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

ITAVANNAII CIGARS.—A letter from the ilavanr.th informs us that the cultivation of tobacco is increaF,ing immensely in Cuba, in consequence of the great dem and for Havannah cigars, whilst in many districts of the island the cultivation of coffee is on the decrease. The system of traffic in tobacco is very loose and unsatis.fac tory, the commodity is chiefly brought to the city on horses, and there offered for sale on the so-called " cal :Leda," in eating-houses and inns. The business is in ' the hands of certain speculators, who purchase the goods of the country people by anticipation, and the sale is then effected by small cigar manufacturers and brokerl;, to treat with whom the utmost caution is required. rumour was recently afloat that the Governor wished • t o remedy the evil, and to erect a store magazine for th e deposit of all tobacco destined for sale, arranged ar classified by sworn brokers, but hitherto (July 11)) nothing has been done. The crop of this year is re cast prolific, but there is a prejudice against the quality in certain cases, as the buildings for drying, sorting, and packing the tobacco were too small in proportion to tire quantity, and the tobacco was brought to market in aa immature state. Still, the demand continues to excees the supply by a great deal. The preparation of cigars occupies a great portion of the population; with the in-- creasing consumption, the exportation to all parts eV the world continually aug ments ;in p roo f of which wt 3 shall merely observe, th at the French regle has fourae I itself compelled to conclude a new contract for 40,00( boxes of cigars a year, w hil st the preceding one f ot 80,000 remains still in force. TRAVELLING FROM FRANCE TO ENGLAND. —The ser v i ce by the Northern Railroad, which will be opene from the Ist of September, renders the intercourse be - tween France, England, Belgium, Germany, and Swit zerland, greatly more easy and rapid. By the triCi: which leaves Paris at half-past eight in the mornirtA travellers will arrive the same evening at Boulogne a n , i Calais, and by that which leaves Paris at seven o'clo k in the evening, will reach Boulogne and Calais at twel.l e the next day, and may be in London by the dinner here The same train which leaves Paris at seven in the eve aa ing, arrives at Mons the next morning at twenty minuta past seven ; at Ghent, at eight ; at Brussels, nine ; sat Antwerp, eleven; at Ostend, at a quarter.past eleve tt; sat Liege, at one in the afternoon; and at Cologne, b: y the Rhenish Railroad, at seven in the evening. Heno the way into Switzerland is by the Rhine steam-boats , the German railroads, and that from Strasburg to Basle. The following not very probable shooting adve ta , • Lure is g iven by the Journ a l d e l a Meuse : - -Two day 3 ego H. 13achet, of Consenvoge, was out with a party, when he saw his dog mining a hare hard, and behi ncl the dog a ferocious wolf, following with evidently sinister • intentions. Preserving his coolness, he fired hies doub,te - 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 ~ bit prey, and d e li vere d f rom a f orm idable enemy. _ DIRECT LONDON AND PORTS MOUTH RAILWAY. The fi , :st ordinary meeting of this Company was held, yesterdrky at the London Tavern, for the transaction of general business. W. A. Wilkinson, Esq., took the chair. Mr. R. S. YOUNG read the report. The CHAIRMAN then, after commenting on the severity of the struggle in which the Company had been engaged while getting their Bill, proceeded to point out certain mistakes in the speech of the chairman of the South-Western, at the recent half-yearly meeting of that company. He then read long extracts as reported in a newspaper, and apologised for having used the words " madly" and " stupidly," in speaking of the alleged breach of agreement by the South-Western. The chairman, having reported the statement of Mr. Chaplin, with regard to the Brighton Company having broken off the agreement, concluded by moving the adoption of tir e report, which was agreed to. The directors were then appointed, and 1,200/. was voted as a remuneration, for their past service's, the same sum being also voted for the succeeding year. Mr. Young was appointed secretary, with a salary of 400/. per annum, and a resolution was pass'ed, autho rising the directors to take the necessary strips for car rying into effoct the amalgamation with the London, Brighton, a n d S out h C oast Company. Two auditors were appointed, at a saki's . ; of 201.; and, adjourned after thanks to the Chairman, the mee ti r • THE GREAT EAST/it:RN AND WESTERN RAILW ' A preliminary m ee ti ng of sharehold ers of this London Tavern, in Company to,le place to-day at pursuance of the following adv esreisement : We, the undersigned, being respe4tvely Shareholders in the Great Eastern and Western projected 'AP.ilway Company, in virtue of the powers given by an Act passed, In the present session, cap. 28, Intl tided " An Act to Facilita 'se the Dissolution of Certain Hallway Companies," having left a * .; the registered place of business of the said Company a requisiV.on calling on the Members of the Provisional Committee of the said 'lompany to call a meeting of the Shareholders or the said Company, and the said Committee having neglected or relnsed to comply with the said requisition, do by the authority aforesaid hereby Call a meeting of the Shareholders of the said Corn-. pang, to be held at :the London Tavern, Bishops€;ate-street, in +.llO City of London, on Thursday, the .3d day of 'September sent, at Half-past Twelve for One o'clock precisely, for. the purpose rf dKer mining whether the Partnership or Conapar.y formed, or tnteno.ed to be formed, shall be dissolved, and in Wl',at manner the affa , .rs of the said Company shall be wound up. As witness our hands the 21st de.; of August, 18 46, E. W.. COHEN, lir_..NRY SMITH, (Y. H. OXLEY, FRANCIS PAWLE, PREECE and EVANS. The meeting, as n it appears by the advertisement, was interned of tended to be a goneral one of the p ropr i etors, but in meeti n g some informality in th e not i ce, the n was In a,de only preliminary to one to be held, a week hence. At one o'clock, the hour appointed for the meet'..ne e great numbrir of shareholders were present, atra Mr. J. E. Mauber t was unanimously called to the cheAte The C% - fAIRMAN, upon taking the chair, after ascer taining that none of the gentlemeh of the committee of direction or any of the provisional committee were pre sent observed that there was no way of making the wishes of the shareholders known, to those gentlemen but through the medium of the present meeting, aided by the press.—(Hear, hear.) He thought it was due to the whole body of railway shareholders that the present meeting should come to some strong resolution upon the subjece on which they had met. Looking over the prosTeoctus of the present Company, he saw the names of persons of the highest standing in the country, and, considering the course that had been pursued, they neust excuse him if he said that it was something :like an a t tempt to induce the public to take shares in a company by the weight of their great names, and that when the winding up of the concern came they were found non est inventus. By the prospectus, those geratlemen stated that the expenses wove not to exceed los. per share unless a public meeting was called to sanction a greater expenditure; trpon those terms the shareholders had acted, they hal' paid their money, a n d now they were offered 15s. per share to be returned. He considered that the sharoholders had a right to re ceive a return of 21. per tare, and he hoped they would be satisfied with nothing less.--(gear, hear.) Mr. COHEN said that he had endeavoured for months to get something like a statement of their accounts, but to no purpose. He had called several times at the office of the Company for that purpose, and had always been met by the statement that they were only waiting for the passing of Lord Dalhoueie's Act, when a statement would be made of the state of the Company's affairs, and a proposition made for its dissoluti , en , Now, what was the fact? The Bill for the Great Ea stern and Western Railway Company had been throven out, and yet the directors were going on from day to day inserting expensive advertisements in the newspapers, and squandering the money of the shareholders in every possible way. Notwithstanding all this, the share holders could not get them to call any meeting, and they were left in total darkness on the eubject.—(llear, hear.) He trusted the meeting would come to some strong resolution on the subj ec t. TheCHAIRMAN observed that the directors and com mittee of management proposed to. return 15s. per share, but they would not do so unless the scrip was given up to them.—(Hear, hear.) Now what was the object of that? Why to enable therm to use it against the other proprietors.