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      ' or members of Parliament to enable them to secure a jeat in that house for the purpose of obtaining some dirty star or _garter-r- ( a laugh ) , or a peerage , or the more idiotic purpose of obtaining a baronetage . ( A laugh . ) _Bany mechanics were above that sort of practice , and it would do the peers good to go more to the hustings and mis with such men . Sow that the subject had been mooted , he should have very great pleasure in voting that this resolution -shoulabe expunged . If , after warning now gravely given ; they solemnly adhered to the resolution , they must not blame him if he called on them on ui early day to enforce it , his confident opinion being , that in almost all elections , especially county elections , both peers and prelates largely concerned themselves IHsex . hear . ) _ __ . .

      Mr . Hiwe regretted that he had so often been obliged to call on the house not to stultify itself . "Why , there was scarcely a society of mechanics in the country that would allow a resolution to remain on their boohs which it was their cons tant practice to violate . It might be - very true that the . Government were not more . interested in maintaining this resolution than-Son . Members iu general ; _imt one Minister was as good as fifty members behind him , for they would only look to their fugleman and vote aclordingly . He had no ' objection to'let peers go tothe Hustings , for they would learn there what they could not _become acquainted with in their retirement . But let be house act on the principles of-common sense , and dther abrogate this resolution or -carry it into full ¦ fleet . The gallery was cleared for a division , but none took slace , the resolution having been adopted .

      Mr _.-CHABTEHis brought up the reportof the Address to tier Majesty . On the question that it ; be read a second time , _Mt . _IJ-ujie regretted that , though . her Majesty in the Iddress-nas congratulated on the prosperity of the 5 nances _^ there was no mention of any relief for the people , ather in the shape of redueed taxation or in the diminuaon of duties in-posed upon articles of primary necessity _essential to the support and employment of the lower ? lasses . He considered the conduct of her Majesty ' s Gorernment on the question of Tahiti deserved the thanks if the country , for they had shown firmness , first in denandinj _* - fhe reparation Which the honour of onr flag reluired , andnextinsettlingfhatreparfltionamicably . He loped that what they bad done would consolidate that

      ; ood understanding between England and France which ras so necessary to the maintenance of peace throughout he -world , fie trusted that he should yet find Ministers ombining economy and retrenchment with those _princi-Jes of -free trade which some hon . gentlemen thought ninous to the eountry , but which he believed to be absoltely necessary for its Welfare and for the development f its -resource--. _Ht . W . "ffiiaiAMS discoursed on the necessity of ecoomv and retrenchment , as the financial condition of ihe mntry was-by no means so prosperous as it was stated in ie Address . He condemned tiie vast amount of our _tpenditure during the lastyear , and defied the

      Governlenttojustfy-it Mr . S . _CSAWSOWi regretted that the speech did not mtain a promise that a measure should be immediately itroduced into'Parliament founded on the recommendaons ofthe Commission on the Tenure of Land in Ireaid . He never knew the state of Ireland so lawless as ; -was at present ; and it would be impossible to improve till some law were passed regulating the condition of _adlord and tenant He fully agreed in that paragraph " the Address which spoke of tbe subordination , and _realty ofthe poorer classes in England ; but he must not mceal from the house that there was an increasing _dismtentamong the lahouringpopulation arising out ofthe wration of the Hew Poor Law .

      3 ( r . Waixace , although offering no opposition to the adress , wished to guard himself against being supposed i acquiesce in the continuance ofthe income tax . Sir R . Peel said that nothing could be more cautiously orded than the Address , for it bound no one in any matr whatever . It only suggested certain things , and was rt meant by her Majesty's Government to commit any leupon that subject . Nothing could be more unjust an to do so , and he never should hold an acquiescence _ithe present Address to bind any Hon . Gentleman to ite for the continuance of the income tax ( hear , hear ) .

      Mr . _Tvakiet thought the unproved discipline on the her side gave a pretty clear intimation of what the suit would be ; and he could anticipate with tolerable curacy the fate of the consideration which would be sen to the subject of the income tax —( hear , and a ugh . ) A property tax would receive the general apoval ofthe people of the country , and he believed a more polar tax could not be proposed ; but the Bight Hon . iron would find a large portion of the community erseto the continuance of a tax upon incomes _derivle-from trades and professions : they were _' of opinion at if a sliding scale was applicable at all to taxation , it is strictly applicable to the difference between incomes rived from real property and those derived from trade _, ie Sight Hon . Baronet would find a renewal ofthe tax

      its present shape exceedingly unpopular . If , however , e Right Hon . Baronet would remove those taxes which _terfered with the operations of trade and commerce , ose taxes which injured labour , and pressed upon e -accessaries of life , probably the present system taxation with respect to income would be borne ithout complaint for a short time longer . The ightHon . Baronet seemea to infer , in the Address , atno distress prevailed amongst the masses of the peoe ; bnt he < Mr . Wakley ) believed that at the present oment the greatestpossibledistress and privation existed Dongst thc unskilled labourers , although hon . mem . rs saw little of their deplorable condition . It was ipossjble to picture their calamities and sufferings so as _iequately to describe them ( bear , hear ) . He trusted the

      ghtHon . Baronet the Secretary- for the Home _Departsnt would introduce a bill to alter the law of settlement , _d that a committee would be appointed to inquire into e real state and condition ofthe class of people to whom alluded , in order that their circumstances might be idehnown to the house and the country . The . Royal eech certainly contained but little of promise ; but he is glad to find that several measures , of which no intiition had been given in the speech , had been announced the members ofhev Majesty ' s Government , and amongst ; m the bill to which he had just alluded . He was glad find that -the bill was to be introduced at so early a iod , but it would give him much greater gratification be Right -Hon . Gentleman woulu abolish the law of dement altogether . It was impossible to depict the

      Tors , the miseries , and the tortures which were lured Vy the poor under fhe existing law . "What was common practice ? When a labourer who had ie- to a distance and -married and reared a family , _ipened to die , his wife was frequently obliged to apply to parish for relief . " What was the answer given to her ilicatioii S "Well give you a loaf or two of bread , or hilling , but if you come again we shall give you an [ er to be received into the house , and , when the time scribed by law expires , we shall pass " you home . " tome * _J _sajsthepoor creature , "Whathome ? " The ly is , "Tour husband ' s settlement . " The poor woman n says , " "Why , be came 100 miles from where I am _v living , twenty years ago , and I know no person living the country , and never saw one of his relations . '' The

      iwerof the _Telieving officer is . "We cannot alter the r ; we arc under the _^ necessity of actingin this manner ; lif you apply again , we shaU pass you to your _settle--at- " " Would fhe poor woman apply again ! 2 fo , she aMl -rather suffer aQ the miseries of starvatlori , and ow her ef & pring to die from starvation , than apply lin , when such a threat was held out . He knew that it s the intention ofthe Right Hon . Bart , to mitigate this 1 to some extent The bin of last session went a conic-cable way towards mitigating the present evils , but he isted the Right Hon . Bart , was now prepared to go furs , andthathewouldmeet _thoseevilsinabald and -masline spirit , aud put an end to such a state of things _, ear , hear . ) Her Majesty ' s speech contained no intiman -with regard to the Poor Laws . That question was still

