The Sun.
London, England, 1842-02-18 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY IVIORNING, FEBRUARY 18, 1842.

NOVA SCOTIA.

We have received the Halifax Morning Post of
the 20th of January, from which we copy the fol-
lowing:—
OPENING OF THE LEGISLATIVE SESSION,

THURSDAY, JAN. 20.
At two o'clock, this day, his Excellency Lord Viscount
Falkland, attended by his Aide-de-Camp, Lieut.-Colonel
Cunard, and Captain. M'Nab. and the Officers of the
Staff of the Army, proceeded to the Council Chamber to
open' the Session of the Legislature.
His. Excellency having entered, and being seated on
the Throne, and commanded the attendance of the House
of Assembly, delivered the following speech. to both
branches of the Legislature :
" Mr. President, and Honourable Gentlemen of the
Legislative Council,
Mr. Speaker, and Gentlemen of the House of Assembly,

" I rejoice at the recurrence of that season of the year
at which I am entitled to benefit by your advice and
assistance in the conduct of public affairs ; and to avail
myself of the legislative experience and local knowledge
possessed by so many among you. I have endeavoured,
as far as possible, to meet your understood wishes in
regard to the time of convening you in general assembly.
" It is my gratifying duty to announce to you the
birth of a male heir to the Throne ; you will, I am sure,
share in the joy felt by all subjects of our gracious
Sovereign at an event so calculated to promote the do-
mestic happiness of her Majesty, and to assure the
future prosperity of the empire.
" Although a slight decrease has taken place in the
revenue, I am glad to be able to state, that no diminution
has occurred of sufficient amount to affect the scale of
the public expenditure, and that all provincial engage-
ments, up to this period, have been punctually discharged.
" The fisheries have been as productive as in former
years, the continued success of this branch of industry
being in a great degree attributed to the vessels manned
and fitted out with a view to its protection.
" We have to be thankful for a most abundant harvest.
There is reason to believe that the heavy expense incurred
by the province, and the efforts lately made by the legis-
lature, with a view to the encouragement of agriculture,
and the introduction of a more scientific,system of culti-
vation, will be attended with much future benefit.
" All matters recommended to the consideration of
the executive by the legislature during the last session
have met with due attention, and the correspondence
relating to these subjects will forthwith be communi-'
cated to you.
. " Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the House of
Assembly,
" The accounts to the 31st of December are prepared,
and shall be laid before you without delay. I trust that,•
on investigation, it will appear that the provincial funds
have been neither prodigally nor injudiciously expended,
and I confidently rely on your liberality to provide the
requisite supplies for the current year.
" Mr. President and Hon. Gentlemen of the Legis-
lative Council,
" Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the House of Assembly,
" The defective state of the law as respects debtor and.
creditor, rendering it in many cases inoperative, and in.
others unjust to both alike, has suggested to the Go-
vernMent the necessity of a provision by which the rights
of each may be clearly defined and secured. The evident
need of some enactment of this nature seems to be ge-
nerally admitted, and the main principles on which such
an act ought to be founded to be as generally conceded
every anxiety therefore has been felt by myself, and those
to whose aid and advice I have had recourse, to frame a
statute on the subject, that any difficulties heretofore ex-
perienced in the arrangement of the details of a bankrupt
law should be overcome ; I hope you will find this to
have been accomplished in the proposition which will be
submitted to you, and that the commercial part of the
community will no longer suffer under the want of this
indispensable protection.
" The Crown officers have been engaged in a careful
revision of the criminal law, and are prepared to propose
for adoption such further amendments as are yet requi-
site to assimilate the provincial code to that eif the mo-
ther country.
" The Legislature having already entered on the con-
sideration of the existing law of probate, and of the
mode in which the distribution of the estates of de-
ceased persons should be regulated the attention of
the Government has been drawn to the subject, and a
Bill, founded on a measure, which has been partially
approved of by the House of Assembly, will be subjected
to your deliberation.
" Any step which you shall consider as having a ten-
dency to.ameliorate the condition of the Indian popula-
tion of Nova Scotia, will, I am convinced, meet with
your ready concurrence; and, in asking your co-opera-
tion to this end, I feel no doubt that a bill, which will
shortly be presented to you, and which has been framed
with a view to this object, will meet with a favourable
reception. _ _

