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THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 17, 1842

a repetition of the engagement, though it be attended with
their temporary success, may end in their permanent
defeat.—( Laughter and cheers.) I mean defeat on this ques-
tion. Ido not look for a defeat on any other.—( Cheers.) We
know too well what is their strength and their majority—
(Loud cheers from the Tory benches)—but I do hope and
trust, nay, I confidently expect, thsn at no distant period the
minds of the men of this country will be thoroughly enlight-
ened on this subject, and that the same deference to
to public opinion, which has wrung this small and reluctant
concession from the Government, may one day extort from
them a much nearer approximation to, if not a full arrival at,
sound principles of legislation on this all-important subject.—
( Enthusiastic cheering, which continued for some time after
the Noble Lord had resumed his seat. )
Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and the House
diviAed, when there appeared—
For Lord J. Russell's Amendment 226
Against it
Majority for Ministers
On our re-admission to the Gallery we found the House in
Committee, and

Sir ROBERT PEEL upon his legs, tooting, as we Tinder-
stood, that the Chairman do report progress, and ask leave to
sit again to-morrow, but the confusion in the body of the House
was so great, that we could not distinctly collect the purport
of the Right Hon. Baronet's observations.
Mr. VILLIERS thought that at that late hour, and in the
exhausted state of the House—(" No, no," from the Minis-
terial Benches)—he could not bring forward the motion of
which he had given notice, except under such disadvantageous
circumstances that he trusted the Right Hon. Baronet would
not. press his motion, but postpone the further discussion to
Friday.
Sir R. PEEL did not think he could accede to the Hon.
Gentleman's request. it should be recolected that the House
had as yet really made no progress in the measure. The re-
solution was merely the foundation for bringing in a Bill.
There would be many opportunities for discussing the ques-
tion, and he hoped that the Hon. Gentleman would be actu-
ated by the feeling that it would be desirable to conduct the
discussion in such a manner as to lead to some practical result.
His Right Hon. Friend had a motion for to-morrow on the
subject of Exchequer Bills, which had been postponed in
order to make way for the discussion. He hoped that the
Hon. Member would not object to his resolution for the post-
ponement of the discussion to Friday, as that would throw
them over into the next week. There would be an opportu-
nity of opening the whole question upon the second reading
of the Bill.—( Hear.)
Mr. WAKLEY now rose amidst great confusion, and said
he hoped that the Right Hon. Baronet would accede to the
very humble request of the Hon. Member for Wolverhampton.
Vast numbers of petitions had been presented from the people
for the total repeal of the Corn-laws, arid, after the fatigue of a
three nights' debate, he hoped, the House would not
hurry on the discussion until Friday. The present
discussion related to the taxing the people's bread, and
before the House came to a division upon that tax, they ought
to know what were the other taxes which the Right Hon.
Baronet intended to propose, and how far they would affect
the people. He hoped, therefore, that the Right Hon. Bart.
would consider the proposition of the Non. Gentleman (Mr.
Villiers).
Lord JOHN RUSSELL thought the request made by his
Hon. Friend the Member for Wolverhampton was very reason-
able.

Sir ROBERT PEEL said he did not wish to throw any
obstacle in the way of the lion. Gentleman opposite • he was
only acting on what he considered to be public duty, and for the
public interests.—( Hear, hear.) He had now, however, no
objection to accede to the Hon. Gentleman's request—( Hear)
--and as the Exchequer Bills matter was deferred, perhaps
they need not meet at all to-morrow.

Sir. VILLIERS begged leave to state that he did not apply
for the postponement of the question merely for his own
personal convenience ; but he thought that it would
be the most respectful course towards those persons upon
whose behalf petitions had been presented to the House to make
the application then.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER felt he
was placed in great difficulty. He said he was
willing to postpone the measure with reference
to the Exchequer I Bills, thinking that the Corn-law
debate would have been continued, and the question of the
Corn-laws being of great importance, he did not wish to in-
terfere with them, by bringing on his motion on Friday.
Air. VILLIERS having explained, the House resumed ; and
on the motion of Sir R. PEEL, it was adjourned at a Quarter
to Three o'Clock to Friday.

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THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
THIS EVENING, FEB. 17,
Will be repeated, arranged as a Drama, Handel's ACIS
AND GALATEA.—Polypheme, Mr. H. Philips; Acis, Miss
P. Ilortoß ; Damon, Mr. Allen; Galatea, Miss Romer.
After which will be repeated the New Comedy, entitled THE
PRISONER OF WAR.

