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of the Son of the beatissima Virgin.
igil is not always characterised by the

prudence and decent
demand. The Church of Santa Maria was anciently the
Temple of Jupiter Feretrius. The 124 marble steps lead-
ing up to it were taken from the Temple of Jupiter Qui-
rinus. The interior is supported by antique columns of
• •

and the occasion

Egyptian grani

few out of the multitude of

in the Imperial City; and perhaps it is-a
melancholy
thought, that in Rome, Venice, Naples, and Florence,
e not less than twelve or thirteen hundred
; and yet with some it might be a question,
her tese costly edifices, with their festivals, proces-
itions, and rites, do not
of the people as our

there an
churches

crowded, hot, unwholesome factories of Manchester,
Leeds, Glasgow, Birmingham, Bilston, and Spitalfields.
The happy idleness of the Italian may be preferable to the
miserable half-rewarded industry of the squalid, vicious,
English,. Irish, and Scotch. If the former worship the
Virgin, and reverence all the saints and martyrs, thelat-
1, beer, tobacco, and Bac-
se, brutalized, and violent,
face of the globe ; and in
ysical brute force, to our warlike and
ropensities, to our tyranny and conquests, is

proportion to our pi

) mad

arrogance of character, which has
) deservedly unpopular abroad. We forget that, wit
vast possessions, our ill-gotten wealth by the awort

thought of, but mu(
)n the Continent ar
Isitt
that is, are these a

the French everywher
than the English. An

!ustoms, laws, or religion

!ODjoint

the cause of. our naiior

nstry, crime, and misery, tow
We do not think sufficiently (

re's hint when I

"This isle is but a wan's nest I
I prithee think there are people out or Britain."
What advantageisit to say upon our Queen's dominion,

lever set

adow of misery, crime, and
nation like a gloomy dart

iy of his hire, but be liber-
ally remunerated in proportion to the costs of the neces-
saries of life for his labour and industry. We raise costly

bourer s;

statues to our fighting men, while Burns, Galt, Blanefielci,
Mitford, llofland, and many other people of genius, ta-
lent, and philanthropic benevolent minds die in compara-
tive' obscurity and want.
Aye, raise the brazen statue high,
Fann'd by the widow's orphan's sigh,

only for t

n war du

handed t

see the ble
Does :
of azooi

of blood, of wounds,

of piercir
Alas! no

-I.horrid
_death upon the t

beholds thc

he gold emblazoned vravir

r husband, brother, son, go fort

ter! So also in Romanism. ,as in War, ihe'organ
solemn symphonies ; the altars

with

; the robed priest, clad in gold and silver
ly stalks along the aisle, attended by his

officers; the positions, attitudes, genuflexions, all so
studied, so impressive. Down, down bows the multi-
tude at the shrine! The virgin stoops, and her glossy
luxuriant tresses are skorpfrop her, head : every gentle

friends, and the world too, she

might hav4
of Atropos

11 severed by those fatal shear
maiden, to thy cold, stony

Go, helplc

there thy si _ ,
thy God, and thy int}
ie ,
world-forgetting," hapless maiden, soon shalt
"by the world forgot." But my task is to de-
Lot to moralize.

thy despair, sh,

turbable Father Confi

IUNCELOT BLACKBURNE, ARCHBISHOP

OF YORK

Among the more remarkable persons introduced to no-
tice, in Walpoles memoirs of a part of the reign of George
IL, just published, is Launtelot Blackburne, Archbishop
of York. The origin of this man, and the early incidents
of his life, have alike excited curiosity,. and baffled re-
search. He is generally said, and believed, to have been
a bucaaier ; which means, it is presumed, a pirate—one
who lives by sea plunder; and Lord Byron attempts to

Mr. Noble, in his continuation of Granger's Biogra
phical Dictionary, endeavours by conjectural inference

says he

Upon the
early incidents of his life, thus veiled. in obscurity, an ad-
ditional fact now supplied may cast a fresh gleam of light.
When the once celebrated author of the Confessional, of
the same name with himself, went to him for deacon':
orders, and his papers were under examination, " Black•
bur e," said the prelate, " and Francis too (his own nem(
was Launcelot) ; from whence tip yon come, young man
From Merrick Abbey, your Grace "—Merrick Abbt
a monastery, but then a lordship in the ni
of Richmond, and in the parish of Downl
forth Riding Of Yorkshire
joined the inquirer hastily. " I
bey, too." He had long bt
right, the arms of the BI

