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THE NEWSPAPER. 



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yip 



rf»P last dav of m tin?, were now read 



" M f Smith O'Brien, MP. said that be 



Notice £ action on the last day of -M**- 



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conciliation 



to be 



thiuk 



ittiscrUancous. 



Col. S'oduart and Capt. ConoUy. — Accounts have 

 b*en received this week at the Foreign-office from St. 

 Petersburgh, stating; that the Russian Envoy at Teheran, 

 in a despatch dated the 15th (27th) of December, had re- 

 ported to his Government that the information which he 

 had indirectly obtained f.*om the Envoy of the Ameer of 

 Bokhara, who had arrived in Teheran, had only too 

 surely removed all uncertainty as to the tragical end of 

 Captain Conolly and Lieutenant-Colonel Stoddart, for he 

 positively asserted that the first had been executed for 



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\ [° b ^ bXe be brubtit forward for the adoption 

 - bU on he would make a few observations. 



- ^ -. one Sung which he was happy to be eole to 

 ^re was one '■ "™* association on, and that was the 



ptfnlau the ^2J™J re , pect to Ireland in the 



.ed tone of »» n ™" h Hou ^ e of Commons. Sir 

 *b.«e <? S°! n * ° n n ot 8a d as he did last session, that 



j^e, Graham **\**™^t\t new measures were about 

 _ Jfcd ..w..et a end and ^ ^ ^ 



Tor^se'bencTts-iV benefits they be-but the 

 1 , f t iation > He would tell Ministers that the late 

 M^' S e Queen 's Bench had made many converts 

 *SrZe o of ten of those previously opposed to 

 ""*? . hVinnin- to see the errors of their way, and 

 repeal ""*^*T*U avowing their adhesion by the 

 STrttt^i* H g e was bound to admit 

 f rar of y**™ , bound to state that in Ins opinion 

 that, but he was also bo ^ when Ca _ 



55 WV EZS end Presbyterian joined together, 

 ;'^'^\;il:H-tio I ,aMvbe;, lt -ned With «£ «H» 

 T 1 ^ I-T^hW he was certainly bound to say that there 

 ££S el^of Lord John Russell many noble and 

 '" t qualities-much to pra.se and much to find 

 f: thlbut his sympathy with their great leader in his 

 ~ r Mtion deserves the gratitude and applause of 

 CThUhVople. The opposition members in the House 

 * Commons had certainly acted, in the reception they 

 J*v, (VConnell, in a most praise-worthy manner— m a 

 ST. r he "odd say worthy of O'Coonell as well as 

 ttantelw The honourable member concluded by read- 

 me b- propped petition, setting forth various grounds 

 of complain in reference to the late trials, and praying 



,r immediate inquiry and redress. Printed copies ot 



iat , ion would, he said, be sent to all parts of 

 Ireland ! end as it was very often alleged that signa- 

 ture* were fictitiously got up, he would suggest that 

 etery individual who signed it should write with Jus 



name, his - upation, and his place of abode. Let inat j ^."j^j^.'^i^ The lake is formed of bitumen or 

 be sent forward as the monster petition of the- lmh peo» agphaltum> and is about H quar ter of a mile in circumfer- 

 ence. In the winter months its surface is hard and 



having shown on many occasions great partiality for th 

 Khan of Kokan, at that time at war with Bokhara; an 

 the second in consequence of the discovery of a secret 

 correspondence which he kept up with his countrymen at 

 Cabul through the channel of Indian merchants esta- 

 blished at Bokhara. The Russian JEnvov adds that al- 

 though the truth of these details can hardly be questioned, 

 an Envov from the Schah of Persia who is about to pro- 

 ceed to Bokhara on ■ special mission will be expressly 

 instructed to collect on the spot the most precise inform;.- 

 tion as to the details which accompanied the death of the 

 two English officers. The Russian Envoy further says 

 that the agent from Bokhara, whei her from fear or from 

 delicacy, had evaded Lieutenant-Colonel Shell's attempt 

 to obtain information from him as to a catastrophe which 

 mu«t painfully shock the British representative. — Times. 



