The Sun. — London, England, 1846-09-04 00:00:00

DERBY ELECTION. THE NOMINATION. t 1) EIle; WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON.—The nomination took place in the Town-hall this morning, at nine I k k ek- W. E. Mousley, Esq , the MaYor, presided. o sooner were the doors open than the ball was corn- Pletely crowded in every part, and it was soon evident t hat the blue lambs were bent on creating the usual up roar. By the firmness and determination of the Mayor, however tolerably good order was kept, and the object °e the Tories was completely frustrated, for each speaker Mackwo rt h hea r d , and the hollow pretensions of Sir Dig b y 43-eckworth to represent the electors of Derby were corn- Pletely exposed. Mrs. Strutt, Miss Strutt (sister of the late Member), 1 . 1 ,12 d othe r l a di es, were in the gallery. In other parts of the hall we noticed many of the gentry and tradesmen r il the tow n . A t n i ne o ' c l oc k M r. S trutt entere d t h e aev al, a ccompanied by his friends, and was received with eurn rounds of cheering. Shortly afterwards, Sir i g°3' Mackworth and his friends entered, ad a similar deni onstrrtion was made by his supporters n in the body of the hall. thrrou I. The us ualpreliminary proceedings having been gone J. B. CROMPTON rose to propose the re-election of ',ward Strutt, Esq., and in doing so he referred to the h 2 ?alous an d f a i thful manner in which that gentleman had aaharged hi s pu bli c d ut i es d ur i n g t h e s i xteen years h e Th had the h onour o f re p resen ti ng th e b oroug h i n Par -ente Adverting to Mr. Strutt's appointment to the im rtent office of President of the new Railway Board, Mr. r etepton said the selection showed that Mr. Strutt's ap titude for business eminently qualified him for such a Position, and it was an honour to the town that they had returned such a Member to Parliament. As for his in tegrity', h e (M r Crompton) need say noth i ng upon t h at Point • his whole political career was before the electors, .Who k ' new that he bad faithfully discharged his duties. Mr. D. Fox seconded the nomination in a speech of considerable length, in the course of which he stated that the appointment which Mr. Strutt had accepted would °, o t sh ac kl e his independence, but that he would go to the House of Commons free to vote according to his Principles,_-(Loud cheers.) 70r ;. i. L. N EWTON E sq. , nom i nate d Si r Di g b y M ac k- He paid a high compliment to Mr. Strutt, both his public and private character (which was unim • 'Bltoti a i, coable)—d eep l y regrette d to stan d f orwar d i n oppo to him—and then said that his painful motive for : I ° l "jog was on account of the vote Mr. Strutt gave on e Maynooth question, and the dangers with which Prot estantism was surrounded. Mr. JOSIAH LEWIS seconded the nomination. He was N t ally compliment ar y to M r . Str u tt, an d s e t forth the P opery argument as one of the main reasons why he uPPosed hum at this election. deer Mr . S TRIITT, on rising, was rece i ved w i th tremen d ous igin and some hisses. He dwelt at considerable 'ugth u p on th e Maynooth question. He said that not h 4l 3' was he not ashamed of his vote upon that question, but that he was prepared to justify it. Adverting to his l t tNintment, he stated that when it was represented to th% that his services were likely to confer benefit upon th e e country-, he a t o nce felt it to be his duty to accept e o ,, o fice, not as an object of personal ambition certainly, for the s a k e o f the emolument of office, for if that it e re his desire, he had an opportunity of gratifying th : l "en years ago, when he was offered a post in Whig Government, but declined.—(Loud cheers.) e referred to the great measures of free trade that he 41d consistently and zealously supported during the 0 a le of his public career—to the franchise, which au ght to be extended as the education of the people ren uered them more fit for its scercise—to the objectionable BYste t o °I of church -rates, which he had always opposed— et, "e injustice committed by the Irish Church, with its ti,:prolous revenues and small duties—to national educe wit; of which he was an advocate, provided it was done b_4l,out violating the rights of conscience—to vote by pr 4 o l ot, of which he was a supporter—to sanatory im thevements, and other subjects calculated to promote p eo Prosperity of the country and the happiness of the Di He then alluded to the address issued by Sir e t , o g°3' Mack wor th ( o f w h om h e k new no thi ng ), an d Pf o tp w hich it was imp os sible to ascertain what were the i f oourable Baronet's principles, and then said that h the e lectors should think proper to re-elect him Would serve them with diligence and zeal, and do local u tmost to promote their interests, whether should ° r general ; but if, on the other hand, they rati l decide that his connexion with his native town now and for ever cease, he would not say that he e o u t ti o l d pot - receive their decision with regret great o his own account merely, but on account of the tir o principles which he supported—but he would re donefi',Oto their services with the conviction that he had 11 44 t ; ,ais duty— ( Load cheers)—with the conviction that he had lost their confidence in some matters, yet of pr; e _.Was unwilling to retain his seat by a compromise tak e al ,,e)Ple--(Cheers renewed.) If he should have to toe; " I S leave of them as a representative in Pmrlia ttltr,e, he should retire with the full persuasion, that if be fall a sacrifice, there was -no cause in which he lib " 4 more cheerfully fall than the cause of religious riq_ 4 .Y, and the cause of the oppressed people of Ireland. j`•,„ r Strntt resumed his seat amidst tremendons cheer -"g and hisse Sir s ' th e IGuir Maexwoirrti was received with mingled ers and hisses: He commenced by declaring that he h ° l . l e d_ not vote for the ballot; that he would not have sup dd the Sugar Bill; and that he was connected with t , Politic a l p arty. The only ground upon which he ,"_ pitted their votes was in favour of Protestantism against toe other The beauties of the one and the deformities of Z,ottyl he pointed out. On being asked whether he o suppo rt c h urch - rates,the Irish Church on its present Preteint,;iea and whether o s he would o pp ose t h e grant to t h e f Ireland, and all other relioious bodies, he replied, fi rs t, t h at church -rates were a'tax upon pro perty and not upon consciene ,, ; that he would not inter fere with the Irish Church, which he considered was greatly improving in efficiency ; and that he should . sup- Port th e R eg i um Donuni. With regard to flogging in the artny he w a s in favour of the Duke of wellington's Tegulations, that no man should receive more than fifty L ashes, and he hoped for the time when it could be safely 5011 finally abolished. These answers gave great dis satisfaction to the large majority present. The Rev. G. GAWTHORN (Independent minister) de- Nnated the speech of the lion. Baronet as exceedingly m t atisfactory, and ma d e an exce ll en t sp e ech in oppo no to th e G a ll ant C o l one l . Severa l attempts were by the bl ue l am b s to prevent a h ear i ng , an d t wo th`gYmen excited the disgust of all impartial men by marked conduct. MAYOR took a show of hands. A large number k te e tling the blue lambs) were held up for Sir Digby or i w °rth, but the prepond erance was grea tly i n f avou r th at r As • Strutt ; and the announ cement o f th e M a y or to mast! !eet was received wikh several rounds o f enthu lvio cheering. Co t e ' L Ewis demand e d a p o ll, w hi c h w ill commen c e at (3'clock to-morrow morning. " Tories are very jubilant, but they will be defeated. • A tri', is th e l is tinderstanding, which occurred on Wednesday l er —ill son's Bay Company's sale is calculated to cause trad e eZciteinent among parties connected with the fur btu :-.,.l)erhaps the whole affair is open to explanation, d oubt i',"e alleged cause of the grievance exists, it will no that IL " to the benefit of the company and its concerns „ 1 , er ne , y u should be provided. It seems that a large the e r at these sales of beaver skins has discovered that for mat of the company have been accepting prices the b. 4 Material 25 per cent. under the amount paid at tha t -° „t auction, and it having hitherto been considered ahall' h "e Prices ' established at these periodical auctions i t ha s " e the prices current until the next sales take place, With th ° t * course caused annoyance to parties connected upd e e trade to find that such a deviation from the hein 1.8t ° 0 (1 general rule has happened. The subject raentioney, the attention of the court of (4° Pany wil d I pu natur blicl ally be called to the question in te. T/ 0 Itl A e tti NAL PROVIDENT InsTrrunort.—A special 11 , 4 li n g of the directors and members of this Institution on Wednesday in the large room of the London ar e ., .„.„. *ma keishopsgate-street. There was a vast number of keZcribers pr esent, an d t h e i n t erest exc i ted appeared to ery general. At twelve o'clock, Charles Lushington, Ng? was called to the chair. The directors had i s su e d 444‘teukrs .of their proposed amendments of the r u l es regulations of the National Provident Institution, 11, 1li ebnot exactly according with the views of some of e Members, they published and extensively circulated a t r i s t °spectus of alterations in the proposed amendments of ' ,Te rules and regulations. This document they consi dered should be discussed and determined upon at a ge- Ztal meeting of members. The first opposed proposal ,„ -m t , the part of the directors, was that portion of rule 3, k" .4 _ i eh declared that the "Institution should be under the ,‘ l lagement of fifteen directors." Mr. Tyler moved, il u Ck. kr. Th om p son secon d e d, a re s ol u ti o n to the effect 137 the maximum number should not exceed twelve ; s t „, t, eventually, after protracted discussion, which lasted • ti,a e hours, it was agreed that the Institution should be re 7." the management of thirteen directors. Rule 23, 14reting the made of convening a special meeting, was tha t " .. e rY much debated. The board ot directors proposed Ati t ;'.requisition for that purpose should have at least ,h u L_ N traes attached, but au amendment diminishing the Joil,"" by one-half, met with the approval of the ma- Ai r l lifter several observations from the Chairman, Mr. Cash, and Mr. Lucas, defending all the th e Lions made by the directors, and replies made on otho ° Pposition" side by Mr. Tyler, Mr. Thompson, and th e gentlemen, further amendments were agreed to, and ins'ce which lasted from twelve till five o'clock, Parated. T Rl ,_ .11 ' ‘JOBDEN NATIONAL TEsTIBIONIAL FUND.