,hat a bucani

hould bay(

so good a v
Gree

Ashire,and of LancaAir

able,'between three ;

before the same young man ar

p of Merrick Abbey b(

irth, his early education v

so do I,"' re-
n Merrick Ab-

Grammar School, where he might., even then,
occa-
sional fits of application afterwards, have attained that
kndwledge of Greek, to account for which puzzled Gran-
ger. From thence, ardent,animal spirits, and a vigorous
constitution—

A frame of adamant, a soul of firs

may, on the casual occurrence of some opportunity, have
cast him into devious and irregular courses—bucaniering.
Launcelot Blackburne was, undoubtedly, a man of great
natural parts ; polished, not purified, by indiscriminate
intercourse with the world. He was frank, generous,
open-hearted, sincere, and hospitable. How long he was
a bucanier rumour has not specified: but, whatsoever
courage he may have displayed in the enterprises of that
dangerous profession, in his more sacred one, assumed af-
terwards, he was e.--` enough to violate morals
without thP ---qqe-ress the de-

!read of scaiidal

cenc es of his station withou
Horase Walpole thus wi

justify his own conception of the character of The Cor-
sair from the supposed history of a Christian prelate in
the Anglican church, as may be seen in the last note of
that poem.
Dr. Launcelot Blackburne became first known by hold-
ing, resigning, and receiving again the sub-deanery of Ex-
eter. He was then promoted to the deanery of that see,
and with it held the archdeaconry of Cornwall. The
bishopric itself was his last step up that ecclesiastical lad-
der, whence he was transferred or translated to the archie-
piscopal see of York in November, 1724, over which he
presided when Godwin wrote his great work De Prcesu-
tilos.

Erin ; whilst by his side, s boy poet, little known, coldly,
and, indeed, unkindly received by his kindred, gazed upon
the scene ; and his clear blue eye ,looked frozen upon it,
for it was long ere_he could identify his shy andproud na-
ture with that of the courteous and the free around him.
His eyes, be it observed, had that peculiar faculty of being
enabled to seem quite glazed and lifeless, as if suddenly
congealed ; and then they could glance such glances as
only beam from spirits so fine, so fierce.
"To pursue the theme were endless. All is gone, all
has passed away ! That which the great metropolis most
wants—its greatest, its almost only intellectual want—is
an easy resort of the lettered and the gifted. No public
institutions will do. One sickens at the thought. To es-
tablish one's self by privilege among lions, to go anywhere
expressly to be wise, is enough to put a super crust of
pride and indifference upon any honest nature. All good
society must be private. Holland House has ceased to be
the centre of all that refines, interests, and elevates so-
ciety. We have now no centre, our commonwealth of
letters is turned upside down. It wants a protector ; and
yet, to use a metaphor seemingly inconsistent, sighs for
the blessed days of a restoration."

[some equipages anc

IMPORTANT CORRESPONDENCE

We stated in our last that a letter had been addressed
to Lord Robert Grosvenor by a large number of the
electivrs of Middlesex, for which county his lordship is a
candidate, asking his lordship's opinion of the proposed
endowment of the Romish priests. Lord Robert, in his
reply, after stating the courteous terms in which the ques-
tion was pnt to him, says that he did not explain his senti-
ments previously for two reasons ; first, because he does not
think it likely that the subject will be brought forward at
present ; and, secondly, because that on two occasions he
had indicated his views. His lordship then goes on as
follows :

" The occasions to which I allude, are, my votes upon
the motion of Lord Ellesmere, then Lord Francis Eger-
ton, made, I believe,.in 1827, for the endowment of the
Irish Romanist clergy, and upon the additional grant to
Maynooth College, proposed at a recent period. I made
no objection to the additional grant, but I voted with Mr.
Ward, in order to record my opinion, that the Protestant
establishment in Ireland is more than commensurate with
the requirements of its members ; in 1827 I voted with
Lord Ellesmere. Now Ido not attach any exaggerated
merit to political consistency ; one may be as obstinate in
a failing as in a virtue, and could I bring myself to the
conviction that I had erred in these votes, I trust I should
at once confess it. Having, however, attentively and
seriously reconsidered the subject, in its religious not less
than in its political a.snpm- T . ow, «_4.

