The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-28 00:00:00

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DRURY-LANE THEATRE.
1 1+ ewt:re 1,,d to expect great things from the pro-
Lialfe's new opera, The Daughter of St.
Il ark, at I Irury. lane last evening, and we hare not
been .!isni,:-)intecl. Bunn has suryis:Td all his for-
mer, and i:i;s produced the most splendid, the most
gorg,,ous, e most magnificent, spectacle that has ever
bee► rcv:, anted upt.n the boards of any theatre. T
n he
libretto, s‘ nich is by Mr. Bunn himself, is based on the
poem of M. de Saint Georges, but the author has in-
troduced such alterations as the requirements of the
English stage rendered requisite. If we mistake not,
a dramatic version of the same story was produced
some years since at the Adelphi, under the title of
The Queen of Cyprus. It is somewhat curious that
this same plot should have been recently chosen by
four eminent composers as a subject—Lachner, in
Germany; lialevy in France; Donizetti in Italy; and
Belle in England, have each composed an opera on
the story of Catarina Cornaro. But to the opera of
last evening. The opening scene represents a festive
hall in the Villa Andrea, near Venice. Catarina
Cornaro (Miss Rainforth), niece to Andrea Cor-
naro (Mr. Borrani), a rich Venetian noble, is
about to be united to Adolphe de Courcy (Mr. W.
Harrison). Andrea has joined the hands of the lovers,
who have left him to prepare fo: their nuptials, when
Moncenigo (Mr. Weiss), one of the Council of Ten,
enters and ioforms him that the State has deter-
mined that Catarina shall become the bride of the
King of Cyprus, and commands him to forbid the
nuptials. Cornaro is horror-struck, but dares not
disobey. The guests arrive—the priests are there—
the bridemaids commence their chorus—the proces-
sion is on its way to the church, when Andrea ap-
pears and commands the nuptials to stop. All is in
confusion. Adolphe threatens revenge. Catarina
entreats in vain—Andrea is inflexible. The friends
of Adolphe and the partisans of Andrea are about to
rush on each other, but are restrained by Catarina,
who,' overcome by the agony of her feelings, falls
senseless, and the act-drop falls on the tableau. The
first act consists almost entirely of concerted music;
in the second act we meet with several gems of me-
lody. The first scene is the oratory of Catarina, a
beautiful Gothic chamber, looking like one of Prout's
most finished architectural paintings. We hear
a very pretty chorus of gondoliers in the distance.
To this succeeds a barcorolle, beautifully sung by
Miss Rainforth. In her prayer-book she finds a letter
from Adolphe, in which he tells her that he will come
at midnight to set her free, and the gondoliers' song
shall be the signal of his approach. Andrea enters,
and tells her not to peril herself and Adolphe by re-
fusing the match which Venice has proposed. In this
scene is introduced a fine solo, " When all around our
path is dreary," which was most touchingly sung by
Borrani, and deservedly encored, and which will no
doubt be the bass song of the season. As soon as he
has left Moncenigo enters, and shows her three
assassins concealed in her oratory, who have orders to
murder Adolphe if she does not at once reject his ad-
dresses. Adolphe immediately enters, and here oc-
curs another of those beautiful melodies, in the com-
position of which Balfe is so successful ; it is the air,
My bark which o'er the tide." It is exactly suited
to Harrison's peculiar powers, and was rapturously
encored. She rejects him, and he leaves her, believing
her false. In the next scene we find Moncinego congra-
tulating himself on the success of his plots of revenge
against Andrea's family; and then follows the concluding
scene of the second act, and by far the most mag-
nificent scenic effect ever accomplished on any stage.
fhe scene represents the battlements of the Palace
of Famagosta, in Cyprus, with a view of the port
seen under them. The stage is crowded with
people making merry in honour of the mar-
riage of the king. There is a grand procession of
the clergy ; the clergy and the people join in a
preghiera ; then in the distance is heard a chorus
of sailors. The Venetian fleet pass in the distance,
and salute; the bells ring; there is a flourish of
trumpets. The king, preceded by his pages, squires,
and heralds, and followed by his court in grand
procession, descend the steps of the palace ; the
State galley with Catarina arrives; the pages lay
down a rich carpet, which the bridemaids strew with
flowers. Catarina, who is accompanied by Moncenigo
and Andrea, is received by the king, and presented
to the people • and amidst the waving of the
banners, and the shouts of the people, the proces-
sion still continuing to stream down the
battlements, the curtain falls. The opening scene of
the third act, the gardens of the Royal Casino
at Nicosia, is also very superb. It is filled with guests
merrymaking. When the guests leave, Moncenigo
enters, accompanied by a band of masked assassins,
whom he directs to murder Adolphe, of whose arrival
in Cyprus he has been informed. A clashing of
swords is heard, and Adolphe enters, accompanied by
the king, who has saved his life. A beautiful duet
ensues, and the king leaves him, without disclosing
his rank. Catarina enters—the lovers meet. She
entreats his pity, and Adolphe replies, in one of the
most beautiful morceaux of the opera, " Oh! smile as
thou wert wont to smile," a ballad, in which Harrison
is quite as great as he is in the far-famed "'When
other lips," and in which he will be quite as popular.
It is needless to say he was encored. She explains to
him that, on the night she rejected him, assassins
were in waiting, who, on the least sign from her,
would have taken his life; and then follows a beautiful
duet, " Despite this tortured brain." Moncenigo enters,
attended by the guard, arrests the lovers, and conducts
them to the citadel. Moncenigo hastens to the king
to accuse them, and, notwithstanding the entreaties
of Andrea, they are condemned. The last scene re-
presents a public place in Nicosia, with a scaffold
erected, and the headsman ready ; monks are kneeling
around, and the stage is thronged with soldiers and
populace. Catarina and Adolphe are led in. Andrea
rushes to the feet of the king, who is on the throne,
and entreats for pardon. Moncenigo urges the execu-
tion, when Andrea tells him that Catarina is his own
child, and gives him such proof that he cannot doubt
the fact. Adolphe is led forward and questioned by
the king, who not only pardons him, but gives him
Catarina in marriage. The finale, by Catarina, " This
spell too bright to bear," admirably sung by Miss
Rainforth, and the chorus, " Envied for ever be," fol-
low, and end the opera. All the performers were called
for at the close, and richly did they merit the
honour, for they one and all exerted themselves
to the utmost. Mr.l3alfe was called for, and then Mr.
Bunn ; and both author and composer were received
with loud plaudits. We have particularised the more
important portions of the music as we have proceeded.
The whole of the music is in recitative, and Balfe has
in general overcome the difficulties of adapting Eng-
lish words to recitative admirably. The opera has
been most expensively put upon the stage; and w€
must conclude, as we commenced, by repeating that
The Daughter of St. Mark is by far the most gorgeous
spectacle ever produced. The house was crammed
n the ceiling long before the rising of the curtain.

? Tie Earl of Ellenborough, the Earl of Clarendon,
Visc,;urit S;r•lngforii, Sir Edward Cc-Arington, tl
Burl of JersPy7, Lord Ernest Bruce, Sir George Coci.-
burn, Sir Geurge Murray, the Right Hon. George
Dawion Dallier, and Sir Arthur Aston, took their
departure from the Castle to-day.
lie Pririce of I\rdes, Prince Alfred, the Princess
Royal, ail(' the Princess Alice, were tak,..n for pony
and walking exercise in the course of the morning.
The Royal Family were again taken airings in the
afternoon.

