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Mr. Rice were, " I told him to se'l the things that he might
get one or two pounds for himself. Why did you not say
this before the magistrate ?—I was not before the magis-
trate. Did you never state this till now ?—I do not know
that I said it before. I made deposition before the clerk—
was sworn, and the deposition was read over, but the magis-
trate was not present when I signed the deposition. Rice
said nothing about fixtures.
Gemge Dalton is a servant to the prosecutor. I was sent
to pack up some tools in the back shop, and did so, but had
no co .versation with the prisoner.
Cross-examined—The door was not locked. I recollect
nothing about the prisoner's going into the house.
John Purser, a constable, apprehended the prisoner, who
said the prosecutor had no claim upon him.
Cross-examined by defendant's Counsel—That he had no
claim on him except the rent T—No ; said nothing about the
rent. I never carried any message between Rice and Barnett.
I did not request Barnett not to tell that Rice had said so-and-
so. (Barnett here identified the witness as the same that
hrought the message from Rice.)
Witness—l never did carry such a message. I did go to
Barnett's on Thursday week. •I
did not say this before because
I forgot. I went to tell him to be at the Court next morning,
and said nothing at all about not telling thisor that. Mr. Rice
never gave me a message to take to Barnett. Never got any
.instructions to that effect from Mr. Rice.
Mr. Rice, in the witness-box—l did not send any message
to Mr. Barnett.
The prisoner's counsel had now addressed the jury, and the
Learned Commissioner sent the point to the jury, whether the
prisoner had obtained possession of the key with a felonious
intent, for failing that, it was not a case for a Criminal
Court. The jury had found the prisoner guilty, when
the defendant's counsel interfered with the recording
of the sentence, and informed his Lordship and the jury that
very important evidence, of the existence of which he had no
instructions, had just come to his knowledge, and requested
it might yet be allowed to go before the jury. This was
granted.
John Dove was called in to the witness-box—l live at
44, Lant-street, Borough. I called at Cresswell's house one
morning in the month of May. Rice, with his foot-
man, drove up in a gig. 'Mr. nice came into
the bar, and said to Cresswell—" Have you
sold these things yet ?" Prisoner said, "No, not yet." "I
wish you would." Prisoner—" I had an offer for them yes.
terday. I could have got half in money and half in goods."
Rice—" What. goods?" Prisoner—" Coppers." Rice—" I
wish you could sell them, do your best; good morning."
Witness—l think the amount of the offer was 121. 12s.
On being cross-examined, the witness added one or two
words to his former statement; be identified Mr. Rice as the
person.
Mr. Rice was again called, and placed in the witness, box
and sworn—He had a gig, but bad not used it in the month
of May; but on being cross- examined he hesitated on this
point, and his servant when called could not help him.
Rice positively denied having said anything of the kind to
Crmwell, and had never seen the witness before.
The case again went to the jury, but in a different view.
The question they now had to try was whether the prisoner
had had permission to sell the goods. which was decided
in the negative, and he was sentenced to twelve months'
imprisonment and hard labour.

The following ere the days fixed by the Judges for
the terms of the Court during the ensuing Mayoralty:—
December 15; Janttary 8 ; Pebrttary 2; March 30 ; May 4;
June 15; July 8 j Atignst 71 September 21; October 26.

MARLBRU-STREET—(THIS DAY).
Junio. it iii Atqtdr, ruffianly-looking young fellow, was
charged with felooinualy aliSiltingi in Oxford-street, Mr.
Desire Sayolle; of No. 3, Wingleyzatteet, OXford-market, and
str,allng front his pergon it gold *Fatah and appendages.
It *wet thaL Uttveeti aiiti liuf 91elotk yesterday
morning the prosecutor was walking arm-m-afiii 'Stith the
wife of an acquaintance of his, whom he was seeing home,
when at the corner. of Chapel-street, Soho, the prisoner sud-
'dtnly Cable 110 in knt bf him anointing to the female,
said apparently in a great a ckp
ge; " What are you doing with
my wife at this late hour ?" At the same instant bit made a
violent Stlatt4 at the prnseeutor's guArd chain, and tors his
watth Waisttdit pticktii And 04,04 90. off
.run-
fling. The prosecutor followed, :calling " Stop thief and
Alfred Mitchell, 25 C, having joined in the pursuit, saw the
prisoner as be turned into Newman-street drop something
down the area of Mr. Holderness, No. 1, pianoforte MziEß-
facturer. Just at that time the prosecutor came up with the
prisoner, and pushing him down held him until he was
secured by the pollee, The Constable afterWtirdi found the
watch very much smashed in the area.
Mr. MALTBY asked if the prisoner was known ?—The
police present said he was.not to them.
Mr. MALTBY asked him what he had to say in answer to
the charge ?—The prisoner said the watch was handed to him
by the female the prosecutor was with, who told him to make
off with it.