oouna to aeciare that—
abstaining from any pledge as to detail—holding myself
at liberty, should I then have a seat in Parliament, either
to acquiesce in, or to oppose, upon its own merits, any
measure that may be laid before the house having for its
object the endowment of the Romish clergy in Ireland,—
there may be again, as there were before, propositions to
that effect submitted to the legislature, at a time and un-
der circumstances which will insure my concurrence.
***** * * * *
" I beg to subscribe myself, with great deference, Sir,
your most obedient and very humhlp gory:int

" ROBERT GR6gVENOR
" Mr. Henry Hoare,. New-street, Spring-gardens."
To this Mr. Hoare replied as follows :---

<<" New-street, Spring •gardens, Jan. 27.
My Lord, The gentlemen in conjunction with whom,
and on whose behalf, I addressed your lordship in my
former letter, have requested me to acknowledge the cour-
tesy and frankness with which you have replied to their
inquiry. They have no wish. to enter into a controversy
with your lordship, but it is manifestly desirable that both
parties should be correctly understood. They will, there-

vciiture KJ stare roe intent and meaning which
they gather from your lordship's letter ; and, if I do this,
in their name, correctly, it will be unnecessary to trouble
•

y was not

grouna, wnere ne perished of the cold. His boa,
diScovered for some days, when hundreds of colliers gene-
rously left their work to seek for the missing man.
The lady of the late Dr. Southey has written a letter to
the Athempum, in which she accuses Mr'. Howitt of wil-
fully calumniating her husband, because she had refused
to furnish him with information relative to the doctor's
habits. and familiar scenes. Mr. Howitt, in reply, says
that Mrs. Southey has formed her opinion of his work.
from a review in the Athenreum, which is not favourable
to her husband ; but that he has not said one word de-
rogatbry to his (Mr. S.'s) character.
A few days ago, a number of people had assembled at
North Maving, Shetland, to the funeral of a woman.
Some large wreaths of snow had accumulated at the back
of the (111 4211 era In r. A _

explosion, 14s-sinree-died

A food 'riot took place.in Aberdeen on Friday week. The
unemployed met in the neighbourhood of the town, car-
rying with them a black flag, and after moving certain

with the concurrence oft he principal corn merchants, told
them that shipments of grain would in the mean time be
suspended. Throughout the day there was much excite-
ment, and special constables were sworn in. Towards
evening a flour cart was -attacked, windows broken, and
the pohce pelted with stones, but the latter having made
a sally, about fifty men, " and a great number of women,"
were secured, which ultimately led to peac
EXTENSIVE PH

leven o'clock

a young man, clerk in an extensive- commission house, in
St. Vincent-place, drew from the Union Bank the sum of
£l2OO for his employers, which was received in £2O notes
to the amount of •£6OO, and in £5 notes to the amount of
£6OO. Having occasion to do business at the Com-
mercial Bank, a few yards distant, he put the money in
the outside pocket of his Taglioni, but he had scarcely
been a minute in the. Commercial when he found that the
money which he felt in his pocket on entering the door,
had been abstracted. The theft is supposed to have been
ressed fellow who left the bank as the
young man entered it.—Glasgow Constitutional.
MALT AND SUGAR.—A correspondent of the Times
gives the following as the result of an experiment he
made as to the relative produce of malt and sugar in
brewing, ascertained exactly by the saccharometer—one
hundred and forty.pounds of Jamaica sugar to one quarter
of malt. Malt cost £4 3s. ; sugar .22 18s. 6d. ; £1 4s. 6d.
being the difference in favour of sugar at the present
price of both articles. The sugar produced about half a
pound gravity per barrel more than the malt, which was
of good quality: Malt, therefore, to come into competi-
tion with sugar, ought not to be more than 584. ner

hy a wel

quurLer. Lit any mucn mgner price the use of sugai: in
brewing is certain ; and a most splendid article of ale can
be made from it, using half sugar half malt.
THE PREVAILING SCARCITY.—We are informed, says
the Times, that the following document has received the
approbation, iff-not of the highest personage of the realm,
at least of alarge number of the highest ranks in our no-
bility. A similar voluntary undertaking was, as many of
th
Nur readers are aware, very generally ador' une"

of necessary subsis-
_ptec aer .1€
patronage of royalty, during the dearth which prevailed at
Bamriotaingn aad great
Ireland,
numberf
from
of our
th e fellow-countrymen in Great
the beginning of the present century. " We, the under-
signed, deeplY impressed with the distress which prevails
tence, and observing that the piiices of food are rising.

