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years' absence, re-assumed his favour
and Lacy with his accustomed finish,) were each enthu-

role of

of the night was the deblt of Simiora Albo-ni as Arsdee,
whom the critic of the Daily News (the highest authority)
pronounces to be the finest contralto singer ever heard in

England

YOUATT, AUTHOR OF " THE HORSE."
uthor had been long collecting materials
fOr a complete history of the pig (a subject hitherto much
undervalued and hardly written upon), and a few weeks
before his lamented death he placed the manuscript in the
printer's hands, and it is now published. We find in it
the same research and agreeable style of composition that
please so much in his account of the horse, and his other
works on domestic animals. The work is handsomely
got -up, with excellent engravings from Harvey's drawings,
and as it is certainly as useful, it bids fair to be as popu-
lar as any of those celebrated productions of his pen. A
few months ago the same useful writer gave to the public
anew edition of his " Complete Grazier," a most valua-

This talented

ant to the occupiers of land
vrr rival (.11.1h1.1, 411 V ,AllllllPf

and it may be said

body of hubandry

I he requ

on Monday night are again favourable. In every
partment except the Stamps and Crown Lands—in t
Customs, the Excise, the Taxes, the Property-tax, a
the Post-office--there is an increased return, the total i

crease upon the year being £1,538,168, and upon the
quarter £403,632. Under the head of Property-tax, tr
increase upon the year is £379,840—a most satin:.._
amount. The Post-office revenue shows an advance of
£lOOO a week during the last year ; and that compre

hensive term, " Miscellaneous," shows an increase of
£129,173. _ The first feeling in the mind on reading these

gratifying details, is the pleasing anticipation of a7reduc-
tion of taxes, and especially must it be satisfactory to the

t which th
: by a la,

so thoniughly disapproved, the income-t
however, which affects all mundane affairs, the cup of
hope is only raised to the lips to be dashed to the ground.
The interest of the eight millions added to the public
debt will absorb the increase, and hence we are in a posi-
tion
contrasting strongly with that of a year or two ago—

expenditure

Jr UNION-HALL, BAILNARDCASTI

(From the Daily

News.)—"

ally erecte

gone as many metamorphoses

sook me ; and from a temperance hall I was transmogri-
fied into a theatre. One season settled the business of
the unhappy manager : he did not venture on a second.
Mr. J. Barker's followers, liowever, had the courage to
take me in hand ; but they, too, very soon gave me up.

Thorne took me; and I never was so well attended be-
fore. He made a pretty penny by me, if one-half
that I have heard be true. After his departure, I under-
went a series of rapid changes. I was a concert-room—a
lecture-room—a bazaar. I was distracted by trombones
and bored to death by twaddle ; and every now and then
I was puzzled by ejaculations of ' going ! going ! gone '
fe" Iby the tap of aI) -- At

-Jammer .ast, however,
have the prospect of peace. The [Roman] Catholics havE
taken a lease of me ; I have been converted into a chapel ;
and a bishop has preached within my walls."

yesterday week, a question was tried

s to the vc

of a will. On the thirtieth of December, 1844, there
died in that town, at a very advanced age, without wife or
child, a Mr. William Brayne, who many years ago com-
menced business as a brazier and tin-plate worker, and by
industry, economy, and luck, had amassed, at the period
Of his death, a fortune of £30,000 or £40,000. His nearest
relatives were two nieces and a nephew. In Sept., 1844,
he made a will, bequeathing the bulk of his fortune to the
grandchildren of a Mr. Bather, his uncle, who had lent'
him X5OO at the commencement of his career. In his
lasr illness, he sent for oneof his nieces to attend on him.

On his death, the niece prc
before his death, and signe

duced a will, made four days

this will the nephew and two nieces claimed
which he lived, and to test the validity of

will, the

per fami

possession. In this they failed ; however, after E
investigation, the jury found for the defendants.

A DANGEROUS LUNATIC.—On Wednesday night week
an Irishman of the name of Barney Fitzpatrick, who had
formerly been confined in Hanwell Lunatic Asylum,
rushed into the streets of New Brunswick in a very ex-
cited state, and created a great disturbance. Sergeant
Gibson, T 27, knowing his dangerous character, endea-
voured to appease him and persuade him to go home
quietly, but without avail. Mr. Millard, the landlord of
the Catherine Wheel public-house, who knew him well,
then went up to him for the same purpose the sergeant
had tried in vain, when Fitzpl -
I. I him and assaulted him very

threatening his life ; and there is no doubt that he would
have carried out his threats to the fullest extent had not
Sergeant Gibson ably assisted Mr. Millard in defending

men had been abtained that FitzpatrickwasovWpoVered
and conveyed to the station-house. On Thursday he was
taken before the Brentford magistrates. The Beuch
were at first disposed to commit bim for trial for the
attempt at murder, but it was eventually considered that
the best course would be to send him again to Hanwell

lodged with Bolland's parents, and Bollancl
paying his addresses to her. She had been employed 'a
a factory, but left these works before the occurrence, an,
had not procured work elsewhere. Late on WednesdaY,
night last, Bolland's jacket and the girl's slip were fount
by the side of the river Alive, at Lower Fold, and De"
morning their dead bodies were discovered in the river'
They were locked in each others arms, and tied together
with a handkerchief, which the young woman had we,
round her head on the previous day, the knot being °e
hind Bolland's back. At the inquest a sister of the de'
, ceased female said that both of them called on the Pre'
d upon vious morning at I 'her's house, and

ler fat
1 ham

washed the
_b.', home print for an apron tbr
herself, and said she would give it to witness to make beil
baby a slip, as it would be the last time she (deceasel
would see the baby. She told witness she would rift
again see her alive, and that -nine- on tramp. b°

would not tell witness where she intended to go to. 13°D
land said he thought about going to Harrogate. 13°'b
seemed low spirited. Maria said she would do away vig,
herself if neither she nor Bollar d could get any work. .1'
then told her to hold her foolish talk. Witness also PO'
suaded her against anything rash. Bolland said he e!,i

pected work in the morning. When Maria left she kisseu
witness's baby,and repeated it would be the last time the
child would see her alive. Both she and Bolland cried.
Maria had been in low spirits since she was out of woric•
ilv way. From thei

evidence iCap-pljelja;d trh tire'-ienale djece-a'sed had Sar
that they were going to be married on 'Monday, and B°.l.
land said he thought they would. She also said to another
person that a man had offered to take her to France (t
work) and that she thought of going. It was stated th,6.,
he too had said he was enn-agpd to to France-

Wednesday night ti

Drisifaie

both left two acquaintances, a 133,9i1f
he bottom of Dyer-street, and aictet
'
ye," went in the direction of
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