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Ft A.-7,
14, ri"uP,TIS and DUTCH MAIL.
411 NE •
the io„ 13.—The Journals contain many de-
V.,urneY of the King and Queen, and the
e eoranlreinreFss of Saxe Cnburg.
and
in short,
accounts frtml France, Germany,
all the %%001 growir g countries,
4 rise of 7 to 12 per cent. on the price of that
' At tk
„o late fair at Br,slan (Ist June) the
q*liet %. 1/4" nn'"Prnui, that the win•le Yuan: ty in
as sold h(•£ ire the re;.hlar of the

withr,ut taking any repose, has just
kSPN'&II • Vast ques,ion which it has settled to
a ,Y,."-"„ hortat.t, which it is going to attempt
Thea ,sNet,,ry man mean the duty, on
11„,b,ris, 111°'t serious objection, in our opinion, to
Otse, at a"Y duty e.h•ltever will injure a branch
-- which i •
1!)1.t' sr s Important both to our sea ports
"hteries in the interior. Our principal
6 it ;, manufactured tobac,•o is to Fran,e,
ctok, trge
flmg,zling This, e,mtuerce ought
1t,4.111 „1'!!;"d ; but in the present state of thing,,
kti3tr,in,r._;er,vel as it is, because it may serve as a
(.'s1:1 ranee one day to modify its system of
t1t.14 44110, toms in respect to us
IZer jE,,itTNE 12.—The *Members of the First
ttio,ll4Y, the
States General are summoned for
eha e 20th of June. The sections of the
Clt heractiith. will commence on Monday the exami-
iPtelitti (oLProjects of law relltive to the first book of
itll4't so) that it may be laid before the Cham-
!eoGoo y.
::etions rhorrnent has replied to the observation of
Nl,ti, the Second Chamber respecting the pro-
yebt. ";;,,the redemption and conversion of the
very he explanation given by the Government
4,r gnat length, and appears to be highly
!4lftri. thPeror
lko ed on of Russia, during his short visit here,
yoders. 73141.113' persons the insignia of various Rus•
e!'oft.h, Irs, Imperial Majesty gave 400 ducats to
A loelflttyav,tlague, and 300 ducats to the workmen
Yard at Rotterdam.
ior4.4efl t, E 12.—The Emperor of Russia and
Ititiona.''rough this town to-day, on his return to

LLOYD'S SHIPPING. 1
LONDON, JUNE 15.—Wind this day at noon, light north-'
westerly breeze, and fine.
DEAL, JUNE 14.—Wind, W.N.W., moderate; P.m.,
W., fresh ; 9 P.M., W.N.W., light.—Arrd Corsair, Grieg, Port
Adelaide ; Columbia. Bombay ; Louisa, Munro, Ceylon ; Iris,
Fisher, St. Helena. Sld. Princess Alice Maude, Halifax.
PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 14.—Wind W. to W.N.W.—Arrd.
Lion, London for Calcutta ; Westminster, London for New
York.
Cowas, .TUNE 14.—Arrd. Coverdale, Benson, Bahia ; Tele-
graph, Alder, and Arno, Havannah.
PLYMOUTH, JUNE 14.—And. Kerswell, Newport for Bos-
ton, with loss of mainmast.
GLOUCESTER, JUNE 14.—S1d. Lord Stanley, St. Jago de
Cuba.
FALMOUTH, JUNE 14.—Wind N.W., fresh.—Arrd. Theresa,
Rio for Hamburgh ; Henrietta, Surinam for Amsterdam ;
Margaret Parker, Tobago ; Johann Julius, Porto Rico for
Altona ; Catalina, Havannah for Antwerp ; George Stevens,
New Orleans for Amsterdam ; Isaac Hicks, New Orleans for
Havre; Hansa, and Mary Phillips, New York—both for
Hamburgh.
MILFORD, JUNE 13 —Arrd. Venilia, Sierra Leone. The
Margaret, Rees, from Porthcawl to Waterford, sprang a leak
and foundered in St. Bride's Bay yesterday ; crew saved.

By the arrival of the steam-ship Britannia, from New
York, at Liverpool, on Friday evening, we are in receipt
of the subjoined intelligence :
Accounts have arrived aelialifax of the loss of the ship
Saladin, Captain M'Kenzie, 240 tons burthen, on the
coast of the Island Harbour, situate about 90 miles to
the eastward of Halifax. It took place on the morning
of the 20th of May, and there seems to be little chance
of much property being saving.
The ship, which was built at Newcastle, in the. ear
1835, sailed from Valparaiso on the 17th of February,
bound to London, having on board a quantity of guano,
seventy tons of copper, and a very large amount of mo-
ney in dollars.
'Upon the wreck being boarded, the survivors of the
crew reported that the captain, Mr. M'Kenzie, died from
fever on the sth of April, and also the mate ; and that
the second mate and two seamen had lost their lives by
falling from the yard-arm. The remainder of the ship's
company, six in number, being unable to manage the
vessel, ran ashore at the place as above mentioned. Sus-
picions were aroused by the following circumstances

transpiring :
It appears that since the 14th of April no log had been
kept, and on that which was kept previously being exa-
mined, it was found to contain not the slightest informa-
non respecting the captain's death, or that of the seamen.
The sailors, when spoken to on the subject, maintained
a strict silence, and, from their conduct throughout, it is
inferred that there has been some dreadful slaughter re-
sorted to in order to obtain possession of the ship and
specie on board.
There is little doubt, from the superb description of
furniture found in the cabin, and other conveni-
ences, but that Mrs. M Kenzie accompanied her hus-
band on the voyage. A likeness of her, and some
portion of children's clothing have been discovered in the
cabin also. Whether she has met a similar fate as that
of her husband, or any of her children, it is impossible,
as may he seen, to premise. The crew, since the occur-
rence, have been expending money very freely, and in
one instance one of them offered a bag of dollars for a
passage to England.
Immediately on the information arriving at Halifax,
the Hon. Michael Tobin, Llo) d's agent, solicited Vice-
Admiral Sir Charles Adams to dispatch her Majesty's
war-steamer Hermes, for the purpose of preserving the
remains of the cargo and wreck, but as she could not be
got ready so soon as required, Sir Charles Adams for-
warded the Fair Rosamond on the same message.
The ship is insured in London to a very heavy amount,
and the chief portion of the specie belongs to several
firms in the City.
A strict investigation has been instituted before this,
Admiralty writs having been issued for the arrest of all
the parties, ship, and cargo, and the next mail is look.d
forward to with great inter.•st.
DESTRUCTION OF THREE SHIPS BY
ICEBERGS.

