The Sun. — London, England, 1846-10-17 00:00:00

TEI E SUN, LONDON-, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 17, 1846. Pom:na packet, 11,1p, ""14 "G, OCT. 13 . —Put bac:, or Cr leak-. ?rtived` f t ,' A Thl, Oc - r. 16.—The Scours Clinet, which 4 L llth insf., and the Freden, FunnemarA, ldt " l eaky, are discharging. A plank, painted black, , pot, word Ystrcom" cut out and painted yellow, sup ?pek. the .quarter-bcard of a large Dutch vessel, has e(' up in lat. 52 N lon 2E. 15th, l t "'rut 162---WLI variable and light.—Pat back, ctitaPhne, for Algoa Bar. k1401,811.„Y oA ns , l6.—Arrd. ONEr, Quebec. '1 . . 1 11 LOSS BY FIRE OF OF THE HA, The f ear 1r AND BOSTON STEAMERS.. 'km th e . ° wing is a letter received at Lloyd's this morning of_ . ch it' Whi agent at Dublin, dated 15th inst., the substance kalif no doubt gave rise to the rumour that one of the by C I and Boston line of steamers had been destroyed re t .„ .. 111 - r 4 ett t n Oct. 15th 1846. Roche,,at of th e T orrence , reports that on , the . 30th lUip ''' o'clo cksteeringE.S.E., be fell in with a tours:al fire t o the northward. He immediately altered his Drit t i on 'and ran down to her; going as close as he could with h e p e e i nt the then crippled state of the Torrence. As we 1 S ti `.: e ' judge, she had been on fire some time, as her ' l as) -ere all burnt excepting the topgallant forecastle. h !h ie were issuing out of the stern windows.: Fromt t t e ,latintopatiPaPtain Roche made her out first he hoisted ligh s, tio hoprhi: t hat. should anv of the crew or passengers happen taken to the boats and be in the neigh ouric., the tb t y might see the position of the Torrence. Rood t o r Light he ran clear before the wind, keeping . a 'utile out, a heavy sea being on at the time. Captain 'learn:. re asons for supposing the vessel to have . been n a . darner afrare--a short straight bowsprit, two tier of cabin etiv e i r tharp bows, high out of the water. He could wpera l:kteatno en s nu both sides amid-ships, where the paidles of _ thli,eartwlie7,lhdebe • but from the smoke and the thickness of could not clearly ascertain what she was. On prernoard bow he saw asmall air port open." their°.ka Liverpool, Lloyd's have received the following from that b.aat The remains of a vessel of about ton!, 1114 47' ree entlY been burnt, with the Astrea from`re - lt, 40 Quebec lying by, was passed on the 25th nit., in %1 Y ' °n ,• 53 , by the Canibyses arrived here. This is the 'otr et reported on fire besides the one noticed by the a 8 te e a r ' r ,"" a t Dublin, the latter of which was reported to be er the hey Were probably both derelicts, set on fire by Nein.3,--ug vessels, whose safety had been endangered by V11,G411111, SUICIDE.—This morning, between ; i erlis t () i n li tt rs of ten and, eleven,. the utmost con : `sorp e . Prevailed in the neighbourhood of Cai n o der , stre et, p_ ay , di„ ;A s Inn road, in consequence of a tea kli Y e iri ttuttal, named James •Wheeler, a mechanic, `n the upper portion of the house, No. 5, Lower ki c i d IP°-street, Gough-street, having committed thatthe2l,,ader the following circumstances :—lt appears . his deceased had been for several years previous to eo ' e n and violent death in a dejected state of mind, ahicht,sequenee of numercus failures in the business oa rel sti ," was engaged upon, and the recent death_ f ° eeup, e n ' t This morning, about half-past ten o'clock, the alld a h of the house were alarmed by a deep groan 14 he crash proceeding from the deceased part di'bj,7,llPort repairing thither he was foundd deceased's i `eros s which issued from a frightfully deep gash 4 s l l 1, throat, inflicted with a razor which h l a o d he- 'Y his side ' Mr. H. Hardwick, a surgeon, _ 1160' Calt horpelstreet . , and Mr. T. W. Cooke, the were S a ll A r g e on of the Royal Free Hospital in the . Gray's et e r , °-, were immediately sent for, but their services . 'lead .4 tl , ° ' of the slightest avail; the deceased was quite ;l e head being nearly severed front the body. 4 titt it C e rt SPORTING. —There was a grand wolf ' is ,;" week at St. Laurent-en-Cana, by the pack of the h4 e 4 - 5 4t d 'Ambray which was attended by more t than t r lcl vi e ,„",,of the most famous sportsmen of the country, g ore ki11:111 three thousand spectators. Three .i w i A reen s ortsman from Bacquevi e vyas thj a ; ° -e struck at seeing a wolf coming towards him, Ivoli.:,tcad firing, he dropped his gun and fell. The s ht e t 'e au butts-atack upon him and tore his face, but Pe nio wa s ght.—Freach Paper. , i ( 'llaeq u ,„ l3 AT EDMONTON AND TOTTENHAM. "aY ` t - h ' n ee of the heavy rains of the last two or into it 1 . 11. ; (4 : ' th,,, -e r iver Lea and other streams flowing into it ris en ,Z,atighbourhood of Edmonton and Enfield, have h lae l ,`Y high and overflooded a considerable breadth 1:4 44,1' The marshes adjoining the river Lea are in !004 Parts covered with water. On Thursday night ' I „ tI R at 4r ta Prevailed for the safety of the sheep browts ,74l' n .,'" re, when hundreds, the property of r. Pce l4 ,.7 { , s. Mr. Bo nl a a r n d y and Mr. Smith, farmers, were fat-g: 4 t one tin% e the water came down so sud- PIM a man leading them away was nearly snr ;dal i r , The high road between the Angel and Lower 4 41 4 ,1 ;s under water, which is also the case with , A be a kc ,"` tae bye-lanes. hoar PSTER RAILWAY TUNNEL.—The tunnel has h" lt t 14 ..1, l ' e v3r greatly during the last three weeks, and i t ! ti44llce of the most treacherous soil that could fTe fr tn. Anumber of the men work by night, and J ep e -. u si‘ tio! the firesand their strange appearance in the %e a & 'ugs have a most singular effect.—Sherborne Pao Dire I st b RAILWAY FROM SWINDON TO DON -irettext' '''°•--We understand that the Midland f ß fo o r a m rd in o g f li ne -rs h ave not abandoned their inte2: t o ti n o c ri as e ter. The Proi tt Of railway from Swindon to re e n ossie,', ° °,olpar e d with the original propositieoffin,oiewnitllfbore he ren-n'ai"Y amended, and rendered more The pro e`c)ted ed Purposes of such an extension . of . Wars liamentary ' 4° 01;l e and by this deviation from the previous plan, ses sion' etlees raised, during the last Par Ttihreeee"t'arlrntlite, part of Sir Joseph Copley, Bart., as de erty, will be done . aw!iy with. the 4e t 0 own property, ,%W r e st ..%W ar ill join ,and branch communicating with be further extended, in the 4 es, ,i ,4 4 t b io z n n t sle, , the port of Goole; and embrace, be leVeith, th e vi al alterations of au important character, the e n -eW of effectually meeting all the requirements td iWith xr,oPosed undertaking. The station connec: , _ d I , B , li ee will as before aareed to, be in the field Th e Il n -- .." ue ShaksPeare's Head, adjoining ' th:B e a a lby r e o om d : PleteC ce ssory surveys, &c., have . b a ee rr n ang l o r d, dy with the Vie w ' and other preliminary matt,rs this important un tierta.:9 the cessful prosecution ofh la Do ncaster Gazette. 1 8 _ ST RESSED EEDL II —I 1 1 1 / 4 7 EWOMEN.—The committee . of el . society, formed for the protection of this industrious I „'''ss of females, having already been successful in effect -I.—g.—g the discontinuance of the starvation . prices encou raged by unions and workhouses, are still persevering in kseir exertions, and are determined that nothing on their 1 1 firt shall be wanting to effect the same arrangements in ,se prisons and charitable institutions. In th e course o f 'set week a deputation from the ladies' committee waited It Pon the committee at their meeting at the Female Pe ttentiary, Pentonville, for the purpose of pointing out Zia great detriment that is caused in taking in work Zder price. The ladies belonging to that establish "'eat have adopted the necessary precautions. The de- Nation then-visited the model prison, when the gover. 11 . 1 ,Paid them every attention consistent with his duty, Promi d soon as the committee could famish him 0 11 t he standard eas prices whieh are about to be adopted e ., 1 1 Practical tradesmen, he would lay it before the com tietssiaaers of.that establishment. The deputation con th„tled their route to the Penitentiary, Milbank, when Pr7s-gPverlior entered most warmly into their views, and 01; 1141 sed to do all in his power to carry out the same Jr in that establishment. l'ey," INQUEST ON TAE WOMAN AT BIRMINGHAM. Of t - 1 7 4 : 2. EVENING.—The inquiry relating to the cause in b l e death of the unfortunate woman Keefe, terminated th e " hours after the dispatch of our last account, in einal?equittal of her husband. It appeared from the con }l,lll testimony that the unfortunate woman's death eeiv„ a cl4au sed by loss of blood arising from an injury re thiv.l ill the scuffle, but there was no evidence to show th e : L'er husband inflicted those injuries upon her, as w as no on e i n t h e room w ith them at the time o f eie ceur rence. The jury returned a verdict of korai per misadventure. SSE A tii ' l '°nD Loss Or THE LOCH RYAN ROTTERDAM Iviii,,-vEssEL.