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London, England, 1844-05-30 00:00:00

GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

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submitted for consideration. One thing we may re-
mark, that, never within our remembrance has an
Assembly, generally. speaking, been conducted with
greater decorum, with less of the asperity of party
feeling, and on the whole, considering the difficulties
which the novelty of their position in many of the
cases placed them, with more harmony and unani-
mity of Judgment than that which has just ter-
minated. It seems to have been the anxious desire
to avoid extremes on either side, to judge can-
didly and impartially according to the evidence laid
before them. It is also worthy of special observa-
tion, that the more the different cases were can-
vassed, the fuller the expositions made with regardto
the meaning and purport of the Benefices Act —the
nearer did the views and sentiments of all parties
coalesce. For confirmation of this remark, we need
only refer to the speeches of Dr. Cook and Dr. Muir,
in the cases of the presentee to Port Glasgow, to the
parish of Insch, and to the united parishes of Firth
and Stennes. In each of these discussions there was
a concurrence of judgment, an approximation of
mind and opinion, which we gladly hail as an omen
for good to the future peace and prosperity of the
Church of Scotland.
On Friday the Court was occupied with the reports
of the Widows' Fund scheme, the Indian Mission, the
question of University Tests, and Ministerial Commu-
nion, and, finally, the case of the presentee to Banff.
On Saturday the Assembly heard reports on the
state of the Presbyterian Churches in England—on
the Home Mission—the Colonial Committee—the
cases of the presentee to the High Church of Edin-
burgh, Portmoak, and Port Glasgow.
Yesterday, the Report on Education, and other
matters, occupied the attention of the Court; but
the most important subject before them was the new
Directory, or Overture, as it is called., respecting
the induction of ministers. We have given a
.copy
of this document, as drawn up by the Colnmittee
but the Assembly, in the course of a long discussion
on the different clauses, made various alterations, the
nature of which time *ill not allow us at present to
advert to. We must also postpone our remarks on
the subsequent cases. The assembly did not con-
clude until near three o'clock this morning. The
meeting of next year is fixed for Thursday, the 22d
of May.

