THE ALTAR, THRONE, AND LAND WE LIVE IN. N°- 627. WORCESTER, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1846. PRICE 5d. 1 b NEWSPAPER FOR THE FARMING AND GARDENING INTEREST. January 2, will be published, price Sixpence, free by Post, each Volume complete in itself, ENLARGED TO TWENTY- FOUR FOLIO PAGES, THE FIRST NUMBER FOR 1 8 4 7, OF THE GARDENERS' C ONICL 17^ AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE; A WEEKLY RECORD OF RURAL ECONOMY AND GENERAL NEWS. THE HORTICULTURAL PART EDITED BY PROFESSOR LINDLEY. r^ HE FARMING PART ( under the Editorship of a practical Farmer) treats of— The Practice of Agriculture, Agricultural Science, Animal and Vegetable Physiology, Improvements in Implements, described by Woodcuts whenever requisite, Better modes of Husbandry, Foresting, Road- making, Farm- Buildings, Labourers, Agricultural Publications, & c. Sic. Results of well- conducted Experimental Farming, Growth and Rotation of Crops, Stock, Drainage, Irrigation, In short, whatever affects the beneficial employment of capital in land. 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It moreover contains Reports or Horticultural Exhtbitions and proceedings— Notices of Novelties and Improvements— in fact, everything that can fgnd to advance the Profession, benefit the condition of the Workman, or conduce to the pleasure of his Employer; Woodcuts are given whenever the matter treated of requires that mode of illustration. REPLIES TO QUESTIONS connected with the object of the Paper are also furnisded weekly. Lastly, that description of DOM ESTIC and POLITICAL NEWS is introduced which is usually found in a Weekly Newspaper. It is unnecessary to dwell on this head further than to say, that the Proprietors do not range themselves under the banners of any Party; their earnest endeavours are to make THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE and AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE a full and comprehensive Record of Facts only— a Newspaper in the true sense of the word— leaving the Reader to form his own opinions : their object being the elucidation of the Laws of Nature, not of Man. The Reader is thus furnished, IN ADDITION TO THE PECULIAR FEATURES OF THE JOURNAL, with such information concerning the events of the day, as supersedes the necessity of his providing himself with any other Weekly Paper. A PROSPECTUS, WITH LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS, may be had on application, or by letter, at the Office 5, Upper Wellington Street, Covent Garden London. Parties intending to Commence with the New Volume had letter give their Orders at once to any Newsvender. ASTONISHING EFFICACY. OF HOLLOWAY'S PILLS The Testimony of a Clergyman vouching to Eleven Cases of Cures by these wonderful Pills. Extract of a letter lrom the Rev. Geo. Prior, Curate of Mevagh Letter Kenny, Carrigart, Ireland, 10th January, 184( 5, To Professor HOLLO WAY. SIR,— I send you a crude list of some eleven cases, all cured by the use of your Pills. I cannot exactly give you a professional name to the various complaints, but this I know, some of them baffled the skill of Derry and this county. In a previous letter this gentleman states as follows :— Within a short distance of my house resides a small farmer, who for more than twenty years has been in a bad state of health ; Mrs. Prior gave him a box of the Pills, which did him so much good that I heard him say, for twenty years past he never ate his food or enjoyed it so much as since taking your Pills. ( Signed) GEORGE PRIOR. %" The above reverend and pious gentleman purchased some pounds worth of the Pills for the benefit of his poor parishioners. Bad Digestion, with extreme Weakness and Debility— an Extraordinary Cure. Mr. T. GARDINER, of No. 9, Brown Street, Grosvenor Square, had been in a very bad state of health for a long time, suffering much from a distended stomach, very impaired Digestion, with constant pains in the Chest, was extremely nervous, and so greatly debilitated as scarcely able to walk one hundred yards : during the long period of his declining health he had the advice of four of the most eminent physicians, besides five surgeons of the greatest celebrity in London, from whose aid he derived no benefit whatever, at last he had recourse to Hollo way's Pills, which he declares effected a perfect cure in a very short time, and that he is now as strong and vigorous as ever he was in his life. This being so extraordinary a case, may lead many persons almost to doubt this statement, it might therefore be necessary to say that Mr. Gardiner is a broker, and well known. Cure of a Confirmed Asthma, accompanied with great Debility Extract of a Letter from John Thomson, Esq., Proprietor of the Armagh Guardian, Armagh, 17th April, 184( 5. To Professor HOLLOWAY. SIR, There is at present living in this city a Serjeant, who had been for many years in the Army at Cabul, in the East Indies, from whence he returned in September last. On his way here, ffom tilt! I' 11U! I ^ " of w e a t fi £ rot a tropical to a moist climate, he caught a very violent cold, which produced a con- firmed case of Asthma. In December last he commenced taking your Pills, and by the use of two lis. boxes, with two 4s. 6d. pots of your Ointment well rubbed into his breast, he is I am happy to say, not only quite cured of the Asthma, but is also become so strong and vigorous, that he informed me yesterday he could now run round the Mall, with any person in the city, and that he never got any medicine equal to your Pills and Ointment. ( Signed) J. THOMPSON. The Earl of Aldborough cured of a Liver and Stomach Complaint. Extract of a Letter from his Lordship, dated Villa Messina Leghorn, 21st February, 1845. To Professor HOLLOWAY. SIR,— Various circumstances prevented the possibility of my thanking you before this time for your politeness in sending me your Pills as you did. I now take this opportunity of sending vou an order for the amount, and, at the same time, to add that" your Pills have effected a cure of a disorder in my Liver and Stomach, which all the most eminent of the Faculty at home, and all over the Continent, had not been able to effect; nay ! not even the waters of Carlsbad and Marienbad. I wish to have another box and a pot of the Ointment, in case any of my family should ever require either. Your most obliged and obedient Servant, ( Signed) ALDBOROUGH. The mighty powers of these extraordinary Pills will do wonders in any of the following Complaints:— Ague Female irregularities Retention of urine Asthmas Fevers of all kinds Sore Throats Bilious Complaints Fits Blotches on the skin Gout Bowel complaints Head- ache Colics Indigestion Constipation of the inflammation Bowels Jaundice Consumption Liver complaints Debility Lumbago Dropsy Piles Dysentery Rheumatism Erysipelas Sold at the establishment of Professor HOLLOWAY, 224, Strand, near Temple- bar, London, and by most all respectable Druggists and Dealers in Medicine throughout the civilized world at the following prices:— Is. l£ d., 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d., lis., 22s., and 33s., each Box, There is a considerable saving by taking the larger sizes. ON NERVOUS AND GENERATIVE DISEASES. Scrofula or King's Evil Stone and Gravel Secondary symptoms Tic- Douloureux Tumours Ulcers Venereal Affections Worms of all kinds Weakness, from whatever cause, & c. Just published, A MEDICAL WORK, in a sealed Envelope, at 3s., and sent, post paid, for 3s. Gd. MANHOOD; the Causes of its Premature Decline, with plain direc- tions for its perfect restoration, addressed to those suffering from nervous debility or mental irritation, followed by observa- tions on MARRIAGE, NERVOUSNESS, and the treatment of Diseases of the generative system, illustrated with cases, See. By J. L. CURTIS and Co., Consulting Surgeons, 7, FRITH STREET, SOHO SQUARE, London. TWENTY- NINTH THOUSAND Published by the Authors, and may be had at their Residence, also sold by Strange, 21, Paternoster- row; Hatinay, 03, Oxford- street; Mann, 39, Cornhill, London; Guest, 51, Bull- street, Birmingham; Allen, Long- row, Nottingham; T. Sowler, 4, St. Anne's- square, Manchester ; G. Phillip, South Castle- street, Liverpool; Cooke, Chronicle Office, OXFORD; Smith Press and REVIEWS OF THE WORK. MANHOOD. By J. L. CURTIS and Co. ( Strange )— In this age of pretension, when the privileges of the true ate constantly usurped by the false and the ignorant, it is difficult to afford the sufferer from nervous debility, the unerring means of judg- ment where to seek relief. The authors of this work have obviated the difficulty. Their long experience and reputation in the treatment of these painful diseases is the patent's guarantee, and well deserves for the work its immense circulation.— Era. 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The communication must be accom- panied by the usual consultation fee of £ 1, and in all cases the aioit inviolable secrecy may be relied on, FRAMPTON'S PILL OF HEALTH, rglHE manifold advantages to the Heads of Families JL from the possession of a Medicine of known efficacy, that may be resorted to with confidence, and used with success in cases of temporary sickness, occurring in families, more or less, every day, are so obvious to all, that no question can be raised of its importance to every householder in the kingdom. From among numerous testimonials, the following is respectfully submitted :— " To Mr. Thomas Prout, 229, Strand, London. " No. 5, David- street, Iiegent- road, Manchester, " March 12,1842. " Sir,— I have much satisfaction in communicating to you the result of my experience after repeated trials of FRAMPTON'S PILL OF HEALTH, and I feel it but justice to state, that in the course of many years' trial of various Aperient Medicines, I have never found results at once so salutary and efficient in the relief of the system from redundant bile, & c. & c., with so little inconvenience; I am, therefore, warranted in declaring that they supply to me a means long wanting of being able to recommend to families, schools, and especially mercantile men, whether at the desk or on the road, a most valuable resource in an occasional medicine. And I shall take credit to myself if, in giving this testimony, I am the means of making Frampton's Pills more generally known and appreciated. " I am, Sir, respectfully yours, " WILLIAM SMITH." The unprecedented sale of these Pills, arising from the earnest recommendations of the many thousands who have derived benefit from their use, render any lengthened comment un necessary. They are not; put forth as a cure for all diseases to which mankind is liable, but for Bilious and Liver Complaints, with their well known attendants, Bilious and Sick Head- ache, Pain and Oppression after meals, Giddiness, Dizziness, Singing Noise in Head and Ears, Drowsiness, Heartburn, Loss of Appetite, Wind, Spasms, & c. Two or three doses will convince the afflicted of their salutary effects. The stomach will speedily regain its strength; a healthy action of the Liver, Bowels, and Kidneys, will rapidly take place; and instead of listlessness, heat, pains, and jaun- diced appearance, strength, activity, and renewed health, ex- tending to good old age, will be the result of taking taking this medicine, according to the directions accompanying each box. Sold by T. 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AMEDICAL WORK on the INFIRMITIES OF THE GENERATIVE SYSTEM, in both sexes; being an Enquiry into t! ie concealed cause that destroys physical energy, and the ability of manhood, ere vigour has established her empire: with observations on the baneful effects of SOLITARY INDULGENCE and INFECTION; Local and Constitutional WEAKNESS, NERVOUS IRRITATION, CONSUMPTION, and on the partial or total EXTINCTION OF THE REPRO- DUCTIVE POWERS; WITH MEANS OP RESTORATION; the des- tructive effects of Gonorrhoea, Gleet, Strictures, and Secondary Symptoms are explained in a familiar manner; the Work is EMBELLISHED WITH TEN FINE COLOURED ENGRAV- INGS, on Steel, representing the deleterious influence of Mercury on the skin, by eruptions oil the head, face, and body; with APPROVED MODE OF CUKE for both sexes ; followed by Observations on tiie Obligations of MAliRIAGE, and healthy perpetuity; with directions for the removal of certain Disqualifications; the whole Eointed out to suffering humanity as a " SILENT FRIEND," to e consulted without exposure, and with assured confidence of success, BY R. & L. PERRY & CO., CONSULTING SURGEONS. Published by the Authors, and sold by Strange, 21, Paternoster Row; Hannay & Co., fi3, Oxford- street; Gordon, 116, Leadenhall- street, London; Newton, 16and 19, Church- street, ltawl, Church- street, Liverpool; Ingram, Maiket- strect, Manchester; D. Camp- bell, 136, Argyle- street, Glasgow; R. Lindsay, 11, Elms row, Edinburgh; Powell, 10, Westmoreland- street. Dublin; Deighton, Worcester: Peunell, Kidderminster; Bromley, Kidderminster; and by all Booksellers and Patent Medicine Venders in town and country. Part I. of this Work Is particularly addressed to those who are prevented from forming a Matrimonial Alliance, through fear of certain disqualifications for the discharge of the sacred obligations of marriage, and to the tlioughtless youth, whose fellies, ( to speak mildly) have entailed upon him debility; and disfiguring disease in their worst forms; therefore the Sileut Friend will be fouud an available introduction to the means of perfect and secret restora tion to Manhood. Part II. treats perspicuously upon those forms of diseases, either in their primary or secondary state, arising from infection, showing how numbers who through temporary remissness or fastidious feeling, neglect to obtain competent medical aid, entail upon themselves years of misery and suffering, and of which ulti- mately those dearest to them, are innoccnt but equal participators. THE CORDIAL BALM OF SYRIACUM Is a gentle stimulant and renovator of the impaired functions of life, and is exclusively directed to the coursc of such complaints as arise from a disorganization of the Generative System, whether constitutional or acquired, loss of sexual power, and debility arising from syphilis; and is calculatcd to afford decided relief to those who by early indulgence in solitary habits have weakened the powers of their system, and fallen into a state of chronic debility, by which the constitution is left in a deplorable state, and that nervous mentality kept up which places the individual in a slate of anxiety for the remainder of life, Constitutional weak- ness, sexual debility, obstinate gleets, excesses, irregularity, obstructions of certain evacuations, total impotoncy and barren tiess, are effectually removed by this invaluable medicine. Price lis., or four at lis. in one Bottle for33s. by whicii lis. arc saved. Tne £ 5 cases of Syriacum or Concentrated Detersive Essence can only be had at 19, Berners Street, Oxford Street, London ; whereby there is a saving of £ 1. 12s., and the Patient is entitled to receive advice without a fee, which advantage is applicable only to those who remit £ 5 lor a packet. A minute detail of the case is necessary. THE CONCENTRATED DETERSIVE ESSENCE AN ANTI- SYPHILITIC REV EDY for searching out and purifying the diseased humours of the bluod; conveying its active principles throughout the body, even penetrating the minutest vessels, removing til corruptions and contaminations, and impurities from the vital stream,— eradicating the morbid virus; and radically expelling it through the skin, Price lis , or four bottles in one for 33s,, by which lis. is saved also in £ Z> cases, to be had only at the London Establishment. VENEHEAL CONTAMINATION, if not at first eradicated, will often remain secretly lurking in the system for years, and, although for a while undiscovered, at length break out upon the unhappy indi- vidual in its most dreadful forms: or else, unseen, internally endanger the vitd organs of existence. To those suffering from the consequences which this disease may have left behind in the form of SECONDARY SYMPTOMS, eruptions of the skin, blotches on the head and face, ulcerations and enlargement of the throat tonsils, and threatened destruction of the nose, palate,& c., nodes on the shin bones, or any of those painl'ul affections arising from the dangerous effects of the indiscriminate use of mercury, or the evils of an imperfect cure, the CONCENTRATED DETERSIVE ESSENCE will be found to be attended with the most astonishing effects in checking the ravages of the disorder, removinj; all scorbutic com- plaints, and effectually re- establishing the health of the constitu- tion. To persons entering on the responsibilities of matrimony, and who ever had the misfortune during their more youthful days to be affected with any form of these diseases, a previous course of this medicine is highly essential and of the greatest importance, as more serious affections are visited upon an innocent wife and offspring, for a want of these simple precautions, than perhaps half the" world is aware of; for, it must be remembered, where the fountain is polluted, the streams that flow from it cannot be pure, Messrs. PERRY expect, when consulted by letter, the usual Fee of One Pound, addressed to the London Establishment, with- out which no notice whatever can be taken of the communication. Persoiis are requested to be as minute as possible in the detail of their cases, as to the duration of the complaint, tiie symptoms, age, habits of living, and general occupation. Mcdicines can be forwarded to any part of the world ; no difficulty can occur, as they will be securely packed, and carefully protected from observation. PERRY'S PURIFYING SPECIFIC PILLS, Price 2s. 9d., 4s. bd., and lis. per Box. The most certain and effectual cure ever discovered for every stage and symptom of the Venereal disease, in both sexes, including Gonorrhoea, Gleets, Secondary Symptoms, and Strictures. Medicine Venders can be supplied by most of the Wholesale Patent Medicine Houses ih London. Agent for Worcester A. DEIGHTON, Journal Office Kidderminster... TIIOS. PENNELL, Bookseller, Where may be had the " SILENT FRIEND." IRELAND. The all absorbing cry for fire- arms throughout Ireland is the principal feature in the Irish character at the present moment. Subjoined is a copy of a handbill, circulated in a provincial town by a person engaged in that highly flourishing branch of commerce, the Birmingham gun trade :— " TO THE PUBLIC. "' The right of carrying arms for lawful objects, which every Irishman now possesses.'— Chief Secretary's Letter. t! Peter Flanigan, locksmith and gunmaker, grateful for past favours, begs leave to inform his friends and the public in general, that he has just received his winter assortment of fire- arms from Birmingham direct, which he is enabled to dispose of on the most moderate terms. " N. B— Guns, pistols, and all kinds of arms repaired. " 27, High Street." In the meantime, it will be seen by the following paragraph from the Meath Herald that the " Peter Flanigans" of that county have no reason to complain of any slackness in their trade:— " The demand for fire- arms is rapidly increasing ! At Navan, on Monday last, an itinerant auctioneer disposed of a large lot of ' handy ones' to the ' boys' at various prices, from 18s. to 30s. The opportunity of becoming master of ' an illigant gun wid a bayonet to boot,' for the small charge of £ 1, was too much for the imagination of a Gael,— it was perfectly irresisti- ble ; and, accordingly, many of the peasantry went home from the fair provided with ' tools,' and a laudable determination to try their ' metal' on something. Several accidents have occurred from an unguarded use of this novelty in the hands of the people. One young man, whose father is employed on the public works near this town, being rather a tyro at rifle practice, accommodatingly shot one of his forefingers off on Sunday last, and another man, from similar ignorance, and calculating on making a ' stunnin hit,' blew lock, barrel, and all away, but fortunately without any personal damage." Some further results of the free- trade in fire- arms will be found in the following:— " On Sunday night the gamekeeper of Sir Hugh'Stewart, Bart, on going his rounds in the demesne of Ballygowley- house, county of Tyrone, saw a man armed, who, on being challenged by the keeper, and being closed on by him, discharged the con- tents of his gun, with fatal precision, into the body of the keeper, who died on the spot. Every exertion was being made by the police this morning to arrest the murderer." While this is going on there are grievous reports of distress current. The Board of Works have issued a circular to county engineers and surveyors, conveying instructions to the effect, that no more public works ( such as new roads, cutting down hills, & c.,) are to be commenced, while those in progress of execution are to be finished with all possible speed ; as in future the money is to be expended on works of a reproductive kind— viz, drainage and subsoiling. The circular also specifies how these works are to be executed, and lays down fresh regulations for the employment of the labourers engaged upon them. An adjourned presentment sessions for the barony of Raphoe was held on Friday, at which the Marquis of Abercorn and all the leading proprietors of the district were present. Present- ments were passed to the amount of upwards of £ 15,000, £ 10,946 of which was for drainage. Before the meeting separated they passed resolutions complaining that the present system of expending public money is defective. At the meeting of the Repeal Association, held last Monday, Mr. O'Connell gave unequivocal signs of his determination to re- open the campaign against all the members of the Young Ireland party, save Mr. Smith O'Brien. The hope of reconci- liation is considered to be at an end. THE IRON TRADE. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. AMERICA. The steam- ship Great Western arrived on Saturday evening in the Mersey, after a fine run of 16 days, from New York. Our intelligence by this arrival is of most import- ance as relating to corn and provisions for exportation to this country. Corn and flour continue to fall in price, not only at New York, but in all the American markets; and it is agreed on all hands that prices have reached their utmost. The speculators had laboured zealously to keep up prices, but without success ; a considerable fall had taken place, and the tendency was still downwards. Many of the specu- lators have been ruined already, and, according to the appearance of the markets, others would - fall into similar difficulties. The number of vessels sailed, loading, and preparing to load for Great Britain, is far beyond any former precedent; an immense fleet may, therefore, he expected in the Mersey on the first change of wind to the westward. Freights have again advanced, ships have taken up at prices highly remunerative to their owners, and in many instances as high as 5s. per barrel has been paid for flour to Liverpool. This is a price never before known, being considerably more than double the usual average charge. Everything capable of crossing the Atlantic with safety seems to be impressed into the service. The expedition dispatched from jthe American squadron in the GuTF of " Mexico mid parffiuiy suer- ceeded in its purpose. Two Mexican steamers, and a small fleet of Mexican trading schooners at anchor in the river, were captured; and, having penetrated up the river during the night, the town of Tobasco on the following day was slightly bombarded, guns and batteries were spiked, and the American forces then returned to Anton Lizardo, the rendezvous of the main squadron. Two American vessels had been made prizes for attempting to run the blockade of the coast. The American papers publish vast masses of official documents, rumours, and statements of every descrip- tion with regard to Mexico; her. internal position, and the prospects of the war. If we may judge from these, the Mexicans are raised to a surprising degree of energy with regard to the American war. In the United States nine additional regiments of volunteers had been called for by the executive, and though one of the New York journals states that a semi- official correspondence has taken place between a certain party and the American Secretary, respecting a treaty of peace, yet now the hopes recently evinced that a return to amicable relations would shortly be attained would appear to have died away. The operations of the Pacific squadron have had no new light thrown upon them. The details of the land operations of the American forces are more than usually uninteresting. From Monterey, the head- quarters of the army of the left, we have accounts to the 4th ult. General Taylor was preparing for another movement, and all the regular troops werebeingadvanced up the river. The volunteers were relied upon to maintain the line of communica- tion with the Rio Grande. From the army of the centre we have official dispatches to the 14< th of October. The passage of the Presidio was accom- plished on the 11th of the month. From Santa Fe we learn that the Mormon levy had at length arrived, and would shortly set out en route to California, in the track of General Kearney's force. General Scott had been ordered from Washington, to unite with General Taylor in pushing the winter campaign. No new details, with regard to the contemplated attack on Tampico, are supplied by this arrival. Mr. John Quincy Adams had been attacked by paralysis, but was recovering. Snow had fallen at Philadelphia and New York, and slight ice had been formed at Albany. From Canada we have accounts of a late date. The contents are not important. A breach had occurred in the Wellaiul Canal, and consequently serious interruption to the operations of commerce ensued. Symptoms of an early winter were evincing themselves. From Yucatan we have advices which, while they illustrate the distracted state of opinion in that couutry, with regard to an union with Mexico, still leave the result of the difference open to serious doubts. From the River Plate accounts to a late date in September had been received. Hostilities had been resumed under the walls of Montevideo. According to expectation, strenuous efforts are being made, by representations and reports of various descriptions, to create a feeling against any advance in the price of iron at the approaching quarterly meetings of the Ironmasters. That these spring from parties interested in carrying out the system of low prices generally, rather than from those who are engaged in the iron trade, is unquestionable; but the impression they may make, or the partial success they may obtain, depends more upon the situation of some of the leading firms with respect to contracts on hand, and the consequent countenance afforded by them, than upon any truth of assertion or solidity and intelligence of argument. For instance, the same state- ment that informs us of a demand that cannot fail to secure remunerative prices— of brisk orders received at all the houses, with advices that a very considerable increase in the demand may be fully expected in the present or next month— and that the foreign orders for heavy iron- work are so great that the manufacturers have full twelve months' work before them— blights all these good tidings with the insinuation that an attempt to raise the price of the raw material would bring it above the standard of the competitive market, and so completely mar these fine prospects. That is, in other words— that remunerative prices are secure, providing no attempt is made to obtain them. A quotation from a commercial letter is also introduced, quite as explicit upon the point as might reasonably have been expected from a writer not actualty discussing the subject of prices. Now fully twelve months' orders on the manufacturers' books, though they are not given out by speculators, and though they may arrive during the dull days before Christmas, do not afford an irresistible indication to the producer of the raw material that his prices are too high ; more particularly when the warehouses of the said manufacturers are empty of stocks, and when orders, where time has been a specification, have long been refused, and none accepted unless subject to such variation in price as may take place before delivey — when labour and fuel are every day becoming more scarce— and, above all, when the latitude and longitude of the competitive market are so unfortunately omitted. That there will be a great increase of demand for iron and made goods, if prices remain as at present, we have no doubt; and that they will be in some degree curtailed if an advance takes place, is also to be expected; but how far it would be wise for gentlemen to fill their order- books at the present rates is scarcely self- evident, and the impolicy of curtailing demands where the returns might be rather doubtful may also itself be questioned. A report has been in circulation that three or four of the leading Ironmasters in the South Staffordshire district have come to an understanding, at a private meeting, that no advance shall take place, and that they will hold themselves open to take orders to the amount of twenty or thirty thousand tons each at present prices. This is scarcely worthy of credit. Knowing, as we do, that very many of them are at the present moment smarting under the effects of former imprudent trans- actions, it is drawing upon public credulity too far to hazard such an assertion; while, on the other hand, supposing the fact itself of the meeting to be true, it plainly evidences that the present aspect of trade, and the pressure of demand, are such as to require very extraordinary exertions to counteract their legitimate effect; and it at once affords a pretty strong indication that, barring any accidental interruption, the period cannot be far distant when an advance in price can no longer be put off. It is also certain that under peculiar circumstances the rates of manufactured iron are in some degree affected by those of pig- iron. The circumstances which concede this influence are general low stocks of that article, now palpably evident both here and in Shropshire ; and as the figure at which Staffordshire pig- iron changes hands is generally indicated by the resolutions of the Shropshire makers, it is even possible that the efforts of the three or four influential houses alluded to might fail of pro- ducing the desired effect. It should also be borne in mind, that an ill- timed effort to smother an advance might prove as prejudicial to the interests of the trade as a premature endeavour to force one. In discussing this question, the considerations most worthy of attention are those of anticipated difficulties with the work- men, and the clanger of creating competitive markets— though the latter is more imaginary than real under the present universally increased and increasing consumption. While every known producing country is already in the fullest activity that its materials, population, and capital will admit, without injury to its other interests, and yet still each remains unable to supply its own wants without imports, there is little reason to fear on the score of rivalry. Neither would any slight inferiority of cost in favour of English iron retard the operations of foreign adventurers under the present rage for mining speculations. Our chief reliance for this effect must always be upon the superior quality of our manufactures. With respect to the difficulties with workmen, unless we are prepared to fix the present price as the maximum which iron is never again to exceed, the same argument will always remain in full force ; but as this is not to be supposed, the trial sooner or later will come, and it is quite as well therefore to at once meet it fairly and candidly ; and where there is room for giving a further stimulus to the exertions of sober, steady, and industrious workmen, in the name of reason let it not be with- held because a few drunkards will abuse " the advantage. On the other hand, where the rates of wages are already too high, in proportion to the produce, a steady, determined resistance to unreasonable demands would soon be duly appreciated by the well- disposed among any class of workmen, even if it should ~ ••'• ll*'. Wj it JUll' ! d illlU'HS 1) ft TJ'i " b- 11< » iBultum in i^ rDo. Dr. List, the founder of the Zollverein died last week. On Monday, at a meeting of the inhabitants of Lambeth and West- minster, it was determined to oppose the erection of a new bridge at Charing Cross, intended to supersede the old Westminster Bridge, as being destructive to existing interests. A youth aged 19, named Chevillor, has been committed for trial by the authorities at Versailles, for the murder of his father, ( by suffo- cation by means of charcoal) in order to obtain a sttm of about £ 8, of which the father was possessed. Several of the Welsh papers have " gone into mourning" oil account of the death of Sir Charles Morgan, Bart., mentioned in our last. The price of the Liverpool Standard ( following the example of the Daily News) is now reduced to threepence. The Austrian Government forbids every peasant in Galiciato leave his dwelling after sunset, to hold any communication with his neighbours, or to attend any assemblage; aud the whole country i3 militarily occupied. The Emperor Nicholas has become a member of the Royal Yacht Club, and has added to its vessels the Victoria yacht, built iu Eugland. The Grand Duke Constantine has accepted the office of honorary president. In the action Gerard v. Gamble, referred at the last assizes to an arbitrator, £ 300 damages have been awarded to the plaintiff for injury to his woods at St. Helen's by the defendant's alkali works. On Saturday, a widow, named Ellen Thompson, was returning to town by the Southampton Railway, when near the Wandsworth station, she was taken suddenly ill and expired without a struggle. At the residence of E. Wodehouse, Esq., M. P. for West Norfolk, the lady's maid was fouud in a private part of the premises, with her throat cut iu a most dreadful manner. A coroner's juiy lias returned a verdict of temporary insanity. Hay is now being exported from this country to Algeria. An importation of 90 tons of potatoes arrived at Gloucester last week, from Jersey: Lady Boothby— the late Mrs. Nisbett, the admired of all playgoers — i says stage- gossip, about to be married to a third husbuad: a gentleman of considerable wealth. A vessel which has arrived at Leith from Dautzie, brought 1700 kegs of black beer. Musard has composed twelve new quadrilles and polkas for a fancy bail in Paris. The proceeds are to be devoted to the relief of the sufferers from the floods. The weight of the silver extracted from the Spanish mines, in October, was 123,630 oz., of the value of .