THE NEWSPAPER. 



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\--=== =!: r = ^rSdi^ent or Senate, some 

 !p^House of rarna" appointed by 



*1S#S* the S ' D f tba they sbould P be cbosen 



«ff«*- iD , S ' S f S the B efgian or Spanish con- 

 .**T«tbeplanof tne c s from a 



^iT^ f °r ^odS Pa y are decidedly the 

 *"^ner :-" Tbe m0 j „f which the parties and 

 «£££ the Assemb y,. of which ^ Anarchist 

 — * -be elated as follows. * ^ French 



Xp^.^f. 3 ! tlhTef. This is the least 



[1844. 



■cj, <.<"-r_ . . hief> xhis is tne least 



*^T,lft oarty fondly, the Ultra- 



■i£SSd ana/cbic, but more numerous 

 • turbulent ana .^ d j 



! •;" it brines fanatical weas am. •"■a— » 



•""I'- jw the English party under Mavro- 

 j Thirdly, tne tng"» f,^™,,^,!,, 



_^,IW"< b T the i suDversive p«me/ 



SfejTrSS ^e French party and Coletti, 

 ■JEiiAHts . Fourtm Ua . The tw0 last 



".*!! "lor of the constitution allied 



■• pded by the mo the subversive po Ucy 



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for the support 



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otters from St. Petersburgh of theSth mst. 



& of the betrothal of the Grand 



iWdrina Nicolaicona, youngest daughter of 



J^tith Prince Frederick of Hesse heir pre- 



Jffhe Danish Crown, took place on the previous 



Cft. Ster Palace. After the ceremony the be- 



■^■"ftj their thanks to their Majesties, who 



m their congratulations with all the other 

 _5the Imperial family. The Patriarch, assisted 

 SE^tfA (Maries of the church ' celebrated a 

 T.lU. indite!, the usual prayer for the prosperity 



dPfcfaMW fmil! w said > a salute of 104 guns Was 

 tH the fortresses. The religious ceremonies 



_ , the members of the Holy Synod offered 



JJrirwiriruIationB to their Majesties and the young 

 cmfk A banquet was afterwards given in the great 

 m&W to the nobility of the three first classes of 

 rafc, tad in the evening there was a full dress ball in St. 

 Hill, which was attended by all the foreign am- 

 ■inisters, and their suites, and all distinguished 

 The bells of all the churches rung merry 

 fakfnm ronrise to sunset and at night the whole city 

 * Hotly illuminated.— Accounts from Circassia an- 

 tbtt Schamyl, chief of an eastern tribe of the Cau- 

 Vorst with 10,000 men in September among the 

 WkeftfceOuars, and attacked the Russian fortress of 

 Vak There were three companies in it. Cutting off 

 from them the Circassians compelled the three 

 to surrender. Lieutenant- Colonel Wassilizki 

 to the relief of the fortress, but was cut off by 

 MbitI. General Plagenau then marched to redeem 

 ■tori, tot he was cut off from his supplies and forced 

 •wJ^Heiuthe fortress of Chousak. Schamyl soon 

 Sfyj; Prince Argatinsky was obliged to march to 

 ■■WW md it was only by dint of fighting his way 

 ■JJJ i the Circassians that Gen. Plagenau succeeded in 



BL ca He l0St 160 ° soldiers and 45 ofiicers in the 

 iff ^Jimyl nas sent three emissaries amongst the 



J*™'» the Cabardians and the Abaraks, to announce 

 ■I ▼ictones and to encourage them to harass the 



ZkLfrffi t m l and t0 attack the fortresses on 

 kmfhl u ack Sea - General Gourka has set out 



fc«teX-chie r f° Ceed t0 DageStan where he wiU take 



J^-Adyices from Constantinople of the Bdinst. 

