The Express. — London, England, 1851-08-05 00:00:00

by such intercourse is the best, the only secure gua rantee for the peace and liberty of liuropc. TT was on Northumberland that WALTER SCOTT, with his unerring felicity of discernment, drew fur the rich and glowing materials of that ever-living and Diming picture of a di on ken, foolish, fox-hunting and his booby worthless family, the Oshat distorts, %Lich will, to the end of literature, remain the chief delight of the talc of " Rob Roy." It was in Northumberland that the rash and wicked rebel lion of 1714 first broke out ; there, too, Jacobitism lingered longest in England. Nor is all changed yet; greatly altered and vastly improved, as the agriculture, the politics, and the society of Northumberland have been during the last century ; though its rents have risen and its criminal statistics have fallen ; though Queen Vle xouta can now sleep in safety at Ilowick, some twenty miles from Rothbury, where rebellion raised its standard against the First GEORGE; though Northumberland can now— thanks to one fer tile family ! provide the House of HANOVER with a trace of Secretaries of State at once, and with a race of youngsters equal to any public employment, and almost numerous enough for all, mid furnish India with a general who, when upwards of seventy, wheeled about in his chair, very deaf and nearly blind, is, nevertheless, —such is the ability of the noble house of HOWICK competent to command the great army of Bombay, and willing to accept of 10,000 t a year for com manding it. Much, however, as the spirit of modern improvement and of Whig government have done for North umbra land—almost reversiog, in the county, the relative position of the Cl::,,iv and the l'imetxs— the old spirit and manners of its squirearchy me not, it would seem, quite extinct vet; and, if Mr. Baron PLArr is to be credited, there is still a park here and there of that disloyalty to the reigning family which once formed the staple of county politics. Northumberland appears yet to pot:sess its Ostnthini• tons of romance and its Ranti.vErts of reality : fine relics of the list ; and they figure otf, just where their encoders suffered most—at the county assizes, before the Queen's Judges of ()yer and Ter miner. Perhaps it is that a dislike of the due administra tion of justice is still hereditary in these border families; or it may be, seeing that twenty years ago the judges went but once a year into those distant parts, the Northumberland proprietors (like the Durham jurors who return " verdicts for Mr. GRAINtiEIt n have not even yet become familiarised with assize requirements, the frowoing dignity of Barons of the Exchequer, or with a due sense of their own important*. when High Sherilb. But, whatever the cause, certain it is that the Northumberland As sizes are beeoming famous fur "scenes," in which the county tomes off only second best. Two years ago, the County. Justices of the Peace, by the mouth of an honourable baronet who once repre sented them in parliament, claimed the right, under a statute of the realm, of treading on Mir. Justice WiliturnaN's toes in crossing from one room of the Moot Ilan to another; which claim, or, it might be, the trespass on his tots, so roused the usually placid temper of that excellent judge, that he taught the rash baronet the true state of the law and good man ners at the same time. And now, on Saturday last, another Northumberland baronet so swamis the solemn feelings of Mr. Baron Pharr, that that sedate and sententious personage, implicated the locally of Sir lion vet'. Si. Part.. Now, if such be the baronetcy of Northumberland, what must be its squirearehy It is dreadful to think of. The theory of assizes is, that the Sovereign sends the royal judges into each county by a separate com mission, there to deliver the gaols of such offenders as local justice has filled them with. (hi the borders of each county the Sovereign's local representative, the high Sheriff of the one comity is suppmed - a), and down to the days of railways actually did, hand over the Royal judges to the high Sheriff of the other; and the receiving High Sheriff, in pomp and state, sur rounded by the county magnates, whom he had in vited and fweasionally primed with old part, and at tended with his javelin men, having first got all the troops out of the county town. guarded and conveyed the judges to the Shire-hall, where, after a discharge of judicial compliments, the Royal commissions were opened and read. And this, with the exception of that now a days the high Sheriff repairs to u railway terminus. is exactly what is every where dune, ex cept, it seems, in gorthumberiand. We are no admirers of useless pageantry, ur of the perpetuation of old raise shows; we should think a judge a judge still though he was not enve loped in a great horse-hair wig or encased in a heavy acarkt robe. To our eyes Lord Cvmenri.t., riding his white horse from Kensington Guru to Westmin ster Hull, is as " venerable" a Chief Justice as Lord MANSFIELD going down in his coach and four from lkshord-squaw. plat we don't deny that the public reception of the QUEEN . s judges in the assize towns any be useful and impressive. We still recollect how grand and awful an effect it had on boyish minds; nay we remember haw, when part of the splendour and more of the expense were curtailed by act of parliament, older people regretted tlw loss. But that is nut the question between Baron Pharr and Sir Houser. Sr. Path. The Baron dues not maintain that the exhibition ought not to be put an end to; but, being accustomed as the Cit'sEN's representative to be everywhere else received as such, he objects tam Sir lloweet: Sr. Par i. treating him with no more respect than if he were a second-rate acquaintance, for whom all he had to do was to send his dog-curt to the station and bring him home in time to (bras for dinner. The shabby "garniture" of the shabby ear ring: in which the shabby Northumberland High Sheriff received and conveyed the QuEEN's commis sion, roused the learned Ixeron, and thus lie spoke to the g entry of Northumberland : As he had the honour of addressing gentlemen of high vespertability in the county, he could nut dismiss them without expressing his great regret that in this county and this country the gentry should he so reduced as not to show the ordinary napect to the crown; for they must give him leave to say that it is not the judges who come here in their own name, or ley their own authority—we are ma-rely mini.- tees under the sign manual. XV,. have the honour to attend before you under s commission from the Quern herself, and in this country where disloyalty or any disregard to the administration of justice would he consid , rell a slur, he re gretted much to see that the usual and ordinary garniture, by which that loyalty anal respect to the laws are mani fested, has mat attenacil these assizes. On concluding his address, the Iligh Sheriff (Sir Horace St. Paul, Bart.), who was sitting on the right of the judge, MK' and said—l hare lw•cn accused of didoyalty ; I publicly declare that that accusation is unjust. lam as loyal as any man. Mr. Baron Platt immediately replied—l am sorry that a gentleman who has the means of showing that loyalty to the crown in • proper manner should nut have exhi. bitcti it. •-• Ili. , Lord-hip then h.ll the court. Infringing on Baron Pl. A IT'. digni t v is, then, a much more serious affair than treading on 'Justice WIGIIT NAN'S toes. The latter offence is but a trespass ; but the former partaketh in its nature of treason. The High Sheriff, is lost to all sense of shame, is dis loyal : disloyalty leads to treason ; treason to rebel lion ; rebellion to the scaffold. Or, who knows that the fate of the reigning family may not be in this " ordinaly garniture" of a Northumberland chariot—that the wrath of a Sr. PAUL may not pull down what it took the political genius of a iV.turol.r. to set up ? Northumberland has always been