TAE
IRISH STATE TRIALS.
REE
it n 44 TING AT LIVERPOOL.
libettY evening a meeting of the friends of civil and
14to .rtY Was held at the Royal Amphitheatre, " to
Iklth „ t
,Ins u
iqeration the sbject of an address to the
ti.:_e discharge from prison of Mr. O'Connell and
1.40 f I;ersers, until the writ of error be decided by the
thll4dor thi\T; and also to sympathise with those gentle-
th '"elr late extremely severe sentence." The doors.
titre
I,t! the
thrown open a little before half past six
klthe
gat thee..
capacious building began to fill rapidly.
irsogat'llness commenced the theatre was well filled,
kt 4. Pl.e.r;:jue audience were a number of females.
tee ob. ELL, Esq., ticlled to the chair, and briefly
ject of the meet
° to gentlemen them addressed the Chairman, but,
Vtoeechees •
Press of matter, we cannot find room for
The following addresses were unanimously
.14 "
() the
lihnthbje Queen's Most Excellent Majesty.
address of the friends of civil and religious
tbie abitants of Liverpool and its vicinity, in pub-
ii,z7„l4_ll_g assembled,—
,terole, Your Majesty we continue to cherish feelings
loyalty to your Majesty's sacred person and
kptt ith
•441,3111.(4und grief do we inform your Majesty that
ikotil,o....°or Majesty's loyal subjects in Ireland are at the
Vnragiceeat inmates of a prison for a constructive offence,
,`Vitithelisation always deemed odious in a free State, and
ki„.t reel ,t,regard, is altogether free of moral taint.
'ate,mat the law has been strained far beyond its
!th,Y) 111
(11:, ds, and as interpreted by the Judges of your
of Queen's Bench in Ireland, has trenched
Itj:• ofof Your Majesty's subjects to a free and fair dis-
F 5, matters, and if permitted to become cur-
st ltend to enslave your hitherto free people.
trials have generally brought the administra-
‘s ce di,rete • and the late trial of our fellow •
Inflict d a deep' wound on it ; for although un •
it,f.„43 is the task, we are compelled, by imperative
ill ithchrn4
niuns
'Mast of our opinions on the subject,
we are joined by the vast majority of
l'iyal subjects in England—that the trial was
lr the `" on fiir and just principles—that the jury
t,
14.0 'Y of the innocent, was fraudulently dealt with,ik?
...11(liee Of the then accuses; and when an 0PP0r-
,,,,,. LeSiln
g that fraud in Court, by challenge to the
,)11 ered to your law officer, he declined.
NI of your llajestA's Justices in pour own court,
QiCen's Rem li in Ireland, where your Majesty
be present, stated, or, several occasio:,s, that
,111,0,7iwith the jury panel was matter of grave suspi-
tiott ^? jury
Crown Solicitor struck out the name of every
44,qi0! !' jury who was of the same religious belief as the
ki.',..4fsiti'rlscne'r, thus wounding the feelings of your Ma-
kei:4 th:4l subjects in England, and holding up the pro-
sy ty religion, which is the one professed by the
• deeb,the inhabitants of the Christian world, as per-
th e",efl worthy ef credit on their oaths.
tJsd Bed
was given against the prisoners which one
61 en tge3 o° a motion for a new trial, said ought not to
'lhdge.„ "eired, and which the late decision of the Eng.
l'l4,.Nbe:°l,,vinekts us, your Majesty's loyal subjects, would
:p,,he,-11 0y them submitted as evidence to a jury.
144`,Ikto— Means has one who was deemed, and justly so,
14, itc,„." of his fell tr men —the man who created
tr CS. y ,
erns Ireland, and thereby coerced the great. mea-
7rNen",e'Pation to become law, and raised his fellow
N'1411• 1,4'..° the station of free citizens,—one of the bright-
Nt an
ph
lit your Majesty's dominions,—and that, too,
pri PPeal to the highest court of justice in the land,—
Naj,B e th s'ner in one of your Majesty's prisons in Ireland.
tvkrti tvp4riefore approach your Majesty, praying that your
• t,411 be graciously pleased to discharge the prisoners
0014,k,t4.;sliment, resulting from a sentence which we,
4444.3, s loyal subjects, believe to be the consequence
A and that measures be adopted to secure to
i,k'ff4,,TY's subjects in Ireland the constitutional
of tt;.Y discussing political subjects, as enjoyed by the
11;t1 eh,l.enuntry."
"L'el4',lcWring followed the reading of this address.
9, L., ,?Lks BLUNDELL then proposed the following ad-
Lue friends of civil and relious libert, residing
r4"I I. '•
• in •meetingassembled, to
~eq Cp_ ric its vicinity, public
'-'"nnell, Esq., Thomas Matthew Ray, Esq., Thos.
1,11,4441, Dr. Gray, Richard Barrett, Esq., and Charles
't4ll Esq, prisoners in the Richmond Penitentiary,.
1/41.,4(1 of the Court of Queen's Bench in Ireland,
Wdt
tTnspiracy ;
tp'"with le singular and unprecedented circumstances con-
up Your late trial and your imprisonment, we feel it our
ih.-mh• ger
u our sincere sympathie.s. Whatever difference
tinest•cre may be amongst us with reference to the po-
toes„ which has led to the present results, we have
hi:.vtit7eed With deep interest, and with considerable pain,
44,110py,.q judicial proceedings which has terminated in
'l9rip:'°lonent. We have noticed the disregard of the
hitlpatioti alities of justice and the absence of that calm and
ketktile b,a,;e exercise of judgment which should always dig
is or —Roleits d 10, nt seat, and without which lose
'441'41144'1r Moral force. We have also noticed with as-
hy
a, that when you prayed for an arrest of judgment
hsls,lseal could 'be made to the House of Lords that
ohioh• titteden resisted by the law officers of the Crown, who
,I)lest baud obtained your immediate committal and im-
1. •
t:11; 11464 these circumstances we consider the sentence
pri'een passed upon you to be void of moral force,
4 t" b.• to be without a stigma, and yourselves
(et b • the victims of an undue exercise of power on
e•
t 4 he law officers of the Crown.
41;:.11,,, 'Mot conclude this address without noticing more
11.'4{i patriotic and laudable conduct of Daniel O'Con-
co;lnt7e deservedly possesses the unbounded confidence
t•
pt'itiseYinen, and he has shown himself deserving of
rvi,l‘tee by having used his influence and authority
';!l4,lst.elie Peace and tranquillity under the most trying
mvir eav, Which, without his interposition, would pro-
tli so haves,
to sceaes of bloodshed, and all the terrors of
mbh sest•
Ing broke up with nine enthusiatic cheers for Mr.

