The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-04 00:00:00

TEE StI,N, LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 4 1845,

We should like to know what extra amount of italics
and CAPITALS, notes of interrogation ? exclamation!
dashes —, and all else pertaining to the well-known
war-establishment of type of the Quarterly, would,
have been put in requisition, in the Melbourne era, if
the following sentences had appeared in an organ
of Whig opinions : --"The Roman Catholics of
Ireland are rapidly growing in wealth and
weight, though not in proportion to the
growth of the poorer population. What, then, is
more proper than that the rich should be permitted,
if they please, to take upon themselves, to the relief
of their poorer neighbours, a larger and more per-
manent share of the expenses of the due and decent
celebration of their own rites, and the respectability
of their pastor ? But it is not the affluent Roman
Catholics only by whom this Act will be considered
an indulgence; we trust that we shall see that the
more considerable Protestant proprietors will come
forward to avail themselves of this privilege—
they will feel equally with the Roman Catholic
the charitable impulse of increasing the comfort
and independence of the priest, and of alle-
viating, it not of altogether saving, the burden
of his maintenance to a population too poor in
general to maintain itself." We have somewhat
strayed from the reference, with which we set out, to
the great meeting at Exeter. But the topics are
most intimately connected. The more we see the
Administration conceding to Roman Catholics—the
more firmly we are called on, as Protestants, to make
good our own position. Mr. Gladstone's recipe
has been utterly discarded by the Government of
which he is a member—the recipe, namely, pro-
pounded by him in his 'Church and State'—of up-
holding " truth" as truth—and discountenancing rival
communions as schisms. It is now quite clear that
truth, as truth, finds no more preference with this
Administration than with those whom Mr. Glad-
stone and others denounced for their latitudina-
rianism. It remains therefore with this Pro-

testant community to compel regard to their views
of truth,—and no way of doing this can be more
proper than that resolved by the Exeter meeting.
Indeed their diocesan has, in some sense, the merit
of having suggested the very course now adopted.
The Bishop of Exeter has admitted the pro-
bable inconvenience of many directions of the rubric.
But, instead of letting these quietly remain asleep, as
for some two centuries past, he suddenly inculcates
their disused observance—moved, in fact, by the new
zeal of the restless tail of his junior clergy. But he
has himself suggested that the same authority, which
imposed these ritual matters, ma, abolish them. To
that authority his laity appeal. They appeal to their
representative in the Church—to that authority
which—whatever may be held to make churches—can
alone make, and keep, any church a public and privi-
leged establishment. They petition the Sovereign
for the word " Forward !"—not for the mere sanc-
tion of the state quo. The clerical movers cry "Back-
ward !"—the laity—" Forward !" God help the
right 1

THE GAME-LAWS.
Whether the farmer will derive more advantage
by the agitation against game being taken up by
persons who are not game preservers, than if the
landlords took up the question, we shall not at pre-
sent affirm nor deny. But we can safely say this,
that many tenant farmers in all parts of England,
who feel the game to be a serious grievance, and
ho have also been afraid of the Anti-Corn-law
League, are now much more friendly to the League,
since some of its leading members have come for-
ward as " farmers' friends" upon the game
question. We understand that Mr. Bright,
taking advantage of the extensive agencies and ma-
chinery of the League, has recently sent a circular
into every part of the kingdom, addressed to leading
agriculturists, asking information as to the injury
dont- to the crops by game. In a certain district in
Hampshire, remarkable alike for the eertility of its
soil and the abundance of its game, several farmers
have been consulted as to the replies which should be
made to the queries put to them, and they gave their
answers thus :

Question. " How many hares or rabbits are equal
to the keep of a sheep ?"
Answer. " Two—with what they eat and what
they damage."
Q. " What is the difference in value between a
farm on which game is preserved and one where it is
not?"

A. " Twenty-five per cent."
Q. " Do landlords generally make an allowance
equal to the damage caused by game ?"
A. " They do not."
Q. "Is not game preserving very prejudicial to
good farming and to the interest of the farmers ?"
A. " It cannot be otherwise."
Q. "Is it not injurious to the morals and character
of the farm labourers ?"