£ 30,914. All the metal was sent to the Mint, Paris. A country paper states that the breed of foxes is greatly on the increase in W estmoreland, and affects the price of poultry. The personal property of the late Marquis of Ail3a, within: the province of Canterbury, has been estimated for duty at £ 100,000, The amount of money orders issued and paid at the General Post- office was, for the quarter ending April, 1839, £ 17,401 14s.: for the quarter in the pieseat year £ 681,298. 13s. 3d. Cotton plantiug has been introduced as an experiment at Port Natal. The produce per acre is said to be 75 per ceut. more than in America. Experiments to test the quality of coal best adapted for steam purposes are now carried on in the College of Civil Engineers, i'utuey. Between Sept. 1st and Nov. 12th, 6,399 tons of ice were exported from Boston, A chaplain has been appointed for the spiritual superintendence of the labourers on the railways passing through Huntingdonshire. The Inverness Courier reports the bursting of a waterspout, near Invermoriston- house. The noise is described as awful, while the rivulets were suddenly converted into headlong torrents. There have been several public meetings iu the West India islands, at which the alteiation in the sugar duties was condemned. Samples of sugar, cottou, and wool, of excellent quality, grown in the Sandwich Islands, have been forwarded to Liverpool. There have been imported in the first nine months of the present year 84,163 head of foreign stock. In 1S44, the nvimber was 3,949. Official returns show that nearly 3,000 persous committed suicide in Paris last year. The Edinburgh Chronicle states, that there are upwards of 200 refused letters from Ady, lying, in more senses than one, at the Post- office there. The asphalte that formed the pavement of the Royal Exchange has been removed, to be replaced by Turkey stone. There are 202,051 licensed dealers in tobacco and snuff in the United Kingdom, IN England, 170,048; in Ireland, 10,001: and in Scotland 15,402. Mr. Dearsley, the council for the Hull Advertiser iu a recent libel case against the proprietor of that paper, has returned his fee, amounting to 50 guineas, as he considers the liberty of the press the " living soul" of freedom. It is reported that a great discovery of copper ore has just been made in Western Australia. A large quantity of the French Brandy brought into London is merely potato spirit from Hamburg, coloured with burned siiirar Atrial,—— * u -•- ' b ' cemetery interment, A sane aes morts is to be established, iu which all bodies are to remain, under the eyes of a scientific commission, for 26 hours before they are buried. The French Agricultural Society have offered a prize for the best French- made cheeses resembling those of Cheshire. The Harrisburg Presbytery has pronounced dancing sinful, to be suppressed by discipline, admonition and prayer. COMMITTAL OF A QUACK DOCTOR FOB. MANSLAUGH- TER An inquiry, which has created considerable attention in Hull, was, after two adjournments, brought to a termination on Friday last, in the committal of a quack doctor on a charge of poisoning a female. Three years ago, the deceased, Mrs. Francis Riplingham Cox, the wife of a tobacco merchant in this town, had what is termed a fungus tumour appear on the wrist of the left arm. She applied to several medical gentlemen, who pronounced it to be incurable, aud that eventually the arm would have to be amputated, the only mode of saving her life. Various remedies were applied to delay the operation as long aa possible, which was fixed to take place as last week, and she was undergoing a course of medicine for that purpose, when a man of the name of Cotton, who professed to cure diseases of all descriptions, was introduced to her notice. Cotton examined the tumour, and deluded the unfortunate female to place herself under his treatment. He informed her that he would not only save her arm, but would in a few weeks make a perfect cure ; that he would give her no pain, and all the disadvantage she would experience would be a tickling heat in the tumour. He then took out from a packet, a red powder, which he rubbed over the tumour and parts of the arm that were inflamed. This took place on the 21st of last month. Soon after the powder had been applied, one of the family surgeons came by accident to see her, and hearing of the application, he endeavoured to persuade her to wash it off. This she resolutely refused to do, and in a day or two she was seized with violent vomiting aud purging ; excruciating pains ensued in various parts of the body, and, not- withstanding the most skilful treatment of various surgeons, she gradually sunk, and expired on Tuesday last. A post mortem examination was ordered by the coroner, and the opinion given was, that her death had been occasioned by the absorption into the system of the irritating powder, applied by Cotton to the tumour, the powder, they believed being composed entirely of arsenic, particles of which had been discovered in the post mortem examination. The jury, after a short deliberation, returned a verdict of manslaughter against Cotton. A FOUNDLING.— On Tuesday last a woman of rather ladylike appearance called at a large wholesale and retail warehouse in this city, and, after making some trifling purchases, requested permission to leave, for a few minutes, a rather large basket which she carried in her hand, as she had another " call to make." Some time having elapsed without the woman re- appeariug, the attention of one of the young men was called to the article in question, by observing, as he fancied, something moving inside. On further examination, its contents were found to be nothing less than a fine thriving babe, with the following words labelled oa its breast.—" Be kind to it, its father is in the warehouse." This astouuding discovery produced, of course, a general sensation, much titillation, a good deal of bantering, and not a little sly scrutiny as to which of all the young men blushed deepest. Not one, however, of the 150,— for they amounted to uo smaller a uumber,— had the candour, like Mrs. Malaprop, in her love for Sir Lucius, to " own the soft impeachment." In this dilemma, one of the partners of the firm resolved to follow the example of the renowned philomath, Dr. O'Toole, who, when unable to detect a delinquent, uuiformly took the sure plan of thrashing all the boys in the school. In other words he proposed that every mail iti the establishment should be mulcted iu Id. a- week for the support of their interesting " charge;" and, accordingly, the unconscious little hero or heroine of this curious story has been carefully put out to nurse, with the prospect of being well looked after.— Glasgow Citizen. NOVEL IMPORTATION.— There is now a regular supply of rabbits imported twice a week from Ostend, in which the' poulterers of the metropolis are doing a brisk trade; the prices vary from 6 § d. to 8d. per lb., they are iu general much larger but inferior in flavour to our rabbits. The extent of the trade may be supposed by one poulterer in Holborn importing fifty dozen weekly. The number of geese, duck3, and wild water fowl imported is daily on the increase. THE DURATION OF MARRIED LIFE.— The tables of the mean joint lifetime of men and women show that in this country husbands and wives married at the age of 26 live, on an average, 27 years together, the widows living rather more than ten years ( 10" 4) after their husbands' deaths, and the widowers nearly nine years ( 9 3) after their wives' deaths. Where the husband is 40 and the wife 30, the mean term of married life is 21 years, the widows living 13 years after their husbands, and the widowers five years after the deaths of their wives. The tables furnish ready answers to a great number of questions of this kind, and others in which two lives are concerned.— Registrar General's Report. " TURN HIM OUT," " PITCH HIM OVER!"— We have often heard these instructions issued from " the gods" at a theatre, in reference to a refractory member of the audience, but never until this week heard of the latter injunction having been carried into effect. The following report of a case heard at the Marylebone Street Police- office on Tuesday last however proves the fact:— Richard Hawkins, a lad, was charged with having thrown William Hingley, another lad, from the gallery of the Tottenham Street Theatre into the pit. It appeared from the evidence that a dispute arose between the defendant and the complainant at the theatre on Monday night, principally through the misbehavior of the complainant towards a couple ot young females who were seated near the defendant. The constable on duty was appealed to, and he threatened to remove the complainant from the theatre if he persisted in his improper conduct. At the close of the performance the dispute was renewed between the parties. ' The complainant aimed a blow at the defendant, which was returned by a blow on the head that knocked him over the low railing of the gallery, causing him to fall into the pit. The complainant was taken up in an insensible state, and removed to the Middlesex Hospital. The com- plainant was examined by a surgeon, but no bones were found to be broken. The most extraordinary part of the case is, that notwithstanding the terrible fall sustained by the com- plainant, he was in a very short time enabled to got up and to walk home from the Hospital. He presented himself in court on Tuesday apparently little or none the worse for his descent, although the height ho fell from was not less than five- and- twenty feet. As the occurrence was quite accidental, the Magistrate ordered the defendant to be discharged. Booksellers and auctioners should be on their guard not to sell a copy of a foreign edition of English works, in which there is an existing copyright, any party exposing such for sale being liable to ail action for damages under the Act 5 and 6 Vic., " for protection of copyright." HINTS FOR PIANISTES.— Have your pianoforte tuned at least four times in the year, by an experienced tuner; if you allow it to go too long without tuning, it usually becomes flat, and troubles a tuuer to get it to stay at concert pilch, especially iu the country. Kever place the instrument against an outside wall, or in a cold or damp room, particularly in a country house; there is uo greater enemy to a pianoforte than damp." Close the instrument immediately after you practice ; by leaving it open dust fixes on the sound board, and corrodes the movements, and if in a damp room the strings soon rust. Should the pianoforte stand near or opposite to a window, guard if possible against it being opened, especially on a wet or damp day, and when the sun is on the wiudow, draw the blind down. Avoid putting metallic or other articles on or in the pianoforte; such tilings frequently cause unpleasant vibrations and sometimes injure the instru- ment. The more equal the temperature of the room, and less the soft pedal is used, the better the piauo > ytll stand ia tuae. — Musical World. DARING AND DEXTEROUS ROBBERY.— On Tuesday morning, the following daring and extensive robbery was committed at Messrs. Cox, Savory, aud Co.' s, ( be extensive silversmiths and watchmakers, of Cornhill, London. The robbery was effected at the branch warehouse, 54, Cornhill. It appears that the shopman, according to custom, opened the shop shortly before eight o'clock, and then locking up'the door, went to breakfast. It was during his abscence that some expert thief or thieves, who had evidently been watching his move- ments, contrived either to pick the lock, or enter the shop by • riieauii of a fnlw kay, ffiaa 149 gold and silver watches, of the value of nearly 1,000/. About the time in question a cab was observed to drive away rapidly from the opposite side of the street; it is supposed it conveyed away the plunder. Messrs Savory and Co. ofljer a large reward for the detection of the thieves and the recovery of the property. DISCOVERY OF A SECOND " NIAGARA."— A cataract has been discovered on the river St. Louis, where it falls into the Lake Superior, which has never been described by any geographer. It is said to be only second to Niagara. The volume of water is very great, and the perpendicular height of the fall 150ft. CAUSES AND PREVENTION OF COLDS.— A cold is so common a complant in our variable climate, and becomes so frequently the parent of more formidable maladies, that the subject of prevention is oue of considerable moment, and I shail consequently make a few observations respecting it which, if atteuded to, cannot fail to be extremely useful to all persons, aud more particularly to those who are liable to suffer severely from this disorder. Colds are sometimes produced in the following manner:— When a person iu cold weather goes into the open air, every time he draws in his breath the cold air passes through his nostrils aud windpipe into his lungs, and, consequently, diminishes the heat of those parts. As long as the person continues in the cold air he feels uo bad effects from it; but as soon as he returns home, he approaches the fire to warm himself, and very often takes some warm and comfortable drink to keep out the cold, as it is said. The inevitable consequence is, that he will first preceive a " low within his nostrils and breast, as well as over the surface of his body. Soon afterwards, a disagreeable dryness and huskiness will be felt in the nostrils and breast. By- and- bye, a short, dry, aud tickling cough comes on. He feels ashiverin" which makes him draw nearer to the fire, but all to no purpose; the more he tries to heat himself the more he becomes chilled. All the mischief is here caused by the violent action of the heat. Such being a frequent cause of cold, the following rules for avoiding the complaint may be adopted with great advantage :— When you come out of a very cold atmosphere, you should not first go into a room that has a fire in it, or, if you cannot avoid that, you should keep for a con- siderable time at as great a distance as possible, and above all, refrain from taking warm or strong liquors when you are cold. This rule is founded upon the same principle as the treatment of any part of the body when frost- bitten. If it were brought to the fire, it would soon mortify; whereas, if rubbed with snow, no consequences follow from it. Hence, if the following rule were strictly observed, when the whole body, or any part of it is chilled, bring it to its natural feeling and tvarmth by degress, the frequent colds we experience in winter would, in a great measure, be prevented.— Doctor Graham's Domestic Medicine. THE BERKSHIRE MALT ROBBERIES.— This extraor- dinary and protracted investigation, after occupying the Magistrates for uiue weeks ( during which time the prisoner Blagrove has had no less than 13 private examinations), has been brought to something like a couclusion, by the committal of all the prisoners, except Prior, to take their trials at the next assizes. Prior is remanded for further evidence. WHOLESALE SLAUGHTER.— The following is the return of a few days shooting at Buckenham Park, the seat of the Hon. F. Baring : — FREE TRADE.— LOW WAGES AND HALF TIME IN THE MANUFACTURING DISTRICTS. Nov. Pheas. Partgs. Hares, Rabbits, Total. 2. 352 17 158 60 587 til Jig.. 29 n G24 4. 030 16 73 1,005 5. 767 6 135 41 949 6. 236 30 300 47 613 2, £ L7 121 904 232 3,778 Besides the above 3,778 head of gamo there were 5 woodcocks nd 2 w Id ducks killed. SILLY HOAX.— One of those stale practical jokes occasionally practised upon among tradesmen was played the other day on a Mr. Russell, of Aldersgate Street, Loudon. On Wednesday evening, as the clock was striking the hour of five, seven hair- dressers entered Mr. Russell's shop, followed by three other persons, each carrying a wig. Upon enquiring their busiuess, Mr. Russell was informed that they had been ordered to attend at that hour to dress the family's hair. Before sufficient time had elapsed to tell the parties that they had been hoaxed, in stepped a butcher's man, with a tray filled with legs of mutton and sundry other joints of meat"; the man had no sooner placed the tray on the counter than a fishmonger brought in a stock of fish, and two wine- merchants followed, each having a couple of hampers of wine on their backs. Next comes a gentleman who announced himself as a corn- extractor, and who stated that he had been hired to attend at five o'clock to operate upon Mr. Russell's corns. A number of pastrycooks were the next who entered the shop, each bringing an immense number of custards, tarts, jellies, & c. Then followed five beautiful carriages, each drawn by two horses, the coachman, aud footman attired in livery. Whilst the tradesmen were condoling with each other, as a finale to the whole, in came five chimneysweeps, who stated that they had been ordered to attend with all possible expedition to extinguish Mr. Russell's chimnqy, which they understood had taken fire. It took Mr. Russell nearly the whole of the night to answer the many parties who had been so imposed upon. The following uiglit five pianoforte tuners waited upon the the same gentleman, and stated that they had been hired to tune " Mr. Russell's instruments. A carriage and pair were also brought, as the coachman said to take the family to the theatre. A great number of other tradesmen were served in a similar manner, On Monday night a very numerous meeting of the mill- hands of the districts about Oldham was held in the Town Hall, for the purpose of considering the present crisis in the cotton trade. The meeting was called for the purpose of hear- ing Mr. Charles Hindley, the free- trade member for Ashton- under- Ly me, on the subject of the present state of manufactures. Mr. John Mills, a factory operative, was called to the chair. He briefly opened the proceedings, and in doing so took occa- sion to point out many of the inconsistencies of Mr. Richard Cobden and Mr. John Bright in connection with the anti- corn- law agitation, and spoke of them as quack doctors and false prophets. He concluded by reading the following letter from Mr. Hindley:— « Dunkinfield Lodge, Dec. 1846. " Sir,— I regret exceedingly that indisposition, which has confined me to the house the greater part of last week, will prevent my having the pleasure of attending your meeting this evening. I hope, however, not only that my absence will be excused, but that it will be amply made up by the pre- sence of other gentlemen, able and willing to argue the ques- tion which has called you together. It is an important question, and one upon the solving of which will depeud the happiness or misery of thousands of the operatives of Lanca- shire, and the other manufacturing districts. " I will not here enter into detail, but I will assume what will scarcely be denied, that the high price of cotton, in conse- quence of diminished stock and a smaller crop, will necessarily and inevitably occasion a diminished consumption, say of 2,000 bales per week. Now, this may take place in one of two ways, either by all spinners continuing full time as long as they can, or also agreeing to work short time. By the former mode some materials will continue to rise higher and higher, the price of yarns will remain relatively low, loss will fall upon the spinners, which will diminish the capital of the more wealthy, and entirely destroy the capital and credit of the less wealthy, thus driving them out of the trade and throwing their hands out. of employment. The workpeople who will then be out of work will naturally seek to be employed, and, falling upon the labour market, will inevitably occasion a reduction of wfcges. " I ask, will the workmen of Oldham like this ? " I ask also, will the masters of Oldham like this ? I can- not believe it. " The other mode by which production may be temporarily diminished to meet the emergency is by all mills working short time say eight or ten hours a day. What would be the effect of this plan ? Its worst effect would be that the work- man during this period of short time would receive a less amount of wages. But for this he would be amply compen- sated in the reasonable expectation of a gradual return to a healthy state of trade by the prospect of not having his wages permanently reduced, and by the satisfaction of seeing all his fellow- workmen at work, instead of mcny of them, after a long and unsuccessful search for employment, watching for his looms or his mules to engage at lower wages. " I have thus very briefly laid these two modes of action under present circumstances before the meeting, and I leave it for the assembly to determine which they will adopt. " Not wishing to detain you longer, and again expressing my regret that 1 am unable to be present, " Believe me, Sir, with sincere wishes for the welfare of " your borough, yours, truly, " CHARLES HINDLEY. " To the Chairman of the meeting." Several speakers addressed the meeting, after which the following resolutions were adopted:— " That seeing the embarrassed state of trade at the present time, we earnestly desire the mill- owners of Oldham to co- operate with the spinners and manufacturers of the other parts of the couutry, in working short time for a season." " That, in the opinion of this meeting, it is highly desirable, both for the welfare of employer and employed, that we work, short time for a season, seeing as we do that the price of cotton has advanced much more than the price of yarn and manu- factured goods, and that unless a stop be put to the speculation in the raw material, it will end in los3 of capital to the em- ployers, and consequently a very large number of operatives will be thrown out of employmeut." EXTENSION OF THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH TO BOULOGNE.— In consequence of the great success which has attended the experiments with Messrs. West and Co's. sub- marine telegraph, the directors of the South Eastern Railway are making preparations for the extension of the electric telegraph from Folkestone to Boulogne. They have already extended their wires round the Custom House at Folkestone, where it will form, by means of the submarine telegraph, a communication between London and Boulogne. DESTRUCTION OF FLIXTON HALL, SUFFOLK, THE SEAT OF SIR ROBERT SHAFTO ADAIR,— On Saturday night, between twelve and one o'clock, flames were seen issuing from the top story of this ancient and picturesque mansion, which soon spread their devastating powers to an alarming and awful extent. From the absence of the family, and the consequent few inmates at the hall, some time elapsed before aid could be procured, and the Harleston and Bungay engines put in play to arrest the progress of the destructive element. Nobly, however, did the assembled multitude exert their best efforts to extinguish the awful blaze now surrounding the entire building, and endeavour to rescue some portion of the valuable and much- prized contents o? the mansion. Unhappily,' however, to no purpose were their nerves strained; and the bare walls of this splendid building are now alone standing to bear witness of this sad event. Scarcely a vestige of the fine old paintings, furniture, library, and other valuables contained in this building were saved. The origin of the fire is presumed to be the overheating of a flue in the centre of the hall, which communicated immedi- ately to the apartments where the richest and most valued property was deposited. A report has been circulated that it ia the intention of government, in the next session of parliament, to abolish the window tax, and raise the property tax to 5 per cent, leaving the income tax untouched.— Sunday Paper. A recontre took place one night last week, between the gamekeepers and watchers of the Marquis of Anglesey, and Josiah Spode, Esq., of Armitage Hall, near Rugeley, and a determined gang of poachers, from twelve to fifteen in number, in a preserve on the Armitage Hall estate. After a desperate conflict, in which one of the keepers was severely wounded, and a poacher shot through the thigh, five of the offenders were secured. They have since undergone an exami- nation, and been committed for trial. THE WELLINGTON STATUE.— On Monday workmen commenced preparing footing for the scaffold- poles in the open space west of the Horse Guards, for the purpose of erecting a pedestal for the Wellington statue, which is to be taken down forthwith, and subsequently placed upon an appropriate resting* place in the above locality. A pension of £ 100 a year has been offered by the Government to Father Mathew. ENLARING BUCKINGHAM PALACE.— On Saturday the demolition of the ornamental colonnade forming the front of the south wing of Buckingham Palace was commenced, from which point the new wing begins. The excavation for both wings fronting St. James's Park are complete, and the founda- tions are already laid. WARNER'S LONG RANGE. — We are informed on authority upon which we can rely, that the recent experiments with regard to the long range were attended by rather curious circumstances. It is stated to us that Captain Warner made the affair so mysterious that he eveu insisted on Col. Dundas, R. A., and the rest of the party assuming false names, in order that the public might not guess for what they had come to the country. The site was selected on which the long range was to operate; and the means were a balloon charged with unknown combustibles! The balloon became obstreperous, and instead of going to the right, as was intended, went to the left, and dropped in a town, where it was seized by the police and brought to the mayor, who was wonderfully posed upon finding in contained combustibles. He ascribed to those who claimed it au intention of burning dowu the town; and matters went to a considerable and ludicrous length before tho business was finally explained, and the machine given up.—- Literaxy Gazette. TRICKS OF MILK- SELLERS.— It happened upon a day at the close of last week, that a " gude housewife" was busily engaged preparing dinner, which was to include, amougst other things, a rice pudding. The morning's milk was duly mixed with the remains of the previous night's supply, and she was in the act of adding the rice, when, to her astonishment, the milk became very much disturbed, and symptoms that some living thing was the cause of the unusual phenomenon were clearly manifested Whilst she was wondering what strango creature had taken a fancy to such an element, the cause of her apprehension became apparent, by a fish obtruding its head above the surface, and betraying evidence of great uneasiness. WhetWer it had got there by being accidentally ladled with the water into the milk can, and was warned by a kind of instinct of the fate that awaited it, or whether, from motives of pure love to the human species, it had sprung into the milk unseen by the person who was diluting it, and ventured on a dangerous expedition to expose the practices of the milk-' seller, we are, of course, unable to say; but the parties for whose benefit this fact is related, can probably give a natural, if not very satisfactory solution of the difficulty. Those milk- sellers ( if there are any such) who are accustomed to dip their cans into the first brook or ditch they come to, should endeavour to do so before the darkness of the winter evening has come on, and rendered it impossible for them to see what kind of animals or filth the water may contain, or else after the dull mist of the morning has vanished— or many such ambassadors as the little visitant we have referred to, will be sent to the domestic hearth, to disclose the doings of the manufacturers of " half- and- half."— Derby Reporter. , In the Court of Common Pleas, on Friday, the case of Wood v. Harding came on for trial. This was an action brought by the proprietor of the Wolverhampton Chronicle to recover from the defendant, Mr. William Harding, a Provi- sional Director of the Leicester and Shrewsbury Direct Rail- way Company, the sum of 27^., for the insertion of the Company's prospectus in that newspaper. The plaintiff selected the defendant from whom to recover the amount, he being a gentleman well known, a solicitor, residing in the Potteries, Staffordshire, and the coroner of the county. Evidence was called to prove that the defendant had acted; also, the order given for the insertion of the prospectus, and the number of times it appeared. Under the direction of the Lord Chief Justice, the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff for 19/., being the amount due for the adveitisements inserted after the meeting on the 4th of November, when the defendant took an active part in the concern. His Lordship subsequently agreed to certify that it was a proper case to be tried, as several other causes of a heavier uature would depend upon it. THE WORCESTERSHIRE GUARDIAN, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1 846. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. \ AMERICA. ( Continued from Page I.) The Royal mail steam- ship Acadia arrived in the Mersey on Wednesday morning. Tampico has been quietly invested by the American squadron, under Com- modore Connor, on the 14th ult. The fleet left Anton Lizardo on the 12th ult. j on the 14th Commodore Perry crossed the bar. No opposition was offered, and the town surrendered unconditionally. The Mexican force had retired to San Luis de Potosi. Commodore Connor garrisoned the town with a force of 150 sailors and marines. A small flotilla was placed at the entrance of the harbour, to guard any approach from the sea, and the steam- frigate Mississippi was despatched to Brazos and Belize, in order to obtain a force competent to insure the retention of the capture. The force was supplied • with great prompitude, and on the ' 21st ult. the Missis- sippi set out for Tampico with a detachment of 50 men and guns and munitions of war, tendered for the use of the Supreme Government by the Governor of Louisiana. Further troops would follow. Despatches requiring these reinforcements had been received at Washington from the Commodore of the Gulf Squadron. The intelligence with regard to the war, with this exception, is unimportant. From the Army of Occupa- tion at Monterey we have no further advices. The main body of the Army of the Centre would ultimately unite at Monterey, with General Taylor. From New Mexico we have no intelligence of the slightest interest. General Scott, the Commander- in- Chief of the United States forces, had left New York for the seat of war. His mission is surmised to be to take in charge the conduct of the land operations. An immediate attack upon San Juan de Ulloa was anticipated. All the vessels of war not previously in service were being despatched to the Gulf, and the force of the navy, in point of men, was being increased to the full extent authorized by Congress. The opening of the session of the national Legislature, on the 7th instant, was looked to with anxiety. The elections had been most unfavourable to the Administra- tion in North Carolina. From the interior of Mexico important, though indis- tinct, advices had been received ; the announcement being made in the New York journals of the 30th ult., by telegraph from Washington, that important despatches had been received from the squadron in the Gulf, that the Mexican Administration was dissolved, and that Almonte was g « ing to England. The authenticity of this communication is doubtful. The New York journals of a previous date publish extended advices from Mexico, received under date Vera Cruz, November 8. The Mexicans treated the Tobasco affair as a wanton predatory expedition, and taunt the Americans with their failure before Alvarado. The Mexican loss of life is acknowledged to be 80 citizens. The papers complain of the excesses of the American troops at Monterey. A number of officers had been sent for trial by Santa Anna on a charge of cowardice in the defence of that city. Santa Anna's force at San Luis was reported at 18,000 men. The General of the department of San Luis had decreed the expulsion from their limits of all Anglo- Americans. Accounts from California reported that the occupation of the territory by the Americans was not peaceful; that insurrections had occurred at several points, and that the French Consul at the seaport of Monterey had been arrested for having protested against the American usur- pations. An attempt of the boats of the United States sloop- of- war Ci/ ane to seize a Mexican brig at Guaymas had been repelled. The Cyane, it is said, lost 20 men in the affair. The ranks of the new volunteer regiments were rapidly filling up. Tiie volunteers were being enlisted, not for twelve months simply, but for the war. The following quantities of breadstuff's and provisions were exported from New York to Great Britain during the week ending November 27:— Flour 33,716 barrels. Cheese 1,746,787 lb. Pork 627 barrels. Lard 218,494 lb. Corn 104,065 bushels. Beef 599 tierces. Wheat 51,488 bushels. Corn meal 4,432 barrels. Rice 636 tierces. During the same period 2,228 barrels of flour and 5,934 bushels of wheat were exported to France. A frightful steam- boat disaster had taken place on the coast near Boston, the steamer Atlantic having struck at midnight on the 26th on a reef near Fisher's Island. The boiler in the first instance burst. Soon after the steamer left Boston the storm arose which compelled the steam- sbip Great Western to anchor oft' Staten Island, and at four o'clock on the following morning the Atlantic struck and broke in two. Numbers were crushed in the cabins amidst the falling timbers, 45 were drowned and killed, and about 30 escaped. The sole relic of the ill- fated vessel on the following day was one upright beam, upon which hung a bell tolled by the sea. An English family named Walton were among the lost. The citizens of Philadelphia intended to entertain Mr. Webster, on the 2nd instant, at a public dinner. The Venerable Quincy Adams was recovering from his recent attack of paralysis. From Canada we have papers to the 25th ult. It was anticipated that the break in the Welland Canal would be repaired in time to allow the vessels detained to pass down the canal, Important accounts from Merida, the capital of Yucatan, had been received. It is reported that all difficulties with Mexico had been removed, and that, consequently, Yucatan may now be considered permanently united to the Republic. COURT OF PLEAS— MONDAY DEC. 14. Before Mr. Sidebottom, judge. CLOSE V. DAVIS The jury, in this court, a few weeks ago, had returned a verdict in favour of the plaintiff for 15/. 3s., due for lead supplied. The defendant was now summoned to show cause why he had neglected to pay. Pleading deficiency of work and general inability, he was discharged on consenting to pay the amount in small weekly instalments. SHERIFF'S COURT MONDAY, DEC. 14. DUNN V. PACKWOOD.— This was an action to recover the sum of 51. 4s. 6d., being the alleged balance of an account between the plaintiff, who keeps the Glover's Arms, in this city, and the defendant who was formerly in the police force, and is now a hallier and dealer in coals. Mr. Rea appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Daniel for the defendant. The main point of claim against the defendant appeared to be a sum of 10/., alleged to have been lent him by Mr. Dunn. There was, however, no evidence of the loan, although there was of the existence of some other accounts between the parties. Mr. Rea, who addressed the jury for the plaintiff, and examined the witnesses, tendered himself as a witness in the course of the case, which was objected to by Mr. Daniel, on the ground that an attorney who acts as an advocate in the case cannot be a witness also; but the Under- Sheriff admitted the evidence, taking a note of Mr. Daniel's objection. Upon the close of the plaintiff's case, Mr. Daniel submitted that there was no evidence to go to the jury, and that the plaintiff should be non- suited. The learned Under- Sheriff, however, said he should let what evidence there was go to the jury, but he would give leave to Mr. Daniel to move in the court above for a nonsuit. Mr. Daniel then addressed the juty, contending that there was no evidence of the loan, and also that Mr. Rea's evidence had been improperly received, inasmuch as, being the advocate, he could not also be a witness in the case, and cited a recent case of " Stones v. Bacon," which was decided by Mr. Justice Patteson in the Court of Queen's Bench, and is reported in the Law Times of December 10th. The jury, however, returned a verdict for the plaintiff for the full am vant. Execution was deferred until the fifth day of Hilary Term, to enable the defendant to move on the above points. TWELVE FIRES IN ONE DAY.— Within 24 hours of eleven on Wednesday morning not less than 12 fires occurred in different parts of the metropolis. Happily, however, none of . them were of a very serious character. In one place a lucifer match manufactory was destroyed. The most serious fire was in Cannon- street Road, St. George's- iu- the- East, where three or four houses were greatly damaged. FRAUDS ON THE RENENUE.— The discovery of further frauds upon the Customs is thus announced in the London Mercantile Journal:—" We have this week to expose a fraud of a most extensive character, committed in one of the largest • warehouses belonging to the St. Katharine's Dock Company, by the connivance of the Customs' officer in charge of that warehouse. We understand the amount of which the revenue has been defrauded in this single instance to be between £ 20,000 and [£ 30,000. Sugar is the article by which this fraud has been effected, and the way it has been done is simply this :— upon the presentation of warrants for the delivery of goods to the company's clerks, it is the practice to present the document to the locker on the premises, for him to certify that he has received tbe necessary order from the Custom house that the duty has been paid, before the delivery is allowed to take place. In this instance the locker asserted that he was in receipt of the ' order,' when such was not the case, no duty having been paid. The Dock Company • delivered the sugar; and we presume stands exonerated. It was a ' split' among the actors which brought this affair to light, aud it is to similar differences that the public are mainly indebted for all they know of the frauds upon the Customs, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer for all he may have received, in the shape of verdicts, from fraudulent traders." THE MERRY WIVES OF GLASGOW.— A short time ago the wile of a grocer in the vicinity of the High street, became the object of attention to a gentleman named Mr. . At length he began to think he had made the desired impression upon the heait of the fair dame, aud he proposed and obtained her consent to name an evening when they should meet finally to adjust matters for their departure to a distance. The night accordingly arrived, the couple met, and everything eeemed propitious for the enterprise. It was considered prudent, however, to postpone leaving the city till a late hour, aud in the meantime it was resolved to have something com- fortable. The effect of the gentleman's potations were to consign him to the arms of Morpheus, when the treacherous Delilah, previously prepared for action, cut off one of his whiskers, and bared most completely one side of his head, rubbed his face with a strong solution of nitrate of silver, and then made her escape. Next day, Mr. appeared like a " blue devil," but the cause of the wondrous change begin- ning to be gossipped about in the locality, he has disappeared. '— Glasgow- Argus, REPRESENTATION OF EAST WORCESTERSHIRE. We stated in our last that a meeting of the East Worces- tershire Conservative Association had been held on the day of our publication at Droitwich, at which a deputation was appointed to confer with Mr. Foley's committee on the subject of his retirement. Accordingly that committee ( consisting of Sir Horace St. Paul, F. Rufford, Esq., and J. Curtler, Esq.,) waited upon Mr. Foley and his committee, at the house of Mr. W. B. Collis, at Stourbridge, on Friday night, and after a considerable time occupied in discussion, it was mutually agreed that on the present occasion Mr. Foley should retire in favour of Captain Rushout, on an understanding that at the approaching general election the " leading Conservatives" should give their support to the former gentleman. The result of this deputation was to be made known on Saturday, at the Star and Garter Hotel, in this city, where a meeting took place of the principal gentry attached to both parties. The proceedings were conducted with privacy, reporters of the press being excluded. How- ever, we learn that after the parties had been in deliberation some two or three hours the arrangement made on the previous night at Stourbridge was confirmed and finally agreed to. In the mean time, however, an unexpected circumstance arose in the promised appearance of a third candidate upon the stage. It appears that Lord Ward, not altogether satisfied with the nomination of Captain Rushout— so it is alleged,— but more particularly dissatisfied with that of Mr. Hodgetts Foley, looked about for a more eligible candidate, according to his views of matters, and on Friday night the following circular from Mr. Smith, of Dudley, his Lordship's agent, made its appearance in the county:— " Priory, Dudley, Dec. 11. " Dear Sir,— In consequence of a communication received from Dudley this morning, I hasten to intimate that you will greatly oblige by withholding your support from Mr. Foley in the approaching election for East Worcestershire. There are reasons for believing that another candidate, highly accep- table to the county, will yet solicit the suffrages of the electors. . " I am, dear Sir, your verv obedient " R. SMITH." The " acceptable candidate" here spoken of was none other than Mr. W. E. Gladstone, the late Secretary for the Colonies, and brother- in- law of Lord Lyttelton, the Lord- Lieutenant of the county. So soon as this announcement, under the sanction of Lord Ward, was made known, people were anxious to see what effect it would have upon the pending negociations between Captain Rushout and Mr. Foley. It is sufficient however to state that Mr. Gladstone's claims were for the present withdrawn, but whether or not upon any implied conditions has not as yet become known to the public. The " arrangement," finally made on Saturday night at the meeting at the Star and Garter Hotel, in this city, received confirmation on Wednesday, by the issue of an address from the retiring candidate, Mr. Foley, ( which appears in our advertising columns), and in which he states that having found a strong desire existing that the peace of the county should not be disturbed for the short time that can now intervene previous to a general election, and having also received a request from the supporters of Captain Rushout that he ( Mr. Foley) should withdraw from the contest, and stating as a reason for wishing him to do so, that Captain Rushout's address was first issued ; and as they also informed him of the probability that another vacancy would soon occur for the same division of the county, and pledged themselves that if he complied with their request by now retiring from the contest, that they would neither oppose or sanction any opposition to him at the next election, he would accede to the wishes and desires so generally expressed by retiring from the present contest. The gentleman who is to retire at the general election is Mr. Taylor, whose reasons are of a private nature. Here the affair rests for the present. It remains to be seen whether the electors are satisfied with this mode of settling their affairs- The election is expected to take place in the first week in January. The Speaker has given notice of his intention to issue his warrant to the Clerk of the Crown to make out " at the end of 14 days after this date, a new writ for the electing of a knight of the shire to serve in this present parliament for the Eastern division of the county of Worces- ter, in the room of the late John Barneby, Esq." WORCESTER DIOCESAN TRAINING SCHOOL. On Monday last the pupils of the above School, under the tuition of the Rev. George Elton, assembled in the Chapter Library to receive Prizes after the half- yearly examination. On Friday, the 11th, and Saturday, the 12th, the pupils had been examined by the Rev. H. J. Hastings and the Rev. Thomas Robinson, in Religious Knowledge, History, Geography, Classics, Arithmetic, Algebra, Mensuration, and the usual subjects comprised in a general education. The Lord Bishop of Worcester presided upon the occasion, and there were present Canon Cocks, W. Garbett, Honorary Canon ; the Revds. H. Hastings, Thomas Robinson, A. Wheeler, R. Sargeant, Captain Hastings, & c. Canon Wood, who had examined the Training Scholars in the History of the Prayer Book, was prevented from attending from indisposition, but requested Mr. Elton to express his satisfaction at the papers presented to him, especially those of Thomas Izod, senior exhibitioner. The Rev. H. J. Hastings, in giving in his report of the examination, stated the pleasure he had experienced in the satisfactory result. The classes which he examined were the junior classes, and all showed competent knowledge of their subjects. The Rev. T. Robinson, who had examined the senior classes, also spoke in high terms not only of the proficiency of the pupils, in the subjects in which he had examined them, but of the willingness and promptness with which they replied to his questions, and their general good behaviour during the exami- nation, rendering his task one of pleasure instead of toil. The Bishop expressed the great pleasure it gave bim, year after year, to hear so favourable a report, and wished to express his thanks, and those of the meeting, to Mr. Elton, for the care and attention he had bestowed on the scholars. Prizes were then distributed to the following pupils:— Thomas Izod, Senior Exhibitioner, Charles Lloyd, George Phillips, William Rayer, Robert Lloyd, William Osborne, Edward Edgell, Edwin Mills, James Hunt, Francis Thomas, Thomas Lucy, Richard Loxley. The pupils will re- assemble on Saturday, Jan. 23rd, 1847. & auj EtmiUgmte. VICE CHANCELLORS' COURT. WEDNESDAY, DEC. 16. Before Sir L. SHADWELL. INSOLE V. FEATHERSTONHAUGH. In this case the object was to obtain an account and also to have cancelled certain deeds which had been employed between the parties. The plaintiff, who was a farmer in Worcester- shire, was entitled to a small property under the will of his uncle. He had become acquainted with the defendant by means of the plaintiff's son, who was a solicitor. The first joint transac- tion was a bill for £ 100, drawn by the son upon his father, in July, 1841, and discounted by the defendant. From this period various other money transactions took place to the amount of £ 400, the payment of which was guaranteed by the plaintiff's assigning his life interest in the legacy under his uncle's will as a security both for that and also for such other sums not exceeding £ 1000 as the defendant might from time to time advance. In addition to the above, a reversionary interest, to which the son was entitled, and which had passed into the hands of a person named Weaver, was assigned by the latter to the defendant. Not long afterwards, the plaintiff's affairs becoming much embarrassed, he was constrained to dispose of his farming- stock and goods by auction, the proceeds of which amounting altogether to £ 1176) were paid to the defendant. This led to a settlement of accounts, during which it was stated that the assignment of the life interest and two bills of exchange which the plaintiff had given, should stand as a security for what was due over and above the proceeds of the sale. It appeared, how- ever, that the plaintiff had fallen into circumstances of the greatest distress, and had actually been reduced to work as a labourer at 7s. or 8s. per week, an employment he had eventually resigned. The bill alleged that the plaintiff was an illiterate person, and had been induced by the defendant to sacrifice his own interest; and further, that he had not parted with, as alleged by the defendant, the equity of redemption. There were also allegations that the defendant was a trustee in such sums as had been raised by the sale, & c., above what was justly due, and the prayer was to the effect that certain docu- ments should be declared void as well as that an account of all sums paid should be taken. The bill was amended, and a large mass of evidence gone into on " both sides, the case made for the defendant being, that the suit was instituted by parties for their own purposes, and not for the sake of the plaintiff. The case made by the bill was, that he was an ignorant man unassisted by legal advice; whereas his son, who was at his elbow, was a solicitor ; and as all these transactions were conducted with his cognizance, this allegation could not be supported. The whole was a mass of misrepresentations of matters conducted with perfect fairness on the part of the defendant. Mr. Stuart, Mr. Rolt, and Mr. Hallett appeared for the plaintiff; Mr- Bethell and Mr. Bacon contra; Mr. Stinton appeared for Thomas insole, the younger. The Vice- Chancellor said he should not decide this case before he had sifted it from beginning to end, and should dispose of it on the first day, or a day or two before next term. COURT OF EXCHEQUER— WEDNESDAY, DEC. 16. VOLLANS V. FLETCHER. Mr. Martin and Mr. Hoggins appeared for the plaintiff; Mr. Crovvder and Mr. Ball for the defendant. On the opening of the case it seemed to be likely to raise the question decided in " Walstab v. Spottiswoode." It was an action by an attorney of Hull, against the defendant, as chair, man of the Birmingham, West Bromwich, Wednesbury, and Walsall Railway Company, to recover £ 21, the deposit on ten shares in that scheme, the line having been abandoned. The case differed from " Walstab v. Spottiswoode" in this, that here a large proportion of shares were taken and paid for ; that the plaintiff never applied for scrip; and that the line was not absolutely abandoned, but only conditionally, the directors expecting that the line would be taken up by some other com- pany. However, the case did not raise any of the questions which it was anticipated it would raise, as it went off on an objection to the production of the letter of allotment without an agreement stamp having been affixed to it. It was con- tended that the letter formed an agreement, and that it there- fore should be stamped ; and on this objection th£ plaintiff was nonsuited, leave being reserved to him to move tl:° full Court to have the verdict entered for him for the amount of deposit. THE SOCIETY FOR THE AMENDMENT OF THE LAW Ou Wednesday evening the members of this society met for the purpose of taking into consideration the treatment ofjuvenile offenders. Mr. Commissioner Fonblanque presided. Mr. M. D. Hill brought forward his motion respecting the treatment of juvenile offenders, and prefaced it with a speech of con- siderable length, in which he argued that more advantage would redound, both to tbe community and to the criminal, if, instead of the present system of repeated prosecutions, and short commitments, a judicious system were introduced having for its object the reformation of convicted persons of tender age. The learned gentleman concluded by moving that the whole subject be referred to a committee for investigation. The motion was carried unanimously, and the society shortly afterwards adjourned to the 12th of next month. RELIEF OF THE POOR. As the winter has set in this year at an early period, aod with unusual rigour, the active and benevolent committee organised in this city for the relief of the poor are energetically employing themselves with the view of making provision to meet the pressing emergency which the high prices of the necessaries of life have already occasioned; and they make an urgent appeal, in our columns of this day, to the benevolence of those whose circumstances enable them liberally to discharge the sacred duty of " considering the poor and needy." The committee, it will be seen, have come to the resolution of opening the Soup- house on the first Tuesday in January, for the sale of nutritious soup at one penny per quart; and also of per" mitting the holders of soup- tickets to purchase rice of excellent quality at one penny per lb. By enabling the poor to buy rice at this low rate, the Committee hope that they shall not only supply them at this time with a valuable article of food, but also by this means make them better acquainted with its value for future use. It has also been resolved that coal of the best quality shall be supplied to the poor at the very low price of 4| d. per cwt.; one cwt. per week being all<? wed to each hearth- The committee are now using every exertion to procure a suffi- cient stock of coals to enable them to commence the issue of the supply to the poor at the earliest possible period ; but they have many and great difficulties to encounter, the river and the canal being frozen up; and in addition to these physical obstacles, delays occur and obstacles intervene to prevent the loading of the boats when they reach the collieries. The distribution of this seasonable and most acceptable charity, however, will com- mence the first moment the committee are in possession of a sufficient stock to justify such a step without incurring the risk of a future stoppage of the supply. The administration of relief to the poor in the three forms named— soup, rice, and coal— will, we are informed, entail a loss of not less than £ 120 per week. A liberal subscription will therefore be required to support such an expenditure; and we hope and believe that the appeal made to the Christian benevolence of our fellow- citizens will be met with a hearty and generous response. While these efforts are being made in support of a public charity, the hand of private benevolence is again outstretched from a never- failing quarter, it will be readily imagined that we refer to the gratifying fact that the Christmas bounty of our highly esteemed representative, Joseph Bailey, Esq., will this year be dispensed as usual, supplying hundreds of poor families in this city and suburbs with a plentiful meal on the great festival of the Christian year, and filling thousands of hearts " with food and gladness." We are glad to find that the example set by the capital of the county is being liberally followed in some of the smaller towns. The Charity Trustees of Evesham on Wednesday last distributed to the poorest inhabitants a quantity of blankets, purchased by a rent charge of £ 25, granted many years ago to the Mayor and Corporation by an ancestor of the Earl of Coventry, for the use of the poor. On the saire day a meeting of those gentlemen deputed to canvass the borough for subscriptions in aid of the coal fund reported that their endeavours had been successful, and arrangements were made for an immediate issue of tickets. A subscription is about to be set on foot in the borough of Bewdley, with the view of alleviating the sufferings of the poor, occasioned by the severity of the weather. We doubt not that the amount subscribed will enable the promoters of the charitable design to afford liberal aid to the distressed. The Kidderminster Messenger of this day makes the follow- ing appeal on behalf of the poor of that borough :— The severe commencement of winter naturally leads us to consider the state of our poorer neighbours. A few weeks since there was some talk of measures for their relief, and hopes were then entertained that steps would be taken to provide means for alleviating the distress that such weather invariably causes to the poor of this town. That the sympathy of many are, from late occurrences, much turned from the distress of the weavers we lament; but these are not times for such feelings to have predominance— it must not be said that the poor of this town are perishing for want of food and firing. Some means must be taken to render the assistance they need. On the possessors of property is entailed the responsibility of rendering to the poor, in times of scarcity and distress, every support, consolation, and relief in their power. Let not then the inhabitants of this town pass by their brethren with an exhortation, but rather let all render a helping hand, remembering that unity is strength; let each casr his gift into a common treasury, for a common good— that of assisting the fatherless and the widow in their distress, to bi^^ Mhe broken- hearted, and to render comfort to the afflicted. The time is come: let it not pass without a practical experiment of that satisfaction which attends every good action done in a good cause, and with hearty good will. To the FREEHOLDERS and ELECTORS of the EASTERN DIVISION of the County of WOR- CESTER. GENTLEMEN, HAVING been favoured by the Secretary of the East Worcestershire Conservative Association with a Report of the Arrangement approved of at their Meeting on the 11th Instant, and finally settled with the Whig party at Worcester, on the following day, to the effect, that Captain Rushout shall come in now, but that at the ensuing General Election, neither of the great Parties shall propose more than one Candidate, and that this arrangement was agreed to in consequence of tlie repealed intimations which were reported to have been received from my son, Mr. James Arthur Taylor, of his determination to retire from the honour of again Repre- senting you in the next Parliament; I feel myself compelled, under the circumstance of my being so very near a connexion of your retiring Member, to state to you, that though I am content to acquiesce in his reasons for so doing, I cannot agree, or in any way subscribe to become a party to any arrangement now, which shall deprive me of the exercise of my free elective right at the next General Election. I highly value, and have always exercised that right in the way that has at the time of using it appeared to me the most likely to promote the best interests of the Community. It is, however, some satisfaction to me to have learnt, that a unanimity of opinion did not prevail between the parties to the proposed, ( I am compelled to say.) compromise of principle. And, I hope, I may yet find an opportunity of uniting with those persons, and with very many other Electors; and I mil hold myself, ( as an humble individual,) at full liberty to give my vote and interest at the next General Election to that Candidate, whosoever he may be, whose opinions and principles may be most in accordance with my own ; and who will be willing, with zeal and diligence, to devote his attention to the arduous duties of a Member of Parliament. Allow me to subscribe myself, Gentlemen, Your very faithful, humble Servant, JAMES TAYLOR. Friday, December 18th, 1846. RELIEF OF THE POOR. GUILDHALL, 15th DEC., 1846. THE Committee for the Relief of the Poor met on the 8th inst., for the purpose of determining whether any and what species of relief should be afforded to the Poor during this Winter; and after considering the present prices of the necessaries of life ( especially of Potatoes), they came to the resolution of opening the SOUP HOUSE on the FIRST TUESDAY in JANUARY, for the sale of nutritious Soup at One Penny per quart; and also of permitting the holders of Soup Tickets to purchase RICE of excellent quality at One Penny per pound. By enabling the Poor to buy Rice at this low rate, the Committee hope that they shall not only supply them at this time with a valuable article of food, but also by this means make them better acquainted with its value for future use. The Winter having already set in with unusual severity, the attention of the Committee for managing the Prince of Wales's Coal Fund has been directed to the best means of supplying the Poor with COAL at a cheap rate, as in consequence of the stock in the Yards being small, and a supply from the Collieries more than usually difficult to obtain, the price which the Poor are now paying is much higher than usual. At a meeting of the Committee, held this day, a resolution was passed for selling to the Poor, at various Coal Merchants' Yards, Coal of the best quality at Fourpence Halfpenny per cwt.— one cwt. being allowed to each hearth per week. The loss upon the sale of Coal, Soup, and Rice, at the low prices named, will not be less than One Hundred and Twenty Pounds per week. To support such an expenditure a liberal subscription must be raised. The Committee would carefully avoid pressing unfairly upon the public liberality, but feeling convinced that such efforts as they have indicated ought to be made, they feel no hesitation in submitting the subject to the benevolent, entertaining a confident persuasion that such an appeal to the feelings of the Public will be responded to with Christian liberality. SUBSCRIPTIONS. £. s. d. F. T. Elgie, Esq., ( Mayor) 10 0 0 John and William, Dent, Esqrs 20 0 0 J. M. Allcroft, Esq 10 0 0 Messrs. J. and W. Dent and Co., London 10 0 0 W. Lewis, Esq 2 0 0 John Williams, Esq 10 0 0 Gen. H. B. Lygon 10 0 0 Mr. John Webb 1 1 « Capt. F. D. Hastings, R. N. 3 3 0 H. B. Tvmbs, Esq 3 3 0 Messrs. Whitfield and Son 2 2 0 Henry Greswolde, Esq 5 0 0 Mrs. Greswolde 1 1 0 Miss Greswolde 110 Miss Mary Greswolde 1 1 0 Mrs. F. E. Williams, Doddenham 2 0 0 James Best, Esq 3 3 0 John Tymbs, Esq 2 2 0 Mr. Edward Webb 2 2 0 Mr. George Chamberlain 2 2 0 Mr. Daniel George 1 1 0 F. Williams, Esq., Wichenford 10 10 0 Mr. George Garden 2 0 0 Mrs. A. Walhouse 5 0 0 Lingham Brothers 2 2 0 John Edmond, Esq 5 0 0 Miss S. Whitmore 3 0 0 Mrs. Slade Nash 5 0 0 John Rayment, Esq 5 0 0 Mrs. Mary Davison 1 0 0 Dr. Hastings 3 3 0 Mrs. Wakeman, Paradise Row ...... 110 Mr. James Waiter 10 10 0 Messrs. John and Frederick Hall 5 0 0 Mr. Joseph Hall 2 2 0 Mr. Stanley Pumphrey 5 0 0 Captain Powell, R. N 5 0 0 Rev. Thomas II. Newport 5 0 0 Rev, James Colville 2 0 0 Mrs. S, Holyoake 2 0 0 Mi. Thomas Hyde 2 2 0 Rev. J. D. Simpson 3 3 0 Subscriptions will be received at the several Banks. INSTRUCTION IN MUSIC. PARTIES wishing to continue their studies in the PIANO- FORTE and SINGING, may be attended at their own residences on application to MR. J. JONES, ( Member of the Choir of Worcester Cathedral, and Organist at St. Swithiri's Church.) 