The Sun.
London, England, 1845-02-20 00:00:00

RAILWA Y COMMITTEES.

The Sub-Committee appointed to ascertain if the
promoters of the Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole Rail-
way had complied with the standing orders of the
House of Commons, re-assembled yesterday at 2 o'clock,
and proceeded with the investigation. After sitting for
about an hour the Committee concluded their labours with
allowing about 16 out of 98 trivial objections which had
been urged against the project by Mr. Platt, the Parlia-
mental-) agent, on behalf of Mr. G. I. Smyth, of Heath
Hall, Wakefield, who had entered a protest against the
scheme, declaring it to be unnecessary and uncalled for.
The Chairman, Sir John Yarde Buller, intimated to the
agent of the promoters that it was the intention of the
Committee to report specially on the line, and there was
no doubt the objections would be overcome on being re-
ferred to a Select Committee on Standing Orders.

SUICIDE OF MR. L. BLANCHARD

CORONER'S INQUEST.

On Monday evening Mr. Carter and a highly respectable jury as-
sembled at the Spread Eagle Tavern, Canterbury-road, Lambeth, to
inquire into the cause which led the late Mr. Leman Blanchard,
the weß-knoWn contributor to the metropolitan periodicals, to com-
mit suicide. • _ . . _

The jury, upon being sworn, proceeded to the late residence of the
deceased, No. 11, Union-place, Canterbury-road, to view the body,
which was lying in the bed-room.
Upon the re-assembling of the jury,
The CORONER stated, that what they had to inquire into would be
the state of the deceased's mind at the time he committed the act of
self-destruction, and upon the evidence adduced they would find their
verdict accordingly.
From the statement of the nurse, it appeared that about twelve
months since the wife of Mr. Blanchard was attacked with illness,
which, in the end, terminated in insanity. At different periods Mrs.
Blanchard's disease became more confirmed, when, about two months
since, while sitting in the drawing-room, she exclaimed to the de-
ceased that she was afraid she was attacked again, and shortly af-
terwards her intellect disappeared. On that occasion Mr. Blan-
chard carried his wife up to her bed, from which she never rose.
From the period of the death of Mrs. Blanchard up to last Friday
&vetting, the deceased had been observed to labour under a great de-
pression of spirits, and that to such an extent that he was afraid to
be left alone of a night, so that when the nurse departed, his youngest
child, a lad about eleven years of age, slept with him. The result of
the loss of Mrs. Blanchard, acting upon the susceptibility of the mind
of the deceased, created a disorganisation, which ended in the pros-
Aration of the nervous system, and Mr. Blanchard became subjected
to tits. In the course of last Friday he sustained two attacks, tt,iin
both of which he recovered, and at the usual hour, which was between
nine and ten, he retired to his bed-room, accompanied by his son, and
attended by the nurse. The deceased, as was his usual custom, per-
formed his devotions, which he concluded by the Lord's Prayer, and
at that time he appeared to be in the full enjoyment of his intellects.
The nurse, on the termination Of the evening prayers, lett the room,
and within three minutes afterwards the deceased committed suicide.
The boy, on seeing the blood gush from the throat of his parent,
sprang towards him, and catching hold of his hand, exclaimed, " Oh,
father !" when the deceased fell, and in all probability died. Medical
aid was called in, but the deceased had ceased to exist.
,It was further stated that since the death of Mrs. Blanchard,
the deceased had been most desponding, and, although giving exist-
ence to those charming pieces which pleased all uho read them, he
was sinking under a most painful state of mind.
The CORONER, at this stage of the proceedings, remarked that the
sou of the deceased who, it appeared, had slept with his father sidce
the death of Mrs. Blanchard, was in attendance ; but from what han
come to his knowledge, he felt satisfied that no additional information
could be arrived at.

The jury said they were perfectly satisfied, and returned a verdict,
" That the deceased destroyed himself while labouring wider tempo-
rary insanity."
It is to be regretted that the deceased has left four children to
lament his untimely loss.

