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aniotigdt printers has bi en exemplified in of pC,,0n 'ritd <»n Tui-sday and Wednenday io the Court XchequPr, The action was brought by the proprietor of IV Times and two other papers agaiost the pro- ljLle'0r of the Sheffield Daily Telegraph, for publinliiug a e. » consisting of attacks propagated by the Printers' of ihat lown. Tbe trial resulted in a verdict for tbe if iff, w i t h £ 5)0 damages. n Clirimmaa Ev tlte aDtiual gifts to the poor of the "poll's were distribute'! in their respective parishes by 0' #ev ei'al Clergymen, assisted by thv Churchwardrns and Q*er8efrs, and the gifts of her Msjenty and the Prince Hri .-rt were given to the poor inhabitants of Windsor (>4 "s 'icioity. Al Kew, by direction of tbe Drichess uf u'Ke a"d the Duke of Cambridge, each poor family r0 8"PP'ied with the material* fur a substantial dinner of 'If Ueef and ptum-pudding; tea, sugar, and a quantity Jte*r,n clothing and blaokeis were also distributed. At ri6|0?,i,iS,on the Duc'iesn of Kent's gills, consiating olflan- (Ji f^*okels, warm clothing, fuel, ami provisions, were ''buted amongst the poor in the district. Hje LEOAL APPOINTMENTS.—The f llowing app^int- are announcad in the government morning papar: Co r- Hans Hamilton, Q.L., assistant barrisier for the 0(Utl'y of Galway, haa been apj>oint< 0 to the chairmanship M county of Armagh, vacant bj ihe rebian tion of J: Edward Tickel, Q.C. Mr. W. W. Breretop, Q.C., Poi'8'80' barrister for the county of Kerry, has been ap- q to the county of G»lway, Mr. Ste^hnn Copinger, (je* •« &a«i«iant barrister for the county of Ktldare, has J aPP0inted to the county of Kerry and Air. T. t(jeroJ'i Q. C., has been appointed assistant barrister for Ill! County of Kildare, Mr, Copinger is a distinguished tCathuiic lawyer, whs hlJs consistenMy supported Ml|C0U,erv'w' parly (or mllDY vears, and his promotion is l,gi,re S" tier*! satisfaction. Mr. Le'roy's appointmeut l¡igl io Well-Je8.eHed, not ontyoa account of his own "el I POSition at the bar, but also as being the sou of the t(jefe-rahle Chief Justice of the Qaeeu's Bench, and bro- r the member for the University,

PROM FiilDAY'S LONDON GAZETTE. > BANKRUPTS. JQI JQ n Gardener. Northampton, builder j. Henry Neville. Northampion, curiier and leather 0e*IU'r j 'Re Drake, Ludgate-hill, Lond on, and Upper-street, i* '"Rton, Aliddlesex, watchmaker, ailversmith, and ^\thWeller- ,lian Martin, Rickiushal! Superior, Suffolk, cattle and lt'1CLeeP dealer anil salesman 1. 8rd Castle Jones Baylis, Lilypot-lane and Jewin-streef, JoseOIlUoa, shoe mercer JOSB^I* J'-wry-streef, Aldgaie, Lonilo,a, general dealer hut Dartfoid, Kent, corn dealer, baker, pork 'tho cher, lDiirket gardener, ami seedsman I Burrow, Shrawley, Worcestershire, farmer and \V,|tle dealer I Uytton, Stourport. Worcesteishire, auctioneer "•ftlster ^'c^en, Nottingham, lace manufacturer It-#ln Williams, Melton Mowbray, Liecestershire, inn- per e" Hind, Durham, grocer and provision dealer FROM TUESDAY S LONDON GAZRTIE. BABKRUPTCT ANNULLED. Ird Djzon, Gravesend, oilman. ^OUTF. BANKRUPTS, "'ogp.L*11 Hill*, Dartforrt, miller. f^hij ok ire' i^,ces,er> Warwickshire, licensed victualler, /'Hia e general dealer. S>B.wPe«riall> ^derminster, licensed victualUr. niCk ^dntyre. Merthyr Tydvil, draper «, "d William James Rotbwell, Rochdale, woollen ""ufacturers.

LLANGOLLEN EISTEDDFOD. THE MADOC ESSAYS ON THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA. We have been favoured with copies of the adjudica- tions on these e^say*, and have much pleasure in laying I/wm before our reader*. The adjudication of the Rev. D. S. Evans, formerly professor of the Wc-Ish language at Lampeter college, and author of an excellent English Welsh dictionary in two vols., recently published, is as follows: — TO THE SECRETARIES OF THE LLANGOLLEN EISTEDDFOD. GENTLEMEN —Inasmuch as a controversy has arisen respecting the adjudication on the Madoc tssays, and as one of the reasons alleged by the Llangollen committee for with- holding the prize from the author of the best efS*y, is an imputed informality in my award, J, as one of the appointed judgee, consider it to be my duty to the competitors and to myneif, again to lay before the committee a formal state- ment of my views. The subject wa" announced in these terms:—"For the best essay on the discovery of America in the 12th centurv, by Prince Madoc ap Owen Gwynedd, JE20 and a silver star. ■Si* esfurs were fo'warded to me. Five of tbe writers took the affirmative side, and laboured with more or le.*s ab l'ty, to show that Madoc ap Owen had discovered America but one of them under the signature of Gwern- erith ISrgydlyn, by far the ablest writer, took the opposite -iiie examined the subject fully and candidly; displayed throughout a deep acquaintance with all the evidences bearing upon the question; and manifested no small amount 01 critical sa¡¡;acity. Wh'le the essays were under consideration, I received a note from one of (he secretaries, stating that both he and his colleague were of opinion that a trea,i8e "sent in on the non-diccovery of America, ought not to be received, there being no such subject in the programme. This interference with the functions of the judges, appears to me to have been irregular and improper, and implied that those to whom ihe adjudication of these e-says had been entrusted were not capable of deciding whether they were on the pro- posed subject or no'. I there'ore claim for myself, and fur tho-e who acted with me, the right to interpret th.< terms of the announcement in accord ince with their obvious meaning, and the spirit of the age in which we live; I am decidedly of oplllion that the negitive essayist ought to parlicipllte in the competition; and I emphatically deny Ihal the cllm¡a-titof8 were bound to commit the immorality of adapting any conclusion that seemed 10 theiu not war- fIIllle,1 by the premises. I do not think it necessary to enter into the compirative merits of the affirnutive essays. All of them, "hither we t-tke them singly or cj'.lectivelv, appear to me to fall far short of establishiui the points which their respective writers have Undertaken to prove; and as literary compo- sition*, none of them will bear comparison with the master- ly essay of Gwrnerth Ergydiyn. Having read the whole of the essays with as much care as th", circumslances permitted, the impressions pioduced on my miod are Ibe<e:- 1. That the existence of the B;i-called Welsh Indians has not, er bee. established. 2. Tuat Midoc' alleged discovery of the American con- tinent tesls upon bllre conjecture. 