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)
MANSION-HO USE.
James Lathbury, butcher, of Whitechapel, was
summoned for having refused to pay two quarter's
poors'-rate. The assessor appeared with his books to
prove that the amount demanded upon the assessment
of Mr. Lathbury's house at 951. per annum was due.
The defendant admitted that he had objected to
pay the sum demanded, but if he thought it was a
just and legal claim, he would not for one moment
have hesitated. The authorities, however, had
thought proper to assess him a great deal more than
his neighbours were assessed.
The LORD MA roa—Who of your neighbours are
assessed leis than you are ?
The defendant mentioned a few names of which
that of Mr. Smith, the eminent distiller, was une. It
had, he said, been considered fair, for what reason he
did not know, to assess the proprietor of the immense
premises which cost 150,0001. or 160,000/., known as
the Whitechapel distillery, at no more than 1,1001. a-
year, while he was assessed at 951.

The LORD MAYOR—How much rent do you pay ?
Defendant-1001. a year.
The LORD MAYOR—You are only rated at 931.,
notwithstanding your own acknowledgment as to
your liability to a higher rate.
The defendant said he was a tenant-at-will, and
that the rating had crept up year after year until it
had reached its present amount. He had stated his
objection, but the board, instead of taking it into
consideration as he supposed they would have done,
directed that he should he summoned before the Lord
Mayor. For two years he had been subjected to
what he considered, to be an unequal and unjust ex-
action.

The Loan MAYOR—It is your own fault if you
have paid what you considered to he an illegal claim,
without inquiring into the matter.
The defendant said his surveyor had assessed him at
521. a-year.
The LORD MAYOR—How was that, when you say
you pay 1001. a-year for your premises ? Defendant
—I only paid GO/. a-year at that time.
The LORD MAYOR then examined the parochial
books, and said to the defendant, " I find that the 7th
of December was the day of appeal. Now you have,
by inattention to the subject, lost your appeal, so
that, as far as the rates for which you have been sum-
moned are concerned, you will be obliged to pay.
You ought to have known the process, for notices is
regularly posted upon the church doors."
The defendant—But, my Lord, I very seldom visit
the church.

The LORD MAYOR—Then, perhaps, you may put
down this as one of the bad effects of not going to
church. You must pay these two quarters, as it is too
late for you to appeal ; but you can object to the dis-
charge of the next quarter's poor-rates, and I would
have you do so for your own satisfaction.
The defendant said that he should certainly act
upon his Lordship's suggestion, and instantly pay the
present demand.