19, Bridge Street, Worcester. PUBLIC NOTICE. WORCESTER MARKET. IT having been represented to me that it is the general wish of the Tradesmen of this City to give their Assitants, & c., AN EXTRA DAY'S RECREATION, by CLOSING THEIR RESPECTIVE ESTABLISHMENTS on SATUR- DAY, the 26th DECEMBER, I beg to express my concur- rence in the arrangement, and do HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that the MARKET- HOUSE will be OPEN for the Sale of Poultry, Butter, Eggs, Sac., for the accommodation of the Public on the MONDAY FOLLOWING, December 28th. F. T. ELGIE, Mayor. Guildhall, December 18,1846. MOSES JONES, IRONMONGER, RESPECTFULLY tenders his most grateful thanks to his friends and the Public for their very liberal and increasing support since his commencement in Business, and begs to inform them that he has entered into PARTNER- SHIP with Mr. W. B. ROWE, who has been for several years at the Worcestershire Iron Company, in conjunction with whom he has REMOVED to more extensive premises, No. 13, BROAD STREET, where he hopes, by combined efforts and practical experience, together with moderate charges, to be favoured with a continuance of their kind patronage. JONES AND ROWE, 13, BROAD STREET, WORCESTER. ( OPPOSITE THE UNICORN HOTEL,) GENERAL § FURNISHING IRONMONGERS, CUTLERS, BRAZIERS, BELLHANGERS, & C. & C., BEG most respectfully to invite the attention of their Friends and the Public to their well- selected Stock of Grates, Fenders, best Sheffield Cutlery, Electro- plated and Britannia Metal Goods, and their superior Stock of Papier Machee andjJapanned Trays, Coal Vases, and Block Tin and Japan Wares, and all kinds of ironmongery. J. and R. having just returned from the Manufacturing Districts, where they have made extensive Purchases, includ- ing many of the latest novelties and improvements, solicit an early inspection of the same, trusting that the QUALITY and LOW PRICES will ensure the patronage of those Friends who may favour them with a call. BATHS of every description. Conservatories and Buildings heated on the most approved principle. Smoky Chimneys effectually cured. Experienced Smiths, Locksmiths, Bellhangers, Tinmen, and Braziers at work on the Premises, and sent to any part of the Country on the shortest notice. » Orders personally attended to. CHRISTMAS PRESENTS!! G. BIRLEY BEGS respectfully to announce the ariival of his recent purchases in London and Paris, comprising a great variety of NEW GAMES, TOYS, DISSECTED PUZ- ZLES, DESKS, DRESSING CASES, WORK BOXES, GOLD, SILVER, GILT, and BLACK ORNAMENTS, LADIES' COMPANIONS, WRITING CASES, PAPE- TERIES, Playing and Conversation Cards, Backgammon Boards, CHESS and DRAFT MEN, CRIBBAGE BOARDS and BOXES, Accordions, Musical Boxes, & c., & c. ; also a great variety of small articles calculated for presents; now open for inspection at the CIVET CAT, 2, CROSS, WORCESTER. ROBERT W. HAZELL, FAMILY AND DISPENSING CHEMIST BEG to inform the Nobility, Gentry, and Inhabit- ants of Worcester, that he has taken the Business hitherto carried on by the late Mr. H. F. PLEVY, and trusts, by perseverance and attention, to merit those favours for a long time bestowed on his predecessor. R. W. H. begs to state that he has had considerable experience in some of the First Houses in London, and respectfully informs those who may favour him with their commands, that every care will be taken in the selection of genuine Drugs, Chemicals, & c., and which will be dispensed at fair remunerating Profits. 51, Sidbury, November 26th, 1846. WORCESTER INFIRMARY. THE QUARTERLY GENERAL MEETING of the GOVERNORS will be held at the SHIREHALL, Worcester, on FRIDAY, the 1st day of JANAURY, 1847, at 12 o'clock at Noon. Persons wishing to CONTRACT for the SUPPLY of the undermentioned ARTICLES, are desired to send their pro- posals ( sealed up) to the Office of the Secretary, at the Infirmary, on or before SATURDAY^ the 26th instant, viz.: BUTCHER'S MEAT, for Three Months. BEST THIRDS FLOUR, for Three Months— Samples of one Bushel to be sent in, which will be paid for. BEST MALT, ) For Three Months. Ditto OATMEAL, 5 Samples to be sent with Tenders. ORDERED,— That the QUARTETTITY ACCOUNTS be senfin by SATURDAY, the 26th INSTANT, and that Tradesmen neg- lecting to do so, will be disqualified from serving the Infirmary with any Articles for the ensuing year. At the MEETING the following ALTERATIONS, with respect to RULES, No. 2, 4, 7, and 40, proposed at the last Meeting, will be considered. That in Rule No. 2, after the word " That" in the first line, the words " the Honorary Physicians and Surgeons" be inserted, in the fourth line the words " Committees or" be expunged, and the words " General or Quarterly" be substituted. That the 4th Rule be expunged, and the following in its stead be substituted. 4. That the Governors, at their General or Quarterly Meet- ings, may appoint Select Committees upon special subjects, to consist of Eleven Governors, of whom Five shall be a quorum, and One Physician and One Surgeon ( to be named in each case by the Medical Officers of the Institution) shall always be Members of such Committees, and shall be included in the said number of Eleven. That the following words be added to the 7th Rule :—" That the Physician and Surgeon of the week be ex officio Members of the weekly Board." That in future there shall be Four Physicians and Four Surgeons as permanent Officers of this Institution. Warm, Cold, Vapour, and Sulphur Baths, for the use of the Public, may be had on very moderate terms. DAVID W. NASH, SECRETARY. WORCESTER TURNPIKE ROADS. POWICK AJVD HENWICK DISTRICTS. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that at the GENERAL MEETING of the TRUSTEES of the said TURNPIKE ROADS, to be holden at the SHIRE HALL, in the City of Worcester, on WEDNESDAY, the 6th day of JANUARY NEXT j at the hour of Twelve at Noon, the Trustees then present will proceed to determine by lot to which, one or more of the Mortgagees of the Tolls of the POWICK DISTRICT the sum of One Thousand Pounds shall be paid in reduction of his, her, or their principal Monies; and the said Trustees will at the same Meeting proceed to determine by lot to which one or more of the Mortgagees of the Tolls of the HENWICK DISTRICT the sum of Five Hundred Pounds shall be paid in reduction of his, her, or their principal Monies on that District, pursuant to the statute in such case made and provided. By order of the Trustees, J. B. HYDE, Clerk. Worcester, 2nd December, 1846. WORCESTER TURNPIKE ROADS. BROAD WAS DISTRICT. TO ROAD CONTRACTORS. PERSONS willing to CONTRACT for the perform- ance of that part of the MANUAL LABOUR which is now done by the day, for keeping in Repair the surface of the Roads forming the said BROADWAS DISTRICT, and which said Roads are of the length of Ten Miles and Two Furlongs, or thereabouts, may see the specifications of the work to be performed, and other particulars, at the Offices of Messrs. Hydes and Tymbs, Solicitors, Worcester. Tenders are requested to be sent under seal ( free of postage), addressed to " The Committee of the Broadwas Roads," at the Offices of the said Messrs. Hydes and Tymbs, on or before TUESDAY, the 29th day of DECEMBER Instant. The Trustees will not be bound to accept the lowest Tender, or to make any compensation to those persons whose Tenders shall not be accepted. By order of the Trustees, J. B. HYDE, Clerk. Worcester, 15th December, 1846. WORCESTER TURNPIKE ROADS. HAULING OF MATERIALS. PERSONS willing to CONTRACT for one year, to commence on the 1st day of January next, to HAUL THE MATERIALS required for the repairs of the Roads in the following Districts of the Worcester Turnpike Trust, namely, the LONDON AND STONEBOW, UPTON, POWICK, BRANSFORD, BROADWAS, HENWICK and MARTLEY', and BARBOURNE DISTRICTS, are requested to send Tenders, free of postage, addressed " for the Trustees of the Worcester Turnpike Roads," at the Offices of Messrs. Hydes and Tymbs, Solicitors, Worcester, on or before WED- NESDAY, the 30th day of DECEMBER instant. The estimated quantities of Materials to be hauled, the distance and manner of hauling, the names and situations of the Stone and Gravel Pits, and other Particulars may be seen at the Offices of the said Messrs. Hydes and Tymbs. Persons may Tender for Districts or parts of Districts. By order of the Trustees, J. B. HYDE, Clerk. Woreester, I'th December, 184C FIVE HUNDRED POUNDS and UPWARDS per Annum to be realised with about £ 150, or a proportionate greater income, by embarking a large capital. The manage- ment of the business is a sinecure— it is entirely devoid of risk, all transactions being for cash— success is certain— the occupa- tion is extremely gentlemanly, being a wholesale business. The Advertiser is embarking large capital in the undertaking, and will continue to do so; he will therefore have no difficulty in verifying the above facts at an interview. Applicants must reside in any county they may select in England and Wales, or in our Colonies or Channel Isles. Direct A. B., 15, Frances- street, Waterloo- road, London. 20 Acres of Excellent COPPICE WOOD, in Croome Perry Wood, Ham Brake, and in the Lodge Wood, Broughton, near Pershore ; also a considerable quantity of LARCH, BEECH, SYCAMORE, and BIRCH Poles, the thinnings of various Plantations on the Croome Estate. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, BY HOBBS & SON, AT the COVENTRY ARMS INN, HIGH GREEN, CROOME D'ABITOT, on FRIDAY, the 1st January, at 3 o'Clock. Further particulars in next Paper. HENNOR, NEAR LEOMINSTER, HEREFORDSHIRE. IMPORTANT SALE OF 878 TIMBER TREES, Now standing on the HENNOR and adjoining Estates, including OAK, ASH, ELM, BEECH, AND LARCH, WHICH WILL BE OFFERED FOR COMPETITION BY J. T. CARPENTER, At England's Gate Inn. Bodenham, on Thursday, the 24th day of December, 1846, precisely at Three o'Clock in the Afternoon, subject to such conditions as shall then be pro- duced :— LOT 1. OUXTY. THREE MAIDEN OAK TIMBER TREES, numbered with Red Paint from 1 to 63 inclusive. LOT 2— TWENTY- SIX DITTO, numbered with Red Paint from 64 to 89. LOT 3 — TWENTY DITTO, numbered with White Paint from 90 to 109. LOT 4 TWENTY- TWO DITTO, numbered with Red Paint from 110 to 131. LOT 5— THIRTEEN DITTO, numbered with Red Paint from 132 to 144. LOT 6.— TWENTY DITTO, numbered with Red Paint from 145 to 164. LOT 7— ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY- TWO MAIDEN ASH TIMBER TREES, numbered with White Paint from 1 to 132. liOT 8— THIRTY- FOUR DITTO, numbered with White Paint from 133 to 166. LOT 9.— TWENTY DITTO, numbered with White Paint from 167 to 186. LOT 10— EIGHTEEN DITTO, numbered with White Paint from 187 to 204. LOT 11 TWENTY- SIX DITTO, numbered with White Paint from 205 to 230. LOT 12— TEN MAIDEN ELM TIMBER TREES, numbered witli Red Paint from 1 to 10. LOT 13— FOURTEEN DITTO, numbered with Red Paint from 11 to 24. LOT 14— ELEVEN DITTO, numbered with Red Paint from 25 to 35. LOT 15— FIVE DITTO, numbered with Red Paint from 36 to 40. LOT 16— THIRTY- THREE MAIDEN OAK TIMBER TREES, numbered with White Paint from 1 to 33. LOT 17— THIRTY- FIVE DITTO, numbered with White Paint from 34 to 68. LOT 18— TWENTY - NINE DITTO, numbered with White Paint from 69 to 97. LOT 19— FORTY - NINE MAIDEN ASH TIMBER TREES, numbered with White Paint from 1 to 49. LOT 20— FOURTEEN LARCH TREES, in Grove near the House, numbered with Paint from 1 to 14. LOT 21— NINETEEN BEECH TREES, in ditto, num- bered with Paint from I to 19; and SEVEN CHESNUT DITTO, in ditto, numbered with Paint I to 7. LOT 22.— THIRTY- THREE LARCH TREES, in Pike Grove, numbered with Paint from 15 to 47. LOT 23 THIRTY- EIGHT BEECH TREES, in ditto, numbered with Paint from J to 38. LOT 24— FIFTY- FIVE LARCH TREES, in Strawberry Grove, numbered with Paint from 1 to 55. LOT 25.— SIX ELM TREES, in ditto, numbered with Paint from 1 to 6. LOT 26— TWENTY LARCH TREES, in Millpitts Grove numbered with Paint from 1 to 20. LOT 27— FORTY- EIGHT DITTO, in Mill Grove, num. bered with Paint from 1 to 48. LOT 28— SEVENTEEN BEECH TREES, in ditto, num- bered with Paint from 1 to 17. LOT 29— ELEVEN ELM TREES, in ditto, numbered with Paint from 1 to 11. LOT 30— THIRTY ASH TREES, in ditto, numbered with Paint from 1 to 30. The above Timber is of large dimensions, with good Bark and Crops, and in every respect suitable for first- rate purposes, and is advantageously situated 2 miles from Leominster and the Leominster Canal, with excellent Turnpike and other Roads near to and adjoining the same; the Gloucestershire and Here- fordshire Canal Wharf, at Withington, to which there is a capital Road, is only 7 miles distant from Hennor. and 4 from the Place of Sale. The Timber may be viewed by applying to Mr. Thomas Phillips , Little Hennor; and further Particulars may be obtained of Mr. Mark Slack, the Moor, near Hereford; Mr. Thomas Galliers, Solicitor, Pridewood, near Ledbury ; and of the Auctioneer, Leominster. DEIGHTON'S PUBLIC NEWS liOOM, PIERPOINT STREET, WORCESTER. , MRS, - ULUXillTON RESPECTFULLY informs the Subscribers, and the Nobility, Clergy, and Gentry of the City and County, that it is her intention to make a GREAT REDUCTION IN THE TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION to this Establishment, which, from the FIRST of JANUARY" next, will be upon the following Scale :— ONE YEAR ONE GUINEA, SIX MONTHS FOURTEEN SHILLINGS, THREE MONTHS EIGHT SHILLINGS. It is hoped that this great decrease in the price of Subscription will be met by a large and corresponding increase of Sub- scribers, to ensure which a very liberal supply of London Daily, Weekly, and Provincial Papers will be kept up, and every effort made to secure a priority of intelligence. It is particularly submitted to the notice of the Gentlemn of the Neighbourhood that the Room is large, well warmed, and so conveniently situated, as to rentier it a most agreeable place of resort; and their patronage is earnestly solicited. IN CHANCERY. Between BENJAMIN LANK ESTER and another, Plaintiffs, and THOMAS FIDKIN, CHAR- LOTTE FID KIN, and others, Defendants, ryAKE NOTICE, that this Honorable Court will J. be moved before his Honor Vice- Chancellor Knight BRUCE, on MONDAY, the Eleventh day of JANUARY next, or so soon after as Counsel can be heard, by Mr. TERRELL, of Counsel for the Plaintiffs, that the Bill filed in this Cause may be taken pro confesso against the above- named Defendant, Charlotte Fidkin. Dated this 10th day of December, 1846. Yours, & c., F. T. ELGIE, Worcester, To Charlotte Fidkin, Plaintiff's Solicitor. one of the above- named Defendants. DROITWICH SAVINGS BANK. THE ANNUAL MEETING of the PRESIDENT, VICE- PRESIDENT, and TRUSTEES of the INSTI- TUTION, for the purpose of examining the Accounts and Transactions of the same for the past year, will be held at the BANK, on FRIDAY, the 1st JANUARY next, at Twelve o'Clock. S. TOMBS, Secretary. Droitwich, 14th December, 1846. FOR CHILDREN CUTTING THEIR TEETH. MRS. JOHNSON'S AMERICAN SOOTHING SYRUP This infallible Remedy has preserved hun- dreds of Children when thought past recovery from Convul- sions arising from painful dentitition. As soon as the Syrup is rubbed on the Gums, the Child will be relieved, the Gums cooled, and the inflammation reduced. It is as innocent as efficacious, tending to produce the Teeth with ease ; and so pleasant, that no Child will refuse to let its Gums be rubbed with it. When infants are at the age of four months, the Syrup should be rubbed on the Gums; and Parents should never be without the Syrup in the Nursery where there are young children; for if a Child wakes in the night with pains in the Gums, the Syrup immediately gives ease; thereby pre- venting Convulsions, Fevers, & c. The great success of this Medicine during the last 25 years has induced unprincipled per- sons to imitate it, under the name of American Soothing Syrup, and copying parts of Mrs. Johnson's Bills, & c. Parents will, therefore, be very particular to ask for JOHNSON'S AMERICAN SOOTHING SYRUP, and to notice that the names BARCLAY and SONS, 95, Farringdon Street, London, to whom Mrs. Johnson has sold the recipe), are on the Stamp affixed to each Bottle. A1 GENTEEL DWELLING- HOUSE in BRIDGE STREET, and PREMISES connected therewith, fronting Newport Street, WORCESTER. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, BY MESSRS. BENTLEY & SAUNDERS, On Wednesday, the 23rd of December, 1846, at the Star and Garter Hotel, Worcester, at six o'clock in the evening ; LL that very desirable FREEHOLD DWEL- LING- HOUSE, situate and being No. 17, in the best part of Bridge Street, Worcester, in the occupation of Mr. Jas. Orwin, surgeon, having excellent Drawing, Dining, and Break- fast Rooms, three principal Bed Rooms, and two Attics, con- venient Domestic Offices, Brewhouse, with two Rooms over, Paved Court Yard, and other conveniences. May be viewed any Wednesday on- or preceding the day of Sale, between the hours of eleven and four, by a ticket to be obtained from the Auctioneers. Together with all that FREEHOLD MESSUAGE or WAREHOUSE, connected with the before- mentioned Pro- perty, and facing Newport Street, now in the occupation of Mr. W. H. Hopkins, currier, partly used for the purpose of carrying on such trade, and a portion thereof occupied by the Mendicity Society as an office. The Land- tax on the above Premises is redeemed. For further particulars apply to Messrs. Hydes and Tymbs » Solictors, Foregate Street, or the Auctioneers, Worcester. ELIGIBLE FREEHOLD RESIDENCE in FOREGATE STREET, Worcester, opposite the County Courts ; TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, BY MESSRS. BENTLEY & SAUNDERS, On Wednesday, the 23rd of December, 1846, at the Star and Garter Hotel, Worcester, at six o'clock in the evening; LL that Commodious and very desirable FREE- HOLD DWELLING- HOUSE", being No. 37, in the most preferable part of Foregate Street, in the City of Worcester, late the Property and residence of Mrs. HYDE, deceased, com- prising a Drawing Room, on the First Floor, 19ft. 6in. by 17ft.; Dining Room, 15ft. 6in. by 17ft. ; four principal Bed Rooms, two of which have Dressing Rooms attached; two secondary Bed Rooms or Attics, Kitchen, Brewhouse, and other con- venient Domestic Offices; good dry Cellaring, Yard, Pump, and neat FLOWER GARDEN, communicating with the back road, the whole very eligible either for occupation or investment. Possession may be had at Lady- day next. May be viewed on any Tuesday or Friday preceding the Sale, between the hours of eleven and two, by a ticket to be obtained of the Auctioneers. For further particulars apply to Messrs. Hydes and Tymbs, solicitors, Foregate Street, or the Auctioneers, Worcester. A1 To the FREEHOLDERS and ELECTORS of the EASTERN DIVISION of the County of WOR- CESTER. GENTLEMEN,— AVacancy having occurred in the Representation o the Eastern Division of tbe County, through the lamented death of your late respected Member, MR. BARNEBY, I have been requested by an influential body of your Constituency, to offer myself as a Candidate for your suffrages. The principles upon which I ask your support are those ever fondly cherished and nobly supported in your County, a perfect freedom of Religious Opinion, with a warm attachment to the Established Protestant Religion, the true Palladium of English Liberty, the Safeguard of our happy Land. Anxious to remove all oppressive and unnecessary burdens from every class of the community, and to extend our Com " merce and Manufactures, I cannot overlook existing interests, the sacred rights of humanity, and the encouragement due to native industry, which have, under the blessing of Providence, raised our Country to its present high position among the nations of the earth. Should you do me the honour to elect me one of your Representatives, it will ever be my earnest aim to attend, as far as in my power lies, to the Interests of this important County. I remain, Gentlemen, Your obedient Servant, GEORGE RUSHOUT. Burford, Tenbury, December 4th, 1846. To the FREEHOLDERS and ELECTORS of the EASTERN DIVISION of the County of WOR- CESTER. GENTLEMEN, T HAVE found a strong desire existing that the -*- peace of the County should not be disturbed for the short time that can now intervene previous to a general Election. 1 have also received a request from the supporters of my gallant Opponent, Captain Rushout, that I should withdraw from the present contest, stating as a reason for wishing me to do so, that his address was first issued ; and they also informed me of the probability that another vacancy would soon occur for the same Division of the County, and pledging themselves that if I com- plied with their request by now retiring from the contest, that they would neither oppose or sanction any opposition to me at the next Election. I should ill repay the good feeling expressed towards me, and for which I shall ever remain most grateful, if I did not accede to the wishes and advice so generally expressed to me. I venture to hope that in thus stating to you my inten- tions of now retiring from the present contest, that you will approve of my motives and conduct in doing so. On the first vacancy that occurs under any circumstances, I shall again offer myself as a Candidate for the honour of being one of your Representatives in Parliament, and solicit a renewal of the very kind and flattering support now offered me. I regret that time has not permitted me to pay the proper respect I had intended to the Electors, by a personal canvass of the whole of the Division. I have hitherto only had interviews and written communications with many persons in various places, but lest my motives in now retiring should be misinterpreted, I feel bound to state, that the result of the interviews I have had, and the communications I have received, have been most grati- fying to me, and of such a nature as to leave no doubt of success if I had proceeded with the contest. I remain, Gentlemen, Your obedient, obliged, and faithful humble Servant, J. H. H. FOLEY. Prestwood, Stourbridge, Dec. 14th, 1846. COUNTY OF WORCESTER. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the next GENERAL QUARTER SESSIONS of the PEACE for this County will be held at the SHIREHALL, Worcester, on MONDAY, the 4th day of JANUARY next, at Eleven of the Clock in the Forenoon, when the County Business will be proceeded with in the order prescribed by the Rules of the Sessions. At Half- past Eleven o'Clock the business relating to the Assessment, Application, and Management of the County Stock and Rate, including the Police Rate, will commence; and all Persons having Accounts to pass, and whose attendance at Court is necessary, are required to be present at that hour. The Court will then receive the Reports of the Visiting Justices— the Finance Committee, who will also make their Report upon " the rights of this County in the Funds left by the late Mr. Hall for the repairs of Upton- on- Severn Bridge and other purposes"— the Hall and House Committee— the Police Committee— and the County Lunatic Asylum Committee, under 8 and 9 Vic., ch. 126. To receive any Report the Committee appointed to Revise the Table of Fees to Justices' Clerks may be prepared to make. To receive the Return of Expenses of Criminal Prosecutions and Conveyance of Convicts for the half- year ending 31st day of December instant, and will next consider the following Motions The Hon. and Rev. W. W. C. Talbot—" That a Committee be appointed to inquire into the expediency of dividing this County into Districts for Police purposes, as authorized by 3 and 4 Vic., ch. 88, sees. 27 and 28.5' T. G. Curtler, Esq—" For an alteration of those Rules of the Court which apply to examination and allowances of County Accounts and to the office of High Constable." When the County Business has been disposed of the Court will hear Appeals and Motions. On TUESDAY' Morning, JANUARY 5th, at Nine o'Clock a. m., the Grand and Petit Jurors are required to be in attend- ance ; and the Court, after disposing of any Appeals and Motions that may remain, will proceed to the Trial of the Prisoners. All Persons bound by Recognizances will be called upon to appear, and all instructions to the Clerk of the Indict- ment must be given at his Office by Eight o'Clock, a. m., on that Morning. Appeals to be tried at these Sessions must be entered with me, at my Office, in the COLLEGE YARD, before Nine o'Clock on the Monday. The Clerks of the Petty Sessions are to forward all Deposi- tions, Informations, Recognizances, and Records of Convictions, ivith a correct list of such respective Documents, to me, at the Clerk of the Peace's Office, Shirehall, on or before Saturday, the 26th day of December instant. C. A. HELM, D. C. P. Clerk of the Peace's Office, Shirehall, Worcester, Dec. 15th, 1846. N. B— The Oaths of Qualification, & c., must be taken before Twelve o'Clock. HEIRS- AT- LAW AND NEXT OF KIN. On SATURDAY, JANUARY 2nd, the 1st No. of the FIFTH VOLUME of THE CRITIC, WEEKLY JOURNAL OF BRITISH AND FOREIGN LITERATURE AND ART, GUIDE TO THE LIBRARY AND BOOK CLUB, AND BOOKSELLERS' CIRCULAR, PRICE ONLY FOURPENCE OR STAMPED FOR POST, FIVEPENCE. THE CRITIC having completed its FOURTH Volume, is now an established Journal, and new subscribers may begin a new volume with the new year. It has some peculiar features to which its popularity is due. 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Iu consequence of Christmas- day falling this year upon our day of publication, it is our intention next vieek to anticipate our usual time of publication by a few hours, and to go to press at noon instead of the evening on Friday next. Our correspondents 8f advertising friends will therefore oblige by forwarding their favours as early next iveek as practicable. FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 18, 18- 16. LAST WORDS OF LORD RUSSEL ON THH SCAFFOLD. " I did believe, and do still, that Popery is breaking in upon " this nation, and those who advance it will stop at nothing " to carry on their designs; and 1 am heartily sorry that " so many Protestants give their helping hind to t. IT will be remembered that we last week expressed our firm belief that Mr. FOLEY, notwithstanding all the exertions made on his behalf, would not proceed to a poll at the approaching election for the Eastern Division of this county ; and that we at the same time counselled the Conservative constituency to be upon the alert, and to leave no constitutional means untried in order to secure and maintain the Conservative representation of the county, which was so nobly established in 1837 and confirmed in 1841, assuring them that the result of a diligent and careful canvass upon this occasion would furnish them with a key to the result of the next general election. Our anticipation that Mr. FOLEY would not venture upon the ordeal of the poll has been realised, festehis retiring address in another column; the circum- stances of his retirement, however, are such as to strike us with unfeigned astonishment, and to excite in us feelings of the most lively indignation. Little did we imagine, while writing last week in anticipation of Mr FOLEY'S withdrawal from the then impending contest, upon what terms his retirement was to be purchased; little did we imagine that a junta of soi disant Conserva- tives was busily but secretly at work, negotiating the future transfer— or perhaps we may more justly call it the sale— of one half the representation of East Worcester- shire to a member of that party from whose hands it was so triumphantly wrested after the gallant struggles pre- vious to 1837. We could not have conceived it possible that any body of Conservatives could have consented to, much less have presumed to propose, so humiliating and truckling a bargain— a bargain which is an insult to the common sense, and a flagrant outrage upon the indepen- dent principle of the Conservative constituency of the Division, who are called upon, under the terms of this peddling transaction, quietly to resign the supremacy which they have maintained for the last nine years, and to emasculate and neutralise the representation of the Division— and for what ? Why, forsooth, in order to avoid, at the impending election in the commencement of the new year, the inconvenience of a two days' con- test which must inevitably have terminated in a signal Conservative triumph ! But the most singular feature of this most extraordinary piece of business is, that the proposal should have emanated from the East Worcestershire Conservative Association— a society constituted and embodied for the express purpose of protecting the Conservative interests of the county, and setting forward the return of Con- servative representatives. We know not what motives may have actuated them in coming to their determina- tion of offering to the Whigs this unworthy compromise, for they jealously excluded the representatives of the press from their secret deliberations; but it does appear to us that in deciding upon the course they have adopted, they have been guilty of a gross dereliction of that duty which the designation of their Society implies, and that they are shuffling out of those serious and important obligations to the Conservative constituency which they themselves originally and voluntarily assumed. We scarcely know whether most to admire the cowardice or the arrogance of the proposed arrangement; the cowardice which shrinks from an open and fairly- fought field, or the arrogance which would foist a Whig representative upon a Conservative constituency at the capricious dictation of a few individuals, no matter how distinguished soever in rank or station. It remains to be seen, however, whether the honest and independent electors of East Worcestershire will submit to be thus jockied. If they are the men we take them for, they will indignantly spurn and repudiate the idea of any truckling compromise, and will fight their own Oattles as they have manfully and victoriously fought them before. They have the cards in their hands, and it will be their own fault if they do not play out and win the game. The constituency of the county have returned four Conservative Members to the last two Parliaments; and it is rather too much to expect that they shall tamely give up one- fourth of the representation into the hands of the enemy, in order to gratify any mere whim or caprice, or in spiritless submission to any unconstitutional and domineering dictation. If they do, they will deserve to be branded as slaves, and will become the laughing- stock and the byword of all their neighbours. But we hope better things of them. They will not, we are persuaded, render themselves obnoxious to the taunt conveyed in the opening of the following remarks of the Hereford Journal. " It is or was the custom in Russia," says our contemporary, " whenever an estate is sold, to transfer with it all the live stock, that is, the labourers, cattle, horses, and sheep. A process of this sort seems to have been adopted in the adjoining county of Worcester in regard to the electoral body. Not very long ago the constituency of the ' faithful city' were handed over from Sir Thomas WILDE to Sir Denis Le MERCHANT without so much as ' by your leave,' and we have now a still more remarkable proceeding respecting the vacancy for East Worcestershire caused by the lamented death of Mr. BARNEBY. At a conference of the heads of the opposing parties, held first at Stourbridge, and by adjournment at the Star and Garter Hotel, Worcester, it was agreed that Mr. Hodgetts FOLEY, the Whig candidate, should retire from the contest, that Captain RUSHOUT should be returned, and that the Con- servatives should undertake not to nominate more than one candidate for the division at the next general election, Mr. FOLEY being then allowed to come in. What a jumble of parties and an abandonment of distinctive principles are here! and how feeble the motive assigned for such a course ! The so- called Liberal party have at present no representative, and there can be no great harm in letting them have ' a little one!' A sufficient answer to their complaint on this head is, that as the Eastern Division is decidedly Conservative, it ought to have Conservative representatives, not two gentlemen, one of whom will pull one way and the other another. Such doubtless is the impression of a third party which has not been con- sulted in the elective bargain— we mean the majority of the constituency. They are not bound by the stipulations referred to, and if they possess ordinary spirit they will, when the period for the immolation of Mr. TAYLOR or Captain RUSHOUT arrives, step in and prevent the sacrifice." We trust that the Conservative electors of East Worcestershire will not submit to be ridden over rough- shod, and that they will vindicate and maintain that high character of independence which they have nobly earned; but whatever may be the upshot of the matter, we, at least, shall find some consolation in the proud consciousness that we have faithfully and honestly discharged our conscience, and that we have fulfilled OUR duty in pointing out theirs to the constituency. At the moment of our going to press we have received for publication an address from Mr. TAYLOR, father of Mr. James Arthur TAYLOR, Member for the Eastern Division, in which we rejoice to find that that gentleman repudiates any implication in the " arrangement" entered into between the East Worcestershire Conservative Association, and the Whig party, and reserves to himself j his legitimate right of supporting any candidate he may choose at the next election. This spirited address will be found in our advertising columns, and we would earnestly call the attention of every elector of the Division to it. DEATH OF COLONEL DAVIES.