THE BISHOP or ELT.—Great hopes are begin-
ning to be entertained by his Lordship's medical attendants of his
ultimate recovery. On Sunday a change for the better was perceived
and the favourable symptoms continued on Monday.
ARTESIAN WELLS.—An artesian well is being sunk
in Berkeley-square, In lieu of the old pump, which has for many years
past supplied the square and its vicinity.

- - •
CANINE HUMANE SOCIETY.—Tezi Newfoundland
dogs have been imported into Paris for the purpose of watching the
banks of the Seine, and experienced trainers are every day employed
in teaching these magnificent animals to draw from the water stuffed
figures of men and children. The rapidity with which they cross and
recross the river, and come and go at the voice of their trainers, is
truly. marvellous. It is hoped that these fine dogs, for whom hand-
some kennels have been erected on the bridges across the Seine, wilt
render great service to the cause of humanity.—Commerce.

SUDDEN DEATII.-Mt. W. Barber, an ex-
ceedingly promising young man, twenty-two years of age, third son
of the Rev. J. It. Barber, M.A., minister of St. Paul's, Vauxhall,
and chaplain of Lambeth cuion, arrived at Preston, in Lancashire,
in which town and neighbourhood he had business to transact as
agent for a wholesale house in London, and, before retiring to rest
on Monday evening, requested to be called in the morning, as he had
to proceed further by the railway. Mrs. Newton, at whose house he
had been in the habit of stopping whenever he visited Preston, pre-
pared his breakfast, as usual, on Tuesday morning, and having
knocked at his door several times without receiving any answer, went
into his room and found him quite dead. _ _

LADY CWILIA FARRENCOURT. A NOVEL. By
HENRY MILTON, ESQ.—_T_t affords us real pleasure to be
able fully to confirm in our report on Mr. Milton's
second work of fiction, the high anticipations which were
excited by his first book, entitled " Rivalry." We have
no hesitation in saying that " Lady Cecilia Farrencourt"
very greatly surpasses it. In excellence of plot, which
is the most important, yet incomparably the rarest fea-
ture of a modern novel, the present work has been
equalled by very few recent productions of a similar
kind ; and in its general knowledi,e of actual life in all
its phases, it is worthy to stand beside the productions of
the writer's distinguished relative, Mrs. Trollope ; there
are scenes of humour and of satire in it that would in no
degree discredit that inimitable writer. The two lead-
ing characters of the work are the incomparable Lady
Cecilia herself, and the indescribable and inimitable Mr.
Simon Cummins Allnut, the one representing the highest
and most superfine of our May-fair aristocracy, and the
other being an equally significant type of that apper-
taining to the City ; the aristocracy of the breeches
pocket and the banker's book. Tne capital way in
which these two individuals are played off against each
other throughout the work affords scope for an unfail-
ing succession of interest and entertainment, and for
several scenes that are not surpassed in any similar fic-
tion of the last few years.—Aaval and Military Gazette.

IRELAND.
• DUBLIN, FEB. 17.—The usual weekly meeting of I
Repeal Association, held to-day, in the Conciliation
was very much crowded. Mr. O'Connell made his -0011:
ance amid loud and enthusiastic peals of acclamation. lur;
Dillon Browne Es q.,
lion. and Learned Gentleman was accompanied by 1{0..,,_11e.
M.l'., William Smith O'Brien, row'
M.P., Edmund 'Burke Roche, Esq., M.P., James Kelly, E 6411"
M.P., Morgan O'Connell, isq., M.P., P. J. Seiner's, gud
111. P., Thomas Davis, Esq., Thomas Macnevin, Esq.,

