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The skeleton of Parliament made a pro-forma appearance on Tuesday; and another pro-forma prorogation was announced—to the 16th January. The Peers were represented by the Lords Commissioners alone—the Lord Chancellor Lord Clanricarde, and Lord Campbell; the Commons, by Sir Robert Inglis, Mr. Raphael, and the officials of the House. Although the ceremony is so unchanging and stale, "a great number of well-dressed ladies and gentlemen attended below the bar," as witnesses of it and spec- tators of the pictures. " The,House presented a novel appearance. The reporters' gallery has been taken away, with the view of bringing it several feet forward. The fresco paintings have been nearly completed."

We have reason to believe that General Sir Colin Halkett, G.C.B., will be appointed Governor of the Royal Hospital at Chelsea; and Lieutenant- General Sir Andrew Barnard, G.C.B., will succeed to the situation of Lieu- tenant-Governor of that establishn2ent.—Morning Chronicle.

The appointment of Master in Chancery, vacated by Mr. Wingfield, has been bestowed on John Elijah Blunt, Esq., the well-known and much re- spected Equity draughtsman.—Daily News.

The death of the venerable and good Sir Charles Forbes, recorded in our obituary, has called forth the following just tribute from a correspondent of the Times-

" Sir Charles has been for more than forty years head of the first mercantile and financial house in India, that of Forbes and Co., of Bombay; and his name stood in the highest repute in the commercial world, for ability, foresight, and rectitude of character.

"As a Member of the House of Commons for more than twenty years, he en- joyed the respect and esteem of men of all parties, for his love of justice, his kindly feelings towards the suffering or oppressed, and for the plain, straight- forward honesty with which his opinions were expressed and his votes were in- variably given. A Tory in the strictest sense of the word, he never allowed his political creed to cloud his fine judgment and keen sense of right and wrong; and his manly spirit was readily engaged in favour of the poor, weak, or persecuted.

"Connected from early youth with India, and devoted to the welfare of its peo- ple from principle as well as from feeling, every faculty of his nature was en- listed in behalf of a country where he had spent the happiest years of his life, and in which a large portion of his noble fortune had been most honourably ac- quired. In Parliament, and in the Proprietors' Court of -the East India Company, his advocacy of 'justice for India' was ardent, untiring, uncompromising, and regardless of all personal considerations but the rights of the people of his adop- tion. And well they appreciated such devoted attachment. From one end of Hindostan to the other—by the Parsee, the Hindoo, the Moslem, by men of all creeds and ranks—his name was beloved, and his character deeply reverenced. -On retiring from India, he was presented by the Natives with a magnificent ser- vice of plate; and twenty-seven years after his departure from Bombay, a large sum of money (about 9,0001.) was subscribed for the erection of a statue to their friend and benefactor,—the brat instance on record of the people of India raising a statue to any one unconnected with the civil or military service of the country. The chisel of Chantrey has admirably represented the commanding form, lofty bearing, and massive benevolent features of the deceased; and this record of gra- titude, at whose fed votive offerings of flowers are presented by the Natives, now stands in the Town-hall of Bombay, between the statues of Mountstuart

Llphin- 8tone and Sir John Malcolm.

"But it was in his private charities that the character of Sir Charles Forbes was peculiarly manifested: their extent throughout a long life was probably unparalleled; they were distributed without reference to any other consideration than the necessities of the recipients, and in a manner best calculated to soothe and cheer the unfortunate. The afflicted never solicited Sir Charles Forbes in vain: the appeals made to him might be those of simulated distress, but he fre- quently observed he would rather be deceived any number of times than reject the claims of one real sufferer. And so unostentatious was his charity, that almost literally the right hand knew not what the left hand bestowed. " One more point, out of many, deserves notice in the character of this truly good man—one of whose last acts was the appropriation of a very large sum of money to procure for the natives of Bombay a plentiful supply of pure water in all seasons: the liberality of his mind was as remarkable as the benevolence of his heart; he was ever disposed to look favourably on the faults of others—to extend his sympathy to those who were suffering even from their own errors—to respect and esteem goodness in others, and to think moat humbly of himself." [Whatever Sir Charles Forbes may have called himself, or been called, his politics were Liberal in the truest sense, rather than "Tory in the strictest sense of the word "—unless that nickname receive an unusually eulogistic interpretation.] In the article on the Cape of Good Hope, the main subject of which we notice in a separate paper, the Times makes two Assertions—of a character hitherto almost peculiar to Mr. Hawes—which have challenged an obvious contradiction from various quarters, and we can do little more than repeat the corrections of others.

