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London, England, 1842-03-30 00:00:00

communications between the different cities and districts
'of a great empire like this, or in assisting others, to visit
their friends, and enjoy the happiness of social and do-
mestic affection, or in ministering by a small outlay of
his own labour, to the comfort, convenience, and happi-
ness of multitudes ; especially if such a man has leisure
on other parts of the day to attend to his mental and
spiritual improvement, and can, if he pleases, embrace
the opportunity which every reflecting person will be
glad to improve, of worshipping humbly, gratefully, and
reverentially, " the God and Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ," who." hath given us richly all things to enjoy?'

FI
ZUMALACARRAGUI, AND THE CHRISTINO
SPY.
Graves, London, 1842.
The subject of this picture is an exceedingly
interesting one, and must be fainiliar to all of our
readers who are conversant with the late disas-
trous civil war in the Peninsiila. So ably, too,
is it managed, that we can catch at a glance the
leading incidents of the story which the artist
would desire to develope. The scene is a small
provincial church or chapel in Spain. At a rude
table covered with a cloth, near the entrance,
sits a priest, together with an attendant or
secretary who is busy writing, and seems so
wholly intent on his task, as to have neither eyes
nor ears for what is going on about him. The
priest is handing to Zumalacarragui, who is
standing up at the other end of the table
directly facing him, certain letters and docu-
ments tending to implicate a Christino spy
who has been brought in to the church, bound, in
custody of two sturdy looking musketeers. Close
by the spy, and kneeling, with a baby in her
arms, at the feet of the priest, appears the wife
orthe unfortunate man, imploring mercy, and
exltibiting a countenance distracted with a
hundred conflicting emotions. Next to the sky,
is his son—a dogged, sullen-looking lad attentive
to all that is passing, and apparently more soli-,
citous to revenge his father's certain death, than
to console his surviving parent for her loss.
Nothing can be more dexterous or ingenious than
the disposition of these several characters, or
more true to life than the expression of their
countenances. The Carlist leader, Zumala-
carragui is, of course, the prominent figure; he
looks bold, decided, and thoughtful, as if he had
already made up his mind respecting the spy's
doom, and had passed to the consideration of tar
more momentous matters. This costume—which
is remarkable alike for simplicity and singularity
—is, we understand, just such as he invariably
wore during his campaigns, and which be never
laid aside, except when it was necessary that lie
should make his appearance at the motley court
Of Don Carlos. "At this time," says the artist,
in his small pamphlet, explanatory of the print,
" Zumalacarragui was forty-five years of age, and
of middle stature, but his carriage and personal
conformation tended in appearance to diminish
his height.- He inclined forward in an habitual
stoop, and the unusual breadth of his shoulders,
bull-neck, and other proportions, were indicative
of great muscular strength. He always wore a
Zamarra, or fur-jacket. His hair was dark,
tending to black, though not absolutely
so ; this lie kept closely cut, and his
moustache and whiskers were so trimmed as to
meet upon the cheek. His eyes were of a dark,
grey colour, and naturally piercing. The ex-
pression of his countenance, when not actively
occupied, was that of settled and severe thought;
but when in front of troops, the features ex-
pressed more life, yet not less sternness. He
rarely yielded to anything like mirth, and his
pleasantries scarcely went beyond a tacit smile."
Just such a character—so far as countenance and
bearing can indicate it—is delineated in the pre-
sent engraving. The spy, who is the next pro-
minent-figure, exhibits a dogged determination
and hardihood, as if he had made up his mind to
the worst, and was perfectly aware that his destiny
was decided. The figure and attitude of his sup-
pliant wife soften the sterner features of the pic-
ture, and produce—as they are intended to do—
quite a pathetic effect on the spectator. She looks
up with 'streaming eyes to the priest; but in his
calm, and somewhat scornful features there is
no visible appearance of relenting. He looks
like one too bigoted and callous of nature, to be
easily deterred from a settled purpose. The
print, as we observed before, is highly interest-
ing, and is remarkable for the vigor, variety, and
historical truth of its details. From its massive
shadows, and here and there bright gleams of ;
light, it would show to great advantage in a
plain, gold frame. We may add that it is a
mezzotint, and is exquisitely engraved by Lewis.

