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THE fcRA, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1S4" 8 ACCIDENT ON THE LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY. and thoe not a few, worthy the poet of any age or clime. Still we doubted its success upon the stage; not because the sublime cnniii in the oresent; not because a landscape could alone charm in the dislance; not that the mechanism and springs of TRICKS OF JOURNEYMEN Biitu Two journeymen butchers named BUTCHERS, placed at the bar before "rkeraud De-I the former miLlt at Mirylebone P. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. Crry, Saturday Evening.

The funds during the day have been stationary. The Chinese treaty has arrived, and it is stated that the first instalment of six millions of dollars has arriyed also. Snanish stock is rather heavy in consequence of the modern heart were dittereni iroin ersi ui men- tuusuueuons mutton, the property ofh a fc and their complexities in short, trorn no distrust ot the chords of an audience responding to the touch of modern griefs and passions, and sympathy with the impulses of every day hut frnm an imnressioh that the didactic predoini- knowiedge ThT.ylB a cnnsidemMo 1 H'unaer in quest nn i iiu itramnii. tht mnident was deficient, and that affairs in Barcelona not being quite so settled as we imagined. The accounts, however, from that place are to be received with aution, as they are evidently exaggerated oy tne rencu pie.

The following are the closing quotations: ENGLISH FUNDS. Consols for Money, shut New Three and a Half per Ditto Account, 93J 4 ex dir. I shut Seduced Three and a Half per 1 Exchequer Bills, 51 1008 1 Bank Stock, UT24 Ditto Three per 94g India Stock, shut Lo ng Annuities, 12J 9-18 Ditto for Account, 2GB FOREIGN FUNDS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE ERA. The Secretary of the London and Birmingham Railway bogs leave to forward for insertion in the Era the following, being an authentic account of the distressing accident which occurred on Thursday morning to the Aylesbury upitrain, near the Norths church Tunnel, about two miles heyond the Berkhampstead Station: The train which leaves Aylesbury for London at II a.m., con-sisling of a second-class carriage next the tender, two first class carriages, and another second class carriage at the end, was passing over the embankment, about three-quarters of a mile north the Northchurch Tunnel, when the near fore-wheel of the engine was suddenly separated from it by the breaking of the fore-axle (which is four inches and a half thick) between the journal and the wheel.

The engine and tender were in consequence thrown over the near side of the embankment, which is there about 16 feet high, and the leading second class carriage over the off side. The other carriages remained on the road. The engine-driver escaped without injury his assistant was considerably hurt, and three passengers, who were in the second class carriage, which was overturned, also received severe, though, itis hoped, not fatal injuries. The following is the official report of the surgeon who attended on behalf of the company "The names of the persons who were injured by the accident at Northchurch, Dec. 8, 1842 John Tomlin, of Boxmoor severe injury to the head and fracture of ribs.

Mary Bye, of Aylesbury severe injury to the head. John Pemberton, Company's stoker, concussion of the brain. Matthew Lowe, overlooker, Berkhampstead injury to back. Thomas Brown, Surgeon, Berk'hampstead." On an examination of the fractured axle, it appears that the iron, with the exception of a very small portion, is defective, although not externally apparent, and that the separation is so close to the wheel, that at first view it would seem to have been made by a knife, The circumstances of the accident will be fullv reported to the nefarious; I--'on, and so tections take den i lhat I 80, stated that on the same evenln IT tUe ion -o clock as he was on $h' along, having upo his snVolllder'1 he saw ftrk and part ol a neck of mutton nA 7 con'iHin; liver meat to the oC ri one" ffiTlf that there was something wionVuiL watched him. He entered the Edinburo-h fZ oaZ street, and immediately afterwards wi.n ln welbcct' down, called for haa "ofbee lllZ1 many minutes before Denham, who hlu? a it becn appearance, and sat down by the tfd.

