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county. It is expected, in addition, that in the event of a
vacancy, Sir Andrew Agnew will offer himself for the
suffrages of the electors.

Sir Robert Peel has silenced all his political opponents,
and nothing is now heard but praises of his comprehensive
and most enlightened policy. Not a paper do we open,
whether whig, tory, or radical, but is warm in expressions
regarding the honourable baronet's boldness—his honesty of
purpose—his profound abilities! Never did any British
minister stand higher in public estimation than does Sir R.
Peel at the present moment! Where are now the effigy
burners ?—Glasgow paper.
FATAL ACCIDENT FROM FIRE ARMS.—An inquest was
held on Tuesday, before J. B. Hyde, Esq., at the Infirmary,
Worcester, on the body of Joseph Groves, a youth about
fifteen years of age, who died from the effects of a gun-shot
wound, which he received in the following manner :—He was
out rook shooting on Sunday last, at Upton Snodsbury, with
two of his companions, one of whom was in the act of resting
his loaded gun on the ground, when his knee caught the
trigger, and the gun went off, the whole of its contents lodging
in the hips of the deceased.

Loss OF SEVENTEEN LlVES.—Extract of a letter from
Havre-de-Grace, dated March 16 :—" Letters received here
from Rovan, dated the 13th instant, report that the packet
Le Commerce de Bordeaux, Captain Lunean, was wrecked
that morning at two o'clock, at the Point de la Coubra. She
had on board the crew of the Chateaubriand, as passengers,
of whom, melancholy to relate, only one seaman and the ap-
prentice were saved—all the rest, seventeen in number, un-
fortunately perished.- It is also reported that Le Commerce
has gone to pieces."

A frightful accident occurred in Woombell's show of wild
beasts at Stamford on Friday night last, owing to the indis-
cretion of a person in a state of intoxication. About nine
o'clock, Mr. Francis Martin, farmer, of Ufford, after being
repeatedly cautioned that his teasing a very fine tiger in one
of the cages was foolish and dangerous, was seized by the
animal, which fixed its terrific teeth in the muscles and bones
of the right fore-arm of Mr. Martin. Every effort to compel
the tiger to loose its jaws was ineffectual, until a hot iron
was applied to its nustrils, and then Mr. Martin was able to
drag himself away, having his arm lacerated and injured so
dreadfully that danger of • fatal consequences still exists.—
Stamford Mercury.
PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS.—A very desirable improve-
ment, and one that has advanced per ealium beyond all former

steps in photographic art, has recently been introduced by an
invention-of Mr. Fox Talbot, for which a patent has been
taken out. The improvement consists in the portraits being
taken on paper, instead of on metallic plates, of their being
indelible, of the extreme accuracy of likeness, the breadth of
light and shadow, the general pictorial effect, and the capa-
bility of the portrait being multiplied into many copies or
transcripts, or fac simile representations, without the sitter
being required to sit for each portrait. They resemble sepia
drawings, and are exceedingly true. The sitting requires but
a minute, or two minutes, according to the brightness of the
day. The paper is prepared with salts of silver, and subjected,
by an apparatus furnished with glasses, to the rays of light,
and the likeness is, as it were, absorbed by the paper.

EXTRAORDINARY FRAUD ON AN INSURANCE COM-
PANY.—Rumours state that the agent in this city (Exeter) of
one of the London insurance-offices has been playing a very
strange game. It seems that he insured, without instruc-
tions, two cottages at Broadclist, and immediately afterwards
claimed the amount of insurance, £l2O. The ready" not
being forwarded so punctually as the agent. desired, he again
wrote up to the office saying that the insured would be wil-
ling to accept £BO, provided that the money was remitted
without delay. This strange communication surprised the
insurers, and they accordingly despatched a surveyor to the
scene of the reported fire, and he at once discovered that the
cottage had neither been insured nor burnt down. A warrant
against the agent was obtained on Friday last, but, in law
phrase, at present he is non est inventus.—Western Times.

