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here to-day, the present race of farmers will be
ruined, and one-half the land in England will in ten
years change hands, unless Sir Robert Peel is driven
from office, and that protection to agriculture is re-
stored which it has ever received since England be-
came a mighty nation.—(Hear, and cheers.) I am
glad to find that Sir Robert Peel has a slight
particle of conscience left. During the last autumn
he attended the Tamworth agricultural dinner,
of which society he is the president ; he certainly
hung his ears and looked foolish. He could not
tell what to say, under the peculiar circumstances
and difficulties in which he was placed, but
having mumbled out a ' higgling and haggling'
speech of ten minutes, he gave the farmers
a consolation, and showed his desire to support agri-
culture by promising to keep for them a bull.—
(Laughter.) This year Sir Robert Peel did not dare
to meet the Tamworth Society, and the consequence
has been that there has been no dinner, and there will
be no dinner. What is the excuse ? ' The hall at
Tamworth is out of repair'—and so is the agricultural
interest.—(Laughter.) But let me call your atten-
tion to a speech made by Lord Stanley, who, the
other day, was made Baron Stanley, and is now no
longer dependent on the votes of the farmers of North
Lancashire for the post of the representative of that
county. How did he treat and allude to his former
friends ? He told them they must put their shoul-
ders to the wheel ; that it was not the old farmers,
but the young ones, who were now most concerned,
and that they must study chemistry, commence
draining, and learn to grow wheat instead of weeds.
This is the language of the man to those who
placed him in power. It is a gross injustice.
But, gentlemen, what is the intention of Government
towards yourselves in the ensuing session of Parlia-
ment ? Sir J. Graham has determined on depriving
you of the Gilbert Unions. He is going to pass a
Bill to break up all the Gilbert Unions in the country.
His slaves, the majority of the House of Commons,
will follow his beck and nod, and you are to be handed
over to the tender mercies of the Poor-law Commis-
sioners.—(A Voice, ' He's a bad 'un.') Ah ! would
but you knew the cruelties inflicted on the poor in the
south of England, where the population are scattered far
and wide, you would then indeed tremble for that which
is awaiting you. And I would appeal to the
wealthy, to those who hold high stations in
this neighbourhood, to consider well what will
be the result of the handing over the poor of
this neighbourhood to the commissioners. I have no
hesitation in asserting that the Poor-law Commis-
sioners of Somerset-house have dared to carry out the
principle in England that killing the poor is no
murder.—(Hear.) This is proved in the reports of
the coroners' inquests which appear daily in the
newspapers, which show that the poor are starved to
death by the officers of the unions acting under the
orders of the Poor-law Commissioners. In vain are
these revolting accounts published ; the Commis-
sioners, with hearts as hard as steel, enforce their
tyrannical and blood-stained law, by still daring to
trample under foot the sacred principle of our Bible
and the laws of God in a Christian country. It is
my duty now, as one of your representatives—as the
representative of the Protestants of Knaresborough
—to tell you that it is my firm conviction that as
Sir Robert Peel betrayed the Protestant Church
in 1829, so he is going to betry the Protestant
Church of Ireland in 1845. He keeps secret his in-
tentions; but I say unto you, watch, for I can have
no confidence in a man who obtained office by
fraud, and who dares to trample under foot the best
interests of his country.—(Hear, hear.) He who hss
willingly sacrificed the rights, the liberties, and the
lives of the poor, by sanctioning the new poor-law,
will not hesitate, if you keep him in office, to sacri-
fice the religion which he professes. And I know 1
full well that there is not a Protestant in England
but believes he is stealthily but furtively aiming a
deadly blow at the Protestant religion of Ireland.
But it rests with the Protestants of England whether
they will forsake their Irish brethren in the hour of
need. I have now, gentlemen, touched upon all the
topics which, as your representative, I have consi-
dered it my duty to do. I have extenuated nothing
and set down naught in malice, but honestly believing
very word to be true which I have uttered, I have
I done so to the best of my ability."—(Rear.)

The following is an extract from Mr. Ferrand's
speech, made a few days since to his constituents at
Knaresborough. No ✓Whig was ever so violent
against a Tory, as the Tory Ferrand is against Peel
and Graham. Our readers, however, will see that
Mr. Ferrand occasionally draws a long bow :
"It is now my duty to give you a slight sketch of
the proceedings of the present Government dur-
ing the three years in which they have held
olEce. They commenced by passing an income-
tax fin time of peace, which tax was to last
for three years. 1, for one, at that time, and under
the pledge from Sir Robert Peel that it should only
last for three years—under the peculiar circumstances
and the dangerous state of the financial affairs of the
country, gave his proposition my hearty support.