0fftr. in the course of a short time went and i' "tisQ the passage from the house into the sfreet act of delivering the shoulder to Denham Was in the ness close behind him, put it back iZ kh i continued to watch them closely, ad at the 1 flviis) street distinctly saw Parker puthe sa houTde, If ray, having done which, they separated, lions. Witness overlook Denham, with the session, and on his being questioned respecting h'" Inconsiderable hesitation, that it was not hi, af' going to take it to No. 54, as Mexican, 30 Ditto Deferred, 8H Portuguese Five per JS Ditto Three per Mi 3 Ditto Converted, 32 4 na.eu metaphor too often arrested resolve that should be hot with fierv haste." Conceding the author's position, that the elevated and gifted spirit sees the sublime in the present, recog. nises the hero in undress, and discovers greatness though it be divested of pomp admitting that love, and hatred, and jealousy, and ambition, spring from one eternal fount of.

nature," sweeping and to sweep for aye, in the same tur. bid and whelming currents, we yet seek in the drama, ancient or modern, a plot of originality, with the interest progressing to its crisis, whilst the curtain shall drop on the meting out of what we instinctively feel to be poetical justice. In the Patrician's Daughter" we are too strongly reminded of the pervading passion in both The Lady of Lyons," and Sheridan Knowles' Love and our previous conviction is confirmed, that Mr. Marston's ideas of retributive justice are somewhat confused, as that the spectator is at" fault between the pride, credulity, and sufferings of the heroine, and in the trampling on, and stern revenge of the hero, to decide between the provocation and the mutual punishment. The plot is very easily detailed, and the whole conduct of the piece entrusted to four characters.

The Earl of Lynterne, the father of Mabel, the heroine, is wrought of stern, unyielding aristocratic stuff, devotedly fond of his daughter; she, a compound of noble blood, and dreamy notions of perfectibility in the man with whom she will mate, falls desperately in love with Mordaunt, the plebeian by birth, but the ennobled of mind the passion is reciprocal. Lady Lydia, sister to the Earl, prostrate before the Baal of birth, seeing that she cannot Belgian, 102 3 Brazilian, 69 70 Buenos A) res, 22 4 Chilian, 90 2 Columbian, 214. i Danish, 834 4 Dutch Two and a Half per 52 3 Ditto Five per mi Ditto Five per Cents. (New), 99 4 Russian, 113j lot Spanish, 1834, 17 18 Ditto Three per 23J Ditto Deferred, 9J 101 Ditto Passive, 34, 4 Peruvian, 17 18 I BANKS. I Provincial Bank of England, as 6 Australasian, 52 3 per share Ditto nf Ireland.

43 4 British North American, 3' Onion Bank or Australia, 33 i Ditto New Shares, 32J 31 Union Bank of London, 9J 10 ne was men taken into custody by witness lar: Colonial, 174 London Joint Stock, 13 London and Westminster, 31 34 RAILWAYS. Great North of England, 57 9 Greenwich. 5 i Ditto Preference, 164 I Hull and Selbv. 35 7 Manchester Birmingham, 19 20 Blackwall, 5 per share Brighton, 35j Ditto 35 Shares, 493 50i Ditto 33 Shares, 634 4 Ditto New Ditto, 334 4 Birmingham and Derby, 39 41 Ditto and Glo'ster, 45 7 Bristol and Exeter, 46 8 Cheltenham Union, 20 2 Croydon, 9 10 Eastern CouHties, 8j- 9 Ditto New Shares, 1O4 Ditto Debentures, I0J Edinburgh and Glasgow, 474 84 Great Western, 89 90 Ditto 50 Shares, 63 41 Ditto 20 Shares, 9i 10J Ditto ana jjeeas, 1 1 i Ditto 50 Shares, 31 2 Ditto 25 Shares, 5 i Midland Counties, 61 3 Northern Eastern, 36 7 Ditto New, 104 North Midland, Dl 2 South Eastern and Dover, 32 3 Ditto New Shares, 2J I South Western, 614 2 York and North Midland, 934 44 Ditto 25 Shares, 38 9 arrest the course of love, resolves that it shall not run smooth by her insidious advice Mordaunt proposes to Lord Lynterne for Mabel, and proudly urges her avowed attachment, communicated with sinister intention to him by Lady Lydia, who at the same lime ruffles every pinion of her niece's quality by stating that Mordaunt is at the moment demanding her of her father as the imperious price of a political compact. Mordaunt is angrily repulsed, and.

