The Sun. — London, England, 1846-10-23 00:00:00

I 1 .use was then remanded to Wednesday. 51GRLri RO'-STREET.—(TH IS DAY.) _,reor placed at the bar, charged with getting into Sir Atob, t h Campbell's house, early this morning, for foto purposes. s , h ° lll as Grey, butler to Sir Robert Campbell, Bart., \..rgYll-pace, said he was aroused this morning about halt -past five o'clock by the housekeeper, who called nut he were thi eves in the house. He went up and found he,t_svo men i n t h e front hall. They had got in by the, th.s 'ene!l unde r a f alse pretence of coming from Jerome chimney -sweeper. nienlehard Jerome, Cross -court, Carnaby-street, said the ItLever were in his employment, and had no orders to Sir Robert Campbell',. self, said)'°Vi'° on being asked what he had to say for him and he went last Light and rung the kitchen %, asked the kitchen maid who came to tho door ether she wanted her chimreys done. The maid asked u s e u. a_ f roue Jerome's, and he said no.. L oy .ti t Sag;ers, the servant maid, said she asked f ro 'PI' last night where he came from, and he said 4 § l ,f, , jer°ll3e' 't and she had, by order of the house o'eeeby,_•• aPpointed him to come this morning at five s'et " -,and e She w as sent afterwards to Jerome's to counter- the orde r , an d found there that Jerome had not e 1 4 1 1 11 of his men to the h ouse . J erome f urt h er t o ld i,' a par ce l of vagabonds were in the habit of ia ea'lllenuo,n people, anewithout doubt the men who had tw o ',ere of th at c h aracter. In consequence of this, ' at P ' ic 'lllen were engage d to b e i n atten d ance who hous e by the apointed hour in the mornin, who, whe n she had let the s p weeps in, took them into custody. ti ck rane said it was not usual fur him to adopt this prac red4,din the presefit instance the other man had "tat at four o'clock, to Lelp him with a job. tta ILtanwrctl. said he would remand them till Mon- Y. that inquiry might be made. pSOUTIM ARK.--ITHIS DAY.) a a stn ic , k gland and Samt‘tel John, two young men squa re of uestitution , were charged with breaking a W o 4 ( d . glass in the ;hop window of a baker named e wa rd, residing in the Dover-road. riso°ll43Plainant said about six o'clock last evening the Ilet l ers entered his sh o p an d d eman d e d some b rea d. qa es ` t 3 e l them that he h a d none t o g i ve awa y, an d re soon them to leave his shop. They did so, and as elbo ws y got outside both of them pushed their . fitted they a square of glass. After they had co . M g d 0 , 7 4 aage they told him they were quite willing CTher'son, as they were starving with hunger and Nic ld. e -e Y ae eordin ly waited until the arrival of a T h when t h ey g were taken into custody. the r: Pris°tlers, who made the same statement before p ayin agiStra to, were committed for 14 days in default of „ ea p l e t a h s e edd ara age, a decision with which they seemed .. er b '.4K,RX ENWELL.—(THIS DAY.) A. n m „ store named Andrew Ryan, who keeps a marine most ic)lealers shop in Peter-street, was charged with a It yari rutal and violent assault upon his wife, Catherine ale tla zi ' bY which her life was at one time in consider a nger heoatil_ttinaptipailayred that the parties had been in the habit of quarreling, and upon the last occasion he k iniVelied to be rather excited from the effucts of drin - g!t a w ri ti k e lt, he knocked her down, and whilst on . the /lel *ticked her and beat her with a heavy stick so Alrtl,, as , to render her insensible for several hours. P' o ai l d"'"II 1 E, after hearing very lengthened evidence the a Con, committed the prisoner for trial, but, upon t he of his solicitor, consented to take two Aftert for his appearance at the sessions. tarr ed bail had been received the prisoner again.re to ft. rae at .iie Court in a state of great appt . trentexciLe e - Itat e e t a h cl applied for a warrant against his wife.. 11 Null ~ ,immediately afterhis tha t • liberation upon bail, he kid le : ' borne, when his wife followed him up stairs, With w 'tbout his 555 ing a word to her, rushed at him thru st 4 large carving knife, with which she made a Parr a t him which, only fur having been fortunately atra e l k ecl h bY his son, Who was standing near, must have Aft er u l na vvith great force on the side of the neck. bat si i : °lll e difficulty the knife was wrenched from her, up on i;• a gain recovered it, and made a second attack her thr nn ; and such was the violence of her conduct and 1 44 O a ts to take his life, that he was compelled to At is escape over the wall of the back yard. th e Co e°3l " ordered Bingham, the warrant officer of the wi f ? r ,t to go to the house in Peter-street, and desire turn, , ' attendance in Court; but upon the officer's re lie co l said that although he had made a strict search tlei g h a b id not find her. He was informed by some of the that th cia ra that the opinion generally entertained was . Wif Q ~, husband made the application in order that his aPp e ,; ll ght be in prison, and therefore be unable to Tu csd , against him at the sessions, which commences on k r 4 ,3* next. liiii, i ,' '-'°31.13E declined issuing a warrant, but desired to.Zrarnaolvt.o endeavour to have tiv, wife in attendance „, 4 3 ,, 4 es. ;41Eit ADVANCE IN THE PRICE or . locality --------------------- BREAD• Of them Morning the bakers in nearly halfpeen4letrnpolis made a still further ad e v v a e n r) c . e of one thethe fifth Yin the price of the quartern loaf, makings . rise in price during the present month. It is ferkltlornrob. s , .rv e the various sums demanded bread. dlffn the 4 , a itaes for the 41b. of Beth and of the New "household” la se t ,, e `! its iitmediate vicinitC,ut9hLlwr.eiere-MiasrosnhiyL;rd: ~,,,:,,,o_uinthstivaanrcke:, and 81 in others.t the rice the Blackfriars den;,aari e - the Borough, „, x side of the river, the and the other parts of latter sum is the utmost with -'ed, except for full-priced bread. In the City, 9 d °lit exc, price i s gid. and 91 ; 80 . . and i, ch ption, the price , Ir ged in. the vicinity of Clare-ma 115 ,,.. t and Picket. a,et.cl‘hilst for a similar article but i id : and . Bd. is de in se t , at Whitechapel, Poplar, East Smithfield, &c. 41h. 4 . , 4 hhourhoods no less than 9id. is charged per Pri e j;, h Xlie amount charged ftdr the best or ‘. full and eirlicread averages from between 4.1. to 101 d. CANAL Ti I , t 1- -,-,ATE CASE or DROWNING TIIE Stan ce sterday, the inquiry n c o , `,'"3 attending the deth O t S tb ar e a l l s i po lV a li sm ith a o n. r . n m ,l a a r s . .ciuded, before Mr. Baker, - baret street, liaggerstone. George Phesent, 2, Victoria :street, it b merlon, deposed that deceased and Mutton-bridge, her abouthus- 4nd passed him near the Cat . and__ n . High word passed be -oae o'clock on Sunday tween them, and they m4 tu turned g into the path leading to tta gersione bridge. In answer to questions, the witness Stated g that deceased breached for a period of minutes after her recovery f rom the water. twenty The medical evidence add uce d on T uesday was then read, from which it appeared that deceased was stated to have died within a few minutes after her recovery from the water. Other itoportant evidence having been given, the Coroner ad- Yerted to the melancholy facts of the case, and com mented upon the material portions of the evidence; and, ;after a lengthened deliberation within closed doors, the aillipt returned_ a verdict of "Tem orary Insanity ;" and P had been exhibited by t f: e u e e a d s , e d",sthLt husband, recklessness Alfred Withorn, in neglecting to rjjayent deceased throwing herself into the Regent's a . 411 a1, and in endeavouring to leave the spot after the 17;,174 without offering assistance in rescuing her; and the Y regret that the law cannot punish him for his in 11,,Inan Conduct." " TAE q"%._ LAST PERVERSION.—We .recently copied a raph from a London paper, stating that a Member e n Lila Rouse of Commons, with. his family, had con to ted to the Church of Rome. The gentleman referred A t 14 the Right Hon. Charles Tennyson D'Eyncourt, 41)6113.er for the metropolitan borough of Lambeth.- 1,,(14 Evening Post. %VII ARMY. NENAGH, OCT. 20. -- PRINCE 411 n-a" OF CAMBRIDGE.—On Monday last his Royal ess Prince George of Cambridge, who has lately this aPPointed to the command of the military district in I,a, neighbourhood, and whose head quarters are i traattlek, commenced his tour of inspection of the lic ( ,,v 3 at Nenagh, and at ten o'clock arrived in this town, dis:Panied by Colonel Mansell, adjutant-general ote tr., let ' nis Royal Highness proceeded to the barracks . th C e ll i Pied by the depot of the 72d Highlanders,. and, l's e r 1? l'eing very wet, inspected the men in their se ms.ttia-°° We understand that his Royal Highness thcit'st niinute and particular in his inquiries as to b...,, cornfort, and their having any complaints to make eZtking with much condescension to them, and urging n. e e ,C Speak out freely, if they were any way aggrieved. °III I , A Ch made ou s t freely, as to their food, and being . ih tl'hogja- that the bread was generally good, he said it he n',I4IW4YB be good, as they paid for its being so, % a iii-ruered that it should be minutely looked to. After 1/ P la tillee thriti, a de'etine about two o'clock, was served by : t i t! mess roo j in, a which the officers of the 721 Y Coliit, Prince George left Nenagh, accompanied I nore, t rl9 Alans.ell, at half-past two o'clock, for e pla atiarte,°lasPect the troops there, and was to take up his o _ ." Prl a B ,, at the mansion of Sir Henry Carden, Bart., of iitsa l 1 --„,.3', from thence he was to proceed to Thurles,ters '3/4ialeeri'„L'loninel Casher , &c., en route to head quar • iIT '1"--Nen:igh Guardian. ~ 11 tts,.. —Yester ,-, the y —.. OP OF LONDON'S VISITATIONS : m'air '-ord Bishop of London concluded his course of 4aerra°o4ll6litari visitations at St. Paul's Cathedral. The I,.