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and as destitute as ever. But, on the other hand, the
utmost advantage may be taken of the present improve-
ment in the state of tl ings, to introduce other measures
requisite for raising the condition of the people. Amid
the comparative ease and quiet produced by this large
momentary accession to the means and employment of
the people, the most favourable opportunity is presented
for improving the relations of landlord and tenant, for
establishing systematic emigration, for introducing ma-
nufactures—in fact, for effecting every and any change
that may be deemed most desirable. Such golden mo-
ments do not often occur in the history of nations ; and
it would indeed be melancholy were our rulers to regard
the present as merely serviceable for postponing for a
while the hour of justice, instead of seizing on it as one
in which a great effort may be made to better the condi-
tion of Ireland, with Milord-for ease and unhoped-for
certainty of success.—Chronicle.

THE FARRINGDON CLUB

THE FRENCH CHURCH.

Although the state of religion in France is not such
as to expose her to those conflicts and dissensions within
the Church which have lately engrossed so much of the
controversial energy of this and some neighbouring
countries, yet the position and the claims of the French
clergy, especially with reference to education, have given
rise to discussions of equal warmth and equal importance
to the well being of the community. These discussions,
however, are carried on, not between conflicting parties
in the Church, but between the Church and its temporal
opponents: they have less of a theological than a politi-
cal character; and the spirit of the contending powers
has been embittered by the peculiar position of each of
them at the present moment.
The Roman Catholic Church in France is the only
institution of that country which has not been pro-
foundly modified, in principle as well as in form, by the
French Revolution. On the throne, in the legislature,
in the courts of justice, and in society at large, the work
of the Revolution is conspicuous and complete. A new
shape has been given to all that men respect and obey;
and these new institutions trace their descent from 1789,
with a sort of pride in the novelty of their origin. The
very men who have arrested the violence and the irre-
gularity of the revolutionary power have laboured to
consolidate the changes that power has effected ; and the
Revolution, including its first principles and its final
consequences, is as generally accepted as the basis of so-
ciety in France, as the British Constitution is in this
country. One power alone remains eternally opposed to
these principles and to these consequences ; one class
alone has preserved with comparatively little change its
traditions of another age, and its allegiance to a fallen
race ; and especially since the catastrophe of 1830 the
clergy has exhibited its sullen distrust or its open hos-
tility to that system of government which has been
formally adopted by all the rest of the nation. In pro-
portion as the breach has widened between the Church
and the State, in spite of the pecuniary dependence of
the priesthood on the public Exchequer, the peculiar
political tendencies of the Church of Rome became more
and more visible. The power of the Church in this
struggle with all the other powers of the Government
was derived from its own external and internal organisa-
tion ; from influences which were either altogether fo-
reign to France or connected with what France had re-
jected ; and from its indestructible hold on the minds of
the Christian part of the population.
The consequence of this state of things has been to
revive very keen animosities between the clergy and a
large portion of the political world. It would seem that
there is a deplorable want of independence and of mode-
ration on the part of the religious laity, since they have
done nothing to check the violence of the struggle
between the ill-advised defenders of the Church
and its direst enemies. The polemical writings of
the bishops and their ebb& have been lamentably defi-
cient in talent and in prudence; whilst their opponents
are, for the most part, deficient in what is at least equally
essential to a just and pacific treatment of these great
questions—namely, a steady and practical belief in the
truths of Christianity. It is not enough for French
legislators, making laws for the whole body of their
countrymen, to profess for Christianity that kind of
frigid respect they might think it expedient to pay to
any popular superstition. Nor is it possible that the
Church should look with confidence, or even with sub-
mission, to legislative assemblies, to State councils, and
to public schools, where so much of actual infidelity still
prevails. No one will deny that in these great institu-
tions, in which the ablest men in France direct the policy
or instruct the youth of the kingdom, it would be vain
to seek for the spirit or the faith of men like Bossuet or
our own Arnold. The public schools more especially
have, without exception, the most opposite conceivable
character; they are un-Christian, if not anti-Christian,
in the fullest sense of the word ; and, without. wishing
to describe them with unnecessary harshness, we must
say that it is impossible that a Christian priest or a
Christian parent should be willing to abandon to such
establishments the exclusive formation of the character
of youth.
The whole question of the liberty or monopoly of
public instruction in France lies in the maintenance of
the exclusive rights of the University. That great in-
stitution is, to the scholastic establishments of the coun-
try, what the Code Civil is to her laws, and the legisla-
tive assemblies to her political constitution. It is the
form in which the great principles of the French Revo-
lution--equality, centralisation, and uniformity—have
been adapted to the education of the people ; and in
obedience to those established rules, it holds the standard
of proficiency which is the test to which every man is
subjected in entering upon life. The degrees granted by
the University are this recognised test of capacity and
industry ; and there is scarcely any civil liberaljprofession
on which a young man can enter without having taken
them. It is not contended by the partisans of the
Church, that any modification should be made in the
constitution or powers of the University of France ; it
is not denied that the State has a right to ascertain, by
these forms of academical examination, what the profi-
ciency is of men aspiring to enter the civil service, or to
follow medicine or the law. But the University requires
more ; it not only demands the exclusive right of con-
ferring degrees, but the exclusive right of educating those
on whom these degrees are to be conferred; and it would
even, if possible, prohibit the existence of any public
schools whatever in the kingdom, not under its own
absolute control.
The principal orders of the Romish Church which are
devoted to the labour of the higher kinds of instruction

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ob-
ject of these seminaries is the education of priests, and
the certificates they confer are sufficient to obtain ordi-
nation from the bishops. But in the case of pupils not
destined to the Church, or disinclined to its service, the
case is widely different. The seminaries cannot confer
degrees, and the University will only confer them on
those who have studied in its own schools. It is not
contended that these seminaries are ill.conducted ; on
the contrary, they contain professors and pupils of the
first distinction ; but they are dangerous. The spirit of
these schools is not the spirit of the modern French
people, and therefore they are proscribed. The modern
Liberals are foremost in refusing them the liberty they
ask for ; the partisans of equality will admit of no
equality between themselves and the influence of the
clergy ; the professors of the University have taken the
alarm, and have denounced in unmeasured language the
Church and all that belongs to it ; and even the friends
and founders of the existing Government are ready, if
necessary, to unseal the bitter phials of revolutionary
zeal to aid them in subduing the last effort of spiritual
power.