a county dangerous to royalty. this, however, were to consider the matter too curiously." For, in thus censuring Sir Homey Sr. Pict., the learned baron appears to hare got hold of the wrong word. A man, though a high sheriff, may be mean, may be shabby, may be economical ; may receive even Baron rt-trr in a dirty carriage, drawn by ill-groomed horses, and attended 'br servants in seedy liveries ; mar have the hardi hood to give him a bad dinner and worse wine; and may hare the cruelty to put a judge of assize into damp sheets, withtiut being in tentionally and of malice prepense disloyal to Queen LURIA : all men not seeing or knowing or caring to recolle:t that Mr. Baron PLATT carries royalty as well as legality about with him on circuit. Our most gracious Sovereign's matronly features do not smile la sweetly through Baron PLATT'S visage (awful to poachers, dreadful to burglars!) as all that. But, no question that Sir HonAcE Sr. PAUL, in treating the learned judge to this reception, com mitted such a breach of good manners, so signally disocgardcsl the usages and the habits of gentlemen when they happen to till the office of high stunt; as very richly to merit a severe rebuke. His loyalty may yet be safe, and his barouetcv also; but breed ing or good manners, or proper feelings, or a sense of self-respect, ho clearly has none. had Sir HORACE ST. PAUL been oppressed by poverty, he might have got himself excused from serv ing the office; but, not having made that excuse, he accepted the office on the same terms as his prede cessors had held it, and any defalcations such as Mr. Baron 11..vrr notimd are attributable to his inso lence rather than his poverty or his disloyalty. And if the high sheriffs, baronets, and squires of Nor thumberland are insolent to the Qt:Evi's judges, what is their treatment of the peasantry and hinds likely to be ? These great landowners boastingly tell us of their services in their counties, of their value as administrators of justice, of their importance ai exemplars of manners and morals. What a com mentary on these pretensions is the conduct of Sir HORACE ST. PAUL FRANCE. PARIS, MONDAY EVENING. Yesterday, after having completely visited the elintemt, and park, and other interesting features of Versailles, the Lord Mayor returned to Paris, where he and the aldermen partook of a private dinner with the Prefect of the Seine. This morning the visitors will inspect some of the most remark able prisons. In the afternoon, the Mayor, as I have previously stated would be the case, was admit ted to a private audience by the President, at St. Cloud, before the public entertainment. To morrow a rplendid rhYetiner will be given at the English embassy in honour of the visitors; and in the evening a grand ball will take place at the Hotel de ills. On Wednesday, after the review, the Mayor will dine with the Minister of Foreign Affairs; and in the evening a choice selection of pieces will be performed at the Opera. On Thursday the party will be entertained at a grand dinner given by the Minister of Commerce. This will be the closing day of the fkes, and on 1 Friday the visitors will return to London. The Ike at St. Cloud is to be prolonged beyond the hour of half-past seven, fixed for its termination, in order to give the representatives an opportunity of being present after the sitting of the Assembly. A considerable number of the English visitors yesterday inscribed their names, or kit their cards, at the Elysee, for tho President of the Republic ; amongst them were Lord Granville, the Lord Mayor, Mr. Nloffatt, M.l'., the lion. Capt. Searlett, Mr. Under-Sheriff Ellis, of London, Aldermen Moon and Wire, the Mayor of Nottingham, fie. Parties are now beginning seriously to occupy themselves in their secret councils with the choice of a candidate for the presidency of the republic. With the exception of the partisans of Louis Napoleon, whose boast it is that his name is the only one that has no need to wait for opportunity, all parties are wonderfully unanimous in this, that nothing would be so perilous to the success of any candidate as the premature declaration of his name. The legitimists, from the difficulty of their position, are less able to resolve upon any positive course of action than other The mass of the party who follow M. Berryer are still determined to fight the battle of revision. In the event of a final defeat on the re vision question they have a settled belief, in spite of M. Berryer's protestations against the unconstitu tional re-election of the President, that the necessary pressure of events will lead to that result. Unless and until any unexpected chance of realizing their hopes in favour of Henry V. should occur, they are disposed to regard the continuance of the present re'itime as the least evil that could befall them. The ultra legitimists, however, proclaim loudly that the re public is better than Bonapartism. They think it folly to shut their eyes to the filet that the revision is impossible, and royalty for the present hopeless. Their journals, of which the Opitinw l' , Wipte is the principal, arc writing vigorously upon the necessity of fixing upon a candidate. The report that the Orleanists will seriously bring forward the Prince de Joinville assumes more probability every day. An article in the Ordee of yesterday, bearing the signature of M. C'hambolle, the representative, states that the moment to take a resolution with respect to the Prince de Joinville has not yet arrived, but that if his candidature should one day appear to present a chance of success, he has no doubt that it will be boldly and openly brought forward. Ile adds that those who pretend that it would be inconsistent with the Prince de Joins-ilk's honour to become a candidate, show a great deal too much zeal. M. Berryees paper, the (Von, of this morning, alluding to the above article, declares it to be a state paper of great importance, bemuse it is signed by a represen tative of the people whose political connection with the most ultra-orleanists is known and admitted. Meanwhile all is activity in the republican camp. The Natimsol of to-day protests with energy, that they will merge all shades of difference, sacrifice all personal predilections. and even vote fur a personal enemy rather than there should be :my division in the republican party. It has for sonic time been rumoured that General Cavaiginte is willing to abandon his pretensions in favour of M. Carnot. It is now said that M. Ledru holden will do the same, and that the recent interview be tween him and M. E. de Girardin turned upon this subject. If this be true, it is not improbable that M. Carnot, who is a respectable man, with a name known to history, personally unobtrusive, and not a main likely to make enemies, may become the favour its republican candidate. In the Assembly to-day the remaining article of the bill relating to the loan of 30,000,000 fr. by the city of Paris for the prolongation of the Rue Rivoli, was adopted, and the bill passed by 417 votes against Is if. The treaty betweeen the city of Paris and the bank of France for the advance by the latter of 23 million francs, in anticipation of the above loan, was also adopted. M. schuelcher then presented the report of the 13th standing com mittee upon the election of M. Waise in the depart ment of the Nord. The committee reported that the proceedings of the election had been regular, but (by a majority of 1G to 13) they recommended that the election should be annulled upon the ground that all the citizens of the department had not been inscribed upon the voting lists. This proposal, which was nothing more nor less than a requisition of the As sembly to vote that their own celebrated law of the Ist of May was illegal, produced an immense sensa tion. 31:Schadclier felt it his duty to declare that the minority of the committee protested against the report. The Assembly voted the previous question, and continued the election of