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1 Ii; mad seen it safe there headel up a few months ago. • idle win e was the property of Haveland John Adding . h 0 , 1 , 1 ; 3( 1., nephew to Lord Sidmcutb, who had left it in - 4 eePing. I n consequence of information received on 0 1, 0 e I day last, sh e examined the cask in presence of a police 1., de, and found it contained no more than 7 bottles. ilea. the c onsta b le had frequently put it to the rdfendant Bicknell, whether she knew where the wine gone to, and said she must answer, she told him she 1 . 841 given her brother-in-law, William Cripps, eight kettle;ottles the night before, and the night previous two s, (Tatton), in addition to two given him by the cook Louisa Mould saw, on Wednesday night last, the IA- T!pner Tatton drunk, an d on the Thursday t following heerisoner Cripp s i n the back kitchen at the wine tub - Prisoner Bicknell was giving him bottles, which ap t eared to he full, out of the tub. ;,.Zile the police-constables w h o t oo k th e p r i soners corrobo evidenced of the prosecutrix. Mr. Robi nson, for Tatton, submitted that there was no evidence on which she could be committed. hl r. ARDWICK said it was slight, but he should ' 4 it to a jury ; and accordingly committed them for trial, but said he would admit them to bail on finding tWo leaseholders' sureties in 50/., for each of the three Prisoners. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE . nituMBIARKET SECOND OC TOBER MEETING. TUESDAY monr. Cottr a ccounts forwarded from the Heath, we were c '"' to confine ourselves to an official return of the . !Illa,arewitch and the betting. We now give a few path rs of the race, premising that, from the immense number Y starters, we cannot go so fully into detail as its importance ;unitneres. It was fixed for three o'clock, and within a few es of that time an admirable start was effected at the a t l s s t signal. Giantess and Plantagenet were the first to show ' , sod, and by them the running was made at a moderate ac e; followed by Cherry, The Mangler, and a host of light ~eiehts, until near the new ground. Several were neatenn out of the race, the most conspicuous amongst the n ones being Khondooz, Widred. Flahoulagh, and Tug t• Tom Tulloch and Terrier were beaten in the dip, and pantagenet retired from the front immediatelyafter ; the pace, Jhowever had been so indifferent that at least a dozen horses ean still l ' prig U. At the bushes, Giantess gave way, and y Wren took a slight lead, waited on by Lind whom were Kesheng, Dulcet, Jonathan Wild, Wolfdog, Wit's-end, be in Siste r to Pergularia, and this lot formed the front rank Into the cords. to the Wit's -end waited on Lord Chesterfield's mare sitter last Wit's -end st r id es, and ultimately won by a length, ne,ster to Perg u l ar i a third; beaten, about three lengths from Winner a. heng was f ourt h , and Wolfdog and Light ning fifth and Kessixth. Ru n i n 4 min. 6 secs. Value of the St akes 1,210/. LATEST BETTING. THE CAMBRIDGESHIRE 'STAKES. 1 2 to I agst Mr. Greville's Alarm . 12 to 1 apt Col. Anson's lago 14 to 1 t 1 agst L or d Glasgow's Conspiracy 7 e I agst Lord E. Russell's Sting .71:Ittoo 1 1 agst Mr. Nunn's'Johanna colt—taken agst Major Yarborough's Red Robin 23 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's Garry Owen 2 to 1 agst Mr. R. Boyce's Colleen Bawn 2 5 to 1 agst Mr. Rolt's Evenus 30 to 1 agst Sir C. Monk's Vanish. DERBY. p 9 to 1 Rgst Lord Eglinton's Van Tromp—taken to 1 agst Mr. MOStyn's Glentilt 3 tO 1 apt Mr. Mostvn's Planet - 1 1 35 to 1 agst Mr. Payne's Sister to Cobweb colt. Fo r d' s e sale of brood mares, being the first portion of Mr. 411 th e S tßd, took place previous to the races this day, when b e , he lots were disposed of, except Abueria and Lady Ab vi'osi The following were the prices obtained : Gs. t ee It bY Dr. Syntax, covered by Cresar ... •-• ••• 1 'A ( `-,:; 4 by Bay Middleton, ditto Charles Twelfth ... 6. ' Lad N ' e ,",coo mare, out of Frolicksome, ditto Harkaway ... 60 Spit ; r`"" 13 3' Dolo), by Zinganee, ditto by Ctesar ... 100 Spite bY Recovery, - covered by Coesar ... 46 e,rhaY b eam of Robert de Gorham), by Emilius, 310 e e n ° .. N ete (1 Touchstone ... ... .. ••• •* 57 Pound Note by Taurus or Augustus, covered by ri Sir Herc 1 ' D " e l c u eZ n ; Y ' 17s Veloelp . ede, covered .• by Cre — s'ar ..... ..... 10_5_ . ‘ . lia,‘diiinioois,obley, Mountebank, b3, `,.' s - ' ',,, b Economist, covered by Coronation ... 42 95 ' . 1 . )'. - :-,ltto (s t; Y,Emilius, covered by Slane ' : 4 ::: , '7 , ;' ,. .li i t 4 ti o a l tt it ' i a ei . n b g 3 . 4 dam) by Emilius, covered by Slane . .7. 155 Tossup', covered by Caesar •• 45 '•'''-, :V I °n, by Emilius, covered by TouchstZe ... 205 1 .'l4i. ",ont by Bustard, ditto ditto ... 60 C '''' - 4.l • Y etsY, 'by Plenipo, covered by Slane ... ... 62 Sv re ,, .. WEDNESAY. 'l4 'Of 2 10 sues. each, h ft, D for fillies, Bst 71b. T.Y.C. .), - (4 Subs.) lie -of Rutland's f, by Gladiator or the Doctor, out of ~. ambeau's dam (Boyce) 1 tir j p • Hawley's Vanity . 2 *n i etti ng-7 to 4on Gladiator filly. Won by a neck. Run I,l' min. 25 see. The Oatlands Stakes of 30 soya. each, 10 ft, if declared, for f , 8 rra old &c • B. M. (4 S u b s , t wo o f whom paid.) ir °l ,4pge'; . Mount Callan, 3 y rs , B s t 7lb (Whitehouse) 1 4 :4 it. I 3 oyee's Colleen Baum, 4 yrs, Bst 2 kietting 6t04 on Coll een B awn. W on easy by a length. Ilan in 1 m i n. 59 secs. • ..." We epstakes of 10 soya, each, for two yrs old, Winner to be „ 7st 31b, and t hree yrs, 9st ; filli es a ll owe d 31b. T.Y.C.I • ' Arr. Creville's Kittle K. - rankle, 3 yrs (Nat) 1 tir. C roc kf or d' s Mi s t ress Jean, 2 yrs ' k r. W re f or d' s W ooden Wall, 3 yrs The following also started :—Lord Fxeter's Lebanon, 3 yrs - -.,:lir. S. Howlett's Libation, 3 yrs— M ' r..Sh . elley's His Serene Highness, 2 yrs—Mr. Worley's Wintonia, 2 yrs. Betting -5 to 2 aget Wooden IVall, 3to 1 agst Wintonian, 4 to 1 each agst His Serene Highness and Libation, and 6 to 1 agat Mistress Jean. Lih ation made play to the dip, f o ll owe d b y Lebanon and .. 1i5 7 Serene Bigness ; the lead was then taken by Mistress l'eau, Icillie Krankie and the others lying up until half way t , li e ropes ; Killie Krankie and Wooden Wall then joined N v i;' n ' t .esa Jean - , and a pretty race took place, Killie K rankie W ali ti l is g by half a length,. and Mistress Jean beating Wooden Tow uY a neck. Run in one minute twenty seconds. f i 4 Plat e of 50/. for three yrs old, 7st 41b; four, Bst 41b; 've, Bst 111 b ; six and aged, 9st Ilb. The winner to be il,sold for 200 sovs., if demanded, &c. T.M.M it% Stf :phenson's Ilawesbury, 4 yrs ..,, 2 m's Creville's Polka, 3 yrs The following were not placed: --I%l;7o — n . g . le7CF e aged ''''Zilr. Death's Subduer, 6 yrs—Mr. Treacher's Gl i c a e m 4 , vrs— lord Exeter's by Colwick, out of Czar's dam—A r. ' Bo'oth's Tit bit, 3 13 t • Yrs. t Tit-bit, 70 2 agst Hawkesbury, sto e.ting, 3 to 1 agst opt Puma, 6to 1 agst Subduer, 4to 1 agst Glee. Fama Made play for three parts of . pule, followed by Lord Ex eter's colt and Polka, Hawkesbury.lying off; it was then taken up by Subduer, who carried it into the cords, when klawkesbury went in front with Polka, and, the latterhaving had enough of it, they finished the race, the horse winning by half a length. He was claimed. Match, 200; T.Y.C. Lord W. Powlett's Fort William, 3' yrs, Bst 101 b (Bartholomew), beat Mr. Merton's Miss Stays, 2 yrs, 6st 51b (Kitchener). 1 minute 2 0 sec onds 9t04 on .Fort W illiam; won by a h ead. Run in ' . . Owing to the unfavourable state of the weather, the sale of the second portion of Mr. Ford's stud was p os t poned till to- Mor row, and the heath was very thinly attended. THE CAMBRIDGESHIRE STASES, 10 to 1 agst Mr. Greville's Alarm —taken 10 to 1 agst Colonel Anion's lago • 14 to 1 agst Lord Glasgow's Conspiracy The others as before. (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) NEWMARKET, WEDNESDAY NIGHT, ENTRIES FOR THURSDAY. Sweepstakei. T.Y.C. 1.„ 1) rd Ex e t er ' s f by Hetman Platotf, out of Macremma— i.Vra Caledoti's Maid of Lorette—Mr. Ford's Restless—Mr. wton's Redwing, and Mr. Marson's Bedouin. ate Sweepstakes. First half of Ab, M. ''l'l l, l 3l 'erYt 4 yrs--Carissima, 4 yrs—Ridicules Mus, 4 yrs— v,„! -dangler, 4 yrs—Tau rina, 3 yrs — Arkwright, 3 yrs—Mal butsie, 3 yrs — Wilderness, 3 yrs—Dipthong, 2 yrs--ch c by 'tnian Platoff, out of Toga, 2 yrs—Bethpage, 2 yrs—Win ,ollia, 2 yrB. Handicap Plate. A.F. .i Quee n cf the Gipsies... 8 1 st. lb 2 4ti 1 1 , 1 e Conjurer .....»r.... 8 7 Datnod e . ...... 8 0 ulcet ...... .............. . 8 o ~,,inebester ... ...... 712 ,-khondooz ... ......... 7 10 ,-",Xample 7 10 ~430a rding-schoul Miss 7 10 foam - •Artlier . 7 7 (%ranebrook .." . 7 5 t4lopanile GlQ sB , 7 4 J 3 ***••• ••• onathein w i ld ...... .Istreline the NI Platte raytg.+l.e•r* 7 0 6 11 little Joh n 6 10 A iy st ~'atlierbit 9st 71b, Gianb 6 - " 0 + are dr'awn. 11 + .0 1 ags Al t t "I CAMBRIDGESI 01 n 1 4 1 apat C+ nspiraey !? 1 agst lago i s 1 ° 1 agst sis. to Joanna e 20 to 1 of st Sting it to 1 agst Lady WiLlair—t 1 agst Red Robin —t <a to 1 agst Best Bower --t DEJ 2 5 tO 1 agst Glentilt—t Glory Footstool 6 9 9 Flah Satyrowlah 6 7 Colleen Bawn Driffield ... . 6 2 Taglioni . • • Cantley Jaran Correct Card...... . u.. 5 12 Longstock ........... ... .......... 5 7 Libation ....... . Tit-bit 5 5 Seven's the-Main Zela 5 0 .ess, 7st 21b, and Black Cat, am STAKES. 25 to 1 agst Evenns 25 to 1 agst Refraction 30 to 1 agst Garry Owen—t 30 to 1 agst Vanish 33 to 1 agst Flahowlagh—t 33 to 1 agst Laundrymaid 40 to 1 agst Terrier .BY. I 50 to 1 agst Projectile—t . OXFORD MONTHLY CATTLE MARKET.—At Ox - Lore Cattle market yesterday, beef, of which there was rather a scanty supply, realised from 4s. to .1. 4d. p e r stone• good wether mutton which was unusually scarce, fetched 59. to 59. 4s. 10d .; lamb from 4d.; i n f er i or was sold from 4s. 4d. to 59. 