 JJW the d Ismisgal of Sir Baldwin Walker from the 



Kwh^T g . t ° 1 . t l ie , resentment of th e Capoudan 



^^.^Lt 16 lately J cruising in the ArchU 



Xrymat r ^ed the indignation of our 



%*» Cen . L<f "el?: ~ Consols closed at 97 f ; 

 ' »«*>g fo/ the^i"!" 6 ™* «!* fi-t 



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ptetided 



jfc^tBouverie, \r r p ~T.'" 8 m wa8 stressed by 

 *^^Ca ffi C r : n F0 ;.*- T-M, Gibson, ana 



-^J. h "^presen L f '?,, whlch the Cbairman 



5S** «o»ld be W? 'K e first of a ^ries of 

 "**£* "eld , n that theatre for some 



,-VJ£ Wtfley M H ,«* Citob Chapel on 

 S& of different H C ' '*"< 8u PP°rted by 



SSSj*"**^ r set h meeti "g< «* ^ated 



>*ift P** of ett SUm u° f 100 ' 000/ - ! " 

 ^?'^ 10 '-Ml rea r a h « the People. Of 

 «. 6.T* Ud h J rea 5 beei > raised, more than 



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W.J2*- H«!?* n Ss lately ad 

 2?&^ ^ > Wgl 



^ a hS. pted at the inference 



. .. »„„ mem, 



urnett seconded 



'** "I'' tbe •fiTrf S !"" 0wn ha °ds for 



p,eu f n<dred ed« c q al ed e , duea,ion i »nd 



UCat 'on, f 0r that alone 



'*S *«? I?? '"f =' we- 

 "K IS* ° f tk e Peon!, ; 'u Urch of En gland 



could save the people from its pernicious influence, teem- 

 ing as it did with everything that was calculated to vitiate 

 and corrupt the morals of the community. Mr. S. Martin 

 proposed the next resolution, repudiating the spirit which 

 subordinated the public welfare to sectarian objects, which 

 being seconded by Dr. Reed was also agreed to. A 

 resolution expressive of approbation of the principles of 

 the British and Foreign School Society was also carried. 

 — From a return made to the visiting justices of the 

 House of Correction, it appears that out of 1094 prisoners 

 confined in that prison on the 13th inst, viz., 834 males 

 and 260 females, it was ascertained that nine females only 

 could read and write well, with a knowledge of other 

 languages and arithmetic ; 92 males and 25 females could 

 read and write well, with arithmetic; 258 males and 60 

 females could read and write a little ; 274 males and 105 

 females could only read a little ; and 209 males and 70 

 females could neither read nor write at all. 



British and Foreign Institute. — His Excellency Sir 

 Charles Metcalfe, Governor-General of Canada, has 

 become a life member of this Institute, and transmitted 

 100/. as a donation towards its library. The institute is 

 to be opened by a soiree on Friday the 2d February, when 

 Prince Albert has communicated his intention to honour 

 the opening with his presence. The President, *he Earl 

 of Devon, will take the chair. 



Metropolitan Drapers' Association.— The second annual 

 meeting of this association, the object of which is to 

 shorten the hours of business in the shops of the metro- 

 polis by closing them at 7 o'clock, was held on Tuesday 

 at Exeter-hall, under the presidency of Mr. Emerson 

 Tennent, M.P. The hall was densely crowded in every 

 part. The report of the Central Committee was read at 

 length, and stated that notwithstanding the disappoint- 

 ments and difficulties which at the outset had to be en- 

 countered and overcome, an amount of success had been 

 achieved in the past year far beyond what any previous 

 efforts had been able to attain. By the exertions of the 

 committee the "evening trade" in London had materially 

 decreased, and they referred with satisfaction to the ex- 

 ample which many leading establishments had set in 

 closing at 7 o'clock — an example which had been followed 

 in Liverpool, Manchester, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Chelten- 

 ham, Bristol, Coventry, Bedford, Newcastle, Nottingham, 

 Wolverhampton and other great manufacturing towns. 

 Resolutions in favour of the association and pledging the 

 meeting to exertions in its support were proposed and 

 carried unanimously, and the interests of the society were 

 advocated by the chairman, Mr. Hindley, M.P., Rev. Mr. 

 Cumming, the Rev. Mr. Hughes, Dr. Reid, Mr. Hitch- 

 cock of St. Paul's Church-yard, and several other large 



employers. 