°lllcla;,,waaa.Preached by the Venerable Archdeacon John 4\41 n' al.A•i archdeacon of Middlesex and vicar of eharBle-gtan 'after which s ' the Bishop delivered the The' which appeared in The Sun of Tuesday last. a t isu m —lt was eSte rd OFRIC OF SODOR AND ......AN. , it,. p aY rumoured in clerical circles that the Hon. and 1 •.1( ) :: , Montague Villiers, M.A, rector of St. George s,. hhd% su arY, ITIII. succeed Dr. Short in the bishopric of ill beilnd Man, and that the rectory of Bloomsbury kcot,b conferred Saintshe Rev. James Harris, M.A., in -4:l4ot_°, f All Church, Stepney, and lecturer of p _ S, Limehouse. aeseAp AT r, s , h 1 '-'II.A.Y. ACCIDENT. -- Last evening Mr. -t. 11102aYtle, Deputy City Coroner, held an inquest at Coui,e,,nlas's Hospital, relative to the death of Alfred Whi b " e , aged 34, late a drayman in the employ ofMessrs. '41(44; ad and Co. The deceased, with John Hall, of b eer , rayman, went on Tuesday last with two drays the to 14) L Psoin. On their return they each rode on taiha.Ys,.and when they had arrived near the George, Wheein-hill, deceased was found lying on the road, the b 4 "F his dray having evidentl passed over his deee'' This was about six o'clock in y the evening, and , aseu , . Wh e „ ; , as instantly conveyed to the above hospital, n h tis ,!` was found that he had fractured four or five ribs lub:" l eft sid e a • K the s Bl de ' portion of one had penetrated the left pr od _ • spine and liver were ruptured, which injuries aietZed death at :twelve o'clock the same night, Ver -1)0 Accidental death." b to '..CARTs nr , _ p ay au. . A AXABLE.—The question of liability "4518,,, ~,? 'or those sporting vehicles called " Dog eaed nitaiL lotif.,Yh the original cast of which did not ex tia3'issiel eteen guineas, was determined by_ the Coin faa I .t e e r s , cnithn.s.A_ssessed Taxes at Kensington a feW v ° l St th e asses .'" appeal by a Colonel in the Guards assssment. The Commissioners decided in oni?" a the e %merit., on the ground that the Act 10 r .i tlZt Plie d t° persons in " trade or business" using it Purpose. LITERATURE. THE EDINBURGH REVIEW. No. CLXX. So singularly and inexplicably antiquated is VT opening article in this number—" Proposals for Ex tending the Irish Poor-law "—that any examination of its character at this moment would he entirely superfluous. The pressing necessities of It eland, the destitute, and in many particulars the insubordinate; condition of its inhabitants, the famine with which they are not merely threatened, but from the effects ofwhich they are at present perishing, render any frigid consideration of the insufficiency of past measures for the diminution of pauperism in the sister country, little less than an intended cruelty. This is not the time to examine the merits of different schemes for the organisation of society in Ireland—it is the time to act in behalf of a starving population—it is the time to adjure the Executive to be bountiful in their efforts to alleviate the sorrows of a helpless and pa tient peasantry—to call upon the resident and ab sentee landlords of that island to strive heart and soul for the salvation of the very-lives of their de pendants—to implore with the earnestness of sympa thising men for work for the unemployed, for bread for the hunger-stricken. We cannot, indeed, but think that this contribution to the Edinburgh Review is the most misplaced, as it is very possibly one of the best-intentioned, within our recollection. Ireland is at this juncture, from Malin Head to Cape Clear, and from Broad Haven to Carn , ore Point, one spectacle of desolation and wretchedness :--Its potato-grounds soddened with decomposition ; i:s streets filled Nsith bands of emaciated labourers; its provision-ware houses threatened with destruction ; meal-bags torn open on the highroads ; peaceable men pistoled on their hearths, or bludgeoned in their gardens ! That is the present condition of that doomed country, ard, such being the case, anything like a deliberate ana lysis of the cause of failure in the modes of internal government, hitherto adopted for the amelioration ofitt distresses, would be both inappropriate and ungene rous. For this reason we discard the article in ques tion without any further observation. Very dif ferent in all respects is the paper entitled " State and Prospects of British Agriculture." The writer might, however, more accurately have designated it the State and Prospects of Scottish Agriculture, seeing that the condition of the Lothians is the prominent object of his consideration. This article is most practical, most interesting, most encouraging. It is, in effect, the journal of an observant agriculturist during a pilgrimage through the northern provinces of this island. Before his journey is commenced, however, he asks, and answers, three questions, of the highest importance. First. " What has British agriculture done ?" He maintains that its progres sive improvement during the last fifty years has im measurably outstripped that of all other countries, whether American or European ; and that, notwith standing the increase of population, the average im portation of foreign corn up to the appearance of the potato murrain was very little more than it was twenty years since. Secondly, " 'What is it at present doing ?" In responding to this inquiry, the reviewer is very naturally more detailed, and (if we may say so) more discursive. In order to satisfy his own mind upon this particular, he has recently made an elaborate tour of the island, and for the purpose of satisfying the minds of his readers, he specifies the result of his investigation. We recommend every one to examine this portion of the Edinburgh Review. It presents a panorama worthy of the most laborious study. It carries us in ima gination from the bleak acclivities and green bottoms of Caithness (where the spirit of agri cultural improvement has worked such miracles, that last year a long lease of a farm at 1341. having just expirsi, it has been since renewed at 8001. a year!) to the red gravelly soil of Sutherland. It takes us to a valley in Ross, where more than five quarters of wheat and seven quarters of oats, per imperial acre, are produced. It tells us how the writer encountered cartloads of' guano travelling across Strath Glass, and how, in a village school in that wild district, he lis tened to a class of barefooted urchins creditably ex amined in agricultural chemistry ! It would be un just, however, to deteriorate from the interest of the original narrative by extracting its skeleton. The paper does the Reviewer infinite credit, both for the perspicuity with which he has grouped so much information together, and the labour that must have been expended in its collection. It is impossible after examining the veritable position of our agriculturists, as the writer has done, after having recognised the manner in which they avail themselves of all the assistances of science, whether chemical or mechanical, whether in artificial manures or novel implements of husbandry; it is impossible after observing their almost universal enterprise and, the success which invariably attends that enterprise, not to feel a most implicit confidence in the resources of British agriculture. We might well exclaim with this Edinburgh reviewer, " we feel a species of indi vidual gratitude towards those who reclaim the bleak moss and the wild moor—who plant their feet firmly on the quaking bog—who give us the green hill-side, in place of the purple heath, and, for the moorfowls' cry, introduce the bleating of sheep ;" for all these things have our farmers repeatedly accomplished with the assistance of subsoil-ploughs, of liquid manures, of lime, of drainage by tiles, and a hundred other ingenious contrivances. Of the importance of a good system of drainage the reviewer is so thoroughly convinced, that he declares himself satis fied that, within a single year of its adoption, the populoaftionci s m u i p ll p i o o s n i a ng, of course, an average season, "five u k a ih rt ab e se rs rab ies o ee f nd g in ra T in the moT abit tha o n f t e h o i n s sun) . ing 6/sal-nat e is somevvhat exaggerateed, vvou ing one-half from the then, surplus crop there obuurt sthinkingubt calculated, reet country, after having satisfied England would, ev en become b an exporting progress is agriculture capable P e ' r ' Thirdly, then, inquires the writ her home consumers. That he what further extent, will be obleuns,wahenthat at t conceives it it to be capable of yet greater improve to an extraordinary quote his observation, " that the produce of the whole e island in corn may be doubled, by methods now known, and in some districts profitably practised." But the following passages will demonstrate yet more clearly the opportunities for agricultural im provement, which he believes to exist in England, notwithstanding all that has been hitherto accom plished. " In Northumberland, if we cross the country from Wooler to Morpeth, what an extent of improvable moor asks to be reclaimed—of poor grass to be nourished—of stiff clay to be subdued I What sorrowful tales the creps tell as we approach Newcastle I How spiritless and de pressed does all the land look which accompanies the railway from Newcastle to York 1 Is it the alleged over shadowing influence of clerical supremacy, or the sup posed readier road to wealth through its mines of coal, that has rendered Durham an opprobium to English agriculture ? The latter influence is unknown, the former only in a less degree, in Yorkshire ; and yet the water stagnates and sours in her flats and marshes, and her moors are untouched by the drain and the subsoil plough, and can scarely tell from experience how they should look under the influence of lime and abundant manure. The natives calumniate the soil ; yet how strongly does the return it makes for any unusual labour and skill speak for its willing capabilities, if the cultiva tor faithfully performed his part. " Lincoln has much merit ; but she has more still to do. Her stock-feeding will be improved—her manuring will be cheapened and bettered—the drain will yet tra verse the country where its use has hitherto been un thought of ; and both in Lincoln and in Norfolk a deeper ploughing will hereafter, we think, be beneficially introduced. " In Northampton, Gloucester, and Somerset, the lies clays are all, with isolated exceptions, still to drain ; the same is true of the Oxford clays of Oxford, Berks, and other counties ; and of the Weald clays of Sussex and Kent. We might speak