4d. to ss. Bd.; veal 4s. 4d. to 49. Bd. Nearly market Was dull every thing changed hands. The , and both tat pigs and stores were somewhat cheaper. THE DEAD DROUGHT Bed ford, E.-- Yesterday, at an inquest held before Mr. in Ilemming's.row, Leicester -square, the beadle said he had expected to have anothef inquest for the same jury. A Woman had dropped down in Bedfordbury, close by, and was, apPa ready, lifeless • she underwent an examination, was pro nounced to be dead, and was conveyed to the hospital to await an inquest. The persons concerned in such mat ters having been applied to, notice of the death, and an aPplication for a warrant, were about to be forwarded to the coroner when it was discovered that the woman had (118aPpeareci It was afterwards ascertained that she had arisen from her bier, and very calmly walked away, since which time nothing had been heard of her. On Tuesday, as one of the platelayers employed On the Eastern Counties Railway, was walking down the li li ne near Boreham-brie he discovered an iron chair, ,ed for fixing the rails to the sleepers, placed across Lae line, so that hat any train passed over it, there is bee n telling what loss of life might have ensued had it not "911 observed and removed. In half an hour after a luggage train pass , d the spot. There is a reward, we Understalad, of 2)1 offered for the apprehension and conviction of the offender or offenders, but no clue has yet been obtained. SPECIILATION.—A mercantile friend of ours, and a banker, says---" Speculatien is now turning from rail aide vioaye to corn and cotton ; the latter will, I fear, cause 4e mischief thAn the former. Those injured indi --`4S but these will affect the ex(hanges.—Leeds Met cu% LITERATURE. THE WESTMINSTER AND FOREIGN QUARTERLY REVIEW. No. XC. Two of the leading quarterlies are here coalesce]. into one very formidable publication. Their first appearance under this combination is most favourable, and promises largely. The single number here pub • lished, for the October quarter of 1846, is of itself a handsome, extensive, instructive, and miscellaneous volume, embracing an extraordinary variety of sub jects in architecture, political philosophy, biography, metaphysics, and entomology, together with the sanatory condition and education of the people. And beyond this there is a supplemental quantity of foreign correspondence and criticisms upon foreign literature, including the recent productions of Tschudi, Quinet, and Victor Jacquemont. So much enterprise is visible in this periodical, and that enterprise is aided by so much wisdom and sagacity, that it cannot fail to win for itself double the popularity it has already acquired. It has no need of the " puff preliminary," or the " puff direct," or the " puff collusive, or any other of those aids to literary hypocrisy which are catalogued with such felicity by Sheridan. The Westminster and Foreign Quarterly Review is capable of propitiating public favour by its own merits. There is visible, moreover, in almost every con tribution an earnest anxiety to promote the true interests of humanity and civilisation. The principles upon which the publication was originally commenced continue to be of the same enlarged and generous character as heretofore. As a remarkable instance of this we may especially adduce the paper entitled " Repeal of the Corn-laws : Prospective Results." In reviewing the grand political and commercial victory which this Parliamentary session has just realised for the people, the reviewer avails himself of the opportunity to deduce the natural and necessary consequences of the great measures relating to corn and customs duties. After commenting upon the importance and glory of this " stainless" victory—a victory achieved by reason over party prejudices and class interests, a victory achieved by the middle classes over the aristocrats and the operatives, a victory obtained in opposition to the hostility of the two gigantic political parties "who for centuries have divided the power and patronage of the Government between them," in opposition "to the supposed pe cuniary interests of the legislators," in opposition " to those whom it was designed to benefit and those whom it was imagined it would impoverish and ruin"—after dilating upon the astonishing circumstances of this victory, the writer then classifies with much lucidity its necessary and possible -results :—Firstly, as to the progress of agriculture; secondly, as to the condition of the people ; thirdly, as to the future course and character of our legislation ; and, fourthly, as to our foreign relations. I. That lands cannot be thrown out of cultivation (as many have foolishly pretended) by the operation of these new enactments, is de monstrated on several particulars. It is shown to be impossible, because the increasing demands consequent upon the annual increase of the population must, ac cording to statistical evidence, constantly increase the value of land in relative proportions ; because, again, land is even now daily rising in marketable value ; because similar forebodings have been periodically indulged in since 1815, and have been as repeatedly falsified by events ; because only land altogether un profitable can ever go out of cultivation ; and, lastly, because the farmers will be enabled, by the removal of protection, to cultivate their lands at less expense than hitherto. The effect of free trade will, therefore, be to concentrate the energies of our agriculturists, so as to - compete with the agriculturists of foreign countries ; to cause the average produce of wheat land in England (calculated by Professor Johnstone at 21- quarters to the acre) to approximate more to the average produce of the Lothians, namely, from four to six quarters; to reclaim waste lands; and to economise space by converting meadow and pasture into arable. 11. The effects of these glorious measures upon the people are justly calculated as of an enormous and propitious description. "Full employment, ample wages, good clothing, and sufficient food," are estimated as the most important. Upon this extraordinary and suggestive theme, however, we must permit the writer to speak for himself; and earnestly do we commend the following paragraph to the consideration of every tnan solicitous for the future happiness and prosperity of his fellow-countrymen When these results have been achieved, the people's fate will be in their own hands. We shall then have reached that social condition which philanthropists have sighed after so long in vain, wherein physical destitution is no longer a barrier to moral and spiritual improve ment ; and when the industri o u s c l asses i n t h e cemmu nity, laying all the material means of a comfortable and happy existence within their reach, may place themselves in whatever position they desire and can appreciate, It will be a critical epoch—a turning point in their and their country's history. If they understand their right position and their true interests ; if the objects at which they aim shall be at once high, solid, and atteinable ; if their improved condition shall bring with it improved desires ; if their efforts be directed to raise their class, not to rise out of it ; they may rival the Americans in the material, and far surpass them in the spiritual, ele ments of well-being ; all of them may attain the elective fi anchise in towns, and many of them in the counties ; all of them may live, as the best of them do now, in he - althy, sufficient, and respectable dwellings ; all of them may become possessed of property, and thus yen • m de e r m t b h e e r m s s o e t ly s e safe a society iety ; thend i s nd rt e i s p a e u n s d e na n t a , y a s w w o • r e k l t a e s n u h s o e u f r u s l without a ten hours' bill, and the peasantry i again be come in fact-- w h at t h ey have long ceased to ben theory —" their coun t ry ' s pr id e ," To obtain all this, good sense and good feeli ng on t h eir part will al one be re quisite ; their efforts t o ra i se themselves to what men e f c ou on r a t g h e m e n t, ought to be will be met w i t h rejoicing and aid by all rarks of th e i r country. If, trary, their moral state sh ou ld b e not far enougehc(anid vanced to profit by and turn to good account the im provement in their physical com f orts ; if, as has hitherto been too often the case, increased employment should lead to diminished diligence, and increased power to ex aggerated and unreasonable caprices, and augmented wages should only stimulate to more unlimited indul gence ; if they should still, from unworthy distrust of their superiors, allow themselves to be made the tools of men who live and thrive upon their follies and their jealousies ; they will turn away and dry up the sympa thies of those who would have helped to raise them— they will sink anew into the miseries of frequent dis tress and perpetual serfdom, and throw blindly away one of the fairest opportunities ever offered to a nation, of realising, amid the most complicated forms of modern civilisation, a golden age of freedom, happiness, and peace. Everything is ready—everything is within reach of England, if her sons are " wise in time ;" those who have oppressed the poor are stripped of their power ; those who have neglected them are awakened to their duties ; those who despised them have begun to appre ciate and fear them ; those who looked upon them as antagonists, rivals, and competitors, have begun to com prehend the great Idea of mutual identity of interests ; and now that free trade has secured to them all the raw materials of physical well-being, all that is further wanting will be wanting in themselves alone, viz, tem perance to resist animal indulgence, knowledge to un derstand their interests, and discrimination to distinguish friends from flatterers and foes." Let every individual amongst us endeavour to pre pare the people for the powerful temptations to which their passions will be subjected. If they be duly prepared the consequences of this turning-point will be wholly beneficial. 