The writer in the Times asserts, that "the Cape of Good Hope has been made what it is by the commerce, the arms, and the wealth of this country." This is not correct in any particular. The Cape of Good Hope attained considerable prosperity under the Dutch rule. Cape Town has derived some partial advantages through its being a naval station, but not more than it might have possessed had it been, like Rio de Janiero, an equally convenient naval station under a foreign power. It has been used, in short, for the convenience of the British Government; and for the incidental ad- vantages thence accruing, it certainly owes no gratitude to that Govern- ment. On the other hand, bad systems of colonization and of government have materially impeded the flow of wealth from this country to the colony, insomuch that it may be said to have been made what it is without its natural share in the wealth of this country, by the intelligence, the energy, and the prudence of the colonists. Had it had the wealth aforesaid, it would have been what it is not—one of the most flourishing of the English colo- nies. For similar reasons, the " commerce " with this country has beeu far leas than it ought to have been; and England, who appoints the supreme rulers of the colony, owes to the colonists a large accumulated debt of com- merce withheld. To the "arms" of this country the Dutch colonists owe their own defeat; the English colonists, a damaging system of defence against Border tribes, whom the colonists could well have taken in hand had they been allowed.

The next assertion is this-

" Very lately, in a season of great distress and poverty-at home, when the Boers at the Cape thought fit todrive their cattle into the Caffre domains, and the Caffres very naturally proceeded to take rent in kind, we did not stop to inquire into the merits of the ease, but took the part of the Boers, and spent two millions in securing to them what was not their own."

The implication here is doubly false. In the first instance, that which is called "taking rent in kind" consisted of raids by the Aborigines upon the Border settlements, against which the Border settlers were prevented from defending themselves, because humanity-mongers in this country, who possessed considerable influence in Borough elections, took the side of the Aborigines on account of their being such. The Dutch colonists were ex- asperated at this gross violation, not only of the spirit in which the Cape colony was ceded to England, but of the commonest duties of government; after many vain remonstrances, they committed the rebellious act of trans- gressing the appointed border and going forth to make an " independent " settlement. The interference of the Government was then exercised, not on behalf of the Anglo-Dutch Farmers, but on behalf of the Griquas, a mongrel tribe of settlers from another part of the colony, and against the Boers, who were coerced into submission at the expense of English taxpay- ers. Such are the plain facts of the case.

The almost forgotten circumstances of Mr. Charles Phillips's defence of COurvoisier, on his trial for the murder Of Lord William Russell, have been

recalled to attention, by Mr. Phillips's consent at last to give a full chain. sive explanation. His friend Mr. Samuel Warren lately represented to Mr. Phillips, that the Examiner [in connexion with Sergeant Wilkitoo, delknce of Manning] had revived the old charges against Mr. phit, lips; and persuaded him that his position as the holder of responsible ja. dicial office imposes on him the duty of a reply to such accusatiotui of dishonourable conduct. Mr. Phillips, though with avowed disgust towards the task and contempt for the accusers, replies seriatim to each charge.