" Several other measures of great importance, as es-
se:dially effecting the internal administration of the pro-
vince will be offered-for your approval.
"In endeavouring by every means in my power to
ascertain what practical improvements are most wanted;
and in urging those improvements on the legisla-
ture, I have but done my duty to the Queen
and to the colony. Your task remains to be
performed : from you, the country will expect a
scrutinising and candid examination of the mea-
sures propounded, and the provincial Government, aware
that it is as much your duty as it is your right to weigh
all propositions bearing on the public interests, while it
oilers for your consideration, plans deemed, after mature
deliberation, to be of such a nature that your adoption
of them would lead to the best results, frankly invites
investigation, and courts your assistance as well to dis-
cover and reject that which is inexpedient, as to perfect,
and bring into operation whatever shall appear likely
to contribtite to the general welfare." • • •
After his Excellency retired, Mr. Morton moved that
an addiess should be presented to his Excellency in
answer to the speech, and read a draft thereof. _

The Hon. Mr. M'Nab seconded the motion, and aftvr
a few observations, the address proposed was adopted.

THE SEVENTY-SECOND, or DUKE
OF ALBANY'S OWN HIGHLANDERS.

Authentic Copy of Field-Marshal the Duke of Welling-
ton's Address, in the Quadrangle of Windsor Castle,
on the Presentation of Colours to the 72d Highlanders,
on the 26th of January, 1842.
Colonel Arbuthnot, and you, Gentlemen, Officers, and
you, Non-Commissioned Officers and Soldiers of the 72d
Highland Regiment—l have attended here this day. in
compliance with the wishes of your Commanding-officer,
and by permission of her Majesty. to present to you your
new colours. These colours have been consecrated by
one of the highest dignitaries of our Church, and are pre-
sented to you in the presence of - her Majesty, and of her
Illustrious and Royal Guest the King of Prussia, of Prince
Albert, and a number of most distinguished personages.
They are composed of the colours of the three nations,
and bear the cipher of her Majesty, and! have no doubt,
from your previous character, and your present high
state of discipline, that you will guard them under every
circumstance, to the utmost of your power. These
colours you are henceforth to consider as your head-
quarters, and in every circumstance, in all times of pri-
vation and of distress, you will look to them as your
rallying point ; and I would again remind you that their
presentation is witnessed by the Monarch of one of the
most powerful nations in Europe—a nation which boasts
of an army which has heretolore been a pattern for all
modern troops—and which has done so much towards
contributing to the general pacification of Europe.
And I am proud to show so tine a regiment
to his Majesty the King of Prussia. 1 have
long known the 72d Highland Regiment : half
a century has now nearly elapsed since I had
the pleasure of serving in the same army with them in
the plains of Ilindostan ; since that period they have
been engaged in the conquest of some of the most valu-
able colonies of the British Crown ; and, latterlyr in per-
forming most distinguished services at the Cape of
Good Hope. Fourteen years out of the last sixteen
they have spent on foreign service, and with only
eighteen mouths at home for their reformation and their
re-disciplining, appear in their present high state of re-
gularity and order. The best part of a long life has
barracks, camps, and canton-
by
duty, as well as my ibneeeinass,pallt Lase mbiene ntul ey
inclina-
tion, always to study how best to promote the health
and discipline of the troops ; and I have always found it
only to be done by paying the strictest regard to re-
gularity and good order, and the greatest attention to
the orders of their officers. I address myself now particu-
larly to the older soldiers; and wish them to understand
that their strict attention to their discipline and respect
to their superiors will often have the best effect on
the younger soldiers, and it is, therefore, their
duty to set a good example to their juniors by so doing,
and by these means alone can they expect to command
the respect and regard of the community amongst whom
they are employed. And I have made it my business
to inquire particularly, and am rejoiced to find that
the 72d have always commanded that respect and
regard, wherever they have been stationed, to which
their high state of discipline and good order so justly
entitles them. You will, I am sure, always recol-
lect the circumstances under which these colours
are now given into your charge, having been conse-
crated by one of the highest dignitaries of the Church,
in the presencn of hfir Majesty, who now looks down
upon you, and of her Royal visitor and I give them
into your charge, confident that at all times, under all
circumstances, whether at home or abroad, and in all
privations, you' twill rally round them and protect them
to the utmost of your power.
f9llP`it i•_AltUcTitN9T's REPLY,

