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CHRONICLE. 
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either by the sale of shares in the usual way, or by loan, 
-—On Thursday morning a fatal accident occurred on the 
North Midland Railway. From the official report it appears 
that while the train which left Leeds for Derby at 5 o’clock 
was waiting at the Barnesley station, it was run into by a 
goods train, by which a Mr. Harvey, a traveller for the 
house of Finlay & Co., of Glasgow, was killed on the spot. 
Fortunately he was the only passenger, or the results would 
have been more serious, as the engine and carriages were 
smashed to pieces. 
IRELAND. 
Dublin.—The Lord Lieutenant and Council, upon the 
dation of the Ecclesiastical C issi for 
Ireland, have suspended the appointment of a Provost to 
the Cathedral of Tuam, vacant by the death of the Hon. 
. D. Beresford. This was the only remaining instance of 
the existence of the office of Provost in a Cathedral 
church, There were no duties of any sort connected with 
the office. The income of the Provost of Tuam, amount- 
ing to about 3007. a-year, has been transferred to the Ec- 
lesiastical C issi ; ials, signed by the 
clergymen of the parishes out of which a part of that sum, 
amounting to 180/. a-year, is derived in rent-charges, have 
been presented to the Privy Council and the commission- 
ers, praying for the distribution of this sum in augmenta- 
tion of their incomes.—A great sensation has been pro- 
duced in legal circles, by the appearance of a general order 
from the Lord Chancellor, requiring the names, ages, 
duties, or ttend: as the case may be, 
of officers of all classes deriving salaries or emoluments in 
the Court of Chancery, It is said in explanation of this 
order that there are some officers, with very high salaries, 
who seldom appear personally, and that others have been 
absent, from illness or other causes, during a whole year. 
It is added that serious apprehensions prevail in the other 
equity and common law courts, that a similar order will 
be immediately issued, with a view to important modifica- 
tions in the whole system.—The extensive establishment 
of Mr. Busby, the distiller, has stopped payment. The 
amount of the liabilities do not exceed 26,0007., and the 
failure is attributed, in a great measure, to the temperance 
Movement, which is said to have produced the ruin of 
three-fourths of the spirit retailers in Ireland.—Mr. Geo. 
Cornewall Lewis, the second of the three Poor-Law Com- 
Missioners, has succeeded Mr. Nichols as resident com- 
Wissioner in Dublin. —At the weekly meeting of the Re- 
Peal Association, a long letter was read from Mr. O’Con- 
nell, in which he announces five measures as the basis upon 
Which he seeks to combine all Irishmen in the struggle for 
the Repeal of the Union. They constitute, he says, the 
8reat national compact upon which he calls upon Irish- 
men of every persuasion to tally together, in order to ob- 
tain national independence and prosperity for their native 
land, The following are the measures :—1. The total 
abolition of the tithe rent-charge,—2.. Fixity of tenure 
for the occupying tenants.—3. The encouragement and 
Perfecting of Irish manufactures.—4. Complete suffrage 
end vote by ballot.—S. Abolition of the present poor-law, 
and augmentation of well-regulated charitable institutions. 
Such, he says, is the basis of their repeal agitation for the 
year 1843, The rent for the week was 1427. 14s. The 
Morning Register newspaper, one of the leading organs 
of the Repeal party, has been discontinued, and is hence- 
orth to be incorporated with the Hreeman’s Journal. 
Tyrone,—A. requisition, signed by peers, deputy-lieu- 
tenants, and magistrates, has been forwarded to the High 
Sheriff of Tyrone, calling on him to convene a meeting to 
take into consideration the working of the Irish Poor-law, 
Which, they allege, is found to be cumbrous, expensive, 
and ill-suited to the wants of the destitute. A similar re- 
{uisition to the High Sheriff of Fermanagh is in course 
es Signature. The union of Tuam has also been convened 
© petition ‘for the utter repeal of the present unwise, 
Cruel, and pp i d i a «A Law 
for the Relief of the Poor,’ and the substitution of a 
enevolent measure, which would have the effect of dimi- 
Nishin 
the co 
for the reli 
Taunity, 
of the I Such is the wording of the requi- 
chan? which is signed by Dr. M‘Hale, the Roman Ca- 
a ‘Ounty, and by several magistrates and Poor- 
rdians, 
Mase —The extraordinary meeting of the General 
™bly of the Irish Presbyterian Church continues to 
the attention of the local Presbyteries. In addition 
Aistricts, resolutions have been adopted by the 
be 
Woy ae General Assembly to convene a meeting of the 
byterian re to express their sympathy with the Pres- 
emia: hanes of Scotland and Ireland, and to assist 
doubt that eir present struggles. There is now little 
4 meeting of the Assembly will take place 
ensuing month. 
