FOR 1846—RECEIPTS.
Customs
Public landq 2,010,000
Miscellaneous sources 120,000

$32,160,302 00

Total resources
Expenditures, estimated 28.193,784 82

Balance in the Treasury, July 1, 1846, $11,006,340 76
These estimates are based on as good data as can be
commanded, but they are of little interest or deserving
of much confidence. It is beyond the power of any in-
dividual to estimate, with any degree of accuracy, the
probable position of the finances of the Government so
long in advance. In a country like this it is impossible
to predict what a year may bring forth in commercial
matters. Where is the roan that, two years ago,
imagined for a moment that the year 1844 would pro-
duce a revenue from customs larger than any one pre-
vious ? We look upon these estimates as useless, so tar
as the purposes of legislation are concerned. Mr. Secre-
tary Bibb can look as far into futurity, as regards this
subject, as any of his predecessors, but the practice is at-
tended with danger, and often leads us all astray.
The Washington Constitution says, a report has
reached Washington that Mexico has closed her
ports against the United States. No other paper,
however, mentions such a rumour.

The United States Gazette says—" We were yes-
terday put in possession of files of papers of three
days later date from Barbadoes. Relative to the new
Colonial Tariff Bill for 1845 we find nothing else of
additional interest than that the Assembly had ad-
journed to meet on the next 26th of November,
without having come to a definitive arrangement on
all the details of the Bill. The next arrival from
Barbadoes will probably bring us the filial action of
the Legislature thereupon.

that her
It was
Sir lienryourrently reported at the clubs last night,
Ma jest has been graciously pleased to appoint
Pottinger Governor-Ge.neral. of Catiadt!., in the
place of Sir Charles Metcalfe, who is seriously indisposed.
—Herald.
ATTEMPT TO POISON A FAMILY AT MANCHESTER.
--On Monday evening last a most atrocious attempt to
poison his wife and two children was made by Benjamin
Anderson, a millwright, living at No. 91, Long-street,
Ancoats, Manchester. It appears that fur several days
past Anderson, who is in the employ of Messrs. Fair-
burn, the engineers, had been drinking, and on Saturday
spent the entire of his wages in liquor. On Monday
afternoon ho came home about half-past three o'clock
and asked his wife to let him have some tea. Mrs. An-
derson told him that the kettle was on the fire, and as
soon as she had made some for her daughter, who
worked in a factory, she would make him some. He
immediately became very abusive, and told both his
wife and son (a boy about eleven years old) that they
should not stop in the house, and under a threat of
being beaten they went into the street. Anderson then
bolted the door and refused for some time to allow them
to come in. As she stood near the window, Mrs. Ander•
son saw her husband go to the cupboard and
take a quantity of onions out, which he placed in the
window. After doing something else at the cup-
board, Anderson opened the door and left the house
without getting any tea. As soon as he was gone,
Mrs. Anderson again ventured, and made some tea,
sweetening it with brown sugar, which she noticed
was speckled with white spots, but did not suspect any
harm. Upon tasting the tea, however, she was much
surprised at its nauseous taste, which was accompanied
by a burning of the mouth. She had remarked to her
son that the sugar was covered with white spots. She
then made some more tea, which she sweetened
with sugar from the same basin as before, and,
finding that the tea had the same burning unplea-
sant taste, she sent for a neighbour, named Cooper, who
likewise tasted the mixture. They then made a little
coffee, sweetening it with sugar which was wrapped in
the cupboard, and found it entirely free from any offensive
tasty. Upon examining some flour and meal which were
also in the cupboard, they were found to contain a plen-
tiful admixture of the same sort of ingredient which had
been found in the sugar. After consulting with Mrs.
Cooper, Mrs. Anderson took the white powder off the
sugar to a druggist. Mr. Turner, druggist, after a slight
inspection, at once stated that sugar of lead had been
mixed with it. Information was then given to the
police, and the husband was apprehended and brought
yesterday, at the Borough Police-court, before D. Maude,
Esq. The prisoner was remanded until Thursday, when
the flour, meal, and sugar will be subjected to an analysis
and the proper means taken to secure the attendance of
the witnesses.—Liverpool Courier.

te,l(Prom the New York Herald of Dec. 18.)
eresMisid. erable effort we are enabled to give to our
thQ 8 this morning the Annual Report of Mr. Bibb,
Col:retarY of the Treasury, which was presented to
give',eBB on Monday last. We have no time to-day to
Minute
-l' but analysis or review of this important re-
brief under our money article head will be found a
of thveietw. and synopsis of its contents. It is obviously
cou,tr hi and
importance to all the interests of the
hardly "Peel ally the commercial and industrial, and
elktio,! suoond in interest to the report on our fureign

The MONEY MARKET, DEC. 17-
ton . - St Market was rather flat to-day, and quota-
fell off a decline. Norwich and Worcester
Ile 0"
Per cent Reading f Farmers' i, Illinois 1,
11011,118.Y1Yania s's -,f,,lndianal, Long' Island -1:„ Canton 1,
rkris Cana s's
f. Erie Railroad and Ohio 6's closed.
!atit Yesterday's prices. North American Trust ad
Th „II Per cent.
kiou
tejec,.e., se of Representatives of New Hampshire has
8v ved the forth instalment of the Surplus Revenue by
°te of 13
. ,r,_ _ r. 93. •
diviZ Norwich and Worcester Railroad have declared at
Allis city of three per cent., payable on the 21st inst. at
Iv IV at the Bank of the state of New York.
Troa„e hEtve received the report of the Secretary of the
richilUrY, and give it at length in our columns. It will
le'''. 4134 Y a careful perusal. It is not often that a
bt Ukent so able as this has emanated from the Treasury
deirttkent.
, The first thing allude d to is the public
c'eett; 1:4 IJeing a subject of vital importaixt, it hwas,
JulyarltieP4d. the attention of the Secretary at length. t
Jul hlB Statement, showing the amount of the debt,
1' 1444 :....
A --Lie -/-,__
.ttnoulit --,..ttur OF TUE 'UNITED STATES, JULY 1. 1844.
Outs, ot the funded debt 5178,034 84
rek:12241/1g certificates
eertifi'rY Notes of 1812
ebt fites of Mississippi Stock, 1815 4,320 00
-satin, e ..., ,
ckqu t ti 1,3 Congress—District of
thltsta tu,?lB-1836, unpaid
,1v,,,011"1ng Treasury Notes, issues of the
aets .......
2,256,207 31
441alii tltle 1845 5.f. .... e. ...... ;-n..t.. *************
5,672,976 88
lA, 0
11..863. 6 per colt.
tl° 4'53, 5 per cent.