Egyptian Antiquities. — Chevalier Bunsen, the Prussian 

 Minister at this Court, has received letters from Dr. 

 Lepsius, the Director of the Prussian Expedition to Egypt, 

 announcing that he has discovered at Meroe a copv of 

 the celebrated Rosetta-stone in the British Museum. The 

 herioglyphic portion is said to be unusually perfect, and 

 copies of the three inscriptions have been sent to Berlin. 



Bituminous Lake. — The Boston Telegraph published 

 in Texas, has the following paragraph under this head : — 

 Perhaps few of our citizens are aware that there is a small 

 lake situate within 100 miles of Houston, that is quite 

 similar to the Pitch Lake of Trinidad. This singular 

 lake or pond is situate in Jefferson county, near the pond 

 between Liberty and Beaumont, and about 20 miles from 



birth that, according to the utmost possible longevity of 

 cats, Mirouffle could not be still alive. Not satisfied 

 with this sage and sound decision, the heirs have carried 

 an appeal up to the Supreme Court of Naples. — Galig- 

 nani's Messenger. 



Hydropathy in France. — Upon an application being 

 made to the French Government for permission to open an 

 hydropathic establishment in Paris, the Governmt-nt rt- 

 feired the subject to the French Academy for their opinion. 

 The following are the conclusions to which the Academy 

 arrived after mature consideration — 1. That hydropathy 

 is a dangerous therapeutical method, which does not rest 

 on facts ; 2, lhat its theory is chimerical ; 3, that it Is in 

 disaccordance with our chemical and pathological doc- 

 trines ; 4, that the Academy cannot in any way apnrove 

 of it ; 5, that the use of cold water has been long iu the 

 domains of medicine, and submitted to rules. 



1 le. They had monster meetings, a monster indictment, 

 .onster prosecutions, and let them then have a monster 

 petition. He had some hopes that its prayer would be 

 attended to— that the inquiry sought for would be grant- 

 e-i ; but if it were not, it would afford them an additional 

 reason, if that indeed were necessary, to continue their 

 exertions for a repeal of the legislative union. He con- 

 cluded by moving that the petition be adopted by the As- 

 sociation. which was seconded by Mr. O'Neill Daunt, 

 and passed by acclamation. Mr. Clements the barrister 

 atated that he had been entrusted with a resolution re- 

 specting the arbitration courts, unanimously adopted by 

 the committee, and which would he was sure, receive the 

 concurrence of the Association. The existence of these 

 courts was charged in the indictment as an attempt to 

 bring the administration of justice into contempt, and 

 although the people had a perfect right to choose arbitra- 

 tor* to decide their disputes whenever they thought proper 

 to do ao. yet the committee thought tint the constituted 

 authorities ought to be obeyed, even though they acted 

 under th -uhlance of the law. The last injunction left 

 bv Mr. O'Connell before he left the country was that the 

 arbitration courts should be dissevered from the Associa- 

 tion, and to carry out that recommendation he proposed 

 a resolution declaring that the courts had ceased, and that 

 it be left to the Irish people to settle amongst themselves 

 their disputes and differences by arbitrators to be in each 

 ~ chosen by the parties themselves, without anv refer- 



Mr. S. 



unani- 



concern in 



-j — •» j't»« viv-o lucuisci vera, nivuuuii ouj 



ence whatsoever to the Repeal Association. I 

 O Bneo seconded the motion, which was carried 

 mo.isly. The Repeal rent was 5G2/. 



( arlnw. — Accounts have been received of the commence- 

 ment of a -system of incendiarism in the county of Carlo w, 

 similar to that which has so long prevailed in various 

 egncsltnral districts in England. Threatening letters 

 have also been sent to various persons, calling upon them 

 to Kive up Und at present in their possession ; and hay- 

 ricks have been destroyed on several farms. It is gene- 

 ™y supposed that the peasantry have had no 

 ine^e acts of incendiarism. 



p SCOTLAND. 