-01i eti ll " , n a i. 3' evening, the weekly meeting of the Manchester l '.t r ,ee for the promotion of the Cobden National Testi 41r, t and, was held in Newhall's- buildings, Market-street. fi ner e "ge Wilson presided. The Chairman reported an r t'l 2 ( jo s i , e ,in the general subscriptions, since . the last meeting. , aot, f ' 4 - and upwards. In this sum was included . , a sum o 1 1. 9410 '0M the Messrs. Darks-, of Coalbrookdale. Ihe reort i , m l a k sgow was that 4001. additional had been collected . it r y n : l-' A Lue past week, making the total subscribed in that A 14Z -2 ° 0 4 The total subscription had reached about 7 . 1,0004 tai t ,;`," was read from Mr. Alderman Kay, requesting his stat ed ") be add e d t o t h e su b script i on list for 201. It was th e hat the fund w as 'progressing satisfactorily through reiitin l'ingdom and after the transaction of some ordinary busines s , the meeting was adjourned to Tuesday next. SIX Guardian. of 1 , Houses C ONSUMED AT C HARD —ln the course °Qei l - r „3c "aY intelligence was receiv'd of a serious fire having in the above town on Sunday last, which destroyeu 4 4 , leg n gB Head I nn and six adjoining houses occupied by str„,peoPle. It broke cut in a range of stabling in the main ki n ;;,, fronting the church, and extended rapidly to the 44 1. 7 dead In n an d t h e o th er b u ildin gs , a ll o f w hi c h w ithin a th e Th e 00 r after commencement were totally destroyed. a hOrt:" l f T: o h oo t o . f property consumed is reported to be little A I) E ,„ h e -- Clint ANTED.—" I can't speak in public— 't such a thi ng in all my life," said a chap, the other forth a publ ic meet i ng, w h o had been called upon to hole 4014 a b ut if any body in the crowd will speak for me, I'll .44 " - IViia York paper. - THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 4, 184t3. LLOYD'S SHIPPIN G LONDON, SEPT. 3.—Wind this day at neon N.E., light airs and fine clear weather. DEAL, SEPT. 2.—Wind N.E., strong and squally.—Arrd. -Progress, Wallace, Rio Grande; Alert, Davidson, Canada. PLYMOUTH, SEPT.L—Arrd. Charlotte, M'Lean, Prince Edward's Island. Sld. Abberton, Campbell, Sydney, New South Wales; Abbertod, Parry, Port Adelaide, South Australia. Off, Tuustall, Pardy, Quebec. MUMBLES, AUG. 31. -- Arrd. Eliza Kirkbrade ; Greig, Quebe6, for Oran; Mary Dugdale, Simson, Cuba; Agnes Blakie, Bridgeford, Cuba. LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 2.—Wind N.N.W.—Arrd. Europe, Forsyth, Matanzas; Walton, Pentecoll, St. Domingo; Diamond, Irvine, Porto Cabello ; John Walker, Muir, Quebec; Wilson, Stoup, Montreal. Sid., Ist, Hopkinson, Grebow, Miramicbi •' 2d, Magnificent, Verrill, New Orleans; Fideiia, Hackstall, New York; Charles Humberston, Strettall, St. Stephen's, New Providence ; Huron, Driver, Magaguadarin ; Princess Alice, Oliver, Quebec; Teaser, M'Guffee, Montreal. DEAL, SEPT. 2.—The Martha, Longridge, from Antwerp to Liverpool, got on the Shingles early this morning, was assisted off and brought into the Downs, making sixteen inches of water per hour, and must proceed to the nearest port. YARMOUTH, SEPT. 2.—The Clyde (Schooner), of Hull, Holmes, was assisted into this port to-day, leaky. The agent of Lloyd's, at Dover. furnishes the following particulars of the singular and Providential escape of a seaman :—The Swedish seaman, Anders Henricksen, of Gothenburg, fell into the sea from the yard of the brig Al bertina, Captain Berg, from St. Übes for Gothenburg, at seven, P.m., on the 31st August, seven miles off the South Foreland. A plank was thrown him from the ship, which be succeeded in reaching, and from which he was taken off at eleven, P.M., the same night, by the schooner Joshua Carroll, of London, from Cardiff, and landed at Dover, having been very humanely and judiciously treated by Captain George. The man has been supplied with clothes, &c., by the Swedish consul at Dover, and shipped as seaman in the Norwegian brig Ocean, of Dronthum. It is feared that very little exer tion was made by Captain Berg to reccver his seaman. IRELAND. ADDRESSES TO THE LORD-LIEUTENANT, DUBLIN, SEPT. I.—This day a numerous deputation, composed of the President, Council, and Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, waited upon his . Excellency the Lard-Lieutenant for the purpose of pre senting him with an address on his appointment to the Government of this country. On the arrival of he de putation at the Vice-Regal Lodge, Phcenix Park, they were ushered into the presence of his Excellency, when the Secretary,' Dr. W. Cusack, read the following ad dress:— " We, the President, Council, and Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, beg leave to ap proach your Excellency to con;►ratulnte you upon your arrival in Ireland, and to assure you that we are much gratified at having an opportunity afforded us of thus expressing our feelings of respect, a gratification much enhanced by the circumstance of our being able to claim your Excellency as a fellow-countryman. " We beg leave to assure your Excellency that .we shall at all times be prepared to contribute by every means in our power towards advancing the welfare of the public service in our particular department, and that we shall be glad to receive from the Government such suggestions as it may think proper to make, to enable us to carry these, our determinations, into► effect. " We are anxious to avail ourselves of the present oc casion to solicit, most respectfully, the attention of your Excellency to the state of the medical institutions of this country, and to express a hope that you may be pleased to extend to our profession that protection and support which, from its public services, it is entitled to claim." His Excellency returned a most gracious reply. When the deputation from the Royal College of Sur geons had retired, a numerous deputation from the King's and Queen's Colleges of Physicians were ushered into his Excellency's presence, for the purpose of pre senting to him an address from the President and Fel lows of that University, which Sir Henry Marshe, Bart., read as follows : " We, the President and Fellows of the King's and Queen's College of Physicians in Ireland, bog leave to approach your Excellency with sentiments of profound respect, and to offer you our sincere and warm congra tulations on your arrival to assume the Government of Ireland as the representative of our most gracious Sove- reign_ We gladly avail ourselves of the opportunity to ex press our deep-telt satisfaction at this proof of her Ma jesty's regards for the welfare of this country, in dele gating her authority to an Irish Nobleman so distin guished by high personal endowments and capabilities as a statesman. " While we offer our sincere regards for your Lord ship's happiness, and our best wishes for the success of 3 our administration, we at the same time tender to your - Exc, llency our devoted services in the promotion of any of those measures devised for the public good which may be dirhtly or indirectly connected with the sciences cul tivated by us, whenever it may please your Excellency to command our co opf ration." When Sir Henry Marshe had concluded, his Excel lency returned the following reply , " I have great pleasure in receiving an address from such eminent persons as the President and Fellows of the King's and Queen's College of Physicians in Ireland, and I feel much flattered at the expression of your ap proval of the choice her Majesty has been pleased to make in appointing me to the government of this kingdom. I accept with the greatest satisfaction the assurance that I shall receive from you your support in those mea sures which may be necessary for the public good, and which may be directly or indirectly connected with the sciences to which you have so usefully devoted your selves." The deputation then withdrew. His Ex • Cellency has appointed to morrow (Wednesday) for receiving the address of the inhabitants of the town of Carrick-on-Suir and its vicinity. APRIVAL OF MR. LABOUCHERE. The Eight Hon. Henry Lab , uchere, Secretary for Ire• land, arrived in King,t ,wn this morning, by the Prir.