20 FEBRUARY 1841, Page 5

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An election of a Common Councilman for Coleman Street Ward commenced on Thursday ; the previous election of Mr. Cousins having been declared void, on the ground that he was not at the time of elec- tion a rate-payer. Mr. Cousins was again nominated ; it being stated that there was now no doubt whatever he was properly qualified. Mr. Bracher was also proposed ; and the show of hands being in his favour, a poll was demanded for Mr. Cousins.

At the annual meeting of the Governors of St. Luke's Lunatic Asylum, held on Thursday, a report for last year was read ; from which it appeared that, on the 1st January 1840, there were in the hospital, 128; out on trial, 12; and admitted during the year, males, 84, females, 122; showing that the ratio of females to males admitted during the year was as three to two. Of the above total, there were discharged, cured, 106; unjit, 22; by desire of friends, 3; friends not complying with the rules, 8; uncured 64; deaths, 9; remaining in the hospital, 121; out on trial, 13. It would further appear, that of patients deemed incurable there were in the hospital, on the 1st January 1840, 100; and admitted during the year, 69; of whom 47 were males, and 59 females : there was only one discharged by desire of friends, one out on trial, 6 dead, and 98 remained in the hospital.

The sixty-seventh anniversary festival of the Royal Humane Society was held at the Freemason's Hall on Wednesday ; Mr. Henry Kenible, M.P., in the chair. In proposing the Queen's health, Mr. Kemble very appropriately alluded to her reported rescue of Prince Albert from the pond in Buckingham Gardens. After dinner, a procession of the persons who had been rescued from death during the last year by the efforts of the society passed through the room : the number exceeded twenty.

A meeting, having for its object the colonization of the coast of Africa with free people of Colour, was held on Wednesday night, at the Egyptian Hall. Dr. Costello, who presided, said that the present was one of a series of meetings which they had held for the purpose of discussing the question which bad been introduced to them by the Re- verend Mr. Gurley from America, as to the expediency of adopting some steps with a view to the introduction of free people of Colour to settlements on the African coast. They had arrived at the opinion, that to renew the attempt to force the White people as settlers into Africa must terminate, as it had done for the last fifty years, in a total failure. -With the latter description of individuals the climate was fatal, whilst with the former it prospered. The assembly was addressed by Dr. Hodgkin, briefly by the Reverend Mr. Gurley, Messrs. Wright, Ridgway, and others ; and eventually a Committee was formed for the purpose of preparing a petition to Parliament, praying that some mea- suess may be put into operation to effect the object proposed.

