The Sun. — London, England, 1846-09-05 00:00:00

I I if CUSTOMS. Goods, wares, or merchandise enter e d f or w are h ous i ng must be conveyed from the vessel, or wharf, where landed, to the warehouse, under the special s up er i n t en d ence o f an insp ec t or o f the customs, in drays, carts, or other usual modes of conveyance, to be employed on public account, by the proper officer of the customs ; and the expense at the rates usually paid for such service at the port in question, is to be defrayed at the time by the per son who enters said goods, wares, or merchandise, fur warehousing. In cases where goods, wares, or mer chandise, imported after the passage of the Act of the 30th July, 18 4 6, are intended to be exported directly from warehouse to a foreign country, entry must be made according to form herewith, marked G, and bond given, according to form H, and such exportation be otherwise made in the manner now required by existing laws, relating to exportations for the benefit of draw back. In all such cases the appropriate expenses are to be paid before granting permit for: exportation. All stores used for warehousing purposes are to be rented by the collector on public account, and paid for as such; and appropriated exclusively to the storage of foreign merchandise, which is to be subject to the usual rates of storage existing at the respective ports where such stores may be hired or rented. Appropriate ware houses must be provided for goods of a perishable nature, as well as for gunpowder, fire-crackers, and plosive substances, having due respect to existing urani eipal regulations. For warehousing of coal, woods of variatys kinds, &c.—Yards well enclosed and secured, to 0.3..3 satisfac tion of the collector, may be hired or rert",3d, and the usual rates for storage are to be charged on all articles deposited therein. Care must be obser fed by collectors in renting stores to select those of a substantial and secure character, and fire proof wh ere they can be ob tained, and the rents stipulated for must be as reason able as can be procured. Bawls entering into any lease of stores, the opinion and approval of the department must first be obtained. Where any goods, duly warehoused, shall remain in store beyond one year, without payment of the duties and charges thereon, which, in pursuance of the Act are required to be appraised and sold, the department hereby prescribes that all such sales shall take place within thirty days after the expiration of the year, and due notice of such sales must be pub lished in two or more of the public newspapers having the most extensive circulation at the port in question, daily at the principal ports for the space of ten days, and at the other ports three times a week or as often as one or more papers may be published thereat, for the space of two weeks. But as the law provides that " all goods of a perishable nature, and all gunpowder, fire-crackers, and explosive sub stances deposited as aforesaid, shall be sold forthwith," they must be sold at the earliest day practicable, after due publication of notice, and time given for inspection by persons desirous of purchasing the same. The quarterly returns required by the 4th section of the Act, will be made according to the form herewith marked I. R. J. WALKER, Secretary of the Treasury. AMERICAN ARMY INTELLI GENCE. (From the Washington Union, Aug. 14.) We are favoured with the following extracts of letters just received in this city Camargo, Mexico, July 23. We are furnishing transportation for the army, and securing supplies of forage on the route to Monterey. Wei have contracted for 1,000 to 2,000 mules, (another letter fixes it positively at 1,500), with the packing equipments complete ; and these, with the 500 waggons expected here, will be ample for the marching columns. A large portion of the 19,000 men of thi3 corps d'armie will be left at the different depots and entrepots, from Brazos Santiago to China, about 60 miles from this place on the route to Monterey. The troopers are now fast arriving here in our steam boats, and the General will, in all probability, move for— ward from here about the middle of next month (Aug.). Now comes the commencement of those operations which will require all the capacity, skill and energy of our General to arcomplish. The great difficulties of an army invading Mexico begin here. So far everything has fa voured General Taylor, and he has acquired nut only most enviable reputation, but his good fortune has l c • come a proverb_ I hope, of course, for his further s 7 oess ; but in order to secure it, the most careful com rations of every kind, preparatory to the march, are Ab solutely necessary. Too much haste may prove as gr ( .at ail evil as a faulty tardiness. It takes time for the requisite arrangements for the transportation required for so many men, suddenly collected here. Meanti me, the General is impatient of the least delay, and the fa cers of our department are incessantly occupied in prepa rations. Our news from the interior leaves us in doubt whet ter Paredes, at the head of the army, will succeed or lac it in assembling a force sufficient to oppose us. He is said to have called out the male population en masse, and Sias strong positions to defend, but it is doubtful whel;lier we shall have another battle in Mexico. Ixtract of a letter from Colonel Whiting, dated Ma ta moras, 28th July, 1846. The subsistence General Taylor called for, that is, 300,000 rations, is now at or near Camargo. We, are now throwing up forage, ammunition, and other up plies, the boats taking moderate loads, in order to. ac commodate troops. A compatty of Texan rangers came into Camarorc a few days since, having started from San Antonii do ilexar, crossed the Rio Grande at Laredo, and pal sad through Mier. In thus descending the right bank it met with no molestation, saw no rising for defence, b ut found all things in tranquillity. When the Louisiana volunteers were about going o ut, and had many good horses for sale, it was deemed exp e dient by General Taylor as well as myself, that the op portunity should not be lost of putting the light utak" T . FIE WAREHOUSING SYSTEM 12 I THE UNITED STATES. D I STRUCTIONS ISSUED BY THE TREASURY OF THE UNITED STATES TO THE OFFICER S 10F CUSTOMS. In order that the earliest information on the subject. of `warehousing of merchandise under the recent Act of Con- Agress, may be received by all persons interested therein, the following instructions are now published.--Copies of these instructions will be transmitted to the respective officers of the customs, as soon as the forms necessary to Accompany the same can be printed. Treasury Department, Aug. 18, 1846. CIRCULAR TO COLLECTORS AND OTHER OFFICERS OF THE Treasury Department, Aug. 14, 1846. The following instructions and forms are transmitter's for the information and government of the officers of t).,, e customs in carrying into effect the provisions of the an _ 'flexed Act of Congress. approved 6th August, 1 84 6,, .enti tled "An Act to establish a warehousing system,,-and to amend An Act to provide revenue from impo r ts, and to change and modify existing laws imposing 'Ludes on imports, and for other purposes. " ' APPr.oved 30th August, 1842. It is to be remarked, that goods, ware?,, or mercban - Oise, entitled to entry for warehousing , "Are such only as shall have been actually imported afte .0 the passa ge o f the act, " reducing the duty on imports and for oth er p ure poses," approved 30th July, 1846, vide 6th section. All goods, wares, or merchandise, irAported prior to 30th ' July, 1846, yet on deposit in pu:elic store,-the duties on which have not been paid, are 'abject to the payment of the 'duty and charges imposed by the tariff Act of 30th August, 1842. Where owners, importers, consignees, or agents de -sire to warehouse their goods, due entry in writing must be made in each case, according to the form accompany ing these instructions, marked A, and a bond taken with surety or sureties to the satisfaction of the collector, 1a double the amount of the duties, according to forms marked B. In making entry of any goods, wares, or merchandise, to be warehoused, all acts necessary to determine their value, such as appraising, weighing, gauging, or mea suring, in order to ascertain the precise amount of duty chargeable on the importation, must be perfortned and complied with. Any goods, wares, or merchandise, proposed to be withdrawn from warehouse for home consumption prior to the 2d day of Decembee next, the day on which the new rate of duties take effect under the Act of 30t1 July last, must be enteefed, and the duties with interest and other charges itr.posed by the Act of 30th August, 1842, must be duly; paid before granting permit for the delivery of any such goods, wares, or merchandise. Due regard must be paid to the restrictions imposed in ,the • act, in the withdrawal of merchandise from warehouse, to wit: iu no case " a less quantity than an entire pack age, bak, cask, or box," or if in bulk, then only " tb:e whole quantity of each parcel, or a quantity not less than one ton weight, unless by the special authority of the Secretary of the Treasury," can be withdrawn and de livered. Where it ie intended to withdraw any goods, Wares, or merchandise from warehouse for transportation to any other port of entry, to be rewarehoused thereat, in pur suance of the second section of the Act of 6th August, to establish a warehousing system, twenty-four hours' no tice at least must be given to the coilector of such inten tion, and entry be made according to forth C, and the transportation is to be made under the regulations pro vided in the act of 2d March, 1799, in respect-to the trans portation of goods, wares, and merchandise from one col lection district to another, to be exported with the bene fit of drawback. Hence goods may be transported from any port of entry to apy other port of entry in the Unitrail ' States, subject to the regulations prescribed by the be fore mentioned act. On makings transportation of entry, a bond 'lust be given by the owner of the merchandise to be `withdrawn • for transportation with sufficient sureties ir. double the amount of the duties chargeable thereon. according to form herewith marked D; which bond le to be cancelled on production of a certificate, duly authenticated, from the collector of the port to wltieli the goods may be transported, certifying that the, identical goods stated in the transportation certificate, have been duly entered and rewarehoused in public st.ire, in his collection district, and bond given for the (Idles. On the withdrawal. of any such goods from warehouse at any port, the storage and other charges that may have accrued thereon must be duly paid. On redeposite or rewareb ()using of any transported goods as aforesaid, due entry 'must be made and bond taken in the forms here with marked E and F. For the purpose of distinguishing goods which may have paid duty under the new tariff act, which goes into opexation on the 2d day of December next, that may be Withdrawn for consumption after said day, and entitled to drawback, if exported within the time prescribed by law, from other imports on which duty was paid under ; the tariff Act of 30th August, 1842, it becomes proper I that suitable marks should be placed on all goods that may be withdrawn as aforesaid, to identify the same, so as to prevent mistake or imposition in the allowance of drawback. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 5, 1846. and Bragg's company in a fit condition for the field, as the horses called for from New Orleans might not ar rive in time for the march. In this way, these compa nies have been recruited at once, and Captain Duncan's company has already marched for Camargo. The price has not always been moderate, but in no instance extra vagant. EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM •L. lIENRY:wurnNa, DATED 2J.A.TAMORAS, JULY 31, 1846. General Taylor bas just issued an order directing the remaining troops to move up to Camargo without delay. The trains, it is feared, will be inadequate. To remedy this he will buy and hire all the mules he can. The last repc,rt from Camargo is favourable. A contract has been =Ede for fifteen hundred mules and packs eon), ple:te. General Taylor goes to Camargo in a few d, t y s , viihen I shall immediately follow to complete All ar rangements. Horse shoes are now coming in —we were likely to suffer for them and for forges. Forage and subsistence is abundant. The United States steamer Neva sunk on her way up to Camargo, with cargo on board. No lives lost, but much company baggage and THE COTTON CULTURE—ITS PROJECTED INTRODUCTION INTO TURKEY. (From the New York herald. of August 20.) It will be recollected tb.ut several years since the cot ton culture was introduced into Hindostan by the East India Company, under the superintendence of several American planters or overseers. One of these was the overseer of a South Carolina planter ; and at his request he was punctually furnished by his late steward, with a statement of the climate, seasons, soil, &c., for eight consecutive months, including the season of the growth of the plant through all its stages. The returns thus furnished were made the subject of a paper in one of our agricultural magazines, in which the author predicted a failure of the experiment in India, from the excess of wet and humidity during the growing season ; but he also incidentally referred to Turkey in Asia as very likely, at no remote period, to become a formidable op ponent to the United States in the production of the raw material. The prediction of the result of the experiment in India has since been verified—for the cotton of that country turns out to be far inferior, in quality and quantity, to tho staple of the South ; and the only obstacle that it has been to our trade is, that from its very inferior cha racter, the price at which it sells in England enables the manufacturer to mix it into his coarser fabrics, with a fair profit at a reduced price, upon the same fabric made exclusively from the American article. Yet this impo. sition has been of no small benefit to our own manufac turers in the sale of their coarser fabrics in South America, where the secret of the difference in the staple between the British and American goods has been dis covered. We have but little to fear, therefore, from India ; for the better quality will continue, in the spread of civilisation, to monopolise the advantages of the pro fitable markets of the world. But, returning to Turkey ; the Sultan, through some agency unknown to us, was apprised of the publication to which we have adverted, and the hint that his domi nions, devoted, from the days of the patriarchs, to silk and flax, " and purple and fine linen," were susceptible of cotton, and that in its highest perfection, immediately attracted his attention,. The very idea suggested to him an element for the improvement of his people, and the strengthening of his empire by the sinews of its domestic products. He has been looking around him—he is anxious to appropriate the experience of the western na tions to the advancement of his own. Ho promptly, therefore., through our Minister at Constantinople (Mr. Carr) conferred with our Secretary of State, and autho risedhim, in a carte blanche to dispatch him a special instructor or two to undertake the experiment of the cotton culture on - the eastern side of the Dardanelles, and among the kiosks and mosques of the Prophet. The Sultan desired as a fraternal favour that the American Government would send him one or two (two if they could be procured to go) cotton planters, of intelligence, experience, and competency, to introduce the culture of cotton into his own dominions. Under this authority, D. J. L. Smith, of Charleston, was appointed, a young gentleman educated in Germany —a student of Liebig, and who has obtained some cele brity in agricultural chemistry in this country, and as a man of general science. The other gentleman selected is Dr. J. B. Davis, of Fairfield, South Carolina, (whose overseer is the one referred to in this article as having been employed to test the experiment in India, Dr. Davis, as we are informed, has established a high credit in South Carolina, as a practical planter and farmer, making many successful experiments upon the old system of things. It has been suggested that should the experiment succeed in Turkey, it will be necessary to the introduc tion of cotton as a staple of that empire, to export a few thousand of the free bl ac k s o f t h e south experienced in the art, on the most favourable terms to themselves, as an inducement to go ; or that the Sultan may find it ex pedient to hire for a term of years, on the condition that they are then tolutve their liberty, a sufficient number of slaves from the cotton planting States, to initiate his subjects into the rudiments of,the culture. We shall look to the results of this experiment with the greatest interest. From the latitude, climate, and productions of Turkey, the cotton plant will take hold there as readily its the potato in Ireland ; and if it be as successful, the - demand for cotton gins and cotton presses will give not a little employment to our manufacturers and navigators, while the demand for the raw material in England, wilt scarcely be diminished, as fabrics of cotton will supzrsode among the faithful, their fabrics of silk, wool, flax, and hemp, which they have worn from time immemorial. The empire of the Sultan will become an empire of cotton-wearing Mahomedans, half Chris tiant;ied from this single innovation. We have no reason to fear from the innovation a diminution of our own market. The demand has increased with our supply, stupendous as that increase has been from year to year. The fifty-three millions of pounds of raw cotton from Egypt, scarcely produces an impression on the English market ; it is absorbed as a bucket of water in a flowing stream. The demand will continue to be commensu rate with the 'supply, and with the empire of China thrown open to our ships, we may continue our ratio of increase in the cotton production for a hundred years to come, introducing the culture meantime into successful operatioa in the dominions of the brother of the Sun, wirose spouse is the sister of the Moon, and who, if they 'say to their subjects, " produce cotton," it must be pro duced. We learn that Dr. Davis will leave to-morrow in the Great Western, en route for the Sublime Porte, to identify himself with the success of his predictions. After making an outline and a projection, he will inform us of his proceedings, of the adaptation of the country to his enterprise, and of the facilities for planting, as he contemplates being there in time for the planting season in that quarter of the world. Looking at the unclertaking of these gentlemen, as in its results calculated to extend the operations of com merce, and the intimacy and friendship of widely sepa rate nations, as adapted to be of great advantage to the mass of the Turkish people, without any detriment to an abundant market for our favourite staple, we wish our agents to the Sultan a successful experiment; and it is a high source of gratification (of which this is but an instance) that America and the Americans are being sent for from the remotest quarters of the earth, to develop their domestic recourses, to introduce new elements of domestic wealth, stability, and inde pendence, and to elevate and improve the character of their people. ATTEMPTED HIGHWAY ROBBERY.