The Earl and Countess Couper, Lord and Lady
Willoughby de Eresby, and Lady Peel, arrived at
the Castle to-day, on a visit to her Majesty.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited
the Queen and Prince Albert this afternoon.
The Duke of Wellington accompanied the Mar-
chioness of Douro in an early walk in the pleasure-
grounds of the Castle.
The band of the Scots Fusilier Guards was in
attendance during dinner at the Castle to-day. Her
Maje!ty's private band afterwards attended.
His Royal Highness Prince. Albert honoured Mr.
Wyon, of the Royal Mint, with a sitting for the por-
trait of his Royal Highness, for a medal.

Yesterday was the birthday of her Royal Highness
the Pi incess Mary. The Duke of Cambridge arrived
at Kew at an early hour, from Windsor Castle. The
Duchess of Gloucester arrived in the forenoon, to pay
a visit of congratulation, from town. The royal party
afterwards left Kew fur town.

Her R )yal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester
gave a grand dinner in the evening at Gloucester
House, in honour of the auspicious event. Their
Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cam-
bridge, the Hereditary Grand Duke and Duchess of
Mecklenburgh Strelitz, the Princess Mary, and a
select party, were present.
Sir Frederick Trench had an interview with the
Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone yesterday, at the office
of the Board of Trade.

Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial
office from the Governor of Gibraltar.

LIEUT.-GENERAL SIR JOHN
CAMERON, K.C.B.

This Peninsular officer died at his residence at Guern-
sey on Saturday last. The deceased, whose health had
been declining for some time past, was second son of
Culchenna, and nephew of Cameron of Caltort, Inver-
ness-shire, whose ancestor was a younger son of Loehiel,
chief of the clan. He was born in 1773, and married in
1803, Miss Brock, eldest daughter of Mr. Henry Brock,
of Belmont, Guernsey,- and niece of the first Lord de
Saumarcz. Sir John entered the army as ensign in the
43d Regiment of Foot, in September, 1787. In 1794, he
served under Sir Charles Grey, in the West Indies, and
was present at the reduction of Martinique (including
:he siege of Fort Bourbon and other minor engage-
ments), at St. Lucia and Guadaloupe, and particularly
displayed his gallantry at the defence of the latter in
the same year, and at the sortie from, and at the assault
made by, the enemy on the fortress of Fleur d'Epis. He
was at the action of the 30th of September, at Berville
camp, under Brigadier-General Graham, and in the
action of the 7th October, he was severely wounded and
was taken by the enemy. He remained a prisoner of
war during a period of two years, and then came to
England ; but his military duties at home were of
short duration, for in six months he was was again or-
dered with his regiment to the West Indies, where he was
on foreign service for nearly four years. The General,
on his return to his native country, was ordered
with his regiment, the 9th Foot, to the seat of war in
Portugal, Sir John at that time holding the rank of
Lieutenant-Colonel in that gallant corps. His services
in the Peninsula were acknowledged by several honorary
distinctions. At the battle of Vimeira he commanded
the 2d battalion of the 9th Foot. He was at Corunna,
under the unfortunate Moore, and by the intrepid bra-
very he displayed at that sanguinary conflict, the de-
ceased gained the approbation of his superior in com-
mand. In July, 1809, he embarked on the 9th on the
expedition to the Scheldt, then commanding the Ist bat-
talion, and returned in September to England. In March
following he was sent out to increase the force of the
army in Portugal, then commanded by the Duke of
Wellington, and he continued in active service under
that great commander until the termination of tho war
in 1814. He particularly distinguished himself at Bu-
;two, where he had a horse shot under him ; also at Sa-
lamanca and Vittoria. In July, 1813, previous to the
assault and capture of San Sebastian, he carried, with
the 9th Foot, the fortified convent of San Bartholomew,
in front of San Sebastian, thus gaining a position which
contributed greatly to the advantage of the allied army.
tie subsequently took an active share in the battles of the
Nive of the 9th, 10th, and 11th of December, and in those
encounters he had another horse shot. During those
services he was twice wounded, and twice severely
contused. In acknowledgment for his eminent services
in the Peninsula, he received the decoration of a cross
and three clasps. Sir John, in 1814 and 1815, proceeded
to Canada, but was recalled from North America, owing
to the warlike aspect Europe had assumed, and the return
of Napoleon to France. He reached Ostend in August,
and immediately proceeded to join the allied army occu-
pying Paris. He was subsequently appointed Lieutenant-
Governor of Plymouth, and had the military command of
the western district, the duties of which he discharged
for a period of fourteen years. In consideration of his
eminent services, he was nominated a Knight Commander
of the Military Order of the Bath by his Sovereign, and
on the 31st of May, 1833, he was appointed to the Co
lonelcy of the 9th Regiment. The Portuguese Govern-
ment conferred the Order of the Tower and Sword on
Sir John, for the able services he rendered to that nation
in the course of the French war in that country. His
commissions were dated as subjoined :—Ensign, 25th
September, 1787 ; Lieutenant, 39th September, 1790 ;
Captain, 11th July, 1794 ; Major, 9th October, 1800 ;
Lieutenant-Colonel, 28th May, 1807; Colonel, 4th June,
1814 ; Major-General, 19th July, 1821 ; and Lieutenant
General, 10th January, 1837. It will be seen from the
above, that Sir John had filled all the intermediate
grades to that of Lieutenant-General. The Colohelcy o,
the 9th Regiment is, by his demise, vacant.

HABEAS CORPUS.—JERSEY.
(From the Jersey Gazette of Nov. 25.)
We have the pleasure of announcing that an offs r from
the Royal Court to Mr. Wilson, made through Advocate
Hammond, to liberate him on his own bail, has been this
afternoon unhesitatingly spurned. By no trick or de-
vice can Mr. Wilson be induced to damage the cause of
which he is the representative.
TO THE BRITISH RESIDENTS IN JERSEY.
Gentlemen and Friends,—Let not the apparently un-
favourable news which arrived from London by this
day's mail occasion you any anxiety. It has had no
effect upon my spirits, nor upon my hopes, nor upon my
conviction, that at the end of perhaps a long vista, more
or less varied, we shall safely arrive at last at the Tem-
ple of Victory and of Peace. Before the week is closed
f hope to offer to you for your perusal the affidavit of
the Procureur de la Heine, on which his application to
the Bail Court was based. In the mean time let us not
prejudge its contents or its effects. " Sufficient unto the
day is the evil thereof."
Remember how our foes chuckled, day after day, be-
cause the habeas corpus did not arrive. Remember their
looks when it had arrived. Did I prophesy falsely that
it would come ? Judge me, then, for the future by the
past. I prophesy again. I shall be discharged from this
vile custody sooner than you expect. And I add to this
prophesy, that I shall be discharged by habeas corpus,
and by habeas corpus only—or in a coffin.
Fancy not that I hold my life so cheap that I would
commit suicide. Fancy not that I hold law to be so
despicable that I would accept my liberty upon any
terms but lawful terms ; or that I would, for a few
weeks of disgraceful freedom, enter into a recognisance
at the instance of the corrupt Royal Court in Jersey, or
at the command of any court in London.
It shall only be by a coffin, or by habeas corpus, that I
will be removed from this custody.
I have the honour to be, gentlemen and friends, your
faithful servant,

PRINCESS'S THEATRE.

