The Sun. — London, England, 1846-10-02 00:00:00

S LLOYD'S SHIPPIN G.-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, OcT. 2.—Wind S.S.E., light breeze, and hazy. RAmsGATE, Ocr. N.E. to S.E.—Sld. Etheldred, Bradford, Falkland Hands ; Johanna, Maranham. _ DEAL, Ocr. W.S. W. to W.N.W.—Arrd. Jay, Byers, Miramichi, and sld. for Sunderland; Louise Fre derikke, Knigge, Laguna, and sid. for Bremen; British Tar, Storey, Rimouski. Arai. from the River, Westminster, Hovey, for New York. Ski. Eleanor, Turney. Barbadoes. OFF HASTINGS, SErT. 30.—Emma, New York, for Co penhagen. OFF HOLYllfi.\ D, Our. I. Stranger, Demerara. LIVERPOQI, Ocr. I.—Wind S.W. to N. W.—Arrd. Lena, Nagle, Singapore; Janet, Paul, Valparaiso; Asia, Maran • ham; Storm King, Robinson, Laguna; Robert Watt, John stone, Quebec. Ski. Sept. 30, Manilla, Harrison, Calcutta; Adrastus, Ord, Bombay. Oct. 1, Kirkby, Nickles, Sierra Leone ; Ortelius, Baugnert, Port• au-Prince ; Flora, De Pulron, llavannah ; Reliance, Hill, La Guayra ; Ctsar, Jansen, Cuidad Bolivar ; Victoria, Le Gresley, Vera Cruz Lady Huntley, Reddock, New Orleans ; Neptune, Reuben berg, Charleston ; Rappahannock, Drummond, New York ; Baglow, Foody, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Corsair, Cum ming, Newfoundland; M. A. Fleming, Newfoundl an d . LYTHAM, OCT. I.—Wind S., fresh.—Arrd. Marc Ann Snelling, Bay Chaleur. CLYDE, S - Err. 30.—Wind S.S.W.—Arrd. Ann Harley, Scott, New York ; Rebecca, Pictou ; Blonde, Quebec. Dunms, SEPT. 30.—Wind N.W.—Sld. Friendship, Rea, llalifax. Put back, Enterprise, Lyons, for St. John's, New Brunswick, leaky. DUBLIN BAY.—Arrd. Allen Brown, Maw, St. John's, New Brunswick. WEXFORD, SEPT. 2 9.—Arrd. Hibernia, Hayes, Miramichi. KINGSTOWN.—Arrd. Tom Coulton, Quebec, for Drogheda. CORK, SEPT. 28.—Arrd, Chapmans, Miller, Quebec ; Active, Hutchinson, Rio Grande. BELFAST, SEPT. 29.—Arrd. Independence, Quebec. CAMPBLETOWN, SEPT. 22.—Arrd. Ariel, Inglish, Pictou. EXMOUTH, SEPT. 30.—A boat painted black outside, blue inside, clench-built, copper-fastenened, part of stern and stern-post carried away, with a long painter attached, appa rently a steamer's jolly-boat, was picked up 13 miles S.S.W. of Bury Head, by the Jane, Marshalsay, arrived here. LIMERICK, SEPT. 30.—The Etherly, Brinkley, bound to the Clyde, has put back, leaky, having got on a rock in the river, and will discharge. PLYMOUTH, Ocr. I.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. H.1.8.M.5. Con stitution, Rio Janeiro. IN THE CHANNEL.—Virginius, Quebec. BRIDGWATER, OCT. I.—Arrd. Ottawer, Thrift, St. John's, New Brunswick. BRISTOL, Ocr. I.—Wind W. by S.—Sid. Sir Henry Pot finger, Crowell, St. John's, New Brunswick. Off port, Amazon (of Waterford), Quebec. SHIELDS, SEPT. 30.—Arrd. Minerva, Clark, Quebec. Oct. 1, Lord Lambton, Stabb, Patagonia. Sld. Ligonia, Blanchard, New York ; Florinda, Hodgson, Ceylon. GLASGOW, Ocr. I.—The James, Paton, arrived in the Clyde, from Patagonia; sailed thence 4th July, and reports that the coast had been taken possession of by the Spaniards as far as Watchman's Cape, that they had cannon mounted at all the landing places, and would not allow guano to be taken eff, nor any person to land. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE—FRIDAY. The present week's arrivals of English Wheat have been but moderate, and the show of samples of that grain here was small. The accounts respecting the potato cop being still unfavourable, the demand was steady, and in some instances selected parcels produced a trifle more money, the value of other qualities being firmly supported. Foreign Wheat, free as well as in bond, moved off readily at an advan ce i n th e quo t a ti ons o f q uite Is per quarter. The show of Ba r l e y was b y no means large. Most kind were in good request at very full prices. The quantity of Malt on show was not large, yet no advance took place in the quotations. Fine parcels of Oats were In good request, at a further advance in the currencies of 6d per quarter. The middling and inferior kinds were quite as dear. Beans, Peas, and Flour fully supported late rates. ARRIVALS. Wheat. I Barley. 4,320 qrs. 3,250 qrs. English .. Irish ... Foreign *::: :: I 5—,600 Oats Flour. 740 qrs. 2,070 sks. 11,050 and 1,230 12,070br1s Malt, 2,200 qrs. SA TITIZPIEIMO. The supply of Beasts on sale here to-day being large, and the weather somewhat unfavourable to slaughtering, the Beef trade was in a very inactive state, at barely the late decline in the quotations. There were in the market 500 foreign Beasts, 1,570 ditto Sheep, and 48 Lambs, in full average condition. The numbers of Sheep were small, yet the Mutton trade was rather dull, at Monday's prices. Lambs were in short supply, and heavy inquiry, at late rates. In Calves a full average amount of business was transacted, at an advance in the currencies of from 2d to 4d per 81bs. Pigs moved off slowly, without alteration in value. Mulch Cows sold heavily, at from 161 to 18/10s,including their small Calf. Per Bibs. to sink the offal. Inferior Beasts •••• 2 1 0 3 0 I Second quality ditto. 3 2 3 4 Prime large Oxen.. 3 6 3 8 Prime Scots ... ••• 3 10 4 0 Large coarse Calves 4 0 4 6 Prime small ditto .. 4 4 9 0 Suckling Calves ..18 0 30 0 Inferior Sheep .. .3 10 4 0 second quality ditto 4 2 to 4 . 4 Coarse-woolleddltte 4 6 4 8 SouthdownWethers 4 10 5 I Ditto out of the wool Large Hogs •••• •• 3 8 4 6 Small Porkers .... 4 8 410 Quarter old Pigs —l6 0 20 0 Lambs ...• •• •. 4 8 5 8 SUPPLY AT MARKET. - - - - Beasts, I Sheep. I Calves. I Pigs. 1,236 5,900 282 510 75721170.11.71E1 AMY) 7.8.11.3)Z21113.11.3636. The general demand was heavy, at barely stationary prices. At per none, by the Ciirease. s.ll. to s. d. s. d. to s. d. Beef, inferior.. middling - middling— 40 4 2 prime large prime small Veal ..... • Lamb. 4s 8d to 5s Bd. BOROUGH HOP MARKET. The best new Hops continue in good request, at fully, in some instances a trifle beyond, last week's prices. In the middling and inferior qualities only a moderate business is doing. Very few parties are inclined to back the duty higher than 200,0001. New Sussex Pockets, 31 16s to 41 12s; ditto, Weald of Kent ditto, 4/ 2s to 41 15s; ditto Mid and East Kent ditto, 4/ 15s to 61 12s. Several of the flax mills in the north of Ireland have been converted into corn mills. DISTRESSING Suicum—A Coroner's inquest was held on Wednesday night, before Mr. Mills, on the body of Mr. Allen, age d t wen ty-fiv e , an architect and artist, who resided with his mother, in Hunter -street, Bruns wick-square, in whose house the inquest took place. It appeared that Mr. Allen had exhibited great depression of spirits since the death of his sister, about six months since, and that on Sunday last he went to see the tomb stone that was about to be placed over her grave. On Tuesday afternoon he shut himself in his room, and discharged a pistol into his mouth. He was found dead by the servant who wont to call him to dinner. The verdict of the jury was, "That the deceased destroyed himself, but in what state of mind he was in at the time he committed the act there is not sufficient evidence to show." Yesterday afternoon a bricklayer's labourer, named O'Moye, whilst with a hod of bricks, ascending a ladder placed against the house of Mr. Weston, No. 40, Bishops gate-street Without, one of the steps broke, and the poor fellow was thrown with frightful violence to the ground. His skull was dangerously faactured. EMPLOYMENT ON RAILROADS.--It is computed that there are 200,000 navigators employed on railroads. WEST OF ENGLAND SOCIETY FOR THE EN COURAGEMENT OF AGRICULTURE, &C.—A meeting of this society, the parent of a ll t h e agricultural societies in England, was held on Wednesday last. It com menced with a ploughing match, and ended with a dinner at the Gloucester Hotel, Hotwells, Clifton, near Bristol, when the chair was taken by W. Miles, E,q., M.P. After the usual loyal toasts had been duly honoured, the chairman proposed the health of the president of the society, the Marquis of Lansdowne, and in doing so ex pressed his regret that a prise offered by that nobleman, for the best drained farm, had not been competed for, notwithstanding the farmers in the several counties of Gloucester, Wilts, and Somerset were e'igible. He re gretted it the more, because he was convinced that unless they drained and availed themselves of all the means now offered by science they would find it impossible to compete with other countries—(Hear, hear)--and he knew, and they all must be well aware, that there was ample room for improvement in the system of cultiva tion pursued, both in that and the neighbouring counties. The remainder of this and the other speeches possessed only a local interest. The party broke up about nine o'clock. It appears that the Government is about to employ the three steam-frigates of 450 horse-power each, lately built for the Transatlantic service, by using them for car rying the mails between Havre and New ' York. Th e Government does not intend to undertake Pe rmanent l y this line, but merely to try t heir powers as merchant ships, and at the same time ascertain the expense of the transit.—Galignani. FIRE AND LO SS O F LlFE.—Yesterday a ft ernoon the inhabitants of Ann-street, Globe-fields 4 Mile-en d, w ere alarmed by h ear i ng l ou d cr i es o f " fire proceeding from the house, No. 1, in that thoroughfare. Upon enterin g the first fl oor , a most pitiable scene prese nted itse lf. A young girl ab ou t fi ve years o f age, name d Ann Elizabeth Hollingdale, was perceived on the floor, with the whole of her wearing apparel blazing away most furiously. The fire was extinguished, and the unfortunate creature was taken to the London Hospital, where she soon died from the effects of the burns. ST. P HILIP ' S C HURCH, STEPNEY.