COMMITTAL OF A POOR-LAW GUARDIAN FOR MAN-
SLAUGHTER.—An inquest was held by Mr. Evans, the
coroner, on Friday lust, at the union workhouse, at Ross,
on the body of an old woman, named Mary Jones, 82
years of age, whose death, it was alleged, had been occa-
sioned by ill-usage and exposure to cold, through being
improperly removed as a pauper to the above mentioned
union. The evidence taken was exceedingly voluminous,
but the facts may be briefly told. The deceased was in
the receipt of out-door relief from the Ross union, and
on the 2d of last month she walked from the parish of
Llangarren, where she resided, to Ross, in order to apply
to the board of guardians for an increased allowance,
which was granted her. On her return home, being ex-
ceedingly infirm, owing to her great age, she became so
lame and exhausted on the road as to be quite unable to
proceed, and one of the board coming up, and finding
her in that helpless condition, she was removed home in
a cart. She then became so ill as to keep her bed, and
a day or two afterwards, her state being made known
to the guardians, one of them persuaded her to go
into the workhouse, where she would be taken care of
and properly attended to; she refused, saying she had a
great objection to the workhouse. Her condition be-
coming worse, the parish surgeon attended her,
and by his treatment she somewhat recovered. On
the 14th, however, Mr. Garness, one of the guardians,
accompanied by his son, and Thomas Lewis, and
Edward Tourney, went and forcibly removed her to the
workhouse, without the usual medical certificate for the
removal. The deceased having an extreme dread of the
union house, and fearing that she would be forced to
enter it, locked all the doors of the cottage, so as to pre-
vent them removing her. They, however, broke in, and
one laying hold of her head and the other of her legs,
they carried her out and placed her in a cart on some
straw, with a blanket put round her, she at the same
time violently exclaiming that " she would not go." The
workhouse was reached about four o'clock, where the
master tt!mitted her, not in obedience to the order of
the guardian who came with her, as it was informal, but
owing to the critical condition of the poor creature, who
was suffering most severely from the cold, the frost
being very intense during the day. A few days after-
wards she was attacked with illness, which terminated
fatally. Mr. Jones, one of the medical officers of the
union, gave it as his opinion that the deceased's death
was the result of a diseased heart, which might have been
hastened by the sudden exposure to cold. The jury, after
a most careful and deliberate consideration, returned a
verdict of " Manslaughter" against Samuel Garness, the
guardian, Thomas Garness (his son), Thomas Lewis,
and Edward Tourney, who were forthwith committed to
the gaol for trial. The case has produced the greatest
sensation throughout the whole county.

1,260,C00 00

The Total debt July 1, 1844 $24,748,183 23.
rtiaae Secretary extends his remarks to some length, in
1' 1 1"
public credit, and says that the maraet
4 ue of h
is sufficient evidence of
Securities
safetty he
Government Stocks is
ectirities investments of capital in Government
ziritliti..Sec.retary Bibb suggests the establishment of a
the .4117 fuud, not only for the purpose of extinguishing
f
the "e'it of the Government, but to insure the safety
the
(Iti,tsurPlus revenue, and to reduce the interest on d
1"r t.i, TLhe deposit; are now used by the banks se.ccte
tle--e 4ecPing of these funds, fur whatever they m_aly.
st.“ pro Per, without allowing the Government the kr:
ktaoPer cen
t. interest, while the interest on the
.6. Pt
IN: trltitB, in a short time, to a very large sum. A snik-
kilh„ll4(l, increased at the rate of about two millions per
354'41, which could easily be carried into effect,
gent large surplus, would, in a short time, annually
with thell
%7tice an amount of interest full as large as that ac•
t,,A /IR on the Government debt. A modification and a
tt ktion of the tariff are also recommended. The Se-
lt,:f,t4'tY suggests that reasonable time should be Oven,
Nte('re ,*1:1 slightest alteration is made in the Ousting
4ft,4Of tltlty, to enable those interested, or likely to be
tak,et,ed, to gi:vern themselves accordingly. It is esti-
%vim that, un4e." the present tariff, with an importation
"41' to that of the past year, the surplus revenue of
the bear 1853 would, after paying all the expenses and
golj tedness of the Ciovernment, exceed fifty millions of
llittkr4. and it is in con•sideratio❑ of this and other facts,
ftki, the Secretary of the Treasury recommends a gradual
dottqiun in the rate of duties. It is argued that the
hight'stic in
of the coantry du not require such a
Nil "'rage and that it is unjust to extract from the
V Pie ttr '
eN, evenue so much greater than the wants of Go-
,,ent require.
tit trade with foreign nations for the year ending
!nti:. av 1844, has been more in our favour than we have
isittit-,11)„4tetl• According to the official returns from the
Ng j,s-t7 llepartment there was, for the fiscal year and-
4ne 30, 1844, a balance in our favour. •

MYSTERIOUS PARCEL.—Yesterday information was
forwarded to the metropolitan police of the following
mysterious circumstance. It appears that a common
white wicker reticule basket was received at the Universal
Booking-office, Regent-circus, between the hours of four
and eight, P. 31., on the 11th ult., addressed to Mr. Mugs-
prat, ironmonger, Winchester, Ilampshire. On the sth
instant the basket was opened at Winchester, and on re-
moving some loose paper at the top, a calico bag was
found, containing a light-coloured oil•silk bag, which on
being opened, the body of a newly-born male child pre-
sented itself. The basket is quite new and is marked on
the bottom with the letter " A," with two small marks
over it, supposed to be the maker's private marks. An
inquest has been held upon the body, and is adjourned to
the 20th inst.

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rns SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 9,