Douglas Jerrold's domestic drama of The Rent Day
was produced here last night, both as regards the cast
of the principal characters and the getting up, in a
very complete manner. Mr. J. Wallack's impersona-
tion of Martin Heywood is well known, and is, in
fact, inseparable from the reputation of the play itself.
It is now some time since he has appeared in London
in characters of this nature; but, however he may
aspire to the higher walk of the drama, we do not
think he can ever suffer from these humbler assump-

tions. He displays in the part of Martin Heywood
a rough energy and a flow of passionate feeling,
which, while it is in the highest degree effective a,
regards the stage, preserves all the simple nature
which the author has thrown into this and the other
characters grouped immediately about him. Mrs.
Stirling as Rachel Heywood, though perhaps lacking
strong passion, made a profound impression by her
thorough earnestness and amiable simplicity of man-
ner. Walter Lacy's Silver Jack, as well known as
Wallack's Martin Heywood, was as effective as ever.
Granby made as much of Crumbs as could be, but it
is an incongruous character, which is exceedingly
difficult to deal with, as, between his present villany
and his former wrongs, the interest is perplexed.
With regard to Mr. Compton's Bullfrog, it appeared
that he was desirous to give an uniform colouring to
the drama, and consequently gave the part a melan-
choly tone, which we do not, however, think was the
author's intention. The tableaux were all admirably
arranged, and drew down immense applause, as, in-
deed, did the piece throughout, and it will doubtless
prove of service for many future " off-nights."

CHARLES CARUS WILSON,
A prisoner by lawless violence.
Jersey Gaol, Nov. 24, 1844.

REGISTRATION OF TIIE BIRTH OF HIS ROYAL
HIGHNESS PRINCE ALFRED.—Her Majesty having
commanded that the registration of the birth of the in-
fant Prince Alfred should take place at Windsor Castle,
on Sunday, Mr. Towers, the district registrar for Wind-
sor, attended at the royal residence, in pursuance of her
Majesty's commands, for the purpose. There were also
present,'in the apartment adjoining the Queen's boudoir,
where the registration took place, the Right Honourable
Sir James Graham, Secretary of State ; Major Graham,
the Registrar-general ; and Mr. William Cole Long, the
superintendent registrar for the district. The Castle
and its precincts being extra-parochial, it was necessary
to register the birth of the infant Prince in the books of
the parish contiguous to where the birth took place ; but
in consequence of upwards of six weeks having elapsed
since that period, a fee of 7s. 6d. was incurred. The
Prince was registered in the names of Alfred Ernest
Albert. His Royal Highness Prince Albert was present,
and appeared to take great interest in the ceremony.
KING'S COLLEGE HOSPlTAL.—yesterday afternoon
a meeting of Governors was held in the Board-room of
the Hospital, to receive the report of the House Com-
mittee for the last half year. T. Butterfield, Esq., was
called to the chair. The minutes of the last Court having
been read and confirmed, the Secretary then read the
report for this half year, ending 29th September. At
that time there were remaining in the Hospital 101
patients ; admitted since, by letters of recommendation,
197 ; urgent cases, without letters, 339 ; casualties, 52 ;
total, 588. Of these there had been discharged, cured
or relieved, 566 ; incurable, 4 ; disorderly, 4 ; died, 43;
remaining in the house 29th September, 72. The num-
ber of out-patients relieved during the same period was
6,312, besides 163 poor married women attended during
confinement at their homes. Total number of in-patients
since the opening of the Hospital, 5,330 ; out-patients,
including 616 poor married women in the midwifery de-
partment, 44,171. The report was received and adopted,
and after the transaction of some routine business, the
meeting separated.
A letter from Munich, of the 15th, says :—" A
dreadful crime was committed here yesterday. While
Captain N— was attending his duties at the Ministry
of War, his wife, only twenty years of age, and the fe-
male servant of the house in which she resided, were
murdered. A razor, with which the crime was perpe-
trated, was found near them, and all the closets and
drawers had been plundered of their most valuable con-
tents.pected
being of he manth e servant
murderer,of CahpatasifineNd.--who is sus-
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THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVEINING, NOVEMBER 28 1844.