M. NVaisse. l'he bill for establishing a bank at Algiers was then dis cussed, and carried by 532 to 32. The expected dis cussion on the Paris and Lyons Railway did not come on. The report presented on Saturday by M. 0. Bar rot, in the name of the internal administration, re lates to the cantonal councils. The committee has preferred, to the systems presented by the councils of state, that which had been already proposed in 1837, and which recommends that the councils should be composed of all the mayors in each com mune. In such communes as contain a population of above 3,000 souls, one or several supplementary members may be added. For the mode and condi tions of nomination for these delegates the com mittee has adopted the arrangements decided on by the council of state. A speculator at Bordeaux is organising a pleasure trip round the world. Tickets, Is Of. each. The Bourse opened firm to-day ; but, owing to large sales by an influential broker, there was a fall towards the close. The Fives fell 23e. and closed at 93.60. The Threes fell 20c., and closed at .5.20. THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 5, 1851. GERMANY. BERLIN, Aro. 2. The CuLgrrc Gazeite announces that the privi leged landed proprietors of the l'russian pruritic who are really noble, are getting up an agitation among th, ir order to this effect, six.: That the government should be moved to pass a law, that the feudal posse.sions at present pos. sessed by persons not noble should be sold in future to none but noble persons ; aml that none but the nubility, in fact, i should be held capable in future of holding this species of , landed property. But the selling of this property is not, the journal referred to remarks, the only difficulty; the buying of it is a still greater one; for there are few of the nobility who have any superfluous cash. To meet this hindrance however, it is proposed that a fund should be collected to enable the nobility to re-purchase property which has passed out of their hands. Whence is this fund to come? It is not said ; but no doubt contributions to a large amount, should the project take effect, would be expected from the government. Letters from Vienna say that a '. grand consult" was held, which lasted till midnight. at the Ministry of Finances, in that capital, on the 30th ult. The finance operations now in contemplation were the subject of the deliberations. The Minister of Finances, it is said, has determined to postpone a further loan till September. Vie improvement by the rate of exchange is mentioned as his motive. The sum to he raised will at most amount to 100 million florins. Had the loan taken place it would have had but little effect in the money market, as indeed it his been there already anticipated. Under any supposition it could nut have overtopped the 70 millions, and would therefore have hail no tendency to raise the value of paper. Without confidence in the government and in tho uprirlit ness of its intentions, coin, hidden or sent abroad, will not again make its appearance in Austria. But from the cabi net of Vienna nut the slightest step in this direction has been taken ; quite the contrary•. Its power is nevertheless unlimited. SPAIN. MADRID, Jeri' 30. It is thought that M. Dora!, the Minister of Marine, ad interim, will be dismissed from his vote in opposition to his colleagues on the motion of Moyano. CDe eourt. OSBORNE, MONDAY, AVOVST 4. • Her Majesty and Prince Albert, with the Prince or Wales, attended divine service yesterday morning at Whippingham church. The lion. and Rec. P. P. Doucette officiated. There was no addition to the royal dinner party yes terday. The Earl of Clarendon had an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday at his official residence in Downing irtrect. The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Sir Franck Ba ring arrived in town yesterday morning from the Chan nel Islandn. Mr. Macgregor Laird had an interview with Earl Grey yesterday at the Colonial-office. Mr. Vi. Ilannar, of Nottingham, and Mr. A. S. Dy mond (London), had an interview with Mr. Waddington (in the absence of Sir George Grey) at the Home-office yes terday on behalf 01 Sarah Barber, now under sentence of death, for the mortice of her husband, in Notts County Gaol. Despatches were received at the Colonial-office yesterday from the Governor+ of the North American Colonies. Des patches were also received from the Governor of Gibraltar. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the Foreign-office, 1/owning-street. The Ministers present were Lord John Russell, the Lord Chan cellor, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Earl Minto, Viscount l'ulmerston, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Francis Baring, Lord Broughton, and the Earl of Carlisle. The Council sat two hours and a half MEETING OF TEETOTALLERS AT EXETER HALL. A great meeting of teetotallers was held last night in the large room, Exeter Hall. for the purpose of giving a hearty welcome to the teetotallers who might he present from various parts. It had been announced that a select com pany of the celebruted Welsh choristers would sing some of their popular nu Indies . Shortly after the doors were opened, the hall and platform were crowded in every part. Among the company on the platform were the following:— Mr J . S. Buckingham, Mr. Geo. Cruikshank, the ;Rev. W. W. Robinson, Mr. Archibald Livingston, of Gurbals ; Mr. Eli h u Burritt, Mr. Henry W. Cudge, of Cornwall ; Mr. J. Eivesey, of Piston; Mr. George Johnstone, of Edinburgh; Mr. I'. Sinclair, of Edinburgh; the Rev. Amos Dresser, of the United States; Mr. John Cassell, the Rev. R. Fahruham, Mr. King, of Liverpool; Mr. Evan Lloyd, of York, Dr. Oxley, Mr. John Anderson, of Edin burgh, &c. Lawrence Heywortli, Eisq., M.P., was in the chair. A Wel.h melody having teen sung, The CHAIRMAN having addressed the meeting. Mr. GREEN, the secretary, read an address from the committee appointed to conduct the teetotal demonstrations during the Exhibition, to the teetotalers assembled in the metropolis. The following are extracts front it : " While you have indulged a laudable curiosity, and are anxious to behold the wonderful demonstration of liainan skill and industry now made in the Crystal Pulace, we re joice to find that you love nut lost sight of your distinctive character as teetotalers, nor of the obligations which devolve upon you to avow mid to recommend your principles, and to enter your protest against customs unit practices by which men are injured and God is dishonoured. •• • * You are aware, as we are, of the powerful auxiliaries by which the drinking system is upheld. There is the delu sion under which so many are led to believe that the use of intoxicating beverages is essential to health, and strength, 411.11 bodily vigour ; the appetite created by the first taste of these drinks, growing stronger by indulgence till it be comes insatiable; the custom of using strong drinks at ordi nary meals, us signs of hospitality, as rewards for labour, us incentives to extraordinary exertions, as alleviating the dis tress of sorrowful occasions, or u increasing the pleasure of festive meetings, as indispensable at births, at christenings, at marriages, mud at funerals—in making bargains or trans acting mercantile affairs—at the founding of a theatre, a hospital, or a christian temple —at the inauguration of a parish beadle, a railway director, a colonial governor or a minister of ' pure religion and undefiled.' lou have seen, with us, how these 1 . 