- With consummate address M. Thiers has availed him-
self of all these tendencies, existing to a greater or less
degree in all the important parties of the political
world ; and whilst the King is disposed to conciliate the
clergy, and the Min.stry are anxious to prevent either
party from gaining what may appear to be a triumph,
M. Thiers, in the able report of the Committee on the
Education Bill last session, appealed directly to the anti-
clerical passions, which exist as strongly amongst the
followers of M. Guizot as amongst his own. In France
Bills are not lost by the mere prorogation of the Cham-
ber, and the law which passed the Chamber of Peers last
session will be resumed in the Chamber of Deputies
during the next. That it will be passed in its present
form is exceedingly improbable, and that the clergy
should obtain from the Chamber of Deputies the full
toleration they require is altogether impossible ; but the
debate will be of sufficient importance to shake the hold
of the Government on the majority, to bring M. Thiers
conspicuously before the country as the defender of a
popular cause ; and will probably lead to the indefinite
postponement of the settlement of the question.—Times.
F.

Now, Sir, let me ask you, was the fault in the Legis-
lature by which I was made a law, or in Mr. Cottingham
presuming to make a law of his own—illegally? Instead
of the rascal being in prison, under a summary convic-
tion, from want of ability to pay the paltry fine of 51,
illegally imposed, he ought to be there for want of bail
to await a trial by a jury of his country.
Is there no person spirited enough to move the Court
of Queen's Bench to quash this notable conviction of
Mr. Cottingham's, and for a production of the evidence
in Court, and also for a mandamus to Mr. Cottingham, to
either, bail or commit (for want of it) this brutal mate
for trial, for an assault with intent to commit felony, on
the evidence already given before him?
By the bye, there is another question. Was this
scoundrel brought before Mr. Cottingham in charge of a
constable—taken into custody on the instant of the com-
mission of the offence, before a summons or warrant for
apprehension had been issued? This is a very material
point, on which my authority has been very grossly
abused of late, for justices have no power to summarily
convict for any assault, however simple, if the party
charged be brought before them in custody, neither a
summons nor a warrant having been first issued—(see
the enactment in my 33d section)—which states that
every offence punishable by summary conviction shall be
preceded either by summons or warrant; if by summons,
the service must be by delivering the same, not at the
dwelling of, but on the person of the party charged with
offence—so the justices cannot proceed under my
authority of summary conviction in any case where the
party is in custody without warrant.
It is an old saying, "Man, know thyself!"—so ought the
law to be so clear as to be able to explain itself. If then,
Sir, I, as the law, know myself, and have plainly denvi-
strated that your insinuations against my legislative
parents were unjust, how grossly have I been abused in
using the use of my summary convicting power in
punishing a scoundrel, guilty of an assault with intent to
commit felony, by the imposition, illegally, of a poor
paltry fine of 51. !—I am, Sir, your humble servant,
9 GEO. IV., CAP. 31.

RIGHTFUL ACCIDENT. Shortly before nine
o'clock last night a dreadful accident, which, it is feared,
will be attended with loss of life, occurred opposite Ald-
gate Church, close by the junction of Aldgate with the
Whitechapel-road. About four o'clock in the afternoon
Mr. Dagget, a highly respectable commercial traveller,
in the oil and colour business, left Romford for the me-
tropolis in a gig with a high-spirited horse. On arriv-
ing near Whitechapel Church the animal shied, and im-
mediately afterwards started off at a rapid pace. By
the rattling of the vehicle over the stones he was much
frightened, and, notwithstanding the utmost exertions of
the driver, it was impossible to hold him in. At a
frightful speed he reached the corner leading to the
Minories, close by a large pile of new building, where,
unfortunately, two omnibuses were passing each other.
Mr. Dagget, to escape a Collision, pulled one of the reins,
but the road being narrowed at that spot, and there
being a temporary platform for foot passengers, the
horse ran upon it, amongst the people who were there
crowding the pathway. The scene was frightful ; not
less than nine or ten persons were knocked down, and
the policeman, Goodman, 591, City, who was passing
along his beat, was dashed to the ground with great
violence. The gig was instantly overturned, and the,
driver thrown out upon the pavement. A gentleman
who we have since ascertained is 70 years of age, was
knocked down and severely injured. He was taken
into the shop of Mr. Davis, surgeon, of Aldgate, and,
after having had his wounds dressed, was conveyed to
his house in Red Cross-street, Southwark. Mr. Dagget
is much cut about the head, rind bruised 'all over the
body ; but Mr. Merrit, of Leadenhall-street, having at•
tended him, he soon recovered so far as to give an ac-
count of the manner in which the accident occurred. A
gentleman of the name of Wincklow was also much in-
jured. Six persons were conveyed to the London Hos-
pital ; but, upon inquiry last evening, shortly before
ten o'clock, the reporter was informed that three of them
left, being able to walk home, as soon as their contusions
were attended to by the house surgeon. Three others,
we regret to state, are still in the hospital seriously
injured. Goodman, the constable, it is feared, has re-
ceived a concession of the brain, which renders his re-
covery very doubtful.
The popularity of Mr. Charles Dickens has in no
way diminished since his absence frArn hip
native land.
His forthcoming work has excited such an intereSt in
the pebli been subscribed for, the best proof of what we.have
asserted.—Court ifonrnal

Mr. BRIGHT said it was a most grateful task to re-
spond to the sentiments which had-been expressed by
Dr. Lynch; and especially that part of them which re-
ferred to the success that had attended the policy and
efforts of the Anti-Corn-law League. He hailed that
expression of sentiment as a proof that they felt that
their own interests were in no !mall degree bound
up with the operations of that body.—(Hear, hear.)
The League was the embodiment of the interests
and rights of the middle classes, and, as such, it
deserved their hearty and cordial support. There.
were two especial points of view in which the League
ought to be viewed by all w►ho weighed its merits.
Six years ago, as they had already heard, that asso-
ciation commenced its labours, and from that time to
the present there had been no change in the principle
upon which it was first established.—(Hear, hear.)
They commenced by promulgating the doctrine
that the people had a right to the total
and immediate abolition of the corn-laws ; and,
as a consequence, to the abolition of every commer-
cial monopoly. Up to that moment they had never
swerved, in the slightest degree, from this great prin-
ciple, although they had been visited with as much
obloquy as it was possible to heap on public men ;
although attempts had been made by some to coax,
to wheedle, and to ensnare them into a desertion of
the principle with which they had started, he believed
he could say with the ntingst sincerity and trith,
that, ie the council of the League, the ques-
tion of giving up any portion of that
principle had never (Ace been seriously dis-

Ilfracombe, Dec. 7, 1844.