After they had obtained sufficient ballast to right the
vessel of state by the aid of this tax, Sir R. Peel
proceeded to bring forward his great measures which
were to restore the nation once more to prosperity.
lie first of all brought forward his new corn-law,
and in so doing he made speeches by the hour, in
which he quoted figures and made calculations
to convince the 'agricultural interest in the
Commons that his new sliding-scale would
give a protection to agriculture to the ex-
tent of keeping wheat at the average price of 58s.
per quarter. When I appeared before you at the last
general election, I told you that I would not pledge
my support to the then existing corn-law, but that if
any measure were brought forward by Sir R. Peel
which would give more satisfaction to the country,
and at the same time secure that protection to the
agricultural interest which they had a right to de-
mand, I would give that measure my support. Sir
R. Peel, having declared in the most solemn manner
that his corn-law would give that protection, I con-
sidered he had a right to require my support, and I
therefore voted for it.—(Hear.) But he had scarcely
got rid of his corn-law, when he introduced into the
House what he called his tariff—a measure, in my
opinion, which could only have been brought forward
by either a lunatic or a traitor.—(Laughter.) What
was the next mad step of which they have been
guilty ? They have legalised the exportation of
machinery. England, which possessed the Isest
and the most perfect machinery in the world,
has in this, the hour of peril, given it to foreigners
for the purpose of destroying us.—(Loud cheers.)
Their next step was to enforce the new poor-law with
greater tyranny, oppression, and cold-blooded cruelty
than ever the Whigs were guilty of. In their reign
of office, the daily papers were never filled with
such details of cruelty and oppression of the poor as
is daily the case now. No ; although they carried
the measure, and attempted to enforce it, they did it
with justice tempered with mercy in comparison with
the rule of the present Government.—(Cheers.) I
have told you, gentlemen, how the Government
robbed the factory-workers of the Ten Hours' Bill,
after a majority of the House of Commons had voted
for it. Sir R. Peel is the most unconstitutional
Minister that ever held the reins of Government in
England.—(Cheers.) Twice in one year has: he
made the House of Commons eat its own solemnly
recorded opinions ; twice in one session, at his
bidding, have the representatives of the people
forsaken their duty to their constituents and the
country. It rests with the constituencies of Eng-
land to drag these men to the bar of public
opinion, to make them appear before them—to drag
them into their presence, and make them prove the
rectitude of their conduct; or, if they prove the de-
linquency, to compel them to resign their seats.—
(Loud applause.) Had I been guilty of such con-
duct I never would have shown my face here again ;
had I been the base tool of a degraded Minister, who
held the reins of Government, I should not have been
before you this day. But, gentlemen, believe me
when I tell you that I would sooner have forfeited
my head than have thus sold the rights of my country-
men.—(Groat cheering.) From the hour that the
House of Commons thus degraded itself, it lost its
hold of public opinion—it lost its dignity amongst the
nations of the earth.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.)
Gentlemen, Sir R. Peel, when out of office, promised
to the colonies to continue that protection which they
h:d in iustiee nat has oeen his conduct
wive regard to the West India colonies ? He has
withdrawn the protection of Government from them,
and by doing so has encouraged the production of
slave-grown sugar. England paid 20,000,000/. for
the emancipation of the slaves ; Sir R. Peel has
now, by carrying out his free trade measures, once
more given encouragement to the slaveowners of
sugar-producing countries. (Hear, hear.) But
what has been his conduct to the agricultural inte-
rest ? When he brought forward his Corn-law Bill
he gave the House of Commons to understand that it
was to be a final measure; not one word was then
whispered of the Canada Corn Bill, although the
Government had at that moment determined, after
having clinched the agricultural interest under the
Corn-law Bill, to cram the second measure down
their throats. Lord Stanley brought forward th
measure, and his speech contained such a tissue of
misstatements as were scarcely ever made by a Mi-
nister of the Crown in one speech. I need not give
the statistical accounts of the results of his Canada
Corn Bill ; suffice it, that these two measures have
chiefly aided in producing the following results :
Yesterday, in Knaresborough market wheat sold at
40s. per quarter, the weight being 36 stone 41b., or 18
stone 21b. to the sack. That is the result of Sir Ro-
bert Peel's protection to agriculture I say, gentle-
men, they have sacrificed the British farmer for one
year of reckless competition in trade ; for what do we
find in Bradford ? Why, that there are no fewer than
10,000 power-looms standing idle, which a month ago
were in full work ; many mills have commenced run-
ning four days a-week, and others are not fully em-
ployed ; hundreds of combers are either out of
employment altogether, or have only half work,
the unmarried men being sent without work,
whilst those who are married have work given
them according to the extent of their family ;
and these poor men can earn no more than
ss. or 6s. a-week. This is the melancholy pro-
spect which is staring them in the face for the ensu-
ing winter, and this is the certain result which will
continue to follow Sir Robert Peel's mad career of
legislation. But more fatal still will be its conse-
quences, and as sure as I have the honour of address-
ing you to-day we may look forward with dismay as
to the future events which will happen to our country.