Letters have also been received announcing the fol-
lowing losses :—The ship Anne Barry, bound to Ari
chat, struck on the ire on the 7th of last May, and, in
the course of a very brief prised, sunk ; the crew, how-
ever, quick;y a-cr-rtamin,2, that tl,eir ill-fated ship had
met with a mortal injury, lost no time in making their
esc,pe with th, boat, Baal, after beating shout on the
wide ocean for throe days, they were picked up by a
fort inn v s el, twen y leagues to the eistward of Scotia,
as may be conceived, in a very exhausted state.
The ship Lady Colebr,,ok, 295 tons burden, and built
at New Brun wick in the year 1841, was totally lost,
and r somewhat similar circumstances. She sailed from
Halifax for Quebec on the 6th o: o ay, and on the morn-
ing of the 9th she fell in with the ice, anl was com-
ple,ely rut in two by the mou:.tain bergs. The crew
providentially saved themselves by taking to the boats,
and gained the land in safety in the afternoon of the
same day. The cargo is insured for 3,0001.
The other ship lost is the Lotus, a large vessel, called
a Quebecer, 397 tons burthen, belonging to Whitby. She
sailed from Bristol on the 4th of April for Quebec. and
was wrecked on the ice on the sth of May. The crew
were picked up in a few days by the Swallow, of White-
haven, in lat. 45 40, lon. 45 30. Ship and cargo are par-
tially insured in England.
LOSS OF A VESSEL BY FIRE.
The ship Industry, belonging to Halifax, was, on the
25th of May last, completely consumed by fire. It oc •
curred in the main hatchway, and so rapid was the flames,
that the crew were instantly forced to take to their
boats, and were ultimately preserved by the Lord Seaton
ship, since arrived at the above port.
The total loss of the above vessels with their cargoes,
is calculated to amount to at least 40,0001.
EXPORTATION OF CORN FROM NAPLES TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
The following has been received at Lloyd's from the
Sicilian Consulate-General, June 15,1844 :
" NAPLES, MAY 3.
" The exportation to foreign countries of wheat and
all other descriptions of grain, pulse, and seed, is pro-
hibited in all our royal dominions until our further
sovereign pleasure, from this very day, here, and from
the day of the publication of the present decree in fo-
reign states.

(Signe 1) " FERDINAND.."
NOTICES TO MARINERS.
REGULATION OF CHRONOMETERS BY OBSERVATIONS AT

GREENWICH.
A dispatch has been received at Lloyd's from the Ad,
miralty, dated the 14th inst., encloing the copy of a no-
tice issued at Elsinore, to the effect that m order to
make known the hour of midday at Greenwich to the
masters of vessels in the 'sound, a ball will be dropped
from the guard-ship at Elsinore.
DISCOVERY of a PASSAGE THROUGH " GREAT
BARRIER REEF," TORIES STRAITS.
Copy of an extract of a letter lorwarded to Lloyd's,
from the London, East India, and China Association :
" Her Majesty's ship Fly, Port Essington,
August 25, 1843.
" Sir,—l beg to inform you that we have examined
the Great Barrier Reef,' from Lizard Island, lat. 14 deg.
30 sec., of Captain Cook to Murray's Island, lat. 9 deg.,
54 sec., of Flinders, and that along the whole of that ex-
tended reef, we have met with but one passage, which I
could recommend for ships.
" This passage is in lat. 11 deg. 35 sec. S., and is four
miles wide, a safe entrance for ships having a vegetated
island marked on the charts as Raines Islet, in the
centre. on each side of which there is a good clear en-
trance, the best being however to the southward of it.
(Signed) "F. P. BLACKWOOD. Captain.
" His Excellency Vice-Admiral Sir William
Parker, CT.C.B., &c., &e."
VESSELS SPOKEN 'WlTH.—Hibernia, New Orleans to
Fahnouth, Ist inst. lat. 43, long. 35 ; St. George, of
Jersey, 16th inst., lat. 49, long. 8, by the Margaret,
Parker, off Falmouth. Barque Neptune, of North Shields,
with loss of mainmast, &c. 22d inst., lat. 42, long. 53, by
the Hansa. off Falmouth. Hartland, from Bideford, 4th
inst., lat. 47, long. 59 (had been di:Ai:lasted, May 12th) ;
Brilliant, Clyde to Montreal, same day ; Sophia,
Apalachicola to Liverpool, 28th inst., lat. 39,
long. 50. Ellen, Tobasco to Cork, off Gum
'Key Light ; Mount Etna, M. bile to Liverpool,
same day ; GeorgelV., Liverpool to Fortune Bay, 13th ult.,
lat. 46, lon. 44 ; Energy,Limerick to Quebec,lsth,lat.49,
lon. 47, by the Thomas, arrived at Newfoundland. Con-
queror, Belfast to Quebec, 18th ult., lat. 45, lon. 57,
by the North America, arrived at Newfoundland.
Blakely, Liverpool to Calcutta, 10th inst., by the Helen,
Anderson, arrived at Swansea. James Gray, Newport
to Philadelphia. 30th ult., lat. 35, lon. 28, by the Are-
thusa, off F&mouth. Georgio and Manteo, 16th ult., off
Cape Florida; James and Christian and Washington,
New Orleans to Marseilles, 17th, lat. 29, lon. 79; Laurel,
for Boston, and Callao, Matanzas to St. Petersburgh,2oth,
lat. 17, lon. 72 ; Olbers, of Bremen, 3d inst.,lat. 46, lon. 31;
Dolphin, Gibraltar to Rio, April 4, lat. 2 S., lon. 20 W.;
Louise Caesar, for Buenos Ayres, 10th, lat. 3 N., lon. 22
W., by the George Heinrich, arrived at Hamburgh. Caroni,
Antigua to Dublin, 17th ult., lat 29, lon. 23 ; Legnan,
Clyde to St. Vincent's, Bth inst., lat. 49, lon. 14, by the
Calypso, arrived at the Clyde. Olive Branch, Halylix
to Cuba, 16th ult., off Bermuda, by the Griffin, arrived
at Halifax. John and Henry, Portsmouth to Mira-
' michi, out 17 days, lat. 48, lon. 18, by the Isabella,
arrived at Newfoundland.