*mtly''e moment in
—Chi
, 30th of May, and he might add to the 6th of September
I agein. the eyes of Europe 1.:..1-e rivetted upon it.
EtEhAND.
Every man in every nation of Europe read the British
REPEAL ASSOCIATION.
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DUBLIN, Nov. 23.—The vVeekly meeting of the Repeal
and as
took place this day, at the Coo2i:iation-hall;
nd as it tti9i the first irn.:eting tviiielt Mr. O'CinneU was
, they had trampled under foot ; what person the} had
t., attend alter his return crow Derrynane, there was the
'injured, wioae land they had trespassed tepon—in a
buildingutot anxiety evinced to be I,reFcnt. Every part of the
word, whether it was forgery or robbery, or burglary,
phlebotomy, ordtiNieetl3,lha,
before was ce lesely crowded for a considerable period i
ed the hour firmed ler the commencement of the pro- or
etwyetrgheeeyi: 0
hvhviamd to bfocae:hkai‘gi'muri.ol
ce trigs, and the enthusiasm throughout the day was (Laughter.)
Smith himself—could
good humour, which he was told was very difficult—
extreme. Mr. O'Connell arrived at it few minutes before
one o'clock, accompanied by Lord Ffrench Capt. Lever,
(Hear, hear) —" Be so good as put down in fifteen lines
ex. J.P., and set a-al prominent members of the Commit-
nwohtadt
oc rsiom. e s?_i oue
talked have accused
deepthose
and
npde rfsoounlseoofn, '
s'
phier
aceoyuLd
tee. He was received with loud end continued cheering.
of the deepest conspiracy that ever was hatched ; but
where was the bird or where was the egg? It was to
On the motion of Lord FFRENCII, seconded by accla-
mation, Mr. Maurice O'Connell, M.P was called to
be found in h's (Mr. Smith's) ima inationbuthtatnowhe
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the chair.
else.—(Hear, hear.) Oh, what a imagination,
w*as
Mr. O'CoNNELL here put on a new crown-shaped cap,
of refuel and gold, amidst loud cheering. He then, pro-
in finding them guilty.---(Hear, hear.) But litilearYh
seeded—Before entering into the immediate business of
Leen as yet said of the exertions of their counsel baeldn-
the day, he wished to (AT his most hearty congratula-
tions to the repeaters ofDeblin, on the triumphant result fore the House of Lords. He felt a stain of i ga i
, nice,: of national thankfulness to their counsel. Th
of the munitipel elections on the precedi )g slay. The rude upoc hint for not having sooner poured forth Itti;
brepeaters had behaved in the noblest manner on the day
first of these was Sir Th tags Wilde, who was at then
veryof his profession.—(llear, hear.) Everything
b3' Sir
ihruitni
latonininasteNliV
etore, and the effect would be most salutary in the cause
of Ireland. having made these observations, he would heal• n'
intellect
aldnddohihsamd
ebmee,nryeff%e•cotueldd f;verlive
beg to hand in some money—(Clieers)—hut, in the first
r them
place, he wished the secreetry would read a letter that
had been received . e,v et, from the Right Rev. Dr- Blake, the in the grateful recollections of the Irish nation.—(Loud
bishop of Dromore.cheers.) The next gentlemen to whom he would refe
" Violet-hill, Newry Nov. 25, 1844. st as Mr. Hill, who, he believed, we R d • r
-
My dear Sir—Sincerely and affectionately e ecor er of Bironately I congra- mieghana, and had been know .n as Mr. Hill, of Hull
tul etc •
been fel
, 3ou on your libsration from unjust confinement— His argument was most powerful, and he had *
-
on the glorious
manner in which you have been ac- I lowed by Mr. Peacock, whom he had not known before,
quitted—on the publio sympathy with which you have but who made his fortune by the admirable
been honoured—on your recovered health, and the re- which he had acquitted himself, as the eccasion enabled
sumpiion of your public labours, and on the auspicious him to exhibit his great faculties in the full noon-tide o
prospects which, as the effect of more united national Public notice. The gentleman who, after Sir Thomasf
feeling, and a more generally just appreciation of Ire- IVilde, he was most anxious to have engaged for him
before us.
land's rights and wants, seem now to open was Mr. Kelly, the Member for Cam - nbridge. He had
The time I
,hope, will soon arrive when the resources stt the very first stated, "If we are to go before the
of our fine country shall be made subservient to the hap- House of Lerds, retain for me Mr. Kelly." He had the
piness of our people. A domestic Legislature, judi- last word on their side, and much indeed of their success
ciously constituted, would accomplish that, and would was to be attributed to his masterly address.—(Hear,
make Ire' ,and the happiest, instead of being, as it has hear.) Lord John Russell declared in the House of
been
for centuries, and still is, the most unhappy of all Commons, that they had not had a fair trial. Some
nations ; but in no other way, by no other contrivance, persons say that the Whigs were as bad as the Tories.
' can we arrive at that object. Reason, experience, They were bad enough, Heaven knows, and he would be
human nature proclaim it. Until we have a domestic as sorry to see them remain in power as that the Tories
Legislature, the poor will never be relieved as they should continue longer there. They should guard against
should be ; until then, industry will never receive here them more cautiously than against the Tories, for
its due measure of encouragement ; until then, the rich the latter were their open foes ; but still he made this
proprietors will never find their own happiness inter- distinction between both parties, that whenever the
woven with that of the other classes of Irishmen ; until Whigs were right he was for them ; but as to the Tories,
then, Ireland will always be the sorest, the most dis- he never knew them to be right yet.—(Laughter.) Lord
contented, and the most dangerous part of the British John Russell, the leader of the Whig party, pledged his
empire. We should all, therefore, struggle with Ire- high character—and it was a high one—that they had
lana's illustrious Liberator, and exert with him our ut- not had a fair trial ; but what did Peel do ? Before the
most energies, in a constitutional and legal manner, for session broke up, he had the unparalleled audacity—the
the attainment of that one great paramount object. For indescribable impudence--to nssert that they had a fair
my part, I am so convinced of this, that for the sake of trial.—(Hear, hear.) As for the Whig press, it had done
the poor, and for the sake of all Irishmen, and of our more to injure the Whig party in this country than it
common humanity, although it is far from being conve- probably imagined, and he hurled at it his most con-
nient to me to increase my annual contribution to the temptuous defiance—(Cheers)—whether as regarded the
Repeal Association fund, yet I feel myself constrained solemn impudence of the Morning Chronicle when talking
of the Irish looking for repeal, or the slanderous mum-
anto do so, that I may do whatever is in my power to put
end to the innumerable and intolerable evils which eery of the Examiner, or that of the paltry Globe, Lord
Pahnerston's paper, which also indulged in insolence and
afflict our fine people. My original annual subscription
was 11. I now send 31. for the year 1845; and as I have derision towards the people of Ireland. Let them argue
contributed every week since the period of the monster the question if they pleased, but let them know that there
trial a shilling to the weekly rent which is collected in was nothing so unsafe as to insult an entire people, and
Newry for the same purpose, so I will continue to do as to turn their just aspirations for freedom into unholy
long as it may seem necessary,
ridicule.—(Hear, hear.) He wanted to know what re-
" I have the honour to be, prt
tribution would be made to him and his fellow- • -
" With great esteem and respect, my dear sir,
soners for their one hundred days' incarceration.—
" Your faithful humble servant, —(Hear, hear.) He had endeavoured to procure an
" li'el MICHAEL BLAKE. inquiry, at least, into that matter. He would also probe
"To M. Rae, Esq., Secretary to the Loyal National Re- the disposition of England on the subject. They had
peal Association." been often told that the people of England wished them
After the letter had been read. well, and that it was the Government only that injured
Mr. o•CeNeeee again rose, aad said there did not live them. He would test that delaration now. He wanted
a purer or more single-minded man, or one more at- the Association well and deliberately to consider what
tacked to Ireland or to religion, than that revered pre- steps they should take under existing circumstances.
late. He was one of the foremost of the apostles of the Since his trial and liberation advances had been made
church of God, and, though in extreme old age, his heart towards him from many quarters—from men of great in-
beats still as warmly as the youngest amongst them in fluence and large property, who talked of joining them
the cause of their country.—(Cheers.) He moved the for a repeal of the Union Statute upon what was called
insertion of the letter on the minuteseeind the marked the federal plan. He inquired what that plan was, but
thanks of the Association to the right. rev. writer. nobody could tell him. However, as they showed a dis-
Captain LEVER seconded the motion, which was car- Position to join for Ireland, he was bound to meet that
ried unanimously, disposition in the spirit of conciliation, otherwise why
Mr. O'CONNELL again rose, and said he had to hand should he have built a Conciliation Hall ?—(Hear, hear.)
in 11,, the subscription of the Rev. Mr. Moriarty, of Phi-
His anxious wish was to conciliate Irishmen of every
ladelphia, whom ho regretted to see in this country. class and persuasion. Every man who would join
Personally, he rejoiced to see him, but he regretted ex-
Ireland was his sworn brother.(Cheers.) Federalism
ceedingly the cause that had brought him there—it was
should be an open question ; although he confessed that
to raise money to rebuild the Catholic churches that had he did not think that question ought to commence until
been burned during the late riots.—(clear.) The public such time as Ireland should have her Parliament ; be-
were aware that atrocity unparalleled in civilized times, cause until then she would not be on a footing with Eng-
land, or in a position to make her own terms. He had
ture, had been perpetrated by the inhabitants of Phila-
horrors that made men ashamed to belong to human na-
conjectured that there might be something preferable in
dolphin, under the name of " natives," against the Ca-
federalism, if carried far enough. But he had bound him-
tholics and the Irish. He read the other day in an self to no plan, and yet a cry had been raised against
American newspaper a leading article, stating that peat© him by some young gentlemen (alluding to the Young
could never be established in America until those mis- Ireland party), who thought themselves fitter leaders
guided and unfortunate people, the
.111orrnonites, were an-
than he was, but who, instead of reading his letter, and
nihilated ; and it then added, that after the Mormonites discovering their mistake as to his opinions about fede-
were exterminated they should exterminate the Catho-
=lista, made the mistake, and did not read his letter at
lies. He would leave the meeting to consider what a all.—
(Laughter.) These gentlemen were urged on in
state of society it was in which such a newspaper was their declamation against him:by those violent oppo-
supported.
nents of repeal who conducted the Tory press, and who
The Rev. Mr. MORIARTY, on rising to address the accused him of compromising that question, because of
his letter on the subject of federalism, and of his en-
meeting, was received with loud cheering, and proceeded
en-
to speak at some length. During the recent outrages in deavours to induce those who professed to be federalists
the United States it was not only the extermination of to join for repeal. Even the press of Louis Philippe took
Catholicity, but the suppression of the spirit of nation-
it up ; so did the National, the newspaper of Odillon