3. And tilt it is still ao open question whether he ever )efthisownc"uotry. if these essays exhaust the subject to which they refer; lean draw no other inference from their couteots th^n that these points cannot, with our present ftock of knowledge, he proved ta Ihe satisfaction of unbiassed minds. I am' therefore, of opinion that one judgment alone is pos-ible, and that the pr ze ought to be awarded to Gwrnerth Ergyd- IJm. In this sense, hut less fully, I had expressed myself to you in the communication which I addressed to you in the earlier pirt of the Eisteddfod week; and I must be permit- !p.11 to obseiVi* that mv decision ill this cme was Ui formal m in the ca«e of Barddas and the Diarebion Cymreig, of which I acted ao 0011 of the ju.t;e., nld uO c,)fI)plaint wa. made ihit my verdict, in refeieuee to those subjt-ct", w.is II, ficieut in poiut ur formality. I uow continue .y former judgment, aad must be undei- stood to nfliim emphatic.Hy,— 1. That the e»s»y of Gwrnerth Ergydlym is ttrictly upon the subject, and entitled to compete. 2. That it is by far the be..t essay sent 10 me. H.Andthat the author i. fully elltit;cd. to the psize of £20 and the silver star. I remain, Gentleman, you faithful servant, U. SILVAN EVNAS. Llangian, Dec. 8th, 185S. •• I hereby eatify that the above is a true copy of the adjudication sent this day to the Honorary Secrcta>ies of the Llangollen Eisteddfod. Witness my hand, tbii eighth day of December, 1858. D. SILVAN EVANS." The piize for Harddas was awarded to one of ihe Hon. Sec- the Ii-^v. John Williams (Ab. libel.), who is also a CJtnpetitor for the Madoc prize. Gwrnerlh Ergydlym is Mr. T. Stephens, author of The Literature of the Kymry." We have not heaid whether Myvyr Morganwg has sent in a second adjudicition but, assuming that he has. and that it is in tbe sime terms as the first, the concluding paragraphs of which have been publWhed by Mr. Stephens in the Herald C,lJmreig. IInd have been 3drnÏtle,j to be correctly giveu. by Myvyr him;elfin Baner Cymru; his decision is to Ihis effect that the priz; of £ 20 lo be divided between Gwrnerth Ergydlym and the best of the affirmative essayists that, as to the silver star, each of these writers should review the work of the other, and the star be adjudged to wb'cbe»er hhouJd he victorious. Myvyr does nut name the affirmative eBsayists whom he deems best; but Mr. S'ephen* aflirms him to have inaJc a verbal statement to him, that it is the wiitercalling himself the Wild Mau ot the Wuod, who is known to be Ab Ithe'. It is not necessary for us to intrude ourselves into the quarrel between Mr. Stephens and the Secretaries of tbe Eisteddfod; but we miy state all the Welsh papers teem with denunciations 01 the conduct of thtl Llangollen com- mi1'ee in this adair. We may IIlso ohserve that Mr. Ste- phens denies, in the Herald C!JlIlreig, that his esiay. is written on the ''non-discovery," or with any set purpose to dispatage Welsh tradition. The table of tonteuta has beeu furnished to us, yiz., Chapter I.—A statement of the evidences in favour of the asserted discovery of America, by Prince Madoc ap Owen Gwynedd. Chapter II.—The impression produced upon the minds of preceeding enq lirers by the foiegoing stat ments. Chapter II.—The impression produced upon the minds of preceeding enq lirers by the foiegoing stat ments. Chapter III.—A critical examination of the foregoing statements and opinion?. The essay consists of nearly 203 quarto pagas; and the Author s conclusion l' on,y sulrercd to appear al the c Oae of the list chapter. It would seem, therefore, that he lias treated the subject fully and fairly; and that the jo l^es who have read the es^ay, hive good leisons for their deci- sion'. It is a very unusual proceeding for a couruitiee to resist the award "I ils own judge and t!)<,re does not teein to be Miffijieut ground lor suih a line of conduct iu lhis instance.

THE MEMBERS FOlt BRIDGWATER ON PAR. LIAMENTAUY REFORM. 011 Wednesday evening, a puhlic medillK was held at Ihe Town-hall, Bridgwater, to take into consideration the question of Parliamentary reform. The meding was con- vened by the Liberal party, and both Col. Tynte, M.P., and A. W. Kinglake, Esq M.P., attended. J. L. Sealey, Esq., presided. Col. Tyntp, M.P., slIi.1 he was delighted to meet them-hl.i always was delighted In meet Ihcm-or he nhould be one of the most ungrateful of men fur he received, when a candi date for the W e81cI n Division of Somerset, strong and almoit overwhelming support flam the division of Briin- water, which had been continued up to the present time, having had the honour of being their representative fur the third time in parliament. He had told them 011 many hustings that he neva Kave a pledge. U it when their representatives «ave a vote in the House ol Commons, they gave a pledge- (hear, hear). He had voted for the extension 01 the suffrage; but not to the exlent he bedeved necessary, absolutely necessary, now to extend it—(cheer-). lie was prepared to extend that suffrage as they wished It extended —(cheers). He wat not prepared to give a no<e universal suffrage, but he eoultt see no objection whatever to the suffrage deliued to them that night—(cheers). In thejear 1832 he was a candidate, after the parsing of Iii" Reform Bill of those days, for the representation ot the Western divirion of Somerset. 11,. admitted, very much tlJ hi" shame that he did not then know ve y much about politics; aed he believe lie looked i ito Ihe diclHillary to ascertain'the meaning of the word When on his canvas, several people came to him and said that they wiøheu to vote for hirn; that chey thought Reform woulJ jo a deal of good but Squire So anu-so, their landlord, wa« the other way, alii they must lurll out, having no leas, if they voted for him—(hear, hetr). They hoped he would help to give them the billot if he went to PlIrliumenl- (bear, hex) From that time to this he had vote I for ihe ballot, and he need not tell them that he should vote for it again—(»pplau<t). The wider the range of the constitu- encie-i—-the lar^>ttr the number of electors in this great country, the more pres-ina would be the influence brought to bear upon then'he more oecessary woul I be the vote by ballot—(bear, in ai). Another pdnt ia (htir resolution was that the duration of Parliament should not exceed three years. 