—On Wednes day night last a desperate attempt at highway robbery was made on the person of Mr. William Metcalf, a builder residing at Pagnal green, near Wilfrome. It appears that between eleven and twelve o'clock Mr. Metcalf was returning f rom Walbech in a chaise -cart, when, on ascending the hills at Rushton, two men sud denly seized the rein% at the same time calling on Mr. Metcalf to alight. Mr. Metcalf alighted, and one of the robbers advanced towards him. Seeing that the fellow was armed only with a stick, Mr. Metcalf closed with him and threw him heavily in the road. His companion then left the horse's head and attacked him, and the other robber having recovered his legs, the two com menced a desperate assault. Mr. Metcalf, however, being a powerful man, contrived tel maintain his resist ance until the keeper of a toll-bar, at some distance, attracted by the cries for help, ran to the spot, upon which the villains made off. Mr. Metcalf sustained some severe bruises, &c., but was not otherwise seriously in jured. The robbers were dressed in dark clothes and had their faces blackened. They were doubtless aware of the fact of Mr. Metcalf having a large sum of money in his possession at the time. A case of double iniquity, involving fraticide and incestuous adultery, was brought on Saturday before the court of assizes for the Seine et Oise, held at Versailles. Eugene Clairet was put to the bar on a charge of having attempted the life of his brother, Jacques Clairet. with whose wife he had carried on for some time an illicit intercourse. He had been previously tried before the court of assizes for the Eure et Loire, and condemned to hard labour for life at the hulks; but on an appeal by him to the Court of Cessation, the judgment was quashed, and a new trial ordered before the Court at Versailles. The following are the circumstances of the case :—ln the evening of the 30th of January last, as the two brothers were returning to La Plesse, from the farm of M. Guerrin, at Mareauville, Jacques, when they were near a small wood, received a number of small shot at the, back of his neck, discharged from a fire arm. Thirteen shot lodged in the collar of his jacket, and only two penetrated his skin, and caused him little or no injury. Three weeks afterwards a gendarme found in a ditch, near Mareauville, a pocket pistol, which had evidently been fired before thrown away. Further in quiries led to the belief that the pistol had been fired by Eugene, and he was accordingly arrested. M. Min, a gunsmith at Ninancourt, recognised the pistol, and deposed that he sold it on January 26, to Eugene, who said his name was Prevot. The inducements to his firing on his brother were disclosed by the discovery that Eugene had carried on an improper intercourse with his sister-in-law, though she was 44 years of age and he only 22 ; that Jacques had made a will, bequeathing to his wife all his property ; by the death of his brother, Eugene, who was in the army, but a b sent on f urlough, would become the only son of his widowed mother, and thereby exempted from service, and could then marry his brother's widow. The evidence at the trial on Sa turday, as well as at the former trial, fully verified all, these circumstances, and the jury at once declared iiir a guilty, finding also, as before, extenuating dicum. stances, thus saving him from capital punishment, lie was again sentenced to hard labour at Vile hulks for lif e . lle has lodged a second appeal, on the gror . ., a d of some irregularity in conducting the prosecutio n , THE BLACK DITCH, BLACKFRIIkap 4 "OAD.—This intolerable nuisance still exists in Boun , ', Black friars-road, although the inhabitants hm-row, repeatedly applied o . ;L e it co y applied to the Commissioners of Se vered over. During the few hot dr t y' v s er ' s has been so great as to cause serior llamas to of the inhilbitttntg• POLYTECHNIC INSTITUWION An invention of; considerable importance is now exhi biting at the above-named establishment. It is for the purpose of ventilating mines. It consists of a capacious pair of chambers inserted into large tanks filled with water, forming water-founts somewhat after the manner in which the gasometers at the gas-works are con structed.. These chambers are susper ded in such a way that a reciprocating motion may be given to them. They are 'elaced in such a position that a communication is rp.ade between them and the up-cast shaft of the mine. On motion being given to the apparatus, a series of inlet and outlet valves are brought into operation, and are so arranged, that as soon as the chamber begins to descend the outlet valves open, and the air is ejected, and so on alternately a continuous circulation is kept up, the down cast shaft supplying the necessary quantity of fresh air to the mine during the extraction of the vitir..ted atmos phere by the upcast shaft. The inventor states that a chamber 16 feet in diameter, with ari opening of 50 feet area, would each minute remove 40,00 cabic feet of foul air, and this, he states, can be accomplished at a very trifling expense of power. The model is deposited in this institution, and is well worthy the attention of all scientific men and those engaged in mining speculations. HOSPITAL FOR CONSUMPTION -- AND DISEASES OF THE CHEST. The fifth annual report of this institution has just been issued, from which it appears that the number of out• patients treated during the past year at the hospital and out-patient branch is 1,511 ; the number at present under treatment is 335. The total number treated since the hospital was • established is as follows : In-patients, 273 ; out-patients, 4,893. The report further states that " the committee feel -it to be among the earliest of their duties to express their grateful sense of the many and important services derived to the charity by the counte nance and assistance of the prelates and clergy of the Church of England; upwards of 7001. have been col lected in churches since the April of last year, while various contributions in addition followed the earnest and eloquent appeals in its behalf made from the pulpit. They have to report, with sincere and grateful pleasure, that the benevolent Bishop of Durham offered to contribute 501. to a fund for furnishing the new building, provided that nine other subscribers of a like amount could be obtained; his example was almost immediately followed, the required number was obtained, and a sum of 500/. was thus procured for this necessary purpose. The committee have also to report that a sum of 2,0001. was bequeathed to the charity by the Rev. Henry Campbell, late of Cow ley, • near Uxbridge; a most liberal bequest, the value of which is augmented by the knowledge that the deceased clergyman was the uncle of the honorary secretary. The committee desire also to make reference to the generous sup port the charity has received from the public press— of the provinces as well as of the metropolis; its con ductors generally having given to the institution their zealous and cordial support, and having largely con tributed to obtain for it universal recognition as a most important and beneficial national establishment, the claims of which to public support rest on the solid basis of practical good. From all parts of the kingdom patients have been received and succoured. There is at present within the hospital one who came to it from Gibraltar; and who has largely benefited by the medical treatment therein afforded him and the com forts he has there received. The committee notice this circumstance chiefly as showing that the value of this charity is now appreciated far and near—appreciated as the first great experiment in behalf of a class of suf ferers previously considered beyond the pale of either relief or care." The report concludes by stating that the amount of contract for erecting and completing the western wing and part of the ceatre of the new building at Brompton, is 11,7621., while the expenses of laying out and inclosing the ground, &c., exclusive of fittings, is 1,6841. To meet these sums, viz., 13,446/., the committee have received in less than two years 8,749/, leaving a balance of pre sent liabilities of 5,3121., and having in hand 615/., the balance to be provided is 4,6791. It appears that a series of sermons are about to be preached in the north of England in aid of the charity, and that, in short, the prospects of the benevolent founders and supporters are of the most cheering and gratifying description. ZOOLOGICAL IMPORTS: Captain Galilee, of the Cestus, of this port, recently returned with guano from the coast of Patagonia, has brought home a valuable collection of South American specimens of natural history. They are in part designed as a present to the owner, Mr. Robert Collison, through whose liberality we trust to see, ere long, some of the museums of the town, probably that of the Mechanics' Institute, of which Mr.- Collison has for several years been a director, enriched by an accession of a portion of the interesting group, part of which have been obtained at some risk, and by no slight exertions en the part of Captain Galilee and his crew. The chief curi osity is the preserved fur of a monstrous species of seal called the sea lion, that of a male, measuring 10 feet 6 in. from the nose to the tip of the hind flippers. It is 21 feet in diameter about the middle, and was, when living, 71 feet in girth; it weighed 10 cwt., and w as caug h t on a guano island n ame d Sh ag island. The difference between this species and the common seal differs less in the size of the animal than in its form ; for whereas, in the former, the fore flippers are inserted at about the same relative distance from the head as are the shoulders of a dog, in the sea lion they project from the broadest part of the body, about half-way between the head and the tail. The extraordinary length of neck thus obtained enables the creature to rear a lofty head out of water, and on the approach of a boat to the place where they domicile, about a hundred of' them will approach in battle array, and surround the vessel, but at a respectful distance ; they utter a hideous howl, somewhat resembling the roar of a lion, but dying away in a dissatisfied and subdued grunt ; when excited they bristle up the long hair on their necks, which as sumes the form of a lion's mane. They are, however, usually inoffensive to men, and seers desirous of lead ing a peaceable life, excepting when attacked, when the female retreats, but the male offers resistance. The flippers of the specimen brought home by Captain Galilee are each armed with three claws, and webbed, the web being a foot and a half in length, and the total expansion about a yard. Theirspeed