The first was, that he retained Coarvoisier's brief after having heard his eels fession. He explains the circumstances of Courvoisier's confession. It oce

on the morning of the second day of the trial, and was made to Mr. Phillips and Mr. Clarkson together—net at a private interview, but in court, at the be- ginning of the second day. Mr. Phillips says—" When I could speak, which was not immediately, I said, 'Of course, then, you are going to plead guilty?' ix% Sir,' was the reply; I expect you to defend me to the utmost.'" The result was, that the two counsel had an interview with Mr. Baron Parke; who, an hearing that the prisoner expressly insisted on a defence, said that Mr. Phillips was bound to go on with the defence, "and use all fair arguments arising on the evidence." et therefore retained the brief: and I contend for it, that every argument I used was a fair commentary on the evidence, though undoubtedly as strong as 'could make them. I believe there is no difference of opinion now in the profession that this course was right." The second charge was that of having "appealed to Heaven sate my belief in Courvoisier's innocence, after he had made me acquainted with his guilt." This charge Mr. Phillips proves to be false, by the evidence of Chief Justice Tindal and. Baron Parke. He first saw the imputation in a Sunday paper, the day after the trial; on Monday be took the newspaper to court, and in the Aldermen's room, before all assembled, asked those two Judges, if it were true that he had uses such words? "'You certainly did not, Phillips,' was the reply of the late lamented Lord Chief Justice; and I will be your vouchee whenever you choose to call me.' 'And I,' said Mr. Baron Parke, happily still spared to us, 'had a reason which the Lord Chief Justice did not know tor watching you narrowly, and he will re- member my saying to him when you sat down, Brother Tiede], did you observe how carefully Phillips abstained from giving any personal opinion in the case?' To this the learned Chief Justice instantly assented." ' The third charge was, that he endeavoured to throw on the female servants the guilt which he knew belonged to Courvoisier Slone. 'Saha answer to this is obvious. Coarvoisier did not confess till Friday; the l'Ioss-examination took place the day before; and so far, therefore, the accusation is disposed of." He adds from the Times a quotation, showing beyond this, that he expressly dis- claimed any such imputation against the other servants. "Mr. Phillips said, the prosecutors were bound to prove the guilt of the prisoner, not by inference, by reasoning, by such subtile and refined ingenuity as had been used, but by down- right, clear, open, palpable demonstration. How did they seek to- do this? What said Mr. Adolphus, and his witness, Sarah Macer? And here hemould beg the Jury not to suppose for a moment, in the course of the narrative with which he must trouble them, that he meant to east the crime upon either bf the female servants. It was not at all necessary to his case to do so. It was neither his interest, his duty, nor his policy to do so. God forbid that any' breath of his should send tainted into the world persons depending for their subsistence on their character." This report was corroborated by the contemporary reports of the Morning Chronicle, the Morning Herald, and the Morning Post.

[All the principal journals have accepted Mr. Phillips's explanation as fully exculpatory. The Times observes, that the man who should now re- new the charge, must be content himself to acquiesce in a very terse epi- thet as descriptive of his own character: the Globe without hesitation ad- mits the entire sufficiency of the explanation, and only expresses regret that it was not given before.] Mr. Charles Dickens has followed up his letter to the Times on the execution of the Meanings, by a letter stating his views a little more in detail on the subiCct of public executions; respecting which he maintains these two propositions- " First, that they chiefly attract as spectators the lowest, the most depraved, the most abandoned of mankind; in whom they inspire no wholesome emotions whatever.

"Secondly, that the public infliction of a violent death is not a salutary spec- tacle for any class of people; but that it is in the nature of things that on the class by whom it is generally witnessed it should haves debasing and hardening influence."

Under the first head he rapidly refers to his own "experience of the execution of last Tuesday morning ; to all the evidence that has ever been taken On the subject, showing that executions have been the favourite sight of convicts d all descriptions; to the knowledge possessed by the Magistracy and Police of the general character of such crowds; to the Police reports that are sure to follow their assemblage; to the unvarying description of them given in the newspapers; to the indisputable fact that no decent father is willing that his son, and no de- cent master is willing that his apprentices or servants, should mingle in them; to the indisputable fact that all society, its dregs excepted, recoil from them as masses of abomination and brutality." Under the second he recalls the spectacle of last week as- described by himself; and especially meets a suggestion of the Times, "that the concourse may have been belying their mental struggles by frantic exaggerations." " I am confi- dent, that if you hid been there beside me, seeing what I saw and hearing what I heard,- you could never have admitted the thought. . . . . Such a state of mind has its signs and tokens equally with any other, and no such signs and tokens were there. The mirth was not hysterical, the shootings and fightings were not the efforts of a strained excitement seeking to vent itself in any relief. The whole was unmistakeably callous and bad."

