of the society, whose mouthpiece he was, he most sincerely thanked them for the manner in which they had responded to the toast.

The Mayor proposed "The Duke of Beaufort, Lord High Steward." His Grace the Duke of Beaufort returned thanks.

"Earl Fitzhardinge, Lord-lieutenant of the county." The hon. G. Berkeley, M.P., acknowledged the toast.

The Duke of Beaufort proposed "The health of the Duke of Richmond," to whom the Agricultural Society was more indebted than to any other individual.

The Duke of Richmond said, he must beg to remind them that his health had been proposed by one who had been his companion in arms in the Peninsular war, and who was therefore prejudiced in his favour; for he could not claim the merit which the Duke of Beaufort would bestow upon him. It was true that at a large meeting in London Earl Spencer and himself had proposed the origination of this society, and that by the assistance of the practical farmers of England they had succeeded in establishing it, but in this he could claim no merit, that was not equally due to Earl Spencer. He felt that this society was one of great national importance, founded as it was, not for the discussion of party, but on that higher and more ennobling feeling which had enabled this country to surmount every difficulty

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feeling of reliance on themselves. (Cheers.) He could not sit down without noticing the hospitality of the constituted authorities of all classes of the citizens of Bristol, who had in the kindest manner thrown open their doors to all strangers who attended their meet

ing. He thought this was of great importance when he looked at the extent of the commercial transactions of this great city, and of the high character borne by her merchants in every part of the world. He hailed this feeling towards agriculture with peculiar gratification, proving, as it did, that they all concurred in the opinion that the agriculturist, the manufacturer, and the merchant, should do the utmost in their several spheres to promote the union of all interests in this great country, and that no opportunity should be lost to promote goodwill and kindly feeling, which were the strength and glory of the empire.

The Mayor, in an appropriate speech, proposed the health of the hon. Edward Everett, the Envoy of the United States. (Cheers.)

The Hon. E. Everett, in acknowledging the toast, said, he felt greatly indebted to them for the very flattering manner in which his health had been proposed, and the very kind mode in which they had received it. He felt gratified in being present on an occasion which was so deeply interesting to him, because he had observed that there was a great similitude in the mode in which such meetings were conducted here and in his own country. The fundamental principle of his country, as they all knew, was equality, and he confessed that he had erroneously thought that in the mother-country this was not so; but when last week he had met his Royal Highness at Cambridge wearing a doctor's gown at the University of Cambridge like the rest, and mingling equally with his fellow-doctors, and when now again he met his Royal Highness mixing with the farmers of England, he was

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proud to confess how erroneous had been his impression; and he must say that this example set by his Royal Highness was calculated to have the most salutary influence. (Cheers.) There were many associations between the ancient city of Bristol and the United States, and he felt satisfaction, while at such a distance from his home, at being in a city which from the earliest times had been connected more or less with his own country. (Cheers.) Perhaps it was not known to many who were present that the discoverer of America, the great Columbus himself, had been at one period of his life a resident in Bristol, engaged in carrying on the trade of a common pilot between Bristol and Ireland. later times associations had sprung up between Great Britain and America which he hoped would be advantageous to both countries. Steam navigation had still closer cemented the intimacy of both countries, and he could not forget that to Bristol was the honour due of having first originated that navigation across the Atlantic; and he could assure them that the arrival of their noble Great Western at the shores of America was considered as an era in the history of their country, which he hoped would prove but the harbinger of a closer union, and that the steam navies of both countries would only be used to assist each other. (Cheers.) The steam engine had arrived at a degree of perfection in this country, under Bolton and Watt, but it had not been used on the waters in this country until his countryman Fulton took the engine of Bolton and Watt and put it in locomotion on the waters; thus had this great result been brought about by the united saga

city of both countries. (Cheers.) He assured them that he felt at home in this the home of his fathers, and in coming down from London to-day every name and every spot on the map appeared familiar to him. This was to be accounted for from some of the earliest settlers in America coming from this part of England, and they in the United States had their Bristol, their Bath, their Wells, their Exeter, their Gloucester, every name in this neighbourhood seemed to remind him of the home of his heart, and to make him, a pilgrim in a strange land, feel at home. Mr. Everett then concluded by expressing a hope that the communication between the two countries would be still more frequent and their union more cordial than ever.

The health of the members for the city, the counties of Glouces. ter and Somerset, the High-Sheriff, the Duke of Wellington, Lord John Somerset, &c., having been drunk, his Royal Highness rose at about a quarter before one o'clock, and the party separated.