SUICIDE :IN A `
SKITTLE-GROUND.--YeSterdity,
about half-past seven o'clock, as Mr. Temple, landlord of the
Jolly Gardeners, in the Cornwall-road, Lambeth, was pass-
ing through his skittle-ground, he was astonished at seeing
a man hanging by the neck to one of the beams. He imme-
diately called for assistance, and having succeeded in cutting
the unfortunate man down, sent for Mr. Sewell, the surgeon,
of the New-cut, who promptly attended and pronounced life
quite extinct. The deceased, it appears, had lodging
at the above house for only two or three days, and is unknown
in the neighbourhood. He was five feet ten inches nigh, very
stout, and apparently between forty-five and fifty years of
age. He was dressed in corderoy small clothes, light striped
waistcoat, blue ribbed cotton stockings and new low shoes,
and white fustian shooting jacket. The body lies in the
vault of St. John's Church, to be identified. When the de-
ceased applied to Mr. Temple fir a lodging, he old he wee a
farmer's bailiff from Essex.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.—As Ireland seems resolved not to rebel, nor
Mr. O'Connell to accept the crown of that country at
present, Sir James Graham, like Alexander, naturally
feels somewhat at a loss for new worlds to conquer.
Government, and the grand Moguls of Leadenhall, not
having, as it was once rumoured they intended, given
him the opportunity of outshining in the East the glories
of Sinde and Gwalior—holey Foley beirbes deposed at
Epsom, sans coup ferir, by the whiff and wind of the
fell swoi'd wherewith the Home Secretary menaced that
time-honoured dynasty—to what field could the all-
victorious Graham look for further fruition of
That stern joy which warriors feel
In foemen worthy of their steel?
Sir James Graham has looked—he fondly deemdd not
in vain—to the Channel Islands. Our readers have
probably been not a little puzzled by the repeated
announcements of embarkations of troops for Guern-
sey. The late precautionary armaments to Ireland
have been repeated to the smaller island on a smaller
scale. First of all the Government steamer the Dee
appeared in its roads, and landed a Queen's messenger
with missives in hot haste for the Governor—Major-
General Napier, the historian. What these mys-
terious dispatches might contain, the harmless natives
were left to conjecture—but evidently something too
momentous to be trusted to come by the penny post.
Presently appears another war steamer, the Blazer ;
and it is now clear the affair is no joke. "Soon," says
Le Pilate, " a military chief is seen to disembark from
the steamer—a man of colossal stature, ala figure
balafre, and girt with a sword full four feet long. 11
n'avait pus lair d'un plaisant, celui-la." This redoubt-
able chief, and near four hundred troops, land in boats,
from the Blazer. Further arrivals of troops follow.
Her Majesty's transport brig Nautilus arrived from
Cowes on Tuesday, the 21st, having on board about 170
men of the depots of the 23d and 97th Regiments, and
of the 2d battalion of the Rifle Brigade ; and the
next morning the Atalanta steamer, from South-
ampton, brought three officers and ninety men
of the Rifles. It was understood at Southampton
that a company of artillery had also been ordered ;
and that three or four hundred more soldiers
had been embarked in the Lightning steamer. These
however did not make their appearance. The peaceful
inhabitants of Guernsey have been asking each other ever
since, what these armaments mean—against what spec-
tral enemy Sir James Graham has launched them ? On
the arrival of die Blazer in our roads, says Le Pilate,
the commanding officer of this protecting army, asked
the pilot, as he camo on board, with a more than ordi-
nary degree of interest, " How are you?" " Much obliged
to you, M. le Commandant," answered the brave pilot,
"pretty well,—Et eons ?"—" That is not it," said the
officer, "I wanted to know if there are not troubles in
the island ?" " I have not heard of any," said the
pilot: "but it is possible there are, and if you like, I will
go and inquire for you." The broad farce of all this
is beyond Bombastes Furioso, or Major Sturgeon. It is
evident that some one has been a Great Alarmist,
and that Sir James Graham has been a Great
Alarmed. One would think we were under the ad-
ministration of some junta of Physical Force Chart-
ists —some fire-and-sword Committee of Public
Safety, who had heard from the Channel pro-con-
sul that the tree of liberty had been cut down
in Guernsey, or that patriotic warriors could
get drunk there for next to nothing. Lord Ellenbo-
rough's swaggerings have been compared by the Edin-
burgh Review to Barere's Carmagnoles—but here is
Lord Ellenborough, or Barere, in little—here are
armies of invasion—colonnes infernales—for the con-
quest, or chastisement, of—Guernsey ! This last Home-
office escapade may seem too ridiculous for comment.
But is it a small matter that the Government of
this empire should make itself ridiculous? Is it
a small matter that troops should be poured into
a perfectly tranquil islet, where there were no bar-
racks ready for them—and no possibility of force being
required ? Suppose drunken quarrels should take place
between these uncalled-for protectors and the inhabi-
tants. Who will answer for the blood that may be shed
in consequence of crowding troops, where troops could
not possibly be wanted ? The only approach to a probable
solution of this extraordinary false alarm at the Home-
office is afforded by some supposed grave motive for disarm-
ing the local militia. In what degree the Guernsey militia
may be supposed formidable to theßri tish empire,we cannot
pretend to say, as we cannot pretend to penetrate the
mighty mind, and preternatural powers of apprehension,
of the Home Secretary. But sure we are of this : that
if the Guernsey militia gave all this umbrage to her
Majesty's Ministers, there was nothing required but to
signify orders from the Queen in Council that this ter-
rible force—should disband.
" In the Queen's name I charge you all to drop
Your swords and daggers !"
The present Governor, it seems, is at loggerheads with
the civil authorities of the island, and had already
threatened military force on a small scale, to cut the
knot, and effect the immediate release of a pardoned
convict—without the order of the local court. But it
seems that General Napier disclaims all previous know-
ledge of this military occupation of Guernsey. He has
frightened Government more than he meant fur the
peace of this warlike and turbulent dependency.
STANDARD.—The South Lancashire election has
terminated by the return of the Conservative candidate
with a majority of nearly 600 ; the whole number of
electors polled being 14,458. The result of the South
Lancashire contest is, on many accounts, deserving of
observation. An election at which between 14,000 and
15,000 electors polled must be, of course, free from suspi-
cion of any external influence, whether of the Government
or the Aristocracy ; and an election in a district almost as
densely peopled as a great city, must be equally free
from the suspicion of any local territorial influence.
The population of the not very extensive district now
represented by the Conservative Mr. Entwisle and the
Conservative Lord Frannis Egerton, must amount to
considerably more than half a trillion' and it includes
the important towns of Manchester and Liverpool (towns
larger and immeasurably richer than many capital
cities), Bolton, Oldham, Rochdale, Bury, &c. Whatever
influence, then, it is possible to imagine to be exercised
in a South Lancashire election, must be a mercantile
and manufacturing influence, and indeed of this in-
fluence the party of the League have been very pro-
fusely boasting for the last year or two. We know not
whether all our readers will recollect, some certainly must,
that the journals of the League have recently set down
South Lancashire as a sure conquest, assigning,
among the other grounds of their confidence, the
reduction, by no less than 2,800 votes, of the Conser-
vative force, which they said had been effected by a dili-
gent attention to the registry. These reduced votes
would raise Mr. Entwisle's majority to 3,400. As it is
not said that the Conservatives manifested corresponding
activity in the registration courts, it appears but fair to
allow for some considerable increase of Mr. Entwisle's
majority on this head.. Let us, however, be contented to
take the majority as it actually stands—at 590. Is not
such a majority in. favour of a Conservative candidate—
in a district which is constituted, as it were, of a federa-
tion of mercantile and manufacturing towns—a district
which may in truth be called all one great manufacturing
metropolis—is not such a victory in such a place conclu-
sive testimony to the real feeling of the mercantile and
manufacturing interests in the country ? Let the decision
be treated fairly as a test of opinion—as a test of the
popularity of free trade on one side, or protection on the
other ; and it will be admitted, we think, that the
friends of free trade could not in England expect to find
more favourable judges ; and yet protection carries off
the great majority of votes. We have not as yet
heard any reason assigned by the free trade advocates
for the defeat of their candidate, though defeat
was tolerably certain even at noon on Mon-
day, and we own we are at a loss to conjecture what
apology they will offer. As we have said, Government
influence, aristocratic influence, local territorial influ-
ence, are wholly out of the question in a district like
South Lancashire, all cut up into small possessions,
with a population of more than half a million, and
between fourteen and fifteen thousand electors
actually brought to the poll. Neglect of the regis-
tration, the next common excuse to influence and inti-
midation, is negatived by the boast to which we have re-
ferred, the boast namely, that by diligence at the regis-
tries, the free traders had struck off nearly 3,000 Conser-
vative votes. And as to corruption, if it were not absurd
to talk of the possible influence of corrupting any 15,000
electors, the free-traders are certainly the party
the most open to the suspicion of administering
bribes. The immense wealth of their candidate, Mr.
Brown, and his' liberality in bestowing it, were trum-
peted even to nausea, and without a day's intermission,
in the journals of the League, from the day of the va-
cancy to the day of the election. If there were any elec-
ors base enough to look for bribes, they were sufficiently
apprised by advertisement where to look for them. We
are not, however, desirous of imputing bribery to Mr.
Brown or his friends ; the election fully satisfies us upon
the hypothesis that it has been a fair election. As such
it must impose silence upon the unfounded, dishearten-
ing, and most mischievous predictions of those who, like
the Times and Morning Post, have been bewailing the
near downfal of the Conservative party ; and as a fair
trial of strength it prostrates the League into a posi-
tion from which that vile and hateful conspiracy can
never recover.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.
CITY, TUESDAY EVENING.
TIMES.—The premium on gold at Paris is 114 per
milk, which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 104 d.
per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25
44 ; and the exchange at Paris on London at short
being 25 524, it follows that gold is 0.34 per cent.
dearer in London than in Paris.
By advices from Hamburgh the price of gold is 4354
per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 104 d.
per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13 104-;
and the exchange at llamburgh on London at short
being 13 10, it follows that gold is 0.12 per cent.
dearer in Hamburgh than in London.

