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,hapter. I have seen
Inv of these are hril-

, dazzling, and-poetical portraitures: others are very
.nd, to justify my humble protest, I need only
rench postilion's driving : by
words " Crick-crack" thirty-
bis very derogatory compari-
Gregory to a Guy Fawkes
he sth November—and in
father pronounces the

bad ;
state his description of
the tedious repetition of t
two times in thirteen lines
Don of the late venerable
carried about our streets (

another place, when the v

•
benediction upon 150,000 persons assembled in the vast
area of St. Peter's, Mr. Dickens thought he resembled
a "wooden doll" !—and, as if the

were not instances

of bad

n he looked over the
Verona, what was his
son—his sublime assoeia-
, that it very much resembled
This I thought much worse
lecessor Smollet, who, strut-
the more vast Amphithea-
sil, it was only a

the Amphit

braie idea—his noble coma
tion ? Why, gentle r
the inside of a si
than his prototyn
ting forth from t
tre of Vespasia
" /awe cockpit

he Col

Lid, aft

.e only the crusts for

ltrie men of true genius will
.d the use of our lan-
)r sketches of travel,

as our ar
. In the
hone, if nut i

day amuse, if no

vastly in?e

will .be rec
and belief.
been led a

)ortable form, they may some
v-voyager; and in this
confide, that facts only

viisit to Rom
perhaps rathe

led, to the best of my knowledge, ability,
Ls I fear I have been too discursive—have
.v too much by my ever-to-be-remembered

chapter must wind up the subject,
abruptly, or I may never reach the end of

my journey.
Many of my friends have said, " IS it the climate or the
diet that gives our countrymen so much content in Italy?"
Ihe pxcee ling puri• y of the air is certainly one great cause
of peace and content, and the diet, with light wines,
abundance of fruit vegetation, &c., another. A very long
chapter might be written upon the artists' studios at

John Git

love

dying friend, th

into famE

tatues and groups, Mae-
masterly Ulysses, with his
aition ; Hogan's struggle

sunk into obscurity

grave ! T

trasted with many who have

but Velati, the boar

killing the wild bi
Rome, before nai

shadows of an early
:an French painters ;
iv and gifted artist :
ing wounded by and

in the mountains and woods near

Lr,, bru

1-transit, t

eir portraits, is very interesting,
hind leg one of these tuskan,
he despatches him, during his
o and through the

bushes ; Velati is t
completed a most 1

I down i
er of It

down. upon I

Imoff hail just
up, in clay, of Hagar looking
iant

;, Tune, w
3. It is de

studio
fined. kind
at P

z to t

at home than abroad. (

cruel scorn, the r

y and derision, that

and "i'llorwalsd
to ereat destroyer of all

o, and treat each other
Liv- ' One

isis too much in our
is anything but credit-
ure, Architecture, and

Painting, sublime in their" arious walks, should induce
their votaries and followers to soar above the passions that
degrade the less gifted classes of mankind. True it is we
are the creatures of circumstances, in England gold is,
alas, the god of a vast majority of its inhabitants. We
have here neither the climate, the purity of the air,
the colour of the sea, nor of the sky, the

the people of B

mild, balmy,
h is more conducive to

usely indulged

ither have we

gaze on every hand in Ital

thou:

that meet your

tatues, the groups

marble sculpture—the finest works of Greece and Rome
these must tend to soften, elevate, and calm the

cost of what you please to give for it is voluntary contri-
butions, that forms the great revenue of the Church of
Rome ; unlike the law officers, enforcing tithes from the
shopkeepers of London, regardless of their means or finan-