13. DEATH OF THE DUKE OF ORLEANS.-This day, at half-past twelve o'clock, the Duke of Orleans, who was to have set out for Plombières, to join the Duchess, was returning from Neuilly, after taking leave of his family, when his horses ran away with his carriage, near the Porte Maillot, and the prince fearing to be overturned, jumped out, but in so doing his spurs, or his sword, caught in his cloak, and occasioned him to fall to the ground with violence. The consequence was a congestion of the brain, which terminated fatally. The prince was taken up senseless, and conveyed into the nearest house, where he was im

mediately attended by Dr. Bauny, assisted by Dr. Pasquier, the prince's physician. He never, however, recovered the use of his senses. The king, queen, and Duke d'Aumale arrived at the spot almost immediately. The rector of St. Philippe de Roule administered the sacrament of the extreme unction to the prince, who expired shortly after three o'clock. The prince was about to take the command of a camp of 40,000 men; but, alas! who can reckon upon to-morrow?

15. AFFAIR OF HONOUR.-A hostile meeting took place this morning between the Hon. Craven Berkeley, M.P., and Captain Boldero, M.P. The dispute arose in consequence of Mr. Berkeley having attributed to Captain Boldero the use of certain expressions disrespectful to Her Majesty, which the latter peremptorily denied. The parties met yesterday morning at five o'clock, in the neighbourhood of Osterly Park, Mr. Berkeley accompanied by the Hon. W. Ridley Colborne, M.P., and Captain Boldero by Mr. W. F. Mackenzie, M.P., and having exchanged shots without effect, they left the ground.

FUNERAL OF THE WIDOW OF THE RIGHT HON. CHARLES JAMES FOX. The remains of the Hon. Mrs. Fox were this day interred at Chertsey. The funeral procession was extremely plain. Nearly the whole of the shops in the town were closed. The deceased had resided for upwards of forty years in the town, and was highly respected in the immediate neighbourhood.

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16. THE DUKE OF WELLINGAND THE ANTI CORN-LAW LEAGUE.- The following pithy answer of the Duke of Wellington

to repeated applications from the Anti Corn-law League for an interview, appeared in the public papers:- "London, July 16, 1842. Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington presents his compliments to Mr. Taylor. He is not in office in the Queen's political service. He is not intrusted with the exercise of political power. He has no control over those who are. He begs to be excused for declining to receive the visits of deputations from associations, or of individual gentlemen, in order to converse with him upon public affairs. But if any gentleman think proper to give him, in writing, information or instruction upon any subject, he will peruse the same with attention. D. A. Taylor, Esq., Brown's Hotel. The Duke has received three notes from Mr. Taylor on this subject."

20. TRIAL FOR ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION.-. -NORTHERN CIRCUIT.-CARLISLE.-CROWN Side. -Matthew Russell was indicted for shooting William Irving, with intent to kill and murder him. Mr. Fawcett conducted the prosecution, and Sir G. Lewin the defence. It appeared that the prisoner and the prosecutor were well known to each other. On the day of the offence the prosecutor was proceeding from Whitehaven with between 60l. and 70l. in gold and silver, which he was carrying to his employers, for the purpose of paying their workmen's wages. After proceeding some distance along the road, he saw on turning his head, the prisoner following at a distance; of this he took no notice. He soon approached a lonely part of the road, when the prisoner came up to him within two or three yards, and deliberately discharged a pistol loaded with slugs

into the prosecutor's back. The prosecutor was wounded, but did not fall; and, on turning round, said to the prisoner," Matthew, what did you do that for?" The parties then faced each other for some time, neither of them saying anything. At length the prosecutor ran with the view of escaping; but, looking behind, he saw the prisoner following him, and at the same time reloading the pistol as he ran. The prosecutor then faced about, for the purpose of a resolute defence before the pistol was ready for a second discharge. The prisoner seeing this, his courage failed, and he in his turn ran and attempted to escape through a breach in the wall, by the road-side into a field. The prosecutor pursued, and caught him by the coat-tail just as he was through, and a good pull brought him down with his back upon the road, when the prosecutor seized the pistol and took it from the prisoner, and made his way off. The prisoner escaped, and was af. terwards apprehended in Scotland,

Sir G. Lewin addressed the jury on his behalf, and called some witnesses, with a view to prove that the prisoner was not in his right mind, but the utmost their evi, dence amounted to was that he was flighty" at times.