The sudden death of the young and handsome Mar-
quise de Betbisy, eldest (laughter of the Duc de Rolian
Chabot, has caused the most melancholy sensation; in
the higher circles of Paris. She had just risen from her
confinement, and was, to all appearance, in a perfect state
of convalescence, when she suddenly expired, before even
her doctor, who had just left her, could be called back.
Water on the heart is said to have been the cause of this
awful and distressing eatastrophe.—Court %barna'.

cussed.—(Hear.) In one respect, however, the ;
League had undergone a remarkable change ; he i
The first annual dinner of the members of this club referred to the influence which it now exerc'sed -as I - RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.
. IMPORTANT RAILWAY MEETING.
took place at the King's Arnis Hotel, Holborn-bridge, ece.npared with that which it possessed five or six OR Saturday last, -pursuant; to public requisition, a
yesterday evening. The chair was taken by John,
f`yreeaertsreaagde,oe.
growth, and he believed that at that moment there -take into consideration the railway projected from Dublin
Buckmaster, Esq., Chairman of the West London I
attention
after year they had witnessed its most important meeting was held at the Court House, to
question which obtained a tithe
(oHnewhich was excited by the subject of
Union. Besides the Chairman, the following gentle-
of the totne Political
hear.)ar For many years they hadby Mullingar, with a branch to Longford,
which was attended by the principal landed proprietors,
to Athlone
Esq., M.P., J. Bright, Esq., M.P., H. Taylor, Esq., gone from town to town during the winter-eausseeashoand
men were present :—Dr. Lynch, James P'atteson
made great progress. He believed no despotism , farmers, and traders of the town and neighbeurhood.
existedff in this country which produced such terribleever ,'' Amongst the gentlemen present were the following:—
Sir Richard Levinge, Bart., Vice-Lieutenant of the
theree ctsvia.s the
lessoperation of the corn-laws. In
F.S.A., Michael Saward, Esq., E. Spicer, Esq., and on every fresh visit they found that the
county; Sir Montague L. Chapman, Bart.. High Sheriff
W. Spicer, Esq., Joshua T. Bedford, Esq., Deputy
James
farmingesrteoenko
in
no teha? 120 advertisements of sales of I (late M.P. for the county); Sir Percy Nugent, Bart.
of the Ward, Dr. Sheridan,
_W. Wilson, Esq., Dr,
Hugh Morgan Tuite, Esq., M.P , Robert Smyth, Eiq ;
Simpson, S. S. Woolatt, Esq., J. M. Barnard, Esq., 1822 i D.L., and J.P. Gaybrook; John. Malone, Esq:, J.l':,
W. Harding, Esq., •Richard Williams, Esq.,
singleagragricultural
uitNorfolkural
labourer newspaper,l .was toando JohnE s q ,
Carrick;Enni s ,
Rathcaslin; James Gibbons, Esq., J.P., Ballynegall;
Ramshaw, Esq., James Charles, Esq., Mark Fever- the condition of then Esq.,
.J.P., lilliam Fetherston IL,
Captain Robinsoni, R.N., Rossmead,
sham, Esq., John Sharpe, Esq., William Cumming, well known to need description. In Wiltshire, Berk- J.l'. and D.L.; Colonel Caulfeild, J.P., &flown;
Esq., J. P. Bernhard, Esq., Alex. Galloway, E,q., shire, and Hampshire, anti many other counties, the J. C. Lyons, D.L., and J.P., Ladiston; Richard Fether-
W. Carpenter, Esq., G-. Walter, Esq., and J. Todd, labouring classes were in such a condition that the stn
H , Esq., J.P., Rockview; Charles Arabin, 'Eiq.,
most indifferent, besotted landlords, were beginning to
J.P., Moyvoteghly ; Godfrey Levinge, Esq., J.P., Cal
After Honorary Secretary.
admit the necessity of doing something furtheir lean ; Henry Murray, Esq , J.P., Mount ‘lurray ; Ni-
After the usual loyal toasts had been given and duly lief. _(H hear.)- •
J P Lough Park ; Toriano
responded to by the company, much to parties. The constituencies of the em • Tore L Estrange, Esq., J.P., L) , lin • Captain Richard Le-
vinge, J.P. ; J. H. Shiel, Esq., J.P., Cottage ; W. A.
The CHAIRMAN said he had now the gratification of could alone wrest the, Government from the hands Reilly, Esq., J-P , Bellinont •, Thomas F. Uniacke, Esq.
proposing the health of their esteemed and excellent of the factious; and what constituency might so J.P ,L mnbury *,
Colonel Tuite ; William Fetherston'
representative on his right, Mr. Patteson.—(Cheers.) reasonably be expected to take the lead as that of the H., 'Esq., Robins.town ; Thomas Webb, Esq., Wardens-
That gentleman had displayed an example of political City of London ? He had not the slightest appre- town ; Charles Levinge, Esq., Levington Park Wil-
-consistency and public virtue which had never been hension that the oligarchy of this country would Liam Murray, Esq., Thomas Courtney, Esq., 8.M., Rev.
excelled, and seldom equalled.—(Hear, hear.) There drive the people to violence ; they would do so were Bond Hall, William M. Maxton, Ecq,
were many persons in that room who could do much it not for the middle classes ; but with these latter it On the motion of Sir Richard Levinge, Bart., se-
greater justice to his deserts than himself, but he rested to save the country from ruin. In order to conded by Sir Percy Nugent, Bart., Sir Montague L.
would yield to none in sincere admiration of his past use their influence effectual)y, they must nombine Chapman, Bart., High Sheriff, was called to the chair.
services. He felt confident that on every occasion together. Men who heed in the same ward must not J. (i)in. the; pEotsion ,a)fhaßrloebseriraS4-Litti Esq., secondedby
that might arise, Mr. Patteson would be -found pre- be estranged from each other; one ward must not be to act as sec Esq.,
to the meetine• sq.' was
appointed
pared to justify the confidence which they had reposed estranged from its neighbour ward.—(Hear, hear.) Sir M. L. CHAPMAN, as chairnian, annonced his rea-
in him ; and he therefore proposed the toast to the If they acted separately in -municipal contests, they diuess to hear any gentleman who had our esolution to
cordial acceptance of all present. must act together in Parliamentary centests.---e(Hear, propose.
The toast having been acknowledged with great hear.) He wished the City -of London to H. M. TUTTE, Esq., then addressed the meeting at
enthusiasm, take its proper place; if it did so, four free traders considerable length, and concluded by proposing the fol-
Mr. PATTESON said he felt deeply sensible of the would, beyond all question, be returned at the next lowing resolution :
honour which had been conferred upon him, and he election. Let there go forth a great and powerful " That the competing line appears to us to possess in
trusted that his own deficiency would not prevent voice from this metropolis to the electoral districts of the a very inferior degree those requisites laid down by the
Board of Trade—inasmuch as proceeding from Galway
them from giving him full credit for the gratitude country; let the great manufacturing towns of Lan-
to Athlone, by Monte, and following nearly the line of
which he entertained. Ten years had ,now elapsed cashire and Yorkshire, the representatives of the na- the Grand Canal, and joining the Dublin and Cashel
since he first offered himself as a candidate for the tional industry, be combined upon this great ques- line at the town of Selina, it is calculated to convey the
City of London. He need hardly remind them of the tion; let them know their true position, and ant up to traffic of the southern portion of Connaught only, exclud-
circumstances under which he was first elected. The it, and no squirearchy, no dukes, no oligarchy, would ing the northern counties—and passing from the town of
King had, unconstitutionally, and, as they thought, be able to prevent that final triumph of their cause, Athlone to Sallins, in a line parallel and near to the
despotically, dismissed his Ministers ; and in the elec- which would, at the same time, insure freedom to in- Dublin and Cashel
'line, instead of being a portion of a
tion which ensued they beat their opponents by a dustry, and-the general welfare of their fellow-coun- Great Western line, it becomes, unnaturally, a western
majority of fifteen hundred. That was a glorious trymen.--(Loud cheers.) ,
branch to the Dublin and Cashel line."
triumph. The result of the struggle which took Song—" The Oak and the Ivy," by Mr. Ransford. Sir P. NUGENT seconded the resolution.
place at that period was the ejection of Sir Mr. Wpon proposed " The Liberty of the Press," The resolution was put from the Chair, and carried
Robert Peel, and the restoration 'of the Whigs to which, he said, was the best security for that, of the acclamation.nilove --
yi mal F J•P R h I'
4sq., . ~ at cas in; seconded
power. The Tories were then defeated upon what Public: He referred, at some length, to the manner by ,Col, Caulfield, J.
.P., I3loomfield—
was called the appropriation clause. He could not- in which the press had been crippled within his own -,, That, for -the foregoing reasons, we are of opinion