all be taken into con-
that affect mind and

!Inglishman and the Italian

n this

the at Egypt,

sland we have
What a world
Malta, Sicily,

our whole population, must gradually sink lower and
lower, until they become little better than so many beasts
of burden, " hewers of wood and drawers of water," as
hopelessly doomed from youth to old age to one unvary-
ing round of toilsome drudgery, and as completely ex-
cluded from all possibility of amelioration in their social
condition, as the manacled felon of Norfolk Island. The
stupid booby, staring in anzement as the rushing train
is hurried past by the irresistible power of steam, is only
a fair illustration of the way in which the efforts of the
ignorant labourer are outstripped by mechanical force
scientifically applied ; and unless his willing bands and
sinewy limbs be aided and directed by the improved in-
telligence of an educated mind, the labourer's exertions
to earn his daily bread will every year be less availing.
We cannot wonder, therefore, that the philanthropist
should have his attention especially attracted by educ.-

tion. It is the gr
talk about feeding

educating them. It is
torrent of increasing cr

tiplylng penal_ statu

ion of the day

clothing the people, and then
aadness to attempt to stem the
ale by building prisons and mul-

Educate the people, and they

THE LIVERPOO

I particularly desire to guard you against being deceived,
by the stuff now being written by some of the London
newspapers, into the idea that Free-trade has little or
nothing to do with our present degraded state in this
country.

You- will observe that I have been cautious in not
charging Free-trade with getting us into this state
(though I believe Sir R. Peel's 1842 measures have much
to do with it), and that my charge against Free-trade is,
that under it no elasticity or confidence exists to get us
out of the scrape.
I may, h6wever, state my firm conviction, that the evils
arising from the potatoe rot are nothing compared with
those which (in the absence of a potatoe rot) would have
flown from the price of wheat being lowered one-half, not
by an increased quantity of our own growth, but by foreign
importations, for which we had to pay gold.
Our home trade would now be going through the ordeal
of a general bankruptcy, unconsoled even by the prospect
that, after thus getting white-washsd, they can live under
the undue and cruel competition of untaxed foreign labour.
I pray you to rest satisfied that the present sufferings of
this country are in no degree caused by the conduct of
the Bank of England, but entirely by the want of confi-
dence caused by Sir Robert Peel's Free-trade measures.
This is incontrovertibly a bullion, and not a Bank of
England, panic ; and one which will convulse the mo-
netary affairs of the whole empire, and not only those of
Lombard-strest.

To be sure we have not as yet got a bullion panic in
the shape of a run upon •the bank, and this shows the
bank's innocence of the cause of the suction of gold ; but
we have a bullion panic in the higher and less equivocal
sense of a run on the country for gold, and from the en-
during cause that it is the most profitable and disposable
property foreigners can take abroad.
I have said that Sir Robert Peel's Free-trade measures
will render a depreciation of the currency inevitable.
I do not believe that the Bank of England will he able
to sell Government securities, so as to prepare for the
payment of the July dividends, unless Parliament, before
it rises, passes a no less sweeping measure than MAKING
SILVER SHILLINGS A LEGAL TENDER TO ANY AMOUNT,
AND ALLOWING THE BANK OF ENGLAND AND ALL

L STANDARD.