The dinner given by the New Zealand Company to Lord John Rus- sell at the London Tavern, on Saturday last, proved to be one of the most interesting and attractive festivals that ever took place in the City. " At no former City feast," says the Colonial Gazette, "have interests of so great magnitude, objects of such scope and permanent importance, been the occasion of the assemblage. The constitution of this meeting was no less remarkable : not a man was there but for a purpose—to re- present some community, some class, or some influence ; while it ex- hibited the most extraordinary union of opposite parties. Every shadow of politics might he found in the room, every variety of public interest ; each section of the commercial world of Britain, with all its wealth and intelligence, had its representative ; and not a portion of the empire, British or Colonial, but bad some one to answer for it. Such a conven- tion of parties, heretofore conflicting and discordant, evinced that some- thing remarkable had happened, that some surprising change had occurred in those wide relations ; it marked some epoch. And it was to celebrate the birth of the youngest of Britain's Colonies that all these influential persons assembled round the Colonial Minister from all parts of the world—ministers and senators from Westminster ; governors of great trading bodies in London ; officials, merchants, immigration- agents, of our remotest settlements, from Canada to Canton. Ministers experienced at that feast their first pleasant reception in the City for many a day." Some idea of the blending of parties, and representation of interests and of wealth on this occasion, is conveyed by the list of names pub- lished, a portion of the two hundred gentlemen invited to meet the honoured guest of the evening— The Earl of Devon ; Lord Ashburton; Lord Petre; Hight Hun. Henry Labouchere, President of the Board of Trade ; Mr. Vernon Smith. M.P.. Under Secretary for the Colonies; the lion. E. J. Stanley, M.P., Secretary of the Treasury: the Right Hon. Sir Hussey Vivian. M.P., Master-General of the Ordnance; Right lion. R. L. Shiel, M.P.. Vice-President of the Board of Trade; Mr. More 0 Fe' rail, SIP.. Secretary of the Admiralty ; the Hon. Fox Made, M.P., Under Secretary for the Home Depart- ment; Mr. Tanen, M.P., Lord of the Trrasury; Lord Eliot, M.P.; Viscount In- geAre. M.P.; Lord Edward Howard; Right Hon. Edward Ellice, M P. ; Mr. Russell Ellice; Mr. Alderman Thompson. M.P.; Mr. Hutt. M.P. ; Mr. J. Abel Smith, M.P.; Mr. Charles Buller, Ml'.; Mr. H. G. Ward, M.P.; Mr. W. Biugloim Baring, M.P.; the O'Connor Don, Ml'.; Hon. Frederick James Tollemache, M.P.; Mr. Aglionby, M.P.; Mr. Alderman Copeland, M.P.; Mr. L)all, Deputy Chairman of the East India Company; Mr. Andrew Colville ; Mr. Tre.elyan, Assistant Secretary of the Trea- sury; Mr. Seater, Master in Chancery; Mr. Woolrych Whitmore; Mr. Brownrigg. M.P.; Mr. Briscoe, M.P. ; Mr. G. Pa:mer, M.P. ; Mr. Easthope, M.P.; Mr. Smith O'Brien. M.P.; Mr. Edward Buller, M.P.. Mr. Leader, M.P.; Sir Charles Lemon, 51.1'.; Mr. Aaron Chapman, Ml'.; Mr. Raike. Currie, M.P.; Mr. Edward Rice, M.P. ; Mr. Hastie, MM.; Alderman Sir George Carroll ; Mr. Alderman Pine: Mr. Buckle; Sir William Symonds, Surveyor of the Navy; Rev. Dr. Hinds ; Mr. Thomas Wilf,011. Chairman of the Committee of Tlerchants trading to the Continent; Mr. G. R. Robinson, Chairman of Lloyd's; Mr. Henry Buckle, Chairman of the Shipowners Society; Mr. Thomas Tooke, Chairman of the St. Katharine's Dock Company ; the Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the London Dock Company; the Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the East and West India Book Company ; Mr. Sheriff Gibbs; Mr. Sheriff Farncomb ; Mr. Mackillup, Deputy Chairman of the Canada Company; Mr. N. Gould, Chairman of the British American Land Company ; Mr. John Chap- man, Deputy Chairman of the Western Australian Company; Mr. Thomas Walker; Mr. Mat-tin Tucker Smith ; Colonel Torreus. Commissioner of Crown Lands and Emi- gration; Me. W. Martin. the Chief Justice of New Zesland; Mr. Swaiuson, the At- torney-General of New Zealand, and other Government officers; Mr. Spain, the Com- missioner of Titles ; Mr. IT. S. Chapman; Sir S. Glynne; Mr. Commissioner Evans; Sir Jeremiah Bryant ; Mr. Lionel Rothschild; Mr. Thomas Ilankey junior; Admiral Young ; Captain Fitzroy, RN.; Mr. Syndicus Banks • Mr. William Jardine ; Mr. Consul Koch; Mr. Melvill, Secretary of the East India Company; Mr. Brown, Chair- man of the Pacific Steam Navigation Company ; Mr. William Stanley Clarke; Dr. Hodgkin ; Mr. Bulteel; Mr. Bryan Duppa; Captain Wakefield. R.N.; Mr. ROWS Mangles ; Mr. Frederick Elliot ; Hon. E. Villiers; Mr. G. D. O'Callagan ; Mr. Whit- bread, Sze. &c. &c.

