The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-19 00:00:00

TUE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER l9, 1842.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.

The Cotton market at Liverpool on Saturday was
dull, only 2,50.0 bales being sold at the previous rates.
In Railway Shares also there was scarcely any busi-
ness done, there being but few purchasers. Eastern
Counties were 8!-1 ; BirminghaM Thirds, 33i ; and
South Western, 62.
• Accounts have been received from Buenos Ayres
to the 15th October, and which appear to give fur-
ther evidence of the progress of Rosas in his invasion
of the Oriental Republic. The national squadron
had sailed with 12 transports under convoy, having on
board troops and stores for Entre Rios, and the military
movements appeared to be very brisk. A new
Governor had been appointed in Santa Fe, who was
expected to act vigorously against the enemies of
Rosas. The English residents at Buenos Ayres had
held a meeting, at which it was determined to
open a subscription in aid of the relief fund which
had been set on foot in England for the dis-
tressed manufacturers. After a slight demand for
certain spring goods, the market for imported fabrics
had again become very dull. Flour was higher.
Shipping was wanted at the same rates as at Monte
Video. Dry freight was more abundant at Buenos
Ayres. There were 40 vessels in port, nine of which
were British.

Advices to the 7th October from Monte Video
direct, r3ceived via Havre, stated thatthe continuance
of hostilities paralysed business, and that it was diffi-
cult for ships to obtain carg►oes.
From Java under date of Sept. 6, we learn that
another serious fire had occurred at Sourabaya, by
which a great number of Chinese and native houses
had been destroyed.

The Canada Loan having so entirely got into the
hands of the Stock Exchange members, forms an
agreeable hobby fur the speculators, and they have
run it up already and 1 per cent. pre-
mium, with a prospect of its going higher. The
security, however, is, in point of fact, first-rate, and
as such the public will take it for want of a better in-
vestment, now money is so abundant. The instal-
ments are to be made on the 22d December, and on
the 9th January next.
In the Funds there has been only a limited business
done, and the quotations are still rather heavy for
Consols, which have receded to 931; - and 9311 for
the' opening. Exchequer-bills are steady at 50s. to
51s. premium; -and East India Bonds at 435. prem. ;
Reduced Three-and-a-Half - per Cents. are worth 101
to 1011 ; and Long Annuities 12 9-16 ; India Stock
is firm at 2674.
The Foreign Market is rather fiat. Spanish Actives
are 181 4 ; and the Three per Cents., 241 to 24k.
Mexican Bonds have not been higher than 314 to 31.
Brazilian have been dull at 69; and D utch Two-and-
a -Half per Cents are quiet at 52i to 521. Portuguese
Converted Bonds, are steady at 3211.
The Railway Shares also can hardly be called so
buoyant. Great Western are 251 ; Birmingham, 981
to 991; South Western, 201 ; and Manchester and
Leeds, New, 2 premium. Brighton are 14 to 14* ;
South Eastern Scrip, 3 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 2 ,
and Eastern' Counties, 14i discount. British North
American Bank Shares are 7 discount.
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share.
Eastern Counties

Edinburgh and Glasgow •50
Great Western

London and Brighton ......
London and 13irmingliam 2O lB9 ...... to 1891
London and South Western ... 41% 6li to

Manchester and Leeds
Ditto New Shares 3O
South Eastern and Dover
Ditto Scrip...
PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, DEC. 17. •
Three per Cent. Consols 94
Three and a Half Stock •. 100
Ditto, New, 1830
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 17.—We
have had a flat market, but prices continue firm.
Paris and Rouen, 2i to 26; Manchester and Bir-
mingham, 20 to 204 ; Manchester and Leeds, 73 to
74; ditto Halves, 31i to 32 • South Eastern, 61i to
624; Peak Forest Canal, 40i.

LAW INTELLIG ENCE.

CHANCERY,—(THIS DAY.)
The LORD CHANCELLOR. was occupied to-day in
hearing appeals; the first of which, Barnard v. Sut-
ton, on motion part-heard, occupied the greater por-
tion of the morning.