11$»aj there pledged again. He had voted lor that motion. Is was not a new question. The subject of re-dis'ribqtjon of peats was a diiTereut question. To speak for himself he should be very sorry for them to lose its members or even oue member. No doubt the few must give way'to the many; and lfsomeyreat national measure was abso utely necessary to be carried, with the loss of a member for Bridgwater, he supposed be mu-t submit to wha*, in 111-' opidior', would be a dreadful occurrence—(he .r). What the Reform Bill* to come, may be, no one yet knew. We vr re told that Lord Derby, *a Prime Minister of EtiRbcd, had a Bill, if not cut and dried cutting and drying —(laughiei)—at all events, weshoutd know io a tew work*. Mr. John Blight was preparing another that also was floating about, not quite settled as to what it was to la. He would, to the beet of his ability, gIve his vote for the best mea-ure that was brought forward-for that mo"t likely to oe productive of good results for that best cal- culated to meet with their epprobstion-^(cbeeis). A. W, Kinglake, Esq., next addressed the meeting. They were all aware thai her M»je8'y's Ministers were prepaiing a bill fot the reform of Parliament; they were also aware that Mr. Bright was understood to have a bill for a similar purpose in course of preparation, and he did thiok, there- fore, that they acted wisely in meeting for the purpose of reminding themselver, as it were, of the principles which they held in reference to this great question, and of com- paring their viwws with those eutertaiued by the men who had the bpnour of representing them iu Parliament. There were four questions embodied in their resolution', and the last one proposed, with reason, not to make a man's vote dependent upon the circumstance of his having paid his rate. In that view he entirely concurred. There was another point with regard to the du>ation of Parliament, Most were aware that under the law as it stood, Parliament may possibly eudure for. period of not less than seven years. That period was a great dellltoo long. It was not a question upon which any member of Parliament would pledge himself as to the exaet vote which he intended to give; but hje had no hesitation in assuring them that be cordially concurred in the proposition that the duration of Parliament ought to be considerably shortened. A still more important question was that with respect to tbe ex- tension of the suffrage. He said, on a former occasion, that the political principle to which he always sppealel in ques- tions of this description was this "I put my trust in the people of England"—(cheers), He did firmly believe that the people of England were a wise and orderly people, and that the mOre they trus ed Ihem Ihe more they would find them worthy of confidence. Only trust an Englishman with his political 8S well as civil rights—only make him know he was a person charged with responsibility, and he would do hi. duty to his country-(ch..en). Be 111\11 now concluded the remuks he had thouj.tht it necessary 1<1 make to them. He might h ive said much more with regard to the endeavours he had made to represent them in Parlia- ment. No pue felt more than he did how fat short his efforts had been. But all that he could say was, that he had rlone his besr, and it would be for them to SIIY, when the time of electiun came, whether they would cut short his political career, or renew the tru-t which they .gue him at the gloriolls election of 185i -(cheen) A vote of thanks to the Borough Members'' was then proposed and unanimously carried.

CITY SNARES AND TOWN TRAPS. A lecture, with ihe above title, was delivered on the 22nd ult., in the Baptist Chapel, St. Mary-s'reet, Cardiff, by the Rev. A. Mursell, of Manche«ter. lie delivcred a lecture on the same subject at Bristol on the previous Monday, of which the following is a brief noticc from the Mirror: — The Lacturer said it required no apology at his hands when lie told the audience that ;he lecture he had to de- liver was ølmost excIugively addressed to young men, inas- much as he appeared before them under the auspices of the Young Men's Christian Association. If there should be nothing found in it relevant or appropriate to the female portion of those present he hoped they would excu-e it on that account, and he thought that when he had done he (•hould not have to make any apology to them fot the ad- vice which he should give 10 rhdr sons aud brothers (hear, hear). Before he had done he might be the means of moving some anxious mother or loving daughter on the subject. He was much more anxious that his address should be useful than ornamental, and therefore, he should not attempt an elaboration of style which might charm the ear but not arrest the heart, and in making this resolution he did not deny that he was making a virtue of necessity (H laugh), "City Snares and Town Traps" was the title of his address, and that tille proclaimed its ol>jecl!I. Now there WIH no lime when young mea were so fast asleep as when they affected to be wide awake, nor was there any time when they had a tendency to swagger, so much as when they hud full sway, when they believed they were free from their paternal roof?, when they were loose from the authority of guardian- and when they became conscious of heinie their own l1Ia-tt-r.. They affected "hen to have Ure bearing of men of great experience, had a notion that nery- body desired to impose upon them, and accordingly they became exceedingly k-iowir.g IInd intensely silly (heai) Th y prac.i-ed the ait of cunning, shook their heads when. they viewel themselves in the looking glas*, and took an interest in having, which the smooth chins of many of them rendered at present a supeifluom operation (laugh ler); but still, the more they thought of themselves the more foolish they were, and the deeper was their blindness. They would rather be thought anything in the world than greenhorns (liuphter), and yet the worldly wisdom they put on proclaimed their intense verdancy (laughter). Speaking of snare* and traps the lecturer said it was the young rabbit' whic'i became the victims of the unsophis- ticated pieces of wire and stick which the poachers laid for their capture. The white taile of the little aniua's were to be see i protruding from the poacher's cuat. and not tbe i old and experienced rabbits which hid too much virdom to be caught. Tho*e whose skins were glossed and whose (general deineinour Wè\. coquettish, were always to be found among the victims of a trap, and were alwiys getting themselves lulo trouble. And they W()uJr) filld that in winding through Ihe ,treeh of a large city or lown it was rhe fa9t young men who were out in dog co!lIlfS- puppy collltn woultl be a better name (laugliter), peg top trowsers, and long, very long tailed coats (renewed laughter), who might be found lounging near the snares with which their streets were be^el,—for what were the painted en- hances, and handsome signboard*, but tempting baits for catching the soles and flat fish (Unghter). A young man m'^ht be brought tip under the unsophisticated influence or Ii country home; after a cCTlllin tillle the restraints were loosened lie was i-ent to Ii boarding-school iu some larg* town; he leaves the fondest ties of home and at school he heard tetiioft hints about the advantage of living where no parent was present to prevent him seeing a little life. Wb I a cant was there in that expression —seeing a little life 1 The young man afterwards mixed with those who were seeing Ii Ie," as they termed it-who shook their poma- tumed heads, talked with all affected air of the slang of our pulpils-who spoke slang of their friends-,uch fur