In the course of the evening, the meeting was addressed by the

following Ministers—Lord John Russell, Sir Hussey Vivian, Mr. Labouchere, Mr. Shell : Peers—Earl of Devon, Lord Petre, Lord Ashburton : Members of the House of Commons—Lord Eliot, Lord bigestre, Mr. Charles Buller, Mr. Hutt, Mr. Ward, Mr. John Abel Smith : the Church—Reverend Dr. Hinds : Directors of the Company, and other mercantile gentlemen—Mr. Somes the Governor and Chair- man, Mr. Alderman Thompson, Mr. G. F. Young, Mr. Willis, Mr. Lynn.

It is out of our power to make room for the speeches ; but a few gleanings from some of the most applauded passages may be given, to mark the character and prevailing sentiment of the assembly.

Lord John Russell spoke with feeling of his kind reception, and dis- meetly and properly on the business on hand- . . . . . . . " I believe that the foundation of this colony of New Zealand will tend to the honour and dignity of the Crown, and will tend to the Weerity and future greatness of the nation. It was on this ground, and for reasons, that I lent my humble efforts in support of those exertions that had been made and were about to be made by the New Zealand Company. Gentlemen, I should be unworthy of your approbation if in so doing I took any extraordinary merit to myself; for, in the first place, the prin- ciple of colonization—the value of colonies to this country—the means they afford of augmenting her strength, of adding to her power, of promoting her wealth, and of increasing her prosperity—all this has been ascertained and demonstrated by the enlightened discussions of past years. With regard to the best mode of colonization likewise, we have had the advantage and assistance of the most enlightened opinions, and the most acute discussion. I, therefore, can only take to myself the merit of not being blind to the importance and value of those opinions and discussions. * * * * Your Governor has expressed a hope that I may live to witness the benefits that have been antici- pated from the present undertaking. His kind wish may not be realized ; but, however that may be, I cannot entertain a doubt that English settlers, having English habits, English nationality, and English energy and enterprise, will not, when transported to the shores of New Zealand, and having there the ad- vantages of a mild and healthy climate, suffer a long time to elapse ere they establish a prosperous and a flourishing colony. I cannot, I say, doubt that ; and the part of a government can be 'but small in any progress of that kind. It is the energy, the capital, the virtue, the perseverance, the capacity of Eng- lishmen, that must cause a colony to advance and prosper. But, gentlemen, when considering a subject of this nature, I cannot look without anxiety to the future fate of those who have been the inhabitants of New Zealand; nor can I look upon the past history of the discovery of the New World—a his- tory, some pages of which it is impossible to read without feelings of horror— without feelings of anxiety on behalf of the native inhabitants of the soil. Would to God we could say, when reading the direful events connected with the history of that great and brilliant discovery, These are the transactions of three centuries ago ; they are tube found only in the records of ages that have passed ; they have no existence now.' But I am sorry to say, when 1 look to the events of the present day, not only in foreign countries, the names of which I will not mention because it might be invidious to do so, but like- wise in our own possessions in Africa and Australia, I see transactions that must make us all blush that they should have occurred in a civilized age—that they should have occurred in consequence of the progress of discovery, and of the advancement of men who takt honour to themselves in assuming the name of Christians. I am happy to perceive that the New Zealand Company have not paid a light or inadequate attention to this subject—that they have consi- dered, not only what was to be done for English settlers and English colonies, but also what was due to the aboriginal inhabitants,—aboriginal inhabitants, let me say, who are not in that low and mean state of capacity and civilization in which the natives of some regions have been found, tint capable, as I believe they are, of acquiring the arts of civilized life, and of imbibing the truths of re- ligion. Let us all impress deeply upon our minds this fact, that whatever may have passed in former days—whatever is passing at this time in our own colo- nies—it is our bounden duty, when founding a new colony, and propagating the doctrines of Christianity there, to see that our precepts differ not from our practice. Let it not he said that, while preaching and professing the precepts of brotherly love that are written in our Bibles, murder and pillage form our practice."