think it our duty to pledge ourselves to reduce in our fa
milies, as far as may be practicable, the consumption of
N - r•rt . •1- 1 n

ho may concur wit

emergency

we invite tmeo-operation of those
us in our estimate of the present

ENTIRE DISAPPEARANCE OF THe LIGHT OF ALL NA-
TIONS.—The recent severe gales have swept away all that
remained of the beacon, known as the Light of all Na-
tions, on•the Goodwin Sands. It will be recollected it
was partially erected at the expense of Mr. Bush, with a
view to avert the dreadful casualties which occur on those
dreadful shoals ; but, meeting with overwhelming diffi-
culties, it was abandoned. The iron caison that fort,
t/' f---- .. Is t `h '

Ile. foundation was sunk in,the sane .o a depth, it was
thought, sufficient to meet all inroads of the weather, it
being filled with concrete raid other hard material. The
works had been raised fifty-two feet above low-water

charactex

Feb. 2, 18 1.

Ct/ItN, DUTY FREE.--The first entry of foreign wheat, How 'ft) SAVE THE r—lt has been calculafed dot
under the new act, suspending the 4s. duty, was passed at the people might produce t4i:*themselvea five million nil'
the Hull Custom-house, OW Wednesday, when 720 qrs. of Wheat before next harver4,, simply by eating brow°
from St. Petersburg, were admitted duty free. bread. It is well known that
ea of 112 lbs. of wheato
Miss Matilda Brew, aged twenty-six, daughter of Major 28' lbs. are taken in the shape of brans and coarse flour'
Brew, has been committed for trial on three charges of Now, if the brans only were taken out, which would in 11°
obtaining goods from tradesmen in Uxbridge under false case exceed 7 lbs., there would be left; 104 lbs. of nutri'
pretences. She is held to bail. tious flour—more wholesome and more digestible, as even'
OPENING OF THE PORTS.—The locks- have been taken man can testify, than the fine flour now'used ;so that, °S,
off the bonded warehouses in this port dining the present 104 exceeds by one-fourth, twenty million' quarters (wino,
week, but there was not much grain to release. The ex- is believed to be about our consumption) would, if dressed
ports from Gloucester to Ireland are now very considera- this.svay, produce as much flour as twenty-fib millions."'
ble ; and the purchases of grain here for that destination Salisbury Journal.
—some say on behalfof government—daily become larger. THE POTATO DISEASE OF 1847.—Mr. James Barnegf
—Gloucester Chronicle. . of Bicton, Sidmouth, in a letter to the Gardene.'s- Chro.
SIR ROBERT PEEL AND HIS LABOURERS.—During nide, expresses his " fears that the disease will be even
the past week Sir Robert Peel has directed that the wages more serionis this year than the last, having obserosd the
of the labourers employed on his estate be augmented old enemy lurking about to 'a greater extent thau hag'
from twelve to fifteen shillings per week. This generous hitherto been known." He cannot see any prospect of 0
step on the part of the right hon. baronet has, we believe, crop from either spring or late planted tubers.' A similar
been taken in consequence of the present dearness and disease, he states, has attacked the Jerusalem Artichokes'
scarcity of food.
The Cork Reporter says that a gentleman residing in the
The Rev. Disney Robinson, who was found guilty of a neighbourhood of Kinsale planted in a hotbed about three
libel upon a Mrs. Jane Barker, at the last Gloucester months since, a quantity of potatoes of the quarry kind,'