EXECUTION.—We have just beard of a most disastrous
occurrence which took place this week in the county of Fer-
managh. A number of persons assembled at a wake, some
of whom had been at the assizes at Enniskillen, and wished
to show the others how the business at assizes is conducted.
Accordingly one person represented the judge, and others
the counsellors; a jury was empanelled, and a person ar-
raigned as prisoner; tit_ jury found a verdict of guilty, and
the prisoner was ordered for execution. A rope was imme-
diately procured, and the poor fellow put standing on a creel
with the rope fastened to a beam ; the executioner gave the
creel a kick, the prisoner was thrown off, and before any
assistance could be rendered him, life became extinct. We
believe there was no malicious intention in the proceeding ;
but it should be a warning to others in future not to trifle with
such serious experiments.--Ballyshannon Herald.
The Archbishop of "York has recently revived the office of
rural dean withi❑ his diocese, and has sent each clergyman
appointed to the office a copy of his instructions. The rural
dean is to-inquire and give information to the archdeacon, to
be by him made known to the bishop, of all matters concern-
ing the clergy, churchwardens, and other officers of the
church, which it may be necessary or useful the ordinary
should know. He is to inquire and to report to the arch-
deacon as to the residence of incumbents dr licensed curates;
also as to the due performance of Divine service every Sun-
day, with one or mole sermons ; also as to the observance
and administration of the sacraments of baptism and the
Lord's supper, together with a return of the annual number
of communicants, &c.

MUTUAL POLITENESS.—AMOY, Nov: 6.—The Chinese

authorities a short time since collected about 200 war-boats
and many tire-rafti, preparatory to an attack on her Majesty's
ship Druid ; but with the kindest consideration they previ-
ously sent a friendly message to Captain Smith, requesting,
advising, or ordering him to move her Majesty's ship out of
the waters of the Amoy, and if he reverently obeyed the or-
ders, they—the Chinese—would in their tender and compas-
sionate consideration allow her Majesty's ship to pass out
unmolested. It is said that to this friendly message Captain
Smith returned as friendly an answer, to the effect that he
had no time to move her Majesty's ship, but that if they did
not move and immediattly disperse his Imperial Majesty's
flotilla, he would forthwith undertake the task himself, to its
utter destruction. The Chinese, with much more complai-
sance than Captain Smith evinced, immediately followed
that officer's friendly advice, and the flotilla has been no
More heard of.—Canton Register, Nov. 12.
IMPORTANT TO SEEDSMEN.—An application having been
made to Mr. Gladstone by the seed-merchants of Southwark,
to the effect that the proposed duty on clover should not come
into operation until after the close of the present season, as
otherwise, there being no English-grown clover in the mar-
ket, great confusion would be caused ; we are enabled,
through the kindness of a correspondent, to lay before our
readers the following communication :
" Southwark, 16th March, 1842.

" Dear Sir,—l beg to inform you that, in answer to a me-
morial from the seed-merchants of Southwark, the Vice-
President of the Board of Trade has consented that the pro-
posed reduction of duty of 10s. upon foreign cloverseed shall
not take effect until the Ist of June next, at the earliest.
Our market has, in consequence, assumed a firm tone.—l
remain, dear sir, yours faithfully, F.
THE PROPOSED NEW TARIFF—THE LEATHER TRADE.
—A meeting of the various branches of the leather trade took
place at the Bridge House Hotel, Loudon Bridge, on Wed-
nesday evening. Mr. Williams in the chair. The following
resolutions were passed :—That this meeting views with alarm
the.new tariff proposed by the government on the subject of
leather, believing that the intended low rate of duty will not
adequately protect the British manufacturer ; that the present
depressed state of the trade will not allow increased imports
from the continent, but that the meeting relies on her Ma-