ROLLS' COURT._(THIS DAY.).

HOWARD V. HOWARD.

This cause, which was part-heard on Saturday, was
resumed to-day at the sitting of the Court. It came
before the Court upon exceptions to the Master's lte-
port, and the questions involved referred to the dis-
posal of certain property in the West Indies.ley
did not possess much interest, and were likely; to en-
gage the Court some days.

VICE-CHANCERY.—(THIS DAY).
(Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR of ENGl,trip.),
After disposing of two cases which had been, part-
heard, the Court proceeded to take motions, and Mr.
Stewart was heard in reply to the case of Ilickson v.
Mainwaring, the facts of which have already appeared
in The Sun.

QUEEN'S BENCH.—(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings at Nisi Prius at the Guildhall, before Lord
DENMAN and a London Special Jury.)
CURTIS V. THE BLACKWALL RAILWAY COMPANY.
The plaintiff is the inventor of the patent rApe,
and the action was brought against the defend is
for an alleged infringement of his patent.
There were several models on the floor of the Court,
without the assistance of which it would be impossible
to convey any idea of the merits of the case. It is
expected that the trial will last over to -night, as there
were ten counsel engaged in the cause, and there are
an immense number of witnesses to be examined.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.)

CASE OF Dn. BAILEY.—This being the day to
which the case of Dr. Bailey, LL.D., was adjourned,
the Court was crowded with persons anxious to hear
the further examination in this case, being the third.
The same Counsel appeared as on the last occasion.
Mr. Justins from Mr. Flower's office, appeared for
the prosecution.
Wm. Moorlan, was then called, and said—l live in
the City-road. I am skilled in fac-simile writing.
By Mr. C. Jones—That is imitation writing. I
am a lithographic artist, and can tell when a writing
is real or not.

Re-examined—Looking at the promissory note and
the receipt produced, and comparing them, the signa-
sure to the promissory note appears to be a tracing
from the signature to the receipt.
By Mr. C. Jones—l do not know whether the sig-
nature to the receipt is Mr. Smith's or not, but I
have no doubt the other signature is a tracing.
Re-examined—l do not believe the signature and
body of the I 0 U produced are in the same hand
as the receipt before produced. The letter produced
is not in the same handwriting as the receipt. It is
not at all like ,it.
Bryan Carney was then put into the box. I live in
Prince's-row, Pimlico. I am a labouring roan. I
know the prisoner; I have known him about ten
weeks. A short time since he asked me in the
Brompton-road if I would become a witness to a law-
suit. I made him no answer for about five minutes, to
consider what was his motive for asking the question.
I told him yes at last. He gave me a shilling. He
told me to call at his house at ten o'clock the follow-
ing day. He gave me the direction, No. 73, Caro-
line-street, adjoining Coleshill-street. I went to him
next day and saw him there. He told me to sit down
until he had written what I was to say. I sat down,
and he wrote something, and then he read it to me.
He then gave mo the paper, and I gave it to Mr. Smith.
I gave it to Mr. Smith about five weeks afterwards.
When the prisoner gave me the paper he told me to
get that by heart, and that I would be thereby en-
abled to give answers to the counsel that would be
acting for Mr. Smith. I walked away then, and he
gave me a shilling. I saw the Doctor afterwards, in
about five days, and he told me to go down to his so-
licitors, in St. Mary Axe. He gave me a
note to Mr. Hill. I gave the note to Mr.
Smith, I believe. The solicitor questioned me, and I
told him what Dr. Bailey had written down for me to
say. He asked me if I was at the chapel with the
deceased Robert Smith. I told him I saw him at
Queen-square chapel. He asked me what was in the
document that was signed there, and I told
him, as Dr. Bailey had told me to say.
I was at the solicitor's office as much as
three quarters of an hour being questioned. I saw
the prisoner afterwards at my own house. It is about
six weeks ago. He said he wanted to speak to me
outside. I went outside. He said he wanted me to
go to the Exchequer Coffee-house next morning at
ten o'clock. I went, and saw the prisoner there.
There were six persons there. There was a person
there also who had written down what I said at St.
Mary Axe, and he told me to read it. I said, "Read
it yourself." He read it, and he asked me if that was
right ; but sure I did not know anything about it,
but I said "Yes."—(Laughter.) He told me to go
over to Westminster Hall. I went home because I
thought I had to swear to that which was in the
paper. I did not see Dr. Bailey for a week after. I
told him he must be a scaly man to want me to swear
to a paper for 7s. 6d., and if he gave the whole country
I would not do it. He had promised me 301. to do
it; 101. before I swore at Westminster Hall, and 201.
when it was ended.

