The Speaker. It is rumoured that his Majesty, with the kind consideration of saving to the country, for the present, the late Speaker's retiring pension of 4,000l. per annum, has made it his personal request to Mr. Manners Sutton that he would resume the high office in the new Parliament; and that such is consequently to be the case. Standard.

Royal Academy.-On Monday evening, the anniversary of the foundation of the Royal Academy, the distribution of prizes for the intermediate year (the grand distribution being only biennial) took place, when the following rewards were adjudged:

To Mr. Frost, a silver medal, and copies of the Lectures of Barry, Opie, and Fuseli, for the best copy in the school of painting.

To Mr. Hartnall, a silver medal, for the second best copy.

To Mr. Novello, a silver medal, for the best drawing from the life.

To Mr. Branden, a silver medal, for a drawing of the principal front of the Bank.

to murder my father?" Poor thing! she fell a victim to her filial affection,-she was immediately shot by one of the savages who surrounded the house. The policemen came out of the house, under promise of protection; but, as soon as they appeared outside, they were fired at. One escaped in the confusion uninjured; the other, who was mortally wounded, ran some distance, leaped over a fence which few athletic men would have attempted, but after running a short distance further, he fell from weakness and loss of blood. His comrade, perceiving the condition he was in, ran to his assistance. The unfortunate man, on seeing him, cried out, "Are you shot?" and on receiving an answer in the negative, exclaimed, "Fly then for your life; don't stay; it's all over with me." The survivor, having secured the poor fellow's watch, money, and ammunition, then made good his retreat.-Dublin Express.

Siege of Antwerp.-The Lunette of St. Laurent has been taken by assault. The following is from the Times

"When the sap was prepared for the descent

To Mr. Pickersgill, a silver medal, for the best model from the antique.

Steam Carriage.-The steam carriage constructed by Messrs. Heaton, of Birmingham, made a short journey on the Hales Owen road on Friday, in order try the power of a new boiler in generating steam, and which, we understand, performed its office most satisfactorily. The lack of steam, which is an evil hitherto common to all the locomotive steam carriages when put to considerable speed for some distance, appears now to be obviated; and the performance of a long journey in reasonable time by these carriages cannot remain much longer an uncertainty. The carriage started from the manufactory in Shadwell Street, and proceeded up Great Charles Street Hill at the rate of five miles an hour. It afterwards increased its speed, and on its way to Hazlewood went frequently at the rate of ten miles an hour. Its average rate of travelling, however, seemed to be about eight miles per hour; and this it performs with great safety and certainty on all roads.-Birmingham Gazette.

Murder. There are two or three painfully interesting circumstances which appeared in evidence at the inquest of the unfortunate Maddox family, lately murdered in the county of Wexford, which have not hitherto been noticed by the provincial or Dublin papers. A son and daughter of Maddox escaped the fury of the miscreants at first, by pretending to be servants of the family; but when at some distance from the house, the daughter hearing the cries of her father, rushed back, exclaiming, "Oh, my God! are you going

to take the fort. One was to attack the gorge by a strong force, by which there was a probability of great loss. The opening of the breach by the artillery would be so much lost time; and the third mode, which was suggested by General Haxo, and which was in unison with the principle on which the siege was conducted, was to place a mine in the flank of the lunette. This last was adopted, and executed with brilliant and fortunate results.

"On the 10th, a raft was constructed under the blindage near the fosse. During the night, fourteen workmen of the engineers, led by an officer, crossed the fosse, and fastening themselves to the left flank of the fort near the saillant, they remained there five hours, during which every means that art could suggest produced no other effect than that of removing two bricks.

"The difficulties were such, that in the day following it became a matter of deliberation, whether they should not resort to the more certain, though more tedious, process of opening the breach with the artillery. General Haxo persisted; and at six o'clock in the evening of the 11th, the engineers crossed the fosse a second time, still unobserved by the besieged in the fortress; who, by a lucky chance, could not enfilade this fosse, which is not under any guns but those of the city itself.

"The firing of the besiegers against the Citadel was besides at this time extremely quick, in order to turn off the attention of the garrison. To give you an idea of its rapidity, I need only state, that on this night 77,000 cartridges were consumed. After a hard labour of several hours, and the em

ployment of petards, the men at last succeeded in destroying a coating of brick, and a thick layer of cement, by which they attained their object. An excavation was soon made, into which the miners entered. Thus these resolute men remained lodged in the very flank of the lunette from the 12th to the 13th; and during this time they had dug to the depth of thirty feet under the platform of the fort. The excavation was in the form of a T, in the upper part of which there were three magazines. Yesterday evening, each of these magazines was charged with 500 kilograms (1,000lb English) of powder. The remainder of the night was employed in filling up the excavations with a considerable number of sacks of earth.

"It is now said, that at nine o'clock the officer commanding the lunette had a suspicion of what was going on, and communicated these suspicions to General Chassé, who sent him answer that he must be mistaken. Be that as it may, about four o'clock this morning, everything being prepared, the train of the mine was fired. The soldiers then retired within the second parallel, and in half an hour after, a violent explosion, followed by an eruption of stones, several of which fell at our side, announced that a practicable breach had been effected. The first detonation was followed by a second, occasioned by the explosion of a small magazine of shells and grenades, which had the appearance of a brilliant discharge of fireworks. The garrison of the lunette took the explosion as the effect of a bomb."

A breach was formed by this explosion, which was almost immediately entered by the besiegers; and thus, with little or no loss, they made themselves masters of the lunette of St. Laurent.