Assizes, was brought up for judgement in the Court of and on examining the produce, a few days ago, which, bt
Queen's Bench, on Monday. The rev. gentleman made the forced growth, had far advanced to maturity, he found
an apology, and promised to pay £5O towards the ex- them black and diseased. The gardener of the Speaker
penses, which conditions were accepted on the part of the of the House of Commons says that he has discovered
plaintiff, and the proceedings ended. disease in the forced new potatoes.
A meeting of agricultural labourers was held on Tues-
day,at Bicester_,Oxon, for the purpose of considering the ing : " The Blessed Sacrament carried in the streets for
distress which they experience from the lowness of wages the first time since the Refortnation. Progress of the
and the high prices of provisions. In the course of the Rev. Hardinge Ivers's mission at Kentish-town." The
proceedings,_ it was stated that the highest wages received fact thus paraded, is stated in the following terms ; the
by any of them did not exceed 9s. a week, and that many signature of Miles Gerald Keon being affixed to the corn-
labourers did not earn more than 45. a week. munication :—" It is only the other day that—for the first
I In a paper read at the last meeting of the Royal Asiatic time, perhaps, in England since the Reformation—the
Society, Mr. Gutzlaff says that the mass of the Chinese Holy Eucharist was carried through the streets of a Lon
people know nothing of the politics of their country, and don suburb, with the lights blazing, and in full procession,
are scarcely aware that they are governed by a prince of to visit the death-bed of a faithful departing. The sen-
foreign descent. Mr. Gutzlaff never heard of any denun- sation created among the Protestants in the neighbour-
ciations against the Tartars, except amongst the literati hood is indescribable. With recollected looks, the women
and a few bigotted Chinese. bowed and the men took off their hats, as they beheld,
On Wednesday week, as some parties were engaged for the first time, with what awful and profound venera-
turning a vessel in the river Idle, close to the wharf at tion Holy Church surrounds the Adorable Sacrament."
Bawtry, they brought to the surface a piece of sacking, SEIZURE OF THE " BLACK CAT" SCHOONER. ---A sei-
which on examination was found to contain the body of a zure was made last night week in the River Thames? near
male child, apparently full grown. To the sacking was to Limehouse-hole, where a nearly new vessel, called the
tied a brick, and the body had the appearance of having Black Cat, Capt. J. Davies, had been for some days re-
been immersed for about a week,
ceiving her cargo, the greatest activity being manifested -
John Richards, a poor man of Gellyhave, has perished on the part of the shippers to get their freight on bard."
on the mountains between that plaCe and Merthyr Tyd- About ten o'clock, Mr. Davies, detective officer, went
vil. He went to Merthyr to obtain medicine for his sick down to Limehouse, with assistance boarded the iesseb
wife ; he was asthmatical, and it is supposed that the ex- and found several cases containing muskets and
ertion of ascending the mountain in haste had so_ over-, Upon turning to the entries ni1fm.,..1- -.J. ,- bayonets.
, ,-.
powered him•flint ha SITel CS •• .1,1:,......-1 ~.. ...:a. -1---- 1