A. " Abundantly so."
It is then remarked by those who make these re-
plies, that Mr. Bright should not have confined his
inquiries to hares and rabbits. In one field, occu-
pied by a farmer on an estate covering six miles
of country, the whole estate swarming with game,
as many as two hundred pheasants have been
counted this year on twelve acres of barley stubble.
They had fed there during the ripening and harvest-
ing of the barley. Some of them were shot on the
stubble; and one, we are informed by a Hampshire
correspondent, which came into the possession of one
of the farmers who signs the replies to Mr. Bright,
was examined, and "contained in its crop 506 perfect
barleycorns, exclusive of some corns half digested,
which are all preserved and can be shown to any one."
It is then shown that these barleycorns are equal to a
gallon of barley each day for each hundred birds.
In another field, of twenty-eight acres, on the same
estate, but not let to a tenant, the enormous number
of 1,200 pheasants has been seen at once. This field
was sown with barley by the landlord for the use of
the birds ; but they were not confined to it, nor to
its locality. They invaded the farms. A farmer,
writing some little time ago in the Salisbury and
Winchester Journal, states that he has known up-
wards of eight hundred grains of sound wheat, be-
sides a mass partly digested, taken from the stomach
of one pheasant shot in a field newly sown. He
supposes that to be the food of the bird for one day,
that the seed lies thirty days in the ground, and
that therefore one pheasant extracts from the seed
sown twenty-four thousand grains ! He asks what
the loss must be where hundreds of pheasants flock
into the fields, as is the case in his neighbourhood ?
" It may be said," he observes, " that this calculation
is too high. I think not. In the case mentioned
everything was fair • the bird was shot by
a game-preserving nobleman, who gave it to a
tenant on the spot, and he had the curiosity to
examine it. Let those, however, who will not
believe, obtain one and examine it ; and then put
their calculation as low as possible, and it will prove
high enough to show that instead of doing the farmer
good, it inflicts on him an enormous injury." This
Hampshire farmer alludes here to assertions some-
times made that the pheasants relieve the farmers
of grubs and insects, and seldom injure their
corn. We believe where they are preserved in such
numbers they must destroy a very considerable
quantity of corn. We understand that a farmer in
that county, who has this year. steeped his seed
wheat in a liquid prepared from vitriol, with a view
to preventing a disease to which wheat is Liable in his
district, has had the misfortune to poison some of his
landlord's pheasants by so doing, and thereby get him-
self into serious trouble. This, at least, proves that
pheasants pick up a farmer's seed wheat. Scarcely a
spi ing or summer comes, but we hear of diseases in
the wheat plant; and so loud, and apparently well-
founded, are the complaints, that we should think any WEST YORKSHIRE.
remedy would be applied that might be proved We are authorised to contradict a rumour that George
effectual, and any experiment encouraged which Hudson, Esq., has "backed out" of the West Yorkshire
seemed reasonable. We see the manufacturers Railway. Mr. Hudson stands in precisely the same po-
sition at the present time towards this Company as when,
effecting great changes for the public good by new
as Chairman of the Leeds and Bradford Board of Di-
chemical appliances. But place them on a footing
with the farmer—let their property be exposed to
rectors, the guarantee of four per cent. from that Com-
pilferers, and let it be a crime in them to use an Y itl"tYhewrthisiuundeeruing, that
aasasauirvee nth
the Shareholders
the West Yorkshire.
chemical ingredient which, when tasted or touched by on the meeting of Parliament thieninva alb!. aid of Mr.
the pilferer, would destroy its life, and where would Hudson will be rendered to obtain the Bill.—Bradford
be their progress in manufactures, or their advance- Observer.
rent in science ? We know nothing of the worth • NEWCASTLE AND CARLISLE.
o:" the Hampshire farmer's wheat liquid. But we Considerable alarm was felt on Saturday last by a
thinly that diseases in wheat being so universally report reaching the town that the short tunnel on the'
complained of, it is unwise to restrict him from Newcastle and Carlisle Railway, near Corbridge,
making an experiment, merely because that experi- lied that morning fallen in. On the managing com-
mentmittee repairing to the place, they found that a
small portionf had given way, which, although it will
caused the death of those birds which were
causeas a
o t ehlay in the arrival
eating his seed wheat, which their owner had no !
attendedalittie d.
right to allow them to eat. We find some difference I
of thae terwainsayws
of opinion as regards the amount of destruc- promptest measures were inamewditatealnytoaelesiedent.Tihe
placing omnibuses and carts, so s toyrender taken,
inson)3r-'
venience as trifling as possible ;sand it is expected that
Lion actually done to the crops of the farmer
within less than a week the passage will be opened, and
game. But one thing is certain, that in,
districts where there are no artificial grasses, corn
by,,the
no hares nor ' the traffic, which will
nor turnip crops raised,.pheasants,l be in the meantime fully provided
nor even rabbits, thrive. The extensive die- . tor, be resumed in the ordinary way. The public
I are aware that, for the safety of
trict of the New Forest, in Hampshire, proves ,
passen-
this.
I
. gory and iu consequence of the
insects, worms
There the shelter, water, . ,1. . great increase
fields—are in favour . trAle, the Directors are having the whole line of rail-
acorns—everything but the farm
1 way doubled, which has been done with the e by
of game ; and though well watched -
there the game will not accumulate. On the con- The enlarging of the tunnel is a work requiring consi-
trary, wherever an attempt is made to preserve game I
derable skill, a drift above it being to be driven, by
in a corn-growing district, success is certain and easy- which the wider arch is made before the older one is re-
The only enemies to it are the poachers. We learn ( moved. In shifting some of the machinery by the con-
from another local paper that there are at the present treeter's men, a hole was unluckily made through the
time one hundred persons in Winchester gaol for i. present roof before the new one was finished, which let
offences against the game-laws ;or against those down down some of the superincumbent earth and stopped the
!
laws ' which, though not called pLosage.—Tyne
game-laws, are Mercury.
used for the protection of game against ; NORTHUMBERLAND.
poachers. A considerable portion of these are corn- ! The railway by Alnwick being now found practicable,
mitted from the neighbourhood of the great game : by actual survey, Messrs. Gandell and Brunton,• the
keeping estate already alluded to—where
1,200 eminent engineers, are preparing sections and plans
to lay before the Board of Trade, with the memo-
pheasants were seen on twenty-eight acres of banes
-
L rill of the inhabitants and others interested. The
stubble. These prisoners are kept in
expense of the county_the
heaviest prisonpart
tf att e I
which committee appointed at the meeting held in the
Town-Hall, Alnwick, on the 4th of November last,
is borne by the farmers. Their families 13
having persevered and overcome every difficulty so
trained in the workhouse also by the farmaerresr'n and.n- far, notwithstanding the great opposition they havemet
are
yet the farmers are called upon to aid and assist I ssamadth, there is no doubt but when the plans._the ad-
We preserving that game which so much injures them. presented with the memorial, they will show the ad-
We have been informed that a nobleman, who ais ' vantage 1,, of the line, not only as commanding a greater