      _settled , but it was impossible for tbe law to remain ich longer in its present state . One fact was worth a _jnsand suppositions or hypotheses , and ho would state tat had occurred under Ms own observation on Saturday it , as a specimen of what was continually occurring iu tbe Poor Lawunions of England . A poorlabonringman good character , only twenty-six years of age , died in a _iteof extreme misery in a parish in this county .- Six eks before , his wife had been living at the parish of Iver , Buckingham shire . They there became chargeable , and rang three weeks an expense ot some -10 s , or -15 s . was _curred . Bnt just before the three weeks expired , findg that he was to be passed home as a pauper , he-went another parish , -where a furnished room was procured , e furniture in which was not worth 2 s . The parish

      ithorities of Iver took the man and his wife out of their dg _ings and carried them to the door of the overseer of ie parish to -which they -belonged , and said— " Here are ie parties—we have brought them home to you . " _Imediately after this they were allowed to return to then . ' dgings again . The poor man being out of work , and is wife being ill , they were reduced to a state of most _igerahle privation . The man said at last , "Tou must > to the relieving-officer—we must have some snste-¦ tnce or we shall die . " Now let the bouse look at the _msequenccs ofthe size of tbe unions , and not allowing -ttefto . be administered in the parish as in former times . he woman , in a state of extreme feebleness , left her rune , her husband being at the time without either loney or food , and proceeded to the relieving-officer at illingdon , a distance of five miles . She there stated leir distressed condition . The officer said tbat she inst go to the doctor , and if he gave an order for relief ,

      ie should have it From Hillingdon she travelled to xbridge , and saw Mr . Rayner , the district doctor , who omised to go to the cottage . The poor woman then _iturned home without having procured anything to afrdher husband the slightest succour , having travelled distance of eleven miles . The medical man arrived a w minutes afterwards ; and his exclamation was , " You ¦ e starving ; you are in want of the necessaries of life . " egave an order on tha relieving-officer , and the poor email lad again to walk a distance of five miles . And hat did she then receive ? An order for 3 s . worth of H _» ds on some grocer . She received the value in goods _, he money was not given to her , to enable her to purchase bat she really required . She thenJbad to proceed home , rang walked a distance of twenty-one miles In a State of _Bering ana disease . And this was what Hon . Members adthefollr , or the wickedness , or the cruelty , to can inns - fains relief to the destitute poor . ( Hear , hear . ) he man ' s constitution was broken down and destroyed

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      for want of food ; lock-jaw afterwards came on , And on Tuesday- week he died . Now he ( Mr . Wakley ) asked , was that state of things to continue ? Bid the gentry , the nobility , and the wealthy people of England believe that their lives and property could be secure so long as . the poor of England were thus treated % ( Hear , hear , ) Was not such a system pregnant witli "danger to them every moment of their lives » Did they believe that the millions of England could be satisfied undev these eiicvunstances % Could they expect the people to yield cheerful obedience to the law 2 He ( Mr . Wakley ) said they could not ; and he would say , further , that they ought not to beadvisedtodoso . If they-were not discontented , and If they did not manifest their discontent , they would be unworthy fhe name of Englishmen : andit was impossible to expect

      that m times of danger they would exhibit that courage and manliness which they had displayed in former times . He trusted what he had said wouldinduce the Right Hon . Baronet , to make some inquiry into the subject . The Right Hon . Baronet , during the last session , shewed himself desirous of modifying the law . He listened most at _^ tentively _an-J considerately to every suggestion made to him , and did not reject them from any preconceived opinions or prejudices , but gave them a most calm and attentive consideration , stating the reasons which induced him to oppose them . He begged the Right Hon . Baronet to investigate the case which he had brought before the house , if the same state of things did not prevail throughoufrBngland . Ifsuch should be found to be fhecase , the Right Hon . Baronet could not hesitate to introduce a

      bill toaltcr such au odious aud abominable state of the law . In reference to the present position of Ireland and the _"liberaTIrisb members , " Mr . Wakley said : —The remarks made by my Hon . Friend the member for Rochdale hare recalled to my mind what is going on in Ireland , and what is stated in the address to ; her Majesty respecting that country . It appeal's to : me that the statement in the address , and the fact of what is going on in Ireland , are rather inconsistent . ( Hear , hear . ) arhe address states that all classes of her Majesty ' s subjects are yielding a cheerful obedience to the law , yet the house has been informed by the Hon . Member for Rochdale that a large portion ofthe population of Ireland is in a lawless state . With respect to the grievances of Ireland , one would

      be anxious for bygones to be bygones ; and I have no desire to follow the course adopted last night , and rake up old grievances for the purpose of producing discord . ( Hear , hear . ) My belief is , that the Right Hon . Gentleman at the head of the Government desires to do justice to Ireland , and I hope that tiie Right Hon . Gentleman ' s friends will let him do justice . ( Hear , hear . ) I sincerely hope that the benevolent intentions of ihe Right Honourable Gentleman will not ho thwarted by those who sit near and around him—that is to say , by his ordinary supporters . ( Hear , hear , hear . ) It certainly does seem strange that it should be stated in the address that every tiling is going on satisfactorily in Ireland , and that discontent haa almost

      disappeared , while we find that only on _Monday last a resolution was adopted at the Repeal Association intimating to the Irish members that they need not attend to their duties in this house . The resolution states- _^ - " That , however desirable it may be that a discussion should . take place in the House of Commons with a view to expose the injustice of the pro ceedings connected with the late state trials , this association is so deeply impressed with a sense of the hopelessness of obtaining redress for the wrongs of Ireland from the Imperial Parliament , that we cannot recommend that the Irish members should be calledjupon to attend such discussion . " I agree with those who consider that Ireland has been an ill-UBed country ; but let us anticipate better things . ( Hear . )

      l must state that since I have been in the House of Commons , " _though the Irish members have made loud complaints against our conduct , and though I believe we have merited tfieir complaints , yet I have never seen proceeding from the Irish members any series of measures such as they would place on the table of their own Parliament , supposing they had one in College-green . ( Loud criesof "Hear , hear . " ) Now , I do say , that in this respect they have not been acting justly by us , or wisely by themselves . ( Hear , hear . ) If they would frame such measures as they might deem best calculated to promote the interests and welfare of Ireland , and submit them to the consideration of the Imperial Parliament , and if the Imperial Parliament incurred the responsibility of rejecting them , my firm conviction is that the people of England would

      demand repeal , and concur with the Irish representatives in obtaining it ; because the English people love justice , and do not desire to see any portion of the population in a state of persecution . They regard Ireland as a persecuted eountry , and as not placed under equal laws . In my opinion , the wrongs of Ireland remain to tliis hour unredressed , and in order that I and other English gentlemen who desire to do justice to Ireland may be relieved from the difficulty in which we are placed , I would conclude by expressing an earnest hope that the Irish members , without delay , will frame such measures as they deem best calculated to promote the interests of their country ; and then , if they should be rejected , the responsibility will be on our heads . ( Cheers . ) Thc report on the Address was then agreed to , and the Address was ordered io be presented by the whole house to her Majesty . The house then adjourned , at a quarter to eight nVlnftlr _.

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      HOUSE OF LORDS—THunsnAY , Feb . 6 . _Xo business was done , their Lordships merely assembling to accompany the Lord Chancellor in presenting the Address to her Majesty .

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      HOUSE OF COMMONS .-Thtrsday , Feb . 6 . The business of the House of Commons commenced at half-past four o ' clock by the reception of jber Majesty ' s answer to the Address , which the house presented to her Majesty in person in the course of the afternoon . LAW OF SETTLEMENT . Sir J . Gjbaham said he had alread y intimated his intention to bring in a bill to alter and consolidate the laws of settlement . If the house would not

      object , it would be most convenient if he took-an early opportunity to introduce that bill ; he , therefore , proposed to introduce it on Tuesday next . He had also mentioned yesterday that it was his intention to move on Tuesday s e ' nnight , for leave to introduce a bill for the regulation of medical practice ! A long discussion took place on a motion made by Lord G . Somerset , for leave to bring in a series of bills for consolidating the clauses of different bills relative to companies , lands , and railways . Leave was given to bring in the bills .: ¦

      Mr . Cobden complained ofthe omission of all reference to agricultural distress in the Queen ' s speech . He believed that legislation was at the bottom of that distress ; arid therefore he proposed that on this occasion , as on all former occasions , there should be a committee to inquire . into the cause of it . If the Hon . Member for Somersetshire , to whom he had communicated his intention of proposing such a committee , would agree to support his proposition , they could compel the Government to grant it , as the gentlemen on the Opposition side of the house who had voted for such a committee last year would ,

      if joined by the Hon . Member for Somersetshire and his Parliamentary friends of the Protection Society , be too strong for the Right Hon . Baronet opposite to resist them ; all he wanted was the fullest , the fairest , and the most impartial inquiry . He would give the Hon . Member a week or a fortnight to consider of his offer : and in case the Hon . _Membersheuld refuse it , ie should feel it to be his duty at the end of that time to renew his motion of last year . Mr . Mixes acknowledged the _cnurtesy of Mr . Cobden , but feared the kind concert which he proffered , and therefore must be permitted to decline it . His agricultural friends had no intention to apply for such a committee .