0011.11 and inconsistent practices beget and perpetuate the drinking customs of a country ; and you have seen, ton, how delusion, appetite, and custom are maintained and strengthened by the example of the more influential portion of the community ; and by the facilities presented by the ntanunicturers and vendors of these de structive drinks. Further, beloved brethren, you have seen aith us how idle are all attempts to check the progress, or to destroy the power of this fearful foe, by anything short of entire abstinence from that which occasions the mischief. You have long ago abandoned all hope of preventing or 'curing drunkenueos, by allowing a moderate use of intoxicating drink. • * • • • • We congratulate you, brethren, that you have resolved, with us, to abandon, totally and for ever, the drinks which, though they are the euntnion beverages of the multitude, and though on occasions they 'give their colour in the cup,' and ' more themselves aright,' yet ' at the last bite like a serpent, and sting like an adder.' • • • From America we have received, from time to time, intelligence which has cheered our hearts and strengthened our hands. Throughout the United States, and in British Canada, we have been given to understand that there is a growing feeling in favour of total abstinence; that in almost every state there has been a strong expression of feeling iu refer ems: to the licensing system ; sod that that system, together li with the traffic in intoxicating drinks, has been solemnly denounced by many large bodies as immoral, and as highly subversive of the welfare of the community. We have' been assured, further, that in some parts prohibitory sta tutes have been passed, and drinking places broken up as nuisances; that in others Sunday liquor traffic is made a criminal offence ; while in other places the authorities have forbidden all sales to be drunk on the premises. We rejoice to hear, also, that in some large ships of war ninety men in a hundred refuse the accustomed rations of grog; that merchant ship., whalers, and coasters, nearly all sail on temperance principles ; and that, as the result, few ship wreese happen, disorder is unknown, and a million dollars are deposited in the Seamen's Savings Bank in New York. The accounts continually received from other parts of the globe' are equally encouraging. • • a In our own be loved country the principle of total abstinence is gaining ground. The fashion of using intoxicating drinks upon all occasions is by no means so prevalent us in former years. Several of the drinking customs, especially those of the upper classes. arc wholly abolished. The teetotal practice is adopted by many individuals, so that ou public occasions the decanter moves slowly and hefts ily along, and few are reproached, or even bantered, on account of their absti nence. Hundreds are now ready to acknowledge that absti nence may be practised without serious injury, if not with considerable benefit. • • • The connexion between the success of the temperance movement and that of other important movements—political, benevolent, and religious—is now beginning to be clearly understood; and hence the originator. and promoters of those other move musts hid us God speed!' while not a few of them have joined our ranks from motives of policy, as well as for the sake of their own individual bcnefit. • • • If our object be great and momentous, have we not, also, abundant encouragements to aim at its accomplishment: Four of the At this choristers then sang, in the native language of the principality, a song composed by the choir, to the great delight of the audience. Mr. HUDSON, of Bristol, considered that meeting a fine 1 specimen of what the I reekly Dispatch denominated "teetotal foolery." (" Hear" and cheers.) The editor of that paper would have some difficulty in getting together amongst his readers such a east and magnificent assembly. As the secre tary to the conference hold in connexion with those proceed- , ings, lie had to express the sense entertained of the kindly and fraternal feelings which had been already enunciated. There was no language sufficient to express the depth of his own fedings on that occasion. If these gatherings were productive of no other good effect, they might well inspire hope for the future. The parliamentary inquiry instituted by the chairman was the foundation of future progress. Let ! them all dedicate themselves to the eff o rt to bring about as speedily as possible "the good time coming." (Cheers.) Dr. LEES, of Leeds, said the temperance qbeation was a social and political, a religious and a dietetic clues than; it was the most important question of universal edu cation that could be brought before the human mind. Medical men, political teachers, eminent statesmen, and persons who professed to teach the people philosophy, had ' insisted again and again that temperance was one thing and total abstinence another. If these parties only understood the history of the doctrine of temperance, they would not argue as they did. The great f oun d er o f l ogi c, Ari s totle, defined temperance in his day exactly as teetotaller did now. Ile said that temperance was proper self-govern ment; the right control of the natural faculties of the mind, and the right use of things essential to health. Ilene, then, arose the question, were intoxicating drinks essential to health? Ilad they any distinct evidence that such drinks could be legitimately employed as beverages by the human race (" Hear, hear," and cheers.) Another great moralist of antiquity, Plutarch, declared that tempt ranee was the right control of all our actions, modelatiou in those which were in themselves good, and a total abandon ment of those which were foolish and unnatural. lie ap pealed to the shades of these writers, he appealed to that audience, whether facts .hewed the use of tt ese beverages to be consistent with the longest possible duration of human lice. (Rear, hear.) Temperance was an affair of the soul, not a matter of weight and measure ; and the right use of all things virtually included total abstinence from things which were bad, unfit, or unnecessary. (Ilear ,hcar.) Mr. T. WHITTAKER next addressed the meeting, and in doing so informed the audience that on the platform was the first man who signed the teetotal pledge,—Mr. King. (Immense cheering was elicited by this statement, and Mr. King came in front of the platform, and exhibited himself to the assembly, amid a shout of " God save the King." His teetotal Majesty was • hale-looking gentleman, in the : autumnal period of life.) A collection was then made; and it was announced that the teetotallers would assemble in Hyde Park early on the following morning, and that, by favour of the Royal com missioners the Exhibition wo u ld b e thrown open to them at half-pa st nine. There were several other amusements cennec.ed with the ensuing teetotal festivities. In con nexion with the notice of the meeting at the Surrey Zoo logical Gardens on Wednesday, the assembly received with rapture the announcement that all the animals in that cele brated resort were teetotallers! Mr. JOHN ANDREWS, of Leeds, called upon the workmen of England to do all that lay in their power to abolish the use of strong drinks in their own immediate spheres. JAMES SILK BUCKINGHAM, Esq., came forward amidst loud cheers, and tendered his acknowledgments for such ft reception. Ile had spoken so often on the subject, not only in this kingdom, but in other parts of the world, that he had nothing new to say, but he could testify that no change had taken place in hie sentiments or practice, and his experience was so strongly in favour of the practice which he had adopted, that nothing would induce him to change it. If teetotalism was, as it had been charged to be, a movement of one idea, he was quite willing to adopt it, for its object was to make men happy. The object of temperance was to keep the body in a proper and healthy 'Lite, and could anything be more laudahh• than that, and state ? He would wish the power of licensing !public houses to be placed, as in America, in the hands of the municipality, where, when the people adopted temperance principles, they would prevent the licensing of houses fur the sale of intoxicating liquors. Many t.,wns in America had no licensed houses, and in Plymouth, where the Pilgrim Fathers first landed, there was not one licensed