—OH Tuesday evening this very handsome Gothic edifice was re opened, its fine -toned organ being enlarged and repaired by Holdich. A full choral service was performed. BROMPTON nor HOSPlTAL.—Yesterday evening the usual meeting of the committee of management took place at the board room in the new building at Brolly ton. It appears that everything is progressing in the most satisfactory manner ; the furnishing of the various spacious wards is being pushed forward, and the system of ventilation adopted from the designs of Dr. Arnott, although elaborate and intricate, will unquestionably be most effeetive. OPENING OF THE MEDICAL SCHOOLS.—Yesterday being the first day of October, several of the medical schools of the metropolis commenced the business of the session. Introductory lectures were delivered in the course of the duy at Guy's Hospital, by Dr. Golding Bird; at St. George's, by Sir Benj am i n B ro di e; at S t . Thomas's, by Dr. Bark er; at U n i vers i ty College, by Dr. Murphy ; and at the 'Theatre of Anatomy and Medi cine, Grosvenor-place, by Dr. Theophilus Thompson. DISCOVERY OF HUMAN BONES.—Yesterday a human skull, together with various portions of several others, and a number of thigh bones and other smaller ones, were found amongst some rubbish in front of a house in Edward -street, Barnsbury-road, Islington, at present in course of erection. The circumstance occa sioned much speculation in the neighbourhood, and it is imagined that as the street is little frequented, persons employed to remove fhe bones from some of the burying places in the metropolis have dropped them there in passing. HAIL STORM. —We learn that her Majesty has contributed 201., and his Royal Highness Prince Albert 101., to the subscription for the relief of the nurserymen and others who suffered by the late hail storm. We sinderstand that the losses are estimated at 15,0001., and that the committee have only received at present about 1,500/. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE TATTERSALL'S—YESTERDAY. • The only bets laid by the 10 subscribers present were 8 to 1 against Torn Tullock to 25/. ; 10 to 1 agst The Baron to 55/., 12 to 1 agst Sting to 10/. ; 20 to 1 agst Plaudit, 20 to 1 agst Cranebrook, and 20 to 1 agst Giantess—the last three to very small amounts. THE GREAT METROPOLITAN STAKES, 1847. This interesting stake, which made such a brilliant first appearance this year, and to which MO/. was so li berally added by the inhabitants of this metropolis, has undergone some alterations and improvements at the hands of the authorities. The Stake is for the future to be 25, 15 forfeit, and fire if declared, and 100 for the second horse, and 50 for the third ; the course to be lengthened to nearly two miles and a quarter :—To start at the winning chair, turning out at Tattenham Corner, and back, similar to the Goodwood Cup Course, and in sight the whole way. We hear the necessary alterations to the course are nearly com plete. The amount of the bonus for 1847 is not yet ascer tained, but we understand that there is already a consider able sum promised, or collected ; and, from the activity and energy of the parties who have the matter in hand, we fancy the bonus for 1847 must be very great. NEWMARKET FIRST OCTOBER MEETING, 1845, (CONCLUDED). TH URSDAY. The Town Plate of 501. for three years old; colts, Bst 71b; fillies, Bst 31b. Colonel Synge's Mount Callan (Bartholomew) 1 Sir J. Hawley's Humdrum Lord Albetnarle's Radulphus Betting, 2 to 1 on Humdrum ; 3 to 1 agst Mount Callan ; and 9to 2 angst Radulphus. Humdrum went off with a de cided lead, and was never approached within three or four lengths until round the turn of the land; from this point it gradually diminished, and at the distance the three were to gether; a good race home, ended in favour of Mount Callan by half a length. Match-100, h ft. First half of Ab. M. Mr. Mostyn's Vice Consul, 2 yrs, Bst 71b (Nat) 1 Duke of Bedford's Black Cat, 3 yrs, Bat 31b...... ......... 2 11 to 10 on Vice Consul. Won by a neck. Run in 57 seconds. Match-200, 50 ft. T.C.Y. Duke of Bedford's Paragone, Bst 71b (Robinson) 1 Mr. Merton's Missed Stays . 6t05 on Missed Stays. Run in 1 min. 15 secs. The Rutland Stakes of 30 sm. each, 20 ft, for two yrs old colts, Bst 71b; and fillies, Bst 31b. From the Turn of the Land in. (12 Subs.) Mr. Mostyn's Slander, 31bs extra (W. Abdale) 1 Mr. Stephenson's Doctrine, 31bs extra ... ..... Lord Exeter's f, by Hetman Platort; out of Galata. ..... Colonel Peel's Palma 6 to 4 on Slander, who made all the running, and won easy, by a length. Galata a bad third. Run in 1 min. 20 secs. Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each, for two yrs old, Est 101 b ; three yrs, Bst 81b ; four yrs, &c., 9st 61b. Rutland Stakes Course. Winner to be sold for 70/., &c. (5 Subs.) Mr. Ford's The Attorney, 4 yrs Mr. Cooper's Caen, 6 yrs ... 0 2 Mr. Greville's Deerchase, 3 yrs 3 Mr. C. Daley's Marble Maid, 2 yrs Betting-5 to 4 agst Caen, and 7to 2 each agst Attorney and Deerchase—a dead heat between The Attorney and Caen ; the other two beaten several lengths. Deciding heat-6 to son The Attorney, who won easy. The Queen's Plate of 100 guineas, for 3 yrs old, 9st 21b ; 4 yrs, lOst 71b; 5 yrs, list; 6 yrs and aged, list 41b. R.C. Mr. Moore's Wolfdog, 4 yr5.............(Nat) 1 Sir J. Hawley's Bravissimo, 3 yrs Lord Albermarle's Little Vulgar Boy, 3 yrs .... 3 Mr. Drinkald's Ohio, 3 yrs 9 to 4 on Wolfdog. Ohio made play at an indifferent pace, followed alternately by Wolfdog and Little Vulgar Boy to the corner of the plantation. The running was then taken by the favourite, Bravissimo being kept in reserve to the hill; he then made his effort, but was beaten after a good race by a length. Little Vulgar Boy was a bad third. LATEST CESAREWITCII 0 to 1 agst JonathanWild'(t) 120 to 1 agst Kesheng (t) 0 to 1 agst Tom Tullock 20 to 1 agst Terrier (t) 1 to 1 agst The Baron 25 to 1 agst Jenny Wren 5 to 1 agst Sir Tatton Sykes 25 to 1 agst Giantess .8 to 1 agst Sting 50 to 1 agst Wolfilog (t) been a thousand times described. She enters a field which has already been traversed by a horde of industrious gleaners. Notwithstanding all this, how ever, the volume before us is eminently successful. By its production the authoress has enhanced the name which she had previously acquired in litera ture; and has entitled herself to the gratitude of her readers. The pages sparkle with a most delightful animation, the narrative is peculiar for its picturesque elegance, historical remi nicenses are introduced without effort and always to the embellishment of the text, appropriate anecdotes and sentiments are scattered through the chapters, and the whole work bears the aspect of a panorama skilfully arranged and delicately coloured. Miss Costello's volume on Venice is, altogether, a charming and clever performance. THE WORKS OF G. Y. N. JAMES. Vol. IX DARNLEY. So remarkable is the popularity of this historical romance about " The Field of the Cloth of Gold," and so generally are its excellencies appreciated, that we need scarcely adventure upon any investigation of its literary merits. The admirers of Mr. James will rejoice at such a republication of one of his very best productions, especially as the typography, the embel lishment, the binding, and the compactness of the whole volume, are so excellent. PAUL FITZ-HENRY. A Narrative. By Henry John Thornton. Three volumes octavo have come so much the habitual dimensions of a fiction now-a-days, that we are almost grateful to any one who has the audacity to break through the general habit. Variety is pleasing in literature as elsewhere, and hence it is possible that we derive any satisfaction whatever from so small an inn ov ati on . We recur, however to the times when a tale in a single volume was not un fashionable; when "Rasselas" was not unacceptable, when the " Vicar of Wakefield" was admitted into society, whether hot-pressed or not, and when it mattered little that " Robinson Crusoe" had no twin volume. The present story is the con densation of what might have been extended threefold without any marvellous diminution of interest. Of its general character and scene some more adequate conception may be formed from its second title—" A few weeks in Paris." Al though the outline of the plot is not remarkable for novelty, Mr. Thornton has yet arranged his mate rials so skilfully as to have written a very pleasant and agreeable "Narrative." KNIGHT'S WEEKLY VOLUME—Nos. CV!. and C VII. BACON AND HIS WRITINGS — Vol. 11. CABINET PORTRAIT GALLERY —Vol. IX. In publishing works of this solid and instructive character in so portable a form, and at so moderate a price, Mr. Charles Knight is increasing the debt of gratitude already owing to him by the public. As a caterer to the intellect of the people, no publisher has evinced more sagacity in discrimination, or more en terprise in the development of his literary projects. The little volumes of which the present form the con tinuation are a sufficient testimony of this fact. Anything that can tend to the dissemination of the knowledge of such a vast genius as that of Lord Bacon among the multitude must be welcomed as a boon to humanity. The wisdom of that great