—(Hear.) - fie thought they 'were bound with all their might to resist such a proceeding. Several shareholders here stated that they had called several tunes at the office of the Company, and could obtain no information with respect to the prospects of the Company. Mr, SrAcxmati said that the present meeting was only preliminary to one to be held on Saturday or Mon day week. This course bad been rendered ne- 1 eessary in consequence of some informality in the; notice that had been given of it. He had •.‘r,.. ceived several letters from shareholders in the country, stating their determination to co-operate with the shareholders in town in their exertions for the, dis solution of the Company. He had letters to that 'effect from Barnsley, Bradford, and Newcastle. The. men who, before the passing of Lord Dalhousie's Act, said they had not the power to dissolve the Com pany, were now doing all they could to pre vent its" operation, and among them wore the managing committee of the Great Eastern and Western Company; for after he had served the notice upon them they were going on spending forty or fifty thousand pounds for the purpose of getting into their bands a sufficient quantity of scrip to prevent the share holders constituting a meeting if they called one.— (Hear, hear.) It was a farce to say they could not hold a meeting because Mr. Ward had sustained an irre parable loss. A PROPRIETOR—It don't prevent his attending thg Italian Opera.—(Laughter.) Mr. SPACKSIAN considered the course pursued by the managing committee most disreputable.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. BLURTON, a Worcester shareholder, said that the proprietors in that city were determined not to accede to the proposition of the managing committee. Some considerable discussion then took place, which ended in the adoption of the following resolutions:— "That we, the shareholders attending the meeting, halt ing been induced by the terms of the prospectus issuod by the Great Eastern and Western Company to becon re holders of shares to a considerable amount in th a t Company, upon the understanding that our lia bility to expenses should not exceed 10s. •per share without the sanction of a general meet ing of shareholders, and no such meeting having been called, we hereby determine to take such steps as we may 1 3e advised to obtain the ret urn o f 2 1 . per share. " That a Committee be now formed to protect th e interests of the shareholders, an d t o communicate on the mode they may deem most expedient, the result of the it inquiries, and that Messrs. Webster, Cohen, Spackma-n, Smith, and Maubert, be such committeemen." Thanks were then voted to the Chairman, and the meeting separated. IRELAND. ADDRESSES TO THE LORD-LIEUTENANT. llis 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 niversity, which Sir Henry Marshe, Bart., read as follo ws " Wb, the President and Fellows of the King's and QuP.en's College of Physicians in Ireland, beg leave to v'tvoach 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-felt 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 j our administration, we at the same time tender to your Excellency our devoted services in the promotion of any of those measures devis; s 2d for the public good which may he directly or indirectly connected with the sciences cul tivated by us, whenever it may please your Excellency to command our co operation." When Sir Henry Maxshe 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. Ills Excellency has appointed to• morrow (Wednesday) for receiving the address of the inhabitants of the town of Carrick-on-Suir and its vicinity. ARRIVAL OF MR. LABOUCHERE. The Right Hon. Henry Labouchere, Secretary for Ire land, arrived in Kingstown this morning, by the Prin cess steamer, and shortly after proceeded to Dublin Castle. The Right Hon. Gentleman was accompanied by his family and a large suite of attendants. I)ISTRESS IN IRELAND. COPY OF A TREASURY MINUTE, DATED AUG. 31. My Lords h ave before them the Act 10th Vic., cap. 107, " To facilitate the employment of the labouring poor for a 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 lOth 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 Josue secured by grand jury presentment, or by other men Is. 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 being really required for the purpose of giving relief, and that it may be understood, in accordance with the passage above adverted to in the minute of the 21st 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 be 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 relief works, in the hope of getting regularly paid money wages in return for a 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 committees 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 entitling persons to employment on such public works. That, instead thereof, the relief committees should furnish (according to a form to be supplied to them 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 families or from any other cause ; that the committees should re vise these lists from time to time, as occasion may 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 furnish tickets entitling persons to employment on the relief works for certain limited periods, 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 ment : 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 Government officers appointed for the purpose, and any further explanations that may he re quired on any particular point should be immediately furnished. ' In order to keep 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 antil4ble. DUBLIN, SEPT. 1.--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 Lord-Lieutenant for the purpose of pre senting him with an address on his appointment to the 'Government of this country. On the arrival of the de putation at the Vice-Regal Lodge, Phamix Park, they were ushered into the presence of his Excellency, when the Secretary, Dr, W. C'usack, read the following ad dress:— " We, the Presidtrat, Council, ar.il Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1- ...1.e1and, beg l eave t o ap proacl S o ur Excell ency to congratulate you upon your arri-ial in Ireland, and to assure you that we are much gratified at taming an opportunity afforded us of thus expressing our feelings of respect, a gratification much enhance'd 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 suggestitras as it may think proper to make, to enable us to r.,arry these, our determinations, into effect. " We are anxious to avail ourselves of the present oc 4asion 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." THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 4, 18i6 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 while 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 commission 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 tage be entrusted to Sir Randolph Routh, acting under the authority of the Lord-Lieutenant, and in constant communication with this board. Their Lordships have taken steps to procure the early arrival in this country, 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 with 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 made 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 Reath, or their information and guidance. AIgERICAN PRODUCE.—The following comprise the principal of the arrivals of provisions of various descrip tions from the United States and Canada at the ports of London and Liverpool during the past week :—The Aledora, from New Orleans, brought 2,495 bags of wheat ; the Antwerp, from Richmond, 4,085 barrels of flour and 4,500 bushels of corn ; the Roscius, from New York, 2,641 sacks of wheat, 3,500 barrels of flour, and 336 boxes of cheese, 287 barrels and 724 kegs of lard, 100 barrels of bread, and 25 barrels of beef and hams ; the Christiana, from New York, 1,206 barrels of flour, 1,456 boxes of cheese. 58 barrels of hams and tongues, 153 tierces of beef, 228 barrels and 2 0,5941 b. weight in balk of oil seed cake for feeding cattle, and a variety of other articles of food and general merchandise ; the Europe, from New Orleans, 180 boxes of cheese, 31 firkins of butter, 300 barrels of corn meal, several of flour, 20 bar rels of bread, and other articles ; the New Hampshire, from New Orleans, 3,221 sacks of wheat ; the America, from New Orleans, 806 barrels of flour, 4,119 sacks of corn, and 3,315 sacks of wheat ; the Harwood from Richmond, 2,275 barrels of flour and 4,707 bushels of corn; the Waldron, from New Orleans, 427 sacks of wheat, 105 packages of lard, 373 barrels of flour, and 114 tierces and 15 half-barrels of beef ; the Champion, from. New Orleans, 1,466 barrels and 6 half-barrels of flour, 136 barrels of lard, a n d 566 k egs, 10 b arrels, and 39 11f-barrels of grease butter ; the Concordia, from New Orleans, 300 sacks of wheat an d 4 ,800 sacks of corn ; the Devonshire, from New Orleans, 132 kegs of grease butter and other articles ; and the Thomas Cope, from Philadelphia, 1,550 barrels of flour, 50 half-barrels of beef, and 197 kegs of lard; the Roger Sherman, from Alexandria, United States, 7,100 barrels of flour • and the Archelaus, f rom N ew Orleans, 4,414 barrels of flour and other produce. In addition to the supplies men tiontd, which have taken place since our last notice of the aubjectin our columns, extensive arrivals of cottons, wood goods, and other productions of a general charac. ter from the United States, and of wood goods genere:dy front Canada and other British provinces of North Ame rica, have, as usual, taken place. T HE EXILES OF LAMBETH.