111. In calculating the effects of free trade in connexion with the future course and character of our legislation, the reviewer has felt the temerity of his position ; he has recognised the im penetrable nature of a political futurity • and has con fined hi mse lf rat h er to timorous conjectures ' than to confident predi c ti ons. Amongst the more sagacious of hi s o b servations upon this rapoint we e may specify will gain political power at th e expense of thelan lan dlord the sentence th a t "the agricultural in t e rest w and, inst ea d o f a l ways pulling against t h e comm er cial interest; classes, will, in the great m l a i ority of politic a l ques tions,d inet iafih exultationlnyd it theuit/ithem." That w ill st o a n n i d s h t m o e t n h t e e a x n of be wisdomthteheagricultural t o case,ritu a tenants cessive c h agr i n of the agricultural landlords. IV. From the operation of free trade with regard to inter the most eminent politicnarl coincides ssts withn anticipatin g; Cob d en an d national affairs, tle i an universal and enduring proposed that, l. in order to peace. In one portion of this very able article it is g enable such landlords as hparvnep aife interest in their property to cultivate their land on without hamper ing their means, they shoul.cl be allowed to mortgage, or even to sell a portion of the estate, so as to a ppl y the money thereby raised t o the better development development of ororasn;gei t the resources of the remainder. Such ment we conceive would be most haaanrda would be calculated to entangl e the z already com plicated abatements to the rights of property, and would, more seriously than the reviewer seems to maeine, interfere with the law of entail. I n a l l oth e r particulars, however, we regard this paper o n th e prospective results of free trade as abounding with shrewd and sagacious propositions. The articles on " The Principles of Taxation," on the " Patronage of (commissions," and on the "Education of the People," are of nearly equal and, in one or two points, of superior merit. We have entered so largely, however, into an analysis of the preceding contribution, that we have altogether precluded ourselves trom ex amining either of the last-mentioned in detail. "The Microscope and its Revelations" is likewise an ad mirable performance, betokening very laborious in vestigation, and conveying a world of startling and astonishing truths with delightful perspicacity. Some of the reflections upon the wonders divulged by the microscope almost amount to el .quence. We are surprised to observe so much deference paid to the authority of Borellus by the author of this excellent article, the veracity of Borellus being so intensely dubious, and the work of Borellus being so essentially the production of a party zealot. An elaborate essay upon " Architectural Study and Records," illustrated with a profusion of wood-cuts, imparts an additional variety to the very miscellaneous contents of the Westminster Review, while it tends considerable to its embellishmeet. A review of Mr. Burton's " Life of Hume," introduces us again to the intimacy of a domestic intercourse with the great Scotch philosoph.,r 1111,1 historian ; end, with an extraordinary bulk of minor ciititisms, completes this very propitious number of the double Quarterly. Pt SIT N, I,OIN _DON, THURSDAY E VII7 ! N IN G, OCTOBER 15, 1840: COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY.—The unfavourable ,state of the weather this morning prevented the Queen, Prince Albert, and the Royal Family leaving the Castle. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her Majesty and Prince Albert, the Queen Dowager, and the Princess of Hesse, at the Castle. The Royal Duchess remained to luncheon with the august circle. Her Royal Highness the Princess of Hesse took a car riage airing this afternoon, accompanied by the Countess of Gainsborough, Lady in Waiting on the Queen, and Baroness Sche€l. The Royal Family took an airing in a pony carriage and four in the afternoon, accompanied by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston left the Castle to day fur town. Their Excellencies M. and Madame Van de Weyer, and Lord and Lady Cowley, also took their departure to-day. The royal dinner arty at the Castle this evening will include her Majesty, the Queen Dowager, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, her Royal Highness the Princess of Hesse, his Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, the Lady in Waiting on the Queen Dowager, the Lady in Waiting•. on the Duchess of Kent, the Lady in Waiting on the Princess of Hesse (La Ba :olive Scheel), the Baroness de Sped), the Marquis and Marchioness of Worcester, the Earl Howe, and the Gentleman in Waiting on the Piincess of Hesse (Le Baron Meysenbuch). The band of the Scots Fusileer Guards attended dur ing dinner. Her Majesty's private band afterwards at tended in the Castle. Viscount Palmerston arrived in town yesterday from Windsor Castle. Mr. C. K. Murray had an inteniew with Lord John Russell yesterday at his official residence in Downing street. Earl Fortescue had also an interview with his Lordship yesterday. THE WINNING OF THE INFANTA, A ROMANTIC BALLAD. FYTTE FIRST. The sun shines fair on Neuilly, Its past the hour of dine, Old France and his four royal sons are sitting o'er their wine; But untested by the monarch's side bright gleams the Clos- Vougeot, As he chinks his five-franc pieces, and surveys his sous a-row. Oh, a wily man is that old king, his whiskers long and grey, With a twinkle in his eye, that seems " I'm wide awake" to say; And the smile that plays about his lip is just the smile that suits The only King in Europe who has polished his own boots. There sits dark JOINVILLE, with moustaches right truculent of twist, MONTPENSIER, the muffin-faced, NEMOURS the close of fist, And young D'AUMALE, the fair and flat, a chasseur tight and trim, And the monarch thought " it's lucky that I've found a wife for him." " NEMOURS, thou art mine own true son—small dower thy wife need pay . By skinning flints and shaving close thou still wilt make thy way ; JOINVILLE I've wedded to Brazil, her diamonds and her dollars, And all save one I've fitted with matrimonal collars. "There sit two royal maidens in the Escurial towers, Their hands his prize who mystifies the European Powers; By St. Denis, there's one for thee, MONTPENSIER, my boy I" And down with a crack, on his third son's back, came the monarch's hand in joy! "For the rival knights TRAPPANI, COBURG, MONTEMOLIN, Don FRANCISCO, Don ENitultrE, I hold them not a pin! Let who will have HER MAJESTY, we for the INFANTA stand : There are cases where one bird i' the bush is worth two birds in hand. "What ho, my squires ! bring forth my horse, my armour, and my shield !" And 'tvvas rare to see the ancient king how he armed him for the field, While his four sons gathered round him, each on his bended knee, And took a lesson from that old Chevalier d'lndustrie. He hath braced his helm of humbug, his breastplate of un truth, He bath taken his shield of impudence and his lance of little ruth ; And his sons up to the saddle-tree give him a leg at need, And proudly paces " Artful Dodge," his old but trusty steed I , I"I'TE SECOND. The lists are cleared, the barrierS — ;cared, the knights come riding in, The captive maidens ssdly look, for liking is a sin; They may not choose, may not refuse, fur such their royal parts, 'Tis but their hands are wanted—what need to think of hearts? Rides in the van, the pale TEArrAw, his sword is in his sheath, The legend blazoned on his shield " I fight"—a cross beneath. MONTEMOLIN, his shield within, displays a crown of brass, Which his sire Don CARLOS gave him when he found it wouldn't pass. Next rides COBURG. COTIARY, and the QUEEN doth wish him luck ; For, though somewhat out at elbows, he's what ladies call a " duck," And he bears the Coburg legend, which his seedy look con firms, Of "Royal Marriages performed upon the cheapest terms." Don FRANCISCO rideth after, looking fain to run away, Right groggy is he in his selle, and anything but gay : Follows close bold Don ENR:QUE, he bath caught the IN.. FANTA'S eye, He blows a kiss to her, and she blows him one in reply. The trumpets sound, the knights ride round, displaying of their paces, And the ladies gay, they flirt away, displaying of their faces; When, o'er the barrier of Utrecht, that shuts the lists below, With lusty leap Louis PIIILIPPZ on " Artful Dodge" doth show. He wears his crown with vizor down," Hold hard !" he cries aloud, " I too will ride a tilt of arms before this noble crowd :" And he strikes on Prince TRAPP.A.NI'S shield, who, the chil lenge when he hears, Immediately is taken ill, and straightway disappears. " Ha, ha I I guess that's one the less! Now, Sir COBURG, for you." And he tipped his lance with gold, for well his foe's weak point he knew • "A rush, a thrust—a cloud of dust—and when it left the air, There lay the COBURG, dead to " time," and much the worse for wear. " Now rest thee, Don FRANCISCO, I leave the QUEEN to you. But Don ExtuQuE, there's a crow to pluck between us two." And he bent his lance of slander 'gainst that heart so true and leal, And, with a grin, the stern old king sent home the poisoned steel. Then silent flowed the tears of those maidens as, perforce, Each saw her favourite champion sent, as Bell's Life sayr, " to florae;" But nought reeked he, the grim Louis, of breaking hearts, or woe : He'd come to win a wife, and one he'd have before he'd go. On came MoNzzstouN, but aye his glance he backward threw, For the Constable was on his track, as well old Louis knew ; " Police !" shouts France, but 'their approach the Count awaited not, At first glimpse of the Alcalde he bath bolted like a shot ! The jousts are done, the prize is won, old France has gained the day, Tho' tis in what some folks may call—a dirty sort of way; And he strokes the neck of " Artful Dodge," "well done thou trusty steed I I've worked thee hard, but never yet thou'st failed me at my need!" Right proudly rode he up the lists to where the maidens sat, And courteously his visor raised, beneath his broad- brimmed hat, " Your hands are mine, to pick and choose: Faatictsco take the QUEEN For you, INFANTA, I've a son, a gallant boy, tho' green." And with a roguish chuckle, as they looked both sad and sour, He gave_ these sorry maidens each unto a husband's power; And long Madrid shall grumble at the doings of the day When, with " Artful Dodge," Lows PanarrE the INFANTA bore away.