The Sun. — London, England, 1852-08-14 00:00:00

LITERATURE. LENIN IV OR E : a Tale of Killarney. By Anna Jane ..I.ladletin. ill' ylashwa As the authotehs of " C. nvic',icn," the writer of the volume betore us has already shown her ability by 'aiming tome among the lesser honours, at !east, of tire. literat Her prese n t wor k i s un f o ld e d i n i ts pur pose rather pleas an tl y b y a very agreeable Hereintroduc tion, it is that she bewails the lapse of 'he "Ya of drea m i ng. T o dream well, she reminds us t s h h a a t iL we ought t o li ve i n " the halcyon d ays " o f of fab L i re• Sl7e has a hank e ri ng a ft er the "freaks gonern ' t n." We warrant that her heart must beat 4 `; li ' response to the music of poor Tom 110 0 x 2 old love tb - Lea for the Midsummer Fairies." an of f: vi l 'ithe love of the visions and phantaties Voltairr" About it what s•-y 5 the glorious old p What d e ? 'lll-I.l7hat saes the cynic and the scoffer . Oeq s -• witty ? L. mg in that epigram, so exquisite and so ten. On a bauni les demons et f 1 s Le raisonner tristement s'accredite Oa court helas! apreila write S o croyez moi l'erreur a son merite." a pparently thinks the authoress of " Ernan More," and therefore has she in melodious numbers ' su ng; this si mp l e li tt l e ta l e , th e scene of which is the lovely neighbourhood of Killarney. The s tor y is d omestic i n i ts character , a lthough conducting the Eder occasi ona ll y t o s uch sublime localities as the known height of Mangerton. The metre selected blends the rapid rhyme of Scott with the fluctuating rhythm of Coleridge. Divided into six Parts or cantos, as they may be called, the poem carries the attention forward with unabating eager -11!3 to th e conc l us i on —recounting incidents in which t he Passions of love, despair, and madness are displayed l a sacesssion, associated, moreover, with the emotions of tendsrness and resignation. The two principal cha lacters introduced are Ernan More the hero, and Helen t he heroine—the fanciful portrait of the latter form ing the subject of the frontispiece. The gilded im pression from the woodcut emblazoning the cover of the volume reveals—as by a hint—somewhat of the Passion of the narrative. It portrays the young mother, crazed by sorrow, crouching with her infant 11 nder a leafless tree, on the rocky shores of Ireland. Enough has been indicated of the plot in this last sentence, we conceive, to pique curiosity without marring the interest of the tale on perusal. The authoress evidently writes with agreeable facility— her inspiration being purely emotional. As a book, fieryhe gentle and pure in its significance, we would -- commend " Ernan More"—heartily—to all the r o vers of sens ibility, and, let us add also, to all the vers of Killarney. IRELAND. I— t ULLIN. AUGUST 13.—The Lord Bishop of London falas arrived in Ireland, accompanied by Mrs. Blom r e LY, end suite. Apublic dinner was Riven in Letterkenny to Mr. I ,.."•rapbell Johnson, the defeated Liberal candidate for "Cagal. It was attended by a great number of Pres. t!,, te riall and Raman Catholic clergymen, and was pre .a over by the Right Rev. Dr. Nl.Gettigan, a Roman atbolic bishrp, who has scarcely ever been known to lake any part in politics. V&LUE OF LANDED ESTATES. —Nothing more re markable has occurred in thi , country for a long time tti ri athe sudden an d very considerable advance that has fakes place in the ma r k e t value of land, especially in th e sales in the Encumbered Estates Court. On the I 'elage of the sales since March last, there has been an "mteus e in the rate of purchase of from thirty to fifty P e rcent, and this had been fully maintained up to the r t inirnment o f the court f or t h e summer vacation on Dr ' lld aY last. A n o pi n ion, however, begins to gain 1 • 1 _, " (11 ad that th ere w ill b e a d ec ided tendency to re ,-;arl soon after the resumption of the sales in tuhee;ober next. The causes assigned are various; but principal one is the fresh stimulus given to 1},1316 graben by th e p resen t f a ilure in the potato crop and PPrilous condition of the cereal harvest from the un `,l7(,)urable state of the weather. The last report of the t `elonial Land and Emigration Commissioners, in which "I declare it us their opinion that, " unless the emi rti°ll [from Ireland] be soon arrested, the country will t deserted by its ori gin al population," has directed ge- Ixeral attention to this subject at a moment when the 1 4" is renewed with greater vigour than ever, thus e , r ,i,nl4 it almost certain that the next decennial cen w"' exhibit a further very formidable decline in our it pulation. But, independently of such considerations, is held that the recent advance in the value of estates ass! t°° rapid to continue, especially if there were any v l c'us perm anent d ec li ne i n the prices of Government k eur ities, or a s t r i ngenc y i n th e mone y market, leading th,, a rise in the rate of interest. On the other hand, tr re are p eop l e who calculate with confidence on the idle and the rates of purchase in the Encumbered , a fdle and some even go so tar as to anticipate that the tl e of well circumstanced estates, sold with all the hi vantages of a Parliamentary title, will become still ghee, provided money continue as abundant as it is at v res ent. TH E PO TATO Cp.--There are but few accounts this ttor uinp Previ ol ; l and rhel are of the same character as those "In thi Y received. The Londonderry Standard says:— s tubes are and in many other places the crops are as Yet Pr e tty free from disease. The grain earliest We hverY abundant, and the harvest will be the Dlnnas ave had for the last six years." had Mernentr.—Sales yes terday R AND SHARE yes to t Se p t . . ,r,see per Cent. Consols, 98, 3; ditto for Ac _ao lc, St l4, 98, i; Three-and -a-Quarter per Cent. •11 ) k lOl4, Stock,i, 1; ditto for Account, Sept. 12, 10Q, 3,1; ' ) l5 4i • National Insurance, 26 ex div.; D "lin Gas Consumers, 8+ 3. Railways—Cork and . " an d', 14.1; dit;oEi Eighths, i'ive.and-a-llalf per Cent. Prof, 1-1; Cork Blackgreek, and Passage, 131; Dublin Belfast 37; Dundalk and Enniskillen, 133; „-, Junction, Gr eat Sonthern and Western, 423, 33, 43; Midland ?lea!, Western and Royal Canal, 443; Waterford and 4 eitnerick, 21. RAILWAY RETURNS TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE PAST WEEK. Receipts. 5 11 es NAME OF RAILWAY. 52 °Po lled, 101. 18 • 442. _-- BRITISH. 130 £1,827 .12,...„ •••••••.........., 743 ~ 7 ,. 1 !_ Aberdeen .. i........• • ... .... ... ..• .• : ...• 306 28., 74'4 Belfast and Ballymena •• • • ......... 1 7, 1,725 ;;. Belfast and County Down.• • 035 . -,.,61, Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire '7ll L' ,, , Bolton, Blackburn, and • est York •• :: •••• ,T . 4 t6 5 :9 46 18 4 1891 - Bristol and Exeter ••..• • • • • ..... • .... •• • • ..... • • 4,915 4,305 ~ Caledonian.... -•••• y : :' .....• •• •• 187 285 1.,14 Chester and Holyhea .•. ...... 51 249 25 2 Cork, Blackrock, and Pa55age .......... 740 1,036 , Cork and Bandon .• • • • 7 t Junction •• .• •• •• 1,124 1,371 6" Dublin and Betas- ju114... .•••• • • '' 1,169 1,33 53 6 Dublin and Drogheda• .............. la%, Dublin and -"74 Dundee and Arbroath •• • _ anc , ion 11 Kingstown , .. ...... .. 721,033 6,0394 IUO al Aberdeen Junction t 44 Dundee, Perth, and . ........... _ 809 killen, ....... 1-' Dundalk and Ennis f.B ..••••• 4,66 5,042 c, East Anglian..., ••• ' • • ••••• • • • •• 16,732 16,259. 3?i" East Lancashire •••••• • • • •- 9 3 5 Eastern Counties and Norf • ola •••• • • • • 8,1, Eastern Union 3 2 4i 4 4 4 :2 3 0 3 4 Edinburgh and Glasgow Dundee .• • • 120 13 ' 529 766 . .•••• 78 Edinburgh, Perth, and ... i., Exeter and Crediton• • ......... •,• • • • 4,3 , 3 4, 4 1 7 70_ rii, Furness Railway •••:• • • • 14 _1 5 0 12 . ,: t! 2E,5,A'‘ Glasgow, and South-W es_ ..... „ .. ~. 2:020 1,,,, , ji. 188,. Great Northern and L 277 Great Southern and W E e • stern . ,:( . lr . c . lai .. l c l 2 2 6 ,016 46 3 21,;2 5 J6 2 25 Great Western 5 122 • .. • • •• • • 5,392 ,„',55 so Irish South Eastern ••• • • • ••• .. . • • • 4 . 18,224 ..,-. 260 Lancaster and Carlisle • • ...... •• , 07, 1,678 70 L ancashire and Yorkshire. •• • .• ~`'.,•52 010 ••• " " 14k Leeds Northern .•- • • • taq -Liverpool Crosby, and S • o - u • thport •• • • 70,231 56,2 39 ,-„,,/e London and North Western,.• ••• • • • 1,69 110,57121 17',,! I•ondon and Illackwall• •.• • • • 2 4 q London, Brighton, and South C • • o • a • s • t • • • • • • 1178:643;72 16305506 24 1 4 1:444 0u and South Western. •••• .• 191 167 ,e Loncicanlerry and Enniskillen •••• • • • • 218 176 Manchciter, Buxton, and Matlock, &C• •7,569 8,300623 % Manes tor, Sheffield and Lincolnshire ' .. i5 , „9% Mena . 48 es, tr and South Junction •• •• 729 714 498% I,ll,a,r,YPort and Carlisle ' •••••• • • • • •• •••• 22 1: 8 9 7 , 6 5 23 .2: 9 3 38 0 126 Midland ..... - ••....••••• alidlaind Great We;t • e • r • n • (Irish) • • • • •••• 829. 2,581 750 37 Dlonluand 60 Newcastle and.o • . ••" - 4 222 4,359 149 North Britis • Car1i51e........ • • • • • • -• "" • • 5,482 5,413 232 . • North Staffordshire. ........ •• ••• • • • . •• • • 740 804 47 North-Western .. .. ....... ..• ••• • •• 2,656 2.5.58, 45 Scottish Central .. :• .••• • • • " ••• 620 662 22 Scottish Midland ••• -- • • •-• "" .. 630 820 29 Shrewsbury and Birin• " Rig . 17am ••'• '• 1,810 2,0 6 11 . 47 .4._ •76 29 "-rewsburY and Chester •••••• • • • • • • 714 S hroPshire 1U ' ..... •••• •• 2,336 2,411 -- South Devon 111 . °t1• • •• "•••••• • • " • ' • • 20,877 19'503 288 South Eastern. •' - • •" • •• -- - 1,516 2'539 100k4 South wales • ""••• • • • • • - - 271 880 77 .. ...... • • • ~ _ .. 1,. 40 South York., Doncaster, and Goole 2,38 2 2,67 . ii . 36 Tall Vale ....... • 931 1,20 t 282 476 • . 299 331 ~,,. Waterford and Limerick ••••• • • • • "i°:•4 West Cornwall •• -•--•• " • • • 216 291 11 2 , . YorkeWhithaven Junctin • n .• •• • "• •••• • .„ ilx2 and Nevccastle and Berwick . 8 1160,51°841 114(4692 1 and North Midland. • • • • • • • • •• 5714 FOREIGN. 1,530 2,077 248 2D, Dutch Rhenish .......• .. ...... '' • • 315 , „,..) :\laria. Antonia .•••.• .. " • -•-• 880 902 "ea 15Iontereau and Troyes •• ••••• • " " 853 1,085 g 22 461 44 ,, , Namur and Liege .. •• T,'s Northern of France ................ 2_42:4 Orleans and Central ...... .•••• • " " 8 4 ' Paris and Lyons .................• 411 6 , 1 '' 4 3 6 94 3 8 0 0 ' 11 93 8 i 091 7 1 l. ,)Paris and Rouen. •• •• •• -•••••• •• •• - a 13 6W 5 7,01„ ~, Sy Paris and Strasburgn ••-•- '• '• " 3 230 210 (.9 / tonal] and Havre -.•••••• • •• •• • • • A ' ,(,5 4,02 Western of France .