help regretting that the Whigs had not kept faith with memory, fifty years ago; and, congratulating the that the Great Western Railway Company from Dublin
Ireland by standing by that clause.—(Hear, hear.) company on the changes which had since taken place, to Athlone by Mullingar, with a branch to Longford, is
Nothing injured them more than their desertion of called upon them to respond warmly to the toast. eminently deserving of our most hearty and cordial sup-
principle in reference to that subject. In the ensuing The toast having been enthusiastically responded to, port, as being the Company which has given the most
election, the majority fell from 1,500 to 150; and Dr. SemainAN acknowledged it on behalf of the sterling proofs of speedily carrying into effect a work of
a petition against this election was only press ; and, on resuming his seat, proposed " The in- undeniable public utility."
stopped by the discovery of certain papers, crease of the Parliamentary franchise." Carried without a dissenting voice.
which proved that their enemies had them- Glee—" King Canute." I Moved by H. M. Tuite, Esq., M.P. ; seconded by
Thomas F. Uniacke Esq., J.P.—
selves been guilty of bribery. There was a general Mr. CARPENTER proposed, in the absence of Mr. e That the High 'Sheriff do leave the chair, and that
lack of enthusiasm after that period. The Whigs Wakley (who had been expected but was not pre- Sir Richard Levinge, Bart,, be called thereto."l.'
declared themselves in favour of finality, as if sent), " The improvement of the social condition of Moved by H. M. Tuite, Esq , and seconded by God-
there could be any finality in the p: ogress of im- the industrial classes of society." He said they lived Moved
Levinge, Esq., ,T,p,___ provement !—(Hear.) As the result of this state of in times when all the ordinary channels of wealth "That the marked thanks of this meeting are due, and
things, when he presented himself to the electors in were said to be full, and those who possessed hereby given to the High Sheriff for his conduct in the
1841 was rejected. A reaction, however, subse- money were not able to find employment for chair."
quently took place. The people learnt from a gentle- it.—(Hear, hear.) Yet a very large portion of the Sir M. L. CHAPMAN returned thanks, and the meeting
man on his right, and from others who acted with People were steeped in poverty, dying for want of separated.
him, that what was wanted was cheap bread, that very employment which money was not able to LONDON AND YORK RAILWAY.
and the free trade movement produced a reaction in procure.—(Hear.) If they wished to see the people The London and York Company have sent down from
the City. In the election in 1842 their opponents studious of cleanliness, they must first enable them London a troop of no less than fourteen gentl!men to
were supported by a vast phalanx of intimidation and to obtain bread, otherwise they could not be expected make copies o
lines
of
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, ando specificationoa nth e
Lincoln of ll the
bribery ; but notwithstanding all the efforts which to take any interest in washing-houses, and places of books
solicitors connecteda with the Lincoln and opposed .
d
were brought to bear against the Liberal side, he a similar description. He was quite sure that in that
bridge and other lines hostile to the London and York
Cam-
(Mr. Patteson) was triumphantly elected by the company there would be no diversity of opinion as to
have each clerks acting in a similar manner. Several of
middle classes of the City.—(Cheers.) The question the sentiment, however there might be as to the the gentlemen are law-stationers' clerks, from " the
now was, what would Sir Robert Peel do for the means of carrying it into practical effect; and he, Lane," and the curious in diving into manners and habits
people of this country, or for poor, unfortunate Ire- therefore, felt great pleasure in proposing this toast. have been much amused by a peep of the company at
land ? A friend of his had, in conversation, ven- The toast was duly acknowledged by the company, their work. They are copying in the room at the end
tured a conjecture that Sir Robert Peel would carry Several other toasts were subsequently proposed, of the City Assembly-rooms, seated at a large table.
the repeal of the corn-laws. For his own part, he and the hilarities of the evening were extended to a Upon this table there are large heaps of snuff upon sheets
did.not care whether Sir Robert Peel or Lord John late hour. Messrs. Ransford, Jones, and Turner, of paper, and every few minutes a finger and thumb is
Russell proposed such a measure, if it could only be contributed moat effectually to the pleasures of the darted into one of the piles, the article conveyed to the
secured to the country. They had heard a great deal evening by, vocal performances, which elicited the nose, a
andt renew
the
pen, in an instant, is heard scratching
d speed. There is also upon the table a
e
lately of baths and washing-places for the people. warmest applause. along
liberal supply of porter, which is sipped at, until the
Let them begin at the right end, by endeavouring to
measure is empty, w it is refilled and again gradually
give food to the people, and leave them to wash them- THE UNION HALL CASE. drained. The ink shin tea-cups, and the gentlemen are,
selves.—(Cheers.) He congratulated the company ASSAULT WITH INTENT TO COMMIT A without exception, the most rapid writers we have ever
on the existence of this new institution. He was FELONY. seen. Besides the gentlemen copying the plans, &c.,
convinced that it would greatly promote the cause of
there are also other parties taking the traffic, and making
civil and religious freedom in this land. In all parts "At Union-hall, a ruffian, described as mate of a mer- arrangements for the forthcoming Parliamentary fight,
of London the conduct of the citizens was watched chantman, was brought up charged with an act of fiendish so that the inns are half filled with railway people. The
with intense interest ; and what took place in that brutality,
esusnmdaetre
otneafopoloorw
wingnacnirctuil
neswtaitt!eceosf;—anHecalletl preliminary expenses of the various companies must be
acquaint- tremendous.—Lincolnshire Herald.
great-city must always exercise a vast influence over ante of his, then away at sea ; an'd after being hospitably
the whole of England. In conclusion, he begged to entertained, in consideration of his intimacy with her hus-
YORK AND SCARBOROUGH RAILWAY.
thank them most cordially for the honour which they band, the fellow repaid the kindness of his hostess by the On account of the enormous prices required by the
had conferred upon him by the manner in which they rudest and most scandalous conduct towards her.; and in the proprietors of land near the intended terminus at Scar-
struggle she offered to them, the poor woman's right arm was borough, the site has not been finally fixed upon, an
had responded to the toast.
broken. For this assault and injury, the sitting Magistrate the labourers are all paid off. We trust, however, that
song by Mr. Turner—" The fine Old English sentenced the mate (his confederate being on a voyage and arrangements will speedily be made, and that no oh-
gentleman." not forthcoming) to a fine of 51., or two months' imprison- stacle to impede the undertaking may be thrown in the
Dr. LYNCH (Vice-President) said, at the meeting ment. We have not the Act before us under which Mr. Cot- way at this advanced stage of the project.—Yorkshire
held in the new hall, they gladly seized the oppor- tingham pronounced this remarkable sentence; but we suppose, Gazette.
Latter of course, that it was the maximum pena in- MANCHESTER AND LEEDS RAILWAY.
tunity of doing homage to the great principle of free 7-
ftzetaed"by the statute under the circumstances. Our complaint,
trade.—(Loud cheers.) In the history of political therefore, must be, not of Mr. Cottingham, who must ad 'We understand that a resolutionh was passed
fatratthees
movements there was no parallel to the triumphant minister the law as lie finds it, but of the legislation which
mentionedßoard
bMo3riti Monday, ayliorneasrwr referring to a
tt
the
meeting
Of the
progress made by the Anti-Corn-law League has left
andhi ouch a. law tnodatistatter..
•Fiveziticnted,l for
two
oe
Leeds and West Riding Junction Company. It is, first,
(Hear, hear.) Little more than six years ago a few serious
brutal ,cowards on langdeite less wornan"lq:Extract froin an to construct forty new third-class carriages with seats,
gentlemen met in Manchester, in a small room, to
endeavour to rescue their townsmen from the miseriesarticle in The Sun, Friday, 6th inst. • and covered in ; secondly, that the second-class should
all be glazed and made comfortable ; and, thirdly, that
which they endured through these laws, which fet- TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. the first-class fare should not exceed 20. per mile, and
