The Sun. — London, England, 1852-08-20 00:00:00

L ITE RA T U RE. BE NTL BY'S -SHILLING SERIES. Among the cheaper end yet at tie same time the really valuable p u bli ca ti ons o f t h e d ay, Beictlry's Skil -1%, , g Series has already Resumed a very conspicuous position. It comprises some of the most delightful little. volumes imaginahlo—preeiselte the very books to amuse and instruct a traveller. Here, for example, are " N otes on Noses " —the very thing to tickle the diaphragm of even the most dyspeptic into laughter — !rammed with conceits that would have been "nuts" to &awkenburgina ! Here again is "The Comic oglish Grammar," with fifty of Leech's most prepos terous (and by that we mean most delectable) illus trations. Leech, by t h e way , f rom hi s e arliest an d symbolical signature—to say nothing of his fun must surely be the very " bottle imp" of caricatu rists ! Here are " Turf Characters," including both officials and subalterns—and interesting to all those who have ever had a love for "the ring," an anxiety about Tottenham Corner, or an interest in the colossal bettin g of Davis—of all betters the Leviathan. Here 15 g o od, honest "Martin Toutrond"—showing us what capital drolleries James Morier imagined might in this great B a b e l o f ours b ete l an un l uc ky wight of an ad venturous Frenchman. Besides these, we have the famous "Ni g h ts a t S ea ," w ritten by the Old Sailor, . 51 " u as all the (reading) world knows now was no other than M. H. Barker. Then there is another andme of th e ser i es devoted to the grim awful story of the "Loss of the Amazon Steam- vessel," at every mention of which fo ra lung while to come each gentle heart wi ll h eave , a sigh for po o r Eliot Warburton ! Added to whic h -- ceines another volume comprising the " Bor der Tal es ," told by W. H. M axwe ll— pat h e ti c in his Stories of Waterloo," enthralling in "My Life, or Captain Blake," and renowned' in his history of t i la i e Duke of Wellington." Through these " Border poor Maxwell recounted, as his readers will re member, some among the legends of the Cheviot s And the Lammermuir. Again—comes before us, T he Great Western—[snot Railway, but]—Re- Public," as described by Colonel Cunynghame ! :rhea we have Albert Smith's merry little magazine t t P° l4 Tri bight his " Comic Tales and Sketches." ad e eti but by no means least in the series of these very j air ahle and diversified reprints, we meet once more uo our delight—with Thomas Henry Sealey's t glorious. " Porcelain Tower," consisting of Nine . 1 3 : 1 1e 8- --11 work famous from its first appearance in the n leY's Miscellany. Dismayed as we are to find hav e been punning title—than which nothing could "oen happier or more appropriate—transformed "Broad Grins from China," we are disposed, reftheless to welcome the work as heartily as ever, a bl r i ( . l ‘ snur full and cordial appreciation of its humorous "Y. Who that has once lingered over the narra ovve the life of " Hofi of the Yellow Girdle," can 2' forget him ? Who can lose a remembrance of o f 11 ,blai Khan," describing the siege of Kinsai; or th Fashion s i n F ee t," telling us all about or e beautif u l T o-To ; oro f " H yson an d B o h ea ;" th',, a gain, of th e " Porcelain Bath," or of f rom Feast of Lanterns," comprising letters Sala-Sing to Weep-Weep, and from 16 -- -cila to Pin-Wing, or of the " Emperor " id an g - Te anent the plough and the loom, or of arriae in a Mask," introducing us to that re eer dog the Cunning Shaver Chin ? Who, we l',l l eat t can ever forget—but who, least of all, could to cheri s h a reco ll ect i on o f , the " Student of n ee rha u "—that i mmor t a l tal e ab o ut opium smoking ? ,r us i l ie which it i s remar k e d b y th e au th or a t its con -70%?°, my song,' says Pi-Ping, in concluding this tale, And tel h ' e waters of fame with thine oar and thy sail; Fop-',ages, and ages, and ages to come team ,Fop, and Fee-Fee, and Fo-Fo, and Fun- If for ;loathing else in the whole series, the subscribers ave these charming volumes published by Mr. Bentley , ui Ifeel grateful for the reprint of Sealey's " Force- Gein„ ewer," grotesquely illustrated as the ." Broad ftaitta-V:r"3 China" by the oddest little fantastic wood ohn Leech. Bentley's RailroadLibrary,as we ebe--7 We have tolerably well proved, may—among 0 , 4 ,P serials —be regarded as comparable to the best 'ls Contemporaries. 21 0 "R'S GUIDES. Vol. 11.—Switzerland and Th e Savoy. cliff_ celebrated guide-books for travelling in the la s h ed _, countries of the European Continent, pub after "" uuring the last ten or twelve years, edition au,edition, by Mr. Murray, appears to have at last vis 6 -P ste d to another enterprising publisher the ad ate7ll"itY 330 er form, producing at a cheaper rate, and in a other works of a similar character. Mr. a ss B u li p e has in th e present vo l ume a ff or d e d additional G u i d l i nc e of the grea t i n t r i ns i c mer it o f the series of re ee - , s for Trav e ll ers , upon the i ssue o f which he has eiteolltLY adventured. Withi n 338 pages duode nary „ l a here compac t e d toge th er an extraordi throjnhacuut of information conducting the tourist Swit z e l ri all the interesting localities in Savoy and th - ose and ., Foremost among the facts introduced Lions f or - ' ils ot course, having reference to the prepara- Passp ort , '," e ioUrney, in regard to baggage, money, manner 'i o -13 ; 1 1, lacguage. A section is devoted in like guides - "e inns of Switzerland. Another to the renov -- -m- a ",ther to the charts—another to the cur ls We, 4-114 the least valuable portion of the work th e rage relating to the relative value of coins in Itla c e l lutries traversed. After an allusion to the scarcely less interesting than the previous compile to the co i ns i n circulation, the guide-book do Jiler adventures at once upon a minute descrip -41-:f the various routes in Switzerland. In this thr n-er he conducts the reader through Basle, -4 gh B erne , Thun, Zug, Zurich, llorgen, Le s auna, Freiburg, by Geneva, by Lake tilan and by Lake Lucerne. The portable 1 1 , -a t i re ' of this volume is a great recommendation, for ~) as formerly, " a great book is a great evil." eret compactness, however, would be of little use '"out fulness of information, which is the charac of the work. It is no mere guide-book, but i t e l ally compagnon de voyage, always able and ready fi i , II I ,PPIY the necessary information. There is the v, e ' k uer advantage of as good a map of Switzerland as heave ever seen—clear, full (but not crowded), and t i et n ,i s ? Printed on the newly patented transparent linen ath e " , has the further advantage of being free from le usual liability to get torn. No book of this /4r,' in frequent use, should have maps printed upon r' thin and fragile. ' 2113 , ESSAYS, AND OPINIONS. By A. B. Tiles Richards. Aylott and Jones. . aT L ' 2 .are four volumes of articles repr i nted frcm 4 1 ,Z ) 'Amor of the Time," in which they originally jetV ec l. They treat of a great number of sub ' and some of the verses are pleasing. LECTURES --- -- -- ' ( IRES ON POLITICAL ECONOMY. By Th e , F. • W. Newm an . J o h n Ch a pman. toil e e lectures were recently delivered at the Lad ies' %Lien sve re g,2 io Bedford-square, but some passages which oe o mitted are now r e st o red. The subjects ladi:rtainly somewhat unusual for the study of tneat':; t leh as national debt and poor-laws, Gove.srmn-, ke., bt;teN'teue, public remedies for our pauperism, 11 " to an de are well suited to the general reader, Will b e t'evnted to the study of such subjects they yerY attractive. TES _ ____ 131 t0 1 A7 9,,N THE NORTH-WESTERN 'haft% — ' - k9 OP INDIA. By Charles Rashes. All lut e - : 1 ,,.:!Gt klall. in the various cus ofor : f i 37 - Lin g;;; oorie work .by the magistrate and collec: of th e inh ~. which describes . quarrels and a blta nts, t ° Show , i n tritirders, "The attempt of the writer is which give rise to frequent of our civil admix -- a Popular manner, the working which he is attachestration in that part of India t 0.,, lhow d bY the ties of duty and long service. m ile . t4kesa.'ne nutnerous evils that arise from trifling fromi the pain g"erinaent, and the difficulties arising The ric Peculiar nature and habits of the people. It tid !oust be ittlte o lng the details of Indian government, as the a great advantage to those desirous of ktil b r ) being a resident in that country, must eces titej„ h ave these opportunities of observation n which liUthority to his statements. ZIPr,- .60 OF THE PAINTERS, SCULP" 48, D ARCHITECTS. 