some other members of the Committee.
Mr. MACNEVIN, on the motion of the Member for Lille:
rick, having been called to the Chair, addressed the meeting
at some length.
Mr. JOHN O'CONNELL, M.P., referred to a subject of Ofe.e.
interest in the financial statement of the Prime Minister
Parliament. He confessed he did not take quite the grateaal
l:
view that others were inclined to take of the benefit ',hre:.
it was thought one portion of his proposition would confer
the people of Ireland. He was fully aware of the bent?, '_'
that the reduction in the duty on glass would confer O.
poorer classes, for it would enable them to have more
and make their cabins more conducive to the health al's,
inmates; but their gratitude, or rather, their joy for such s,
boon, should not make them lose sight of the gross in..l
continued upon them by the omissions of the Ministerial:4l,er:
respects towards lreland.--)
Mr. O'CoNsEu. rose amid loud Cheers. cheers and annonnced_tzre
receipt of a remittance from the county Louth, and in d°;iert
so lie took occasion to observe, that when Mr. Monies" dr
Bellew was canvassing that county he avowed himselft•.A.
termined repealer. That gentleman was now praising 1:11
and appeared quite forgetful that he had obtained bilho74,
by professing the .strongest repeal principles. He' coo-
lie got something for being a renegade. He (Mr. olir
nell) pronounced him, from that spot, to be "a ruestroa,
savoury renegade." At the next election some other Pes,,,
would be returned to represent that noble coanty---,'-i 0
county Louth ; and if Mr. Bellew showed his face,--ggi;
it was, it would be handsomer going there than it wOO4""
goin away.
N a it,
Mg r. O'CONELL again rose, and said hi had to ban
52/. Ils. from Washington, in the district of Colombia, 474
250/. from Baltimore.—(Cheers.) The Hon. and l'eflithe
Gentleman expressed his deep gratitude, and that 0.
Association, to their :American friends. The .1-bn'erod •
Learned Gentleman concluded by moving that it be ref f,
to a Committee to prepare suitable replies to the Arne'
correspondence.
Mr. SOMERS seconded the motion, which passed. a. is
Mr. O'CONNELL wished to make an observation or Of beer
reference to the increased grant to May nooth. He had pari
informed that Peel intended making the grant 26,110v"...de1;
`annum, besides which, the buildings were to be reised,
under the superintendence and at the expense of. the
of Public Works. He had been reproached with neg.,' air
eog
to oppose this grant, and reminded of his oft-repeated
ciple—that every religion should pay its own clergYory
That, certainly, was his principle, and he should 1;1'404.
much to see it carried out ; but, while the Established bib it
took money from the Catholics and Dissenters, for no'
gave no value, he would take all he could get for 514iffroot4'
Mr. R. D. BROWNE, having expressed his full eeoe"-,yol'
in the Liberator's observations respecting Ameriesoichicb!
pathy, referred to the recent speech of Mr. Wakley,i'L„bett,
that Hoe. Gentleman alluded to the absence of Irish sad
ard
from Parliament, and invited them to come for'_,,e-
expose the grievances of their country, if any existed'
Mr. O'CoNNELL proceeded to comment upon the 14;0
recently delivered by Mr. Wakley in the debates on trisab.
dress and the Budget. Mr. Wakley had been made a 7-11011
piece of, to insinuate charges against Irish Members; „ooll).
were totally without foundation ; and he (Mr. 010
charged him with the grossest ignorance regardigepo;
affairs. This ignorance was so " crass," that it se
:eta
be pretended, and Mr. Waklev was in the
" Abegoil, who went to hell without sin." In reply she
demand made by Mr. Wakley, that Irish MembersLageo
make a distinct declaration of the measures theY_Toftly
and would be contented with, Mr. O'C. read a nutouvi
cuments published by himself, and other members
_tiskedt
Repeal Association, when the Precursor Society ef,emat.
in which the required list of grievances and their te7401.
were put forward. Mr. Wakley's ignorance, Prettlisletv
real, of these public documents, proved him unfit to -irSr
for the country, and Ireland could put no confidence/000
liament composed of such persons. The Hon. Clsb
concluded his speech, which was a comparativeleir
address, by moving that copies of the reports, and °tm}
cuments, to which he bad alluded, should be forW
Mr. Waklev by the Secretary of the Assoeiation•
Mr. E. B. RocirE seconded the motion. fOO
Mr. O'CONNELL mentioned, that on the next daYf ,
ing he would give notice of a resolution to the effec7° Ore;tj
petition to Parliament should be prepared, praying, Act
peal of those clauses in the Emancipation Act whie'
the Jesuits and other regular clergy.—(Cheers.) 50.
The rent for the week was announced to be 7514.1087-