ality, and of the movement in favour of Ireland, which Barrot, whom the repealers of Ireland had treated
was sought for.—(Cheers.) Her cause had been advo-
with some courtesy, and more contempt when he
sated by the educated, enlightened, and civilised men of offered to join them.—(A laugh.) In the first place,
America, but he was sorry to say that the number of they were friends to monarchical government, and in the
such men there was few. Their houses had been laid next they were Christians, Protestants, and Catholics,
two great offences in the eye of the National. He
waste--their churches .burned—his own life had been
three times attempted in the public streets of Phila_ heard of a gentleman being so violent a disbeliever that
delphia.—(Loud cries of "Oh oh.") He trusted that it was thought unsafe to be in his company. A friend
,
these words would be heard across the Atlantic. The of his (Mr. O'Connell's), however, meeting him on one
design of parties was to exterminate, occasion at a dinner party, at which he maintainedexterminate, or to fr ighten them. his
—(Cheers.) He trusted no Irishman would leave Ame-
atheistical doctrine aith great violence, turned to him
rice. It was intended to frighten clergy and laity out of and said, "I assure you Ido not mean you any personal
that country, but they were not to be frightened. offence, but I must aver that I really do believe in a
The SECRETARY announced the receipt of the fol-
God." So, without meaning the National any personal
lowing remittances:-111. from Flushing, Long Island ;
offence, he must inform that journal that the repealers
2.51. from Peterson, New Jersey ; and 501. from Troy, were really Christians.—(Laughter.) From the Con-
United States. stitutionneltbey had nothing to fear. Thiers was out of
Mr. O'CONNELL then rose, and was received with power, and not likely to get in again. In his history he
gave an account of the massacre. of the 2d, 3d, and 4th
loud cheers.—He said, as soon as the noise had sub-
of September, 1792, when 15 bishops and archbishops,
sided, Hurrah for repeal.—(Loud cheers.) This is the
first day of a new campaign.—(Cheers.) We begin and nearly 300 priests, were massacred in the streets of
again to act more distinctly and more decidedly, and,
Paris ; but he related the event with all the gentle flip-
I trust, more cautiously, and with greater exertion, pancy of an ordinary occurrence, instead of its being
o
than ever.—(Cheers.) The period of silence, in expec-
ne of the most horrid and horrifying scenes of blood
ration of aid and assistance from others, is gone by,
that were ever perpetrated. Aye, and if he had it in
and once again we put up our high motto, his power he would have the massacre of September
Hereditary bondsmen, know ye not, enacted over again, he (Mr. O'Connell) had no doubt,
"
e from the report which he published on the education
Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow !
—(Loud cheers.) That motto (continued Mr. O'Con-
question. Next came Louis Philippe's, paper, the
nell) had been the rallying maxim of his life for many Journal des Debars, which contained most terrible arti-
a long day. Year after year had matters of the highest Iles against him (Mr. O'Connell) for abandoning repeal.
importance to Ireland been pressed upon the attention It called upon him not to imagine for a moment that, if
of England, and brought forward with the greatest force. there was a war with England, Ireland would get assist-
Tney had been treated with contempt. The press had
ante front France, for that France was too honourable to
t
treated them with contempt ; and suddenly the English take such an advantage of England. For Heaven's sake,
don't talk of such a thing ! cried the Debats.—(Laugh-
people find out that the Irish are determined to be free,
ter.) Why, he hurled defiance—and he spoke the send-
and they wake up with astonishment, and ask, "How
merit with the most utter contempt—he hurled defiance
cart they have arrived at that conclusion without going
through any intermediate stages ?" They had passed to Louis Philippe and his newspaper, and could tell him
that he would not accept a repeal of the union at the
through them without their knowing it. The proceed-
hands of Fr Chee
France.—( Cheers.) He could not forget their
ings of last year—the monster meetings—the monster immorality and their want of religion, and he detested
trials—had drawn (their attention to Ireland, and had
made an impression, not only upon England, but upon their base submission to such a crafty and miserable
all the members of the human family.—(Cheers.) If
usurper as Louis Philippe. Repeal or no repeal, the
.
he were asked how he intended to proceed, in order to Irish people held him and them in the utmost abhor-
obtain releal, he would answer, at once.— (Cheers.) rence. He was a swindler of power—power got by the
He had seen an Irish Parliament once sitting in College-
blood of the people who deposed a King because he was
oppressing them. Louis Philippe took no part in the
teary that he would never rest until he saw it there
green, and he had registered a vow in his political sane oppressing
but he took all the prize money.—(Hear, and a
again.—(Loud cheers and laughter.) At the commence- laugh.) Having reached the throne, he pledged himself
merit of his struggles he had been met by proclamations. by
.his charter to the freedom of the press, to education,
As an Act existed to give proclamations the force of law, to religion, and to the maintenance of trial by jury ;
he obeyed them. When they ceased to have that effect, and how had he acted ? He had enslaved the press,
by introducing laws which were more stringent than
lie set them at defiance.—(Cheers.) But there had been
any that ever marked the oppression of the press
no repetition of them, until that at Clouted, which
Lord Cloncurry had so well denounced as a " projected in England. He had mutilated trial by jury, and
made it a crime to publish the names of theprors. The
massacre."—(Cheers.) After a protracted effort, he had
been forced to bring forward the repeal question rather man who promised that trial by jury should be main-
prematurely in the House, and, after a debate of eleven tained was the very man who had trampled on it, and
nights, there appeared a majority of 456 against them, rendered it a delusion, a mockery, and a snare. Edu-
and 45 for them ; but at that time the House of Com-
cation was to be free, and he was now scheming to give
mons pledged themselves, and the House of Lords joined it into the hands of infidelity. He (Mr. O'Connell)
them in an address to the King, praying that the griev- would tell the Debuts and its master that he cared little
for either, and that he would consider religion tarnished
ances of the nation should be redressed. To that his
Majesty had readily given his acquiescence, and they if they were the means of producing it even for the
had, consequently, made a solemn declaration to that country he loved best in the world.—(Cheers.) To illus-
effect.—(Leud cheers.) How had they performed trate what these Frenchmen were he would tell them a
that promise ? Not one of those grievances had been story which he had from Lord Monteagle. Carnot, when
redressed since. The declaration was nothing but a con-
on© of the Directory, had formed a plan, with his usual
gregation of falsehood. In fact, to use short language, consummate genius, for the invasion of England and
Ireland, and with a view to securing the adoption of it
it was a lie—a practical lie. It had had much of autho-
rity about it ; it was the pledge and declaration of King, by the Directory, had communicated it to only two of
Lords, and Commons. It had everything in point of the other members of it. Within a fortnight after it was
form, which could have given power to an Act of Par-
laid before them, the paper was in the hands of the Bri-
liament, and therefore he had paused in the agitation tish Minister.—(Cheers and groans.) Just such fellows
of repeal when it came out. He did so, because he were those newspaper men. They were not rascals for
knew had he not done so, it would have been said," Why nothing, and they were brothers in nature to the rascals
w
do you not give time to the King, Lords, and Corn-
ho sold Carnot to the British Minister.—(Cheers.)
mons to give effect to their pledged declaration ?" He
Having paid a tribute to Dr. Maunsell's fairness, in
saw that, and he tried an experiment, and gave them freeing him (Mr. O'Connell) of tergiversation on the
time. It had produced nothing.—(Hear.) They left federal question, he declared, that any one who
their pledge—as every other pledge made by England took the trouble of reading his letter must
to Ireland had been left—broken and unperformed.—
admit that he never had conceded one particle of
(Cheers.) Well, he began the agitation again.—(Hear, Ireland's rights.—(Cheers.) The Examiner said so—
and cheers.) Had he begun it hastily? No; he formed
Tait said so. Every man who read it would see that he
the Precursor Society, to let the English ear be informed was incapable of giving up for one moment one particle
of Irish rights.—(Cheers.) He would give his heart's
of his objects, and to let them see how far he was from act-
blood, his existence, everythingaorrefirth, but her rights.
ins peremptorily.—(Cheers.) They had given her the
—(Cheers.) What have the enemies of repeal done by
alternative., and for twelve months they had told
her of Irish grievances—first among them the state that charge ?- They had redoubled his zeal and his
of the suffrage.—(Cheers.) They were disregarded, and-
anxiety to promote repeal, and repeal alone.—(Cheers.)
they were laughed at—laughed to scorn.—(Cheers.) He He would tell them a secret. Federalism (exclaimed the
tried the House of Commons. He moved for a Bill for Hon. Gentleman, snapping his fingers) is not worth that.
the increase of the franchise, and the motion was se- —(Roars of laughter.) He wished it no harm ; they
m
sanded. Who opposed it ? Not Peel, nor one of his might go on with their talking and meetings. Much
g party, but an excellent man, who was obliged to take good might it do them.—(Cheers and laughter.) He had
that position—Lord Morpeth. Neither Whigs nor Tories great respect for them, and wished them well, but they
were with them. What had been his answer ?Hurrah for were none of his children.—(Cheers and laughter.) Mr.
repeal.—(Cheers.) He then formed the Repe,al Associa-
O'Connell then proceeded to comment upon Mr. S. Craw-
tion—(Cheers)—with a solemn pledge that nothing short ford's letter on federalism, and' followed up the line of
of repeal should satisfy them.—(Cheers.) He had thus argument and stricture which he took in his recent reply
given England every opportunity of doing them justice,
but she had not availed herself of one. Now, they had to that gentleman's letter. He denied that he would
make a bear garden of the Irish House of Commons. He
would be too good humoured to quarrel with any one.
(Cheers.) The history of the last two years was im-
gone for ever, and the Irish insisted upon repeal.—
The Hon. and Learned Gentleman then proceeded to
portant in any account of the struggle for repeal. But,
refer to the mode by which the union had been effected,
when their enemies found out that the monster meetings, and said that he would follow that subject still further
commencing with 15,000 at Newcastle, increased to at their next meeting, when he would have occasion to
address them at even greater length than he had done on
1,000,000 at Tara, they set Brewster at them. He
had plenty of clerks—they 'killed a whole flock that day, when he intended to enter into the following
of sheep to make parchment for the monster indict-
propositions in detail :
ment—(Laughter)—which literally was thirty-six "1. That the union was not a contract, or bargain,
yards long— (Cheers and laughter) and which between the two countries, but was forced on the Irish
by unqualified force and the foulest fraud.
had been well characterised by the Lord Chief Justice. nation"
2. That the union produced the most disastrous The trial took up the public time from November to the re-
sults to Ireland.