" The ancient Chapel of the Savoy had been re-
gularly used by the adjacent population for some time,
and had already come to be commonly called the
Church of St. IVlary-le-Sa:oy, before it was proposed
to Queen El;zabeth to sanction the creation of a dis-
trict parish, by throwing tether a part of the parish
of St. Clement Danes and the Royal Precinct of the
Savoy, with the hospital c aapel as its church. This
arrangement, being approved of by the then Bishop of
London, Grindall, was car. ied into effect ;—and, the
wider annexation suggestA in Queen Anne's time
not having taken place, the chapel continues to be
what Queen Elizabeth left it. It is a parochial
benefice in the gift of her Majesty, in right of her
Duchy of Lancaster; and before the householders,
beyond the Precinct of the Savoy, were admitted to
the formal participation in it as their parish church,
they signed an instrument renouncing all claim to
any right or property in the chapel itself; or in any
part of the precinct.
" There is a constant tradition, that when the
Liturgy in the vernacular tongue was restored by
Queen Elizabeth, this chapel was the first place in
which the service was performed. It was in this
chapel also that the memorable conference between
the Episcopalian and Presbyterian divines on the
Book of Common Prayer was held, in the year 1661 ;
and the result of that conference constitutes one of
the most important events in the history of the
Anglican establishment.
" The benefice has been held by more than one
distinguished ornament of the Church of England;
among others, by Dr. Anthony Horneck, the favourite
Chaplain of King William 111., and one of the most
celebrated preachers of his age.
" At various times, since the beginning of the reign
of Henry VIII., the chapel is meetioned as requiring
and receiving extensive repairs; but there seems to be
eo reason for doubting that the existing building is
the same that was erected and consecrated in com-
pliance with the testamentary orders of King Henry
VII. The position of the altar at the northern ex-
tremity has been described recently as anomalous
and unprecedented ;' but the magnificent work of
Mr. Gaily Knight, On the Ecclesiastical Architec-
ture of Italy, from the Earliest Ages to the Fifteenth
Century,' presents copious evidence that the placing
of the altar at the eastern end was by no means
uniformly the practice of rtmote antiquity. In the
Chapel of St. James's Palace, which was arranged in
the reign of Henry VIII., the altar is in the same
situation as at the Savoy, and the beautiful roof
itself, of the latter chapel, affords the clearest possible
proof that its decorations were settled before Henry
VIII. mooted the divorce of Catharine of Arragon,
and that the drawings were executed with reference
to the actual position of the altar.
" The ceiling of the chapel had long been de-
formed and obscured under coatings of whitewash,
before the ruinous condition of its wood-work di-
rected attention to the details of its original embel-
lishment; but her Majesty's munificence having
authorised a complete restoration, the whole of these
may now be examined distinctly, which was not the
case when certain architectural critics alleged that the
building must have been set apart for sacred purposes
during the prevalence of puritan theories.
" The chapel, now insulated, was originally, as an
old print shows, connected with other parts of the
hospital. It is throughout in the Tudor style, its
interior dimensions 90 by 24 feet. The tower at the
southern end is a modern addition. The walls
within are quite without ornament ; it is probable
that carved woodwork was destroyed as well as
painted glass (in the northern window, at least,)
during the Commonwealth. The chapel contains
some elegant ancient monuments, and one which,
though curious, cuts, unfortunately, into the original
design of the altar-piece or reredos.
" The ceiling resembles the nearly contemporary
one of the chapel at St. James's Palace, being wholly
of wood (oak and pear tree), flat, with a slight cove
next the walls; but, instead of the angular panels
which cover the whole surface at the Chapel Royal,
with the initials H. A. (Henry VIII. and Anne ho-
leyn) painted on them, the roof in the Savoy is
divided by moulded ribs into one hundred and thirty-
eight quatrefoil panels, each enriched with a carved
ornament, either of sacred or of historical significance.
The panels number twenty-three in the length of
the chapel, and six in its width. The ten ranges,
commencing at the north window, and extending
considerably to the southward of the altar-steps, have
each in its centre a shield, surrounded by the crown
of thorns—each shield presenting in high relief some
feature or emblem of the passion and death of our
Lord; and all devised and arranged in a style of
which we have many examples in sacred buildings of
the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. In one quatre-
foil are the garment and the dice ; in another the
cross; in a third the sponge and the spear; in a
fourth is the head of the high priest's servant, with the
sword of Peter behind his ear. Elsewhere we see a
halbert and a lantern ; the column and scourge ; a
torch and cresset ; the salutation of Judas; the heads
of Peter and Pilate's servant; the cock; the heads
of Pilate and Caiaphas ; the five wounds on a heart,
two hands, and two feet; a pelican ; an open sepulchre
with three pots of myrrh. The exterior panels
have angels supporting the cross, the ladder, the
spear, the crown of thorns, the napkin of St.-Veronica,
and the column of the scourging. he panels
throughout the rest of the ceiling are occupied by
bearings or badges, indicating the various families
from which the royal lineage was derived, and more
particularly the alliances of the House of Lancaster ;
each of these panels being surrounded, in place of
the crown of thorns towards the altar end, with a
torce or wreath tinted with the livery colours of the
various families respectively. Thus we have the Red
Dragon of Cadwallader; the Black Bull of Clare ; the
White Hart of Richard 11. ; the White Hind of his
mother, the Fair Maid of Kent ; the White Falcon
of York ; the White Lion of March ; the Antelope
of Henry V. ; the Winged Stag of France; the
Golden Lion, regally crowned, of England; the
White Greyhound of Henry VII. ; the Antelope and
Ibex, with curved horns and spotted skin, being the
badge or Beste' of Margaret of Richmond, mother
of that King, the same that is displayed so frequently
on her colleges at Cambridge : and in many of the
smaller compartments, what has already been alluded
to as making the date of the decoration, the Pome-
granate of Catherine of Arragon, a badge first adopted
by her father on the surrender of Granada in 1491.*
" There can be no doubt that the use of rich colours
was general in the interior of our ancient churches,
more especially cathedrals and chapels royal. The
example of restoring the splendid blazonry which had
been obliterated in times of puritan fanaticism, and
afterwards neglected, was set about twenty years ago
in the metropolitan church of Canterbury. It has
been followed in many places, nowhere more happily
or more magnificently than in the Temple Church.
And the restoration of the Savoy ceiling would surely
have been incomplete, had what were originally its
characteristic features been allowed to remain in their
recent obscurity.
" The other alterations lately made were adopted
with a view to the greater comfort of the congrega-
tion. A superfluous doorway has been walled up,
and the other approach widened; but the beautiful
carved work which had thus to be removed, is placed
in another part of the chapel, and the new wooden
carving„ requisite where it had stood, has been done
exactly on its model. The pulpit (no doubt of Eliza-
bethan date) has been shifted to a more convenient
position, and her Majesty has been graciously pleased
to grant the chapel a good organ, in lieu of the
barrel-organ, which was all it seems ever to have
possessed previously.
"The great north window had been bricked up and
covered by a wretched painting. It has now been re-
opened, and the parishioners having, in grateful ac-
knowledgment of her Majesty's liberality as to the
structure in general, requested permission to fill it
with stained glass at their own expense, it is restored
in a very satisfactory manner. In the lower central
compartment is the figure of St. John the Baptist, to
whom the hospital of the Savoy was dedicated; the
side compartments, on the same range, have the
emblems of the other Evangelists. The letter L.,
surmounted with the Ducal Coronet, the Red Rose of
Lancaster, and the Lions and Fleurs-de-Lis of the
Plantagenet escutcheon, have been introduced in other
parts ; and the jamb is inscribed thus This window
was glazed at the cost of the Congregation, in honour
of God, and in gratitude to our Queen Victoria.'"