of the much-neglected hus bandry of Lancashire—of the comparative infancy still of boneing in Cheshire—of the gaulting yet to be pro fitably performed in Huntingdon and lower Lincoln—of the shallow draining of Essex, which does not admit of the use of the subsoil plough—of the limited extension of the turnip culture in Sussex—of the shallow plough ing so justly praised and practised in the moorlands of Berkshire and Gloucester—of the undeveloped and as yet little understood capabilities of the chalk soil of Surrey and other southern counties ; and of the youth ful state of rural industry in the Devonian and Cornish peninsula." To those who are impressed with mournful antici pations in regard to the possibilities of our native agriculture, we commend this admirable article, con fident that it will prove a most salutary corrective. It will testify, that the lovers of free trade are filled with hopefulness, as much for the futurity of British agri culture as for that of British manufactures; and that the wonderful eminence already acquired by the latter in the estimation of those despised political economists eclipsed, if that be possible, by the former. " The Go vernment of British India" is a paper addressed parti cularly to our neighbours across the Channel, with the intention of disabusing them of their many erroneous impressions with regard to our dominions in Asia, and especially of those promulgated by recent work of the Chevalier de Warren. The paper is sensible and independent. " Railways at Home and Abroad," is a contribution that was much wanted ; it accumu lates together a vast bulk of information previously scattered in all sorts of *directions, and presents a clear bird's•eye view of that gigantic system which promises to transform the whole character of society. " Lives of Eminent Lawyers," is a review of two biographical works, by W. N. Wesley , and W. v C. Townshend, already so familiar to the reading public. " Grote's History of Greece," or at least th e pre liminary portion of that history, has elicited from the Edinburgh an article which will be devou red with avidity by every classical student, par ticularly the passages in which the Re viewer maintains the individuality of Homer, and not only his individuality, but the uniqueness of the Iliad. The ar g ume n ts of Mr. Grote to prove that the original of that stupendous epic was an Achilleis and not an Iliad are hero triumphantly. re futed, and his extraordinary depreciation of the ninth book indignantly contemned. With a tribute to the memory of the late Lord King, in a retrospective criticism of his speeches and writings, the .Edin burAth Review is composed of six papers of eminent ability and one of most venerable antiquity. BRADSHAIPS RAILWAY GUIDE. This useful little manual is greatly improved by the substitution of a new railway and steam travel ling map, for the confused and intricate affair which has hitherto been attached to it, and which, however, useful it might have been to the railway speculator, was worse than useless to the railway traveller. In the new map all the projected and abortive sAemes are left out, so that a traveller, on referring to it, will at a glance understand how far he will be enabled to travel by railway. Numerical references are also given to each railway, so that the difficulty of not having any means of distinguishing Particular lines ill be completely obviated. We understand, it is the intention of the proprietors to correct the map monthly, adding or extending any line as opened for traffic. GOVERNORSHIP OF BOMBAY TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Pray, Sir, can you inform the public what is the hitch about the nomination of a successor to Sir George Arthu-, in the government of Bombay? This estim able, peaceable, well-intentioned public functionary, has dropt in amongst us without our having any notion of his resignation. The government has passed quietly into the hands of Mr. Lestock Reid, the senior civil member of the Council ; and here are the Minis ters and the Court of Directors, coquetting first with one porson and then with another for the last mcnth, and they have not yet settled who is to have the appointment. For the administration of an Indian Government at this time of day the public naturally expect a man of effi ciency, a statesman with enlarged views, of a cool and dispassionate judgment, possessing firmness, integrity, and weighty personal character ; but what is Most re quired is a thorough political economist.. Never was there such a set of drivellers in finance as our Indian statesmen. In the first place, we have a salt monopoly in Bengal, realising, it is true, a revenue of about two millions, but starving and demoralising the people by all sorts of shifts to evade it. Falling most heavily on the poorer classes, while among the rich it is hardly felt, or known to exist. I say, Sir, any tax eperating in this manner is a bad tax, whatever be the amount; it is vicious in principle and is, as was the late bread tax, a monstrously unjust and defective method of realising a revenue. In Madras they have still heavy internal transit duties; they have enormous export an import duties on the pro• duce of their own country passing, coastwise, from one port to another, if it be only the distance of ten or twenty miles. I know of an instance of a Governor, within the last ten years, who was obliged to pay into his own exchequer 16 per cent. duty before he could procure a carpet, made within his own jurisdiction and transmitted coastwise, to be laid down in the drawing room of the Governor's house ; andY till within the last six or eight years, as much as 30 per cent., ad valorem duty, was levied on rice, the common food of the people, brought for sale to Bombay, coastwise, within two hours' sail of that city. For several years attempts have been made by the local Governments to construct roads. These have been, here and there, made, it is true, but in the cheapest possible manner, so that they require frequent repairs, that are seldom executed. There are, however, no bridges to connect the different portions of these roads, avowedly on account of the.ex pense, and thus the very roads themselves are rendered all but useless. The Chairs of the Court of Directors, guided entirely by their officials, are the sole movers of the gigantic machine of the Government of India, but, like their brother directors, are too busily engaged in the just distribution of patronage to be able to pay sufficient attention to S ate affairs. The ordinary directors, with their single patronage, have scarcely time to dis charge the small share of responsibility imposed upon them. How much less, then, can the Chairs and the President of the Board of Control be expected to con duct all the affairs of' the Indian Government, while overburdened with the whole of the patronage of Gover nors, Commanders in -chief, Judges, Bishops, Generals on the Staff, as also with a double portion of writer ships, cadetships, assistant-surgeons, and military chap lains ? It is this excessive load of patronage which is now preventing their deciding on the fittest person to succeed Governor Arthur, of Bombay. The appoint ment is full of difficulties we know. The Court of Di rectors and the Ministers are pulling different ways. It is not the best man for the office that they want—it is the man whom both parties are most willing to secure. Half-a-dozen persons have been spoken of, but there is no one who at present suits both parties. We believe the Court of Directors would have liked Sir Henry Pot tinger, but there were strong objections on account of certein opinions which he holds on certain points con nected with Sinde, which stood in his way, besides which the Ministry wanted him themselves for a business of their own, and he was appointed Governor, for a special purpose, to the Cape of Good Hope. The name of the Hon. Charles Pelham Villiers was then mentioned. A more proper man could not have been selected. He has all the requisites which I hold a ruler ought to have fur an Indian Government. Mr. Villiers is deservedlyconsidcred one of the first political economists of the age. Ile pos sesses an excellent judgment, quick discrimination, great firmness of purpose and deliberation, an untiring at. tention to business, making himself thoroughly m ester of every branch of a subject before he commits himself on it, and never has reason to retract or qualify what he has once advanced. Moreover, though acted on by a strong sense of the moral injustice inflicted by the corn laws— a law against which he was the first to wage war, and to hunt down till its fate was doomed—he has al ways lamented in public and in private the necessity of popular agitation, and was one of the most strenuous of the part) which advocated the dissolution of the League, even though the total abolition of the law was only promised at the end of three 3 ears. I am sorry to per ceive from a letter of his, in ono of the papers, a few day's since, that there is so little chance of his nomination, because I feel certain that none of those who have been mentioned possess higher qualities. Among those named we may mention Lord Dal housie, a younger man, with less Parliamentary ex perience. He has been spoken of for Bombay, as a stepping-stone to the supreme Government. Then there is Lord Joclyn, younger still, and with a shorter public career, and of whose qualifications the public certainly know nothing. Sir George Clerk, the able diplomatist of the Punjab, has also been spoken of. lie is, however, a company's servant, and the appointment is wanted for one of the Ministerial party, so he will not do. But another remove is'current lately, that Sir James Gral,arn has been invited to succeed Lord Hardinge as Governor- General, in case he should persist in coming home. What can the Whigs be driving at ? Among the names above-mentioned, with the exception of Mr. Villiers, is g o ! n t g p o t s o s i s b u l tr e e t r h a s u t c L o a r d m njaonh asn t i ~ . e all were m em b ers o f Si r Robert Peel's Government, and Villiers—one ll'sA dmi uistrsaotionis emi nently qualified, who has worked so hard for his party-, who by his family