After which, the Popular Farce, entitled THE WIND-
MILL.—The Marquis de Roueville, Mr. Morris Barnett;
Sampson Low, Mr. Keeley ; Marian, Mrs. Keeley.
Doors tA. be opened at Half. past Six, and the Performance
to begin a Seven o'clock. Boxes 55.. Second Price, 2s. 6d.
Pit 35., Second Price 2s. Lower Gallery Is. 6d., Second
Price Is. Upper Gallery Is., Second Price 6d.

THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN.
UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS.
THIS EVENING, FEB. 17,
Will be repeated Bellini's Opera of NORMA.—Pollio, Mr.
W. Harrison ; Flavius, Mr. Clement White, Oroveso, Mr.
Leffler ; Adalgisa, Miss Rainforth ; Clotilda, Miss Grant ;
and Norma by Miss Adelaide Kemble.
After which will be repeated the New Grand Christmas
Pantomime, entitled GUY EARL OF WARWICK; OR.
'IARLEQUIN AND THE DUN COW.

Doors to Fe opened at half-past Six—the performances to
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THIS EVENING. FEB. 17,
Will be acted an entirely New Drama, called RABY
RUINS ; or, the MOTHER'S STATUE ; with new Sce-
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After which, MRS. NORMA, with Bellini's Music —Nor-
ma, Signor Nevilli ; Agelgisa, Signor Waltoni ; Pollio, Sig-
nora Martini.

After which, the Grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled
HARLEQUIN AND THE ICE QUEEN; OR, JACK
FROST AND KING THAW —With gorgeous and charac-
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Dresses, ingenious Tricks, magnificent Panorama by Brun-
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taloon, M. Lehman ; Flip, Signor Feliz Carlo ; Clown, Mr.
Buckingham ; Columbine, Miss Sharpe.
To conclude with Haines' new and successful Drama, enti-
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Private and Public Boxes can be had of Messrs. Sams, Ebere,
Mitchell, Andrews, and Seguin, during the run of this popu-
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grain, when imported for the sake of revenue, and
asserted, with something of the inspiration of genius,
that the time is not far off when the Tories, bowing as
heretofore to public opinion, will acknowledge those
principles, and make them the basis of the nationalpolicy.
Sir ROBERT PEEL made a laboured defence of his
sliding scale, and openly acknowledged that it was not
formed from any conviction of its justice, but to please a
friend and disarm an opponent. It is a compromise be-
tween the claims of partisans, not between the interests
of the nation. He dwelt on the mighty interests involved
in the production annually of 45 million quarters ofgrain,
as if the Corn-law produced them, and not the industrious
labourers, who are denied a reasonable share in the vast
produce. He insisted, too, emphatically, on the protection
which has for many years been given to agriculture by the
law, while the fact is, that the law never has given the
protection it has promised, and has for the last twenty-
five years continually deluded the farmers into promis-
ing more rent than they could pay. At one
time it promised them a protection of 80s., then 655.,
and now, conforming to circumstances which the pro-
tecting law has been unable to prevent, it promises them
a protection of 565. If protection injures the community,
it swindles the farmer.

Sir ROBERT'S speech was not so coldly received as
his former one, from which we infer that he has recon-
ciled his followers to his scheme rather than let in, as
Mr. CHRISTOPHER said, the enemies of the landed interest.
After these two speeches, Mr. ROEBUCK'S speech was
the lion of the night, but to his able oration we must
take another occasion to do justice.
Lord ASHLEY explained to
.the House, relieving the
heaviness of the debate, that Mr. WARD had made a
most unjust and unfounded attack on him the night be-
fore, for which Mr. WARD pointedly and respectfully
asked Lord ASHLEY'S pardon. The Noble Lord was
satisfied.

We cannot conclude this brief notice of the proceed-
ings, last night, without adding that Sir R. PEEL seems
more confident, and more determined, than he was on
Wednesday. From the Parliament there is no hope -
GOD helps them who help themselves.

In the House of Commons a great deal has been said
of the amount of capital vested in the soil. What does
this mean? So far as the landlords are concerned, they
hare obtained from the land a continually increasing
rent, but they have invested no additional capital of im-
portance in land. We have heard on several occasions
of their ruining their tenants by their exactions. We
have heard of tenants investingcapital in improvements
by which the landlords have profited ; but we know of
no capital the landlords have invested in the soil. They
have wrung capital and income out of the land. They have
obtained a greater price for land as population has ad-
vanced. We deny that they have invested any capital
in land.