instance as speaking of them as being "stowed" when they were drunk, reduced iu ciicinnstanres, «'stumped, put at elbow?," or at low water mark,—who-e language, in fact, was "a different from the English tongue as Ficnch was from Chinese; and who had adiatcnta-td pronunciation as contrary to Walker, Webster, or any other lexicographer, as Tim Bobbin's the Lancashire po?f, was to the elegant pronunciation of the Queen's Drawing-room (cheers). Who were those gentlemen who talked of seeing life ? They were those who were generally in the habit of going to public houses, smoking short pipes, singing comic songs, a la Dick 5-wiveller (laughter) at the harmonic, and going home at two or three o'clock in the morning; or thoce who were 10 be "eel1 swaggeiing lihout the Ftreets or louuging cirelessly in the pit or boxes of the theatre, gazing at some fauti^tic play or clownish farce. Seeing life was diinking until they could not see at aM (laughter), or else until evofy object was multiplied by two (loud laugh:er). He cau- tioned them to shun such companions as they would a plague, 'or they might depend upon it that seeing life after this fashion Willi nuthinlr more nor Ie-II than taxiing death (cheers). They niiyht have been warned by a mOl her or by a frieud before leaving home to keep away from dancing saloons, and yet iu their rambles tl ey began to think they cou'd not see anything unless they went to one. Ou a fhring lamp they would meet with the words" Casino de Veuise," and then brlieving there could be no harm in making a visit, they entered and met the steaming fumes of hot and crowded hidl, alld when they looked round Ihev could see scores ofVashiouably attired young men, some of whom th JY might recognise, but whose purse was just as low as their3 through an indulgence in debauchery. In such a plac" were 10 be found harlots bedizened, be- feathered, bemu«lined, and besmeared with paint to give them a colour, and gentlemen bewhiskered, bepegtopped, beiinged.aud so Oil, IInd he would øsk those who visitfd such p ace, to lea»e and reflect upon such a scene. The leciurt r direeted atlenli m to Iho,e places of re.-mt called Salons de and dwelt upon the impor1:uJce of not visiting these haunh and poses plattiques uut of curio_ity, believing thaI tbey would inevitably become IlIinted with the poison to be found therein. He warned young men against ¡;¡oing to low taverns, wfieie druiikeuness auù li- centiousness had undisputed sway, under the hollow pre- tence of lùuking lit human nature. Many Ih\1u¡:ht they had not done anything until they had fallen under a table lit an harmonic, alld thus it was tha', once h iving got into one of there city snurei or town traps, it was very difficult to get out. and he beggrd them to icmember that in thm seeing life they were ploIJab:y tasting two kinds (Jf death--one of which was much worse than the first. The lecturer thell told the audience that if they wanted to see life they should visit the varinui places in the city where poverty, crime, wretchedness, and ignorance prevailed, and they would find plenty there to which they might turn their attention. He cautioned the youth of the city to abstain from gambling, and appealed to the mothers of children to be careful as to how their children were brought up, as upon thtir exeitions iu early life depended Ihe welfare of their chiluren. The rev, gentleman concluded amidst loud and protracted cheering.

The quarrel between the Saloon Omnibus Company and the General Omnibus Company again cune before Mr. Paynfer on Friday, Mr. Edw.irds, the counsel for the Saloon Company, bagged Mr. Paynfer to adjourn tie case for a short time, staling that some overtures had been made to him for au arrangement. Mr. Paynter willing y acceded. About an hour afterwards Mr. Edwards staled that it had been agreed to submit nIl mat- ters in dispute to arbii n ion. Mr. Paynter then ad- journed the cse for a nioutii On the resumption at An over, on Tuesday, of the enquiry into the murder of Mr, Parsons, the draper, Emma Banks, the wife of Tiio.i.as Alexander Banks, the petsoti already i,1 custody, UHS apprehended. The case is one of circumstantial evidence only, but a motive is found in the (IICt that the wite had recently been detected in endeavouring to carry of! a dress while purchasing some trifling article in Mr. I'utsons' shop; the affair had been attempted to be hushed up, but it became known, and it is now supposed thai Persons was murdered by the husband, wiih ihe wile's kuowledge, in revenge. Both prisoneis have been commilted for trial. SALES OF HERKFORDS EXHIBITED AT THE SMITHFIELD CLUB SHOW.— Ti.e following are prices obtained for some of the Herefords exhibited at the Smithfield Show: — Class 5. Steers not above three years old; 1st prize, f fed by Mr. Heath, Norfolk, £45; one ox, fed by the Piince Consort, also £45. Class 6. Above three years old :-ht priae, by R. Swinnerton, Norfolk, £53 j 2nd prize, Mr. Heath, £ 50; one ox, fed by the Prince Con- sort, £60 one by ltichard Oalieiy, Bedfordshire, and one by the Eulof Darnley, Kent, .f;48 each. Class 8. Cows above iour years old; —The second prize to Henry Higgens, Gloucester, £34; a cow exhibited by Fisher Hobbs, £ H2 10s. ltichard Oakely, Bedfordshire, for a Hereford, £45. THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL ON TEMPERANCE. — Sir Fitzroy Kelly, M.P., lately presided at the temperance meeting in Ipswich. In addressing the meeting Sir Fiteroy said, it was with great satisfaction that he ap- peared to give his countenance of support to a movement which was making great—and he hoped its friends would shortly be enaqled to say completely 84ccessful-Pfog'ess among many classes of the people. The morerpeut was one iu which he could not but feel that the well-being, the happiness, and the best and dearest interests, both temporal and eternal, of our fettow.creaturei) were in. volved. His friend, the lute Mr. Baron Alderson, had declared his conviction, after many years' expeiience at the bar and on the bench, that foui-tifil.s of the ciimes ¡ committed in England might be traoed to intemperance, and he (Sir F. Kelly) was sure that, if this degrading lice couidberemoyedfrom sociely, an amount of innocence, virtue, and general happiness would follpw such as no man would be sanguine enough to foretell, Impressed with this belief, he felt it a sacred duty, amidst many other occupations which left him Jittie tune to attend 10 such meetings, however important their objects might be to lend the temperance movement what little aid he could. He was not aware to what extent the movement had suc- io the county of Suffolk, but he had rejoiced to hear from time to time that the principles of temperance were au. vancing, and were supported and practised to a consider- able extent in the borough of Ipswjcb." Sir Fitzroj'f observations were warmly applauded.

