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The Earl of Carlisle, whose illness at Castle Howard we mentioned last week, died at eleven o'clock on Saturday morning; in the presence of the aged Countess and Lord Morpeth. George Howard Earl of Carlisle, Viscount Morpeth, Baron Gillesland, was born on the 17th September 1773; and succeeded his father, the fifth Earl, in the year 1824. He was married in 1801, to Lady Georgiana Dorothy Cavendish, daughter of the late and sister of the present Duke of Devonshire. The pair have had twelve children; of whom Viscount Morpeth, born in 1802, is the eldest. Captain Howard, M.P., and Captain George Howard, M.P., are two others of his surviving sons; and the Dutchess of Sutherland and Lady Dover two of his living daughters.

The late Earl was educated at Eton, and at Christ Church, Oxford. He was early launched in political life by his father, who was an influential though not very prominent member of the Whig party; and in 1795 he ac- companied the Earl of Malmesbury on one of his Continental missions. He first entered Parliament as Member for Morpeth in January 1795, and represented that borough, or the county of Cumberland, till he succeeded to the Peerage. His position in the House was such as might be taken by one whose personal character is thus sketched by a biographer in the Times— "Although a Whig of the old school, he was the least haughty and repulsive of that unpopular clique; and the world often regretted that a man so amiable and rightminded should be remembered only as one of the subordinates of a pa47, when he might, had a little fervour been infused into his character, have brokeu. the trammels of faction and won a reputation for himself, instead of being content with the praise of fidelity to leaders who were not much superior to him in intel- lectual qualities, and considerably below him in moral worth."

He held office in the Canning Ministry, and in the Godericb Cabinet; and had the unusual distinction of a Cabinet seat without office, under Earl Grey, in 1830. In 1834 he retired to private life; and he hes sunk into the grave as much beloved by his family and personal friends as he was respected by his political associates.

Lord Carlisle's death creates a vacancy in the Order of the Garter; and the advancement of the present Earl to a seat in the House of Peers will occasion a new election for the West Riding of Yorkshire.

The real appearance of the cholera in the country has quickened the att• tivity of Government and the Public bodies. The Board of Health, the Poor-law Commissioners, the Police Commissioners, and other controlling departments, have issued instructions and directions to those under their care. The Police Superintendents are ordered to make a daily return of all esees occurring within their respective divisions; the reports so furnished to be transmitted to the Government and the Board of Health. The Hospitals have made due preparations.

The epidemic has reached London. About a score of cases have been reported since last Saturday; but it is not clear that every one has un- doubtedly been of the Asiatic variety. The numbers and localities have been as follows: five in a court in Chelsea, three at Rotherhithe, two in the city of London, two in Spitalfields, two in WhitecImpel, two in Ber- mondsey, and two in Horsleydown. The majority occurred early in the week; and the change of weather seems to have checked the progress of the disease. Only one case was reported on Thursday.

No additional case is reported from Hull.

Edinburgh seems to be the greatest sufferer in proportion to its popu- lation: twenty-six cases have occurred; and twenty of these have proved fatal.

Accounts from abroad speak of the decline of the disease at Berlin and at St. Petersburg.

The political scandal threatened last week in connexion with leading Whigs of 1832 has come to a climax, and passed away without serious con- sequences to the parties implicated—no heads are imperilled. Major- General William Napier was summoned as a witness for the defence in Mr. O'Brien's case, and produced the mysterious epistle; but its admission as evidence was opposed by the Crown, and rejected by the Judges, upon the common-sense ground of irrelevancy. However, the Dublin Free- man's Journal of Saturday startled its readers with a copy of the letter in =tense; and gave some piquant additions. Hero is the letter— e H. 0. 20th June 1832. "My dear Napler—Sir 11. Bunbury told me of your wise determination not to be- come 'a Parliament man,' at least for the present. Tile offer was very tempting, and you have the more merit In declining. I refrained from writing to you while the mat- ter was undecided, fort did not wish to obtrude my opinion ; but I felt that reason was against your acceptance, as your health, your purse, and your comthrt, would all have suffered by your attendance in the House of Commons. The History must have been laid aside. You could not, moreover, have been a calm and silent Member, but would have been exerting yourself to push onward the movement faster than It probably will march, or than, perhaps, all things considered, it is desirable it should march.

"Let us go back a moment.