—Panch. THE LATE SIR GEORGE MURRAY.—The will of the late Right Hon. Sir George Murray,late of Belgravo square, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Hon. Military Order of the Bath, a general of her Majesty's forces, and Master- General of the Ordnance, was proved in London on the 9th instant, by his executors, Sir William George Hylton Jolliffe, Bart., of Merstham. Surrey; Mr. George William Hope, Curzon-street, Mayfair; and William Smythe, advocate, Edinburgh. The will was executed on the sth of anuary last, together with a deed of settlement of the same date, in favour of his daughter and only child, wife of Lieutenant Henry George Boyce, of her Majesty's 2d Regiment of Life Guards, by which the deceased has settled upon her various sums, in the whole exceeding 26,0001., besides the house in Belgrave square ; and further by his will leaves her the furniture, pictures, prints, &c., as also the residue of his estate, to enjoy a life interest over the whole of the said property, money, and effects, and at her decease to descend to her children; but if no children or child should obtain a vested interest therein, then in trust for the children that may be living of the late Hon. Sir Patrick Murray, Bart. There are pecuniary bequests to his sister and aunt, and to his son-in-law, Lieutenant H. G. Boyce, and legacies to his servants. In the 54th year of his age, Sir George married Lady Louisa Erskine, sister to the Marquis of Anglesey, of whom he was bereaved in January, 1842, having had issue one daughter. DEATH OF LIEUTENANT-COLONEL GORDON.—We have to record the demise of a (valiant and eminent field officer, Lie u t.-C o l one l John Gordon, who expired a few days since at his seat, Princestown, county of Fermanagh, at the advanced ago of seventy-nine, forty-one of which witnessed a connexion with the British army. This officer saw during his career some rough service, and he had the honour and satisfaction of being made a retired Lieutenant-Colonel on full pay in 1844, being connected s N E it ß h l s o i u nc s er ILLNESS regretNEs v with the R o y a l R egiment of Artillery, which he entered SN O Fe h i‘ as Second-Li eutenant in 1805. SERIOUS just Co heard u Letou of N, th M e .P.—lt i illness of J. C. Colquhoun, Esq., M.P., and that, although now pronounced out of immediate danger, he is still in a very precarious state. The attack appears to have been that of gastric fever, and of unusual severity. From the last accounts from Killermont, we fear his recovery must be a work of time. Irswicu AND BURY RA ILWAY:—Ife are glad to hear that the subsidence of the coil at Haughley, has been now overcome, and there is every prospect of the line being opened for traffic early in the ensuing month. —Bury Herald. SPIRIT of the PUBLIt.3 JOURNALS. FROM TRE MORNE.:G PAPERS OF THIS DAT. TIMES.—Lord Westmeath's vices of the rights and liabilities of landed proprietors, to which we have on two recent occasions given publicity, however natural, however common, however unstriking to Irish land owners, are, nevertheless, based on an utterly erroneous view of their duty, and if carried out into action without limit, would result in the most abject misery of the great majority of mankind. His Lordship came into the pos session of certain portions of the soil of Ireland, which his ancestors had possessed before him. He found divers tenants occupying parts of his estates under leases. When these leases fell iu, he found more occupiers than had been bargained for. The soil was encumbered with humans, and their condition was such, that they were by no means profitable cattle. Had they been as pro fitable to him as so many sheep or pigs, he would have rejoiced at their being part of the live stock of his farms. He objects to them, not as bipeds, but as squatters. lie could not, owing to the cost of litiga tion, put a stop to the squatting while the leases sub sisted. It he could have done so, he would. Now that the leases are ended he wants the law to make up for lost titre ; and cooly proposes that he shall be en abled by Act of Parliament to transport to oorne other country—no matter which—the uncomfortabia surplus population ; that a new felony shall be created for the benefit of his "order," the landed proprietors of Leland; that the crime of having been born into Ireland, and having survived the perils of Irish infancy, shall bet placed in the same category with forgery, burglary, and arson. If this is a specimen of what an Irish House of Lords would do in the way of domestic legislation, it had better be avowed generally at once. It might have some effect even in that focus of nonsensical extravagance, the Conciliation Hall. Now, it may be as well fur the Irish landowners to consider what would be the case of the population if Ireland, like Egypt, had only one land owner. Would they, then occupying the position in Ireland of tenants of the soil, deem it just that this monopolist of " the first gem of the sea" should prohibit their marrying and having families ? or that he should only permit a given portion of them to marry, and endeavour to place a limit on the number of chil dren which should be born? If rot, they must give up Lord Westmeath's proposal for the expatriation of his countrymen as equally against the inalienable rights of man. If the landowner --the solitary lord of the soil— whom we have supposed could have no right to prohibit or attempt to restrict the multiplication of his species, 50,000 landowners combined could have no such right, nor could any one of them have it. Again, this landed oligarch could only enjoy his insular estate by having it tenanted by others besides himself. Were he the sole inhabitant of his own territory, he would be as badly off as Robinson Crusoe before he found Man Friday. He must have tenants to enable him to enjoy his own property. Without tenants he would have no profits. If he introduced a tenant population, unless he made an express bargain with them, at their first introduction into his domains, that they and their posterity should at all times remain at his absolute disposal, and renewed that bargain with their descendants, they would bring with them, and retain, their rights as human be ings; and if he took the benefit of their labours, he must also take the liability of satisfying such of their physical wants as should enable them to fulfil the conditions of their existence. But if, instead of introducing a labour ing population, he became the owner of the soil already occupied by his fellow-creatures, and availed himself of their services to obtain some enjoyment from it, he must take their consequences with them, permitting them to propagate their kind and to people his domains. He could only have a conditional right to the land—a limited proprietorship. The Aborigines would possess their ordinary rights as human beings, and transmit them to their descendants. Their children would be born into the country with his express or tacit consent, and with the rights of fellow -countrymen with him. It would not be difficult to convince even an Irish land holder that Mehemet Ali has no right to screw his Fellahs down to absolute starvation, or to drive them wholesale into the desert. They would admit that those Fellahs, as Egyptians, have a right to live in Egypt ; that if they perform their duty to the Pacha of cultivat ing his corn and cotton estate, they may require in re turn the means of subsistence and of subsisting in Egypt ; and that, however absolute may be the Govern ment under which they are placed, they are entitled to their share of the rights of man. Follow this out in Ireland, and there is no logical possibility of denying that those who are born in Ireland have by the mere accident of their birth a right to stay and subsist in Ire land. It may be a hard task, and one of slow fulfilment, to convince the majority of the proprietors of the Irish soil of the truth that the whole of God's earth is intended for the enjoyment of the whole of God's creatures ; that when a child is born into that world it is gifted by God's providence with a right to a subsistence during the whole of its life on and from that earth ; and that whatever may be the artificial division of that earth into continents, countries, or counties, no combination of men whatever can, without a violation of their duty to God and man, snake such an appropriation of any portion of it as shall deprive a single fellow -creature of that right, or hinder him in the reasonable enjoyment of it ; but it is the truth, and it must be recognised and acted on. CHRONICLE.