•
" 3. That if there had been a real bona fide union, • prussic acid in each—sonsiderably more than suti-olen—f"
IreLnd would hee-e been entitled to at least 173 Merabers. to destroy lite.
• -
"4. That the most gross injustice is done to Ireland In answer to a question from Mr. Duckett, se Mr.
by the limited nature of the Parliamentary franchise. • Letheby p ekively declared that there hag-Keen no
in-
" England has a number of voters equal to 22 per proper intercourse between the deceased p : pons,
! cent. of her adult male population. Ireland not above Elizabeth Neely, staying with her siste *slieolter at
one to every two hundred.
Mr. Duckett's house, pro% ed letting cketti,isr-•,
"5. Ireland was refused any municipal reform for five and Miss Williams in at half-past six o'cloc qtar --
years after it had been conceded to Scotland, and for evening. They went into the parlour, and a. .- • 116 .S;
four years after it was obtained by the English. more of them.
"6. The Irish Municipal Reform Act is miserably de- The Coroner having remarked on the very melancholy
fective ; the franchise is rated so high as to exclude and mysterious nature of the case,
from the burgess list about three-fourths of those who The jury consulted, and ultimately returne 1 a verdict
would in England be burgesses.
—" That the deceased persons, Charles William Duckett
"7. All the most beneficial powers of the corporate and Elizabeth Williams, died from imbibing a certain
bodies have been curtailed and mutilated, or totally re- quantity of prussic acid, bu tby whom or how adminis-
fused ; amongst others, the nomination of sheriff---even tered there was not sufficient evidence Uefore the jury."
the recommendation of a sheriff refused.
" 8. The people of Ireland are obliged to contribute to
the support of two churches—the one the church of the
smaller, and at the same time the wealthy class of so-
ciety—the other, the church of the many and of the poor.
" 9. That the most gross fiscal robbery was inflicted
on Ireland by the union.
" 10. The union enormously augmented the disastrous
effects of absenteeism, and all the evils of a distant and
remote legislature and judicature."
Mr. O'Connell, ie conclusion, moved the adoption of the
following resolutiou :—" That it be referred to the Com-
mittee to report on the proper steps to procure an in-
quiry into the recent state trial."
Lord FFRENCII seconded the resolution, which was
carried unanimously.
Mr. O'Cuissenn then moved—
" 1. That the letters of Sharman Crawford, Esq., as
they appear in the newspapers, be referred to the Com-
mittee to report their upiuion upon them, with the
reasons of such opinion.
" 2. That that inquiry be conducted in a manner most
respectful to Mr. Sharman Crawford."
The motions were carried unanimously.
Mr. O'CONNELL said he would postpone his motion for
the appointment of a Preservative Society of 300, as he
foucd there were more legal difficulties in the way than
he had at first anticipated.
Captain BRODERICK brought forward the reports of
the Parliamentary Committee on the following subjects :
—The Irish Fisheries, the Ordnance survey, the " In-
dustrial Resources of Ireland," land the Fiscal Relations
between the Two Countries.
After the disposal of some routine business,
Mr. O'CoNxEsi, announced the rent of the week to be
541/. 2s. Bd. (Cheers.)
Lord FFRENCII was then called to the chair, and the
usual vote of thanks having been passed to the former
chairman, the meeting separated.