—(Hear, hear.) But, gentlemen, reverting to Ire-
land, what has been Sir Robert Peel's policy ? He
has allowed Mr. O'Connell to gather vast assemblages
in public meetings; he allowed him to parade the is-
land from one end to another like a triumphant con-
queror, setting the laws of the land and the Govern-
ment! of the country at defiance.—(Cries of No,'
from the Roman Catholic priest.) He did this ; and
O'Connell was allowed to go on until he was on the
point of attending the last public meeting which he had
convened, when the Government, at the eleventh hour,
interfered; the prosecution of O'Connell followed;
he was convicted of conspiring against the Govern-
ment; and what was the treatment which he did re-
ceive compared with what he ought to have received ?
The laws of our country know no distinction between
the peasant and the peer in cases of violation of those
laws. But how was O'Connell treated ? He was sent
to what is called a prison, where he lived at his ease in
the style of a country gentleman, holding daily levees,
his whole time being spent in feasting instead of fast-
ing.—(Laughter and cheers.) Instead of having prison
fare dealt out to him, as he ought to have had, he was
treated in such a manner as convicted conspirator
never was before. He happens to be the head of a
strong party, and has numerous friends in the
House of Commons, and the Conservative Govern-
ment quailed before him and them, and failed to do
their duty. But how was Mr. O'Conner treated in
York Castle?—(Hear, and cheers.) Was he 'a
worse convicted conspirator than O'Connell ? No. He
never attempted to set the laws at defiance to the extent
of a one hundredth part so far as O'Connell had done ;
and was any mercy shown to him ? No. He had
the cell of a conspirator ; he went through all the
prison hardships and fare, and it was a disgrace to the
Conservative Government thus to deal with a man
who had been convicted as O'Connell had been. Until
O'Connor and O'Connell are punished alike, let us
not talk about equal justice. Now, then, gentlemen,
in closing my address, I will just allude to your pro-
spects ; and I do not hesitate to tell you it is my firm
conviction that there is nothing but ruin for the pre-
sent race of British farmers.—(A Voice, Landlords,
you mean.' Mr. Ferrand, If you will stop, I will
tell you all about the landlords.') If the farmers will
take my advice they will well weigh the prospects
which are before them; they will meet their land-
lords, and tell them that up to the last dissolu-
tion of Parliament they had sailed with them in the
same boat, that the farmers had stood their true
friends, and had returned them a majority to the
House of Commons; but that when they had got
there they had sold their interests, and now, being
brought to the brink of ruin, they called on the land-
lords, as their professed friends, to prove the sincerity
, of their pledge ; for as sure, rentlemen, as we stand

The return published in FridaiT night's liazette urrne -
proceedings of the Bank of England, for the week ended
the 6th instant, shows a further increase in the stock of
bullion held by the institution. The amount, according
to the present return, is 14,558,3361: against 14,365,590/.