Mr. C. Buller spoke eloquently in acknowledgment of a toast dedi- cated to the memory of the Earl of Durham. Towards the close he said— Much has the noble earl done to entitle him to posthumous fame and the respect and regard of posterity ; but there was nothing upon which his family and friends might more safely depend as the foundation of his reputation than the share he had taken in the colonization of New Zealand. No circumstance could be more favourable to that view ; nothing could have.occurred better cal- culated for the furtherance of the principles and objects so consistently advo- cated by the noble earl, or for the advancement of this particular project, in which he had taken so distinguished a part, than the meeting that was held that evening. That meeting was no ordinary occasion of festivity ; it was no ordinary compliment to a statesman. He saw around him the representative of every colonial and commercial interest. For what purpose had they met there ? To do honour to one of the leading men of the country—one who had eminently assisted the cause they had met to advance. They had met for no purpose connected with the party politics of the day—for no purpose about which the one party felt violently enthusiastic, and the other unaccountably exasperated. No; they had met for a great purpose, that would come home to the bosoms of all men. The noble lord had placed himself at the head of that great movement of colonization which, without any distinction of party, promised to carry the British flag further than it had yet been seen. The spirit of colonization, more than all our victories, more than all our mili- tary and naval triumphs, had carried the name of England higher than that of any other nation on the face of the globe; and that not by the force of war, but by commerce and the arts of peace. It was a great day when such a meet- ing had assembled to do honour to a statesman who had taken part in such a work.

Mr. Hutt, in proposing the health of Ministers-

" I have now the honour to address, if not the most numerous, certainly the most important and influential body of men connected with the Colonies that ever yet assembled. Perhaps there is hardly one dependency of the British Crown which would not recognize in this room some party conversant with its circumstances and interested 'in its welfare. Well, then, in the presence of such an assembly, so qualified to judge of the correctness of the statement I shall make, and with a thorough conviction how little it would become me to indulge in any language of exaggerated praise! I venture to assert, that there is no colony of the British Crown, to which, in the last twelve months some prospect of improvement has not been laid open; not one which has not hailed in recent acts of the Government the commencement of a new, a wise, and generous policy. * • • I rejoice that we have this opportunity of acknowledging the public services of the noble lord, and of celebrating this event in a manner worthy of its great national importance, and of the long remembrance which it will leave behind. The statesman who extends the limits of our Colonial empire, and places its prosperity on sound and enduring foundations; I care not what badge he may bear, or what party he may affect Tros Tyriu.sve'—he is a benefactor to his country. My lords and gentle- men, it is not my voice which speaks—it is the voice of the industrious poor, of merchants, shipowners, and manufacturers at home; it is the voice of enter- prising and gallant men dwelling under the protection of your flag in almost every region of the globe; it is the voice of millions. Let me add, it confers a title far too noble either to be lightly given or lightly withheld. In performing this great work, the noble lord-has recognized the principle of making Colonizing Companies instruments of the State. It is, in my estnnation, a wise and salu- tary principle; hut it cannot stop with New Zealand. The good which the noble lord has done for one colony, will create anxious applicants for a similar boon to all."

Mr. Labouchere returned thanks for the Ministers, with great cor- diality and frankness- " Connected as I am with the mercantile and colonial affairs of the country,

I cannot but feel especial and particular interest in the object that brings us together this evening. What is that object ? What is the object that has assembled within these walls the representatives of all those great colonial in- terests that are scattered over the face of the globe ? I apprehend that object to be to welcome to the great British family the colony of New Zealand. In that object I most heartily concur."