Cross-examined—The prisoner wrote the paper in
my presence. I cannot say the paper produced is the
one. I said, the last time I was examined, that the
paper then produced was the prisoner's_ writing.

Mr. C. Jones—ls this the paper? Witness—Oh
Lord, Oh Lord, I wish I had never been in it !
Mr. C. Jones—Won't your swear it if you are paid
for it ? Prisoner (vehemently)—No ; if you paid me
for it I would not by my blessed oath. Oh, I wish
I had never seen him (pointing to the prisoner).
Mr. C. Jones—When you swore on the last occasion
that the paper then produced was the one Dr. Bailey
wrote, was that true or false ? Witness—lt was true.
Mr. C. Jones—ls this the paper that I,,,k'as then pro-
duced ? Witness—l will not swear.

Mr. C. Jones—When ypu were in Mr. Hill's office
'r three quarters of an hour, were you telling lies
ill the time ? Witness—lndeed, I tould nothin but
Lies- all the time.—(Laughter.)
Mr. James Smith was then called, and stated that
le was brother to the deceased Robert Snlith. The

last witness some weeks ago called on me, and stated
to me what he has said to-day ;he d-slivered a paper
to m?. It was the one produced.
Robert Lenny said, I live at 41, Charles-street,
Westminster, with my grandmother. lam 14 years
of age. I know the prisoner. I have known him
about three years. I have been employed by him to
write and to go errands. The last time I was em-
ployed was iu September. I wrote at his house. I
wrote the pacer produced (the one given to Carney).
It was by Dr. Bailey's direction. I copied it from
a paper in Dr. Bailey's handwriting.
After same further evidence of little importance,

the several witnesses were bound over to pro-
secute, and the prisoner was fully committed for trial.

UNION. HALL.-(THIS DAY•)

Another hatch of poor men were brought up for re-
fusing to do the work assigned them in Newington
workhouse.

The defendants are all agricultural labourers, and
in consequence of want of work in the country,
many of them coming up from distant parts to
seek employ ;in London, they were reduced to
their present destitute condition. Worn out with
fatigue and exhaustion they applied at the workhouse,
and were admitted ; but, according to their accounts,
they were unable to perform the work that was as-
signed to them, from sleeping in a miserable place,
and having a small allowance of food.
The MAGISTRTE committed them for two days
each, not as a punishment, but to pass them home to
their respective parishes.