Jb.dtnhttrgh.— On Monday week a meeting of the con- 



wMhT? t0 thc intended monument to Sir Walter Scott 

 u beld, the Lord Provost in the chair, supported bv the 



£*H ,,e .Mes of Hreadalbane and Douglas, the Lord Justice 

 ° er »l; Lords Mackenzie, Medwyn, and Cockburn ; the 

 Uxrli? 0f Edinburgh; Sir T. M. Brisbane, Sir T. 

 ofthe • &C " The chair,na » s * ated that the object 



short SS 118 WaS l ° increase the fand » whidl hiul fallen 

 proiier 01 ° n account of tlie expense attendant upon a 

 to in I I re|)liration of the site, which required to be raised 

 monum Vatmn Whh Prin, ' es -street. The height of the 

 h andw entwa « designed to be 182 feet— the money in 

 ofthe ? n,, ly raiae it to the summit of the pinnacles 

 the u , p tm ™t towers— 102 feet : thus leaving 80 feet of 

 3000/ - r *? rt unmiilt » to complete which would require 



IfsiwH 111 1,ti(mto ^e funda already subscribed. The 



addfl * 0f Br e»oMbane, Professor Wilson, and others, 

 •inch •? n,eetn,? » atul f «*om the enthusiastic spirit 



'unds h prcvailed » the,e »« little doubt of the necessarv 



*** sal \ ra,Se<1 a,most iln »^«li*tely. Upwards of 500/. 

 stood M ,,c " beu bef °re the njeetins; broke up. It is under- 



/«°e that an anneal an »l,u «.w:- :». _' _.,_. u. de 



capable of sustaining: a person. It is generally covered 

 from November to March with water, which is sour to 

 the taste. Owing to this cause it is called by the people 

 in the vicinity the sonr pond or sour lake. In the summer 

 there is a spring near the middle where an oil liquid (pro- 

 bably petroleum) continually boils up from the bottom. 

 This liquid gradually hardens after being exposed to the. 

 air, and forms a black pitchy substance similar to that at 

 the sides of the lake. Mr. Butler of Galveston, who has 

 seen the Pitch Lake at Trinidad, examined S piece of the 

 bitumen obtained from this lake, and says it is precisely 

 like the bitumen of Trinidad. This bitumen may at some 

 future day become valuable as a substitute for coal in the 

 formation of eas to light cities. It burns when lighted 

 with a clear bright light but gives out a very pungent 

 odour. The ancients used bitumen as a cement in the 

 construction of walls and buildings. They also used it in 

 manv cases as a substitute for tar or pitch. We believe 

 however that little use is now made of it for these pur- 

 poses, even where it is found most abundantly. * 



Parliamentary Representation.— A. Parliamentary re- 

 port has been published, giving an analysis of the total 

 number of Members sent to the House of Commons by 

 the several counties, cities, towns, and boroughs in Eng- 

 land. Wales, Ireland, and Scotland respectively, according 

 to the late census, 6th June, 1841 : — 



England. Members. Population. 





41 Cmmties, returning 

 187 Cities and Boroughs 

 2 Universities . 



Walks. 

 12 Counties, returning 

 56 Cities and Boroughs 



144 



323 

 4 



p.l 15,611 



5,879,527 



Total 



Population. 

 14,935,138 



15 

 14 



680,11- 

 231,456 



(exclusive of army and navy abroad, fee.] 



Il'Kl.A VD. 



32 Counties, returning 



6 C : ties . . 



S Towns 

 24 Boroughs . 



1 University . 



911,603 



64 

 10 



4 



2.'. 



2 



7,370,533 



477.945 



61,150 



255,610 



8,175,233 



Scotland. 

 30 Counties, returning 

 76 Cities and Burghs 



30 

 23 



1,057.985 



962,199 



2,620.184 



Total. 658 



26,702, 163 



The Court of Appeal at 

 cause of a most sin-ular 



10 Soots " """* ap!>eal ° U this sub J ect wiU shortly be 



l he m^'r^r" 11 l ° * U a(i,nir « r s ofthe genius o'f Sc«c ... i count hoc u C c..t.^ c « ^ .— » r- - , . . nf 



*uthori a ] * and lhat M «W* Coutta and Co. are they had given either positive evidence of tne demise or 

 nor,5ed io receire subscriptions ! *«.--—£-• ~- *w L m ,nv rears had elapsed since hu 



Scott in ! 