No attention was of course paid to such a defence, and the
prisoner was ordered to be committed for trial.

THE DEPARTURE OF THE EAST INDIA AND CHINA
AND WEST INDIA MAILS.—SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 2.—The
Clyde, Royal West India mail-packet, Captain Symonds, left
the river this day, at two o'clock, for the West Indies, taking
out the Mexican and other mails for the West India islands.
She has also 700 bottles of quicksilver, and a full complement
of packages, and 107 passengers. The Oriental Company's
steam-ship Duke of Cornwall, Captain Mills, leaves to-morrow
for Constantinople, &c., taking out the East India and China
mails to Malta, from which place they will be forwarded to
Alexandria by the Company's ship Iberia. The Duke of
Cornwall takes out a very full cargo of bale goods, and is
quite full of passengers. A very fine new steamer, be-
longing to the Oriental Company, to be named the Madrid,
will arrive here in a few days, and take the place of the
Queen, at present running between Gibraltar and this port.
The Madrid will carry out the Peninsular mails of the 17th
instant.

MURDER IN AMERICA.—DELEIL OCT. 11.—This
morzing the Court passed sentence on all the prisoners ar-
raigned for the murder of Steele. Only two trials have been
held—those of O'Conner and Van Steenburgh—all the rest
have pleaded guilty to the charges. Jelin Van Steenburgh
was first called. When asked what he had to say why the
sentence of the law should not be passed, he said, " I am
innocent of the crime, and think it hard to suffer for a crime
I never committed." Judge Parker then, in a very impres-
sive manner, sentenced him to be hung on Saturday, 29th
of November next. Edward O'Conner was next called. He
was asked what he had to say why sentence should not
be passed on him ; he only replied that he was innocent. He
was then sentenced to be hung at the same time with Van
Steenburgh. The remainder of the sentences were as fol-
lows :—Daniel W. Squires, for manslaughter in the first
degree, state prison for life. Moses Earll, the same as Squires.
Daniel Northrup, the same. The following pleaded Guilty to
manslaughter in the second degree, and were sentenced as
follows :—John Phenix, state prison, seven years ; Isaac L.
Burhans, state prison, seven years ; John Birch, state prison,
seven years; Calvin Madison, state prison, ten years; William
Reside, state prison, seven years; John Latham, state prison,
seven years ; William Brisbane, state prison, seven years ;
Charles T. M. Canber, robbery, second degree, state prison,
seven years; William Josselyn, manslaughter, fourth degree,
state prison, two years; Robert Scott, conspiracy, fined 500
dollars ; John Davis, conspiracy, fined 100 dollars. Judg-
ment suspended on the following persons :—Darius Travis,
Henry Kettle, 0. Munsen, Barber Stafford, Henry L. Rus-
sell, P. Northrup, James Wilson, jun., Smith Sandford, Alonzo
Sandford.—New York Paper.
THE LATE EXPLOSION IN THE ROYAL ARSENAL.
—We are happy to state that provision has been made by
the Board of Ordnance for the widows and orphans of the
unfortunate men who perished by the late explosion in the
Royal Laboratory department of the Royal Arsenal. Mr.
Crake, the foreman, left one unmarried daughter, who is to
receive an annuity of 251. per annum. The widows of H.
Butters, sen., and H. Butters, jun., are each to receive a
pension of 14s. a week. The widow of Burbage is to receive
a pension of 9s. a week. The orphan boy of Michael Purtill
has already been entered in the storekeeper's department at
6s. a week, his presence not being required till he has attained
the age of fourteen years. The parents of the two boys,
Leonard and Hindley, are each to receive a gratuity of Si.,
and the whole of the expenses connected with the funeral
will be paid by the Board. The annuities and pensions are
to commence from the time of the accident.