My LOJIP wPuld he presumptuous in me,
if I were to make any reply to the address which your
Grace has doliyere..4 to ua, but I cannot avoid stating that
it is impossible for me? and Weed tofty add out of the
power of any. one, to express, bow deeply I, my officers,
non-commissioned officers, and men, feel the high honour
which hag brpn eQpiferrpcl u§, ley Injing lu our no-
louri presented 4).40.4 ftlP tlittiqfpsf oOlfiwr the world
has ever seen, and itiatm the gre§eugg of our Sovereign,
his Majesty the King of Prussia, and Field-Marshal his
Royal Highness Prince Albert.

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FATAL APPIP44 41 /11Ektliftlit URISSEI.I.
sni PllTO'S.—yesteFday afternoon, shortly before one, as ,everm
min, kth the employ of Messrs. Grissell and veto, Belvidere-road,
Lambe, xterp mnoring a large f' stone landing," it suddenly
6:sart, a ti?initl. and Nlitig acto§l the clwat of a rolddlp,aged man,
I;,sie 4-91.1'n fiewsbn„ infticpnenkix killed nn, AOw minutes
iifter 't e tatl4 041q11nce, a no PAW* lii
presented Itself i it
appears that the wife of the deceaao
had been in the constant habit,
for some length of time, of carrying her hnsbanct's (num to the
t
wharf where he was employed, and was weer..et-ling there as usual,
this morning, when she met the corpse or her husband being carried
through the streets to the hospital.
Ile Minister of Public Works has given notice
that, from the Ist of *arch next, a tiled light will be established
tin the n
voiniii.di•ctisiiveaw, at the t9thern end of tile. Ile de Re, et 22
metres
feet) above spring tides. The light will be visible at
from 12 silnit of a tower recently erected on to rucks at the
15 marine miles ill fine weathers
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PUBLIC WORKS IN PARIS.

- - -
The Place de Greve and the Place du Chatelet pre7
sented,, on. Sunday afternoon, a spectacle Of etitra
ordinary bustle and interest. It being the termination
of the winter season, .upw'ards of 45,000 workmen,
masters, and foremen, were assembled to Make new
engagements for the summer works at ihe forti-
fications, buildings, and other constructions now in
progress, or about to be undertaken, in Paris and its
environs.

Orders have been given for resuming all the ma-
sonry work on the detached forts upon the first of
next month. _ _