'p i nt the Italian of Giorgio Vasari. Dh j ' e s ue se volumes contain asari's renownTe.ar.abni:rtaed *st t i 'f the most celebrated painters. kare,,ranslation of this immortal work thlathishaiss the - ja our language. -13.E4UTY OF AMALFI Smith, Elder, Thi s • and Co. of tb la a wild and romantic Italian tale of the days tragic revolution of Massniello. The conclusion i ;i, is in the extreme and well calculated to enter te admirers of the awful and appalling. _ - Th e 2HE ZOIST. I✓ro periie first article in this number treats of the new . Th,l l : rti es of metals, illustrated through mesmerism. iih c f": L are also "A. Few Words on Electro-Biology," F eral last meeting of the Bristol Institute. se teu: instances of cures by mesmerism are given, and a of clairvoyance described. TO THE Wz, s -- IGRANT'S GUIDE TEEN STATES OF Jo? tn Itegan Oliver and Boyd. AMERICA. By An, i r . . ' ; • of the adven tut,. ,eresting vOluttle, descriptive rants, l t w " li n i f the author, who started for the back woods. w 4B it 131. " e a the greatest assistance to g . ade lveB an account of the capacities of ._ so. I,etinl instructions for emigrants in fitting out, I': the Now!! ',ands, Scc., and describes the manners of _ . c. • the prairie is th e s ''“ l - The present is the second editian,.wh' n tai zi , u 8t Proof of its utility, and thc; Appendix eon ltd,_ a nswer s to forty-two questions which have been ii_ressed to the author on the But:l.4ot of cirligratlen mue the publication of the first. Ivo s t ous r 00°' No TIfE RGYAL ITALIAN OPERA. W,;ll;vetocongratulate M. Ju Hien on the great improvement which last Light was visible in his opera —subjected, iIF; it evidently had been, to a system of wholesome and judicious curtailment. The audience evidently shared the opinion, and the second and third acts, both of which went somewhat unsatisfactorily on the opening performance, were last evening as prosperous as the first. The opera, indeed, is shortened by nearly an hour. We dare say the " cuts" went to M. Jullien's heart, but he showed his good sense and amenity to advice in making them, and last night he reaped the benefit. Peter the Great, as it is now played, is a far more agreeable performance than it was on the first night. It has gained by the shorten ing of the chorusses and the excision of the repetition of vocal passages and stage business originally per formed more than once. The chorus in the first act, and the threatening of Rommi with the axe, hive been compacted with great advantage, and the ballet has been shortened. So also of the ballet in the third act, while in the second there has been a regular sweep made of all the horses. There is no defiling of the army—the scene opening in nicely arranged groups of northern warriors instead ; the brass bands are kept within limit, and the latter portion of the act, particularly the lengthened chorus, is cut down to more modest-dimension. We repeat that the im provement has been great. Tne good points remain the same, but they are brought closer, and thus made to support each other, while the general effect is far lighter and more varied. Pietro it Grande is now an established triumph. CIRCULAK. OSBORNE, THURSDAY. Her Majesty, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, and the Royal Family walked in the grounds yester day. At the Privy Council held yesterday the Marquis of Granby was sworn in Lord-Lieutenant of Lin colnshire. The Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Derby, the Earl of Malmesbury, Mr. Secretary Walpole, Sir John Pakington, Mr. Harries, and the Duke of Northum berland had audiences of the Queen. At three o'clock the whole of the noblemen and gentlemen who had attended the Council embarked in the steam-vessel Fire Queen, and crossed over to Southampton. The Chancellor of the Exchequer left town yester day for Hughenden Manor, Bucks. Mr. Corry had an interview with Mr. Secretary Walpole yesterday, at the Home-office. Mr. R. Hall had also an interview with the Right Hon- Secretary. Sir John Pakington left town for his seat, West wood-park yesterday. The Cambridge University Commission had a meeting yesterday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury in Downing-street. Pre sent, the Bishop of Chester, the Dean of Ely, Pro fessor Sedg wick, and the Rev.W. H. Bason (Secretary). Dispatches were sent yesterday to the Governors of Hong-Kong and Ceylon, the Lord High Commis sioner of the lonian Islands, and the Governor of Malta, from the Colonial-office. COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) COWES, AUG, 18, At the Royal Yacht Squadron dinner were present— Earl of Wilton, Commodore, in the chair; C. R. M. Talbot, Vice-Commodore, in the vice -chair; Marquis of Conyngham, Lord Ernest Bruce, Lord Bateman, Sir B. Graham, Sir J. Bayley, Lord James Butler, Sir H. Bold Hoghton, Bart., Major-General Simpson and Aide-de-Camp, Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, Joseph Weld, Esq., Colonel Petre, Lord Exmouth, W. Dela field, Esq., T. Chamberlaine, Esq., A. J. H.amborough, Esq., Captain Crispin, John Beardmore, Esq., A. Gre villa, Esq., and about 30 other noblemen and gentlemen, dined together. Lord Adolphus kindly sent some ex cellent singers from the royal yacht, who afforded much pleasure to the company. AUGUST 19. PRINCE ALBERT'S Cu , —The following schooner yachts started at 11 A.M., with a light breezy from the northward: — Alarm, 248 tons, Joseph Weld, Esq. Claymore, 138 ton, A. Campb,ll, E2q. Gloriana, 134 tons, J. Gee, Lg . . Gipsey Queen, 160 tons, Sir H. B. Hoghton, Bart. The Gipsey Queen took the lead, as uival, but the wind is so light, that there is great u nce rt a inty where the advantage really lies. Glorious weather for the harvest. TLIE AUSTRALIAN GOLD DIGGINGS. We have been favoured with the sight of a letter from a young man now at Adelaide to his parents in this country, which contains some points of information that may be useful to persons intending to emigrate. The letter is dated March 1, and begins by stating that '•trade at Adelaide is at en end and the town deserted,' there nut being more than 100 men at that date in the colony. Last December the writer joined a party wbo travelled on foot overland 500 miles to Mount Alexan der to work at the diggings; but not liking his compa nions, he returned to Adelaide by sea, and was about to start afresh with more congenial associates. He thus describes the labours and sufferings he underwent in his gold-digging excursions:—" I have b een t en weeks sleeping on the ground without a bed, and for weeks not undressed I have gone through swamps up to the middle in water, traversed burning hot sands—deserts 30 miles across—travelled under a scorching sun, nearly deed with thirst, and for days not able to wash myself, from want of water. One of our party was killed on the road, and we had to bury him 200 miles from home." A ga i n: —" The gold is not to be obtained with out hard work, such as labouring men can hardly en dure. Advise everyone who is getting a good living in England to remain." Thousands, he anticipates, will be disappointed; and he observes that none are fit for the diggings who cannot sleep under a tree in the open air, drink water of all colours, go f ur a wee k unwashed and unshaved, and submit to be overrun w i t h vermin The Californians are coming over. Ther e are about. 30,000 diggers at present, all well armed. Hitherto they have successfully resisted the attempts of Government to overtax them. They hare commenced lynch-law, and the sooner it gets general the better, to get rid of the hordes of ruffians who aro prowling about. Lynch law has no terrors for an honest man." Provisions are very high: the 41b. loaf, le. 9d.; butter and cheese, ss. a pound; and everything , else in proportion. The writer, who hopes to make his fortune at the diggings, expresses his intention of returning to South Australia to spend the remainder of his days in that colony, whi c h he has no doubt will in a year or two become exceedingly prosperous. BYLAUGH HALL, NORFOLK. A spirited paragraph in the Athenceum has made known the near completion of Bylaugh Hall amongst hedge-rows and turnip-fields, and prepared the way for the more complete information we were about to give our readers. The style adopted is what is now generally understood by the term Anglo-Italian; a style which identifies itself, by its masses and outlines, with what is properly called English architecture. The house is of ample size, though of less magnitude than has been in dicated in the notice referred to, and the engraved plan will best show its arrangements fur comfort and con venience. The Chancery joke, too, of our able contem porary, unluckily falls to the ground, since, by the wish of those who are interested, the inscription referred to, " Ex jussu Curiae Cancellarise," has been cut out and replaced by a frieze ornament. The building has been erected from the design and under the superintendence of Messrs. Banks and Barry, of London, by the Messrs. Piper, of Bishopsgate-street, who have performed their work in a very creditable manner, to the satisfaction of the architects. Their contract, which has just been completed, amounted to 29,3891., a sum below the original estimate, and the work has been brought to a conclusion without any extra expenditure. The ma terial is Magnesian Limestone, from the quarries of Mr, Grissell, from which the Houses of Parliament have been constructed, and, seen without the disadvantage of London smoke and dirt, is of a warm and pleasing coluur. Messrs. Piper have just entered into a second contract for the formation of the terraces, conservatories, and enclosure walls and balustrades (which, it is under stood, are very complete), befitting a mansion of such importance; and these works, as well as the enclosing of the space appropriated to the park by means of a brick wall, with lodges in the Norwich, Dereham, and Faken barn Woods, will be at once commenced. The park and pleasure grounds will be arranged and laid out from the designs of Mr. W. A. Nesfield, the well-known landscape artist, whose advice, it seems, was also followed in the outset as to the precise position where the mansion could best be placed, and whose choice in this respect has met the approval of all the parties concerned. — Builder. o T f I LTO mutilation D andDE death Au T DEATH;—One of the ever ° recorded most i I Odreadful Ei c a l ‘' s l e sU A has occurred in Leeds. It appears that on Saturday last a man named Thomas Nicholson, aged 48, an the brewery of Messrs. Spong , was tending th e at the machine w tw for gr i n ding malt. During the morning he was formissed hours; it was not, however, supposed that anythingans a miss until a person enter in g the g rindin g r oom ( where de ceased had been employed alone ) , observed a portion of Nl : c h o : s on's body whirling round the shaft, and the roo m lik e ; slaughter house. T he machine was as speedily as possible stopped. It was then found that both Nicholson's feet had been cut off, and that his left arm was torn from the body by the shoulder -joint, and that his right arm, legs, and body were frightfully mangled. It is unnecessary to add that he was quite dead, and had been so for scme time, it being pro bable that the mutilated remains had been whirling round the shaft for two hours! It is supposed he had been caught by . the jacket and got amongst t he machinery. The coroner's jury have returned a verdict of "Accidental Death." NEW LINE OF OCEAN STEAMERS BETWEEN PORT LAND AXE. LlVERPOOL—Arrangements have been fully con summated, by which a line of ocean stea mers is established between Portland and Liverpool, in connexion with the Port land-and Montreal Railroad, commencing in the autumn of 185 3, in season forthe fall and winter business of that year. The contract is entered into with an eminent English house in Liver ol l boats to be aely connected with ocean s t ea mers; the screw opellers constructed of iron, equ al or su perior to anything r o f " for first, the kind afloat, of large tonnag e, de signedpacity for freight second, or third-class passengers, with a ca- Boston At/cis. of at least 1,t;00 tons measurement cargo.