SOUTH LANCASHIRE ELECTION
FINAL CLOSE OF THE POLL.
NEWTON, TUESDAY NIGHT.
Brown. Entwisle.
Newton
Ashton
Bolton
Bury 522 480

Districts.

Manchester
Oldham
Rochdale
Liverpool
Ormskirk
Wigan

6,934 7,524
Majority for Entwisle, 590.

STATEMENT BY MR. BROWN'S COMMITTEE,
For Mr. Brown
For Mr. Entwisle

Majority for Mr. Euttele... ..... 573

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF CHANCERY, May 29.
The Lord Chancellor sat to •day for the first time since
Saturday, and proceeded with the hearing of lunatic petitions.
LN THE MATTER OF DYCE SOMBRE, A SUPPOSED LUNATIC.
Mr. WAKEFIELD, at the sitting of the Court, stated that
Mr. Dyce Sombre arrived in London last night at six o'clock.
That he and Sir Thomas Wilde had had a consultation with
him for an hour and a half; and, after that, they were ready
to proceed with the case on any day his Lordship would ap-
point.

The LORD CHANCELLOR asked if the parties on the other
side had been made acquainted with the fact?
Mr. WAKEFIELD said they had not.

The LORD CHANCELLOR thought the best course to adopt
would be for Mr. Wakefield to consult with Mr. gethell, and
he would hear the case on the earliest day possible.
The Court was occupied the whole morning with un-
opposed lunatic petitions.

ROLLS' COURT, May 29.
His Honour the Master of the Rolls was occupied during
the morning in disposing of petitions, none of which possessed
any feature of public interest.