in the water far surpasses that of a steamer. The full-grown lion has four tusks and a good mouthful of teeth. This lion was found with the lioness and a whelp lying asleep on the beach; the sire and son were secured, and the dam only made her escape after receiving a heavy pickaxe wound in her head ; the lion might also have escaped had he not shown fight ; he was killed by the crew with pickaxes, and his carcase sold to the seal fishers. The whelp is four feet in length. Captain Gallilee has also brought a guanocoe, a land animal, from the same country, being a species of wild deer ; also penguins and shags, from which the guano is produced ; an d a nutra, an amphibious animal of the otter species, from the River Plate, a splendid collection of insects, and a great number of curiosities in the shell line. He also sent home in the Britannia, to a friend in Lincolnshire, a specimen of the chicha, or " flying child," a feathered bird of very extra ordinary appearance; the spread of its wings from tip to tip is six feet, and each wing has two spurs attached to the joints; they are very sharp, about three inches long, and are used by the creature with amazing dexterity in attacking and tearing to pieces its prey, and also in self defence. It has something of the appearance of a wild turkey. The turkey-buzzard is also an inhabitant of these parts; several were seen by Captain G—, who made at tempts to shoot them, but without success. He has brought home some of the feathers of one of them which, when living, stood four feet high, and the spread of whose wings was eight feet. The grey ostrich is also seen in flocks ; Captain Gallilee encountered one day a group of about fifty ; the whol e h os t t oo k to their legs excepting one, a male, who covered their escape ; turning his back upon them when at a distance of about 100 yards from Captain Gallilee and his com panions, he approached with the speed of a racehorse to within about 20 yards, and stood in a threatening and defensive attitude. An attempt was then made to bring him down, but without effect, as he flew like the wind after his companions.—Hull Advertiser. We understand that the Right Hon. the Earl of Mount Edgecumbe has determined upon having a fine yacht built to bear his flag as Commodore of the Royal Western Yacht Club. FOREIGNERS' EVANGELICAL SOCIETY.-011 Thurs day a public meeting was held at the Queen's Concert Room, Hanover-square, to adopt measures for the for mation of a society for the benefit of foreigners resident in England. Lord Ashley presided, and was supported by Chevalier Bunsen, the Prussian Minister; Sir Cul ling Eardley Smith, Bart. ; the Rev. Edward Bicker steth, M.A., rector of Watton, Herts ; Professor Mars den, Professor La Harpe, and other clergymen and gentlemen. The Chairman, in opening the proceedings, remarked that there were in England upwards of 100,000 foreigners who were destitute of religious privileges ; for such persons it was intended that the society should be formed. In order to carry out its objects a committee of 50 gentlemen would be formed— missionaries would be appointed, who would preach throughout the country in various languages —religious works would be distributed—and other means would subsequently be adopted in the order they might suggest themselves to the committee. His Lordship urged with much force the claims of the proposed society on public support ; and Chevalier Bunsen, in speaking of the mighty results it was likely to accomplish, promised that he would cordially co-operate with the committee. The Rev. Edward Bickersteth moved a resolution, affirming the usefulness of the proposed society, and suggesting its immediate formation. He took occasion to remark that it was in no respect connected with the Evangelical Alliance—a body which had recently been holding its meetings in the metropolis ; but that it was an inde. pendent association, founded upon a scheme which was quite novel in the history of religious societies. The resolution, having been seconded by Professor La Harpe, was unanimously adopted. Several addresses were de livered ; and a vote of thanks to the chairman, which the Noble Lord briefly acknowledged, closed the pro ceedings. FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE SOUTII•EASTERN RAIL WAY.—A very distressing accident occurred yesterday morning at the Reigate station, which has resulted in the death of the guard of the Dover up-mail train arriv ing in London at 430 A.M. It appeared that the de ceased, a fine young man, named Frederick Elsdon, had been suffering from a severe attack of diarrhoea through out the journey from Dover, and upon seeing the Reigate station, after applying the break, he began to descend from his seat on the roof of the carria-e, wishing to reach the passengers' retiring rosin, weich is on the down side of the line; he descended on the wrong side of the carriage in order to cross the railway more spee dily. While in the act of doing so his leg came in con tact with the dwarf wall running between the " up" and " down" lines. The force of the concussion caused a compound fracture of the thigh bone, and the unfortu nate man falling at the same instant, his lower extremi ties became entangled between the wheels, and he was thus dragged several yards before the train was brought to a stand. When picked up the poor fellow's legs were found to be dreadfully crushed, several of his toes were cut off ; his left ankle was dislocated, and the sole of the same foot almost completely torn away. Notwithstand ing the frightflil nature of his injuries, the unfortunate man retained perfect sensibility. Ire was at once placed in a carriage and conveyed to Guy's Hospital, but, after lingering in a state of extreme torture during the morn ing, he expired at half-past one o'clock. A dense fog prevailed when the accident occurred, and it is supposed That the deceased cliinoT;l;servethedwarf wall against which ho struck in the first instance. The unfortunate man has left a widow and one child to mourn his loss. The accident caused much alarm and excitement among the passengers in the train. STROOD CATTLE FAlR.—This fair was held on Monday, at which 3,501 lambs were penned, and out of that number 2,696 were sold at an average of 225. 6d. to 233. For horses, cows, and calves, and pigs, there was little demand, although the supply was limited, the numbers being ? horses, 42 cows AO 041Y06, 14 ; pigs, 11. LAW INTELLIGENCE. PALACE COURT, September 4. (Before Mr. W. BRENT BRENT.) SMITH V. DUNN. The defendant, Richard Dunn, whose name has been so frequently before the public, attended on a summons granted under the Small Debts Act. The debt was 151. 13s. 6d., and the costs .51. 6s. Bd., on a judgment ob tained in the Court of Common Pleas. An attorney named Townshend applied for a commit ment, on the ground that the defendant had undertaken to pay some months back and had not kept his promise. The Learned - JUDGE inquired the reason the money had not been paid? The defendant pleaded his inability. He could not control circumstances. Rents could not be got from Ireland. Money was obliged to be seat to Ireland. The Learned, JUDGE remarked, that he had been in formed that the people paid rents very well in Ireland, in no place better. The defendant said that might be so, but from the present circumstances of that country they could not be obtained. He should have great pleasure in paying the present claim if he had the means. The Learned JUDGE informed him that he had made a very common observation. far. Townshend hoped the Court would make an order for the commmittal of the defendant. He had waited a long time, and shown him every leniency. He said the defendant had " cajoled" him out of a sovereign to get a document from Ireland. Defendant—" Cajoled" you ! I don't know what you mean. Here is the paper (holding up a document), an attested copy of ameniorial which I obtained. Mr. Townahend, in addressing the Court, termed the defendant "this man." Defendant—" Man !"I think you might have said " this gentleman." Mr. Townshend thought the term he had used the most dignified that could be applied. Defendant—Well, then, I don't think anything dig nified that comes from you. Some further discussion ensued. The attorney repre sented his client as a poor widow woman, who had been kept 'out of her money, for board and lodging, for a long time ,• and the defendant alleged that he had obtained a good deal of grocery while he resided in the house, and that the debt was only for lodging. All ho wanted was until November, when he should receive seme money, and would pay the demand. Mr. TOWNSHEND said the defendant might by Novem ber be out of the jurisdiction of the Court. There were proceedings against him, and his application for furth e r time was only a " splash." The defendant said he would make a " splash" of the attorney if he told him so outside. _ Mr. TOWNSIIEND appealed to the Court for protection The COURT said an order would be made for payment on the 13th of November. Mr. TOWNSHEND asked for a committal, with a stay of execution till November. The defendant could not be seised. The Court simply made an order for payment on the 13th of November. The defendant thanked the Learned Judge, and wish ing him " Good morning," left the Court. ASSIZE IN TELLIGENCE. NORTHERN ClRCUlT.—Liverpool, Sept. 3, (Before Mr. Justice CRESSWELL). LUCAS V. HOATSON. A SHARE TRANSACTION.—The action was brought to recover the balance of an account arising out of a share transaction, amounting to 9811. 