— We have this week the melancholy duty of recording the death of Colonel Thomas Henry Hastings DAVIES, of Elmley Park, in this county, who, most of our readers are aware, has for some years been in a declining state of health, and who died at his seat, Elmley Castle, on Friday last. The gallant Colonel, who was a Waterloo officer, entered the army as cornet, June 2,1804, being then but 16 years of age, aud his other commissions were thus dated :— Lieutenant, Jan. 31, I § 05; Captain, Feb, 4,1808; Lieutenant- Colonel, July 3,1815; Colonel, Jan. 10, 1837. The gallant officer first proceeded to the Peninsula with the army commanded by the Duke of WELLINGTON and under the greatest captain of the age took part in various engagements. He soon after retired on half- pay, and entered the political world, and in 1818 was returned for Worcester, in the representation of which city he continued until 1841, when he retired. It politics, the Gallant Colonel was diametrically opposed to those professed by the Editor of this paper, but it would not become us to speak ill of those who are beyond the grave We believe that in the political opinions which he professed he was thoroughly sincere, and we are most willing to bear testimony with the rest of our contemporaries to the Gallant Colonel's amiability of disposition, to his political integrity and uprightness, and to his faithfulness to a party who did not render him the most grateful return possible for his con- sistent and unswerving devotion to their cause. In the House of Commons, his opinions were always received with respect- ful attention; and with regard to the estimation in which he was held by the constituency of this city, we may safely say that the sterling honesty of his public conduct, his close attention to his Parliamentary duties, and his anxiety on all occasions to promote the welfare of the city, gained for him the cordial esteem of those who differed from him most widely on political matters. The Gallant Colonel was descended of an ancient family seated in Montgomeryshire, His grandfather was Rector o f Fownhope, in the adjacent county of Hereford, and he was the eldest son of the late Thomas Davies, Esq., Advocate- General to the East India Company, and a great friend of the Governor- General Warren Hastings, by Anna, daughter of Hugh Baillie, Esq., of Monkton, Ayrshire. He married on the 17th January, 1824, Augusta Ann, the only child of Thomas Crespigny, Esq., who survives him : Colonel Davies had no children. The funeral of the lamented deceased takes place to- day ( Friday), at Elmley. Sir J. PAKINGTON, Sir T. E. WINNING- TON, R. TEMPLE, Esq., C. HANFORD, Esq., E. HOLLAND, Esq., and E. B. MARRIOTT, Esq., are the pall bearers. Col, DAVIES leaves two brothers, who reside in Sussex, Warburton DAVIES, Esq., and Col. Francis DAVIES, of the Coldstream Guards. HER MAJESTY AND THE COURT.— Since the return of the Court to Osborne House, nothing has occurred to disturb the ordinary quietude of palace life. The Queen and the Prince have walked out every day, and the royal children have taken their accustomed airings. CABINET COUNCIL.— A Cabinet Council was held on Wednesday afternoon at the Foreign- office. At half- past two o'clock the following Ministers assembled :— Lord John Russell, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Minto, Sir George Grey, Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Earl of Auckland', Sir John Hobhouse, Lord Campbell, Viscount Morpeth, the Earl of Clarendon, and the Right Hon. T. B. Macauley. The Right Rev. Dr. Feild, Bishop of Newfoundland, had an interview with Earl Grey, on Tuesday, at the Colonial Office. The Rev. J. Garbett, M. A., Rector of St. George's, Birmingham, and Rural Dean, duly " read himself in," on Sunday last, having a few weeks since been installed an Honorary Canon of our Cathedral, by virtue of a mandate from the Lord Bishop of the Diocese. The Very Rev. the Dean has become an annual sub- scriber to the Girls' National School, on the Lower Quay, to the amount of two guineas. The Gazette of Friday last contains, amongst other naval promotions, that of Thomas James Maling, Esq., Vice- Admiral of the White, to be Vice- Adtniral of the Red. Sir Robert Peel, Bart., M. P., has presented £ 100 to the fund for the extension of church building in the diocese of Lichfield. Lord Ward left Mivart's Hotel yesterday ( Thursday) for Italy, and will pass the winter in Rome. The" Hon. Mrs. Rushout and the Misses Rushout have arrived at Thirlestane House, the Cheltenham mansion of the Right Hon. Lord Northwick. W. S. Dngdale, Esq., M. P., has generously returned half the amount of rent to his tenants occupying garden- land, in consequence of the failure in the potato crops. The Earl and Countess of Powis are entertaining a succession of distinguished visitors at Powis Castle, near Welsh- pool. The noble Earl and Countess will display their customary hospitality during the approaching festive season. Viscount and Viscountess Villiers have returned to Upton House, Warwickshire, and this week go to Drayton Manor, to pass the Christmas with Sir Robert and Lady Peel. ORDINATION.— The Lord Bishop of Worcester holds an ordination at the Cathedral, iti this city, on Sunday next. PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL IN FOREIGN PARTS.— The Treasurer of the Kidderminster District Association has transmitted to the Parent Society for the general purposes of missions in the colonies and dependencies of the British Empire £ 105. 3s. Ojd., being £ 12 more than the remittance of the year ending December, 1845.— On Sunday last the annual sermon in aid of the funds of this Society was preached in Wolverley Church, by the Rev. H. T. Hill, A. M., when the sum of £ 12. 8s. 6d. was colhcted for the Society. THE PEWS IN KIDDERMINSTER CHURCH.— The Rev. T. L. Claughlon, Vicar of Kidderminster, conceiving some misconception to exist, has addressed a letter to his parishioners on this subject, explaining the proposition made at the recent meeting in the Grammar School, notice! in our last, at which the proposition made by Lord Ward was rejected. The object of the Rev. gentleman's letter is, if possible, to persuade the parishioners to accede to Lord Ward's proposition. HUNT BALL.— Our fair readers and the devotees of the Terpsichorean art will be rejoiced to hear that the Worces- tershire Hunt Club, at a meeting held at the Star and Garter Hotel, on Saturday last, decided on giving a ball to their friends on Thursday, the 14th January next. Stewards have been appointed, and the necessary arrangements are in progress for making this one of the gayest of these celebrated reunions The ball will take place at the Guildhall. UPTON BALL,— Upton Annual County Ball takes place on Tuesday next, under the patronage of the Hon. Mrs. W. Coventry : stewards, W. Dowdeswell, Esq., M. P., and J. A. Taylor, Esq., M. P. Ludlow Charity Ball is fixed for New Year's- day. OXFORDSHIRE HUNT BALL.— The gentlemen hunting with the Berkshire, Lord Redesdale's, Lord Parker's, aud Mr. Drake's hounds, gave a grand hall in the Town- hall, Oxford, on Friday last. Upwards of 230 of the elite of the university, county, and neighbouring counties honoured the ball with their presence. WORCESTERSHIRE FRIENDLY SOCIETY.— Mr. J. Ward collector of taxes, Welland, is appointed secretary to this valuable institution for the Malvern district, in the room of Mr. Jukes, who is removing to Pershore. NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY'S SOIREES.— We under- stand that the very pleasant soirees of this society are to be resumed for the months of January and February next; Dr. Hastings, the worthy president, having issued cards of invita- tion to the members and friends, announcing the evenings on which some interesting papers will be read on the public health, the failure of the potato crop, the ventilation of buildings, and on imitative art, & c. THE NEW GAS COMPANY.— The business of the arbitration between the two Companies, so far as it could be performed in this city, has been brought to a close. On Tues- day the learned umpire will further hear parties at his Chambers, in London, and it is expected that his award may reach this city about Christmas. SEVERN NAVIGATION.— It is said to be the intention of the Severn Commissioners to commence the taking of toll on the Severn on the 1st of January notwithstanding the protest of the carriers recently made at Gloucester. A special meeting of the Commissioners, however, must first be held. The Chamber of Commerce of this city have memo- rialized the Board of Railway Commissioners on the subject of the threatened exclusion of carriers from the linos of the London and North Western Company, it being understood that that Company intend on the 1st January, 1847, to become the sole carriers on their own lines, and to permit only Pickford and Co. and Messrs, Chaplin and Home to collect and deliver goods at each terminus and station. WORCESTER INFIRMARY.— A notice in our advertising columns announces that at the Quarterly General Meeting of the Governors of this Institution, to be holden on the 1st January next, certain alterations in the rules will be proposed as to the service of the medical officers upon Committees. WORCESTER BATHS AND WASH- HOUSES.— The Com- mittee appointed on this subject by the Town Council continue their labours. On Tuesday they were met according to arrange- ment, by Mr. Baly, an eminent engineer, well versed in these matters, to whom the committee pointed out the Old Sheep- market, as offering an eligible site for the erection of the required buildings. Mr Baly having examined the ground, and accom- panied sotne of the members of the committee round the city so as to afford him a knowledge of the locality, subsequently expressed himself satisfied that the locality pointed out tohiin for the erection of the contemplated establishment could not be improved, and that the ground would be sufficiently extensive for the purpose. The property belongs to the Corporation. Mr. Baly submitted for the inspection of the committee some plans of an establish- ment now in the course of erection in the parish of St. Martin- in- the- Fields, London, occupying less ground than the Old Sheep- market, and where 94 baths ( besides two plunging baths) and the same number of wash tubs are to be provided, which he conceives to be a number quite equal to the probable neces- sities of the inhabitants of this city. Mr. Baly will draw up a report for the consideration of the Council at an early meeting of the body, expressive of his opinions on the subject, and suggesting plans for their adoption here. NATIONAL GIRLS' SCHOOL.— The examination of the Girls' National Schools of this city, comprising the school in Sansome Fields aud the branch school on the Lower Quay, took place on Monday, at the large room belonging to the former, in the presence of the Lord Bishop and many of the clergy and others, among whom were the following:— Hon. and Rev. Somers Cocks, Revds. H. J. Stevenson, J. Garbett, W. H. Havergal, H. J. Hastings, G. Hodson, J. Davies, G. L. Foxton, B. Davies, — Williams, G. W. Spooner, J. H. Thompson, C. Eckersall, J. Simpson, E. Faulkner, E. Cousins; Mr. Robert Allies; the Hon. Lady Margaret Cocks, Mrs. Sheppard, Mrs. Allies, Mrs. Stevenson, Miss M. Hastings, Mr. and Mrs. J. Parker, & c. The Lord Bishop presided, and heard the children read and recite several chapters from the Gospel of St. Matthew and the Book of Proverbs, and the Church Catechism. As this mode of examination ( which so far as it went was highly satisfactory) necessarily occupied much time, the Rev. W. H. Havergal was requested, on the Bishop's retiring, to address a few questions of a general nature to the children, and the proceedings concluded, as they commenced, with a hymn. We understand that the progress these children have made during the past year in writing, needle work, and religious instruction generally, has been very great, and is highly creditable to the care and attention of Mrs. Jones and Miss Bean, the mistresses of the two schools, which now, we believe, number collectively 250 girls. His Lordship, who expressed himself much gratified, distributed prizes, consisting of bibles, prayer books, & c., among the children of the parent school, and with his well- known liberality promised an addition of two guineas to the sum he annually expends in these prizes, that the branch schools may henceforth participate in the encourage- ment thus held out for diligence and praiseworthy conduct. CITY IMPROVEMENT BILL.— In consequence of the threats of opposition from the City Commissioners to the steps taken by the promoters of the Improvement Bill to comply with the standing orders, a communication was made to the Secretary of State for the Home Department by a gentleman on behalf of the promoters, who has favoured us with the Right Hon. Baronet's reply, which we subjoin, and by which it appears that the measures already taken by the promoters not only have his approval, but that all further steps necessary to comply with the standing orders of Parliament shall be adopted. " Whitehall, 12th December, 1846. " Sir,— I am directed by Secretary Sir George Grey to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the llth instant, and its enclosures, and I am to inform you in reply that you are correct in your impression of the opinion conveyed by Sir George Grey to a deputation from Sunderland, namely, that the promoters of private bills relating to the subject in question should place themselves in a position to proceed with their bills, if necessary, by a compliance with the standing orders, without, however, incurring unnecessary expense. " I am, Sir, your obedient Servant, " G. M. PHILLIPS. " Thomas Martin, Esq., 1, Bank- street, Worcester." THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY.— There seems a general feeling existing in tins city, in common with other places, that the Saturday following Christmas- day shall be considered as a general holiday. The drapers and booksellers of the city have determined to close their establishments, and it is expected that the other trades will follow the example set thein. The drapers, grocers, and stationers, of Evesham, have agreed to close their shops on Saturday. In consequence of an applica- tion made to the Mayor to day ( see Police Report) a poultry market will be held here on Monday week, of which notice is given in our advertising columns. An able paper on the improvements of the river Severn, read by E. L. Williams, Esq., the resident engineer, before the Institution of Civil Engineers, has gained for that gentleman the Society's " Telford Silver Medal." A new organ, built by Mr. Nicholson, of this city, is now in progress of erection in the Old Meeting House, Kidderminster. THE WEATHER.— Since our last weather report, written a fortnight ago, the severe frost has continued without any im- portant intermission up to this day, and with every promise of a continuance. The thermometer continues steadily several degrees below freezing point, and on several nights in the early part of the present week the frost was most intense. The canal navigation has been stopped for some days, and for three days past the Severn has been completely frozen over from Worcester bridge upwards, so that parties may be seen amusing themselves with skating and sliding on the ice— a sight which has not been witnessed on the Severn, we believe, for some nine or ten years. In the north we find that there have been heavy falls of snow, which have quite stopped railway locomotion on some of the lines. The value of weather predictions may be estimated from the following:— In Mr. G. F. Smith's ( of Cheltenham) predic- tions for the month of December we find the following :—" 6th, 7th, and 8th, will give a humid atmosphere, and probably rain, with raw cold ; also windy or stormy about the 7th. From the 8th to the 12th, if notjrain, a humid atmosphere, and a conflict as to which will prevail. From the 13th to the 16th, rainy but rather mild for the season." These were our coldest days. DROITWICH SAVINGS BANK.— It will be seen that the annual meeting of the Trustees of the Droitwich Savings Bank is fixed for Friday, January 1st. FUNERAL OF THE LATE MR. BARNEBY.— The remains of the late lamented Mr. Barneby were deposited in the family vault in Brockhampton Chapel, on Tuesday se'nnight, at noon. The funeral was quite private, though many persons went from Bromyard to witness the procession, and to see the beautiful chapel, which stands near to the mansion, and was built by the late Mr. Barneby's father. The coffin was carried by six work men, and the pall borne by six gentlemen, friends and relatives of the deceased; the chief mourners being his two brothers, William Barneby and Edmund Higginson, Esqrs,, Henry Elwes, Esq., his father- in- law, and Thomas Barneby, Esq., his first- cousin. Most of the houses in Bromyard we're closed in token of respect to the deceased on the day of the funeral. FUNERAL OF THE LATE SIR C. MORGAN.— The remains of the lamented Sir Charles Morgan were interred in the family vault at Bassalleg Church on Tuesday last. It was not a public funeral, but all who were desirous of paying the last tribute of respect to the deceased baronet, joined the procession at the Tredegar Lodge. During the week, the shops in Newport and Pillgwenlly remained partially closed, and the town generally had a gloomy appearance. The bells of St. Paul's, Newport, and of Bassalleg, tolled minute- time from the death, and every demonstration of respect has been paid throughout the district. THE SHORTEST DAY.— Monday next, the 21st ( St. Thomas's day) is not this year the shortest day, but the 22nd. Upon the 2lst the sun rises at 6 minutes past 8, and sets at 51 minutes past 3— on the 22nd at seven minutes past 8, and sets at 51 minutes past 3, consequently the 22nd is one minute shorter than the 21st. The winter quarter also commences this year on the 22nd. REPRESENTATION OF DUDLEY.— It is said that in con- sequence of Lord Ward's interference in the present election for the eastern division of the county, an opposition will be offered to Mr. Benbow's return for Dudley.— Times. KIDDERMINSTER.— On Sunday last two sermons were preached in St. John's church, Kidderminster,— in the morning by the vicar, Rev. T. L. Claughton, M. A., and in the evening by the Rev. M. Hill, M. A., Incumbent of the Church— in behalf of the schools connected with St. John's Church. Upwards of £ 30 was collected. TYPOGRAPHICAL FESTIVAL.— The annual festival of the Hereford typographical body, held in commemoration of the introduction of the art of printing into Great Britain, took place at the Standard Inn, on Wednesday evening last, when a numerous company sat down to a dinner abundantly supplied with game, as well as a sumptuous display of other Epicurean dainties. The evening was spent in social enjoyment, and was enlivened with music and " intellectual conviviality." It is to be regretted that festive occasions of this character are not more general throughout the country ; for we deem that it is not merely the typographical body which is interested in the move- ments and progress of the press— they are so interwoven with the political and social well- being of the population of the British empire, that there is not a single individual unaffected by its movements. " Blest invention, to God alone the praise ! For gifting man this noble art to raise ; From thee what benefits do men possess 1 The pulpit, bar, and stage, all now confess. Trace the historic page, aud view the time Before thou visitedst our native clime ; The want of thee kept arts and commerce low, Without thy aid how little could we know ! Thou art the means by whieh we gain redress, Our nation's bulwark is THE BRITISH PKESS!" — Hereford Journal. MELANCHOLY AFFAIR.— A fatal accident occurred one day last week, at Ledbury, by which a respectable family, named Nott, has been plunged in the deepest grief. The youngest son Edwin, a youth about seventeen years old, was skating on a piece of water adjacent to the town, when unfortunately the ice broke, and sinking beneath the surface, he was drowned. Every exertion was made to rescue him by the bystanders, but unavailingly: and it was nearly an hour before the body was recovered. The calamity is rendered more afflicting by the fact that within a few years, death has severely ravaged the family, reducing them from eleven to four persons. A coroner's inquest as been held, and a verdict of " Accidental Death" returned. SUDDEN DEATH OF A ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIEST.— The congregation assembled at the Roman Catholic Chapel in this city, were surprised on Sunday last at the absence of the priest, the Rev. H. Beeston, S. J. On inquiry it was found that the Rev. Gentleman had died very suddenly on Saturday evening. No inquest has been thought necessary, the deceased having died from natural causes. AWFULLY SUDDEN DEATH.— On Saturday last a woman named Rick, a servant at Eatl Beauchamp's at Madresfield, suddenly dropped down dead in the house. An inquest was held at the Swan Inn, Newland, on Wednesday. THE LATE COACH ACCIDENT.— We are glad to learn that Mr. Ford, driver of the " Queen" coach from Wor- cester to Hereford, who had his leg fractured in two places and two of his ribs broken by the coach accident described in our last, is fast recovering. DISTRESSING SUICIDE.— A few days ago a young woman was found lying down on the road near the Iron Bridge, at Mertliyr, in a state of insensibility. Mr. Job James, the parish surgeon, promptly attended, and dis- covered that she had taken poison. Powerful emetics were immediately administered to her, and she revived a little. She stated that her name was Mary Williams, a native of Ledbury; that she came to Mertliyr a short time ago, aud being without money or friends, and totally destitute, had taken the poison with the intention of destroying herself. The unfortunate girl lingered in great agony for some hours, when death terminated her sufferings. ECLIPSES IN 1847.— In the year 1847 there will happen four eclipses of the two great luminaries— two of the sun and two of the moon, one only of each of which will be visible in these parts. They will occur in the follow- ing order, viz.:— 1. A partial eclipse of the moon, March 31st, beginning 8h. 3m., and ending 10b. 9m., night. 2. A total eclipse of the sun, April 15th, invisible at Greenwich. 3. A partial eclipse of the moon, September 24th, invisible at Greenwich. 4. An annular eclipse of the sun, Oct. 9th, which will be visible, beginning at 6h. 6m., and ending llh, 53m., morning. DEATH OF AN INFANT FROM COLD. On Wednesday, a case of extreme destitution, which had, it was supposed, caused the death of an infant, was discovered to have occurred in this city, and was made known to Mr. Side- bottom, police magistrate, by the police. The worthy magis- trate, after directing temporary relief to be afforded, instituted inquiries which led to the development of the following facts:— That a woman named Dovey was, on Sunday, delivered of a child in a void house in Birdport, where she was then lying with her infant, on a bed of straw, without any covering or protection from the inclemency of the weather, other than her own scanty clothing; that the child died on Wednesday, from the severity of the cold and want of clothes ; and it was charged against the relieving officer that he had delayed affording the woman the relief she stood in need of. Under these circumstances, Mr. Sidebottom directed that information of the case should be given to the Coroner, and, accordingly, yesterday ( Thursday), an inquest was held on the body of the infant, at the Gloucester Arms Inn, Copen- hagen- street, when the following evidence was adduced :— Ann Pool, midwife, deposed— I live in Dolday. About three o'clock on Sunday morning last, a man named Boulton came to my house, and requested me to attend a woman in Birdport, who was in labour, saying he would pay me as soon as he was able. I went with him immediately, and found the woman ( Sarah Dovey) in labour, as represented. There were two other women with her at the time; one of them left shortly after I arrived, and the other remained. She was lying on the bare floor, with no covering over her, and nothing whatever on her person except an old gown. There was a very little fire, and no bed or furniture of any kind either in the room or in the house; in fact, nothing but a couple of bricks, on which she was resting her head. I delivered her of a male child about three- quarters of an hour after I arrived. It was a good delivery, and the child was a strong healthy- looking baby. There was nothing whatever to put the child in after it was born, and I immediately went up to Boulton, who had remained in a* upper room, and asked what I was to do, as there was nothing to put the baby in, and it would be killed of cold on such a severe night without clothing. He took off his shirt and gave it to me, and I wrapped the child in it. I shortly after left the house, and promised 1 would endeavour to get her some clothing for herself and child. 1 returned again soon after ten o'clock on Sunday morning, when I dressed the child in some clothing I had bought with my own money. When I had dressed the child, it appeared to revive, for, when I arrived, the child was very cold all over its body. I left a chemise which I had brought, and desired some warm gruel to be given to Dovey. I did not see Sarah Dovey again till Monday, when she was just in the same destitute condition as when I first saw her. I told her she must be taken to the Union, or she would be dead in that place. She said she would not go— she was well. The child was then lying in her bosom ; it appeared fast sinking, and was very cold. There was still a little tire in the room. After I left her, I went to Elizabeth Scott, and told her to go to Mr. Crisp, the relieving officer, to get her sister removed, or to obtain some relief for her. I did not see the child again till after it was dead. I saw nothing to lead me to suppose the child wanted proper nourishment, but I am of opinion that its death was occasioned by want of proper protection from the cold. Elizabeth Scott, sister to Sarah Dovey, deposed— Sarah Dovey is my sister. She has been for some time cohabiting with Benj amin Boulton. About a quarter before one o'clock on Sunday morning, Boulton requested me to come down to my sister, and I immediately went, and found her lying on the floor in a house in Birdport, in the state described by the last witness gruel wnicn 1 gave my sister and the child. I went to Mr. Crisp, the relieving- offi- cer, on Monday, for relief for my sister, and represented her desti- tute condition to him. He asked me to come in and tell him who Sarah Dovey was; I went in and told him that she had lain in at the workhouse about 15 months ago, and after he appeared to have called to his mind who she was, he said " Are you not ashamed of yourself to come and ask for relief for her a second time." I said I had done nothing to be ashamed of. He replied " 1 shant come to the nasty today." I told him that she and the baby would be lost if he did not, for she had nothing to eat; he said " It serves her right," and I then went away. From the time she was confined till the Tuesday, she remained in the same destitute condition, as to her clothing, as described by the last witness. I think the child died from want of proper protection from the inclemency of the weather. Mr. J. R. Woodward, surgeon, deposed to the following effect:— In consequence of a note which I received from Mr. Stallard, one of the parish officers of St. Andrew's, I attended upon Sarah Dovey on Wednesnay evening. I found she had been delivered of a child ; she appeared to be going on very satisfactorily. She was lying on a bed of straw, with a sheet over her, and she appeared to be comfortably covered. From her answers given to my questions, she appeared to have had proper nourishment. I then directed my attention to the child, which was lying dead in the room. I carefully examined the body, and found it a full- grown child, presenting no remarkable appearance; but 1 am of opinion, from the evidence given by the previous witnesses, that the child's death arose from cold, producing inflammation of the lungs, and not from the want of proper nourishment, Mary Grubb, wife of Policeman Grubb, deposed— By direc- tion of Mr. Sidebottom, I went, about 12 o'clock yesterday, to see Sarah Dovey, and found her ( as described by a previous witness) lying on the ground, without covering under or over her, except her clothes. There was no fire in the grate, and nobody with her. Mrs. Davies accompanied me into the room, and we found the child dead, Dovey was shivering with cold, and 1 gave her a shilling, which I had received from Mr. Side- bottom for her; and I afterwards took her a blanket, which I bought by direction of Mr. Sidebottom. Elizabeth Davies deposed that between eight and nine o'clock on Monday morning, in consequence of hearing a child cry, I went into the house occupied by Dovey, and found her in the state described by the former witnesses. I saw her again on Tuesday. There was no fire in the room, and I begged a few old things for her, which I took to her. This was about ten o'clock, and before Mr. Crisp had been to the house. Dovey fold me Boulton was present when the child died. Mr. Crisp, relieving officer, deposed as follows. About three o'clock on Monday, Elizabeth Scott applied to me for relief for Sarah Dovey, who she said had been confined on the Sunday. I said, " Are you not ashamed to come a second time, for when your sister loy- imrt- tlie workhouse before, there Was not a word bad enough you could say of her ?'' I went on Tuesday morning, and found Dovey sitting by the fire with the child at her breast. She told me she wanted relief. I said, " It is too bad, for this is the second time St, Andrew's has had you." I then went and ordered a shilling's worth of things from Mr. James for her. She did not complain to me that she was in want of bedding or clothing. I did not say to Elizabeth Scott on that occasion, " I shall not come and see the nasty to day," nor did I say it would serve her right if she was lost. By the Jury.— I called to see her yesterday, and found her lying in one corner of the room covered with a blanket. She said she had clothes enough. A Juryman How came you to neglect the case for 24 hours? Mr. Crisp.— It is considered if a woman has gruel for the first three or four days it is sufficient, and that her sister told me she had. She did not mention anything to me about bed or covering. Ann Pool recalled.— I saw Mr. Crisp with Sarah Dovey, on Tuesday, and said to him " What a wretched den she is in, just in the state 1 left her on Sunday morning, with nothing under and nothing over her, but a void house." Mr. Crisp, on being re- called, admitted that Pool did make use of the expression she had just then stated. She might have used the other expression but he did not recollect it. After the above evidence had been given, the Coroner addressed the jury on the facts before them, and the following verdict was, after some deliberation, returned by the jury: — " That the death of the deceased was caused from exposure to the severity of the weather, without proper clothing ; and the jury cannot separate without expressing their opinion that there was neglect on the part of the relieving- officer, in not giving more prompt attention to the case." GRATIFYING TESTIMONIAL.— On Wednesday last, the boarders of Silver Street Academy, in this city, presented the Rev. J. Colville, M. A., ( their esteemed preceptor,) with a hand- some silver pocket communion service, as well in commemoration of his birth- dav as a testimonial of their gratitude for the many kindnesses they have received at his hands. The communion service was selected from the splendid assortment of Mr. Man- ning, of the Cross. TESTIMONIAL TO AN AGRICULTURIST.