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT May 29.
The Vice• Chancellor of England sat for the first time
since the Whitsuntide recess.

srAnKEs v. WHITTON.

The arguments in this part-heard case were resumed and
concluded, and

His HoNoun gave judgment, dismissing the appeal with
costs.

(Before Vice Chancellor Sir J. WmnAm.)
His Honour sat this morning in the Magistrates'-room at
the Westminster Sessions-house.

The case of " Taylor v. Harewood" came before the Court
for judgment upon the minutes. The point upon which his
Honour's decision turned was of n• interest except to the
parties concerned. _ .

In consequence of the Court.being occupied, Vice-Chancellor
Sir J. K. L. Bruce postponed his sitting until to-morrow.

COURT OF QUEENS BENCH, May 29.
(Sittings in Banco.)
The Court took the Crown paper to-day. No case of any
public interest came on during the course of the morning.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, May 27.
(Sittings in Banco.)
The Court took the special paper to-day. Nothing of the
least importance came before the Court.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)
CLERKEN WELL.
Messrs. Dossett and PulLy, the overseer and clerk to
the guardians of St. John's parish, Hackney, were yes-
terday summoned before Mr. Greenwood, to answer the
complaint of Mr. Hicks, relieving officer of St. Mary's,
Islington, for refusing to pay the sum of 6/. 4s. 2d., being
the sum expended by the authorities of Islington, for
clothing and maintaining eight paupers in Islington
workhouse. whilst under order of removal to Hackney,
their native place.
Mr. Hicks deposed to the fact of the paupers having
been in the Islington workhouse for three weeks, and
to their having been clad and fed—two adult paupers
named Cox and Weakly, and six children.
Mr. Dossett urged as a reason for disputing the claim,
that the Islington parochial authorities had been served
with notice to transmit the paupers to Hackney at an
earner period, but the notice was informal, and the ob-
jection was overruled.
Mr. Dossett then objected that the charges for the
clothing and maintenance of the paupers were excessive.
Mr. GREENWOOD—What are the charges ? Mr.
Hicks—There is first 10s. for a coat, for Cox.
Mr. Dossett—What ! 10s. for a pauper's coat ?—Mr.
ick s —Ye s.
Mr. Dossett—Then how much did it cost you ? Mr.
Hicks-10s.
Mr. GREENWOOD—DO you intend making any profit
out of these things ? Mr. Hicks—Certainly not.
Mr. Dossett—Well really I can't see what a pauper
wants with so fine a coat.
Mr. GREENWOOD—WeII, I must say I do not think
10s. for a new coat for a full grown person a large sum.
Mr. Dossett—But I don't think Cox wanted this coat
at all.

Mr. Hicks—lndeed he did : all the paupers were in a
most disgraceful state of destitution, and the parish
authorities of Hackney know it.
The next item was 10s. 6d. for a coat for Weakly.
Mr. Dossett-10s. 6d.! Why, this is 6d. more !
Mr. G REEN WOOD—I suppose the coat was larger. Mr.
Hicks—lt was.
Mr. Dossettl beg your pardon, Cox was the bigger
man. Mr. Hicks—No, Weakly was the - bigger.—
Allowed.
Mr. Dossett—l see there are four shillings a week
charged for the maintenance of the adult paupers—how
canoes that ? Mr. Hicks—Why, it is the usual charge.
Mr. Dossett—Four shillings a week for maintaining a
pauper! Do you swear that? Mr. Hicks—l do. You
must know there are other little expenses included.
Mr. Dossett—lt certainly- is a large sum.
It was, however, allowed.
A fresh discussion arose about a six and sixpenny
pair of shoes, an expenditure which seemed to alarm
Mr. Dossett very much. Mr. Hicks, however, :perse-
vered, and that and all the other items were allowed,
and the full sum claimed was reluctantly paid.
BOW-STREET.
A female pauper, named Mary Roach, was brought up in
custody from St. Giles's workhouse, charged with assaulting
an aged pauper, of the name of Eliza Ticton, by striking her
with a pail in the workhouse-yard.
The poor old woman said that she told the prisoner, on the
previous afternoon, that the bell was ringing, and the pri-
soner immediately said what is that to you ? and struck her
with a pail in the face, by which her eye was very much in-
jured. She had given the prisoner no provocation whatever.
Other witnesses corroborated this statement.
The prisoner, in her defence, said the. complainant struck
her first, and she appealed to the Magistrate, whether it was
likely that she would have struck the complainant under the
"equivocation" (provocation) of being merely spoken to. She
also insinuated that the food in the workhouse was not of a
proper description.
Mr. TWYFORD said he should fine the prisoner 205., or in
default of payment, commit her for a month.
Prisoner—Well, I don't care ; there is good victuals in
prison, and that's what there isn't in the workhouse. In the
workhouse they only "pines" us every day.
She was locked up.

