to make certain investigations under the act of Parliament for the augmentation of small livings. In the course of his examination, the Bishop stated that he should never have sanctioned such an agreement as that he had heard read. Without reference to the charge of drugging the wine, he considered that the proceeding of the plantiff in making such an agreement, and taking a bill of exchange from his curate, was so improper, that if no satisfactory explanation had been given of it, he should probably have felt it his duty to suspend him from his functions, and perhaps remove him altogether. He considered it a transaction of a simoniacal character; and this was alone sufficient to cause him to strike the plaintiff's name out of the commission. Dr. Colls was entitled to the whole of his salary. No evidence was offered in defence. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff--damages 2001. 31. ANOTHER GREAT VICTORY.The public had not yet settled down from the exultation caused by the news of Sir H. Smith's brilliant victory at Aliwal, announced in the newspapers of the 23rd, when they were still further startled by the following announcement : "ANOTHER GREAT VICTORY OVER THE SIKHS. Extraordinary ex after four hours of obstinate fighting. The Sikhs lost 12,000 men and 65 pieces of artillery. The English had 300 men killed, 13 of whom were officers, and 2,500 wounded, of whom 101 were officers. Her Majesty's 53rd and 62nd regiments suffered enormously; General Dick and Brigadier Taylor are among the dead. This victory was followed, it is said, by an agreement, according to which the Sikhs have engaged to pay, in four yearly instalments, to the Company, for the expenses of the war, 1,500,000l. sterling, the payment to be guaranteed by the military occupation of their country." APRIL. 6. EXTRAORDINARY DEATH. The body of Captain Hannibal Tucker, a retired officer of the East India Company, was found frightfully mutilated under the circumstances detailed in the following evidence, given at the coroner's inquest held on the body of the unfortunate gentleman. Richard Murby, a farmer, said that between three and four o'clock on the morning of the 1st instant, as he was returning home, he saw fire issuing from the roof of Captain Tucker's house, and knocked at the door, but received no an a loaded one lying under the deceased. It further appeared that the deceased was dressed, and one of his pockets burnt, through which 11s. had fallen. He was in the habit of keeping pistols in the house to protect himself, and they were secured by a chain to his bed, and near the window. He was very eccentric in his habits, and although a married man, and having a daughter, he lived in the house by himself. Mr. Gurney, a surgeon, described the frightful wounds which had caused the death of the deceased. The whole of the skull was fractured. On the right side of the head, just above the ear, was the mark of the entrance of a bullet. He believed the deceased had shot himself. The other parts of his body were dreadfully mutilated. Many of his limbs were broken by the fallen rubbish. The jury, after a lengthened inquiry, returned a verdict, "That the deceased had destroyed himself while in a state of temporary insanity." 3. OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE BOAT RACE. Another of these gallant contests between the men of the two Universities terminated this day in favour of the Cambridge crew. The race of last season having terminated in favour of the Cantabs, the Oxonians became the challengers, and the course of water to be rowed over was different from that usually selected, being that part of the river which stretches from Mortlake to Putney. The betting, in consequence of their previous victories, was in favour of the Cambridge boat. At starting the Oxonians obtained a slight advantage; this was soon lost, and the contest became very equal, but at Hammersmith Bridge the Cambridge men had slightly the advantage. The exertions of the men now became most strenuous, and the speed of the boats through the water very great; but although the Oxonians, by desperate efforts, had at one time brought their boat even with that of their opponents, they were unable to sustain the exertion, and the men of Cambridge shot through Putney Bridge about three boats' length ahead of their gallant competitors. 4. THE YARMOUTH MURDER.— The convict, Samuel Yarham, some details of whose extraordinary trial and conviction will be found in our LAW CASES," this morning suffered the last penalty of the law in front of Norwich Castle. The execution was attended by at least 20,000 persons, females as well as males, nearly 2000 of whom came from Yarmouth by railway for the occasion. The criminal made no confession of his guilt, but no longer persisted in asserting his innocence, maintaining a dogged silence. Royal and Mapes, two of the men who had been committed and tried for the murder, as joint principals with Yarham, who was admitted evidence for the crown against them, but who were acquitted, were noticed among the crowd at the foot of the scaffold. The above execution stands in one respect almost unparalleled in English history-that of a man being hanged for a murder, after he had been allowed to give evidence against three supposed accomplices in the same offence. IIe is also executed upon statements which he himself made whilst under the impression that, in consequence of having given such evidence, he was free from any ulterior proceedings. COLLISION AT SEA AND to his friends and a select party of SHIPWRECKS.