Dr. Hinds, speaking on behalf of the Church Society of New Zealand, made some interesting remarks on the religious aspect of colonization-- " To render a scheme of colonization perfect, there ought to be a transfer of all the main features of society as it exists in the colonizing country ; so that in the emigrant's new abode neither his eye nor his heart should -miss any one thing with which his feelings, and character, and happiness, have been hitherto intimately associated. It may never be possible completely to realize this idea ; but the nearer the approach we make to it, the nearer we come to the perfecting of a scheme of colonization; and the further we recede from it, the nearer we bring the condition of the emigrant to that of a miserable exile. It is but a just tribute to the highly-gifted originator of the plan of colo- nizing New Zealand, and to those who have so ably combined with him to work out that plan, to say that this object they have steadily kept in view. a * • I am happy to be authorized to announce as a certainty, that the sanction of the Church and the consent of the advisers of the Crown have been given to the appointment of a Bishop for New Zealand; that that ap- pointment will speedily be made; and that a Parliamentary grant may be expected in addition to the voluntary contributions which have been set on foot for the endowment of the Bishopric. This is a measure of immense im- portance to the interest of religion in New Zealand—to the religious welfare of colonists and aborigines. It is no exaggeration to say, that while it will strengthen the arm of the missionary, it will give a missionary aspect to the Colonial establishments themselves. But 1 do not limit its importance to its obvious bearing, even on these sacred interests. I see in the Bishop. the pro- moter of many a wise and good undertaking, not exactly of a religious cha- racter, for which, in the busy stir of a new settlement, few can have the re- quisite leisure, and of those few no one the requisite influence. I see in him a great moral centre of social intercourse ; a guarantee to emigrating families that they will find in the colony a tone of society congenial, not merely to men of education, but to female refinement of morals and manners. Let me ob- serve, colonization differs most essentially from other great enterprises—from war, or from commerce, for example—in this, that it is not the business of the rougher sex alone, but a work that is shared at least in equal proportions by both sexes. It is hardly possible to overrate the value of, a measure which has a tendency to give a security to the most highly-refined woman that she will not be thrown out of her proper sphere by becoming an emigrant. Such a security I see in the residence of a Bishop and a Bishop's family in a new settlement. • * • In every scheme for general good, and in the exercise of every private charity and kindness—in befriending, advising, relieving, and reconciling—if he is the man he ought to be, he will know no difference of creeds, of politics, or of races. With such a man in office—and such a man may, I should hope, be readily found for the office—no one measure is likely to be productive of such extensive and multifarious good in New Zealand as the appointment of a Bishop."

Mr. Ward had a large field in the toast of "Prosperity to the Co- lonies"; which, at a late hour, he managed very effectively- " Their importance may have been lost sight of for a time, at a period when the monopoly of the markets of Europe was in our hands ; but it is brought home to us with double force now that the country. is thrown upon its own resources. No more remarkable proof of this can be desired than the bringing together, in this room, of men whose pursuits in life are as varied as their political opinions, to meet the Colonial Minister of the day as the guest of the Directors of a pri- vate association, engaged, under the sanction of the Crown, in one of the most gigantic enterprises that modern history records,—an enterprise founded upon principles of which no man had heard twelve years ago, and which six years ago few believed to be practicable, yet which are now recognized by the Go- venuuent itself, as the source from which, under proper modifications, suitable to the local circumstances of each, every improvement in Colonial legislation must emanate. ,What has produced this unanimity ? A feeling that England, rich as she is in natural advantages—her vast capital—her high moral power— her energetic and industrious population—may live to see the day when all these elements of strength may he turned into elements of weakness and danger, unless she can find the means of widening the field for the employ- ment of capital and labour—of lessening the disparities that exist between whole classes of the population—by making industry more certain of its re- ward, and diffusing more equally those physical comforts that ought to be within the reach of every man who is willing to earn them by honest labour. Are they so now ? Is there any other country in the world in which so large a proportion of the population is forced to depend upon the labour-market for its daily bread, or where that market is so precarious ? "I say here with nay friend Mr. Young, that no man can speak of the mo- dern system of colonization without paying the tribute of his admiration to Mr. Wakefield as its originator, and congratulating him upon the speedy recog- nition of the great truths which he developed. No man could better exemplify the truth of Lord Byron's lines- ' But words are things—and a small drop of ink

Falling, like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands—perhaps millions, think.'