"Tile display of energy and a readiness to act on the part of the people when the Duke of W— was on the eve of coming in, was greater far than I expected. I speak not of the Cockneys, but of the men in the North—Glasgow, Newcastle, Bit. AZO you aware that, In the event of a fight, you were to be invited CO take the command at Birmingham ? Parkes got a frank from me for you with that view, but had no occasion to send it. Had he written, I should have fired a de- spatch at you, with my friendly and anxious; counsel and entreaty to keep you quiet and not to stir from Freshford. It b not well to enter early into revo- lutIona ; the first fall victims. What do you think would have happened ? The Reformers (Place, fac.) talked big to me, and felt assured of success. The run upon the banks ard the barricading of the populous country towns would have brought matters to a crisis; and a week, they (the Reformers) thought, would have finished the busi- ness. They meant so to agitate here that no soldiers could have been spared from Lou- don ; and the army is too small elsewhere to have put down the rebels. In Scotland, I believe, the most effectual blow would have been struck; and it seems difficult to have resisted the popular movement. The Tories, however, say the Duke would have suc- ceeded. No doubt, the discipline under which soldiers live might have proved a stronger element than the public enthusiasm,—i.e. unless the latter was universal or extensive, and then it would have carried all before it. The task would have been to bring back society to its former quiet state. Thank God, we have been spared the trial : but, as a matter of speculation, tell me what you think would have been the result. Am I right in my conjecture that you would have refused the Birmingham Invite, and kept your sword in its scabbard?

"Yours ever truly, T. Y. "Thanks for your first volume. Jones has come back better."

tWe understand that the "Jones" of the postscript is a highly respectable sent, an intimate friend of General Napier, and not the late Colonel Jones, alias "Buffer Jones," or "Radical Jones,' with whom the Standard has identified him.]

The Freeman's additions were as follow-

" The gallant Napier returned an indignant reply to Mr. Young; stating that be received his sword front the hands of his Sovereign, and that against that So- vereign he would never unsheathe it. The Whigs through the secretary of their chief, applied to the loyal soldier, requesting that the letter should be returned, in order that this written evidence of the ' conspiracy ' might be destroyed. Colonel Napier peremptorily refused: stating at the same time, that he would never divulge its contents, or allow it to be made public, until the Whigs should capitally pro- secute a British subject for the offence of which they themselves were guilty. But the same soldier's honour, that pledged him to secrecy under certain circum- stances, pledged him to render this letter and the conspiracy it disclosed matter of history whenever the Whigs should dare attempt to deprive of life a British subject, whose only imputed crime was to follow the course of policy adopted by themselves in 1832. That daring attempt has been made upon the life of Smith O'Brien, and the gallant General has kept his word."

On Monday morning, General Napier replied to the acts and facts of the Freeman's Journal with this epistle, in Saunders's News Letter-

" Saturday Evening, Oct. 7.

Sir—I have this Instant been shown the weekly Freeman's Journal, containing a letter from Mr. Thomas Young, which I was, by process of law, compelled to produce at Clonmel on the trial of Air. Smith O'Brien. [No; the Court refused to allow its pro- duction there.] "I have had no communication whateverwith any editor, or any person connected with newspapers; and I know not how that letter has been obtained for the Freeman's Journal; but the reply attributed to me by the editor, being wholly imaginary, calls for an Immediate contradiction; and as I am told the promptest mode of making that con- tradiction public will be through your journal, I request as a favour that you will pub- lish the following observations.

"1. I did not return 'an indignant reply' to Mr. Young—I merely made some Ironi- cal and scornful remarks upon the implied supposition that I could caperate in arms with a Birmingham attorney and a London tailor against the Duke of Wellington I "2. I did not state that from my Sovereign I received my sword,' &c.

"3. The Whigs did not apply to me' requesting that the letter would be returned,' &c. 4. I did not at any time promise or state 'that I would never divulge its contents or allow it to be made public,' &e.

"5. I did never 'pledge myself to secrecy under any circumstances.'

"I did never pledge myself to secrecy under any circumstances, nor in any manner ;• ROL did I ever maintain any secrecy in the matter.

"W. NAP1ER, Major-General."

The mode in which the Freeman's Journal obtained its literary trea- sure is surmised with much probability by the Dublin correspondent of the Standard— "A copy of the notorious Home Office letter, referred to, was brought to Dublin at the time of the trial of O'Connell and others for conspiracy, and was presented to the chief traverser, with a recommendation that it should be used for the de- fence exactly as Mr. O'Brien's counsel has used it. Mr. O'Connell knew enough of the practice of the Court to decline the advice. He said that as the Tories were then in power, the exposure of such treason as that implied in the 'Home Office' letter could not benefit his case, while it would seriously injure the Whigs—his friends —who were working might and main in his favour. Consequently, T. Y.'s letter was cushioned. Probably, Major-General Napier may now be able to form an opittion as to the way the damnatory document has got into capital type."