On Wednesday week, afire broke outin the 
tended to He itzgerald, at the Nun’s Island, and soon ex- 
EF The Next mill, belonging to Messrs. Rush and 
Police and the military were quickly on the spot, and the 
dered the m * officers and men of the Rayen cutter ren- 
e flames eerenesive aid in checking the progress of 
sumed, with th + two mills, however, were totally con- 
Contained, ching woe Property in grain and oatmeal they 
cries ging to poor mealmongers, whose 
7 Eee way Inmentetions are described as ienderebaing. 
difficulty a reat as and it was with the greatest 
faved, in ‘bea Gene of Mr, Regan adjoining were 
Ongers are coltpletaly rainea Hash atlte poor. nical: 
SCOTLAND, , 
Edinburgh.—We learn by the Edinburgh Observer that 
it was announced in that city on Monday last, that 
the Moderator had received an answer from Government 
to his recent communications, announcing that her Ma- 
jesty’s ministers had no intention, by admitting the claim 
of right, recognising the convocation, or acceding to its 
demands, or those from the last meeting of commission, 
to interfere with the existing law as regards the church ; 
and that they do not purpose to introduce any measure 
into Parliament affecting the Church of Scotland, as by 
law established. It appears that this reply is in the form 
of a state paper, bearing the signature of Sir J. Graham, 
as adopted at a meeting of the Cabinet Council, presided 
over by the Queen herself. 
Dundee.—On Saturday last, indictments were served 
upon the Chartist preacher, John Duncan, and five other 
individuals, operatives in this town, to take their trial be- 
fore the High Court of Justiciary at Edinburgh, on the 
16th inst., for having taken an active part at the meeting 
of the 16th August last, when a general strike or cessation 
from labour was proposed, and the people recommended 
to ‘‘help themselves.’? Indictments were also left at the 
houses of four other Chartists, who absconded immediately 
after the meeting referred to, and have not since been 
heard of. 
Glasgow.—The first ship from Scotland to China since 
the new treaty, the James Campbell, sailed last week from 
the Broomielaw for Hong-Kong, one of the ports opened 
to the merchants of Great Britain by the treaty. The 
vessel is said to be completely full, having as much mer- 
chandise on board as she can carry. 
THEATRICALS. 
Drury Lane.—An English version of Rossini’s opera 
of ‘La Gazza Ladra’”’ was produced at this theatre on 
Saturday. The object of this performance was to intro- 
duce to the public two young ladies, whose names were 
not given in the bills, in the characters of Annette and 
Pippo, which latter character is in this version called 
Felix. The lady who played Annette, and who was 
called in the bills ‘* a pupil of the Chevalier Micheroux,”’ is 
Miss S. Novello, whose style has evidently been formed 
by a good musical education, Her execution was on the 
whole very pleasing, and she elicited much applause 
during her performance. The other young lady who 
played Pippo, is a contralto ; she acted with remarkable 
confidence and power for a first appearance, and gave 
promise of future excellence. At the close of the opera 
they were loudly called for, and were greeted with 
reiterated plaudits. The new version of ‘*La Gazza 
Ladra,” not only abridges that fine opera, and reduces it 
to the character of a melo-dramatic spectacle, but is in 
all respects the most feeble attempt which has ever been 
made to adapt the Italian opera to the English stage. 
In scenery and dress it was unexceptionable, but this was 
@ poor I ion f i 1 of Rossini’s music. 
Covent Garptn.—The well-known opera of “ Gus- 
tavus’’ has been reproduced at this theatre, but without 
the brilliancy for which it was celebrated 10 years ago. 