— A meeting is being held this day ( Friday) at Leominster, for the pur- pose of taking into consideration the propriety of presenting to T. W. Davies, Esq., the Honorary Secretary, a Testimonial for the valuable and eminent services he has rendered to the Leominster Agricultural Association since the period of its formation, and for the zeal he has uniformly displayed on behalf of the Agricultural interests. During the past week, the Lady of William Peel, Esq., of Baginton Hall, near Coventry, accompanied by her daughter, Miss Julia Peel, have been actively engaged at Tamworth dis- tributing blankets, sheets, flannel, linen, calico, and every description of warm clothing, to the poor most in need of such assistance, pecuniary aid being likewise afforded when cases of severe destitution presented themselves. A KILTED HIGHLANDER.— For the last week the lieges of Worcester have been amused by the sight of a Highlander, who has been playing the bagpipes in the streets, dressed in native costume, rather cool for this season of the year. BRIDGNORTH FAIR.— The fair on Tuesday last was scantily supplied with sheep, which fetched, on an average, 6| d. per lb. The show of cattle was large, and buyers few ; many were driven back unsold; prices ranged from 5jrd. to 6d. per lb. Barrens very dull of sale. Pigs variedfrom 5d. to 5| d. per lb. Cheese, of which there was a small show, from 4d. for family cheese, to 6| d. Horses, very few exhibited; prime nags none, and" few sales effected. Altogether it was a duller fair at this season than has been remembered for many years past. THE LATE THOMAS HOOD.— We are sorry to learn that the children of the late Thomas Hood are, in conse- quence of the death of their last remaining parent, left entirely dependant upon the small fund, amounting, we believe, to about £ 800, collected by public subscription at the period of Mr. Hood's death. The pension of £ 100 granted by Sir Robert Peel ceases with the decease of Mrs. Hood, who lived but a twelvemonth to enjoy it. We believe that Lord John Russell has already been applied to by the friends of the family to continue the pension to the children ; but his lordship has intimated his inability to comply with the request, since the pension becomes, by the death of Mrs. Hood, the property of the public. We feel confident that the wishes and intentions of the public will be best answered by a new grant of the same trifling amount to the orphans, to whose departed and liighly- gifted parent that public owes so large a debt of gratitude. DEATH BY FIRE.— On Saturday last, Lucy Averd, the infant daughter of a labourer at Pendock. died from the injuries she had received on the previous morning from being burnt while left at home with other children during the absence of her parents. An inquest was held by Mr. Hughes on the body- on Wednesday last, when a verdict of " Accidental death" was returned. THE DISTRESSED IRISH.— The members of the Society of Friends throughout the kingdom have liberally con- tributed towards the present distress of the Irish poor. The sum of £ 10,000 is expected to be raised by them for this purpose, which will be placed at the disposal of a com- mittee of their own in Dublin. The " Friends" at Worces- ter have already raised about £ 100, which they expect to increase to £ 120, towards this fund, and at Evesham £ 40 has been raised. CITY POLICE. GUILDHALL, MONDAY, DEC. 14. Thomas Coombs, of St. Peter's parish, was charged with deserting his wife and family, about five weeks ago, whereby they had become chargeable to the Worcester Union Work- house. The case was fully proved, and this being the second time the prisoner has been brought up on the same charge, he was sentenced to one month's hard labour. THURSDAY, DEC. 17. Three women were brought up on the charge of stealing coal from the works of the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolver hampton Railway; but the case being incomplete they were remanded for a week. FRIDAY ( THIS DAY). CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY A deputation from the grocers and other tradesmen of the city waited on the Bench this morning, representing that it had been agreed to close the shops on the Saturday after Christmas- day, and wishing the sanction of the Mayor to hold the usual poultry market on the following Monday. The Mayor said he was perfectly willing to sanction any arrangement whereby the convenience or comfort of the inhabitants might be promoted. He could not close the market on Saturday. It was then agreed that notice should be issued notifying the holding of a poultry market on Monday the 28th inst. The notice will be found in our advertising columns. ASSAULT AT THE UNICORN.— Mr. and Mrs. Meek, landlord and landlady of the Unicorn Hotel, in this city, were summoned by Philip Beeseley, bookkeeper, for an assault committed on Wednesday last; Mr. Pullen appeared as attorney for the complainant, and Mr. Daniel, of this city, together with Mr. Edmonds, Deputy Clerk of the Peace for Birmingham, attended for the defence. Mr. Meek appeared in person, but Mr. Edmonds applied to the Bench to dispense with Mrs. Meek's presence, and he appeared for her. Mr. Pullen having stated the case called the following witnesses :— Philip Beeseley deposed that on Wednesday last, by advice of his attorney, Mr. Pullen, he went to Mr. Meek to demand a settlement with him for his services as book- keeper at the office, After waiting for about ten minutes in the office for Mr. Meek, he went into the Unicorn bar, where he sat for about a quarter of an hour with a friend. Mr. Meek then came in, and wit- ness then told him he had come to have a settlement, and at the same time he presented him with particulars of his account. Mr. Meek ordered him to leave the house, and witness asked him if he meant to discharge the account. At that moment Mrs. Meek came into the room with a basin of hot water in her hand. She told him to leave the bar, and he said he would in a minute. Witness again asked Mr. Meek for a settlement, on which Mrs. Meek threw the water in the basin over witness, and followed him up as if to scratch him. Mr. Meek then struck him twice on the head, and kicked him twice, viz., once behind and once before. After some further contention, witness got out of the house, leaving behind him his hat, which had been knocked off by Mr. Meek. After Mr. M^ ek had kicked and struck witness, he ( witness) knocked him down, but not before. Miss Clara Meek and Messrs. Martin and Dunn were present when the assault took place. Mr. Edmonds proceeded to cross- examine the complainant as to the origin of the assault, which the complainant said he supposed had been caused by his demand of a settlement. Witness might have touched Mrs. Meek inadvertently while endeavouring to get away from her, but he did not strike her, nor swing her round. Never had any conversation with Richard Evans about Mrs. Meek, and never expressed his surprise that the servant Sarah should have been discharged from the Unicorn. Witness had been informed that the servant Sarah ( Hinton) had stated that she had detected Mrs. Meek in a criminal act with a Reverend Gentleman of this city, but wit- ness never circulated the report. On Mr. Price, of Bromyard, telling him ( witness) of the rumour, he ( witness) stated that he had heard the same tale, and Evans might have been present at the time of this conversation. A person named Hancocks was present. Witness, nevertheless, could not believe that the cause of the assault on him was any other than his having demanded his wages. Mr. Edmonds further cross- examined the witness as to words alleged to have been spoken by him of Mrs. Meek and a Mr. Sadds, wine merchant, but the witness denied that he made use of the very gross language imputed to him in the cross- examination. Re- examined by Mr. Pullen.— Never circulated the reports which he had heard respecting Mrs. Meek, and on being sent for by the Mayor on the subject, he had told him the same tale. He had been requested by Mr. Meek to sign a paper admitting that he was the originator of the calumnies, and declaring that they were false, but he had not done so. The Mayor observed that his recollection of the statement made to him by the complainant was different to that of Beesley. Mr. T. S. Dunn, in the employ of the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway Company, was the next witness called. He corroborated the statement made by complainant as to the assault in every particular, with the. exception that he proved that the complainant took Mrs. Meek hy the arm, after she had thrown the water at him, and " swung her round," and afterwards pushed her away from him. Cross- examined— Witness did not accompany Beeseley to the Unicorn as his witness. This being the case for the complainant, Mr. Edmonds addres- sed the Bench, observing that had a party of matrons been em- panelled to try this case they would have imposed a penalty on Mr. Meek— for not having beaten the complainant within an inch of his life for the slanderous imputations which he had circulated against the character of Mrs. Meek and a gentleman of high station and respectability. He then contrasted the statement made by the complainant with that of the witness Dunn, and declared that Beeseley had perjured himself. Returning again to the culumny which had been raised with respect to Mrs. Meek and the Rev. Gentieman referred to, Mr. Edmonds described it as an utterly groundless fabrication, and called upon the Bench to manifest their sense of the libel in a marked manner. With regard to the ejectment of Beeseley from the bar he contended that no more force had been applied than was actually necessary. He concluded by stating that he should call witnesses who would prove that the complainant had circulated the false reports with which Mr. Meek charged hira. Richard Evans, porter at the Unicorn, and Charles Hancocks, also a servant at that Inn, deposed to certain words used by the complainant on several occasion as to the alleged intimacv of Mrs. Meek and the Rev. Gentleman before alluded to, and also as to expressions used by Beeseley on seeing Mr. Sadds, of Tewkesbury, passing across the street to the Unicorn. This was the language alluded to in Mr. Edmonds' cross- examina- tion of the complainant, and which the complainant denied ever having used. The language which these witnesses swore the complainant had used on seeing Mr. Sadds cross the street is of too gross a character to be further alluded to. Sarah Ann Hinton, the servant referred to, deposed that she had never made any statements to the complainant defamatory of the character of Mrs. Meek, or of any supposed intimacy between that lady and the Reverend Gentleman referred to. Further, she swore that she had never seen the slightest im- propriety of manner between that Reverend Gentleman and Mrs. Meek. She left Mr. Meek's service about a month since, of her own accord. Mr. Pullen then replied, and the Magistrates having consulted together, fined Mr. Meek £ 1 and costs, and decided that as to Mrs. Meek the assault was justifiable. This case occupied the attention of the Bench for two hours, and excited the greatest interest, the room being crowded throughout the examination. CHRISTMAS MEAT MARKET. Our annual show of fat Christmas meat takes place to- morrow and the butchers of the " faithful city" have a rare stock laid in for the occasion. The following is a sketch of the principal part of the stock which will to- morrow tempt purchasers:— Mr. Watton. Bridge- street, shows no less than ten beautiful heifers, a portion fed by T. G. Curtler, Esq., Bevere, and a part by Mr. J- P. Smith, of Wick; also 20 beautiful Southdown wethers, part bred by Mr. Boddington, Clifton, and part by Mr. J. P. Smith, of Wick. Also a very superior Leicester ewe, fed by himself, displaying great symmetry. Mr. E. Meredith, of the Shambles, shows a fine 2- year- old heifer and a cross- bred yearling wether, both bred and fed by T. Hooke, Esq., of Norton. Also two very beautiful heifers, fed by himself. Mr. Andrews, of the Shambles, has two capital 3- year- old heifers, fed by Mr. J. Dowding. of Wick; a splendid fat wether sheep, bred and fed by Mr. Davis, of Martley, and a very fine calf, bred and fed by the same. Mr. T. Patrick, of the Shambles, has a beautiful 6- year- old Hereford cow, bred and fed by Mr. J. Racster, of Mathon, the same as offered for sale in the Cattle- market last fair day. This cow won the prize at the Ledbury and Hereford Agricultural meeting for this year; also a prize cow, bred and fed by Mr. W. Woodward, of Bredon's Norton, which gained the prizes at Cheltenham and Gloucester for this year; also two beautiful ewe sheep, one bred and fed by Mr. Fletcher, of Cotswold Hill, and the other by Mr. G. Watkins, Ombersley. Mr. E. Till, of the Shambles, shows a 3- year- old Hereford cow, fed by Mr. H. Byrd, of Trotshill; also a 4- year- old Here- ford cow, fed by Mr. C. Wilson, corn dealer, Rainbow- hill; and a 3- year- old short- horn cow, also bred and fed by Mr. H. Byrd, together with four beautiful ewe sheep, fed by Mr. Dowding, of Wick, near this city. Mr. Jackson, of Sidbury, has three Hereford heifers, fed by Mr. Robert Smith, of Crowle, which, for symmetry and quality can hardly be excelled; three Hereford heifers, fed by Mr. E. Herbert, of Powick, very superior quality ; ten 2- year- old Southdown sheep, weighing upwards of 351b. per quarter ; eight 2- year- old theaves from Mr. George Fletcher, of Earl's Croome, weighing upwards of 401b. per quarter ; a 2- year- old wether, fed by Mr. Whittaker, of Caldwell, of superior quality; three sheep fed by Mr. Dunn, of Rydon, weighing upwards of 301b. per quarter; three superior heifers, also fed by Mr. Dunn; also a calf, fed by Mr. Gaunt, of Smite, eight weeks old, and upwards of 401b. per quarter ; besides other descriptions of meat of superior quality. Mr. Jones, of Sidbury, shows two beautiful Herefordshire heifers, and three fine 2- year- old wethers, all bred and fed by Mr. Dunn, of Rydon; also a splendid Herefordshire heifer, fed by Mr. Coney, of Battenhall, and four very beautiful cross- bred yearling sheep, bred and fed by the same gentleman; three fine yearling sheep, bred and fed by Mr. Butt, of Woodhall; three fine Leicester ewes, bred and fed by Mr. Marshall, of Harvington; and three beautiful heifers, and a very fine calf, weighing upwards of 40 lbs. per quarter, bred and fed by Mr, G. Perkes, of Abberton^ The Right Hon. Thomas Grenville died in London last night, at the advanced age of 91. CONCERT.— We understand that a concert will shortly be given in this city for the benefit of the widow of the late Mr. George Norman, whose death has left her, with a large family of young children, totally unprovided for. BIRMINGHAM LOYAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL ASSOCIA- TION.— The annual meeting of this association was held at Dee's Royal Hotel yesterday. In the absence of Mr. Newdegate, M. P., the" president, who was detained in London, Mr. Spooner, M. P., one of the vice- presidents, occupied the chair. Amongst the gentlemen present were— the Rev. W. H. Woolley, Mr. J. Aston, Mr. J. B. Hebbert, Mr. Elliott, Mr. Newton, Mr. Wilson, Mr. J. Rawlins, Mr. Isaac Marshall, & c. The report of the com- mittee ( read by Mr. Hebbert) denounced the conduct of Sir Robert Peel and his late colleagues in strong language, and, at the same time, expressed no hope in the present Government. It besought the members of the association to watch how each public man emerged from the difficulties in which he was now placed, and be prepared for a great struggle, which there was every reason to believe was near at hand. Sir Edward Craddock Hartopp was appointed president of the association for the next year. A balance in favour of the society was declared to be in the hands of the treasurer, and the meeting broke up shortly before three o'clock. THE " GREAT BRITAIN" STEAMER.— We are enabled to announce that the directors have finally abandoned all intention of attempting to raise this ill- fated vessel, having seen a letter to that effect, addressed to Mr. Mathew Stead, of Ludlow, in which the ingenuity of his plan was acknow- ledged ; Captain Claxton, at the same time stating it to be the 412th received by them,— Kidderminster Messenger. MARRIAGE WITH SISTERS OF DECEASED WIVES.— The Manchester Courier says :— We are informed that Mr. Aspi- nall, a gentleman of the bar and member of the northern circuit, has arrived in Manchester, at the Clarence Hotel, Spring- gardens, with a commission to institute inquiries into the effects of the present law with relation to the marriage of widowers with the sisters or more remote female relatives of their deceased wives, and especially to obtain information as to the number of such marriages which have taken place since the statute of 1835, which is supposed to have pro- hibited them. It has been asserted that the number of such, marriages in Manchester is very great. Lord Wharncliffe, in the year 1841, in the House of Lords, stated them to be upwards of 500. The subject is doubtless a most important one, and we understand an application will be made to Parliament in the ensuing session to legalize such marri- ages; it will, therefore, be most useful to parties on either side of the question to be in possession of as much information as possible upon it. " A MODERN ROMANCE OF THE CONFESSIONAL."-— Under this attractive heading our contemporary, the Herald, in his publication of Saturday last, related the particulars of the " romantic" case of a frail fair one, who it was represented had been seduced by a Roman Catholic Priest, and having fled from her protector had since been mysteriously- spirited away. The whole affair turns out to be a fabrication! THE BIRMINGHAM ASSAY OFFICE AND THE " BIR- MINGHAM JOURNAL."— We have received long letters on this subject, with a request that we would insert all or such portions of the correspondence as we approved. Now as we have not in the case before us assisted in promulgating the slander com- plained of, we may fairly be excused from giving currency to the refutation. The matter is one purely of a personal interest, and open to correction through our advertising columns. ^ porting. TATTERS ALL'S.— THURSDAY. The only Derby bets laid yesterday were— 8 to 1 agst Van Tromp to 100 ; la to 1 agst Epirote; 33 to 1 agat Luuedale; 40 to 1 agst Rett Hart. The last three in small sums. CHESTER CUP.— 50 to 1 offered on the field, but not a bet laid. THE LEAMINGTON STEEPLE CHASES.— The weather permitting, are understood to be fixed for the 2l) th of J anuary. HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. ( tVealher permitting. J THE WORCESTERSHIRE HOUNDS.— At half- past ten. Tuesday Dec. 22 * Copcut Elm. Thursday — 24 Bredon Hill. * In consequence of a shooting party at Hewell, the hounds will meet at Copcut Elm, instead ot Hewell, on Tuesday, as stated ia our last. LORD REDESDALE'S HOUNDS,— At half- past ten, Saturday Dec. 19 Blenheim. Monday — at Heythrop Wednesday — 23 Longborough Gates Thursday — 21 Bruern. Saturday — 26 Barrington Park. THE HEREFORDSHIRE HOUNDS.— At half- past ten. Saturday Dec. 19 Fifth Milestone, Froome's- hi. 11 Road THE WARWICKSHIRE IIOUN DS.— At half- past ten. Saturday Dec. 19 Wimpstone Bridge: THE ALBRIGHTON HOUNDS.— At half- past ten. Saturday Dec. 19 Brineton. Monday — 21 Himley. Thursday — 21 Longford. Saturday — 26 Burnal Green: THE ATHERSTONE HOUNDS,— Eleven. Saturday Dec. 19 ... Cross Hands Toll Gate. Monday — 21 Cadeby Gate. Wednesday — 23 Arbury, Friday — 25 Fisherwick. Saturday « — 26 Three Pots. THE SHROPSHIRE HOUNDS.-^< a quarter before Eleven. Monday Dec. 21 Pimhill. Wednesday — 23 Pitchford Village. Saturday — 26 Shawbury. Monday — 28 Hawkstone. Wednesday — 30 Child's Ercall. Friday Jan. 1 Berrington Village. KIDDERMINSTER, DEC. 17.— Wheat, 7s. 2d. to 8s. 2d.; malting barley, 5s. 2d. to 5s. 8d. ; per bushel; beans and peas unal- tered in value from last week's rates. WORCESTER HAY MARKET, DEC. 12.— Best old hay, per ton, £ i 17s 6d to £ 3 ; new hay, £ i 15s to .£ 3 ; straw, £ i BIRMINGHAM, DEC. 15.— Best old hay, per ton, £ 3 10a to £ 3. 15s. ; new hay, £ 3. 5s. to £ 3. 10s.; clover, £ 3. to £ 3. 5s. straw, £ 2. 8s. to £ 2. 10s. WORCESTER INFIRMARY, DSCEMBER 18. Physician and Surgeon for the week, Dr. Nash and Mr. Sheppard. For the ensuing week, Dr. Nash and Mr. Pierpoint. In- Patients. I Out- Patients. Admitted, 9.— Discharged, 7 | Admitted, 16.— Discharged 12. In the House, 100. ACCIDENTS.— G. Cane, contused shoulder; Ann Jones, wound • Elizabeth Hicks, severe bums; Richard Gough, wound;' Richard* Richardson, contused shoulder; Joseph Harper, contused leg. BIRTHS. Dec. 8, at Oldbury Rectory, Salop, the wife of the Rev. J. Purton, of a daughter. Dec. 10, at 8, Harrington Square, Regent's Park, London, the wife of William Coker Godson, Esq., of a son. Dec. 14, the lady of F. T. Elgie, Esq., Mayor of this city, of a daughter. Dec. 15, at Nailsea, near Bristol, Mrs. Frank Hewson of a ton. Dec. 15, the wife of the Rev. J. B. Gabriel, M. A., Vicar of Chepstow, of a daughter. Dec. 16, at St. Martin's Rectory, Birmingham, the wife of the Rev. John C. Miller, of a daughter. Lately, at Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, the lady of R. Hurd Lucas, Esq., of Sinton Court, in this county, of a son and heir. MARRIAGES. Dec. 6, at Bromyard, by the Rev. William Cooke, Vicar Mr. John Phillips, to Miss Mary Jones, both of Norton, near Bromyard. Dec. 8, at St. Mary's, Bryanstone Square, London,, by the Rev. W. Penfold, W. C. Smith, Esq., of Hunningham Hall, Warwickshire, to Christina Louisa Mackenzie, only daughter of Madame de Lacy. Dec. 8, in London, John Smith, fourth surviving son of the late Rev. George Garlick, of Painswick, to Miss Mary Ann Bussell, of Ross. Dec. 8, at St. Philip's Church, Birmingham, by the Hon. and Rev. G. M. Yorke, Rector, Mr. William Spurrier, of Edgbaston Mill, to Mary Anne, second daughter of Mr. Jas. Kendall, of Bromsgrove. Dec. 9, at Henney Church, near Sudbury, Suffolk, the Rev. John Wingfield Harding, of Tong, Shropshire, to Elizabeth Anne, daughter of the late Charles Raymond Barker, Esq. Dec. 10, at Gloucester, Mr. Joseph Knight, of Evesham, to Miss Eliza Townsend, of Upton St. Leonard's. Dec. 10, at Whitechurcb, Herefordshire, William Powell Hooper, Esq., of Ross, to Lucy Margaret, only daughter of John Ralph Norton Norton, Esq., of Whitechurch. Dec. 10, at the Abbey Church, Bath, by the Rev. Francis Smith, Rector of Rushton, Dorset, Robert Parry Nisbet, of Southbroom House, Wilts, Esq., to Elizabeth, only surviving daughter of the late Edward Greene, of Hinxton Hall, Cambridgeshire, Esq., and relict of the Rev. Henry Curtis Smith, son of Sir John Smith, of Sydling, and the Down House, Dorset, Baronet. Dec. 10, at Nottingham, by the Rev. G. H. Fisher, M. A., Incumbent of Willenhall, Staffordshire, William Rothwell Gaskell, Esq., of Kandy, Ceylon, only son of the late W. W. Gaskell, Esq., of Latchford, Cheshire, to Harriet Margaret, third daughter of the lat* e John Hadden, Esq., of Nottingham. Dec. 10, at Upton Snodsbury, by the Rev. — Green, Mr. Charles Abell, of Little Comberton, to Helen, eldest daughter of Mr. George Pearce, of Cowsden Hall. Dec. 12, at St. Dunstan's West, by the Rev. Erskine Neale, M. A., Rector of Kirton, William Johnstoun Neale, Esq., barrister- at- law, second son of the late Adam Neale, M. D., Physician to the Forces, to Fanny Herbert, daughter of the late Captain Josiah Nisbet, R. N., and granddaughter of th © late Right Hon. the Viscountess Nelson, Duchess of Bronte. Dec. 14, at Broadway, by the Rev. H. Armitage, Mr. H- Keen, to Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. E. Stephens, coach pro- proprietor, both of the same place. DEATHS. Dec. 4, at Burcott, near Bromsgrove, Mrs. Mary Haines, for many years a much- respected resident in this city. Dec. 4, aged 58, after a long and painful illness, Mary, wife of Mr. F. Shirley, of the Talbot Inn, Upton- on- Severn. Dec. 4, in her 39th year, Mary, the beloved wife of Mr. S. Bluck, of Stepple Hall, near Cleobury Mortimer. Dec. 6, in her 23rd year, at the residence of her brother, the Cottage, Hanley Castle, highly esteemed by all who knew her, Ann, eldest daughter of Mr. Wm. Moore. Dec. 10, at his seat, Winchfield House, Hants, Admiral Lord Amelius Beauclerk, G. C. B., G. C. H., aged 75. Dec. 10, at Godalming, Mrs. Sumner, mother of the Bishops of Chester and Winchester, in her 89th year. Dec. 10, in Corve Street, Ludlow, Mrs. Ellen Cropper, aged 73. Dec. 11, at his seat, Elmley Park, in this county, in his 58th year, Colonel Davies, late M. P. for this city. Dec. 11, at Bosbury, near Ledbury, in his 39th year, to the great grief of his numerous friends, Mr. Thomas Godsall, only son of Mr. Godsall, of Lower Town, Ashperton. Dec. 11, at his residence, Argyll House, King's Road, Chelsea, after a protracted illness, Richard Curran, Esq., eldest son of the late John Philpot Curran, late Master of the Rolls in Ireland. Dec. 11, at his residence, Guild Pits, Stratford- on- Avon„ Wm. Mousley, Esq., aged 80. Dec. 11, at the house of her brother, Mr. Jenks, Avenbury, near Bromyard, Anne, relict of Mr. Thomas Harris, of Chirkenhill, Leigh, in this county, aged 78. Dec. 11, at Severn House, near Bewdley, Colonel Philip Wodehouse. The death of this good man has occasioned a void in his neighbourhood which will not soon be filled up. Dec. 12, at her residence, near Bewdley, in her 88th year, Mrs. Nicholls, relict of the Rev. W. Nicholls, formerly of Chelmarsh, in the county of Salop, and mother of John Nicholls, Esq., of the Bewdley Bank. Dec. 12, in the 50th year of his age, the Rev. Henry Beeston, S. J., pastor of the Catholic congregation in this city. Dec. 14sat Birmingham, after three days' illness, Richard Gough, son of the late Mr. John Gough, of this city. Dec. 14, at Rock's Green, near Ludlow, the wife of Mr. John Griffiths, landlord of the Dun Cow, aged 58. Dec. 14, deeply and deservedly regretted, Louisa, the wife of John Clifford, Esq., of Aban Court, Cheltenham, and youngest daughter of thelate Sir Thomas Wentwoj- Ui Blackett, Bart., of Bretton Hall, Yorkshire. Dec. 15, at Broadway, in the 10th year of her age, Clara^ third daughter of Mr. Beadles, surgeon. Dec. 15, in Lower Broad Street, Ludlow, after a lingering illness, Mr. James Taylor, hatter, aged 52. Dec. 15, at Bewdley, in the 47th year of his age, after a lingering illness, Mr. Benjamin Grove. Dec. 17, at his residence, in Woburn Square, J. Bellamy, Esq., late of the House of Coirmons, in the 73rd year of his age. THE W O R C E S T E R S H I R E GUARDIAN, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1 846. © ttgtnal Poetrg. A LOVE SONG. ( FOR MUSIC.) Consent one lock to give me, love! Of those that sun thy snowy brow; And, smilingly, forgive me, love, If I presume to steal one now. For when, within my breast, I wear The tender tie my mistress gave, My heart shall lie imprison'd there, And own itself her blissful slave. Then, wouldst thou still retain me, love, When sometimes sever'd from thine arms, Think, what could so enchain me, love, As this sweet sample of thy charms ? Not that I fear to love thee less t When forced, by cruel hate, to part, I'll only deem thy virgin tress The emblem of a constant heart. A. M. WINTER. Out from the north comes a hollow sound, And an echo is in the deep; The tones speed o'er the valleys, around From crag to crag they leap,' For the ice- king calls from his home afar' And the echo is that of his thundering car! The sons of the forest wav'd proudly their arms, . bach dight in his green array, And flowers shone forth in their varied charms, And the laughing earth was gay,— At his terrible voice, from his ocean- caves, Each floweret and leaf have sunk to their graves ! He hath built him a home where the tempests sweep And the storm- cloud wings its way, And he fetter'd the waves in the heaving deep When it dared dispute his sway ! ' For this haughty king, on his awful throne, Will brook of none other rule but his own ! Forth, forth he comes, with his veteran bands From the realms of unbroken night, ' Where the barriers each of those frozen lands Are creations of his might' Where the white bear howls from his rocky cell And the famishing wolf is his sentinel! The wheels of his chariot, swift they roll Towards lands of the south, more fair • And furious blasts from the wintry pole, ' And the steeds he hath harness'd there ' And the meteor- fires that gleam around, Illume his path o'er the hardening ground ! His attendants they crowd in their monarch's train The frost and the bitter wind, The piercing sleet, and the driving rain, And the fleecy snow behind ; And the dark brow'd clouds, as on they sail Bear on their wings the rattling hail! ' Vexing the ocean, the tempests roam, And it rises in mighty wrath, But its angry billows break in foam On the rocks in the iron north • And the ice- king laughs i » his loudest tone, • tor he recks of none other will but his own. The sun it declines, and, beyond the hill Lios shadow'd the lonely night; Then cometh the frost, with his breath so chill Beneath the dim starlight, And he seizeth each stream in the fair woodlands, And bmdeth it fast in his icy bauds ! ' Midst hoary cliffs of the ancient time The ice- king speaketh aloud, And the rock is rent, and the mountain pine, At the sound of his voice is bow'd 1 And when he drives on in his dread advance, Topples, and thunders the avalanche! " Away ! away! on the fresh'ning breeze, Speed ye our royal train ; Spread ye your pliimes o'er the rolling seas, To visit the isles again !'' Thus spake the king, and his footsteps drear Directed his bands in their wild career ! They come,— and see crouching poverty Shrinks back from his icy hand, And suppliant want averts his eye From sight of the chillv band ; And from suppliant want, and from poverty, Oh, Christians ! will ye pass lightly by 1 Oh ! think ye of sickness, and pining worth, In your hours of song and glee. Oh ! picture a lonely and desolate hearth, When yours the reverse shall be ! And say, can ye close your heart- springs up When these are the dregs in the poor man's cup! Nay ! charity, meek as the dawning day, When it breaks in the ruddv east, * Shall bless his home, and a cheerful ray, Over his pathway cast; And to each of your pleasures ' twill add a zest, And tho gift and the giver be doubly bless'd ennafn, VARIETIES. A FOLKESTONE MAGISTRATE'S NOTION OF LAW. A Folkestone magistrate, who did not live in the reign of Elizabeth, had a prisoner, who had stolen a shovel, brought before him for committal; the worthy holder of the equally, adjusted scales, being conscious of his want of legal knowledge, cried to the constable, " Sam, hand me over < Burn's Justice,'" the index of which he commenced perusing, as follows— Shovel— shovel— shovel— humph ! Spade— spade — spade Ah ! here s spade ! Let him go, Sam, can't do anything with bim. If it had been a spade I should have committed vou, sir; but as its a shovel, I can't, for Burns does not say a word about a shovel."— Dover Chronicle. LORD CHANCELLOR TREVOR'S PARSIMONY— He lived after lus final retirement very privately, and found his chief delight in accumulating money. He* becanie so great an economist, that he even grudged a glass of wine to a poor relation. It is recorded of him, that he had dined bv himself one day at the Rolls, and was drinking his wine quietly, when his cousin, Roderic Lloyd, was unexpectedly introduced to him from a side door. » You rascal," said his honour to the servant, « and you have brought my cousin, Roderic Lloyd, Esquire, Frothonotar. y of North Wales, Marshal to Baron Price, SEE. & c. & c., up my back stairs. Take my cousin, . Roderic Lloyd, Esquire, Prothonotary of North Wales, Marshal to Baron Price, & c. & c. & c.; take him instantly back down my back stairs and bring him up my front stairs." Hodenc m vain remonstrated : and while he was conveyed down the back stairs, and up the front stairs, the bottle " and glasses were removed by his honour,— some law books and papers taking their place.— Campbell's Lives. MORAL DETERIORATION PRODUCED BY IMPROPER DWELLINGS.