›,...i,vdrus at tne custom-
house, he found that the Black Cat, schooner, Captain J.
Davies, had been entered as being destined for Gibraltar,
but her real destination was Portugal, for which countrF
the crew had been engaged. The vessel was inttnded, oir
the following morning
E, at four o'clock, to be towed bt
steam-vessel down to rith.

11
gunpowder wergready to be shipped.
HER MAJESTY S THEATRE.—The programme of the
arrangements for this season has just been issued: Thu'
operatic company before Easter consists of Mesdames Cas-
tellan, Sanchioli, and Montenegro--rthe latter a stranger
here -, Signor Gardoni, from Paris ; Signor Fraschini,
(Roth tenors), and Signor Superchi (baritone), all new to
this country ; Signor F. Lablache : and as basses, Herr
Staudigl and Signor Lablache. Jenny. Lind, as prims
donna, will annear isimmpaintph, .ft.”

and
inter raster,'' Ineyer-
‘,. ui.. uouNe, ana naa prevented the free running of a beer's p d
"Came Silesie," and another 'of his admired
brook at the back of the barn; but the water suddenly act's diceuvres. Mendelsshon will visit England for the
obtained ingress, and drove the snow upon the house, purpose of bringing out an opera expressly composed for
which fell in, smothering the deceased's son, whose father her Majesty's Theatre, the libretto by Scribe, to be founded
was also carried away by the current, and, though found on Shakspere's " Tempest," with the following powerful:
alive, only survived twenty-four hours.. cast :—Miranda, Madle. Jenny Lind ; Ferdinand, Signor
WRECK OE THE Sinins.—An inquest was held on Toes- Gardoni ;- Caliban, Herr Staudlgl, and Prospero, Signor
day on the bodies of two men that had been washed on Lablache. Verdi has composed a new opera. for -London,•
shore in Ballyeotton Harbour. It appeared that the whole with a plot founded on Schiller's " Robbers ;" a finer sub--
number of lives lost was fifteen. The Irish people on the ject for an opera could not well be found—while it presents
coast behaved well, in endeavouring to save lives and pro- many situations of peculiar effect for the display, of a pow--
perty. It appeared also, from the general tenor of the erful chorus. Rossini's opera, or, rather,. as the great
evidence, that the captain, mate, and crew conducted master himself styles it, pasticcio of " Robert Bruce"-- has'
themselves in a cool and proper manner, and that the fog been secured. For the ballet we are to have Carlotta
was the cause of the disaster. The verdict was, " Found Grisi; Lucile Grahn, and Cerito, while hopes are enter-
drowned."
tamed of inducing Taglioni to combine in once more witch-
The Dundee Papers relate a sad and fatal accident with ing the world with the Pas de Quatre and the. Pas, des
naptha lamp. The three children of a shoemaker in the Deesses,. together with a new grand pas, which shall unite,
neighbourhood were trimming the lamp, when an explosion and Surpass the attractions of these two, to 13w-entitled,
took place, and they were all involved in flames. The "La Constellation." In addie;,.- 4-- - father immediately ran to their assistance, and succeeded ',mown
in extinguishing the fire; but one of the children, seven
years of age, died next day, and another was scarcely ex-
pected to live. The mothers a very delicate person, and
who was at the time confined to bed from disease, and
was a horrified spectator of the desolation caused '

vficzu
favourites, there will be Mademoiselle Caroiine Rosati,
Mademoiselle Wauthier, and Mademoiselle Caroline Bau-
court, all of. La Scala, and their first appearances in Eng-
land. The gentlemen will be M. Perrot ; M. D'Ot, of
the Academie Royale, Paris, his first appearance ; M-
Gosselin, M. Paul Taglioni, &c. For novelties in this
department there are promised a new ballet for the open-
ing, by Paul-Taglioni, in which Mademoiselle C. Rosati
will appear—an original grand ballet by the German poet
Heinrich Heine, on a subject selected from the.old legends
o 1,

or liermany,, and a " nov,d and poetical ballet"'by a7'ino-
ble and distinguished poetess," entitled " Egeria;" Resides
other novelties. The theatre opens in the middle of Fe-
bruary with lYonizetti's opera of " La Favorita,""for-, the
first time at her Majesty's Theatre. Balfe is to be the
conductor.

SINGULAR, APPREHENSION OF A GANG OF SUSPECTED
BURGLARS.—During the last six weeks, t 4. family.and
domestics of Henry Alwin Soames, Esq., a gentleman re-
siding in Vanhm.o.l-. v;_i.i_

Park, been—siZjectleituo6'stiralenarge.,lualzndeerngiroll'u"ndreennowi.:ecsht
and smoke proceeding in the same direction, generally in
the night. The servants considered they heard persons
talking and knocking with some heavy instrument near.
the cellar under the parlour of the mansion, facing the
lawn. On Sunday fortnight the family and servants were
all absent except the cook, and she became so much
alarmed by the noises that she secured all the doors, .and
told her master, on his return, that she would iclise.her
situation if again left alone, as she believed the house..was
haunted. On the afternoon of Tuesday week. Mr. SoameS
being satisfied that persons were at work underground,
and that smoke frequently found its way into the lower
part of the house, where there was neither chimney, nor
fireplace, sent for a police-officer, who went to the,house,
a large old-fashioned family mansion, overlooking; from.,
the back the Thames, and a very steep and rugged hang-.-
ing wood. The police-constable, attended by the gardener,
coachman, Ste, went on the paddock or lawn, and. at the
bottom of which, 140 yards from the house, in the hing-
ing wood, drew his attention to an opening of brickwork
into a subterraneous passage, leading to the centre.otthe
belonging to Mr. Soames
mansion. A spaniel dog