eehibited in that of the week preceding, the difference
being 192,7461. The exchanges, though scarcely so high
on Friday on some of the leading points of the Continent
as they have been, continue decidedly favourable to this
country, and, should the ordinary course of business not
be interfered with by the action of foreign loans on the
Money market, of which there are indications, it seems
probable that there will be a further influx of the pre-
cious metals. The French loan is the principal financial
operation in progress, and although the instalments into
which it is to be divided will be spread over a long period
of time, yet it is not by any means impossible that, of
the portion taken by English capitalists, a good part may
be remitted to Paris by anticipation. The great plenti-
fulness of money at the present time renders such a
course the more convenient, indeed, as well as profitable,
and therefore the more likely. The French railways
will absorb a large amount of British capital ; the finan-
cial schemes of Holland and Belgium will also create a
certain demand,'ner can it be doubted that a fair propor-
tion of the largo: mass of Three per Cent. Stock now in
the process of emission at Madrid will, by some means,
whether direct or indirect, be made to replace a corres-
ponding amount of English treasure. The effect of the
various operations glanced at will, in a few weeks' time,
be more clearly developed. So great an array of de-
mands on the one hand, and a rate of interest reduced to
the low figure of 2f per cent. on the other, are points in
the review of our monetary concerns that should not be
lost sight of. It is not the banks alone that will have to
be vigilant, for, should it become necessary, by and bye,
for the Threadneedle-street establishment to raise its
rate of interest and contract its accommodation, prices
will inevitably be affected. It cannot be supposed that
Consols will then stand at a premium, or that the value
generally of share property can be supported. The
joint-stock interests, under the altered state of things
supposed, will, however, if past experience be a fair guide
to go by, suffer not only first in point of time, but by far
the most severely. A warning to share speculators is,
accordingly, especially requisite when, with so many
threatening symptoms in the distance, the markets have
become so unusually, not to say unreasonably inflated.—
Pus t.
FOREIGN SPIRITS IN BOND.—The Lords of the
Treasury having had under consideration a memorial,
praying that the duty may be remitted on the deficien-
cies which have taken place in several casks of Geneva,
warehoused at Brewer's Quay, the warehouses connected
with which being of extra security only, and not spe-
cially approved, as in the case with the bonded ware-
houses at the Dock, their Lordships have authorised the
Commissioners of the Customs, in the present case, to re-
mit the duties on the deficiencies of Geneva, provided
their officers are satisfied that the same have arisen from
natural causes, and that no abstraction or improper in-
terference has taken place, and in all similar cases, as re-
commended by their report on the subject. This order has
been communicated to the officers of the several depart.
ments in London, and to the collectors and comp-
trollers at the different outports of the kingdom for their
information, with directions to govern themselves ac-
cordingly. With reference to the regulations in respect
to deficiencies in brandy, contained in the general
minute of November, 1843, viz., to make an allowance
on account of deficiencies in excess of the legal quantity,
beyond the allowances regulated by the Treasury order
of January, 1839, according as the circumstances of each
case might appear to justify, without special application
being made to the Board from the outports, in those
cases in which the deficiency in excess, if the legal quan-
tity shall not exceed three gallons per cask, observing
that they first satisfy themselves that the deficiency has
arisen from natural causes, and that no abstraction or
improper interference has taken place ; and that a written
application is to be made to the officers by the parties in
elleh instance.
FIRES IN CAMBRIDGE AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD.—
On Friday evening, at about seven o'clock, the town and
University of Cambridge were thrown into a state of
alarm by a cry of " Fire" from the Pitt Press (the
University printing-office), from the summit of the
tower of which a considerable volume of flame was seen
to issue. Prompt and efficacious means, however, having
been resorted to, the fire was got under before any but a
trifling damage had been done. The accident seems
to have occurred owing to some boards having been
placed on the top of the chimney to prevent it from
smoking, and the collected soot thereon became ignited.
The greatest anxiety was evinced for the safety of the
splendid collection of paintings in the rooms immediately
underneath the conflagration. The gownsmen, as has
ever been their wont on such occasions, afforded the most
merited and powerful assistance. On Thursday morning
last the premises of Mr. Peachy, of Beck-row, Milden•
ball, were discovered to be on fire, and, in spite of every
possible assistance which could be rendered, the home-
stall, barn, stables, outhouses, stacks of corn, &C.,
wer
hue
reduced to ashes. One hundred pounds' reward
been offered for the discovery of the incendiary. _ Mr.
aa
Another Peachy fire refoorftuansaitmeliylairncshuaredracteinr
ttohoek
Norwichpl e o
at Oakington, on the premises of Mr. Doggert, by which
and straw were con-
sumed, and a large barn and an adjoining a great quantity of barley, wheat,
lodge burned
to the ground.