Hannah Haines, who was charged, on Wednesday,
with having intended self-destruction, was brought
up for re-examination. The defendant hail mentioned,
upon her first examination, some particulars about
her husband's relations, and the Lord Mayor directed
that care should be taken of her by the matron of the
Compter. His Lordship yesterday stated that he
found, so far as he had been able to ascertain, that
the poor woman's statement was unexaggerated,
and that she was really an object of compassion. He
then handed her a sovereign, which, he said, he had
received for her, and desired her to leave her address
with Mr. Goodman, and to call at the Mansion-house
on Monday next. The appearance of the defendant
was much altered for the better.

A lad, named George Ford, was charged by Mr.
Goidham, the clerk of Billingsgate-market, with
having impeded the ticket-porters in their work in
Bi llingsgate-market.
Mr. Goldham said the defendant was a most annoy-
ing nuisance, for it was his practice to watch for and
tempt the industrious boys who laboured in the fish-
market to gamble away their earnings. Of late the
tossing, a game at which the defendant was the prin-
cipal player, had become a serious evil, and the ticket-
porters were greatly obstructed by the crowds of
blackguards who attended to gamble.
The defendant said he had only tossed like others.
The LORD Mayort—l shall send you to hard
labour in Bridewell for fourteen days ; and I think
the knowledge of that, and the assurance from me
that every one brought before me under such circum-
stances shall have similar punishment, will cure the
evil.

•
RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.
WATERFORD TO VALENCIA.
We are enabled to state in regard to the above pro-
ject, announced in our journal last week, that
Vignolles has been engsged to make the necessary sur-
veys, &c. It is considered that this will be one of the
best paying lines in Ireland, and several of the most
influential personages in the county of Waterford ex-
press their approbation of the plan, and have signi-
fied their intention of becoming shareholders, as have
also the Bonmahon Mining Company, who are most
anxious for its promotion. The English Great
Western Railway Company have, likewise, intimated
their intention of taking shares, and that to a consider-
Ole amount, in case the required number of shares
should not be taken up in the several localities. It will
also receive the support of the Marquis of Waterford,
the Earl of Huntingdon, Lord Stuart de Decks, Ralph
Osborne, Esq., M.P., &c. Should this plan be carried
out, Tramore will become the Kingstown of Waterford,
and the Bonmahon Mining Company will be essentially
served by it. It will pass through the towns of Tra-
more, Annstown, Stradbally, Dungarvan, Cappoquin,
Lismore, Fermoy, Millstreet, Killarney, &c.—Cork
.E.ranqiner.