SPIRIT of th-t PUBLIC J 0 (JR14,1".
FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTZliltf:
GLOBE.—Lord Ashley says—in anticinat'7o' be
the corn-laws will be thrown in his teeth—that theie
believed the repeal of the corn-laws would Platt•ia ,
much suffering thousands of their fellow-creatuoo,u'
condition of comfort, and keep them in it, he, 1° reap'
all his predilections, would vote at once for th,e1:1,09„,
, abolition." We do not doubt the sincerity of w:soct
ship's assertion ; but we doubt whether he 5eiae.:00.,7,1
the point of view in which alone the corn-laws tv"001Ir •
objected to his regulative proposals by all 11E1%4 tov
opponent. We have never, for our part, uncle:et:o4!
say that no regulation of infant labour was 13 iosttiel
though we have frequently declared ourselves ge
terference with that of adults. And when °Lestd
bons of adult labour have been stated to he 04015
unsatisfactory, we have affirmed that no diree!.,,o7,‘
tiona about them could render them otherY4,7%-,f,
that the defect must lie in the demand elan ibef
wages available—for labour. It is as affeettoellf
that the policy of Food-Restriction has, hY e-1161.1.
and others, been held to render nugatory the pry',
Employment-Regulation. For example, if s be vispr,
ditcher, in Lord Ashley's neighbourhood let t's,eibat' •
Dorsetshire, is seen to be seeking piece-work "•,,i 4";
greatest anxiety, and doing it at the lowest rates' of
years—the dearth of corn is deemed to have ser,iool.
flexion with the excessive toil of that man. Regte„iigic,'
the hours of hedging and ditching, it is not
would materially mend the matter ; and r/°_,,11.
alter it by dividing employment (already aes..,"- Ito
cient for one man's wants) between two or rat", *vitt, :
word, if it is dearth of subsistence that stittuaglo Ivor,
over-toil, no regulation (that does not ifiereileece,..
supply of subsistence) can pt event the ceasen,clh; sble
dearth showing itself in one shape or other. '• I,`" ose
of extreme toil is that which is chosen 11 this or 'b.:
can find work. That may be forbidden, to ',l-001"
other instance—but extremity of some kin': be
suffered ; and extreme toil will, after all, rg'ary
fe
vented, without inspectors for every cottage, evc`cierer-Ai
every hedge and ditch. Turning to man° reed,
slackness of demand, competition of worker: thl
ness for over-hours, will in like manner sh%g of mil
selves. The plague of dearth is at the Ilse ribs
—men or women do not volunteer te„tup
from love of suffering. You undertake t° (eat?
intense toil. In the great proportion of c¢
not 6-00
namely, outside the walls of lactories) you es-tbat
it. In cases in which you can, it may haPPe° 00'0
stop the power of making up orders, of dise:eto
shipments—of competing with unrestricted do is•
in foreign markets. If you do this—all rudisires4
force capital to fly from the seats of your
00 ter
labour. If you stop short of doing this' ?foe °tile
short of doing great mischief—but in any ear bf "to'
short necessarily of cutting up the ral'er•ife'reacei
roots. The Anti-Corn• law advocates, with re elar".°oo
measures like Lord Ashley's for regulatiugneriathod
ments, assume that the cure-laws do produce re-pt,,„ihei
dearth of subsistence, slackness of ernpleYnc. r'ffi
consequent lowness of' wages, and over-w°l. pep
assume that those only who are distressed °infer 0,
likely to distress themselves by toil ; and tkeY. distrts
no remedy, which does not touch the forme' 4oce:ie
can ever meet the latter. All this; of course' ;v
on the assumption that we are right, in our this
oot 11;11
corn-laws. That assumption granted' there Tittle'
unreasonable in bringing it tu bear on tilt se
questions.