--The Loch Ryan, Rotterdam steamer, 1 4 4 1 1 should have arrived in London on Sunday evening had no t not arrived up to eight o'clock last evening, and ab out been heard off. The Loch Ryan was laden with te tt t • 2 ° o head of cattle and 100 sheep, and has been as th n 4 „ l aed to have sailed from Helvoetsluys on Thursday, I‘leticilth instant. A. report has reached . the . office . of . the stre„erhods Steam-packet Company in King William- I tYs T ;' dated from Ostend, stating that the Loch 5 4 1 i' ued, during the storm on the night of the !bat ntestaot, foundered off the mouth of the Texel, but 'Wee captain and the crew had been rescued by, and Ivily ti b ° l s board of, a Swedish barque, which was on her ° °rae,, ( l ) , T al. Other reports state that the steamer was Atife;,,`ea, for safety, to run to the Ellie ; but no certain Six e a it tion has as yet been received, and, as she is now S o i l / O ver due, the worst results are feared. Pao TIIA:MPTON, OCT. 14. —The Oriental U the 1) ' te am ship A c hill es , C a pt. Wilson, arrived in she h oel ce early this morning, and landed 21 passengers, is bici "lag previously forwarded to London the mails 40tlitacilWaYi yesterday. The Achilles left Malta on has 'ePtember, and Gibraltar on the 7th inst. e India valuable cargo of silks, &c. The Royal Wet India Mail Packet, the " Dee," will take out the West i ted ;s on the 17th ,• she is quite full of passengers 140,,ari datia,on: ce Ntr %:eral. en , cabins have been erected for their ac- The Peninsular Company's steamer, the day, a d ' leave for Gibraltar with Mails on Satur the h ad usual number of passengers. The Queen, with plecesaalebourei Mails from the Peninsula and other kt,r m a y b e expected on or about Sunday. aft er , Es iPT TO SELL HUMAN BONES.—Yesterday 811 0 p 9 n, rt lad about fourteen years of age entered the W . l ° I Mrs d- st • York, a dealer in bones, rags. &c., in Great S ale. xrteet, Drury-lane, with a large sack of bones for ev er th 'irs• York havirg weighed them, began to look W ere „ e to, when, to her horror, she discovered they te eth T n e bones of human beings, portions of sculls with the t ad t hem, &c., being in the sack. She then told etit o f t , that they were human bones, on which he ran raa r k et 7 shop. He was, however, stopped near Clare -11114 a policeman, to whom he confessed that he In S hort' s _ cted them in the excavations now being made 'wh ere t 8- gardens at the rear of S. Giles's workhouse, be en great number of human bones, coffins, &c., have b alscurered. Re was taken to statio-house in eJow-street. S e p murdere r s e ,~ h is , ' e t o a her 1, at L a Ch ape ll e, by a blow on the back of eoro,nersl while seated behind the counter of a wine shop, he li vec g with the wife of another man, and with whom in the co l r n a co ncubinage, was discovered few nights ago p atrol o i f ier of the calf - market at La Chapelle. While uier perctivgeerarmerie was going its rounds, the briga istifrtrlse_d.a a heap of straw in which something pelieving that there were some young calves L oa Y w e it n e al er, he put the point of his sword into the forth,a human cry was uttered, and a man came Wasbeing able to give an account of hiMself, he eo il d: e ' t ‘ e e d tbefore the Commissary of Police, and thence husbande the Prefecture, where he was recognised t e the l ted. ackno f the woman who, lived with Schwartz, Mme tir e We e , edged that he had killed the man, but at the :•-• e e confidently affirmed that he had no murderous , b„.ut merely wished to compel bun to . give tip Wss cCuxaliteti for trial. "".' KAFIR WAR. Ji. --..-,C,.- (From the South AfricanConmercial Advertiser. Aug. 8.) " The last war with the Kafirs commenced about the middle of December, 1834. On th 6 15th of April a colonial force reached the Kei river, and crossed it, threatening Hintze for having abetted or given refuge to the enemies of the colony. At that date the Gaiha, chiefs were in the Amatola mountains. " The Lieutenant-Governor's proclamation declaring the present war is dated 31st March, 1846. On the 21st July a colonial force reached the Kei river, and crossed it, and denounced Creili, Hintaa's successor, for having abetted or given refuge to the enemies of the colony. The Gaika chiefs are in the Amatola mountains. " From the middle of December to the middle of April is four months. That was the time required by Sir Ben jamin D'Urban and Colonel Smith to raise and organise en army of about 5,000 men, and to force their way to the Kei. From the Ist April to the 21st July is"some thing less than four months, and that has been the time taken by Sir Peregrine Maitland and Colonel Hare to raise and. organise an army of about 10,000 men, and to force their way to the Kei. " In the former war the Kafire in Lower or South- Eastern Kafirland professed to be friendly, and even assisted the troops in the field against the Gaikas. In this war these Kafirs have been the most active and dan gerous of the confederated barbarians in checking the operations of the troops, and in crippling the columns or divisions, by cutting off supplies. "In the former war the Kafirs were .contemptibly weak in musketry and horses. In the present war they have exhibited in the field an amount of force in both these arms, at first sight, justly alarming. "In operating in a barbarous country, where all sup plies must be brought from the rear, the main difficulty of a commander is in feeding his troops, and especially his horses ; and this difficulty increases in a much greater proportion than the numbers he has to feed. It may be easy to feed 5,000, when it would be difficult to feed 6,000, and next to impossible to feed 10,000. " It is the same thing with the raising of forces from a population scattered over a vast country like this colony. Sir Benjamin drew his levies chiefly from the eastern districts, nearest the scene of action. Sir Pere grine, requiring a larger force than those districts could afford, had to wait till the farthest west sent up their contingents, from a distance of 600 miles by land. "In naming only the two governors and commanders in -chief, the heads of departments, officers, and men, with whom and by whom they act, are by no means excluded from their share of reputation. In dealing with an enemy, armed.with muskets, which, hovveverill managed, are atilt formidable, almost every operation is obstructed in a bushy country, by the necessity of large armed convoys on every occasion, where the assegai would have been despised. " Taking all things together, then, it appears that the Commander-in-Chief in this war has encountered incom parably greater difficulties than Sir Benjamin D'Urban had to contend with, and that he has achieved the same success in about the same time. Now, all know the mili tary character of Sir Benjamin' D'Urban, a high trained, long experienced, and most accomplised officer in every department of service. And all men know Sir Harry Smith, what sort of a thunderbolt he is, with a horse under him, and an enemy in front. It is no small honour to Sir Peregrine Maitland to say, that on the same field, under greater embarrassments, he has crushed a stronger adversary, and extended his conquest to the same river in an equal or shorter space of time. And this is the plain truth of the case. " The main divisions of the army, three in number, are now concentrating on - the Amatola, mountains, where Sandilli and the hostile Gaika chiefs made their stand last war, and where their people and cattle are supposed or known to be placed for defence at present. Sir Pere grine, with Colonel Somerset, is on the Buffalo stream, near to where it issues from those ravines. A letter dated Fort Beaufort, 29th July, gives the following sketch of affairs in that quarter : "'The campaign was resumed on the 25th, Sir An dreas' (Stockenstrom's) division taking the lead. On Saturday of the above date, his division broke up camp at the Gaga ridge and.leivouacked at Block Drift that night, whence they marched to the Chumie Station on Sunday night. Four hundred of the Kat River burghers, under their officers, Groep,Botha, and Cobus Free, left on Sunday night to join Field Commandant Joubert's force, 800 strong, and that of Mr. Joseph Read, 600 strong, at Gaika's Peak, all to meet Sir Andreas' own force at the Chumie Hoek, where there are said to be an immense ren dezvous of Kafirs. Sir Andreas has new about 2,800 men under him. Kat River, at the request of the inhabitants, had been placed in his division. Captain Sutton has been left in charge of the settlement, a service of the greatest importance, as that is a gate through which the Kafirs might rush into the colony, should they, as on former occasions, shrink from the front and re-appear in the rear of the invading forces. I was told by an old commander under the Hottentot chief Boesak, that on Vau der Walt presenting himself with an overwhelming force, he called his head men together, and said, " We can't meet him on equal