10s., brought by plain tiff for defendant. It appeared that, in August, 1844, the defendant ordered the plaintiff to purchase for him 100 shares in the London and Croydon Railway ; the shares were obtained from a gentleman named Langdon, and paid for by the plamtiff;,but the defendant after wards refused payment. Verdict for the plaintiff for the amount sought. house. nedy, on April 15, when Upham brought them from tha pawnbroker's, was incorrect. - Mr. Hobler having addressed the Court on behalf of Mr. Kennedy. Mr. CLIVE said that M'Neill must be committed. With regard to Mr. Kennedy, he had never thought there were more than one or two points against him, viz., the statement of the boy Upham, that M'Niell told Mr. Kennedy, when they had words in the shop, to send back Mrs. Riley's chains, but it was now quiet clear that he could not have done so, as M'Niell himself now states that Mr. Kennedy did not know where they were. This was satisfaction to him, and Mr. Kennedy must be disch a rged. Mr. Kennedy, before leaving the liar, declared before God and man that he was innocent of the foul charge made against him. M‘Ncell exlaimed in a violent tone " Oh, you infamous villain, how can you say so?" which he continued to re peat till he was taken out of Court. Mr. Kennedy was discharged, and left the Court sur rounded by his friends, who cordially congratulated him. The depositions having been read over, and Miss Church bound over to prosecute, M•Niell was committed to Newgate to take his trial for the offence. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. ADMIRALTY, SEPT. 2. APPOINTMENTS. Midshipman—George Whiting, to flag-ship at Sheer. ness. Midshipman—C. S. Forbes, to William and Mary. Naval Cadet—Marcus Costello, to Virago. SEPT. 3 Master—James Saunders, to the Sidon. Chaplain—Rev. G. W. Garron, to the Imaum. Clerk—W. Dowdell, to the Sidon. MALTA, AUG. 25.—Her Majesty's steamer Hecla was inspected on Friday last by Rear-Admiral Sir L. Curtis, when every manoeuvre, even the most difficult, was or dered. by him. Every one knows the state of discipline of the Hecla when Lieutenant Hire was appointed to her. It was therefore with no small degree of satisfac tion that her then commander, Duffill, received the com pliments of the admiral as to her efficiency, cleanliness, and good order in every department—a compliment he declined with much mcdesty, declaring that all the merit was duo to the First Lieutenant, Hire, to whom he had entirely confided the internal management of the ship. This is the officer, who some months since, in a gale of wind off Cyprus, jumped overboard and saved the life of a seaman, who, however, died two days afterwards. O n Saturday Captain Duffill resigned the command to Com mander Starmer, who read his commission on board. The Hecla is under orders for Tripoli, and will pro ceed thither during the week, with Mr. Crowe, the newly-appointed Consul to that place. Her Majesty's ship Fantome left port on Saturday last, with dispatches for Sir T. Reade, her Majesty's Consul-General at Tunis. The India mail, expected here to-day, has not arrived, neither has the Trident, from England. The Locust steamer left port this morning to try some patent coal. The result has not been made known. The Avenger steam frigate, which conveyed Ibrahim Pacha to Alexandria, returned to-day. The officers during their stay at Alexandria have been very kindly treated. On the day of her departure Ibrahim Pacha sent to her commander, Captain Williams, a sword of the value of 30/. sterling, and a costly cashmere shawl ; to each of the other officers on board a sword of the value of 151. sterling ; and to the crew a present of 500 sovereigns, besides a plentiful supply of provisions for the voyage. Her - Mijesty's steamer Ardent, from the lonian Isles, and the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Montrose, from the Levant, both arrived this morning. THE DIEDITERRANEAN SQUADRON. In Malta Harbour—The Ceylon, 12, receiving shit bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Sir L. Curtis, secom in command and superintendent of Malta Dockyard ; the Avenger, Captain T. Williams ; the Ueda, war. steamer, Captain J. Duffill ; the Locust steamer, Lieut. Commander Power ; and the Wee Pet steam-tug. On Surveying Duty—The Bonetta, Commander T. S. Brock, and the Research cutter, Lieutenant Spratt. At Sea—The Hibernia, 120, Captain Peter Richards, C. 8., bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral Sir W. Parker, G.C.8., the Commander-in-Chief. At Gibraltar—The Virago, war-steamer, Commander John Lunn; and the Phoenix steam-vessel, Commander Dennis. At Corfu—The Meteor, Lieut.-Commander Butler. At the .Piraeus of Athens—The Jackall steamer Lieutenant-Commander W. M. J. G. Pasco. At Beyrout—The Inconstant, 36, Captain C. Fremantle. At Smyrna—The Siren, 16, Commander H. E.Edgell. At Constantinople —The Bloodhound steamer, Lieu• tenant H. Phillips. - En route to Tunis from Malta—The Fantome, 16, Commander L. Hardy. En route to Malta from ports in the Mediterranean— The Harlequin, Commander Curry ; the Amazon, 19, Captain J. J. Stopford ; and the Tyne, 28, Captain W. N. Glascock. MAIL STEAM-PACKETS. At Malta—The Flamer, Lieutenant Lavie ; Volcano, Lieutenant Crang ; and Ardent, Lieutenant G. Spong. En route from Marseilles to Malta—Spitfire, Lieut. J A. M'Donald. En route to Algiers, Tangiers, and Gibraltar, from Malta—Acheron, Lieutenant B. Alpin. PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY'S FLOTILLA. At Southampton—Pottinger, Tagus, and Duke of Cornwall. En route to Southampton and Gibraltar from Malta -Ariel. En route from Southampton and Gibraltar to Malta— Oriental. En route to Constantinople and ports of the Black Sea from Malta—Achilles. En route from Alexandria to Malta—The Iberia. At Malta—Montrose. AUGUST 28.—Thu Iberia, with the India mails, arrived this morning. Yesterday her Majesty's ship Tyne arrived from Corfu. On entering port she saluted the Rear- Admiral's flag. There is no news of the Trident steamer. Lieut. T. Waghorn is still at Malta, anxiously awaiting her arrival. The Rifle corps has left Corfu by the Terrible and Retribution steam-frigates. Universal regret was felt, and on embarking they were followed to the quay by hundreds of citizens, preceded by the band of civilians. CHATHAM, SEPT. 4.—The North Star, 26 guns, Cap tain Sir James E. Home, C. 8., came into harbour on the evening of the 2d inst., and is returning her stores into the dockyard. Her masts are all ataut, and she is ex pected to be paid off on Tuesday next. The Bulldog steam-sloop, Commander G. E. Davis, is taking in the remainder of her stores. She is expected to leave this port to-morrow. The Mutine, 12 guns, repairing in dock, is fast.pro greasing, and she will be ready to put out on the en suing spring tides, when the Albatross, 16 guns, will be taken iu to make good defects, and to be fitted for commission. The new and extensive metal-mills erected in this yard are so far completed as to be ready to commence manufacturing, and in a few days the machinery will commence working. The-view works for the enlargement of the yard, car rying on by Messrs. Baker, are progressing; the founda tion of one slip is in hand, and the excavations of three others aro now commenced. PORTSMOUTH, FRIDAY.—The Lords of the Admiralty having devoted so much time to the levees, the college, and the inspection of the Excellent, were compelled yesterday afternoon to make their survey of the works in progress in the Dockyard very rapidly. After re turning from the steam basin at a quarter past four o'clock, they successively visited the fitted-rigging store, the testing house, the new chain-cable store, the new mast store, the apprentices' school, the enormous house under construction for building boats in, in the erection of which 3,000 tons of iron will be used, and the present boat-house. This tour was completed at five o'clock, when their Lordships embarked in the Admiralty barge, with Sir Charles Ogle, and it was supposed, and in fact arranged, that they should visit the Victory and the ad vanced ships. Everything was prepared for their Lord ships' reception, and the Victory actually manned 3 ards as soon as they embarked at the new landing-place. Their Lordships passed, however, under her her stern (taking off their hats as the marines carried arms, and the band struck up " Rule Britannia"), and proceeded to Blockhouse-beach, where they landed, and minutely inspected the whole of that immense fortress, remaining on the works until nearly six o'clock, when they crossed over to the King's-stairs, Sallyport, and proceeded to the George Hotel, where they entertained at dinner the fol lowing guests :—Admiral Sir Charles Ogle, Bart., Rear- Admiral Hyde Parker, Captains Sir W. Symonds, Pasco Chads, Robb, James, R. E., Sir T. Bourchier, K.C.8.,' and Carter ; Commanders Slade, Cannon, Lieutenant Wood, Colonel Jones, R.M. ; Captain Brandreth, R.E., Lieutenant Rawstorne, Mr. Woolley, Mr. Graves, Cap tain Eden, and Captain Hamilton. After dinner their Lordships honoured Major-General the Hon. Sir Hercules Pakaiham, K.C.8., with their company, the gallant Lieutenant-Governor of Ports mouth having a brilliant party at the Government.. This morning, at half-past nine, their Lordships em barked at the New Sallyport, in their own and Sir Charles Ogle's barge, and proceeded to the Royal Clarence victualling establishment, where their Lord ships were received by Captain Superintendent Carter, R.N. ; Mr. Davies, Master-Attendant ; and Mr. T. T. Grant, storekeeper, who collectively conducted their Lordships over that vast store-house, whence they pro ceeded at half-past ten to the Royal Hospital at Hasler, where they arrived at a quarter to eleven, and were escorted over the establishment by Captain-Superinten dent Carter, Sir John Richardson, M.D., the Medical Inspector, and the other c hi e f fficers of the esta blishment. Soon after noon the Board returned to the dockyard, and proceeded to muster the artizans, which occupied them until nearly two o'clock, when they dismissed the men with the grant of a half holiday. Their Lordships then retired to the Admiralty House and partook of lurcheon with Sir C. Ogle and family. At twenty-five minutes past three their Lordships em barked in their barge and proceeded to the Victory, where they were received with yards manned, their flag being hoisted at the main. They were received on the quarter-deck by Captain Pasco, First-Lieutenant Welch, and the of her officers of the ship, and immediately pro ceeded to muster the crew, which, with the supernume raries, fall little short of 1,000 men and boys. Their Lordships expressed their warm approbation with the discipline of the ship, and complimented Captain Pasco and Lieutenant Welch thereon. The Board left the Victory at ten minutes to five under a salute of 19 guns, and proceeded to the Britannia, 120, ,and Powerful, 84, advanced ships. This eyeuipg theft 140xclobipe will be entertained at dinner by Major-General the - Hon. Sir Herculee Pt ham, K.C.8., who has invited a distinguished p:lrtY meet them. To-morrow their Lordship inspect the Royal 3fori lle Artillery corps, &c. To-morrow morning his Grace the Duke of Wellg: ton, Commander in-Chief of the Army, a nd the _!!