taught tobelievehimself but a woman's toy; thenceforward he dreams only of revenge; and the fourth act opens after an interval of five years, when, having hewn his path to political eminence, he has become Sir Edgar Mordaunt, and is. on the eve of being united with Mabel. Prior to the signing of the marriage contract, which is a Mordaunt's request attended by a large troop of friends," he ales before them all his base descent My father was a man of toil I mean real toil such toil as makes the hand TTnnnnth tr aiirhfc. p.riW..hard to the touch tne tJoara or iracie tor investigation by (general rusley. DEATH OF ONE OF THE SUFFERERS.

Office, Euston Station, Dec. 9, 1842. Mr. Creed presents his compliments to the editor of the Era, and encloses copies of the reports which he has received on the state of the sufferers from the late accident to the Aylesbury train. The directors have dispatched a special engine with Mr.

Lawrence, of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, to visit the three persons whose cases require surgical attendance Berkhampstead, Dec; 8, 10 o'clock, p. M. Sir, We regret to have the melancholy duty of informing von that the poor woman, Mary Bye; or Boyd, expired about half an hour You. may be assured that every means have been assiduously done to save her, but she never rallied from the shock at the time of the accident, gradually declining till she sunk at the above time.

"The man Tomlin is a very unfavorable subject for an accident, from his very great weight, and age. His injuries you are aware of. He has lost some blood from the arm this evening, and we trust we shall find him better in the morning. His present circumstances are very precarious. We are, (Signed) H.

Hilder, c11TOOnn secured farker at his master's (Mr. SharrA Th senently (Parker) denied having given any mutton to thT' lhen he Mitchell, foreman to Mr Sh other Pri the shoulder produced as being his employer's mZP' not been sold to any one at the shop, had KT ha Parker to take to any customer. Neither Pari, 've" to (the latter of whom is shopman to a builder in street, Lisson-grove) had anything to say, and theT committed for trial. 'fre both CHARGE OF FIRING A HOUSE John Griffin, a private in the 1st Regiment Guards, was charged at Queen-square Police-coim fully setting fire to a Craydon, a shonk' the Great Almonry, Westminster, stated, that on Seepet' about nine o'clock, he was from home, when a m5' formed him that his house was on fire On rrnchin i Tr he perceived the first flooi enveloped in flames he St'' and, on entering the room, observed that the bed-enr, "Mmi-burning, and that the prisoner, who held a were setting fire to the windoiv-curtains he -ave an i a policeman took the prisoner into custody" milled that his house was an improper one and soner had set fire to the place because he had been JH' thought, ill used by some woman. -The prisoner he had set fire to the place because he been Hi used 'hat who had accompanied him to the house Mr Bn This is a crime of a serious nature, and if you' had little further yon would have committed a crime for Sh life would have been forfeited.

It is fortunule ih, flames were extinguished in lime, but as ihe case now stand I shall deal with it only as one of wilful damage: you must ihe fore pay a fine of or be imprisoned and kept to hard'labor for one month. A sergeant of the company to which the nri soner belongs subsequently attended at the Court, al the officers in attendance that it was the wish ol the Colonel that he (the prisoner) should be severely punished as lie man of general bad character, but on being informed tuauhe decision had been made, he left the office. There are none here that would have clasped that hand Save at our borough contests; when all fingers Grow marvellously plaint. And when the Earl, scarce conscious of his drift, at length proudly demands Mean you to wed my daughter 1 he fiercely turns upon him, and consummates Ihe moment of fiery revenge for which his soul has been consumed with a devouring thirst ever since that of his repulse, and answers NO! Mabel now sickens under love and shame combined. In he final act, she is in the last stage of consumption; her aunt reveals her artifices, conscience-stricken, and Bues at herniece's feet for pardon the father takes precedence of the Earl, and he humbles himself to beg of Mordaunt to wed his daughter, and save her life, but is indignantly repulsed, till the Earl shows him the self-accusing letter from Lady Lydia, which in an instant turns the current of revenge to love Mabel, who has pursued her father, to deter him from any compromise of T.