—The meeting of the working classes of Manchester, held in their Town hall on Tuesday evening, for the purpose of memorialising Lord John Russell to open the ports, is a sign of the times which cannot fail of receiving the deliberate and respectful attention of an enlightened statesman. From the report, which appears elsewhere, of the brief, quiet, and per fectly business-like proceed ngs on this occasion, it will be seen that our manufacturing operatives have made great proficiency in that most useful description of all useful knowledge—knowledg e of the facts and laws determining their own social condition. The compulsory and disagreeable lessons of the best of schools seem to have been mastered by our working-men, in Lancashire at least, with a very satisfactory completedess. Their own experience for many successive years—as interpreted to them, first, by the League, and more recently by Cabinet Ministers who vied with one another, through the greater part o fa protracted Parliamentary session, in expounding the economies of the working-man's life—has been largely effectual in imparting the wisdom more im mediately profitable for their political guidance. They know all about the doctrine of wages, and its relation to prices. They understand their concern in that political, or state, economy, which is neither more nor less than the aggregate of their own particular domestic econo mies. They have learned to respect the facts and figures of that political arithmetic which does but sum up and epitomise the more familiar domestic arithmetic of their own cupboards and firesides. They appreciate their interest in that cheapness of the primary necessaries of life, which enlarges the surplus of national income available for the comforts and luxuries that consti tute the subject-matter of manufacturing production and commercial interchange. The difference between cheapness and dearth of the nation's food they know to be so much added to, or taken from the nation's capi tal—which capital is the fund out of whose increase their wages are paid. They have acquired considerable skill in this very interesting species of computation. So much added to the price of the Alb. loaf they find, on casting up, to be so much of extra weekly taxa tion on a town and neighbourhood of such or such a population—the amount of which tax " is, of course, abstracted from the receipts of the general tradesman, and is thus operative to the destruction of the home market for manufactures." With this expert intelli gence of the law of wages and the nature of the wages fund, our working men are of course very watchful of dangers that threaten that fund with diminution—espe cially with gratuitous and preventable diminution by ar tificial causes. They look with jealous alarm on those shillings of the scale, which, as a now easy and familiar logic has taught them, stand for shillings abstracted from their pockets. They dread and deprecate the effect, especially during a season of severe national trial and difficulty, of even four shillings artificially added to the natural price of a quarter of wheat—such addition really and practicably meaning, to them, increased com petition fur diminished wages. With prices rising to the point at which a fixed four-shilling barrier will abridge and retard the very supplies of whose necessity the Legislature has made that figure the index, they are keenly alive to the danger and absurdity of a policy, the principles of which have been explicitly condemned by every statesman of weight and repute, and whose results are so dismally illustrated in their own well-remembered experience. It is just tho old story beginning over again, and they know it all too thoroughly by heart not to beg fervently that it may be cut short. This is really a very striking feature of this working-class meeting. 'The alarm which prompts Manchester operatives to pray for open ports, is a reasoning and prospective alarm. Their meeting and memorial are no, passionate utterance of irritated or desponding misery, but the quiet and sober-minded expression of a logically justi fied fear. The whole proceeding is very much of a pre cautionary character. These are not " distressed manufacturers" clamouring for a " boon," but men enjoy ing a very tolerable amount of prosperity, who see natural causes at work that must imperil and abridge their prosperity, and are anxious that a natural and in evitable evil should, at least, not be artificially aggra vated. The memorialists have nothing to say of " distress," except as a future event, which they see at no great distance, and for which they would be well prepared. It is only that they " apprehend great distress, and would have this distress minimised down to its natural limits, by the instant ex tinction of a fiscal injustice which must, more or less, enhance it. They speak under no other pressure than that of deliberate and sober apprehension of evil. But after all the teaching they have had, this is enough to make them speak plainly and strongly. They have learned to read future events in present tendencies. They are great believers in cause and effect. They scent danger afar off, and are wise in time. We cannot en tertain the fear that the chosen of our statesmen will show themselves less sagacious in their interpretation of familiar facts, or less far-seeing in their prescience of a certain and not very remote future, or less prompt and earnest in warding off preventible aggravations of a com ing evil, than a miscellaneous assemblage of our working men. Lord John Russell must be as well able as these operative memorialists to draw the right conclusion from data of fact and pridciple which are common to both parties. We feel persuaded that, to a prayer so just and reasonable, and so thoroughly accordant with themaxims of a reflective and experienced statesmanship, there is but ono answer possible. After all, our Manchester working men only ask, that the settled and fundamental policy of the empire may be consistently applied to meet the special wants of a crisis for which it has an obvious special fitness. ADVERTISER.—The subject of punishment in the navy, to which we referred yesterday in our correspond ence, i s one w hi c h ought to receive a large share of public attention. The court-martial on board the Vic tory (off Portsmouth) reveals to the public a practice in our steam navy which ought immediately to be discon tinued, and which it is strange that men of ordinary in telligence and humanity should ever have permitted. The charge against Lieutenant Story was, g , th a t h e , on the 13th day of August, 184 G, being then the senior lieutenant of her Alejesty's steam-ship. Retribution . . . did . . . order Edward Redpath, then the captain of the hold of the same ship, to be confined in the ' port bunker' of the said ship, in which bunker the said Edward Redpath was accordingly confined, and was fount dead ; the _said Lieutenant having ordered such punishment of confinement without reference to Captain Stephen Lushington, the captain of the said ship." We are not about again to arraign Lieutenant Story, or to question the justice of the finding of the court, by which he was honourably acquitted of all blame for his said conduct on the occasion before men tioned. Indeed, it was quite apparent, from the evidence on the ccurt-martial, that Lieutenant Story bore an ex cellent charlxter on board the Retribution for humanity, and that he was an enemy to the barbarous practice of flogging. It appeared also that the punishment which led to the death of Edward Redpath "had been pre viously resorted to on board the Retribution, with the knowledge of the captain, and not disapproved of by him, and that the same punishment had been adopted in other steam-ships." The finding of the Judge-advocate adds, " without any Lad cAlsequenees;" but qumre. By this time our readers may wish to have some insight into this ' port bunker," which was the scene and the cause of the death of Edward Redpath. For the benefit of those. who are not very learned in naval lore, we b-g to mcn:ioa that the " port bunker" is the coal-hole of the steam vessel, into which it has become the practice in the steam-vessels of war to cast refractory seamen. The un fortunate man Edward. Redpath, whose crime was drunk enness, was pieced on the p!atforna in this miserable place, and was seen just under the grating some hours after his imprisonment, but when the time approached for iris release, he was found lying insensible on the coals. The truth is, the man was poisoned by the foul gas—the carbonic acid gas emitted by the coals. Every one knows, or ought to know, that an atmosphere which will scarcely feed the flame of a candle is one in which human life cannot be sustained. Now, one of the wit , nesses stated that he took a candle to look for the de. ceased man, and in answer to a question from Captain Stanley, he admitted that the light "was burning dimly;" and farther, that he felt the ill effects of the gas himself during the short time he was employed in raising the deceased man out of it. The same witness, Thomas Rumble, a stoker, admitted that he felt the ill effects of the gas in the bunker before, those effects being "pains in the head, across the eyes." In accordance with these statements is the evidence which was given by the sur geon of the Retribution, who said, " I made a post-mortem examination, and found the appearances on the body such as are known to exist where the persons have died from respiration of carbonic acid gas. The lungs were gorged in blood dark in colour. What blood was about the heart and the large vessels was fluid and of a very dark colour?' There is, therefore, not the shadow of a doubt that this poor man was killed by being cast into a mephitic atmosphere, from which he could not escape, and where he died, just as any one would die, in a sort of Grotto del Cano. We cannot withhold the expression of our indignation at the gross ignorance which presides over this department of the punitive code in the steam navy. Here are gentlemen of great sagacity in the cocked hats, entrusted with irresistible power over the lives of their men, and who have to find out, by the actual occurrence of death, that it is unsafe to order a man into the receptacle of a large quantity of coals, where the temperature is between 76 and 80. We regret to discover on board the steam nary so much ignorance, or so little attention to the ne cessary effect of modes of punishment ; and we hope the competent authority will interfere to prevent the further infliction of death by the certain process of " the port bunker." MESSRS. DELARUE'S ENVELOPES FOR NEWS.. PAPERS.