terms. Don't attempt to engage his forces. Disperse and attack in large parties their homes; plun der, and that will disconcert, divide, and disperse his command." This was done and had the anticipated effect.' " The following from Sir Andreas Stockenstrom's camp is interesting :--‘ Religious worship is statedly kept up in Sir Andreas' camp. A gentleman who spent a night in it says, that the camp appeared to him to be divided into eight or nine Rations, in each of which re ligious worship was held night and morning, Sir Andreas attending in person. At four o'clock, a herald plays on the trumpet a tune to the hymn, Praise God from whom all blessings flow,' when all assemble at their various sections to praise the Author of Life and the Lord of Hosts. The services are conducted either by the commandants or church officers (elders and deacons) who are in, command. When he heard the deep manly c v h o la i i c gth e s of the Boers singing God's praises, it reminded the narrator of the Great Protector's Iron sides,lattlesinging charging g 1 t o h o e t h e h Psalm eel y i e the as namethey eof marchedthe m Most o t High God I noble reliance on e th G e oernor's camp there is the same nations. May success u n p e r w e m e e r e ß w u n l e r t h a e n i r d disposerhonourable " Favourable accounts are still l•f i c s ; a ived from Waterloo Bay (on the east bank of the the capabilities of that place for landing respecting goods. A fair landing-place at that I p n fin a t n is s i h n ip t ng the foundation of a town and the founding of .a settle mentect equal to any in Southern Africa. It will bring out the resources of some 10,000 square miles of territory, already inhabited by perhaps 150,000 souls. The mouth of the Buffalo River also is probably approachable, and the river St. John's, beyond the Kei, with some other indentations of the coast, may soon be made to open the whole of the vast territory between the Cape and Natal to trade. Supplies have been landed from the Sophia, at the mouth of the Kowie, and the Sophia and British Settler were in that river. FRONTIER. In the Graham's Town Journal of the Ist August details of successful operations on and beyond the Kei river are given. The Governor is now giving a practical reply to the lay critics by whom his delays have been so sharply handled. Having drawn up his forces from all parts of the colony, and amidst dreadful difficulties secured provisions for them, he has in the course of ' two or three days swept Kafirland from the Buffalo to the Kei, performed a bold and startling inroad in Kreili's country, and is now 'seen enclosing, on three sides, the whole tribes of the Gaikas in their last strong holds among the Amatola mountains, from which their principal chiefs already sue for peace. Peace they can not have. Mercy is what will be granted, the country having been formally taken possession of by the insulted and outraged government of the Cape. Sir Peregrine, with a large force, was near the gorges of the Amatola, on the south-east side, on the 28th July, and an express had been sent to Fort Beaufort, directing an immediate movement of Colonel Hare and Sir A. Stockenstrom, on the western and northern sides. By this time it is highly probable that the final blow has been struck. John Russell to tell the country what he infers from these premises. HERALD.—By man's unhallowed ins , rumentality, " rcquicscat in pace" has been turned into mockery. -There is no peace for mere humanity, even in the grave. Day after day, from one end of the metropolis to another, the awful plague-cry semis revived in a modified form— " Turn out the dead, turn out the dead." The spirit of Defoe seems to hover over London, and to glory in im pelling its authorities to realise and renew some of the horrors of his semi-fictitious narrative. A powerful im pulse eviscerates our churchyards. Some insane rest lessness summons old and young—the mouldering skeleton of the last century and the fresh corpse of the present month—huddles them all together, and carts them off to Kingsland or to Battle-bridge. One day a trader in death who battens upon burials is found to cram his dark and putrefying receptacle until it bursts with repletion—the next, a city church yard or a pauper burial-groundj is irreverently disembowelled, the grave renders back its dead, and the accumulations of years are transported to a distance. Sex and" age, social condition and personal identity, are utterly confounded. The ideas generated by such a picture may be painful and irritat ing,—the mere perusal of such a desecrating deeription may be at once awful and disgusting; but what are these compared with the reality of its performance? A skull in the waste grounds at Islington, an arm at King's-cross, a foot at St. Giles's, a trunk at St. Pan ' eras, the remainder anywhere, horror and loathing everywhere. The latest exhibition we chronicled on Thursday. If the workhouse at St. Giles's requires en largement, the dead pauper makes way for the living. An infirmary, a dispensary, a casual ward, waiting rooms, bath-rooms, and other offices being required, the pauper churchyard is allowed by mere inadvertence to furnish a site. Some old sheds are demolished, and as the foundations for the new buildings are gradually ex cavated, the ghastly remains of defunct humanity are extensively uncovered. Fetid gases are liberated in a state of powerful concentration—the diffusion of aerial foulness proceeds with the unchangeable rapidity which physical laws prescribe and natural science reveals—the miserable tenements of surrounding poverty are per meated with the odours of putrefaction—and the cham bers of the half-starved mechanic are filled with the ele ments of typhus.- Public indignation echoing the whispers of common propriety, which could scarcely fail to rise on their own lips, at, length compelled the guardians of the poor to exhibit some amount of decency. The ex humated remains, we learn, were sent for reinterment to the St. Giles's Cemetery, in the St. Pancras-road, in stead of being any longer diffused in the rubbish of waste lands, to become the playthings of itinerant infancy. But after what fashion was this compromise with their duty effected? Black boxes, of any convenient size or shape, into which we are told some twenty bodies were indiscriminately thrust, furnished the machinery of trans portation. In the meantime the-excavation makes pro gress, and the evolution of pestiferous gases proceeds apace. If the moral sense and decent feelings of hu manity recoil at the history of this loathsome transaction, we earnestly trust that the consequences of its publicity will be neither temporary nor personal. Under the cir cumstances, it may be asked what could the authorities at St. Giles's do, beyond that which they have effected ? The answer is manifestly this—suspend or abandon this excavation of the dead to make room for the living pauper. Our complaint is, not that St. Giles's workhouse and its churchyard are worse than other places, but, what is far more important, that other places are no better than St. Giles's. If a man builds a house, nay, if he erects a wall, or removes a partition, the Buildings Act and its public officer are instantly on his hack. A heavy fine teaches him that individual liberty must yield to public safety. But what district surveyor interferes with the ploughing, and probing, and disturb ance of churchyards ? What officer of health exists on whom a notice of impending desecration could be served ? What public functionary augments the speed, and main tains the decency of some imperative removal of the dead, when that lamentable necessity arises ? There is, in truth, no such person. Why we are so ill provided let our lawmakers answer ; with them the disgrace rests—with us the disgust remains. " The honour generally due unto all men," says Hooker, " maketh a decent interring of them to be conve nient, even for very humanity's sake :" how much more, then, are we called upon to disinter them decently. What right has any body of men to aggravate the horrors of dissolution ? The unimaginative minds of the vast majority of our population inseparably associate death with burial, but it has been reserved for the present generation to connect the ideas of dissolution with the indefinite terrors of wholesale body -snatching. The Morgue and the Catacombs of Paris are as nothing com pared with the unblushing deeds committed in London churchyards. in a city where so little outward respect is exhibited for the human form in a condition of phy sical decay, men still wonder that amongst the lower orders living brutality is rife, and crime is invested with no terrors. With what excusable scepticism must the ignorant and the dissolute regard the doctrine of a future state and a superintending Providence, when they Fee 'that which was just now the residence of an immortal soul become the object of unrestrained insult and revolt ing desecration—when the funeral rites are scarcely for gotten, the mourning garment scarcely worn out, before those rites become a mockery, and that garment a dis gusting reminiscence. Sorrowing relatives remember that they laid the mortal remains of their lost friend in the grave of his fathers ; can they say the next week where those remains are then ?