The city of Paris has resumed the works at the new
church of Vincent de Paul, in the Place Lafayette,
Faubourg Poissonniere. Numerous men are em-
ployed in executing the capitals - of the pillars and
other ornamental sculpture of the choir. Labourers
are also digging for the foundation of the double
flight of steps leading from the Place Lafayette to the
portico. The building is filled with scaffolding for
facilitating the painting of the friezes, the tribunes,
the demi-cupola of the choir, and other internal
decorations. The following are said to be the in-
tended adornments of the exterior of the building and
its approaches :—ln the Place Lafayette, in a line with
the Rue Hauteville, is to be erected a large fountain,
and there are to be two others on each side, near the
steps. The friezes of the towers and the pediment
are to be painted on lava ; the pediment and all the ex-
ternal statues are to be of white marble from the Pyre-
nees. The columns inside the church are to be
stuccoed. There are to be paintings from sacred
history all round the nave, on a wide frieze, between
the lower and upper range of columns, on the aisles of
the nave, in the galleries, and on the demi-cupola of
the choir, and on the vault of the nave, for which last
the designs have already been sketched, for the pur-
pose of judging the effect.
We have already mentioned that the Municipal
Council of Paris had lately decided upon the canali-
sation of the small arm of the Seine, on the south of
the Ile de la .Cite, from the Pont de l'Archeveche to
below the Pont-Neuf; the total cost of this operation
is estimated at 4,000,000 f. From this, and the other
works previously determined upon, it results that the
Pont-au-Double, the Petit-Point, and the Pont
Saint-Michel will be replaced by three semi-circular
arches of 34 metres,,;4o centimetres' span (about 112
feet). A towimc-path of from 6to 8 metres (20 to 25
feet) in width, and 4 metres (13 feet) above the
highest mark on the scales, will be formed from the
Pont de l'Areheveehe to below the Porii-Sreuf; a dam
in masonry 50 metres (about 165 feet) long. will be
raised with a sluice (barrage) between the Pont des
Arts and the Pont-Neuf. There will be another
moveable dam, which will disappear when the river
rises to the height of five metres (16 feet, 4 inches). I
Parallel to this dam, and at the foot of the Quai Conti,
will be constructed a sluice similar to that, of nearly
12 metres (about 40 feet) in width, and parallel to the
dam, behind the terre plein of the Pont-Neuf, there
will be raised water-works with turbines, which will
set in movement sufficient pumps to raise the water in
the great arm, and then force it through pipes into '
reservoirs for distribution in the different quarters of
Paris. These turbines will, when the river is high,
distribute 80 cubic metres (about 105 cubic yards) of
water per second, and when the river is low 50 cubic
metres (about 66 yards) of water per second, without
giving additional rapidity to the current of the water
in the smaller arm. In the first case the engine will
be of a force equal to 600 horse-power, and in the
second case. to 1,200 horse-power. In consequence
of this establishment the water-works on the Pont
Notre Dame, will be taken away, and replaced
by a moveable dam. The bed of the smaller
arm will be deepened one metre (three feet three
inches) beloW its present level, so that there may be
always a draught of at least two metres or six feet
and a half. In fine, paved ways for the service of the
towing paths, and watering-places for horses, will be
formed on the Quai des Orfevres and the Quai des
Augustins. These immense works will be com-
menced in the course of the present year. The gene-
ral plan of improvement comprises also the following
important works, the execution of which, however, is
deferred till a future period, viz.—a towing path
from the Pont des Arts to the Pont de Grenelle,
estimated at 1,300,000 f. Piles and wood work at
the Pont d'Austerlitz, with the Pont de Bercy, esti-
mated together at 2,700,000 f. The completion of
the Quai Saint Nicholas, 300,0001. The formation
of a lower wharf along the Quai des Tuileries, and
the reconstruction of the parapet of the upper wharf,
800,000 f. Total, 5,100,000 f.

LORD PRESIDENT HOPE.
A few worth now upon the matter of fact. The decline in
the late Lord President's powers for the last three years has
been too notorious to be denied by any person in this city. He
was not only lame, and deaf to a serious extent, but his mind
was observed to wander from the question before him, and
sleep was occasionally seen to surprise him for a few minutes
on the Bench, though his natural temperament was remark-
ably active. These infirmities were not wonderful in a man of
h s advanced age, and ,they were familiarly known to all
persons in the Parliament-house. It was equally known
—and there are few Tories who would have denied it—
that he lingered on the jedgment.seat after his use-
fulness was gone, in the hope of his party returning
to power, and enabling him to make his own retire-
ment the means of securing the advancement of his son. If
a doubt existed on the subject, the tendering of his resignation
in 1835 must remove it. To the people of Edinburgh, the
attempt made in Parliament to conceal such patent facts seems
not only vain, but ludicrous. Mr. Maule's statements are true
au pied de la lettre ; and if, keeping a judicial situation under
the gathering infirmities of age, for mere party and family
purposes, constitutes a job, we have assuredly here a palpable
job before us. In one point we differ from the Member for
Perth. We deny that the Lord President's judgment in the
Strathhogie ease " excited deep and irrepressible dis •
gust in the public mind of Scotland." On the contrary, it
seemed to us that the opinion he delivered on that occasion
diselayed the clearness and vigour of his better days, and we
believe it accorded with the sentiments of nearly all the sober-
minded and well-informed part of the nation. The word
" thimble-rigging" attributed to him, if really spoken, was
well bestowed ; but we do not justify its use from the Bench.
His Lordship, indeed, like many men of an open, fearless, and
passionate temper, was often indiscreet in his language when
right in his sentiments.—Scotsman.