-MA RYLEBONE.
Henry Danton, jun., was placed at the bar, charged by his
father with having committed a violent assault upon his mo-
ther, sisters, and complainant.
The evidence proved that yesterday evening the prisoner
had entered his father's house, nt West-end, Hampstead.
He commenced abusing his mother, and from words pro-
ceeded to blows ; he also kicked her severely, inflicting there-
by considerable injuries. His sisters and complainant inter-
fered, when he knocked the two first down, and turning then
upon the latter, served him in a similar manner.
Mr. RAwiiNsox—Why, what reason had he for doing all
this? Complainant—Oh, no reason at all; it's a way he has
when he is drunk.
The sisters and mother did not appear to prosecute.
The prisoner expressed his sorrow for his brutal conduct,
and attempted to set up a plea of drunkenness in extenuation;
Mr. RAWLINSON said that as his father was the only pro-
secutor, he (the Magistrate) would only take the assault
upon him into consideration. For it he should fine the pri-
soner 405., or in default of payment two months in the House
of Correction.
The father prayed very earnestly that the punishment
might be mitigated, and
Mr. Itawmixsox said that if the prisoner could bring good
bail for his future good conduct, he might be induced to lower
the fine. •

DETERMINED SUICIDE, BY AN AMERICAN.—At an
early. hour on Tuesday morning, a most determined act
of suicide was committed at the house of Mr. Huens,
Prince's-street, Spitalfields, by a man of colour, a na-
tive of America, named John Moore, 23 years of age.
It appears that he had lately arrived in this country,
and having squandered away the whole of his money, he
had made application to the American Consul to
be sent back to his own country. He was
accordingly placed by the Consul in the establishment of
Mr. Huens, where persons in his situation are boarded
and lodged at the expense of the American Government,
until an opportunity offers to be sent out by the first ship.
He had been in the house but three days. After being
out the whole of the day, he returned home on the previous
night, about ten o'clock, and went up to his sleeping
apartment, which was on the third floor, at the back of
the house. He had not been up stairs above three hours,
when a heavy fall was heard in the back yard, and upon
Mr. linens going out to ascertain the cause, he found
the deceased lying on the flag stones, surrounded by a
pool of blood, and quite insensible. He was immediately
taken in doors, and Mr. Meeres, a surgeon sent for, who,
upon examinition, pronounced him to be quite dead. He
had pitched upon his head, and had dislocated the verte-
bra; of the neck. Death must have been instantaneous.
The window of the bed-room was found wide open, and
the unfortunate man had evidently precipitated himself
therefrom. Not the slightest reason can be assigned for
the committal of the rash act.

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DESERTION FROM THE FIFTY-EIGHTH FOOT.—A
great number of cases of desertion are reported to have
lately occurred in this regiment, the heard-quarters
of which embarked last week for New South Wales,
whither the remainder is soon to follow. On Mon-
day morning, a young man, named George Duke was
brought before the bench of magistrates at Roches-
ter, in the custody of a constable and a sergeant of
the 58th, charged with being a deserter under the
following circumstances :—The constable stated that on
Friday afternoon, the 24th instant, he went into a low
public-house, on the Brook, at Chatham, and saw
the prisoner there, dressed in sailor's clothes. Sus-
pected ,he was a soldier, and asked him the question,
but he denied it. However, he took the prisoner into
custody, and conveyed him to the barracks, where he
was recognised. Although only nineteen, this is- his
third attempt at desertion. The prisoner denied he
had any intention to desert, and asserted that he
had at once told the constable what 'regiment he be-
longed to. The sergeant said that the prisoner had
only been absent that morning, and was under punish-
ment at the time. The magistrates asked whether the
colonel would not take the prisoner back, as a straggler,
as he had only been absent a few hours, and was found
within a mile of the barracks ; but the sergeant said,
" No, he was found in plain clothes, and the colonel
would try him as a deserter." The magistrates convicted
the prisoner, and gave him up to his depot.
EXTRAORDINARY INSTANCE OF INCUBATION.

A fine female swan, in the Surrey Zoological Gardens,
has sat upon her nest during the whole time of the erec-
tion of the model of " London in the Olden Time," a
part of the buildings of which constitute a portion of
the picture, actually surrounding the nest of the bird, yet
she did not seem at all disturbed by the noise and con •
fusion attendant on such a place ; and to add to the sin-
gularity of the event, during the first exhibition of the
Fire of London on Monday night, three young swans
made their appearance, and the mother has anxiously
tended them since, never quitting the nest during the
fire, smoke, and fireworks of the scene, and seems per-
fectly contented with the t. ingular place she has chosen
to rear her young brood.