—even the dead travel. But the voice of public opinion, if once roused, will be found to possess no temporising utterance ; the groan from noisome prisons met the ear of Howard not in vain ; the trot - 11 - etre - it - of Slavery encountered the eyes of Clarkson not bootlessly ; the spirit of military flogging quailed under the gaze of an independent press ; and the desecration of the dead, if encountered with one tithe of the same earnestness and determination, will expiate its atrocities with equal certainty and completeness. GOVERNORSHIP OF BOMBAY. On this subject we have received the following polite note from the Hon. Member for Wolverhampton : " Mr. Villiers presents his compliments to the editor of the Morning Herald, and begs-to inform him that he has not been appointed Governor of Bombay, and that he has no reason for believing that such an appointment is intended. " Travellers' Club, Oct. 15, 1846." Vire are very sorry if this be so, for two reasons:— first, for the sake of Mr. Villiers, who is a gentleman, a man of talent, and a consistent politician ; and, se condly, for the credit and character of Lord J. Russell's Government. That there has, however, been a talk of such an appointment for more than a month past in every club in London—in Brooke's, in the Reform Club, and in that very Travellers' whence he dates his letter— no man knows better than Mr. Villiers himself. There is seldom smoke, says the proverb, without fire, and we do not believe the appointment was so generally talked of without some warrant and foundation. That Lord John Russell, who has always been friendly towards and intimate with Mr. Villiers, creditably contemplated such an appointment within a very recent period, we verily believe, though we may not be in a condition to prove the fact legally in a court of justice. It will be observed that the denial, of Mr. Villiers is more diplomatic than distinct or express. Mr. Villiers is a lawyer of some twenty years' standing, and he will thoroughly understand us when we say that he neither traverses nor avoids with convenient certainty all the material allegations of our statement. He merely says that he has not been appointed, and that be has no reason for believing that such an appointment is intended. But he does not say that it was not intended to appoint him to Bombay at any time in the past month of September. Still less does he say that no intimation of such appointment was at any time given to him. We adhere to our previous state ment, that the appointment was contemplated. Why it is no longer contemplated is best known to the Whig Government. Perhaps that Government can safely count on the vote and support of Mr. Villiers, and therefore may postpone his claims till a more convenient time, while it may be urgently necessary to conciliate Sir Robert Peel by the appointment of Lor% Dalhousie or Sir George Clerk. Lord Dalhousie is, unquestionably, a man of talent and a good man of business, and so far is well fitted for the appointment ; but we can see no reason why Mr. Villiers should be held to have a less preferable claim than the man of all work of Sir Robert Peel, the " cannie" manager of cannie Scotland. Mr. Villiers is not a paid patriot—nor a sordid agitator like O'Connell and the stipendiary staff of the League—nor a doubtful ally—nor the henchman of an opponent ; and he, therefore, will probably have his honour and virtue for a reward, and go without the goverment of Bombay. —Herald. RECEIPT FOR BOILING RICE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—Should you deem the annexed receipt for boiling rice, and the modes of using it as human food, worthy of a place in your newspaper at the present juncture of the ascertained failure of the potato crop, 1 should be glad if you gave it publicity. Rice so prepared has constituted a part of my daily food for the last thirty years ; I have found it nourishing and agreeable : its preparation after two or three trials will be found easier by the cook than that of boiling a pan of potatoes.—Your obedient servant, ROBERT WISE. Allonby, near Carlisle, Oct. 14, 1846. RECEIPT FOR BOILING RICE.—Put half a pound of rice into a quart pan with a lid, to which add a pint and a half of cold water; boil it over a brisk fire, keeping the lid on, and in from ten to fifteen minutes from the time it is placed on the fire the rice will have absorbed or boiled up all the water; it must then be taken off the fire (as it is apt to burn if left on after all the water appears to be gone), the pan must then be placed on the hob, or near the fire for ten minutes longer, when the rice will be found to be quite dry and fit for use, all the grains separate, but swelled out and quite soft. If kept warm in the pan, with the lid close on, it will still be found as good and fit for the table an hour or more after boiling as it was ten minutes afterit. was first taken off the fire. The chief attention necessary is to be particular in taking it off the fire as soon as the water is all boiled into the rice (as at that stage it is apt to burn), and to keep the lid close on till used, as the steam greatly as sists in softening it. Half-a-pound of rice so boiled will swell out and quite fill a quart pan, and other quantities in like proportion. Rice boiled in large quantities of water, requiring to be strained through a cullender before using, in order to separate the rice from the water, is a waste of its nutri trious qualities, and renders the rice insipid : such water so strained in the East Indies and China, is called congy water, and it is prescribed by medical men there as nourishing food for convalescents, invalids, and sickly individuals ; such water is, in fact, rice-gruel. Boiled rice, as a substitute for potatoes, may be used as under :- 1. The cheapest and simplest seasoning for boiled rice is salt ; hundreds of millions of human beings in East India and China subsist on rice and salt only; the latter are strong men. 2. The next superior seasoning is a little salt and pepper, boiled in water separately frcm the rice, and used by pouring it when hot on a plate full of hot boiled rice. 3. The next in quality is to add to No. 2 a few slices of onion and a little butter, and boil and use as above. 4. Add to No. 3 a few slices of fish, or flesh; or fowl, and boil and use as before (with or without onion). 5. Add to No. 4 a little curry powder or spice, and boil and use as above (with or without onion). Or, on a soup plateful of hotiboiled rice (prepared as per receipt), pour a couple of lightly boiled eggs, to which add a little cold butter ; mix these together, and use with fish,lflesh, or fowl, prepared agreeably to palate; this will be found substantial and agreeable food. Or, a soup plateful of rice (boiled as per receipt) mixed with a little milk, sugar, and spice, will be found light and agreeable food, either hot or cold. DEATH OF THE RIGHT HON. SIR BROOKE TAYLOR, G.C.H.—This aged knight, for many years a distin guished member of the British corps diplomatique, died on Thursday last, at the venerable age of 70, having during his career represented the British int e rests most satisfactorily at the courts of Berlin, Munich, Hesse Cassel, and Wirtemburg. The deceased for some time back suffered from bodily illness, and, owing to his ad- Vanced age, no hopes had on any occasion been held out of his ultimate recovery. He was a native of the county , of Kent, and was the third son of the Rev. Edward Tay lor, of Bifrons, in that county, by the sister of Thomas Watkinson Payler, Esq., consequently he was brother to the late Lieutenant-General Sir Herbert Taylor. His birth took place in the year 1776. At an early pericd Sir Brooke entered the diplomatic service of his country; in 1822, while Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleni potentiary at the Court of Prussia he received the Guelphic Order from George IV.; and on being removed from Munich to Berlin, in 1828, was sworn in a Privy Councillor. Sir Brooke possessed some property at Elstree and a mansion in Eaton-place ; at the latter he died. He never was married. By the demise of the Right Hon. Gentleman an annual pension of 1,3361. re verts to the public purse, he having en joyed that yearly income nearly twenty years for his diplomatic services. RUMOURED LOSS BY FIRE OF ONE OF THE HALIFAX AND BOSTON STEAMERS. —A rumour prevailed in town this week to the effect that one of the splendid Cunard line of steam-ships, plying between this port and Boston, had been destroyed by fire at sea. We should not have noticed this but for the repeated personal applications which have been made to us on the subj ec t, an d we h ave the less agitation in doing so, being in a po s iti on , as we now are, to give a direct negative to the alarming re port. On Saturday last, a mercantile house here received a note from Dublin, stating that the captain of a vessel, which had put in there, on the Bth, through stress of weather, had reported that, on the 27th ult., in the At lantic, he had seen a large steam-vessel on fire, he being at the time not in a position to render her any assistance. It was, of course, naturally supposed that the vessel alluded to must have been the Hibernia, which sailed hence on the 19th ult. The Cambria, however, has brought the gratifying intelligence that the Hibernia arrived at Halifax on the Ist instant, and, as the other steamer of the line at sea, the Caledonia, only sailed hence on the 4th inst., of course she could not be the vessel seen on the 27th ult. Supposing the report to have any foundation at all, the vessel could not have been any of the Liverpool steamers.