- cess steamer, end shortly atter proceeded to Dublin Castle. The Right Hon. Gentleman was accompanied by his family and a large sulo of attendants. DISTRESS IN IRELAND. COPY OF A TREASURY MINUTE, DATED AUG. 31. My Lords have before them the Act 10th Vic., cap. 107, " To facilitate the employment of the labouring poor for t< limited period in distressed districts in Ire land," and proceed to consider the revised instructions which the provisions of this Act, and the experience which has been acquired from the operations for the re lief of the people suffering from the failure of the potato crop in Ireland, since the month of November last, ren ders it desirable should be issued to the Board of Works, and to Commissary-General Sir R. Routh, who is in charge of the duties lately executed by the Relief Commission. No authority can, from the present date, be given for the execution of any new works under the 9th Vic., cap. 1 ; and such works as may be hereafter required for the relief of the distress, must be presented and sanctioned according to the provisions of the 10th Vic., cap. 107. ; The Board of Works were instructed by the Treasury minute, dated 21st ultimo, to bring to an early close all the works under 9th Vic., cap. 1, which were not rt quired for the relief of urgent distress ; and the Board were informed that if the parties interested desired that works so discontinued should afterwards be recommenced and completed, it was open to them to take the usual steps to provide for that object, either by obtaining loans secured by grand jury presentment, or by other means. Their Lordships desire that the Board of Works will report to what extent works have been discontinued under these instructions on the ground of their not b e i ng really required tor the purpose of giving relief, and that it may be understood, in accordance with the passage above adverted to in the minute of the 21 t July, that it should become necessary to recommence any such works, the renewal of them must be provided for either in man ner above referred to, or under the 10th Vict., cap. 107. With a view to give every practicable assistance to the presentment sessions, the Board of Works should be prepared with plans and estimates of those works in each district in which relief is likely to he required, on which the destitute poor might with the greatest pos sible advantage be employed ; and an officer of the board should be in attendance at the sessions, to furnish every explanation that may be called for. In order to prevent labourers from being induced to leave their proper employments and to congregate on the relict works, in the hope of getting regularly paid money wages in return fora smaller quantum of work than they have been accustomed to give, the following rules ought, in their Lordships' opinion, to be strictly observed: — No person should be employed on any relief works who can obtain employment on other public works, or in farming or other private operations in the neighbourhood. The wages given to persons employed on relief works should, in every case, be at least 2d. a day less than the average rate of 'wages in the district. And the persons employed on the relief works should, to the utmost possible extent, be paid in proportion to the work actually done by them. Their Lordships suggest, for the consideration of the Lord Lieutenant, that it may be advisable that in every case in which it may be determined to assemble extraor dinary sessions for the presentment of works under the 10th Vic., cap. 107, instructions should also be issued to the Lieutenant of the county, to re-assemble the relief committees of the districts in which such works are pro. posed to be carried - on, making such changes in the in dividuals composing the committees as circumstances may require ; or, if no relief committees have yet been organised in the districts in question, to appoint new c •mrnittees in accordance with the rules prescribed by the Relief Commission. Their Lordships also suggest that in order to obviate inconveniences which have been experienced during the late relief operations, the following alterations should be made in the instructions under which the local relief committee have hitherto acted : _ First, with regard to the assistance given by the relief committees in the proper appropriation of the relief ••provided under the 10th Vic., cap. 107, by means of public works:— That tickets should not hereafter be issued by the relief committees entitlit-g persons to employment on such public works. That, instead thereof, the relief committees should furnish (according to a form to be ,upplied to there' for that purpose) the officers in charge of the works on the part of the Board of Works, with lists of persons requiring relief, noting them in the order in which they are considered to be entitled to priority, either on account of their large fainilies or from any other cause ; that the committees should re she these lists from time to time, as occasion miy re quire ; and that the officers of the Board of Works, acting on the information contained in these lists, or acquired by them from other sources, should themselves f urn i s h ti c kets entitling persons to epployment on the felief works for certain limited period;, according to the circumstances of each case. Secondly, as regards the functions performed by the relief committees, independently of the relief works carried on under the provisions- of Acts of Parlia- _ scent : Their Lordships consider that donations in aid of pri vate subscriptions may be made, when necessary, as heretofore, from public funds placed for that purpose at the disposal of the Lord-Lieutenant ; and that these do nations may continue to be, as a general rule, in the pro portion of from one third to one-half of the amount of the private subscriptions, according to the extent of the destitution and the means of the subscribers. But their Lordships are of opinion that, in consideration of the assistance so to be given from the public purse, the proceedings of the relief committees in the appropriation of the funds administered by them, should be subjected to any degree of control on the part of the Government that may be considered desirable; for which purpose their accounts and correspondence should at all times he open to the inspection of Govern ment_officers appointed for the purpose, and any further explanations that may he re• quired on any particular point should be immediately !tarnished. In order to ke, , p in check, as far as possible, the social evils incident to an extensive system of relief, it is indis pensably necessary that the relief committees should not sell the meal or other food provided by them, except in small quantities, to persons who are known to have no other means of procuring food—that the price at which the meal is sold should, as nearly as possible, be the same as the market prices which prevail in the neigh bourhood—that the committees should not give a higher rate of wages, nor exact a smaller quantum of work, in any works carried on by them from funds at their own disposal, than is the case in respect to the works carried on under the superintendence of the Board of Works, and that works should be carried on by them only to the extent to which private employment is proved not to be available. Tne serious attention of every person who will have to take a part in the measure of relief rendered necessary by the new and more complete failure of the potato crop, should be particularly called to this important fact, that the limitations and precautions which have been prescribed to the Govern ment boards and officers in carrying out the relief operations, with the object of rendering the necessary interference with the labour and provision markets productive of the smallest possible disturbance of the ordinary course of trade and industry, will be rendered nugatory if the same prudence and reserve are not prac tised by the relief committees in the administration of the funds placed at their disposal by private or public benevolence ; and their Lordships therefore feel it to be their duty earnestly to request that every person con cerned will, to the extent of the influence possessed by him, endeavour to secure such a restriction of the mea sures of relief to cases of real destitution, and such a just consideration for the interests of merchants and dealers, in the free exercise of whose callings the public welfare is so deeply concerned, that instead of the habi tual dependence upon charitable aid which might other wise be apprehended from the extensive measures of re lief in progress, every description-of trade and industry may be stimulated by them, and the bonds of society may become more firmly knit, by the benevolent and in telligent co-operation of the different orders and ranks of which it is composed, to avert a common calamity, and to prepare for recommencing the ordinary occupa tions of social life, with advantages which are at present only imperfectly enjoyed in some parts of Ireland. The limited Grant Fund provided by the 10th Vic., cap. 109, entitled " An Act to authorise a further Issue of Money in aid of Public Works of acknowledged utility in Poor Districts in Ireland," is, according to the terms of the Act, applicable only to the case of unim proved districts, like parts of the counties of Kerry, Mayo, and Donegal, where, although roads and other works would be productive of more than usual public advantage, the districts are too poor to bear the who!e expense of them; and the Act, therefore, directs, that in cases in which die repayment of loans to the amount of at least a moiety of the estimated expense of such works shall have been secured, and such further con tributions shall have been made as the Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury Shall think fit to require from the individuals principally interested in the projected works, such aid shall be afforded from this fund in the shape of grants, as the occasion may appear to require. The applications which may be received for grants nnder this Act will have to be carefully examined and inquired into by the Commissioners of Public Works, who will recommend for sanction those works which appear to them to combine the greatest permanent utility with the relief of urgent distress, taking care that the proprietors specially interested are required to contri bute, in addition to their share of the general assess ment, for the repayment of half the expense of the works, sums proportioned, in some degree, to the special bene fits they will derive from them. 111 y Lords have considered with the careful attention which the importance of the subject demands, the mea sures proper to be taken with a view to continue the late commissariat operations to the extent which may be absolutely necessary for the purpose of providing sup plies of food for sale in districts to which the ordinary operations of the provision trade cannot be expected to extend, the strictest regard being at the same time paid to the pledge which has been given, not to interfere in any case in which there is a reasonable expectation that the market will be supplied by mercantile