organs

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adually sink lower and PROTECTION TO THE CURRENCY. were merchants and mariners among mankind ; but what IRISH IMMIGRATION' NTO Lownosr.—The importation P N
ttcr than so many beasts
were those passing phantoms to them ? John the son of of Irish paupers, so much complained of in Liverpool and
day,
d drawers of water," as Thomas lived and died as Thomas the father of John had Glasgow, begins to wear & flireatening aspect in London. comps
o old age to one unwary- Glasgow, 17th April, 1847. lived and died from generation to generation. The first On Sunday, the Prussian Eagle', from Cork, and the Li- kingd(
and as completely ex-
news of the American war reached it in the firing of the inerick, from Dublin, landed 1,200 Irish paupers at Alder- which
elioration in their social TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CANADIAN PARLIAMENT. Woolwich guns for peace; and the original tidings of the man's-stairs, Lower East Smithfield. The nnew-comers— co mpa
of Norfolk Island. The - GENTLEMEN.—The most headstrong Free-trader mustl
lent as the rushing train now feel, and begin to see, that the untaxed import of lo-
French Revolution, in similar rejoicings for the Battle of who were in the most wretched state of distress—were since
forthwith distributed over the eastern art of the metro olis. year tl
Waterloo..P P
power of steam, is only reign labour is detrimental, not only to the agricultural 0 happy ye, the happiest of our kind, . The same vessels landed 1,200 Irish paupers on Sunday of the
Who leave alike life's woes and joys behind 1 " week.- statina
which the efforts of the body in England and the colonists (and, indirectly through
eel by mechanical force them, to all other classes), but also directly to every inte- perfectly A MAN SHOT BY A PIG.—On Monday morning week, and di
3 his willing bands and rest of the empire, through causing a vast diminution of says the philosophic Cowley ; and with Cowley I
agree.—But Erith is this scene of philosophy no more. about seven o'clock, the eldest son (about twenty-three holder
]
ed by the improved in- the currency by the removal to other countries of our pre- It has now shared the march of mind :it has become al-
years of age) of Mr. Amos, farmer, near the Cuckoo, in that ti
the labourer's exertions cious metals, most a watering-place ;it has a library, a promenade, Spalding, left a gun heavily loaded standing in a corner of Suit
lodgings for gouty gentlemen, a conventicle, several vi.
the barn. During his absence, which could scarcely ex- sensati
Ty year be less availing. It is true that famine in Ireland is the ostensible cause
porous politicians, three doctors, and, most fatal of all, teed ten minutes, several pigs entered, and whilst they Month
that the philanthropist of part of the evils this country now labours under, but it is tour steam-boat arrivals every day, Solitude has fled, were being driven out, one of them knocked down the gter, B
illy attracted by educa- equally true that our 'under Sir Robert Peel) having and meditation is no more.—But, to my story. In that gun, which immediately exploded, and the unfortunate comini
f the day. It is folly to taken the suicidal course of depressing home employment,
the people, and then and encouraging foreign, is the cause of that want of con-
fidence which will prevent England rising superior to the century,
lonely house lived for several years, in the beginning of individual alluded to being not more than four feet from making
to attempt to stem the the a singular character, of whom nothing more the muzzle, the whole of the charge entered a little below found i
was known than that he had come from some distant the calf of his right leg, which was dreadfully lacerated. pears,
iilding prisons and mug- present distress without a most serious interference with
that England is better situated to place of abode ; that he never received a letter ; and that AN INSOLVENT BARONET.—Sir Henry Chudleigh Ox- of mini
the people, and they the currency.
he never hunted, shot, or fished with the squiredom of mien, Bart.. an insolvent, appeared from the Queen's he woo
tly prove the close con- carry out Free-trade than
e and feed themselves ; There is no doubt the county. He was of large form, loud voice, had a prison, on his application to be discharged. From the at his
any country in the world, and
,ce and vice. We hail if other countries would reciprocate, the advantage would d sullen look, and no trust in her Majesty's ministers for schedule it appeared that the debts were in the aggregate intenti
well-timed production, be ours IN EVERY CASE ; for even the circumstances of the time being. At length, on some occasion of peculiar
£90,620, of which £29,563 were without consideration, dress,
public excitement, the recluse had gone to Gravesend, and £3OOO more than once entered. The consideration room.
.rvice to this important the natives of Hindostan were not so degraded as not to
,your of a man of clear be lowered by British competition. Englishmen would where, tempted by the impulse of the moment, he had debts from 1830 were £57,799. The insolvency was attri- merits,
apple with a really broken through his reserve, dashed out into a diatribe of buted to heavy law expenses, aria to the failure of carry- in the 1
diffi- therefore ALL be Free-traders as a matter of theory ; but
singular fierceness, but of remarkable power, accused Co out an agreement with the South Western Railway and tai
wn views, he exhibits a what is about to be shown to be even England's expe- Fn ;land of all kinds of oppression to all kinds of coon- Cmpany. The court having appointed Mr. Kingsford at nigh
with moderation ; and rience of free imports without reciprocity, which, in
assignee, the insolvent was ordered to be discharged. tion, cc
area experience. We rum !")
alike indicative of bitter irony, is called Free-trade, (" in me convertite far- tries, and finished his speech by a recapitulation of all the,