house, and the consequence wax there was not one prisoner in its gaol, not one beggar in the town, and not one child of upwards of four years old but what could read. The Royal Commissioners had granted permission fur the teetotallers to enter the Exhibition to-morrow morn ing (this day) half-an-hour before the usual time, which would not be granted to publicans and drunkards. There was a great difficulty in getting the richer classes to adopt the principles of teetotalism, tur they would not read the small tract, and they had therefore prepared a neat little volume for distribution, and the Royal Commissioners have allowed the clerks of the Exhibition to address a copy to each exhibitor, and he hoped that the aced thus sown would spring up into fruit. The speaker then sat down amidst great cheers. Mr. PETER SINCLAIR, of Edinburgh—His position at home was an humble one, but he was emboldened to stand forth in behalf of the millions of the little ones of the land; lie did so heartily, from the firm cone:clip,' that pre vention is better than cure; his province at home was among the young of his native town ; without disparaging the adult movement, he urged the necessity of teaching the young the way in which they should go. It was a common thing in Scotland to find the Bible on one side of the table, and the whiskey bottle on the other, the effects of the hitter frustrated the design of the former, and was the cause of the wretchedness of Scotland. Other speakers having addressed the meeting, Mr. ELIIIU BUItIIITT regretted that he was unable from fatigue to make a long speech ; lie had been a teeto taller for more than 20 years, and urged the necessity of en tire pencverance in the good cause. Mr. PREUBLE moved a vote of thanks to the chairman, which was seconded by Mr. Gut mists, who in the course of his speech alluded to the essential service whirls the Daily News had always rendered to the teetotal cause. The chairman neat acknowledged the vote of thanks, and the meeting separatvil during the singing of the national anthem in the Welsh language, by the Welsh choristers, 146 in number. TEMPERANCE CONVENTION.—A Conference of the Temperance Reformers took place at the literary Institu tion, Alder:gate-street, on Thursday and Friday. A large number of delegates were present front various parts of Eng land, Scotland, and America. Samuel Donley, Esq., of Gloucester, was chosen president, and discharged the duties of oilier with much Ability. The first day's sitting was devoted to the hearing of reports on the present condition and future prospects of the temperance movement. These reports seemed to inspire courage and confidence as to the ultimate success of the objects contemplated by the conven tion. During the day animated addresses were delivered by the chairman, by Mr. Alderman Beaumont (Bradford), J. S. Buckingham, Esq., Dr. Pettit (America), Joseph Sturge, Esq. (Birmingham), Rev. W. M.Kerrow (Man chester), and other well-known advocates. The Conference at its re-assembling on Friday proceeded to hear pipers from Mr. Thomas Beggs, John Dunlop, Esq., ltev. Dr. Burns, Dr. Mudge and the Rev. W. Forster of Kentish Town. A series o f founded upon these proposi tions led to n spirited discussion. Thanks were voted to the chairman and to the committee for conducting the "'Tem perance Demonstration," which were suitably acknow . . lodged. The greaten unanimity of feeling prevailed throughout the entire proceedingx. ACCIDENTS FROM MACIIINERY.—A question of some importance to factory workers, and one which has not before been raised, has just been decided by the magistrates of Leeds. Mr. W. Hill, se flax spinner, had been summoned, on the information of Mr. Baker, sub-inspector of factories, for having, after notice to fence off certain machinery in his mill required to he fenced otf, neglected to do so, in conse nence of which neglect, the information alleged, Mary Freeman, a girl 17 or 18 years of age, received a severe la cerated wound on one of her hands. The accident happened on the 16th ult. The summons was issued under the 60th section of the 7th and Nth Victoria. chap. 15, which enacts, " that if any person shall suffer any bodily injury in con sequence of the occupier of a factory having neglected to fence any part of the machinery of which he shall Isere re ceived nonce from the inspector that the same was deemed to be dangerous, the occupier of such factory shall pay a penalty of not less than 101. and not more than 100/." The facts proved were that the notice, which was a general one, applicable to all flax machinery in the mill, was giros by the inspector on the 11th of February last, but the particular machine at which the accident occurred was not then on the premises, and was not brought into the mill until the 22nd of March ; and the question for decision was, whether the notice was valid under the 13rd -t diem of the act, as applied to a machine not existing in the mill at the time it was given. The magistrates held that the notice must be one founded on the inspector's own observation of the existing machinery ia the mill, and that it was never meant by the legislature in passing the act of parliament, that machinery brought into a mill at some future time should be covered by a general notice previously given. They therefore demis,ed the summons, but in doing so Mr. J. 11. Shaw said, the case was one in which the occupier of the mill was clearly bound, probably by law, but cer tainly in point of morality, to take care that such corn peasation as money could make should be made to the unfortunate girl for the injury she nail suffered, which might, to sonic extent, render her a cripple for life. The unfortunate people who were subject to accidents of this kinewere not left without any redress, although the matter might nut be within the net of parliament. The Secretary of State, upon the report of the sub-inspector, might order an action to be brought to recover compensa tion; but the magistrates trusted that the feeling of Mr. Hill would induce him to do that justice to the girl which would render an application to the Secretary of State wholly unnecessary. Mr. Hill said he had already ordered his foreman to pay the girl's wages, and her case, under the treatment of the surgeons at the Leeds General Infirmary, had taken a favourable turn. BRITANNIA BRIDGE.—TITE 110N , :TER HOTEL.— The works for the erection of the Monster Hotel, in con nexion with the Britannia Bridge, are to be suspended for the present, the shareholders of the line being, it is said, in di-posed to sanction the expenditure of so large a sum of money in connexion with the railway. Messrs. Holmes have contracted for the erection at a cost of 120,000 f. The pleasure grounds, however, are to be proceeded with. SINGCLAR AND FATAL. AectnENT.—An inquest was held on the 2Sth ult at the Churchill Arms Inn, Finstock, near Charlbury, on view of the body of Maria Low, the wile of Thomas Low, aged forty-three years. Deceased, for the last two years, has lived apart from her husband with a man named Philip Akers; and on Sunday last came by her death under the following circumstances :—Akers, about a quarter past three o'clock on Sunday morning, loaded his gun, and left it in the corner of the house with the cap on the nipple. About one o'clock deceased, with Akers and sue or two more, sat el,wn to din ner. Alter they had dune, deceased began sweeping the house ; and when she came to the corner where the gun was placed she requested Akers to take it to pieces fur fear of an accident ; he accordingly did so, and she took the stock and barrel from him and threw them into the oven. The gun went otf immediately, and unfortunately shot her in the higher part of the abdomen. It was supposed that the cip must have hit against the bricks. She staggered for a few moments, and tried to speak, but could not, and fell on the chair and died. The whole charge of shots lodged in her body. If the gun had missed the deceased, there is no doubt that it would have killed one of the others, as they were sitting in a straight line behind her. The jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death."