      Mr . M . Gibson said , it would be remarkable if the house , after all its experience , should reject this proposition for a committee . A com law was not a corn law without a committee on agireultural distress . There was at present a new corn law . There was distress consequent on it . Wh y was there not , as on all former occasions , a committee on agricultural distress ? Mr . _G-Bankes declined the coalition with the Anti-Com Law League which had just been proffered to him by its founder , Mr . Cobden , and _assuredhim that he would oppose the appointment of sueh a committce-as he had proposed . Mr . Bright asserted that the speeches made by those gentlemen who called themselves the defenders

      of the agricultural interest must convince everyone that they were but hollow supporters of that interest which they undertook to defend . They said that our recent legislation was the cause of agricultural distress . They were themselves , however , parties to that legislation which had produced that distress . They ought , therefore , either to enter upon inquiry and retrace their steps , or else go home to their estates for the purpose of reducing their rents to meet the distress which had resulted from , their own unwise legislation . After abitter attack on the conduct pursued by the landlords , he proceeded to attribute to our present restrictive laws the wretched and- impoverished condition of our peasantry , and the wild and uncultivated condition of the land in many parts of the country . Li his recent visit io Buckinghamshire , the first thing which

      met his view was land on which you could not employ a sythe for the number ! ° f ant-hills , and the next was the multitudinous chimnies of the union workhouse at Aylesbury . All classes of agriculturists were coming to a condition in which they would soon spontaneously come forward to demand a repeal of the Com Laws . The farmers were scarcely able to pay their rents , and the labouring population was increasing so fast , that employment conld not be afforded them . Even now there was a fierce competition for that employment at scanty wages ; and , though the landlords would do nothing to protect the lahourers against that competition , they came forward in that house and asked for protection for themselves against the competition of | foreigners . . . Mr . S . O'Brien observed , that he was prepared not only to vote for such a committee as Mr . Conden had recommended , but also to serve upon it , if it were

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      appointed . He reminded the Hon . Member for Durham , that to get into a passion , and to employ a bullying tone , _waa not the mode to convince _; the gentlemen of England ofthe truth of his doctrines . If Mr . Bright thought that , by such language as he had used that night , he could set . the labourers and tenantry of England against their landlords , he would soon find that he was lamentably mistaken .. ¦ > Mr . _"Vihiiuns-expressed his surprise that the gentlemen oppositc-should have refused _theoption which had been given them that evening . . He contended that it was owing to the intervention of 'Providence , and not . to . any ; _relaxation of the restrictive system , that we were now safe from the dangerous consequences which ; that system always produced . - SirR . P . £ Eir declared that he would not be drawn

      into this unexpected discussion upon the . Corn Laws , which had been brought on without any regular notice . The conduct of Mr . Cobden , . and ofthe gentleman who "followed him , was full of -courtesy , and therefore _he'listened with the more regret to the vituperations and taunts which Mr . _, Bright had thrown out against the landlords of England . It could not bestated with truth that the ; agricultural interest generally was suffering .. distress . Different districts in England , Scotland , and Ireland . nnght . in different degrees of comfort ; but , even where there was distress , it was not occasioned'by the recent alterations either in the Cora Law or in the tariff . _ _; That distress could not be relieved » by _legislative , interference . A return to the protective system would notcure it , and even if it would for a time , he would not be the man to re-introduce it .

      Lord , J . Manners asked . Mr . Bright to consider how much fiercer the competition for employment among the labouring classes would become , if , in addition to the competition in the home market , there was : a fresh stock supplied from foreign countries . Mi' . Brother-ton contended that we had now an increasing population—that that population must be fed , and that it could not be fed much longer without the removal of our restrictions _oij commerce . The Queen ' s speech was then taken " into consideration , "" and after ' some business of mere form tk > house . adjourned . ' Friday , Feb . 7 . The Speaker took the chair at the usual hour . ' . I ' After the presentation of some petitions , and the giving of notices of minor import , the following conversation ensued on

      _rosi office espionage . . .. * . Mr . T . Duncombe , seeing the noble Lord the Member for Liverpool ( Lord'Sandon ) in his place , wished to put to him a question with reference to the appendix to the report of a committee of which the noble Lord was chairman last session . He referred to the secret cominjttee that investigated the practice of opening letters at the Post Office . That committee had annexed an appendix to the report , and that appendix was ordered to be _-orinten with the report . The latter had been printed shortly after it had been drawn up , but to the present hour they had not got the appendix . He had sent several

      times to the printer ' s to obtain it , and also the report ; but he was told that the report could not be had , because it was waiting for the appendix , and that the appendix could not be had , because it was waiting for the proof , wliich was in the hands of a member of the committee to be corrected . Now he ( Mr . Duncombe ) insisted that afterthe committee laid this report onthe table their functions ceased , and they had nothing more to do with the report or the appendix . He was in possession of the appendix by special favour of the Speaker , but he wished to know from the Noble Lord why it was kept back , and in whose hands it was ?

      Lord Sandon said that the committee had entrusted thetask of arranging and classifying the documents which constituted the appendix to the Hon . Member for Kendal , who had taken great pains with the subject . Those documents still remained in the hands Of that Hon . Member , and he ( Lord Sandon ) was sure that whatever obstacles remained in the way ofthe publication of the report would soon be removed . Mr . 1 T . S . _DracoMBEjexpressed ahope that no further time would be lost in presenting these papers to the house . Lord Sandon said that as far as he was concerned certainly no time should be lost .

      GOVERNMENT FINANCIAL STATEMENT—THE INCOME TAX . Sir R . Peel rose and said—Sir , it may be convevient for mc now to state the course which I intend to pursue on Friday next . I believe it -will be competent for me , without moving for a committee of ways and means , to take the course of moving a resolution to continue for a further period the laws which impose a tax on income . But as that is not the usual course of late years , I propose on Wednesday to adopt the followingproceeding—viz ., to move f bra committee of wavs and means , and then in tho committee of ways and means , on Friday next , I shall propose a resolution to the effect , that the laws which impose a tax on income in Great Britain , and the law whicli imposes an additional stamp duty in Ireland , should fee continued for a further limited period . That is the nature of the resolution I propose to move in committee of ways and means .

      Mi * . Home . —Will the -Right Hon . Gentleman explain to the house what are the taxes he intends to remit ? _. Sir R . Peel . —I propose oh Fr iday to enter into a general review of the subject , when I will state what course I intend to take , but I cannot enter into any explanation now ; I will give the fullest statement on Friday next with respect to thc nature of the proposals her Majesty ' s government intend to adopt .