..,„,
kiEll4/.0
4,4, b l'l'lcEs.—(From a Ce,rrespendent.)—By 9
li I•ti .'rs°llB ence•feed or emp',oyed in post-offices are
''1k4ti1•",4,3 t° due fe;Forinance of their duties, but this ob-
111j4'41e tt'' s not ex tt nd to -retraining them from dis-
hy a; go that
44 a letter pa,sing through
lti t'rvi.. teat those engaged, or employed,
.mieht, to
dt,thia't.l2; friend they could confide in, make disclosures
l're',Ne:Peet- Nor does the obligation extend to the
(I, ,041,-'IY prvitig confideeitial being admitted within a
1,,'",t, iik where he might, have a sight of letters. . No
Itlitdri t.,,14, "q' of these tricks were discovered, dismissal
It
' had '''".', but that wind(' be poor satisfaction to those
'lth Slifie dby d' f 1 breaches of confidence.
Pikit Nt a re isgrrace u
'tiLt• eres the public have good ground for corn-
No ha
1. ittio,l; harvest has.. now become very general, in
is '4ti '-" "Ilrho d and that ancient gentleman, " the
le Lenab ° ' light a crop as
,s te, fo',ant," cannot remember so
ttit'l:l' ha ;41111 on all thy highlands, scare ly a single
1111(1-tilre„-v'llg fallen (in rn uch of it since the stock were
qi ~,4% t; („-1 Pasture. Oh I hay continues to rise in price,
Vileh'iTi: is little in th is neighbouyhood will probably
tot, Ile NI Ganibl ge Chronzcle.
4, tii. th ILITARY AND ' CE LE POLICE.—We are sorry
tlaylilit Ett an ill-feeling prevails on the part of somes Sun-
pi, e ths,t,h7 Stationed at I :meter and the
pi, t bhlr' e (if the polic a .tiffieers was rpudoleileye.thOrunst uout
tit, . Traek
..
' and -Yard, whil: .t going there to bear the band
4,1111,4itt ',last evening, one of the soldiers said to our
W‘L,,eee',,."nlY let the other two troops arrive here,
*"`e,/ "If d soon fit ad out who were masters."—
t, tin ' I'inies
lo itir,; •
0,1 la, ° CkSP F FIRATRICIDE.—On Tues.day
m Plumptre, whose
t:',..iilY, -is't' C,harles 'BOland Child, a married man, with a
his nameKlNaGp'Searesand mathe-
• Class, both in classics
44%,,,,qy a-,sluiag at Middle-row, Camp Field, had oinLLthEeGFE;LstooN. .--Tr. .
'l',l 4,llretCeer sudden! tei minuted by the hand
‘ttfl 'ease,tr' Jtihn Child N filo resided in Pottery Field..to the two Hebrew
of his t' spat the Oxford examination, just concluded, as well
nits'all,lces'srs. Gandell and Secretan, electedormerly
students of
Scholarships in that University, were f
Itt,,.ee of' deed was certa' oily committed under edircutmhe
tilta,4l. 'l4 i)tP,',(ieatiori, arid whilst both parties. under eurnna.
'6"llle,fikjit. rrHisngr•Y Pessioik , were engaged
.in an thisNOVELCollege.
PROCESSION
%.1, "'lilt t "e quarrel api wars to have orinate or AGED MEN.—A meeting
r,,, 'l4 1, ghe cit. , •took place a fewtbdaysrsionseeeo, at Netherton, in the county of
of entertaining some old boys of
P'vee' "111 little d about
ceaseci i e ifs had said respecting John
seventy years and Worcester,
th -At t .'e mention wt is made of it in the evidence forandeupawaprds. One hundred and twelve men,,
i he in give abstract below.
(;,, t!,14..,s quest, of whi eh we an
whose united ages.P amounted to 8,643 years, sat down
to an excellent dinner, after which they were a
laLk'ti Jur. t Was held on T hursday morning last, in the impressive manner by Mr. Richard Burgess, Baptist
4 1?" be -3?t,llaorn at the Court House, before John
th',:l'asi.4l'' i;sq., at'ld from the evidence it appeared that nlvillei,sr3tiurbtobfeNetherton. The lads then marched in proces-
presence of nearly five thousand * ectators,
d' P9B, who
th, stru, tit,nu hi arose b etween the brothers. During headed the oldest man of the company,
1161:11:4atilefeellhi:ndliberale manner,
dd.
st.,dstepped,Wv
.i aside to a basket, took some- wore, aecsr!sown on his head. The procession sttopapged et Mr. J.
tti'Stt't‘l'enl it,' v` hid'
d..
tar "ate three ti to. ineach
m Britannia
w iltinin,
halfw hao,
pintin theot
of ale.mos Such respect for
rt.!) ittt the side. The unfor-
i 1 creditable to the
a ~', \voaerdiet t)f " 11elaras 'lllla 4)ahlter.."—
'n-tantly. The jury re- old age
hits far more becoming thands
Highly
bimmure3, the time-ho-
C
union workhouses,an g
tafford Paper. ll°u
inhabitants of Netherton.—.Shropshire Conservative.
LOorws:;l3ll,l)REN Sur;Ot 7.: IgTED.—On Tuesday last, This relic of the immortal
SHAKSPEARE S
154t1' " Zan living at Cost* ssy, of the name of Ireson,
bard has found its jvutGo.Gloucester, having been purchfastr
lIN ~Qhildr„ std seven o'ell ck in the merning, left her
Iv 'l:4' te--11 in bed in of Westgate-streewho
tilt t "e purposebk•,r cottage, and having made a aFtlelllcrisle.
rTugurbuerm'illtlbel:''sa'sal e by M rs. Fletcher,
t,auction
ttiloi
ne thatd wifeuctyt
city,
The
mitt d° a nej 1 of h ,et sting a copper of water, she
.purchased it for nineteen guireas and the
earthenware, about nine inches in
44,,kead 14 lbourr's.of cream-coloured .
a 1 at th es, In a sh( Si
T' tit ! fire consisted of deal apples Jug is . .
41, e cotta
t time, a woman seeing some he
horizontally subdivided, and within these the principal
the ge qua • go. wen tin, when she .
pi W,,,4 ntity discovered that and. re represented in rather
tight. It is divided longitudinally into eight compartments,
of deal t I i les and dead leaves which
t 043 so filled
had collected t gl Pile ignited, and the house deities of the Grecian Mythology
14,414
tnalitted e.ith bard to his sister Joan, who married
haelrveiffllieacmts of the
ofim msotrratat!
~ smoke ot
het "t r'
vas with difficulty she tOrs'ela , e 11,-- e•cape•Sl vair:. 1 'the alarm, and severalhem through several
__Lek%
~ ntered bury, and the jug was. preserved by the coit i ayethe four children were ford-upon-Avon. The Harts subsequently,dby settled in Tewkes-
a few years ago it passedf
''" th "ail a pp, a.,4e, V nd. generations with religious care
ar
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GAMBLING AND USURY.

COOKE and Mr. FLIGHT ; yet we venture to say,- that
any " arrangement,", as it, ji§ called, of such singular
modesty and forbearance,' on the part-or
those gen-
tlemen, would never have been dreamed of whilst the
wholesome restraints of the Usury Laws were yet in
being. That such a bargain could be perfected is a
disgrace to the age we live in, and the law under
which it can be protected. It gives to the money
capitalist the power of life and death, as it were,
through its sanction, to such monstrous exactions,
over the lives and souls, bodies, fortunes, and rela-
tions in life of the miserable and imprudent fools
who have placed themselves within his clutches. The
drama concluded with a curiously contrasted charge
and defence; the former rested on mere moral and
equitable considerations, independent of the legal or
technical bearing of the facts ; the latter based on a
merely technical objection to the answer given in,
utterly irrespective of considerations, equitable or
moral :