enterprise ; and they will proceed to state the course which appears to them to be best adapted to secure the important object in view. Their Lordships have already giver► directions that no portion of the stock of meal remaining in store in the different depots should be sold merely for the sake of disposing of it. It has been fully established by the experience of the late operations, that the ports on the northern, eastern, and southern coasts, from Londonderry to Cork, and those parts of the interior which are ordinarily supplied from them, may safely be left to the foresight and en terprise of private merchants; and it will only be neces sary for the Government, so far as this part of Ireland is concerned, to take effectual precautions that the sup plies introduced by private traders from abroad are pro perly protected, both while they are in the transit and when they are stored for future consumption; and for this purpose their Lordships rely upon the Lord-Lieu tenant making every necessary arrangement in commu nication with the Commander of the Forces in Ireland, and the Inspector General of the Constabulary Force. Acting on this principle, their Lordships have directed that the supplies of food now in store should be concen trated without delay at the following depots : In the interior--Longford, Banagher. On the coast—Limerick, Galway, Westport, Sligo. And the Commissary-General lievvetson has been in structed to take immediate steps for the transfer of the quantity remaining in store in the depot at Cork to Limerick, in the charge of which depot he will relieve Commissary-General Coffin, who will remain on full pay with a view to his being employed hereafter, as the occasion may require. Subordina - te depots will be established under the charge of the constabulary, at other places on the western coast, as the necaisity for taking such a step may become apparent. Their Lordships desire that it may be fully under stood, that even at these places at which Government depots will be established for the sale of food, the depots will not be opened %bile food can be obtained by the people from private dealers at reasonable prices ; and that even when the depots are opened, the meal will, if possible, be sold at such prices as will allow of the pri vate trader selling at the same price with a reasonable profit. The relief commi , sion ceased on the 15th instant, since which period Commissary-General Sir Randolph Routh has continued to transact such business as re quired immediate attention ; and, considering the expe rience which has been acquired by that officer, and his well-proved ability for the task, their Lordships are of opinion that the duties confided to the relief commission during the late operations may - with great public advan ttge be entrusted to Sir Randolph Routh, a. , 2ting under the authority of the Lord-Lieutenant, and Li constant communication with this board. Their Lordships have taken steps to procure the early arrival in this wintry, from the stations where they are employed abroad, of a sufficient number of well qualified commissariat officers, not only to take charge of the depots which it has been determined to retain, but also, under the orders of Sir Randolph Routh, to communicate vk ith the local relief committees, and to afford, through him, to her Majesty's Government, cor• rect information as to the state of the districts in which they will be stationed. Measures have also been taken for strengthening the Board of Works, to enable it to meet the coming emergency, on which subject a separate communication will this day be mad? to the Board of Works and his Excellency the Lord-Lieutenant. Transmit a copy of this minute to Mr. Redington, and request that he will move the Lord-Lieutenant, if he shall concur therein, to give the necessary directions in regard to such of the arrangements as more imme diately depend upon his Excellency for carrying them into effect. Also transmit a copy to the Commissioners of Public Works, and to Commissary-General Sir Randolph Routh, for their information and guidance. THE NEW HALL, LINCOLN'S INN.—The public are now admitted to view the interior of this building by benchers' orders. OFFICE OF MASTERS IN LUNACY, LINCOLN'S INN- FlELDS.—Wednesday notice was issued at the office of Master:, in Lunacy arid visitors of lunatics, that, during the vacation, the office would only be open on Wednes days and Fridays between the hours of twelve and two. CoNvEnsioNs TO CATHOLICITY.—A correspondent informs us, that on last Sunday, the 23d instant, in the parish of Kilianne, five members of a Protestant family, named Hughes, were received into the Catholic Church by the Rev. P. Rossiter.--- Wexford Independent. PRINCE ALBERT'S LATE VISIT TO LIVERPOOL. — Her Majesty has sent to the Mayor of Liverpool and the Chairman of the Dock Committee, proof copies, most magnificently framed, of Winteralter's portraits of the Royal Family, as a mark of her satisfaction at the reception given to her illustrious consort in July last. They were accompanied by a very flattering letter from Mr. Anson, written by royal command. THE GOVEEN'IR-GENERAL OF INDIA.—As it has been mentioned in some circles, and by some of our contem poraries, that Lord Hardinge wishes to quit the government and return home, we have much pleasure in communicating to our readers his own words upon that point, as written to a relat ion, from Simla, 19th of June, 1846 :—" Yesterday was the 31st anniversary of the battle of Waterloo. How im petuously time flies 1 The reminiscences of bygone days flash across my mind, when I used to receive from you and my cousin many acts of friendship. It makes me feel that I am getting very old, and from the incessant work I have to encounter here I shall be glad when I can retire with honour; but you are all so generous in your distinctions and rewards, that I must not abaucloa my post whilst my duty is Impede/I:tied." LITERATURE. STABLE TALK AND TABLE TALK. 2 Vols By Harry Hieover. The author of these very agreeable volumes is quite a Democritus in his way; he cannot philosophise without a chuckle, neither can he chuckle without philosophising. He is always in excellent humour both with himself and with his subject, and as plea santry is—thanks to a merciful dispensation !—as contagious as the potato murrain, his readers are un consciously infected with the spirit of the chapters, and resign the book at last on equally excellent terms with themselves, with sporting generally, with " Stable Talk and Table Talk" in particular, and especially with Harry Hieover himself. Besides being of this well -tempered character, these volumes have given us very considerable satisfaction, inas much as they afford a comprehensive coup d' cell of the histories and mysteries of everything relating to the turf, the stable, or the road—of every thing equine in short. Other scribes have vouchsafed the public their table- talk—Hazlitt, for example, in sentences worthy of his intellect, and Coleridge in fragments of the very balderdash of metaphysics ; but table talk, generally speaking, is such a miserable compeund of self-sufficiency, affectation, and twaddle, that we conceive Harry Hieover has done himself in justice in thus designating his lucubrations. The two volumes before us are indeed neither the diluted skimmings of conversation, Nor the produce of flip pancy and egotism, such as their soubriquet might imply: on the contrary, they are composed of various articles of a substantial character, descriptive of sporting life, and illus trative of sporting knowledge. As the author facetiously observes, upon his title-page—the book is intended to serve as " spectacles fur young sports men ;" and the young sportsman must be purblind, or, in other words, a dullard, if he sees not better into the subject-matter after a perusal of " Stable Ta!k," or if its pages do not " open his eyes" to a few facts with which he was hitherto unacquainted. We may best afford our readers a notion of the va riety of the materials condensed into these two volumes by referring to the index. Among other sections, we have " Scenes in the Life of a Sporting Roue," and capital scenes they are, too—picturesque and animated. We must particularly individualise one character described in this portion of the work, we mean the wight better known .as " Elbow Jaques." The portraiture is admirable—to the life—to the hair ! We have seen " Elbow Jaques" a thousand times, and though he has not often " borne us on his back ' Horatio,' we could yet muse over this clever delinea tion of him as Hamlet did over the cranium of Yorick. Every one will recognise the original—it is unmis takeable; not so much as the representation of an in dividual as of a genus. Then again we are treated with a " Hunting Song"—not a spurious piece of shouting and swearing, such as certain nondescript gentlemen are in the habit of singing in back parlours at Camberwell, with a view to Impress their hearers with the notion that they (the singers) are thorough Nimrods, No : but a sterling, roystering, glorious hunting song, fit for the best huntsman that ever cleared a fence in pursuit of Slyboots. However, we will enable our readers to judge for themselves by transcribing a few verses—premising that they are carolled to the air of the " Lincolnshire Poacher :" A HUNTING SONG. I am a jovial Sportsman, as every man should be, A hunting life and a country life is just the life for me: Our horses and our hounds are such no other climes can show, For 'tis their delight in the foremost flight with a fox afoot to go. We are such hardy fellows we newer fear a fall, But boldly face the fence or gate, the spreading brook or wall ; For those who crane or seek a lane we hold as shy and slow, And will ne'er delight in the foremost flight with trumps like us to go. And now we greet the well-known Meet, we quickly leave the hack, And jump upon our hunter, who is waiting with the pack : Then crashing through the covert both the hounds and hunts men go— Oh ! it's their delight in the foremost flight to tell Pug he must show. Hark! there I hear a challenge—it is old Music's note— A chorus joins—whatjoyous sounds new on the breezes float ! "Hark forward !" cries the Whip, for he has heard the huntsman's blow; They'll soon be right in the foremost flight to show how they can go. "Yoix, at him !" cries the Huntsman : " hold hard !" for there l►e breaks; And straight across the open now his country he takes : He's fairly gone, so now we'll give a rattling " Tally-ho !" And now we're right in the foremost flight like jolly bricks to go. To reach yon distant covert now in vain game Reynard tries, Old Venom runs in to him, and he, gamely fighting, dies. " Who-whoop !" now cries the Huntsman, who so late cried " Tally- ho !" 