IRELAND.
CHARITABLE BEQUESTS ACT—ARCHBISHOP
MURRAY.
Dttnust, JAN. 7.—The story of a conspiracy in Tippe-
rary to murder Ai.chbishop Murray is totally destitute
of foundation.
It appears that an anonymous letter had been sent
from seine part of Tipperary to Mr. Knaresborough, one
of the resident or stipendiary magistrates in the county
of Cork, apprising him that a conspiracy with this dia-
bolical object existed. Mr. Knaresborough forwarded
the r nonymous letter to Archbishop Murray, who looked
upon the matter either as a mischievous hoax, or a
scheme to deceive the magistrate.
The Monitor of yesterday evening contained the fol-
lowing :
" The greatest excitement prevailed in this city yes-
terday, in consequence of a rumour having been exten-
sively circulated and generally credited, of a conspiracy
having been discovered in Tipperary, the object of which
was to murder his Grace Dr. Murray. As may be
naturally expected, such a rumour spread like wildfire,
and created the greatest excitement. For our own part,
we attached no credence to it whatever ; the thing was
so improbable—so outrageously extravagant, that We
could not bring ourselves to consider it in any serious
light. However, as the statement was confidently re-
peated, we made some inquiries to ascertain whether
there was any foundation for it, and we believe that the
following may be relied on as correct:—
" A magistrate in the county of Cork received an
anonymous letter, the purport of s hich was that three
devils,' as the writer said, had agreed to take the life of
his Grace Doctor Murray; and the writer requested
the magistrate to go at once and put Dr. Murray on his
guard. The letter was from Tipperary, and of course
the magistrate enclosed it to Dr. Murray, stating the
manner in which it came into his possession.
" Such, we believe, may be relied on as a correct ac-
count of the circumstances which gave rise to the rumour
which has caused such a sensation in this city. We
confess we do not at present attach much importance to
the statement. We are inclined to think that some mis-
chievous person in Tipperary has been at work—that he
wrote the anonymous letter to the magistrate, who cer-
tainly acted very properly in forwarding it to Doctor
Murray.
" We repeat we cannot bring ourselves to believe that
even among the diabolical ruffians of Tipperary there
could be found three fiends in human shape to conspire
to take the life of such a venerated prelate as Doctor
Murray—and for what ? For merely acting according
to his conscientious judgment in support of the Catholic
Church, of which he is one of its brightest ornaments"
The Freeman's Journal observes :
" The Monitor seems either not to be cognisant of the
fact, or carefully to conceal it—that this rumour was
whispered about for some days, and that the calumnia-
tors of our land—those who would affix upon our noble,
our generous people, the contemplation of a crime of
deeper die than any wherewith our Saxon taskmasters
ever sought to blacken the fair fame of our country--
sought in vain to get currency for their guilty lie, till a
rash clergyman, connected with 'Westland-row Catholic
church, perhaps in mistaken affection for the Most Rev.
Prelate whose name was mixed up with this foul
fraud—perhaps through over-heated zeal for the new
doctrines he has espoused, that the clergy should be-
come the tools of the Castle, or, perhaps, to demon-
strate the working of Castle connexion—was found on
Sunday last to give publicity to the aspersions against
his countrymen, which he, at least, should have inquired
into before he promulgated."
The Dublin Evening Post of this afternoon contains
the following:—
"A rumour has been bruited abroad, to the effect that
a Tipperary magistrate wrote to Archbishop Murray of
a horrible plot that he had detected—the object of the
conspirators being to murder his Grace, because he had
become one of the Commissioners under the Bequests
Act. It is even said that the matter was alluded to from
the pulpit of one of the Catholic churches in this city.
Now, we do not know that we should think it worth
our while to allude to this matter at all, if we had not
learned that Mr. Knaresborough, a magistrate of Cork,
had sent a letter to Archbishop Murray, enclosing an
anonymous note, manifestly a fabrication, in which it
was said that such a conspiracy was in progress. On this
information, Doctor Murray, as a sensible man, could
lay no stress whatever. His Grace, we dare say, saw it
was a trick of the enemy. Wby it was gotten up—why
such a flagitious libel on the country has been put into
circulation—with all our knowledge of the characters of
your little mischievous political folk with which the city
is infested, we really cannot make out. That it is au
Orange lie, we believe—but, nevertheless, the Evening
Mail, though the editor must have heard the rumour,
gabby as it is and virulent, deemed it more advisable, for
the present, to be silent. But we are wasting too much
time ou the falsehood.' "
THE CHARITABLE BEQUESTS COMMISSION.
At the first meeting of the Commissioners under the
Charitable Bequests Act, at their office in Lower Gar-
dener-street, the following six commissioners were in
attendance :—The Most Rev. Dr. Whatley, the Most
Rev. Dr. Murray, the Lord Chief Baron, the Master of
the Rolls, Sir Patrick Bellew, Bart., and the Right Hon.
A. R. Blake.
The following seven commissioners were absent :
Primate Beresford, Most Rev. Dr. Crony, Right Rev.
Dr. Denvir, Lord Donoughmore, the Dean of St. Pa-
trick's, Judge of the Prerogative Court, and the Rev.
Shouldam Henry.
The Secretaries, Messrs. W. P. Mathews and R. O'Car-
roll, were in attendance.
MEETING OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CLERGY
OF DUBLIN.
Archbishop Murray is about to convene a meeting of
the clergy of the diocese of Dublin, for the purpose of
petitioning the Legislature to expunge from the Eman-
cipation Act the clause affecting the regular clergy,
which is referred to in the Bequests' Act. In Archbishop
Murray's recent pastoral address, he condemned, in very
decided terms, the clause against the regular clergy,
against which he and his clergy had unavailingly pen
tioned in 1829.

INCREASED GRANT TO MAYNOOTIL
The Evening Post says—" The Ministry are now in a
favourable position for proposing a liberal grant for col-
legiate education in Ireland, oa a system embracing
Catholics and Dissenters, and for giving to Maynooth a
grant in some degree commensurate to the claims of the
Catholics of Ireland for the education of their clergy.
Indeed, we have some reason to believe that the Premier
has already decided on such a step."

BRIGHTON-WEDNESDAY.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Ely, the Ladies
Catherine aid Ann Loftus, and Lord Henry Loftus, after
a stay of about two months at the Clarence Mansion,
Marine-parade, took their departure this morning for
London.