connexion and position is virtually one of themselves—to be set aside in order to conciliate that Conservative body, the Court of Directors, or to truckle to the adherents of Sir Robert Peel. If this be the game of the present Ministry, they must feel them selves weak indeed, and Ged help them in the next ses sion of Parliament, and at the ensuing election. AN OLD INDIAN. FIRE REWARDS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SU.N. Sin,—Knowing your disposition to give every man praise where due, I have taken the liberty of forwarding to you the follswing case, which is well deserving notice, because, I submit to you respectfully, if once fire rewards are done away with, very great altercitioe, I am perfectly convinced, will take place among the body of our present preservers of lives and property—the firemen of the metropolis. The case heard yesterday before Mr. Elliott, at Lambeth street, I witnessed myself, and much surprised was I to hear the opposition made by Mr. Churchwarden Boxer, of St. George's parish, against the rewards claimed for the attendance of engines and firemen on the occasion alluded to. With your permis sion I will place the case before your notice LAMBETII-STREET POLICE-OFFICE. Yesterday the firemen of the London Establishment and West of England Company applied to the sitting magistrate, to compel payment of the Eye rewards due to them on the occasion of the destruction or the fire work factory of Mr. Drewell, on the Ist of August last, the memorable storm day. Mr. Wolf, solicitor, attended to prosecute the claim, and Mr. Churchwarden Boxer to resist payment. It appeared that the premises took fire about eleven o'clock on the day in question, and only five minutes had elapsed before the engines and firemen concerned, as well as Mr. Inspector Arnold, of the L division, with constables, were in attendance. From the quantity of gunpowder and other inflammable materials on the pre mises, the adjoining houses were placed in great jeopardy ; but to the praise of the firemen be it spoken, they procured the necessary supply of water, and Mr. Drewell's shop only was destroyed, as also its dangerous contents. The fire was not denied, but Mr. Boxer contend( d that the firemen were in duty bound to attend without reward. The worthy magistrate thought different, and, con sidering an Act of Parliament was the law of the land— to say nothing of the dangers to which this most useful class of men- were exposed—ordered the rewards to be Maid forthwith, as under :-30s. for the first engine, 20s. for the second, and 10s. for the third, with 10s. for the first turncock. Now, Sir, thus ends the case, and I assure you I am not any way interested, but on the morning of the fire little expected that through the exertions of time mil the neighbourhood would have been saved as it was. Apologising fur the liberty I take, I am, Sir, yours obediently, Oct. 20, 1846. A READER OF THE SUN. Queen Mary's Bower and Spring Gardens, at the IJaymarket, are nightly increasing in attraction. The Duchess of Cambridge and Princess Hesse visit the theatre this evening, when, in addition to the ab,,ve new and popular pieces, they have expressly desired the per formance of Used up, by Mr. Webster. EAST INDIAN FLOUR.—A ship, just arrived at Liverpool, from Calcutta, had on board, in addition to the usual description of cargo from the place named, 100 bags of flour. We believe this to be rather a novel description of importation from the East Indies, amongst the almost numberle•s productions of that rich and fer tile soil ; at least, a similar one does not recur to our me mory, and therefore we deem it our duty to make this the subject of especial mention for the information of the numerous parties who will necessarily feel interested in the matter. THE RIPON STEAM-SHIP. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Com pany, 51, St. Mary-axe, Oct. 22, 1846. am desired to request that you will have the goodness to give immediate insertion in your journal to the enclosed circular, which has been addressed, as far as their addresses are known, to the friends of the pas sengers by the Ripon. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, JAMES ALLAN, Secretary. " Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Com pany, 51, St. Mary-axe, Oct. 22, 1846. " Sir,—l am desired by the managing directors, with a view to relieve any anxiety which may be felt by the friends of the passengers on board of the company's steamer Ripon, to inform you, that in consequence of an accident to her rudder, which happened in the late gale, that vessel has put into Torbay, where she is i❑ safety, and the company's steam-ship Oriental will proceed to morrow (Friday) to Torbay, to embark the passengers and mails, and convey them to Alexandria. " I am, Sir, your most obedient servant, "JAMES ALLAN, Secretary. " P.S. Mr. Lane, the purser of the Ripon, who brought up the intelligence, returns to Torbay, by special train, to night, to announce the above-mentioned arrangement to the passengers." THE GREAT WESTERN. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—The Great Western steam-ship appears to have had a very narrow escape ; she was in imminent danger of foundering as did, some years since, the President, and under c.rc ums t ances very similar ; for there is reason to believe the President was in so helpless a con dition, from the violence of the storm she encour.t:Aed, that she fell off into the trough of the sea, which making r. complete sweep over her she became water-logged, and finally sunk. Such a catastrophe may, it is known, be prevented by keeping the vessel's bow to the at% : this can be accom plished by the simple contrivance of a float•anchor. The float-anchor is admirably adapted to keep a vessel of great length in the position desired. A steam-vessel, for instance, overtaken by a storm, where there is plenty of sea room, might extinguish her firer, batten down, and out with a float-anchor, by which she could ride in comparative ease and with safety. There is nothing novel in the use of a float-anchor, or of expedients of a like nature, to enable a vessel, when dismasted or untnanag(able, to bow the sea; and, as there are many instan ces upon recor d o f vesse l s being so saved from founde r i ng b y a means o f preservation so easily available, it may be well to recommend its con sideration to ship-owners and navigators. October 22, 1846. A NAVAL OFFICER. LYCEUM THEATRE, Mrs. Harris that hitherto mysterious lady, about whose existence so many doubts have been entertained, the universal referee of Mrs. Sairy Gamp, who has been hitherto classed by naturalists with mermaids and unicorns, as an entity heard of but never seen, made her appearance at the Lyceum last evening. We went there in the expectation of having our doubts as to the existence of Mrs. Harris cleared up, but we are scep tical—we still have our doubts. True, we saw Mrs. Harris, but we did not see Mrs. Gamp ; and so like is Mrs. Harris to Mrs. Gamp, that until we see the two together, enjoying separate existences, we shall not believe in the separate personal entity of the two individuals. If they have separate existences, then must Mrs. Harris be the twin sister of Mrs. Gamp ; Mrs. Harris refers to Mrs. Gamp for her character, much after the same manner that Mrs. Gann) refers to Mrs. Harris, aid Mrs. Gamp does not appear upon the scene, so that we may be pardoned if we still maintain our old opinion that Mrs. Gamp and Mrs. llarris are identical. Certes, Mr. Keeley's Mrs. Herris was marvellously like his Mrs. Gamp. Like Mrs. Gamp, Mrs. Harris attends upon invuliges, and, like Mrs. Gamp, she has a bottle of gin upon the chimney-piece to put her mouth to it whenever she is so dispodged. She is in attendance upon a cataleptic patient, and as cataleptics can't speak, she beats her patient after the approved Gamp method ; moreover she has the approved Gamp taste for cow kimbers, pickled salmon, Brighton tipper, and shilling glasses of gin-and-water; and she suffers from the Gamp complaint, of a constant sinking, which regain s fre quent supplies of sustenance. Her patient, Henry Masker (Mr. A. Wigan), is however only shamming. He is the nephew of an opulent Birmingham manufacturer, Mr. Mugbolt (Mr. Turner), who has received informa tion from a certain Mr. Slickey (Mr. F. Matthews) that the juvenile is going the pace in London, and is about to contract matrimony with Fanny Platt (Miss Arden) a pretty milliner ; whereupon the old uncle deter mines to take Slickey into partnership, and to send his nephew down to Birmingham by a third-class train. The nephew, thereupon, shams cataleptic, and is attended by Dr. Biliary Shivers (Mr. Meadows), and by Mrs. Harris, the nurse. Fanny Platt brings a cap for Mrs. Harris, newly trimmed, a f,Avourite cap, one which she had worn on the day when she took the late desieged Mr. Harris to Guidge Hospital, and at the same time brings a note from Mrs. Gamp, inviting Mrs. Harris to supper off a goose and sausages. Tempted by the goose arid sausages, Mrs. Harris resigns her post of watcher to Fanny, but in the meantime Slickey has entered and dis covered the supposed invalid busy with Mrs. Harris's supper. Slickey proposes to change clothes with him and take his place, _so as to afford him an opportunity of escape, which Masker gladly embraces, and Slickey, taking the place of the cataleptic, is pur suing his designs upon the fair Fanny, when Masker returns, having found in the pockets of Slickey's coat convincing proofs of his villainy. DisguiEed in Slickey's coat, wig, and spectzcles, he is secure from discovery, and having made himself known to Fanny, he arouses the houst hold, announces himself as the far-famed doctor who has been sent for to cure the cataleptic patient, brings in a powerful electrical machine, and so shocks Slick.