tered the freedom of industry, and brought desolation SIR,—If you had had me at hand whey you penned that the minimum for short distances should be reduced
and destitution to the productive classes in this country. your article relative to " the assault with intent to com- from is. 6d. to is., and second-class to 9d. This ar-
The movement was at first merely local; it then be-
in
a felony,) " you would never have cast any reflection on rangement, with the great intermediate traffic, will be a
came provincial, next metropolitan, and it was now n - legislative parents, but you would have allowed the considerable reduction.—Heropath, s Railway Journal.
national and universal.— Cheers. B its millions of whole weight of your censure to have fallen on Mr. Cot-
( ) yWAKEFIELD, PONTEFRACT, AND GOOLE
tingham, who did not administer the law as he found it,
tracts, by its endless public discussions, by its ergo-
as ou suppose. If a common assault charge be brought RAILWAY.
meats written and spoken, by the speculations of the before justices, and it appears on oath that the offence
This is a scheme which departed from all railway pre-
cedent. It came out with all its capital subscribed, and
closet converted into practical truisms in public, this
was committed under circumstances with intent to corn- no one was allowed to have any shares unless he had
great body had secured the co-operation, and excited mit a felony, the justices have no power or authority to property on the line. If the London and York obtain
the enthusiasm of the great mass of the people. The proceed under my summaryh convicting section, 27 their Act, all the Manchester and Leeds traffic will be
League had taught the inhabitants of this country under n? 3, 29th secstintn they are positively restrained thrown upon it in connexion with the Hull and Selby.
that free trade was calculated to confer inestimable from Loitntieso.
woman'sai n
arm
movwed beforehrh Mr. Cotting- That traffic, in addition to its own, would render it a
benefits On mankind. It had relented the minds of
theahmatttempt poorto commit felony? Y:sisir reporten innf resisting very valuable property. The Company are, moreover,
thousands and tens of thousands from the trammels of
insured fit per cent., and a sharedc of the surplus profits
party. at the time says, Yes. It then became the imperative party. It had taught them to despise the terms
duty of Mr. Cottingham to have committed this brutal by the Manchesltter. and Leesthnotmtny Airewho take
and Colder
Whig," " Tory," and " Radical," and
had
mate for trial, who, on conviction, would, under my 25th of the
. sh.ares, is reported
the and
united them all in the one great effort of section, have been liable to have been sentenced thus:— Navigation Company, and Wakefield,Pontefract,
and Goole Railway, have agreed to terms acceptable to
seeking the repeal of the corn-laws. If this " Where any person shall be charged with and convicted
both, and which is calculated to insure the passing ofthe
no
•
principle were carried out, the. people would of
. any assault with intent to commit felony, the court
Bill.—Herapath's Railway Journal
no longer be insulted by charity, by pseudo may sentence the offender to be imprisoned, with or
Philosophy, by mendieity institutions, or by shaving, without hard labour, for not exceeding two years, and NORTH BRITISH RAILWAY.
washing, and other humbugging associations of that may also (if it shall think fit) fine the offender, and re-
Having had occasion lately to inspect part of this line
y
nature.—(Cheers and laughter.) Rich in the pro- quire him to find sureties fur keeping the peace." of railwa, among other subjects the stones laid down
at the different parts where tunnels, arches, or bridges
ducts of their own labour, having the world opened The justices have no. authority, in
have
aecase Ivhere. the
• e are about to be erected came under our notice. These
to their competition, they would be able to despise intent. to commit_ felonyis proved, toha any ' opinion"
-
stones have been brought from the quarries of Swinton
on it, as to whether they will proceed to a summary o the paltry palliatives to which he had referred. He
Quarter, Ellington Hill, Toadhaugh, and the Crow Butt;
viction, or commit for trial : the cases in which they
very believed, therefore, that the only remedy for the evils.
different in those from
the stones are
their "opinion" are assaults committed
may exercise. .
quarry of Swinton Quarter are not of a laminated or
of the country, was the speedy, immediate, and total
under circumstances OTHER than " with intent to com-
beddy nature, but the face and bed are of the same so-
repeal of the corn-laws. He spoke at that moment in mit felony" only. lam about to quote my 29th section;
lidity, while those of the other quarries have all a ten-
the presence of a great missionary of the cause of free be careful in marking the word "or"—do not construe it
dd'to y a seamy or thin beddy nature, and, therefore,
trade ; and it would not become him, under such cir- as if it were the word and. You will see that the power
wille be subjected to decay by the weather. We would
cumstances, to enter more fully into that question. of restraint is positive with regard to assaults accom-
particularly the attention of the inspectors of the
He felt confident that they would all do justice to the ponied by attempts to commit felony, and discretionary
callworks to this.—Berwich Warder.
talent, the energy, the industry, the enthusiasm, the only in cases "other" than accompanied with such intent.
Recently a " compensation case," in which this Com •
honesty, and the disinterestedness of his friend Mr. There is no power even given to the complainant to con- Recently
was concerned, was tried before the Sheriff of
Bright.—(Loud cheers.) The conduct which that sent to a summary conviction if the evidence discloses an
Berwickshire. The claimant, a Mrs. Coniston, asked
gentleman had exhibited in his advocacy of that great intent to commit felony ;—neither the consent by the.h
4,000/, and the jury awarded 2,2531. 35., being, says the
cause entitled him to the gratitude and admiration, party charged to subniit to a summary conviction, nor
tthee
Kelso Mail, " only 3/. 3s. more than was offered to Mrs.
not merely of his fellow-countrymen, but of mankind consent of the complainant, nor the "opinion"ofeen.
Coulston a week before the trial !"—Railway Record.
presiding justices, can legally warrant a summary at large. With Mr. Bright were associated many
viction. My 29th section enacts—" In case the justices COST OF FRENCH AND ENGLISH
gentlemen of the highest, the purest, and the most shall find the assault or battery complained of (as a RAILWAYS,
philanthropic character. Most prominent amongst common assault) to have been accompanied by any The cost of the Paris and Rouen Railway is put down
the members was the justly celebrated Mr. Cobden, attempt to commit felony (oie shall be of opinion that the by Mr. Laing, of the Board of Trade, at 24,000/. per
the indefatigable and *eloquent - advocate of the same, from any OTHER circumstances, a fit subject for a mile ; Paris and Orleans, 24,000/ ; English passenger
great eternal truth,- that that which God had prosecution by indictment), they shall abstain from ad- railways, generally, 34,0001. ;
and
the average of. the
Lines,
given to man, man was entitled to enjoy. If Mr. judication thereupon, and shall deal with the case in all
4 Birmingham,oo Greatilw
aWestern,i?eeo South-Western
Cobden only caused that principle to be fully recog- respects in the same manner as before the passing of this
' BOULOGNE AND AMIENS RAILWAY.
nixed, he would deserve to rank amongst the greatest -Act.
M. Bazaine, engineer of the Ponta et Chauseks, has
benefactors of his species—his name would stand con-
, accepted the appointment of engineer in chief of this
monopolists would have passed down the stream Of
spicuous when those of factious Ministers and princely
line. He is a man of experience and ability. The line
oblivion. Between these two great and good men from Strasburgh to Bile was executed under his dirge-
tion, and was done with economy and celerity. The
one entire union of sentiment existed; the only
principal portion of the north line has also been executed
ambition by which they were actuated was to re-
under his superintendence. The Company is, neverthe-
less, not deprived of the assistance of Mr. Cubitt, who
common bond of interest and of brotherly love. Let continues consulting engineer of the Company.—Ra diva
Y
the principles of free trade be fully carried out, and Chronicle.
the prophecy of the poet would be fulfilled—
" Low in the dust oppression shall be hurled,
Her name, her nature, withered from the world."
(Cheers.) In conclusion, he begged to propose the
health of Mr. Bright.
The toast having been responded to in the most
enthusiastic manner,