DROWN, Berkhampstead, Dec. 9, 1842. We beg to state that on ourvisitto John Tomlin, this morning, we find he had passed a restless night, is suffering severe pain from his injuries on the head and chest, aud must be still considered in circumstances of great danger. (Slsned) "December 9, 1842. William Lowe and the fireman of the engine are both going on favorably.

(Signed) Thomas Whately, Surgeon." INQUEST ON THE BODY OF MARY BYE. The inquest on the body of Mary Bye, one of the sufferers by the above accident, was held yesterday at the George and Dragon Inn, Northchurch, before Francis Osbaldeston, coroner for Hertfordshire, and a highly respectable jury of thirteen parishioners. Mr. Creed, the Secretary of the Company, Mr. Bury, the superintendent of the engineering department, and Mr.

Barker, the chief inspector of the Company's police, were in ARRIVAL OF MAJOR MALCOLM WITH THE CHINESE TREATY. From a Private Correspondent.) Devokport, Dec. 9, One p.m. Major Malcolm, of 3rd Dragoons, Secretary to the Legation at China, and Captain Richards, of her Majesty's ship Cnrnwallis, 84, arrived here this morning from China in the Locust steam-vessel, Lieut. Commander Lunn.

Major Malcolm is the bearer of the treaty of peace concluded by her Majesty's Plenpiotentiary, Sir H. Pottinger, with the Emperor nf China. It bears the signatures of tbe three High Commissioners deputed by the Emperir, and sent to Nankin to arrange the terms, Major Malcolm alsi brings a-letter of from the Emperor himself, solemnly engaging to ratify the treaty as soon aa it shall be returned to him with the signature of her Majesty attached thereto. Captain Richards has dispatches for the Admiralty from Vice-Admiral Sir William Parker, the naval commander in ehiel' of the Chinese coast. The authorities of this port having especial orders to admit the Locnst to pratique as soon as possible, should she touch at Plymouth, she was very speedily relieved from quarantine, and Major Malcolm was enabled to land at Mutton Cove, at 11 o'clock, a.m., when he proceeded immediately to London by express.

The Locnst has brought and landed an Indian mail, but the contents have been anticipated by the Oriental, via Marseilles. The Locust has been twelve days on her passage from Malta. She was dispatched to England from Malta in consequence of being the only vessel available at that port when Major Malcolm arrived, for the other steamers were under repair. She is comparatively of very small power, and incurred delav on the voyage by being obliged to touch at Gibraltar and Vigo for coals. She left Gibraltar on the 3rd at which port were the Lizard, 3, steam-vessel, Commander Postle, nndthe Savage, 10, brig, Lieutenant Commander Bowfcer, under sailing orders for the north coast of Spain.

The Inconstant, 36, frigate, Captain Mitchell, had not sailed for the coast of Spain (under orders when the Cambridge, 78, Captain Bernard, left), but was to leave Gibraltar for Barcelona in a few hours Nothing was known at Gibraltar of the reported wreck of the Formidable, 84, Captain Sir C. Sullivan, Bart. The Blonde frigate, 46, Captain Bouohier, had sailed from SYNOPSiS-fCWtW.) The will of the late John Reeve, the well-known comedian has recently been proved in the Prerogative Court of ihe Archbishop of Canterbury. The personal property of the deceased has been sworn under the value of 4000. The property is pretty her maiden dignity, at this crisis arrives, falls into the arms of attendance.