      POOR LAW UNIONS . Mi * . M . Sutton moved that a select eoinmitteebe re-appointed to inquire into the adm ' mistration ofthe law for the relief of the poor in the unions formed under the Act 22 Geo . III ., c . 3 , sec . 83 , the Gilbert Unions , and to report to the house their opinion whether it was expedient that the said unions should be maintained . The motion was agreed to , and the following Hon . Members were appointed to serve on the committee-. —Mi * . Bavneby , Captain Peehell , Mr . Thomas Duncombe , Sir R . Heron , Mr . Colville , Sir Wm . Heathcote , Mr . Beckett Denison , Mr . Wrightson , Viscount Barringtori , Mr . Manners Sutton , Mr . Strutt , Viscount Marsham , Mi * . Labouchere , -Mr . Wakley , and Mr . Protheroe . After ordering some returns as to the attendance of the Poor Law _CommissioncYS on their duties , and passing a number of resolutions respecting the conduct oi private business , the house adjourned at six o ' clock .

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      _CLERKENAYELL . _JIondat . —Charge of Bigamy . —Curious Scene . —John Cullen , a stonemason , was brought up on . i _* emand ; charged with bigamy . —On Saturday the prisoner was brought up , charged with refusing to maintain his lawful wife , Sarah Cullen , who , on that occasion , detailed a series of cruelties practised towards her by the prisoner . Becoming destitute she was atlength obliged to take refuge in St . Pancras workhouse , and the prisoner altogether deserted her for the last nine months ; and during that time lived with a young woman , to whom , as his lawful wife deposed , he was married . The charge of "refusing to maintain " merged into the greater one of bigamy , and the prisoner was accordingly transferred from the defendants' to the felons' dook . —Mr . Cator , overseer of St . 'Pancras _. bywhom the first charge was brought , produced the certificate of the marriage of the first wife . —The prisoner was on that occasion most insolent , and when apprised ofthe serious

      nature of the charge , and of its .. consequences if found guilty of it , said , he knew all aboutht as well as the magistrate could tell him . —The first wife swore she was married to him in a Roman Catholic chapel in Dublin . —The prisoner set up the plea that such a marriage wasinvalid ; but it waB , of course , overruled at once . —This day the person said to be his second wife , having much ofthe Gipsy-look , and being rather handsome , was placed in the witness-box . Upon being sworn , she exclaimed , pointing to the prisoner , " That is not my husband . I was not married to that man . "—Mr . Greenwood ; What was your maiden name t—Witness : Overt . —Mr . Greenwood : Do you know the prisoner '—Witness : No ; ' I can't say that I do . —Mr ; Greenwood * . Haveyou not been married to him ! —Witness : No . —Mr . Greenwood . * You state that positively ?—Witness : Yes , positively . —Mr . Greenwood : Have you never seen tho prisoner before?—Witness : Y _' es , I bave seen him . —Mr . Greenwood .: Have you licver slept in the same room with him ?—Witness . * _Net / er _.- — The

      certificate was handed in , describing a marriage to have taken place in St . Marylebone Church on the 22 nd of November , 1840 , between John Cullen , a stonemason , and Mary Over ] , spinster . —Mr . Greenwood : Does this certificate refer to you '—Witness : My name is Mary Overl , and I was married at the time and place the certificate states to-John Cullen , a stonemason ; hut the prisoner is not that man . — Mr . Greenwood : Then , where is your husband!—Witness : I cannot tell . —Mr . Greenwood : When did you see him ?—AVitncss : Not for the last nine months . —Mr . Greenwood : Did he run away ?—Witness : He did . —The clerk reminded the witness that perjury was a transportable offence , and advised her to be cautious in what she stated . —The woman seemed greatly confused , and said nothing . —Mr . Greenwood ordered her to be again sworn , and the oath having been a second time administered , the magistrate asked her if she still persisted in saying the prisoner was not her husband?—She said nothing . —Mr .

      Greenwood * . Did the ceremony of marriage ever pass between you ?—The witness was silent . —Mr . Greenwood repeated the question , but the witness maintained a rigid silence . — Mr . Greenwood : You have been sworn to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth . I ask you once more , have you not been married to the prisoner ?—Witness : Am I obliged- to answer that question ?—Mr . Greenwood . _* You are . —Witness : I never was . —The witness had reluctantly admitted that her place of residence was Cooke ' srow , St . l _' ancras , when the landlord of that house arrived the parties were again brought into court . The landlord swore that be always understood , the prisoner to be her husband , but he could state nothing positive on the subject . —The witness was again placed in the witness-box , but she refused to answer a sinirle nuestion . —The nartics

      were again removed , but soon after Mr ; Cator , overseer of St . Pancras , stated to the magistrate that the second wife wished to give her evidence . —Theprisoner was a third time placed in the dock and the woman in the witnessbox , when , after much hesitation , she admitted having been -married to the prisoner , and having lived with him as his wife for some years after their marriage . She had two children by him , and the certificate produced referred to the second marriage . The first wife came to their residence demanding support from , the prisoner , who never denied that she was his wife .-j-Theprisoner , when asked for his defence , in a subdued tone . ' of voice said he had nothing to say . He shook his head in a dejected manlier , arid was remanded for the production of witnesses to the first marriage , when he willbe committed for trial , _: :

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      : '¦ '"" WORSHIP-STnEET . MONDAT . — THB _IiAlE MuBDBa-AT BETHNAI' - GnEEN- 7 ~ James Tapping was placed atthe bar before Mr . Bingham , at Worship-street Police Court , for final examination , charged with the wilful murder of a young woman'named Emma Whiter , the daughter of a silk-manufacturer in Bethnal-green , to whom he was paying liis addresses , by shoo ting her dead with apistol . The excitement produced Dy _tf _, e _examination of tnis prisoner was most extraordinary . Long before the opening of tbe doors of the court thousands of people had congregated in the street , and when the prison van drove up the pressing of the mob to get a sight of the prisoner , who had expressed liis intention of making a full confession of the circumstances of the transaction , accompanied by the exclamations of the men , and the screams and faintings of the women , was terrifying . The instan t the p risoner was placed at the bar ( which he _ontuvedwith a firm step and composed air ) the court became

      densely packed with people of both sexes , numbers of whom were standing upon the benches and every available ledge from which support could be attained , and every witness examined had to undergo a hard struggle to obtain ingress to the witness box . Mr . Cummings , the surgeon who performed the post mortem examination ofthe deceased's body , was re-examined at considerable length , but as it . did little more than strengthen the evidence he gave before the coroner , it is only necessary to say that he produced two leaden bullets he had extracted from the young woman ' s head and neck , and expressed his opinion that they had been the cause of death . The witness described the deceased as a handsome and remarkably fine made young woman _. During the examination of this witness an incident occurred which excited the commiseration of all present . When he arrived at his description : of the wound in the deceased ' s throat , ' tiie-prisoner ' s younger sister , a girl

      about eighteen years of age , who had stationed herself near the door of the clerk ' s office , and had been watching his evidence with intense anxiety , uttered a piercing scream arid fell to ' the ground in hysterics . She was immediately carried out by the officers , but it was at least twenty minutes before she had returned to consciousness ; on ( loing . so , she declared that she did not know who was to support or what would become of the family , now that the prisoner was gone , for he had always been a kind and affectionate brother to them . It was stated that the prisoner had supported hy his exertions his two orphan si _6-£ rs a long time past , and when he heard his sister ' s screams , he seemed much hurt , and watched her out of the court with visible emotion . Serjeant Backhouse having produced a bullet mould , Robert Perkins , . a gunmaker , in"Sale-street , Bethnal-green , said—I . was a neighbour of the prisoner , whom I have known for _soriie years ;

      the bullet mould produced is mine . On Saturday week last , at ; four in the afternoon , the prisoner brought the pistol produced ( that found by the body of the deceased ) to me , to have the top brass work of it repaired , saying that he wanted it as soon as possible , and that I must bring it to him at the Eiging Sun , in Waterloo Town . I finished the repairs in an hour and a half , and left it with - theprisoner atthe house he had told me . On the next ¦ day ( Sunday ) , he again called upon me , and asked me to cast four'bullets for . him to fit the pistol , which I did in the course of half an hour , from the mould now produced , and took them to him at . the Rising Sun , and lie paid me fourpence for them . The prisoner then asked me for some percussion caps to - fit the nipple of the pistol , and I gave him , I think , about' seven . I asked him what he wanted the bullets and the percussion caps for , and he told me he was going to a shooting match the next day . ( The