ROYAL EXCHANGE.
POSTPONEMENT OF THE OPENING.
The interesting ceremony of the opening of the neiv
Ro
Exchange, it will be remembered, was originally fixed
the Gresham Committee to take place in the course ofJullr
and although no decisive promise was made, still there W
little doubt but that her Majesty and her Royal Coo"
would honour the City of London by opening it in Pell': !3i
An event, however, of the deepest and most lively inteMt
to the nation at large, likely to occur at the seine perieei
precludes the hope of her Majesty's presence at so eariL
date, in consequence of which the ceremony will be defe
in all probability, for as yet no day has been named,
September. Since the completion of the masonry of t
splendid structure the Committee have diverged front 97.
plans they had formerly agreed upon, and have rat"
several important improvements, which, when comp
will render the building far more interesting than i'La:
anticipated. Amongst those of the most moment is "'t
clock, bells, and chimes, the former being an imiSrtathne
feature. in the consideration of the Committee,' and e f
manufacture of which being open to competition, th
your was conferred on Mr. Dent, the eminent chronomeried
maker in the Strand. The works are nearly completed, Any
which, for ingenuity, skill, and correctness, will surpass .
others of the kind in this country. The originalititerya
of having the same number of bells (eight) as before th
has been abandoned, and the number increased to dfte
w ..
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This alteration was at the suggestion of Mr. Dent, hoso as
ing visited Brussels and other parts of the Continent,
to obtain the newest improvements respecting the
for which the artisans of Flanders have acquired a wallet,
served celebrity, was induced to recommend that na4teett
so that a more harmonious chime might be gained, 'lOO
bells giving three octaves, and thereby increasing the me._ bt
of the chimes and differing the tunes,
one key, as belOre. They have been cast by Messrs. Se 'for
the bell-thunders in Whitechapel, and are almost read): try
as they will not u_1147
hanging in the campanile or tower. The largest weigas,;,
tl
cwt., and the smallest 5 cwt., the whole set weighing sr.,.
tons. The largest is also the hour bell, and bears iefo/7.
ing incription :—" Cast for the Royal Exchange, .4.1_..„5a
year of Grace, 1844. Richard Lambert Jones, ChaWL".„,
of the Gresham College Committee ; Daniel
Master of the Mercers' Company ;. Ebenezer 4
Ch01;10
man, Assistant ; William Tite, Architect ; ,bear,
and George Mears, founders." The others only jos
Royal Exchange, 1844. As vet the whole of the tunes,,,lo•a
not been agreed to, the only ones decided on being, J'
save save the Queen "" Rule Britannia," and an ancient rnalsa
The barrel of the chimes is complete, and appears wards o<
astonishing piece of mechanism. It contains urrae car
7,000 holes, and it is next to an impossibility for
Jy
mittee to name any hymn or air but what it can be 'fillta
accomplished. On account of the beauty and noveltyeu is a
clock and chime works, they will be securely preservt
separate and well-fitted apartment in the tower, ands` le,
posed, as is generally the case in the metropolitan eeeNdo
to the inclemency of the weather. The pendulum' ife:tch
four hundred weight, and is sixteen feet in length' joet"
vibration being two seconds. The roof of the arcadei,,..floor, ce,'
chants' walks, will present a very beautiful aPr-ilial„11
workpeople being now busily engaged in painting it ill oe,
fresco style. That at the southern entrance is alrea jciS tot'
and may be seen from Cornhill. It is also unders7oted.
Lloyd's and other public rooms will be similarly de',jedi-
The sculpture executed by Mr. Westmacott for thepods"
fil
ment of the grand facade will be erected in the eaar.,, by'few days. The foundation for the Wellington sta'''.6" fel
been laid, and awaits the masonry, and nothing haste"
the
transpired that will prevent the statue being raised
18th of next month. . •