rigid preserver of game in the south, and whose amount of traffic, accomrr °dating to a much greater extent
estate includes parts of several parishes, has forbidden the inhabitants of the middle parts of Northu nberland,
his tenants to rake their 8-uhble, oc esTraii, te„ he: : lee b,,,eing ~;. distesiee of 7.. v.-) ;miles oe the main mAil
poor people to glean it. He has also forbidden
RAILWAY INDICATOR.—There has just bee!, published
his tenants to turn their pigs out into their own
fields, either to eat up the lost ears and grains of line, and at a little expense.—Tyne Mercury.
in raris an account of an instrument for indicating the
corn, or the acorns which drop from the trees in the
speed of trains, and registering any undue excess ; this,
hedge-rows. All these must be left to the phea- it is expected, will act as a whole some monitor to engine
drivers, and lessen the risk of railway travelling, by ran-
cants, even though every hedge-row and roadway daring it impossible to escape detection,where a dangerous
on the farms is included in the measurement for velocity has been attained. This contrivance consists in a
which rent is paid. We are aware that such illibe- governor, such as is commonly used in steam-engines, and
rality as this cannot be charged against all landlords ; set in motion by the customary gearing from one of the
far from it. But what between those who are i axles of the locomotive. To the vertical sliding porthei
thus in active hostility to their tenantry, and iof the governor an index is attached, which passes along
the many more who injure their tenantry unin-
a graduated vertical scale, and, by the height to whnin
tentionally, it is no wonder that the farmers
!it reaches, shows the degre© of speed attained ; any
as
1 .excesslof speed produces a further elevation, and brings
a body see little hope of being relieved ls,
fitnrtsot,paanydawshecicohndoinndtehx, wfalhilehofis
the
iected will the
the landlords from the game grievance. 1% e
governor, remains
repeat, that the leading men of the League have at its maximum height—a standtineg testimony against
found the want of protection from game a means Of the negligence and recklessness of the engineer.
ingratiating themselves with farmers who did not lis- As a further precaution, it is arranged that one
ten to them on the corn-law question. And farmers of the balls of the Governor carries a hammer, which
who once believed in the virtue of the corn-law are strikes a bell, and loudly calls fur the attention of the
now questioning if protection was ever meant for driver. To prevent tampering with the indications of
them, when game is so increased every year upon the instrument, the second or tell-tale index is locked
them, and all their complaints of it are so unheeded. up, and the key remains in the possession of some supe-
Thus Mr. Bright, merely as a member of the nor officer, who alone, at the termination of a journey,
League—as an advocate of free trade—as the enemy can replace it in its original position, ready for a new
of the corn-law—gains an advantageous position by indication. The first index, which only takes cogni-
y sance of the speed within the regulated limit, is open
taking up this great grievance of the farmers. But
to the inspection of all in its neighbourhood ; and if
we presume that the injustice done to the tenant- this be neglected or concealed, the bell protests most
farmers, and the immorality spreading wider, andclamorously against the danger and the wrong.-
deepening and hardening as it spreads, amongst the Scotsman.
poaching population, are what the Honourable Me
her for Durham has had more especially in view.
What he may be able to do, either for farmers or
poachers, as a Member of Parliament, is quite an-
other question. The subject is beset with difficulties
But the farmers are glad of friendship from '
p any
quarter on this question.—Chronicle.

STATE OF TRADE.