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FRENCH ACADEMY OF Sel CE,i4
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an account
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of
which, like that which took pla ently at < 4
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Cette, he attributes to electricity.—MA . eitiasi;
and Dupre informed the Academy that th44sid,-,
made a discovery of the means of disinfecting and
preserving meat and other elementary substances by
the oxide of carbon.—A letter was received from the
Mayor of Gerberoy, stating that in that town a suc-
cessful experiment has been made of the hydraulic
system of M. Amedee Durand. Gerberoy is situated
on a height, and having no water but what was sup-
plied by a well 65 metres deep, the inhabitants were
frequently without this indispensable fluid. M. Du-
rand's machine, which appears to be set in motion by
a windmill, collects the water from storms or long-
continued rains, and, by means of a reservoir, the town
is now abundantly supplied.—A curious paper, con-
taining an account of some experiments on de-
capitated persons, was received from M. Bonna-
font, surgeon-major of the army. M. Bonnafont's
communication appears to have been caused by
the discussion which has arisen out of the failure
in a recent case in the action of the guillotine,
which fell twice before the fatal blow was inflicted
upon the criminal. The adversaries of the guillotine
had laid hold of this fact to renew their objections to
this mode of inflicting death, and had also mentioned
several experiments on men and animals to prove that
sensation is not immediately destroyed by decapita-
tion. Amongst the authorities quoted was Dr. Sue,
the father of the celebrated writer, who has stated
that he had seen a turkey, when its head was cut off,
rise, walk for some seconds, and endeavour to raise
its leg towards the wound of the neck. The autho-
rity of Dr. Sue is too respectable to be doubted, but,
even allowing the fact to be correct to the full extent
stated, we may be permitted to say that it does not
prove the existence of sensation after decapitation in
the only sense in which it ought to create horror in
those who witness it. If, by sensation here, we are to
understand consciousness and pain, the punishment of
the guillotine is not the most merciful one as a means
of death that could be devised ; strangulation would be
in every respect preferable, for although it does not
appear to be so prompt, muscular action being kept
up for a longer period than by decapitation, it is well
known, upon the authority of persons who have re-
covered from apparent death by hanging, that the sen-
sation is not one of pain. Are we, however, to sup-
pose that, when the connection between the brain
and the nervous system throughout the body is
severed, pain is really felt ? The action of the turkey
after decapitation can be understood, for the impulse
was communicated by the brain, whilst the act of de-
capitation was taking place, and being transmitted to
the nerves of the muscular structure, would produce
the result stated so long as the nervous fluid which
constitutes the springs of life retained its force ; but,
before the action of the body could take place, sensa-
tion in the brain must be destroyed, and the brain
being really the seat of the consciousness and expres-
sion of pain, if that be deal to suffering,. the action of
the nervous aad muscular systems in the hotly should
inspire no horror on the spectator, being simply an
effect where the cause has ceased to exist. We
have indeed read within the last few years two
or three accounts of the apparent consciousness
of the brain in the heads of decapitated criminals,
and we confess that they were of a nature to ex-
cite painful sensations in the minds of such of the
spectators as imagined that consciousness really
existed ; but was this really the case ? The experi-
ments of M. Bonnafont seems to us to show that it
was not. M.-Bonnafont states that, being at Algiers
in 1832, he read in a journal that a surgeon named
Wilson had affirmed, as the result of his experiments,
that, in the head of a decapitated person, the sense of
hearing retained its power for a minute and a half.
Wishing to put this assertion to the test, M. Bonna-
font took advantage of two executions to try the ex-
periment. We quote his own words :—" Assisted by
the late Sub-Intendant de Falloy, «ho was desirous
of taking part in the experiment, I had a stool placed
near the instrument of death, and upon it a vessel
filled with pounded plaister. Immediately after the
first execution,l which was performed with remark-
able celerity, the executioner took the head and placed
the bleeding part upon the plaister, so as to prevent
the further flowing of blood. I then placed my mouth
' to the ear of the decapitated Arab, and called him by
name, whilst M. de Falloy watched the eyes. In vain
did I shout for a minute and a half; neither the eyes
nor any of the features showed that the hearing
retained the slightest degree of sensibility. The
same experiment was repeated at the second
execution with a speaking-trumpet, and with
the same result." M. Bonnafont concludes by
stating that, after the complete separation of the head
from the body, there must be, if no instant death, so
great a syncope, that death arrives without any of the
senses retaining the slightest degree of force.—A.
paper was received from M. Amador, Professor of the
Faculty of Medicine of Montpellier, the object of
which is to show, as far as we could comprehend it,
that the popular belief of blood being the seat and
vehicle of life is not so erroneous as the scientific "
believes. M. Ase-4—'s -
liant and captivating style, but, having spt
only for its basis, it cannot, of course, carry CG:
tion to reflecting minds. The seat of life may be in
the blood, or in the nervous fluid, or in any other of
the important agents of consciousness and motion ; but
it is no more permitted to man to know with certainty
where life is really seated, than to fathom the impene-
trable mystery of the first cause of life. There are
some things which the knowledge of man can never
reach, inasmuch as they are placed beyond the limits
of his faculties. As well could the lower animals
attain the reason of man, as man's reason can go be-
yond the bounds traced by the Creator. All
inquiries within these bounds are laudable, for
they may have a useful end ; but it is almost
sinful to attempt to go beyond them, for irs
doing so we give room to doubt and disbelief of that
which we are really permitted to know,—A paper
"On the general influence of the secretions on the
animal economy," by M. Martini, was then read.