It appeared, that at the time the accident occurred the train was proceeding at about tbe rate of from 26 to 30 miles an hour, and that the engine-driver was a sober and attentive man. The breaking of the axle was purely accidental, and that the slightest blame could not attach to any one of the company servants. The verdict of the jury was, accordingly, Accident 1 Death, with a deodand on the engine of five shillings, accompanied with a recommendation to the company for the future to place an empty carriage, or luggage van, between the engine and the passengers' carriages, which recommendation: it was hinted would be attended to Tomlin and the other Sufferers are better. The- Talacre Coal Company. A committee of the whole Court of Aldermen assembled yesterday, for the purpose of China for England with two millions and a half of dollars of the Chinese compensation money.

iwtt ma awn flu mu mi, oams the well-known bookseller, who was killed by being thrown from his horse a short time since, was one of the executors named in the will. It is reported that a new Central Criminal Court is to be erected on the site of the Fleet extensive and respectable firm in the corn trade at Wakefield has failed within the last few days The two actions brought by Messrs. Acraman and of Bristol, against the London and County Bank, for a considerable sum of money in respect of securities deposited with that bank by Messrs. Colls, Thompson, and and which specially appointed to be tried in the Court of Exchequer on Tuesday next, have been withdrawn by the plaintiffs. This affdr is well known in the Citv, where it has been a topic of frequent discussion.

The turn it has now taken may have very important legal consequences. The Marquis ofTitchfield has offered to subscribe 100 for employing the able-bodied men of Worksop throughout the winter, on condition that preference be given to laborers of industrious and sober character. A distressing accident occurred by the upsetting of a boat at. Kingston Harbor, Upper Canada, on the 1st by which two gentlemen were drowned Mr. Jamie-son, 19 years of ace, son of John Jamieson, of Dublin; and Mr.

Hitchings, a native of Oxford, in England. Ann Allway, a middle-aged married woman, was committed from Worship-sireet Police-court, yesterday, on a chargeuf having set fire to the house of Mrs. Cooper, residing in Britannia-street, City-road, and also with having stolen some wearing apparel A reward of 50 has been offered by the Bunny anil bVadmore Association for the Prosecution of Felons, of which Lord Rad-cliffe is president, for the discovery of the midnight incendiaries at Nottingham. The Dublin Gazette contains offer of the increased sum of 100 for the discovery and conviction of the murderers of Mortimer, ihe middleman, at Frestiford, coumy Kilkenny. A reward of 100 is also proi Liitned for the apprehension and conviction of the person who fired at and killed Michael Hanly, at Greenwall, Tipperary, on the 1st inst.

In the Court of Queen's Bench, on Friday, a barrister named Egan recovered 100 damages from the Guardians of the Kensington Union, for services rendered in 1840, as assessor and returning officer to the union. The disputed point was as to wh.itdays plaintiff had a right to claim. The whole claim was a'8'3, at the rate of five guineas a day, for the services rendered lie nad been paid 210, and defendants had also paid into Court aa additional 50. Licensed Victuallers' Protection Societv The ninth annual meeting of this society was held, on Friday, at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, Strand, to receive ihe report of the committee, and to elect officers in lieu of those going out by rotation Mr. Hughes, ihe chairman of the society, presided.

The secretary's report was most satisfactory, and ably pointed out the great utility and increasing prosperity of the association. It appears, that as regarded the amount of subscription (only) for the three years last past, there had been annually great improvement In 1840 IS8 0 0 In Hil 8 0 prosecuting ttieir investigation into the charges against Mr. Alderman Thomas Wood respecting the Talacre Coal and Mining Company. The Common Sergeant attended as the friend of Mr. Alderman T.

Wood, and Mr, Wire as his professional adviser. The Town Clerk having read the minutes of the last meeting, and also the copies of some letters which had been sent to Alderman T. Wood, calling upon him to state the charges he wished to have investigated, the letier of Alderman Wood, in reply thereto, opened the proceedings. The letter declared, that the course pursued by the committee was such as to call upon bim (Alderman T. Wood) to charge himself with offences, instead of, on the contrary, charges being made against him.