      witness Inserted the bullets produced by the surgeon into the bullet riiould _, and expressed his conviction that , though there might be many moulds like it , those bullets had been cast from the mould produced by thc serjearit ;) The next fresh evidence produced was that of Thomas Crisp , a cabinet-maker , who said—About one o'clock on Tuesday morning last ( the time of the murder ) I was in the taproom of the Rising Sun , when the prisoner came in and sat down very much , dejected . One of his fingers was bleeding , and on uiy asking him how it occurred , he said he had had nn accident and cut it . In a few seconds after , the prisoner suddenly started up , and running towards his brother Henry , who wae present , exclaimed ; " It cannot now be undone ; the . deed is done , and it will be a mystery to all of you , " I then left the room , and was going out of the house , when one of the prisoner ' s sisters came in and inquired for the prisoner . . I went to

      the room door and called him out , ana tne instant lie made his appearance his sister dropped forward and fainted in his arms . The prisoner sat down in a disconsolate state in front of the bar , with his sister in his aims , and when I went out I left them so . In answer to Mr . Bingham , the witness said , the observation made hy the prisoner as to the perpetration of the deed , was uttered loud enough for other persons to hear as well as myself , and as soon as it was made the prisoner's brother privately questioned him , and instantly , after , starting up , exclaimed , in the presence of the prisoner , who did not contradict liim , " Good God , ho has shot his young woman , " He then hastened back to the prisoner , and felt in liis pocket for something , on which the prisoner said , " Ah , Harry , that ' s gone . " Witness then left . The man Bunn , who met the prisoner at the public-house an hour after the murder , in addition to his former evidence , said

      the prisoner was very depressed , and sat in silence at the end of the table . He also heard the prisoner ' s con _» _fession to his brother of having ju 6 t committed " some deed . " When they left the public-house they met a young man named Capes , of whom the prisoner was jealous , whom he reproached veiy bitterly for liis attentions to the deceased , and threw the whole , blame of the transaction upon him . Witness followecfthe prisoner about for some time , and pressed liim to go home with him to supper , but thepriso _n er declined to do so , and said , "No , I will go home to my poor little sisters , and have supper with them . " Witness did not like to leave him in sueh a melancholy state , and saw him to his own home . There the prisoner sat down in a fit of despondency , and witness , finding he could not console him , left the place . —The man Cape 6 ,

      part of whose evidence before the coroner we have already inseited , deposed to several acts of jealousy on thc part of the prisoner towards the witness with regard to the deceased , and to the prisoner striking the deceased two violent blows in the face from this cause . But the witness declared to the magistrate that there were no grounds whatever for the suspicions the prisoner entertained of him . After the murder had been committed witness met the prisoner again , and was severely reproached by hhn ; but these reproaches were accompanied by such incoherent expressions that the witness did not at the time think the prisoner was altogether in his right senses . Other testimony of a confirmatory nature was then given , and the prisoner , who was advised hy his solicitor not to say anything , was fully committed for trial .

      BOW STREET . Friday . —Destruction of the Portlano Vase in the British Museum . —Yesterday , shortly before the closing of the court , a tall young man , about twenty years of age , and of delicate appearance , was brought beore Mr . Jardine , in the custody of 149 A division , and placed at the bar , charged with wilfully and maliciously breaking tbe celebrated Portland Vase in the Brit : sh Museum , The prisoner , being placed at the bar , appeared very sullen and reserved , and regardless of thc charge preferred against him . —Mr . Burnaby said—What is your name ?—The prisoner : I decline giving my name or address . —Mr , Edward Hawkins being

      then sworn , said : Having heard that the Portland Vase had been broken , and that no visitor had come down stairs since the crack was heard , lie went up , and finding four or five persons in . the apartment , he asked them what account they could give of the circumstance ? They replied , they knew nothing of it ; and coming to the . prisoner , to whom he put the same question , he replied in the most deliberate manner , " I did it , " without giving any reason for such extraordinary conduct . Witness saw all the fragments scattered about the room , and on looking about he found a large sculptured stone on the floor , with which the destruction appeared to have been committed , —The prisoner , who declined saying anything , was remanded .

      CLERKENWEI . L . _Priuat . — Charge or- Threatening to Murder . — —Mr . John James Schledel , a merchant , living in Harrington-street , Hampstead , was charged with threatening to murder Miss Schledel , the daughter of Mr . George Pfeiller Schledel , a _gentleriian residing at 39 , _Ossultonstrcetj Somers Town . Mr . Schledel deposed that the prisoner was his nephew , and on the previous night he went to the door ofthe house , 11 , Farkington-street , Islington , belonging to a gentleman named Evans , where liis daughter was staying , and knocked loudly for admission ; he was refused ,. and witness coming up at the time , directed him to go away ; the prisoner refused , and his violent knockingat . that time of night ( twelve o ' clock ) disturbed the whole street . Finding knocking to be

      ineffectual , he commenced kicking at the door with all his might , saying he would murder witness ' s daughter , and witness felt confident that if he had got in he _woaldhave murdered her . —Miss . Schledel , a pretty-looking girl of 18 , wearing a profusion of ringlets , deposed that the prisoner was her cousin , and had threatened to knock her brains out on the previous day , with a poker . —Mr . Combe : Can you assign no reason ? —Miss Schledel ( blushing ) : He has been paying his addresses to me , and because I did not receive him as favourabl y as he desired , he threatened to knock my brains out , and then to kill himself ; and I am afraid he will carry his threat into execution . —Mr . Combe after a private consultation with the prisoner ' s friends , committed him in default of bail , and ordered that the prisoner be ' closely watched while he remained in the cells attached to the court .

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      Judges' Chambers , Sergeakt s Inn , Saturday . — The Pitmen ' s Strike in tiie Potteries . —On Saturday John Williams , John Poyntcr , John Harding , and "William Sillitoe alias Salmon , four of the men connected with the late strike of'the pitmen , in the Potteries , and who ! had been employed at the Millfield-gate pit , belonging to Mr .. Sparrow , at Langton , in Staffordshire , were brought up in custody ofthe gaoler from Stafford gaol , before Mr . Justice Coleridge , by virtue of a writ of habeas corpus , on an application being made that thoy should be discharged , on the ground of an informality in the warrant upon whicli they had been committed to Stafford gaol for two months with hard labour , for absenting themselves from their work . One of the principal objections to the warrant is , that the adjudication did not warrant the conviction and sentence to hard labour . There are one or two other objections of a technical nature . —Mr . Bodkin , with whom was Mr .