wishes, wants, woes, and wrongs, as he called them, of THE CONSTABULARY FORCE IN ENGLAND AND WALES. NAT
cal viz.—that it matters not whether the cause of Ireland, On Friday, members of the House of Commons were put —The
clever pamphlet. Mr. imports into England, disproportioned to our exports, be " First flower of the west, and first gem of the ocean." the question at issue is famine or Free-trade, the direful effects are the same. Within the next twelve hours, a pair of Bow-street offi- in possession of a return of the constabulary force in Eng- near H
land and Wales, for each city, town, or borough, with the this tit,
ducation, but betwixt a Ist. We have a reduction of employment to the people cars were seen galloping into the village in a post-chaise wages paid to the officers, &c. It contains no account of be exte
)wledge. We have not of England to very nearly the whole amount we pay for and four. They brought a warrant from the Secretary of the rural constabulary force, and so far is defective. The true th.
)t, educate the people ; foreign lab Our. State to arrest the Irish orator, as a leader of the late following summary of the total number officers and to repri
generation to be useful 2nd. A reduction of England's ability to manufacture, Rebellion, returned from transportation on his own au- men, consequently, must be taken with large allowances : be omit
nto be trained and in- through the superstructure of our currency being brought thority. He was captured, and conveyed to the Tower. In the metropolitan and city of London police forces 5338 cidal at
if vice. " Vice," says down by the removal of gold, its basis. And this was the last intelligence of the patriot ; except In constabulary forces in municipal borough& .... 4528 were t]
)1s as well as virtue ;. 3rd. We suffer from the gain to our rivals in manufac- that he appealed to the government against all repetition In ditto in towns not municipal boroughs 142 Church
;, and punishments for lures being exactly equivalent to our loss, a better stock of of his Australian voyage, and swore that he preferred the
as those at the disposal the precious metals giving an increased power to manu- speedier performance of the law to the operations on the Total officers and men 10008 tion of
ith be once thoroughly facture to foreign countries (so that in fact the less gold Coal-mine river. A remarkable tempest, which broke all Superannuation funds have been established
derstood that we have England has to part with the better.) the windows, and threw down half the chimneys of the hed in ten temple
boroughs ; in 201 the return under this headis nil. tholic f
and non-education, for To these general effects might be added the particular city, a few weeks after, was supposed by the imaginative SIMPLE DIVISION, OR A NOVEL MODE OF ARRIVING Yes, be
ion is an utter impos- one as regards the United States, that our new laws will to be connected with his disappearance. At all events, AT A VERDICT.-At the recent Maidstone assizes, an ac-
ibuctlianl leiter]
wn but felt, that our turn a proportion of the cotton land into wheat and In- he was heard of no more.—" Lays and Legends of the Ipilirliev‘E-asndbiught by Mr. Gardener, of the Globe Tavern,.
or mis-education—that dian corn, thus, by diminishing its quantity, raising the Thames," in Blackwood. Road, near Bow, against the Directors of the
e good and positive evil price of cotton to the English millowner. North Woolwich Railway Company, for trespass. The
rnslenctes r
damages were laid at £lOOO, and the defendants had paid extensr
versies which have been Such being the experience of England, what would the
'ea- '1
iissed as sheer imperti- Canadas be under Free-trade? (Enna! illt:httianv. £75 into court. Some dispute arose among the jury as to tchoenflsean
g
bes some of the lumen- So that, whether this reaches you convened at Montreal - the precise amount of damages to which the plaintiff was
4.-
hat depraved knowledge for your first session under Lord Elgin, or finds you sent entitled, when one of the jury suggested that each of them
places.curr e
Iby indisputable facts back to ask the renewed confidence of your constituents Mr. Aitken, of Aberdeen, has taken out a patent for the should write on a slip of paper the sum they conceived.
ml education. This may in what we used to call British or protective principles at manufacture of iron coaches. . . equivalent for that purpose. The suggestion was acted
extent
Ir. Dufton's pamphlet. a general election. I feel it equally important by the pre- On Wednesday, a little girl was killed at Clifton, by a upon, the aggregate amount of the whole ascertained, and.
cabinet
ipon delicate ground, sent steamer to let you know the exact position of things stone thrown from a rock during the process of blasting. pivided by 12, which gave £137 damages. This verdict
dequacy of all existing in this country. On Monday, at the Crookhall Ironworks, near Shotley- was actually given in and recorded. bloodsh
exigencies of the case. I particularly desire to guard you against being deceived, bridge, six persons were killed by the bursting of a boiler. THE WESLEYANS AND THE GOVERNMENT EDUCATION to aLo
A.. I:A.,_ _
und. But Mr. Dalton by the stuff now being written by some of the London Mr. Newman, says the Tablet, has beer! entrusted by SCHEME.—The, United (Wesleyan)
.Committees. 3! Privi- one of c
ory spirit. He is in newsnanerq_ into th. icip. 41-.. f P..,,,, 4... n
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On Monday, at the Crookhall Ironworks, near Shotley-
bridge, six persons were killed by the bursting of a boiler.
Mr:Newman, says the Tablet, has been entrusted by
the Pope with the task of revising the English translation
of the Vulgate.
The Macedonia, once a British frigate, but captured by
the United States in 1812, is now on her way from Ame-
rica to Cork, laden with bread stuffs.