'Tis pure delight in the foremost flight in a run like this to go. Here's to fox-hunting and fox-hunters, and may we never trace • The man within old England's shores who would put down the Chase L For such a man at once I scan as British Sportsmen's foe, Who still delight in the foremost flight like bricks and trumps to go. Besides what we have already particularised the author has afforded us both amusement and instruc tion on a multitude of other matters appertaining to the same pursuit. Among others—hints upon " the effect of weight and other weighty effects as applied to horses"—an elementary disquisition upon the " education of horses" — a capital dissertation anent " Sporting prints and Sporting pictures"—a curious essay on " Aphitheatric a l Horses"—memoranda re specting La Chasse Etrangere—a true tale entitled " The Doctor," a few remarks on " training race horses"—and so many other matters that we must beg to be held excused from even enumerating them. Harry Hieover has here performed an inestimable service to an amusement, the excitement, the ex cellence, the perils, and the healthfulness of which, his previous writings had so well exemplified. Though we mourn that Nimrod is no more, we can rejoice that Harry Hieover is still alive and vigorous. MAGAZINES —CONTINUED. HOOD'S MAGAZINE. Although this is a somewhat unequal number, it is likewise in some respects an unequalled number, since the man we all loved and honoured so much— Thomas Hood—departed from among us. Another act is added to the drama of " Ignez de Castro"— namely, the fourth. It partakes of the beauties and blemishes which were apparent in the preceding por tions. " A word with Dr. Johnson " is also conti nued; as bold as ever, and as elaborate. Another serial is resumed in the shape of " Nell Gwynne," and with a trifling improvement. Of " Blanche Neville" we can say but little in praise; and of the " Bushranger" we have spoken so fre quently, that for the present we are com pelled, from sheer exhaustion, to remain si lent. It is in the " culled dainties," and casual fragments of verse that Hood is so peculiarly esti mable. Nevertheless the three sonnets upon The Accursed Lash," by J. Jones, are scarcely worthy of his reputation and capacities. They are animated by a generous and charitable feeling, but they do not define that sentiment musically. Perhaps, however, we are expecting too much in looking for melodious numbers in deprecation of the,cat-o. nine-tails ! Mr. William Smith O'Brien, the lineal descendant of Brian Born, bath, in his epistle to " my dear Ray," spoken of the transcendental prose, or something of that sort, of the Nation newspaper. Let him, in the name of common sense, turn either to the Nation of August the first, or to page 284 of this magazine, and he will find the following specimen of that transcen dental prose—" Ay ! on the bleeding knees of her heart shall England atone, but never to beggars !" Altogether this number is excellently readable. Brougham. By clothi ng th e more a b s t ruse p o rti o n I of human knowledge with the seductive garb of elo quence; by divesting their elucidation of all unne cessary technicalities ; and by expounding the most profound truths of science with a perspicuity which coull admit of no misapprehension from the previously uninitiated, Arago has conferred a boon upon the people which can never be forgotten, and the remem brance of which must perpetuate his name for the gratitude and admiration of remote ages. Lord Brougham will ever retain the most supreme position amongst the noblest benefactors of the human race; he commenced the true crusade of civilisation; he was the first who ever attempted to disseminate a love of learning among the illiterate by rendering philosophy more alluring, and by rendering the secrets of philo sophy more accessible. By establishing the " Library for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge" by aiding that memorabl e assoc i a ti on b o th as president and as a literary contributor, from the first moment of its formation to the close of its most humanizing and benevolent career, Lord Brougham has acquired for himself a glory more beautiful, more truthful, more permanent, and more lustrous, than any that can be achieved merely by military prowess or legislative sagacity. Some persons are ignorant enough, or frivolous enough; or, shall we say, heart less enough, to remember some of the Noble Lord's peccadillos in Parliament, and to forget his imperish able deeds for the fostering of the intelligence of the multitude : they can ridicule the sylvan sports of Lord Brougham on his estates at Cannes, but do not possess sufficient magnanimity ever to allude to Lord Brougham's " Discourse upon the objects and pleasures of Science"—the most admirable discourse that was perhaps ever penned upon that most admi rable of subjects. As one of the principal followers of Lord Brougham in this effort to make knowledge more palateable to the mass, M. Arago deserves the grateful recollection of his fellow men. He has endeavoured to emulate the conduct of his great predecesor : and in doing so he has ac quired an enormous popularity. May he long con tinue to enjoy that popularity, and may the career which commenced in 1786 be protracted many years! We thank the writer of the article, in the Magazine, for the praises he has so elegantly and worthily be stowed. "Strauss' Leuben Jesu," is precisely the paper we have long desired to peruse. Infidelity is most pernicious when it is enforced by erudition, and rendered attractive by the generosity of its accom panying sentiments. Such an infidelity is a poison which may be rendered innocuous by a timely anti dote. Again do we en coun t er a l ong art i c l e on "Algeria"—commend us to a broad-sheet of railway advertisements instead! "Signor Formica" is a de lightful translation from a story by Hoffman, com menced in the preceding number. "The Black Prophet" proceeds, and will, when completed, form one of the most successful performances of one of Ireland's best novelists, William Carleton. There are several other contributions, the ablest of which is devoted to the consideration of the "faith, features, farms, fisheries, politics, and people" of Scotland. ALMANACK OF THE MONTY. Having already, under a separate heading, given one extract from this most amusing little miscellany, to wit Angus Reach's admirable quiz upon the in temperate temperance mongers, we confess that it is hardly fair to trespass further upon its pages. Never theless, we cannot resist the temptation of presenting our readers with the following beautiful lyric from the pen of Mark Lemon. It is a gem. I will sing no more of sorrow, Sadly doubting of the morrow. Seated here beneath the shade, By a sweet-breath'd jasmine made, From the heat of sultry noon Till I hail the pilgrim moon, I will laugh and sing to thee, Merrily, Joan, merrily. What though Time be swiftly flying, We but urge him on by sighing. Hark! the birds trill in the sun, • And the streams in music run, Whilst not e'en the flowers are mute, And the wind sings like a lute. Merry sounds are everywhere, Why should I but sing of care? No! I'll laugh and sing to thee, Merrily, Joan, merrily. THE COMMERCIAL MAGAZINE. The second number of this periodical fully main tains the character which its first number has ac quired. It is in every respect worthy to be the organ of the commercial world. The following digest of railway law, as far as it is at present settled, will be found useful to all, who, having become sub scribers to railway projects, are desirous of clearly understanding the exact legal position in which they stand. " 1. RIGHTS AND LIABILITIES OF ALLOTTEES IN ABAN- DONED SCHEMES. " It is now clearly established that an allottee who has paid his deposit upon shares in a scheme which is abandoned without applying to Parliament, can recover back his deposit from the promoters of the scheme, without any deduction for preliminary expenses. Thus, where the promoters have failed to allot the requisite number of shares, or having allotted them, have aban doned the scheme without applying to Parliament, or have induced the public to apply for allotments by means of fraudulent representations, in all these cases the entire deposit may be recovered back, and the ex penses must fall upon the managers. In most of them the allottee may bring an action at law, or file a bill in Chancery, against any one of the promoters who has acted, or held himself out to the world as acting, in the formation and carrying out of the scheme. " The allottee of shares in such an abandoned scheme cannot be sued for the pay meat of the deposit, if he have not paid it, nor can he bc,. compelled to contribute towards the payment of the debts and expenses which the promoters have incurred. 