—Liverpool Mercury. FLTAL FIGHT BETWEEN TWO BROTHERS.—At Steeple Claydon, Buckinghamshire, on Thursday, Thomas Shirley, a young man of that place, was killed in a fight by his brother. It appears that Thomas and John Shirley, sons of a labourer, were, with two com panions, drinking late on Wednesday night. They quarrelled about some gin, and a fight ensued. They fought near the village pound for about an hour and a half, and about seventy rounds, when Thomas, the elder brother, fell, and on being taken to his father's cottage, he was found to be dead. TESTIMONIAL TO THE RAILWAY PROJECTOR.— We are much pleased to observe that Mr. Thomas Gray, the interesting author of the railway system, is now likely to receive a share of the honour and the mote sub stantial benefits due to him, inasmuch as a subscription for a befitting testimonial has been fairly set afloat in the city where he dwells, and where he must be there fore best known, namely:Exeter. It is to be hoped that this will be but the central nucleus of a wide-spread re cognition of his services.— The Budder. MR. BRIGHT AND THE MANCHESTER 'REFORM ASSOCIATION.—Yesterday noon a meeting of the Reform Association of Manchester, at which Alderman Callen der presided, was held for the purpose of receiving Mr. Bright's answer to the request made to him by the Association to allow himself to be put into nomination for the borough, in the room of Mr. Philips. Mr. Bright's letter, which was read by the chairman stated the writer's perfect readiness to become a candidate for the suffrages of the electors at the ensuing election. It was afterwards resolved that a general meeting of the Liberal electors of the borough should be held at the Free-trade hall on the evening of Wednesday, the 28th instant, for the purpose of presenting Mr. Bright's reply to the constituency, and a committee was appointed to make the necessary arrangements. ROYAL BENEVOLENCE.—The whole of the chesnuts grown upon the royal.-domains in thp Great Park at Windsor have been placed at the disposal of the paro chial authorities for the purpose of their being sold and the proceeds applied towards the relief of the poor of the parish, in any way which may be considered by the churchwardens and overseers most conducive to their comforts during the approaching winter. The quantity already gathered amounts to upwards of six hundred bushels. At the present market price of chesnuts it is expected that they will realise at least one hundred pounds. A large quantity still remain to be gathered ; and it is expected, when the whole are housed, there will be very nearly one thousand bushels. SPILUT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. THE NEW HOSPITAL AT BROMPTON.—Yesterday evening a meeting of the committee of management of the above institution, for the treatment of consumption and diseases of the chest, took place at the Board-room of the new building, Philip Rose, Esq., in the chair. The usual routine business having transpired, it was stated that the sum of 2,0001., bequeathed by the late Rev. Henry Campbell, the uncle of the worthy chairman had become available for the purpose of the charity, to which had been added by Mr. Rose the sum of 100 guineas for the necessary fittings of one of the wards as a temporary chapel. Otho Hamilton, Esq., of Buckingham Gate, St. James's, had also presented a handsomely painted win dow for the principal staircase; and James Green, Esq., a very choice and extensive present of Staffordshire ware for the domestic furnishing of the hospital. The com mittee received the above announcement with the greatest satisfaction, and thanks having been warmly voted to the chairman, adjourned until Thursday next. SUBSIDENCE OF A RAILWAY CUTTING.—During the night of Thursday an accident happened on the Brighton and Hastings Railway, which will lead to considerable inconvenience to travellers. About a mile on the Brighton side of Pavensey is a deep and extensive cutting, through what the " navies " call a soapy soil, but which is known to geologists by the nsme of blue clay and green sand, and on Friday morning it was discovered that one side of this cutting had gone down during the night, in a semi-liquid state, entirely filling up the hollow, and carrying the rails to the top of the oppo site side of the cutting. The first up-train was delayed, in consequence, nearly two hours, it being necessary for the passengers to alight, on reaching the spot, and walk to the other side of the slip, and there await the arrival of a special engine, which was dispatched from Lewes as soon as the disaster was known there. All the subse quent trains yesterday were more or less delayed. The tenth of the slip is about 50 yards, and the quantity of earth which it will be necessary to remove has been roughly estimated at .40,000 cubic yards. It will take, we bear, five or six weeks to repair the road, and mean while a temporary curve siding will be formed for the passage of the trains. The work has already been com menced by Mr. Wythes, the contractor, on whom the expense tells, the contractor having entered into an en gagement to construct . the line, and keep it in repair for thre years after the opening. REFORM YOUR WASHING BILLS.--A correspon dent of the Builder professes to have made a " very careful estimate" of the laundry expenses of the metro polis. He computes them at five millions per annum I He proposes that the necessary and expensive lavations of linen, &c., should be carried on on a large scale, and that washing companies should be once more set on foot. The certain effect of such establishments—if skilfully conducted—would be to abolish the extensive and not unamiable sisterhood of washerwomen, and to save the metropolitan public 20 per cent. on the washing bills, or —should the " careful estimate" prove correct—one milion per annum, FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. TlMES.—Anneeting at a Mechanics' Institute is irw a-days so usual an occurrence that it provokes but little general observation. And even the more ambitious of these reunions present very little to attract attention be yond the limits of the immediate neighbourhoods where they are held. We should, therefore, have suffered the recent soirée at the Bradford Institution to pass without comment, had it not been for the presence of Lord Mor peth, and the remarks which he addressed to the meet ing. Without giving our adherence to the creed of those. who believe that Mechanics' Institutes are to be the means of redeeming the human race from ignorance and barbarism to knowledge and refinement, we must admit that, under certain conditions and certain management, they may be productive of real good. But they re q uire this certain management—they ought to be governed by these certain conditions—to prevent them from being perverted into ridiculous, if not pernicious , exhibitions. There is, perhaps, no temptation more alluring to the indulgence of froward self-conceit or impertinent garru lity than that which is presented to a fluent but ill informed speaker by the opportunity of addressing a worse-informed and illiterate audience. In such a case, vanity fans the flame of presumptuous sciolism, and the follies or prejudices of the many are fostered by the self-complacency of one. The flippant speaker and tho heedless audience react upon one another to propagate and promote erroneous opinions, orinaccu rate conjectures, which are more dangerous than utter ignorance. But the case is far different when the teacher is able, erudite, and impartial, the audience docile, confiding, and unprejudiced. And there are few more graceful kinds of intellectual condescension than that which is manifested by a man of cultivated taste who courts the opportunity of instructing the.unedu cated, refining the unpolished, and correcting the preju dices of the half-learned, amongst his less fortunate neighbours. Nor will such an alert, in itself generous and kind, be maimed of its strength or deprived of its reward, if he who makes it add to the natural gifts of talent