MONEY MARKET and CITY 1".,[00'
v Evs• Ole'
CITY, TUESDAY „ ..pr 0)
TIMES.—The premium on g old at Paris is Warr Übe •
which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. IC*, r ascl,itars
for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25 4,,,1. it fop°.
exchange at Paris on London at short being 25 6:`.9,t' Par 1'
that gold is 0.60 per cent. dearer in London than,dlis 454 petr
By advices from Hamburgh, the price of old is
itmthafeorekllx,oclNvi%is-ahhitch, at the English Mint price of 31- "i• 13 91 ; hi'
ounce for sght:atantdgard gold, gives an exchange ('' • 013 00
bef,011:42//' th
iailda mi
ab u
1.02rg1 i
peron Loudoncaat. it
dearer
es hr °ill
in
enh ail I
Tfloclon , Au
Th course of exchange at New York on ''•roglallu ec-
per cent. ; and 11
par of exchange between .;hat the 0-teei
America being 109 23-40 per cent., it follows. l't the ill! 114
change is 0.68 per cent. in favour of England
s.; Du days' 64"
exchange at New York being for bills at sity
the interest mustl2222b added t the lve difeence. .
v.)
MARKET NE W S.—( '1- if
yE s T-pft A:
er.
CORN EXCICANOV. Wheat On hot
We had a fair average supply of English 7,tittious,
00.
The best qualities moved otf at Mondays q
ottilh"rer tetr the
most other kinds might have been purchased .
____ive, ye
_le ,
The show of free Foreign Wheat was not purchased
13s_ritth
0
inquiry fur it was heavy, at almost nominal Diceners .
and Malt were in slow inquiry, and the turn r -
Beans, and Peas without alteration. Poo'°
ARRIVALS. Oats. 3.41
-----
IVlleat. Barley. ,
........
4,020 qrs. 2,940 vs. ;•,,70450
......-
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Malt, 4,380 cirs. deEditn,,l4ll
WHITACUBP3I3 Meat. The „pr,
We bad only a moderate sipply of from "04
Beef'
~ 0 :
Od 10 'S .
thoo w3sev6edr,; wi‘aisuitntoanct,i2vse,sadt
tboa3rselsydl;ate rate3s.a 1
, West
Pork, 2s 8d to 4s 4d per 81bs, by thee:all:case.
COAL ra.&IOCVI.I __iddle sivoll
Prices per ton at the close of the inarke.._ 6j; g,oin.,4eid,
Hartley, 16s 6d ; Carr's West HartleY,6ld7go
ds. ;iv.
16sMoOr-1956 s't WI •
Main, 17s; Nelson's West Hartlev,
16s 3d ; Ord's Redheugh, 15s ; Taiifield
.6s 4d; vire
103 ;
lam,lol-' s West Hartley, aNrvt3leiya,ml,6s; 16s; Westl v.
EH.a Clarke 1 and CO.;•WSJ'
Clennell, 16s 3d ; Gosforth, , cord', 1'3;1856d ;
dyll's Hetton, 20s 3d ; East Irestto; n'i.,lllillis.,;,,n",l.ltiginalelYl',loo.ll3,°gos6d i
Hylton, 18s; Hetton, 20s 3d ; Lanibto ;o,',
ii iss 6d; car' is§ ad '
Russell's Hetton, 19s 3d; Whitiven" south gellosiorioss.;
K elloe, 18s 6,1 ; Leasingthorne, 195; d
g , South p"h coo'
Adelaide, 193 6d ; Seymour Tees, 183`' ~,,,, o,
Tees, 19s 6d ; Tenant's, ",:letbert°°' •
175; BryVes'-t Aartley.
1116asr6tcliey;,iliasr;u3lep000l,
20,,,...........,_5hipa
ar
t_............_.........rgan's Stone, 228;
ived, 16.
._h Do
. f the 1115„ I'
father odied at his
Alexander Stewart, Esq.,
and the oldest magistrate in D0wn51.17,„4 week.
_,„ing,
Ballyedmond, Rostrevor, in his 93d yea; 7ionday ecTroae,
Mr. It. Yorke left the House 0 iv
inviries slofoine!!.....
,a,l3..eottutndtwl'io, hisounio•swbeefoonraentehtei
ttolliN;ii:ioxd,
awnit farTvcre attae_____l, -----

English
Irish
Foreign • .

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DIED.
Esq., aged 39.
bLearOdtobnirlot,hk: IstE of February, at his villa, 1040.
e, aged 74. E Ward -
On the 4th inst., at Birmingham, Gecoge -d
at Florenclh

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