The number of sailing vessels wrecked during the year
1846, amounted to 537, and the tonnage thereof to 91,899
tons.

A farmer, in Dumfries, has lost several sheep lately by
their swallowing horse leeches, which ate through the vital

More than thirty thousand negroes in Africa and the West
Indies have subscribed towards the statue of their bene-
factor, Sir T. F. Buxton.
BURYING GROUND.-It is said that there are in Paris
four hundred acres of burying ground for less than one
million of inhabiiants, while in London there are but one
hundred for two millions.

In Aberdeen, the streets are swept every day, at an
annual cost of £1,400, and the refuse brings in £2,000
- In Perth, the scavenging costs £1,300, and the
manure sells for £1,730.
A large meeting of the inhabitants of Wakefield was
held on Wednesday, and a memorial to the Queen was
adopted to obtain a charter of incorporation for the bo-
rough.

Brandeston-hall, in Suffolk, a fine Elizabethan struc-
ture, the seat of Mr. Austin, Q.C., was totally destroyed
by fire, on Thursday. The loss is estimated at upwards of
£20,000. The mansion was not insured.
Mr. Alfred Smee, who has all along attributed the po-
tato disease to the aphis vastator, lately placed some of
those insects on a healthy plant, which they destroyed
with symptoms precisely similar to those winch affected
the crop last year all over Europe.
Lord John Russell on Friday announced, amid general
expressions of satisfaction, that £5OO, and a medal, were
proposed to be granted by Government to Bernadino
Camp, the Spanish captain, who saved the survivors of
the unfortunate passengers and crew of the Tweed.
DEATH OF 3,lns. DISRAELI.—On Tuesday information
was received in town of the demise of this lady, the wife
of J. Disraeli, Esq., the celebrated author of " The Curi-
.