THE DOUBLE SUICIDE AT
MILE-END.

Yesterday at noon Mr. Baker, Coroner for the Eastern
Division of Middlesex, and a jury of the inhabitants of
Stepney, assembled at the Fox Tavern, Russell-street,
Mile-end, to inquire into the deaths of Charles William
Duckett, aged 21, and Elizabeth Williams, aged 28, the
two young persons who destroyed themselves by taking
prussic acid, under the very extraordinary circumstances
which have been already partially detailed in the columns
of this journal.
The tragical occurrence created considerable excite-
ment in the neighbourhood, and such was the morbid
taste for the horrible, that the inquest-room was crowded
The jury having viewed the bodies, which lay in the
position in which they were discovered on Sunday night,
a description of which has already appeared, the evi-
dence was entered into.
Mr. T. Williams, a brother of the deceased woman,
was first sworn. He said—l reside at No. 11, Cannon-
street-road, St. George's-in-the-East. The deceased,
Elizabeth Williams, was my sister, and resided with her
mother, who is a widow. I knew the deceased, Charles
William Duckett, who was assistant to, and resided with,
his father, a house-agent, No. 9, Raven-row, Mile-end.
I have observed that my sister has been very low-
spirited for the last three or four weeks. She was most
affectionately attached to the deceased Duckett, with
I whom she has been acquainted for some years. I have
in my possession love letters proving that their attach-
ment was mutual. Their attachment to each other was
sanctioned by both families, and their marriage was
only delayed by Mr. Duckett's circumstances. We at-
tributed my sister's melancholy to the exceedingly jea-
lous disposition of Duckett with respect to her.
Several letters were here produced, which were ad-
dressed to the deceased Elizabeth Williams by Duckett;
many of them were poetic effusions, written in the most
extravagant love-sick strain.
Evidence resumed—l last saw my sister on Sunday
after dinner, when I left her at home with my mother.
Sho went out at half-past five on Sunday afternoon with
Mr. Duckett, with the intention, as usual, of going to
church. He told her to wrap up well, as it was a cold
night. My sister did not return from church at the
usual time, and between 11 and 12 o'clock I and my
brother went to the house of Mr. Duckett, sen., to see
if she was there. M. Duckett himself opened the door,
and said he had not seen either Elizabeth or his son. He
accompanied me back to my mother's, and then returned
home again, wondering where they could be. In about
three-quarters of an hour after, Mr. Duckett again
arrived at my mother's, and related the shocking occur-
rence, and how he had found them both dead at his house.
Wo never had any suspicion that either of them con-
templated suicide ; but, ab( ut three months ago,
Duckett borrowed the Pharmacopeia, a medical book,
from me, saying he wanted it to aid him in preparing
colours.
The Coroner here handed to him a letter which was
found in an envelope with a black border lying on the
table in the room where the bodies were discovered, ad-
dressed " To Miss Margaret Chapman, 21, Lucas-street,
Commercial-road," a cousin of Miss Williams. Mr.
Baker proceeded to read the following, written on the
envelope immediately under the address :
" It is our last, our sacred and dying wish, that this
letter be delivered into the hands of the above lady.
Such is our final request, and whoever may this find, we
pray they may give the same to her.—Signed E. W.,
C. W. D."
The enclosures were then read ; one consisted of
poetry addressed to Miss Chapman, beautifully written
and illuminated in various coloured inks, entitled " The
Last Lay of the Broken Hearts." The verses were 24 in
number, but the following extracts will afford a fair
sample of the entire composition :
" Change thou the scene—look here and thou shalt find,
" The spirit wounded with sternest sorrow's dart ;
" The madden'd brain, the wild, the wandering mind,
" The cheek that's blighted, and the Broken Heart.
" We've loved each other, joined in hand and heart,
" Firm bound together in one holy tie,
" Forsake we cannot, and we ne'er will part;
" Together live, and then together die."
At the conclusion of the verses was written the follow-
ing :

FLANDERS MAIL.
(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)

BRUSSELS, Nov. 2G.—The Chamber of 11,presenta-
tives met yesterday, but there Lot b..-irg a sufficient
number of Members present no business, cuuld be dune.
The price of bread at Brussels has fallen um: ventime
per kilogramme, but it is still four centimes per kilo-
gramme dear, r than at Paris.

We hear that Mr. Charles Laftte, Director of 'the

Rouen Iron Railway, has been engaged in forming at
London a Company for the construction of an iron
railway from Paris to the frontier of Be!gium, kis object
seems to have been attained. The Engli:h calitulists
who have just received from the Rouen Ralway a didi.
(lend of 10 per cent. on their originul capita!, they c,,uld
not resist the temptation held out by a new and great
undertaking whieh promises still more advantageous
results.

The Rhenish railway yielded in October, 1844, a
turn of 50,621 dollars. The number of passengers VOIS
35,574 ; and the quantity of goods 22:3,226 cwt, . In
October last year there were only 27,334 passeng%-rs, and
114,801 cwt. of goods. The receipt was 32,528 dollars.
In the first ten months of 1844 the receipt was 464,830
dollars, exceeding by 198,783 dollars the receipt of the
corresponding period of 1843.

FRONTIERS OF HUNGARY, Nov. 19.—1 learn from
authority that may be depended on, that Colonel
B..rago, in the Austrian service, who has returned from
his mission to the Black Sea, has given a very favourable
opinion on tha project of opening a direct coma-atics-
lion between the Danube and the Black Sea, by means
of a canal from Chernawoda to Kustendsche. The ob-
stacles are said not to be great, and by no means such as
they have been represented. The advantages which
would result from this new communication are incal-
culable.

BELGIAN FUNDS.—EIevssELI3, Nov. 2.5
Actua Debt, J% per Cent., ..... —...... .......
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent ...........
Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent
Three per
Thirty-seven ns, ditto ....... '7O
_ _

11;44_

ti 2
Loan of City, 1842;iour per Cent. lO3
Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cent.
Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent. ...... ..... 55
lasue of

—russets Papers. Nov. 26.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, Nov 20
Five per Cents. Metalhques - Four par
......... _ •

‘‘ This is the holy vow, freely given from both our
hearts. We have lived for each other. We solemnly
and without reluctance mutually consent to die together
—testifying to the truth thereof we have subscribed our
names, thus proving our perfect will to share the grave
in the arms of one another.
" ELIZABETH WILLIAMS and
" CHARLES WILLIAM DUCKETT.
" Signed at No. 9, Raven-row, Mile-end-gate,
London, Nov. 8, 1844."
The other letter bore date the 24th inst. (the day of
the occurrence), and was signed by Duckett only It ex-
hibited great despondency, and informed Miss Chapman
that when she received it he and Elizabeth " would be
sleeping the sleep of death, for she had told him if you
die without me, you will be my murderer." The authen-
ticity of the deceased Elizabeth Williams's signature to
that which contained the poetry was denied by both her
brothers.

Cents,

.83g
lazy's Loan
58
RAILW
The Northern, or FerdinanAd YS.
Gloggnitz ..
118
Milan
1104
Allgoneine Zeitung, Nov. '2a

William Henry Duckett was next sworn—He de-
posed, lam an accountant, and live at No. 9, Raven-
row. My son assisted me in my business, and lived
with me. I knew of his attachment to Elizabeth Wil-
liams, and decidedly approved of it. Sometimes he was
labouring under great excitement, and at other times he
was very depressed. He was a very abstemious young
man. He drank no spirits, and only a little malt liquor
—one pint of fourpenny ale would make him very wild.
He never spoke about getting married. His age was 21
last July. He was not in a position to support a wife.
That preyed on his mind. About twelve months ago
he was disappointed in not obtaining a situation in the
Court of Requests, in Whitechapel ; and there had been
a marked change in his conduct ever since. I have no
doubt he committed the act of suicide in an unsound
state of mind. My son has known Miss Williams nine
years. She is 28 years of age. My sox was in the habit
of reading Lloyd's Penny Weekly Miscellany, and Penny
Atlas, which are full of crimes—love, blood, and mas-
sacre.—(Laughter.) He also read religious tracts and
lighter works occasionally. He did not read novels.
A juror—Those works you speak of are very romantic
generally.
By the jury—l have seen him reading the London
Pliarrnaeopceia, and I thought he read it for informa-
tion on chemistry. He borrowed it ostensibly for that
purpose.
The witness here produced a large packet of letters he
had found in his son's box, addressed to him by Elizabeth
Williams. They reciprocated his affection, and one of
them, of recent date, describes the writer as very un-
happy, and stated that she cared not how soon the time
came to die with him. I last saw my son alive at half-
past five on Sunday evening, when he went out to go to
church. I went to church with his mother, and re-
turned about half-past eight. I heard nothing until
shortly before twelve, when the brothers of Elizabeth
came and asked for their sister. I went with them home,
and on my return I observed that the key was not in the
door of the front parlour, my son's bedroom. I tried
the door, and finding it locked, procured another key,
with which I succeeded in opening it. On entering I
saw my son and Elizabeth lying on the bed locked in
each other's arms and quite dad. (Witness here be-
came much affected.) I gave an alarm, and a lodger
ran for Mr. Davis, a surgeon, and I went to inform Eli-
zabeth's mother of what had happened. It is my opi-
nion that they destroyed themselves by mutual consent
on account of the world appearing a void before them.
and there being no prospect of their being married. I
think they must have been insane at the time they did so.
Colin M'Kenzie, police-constable 371 K, produced the
cups and phials found in the room where the bodies lay.
The phials were on the mantel-shelf. One cup turned
upside down lay on the bed, immediately above the de-
ceased Duckett's head, and the other was by the side of
the young woman.
Tho phials bore on them a label with the words
" Hydro.tyanie acid," and " Poison." They were of ex-
actly the same size, and the constable stated that he had
ascertained that it was purchased at Mr. Battley's, Fore-
street, the party who sold the poison to Belaney.
Mr. H. Letheby examined.—Ho was a surgeon, and
m a post mortem examination of both bodies. The
intestines smelt of prussic acid, and it had got circulated
throughout the system. He had taken away the sto•
machs for analysation, and found about half an ounce of