Mr. Wakefield has made England think upon the question of self-supporting emigration. All his triumphs have been those of conviction. I have seen his theory broached first in England and America—taken ,up by Mr. Hutt in 1830—partially adopted by Lord Howick in 1831—developed by Mr. Wakefield in the Colonial Land Committee in 1836, of which I had the honour of being Chairman when its author was brought into contact with many of the keenest minds of the present day —(I need only mention Mr. Roebuck, M. Gladstone, and Mr. Baring)—still further illustrated in the New Zealand Committee under Lord Eliot—carried out practically in South Australia, and vavh still more striking energy by yourselves—gradually triumph over every &Made, and obtain the sanction of every thinking man who has had leisure to devote his mind to it. Thus it is that opinion forms itself in England, when great truths are once launched. Discussion strengthens them : opposition clears away doubt; until at last the question is ripe for decision by the Government. Then comes 'the hoar, aud the mate—the man. I mean, whose proud lot it is te give the national sanction to the general wish, and to place himself at the head of the national movement—as Lord John Russell has done, after gaining a noble victory over his own doubts and some official prejudices, by coming amongst you this night." The lateness of the hour prevented the responses intended by Mr. Andrew Colville for the West Indies Mr. Edward Ellice for British North America, Mr. Thomas Walker for New South Wales Mr. Woolryche Whitmore for South Australia, and Mr. John Chapman for Western Australia.

second colony is about to be formed in New Zealand, on a still grander plan than that of the first colony. From a correspondence which has been published, between Mr. Bryan Duppa, one of the emi- grants with the proposed colony, and the Secretary of the New Zealand Company, it appears that the project originated with a body of gentle- men who mean to engage personally in the undertaking. Mr. Duppa sets out with explaining, that so far from desiring to rival the first set- tlement, his coadjutors considered that it would benefit by the establish- ment of a second colony. The structure of the New Zealand islands, without navigable rivers properly so called, but with a very extensive seabord, and numerous fine harbours, indicates that its process of set- tlement must be, like that of Sicily, by separate towns on the coast, with a maritime intercommunication. And the advancement of Port Nicholson must depend in a great degree upon the popularity of New Zealand as an emigration-field, and the general emigration to that coun- try, which will be promoted by every thing that increases the impor- tance of the islands and their points of attraction. The scheme suggested in Mr. D up pa's letter has been adopted, with some immaterial modification, by the Company. Highly practical in its construction, it may at the same time be called magnificent in its scope. A tract of land, comprising 221,000 acres, is to be devoted to the purposes of the settlement, and to be disposed of in the following manner : 1,000 allotments, of 201 acres each, are to be offered for purchase by the settlers, each allotment being subdivided into three sections, consisting of 150 acres of rural land, 50 acres of " accommodation " or suburban land, and one acre of town land ; and 20,100 acres will be reserved, like the tithe of land in the first settle- ment, for the use and advantage of the aborigines of the district. The Price charged for each allotment of 201 acres will be 3001.; and the aggregate sum realized by the sales, 300,0001., will be thus laid out : 150,000/. will be expended in emigration to the new settlement ; 50,000/. will go to defray the expenses of the Company in establishing the new colony ; 50,000/., together with any surplus from the previous item, will be appropriated to public purposes, "for rendering the set- tlement commodious and attractive,"—namely, 15,000/. to religious uses and endowments for all denominations, 15,000/. to the establishment of a college, and 20,000/. to the encouragement of steam-navigation ; and 50,000/. will be set aside for the reimbursement and profit of the Com- pany. In suggesting the advance of 10s. per acre in the price of the land (the price charged to the settlers in the first colony, and now charged by thc Government, being 20s.) Mr. Dappa observes- " In proposing the price of 30s. per acre, instead of 20s., which wsz paid

4.7;tie memoers of Lie 471. calonn tre. cleciaeaiy of oninioq that we suggest a valuable improvement ; being convinced that the on'tlay of 50,0001. in the methodical settlement of the colony, over and above what the Company may contribute to that purpose, and of 50,0001. in rendering the settlement commodious and attractive, will have the immediate effect of giving to the aggregate of the land a greater increase of value than the additional stun of 100,000/. produced by the 10s. per acre. Ten shillings per acre, more or less, as the price of selected land on which 150,000/. will be rapidly expended for emigration, is a matter of little consequence to the purchaser ; but the outlay of110s. per acre in respect of all the land, for collective purposes calculated to render the settlement commodious and attractive, will produce results of far higher pecuniary value to every landowner than his contribution to the suns so expended."