-y, that he is glad to discover himself to escape further torture—of course the uncle consents to his marriage, and all ends happily. Mrs. Harris returns just at this moment rayther tosticated with liquor, and seating herself upou the machine, gets a severe shock, which as she says, dishlrgates her entirely. However, as her invalidge has recover e d, s h e di str ib utes h er cards about the house, and announces, amidst the vociferous cheers, of a crowded house, that she will resume her ogerous duties every evening until further notice. Spasms are cured by shaking the midriff—liver complaints are cured by putting the abdominal muscles into violent action— spleen is cured by laughter, which shakes the midriff, and puts the abdominal muscles into violent motion. Therefore, let all those who labour under spasms, liver complaints, spleen, or nervousness—or biliousness, which are composed of those diseases—take an hour's course of the Harris cure at the Lyceum, and they will be made whole. COURT CIRCULAR. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of GI :muster left town at three o'clock yesterday afternoon, for Cashio bury-park, Herts, on a visit to her Majesty the Queen Dowager. Her Royal Highness travelled from the Euston-square terminus of the London and North .Wes ti-rn llailway, to Watford, and proceeded from that station to C as hi o b ury-park. Lord John Russell arrived at his residence, in Ches. ham-pl Ace, yesterday morning, from Wimbledon. His Lordship left town in the afternoon, on a visit to the Marquis of Salisbury, at his seat, Hatfield House, Herta, to have the honour of meeting her Majesty. Lord Campbell arrived in town yesterday, from Hart rigge House, R oxburghshire, and transacted business at the office of the Duchy of Lancaster. HER rviTuAuRJsDEASy Y'S T V S HATFIELD, HATFIELD HOUSE. of her M a j es t y and the PrinceNi Consort to Hatfield House, there to h onour the Marquis of Salisbury by their august —Th l ea l n T ticip T ate visit presence f or two days, gave occasion to a most loyal dis play at the small town of Hatfield. At an early hour the town was rife with a busy population, anxiously de corating th e ex t er i or of their houses in various fashions, to publicly testify the devotion and loyal regard they entertained towards their Sovereign. The same busy preparations was going forward within the mansion of the Marquis of Salisbury, hundreds of persons being actively employed in the completion of the arrangements for the due reception of her Majesty. The short notice the No bleMarquishad of the proposed honour to be conferred on him was, in a great measure, the cause of the backwardness everything presented, and the utmost exertions were requisite to afford anything like a suitable welcom e to the Queen. The Duke of Wellington arrire • d f rom town before eleven o'clock ; Lord and Lady Charles Wellesley, Nir. A. B. and Lady Mildred Hop e , and M r . J. M. and Lady* Blanche Balfour had previously arrived. The Duke of Rutland, the Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter, the Earl and Countess Brownlow, the Earl and Countess Spencer, Lord John Russell, Lord and Lady Cowley, Lord and Lady Brayb roo k e,, and Hon. Miss Neville, Lord Sandys, and Lord Marcus Ilill arrived in the course of the day, and formed the circle staying at the house, as guests of the Noble Marquis, on this occasion. As the day advanced crowds of people from all parts of the county, both near and remote, congregated in the town, and by three o'clock some thousands of expectant spectators collected along the road and line of route of the royal cortege, manifesting the greatest patience to obtain a sight of the cavalcade. The Marquis of Salisbu r y , accomphnied by th e D u k e of Wellington, Lord Charles Wellesley, Lord Robert Cecil, and Mr. James M. Balfour passed through Hat field about three o'clock, on horseback, on his way to meet the Queen in the SL Alban's-road. and to escort the cortege to his Lordship's house. We must here slightly digress to explain the route of her Majesty. At three o'clock Yesterday afternoon the Queen and his Royal Highness Prince Albert closed their visit to Queen Adelaide at Ca3biobury Park, and after, taking an affectionate farewell of the Dowager Queen and the Princess of Hesse, her Majesty departed for Hatfield House. The route was by St. Alban's, where the Marquis of Salisbury's own horses formed the relay for the Queen's carriage, and thence to Hatfield , and through the t own to the park entrance on the London Toad. Long prior to the Queen reachi ng S t. Alban ' s, the Marquis of Salisbury's troop of the S outh Herta Yeo manry Cavalry,who werein waiting to escort Ler Majesty to Hatfield, mustered at the Town-hall, where the royal carriages changed horses. The royal party arrived at St. Alban's shortly before, four o'clock, and after a brief delay resumed the jour ney. At about four miles from Ilatlhld the Marquis of Salisbury and the Duke of Wellington met the royal cortege, when her Majesty's carriage was stopped, and the noble and ga!lant Duke advanced to congratulate the Queen, and the Marquis to offer his attentiuns. At a quarter past four the royal corte g e emitted at Vie bottom of the High-street; and by the triumphal arch erected there a band was stationed, when the National Anthem was played as the royal carriages passed. On reaching the market-place the royal standard was hoisted on the tower of the ancient parish church, and the bells rang a lively peal. The royal cm-lige having gone through the town, proceeded by the London-road to the south entrance to the park. The Marquis of Salisbury having conducted the Queen to the park gates, .preceded the cavalcade, and arrived at the mansion in sufficient time to personally receive his august visitors. The troops — of the South Herts Yeomanry Cavalry, and the band of that regiment, were drawn up in squad rons on each side of the gateway to the co:at-yard. The cavalcade passed along the avenue, and entered the court amidst the cheering of a highly respectable assemblage, and the royal carriage immediately drove up to the grand porch in the south frcnt. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, on alighting from the royal carriage, were received by the Noble Marquis and his daught-rs, the Lady Mildred Hope, and Lady Blanche Balfour. The Queen having saluted their Ladyships, was conducted by the Marquis 4 , f Salisbury to king James's rcom, where the distinguished person ages honoured by invitations to meet her Majesty were introduced. The Duke of Wellington was loudly cheered by the people wherever he appeared. His Grace looked re markably well, and to all appearances was highly grati fied at the reception given to the Queen. Immediately after her Majesty had entered the man sion, the Yeomanry Cavalry retired from the park. A troop is stationed on duty at the mansion during the royal visit. Viscount Melbourne and Lord and Lady Beau:ale came cver from Brocket Hall, to have the honour of joining the dinner circle. - The banquet was served up in the great hall in a princely style of splendour. The dinner circle was as follows, in addition to the Noble Marquis and his august visitors:—The Duke of Wellington, the Duke of Rutland, the Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter, the Earl and Countess Brown low, the Earl and Countess Spencer, Lord and Lady Cowley, Lord Sandys, Lord and Lady Braybrooke and Honourable Miss Neville, Lord John Russell, Viscount Melbourne, Lord and Lady Beauvale, Lord and Lady Charles Wellesley, Lord Marcus Hill, Mr. Alexander B. and Lady Mildred Hope, Mr. James M. and Lady Blanche Balfour, and the Earl of Morton, Lord in Wait ing ; the Countess of Gainsborough, Lady in Waiting ; the Honourable Miss Dawson, Maid of Honour ; and Colonel Buckley, Equerry in Waiting to her Majesty ; and Mr. George E. Anson, Private Secretary, and Col. Seymour, Equerry in attendance on the Prince Consort, &c. Covers were laid for forty guests. ROYAL VISIT TO ARUNDEL. We have received the following communication from our Arundel correspondeht : " The visit of her Majesty and Royal Consort to the Duke and Duchess of Norfolk, at Arundel Castle, will, it is confidently expected, take place next week, for which happy event all the necessary preparations are in a forward state. We believe that up to the evening of Tuesday her Majesty had not communicated to his Grace her intentions as to the day Oa which she will arrive; but, according to present arrangements, the du ration of the visit will be lour days, including those of the arrival and departure. During. the Royal stay, her Majesty will pay a visit to the Duke of RiAmond, at Goodwood, calling on the way upon the Countess of Newburgh, at Slindon House, and will also honour Colonel Wyndham with a visit, at Petworth Home. " The at rangements in anticipation of the royal visit include new dresses for the boys and girls of the na tional schools, the laying down of gas pipes for illumi nating the exterior and approaches of the Castle, and the planting of cannon for firing royal salutes. Artists ar rived last week to sketch the rooms, &c., of the Castle, for the pictorial newspapers. " The royal party will arrive by special train via the London and Brighton Railway, quitting and taking the train at the Arundel Station of the Chichester Branch." It has been stated in some of the London papers that her Majesty will make a brief sojourn at the Pavilion, after her visit to Arundel Castle. We can only state that no preparations have been made at the Pavilion, such as to induce the belief that we are to be honoured vsith a royal visit at so early a period ; and, even so late as yesterday, no less than 57 large hampers of wine were taken from the Pavilion, and conveyed by railway to London.