—Orford Journal. ALARMING FIRE AT MANCIIEoTEIL—On Sunday evening tome of the most valuable warehouse property in Manchester narrowly escaped destruction. About five o'clock smoke was discovered issuing from the top rooms of the warehouse of Messrs. henry Bannerman and Sons, George street, and notice having been conveyed to Mr. Thos. hose, superintendent of the fire brigade, two engines were quickly gut into play, and, after an hour's vigorous exertion, the times were reduced, with a loss only of 3,0001. to 4,000/. Messrs. Bannerman are general Manchester merchants, and their stuck includes woollen, silk, and cotton goods of the most costly description, so that, had the fire got much a-head when discovered, the loss would have been immense, as the warehouses of Messrs. Wright and Lee, Messrs. Pot ter and Norris, and others, would have probably shared the same fate. The stock of Messrs. Bannerman is insured in 17 different offices, to the extent of 120,000/., and the entire property placed in jeopardy is perhaps worth little less than 400,000/. The cause of the fire is supposed to have been spontaneous combustion—a quantity of tailors' measuring tapes, made of cotton well saturated with linseed oil, deli vered from the manufactory on .Ssiturday night, being the first things apparently on fire. These had been placed in the top story, and had been smouldering and burning some hours, it is supposed, before the smoke issuing from the premises attracted attention. IRELAND. Dratax, Are. 4. Lord Arundel left Limerick on Friday evening after his election, and proceeded to Tarvoe, the seat of Mr. Monsen, M.P. lie leaves for London imme diately, for the purpose of taking his seat before the prorogation. ?dr. Russell, the unsuettssful candi date, has proceeded to London, for the purpose of attending the obsequies of a relative who has be queathed to him a large legacy. The limerick ekr , micie contradicts the statement that Archdeacon K►eatinge and two other protestant clergymen had volunteered their support to Lord Arundel. A meeting was held in Galway on Wednesday last, convened by the High Sheriff s o f b o th the . county and the town of Galway, for the purpose of expressing disapprobation o f th e re p or t o f th e Packet Station Commissioners. The county High Sheriff took the chair, and among those who addressed the meeting were Mr. A. O'Flaherty, M.P., Mr. Blake, M.P., and Sir T. Burke, M.P. A public dinner is to be given in Galway to-day to Mr. O'Flaherty, M.P., and Mr. Keogh, M.P. The Freeman contains the hollowing in reference to the recent arrangement introduced on the Chester and Holyhead Railway, for return tickets between Dublin and London, &e. The new arrangement of the Chester and Holyhead and City of Dublin Companies for the conveyance of passengers appearw to give general satisfaction, and is likely to he very extensively mule use of. It can hardly lw expected that all the details could be quite complete : hut we understand it is probable the plan will be still further brought to bear, so that a passenger will even be nine to book from London to Galway (Mr. linger, the secretary to the Holyhead (om pany is at present at the latter place), which may then be reached hi 17 or 1$ hours (or lees) from London. Charles Maturin, Esq., has been appointed crown prosecutor for the county and city of Derry. in room of the late lamented John Sehottles, Esq., Q.C. ' THE SLAVE iltADE.—By the 6, screw steam sloop, Commander TII.4IIUS 11. Lysaght, arrived at Spithead yesterday, from the coast of Africa, we leant that the slave trade was very depressed, no capture having been made for some time past by the African squadron. At some of the previously chief haunts of the trade, such as Paul de Loanda, the slave merchants are little better than bankrupts, from the inability to run car goes undetected by our cruiser.. Very . much of this healthy state of things is also represented to rinse from the energetic measures taken at the Brants, by which it is almost im possible to hod slaves with safety should they reach that coast. The wits put in commission for the coast in July, 1819; she has LIKVII $ slave vessels and 3 boats , but no slaves on hoard an y of them with the exeeption 41) slave children found in one boat. The Phirnis has bail very fair health ; she has lost by death 7 men, -I in the Bights, one at Ascension, and two on the South Coast. Mr. Templar, a midshipman, had died, and Dr. Roberts, who was invalided home on board a Greenock ship, died in a few days alter going on board. Mr. Ball, gunner of the Pluenix, a petty officer, a sailor, and a Kronen, were lost tngether, under peculiar and distressing circumstances, eleven months since. The cutter had hoarded a slave boat at night up the Congo River, there being some 50 slaves in the boat, and these four were put on board to bring her down. They parted company with the cutter, and were never alter beard of. The people belonging to the Phenix were subsequently informed that all four had been thrown overboard. The lffinatix has brought home invalids bout the squadron, which have been brought on shore by the Sprightly, the Phienix . going round this afternoon to Woolwich to be paid eT. I..tmENTAntE SUICIDE AT BEDMINSTER, NEAR coroner's inquest was held yesterday at Bed minster, near Bristol, to inquire into the rause of death of Captain Frank Candy, who resided at a villa on the Cum berianiaroad, and who lied by his own hand on Saturday morning. Mr. Candy, who was about 40 years of age, had animated some property, and hail invested a portion of his means as a partner in the business of a wholesale cheese monger. It is supposed that the excitement consequent upon the carrying on of a large and pushing trade was too much for him, as it was observed by his friends that his nervous system was affected, and a few months since while taking a walk one day, was wired with a lit. and fell down in the street. In consequence of the impaired state of his nerves, lie retinal a short time side from the cheese trade, his place being sup plied by his son. Those who load the acquaintance of Cu( tarn Cantle, who was very much respected in the neigh hourhood ;n which be resided, had noticed a change in his manners, and one lady from Cornwall, who arrived about a week since to spend a little tine with Mrs. Candy, was so struck by, his altered manners, that she could not refrain from stating to his hinoily her impression that his mind was affected. ;although this impression was produced by the conduct of the unfortunate gentleman, it would not appear that :my violence was apprehended from him, either towards himself or any one else, nor had anythiug been noticed in him for the few days prior to his death to warrant the belief that his malady was greater than heretofore. Ile retired to rest on Friday night at the usual hour arcompanied by his lady, and at 7 o'clock on Saturday, which was his usual time for rising, he got up, and began dressing himself as usual. Mrs. Candy hollowed, and, having made her morn ing toilet, she went down stain, for the purpose of suocriu tending the preparations har the family briakeost. Captain Candy remained in his rom, which was nut unusual for him to do, and no apprehensions were felt until about half past 7 o'clock, when one of the servants, who was engaged in some domestic offices in a room underneath his bed chamber, was greatly alarmed by hearing a loud report fol lowed by the falling of sonic heavy substance on the ground. The girl at once called to her mistress, and they both hastened us rapidly as they could to the bedroom, where their fears were increased by finding the chamber tilled with the smoke of gunpowder. They gave an alarm, and attracted by their cries Mr. Sleemem, a merchant who resided next dour, and the holy before spoken of as visiting at the house, and some other neighbours ran to their assistance. On first entering the room nothing of the unfortunate gentleman could he seen, but in a minute or two his legs were seen protruding front under the side of the bedstead, beneath which his body lay. There were stains of blood visible upon the floor, and on pulling out the body it was hound to he quite dead, and covered with blood from a terrible wound of the head. The skull on the right side had been shockingly mangled by a pistol bullet, which had probably been tired through the mouth; and underneath the body was found the pistol with which the fatal act had been committed. It was an old-fashioned pocket pistol, which in his lifetime hail been much valued by the deceased, it being one which he had carried at sea with him in some of his earlier voyages. Several witnesses were called, who deposed to the foregoing facts, and the coroner having carefully summed up tae evideuce, the jury returned a verdict of "Temporary insanity." SOUTII DEVON RAILAVAI.