MAGA ZINES—(CONTINUED).
SWOR7'H'S MAGAZINE.
The romance of " Caesar Borgia" is continued in
this number with great spirit. Not only the interest,
but the managa merit of the narrative, and the style of
the composition, tnanifest a decided improvement. The
only drawback on the story continues to tie, that in pro-
portion to the degree of fidelity with which the author
follows the track of authentic histroy, his narrative dis-
gusts, owing to the unmitigated and almost supernatural
wickedness and brutality of Borgia. " Chaldea," by W. F.
Ainsworth, EFq„ is a charming paper, a spirited Oriental
tableaux, embodying all the various and glowing features
that compose the landscapes of the more picturesque
countries of the East. Palm forests and antique tombs,
ruined palaces, pyramids, and towers, pass in review
before the reader, under a most able and artistic arrange-
ment. The " Legend of Le Petit Saint Albert" is a
spirited imitation of the lamented Ingoldsby. " Schwarz-
kopf the Poacher ; a tale of Bavarian Forest Life," is also
a clever affair, the very mint in which to coin a melo-
drama. " The Mournful Tournament," from the German
of Uhland, is an exceedingly graceful translation, show-
ing a considerable mastery over the " father-tongue."
" The Gambling Booths at Baden," is a sketch too admira-
ble to admit of being transcribed by extract, for its unity,
like its moral, is excellent. No. 1 of " The Life and
Writings of Nimrod," is the commencement of what ap-
pears to be likely to prove a spirited set of reminiscences.
Here is an allusion to a true sportsman, a gentleman
with whom we ourselves had in our younger days the.
pleasure of some intimacy and neighbourship. Men and
Dogs are both capital portraits—more like they could
Rot he. Alas! Mr. Meager was the last of an excellent
race of really fine—that is, manly, shrewd, and generous
" old English gentlemen." We can hear him speak
again in some of the following passages:—
" His tour in this number (December, 1823), comprises
his visit to the Sanderstead and Mr. Meager's harriers, both
then in the neighbourhood of that metropolitan Melton,
Croydon. The former were what are called blue mottled, or
ticked hounds, long-eared, slow, and musical, a breed that
has become almost •extinct, owing to the increased desire
for pace.
" Mr. Meager's hounds were true harriers; and the cha-
racter of the worthy master—now, like blue mottled harriers,
almost extinct—is well described by Nimrod.
" ' There is another pack of harriers kept within a mile of
this town (Croydon),' says he, which an admirer of hare-
hunting would ride a long way to see. They are kept at
the sole expense of their owner, Mr. Meager, who has had
them for twenty years, and turns them out in very good
style. He hunts them himself, but is assisted by a whipper-
in, who knows his business well ; but, if I may hazard a pun
on the occasion, there is nothing meagre about them—hounds,
horses, and men appearing to be all well fed, and well up to
the mark.
" Mr. Meager is an excellent farmer as well as an excel-
lent sportsman, and is said to be the best judge of a sheep
and a harrier anywhere in these parts, paying equal atten-
tion to the breeding of each. Although in possession of very
considerable landed property, he classes himself with the yeo-
manry of the county. This was the man, however, whom a
monarch envied, as enjoying life without being a slave to
its formalities, and who is often happier than his more
wealthy neighbour, who leaves nature behind him when he
dismounts from his horse, and has his part to act for the rest
of the day. The former calls for his slippers and his dinner
as soon as he comes home, and if (which is rare) no one
partakes of his hospitality for the evening, he can snore in
his chair, whilst his daughter plays "Those Evening Bells,"
or some other of Tiloore's melodies on her piano. He retires
to rest at an early hour, and is called by the crowing of the
cock fresh for the occupations of the coming day.'
" From so unsophisticated a character, one would naturally
expect a corresponding establishment, and Nimrod says,
there was no affectation of .the fox hound (that curse of
modern harriers) in Mr. Meager's pack ; his harriers, like his
sheep, being of pure blood, and exactly what they should be
—full of power, fast enough to kill any hare, and in beautiful
condition.
" ' Mr. Meager,' continues Nimrod, 'if a great farmer, and
having a good eye to business as well as to hounds, never
loser; an opportunity of transacting to advantage. Being one
day in the act of capping a favourite hound to a very ticklish
scea in a road, and anxious to recover his hare, a man stood
by him wii had some manure to sell, when the following
interlude took '7"
Have you sold that dung?'
" ' Yo-doit "fancy, '
Yo-doff, 11490;dsolirt,,,Nan saidcy John.
good big What do you ask a
load?
" h ree shillings, Sir.'
"'Yo-dolt, Nancy; have at her, good bitch! I'll give
you half-a-crown.
"'Cant take it, Sir.'
" Go and be d— then! Yo-doit, Nancy, good bitch!
She's gut it, by God! Hark to, Nancy, hark
" A similar sketch of this celebrated gentleman is given by
ew Sportinlllagafine•
Few originals in the %Wing worldAsays he, have an amusing writer (Wildrake) in a recent number of the
N"'F
sur-
passed this worthy old man; 213 d
his love for his hounds,
no one who ever saw him
in the kennel or the field will forget
or his hatred of a hunting parson. His turn-out was unique,
ed hat, and his
with his old green coat, and broad-b.-7nm
mess
gene-
whipper-in, such an exact copy of himself in ~m fromat
ral appearance, that you could never distinguish tn.._ `, and
one another, excepting by the large mother-o'-pearl bur
which the commanding officer wore by way of epaulette on
his left shoulder. His voice was very deep and gruff, and if,
in beating for a hare, his eye glanced on a jolly red phiz and
black coat on the same horse, his "dog language" was
broken into parentheses by his denunciatkns of the sporting
clergy somewhat after this fashion:—
" Yeh ! dogs yeh ! gentle, Rantipole !—there's a parson—
mind there !—have a care, Bluebell I—l hate a hunting
parson !--yooi ! yooi !—what business has a parson out hunt-
ing?—yooi doit, Rarity, good bitch!—why don't he stay in
his parish ?—have a care, Gadabout !—and take care of the
sick—steady, dogs—steady—or marry somebody—yooi over,
Active !—er bury somebody—Hark to, Challenger !—bark I
forward away !—wish I could ride over him—d— me, how
I hate a hunting parson 1' "
The " Searchers of the Sewers; a Tale of Modern Lon-
don Underground," is an excellent example of the profound
sympathy which the most homely materials, in hands as
accomplished as Mr. Charlton Carew's, may be made to
excite. " Minstrel Life in the Thirteenth Century "
presents a poetical picture of the social life of the Middle
Ages in Europe. " The Paradise of Mahommed" is one
of those disquisitions on subjects falsely assumed to be
exhausted, to which Mr. Dudley Costello on all occasions
brings the lights of very extensive and curious learning,
great sagacity, and above all, a graceful and easy style,
which always secures for him the attainment of that
paramount object with all writers—the being read.
Another chapter of " Ehrenstein," by Mr. James, com-
pletes this power number of Ainswo, A's Magazine.