--Brighton Gazette. HE MEXICAN BONDHOLDERS. Whatever opinion may be entertained of Mr. Mur phy's answer to the Mexican Minister of Finance, and its sufficiency in justification of the late conversion, there is one fact which makes a strong impression on even the most sanguine holders of stock, and that is, that there is no doubt that the dispatch, be its reasonings good, bad, or indifferent, expresses the feelings of the Mexican Go vernment, such as it was, at the date of the latest advices. It is perfectly evident that the people who have to pay make a formal objection to the document on which pay ment is claimed. Whether they are justifiable or not, there is the filet, and the bondholders cannot be perfectly easy, however logical or equitable their position. Indeed, Mr. Murphy's letter has confirmed this fact. When first we gave the substance of the Gomez Farias dispatch there was nothing more common than to hear that we had been hoaxed, and that no such document ex isted as the one described. The assertions thus recklessly uttered were put to silence by the publication of the operative part of the dispatch, which had been forwarded for that purpose by Senor Gomez Ferias the younger. Then came a series of doubts whether that gentleman i was properly authorised, and whether Mr. Murphy was bound to take any notice of his document. All these doubts are dispelled in ther turn by Mr. Murphy's letter, in which he t xamines and criticises the charge made ag,in , t him in the dispatch, and officially publishes it. The discussion now becomes merely one on the late con version, and the authority to make it, the great fact that the present Mexican Government protest against it bcirg incontrovertibly proved. Some persons, pie have heal d, are so sensitive, that they attribute the pains we took to set forth this fact in a strong light, at time wht n doubts were so freely uttered, to a feeling inimical to the bondholders. Such a charge as this is too absurd to merit a reply. If it was an injury to the bondholders to put them in possession of a fact most important for them to know long before there was any other source for the information but that of mere rumour, such an injury we committed. We gave the material part of the dispatch, and from Mr. Murphy's first letter to the Spanish American committee, it is not too much to infer that to the publication of that part the bond holders are in some measure indebted for the official publication of the whole. _ While it is clear that the feeling of the existing Go vernment is against the converted bonds, and in favour of a re-conversion of these into their original shape,some of the dealers are beginning to inquire what would be the result of such a re-conversion. The new bonds do not all represent the same original stock, but some re present the old Active, some the old Deferred or Deben tures, and some a mixture of both. If the old bonds had remained unconverted, it is very clear that, the time for the Deferred becoming Active drawing nearer every day, the difference between the two descriptions would be getting less than at the beginning of the year. The relative values of Active and Deferred stock would have changed; and thus, if a re-conversion takes place, the holder of a new bond for OOL may find himself in a different position from another holder to the same amount, according to the nature of the old bonds given in exchange, one being entitled to take so much Active, another so mush Deferred, in various proportions. Hence a correspondent suggests that on every new bond should be marked the description of old stock for which it was changed, that people may know what they are buying, in case of are conversion. We hope that the present storm will blow over, and that there will be no occasion for a process so difficult and troublesome that Mr. Murphy pronounces it a "physical impossibility;" but, in the meanwhile, the point started by our cor respondent is too curious not to merit a moment's at tention. The tie 4. Mexican bonds issued under the late con version amount, we are told, to 7,300,0001., being about two-thirds of the amount stipulated.—Times. THE GREAT WESTERN STEAMER. LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY AFTERNOON.—The ship Sea has arrived ; she sailed from New York on the 30th ult., the same day as the Cambria's mails were dispatched to Boston, consequently her news is not any later. We are now hourly expecting the Great Western. THE NAILORS' STRIKE.—The nailors about Broms grove have partially reiumed work agair, and the re mainder are expected to go to work in a day or two, though it is not yet settled whether an advance in the wages will take place or not. THE EARL OF LINCOLN AND THE REPRESENTA TION OF LANARKSHIRE.—It is rumoured that whenever a dissolution of Parliament takes place Lord Lincoln will be brought forward to contest the important county of Lanark, against the present Protection member, Mr. Lockhart. As he will have nearly the unanimous sup port of the manufacturing anal commercial interests of the lower and middle wards, as well as the powerful support of his noble father-in-law, the Duke of Hamil ton, and the Whig gentry, success is almost certain. SUDDEN DEATH OF T. BATE, ESQ.—We regret to have to announce another instance cf sudden death in this county. Thomas Bate, Esq., for many years a banker of Dudley, and a magistrate of Worcestershire, and who has always taken an active part in the magis terial business of the neighbourhood, died -on Tuesday se'nnight. He had in the evening complained of a pain in the chest, and retired early to bed ; in half an hour afterwards he was a corpse.— Worcester Journal. LARGE IMPORTATIONS OF BREAD STUFFS.—In the Sheridan, from New York, arrived at Liverpool on Tuesday, there are 1,678 barrels of flour, 335 of corn meal, 10,400 bushels of Indian corn, 9,000 bushels of wheat. In the Wyoming, from Philadelphit, arrived same time, there are 1,000 barrels of flour, 14,700 bushels of Indian corn, 6,400 bushels of wheat, 563 barrels of corn meal. As the wind is now blowing strong from the south-west, there will be many arrivals this week of flour and corn from the United States. INCENDIARISM.—An extensive fire broke out be tween seven and eight o'clock on Tuesday night at Bat's green farm, in the parish of Hurley, Barks, on the road from Henley to Maidenhead, The fire, which was to be seen many miles round for several hours after the out break, was observed at Reading, a distance of ten miles, from the eminence of the spot. Owing to a gentle breeze at the time of the conflagration, and the want of ergines at hand, it was a long time before it could be subdued. Considerable property was destroyed, and the fire is generally supposed to have been the act of an incendiary. We have not heard whether the property was insured. The utmost alarm was created in many parts where the fire was viewed. DUDLEY OLD BANK.—A dividend of 2s. 6d. was paid by Edward Dixon, Esq., on Tuesday week, making a total of 20s. in the pound on all claims on account of shia bank. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FR 131 THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. CHRONICLE.—" I declare to the House that that day in my political life on which I look back with most satisfaction and pride, was that on which I was ready and prepared to take on myself the responsibility of issuing an Order in Council for the opening of the ports, and trusting to you for an Act of indemnity." The events and experience of the year that has elapsed since the late Premier arrived at the ever-memorable decision to which he thus alluded on the 16th of February last, have so completely authenticated the soundness of that decision, and legitimated the " satisfaction and pride" with which it was retrospectively regarded by its author, that it is difficult to comprehend the apparent reluctance of his successors to adopt, under circumstances gene rically identical, but of incalculably greater urgency, a precedent which time and opinion have thus em phatically sanctioned. Why is it that the Queen's present Ministers, who have not usually been reputed less impressible than Sir Robert Peel by obvious con eid,rations of policy and humanity, continue to deny themselves that honourable " satisfaction and pride which a recent and most instructive experience indicates as the weed of bold and prescient statesmanship ? Whence this strange pertinacity with which Lord John Russell and his colleagues refuse themselves the right to indulge hereafter in a retrospect, which they are in faliblv pre-assured will be freely accorded to them by the voice of an approving people, the verdict of rival statesmen, and the more formal concurrence of both Houses of Parliament ? This question is now coming to be very generally asked, even by the most friendly critics of Lord John Russell's public conduct, in a tone in which surprise is largely and increasingly , qualified by regret. For our own part, we cannot under take to meet it with any answer that will be fully satis factory either to ourselves or to our readers. Yet we have always been accustomed to take for granted, of the less intelligible acts or omissions of the Noble Lord's public career, that they were grounded on reasons of sufficient prima facie force, at least, to justify them to his own mind; and we are not disposed to relinquish in the present instance a pleasing and respectful assumption which has rarely deceived us. In the absence of any other intelligible or conceivable grounds for the pro- tracted hesitation of Government in meeting the de mands of the present crisis, by the prompt application of the simple, rational, and traditionally-recognised policy of " open ports," we are constrained to believe that it is some respectable "constitutional" scruple that stops the way. Lord John Russell must see as clearly, and feel as strongly, as any capitalist or operative in Lancashire, the monstrous impolicy, the almost indecency, of the State's artificially obstructing the ingress of the very food for which it asks the Church to pray. It cannot but be painfully repugnant, both to his convictions and feelings, to tolerate, in the present circumstances of the united British and Irish people, the continued action of a system which operates as a bounty on the re exportation of - the corn that commerce has housed and garnered, and gives foreigners an an unfair advantage over us in our own market. Nor can his Lordship entertain the smallest shadow of a doubt as to the cordial willingness of Parliament to ratify, on its first day of meeting, the measure by which he is now on all hands implored to anticipate its formal vote. That which Parliament has repeatedly done, or approved of the Executive doing, throughout a series of precedents reaching over the last three-quarters of a century ; that which the very protectionists blamed Sir Robert Peel for having left undone twelve months ago— will indubitably receive Parliamentary approval now, when the whole system