We were .always of opiniott that tke old Usury
Law—admitting to their fullest extent the objections
so perseveringly urged against it in the House of
Commons by the late Lord SYDENHAM, when Mr.
POULETT THOMSON—was precipitately repealed, and
worse " amen led." But Mr. SPRING RICE'S subse-
quent extension of the principle to the discount of
bills under a certain date, was a far more questionable
experiment towards a free trade in money-brokering,
the consequences of which have long since ceased to
be matters of merely speculative apprehension. There
is said, in dialectics, to be "no rule without an ex-
ception." In political economy this is true of almost
all general principles. That free trade in capital, as
in other commodities, should be upheld and en-
couraged, is a postulate which few men, as this time
of day, would be rash enough to contest ; yet the
practical experience of every week demonstrates the
necessity for its qualification to the extent of clear,
definite, and even stringent, legislation for the pro-
tection of those who are the buyers of money from
the overwhelming exactions of those who have it to
sell. In commercial dealings, or transactions of or-
dinary barter, there is always more or less of equality
between the two parties to a bargain. In the nature
of things the competition, on one side, to sell goods is
always greater than it is—among those who have
money—to advance it. But, on the other hand, the
necessities of those who deal for its advance upon
simple loan, or security, are so much greater than
their's who consent to relieve them ;—the importance
to the rectification of the borrower's position of econo-
mizing time is so much more urgent than it can be
to him who is to put down the pecuniary means for
that purpose, that the law has hitherto wisely
assumed that the borrower will be prone to pay the
most extravagant and ruinous price for such advances,
and for their acceleration ; and that the lender will
be but too well disposed to take every advantage of
his distress and of his recklessness. The restrictions,
therefore, which Acts of Parliament imposed upon the
rate of discount which could be legally taken for
"cashing" bills of acceptance and promissory notes,
and the penalties and disabilities of suit which it at-
tached to the infraction of its enactments as to the
limitation it prescribed to the rate of interest to be
taken for the use of the money, were, in the main,
salutary and effective. They sometimes operated with
great hardship and injustice on the lender, and encou-
raged collusive actions or fraudulent defences. But
the balance of good, it is very generally allowed, was
in their favour. Since they were repealed society
has been incessantly shocked and disgusted at the
heartless avarice and guilty connivance with which
professed money-lenders and bill-discounting attor-
neys have aided thoughtless and improvident young
men to anticipate, in the most wanton excesses of
debauchery, or the more insidious excitement of
gambling, their own patrimony or estate, or the pro-
perty and expectations of their families and connec-
tions. Ever since the money-lender has been secured
impunity in taking interest for his money, within the
limits only suggested by his own very expansible
conscience, we have noted an appalling increase of
cases of outrageous spoliation of young men, whose
want of common sense and ordinary caution have been
accurately proportioned to their criminality and dis-
sipation..

" Mr. Bethell contended that, according to Flight's
version of his part in the transaction, he had made
Eicke and Cooke his agents in discounting the bills, and
he was therefore fixed with their knowledge of the origin
of the bills.
" Mr. Stuart and Mr. Wood, for Flight, contended
that no equity was confessed upon the answer to support
the injunction."

His Honour reserved the epilogue—we beg pardon

—his judgment, until he should have read the answer.
In :the meantime, may we suggest to Sir JAMES
GRAHAM that if he would turn his attention to put
down such nefarious practices as these wholesale and
legalised spoliations of the young and silly possessors
of property, by means which are openly challenged
in courts of justice (I !) to legalise the work of
iniquity and plunder ; he would render a far nobler
service to society and to his own fame, than in
framing protocols of secret conferences with Police
Commissioners, as to the means of a combined system
of hostile operations against the irregular forces of
thimbleriggers and roulette-table keepers on the
downs of Epsom, or the heath of Ascot.

HARBOURS OF REFUGE.
No man can doubt, at this time of day, that private
enterprise accomplishes, in England, nobler public
works,—appropriates to their completion more liberal
supplies of capital,—and in all points of design and
execution exhibits a higher feeling and a more sus-
tained purpose, than are usually found associated with
what are technically called " Government under-
takings." Our railroads are a magnificent exemplifi-
cation of this truth; and the accommodations secured
in our provincial docks in many respects suggest a
comparison little favourable to the improved science,
or the enlightened experience, which has presided
over similar works immediately under the control of
officers of the Crown. Foreigners are disposed to
attach the highest possible value to this principle of
leaving to private capital the development of material
and economic resources, and they run into the ex-
treme on the other hand, of doubting whether Go-
vernment aid would not mar, instead of accelerating,
the march of such public works in all cases. But
this is, like all extreme opinions, at once unjust and
mischievous. Unjust, because its reception would
operate to withhold from private speculation, under
any circumstances, the wholesome and not unreason-
ably-expected encouragement of the National Trea-
sury. Mischievous, because its natural effect is, to
suggest difficulties in the way of Government's step-
ping forward, even in cases where its assistance
must be indispensable to the proper completion of
a line of railway, a harbour, a bridge, already well
begun and proceeded with—which difficulties their in-
dolence or their timidity is but too successful in induc-
ing Ministers to plead in excuse for their neglect or
indifference towards it. We are sorry to perceive that
this is a growing fault in our chief administrative de-
partments. And because it is calculated to prejudice,
materially, in some very important particulars, the
interests of the public, we take leave to enter our pro-
test against its wholesale adoption in the domestic
policy of the present Government.
An instance occurred, in a debate in the House of
Lords on Monday last, which will exemplify its ac-

An instructive specimen of these was disclosed on
Wednesday last, in the Court of the Vice-Chancellor
of England—" Stratford v Plight." Mr. Huai'
STRATFORD STRATFORD, a young gentleman of four-
and-twenty, inherited a portion of the property, with-
out a fraction of the sagacity, of the late Master in
Chancery STRATFORD, his paternal uncle. It was
his misfortune to have been victimised by " gaming
transactions." In June, 1842, he lost, at a game
called " blind hookey," no less than 20,000/. ; but
through the instrumentality of one COOKE, of Clif-
ford-street, an attorney, the bills which STRATFORD
had given for this sum were restored to him, and the
claim—so righteous as it doubtless was—was com-
promised for the modest sum of 5,000/. The disin-
terested attorney's good offices did not stop here—he
became his gambling companion. After this new
species of professional attendance had continued for
some time, in the course of which very many gamb-
ling houses were visited by them, this interesting
couple—the dupe and his "friend"—met, (of course
by the merest accident in the world, and without any
privity or collusion on the part of one of them,) a
party at an inn in the country, consisting of two men
named COGHLAN and EVANS, and a female, who passed
as Mrs. COGHLAN. After dinner, Mrs. COGHLAN, as
a lady-like diversion, proposed a game of " blind
hookey ;" and Mr. STRATFORD, who even in this pro-
ceeding saw nothing, it would seem, in the least ex-
traordinary or suspicious—with a simplicity calculated
for the meridian of Arcadia, in the most innocent
ages of pastoral society—consented to make one at
the table. This was on the sth of April, 1843. The
five played until two o'clock the next morning. On
the 6th, after breakfast, one of the "gentlemen" was
so obliging as to make up the score which had been
kept; and the results were very singular, ne doubt,
but painfully disastrous for the "squeezable" Mr.
STRATFORD. He had lost to COGHLAN, 10,8431. (this
man loved to be particular, even to fractions) ; to his
raluable, faithful, and disinterested " adviser "—the
attorney, 4,0601. Why the score should have brought
STRATFORD a debtor to EVANS in the paltry sum of
27/., or what, if any, were the winnings of the fe-
male upon a match so admirably arranged for the
benefit and delectation of the man COGHLAN, and the
attorney, COOKE, the report does not state. But
this was the first act of the three of which this do-
mestic drama consisted.
The second exhibited the foolish victim yielding to
the—" persuasions"—the " gentle violence"—of his
very good friends On the 28th of April he was in-
duced, poor man ! to give his acceptances for the
amount of his losses. Four of these bills, for 1,0001.
each, happened to be drawn by COOKE, himself—who,
" ever anxious to accommodate" STRATFORD, was so
good as to make them payable at his (CooKE's) own
office, in Clifford-street. Presently, however, Mr.
STRATFORD'S friends (friends in the better accepta-
tion of the term, not attorneys) discovered the whole
affair, and filed two "bills" (not quite such pretty
things as 1,0001. acceptances), the one against COOKE
alone, the other against COOKE and COGHLAN; and
the Court, on the sth of May, not being sufficiently
enlightened on the equity of such transactions, was so
unreasoeable as to grant an injunction restraining
both practitioners—the professional and the unprofes-
sional—from negotiating such bills. This count
closed the second of this serious farce.
The third and last opened ominously. On that
very day, " the critical day," as the report terms it,
of this churlish injunction, something else " happened"
very oddly—but the whole history is full of coinci-
dences. On that very day, it happened, then, that
two of these four bills were endorsed to a Mr. THO-
MAS FLIGHT, the defendant in the suit whereof we
are giving this outline. Thomas FLIGHT, who
seems to be a sort of unprofessionally-profes-
sional discounter, subsequently brought an ac-
tion on these bills, and obtained a verdict; but,
alas for him! a new trial was afterwards directed.
FLIGHT'S defence and plea were meant to show that
his conduct on the affair has been bona fide. He has
denied all knowledge of the gambling. It "happened"
that one EIcRE (not otherwise described), who had
been in the habit of bringing him bills to discount,
brought him the four 1,0001. bills to discount, about
the 30th of April. FLIGHT states that he was told
STRATFORD, a young man of good expectations, and
about to be married to the daughter of a Baronet,
was anxious to raise money for his marriage ; that
COOKE, his attorney, had drawn three bills upon him
to enable him to effect this object. Just the story,
of course, calculated to lull the suspicions of a liberal,
philanthropic, benevolent, discounting "friend to the
distressed "—quite a duck of a money-lender. But
hold! Was this FI.IGHT altogether such a person—
so open-hearted and open-handed ? What is his own
account of his own terms ? In the first instance he
wanted COOKE to give a judgment for the amount to
be advanced to STRATFORD ; and, on COOKE'S refusal,
he declined to discount. But afterwards, in a re-
lenting mood, we suppose—
" He agreed to discount two of them, upon an ar-
rangement that Stratford should pay him 80/. a year as
an insurance on his life, until the bills were paid. The
bills were for three months, and were discounted at 66/.
per cent., and the amount, less the discount (1,7800, was
on the sth of May paid Eicke on behalf of Cooke, and
on the same day Cooke gave an undertaking to appear
to any action which should be brought against himself
and Stratford, in case the bills should not be paid when
they became due."
We feel, from this statement, a vast respect for Mr.