He had a right to assume thai certain proceedings which had taken place in the Court of Queen's Bench had been construed by Ihe Aldermen who voted against his filling the civic chair, on the 29th of September, into charges against him. He, therefore, called upon them to state the nature of those charges, and he would, the moment any definite charge was made, be prepared to meet them, by placing all (be hoolts, documents, and affidavits connected with the Talacre Mining Company before them. The chairman declared this letter to be a downright insult to the Court of Aldermen, upon which a somewhat animated conversation ensued. It was, however, ultimately agreed that all documents, with respect to any charge to which reference had been made in the Court of Aldermen, should be put in and accepted, Alderman T. Wood having power to refer to any other matter, as occasion might require." The committee then adjourned.

The Nelson Memorial, Trafalgar-square. This national monument, it is slated by the contractors, Messrs. Grissel and Peto, will be in a sufficient state of forwardness by Ihe ensuing spring, so that the statue of the immortal Nelson may be placed on the summit. The last stage of the scaffolding is now raised for the erection of Ihe Corinthian capital, which is eleven feet in height. The bronze leaves and volutes, which are being cast at Woolwich, are expected in the course of a week or two.

The figure of the illustrious hero is also in TWO DAYS LATER PROM AMERICA. The New York packet ship Hottinguer, Captain Bursley, arrived at Liverpool on Friday afternoon, in about eighteen days. She brings eight cabin and 200 steerage passengers. The marriage and suicide of Colt in the Tombs continued the all-absorbing topic, Colonel Webb, of the Courier and Inquirer, had been committed to prison, preparatory to receiving sentence for leaving his state with intent to give or receive a challenge to fight a duel." -He would, it was expected, be liberated in a few days. Captain Cown, ef the brig Henry Lee, arrived at New York from San Juan, reported that the blockade by the British fleet was raised on the 20th of September, and the fleet sailed the next day for Cusope.

Some further investigation touching the death of Miss Mary C. Rogers, a yoong woman who was mysteriously murdered at Hoboken, near New York, last year, had taken place on the 19th, but does not appear to have elicited any new facts to show how she came by her death. her repentant lover, and breathes her last, invoking tier lamer to take Mordaunt to his heart, And call him son. At least so the piece was written by the, author originally' though in tbe emendations, as they are called, Mabel dies with' the previous recognition of their reconciliation, exclaiming, I am happy." All that could be effected by the aid of scenery, confined to the interior olLord Lynterne' castle, the park, and Mordaunt's villa, at Richmond, was elaborately accomplished, whilst the actors took infinite pains to carry home to tbe heart the domestic tragedy before them. Miss Helen Faudit, as Maiei, almost concealed her love too sedulously, or suffered us to imagine that pride had the entire mastery of love, in the earlier scenes this reserve she maintained till the renunciation of her hand by the injured ordaunt, and the public obloquy cast back on her in the bitterness of ill-requited attachment, when-the gushing feelings broke over the artificial barriers, and she sank into the loving, contrite woman.

Her verging on the grave maidenly resolute not to reveal the fatal secret; herearnesiadjuralion to her father not to desecrate his grey hairs by suing to the proud plebeian, who had set hisfoot on the neck of aristocracy, and the proud line dating itself from Norman conquest; with the exquisite pathos of the dying scene; were worthy the high talents of the most accomplished tragic actress now treading the British stage. Mr. Mac-readywas eloquent in his love; deadly in his revenge; with the perturbed spirit evident, doubting if "revenge were justice." We cannot award to Mrs. Warner, as Lady Lydia, any great meed of praise until she, in the final act, presents herself as Ihe broken-hearted one, whom distance could not sever from her injured niece, and unable to obtain repose, save in the con-fesssion of that duplicity, which she felt was opening the grave for the object of her idolatry here she was powerful and effective. Phelps, ashe alwaysdoes, sustained the character of the Patrician with excellent judgment, and cast from him the trammels of birth, in obedience to the grand dictates of nature, to save his drooping daughter, in a nervous but chaste style, which made the fiction appear reality.