ein
on the spot, went into the cave-, and immediately a b
voiceg
was heard at the far end calling upon the dog to quit the
place. The dog returned, followed by a man, who on
seeing the parties, retreated back into the cave, refttsingto
surrendei. A bundle of straw was then put into ,the
mouth of -the tunnel, and set fire to, but without effect.
Two large openings were then made through the, lawn to'
the brickwork, and more burning straw .was employed.,
This had_the effect of bringing out three fellows, nearly?.
suffocated, and imploring to be relensed. They were taken,
into custody. The police and others then searched; then
cave with lanterns. They entered the passage in the
hanging wood, on their hands and knees and, on proceeding something more than 411ey discovered an o Pen
space, the bottom oc ' -nd a iv'

rimen was uoaraeu,
,aanto
of bricks piled up, and covered with boards for seats-or,
tables,,and on one side another quantity of bricks foi roe°
into a fireplace, and which had been used for that -
pose. On removing the boards from the• bottom ofithL9
cell, an immense quantity of feathers was discovered about
a foot and a half deep, plucked from all sorts of game..ana
poultry, amongst which they found a cash-box; anctother
small, boxes, which had been broken open, and their,-eon-
tents removed. Many appeared to be jewel and.trinket
boxes and cases, several pocket-handkerchiefs, sundry
rags, &c., a model of a ship. Finally, the passagebecame
higher, and at the end of this they were stopped by &brick
, •

Avuo, .4.1.11.7 b s oeing, removed, 4n, open-
in was made into the cellar of the house. Neither Mr-
Soames, or any of his family, had any knowled&o• of this'
suhterraneous passage, having only recently remoNed to
the house from his late residence on Shooter's-Hilts It is

supposed to have existed for centuries. The, faowing
day, the prisoners, Henry Colgate (a sailor), Gouge phi-
lips, and John Jones, were taken to the Greenwich police'
court, and the case being heard so far, were remanded for
a week.

INFANT MORTALITY FROM LONG HOURS. OF
FACTORY LABOUR.

In his speech, in introducing his Motion for a Tot
Hours' Bill, Mr.. Fielden advanced the following statistics,
sheaving the awful mortality resulting from the factorY
system, as statad in, the last quarterly report of the Regis
trar of the Manchester district. We auotc

ttabairg.

" The returns of the past quarter prove that not/qofr
effectual has been done to put a stop to the disease, sally,
'ng, and death in which so many thousands perish. T):-
orovemt.nts, chiefly of a showy, superficial, Giitsia.
have not reached the homes and habits: of the
- house 1

people. Elie house and children of the labouring,
can only be kept clean and healthy by the assiduous labou;
of a well-trained, industrious wile, as any one who liar
paid the least attention to the subject is aware.. This I
overlooked in Lancashire, where the woman is often eni
aged.
in labour from home. The consequence is:-
usands, not only of the children, but of the mei' all women themselves, perish of the diseases fozmerly so fati!,

le same seasons

---- ....cae, camps, gaols, ana snip, In the same page an ... ..”..
extract, given from a report of tbv
Registrar of Heaton Norris, Stockport, says, "Of the 121
persons, 53 were children of one year and under; and 0
these deaths of infants the causes were certified by 1
medical attendance in only 28
_cases. It is to be feared 4.1....,

mat many are lost at this age for want of medical ass;-%
tance and care of the mother, who is soon obliged to lea'''.
her child in other hands and go forth, to engage in CO";
stant and unwholesome toil. The child sicens, and /-f
soothed by • opiates." In the same page a quotation!e
a similar nature is given from the Registrar of Deansgm„;
Manchester, who concludes thin : In all Manchests
there is but one children's dispensary, and this has b„,,"
two medical officers. Such institutions should be nuici",
rous large towns, and much goad might be effects',
but the unfortunate outdoor occupations of the woole;,'0
by causing the withholding of nature's nutriment from t'4,
children,. is terribly destructive to the latter." In pageg
ate Registrar-General sums up this appalling picture .0
stating that—" In Manchester 13,362 children perished.,l,
seven years over and above the mortality natural to ins
kind. These 'little children,' brought up in unclep
dwellings and impure streets, were left alone long daYo,,d
their mothers to breathe, the subtle sickly vapours, soot,,
by opium—a more 'cursed' distillation than 'hebenorfro,
and when assailed by mortal diseases, their stomachs Odie
their bodies convulsed, their brains bewildered, left to to
without medical aid, which, like hope, should ‘conlesii,
all,' the skilled medical man never being called in at ,be
or only summoned to Witness the death and sanction.
funeral,"