—If any envelope be entitled to the denomina tion, of safe, it is the newly-invented newspaper envelope manufactured by Messrs. Delarue and Co., which, com bining as it does the security of a tie, by means of a piece of tape fitted into the envelope, with that of the usual adhesive edge of the ordinary envelope, furnishes a double security. These envelopes, manufactured of plain paper, are sold at the rate of Is. per 100, and will, no doubt, soon come into general use. In addition to the plain paper envelopes, Messrs. Delarue and Co. have manufactured others of a patent material (paper lined with cputchouc), which being waterproof, and not liable to tear, are admirably adapted for transmission to foreign countries. They set mas tough and as strong asleather. MY COUSIN NICHOLAS.—This is the new volume of "The Standard Novels," and comprises the powerful story with which the Rev. Mr. Barham first delighted the readers of Blackwood. The quaint humour and the deep ;,athos of the tale are still fresh in the recollection of those readers, who will be glad to find this favourite story presented to them in so convenient a form. 'We envy those who have yet to read " Cousin Nicholas," and we hardly know whether or not to envy those who have yet to become fascinated by the absorbing story appended to it, under the title of "The Trance," which deprived us of more hours' sleeping than we care to acknowledge.— Court Journal. _ _ MEXICAN BONDS.—In the dispatch which has created so much noise within the last few days, is a clause ordering Mr. Murphy to publish it immediately. The bondholders, who are in . the greatest state of uncertainty, knowing the existence of the dispatch, and seeing no official copy of it, are most anxious that Mr. Murphy should comply with this order of the provisional Government, or, at any rate, make some statement on the subject. The fact that Messrs. Schneider deny the receipt of any official information as to the mission of Senor Gomez Ferias is not enough to counteract the effect of a document which is circulated in the City, and which announces the repudiation of the new bonds, and the removal of Mr. Murphy from office. BENEVOLENCE OF TILE LATE PREMIER —The fol lowing instance (says the Suffolk Chronicle) of Sir Ro bert Peel's unobtrusive benevolence was mentioned by Mr. Wilderspin, in the course of his lecture at the Ips wich Mechanics' Institution, on Tuesday evening. We give it in the speaker's own words:—" Some of you have heard of Ha)don, the painter, and, no doubt, you have heard that Sir Robert Peel, the late Prime Minister of England, sent that man 50/. in his distress. It ought to be known, by my moving about the country in this manner—and I never thought of self, for I always had faith that my countrymen would not allow me to die a union, and that the Almighty would not allow me to ask for the common necessaries of life—that I had spent all my money. I was at last reduced to the utmost extre mity. I wanted a crust of bread, yet I kept the secret within my own breast. I set out for an obscure village, where I thought I would end my days. A friend called upon me. And when I had not a single shilling in my house, when I had nothing to offer him, for I felt I should degrade my cause by running into debt, when my poor dog was as thin as my children ',501. 'came from the Prime Minister of England, Si r Robert Peel. Thus you see there are two men whom he has benefited. One is now in the eternal world, and the other is the humble individual who stands before you." It is rumoured among the highest classes of society that the fair fugitive from Gloucestershire will shortly be received by her noble parents ; it is said that the blacksmith at Gretna was not on this occasion called upon to perform the ceremony, but that the gallant offi cer and his " ladye love " were united in a large town in the west of England at an early hour on the morning of the elopement. We regret to announce the death of Mr. F. V. Lee, a barrister of the Oxford Circuit, in very considerable business. Mr. Lee was a man very popular among the attorneys of his circuit, and was a man of great aptitude and shrewdness, and what is called business-like talent. His death was very sudden. He had been out shooting on the Monday, and on his return home, and while dressing, fell down and expired. He has left a widow and a numerous family to mourn his early loss—for Mr. Lee had but attained his 41st or 42d year. APPROACHING MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—The marriage of Lady Charlotte Herbert, second daughter of the Earl and Countess of Powis, and Mr. H. Mont gomery, of Grey Abbey, county Antrim, is to be solem nized on Tuesday next. The Earl and Countess of Powis, and Ladies Herbert, Viscount Clive, and other members of the family, have already arrived in town from Powis Castle, Welshpool. A sumptuous dejeuner will be given by the parents of the fair betrothed to a numerous and distinguished circle in celebration of the nuptials. CURRENTS IN THE CHANNEL.—An inquest was held by adjournment from the Ecclesbourne Coast Guard Station, near Hastings, on Tuesday, on the body of a man, name unknown. It appeared in evidence, that on Saturday morning one of the Coast Guard, while on duty, saw the body washed on shore. It was dressed in a good black coat, a figured satin waistcoat, black trousers, and Wellington boots. In the pockets were found seven double francs, two single francs, seven double and one single copper sous, and a card-case, containing cards of Mr. Charles Ellis, and of Messrs. Ellis, 81, Borough street,. Southwark. Lieutenant Cogge, of the Coast Guard, repaired to London, and was referred to Mr. Joseph Ellis, of Balham-hill, Clapham, from whom he learned that his brother, a Mr. Charles Ellis, had been living some years at Guernsey, and that about three weeks ago his hat had been found on the rocks in that island, and that it was conjectured he had fallen into the sea and been drowned. Mr. Joseph Ellis attended the inquest on Tuesday, and stated his belief that the body was that of his brother, and the jury thereupon re turned a verdict of " Found drowned." The body must have traversed the distance between Guernsey and Eccleshourne during the late heavy gales from the south west. THE COBDEN NATIONLL TRIBUTE.—Within the last week the committee of this fund have received 3501., principally contributed by the people of Manchester, Burslem, Bury, Dalkeith, Clitheroe, and Gomersol. At the weekly meeting, on Tuesday evening, at Manchester, the Chairman, Mr. George Wilson, stated that Mr. Henry Bury, of Edenfield, has subscribed 100/. The total sum received amounts to 74,795 L The collection in London is making rapid progress, and the reports transmitted by the collectors are of the most cheering character. At the next meeting of the committee, a return of the amounts collected in Lancashire, York shire, Cheshire, Staffordshire, and Warwickshire, will be submitted. THE WESTMINSTER IMPROVEMENTS.—ALLOCATION OF THE POOR-RATES.—It is stated that another attempt will be made to carry out the long talked-of improve ments in Westminster by an allocation of the poor-rates, and bills are extensively circulated in St. Margeret's mid St. John's parishes, ca'ling on the rate-payers not to consent to any such application of the parochial funds. Great complaints are everywhere made, too, that the Government did not take tho plan upon themselves, with out leaving it to be a matter for speculation. CHARLTON FAlR.—This pleasure fair, which is better known as " Horn fair," will commence on Monday next, and continue three days, at Charlton (near Black heath). Its charter is of ancient date, and it once ranked among the first-class suburban pleasure fairs. It has of late years gradually declined, and has now become a mere phantom of by-gone fairs. , . _ I Pc t> 11 1 t. .14 •--"„4-. NE IV MARKET (THIS DAY.) RACES. BY ELECTRIC TELEGEAPH, Sweepstakes of 10 sots. each. T.Y.C. Mr. Newton's Redwing Mr. Marsou's Bedouin Match, 100. A.F. Tom Tulioch beat llu.mirum. handicap Plate. A.F. Mr. Parr's Dulcet Mr. Stewart's Cranebrook Twenty-five ran. Match, 100. Ab.g. Tatuina beat Retriever Match, 500. T.Y.C.—Alarm beat Oalloy. RO YAL I'o AIL STEAM-PA CKET COMPANY.-(THIS DAY.) A general gall-yearly meeting of the directors and proprietors of this company was belt], at one o'clock this day, at the London Tavern. Notwiilistanding the inauspi cious state of the weather, a considerable number of proprietors attended. Thomas Baring, Ecq., occupied the chair. The CHAlnmax said, owing to the absence of the Chairman of the company, he had been requested to take the chair on that occasion. He did not know that it was necessary for him, at the commencement of the meeting, to make any other observations beyond con gratulating the proprietors upon the regular operations of the company, and upon its favourable prospects. lle then called upon the Secretary to read the report and financial statement. The report set forth that, at the corresponding meet ing last year, the directors announced that they had succeeded in arranging with her Majesty's Government the preliminaries of an amended contract for the com pany, plaeing its affairs upon a more satisfactory basis, and they may now add that the new agreement has since received the formal ratification of both parties. The company's ships continue to arrive and depart at the various places, both abroad and at home, with the greatest regularity, and the manner in which the ser vice is conducted appears to afford general satisfaction. Since the last meeting of the proprietors the contem plated arrangements for conveying passengers and treasure across the Isthmus of Panama have been com pleted; and other means are also in progress for faci litating to the utmost this important traffic. The additional number of persons travelling by the COM pany's ships have rendered it necessary to extend the cabin accommodation, which has entailed considerable expense on the company, but this will no doubt be fully compensated by increasing the receipts. The amount now invested on the insurance account is 50,773/. 4s. in Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Stock, and the claims hitherto against this fund have been very inconsiderable. It will be observed that upon the total expenditure the working account now presented shows an augmentation over that of the first six months of last year, amounting to 3,863/. 