—The report of the di rectors to be submitted to the shareholders of this company on the lath inst. states that the bill for the arrangement of the capital has received the royal assent, and the difficulties with regard to the debenture debt have been completely surmounted. The overdue debeutures were renewed or paid oil immediately after the bill passed the House of Commons, and the debentures becoming due in the present month are now in course of renewal at the rate of 41 per cent. Dependent un the adoption of the scheme for com mutation of the guarantee on the preference shares, the directors intend to recommend the immediate payment of the first halhyear's dividend e.t the rate of has. 9.1. per share per annum from the lat:o of September, ISaO, to the lath of Mundt, Baal. This will require the sum of 4,01a5a. Tu sanction this arranamiient it will roe necessary to have the assent of fouraittlis of the holders of each class of shares represented at the inciting, and a poll . will consequently be taken to ascertain the opinions of the shareholders un the subject. The scheme fur commutation of the guarantee attached to the preference half-shares is to the effect that mock half--sham of 2-51. shall he entitled to a fixed dividend in perpetuity, at the rate of IN. Pd. per half share per annum, to be payable half yearly, in absolute priority to all over dividends, save only the dividends on any share or stock to he created in substi tution for the existing mortgage and bond debt, which shares or stock will continue to have the priority now at taching to the mortgage and bond debt over all other shares or stock. That such substituted guarantee shall take effect from the lath of September, 18;10, and Le pad halt yearly, • and;; hall be received us a full equivaleut fur all arrears and future payments of interest originally guaranteed on the 25L shares, and in satisfaction of all further claims thereon up to the lath of March, ltea7 ; but, in case the surplus net revenue shall permit a dividend to be made in respect of the a% shares exceeding six per cent. per annum, the com mutatian now effected shall not exclude the holders of the 241 shares from participation in the surplus rateably with the holder of the 50/. shares. That from and after the 15th of March 184, the holders of the half shares (oil.) shag, in addition to the fixed dividend of !Us. Jul. per share per annum, be entitled to the same- rate of disielend per cent, as that which may be from time to time declared in respect of the (a 01.) whole shares. SALMON FIsIIERY IN THE TIIAMES.—This was once of great importance to the inhabitants of the villages upon the banks of the Thames, who appear to have had each their assigned bonds for their fishery. In the Church warden's hook of Wandsworth, nutter data 1550, is the following entry :—" M.D. that this )'ere in comer the &h -inge Rome of Wandesworhe was by certen of Putney de nyed, and long ante before my L. Mayor of London con tinued, and at the last, amen-Wage to Right, restored by the Lord Mayor and the Councell of London. And in this earner the tyashers of Wandesworthe coulee betweene alou day and Saturday seven score samosa in the 6.11/1e fishmae, to the gret honor of Owl" I have heard my mother say that Thames salmon was plentiful when she was a young woman, and that it was the most esteemed of any. She died recently, aged eighty-nine—From .Notes and Queries. VICTORIA-STREET MADE A PUBLIC ROAM—Yes terday, contrary to allexpectation, Victoria-street has been opened for carriages as well as loot passengers, although it was generally understood the litter would not ba allowed to pass through until after the public opening by the Earl of Carlisle, the Earl of Shafteshurv, and the commissioners, on Wednesday next. During tile whole of Sunday the street was crowded with foot passengers. This great thoroughfare so much shortens the distance between West minster-abbey and Pimlico, Grosvenor-place, and the parts adjacent, that several omnibuses h ire already passed through to and from those places, notwithstanding the roughness of the carriage -road.. SPORTING. _ . TATFERSA _ .... ..... The circle, as well as tut subscription rooin, was thronged for seseral hours, but PO much tint• was taken up with the Goodwood settling, that very little bovine—s was transacted on future events. Apart from paying and receiving,- the only " feature " was the appearance of a new favourite for the St. Leger in the pv Nun of ►lothorpe, a mend/el of the Dancbury lot. The outlay on him was by no means ex tensive. Closing .... __..... srm: ES. 9 to 2 apt Colonel Anwe's /Weaklier. 3to Mr. Swoon's Nand/our. 3to Mr. alhittola West*, 7to Mr. rafters Ce, sack (t furl}) 9to Lord Widerford'. 1.61,1 Ceorre (t) to to Lord Strethrodree Ingvtitode 10 to Mr. It 011reea Hr Itme.and Trenchant Sr. LEGER. 7 to at Lord Fuer( 'a Vernon/11r (take 2 to I) 9to Mr. 11. Itothorpe (t) 10 to —83 r Hawley's Aphrodite GREAT YORKSHIRE STAKES. 7 to apt Mr. ,n's Nancy 4 to . - Mr. Wilkinson's Neaaham 10 to opt Lord John kat** Hobby Noble (t) 40 to Mr. T. Sootier Tree/niter (t) BItIGHT()N It.kCES. The following str;il;;;MnMatiUtte 1;r the stakes which had closed up to Saturiny night. REDNEsoAY. PAVILION STAILLA for 2-yr olds. T.Y.C. Sulky, Tho Carrier, Freedom, Hampton, Lassitude. IllinaliToN STAKES of 2.i says. each, 10 ft, and 5 only if declared, with 230 added. Old Course. Cossack, aged, 814 131 h; Lmulgrace, 5 yrs, Sat 41b; Fitsford, t vrs, B.t 31h; Backbiter (including 711) extra), 6 yr*, $4 Monte., 6 yrs, 7et 91b ; Montague (including 511) extra), 5 yrs. ist 91h; Officious, 4 yrs, Ist 711,; Weston. (including lib extra), 5 yrs, Tat 71h; Glen Sadden, 6 . yrs, ist .01); Champion, yrs, 7.t Ilb ; Woodlark, 5 yrs, )st ; Dulcet, aged, 7.t; Ab dallab, 4 yn, 7st ; Lnrd George, 6 yr*, Est 1311): Valentine, 4 yrs, fist 101 b; Gillyflower, 4 yre, tlst 1016 ; (Edipus, 3 yrs. Celt 916; The lleriot, 3 yrs, 6.1 9111; Nareisms, 4 yrs, bat 4th; Cnams, 3 yrs, Est 21b; Aristocrat, 4 yr., fist; Sir Rowland Trenchard, 3 yrs, Erst 12th ; Sunrise, 3 yrs. lot 121 b; Falcn, 4 yrs, 5M 1216; Ringleader, 3 yrs, 34 10th; Cornelius, 3 yrs, sst 1016 ; Grand Duke, :1 yre, 3st 10th; Norton, 3 yrs, 3st 71b; N snitch Girl, 3 ync, 3st 416 ; Letter press, 3 yr., 41b ; Tilsit, .3 yrs, ; 3 yrs, dot ; Ingratitude, 3 yr*, 4st 101 b. The rest pay sine. each. Tituasi MAY. MARINE STAVES of 20 sots. each, h ft. T.Y.C. Tho Cartier, Dorothea, Ilarhingcr, )Iniflstone, Songster, llir- Bata Freedom, Chaffinch, Iby Slane out. of Pe(pine, by Lanercost out of Flash of Lightning, Lord of the Manor. Bittnitrox Cur of 100 'toes., added to a sweepstake of 10 sots. each. The Uhl Course.—Nuteracker, 4 yr, ; The Ile riot, 3 ers ; Ninus, 4 yrs ; Coryphre, 3 yes ; M. Rosalie, 5 yrs ; Manufacturer ' 4 yrs ; Lantlgruve, J yea ; t 1 ifimn the Comtentr, 4 yrs ; Fitsfind, 4 yrs. °ILAN u STAND PLATG of 100 SOTS, added to a handicap sweelmake of 10 sore. each ; h ft fur 3 yin old and up wards. The New Course.