—Lambeth has become a so rt of Siberia since the stopping up of Westminster brid ge, for there is now literally no communication be twet- n the inhabitants of the northern shore, and the trans pontine people. All means of social intercourse are comp letely cut off, and Astley's Amphitheatre might as well be on Salisbury Plain, as far as there is anypossi bilitA v of getting to it from any part of Westminster. Lam Seth is in a state of utter desolation, and the prin ' cip 1 street reminds one of a strada in Pompeii. A c i vil 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 and sever tly suffering. Already Lambeth is a week behind u s in the polite arts, and every day that the blockade conth cues will send them backward 24 hours towards the bE rbarism which it.has taken centuries to get out of. We si tould not be at all surprised at hearing through some c ircuitous channel that a provisional government Marshe ofhas w t e h s r t o m w i nnstoeffr-bitrsidgaell,egtibaencLea. mbDetubriitnegs h as b ee n established in the New-cut, and that the whole of the 1. pect h au mission where protection is not the stopp are in geography,b if not in blood, and we can IN or A writer in the says that " common cholera," meaning scarcely nglips:"SEcAlisolera, has set in decided lY afforded. to the diseased potato food eaten by SETTING is at present engaged. on whatCorh is Examiner called at Listowel, owing , ;rough the &sillies, off the the people. an Welsh cow. ge is 0 4 Nara 449 . voyernmens ste p me r Captain exploringi3 eeecx.hp_eeyd,itßio.n.Lt _ Eirefix. - - 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 partieular notice. EARLY CLOSING OF PAWNISROKERS' SHOPS.— Yesterday, the Act to regulate the hours of business in pawnbrokers' shops, which was passed on 'ridgy, was printed, It will take effect in the course of the present month. The following is the enacting clause c—" That, from and after the 29th September 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 wey of pawn, pledge, or in exchange, be fore eight t 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 f o r enoon or after eight of the clock in the tm evening durin g t h e remainder of the year, excepting only until eleven o f t h e clock on the evening of Saturday througho u t th e year, is and as the, daV• evenings thanksgivi ng d ay appointed by he and n Next everpy r Majesty; and in case any pawnbroker o ff en d against the provisions of this Aet, every such p awn b ro k er shall, for every such offence, on o re fa c s e t din Good F r id ay and Chrorg conviction thereof up on t h e oath df any one or Mort cre dible witnees or witnesses, before any one or more of her Majesty's justices of the 'peace 'having jurisdiction over eao place wh ere such offence shall have been or shaP, be committed, forfeit and pay not less than 205., nr,,r exceeding W., as such justice or justices shallad judge ; and every such p ena l ty shall and may be levied, together with all the costs attending the info rmation, summons, and conviction, by distress and sale of goods and chattels of the offender or offenders, or person or peraons 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 shall be applied and di spose d of in like manner as forfeitures in curred for any offence against the last recited Act" (the 39 & 40 Gee, 3, O. 99). The serious attenti on o f every person who will DEER STALKING. have to take a part in the measure of relief rendered ( ABHORRENCE OF THE DEER T O SHEEP. necessary by the n ew an d more complete failure I The detestation of the deer to sheep is so great that of the potato crop, should be particularly called , they will not inhabit the same ground with these to this important fact, that the limitations and , animals. A remarkable instance of this antipathy was precautions which have been prescribed to the Govern- observed in the end of the last century by an old drover meat boards and officers in carrying out the relief : familiarly called "An drobhair ban," when crossin one operations, with th e o bj ect o f rendering the necessary , of the great moors of Satherland, soon after the g first interference with the labour and provision markets "head of sheep" had b een t urned i nto Lord Ray ' s forest. I productive of th e sma ll est poss ibl e disturbance of the The narrator was surprised by the appearance of a large ordinary course of trade and industry, will be rendered column of near a thousand deer, marching out of the nugatory if the same p ru d ence an d reserve are not prat- country in a steady determined emigration. Disgusted by tise by the relief committees in the administration of the invasion of the sheep and their clorrs, they had col the funds placed at their disposal by private or public lected from all parts, and unable to find h " clean ground,' benevolence ; and their Lordships therefore feel it to be continued their course out of the country, dispersing their duty earnestly to request that every person con- into the most solitary g l ens . F rom these they never re cerned will, to the ex t en t o f t h e influence possessed bY turned, and harassed and killed by the shepherds and him, endeavour to secure such a restriction of the mea- farmers, their numbers became reduced to the few and jsures of relief to cases of real destitution, and such a scattered fugitives which lingered in a state of outlawry ust consideration for the inter es t s o f merchants and in remote coiree, until the " commercial spirit" of Eng dealers, in the free exercise of whose callings the public land spread to the Highland hills, and it was discovered welfare is so deeply concerned, that instead of the habi- that harts and hinds could be converted into marketable tual dependence upon charitable aid which might other- stock like other cattle. Hence deer are now " grown" wise be apprehended from the extensive measures of re- for Saxon guns, as wool for Manchester looms, or beef lief in progress, every description of trade and industry for Smithfield shambles. The abhorrence of the deer to may be stimulated by them, and the bonds of society sheep did not result merely from the disturbance of their may become more firmly knit, by the benevolent and in- dogs. It is true that, like the corollary of St. Columbus telligent co-operation of the different orders and ranks concerning cows and women, " Where there are she of which it is composed, to avert a common calamity, there must be dogs, and where there are dogs there must and to prepare for recommencing the ordinary lam be mischief." But the chief cause for which the deer s lions of social lif e , w ith a d vantages which are at present the society of th e i r woo ll en enemies is the closeness only imperfectly enjoyed in some parts of Ireland. of their feeding and the foulness of their fleece. The The limited Grant Fund provided by the 10th Vice deer is very delicate in his food, and exceedingly cap. 109, entitled "An Act to authorise a further Issue fastidious as to the purity of his pasture. Independent ney in aid of Public Works of acknowledged therefore of the abridgement of his provision by the utility in Poor Districts in Ireland," is, according to the excoriating teeth of the tree and herb exterminating terms of the Act, applicable only to the case of unim- o gall goal], ' he cannot endure the. oily rancour of their proved districts, like parts of the co un ti es of Kerry, wool, which poisons the fresh heather and sweet green Mayo, and Donegal, where, although roads and other shoaling. Wanti ng th ese nu i sances, he exhibits no an works would be prod uc ti ve o f more t h an usual public tipathy to the intercourse of black cattle, his old a mo bo- riginal brethren of the hill, whose clean coat and . advantage, th e di s t r i cts are too poor to bear the whole expense of them ; an d th e A ct, t h erefore, directs, that derate feeding spare the grass and leave no taint of in cases in which the repayment of loans to the amount tar and oil in the pasture. Hence the deer and the of at least a moiety of the estimated expense of such sticks may be seen herding in the same coire and re works shall have been secured, and such further con tributions shall have been made as the Commissioners number y en an introduction into the Highlands since of her Majesty's Treasury shall think fit to require from the latter end of the last century, in which it was dis , the individuals principally interested in the projected