MR. GREEN W OOD THE POLICE
MAGISTRATE.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
" Can such things be
And overcome us like a summer's cloud
Without our special wonder."
SlR,—With feelings of heartfelt sorrow, I read in
your impression of the 14th, under the head of
Clerkenwell Police Court, that a poor boy had been
sent by Mr. Greenwood to the House of Correction
for 21 days for endeavouring to 'eke out a miserable
existence for himself and his widowed mother. In
this country it is quite clear poverty is a crime, and
the poorer and more unprotected an individual is the less
chance he has " of being recommended by the Court "
to escape the punishment awarded him.
In your same impression, I observe three " notorious
thieves " were committed to the House of Correc-
tion for three months ! ! for stealing certain property
from an uninhabited dwelling-house, so that there is
evidently no material distinction between a person ask-
ing for a penny to save him from the cravings
of desperate hunger, or in a thief taking away your
property and disposing of it where he pleases; the
same punishment is awarded to both parties, the only
difference being a matter of time. Let me, how-
ever, implore those Magistrates who are, by their
country, permitted to administer the law in itp various
forma, to allow the scale of mercy to preponderate
in their judgment. Here, a poor unfortunate half-
famished fellow-creature, who, sooner than commit
an offence which would place him within the reach of
the " Common Sergeant," or who, sooner than become
the associate of thieves, is to be imprisoned in the
House of Correction, for 21 days, for trying to sell in
the streets a few coloured prints, so that he might be
able to purchase a bit of bread instead of stealing it, and
for this aet (" most righteous Judge') the sufferer is
doomed to be incarcerated within the walls of a rigorous
English Bastille for the space of 504 hours.
Polished oak stables for horses, tessellated pavements
for dogs, iron doors and rough gaolers for poor
starving children, taxation and imposition for the
people of England, are the delights and advantages
of this favoured land, so "great, glorious, and free."
But, Sir, a time will come when the aristocracy of
i
this kingdom, and the hard-hearted hirelings who
now grace
"such tricks of tyrants may be borne by
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mplore you to taught to
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lend assistance to the case of the unfortunate boys
now paying the penalty of their poverty in the deep
dungeons of the House of Correction.
ONE OF THE PEOPLE, AND A
SUBSCRIBER OF TEN YEARS.

This morning about five minutes to twelve o'clock
a shocking accident took
Place at the Hungerford
Suspension-bridge, by the breaking of a crane, by
which two men had a narrow escape of their lives ;
one fortunately got off with only a ducking; the
other was not so fortunate, having his leg broken in
two places. He was removed on a shutter to Charing-
cross Hospital.
A letter from Verviers, of the 15th December, says:
—We learn that the works on the iron railway, from
Pepinstee to the Prussian frontier, have just been
totally suspended, and all the workmen dismissed by
the contractors, who, it is said, were no longer paid,
and disagree with the Government on various points.
In consequence of these unhappy differences, about
two thousand workmen will be thrown out of employ-
ment in the midst of the winter. We hope the Go-
vernment will lose no time in putting an cud to these
differences.;
AFFECTING SToier.e—We find the following extra-
ordinary story in several of the journals :—" A short
time ago a melancholy event took place in the theatre
at Leghorn. A player on the bass named Gemini-
niani, wishing to make his talent known to the public,
acts of the opera. The connoisseurs, however, thought
announcedbut
lightly
that ahti
his
heta
talent, and
to play a piece between the
assembled to laugh at the
performance. When the poor artist was playing the
rondeau of Lucia on a single string, conversation,
laughter, and noise drowned the sound of the instru-
ment. He exhibited marks of extreme emotion, and
at last his agitation became so great that he could no
longer do justice to his powers. When he arrived at
the phrase— Tu delle gigje in seno, io della morte
(Thou hest joy in thine heart, and I death), he let the
instrument drop, remained a moment motionless' and
then fell heavily on the stage ! The people of the
theatre rushed from the side scenes, and bore him off.
Medical aid was applied, but in vain—he was dead !"
—Galignani's Messenger.
LIEPMANN'S PROCESS FOR PRINTING IN OIL-CO-
LOURS.—This process, which lately excited so much
interest at Berlin, and indeed throughout the whole
world of artists, is now no longer a mystery, the in-
ventor
grugdainsctled him disclosed his secret in consideration
a
by the King of Prussia.
Liepmann lately presented to the Emperor of Aus-
tria a copy of the work in which the process is de-
tailed, and has received a golden medal from his Im-
perial Majesty in acknowledgment of the presenta-
tion. We have seen in several of the German papers
descriptions of the process ; but, though in its
application it is said to be extremely easy and simple,
we must own that we have not as yet obtained
any very clear idea from the accounts to which we
refer. " The most important point," says the Ham-
burgh Borsen Halle, "in which the new process varies
from all previous methods of printing in colours is,
that the body from which the impressions are taken
is not ono upon which the colours have to be laid for
each separate impression, but is itself a coloured map,
of greater or less magnitude according to the number
of copies required, and presenting a kind of mosaic
representation of the picture to be manifolded. The
manner in which this body of colours is prepared ad-
mits, not only of the sharpest contrast between two
adjoining colours, but also of a gradual blending of
the one with the other."
Viscount Ebrington, Sir Benjamin and Lady Hall,
Sir Robert Newman, Bart., and a party, have been
visiting the Hon. Newton and Lady Catherine Fel-
lowes, during the past week, at Eggesford, Devon.
Lord and Lady Carrington have arrived in town
from Gayhurst, Bucks. The Noble Lord and
Lady
leave town in the course of the week.
DRAYTON MANOR.—Lord Fitzgerald and the Right
Hon. Henry Goulburn (the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer) arrived on Saturday evening on a visit to
Sir Robert and Lady Peel. The Earl of Aberdeen
was expected to have arrived on Saturday from Argyll
House, but the Noble Earl has delayed his departure
from the metropolis, urgent business requiring his
presence in town. Sir Thomas Fremantle and other
Fuests are expected on Monday to join the circle.
fhe Right llon. Baronet and Lady a Peel intend to
receive a succession of visitors until the first week in
the ensuing month.
DREADFUL ACCIDENT, AND DEATH OF THE
COUNTESS OF DENBIGH FROM FRIGHT.—On Friday
morning, at twelve o'clock, a dreadful occurrence
took place in Eaton-square, Pimlico, at a house now
being finished for the Earl of Denbigh. It appears
that a large cornice had just been fixed against the
side of the building by the bricklayers, when the
latter being about to leave (it being their dinner hour,
the cornice 'fell with tremendous force, and caused
the scaffolding to give way, and the three men were
precipitated into the road from a height of nearly
fifty feet. The Countess of Denbigh, who was
passing at the time, and who witnessed the scene, was
so affected that she was instantly conveyed home,
and, we regret to say, that her Ladyship expired in the
afternoon at three o'clock. The Countess was enciente,
and has had eleven children. The poor men were
Conveyed to St. George's Hospital.