3s. Id, which arises principally from an increase under the head of " provisions," occasioned by the greater number of passengers ; and it affords the directors much gratifica tion that they are enabled to exhibit an augmentation in the receipts, amounting to 10,3321. 18s. 1 ld., showing therefore an increased surplus of 6,4691. 15s. 10d. over the corresponding period of last year. Looking at this steady improvement in the company's finances, and having no reason to doubt its continuance for the subse quent six months of the present year, the directors feel justified in proposing an addition of five shillings per share to the dividend, making it for the half-year ended 30th June last, 11. 15s. per share, to be paid free of de duction on and after the 19th inst. The financial statement submitted to the proprietors showed the disbursements for the half-year, from the Ist of January to the 30th of June last, to be 146,123/. 6s. 3d., and the receipts for the same period 195,014/. 16s. 4d., leaving a surplus, 48,891/. 10s. Id., being a net increase of 6,469/. 15s. 10d. over the preceding halt . -year. The CHAIRMAN moved the adoption of the report. Mr. limo WAY seconded the motion. lie said he was one of the original proprietors of the company, and that he held 25 shares ; and, therefore, whatever he might say with respect to its affairs, or the proceedings of the directors, was only dictated by one feeling— namely, the good of the undertaking in which they had embarked their capital. He did not hesitate to state that in his opinion there were many grounds for bringing some grave accusations against the directors. During the last few months their income had been ma terially increased—perhaps the directors did not think it proper to mention this important fact to the pro prietors, but it was right they should know that a great increase had taken place to their income during the last few months. He wished therefore to have a reply to this question, whether or not in the course of one month, August, since the making up of the accounts to the 30th of June, the profits had been greater than during the entire preceding half-year?—(Several directors. " No, no.") If he was not correct in this assumption at any rate the increased profits formed a very large item ; and the fact was one, as he had said, of which the proprietary ought not to he kept in ignorance, especially as it was of a nature to encourage those' ho had supported the company under all the disadvantages under which it had formerly laboured. In the report presented at the last meeting the shareholders were informed that •the profits had materially increased; and an Honourable Proprietor who was present on that occasion—Mr. Stuart—expressed an opinion to the effect that the dividend ought, on the showing of the accounts, to be at least seven and a half per cent. Now those who had borne the brunt of this great undertaking ought not to be left with the small additional increase on their divi dends of the half-year mentioned in the report. They ought to have some benefit from the capital they had invested, and not be left to the fluc tuations of the money market, for the com pany had stood well amidst the difficulties which had attended all joint-stock companies during the last few years. To show the increased value of their shares, he might state that some time ago he bought some shares at 121., on which 601. had been paid, and although they were purchased at so small a rate, they were of great value in the market at the present moment. A very large fund had been reserved to meet any casualties that might occur to the company's ships, but it appeared to him that they had a sufficiently ample reserve fund to meet any exigency that might occur, without adding to that fund what ought legitimately to be applied to the dividend fund. The report stated that the new arrangements the directors had made had given great satisfaction ; still he had heard complaints made by parties that they had been shifted during their ,journey from one boat to another, and that their position in one ship was altered when they were removed to an other. Unquestionably this was a course which entailed the greatest inconvenience upon their passengers, par ticularly upon ladies. There were also complaints that the wine was of an inferior quality. Though he had named this on a former occasion, and though it was treated as an immaterial matter, still he thought it was a matter of the utmost importance.—(Hear.) There should be no ground of complaint on this head, because the passengers paid a good price, and it was to the ad vantage of the company to induce them to patronise them as much as possible. However, they could not ob ject to the reception of the report ; he hoped, however, that something would be done before long—before the next meeting. Perhaps before then the directors would voluntarily declare an increased dividend in the shape of a bonus. shape The CHAIRMAN explained that the increase of divi dend for the half-year was ss. on every share of 60/., or 31. los. per share. He (Mr. Ridgway) was wrong in saying that there was only f increase. —(Mr. Ridgway intimated that he did not say so.) The Hon. Proprietor had been most censorius for many years, so much so that he was the last person from whom he should have expected a recommendation to increase the dividend, inasmuch as no one was so prolific of predictions of evil to the company, in fact speech appeared to have been given him to conceal his thoughts. It was true he had a perfect right to censure the directors, whose duty it was to listen to all he or any other Hon. Proprietor might address to them, but he would allow him (the Chairman) to state that no one had depreciated the amount of dividend more zealously than the Hon. Pro prietor had done, when it was less than at present. The Chairman than read a statement of the receipts in August last and in August of last year. By that state ment it appeared that the Hon. Proprietor was in correct in his data with respect to the extraordinary increase which he stated had taken place since the making up of the accounts. The whole increase, it appeared from this statement, during the three months ending the 30th of September, outward and homeward, was 6,890/. The amount of capital received, he (the Chairman) considered by no means too great for the casualties which might arise. The next accusation which the hoc. proprietor brought against them was, that the statement in the re port, that their proceedings had given general satisfac tion was incorrect. Nothing would have been more pre sumptuous than to have stated that their proceedings had met with the approbation of the worthy proprietor —(Hear)—but they were correct in stating that they had met with " general satisfaction," which did not in clude the worthy proprietor. His next charge referred to the removing of passengers. Mr. RIDGWAY explained, that if a passenger took a berth at Bermuda, he was liable to be removed to ano ther at Grenada. The Cirarnsusz said it was impossible to regulate throughout a long voyage the irremovability of the pas sengers, because it was not easy to ascertain what berths had been pre-engaged in the different colonies at which the boats called. The wines had certainly been com plained cf—(Hear, hear)—and the Directors had given their attention to the sulject. They now employed two instead of one wine merchant, who affixed their pieces to their wines, which was hung up in each, ship, so that the passengers themselves could test the wines and disover the best. He (the Chairman) urged the proprietors not to declare an amount of dividend beyond that which the circumstances of the Company could yield.—(Hear, hear.) The Directors were naturally anxious to increase the dividends, because they held a large stake in the company, but when they looked to the casualties —their great floating capital, and the shortnes: of the contract they had now to run—they considered the reserve fund not too ample, even although they had a 50,0001. insurance fund. Although their profits had increased, no very great a dditi ons h a d b een made to their capital stock. The report and accounts were then received, and _ s r (t.,17( ordered to be printed and circulated amon) holt:ers. t PVIiVr4.4.:•; I. 1.4 Mr- C. Minns highly complimented the the great interest they had taken in the corn direction of any company in the City of Lo lk AA greater stake in any one comp an y t h an t h ey di . in tglt`"li.:2 Company. Instead of paying 61. dividend, they did not, in fact, pay more than :)/., as they were then paying off three years of arrears. It should not, therefore, go forth that they were accumulating a large capital with out enhancing the dividends. Then the insurance fund amounted to 25,n00/. a 3 ear. The casualties to which their property was exposed were great. One company had lost one ship (the Great Britain, we presume), and by accounts received that morning they had nearly lost their n mainir g one (the Great Western). Ile concluded by passing a vote of thanks to the chairman and direc tors, expressive of the continued confidence of the shareholders iu them, which was seconded by Mr. Poynder. Mr. RIDGWAY would not object to the motion, but he seriously objected to the conduct of the Hon. Chairman, who hsci s, to prevent him from giving free expres sion to the opinion entei timed.— (Cries of "(Order, order.") He wits perfectly in order, as he was speaking on a motion which b id reference to the conduct of the chairman and th. directors. He wishei it to be distinctly understood that Lc sh.,old not hesitate to express his sentiments on the affairs of th e Company. He asked if there %%ere not ample grounds for censure ? Undoubtedly there were. He hoped fur the future that the chair wan 01141 evince more courtesy to bile when he felt it his duty to remonstrate. He (Mr. Ridgway), in his position of life, was as respectable as any one in his (Mr. Baring's) father's house. The CHAIRMAN ackno , %ledged the right of Mr. Ridg way to express his censure and as perseveringly as he had done. Ile was not aware of having offended the Hon. Proprietor in any thimg he had said. Ile motion was then carried, and the meeting se parated. --- I DREADFUL EXPLOSION and LOSS OF LIFE AT WALKER IRON WORKS. NEWCASTLE• UPON-TYNE, TUESDAY.