covered that mutton was not only a safer, but a more works, such aid shall be afforded from this fund in the profitable stock than man. It is yet well remembered shape of grants, as the occasion may appear to require. in Argyllshire, that the first Cheviot flock brought The applications which may be received for grants into that country was introduced by Mr. Campbell, under this Act will have to be carefully examined and of Combie, upon the farm of Balantyre, near Invarary, inquired into by th e C omm i ss i oners o f Public Works, in the year 1771. The earliest similar colonisation in who will recommend for sanction those works which Inverness shire was in Morven, about the year 1777. he shepherd of these flocks—of whom the first was a appear to them to combine the greatest permanent utility T with the relief of urgent distress, taking care that the proprietors speci a lly i ntereste d are re certain John Todd f rom t h e ne i ghbourhood of Dune quired to contri- harton ; the secon d, a B ra i dfoot from the border, intro bute, in addition to th e i r s h are o f the general assess- (limed th e first `° mau d , " or " shepherd's plaid, " worn in ment, for the repayment of half the ex en se of the works, Argyll or Inverness. Similar flocks and their feeders sums proportioned, in some degree, to the special bene- disseminated the expulsion of the deer, and the intro fits they will derive from them. duction of the base " hoddcn-grey," which has since My Lords hav e cons id ere d w i t h t h e careful attention usurped the place of the tartans of the clans ; and at its which the importance of the subject demands, the mea- first appearance, from the calamities b which it was sures proper to b e t a k en w i t h a v i ew to continue the late yy accompanied, andits degraded suppl antat i on of the national dress, was truly and significantly name d , "Bratgalla," plies of food for sa l e i n districts commissariat operati o n s t o t h e extent wh i ch ma be absolutely neces s a r y f or the purcts pose of providing s to which the ordinary up- " The foreigner' s rag," and "an riochel-mallaichte," " The accursed grey." This h ue was t o the Highlanders operations of the provision trade cannot be expected to what black is to their neighbours ; and so desta the ble extend pledg, the been givene which hasstrictest rard being , anot t the to interfere same time p in a idan to for it s wan an d g h astly appearance, that its asso y elation aff or d e d t h e popular appellation for ghosts and case in which there is a reasonable expectation that the devils ; hence an apparition—a phantom—" an Riochd." market will be supplied by mercantile enterprise ; and The grey, or wan—the spectre foreboding death— they will proceed to state the course which appears to aam bodach glees,' the grey earl ; another of an evil them to be best adapted to secure the important object genius, in the shape of a goat—" an Glaetig," or in view. " Their Lordships h ave a l rea d y g i ven directions that Glasdidh"*—" th e G rey, " or wan ; and, as in the no portion of the stock of meal remaining in store in south, the great enemy is named familiarly " The Black the different depots should be sold merely fur the sake of Gentleman," so, in the Highlands, he is called " Mac an Riochd," the son of the grey. In the ideas of the disposing of it. It has been fully established by the experience of the old wives and children of the last century, all those per luteonifi operatio ns , th at t h e ports ou the northern, eastern, of theations, modern " dubh g a ll," deer-stalkers cations, except one , were as near l y as possible those in their , and southern coasts, -f rom Londonderry to Cork, and chequered " h o ld en grey, " want i ng only the " Jim those parts of the i n t er i or w hi ch are ordinarily supplied Crow," " ruffi an ," or " crush h at "— enormities which had from them, m a y sa f e l y b e left to the foresight and en - terprise of private merchants; and it will only be neees- not then completed lt is easy to trace the origin of this asso c i a ti on . The tke masquerade of death an d S atan. sary for the G overnment, so far as this part of Ireland ancient Caled on i an h e ll , lik e t h at o f S candinavia, was a is concerned, to take effectual precauti ons th a t th e su p - rozen and gla ss y reg i on, an i s l an d named f " Ifrztinn," plies introdu ce d b y pr i vate traders from abroad are pro- far away amon g th e " wan waters " of the northern I perly protected, b o th w hil e they are in the transit and when they are s t ore d f or future consumption; and for ocean, and inv o l ve d i n t h e ever l ast i ng i ce, and snow, and foe' In this ass oc i a ti on, t h e appearace of the evil tenant making every necessary arrangement in comma-s this purpose th e i r L or d s hi ps re l y upon the Lord-L ieu-irits, its inhabit an t s , lik e t h at o f morta l s i n similar cir c was believed to b e di m , wan , an d cloudy nication with the C omman d er o f the Forces in Ireland nnstances, , shades, suc h as men b ecome when seen through a frosty and the Inspector G enera l o f t h e C onstabulary Force. mist. Thus, a p ar t y o f mo d ern deer- stalkers, noble, well Acting on this pri nc ipl e , th e i r L or d s hi ps have directed appointed, a n d ga ll ant t h ough they b e, in despite of the trated without that the sup delay at the plies of food now in folowing depots : store should b e concen- gold Gene va watc h c h a i ns, and costly Purdie rifles, which peep fro m b eneat h t h e i r s h ep h erd plaids, would re- In the interior—L ong f or d, B anag h er. w On the coast—Limeri c k, Galw West ort Sli present to an o ld " Sealgair-nain-beann" the liv e li es t And the Commissary-General Hay, ewetson p, has ben in- go. vision of the fi en d an d hi s fam ili ars; and we have no doubt that, if "Al as t a i r Mac-Dhonacha-raidh, " or even strutted to take immediate s t e p s f or t h e transfer of the a Eoin-dublidrinachi n ," h a d ever met, i n the grey of the quantity remaining i n s t ore i n t h e d epot at Cork to morning, eith er Lord 0., H. G. or Limerick, in the ch a r ge of which depot h e w ill relieve of Aberarder," he would Sir have fled the hill for " The Ruffithat ans Commissary-Gener a l Coffin, who will re ma i n on f u ll time, and never have returned to it again, between sun pay with a view to his being employed hereafter, as the setting and sun rising.—[* It has pleased a writer of occasion may require. the " Cockney school" of Highlanders to con ver t t hi s Subordinate d e p o t s w ill b e esta bli shed under the word into " Glaslig," which we take leave to observe is charge of the constabulary, at other places on the western unknown in the Highlands, and did not exist before the coast, as the necessity for taking such a step may become year 1841. apparent. ]—Caledonia n Mercury. THE MEXICAN SOLDIERY. the Mexican soldier is of the middle stature, or below it, small-boned, slightly built, graceful, with a smooth, soft, glossy skin, scarcely any muscle, no visible sinews, and of extremely light weight. He 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 fur reales or medios (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 expossd during the fiercest hours of the day ; to which, in fact, they have never been accustomed. They very often take the yellow 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 aquadicnte, 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 shakos 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 grena 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 hauds, and give a stout Highlander a claymore, or a raw boned Irishman a good shillelah, 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 eney Wan tis 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 exciteable, and without self-government. Moreover they are much too young ; many of their lieutenants, and even captains, being mere boys. I was once acquainted in Vera 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 Vegars little fort was taken, his guns had destroyed one-third of the assailants ; but when the strong-armed men got close in amongst the Mexican ranks it was all over in a minute.—American paper. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. NORTHERN C l RCUlT.—Liverpool, Sept. 2. GERARD, DART. 7J. CROSSFIELD AND OTHERS. This was another action by Sir John Gerard against . the defendants, who are alkali manufacturers, near St. Helens, to recover compensation for the injury sustained by the plaintiff's estate in consequence of the vapours arising in the course of the manufacture. The case was similar to that tried yesterday, of " Gerard v. Muspratt," and the evidence almost precisely the same. A verdict was finally returned for the plaintiff—Damages, 4001. The amount of damage which, on the plaintiff's case, it was calculated the woods had sustained from the de fendants' works was, upwards of 3,000/. Mr. Martin, Mr. Crompton, and Mr. Cowling, for the plaintiff; Mr. Baines, Mr. Brandt, and Mr. Atherton, for the defendants. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW STREET. Thomas James, a letter-carrier, was charged with stealing half a sovereign from a post-office letter. The letter in question had been posted at the Bishops gate-street receiving-house by a clerk of the London Docks, and a constable at the General Post-office de tected the prisoner in the act of destroying it, and found half a sovereign in his waistcoat pocket. The-prisoner, who denied all knowledge of the letter, was remanded. Mr. lIENny expressed his surprise that the public did not now prefer the safer method of transmitting money by post-office orders; upon which Mr Peacock (the Post-office solicitor) observed that, by a recent regulation, post-office orders may be had at nearly every receiving -house in London. WORSHIP -STREET. Joseph Dodge, a young man of rather smart appear ance, recently employed as assistant-secretary to a loan society at Kingsland, was placed at the bar before Mr. Broughton, charged with creating a disturbance, and using violent and threatening language at the house of Mr. Charles Durham, a gentleman residing in Pleasant place, Hackney. It appeared from the statement of the prosecutor, who gave his evidence with visible emotion, that in the early part of the present year an unfortunate intimacy had been clandestinely commenced between the prisoner, who was it married man, and the witness's daughter, a young lady, only eighteen years of age, whicis resulted in her elope ment from home in June last. After a few weeks she was left in a boarding-house in the Rue de Coigny, at Boulogne. The prisoner, after effecting her ruin, had remained with her a t that house, where they assumed the name of De la, Porte, until all their means were ex hausted, and a heavy bill contracted, when he suddenly abandoned her. Since her restoration to her family every means had been adopted to prevent a renewal of the intercourse, which witness believed to have been fully effected, until the preceding evening, when, on re turning home, he was informed by his daughter that the prisoner had just left the house, after using the most alarming threats to induce her to renew the intimacy. The poor girl was dreadfully distressed and agitated, and while endeavouring to tranquillise her mind, he was disturbed by a violent knocking at the door, at which he found the prisoner, who demanded admittance, which witness refused and closed the door, upon which he made his way round to the rear of the premises, and having scaled the garden wall, kept up a constant knocking at the back door until the arrival of a policeman, when he was given into custody. Mrs. Ann Stockweller, a married lady, residing next door to the prosecutor, stated that in the early part of the evening she saw the prisoner at the street door in conversation with that gentleman's daughter, and heard her exclaim, " For God's sake go away, or I shall go mad." To which the prisoner vehemently replied, that unless she consented to accompany him he was deter mined to fire the house. On being asked by the Magistrate if he wished to give any answer to the charge of molesting the prose cutor's family, the prisoner, with groat effrontery, re plied that his visit was quite justifiable, as he had gone by appointment, and that the previous statement of the father was much exaggerated, as he owed no debts at Boulogne when he left the young lady and returned to this country. Mr. BROUGHTON severely reprehended the prisoner's conduct, which displayed as great a degree of heartless depravity as had ever come under his notice ; and said that as he considered it necessary to take the most ef fectual means to secure the future protection of his un happy victim, and her father, he should require the prisoner to enter into his own recognizance in ROL, and find two sureties in 50/., to be of good behaviour for the next six months, and 24 hours' notice must be given to ascertain the sufficiency of the bail. LAMBETH. W. Carter Willoughby Hellier, a fish salesman at Bil lingsgate, appeared before. Mr. Elliott, to answer to a summons taken out against him by Hanningham, an inspector on the South-Eastern Railway, which charged him with attempting to defraud the company of 125., and for which offence he was liable, under the company's Act, to a penalty of 40s. John Trewrin, a ticket collector at th e B r i c kl ayers ' Arms station, deposed that on the night of Sunday week, in collecting the tickets of the ten o'clock train, he found the defendant and two other persons seated in a second-class carriage, though they had but third-class tickets. On their refusing to pay witness the difference of fare, he took them before the superintendent of the station. Mr. George Weekly, a clerk in the company's em ployment, stated that the defendant was at first very abusive, but ultimately offered to pay 125., the difference of his own and that of the two other persons' fares, provided he were allowed till the following morning, as he had no money about him. On leaving his card, and promising to call the following morning and pay the money, witness allowed him to go. He did call on Tuesday, but only offered to pay half the money. Mr. Hellier, in reply to the charge, said, that on the evening of Sunday week he procured a third-class ticket at Ramsgate for town, and having done so got into what he at the time considered an excellent carriage. On arriving at Ashford, however, he and others were peremptorily ordered out and desired to get into another train. The crowd was here so pressing and the con fusion so great, that there was the greatest possible dif ficulty in obtaining any seat at all. While the bell was being rung, and a number of passengers unprovided with places, a policeman belonging to the company opened the door of one of the carriages, and called out that there was r oom th ere f or t h ree, and he (defendant), an old man and his daughter, who had accompanied him from Ramsgate, got into the vacant places. In fact, so great was the confusion, that he had no choice whatever between getting into the carriage opened for him or being left behind, and therefore what he had done was from necessity, not choice. The change, he begged to assure his worship, from a third to a second-class car riage was by no means an improvement; on the con trary, that which he had left was vastly more comfort able than the one he had got into, and altogether he considered the attempt to get from him more money nothing less than an imposition. If, however, the magis trate should order him to pay the additional fare, be should do so both f or hi mse lf an d th e poor man and his daughter. Mr. Weekly here read from the Company's printed time-table a caution to be observed in changing from the branch carriages to those on the regular line, and said it was quite impossible the defendant could mistake the difference between the second and third-class carriages, as the latter were open and uncovered, while the former were 'perfectly enclosed. The defendant declared that this was not the fact. The carriage he got into at Ramsgate was a "Parliamentary" carriage, roofed in, and infinitely more agreeable and comfortable, as he bad before stated, than what was now called the second class vehicle on the regular line. Mr. ELLIOTT inquired if there were compartments railed off on the line at the stations, as on the Great Western, for the different class passengers ' • for if so h e did not see how a passenger could ma k e the mistake of going to a seco n d i nstead of a third-class carriage? Mr. Weekly replied that there was no such regulation at Ashford, as the number of branch trains and passengers meeting there precluded the possibility of adopting it. Mr. ELLIOTT observed that under the circumstances, and the carriages of the second and third-class being somewhat similar, such a mistake as that mentioned by the defendant might be made. It was, however, quite clear that, by his own undertaking, he bad rendered himself liable to pay the difference of the fares, amount ing to 12s. The company did not wish to press for a penalty ; and if, therefore, the defendant paid the 125., as he promised to do, there was an end of the case. The defendant declared that from first to last the difference in the fare was not the object that actuated him in refusing to pay. He would now bow to the magis trates decision by paying 12s. and costs. THAMES. Two men, named James Lacey and Abraham Perriam, were brought before Mr. Ballantine, the former charged, on his own confession, with stealing fifteen dozen pewter pots, of various sizes, the property of Mr. Thomas Sims, the proprietor of the Earl of Effingham tavern and saloon, in the Whitechapel-road, and the other on suspicioa of being a participator in the robbery. Mr. Pelham defended Perriam, who, up to the period of his apprehension, maintained an irreproachable character, and who keeps a small house, fitted up as a pastry-cook's shop and refreshment room adjoining the saloon, which he rents of a Mr. Wade, the lessee (under Mr. Tims) of the theatre attached, where dramatic representations are nightly given, under the superin tendence of Mr. Denvil, the tragedian. Lacy was waiter and servant to Perriam, and left his employ about six weeks ago. On Wednesday night Lacey delivered him self to Maloney, the constable who attends the saloon, to whom he made a confession that he and Perriam generally took the pots from the saloon after the per formances were over, and that Perriam gave him 6d. to purchase a frying-pan, in which they were melted down. He said the metal was disposed of to a marine store dealer, named Baldwin. Eves, a police- sergean t, subse quently made inquiry at the shop of Baldwin, who has been from home some time. The officer was informed by Mrs. Baldwin that Lacey had offered her pewter for sale, which she refused to purchase. 