COUNTY WONDERS.

Dr. Fuller in his quaint history of the " Worthies
of England," parcels out, under the title of " Won-
ders," as he proceeds to illustrate our English coun-
ties, all the artificial or natural rarities which they
possess. His peculiar wit spices the whole,
.and even
the few selections we adduce, are not devoid of his
usual grotesqueness of remark.
llAmrsmßE.—An oak, near Lindhurst, in the New
Forest, is credibly reported to put forth green leaves
yearly, on or about Christmas day. It must now be
sprouting.
KENT.—The wonders of art are the ships here,
which are better than the French, who are left-
handed in sea-fights ; better than the Dutch, which
are floaty and buoyant,; while the Spanish pride bath
infected their ships with loftiness, which makes the
better marks for our shot. Our English oak is incom-
parable, and though the Hollanders bought our tim-
ber for their ships, they could not buy our art of ship-
building; so that, as Bishop Latimer once said to one
who had preached his sermon, " They have gotten
our fiddlestick, but not our rosin."

LEIC-ESTER.SIIIRE.-At a village here called Curley,
all that areborn the rein have a harsh and rattling kind of
speech, and cannot pronounce the letter R. One of
the best scholars in the county could not for his life
utter Carolus Rex Britannim without stammering.
The best was, the King had from him in his hearty
prayers what he wanted in his plain pronunciation.
LIECOLNSIIIRr.-At Harlaxton, •in this shire, a
helmet, not gilt, but of massive gold—cassis non au-
rata, sed aurea—was turned up by the plough, and
presented to Queen Catharine, first wife of King
Henry the Eighth.
RUTLANDSHIRK.—Tt is surprising that this county,
so pleasant and fruitful, almost in the middle of Eng-
land, had never a single abbey in it, and only two
convents, which were appurtenant to other counties.
Dr. Fuller, with somewhat anti-clerical zest, remarks
hereon, " The, like cannot be paralleled in England,
choose so great a parcel of ground where you please.
Show me so fair a bunch of sweet grapes, which had
no more flies to suck them."