—A dreadful ex plosion occurred last night at the extensive iron works of Messrs. Lush, Wilson, and Bell, situated on the river Tyne, at Walker, about three miles below New castle. Three persons were killed, one by the force of the explosion, and the other two by inhaling the impure air before the explosion took place, and several others have been seriously injured. The Walker iron works are the most extensive in this district, and give employ , ment to upwards of a thousand men. They comprise the various processes of manufacture from the iron stone, whence the ore is extracted, to the completion of the mechanism for which it is designed. Two blast fur naces and four refineries are in continual operation. The blast is produced by an air pump, worked by a steam engine of one hundred and twenty horse power, pump ing on an average 14,000 cubic feet of air per minute. The blast is conducted from the blowing cylinder in metal pipes to the various furnaces, the feeding pipe being about six feet in diameter, and connected with others of smaller dimensions, from which branch pipes of still smaller bore extend to the fires. In order to regulate the blast, a large receiver is placed in the line of these pipes, which being filled with highly condensed air, operates in producing a uni forntity of action in the blast pipe during the return stroke of the air-pump. There are two air-pumps on the premises, one on the east and the other on the west side of the boiler, and both communicating with it, but for some time the pump on the west side has not been worked, the other one, which has recently been erected, being larger, and capable of doing all the work required. The works corer fourteen or fifteen acres of ground, and the pipes, therefore, are of considerable length. The escape valve opens into a drain, communicating with the river, as does also the privy for the use of the workmen, the latter being in that part of the works west of the reservoir above described. The accident appears to have arisen from an accumulation of foul air in the reservoir, and the pipes to the westward of it. It appears that about six o'clock yesterday evening the men in the works were alarmed by hearing groans issuing from the privy, and one of the boys went down to see what was the matter, when he was heard to utter a loud scream, and fall down, almost immediately on reaching the bottom of the stairs. This alarming circumstance brought several of the workmen to the spot, and with much diffi culty the boy was dragged out, in a state of insensibility, from which he was with difficulty recovered. A lamp having been procured, it was ascertained that a man and a boy were in the privy, and no doubt the groaning that was heard proceeded from them. With great difficulty both were drawn out, and the usual restoratives applied, but without effect, as they were both dead. It was judged that the impure air had proceeded from tho drain, into which it might have passed from the blast pipes after having been generated in the furnace. The pipes were accordingly examined. One branch pipe that had been plugged was found with the plug out, and the blast escaping from the orifice. The men tried to close this opening, but they were not able on account of the strength of the blast. Robert Rogers and Wil liam Short, two of the overseers, then caused the pump ing engine to be stopped, and they proceeded to the reservoir in order to close the orifice of the pipe leading from it to that portion of the works where the privy is situated. They opened the man hole of the reservoir, and Rogers was in the act of lacking in, when a tre mendous explosion took place, the force of which carried poor Rogers into the air, the height of nearly fifty feet. and landed him on an eminence about twenty yards from the place. Ile was literally shattered to pieces. Ilis arm was blown off, his head and face flattened, and dreadfully disfigured ; and when gathered up, his body presented a horrible mass of mutilated remains. Short was blown some distance from the spot, and also much injured, but ho fortunately escaped the direct action of the explosion The reservoir, which was of plate metal, three-six teenths of an inch in thickness, was blown to frag ments, which were sent with tremendous violence in every direction, through the roofs of adjacent buildings, knocking down walls, and everything that obstructed their progress. One large piece of metal plate was driven at least three hundred yards from the place, and the windows in nearly every house in the vicinity of the explosion were broken. The inhabitants of the cottages adjoining the works, on hearing the noise, rushed out of their houses, and a group had as sembled near some palings, where they stood a few mo ments surveying the scene of the disaster at the distance of about 150 yards, when suddenly a massive metal plate descended within a few feet of them on to one of the posts of the paling with such violence that the wooden post actually pierced the plate, which came to rest about a foot from the ground, supported by the fragments of broken palings, and with the post sticking through it. The men had no light near the reservoir, nor was there any fire seen at the time of the explosion, which seems to have issued from the orifice of the blast pipe as from the mouth of a cannon. The end of the blowing cy linder was carried over the heads of the workmen in the rolling mill to the opposite side of the building, where it struck a man and broke his leg. Another fragment struck a youth, and injured him severely. The rest seem to have fortunately escaped. It is conjectured that the explosion arose from the cause above described —namely, the ignition of inflammable air in the pipes, which it is supposed arose from the furnace, but that has not yet been satisfactorily ascertained. An inquest on view of the bodies of the unfortunate sufferers was opened this afternoon, and was adjourned till Thursday. ALARMING RISE.—We already knew the Duke of Wellington was dear 'to his country, but we never ex• pected he would rise to such " a very large figure."— Punch. RAPID PASSAGE. - The splendid iron clipper schooner Prince of Wales, which left London on Friday morning, at seven o'clock, reached Leith harbour at six o'clock on Sunday evening, thus performing the passage (a distance of nearly 500 miles) in the remarkably short space of 47 hours. The celebrated Greek General Kalergi, who so admirably conducted the movement at Athens on the 15th of September, 1843, arrived in town on the 10th instant. THE MODEL PRISON, CLENICENWELL.—This pri son, intended us a house of detention for untried persons, is to be ready for use by the commencement of the next year. THE PROJECTOR OF SOCIALISM.--Robert Owen has returned again to the United States, having crossed the Atlantic four times in less than six months. Though upwards of seventy-five years old, he is still as enthu siastic as ever in the pursuit of his plans of reform.-- New York Tribune. WIFE.-Ye s terday, j it e 3 s , t v er o d li a c y e , c s o h n o s r t t a ly bl b e ef s o 2 r 6 e , tw w o as o' s c i l t oc tin k g , A POLICEMAN DANGEROUSLY S TABBED BY BI S e t n cl i a i n r with his wife, at their lodgings, Talbot -court, Grace church-street, when some words arose between them, which ended in the wife throwing with great violence a sharply•pointed table-knife, which struck him in the neck, beneath the right ear. The blood gushed forth profusely from the wound, and the poor fellow rushed out to Mr. Smith's, surgeon, to whom he stated that he had been stabbed by his wife. Mr. Smith, finding that the wound was nearly an inch and a half deep, and that the carotid artery bad been in jured, instantly forwarded him to St. 7'homas's Hos pital, where he now remains in an almost hopeless state, arising chiefly from the loss of blood, as well as from the dangerous nature of the wound, owing to the great difficulty of uniting the artery. Immediately after the occurrence the wife gave herself up at the station-house Garlick hill. Benjamin Wood is a mild inoffensive man, and is deemed a very excellent officer ; he has been at tached to the force almost ever since it was. first estab lished, and was highly respected both by his superiors as well as his brother officers. __ A CHILD DROWNED IN A WASHING- run.—Yester day forenoon, an inquest was held before Mr. Wm. Carter, at the Pitt's Head Tavern, Grange-road, Ber mondsey, on the body of Samuel Robert Hodgkins, aged eight months, whose friends reside at No. 10, Diamond street, Grange-road. It appeared from the evidence that the parents of the deceased were destitute. The de ceased, who was in good health, was left on the morning of Monday on the bed, by its mother, while she went out of the room, and on her return soon afterwards she discovered the deceased lying head downwards in a washing-tub, containing some dirty water, which had been carelessly left by the bedside. She raised the de ceased up, but life was apparently extinct. A surgeon was also called in, but all efforts to restore animation were of no avail. The supposition is that the deceased rolled off the bed while the mother was absent. The jury, after a few remarks in reference to the careless ness of the mother, returned a verdict of "Accidental death." MORE CONVICTS FOR VAN DIMMEN'S LAND.—The Arabian, Government transport, has refitted at Dept ford Victualling-yard, and is ordered to drop down to her Majesty's Dockyard, Woolwich, to receive 300 con victs on board, who will be sent down from the Peniten tiary, for a passage to Van Diemen's Land.