ROYAL ARTILLERY, WOOLWIC 11, Nov. I.—IN •
SPECTION OF TAE ENROLLED PENSIONERS.—The enrolled
pensioners of the Woolwich division of the London dis-
trict assembled this morning in the west square of the
Royal Artillery barracks, under the command of Captain
J. Forbes, the staff officer of pensioners for the Woolwich
district, for the purpose of being inspected by the Right•
Hon. Lord Bloomfield, G.C.B. and G.C.H., commandant
of the garrison. At a quarter before one o'clock they were
marched to the barrack field, where they took up their posi-
tion, and formed a line fronting the Royal Artillery bar-
racks. His Lordship arrived. in his carriage, at half-past
one, and on alighting was received by the aged veterans
with arms presented. Many distinguished officers were
present. The Commandant, accompanied by Major Arm-
strong and Captain Forbes, proceeded to inspect the troops
very minutely.. First, the line broke into open columns of
divisions, right in front, and then marched past his Lord-
ship in slow and quick time. They then re-formed into line,
went through the manual and platoon exercise, fired two
rounds each, by divisions, and various other evolutions, at the
conclusion of which his Lordship advanced towards them,
when they formed three sides of a square. His Lordship
then addressed Captain Forbes, and said that he scarcely
knew how to address him in language sufficiently strong.
He was delighted at all, he had that day witnessed. The
marchings and movements were conducted with the greatest
regularity, and the firing was regular. He should be
happy at all times to attend to anything that he (Captain
Forbes) might suggest for the benefit of the pensioners, or
to forward their interest. Then, addressing the pensioners,
his Lordship said,'," My o:d heroes, I am proud to see you this
day; it reminds me of old times, to see the old veterans
become young again. I wish I could become young again
myself. You have this day shown a pattern, and an example I
hope the young men will follow." His Lordship then granted
permission for the band to accompany the pensioners through
the town, and the aged veterans then perambulated the
principal streets of the town amidst the mingled laughter
and cheers of the townspeople, to whom by far the larger
number of them are personally known. They then returned
to the West-square, and were dismissed at half-past three
o'clock. Their arms and accoutrements are to be returned
with their clothing into store on Monday, the drills and
exercises being for the present season at an end.
A .1, OLDIER SHOT.—Yesterday afternoon a serious
accident occurred to a man named William White, aged
forty-five, residing in Collingwood-street, Chelsea, late a
sergeant in the 96th Regiment of Foot. Whilst taking a
walk along the Clapham-road he observed a lad behind
some palings which faced the road, with a pistol, firing at a
mark. When he arrived opposite the spot the pistol was
discharged, and at the same moment he felt himself struck
on the left leg, and he found blood oozing through his stock-
ing. A policeman, who heard the report, came up, and it
was found that he had been wounded by a very small ball.
He was placed in a cab and conve3 ed to Guy's Hospital,
when it was found that the shot had passed nearly through
the calf of the leg, and lodged within an inch of the surface
on the opposite side. Mr. Finch, the house-surgeon, at once
extracted it, which proved to be a swan shot of the largest
sort, nearly of the size of a pistol bullet, The boy was im-
mediately taken into custody.
A NEW RAILWAY WHISTLE.—BROMSGROVE, FRI-
DAY EvENmu.--Within the last few days several trials of an
apparatus. for communicating a signal from the guard to the
engine- de.ver, has been made at the station in this place on
the Bri‘",r_ol and Birmingham Railway, under the superintend-
ence vi: Mr. 11PConnell, the locomotive superintendent of the
above line. The train, which is an experimental one of eight
car.iages was fitted with small air-tight tubes, which com-
municated with a very powerful whistle attached to one cor-
tier of the engine-handle, and by a very simple arrangement
the guard was able to give a signal instantly, and, if neces-
sary, vary it so as to be perfectly understood by the engine-
driver. The experiment was completely successful, and the
plan appears to be the most useful and simple for effecting the
important object in view which has yet appeared. Mr. Ban-
field, organ builder, of Birmingham, is the inventor of this
very useful arrangement, and his intention to patent it pre-
vents us from going further into the plan.
THE NORTHERN PROVINCIAL COLLEGE.—WO are
enabled to state, on unquestionable authority, that the Go-
vernment Commissioners have reported in favour of Belfast,
tfLte site of tin ow north= college... Northern Whig.