When men speak of tenants investing capital in land,
what is meant ? They drain land ; they clear it ; they
pulverise it ; they heap manure on it ; in short, they
employ labour on the land,, 'and nothing more ;
and they have as good a right as other capitalists
to expect a profit on the capital they have
applied to employing labour. But it is quite clear
that the whole of the capital they have invested has been
employed in setting labourers to work. Now if wages
are kept up by Corn-laws, as is said, it is clear that the
Corn-laws have compelled the farmers to give more for
the labour they have employed than would be otherwise
necessary. The question then really comes to this, that
the Corn-laws make the farmers invest a nominally
larger capital in the land, not an increased quantity of
labour—and then they require the community to pay a
higher price for its corn to reimburse them fur the
expense the Corn-laws have put them to. This may be
amusing to political schemers, but, nonentity as in the
end it turns out to be, it is death to the people.
Dr. SMITE( has shown with great force that a bounty
on the export of corn, whiCh in its effect is tan-
tamount to the duty on corn imported, has ultimately
no other effect than to lower the price of the pre-
cious metals in the community, or raise the
price in our country above the price in other countries.
This is the effect of our Corn-laws. They raise nomi-
nal prices, and sanction a general system of plunder ;
but they do not encourage agriculture or promote its
improvement. They inflict irreparable injury on the
people—we believe they only nominally raise the amount
of the landlords' income and the tenants' profits. They
annihilate trade, and enable some men to say they have
30,0001 a year, who would otherwise be obliged to say
they had only 27,0001., though the latter sum would,
with free trade, buy quite as much, or more, of all other
commodities as the former. The race of jolterheads are
sacrificing the community to a mere name.

We could not but admire the iiuivete with which more
than one Member referred on Tuesday night to Mr.
liusltssoN's opinions, and dwelt particularly on the
fact that the Right Hon. Gentleman always deferred to
what was practicable. Mr. LABOUCHERE quoted an opi-
nion of Lord STANLEY'S, borrowed, no doubt, from Mr.
linsicissoN, in which that Noble Lord said he was for a
fixed duty, but it was not practicable. Now the practica-
bility of which Mr. HusaissoN spoke, and which Lord
STANLEY imitated, were in fact then, as now, nothing
more and nothing less than the resolution of the land-
lords to maintain their station, as Sir E. KNATCHBULL
expressed it, by taxing the people's bread.
Mr. Husaissox was, through his whole life, a trading
politician, and was dependent for all his political powt r
on the Tory aristocracy, whose servant he was. Ile
was obliged to fashion both his conduct and his opinions
by their desires. What he . meant by practicable, and
what Lord STANLEY, who unthinkingly followed
him, meant by practicable, was what the Tory
aristocracy would consent to. Neither of them thought
of what was due to justice or due to the people, they
only though of what the landlords would allow. Now,
it must be for every reflecting mind a curious thing to
see the trimming and subservient opinions of Mr. Hus-
xissoN, adapted to his station and his time, now quoted
as the guide of Parliament. The most defective analysis
at onto convinces us, that Mr. Husxissores opinions were,
in fact, the offspring of the selfishness or political
scoundrelism of the landlords from 1815 to 1828; and
they are now quoted as solemn wisdom, and made the
guide of Parliament, We do not, in all these quo-
tations, get one step beyond that selfishness which is at
once the parent of our laws, and was the parent of Mr.
HusaissoN's practical opinions and conduct.

Machinery and ite effects, have, during the present
debate, been much discussed, and great pains have been
taken on the Tory side, to prove that it is productive
of many evils to the manual labourers, whom it displaces.
At the same time, Sir R. Pzim has acknowledged that
machinery is beneficial, and we may safely conclude
that it cannot be dispensed with, and must be continually
extended and improved, if this country is to remain a
great nation. Such being the leading facts in our mo-
dern economical histori—machinery being of great ad-
vantage to society, and in, some cases injurious to indi-
viduals, what have those statesmen done, who undertake
the regulation of railways, and deplore the effects of com-
petition, who regulate the sale of land at the antipodes,
and adjust the supply of labour to the market in the An-
tilles, to check this admitted evil, and compensate the indi-
viduals for the sacrifice which the welfare of society de-
mands of them P Nothing, absolutely and positively
nothing. They. have entirely neglected this part of their
duty, and only complain of the selfishness of capitalists,
while they advise the displaced labourers to be patient
and submissive. Were a clerk displaced by reform-
ing a Court, the officials of Whitehall would allow
the Parliament no rest till he was compensated
out of the public revenue. But he is a sort
of gentleman, and dependent on the Government ;
the hand-loom weavers are of the labouring classes, and
independent men. The one is taken care of ; the other is
left to perish. The Tory statesmen, who meddle with
every thing, cannot allow the evil effects of the use of
machinery on individuals to go unalleviated without ad-
ding to their disgrace, and to the hatred they already
deserve at the hands of the cheated labourers.

