The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-02-06
From the Correspondence q The Evening Post.
LONDON, Jan. 3, 1874.


LONDON, Jan 3, 1874.
Since my last (pcr Garrck) number Of events ha
taken place, interesting Themselves though not OF
any marked nportance in social political point OF
view. Deal has been very busy, and has carried Oh
or Two persons OF note amongst the rest the gal
liant old Lord Lynedoch, at the mature age of "a =
Few men have faced death more frequently, for his
military extended the whole period Of the
French revolutionary war, including, of course, the
rise and downfall OF Napoleon; and yet he did not
enter the army until upwards of toity years of age
There l. touch OF romance aboa his private histo-
~. Very early in life when plain Thomas Graham,
E-q Ct BoIgowaD Peithshirc, he arried a dau ehier
Of Lord Cathcans 10 whom he was tendery attached.
They lived together for nearly twenty years when
the lady died The shock which this event gave Mr..
Graham was SO severe almost TO unsetlle his
son. His friends and medical advisers amended
that he should travel, and II was in consequence OF
failing into military society Gibraltar that he first
formed the idea # entering the army-a resolution
which be after carried into effect. He much
hard service, repeatedly distinguished himself in the
battles OF the Peninsula, was several times thanked
by Parliament and finally raised to the peerage
and, then fifty -four years after the death of his wife,
The tough old lords closed quietly in his bed
Another eminen individual Who has Just departed is
J. c. Loudon, Esq He was man of peace, but la
bored hard With his pen, that The titles of his works
alone would make toerable catalogue His grea,
work was on ornamental Gardening" and the
laying out of parks and pleasure grounds, which
published at expense of 10000 pounds. He will
probably long remain the leading authority all sub
iecs connected with the useful and elegant pursuits
of horticulture and Horticulture.
A capital poem lately appeared in the publication
called punch" entitled The Song of the Shirt -
1t is from the pen Of the facetious Thomas Hood of
punning noioreiy, but whose happiest efforts, after
ALL are in tue serious veinwiiness his noble poem of
Eugene Aram. The circumstances which have called
forth this " Song of the Shirt" of very painful
character Ii appears that the s!opseiers OF London
(mostly Jews) have actually succeeded in breaking
down the price OF female labor TO that mockery of re-
alton three halfpence Cor not quite thee cents
pei shirt True, the shirts are run together in the
slightest manner and then palmed off on the unwary
sailors but still, the money TO be earned by this sort
of work will hardly suffice TO keep body and soul to-
getheI.
You NAV see some notice in the papers of shirts
made al a fa1ihing apiece but this not so hard
case as the other because in the latter instance the
makers are women, supported by the parish, whe-
thcs they make shirt, not, and these farthings
we're more in the light Of pocket money" II is a
miserable thing however, To labor thus depreci-
atod But ii a true saying, that zone bali Of the
" orld knows not how tie other lives" Yet the gi-
| ganic metropolis where these things DONE in.
cresses in wealth and extent daily. 1t appears from
q recent government return that since lo29 no less
than As 900 houses, forming $50 new streets and
squares, have been added TO its huge proportions.
The defeat of Sir James Graham's Education Bill
has had the effect OF awakening attention 10 the i'm
portant subject Of education. The different, Christian
bodies are riyalling each other in raising funds
for the establishment OF schools. The Church of
England subscription is expected shortly to reach
DOG, 900 pounds The WosleyaDs Anticipate receiy-
ing a similar sum in the course Of the next seven
years, aud the Congr gauonslists calculate upon lCO
900 pounds at once.
The winter asszes have been distinguished by two
or three cases OF great strocty. A aborer AIMED
ketilc5spd tried fer the murder Of his son. but
| IN consequence Of some unaccountable Jury freak
was only found guilty Of manslaughter. man named
Dobson found guilty Of the murder Of his lathe
by shooting him, and is left for execution IL appear
ed however the trial that the father had been an
cxccrablo character. lie persuaded his son 10 enlist
as a soldier and Afterwards TO desert and then made
the know ledge Of his secret available as means of
pundering the out Of the wages that ought TO
gone TO support his family A lady AIMED Charlotte
Blayden has also been tried for throwing her husband
out Of the window
This case, however, belongs rather 10 the comic
department. The happy couple bad been at the
wedding Of another happy couple, who had induced
Nc. and Mrs Blayden 10 d ink deep ere they de-
parted On arriving at home the Iady beg an 10
scod and the gentleman, in order to avoid the noise,
opened the window and put for tn his head aud shou
ders, upon which the enrsged lady came behind him.
and catching up us legs, shot him into the street
Fortunately he ives not killed The good. natlred
bockhesd got into the witness box in order 10 recon.
mend his wife TO mercy, and convulsed the court with
laughter, by prefacing his recommendation with a
history Of Mrs. Rlaydeu's conugal irregularities
An East Indiaman named the Oxford with a cargo
valued at I20OOO hos been lost her passage from
Calcutta. A young nobIeman, Lord Inverurie, was
killed lately when hunting in Northamptonshire-
Both Sir Charles Napier, the "hero of Scipde- and
Sir Henry Poiineer, about 10 return TO England
in consequence Of beslth. Templeion, the vocal
st following in iha track Of Wilson, has lust got uo
an entertainment founded the story Of Mary Queer
OF Scots.
Accounts have been received from New Zealand
Of 2eth June, Of disastrous event which had taken
place in Cloudy Bay, near Cooks Straits, in conse.
quence OF dispute between the settlers and natives
respecting some land, the result Of which was that
nineteen Engsbmen and several natives lost their
lives. The statements not very clear or plcit
but it appears that the natives resisted the
Of some land to which they conceived the settlers
hao not legal right, and set fire TO house, previ-
ously, however, removing the property. party of
Europeans, under Captains W akefeld and Engl nd
out TO arrest the Chief who had been guilty Of this
act. Ga coming up with the natives, parley en-
sued the Chief however refused 10 suffer himse TO
be arrested, aud, signal being made for the Eng
Iish party 10 advance, man named Thompson In
crossing brook fell, and his gun went off. rhis &C
cident occasoned partial discharge Of musketry on
either side, by which the wife of one of the New
Zealand chiefs was slain. A conflict was the conse-
quencc, in the Of which great portion of The
English rctrestd, aud the Others laid down their
arms. They were then surrounded and made priso-
ncrs, when the chief, who had been rendered rious
by the death Of hrs wife, took his revenge nv tom
ahswkiog the prisoners after another the whole
party falling by his hand. There are MANY thing.
which require to be scoosutcd for in this matter and
It Is Impossible TO form judgment until the whole
case u knows II would seem that the natives acted
With great ,smps< srd d'scresioa up 10 q certain
point and would seem also, that there must have
been sad wani Of concert and arrangement on the