• •• •• •••• • • • • -'•- 2,07 7 24S 902 1,085 22,46 i 19,109 13,090 8,786 13,609 3,752 4,027 IR E Tal h a AUSTRALIA N M AILS .—Th e Postmaster Gene tint, entered into a contract with the proprietors of the a l ,ater screw steamer Great Britain for the conveyance of t ri a 'is to Melbourne and Sydney, in Australia. The Great sn ots will leave Liverpool on the 21st instant, and will 10t prob ably reach Melbourne in about 50 days-afterwards. 4 165 '3 e first instance of the Postmaster General entering (;teatn extra mail contract, but the size and speed of the 40 Britain, together with the great emigrati on movement I 3 , 0 ain Progress, fully 'tisanes this unusual p roceeding. The ~t and ge on letter s b y t hi s pac k e t w ill b e one shilling each, andlrVSPapers Wlll be sent free.. All letters .. for Melbourne uriiesYdney Posted up to the 21st instant w il l be sent by her, C ' B P e eiaLY addressed to be otherwise sent. i-ry r, xj--. vRTIIOPZEDIC HOSPITAL, HATToN-GARDEN. ---313::esterday afternoon a meeting of the board of n t of the above institution was held for the transaction of generalAi busiums ; Mr. Augustus Hadley in the chair. al other matters it was stated by the chairman, that °ugh the wards were sufficiently commodious to receive fromthat 70 to 80 more beds than are at presen t fitted up, yet td t , .. a . t for want of funds (3 be treated as out-patien's, were dail ' obliged to be refuse 'patients who were too severely Mille , d trnission. Mr. E. J. Chance, the senier surgeon, stated that this' launaber of patients already admitted under treatment was 124.. day (yesterday) 951. Some resolutions of a local naturo . , Ning been psssed, thanks were voted to the chairman, an d '4 Meeting adjourned. r.,:filat.wca, Arlo 12.—A vessel, Eupposed to be tic. s-w orge Stone, ot Dundee, wAs v'k 1 I lload • g ree td on Du CO ' Yastelday; crew drowned. TrIE SUN, COURT CIRCULAR. PALACE (?F LAAKEN, AUG. 12. r 74 1 ,1 es ty th e Q v , v , wire iA l{oyal flig`tiss alt; t., tbcir Roy& 114btie,43e,4 the Pcince of Wales, the Price ss Ro} al, the' Princess Alice, and the Prince Alfred, attended by his GfaCe the Duke of Nor thumberland, and the ladies and gentlemen of the suite, landed at Antwerp this morning at nine o'clock. Her Mejesty wag saluted by the batteries, the ships com pri,ing the Royal squadron iikewke saluted, and Manned yards. Uer Majesty was received on landing by the King of the Belgians, and iirmediatyly entered one of his Ka jesty's carriages and lour, and proceeded to the railway station, where a special train was in waiting, to convey the Royal party to the palace of Laaken, where they ar rived about ten o'cicck, Dial Cowper had an interview with Mr. Secretary yesterday at the Home °Like. Mr. Balite:ay Hughes, M.P., had also au interview with the Hight Hon : Secretary._ The Financ:t Committee of the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 had a meeting yesterday at the New Palace of Wesiminster. Present, Sir William Cn hitt (in the chilli), Sir Alexander Spearman, Mr. Coul son, Mr. Peto, and Mr. Bowring (Secretary). Captain Owen was also present. Dispatches were sent off from the Colonial Office yesterday to the Governors of the North American provinces. THE QUEEN IN BELGIUM. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT BRUSSELS, FRIDAY, Two o'Ceoese. The Queen remained at Laecken quietly yesterday till 4 o'clock, when she drove out in an open carriage, accompanied by the King and several of the suite in another of the royal equipages, along the road to Brus sels. The route does not present any very remarkable features, and lies for the most part through a country of corn fields, willow plantations, and vegetable gardens, terminated on either side by a growth of small timber, which is enabled by the distance to pass for respect able woods. At intervals there appears at the end of an avenue of trees facing the road, a small white villa, with a vista, restricted rigidly to the mathema tical requirements, which may make the house as im posing as can be; and very pretty it is to look up the smooth green lane of grass, which ascends from the base of the gentle declivity bounding the view, and to see it gradually narrowing up to the many windowed country house of some proprietor—a few large black and white cows grazing indolently in the rich pasture, a flock of pigeons hovering over the chimneys, and the thin smoke curling placidly through the air—the pic ture of perfect ease and repose. The Queen drove ra pidly along, and entered Brussels by the rue Longue Neuve about a quarter to five o'clock. The royal carriages drove up the rue de la Madeleine, round the Boulevards, past the Park and Palace, and then re turned to La , cken. It so happened that the hour of her Majesty's visit was that which is generally se lected by the inhabit ants for dinner, and there were comparatively few persons in the street in the lower parts of the town ; bat in common with King Leopold our Queen was received with the greatest respect as she passed, and though the Belgians do not cheer for royalty as we do,k the removal of the hat and the polite salutation proved, perhaps, that it was not from any want of loyalty to their Sovereign, or from any indifft rence to his illustrious guest, they with held their acclamations. The royal party returned to Laecken about six o'clock, and at seven the King had a small and very select dinner party. In addition to her Mjesty and the Prince the only persons invited were M. and Ma awe Van de Weyer, Sir Ralph Abercrombie, and Lord Howard do Walden. The Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, and Princess Alice dined with the Princess Charlotte in her own apart ments. It will be observed, that independently of the diplomatic personages present, there was no addition to the royal circle which could at all render it otherwise than what we call a family dinner. The private band of the King was in attendance, and played throughout the evening. Laecken is a fine country gentleman's mansion-look ing sort of place, situate on the top of a very small hill and surrounded by treee. In the quiet churchyard near it are the remains of poor Malibran, and more tourists pay a visit to that spot than to the palace or chateau, which is intended indeed to be a sort of Tusculan villa to be closed to all intruders. It is to King Leopold just what Osborne is to the Queen, and any attempt to in vade the privacy of either residence would be as unsuc cessful as it deserved to be. In the absence of any reason more apparent than what is probably the real one for the visit of the Queen to her uncle, the wise acres, who see deeply into the millstones of princes' hearts, are busy canvassing the various momentous considerations which they have invented for the special use of this occasion. They will not believe it possible that a queen can visit -a king without something very important being on the carpet, and laugh to scorn the notion of a niece having the smallest regard for an uncle. But, really, they are sadly puzzled for a good, solid, all-sufficing reason to meet the curiosity of the world just now. Among va rious hypotheses, I may mention that the arrangements for a matrimonial alliance between the royal families in the younger branches finds great favour, while others think that the interest of the Orleans family are deeply cencerned in this concurrence of two crowned heads at the dinner table at Laecken, and some imagine that the Queen has come over to discuss free trade quietly with his Majesty, and to take his opinion about her present advisers. I leave these and many more suggestions of the minute to the friends of such gassip, professing my own utter ignorance on the subject, and merely adding that it is :pro bable, notwithstanding the popular belief to the con trary, that kings and queens do not differ much in affections, motives, and springs of actions from their faithful subjects. I wish the same diversity of opinion could exist respecting the weather to-day. The Queen seems to leave her" sun of Austerlitz" behind her when she departs from her own shores. The rain fell heavily to. day in frequent showers, and it is only clearing up just now as I send off this dispatch. Her Majesty is expected at the Palace, but has n o t yet ar rived. Another dinner party will be given at Laecken this evening. It is announced decisively that the Queen will leave Laecken very early to-morrow by a special train for Antwerp, where she will break fast at a quart( r-past nine o'clock, after which she will visit the exhibition of painting and Sculpture. The squadron will then sail for England, an d if so we may . expect to see the Queen at Osborne on Sunday after noon. All the officers of the squadron have received leave till this evening at ten o'clock, and the order to repair on board by that time looks as if th e i n f ormation was correct of the Queens departure. At eleven o'clock the Queen, accompanied by the Prince, the Prince of Wales, the Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, and Princess Alice, in company w i t h he King, arrived from Laecken at tho Palace. Iler Majesty partook of a spit fluid breakfast in the saloon of the Palace soon after her arrival. La section des acsurs of the Soci&lS Roy al de la Grande liar amnie performed a serenade concert during the break fa.sr, principally from the works of masters quite un known in England even by name. The young Princes went on foot through some of the streets, and returned in the course of the day. As soon as breakfast termi nated the Queen proceeded to the reception room, where she received the various members of the diplo matic corps at Brussels, as well as the chief officers of Sate. The ceremony is not yet terminated, es the number of persons to be presented is botween GO and 70. As soon as it is over her Majesty is expected to take another drivo through the town on her way to Laecken. (BY SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH.) , BRUSSELS FRIDAY EVENING. - . Her Majesty the Queen received the corpsclipio; a tiqu eat the Palace to-day, and will leave to-morrow for Antwerp, at three o'clock P.M —Times. SPORTIN G INTELLIGENCE. I LYNN RACES.