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.
with
1;111111
LONDON, MAY 29.—Northerly light breeze, VI)
Ptmount, MAY 28.—Wind Easterly
Buenos Ayres. titi4
SCILLY, MAY 20.—Arrd. Lydia, Brunton, Calcutts;h 6t.
Atlantic, Robertson, Ichiboe, sld. 20th ; Goldfuifioter
John's, New Brunswick. Off Gloucester, Beard.sTanh
tain Maid, Wrightson, Havannah ; Christina, Suru'itioo4`
Amsterdam ; Catharina, Charleston, for Antwerp -nats*
house, Tate, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Gaulior,
Guadeloupe, for Havre. tic%
SWANSEA, MAY 27.—And. Argentina, Nelson, -,p, etp-,
LONDONDERRY, MAY 13.—Sid. Londonderry, row'
Quebec ; Janthe, New York ; Warren Hastings, All'
cialist, Philadelphia ; Mary Stewart, Ichiboe.
LIVERPOOL, MAY 28.—Wind E.N.E., light. J'
nald Heber, Calcutta ; Rienzi, Victoria, and Alingibsa,"
New Orleans ; Eliza, Warwick, Charleston ;
steamer, Boston 16th, Halifax 18th • Princess. lora,
Andrew's ; Industry, St. John's, N.B. Sld. All.?„11041:
Maranham ; Jane, Duffus, Boston ; Arab and
Quebec.- Off, Ellen German, La Guayra • A aaw,
vannah ; Garrow, Charleston ; Brunswick, Cal
nongahela, aln;
OFF CORK, MAY 26.—North Esk, Allen, Havana*
OFF CAPE CLEAR, MAY 25.—Camillus, Ashton,
Brothers, New York ; Ben Nevis, Savannah. 1:40,7
HuLL, MAY 28.—Wind N.E., moderate —A for`,
Pernambuco for Gothenburg; Augusta, Newcasue
tin, leaky, and must discharge. Deatr4lQt
OFF DUNGENESS, MAY 26.—Trifolian, New . -'•

Hamburgh.
OFF KINSALE, ALIT 23.—Henry Duggan, Charlatoll.

MARKET NEWS.—YESTER-1)A v •
ot
CORN-EXCHANGX. whew' 'II
There WAS only a moderate supply of English iip:solo#
the demand for that article was inactive, at about p"
quotations. In Foreign Wheat next to nothing 1071.0 Ito,
yet previous rates were supported. The Barley sidt_.,
inactive, yet Monday's prices were supported. 111,,,,,, r 4-
ceedingly little was doing, at late rates. Oats, Jl'''-
and Flour sold at full prices..
ARRIVAL&
Oats. ',Pig
Wheat. Earley.
English. ... 1,210 qrs. 100 qra. 100 qrs. ....'
Irish.. ...... — :3,750 /
Foreign 9,030 4,900 1,6 t 0
Malt, 1,2911 qrs.
SO
VINXTECHAPE74. .0 ,
We had only a moderate supply of meat, yet th woo
was in a very sluggish state, at barely stational"' LONA
Beef from 2s 4d to 3s 4d; Mutton, 2s 6d to 35 VAL to 40'
8d to 5s 8d; Veal, 3s 4d to 4s 6d; and Pork, 2% v..
per Sibs. 169'

ERECTION OF AN INN AT ALDERLEY.---"lndeW
cheater and Birmingham Railway Company Dhef:st
mined upon building a splendid inn on their life fel'
Alderley station. The building is to be comtne.,cerVirosi‘;
with, at a cost of nearly 4,000/.—Macelofiem 16,01 u,"
LAMENTABLE ACCIDENT ON KESIVICIC Or;
On Saturday afternoon last four respectable je°l/00,,Lle'
all belonging to Keswick, took a sail on Derldl $9:6
Lake, to Lodore, in a pleasure-boat which the Or_t
There were several other boats on the lak c
e_ ,O
time. On their return down the lake from Loei;io 11.1ri
a mile distant from that place, the wind, blot
proved unusually changeable of late, veered. u;oe at,
sudden most violent gusts, when the boat he e,. stso7t
manageable, and all the sails being up,
• alst
to to
Cfr
swamped, and sunk before the party were able
pd.
_of
or shift the sails, and three of them were drolvecjoill&
tain Peters, of Barrow-house, who from thew ih-ost,',h".
his mansion was a witness to the sinking of the,lgb
mediately ordered out his own boat, and altiiool-1
wind was blowing hard, and the waves weirme ot
high, rowed towards the place where the sail ;;; to of
down, and in the vicinity of the spot cam! .„00
fourth individual, and picked him up. when
,r.wits";,/,,a
to sink. The three individuals drowneu, ",.c0
Y-,40
William Dixon, of Keswick, draper; Mr. RicPll- (Use' 10
ton, tallow-chandler; and Mr. Isaac Banks,.gc I/Poot
Mr. Hudson, of the Rnyal Oak Inn, ICesl,s-.b°4
seven o'clock on Monday morning the hum- 0
0.
been
THE found. e#l
—fin LATE R. M'WriadAm Tor.
sale was commenced at the Auction Mart, blurs of er
nock, of the second portion of the valuable ce:fertd.
late magistrate, Mr. R. M'William. It was -reder'-$O4
tensive freehold property, chiefly land-t! bltleuoph
consisting of eight large wharfs, extensive 01 P'oeil•
drug mills, a tavern, several private houses end
building ground, &c., extending from the where :if
on the south, to the canal, on the north. Oily"
forty-one lots for the day's' sale inclue'"l'Tbe
r
four houses and the Maidenhead' tavero..,
mer was disposed of for 29,3001., and the lold tda
much competition, for 3,4601. A lot of frneefeet, td
ing-ground, having a frontage of about 594,, 6401. 01001
depth generally of about 64 feet, went for
whole realised 32,940 L The auCtion.rootu we-be taw
and much of the property was purchased bY gusty
The sale took place by order of the devisees looProe
CASES OF \VINES AND SPIRITS 15 030,t40110
consequence of a representation having been dforo.itia
Commisioners of Customs that facilities sin, petlooloB
the Commission of fraud in the revenue. vi tbs,l4
cases of wine to be deposited under bona lore e
room with cases of spirits and cordials,.the tionewroo!
issued directions that the practice be discetoteas 01,
that, in future, wine be deposited in A sera 05' fl
i
from that in which spirits and cordials ;,„pori:je
warehoused. This order is of considerable 'of h°
to the dock companies and other proprietortoe Phr:ree,
warehouses, as it will be irmmbent on thf les, iv"iiiPse
separate places for the deposit of these artice
too to
hitherto, they have ben permitted to h°llso is Sti
criminately in one place. The regulation
effect at the expiration of three months.
C"