THE PARRICIDE MART GALLOP.--PULL CONFES•
SlON.—This female, for the murder of her father at
Monks Coppeuhall, is left for execution ; and Baron
Gurney has fixed the day for Saturday, the 28th instant.
It will take place in the front of the city gaol, at eight
o'clock in the morning. The trial took place in a court
most densely crowded, and the means of defence were
furnished by one of the Society of Friends resident in the
neighbourhood, and in whose employ the deceased had
been for several years. The chain of evidence was so
complete as to leave not a doubt of the guilt of the pri-
soner. Immediately after her return to the gaol, the Rev.
Mr. Eaton, the Chaplain of the Castle, impressed upon
her mind the awful consequences 'a/the change that
awaited her, if she continued obdurate, and died as she
lived, impenitent. On Sunday last she acknowledged to
Mr. Eaton the fairness of her trial, and the justice of her
sentence, and made a full revelation and confession of
her crime, which it is at present sufficient to say, con-
firms every tittle of the evidence given on the trial.—
aester Chronicle.

TILE HAIR.—Of the numerous compounds con-
stantly announced for promoting the growth or reproduc-
tion of the hair, few survive, even in name, beyond a very
limited period; whilst " Rowland's Macassar Oil," with a
reputation unparalleled, is still on, the increase in public es-
timation. The singular virtues of this successful invention
for restoring, preserving, and beautifying the human hair,
are too well known and appreciated .to need much comment.
The very facts of the high and distinguished patronage it
enjoys, its general use in all countries, together with nu-
merous testimonials constantly received in its &your, are au-
thorities which stamp its superior excellence and title ever all
attempts of a similar !Attire. Being universally preferred,
its consequent great demand excites the cupidity of un-
principled shopkeepers, who vend the most spurious trash as
the " gouqine" Macassar Oil : whereas the genuine article is
wholly the invention and property of A. Rowland and 8..,
and the amalgamation of its costly exotic materials renders
abortive any ,ttempt to discover its cemponentparts—thus
proving the imposition of all other articles bearing the title
of " Macassar Oil." The genuine article has the words
" Rowland's Macassar Oil" on the wrapper,—All others are
frauchde,t cou4iterfeite:

is; ty
.i/6,\g,t7.77--,--:

t'AFt
TEt4TVit_E-
THE BOOK OF
,SPHO-ii?An LE Lika
Cunn;ngliany .
The title-page of thislittleY -orktiusr that
the author is a member of the 018.' from
which his readers are of laAtilaWhiis di-
rections on the subject of the etiquette to be observed
in the drawing-room, the dining-room, and ball-room,
which he has laid down with singular minuteness and
precision, are such as may be implicitly relied oit.
How this may be we know not, but certainly some of
his directions evince much good taste and sense, while
others are clearly superfluous, and become ridiculous
idly-their very circumstantialness and the emphasis
with which they are given. Speaking of the art of
conversation, which is by no means so easy a one as
may be imagined, the writer observes :—" Whatever
-the subject may be, it. should be originated without
.effort, and descanted upon naturally ; in this respect
well-educated women are our beat models, for although
their powers of reasoning may not be so strong, they
have much more of what may be termed harmony of
thought, than men, and their English, moreover, is
pure." This is justly obiervtd, but then follow some
directions respecting dinners, not a few of which are
simply absurd. The volume is interspersed with se-
veral amusing anecdotes of Court and fashionable life,
which serve to relieve the monotony, and, we may add,
the formal and pedantic nature of the subject.

EXTRAORDINARY AFFRAY.
On Saturday evening a man, named John Jeffries, an
utterer of base coin, and who is well known to the police,
entered the shop of Mr. George Sheffield, a butcher, in
the Old-road, Bethnal-green, and tendered a base half-
crown in payment for a small quantity of meat- A
counterfeit half-crown was received about half an hour
previous by a man resembling Jeffries, and on the second
occasion the fraud was detected. He was immediately
detained by the butcher, on whom he committed a most
violent assault, and attempted to regain possession of
the spurious coin. A young man, named Montague, a
greengrocer, came to the assistance of Mr. Sheffield, and
he was also beaten. After a desperate conflict with the
fellow, who gave the butcher two black eyes, and knocked
down several other persons, he was secured, :and given
into the custody of a policeman, named Thompson, No.
396 K, who conveyed him to the station-houtt.i in Arbour-
square Stepney, where he became exceedingly violent
and abusive, and, after he was put into the dock appro-
priated for persons charged with felony, Mr. Hein, the
inspector, directed him to be searched, and throe penny
pieces were taken from him. Thompson was in the act
of marking the base coin, and exhibiting it to the
butcher, and while he did so, that ho might be
able to identify it again, the prisoner made a
sudden spring, knocked down the policeman and a
sergeant standing by, and snatched a coin from
Thompson's hand, which ho immediately put into his
mouth and swallowed. Police-sergeant Townsend in-
staetly seized him by the threat, and attempted to make
him disgorge the piece, but he was too late, and he ex-
claimed, " The half-crown has gone down ; he's got it."
Thompson also believed that he had swallowed the base
half-crown, and displayed considerable vexation at the
prospect of being reported for negligence, although the
act was so sudden and unexpected that it was impossible
for him, or any of the numerous officers who were stand-
ing by, to guard against it. After the prisoner had re-
covered himself, he laughed at the police, and said he
had done them. He was locked up in one of the cells,
where he had not been many minutes when' he com-
plained of severe illness, and the symptoms becatoe so
alarming that a surgeon was sent for, who advised les
immediate removal to the London Hospital. It was
then that the policeman (Thompson) examined for the
first time the money he had taken from the prisoner, and
discovered that instead of the base half-crown, he had
snatched one of the penny pieces from his hands and
swallowed it. The illness under which Jeffries laboured
was soon accounted for, and he was carried on the
stretcher to the hospital, where he still remains in a most
precarious state. All attempts to dislodge the coin have
as yet proved fruitless, and the wretched man has en-
dured the greatest agony for the last two days. Singular
enough, he was unconscious of having swallowed the
penny piece instead of the base coin, until the policeman
informed him of his mistake.