English Theatre at Paris.-This speculation, under the management of Miss Smithson, seems to droop; although from the popularity of that lady among the French, much might reasonably have been expected from it. But good actresses do not always make good managers of theatres.

The French papers speak very highly of Mr. R. Jones, whom Miss Smithson engaged for a few weeks, and who is the prop of the establish

ment.

Even the French Figaro, so literally sarcastic and so difficult to please, expresses its delight at the elegant and humorous acting of Mr. Jones, whom the Journal des Debats, the best critical journal in France, also terms "acteur élégant et de bon ton," and "acteur remarquable.'

The truth is, we have often regretted that Mr. Jones was not permanently retained at one of our national theatres; for we say without hesitation that, in his particular line, he is without a rival,

except perhaps in his London namesake, over whom, however, he has great intellectual superiority.

Miss Smithson has been much applauded, as usual; but we think it a great error in judgment, to select the turgid and preposterous tragedy of Rowe (Jane Shore), to make her début this season before a French audience.

Dreadful Murder.-On Sunday morning, the 16th of last month, a most horrible murder was discovered on the premises of Messrs. Williams and Son, soap-boilers, Compton Street, Clerkenwell. It appears that when the carters called about eight o'clock that morning to feed the horses, they rang the bell of the yard for the clerk, who resides on the premises, to admit them; but after repeatedly ringing and receiving no answer, they effected an entrance through an adjoining house; and finding the counting-house door open, they entered, and discovered the body of the clerk lying on his back, his skull most frightfully fractured, and his blood and brains strewed about in all directions. There were no fewer than fourteen blows traceable on the skull : the right arm was also fractured, and the wrist dislocated. The poker was found under the fireplace, bent nearly to a right angle, and covered with hair and blood. A young man named Newland, formerly in the employ of Messrs. Williams, was taken up on Wednesday, but nothing was proved against him to warrant his detention. Government has advertised a reward for the discovery of the murderer.

Coroner's Inquest.-An inquest was held before William Adye, Esq. one of the Coroners for Wilts, on Monday the 17th instant, at the Black Dog Inn, Standerwick, on the body of Thomes Ford, of Short Street, near Chapmanslane, Wilts, weaver; who fell a victim to the attack made upon the unarmed supporters of Mr. Thomas Sheppard, at the nomination of the candidates for Frome on Monday the 10th instant. It appeared in evidence, that the unfortunate man being wholly unarmed, as all Mr. Sheppard's supporters were, was, in the forenoon of the day of nomination, in the market-place of Frome, severely beaten and kicked in the lower part of the bowels. He was removed to his home, and attended by medical men both from Frome and Westbury. He lingered in great suffering until Thursday morning last, when he died. The result of the post mortem examination was laid before the Jury; from which it appeared, that one of the smaller intestines was burst, and had mortified. The Jury returned a unanimous verdict of "Wilful Murder, by some person or persons unknown." Devizes Gazette.

LADY AUGUSTA KENNEDY-ERSKINE is the fourth daughter of his Majesty, and the widow of the Hon. John Kennedy (second son of the present Marquis of Ailsa), who assumed the additional surname and arms of ERSKINE, upon inheriting the estates of his maternal grandfather, John Erskine, Esq., of Dun, in the county of Angus. Her ladyship was married on the 5th of July, 1827, and has three children, WILLIAM-HENRY, Wilhelmina, and Augusta-Anne. Her husband died at Pisa, in 1831.

The family of KENNEDY yields to few of its native country, in the splendour and antiquity of its descent. So far back as the twelfth century, DUNCAN DE CARRICK enjoyed extensive estates in the county of Ayr, and was a personage of great influence and power. He was great-grandfather of

SIR GILBERT DE CARRICK, Knt., who is designated, in an arbitration deed between himself and the nuns of North Berwick, which had been referred to Robert Bruce and the Bishop of Glasgow, "Gilbertus de Carrick, miles filius Rolandi," &c., and his seal is appended, exhibiting the same shield of arms as the house of Ailsa bear to this day. His son,

SIR GILBERT DE CARRICK, Knt., obtaining from Malcolm Earl of Lennox, a charter of the lands of Buchmonyn, KENNADY, &c., assumed the latter designation as his surname. This potent laird, who lived about

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the middle of the fourteenth century, was father of

SIR JOHN KENNEDY, whose grandson,

SIR JAMES KENNEDY, wedded the Lady MARY STEWART, relict of George Douglas, Earl of Angus, and daughter of ROBERT III. King of Scotland. Sir James obtained from his father-in-law, in 1405-6, a charter of confirmation of the bailiary of Carrick, the royal grant bearing "delecto consanguineo suo Jacobo Kennedy militi;" and further acquired from the same monarch the lands and barony of Dalrymple. By the princess Mary Sir James had two sons;

1. GILBERT, his heir;

2. JAMES, Bishop of St. Andrews, and
founder of St. Salvador. This distin-
guished prelate, one of the most eminent
in the Scottish annals, was appointed,
during the minority of James III., a
Lord of the Regency, and exercising in
that elevated station, his talents, pro-
bity, and political skill, acquired an
authority before unknown to any church-
man in Scotland. His lordship died
10th May, 1466, much and universally
regretted for his wisdom, munificence,
and patriotism.
The elder son,

SIR GILBERT KENNEDY, Knt., was elevated to the peerage of Scotland, in 1452, as Lord Kennedy; and in eight years after was constituted one of the six regents of the

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