In the Court of Queen's Bench, on Thursday, a verdict with 2001.

• damages was given against Mr. Goldie, a distiller, for having driven his gig over an old woman in Whitechapel, by which her thigh-bone was broken.

In the Court of Exchequer, on Thursday, an exposure was made of former bribery at the election for Walsall. The South Staffordshire Banking Company brought an action against the son of a voter, who 'had endorsed a promissory note given by his father to Mr. Finch, at the election in 1838, in exchange for 50/. received ; it being an under- standing that that if the vote bargained for was given, the note would be destroyed. The note had got into the possession of the bank, Mr. Finch • having left the country. The Jury found a verdict for the defendant, on the ground that no notice had been given to him of the presentation of the note for payment to the maker.

In the Court of Common Pleas, on Thursday, a verdict with 15/. damages was given against the Chairman of the Directors of the -Gravesend Star Packet Company, as compensation for damage done to a barge by the Vesper steam-packet, off Fresh Wharf, on the 4th Sep- tember last.

A case of considerable importance to sea captains was brought be- fore the notice of the Lord Mayor on Saturday. A druggist had been employed to supply medicines for a ship on her voyage to the coast of Africa; but the drugs were so much adulterated as to be utterly worth- less. The captain of the ship said, all his crew died on the voyage : they were so obstinate they would take no other medicine but salts ; but if they had been so inclined, there were no medicines in the chest ;fit for them. The druggist had been summoned to attend, but he did not appear to answer the charge: his name was not mentioned.

Mr. David Home, of York Street, Gloucester Gate, Regent's Park, was summoned before the Marylebone Magistrates on Tuesday, to an- swer the charge of tying his card to the knocker of Sir Felix Booth's residence in Great Portland Street. There was a disputed account he- tweea the parties ; and Mr. Home had often called to prefer a claim to the motley alleged to be due -to him. The servant having not only re- fused to admit him, but also to take his card, he tied it to the knocker. The charge was brought against him under a clause of the New Police Act, which imposes a fine of 40s. on any one "affixing any posting-bill or other paper against or upon any building, &c., without the consent of the owner or occupier therea" After a long discussion on the point 'Whether the offence came within the meaning of the act, the Magistrate said he should dismiss the summons ; but he cautioned the defendant against repeating such conduct.

Mrs. Waylett, the actress, had a narrow escape from imprisonment at Bow Street Police-office on Monday. She had come from Liverpool, at great inconvenience, to give evidence against a postman who had stolen half a sovereign out of a letter ; and she was not ready with sureties for her appearance as a witness at the Central Criminal Court. She expressed so great reluctance at having to come to London again on the business, that the Magistrate said he should be obliged to commit her to secure her attendance, unless she could find some one to be answerable for her. A gentleman in the office then consented to be her bail, rather than she should go to prison.

A duel took place on Thursday morning, between Colonel Patterson, of the East India Company's service, and Mr. Robert Marsden, of Park Lodge, Regent's Park. The parties met at daybreak, at the heels of the Eyre Arms tavern ; and at the second fire Colonel Patterson was severely wounded in the wrist. It is said that the misunderstanding arose from a political dispute between the parties ; the Colonel having asselfed at a dinner-party, in the presence of Mr. Marsden, that the supporters of Mr. O'Connell were political scoundrels"; and Mr. Marsden, who is a warm advocate of O'Connell, applying the term to himself, called upon the Colonel to apologize ; which was refused.

An inquest was held on Thursday, at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, on the body of Thomas Henman, a compositor, who jumped from Black- friars Bridge on Monday. The deceased, when walking on the bridge, tapped a gentleman on the shoulder, and telling hint to follow, ran across the road, got on to the balustrades, and threw himself into the river. He was taken out by a waterrnan, in a state of insensibility ; but was restored to animation after all pulsation had ceased. It was found, however, that he had received severe contusions in his fall: he was taken to the Hospital, and died on Wednesday. The Jury returned a verdict of "Temporary Insanity."