of Queen Elizabeth, and, after reminding the reader
that there were no umbrellas in those days, he thus
proceeds—
"lmagine, then, the Old English Gentleman as he must
have appeared after having been first involved in a cloud of
dust and then caught in a shower of rain. The Old English
Arch was defended by a dripstone ; but the Old English
Gentleman had no such protection. Conceive the state of his
chaussure when, with his yellow boots on, he encountered a
puddle, or fancy him splashed up to the ears by a passing
waggon. There was no cab for him to call, or even hackney-
coach to rush into, when overtaken by the wet, and his only
resource could have been to draw up under an arch-way.
Even that he could not have done when he had an appoint-
ment to keep; and what, we would ask, must have been his
plight after a run through a regular soaker?' Some idea
of it might be formed by taking an unhappy peacock in the
moulting season, and purting him under a pump. A spectacle
more pitiably draggletailed than the Old English Gentleman
under these circumstances it is impossible to imagine: and,
to add to his discomfort, his boots must have got full of water,
by reason of their bucket-like tops, which seem to have been
expressly constructed to collect the rain. We omitted to
mention that his hat, or,beaver. generally of some bright
colour, was by no means washable, or all the better for a
shower. Nor was the feather in it more calculated to be im-
proved by a thorough drenching.
"In the time of Elizabeth. no less than in this, there was
such a thing as smoke; and then coal, as regularly as in
these days, evolved sulphurous acid during combustion; and
such gales were just as prone as they are at present to tarnish
silver. Consequently the • silver lace of the Elizabethan
doublet, after a few days' wear must have assumed the tint
of a neglected egg-spoon."
The illustration of the Old English Gentleman in a
shower is very rich. This is a very amusing number of
the Table-Book.