Mr. Baron Gurney intends to pass a few weeks in
Brighton, as soon as a suitable residence can be engaged
for him. We regret to hear that his Lordship
.is still
indisposed.
Chief-Justice Tindal, after passing a week with his
sister, Mrs. Simmons, at the Albion Hotel, took his de-
parture yesterday for London.
Lord and Lady Colville, who have been here several
weeks, intend to leave on Friday.
Sir Theodore and Lady Brinckman, who have been
staying for about a week at the Norfolk Hotel, have
taken a house in Adelaide-crescent.
The Duchess of Norfolk is expected in Brighton to-
morrow from Arundel Castle.
The Duchess of Beaufort is shortly expected on a
visit to the Hon. Mr. and Lady Calthorpe.
Viscount Lake went to town on Monday, but is ex-
pected to return in a few days.
Among our arrivals of note is "General Tom Thumb,"
who has been exhibiting at the Town-hall to-day to
well-filled rooms. The " General's " equipage, which
was driven about the town this morning, created a good
deal of amusement.

Sir Martin and Lady De Crespigny, Col. Fludyer, Sir
George Staunton, Sir Edward Elton, Mr. Elton, Mr. and
the lion. Miss Wallia Grieve, are among the latest ar-
rivals at the Albion Hotel. General Sir Arthur Upton,
Sir John and Miss Booth, Sir Arthur Capell Broke,
Admiral and Mrs. Sykes, and Sir A. Chichester, are at
Pegg's Royal York Hotel.:
The mortal remains of Lady Wilmot were removed on
Monday last from her residence in Kemp Town for in-
terment in the family vault at Chaddesden, Derby. The
loss of this estimable lady will be long and severely
felt by all who came within the sphere of her active
benevolence.

DURHAM AND SUNDERLAND

RAILWAY.

-
SUNDERLAND, JAN. 6.—A special general meeting of
the Durham and Sunderland Railway Company was held
this day in the Exchange-buildings, to take into consi-
deration the propriety of altering the mode agreed upon
at the last special meeting of the Company for issuing
the new shares proposed to be created for the purpose
of altering and extending the line, and of adapting it to
propulsion by locomotive engines instead of ropes drawn
by stationary engines.
CHRISTOPHER BRAMWELL, Esq., the Chairman of the
Company, briefly stated the business to be considered,
which was, that a late special meeting it was agreed to
raise the capital of 180,000/. required ior the new works,
and other requisite changes connected with the working
of the line, by the issuing of 6,000 new shares, at 30/.
each, the subscribers of which were to be guaranteed 5
per cent. per annum for their capital till the proposed
alterations came into operation, when the whole of the
new shares were to merge in the common stock of
the Company, and the new and old Shareholders were
then to participate alike in the profits and liabilities of
the entire line. It was now proposed that this plan
should be cancelled, and that the new shares should be
issued at 40/. each, to the extent of four thousand five
hundred, and that the present Proprietors should have
the option of taking them in proportion to the shares
now held by each in the Company ; and that the new
shares of 40/. each so created should have a guarantee in
perpetuity secured to them of five per cent. per annum
interest, reserving also to the new Shareholders the
right of participating in any greater dividend that may
at any time be realised from the profits of the railway.
IMr. J. J. 'WRIGHT, in a long and energetic speech,
advocated the adoption of this plan, and submitted a re-
solution to carry it into effect, which was seconded by
Mr. T. Reed, and cordially received by the meeting.
Mr. W. J. BARKER, Sharebroker, stated to the meet-
ing that he was authorised to offer a premium of 7s. 6d.
per
cha s share
for
an
re
parties
rt e s whateverin
theso numbersouth
of h
gentleman
tolfera4soain.a Far hsahesahrcearo u;elbd p
arnodkueri t
was also stated by another r-
in London had offered to guarantee the disposal of the
whole number of new shares to be created at the value of
40/. each. _ _ _

* The devices on this ceiling are minutely explained
in Mr. Willement's Heraldic work.

THE QUEEN ♦ND GIBSON, THE SCULPTOR.—The
Queen sat for a bust to Mr. Gibson, a short time pre-
vious to his departure for Rome. He is commissioned
to produce a full-length statue of her Majesty. The
Queen and her Royal Consort were highly pleased with
the work of the accomplished sculptor, whom they re-
ceived and treated with marked urbanity and considera-
tion—with a gracious delicacy, indeed—which made the
artist at once at ease in " the presence." Two or three
slight incidents occurred during his visit to Windsor,
which are worthy of note, as exhibiting her Majesty's
generous thought in regard to the pleasures of her sub-
jects. Mr. Gibson's attention was directed to the posi-
tion occupied by a statue, the work of Wyatt. Passing
into another apartment, a place was pointed out as that
originally selected for it. Gibson saw at once that this
was a site far more advantageous to the production of
his friend, and said so. Her Majesty immediately re-
plied, " I think with you; but, if placed here, the people
would not be able to see it. During one of the sittings,
the Prince of Wales was brought into the room. Mr.
Gibson said, Your Majesty, I am a 'Welshman: will
your Majesty allow me to kiss the hand of the Prince of
Wales?" The Queen looked pleased, and was pleased;
and the sculptor knelt, and " did his devoir as a cour-
tier."-7-Art Unien.

ME CORN TRADE.—Although this trade has been
very quiet for some time, we hear that con• iderablo
orders for the purchase of foreign grain have been sent
out to the Baltic. At the present prices, at home and
abroad, good Baltic wheat could pay 20s. duty, the
freight and charges, and just clear itself. There can,
however, be no importation at present on account of tho
ice.—Liverpool Times.

This flattering state of the business was received with
great satisfaction by the Shareholders present, and the
resolution proposed by Mr. Wright was submitted to the
meeting, and unanimously adopted.

345.

FLANDERS MAIL.
BRUSSELS, JAN. G.—The Government has received
from the Charge d'Affaires of Belgium, at Turin, a report
which contains interesting information respecting the
commerce of the island of Sardinia. This report is
accompanied--I.Byavien ofthe import and export trade
of the island for ten years-1826 to 1837. 2. A table,
showing the number of ships that arrived in and left
the port of the island in 1843. 3. An estimate of the
English goods imported into the island in 1843.
4. A table of the weights and measures in use in
the island, compared with the national system.
His Majesty gave an audience, on the 4th of this
month, at noon, to the Marquis de Reimegrez, Am-
bassador of his Majesty the King of the French, who
delivered a letter from his Sovereign, notifying the
marriage of his Royal Highness the Duke d'Aumale
to the Princess Maria Caroline Augusta of Salerno.
The King has also received a letter from his Ma-
jesty the King of the Two Sicilies, on the occasion of
this marriage.
The navigation of our canals, which has been in-
terrupted for more than a month, will probably bL
resumed this week, if we should not have any return
of the frost.

turned upon his back. This wallathei !vritioißST
moment. With more unaccountable presence of
mind, I laid hold of his nose with my ]eft
hand and with my right I scooped out
his remaining organ of vision. He opened his
big mouth, and champed his long teeth at me in
despair. But it was all over with him. I raised my
right foot and gave him a hard shove, and he glided
off into the deep water, and went to the bottom.
Well, gentlemen I suppose you'd think it a hard
story, but it's none the less a fact, that I served every
remaining one of thuse nineteen sheiks in the same
fashion. They all came up to me, one ley one, regu-
larly and in order, and I scooped their eyes out and
gave them a shove, and they went off into deep water,
just like so many lambs. By the time I had scooped
out and blinded a couple of dozen of them, they began
to seem so scarce, that I thought I would swim for
the island, and fight the rest for fun on the way ; but
iost then Tim Titus hove in sight, and it had got to
almost dark, and I concluded to get on board and
rest myself.