2 4r. Sin2°. :saiti Le had lost 15 dozen pewter pots of various sizes, during the last six months, and that Per riam had access to every . part of the premises, including the saloon. Lacey was in the practice of sleeping on the premises while employed by Perriam, of whose honesty he never entertained the least suspicion until the present time. Mr. Pelham read a letter written by Lacey to Perriam, threatening the latter with exposure for not giving him a good character to a person named Morgan. Mr. Pel ham then u rge d t h at the accusation against Tian; was founded upon malice. Mr. BALLANTINE eventually decided on remanding Lacey, on his own confession, till Thursday, and ac cepted bail f or t h e appearance of Perriam on the same day. MEETING of iifIDDLESEX MAGIS The Deputy Clerk of the Feace having read the mi nutes of the last Court, and disposed of the routine business, proceeded to lay before the Court the reports of the visiting justices of the several county prisons, each of which presented favourable accounts of the health, discipline, and general good conduct of 'the prisoners confined within the respective gaols. In the House of Correction, Coldbath-fields, there were no fewer than 1,031 prisoners —namely, 775 males, 256 females, and 9 children. The House of Correction at Westminster con tains 651 prisoners, of whom there are only two males and one female in the infirmary. The report was received. Mr. WHALESDY gave notice of a motion, for the abo lition of female hard labour on the treadmill in West minster Bridewell. The following correspondence between the late Secre. tary of State, Sir James Graham, and the present 11 Secretary, Sir G. Grey, and the Committee of Visitors of the Hanwell Lunatic Asylum, relative to the pro posed additional asylum, was laid before the Court:— "Finsbury-square, June 5, 1895. "Sir,--As Chairman of the Committee of Visitors of the Middlesex Hanwell Lunatic Asylum, in, the absence of Mr. Tulk, I obey their wishes, and express their hope that you will not adopt any conclusiOn on the sub ject of the observations which they have submitted to you on the 22d .of May, as to an additional lunatic asylum for the county of Middlesex, without previously affording them e the favour of a personal interview with you ; and that they trust the importance of the matter will appear to you to justify such an appropriation of your valuable time.—And I have the honour to be your obedient servant, "J. WILDS. " To the Right Hon. Sir James Graham." " Whitehall, June 9, 1846. " Sir,—l am directed by Secretary Sir James Graham to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the sth inst., and to inform you that before he gives any final opinion on the subject of the proposed additional lunatic asylum for the county of Middlesex, he will be ready to rece i ve the Committe e o f Visitors f the Hanwell Asylum, and to appoint a time for the purpose.—l have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant,- " S. M. PHILLIPS. " To John Wilks, Esq., Finsbury-square." Since the Ministerial changes, a second letter, in closing Sir James Graham's reply, was addressed to Sir George Grey, to which the following acknowledgment was sent:— " Whitehall, Aug. 4,1846. " Sir,—l am directed by Secretary Sir George Grey to acknowledge the receipt of your letter and its in closure, and to inform you that he will appoint as early a day as possible for the interview with the Committee of Visitors of the Middlesex Pauper Lunatic Asylum.-- I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant, " W. SOMERVILI:E. " To C. A. Tulk, Totteridge Park." The Cdurt was only occupied half an hour, and did not consist of more than twelve members. The whole of the business having been disposed of, the Court ad journed at half-past twelve o'clock. SOUTHWARK. George Turner) a wan of respectable appearance, weik placed at the bar before Mr. Cottingham charged with obtaining 701. worth of leather, the property of Mr. Walland, a tanner, of Bermondsey, under false.pretences, It appeared that in March, 1845, the prisoner called at the prosecutor's and selected a quantity of leather, of the value of 701., in payment for which he gave the acceptance of a person named Huggins for 501., and the remainder in cash. When the bill became due it was ascertained that the acceptor had no effects, being insolvent at the time, and the prisoner could not be found, as he had removed altogether from his former place of abode. When he was at length discovered, his account of the transaction was, that he had pur chased the acceptance in question for Si. of a person named Sanderson, being ignorant at the time that the acceptor was insolvent. When application was made to Huggins on the subject, he had no recollection of having given his acceptance to Sanderson, but admitted that he had sent down two blank acceptances about the period of the above transaction to Manchester, and that one of them might be the bill in question, which was afterwards filled up without his authority. Sanderson explained before the magistrate that he had sold the accepted bill to the prisoner, and that he knew nothing of its having been subsequently filled up and put into circulation until informed of the fact. The prisoner denied that he absconded after he had procured the leather, but admitted that he removed from the neighbourhood where he was living at the time, over to Whitecross-street, to more extensive premises. Mr. COTTINGIIAM said, that as the case at present stood, Sanderson's conduct in the affair did not appear to be without suspicion. Turner, however, was the man who had uttered the 501. bill, knowing at the time that the acceptor was in a state of insolvency. The presence of Huggins would be indispensable in the elucidation of the case, and it would then be discovered whether there was any collusion among: the parties to obtain money on each other's acceptances by means of what was termed " kite flying." The circumstances attending this affair were of a description to favour that impression, and in order that they might be thoroughly sifted, he should re mand the prisoner until Thursday next, but would have no objection to accept of bail, himself in 100/., and two sureties of 251.' each. The magistrate also adjudged San derson, who attended voluntarily, to enter into his own recognisance of 50/., to appear on the same day, and directed that every exertion should be used .to procure the attendance of Huggins, the alleged acceptor of the bill, at the next examination. TRATES. The usual monthly meeting of Middlesex Magistrates took place yesterday, at the Court-house, Clerkenwell green, for the transaction of county business. Mr. Pownall in the chair. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Lome r PORTSMOUTH, THURSDAY . — This morning, at 10 o'clock, the Earl of Auckland, First Lord of the Admi ralty, resumed his levee at the Royal Naval College, and gave audiences to the following officers : Rear Admirals—Charles Carter and Sir W. A. Mon• tagu, C.B , K.C.H. Commodore—Douglas. Captains—Jones, Liardet, Westley, Sweney, Richard son, and Sir W. Dickson, Bart. Commanders—Twiss, Ward, Cannon, Steane, J. Low rey, Westbrook, Farquhar. Lieutenants Compton, Billingsley, Courbauld, M'Cluro, Jenner, and M'Donnell. Paymasters and Pursers—Eloffmeister, Acheson, and M'Dermott. ROYAL MARINES. Major—Moore, R.M.A. (Barraek-tnaster). The Noble First Lord concluded his levee a few m nutes past twelve, and, after going through one or two departments of the college, proceeded to inspect the children of the Seamen and Marines' Orphan School, of Portsea, who were drawn up in front of the college on the right, facing the entrance to the mansion of their distinguished and gallant President, Admiral Sir Charlr s Ogle. Dr. Morgan, one of the directors, and Mr. Charles Young, the honorary secretary, explained to their Lord ships the nature of the charity. After minutely in specting the children (sixty boys and thirty-five girls), the First Lord expressed his warm satisfaction at their clean and