There has been a great degree of quietness in
business for the last week, yet we have every reason
to believe that the present year will progress with
more advantage to the mercantile community than
they have experienced for a considerable period.
Prices of produce are low, and the means of the
people are sufficient to warrant calculations founded
on a very extended consumption of the great
staple articles. Just now, we see no reason to
fear any unnatural speculative investments in zoods,
and as our present stocks, and the supplies we have in
prospect, are generally adequate to the requirements
of the trade, we may confidently expect a continu-
ance of moderate prices, which, it is to be hoped,
will be further insured by a liberal policy on the
part of the Government, when dealing with those
great questions, which will occupy so much atten-
tion on the re-assembling of Parliament. The ac-
counts we receive from the manufacturing districts are
very satisfactory, and both the manufacturer and the
operative have every reason to be content with the
present position of affairs, as contrasted with the state
in which they were up to the beginning of last year.
There liar been no excitement in the cotton market ;
a moderate business has been got through, and
I prices are not so firmly supported as they w, re
a week ago. The American accounts have had
no influence beyond, perhaps, inducing sales, on
the ground that imports at present rates
leave a handsome result. The rate of exchange
continued high, and specie had been again
shipping even from the southern markets. There is,
however, no lack of money here, and just now we
need not the dollars of our transatlantic ,Teditors
yet here again we refuse many of their commodities,'
and with cotton and tobacco we are as well supplied
as with money. We are yet anxiously waiting
arrivals, kept back in the Channel by the un-
favourable weather of the past week, to the very
serious loss and incoo venience of the owners both
of ships and cargoes. In guano, of which we shall
hive immediately heavy arrivals, there is little
doing for consumption, and although there is no diffi-
cultyin selling at about 51. 10s. per ton, yet it seem-,
as if the buyers were only speculating for a rise a 4
the season advances. The share market is very
buoyant, and prices advance nearly every day, under
the influence, as it would seem, of deep speculative
excitement; however, the proceedings of the railway
branch of the Board of Trade have dealt a severe
blow; which must have time to work before we can
judge of the probable result. It is now too clear that
many of the new schemes will be officially opposed in
Parliament. —Liveypool Mercury.
STATE Or THE HOSIERY AND LACE TRADES.—The
condition of the principal branch of the hosiery trade,
namely, the manufacture of cotton hose by forming
the articles of a continued thread, and shaping them
by removing the loops, is still extremely dull,
the hands in the surrounding manufacturing
villages being put to great inconvenience in
obtaining a scanty supply 4,f material, they
having in many instances not more than half work.
As a matter of course, this dearth of employment
affects the general prosperity of the district, and
many complaints are heard from the shopkeepers of
want of business.—The cut-up cotton hose trade is
much in the same situation.—The drawer branch,
though not improved, is not considered worse, though
the hands are very short of employment.—The cotton
glove branch is rather dull, but not to the same extent
as other branches.—There is no real improvement in
any of the branches of the silk hosiery manufactures,
notwithstanding many small floating orders, which ex-
cite hope;the forerunner of disappointment. —The bob-
bin-net lace trade continues very dull. Some few de-
scriptions of goods are in demand, but they are very
limited in number. There has been a little excitement
so n ma
king
offeredlace w
hisith
respecting the new patepentrsinovneonfti
scolloped edges. A
method to a portion of the machine owners, who have
been for some time averse to taking licenses from
patentees, concurring that all inventions oie.:ht to be
thrown open to the public, for which they have given
him 1001. His method, we understand, is to accumu-
late the warp threads one upon the other, and to gather
up the unemployed bobbin threads by the pearl thread,
which is actuated upon by a worm and wheel, on the