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.
ARRIVALS.
The Dowager Duchess of Beaufort and Sir Walter and
Lady Mary Farquhar, in Grosvenor- street, from Brighton ;
Lady James Hay and the Hon. Miss Hay, at Crawley's
Hotel, Albemarle-street, from the North ; Sir Richard
Comyn, at the Burlington Hotel, Cork-street, from
Malta ; the Earl of Munster and the Hon. Frederick
Fitzclarence, at the Grosvenor Hotel, Cork-street, from
the Continent ; M. Fox Talbot, Esq.„..a.L.Larly
lietlf Fielding's, Sackville-street, from Lacock Abbey,
Caippenham ; Lord James Browne, at the Marquis of
Sligo's, Mansfield-street, from Westport House, Sligo ;
Sir Walter and the Hon. Lady Stirling and family, at
Lord Strafford's, in Portman-square; Mr. and Mrs. Der-
ing, in Chapel-street, Grosvenor-square, from Brighton.

' DEPARTURE-S.
The Hon. G. 11. Cavendish and Lady Louisa, on a
visit to Lord and Lady Waterpark, Doveridge
Derbyshire ; Mr. Ffolliott, M.P., for Wood Park, Kings-
town ; Captain Villiers Hutton, M.P., for Dublin ; the
Dowager Countess of Belmore and Captain Corry, RN.,
on a visit to the Earl of Belmore, at Castle Coole ; Mr.
Hutt, M.P.. for Gibside Castle, near Durham ; Hon.
Grantley Berkeley, M.P., on a visit to Earl Fitzhar-
dinge, at Berkeley Castle ; Mr. and Mrs. Harcourt, for
Waterloo-crescent, Dover ; Lord Loraine, on a visit to
Mr. and Lady Emily Drummond, at 'rite 'louse, Den-
ham Bucks ; Mynors Baskerville, Esq., from the
Burlington Hotel, Cork-street, for his seat in Hereford-
shire ' • J. S. Leigh, Esq. (Mayor of Liverpool), from
ditto, for Liverpool ; Lord and Lady Rosebery and the
Ladies Primrose, for Warren Wood, Hertz, for the recess.

CHICKASAW MURDERS.- The Eagle, published at
Fort Pickering, states that a serious rupture occurred
near Fort Towson, at the trading establishment cf
Colonel Felix Lewis, and of De Soto, between the
Chickasaws and Colonel Lewis and one or two clerks.
A misunderstanding occurring between some of the
chiefs and Colonel Lewis, respecting some Mississippi
land claims, Colonel Lewis was attacked and wounded,
and his clerk interfering, was killed, and the goods and
trading-house, strewn to the winds. Colonel Lewis not
having since been heard from, it is feared was seized an I
ilesatched by the Indians.
}IRE IN PORTLAND.—We learn from the Eastern
Argus; that on Monday night a fire broke out in Fore-
street, in a building occupied by L. Stowell as a grocery,
and destroyed goods to the amount of $6,000 or $7,000,
and building, valued at $2,000 ; also the books of Frost.
Waterhouse, and Co., who previously occupied the build-
ing. The goods and building were insured.
As a Polish refugee officer was, two days ago,
passing across the Rue des Frondeurs, he was, through
the carelessness of the driver, knocked down by the pole
of a carriage, and received so severe an internal injury
that the blood gushed from his mouth, besides having
his right foot crushed. He was carrid to his residence.
Np. 20, Rue de la Michodiere, in an alarming state.
The bearskin caps now worn by the Household
Brigade are to be discontinued, and helmets substituted
in their place ; the helmets are to be made of German
silver ; those of the Ist and 2d Life Guards are to be
distinguished by a white plume of horse-hair placed in
the socket in the centre of the skull ; and those of the
Royal Regiment of Horse Guards, by a rod plume. The
are to be worn for the first time on her Majesty's birthday
ANECDOTE or MR. JVSTICE CRBSSWELL.—About
two years ago, when Mr. Justice Cresswell was at the
bar, he was examining a sailor as a witness, who ever
and anon called him " My Lord," on which the Learned
Counsel said, "I am not my Lord. That's my Lord,"
pointing to Mr. Baron Alderson, who was trying the
cause ; on which his Lordship added, " He is speaking
prophetically, Mr. Cresswell." It is somewhat singular
that Mr. Cresswell should so soon afterwards be entitled
to be addressed " My Lord."
M. Alehus, the banker and brother of the Director
of the Bank of Brussels, is arrived in Paris (says the
Constitutionnel), for the purpose of founding a project for
a railroad from Paris to Brussels on solid bases, and so
that it may be carried into immediate execution.