sage is calculated so wonderfully to expand the mind of its reader that it is lamentable to reflect upon the circumstance that the writings of Bacon are published only in such a costly manner as to render them almost inaccessible to a large proportion of the population. The volumes of this series may be regarded as the first step towards the supplying of this deficiency. Shakspere's dramas are printed and vended at a price which is reasonable to the most moderate incomes, and the speculation is found to be remunerative. Why should not some similar movement be made to popularise our philosophers as well as our poets ? Lord Poppington, in " The Trip to Scarborough," prized his library, like a true numskull, because of its handsome bindings and elegant typography. The humble classes, however, are ready to look more to the oyster than to the shell: they would prize a standard work, covered with brown paper, more than a silly one in gilding and morocco. Publishers should ponder these things. Among the biographies contained in this number of the "Cabinet Portrait Gallery" are many of eminence. Algernon Sidney, the patriot, who inscribed himself, in an album at Copenhagen, inimica tyrannis : Thomas Sydenham, the most memorable of English physicians; Robert Boyle, one of our noblest philosophers, both by birth and intellect ; Henry Purcell, the most wonderful, possibly, of all our native musicians, and others of lesser greatness. The letter-press is illustrated by characteristic engravings. THE SQUIRE'S DAUGHTER. A Tragedy. By Andrew Park. This is the most hazardous adventure ever under taken by Mr. Park. Hitherto he had contented himself with the production of an opera, " Ihe Mariners ;" a didactic poem, " Blindness ;" and a variety of lyrical and fugitive pieces. In this he has boldly attempted a five. act tragedy, than which, as he well observes in his preface, " there is not anything in literature so difficult of accomplishment." We cannot think that the endeavour has proved trium phant. There are, undoubtedly, passages of consi derable energy, and others of no little elegance • but, on the whole, th ere i s a w ant of that sustained dignity sad pathos which can alone constitute a successful tragedy. Many low characters and mean sentiments are introduced, which entirely mar the effect of the plot, and jar in upon the interest. Whenever Shak apere interpolates a comic character or incident in his tragedies, he does so with such consummate art that the grandeur of the principal characters and incidents is actually enhanced thereby. The gravediggers in Bamlet render the mournfulness of the Danish Prince's meditations in the churchyard still more affecting by contrast. Osric, again, elicits a new phase of the mind of Hamlet. The jests of the fool in Lear impart a more solemn air of desolation to the miseries of that " old, mad king." This, however, results from a peculiar genius for the drama, which genius Mr. Park does not possess. HINTS ON ANGLING. By Palmer Hackle, Esq. Piscator will revel over a book so thoroughly worthy of " the gentle craft" as this, by Palmer Hackle, Esq. It condenses a whole library of in formation into the compass of 339 pages, and this without being superficial upon any one given topic. The author has evidently entered upon his labours with a gusto; nevertheless, with all his enthusiasm, he never forgets that Ms principal office is to be practical. His work will prove as useful as it is de lightful, as fraught with wholesome advice as with agreeable reflections. Those who love the craft of angling will find a singular fund of information in the lucubrations of Palmer Hackle ; those who love to sit with Izaak Walton under a woodbine hedge while a shower is passing over, will delight in many passages from the pen of the said Palmer Hackle. Charles Cotton would have listened to his voice with pleasure, and, seeing that there are hundreds of Charles Cottons in existence, our author is tolerably secure of becoming a general favourite. NOTES ON THE EPIDEMIC CHOLERA. By R. Hartley Kennedy, M.D., late Physician-Genera and President of the Medical Board, Bombay. Second Edition. The first edition of this work, published in 1826, has long since been considered a medical classic. It is the authority on the subject on which it treats, and Dr. Kennedy has conferred an obligation on the public and the professsion by the publication of this reprint of it. REWARDS FOR STARVATION.—The Dunmow Agri cultural Society have been giving away what they call " rewards for virtue." We think them rewards for the peacefulness of hunger. For instance:--" To the widow of a labourer in husbandry w h o h a d b rought up the largest family with the least parochial relief, was de voted a scarlet cloak; and to the second in degree was presented a wash-tub and clothes-basket." Thus it is something to see, through the vista of long years of po verty and privation, the promised glory of a scarlet cloak! A capital plan, too, on the part of the society, to servo hunger like a whale, and throw a tub" to it. " To the married couple, the labourer and wife, who had brought up the greatest number of children with little or no parochial relief, was given, not a flitch of bacon, as was formerly the case, but a gam mon t h ereo f . " W e t hi n k the " gammon" peculiarly significant. It offers, too, a delicious illustration of the charity of the Dunmow So ciety, for truly these rewards are gammon-411 gammon —and nothing but gammon.—Punch. LONDON MECHANICS' INSTITUTE, SOUTHAMPTON.. BUILDINOS.—Last evening a special general meeting of numbers was held in the Theatre of the Mechanics' In stitute, to receive the report of the building committee respecting the late alterations that have been made in the building. Mr. Vallentine having been called to the chair, Mr. Wood read the report, which stated that au enlarged reading-room had been constructed. The library,committee, and apparatus rooms had been re moved, and the several departments mentioned had been finished, and furnished for 3821. 13s. Bd., which left of the building fund raised a balance of 94 Amongs the snbscribers were Lord Brougham, 25/. ; Lord Dudley Coutts Stuart, 54 ; Lord Kinnaird, 5/. ; Lord Clarendon, 51. ; Christopher Davy, Esq., 10/.lo s . ; Ri c h ar d T ay l or , Esq., 54 ; and Thomas B irkbeck, Esq., Si. Upon the motion of Mr. Smythe the report was adopted, after which and votes of thanks to the building committee, the subscribers, and the chairman, the meeting separated. TROOPS FOR IRELAND.--PORTSMOUTH, OCT. The Government having determined on increasing the military force in Ireland, the Admiralty have received instructions to send a battal ion of marines thither. Two hundred men will be sent from each of the four divisions, with a lieutenant colonel to command them. The Dee, Rhadamanthus, and other steam transports will be em ployed in conveying the troops. Captains Evans and Elliott, with four subalterns, are to accompauy the de taohment from the Portsmouth division. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 2, 1846. NEWMARKET HOUGHTON MEETING. Mr. Greville's Alarm and Mr. Mytton's Sorella have been matched for 1,000 each, p.p., Bst each. B.C. (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) WREXHAM RACES—WEDNESDAY. The Gold Cup of 100 sovs. Thrice round. Mr. Skerratt's Intrepid, 5 yrs, Bst 131 b (Arthur) 1 Mr. Mostyn's bf by Revolution, 3 yrs, 6st 121 b ..... 2 Mr. Worthington's Hooton, 6 yrs, 9st 81b Mr. Fitzhugh's Black Strap, 4 vrs, Bst 31b Won by half a neck, after a fine race. Handicap of 20 sovs. each, J 0 ft, and 5 only if declared, with 50 added; the second to save his stake. Once round and ... ____ a dis. Mr. Worthington's Dr. Husband, syrs, Bst 71b, walked over. Handicap of 10 soya. each. 5 ft; 30 added. One mile. Mr. Stapleford's Carrissima, 4 yrs, 7st 101 b (Simpson) 1 1 Mr. W. Smith's Foxwhelp, 4 yrs, 7st 121 b 0 2 Mr. Price's Kissitt, 3 yrs, 6st 101 b 2 0 Dr. Husband, Bst 71b, and Obscurity, 7st 131 b, also ran. The Hurdle race was won by Jesse, distancing two ethers. CHESTERFIELD RACES. The Chesterfield Plate of 401., added to a Sweepstakes of 3 Boys. each, second t o rece i ve 104 H ea t s . Two m iles. (5 Subs.) Mr. Baker's Redskin, 5 yrs 3 1 1 Mr. Dixon's Amason, 3 yrs 1 2 3 Mr. Wormald's Millepede, aged 2 3 2 The Ladies' Purse of 251., added to a Sweepstakes of 3 goys. each. Heats. Once round. (5 Subs.) Mr. Pepper's Hector, 4 yrs 1 1 Mr. Lancaster's Monsieur Perrot, 3 yrs Mr. Lamplough's Boltsman, 3 yrs broke down. Handicap of 3 sovs. each, and 25 added. Heats One mile. Mr. Ird's Tottenham, 4 yrs 2 4 1 1 Mr. Pepper's Hector, 4 yrs Mr. Raworth's Engineer, 3 yrs .. 5 1 fell Mr. Whales's Stranger, 4 yrs CHESTER AUTUMN MEETING.—TXURSDAY. The Hooton Stakes of 7 sovs. each, 5 ft, with 20 added ; 3 yrs olds, lost; 4 yrs, llst4lb ; 5 yrs, list 121 b; 6 yrs and aged, 12st :21b ; mares and geldings allowed 31b. Cup Course. (5 Subs.) Mr. Tempest's Lucy, 5 yrs MSir J. Gerard's Perpetual Motion, (11 b), 4 yrs ............... 2 r. Dawson's British Tar, 5 yrs.. Won easy. The Grand Stand Stakes of 10 sovs. each, with 50 added ; for 2 yrs pld colts, Est 61b; fillies, Bst 31b ; w i nners extra. Three-quarters of a mil e . (5 übs.) Mr. Mostyn's bf by Lanercost, out of L'Hirondelle ...... 1 Sir C. Monck's bf, by Touchstone, out of Cast Steel 2 Mr. T. Dawson's c, by D'Egville, dam by Hum. Clinker 3 Mr. S. L. Fox's Chapeau Rouge .................. Won easy. The Saracen's Head Handicap of 25 soya., added to a Sweep stakes of 5 sovs. each. The second to sake his stake. Mile and a half. (20 Subs., 10 of whom declared.) Mr. W. Scott's Drilleld, 3 yrs, sst 81b ............ (Oates) 1 Mr. S. Fox's Psalmsinger, 4 yrs, Est 5113 .......... 2 Mr. Meiklam's c, by Touchstone, out of Laura, 3 yrs 3 Won easy. The Selling Stakes were not run for when our account left the course. FATAL ACCIDENT. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) A melancholy accident, by which a young gentleman, of the most amiable disposition and the highest promise, was brought to an untimely end, and a much respected family have been plunged into the deepest affliction, occurred on Friday, the 25th ult., in the neighbourhood of Coachford, in the co un ty o f C or k . . . - - - --- About four o'clock in the evening of that day, Mr. William Halloran, the eldest son of the Rev. William Hallarna, rector of Magurney, in the county of Cork, accompanied by his younger brother, Master Thomas Halloran, and his cousin, Mr. John Martin, of Upper Mount-street, Dublin, went out in pursuit of some plover that had been seen in an adjoining field. About 5 o'clock Mr. Martin was drawing the charge from his gun, Mr. Halloran standing close to him, with the butt of his gun resting on the ground, and the muzzle turned upwards ; when a dog by which they were accompanied unfortu nately jumped on him, and it is supposed touched the spring of his gun, which instantly exploded, and the un fortunate young gentleman received the entire charge in his lungs. He ran a few yards and then fell upon his face. He was immediately conveyed to a neigh bouring cottage, and his father, who was speedily informed of the lamentable event, was with him in a few minutes. He retained full possession of his senses for more than two hours, and during that period exhibited the most perfect resignation to his fate —the most implicit trust and confidence in the atone ment by our blessed Saviour. He suffered very little (and to use the words of a spectator, his last moments were like those of an infant going to sleep). Such patience and fortitude must go far to sustain his parents under the weighty affliction by which they have been visited. Mr. Hallaran was a remarkably fine young man, in the nineteenth year of his age. He was to have left his home in a few days, for the purpose of attending the examination in the University of Dublin, of which he was a student. Few could have been in possession of greater health or strength than he was, or afford a greater promise of a prolonged existence than he did a few short hours before, he was thus cut off in the pride and bloom of youth. It affords a melancholy ex ample of the instability of this life. FUNERA L OF THOMAS LAWRENCE, ESQ., ASSISTANT SECRETARY AT TH E POST-0 a c i o n n s s o ig f n th ed e above gentleman were yes te rday afternoo n e ;:i in the family vault, at Chiale to their final resting-plac hurst, Kent. Mr. Lawre was appointed to office in t h e year 1809, and after a ce long and laborious official care er, he was called to the eatbm whichffoesnt"tr-general, which general superintendence of the Post - office , under the post he occupied till his deatb, with Thursday evening , t he 24 th ult. cil routine, Wellacquainted happened on all the peculiariti es and intri cacies of the official he rose step by st e p to the hi ghest office under the attendediby James se cretary, each office beneath which he fill ed so ably Hhiise fcleric funeral in was se secretaa sto r merit and obtain the c onfidence and esteem of brother officers in the establishment . For some tamlla his he ha a d me s s c uffearmedpbell sev , er E e s ly q .. , c office, and Mr. Ellis, of t he missin g lette r departme y' nt s , Mr. Benjamin Lawrence , of Fish-street-hill, Mr. Free ling Lawrence and Mr. Hugh Lawrence, his sons, Capt. Price, R.N., and Dr. Sams and Dr. West, the medical advisers of the family. A man of herculean powers, named Paul, has been exhibiting feats of strength at the Theatre des Vari6t6s, at Nantes. On Sunday last, according to the Courier de Nantes, he performed one that no person can well beNeve who were not eye witnesses. Being laid on his back, he formed with his feet and hands a species of frame or carriage, on which was laid a cannon weighing 1,2121b5. French, 1,30811b5. English, and in this position sustained it for 53 minutes, during which it was fired off, without causing Paul to make the slightest movement. MORTALITY or THE METROPOLIS.—The number of deaths registered in the metropolis during the week end ing Saturday, September 26, wus 808. Of these, 792 were deaths from disease, showing a decrease in the number of deaths from disease, as compared with the week preceding, of 94. There were 7 deaths from cholera, 3 from dysentery, and 52 from diarrhcea. The number of births during the week was 1,280, LITERATURE. DOMBEY and SON. No. I. By Charles Dickens. " Boz " never commenced a work with so much of glorious promise as the present. Even the illustrious picture of Mr. Pickwick gazing from his lodging window, when " before him was Goswell-street, if he looked to the right there was Goswell-street, if he looked to the left there was Goswell-street," is nothing in comparison. The deathbed in the work house depicted in the opening pages of "Oliver Twist ;" the eccentric genealogy with which " Ni cholas Nickleby" is begun ; the first visit to the " Old Curiosity Shop;" the preliminary evening at the Maypole, in " Barnaby Rudge ;" and the famous chase of the dead leaves, with which "Martin Chuzzlewit" is commenced, and with which Seth PecksLiff is introduced, possessed nothing comparable to the promise given by this inimitable introduction to "Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son, Wholesale, Retail, and for Exportation." The story is written in that same style of simplicity and natural ness which has acquired for Mr. Dickens a celebrity such as, in the hack but expressive phrase, "the world will not willingly let die." Again, there is the same combination of the most subtle and moving pathos with the most fantastic and sunny wit, which has rendered the works of this admirable writer such universal favourites. Charles Dickens, as an Irish man would say, always writes " with a heart and a half." This single number of Dombey and Son" would be alone sufficient to explain our meaning, from that touching death scene in the first chapter, where Mrs. Dombey expires while clasping her young child to her boSom, and "thus, clinging to that slight spar within her arms, the mother drifted out upon the dark and unknown sea that rolls round all the world," to that beautiful scene between the nurse and Florence. Beyond this, "Boz" has a noble habit of availing himself of any and every opportunity of in veighing against abuses, whether public or private. How cutting is that side-sarcasm at the dispro portionate promotions in the sea service, where he describes a certain elderly gentleman as having paid " house-rent, taxes, rates, and dues for more years than many a full-grown midshipman; and midship men who have attained a pretty green old age have not been wanting in the English navy!" Many "characters" of singular originality are already in troduced in these four chapters; foremost among which are Dombey himself and his newly-born Son ; the latter of whom is placed close to the fire, " as if his constitution were analogous to that of a muffin, and it was essential to toast him brown, while he was very new." Miss Tox promises' to be the best maiden lady of an unknown age ever portrayed by Boz. From the furry articles which she wore in winter, "as tippits, boas, and muffs, which stood upon end in a rampant manner, and were not at all sleek," to the " small bags with snaps to them, that went off like little pistols when they were shut up," and which bags the said Miss Tox was accustomed to carry, the likeness is drawn to the very life, to the very hair indeed. From Mr. Chick, again, " a stout bald gentleman, with a very large face, and his hands continually in his pockets," who has acquired such a habit of whistling and humming to himself, that on the most melancholy occasions he is constantly burst ing in with a " Right tol loor rul," or a " Rump te iddity, bow-wow-wow !" we may expect intolerable amusement. The " apple-faced family," otherwise called the Toodles, is richly described, even to the smallest Toodle, who on the flight of his mother " immediately began swarming up stairs after her on his arms and legs." Miss Nipper is an improvement on Tilly Slowboy of illustrious memory ; she is spoken of as "so desperately sharp and biting that she seemed to make one's eyes water." Here, however, is a description of a nondescript nautical character, named Captain Cuttle—and an exquisitely ridiculous description it is too. " But an addition to the little party now made its ap pearance, in the shape of a gentleman in a wide suit o blue, with a hook instead of ahand attached to his right wrist ; very bushy black eyebrows ; and a thick stick in his left hand, covered all over (like his nose) with knobs. He wore a loose black silk handkerchief round his neck, and such a very large coarse shirt collar, that it looked like a small sail. He was evidently the person for whom the spare wine-glass was intended, and evidently knew it ; for having taken off his rough outer coat, and hung up, on a particular peg behind the door, such a hard glazed bat as a sympathetic person's head might ache at