of policy whose last miserable remnant it is proposed summarily to extinguish has been deliberately declared an egregious injustice and folly. All this Lord John Russell perfectly well knows, of course. That his Lordship has not ere this acted on what must be his undoubting conviction of the right and expedient, we are disposed to attribute to a misplaced and exaggerated deference for the formalities of that constitution with whose preservation and improvement his public life is so honourably identified. Lord John Russell —so, at least, we find ourselves constrained to infer—declines opening the ports, suspending the navi gation laws, and permitting the use of sugar in our breweries and distilleries, by Order in Council, be cause he thinks it would be " unconstitutional." That there would be anything really and truly " unconstitutional " in the course which public opinion and necessity now impose on her Majesty's Ministers, we must take leave altogether to deny. Such a reading of the constitution of this country as would preclude the Executive from temporarily suspending legislative measures that are found, from unforeseen cir cumstances, to be working counter to the Legislature's knoWn intent and expectation, we pronounce without hesitation to be not merely narrow and pedantic, but ac tually false. Should Lord John Russell and his col leagues continue to hold themselves constitutionally disabled from anticipating the known intent and purpose of the Legislature in regard to those statutory checks on superabundance of food, which have unexpectedly be. come operative\as aggravations of a horrible famine, there is only onelhing to be said. Let Lord John Rus. • sell forthwith summon the Legislature to re consider and undo its own most palpable blunder, and put its acts into contbrmity with its known intentions. As it is quite certain that this Parliament—the free trade Par liament—would gladly do, in the present tremendous emergency, that which many previous Parliaments have unhesitatingly done in far less serious emergencies, there would be obvious constiutlonal propriety in giving it the opportunity of promptly arresting the copse • quences of its own error. ADVERTISER.—AItheugh the alliance between Fiance and Spain—now become matter of history—is almost worn threadbare in discussion, there is yet one point of vies-, from which it has been but little consi dared by the parties engaged in the controversy, hut which is, in fact, the most important to this country. We mein the degree in which the material interests of England are concerned, in preventing the union of the young Infanta Luisa with the Duke de Montpensier. It is, in fact, from a want of knowledge of the pounds shillings-and-peace part of the argument, that many persons in this country maintain that we are not justi fied in interfering with a mere family arrangement. They assert that England has already lost enough by her interference in the domestic quarrels of other na tions, and that she ought by this time to have learned experience, and should quietly stane by, and let other nations do as they like with their own. Such principles are, it must be owned, very good in theory; needless and uncalled-for interference with the transactions of foreign states is certainly to be deprecated; and it is allowed that past expe rience shows that we have not always reaped the benefits from our benevolent interposition which we more immediately proposed to ourselves. But the ques tion is, can a great commercial state like England exist without in some degree interfering in the affairs, internal and external, not only of her neighbours, but of all the world ? A small inland state like Auhalt, or Lippe- Detmold, may not, perhaps, be much affected by a few islands at the Antipodes being taken possession of by France, or by the Dutch • dethroning a petty Sultan in the Indian Ocean ; England, however, with her com merce extending to the remotest corners of the earth, her ships in every sea, and her possessions on which the sun never sets, is concerned in every event that can occur, even of the most insignificant nature. His Serenity of Ankalt, or his Highness of Lippe, cannot lay an ad ditional thaler on the cotton .nightcaps of his subjects, without perhaps throwing a hundred or two English' workmen out of employ, and causing the ruin of one or more manufacturers and merchants. The loss accruing to England by the union of France and Spain, is by no means to be measured by the amount of diminution of poli tical influence sustained by this couietry at the Court of Madrid. France is longing to become a manufacturing and commercial country. Two things, however, pre vent the attainment of her wishes—she has no market for her manufactures--she has not adequate ports for her commerce. In the open market she is undersold by England; Germany (or at least the;Zollverein States) is herself a manufacturing country, and as eager as Feance to become a commercial power. With the excep tion of Marseilles on the Mediterranean, and Havre and Bordeaux on the Atlantic coast, France does not pos sess a single port equal to a third-rate English port. Her manufactures cannot flourish for want of commerce; her commerce is declining owing to the deficiency of manufactures. The fruits of the Montpensier alliance are expected to supply all these wants. Spain possesses numerous splendid ports on a long , line of coast ; Barcelona, Carthagena, Seville, Cadiz, Malaga, and numerous others present un rivalled facilities for again creating ,an extensive commerce, such as once made Spain the greatest nation in Europe. The immense trade of England with these ports is naturally regarded by France with the utmost envy, and were the influence of that power once predo minant at Madrid, there can be little doubt that special commercial treaties, differential duties, and exclusive privileges to French commerce would soon reduce the trade between England and Spain to a mere name. The cottons now exported from England to Spain and her colonies, to the amount of several hundred thousand pounds, would hare to give way to the productions of Rouen, Mulhausen, Lyons, and other would-be " Man chesters " of France, while the grain and other . natural productions of Spain, the sugar, coffee, and tobacco of Cuba, and the spices of the Philippines, re ceived in exchange, would contribute to raise French shipping at the expense of England. HERALD.—A most sensible—and, we may add,"a most seasonable, letter—appeared in the columns of a Contemporary, headed " A Few Words to the Members of Agricultural Societies and others interested in Land," and signed " James Stewart, Lincoln's Inn." At the first blush we were under the impression that this letter was the production of Mr. J. Stewart, the Queen's Coun sel, who has recently been elected M.P. for Newark, by the protectionists of Notts, and who is a gentleman of some seven-and-twenty years' standing at the bar ; but on closer inspection we find it is the production of Mr. James Stewart, of Stone-buildings, the conveyance and equity draughtsman—a gentleman who, though w . i n r th t o h u o t a silk gown, is of some twenty years' standing. lorated profession--and who, as a legal author, has incorporated the the alterations in the law of real property present time—or at least down to 1837-IN' lie with the disrepute of having been made a Blackstone. Though Mr. Stewart comes beforel 1637—with h l o v hv h t ne i h t e e x p pub lie bo-f com missioner, the r n s ( o m m s e e _ o v f ea c r ( s im o rn f voting in o a t sl; ,i d a u t ol du son Whig c..o /t m a i d t ' te .c c al s —and though we believe he has had no very large practical profession—we nevertheless conceive tl e l:t pe h r i i s e l n e c t e ter in i h s i i s vell worthy of attention, em bodying, as it does, many valuable and really practical suggestions. We are by no means insensible to the ad vantage conferred on the community by the Ist William IV., c. 27, which extended the remedies provided by the 3d and 4th William and Mary, c. 14, for the relief of creditors against fraudulent devises, and enabled courts of equity to carry their decrees on this subject into exe cution. Neither would we undervalue the Acts of Ist W' illiam IV., cc. 47, 65, 60, 36, and 40, known to the profession under the style and title of Sir E. Sugden's Acts--and which provided for consolidating and amend- ing the laws for facilitating the payment of debts out of real estate—for amending the laws respecting convey ances and transfers—for consolidating and amending the laws relating to femes-covert:, idiots, lunatics, and persons of unsound mind—for altering and amending the laws relating to illusory appointments—and for making better provisions for the disposal of the un disposed residue of the effects of testators. But though we admit the full value of these improvements, and readily concede to Lord Campbell also the praise which is his due for the great improvements he introduteoedLionrtdo the law of real property,—and freely allow Brougham, else, his full share of merit for his reforms accomplished, and, in a still greater degree, for those intended by him, and in the prosecution of which he has been thwarted—yet we still think that much remains to be accomplished,—and feel perfectly persuaded that the statesman—be he Protectionist, Tory, Whig, or Radical —will immortalise hitt . self, under whose auspices Mr. Stewart's principal recommendations,—to use the vulgar est of all Parliamentary and newspaper phrases—shall be "carried cut." The simplification of the law of real property presents a fine field for a great statesman or great It gal rs former, en a ground totally irrespective cf party, 'That branch of the law of England, which relates to the acquisiticn, transmission, and encumbraneing of real property, coin's hem to the business and boscm of every considerable man and family in the kingdom. The expenses and delays which now embarrass all deal ings in land are great and crying. If free trade in corn be a good thing, why should not free trade in land? Tbe buying and selling of land is now anything but free, and the expense and delay which embarrass all d. clings in it, are serious evils:. The state