—FRIDAY. The Members' Plate of 30 sous., added to a sweepstakes of 5 soss, each, for three ) rs old and upwards, winner to be sold for 1501., &c. Ono mile and a quarter. (3 Subs.) Mr. Anderson's The Chase, Est 61b (1000 (Rooke) 1 1 Mr. T. Robinson's Chorus, Sat 61b ... (Hammond) 2 2 Mr. Padwick's na Free-trader, 6st 91b (Osborne) 3 dr Won by a length. The Stradsett Hall Stakes of 10 sovs. each, and 50 added, for two yrs old. Three-quarters of a mile. (10 Subs.) Mr. E. R. Clark's Little Swill, Sat lib (13artholomew) 1 Mr. Megenis's Pantomime, Bst 2lb (Freeborn)2 Lord W. Powlett'a Scandal, 7st 21b Won by a head; Scandal a good third. The Lynn Cup of 100 soya., added to a sweepstakes of 15 sows. each, 10 ft, &c. Two miles and a half. (7 Subs.) Mr. Sponge's King of Troy, Est 51b (1501.) (Stegglas) 1 Lord Orford'sna ina Telescope, canter( b l y te soL n ), l 7 en st gt l h l s. 1b (Pettit) 2 Von The Consolation Handicap of 30 sous., added to a sweep stakes of 3 sous, each, for two yrs old and upwards. Three-quarters of a mile. (4 Subs.) Mr. Armstrong's Sabre, 3 yrs, fist 61b ...(Osborne) 1 Ir. St. Quinton's Valentine, 5 yrs, Bst 21b...(Smitb) 2 Mr. Weston's May Queen, 4 yrs, 7st 21b (Hammond) 3 Mr. Pedwick na Figurante, 3 yrs, Est 41b (Goodman) 4 Won by two lengths. The Hurdle Stakes of 3 sovs.,_, each, and 25 added. Heats, twice round and a distance, over four hurdles. (5 Subs.) Mr,Greeu's Garrick, 5 yrs (500, lost 71b (Owner) 1 1 Mr. Sare's Emily, 4 yrs (501,) lost 71b (Sturgeon) 3 2 Mr. Hunt's S ig nal, llst .(Owra.r) 2 3 Mr. Abel's Priory Stag (501.), 10st (Smith) dis Won by two lengths. YOBS AUGUST MEETING. —The Electric Telegraph Company have announced their intention to forward messages from the Grand Stand, during the ensuing York races, to all parts of the kingdom I COVENTRY RAGEs.--Te obj.ction agamst the winner °f the City 6takes has been withdrawn. ____-.-----. --..___,_--- --- The ship Northum berland arrived at Pli mouth from London on Tuesday, and On board her were a Humble oir'°:ortT°PhAiliji:niaexALt icAa.y---.. the Hon. M.P.also Ryan's party of emi ut needlewomen, emigrating under the auspices of Sidney Herbert, 11 . . ; an organized plan, bound for the gold diggings 0 un , (l Melbourne, alluded to some time since.. Most of rn-i.„atlosneparty consist of Tithe-office clerks. The Tithe Corn: them '3 'ent them flattering testimonials to take with to apectfuiiy A d u : c t i ralia ' The testimonialE, were, ,however, re , ruus manner in NIGHT the ined . by the clerks, on account of the ungene whieh they had been previously treated by Commissioners, gress is nc ‘,N ;v 'ipli rri ß a k l i n N night in the inland in POST-OFFICE. —Rap._ f i A pro in the arrangements for working a..t stall' of forty clerks —4 lll of the General Post-oilice. A wasgt,reaEm, , i t::::: sailGo n i l A t 7 duty. "", it is expected, be engaged on night 14,4b2 10,608 LONDON; SATURDAY SPIRIT of Vie PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM TLIE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DIY. TI lante ;rig bet an eceitrainereee with Trans- Illitle - h YP erb .I! , C.Uld present alarm at the exceed ingly bellicose tone adopted by the American journals, and especially by one of them which claims an autho rity fee surpassing the " slow action and meagre re ports " of the Supreme Government. The New York Herald, proceeding upon the "disputed interpretation" of the Treaty of 1818, announces as subjects of imme diate exposition the present and future available strength of the United States navy ; the resources of the Union for a " long and bloody naval war with the first naval Power upon earth;" the extensions required in its system to enable it to "compete successtully with th,, world in arms," end the "train of consequences " which must ensue when all other "Powers and interests" have been duly embroiled in the contest. These momentous and absorbing contingencies, irreverently classified as " the Codfish troubles," the journal in question pro festes its resolution cf illustrating by documents and papers " more full, more accurate, more reliable, and produced with greater dispatch than what the old fogies at Washington (i. e. the supreme autho rities of the United States) can produce in this hot weather." We should regret the loss of these very remarkable chapters of prospective his tory, but the anticipated text we may confidently hope will never b 3 delivered. A squadron from the British Channel will, no doubt, come in view of a squadron from the American ports, off the coasts of Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, but even the version given by the Herald itself to the instructions of the American com manderscingoinnafoi rightsvnt ooettounushnrr, wiybrnfir :81 neighbours :bsag i sehh l enh i rrbdtbha p ye ol r atsl preclude the possibility of disagreement. Orders to " protect the undoubted rights" of mnwra t gepn l hto, e tsuahf oUtwreirsehnflaaiitelenohel which they : re nsyu commerce," d nen e tnl royec collisiont have o l aolved called ccao withhowevern qm n u e it V st e eti r doo untbrhr emphatically are suggestive o af withindo dispute.utbhtre three miles andil e The vs eAreyfm doubtfulee r n i r ca n n n s rt t c s a r hgih t only a;n t hu fi en s y h . doubted wrong. They have probably been doing both, but in neither case can they claim th e p rotect i on o f their fleet. Government anyanroer confidentlyaethteepfe ohostilityp le p o e t rs t t h r e ad persuaded that neither the Union t a h b e l e tct We great misconception theof our measures fisherie takena and lj en h c ie ro n ac w h i m ll en he t i n dthoufegrhthe manage ment ha s certainly occurred, we are sure that in the adjustments now rendered necessary, the Americans will encounter no captious or illiberal spirit on the part of Great Bri tain. The rights and liberties of both countries over the waters in question are determined by a treaty less than forty years old, which treaty has never been invalidated by any surrender, or modified by any concessions except that of Lord Aberden's note in 1845. This convention ' stipulates that no American fishermen shall come within three marine miles of the British colonial coasts, except in specified places. About this clause there is no " dis pute," although it has, no doubt, been occasionally vio lated, both wilfully and without intention. The con vention further declares that the A • mericens shall not come within three marine miles of any of the " bays" of the dominions aforesaid; and this is the • provision which is " disputed." Now, as we on Thursday ob served, we think it impossible to maintain that a ves sel confessedly forbidden to approach " within three miles of a bay" should be entitled to sail into the middle of it. A bay, like every other piece of land or water with a distinct name and character, must have a distinct circumscription. There must clearly be a line, for in stance, on one side of which the waters of the Bay of Biscay are those of the bay, and on the other those of the Atlantic Ocean. The geographical converse, if we may so speak, of a bay, is a peninsula, which is land protruding into water just as a bay is water penetrating into laud. No person would deny that the eine separat ing the territory of the peninsula from the territory of the main land would be found, if required, by continuing the main line of coast straight across, and it is obviously the same line similarly continued which would define the extent of a bay. The doctrine does not depend on any capricious or conventional rule of public law, but is manifestly a deduction of reason and common sense. If the word " bay" has any meaning at all, it must obviously mean the space between two projecting headlands, and the waters of that bay, as distin guishable from the open sea, must be included within a line drawn from one of these headlands to the other. The point, perhaps, when expressed in technical terms, may appear abstruse, but when put in plain language cannot possibly admit of honest dispute. No American skipper would pretend to doubt when be had got clear of Chesapeake bay, or whether he was or was not in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico. IF, then, a bay is a piece of water included between two head lands, and defined by a line drawn from one to the other, and if American fishermen are forbidden in notorious terms to " approach within a league" of British bays, it is perfectly incontestable that this distance must be measured from the defining line, for nothing could be more absurd than to maintain that a vessel bound to keep three miles from a bay should be at liberty to enter it. The convention stipulated for our own ex clusive property in the waters three miles from the coast, but as the " coast" of a country, according to legal definition, is marked by a line drawn from its chief headlands, and is therefore, in some points, a line of sea and not a line of land, the treaty provided for this recognised view of the case by adding to the term " coasts," those of bays, creeks, or harbours, as posses sions from which also a distance of three marine miles was to be kept. To show how undoubtedly the intention of exclusion was hero entertained we need only cite the very next clause of the treaty, which, after enacting this exclusion in respect of fishing purposes, proceeds to enu merate purposes which shall be regarded in a different light; providing, int i fect, " that the American fishermen, however, shall be admitted to enter such bays and har bours for the purpose of shelter and of repairing damages therein, of purchasing wood, and of obtaining water;" after w hich Specifications is added, " and for no other purpose whatever." Now, this treaty and agreement, so conceived and set forth, James Monroe, President of the United States, on the 30th of January 1819, did '" cause to be made public at Washington under the seal of the States, to the end that the same and every clause and article thereof might be, observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof." A plainer case of law and right could never be made out. The truth of the matter is, that the Americans, with their characteristic and not unnatural spirit of encroachment, soon began tacitly to assume, without warranathose privileges which, by this formal convention; they had failed to obtain. Whether this failure resulted, as Mr. Webster intimates in his manifesto of July 6th, from " an oversight" on the part of the American negotiation, or whether, as is a good deal more p robable, it evinced simply their in ability to get better terms, we need not inquire. The very expression above quoted, coming as it does from the pen of an Amer ican elinister, is of itself a sufficient acknowledgment that the fact so stands, and that the Americans are precluded from entering our bays and harbo u rs for fishing purposes. This exclusion, however, They have comm on ly disregarded, so commonly, indeed, as to appeal now to their systematic trespass as consti tuting a species of