of the Chester and llolyhead Railway—have been
hung up, if not absolutely discarded, and the time of
both Houses frivolously-occupied and consumed in
hearing pleas and arguments which a little common
sense would have disallowed at once, where they were
palpably vexatious, and infinitely shortened where the
Committees were already satisfied on the general
merits of the particular Bill in support of which they
were offered. We were glad to observe the disap-
probation expressed, in the case of the Chester and
Holyhead Bill, by Lord BROUGHAM and the Marquis
of LANSDOWNE, of the principle of suspending the
stanling orders on private Bills; and we trust that
the Select Committee, to which the measure is for the
present referred, as an opposed Bill, will make a
speedy report upon it. The public are deeply in-
terested in the ai.:tive and early completion of so great
a work; and it is pleasant to see that the House of
Lords are little inclined to occasion any delay in the
matter.

PROVINCIAL ISSUES of the BANK
of ENGLAND.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,—By the 3d and 4th William IV., c. 98, sec. 4,
it is enacted, " That all promissory notes payable on
demand of ' the Bank of England, which shall be
issued at any place in England, out of Lon-
don, where the business of banking shall be car-
ried on for the said Bank of England, shall be made
payable at the place where such promissory notes shall be
issued: and it shall not be be lawful for the said Governor
and Company, or any committee, agent, cashier, officer,
or servant, of the said Governor and Company, to issue
at any such place, out of London, any promissory note,
payable on demand, which shall not be payable at the
place where the same shall be issued."
How is this clause to be brought into operation, and
only one issue department of the Bank of England, and
that one in London? In the new Bill there is no mention
of " issue departments," but only " The Issue Depart-
ment," so that the banking part of the establishment
using the notes of " the issuing department," will be
no more than that of any other bank using Bank of
England notes at the present time ; and any person
wanting to cash a note will be refused, and
referred to "the issue department" for cash—parties may
refuse to take notes at the banking department, but as
the issue was not made at such department, they must
proceed to the issue department for cash, in case they
have notes in their possession.
Thus the London banking department will obtain
notes from the issue department, and from thence supply
all the provincial branches, and as notes paid away from
the banking department will not be an issue from such
department, but from another department, so will not
the notes paid over the counter of a provincial
branch be an issue of that branch, but an
issue from " the issue department" in London. Cash
will not be able to be obtained for notes in the country
without some special provision be made for the purpose.
According to the present Bill, the branches will
be no longer banks of issue, but branches using notes of
" the issue department," of the Bank of England
in London—thus, these branches will be placed in the
precise position of every country bank using Bank of
England notes. How can the issue department be
totally separated from the banking department, if the
notes are made payable " at the branch in Bristol, and at
the issue department in London," when the branch in
Bristol forms no part of the issue department of the Bank
of England in London ?
Is any branch of the Bank of England to have a se-
parate and distinct "issue department?"
At present it is illegal for an officer of a branch of the
,Bank of England to pay over the counter any Bank of
England note that is not payable at such place.
Every London•issued Bank of England note
taken at a branch must be remitted to the pa-
rent branch in London. It is, as far as the legal-
lity of the affair, but waste paper in the provinclial
branch—so, that if there be not some provision made for
" the issue department" to have some connexion with
the banking provincial branches, those branches cannot
issue any notes of the London issue department as they
will not be made payable at the various branches—and
they cannot issue a note not made payable at the branch
were issued.
As I read the Bill, neither the London banking de-
partment of the Bank of England, nor any of its branches
can be called upon to pay cash for Bank of England
notes, and the only place where gold can be demanded
will be " the issue department" of the Bank of Eng-
land in London. I am, Sir, yours, &c.,
Ilfracombe, June 12, 1844. H. W. D.