SAGACIOUS AND HUMANE OFFICIAL.—A boy in
Indiana was recently arrested for robbing the mail.
While. he was in prison, the Sheriff entered the room,
and levelled a pistol at his head, threatening him with
instant death if he did not confess the crime. The boy
thought that confession was better than death, so he
pulled the money out of the lining of his cap, and gave
it- up. The next day the boy was seized with epilepsey,
and will probably never recover. •
NEWSVENIiERS.—The newsvenders of the metro-
polis celebrated their anniversary last week, by an enter-
tainment given at Anderton's Hotel, and commemorated
the gift by the body of a piece of plate to Mr. Wood of
the Dispatch. The evening was passed in a most agree-
able manner, and several excellent songs were sung ;
amongst them Mr. Beular gave his -‘ Earthquake."
CHRISTIAN BURIAL.—A correspondent informs us
that the son of Mr. John Judd, of Buriton, near Beacons-
field, was buried some days ago without the usual funeral
rites. The child had been duly registered, but for some
cause not explained the ceremony of baptism was not
performed, and the clergyman therefore refused to offi-
ciate. A grave was dug in the churchyard, where the
body was interred in silence.
BADMINTON, MONDAY MORNING.—The Duke of
Beaufort was sufficiently, recovered this morning from
his recent accident to be able to take the field. On
:Wednesday morning the Duke and Duchess leave for
'Bervoir Castle, the seat of the Duke of Rutland, to join
the circle assembled at that princely mansion for the
Croxton Park races.
• The superior Tribunal of Barcelona has just con-
-damned to ten years' hard labour at the hulks the Alcalde
of San Martin 'leis Provenzals and his Secretary, as
members of a band of highway robbers. A similar con-
deinnation occurred, a short time back, in the ease of the
Alcalde of San Andres,

Milton,sMH.l.oLuTseo,
aNt
'HSorPon°, ltjvaSsEp.ulled down
about fifty years since, and another apparently of
similar dimensions built in its stead. The gar-
, den and ground are the same ; and an old pigeon-
house belonging to the former mansion has
been
preserved. In the garden is a decays
apple-
, tree under which the poet is said—with no- great
probability—to have composed the " Arcades."
The situation of the house is low and marshy.
Though near the public-road, it is concealed by
the shrubbery and a cluster of " hedge-row
elms." We had some difficulty in finding the
house, as the villagers considered our inquiries
directed towards a more aristocratic mansion, the
, manor-house which has recently been destroyed,
to the great regret of the people, who described
it as a noble old residence that has stood for
hundreds of years. The Milton-house was the
second of importance in the village. Having
traced out the spot, we found the proprietor,
Mr. Cooke, a hale, cheerful old gentleman, en-
gaged in the field, superintending his hay
makers. He came with great alacrity to show
us the house, pointed out the pigeon-house and
apple-tree, and dwelt with peculiar delight on
the appearance of two tall poplars on the lawn,
about a hundred feet in height, which were
visible, lie said, all the way to Slough, near
Windsor, and on the London-road. There is not a
hill betwixt Horton and London. In this secluded
spot, " shrouded in cheerful shade," the poet had
nothing to withdraw him from the studies in
which he delighted. Mr. Cooke called one of
his labourers to accompany us to Horton Church,
in which he said no doubt the Milton's often sat,
and where the poet's mother lay buried. The
honest peasant was as civil and cheerful as his
master, of whom he spoke with the affections of
the "olden time," that still lingers in these re-
mote nooks and corners; society is much the
same as it was two hundred years since. His
master, he said, had suffered much affliction ; all
his family had died before him, and their tombs
were in the church. There is, fortunately in
some minds an elasticity and ever-springing
cheerfulness—the result of a happy nature and
happy reliance on the goodness of Providence—
that enables them to surmount the heaviest cala-
mities that befall humanity. Horton Church is,
like the village, low and antique; it has its yew-
trees and ivy-mantled walls, the characteristic
and interesting accompaniments of such cpots.
An ancient fount is in the interior. The chancel
is paved with red bricks, among which the blue
flag-stone over the grave of the poet's mother is
conspicuous. The stone is inscribed, " Here
lyeth the body of Sarah Milton, the wife of
John Milton, who died the 3d of April, Mi."—
Fra ter's Magazine.