prescription. But their encroach ments have by no means passed without remonstrance. The British construction of the treaty, which is not only, as Mr. Webster admits, its "strict and rigid con struction;" but, in point of fact, the only possible construction permitted by its terms, has always been maintained, and even periodically enforced. As lately, too, as 1845, the British Government, actuated by pure good feeling, relaxed its rights in respect to the Bay of Fundy, and, while specially reminding the American authorities that the three miles distance from the entrance of other bays was to be observed, admitted the fishermen of the States into this particu lar bay, saving only t h e ordinary privileges of the shores. Now, as this notifica tion was published in the Government organ at Wash ington as an "Important Concession, " and received accordingly, it is as obviously incompetent to the Ame ricans to plead a right of prescription as a right of treaty. Restrictions of which a partial relaxation was thankfully accepted only seven years ago, cannot with any reason be described as wholly invalidated by " thirty years' disuse." The fishermen of the States have always craved these privileges, have often assumed them, and are never unwilling to make inveterate trespass pass muster for a right. Not only, however, do no such ad vantages pertain to them, but, in as far as any natural title on their parts ever existed, it has been solemnly renounced. Every quotation we have given has been the expression, by the Americans themselves, of what they were debarred from doing. They "renounced for ever" (we are writing from an American text of the document) " any liberty heretofore enjoyed or claimed to take, dry, or cure fish within three marine miles of any of th e coasts, bays, creeks, or harbours" in our colonial do minions, and formally declared that they might " enter such bays or harbours " for shelter and refitting only, but " for no other purpose whatever. About th© " i ns teepretation " of such provisions as these we do n o t ate how there can be much genuine " dispute," but if th e Americans desire to repair their " oversight," by open ing a new negotiation , we trust that they ma y be met in a becoming spirit of conciliation and liberality, i f the measures of our Government have been abrupt, l et them recollect that the provocation given by their o wn fishermen has been notoriously great. If our Ministers have acted rudely their own senators have not been far behind. The interests of the two countries, and of very d are so dependent on our mutual good will , many beyond, each , and are so easily reconcilable with he pacific adjustment ought scarcely to the work of a day. It is out from England in 1852 that America will fail to receive the considerations of amity. CHRONICLE. —The London and North-Western shareholders who assembled yesterday at the Euston able address from Mr. Glyn square terminus, heard an ofline; - their an d on the general position and prospects ve • h the proceeding s they were also made acquainted which have taken place with reference to Great propos e d amalgamation of their o wn and the Western Companies—a project which, whether feasible or the reverse, may be regarded oe one of the most Thursd important On movements in our railway history. aeh the Great Western proprietors held their halt yearly meet ine—not, however, at Paddington, but, by a somewhat infelicitous arrangement, at Bristo l. Mr. Russell, the Chairm an , ma d e all the amends in his power for the distance which the greater part of his audience had travelled, and for the exceedingly disagreeable weather they had enceunterui, ieying before them a lucid a n d s ki lful statemen t of the position of their affairs. It cannot be said that, so far as regards the financial condition of these two great companies, and the gradual develop me nt of their resources of traffic, there is any tour: dat i on for the sudden depreciation which has effected the value of their shares on the Stock Exchange. If it be urged that the dividend of the London and North Western, f o r the first six months of the present year,'is only at the rate of &ve tted a-1 - alt per cent- per annum, while every one was looking for six, the answer is two-fold. In the first place, there is no Exhibition this year to give an extra- EVENING, AUGUST 14 1852. ordinary stimulus to traffic: and in the next—as the au- • ditors of the company point out in their report, and as the proprietors themselves determined by special reso lution yesterday—it would have been only fair that a sum of 77,000/., which is charged in the present ac counts for repairs and rolling stock, should have been spread over a longer period. As the fact stands, the income of a single half-year has sustained an undue de duction for purposes which belong rather to capital than to revenue. It is true that the charge, when once paid, is for ever disposed of; but the consequence of the arrangement adopted will be that future half-years will present an appearance of comparative pros perity to which they will not be fully entitled. The present halt-ye ar i s i mpover i shed for the benef i t o f t h e future, and the divid en d i s l ess than it fairly might have been. Mr. Glyn was right in iving that the ac' counts of the comp an y h r : ve nothing to do with the gloom in the share market. The latter has oscillations pe colter to itself, and the d e p ress i on of the last f ew days is the result of one of them. The development of the company goes on steadily. A decline may be noticed here and there, but the general result—allowing for great and manifest causes of disturbance—is satisfactory and hopeful. And it is to be remembered, too, that the company have closed their capital account; and consequently, nearly all the vast income which they will henceforth derive from their traffic will be avail able for the payment of dividends. In this respect, the London and North-Western Company are more fortunate than their formidable neighbours, the Great Western. The latter have not yet closed their capital account, and they have still to look forward to considerable additions to the total sum which, in one form or another, will become a charge upon their dividend-paying re venue. Bat the resources of the company are elastic; and the directors are able to congratulate the share holders on the fact that the increased merchandize traffic during the last six months compensates for the natural decline which has taken place in the passenger traffic, as compared with the corresponding period of last year, in consequence of the withdrawal of the stimulus afforded by the Exhibition. The most impor tant topic, however, adverted to at the two meetings, was the bold proposal fcr amalgamation which has been made by the London and North - Western Directorate to their groat rival. The views of the Euston-square board simpl e , an d th e y have They say, in effect:— verysu c p c l t ain ar ly e exceedingly ex pressed. "We feel that it is useless to talk of agreemen t s a nd treaties as effectual or equitable mod es o f p u tti n g on neen this subject ani end to the disputes between the two . com panies ' The subjects of difference are so various, and the points of collision are so many, that harmony can never be expected so long as there is not identity of interest. We propose, therefore, that the two undertakings, vast and complicated as they are, even separately, shall be amalgated, on fair terms, into one company- At present the Great Western directors do not assent to the principle of this plan. They put for ward a counter proposition, which assumes for its basis the possible efficiency of an alliance as distinguished from an amalgamation. It appears probable, however, that the Euston-square scheme may, at no distant date, be adopted by the two companies; and, in that case, Parlia ment will be called upon to consider one of the most mo mentous questions which ever came before it in connexion with the internal comunicatious of the country. Both companies admit that they cannot expect any such project to be sanctioned by the Legislature except on the condition of some effective power of supervision over their proceedings being placed in the hands of the Government. The policy of granting or withholding the consent of Parliament to the proposed amalgamation would depend almost wholly on the re strictive concessions which the two companies might be prepared to make—upon the evidence they could produce as to the expediency of the measure on public grounds —and upon the facilities and guarantees they could offer for the efficient operation of tee checks to which they might consent to submit. It would be unreasonable to say that the proposed junction of interests is utterly inadmissible; but it is clear that amalgamations are arrangements which ought not to be hastily authorised. It will be for the two companies to prove I hat they have both the will and the means to surround the formidable powers which a union would give them with such safe guards against abuse, that the advantages of the change would be equsLy shored between the travellers on the consolidated lines and the recipients of the consolidated dividends. DAILY NEWS.