Mr. Dickens advocates the execution of the last sentence of the law "with comparative privacy, within the prison-walls "; quoting the strong testimony of Fielding on the principle of private executions. "The mind of man,' says Fielding, "is so much more capable of magnifying than his eye, that I question whether every object is not lessened by being looked upon, and this more especially when the passions are concerned; for those are ever apt to fancy much more satisfaction in those objects which they affect, and much more of mischief in those which they abhor, than are really to be found in either. If executions, therefore, were so contrived that few could be present at them, they would be much more shocking and terrible to the crowd without doors than at present, as well as much mere dreadful to the criminals themselves."

Mr. Dickens completes his theories by adding a practical scheme of pro- ceeding— " From the moment of a murderer's being sentenced to death, I would dismiss him to the dread obscurity to which the wisest judge upon the bench consigned the murderer Rush. I would allow no curious viiiitere to hold any communi- cation with him; I would place every obstacle in the way of his sayings and do- ings being served up in print on Sunday mornings for the perusal of families. His execution within the walls of the prison should be conducted with every ter- tibia solemnity that careful consideration could devise. Mr. Chticraft, the bug- man, (of whom I have some information in reference to this last occasion,) should be restrained in his unseemly briskness, in his jokes, his oaths, and his brandy.

To attend the execution I would summon a Jury or to be calla site

witness Airy, eight to be summoned on a low qualification, eight on a higher, ejzht en a higher still; so that it might fairly represent all classes of society. ilere should be present, likewise, the Governor of the Gaol, the Chaplain, the surgeon, and other officers, the Sheriffs of the county or city, and two Inspectors of Prisons. All these should sign a grave and solemn form of certificate, (the sole in every case,) that on each a day, at such an hour, in such a gaol, for such i a-crime, such a murderer was hanged n their sight. There should be another certificate from the officers of the prison, that the person hanged was that person, sal no other; a third, that that person was buried. These should be posted on rhe prison-gate for twenty-one days, prided in the Gazette, and exhibited in other public places; and during the hour of the body's hanging, I would have the bells ;f all the churches in that town or city tolled, and all the shops shut up, that all might be reminded of what was being done. "I submit to you, that, with the law so changed, the public would (as is right) know much more of the infliction of this tremendous punishment than they know of the infliction of any other. There are not many common subjects, I think, of which they know less than transportation; and yet, they never doubt that when amen is ordered to be sent abroad he goes abroad. The details of the commonest prison in London are unknown to the public at large, but they are quite satisfied that prisoners said to be in this or that gaol are really there and really undergo its discipline."