—Uarforth. 4 yrs ; Due and Dur ra4, 6 vrs ; Aristocrat, 4 yea ; Retail, 4 yrs ; Cheerful, 4 pw ; Mrs. Taft, 6 yrs ; Harp, .1 yin ; Ingratitude, 3 yrs ; Land grave, 5 yrs , Beebee Ilunnoo, d yrs ; Remunerator, 4 yr, ; Cumus, 3 yes ' • Ischia, 3 y•rs Westow 4 yea. 11141014 TO.); ieAck:s. _ _ The undermi mimed stakes closed on Saturday night: Illtl.:111T..N CM t. ST.lk Es (hau.lkap) uf 10 ',ins each, h ft, and $0 added. New course.—GartOrth,l. yrs ; Sear borough, 4 yrs ' • Mrs. Taft, aged ; Lady Francis, 6 yrs ; Ilarp, 3 yrs ; Estafette, 4 yrs • Westow, ~ yrs : .tgis, 6 yrs; Due an Darras, 6 yrs : Cheerful, 5 yes ; liaruntss, yes ; Remunerator, 4 yrs : Stockbridge Ruck, 4 yrs ; Fuulenuan, 6 yes ; Cogia, yes ; CiltPliS 3 yrs; Aristocrat, 4 yrs. CLARET Stint% of some (haudicap), anti all added. Z; yes : The Squaw, 3yrs ; Scarhorough, 4 yrs ° • Scarlet Runner . , 3 yes ; Kaught of the Thistle, 3 yes ; Stockbridge Buck, 4 yes ; Due an Darras, 6 yrs ; Harp, 3 ; Forest Flower, 6 yrs; Shropshire Witch, 6 yes ; Falcon, 4 yrs ; Sagacity, aged ; Rakish's, 3 yrs ; Fo gleman, 6 yrs ; Alicia, S yrs. Up to Monday tuoriong the following horses had ar rived :—Lord George, Duc-an-Durras, Catalpa, llcrehe!, Tilsit, Fifty-one, Sir Rowland Trenehard, Chatterer, Ethclwolf, I , lda, Falcon, Champion, Gillyflower, Upton, Freedom, Glen Saddcl. Cniew, backbiter, Verjury (late Palatka). n 30 and 40 inure are raid to lie on their way. (WICKET. ETON WINCHESTER. This match wa , reamed yesterday. At the elo-e of the dry the seure etuod as follows: Woo-rearra. Mr. E. Llparomew, b Tel Mi . :U Ilwo. W. Ft. nib., bll 3V! ... ...... S ibw, b Keay Mr. G. Fuller, Ibw, b hoar, Mr. t. FiAber, b Ilnarc Mr. I:. Bennett, b Mare l4 b llture Mr. E. Tres:llan, b Tniu!ett ...... 7 b Brown Mr. P. Ilrodle, b Ma,. Mr. E. Grant, b Ilware Mr. T. rode, but not Mr. T. Stonhouw, b 11‘mte . ... 4 awl out M r.J. thll.tl, It Iteq Lb, 1 ; w,7 n (I.lftt. Mr. T. Tretaktt, L rst lawn ... Mr. IL U uc, a Worwtt, b b Ft.l:er Mr. A. Wigrata, ki..totte. . Mr. J. B. Storey, b 100010 e Mr. T. Keay, b Fuller Mr. C. Ma .ckeray, b StnuroAve 10 Mr. A. C.Aleridgc, c 111, tlte. b Mr. G. Duluspi, b lu.nnr. Mr. D. 11x_ ur, not out 9 Mr. A. 11. Younger, run oat 9 17, 7 ; 1 4, I ; w,3 Y 9 The match was re,,ttnittl th THE GIMAT EXIIIBITION.—The number of SCaN3II tickets disposed of yesterday realised 221. The money talon at the doors from the other visitor. amounted to :3,irsit. making a total receipt of 3,0'181. ltis. The police return makes the number of visitors 62,631. THE BARON DE WRENNOw lea Ashburnham-houqo yesterday kir St. Pt tersburgh, atter having repremented itusvia at this court during twelve years. He is exineteil to return in October next. CHARGEABLE LETIERS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM. —The estimated number of letters, as appear+ from an nth , eial return yesterday printed, &livered as " chargeable " was last year, 347,1;09,071. DIE MONEY ORDER DEPARTMENT OF TUE POWP OFFICE.—YeSICIday was printed a return to the House of Commons, from which it appears that in the year ended the 31st of December last there were 4,43'J,713 money orders i,sued in the United Kingdom, and the amount was 8,191,190/. 10s. 7d. The number paid wa, 1,131,234, and the amount paid was 8, , 183,0441. Is. M., leucit.; a large sum unpaid of the handier issued. The expenws of the department were last year 70,577/., and the euiniois.sien was 73,8131. on the orders. . EglGE3,l4olAxiltitt. SOCIETY.—Last evening the ordinary monthly meeting of the members of this society took place at the offices of the Royal Medical and Chirur gicul Society, in Demers-street, Oxford-street, fir. Raking tun, president of the institution, in the chair. Some routine business having been gone through, the secretary delivered a lecture, by Mr. Grove, upon the subject of epidemics. It commenced with a quotation from the works of the Rev. Sydney Smith, that words are an innasing barrier to the reception of truth." This observation the lecturer ap plied to miasmata, mephitic vapours . , morbid 'miaow; ' and their synonyms; and lie remarked that they were wor ds in common use, hut that they conveyed no definite meaning to the mind. The object of his communication was to chow that the pawns inducing epidemic, endemic, and in fectious diseases must be ranked among the things en dossed with life. lie argued this the faculty of reprialue ' thin was a distinctive mark between animation and me elninisul, or between living and inanimate mutter ; that it Was during the reproductive period of existence that the ' most energetic operations of the vital force were lanais febtel, and that it was during the reproduction of the poison germs within the body that the three of diseased action called for particular notice. Ile then drew attention to the tact that whether we examine an epidemic or infectious disease of plants, of animals, or of man, it would be found that the essence of the disease is a something which has the power of reproducing its species. Taking, then, this faculty of reproduction as indicative of the existence of a germ, the author elassed the agents of disease among hying thinsoi, and regarded reproduction as the primary low. lie then argued that, if this were a correct interpretation of nature, the germs of disease ought to acknowledge obedience MOM same subsidiary laws, w hich regulate or influence animate existences. Me divided these laws into the objective and subjective, the former referring to faculties or properties inherent in the germs, the latter referring to the action of external agents and influences upon them. The application of these laws to the agents of disease was demonstrated. and their analogies traced in the vegetable and animal kingdom. The lecturer further showed that, upon this mode of explaining the phenomena of infectious diseases little else was required to wire some of the most difficult problems connacted with them, Mr. Grove then pointed out the impossibility of accounting fur epidemics and infection upon the chemical basis, seeing that in no pun ly chemical process was there any 4 multiplication of the agents, and that, us far as the physical • forces were concerned, one always increase,: at the expense of the other, as heat increased by the chemical change taxing Mace in combustible bodies. The lecturer concluded by drawing attention to the Registrar-General's Return of Deaths for the year Ina, by which it appeared that as 97,924 deaths were due to epidemic, endemic ' and infectious diseases, nearly one-fourth of the total mortality was attri butable to came" especially demanding the attention of this society; but, if they were allowed to include the deaths from consumption, one-third of the total mortality would be fouud to arise from tho causes under consideration, as the Panthers would then stand at 1a,241, the total being 453,723. A short diwunfion ensued, in which Dr. nilvester, Mr. Charles Cochrane, Dr. M'Willium, and Mr. Tucker, . took part; and a vote of thanks was limped to Mr. Grove. The meeting then separated. doern e eti A .o tt rtd D ,- I s ni rr .u. eoertit, . 1 1 . g, i u s rpa h tui ll p..e .t r W ..i. lit r- t_ e tt , F la. i is t t. :N G ; — ..., A p.. co i rrec ng ,dpounns ablnutro9uon'deloc. K k, e l ll and on inquiry I found that Cardinal Wiseman was preaclaiug from a platform in the open air. The court (through which there is a thorough wll.l4:lllZirltlilliSedif ay) i fare into Duke-street) was illuminated mid filled with Irish. Alter waiting t :2 . see a ( great M ond scowl v a c, assem bled street, to a carriage which was waiting for hint, attended by boys andmen wearing white surplices and bearing lighted some little while, the Cardinal came into the candles, banners, and also an immense crogifix, There wcxgi " . • a great many politic standing around, but . . . none attempted to interfere with this illegal procession. "1?1 r: S :A.: • CA P '-1,.