— A clean, fresh, well- ordered house exercises over its inmates a moral, no less than a physical influence, and has a direct tendency to make the members of the family sober, peaceable, and considerate of the feelings and happi- ness of each other; nor is it difficult to trace a connexion between habitual feelings of this sort, and the formation of habits of respect for property, for the laws in general, and even for those higher duties and obligations, the observance of which no laws can enforce ; whereas, a filthy, squalid, unwholesome dwelling, in which none of the decencies com- mon to society, even in the lowest stage of civilization, are or can be observed, tends directly to make every dweller in such a hovel regardless of the feelings and happiness of each other, selfish and sensual; and the connexion is obvious between the constant indulgence of appetites and passions of this class, and the formation of habits of idleness, dishonesty, debauchery, and violence ; in a word, the training to even- kind and degree of brutality and ruffianism. This is what a man who has at all turned his attention to the subject would expect, and a demonstration of its truth appears to me to be afforded by the fact already stated, that in the worst of the districts of which we have been speaking, and iu the most wretched of the hovels of these neglected districts, live, and from birth have lived, that portion of the population out of which come not only the pickpockets, the thieves, and those other degraded and profligate persons who constitute the ordinary pests of society, but also in general our great criminals, violent and reckless men, who every now and then perpetrate in cold blood, with a savage callousness, deeds which fill the whole country with disgust and horror."— The Liverpool Health of Towns' Advocate. DIFFICULTIES OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. We extract the following from a publication recently issued from the press under the title of " The Difficulties of English Grammar Removed." Tho author is Mr. J. B. Davidson. USE OF A AND AN.— In briefly glancing at the use of a and an, it may be observed that before a word beginning with the sound of a vowel, an should be employed. Examples— An apple. An hour. Before a word beginning with the sound of a consonant, a must be used. Examples— A man. A union. A ewe. Perhaps the following is the best specimen of the style of treating a and an that could be selected from popular grammarians:—" There are," says Lennie, " the articles, a or an, and the. A is used before a consonant.— An\& used before a vowel, or silent h; as, an age, an hour. A is used before the long sound of u and before w and y; as, a unit, a euphony. a ewe, a week, a year, such a one.— An is used before words beginning with h sounded, when tho accent is on the sccond syllable; as, an heroic action; an historical account." Consult the leading sounds of the words in Lennie's examples, and then apply the rules just given, and you will discover that they are applicable to every one of them— that they are, in fact, just the thing required. Should you feel at a loss for the leading sounds, refer to Walker's dictionary, and you will find that unit, euphony, and ewe, begin in sound with y, and one with w. If you do this, you will discover that grammarians ought to have taught us that it, was of no consequence with what vowel or consonant a word might begin— that we had not to do with the first letter, but with the first sound. Thus, by the enunciation of one simple principle, all the usual need- less exceptions are disposed of, and a serious innovation is made on the drowsy perspicacity of many favourite philologists. WHAT IS A PRONOUN ?— Pronouns are words used for or instead of names. Ex- atnples— William loves the master— Ae strives to please him. Pronoun is the word selected by English grammarians for the name of this class, and hence their defi- nitions are as follow:—" A pronoun is a word used instead of a noun, to avoid the too. frequent repetition of the same word."— Murray. Lennie simply says, that " pronouns are words used instead of nouns." These are the usual explica- tions of pronouns amongst the earlier grammarians, with a few exceptions, in which they are termed " nouns of the second order." The last definition is adopted by Harris. Pro, in Latin, means for. It has already been said that noun signifies name. Now, by joining these two simple English words together, and making pronoun forname, we are supplied with a term exactly to tell us what is required to be known— that pronouns are for Names. REDUNDANCY OF EXPRESSION.— When one word embraces the joint meaning of two others, neither of the implied words must be used in connection with the word whose signification they jointly express. Example—" They went from hence," should be " They went hence. If you turn over the pages of your dictionary to the words hence, thence, and whence, you will see that they signify respectively, from this place, from that place, and from which place. You may therefore readily discover why we must not say 11 from hence." It is because, literally, " from hence," means ( i from from this place." Whitish signifies rather white ,• therefore rather whitish means rather rather white. Wiser signifies more wise, and it is, therefore, improper to say more wiser, beaucse it means more more wise. Most wisest signifies most most wise. To say " We entered into a house," is correspondent to " We went into into a house," because went into and entered convey the same signification. It should therefore be, " We entered a house." It has been already remarked that the same verbs are sometimes used without a connecting word, and consequently called active verbs, and sometimes with a connecting word, and called neuter verbs— that the same verb is active in one place and neuter iu another. To say " He entered into a contract," is correspon- dent to " He made a contract." Entered is, here, a neuter verb, and does not mean gone into, as before. Although it embraced the meaning of two words in the sentence just before given, it here actually requires into to imply the meaning of the one word made. Now, " He made into a contract," is not less erroneous than " He entered into a house." As a further example, to approve means to be pleased with, but to say, " We approve OF a thing," is a common expression, and it is corres- pondent to " We are pleased with OF a thing." ENGLAND " BRIGHT"- ENED. In Blackwood's Magazine of this month Christopher North — there is no mistaking the writer— draws the following sketch of what England may be expected to come to, should Friend Bright and his party get their ends: — Here is a pretty state of matters! First, th^ re is to be no more sporting. That, of course in the eyes of Messrs. Bright aud Welford, who know as much about shooting as they do of trigonometry, is a very minor consideration; but even there we take leave to dissent. Gouty and frail as we are, we have yet a strong natural appetite for the moors, and we shall wrestle to the last for our privilege with the sturdiest broad- brim in Quakerdom. Our boys shall be bred as they were, with their foot upon the heather, in the manliest aud most exhilarating of all pastimes; and that because we wish to see them brought up as Christians and gentlemen, not as puzzle- pated sceptics or narrow- minded utilitarian theorists. We desire to see them attain their full development, both of mind and body— to acquire a kindly and a keen relish for nature — to love their sovereign and their country— to despise all chicanery and deceit— and to know and respect the high- minded peasantry and poor of their native land. We have no idea that they shall be confined in their exercise or their sports to the public highway. We do not look upon this earth or island as made solely to produce corn for the supply of Mr. Bright and his forced population. We wish that tho youth of our country should be taught that God has created other beings besides the master and the mechanic— that the beasts of the field and the fowls of tho air have a value in their Maker's eye, and that man has a commission to use them, but not to exterminate and destroy. ' My opinion is,' says Mr. Bright, speaking with a slight disregard to grammar, of the sporting propensities of the landed gentry—' my opinion is, that there are other pursuits which it will better become them to follow, and which it will be a thousand times better for the country if they turn their attention to them.' For Mr. Brigbt's opinion, we have not the smallest shadow of respect. We can well believe that, personally, he has not the slightest inclination to participate in the sports of the field. We can- not for a moment imagine liim in connexion with a hunting- field, or toiling over moor or mountain in pursuit of his game, or up to his waist in a roaring river with a twenty- pound salmon on his line, making its direct way for the cataract. In all and each of these situations we are convinced that he would be utterly misplaced. We can conceive him, and no doubt he is, much at home in the superintendence of the gloomy factory— in the centre of a hecatomb of pale human beings, who toil on day and night in that close and stifled atmosphere, as ceaselessly' and almost as mechanically as the wheels which drone and whistle and clank above and around them— in the midst of calico, and cotton, and corduroy— in the midnight councils of tbe grasping League, or the front of a degrading hustings. But from none of these situations whatever, has he any right to dictate to the gentlemen of Britain what they should do, or what they should leave undone. He has neither an eye for nature, nor a heart to participate iu rural amusements. And a very nice place an English manor- house would be under his peculiar superin- tendence and the operation of the new regime! In the morn- ing we should meet ladies and gentlemen, ill the breakfast- room, all devoutly intent upon the active demolition of the muffins. Tea aud coffee there are in abundance— but not good, for the first has the flavour of the hedges, and the second reminds us villanously of Hunt's roasted corn. There are owevcr, and on the sideboard rest a large round of beef, aith— a-_ thu- 1.- margin aiLxajicid yellow fktrand" a ham which is literal hog's- lard. There are no fish. The trouting stream has been turned from its natural course to move machinery, and now rolls to the shrinking sea, not in native silver, but in alternate currents of indigo, ochre, or cochineal, according to the hue most in request for the moment at the neighbouring dye work. In vain you look about for grouse- pie, cold partridge, snipe, or pheasant. You might as well ask for a limb of the ichthyosaurus as for a wing of these perished animals. Deuce a creature is there in the room except bipeds, and tliey are all of the manufacturing breed. You recollect the days of old, when your entry into the break- fast room used to be affectionately welcomed by terrier, setter, and spaniel, and you wonder what has become of these ancient inmates of the family. On inquiry you are informed, that— being non- productive animals, and mere consumers of food which ought to be reserved for the use of man alone— they have one and all of tliera been put to death: and your host points rather complacently to the effigy of old Ponto, who has been stuffed by way of a specimen of an extinct species, and who now glares at you with glassy eyes from beneath the shelter of the mahogany sideboard. Tired of the conversation, which is principally directed towards the working of the new tariff, the last improvement in printed calicoes, and price of some kind of stock which appears to fluctuate as unaccountably as the barometer, you rise from table and move towards the window in hopes of a pleasant prospect. You have it. The old park which used to contain some of the finest trees in Britain— oaks of the Boscobel order, and elms that were tho boast of the country— is now as bare as tbe palm of your hand, and broken up into potato allotments. The shrubbery and flower parterres, with their terrace vases and light wire fences, have disappeared. There is not a bush beyond a few barberries, evidently intended for a detestable jam, nor a flower, except some chamomiles, which may be infused into a medicinal beverage, and a dozen great stringy coarse- looking rhubarbs, euough to give you the dyspepsia, if you merely imagine them in a tart. At the bottom of the slope lies the stream whereof we have spoken already, not sinuous or fringed with alders as of yore ; but straight as an arrow, and fashioned into the semblance of a canal. It is spanned on the part which is directly in front of the windows, by a bridge on the skew principle, the properly of a railway company; and at the moment you are gazing on the landscape in a sort of admiring trance, an enormous train of coal and coke waggons come rushing by, and a great blast of smoke and steam rolling past the house, obscures for a moment the utilitarian beauty of the scene. That dissipated, you observe on the other side of the canal several staring red- brick buildings, with huge chimney stall- s stinking in the fresh, frosty morning air. These are the factories of your host, the source of his enviable wealth; aud yonder dirty village which you see about half a mile to the right, with its squab Unitarian lecture- room, is the abode of his honest artisans. Nevertheless, you see nobody stirring about. How should you? The whole population i9 comfortably housed, for the next twelve hours at least, within brick, and assisting the machinery to do its work. No idleness now in England. Had you, indeed, risen about five or six in the morning, when the clatter of a sullen bell roused you from your dreams of Jemima, you might have seen some scores of lanterns meandering like glow- worms along the miry road which leads from the village to tho factories, until absorbed within their early jaws. That is the appointed time for the daily emigration, and until all the taskwork is done, no straggling whatever is permitted. The furthest object in view is a parallelogram Bastiie ou the summit of a hill, once wooded to the top, and well known to the rustics as the place where the fullest nuts and the richest May- flowers might be gathered, but now in turnips, and you are told that the edifice is the Union Workhouse, Breakfast over, you begin to consider how you shall fill up , the dreary vacuum which still yawns before you and ; dinner. Of course, you cannot shoot, unless yon are inclined to take a day at the dusks and geese, which would be rather an expensive amusement. You covet a ride, and propose a scamper across the country. Our dear sir, it is as much as your life is worth! What with canals and viaducts, aud railways and hedgerows, you could not get over a mile without either being plunged into water, or knocked down by tow- ropes, or run into by locomotives, or pitched from embank- ments, or impaled alive, or slain by a stroke of electricity from some telegraphic conductor ! Recollect that we are not now living in the days of steeple chasing. Then as to horses, are you not aware that our host keeps only two— and fine sleek, sturdy Flanders brutes they are— for the purpose of conveying Mrs. Bobbins and her progeny to the meeting- house 1 There is no earthly occasion for any more expensive stud. The railway station is just a quarter of a mile from the door, and Eclipse himself could never match oui new locomotives for speed. But you may have a drive if you please, and welcome. Where shall we go? There used to be a fine waterfall at an easy distance, with rocks, aud turf, and wild flowers, and all that sort of thing; and though the season is a little advanced, we might still make shift under the hazels aud the hollies; could we not invite the ladies to accompany us, and extemporise a pic nic? Our excellent friend! that water exists no longer. It was a mere useless waste; has been blown up with gun cotton ; and the glen below it turned into a reservoir for the supply of a manufacturing town. The hazels are all down, and the hollies pounded into bird- lime. And that fine old baronial residence, where there were such exquisite Claudes and Ruysdaels? Oil! that estate was bought by Mr. Smalt, the eminent dyer, from the trustees of the late Lord— the old mansion has been pulled down, a cottage ornee built in its place, and the pictures were long ago transferred to the National Gallery. And is there nothing at all worth seeing in the county ? Oh yes ! There is Tweel's new process for making silk out of sow's ears, and Bottomson's clothing mills, where you see raw wool put into one end of the machines, and issue from the other in the shape of ready- made breeches. Then a Socialist lecture on the sin and consequences of matrimony will be delivered in the market town at two o'clock precisely, by Miss Lewdlaw— quite a lady, I assure yon~- whom you will afterwards meet at dinner. Or youmay, if you please, attend the meeting of tho Society for " the Propagation of a Natural Religion, at which the Rev. Mr. Scampson will preside; or you may go down to the factories or any where else you please, except the village, for there is a great deal of typhus fever iu it, and we are a little apprehensive for the children." The article is ably continued in the same vein, and thus sums up the catalogue of the blessings to be conferred on the nation by the patriots of the Bright school: — " Such, gentle reader, is the England which the patriots of the Bright school are desirous to behold; and such it may become if we meekly and basely yield to revolutionary inno- vations, and conciliate every demagogue by adopting his favourite nostrum." EVESHAM LITERARY, SCIENTIFIC, AND MECHANICS' INSTITUTION. A lecture was delivered before the members of lliis Institution at the Town- hall, on Wednesday evening, the 9th instant, on the character of Hamlet, by the Rev. John Gordon, of Coventry. The lecturer commenced by stating that he had no original theory to bring forward, and no specific mode of discussion to introduce on the subject of the character of Hamlet, but should be happy if he succeeded in recalling the pleasure which his audience, or he himself, had experienced in reading that play. It was an observation of Arnold's that although we could not properly value Shakspere without being acquainted with all his plays, yet a knowledge of any one of them would convey to us an idea of his genius, faithful in kind, but to be augmented in degree. In the present lecture Mr. Gordon would confine himself to the character of Hamlet only, a character which had baffled all analytical skill in attempting completely to define it, but which displayed the perfect insight of the master genius into human nature. In Shakspere, poetry is preeminently a true thing; the term insight does not accurately define the poet't power, for he not only represents what he saw, but what he fell* A kind of intuition enabled him to put down all the thoughts and feelings of his subject, and to give an autobiographical detail of the experiences of his characters. We should rather deny the plainest facts than the truth of Shakspere. His creations are not abstractions, but living men : they shew not one phase of character only, but connect all the parts of the character into a whole. The poet Byron presents humanity in one fixed attitude, and, like the sculptor, shows but a single emotion ; still that effect is fully accomplished, and he displays the violent passions with all the fidelity of the chiselled agony of the Laocoon. It is not so with Shakspere. He is not content with single emotions, but combines the effect of all the various emotions, and gives us men as they are, and as they would be under the circumstances sup- posed." It is this which makes it so difficult to analyze Shakspere's characters? and the difficulty applies to Hamlet, llamlet appears to us like one whom we have known and loved, his thorough humanity constitutes our sympathy— there is in him the same mixture of motives which we see in other men. Any analysis of his mind must be stiff, partial, and unsatisfactory, Was he a man of profound reflection? Yes, but he was something more. Was he deficient in strength of will ? Yes, but more than that. Was he a youth full of filial love ? Yes, but this alone will not convey the character to us. Put all these qualities together and we are still far from the truth. Such analysis bear to the truth the same proportion as the anatomy of the corpse compared with the living subject. Mr. Gordon then went over the story of the play, reading such of Hamlet's soliloquies and so much of the dialogue as were necessary to set forth the subject of his lecture. When speaking of the supernatural portion of the work, he remarked that the master genius was no less familiar with things beyond than with those within the sphere of human life ; and was able to sound tbe possible in things where we had no experience. The effect of the Ghost's appearance first on the soldiers at their watch, then its deeper effect on Hamlet's friend Horatio, held the mind of the reader in suspense, and prepared for the horrors which are unfolded when Hamlet himself comes on. Of the question of Hamlet's real or pretended madness there need be no doubt. Its purpose to give himself opportunity for his revenge and to conceal his actual intentions, together with the success of that purpose in conveying the idea he designed to the people about him, set such a question at rest. Hamlet's intellectual superiority is preserved in all the speeches where his madness is fullest acted. We must not in our report follow the lecturer in his lucid and beautiful exposition of the story, but content our- selves with recording a few of his remarks. Mr. Gordon, after reading the soliloquy on death, took occasion to compare it with the well known speech of Cato, in Addison's play of that name, and also with the soliloquy of Manfred, and he displnyed great critical acumen in tbe comparison. Hamlet's language, excusing himself from his revenge when he sees the King at prayer, though literally a refinement of malice, was a piece of self deception and an excuse for his want of resolution, and it is pro- bable that a higher idea of moral rectitude than tbe times demanded unconciously assisted in determining the sensitive Hamlet from the contemplated act. After bringing the story to a close, Mr. Gordon read the several criticisms of Goethe, Cole- ridge, Channing, Blackwood's Magazine, and Hazlitt, on the subject of his lecture, and then proceeded—" we will attempt to transfer our own view of the general principles of human life which are illustrated in the character of Hamlet." Whatever be our condition in life, a dark shadow of evil hangs over us, a hard necessity encloses us around : we may be free from all the circumstances shewn in this play, but calamity and sorrow can- not be cscaped ; a mystery is woven in our lot. The incidents of this poem differ in degree not iu kind from our own, and that difference serves to" throw" our commoner events into relief, and give them a prominence. Should we not furnish ourselves with principles adapted to bring this phase of our life to good account ? Hamlet did not turn it to good account: and from his failures and misfortunes so painted by Shakspere, we gather instruction. You can imagine no history more real than this. Does it not teach that through the necessities and consequences of our being runs a line of moral connection F Guilt and punishment go hand in hand, and crime brings misery and involves the innocent and the guilty in its sad results. The social consequences of crime are more painful to a sensitive person than the personal consequences. Keep steadily in view this line of moral connec- tion, and the great work will then be to conform to this great law by binding circumstances to our will, or else we are involved in danger. Folly meets with disappointment as surely as crime with misery but by a wise improvement of our opportunities we may become the masters of our destiny in spile of the pressure from without. Hamlet was deficient in the power to grapple with these things, and he becanie the foot- ball of chance and outward influences, and was overcome by them. There is truth in the doctrine of the force of circumstances, but not the whole truth, nor the most important part of the truth. Circum- stance is not a power to be yielded to, but an instrument to be employed ; and our responsibility is connected with it. In opposition to evil and necessity, carried on by the light of reason and morality, consists the great work of life. The greatest goodness is formed in the exercise of the power of the human will so directed, and by this spiritual force is the welfare of man promoted. THE PROPOSED NEW BAKERY. On Monday evening, handbills having been circulated calling a third public meeting, to be held at the City and County Library, on the subject of the proposed new bakery at Kempsey, about 150 artisans, shopkeepers, and youths assembled, Eli Williams in the chair. The Chairman having stated the result of the deputation to the Bishop, which has already been published in the Guardian, called on Mr. Pratt to make further statements on this subject. Mr. Pratt, after some remarks expressive of his inability to address a public audience orally, said he would read a paper on this subject, which he had prepared at a time when he had been less excited and was more in the possession of his senses than, perhaps, he was at lliat time, while labouring under excitement, in consequence of the unexpected absence of Mr. Arrowsmith and Mr. Tree. He then read the paper, which appeared lo us to have no relation at all to the matter iu hand. Thereafter Mr. Pratt spoke at some length on what he called the " misapplication of money in speculations" of various kinds; called attention to an article which appeared in the Worcestershire Guardian of Nov. 7, entitled " Wholesome and Economical Bread," observing that the proposition therein contained could not be carried out with the present machinery for bread- making, and without a competent superintendant; called the Times the most won- derful and excellent paper in the world, quoting extracts from it, several years old, referring to the " plethora of wealth in England;" and concluded by reading a series of resolutions which it was intended to submit to the meeting, for carrying out the bakery as a public measure. The Chairman then addressed the audience, abusing the press in no measured language for not having described the audience at the eventful meeting of the 30th of November as composed of " gentlemen," aud complaining that the language used had been translated by the reporter into the vernacular. After amusing his audience for some time on this topic, and in recommending the new bakery to the patronage of the meeting, Mr. Pratt begged to submit that, as Mr. Williams was supposed to be acting the part of chairman of the meeting, and as such expected to take a neutral part in the proceedings, these remarks would come better from another person, or at all events it would be better that while he made them some one else should take the chair. Eli Williams, however, was not to be stopped here, and although the remark of Mr. Pratt evidently disconcerted him, he proceeded with bis speech. He recommended the meeting, if they were not able to assist the new project by their purses, to give it their countenance, and, when it was carried out, to unite together and eat Mr, Pratt's bread— a recommendation which was received with general applause: for there being no fires in the room the people were glad to make on effort to warm their feet by a little exercise upon the floor. The eloquent speaker having at length concluded his oration, Mr. Lovesey made a third attempt to address the meeting, and when at length he got a hearing he observed, that his only object was to put two or three questions to Mr. Pratt as to feasibility of bis plans, viz., whether Mr. Pra; t had any authentic data to show to parties who might be willing to advance their money for carrying out the bakery, that there was a fair chance of a reasonable return for the capital invested? Also whether Mr. Pratt had ever tried his plan before, and with what result ? Mr. Pratt said it would occupy him a very long time to go into particulars, in order to answer these questions. Mr. Lovesey, however, submitted that the only reply to each question was a simple " yes " or " no." Had he "( Mr. Pratt) a balance- sheet to show the expected income and ex- penditure of the concern, and had he ever tried his machinery before ? If ho had not, then he ( Mr. Lovesey) could not blame any one for withholding tlieir money from the specula- tion. ( Hear, hear.) If Mr. Pratt had tried his system, and proved its merit, then no doubt, ou his demonstrating this to the satisfaction of the public, the public would support him. ( Hear, hear.) Mr. Pratt persisted that it would occupy some hours to answer the questions; on which some parties proposed to fetch their night- caps. After some fencing with the questions, he said the machinery had never been tested: the prospectus showed that a new motive power was to be applied. The other and most important question, however, was not answered by Mr. Pratt. As to his new motive power, he said, of course his opinion of it was very high, but it might turn out other- wise than he expected. They must take the thing as a whole: he had stated his grounds for forming the opinions he enter tained on the subject, and no one had refuted them. Mr. Lovesey, after Mr. Pratt's admission that the new power might fail, contended that he was as much entitled to say that it would not answer as Mr. Pratt was to say that it would. ( Hear.) Here many parties left the room, and the chairman inter- rupted any further discussion between Messrs. Pratt and Lovesey by proceeding to put the resolutions as originally introduced by Mr. Pratt. The first was for appointing a committee to carry out the measure, but no one present being willing to undertake the duties, the attempt to form the com- mittee failed; and the chairman, getting tired of the affair, abruptly closed the proceedings by wishing the meeting " a very good night." The wearied audience took the hint and broko up, Mr. Pratt observing that this of course ended the matter as far as a public bakery was concerned. THE INDIAN SERVICE.— The 3lst regiment has arrived from India, after an absence of twenty- one years. There are only two officers and about thirty men left that embarked in 1825. This distinguished corps was present at Moodkee, Ferozeshah, Buddewall, Aliwal, and Sobraon, with the division of Sir Harry Smith,— in all of which battles it was hotly engaged, and suffered very severely. Twenty- eight officers and 530 men formed the iist of casualities, the whole strength of the regiment before the battle of Moodkee having been thirty- two officers and 733 men. THE REDUCTION OF THE DUTY ON SPIRITS.— It appears from the official tables just published that a reduction of the duty of 7s. lOd. per gallon has already led to an increased consumption of nearly 40 per cent. By a reduction of 33 per cent, of duty, there has been, in the present year, a clear gain to the revenue of £ 59,730. A Poor Man's Life saved by Holloway's Pills.