jeaty's government for a scale of duty high enough to afford
protection to the British manufacturer; that while the reduc-
tion, if carried into effect, will cheapen the price of boots and
shoes purchased by the higher classes of society, those worn
by mechanics will not be affected ; and that a deputation be
appointed to represent the opinion of the meeting to the Pre-
sident of the Board of Trade. A petition was also prepared
for presentation to the House of Commons, after which the
meeting broke up.
THE BRITISH QUEEN—BRITISH SEAMEN AND BRITISH
GROG.—The true version of her majesty's tasting the grog !
on board of the Queen, during her late visit to Portsmouth,

is as follows :—Strict orders had been given to the men that
when her majesty came down to the lower deck to see them
at mess, they should not speak a word, bu(preserveas pro-
found a silence as possible. Jack, of course, was too much
taken up with watching the royal visitor to think of talking,
save perhaps the desire of whispering to his messmate a com-
ment or so on the meteor passing before him. All was still.
Her majesty tasted the cocoa, and approved of it—yet all was
still. Her majesty then inquired whether there was no
stronger beverage allowed the men, and forthwith a tumbler
of " three-watered grog" was handed her. She then raised
it to her lips—when Jack forgot his orders, and three distinct
cheers ran round the deck with such " a will," that the ship's
sides seemed to start with the sudden explosion. The ho
nour done. was more than a sailor could bear without clearing
his limn with an huzza ; and her majesty must have read in
those honest cheers the spirit with which the British tar is
ready to meet her enemies—for he enters into action with
the same enthusiastic cheering which then burst on the royal
ear. He meets friend and foe with a similar greeting—a
voice fraught with terror to one, but in the other, inspiring
trust, security, and confidence.—john Bull.
DUBLIN, M ARCH 15.—The particulars of a most atrocious
assault, committed upon a lady of respectability last Satur-
day, have not as yet generally transpired through the press,
lest their publication might tend to defeat the arrest of the
accused, against whom a warrant has been issued. It appears
that Mr. C—l, an attorney, hitherto holding a highly re-
spectable rank in the profession, and the son of an eminent
merchant, has been for some time past lavish of his profes-
sional favours upon Mr. C—, a barrister, living in one of
our most fashionable streets, bringing him deeds, declara-
tions, and other documents in the way of his profession, with.
the quiddarn honorarium in every case. The lawyer's pro-
fessional friends were naturally jealous at not getting a share
of the attorney's business, but the ereatest intimacy pre-
vailed between them, to which these marks of favour were
naturally attributed. All went on smoothly until Saturday,
when tie attorney called upon his friend the lawyer, wishing
to see hint, but being particularly engaged, he was denied.
The attorney asked to see the mistress, arid was at once ad-
mitted to the parlour, where the lady sat. The usual warm
and friendly salutation passed, but he had not been long in
conversation' when he commenced the most fervent expres-
ions of admiration for the lady, protested that it was to gain
her love he had so patronized her husband, then seized her
by the waist and proceeded to the most rude and infamous
measures. The lady screamed violently, ran to the side-
board, and seized a knife to defend herself. The husband
and servants ran in, attracted by the screaming, and in the
consequentrantageofw
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vantage of
magistrates was. sent for ; he took the lady' information,
at once issued a warrant for the delinquent, and placed it in
the hands of a confidential constable, but as yet he has not
been able to make the fellow amenable. The affair, in the
Circle where-it has' transpired, has caused the utmost as-
tonishment as well as itidigrnitibn.—Marnin, Post.

The Prench journals generaliSi praise Sir Robert Peel's plan
of an Income Tax.

CANALS.-Several of thicatTall companies have now bills
before parliament for authorizing them to become themselves
the carriers upon their canals.