The Metropolitan Correspondent of the Morning Chronicle stops in his narration to make some general reflections on the virtues of the poor— "As a class, I must say that the workpeople that I have seen appear re- markably truthful, patient, and generous; indeed, every day teaches me that their virtues are wholly unknown to the world. Their intemperance, their improvidence, their want of cleanliness, and their occasional want of honesty, are all that come to our ears. As I said before, however, I doubt very much whether we should not be as improvident and intemperate if our incomes and comforts were as pre- carious as theirs. The vices of the poor appear to be the evils naturally fostered by poverty—even as their virtues are such as want and suffering alone can beget. Their patience is positively marvellous. Indeed, I have seen this last week such contentment, under miseries and privations of the most appalling nature, as has made me look with absolute reverence upon the poor afflicted things. I have be- held a stalwart man, with one half of his body dead—his whole side paralyzed, so that the means of subsistence by labour were denied him • and his wife toiling day and night with her needle, and getting at the week's end but one shilling for her many hours' labour. I have sat with them in' their wretched hovel shivering without a spark of fire in the grate and the bleak air rushing in through every chink and crevice. I have been with ;hem and their shoeless children at their Sunday dinner of boiled tea-leaves and dry bread; and I have heard the woman, with smiling lips, not only tell me, but show me, how contented she was with her lot; bearing the heavy burden with a meek and uncomplaining spirit, such as philosophy may dream of but can never compass. The man and his wife were satisfied that it was the will of God they should be afflicted as they were, and they bowed their heads in reverent submission to the law. It may be hard to say why we are so sorely troubled as we are,' said the heroic old dame; but we are satisfied it is all for the best.' In my last letter I told the story of the poor stock-maker, who for three weeks had never laid down to rest, so that she might save her disabled parent from the workhouse. In the letter before that, I had related the struggle of a girl to free herself from a life of vice which she had been driven into by sheer starvation: indeed, not a day of my life now passes but I am eye-witness to some act of heroism and nobility, such as are unknown and unheard of among those who are well to do in the land."

Lord Lincoln, in his schooner yacht the Gitana, accompanied by Lord R. Pel- ham and the Honourable Messrs. E. Harcourt Vernon, Granville, and Vernon Harcourt, arrived at Malta from England, Cadiz, and Gibraltar, on the 30th Oc- tober, and sailed for the Piraeus on the 5th November.

es Mr. Macaulay was reelected Lord Rector of Glasgow University, on Friday, without opposition.

Count Batthyany, well known in the English fashionable and sporting circles, has arrived in Vienna from London as we understand, on business having refer- ence to hi estates in Hungary. &mit Kasimir Batthyany, who is with Kossuth and the Hungarian refugees in Turkey, is only brother of Count Batthyany, who, some years ago, was Secretary to the Austrian Embassy in London under his Excellency Prince Esterhasy. We understand Count Kasimir and his Countess propose, on leaving the dominions of the Sultan, to repair to England.—Daily A letter from Darmstadt, of the 14th instant, states, that the Archduke John lately took part, with his son, in a wild boar hunt on the domain of Kranicbstein, belonging to the Grand Doke of Hesse Darmstadt. Near the house of the Ranger is one of the largest and oldest oaks in Germany; its age is not less than 1,000 Pram, and its trunk is 36 feet in circumference. The Grand Duke asked permis- sion to baptize the tree by the name of Johannes-Eiche (John's Oak). This was Acceded to the sacred rite of baptism was performed with the greatest so- lemnity: and if there be any truth in the doctrine of baptismal regeneration, the exhausted powers of this fine tree may possibly be revived. The Archduke, on his side, baptized an adjacent oak by the name of Ludwig's-Eiche (Louis's Oak). The religious ceremony was witnessed with interest by a large concourse of spec- tatorx—Times.

Dr. Gutzlaff is about to visit Europe, after an absence of twenty-three years. That long term has been passed in China, or among the Chinese. Perhaps no foreigner of the age has more thoroughly identified himself with the people; their literature, religion, government, history, and social and domestic habits, have been investigated by a mind which finds pleasure in study. Even in personal appear- ance the learned gentleman has in a degree become Chinese. We have heard it asserted, in North America, that Europeans who live for years among the Indians acquire their expression of countenance, especially a peculiar cast of the eye, which no Indian is without. Sir Henry Pottinger went to the East when a mere lad; he resided for many years at Native courts, as a Political Agent of the Go- vernment; and no person who has seen him will forget his Oriental countenance. Similar influences among a different people may have had the same effect on Dr. Gutzlaff—Friend of China.