M. Martini begins by observing that too little ac-
count is taken by physicians of the action exercised
by the secreted and excreted fluids. "It is," says he,
" to the blood and the vascular system that func-
tional derangements are attributed, because in nearly
the whole of them there is an acceleration of the cir-
culation. Nobody has thought of doubting the per-
nicious influence of the urine, because that liquid is
an excremental matter containing deleterious prin-
ciples; but the same property is denied to the gastric
and intestinal juices, to the lachrymal discharge, and
to the fluids secreted by the lungs, which are not, it
is true, excremental fluids, but which, nevertheless,
perform organic functions in the interior of the body."
We are not quite sure that there is the total indiffe-
rence to the character of these secretions in the medical
profession generally that M. Martini suppose's ; but
we could have wished, at any rate, that the author
had not confined himself to theory alone. If they
perform the important functions which he assumes for
them, he can only have arrived at his knowledge by
facts, and some of these he ought to have adduced, in
order to give force to his theory; but he seems to
have thought it quite sufficient to state his theory
and claim belief in it, without offering any evidence
that it is correct. The theory is indeed plausible, and
it will probably be tested by practical men. In the
course of his paper M. Martini states that even extra-
vasted blood never exercises a deleterious action on
the organs with which it comes in contact, whereas,
according to him, the case is otherwise with the se-
creted liquids. This is an assertion which ought not
to have been left to stand alone. M. Martini certainly
ought to have shown by a few facts that the assertion
was true. He states indeed, and this we can readily
believe, that tears, which are apparently a harmless
liquid, become a most formidable enemy to the eye if
they remain a long time upon the surface. But is this
a new theory ? Is it not the practice of all surgeons to
prevent the accumulation of secretions of every kind,
from their experience of the injurious effect which
they may in that state exercise on the animal economy?

SOUTHAMPTON, DEC. 9. —The Peninsular and
Oriental Company's stesrner Royal Tar, Captain R.
Gasson, arrived this morning at nine o'clock from Gib-
raltar, Cadiz, Lisbon, Oporto, and Vigo, bringing all
the mails. Her dates of departure are as follows :
From Gibraltar Nov. 30, Cadiz Dec. 1, Lisbon, Dee. 5,
and Vigo Dec. 5. Ships of war lying at Gibraltar—Her
Majesty's sloop Scout and her Majesty's steamer Flamer.
Ship of war lying at Lisbon—Her Majesty's ship Albion.
Vessel passed of—Nov. 30, off Cape Trafalgar, the
steam-ship Tagus. Specie en board-15 bags. List of
passengers—Mr. Willis, two Misses Cathcarts, Alfred
Webster, Robert Graham, Mr. Eaveler, Baron ulgaser,
T. F. Rebello, T. M. Silverer, Mons. Towgarvy, IVm.
Tomkies, Wm. Green, General Martin.
WILL OF THE EARL OF KINTORE.—The will of
Anthony Earl of Kintore, late of Keith Hall, North
Britain, has just been proved in Doctors Commons, by
John Blackie, Esq., one of the executors, power of prov-
ing hereafter being reserved for the other executors.
The will in a very few words directs that his plate,
household furniture, carriages, horses, &c. &c., be offered
for sale to his eldest son, and in case he declines pur-
chasing them, divided, with the whole of his estate
amongst his family. The will is extremely short, and
the amount of property under it which is proved in Lon-
don is only 3001. (a mere nominal sum), for the purpose of
obtaining an investment of that amount. The will, how-
ever, when proved in Scotland, will include the whole of
his estates there, which are very large.
THE REFUGE FOR THE DESTITUTE.—On Saturday
night, in pursuance of a resolution of the Committee of
the Society for the Refuge of the Destitute, which met
the same day at their office in Threadneedle-street, in
consequence of the extreme severity of the weather, the
Asylum in Playhouse-yard, Whitecross-street, which is
capable of containing between 500 and 600 persons, was
for the first time this season opened for the reception of
houseless poor, males, females, and children. There
were 197 names entered in the book, being a much
larger number than was ever admitted on a first night,
L the most of whom appeared in a melancholy state 9f
de stitutiou.