beans which draws the pearl thread the required tight-
ness to form the scollop. By this method, we are told,
lie can only make the indentation from four to six holes
deep. He does not use extra point bars. Upon this
latter fragile ground the subscribers hope the patent is
evaded ; but the patentees claim the method of usin.;
the whole number of threads, as in scolloped cushion
laces, by whatever arrangement of machinery effected ;
therefore the using of extra traversing point bars by
the patent method is only a secondary claim. Several
parties, aware of this, have already taken out licenses,
for which the patentees charge 7s. 6d. per in. per an.
_The warp lace trade is further improved,—The
silk blond branch, which has suffered so much for a
long period, has revived, and many frames are set on.
The lap, press, and tatting branches are in a very ,
healthy state. dispute respecting the warp
jacquard patent, whichseemed likely to occupy our
courts of justice, is amicably settled, by the manu-
facturers and frame-owners taking licenses under 100
inches, at 35.; above 100 inches in width, at 3s. 6d.
per inch. Frames being built after this time, abo‘ ,
100 inches, are to pay 4s. per annum.—Arottingha,
Review.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
HUNTING APPOINTMENTS.
ltufford hdi.,
Mon., Dean Hall ; Wed., Larton Village ;
Sat., Mr. Bell's House, Oxton Warren-10i.
Quorn hds., Mon.. Holt ; Tues., Quorn House ; Thurs.,
Great Dalby ; Fri., Aswarby—lq.
East Essex lids..., Mon., Helion's Bumpstead ; Thurs.,
Oldham Hall.
Sir R. Sutton's hds., Mon., Carlby ; Tues., Tilton
Wood ; Wed., Irnhana Hall ; Fri., Ayston ; Sat.,
Little Dalby-11.
Pytchley lids., Mon., Finedon; Wed., Oxendon; Thurs.,
Boughton House, near Kettering ; Fri., Brock Hall ;
Sat., Walcote Village.
Mr. Foljambe's hds., Mon., Gringley-on-the-Hill; Tues.,
Darlton; Thurs., Scrooby Bar; Fri., Gateford Toll-
bar-10i.
Earl of Harewood's hds., Mon., Bilton Banks; Wed.,
Bramham Cross-roads ; Fri., Thorp Arch ; Sat.,
Beilby Grange-101.
Lord Henry Bentinek's hds., Mon., Langford Lodge;
Tues., Penton; Wed., Bardney; Thurs., Cainby Vil-
lage; Sat., Normanhy by Stow.
Cheshire hds., Mon., Norton Priory ; Wed., Bostock
Green; Thurs., Arley; sat.
Thanet harrs., Mon., Sheriff's Court; Wed. Ozengell.
ru
Earl Fitzwillia's hds., Mon., Washingley; Wed., By-
thorn Toll-bar-10. , Church Minshull-10i.
Mr. Hillier'S hds., Mon., Tothill; Tues., Horsington
mill; Thurs., Hain ton ; Fri., Spelsby-1 1.
Linlithgow and Stirlingshire hds., Mon., Linlithgow
Bridge ; Tues., Cockleroi ; Thurs., Castlecary ; Sat.,
Bangour —1 o?.
Duke of Rutland's hds., Mon., Hose Grange ; Tues.,
Dry Doddington ; Wed., Piper Hole ; Fri., Ropsley
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HILLINGDON HALL ; A TALE OF COUNTRY LIFE.
----" This is, beyond all question, the cleverest, the
wittiest, the most humorous, and most amusing work
that has been published for some time. The writer is
already well known in the fields of literature as the
author of Handley Cross,' a work which placed him at
once amongst the first and most distinguished writers of
the day. In the w6rk now before us, he has eclipsed
himself. Every page in these volumes abounds in the
most exquisite passages of rich and genuine humour.
Laugh out right heartily the reader must, whether he be
sportively inclined or not. Tne satire throughout is
polished and keen; the portraitures of the different cha-
racters are touched off in a style of the richest and most
exquisite finish. 'Hillingdon Hall' is a
work which
could be read over and over again with feelings of un-
diminished pleasure."—Sunday Times.
About sight o'clock on Wednesday morning, the
roof of the railway station, at Romford,
Teas discovered
to be on fire, occasioned by the flue in the pay-office.
The parish engine was quickly on the spot, and in a
short time the flames were subdued, the injury being
confined to a portion of the roof and the rafters.—
Chelmsford Chronicle.
A remarkably fine baron of beef, intended to be
dressed at Stowe on the occasion of the visit of her
Majesty and Prince Albert to his Grace the Duke of
Buckingham, on the 13th inst., has been on show at Mr.
Comfort's, of Islington-green. It has been cut from the
Hereford ox (aged 3 years and 9 months), fed by Mr. W.
11. Bailey, of Shenley House, Bucks, and which obtained
the plriao of tea guineas and a silver medal at the late
cattle-show.