Mr. T. D. Lewis, a son of the eminent comedian, has left a munificent legace to the National Gallery, on condition that a full-length portrait of his father, in the character of the Marquis in The Midnight Hour, painted by Sir Martin Archer Shee, shall be exhibited in a prominent place in the gallery, and kept in good condition—so that the memory may be preserved of "one of tbe best of fa- thers, whose private worth and public merit were alike deservedly appreciated." The legacy consists of 10,0001. Stock in the Three-and-a-quarter per Cents. Miss Lewis, the last surviving sister of the testator, is to enjoy the interest of the money during her life and then the interest only is to be appropriated by the Trustees Of the National for the objects of the gallery, or otherwise in the improve- ment of the fine arts, in such way as the Trustees shall deem fit. The whole property left by Mr. Lewis has been sworn under 35,0001.

A statue in memory of Lord Nelson is about to be erected at Norwich, Norfolk being his native county. The proposal for a site to be submitted to the City Com- mittee is—that the gas-lamp in the centre of the market-place be taken down; that a pedestal be erected on its site, upon which the statue will be placed; and that it be enclosed by a handsome palls' ading, with a gas-lamp at each corner. — Arc*folk Chnusicle. The death of Mr. Denis C. Moylan, of the Westminster County Court, throws another of these pieces of patronage into the hands of the Lord Chancellor. It is expected that the jurisdiction of the County Courts will be increased to 501. ill the next session of Parliament.

The Aldennansbip in the Corporation of York filled by Mr. G. Hudson was on Friday declared vacant, in consequence of Mr. Hudson having been absent six months, and not being a resident of the city.— Wakefield Journal. Mr. Hudson has sold his Londesborongh estate, his Odom Grange estate, bought for 70,0001, and his Hutton Cranswick estate; comprising altogether about. 16,000 acres of land, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, to Lord Albert Denison, late Conyngharn, the heir or executor of the late Mr. Denison. He re- tains now only his Baldersley estate' which cost about 125,0001, on which he has expended some 20,000/., and Newby Park, which cost 20,0001.—Herapath's Railway Journal.

Hooton Hall, the baronial mansion of the Massey Stanleys, is doomed to suffer the fate of Stowe, and, with the heir-looms gathered and handed down in it by the long line of its masters, the heads of the elder branch of the Cheshire Stanleys, is about to be sold to the highest bidder at public auction. On the death of the late Baronet, the property passed to the present Baronet, Sir William Stanley Massey Stanley, subject to such obligations that sales of various portions have been effected from time to time. The mansion itself and its demesne have, however, been reserved; and though the proprietor has not resided there, the house has been kept open, and the ancestral dignity to some extent maintained. The allie of this remnant has at last been determined on; and Messrs. Churton the auctioneers have issued a huge illustrated volume of particulars. The sale commences on Tuesday next.

Eastcourt, near Wokingham in Berkshire, the beautiful seat of Admiral Sir John Sinclair, has been purchased by Mr. Walter, the Member for Nottingham. The property fetched nearly 60,000/.

The enlargement of Buckingham Palace has been completed, and the new build- ing is already partly occupied. It is stated that the internal decorations will cost 14,0001., and that the triumphal arch of marble is to be pulled down and its ma- terials sold in part liquidation of the cost of the whole works.

A Sisterhood is about to be established at Clewer, near Eton, under religious role, to devote themselves to the reformation of the frail members of their own sex, under the patronage of the Bishop of Oxford, the Dean of Windsor, the Pro- vost and Head Master of Eton College, and other clergy and gentry of the neigh- boarhood. About eighteen applicants have been already admitted.—Guardian.

It is stated that the Bishop of Hereford (Dr. Hampden) has just ordained five Dissenting ministers for the ministry of the Church of England ; that the Bishop of Chester has ordained two, who came over with their congregations; and that the Bishop of Lichfield has received altogether nearly sixty applications from Dissenting including Wesleyan preachers to be ordained ministers of the Church of England.

The Government has recently added thirteen gentlemen to the commission of the peace for Birmingham. Of this numerous list, nine of the new Magistrates are Whig-Radicals, and four Conservatives. In religion seven are Unitarians, and six members of the Established Church. No other church or sect is re- presented in the new batch—Morning Post.