We have not received Blackwood's Magazine for this
month.

JERROLD'S SHILLING MAGAZINE.
We have but one chapter of the " history of St. Giles
and St. James" in the present Number of Douglas
Jerrold, and in that the story makes but little progress;
the admirable sarcastic philanthropy of Capstick, and
milk-of-human-kindness philanthropy of Bright Jem, as
developed in their before, at, and after-breakfast conver-
sations, more than make up for the absence of incident.
The following passage might have been written by
Sterne in his happiest mood :
" There's no whet to the appetite,' said Capstick, ' like
early dew. Nothing for' the stomach like grass and field-'
flowers, taken with a fasting eye at five in the morning.
'Twas Adam's own salad, and that's why he lived to nine
hundred and thirty.'
" ' Think you,' said the visitor, chipping an egg-shell,
' think you that Adam, before the fall, ate eggs?'
"' I can't say,' said Capstick; but recollecting the things
I have read, the question would make a very pretty book.
'Cis a pity the matter wasn't stirred two or three hundred
years ago. How many thousand throats might have been
cut upon it How many men and women roasted like live
oysters! For the wisdom of humanity, 'tis a great miss.
How popes might have thundered about it ! What Te
Deums have been chanted; what maledictions—and all with
:he melted-butter voice of a Christian pronounced! The
world has had a great loss—a very great lobs.' And Capstick
sighed.
" I can hardly see that,' said Jem. It seems to me that
this blessed world will never want something to quarrel about,
so long as there's two straws upon it.'
" Why, there have been the Battles of the Straws,' ob-
served Capstick, although for certain purposes they've been
called after other names."

The "Englishman in Prussia," in a review of a curious
and courageous book recently published, entitled,
L'russia Unmasked," gives us some curious revelations
of the double-dealing, hypocritical, and spy-encouraging
beaureaucracy of Prussia. The " Price of a Garter and
the Price of a Life" is an indignant and spirited comment
upon two items of expenditure recorded in the recently
published Parliamentary documents—the one an item of
439/. 33. 4d., fees to the officers of the Order of the
Garter on the installation of Louis Philippe ; the other,
an item of 53/., paid to the crews of five boats for saving
the lives of the crew of the Shepherdess, on the Goodwin
Sands. Well may the writer exclaim—
" And now, English reader, do you not feel inclined, as we
did, to start with indignant astonishment from your seat—
to fling away, as a filthy thing, this Parliamentary-sanc-
tioned document—to protest with every energy of your soul
against the system which sanctions such moral monstrosities,
which rates so high the consequences of an unmerited bauble,
and which passes almost with, so to speak, a monetary sneer
—a pounds-shillings-and-pence scoff—over an exploit in
which precious human life was adventured—by which pre-
cious human life was saved?" _ _ _

INDIA.
NOTIFICATION.

CALCUTTA, SEPT. 20.—The Right Hon. the Governor-
General of India, in Council assembled, bas been pleased to
make the following arrangements and appointments in con-
sequence of the Governor-General's approaching departure
for the upper. provinces.
Mr. F. Currie, Secretary in the Foreign Department,
to be in charge of all the civil departments with the Go-
vernor-General.
Lieut.-Colonel J. Stuart will accompany the Governor-
General in his capacity of secretary in the military de-
partment.
Lieut.-Colonel R. Benson ditto, as a member of the mili-
tary board.
Mr. W. Edwards, under secretary in the foreign depart-
ment, ditto, as under secretary in all the civil departments.
Captain W. Hore will officiate as deputy secretary in the
military department with the Governor-General.
Mr. G. A. Bushby, secretary in the home department, will
officiate as secretary also in the foreign department at the
presidency.
Mr. J. A. Dorin, secretary in the financial department,
will remain at the presidency.
Mr. P. Melvill, under secretary in the home and financial
department, will officiate as under secretary also in the
foreign departments, at the presidency.
Major W. M. N. Sturt, officiating deputy secretary, will
officiate as secretary to the Government of India in the mili-
tary department at the presidency.
Captain R. Wylie, acting first assistant secretary to Go-
vernment, military department, will officiate as deputy
secretary to the presidency.
Fort William, Home Department (Legislative),
September 20.
The following Act is brought up before the Legislative
Council this day. The Governor-General of India, in Council,
I)eing desirous that no time should be lost in passing the Act,
resolved, that the rule requiring that no draft of a law shall
be ordered to be published till at least one week shall have
elapsed from the day on which it was first laid before the
Council of India in its legislative department, and that the
rules requiring that all Acts of the Governor-General of
India in Council shall be brought up for second reading in
two months, or in "three months from the date of the first
reading, be suspended in respect to the following proposed
Act, and that it be at one passed into law :
Act No. XXII. of 1845.