Some of the popular choruses were given with their 
ancient effect, and the ball scene was deservedly success- 
ful; but the general result was not so satisfactory as had 
been anticipated. It was, however, announced for repe- 
tition three times a week. On Thursday Colman’s ‘ Blue- 
beard ’’ was revived at this theatre, and was received with 
great satisfaction by the juvenile audience which gene- 
rally crowds the house at this holiday season. 
ion for the 
Miscellaneous. 
The Cabul Prisoners.—The gallant advance of Sir 
Richmond Shakespear from Cabul, by forced marches of 
90 miles a day, for the purpose of assisting in the release 
of the prisoners, has been already noticed in our paper. 
We find in the Indian intelligence received this week the 
following interesting correspondence on the subject, which 
we reprint without abridgment, as it gives the names of 
those who were so providentially released from captivity. 
‘¢ To Sir Richmond Shakespear, Military Secretary, &c. :— 
Dear Sir—Rescued as we have so lately been from a state 
of prolonged and cheerless captivity, which threatened 
soon to terminate in hopeless slavery in a land where the 
laws of humanity are unknown and unacknowledged ; 
restored by a wonderful interposition of Providence to 
country, friends, and all that renders life desirable, —it 
would ill become us, in the midst of our rejoicings, to 
forget those friends through whose agency this happy 
change in our prospects has been effected. ‘T’o you we 
are bound to express our heartfelt thanks for the prompti- 
tude with which you led a body of Kuzzilbash horsemen 
to our assistance at a most critical period, to whose timely 
arrival amongst us at Kaloo, it may be chiefly attributed 
that our flight from Bameean was not intercepted. To 
thank you adequately in words for so signal a service 
would be impossible, but we trust you will accept of this 
s a token of the gratitude we feel, and with every good 
wish for your happiness and prosperity, we subscribe our- 
selves yours very faithfully, Fanny Macnaghten, Florentia 
Sale, Alexandrina Sturt, Jean Boyd, F. Boyd, A.Waller, 
R. Waller, G. Mein, Emily Eyre, Vincent Eyre, C. Mac- 
kenzie, Eldred Pottinger, Edward Webb, B. Melville, 
Georgiana Mainwaring, H. Johnson, G. St. P. Lawrence, 
C. Harris, C. Griffiths, T. Palmer, J. 8, Alston, T. 
Thomson, J. Macgrath, J. Nicholson, — Airy, — Souter, 
John Shelton, J.C. Hampton, — Evans, T. P- Walsh, 
R. Warburton, H. Drummond, R. L. Burnett, H. M. 
Williams, A. Crawford. Camp Cabool, Sept. 24. To 
this letter Sir R. Shakespear returned the following reply: 
—“To Lady Macnaghten, Lady Sale, &c., Gen. Shelton, 
and Major Pottinger. Dear Ladies and Gentlemen—I 
were lately prisoners at Bameean, and I hasten to request 
that you will express to them my sincere thanks for thé 
to have been in any way instrumental in effecting your 
crepe from palsy oe T remain, dear Ladies and 
Gentlemen, your obedient servant, R. C. SHAKESPEAR. 
Camp, Jellalabad, Oct. 26, 1842.” 2 aoe a eee 
The Three Sovereigns.—The following anecdote, ac- 
cording to the Paris Papers, has often been told by the 
Emperor Alexander, and is amongst the traditions of the 
Russian Court :—In 1814, during the period when the 
Allies were masters of Paris, the Czar, who resided in the 
hotel of M, de Talleyrand, was in the daily habit of taking 
a walk (in strict incognito) every morning in the gardens 
of the Tuileries, and thence to the Palais Royal. He one 
day met two other sovereigns, and the three were returning 
arm-in-arm to breakfast in the Rue St. Florentin, when, on 
their way thither, they encountered a provincial, evidently 
freshly imported to Paris, and who had lost his way. 
‘“‘ Gentlemen,” said he, ‘can you tell me which is the 
Tuileries ?”’ ‘‘ Yes,” replied Alexander ; ‘‘ follow us, we 
are going that way, and will show you.’’ Thanks on the 
part of the countryman led them soon into conversation. 
A few minutes sufficed to arrive at the palace 5 and, as 
here their routes lay in opposite directions, they bade 
each other reciprocally adieu. ‘* Pardleu!’”’ cried all at 
once the provincial, ‘‘ I should be glad to know the names 
of persons'so amiable and complaisant as you are?” 