the sight of, and which left a red rim round his forehead as if he had been wearing a tight basin, he brought a chair to where the clean glass was, and sat himself down behind it. He was usually addressed as Captain, this visitor ; and had been a pilot, or a skipper, or a pri vateers-man, or all three perhaps; and was a very salt looking man indeed." Here, by way of a companion quotation, is one of those pictures of a London locality in which Mr. Dickens is so wonderfully successful. " Mr. Dombey's house was a large one, on the shady side of a tall, dark, dreadfully genteel street in the re gion between Portland-place and Bryanstone-square. It was a corner house, with great wide areas containing cellars frowned upon by barred windows, and leered at by crooked-eyed doors leading to dustbins. It was a house of dismal state, with a circular back to it, contain ing a whole suit of drawing-rooms looking upon a gra velled yard, where two gaunt trees, with blackened trunks and branches, rattled rather than rustled, their leaves were so smoke-dried. The summer sun was never on the street, but in the morning about breakfast time, when it came with the water-carts and the old clothes men, and the people with geraniums, and the umbrella mender, and the man who trilled the little bell of the Dutch clock as he went along. It was soon gone again to return no more that day ; and the bands of music and the-straggling Punch's shows going after it, left it a prey to the most dismal of organs, and white mice ; with now and then a porcupine, to vary the entertainments ; until the butlers whose families were dining out, began to stand at the house doors in the twilight, and the lamplighter made his nightly failure in attempting to brighten up the street with gas. "It was as blank a house inside as outside. When the funeral was over, Mr. Dombey ordered the furniture to be covered up—perhaps to preserve it for the son with whom his plans were all associated—and the rooms to be ungarnished, saving such as he retained for himself on the ground-floor. Accordingly mysterious shapes were made of tables and chairs, heaped together in the middle of rooms, and covered over with great winding sheets. Bell-handles, window-blinds, and looking glasses, being papered up in journals, daily and weekly, obtruded fragmentary accounts of deaths and dreadful murders. Every chandelier or lustre, muffled in hol land, looked like a monstrous tear depending from the ceiling's eye. Odours, as from vaults and damp places, came out of the chimneys. The dead and buried lady was awful in a picture-frame of ghastly bandages. Every gust of wind that rose, brought edging round the corner from the neighbourning mews, some fragments of the straw that had been strewn before the house, when she was ill, mildewed remains of which were still cleav ing to the neighbourhood ; and these, being always drawn by some invisible attraction to the threshold of the dirty house to let immediately opposite, addressed a dismal eloquence to Mr. Dombey's windows." Phiz is the illustrator, and admirably does he embody the limnings of Boz; the two etchings in the present number are capital. We are rejoiced to see Phiz still retained as the draughtsman to Dickens ; we are rejoiced to see a new work by Boz appearing from month to month in the old green covers, and heartily join with the nephew of old Solomon Gills in wishing " Success to Dombey—and Son—and Daughter 1" A TOUR TO AND FROM VAIVICE. By Louisa Stuart Costello. Often as Venice has been written about and painted on canvass, eulogised in the canzonets of the gondo liers, and landed in the metres of poesy, this beautiful volume by Miss Costello comes upon us with a pecu liar freshness, and fascinates us as though it were the description of some newly-discovered fairy-land. Those who have never visited this city of palaces in the Adriatic, possess, nevertheless, some ideal of its appearance and general character. Since the days when the mysterious Council of Ten ruled its desti nies, when the Doge went forth with exceeding pomp to marry the billows by which his dominions were surrounded, and when the prisoners of that mercan tile principality languished beneath the leads of the Bridge of Sighs, the vision of this extrao r di nar y c ity has elicited the admiration of the people of all other nations. And beyond its own intrinsic attractions, Venice has been invested with a thousand extrinsic and admirable associations. Bassanio and Shy lock, Othello and Desdemona have equally imparted to it a novel and remarkable in terest. Stanfield's pencil has conveyed to the stranger some adequate impression of its mag nificence. The verse of Rogers has afforded some conception of its pristine glory. The dramas of Byron have revealed many of the darkest incidents of its history. Since Napoleon closed its existence as an independent state, thousands have reverted to those periods o f its career in which its wealth and dignity were predominant throughout a considerable portion of Europe. That "golden wand of commerce" which Washington Irving has beautifully portrayed, as grasped during many years "in the failing hand of Italy," was virtually the sceptre of the Venetian Doges ; and since the relinquishment of that sceptre, the power of the sea Cybele has disappeared. When we recall to our recollection the vigour of its Govern ment, the opulence of its citizens, the multitude of its visitors, the splendour of its beneficent victories, and the extent to which its proceedings influenced even the most remote kingdoms, we cannot but think that Lady Morgan selected no very extravagant sobriquet in christening Venice " the Rome of the ocean ;" and, remembering all these things, we can never induce ourselves to believe that too much has already been written descriptive of its appearance. Much twaddle we are conscious has been devoted to the subject of Venice. Many tourists have penned nonsense by the chapter anent Venice, and have unhappily " found it in their hearts to bestow all their tediousness " upon the public, as Dogberry did of yore to Leonato. But of good books, upon the same theme, we have not yet had a surfeit —and many good books have been writ ten upon it nevertheless. Miss Costello has here ad ventured upon a pilgrimage, every inch of , which has been worn by the footsteps of a myriad preceding pilgrims. She describes scenes which hate already MAGAZINES.--(CONTINUED). BENTLEY. The present number opens with the seventeenth chapter of Maxwell's novel of " Brian O'Linn," and then we have " The Corso of Naples," a continuation of those graphic pictures of Neapolitan society, which have of late appeared in this magazine. This is fol lowed by a Latin lyric (which we transcribe) de scriptive of the cholera morbus : CHOLERA MORBUS CLASSICUS. Magnus ventre dolor, Nullus in ore color, Dum languescit vultus ; Sanguis triste Dum sine more ruit, Sudor passim multus. Cor torpore dolet, Spiritus asper olet, Angor torquet dorsum ; Dentes usque fremunt, Pallida labra tremunt, Et detrectant morsum. Noctes atque dies Est tibi nulla, quies, Duram luges sortem ; Dicit morbus ibi, Tempus abire tibi, Nunc arcesso mortem. The literary retrospect of the departed consists of some clever sketches of " little great" literary people of a quarter of a century since. Miss Benger and Lady Caroline Lamb, and poor Upcott, that most indefatigable collector of literary curiosities, who, if his digestion had been equal to his appetite, would have been a first-rate historian ; and Cuvier, whose intellect, vast as it is universally acknowledged to have been, was yet surpassed by his kindness, whose heart was ever larger than his head, are here sketched from the life. We see them before us as they walked, and talked, and moved, and had their being. Then comes " The Pony Club," a fearful legend of the backwoods of America—of those regions where the only justice known is Mr. Justice Lynch ; and after that we have an amusing account of the adventures of an English traveller at Pyrmont, before Pyrmont had fallen into " the seer and yellow leaf." Dr. W. C. Taylor gives us two papers, one on the sayings and doings of Nasir- Ed-Din-Khojah, the Turkish Joe Miller, as he calls him, but rather, as we should say, the Turkish Hierocles, inasmuch as there is matter for thought in all his jests, and the other on " The Dissolution of the Monasteries," an able review of that portion of the letters of the monarchs of England, recently pub lished by Sir H. Ellis, which relates to the reign of Henry VIII. This paper is illustrated by a well engraved portrait of the bluff King Harry, from the original portrait in St. Bartholomew's Hos pital. The Flaneur in Paris continues his amusing sketches of Parisian life, and Miss Costello, in her Legendary Towns and Cities, illustrates the topo graphy and local history of Gloucester and of Ciren cester. A continuation of the paper on " Doncaster, its Sports and Saturnalia," and a quaintly told legend of the Folly Tower at Clifton, by Albert Smith, complete the number of Bentley for the present month, which contains much amusing light reading. DUBLIN UNIVERSITY. So little is thought of contemporary poets, when in reality they generally deserve so much consideration, that we are rejoiced to see a series of critical articles devoted to them commenced in the October number of the Dublin University. Much as we may mourn over the decadence of poetical genius now-a-days, there is, nevertheless, a group of aspirants for