2. RIGHTS AND LIABILITIES OF ALLOTTEES IN SCHEMES WHICH ARE NOT ABANDONED BY THE PROMOTERS. "The position of an allottee who applies for shares in a scheme which the projectors do not abandon, but carry out so far as by the prospectus they may have contracted to do, or go far as the conduct of the allottees will enable them to do, is somewhat different to the po sition of those who have formal the subject of our first division. These allottees, if they make default, may probably be liable to an action to recover damages from them for the breach of their contract with the pro moters, or to a suit in Chancery for the double purpose of recovering the deposit, and enforcing the execution by them of the parliamentary contract and subscribers' agreement. " 3. BIGHTS AND LIABILITIES OF ALLOTTERS IN SCHEMES WHICH ARE REJECTED BY PARLIAMENT. " Before a scheme is brought into Parliament, the usual deeds are invariably signed by the allottees, and these deeds confer upon the promoters ample powers to carry on or abandon the scheme, and to pay all necessary expenses attending the same. Therefore, i❑ cases where the promoters have done all that is necessary to place the merits of the scheme before Parliament, but Par liament rejects it, the allottees must submit to the terms of the deed they have signed ; and probably the only power they possess is that of checking the promoters in any improper payment or dealing with the funds of the company. " But where the allottee has signed the usual deeds, but the proper number of shares are not subscribed, or any fraud was practised upon him by the promoters, or the scheme is abandoned in an unauthorised manner, he will have the same remedies against the promoters as if no deed had been signed by him. " 4. RIGHTS AND LIABILITIES OF SCRIPHOLDERS. " A mere purchaser of scrip, or of letters of allotment, or of banker:•' receipts, has no rights against, and in curs no liabilities to the promoters. If the scheme in which he has acquired an interest be abandoned, he must look to the party from whom he bought, and it is vory doubtful whether he has any implied rights against him. The case of Thomson v. Sanders, which appears to establish such rights, is not relied upon by lawyers, although it has not yet been expressly overruled. It is, however, poisible that the holder of these documents may have a right to use the name of the original allottee for the purpose of proceeding against the promoters, but there are many difficulties in the way of such a step, and the point has yet to be decided. " RIGHTS OF CREDITORS TO SUE THE PROMOTERS, EN GINEER, SOLICITOR, OR OTHER OFFICER OF A SCHEME. " The creditors, like the allottees, may sue any of the promoters who has acted, or held himself out to the world as acting, in the formation and carrying out of the scheme. These parties constitute the company, or project, or scheme ; and each and all of them is or are liable for all debts properly incurred for the advance ment of the common design. " The engineer, solicitor, secretary, or other officer of the company, may, by their conduct, render themselves personally liable ; but the mere circumstance of their holding office in the company, that is to say, being the servants of the company, cannot render them responsible for the debts of the company, their employers. "On the other hand, they have no power to bind the company by virtue of their offices alone ; such a power must be expressly conferred upon them. Therefore, the engineers' assistants, or the solicitors' clerks, or any other sub-contractors, cannot sue the projectors or com pany. If this were suffered the confusion it would cause would be indescribable. It would be just as absurd as to allow all a tailor's workmen to sue a cus tomer who had ordered a coat from their master for wages due to them from him for making the coat. "6. RIGHTS OF DIRECTORS OR PROMOTERS. "The directors or promoters may recover contribu tion from each other for all expenses connected with the scheme which they are called upon to pay. At law they may recover the proportionate part of each, with reference to the whole number of promoters, but with out any regard to the solvency E,f the others : thus, if there are ten, and one pays a debt, only a tenth can be recovered from each of the others ; but in equity an equal contribution can be enforced from all the solvent parties, without any regard to the original number of promoters. "The promoters are the parties with whom all the contracts connected with the scheme are entered into. They must all of them sue for any breach of contract on the part of allotters, engineers, or others. As the promoters are generally very numereus, and have in most cases undergone changes, it will be difficult to maintain proceedings on such contracts ; because the same parties must sue with whom the contract was I made, and the mere fact that one director is elected to succeed another in a scheme which has no charter or I Act of Parliament, will not give the party so appointed any power to sue upon his predecessors' contracts. hence appears the indiscretion of entering into con tracts by a general name o' office, as ' Garimittee,' or Directors,' &e. It will be important for ;he future to have contracts with companies of this kind made with a certain numker of parsotis as trustees. " After the Act is obtained, the directors have gr 4 at and summary powers given to them to recover deposits from shareholders, and to act general in the affairs of the company, whi , h wilt be found in the general atom special Acts relating to the subji ct. They must, however, be careful not to exceed these powers. The recent Act for facilitating the dissolution of certain railway companies (9 and 10 Vie. e. 2S), will also require attention, but we must reserve our notice of its provisions for a future paper." SIMMONDS'S COLONIAL. The most valuable and unquestionably the most in teresting contribution in the colonial for September, is a biography of "Baron Metcalfe." Although it occupies a sheet and a halt; it is not a single senLnce too long, and might have been very considerably ex tended without becoming wearisome to the readers of the magazine. The character of the late Governor- Gmieral of Canada appears to be tenderly regarded and earnestly esteemed, by the inhabitants of that gigantic colony. Mr. Leigh pursues his fiction about Australia, and Mr. Hooton his realities about Texas, with unahatit;g liveliness. Unlike the generality of serials, their termination will only prove a source of regret. Various other articles, with these, begin the ninth volume admirably. 1)U13.1,11V UNIVERSITY. A tribute of honour is here paid to a living French philosopher, not merely of European, but of world-wide celebrity, namely to M. Arago. Never theless, in estimating the character of this remark able man, the writer has spoken freely of his defi ciencies, as well as of his many estimable qualities. Regarded as a supreme authority in scientific matters by " the squatters on the banks of the Mississippi, as well as by the dwellers of the Quai Voltaire," Arago is likewise somewhat contemned and even derided in " the College Mazarin and at Somerset House." This is particularly commented on in the article before us, and the reasons for the existence of a popularity so anomalous with the frigid regard of scientific asso ciates, are cleverly and ca n didly stated. The meagre eminence either as an r consideration awarded to M. Arago by contemporary philosophers,ehxispexperimentalist, revmeern havingtast arises ora s as s from omane dtahuaetnhvyo of elab ora t e volumes.ery indisputabl e f ac t o f Arago has never discovered any of the universal laws of matter, he has not aided in any one remarkable in stance the revelations of nature. Newton disclosed the laws of gravitation, Oersted those of electro-magnetism, metallic bases— Arago Franklin demonstrate d the i dentity of lightning and electricity, Davy proved that the earth and comparable. Laplace w rot e alkalis A ra g o has are compounds the " Mecanique Ce leste " — Arago never compiled any great work upo n p h y sical science. Hence it is that among the savant s he h as (as the writer acknow ledges) been mentioned in s done nothinggs having whispers, as a charlatan and an impostor. Arago has done much, notwith standing, towards the development of human know ledge : he assisted in the measurement of the meri dianal arc : he elucidated some of the mysteries of magnetism by rotation : he aided in the computation of the relation between the pressure and temperature of steam : and beyond this has performed many similar services to mankind. The proximate cause however, of his fame among the multitude, is one most honourable to his heart as well as to his head; and one which will he fully appreciated by posterity. Arago has assisted materially in the popularisation of science and philosophy generally : and the writer in the Dublin University goes even so far as to couple his name, in this particular, With the name of Henry, Lord THE FARMER'S MAGAZINE. A portrait and memoir of Mr. James Smith, of Deanston, form principal features in the present number ; and the latter should be attentively studied by the farmers of the United Kingdom. It may excite in them a very laudable spirit of emulat ion to strive for the improvement of agriculture ; and, by inference, to endeavour thereby to benefit in a sub stantial manner every individual member of the human family. The reports of the different clubs, societies, and lectureships, distributed through the country, are copiously and agreeably given. From the Review of the Corn Trade, we observe that the harvest is considered rather favourable than otherwise in regard to quantity; the quality is feared to have been injured by the late unsettled weather. The Farmer's Magazine speaks forcibly and emphatically upon the potato disease. All accounts coincide—it is universal this season. THE BELLE ASSEMBLEE. A diversified and pleasant number. 