— L ANCASIIIR E AND YORKSHIRE DIVIDEND. — At meeting of the Board of Directors held on Wednesday, !t was resolved to recommend the proprietors to declare a di vidend at the rate of three per cent, per annum. SUN, SPECIMENS OF THE DELUGE. A PROPHECY, BY LORD MUDSTONE,- - IN LEAVES FROM TEIE LOG. Weather hazy in the h ay . Wind: Downing-street by Somerset Home. Took soundings in the hold.* No water; or should have sent llerries to the pumps. Ordered Malmesbury aloft to look out: reported that he could see nothing before him: didn't expect he would. Ship sides like a duck—sounded again, and not a drop cf water; hut then. as Pakington says, we pitched it so very strong. lazy weather, with scudding fogs. At 12 P.M. bumped against something: took soundings, with a piece of butter at the end of lead: brought up a bit of stone, which, the B—p of L—n—n, bursting into tears, iden tified as a piece of Fulham Palace. Fog very thick in deed. At noon. Dizzy takes an observation. Swears he sees, &e. &c. &c. in distance: nobody believes him— laughs, and says he doesn't believe it himself. Wind, the Bank by Exchange-Change East. Nom: Dizzy protests that, &c., &c., &c. This time, others protest so, too—somebody floating in the distance. We put up the helm, and shake out all red tape-1 mean all reels Approach the man in the water. Make him out with our glasses—and so he proves to be—Palmerston in his Windsor uniform, with his hair curled. What can he float on? We put the helm up again and near him. The B—p insists we shall take him aboard; Malmesbury opposes, swearing he'd take the ship from a s. We hail him through spoakiowtrutcpet. "Pam., wnl you coma aboard?" "See you drowned first." But, Pam., what do you float on?" Whereupon, Pam. held up for a minute the cot k—the single one cork—of the bottle which, before the deluge, he judiciously held. lx.fe put up the helm, and run afore the wind, Pam. singing the " Bay of Biscay," and floating towards Windsor. Wind variable, in all places at once. Dreadful to see everywhere the bodies of Freetradera —even Dizzy nearly wept! Colonel Sibthorp counted two hundred, catering their names in his own pocket-book of ass's skin. Again put the helm up to get rid of the spec tacle. Wind light. Called upon Walpole to make a joke; and mast headed him for di3obeying orders. Wind anyhow. Freetraders' bodies still float by our gallant craft. Walpole swears he sees a man alive. Boatswain Beresford declares he's only one of the rabble. Man nears us, and proves to be the venerable and vera cious editor of the Standard. He calls for a life-buoy, when Dizzy—(that Chancellor in the human shape)— throws him over, but he declares in mistake—a file of the sinking man's own paper: both instantly disappear. Wind gone to bed. Ship answers everything but her rudder; Dizzy says he's ready to answer for even that. What a fellow he is! Swears he sees nest week in the distance. Took an observation; found we were just over Manchester. At 1 P.M. John Bright, floating in his own hat, passed us. Sibthorp wanted to bring a howitzer to bear upon him, but B—p interposed. Again called upon Walpole for a joke: still obstinate, and threatened him with irons. Wind, worst and by worst. Found we were directly over Free Trade Hall. Saw the top of one chimney at least, with Cobden distinctly upon it, waving a flag of distress, a Manchester bird's-eye. Saw the Agitator through telescope; but remembered Nelson's blind eye and the signal, and—though the B—p suggested some thing—would not see him. Wind, squally. Passed Gladstone on a cotton bag. Light airs. Saw Manners, whom we forgot to take up when the deluge began, astride a dolphin. Blowing a gale. Passed Joe Hume in a patent life belt. Going straight to the Exchequer. Dizzy wanted to have a shot at him: B—p benevolently interfered. Wind got down. Took soundings. Found we were just over the Victoria Tower of the Houses of Parlia ment. Thought we were sinking; to lighten the ship, threw Malmesbury overboard. Foundered on the House of Commons. (Here the log becomes broken and fragmentary.) " Only a shower," and no deluge alter ell! * Mr. Punch need not observe, even to the most ladylike readers of even nautical novels, that the ship-knowledge of the keeper of the log seems a good deal at sea.—Punch. THE ELECTRIC TIME BALL IN TEE STRAND. Yesterday, consequent upon an announcement to the effect that the electric apparatus, desiged for distribut ing mean Greenwich time throughout London and the provinces, would be in active operation at one o'clock, when the ball would fall simultaneously, by electrical sympathy, with the Observatory Ball at Greenwich, a considerable concourse of people assembled in the Strand and at the Electric) Telegraph Company's station to witness the novel experiment, but were doomed to be disappointed. The announcement that the experiment would come off on the occasion was, we are requested to observe, not only premature, but erroneous and unautho rised, the fact being that the arrangements were not com plete for the purpose, the necessary wires, forming a por tion of the circuit, in connexion with the South-Eastern Railway Company's wire to Greenwich, not being con nected. This, however, will be done immediately, we understand, by Mr. Edwin Clark, the company's en gineer, and a given day will be fixed for the first re gular falling of the ball. It may be interesting to state that although the experiment of causing the ball to fall at the same hour with the ball at Greenwich (the great object of the apparatus) has not yet been accomplished, the ball of 186 lbs. weight has been liberated by a bat tery of two plates at Greenwich, that power being found sufficient for the purpose. Yesterday the electrical dial in the centre of the five thoroughfares opposite Hunger ford Market was fixed upon its ornamented bronze pillar, and at night, on being illuminated, presented a very elegant appearance; the four dial plates bring formed of enamelled glass, with the hours and minutes marked in stained glass upon the base, and the pillar surmounted by a gilt ball. The appearance of the great ball or re gulator, of a bright vermillion, sashed with a gilt circle, presented, from its prominent position, a novel and im posing appearance, and was the subject of much admira tion during the day. ADULTERATION OF COFFEE. The followicg opinion from Dr. Ure has been ob tained by parties interested in the coffee trade, with a view to its circulation among the retail dealers previously to its coming into force. It will be recollected that it was maintained by the late Chancellor of the Exchequer that there was no reliable method of detecting the adul teration of coffee with chicory. The error of this state ment was demonstrated by the Lancet, but it has been thought advisable to take further steps to make a simple process generally known:— " COPY OF DR. URE'S OPINION ON THE POWER OF DIS COVERING THE ADMIXTURE OF CHICORY WITH COF FEE, FORWARDED TO CHARLES H. BURTON, 27, M INCING-LAN& "No pro bl e m in science is simpler or more certain than the detection of chicory, or of similar substances, in coffee powder. Ground roas ted coffee imparts to cold water merely a pale sherry colour, whereas when it is adulterated with ground roasted chicory it communicates a brown colour, of greater or less intensity, to cold 3, of coffee water. If three gla ss tubes, set upright, be charged re spectively with a fe w grains' weight of-1, pure coff e e ; n2:ioxfedpurweitchoffereeemehixeedhieweirtyh, aeleitdtleifehieictoe each ry of these ; tubes a like quantity of cold water bo poured, and if alter agitation the tu bes be set upright at rest, the solid particles will soon fall to the bottom, and the trans p arent liquid in the stems of the tubes will show, by the variable depths o f the tinctures,the p resence and proportion of coffee teat results and chicory in each of th em. An apparatus for makin g this iv e experiment emfaeyeffibeeiheaudt pforreeoienieens. (Signed) " ANDREW U RE, M.D., F.R S., gm &e.,,hilling, and would g THE CHINESE RAT-EATERS. --The Chinese, who are emigrating to California on a large scale, are, it is found, amongst the most ingenious, laborious, economical, and docile labourers among the mines. They demand less wages, and California is so abundantly supplied with rats, that they can live like Celestial Emperors and pay v ery little for their board. The rats of California exceed the rats of our older states, just as nature on that side of the conti nent excels in bountifulness of mineral wealth. The Ca lifornian rats are incredibly large, highly flavoured, and very abundant. The most refined Chinese in California have no hesitation in publicly expressing their opinion of " them rats." ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS. The following members of the College were admitted to the Fellowship, under the provisions of the recent charter, at the last meet ing of the council :—Messrs. J. R. Atkins, Stoke Newing. ton ; H. W. Bailey, Thittford, Norfolk ; H. Blathwayte, Louth, Lincolnshire; G. E. Blenkins Whitehead'a-grove, , eY Chelsea ; T. L. Blundell, New Broad-street e. ; P. Boss Woolwich ; R. Brown, Preston, Lancashire; P. H. Chavasse, 9 Bi rm i ng ham; R. R. Cheyne, Berners-street ; T. F. Chilver, New Burlington-street; J. Courteney, Artillery-place; H. Curling, Ramsgate; J. S. Daniel, Ramsgate; E. Double day, Blackfriars-road ; A. W. Dumville, Manchester ; H, Dunkerley, Oldham ; R. Gasquet, Euston-place ; C. N. Gib son, Norwich ; H. Greenwood, Horselydown-lane ; J. H a i ns . worth, late of Lincoln; S. Hare, Langham-place ; W. Har.. ris, Clapham-road; W. Heane, Bury St. Edmund's; F. Hicks, Henrietta-street, Cavendish -square; C. Hogg, Fi ns.. bury-place, South ;W. B. Hutchinson, Guildford-street ; H. D. Jones, Soho-square • W. Jones, Wes otn - super-Blare ; G. Kelson, Sevenoaks ; Lacy, Poole ;J. Levies, Great George-street; W. Lloyd, Army and Navy Club; C. J. Mel ton, Upper Seymour-street ;M. Marley, Cork-street ;T. L . Matthews, Orsett-terrace, Hyde-park ;T. Mellor, Man chester; J. Nichols, Saville-row ;G. Ord, Brixton -hill J. Phillips, Bethnal-green; L. Powell, John-street, Berke.. ley-square; D. Price, Margate; T. Radford, Manchester ; G . Rawbone. Chelsea; G. S. Snowden, Ramsgate; W. Sole, St. Neet's ; C. T. Staunton, Royal Artillery, Woolwich ; T . Stevenson, Upper Grosvenor-street; R. Stokoe, Peckham_ rye; F. Symonds, Oxford; W. Thomas, Pembroke-dock ; C. Sunaley, Millbrook-place; T. Ward, Southgate; H. Wat son, Halfmoon-street ; G. Webster, Sussex -gardens; and W, C. West, Great Malvern. ALTERATION OF MAILS FROM CHESTER.—We are informed that the Liverpool mail, which has hitherto been dispatched at noon, and at four o'clock P.l.t , will in future be dispatched at ten o'clock A.M. and 2.40 P.I. The reason a s _ signed for this alteration ig that the letters dispatched at ten A.m. will be in time at Liverpool for the mid-day delivery, and those dispatched at 2 40 P.M. for the afternoon delivery ; tut we conceive that, however advantageous such alteration may be for Liverpool letters, some consideration should have s b s e a rs tem be e in n g t — b f a o s r been had for those parties who have correspondents in the north, and which the late noon post gave; unless the Post master-General will allow two more letter-carriers to effect au early delivery, and thus enable those parties to receive their letters in time to answer by the mail at ten o'clock.— Chester Courant. ctw s e E d who electors 01.,E3N, voted ttn e u hd c ethTwel sheriff's a o r s N eg7 - 1. t t a l b e ul n a u r m t n i u e m n Pi b i e e p r o D r o r f l e ,514, jest been iss ue d from the Middlesex Reform Registration of ice, showing the state of the poll in this county at every . district of each hour on the days of polling at the late elec eatoudrntsh,ottoogteatlhneormwhietrh whot h e polled in each district, andalso the close of the poll at the election in 1847. From number of electors on the t t h his statement it appears that the n 1852 is 14.610. Of these 8,761 voted at the laet register i e election, the numbers being— for Lord R. Grosvenor, 5,241 • for Mr. Osborne, 4,390; and for the Marquis of Blandford,' 4,258. 1847 the number t In Grosvenor,4,944, Osborne, 4,175; Wood, 3,458. It that' ap pears that 1,247 more votes were given in 1852 than in 1847. , of persons LONDON, FRI DAN EVENING, AUGUST 2O, 1852 NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. APPOINTMENTS. Alicishipman—Chrl es R. Forest, to the Penelope. Naval Cadet—Seymour Osborne, to the Sanspareil. Foreman of Salhpakers—J. S. Stephenson, to Sheerness. PORTSMOUTII, T HURSDAY.—There never was such a powerful steam squa d ron at Spithead as there is at present. It co ns i sts o f the Blenheim, 60; Edin burgh, 56; Odin, Magicienae, 16 ; S amp3on, 6; Barracouta, 6; all fine and effective v esse l s of war, besides the Inflex ibl e , in harbour. 1 6 ; Retribution, 28 ; Tiger, 16 ; The Sprightly steamer arrived with supernu meraries last evening from Plymouth. The fine frigate Indiaman Alfred sailed from Spit head today for Calcutta. The Equestrian convict ship dropped down to Cowes from Spith ea d last evening, to take in priso ners from Pa: khurst for transportation. The Edinburgh, 56, Captain Hewlett, sailed from Spirhßad for Devonport this afternoon. The Retribution, 28, Captain the Hon. J. R. Drummond, ca me i nto harbour from Spithead this morning, to coal and store for foreign service. Thu Itngiciehne, 16, steam-frigate, Captain Ram say, returned to Devonport tonight. The Barret:mita, 6, steam-frigate, Captain the Hon. S. T. Carnegie, came into harbour this morning from Spithead, to coal and store for special service. The Termagant, 24, 'White's new screw being fitted out by th e r i ggers at this dockyard with all possible dispatch. Sh e is reported intended for immediate servi c e. frigate, is The body of the Marine bandsman Roe, that was unfortunately drowned i n th e l ate gale when crossing the harbour by the capsizing of a wherry, was up by the coastguard sman on Soutbsea beach, near the Castle. An inqu es t h as b een held, and accidenta l death returned. We thi n k that some Act of Par liament should be pass e d t o prevent any wherry from crossing Portsmouth harb our when the danger flag is hoisted without two men ----one to attend the helm and the other the sail. picked The Dasher steamer, Commander N. Le Febre, is .o come into dock. The Stromboli has gone alongside the coal depOt for fuel. The assistant-surgeon of the Express has died at Bahia from yellow fever, taken at Grey's Town. The Express is otherwise healthy. We bad thunder, lightning, and rain, last evening again at Portsmouth, and to-day it is fine, but the weather is very sultry. DEVONPORT, THURSDAY. --The Sprightly, steam tender, arrived here on Tuesday night from Ports mouth, with supernumeraries for the Sanspareil, and sailed yesterday with men belonging to the Fisgard, fitting at Portsmouth. The Trincomalee, 24, Captain Wallace Houston, is hourly expecting her sailing orders. She proceeds to Rio and Valparaiso, and takes a large quantity of stores for the ships on the station. The Sylph, tender, sailed on Tuesday afternoon with stores for the Nautilus, apprentice brig, at present at Dartmouth, entering boys for the naval service. The St. Jean D'Acre, new steam screw line-of battle-ship, of 650 horse-power, and to carry 100 guns, is nearly completed in this yard, and, it is said, will be launched in the month of October next. This will be the largest steamer in the British service afloat, and, if launched as stated, will have been built within twelve months from the period of laying down her keel. The Right Hon. Sir James Graham, Bart., arrived at Moorshead's Royal Hotel, yesterday afternoon. There was more speculation as to the probable ob ject of the Right Hon. Gentleman's visit, but it ap pears that one of Sir James's sons goes out in the Trincomalee as a cadet ; and that to attend to the embarkation of the embryo naval hero is the sole object of the visit. PEMBROKE.—The Admiralty have ordered an 8-gun schooner, upon a new principle, to be laid down at this dockyard. She will be fitted with a ecrew propeller, and will be one of two which have been ordered to be constructed. Nearly a dozen men of-war will then be in course of construction at this establishment, comprising almost all rates, with large and powerful steamers. The James Watt is progress ing fast. _ _ _ "The various defences and works for the better pro tection of this arsenal are steadily progressing, and it is understood that on their completion other works will be commenced. SHEERNESS, THURSDAY MORNING.—Her Maj esty's cutter Active was dispatched to Chatham on Tues day, with invalid seamen for treatment at Melville Hospital. A naval cadet also took passage in her to join her Majesty's ship Meander, 44, Commodore C. Talbot. Her Majesty's ship Daphne, Captain Edward G. Fanshawe, was paid off into ordinary at Chatham on the 14th instant. ll,r Majesty's paddle-wheel steam-vessel Wildfire, Mr. Brockman second master commanding, left port yesterday, at 6 A.M. for Dover, having on board Vice- Admiral the lion. Joscelin e P ercy, C . 8., Commander in-Chief at the Nore. Th e Ad m i ra l i s gone on leave of absence for a few week s , an d i nten d s v i s iting Os tend, and other parts of th e cont i nent . His flag (blue at the fore) was st ruc k on board the Waterloo, 120, at sunset, and the br oa d pen d ant o f C a ptain the Hon. Montagu Stopford, as senior officer of the port, hoisted at the main. Her Majesty's ship Diamond, 28, it is stated , w ill shortly be removed fro m h er moorings in the Med way, and taken into the fi tt i ng basin to be got ready for commission. She was l aunc h e d at this port in 1848, being built from designs of Sir. W. Symonds, and is 1,054 tons burden. ANCHOR TRIALS. The committee of management assembled yester day in the Dockyard, and drew lots for the relative positions of the anchors, the third series of experi ments on which comm ence to-morrow (F r iday), at Black Stakes, in the riv er M edway. T he following is the result of the dra w i ng for stations : Port. Starboar d. 1. Trotma n ' s . 1. Aylen's. 2. Isaacs'. 2. W. G. Lennox's. 3. Admiralty ( new ). 3. Rodger's Ex hibition 4. Mitcheson and S on ' s . Prize. 4. H on ib a ll' s (Porter's). The soil at Black St a k es is of a stiff blue c l a y, an d in from nine to ten f a th oms ' depth of strong holding pow er . T he anchors wil l b e let go water ; the chain, each end of whi c h w i ll be attache d t o them, is twenty-five fathoms i n l ength. It w ill through a large iron bl oc k, upon which willbe passed b e a ffixed a pendant leading to a four-fold purchase; the pen dant will pass in over th e b ow of the lighter, the four fold purchase fixed there on , an d taken to the capstan. In order to increase the power placed upon the pur windlasses chases, there will be extra ones from the forward, and aft in the lighter, which will be moored to a first-rate's mooring -chain by t h e c entre swive l, with a scope of seventy-tw o fathoms of chain upon each arm of the moorings. Th e mooring anchors on the extreme ends of the chain weigh each 7 4 cwt. HE ..FATHER AND THE C HOPS IN TOE The weather for the last fortnight has been T WEsT.