Total officers and men 10008
Superannuation funds have been established in ten
boroughs ; in 201 the return under this head is nil.
SIMPLE DIVISION, OR A NOVEL MODE OF ARRIVING
AT A VERDICT.—At the recent Maidstone assizes, an ac-
tion was brought by Mr. Gardener, of the Globe Tavern,
Mile End Road, near Bow, against the Directors of the
North Woolwich Railway Company, for trespass. The
damages were laid at £lOOO, and the defendants had paid
£75 into court. Some dispute arose among the jury as to
the precise amount of damages to which the plaintiff was
entitled, when one of the jury suggested that each of them
should write on a slip of paper the sum they conceived
equivalent for that purpose. The suggestion was acted
upon, the aggregate amount of the whole ascertained, and
pivided by 12, which gave £137 damages. This verdict
was actually given in and recorded.
THE WESLEYANS AND THE GOVERNMENT EDUCATION
SCHEME.—The United (Wesleyan) Committees of Privi-
leges and Education have made the following declaration
with reference to the Government Education Scheme :
"That on the whole subject, surrounded as it is with
many difficulties, these Committees, after long, deliberate,
and prayerful consideration, have come to the almost
unanimous resolution, to advise the Wesleyan Societies
and Congregations, under present circumstances, not to
offer any further Connexional opposition, or to take any
further Connexional action, in reference to the Govern-
ment Measure of Education, as these Committees under-
stand it to be now explained, and intended to be ulti-
mately proposed to the House of Commons."

THE ROMAN CATHOLIC INSTITUTE AND THE EDU-
CATION SCHEME.-At a meeting of the Catholic Institute
held on Wednesday, at which the Earl of Shrewsbury
presided, and at which there was a large attendance of
bishops and clergy, the following resolution was unani-
mously agreed to :—" That this meeting, deeply impressed
with the outrage offered to the rights of conscience by the
declaration of her Majesty's present government—` that
Catholics are to be excluded from a participation in the
grant of £1,000,000 to be voted by parliament for all
other religious communions,'—call upon all classes of
their fellow Catholics to unite in one cry of indignant
reprobation at this insulting exception from a public grant,
paid out of a public fund, under the administration of a
ministry who have appropriated to themselves the title of
' Liberal,' but whose shrinking policy, at the cry of a
bigoted sect, has countenanced the worst features of
religious intolerance."

THE LATE THOMAS BALDWIN, ESQ.—This gentleman
died suddenly at Birmingham, in the month of January,
1845, possessed of personal property amounting to
£200,000. He died intestate and a bachelor. A consi-
derable number of his relatives reside in this county,
among whom are John Taylor, Esq., of Moreton Hall,
near Padiham ; Mr. Thomas Robinson, draper, Burnley ;
and Mr. Edmund Robinson, manager of the Burnley Gas
Works. The first-named gentlemen drew £9OOO in behalf
of his aged mother, who was a first cousin ; and the two
latter in their own right, as relatives in the like degree,
have each received the same sum. Mr. Richard Fort, of
:ceived £lB,ooo—one
the other in right of

his wife. Mr. William Robinson, of -Padiham, hai also
received £9,000. The money was paid on Saturday week,
at the Queen's Hotel, Piccadilly, Manchester. We un-
derstand that this is only a first instalment, and that a
further dividend will be paid in a short time. The legacy
duty on each share amounted to £450.

EXPLOSION OF A POWDER-MILL.—A terrific explosion,
attended by the complete demolition of some extensive
powder-mills, took place at the gunpowder manufactory
of Messrs. Wakefield and Bainbridge, at the village of
Sedgwick, near Kendal, on Monday night last. Near the
mansion of Mr. John Wakefield, mayor of Kendal, were
two powder-mills called Back Mills, worked by a water-

erected of wood. Closely adjOining to the two latter mills
was what was called the preparing mill, built of stone, to
which was attached the composition-home. From some
unknown cause an explosion occurred, by which the entire
of these six erections were completely demolished, leaving

only here and there a vestige of * the walls sianding-.
Happily no life was lost. After the explosion a mass of
burning timber was scattered about, and at one time the
flames from a quantity of ignited saltpetre were very alarm-

but by the assistance of the Keildal fire engines were

finally extinguished. •
INCITING A MAYOR TO FIGIIT A DUEL.—Last week,
in the Bail Court, Mr. Sergeant Talfourd moved for a
rule to show cause why a criminal information should not
be filed against Mr. Charles Ricketts, Mr. Chamberlain,
and another gentleman for having incited F. T. Elgie,
Esq., the Mayor of Worcester, to a breach of the peace by
fighting a duel. Mr. Elgie and Mr. Chamberlain are
both solicitors, and a difference arose respecting the tax-

ing of a bill of costs for a railway company. The former
having declined to answer the letters of the latter, Mr.
in the navy, to wait upon Mr. Elgie, to name the time

and place of meeting.