A CHRISTMAS REFLECTION. AFTER THE MASKER OF EDGAR P0E'8 "RAVEN." Sadly sits forlorn and weary, down at Broadlands, dark and dreary, One whose spirits drooping daily, tell a tale, Whigs must deplore, Of a statesman, who caught napping" o'er a Bill for Freedom trapping, And the Constitution sapping, sapping to the very core,— Fell most justly from his station, as fell Statesman ne'er before, And to gain—can evermore There he sits in silence brooding, over plans by which deluding He may gain the votes of Members he has often sold of yore By the promise of amending, or a pledge of close attending To the schemes that they may send in, send in follies by the score,— Such ns "Universal Suffrage," "Ballot," "No Church," Constant War," Taxes off,"—for evermore! But alas! for the proud leader, who has often proved seceder From all ranks and all opinions, since he walked St. Stephen's floor; His own follow'rs now assail him, those who loudest 'erst did hail him, And as turn-coat" now would nail liim, nail him on Reform's brass door; Vide speeches made by Lib'rals filled with rant and cant galore, Blight's our man—for evermore Well may all poor Whigs then tremble,^men who've rul'd but to dissemble, At the prospect bare and barren, which is left them now in store, E'en from Pam" to Johnny Russell, 'great 'men both for boast and bustle, Or in talking twaddling tustle, so well match'd that each's a hove Since Reform, their darling measure, which to serve they've often swore, Now deserts tiiem—evermore For despite all truckling slavish, tricks or quips of Cabals" knavish, NoblS Derby's English doings win applause on every score Whether for their modest action, firmly seeking satisfaction From a foe or from a faction, peace preserving the world o'er, So his promis'd Bill Reforming, will all so-called Lib'rals floor, And exalt him—evermore! Thus no wonder Pam" sits weary, jn his country home so dreary When this thought of Derby's doings, flits his anxious mind before; For he cannot but remember, what he was in last December, As he stirr'd the Christmas ember, and the wine cup quati'd galore: England's Premier strong in pow'r, tho' now lost for evermore— Sighs poor Pam" for evermore! ■—Constitutional Press.

DIVISION OF ELECTORAL POWER. Mr, Bright seemed so pleased with his argument iu answer to Mr. Newdfgate's statistics about the unfair divi- sion of electoral power between country and town that we are to suppose there is something in it. The country population, says Mr. Newdcgste, exceeding th:it of the towns by uClI.dy 50 per cent., only returns half the number of mernuers representing Ihe latter. If according 10 the Uadicitl doctrine you iosist upon numbers an the basis of representation, then you are guilty of II fldgrant inconsist- ency if you do not recognize this anotruly as one of the first that reqiirea remedy. According to the more English and more statefmanllke view, which deOlres that all classes, att opinions, all iuteresta be faiily represented, the rU181 population have still an unquestionable grievance, fur they are as a class entitled 10 II much larger share ill the representation Ihan that which has ueen awarded to therr. But, saya Mr. Bright, the House of Lords repre-ents the agiicoltural class; the House of Lords are almost all of them ljndowneis, aud in comideratioll of the influence II\hich thecouutry populaliou bring to hellr CII the consti- tution by ine.ms of the Upper House, they are properly mulcted of a portion of that which is prima facie their own in the repiesentation of the commonalty. The argument is perhaps a specious one and the eagerness with which it has been seized upon, ).ot only by 1\11. Bright's follower-, but by the Whig defenders of the old Reform Act, shows it is looked upon as available for Ibe gpneral purposes of stump oratory. Nevertheless, it will not hold water Mr. Blight seems to have been woikmg hard of late at the earli r period of English history, and he must allow us to tcll him that he hll.8 examined the sources of our constitu- tion to very little purpose if he is not aware that the Peers were never at any lime summoned to Parliamenl for the purposes of repi e«entation. They were called to the councils of the so.ereign to assist his Government with their advice; and although they may be said to lepresent indi- rectly the whole realm of England, there U neither in fact nor in theoiy any ground for aligning them liS rppresenting any particular class. But if the accident uf their pOfsessing land ill general is a rcason for disfranchising pro tanto thp rural population, where is this sort of reasoning to stop ? The farmers and labourers will say, Why the great capi- tal"! ts aud manufacturers who furnish the peerage with a Lord Overstoue and a Lord Belper, who rival that order in wealth, ho par täke largely (If tlJeir habits, and are com- bined with Ihern IJy interm"rrÎa¡re and association, anù have much more in common wllh them than we have, though we occupy and till the land which they possess. Why, then slloulü we be supposed to be lepresented by the Peers, Rnd mulcted of our influence ill the Commons accordingly, while these capitalists aud manufacturers enjoy our th ire ? We do uot see how Mr. Bright will. answer this question with any advantage to his own theories of our constitution. He wiit hardty, we suppose, reply that the House of Peers re- presents the whole of the agricutturatctasses in all their feelings and interests. This would be an admission that the House has been aU along the exponent of the views maintained by the numerit al majority of Englishmen-an admission which Mr, Bright, we suspect, would be nther shyofmakiug. If, however, he admits that the farmers and labourers may have notions and interests apart from those of the Peer", and that they ought not- to be cati-fied with the representation which they receive in the Upper House, then it follows that his retort to Mr. Newdegate's statistics is a mere fallacy.—John Bull. THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE. A cat is a very pleasant and amiable plaything when she purs and makes a velvet paw; but it is well lor liiin who disrega.-ds the motto of the Clan Chattan, and touches her without the KIOVC, to remember that sheathed within that velvet plOW are atrongaud sharp claws that too much excite- ment ever has a teudancy to develop ill a very disugreeable manner. Thi. feiine recollection is irresistibly brought to our inind by the tone and the substance of the Message of thePreeideutoftheUnited State". The tone is puning, and the paw is velvet but it is not difficult to tee that ii would not take very much to turn the purr into 8 growl, and that there is behind, covered with that soft fur which makes the foot-fall so inaudible, a set of very sharp claw, which the owner will be in 110 wise scrupulous alioul using- At any rate, Spain seems in a fair way of, at no distant day, trying experiment Do wlHt s>he may, say what s>he will, Spain give', uuúer 1111 circumstallceF, and in every con- ceivable position, lIIany ana us just causes of offence as the lamb did to the wolf in the fable. Spain possesses Cuba, and Cuba, we are assured by Mr. Buchanan, is in its piesent culonial conditiun a constant source 01 injury and annoyance to the American people." Under these circnmstances, Mr. Buchanan looks at rich and impeuding Cuba in pretty much the same frame of mind that a bear dues at a honeycomb; and^fif the Spaniard won't throw it down to him, it is tolerably clear lhat Mr. Buchanan means to go up the tree after it. Its value to Spain iacom- paratively utitinportant." There is