A correspondent of the Times, signing "Lea," gives the following from hie legal gleanings on the subject of dividends paid by railway and other companies. He quotes from the "summary to two learned Lords' decisions," reported in the Jurist of the 3d instant- " House of Lords, Burnes v. Pennell, in the Matter of the Forth Marina Insurance Company. Dividends are supposed to be paid out of profits only; and when directors order a dividend to be paid where no such profits have been made, without expressly saying so, a gross fraud is practised ; and the directors are not only civilly liable to those whom they have deceived and injured, but are guilty of a conspiracy, for which they are liable to be prosecuted and punished." (Per Lords Campbell and Brougham.) Captain Boxer, of the Royal Horse Artillery, has invented every effective light- ing carcase to be fired into the air over an enemy's position, so as to show his arrangements and movements in the darkest night. It was tried with success on Woolwich Marshes on the 16th instant, before an assemblage of officers. "It con- sists of two tin cases, each being half a sphere; the one containing the composi- tion, which burns like a brilliant blue light, and the other, the parachute, formed of a light description of closely-woven bunting. The diameter of the cases passed to to be about five inches, and when fired they attained a considerable alta- tilde; but the parachute, in the first instance, did not open out sufficiently, and the lighted composition soon fell to the ground." The common carcases are pro- jected about a quarter of a mile, and they burn about ten minutes on the ground: they may be extinguished by the enemy. Captain Boxer's shell burns aloft in the air at a great altitude. 'At the highest point, an explosion took place simia Jar to the bursting of a rocket in the air; and out came a parachute, fully six feet in diameter, and about three feet in depth, suspending the brilliant blue light.* The apparatus floated to the South-east, illumining the whole of the common under and around it, "with a light nearly equal to that of a full moon on a clear night." Ad-vices from Sierra Leone to the 18th October, by her Majesty's ship Dart, state that "the slave-trade was very flourishing, except upon the Southernmost part of the Southern division of the station, where no prize has been made by the cruisers for several months." A letter from Nantes, of the 18th instant, states that an English capitalist has purchased the lake of Grand Lieu, in the neighbourhood of that town, which he proposes to drain. The lake covers a track of 10,000 acres, and it is cal- culated that the entire may be completely drained and converted into meadow land with the exception of about 700 acres. The Reverend Mr. Dove, of Ireland, has bought 20,000 acres of land in Cater= - gus county, and gone home to bring the population to settle on it.—New York Independent. A new line of trade has opened through Canada, by the arrival of some cargoes of rock salt from the island of Ivies for the dairies and pork-houses of the Western States. This may become an extensive commerce, as it is known that rock salt is far preferable to sun salt for the preservation of food.—Kew York Independent. Among the orders for Parisian manufactures that have lately come in, is one from the new Emperor of Hayti. Articles of furniture of the richest kind, to thi amount of nearly 1,500,000 francs, are in course of preparation for the imperial palace; and must be ready for exportation by the end of next month. As his Majesty's credit is not yet well established, the manufacturers have treated for ready money, and Faustin the First has ordered his agents in Paris to pay tor everything in hard cash.

During the last summer no fewer than 2,520 dogs were killed in the street New York, and 6,760 dollars paid as premiums to the killers.

Abigail Lindsey, the New Brunswick "female sailor," has sailed from Liver- pool to New York. Liberal subscriptions from the masters of steamers and others at Liverpool provided her with the means of payingiter passage to New York and travelling thence to St. John's. She has written a letter to the Liverpool Mer- cury returning thanks to those who assisted her: she hints that at Cork, where her sex was discovered, her treatment was by no means generous.