Yet with these accessories of the machinist and the actor, and in spite of vociferous plaudits at the fall of the announcement byMr.Macready that Ihe new tragedy1 would be played four times a week, together with the overwhelming cries for the author, in deference to which Mr. Marston dropped a triple obesiance before the lamps, we do not think that, as a five act it can retain a hold upon the public, or draw an average profit to the exchequer. It needs vast curtailment: there is barely action enough for three acts and mere poesy on the stage is much like mere declamation in the House of Commons, which will not be listened to, save as a maiden effort." The taste of the management which suffered livery servants to make their exits and their entrances, closing one act and opening another, received so intelligible a hint, that the repetition will doubtless be avoided; whilst really we cannot understand why a young lady after sunset should promenade a park with a parasol, as Mabel was doomed to do, to the obvious detriment of the vrai-semblahle." These are minor parts, but important ones, when a piece is almost hanging on a pivot, as this did in the third and part of the fourth acts; the play must be compressed, and very unsparingly, to ensure anythinglilte permanent success. The author his had to combat in representation with that which does not exist in the closet; when we have blank verse, we have been accustomed to look to the cuirass, or to the costume of antiquity the illusion is practically destroyed by boots of Hoby, and coats of State but there are such charming passages in a piece which, with the exception of The Gamester," is the sole one that has summoned Melpomene to our halls and hearlhs of the present day, that we should on principle regret that the dawn of another epoch which may outshine many assumed sunny periods of our literature, should not have a sufficiency of votaries to hail it in its new upspr'mging from the ocean of time A prologue by Mr. Dickens, voking the clemency of the audience towards a maiden muse, was well written, and excellently delivered by Mr.

Macready. The Ship Fobmidabie. The following telegraphic dispatch (which has evidently been delayed by the foggy state of the weather) respecting the success of the efforts to rescue the Formidable, British man-of-war, from her perilous position, was received by the French Government on Wednesday "Barcelona, Dec. 2. The Etna, on its return Irora Tarragona, oined the Gassendi by the order of Commandant Gatier, in order to assist in getting off the English ship, the Formidable.

Ater many hours of hard exertion she was got clear off the coast, and was yesterday towed by our two steamers into the roadstead of Barcelona! where another English ship, the Rodney, had anchored in the morning. When the Gassendi and Etna had completed their task, the crews of the English ships saluted them with five hurrahs. The French shiD of 4la linn Tnn-m-nnn 1M I 1 siaie oi consiqeraoie lorwaraness. The lower portion is nearly chiselled in form. Mr.

Railton, F.R.S., is occupied in the construction of the figure, which is about seventeen feet in height, in a temporary shed in the grounds, in Trafalgar-square. It is not expected that the statue will be completed till Ihe latter end of the spring. The granite terrace, which is to form the square fronting the National Gallery, will be finished very shortly. It is not vet decided whether timnmins. uuc, uciuiuapcs, uiiw guua, jios vast uiiuuui uii Barcelona.

In 1812 613 14 The increase upon the subscriptions of this year over the la' being 102 6s. and upon the two years X154 The balance now in hand in favor of (he society is i 9(W being an increase upon the balance of last year of' i2lw o- The following gentlemen were added to the Committee Morgan, Castle-street, Leicester-square; Mr. Bennett, Leatne -lane; Mr. Wells. Broadway, St.

Thomas's, Boroujjli Traies, Lamb's Conduit-street; Mr. Young, Albiiuy-sj'ef Regents Park; Mr. Hobbs, White Conduit-fields; and Bovd, Albany, Piccadilly. Mr. Buckmaster.