a theory hatevents always reproduce themselves, aud we do rememtJer that there was a Sovereign under the Jewish Dispensation who reasoned and acted very like the President of the United States. Tht-re was a Maboth who hid a Cuba for which au Ahab's soul was sick. Ahab wanted to huy; INaboth refused to sell; and Ahab thereupon took the same course that the bear does with the honeycomb, that Mr. Buchanan contemplates doing with this injurious but desirable colonial pos-eision (If the distant foreign Power. Certainly somebody will have to find a pair of gloves for poor Spain, and America will not do amiss to remember the eequel of ^hab's killing and taking possession. We confess we do not feel quite so comfortable as so^ne of our contemporaries at the policy which all this exhibits, and the tendencies which it reveals. The language is modeiate, but under its moderation the purposes it barely veda lire wild, uuj ustiliable, and preda- tury. There is hardly a single piece of advice in the large proportion of the Message devoted to foreigQ relations, that does not contain in it the seed of some future international quarrel, and does net betray a greediness of gain that is quite alarming. The paragraphs abqut the transit across the Jnhmus ot Central America ate scarcely more satisfac- tory, and are full of promises of future difficulties Mr. Buchanan will not care for such consideration, we dare say; but "e would remind him that even if the hthmus were an arm 01 the Sed, America would not have those rights which I he is prepared to assume by violence, if by negotiation he tails short of his mark. The entrance to the Black Sea, for instanc, is not common property, and Turkey is acknow- ledged to have over it peculiar rights as the owner of the territory on both banks. However, as Mr. Buchanan, unless Europe prevents him, is determined to seize and manage the route by main furce-so determined in fact, that he pre. poses to introduce an Act exempting the President for this purpose from the constitutional control of Qotigrett-—it is useless at present to argije the question ofnatiopallaw. In matters of pplitipal economy there certainly does notappear 10 be the slightest disposition to follow onr eximple." On the coutrary, America having taken all we had to give, is determined to keep all She has got. Like all nations" hose relations are enlarging, and whose expenditure is growing. Amerlc1 finds that taxation within her own boundaries can- not be made sufficiently productive to bring both ends even without seriously overwd¡¡;hin¡( tbe springs ul industry ant: she recurs naturally and wisely to those Custgms' d'ytiej which, by experience, She knows are iu layge part paid by the foreign trader and the foreign producer. We have given 4'nerjca frqedotn of trade; we wish we liad sold it to her, or had it to sell now, or that our navigutiou system had the qualities of tbe Bottle Imp, aud would come back, if it were only for the purposes of sqlel into our pocket",—Pr-ess,

The Berlia police have succeeded ill apptehending the thieves who carried off the epergne, the wedding pnaint of the city of Cologne to the Princess Frederick W illialD. The stolen metal has been recovered, but already netted down, go that the costly workmanship of the piece is lost. The thieve* were a setvaat of the palace and a Bilrer- imilh..

EPITOME OF NEWS. I Mr. Edwin Ford has been appointed Principal Coast Officer at Watchet, Somerset. The Government intend introducing a Bill to cor- rect the abuses of the beer-house system. The court preacher selected to preach at the Tuile. ries next Lent, is the Jesuit Father Felix. The Count de Paris is at Seville, on a visit to the Duke de Montpensier. The Austrian Government has sent a reinforcement to Lombardy of about 8.000 men. Mr. Scott, the architect, is a grandson of the Rev. Thomas Scott, the celebrated commentator. Charles Lever, the distinguished novelist, has been appointed her Majesty's Vice-Consul at Spezia. A church-rate of 2d. in the pound was carried at Crewkerne last week by a majority of 30 votes to 10. In a few months the journey between Vienna and London will be accomplished in less than three days. Mr. Albert Smith has sold his narrative of his re- cent visit to China, to Messrs. Routledge. The chair of Natural History in the University of St. Andrew's is about to fall vacant. It is said that a Cardinal is about to he nominated for America. The Exhibition of 1861 is proposed to be held in the Crystal Palace at Sydenham. From some accident, electrical communication between Cagliari and Malta has been suspended since the 20th. In America, Carlyle's Frederick the Great has run through an edition of three thousand copies in less than a month. On Tuesday week a brewery fell near Nottingham, killing one man and causing a loss of 20,000 gallons of ale. Sir W. Fenwick Williams, of Kars, has returned from Nova Scotia, and resumed the command of Woolwich Garrison. Mr. George Borrow (author of "The Bible in Spain") has been visiting Orkney and Shetland, talk- ing Gaelic freely with the country people. The parish church of Dudley had a narrow escape from destruction by fire last Sunday week. The con- gregation were got out very cleverly. The Earl of Dartmouth has accepted the office of President of the Wolverhampton Working Man's College. Mr. G. W. Saunders has been appointed Commis- sioner of the Birmingham Court of Bankruptcy in the place of the late Mr. Balguy, The trial of James Atkinson, at Yorkj for the -murder of Mary Jane Scaife, has ended in his acquit- tal, on the ground of insanity. The Leeds Intelligencer relates several convictions of colIicry agents at the instance of Mr. Morton, in- spector of coal mines. At the Clerkenwell Police Court, H. P. Boulton, described as clerk, was committed 10 Newgate for trial for forging Post-office orders. The Bishop of London has written a letter of severe rebuke to the Rev. Bryan King, rector of St. George's- in-the-East, for persisting in Tractarun practices. Before the Grand Duke Constantine quitted Nice last week, he laid the first stone of a Rmso-Greek church. A Russian loan of eight millions, and an Austrian loan, are expected to be brought on the London Stock Exchange next year. The remarkable book of Jose Caveda, on the history of Spanish architecture, says the Crayon, has been translated into German by Paul Heyse. Mr. Albert Smith gave his new entertainment at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, for the first time on Wed- nesday week, and was most cordially received. The cclossallion has arrived at the British Museum. It is still in its case in the court-yard, and will so re- main till the glass box for its reception is completed. Arrangements are in progress for a deputation to wait on the Chancelior of the Exchequer, for the purpose of obtaining the repeal of the paper duty. The Royal baron of beef was this year supplied to her Majesty by Mr. Hughes, of Peascod-street, Windsor, one of the Royal butchers. It is reported at Plymouth that the Channel fleet will remain during Christinas at Queenstown, and then repair to Lisbon. Richard Bolton and John Danks, the two men suspected of firing the fatal shots at Mr. Ackroyd's under-gamekeepers, Cheshire, have been apprehended. A message from Stockholm, via Berim, reports that the health of the King of Sweden is seriously impaired. His appetite and power to sleep diminish and his strength fails." During last week, at Liverpool, sixty-nine ships, of an aggregate tonnage of 35,218 tons, entered inwards the number of clearances outwards being seventy-three ships, of a tonnage