the bay garland still among us, many individuals of which group are not wholly undeserving of such a coronal. First and foremost among our young poets stands Alfred Tennyson, and about his pedestal is a motley and interesting throng—Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, B. Simmons, Ebenezer Elliot, Barton, R. H. Horne, and a swarm of other songsters. Many of them have given evidence of the possession of faculties worthy of true bards ; very fe w—searcely a single one indeed— has produced anything capable of ensuring him (or her as the case may be) anything but a very transitory celebrity. It is fitting, then, that they should occa sionally receive a gentle, and sometimes even a churl ish, reminder of their shortcomings. Some intellects of extraordinary promise have ere now been dwarfed and nullified by their possessors deluding themselves into a belief that they have performed enough to entitle them to immortality, or that they have con ferred sufficient benefactions upon their fellow creatures, or, in plainer language, that they can with impunity " repose upon their laurels." Criticism, if incapacitated from performing any greater service, has still the power and the opportunity of overruling these fallacious convictions. Such a description of beneficent and utilitarian criticism is the one we welcome in the present number of this magazine. "Evenings with our Younger Poets" will be a serial calculated to perform very excellent service in lite rature. It will " beat up the bushes" round the base of Parnassus, and may rouse into song some slumber ing bird of poetry who might otherwise exhaust life in inglorious indolence. The younger poets selected for disquisition on the preliminary evening are five— Currer, Ellis, Acton Bell, Camilla Toulmin, and R. H. Horne. When we call to recollection the fero cious onslaught made upon the last-mentioned by the ebony crutch of Christopher North and remember at the same moment the solemn delight we have our selves derived from the perusal of Mr. Horne's re markable epic of " Orion," we are really gratified to observe that the critic in this Dublin periodical is more inclined to do justice to the intellectual powers possessed by the author of that farthing poem. Mr. Horne is not gifted with a geniu.s of a gi gantic order, but still it would be frivolous to deny him the possession of a genius; it would be frivolous after having studied his writings. There is a trans parency in his dreamings, and a richness in his illus trations of a thought, such as mere art could scarcely produce. Here is a description of the heroic giant musing on the sea beach : O'ersteeped in bliss; prone on its ebbing tide; With hope's completeness vaguely sorrowful, And sense of life-bounds too enlarged; his thoughts Sank faintly through each other, fused and lost, Till his o'er-satisfied existence drooped, Like fruit boughs heavily laden above a stream, In which they gaze so closely on themselves, That, touching, they grow drowsy, and submerge, Losing all vision." Nevertheless, it is the very evidence of superior capacities in Mr. Horne that makes us incl ined to quar rel with him for the mal-employment of those capacities. His history of Napoleon is too jejune to survive its author very long; and his "New Spirit of the Age," though a pleasant book enough, is little less than one of the ephemerides of literature. It is only by a vigorous and .apposite employment of his time that Mr. Horne can carve his name upon the threshold of immortality. The river-hunting con tributor to the Dublin University continues his lucubrations about the Shannon with much spright liness ; he paints landscape so delicately in pen-and ink, that he seems to have studied jointly under Turner and Minasi. " Commerce—Ancient and Modern," is a thoughtful and instructive review of the very valuable work recently published by W. Torrens M'Cullagh. The reviewer justly regards Mr. M‘Cullagh as reprehensible for imitating such a style of composition as that peculiar to Thomas •Carlyle, but when he presumes to call that style " the absurd manner of writing in which Mr. Carlyle mystifies both himself and his readers," he wholly overlooks the time-ho noured adage—"chaeun a son gout." Alison and divers others have written upon taste," and have endeavoured to systematise that aerial endowment of the human mind ; but almost every successive day testifies that nothing scarcely could be more futile than such an endeavour. Of this Thomas Carlyle thousands upon thousands are worshippers, so to speak ; his voice has that in it most akin to eloquence in their regard; he is to them the prophet of grand truths, the teller of deep mysteries ; his " Sartor Resartus" is their Alcoran. Nor are these men any blunderers in so doing; Carlyle never speaks without a purpose ; the riches of his book are like the riches of that fountain in the tropics into which, when a bucket is cast to draw water, a sedi ment of gold dust is discovered at the bottom. If this reviewer find nothing worth the gathering in Carlyle, let him go his way, as Gilfillan has said, " the book has nothing to do with him, nor he with it 1" Of the style of Carlyle, it may be said that it is a rude jangle of words to those who look not to the meaning, but filled with glorious and thrilling tones to those who do. Carlyle has an office higher than that of phrase-turning ; he utters his thoughts in the first natural and vigorous language that presents itself, instead of pottering over the littlenesses of composition. A likeness and memoir of Sir Henry Pottinger is introduced into the "Portrait Gallery," and a worthier subject could scarcely have been selected. "A Visit to Milo" is strangely interesting; the " Black Prophet" is pro ceeded with by Carleton ; and a survey of the " Life and Correspondence of John Foster,' though after date, forms an excellent conclusion to an excellent collection of contributions. DOLMAN. Although there are several tirticles in this perio dical almost exclusively attractive to the class of which it is the monthly organ, namely, the Roman Catholics, there are others of a very miscellaneous and agreeable character. The Rev. Charles Plowden's narrative of the " Preservation of the Jesuits in Russia," and " Lord Shrewsbury's New Church at Cheadle," are foremost among the former. Among the latter the "Reminiscences of a Visit to Spain in the Summer of 1845" will be peculiarly agreeable to the thousands who love the phantom of " That sunny south countrie ;" and especially so at this moment, when between Chris tina, Louis Philippe, Montemolin, Bresson, Cabrera, Narvaez, and Isturitz, the whole social and political fabric of that empire seems about to be tumbled into confusion. " Lorenzo the Magnificent" is a paper which is not merely illumined by the gorgeousness of its theme, but also by the intelligence of its contri butor. Immediately afterwards we are treated with some appropriate and most graceful verses, entitled " The Triumph of Autumn," and signed E. E. M. K. They appear to us so redolent of this glorious October season, that we gladly present them to the reader. " I wake, and the eastern height—flame-tipp'd height, As an armed knight, With cuirass and helm of sheen, • Reveals me, there in the kindling air, 'Mid armies of nodding green. " Noon comes, and I bind the earth—panting earth, With a burning girth Of sultry sunbeams round, Till from her sluices the vital juices In ruddy tides abound. " I sigh, and the love-sick flowers—damask flowers, In our trysting hours, Their sly seclusions leave, And round me long, like a burst of song, Delicious odours weave. " I call, and the list'ning brooks—jocund brooks, From among the stooks,' With silvery footsteps run, To join the espousal, and rare carousal, Of earth with her lord, the sun. " And listen! in yonder mead—waving mead, Where the reapers speed, About her temples twining A chaplet new of corn-flags blue. My love, bright Ceres, pining ! " Farewell! at her feet I'll rest—haply rest, As in heaven the blest, Sweet Goddess mine! I swear By all the blooming, thy grief consuming, My kingdom thou shalt share!" Dr. James Johnson is eulogised in a second article appertaining to him ; but he deserved almost any rational panegyric, so industrious were his habits, so intelligent was his mind, so genial was his disposition, and so honest was his whole nature. Altogether Dolman's Magazine sustains its character among the most valuable of the monthly publications. THE REGISTRATIONS. CITY OF LONDON. The Revising Barrister, bir. Arnold, proceeded on Wednesday with the revision of the list for the parish of St. Botolph without, Bishopsgate. No case of the slightest interest came before the Court. The following is a statement of the result of the day's proceedings : Failed or Sustained. Withdrawn. Conservative objections 154 ... 72 Liberal Double Conservative claims Liberal claims 67 ... 0 ... 