'We could find many a prettier Donna Julia any day in Hanway street than the one in the frontispiece. POLITICAL DICTIONARY. Part XII': Second Ilalf. Seeing that the present number proceeds from the word " Transportation" to the word " Way," we may anticipate a speedy close to this most valuable dictionary. The work is evidently the result of very laborious research : it is rather a political encyclo pcedia than a political dictionary. OLD ENGLAND'S WORTHIES. part VIII. The frontispiece to this part is a clever representa, _ _ tion of the famous monument to Milton, in St. Giles's Church, Cripplegate—that solemn monument so affecting in its exceeding simplicity : JOHN 111 ILTON, Author of " Paradise Lost." Born, Dec. 1608. Died, Nov., 1674. Bright names appear before us on the accompanying illustration—Sir Mathew Hale,. Andrew Marvell, J. Barrow, Hobbes, Samuel Butler, and Lord 'William Russell. If we are not amazingly mistaken, the names of the two latter are misplaced—Butler's name under the likeness of Lord W. Russell, Lord W. Russell's under the effigy of Butler. THE PICTORIAL GALLERY OF ARTS. Part XX. If only for that noble engraving from tha., noble " ancient bust of llomer"—the " blind old man of Scio's rocky isle "—this part is most valuable. Besides this, it presents us with copies of most of the masterpieces of sculpture from the Parthenon those glorious Elgin marbles which would alone render the British Museum a sacred edifice. The wonderful Theseus—the mira culous Iris—the marvellous head of one of the horses of Night " snorting the green billows from its nos trils"—that marvellous head which Foster declared to be the sublimest specimen of human ingenuity his eves had ever beheld. THE ROYAL PAVILION.—A petition is in the course of signature at Brighton, praying the Queen and the Government that the Pavilion may be preserved as a royal residence. REPRESENTATION OF THE COUNTY KERRY.— On (lit that Mr. Herbert, of Muekross, will start for the county at the next election, supported by the Kenmare interest.— Tralee Chronicle. CITY OF LONDON GENERAL PENSION SOCIETY.— The Secretary of this Institution, Mr. IL F. Richardson, has been honoured with a communication from his Royal High ness the Duke of Cambridge, consenting to preside at the next Anniversary Festival of this valuable charity. The Illustrious Prince presided in 15-10 for the institution. Amongst numerous donations lately received by the society, may be named the Marquis of Breadalbane, 501. ; Thomas Dickinson, Esq., 521. 10s. ; the Worshipful Companies of Goldsmith's and Draper's, each 501.; Joseph Baxendale, Esq., in addition to 80 guineas ; Mrs. H. F. Richardson, 10/. 10s. ; Luke J. Hansard, Esq., COI., in addition to 10/. ; Mr. and Mrs. Braithwaite, 211. •, Mr. 211., &c., &c. It is quite anticipated that after the next festival, the payments to the pensioners will be at their maximum amount, us resolved on in 1818, the date of the society's foundation. WEST INDIA MAIL—THE CUSTO3I-HOUSE.—The British Possessions Act, passed towards the close of the late session, removes all reasonable pretext for reserving the colonial Customs' appointments to the Home Government. So long as Imperial Cities were imposed in favour of the mother country's produce there was a shadow of a pretext for this arrangement. It might be said that local officers ap pointed by local authorities might connive at evasions of the Imperial restrictive policy in favour of local interests. All that is now at an end. Colonial Customs' duties are only to be levied in future for purposes of revenue, and they are to be imposed by the local Legislatures—where there are any. It will be found conducive to general economy, and to honest discharge of duty, that the power of nominating to and removing from such offices should also be vested in the local authorities. The remote Imperial Board of Customs cannot detect and check delinquencies in subordinate officers so well as a local assembly or council. The only use of retaining such appointments in the Board of Customs is to enable its members to diffuse their patronage in favour of retainers over a wider sphere. As long as the Board of Customs dispense these appointments the colonies will be subject to periodical immigrations of small, conse• quential officials, looking down upon the " natives," and re lying for support against all accusations upon their great friends at home. There is no convincing home authorities of the delinquencies of such proteyes. With a noble spirit of independence the creatures themselves bid defiance to all at tempts of the colonial representatives to keep them in the line of their duty. They are a nuisance in the colonies; and all the benefit the mother country derives from their ap pointment being vested in the Board of Customs is, the per petuation and aggravation of low political corruption. PORTUGUESE ONIONS.—A vessel arrived at one of the wharfs adjoining the Custom-house from Oporto has brought a cargo consisting entirely of onions, com prising, consigned to different houses, the large number of 800 boxes of this description of vegetable, the pro duction of Portugal. We have lately alluded to the ex tensive importation of onions which have taken place from the quarter under notice, but no instance of an entire cargo, or so large an arrival at one time, has come under our observation. Whether they be imported to so great extent for pickling purposes, which is so general at this season of the year, or otherwise, they evidently form an important and interesting feature in the list of foreign supplies to our markets, and the present im portation, on account of the large quantity, is entitled to particular notice. TILE PRUSSIAN CONSTITUTION.—Lost or stolen, the Prussian Constitution. It was done up in a small parcel, and was dropped about the 3il of last month. It was last seen at the Sans Souci, Potsdam, where it had been lying on the shelf for years. It is marked " Anno Domini, 1816," and has a royal seal on it, with the motto of " Sie sollea es nicht haben." As the contents are of no value to any but the owner, a small reward will be given for its restoration to " Frederick, Royal Palace, or Greek Theatre, Berlin." For fear of accident, it had better be labelled "Fragile."—Punch. The following not very probable shooting adven ture is given by the Journal tie la Meuse ;—T wo days ago M. Bachet, of - Consenvoge, was out with a party, when he saw his dog running a hare hard, and behind the dog a ferocious wolf, following with . evidently sinister intentions. Preserving his coolness, he fired his double barrelled gun, and first killed the hare, and next the wolf, by a shot from the other barrel. The dog - appeared completely astounded at being thus at once deprived of his prey, and delivered from a formidable enemy." SETTING IN OF DISEASE. A writer in the Cork Examiner says that " common cholera," meaning what is called " English" cholera, has set in decidedly at Listowel, owing to the diseased potato food eaten by the people. THE EXILES OF LAMBETII._Lambeth has become a sort of Siberia since the stopping up of Westminster bridge, for there is now literally no communication be tween the inhabitants of the northern shore, and the transpontine people. All means of social intercourse are completely cut off, and Astley's Amphitheatre might as well be on Salisbury Plain, as far as there is any possi bility of getting to it from any part of Westminster. Lambeth is in a state of utter desolation, and the prin cipal street reminds one of a strada in Pompeii. A civil war might break out and be all over before any one on this side of the Thames could know anything about it. The people are becoming quite isolated from the rest of their fellow-subjects, and the interests of civilisation aro severely suffering. Already Lambeth is a week behind us in the polite arts, and every day that the blockade continues will send them backward 24 hours towards the barbarism which it has taken centuries to get out of. We should not be at all surprised at hearing through some circuitous channel that a provisional government has been established in the New -cut, and that the whole of the Marsh has thrown off its allegiance. During the stoppage of Westminster-bridge, the Lambethites aro aliens in geography, if not in blood, and we can scarcely expect submission where protection is not affiaded.—fun ch. DEER. STA.LKING. ABHORRENCE OF THE DEER TO .SHEEP. The detestation of the deer to sheep is so great that they will not inhabit the same ground with these animals. A remarkable instance nt this antipathy was Plas:e observed in the end of the last century by an eld drover !e ''=- JJ familiarly called "An (fro/glair hirer when crossing one --, of the great moors of Sutherland, soon after the first Aa..t j "head of sheep" had been turned into Lord Wsay,'s forest. ‘seass The narrator was 'surprised by the appearance of a large- Meafa , column of near a thousand deer, marching out of the country in a steady determined emigration. Disgusted by the invasion of the sheep and their dogs, they had col lected from all parts, and unable to find "clean ground,' continued their course out of the country, dispersing into the most solitary glens. From these they never re turned, and harassed and killed by the shepherds and farmers, their numbers became reduced to the few and scattered fugitives which lingered in a state of outlawry in remote coires, until the " commercial spirit'' of Eng land spread to the Highland hills, and it vvas . discovered that harts and hinds could be converted into marketable stock like other cattle. Hence deer are now " grown" for Saxon guns, as wool for Manchester looms, or beef for Smithfield shambles. The abhorrence of the deer to sheep did not result merely from the disturbance of their dogs. It is true that, like the corollary of St. Columbus concerning cows and women, " Where there are sheep there must be dogs, and where there are dogs there must be mischief." But the chief cause for which the deer shnn the society of their woollen enemies is the closeness of their feeding and the fo u l ness o f t h e i r fl eece. Th e deer is very delicate in his food, and exceedingly fastidious as to the purity of his pasture. Independent therefore of the abridgement of his provision by the excoriating teeth of the tree and herb-exterminating " gallgeall," he cannot endure the oily rancour of their wool, which poisons the fresh heather and sweet green shealing. Wanting these nuisances, he exhibits no an tipathy to the intercourse