—The reports of the Great Western m and North-Western Railway meetings disclose the im portant fact that a proposition has been unanimously made by the North-Western to the Great Western board for an amalgamation of the two companies; with the further suggestion that " the Midland Company be invited to concur in the arrangement generally in manner and in terms to be settled with them. ' To this propo sition the Great Western has, it seems, given a very cautious reply. First of all it says that the proposition comes rather late to be really useful now that the Com panies have in their rivalries spent millions that an union some years ago would have saved; next it is of opinion that amalgamation is not the best manner of settling present disputes and contests; thirdly, it doubts whether Parliament would sanction such a junction; fourthly, it argues that the money terms of amalgama tion cannot be fairly fixed until the traffic of its new lines be tested; and, lastly, it has its fears whether ne gotiation on the subject may not damage its Parliamen tary case for legislative sanction to those Shrewsbury arrangements, whereby it still hopes to reach the Mersey and compete for the Liverpool traffic. Into the struggles and rivalries of these two great companies, or of any others, it is not our practice to enter, further than to describe the progress of their competition. For so long as the supineness and the indifference of the great bulk of their proprietaries allow these wars to be originated and continued, they who suffer most by them are, after all, most to blame ; 1 and the public, it is quite clear, is anything but damaged by rivalries that furnish it with greater ra il w ay accom modation at cheaper rates. Railway directors are but mortals; and once fairly in a great contest their passions become excited, their fears and apprehensions exagge rated, and their plans of assault and defence grow in magnitude and costliness, until at last there seems to be no door open to accommodation and peace, b u t some great scheme of this sort. And t h us i t will go on , whilst legislation on the subject of r a il ways i s all hap-hazard' without plan, system, or prin c i p l es; the two h ous es hav ing no uniformity of actio n , and not even t h e same standing orders; so that whil e th e C ommons pass on full examination of its merits a Bill t h e Lords re j ec t it on some preliminary point of ob servance by i ts pro moters. It is this legislative un certa i nty that g i ve s en couragement to railway contests. In the pre sence of this cause, arising in Parliament h it has reduced dividends, has largely it self, tee have never been disposed to blamee railway directors too severely for that competition which, the railway system; and if the proposition now made by the North Western is only an evidence that the board of that great line is tired and wearied of a sy stem of rivalry, the beneficial results of which to the public have certainly reached, if not passed, their utmost pos sible limits, that proposition is of good augury. In any other light, and us a practical measure, eeteeded it is, however, one that requires the very gravest consideretion before it can possibly receive the sanction of the public. When, Government tried a few years ago to gain some little power over railway accounts, th e attemp t was by the companies und disapproved of by the pu bile chiefly because of the Pownillany such interference would give to the Government over our railway system, which in its origin was purely popular; of the danger to and of effi cient service likely to be involved in that power, encl. I its being a breach of the conditions on which subscrip tionsne to railwa} s bad been based. Now it is quite possible I to create a great railway power unconnected with the Government Go vernment, which is able almost to control the be and Parliament as to railway p u ll e y, and shall also And able to domineer over the interests of the pablictn. e first in considering Mr. Glyn's proposition, that is resisted repo profits danger to be guarded against. In favour of thattoP bear, sition a class of arguments may be brought found to support a complete transfer of railway errinsent. manage ment to a central board, responsible to Gov which, pushed to their legitimate conclusion,willbe These are the considerations of economy, of _ PX- e 2th a e l centralised authority, and of uniformity of e S t Pe ll rates, and the opportunity thereby given of charging derivable from the absence of cons la with from the possibility of carrying on business arguments smaller rolling stocks. These, we say, B t ' ition, from are all. _, may be which, if applied to this proposed amalgamatiou purpo carried much further, and applied to other ell desire. t ban either Mr. Glyn or Mr. Russell Quail T hey are a two-edged sword, that i °wielded as wound those by whose hands it -s • 1 e; have that rai wa) the enemy, It is a popular belief, and any such tie; already too great a power over the "d ' certa inly greatly amalgamation as that proposed would certainly fortify that opinio n . F o r just let us e ° nsider he they e a posi tion o f t h ese three compan i es . Already m illions ster paid-up capital of not less than fifty - tw o o _ o rmy still unex ling, with further powers' of raisine w Lausted. Th e ir union would therefor e constitute by far c Pith© the g rea t est corporat i on ye t knewn i _ i i b ts e far most be the jvc numerous— largest--its its field pro ofporietar erati Y on wou ld be far the most extensive —and th e influence i derivable from its expendi ture, its patro nage , an d its proprietary would be enor mous.f ra il r oad in the actual Th e num b er o f miles ° possessio n o f t hi s amalgamated corporation would be the additional certainly u p war d s o f I,4oo;whilst mileage under their control would probably be other . l e th of this mi eane e c 1 4uo. Now, on a large part f competition. Unite has at present the advaetage O would cease and by these companies, and competition • le' I; - its cessation a heavy dd 1 pecuniary art en would a----i ticlia com merce. By their be imposed on society an d on a number of small lines se paration and distinct existence' are noble to maintain positions of 3 independence. Unite flines mustfall; these them, and the independence 0 d in the common system. Then they, too, will be absorbed s has in one direction or line each of thes e three great included in this suggested another a rival company not wholeforce, rower, arrangement. Unite them , and the and influence of the three combined, will be brought to bear, t o t h e d estru ction incorporations, of the public utility of v hich was recognised by t h e Legisl a t ure i n the statutes which give them legal life. By suc h an amalgamation the traffi c o f t h e country from Plymouth and Swansea and Holyhead to Glasgow and Aberdeen would bo pieced in the hands of one comp e ny. All the great towns of England —Lon don, Liverpool, Bristol, Birmingham, Manchester, Derby, Leiee e tee, and Leeds—would come under its monopoly. The independence of the Eastern Counties, of the Great Northern, the Yet kshire and Lancashire, the York and Berwick, could not long be preserved. Gradually they would yield and be absorbed; until at last th e B r i ai . ean aim s of one huge irresistible incorpo ration would cover the face of the island. All this in volves not merely arrangements between three com peting companies, but an e ntire change in our system of railway policy; and that, it is clear, cannot be allowed to pass through Parliament merely as a private Bill. It is a public measure, heeding at least publia.discussion. THE TREATY OF THE THREE , NAVAL I.N TELLIGrENCE. NORTHERN POWERS. Our obl'uary yesterday announces the death of Com. (nom the Morning Chronicle) meeder Richard Murdoch Robertson.. We notice the Is is ur • - ettaestentaibes that the etirpeous solemnities by mournful intelligence feelings of deep sorrow, for with which the whole ot France will to-morrow' be summoned in the death ot teat goo d and gsliant officer the service to admire and to adore, will d rive some portion of their has lost ' one who amongst all classes of society was an interest from the instrum e nt a lity o f t h e Morning honour to the profession; and a numerous circle has Chronicle. Despite the running fire of insinuations and lost a staunch f r i en d an d a pleasant and worthy ace contradictions to w hi c h we h ave b een expose d ever s i n ce qatuntance. the secret Minute of the Northern Powers appeared in In the navy r• our columns, a largo portion of the .t a r u s d . cbefore from h's first e;o y lasmentler Robertson Wa3 well known which that brilliant exhibition of decorativetalent audience is to and a first- into it as a most excellent ruessmate, be unfolded remains constant to the persuasion that w l e . a irited, whilst - at the same time he was considerate and cer. Ile tea; generous and high be have imparted an ulterior significance aiuthe to the laure forbearing. hes As a midshipman ho was the life and soul wreaths, the Church services, Catherine-wheels. of hip--- , -he . was dashing and daring, and his resources Heralded by an amnesty, and , celebrated' w i t h the offering for f u n and frolic were inexhaustible, and even up to the of those semi -divine honours which mark their object days of sickness and disease he maintained an unsubdued as the founder of a system, ed an t era, a dynasty—is the dash of his youthful characteristics. He was ever a safe i 15th of August really destined expend Empire? If such c, give e birth to the long- and familiar equal and a kind and generous superior. Like aa sli nc o , n 3 4 l ie- the event, will it many others who were weary of peace-service, and no be a defiance to those repu t , which oh the Convention promotion for the bard-working officer, he entered the recorded in this journal revealed? the other hand, if Portuguese service during the civil war. He served for no:such sequel ensue, will the determinedad opposition some time afloat as First Lieute nant o f the flag-ship under h which the Convention indi ca t e d hav anything to Sir Charles Napier, and acted a conspicuous part in the do with:the postponement of an inevitable consummation? several sharp and dashing affairs ash ore i n w hi c h t h e We have:decidedly contributed our share to the attrac- bl ue j ac k e ts were engaged. IR th a t service, too, he tiveness of the only political holiday which the French mad e m any lasting friends, who remember and relate law permits to be observed. We have stood with folded arms before the dropping with pleasure the exploits of the brave and gallant de ceased. Subsequently iu the navy ho obtained the rank discharge of dinientis, not f rom vs ant o f regard for of lieutenant. and worked hard in that grade for his su own character, nor from an inadequate estimate perior step; but, although he was the son of an old, responsibility which we h a d t a k en u p on ourselves, b th u e t distinguished, and respected officer, ho failed to obtain because we were firmly convi nce d th at our opponentswwith lieutenant his rank until 1847, when he was promoted from first could be shown in the end to have been firing d, that of the flag-ship St. Vincent, 120, Sir Charles we should be contradicted, and perhaps maligned, if we Ogle having selected him for that appointment solely on A acrunt of his good name and character in the navy. gave publicity to the document which had been commu nicated to us; but we decided on our course, after due Collegeo. commander he passed some time at the Royal Naval Admi comparison of the credibility attaching to such contra- rally at Portsmouth, and in 1851 was appointed dictions with that belonging to the authority from which his a i agent s to one of the Cape screw-ships. It was during our intelligence was received. It is not to be supposed land in voyage,l in the Harbinger, which returned to Eng that, as has been insinuated, we ever pretended