GLOUCESTERS MM.—Oysters, cockles, and peri-
winkles of stone are found at Alderley. Shallow

Rabbies, says Fuller, who count themselves of the
cabinet, but are scarcely of the common council of
nature, consider them to have been formerly shell-
fish; and not lusus natura of creation.

LANCASIIIRE.—About Wigan and elsewhere in this
county, men, says Fuller, gu a fishing with spades
and mat-hooks. First they pierce the turfy ground,
and under it meet with a black and deadish water,
and in it small fishes swim. Let them be thankful to
God in the first place, he says as comment, who need
not such meat to feed upon. And next let those be
thankful who have such meat to feed upon when. they
need it. This practice is now obsolete, but the just-
ness of the remark applies fully to the state of that
county at this moment.
DERBYSIIIRE.—Here is the Mam-Tor or Mother-

Hill, so called because it is always delivered, and pre-
sently with child again, for immense heaps of sand
constantly fall from it, yet it never appears diminished,
but is secretly recruited.
DEVONSIIIRE.—The Hanging-stone. This got its
name from a thief, who having stolen a sheep, and
tied it about his own neck to carry it on his back,
rested himself awhile on this stone, which is a foot
high, till the sheep by struggling slid over the stone
on the other side, and so strangled the man. Let tl e
lawyers dispute, remarks the Doctor, whether the
sheep in this case was forfeited to the King's almoner
as a deodand.

EXETER.—When the city of Exeter was besieged
by the Parliament's forces, so that only the south side
of it ,towards the sea was open to it, larks appeared in
such numbers that the poor boiled them for pottage.
It was assigned as a cause that these birds, frightened
by the shooting on the land, retreated to the sea-side
for their refuge.
BEDrORDSIIIRE.—The river Ouse, in this county,
in 1399, parted asunder, the waters from the fountain
standing still, and those towards the sea giving way,
so that it was passable over on foot for three miles to
gether, not without the astonishment of the beholders.
CHESIIIRE.—IIere is a pool adjoining Brereton, the
seat of the honourable family of that name, wherein
bodies of trees are seen to swim for certain days be-
fore the death of any heir of that house.
CORNWALL.—The celebrated stones called the
Hurlers, are reported by tradition to have. been
formerly men, metamorphosed into these masses for
hurling—a sport peculiar to Cornwall—on the Lord's
day.
CUMBERLAND.—The moss-troopers, who were pe-
culiar to the borders of this county, were so called
from dwelling in the mosses, and riding in troops
together. They dwelt on the bounds or meeting of
two kingdoms, but obeyed- the laws of neither. They
went to church as seldom as the 29th of February
comes into the calendar. They lived by the species
of free trade, comprehended in the motto " Vivitur
ex rapto ;" and like a nest of hornets, strike but one,
and all stirred about your cars.
SUSSEX.—William of Newbury writes, " that in
this county, not far from Battle-Abbey, in the place
where so great a slaughter of the Englishmen was
made, after any shower, presently sweats forth very
fresh blood out of the earth, as.if the evidence thereof
did plainly declare the voice of blood there shed, and
crieth still from the earth unto the Lord." Credat
Judreus !
IVARwicx.suißE.—At Leaminliton, there issue from
the earth two twin-springs, as different in taste and
operation, as Esau and Jacob, the one salt, the other
fresh.