tion on measures even of the most pressing exigency
We have, from time to time, directed attention, in The
Sun, to the proceedings of the Committee on Har-
bours of Refuge ; and we have especially commented
on the able and interesting report of Mr. WALKER,
the celebrated engineer, on the harbour of Holyhead.
The Marquis of CLANRICARDE, on Tuesday, on the
" order" being read relative to the Chester and Holy-
head Railway Bill, stated that he would postpone his
motion on this Bill, until the report connected with the
harbour should have been laid on the table. Other Noble
Lords, who were friendly to the Bill, considered that
as the harbour itself was unconnected with this Bill,
the two subjects ought not to be mixed up together ;
that this Bill should be allowed to be proceeded with,
so that the parties to it might not incur unnecessary
expense, as they must do should they be compelled to
keep their witnesses in town for another week, or until
the report in question could be laid on the table. The
Duke of LEINSTER showed the importance of com-
pleting, as this Bill proposed to do, the communication
between the two countries. No delay that could be
possibly avoided ought to be interposed in the way of
the Bill. Lord CLANRICAILDE still contended that it
ought first to be known how far the Lords of the Trea-
sury would go in recommending a sufficient grant for
the completion of Holyhead harbour, and Parliament
in holding the promoters of the Bill to the-liability of
building a bridge over the Menai, &c. The Earl of
Datatousio, on the part of Government, said that the
result of the inquiries and survey which they had
caused to be instituted proved that Holyhead might
be made a good packet harbour; that they were an-
xious to see such a measure introduced and adopted
as would facilitate the intercourse between Ireland
and this country to the utmost in point of safety and
speed. " The Government, however, declined to make
any
pledge,y's Governmentthey saw what line of railroad would
be adopted. When such a line was adopted, her MA-
sTwould be prepared to state what
sum they would recommend Parliament to grant to-
wards the completion of Holyhead harbour."
Now, in all this there is the disinclination. to take
upon itself the initiative, in furthering the completion
sE until
of works, the public convenience and, perhaps, poli-
tical importance whereof it is not possible to over-
state—of which we complain. Does it not occur to
Lord DALHOUSIE, and the department to which that
Noble Earl belongs, that if Government would only,
at this advanced and mature stage of the undertaking,
intimate its real intentions with reference thereto, that
which Government desires to see, (namely, the intro-
duction of the best measure for carrying out the plan
proposed,) would infallibly take place ? Let it be
certain that Government will improve, extend, and
deepen a most important harbour at one point of the
line of " a " railway, which is to connect and approxi-
mate, by means of locomotive power, England and
Ireland, and can any one believe there will be hesitation,
or difficulty, or distrust, or any holding back on the
part of private capitalists, touching the suggestion and
the completion of "the best line" for such a purpose ?
There would be nothing of the sort. But so long as
the Government follows out this shilly-shally course
of making a demonstration in favour here, and inti-
timating a tardy discouragement there—to-day ex-
pressing itself in terms of more than hypothetical
encouragement as to a plan already submitted to it,
and proceeded with ; to-morrow affecting a sublime
but cold impartiality, open to all parties, influenced
by none, and coquetting with the last applicant,—so
long it is paralysing, not fostering, the energies that
would be otherwise achieving the desired object.
Such a mode of proceeding is throwing the boon of
Government patronage, or support, or aid, as a wild
"scramble" among mere adventurers, rather than re-
serving it for bona fide associations of spirited specu-
lators, who are content, under such auspice=, to risk
their capital to the full extent of their subscriptions,
and of the prospectus of the work they have embarked
upon. We do not intend these remarks to apply to
the case of the Chester and Holyhead Railway alone.
We object to the whole of that portion of the system
on which the Board of Trade in the first instance, and
Parliament in its subsequent legislation, entertain
Railway Bills. A false indulgence in the Board of
Trade, and in Parliamentary Committees, for the con-
coction of new, or more or less modified, plans for one
and the same railway--the excessive encouragement,
in short, of "competing lines"—has been the main
cause of so much remaining still to be accomplished
in the completion of a general scheme of railway com-
munication throughout the land. Whilst hundreds of
thousands of pounds have been sacrificed in successive
sessions in vexatious opposition to Bills, and especially
in the litigation consequent on "competing lines
enterprises of the most pressing importance—like this

LITERAT ETRE.
AFLOAT AND ASHORE. 3 Vols.
Bentley, London, 1844.
With the exception of the apparently inexhaustible
Mr. James, who must by this time have written as
many volumes as would furnish an ordinary library,
Mr. Cooper is unquestionably the most prolific no-
velist of his day. Once or twice a year, for the last
twelve years and upwards, he has never failed to
bring forth a work of fiction ; and it is surprising how
little diminution there is of that spirit and freshness
which characterised his earlier productions. The
tale before m, which the author mentions in his pre-
face as being founded on fact, exhibits much of the
graphic vigour of the " Last of the Mohicans," though
it is infinitely less romantic in its tone, and less
lavishly coloured in its scenic sketches. It is in the
form of an autobiography, and professes to record the
actual experiences of Miles Wallingford, by land and
sea, in almost every quarter of the habitable globe.
The adventures of this enterprising individual are full
of variety, and are told in a homely, nervous style,
without the slightest attempt at display. His account
of his shipwreck in the Indian Ocean, of his subse-
quent visit to London, of his naval engagement with
the French vessel, La Dame de Nantes, of the
sudden death of his father by being entangled in the
machinery of a mill-wheel of his own invention, and
of the distraction of his bereaved mother ;—these
various incidents are related with singular spirit in
Mr. Cooper's most effective and characteristic manner.
As a whole, h3wever, the tale is somewhat heavy,
owing principally to the author's well-known fond-
ness for dwelling too much on mere unimportant
matters of detail, as in his description of the paternal
Ifarm of Clawbonmy, which is as minute and circum-
stantial as an auctioneer's catalogue.

HYDE MARSTOLV 3 Vols. Colburn, London, 1844

As a considerable portion of this tale has already
appeared, if we remember rightly, in the columns of
one of the monthly sporting periodicals—the Sporting
Magazine or Repository, we need say little more, on
the present occasion, than that it is a passable story,
neither better nor worse than the general run of such
productions.

HISTORY OF GERMANY.
Chapman and Hag London, 1844.
We have here a translation from the German of
Professor Kolransch, executed with elegance, and we
are willing to believe also, with fidelity. The work
is a history of Germany from the earliest period down
to the present time—a work which has been long
wanted,, and which has been already received with
marked approbation throughout the country whose
eventful annals it records. Though the author is a
staunch'Protestant, yet he exhibits no towards
the rival faith, Catholicism; but maintains a scru-
pulous and dignified tone of impartiality, even in
places where it might naturally be supposed his pre-
judices would be actively on the alert. His work
contains an immense mass of historical information
carefully digested, and put forth with much luminous-
ness and simplicity of manner.