FROM THE AMERICAN PAPERS.

RA RE FRUITS.—A MODEL KINGDOM WITHIN THE MODEL
REPUBLIC.—A lady of our acquaintance from the East, has shown
us a lemon, of large size, which she plucked from the tree at Zoar,
Tuscarawas County, Ohio, while passing through by way of the
Ohio canal. She saw hundteds* of the same kind of fruit in the
various stages of growth, besides oranges, figs, and other productions
of high southern latitudes. The trees on which they grow, are
planted in large truss-like half hogsheads, which being placed on
wheels, can be conveyed into the air when the temperature is sutli.
ciently mild, and deposited in the hot-houses during the cold
weather.

The village of Zoar lies on the canal, and is owned and inhabited
exclusively by a singular community of Germans, who, on account
of difficulties, growing out of their peculiar religious faith, emi-
grated to America, cast their wealth into a common stock, ap-
pointed their leader.king, who for a number of years has governed
his little community with absolute authority (so far as possible
without interfering with the laws), much after the manner of the
ancient patriarchs. He holds the title to the soil, assigns to all,
men, women, and children, their appropriate labour, exercises an
absolute control over all property, superintends all business trans.
actions with the outward world, keeps the treasury, settles all
difficulties without legal ,forms, admits or expels members at his
pleasure, and exhibits, though on an humble scale, a picture of
absolute sovereignty. There; as In Russia, the "one man power"
has full sway, but there is no veto.

To give graee to this picture, and render such a state of things
tolerable in this Republican country, this despot is one of the most
wise, just, and benevolent of men—perhaps the beau ideal of the
whole race of " the Lord's anointed." He is loved as indeed the
father of his little flock, to the promotion of whose happiness he
devotes himself with pious zeal. He is their priest as well as their
king, and conducts their religious ceremonies. Under his super-
vision, this singular community has become famous for its indus-
try, its well cultivated fields, its manufactories, its dairies, its gar-
dens of valuable roots, plants, fruits, and flowers of every variety,
climate, and species; for its neatness sobriety, good morals, and
regard for the laws. He is now very old, and has a son who is to
succeed him ; but his people are becoming too Democratic to like
the idea of having all their toils fall into the hand, of a wayward
young fellow, who, according to the title which will descend to him,
can, under the laws of Ohio, legally claim the whole concern. So
when the present beloved ruler shall be " gathered unto his
fathers," a small rebellion may be looked for—or, a suit in Chan-
cery. So much for lemons, oranges, figs, and a kingly government
in the interior of Ohio, in spite of a climate and institutionsdeemed
so little congenial to their growth. —From the Louisville Advertiser.
ADSURDITIES.—There are so many courses which people pursue,
that, with a little reflection, will appear absurd to every man of
common understanding. The individual himself who is looking
for absurdities, is generally the one in whom they ate first found.
A man wants to see the person against whom he has the gi eatest
reason to guard himself. Let him take a glance at the looking.
glass, and he will see a very fair likeness of the individual he is
searching for.

It is absurd to despair when the clouds lour. We should look
upward for comfort. When the heaven over our head is dark, the
earth uncles our feet is sure to be darker,
It is absurd to lend money to a man whose friendship you are
desirous to preserve.

It is absurd for an infidel to tell you to abandon your bible.
Tell him you will do so when he will bring you a better book.
it is absurd to exhibit violent passion in your family, foaming
and fretting at every little annoyance that may cross you, and at
the tame time expect them to be placid.

It is absurd, if you have half a dozen children, all of different
dispositions and capacities, to give them all the same education,
with the expectation that they will all shine in the same sphere.
It is absurd not to go to bed when you are sleepy, because it is
not a certain hour-

It is absurd to see a man professing Christianity bristling up with
anger twenty times a day like a hedgehog.