Mr. Bunn's letter on the terms demanded by certain " stars " of the theatrical world has elicited two letters very seriously qualifying his state- ments. One is from Miss Helen Fancit; who explains that the offer to her, stated by Mr. Bunn as "151. a night, which is 901. a week," was 151. a night for three nights only in each week, and only for one or two months: "consequently," says Miss Faucit, severely mild, " with the appearance of stating what is the fact, Mr. Bunn's words involve a conclu- sion at variance with it." The other letter is from Mr. Anderson; who is much more voluminous, and much more aggressive than the lady— "Mr. Bunn," he says, "has told the public that he was prepared to give Mr. .Anderson a salary of 20/. per week, but that he demands 601.! together with cer- tain other drolleries quite bijoux in their way !' Now, this is quite true; • but un- fortunately, it is not all the truth. Mr. Bunn should have stated also that he Bored Mr. Anderson to death, both by his agent and by letter, to name a salary and terms for an engagement of one or two months only! In doing this, Mr. Bunn well knew that I should require better terms for so limited a period than for a whole season; and, having received the reply he anticipated, he immediately rushes to the newspapers."

The "other drolleries" "consisted of simple demands—that no name should appear in his play-bills in larger type than mine, and that I should have a dressing-room to myself": Mr. Anderson wished to guard against having "some foreign ballet-dancer 'starred' over his head, or being stabled with Mr. Burin's horses at Easter." The writer goes into other retaliations, very damaging to Mr. Bunn, and very likely, we fear, to subject us to an action for libel if we reprinted them. The main accu- sation lies in a presumption that Mr. Bunn did not really intend to play the legitimate drama, but only made the offers as a pretext, anticipating their rejection. These disclosures do not leave Mr. Bunn a very good case, as the matter now stands before the public. They do not touch the general Mope of our own remarks.

The result of this year's census of the Wesleyan connexion gives the following numbers. In Great Britain, 338,861; in Ireland, 20,742; in missions, 97,451; total, 459,454; decrease during 1847-8, 4,861. It fur- ther appears from the report of the Conference, that the profits of the book- room fell below those of' previous years; accordingly, the Committee di- minished the grants to the Theological Institution by 2001.; to the Irish Relief Fund by 2001. In reference to the difficulty in maintaining preach- ers in some of the circuits, one of the preachers said that the Church of Eng- land had recently built 1,000 additional churches, while proposals were before the Conference to withdraw ministers even from old circuits.— Morning Chronicle.

A paragraph has gone the round of the daily papers containing an ex- tract from a letter addressed by a Mr. Macpherson, a factor in the Hud- son's Bay Company's service, to Mr. Hargrave, another factor resident at York Factory, in Hudson's Bay, to this effect—" There is a report from Peel's River that the Esquimaux saw two large boats (query—ships?) to the East of the Mackenzie River, full of White men ; and they (the Esquimaux) showed knives, files, &c., to the Peel's River Indians, which they had re- ceived from these White men. Could these have been Franklin or Rae? " Mr. Hargrave, in sending this on to the Board of Admiralty, remarks- " It could not have been Rae, as his boats did not go beyond Committee Bay. But little credence can be given to Esquimaux reports." In order to make this paragraph intelligible, we must know, first, where is Peel's River; secondly, where does Mr. Macpherson write from; thirdly, where did the Esquimaux see the large boats,—for to say East of the Mackenzie River means literally nothing; and fourthly, was it one, ten, or twenty years ago, that these boats full of White men were seen. Without these data, the paragraph has no importance.

Mr. Alfred Novelle, of Dean Street, Soho, revives a suggestion for alter- ing the present inconvenient formulas for registering time-

" It has long appeared to me, that it would be very convenient to number the- hours of the day from 1 to 24, beginning at midnight; as the additional wordy, morning," afternoon,' 'evening,' A.m.' and rat.; at present essential to specify the time, might be dispensed with, and we should then have a distinct name for each hour in a day. This is becoming more necessary to the proper under- standing of railway time bills, especially for the long lines. The proposed num- bering would take no extra room in any tables, as four figures are already re- quired for the hours and their fractions. No difficulty would occur even with the clocks, which could easily have the additional figures placed in an outer or inner circle on the face.