Lord Denman in charging the jury, said, that while the law excused those whose state of mind was such that they were no longer masters of their own actions, all men should know that it would not tolerate a deed like this under the plea that the perpetrator was ર flighty," and did many things which other people ordinarily did not do.

Verdict "Guilty." To be transported for life.

21. WHIRLWIND.-About five o'clock in the evening, the inhabitants of Birkenhead opposite Liverpool, were alarmed by one of these unfrequent visitations of Providence. Not a breath of wind was felt at the time"every leaf was at rest"-when suddenly a loud roar was heard, resembling the falling of waters down a cataract. This noise continued for about two minutes, when the wind came from the south-east, apparently embracing only about eight yards in breadth, and its force was so powerful, that it bent down everything before it, shaking the houses it passed to their very foundations, and throwing up the water in the ponds to a height of three or four yards. Providentially no other injury was done than the breaking of some windows, and throwing down bricks, slates, &c. The passengers by the Chester train were coming up Jaystreet at the time, and many of them were thrown upon the ground by the wind, and others had their umbrellas torn to pieces. The effect of the whirlwind was not felt more than three minutes,

25. INQUEST,An extraordinary investigation took place before Mr. Baker the coroner, at the Red House, College-street, Chelsea, on the body of a male infant, aged three weeks, the illegitimate offspring of a young woman named Barritt, alias Harcourt. The evidence was of the most prolix character, but from the following detail of it, the whole history of thecase will be obtained. On the 1st instant the deceased was born at No. 17, Charles-street, Chelsea, and was a very fine, healthy child. Previous to the birth of the child, an arrangement had been entered

into with the mother by a Mrs. Hunt the wife of a marine storekeeper, living at No. 3, Bond-street, Chelsea, that the latter should have the child, and pass him off as her own, to the great joy of her husband, who thought from her appearance, that she was enceinte, and near her lying-in. On hearing of the birth of the child, Mrs. Hunt was taken with the usual pains of parturition, and Mr. Hunt, thinking the accouchement was near, called in, by the desire of his wife, not a medical man, who would at once have made a discovery not pleasant to Mrs. Hunt, but a Mrs. Hayward, who had been let into the secret, and was to perform the duties of midwife and nurse. Mrs. Hunt was put to bed, and the following morning Mrs. Hayward was sent for the child, the former making the remark," that if she did not succeed in the attempt, it would ruin her peace of mind." The grandmother of the child came, and an arrangement was entered into that the child was to be fetched in the evening. About eight o'clock Mr. Hunt very conveniently went out, and during his absence the child was fetched from his mother, and on his return was presented to him, and he appeared delighted to think he was a father. The child was placed in bed by the side of Mrs. Hunt, who went through all the ordeal of a regular accouchment, with the exception of giving the child the breast. In place of his natural food, gruel and new milk, with stale French rolls and tops and bottoms, were given to him. Mrs. Hayward continued her attendance, and when she left, one of her daughters took her place. The child appeared to get on pretty well until the Sunday following, when on Mrs. Hayward

visiting her patient, Mrs. Hunt, she found her bathing the child's eyes, in consequence of their being sore. It looking also ill, Mrs. Hayward, at the request of Mrs. Hunt, took the child to his lawful mother, for the purpose of her suckling it; Mr. Hunt, who really did think the child belonged to him, telling her that if the wetnurse (meaning the child's mother) could be removed, to bring her to his house in a cab. The mother was unable to suckle him; but the grandmother having a child of her own, gave it the breast, and said she would undertake the charge of it that night. The child was brought back to Mrs. Hunt's, and pined daily: at length Mr. Stewart, a surgeon, was called in, and ordered a wet-nurse. The child, however, got worse and died. From other witnesses it appeared, that Mrs. Hunt having no children of her own, had taken the child for the purpose of bringing him up, as she expected some money to be left to her eldest child.

Two medical gentlemen, Messrs. Warden and Stewart, who attended the birth of the child, and subsequently at Mrs. Hunt's, were cxamined at great length, and attributed the death to inanition, arising from the want of proper food,

On the mother and Mrs. Hunt being called into the room, they were greeted with the most discordant sounds by several females in the room, which were re-echoed by the crowd outside, consisting of several hundred persons, the majority of whom belonged to the fair sex, who took great interest in the proceeding, and appeared so disgusted with their conduct, that to and from the house where the inquest was held, they were obliged to be protected by the police.