.-
IRTHS*
On the 25th inst., atß
East Retford, the leaf of Y"
tY
lt°l*A4
Hall, of a son. .
On the 25th inst., at Thedden Grange, Ile—a ,
Ayr'
wife of John Wood, Esq., of a son. +h. ledf °I itif.
On the 26th inst., at Heywood Lodge, - the
tot
Sawyer, Esq., of a ,tat aughter.
On the 27th inst., Shepton Mallet, s°lll,..fersettbe'Gr°ll'-di#
of Edward Holroyd Roberts, Esq., Master v•
..4.10'
_ ..,ste4" ...0
School of that place, of a son.
On the 28th inst., at Goulden-terrace,
Mrs. Thomas Johnston, of a son.

MARRIED. blug' sty
13100011 bs,
On the 28th'inst., at St. George's, Alert _A for
Mercer, Esq., of Ashford, Kent, to Anu'Astifowlil°oo
daughter.of the late G. E. Jemmett, EstooDisbtll;il4°
°Lille-28th inst., at St. George's An°' oolf
Haire, Eiq., M.D., of Lewes, to Ilarf
late William Franklin Hick, Esq., of Lew"

r trii'
DIED.
On the 2d of April, on board the General re,..l:46tht Or
off Santa Lucia, Lieutenant Eustace Moffitt"noil 11 ,
ment, late Deputy-Assistant Quartermaster-ue" spiv'
badoes. y ha Ifiei.
On the 10th of April, at Barbadoes, 00-- at3s'
LL.D., of Demerara, aged 49. trorig'
At Bathford, Somerset, Richard Cowper, F-''''6ftb,.
On the 18th inst., at Clifton, Nlillians. Lent's', gestwyl
ing son of the late Rev. J. Digby, of Sew •Panwoliylojoll
On the 19th inst., at Ballinamore Ile
T,u•se'teOvt do*
relict of the late Anthony Ormsby, EC., -le° _.. P-
North Mayo Regiment of Militia. Frsli°74o/4(1.0
On the 21st inst., at Axminster, Devon, ,54.,00
the youngest daughter of Charles Haylnno, '.ll Johil ,gd
On the 22d inst., at Mevagissy, Corni"" A 7,',
for-bilv
Esq., aged 86. y „, Gray 00
On the 24th inst., at Southampton, PaYt.dicaz - C,
late Phvsician•General of the Bombay g."' off'
ment, lion. East India Company's service. ~, of the
On the 24th inst., at Clifton, .Tane, the 'fro ,ivillir
Edmund Wvlde. beer as
On the 6th inst., Mary Caroline, daug of flow'
Bell, Esq., Woburn-place. t chili,..44ll'i
On the 27th inst., Juliet, the youngq,„vistov- ~., 1
Edward Smith, Esq., of Endsleigh-s±-no,v,
ff-spo I 'SP,' CI
London: Printed and Published by 3,1'.. offieircoosw
No. 112,. Strand, Printer, at The ou'-io tlie
Strand, in the Precinct of the Savol,
Middlesex, Thuraday, May 30, 18446

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