In defending the Government Corn-law scheme on Mon-
day night in the House of Commons, Sir E. KNA.TCHIIIILL
took occasion tonbserve, " the landed interest had freely
received the proposal made by the Right Hon. Baronet,
and he (Sir E. liNarcunum.) should never have agreed
to it, unless it gave to the agriculturists such ample secu-
rity for their property, as might enable them to maintain
that station in society which it was their right to hold."
In these few words, insignificant as they may appear, we
have the whole secret of the landholders' protracted oppo-
sition to any alteration in the Corn-laws. They are
opposed to these laws, not from any enlarged principle
of justice or patriotism ; not because they are at variance
with common sense and common humanity ; but simply
and solely, because any effectual alteration in them may
prevent their party from maintaining "that station in
society, which it is their right to hold." So the best
and dearest interests of the country are to be sacrificed,
in order that the landowners may still continue to main-
tain their " station in society "—a station, be it observed
fixed by themselves, and according to their own sense of
self-importance ! Everything is to be made sub-
servient to this great—this paramount necessity.
The interests of the landholders are superior to every
other interest. What matters it how the vast mass of ,
the community is distressed, so long as they thrive, and
maintain their high " station in society 2" The people
were born for no other purpose than to be the hewers

of wood and drawers of water ; and, in like manner,

the landholders were born to maintain a certain " station
in society," which, in all matters of legislation, is the
very first thing that must be looked to. Now we
warn these selfish, aristocratic monopolists, who
scarcely deign to acknowledge the existence of any
other party than their own, to beware how they intrude
their claims to factitious importance on the public atten-
tion. We warn them to beware how they add insult to
injury ! We conjure them to remember and get by
heart the lesson set them by the old French aristocracy,
who fell, chiefly in consequence of this very arrogance.
Wkat are "stations in society" compared with the
great interests of the people ? Arc the weavers
of Paisley to starve—the cotton-spinners of Man-
chester to perish by thousands off the face of the
earth—in order that the landholders may revel in
luxury, and keep up their state at Court. However it
may have been hitherto, such nonsense will be tolerated
no longer. Mere conventional distinctions are rapidly
losing their value in public estimation ; and the big
word "Aristocracy" is no longer the bug-bear that itonce
used to be. The People have become too shrewd—too en-
lightened—to allow their interests to be sacrificed any
longer to a groat landholder's sense of self-importance.

Rumours of an intended revolutionary movement in
Spain, fixed for April next, have for some time pre-
vailed in Paris. Some short time ago, a gentleman re-
siding in Madrid, wrote to a friend in London, stating
that the Carlists and Christinos had come to an amicable
understanding, and that when the flag of revolution
should be again unfurled in the Basques, CABRERA
would be at the head of a movement combining
equally the interests of CARLOS and CHRISTINA.
On Sunday it was whispered in the diplomatic circles
that the French Government had permitted CABRERA
secretly to escape from prison, and that he was actually
in Paris contriving a plan of insurrection with Madame
CHRISTINA MUNOZ, now a daily visitor at the Tuileries.
The subject, we are happy to see, was brought before
the House of Commons last night by Colonel Fox, in
answer to a question from whom, Sir ROBERT
PEEL stated, that the Government had heard, though not
officially, that CABRERA was in Paris, or would be thei e
very shortly ; and further, that lie sincerely trusted the
Spanish Government would be strong enough to crush
any attempt to disturb the national tranquillity. The
treasons of the French Government against Spain,
are therefore no longer doubtful. CHRISTINA and LOUIS
PHILIPPE'S machinations are now revealed to the world
and in time enough to put the REGENT entirely upon his
guard. The Tories, we rejoice to announce, have
adopted the Spanish policy of the Whigs, so far as re-
gards the maintenance of the Constitution. This will
give vigour to the councils of the Spanish Cabinet ; and
when the gravity of the case is known in Madrid, we
shall expect to hear of fewer dissensions in the halls of
the Cortes.