That great political sage, Lord Drottzliam, has been heard
to declare that his old friends the Whigs have no prospect of
recovering office for at least halt a century to come. Rather

MturTARY MOVEMENTS.—The 10.

h regiment of foot stn-

tioned at Glasgow, is to be replaced by the 66th, from Ma

chester, the former being under orders for immediate em-
barkation for India. The 17th lancers, stationed at Piers-

hill, near Edinburgh, proceed in the course of this. month to
Leeds; to be replaced at Piershill by the 6th dragoons, from
Birmingham. The depot 42d regiment, at Stirling, and the

regiment, a

,o exchange quarters

The following are the receipts of railways for the past
week—that is to say, up to the date to which the respective
returns are made :—Brighton, £2,110; Blackwall, £649 ;
York and North Midland, £1,829; Edinburgh and Glasgow,
£1,153;. Midland Counties, £2,218; Great North of Eng-

land, £1,286; South Western, £4,328; Birmingham and
Derby,, £1,063; Great_ Western, £10,165 ; Northern and
Eastern, £869: Birmingham, £13,694: Greenwich, £862;
Birmingham and Gloucester, £1,442 ; Hull and Selby, £941 ;
Eastern Counties, £748 ; and Manchester and Birmingham,
£331.

The Newcastle Journal says, it would appear by the pro-
posed tariff that British machinery will be exported duty free
—whether by inadvertence or design is matter of doubt,
though we apprehend there can be no doubt as to the impo-
licy of the measure.—[This is scarcely a necessary conclusion.
The alteration in the corn duties are not included in the ge-
neral tariff, being the subject of a separate enactment, and
the exportation of machinery, we apprehend, being untouched
by the proposed new tariff, and, we believe, regulated hitherto
by a special act, will remain as at present.—Ed. L. S.]
TAX ON COALS.—The following notice with regard to the
proposed duty on the export of coals to foreign parts, was
given in the House of Commons by Mr. Bell :—" Whenever
the resolution imposing a tax of four shillings a ton on the
export of coals is under the consideration of the committee, to
take the sense of the house on it."—Newcastle Journal.--

[Deputations to government upon this subject have gone up,
we understand, from Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Stockton, Gates-
head, &c. The shipowners of the Wear have different views
as.to the effects of the duty, and in consequence have taken
no steps to offer opposition to the measures of ministers.—
Ed. L. S.]

NIGER EXPEDITION.—Letters have been received by the
Wesleyan Missionary Society, announcing the safe arrival at
Kumisi, the capital of Ashantee, of Prince William Quanta.
missah, and Prince John Ausah, the sons of the reigning
Monarch of that country.". These two interesting youths,
who had for some time been in this country for improvement
in their education, left for their return in the ill-fated Niger
expedition. They left Cape Coast Castle on the 7th Novem-
ber last, and were accompanied by Mr. Freeman and Mr.
Higgins, two newly-appointed missionaries to that country.