State of the Streets. — On Tuesday at the sitting of the 

 Commissioners of Sewers, Alderman Gibbs in the chair, 

 the imperfect manner in which the principal thorough- 

 fares of the City are cleansed under the present contract 

 with Mr. Gore was brought on for discussion. The pa- 

 tentees of the new street-sweeping machine expressed 

 their regret at being unable to take the contract for the 

 whole city, in consequence of not being provided with 

 sufficient places of Meposit for the soil collected by the 

 machines. In the south division of the west district the 

 company had obtained a wharf by the river side, and were 

 prepared to take the contract for this division for the 

 amount which, under the existing agreement with the 

 contractor, they were entitled to receive for the hire of the 

 eight machines during the same period. If this oppor- 

 tunity was afforded to the patentees, they would be able 

 to show what the machines would accomplish with proper 

 management in the crowded thoroughfares of Ludgate- 

 hill and Fleet-street, where the difficulty of cleansing was 

 at least as great as in any other portion of the City. Mr. 

 Gore was under contract to pay 1600/. for the hire of 

 eight machines which had been supplied to him by the 

 patentees, and worked by him up to a recent period. If 

 however the above arrangement were entered into, the 

 patentees expressed their willingness to release Mr. Gore 

 from his liability under that contract. After the reading 

 of the letter the several parties were called in, and various 

 questions were put to each as to the working of the ma- 

 chines. Mr. Gore and his foreman declared that they 

 were totally useless in *' greasy " weather ; the latter as- 

 suring the Court that on a day like Monday, when the 

 streets were neither very wet nor very dry the machine 

 would travel from St. Paul's to the Mansion-house and 

 the brooms not make more than two revolutions, the wheels 

 of the machinery being as stationary as if a " skid " were 

 applied to them. This it was contended ruined the horses 

 employed to draw them, and left the streets in a worse 

 state than under the old system of manual labour. Mr. 

 Wbitworth contended thai the alleged failure of the ma- 

 chine arose entirely from mismanagement, and a determi- 

 nation on the part of the contractor not to adopt the new 

 system. He further stated that the whole of Manchester, 

 presenting a surface of greater extent but requiring about 

 an equal amount of labour as that of London owing to 

 the excess of traffic in the latter, was swept by the ma- 

 chines. They had however 18 machines in use there, 

 while Mr. Gore had only eight to cleanse the City of Lon- 

 don, although he had been offered the use of as many as 

 he chose to find' horses to work. Mr. Gore was informed 

 that as the offer of the patentee was considered extremely 

 liberal, the Court was desirous to know whether he was 

 willing to accede to it. He requested time to consider 

 the matter, and it was at length arranged to allow the 

 matter to stand adjourned until Tuesday next, then to be 

 finally determined on. 



Increase of London In consequence of some com- 

 plaints of an increase in the police of about 150 men, the 

 commissioners have caused an inquiry to be made into the 



number of additional houses erected in the immediate 

 vicinity of the Metropolis since the establishment of the 

 force. From the official return just presented to Govern- 

 ment, it appears that since 1829 no less than 45,000 

 new houses, forming 750 new streets and squares, have 

 been erected, or are in the course of building in Lon- 

 don and its suburbs. An extra duty is thereby imposed 

 on the police of having to watch and walk over 110 addi- 

 tional miles daily. This increase will be best compre- 

 hended by reflecting that 3214 houses (the annual average 

 of new buildings) would constitute a town of no inconsi- 

 derable size ; and that since the period in question four- 

 teen such have sprung up around the Metropolis. 



Custom-house Frauds.— Another house in the same 

 line of business as Candy and Co. and on a scale nearly as 

 extensive, lately received notice of proceedings instituted 

 against it for Custom-house frauds. The trial was to have 

 taken place in a few days but will now be of no avail, as 

 the firm shut up their premises on Thursday evening, 

 having clandestinely sold off all their goods and collected 

 the debts owing them. The parties it is said were exten- • 

 sive proprietors of land, and of a great many houses in 

 Bow, but contrived to sell the whole a few weeks ago, in- 

 vesting the proceeds in the French funds. The result is, 

 that there will not be a farthing to the Crown. The pas- 

 ties lived in great style, severally keeping their carriage, 

 and each it is said realising 12,000/. a year by the busi- 

 ness. — Considerable surprise was excited on Friday in the 

 City by the announcement that a Custom-house agent 

 whose legitimate business-profits were not less than 5000/. 

 a year, had absconded in consequence of charges connected 

 with the Custom- house frauds. This agent had for years 

 been employed in clearing at the Custom-house silk goods 

 for the principal houses at the west end. It is understood 

 that though he had long been suspected by the authorities 

 it was only very recently that any tangible proof could be 



obtained against him. 