THREE PERSONS SUFFOCATED
BY CHARCOAL.
CHATHAM, DEC. H.—Yesterday morning (Sunday)
considerable sensation was created in the village of Luton,
near Chatham, in consequence of tLiee husbandmen in
the employ of John Oakley, Esq., farmer, at Darling,
having been found dead in their bed-reeim. It appears
that the men, whose names are John Stedman, aged 25
ears. Thomas Webb, 18, and George Wright, 17.
lodged at the bailiff's cottage, which stands on the oppo.
site side of the road to the farm-house, and in conse-
quence of the severity of the cold they had, for the last
few nights, begged the bailiff's wife to warm their room.
On Saturday last, the night being very cold, she yielded
to their wishes, and as the bed-room had not a fire-place
she procured a stable lantern, filled it with chercoal, and
placed it in the centre of the room. About eight
o'clock on Saturday night Stedman retired to rest, and
he was followed about an hour afterwards by the
other two, Webb and Wright, closing the bed-room
door after them. Nothing was heard of them until next
morning. Not coming down stairs at the usual hour,
about seven o'clock, the bailiff went up stairs to rouse
them, and on his opening the door of the room the me-
lancholy sight of three dead bodies presented itself.
Wright was found lying on the floor behind the door ;
he had evidently dropped down dead the instant he en-
tered the room, which must at the time have been filled
with carbonic gas. Webb was lying on his back on the
bed, with his hand to his handkerchief, as if he had been
seized by death in the act of untying it. Stedman had
his jacket off, and had partly removed his trousers from
his person, and had fallen back on the bed. Mr. Oak-
ley, as soon as ho was apprised of the melancholy fate
of his men, dispatched messengers to Chatham and
Rochester for medical assistance, when Dr. Adam
Martin, of Rochester, and Mr. Tribe, surgeon, of Chat•
ham, were quickly on the spot ; their services, however,
were not required. The poor knows must have died a
few minutes after their entering the room. Stedman
has left a widowed mother at Gillingham, who was
partly depending on her son for support.
An inquest will be held this day on the bodies by J.
Ilinde, Esq., coroner for East Kent.

SIR HENRY POTTINGER.—Three public manifes-
tations of respect to Sir henry Pottinger, for his distin-
guished services in China, follow that of London. This
day the inhabitants of Liverpool entertain him at
a banquet in the Town-hall, when a splendid service of
plate will be presented to him. The Manchester manu-
facturers have subscribed 2,837/. towards another testi-
monial which is to be presented at a public entertainment
in that town on Friday, and the week following the mer-
chants, &c., of Belfast (of which place Sir henry is a na-
tive), pay a similar cOmpliment to him.
PRINCE ALBERT'S Ox.—Yesterday, in pursuance
of the desire expressed by her Majesty when viewing,
at the Smithfield Club Cattle-show on Saturday, the
black. polled ox of the Scotch breed, bred-by his Royal
Highness Prince Albert at Norfolk farm, that fortunate
animal, instead of being removed to the residence of Mr.
Bannister, butcher, of Threadneedle-street, who had
purchased it for the sum of sixty guineas, was conveyed
from the Horse Bazaar to the Paddington ternaine-,
of
the Great Western Railway, and thence back tg n
d-
sor-park, where it will in future be kept. 15_ajor-Gen.
Wemyss, Equerry in Waiting, on the 14.1).-een, was de-
puted to convey her Majesty s commantlg in this respect
to the gentlemen connected with the Club, and upon the
receipt of the gallant General's order the animal was at
once delivered up by Mr. haling, who, in the absence of
Mr. Boulnois, the proprietor of the llar,aar, was en-
trusted with the charge of the live stock Sind implements
exhibited. It is understood that tls moment Mr. Ban-
nister was made acquainted with the wishes of her Ma-
jesty, he intimated to some ofthe gentlemen connected
with the royal housed old his desire to relinquish all
claim to the anima' and expressed a hope that her Ma-
jesty would 'permit him to make a present of it, but this
was deo,lined. During the day the greatest bustle nre-
vaii.ed in the removal to their various quarters of the
animals purchased, as also the implements exhibited at
the bazaar during the show. Most of the
,yr.sold animals
were removed at an early hour, in ortler to be at the
great annual Smithfield cattle-market, and last evening
there were but two or three oxen and a few sheep re-
maining at the bazaar.
SUNDERLAND, Dxc. 12.—A great many light yes.
sels have arrived at this port since the close of last week,
and from the prevalence of east winds and • heavy sea on
the bar, no laden vessels have this week got to sea, so
that the harbour is blocked up with ships, and consider.
able difficulty is felt in movinc, the craft to the places
where they are wanted to take their cargoes. Till the
laden vessels can get out to sea, business will, in the coal
trade, be at a stand-still. Coal freights may be considered
stationary at present at from 9s. to 9s. 6d. per ton to
London, and proportionately to other ports.
THE WEST-END INSTITUTION FOR RELIEF OP TRU
HOMELESS POOR.—Yesterday evening the above esta-
blishment, which is founded for the reception of about
200 individuals, and which is situated ut 60, Market-
street, Edgware-road, was opened. Hundreds of wretched
applicants were in waiting, and after the necessary exa-
mination was gone through, the asylum was completely
filled. The asylum has been established upwards of six
years, during which time 110,000 persons have been
relieved with a supper of bread and a pint and a half of
beef soup, a comfortable bed, and breakfast of bread and
milk. Soap and hot water are plentifully supplied to
cleanse their persons and clothing, which has hitherto
proved a sufficient antidote to infection and disease, no
case having occurred since the establishment of the in-
stitution.

SURREY SPECIAL SESSlONS.—Yesterday a special
sessions was held at the Court-house, St. Mary New-
ington, under the Metropolitan Building Act, at which
Mr. Pucklo, the Chairman of the Quarter Sessions, pre-
sided, in order to eleCt a surveyor under the new Build-
ing Act, for the district of ltotherhithe, Bermondsey,
and the hamlet Hatcham. The Court was very nume-
rously attended by the magistracy, there being upwards
of forty-seven magisfrates present. Mr. Onslow, the
deputy clerk of the peace, read the minutes calling a
special court, and stated to the magistrates that there
were only two candidates who would go to the poll. The
justices present having been furnished with voting
papers, the election commenced; at the conclusion of
which there appeared--For Mr. Allen, 27 votes; for
Mr. Clatton, lt;. The Chairman (Mr. Puckle) then do-
elai•ed the election to have fallen on Mr. Allen, The
Court then broke up.
The boy Flechner, who was so brutally treated by
the commander of the Danish brig, died at Guernsey, on
Saturday last. The commander, Mr. Hans Christian
Christensen, is committed for trial, on charge of wilful
murder.—Jerscy Times.