to have daily anticipateda7last, that he became so ill that his death was received the minute in question from - the Chancery of Plymouth on the passage home. He reached any one of the signataries. If we expressed any opinion which his sensena most exhausted state; notwithstanding of duty was such that he would not al on the point, it would be that those articles of agree- low the dispatches with which he was charged to be de ment have never found their way to any official recap- livered by any one eisited him but himself into the hands of the post tacie whateve r. Whence, then, did we receive them, and master. was the source of our information in a quarter to which Dr. Rae, the highly-respected. Inspector of Hospitals at there was any strong likelihood of their penetrating? Plymouth, kindl♦• assumption that the three Monarchs, at in which ship wh h e e r y e, after proceededon board the Harbinger, Now, on the u to London, and thence to their recent meeting, had affixed their signatures to any Edinburgh, undergoing a most painful ope paper the substance of which our publication represented, ration with the greatest fortitude, he expired last week there was but one individual in Europe to whom they at the early age of 43 years. communicate it were likely to comm un , even before it came to What might have been his fate had the same success the knowledge of their own Foreign ministers; an d o f j un i ors attend e d his exertions in the service we will there was but one class of persons who, after that per- not pretend to say; but this we that a more effi sonage, and throug h him, were likely to become sharers cient and g allan t officer — one who know, o n w o ld do more honour in the secret. To that class we knew th a t our i n f orman t and credit to the rank d oes not exist in the senior list. belonged. We knew, mo reover, that ho was above all He was attended in his l as t moments by his affectionate, sus picion of mystifying or deceiving others, whilst it warm-hearted brother, w h o h as brought his remains to lANA..—Woo ead and was well nigh ridiculous to . suppose that he had been London for interment.—Herald. j a ti /d i ams Nor did we neglect to scrutinize PRIZE-MONEY mystified himself. tih , and the the probable weight and cogency of the motives which Co. hav e given notice to Captain John Ad had led to the determination that the document officers and crew of her Majesty's ship . Gladiator, who in question should be laid before the world. There are entitled to share in the proceeds arising from the was the probability of a desire that some degree capture of the slaver Juliana, on the - t June, 1850, p in, of notoriety should be g iven to the powerful protection that the distribution thereof will be mad e on the 7 th extended to that one of the g reat French p arties which of September next, at No. 1, James-street, Adelphi, d re pugnance to the expected proclamation w here the list will be recalle d every Wednesday aannel felt peculiar of the Empire on t he 15th of Au g ust. And there were Friday for three months :—Flag, 46/. 12s. qd. ; captain, other reasons besides, pointing in the same direction. S7l. Ss. 104 d.; second class, 15/. 18s. 9d.; third, 121. 15s • The chief of that p art y had recentl y taken on himself fourth, 71. 135.; fifth, 41. 9s. 31; sixth, 3/. 16s. 6d.; " to impose on its me mbers a p olic y wh i c h t he y little seventh, 2/. lls.; eighth, 1/. ss. 61; ninth, 15s • 'Aid • ; relished, an d which they did not in the least under - ten th, 9s h i d. stand. But, as soon as the terms of the Northern Con- PORTS:N.IOI3TH, FRIDAY.—The heavy rain that fell last vention were known, the explan a ti on o f thi s policy was evening had the effect of lulling the gale. The wind easy , and its wisdom became evident, moderated during the night, and this morning the ships By those who—unaware of the particular circumstances at Spithcad that had been lying for the last two days under which the Convention obtained publicity—have with their lower yards and topmasts struck, got them controverted its authenticity on general grounds, ob• up this morning. jeetion has been taken to its f orm an d l anguage; an d We are sorry to say that an accident occurred during great weight has been attached to the improbability the gale, attended with loss or lite. One of the wherries that it would first see the light in an English that ply between Point and Gosport, while crossing, was newspaper. We m i g ht easily evade the first-mentioned capsized in a h eav y squ all of wind and rain; the boat thet wo gave the paper, not in contained a waterrnan end six passeng rs. difficulty bv repeating Provide full, but in abstract. While, however, w e d ec li ne t o ally, one of the men on board the yacht schooner Dolphin pledge ourselves to the verbal accuracy of it s e x p r e s sion s , saw her go over; he promptly gave the alarm to his we affirm our belief that it states correctly t h e cons id e _ shipmates, who wore all below sheltering. Their boat, rations up on which the decision of the thr ee M onarc h s then hanging in the tackles, was soon lowered and was based, as well as the decision itself; nor do we se e manned, and rescued six of the persons. For a short anythi ng i n the peculiar tone of these considerations time it was supposed all had been saved; but soon one which mili tates aga inst their genuineness. The politi- man was found to be missing, who proved to be a marine cal phil oso phy w hich is noticed as out of pl ace i n a bandsman, named' Rowe, who must have sunk before the treaty m a y eas ily have crept into a minute comprising Dolphin's boat got to the spot; he has, we understand, the article s o f a private understanding; and, in the form left a widow and three young children to lament his loss. which it here assumes, it tallies str iki ng l y T he grea t e st praise is due to the crew of the Dolphin, with the views which at least two of th e by whose energy and prompt assistance so many persons signataries a r e known to entertain. Flimsy as were saved, several of whom were under water, and ac is the theory of legitimacy which the docu- tually sinking when got hold of by the Dolphin's men. ment enunciates, how often have we heard it f rom t h e The Tiger steam-frigate, Captain Giffard, has re mouth of Frederick William! and how infinitely ceived orders to take on board as many provisions as she more rational is the language in which it is expressed can stow for foreign service, but as yet her destination than those wildly mysterious propositions which every is not known. student of diplomatic history admires in the text of the The Niger screw steam-sloop, Commander Heath, has Convention which issued in the Holy Alliance ! Nor been brought from her husk this morning, and into the must we forget to state, while referring to that Conven- old basin, preparatory to her being brought into the tion, that, like the document now in question, it bore Angle Dock. the signatures of the three Sovereigns, and not of their The Edinburgh, 56, screw-gunnery ship, Captain Ministers—a fact which disposes of one of the minor ob- Hewlett (acting), hauled out of dock to the basin to jections which certain critics have started against the day. She is ordered to Plymouth, and will take up genuineness of the agreement of last May. As for the moorings at that port. She will come out of the basin supposed external improbability of such a document to-morrow. being first made public in our columns, it vanishes The Harpy iron steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander altogether when placed beside the known achievements Williams, will be paid off on Monday at this port. Her of English journals. Attention has already been di- perilous voyage is the theme of general comment and rected to the circumstances under which the Treaty of wonder. It is reported that prior to her starting from Unkiar-Skelessi became public. That treaty pro- Rio an official survey was held upon her, and it was mired consequences certainly not less momentous than officially " reported ' she was untrustworthy for so long does the present Convention. It was equally strange in and dangerous a voyage. Notwithstanding this, she its form, and equally unlooked for. The motives for was sent. keeping it secret for a time from all Europe, except the The Simoom, 16, screw steam troop-ship, Captain contracting parties, were quite as strong as in the pre- Kingcombe, will be removed from dock to the steam sent case. Yet, though the Morning Chronicle, on ex- basin on Saturday, and the Termagant, 2 4, will take the elusively publi s hi ng it t o th e wo rld, was assailed with a vacated dock. succession of denials alternately indignant and disdain- The Vestal, 26, Captain C. B. Hamilton , will be paid ful, is there a man li v i ng who now entertains a doubt advance here on the 16th. that the conductors of this journal had really possessed The Victoria line-of-packet ship sailed from Spithead themselves of a copy of the Treaty? this morning for New York. Satisfied with the stron g presumptions of authenticity The following young officers ( mates and midshi p men) whicb were furni s h e d both by the intrinsic character of passed examinations in navigation at the Royal Naval the Convention and by the source from which we re - C ol lege this week, qualifying for the rank of lieutenants: ceived it, we should, under any c ir c umstances, have Messrs. Battiscombe, Arthur , Calcraft, Patterson, examined with jealous scrut i ny any attempt to impugn it Goolden, Coxon, Hatchard, and Garland. on the part of those w h o were chiefly c o ncerned in The following secon d-masters, R.N. , passed at the establishing its non-existence, or in resenting its publi- same time for the rank of masters: —Messrs. Cox, Lle cation. It is not our fault if the latitude given to the wellyn, Creak, and Searle. French official, or somieofficial,journals by the withdrawal Mr. Percy Earl also passed an examination qualifying e of the vigilant supervision once exercised by their con- for entry into the navy as master's assistant, and t temporaries—coupled with the reign of terror under following young gentlemen qualified for entry into the p sg service as naval cadets:—M essrs. Buckle, Osborne, Fitz which the ind e p en d en t p ort i on of the press is place d , must always th row a d ou bt on statements, h owever roy, Boys, J a cob, positive, proce e di ng f rom F renc h authority. Again, in Dolben. These have a ll been app i looking at deni a l s w hi c h m i g h t emanate from the sup- Victory, pro. tees. 13y am, Hamersley, M o i n