of 35.653 tons. Lord Shaftesbury has received from a lady, whose name has not been communicated to the public, a do- nation of £5,000 for the improvement of dwellings of working men in Hull. The Manchester police are busily engaged in trying to find some clue to the whereabouts of Miss Audley, teacher of the girl's school belonging to St. Thomas's Church, who has mysteriously disappeared. At the annual meeting of the Royal Exchange As- surance Corporation, held on Wednesday week, a di- vidend at the rate of 4 per cent. for the half-year was declared. The Prince Albert steamer, of ths Lever line, has made the shortest passage on record across the At- lantic, having accomplished the voyage from New York to Galway in five days and seventeen hours. A new Great Ocean Telegraph Company has been established. It proposes to lay a submarine line, on Mr. Allan'sj system, from Land's-end, Cornwall, to Halifax, Nova Scotia. In the Coutt of Common Plea?, a plaintiff, M'Geagh, a draper of Shrewsbury, recovered £1,350 damages for injuries sustained by him while travelling on the North Western Railway. Messrs. Smith and Knight, the eminent London contractors, have entered into a contract for the im- mediate construction of the Shrewsbury and Wesbpool Railway. The grandfather of the present Lord Mayor of Lon- don sold watercresses, and his grandson is now as rich as another Crossus. This beats Dick Whiltington- cat and all. The London Gazelle announces that the Queen has conferred the honour of knighthood upon William Arrindell, C.B Chief Justice of the Colony of British Guiana. The communication between England and Germany by means of the submarine cable to Emhden has now been fairly established, and messages both to and from England have been correctly transmitted. The Havelock Testimonial Committee have decided upon giving to Mr. Behnes, sculptor, of Osnaburgh- btreet, Regent's-park, the carrying out of the Have- lock statue at Trafalgar-square. The Professorship of English Law in the Queen's College, Galway, is vacant by the resignation of Hugh Law, Esq,, one of the leading juniors of the North- East Circuit. The India Company resolved on Wednesday to maintain an independent existence-to have the dividends paid to their account—to preserve a room for the Director's use, and to continue a Secretary. On Friday week Mr. W. S. Rutter held an inquest at Bradford, near Manchester, on the bodies of two men, named George and Thomas Parry, brothers, who had been suffocated by peeping on a heap of cinders. A return has been published of the gross amount of clerks' fees received by all clerks to the magistrates in all the cities and towns of England and Wales of more than 10,000 inhabitants, in 1855, 1856, and 1857. The development of the ore of Northamptonshire, progresses slowly, but with unerring steps. There is no question but the time is near at hand when the demand for Northamptonshire ironstone will be very large and general. Prof. Schetzer, of Zurich, has discovered that a strong solution of the sulphate of copper, into which an excess of ammonia has been poured, will dissolve cotton and convert it into a sort of gelatinous sub- stance, something like collodion. A most atrocious murder was committed in Derby on Christmas-eve in a public house, the Bishop Blaze. The name of the murderer is Arthur Bl^nd* and that ot the victim Edwards, who met with his death through a stab in the throat with a knife. On Wednesday evening last, two men in the employment of Messrs. IJolckow and Yaughan, on the Stockton and Darlington Railway, who had been attending a prayer-meeting, were accidentally run over and killed, Mr. W. Walton, a man who has hitherto held a respectable position in society at Worcester, has been committed for trial charged with embezzling moneys of the Worcester Distillery Company to a considerable extent. Con6iderab\e sensation was caused in Exeter on Sunday night by the report of the death of Lord Pol" timore, from inflammation of the lungs, after a short but very severe illness, at his seat at Jfaltimore. The notye lord was £ 2 years Qf age4 Mr. James Austin, of Geelong, at present staging In this country, has shipped for Australia 92 partridges, 64 pheasants, six hares, and a number of blackbirds and thrushes, in charge of an experienced gamekeeper. They are intended for his estate at Darrow Park, thirty miles from Geelong. This is one of a series of attempts that are being made to introduce game and song birds, Natives of England, into the Australian Colonies. The body of a child was discovered on Sunday morning week in a pond by the side of the New road, at Loaghton. On a bush near was a bag containing various articles of clothing; and on the pond being dragged, the body of & woman also was found. The woman seems to have gone down by train on the Thursday previous, at which time there was another woman in her company, and they said they were going to Epping. During the journey she mentioned that she bad just come outofaninarmary, and that the father of the child refused to keep it.—At the adjourned inquest, on Monday last, the surgeon who had made the post mortem examination gave it as his opinion, from the nature of the injuries on the head of the woman, that murder had been committed. THE POOR IN ENGLAND AND WALES.—It is gratifying from official returns to be enabled to state that there is an evident decrease in settled pauperism this year, not only in the metropolis, but throughout England and Wales. Through a return, carefully drawn up by the Poor-law Board, from information obtained from 14,370 parishes out of 14,658 parishes in England and Wales, it appears that in the metropolitan district the decrease has been, as compared with the same period last year, 5,146, or 6.52 per cent.; in the West Midland district, comprising Gloucester, Hereford, Salop, Stafford, Worcester, and Warwick, an increase of 1,041, or 1-21 per cent, is per- Cfptibre; but on the whole, throughout England and Wales, a decrease of 16,865, or 2'03 per cent has taken place. Henry Newman, a clerk in the service of the Eastern Counties' Railway, was, oa Thursday, convicted at the Central Criminal Court on asinguUr charge of robbing his employers. He was in the accounttt-ii's office of the Company, and had passed to tbe cashier r series of forged vouchers tor wood alleged to have been supplied for light- ing tbe fires in tbe locomotives. For the amounts claimed the Accounts Committe signed cheques, and letters of advice were sent from the office to the parties in whose favour the cheques were drawn. To each of these persons, who had formerly supplied the Company, but were not then doing so, the prisoner wrote, stating that the cheque had been sent in mistake, and begging tbat it might be re- turned to him, enclosing in the letter an envelope stamped and directed to himself. By these frauds he had robbed the Company of above £400. He was sentenced to four year's penitl servitude. BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE.—On Monday a Sheriff's Court Was held at Worcester, E. Gillam, Esq., Under Sheriff, presiding. The sitting was held in pursu- ance of a writ of enquiry, to settle the damages in an action for breach of promise of marriage. The plaintiff, Harriet Perry, is a good-looking fiesh-coloured damsel, who has followed the occupation of a cook. The defend- ant, Mr. Reuben Key, a farmer residing between Dewd- ley and Cleobury Mortimer, did not appear, nor did any one else represent him.