WlLTSHlRE.—Stonehenge. Supposed to be a
Roman work, or temple, dedicated to Ccelum, the
senior God of the Heathens. _ _ _

SOMERSETSIIIRE.—WockIey liole in the Mendip
hills. An underground concavity, with spacious
vaults, walls, and labyrinths; the cause being un-
imaginable why the earth was put in such a posture.
SURREY.—The river Swallow, which sinks under
around, and rises again near Letherhead. This river
is more properly termed Mole, than that in Spain on
the like occasion is called Anas, that is a duck or
drake. For moles, like the Surrey river, work under-
ground, whilst ducks, which Anas does not, dive
under water. _

YORKSHIRE.—" From H—ll, Hull, and Halifax
deliver us." This is part of the old beggars' or va-
grants' litany. At the last place, thieves caught in
delicto were instantly beheaded with an engine.

The Naval promotions consequent on the success
ful termination of the Chinese war, are not yet
finally resolved on, but we anticipate their
promulgation in next Tuesday's Gazette. We
have every reason to believe they will be on
such a liberal scale as to satisfy the hopes and expec-
tations of the service. This is a legitimate occa-
sion, of which the Board of Admiralty will no doubt
avail themselves, to promote the officers who are
fortunate enough to fill those ranks that are
usually selected on occasions of important events
which call for some especial mark of favour ;
and, it is generally expected, that not only will
those whose names have been honourably mentioned
in the public dispatches be advanced a step
in rank, but also the Commanders, First Lieutenants,
and Senior Mates of the Fleet, as has been usual on
occasions of perhaps greater brilliancy, but certainly
of no less important results than may be anticipated
from the successful termination of the war against
China. We may anticipate an equally liberal army
promotion.—Naval and Military Gazette.
SUICIDE THROUGH FILIAL SORROW.-011 Satur-
day evening Mr. Payne held an inquest at the Queen's
Head, Cree-church-lane, Leadenhall-street, on the
body of Elias Jacobs, aged 40, a coffee-house keeper,
of No. 2, Bury-street, St. Mary Axe, and of the
Hebrew persuasion. Julia Hiams, servant to de-
ceased, said that, seeing on that morning he did not
come down stairs at his accustomed hour, she sus-
pected, from previous circumstances, that he had
destroyed himself in his bed-room. Fearing to
go and ascertain the fact by herself, she sent
for a policeman, who forced the bed-room door, and
found the deceased suspended by the neck from the
bed rail, by means of a cord. He had been dead, a sur-
geon who had been called in said, many hours. Ever
since his father's death, which took place eleven months
ago, his sorrow was so great that it frequently
amounted to insanity, and latterly he was attended by
a keeper from a lunatic asylum, who more than once
prevented him from dashing out his brains by butting
his head against the wall. The passing of the Income-
tax Act had added to his insanity, and his constant
incoherent ravings about the ultimate injury he fancied
it would do him, so much annoyed his customers that
they abandoned his shop one after the other. Though,
besides his business, he inherited a fair portion of
freehold property, he dreaded so much the effect of the
Income-tax, that no argument could persuade him that
it would not be his ruin. Verdict, " Insanity."
PALERMO, Nov. 28.—After many years repose,
Etna has during the last three we ekspoured forth
immense masses of fire. It seems that considerable
torrents of lava are flowing in the direction of Bronte.
The damage already done is said to be immense. The
fine weather allows us to roam about the whole night,
admiring the extraordinary spectacle. Numerous
strangers come to be near the scene. .
JEMMY WOOD'S HOUSE. The executors have
ordered the demolition of this rich eccentric's house,
and, in compliance with these orders, men are engaged
in pulling it down. Numbers are attracted to the
ruins, in the hope of finding treasures concealed by
the old banker. Some of the over-curious have pur-
chased some pieces of the old timbers of the house, to
convert them into snuff-boxes.
The Croydon Railway Directors have called a.meet-
leg of their Proprietors, for the purpose of considering
the propriety of relinquishing their carrying depart-
ment, and becoming a toll company only.
We regret to hear that a firm largely concerned in
tthe corn trade, and having extensive establishments
at Penryn and Truro, has failed. Their importations
of foreign grain previous to the harvest are said to
have been extremely large.—Devonpert Independent.