— In the west of England, the rain having fallen in torrents, accompanied by heavy thunder and lightning; in fact, scarcely a day has passed without there having been indica ions of electricity ; and the falls of rain have been so great Eiti:o deluge the country to a great extent. The effect of so ver ch wet upon the ripening and matured grain has been liteyr disastrous. In many places the wheat crops have ally battered down by the rain and the ears forced o ut, whilst • prevente d. The in some districts sprouting has not been is s till weather. A large quantity most boisterous crop is described as having promised to be a remarktabj fine and full one, beyond the averae ield; but now there cannot be any doubt that it has suffered materially by the Ltill out, the weather not permitting the carrying of it. The above remarks apply with equal force to barley and oats,. of which large breadths have been laid. Such con tinuous and heavy falls of rain, with the prevalence of so much electricity, have not been known for many years. The represented as having been largely potatoes have su ff ered very much, and the blight has pre vailed to a large extent; indeed, on some tracts, the failure is complete, the destruction of this invaluable root having been fully consummated by the blight. The beans are visitation. ur FIRE AT THE GAOL AT PETERBOROUGH. -0a injured by the same ednesday at about a quarter-past three o'clock rat., part of this prison was discovered to be on fire. All the prisoners but one were immediately removed to the lock-up by th constables, it b e i n g f eare d th a t the fi re might reach the in e terior of the gaol. It appears that owing to the late heav y rains the water had effected an entrance through one of the ceilings near the court-house. The mason was called in in the morning, and subsequently the plumber was sent for to repair it. A fi re was ma d e by the latter on the slatin g of the sessions -house, to melt the lead re q uired to be used b y him- Two boys were left to watch the fire, and the plumter went to wo r k at a distance from it . At the time first men tioned an al a rm was ra i s ed, and it w as found that the fi re had heat e d t h e s l ates an d was making gre at p ro g r ess in the d estruction of the roof of the cour t -house. Assistance was promptly given, and on the arriva l cf the fire brigade the y found th e b u i lding envelope d in one mass of flames. The roof of th e court -h ouse soon afterwards fell in wi th a dread ful cr as h. The attention o f the fi re men were then di recte d to the adj oining parts of the gaol. A communication with t he magistrates' roo m was cut off , a n a l the en g ines ke pt in Co ntinual play upon it and the s tore-room adjoining. About six o'clo c k i n t h e even i n g the flames w ere sub dued without any furthe r d amage being occas i o ned. How the fir e origi mated i s at present onlynovelt conjecture. The plumber's man, named Scotn eY and one of the boy s, are in custody to un dergo an examinati on u p o n the charge of g ross ne g li g e nce. The , amount of damage sustained is calculated at about 1,0001. and upwards ; but the insurance effected upon the building will cover the destruction caused. FOREIG N CATTLE.—The arrivals in the port of London on Monday last from abroad included one of especial Y and interest, an importation having taken place for the first time of a cargo of cattle from Prussia, the produae of that country, and f or ming a nother feature in the supplies of this kind from the continental states of Europe, which have hitherto been confined to Holland, Denmark, the Han seatic States, Belgium, and France. The arrival alluded to took place in the vessel Green Isle from Memel, and com prised 95 head of oxen and coves and 10 sheep, consigned to order. No less than 6,641 head of live stock were imported from abroad in L on d on on the same day. SPORTING NOTES. No. CCLXXXVIII. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Slit,—The result of the great Ebor Handicap having favoured the first favourite, Adine, upon whom so large a stun of money his been invested since Thursday last, it is expected it will be a vary atWdsh settling, and dead ar,ainst the book-makers. Mr. Grevillo is in great force this time at York, having had the extraordinery luck of carrying off the Ebor St. Leger with Frantic, and the Yorkshire Oaks and Ebor Handicap with Adine. Both these animals are perfect pictures of condition. The largest field for many :years that has started for the Ebor Handicap went to the post yesterday; the race however, was confined to a select quartette, who, from half way up the distance, raced in rather closely; Adine winning, somewhat cleverly, from Lady Amyott by half a length; the latter beating Haricot half a length for second honours. Bilberry, notwithstanding the feather on her back, finished a very indifferent fourth, Little Harry, at,d a cluster of four or five being close upon her heels. Aoine's victory does not bear upon any stake that is at pre!ent doted. The Queen was closely run in by Young Beverlac for the niece of Wales' Stakes, winnieg, with anything but ease, by half-a length from the young gentiemae. A nil ElizA and Lady Vernon were very cies° up, the rest ot the lilt), including Auld Acquaintance, were out of the fray at the half distance. Vindex won the Colt Sapling Stakes with ease. The other races require no commtnt. The betting yesterday and Wednesday evening on the St. Leger has been, as I prognosticated, in favour cf Daniel O'Rourke; who, notwithstanding that he had receded three points in the odds in consequence of his defeat on Wednesday, has been pretty nearly the only horse supported, and, for the most part, in large sums. Stockwell has , only ' occasionally been inquired aft er; an d Songstress price is merely a nominal one, no genui ne support having been awarded to her of late. Harbin ger has come with a bit of a rush from the outside divisio n into the leading lot, and his price cannot be quoted at more than Bto 1. Augur has soon followed his stable companion into obscurity, both being scratched for this event. As far as I can ascertain [the field for the Great St. Leger will be composed of the following:—Daniel O'Rourke, Kingfisher, Stockwell, Lapidist, Trousseau, Harbinger, Alfred the Great, Caracara. and, perhaps, Songstress or Longbow, Claverhouse, Maidstone, King of Trumps, Bermuda, and the Major. Next week is wonderfully prolific in racing meetings, not less than eleven occurring in four days. Radcliffe is marked to come off on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednes day; Taunton, Barnsley, and Barnet, on Monday and Tuesday; Westbury and Egham on Tuesday and Wed nesday; Derby on Wednesday and . Thursday; aisley and Canterbury on Thursday and Friday; and Tiverton and Boston on Thursday; plenty of sport for one week in all conscience. ' I shall not touch upon these meetings to-day, but shall make a point of considering Radcliffe races to-morrow, as they begin on Monday, my accounts not having come to hand at the present time.—l remain, yours, &c., THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF. Aug. 20. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. YORK ACES.—THIIRSDAY. The Bramham Park Stakes of 100 soya. each, 30 ft, for three-yrs-old; colts, Bst 71b; fillies, Bst 31b ; winners extra, one mile a nd a half. (6 Subs.) Mr. Payne's Freestone, Bst 71b ...(Poole) walked over. The Great Ebor Handicap of 20 soya. each, 15 ft, and only 5 if declared, &C.; the winner of any handicap, value 100 Boys. subsequent to the publication of the weights to carry 61b, of two 91b, of three 141 b; the winner of the Goodwood Stakes to carry 10lb extra; no horse to carry more than 141 b extra; the winner to pay 25 sous. towards expenses, and the owner of the second horse to receiv e 50 sous. ou t o f the s ta kes ; two li miles, on the Old Course. (90 Subs, 51 of whom paid 5 soya. each.) Mr. Greville's Adine, 3 yrs, sst 91b (Rikcards) 1 Mr. Copeland's Lady Amyott 3 yrs, sst 71b (Wells) 2 Mr. J. Anson's Haricot, 5 yra, Est 131 b (J. Osborne) 3 Lord Zetland's Voltigeur, 5 yrs, Bst 131 b (J. Matson) 0 Mr. J. Brown's Nancy, 4 yrs, Bst (F. Matson) 0 Mr. Cooper's Montagu e, 6 y rs, 7st (J. Mann) 0 Lord Eglinton's Hippolytus, 4 yrs, 7st (Basham) 0 Mr. Howard's Little Harry, 6st 131 b ...(A. Cowley) 0 Mr. Oliver's Sir R. Trenchard, 6st 101b...(Charlfon) 0 Mr. Pilling's Lady Eden, 5 yrs, Est 3lb (Ashmall) 0 sst ...Chillma) 0 Baron Rothschild's Hyacinths, sst 11121 b , Lord Clifden's Sackbut , 3 yr l b ...( ( T. Sm it n h) 0 Mr. J. Osborne's Merry Bird, 3 yrs, sst 9W (Carroll) 0 Mr. T. Parr's Weathergage , 3 yrs, 6st 71b ...(Hiett) 0 Mr. Parkinson's Odessus, 3 yrs, sst 21b (laggard) 0 Mr. Meiklam's Cleveland, 3 yrs, 4st 131 b ...(Bates) 0 Lord Glasgow's cby Ithuriel, 4st 121b...(J. Goater) 0 Mr. W. Hale's Bilbury, 3 yrs, 4st (Fordham) 0 Betting-7 to 4 agst Adine, 7to 1 agst Sir Rowland Trenchard, 11 to 1 agst Bilbury, 12 to 1 agat Sackbut, 12 to 1 agat Little Harry, 15 to 1 agst Odessus and Montague, 20 to 1 each agst Haricot, Weathergage, and Cleveland, and 25 to 1 against any other. Won by half a length, the same between second and third, Bilbury a bad fourth, Little Harry fifth. Run in 3 min. 33 sec. The Prince of Wales's Stakes of 10 sous. each, with 50 added, for two yrs old, colts Bst 71b, fillies Bst 21b, winners extra; the winner to pay 10 sous. towards ex penses, &c. T.Y.C. (31 Subs.) Mr. Woffenden'a The Queen (Templeman) 1 Mr. Thomas's Young Beverlac (J. Matson) 2 Mr. Richard's Ann Elizi Mr. W. Stebbing's Lady Vernon Mr. Bowes's Auld Acquaintance (A. Day) 0 Sir H. Boynton's Wings of a Dove (Charlton) 0 Mr. Farrance's Miss Emma (IL Goater) 0 Lord Glasgow's Miss Norton (F. Butler) 0 Mr. Salford's Eliza (Whitehouse) 0 Mr. Jaque's Catspaw (Bartholomew) 0 Duke of Richmond's William Rufus (Flatman) 0 Mr. J. Wilkinson na Lord-Lieutenant (F. Matson) 0 Betting-6 to 5 agst the Queen, sto 2 agst Ann Eliza, end 6 to I agat Auld Acquaintance. Won by half a length, three parts of a length between the second and third, and a head between the third and fourth. Run in 1 min 9 sec. The Eglinton Stakes of 15 soya. each, 5 ft, and 100 added, for two yrs old, 7st; and three yrs, 9st.; mares and geldings 41b; winners extra. One mile. (31 Subs.) Mr. J. Osborne's Exact, 6st 101 b (Osborne, jun.) 1 Duke of Bedford's Maidstone, 3 yrs, 9st (F. Butler) 2 Mr. Jaques's Auchinleck, 2 yrs, Est 71b (Wells) 3 Mr. Dawson's Anteverta, 2 yrs, Est 101b...