It is absurd to suppose that a Leghorn hat, loaded with flowers,
will cure the headache.

It is absurd to suppose that a gold watch will cure the consump-
tion.—Boston Transcript,

AWFUL CaLastrrY.—A private letter received yesterday de.
tails an accident at the town of Jackson, Louisiana, which
appals one's very soul. It is one of the most curious as well
as heart-rending we have ever heard of. A dray loaded with
several kegs of powder was being discharged, when by the care.
lessness (some say drunkenness) of the drayman, one of them
was suffered to fall. A scissor-grinder was near, busy in his avo.
cation, and his rapid wheel emitting a shower of sparks. These
fell upon the spilled powder, blew up the man, scissor-grinder,
horse and dray, and killed four negroes belonging to Mr. Seth
Parker. The shock was felt all over the town, and many win.
doves were broken, One leg of the drayman and his hat were found
several hundred yards off. The mangled remains of the scissor.
winder were collected and decently buried. His wheel, it appears,
had been sent about sixty yards, and lodged on the balcony of a
neighbouring house. When will people learn to be careful wills
powder P—Crescent.

A COLD WATER GALLANT.—Joe Sykes, a dry chap, who is
writing letters to the New York Commercial from the Southern
counties of the State, immortalizes a wag by the name of Manrow,
a contractor on the New York snot Erie Itailroad, who owns
waggon, the fore wheels of which are as large as the hind ones.
One of his horses he calls Fanny, the other Disler; and he swears
that" Fanny Ellsler is a whole team." One day he stopped to dine
and feed his horses ; a pretty damsel waited at the table, and came
to fill his tumbler whenever he rang the bell to call her from an
adjoining room. He was smitten with her beauty, and drank his
glass dry as quick as possible, that he might have the pleasure ofsee.
ing her fill it again. Ilis•desire to see her, however, exceeded his
capacity to hold all the water she poured out, and, seeing a jar of
pickles in the room, instead of drinking the water he poured it into
the jar, repeating his calls for the damsel to till his tumbler till he
had tilled the jar to overflowing. His reputation for drinking
water, of course, soon spread over the neighbourhood ; and the
secret was not found out until the good landlady discovered that the
liquid in her jar had been diluted, and her pickled cucumbers
thereby destroyed.—Montreal Courier.
DIET OF TIDE ANCIENTS.—The difference between the diet of
the ancients and that of us moderns is very striking. The ancient
Greeks and Romans used no alcoholic liquor, it being unknown to
them ; nor coffee, nor tea, nor chocolate, nor sugar, nor even
butter; for Galen informs us he had seen it but once in his life.
They were ignorant of the great number of our tropical spices, as
clove, nutmeg, mare, ginger, Jamaica pepper, curry, pimento.
They used neither buck.wheat eor French beans, nor spinach,
nor sago, tapioca salep . arrow-root, nor potatoe, or its varieties ;
nor even the common, but a sort of marsh-grown bean. Nor many
of our fruits, as the orange, tamarind, nor American maize. On
the other hand, they used substances which we now neglect—the
mallow, the herb ox-tongue, the sweet acorn, the !upin. They
used greatly raddish, lettuce, sorrel. They liked the flesh of wild
asses, of little dogs, of the dormouse, of the fox, of the bear. They
ate the Resh of parroquets and other rare birds, and of lizards.
They were fond of a great many fish and shell-fish, which we now
hold in no esteem. They employed as seasonings rue and assafte-
dita.—Boston Paper.
BANKING !—A dying banker thus addressed his eldest son
you may suppose you are going to inherit a large fortune, but
you arc mistaken. I have no property, and the bank it insolvent
to the amount of 200,0004 On the death of my father, who died
of a broken heart, I found the bank was hardly solvent. I at first
resolved to close the concern, and pay off the creditors, but I after-
wards determined otherwise. I proved my father's will for a
quarter of a million, and set up a large establishment. This gave
me the reputation of wealth, and increased the business of the bank.
I have lived in splendour, as you know, for many years. All your
brothers and sisters are handsomely provided for, and to you, as my
eldest son, I now leave the bank. I have appointed you sole
executor to my will. You have only to prove my property for any
amount you think proper to name, and if you massage your affairs
prudently, the Lank may last out your time as it has lasted out
tolne."—Montreal Courier.