— Jeremiah Laughliri, a porter about the quays of Dublin, was afflicted for years with shortness of breath, spitting of phlegm, night per- spirations, and general weakness of body, a want of appetite, sick headache, besides suffering much from the liver. This man was in the second stage of consumption and not expected to live three months, when he commenced the use of Holloway's wonderful Pills, and by their means alone he is now as strong, as hale, and as well as ever he was in his life. Slgvitnimral finteUigence. VALE OF EVESHAM AGRICULTURAL REPORT. To the casual observer there may appear little to interest by way of an agricultural report for this month, but to those more particularly connected with the cultivation of the soil there is much that is important and deserving attention. The greater proportion of the early planted wheat, particularly on the clay fallows, is coming up strong and well; but some of the more lately planted ou the clover leys is considerably injured by the slugs, so much so that many fields will require planting again. Lime and turnip tops are tho only pre- ventives ; the former to destroy the slugs, and the latter to provide food for those that escape, until the young wheats are grown out of their way. The only sure and safe plan is to replant it at once; the first loss is generally the least. Winter beans are just appearing above ground: a considerable breadth has been planted this autiunn, from' a preference to the spring planted, as they ripen much earlier than the latter, andallowmore time forpreparing tlieland forwheattheensuing autumn. Vetches, rye, and winter oats are exceedingly good, aud promise well for early spring keep. The young clovers are also very good. Hav- ricks are still numerous, and prices low. Clover also abundant, and straw cheap and plentiful. Most of the feeding stock are now in stalls and in folds. A less number than usual, both of sheep and cattle, are being fatted this winter. Swedish turnips are dear, fetching 20s. per ton, or 18s. per cart load, with a good demand for the same. This, and the high price of barley and oil- cake, is driving many half- fatted beasts to market, which would otherwise be kept over until the spring, and beef is consequently lower in price. The same circumstance has caused a depression in the pig market: even the fatted pigs are killed very small, and bacon will most assuredly be scarce and dear unless a plentiful supply be received from the sister island. Wheat has advanced in price the last fortnight, the best samples fetching from 60s. to 66s. per quarter. Very little inferior or sprouted wheat has been brought to market of late, the same having been used for seed, and what now remains must, be left for spring delivery. Some considerable quantity of barley has been thrashed the last month, and has realized from 40s. to 46s. per quarter: although thin and inferior to last year's growth, it malts tolerably well. Oats are in good demand, and the best descriptions are worth from 35s. to 40s. per quarter. Boiling peas of English growth are in less demand the last month, owing to a large arrival of foreign peas being thrown upon the market. Potatoes are scarce and dear, selling from 10s. to 12s. per sack of ISOibs.; damaged 3s. per sack, of which there are but few left. Apples from 8s. to 10s. per pot. Old cider Is. per gallon. Having thus furnished you a report of the value of agricultural produce, & c, I may, perhaps, be allowed to congratulate the electors of the Eastern Division of this County ou the amicable arrangement entered into by the different political parties, iu allowing a Con- servative candidaTe ( Captain TtusEom) to Take undisturbed possession of the field, under a pledge that, at the next general election, a Whig candidate shall be permitted to represent this part of the county with him. From the well known respectability of the proposed Liberal candidate ( Mr. H. Foley), and the deep interest at all times taken in the advancement of agriculture and in the prosperity of ali classes with whom he is connected, no one possessing right and proper feelings could desire that such a man should be excluded from representing a district with which he is so peculiarly identified. Under such an arrangement, and with Mr. Foley's present penchant for agriculture, the farmers of Worcestershire may rest assured that in him they will find a sincere friend and an honest and faithful representative. Dec. 14- H. VALE OF EVESHAM AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION.— Mr. John Ashmore, of Norton, who kindly undertook the office of judge in determining the winners of the sweepstakes for the growth of the best crops of Swede turnips, has made his award as follows. Sweepstakes of 2 sovs. each, with 51. added by C. E. Hanford, Esq., for the best six acres of Swede turnips, grown within twenty miles of Evesham ; second to save his stake ; seven subscribers— Weight per Acre. Ton. cwt. qr. lb. I. Mr. C. Randell, Chadbury 19 7 2 0 Ridged 27 in. apart. 2. Mr. J. Gibbs, Offenham... 17 3 3 20 Drilled on flat 18 in. Sweepstakes of 1 sov. each, with 5/. added by Edward Hol- land, Esq., for the Jbest s'x acres of Swede turnips, grown within twenty miles of Evesham ; second to save his stake ; nine subscribers— Weight per Acre. Xon. cwt. qr. lb. 1. Mr. J. C. Nott, Hallow ... 19 11 3 4 Ridged27in. apart. 2. Mr. C. Randell, Chadbury 19 7 2 0 Ditto. It is due to Mr. Ashmore to say that he has discharged his laborious office with the utmost ability and impartiality. CENTRAL AGRICULTURAL PROTECTION SOCIETY. At the annual general meeting of this society held last week, his Grace the Duke of Richmond having taken the chair, said that application had been made to the society at the meeting on Tuesday last, to take into consideration the pro- priety of applying lo Parliament for a repeal of the malt- tax. That appeared a proper question for the society to decide; but it did not appear to them to be a proper question to decide without due notice to the members. The consequence was, that a special meeting had been called for the 12th January next, when that subject would be discussed. It was of great importance that it should go forth that the farmers should attend their local societies between that time and the 12th of January, because it was of the greatest importance that the society should know what was the opinion of the great body of tiie tenantry with respect to the malt tax. His ( the Duke of Richmond's) opinion on the subject was well known— lie had always thought it a most odious tax, and that it interfered very much with the manufacture of malt. It was a great inconve- nience to farmers to have an excise oflictr about their premises, and prevented their using malt to feed their cattle, which, notwithstanding all that had been said by a learned professor, he thought of very great value and importance; and what was more important than all was, that their labourers would be able to have a cheap and wholesome beverage. At the same time, the question was, not what were his opinions, or those of any other individual, but what was the general opinion of the farmers upon the subject. ( Hear.) 11c hoped that on the meeting of the 12th January, they should be favoured with the opinions of all the protection societies in England, and no doubt the question would then be fairly discussed. lie thought customs duties far better than excise duties, because, if they removed the customs duties, part of the relief went into the pockets of the foreigners, whereas, if they removed excise duties, the whole gain was to the inhabitants of their own country. It was quite out of the question to suppose that the malt duty, which amounted to upwards of live millions sterling, could be repealed without some substitute being found. He should be one of the last to put in jeopardy the public credit of the country, but he hoped they would have an opportunity of fairly discussing the question, and taking measures, if the opinion of the agricultural body should be in favour of it, for carrying a repeal of the malt tax, or else of removing those local burdens which, after the report of the Committee of the House of Lords, he could not think would long be permitted to remain as a burden on the landed interest of the country. That at least he thought they ought to accom- plish.— The committee and officers were then re- appointed and the meeting broke up. THE POTATO DISEASE. We inserted in our columns some time since a communica- tion from the Rev. Harcourt Aldham, of Stoke Prior, which described the beneficial effect produced on a growing crop of potatoes by the application of salt. We have also since noticed further communications containing similar recom- mendations, and we now subjoiu a communication from the United States on the same subject, which has been forwarded to us for publication :— I had two or three acres planted with potatoes in 1844, and, in common with others in this vicinity, suffered the loss of a large portion of the crop. There was the promise of a most abundant harvest; but, iu August the change com- menced, and in a few days hardly a green leaf was to be seen in the fields. The premature death of the tops prevented the further growth of the potatoes, and of those which were growu a large purtiou rotted in the ground, so that uot more than a fourth part of the anticipated crop of good potatoes was ultimately obtained. The diseased potatoes and tops were left in the ground; and as the crop carried from the field was considered too small to essentially impair the ability of the soil to produce another crop, it was ( after reading Mr. Teschemaeher's communications) thought expedient in this case, contrary to good practice in ordinary cases, to follow with the same crop the following year. Furthermore, a removal to another field offered no reasonable hope of escap- ing the effects of a disease whose cause is as yet so mysterious, and which at the same time is so universally prevalent and destructive. Accordingly, before ploughing in the spring of 1845, one hundred and a half weight of medium coarse salt per acre was spread broadcast, and then left one or two weeks, that it might dissolve and mix with the soil. After ploughing and planting, the same quantity was again sown upon the ground, making altogether three cwt. per acre. The usual mode of culture was pursued, and a very fair crop of excellent quality was obtained. The tops were apparently healthy through the season, and not a diseased potato was found at the time of harvest, nor have I up to the present time ( 28th of March, 1846) seen or heard of one being discovered among the lot." The gentleman who communicates this statement has received another communication from a correspondent in tile United States, from which the following is an extract. It is dated the 15th of August, 1846 :— " We have the potato disease very bad all around, except in cases where salt has been used— of these there are several striking examples of adjoining pieces, those without salt having the rot badly, while those salted are quite free ; and I am still without a single case of rot, where salt has been used.'' There is very little doubt that any saline matter would have the same effect as common salt, as is proved by the following statement :— At tho meeting of the Botanical Society of London, held on Friday evening, Mr. Moberley communi- cated a paper on the Potato Disease. Last spring Mr. Moberley set a small patch of ground with Irish potatoes, carefully dividing the ground into two equal portions, both dressed with some manure, and with lime and ashes. When the haulm appeared above the ground, Mr. Moberley had one half of the ground dressed wiih a small quantity of the sulphate of magnesia, and as the plants advanced they were earthed up as usual. The crop of the whole grouud was raised about the 25th of September. The potatoes which had not been dressed with the sulphate of magnesia proved to be much affected with the disease, while the other half were perfectly souud, without one discoloured tuber, and the quantity much exceeding that obtained from the other half of the garden. The crop treated in the ordinary way was raised two days afterwards; there was a large quantity of potatoes diseased, and many roots were quite black, and smelling very offensively. The following is copied from a communication to the Gardeners' Chronicle:— POTATOES NOT DISEASED ON THE SEA COAST.— Being on a visit to the Isle of Wight in July laat, I had abundant opportunity of observing the ayparently healthy state of the potato crops in that island, and was much struck with the luxuriousness of leaf displayed by those growing close to the shore. Those planted on an eminence of 500 or 600 feet above the level of the sea, were certainly not to be compared with those in its immediate vicinity. I was assured by some persons I saw digging within 3 feet of high water mark, and who had housed last year potatoes grown on the same ground, that they did not remember finding one bad one. I can speak to the perfect soundness of those dug when I was present. Every one knows that all vegetation so near the sea is com- pletely crusted over with saline particles, which can soon be made evident to the taste by applying a leaf to the tongue. Caii it be the absorption of such matter that produces such beneficial results as those detailed ? A NEW BARLEY. WE copy from the Bucks Herald the annexed account of a new description of barley, which, we have no doubt, will prove interesting to our agricultural readers:— " We have had foi warded to us a specimen of this singular barley, the particulars of which we hasten to place before our readers. Its great peculiarity consists in its having six rows to each ear, the grains being black outside, but of the purest white within. It produces a fine white flour, and malts beautifully. The straw is unlike the ordinary barley straw, being like a reed in consistency and size, and appears to us as though, sorted, it would be found fit for plait; at any rate, for all the ordinary purposes of wheat straw, the straw of the black barley might be substituted. This extraordinary barley was, we understand, propagated from a few corns found in a sailor's pocket, but, though every endeavour lias been made, no account can be ascertained of its native country, It stood the extreme drought and heat of 1844 summer, and the winter of 1844 and 1845, It appears that it may, therefore, be sown either in spring or autumn, J but the advantages of the latter sowing will be apparent, since, by the use of the black barley, three crops may be gained off the ground within llie twelvemonth. For instance, Mr. Churchill, of the Plough Hotel, Cheltenham, the original culti- vator of the black barley in this country, planted a few acres on the 14th of February, 1846, after a green crop, partly broad- cast, drilled, and dibbled, allowing five pecks to the acre. It was reaped on the 4th of July, the average crop being FIFTY BUSHELS AND Two PECKS TO THE ACRE. Weight, FIFTY- FIVE POUNDS AND A HALF. A portion of the same land he sowed with white stone turnips on the 22nd of July, and on the 2nd of September the turnips were large, and fit for the table. We also understand that some celebrated agriculturists, who were witnesses of this, are of opinion that if sown in autumn, from its being early to harvest, a crop of Swedes may be got from the same land. From the few grains in the sailor's pocket, Mr. Churchill has obtained sufficient to let the barley out t © the public, and we trust that its advantages will not he lost sight of by the agriculturists in this county." DRAINING IVITH ONE- INCH PIPES.— Although I have heard and read a great deal on the utility, efficacy, and advantages derived from the use of inch or inch and a quarter pipes in preference to a larger size in thorough draining ; yet in the application thereof I have frequently found a practical difficulty, more particularly in land approach- ing to a dead level, or where the fall was inconsiderable ; this difficulty being caused principally by the stubbornness of the subsoil or strata through which Ihe drain has to be cut, aud the pipes laid, and the consequent difficulty of obtaining a uniform and even channel for the water. Now I think that any one accustomed to set out and superintend the drainage of land must be fully aware of the difficulty which almost invariably exists ( where the bottom of the drain is cut through what we in this district term a raffy bottom, composed of clay- mixed with small stones, or when veins of sand are found at intervals in the clay) in getting the workmen to bottom the draius, and lay the pipes so mathematically true as to warrant the use of inch pipes except in situations where the fall is tolerably quick. In draining land there are generally two very important objects to be considered — efficiency and economy, and as it cannot be expected that a resident engineer will in all cases superintend the laying of the pipes, as this might in many cases infringe upon economy to a greater extent than the payment of 2s. or 3s. per 1,000 higher price for a larger sized pipe, that would lessen the risk of injury to the drain by any slight deviation from the level that might occur iu bottomiug the drain or in laying the pipes. When it is considered what a small measure an inch in height or depth is, we cannot but see what a trifling degree of inaccuracy either iu cutting the drain or laying the pipes would almost entirely, if not altogether, spoil the channel for conveying the water along the drain, or even the bent form which the pipes not unfrequently assume in the manufacture is nearly sufficient to produce the same effect. At all events we cannot but see how any or all of the casualties must teud to render inefficient a drain laid out with pipes only 1 inch or lj inch bore in the first instance, particularly where there is a want of fall. I entirely concur with some ideas with regard to the form of pipes for situations in which it is desirable to compress the current of the water in the pipes into a less space than what could be done in using 2 inch pipes of the usual circular form ( and I certainly do not recommend a pipe of less depth than ' 2 inches being used in auy case) by having the pipes made of an oval form with a bore, say of 2 inches high by inch wide, with a flat sole or foot to stand upon firmly when placed in the drain ; this would answer the double purpose of securing a safer water way, and also compress the water into a current not wider than the inch pipes.— Thomas Dixon, Darlington. HOPS. WORCESTER, DEC. 18.— Tbe hop trade is more brisk at this period of the year than could be expected, considering the earliness in which the new crop came to market. The number of pockets weighed from the planters last Saturday was— uew, 142; and old, 1 ; and 68 new in the week. Prices firm at the following quototions, per cwt.;— Low and middling, from 60s, to 80s.; fine and choice, from 82s. to 90s.; yearlings, from 50s. lo 75s. BOROUGH, DEC. 14.—' The market for hops has been with- out alteration, and there is very little doing. We quote prices the same as last week:— Farnliauis, 105s. to 130s.; country, 95s. to 115s.; Mid Kent, 87s. to 105s.; ditto bags, 86s. to 98s.; Wealds, 80s. to 90s.; Sussex ( pockets), 78s. to 86s.; ditto yearlings, 62s, to 70s. ; Worcester, 75s. to 88s.; ditto choice, 90s. to 94s. FAIR IN THE ENSUING WEEK. ft'arwickshire.— Kineton, Wed. give air unless to depress the thermometer, or to avoid a super- abundance of rank steam from fermenting matter. Let the syringe be applied two or three times a day, suffering the wood to become dry between the applications.— Strawberries: Where these must bo obtained as early as possible, say by the end of February, a lot should now be introduced. Unless their buds are perfect through early cultivation, thorough ripening, and careful protection of their roots from frosts, it is teu to gne they prove an abortiou. Any house or pit will do for the first three weeks, provided a temperature of 45 degrees to 50 degrees can be maintained, with a moist atmosphere. Let them by all means have as light a situation as possible at all times. FLOWER GARDEN AND SHRUBBERIES— No time should now be lost in affording tender roses protection. The tops of standards, worked on ordinary stocks, may be protected by wisps of straw, bound amongst and over their branches, or by tight canopies firmly fixed, according to the principles laid down for the protection of tender plants in the Calendar for the last week in October. Beds or masses of Hybrid Per- petuals, Teas, or other tender kinds, should have some porous material strewed amongst them, to protect the collar. Old exhausted tan from the piue pits, clean riddled— using the coarse particles— is very good. New sawdust may do also, or even a good coating of half- decayed leaves. Four or five inches of such materials will at least secure the collar safe in the event of a very severe winter. KITCHEN GARDEN AND ORCHARD.— Continue to trcnch, dig, and ridge every spare inch of ground when frost permits ; this is particularly to be observed in gardens inclining to a clayey texture. If the frost continues let the manure necessary be wheeled out for the whole of the spring cropping, laying it in heaps, either on the spot, or as near as possible to it. BOttnMttral am? otfjcr itlarfcm. CORN EXCHANGE, MARK- LANE, MONDAY, DEC. 14. At this day's market the arrivals of wheat were rather large, with an advance upon English of 2s. to 3s. per qr., and on Foreigu, both free and bonded, 3s. to 4s. per qr. Flour advanced 3s. per sack, and lis. to 3s. per barrel. Malt firm, with an upward tendency. Barley a free sale, and upon some qualities more money was" obtained. Beans and feeuing peas each lather dearer, and white boiling peus made 2s. to 3s. per qr. above the rates of last week. Oats were less in request, and with the present arrivals some quantity was offering lrom the previous supplies, which operated against any improvement; still 6d. to is. per qr. was obtained beyond the prices of last week. Per qr. Per q r. s. s. ! Wheat, Essex, Kent, & Suffolk Red - - 62 to 08 White - - - 63 71 Lincolnshire & York- shire tied - - 59 62 White - - - 65 68 Scotch ... 55 59 White - - - 58 GG Irish - - - - 53 50 White - - - 50 62 Barley, Essex and Kent, Norfolk and Suffolk Malting - - - 41 45 Distilling - - 39 42 Chevalier - - 43 49 Grinding - - - 35 38 Irish, Distilling- - 30 38 Grinding - - - 30 35 Rye, Distilling - - 44 Grinding - - - 30 35) Malt, Norfolk & Suffolk 09 74! Brown - - - 01 63 Malt Kingston and Ware 71 Brown - - - 03 Oats, Lincolnshire and Yorkshire, Feed - 25 Pota. and Poland - 29 Snotcli - - - 20 Devonshire and Welsh 24 Londonderry, Newry, and Cloninel ditto - 26 Limerick and Sligo - 27 Cork and Waterford - 35 Black White- Galway Extra Beans, Tick - Harrow and Small 401 Peas, Essex, Boilers - 25 - 21 - 24 - 42 - 44 - 54 - 50 Blue - Grey, Maple, & Hog - 42 Extra - - - .45 WEDNESDAY, DEC. 16. 76 07 27 31 30 20 28 29 26 29 23 28 45 46 58 70 45 < 7 At this day's market the wheat trade was at fully 3s. per qr. above the prices ol Monday; and all appearanees were this morning in favour of very considerable and immediate further advances iu the value of wheat. Barley about Is. to 2s. per qr. higher. There was scarcely a single arrival of Irish oats, and a comparatively small quantity from the eastern coast of Scotland; and the late arrivals of the foreign article was cleared at about Is. per qr. advance. IMPERIAL AVERAGES. Average Price of Corn, per Imperial Quarter, for the IFeek ending December 5. Wheat 59s 7d I Oats 2Gs 7J | Beans .... 45s 4d Barley .... 42s lid j Rye .... 42s 5d | Peas .... 48s 0d Aggregate Average of ( he Six / Fecks which regulates the Duty. Wheat 60s 7d j O . ts .... 26s 7JI Beans .... 46s 2d Barley .... 43s 2( 1 | Rye . . 42s 4d | Peas .... 49s Gd Duty on Foreign Corn. Wheat .... 4s Od I Outs .... Is 6d | Beans .... 2s Od Barley 2s Od J Rye 2s Od | Peas 2s Od WOOL MARKETS. LONDON. DEC. 14.— The public sales of wool having been con- cluded, a full average quantity found buyers, at full piices. The imports since our last was very trifling. Privately, very little busi- ness done in any description, at late rates. LIVERPOOL.— Foreign wool was in fair request during the week, and some large purchases were made on speculation, chiefly in South American, but they had not any effect in prices. Imports for the weekending Dec. 12. Foreign; 72,470; previously, 32; total. 73,502 bales. Scotch, 17,602; previously, 640; total, 18,243 bales. LEEDS.— English : A better business done in the sales of wool this week, and last week's piices were firmly supported. Foreign : The demand more animated since last report, and a fair amount of busi- ness transacted ; recent prices were firmly supported. BRADFORD.— Combing wools in more demand. No variation in prices, SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARKET. DEC. 14. The holding of the Great Christmas Cattle Market has been invariably regarded with more than usual interest, not only by the agricultural body, but the community at large. This being the day appointed lor that purpose ( which, according to the arrangements for several past years, almost immediately follows the close of the proceedings in the show yard at the Bazaar, thus giving the owners of the stock there exhibited and not disposed of, an opportunity of bringing their beasts and sheep hither for sale) a very large number of buyers and sellers, as well as visitors, from most parts of the United Kingdom assembled ut a very late hour; anduot a little anxiety was manifested by them to ascertain the numbers and the quality of the stock brought together. The various points of excel- lence in meat of the Devon breed, reflected the highest credit upon the breeders. The supply of shoit liorns from the northern districts exceeded that of any otlier. There were some capital old Sussex beasts exhibited, and the animals received from Scotland were in first- rate condition. Welsh runts were strong in force, and of quality seldom equalled, and with North Devons and other breeds, as well as with fattened cows, the market was well supplied. Another most iutexfisiing portion of the show was the exhibition of sheep. A t the corresponding period in 1845, the supply, in. this particular, was remarkably good; but that of to- day was unpre- cedentedly piime as to quality. Owing to the prevailing fine and seasonable weather, and the large attendance of both town and country buyers, the demand for all breeds of beasts was steady, the prioiest Devons, Herefords, and Scots, were mostly disposed of, at prices varying from 4s. 2d. to 4s. Od, per 81ls., at which, considering the immense number brought forward, a fair clearance was effected. As there were few inferior beasts in the market, prices were well supported. The numbers of sheep were somewhat large for the Christmas market. The primest old Downs commanded a steady sale, at prices fully equal to those obtained on this day se'nnight, but all other breeds hung oil hand, at barely late rates. With calves, a fair supply. All kinds of veal were a slow sale, at previous currencies. l'rime small pigs moved off steadily ; other qualities of pork slowly, at last week's prices. The receipts of foreign stock into London since this day se'nnight, have consisted of about 30U beasts, l, 000sheep, and 24 calves. To- day, there were on offer about 100 beasts, and 3J0 sheep from Rotterdam, in very inferior condition. At the outports, about 100 beasts and 700 sheep have been landed fiom Holland and Germany. PRICES PER STONE OF SLBS. TO SINK TUB OFFAL. s d s d Inferior Beasts 3 0 3 8 Second quality ditto 3 8 3 10 Prime large Oxen .... 4 0 4 2 Prime Scots, ike 4 4 4 6 Inferior Sheep 3 10 4 0 Second quality ditto 4 2 4 4 Coarse- woolled ditto 4 6 4 8 Prime Southdown.. 4 10 5 2 Prime Southdown in s d s d wool 0 0 0 0 Lamb 0 0 0 0 Large coarse Calves 3 8 4 2 Prime small ditto .... 4 4 4 8 Suckling Calves, each! 8 0 29 0 Large Hogs 3 8 4 4 Small Porkers 4 6 4 8 ( Jr. old store pigs, each I6s a 19s SUPPLY AS PER CLERK'S STATEMENT. Beasts, 5,470 | Sheep 20,570 ( Calves, 92 | l'igs 240 WORCESTER, DEC. 18. There was a fair supply of wheat at our market on Saturday which was cleared off early at an improvement of Is, to 2s. per qr. Barley unaltered in value. Oats sold slowly, and no advance could be obtained. Beans again dull, but lower prices were not submitted to. Peas, Is, perqr, higher. The following are the averages :— Wheat, white New Foreign Wheat, red New Foreign Ditto new Malting Malt Old Oats, English New ditto s d s d s d 8 d . 7 8 8 0 Old Oats, Irish 3 9 4 3 . < 1 0 0 0 New Oats, Irish 3 6 4 < 1 . 0 0 0 0 Beans, old, English. . 6 0 6 4 . 7 2 7 8 Ditto, Foreign ... 5 6 6 4 . 0 U 0 0 Ditto new, English . 6 0 6 4 0 0 0 0 Peas, Feed . 5 10 fi 6 . 4 9 5 0 Boilers, white 7 0 8 0 .. 5 0 5 6 Vetches, Winter ... 6 6 7 4 . 8 6 « J 0 ditto, Spring 0 0 0 0 . 5 0 5 3 Rye, new . 0 0 0 0 . 4 0 4 6 i££ orttculturi » OPERATIONS FOR THE WEEK. CONSERVATORIES, STOVE, & C.— Conservatory: In frosty weather this structure will require a \ ery great niccty of management ; some rather difficult problems have to be worked out. The best plan is to keep as low a temperature as can possibly be allowed, say 40 degrees lo 45 degrees at night, and to leave a little back and front air all night. The front must be very moderate, or the atmospheric moisture instead of passing quietly away by the back apertures, will be condensed as it arises. With a good roof covering 40 degrees would be amply sufficient., and then there would be sufficient atmospheric moisture at all times, without the special applica- tion of water,— Mixed Greenhouse : See that the young stock of Heliotropiums, scarlet Pelargoniums, Persian Cyclamens, with other flowers, grown especially for winter, have nice light situations, and regular attention as regards watering. Let Ericas have close attention as to watering, if they stand unfor- tunately near flues or pipes, as they may become suddenly very dry. Keep up a quiet ventilation day and night if possible; let the air slcal in moderately, and dispense with strong fires— or, indeed, of any kind, when the temperature can be kept within the limits without them. Do not water the Pelar- goniums until they are thoroughly dry, and take care to fumigate frequently and slightly. KITCHEN GARDEN FORCING.— Pines • Winter watering of pines in pots is of rather doubtful character ; a better way with genera] stock in pots is to cover over the pots with tan two or three inches thick, provided the bottom heat will permit such proceeding.— Early Vines, Peaches, $ r.: If any portion of the stem of the vines now in forcing is near the influence of the flues or pipes, such should be bound with moss, old mat, or any other material, to ward off the dry heat. Keep the temperature at present down to 60 degrees in the case of sun- shine in the day time, sinking to 50 degrees at night. Do not INSPECTOR'S WEEKLY RETURN OF CORN SOLD. Total quan. Av. per qr. ! Totalquan. Av. perqr. Wheat 1093qis 4 6u. £ 2 18 I I Rye ... Oqr. Obu. X'O 0 0 Barley 005 5 2 0 8} Beans . . 10 7 2 8 0 Oats. . 0 0 0 0 0 i Peas . . 23 5 2 8 li COUNTRY MARKETS. BIRMINGHAM, DEC, 16.— During the present week an advance of 2s. to 3s. on foreign, and 3s. to 4s. on English wheat, has readily been obtained. Barley in improved demand, at former prices. Oats Is. per qr. dearer. Beans more saleable at former prices: Boiling peas 2s. per qr. higher. GLOUCESTER, DEC. 12.— There was an animated demand for wheat, and English samples realised an advance of Is. to 2s. per qr. and foreign 2s. to 3s. ou last week's rates. Barley and beans firm, but without alteration from last week's prices. There was very little enquiry for oats.— Averages . Wheat, 359 qrs., 56s lOd; barley, 175 qrs , 37s 2d ; oats, 217 qrs., 2Gs ltd HEREFORD, DEO. 12.— Wheat ( old) 7s Od to 7s 6d ; barley, ( new) 5s 0d to 5s Od; beans ( old) 6s lo 6s 6d ; peas, ( old) 63 Od ; oats, 3s 3d to 4s ( id. SHREWSBURY, DEC. 12.— There was a small attendance, and the trade ruled as follows :— Wheat, Gs 8d to 7s 9d; bailey, 4s 5d to 5s 2d ; oats, 2s 8d to 4s per imp. bushel. LIVERPOOL, DEC. 15.— This morning's market was very excited, the sales of wheat, 011 speculation, to consumers, and from Ireland, being on a most extensive scale, at an advance of 6d. to 8d. per bushel on the rates of this day week. Free flour advanced 2s. 0d. and bonded 3s. per barrel; the latter sold to a large extent. The little Indian com remaining here brought very high rates. Oats 3d, per bushel, and oatmeal 3d. per load higher.. fiiwoUient ana ISanUrupt Mcgiotcr. FRIDAY, DECEMBER II. BANKRUPTS. Thomas Moiley, Oxford- street, jeweller. Jiimes Jeffs, Margaret- street, Cavendish- square, saddler. John llallowell, Newcastle- upon- Tyne, maltster. Henry Cochrane, Manchester, merchant William Hayes, Liverpool, shipwright. Nicholas Broad, Old Market- street, Bristol, tea dealer. Charles Wilcockson and William Sharpe Barrick, Kmgston- upoa- llull, stock- brokers. TUESDAY, D EC E M B E R 8. BANKRUPTS John Cross ' Humby, Blackfriar's- road, and Northampton, boot manufacturer. William Thomas Gooding, Old Brentford, glass cutter. William Hunter, Gray's- inn- lane, coach manufacturer. Henry Tattersall, New Wharf- road, Battlebridge, common brewer. Thomas Taylor, Headboume, Worthy, Southampton, blacksmith, William Thorns and John Matthews, Hungerford, Berkshire, brewers. John Nevvby, Leicester, haberdasher. Heury Peers, Birkenhead, stone masons William Jones, Liverpool boiler maker. Frederick William Farley, Liverpool, hatter. James Sutclifl'e, Habergham Eaves, Lancashire, cotton spinner. Richard White, Duiham and Sunderland, merchant. Printed and Published for the Proprietor, at the Office No. 5, Avenue, Cross, in the Parish of Saint Nicholas, in the Borough of Worcester, by FRANCIS PARSONS ENGLAND Printer, residing at No 52, Moor Street, l'ything of Whist ones, in the Borough of Worcester. SALVUDAYJ DECEMBER 1846.