INCENDIARISM.--A man neated William Caskett,
Kingston,ion on
swiars l brought finaloFurgehttruaicpck.fh,oa;rigre. l(
,foebxficair.titn,sii,gnaaait;d
who has been in custody several days, under remand,
rick irlitl,:f7g::i3as.)tr-a'atijteletsfr.(a'ariet.
Wal-
ton-on-Thames, on-Thames, the property of a farmer named
Tubbs. It appeared from the depositions of numerous
witnesses that the fire took place between ten and
eleven at night, on the 25th of December. On
an alarm b,ing given, one of the
police-constatdes
attached to the V division hastened towards the fire
and when he had got near Mr. Tubb's premises he
met the prisoner coming away. He asked him some
questions. and eventually the prisoner accompanied him
back to the fire, and assisted to work the engines.
Some suspicion was entertained of hint at this tiine,
and on his being questiontd he denied that he had
had any lucifer matelies in his possessien on that
day. He was searched, but nethieg siispicietes being
found upon him, he was eventually allueed to defile t
but, from what afterwards transpired, he was taken
into custody a day or two :afterwards. It was now
proved that on the night of the fire the prisoner was in a
public-house at Walton, and that he had a number of
boxes of lucifer matches in his possession, which he
offered for sale, and in the course of the evening he gave
one of them to a person in the tap-room. He left the
house, which is only a short distance from Mr. Tubbs'
farm, shortly after ten o'clock, and in a very brief pet iod
the tire broke out. Almost immediately afterwards the
prisoner was seen by a person named White running Is a
direction away from the fire, and he remarked that his
face was very black. A box of inciters was found in Mr.
Tubb's yard, which was proved to be of exactly the same
description as those which the prisoner had been seen
offering for sale in the public-house at Walton. There
did not appear to be any motive for the commission of
the act by the prisoner, but from the above facts and
other circumstances that came out in evidence, a case of
suspicion appeared to be made out against him. The
magistrates committed the prisoner for trial at the next
spring assizes.
DEATHS OF CHILDREN Br FlRE.—Yesterday Mr.
Baker held two inquests at the London Hospital, on the
bodies of two children, destroyed by fire. The first
was on the body of Henrietta Bagster, aged five,
whose parents reside at No. 2, George-yard, White-
chapel. It appeared that on the 12th ult., whilst
lighting in play a piece of paper at the fire, she
ignited her clothes, and was in consequence so severely
burned that she was removed to this hospital, in which
place she died of exhaustion, arising from her burns,
on the sth inst. The second inquest was on the
body of Edward Stevens, aged four, whose parents live
in Prince's-court, Birdcage-walk, Bethnal-green. Whilst
sitting, three weeks ago, on a little stool before the fire,
a spark flew into lap, and instantly his dress was
in flames. He expired on Tuesday. The Coroner re-
marked that mortality amongst children, the result of
fire, was at present remarkably great, and that within a
few days he had held eight inquests on bodies so de-
stroyed. Fire-guards would prevent such calamities ;
but no advice or reasoning could, it appeared, induce
poor parents to make general use of them. Verdict,
in both cases, "Accidental death."
CRICKET MATCH IN SKATES.—OD Thursday, the
26th ult., the Sheffield Skating Club, by permission of
Mr. Paxton, played a game at cricket on the ice in skates
at Chatsworth Park, the seat of the Duke of Devonshire
(Scottish Pond, Swiss Cottage). At the commencement
(tithe game several loads of wood were brought to tl.e
pond side for the purpose of making a large fire, which
had a very animated appearance, and at the conclusion
of the first innings refreshments were ordered by Mr.
Paxton to the pond side for the members of the Skating
Club, which were kindly accepted. After lunch the
game was resumed, arid the scene had a more pleasing
appearance, in eons, quince of several ladies skating oil
the pond. When the game was over, the members com-
menced some excellent figurative skating, which was
carried on for some tine., after which the ladies in skates
and members of the club danced Payne's Qudrilles, which
concluded the day's amusement.
FATAL RAILWAY ACClDENT.—Yesterday (Tues-
day), at the Manchester Infirmary, an inquest was held
on view or the body of Nathaniel Horstall, labourer,
thirty-three years of age. The deceased had been in
the employment c f the Manchester, Bury, and Rossen-
dale Railway Compeny, and in the afternoon of Satur-
day, the 28th ult., whilst disengaging a horse which was
drawing three waggons loaded with etude he fell across
one of the rails, and a wheel of the first waggon caught
his right arm. In that state he was pushed about four
yards along an inclined plane, and received a compound
fracture of the arm, and contusion of the neck and chest.
He was conveyed to the infirmary, where amputation
was performed, but he died on Saturday morning lust.
A verdict of Accidental Death was returned.—Aian-
chester Guardian.
TROOPS FOR VAN DIEMAN'S LAND.—CRATIIAM,
JAN. B,—The Commandant of this garrison, Sir Themnis
Willshire, K.C.8., issued yesterday garrison orders,
commanding detachments from the 51st, 58th, 96th, and