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MURDER AT STOCKPORT.-A coroner's inquiry
was held on Tuesday night, before Mr. C. Hudson, at his
office, Vernon-street, on the body of Eliza Jones, whose
death had been caused on the previous afternoon by the
violence of her husband. It appeared the husband in
question, whose name is Henry Jones, and residing at
Cortwood, within the borough, was a bricklayer, in the
receipt of good wages, but unfortunately of very intem-
perate habits. For some weeks he had been employed
in the erection of an extensive cotton-mill in Beaton-
lane, belonging to Lees, Kershaw, and Co., and in-
stead of intrusting his wife with his earnings, he too
often squandered them away in the beer-shop. To
avoid this as much as possible, the wife followed him
during the Sunday ; nevertheless he early on Monday
got again intoxicated, so much so that his master
desired him to quit the ground, and return when s,,bvi.
On leaving his work he met his wife, who kept dodging
him to give her some money, two children bein,, then
at home in want of the necessaries of life; but he bccaMe
excited, and refused to comply or go home. After going
from public-house to public-house, he consented, late in
the afternoon, to go home, and they were on their way
thrcugh the town, when a violent quarrel arose between
them. The wife, who was far advanced in pregnancy,
was equally excited, when, in a moment of frenzy and
madness, he threw her from him, and kicked her
savagely. She fell instantly, and died in the street be-
fore any assistance could be obtained, supposedly from
some injury sustained by a kick on the lower part of her
person. Iler husband was immediately taken into custody,
to await the result of the coroner's inquest, which is now
proceeding. The prisoner appears extremely dejected,
and is painfully alive to the awful position in which he is
placed.

• MELANCHOLY AND FATAL ACCIDENT. -- About
seven o'clock on Tuesday morning a most frightful ac-
cident occurred at the mills of the Messrs. Martin, ad-
joining. Killileagh. While a man of the name of John
Crosbey was attending the fires, by some inadvertence
his clothes were caught by one of the belts, which
carried him round the drum attached to the engine.
When ho was taken out life was extinct- lie was dread-
fully mangled. The poor man has left a wife and seven
children. Deceased was a quiet, industrious person.--
Belfast chronicle.
The proposed Portsmouth Extension of the
Brighton and Chichester Railway is the natural com-
pletion of the coast lines to Portsmouth, and g ill, by
means of the railway now making from Brighton to
Hastings, and a continuation thereof; projected from
thence to unite with the South-Eastern Railway at or
near Ashford, complete the chain of railvtay communi-
cation from Dover to Portsmouth. It proposes also 'e
branch to Fareham, joining there the South-Western
Railway. The length of the intended line from Chi-
chester to Portsmouth is about sixteen miles, the branch
to Fareham seven, snaking altogether twenty-three miles,
to complete which 280,0001. is estimated to be sufficient.
The promoters, the Brighton and Chichester Company,
say they have the greatest right to make a line to Ports-
mouth, having already incurred the heaviest part of the
expense of the route in their own line, between Brighton
and Chichester; and that therefore it is but fair that they
should be allowed to make the remaining portion to Ports-
mouth, as originally contemplated. There can be no
doubt also that it is the best for the public.--Briyhton
Gazette.
THE SCOTCH CURRENCY QUESTION.—A large
meeting of the Chamber of Commerce; Edinburgh, was
held on Friday, when resolutions were passed condem-
natory of any change in the currency of Scotland. It
was announced by one speaker that the merchants of
Manchester were willing to assist the Scotch in petition-
ing Parlinment against any change. Another speaker,
Cadell, stated that all the Scotch members, with one
exception, had waited upon Sir Robert Peel at the close
of the last session, deprecating any change. The mem-
who did not attend was Mr. Loch, and he had since
signified his acquiescence with the others; so that it
might now be considered that all the Scotch members
were against a change.
NEW DOCKS, SOUTH SHIELDS.—It is the intention
of the Directors of railways having their termini at
South Shields to apply to Parliament next sessions for
an Act to empower them to form a wet dock at Jarrow
Slake. It is likewise their intention to make consider-
able additions to their staiths, for the shipping of coal
at the high end of the town.

PORT or SUNDERLAND.—The quantity of shipping
lying in the port of Sunderland for a few weeks past has
been very great ; last week they were said to amount to
about seven hundred sail, probably the greatest number
ever in the harbour at once. The crowding and blew)...
venience are of course great.— Tyne Mercury.
ANOFIIER ACCIDENT ON THE MIDLAND LINE.--
Another fatal accident occurred on the Midland line on
Wednesday morning, near the village of System. A
guard was engaged in strapping some luggage on the
top of a carriage, which had been taken up at the
Syston station, to make it secure, when his head came
in contact with a bridge crossing the road. The poor
man instantly fell, and, when examined, was found to be
dead, having sustained a compound fracture of the skull.
THE NEW POLICE COURTS.— A few days ago, the
Privy Council issued orders for the removal of the
business from Union Hall police court to the new
building lately erected at Stone's End, near the Queen's
Prison ; accordingly, the Secretary of State has ap-
pointed that the business shall be commenced at the
latter place on Monday, the 23d of December nest
The new court at Kennington, for Lambeth, Clapham',
and the south-western districts, will not be oompleted
before Lady-day ; but the Commissioners of the Police
have taken possession of the premises in the Kennington.
road, and the lower apartments are now being temp.,,
rarily fitted up for public business on the above day„
when the magistrates from Lambeth-street will be re-
moved to that court. The business of Lambeth-street
will be transacted by the magistrates at the Thames
police court. A new police court will shortly be erected
at Somers-town.

EXTENSIVE ROBBERY OF PLATE, &C., ON TU
SOUTHAMPTON RAlLWAY.—Yesterday information was
forwarded to the chief police station, Great Scotland-
yard, that on the 10th ult., between the Southampton
Docks and the Nine Elms terminus of the London and
Southampton Railway, a box about two feet long by
l wide, "D. P." stamped on a tin plate, and a card with
the direction of Mr. J. IL Lloulton, No. 13, St. Mary
Axe, was stolen, containing six dozen knives with silver
handles, six dozen forks with silver handles, three dolma
silver table spoons, three dozen silver dessert spoons,
three dozen silver dessert forks, three dozen silver tea
spoons, two large silver gravy and two small silver gravy
spoons, a silver soup ladle, six silver salt spoons, a silver
sugar spoon, a large silver teapot, a silver sugar basin, 4
pair of silver sugar tongs, a silver milk jug and two
salvers, wrought plate, marked D. P. and 1. F. ; also
six spoons, six forks, six tea spoons, plain, marked
1). P., and a case containing thirty spoons, twenty-nine
forks, and thirty knives, silver gilt.
The Earl of Cardigan has ordered seventy poor
families of Keene and Deenethorpe, to be each supplied
with clothing of the value of fifteen shillings, to shelter
them from the inclemency of the ensuing wintor,—
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