NEWPORT, iSLE OF WIGHT.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
MORE CITANGES.—At the Christmas meeting of the
Isle of Wight Agricultural Society on Thursday
last, there was very little competition. Mr. Brown,
I learn, obtained eight prizes, and for two other prizes
there was no competitor. The Rev. Walton White,.
one of our principal landowners, and one of the most
strenuous supporters of the Tory candidates for the
Isle of Wight, in proposing the health of Sir Richard
Simeon, our late Liberal Representative, told the
meeting " they must not look forward to protection ;
the principle was broken down ; they would have to
return to first principles, and it would have been well
for them if these first principles had never been de-
parted from ; as they would not then have been in
the difficulties they now, were. It was plain to him
that the principle of protection would be withdrawn,
and trade and agriculture have to look to their own
exertions. He had no fears for agriculture. The
demand for agricultural productions could not fail.
Industry, supported by intelligence and capital, would
be sure to succeed, and those changes which had an-
nually been the cause of panic and alarm would then
cease, and all would be happy and prosperous."
SUMMER WEATHER.—We have a continuance of
the most beautiful weather ever remembered at this
season ; the meadows are covered with daisies; violets
aml primroses grace our banks with their blossoms
as in spring. 1:lie wheats could not possibly look
better; while the cattle are still out. The thermo-
meter is at 55 in the shade, the barometer at 30 deg.
15 min. Wo noticed a meadow which has been
folded over with sheep within a fortnight, and fed
very close, it is now quite green, having young grass
full one inch high in that time.

GREAT LEAGUE FUN MEETING
IN MARYLEBONE.

On Saturday evening an exceedingly numerous and
highly influential meeting toolc place at the Three
Compasses Tavern, Marylebone-street, for the pur-
pose of carrying out, in the most efficient manner,
throughout the borough of Marylebonc, the objects
of the great League Fund, for obtaining a
total and
immediate repeal of the cdious Corn-laws, and ;he re-
moval of all restrictions upon trade and commerce‘.,--
J. Guthrie, Esq., a vestryman of St. Marylebone;•
presided, and having explained the object of the meet-
ing, said he had to congratulate them on the extraor-
dinary advances the Anti-Corn-Jaw League had made
in public opinion throughout the country within the
last few weeks. Mr. G. Daniell said, in no district
of the metropolis had there been a greater reaction in
favour of the repeal of those most odious imposts, the
Corn-laws, than there had been within the last few
weeks in the borough of Marylebone. Men of the
greatest wealth and standing in society were coming
forth in every direction to assist them in carrying out
the objects of the Central Anti-Corn-law Asso-
ciation in that district, and he had no doubt
when the great meeting for that section of the
metropolis took place, they would have such a show
of men affluence and standing in society pre-
sent, as no other meeting on the subject could as yet
boast of. He understood that many letters had al-
ready
been received upon the subject, and he would
move that they be read to the meeting. The motion
having been seconded and carried, the Chairman -an-
nounced that letters had already been received from
General Sir De Lacy Evans, the Hon. C. P. Villiers,
M.P., Dr. Bowring, M.P., Mr. T. Milner Gibson,
M.P., from Colonel T. P. Thompson, who was at
Nottingham ; Major Revell, J. E. Hovenden, Esq.,
the Rev. Mr. Bowes, of Blanford Chapel ; the Rev.
Mr. Townley, the Rev. Mr. Marshall, and a large
number of other Dissenting clergymen of the bo-
rough, offering their earnest co-operation in the cause,
and expressive of a determination to be present at the
great meeting of the fourth section of the metropolis,
comprising the borough of Marylebone.—(Cheers.)
Messrs. Hayden, Wall, Glasier, and several other
gentlemen addressed the meeting, and resolutions con-
demnatory of the Corn and Provision-laws, and a de-
termination to assist the Anti-Corn-law League by
every means to carry their repeal, having been adopted,
a Committee was appointed to draw up resolutions,
to be submitted to the great League Fund meeting
about to be held in Marylebone ; and thanks being
passed to the Chairman, the meeting separated.