Mr. DICKENS.—This gentleman arrived in Phi-
ladelphia on Sunday afternoon, and has taken lodgings
at the United States Hotel.

Yesterday the military guard which had been
placed over Hutchings, the soldier who, after having
fired several shots through a door in the Mews' Barracks,
Charing-cross, and jumped out of a windiw, was dis-
missed, in consequence of the surgeon having pronounced
the unfortunate man to be beyond further surgical aid.
His death is hourly expected.
Letters were received on Monday at Lord Rolle's, in
Upper Grosvenor-street, from Lady Rolle, at the seat of
the noble and venerable Peer, Bicton Park, near Honiton,
which did not hold out the slightest prospect of his Lord •
ship's recovery, and his demise was hourly expected.
The peerage is of the creation of 1796.
GREENWICH FAlR.—There were no fewer than forty
steamere engaged on Monday in conveying the holiday
folks to the fair. They took down freight after freight.
The river presented a gay and animated appearance. At
five o'clock there could not have been less than 200,000
visitors in the town, of whom at least two-thirds were
from London.

TEE TOWER.—On Monday morning, at 10 o'clock,
the new Jewel-office in the Tower, containing the re-
galia, was for the first time opened to the public. The
number of persons who paid for admission (6d.) to view
the regalia, yesterday, was 275 ; and the ruins of the
small armouries 348. Total number of visitors, yester-
day, 623. The Armoury ticket-office closing at four
o'clock, a great number of persons arrived subsequent
to that hour, but of course too late to view either the
Crown jewels or the ruins of the armouries. The sales
of the relics of the late destructive conflagration showed
a decided " improvement" yesterday. The number of
visitors to the ruins of the armouries for the week end-
ing Saturday last, was 648.
A new plan is to be tried for paying the out-pen-
sioners of Chelsea Hospital. It is proposed that th's
duty shall in future be performed by captains selected
from the half-pay list. The experiment is to be first put
in practice in North Britain, where ten officers of that
rank are to be posted.

A GOOD THOUGIIT.—Man is but a reed, and it is-
a true representation of the weakness of nature ; but
then he is a reed that thinks. It does not need the
universe to crush him ; a breath of air, a drop of water
will kill him. But even if the material universe should
overwhelm him, man would be more noble than that
which destroys him ; because he knows that he dies,
while the universe knows nothing of the advantage which
it obtains over him. Our true dignity, then, consists in
thought. From thence we must derive our elevation,
not from space or duration. Let us endeavour then to
think well ; this is the principle of morals.—Pascal.
An inquest wag held on Monday, et St. George's
Hospital, before Mr. Higgs, Coroner, on the body of
John Williams, aged 41. From the evidence it appeared
that about six o'clock in the evening of the 10th instant,
deceased was lighting the lamps in front of the Wel-
lington Barracks, near Buckingham Palace, and while
in the act of lighting one cf the lamps the ladder on
which he was standing suddenly slipped, and he was in
consequence thrown from his footing and literally im-
paled upon the spikes of the railings in front of the
barracks. He died on Saturday last. Verdict—" Acci-
dental death."