      Huddlestone , appeared on the part ofthe prisoners , 'in support of tue objections to the warrant , and their apoiication to be discharged .- _^ -Mv . Justice Coleridge expressed some doubt upon the objections taken by Mr . Bodkin , and directed that , as the matter was of some importance , the further arguments of counsel should be postponed until Monday ( this day ) , when Mr . Justice Wwhtman would be in attendance . The learned judge directed that the prisoners- - should be taken back , in custody , to Stafford gaol , and the decision of the judge upon the application of the prisoners should be forwarded to the gaoler to be communicated to them . —Thc prisoners , who are all very decent healthy-looking men , were accordingly taken back on Saturday evening . ' From their manner , it was quite apparent a considerable spirit of discontent prevails amongst them . Discharge of the Prisoners . —Mondat _!—The application ; which was made to discharge ' -John Williams , John Poynter , John ' Harding . ' and William

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      Sillitoe aliae Salmon , four of the men who had been brought np ; in custody from Stafford Gaol , upon a writ o f habeas corpus , on Saturday last , to be discharged out of custody , on the _gnmnd of an informality m the -warrant of commitment , and which was partly _heardon Saturday before Mr . Justice Coleridge , the further consideration of wliich was __ adjourned , was again resumed before Mr . Justice Whitman . Mr . Bodkin and Mr . Huddlestone appeared for the prisoners . The prisoners , previous to the strike , had been employed by the prosecutor , Joseph Mitcheson , a person who is called in the county of Stafford , a . '• ' buckey , " that is , a sort of middle man between the workmen and the proprietors of pits , who undertakes to work certain portions of land and produce certain

      quantities of coal at a given price . It follows then ,, that the object of these men is to obtain labour at the smallest possible rate ; and we are assured that it is to this pernicious system that the discontent that has lately prevailed amongst the pitmen is to be attributed . In the present case , the prisoners had been engaged by the prosecutor Mitcheson , to work at the MQlfield-gate pit , belonging to Mr . Sparrow , at Langton ,, and in consequence ofthe strike the four prisoners-were , charged before — Harvey , Esq ., a magistrate for that . comity , by their employer Mitcheson , for absenting themselves from work , and were sentenced to two months' imprisonment , with hard labour , in Stafford Gaol . Mr . Bodkin , in

      addition the objections urged by him on Saturday before Mr . Justice Coleridge to the legality ofthe warrant of commitment , contended that the return to thewrit of habeas corpus , which set forth the warrant , was bad , inasmuch as that it did not appear upon the face of the return and the warrant that the prisoners were present atthetime the oath was administered to the prosecutor , whicli he contended ought to have been set forth . Mr . Justice Wightman , without calling upon the learned counsel to go into the other points , held the objection to be good and fatal to the conviction , and made an order for the prisoners' discharge out of custody . , [ The order was forwarded to the gaoler of Stafford Gaol on Monday night , and thc prisoners , will of course be at once liberated I

      vice-chancellor's COURT , < Feb . 1 . Before Sir L . Shadwell . Wilson v . Wilson . _^—Charge of Impotency . —The Vice-Chancellor sat in his court at Lincoln ' s-inn specially to hear the remainder of Mr . _BethelTs reply in this cause , which has occupied the whole attention of : the Court for seven days , and now stands for judgment . The details of the case , so offensive to decency on both sides , have become so notorious by former publication as to require only a general description to refresh the miemory on the questions now presented for the final adjudication of the Court . The plaintiff is the adopted niece of the late Sir Henry Wright Wilson and Lady Frances WilBon , and the defendant the cousin of the present Lord Henniker . Thc

      marriage was solemnized m April , 1839 , the lady being represented as then of the age of forty-seven , and the gentleman seven or eight years younger . The lady ' s fortune consisted of _abouti £ 8 , 000 or £ 9 , 000 perannum , arising from estates in Yorkshire , Essex , Hampshire , and Chelsea , and all her property was declared by the settlement to belong to the husband in his marital right except Drayton Lodge , in Hampshire , which was limited to the husband for life , with remainder to the wife for life , and afterwards to the heirs of the husband , and the Chelsea Park estate and a sum of £ 3 , 000 stock , whicli was secured to the separate use of the wife . The husband brought no fortune into the settlement . The parties lived together [ for severa months at Chelsea-park , till at length the conjugal

      differences , which had commenced soon afterthe marriage , and the state of Mrs . Wilson ' s health , represented by her as arising from her husband ' s treatment , _obliged her first to go and reside in Germany , and finally to take refuge in the house of her trustee and solicitor , Mr . Forster , and to institute a suit in thc Ecclesiastical Court against Mr . Henniker Wilson , on the ground of impotency . The alarm produced in the defendant ' s mind by this proceeding brought him into personal communication with the trustees ofthe settlement , and anegotiation was carried on without the intervention of any solicitor on the part of the defendant . Mrs . Wilson " admitted that _' the marriage ' _-had been solemnized according to law , "but on her solemn oath denied that it had ever been consummated , and on

      her solemn oath believed it to be on the ground of a physical infirmity of the defendant ; " and , further , that a communication was made to her shortly after the marriage , from which she had reason to believe that this was known to other persons , and whicli she mentioned to the defendant on several occasions . Under the advice of her friends she had submitted to a medical examination , and fortified her denial of the consummation of the marriage by the certificate of Dr . Granville . Mr . Wilson , on the other hand , denied the charge in the most direct and positive terms , and supported his declaration by the certificates of several most eminent surgeons , alleging , moreover , that the marriage had been duly consummated ; but at the same time imputing the obstacles to tho physical

      'nnrmities ot the lady . This Mrs . Wilson most _stedfaatly denied , and went on to represent her distresses as not arising only from the cause before alluded to , but also from the general conduct of the defendant , which consisted of various and continued acts of purposed vexation , insult , neglect , rude treat - ment wnen alone , and contempt before strangers , from lengthened absence , without knowing where he was , refusal to visit her friends , never accompanying her , and often passing her in the streets unnoticed , & _-c . The defendant , however , declared that she was treated with the greatest kindness and attention , and that the real cause of the connubial difference was a discovery of Mrs . Wilson that he had had a natural child sworn to him some _timebef-tre the marriage . To thi Wilson that such intimation

      s . Mrs . replied , an had never been made to her by any one , and that the allegation of such being the supposed cause ' of the differences was a mere pretence and misrepresentation set up by him for obvious purposes ; but that about ten months after the marriage he took several letters from his pocket and told her one was from a . woman threatening to swear a child to him , but that she ( Mrs . Wilson ) turned the subject into ridicule , and used expressions to him wliich gave him plainly to understand it was impossible . The defendant endeavoured to' falsify , this statement by admissions and expressions made by Mrs . Wilson in conversations with third parties , that she did not believe the truth of the circumstance which established his paternal character , or liis capability , but this evidence was

      rejected by the Court . The plaintiff further contended , that the peculiar language of the certificate ofthe surgeons was not inconsistent with thc allegation of impotency . It would be an endless task to follow the mutual allegations and contradictions of the parties , which appeared to be pursued to the end of the pleadings with uncompromising bitterness . The case of the plaintiff was conducted by Mi * . Bethcll , Mr . Hodgson , and Mr . Lloyd , and the counsel for the defendant were Mi-. Kelly , Mr . Stuart * and Mr . Willcock . The Vice-Cliancellor at the conclusion of the argument observed , that as the ease did not merely involve a right , bnt also affected the character ofthe parties , he should not dispose of it satisfactorily to bis own feelings without reading minutely through the whole of the pleadings , and contrasting them with the evidence before he pronounced his judgment .

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      INDIA AKD _CHliU-OVERLAND MAIL . _ The overland dispatch in anticipation of the Indian Mail of the 1 st of January has arrived LiDM is tranquil ; with the exception of some trifling disturbances in tho jungles of tho small state of Sawunt Warvee , on tbe Malabar coast . The Disturbances which existed in the districts of Kolapore , at the time ofthe departure of the last mail , appear to have subsided . The celebrated

      fortresses of Punalla and Pownaglmr , which lie to the north ofthe town of Kolapore , at a distance of about fifteen miles , were captured on thc 1 st of December by the force under the command of General De la Motte . The only remarkable casualty was the death of Colonel Hicks of tho Bombay army , who had one of his legs shattered by a cannon-ball , whicli passed through his horse and injured the other leg . He died within a few hours . This occurred at the taking possession of the little town at the foot of the . rock fortress .