(Charlton) 4 Mr. Meiklam's Evadne, 2 yrs, Est 10lb (A Lad) 5 Mr. Chilton's Audubon, 2 yrs, 7st . (Carroll) 6 Lord Zetland's Grapeshot, 2 yrs, 7st (Metcalfe) 7 Betting—Even on Exact, 7 to 2 agst Maidstone, and 4 to 1 agat Evadne. Won easy by a length. Run in 1 min. 51 sec. The Colt Sapling Stakes of 50 soya. each, 30 ft, for two yrs old colts, Bst 71b. T.Y.C. Sir C. Monek's Vindex.... (T. Ewart) 1 Mr. Howard's Eulogist • (A. Day) 2 Mr. E. R. Clarke's Mr. Sykes (Bartholomew) 3 Lord Chesterfield's Mocassin (Flatman) 4 Mr. Jaques's Pitfall Mr. Morris's Youthf u l D a ys (Basham) 6 Betting-5 to 4 agst Vindex, 3to 1 agst Mr. Sykes, and 4to 1 agst Eulogist. Won in a canter by two lengths. Run in 1 min. 8 sec.: The County Plate of 100 sovs., added to a Sweepstakes of 15 soya. each, 5 ft; the winner to pay 10 soya to wards expenses. T.Y.C. (29 Subs.) Mr. J. Osborne's Lambton, Est 121 b (j. Osborne) 1 Mr. Halford's Prime Minister, 4 yrs, 9st 41b (Marlow) 2 Mr. Howard's Vaultress, 2 yrs, Est 91b (A. Cowley) 3 Mr. Fowler's Forester, 6 yrs, 9st 31b (W. Sharpe) 4 Lord Zetland's Voltigeur, 5 yrs, 9st 61b (J. Matson) 5 Betting-6 to 5 agst Vaultress, sto 2 sgst Lamb ton, and 5 to 1 each agst Prime Minister and Voltigeur. Won in a canter by a length. Run in 1 min. 8 sec. The Lottery Plate of 25 sous., added to a Sweepstakes of 5 soya. each, for three yrs old and upwards. One mile. Mr. E. R. Clark's Lady in Waiting, 7st lib (J. Mann) 1 Mr. Jaques's Vivandiere, Bst 111 b (1000...(Platman) 2 Mr. Pedley's Conrad, 3 yrs, 755 (301) (Charlton) 3 Mr. Morris's Priam the Third, 3 yrs, 7st...(Basham) 4 Mr. Armstrong's Sabra, Est 121 b (501) (T.Osborne) 5 Betting-2 to 1 agst Priam the Third, sto 2 agst Lady in Waiting, and 4to 1 agst any other. Won by a length. The winner was sold for 135 guineas. ST. LEGER. No betting. Augur is scratched. The races commence te-morrow at one o'clock. The Great Yorkshire Stakes is fixed for ten minutes past two. YORK, FRIDAY. LATEST BETTING. (By ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) THE GREAT YORKSHIRE STAKES. Even on Stockwell 6 to 4 agst Lord Exeter's two ST. LEGER. 3 to 1 agst Stockwell 4 to 1 agst Songstress—taken 6 to 1 agst Daniel O'Rourke 11 to 1 agst Harbinger Advices from Guatemala to the Ist of July give accounts of the fatal injury sustained by the cochineal crop. It had been got in, and the whole would not exceed 3,000 serons (of 1501 b.), while the total last year was 13,251 serons. The destruction had I:ien caused by a kind of plague which had attacked the insect, and had not on ly killed the majority, but had caused a mixture of the dead with the perfect grain that would materially lessen the value of what had been saved. Of the 3,000 s erons, 2 ,475 had been exported, and there remained very little on th e mar k et. For this a dollar per lb . was the price demanded. It also appears that in the stores for preserving the insects for next season's seeding the disease had begun to manifest itself, and great fears were entertained that next season's crop would be worse than the present. The accounts are likewise unfa vourable with regard to the young indigo plants, as the ravages of locusts were causing serious damages. The prices demanded were consequently such as to check an business. A DANGEROUS PRIZE.—One day last w eek,. as t wo little boys from the village of Doll:pill were stroihnif over Blythe Moor one of them caught a heron, wi9 l w h i c io he eagerly ran to his companion to show him the prize.. d than had no sooner, however, placed the bird on the gr"nvhich it it drove its bill into one of the other boy's s. pecked quite out, depriving him of sight in the Matter of The surgeon who examined the wound say's It's a or little rce the poor icau'red eye. surprise that the bill of the bird did not pie fellow's brain.—Kelso Chronicle. WoRCESTEB, THE FORGERY BY A CLENGyitiAN. on which he THURSDAY.—The Rev. James Nesbitt, cbarged with forging the acceptance to a bill of exchange for 300/, uP p Hughes, attorney, obtained a sum of 2551 . from Mr. W. F. again . yesterday and coroner of Worcester, was broty_ ht dnal examination on afternoon, and formally remanded for be brought from the Monday next, wben witnesses are that the party represented London railway stations to prove the bill in question is not by the prisoner as the drawer of ~ c lerk at the Nine Elms station' as was represented by him , ,-- nor at any other station in London. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. GREAT NORTHERN. The directors of this company have just issued the re port to be submitted to the shareholders on Thursday next. It states that the c ross amount of revenue earned during the half-year ened 30th June amounted to 290,6741., and the working expenses to 144,240/., leaving disposable revenue to the amount of 146,4341. After provision for fixed rents, other charges, and for dividend on the preference portion of the capital, there remains a balance of 72,905/. applicable to the payment of the in terest for the half-year on the mortgage debt, and to a dividend on the original and the B stock. The amount of the mortgage debt on the 30th of June was 2,580,9801, and of unproductive works about 1,700,000/. The half year's interest on the mortgage debt (payable the 15th of July) was 59,2971. Of this sum it is proposed to charge or add to capital 35,5781. 145., and to charge upon and deduct from the revenue of the remainder I of the mortgage interest, being 23,719/. Thus the disposable balance of revenue, 7 9 ,9051.. being charged with 23 719/, becomes red uce d to 49,186/., and out of this amount the directors recommend the payment of dividend fcr the half-year ended 30th of June, at the riee of 2 per cent. per annum on tho original stock, end at the rate of 4 per cent, ut:r annum w. the B stcck, and le a y e , t o b e carr i e d to tAtieli will absorb 48 , 0 E 2 /., Lilo next account, the sum of 1,1031 T, : e l as t p or tion of the 'Great Northern main lino from Werringtoa, four miles north of Peterborough, by Geeetham and Newark to Retford, being 60 miles, w as o p ene d for traffics on the 15th of July, making the distance b.;tween London and York twenty-nine miles shorter then any other route. By the opening of this portion of the line the important town of Nottingham is brought into the most direct communication with London by means of the Ambergato Railway, which joins the Great Northern at Grantham ; and the distance to Sheffield, Barnsley, Wakefield, and Leels , &c. , to which places the Great Northern trains now run, is also shortened by 20 miles. From the date of opening of this portion of the main line the Great Northern Company becomes entitled by agreement with other companies for five years, from the Ist of January, 1851, to 63 instead .ctr 33 1 -3 per cent, o f t h e rece ipt s from traffic between London and all places north of York. The Royston the Great neaotwNwnorrtkhnedrn bbyeintghereEliaesvteedrnfrCoomuntthienCompany,arsgnan a an n d d Hitchen R a il way was i n Apr i l last t rans ferred to rent. Under th e pressure of a mandamus obtaine d b y' persons locally inter es t e d , and for other reasons, the directors determined t o proceed to purchase the land, before the ex and to take the steps required te guaranteed pira tion, the 2d of A ugust i nstant, of the come pangs on s powers to construct the Isle of termination h 1m e Rail wayx o from the p resent ter • '- mon of the Great Northern line at Gainsbo r Trent, and by Haxey, Epwortb, Crowle,gb' across the and Thorne, to the Askerne Junction, the northern extremity of the Great Northern, about four miles north It is intended to con s t ruct on l y a ainie of . Doncaster. length being about 26 m il es , the capital! authorisedne, and the raised is considered ampl e , b e i ng 300,000/ k, to be and 100,000/. by loan. Th e di rectors, with muchy shares re gret, find it necessary to s t ate that the land, general works, and the buildi ngs an d plant, requiredlitoe accommodate and carry on the t ra ffi c have, and will, cost so much larger an amount than was estimated in 1850, that they have no alternative but to ask the proprietors to sanction application in the next session of Parliament for power to raise further share capital to the amount of 1,000,0001., and to autho rise them in the meantime to take such measures as may appear to them best adapted for provid ing the required additional capital on the most favourable terms for the company, and in the form best suited to meet the convenience of the proprie tors generally. The following is a schedule of the as certained liabilities of the company, viz.:—Land account, 167,3011.; works, stations, and permanent way mate rials, &c., 522,4941.; engines, carriage and waggon stock, tools and implements for workshops, &c., 226,8831.; interest account, part of half-year's mortgage interest (payable on the 15th of July) of 59,297/, say 35,0001.; total liability, 951,6781.; available assets, 245,4281.; leaving, to be provided for, a deficiency of 706,2501. The directors advise also that the intended application to Parliament should embrace powers for consolidating the mortgage debt into a debenture stock, in the expec tation that it may be disposed of at a comparatively low fixed rate of interest, probably not exceeding 