and of taste the artificial advantages of birth and rank. Those who detest toadying and despise "flunkeyism " will yet reserve a proper admiration for him who makes rank and birth instruments for raising noble aspirations and encouraging exalted pursuits. And even those who profess a political detestation of all class distinctions will become reconciled to them in the person of one who not only does not disclaim, lnit proudly avows his con nexion with and devotion to the humanities of science, of literature, and of art. Associations of this kind have become among the facts of the day. They exist, and they will continue to exist. The tone which they take, the spirit by which they are guided, the maxims which they evolve, pass into other assemblies and animate other associations. They are only one form of that federal propensity which is amongst the characteristics of our time. The advantage, then—nay, the necessity and the duty—of giving them certain tendencies, of infusing into them certain principles, must be too obvious to require any lengthy inculcation. When we recollect the facility with which men are now-a- days leagued together for purposes either social or political—either of good or evil—it is not unimportant that in the minds of the masses the idea of combination should be associated with the example of at least one society where good order is observed, sound knowledge imparted, and party prejudices repudiated. As Lord Morpeth said, "It is most salutary to have some common neutral ground, where all can equally at times meet together without any restraint, save that of mutual self-respect." The violent invective, the coarse person alities, the ludicrous but baneful exaggeration, the taste less and tawdry declamation, which have been applauded at many public meetings, convened 'for great and useful purposes, comul one to regret that the minds both of the speakers and their hearers had not been previously trained in schools of severe disiepline and sound taste. That preparation of course is forbidden to the many, still it may fairly be hoped that such meetings as these will do something towards modifying that extravagance of opinion, and violence of language, which often pro ceeds rather from the mutual repulsion of different classes and the want of specific information, than from political grievances or social oppression. If they merely -bring together persons of different stations and occupations —if they lead the man of rank, the student, and the philosopher into the haunts of busy industry---: they will have done much to consolidate the various elements of our system, and to destroy the too frequent but not inevitable causes of repugnance and antagonism. And when once the ice is broken, literature or science, or music, or amusement, will at least 'have the oppor tunity of proving their legitimate influences. We can easily understand the Eton aspirations of Lord Morpeth, when he looks forward to the time that some scholars will introduce to the knowledge of the Bradford me chanics " the blind old bard of Scia's rocky isle." Without, however, anticipating that period—perhaps not a distant one—we may profess ourselves content with hearing the " bard of all time," and " the minstrel of the North" well read and well criticised in an assembly of men who live by the labour of their hands. A multitude which can applaud Shakespere and appreciate Scott must cherish feelings of kindliness and humanity far higher and stronger than the passions of party or the jealousies of caste. A peer or a doctor of laws expound ing the philosophy of Hamlet and the pathos of " Mid lothian" to a congregation of mechanics, would present a study worthy of remark alike to the admirers and the assailants of our social system. CHRONICLE.—If the Queen's Ministers continue unconvinced of the necessity of instantly abolishing all artificial aggravations of a calamity against which they have already invoked both the prayers of the Church and certain extreme powers of the 'State, they will soon find themselves standing alone in their appreciation of public perils, and their estimate of public duties. Every day brings with it new appeals to the prudence and sense of responsibility with which national opinion has largely credited the statesman now at the head of affairs, and summons them with a force and distinctness that ought to be irresistible, to do the one thing which is clearly and certainly right. - We may add, with all due respect for the very respectable motives which are no doubt at the bottom of an otherwise inexplicable hesita tion, that every day brings with it new rebukes to the tardiness of a Government which neglects to put its policy in agreement with its prayers, and indo lently allows a rather small proprietary, or delicacy, to overbear the dictates of a transcendent ne cessity. Two or three days ago we recorded the protest of the working-men of our manufacturing metropolis against the continued maintenance of a system that darkens their immediate future with gratuitous difficulty and avoidable suffering and privation. Yesterday, our columns contained like protests from the capitalists of manufacturing industry, as represented in the Manches ter Chamber of Commerce and from the municipality of one of our most important seaports. To-day, it is our very painful duty to lay before the public, in a letter which we commend to the most deliberate attention of all classes of our readers, views of the condition and prospects of Ireland, and of the absolutely incalculable magnitude of the present and comin g ca l am ity, w hi c h dismally illustrate the unspeakable national absurdity— we know not why we should not say, th e g l ar i ng na tional sin—of maintaining, in the face of famine, laws made against an inconvenient and exce pti ona l plenty. We grieve to be obliged to say that our knowledge of our correspondent's sources of information, and our confidence in his judgment, compel us to regard the statements of this letter as coming nearer to the real truth, and the whole truth, of a mat ter which perhaps no man living is capable of yet com prehending in all its horrible integrity, than anything which we have yet presented to our readers. One almost despairs of saying anything that can strengthen an argument whose force lies in an axiomatic simplicity that really leaves the logic of advocacy nothing to do. How shall one " reason" such palpable truisms as those which our operative and our capital manufacturers have now united in urging on the practical consideration of her Majesty's Ministers? What need of justifying an a l a rm that grounds itself on facts notorious to the whole world—or of vindicating and enforcing a demand so strictly within the line both of an admitted exig enc y an d a recognised policy? H ow describe the indescribable self-contradiction and folly of praying one way and work ing another way—keeping up a barrier of certain miserable shillings against the very food which we implore Heaven to send us— helping our rivals in the world-wide competition for the raw material of life to forestall and outbid us ? In the very midst of a dis aster absolutely unexampled in British or European his- • tory—a disaster that enjoins every effort within the power of the State to maximise our supplies of food, and minimise our consumption—at such . a crisis to be still insisting on keeping up a little artificial scarcity and dearth of our own invention, and more than a little arti ficial waste and destruction! In the words of the Man chester Chamber of Commerce—" Extreme scarcity of food is inevitable ; if labour fail, that scarcity will be come famine. Prayers are directed to be offered up in our churches to have those evils averted, and yet one of our laws enacts, that whatever may be the price of wheat, the smallest duty to be paid upon the im port of it shall be 4s. per quarter ; another law decrees that food brought into the country by certain vessels shall not be eaten at all by our people ; whilst a third declares that nothing shall be used in our distilleries but that which would serve as food." Well may the memorialists talk of "conflicting and cruel anomalies." This is burning the candle at both ends with a ven geance. Artificially diminished supply—artificially in creased consumption. Particular care taken by the State to keep out a little corn from a famine-stricken people; particular care likewise taken by the State to waste a great del. Why, what is this but a State pa tronage of famine? here we have actually the law of the land, armed at all points, fighting on the side of fa mine. We must note with approval, and recommend for general imitation, the comprehensiveness of the prayer in which our Manchester memorialists sum up the demands that humanity and common sense now make on the Executive Government of the country. We have all been rather too apt to forget that the shillings,of the scale are not the only form of the existing State bounty on famine. The admirable memorial before us most effectively suggests that something more than " the look of the thing" requires the in stant extinction of this system of national patronage and endowment of a national enemy. The memorialists " be lieve that to mitigate impending cal a mities nothing less will be sufficient than to admit into our ports every' species of food accessary for daily subsistence, free of duty ; to permit it to be brought indiscriminately from every country by the vessels of every nation or flag, and a h n s cl v emo already lasses , b w ro it u h g o h u t t , o r r efe m re a n y ce ho t r o euf t t h e e r b v r e i zls th w om hic t h o to allow our distilleries and breweries the use of sugar us." We await , with a confid ence th a t wou ld p rec l u d e anxiety if time were no object, the deciMon of the Go vernment on the extrem e ly s i mp l e ques ti on now sub mitted to its prudence and h uman i ty . L or d J o h n R usse ll is in possession of the inference which, a rgu i ng f rom hi s facts and onhis principles, working men and capitalists have alike drawn, as to the pres en t d u ti es an d responsi bilities of her Majesty's Miaisters, It is now for Lord COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, FRIDAY.