healthy and apparently happy condition, and said he hoped to have the pleasure of seeing them at their other institution (the ground for which was granted by the late Board of Admiralty). After complimenting the directors and the hon. secretary for their highly bene ficial and praiseworthy labours, their Lordships pro ceeded to make a general inspection of the various de partments of the dockyard, commencing with the rope house, thence proceeding to the superintendent's office, on board the Amphitrite razee corvette, to the works of the new steam-basin, returning by the millwright's shop, and embarking soon after four o'clock, at the King's stairs, to inspect the Britannia, 120 ; Powerful, 84 ; Vengeance, 84 ; and other advanced ships. While the First Lord held his levee, Rear-Admiral. Dundas and Captain Berkeley, accompanted by Rear- Admiral the Earl of Cadogan, and Commander' Hew lett, of the Excellent, went out in the Bee steam- tender to Spithead, to inspect the Hound (new iron 10-gun brig). They returned to harbour at noon, when, the whole Board went round the Dockyard. Their Lordships dine this evening at their hotel (the George), where they entertain Admiral Sir Chas. Ogle, the Commander-in-Chief; Major-General the Hon. Sir 'Hercules raltenham, Lieutenant-Governor of the gar rison ; Captain-Superintendent Carter, of Hasler, &c. ; Colonel Jones, commandant of this, division of Royal garines ; Rear-Admiral Hyde Parker, superintendent of the dockyard ; Mr. Richard Haig, R.N., Seoretary to the Commander in-Chief ; Captain Pasco, of the Vic tory, and the other captains of the ships in commission at this port, and a few private friends. Covers are laid for twenty-four. The Gladiator steam-frigate, Captain Robb, is now ready for sea. She bent sails this day. The Sylvia tender sailed this evening for Jersey. Prince Castelcicala, the Neapolitan Minister, trans acted business at the Foreign-office yesterday. CITY Or LONDON GENERAL PENSION SOCIETY.-- The Secretary of this Institution, Mr. H. 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 1840 for the institution. Amongst,numerous donations lately received by the society, may be named the Marquis of Breadalbane, 501.; Thomas Dickinson Esq., 62/. 10s.1 the Worshipful Companies of Goldsmithls and Draper's, each 50/. ; Joseph Baxendale, Esq., in addition to 80 guineas ; Mrs, H. F. Richardson, 10/. 10s. ; Luke J. Hansard, Esq., 601., in addition to 101. ; Mr. and Mrs. Braithwaite, 214 ; Mr. Uzielli, 214, &c., lac. It is quite anticipated that after the next festival, the payments to the pensioners will be at thei r max i mum amount, as resolved on in 1818, the date of the society's foundation. CHINESE BEICIIB.—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 Annie, from Shanghae, which were originally reported by the master of the vessel as being for exportation, are to be landed. The parcel cemeses the large number of 15,000, and bears good our forme; tettarit with respect to the im portation of bricks from China id t!etual Use in this country for the general purposes to which they are tip plied. The importations which now take place from foreign and frequently distant parts of the world are so varied and rem ar k a bl e as cont i nua ll y to ca ll f or especial notice. [ ADVE RTIS EMENT.I -A LIV ER AND STOMACH COMPLAINT.--WONDERFUL EFFICACY OF HOLLOWAY'S PrLLS. - The son of Mr. Thompson, national schoolmaster, Stokesley, had been in a most precarious way for upwards of three years, and at last became so consumptive as to be appa rently in a dying state. Three fistulous ores formed in his chest, so that the stomach usually rejected both food and me dicine. Mr. Robert Calvert, chemist, Stokesley, bears testimony that by the use of Holloway's Pills, the youth is now nearly cured of his ailments, his appetite and digestion being good, besides re gaining strength and flesh; yet, be it remembered , this sufferer was nearly at death's door. Is not this truly extraordinary ? These Pills are sold by all druggiata l And at the Proprietor'* Etpablialnent, 244 1 Mama Lynam. _ • RAILWAY SHARE MARKET S " MANCHESTER, SEPTEMBER 3. tingban' STocir EXCRANQE .— The sales are—Ambergate, Not n, pa Boston, % dis.—Birnaffighan and Dudley, 2k p.—Blackb ur ,,,, 118 wan, and Bolton, 4 1 dis.—Boston, Stamford, and Birming"rrdisl c. dis.—Chnrnet and Blythe, 3-16 dis.—Direct Northern, 3 00 , A s East Lancashire (late Black'rn:and Preston), 9% Dumfries, % dis.—Grand Union, 14s. 6d. dis.—Huddersfie ld '.lol l ): fax, and Bradford, 2% p.—Huddersfield and Manchester lris:ort and Canal, 2% p . — Ditto Extensi on , % p. —L ancas hi re pad" Yorkshire, % dis.—Leeds and Thirsk, 3% di9.--Leicester ford, 10s. dis.—Leicester, Birmingham, and Trent Valley4f e i rpo°, 4 l ' 3-1 1 1 dis.—Liverpool, Ormski r k , and Preston, 4% Preston, Manchester, and Southport, dis.—Mancliester an romp Extensions, 2% p. — Manchester and SouthamptonA °' Eastern, 1% dis.—North Western, k p.—Oldham Districts' Qu a #. Oldham, Birkenhead, & c., % dis.— Sheffield and Mancheste r ' ters, No. 3, 3-16 p.—Sh ropshire Union, dis—South-Easte Dover, Consolidated, No. 3, 5 p.—Trent Valley Midlands, - p — West Riding Union, 2 15-16 p. LEEDS, SEPTEMBER 3. ric STOCK EXCHANGE. —The sales are—Eastern COunties,, - ,,, 0 ds tension, 365. p. —Great Grimsby and Sheffield, 2% dls.—J''',. an cio' a nd Bradford, 43 p.—Leeds and Dewsbury, 3% c. p.—Ditto, Ditto, p io ns,' New, 2/. 18s. 6d. di s .—M anchester and Leeds Eld' evs- l ei • 15s. 6d. p.—Newcastle and Darlington J unc ti on Extensiolo , iss. 9cl' — North British, Carlisle Branch, 625. p.—Direct Northern , D ee." dis.—Lancashi re , Y or k shire, and North Eastern, 235. dis' Wakefield, and Midl an d, I i s. di e. —Leicester and Bedford, „, Liverpool, Ormskirk, an d P reston, 41. 6s. p.—Malton an d got i l er Junction, I6s. s. p.—North Western, ss. 6d. p.—Sheffield , ham, and Goole, 13s. dis. —Shrewsbury and Birmingham, 70 • Solt, Shropshire Union, 29. 6d. dis.—West Riding Union, 51. and Carlisle, 435. dis.—Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and 275. p. HULL, SEPTEMBER 3. aß a Bolton, 11—East Lincol ns hi re , 13 5. — Le i cester and STOCK Excaerroz.—The sales are—Blackburn ParWl, 37i '4 , A nawor. 40' 6d.—Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 41. 6s. p.—Northl Y .,„ e „l,, e o, 9d. p.— Shrewsbury and Bi rm i ng h am, 2%—West ItidDlg u- Armagh, Coleraine, and Portmsh, 10s.—Staines and Kiel tinOn'" —Boston. Stamford, and Birmingham, I IS. SHEFFIELD, SEPTEMBER 3. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are Eastern Counties, 2Wii York Extension, DX p.—Midland, Sheffield, and Rotherha Grimsby and Sheffield, 2% dis.—Ditto, Extension, 145. dis: :,terr Quarter Shares, 7s. 6d. dis.—H ti udderseld and Manchester -P":01 ., sion 10s. p.—Leeds and Dewsbury, 3% p.—Goole and Don _c00 1 : 10s. dis.—Leeds, Wakefield, and Midland, 12s. 6d. ( tis.- chaster and Lincoln Union and C anal, 19s. 6d. diS.—Sin Lincolnshire, 7s. dis.—Ditto, Extension, 14s. dis. cl/ 6 ' ,fBg• ~ NEWCASTLE-UPON-TY.NE, SEPTEMBER 3 , STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Caledonian Extension, . No t —Eastern Counties, York Extensions, I % — Edinburgh and: J .' p A r ern, i Newport, . 38. p.—areat South and West Ireland, 5 ,i ' gv :,.. cllvtherspizol,loos7nNskemirkea, -Newcastle ed and Berwick 1 44. 3S. (North 9 d.P S . 11 - 1 e N I d e s w ) , e at j ' •i . P fr ". . North British,Halves, (Carlisle),. 6d. p. 3 % P —North Staffordshire, 2 Os' YORK, SEPTEMBER 3. #OO ~gy STOCK Excnexnz.—The sales are —Grand Union (So' and Lynn), 13 5 . —L ee d s, Wakefield, and Midland, 2—Leiceste r ' n . worth, &c., 1/. 19 s . 6d . —London and York, 2/. 35.—Malt°1 —0 90.'r1; Driffield Junction, 3—North British, Carlisle Extension , 4 • North Staffordshire, 6 \ ewcastle and Darlington, New, 11 ffi .... afaa and Norte Midland (East and West Riding Extension), 13 ' )• cheater, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 3%. _ THE NELSON LETTERS.--11 the coneludinbL Oltinj of that invaluable wor k, " Th e Nelson Dispa.":„ -- tot bg Letters," there are details f or the first time g is noll public that every one who reads must consider as . w ritt% mystery as of interest. In the l as t co di c il o f his t d 1j1 ) on the eve of the great b a ttl e i n w hi c h he toi glorious career, the hero acknowledges a child (still 01'0.4 et, who had pr ev i ous ly b een regar d ed b y his friend 51 11 " folio his protegee. Pr o of h av i ng b een a d duced as to , t ove r n to the most intense c ur iosity h as b een exc i ted to 4 Ptgli e.. e . other parent, but in consequence of the precautic Avg ope Per prevent disclosure, her name h as hith erto b e , en on of 0. trable mystery, the only pers ons w h o were vivisg e oth ed. deavouring to repel all in qu i ry , b y stat i ng the tt rotiollos of Nelson's child was too high in rank to Tbe 5 tyoo lo o Who this exalted p ersonage was must be gad tern o f curious documents which the editor of the Nela n pea brought to light. It is'altogether the most shim `Ltolawi l et personal history ever published, and not the least the, °,1, - part of it is the inference that must be drawn frt 1-attrei roast. temples if the head of one parent was crowned with temples of the other were circled by a much richer BIRTHS. n s rr av- On the 30th ult., at Worthing, the lady of Jain e s of Esq., of a daughter. t tia lady ° On the Ist inst., at Woodville, Isle of Man, l -0 20telli J. Martin, Esq., late Captain Rifle Brigade, of twin! , j -p - r aterr ° On the 3d inst., at Charing-cross, Mrs. Charles . ' - a daughter. o f a #l. , On the 3d inst., at Kentish-town, Mrs. S. Sand* son. „ On the 3d inst., the lady of J. I. Glennie, Esq., of a tlel lo- On the 3d i nst., the lady of J. B. Hamilton, Esq.' 4 . f road, Regents-park, of a daughter. On the 3d inst., the lady of William Longn tap, ___,,----' Hyde -park -square, of a son. ...