1 ... Mr. ARNOLD yesterday took the lists for the parishes of St. John the Evangelist, Allhallows, Bread-street; Holy Trinity the less, St. James, Garlick Hy the ; St. Martin, Vintry; St. Michael, Paternoster Royal; St. Margaret Moses, St. Mary-le-Bow, St. Mary Moun thaw, St. Mary Somerset, St. Michael, Queenhithe; St. Mildred, Bread-street; St. Nicholas Cole Abbey, St. Nicholas Olave, and St. Peter, Paul's-wharf. In the list of the parish of St. James, Garlick Ilythe, Samuel Godfrey Crook, who was registered for apart ments at 15, Garlick-hill, was objected to by the Con servatives. Thomas Dawson deposed that the claimant was a clerk in the employment of Messrs. Conway. Phelps, and llay ward, wholesale grocers. He occupied a bedroom on the second floor of the house, 15, Garlick-hill. The rent was paid by Messrs. Conway and Co. Witness and two other clerks, as well as Crook, slept on the premises. The room occupied by the claimant was worth 101. a year. The clerks were required by their engagements to sleep on the premises, but they were not compelled to do so, nor was it necessary for the purposes of business that they should do so. By Mr. Brown—Witness had also been placed on the list. He and Crook occupied separate bed rooms. Witness had furniture in his room—s chest of drawers, boxes, and paintings. By his engagement he was required to sleep on the premises, and he was pro vided with victuals by his employers. Neither Crook nor himself had any right or control over the premises as occupiers. They were liable to be discharged at a month's notice. Mr. Brown observed, that this was a case in which four young men had been placed on the list by the Anti- Corn-law League for the premises of their employers. Mr. ARNOLD stopped the case, and expunged the name. The names of Thomas Dawson, Charles Thomas Bainbridge, and John Pedlar Warren, who claimed for the same premises under precisely similar circumstances, were also struck off the list. The following is the result of the day's revision:— Failed or Sustained. Withdrawn. Conservative objections Liberal Doüble Liberal claims EAST SURREY. The Revising Barrister for the eastern division of the county of Surrey (Mr. S. C. Fish) held his court on Wednesday, at the French Horn and Half-moon Inn, at Wandsworth, when the lists for the following parishes were disposed of:—Barnes, Merton, Mortlake, Putney, Tooting, Wimbledon, and Wandsworth. Mr. T. Jeans attended on the part of the New East Surrey Reform Registration Society, Mr. Meymott for the Conservatives, and Mr. Russell for the Free-traders. Among the objections, ono was made to the vote of Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce on the ground of insuf ficient description. The error was amended, and the vote retained. The vote of Lord W. Fitzroy was objected to on the same grounds. The required amendment having been made, Lord W. Fitzroy applied for his expenses. The REVISING BARRISTER, acting on the rule he had laid down in several previous cases, refused to grant them ; where an error was rectified and an amendment made, he did not consider the objection either frivolous or vexatious. One objection made by the Conservatives failed from the impossibility of deciphering the signature of the ob jector appended to the notice ; the Barrister, the clerk, the solicitors, all tried upon it their not unpractised skill in such matters, but the hieroglyphic defied alike dissec tion and conjecture ; it was therefore considered by the Court as a mark or scratch and not a name, and the ob jection overruled. The list for the parish of Battersea will be taken to morrow. The Revising Barrister of the eastern division of Surrey sat yesterday at the French Horn and Half moon Inn, Wandsworth. The list taken was that for the parish of Battersea. The objections were nearly all matters of form, and made for the sake of correction. The result of the day's proceedings was not very mate rial. Of 33 objections made by the Liberals 7 were sustained ; the Conservatives objected to 31, and sus tained 4. The Court rose at an early hour. RE-OPENING Or VAUXHALL GARDENS.—This popu lar place of public amusement will (we are informed) re-open this (Friday) evening, under the sole manage ment and for the benefit of Mr. Robert Wardell, when a series of novel and varied entertainments will be pre sented to the patrons of the " Royal property." The orchestra will consist of a hundred performers, including all the leading musical talent of the day (under the direction of Mr. Alexander Lee), and a number of popu lar vocalists have proffered their aid to Mr. Wardell. Mr. Carter, the " lion king," with the celebrated Mam moth horse, will appear in the circle ; also Tourniaire's famed troupe of equestrians. The illuminations will surpass in brilliancy all former displays, and will in clude many new and appropriate devices; and there will also be a double display of fireworks by Darby, artist to the gardens. On Wednesday next, Vauxhall will close for the season, with a grand masquerade and Neapolitan carnival. MEETING OF MASONS.—Last night a public meeting of the stone-masons was held at the Temper ance-hall, Waterloo-road, which was completely filled. Mr. John Shaw (a mason) was called to the chair, and congratulated the meeting on the prospects before them. From the report of the subscriptiens received in aid - of the late struggle at Liverpool, it appeared that the total, was, in voluntary contributions, 611. 15s. 6d., and from a benefit at the Liverpool Theatre, 741. ss. 10d. ; a profit of 221. 19s. 6d.—Robert M'Donald proposed the first re solution, " That Trades' Unions are highly conducive to the social, moral, and intellectual improvement of the working classes, and that it is the imperative duty of every mason, in particular, to unite in forwarding the objects of the Masons' Association."—The resolution was carried unanimously amidst loud cheers.—Joseph Wood proposed the second resolution :—" That this meeting pledges itself, individually and collectively, to use every legitimate and constitutional effort to forward the objects of this meeting, believing that Trades' Unions are the only lever that will ultimately elevate the work ing classes to that pre-eminent position that they ought to occupy among the producers of the wealth of this great empire." This and the other resolutions were also carried unanimously. FOREIGN FROVISIONS.—Yesterday afternoon the steam-ship Magnet, from Dieppe, arrived alongside the St. Katherine Dock -Steam Packet Wharf, with 100 oxen, 400 sheep, and about 80 calves. The Rapid, from Harlingen, had on board 140 oxen, above 500 sheep, and about 20 calves. The Antwerpen, from Antwerp, also arrived with 1,500 baskets of walnuts. The steam ship Batavia, from Hamburgh, came alongside the same wharf on Wednesday afternoon, with 70 head of cattle, 73 sheep, about 20 calves, and 100 baskets of walnuts. _ _ FATAL ACCIDENT AT ETON COLLEGE.—On Wednes day afternoon a plumber, named Sargent, who resided at Upton-cum- Chalvey, was engaged in repairing the leads on the roof of one of the master's houses in Rester lane, Eton College. The height was nearly sixty feet, and as the ladder used was not long enough, a.temporary platform was erected at the top of it, where a second ladder twenty feet long was placed, but not secured by lashings, the unfortunate man was at the summit of this when his weight overbalanced the ladder, and he was precipitated to the ground, and, falling upon his head, death was instantaneous. The deceased has lett a widow and six children to lament his loss. QUICILSILVER.-A vessel arrived at one of the wharfs near London-bridge, from Seville, had an entire cargo, comprising the large quantity of 3,000 flasks of qnicksilver, consigned to th e celebrated firm of Roths child and Son, AUSTRALIAN MINES. By the late arrivals from South Australia we receive intelligence of the prevalent feeling of discontent among the colonists at the recent change in the regulations for the sale of waste lands, and assumption by the local government of claims upon all ores and other valuable minerals that may lie below the surface of the allotted properties. A numerously attended meeting was held at Adelaide, on the 26th of March, to con sider the subject, at which W. Giles, Esq., J.P., pre sided. Resolutions were passed at that meeting con demning the proceedings of the local government u " illegal, unjust, and impolitic," and declaring, " That the repeated attempts of the Colonial-office to set at nought, in this colony, the stipulations and solemn engagements guaranteed to the colonists by acts of the Imperial Parliament, are subversive of that confidence and respect which the settlers ever have entertained, and are desirous of continuing to entertain towards the parent state." Finally it was resolved, " That urgent petitions be presented to the House of Lords and Commons, ex pressing the grievances of the colonists in reference to the regulations in question, and, pending the trans mission of which, application was to be made to the Lieutenant-Governor to postpone the carrying into prac tice of his late regulations. The following are the principal clauses of the petition then agreed upon : " That your petitioners emigrated to South Australia with their families, and assisted in the formation and settlement of the colony upon the faith of various Acts of the Imperial Parliament (4 and 5 Wm. - IV. cap. 92, 1 and 2 Vic. cap. 60), by which were regulated the dis posal of the waste lands of the province, and the appli cation of the proceeds arising from the sale thereof. "That your petitioners have explored and made available for the existence of a civilised community an extensive and fertile country, previously an unproduc tive wilderness, and relying upon the guarantees offered to them by the Acts of the Legislature referred to have embarked a large amount of money capital within the province in various agricultural, pastoral, commercial, and mining pursuits. " That under the original (4 and 5 Wm. IV. cap. 95) as well as under the existing Act (5 