—Her Majesty, accompanied by her Royal Highness the Princess of Hesse, and her Royal Highness the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Meck lenburg Strelitz, walked to Frogmore this morning, and paid a visit to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent. The august party returned to the Castle in a pony car riage and four. Prince Albert, accompanied by his Royal Highness the Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg Strelitz, and attended by Colonel Drummond and Colonel Sey mour enjoyed the sport of shooting this morning. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, and her Royal Highness the Princess of Hesse, attended by Frances Lady Clinton, Baroness de Scheel, and Baron Meysen buch, left the Castle to-day for Cashiobury-park, Herts. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, took pony exercise this morning on the terraces and grounds of the Castle. His Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimer left the Castle this afternoon for town. Earl Howe also left to-day. In the afternoon the Queen and Prince Albert, and the Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg Strelitz took an airing in a pony carriage and four. The Equerries in Waiting to her Majesty and his Royal Highness were in attendance on horse back. The dinner party at th e C as tl e this evening is ex pected to include her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, their Royal HighnesEes the Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg Strelitz, the Lady in Waiting on the Duchess of Kent, the Baroness de Speth, the Earl of Auckland, and Sir George Couper. The band of the Scots Fusilier Guards will attend during the dinner. Her Majesty's private band will afterwards attend in the Castle. Hrr Mnjestythe Queen Dowager, accompanied by her Royal Highness th e P r i ncess o f H e sse, and attended by Frances Lady Clinton, arrived at Cashiob ur y Park, Herts, yesterday a ft ernoon , f ro m Windsor Castle. The Baroness de Scheel and Baron Meysenbuch attended the Princess. His Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar arrived in town yesterday from Windsor Castle. Their Royal highnesses the Duke and Duchesp of Cambridge, and his Serene Highness Prince Frederick of Hesse, attended by Baron linesebeck, honoured the Haymarket Theatro with their presence yesterday evening. The Walhalla, at the late Miss tin wood's Gallery, in Leicester-square, was opened on Monday evening to a crowded audience ; and we were delighted and asto nished at the manner in which the, lace has been beau tified. Madame Wharton, we think, is the most perfect model of the day, and the performances reflect the highest credit upon her taste and ability. To describe the beauty of the groupings is impossible, they can only be appreciated-by a visit to the place —we cannot refrain from giving them our most unqualified approbation. A spacious promenade, and a most excellent band, under the 'direction of Herr Redo, contribute very materially to the comfort and amusement of the visitors. We strongly recommend our readers to pay Aladame a visit. MEETING FOE TUB ABOLITION OF THE PUNISH MENT OF DEATH.--A very Thronged meeting was held at the Surrey Literary and Scientific Institution, liorough-road, last evening, for the purpose of adopting such measures as would tend to induce the Legislature to abolish the code which inflicts the punishment of the forfeiture of life as the expiation of certain infractions of the law. The Rev. Mr. Christmas having been called to the chair, the meeting was addressed by Mr. A. Pel latt, the Rev. Mr. Burns, and several other gentlemen, and resolutions were passed to the effect, that the meet ing pledged itself to use its most strenuous exertions to promote the speedy and total abolition of the punish ment of death. The customary vote of thanks was carried, and the meeting separated. M. Alexandre Dumas, the French author, is now in Spain, collecting materials for an historical account of the royal marriages. It is said M. Dumas is to be ap pointed to an honorary post in the household of the Duke de Montpensier. DREADFUL C A TASTROPHE.—FALL OF THE NEW BRIDGE AT ORTHEZ.—On Tuesday last, the 6th inst., about twenty workmen were occupied in completing the centre of the arch of a new bridge in construction over the river Gave. It was the day of the great annual fair, and a great number of peasants were climbing over the rafters, some out of curiosity, some to avoid the circuit by the old bridge of Queen Joan. It is pro bable that the weight of so many persons pressing on the lately finished masonry was the cause of the acci dent, which occurred at noon, when the bridge gave way with a thundering noise, heard distinctly at nearly half a mile distance. Seven bodies were dug from amongst the ruins in the course of the afternoon ; and several persons, mostly severely - wounded, were carried to the hospital. It is supposed that the number of vic tims to this calamity is not short of thirty. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE (From the London New Price Current of October IG.) NEWMARKET,-Tstu RSDAY Nes EFT. SUGAR.-To-day the market presented a firmer appear- The second portion of Mr. Ford's stud was disposed of this ance for all kinds of Colonial and Foreign Sugar, the home morning at the following prices :- Gs. trade manifesting a stronger desire to get stocked, and mer- Meal, by Bran l2O chants being less disposed to sell. West India Muscovado Sequidilla, by Sheet Anchor was in excellent request for all purposes; holders obtained Brown mare, by Priam -95 improved rates, and equal to those of this day week fur all Bay lllly foal, by Sir Hercules, out of Sequidilla B3 qualities-at auction 134 hhds 32 trcs of Barbadoes were Bay colt, by Don John, out of Meal l5O however chiefly taken in above the value; Ch c, by Sir Hercules, out of Spiteful REFINED.-A stronger desire has been manifested by the Ch c, by Sir Hercules, out of Ten-pound Note ... ....... home trade to purchase Refined Sugar this week, and the Br c, by Sir Hercules, out of Davemey supply at present not being large, they have been compelled Bc, by Touchstone, out of Deception to pay rather higher rates for all descriptions. Wet lumps Br c, by St. Francis, out of Mademoiselle 36 have been less in request, and prices declined to 595. The Bc, by Sleight-of-hand, out of Lady ..... ...... ... 230 difference between fine yellow West India and standard Bf, by Eremus, out of Picolina 25 lumps is only 9s per cwt. The consumption of Refined is Bf, by Plenipo, out of Viola 25 yet very large, and prices are lower than they were at this Bf, by Pantaloon, out of Glencoe mare BO time last year. B c, by Charles XII., out of Calumny MAURITIUS.-This afternoon the quantity offered at public Ch c, by Harkaway, outof an Emilius mare, dam Fidelity 160 sale was 6,402 bags ; there was a stronger desire manifested Fandango, by Touchstone, out of Sequidilla to operate, and the whole sold at full prices, indeed in some Moll Flagon, by Velocipede, out of The Hind 4O cases the rates obtained were rather higher : fine yellow Duplicity, by Muley Moloch, out of Deception fetched 52a, good 48s Gd to 50s, good middling 47s 6d to The weather was very showery this morning, but cleared 48s, middling 45s to 47s 9d, low 43s Gd to 44s 6d, fine up about two o'clock, and has since been quite favourable. brown 42s 6d to 435, good 40s to 41s, ordinary 37s to 37s 6d, FRIDAY. grey low to middling 43s to 465, good to fine 47s to 495, Match, 300. 8.C.-Doke of Bedford's Leopard, 7st 71b, washed 41s 6d to 45s 6d, and syrupy 36s to 43s 6d. beat Mr. Mytton's Auricula, Bst. Betting-6 to 4on Leopard. EAST Is ea.-This afternoon Bengal Sugar met with at- Won by 150 yards. tention, and 2,382 bags at auction were all sold at fully for- Match, 100, h ft. T.Y.C.