of black cattle, his old abo riginal brethren of the hill, whose clean coat and mo derate feeding spare the grass and leave no taint of tar and oil in the pasture. Hence the deer and the stirks may be seen herding in the same coire and re posing on the same turf. Sheep in any considerable number are an introduction into the Hiehlands since the latter end of the last century, in which it was dis covered that mutton was not only a safer, but a more profitable stock than man. It is yet well remembered in Argyllshire, that the first Cheviot flock brought into that country was introduced by Mr. Campbell, of Combie, upon the farm of Balantyre, near Invarary, in the year 1771. The earliest similar colonisation in Inverness-shire was in Morven, about the year 1777. The shepherd of these flocks—of whom the first was a certain John Todd from the neighbourhood of Dum barton ; the second, a Braidfoot from the border, intro duced the first " maud," or " shepherd's plaid," worn in Argyll or Inverness. Similar flocks and their feeders disseminated the expulsion of the deer, and the intro duction of the base " hodden-grey," which has since usurped the place of the tartans of the clans ; and at its first appearance, from the calamities by which it was accompanied, and its degraded supplantation of the national dress, was truly and significantly named, "Bratgalla," The foreigner's rag," and" au riochd-mallaiehte," " The accursed grey." This hue was to the Highlanders what black is to their neighbours ; and so destable for its wan and ghastly appearance, that its asso ciation afforded the popular appellation for ghosts and devils ; hence an apparition —a phantom—" an Riochd." The grey, or wan—the spectre foreboding death— " am bodach glees,' the grey earl ; another of an evil genius, in the shape of a goat—" an Glastig," or " Glasdidh"*—" the Grey," or wan ; and, as in the south, the great enemy is named familiarly " The Black Gentleman," so, in the Highlands, he is called " Mac an Riochd," the son of the grey. In the ideas of the old wives and children of the last century, all those per sonifications, except one, were as nearly as possible those of the modern " dubh gall," deer-stalkers, in their chequered " hodden grey," wanting only the " Jim Crow," " ruffian," or "crush hat"—enormities which had not then completed tise masquerade of death and Satan. It is easy to trace the origin of this association. The ancient Caledonian hell, like that of Scandinavia, was a frozen and glassy region, an island named "Ifruinn," far away among the " wan waters" of the northern ocean, and involved in the everlasting ice, and snow, and fog. In this association, the appearace of the evil spirits, its inhabitants, like that of mortals in similar cir cumstances, was believed to be dim, wan, and cloudy shades, such as men become when seen through a frosty mist. Thus, a party of modern deer-stalkers, noble, well appointed, and gallant though they be, in despite of the gold Geneva watch chains, and costly I'urdie rifles, which peep from beneath their shepherd plaids, would re present to an old " Sealgair-wm-beann" the liveliest vision of the fiend and his familiars; and we have no doubt that, if " Alasdair Mac-Dhonacha-raidh," or even " Eoin-dubhdrinachin," had ever met, in the grey of the morning, either Lord 0., Sir H. G., or " The Ruffians of Aberarder," h e wou ld have fled the hill for that time, and never have returned to it again, between sun setting and sun rising.—[* It has pleased a writer of the " Cockney school" of Highlanders to convert this word into " Glastig," which we take leave to observe is unknown in the Highlands, and did not exist before the year 1641.]—Caledonian liferculy. `~. THE MEXICAN SOLDIERY. The Mexican soldier is or t . e middle stature, or belt!, it, small boned, slightly built, graceful, vv't'l a smooth, soft, glossy skin, icare.ly any muscle, no visible sinews, and of extremely light weight. Ile can be agile for a short time, but is constitutionally indolent. This is the Mexican Indian from the interior. The soldiers of mixed blood, partaking of the more northern races, and of old Spain, are stronger, rather sinewy, and capable of more continued exertion. These, however, comprise only a minority of the soldiers of the Mexican army. The Mexicans are capable of no great physical efforts or endurance. Their constitutions are without stamina ; and from their habit of getting into the shade whenever they can during the day, taking a nap at noon, or lying about under walls or in shady places, flat upon the ground, to play at cards for reales or ntedios (and dollars, if they have any), they are so enervated that the climate, during the sickly season, is very apt to affect numbers of them, if much expos•sd during the fiercest hours of the day ; to which, in fact, they have never been accustomed. They very often t ,ke tie yell ow fever, and even die of the vomit° negro (particularly at Vera Cruz, Tampico, and Alverado), as well as the temeritous foreigners. They even fear it beforehand. A Mexican soldier who has been drunk over night with aquadiente, and has a sick headach next morning, will ask permission of his sergeant to leave the ranks during parade or guard duty, as he is very unwell, and will go and squat down under a wall or shed. If you ask him what is the matter, he shakes his head with a melancholy, much injured, but resigned air, and answers, " Calentura, senor—calentura." I will answer for it that any moderately strong English grcn,-.• dier—not a regular boxer, but who can only " hit straight"—would knock down ten or a dozen Mexican soldiers, equally unarmed, one after another, as fast as they presented themselves. Put a sword into their hands, and give a stout Highlander a claymore, or a raw boned Irishman a good shillclah, and the ten soldiers would be very likely to tumble to the right and left with broken blades and heads. The Mexicans are by no means deficient in courage. They have fiery spirits and no fear of cold steel. They are " always ready to die." I have even heard them in hours of danger use that very ex.• pression. What they wantis physical force; the power to justify their feelings. The Mexican officers are for the most part not good. They are valiant but have no judgment. They are far too excitcable, and without self-government. Moreover they are much too young ; many of their lieutenants, and even captains, being are boys. I was once acquainted in V( ra Cruz twith a Mexican colonel of artillery who was not wo-and -twenty. He was a very well-informed, high spirited, amiable young man, a good mathema tician, and a good swordsman ; but, of course with out any adequate experience for such a post. The Mexican cavalry is admirable—in respect of horseman ship. The artillery is good in all respects. In the re cent battles (as well as in former wars) they seldom failed to throw their balls and shells directly into the works of the fortress attacked ; and before General Vegal's little fort was taken, his guns had destroyed one-third of the assailants ; but when the strong-armed mem got close in amongst the Mexican ranks it was all over in a minute.—American paper. CHINESE BRICKS.—Some time since the arrival of a cargo of bricks from China was announced. We now find that a parcel of bricks which had been imported into the port of Liverpool by a vessel called the Annia, from Shanghae, which were originally reported by the master of the vessel as being for exportation, are to be landed. The parcel comprises the large number of 15,000, and bears good our former remark with respect to the im• portation of bricks from China for actual use in this country for the general purposes to which they are ap plied. The importations which now take place from foreign and frequently distant part§ of the world are so varied and remarkable as continually to call for especial notice. EARLY CLOSING OF PAWNBROKERS' SHOPS.— Yesterday, the Act to regulate the hours of business in pawnbrokers' shops, which was passed on Friday, was printed. It will take effect in the course of the present month. The following is the enacting clause:—" That, from and after the 29th S e pt em b er next after the pass ing of this Act, no pawnbroker shall receive or take in, or permit or suffer to be received or taken in, any goods or chattels by way of pawn, pledge, or in exchange, be fore eight of the clock in the forenoon, or after seven of the clock in the evening, between the 29th September and the 25th March following, or before seven of the clock in the forenoon or after eight of the clock in the evening during the remainder of the year, excepting only until eleven of the clock on the evening of Saturday throughout the year, and the evenings next preceding Good Friday and Christmas day, and on every fast or thanksgiving day appointed by her Majesty; and in cafe any pawnbroker offend against the provisions of this Aet, v c e o n e every t s iuocnh thereof p a ivnb r u o p k o e n r t s h h e a l, oathl for every of ny one n u e c h offence, o r moreon rc• dible witness or witnesses, before any one or more of her Majesty's justices of the peace having jurisdiction over the place where such offence shall have been or shall be committed, forfeit and pay not less than 205.,, nor exceeding 51., as such justice or justices shall ad judge; and every such penalty shall and may be levied, together with all the costs attending the information, summons, and conviction, by distress and sale of goods and chattels of the offender or offenders, or person or persons liable to pay the same respectively, by warrant under the hand and seal of any justice or justices before whom such offender or offenders, person or persons shall or may be convicted; and every such penalty shill . be applied and disposed of in like manner as forfeitures in curred for any offence agai: i s . t i, t . h , e an la d st 3 r i e r c s i . te ea d r A u c a t atin 39 & 40 Geo. 3, C. 99). Musgrave Brisco, Brisco h ave left Harrogate tOr their scat, Coghnrst Sussex,