National Gallery.— On Tuesday a lame man called 

 William Adams destroyed a valuable painting of " Jupiter 

 and Leda," by Mola, in the National Gallery, by striking 

 it with his crutch. So violent was the blow, that one of 

 the witnesses likened the act to that of striking down a 

 bullock. The man was at once taken before the police 

 and remanded, to give the magistrate time to examine the 

 Act of Parliament relative to his jurisdiction. On Wed- 

 nesday Mr. Maltby said he had carefully considered the 

 Act of Parliament. The picture was sworn to have been 

 worth from 150/. to 200/. It was now comparatively 

 worthless. He regretted that he could not inflict a higher 

 penalty than 5/., or two months' imprisonment with hard 

 labour. The prisoner said that as business had latterly 

 been very bad, and he was afflicted with a diseased leg, he 

 had at times become affected in his bead. On the day 

 when he committed the mischief, he had gone out with 

 the intention of asking his surgeon to remove his afflicted 

 limb, and after walking about some hours he had entered 

 the National Gallery to relieve his mind. He could not 

 account for the impulse which had led him to injure the 

 painting, and much regretted what had occurred. He 

 was unable to pay the fine, and was removed in custody. 



Bank of England.— -The continued rise in the value of 

 Bank Stock is attracting some attention in the monied cir- 

 cles, and the anticipated renewal of the charter is assigned 

 as the cause of the advance. It is even asserted that Minis- 

 ters have promised to support the case of the Bank in Par- 

 liament, and that the terras on which this favour is to be 

 shown are, an advance by the Bank Directors, should 

 occasion require, to meet those parties who may desire to 

 be paid off in full, under a conversion of the 3^ per Cents. 

 Reduced, should such financial operation take place. 



Discovery of Human Skeletons.— On Saturday the 13th 

 the skeleton of a female, about 25 years of age, with the 

 hair beautifully braided, and a large fracture in the back 

 of the skull, was discovered on Blackheath, near the foot 

 of Shooter's Hill ; and since that day, the skeleton of a 

 child, about 10 years of age, has been found on the same 

 spot. The skull of the latter was much broken and 

 decayed. A heavy piece of iron, apparently part of a 

 mortar-shell, was also found. It was at first supposed 

 that the bodies had been murdered by highwaymen ; but 

 from the depth of earth and regularity of interment it is 

 now supposed that robbers would not have remained long 

 enough to bury them in such a manner.— The skeletons of 

 two men were found near the Potteries at Notting Hill 

 last week, at the root of a tree on the Norland Estate, on 

 which a new town is now erecting. 



Monument to Dr. Watts.— A public meeting was held 

 last week in the City, Mr. Hankey in the chair, at which, 

 it was resolved to erect a monument to the memory of Dr. 

 Isaac Watts. The meeting was addressed by several 

 gentlemen, and a subscription was opened to defray the 



cost of the monument. 



Oastler Liberation Fund.—k meeting of the London 

 committee formed for the purpose of raising subscrip- 

 tions to release Mr. Oastler from imprisonment and to 

 provide an annuity for his future support was held on 

 Wednesday at the British Hotel, Cockspur-street. It was 

 announced that owing to the exertions of the provincial 

 committees and of the country nobility and clergy great 

 hopes are entertained of the release of Mr. Oastler in the 

 course of a short period. Meetings of his friends and 

 supporters had been held in various districts of the north, 

 and one had been held at Dublin on Tuesday, at which 

 Mr. Ferrand, M.P., was present. Lord Feversham, Sir 

 G. Sinclair, Mr. Walter, Mr. Fielden, and Mr. Ferrand, 

 have consented to act as trustees of the fund. 



East India House.— On Wednesday a ballot was taken 

 at the East India House for the election of a director in 

 the room of W. Stanley Clarke, Esq., deceased. At gix 

 o'clock the glasses were closed and delivered to the 