COLLECTION OF THE INCOME TAX.—In order to give an
idea of the manner in which the income tax will be collected,
we subjoin the following account of that proposed and car-
ried into effect by Mr. Pitt :—" According to the provisions
of the act imposing this tax, all incomes of less than £7O
a-vear were exempted from assessment; an income of from
£6O to £65 was taxed one hundred and twentieth part ; and
the rate of duty increased through a variety of gradations
until the income reached £2OO or upwards, when it amounted
to a tenth part, which was its utmost limit; a variety of de-
ductions being at the same time granted on account of Chil-
dren, &c. The commissioner's to whom the management of
this tax was entrusted were chosen by the freeholders of
counties and the electors of boroughs, in the same way as
their representatives in parliament, only that a smaller quali-
fication was sufficient to enable any one to be elected a com-
missioner. The services of the commissioners were gratui-
tous, and they were sworn to preserve the most inviolable
secrecy with respect to the affairs of individuals. They were
authorised.to call for returns from every person whose income
they supposod to exceed £6O a-year ; and in the event of
their being dissatisfied with these returns, they were em-
powered to call for written explanations, and, ultimately, for
the oath of the party. But this examination was rarely ne-
cessary, except in the case of incomes derived from wages,
from capital employed in manufacturing and commercial
business, or from the interest of loans ; the rental of land-
lords was, in most cases, learned from the terms of the leases
held by their tenants ; while the profits or incomes of the
tenants were estimated to amount in England to three-
fourths, and in Scotland to half, the rent paid to the land-
lords. The commissioners were assisted, or rather over-
looked, by the tax-surveyors appointed by government, who
were required to see the provisions of the act strictly en-
forced, and whose duty it was to scrutinise all returns of in-
come—to challenge such as they considered fraudulent—to
object to the deductions allowed by the ordinary commis_
sioners—and to bring the matter under the review of the
commissioners of appeal, whose sentence was final.—Envy_
cloptedia Britannica, vol. XXI, p. 109, Article—Taxation,
NEW ZEALAND AND AUSTRALIA.—On Friday a public
meeting was held at the rooms of the City Colonial Society,
Cornhitl, London, to adopt measures for securing a regular
and safe transit of passengers, goods, &c., to and from these
colonies, across the isthmus of Panama. Mr. Cotter, of
Port Phillip, in the chair. The chairman briefly stated the
object of the meeting to be the shortening of the passage
from this country to New Zealand and Australia via Panama.
Mr. Evans went into a long statement upon the present mode
of travelling from this country to Australia. The latter, he
said, was 16,000 miles distant from our shores, and that it
required 66 days to reach it by steam. The mode of transit
proposed, via Panama, was by the West India steam mail
packets to Clarges, which was distant 3,750 miles, a journey
performed in 25 days. From Clarges the goods and passen-
gers would be passed- over the isthmus of Panamato Port
Nicholson, a distance of 6,280 miles, which would be, per-
formed in 26 days. Thence they would be conveyed to
Sydney, a further distance of 1,285 miles, which would be
completed in five days. This overland travelling would he a
saving of ten days within the time at present required. Mr.
Walker (of Sydney) could state that the shortening of the
distance from this country to Australia was an object desired
by the colonists. More he could not say, as he was not ac--
quainted with the intended project of the parties who got up
the meeting. Another gentleman said that he was satisfied.
from the survey taken by Mr. Lloyd. under the sanction of
government, that a passage across the isthmus was impracti-
cable, from its being so shoally. There was a bay about eight
mites higher up that would suit the navigation very well.
Several gentlemen having expressed their thoughts upon the
proposed overland passage to Australia, it was resolved to
adjourn the meeting until the opinion of those who had
crossed the isthmus could be obtained.
Cuuncii EXTENSION.—It is r:ot to be expected that the
propositions of Sir R. Inglis, or those of any other members
of the legislature who may take up the cause of the Church,
can embrace any object more comprehensive than that of
providing for, the religious wants of those who are being added
to our population—in short, the object of securing to the
Church her present relative command of resources—or, in
other words, of keeping her where she is. Most earnestly,
from the deepest recesses of our hearts, do we wish that the
deficiencies of the past could be atoned for; but of this,
under present circumstances, we have, humanly speaking, no
hope. Altogether differing from the worldly wisdom which
avoids pleading for the Church through fear of embarrassing
our Conservative rulers, we declare it to be our solemn con-
viction that those rulers will bring irretrievable disgraceupon
themselves if, for politically-prudential considerations, they
shrink from doing for the Church that which, will, at all
events, keep her in her present relative situation. This—we
again and again say—is, after all, the extent of what Sir Ro-
bert Inglis and those who think with him can contemplate
in their views of Church extension. Their meaning would,
indeed, be far better expressed by the term " Church main-
tenance." If this " Church maintenance" should not be
accorded, as far as in them lies, by the present ministers and
their majority in the House of Commons, they will, taking
into account the great augmentations which are being steadily
made to onr already dense population, be aiding, pro tanto,
in CHURCH DESTRUCTION.
THE BUDGET.—Of the scheme propounded by Sir Robert
Peel, our contemporaries (both liberal and conservative)
have themselves waxed equally laudatory. The Manchester
Guardian (the fairest sample, perhaps, that we could select)
declares that the " new provision tariff will be a very great
boon to the industrious classes," and shows on Dr. Bow-
ring's authority that that portion of the tariff alone will save
the country " nearly three times the amount of the proposed
income tax." Of the speech of Sir R. Peel this whig editor
says, " It is not only excellent in spirit, but contains an
enunciation of the soundest principles of commercial and
fiscal legislation." To the proposed income tax the editor
gives his " strong and decided approbation." and declares
his gladness " that Sir R. Peel, instead of imposing further
taxes upon consumable commodities, which press with seve-
rity upon the poor, has had the wisdom and the courage to
lay the burthen on the shoulders of those who are best able
to bear

MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT AND Loss OF LIFE.—AB a ser-
vant of Mr. Rees Price, of Ynismoch, in the parish of Lien-
, gadock, together with two female servants and a lad, were
1 returning with a four-horse waggon from the meeting of the
Llandovery Agricultural Society, on Wednesday, the 9th
instant, they had on their way home to cross a ford in the
river Sawthey, near the wooden foot bridge, about three
quarters of a mile above its junction with the Towy. The
man mounted one of the leading horses, and either in conse-
quence of the darkness of the night, (being past seven o'clock,)
or the swollen state of the river, he missed the ford—the body
of the waggon was disengaged from the carriage, and horses,
waggon, men, and women, were hurried with fearful rapidity
down the river. The cries of the unfortunate party were
luckily heard by the neighbouring cottagers, who succeeded,
by great exertion and risk, in extricating the horses and
saving the lives of all with the exception of one of the servant
girls, who was carried away by the impetuosity of the stream
and drowned. Thouglya diligent search was made, the body
of the unfortunate girl was not found until! Friday, - in the
river Towy, near Manorafon, about seven miles from the
place., where the melancholy catastrophe occurred ; and it is
a 'mist singular circumstance that the body was picked up
very near the cottage where her widowed mother resides.—
Carmarthen Journal.

CAUTION TO ENCOURAGERS OF PRIZE-FIGHTS.-At the
Norfolk assizes was tried an indictment for riot and assault,
committed by Lord Chetwynd and ten other defendants in
the month of February, IS-11, at Hollcutt, in that county, on
account of a prize-fight between two individuals of the
names of Adams and Uin. On the case being called on,
Mr. Gunning, for the defendants, said lie was instructed to
withdraw their plea and to allow the crown to take a verdict
against them. The defendants were satisfied, on reflection,
that what had taken place could not be justified in a court of
law ; and that being so, they were desirous of taking the
only course which could be properly adopted. On their be-
half he was instructed to make every apology which gentle-
men. with a due regard to their own character, ought to
make, and which gentlemen ought to expect and to receive.
Mr. Andrews, for the prosecution, said, that after what he
had heard, he would only say that his clients were perfectly
satisfied. Their only object in preferring this indictment
was the preservation of the peace of the county, in which
they had succeeded. The learned Judge said, there could be
no possible objection to the course proposed by the counsel
for the defendants, and the jury would, therefore, return a
verdict of " Guilty." Such verdict was, accordingly, re-
turned, and thus amicably ended this long-pending prosecu-
tion, which has given rise to much expectation, and created
considerable interest in the county and in the " sporting
world" at large.

THE BANK OF ENGLAND.—The Gazette of Friday night
contains the usual return of the average circulation of the
Bank of England and country banks, for the four weeks pre-
ceding the sth of March. From this return it appears that
the average circulation of notes h England for the four weeks
preceding the sth of March shows a decrease of £818,984, as
compared with the average of the previous month :
This decrease is formed by a diminution in the cir-
culation of the Bark of England
A diminution in the notes of the private banks of 233,069
A diminution in the notes of the joint-stock banks of 77,915

818,984

lAs compared with the month ending the 18th of September,
1841, there is a decrease in the total circulation in England
of £964,636. This decrease is composed of—
A diminution of the notes of the Bank of England of X 175,000
A diminution of the notes of the private banks of 468,681
A diminution of the notes of the joint-stock banks of 320,953

964,636
The average stock of bullion held by the Bank of England
during the 4 weeks ending the 3th of March was £6,281,000,
showing an increase, as compared with the previous month,
of £679,000.

Atipptng IntelHuila.

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