-The Waterwitch, a connoisseurs, &c., at the Egyptian powerful steam-tug, was run down Hall, Piccadilly. The subject of by a schooner, at the entrance of the first, and what may be called the Frith of Forth, in the night, the most important of these two and all hands, six in number, pictures, is the 'Banishment of perished. The people of the Aristides,' and is intended by the schooner declare that there was artist to show the injustice of no look-out kept on board the democracy; and, by exhibiting steamer, and though they hailed the representation of an historiher, no notice was taken of them. cal fact, to convey a meaning and The schooner itself sustained a read a political lesson without the good deal of damage, and heeled aid of allegory or the exaggeration over considerably from the violence of fable. The description of the of the shock. Cries for assistance picture is thus given in the words proceeded from the Waterwitch, of the artist himself:- The moand the schooner tacked about ment taken in this picture is the immediately to render it, but all moment after the decree of the had disappeared, save a few float- people, when Aristides and his ing fragments of the wreck. family, and household dog, are leaving the Piræan gate. Aristides is looking to heaven, and appealing to the Gods. On his left arm leans his wife, with her newly-born infant, looking with apprehensive indignation at the mob, which is hooting and pointing at her. Holding the belt of his robe on the right is his son Lysimachus, too young to comprehend completely the condition of his father, but not so young as not to be aware that there is something to be alarmed at. Close to the right arm of Aristides is a venerable archon of the Areopagus, reasoning and appealing to Themistocles on the gross injustice of the decision. Themistocles, as a statesman and warrior, is standing armed on the step of a tomb by the road side, and maliciously enjoying the fate of the man he feared. The archon looks as if he had a strong suspicion that Themistocles was at the bottom of the whole. Behind the archon are some of the vicious demagogues who had banished Aristides, whilst INGENIOUS SMUGGLING. As a man was looking round his master's field, near Lynn, he perceived some bales of tobacco lying near a haystack; upon search, the custom-house officers discovered that the haystack had been completely hollowed out and formed into a depôt for smuggled goods, the entrance being concealed by loose hay. Sixty-three packages of tobacco, weighing near a ton and a half, were seized in this ingenious hiding-place. a MR. HAYDON'S PICTURES.The following critique upon the two last pictures of the unfortunate artist, Haydon, derive melancholy interest from his subsequent disastrous end. Being written before that sad cata strophe they may be received as a just opinion, founded on their merits, and not coloured by the feelings the event was calculated to produce: The private view of two pictures, recently finished by this artist, was on Saturday afforded on the opposite side, on the left of the wife of Aristides, is another with red cap (the pileus), an Athenian fisherman venting his hatred, and only kept from violence by the look of a good man, with black hair, between the two, who checks by his expression the malice of the other, whilst a fiend behind is smiling at his violence. Leaning on the shoulder of the fisherman is his old and malignant mother, who is encouraging her son, and pointing at and hissing the virtuous family. Below, kneeling, is a gray-headed veteran of republicanism and spite, picking up stones and dirt to be used when Aristides is sufficiently distant. Above him is a young man crippled and blind, who, though unable to see, is gratifying his detestation by a hiss.' This will explain the manner in which Mr. Haydon has treated his subject. The picture contains upwards of twenty figures of the size of life, exceedingly well grouped, and so arranged as to give a dignity to the general effect proportionate to the subject. All these figures are finely drawn, the outline of the principal figures being exceedingly free, correct, and grand. They all stand well together as a connected whole, and no figure is there which does not belong to the story and help to make it intelligible. The diver sity of character and expression is also felicitous. The shades of feeling, good and evil, and the sympathy and repugnance of each spectator or actor, are made apparent, yet