A Case for Annuitants. 



Naples has now before it a 



nature. Several vears ago the Marchioness de Garofolino 

 died, leavin-rbv her will an annuity of 50 florins, to be 

 applied in the maintenance of five favourite cats and the 

 longest liver of them ; appointing an old and faithful ser- 

 vant as trustee and -uardian of the feline le-atees. In the 

 course of nature four of them died, leaving a beautiful 

 Angora, named M Mirouffle," the sole survivor. One clay 

 this inheritor of 50 florins a-year disappeared, and soon 

 afterwards the heirs of the deceased Marchionessclaimed to 

 have transferred to them the capital from which this splen- 

 did income was derived. Compliance with their demand 

 was refused on the ground that they could not produce 

 anv proof of the death of the annuitant. They carneu 

 their case before the tribunal of Nola, in whicn p.sce tne 

 lost Mirouffle and his trustee lived, but it decided a ? a nit 

 them, delivering its judgment seriatim, that the p.aiiunii 

 could not be entitled to the principal or interest until 



the'annuiunt, or that so many years had elapsed su.ee Us 



Court of Chavcktiy.— Corjn n-ation nf C1<< stcr v. Wood. — 

 The Lord Chancellor delivered judgment in this ca»e, which wa« an 

 appeal irom the decision of Vicc-t hancellor Wigram. His Lordship 

 ■ aid this was :i question as to taking money out of Court. He had 

 c r.Mtlercd it with some anxicfy, on acr it of the large amount of 

 the rim. It wa« a *uit by pecuniary lepatees a^ain>t the evrutors 

 of Mr. lames Wood, to recover the amount of thelegacy piven I «e 

 Corpora. ion of (Gloucester. The sum in que*: I was -250 nooJ. 

 Alter the suit was instituted a motion was made for j ayment of tea 

 monev into Court. The 850,000/. WM BCOOltllng to the usual course 

 ofthe Court paid into Court, and it was admitted on all hand* that 

 this was a proper order. The cause was heard, and a « was 



pronounced in favour of thc defendants, and the question was whe- 

 ther under such circumstances the money th utd he ret in 



Court pending an ap 1 to thc Houasof Lords. Ithadheen*. at 



upon thc same grounds upon which it I |»r ' he 



paid into Court it i lit to he continued in Court until the cci- 



sion of thc appeal. His Lordship thou iht thai was not the principle of 

 the Court. Alter a decree a party in whose favour the decree is given 

 is entitled to take the money out of Court, unless then- were some 

 peculiar and Special circumstances to lead the Court to dc; m 



that rule. Undoubtedly the danger of thc m- y being Hat or un- 

 applied was a consideration, and it had v hed much in Ins Lord- 

 ship's mind ; but still it must be recollected that the t< stator in this 

 case, confiding in these executors, had trusted them with a much 

 larger sum < f money than what was involved in the present que n. 

 There might also be much loss iaconoequence of retaining the money 

 in Court, in tne shape of interest. The question the re was, * t 

 conditions should be imposed 7 The conditions proposed by the 

 Vice-Chancellor were, that the money should be retained if the plain- 

 tiffs wished it, but the defendants ought not on that account .to raa- 



taia B loss. In judicial decisions the funds must all he considered ot 

 the same value. The Vice-Chancellor said, not that the d. dants 

 should be indemnified, but that the point should be let t open for 

 future considerati n. His Lordship would affirm this decision, if the 

 parties would consent to leave the point open for future considera- 

 tion, in case there should be loss, on whom thc loss should fall, and 

 would in that case retain the money in Court. 



Court oy ExCHaQU«n.- (Strings in Banco.)-H«rr v. U mfoor. 