      Robin Hood _ijj . the 1 . ast . —In the small state of Sawunt Warree , which lies between the Kolapore mountains and the sea , a sort of " Robin Hood " insurrection had been got np by an old freebooter , called Phond Sawunt , who , after some years of tranquil enjoyment of a pension , thought fit to try his luck in the jungles , and has induced his own sons , and even the son and heir of the Rajah of Warree , to join in the excursion . They are now living in the jungle under the mountains , and they keep that part of the Concan in great confusion . In the North of India there was great watchfulness displayed by tbe civil and military authorities . The continued / 7 it _# «/< -balow of the eternal Singhs in Runjcet Singh ' s kingdom , rendering these precautions necessary .

      The Plague in Affgbaxistax _.- —Tliis country has been visited by the plague , which came from the environs of Bokhara , and ravaged the town of Gaubul , and had , in the beginning of December , reached Peshawur . Fortunately it assumed a milder appearance as it approached to tho banks of the Indus ; yet its progress was feared down that river , and also into the Punjaub . In Scinde all was quiet and order . The 78 th Highlanders continued to suffer severelv from sickness . The Goverxor-Geseral ( Sir Henry Hardinge ) re mained at Calcutta , where he was regulating the means , of educating the natives for public employment . He had received several addresses from the natives , to which ho gave highl y ; satisfactory answers , and promised his aid for tho improvement of the country and its . people .

      Blessings of British Government . —Taxation in Hong Kono . —The "Natives" not to be Done .-The news from China comes down to the 19 th of November . The principal point of interest was the dispute between the Governor of Hong-Kong and the inhabitants relative to the registration of the population and a poll-tax ,-which was ordered by an ordinance published on the 19 th of October : * The merchants wrote a bold ' address , in whioh the measures

      of the Government were declared to be _« ' iii * _^^ This address was returned to the _signers T ' _" _*" correspondence ensued , The Clunese % struck work , and prepared to quit the coW u | itt ' 0 ii Governor then withdrew thc obnoxious n , _vi ; * _*'• IV have it amended . mil n _^ * SWITZERLAND . The agitation of which _Switzerland is tho arising out of the Jesuit expulsion question h *•• _•* ously affected the internal commerce of tiie W A letter from Lucerne of the ieth stat "**• ' •? although the annual fair was to begin the n { '' 'it day , yet that no sellers had presented thl > _% Tho Federal Gazette significantly _obsei-vcs th f V ( _£ is no dancing except in the prisons . ' ' % Z T \ . !? . „„ TT ™ . „ ... 1 .. _ p r . — . C

      last week burnt down in thc village of i ,, / c . _H land ) . The clergyman ' s residence and tiv' _& t . Hail were also reduced to _aklies . The eh J _\^ much injured that it is no % expected to _hT _^ * available for public worship . The walls fire _f _t _^ 'fl in parts from thc effects ofthe heat . Tlle t ]|? _Ifag were melted before the fire reached the spirl _^ _M steeple . The total damage from the fire j ,, ! ' _••' e at lOO _. OOOf .,.: Provisions and necessaries ' kv i * sent in by tlic surrounding villages to tho « n < r ° * tfl TAHITI tne _sutferers . News Fnoii _Taiuti has been received un * ¦ 27 th of August last , at which time the * iJL _-W

      lationot laluti , anil , tne other _lslnncls claim _l" " the French , were in arms against thou and * i _^ were masters of nothing beyond what _tlieVni ' _' in Tahiti itself . They could not move a _W Papiti without being attaeked b y the natives _'' _^ were determined to resist to the last , Tlw . _^ ° French force consisted of about 1 , 000 men a , _i _* ' the natives there were , either in Tahiti or ti ¦ _* ' joining islands , from 4 , 000 to 5 , 000 determined _^ in arms , resolved to resist them to the last \ u _^ from 200 to 250 of the French had fallen inVff _^ tbe strong position taken by the natives , of wi * ? about 100 had also lost their lives . Queen Ton had refused to have anything to do with tlio _JW She had joined her subjects in one of the adioin * islands . J ' _"¦•" S

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      Drury Lane. In Noticing The Ballet Of Le...

      DRURY LANE . In noticing the ballet of Les Danaides , pr _oduct Tuesday night , we do not feel called upon to be _pioV _.- our antique illustrations . We have a right to assume ' everybody knows that the fifty daughters ot * li .-in . iu ; ried their fifty cousins , and that forty-nine of the R _^ _S ' men were murdered on their wedding night by their foil the fiftieth , Lynccus , heing saved by the fiftieth ladv if ' permnestra . Knowing so much , and also that the Da"k ] . ( as a punishment for their misdeeds ) were _coiidemaei ; Tartarus to fill with water a vessel constructed on f principle of a watering-pot with the spout at the _bo'tav there is but little novelty in the general aspect of the C ? let , and consequently but little interest . The _(&*•*<¦ , _•(*» * menls are performed by second-rate people : and there !" scarcely a single pas wliich may be considered . i _distinct feature . _But , on the other hand , no expense seem- _1-have been spared . There is a huge corps de ballet h there are fifiy bridegrooms and fifty brides , ' beside J host of supernumeraries , who figure as " Amaiar Egyptian dancers , priests , warriors , African slaves $ mons , furies , & c _, " all of whom are brijrhtlv dressed \ J

      whose groupings frequently present a rich ami _im-i-r _im _* COitp d ' onl . In this ballet Mdlle . Maria , of the -Im / _W Royale , made her appearance before an English _audiei-c-She is a prettily-featured young lady , if the *' enchant ' ments " of " distance " do not deceive us . She is sn \ _iil k stature , and slight and elegant in form . Her _danciii" _fe . longs to the _Dumilatre school , being easy ami graceful She obtained an encore in a series of circling Imnnili i ns pas de deux with _3 f . Vestris . The Madame I'inavt . wh-, came out some little while back in a diaertissment prenareil especially for her , re-appeared upon this occasion ; _anda _; one of the / tanaide ' s danced an energetic pas with agentK man whose name we did not ascertain , but she _rklistj no great glory . Mdlle . _O'llryan and Madame Giabi ' -i were seen in the second act , and contributed a pair _< , _{ solos . Among the opposite sex , II . Iloguet , the invent- * ofthe ballet , distinguished himself the most , llepcrsonated the anti-Malthusian Dana > _xs and did not mind being laughed at for his pantomime , which was amusingl ' v h . travagant . The house was very full , and the ballet ' -va received with applause _.

      ADELPHI . A " dramatic anecdote , " in two acts , called The c : Uliit of Fortune , was produced at this theatre on Thursday night , and with complete success . Thc " anecdote" is one of intrigue , and not of a very agreeable character , heingof the French school , in wliich the presumed frailty of a mar . ried woman is the hinge upon which the plot turn- ' . Upon Mr . Hudson devolved the duties of _siipjiortin _*; the piece ; and he was everything that could be wished . Miss Wolgav , Miss Fovtescue , Mi * . Lambert , and Mr . Cone ' . ! , al ) performed their parts admirably . At the fall ofthe enrtain Mr . Hudson was called for ; but the snp _«* tnt .-r _= _•> . not satisfied until they had seen Miss Wolt ¦;¦