There is an admirable paper on the " Decline of the
Drama" 'in the present number, and a bitingly severe,
because truthful article, on the " Egotism of the Aristo-
cracy," who, as the writer justly observes—
"Are very excellent masters, of the art of puffing. Few
advertising tradesmen know better how the paragraph is to
be turned. It is often amusing enough to compare the an-
nouncements of the peer and the shopkeeper; the great dif-
ference being that the latter puffs his wares—the former,
himself. In the next column to the alarming sacrifice' of
the tradesman we find the still more alarming sacrifice of
tie peer.
" ' We understand that Lord Thomas Noddy has, with his
usual generosity, returned 25 per cent. of the rents of his
_numerous tenantry, Would that his Lordship's example were
generally followed !'
" Now, a great many innocent souls read this and similar
advertisements of landlord generosity without the slightest
idea that the returned 25 per' cent. means the 25 per cent.
which it was found utterly impracticable to screw out of an
impoverished, rack-rented tenantry. The tremendous sacri-
fice' of Lord Tom Noddy and Lord Tom Noddy's tailor mean
precisely the same thing. But anything for an opportunity
of pushing themselves before the public, vaunting their
generosity as tailors and lords !"
The " History for Young England" is continued; but
so is not, we are sorry to say, the "Hedgehog Corres-
pondence." We miss the witty, sarcastic cabman, and
trust that next month Juniper Hedgehog will be again
upon his stand.

An Act for Providing for the Exercise of certain Powers by
the Governor-General during his absence from the Council

GEORGE CRUIKSHANK'S TABLE-BOOK.
"Railway Calls," and Mr. John Bull as " Willibald,"
in The Bottle Imp, holding up for sale the imp ".scrip" in
a bottle, the stopper of which is a stag, are two admi-
rable illustrations of the present number of the Table
Book. " The Legend of the Rhine" is continued with
admirable spirit, and is to be concluded in the next
number. The " Hint to Projectors," suggesting the forma-
tion of an " Every-body-his-own-Balloon-Navigation.
Company," for supplying all the world with balloon-
jackets, is a good quiz on the bubble mania, and is very
quaintly illustrated. We commend the " Old English
Gentleman in a New Light" to the consideration of
" Young England." The writer takes the old English
gentleman, as he appeared in the costume of the days

of India.
1. Whereas it is expedient that the Governor-General
should visit the north-western provinces and other parts of
India, unaccompanied by any member of the Council of
India, it is enacted that, during the absence of the Governor-
General from the Council of India, it shall be lawful for the
Governor-General alone to exercise all the powers which may
be exercised by the Governor• General in Council, except
such powers as may by a resolution of the Governor-General
in Council be exercised by the President in Council during
the absence of the Governor-General, and except the power of
making laws and regulations.
2. And it is further enacted, that this Act shall commence
from the day on which it shall be notified by an order pub-
lished in the official Gazette, that the Governor-General has
quitted Calcutta for the purpose of so proceeding as aforesaid.
G. A. BUSHBY,
Secretary to the Government of India.

THE SUN, LONDON MONDAY_ EVENING, NOVEMBER 3, 1845

MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.
LICHFIELD.
NORTH WARD.

The Tories have again defeated the Whigs, by increased
majorities, at our Town-Council election to-day. The follow-
ing are the numbers :

CONSERVATIVES. RADICALS.
Johnson 2Ol Whitaker
Smith, (J.) ...,.... 201 Birch
Purden
SOUTH 'YARD.
CONSERVATIVES. RADICALS
Ready l3B I Rowley ..... 100
Smith, (W.): l3B Gorton ..... .. 100
Butcher 137 Heap
DURHAM.
NORTH WARD.
Wm. Davidson. L., (re-elected) 154
John Hancock, T., (re-elected)
Wm. Winter, L 142
ST. NICHOLAS WARD.
Wm. Henderson, T., (elected) 127
Mark Story, L., (re-elected)
Nicholas Oliver, L
James Robson, T.
SOUTH WARD.