„1 quis of Anglesey, Master-General of the Ordnance, "5 make an inspection of the fortifications of this portr dependencies, accompanied by the Lieutena nt-Gove and Colonel Cardew, R.E. His Grace will arrive bY first train from London. The squadron of evolution have received orders to re° turn to Spithead on or about the 16th inst. n eel, The Nautilus, 10, Lieutenant-Comm a nder Mac. °- ,• 0 0 sailed this evening for Brighton, to resume her p role& of the fisheries. The Comet steam-vessel, Lieutenant Commander ston, is ordered 'immediately to Ireland with Wea l o r specie, for the relief of the prevailing distress cotes quent upon the failure of the potato crop. In Harbour—The Excellent, Victory, Orestes, diator, Comet, Lightning, Dasher, and Echo. C s In Dock—Prince Regent, Leander, Edinburg h, brian, Naiad, and Rattlesnake. In the Basin—Amphitrite and Trincomalee. At Spithead—Recruit and Hound. APPOINTMENTS. tO h e Captain Sir Thomas Bourchier, K.C.B. (1827), , re g, superintendent of Chatham Dockyard, vice %moor whose period of office has expired. Sir Thomas Penjer chier was midshipman of the Majestic at the surr a of Heligoland, Lieutenant of the Forester, 111 " c oo manded her boats, cutting out a brig an d sc hootlerPo . destroying the guns and magazines of a battery o i t ieu to' daloupe, and at the taking of Martinique ; Ivo !lent of the Tenedos at the capture of the United frigate President, in the expedition up the Peo°bs`he and commanded the seamen and marines landed at pc , capture of Machias; was Captain of Blonde in tie rations on the coast of China, and commandeo leo; gade of seamen at the capture of Canton; os i sisv t tilt the taking of Amoy and Chinghae in 1841, a nd et ani attack on the Chincse at Segahon, Woostlogjcv Changhae, and the city (f Chin Kiang Foo, in Vide Allen's IVew Navy List. fa 8 11/1' Lieutenant—C. R. Bamber, to the Victory, r tmheam A y f Ti a dt s ros t a e hft r ai h—pl Trafalgar emalEeVr Midshipmen —W. rtg.h the Eurydice. SainsburyWhite, nery duties. la to th cli e 2l 6‘ ' Ty lrebe g ., ; : li fio ra; Gunner—John F.;BErouMrwyr.ndijc:OhtnheWPaolilcistiegrse.ll—s THE LASH. THE LATE DEATH OF WHITE PROM PLEURISY AND LIVER COMPLAINT, AND THE CHANGE OF THE WEA THER, AT HOUNSLOW.—One feature of the atrocious proceedings at Hounslow is so calculated to destroy every feeling of security for the fair and above-board treatment of our fellow -creatures in subordinate—ay, in any stations of life, that we are astonished it has not been raore dwelt upon by the press of the day. We allitat to the awful facility with which a death caused by a cruel and severe flogging was converted, by medical and Other testifiers, into a death from secondary causes ; and the great vital question of its exciting cause—the causa causans of it—obvious to the dullest observers, hushed up and passed over. If such modes of dealing with suspicious deaths may pass unheeded, every secu rity that frail mortals possess against being murdered by inches ; killed off by causes set in motion to produce effects—which effects themselves are to be exalted into their place, as the original mischiefs—of being poisoned by slow degrees ; every particle of such security will come to depend on the caprice, or interest, or wiched ness of bard swearers, falsifers, and liars of the first magnitude. In the name of honour and outraged truth, as well as for the tranquilisation of the dreadful fears which such convenient " certificating," if allowed to pass current and unresented, is certain to excite, we demand of our liberal and professing government—backed as they are by public opinion, and the verdict of the coroner's jury —a searching investigation of the (falsely) incomplete official reports of the cause of the death of private White, late of the 7th Hussars, and we further demand the condign punishment of their real concocters. N.B. We would, also, ask the authorities on whom the odium of White's death 'so fearfully rests, whether the surgeon, who might have saved them from such odium, did or did not do his duty, in unconcernedly, without feeling the victim's pulse, or in any way ex amining his state, witnessing a laceration of half-an hour's duration perpetrated by a couple of stalwart farriers ? Had we been on the coroner's jury, we should have taught this man our opinion of his negli gence, in a most summary manner.—Hood's Magazine. PUNISHMENTS IN ALGERIA. At Algiers, when any one had to complain of the Cadi's judgment, or when the adverse party would not submit to the decision, the complainant went to the Casbah, seized with both hands a bell-chain hanging at the gate, and rang with all his might. An officer then appeared, to whom he related his case. A message was sent to the Cadi, inquiring into the correctness of the statement made by the plaintiff, to whom was rendered whatever justice appeared due to him. On the contrary, if the plaintiff was found to be in the wrong, he was bastinadoed with some hundred blows on the soles of his feet, and was besides compelled to undergo all the con sequences of the judgment of which he complained. When the question related to a criminal affair, the Dey sent the culprit to the aga, who caused the sentence to be executed forthwith. The punishments inflicted on criminals were barbarously severe. The slightest offence against the Government was punished by the bastinado, which was administered not only on the soles of the feet, but also on the belly and the back. From thirty to twelve hundred blows were given, according to the nature of the offence. Two men, each armed with a piece of flexible wood, as thick as an ordinary cane, alternately struck the culprit, who was laid on a sort of bench, with his legs and his arms tied. Even when the criminal sometimes expired under this punishment, the executioners continued to strike, until they had completed the number of blows specified by the sentence. Persons condemned to death were decapitated with the axe or the yatagan ; hanged ; impaled ; burned alive ; or thrown upon great iron hooks of the gate of Ba-Azoun, on which they remained impaled for several days, until they died of hunger in the most horrible sufferings. M. R- 7 told me that having once visited Algiers before the occupation by the French, he saw a man who had remained alive three days on these hooks, and that he certainly would have lived longer, had not a jannissary, either from humanity or to show his dexterity to the assembled multitude, blown out his brains with a pistol shot. Sometimes the relatives of the persons condemned to this horrid punishment gave a certain sum of money to the executioner to strangle the victim before he threw him over the wall—Count St. Marie's Algeria in 1845. SURGERY IN ALGEIRA.—Before the arrival of the French, the natives had no idea of a regular physician, or a surgeon. All diseases came under the treatment of the barber, who did not confine himself merely to bleeding and physicking, but he even amputated limbs. This operation was performed by a dreadful method, which is said to be still in practice in different parts of Asia, and is always followed by the Kabyles. When an arm is to be cut off, the patient stands upright, with his arm resting on a flat block of wood, and the barber, raising a yatagan, with a single stroke, severs the member from the body. Two assistants then convey the sufferer to a vessel filled with melted pitch, into which they dip the arm, at the part where it has been amputated, to stop the hemorrhage. It is horrible to imagine the torture which must attend this barbarous operation.—Count St. Marie's Algeria in 1845. THE WAR IN KATIRLAND.—In consequence of the war in Kafirland, large quantities of oats are being shipped from the Ordnance stores within the Tower of London, to the Cape of Good Hope, for the use of the English troop s , i n ant i c i pat i on of the probable scarcity in that colony. BRISTOL AND EXETER RAILWAY.—The twentieth half-yearly meeting of this company was held on Thursday, at the White Lion Hotel, Bristol ; James Gibbs, Esq., in the chair. The income of the line for the half-year, as stated by the Great Western Railway Company, to be due to this company, is 46,7631., being 1,8001. more than in the correspond ing half of 1845. A dividend was declared of 30s. per 1001. share, being equal to 4 per cent. per annum on the 751. paid up ; it will be payable free of income-tax, after the end of October ; hopes were held out of a better divi dend in future. The next dividend will be for the half•year ending at Christmas, the year being in future to be divided at Midsummer and Christmas. The chairman stated that the traffic on the South Devon line, opened since the last meeting, had exceeded all expectation ; the success of the atmospheric principle of traction was now placed be yond doubt ; the delays that had occurred on the Croy don line had only tended to the perfecting of the sys tem. The meeting adopted the report, and confirmed an agreement entered into for vesting in this company the Taw-Vale Railway and Dock and Railway Exten sion from Barnstaple to Crediton, on completion of the works. THE HARVEST IN SPAIN.