ted to t o h ly e ff.neuase: and Sprightly sa iled this morn posed parties t o th e Convention, we could never leave DEVONPORT, AUG. 12. out of consideration the p possible that owerful reasons which would ing with supernumerari es for Portsmouth. towed out of induce th em t o neutralize as much as which, Trincomalee, 24 , Captai n Houston, was looked at f rom t h e i r own po i nt of view, must appear a harbour this afternoon by the. Confiance .steam• tug, most dangerous and culpable act of indiscretion. But, when she salutcd the flag of Admiral Sir J. A. °lnman the Impregnable. Her in fact, not only has our publication of the Convention . ney, which was answered by by Mr. Thom P straw, met with no denial whatever which is worth a compasses will be adjusted to-morrow P straw, but the character of a series of lame attacks on son, the Queen's harbour-master. its genuineness actua ll y l en d s the strongest possible ex Falmouth lighter sailed this afternoon with stores for post facto support to the antecedent presumptions in its Portsmouth. favour. The Jesuitical paragraph from the Prussian Camel lighter, Faben master, arrived this morning Gazette leaves us doubtful whether it means to deny with stores from Pembroke. that the alleged agreement deserves the technical Jo the Sound—Queen, Hogue, and Trincomalee. appellation of a Treaty—which is a point not worth In Harbour—lmpregnable, St. George , Sanspareil , discussing —or whether, admitting the existence of the Sylph. Confiance, and the Devon and Camel. agreement, it impu gns th e f a irness of our abstract. The In Moan:in—Tortoise, R o chester, and Duck lighters. remarks of the Austrian Lloyd, which do not go beyond Gcodvsill lighter, Patrick master, will sail this even au assertion that the Convention is " apocryphal," look ing with stores for Sheerness. marvellously like a covert attack on the policy which APPOINTMENTS. dictated it; while a long semi-cfficial article in the Jour- Woonwien, AUG. 13.—Surgeon Hugh T. S. Bue na/ de Francfort is pregn a nt with admissions of its genu- ridge, M.D. (1844), to the Sampson steam-frigate, at ineness, for it reiterates in substance the considerations Portsmouth. enunciated in the document which it affects to denounce Third-class Assistant -Engineer W. B. Stephens, to as spurious. , oa the Magicienne, 16, paddle - wheel steam - frigate, at Moreover, all the while, the French Government has Portsmouth. been absolutely mute. It is true that, in its anxiety to Gunner Jonas Nash to the Penelo p e stea m - frigate on avoid the attentions of M. de Maupas, the Aase, n ble e the west coast of Africa station; and Acting-G unner Nationale had accompanied its reproduction of the Con - J ohn Bull to the C yg net, 8, steam -sloop,, the same veution with a hint of its untrustworthiness. There is station. . a school of theological criticism which, when you point Boatswain William Weston to the Tortoise, 12, store to a set of independent and incidental notices, as evi- ship, at the island of Ascension. dente in favour of a detailed recital, turns your flank The Onyx, Dover mail st eam . k Pac et, Lieutenant by retorting that the history has been manufactured Commander Geor g e Ra y m ond, has completed h er re out of the tributary passages ,• and, in the same pairs here, and will leave Woolwich on Sunday morning spirit, the Asseniblde insinuated that the Convention t o resume her dutie s as a mail packet on th e D over might have been fabricated out of the diplomatic station. communications which had already appeared in an The Greenock, 10, iron screw steam-frigate, of cri,556- English newspaper. This ingenious idea was c a ught horse power, was taken out of the inner basin to-day, to up by the Patric and the Pays, and was made the text make ready for trial down the river. of se- number of of articles, the very length and earnestness of which The Agameinuon, 90, river. hands employed on board to - 'e pedite her 'w steam-ship has a great deprive them of all weight as a dententi. condary and derivative contradiction—published in fittings, and will be completed in engineer depart journals which are semi-official iu so far that they may meat by John Penn.and Sons in the weeks from about six say what the p lease • till it is convenient to disclaim this time. One of Mr. G ran t' s distilli apparatus bas them—is all the denial which the Conventio n has p ro- j ust been put up capableof producing 50 gallons of yoked in France. The official organ of the Govern- distil led water per hour. ment, which honours the English press with a very full share of its notice, has not printed a line on a subject which all Europe has been occupied in discussing, There is but one inference which all reasonable men can draw from this data—viz , , that the document which appeared in our columns is in harmony either with th e suspicions or with the information of Louis Nap o l eon ' s Government. It is not impossible that the explanations which the latter is said to have demanded may result in what are called satisfactory assurances. But though such an event may count as a point gained for the Pre sident in the game of diplomacy, we shall still believe that we have been the means of laying before the world an historical piece as authentic as it is curious and ina. aortant. —__ The commercial advices - rrora Y'ork are very islett ..om A nd the satisfactory, money being in increased ,1 1 ,n7 tice from Cali stock market buoyant. The later ing'; an d four hours fornia (brought viol Nicaragua, in 2 ! „dip of Spaniards and running time) was n umbe rortant. 7 3 A r i n g by their labour Frenchmen, to the of St , iur iposa river, had all reached tome gold deposits in ', o f armed Americans, who einembered, of the celebrated been driven off by an assen i ' l l u it the place in '24 hours. had ordered every foreigner w • Di be r em This is the district, it n erins to the promoters of London leases offered upon higl' n ' iiing of the present year. From companies at the g b i, e- o dates are to the 14th of July, but Mexico the telegralui l a t h e g eneral state of affairs. The in there was 110 g chan :the Indian depredations formed an addi fhe general disorganization of the country. creasing . - l oo lu ounts from Mazatlan, the Governor had im tional eleaten According: 6 - French and Spanish Consuls on a charge of prisoned . in the recent disturbances there. At Vera artic ipating stated that a company had been formed to run boldness weteam its ruz. o hips monthly between that city and New Yerk, ° t Tampico Bavannah, and Charleston. Letters calling Peru of the 28th ' of June mention that Garibaldi had from eru returned to Lima from China, and allege that the Govern inept of Ecuador had offered him the command of their troops to oppose the piratical attack of General Flores. THE QUESTION OF CIIRISTMAS BOXES TO POST LETTaR, CARRlERS,—Yesterday (Friday) at two o'clock, Lord Robert Grosveno r , M.P. (who had come up t o t own expressly fur the purpose), Mr. Masterman, M.P., and Sir J. Duke, M.P., had an interview with the Postmaster- General at the General Post-office, St. Martin's-le-Grand, to advocate the principle that the letter carriers of the London district should, in consequence of the inadequate remuneration they receive, be permitted to be allowed to receive Christ mas-boxes. The details of the conference of course did not transpire fully, but on the Noble Lord and his Honourable Colleagues leaving, an intimation of a most elating nature was made to a deputation of the men, that their case had been favourably considered, and that the prohibitory order would not, at least for the present, be re-issued, but the matter would be left between the postmen and the public, and it was intimated that there was a project to iucrease the pay of those valuabl e and over-worked eervants of the public, —Morning Advertiser, CHEER UP." (From " Hactenus," by M. F. Tupper.) Never go gloomily, man with a mind, Hope is a better companion than tear; Providence, ever benignant and kind, Gives with a smile what you take with a tear; All will be right, Look to the light: Morning was ever the daughter of night; All that was black will be all that is bright , Cheerily, cheerily then I cheer up. Many a foe is a friend in disguise, Many a trouble a blessing roost true, Helping the heart to be happy a nd wise , ew . With love ever precious and joys o ver n Stand in the van, Strive like a man: _ This is the bravest and cleverest Ilan Trusting in God while you do whs you ' can. Cheerily, cheer_______ily then! cheer up. that colon by a steamer Return tickets are to be issued from Australia to Passengers proceeding to from Liverpool. This is t h e longest jo y urneyscrew on rec r , 0 ava ilable. oair which a return tic ket i 4 tor CREMORNE GARDENS THE KAFIRS. The contiouance of the war on the borders of the Cape colony and the numerous dispatches of Sir Harry Smith and Lord Cathcart having directed a good deal of atten tion in this country to tae real e enaracier of the Kafirs, we gladly evtiled ourselves the other day, when on a visit to Cremorne Gardens, of an opportunity of seeing footpreeeti o t i h t e h i e eg i t a x w h o i . bite s‘ d ,e th f e o r o e n i d n t a h l e e ( r t e r h p sp s c e re a ond te ei d ircyt o ie n an7 some natives belonging to thr ee o f the tr i bes who are at r h o o e h r g i e a t e t , )o and ut; t with o g a c n l a z e g e tt n u m b as e b vk i e u ii r in g i i)n o a ne f I d A s o ap t t r e o i o p c thep o a l s i n e the stage of a comm o di ous t h eatre, w i t h the stage, one of wh om g i ves a most interesting expla natory address, an d t h e ot h er acts as interpreter and induces the nati ves to display a number of eir native customs, &c., &c. We give the substance of the lec turer's remarks, from which our readers will be able to t r h o e us K r e a fi c r e s. of ' p .r e h o a p t le na s m es e tt a er p e p d ea o r v s e t r o a form a tolerably corr ec t est i mate of the actual nature of b g 6 oo g el iv p en art to of a t n h e e m in e - - terior of South Africa between Cape Colony and Mo zambiqae, hut divided into separate and independent tribes. The three tribes to which the Kafirs at Cremorne belong are the Armakosa, the Amamfenda, and the Zoolus. There is also a little girl, the child of the Zoolu man and the Amamfenda woman, who was bap appear the t o be a m Uses'. som e months since in Worcester C a th e dral, the he men being much under o e f i e h b e a p p e ti f sm th . e r diocese by s himself caf lelyw o performin gtfheth eliira fi ra remarkably oer ts than xfeet a u n n i e