-Mary Pountney, sister of the plaintiff, said the plaintiff and defendant were lovers, and the courtship went on at my honse in the early part of the present year. The plaintiff left her service to be married. The defendant toid me he was going to be married to the plaintiff on the day afler Cleobury fair (the fair was holden on May 31st). We were ultimately told to prepare the wedding breakfast, which was done and the defendant never came. When I again saw him he told me he did not mean to marry that was his only excuse for not marrying my sister. The witness was shown various letters, which she staled to be in the de- fendant's handwriting. The letters, nine in number, scarcely went farther in themselves, in establishing a promise of marriage, than the celebrated epistle from Mr. Pickwick in the suit against the worthy, gentleman by the widow Burdell,bufthey were eloquent enough of the writer's passion for the plaintiff.—Osmond Pountney went with the defendant to the Registrar of Marriages at Bewdley in April last, and he obtained a license to marry the plaintiff.—The jury, after a long consultation, re- turned a verdict of £ 175 damages. EASY MARRIAGE.—A HINT READILY TAKEN.—Last week.a brawney Irishman called at the office of the Justice of Peace Fiscal, and stated he wished to get married. Mr. Douglas replied that he could not get married there, and recommended him to go to a miuister. Pat looked thun- dersiruck, and said, to Sure an' doesn't the papers say ye did for two of them on Saturday and troth, I wish to get married too." He was again told that he could not get married there, and that in the case be had referred to there had previously been certain impediments in the way, which rendered it a special one. Paddy Impadeyments, iodade; and, bedad, isn't there impadeyments wid me tool" On being asked what sort of impediments they were, he replied, "The money, to be sure; the other chaps (meaning the ministers) take PlY, and, as I haven't a rap, r Wanlto get married, for I'm towld ye do it for ootbin' Paddy was again told it was impossible to marry him, when with a crestfallen couotenance, be re- marked, It 8 more's the pity; for belaviog it could be done for nothin', myself and other boys along wid me have come to get spliced, and the ladies are here too." On looking out, sure enough, the disconsolate applicant was observed relating the result of his unsuccessful mission to several pairs who were standing outside, and who looked as disappointed as himself. Truly the love of these damsels must have been very great, when they.were con- tent to take a husband witboat a penny in his pocket.— Glasgow Herald. A VICTIM OF SEDUCTION.—DISTRESSING CASH.— At the Reading Assizes Mary Newell was sentenced to death for drowoing her illegitimate child. Tbe girl had been seduced by Francis, a poulterer at Reading; After her child was born she took it to bim and asked for help; but he refused to give her any. The girl wandered away from his shop penniless and heart-weary. In her state- ment before tbe Magistrates, which was read at the trial she said sbe had waited until midnight in the hope of seeing Franc's. "I was destitute of a farthing, aud I walked about 10 see if I could see him. I got no tidiogg of him. The temptation was very great to lead me to do what I did be so frowned on me and the dear baby. Ha knew it was his'n. It drove me to do what 1 newer thought of before. I went on the road for home, went inside a field, and sat under tbe hedge until morning. 00 the Tuesday I went home. Mother asked me what I bad done with the baby 1 I said I could not tell her. Thea I told her I bad put it out." She undressed the baby, IInJ- allowed it to roll into the water.—There was na doubt of her guilt; the jury refused to adopt the sug- gestions of her counsel tbat she was insane at the time she committed the cfmrder, but they recommended her 10 mercy, a recommendation Mr. Justice Erie said he would forward with much satisfaction.— Francis gave evidence at the trial, and it is some satisfaction to learn that on leaving the Court he was assailed by a very rough mob, rolled in the mud, and tumbled into a pond. Escaping from this, he tied down the road towards Wallingford, his present place of abode, but the mob rushed after him, and pelted him with stones. Here several geotlemao, fearing he would he killed, interposed, aud the police arriving, he W&\S taken to the station-house for protection. They had to smuggle him out of the station and into the train. for the mob still hung threateningly about the place. LADIES OF THE ROYAL HOUSEHOLB.—The Mistress of the Robes is an office of great importance, and one of the best gifts of a ministry. The duties distinguish tbe holders above all others; for instance, that of riding io the royal carnage on aH State occasions, and robing the Qneen at the ceremonials of importance, though the actual manipu- lation connected with the duties of Mistress of the Robea is usually performed by attendants on the person of tha Sovereign, Groom of the Stole was rather a curious office to attach to that of Mistress of the Robes, but perhaps re- quisite when a female was on the throne. Tbe Stole is a narrow vest, formerly embroidered with roses, fleur-de-lia and crowns, and lined with sarsenet. Sarah. Duchess of Marlborough, held both these offices in the reign of Queen iln?\ J3 Duches8 ot' Somerset. The salary was then 4800, and now £ 500 per annum. The Ladies 01 the Bedchataber-the duties are connected with all things appertaining to the Royal sleeping and dressing apartments, of which they have the apparel of the Queen. The Bedchamber Women are seven iu number, and their salaries and duties are similar to the Ladies of the Bed- chamber. In the correspondence of Henrietta. Countess of Suffolk, theife are some singular illustrations of this office. Maids ot Honour are of ancient date, and considerable im- portance. They were always well paid and well cared for by Royalty. The Chronicles of the reign of Henry VIII. give numerous examples of tliis fact. An order for the provision of one of tbe Laùil's of Honour to Catherine is very mmute, and among other things provides her with a gallon of beer (or dinner; in the afternoon a gallon of ale and a maniple of bread and for aupper a mess of por- ridge, a piece of mutton, and a gallou of ale; after supper half a gallon of wine and hread. In 1175 the ladies peti- loned tor an increase of salary instead of rations for supper, and were allowed jE70 per annum. Their duties, in the present day, are to attend on the Queen-tbe turn ot the eight ladies being according to an order, drawn un eiiclt year, The salary is £3tJOO per annum. BRADFORD POISONING CASE was tried at the Assises last week. Charles Hodgson, chemist, was charged with negligently selling arsenic, and thereby causing tbe death ot Elisabeth Mary Midgley. (This was a little child one amoog seventeen persons, who died from eatinir the poisoned lozenges.) The evidence adduced in this casn made no addition to the (acts already published. Oue of the ingredients of lozenges manufactured at Bradford is A ^7eP»Laa.°hn"f'IN,P9r C"red ."dafl" or more mysteiiously terra alba. Neal, a confectioner, Bent a man to Hodgsob the chemist for twelve pouuj, of darr. Hodgson was unwell; at first he reemed not to know what "daff" was; then he said the man had better wait until be could serve him personally. The man was angry and would not wait, I a n't told hU "nt Goddard, who did col arsenic' nor arsenic when he aaw it, that ha f in a tub in a corner of the garrett. *h lDUc^ flurried, went to tbe garret, mistook tbe • "'twe've pounds of arsenic. He was young and evidenple0<(re« • <^a W"t80» held that there was no » XT. U,. S'