“« My name >” said the first—“ Oh, certainly ; you have, 
perhaps, heard of me; I am the Emperor Alexander !’’ 
“A capital joke,” exclaimed the Gascon ; ‘an Emperor ! 
—and you,” addressing the second individual, who may 
you be?” ‘1?’ replied he; ‘why, probably I am not 
wholly unknown to you, at least by name—I am the King 
of Prussia !’’ ‘* Better and better,’ said the man; “and 
you, what are you, then ?’’ looking at the third person. 
‘©T am the Emperor of Austria !’’ ‘ Perfect, perfect |’? 
exclaimed the provincial, laughing with all his might. 
‘*But you, monsieur,” said the Emperor Alexander, 
“surely you will also let us know whom we have the 
honour to speak to?” ‘To be sure,” replied the man, 
quitting them with an important strut, ““I am the Great 
Mogul |” 
The Human Voice Automaton.—The Paris Consti- 
tutionnel states that a mechanician of a little town in Bo- 
hemia has constructed an automaton which imitates per- 
fectly the human voice, particularly the soprano notes. It 
sings several difficult airs with the greatest accuracy. 
Shakes, runs, and chromatic scales, are all executed with 
surprising precision. This automaton, in singing, even 
pronounces certain words, so as to be easily understood. 
The inventor hopes to arrive at such a point of perfection 
as to bring his machine to pronounce all the words of the 
best operas. He intends shortly making a journey to 
Prague and Vienna, to give concerts, and from thence to 
Paris and the other cities of Europe. 
Statistics of Marriage in Paris.—The following account 
of the married women in Paris has just been published in 
the French papers, although the facts were collected from 
the registry books of the 18 years from 1813 to 1830 by 
our countryman Mr. Francis Corbaux, and published in 
his work on Life Assurance. Of 121,625 marriages, 
there were 814 between 12 and 15 years old; at 16 years, 
1,190; at\17 years, 3,959; at 18 years, 5,816; at 19 
years, 6,957; at 20 years, 7,610; at 21 years, 8,047; at 
22 or 23, between 7,000 and 8,000 ; at 24 or 25, upwards 
of 6,000; but at 26, 27, and 28, they scarcely exceed 
5,000. This decreasing progression goes on, so that up 
to 31 years there were only 3,651; thence to 41 years, 
1,798 ; at 42 years, 1,015; at 48 years, 586 ; at 56 years, 
226; at 60 years, 126; and during the 18 years there 
were 578 marriages of women aged 61 years and upwards. 
Another account shows that out of 1,000,000 married in 
Paris, 521,365, being more than one half, were married 
before the commencement of their 26th year. ; 
The Porcelain Tower of Nankin.—The following 
extract from a letter describing one of the greatest curi- 
osities in China, is taken from the Bombay Spectator :— 
‘“Numerous, as you may conceive, have i the pil- 
grimages made to the far-famed ‘‘ Porcelain ela f Kor 
the first time in inspecting any of the monumen| a this 
country, no disappointment has been See > pile 
comparing what they actually are with what the legends of 
the book-makers in China describe them to be. It is, 
indeed, a most elegant and singular zraueenre, as remark. 
able for its correct proportions as - the rare material of 
which it is ‘partially composed. ood partially, because 
the mass of building is not of porcelain, but is composed 
of common. brick, with a facing and lining of beautiful 
white glazed porcelain bricks or slabs, fixed into the 
masonry by means of deep keys or shoulders, cast like a 
half T, on the brick. Its form 18 Octagonal, and running 
up each of the angles is a moulding of large lites of very 
fine clay, glazed and coloured red and green alternately 5 
round each story runs a light balustrade formed of green 
porcelain, upon which four arched doorways open, set to 
the four cardinal points, the arches being elegantly 
turned with large glazed tiles, cast in all imaginable 
fancies of design and variegation of colour, representing 
wild beasts, demons, deities, monsters, &c. It appears 
to be a ‘sight’ among the Chinese themselves, for 
there are priests or bonzes attached to the building 
to keep it in order, who earn their consideration by 
distributing to the visitors lithographed elevations of 
the tower, with descriptions attached, and who seem 
to have the duty entrusted to them of illuminating it on 
This is effected by means of lanterns made 
gala occasions. 