-- .....- MARRIED. On the 21st ult., at St. Peter's, Eaton-square, M.D., surgeon, to Miss Abbott, youngest daughter of Francis Abbott, Esq., Brunswick-square. On the 29th ult., at Marylebone Church , Isaacs Oorati° Loose, Esq., to Miss Smith. sl o3sll On the Ist inst., at Cheltenha m, the Rev. R. 1-2 to of Whiteway, M.A., to Sarah Elizabeth, only daugh Lieutenant-Colonel Spedding, late 4th Light Dragoons 'woo On the 2d inst., at West Hackney, Richard W' ' ;ti ter Morris, Esq., of the Strand, to Martha Maria, only dark of Mr. John Henry Clark DIED On the 25th tilt, suddenly, Mr. George May, Dabl" itu se rvcdly regretted. On the 30th ult., Alice Helen, younges t daughter 01)Sr. Jonathan Crowther, of Moseley, W orc estershire. ate t ' On the 30th ult., at Stokes l n ey, in Yorkshire, It— relict of the late John Ilaviside, Esq. aged 90. F. On the Ist inst., at Tonbridge-pl a ce, J. Harwo od, E: li t. On the 2d inst., Frederick Thomas Elwin, dso of of • re. the Browne, Esq., surgeon, of William-street, Lowness 3 . 5 On the 3d inst., at Selmeston Vicarage, Saesex' Ma wife of the Rev. Henry Latham, M.A. • .i .- - London: Printed and Published by DIVED° YOUNG-, of JO' Strand. Printer. at 27at Sun Office, N 0.112, Strand, 10 the F l ' ) gor ." the savoy . In the County of 111.144106 4,1 1 Saber 4, 1646. THE PRESS. We yesterday had the pleasure of recording a saddle?' tory answer, expressed iu the most significant langn?ge to the complaint s so o f ten an d so wan t o nly made agalU, the public gratitud e an d di scernmen t. After a lapse ,five years—when it i s o f ten th oug ht lawful to forget .!ti obligation, and still o ft ener f oun d p r udent to en e n l praise —a company of British merchants, compris:l the elite of the m e t ro p o li s , me t t o ac knowledge , 1 : 11 , their own lips, and with suitable splendour of hospitahtPt. their sense of one act of public duty on the e art t h% this journal. We • might safely challenge parallel most extensive and diligent search for a to so remarkable an honour. Celebrations of this kin d . _ have usually been restricted to the statesman and t he soldier who have goverhed, or saved, or extended. , 11 _,, empire. There is a brilliancy about such actions ern s ; cannot fail to provoke the genial spirit of pilhlie " fo e tality : so from. the days of Homer downwards the L . ,, has always looked forward to th e asse mbled chiefs', nr,. loaded board and the flowing bowl, th e libation an d . t :i pledge, as his prospecti v e consolation amid unflnienf toils. We may be j us tly prou d o f t h e extensionivue this honour to the achievements of the press. But a l e would rather dwell on it a s th e p roo f o f a discrimine tl " and gratitude which always exist, and are constet s l f ready to show themselves, f or w hi c h, h o wever, it I ' 2l , been our peculiar good fortune to supply an e xtranT nary occasion. If the press does not always find its 7 . e ,, vices acknowledged as it' may happen to think they , to serve—if it is left to strug g l e u nder diffi c ulties, ana_ oe , still more depressing b ur d en o f con t em pt or indiffer ei :, —it by no means follows that the cause lies wholly WI; the public. Should any still be tempted to think e e di ' les ., beg them to reflect on th e t es ti mon i a l s o f w hich We y o e day brought the splendid and agreeable sequel., ,ha; our own part, we have n ever d one th a t i n justice to — so people of England. We have never supposed it so wholly absorbed in th e p ursu it o f pr i va t e advantag e ' o b, insensible to the real worth and genuine motives of P ais lie-spirited undertakings, and so ready to a ccep t 0 boon and forget the giver. We have dealt wit h va s a candid, discerning, and, above all, a g ene i t a ‘' public. Accordingly we h ave f ree ly bestowed upon all devotion which it is, not for us to describe. and win'' 00 things considered, we must sa y h as me t with a n '„a and adequate requital. That so powerful an ("ri;ja as the press, one so comparatively modern in its itv tory, which appeals with such equal force to eve l Lh e d telligent mind, and is, therefore, so suspiciously with a ll ' with democrati ca l influences, should not Inee i.. i t w o l r i F il e ; the encouragements la v ish e d upon other not triotic and honourable professions, is an accident 0 ,-- t age, which tim e ma y amen d, an d wh i ch for the Pregei; it is beneath the spirit of a great and good ple n a . lament. After so sterling a testimony, and so UUCP' i t tionable a proof of success, w e ma y b e p erm itted to eal ts in a few words how public estimation, as opposed ion, transient popularity, is t o b e o bt a i ne d. A very . 0 1 , experience has tested the prescription. First, it 15 4 0 1 i obtained by a one-sided devotion to any plausible eeLo of opinion, or by a serv il e o b e di ence to an ascend - party or domi nan t c l ass . I t i s not o b ta i ne d by he 11%1 , to raise and colcur the successive visions of a superfieslho philanthropy. It is not obtained by following L ll errant path of restle ss i nnova ti on , by ever protta .4„f 7 f a ready tribute to popular names, or by lavishing ° 0 praise on any who may be disposed to an interchen a of the worthless commo dity. S t ill l ess i s i t s ecured 1 , 1 , r I flattering the chim er i ca l ex p ec t at i ons o f a deselP h d, and idle cupidity. All these ways are simple and stralgu.. enough -to one sort of result. Th e y h ave l ure d the s l i sand and one advent urers o f th e press to an i gn omin v ,,°o s , downfal, which it is easy to charge on the public fing e r , / titude or dulness. A suspi c i on o f s h or t cuts is the l r i n first instinct of prud e n ce i n th ose w h o h ave to info or i and advise, not fur this summer, or this Parliata o ;' , ,r this ephemeral race o f s p ecu l ators or s t atesmen , ht l ';' . o t i long terms of years scarcely scanned by, the memnri e ',„, the old, and th ere f ore with difficulty realised in the 9 " ! ticipations of the young. But a positive answer ..i i9 „ r s; quired to the question. We say, then, that a scrtillul' t g af laborious, and painful truthfulness is the great secret successful journalism. To investigate, to hunt cut ' a t - 0 . from their hiding-places, to gather and select the nos r, rials of knowledge, is the first business of a news,P s co It should ever remember its name. Whatever vele: es may have attached to our opinions, and howev, e ' h as perience may have confirmed their soundness, 1/ ,,10. been our invariable rul e to p u t f ac t s fi rst , an d the' 0 ferences. In judgment we might err, b ut for long as we faithfully supplied the means 5 ,11 a sounder decision, w e cou ld not ver y seril o g mislead. Respect for the public sagacity a taught us to believe that we h a d do n great deal when we h a d giv en i t th e true d ata of ea— r Lion. We say it emphatically—no one who is not lo w sonally acquainted w ith th e diffi cu l t i es o f t h e wk. t he form any idea of the r umours we h ave t o reject, y r contradictions we have to unrave l, the toe teries we hav e to uncover , th e mac hi nat i ons we the to detect, in the employment of daily catering t e de intelligence of the empire. It i s not w h a t the r eb do 4 sees—it is w h a t h e d oes not see , an d what ev ery t j, buries in oblivion—the t e di ous an d difficult/summing s ee previous to the brief judgment—in which consists baf real labour of our p ro f ess i on . Th e sp i r i t gen erated o re this exercise has followed us - throughout, and, we lila encouraged to conclude, is e v id en t in th e co lumns of..t , journal. The s ame zea l w hi c h once urge d us to foll7 st out the ramifications of a deep-laid conspiracy 4 1111 ,w the banker s o f E urope h as ever l e d us to investw"e a . and every possible d anger t o t h e prosper i ty, con fid e neo or security of the nation ; and has also taught us to P, re „ stood thosege politicaltho test of a principles l ong exp an ei d re s n o o ci e a , l and mali t z o m m w e s s h:C l b ic P ill;;;;; has given an undeni a bl e verification.—Tr