A country practitioner, who attended a wealthy farmer in a
serious illness, thought it necessary to restrict him to very low
diet. One evening he called in quite unexpectedly, and found his
patient very busy discussing a large tankard of home brewed ale,
and what was worse, evidently affected by his previous potations.
`• How are you Doctor r said the farmer. " How are you, I
should rather inquire ?" replied the medical man, "is this ad-
hering to the regimen I prescribed ? did not I tell you that you
must drink nothing but barley water ?" I know you did," re-
plied the patient, and I have followed your directions; for what
is ale, I should like to know, but 6rzi ley tearer ?"
SIVII,ENESS Or Maw —lt is said that men who are used to it,
will outrun horses, by holding their speed longer. A man will
also walk down a horse, for utter he has travelled a few days,
the horse will be quite tired, but the man will be as fresh for
motion as at the beginning. The king's messengers walk to
Ispalian, 108 miles in fourteen hours. Hottentots outstrip lions
in the chase, and savages who hunt the elk, tire it down and take
it ; they are said to have performed a journey of 8,600 miles
in less than six weeks.

THE WESLEYANS AND THE CORN-LAWS.—
Several petitions against the Corn-laws, from the various Dissenting
denominations of Mansfield, have, within the last few days, been
receiving signatures, each from the members of its own Church.
The Wesleyan petition was, with the exception of three members,
and the two resident ministers, signed by the whole of that body of
Christians, at Mansfield.—Noftinghant Paper.
FLOGGlNG.—According to a return laid before
Parliament, the number of civilians flogged during the past year,
of the age of twenty and upwards, has been seven :—viz. two for
being disorderly, with four tnontlas' imprisonment, at Norwich
Swain-0m , and five at Warwick, for neglect of service. .. and
ST. MARYLEBONE BANK FOP
The 12th Annual General Meeting of •' SAVINGS.—
Thursday, the 17th of this mor" _ oils Institution was held on
street, Cavendish.squa,- ..,11, at the Office, No. 70, Welbeck-
It appears fro'- the Rev. J. H. Spry, D.D., in the Chair.
... the several Reports read to the Meeting, that the
..ss of this Bank continues to be of a very rapid description,
no fess than '',512 new deposits having been made in the last year
13,004 deposit accounts remained open on the 20th November last,
of which no less than 8,3'22 held balances averaging less than
41. 12s. Id. each. Upwards of 266,407/. was then invested with
the Commissioners for the reduction of the National Debt; this
amount has since risen to 260,707/., and is rapidly on the advance.
The continued evidence this affords of the strong and growing this_
position of the working.classes to provide against the casualties of
life, will prove a source of gratification to all reflecting minds.
CORONER'S INQUEST.—An inquiry, which
lasted seven hours, took place on Wednesday, before Mr. Carter,
at the Hero of Waterloo, Watorloo.road, Lambeth, concerning the
death of Ellen Gunton, aged fifty, of No. 20, Francis-street, New.
cut, who was knocked down and killed on Monday night last by a
horse, ridden hY Mr. Henry Fownes. The particulars have already
appeared in The Sun. Three witnesses said that the horse was go-
ing at the rate of not less than fifteen or sixteen miles an hour, and
that both before and after the accident he struck the horse's sides,
and gave it rein, as if to urge it on. The rider was taken into cus-
tody, and gave the name of Henry Fownes, before the Magistrates
at Union-hall, the next day. Mr. Fownes (who had found bail to
answer for his appearance before the Magistrate) told the Jury that
the horse took flight, and that he was unable to stop it. The Jury
returned a verdict of death, wiih a deodand of 201.
upon the horse, and were of opinion that Mr, Fownes had not exer.
cise due car whilst riding