"In England, I think, this change would find universal adoption, if two esta- blishments would agree to adopt it—I mean the Post-office and the Railways. The announcement, The packet sails Sept. 16, at 14 o'clock,' would completely explain the time, instead of saying 2 o'clock in the afternoon."

The Duke of Wellington has been imposed upon by one Rawson, who _got ten pounds from him by a trumped-up tale about a lawsuit and five sisters. Rawson tricked other charitable persons; but he was at length detected, and captured with a letter about him that he had just received from the Duke. He has been sent to Sandwich Gaol for a month.

Sarah Se,arl, a poor woman who recently died in St. George's Workhouse, Little Chelsea, bequeathed her body for dissection to Dr. Pettigrew. Daring her life- time she frequently alluded to the bequest, stating that her body would be of more service to her fellow creatures after death than it had ever been before.

A gentleman named Evans, from London, has met with a dreadful accident while on a tour in Wales. He was riding a vicious pony, near Llanrwst; the animal seems to have shied at something, and pitched Mr. Evans down a preci- pice of sixty feet; though some bushes broke the fall, the unfortunate gentleman was sorely hurt—his right arm was broken, with several ribs, and he received a concussion of the brain. He was found insensible, some hours after, by miners. There was no expectation of his recovery.

A strange discovery has been made at Macclesfield. "John Smith," an elderly person, a knife-grinder and maker of spoons, having been attended by the medical officer of the union, that gentleman thought he had a very feminine appearance: he questioned Smith's wife,—or a woman who lived in the house as such, for they had not been married,—and he was satisfied that his surmise as to sex had been

wrong. However, John Smith's disease proved fatal and then there was no

longer any doubt that the deceased was a female. On inquiry, it was found that John Smith was the child of a gipsy: from the age of three years, she had as- sumed the male dress; when she grew up she became a tinker and grinder; suul was the bully of the public-houses she frequented, only those from the district that gave her birth knowing that she was a woman. Once she fought with a man, and beat him; and during this contest her sex was discovered. She had lived with several women as husband, earning much money by her trade, and thus inducing the women to favour her deception. It is said that her first wife was a servant-girl, whom she married at the instance of a gentleman for a fee of 51. Her last helpmate was a widow with seven children; she maintained those chil- dren, and was a "good husband" to their mother for fourteen years.

Mrs. Armitage, a woman who has recently been exhibiting herself about the country as a giantess, has suddenly died at Birmingham, from congestion of the lungs. She was thirty-six years of age; weighed 31 stone 11 pounds, measured 4 feet round the waist, 6 feet round the bust, 7 feet 1 inch round the hips, and 22 inches round the upper part of the arm.

A joiner of Matlock, having taken . an extra glass one evening, was rather confused in undressing; and thought he had thrown his clothes upon a chair. Next morning he could not find them. In the fire-grate, however, there was a quantity of tinder, a number of metal buttons, and some melted silver, the re- mains of a watch-case: the oblivious joiner had thrown his clothes into the grate, where there happened to be a little smouldering fire.

A Manx Jury in a Court of Inquiry has been starved into an unanimous verdict. They had to investigate a charge against one Moore for killing Edward

Craine in a street row. The inquiry was long, extending over three days; at night on the third day, when they had tasted nothing since the morning, the J11TY retired. They soon returned to say that they should never agree. The Deemster told them they must; and they were locked up for the night. Two had been for a verdict of "Wilful murder," and four for " blanslaughter ": the two gave in. This was the verdict—" The Jury concur in indicting the prisoner for man- slaughter; but this unanimity has been obtained front the painful gnawings of hunger, and not from the conviction of the minds of the jurors that it is in ac- cordance with the principles of law as laid down by the Deemster." The Deem- star only took the first sentence of the verdict, rejecting all the rest.

The Bedford Times states that at the recent horticultural show in Bedford the judges decided that a bundle of white carrots were the best parsnips, and gave the prize accordingly.

The accounts of the Bank of England for; the week ending the 7th October, exhibit, when compared with those of the preceding week, the following results-

BANKINO DEPARTMENT. Increase. Decrease.

Rest Public Deposits Other Deposits Seven-day and other Bills £9,013 7,548 £46,370 93,207

Government Securities, including Dead-weight

Other Securities

— Notes unissued 64,691

— Actual Circulation

— 261,252

IRS11E DEPARTMENT.

Notes issued

297,070 Bullion

261,252

This week. Last week.

Total Bullion in both Departments 13,417,241

13,675.495

Actual Circulation 17,475,475 17,549,020,