of the law as to lane, as Mr. Stewart states, is anything but clear, simp'e, or easily under: tood. In truth, it is the most difficult branch of our jurisprudence: so difficult that, perhaps, there are not more than a dozen lawyers in England—if there really be so many—profoundly skilled in it. That this is not as it should be, perhaps there is not even more than one sergeant who would now contend. The laws relating to property should be few and simple. Even the earliest conveyance of which we have any account—" the field of Ephron, which was in Macpelab, which was before Mamre, the field and the cave which as therein "—was needlessly verbcse, though there may be one sergeant—the man of Calipee and Calipash—and three conveyancers now living who would maintain the contrary. The length of legal instruments in England bas indeed become in tolerable. They are spun out by repetition, and involu tion, and circumlocution; and the men who so spin them out, and who are the only beings who profit by it, an nounce to their dupes, that they follow the good old practice. But the fact is otherwise—for this abuse of verbose draughting, and dray.ing, and diffuse pleading, is an evil of scarcely more than sixty or seventy years' growth. The older and better—and, for want of a more expressive term, we must say the more classic draughts men and pleaders—did not set their clients afloat in a sea of provisos, or launch them into a wide waste of words. Mr. Stewart asks, is it necessary that the pur chase and mortgage of land should be so difficult as they now are ? To which we, though mere laymen, answer unhesitatingly, no. Rail and steam have fortunately brought us into closer contact with con tinental countries, and in that France, Belgium, and Prussia, which we can reach in a few hours, the transfer of land is nearly as easy as the transfer of stock. The result of this increased facility is—that land is more valuable in those countries than in England—fetches more in the market—and money can be borrowed at an easier rate than here. It is monstreus that at the very close of the nineteenth, and we may say bordering on the twentieth century, the first rules of English property law should, in a civilised country like England, be founded on the feudal system. At a time when there was neither domestic nor foreign trade, and when property seldom changed hands, the policy of that system was to restrict, if not to prohibit, alienation. It was only by degrees, and then fraudulently and in a cunning and clumsy fashion, that the rules prohibiting the transfer of land were evaded. But even in 1846 'ha doctrines of feudality must be treasured in one particular corner of a conveyancer's brain, and in the alienation of copyholds, Cragius, and Spelman, and Glanville, and the Regiam Majestatcm—and Skeen and Bracton and Stair —and Heineceius and the Burgundian-laws—and Staun ford and Kaimes—and old Dalrymple—as well as the English Statutes at Large and Chancery Reports, must be sometimes consulted by the bewildered practitioner. Some of the most eminent men in ancient as well as in modern times have been in favour of a registry, and t N h e e r fer a e s r a w p e p need merel y a cite g t e h i e n n t a h m a t e a o ru f u L s i o n r g d aop Keeper g book "His Life," written by his kinsman Roger. I n much that is said by Mr. Stewart as to the mischief of entails of excessive duration, we cordially agree. Most of the continental jurists and publicists have urged strong objections against them, and none more than Muratori, and that great magistrate the Chancellor D'Aguesseau, who in 1731 drew up an ordonnance which received the royal sanction in 1747, by which they were limited to two degrees between the creator of an entail and the heir; these degrees being counted per capita, and not per sti , pes. We believe the landed interest will oppose no obstacle to such reforms as Mr. Stewart propo'es, and the lawyers certainly hill not thwart measures which will multiply dealings in land tenfold. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, TATTERSALL'S.—THURSDAY. CAMBIUM° ESHIRE STARES. Sting is reported to have had a favourable trial on Wed nesday, aid on the slrength was backed yesterday for a large sum at odds, flu,:tuating between 16 and 13 to 1 ; the layers, allyjr, were numerous, and at the close 14 to '1 might have teen got. The Si-ter to Joanna Colt was also fancied rather strongly in the early part of the day, hnt was peppered" towards the evening ' and receded to 10 to 1. A!arm was steady at 3 to 1, and Red Robin improved on Monday's market; but. except Alexa and Lady \Vildair, who gave ray, the genetal quotations showed bat very little alteration. 3 to 1 agst Mr. Grevii!c'e Alarm—(take 7 to 2) 10 to 1 agst Mr. Nantes Sister to Joahna Colt—taken 11 to 1 ags'. Col, a n m! Anson's lago 14 to 1 agst Lord E. Russ(ll's Sting—taken 15 to 1 agst Lord Glasgow's Conspiracy—taken 16 to 1 agst Major Yarborough's Red Robin—taken 20 to 1 agst Mr. Pemberton 's Best Bower—taken 25 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's Garry Owen 25 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Refraction 30 to 1 agst Mr. P. P. Rolt's Alexa—taken 30 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Lady Wildair 33 to 1 egst Mr. Wyatt's Laundrymaid 33 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Sis to Pergularia 35 to 1 agst Mr. Forth's False Rcport 40 to 1 agst Mr. Rolt's Evenus—taken 40 to 1 agst Mr. Crockford's Terrier—taken 50 to 1 agst Mr. Wigrain's Kesheng—taken 50 to 1 apt Mr. Mvtton's Sorella 1,000 to 10 agst Lord Chesterfield's Cherry—taken 1,000 to 10 agst Lord Stanley's Tour de Force--taken 3,‘00 to 300 on Alarm agst Sorella—taken THE CRITERIC N STAKES. 7 to 4 agst Mr. Mcstyn's Planet—taken DERBY. 8 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Van Tromp—taken 50 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Miss Iris colt—taken 66 to 1 agat Mr. Mostyn's West India Planter. WELSHPOOL RACES.—TUESDAY. The Tradesmen's Purse of 201. added, to a Sweepstakes of 2 sous. each, one mile and a half. Mr. Edward's Knife and Steal, 3 yrs, 9st (Arthur) 2 1 1 Mr. Griffiths' Robin Rough, 5 yrs, lOst 7113 The Borough Plate, of 151. added to a Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each. Heats, 2 miles. Mr. Tempest's, 'Maid Squire, 5 yrs, Bst 111 b Captain Knight's Jolly Beggar, 5 yrs, Bst 91b ...•• 1 2dr Mr. W. Smith's Foxwhelp, 4 yrs, Bst The Selling Stakes of 3 soya. each, and 15 added, heats, twice round, were won by Mr. Stagg's Hector, 4 yrs, 6st 41b, (Jones), beating three others. WELSHPOOL RACES.—WEDNESDAY. The Tally-ho Stakes of 5 sous. each, and 20 added. Heats. Twice round and a distance. Mr. Hance's bg by Young Cadland, Bst 121 b Mr. Smith's Foxwhelp, 4 yrs, 9st 121 b ... 3 1 2 Mr. Walmsley's Heir-at-Law, 4 yrs, 9st 121 b Mr. Davis's Kitty Wee, 4 yrs, Bst 91b • 2 2dr The Hurdle Stakes of 3 soya. each, and 10 added, one mile and a half, were won in two heats by Captain Knight's Raymond Lally, 4 yrs, lOst 81b (Wooman), beating Totten ham, 11 st 81b, and Heir-at-Law, list 81b. The Beaten Stakes of 2 soya. each, and 10 added, once round and a distance, were won in two heats by Mr. Tem pest's The Stranger, beating Jolly Beggar and Tottenham. AMESBURY ( WILTSHIRE) CHAMPION COURSING MEETING—WEDNESDAY. The Great Western Cup--First Ties. Magog beat Sempstress Saringa beat Lucy Neele Winter beat Burgomaster Walbertha bt Forest Flower A VV u ' i c l d h fl in r i e e e b k ea b t e J at acf es S s l a i : e l p a p n a e rd JuvernaJupiter beat beat bea t p Opinion The Druid Cup—First Ties. Bessie Belle beat Probity I Swallow beat Wirmibal,l Reserve beat Smuggler Bill Spinster beat Goddess Ettonian beat Fleetwood I Fancy beat Enford Lass Magic beat Gaslight The Stonehenge Stakes for Puppies. Mr. Miller's Furlong beat Mr. Chase's Charlie. Mr. Miller's Beau beat Mr. Etwall's Sir Edmund. ' Mr, Lawrance's Lightning beat Mr. Parkinson's Ponsonby. Mr. Clowes's Cascade beat Lord Eglinton's Old England. ' Mr. W. Etwall's IVindfall beat Mr. Edleston's Rio Santa. Mr. Long's Centurion beat Mr. Wyndhanis Waggerwolf. Mr. Parkinson's Stockton beat Mr. Wyndham's Plunder. Mr. B. Smyth's Shacabac agst Mr. A. Graham's Knight Marshal. WILTSHIRE CHAMPION COURSING MEETING. THURSDAY. Second Ties for Great Western Cup of 320 soya. Wildfire beat Magog Auchinlack beat Jupiter I Wilbertha beat Winter Juverna beat Syringa. Second Ties for Druid Cup. ent Fancy. Walberga beat Swallow. Bessy Belle st b o e n a e t h E en to g n e iarn.uppy l i NStna3likgi-cisgs tercFi beatrs Marshal tSpinster. beat Ties. Thunder Beau beat Lightning. I Cascade beat Centurion. Windfall beat Furlong. Judy t d o bl r a r e e sas S t r t Aa a in k r e.asAbf.3o, Graham's Bitch Puppies. Q u eei Bess. Captain 3l% Ir rr: Fowle'sEtw l arl N ll s t ' se n dliain's Willa bt. Mr. Lawrence's Lady Ross. Lord Eglinton's Frolic brat Mr. Etwall's Element. Mr. Inskipp's Jessie beat Mr. Lawrence's Caprice. Mr. Fowle's Flattery beat Mr. Parkinson's Polka. Mr. Clowes's Coy beat Mr. Parkinson's Position. Captain Wyndham's Wease bt. Mr. Long's Confederation. The Beacon Hill Stakes. Mr. Langtrey's Baronet beat Mr. Gordon's Ceckflghter. Mr. Inskip's Jumping Jenny beat Mr. Parkinson's Eothon. Mr. A. Graham's Curry Powder beat Mr. Rake's Rapid. h a sr p ca i i d ne . ngeeel... Mr. F. Parkinson's Proteus beat Mr. Lawrence's Lotbario. 11 3 rr.. Etwall'sMiller's \v e Young We-wont-be-beat o C n e t e. b r o e p . b s a b t t . blStl.r.3/%11r.a Smyth's B. w's B Mr. Batt's Sampson beat Mr. Clowes's Cataract. Captain Wyndham's Winks beat Lord Eglinton's Rufus. DETENTION OF THE EDINBURGH MAIL:--The Lon don mail (conveyed by the North British Railway) is very irregular in its arrival. It did not arrive on Satur day evening till eleven o'clock, three hours, and on Sunday forenoon it was almost four hours beyond its usual time. The cause of the detention of the train, we have learned, was owing to the engine on the York and Newcastle Railway having run off the line at York—for tunately without the occurrence of any casualty. The mail was delayed yesterday forenoon a couple of hours, from the heavy rains which have fallen...—Edinburgh Witness, Oct, gl. I 23, Ito r.