n d e r r a height,cet and most of Ahem even rath er hat stature, while their bodies a re more distinguished by an unusua l de g ree of symmetry and grac e in their formation than they are even for fi strength and vigour. In fact, the body of one of the Kafirs at Cremorne is the most perfect model of the hu man form that we ever saw. intellectually as well as physically the Kafirs would appear to be superior to the savage tribes generally, their brains being large in volume and of active quality, while they exhibit a good deal of intelligence in a great number and variety of manufactures, both in skins, basket work, wood, bone, ivory, and even metals. Socially, the Kafirs appear to be by no means in an enviable position, as their women have the whole of the work to do, while the men occupy their time in hunting and fighting. The practice of poly gamy also prevails universally amongst them, each male, from the chief downwards, making it an object of pride and ambition to have as many wives as possible, the only limit to the number being the possession of a sufficient number of cattle to exchange for them, mar riage, so far as the union between the sexes deserves that name, being merely a matter of bargain, where, from five or six up to forty or fifty cows or oxen are given for a wife according to her rank, beauty, and domestic accom plishments. The peculiar religious, or rather irreligique, nature of this people is perhaps the most interesting fea ture in the Kafir character. Their very name is full of meaning, signifying in the original Arabic, from which it was obtained, " infidel," or " unbeliever," and certainly the Kafirs are the most unbelieving of all un believers—being living contradictions to the rest of mankind, who manifest their religious feelings in one form or another, even though it be the Fetish worship of the negroes of Guinealand, whilst the Kafirs have neither temple, priest, nor idol, no ceremony, ao creed, no sign, form, or word that can properly be called reli gious. Witchcraft may be called the religion of the Kars, and they resort to the agency of witches of one kind or another upon all occasions of interest or import ance to them. In fact, with the exception of the chief of the tribe and his counsellors, none appear to possess anything like th e i n fl uence of the witch doctors, an d other witches of different classes; and the records of former Kafir wars, as well h e present, show that the councils and acti ons even oa;h t principal chiefs are mainly influe nce d b y the incantations and cunning of the principal witch of the tribe. In their mode of liviz.g the Kati s appear be simple enough, their clothing, when cad r a, all, formed of strips of the ski ns of such ' anin"l ' b s e as mg chiefly the wolf, hymns, jackal, and mountain cat , hungaaeut various parts aft their bodies, with th e a d d i tion of tuftsvarosf leathers, bones, rings, betide, and other ornaments that they are fond of wearing in great profusion ; most of them add a skin cloak or karosse, worn from the shoulders, to the feet. The dress of the female ie. formed of t wo cow skies, one wrapped tightly round the body, beneath the armpits, the other as an external cloak, the out-: , r one (from various additions seldom weighing less than thirty pounds) being a kind of garment more cumbrous than ornamental. The chief food of the Kafirs is a coarse kind of grain, called " =lie," which is taken, in various forms, with large quantities of thick and sour milk. They eat also of such animals as they catch or kill by hunting, or as are given to them by the chief for the purpose, though they do not like to kill their own cows tor food. They do not, however, confine themselves to the flesh and tat, but seem to consider the inner parts,the entrails, be., as the principal dainties. They will not take either fish or:pork, the latter;being by no means the only respect in which they resemble the descendants of Abraham. Their dwellings (when not in the bush) are formed of branches of wood, which the women frequently have to go several miles to cut, end then carry to the place where the hut is to be erected. The branches are joined together at the top, and bent towards the ground, when they are fastened in with little wooden pegs. The hut is seldom more than eight or nine feet high and fourteen or sixteen across, being plastered over on the inside with a yellow ish clay, and thatched on the outside with a broad leafed grass. The language of the Kafirs, like most of the South African dialects, contains a good many " clicks" and " chicks," and other guttural sounds; but the practice of adding vowels to the end of their words, gives some degree of euphony to their harsh intonations. It is a somewhat curious fact, that though the Kafirs are totally ignorant of anything like writing, the grammar of their language, as we have it now from six or seven different authors, shows it to be more simple, perfect and uni form, than almost any language of ancient or modern times, with which linguists have become acquainted. Of the amusements of this interesting people, it is not necessary to say much, it being confined to rude songs and rude dances, that appear to differ a little according to the occasion, but to form a part of every interesting ceremony; they are, however, wall worth hearing and seeing, being of the most novel and characteristic kind. We have purposely left till the last some remarks upon the w arlike and ferocious character of the Kafirs, of whom it may be truly said at present, that " their hand is against every other man, and every other mated hand is against them." Bravery, accompanied by an almost total disregard of danger and of death, seems to characterise this people, and acme of their tribes are able to bring from 30,000 to 40,000 warriors into the field. Many of them, chiefly owing to the establishment of a Kafir police at the close of the last war, the mem bers of which deserted to their tribes when the present war broke out, carrying with them their arms, have become acquainted with tee nature and use of the British musket, but the principal weapons of the Katirs are long, light, well-formed spears, or, as they are called, " asse gais," which some of them use to thrust at their enemies, but most throw with great and force, seldom failing to hit a moderatelyd size mark even at the distance of 60 yards and upwards. The resolute and determined character of the Kafirs may be inferred from the repeated and protracted wars between some of their trieea and the colonists; and though we are now engaged in the eighth lisfir war since 1817, we are no nearer subjugating the lisfirs or expelling them from the borders of the colony than wo were . 40 years ago. We do not, however, purpose I this article to enter upon the debatable ground of colo nial policy, or either to accuse our countrymen at the . C ape and Of injustice, or our dark skinned brethren of f the be t iome cruelty. When the true causes of these wa u rs pon both known there may be found to have been faulty for both par sides, and perhaps, after all, the best cour se lrake friends," if ties would be to " shake hands and bane merely sought to such could be effected. We t e - impressionse produced convey to our readers some9 e f ge t o Cremorne, and the by the exhibition of nativehet n character and conaition instructive lecture upon I nd strongly urge our readers delivered by Mr. Greig c,s: in t ere sting strangers, whose to pay a visit to r L b en t c ausing us so much cost and countrymen ar e at P" . Af e ica. trouble in Southern THE TWELFTH OF AUGUST. rues° • for the shooting season. Every Rive_ A reparation . bristle an. P the last week might be seen fall complements has this year presented more than its usual day stems o f apOrti V g. agree that grouse are more p lentiful than All etatements he hurrying off to the mountains. -- they been for the last five years; the covie s gene being seen in a single brood. E ven i n the ra lly cont ain from eight to ten birds, and we hav e h ear d of fourteen have mostly all black tails, the certain s i gn of full first day's bags, cheepera will be a rarity, and th e you ng Birds growth. Red deer are very forward this y ear , ow i ng t o the early abundance of pasture in the forests. We have already seen scree very fine heads sent for preser vation, with the horns almost clear of velvet. At Ben- More (Satherlandshire) on Saturday, th e 7 th, Mr. Ross, had a very h an d some wide a h g ree on the top o f eac h b eam, of Cromarty, killed two good stags--in two stalks, using a he s a iu d g — le e r le ifi ve e and weighed upwards of nineteen st ones when clean. A n . The poin s t e s , c ownidt with t t royal stag was shot by Captain Baring, Strathgarve; and two large stags were shot right and left by Mr. Mills, Erchless Castle. Sir Arthur Chichester has also shot a stag and hind. The Master of Lovat, a couple of stags, right and left. T wo were shot by Captain Walter Boyd, and one by Mr. Whitehead, in the forest of Dal nagown. Robert Reid, Esq., stalked and shot a fine stag in Sutherland ; and we hear that the veteran stalker Colonel Towers, whose riffle has knocked over many an antlered monarch, s h o t a l arge stag a t Ea."&kyle.— Inverness Courier. UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. —The Slimmer Ses sion was clos e d on S a t ur d a y by the capping , as it is called, of usual, in the che mistry gentl emen w h o h a d o bt a ined the degre e of Doctor in class-room, in presence of Bane Fy . fe and several members of the town council, who attended in their robes. The proceedings were opened with prayer by . the Rev. Prin cipal Lee, after which the sponsio was administered by Pro fessor Kelland, secretary to the Senatus, and Dr Balfour dean of the Medical Faculty. Professor S 3 me officiatd as' promoter, and addressed the graduates,. wh, are this year fifty in number. He concluded Pro a the medals given for the best thess, and the pr9ce.echbgs were closed by the principal pronouncing the benediction.—Scottish Press. SALISBURY MONTHLY CHEESE FAIR, AUG. 12. le 2 n 7 t o iful. The same may be tons. The maybe was saides quantity vofe rivh eg oboe ds p t. S ki ms or a e er se a s t ws . a e b r eol Half p t 1 --a=f Cowards were a middling supply. Wiltshire s , carce. T -he sale was excellent. Skims. s hire, 401. to 475.; new Somerset, 465. to 555..; best Somer set, 565. to 665.. per cwt. It is the general opinion that this was the best fair that has Cowards, 355. to 405.; Wilt fair calculation 230 tons were sold when our report left. yet taken place here; and from A