The Council of the Royal Society of British Artists
have kindly invited the children of the St. Ann's Society's
Brixten Asylum to their exhibition in Suffolk-street,
Pall-mall East, on Wednesday afternoon next, at one
o'clock.
DEATHS BY DROWNING.—On Friday, Mr. Baker
held two inquests on youths who were drowned. The
first was held at the Royal Crown, Ratcliff-highway,
and was on the body of Thomas Carter, aged 16, late
belonging to the Milford trader, of Bristol. It appeared
by the evidence of Robert Hutchinson, mate of the Her-
bert, of Scarborough, that on Tuesday he was aboard his
vessel, when he heard an alarm of man overboard."
Both vessels were in the London Docks, and looking in
the direction of the cry, he saw an empty boat, and de-
ceased beneath the water. He jumped into the boat and
held an oar out to deceased, who was too far gone to
seize it. A man jumped into the water to try and save de-
ceased, but he failed, and became so much exhausted
that he was conveyed to the London Hospital. Drags
were employed, and deceased was got out in about 20
minutes' time. He was then taken to the docks' re-
ceiving-house, and promptly attended by Mr. Blomfield,
but that gentleman failed to restore animation. De-
ceased was rowing from the vessel ashore when one oar
slipped from the rowlock, and deceased tumbled into the
water. The second inquest was held at the Waterman's
Arms, Lower Shadwell, and was on the body of George
Hood, aged fourteen. It appeared that he was the son
of a shoemaker residing in Shakspeare-walk, and left
home on Sunday afternoon to amuse himself. He went
down to Shadwell Dock-stairs, and got playing on the
barges moored there, when he slipped off one of them
into the water. A man named IST owland tried to save
him, but without success. Half an hour elapsed before
the body was found, when it was taken to that house, and
attended to by Mr. Archer, a surgeon, who tried in vain
to resuscitate it. Verdict in both cases—" Accidentally
drowned."
SERIOUS STEAM-BOAT ACCIDENT.—On Thursday
afternoon, between three and four o'clock another painful
accident happened on the river, off Greenwich, by the
Waterman's steam-boat, No. 10, running down a boat,
with a poor dredgerman upwards of sixty years of age.
The vessel had but a few minutes left the pier, and was
proceeding up the river with her usual speed, when just
as she had arrived abreast of the Dreadnought hospital
ship, moored off the lower part of the town, a boat was
observed coming down a-head of the steamer, rowed by
a very old man. The mate was on the larboard paddle-
box at the time. but his attention was directed to some
conversation abaft the funnel. Hearing the cry, how-
ever, of " A boat a-head," he beckoned to the person in
charge of the wheel to pert the helm, and shouted to the
man in the boat to haul off, but by that period, although
but a few moments had elapsed, the steamer had gained
so much upon the boat that it seemed impossible for the
dredgerman to get ont of the way, for in a few moments
the steamer came in contact with the boat, which passed
completely under the paddle-box, the paddles being in
motion at the time. On running to the after part of the
vessel not a vestige apparently of the boat and man could
be seen, but in a minute or so the boat floated to the sur-
face of the water bottom upwards, and at the same mo-
ment the man was observed struggling for life. The
steamer was then at least fifty yards from where he was
noticed, and an order was instantly given to turn her
astern, which was promptly attended to, and in a few
moments came alongside of him. He was then secured
by a boat-hook, although in a most exhausted condition,
and so held until two boats came off, one from the ship
Walter of Newcastle, and the other from one of her
Majesty's cutters lying at Deptford, and he was dragged
into the former. The steamer then, without stopping to
ascertain how far the poor man was injured (blood was
issuing from his ears), his name, or what property he had
lost, proceeded on her journey, leaving the boat and her
contents floating down with the tide. From inquiries
since instituted, we have learned that the poor fellow was
,aken on board the Dreadnought hospital ship, where he

still remains.
PROJECTED ENCROACHMENTS IN GREENWICH PARK,
—Pursuant to public notice issued by the parish officers of
Greenwich, a crowded meeting was held on 14 riday in the ves-
try-room of the church of St. Alphage, and by adjournynt in
the National Schools, to consider the propriety of opposing the
steps about being taken by the Governors of Greenwich Hos-
pital to inclose a certain portion of the park. Precisely at
seven o'clock, the rector, the Rev. W. A. Soames, took the chair.
Mr. James, the vestry-clerk, having read the notice conven-
ing the meeting, the Rev. Rector said, that he considered the
present meeting of the utmost importance, not only to the
inhabitants of the immediate locality, but to the vast popu-
lation of the metropolis, who sought relief from the crowded
city in the quiet seclusion of their ancient park. Rumours had
long been circulated that the Governors of Greenwich Hos •
pital had determined to inclose about an acre and-a half of
the ground facing Croom's-hill, upon. which it was intended
to erect two villas for the special residence of two of the
officers of that establishment. Farther, a tank was to be
dug out several yards wide, and six feet deep round which a
mound of gravel was to be thrown up, upwards of five feet
in height, by which the view would be obstructed, and the
park, confessedly the most beautiful one contiguous to the
metropolis, would be entirely despoiled, and the inha-
bitants, as well as the public at large, deprived of
a source of relaxation and amusement. These en-
croachments did not now exist in imagination, for they were
actually commenced. In the upper part of the park there
was a collection of valuable and ancient relics; indeed, so
valuable were they considered, that an attempt had been
made to shield them from destruction by the members of the
Archahological Society, who had stepped forward to pre-
serve the antiquated " barrows," admitted to be upwards of
1,000 years old, all of which would be swept away by the
construction of the proposed reservoir. Impressed with these
facts, he (the Rector) had made it his business to wait upon
Mr. Sydney Herbert at the Admiralty, where he presented a
memorial upon the subject. He had also forwarded a copy
of the same document to Lord Haddington, the First Lord
of the Admiralty, and to Lord Lincoln at the office of Woods
and Forests. Thursday was fixed for an interview, and be
(the Rector) attended upon that day, and attempted to reason
the matter with the scientific gentlemen present. To all his
objections on the part of the public, resistance was made by
the representatives of Governmcnt. Last night he had
re-
ceived a letter from Lord Lincoln, to the effect that his
Lordship could not consistently advise that the re.conunenda-
lion of the Rector should beacted upon, as the
thscientific gy—
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ee reservoi
tleman bad stated that the object of fixing
the protection of Deptford dockyard and Greenwich Hospital
from fire—could not be effected if any other part of the park
were chosen for the purpose. To that communication he
(the Rector) had replied, that he was of opinion the pa-
rishioners had met with contumely, and that. it was con-
sidered very contemptuous treatment' of a large and re-
spectable community. Resolutions in accordance with the
sentiments of the worthy Rector, and expressive of the ut-
most determination to resist the encroachments proposed,
were moved and seconded by Mr. F. Angerstein, late Mem-
ber for the borough, Mr. C. Millington, Mr, A. Young, one
of the county magistrates, Mr. F. Barwis, solicitor, and other
gentlemen ; and ultimately it was agreed without a dissen-
tient voice, that a petition should be prepared and presented
to Parliament forthwith, to stay the encroachments, which
yesterday morning were resumed, by order of Lord Lincoln,
the Chief Commissioner of the Woods and Forests.
LADIES IN THE, STOCKS.—On Saturday, market-
day, at Newport, in this county, the attention of her
Majesty's lieges was attracted to the Town. hall, in con-
sequence of the stocks being occupied -by two young
ladies, Miss Ann Bullock and Miss Harris, who, with a
gentleman Girdler,
named Jones, alias had the pleasure
of rusticating in the above enviable position for six
hours.—Shrewslzry chronicle.
Tat LONDON CLOCKS.—Our Marylebone Corre-
spondent writes us that the church clock in the New-road, is
still
in a very unsatisfactory state, and the unhappy time
piece is said to be going fast. The pendulum, which ought to
be at sixty, is at nearly seventy, and the wind-up is despair-
ugly looked forward to.—Punch.
That in the midst of life we are in death, was fully
exemplified on Sunday last, in the death of the Rev. John
Alexander Lawrence, Rector of Marnham, who when closing
his sermon in the afternoon, was taken ill, and upon being
removed to the Rectory House, almost instantly expired,—
Nottingham Review.