KENNEDY'S KAunooL.—ln the very remarkable
"Narrative of the Campaign of the Army of the Indus
in Sind and Kaubool, during 1838-9," by Dr. Kennedy,
our recent fatal disasters in India were clearly traced
and foretold. Every one of the author's remonstrances
have now, when too late, been felt to be just. Such are
his opinions as to the choice of cantonments, the route of
the army, his condemnation of the superfluous baggage,
and useless followers of our Indian armies, and his warning
as to the place adopted for the disembarkation of our
troops. His book, published in 1840, contains the fol-
lowing singular and memorable passage :—" The day of
reckoning is not come ; but it will come, and bring a train
of results at which the ear of him that hoareth may
tingle for the remainder of his life." How fearfully has
this been verified !

On Tuesday, says a letter from Boulogne, one of
the fishing-boats of that port brought in the bodies of
several men belonging to a boat which had been wrecked
during the late storms on the coast of England, and th•
crew drowned. They had been washed on shore, and
the inhabitants had carefully collected them, and put
them into oak coffins.

A petition has been agreed to by the seed growers
of Coggeshall against the alteration of the duty on
foreign seeds.—Esser Herald.

The Bishop of Lichfield's illness has taken a favour-
able turn, and the Rev. Prelate is out of danger. The
Bishop of Hereford officiated for his Lordship at the or-
dination at St. George's, Hanover-square.
FURTHER Loss OF LIFE BY FlRE.—Yesterday
afternoon, at four o'clock, an inquest was held at the
Queen's Arms public-house, in Spa-row, Bermondsey,
before Wm. Carter, Esq., the Coroner for Surrey, on
view of the body of Mary Ann Weller, aged five years
and a half, the daughter of Mr. Thomas Weller, of No.
9, Spa- road, tanner, whose death was occasioned under
the following truly lamentable circumstances :—On
Thursday evening lest the deceased was left with her
brother in a room by themselves, where there was a fire,
and it appears that the latter, with a piece of stick, was
amusing himself by carrying it about the room, when
his sister, in endeavouring,' to take it from him, set her
clothes in flames, and, before they could be extinguished,
she was literally roasted alive, and expired in a short
time afterwards. The Coroner remarked that he had

never witnessed a more severe case of burning. Ver-
dict—" Accidental death."

MEETING OF THE BOOT AND SHORMAKERS AGAINST
THE NEW TARIFF.—A meeting of the boot and shoe
makers of Liverpool, which included both masters and
journeymen, was held yesterday (Monday), in the large
room attached to the York Hotel, to take into conside-
ration the effect likely to be produced upon the trade by
the proposed reduction of duty on the importation of
foreign beats and shoes. The meeting was a very nu-
merous one, the large room being nearly filled. Mr.
Thomas Turner was called to the chair. The following
excellent and pithy resolution was passed unanimously
—" That this meeting views with great alarm the pro-
posed tariff relative to the importation of foreign boots
and shoes, without a corresponding reduction on two
other necessary articles of life, viz.—corn and sugar."
Mr. James Stout and Mr. William Harris moved and
seconded this resolution, which, with other resolutionS,
were subsequently moved and carried ; and it was ulti-
mately resolved to draw up a petition to Parliament,
praying for a better adjustment of the tariff, the petition
to be confided to the members of the borough for pre-
sentation.—Liverpool Times.

MILLBANK IiENITENTIARY.--.-The Report of the
Superintendingc, Committee for the past year, of this
Penitentiary, for the reception of convicts, affords but
little conclusive, and amounts to scarcely more than a
statement of what is doing, in furtherance of what
should be done. The former distressing increase in the
number of insane prisoners having been occasioned, in
the opinion of Dr. Italy, the medical attendant, by the
severe observance of the separation system, the Com-
mittee, under his advice, have relaxed this strict system
with regard to all prisoners, except two classes
an insufficient space of time, however, has 'as yet elapsed
two
yearill afford
that' v t
since the
any positive data. It however appearsspecifisedi
change of discipline, introduced in
July, 1841, and
were curable
only two
carried on during the five succeeding
curable cases.
od and superior
wthat the prisoners,
prisoners became insane, and those
From the health returns, it tippears
of prece tog years. The
during the last year, have enjoyed 7
confined in the Peni-
tentiary to the average 21n
of
of last was 998, exclusive of
who amounted to 874 ; the deaths
military convicts,
in the whole number during the same period aromulting
to fifteen.