 —The question for the Court was, whether a rule for a new trial 

 should be made absolute or discharged. The action v ught to 



recover the amount of one quarter*! rent for a houie and premises in 

 the Wandsworth-road. The defence was, that the house was so in- 

 fested with bugs as to render it altogether uninhabitable. 1 he case 

 was tried before Mr. Baron Rolfe at thc nisi prim sittings in the 

 last term, when the Jurv returned a verdict in tavour ol defendant 

 on that plea. In the course of the trial it was pr. ved that thc house 

 in question was situated in Spring-gardens, Wandsworth-road, and 

 had been let for the term of three years to del. n< ant at an annual 

 rent of Sff. A few davs prior to the family entering upon its occu- 

 pation they discovered that there were bug* in two of the rooms, 

 whereupon thev caused such means to be applied as they conceived 

 to be of a nature calculated to get rid of them. In this attempt, 

 however, thev were not successful, lor on the first nieht of the family 

 endeavouring to sleep in the house not a single person was able >to 

 obtain the sl.ghtest rest in consequence ot the number ess <n«<atioM 

 of these insects. On the following Bwmwj* waj foun dthatt^ 

 sheet, between which thc defendant and his wife ha « t ned to repose 



presented a mass of - bug carcases and ^L^lJl^iTdm 

 of the succeeding day the "army" increased, and for several days 

 the » force of oc ation" had become so alarnnnply estcn.n a» to 



render it a matter of absolute ™^ h <^*J™Zt^Z 

 could continue to remain in thc house. I he def- it tnerc 



fore sent an intimation as to the state of the d^elhng . A 

 series of communications ensued between the parties, the land- 

 lord offerin- to endeavour to rid the house of the insects. To 

 rspropo" itaon defendant it appeared was willing to accede, pro- 

 vided h£ was also allowed a quarter's rent to cover the expends he 

 u ould necessarily be put to in procuring another rmc«^ hi. 

 family whilst the proposed -su-e' was being aid and carried on. 

 The landlord however declined to make the ^"-red allowance = md 

 upon the quarter having expired the defmdant **£*»£* £ 



rent iu consequence of having ^Jf^^S^UJ^a^ 



around that the house was not in a habitable condition. 1 be matter 

 suwntycame before the full court on a motion to set aside that 

 verd cTf "r a new trial, and on the ground that the : terms of the con- 



not bound to ► put Jus nou e Lwdebip. therefore were of 



contemplated « the V rceem case- ^ % t ^^ ^ be 



Si M^nntaS. lSi this condition should be expressed.- 



Bule for a new tr;al absolute. 



Colrt of Common- PL.:A^.-Fr«.«r v. U'/.-M/.-This case, 

 i "as occupied the Court four days, was brought ***** 

 I, ' B I ev for crim. con. with plaintifTs wife Both plaintiff 

 and Pendant belonc to the legal pnrfassion, and had been .upon 

 terns of the most intimate friendship, Kv.dence w,.s adduced 



> f p. "e the offence against the defendant , bat M^^Vgg 

 vi* ts to each other, and of a very lamilter kind, were fnhy 



ubsrantiated. the testimony altogether <^**J*"£t 

 Charge. On the part of the defence, it was established, that the 

 2Sn?ff eeldom dined or slept at home ah <™ S™*™*™^ 

 a week ; that be bad S| eut the f-rtnne be had w ,r 1 Ms wife n 

 the most extravagant and profligate manner, reducing h nu^elf. 

 bis wife and children almost to beggary ■ and that he */» been 

 in the habit or abandoning his wife, and leaving her e nine > 

 the care of others. It was also proved that plaintiff hmT opo «^e- 



veral occasions written to M^^\^ a ^ g J\^t^Sid 



upon Mrs. Fraser to cheer her Bmrita, she beinf moch «^SESE 



u! consequence of the course of conduct pUintuT ^^ J, 



I be Lorn Chic. Justice, in WMMSsai* •^^J?Xl«?SlSisuul # 



kind the law always gave cmnpensa turn f » »; *\ hU 



for the lose of that peraon who. of all o hers, ... ^ 



Children in the course of religion and mi . * J . 



therefore, have to determiue in the first &** whether tne 