John H. Foster (T.) was re-elected, and Richard Thompson
(T.) was elected in the room of R. H. Allan, Esq. (L.) with-
out opposition. Mr. Allan retired in consequence of having
left the neighbourhood.
The South and North Wards were both severely contested.
Winter, Henderson, Robson, and Thompson were new can-
didates for municipal honours.
Henderson has ousted Oliver.
BIRMINGHAM.
_ _

SATURDAY NIGHT.—The elections to-day have terminated
in the defeat of most of the Liberal candidates. Sixteen
councillors retired, and of those newly, elected eight are
Tories, seven Whigs, and one Radical. The' election has not,
however, turned on politics, but on a question involving a
matter connected with the government of the borough, and
the majority of our councillors are in favour of " amalgama-
tion," as it has been phrased ; there is, however, still a con-
siderable majority of Liberals in the Corporation. All the
elections passed off quietly.
DERBY.

SATURDAY EvENING.—The municipal elections for this
borough took place to-day. but they excited very little inte-
rest, there being no opposition except in Bridge Ward, where
the two Liberal candidates were returned by a large majo-
rity. Ths town-council now consists of 22 Liberals, and two
Tory councillors, besides 12 Liberal aldermen.
LEICESTER.

SATURDAY.—The elections here to-day have been nearly
all one way, there being in the seven wards 12 Liberals and
2 Tories returned. In East-market Ward only a contest took
place, Mr. Thomas Burgess and Mr. John -Allen being the
Liberal candidates, and Mr. Jeremiah Briggs the Tory. Tha
latter was thrown out by a majority of 40 votes, the num-
bers being for Burgess 130, Allen 121, and Briggs 81. Two
Tories were returned without opposition for St. Martin's
Ward, and for each of the other six wards two Whigs were
returned also without opposition.
LINCOLN.

SATURDAY.—Three years ago the corporation of Lincoln
was exclusively Whig-Radical, but during the past year the
numbers have stood—Radicals, 11; Whigs, 7 ; Conserva-
tives, 6 ; of these the retiring councillors were—Radicals,
3; Whig, 1 • Conservatives, '2. The result of this day's
election has been the return of all six Conservatives; in
two of the wards there was no contest, and in the third the
majority was nearly 100. The relative strength of the par-
ties is now 10 Conservatives, 8 Radicals, and 6 Whigs. The
latter most frequently vote with the Conservatives, and it is
expected that a Whig mayor will be chosen without opposi-
tion ; but should the Radicals start a candidate, the majority
of the Whigs will join the Conservatives, and a Conservative
mayor will be elected.
LIVERPOOL.

The annual election for sixteen councillors in the town
council of this borough was held on Saturday last. It was
unusually quiet. Of those retiring fourteen were Conserva-
tives and two Reformers. In lieu of these, seven Conserva-
tives and three Reformers were returned without opposition.
Six were contested ; at the close of the poll two Conservatives
and three Reformers were returned, leaving one of the wards,
Rodney-street, undecided, as the numbers for each candidate
were alike, namely, 275. The result of these elections is a
gain of three votes to the Liberal party in the town-council.

UNIVERSITY JNTELLI GENCE.

CAMBRIDGE, Nov. I.—At a congregation just held, the
following degrees were conferred :
Bachelor of Divinity—The Rev. James Hildyard, Trinity
College.
Master of Arts—Henry Cope Caulfeild, Trinity College ;
Theophilus William Lane, Trinity College ; Augustus Wil-
liam Cole, St. John's College; John Nottingham Fowle:,
Magdalene College ; and William Harker, St. Catharine's
Hall.

Ad Eundem—Jacob Fussell, M.A., Queen's College, Oxford.
At the same congregation, the following grace passed the
Senate :

" To allow Mr. Frere, of Downing College, to resume his
regency."
The Jacksonian Professor's lectures on Mechanism, Statics,
and Dynamics, commence on Tuesday, Nov. 4, at one o'clock,
at the room in the Botanical Garden, to be continued on
Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, during term.