The mayOr very properiy declined

to law and reason, and the matte; was therefore brOught
before this court.—As nothing. however, had occurred
since the 24th of March, Mr. Justice Coleridge hoped the

matter would go no further. If anything unpleasant' did
take place, of course a second application could be made
—The subject was then dropped.
CRIMINAL OFFENDERS IN SCOTLAND

Amongst the

week, was one rof a voluminous character, containing
minute statistical information relative to criminal offences
in Scotland. The offences are divided into six classes,
from the higher to the lower grades of crime. The infe-
rence to he drawn from these statements confirms the
view likely to be taken by the House of Commons—that
crime is mainly owing to the want of education. The

chief punishment (murders or heinous offences being rare)
is imprisonment, varying from twelve months to less than
six. In transportation the term seems to be usually seven
years. During the twelve months (1846) only three were
transported for life, while there was not a single sentence
of death. There has, consequently, not been one in-
stance of the execution of the capital punishment ; and
Anne v....,

April 27, 1847.

PRICE OF GAS.—In the House of Commons on Thurs-
day, Mr. Hume moved for " a statement of every gas
company established by act of parliament in the united
kingdom, stating the several acts of parliament under
which established; the rates per 1,000 feet at which each
company or corporation has supplied gas in each year
since 1820 ; or, if later established, in each year from the
year the company commenced to supply gas, and the price
of the best coals in each year for the same- period : also,
stating the amount of fixed capital of each gas company,
and the rate per cent. of each dividend to the share-
holders or proprietors on their shares in each year during
that time.' The motion was agreed to.

SUICIDE OF SIR HENRY WEBSTER.—A most painful
sensation pervaded the vicinity of Grosvenor-square, on
Monday, in consequence of a rumour that Sir H. Web-
gter, Bart., residing at No. 31, Upper Brook-street, had
committed suicide by cutting his throat with a razor. Upon
making inquiry into the truth of the rumour, it was
found to be too true. The unfortunate gentleman, it ap-
pears, has for some time past been in a desponding state
of mind, but no fears were for a moment entertained that
he would take his own life. On Monday morning he rose
at his usual hour and took breakfast, and expressed his
intention of going out to walk. He was left by himself to
dress, and shortly after a heavy fall was heard in his
room. The servant immediately proceeded to his apart-
ments, and found him lying upon the floor with a wound
in the throat. Medical assistance was promptly obtained,
and the wound in the throat dressed, but at twelve o'clock
at night the unfortunate gentleman expired from exhaus-
tion, consequent upon loss of blood.