3} per cent., and by which a considerable annual saving to the company will be effected. The station at King's-cross is approaching completion, and arrangements have been made to open it for busi ness on the let of October next; and being convinced that an hotel at the London terminus is indispensably necessary for the accommodation of passengers, the di rectors have contracted for building one, under the cer tainty of its paying good interest on the outlay. The capital account shows that 9,373,9071. had been received to the 30th of June last, and 9,249,401/. expended, leaving a balance of 124,506/. in cash and South Yorkshire Railway Shares. The length of railway maintained by the company out of revenue is 2411• miles. The number of miles ran by the trains during the half-year is 1,789,168. The consumption of coke per mile for passenger engines is 20.91 b., and for goods engines, 37•11 b.; the average consumption, 29•311). of coke per mile. The working charges are 4962 per cent. of the gross earnings, and show an average cost of I'6ls. per mile per train. In addition to the 2411 miles of the Great Northern sys tem, the company's trains have worked over 150 miles of the lines of other companies. The gross length of railway worked over in the early part of the year was 3912 miles, but on the 14th of February the Great Northern ceased working over the 24 miles to Wisbeach. and in April over the 181 miles of the Royston and Hitchin, making a deduction of 42} miles, and leaving the length over which the company worked on the 30th of June 3492 miles. EASTERN COUNTIES. The report of the directors to be submitted to the shareholders on Wednesday next states, that the receipts upon the Eastern Counties Railway for the ball-year ending the 4th of July, 1852, are 334,180/., and the Norfolk 56,9941.; total receipts, 391,1751. From the Eastern Counties receipts, for the sake of comparison , are to be deducted 2,4781., being the amount received from the working of the Shepreth and Hitchin line, re ducing the receipts to 383,6961, as compared with 366,9211. for th e h a lf-year ending the 4th of July, 1851, and 421,973/. for the same term up to he 4t of Janu ary, 1 852. The working expensest have been 208,358/. for the six months ending the 4th of July , 1851; 186,535/. for the like period to the 4th of January, 1852; and 177,645/. for the six months up to the 4th of July, 1852, which latter includes the working expenses of the Shepreth and Hitchin branch. These results are most gratifying, as the direc tors have continued to give increased accommodation to the public, and by this means have laid the foundation for an increasing and remunerative return to the pro prietors. The increased receipts, as comp 1., r and the re d with the half-year ending July 4 , 1851, are 24,253 duced expenditure for the same period being 30,7121., gives a positive increase for the past six months over the corresponding half-year of 1851 of 54,9651., and, after meeting all contingencies, leaves a net balance of 53,2321. on the last half-year's working, which, with the sum carried forward to the credit of re venue on the 4th of January, 1852, of 19,7741., leaves a nett disposable balance of 73,0061. Oat of this sum the directors have declared a dividend of 4s. per share, which amounts to 68,2701., carrying forward to the credit of revenue a balance of 4,7361. It will be observed that this balance is left after paying a sum cf 4,2001., being the amount due to the Great Northern Company, according to the terms of the not being to g lease entered into with that company for the use of the lines from Shepreth to Hitchin for the three months ending 30th of June, 1852, and also 2,5001. to the Nev,- market Company. The directors regret that, owing h that h a d t e debiting t o i ra n sixg the accounts of the East Anglian Company This made up, they are unable to give the result of the ein pmaonnyt,h ands' working they therefore under the presentag agreement t m h e e n t accountsVi' wi1157 this that company with the expenditure mad e b superintendent of com pany for locomotive power, & c. next half-year. The directors have adopted be rectified sug gestions made by Mr. Ashcroft, the of 90/. the way and works, in charging 3,178/ per perma nent way at the rate the mile per annum, e xpenses of in excess of expenditure for the ., being the amount by which this half-year road during the past six month maintenance of the of the rails. " mainly depreciation fund, which is n fish jointing" has hitherto fully months, has been added to the re ports, as giving a smoother " fish-jointing" ,a n borne a t a This system of " applied to the tear to the rolling stock out muchll Mr. A reducedshcr oft' s . road, with less wear and expen diture in maintenance locomotive superintend The report of Mr. Gooch; !IL' ) f ent, proving that a depreeci Eton fund is not necessar fficient state r the working plantor o m f a t i h ntaining in ana that a relied reduction in this brancheofwenax pPesnlaare inaY b e on, is also most satisfactory. The directors have re paid during the half-year out of the su al stated as capital ac quired to enable this company to close its :A; ro Luarl count 8,589/. for additional the=rs: ; P 1 v , 4 increased accommodation for y tor -Par te the Midland Railway C on that cow liamentary expenses i t iourr i l iway in the session pang on account of t bi awa rded to Mr. John of 1847; and 7,102 L, the stunce of his engineering Braithwaite, being the bah°, line from ton of the line London to charges in the construciv‘ento, with the sum of 3 9 600 1. Colchester. ThesereYEast Anglian plant, as also ' the paid on account of branch from Shelford to the janc expenditure upon Northern line at Shepreth, have in tion of the Great ded debt of the company 101,2i10/. The creased the bon Athe s anction o'the T directors obtaine d bon with the Birmingham and East and West a jan e a Junction Eailway a * lodia Ise) 000/., end also fa. the construction of a about d , ,x'ension from short c . \Visbeach to the river Nene, at an estimated cast of about 18,0001. Parliament lik wise sa nctioned the arrangements with the Newmarket Company; ; a nd the latter upplied for and obta • lli 'et ed the authority of Parliament to construct tension of their line from Newmarket to Bury ex- St. Edmund's,Bury and, as this line is now in coureehof con struction, the directors feel confident that tr, , flic from Bury is opened out to the Cambridgel7en the route the mocimum amount of 5,000/. per annum, wtneli Company is b oun d t o pay to the Newmark e t this v under certai n c i rcums tances, will be materially reduced, --1 Comb ' a , if not enti re ly canc elled. The Bill for carrying out the arrangements made between this company and the E as t Anglian also received the sanction of the Legislature. The seal of the company has been affi xe d to the agree ment entered into with the Great Northern Company. The resul t is a cordial co-operation bet in promoting an interchange of trafi:een the companies , whereby the re ceipts of this company are increased, and the public inte rest promoted. The directors are informed that a large portion of the land on the line of the Harwich Railway has been secured by the Eastern Union Company affording the hope that this important branch will be opened for t ra ffi c i n t h e course o f nex t y ea r. A satis factory ing of the Tilbury an d Southend lino by this company' arrangement le :Is been made for the joint work and the Black wall Company, so soon as that line is coin- Plet a ed' l a age increase nrdfroni''h of traffic. which the dir e l t n 9rseo concludingnfidently antici pate the directors assure the proprietors that they are now, as they have hitherto been, most anxious to cultivate a good understanding with neighbouring companies, and with this object have had repeated interviews with the they p e rh t h ee I v d e e 9 reportt , producedsotfatmesr: nothat a s . a t Ir t , f G4 a 7 c o3 t o o ,c r lh y l,o tresult.he miles the report Eastern Union Company, but they regret that hitherto y the trains in the half-year ending Julywerelocomotivels 52, un s b u corre sponding period of 1851, 1,249,226 miles, and the same period of 1850, 1,185,628 m il es. T he cost of working, including repairs and renewals, was at the rate of 11.11 d. per mile per tram the half-y ear, en di ng the 4th of July last; ending July 4, 1851, 13.79 d.; and July 4, 1850, at the rate of 17_22J. A comparative st a t ement s h ows t h at there has been an increase in the number of miles run w th the trains over the half-year 1851 of 223,884; and au actua l ecer! , ftsii of expendicute of 3,5784; and over thc 18L i 0 en r.erenso in the number of miles run by the trains of 237,482, and an actual decrease of expenditure cf 16,865/., or at the rate per mile per train of 6.11 d. on the averggo of the half-yesr ending July 4, ISSO, and upon which th e m il eage of the vast half-year is equal to a saving of 37,4941.; of which increase of mileage 109 ,596 mil es are due to that run noynsttohn aneEa!ii litiAntehghian railway. Anglian Railways,als and The on. gumption of coke w.