In our Foreign Summary we have given a few extract,
from the Paris Papers, showing what is thought of Sir
ROBERT PEEL'S Corn•law scheme in France. Hardly
any other topic is touched upon in these Journals. The
persecution of the press by the printers, who are now
virtually constituted newspaper censors, and who print
or reject leading articles at their pleasure, excites no
attention beyond the offices pf the oppressed journals.
Thus, the Government has now only to bribe a printer,
to crush any daily paper without encountering the odium
of a prosecution.

The Paris Papers give currency to some favourable
news from French Africa. ABD-EL-KADER, however,
still threatens to give the French a world of trouble.
Died, at Mostaganem, in Africa, on the 20th of January, Edward
Charles, youngest son of the late Patrick Henry Russell, Esq., of
the County Down, representative of one of the oldest families in Ire.
land, Barons of Ulster from the conquest to the time of Cromwell.

The Ministry is silent respecting the events at Hayti, which ap-
pears even to be doubted. The Journal du Havre brings to-day the
following confirmation of it :—" Captain Briam de Boisjillet, of
the Amelia, coming from Gonaives, in St. Domingo, confirms the
news, received by the way of America, of the serious disagreements
which have arisen between the Republic and the Consul of France,
in consequence of the seizure made on board the St. Jacques. M.
Lavasseur was still on board the Berjere corvette, waiting for in.
structions from the French Government."—Commerce.

BOURSE-PARIS, MONDAY, FEB. 14.

knit Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Pile.. Prier.
French 5 per Cents ...... ..... 119 5 Ilk 15 ... 1,8 90 ... 118 90
4 per Cents lO3 ... 1i 350 ... 103 ... 103 50
per Cents 79 95 79 95 79 90 ... 79 95
Loan
Bank 01 erratic.

Lafinte Bank 1.0001. Shares 1025 —1025 ...1022 50 ...1e42 50
5,000(. Shares seklo ...WS° ...man
Belgian Bank ........... 810 ... 812 50 812 50
Belgian 5 per Cents. 104% ... 104% ... 104% .. 104%
per Cents., 1840 105% ... 105% . 105% ... 105%
3 per Cents ..».» 72 60 ... 72 60 .. ...
72 50 ... 72 60
Spanish Active .............» 25% 25% 25 ?i
Passive 5% 5% ... 5% ...
Portuguese 5 per Cents.
Beapoltlan
Rowan lO4. 1044...10431
RAILWAY SHARES.
St. Germain
Versailles, It. li 340 240 340 Sl()
L.B 211) 210 210 ... 210
aouan ..... 212 50 ... 515 512 50 ... 515
Orleans .. 565 565 ... 560 560
Strasburg to Bale 230 233 75 . 230 293 75
HA 51131 U RO BORSENHALLE, FRS. 11
Bills. Money
Austrian 5 per Cents. 109
Bank Shares 1685 1663
Anglo-Russian Loan 'log 109%
Russian 5 per Cent. let series, Certificate
Inscription, IstSerics ........ 104
Russian 5 per Cont. Hope and Co. bd and 9th
Series ........ ..... 98g
Ditto in Certificates ...... 18
Ncw 4 per Cent. .....
Dutch Actual Debt, 23 per Cent 3l 50%
Ditto

Polish Bonds ....... 158 k
New lick ets 16934 169 k
Anglo-Vanish Loan, 3 per 78 .78
Notwegian Limn, 1834, 4 per Cent. 102%
Spanish, New 5 per
EXCHANGES ON LONDON.
HAMBURG, Fits. 11.-13 832.—Tw0 months, 13 6%.
PETERSBURGII, FEB. 3.—Two months, 38 5-16 pence.,
STOCKHOLM, Fax. 4.—Seventy-five days, 12. 16.
VIENNA, Fss. I,.—Three months. 9. 39%.
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—Braw, Fag. 8.
Bills. Money.
St. Schuld. Sch., 4y, per cent. lOl 1943{
Prussian English Lean, MO, 4 per cent 1033 i
Nunange on London, three months — 20%
—Prussian State Gazette. Feb. 9.