NATIONAL SIN THE CAUSE OF NATIONAL JUDGEMENT.
The Rev. W. Gillmor, perpetual curate of Illingworth,
near Halifax. has just published an admirable sermon with
this title ;it was preached on the fast day. It ought to
be extensively circulated, for the observations are no less
true than seasonable. There is much that we should like
to reprint, but the following remarks are too pointed to
be omitted. "In the year 1829, the passing of that sui-
cidal act, the Popish Relief Bill took place. And what
were the consequences of this heavy blow against the
Church of Christ in the British isles ? Waithe introduc-
tion of an idolatrous religion to occupy a position in the
temple of the state, side by side with that of the true Ca-
tholic faith, punished as heretofore as a national crime ?
Yes, beloved. There was an immediate withdrawal of the
bounties of Providence. From that hapless period, when
idolaters were admitted into both houses of parliament,
until the year 1834, the United Kingdom, underwent a
succession of unfavourable harvests. Agricultural distress
extensively prevailed. Commercial transactions, during
the same interval, were in a most depressed condition.
Conflagrations in the rural districts were of almost nightly
occurrence. Serious riots took place in several populous
places. In short, violence and tumult and popular excite-
ment prevailed in the following year to so alarming an
extent throughout our land, that, by the advice of the
cabinet of the day, really believing that mischief and
bloodshed might, in consequence, ensue, the King's visit
to a London festival was obliged to be postponed ; and
one of our principal cities was well nigh destroyed. And,
at length, that fearful, mysterious and most appalling pes-
tilence, Cholera, whose advances no barrier could impede,
was sent upon us, sweeping away, in its devastating course,
whole masses of the population in every quarter which it
visited. Persons, as I have known, were frequently seized
with this dreadful complaint in the streets, and died, and
were buried, in the course of a few hours. And so wide
was its range, that the cry of death was heard in almost
every parish throughout our land ; and, in some quarters,
hundreds upon hundreds were, within the space of six or
eight weeks, consigned to one common grave."
On Monday, a general conference of delegates from the
various metropolitan parishes, Brighton, and other pro-
vincial towns, took place at the Court House Marylebone,
with reference to the Health of Towns Bill, the Rector of
Marylebone, (Dr. Spry,) in the chair. The meeting hav-
ing been addressed by the chairman, Mr. Daniel, of
Marylebone, Mr. Davis, of St. Leonard's, Shoreditch,
Mr. Dempstor, of Brighton, and others, resolutions were
adopted, condemning the government scheme as a politi-
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cap
oio, mmer pretence of being a sanatory enactment,
and as a scheme utterly destructive of the functions of
local boards. It was then resolved forthwith to send
copies of the resolutions to every parish and paving and
cleaning district in the metropolis, as also to provincial
cities and towns, with a view to obtain their opinion upon
them; 'and a vote of thanks having been awarded to the
reverend chairman, the conference separated.
BLUE TEA.—Why should:we not have blue, or red, or
yellow tea, as well as black and green ? An assortment of
coloured teas would be rather an elegant improvement of
the tea-table, especially if there were an array of variega-
ted tea-pots to correspond. " Purple, if you please."
" / always drink yellow." " Indeed—l'm told it is bad
for digestion, and that the most wholesome tea is sky-
blue—which matches, too, with our best London milk."
Are our readers aware that there is no reason why rain-
bow teas should not be manufactured ? A Select Parlia-
mentary Committee is now sitting to inquire into our
commercial relations with China, Sir George Larpent, the
chairman of the East India Association, stated in his
evidence, that " the whole of the supply of tea for the Eu-
ropean market was a manufactured article. There was
not a pound of tea which came to this country from China
which did not undergo a colouring process. Tea which
we called green here was coloured green, and might as
well be coloured yellow or blue. (Laughter.) The tea
underwent that manufacture with the view to adapt it to
the market in this country, and the process might to some
extent alter the essential quality of the tea."—John
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF G4',,,
Gas, for the general purposes of artificial illunlinl!t
having now become one of the real necessaries 01life,
any improvements in its quality, or greater economy in
its production, must be of the greatest *moortance to
society at large. We are led to these retcaving
re us the prospectus of a new gas company, under
title of " The Cardinal and Central Gas-1A..1d- Arm._

Li...iv., rmLLllllal kAntreoul, anu uaroonaceous manure
Company," formed for the introduction to public utility
of a new, cheap, and efficient manufacturing gas from
sources hitherto unproductive—for a more efficient mode
of warming and cooling apartments—for a new system of
ventilation—for a new preparation of animal charcoal of
superior quality—which, having been employed on various
chem ico- economical operations, will form a highly-superior
manure to any now in general use. The most novel fea-
ture in the formation of•this company is, the privilege to
-..,.a to the customer of changing the present mode
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lighting at so much per 1,000 feet, to " such an illu-
minative power, at so much per quarter, to be estimated,
by the size of the room to be lighted, by every 100 cubic
feet of space, which will be accomplished at one-third the
present charge." The prospectus states, that from the
value of the remains in the retorts, and their improve-
mentsin the manufacture, a superior illuminative gas can
be produced by them at 4s. per 1,000 feet. These advan-
tages are obtained from the use of one-fourth bones to

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