—The Guia del Commercio of Aug. 26, has the following remarks upon the state of the harvest this year :—lt says, " The result of the corn harvest in Spain can now be safely estimated, as the gathering in of the crop is approaching to an end. A bad year had long been anticipated in the southern provinces, from the want of rain, and those fears were converted into a sad reality, when, to this defect, was added that of imperfect granulation. The aspect of the crops had been the most flattering possible in the pro vinces of the north and centre, where the foliage had not been known to be so great for many years; but. the hail storms and the excessive heats that have extended to all parts have caused the damage to be general, so that it may be said that between night and morning Spain lost more than a third part of its corn harvest. The stock on hand from preceding years was nevertheless so large that the price has scarcely been at all increased in the corn districts, and the increase has fallen chi e fly on t h e old wheats, for as to the new wheats they weigh from four to six pounds less than the other, and consequently give much less bread." With respect to the olive crop it says:--" Of the approaching harvest of oil in Spain it may be said that its state is very little satisfactory, since, both in Andalusia and Estremadura, in Valencia and in Arragon, the fruit within sight is very scanty. La Mancha alone may be excepted from this general rule." DISEASE AMONG THE TuttNirs.--We deepl y regret to learn that, in addition to the loss of the potato, and the partial failure of the bean crop from the same cause, a somewhat mysterious and destructive disease has brolt en out extensively amongst the turnips in East Lothian, within the last three weeks, and which may be aptly te3nned "the rot," as it affects the turnip a l t€ ,_ and t g o e e t s. h 7 different seems to commence fromthmeenoclde in two w disease of a " aug er ys_one, by a slightly tliscoloured brown spot upon the princip a l fibre, a which grs L d ua ll y s p rea d s u p wa rds, and t oe ot h er b y sort of 6n:l-my, gummy matter, adhering to the bulb at the root. of the leaf. In both wars the destruction of the plan.t is speedy and effectital, becoming in a short time a a nvbss of rotten putridity. The disease is progress ing, bu t. is principally confined to the white turnip, though not always. We are sorry to learn, also, that notwith standing the fine weather, the securing of the crop t .. , ;0, ?s ' on very slowly, and that much of the grain is se`..outed s(frem being cut w e t) t o a very great degree.—.. Edinburgh Witness, Sept. 2. The Ri man Catholic community in Dundee have purchased the estate of Wellburn, Lochee, for the pur pose of ere cling on it a school of industry, an orphan institution, for the benefit of the younger members belonging that communion, and a small chapel where the services of the church will be daily performed. Besides these, stthheerrse.,,is Atopobretieornecotfetdheagnroorumnadl wscihnobole, ,m P e la t e er ed y._ un E d d er in t b h u e rg s l u t p p e a r p in e t r e . nd ence of the La- Suc com—Within the last few e quantity of fish, of various kinds, has , S , Yh e r ris i t s ia t ri O T; b ie L : laid F l o s u ll t ._ as ‘t. and is now zneeting a ready 84 1, 0 this city and obuyai,.rvc.Waterivrci Chrinick. been days taken k ve en ry off our COa.. THOMPSON V. HEYES AND ANOTHER. ALLEGED DETENTION OF A WILL.—The action was one of detenu, brought by the plaintiff to recover possession of a will made by his sister, Jenny Thompson, under which he was entitled to three houses in Ben Jonson-street, Liverpool. The defendants held the will as attorneys for a person, named Sally Lytbgoe, who alleged that the will was made in,, her favour. The At torney-General opened the case for the plaintiff, remark ing that it would be much better to have the matter settled without proceeding to trial, otherwise the parties might find themselves in the position of the litigants described in the fable, who each of them got an oyster shell, while the oyster itself went somewhere else. A consultation then took place, and it was agreed to with draw a juror, subject to a rule. An unimportant action respecting a bill of exchange concluded the civil business, and his Lordship, after congratulating the jury on the conclusion of their labours, adjourned the Court at half-past ten o'clock. He shortly afterwards left for London. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. Elizabeth Price was charged with having attempted ;0 commit suicide. A policeman was called by a gentleman to the steps of London-bridge, and he there saw the prisoner crying, and apparently unconscious of what she was about. He asked her where she was going, and she re plied, while the tears ran down her face, " I am going to make a hole in the water," and she ,was just on the point of suiting the action to the word when the man seized and saved her. The LORD MAYOR—Was she in liquor at the time ? Witness—She appeared as if she had been drinking. The prisoner —No, I never drink. The prisoner's husband here stepped forward, appa rently in great affliction, and said, " My Lord, she is one of the best women in the world, but she is subject violent fits of the quinsey, and she does not know water from earth, or air, when she is in that state." The policeman said he had no doubt at all that she had been excited by drink. The prisoner's husband—l'll answer for her, my Lord, that she never will attempt anything of the kind. She has been seven years my wife, and she never com mitted herself before and never will commit herself again. I'll answer for her my Lord. The Lord MAYOR—Attempts of this dreadful kind are becoming so frequent that we shall be obliged to punish delinquents to the utmost extent of the law. The prisoner's husband—Oh, my Lord, for God's sake don't punish her—she could not have known what evil she was committing. For the sake of me—her poor husband—forgive her. I'll be answerable for her—she has been an excellent wife to me for seven years. The LORD MAYOR—You appear to me to deserve to have a good wife, and I hope she will show herself, by her respect for your feelings, to be worthy of a good husband. I shall deliver her over to your care. The prisoner's husband—l thank your Lordship. She will be safe with me. It would be hard for any man to get so good a woman. Mary Truchard was also charged with having at tempted to destroy herself. The unfortunate creature had been seen by a gentle man walking in a distracted state towards Queenhithe Dock, and a watchman near the spot grasped her by the hips as she was flinging herself into the water. The landlady of the prisoner attended, and said that a more sober, quiet, honest person Gould not be found in the city of London. The LORD MAYOR—What, then, could have h d her to make this horrible attempt upon her own life ? The landlady said the prisoner had for the first time in her life had a few words with her daughter, who was not to be condemned in the transaction, and away she went to the dock, to release herself for ever. The prisoner said that since the day of her birth she never had been reproached by any one of her family, and although she had done wrong to her own child, she could not bear to be told of it. What could have induced her, however, to go near the water, she could not at all guess, and she hoped God and his Lordship would par don her the heavy sin. Two or three persons offered to be responsible for the future discretion of the prisoner, and The LORD MAYOR, after expressing his sincere re gret at two such deplorable cases in which the persons charged appeared to be of unexceptionable character, gave the poor woman up to the protection of her children. Henry J. Hyde, who was, on Wednesday, brought be fore the Lord Mayor, charged with having committed forgeries upon the banking-house of Smith, Payne, and Smith, was finally examined. The following was the additional evidence:— Mrs. Ann Moore, housekeeper at No. 59, Fenchurch street, stated that she had the care of the offices of Mr. Pedley, the prisoner's master. The prisoner came to the office at about ten minutes past nine on the 2d Sep tember, and asked her for the key, which she gave to him. She saw him go into the office, and he soon after wards came to her and told her that Mr. Pedley would arrive presently, and returned the key to her. She did not see the prisoner again. She saw Mr. Pedley and gave him the key . The LORD M AYOR asked the prisoner whether it was his wish to say anything ? Prisoner—Nothing. Committed for trial. Four boys were committed for trial upon charges of picking pockets. They had followed gentlemen in the streets with surprising perseverance, until they got hold of the silk handkerchiefs, beyond which their ambition did not seem to have soared. HAMMERSMITH. _ TUE ROBBERY OF JEWELLERY.—Yesterday having been appointed for the further examination of Mr. Gilbert Kennedy, the surgeon, and Mr. Archibald his assistant, the court was crowded almost to suffocation. Mr. Clive was the sitting magistrate. Mr. Kennedy surrendered in discharge of his bail, and was placed at the bar, as was Mr. Archibald M'Niell, who was brought from the Westminster Bridewell, where he had been confined, his bail declining to con tinue their recognisances. Mr. Jones, for the prosecution, having stated the manner in which M'Niell had given up part of the pro perty, as mentioned on Wednesday last, said with re g ard to Mr. Kennddy, he had no further evidence to ofer. With regard to M'Niell, Sergeant Mount deposed that when M'Niell informed him where the property was, he also told him that he (M'Niell) had placed the things there, and that his doing so was not known to Mr. Kennedy. The various testimony previously given by the shop keeper to Miss llemans, and by Elizabeth Upham, which implicated M'Niell, was repeated. In the course of the examination of these witnesses a letter was received by M'Neill, and read, informing him that he would require counsel for his defence, and that a lady, whose name need not be mentioned, would supply the funds. A letter also was received by Mr. Clive, and handed to Mr. llobler, giving Mr. Kennedy a very high character. Mr. M'Neill, on being questioned by the Magistrate, at first persisted in the whole of his previous statement, implicating Mr. Kennedy, but on being pressed, admitted that his statement of delivering the chains to Mr. Ken- RAILWAY SHARE ivIARKEI6' MANCHESTER, SEPTEMBIR 4. STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Ambergate, Nottingbil Boston, % dia.-Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, 8-16 do''' . Ji Stamford, and Birmingham, 9.16 die . -Churnet and Mirth. ° ,47, -Dublin and Belfast Junction, 64 dis.-Eastern Cou n ri,rest v i , Extension, 1 13-16 p.-East Lancashire (late Blackburn all' 144 I'4 : 9% p. -Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal , Ditto Extension, 11.16 p.-Kendal and Windermere, is shire and North Yorkshire, 11-10 dis.-Leeds and Think , Liverpool and Bury, 8 p.-Liverpool, Ormskirk, and rr e ' p.-Oldham, Birkenhead, &c., 3-16 dia.-Preston and I VY r , (B!, %p. Shrewsbury and BirMingharn, 0.16 p.-5hr0138.13 , ,16P• &c., 3-10 dis.-South-Eastern and Dover, Halves, No. 4 , Trent Valley Midlands, &c., 13-16 p.-West Lancashire Cols' LEEDS, SEPTEMBER 4. ~„ god 4 STOCK EXCIIANGE.-The sales are-Eas tern CounticP , eO , tension, 365. p. -East Lancashire, 91 p.-Great Grlnl.4Dr4n p d t field, 24 dis.-Iluddersfield and Manchester, 2 c. sion, 10s. p.-Huddersfield and Sheffield, 6% p. 4.-Leeds 3- gooi ford, 43% p.-Leeds and Dewsbury, 3% p.-Ditto ENV, dis.-Leeds and Think, 34 dis.-Ditto, New, 3 ' A. "`,'";li!,;, British, Carlisle Branch, 55 s. p.-York and Newcastle O'ilutrA castle anti Darlington Junction), New, 10 p.-.Ambergat,t ham, and Boston, 13s. s. dia.-Buckinghamshire, Is. 6d. al'rd,dis Northern, 16s. dis.-Lancashire and North Yorkshire, 108 ek e Lancashire,Yorkshire, and North Eastern, 245. din. -Leeds , W A and Midland, 10s. 60. dis.•-Leicester and Bedford, 9s , d ls 4;err,o. pool, Manchester and' Newcastle Junction, Bs. 6d. dis.-', 00 : r o Ormskirk, and Preston, 44 p.-Malton and Driffield Jun c : s. p. -Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 14 0. l'o, ' ,Pe, Western, ss. 6d. p.-Oxford, Witney, and Cheltenham, 18 g . Sheffield, Rotherham, and Goole. % die.--Shropshire Union, -West Riding Union, Si. Is. -York' and Carlisle, 435. Oh HULL. SEPTEMBER 4. 1 .51 '; STOCK ERCRANGE.-The sales are- Hull and Selby, -' 1 „, e lf 594c.-Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, 101. 18S.-Boa, o- ctis. ford, and Birmingham, 11 s. 3d.-East Lincolnshire, 145.-." (4 .01. Preston, and West Riding, Bs. 6d.-L e i ces t er and Trtar:.-- 6d.-North Western; ss. p.-West Riding Union, 51. Union, lbs.-Leeds, Wakefield and Midland, 325. ./ SHEFFIELD. SEPTEMBER 4. k &roma EXCHANGE.-The sales are -Leeds and Thirs-- , Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton, 4 dis.-Leeds,,,.,. hi and Midland, 12s. Gd. dia.-M anc h es t er an d Li nco ln Canal, 18s. 6d. dis.-North Staffordshire, p.-Sh eill Lincolnshire, 6s. dis YORK, SEPTEMBER 4. 4 ,,g11 1 °, /106 , STOCK Excnaziaz.—The sales are —Gra n d Union \ 0 11, and Lynn), 13s.—Ipswich and Bury, 9 —Ditt o (Cambridge ,, $0,,,1, Ili—Leicester and Bedford, 13s. 6d.—Leicester, Tamworte , c dos,:di 19s.—London and York, 2/. 3s.—Malton and Driffleld JO ;P r 6d. --- me 16s. 6€l. scrip —North. British, Carlisle Extension, 41. 6e. „,,a I!, i Western, 1/. Bs.—West Riding Union, 5/. Is. 6d.—York D'' 30 , ' 111 15. 1 castle (late Newcastle and Darlington Junction), New, ', 1 , York and North Midland (East and West Riding Extension) THE TEMPERAN CE CONVENTION.—Tom goopa thei 4 capitally said of some teetotallers, that they thin k , De' have a right to believe themselves b eau ties, simply the cause they aro not beasts. Assuredly, man/ Theatr e atr e „ Thei water-spouters recently playing at Covent-garee' dio A 'rf are of this notion. It would be difficult to bre w any beverage stronger or more deleterious than 7„ n ce their language. The American apostles of temPe`Leiel l i like many other saints—have m a d e th ems elves eerai r ti notorious for unseemly words. Never was wide hole with fouler words. Th e R ev. Th omas BraYnst' ' s hine ever, of Philadelphia, has settled th e q uestion 1 1 , 1 7 0 twit; ing it upon the shoulders of weak woman, w'h nrn „d years ted with an indiscretion (now a few tholls a ne vgata i i% standing) in a very shabby spirit. He said," ° ;: t so, had ruined the world by persuading man o ec-r'cladala% was now for - Vroraan to show an example, by pe r it him not to drink." Eve having plucked the aPr: c eder' the duty of her daughters to set their faces agann ti ; We would by no means be thought to undeniotbel blessings of temperance as preached by Fat e reoent i l and others; but when we read the stuff tha t certai n ? been uttered in the eause of total abstinence, wee „Athol,' do feel inclined to wish that at Covent-garden tu t t hatc h ties had imitated certain Strand authorities a., time, and "put locks upon the pumps."—Pu nch ' pii l A plan named Pierre Pign o l, w h o has "JO P e s carried on the business of coffee-house keeper 3 ,60 P fumer, was on Tuesday brought b e f ore the Corlt'foossio Tribunal, on a charge of obtaining goods and .ofelt, under false pretences, he having represented biros to Po son of the Emperor Napoleon. On being called 0 0 to , V r , his name, he replied, "Eugene Napoleon Bonart f r fort de de Delmas. The name of Pignol is that of ntr,oo o lJ father ;" and then entered into a long rhod ( l ld connected with his alliance to the imperial fat; o ho" • that it was disgraceful that a son of France, of iv , V 0 be treated as he had been. D ur i ng th e proceee L letter, not remarkable f o r th e correc tness o a 0 orthography, was produced, which the prisoner, 11 impudence to address to the A v o ca t d u R o i , an d in of pt he assured the learned gentleman of th e legitiznacY o ' imperial descent. Th e cour t li s t ene d with d gi 01 attention to the story of the soi - disant duke, al l c ie mately dismissed the ch a r ge , as th ere was not sub evidence to convict him.—Paris Paper. GREAT SOUTHERN AND WESTERN (IRELAND) 0.7 i WAY COMPANY.—On Sunday next the Comps t 1 ' commence carrying the mails, and consequemniiif alteration in the starting of the trains will take r en The first down train will leave at half-past s el p ieitel . the morning, and the mail train will follow 11 ,, t o'clock, and the evening train at five o'clock. .- 1- ", e loe' up train from Carlow will start at half-past nine °Si ° in the morning, the mail train at ten minutes past t o'clock, and the evening train at five o'elock. Bo ll l stated in our last that Mr. Dargan had been d the contractor for the entire line from TipperV Cork, and the board are most anxious to have the of o r advanced as speedily as possible. For the purpos e ve o ranging the purchase of the land, the company's ° o jes" proceeded last week along the extension li ne , to e your to effect amicable arrangements with the Pr 0 0 " tors and occupiers; and it is certainly to be hoP e lto o as the company offer very lib era l t erms, t h e prolra Ott and occupiers will meet them in an equally liberal and thus save litigation. The traffic from D IP '. O . toC jarulsotwifyistshuecshtraosntgoesat e fforrdliathnece on the greates re tsa s t o is u f re ac ei t c r o l line.—lrish Railway Gazette. rl COPPER SUBSTITUTE F OR W OOD AND Tito BOAT - BUILDING.—We have been informed of thevoiell` duction of a novelty in river and port navigation , / lO o ‘ if it bears out all that is claimed for it, cannot. b e n , ieso, before it comes into general use. It is noth. l3 ,ropel than a boat of copper, made of four sheets only, 5 7., e ste" to due form, by powerful machinery, and r;: te, together; it is twenty-three feet long, five feet Ww a llirS four times the strength of wooden boats, and I. „ e ed__;#. one-third only the power to propel at the same / I ,rii PT, a wooden boat of the same dimensions ; one-thi n weight ; no caulking, renailing, or pointing, is r e l a ern: 0 and, when worn out, the metal will sell for three":: ra p of the first cost. Boats, cutters, gigs, ship's botl"o'i boats, and others, from ten feet to sixty fent 9 ,,,ed I.; I made in four pieces ; their strength h as been :„. 0 0 t dashing them against rocks, and running a-head stone piers, and it appears almost impossible I°ool tr them. Verily, this is an age of wo n d e rs I—P e n b Gazette. • s it° The British Museum will be re-opened to v 0 g on Tuesday, from ten to fo u r, a nd con ti nu e open t 31st of December. BIRHS. On the 31st ult., at Brough t on , „ice Manchester, the " William Andrew, Esq., of a daughter. o f C On the Ist inst., at the Crescent, Bedford, the Wit e 1 taro Ruddach (late 19th Lancers), of a daughter. of On the 3d inst., at Preston, Lancashire, the lady o' Miller, Esq., of a daughter. r . On the 4th inst., at Acacia-road, Regent ' s-per t ' 31. Empsen, of a son. Vvr On the 4th inst., the wife of Samuel Sharwood,kll3" • of Aldersgate-street, of a MARRIED. On the 27th ult., at the parish church of Silverton , C e llitr sl ,4 1 Thomas Bentley, Esq., Lieutenant and Adjutant of Chad d Regiment, to Eliza, youngest daughter of the Bev' o 'l4 Tripp, D.D., Rector of Silverton, Devon. On the Ist inst., at Greenlaw House, the Rev. .1 0 1 e Lit , son, D.D., Bombay, to Isabella, second daughte r of t James Dennistoun, Esq. a jobl On the 2d inst., at Denton-park, Yorkshire , the Lord ffal Hay, C. 8., to Mary Anne, eldest daughter of the late IP Cameron, of Lochiel DIED lltt 1% On the Ist inst., at Norwood, Mary, the second dog of the late Samuel B. Searle, Esq., of Hackney. , dares. On the Ist inst., at Woodford, Essex, Mr. John -a-free, On the Ist inst., in Great M arl b oroug h- s t r eet, Jou' , Proud, Esq., surgeon. , 6 On the Ist inst., Mr. James Metcalfe, of Artillery-P L lac e „' Finsbury-square, aged 37. Fuz y e) I Surrey-square. the Ist t e inst., Percy, the infant son of 3lr. va Yar d On the 2d inst., at Freshwater, Isle of W i g ht ' ---s , ce Bridger, Esq., of Finsbury-circus. On the 3d inst., at Effingham Vicarage, aec Charlotte, wife of the Rev. Henry S. C surreY , Ilirest°' y erja , Horsley t Rector 0 12. 11 Loudon: Printed and Published by haTIIDO Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No. 112, strand , _ lll + 7,oy, of the Savoy, in tho County of mi ddl o sos, 011 Oat telpher 5 1546 •