-s gradually reduced from 39 891 b. in 18 c ,829 miles l o u the R July, 1850, to 28.151b.in 1851, and to 23.391 b. in July, 1852. The report of the auditors (Messrs. J. Reeves and W. Mayhew) states that they find the accounts correct after a tharough and continuous monthl y exam i n ation into their details. The capital account , to the 4th o July, sh ows th a t 9,675,3191. had been received, and 9,655,5651. expen d e d , l eav i ng a balance of 19,7541. The revenue account for the half-year shows that 391,1751. had bee n rece i ved, and 1 77 , 6451. expended, g 8,2341. rates and taxes and 7,0971. Government duty. The liability to the New ' market Company amounted to 2,5001.; to the Great Northern, for the Hitchin line, to 4,2004; interest on guarantees an d l oans , to 153,5971., including 30,7871. to the Northern and Eastern, 93,7501. to the Eastern Counties, an d 29 , 0591. to the Norfolk Company, leaving 53,232/. for dividend on the ordinary shares. ----- LONDON AND BLACKWALL. The report of the directors to be submitted to the pro prietors on Tuesday next states the gross receipts on revenue account for the half-year ending the 30th of June last, with the surplus of 1,3951. from the previous account, have amounted to 29,082/., and that the expen diture, including 2,3051. for rates and Government duty, amounted to 14,7891., leaving a balance of 14,2931. The interest ,ueted on there de remains bentures, 1,5 am l otr a ting av t a o ilabo 2,7161.,1f0r bdeiivnidgedned: d which will admit of the payment of 2s. a share, clear of income-tax. There is an increase in the receipts during the past half-year of 2,0621., as compared with the corresponding of 8981. period of 1851, and a decrease in the t w h o e r r k e i c n e g ipt e s apenses of 6001., and in the gross revenue charges bein g T 2 h s e ,B n 9 u 3 n2 l. l:e a r n o d f passengers over the li ne d ur i ng t h e h a lf- year was 2,718,978 period of 1851, 2,416,042 passengers, for sttehhneegrecerocareriepts c onveyed corresponding 25,1021., showing an increase of 309,936 in the number of passengers, a n d of 7901. intereceipts. The amount authorised to be expended upon the enlargement of the Fenchurch-street terminus has been raised by the issue of debentures bearing interest at 4 per cent. The direc tors have also raised the sum of 30,800/., at 4 and 4f e wpearrecbeennt.seinetweriell comest,toreinitac H T debentu res at 5 per cent . They are assur e d that t hebranch to the aydon-square operation in October next. into e with the emi nentA contract has been entere line e ' l o n r d 4b ß 2e r s a u, s or s iO e no y g/ . . works Petc the contractors Upon contractor s completion ofhl estsbres. for th© construction of this to take a lease of the line for 25 years,are they guarantee a net return of 6 per cent. on the .and capital paid up, from the Ist of January next, d uri n g the term of their lease. The whole line is t o d in eighteen months, but it is believed that the portion to Tilbury will be ready for working by the en suing summer. The works of the Fenchurch-street sta tion enlargement have been commenced, and will be car ried on with all possible energy, so to enable the com pany to avail itself of the traffic from the Eastern Coun ties Railway and the Tilbury and Southend branch at the earliest possible period; and the directors feel confi dent that the operations now in progress will, when com pleted, realise all the advantages which have been held out to the shareholders. The capital account shows that ],438,8591. had been received, and 1,389,4201. expended, leaving a balance of 49,4391. NORTHERN AND EASTERN. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held yesterday at the Bishopsgate station; Mr. Paterson in the chair. On the motion of the CHAIRMAN, the guaranteed di vidends on the 5 per cent. and 6 per cent. shares were declared, the retiring directors were re-elected, and the busiuess terminated with the usual vote of thanks. EAST INDIAN. The report of the directors cf this company, to ba submitted to the proprietors on the 24th instant, states that the works between Howrah and the Ranegungo Collieries continues to progress satisfactorily. To com plete and stock this division of the lino some addi tionsl capital will be required. The existing contract with the Honourable East India Company provides for raising such capital, and when the proper time arrives the option of subscribing it will be given to the th en proprietors of the old shares. The surveys between Pundoah end Rajmahal, alluded to in the last report, have been carried to such an extent as to enable Mr. Turnbull, the resident engineer, to report upon the general features of the line, which are highly favour able to the construction of a railway. Mr. Turnbull's report is now before the authorities forconsideration, and any arrangements that may be made founded upon that report will be announced to the proprietors at the earliest opportunity. MELANCHOLY CATASTROPHE._GALWAT, TUES DAY EVENlNG.—Yesterday morning a most calamitous cir cumstance occurred in one of the islands of Arran, by which 15 unfortunate men have been swept from time into eter nity in a single moment. All of them were fishing with lines on a cliff, when, notwithstanding that the weather was calm, a sudden wave broke over the cliff on which they were standing, and washed them out into the deep. Only four of the bodies have been found up to last night. Many of the poor fellows have left large families to mourn over their irreparable loss. A subscription has been already set on foot, and it is hoped a large sum will be rai se d f or t h em, now that Galway is so crowded with the nobility and gentry of the United Kingdom. Pnvmormi.—LOSS OF LIFE.---On Thursday morn ing, about half-past two, a poor woman named Blagdon, and her two children, were suffocated in bed. The husband of the unfortunate woman is a brickmaker, and being at work in the night it is supposed that his wife must have placeda lighted candle o n th e chair near the bed, for on the neigh bours n being roused by a smell of burning, they broke og e, the room door and found the bed and bedding children though but smouldering. Mrs. Blagdon and t , were dead, evidently from suffocation, as no markssid a in Vaux of any consequence were on them. They r_ Id thia day. hall, near the Quay. An inquest will be be The usual quer- HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN. — The subscribers to this terly general court of the governors an a , t the latter part of valuable institution, which was founded .ewit . h an hospital for last year for supplying the metrop9 o ll Faris and other conti children, similar to those existing ;o a r . : tr o e f e t t , h Queen' s -square, 'afternoon in the board ue o e m e n m ' s - i t e t q e u e a r o e, f nental cities, was held yesterday . " b of burning for the purpose of receivingr b u siness; Sir Henry Dukin °the Whitford read the report of management, and upon James room of the charity, Great field in the chair. Mr. 'ttee, from which it appeared the charity was making 1, 3 8 the institution during the p l at . the management committee, a tiafactory progress. The number of children admitted lu' ,he 3E; out-patients, .3 t _ l i" —• 'nation for the benefit of those making a tote etice o f pace' of great advantage quarter had be Pq-70 The committee have lately in ro duced the wish h it, which has proved patients '. the progress aid, the benefits in cbec g kin their report, appeal for further t9eemre° elio sv is ress of disease. The committee, in concluding . of thanks his newl been received and adopted, a vote of t having and the meeting separated, report passed to the chairman, „, nstitution having been greatly extended. The "4,Aloons AND FORESTs.—lnverness has this • -:-- t e d more than the usual bustle and p reparation for the s Year pre sented more than the usual bustle and preparation or the s booting season. Every day during th e l ast week een fll u complements of sporting appointments m ight be All statements agree that are more plentiful than they have been for the last grouse a r e years; the covies generally contain from eight to ten birds, and we have heard of fourteen being seen in a single hurrying off to the mountains. brood. Even in the first day's bags cheepers will be a rarity, as the young birds have mostly all black tails, the certain sign of full growth. Red deer are very forward this year, owing to the early abundance of pasture in the forests. 'We have already seen some very fine heads sent for preserva tion, with the horns almost clear of velvet. At Ben-More (Sutherlandshire), on Saturday, the 7th, Mr. Ross, of Cro marty, killed two good stags in two stalks, using a single rifle. The second stag had a very handsome wi head —eleven points with three on the top of' each beam, and weighed upwards of nineteen stones Barinwhen clean. A royal stag was s h ot b y C apta i n g, Strathgarve ; and two large stags were shot right and left by Mr. Mills, Erchless Castle. Sir Arthur Chichester has also shot a stag and hind. The Master of Lovat, a couple of stags, right and left. Two were shot by Captain Walter Boyd, and one by Mr. White andad in the forest of Balnagown. Robert Reid, Esq., stalkedeteran shot a fine stag in Sutherland; and we hear that th v e er y many stalker, Colonel Towers, whose rifle has knocked an antlered monarch, shot a large stag at Edinburgh Advertiser. —The departure THE CHIEF JUSTICE OF JAMArcAm. aica, was marked of Sir Joshua Rowe, Chief Justice J ofA deputation of the by the regret of the entire island. on him with a suitable lead ing gentlemen of the place waitednot too Fia:nakyle.— much to add, that and feeling addresa ; and it is . th e 20 years be has pre have procured him the sided over the common law courts, re spect of all. Accounts have f desolating flood in the Red been received from Rupert's Land (Hudson's Bay last. Many houses, and barns full River settlement in swept away- The news has reached Lon of grain, had been of the Hudson's Bay Company, which • I express don by specie' . er on the Ist of June. The water was then left the Red Inv and the inhabitants, who had moved off rapidly subsiding, t the higher grounds, and had been living with their cattle preparing to return. It was feared that many in tents, were ba it_breed population would be obliged to ter r il i t i o 4 r y y ) o a quit the season, and encamp in situations where they for a in themselves by fishing and hunting. nta . could maint ain we recognise Amon g the arrivals at Cheltenham Moultan who, name of General Whish, the hero of ! the n • . aga in retired from war's alarms;" has once more taken up and brother ofEcers in c o o f lo t n h y e his residence among his old associates an CheltellhfUll.••• Cheltenham Examiner. AA rail' ref' OW lab O lit ' sit° - 6. 1 " g , ._ _ .i 1+ a