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runary, aid, ..,Gansiderablit Miren! of money; anis feared i ‘havle in--blit ii; is iPran19115 tn nni.'frs • At tbeulh.'fferaddreill; aPctre) moms- were ihired3 frm the pue).1 note.- I havereceived one. Of tam-a letterwginqh applars re, kale. eircehir,ifrorn, Lord John Russell; and beg -here iliatincily to 'state that the i_vhela isa al Wifehood end forgery." • 'lldisijildwittiaijuests that any persen iv ,oiasS receive tri such letters will forward therntether, With Iparticalars,'whiehMa 'Atittilaite, 1 r theDitukda of the proper antheritiesi'l trethMeonaietiort,ot dleh • dizi=46641- ,..0 xii—a Ras 1,;u1)118 Jr.t;?.fil Valtrii fltil Der:, 111 A ,i.cin eerreaP9adscattf !hk,git'dietilitotaKa aiingapare-papeo)odesaillike thel terriele progress pd ,eholer5..2111#aadirPke, ft' PhAqialaolfiec gliltaCAunk, at fgai cis* occurred Within the City-walla aurtiw,ar, Onipkiblealia4 _.the44eptly fallaw ing it-had so inertased that'tdjhildig.i were taker, to a Irk, warNarmeg,; On ,Iltiesitty,iFriday, Mid Sattredwy,"ft lagelliciiihtlititsli ire' biy d wt-p- • scrittion., lietiootgelawtaUvemti etstel for' a/ *bit diktiftitetfithetit'a neisnig *14* dlodiggkiyipg eit all directianai and seeiag-pedsomv satsuked.twhile waking t PR ktface t°,144PLthffa. 56 )- 'e'1,1-9)ane4TIP.1 I kfulntitemAff 8S-.) reatiauti itladulsomeso ' was' the nurnoer or cteathS teat they fined- it,1474 _., an) hum Menai all; aid) raSay Were Uffi-led;`alid'ainiides Mote thrown info , iver,,mst sa.itIlta _ had dkrilal.hTialireilyrIfbionnadrheI °kepi& ite-P-(egilien ‘-katiWIANgt, r tearer of the , wats,4floacoe ; neadr that, • were-be road ie :Play? liiy vr- and laid in piks and fuel -applied, twhen- they .,irere `hormantettlikeiheapeof Ws? No parade, no funeral ; no other sibject but to haptenthem itiraYto thereat, Where they often were ieit to be barnedlly tluise who would attend to it, orleft to, patrefy, on the ground. -Perhaps in the. three days last mentioned not fewer than from. 2,000-te8,000-diectIdid1y; und attire end of* twelve days it was known that more • than-20,0007bad Wien atctimato.its fearful ravages. Since that time, it has very much ithated,,but. hoe . by no mesas deased. fAtiningthosetvhia bard died, weiie Very' few of the higher claseeS.;.however„ among-that smallmumber Waolrthamlininv Bodin, a noble of high.realcand great, influence, a rnapiog agemidauperieace, ,who • was commander-in-chief "of his Majesty's' forces in the late .war in. C.,echiniChina.. other portions of the inhabitants., Iti&thoughtthat within a radius 'oftWen -five The mortality is said •td have beenrnot angreat anima' the Chinese as atiiig, the or thirty miles not ,leari ahan'_aCt,000 ham been swept off ,by,,thiSTritiir tirge Within the-last two 00111/33 weeks, . The Singaporeatithorities have-, diredted all vessels frqm Siam to be .examinsidond those with afoul billet ,health to be:placed.

in quarantine, . . . . , . , • . •, - . . . 7 A *often lately died in Paris tinder the influence of chloroform.. She was thirty-

three years of age; end had formerly been' etherized without illiftecte i She inhaled the chloroform in order that 'á tooth might be extraeted painlessly. 'On a post- mortem examination; no, structural disease was:discovered; and ad. di- Catifevron, who has made a report on the case, ascribes the:death to the.direetly noxious in- fluence of the chloroform an the nervous system. . . ,.. . . . • ,

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Rainford, a cod...agent of Presto]; having fellen asleep while riding in a gig at tight, 'fell over the side his legs, remaining .under thespian: just as the . driver • discovered that istrmething was andasi.thegig came into collision with a cart, and Bainford was-found to.bedead. — Dalkeith Palace headmen, in danger of being burnt down, through the careless- nessnese Of 'plumber's; who. left atre.on-the roof during their 'dinner-time.

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