there is no distortion, nothing beyond the truth. This is, perhaps, the best picture ever painted by the artist; it deserves to secure, and it is to be hoped will secure, to him a fitting reward for his labours. The second picture contains but one figure, at least but one in the foreground, and represents Nero playing on his harp amidst the conflagration of Rome. This picture, as well as the other, is painted with freedom of hand and great breadth of light and shade, and with strict attention to the accessories. It will not, however, as appears to our judgment, please so much as its companion, neither does it unite so many qualities of art." SHIPWRECK. Intelligence has been received of the wreck of the ship Mary, which left England in 1843 on a whaling expedition, on one of the Woodlark Islands, during a storm on the 21st of November of that year. Seven of the crew perished, but twentyeight reached land, and were hospitably received by the natives. Her commander, finding there was no chance of speaking with a ship, resolved to build a small vessel, and it was finished in about nine months. After it was launched, and just as the party were about to set sail, the natives, instigated, it is believed, by a feeling of revenge for a foul crime committed by one of the men, came down upon the unsuspecting sailors and killed seven of them, including the captain. The survivors took refuge in another of the islands, and were well received; but the inhabitants of the first island made known their grievance to their neighbours, and they, taking part in the quarrel, massacred all the Englishmen, save one who happened to be in a wood. This man was assisted to escape by a native, whose life he had been the means of saving. 9. PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING FOR THE VICTORIES IN INDIA.His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, in accordance with the Order of Her Majesty in Council, has prepared the following Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving for the repeated and signal victories obtained by the troops of Her Majesty, and by those of the Honourable East India Company, in the vicinity of the Sutlej; to be used at Morning and Evening Service, after the general thanksgiving, in all churches and chapels in England and Wales, and in the town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, upon Sunday next, the 12th instant, or the Sunday after the ministers of such churches and chapels shall respectively receive the same: 66 A FORM OF PRAYER AND THANKS GIVING TO ALMIGHTY GOD. "O Lord, God of Hosts, in whose hand is power and might irresistible, we, Thine unworthy servants, most humbly acknowledge Thy goodness in the victories lately vouchsafed to the armies of our Sovereign over a host of barbarous invaders, who sought to spread desolation through fruitful and populous provinces, enjoying the blessings of peace under the protection of the British crown. We bless Thee, O merciful Lord, for having brought to a speedy and prosperous issue a war to which no occasion had been given by injustice on our part or apprehension of injury at our hands. To Thee, O Lord, we ascribe the glory; it was Thy wisdom which guided the councils, Thy power which strengthened the hands of those whom it pleased Thee to use as Thy instruments in the discomfiture of the lawless aggressor, and the prostration of his ambitious de signs. From Thee alone cometh the victory, and the spirit of moderation and mercy in the day of success. Continue, we beseech Thee, to go forth with our armies whensoever they are called into battle in a righteous cause; and dispose the hearts of their leaders to exact nothing more from the vanquished than is necessary for the maintenance of peace and security against violence and rapine. Above all, give Thy grace to those who preside in the councils of our Sovereign, and administer the concerns of her widely-extended dominions, that they may apply all their endeavours to the purposes designed by Thy good providence in committing such power to their hands,-the temporal and spiritual benefit of the nations intrusted to their care. "And whilst Thou preservest our distant possessions from the horrors of war, give us peace and plenty at home, that the earth may yield her increase, and that we, Thy servants, receiving Thy blessings with thankfulness and gladness of heart, may dwell together in unity, and faithfully serve Thee, to Thy honour and glory, through Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom, with Thee and the Holy Ghost, belong all dominion and power, both in heaven and earth, now and for ever. Amen!" 12. ACCIDENT ON THE EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.-An accident producing very extensive loss and injury, although human life was wonderfully spared, occurred to a special train on the Eastern Counties Railway, employed to convey visitors to Newmarket for the approaching races. The directors, in order to meet the convenience of the subscribers to the Newmarket |