99th Regiments to hold themselves in readiness for em-
barkation to New South Wales and Van Dieman's
Land. The troops were inspected this day in heavy
marching order. The 51st King's Own Light Infantry
furnishes 22 men ; the 58th, 196 men ; 96th, 18 mien ;
and 99th, 45 men ; making a total of 281 men. These
troops are to march from this garrison on Friday, the
10th instant, en route for Gravesend, when they are to
embark in boats from the Customs-quay on board the
freight-ship Ann, of 800 tons burden. The troops are
to be under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Robert
Henry Wynyard, of the 58th, with the following officers
of the same regiment :—Captain Joseph Henry Laye,
Ensign George Henry Wynyard, and Assistant-Surgeon
Thomas Moore Philson. Assistant-Surgeon William
M'Andrew, of the 96th Regiment, also embarks with
the above. The 58th leaves behind a detachment at this
garrison of 5 sergeants, 5 corporals, 1 drummer, and 53
privates, under command of Captain George Ponsonby
Hume and Lieutenant Petley.
ANOTHER DEATPI IN THE MILLDANK PRISON.—
Yesterday Mr. Higgs held an inquest in the Millbank
Prison, on the body of Harris Nash, aged 22, a prisoner.
It appeared from the evidence of Captain Grove, the go-
vernor, and Dr. Bally, physician of the prison, that de-
ceased was received into it on the 9th October last, from
the Model Prison, Pentonville, having been convicted on
the sth January, 1843, at the St. Alban's Quarter Ses-
sions, and sentenced to ten years' transportation. When
admitted to the Millbank prison, he was in good health,
though somewhat emaciated, and went on well until the
Ist instant, when he was seized with violent inflamma-
tion of the bowels, accompanied by a loss of appetite.
He was immediately removed to the infirmary, treated
therein carefully, and appeared to recover, until Sunday
last, when he had a violent relapse, causing such ex-
haustion that he died on Tuesday. A post mortal
examination showed inflammation and incipient mortifi-
cation of the intestines to be the cause of death. , Verdict
—" Natural death."
APPREHENSION, ESCAPE, AND RECAPTURE.—We
stated last week that John Gillespie had been appre-
hended in Carlisle, on a charge of breaking into the shot
of Mr. Grindel, of Wigton. On Saturday he was taken
to Wigton, and a clear case made out against him. The,
prisoner was then conveyed to "the lock -up by Hethe-
rington, the officer, to wait the departure.of the train for
Carlisle. In the meantime Hetherington went to obtain
some refreshment, leaving the prisoner, with a pair e':
leg-irons on, in the charge of two of the Wigton police
men. On his return, great was his astonishment to fine',
that the bird had flown. Some kind friends outside,
nose, applied a crow-
taking advantage of the watchmen's dozing propeusitiaa
lbiaard
e reward of' Si. was ()flared for his apprehension, bat
,toaittnheosdtouonrdoefrthDe°lgobeckr-IYup's, avne7 set the prisoner free.
without effect until Tuesday night, when he surrendered,
himself in Carlisle.— Tyne Mercury.
CURIOSITIES OF POLICE.--A great book is yet to
he written on our police-courts. We believe that sense
genius—heaven-appointed
nh et ah ve meanen-ap m
potiintee, d
andfu r
at e work--will one du)
are ;ai g
that luminary
we can only gather up materials for the opus magnum.
At Clerkenwell, Elizabeth Phillips was arraigned before
the celebrated Mr. Greenwood, charged with having
stolen the watch of a tradesman, in Sadler's Well
Theatre. It was proved that the police knew nothing tc
her prejudice, and that she had lived with her father,.
the same place for seven years. The girl herself, In a.
passion of tears, exelaitned—" Why, my God ! severai
people will come forward to prove I was at home at'
Friday evening. At the time this gentleman and lad.,
speak of, I was fetching a pint of beer for my fatlec:.
from the Swan public-house in Keete-street. Send fe:
Mr. Fryer, the landlord. Oh, do pray, Sir, do, fer lan
innocent." And the innocence of the girl was prove
beyond doubt. She had, however, been taken into cus
tody at Sadler's Wells the night after the complainer
had lost his watch, she having been at home on the.
Friday. Whereupon, what did and what said the sale
sagacious Magistrate ? Why—" Mr. Greenwood di.
charged the girl, telling her to be cautious how sl
visited 'theatres in future." And wherefore ? 'l'h
accuser might have made the like mistake as to person:
identity, had he been robbed in a church ; yet woue
Mr. Greenwood have then advised the girl "to be eau •
tious how she visited churches in future ?"--Punch.
WHITEHAVEN AND FURNESS RAILWAY.—Tt.
share list in this undertaking is rapidly filling up, at,.;.:
bids fair to be soon completed. Up to the Ist inst. tee
application in Whitehaven alone amount( dto the sef
ot' 114,5801., independent of the shares which mig
have been taken in London, Liverpool, Manchester,,:m..
The projectors feel sanguine that they will cbte.iri
Act early in the ensuing session, without any cliffac tate.
—Tyne Mercury.
At a meeting of the Directors of the WllitehavE am
Junction Railway, held at the Company's office in T
haven, on Monday, the stumbling block eel). ich has
hitherto retarded the work, was completely 8 nd
satin
factorily removed, so that we may now look for Immo
diate and active steps being taken for COW' aencing the.
undertaking.—Cumberland Pacquet.