M. um, Mr Tvrreii, W'V jets d'eaux, or what ornaments are to be erected in the area.no cf.o, T.innn'ln't.inn.tiaMe. Mr i Slid X' nnnci'jir (M. at n.S Several rpnnpsE l. were aDnointeo unrii nrs tnr the ensi ini; Drurv-une Theatre.

On these boards a tragedy, entitled The Patrician's Daughter," was last evening submitted to tbe public; it was a bold effort on the part of -the author, Mr. J. W. Marston, in the saliency of youthful genius, to overleap Ihe bounds of convention, and endeavor at least to burst ihe manacles which, in his opinion, fettered the tragic muse; but, perhaps, it was a yet bolder attempt on Mr. Macready's part, to usher a production on the stage which could not fail to charm in the closet.

But the manager here, recollected (hat lie but half redeemed the substance of his pledge, when lie assumed the Mils of power, by-the mere revival and restoration of the tried legitimate drama that the spirits of the mighty dead were not alone to be appeased by oblations at their shrine, and bidding their votive altars emit the incense of renovated homage, but that the present had also an overwhelming claim upon his protection, and that it was a libel on the very essence of his professions to wreathe garlands over graves, and let living genius go clothe herself in rags. The author com speeches, highly calculated to forward the interests ot the sot were made, and the usual votes of thanks having been mously passed, the meeting separated. The late Robbera-of Bank Noies at Brighton-. Treherne, the young man charged under extraordinary cirt stances, as described in the Era, with stealing four hie notes of the Bank of England, and one five pound note Brighton Union Bank, the property of Mr. m- on the 15th of October last, and who, it was alleged, -jed one of the said notes at the Brighton Railway sMiion, "5 at the East Sussex Adjourned Quarter Sessions, on inur and most honorably acquitted.

It is now generally oraer to mat effect having been received from the Commissioners of Woods and Forests. That portion of the square for the accommodation of the public will be covered with asphalte, and the whole will be enclosed with an iron railing and granite posts. Suicide at the Tower Hamlets Cemetery. Yesterday, an inquest was held before Mr. Baker, the coroner, at the Rose and Crown, Bromley, on the budy of William Ottley, aged 35, of No.

1, Ocean-row, Stepney. From the evidence, it appeared, that at nine Thursday night last, police constable 370 saw the deceased leaning, he. at first thought, against a rail on tire side of the Tower Hamlets Cemetery. Feeling somewhat suspicious at his remaining in such a position so long, he went up to the spot, and saw that he was partially suspended, by means of a rope, to a rail which separated the lane from the cemetery. The deceased was not dead, and was taken to the police station.

Mr. Henry Garman, surgeon, of Bow-road, said that he was called to the deceased, and finding that he showed signs of life, opened a vein in the arm, and a few drops of Wood flowed. Witness hod ml liiat the deceased iiad procured a piece ol ami I itj a f'rien'l whether he thoughi.it was long enough to hangauiim. He had often threatened to destroy himself. Deceased did net recover.

Verdict Temporary insanity." posed his play, plairtiug for himself a standard of taste, and the manager has bidden the world come bow to it." Many he vigilance of in" returned to lirighton, and so i Meeting of At the Privy Council held by her Majesty at Windsor Castle yesterday, a Proclamation was agreed upon for further proroguing Parliament, from Tuesday next, to Thursday, the 2nd day of February, then to meet for the dispatch of business" Jordan, the 'clerk, who ribbed the London Joint-stock Bank, has now returned all the st len nicy, except 40, having re-'urned 300 additional of ihe balance. ot our readers may prooaoiy recuiieci, mat some twelvemonths' since we noticed this tragedy at cousideyable K'lig under the head of seiies of articles culled, "The Unacted Drama;" slated then what we now confirm, that it was a very extraordinary conception of a youthful mind the writer being then barely of age that the diciim was har-aonious. elegant, and vigorous whilst there were Printed and Published by Bono, oi j. street, in the Parish of St. Mary-Ie-Straud, in Couutj dlesex, at the EitA Office, No.

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