and 6 Vic. cap. 36) of the Imperial Parliament, for regulating the sale of the public lands in the Australian colonies, 377,000 acres of these lands have been sold, and upwards of 360,600/. sterling have been vested in their purchase by your pe titioners and others. " That by the original Act the colonisation commis sioners were authorised to declare all the lands of the province, except such as might be reserved for roads and footpaths, to be public lands, open to purchase by Bri tish subjects; and such declaration having been duly made, regulations for the sale of land were issued by them, expressly announcing that nothing above or below the surface of the land was reserved.' " That accordingly, in all land grants issued by the colonisation commissioners under the authority of that Act, the lands, with all the timber, minerals,' &c., were conveyed in fee simple to the purchasers. " That by the existing Act (5 and 6 Vic., c. 36) re gulating the sale of public lands, no alteration was made or contemplated to be made in the full and perfect right to the lands to be sold under its authority. " That, by the regulations of the local Government, issue 4 under the authority of the existing Act, it was declared that the grants of land sold would convey to the purchaser all that was above and all that was be neath the surface,' and that, save in particular cases, where reservations of and of access to water have been made, as provided by the clause just quoted, the deeds of grant of the whole land of the province hithertu sold under the authority of the existing Act have conveyed to the purchasers, according to the true intent and meaning of the Act, all that was above and all that was beneath the surface.' " That a Bill was submitted toyour Honourable House during the last session of Parliament, with the intent to authorise, amongst other provisions, the reservations of minerals from future grants of the waste lands of this province, and the imposition of certain royalties thereon. " That this measure did not receive the sanction of your Honourable House. " That on the Bth day of August last, at the close of the then session of Parliament, another Bill was intro duced to your Lordships, for the express purpose of giving authority to reserve and le ase t h e m i nerals, and to impose royalties thereon ; and that the introduction of such a bill at that period was stated to your Honour able House, as your petitioners have been credibly in formed, to be for the purpose of affording your peti tioners, and other colonists interested, time for the con sideration thereof. " That notwithstanding the provisions of the existing Act, the refusal of the Imperial Legislature to authorise the reservation and leasings of minerals, and the im position of royalties, and during the period allowed to your petitioners for considering these measures, the fol lowing regulations by the local Government were offi cially promulgated on the sth day of this present month of March." The petitioners then proceed to quote in full the re gulations in question, which have already appeared in our columns. The tenor of these regulations, our readers will remember, was to reserve to the Crown certain proportions of all minerals, &c., "lying upon, in, or under all waste lands hereafter, to be alienated or conveyed" to private purchasers. " That your petitioners most humbly and: respect fully submit to your honourable House that these regu lations are wholly unauthorised by law, and that reser vations of minerals or imposition of royalties within this province are illegal. " Your petitioners respectfully but firmly maintain that the Crown possesses over the public lands of the province no rights but such as are comprised in the Act of the Imperial Legislature, regulating their disposal, and the application of the proceeds arising from the sale thereof. "That not only is the right to impose royalties assumed by the local Government, but the right to let upon lease for a term of years all minerals under th• public lands of the colony is equally assumed. " That your petitioners most humbly submit to your Honourable House the injustice, impolicy, and the illega lity of those assumptions by the local government. " That all the public lands of the colony having hi therto been sold in fee-simple, without reservation of minerals, andifree from the charge of royalties, the altera tions contemplated will create an unfair distinction in the tenure of lands to be subsequently sold, and will more over destroy one of the most important principles which has hitherto guided the land sales of the province, namely, that of leaving the freehold of the land pur chased altogether unfettered by restrictions or reserve .. tions. " That by adopting this illegal intention the sales of all mineral lands and the emigration provided law, to support which the proceeds of such sales are to be de voted, may be totally stopped, irrespective of the demand of the colonists for labour, and the control established by Parliament over the appropriation of all moneys received for the waste lands of the province. . _ _ " That the reservation of minerals is an uncalled for and impolitic interference with that enterprise which has marked the character of the colonists of South Aus tralia, and fatal to the continued and increasing pros perity of the province, which your petitioners were otherwise entitled to regard as certain, and which, if untrammelled, promised to render South Australia, at no distant period, one of the most important colonial pos sessions of Great Britain. " And your petitioners, although bearing the entire expenses of their own government, being deprived of the privileges of British subjects, inasmuch as representative assembly is still withheld from them ; but, nevertheless, appealing with confidence to their past peaceabld and orderly conduct, in proof of their loyalty to the Crown, and of their deep attachment to the laws and constitution of their country, make their present most earnest petition to your Honourable House, in the confident hope that your Honourable House will continue to refuse your sanction to any alteration in the mode, as regulated by law, of disposing of the waste lands of the province, to the reservation of minerals, to the imposition of royalties, and to all proposals for altering or impair ing the tenure of the waste lands of South Australia. " And inasmuch as measures deeply affecting and inimical to the interests of your petitioners, in the par ticulars before mentioned may have been adopted before an appeal from so distant a province may reach your Honourable House, your petitioner further most earnestly and humbly pray your Honourable House, in that event, to take such steps as may in your wisdom appear requi site and necessary to protect your petitioners from the effects of the impolitic and obnoxious measures attempted to be forced upon them. " And your petitioners will ever pray." FIVE PERSONS DROWNED. A correspondent of ' the Limerick Chronicle, writing from Kilkee, on the coast of Clare, says :—" Two melancholy accidents have oc curred here, which elicited very general sympathy. A respectable young woman, Bridget Hanrahan, from Croom, whilst preparing to stand under a cascade, or natural shower-bath, which falls at low water amongst the rocks, was taken out to sea, on Tuesday, by an im pending wave, and drowned. All efforts to save the un fortunate girl were unavailing. The body was brought d Edward Hickie, Pat R usse ll, in yesterday by an intrepid fis herman, J ohn Daveen, who, with three others, Ed! and Pat Robinson, have since me t a watery grave by ' belonging t o ot h er f i shermen, a' to set their nets, ear l y this morn enaoetr rendered use l ess b y the unex pected of th e sea on Tuesday and piw y ne e ege n rt. e t e u venturin g Overcarriedgale out atwn ade t won great twenty r yesterday. Daveen and his partners considered them selves fortunate, for a moment only, in regaining their nets entire, but a greater loss awaited their poor families, consisting of twenty-six individuals, who are now re duced to the greatest distress by the loss of all four out side the Duggenah Reef. A subscription has been opened here for the four widows and children." DERBY GREAT CHEESE FAlR.—This three days cheese fair terminated on Wednesday. Business was brisk, and the prices obtained were good. There was a large amount of cheeses pitched for sale. New cheese sold at 455. to 50s. per cwt. ; old cheese varied in price from 48s to 555. per cwt., and some choice old cheeses were bought up by London dealers at 565. to 60s. per cwt.. ABOLITION OF FLOGGING.—READING, THURSDA L. —An influential and crowded meeting of the inhabitants of Reading and the vicinity was held last evening, at the New-hall, London -street, for the purpose of adopting measures to promote the entire abolition of punishment in the army and navy, and to sustain the recently formed " Flogging Abolition Society" in their efforts to achieve that object. The Rev. John Statham was called to the chair at seven o'clock, and resolutions in accordance with the object of the meeting were unanimonslLadopted. COURT OF EXCHEQUE R , GUILDHALL.-- -he new City Court of Exchequer is nearly completed, and will be opened for the transaction of business at the ensuing sittings, Michaelmas term. The marriage of Lady Mary Grey, sister of the Earl of Stamford and Warrington, with Mr. Milbank, nephew of the Duke of Cleveland, is to be solemnised on Monday next.