We (the Courrier Beige) have just received
letter from Berlin, which states positively that thi
Prussian Cabinet understands the 19th article of it:
treaty of the Ist of September, relative to the impor-
tation of our iron into the State of the Zollverein, aw
it is understood in Belgium. On this point, there.
fore, the two parties are agreed, but at the same tiro
it has been thought proper to take the opinion of the
other States on this question.

A SHARK STORY. BY THE LATE
WILLIAM P. HA 11 ES, ESQ.

(From a New York Paper.)
" Heartless villiain !" I shrieked out, in the torture
of my disappointment, "may reward your in-
humanity." The crew answered my prayer with a
coarse, low laugh ; and the cook asked me through a
speaking-trumpet, "If I wasn't afraid of catching
cold "—the black rascal!
It was now time to strip ; for my knees felt the
cool tide, and the wind dying away, left a heavy
swell, that swayed and shook the box upon which 1
was mounted, so that I had occasionally to stoop and
paddle with my hands against the water, in order to
preserve my perpendicular. The setting sun sent
his almost horizontal streams of fire across the dark
waters, making them gloomy and terrific by the con-
trast of his amber and purple glories.
Something glided by me in the water, and then
made a sudden halt. I looked upon the black mass,
and as my eyes ran along its dark outline I saw with
horror that it was a shark—the identical monster out
of whose mouth I had just broken my hook. He was
fishing now for me, and was evidently only waiting
for the tides to rise high enough above the rock to
glut at once his hunger and revenge. As the water
continued to mount above my knees, he seemed to grow
more hungry and familiar. At last he made a desperate
dash, and approached within an inch of my legs, turned
upon his hack, and opened his huge jaws for an at-
tack. With desperate strength I thrust the end of my
rod violently at his mouth; and the brass head, ring-
ing against his teeth, threw him back into the deep
current, and I lost sight of him entirely. This, how-
ever, was but a momentary repulse ; for in the next
minute he was close behind my back, and pulling at
the skirts of my fustian coat, which hung dipping
into the water. -I
leaned forward hastily, and endea-
voured to extricate myself from the dangerous grasp;
but the monster's teeth were too firmly set, and his
immense strength nearly drew me over. So down
flew my rod, and off went my jacket, devoted peace-
offerings to my voracious visitor.
In an instant the waves all around me were lashed
into froth and foam. No sooner was my poor old
sporting friend drawn under the surface, than it was
fought for by a dozen enormous combatants ! The
battle raged upon every side. High black fins rushed
now here, now there, and long strong tails scattered
sleet and froth, and the brine was thrown up in jets,
and eddied, and curled, and fell, and swelled, like a
whirlpool in Hellgate.
Of no long duration, however, was this fishy tour-
ney. It seemed soon to be discovered that the prize
contended for contained nothing edible but cheese
and crackers, and no flesh ; and as its mutilated frag-
ments came to the surface the waves subsided into
their former smooth condition. Not till then did I
experience the real terrors of my situation. As I
looked around me to see what had become of the rob-
bers, I counted one, two, three--yes, up to twelve
successively—of the largest sharks I ever saw, float-
ing in a circle around me, like divergent rays, all
mathematically equi-distant from the rock, and from
each other ; each perfectly motionless, and with
gloating, fiery eye, fixed full and fierce upon me.
Basilisks and rattle-snakes, how the fire of their
steady eyes entered into my heart ! I was the ceetre
of a circle, whose radii were sharks! I was the un-
sprung, or rather unchewed game, at which a pack of
hunting sea-dogs were making a dead point.
There was one fellow that kept within the circum-
ference of the circle. He seemed to be a sort of cap-
tain or leader of the band, or rather he acted as the
coroner for the other twelve of the inquisition that
were summoned to sit on and eat up my body. He
glided round and about, and every now and then
would stop and touch his nose against some one
of his comrades, to consult or give instructions as to
the time and mode of operations. Occasionally he
would scull himself towards me, and examine the con-
dition of my flesh, and then again glide back and re-
join the troop, and flap his tail and have another con-
fabulation. The old rascal had, no doubt, been out in
the highways and byways, and collected this com-
pany of his friends and kin-fish, and invited them to
supper. I must confess that, horribly as I felt, I
could not help but think of a tea-party of demure old
maids, sitting in a solemn circle, with their skinny
hands in their laps, licking their expecting lips, while
their hostess bustles about in the important functions
of her preparations. With what an eye have I seen
such appurtenances of humanity survey the location
and adjustment of some especial condiment, which is
about to be submitted to criticism and consumption.
My sensations began to be now exquisite indeed ;
but I will not attempt to describe them. I was nei-
ther hot nor cold, frightened nor composed but I
had a combination of all kinds of feeling and emo-
tions. The present, past, future, heaven, earth, my
father and mother, a little girl I knew once, and the
sharks, were all confusedly mixed up together, and
swelled my crazy brain almost to bursting. I cried
and laughed, and shouted and screamed for Tim Titus.
In a fit of most wise madness, I opened my broad-
bladed fishing-knife, and waved it around my head
with an air of defiance. As the tide continued to
rise, my extravagance of madness mounted. At one
time I became persuaded that my tide-waiters were
reasonable beings, who might be talked into mercy
and humanity, if a body could only hit upon the right
text. So I bowed and gesticulated, and threw out
my hands, and talked to them as friends and brothers,
members of my family, cousins, uncles, aunts, people
waiting to have their bills paid. I scolded them as
my servants ; I abused them as duns ; I implored
them as jurymen, sitting on the question of my life ;
I congratulated and flattered them as my comrades
upon some glorious enterprise ; I sang and ranted to
them, now as an actor in a playhouse, and now as an
elder in a camp meeting, in one moment roarimg—
" On the cold flinty rock I will lay down my head"—
and in the next, giving out to my attentive hearers,
for singing, a hymn of Dr. Watts's, admirably appro-
priate to the occasion:—
" On slippery rocks I see them stand,
While fiery billows roll below."
What said I—what did I not say ?—Prose and
poetry, Scripture and drama, romance and ratiocina-
tion—out it came—Quatndiu, Catalina, nostra pa-
tientia abuterey—l sung out to the old captain to begin
with—" My brave associates, partners of my toil"—
so ran the strain. "On which side soever I turn my
eyes"—" Gentlemen of the jury"—" I come here not
to steal away your hearts"—" You are not wood, you
are not stone, but"—Hoh l—" Begin, ye tormentors,
your tortures are vain"—" Good friends, sweet friends,
let me not stir you up to any sudden flood"—" The
angry flood which lashed her groaning sides"—
" Ladies and gentlemen"—My very noble and ap-
proved good masters"—" Avaunt! and quit my sight ;
let the earth hide ye"—Lie lightly on his bed, 0,
earth !"—" Oh, heaven and earth, that it should oome
to this"—" The torrent roared, and we did buffet it
with lusty sinews, stemming it aside, and oaring it N .th
hearts of controversy"—" Give me some dllrink, T-
tania"—" Drink, boys, drink, and drown duo
the
sorrow"
i
R—" Foormlairs ooroiutndtroythmreonl,l
ands uchcom comfort to t
me
for my
—" lovers,
Fello-
w
cause, and be silent that you may he
citizens, assembled as we aree
truthupon andtthiss interestingheauty,,_
occasion, impressed with th
e Isle of beauty, fare thee well
r—‘i‘islie t pr a
equeani
quality of
mercy is not strained"--“Magna veritas
—"
Truth is potent, and"—" Most potent, grave, and
reverend seigniors"—
" Oh, 114:Ay you weep, and I perceive you feel
The dint of pity ; these are gracious drops.
Kind souls, what, weep you when you behold
Our Caesar's vesture wounded ?"
Ha! ha r !—and I broke out in a fit of most
horrible laughter, as I thought of the mincemeat par-
ticles of my lacerated jacket.
In the meanlime the water had got well up towards
my shoulders, and while I was shaking and vibrating
upon my unc. stain foothold, I felt the cold nose of
the captain ,af the band snubbing against my side.
Desperately, and without any definite object, I struck
at one of hi 's eyes, and, by some singular fortune,
cut it out cl can from the socket. The shark darted
back and halted. In an instant hope and reason came
to my relief, and it occurred to me that if I could
only blind the rmonster I might yet escape. Accord-
ingly I stood ready for the next attack. The loss of
an eye did not, seem to affect him much, for, after
shaking his bead once or twice, he came up to me
and agahl Wtter; he was about half an inch off,

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