Mr. Charles Dickens has arrived safely in America.
We read, in a private letter from Boston, that "no
Prince or Potentate that ever reigned was ever half
so worshipped as he is by these people, and all for the
sake of little Oliver and Nell. At home or abroad, in
the streets, the theatres, the Legislature, any where and
everywhere, at great balls in his honour, public dinners
in his honour, at the Universities, factories, museums,
libraries, and all places, public or private, you have no
conception of the enthusiastic show."

SIR ROBERT PEEL'S SCALZ has been drawn up with
one single object, that of keeping his party united. It pro-
mises, we regret to say, to be successful, and if not re-
sisted by the public it will be carried through Parliament.
It will be efficacious against the Whigs, to defeat whom
the Tories will starve the people by the way. They do
not design this perhaps, at least they say so; what they
aim at exclusively is, to keep themselves in and keep
out the Whigs, and to attain this single end is the object
of Sir Robert Peel's wonderful scale.
CONVEYANCE OF LANDS BY THE DUKE OF CORN-
WALL.—This Bill, brought in by Mr. Pemberton. has
for its purpose the removing of doubts which at present
exist, as to whether, under the peculiar form of inherit-
ance by which the Prince of Wales stands seised of the
Duchy, leases and grants made therefrom will be good
and indefeasible estates in law for longer than his life.
The enactments proposed are to render all such valid
for the full time specified in the indentures, provided the
time does not exceed thirty-one years, or, in the case
of waste lands, ninety-nine years ; covenants in his
Highness's lease to be as effectual as if he wero pos-
sessed of an absolute estate, saving certain rights speci-
fied. Her Majesty to be acting guardian during the
Prince's minority,
A letter from Rome, dated January 11, states that
the great "Feast of Tongues" which is annually held
on the Sunday after the festival of. the Three Kings,
took place in that capital two days ago. If the "Feast
of Tongues" at Rome is not more edifying than the pre-
sent " Feast of Tongues" in the House of Commons, it
must be a very sorry affair !
An incidental discussion took place on Monday night
in the House of Lords on the subject of turtle, and the
duties paid on it. In the course of this discussion, which
we have nb doubt, will excite a lively interest at Guild-
hall, a Noble Lord observed that it was not yet decided,
whether a turtle was, or was not, a fish. In this state
of uncertainty on a question so important to all lovers of
calipash and calipe ,e we should respectfully recommend
that the subject be referred to a Committee of the
Court of Aldermen, who will be sure to give the best,
because the most practical and scientific, opinion upon
it.. Even a reference to the Bench of Bishops would not
be amiss.

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MELANCHOLY SUICIDE.--A melanchT; suicide
was committed on the afternoon of Wednesday
.11CO3 at Milfield
Hill, by an old man named William Gilholme., 93 years of age.
His daughter and grand-daughter resided with him, and in
'clock,attempted
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razor, but not sthueiciridaebbseynccuettentgwehoenththwi
s wanrdiststh.'r,,e
suc-
ceeding, he resorted to the manner which proved fatal, viz.,
by suspending himself to one the binders in the house by a
rope. The body was discovered in less than half an hour by a
begger-woman, but ere this the vital spark had fled. He was
possessed of all his faculties and senses, but only impaired by
old age.—Berwick Advertiser.
An avalanche fell' at Fabrigues, near Prader
d'Aubrac, in the Pyrenees, a few ntghLY ago, and completely
overwhelmed a barn, containing 30 head of cattle and 60 sheep.
The keeper was fortunately absent, and no hmnan being lost
his life. Such an event as the falling of an avalanche is stated
to be very rare in this part of the mountains. Another ava-
lanche fell on the same night at Mares, in the Ardeclse, and
overwhelmed two houses. In one the man and his wife were
killed, but their two children were saved ; in the other the
man and his wife were saved, but their mother and their four
children perished.
DEATH FROM TIGHT LACING.—Last week
an inquest wag held at the George Inn, Chard, on view of the body
I of Harriet Palmer, aged 13, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Palmer,
of the Crown Inn, who died suddenly, on Saturday, as she was
walking in the High.street, from rupture ofthe blood-vessels of the
lungs, occasioned by a slight exertion while under the pressure of
tight lacing. The Jury returned the following verdict :—" Died
from the rupture of vessels on the lungs;" and added," the Jury
wish to express their opinion, that the rupture of vessels on the
lungs of the deceased was occasioned by the undue pressure of
tight stays on the chest, and record this opinion as a caution to the
public of the injurious tendency of tight lacing,.