      LYCEUM . The comic drama called Taking Possess ¦ _> » _-.. . produced at this theatre on Monday _invh ' . ¦ _.: :-.: _. Keeley witha convenient opportunity ' fori _i- ; . _r . ment after his own peculiar manner . Here . ' - ! -,. -- • _-.- ¦ tain _Pectus . Boodle , a cockney traveller for u ri- !; - mi pickle warehouse , - who , while pursuing \ v- -Mil ... - i * German town , purchases a lottery ticket fv - a _^ 'i- ' gipsies , which has been lost bya ' young v _^ _- . _^ _at _aS . , Karl , betrothed to - Veto ( Miss Arden ) . Th-- ti ¦ _k . ¦ : u _> _- up a prize , entitling the fortunate holder 1 > tin : ¦ ' :. _^ i .. _•; Rateuhohl _, on the banks ofthe Danube , aw : . !! ¦ ' . ; ' . ' . v . ' tenances . The cockney , in high glee , goes t ! aU ••; . ¦ - ¦ sion , butin the meanwhile the peasant , haviii ; -unc _' _i * _.-: _- . the loss he has sustained , manages to get tin _asKs' _--:. - ¦ _,- .. the leader ofthe gipsies , and a tiot is formed to .- '• L \ - . i « silly bagman of his good fortune , 'by filling hii « ivi , a !; -. ; .-. and by worrying him almost to death . The t ¦ _*)• . ' , ' -

      last stage of rum and dilapidation , lias long b ¦ _*; 'r- '; ' . ' of the gipsies , and they enter readily into t _-. T . r . ' annoy the new landlord . When he arrives he :: _•* > , _* ¦ ¦¦ ¦ .::. but a broken-down , bave , and desolate tenci . _vnt . _ns-.. _^ . get nothing to eat ; he is frightened out of hi ; ¦ _•';¦> •¦• • ' _'¦' roar of wolves ; he is disturbed by stories being haunted ; he is consumed by fleas ; un ' . ; .. : ' he is so harassed , anil so disgusted with his { _=.- _; . »''' . _;¦ " _>¦¦* he resigns it , with a shriek of delight , to the ri } : _i' « i : ofthe lottery ticket—receiving two hundred U i _:- - ' change : fortified -with " which he cheerfully : ¦ _- » ' ¦ - avocations in the sauce and pickle trade . ' Keeley . being the hero of these adventures , was quite at home p the swaggering bagman , hopping and slapping about _i-i the intensity of vulgar satisfaction when he learns his una . pected good fortune , and groaning with agony ami per .

      _ple-tity as the annoyances . and discomforts <> t rcsia _^ nce accumulate upon him . In such characters Keeley has often been seen , but he was never more divertuiR t- _-: _an i » this . He managed at the outset to put the audience _i : ; : o a complacent frame of mind , and to raise a laugh heai - . y aw ! permanent , whicli at once placed the success of the piece beyond a doubt .. Mr . A Wigan was the principal _'iiisji upon whom devolved the important task of teasing awl irritating the beset cockney ; and Mr . Graven was the peasant Karl , Mr . Meadows contributed largely to w comicality : he played a stupid old seneschal , _pervaded by one idea , that of having placed thc lost lottery ticket in a salt-box . which he iterates with an amusing perfc . icity until he becomes the bore and tho horror of every est ? he meets with . The piece was perfectly successful , a * 1 '' - ' to * notice of repetition was hailed with a roar of ntiplarse .

      STRAND THEATRE . _, The popularity of _.-hitisroiic was vouched for on M > a «» y night at this theatre by an extravaganza , in _whic-tne principal features of the great lyrical tragedy } ver - . ' mmorously burlesqued . The travestied Antigone is _ur-o « _- taken by Mr . G , Wild , who wraps his capacious pcrsenia a classic Grek robe , and delivers mock heroics _tmiclaiiea brother wh em the bulky maiden has liberated from 8 debtors ' , priso _? . There was plenty of fun to iliveit me audience , who took . up the parodied resemblances _t : tli _* original readil y enough , and accepted every _movsclots-afo and every broad witticism with a relish which km *** no bounds . Mr . n . Hall , who personated Creou , _gavi some capital imitations of VandenhoiF , Macready , and even w O'Connell ; and sang some of the airs of the day , tor- _*!; eu profanely with grotesque words , in a vein of rich a " : *™ "' ' The guards and sages crowd the raised stage _accovwag copy ; and below is a similar fidelity as regards the _cuOiu _., which stand at the sides and throw up their anr . sin »

      style of droll exaggeration . Mr . Macfarren is not : orgO ' - ten ; he is mimicked by Mr . F . Romer , wlio enter ? to ** orchestra with bustle and importance , and draws on a 1 »" of white gluves with a pompous display of dignity , _unue liis long hair hangs about his head after the manner ot a » accomplished prototype . His burlesque gestures m -a _™ baton , in imitation ofthe energetic conductor , are Mow to be mistaken ; and he telegraphs to the band anrtu chorus just as oddly and just as wildly , - The final _(«***•' is a ludicrous paraphrase of the original s _tage-gr-xipi ' _-E _* The pealing thunder is accompanied by rain , upo n _wliij- ' C ' reon and liis nobles throw up their umbrellas , crow " down on their broadsides , and so avert the wrath oj w gods . There is a drollery in this which it is _hnpoi's *;* withstand , and the audience is in a paroxysm of _oe _^ _gn' This extravaganza is from the pen of Mr . E . L . 151 a » . ar who has wrung out several good puns for the occ & s ' "' while , at the same time , he successfully imitates tw _^ a rangements of the bill , which he annotates in _ixi _^ mimicry ofthe Covent-garden original .

      VICTORIA . A spirited little piece of diablerie has been _prodc-ciA * this theatre , in the enacting of which another and _aiosuccessful instance was given of the versatile tale _.-i * ' Miss Vincent . The title is , A Night ' s Frolic ; or , On * »' Hundred Years . Nicksus , " a merry little devil , " is alio )' ' 1 to have * ' a day out , " and , " having nothing else to io ; iSntanic Majesty , in the shape of a "lively spark , " rc _-ob to torment Ludovic Franseil ( Mr . T . H . Higgie ) _, a yon student of Manheim , and make him false to his betroth ' Gretchen ( Miss Eliza Terry ) , and to commit in a night tlr sins—drunkenness , infidelity , and murder . Hut thoi the first is reall y accomplished by the arts of the " nie little devil , " the others are but nominal , and it is d « n strated by the result that the "devil is not so black

      is painted . " Harmony is restored , and wedded hapl >"' follows , the " merry little devil" having taken his depart just previously , to ' go below"for a century , or till" «" for" by the audience , which by-the-by is likely to _« cC ; _A nightly for some time . The piece is well got up , and ph ' . i = the audience immensely . Presentation of a Silver Cup to Mr . _Doccw _** i Lessee of the Marylebone Theatre . — The eompan } j the Marylebone theatre , and a few gentlemen in the nt _* ' hourhood , ou Wednesday last presented Mr . _Ito- _'S _*^ - ' lessee of the above theatre , with a splendid silver i « v value one hundred guineas , as a testimonial of then * a " ration of that gentleman ' s conduct as manager of ; the ai > theatre . Upwards of 150 persons were present , incl « " « several ladies . Mr . Douglass returned thanks tor compliment in a neat , eloquent speech , and thee ** _- | n ° passed off with the greatest pleasure to all P artics J j !' .,. ' Inscription on the cup - .-Presented to Mr . John / W _'"^ Feb . 5 , 1815 , by the . company ofthe Marylebone theat re t . » , _fexo select friends , as a trifling mark of their apprew _™^ his talent and his urbane and _AonoumUe conduct as _maer . __

      Printed By Dougal M'Gowan, Of 17, Great Wind"" - Street. Ttnvmnrua*. In The Citv Of Westminster, At

      Printed by DOUGAL M'GOWAN , of 17 , Great Wind" " - street . TTnvmnrUA * . in the Citv of Westminster , at

      Office In The Same Street And Parish, Fo...

      Office in the same Street and Parish , for the pvietor , FEARGUS O'CONNOR , Esq ., andpuWi 6 W J WitxiAK Hewitt , of No . 18 , Charles-street , _^ ° street , Walworth , in the Parish of St . Mary , Ne * _^ ten , in the County of Surrey , atthe Office , *?• _^ Strand , in the Parish _£ of _^ St . _Mary-le-Strana ¦¦ >• City of Westminster . Saturday , Febuary . 8 , 1845 .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 8, 1845, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_08021845/page/8/