-Mr. Mostyn's Coal Black Rose, mer rates, and in some cases rather above ; fine white Benares 7st 121 b, beat Duke of Bedford's Captain Phebus, Bst 71b. fetched 53s to 545, good 51s 6d to 52s 6d, middling 50s 6d Betting-5 to 4on Captain Phebas. Won by three parts of to 51s, low 49s 6d, damp and washed 49s to 535, low sound a length. Run in 1 minute 15 seconds. yellow not grainy 455, middling 465, good 48s to 495, damp Match, 200, h ft. R.M.-Lord Glasgow's Conspiracy, Bst, and washsd 43s 6d to 455 6 d per cwt. beat Mr. Rolt's Collingwood, Bst 31b. Betting- 7to 4 on FOREIGN.-To - day at public sale 55 boxes of Savanilla Conspiracy. Won by half a length. Run in 2 min. 3 sec. Sugar were sold at stiff rates, and went at 60s 6d for fine Handicap Sweepstakes of 15 sovs. each, 10 ft, for two and white, 57s 6d for fine yellow, 51s for good, and middling at three yrs old. T.Y.C. 48s to 49s per cwt. Mr. Gurney's Cantley, 3 yrs, Bst (Pettit) 1 COFFEE.-This afternoon the public sales of Ceylon con- Mr. Jaques's Dipthong sisted of 1,439 bags, and went off at firm rates ; Plantation The following also started, but were not placed :-Mr. middling coloury bring 65s to 71s, low middling 575, fine Wigram's Hereef, 3 yrs, Bst 101b-Lord Chesterfield's Ark ordinary, 53s 6d to 55s 6d; fine ordinary greyish, 41s to wright, 3 yrs, Bst E 1 Mr. John Day's Miss Slick, 3 yrs, 52s 6d ; good ordinary, 49s 6d to 50s ; ord. 44s to Bst 51b-Mr. Elwes's Camelia, 3 y rs , 7 s t 121b-M r. -J . J . 45s ; very law unripe, 40s ; triage, 33 s to 45s 6d ; King's Needle, 3 yis, 7st 10Ib-Mr. Leigh's Hyderabad, 2 pea berry, 65s to 72s ; good ordinary pale native, yrs, Est 121 h. 38s, fine ordinary 42s 6d, damaged of the various Betting-2 to 1 agst Hyderabad, sto 1 each agst Miss kinds 30s to 63s 6d, and black Ils 6d; 16 casks of Jamaica Slick, Cantley, and Dipthong, 7to 1 agst Arkwright. il. sold at 3ls to 36s for low; 117 bags Madras 37s 6d to 475, remarkably fine race between Cantley and Dipthong; better quality 55s to 565, pea berry 645, and damaged 27s 6d Cantley, who made the running, winning by a head, Ryder to 40s ; 34 bales Mysore were taken in at 38s ' • 86 bales abad a good third , and Miss. Slick well up. Run in 1 minute Mocha sold at 505 to 50s Gd for middling, but 28 casks Rio 20 seconds. were withdrawn at 45s for low middling. Match, 200, h ft. T.Y.C.-Sir J. Hawley's Vanity beat COCOA.-There has been a strong desire manifested to Lord Chesterfield's Lady Lure well, Bst 41b. 2tol on Vanity, operate in West India this week, and the parcels sold pri- who won by a neck, is 1 minute 20 seconds. vately were at rather higher rates, good and fine red quality The Prendergast Stakes of 50 toys. each, hft for two years being the most in request ;at public sale 111 bags Grenada old; colts,; Bst 71b ; fillies, Bst 51b. T.Y.C. (31 Subs.) sold at 40s to 41s for mid and good red, and at 46s ed for fine Mr. Payne's Clementine (Cobweb f) . ... (Nat) 1 bright. Foreign is not cheaper, but only a moderate business Mr. Mostyn's Archness has been done ; 28 bags of red Bahia at public sale fetched Lord Albemarle's Ingoldsby 33s to 34s per cwt. . Lord G. Bentinck's Glentilt... 4 RICE.-This afternoon 5,189 bags of Madras Rice were Colonel Peel's Isis 5 offered at public sale, and the chief part sold, in consequence Betting-7 to 4on Glentilt, 3to 1 agst Isis, and sto 1 of merchants lowering their prices, Is to- is 6d per cwt. agst Clementine. All got off abreast, but the moment they SAGO.-A good demand has existed, but no further ad- quitted the post Glentilt jumped to the right across Isis and vance in the value has taken place, although the supply at Ingoldsby, and caused them to lose a good deal of ground. market is not large; 614 bags at auction were sold at 36s to Archness and Clementina getting well off went on by them -37s 6d for fine small pearl, and 34s to 36s for good. Sago selves, the latter waiting until nearly the cords, and winning Flour however has risen in value, and 526 casks at auction in a canter by three lengths. Run in 1 min. 14 seconds. were all disposed of. Of Tapioca the supply yet exceeds the Handicap Sweepstakes of 20 sovs. each, and 5 only if de demand, and prices continue to rule moderate. dared, &c., to go to the second horse. T.Y.C. (6 Subs., Sem:ln.-To-day at public sale 518 bags of Malabar 3of whom declared.) Pepper were only in part sold at easier rates-half-heavy Lord Orford's Prussic Acid, 3 yrs, 7st 71b light brown went at 2%d to fi 3 / 4 d, heavy was taken in at Mr. Mostyn's Coal Black Rose, 5 yrs, 7st 121 b 2 2%d to 3d ; two cases Singapore Nutmegs fetched 2s 10d to Sir J. B. elill's Giantess, 4 yrs, Bst 71b 2s lid for middling brown, which is the full worth ;84 Betting-6 to 5 agst Prussic Acid, and 6to 4 agst Coal chests of Cassia Lignea sold at 56s Gd for low middling, Black Rose. Won by half a length. Giantess beaten off. being very full rates; seven ceses Mace partly sold t3s Id Run in 1 minute 16 seconds. fur middling; the remainder was taken in at 3s-6d; 204 Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, for two yrs old, colts, Bst 71b; barrels Jamaica Ginger only partly sold at 41s to 935, good fillies, Bst 51b. The winner to be sold for 40 sovs., if de and fine 1293 to 150 s. mended, &c. The first half of the Ab.M. (6 Subs.) COCHINEAL.-This afternoon at• public sale 188 bags Hon- Mr. Mostyn's Jollity ......... ................ ... (W. Abdale) 1 duras were offered, but there was less demand and not above Mr. Crockford's Mistress Jean s 2 half sold at Id to 2d decline, low to good silvers at 4s 6d to Mr. Shelley's His Serene Highness .. ••.... 3 4s 9d, fine bold 5s 4d to 5s 7d. Mr. Wreford's fby Camel, out of Wadestra .. 4 Sriirirs.-The principal feature in the Rum market this Mr. Littler's fby The Saddler, out of The Abbess week has been the Government contract for 100,000 gallons Betting-5 to 2 agst Jollity, 3to 1 agst His Serene High of Rum, half East and half West India, the whole of which ness, and 3to 1 agst Mistress Jean. Won by a length; half has been taken by Messrs. Lemon Hart and Co., of London- a length between second and third. Run in 55 secs. street, at 1-16th under 2s 2d per gallon proof strength, and Match, 200, h ft.-Duke of Bedford's Paragone, 3 yrs, which is a low price compared with the position of the Bst 121 b, received ft from Mr. Merton's Mouseling, 2 yrs, Est. market. There has been a good demand for all descriptions Match, 200, h ft, Bst 41b each. T.Y.C.-Lord Glasgow's of Jamaica Rum, and the rates paid have been rather above fby Retriever, dam by Jerry, received forfeit from Duke of those previously current; 300 puns having been sold during Bedford's Eothen. the week 33 to 36 per cent over proof of fair and mid quality at Match, 200, h ft. T.Y.C. Mr. Greville's Apricot, agst 3s 4d to 3s 6d, good 3s 85 to 3s 10d; 34 to 36 over fine 4s 4d Mr. Merton's Jumble , B st lib. am by consent.) to 4s Gd, 32 per cent. smoky quality 3s 3(1, 1 , fine 4s 4d to 4s 6d At the sale of the remaining portions of Mr. Ford's stud, For Leeward Island further advanced rates being asked ope- the following prices were realised :- - Gs. rated against business, and the sales for the week are only Br fby Theon, dam by Blacklock 205 100 puns at 2i 5d proof strength, and fine brown ditto 2s Gd. Clarendon (late Stump-üb), bc by Lanercost - 37 Calcutta has been in good demand, and prices are still on the George Barnwell, by Sir Hercules advance; the quantity sold has been 150 puns at 2s to 2s Id B mby Muley Moloch, out of Lead (nob' oke). proof with certificate. A fair business has been transacted in ,uarraclia, by She6t Anchor 125 Demerara, and 3s 2d to 3s 4d paid for strong. Madras Rum Caesar, by Sultan NORTHALLERTON RACES. -TII U RSDA Y. of proof strength is worth Is 10 1 / 2 cl to is I Id. A double horsy van 71 IN -To-day during the progress of the sale 1,455 chests were withdrawn ; 6°9 chests have passed the sale. Sweepstake of 10 sovs. each, with 10 added ; for two-yrs-old The very large quantity withdrawn from the sale during the colts, Bst 51b; fillies, Bst 21b. Winners extra. Once last four or five days ( which leaves only 2,567 chests to pass round. (5 Subs.) the hammer) has had the effect on the biddings, which were Mr. Crofton's Kembleworth (Lye) 1 brisk this day, and prices show an improvement on the rates Mr. Meiklam's Bannockburn 2 we have quoted lately of 2d to 3d per lb for Bengals. Madras, Ilesseltine's Louisa Newell however, remains neglected at from the last sale's price; to Gold Cup of 10 sovs. each; three-yrs-old, 7st; four, Bst 31b; 2d advance, while Kurpahs are in fair demand at from 2 d to 3 d fiv e, B st 101 b ; six a n d aged , 9 st 21 b. Mares and geldings advance. The quantity bought in is 150 chests. Of 16 , 119 allowed 2 lbs. Winners extra. Two Miles. ( 9 Subs.) - chests which have now passed the sale, 8,693 have been with- Mr. Meiklam's Fancy Boy, 3 yrs drawn, 2,573 bought in ; leaving 4,853 actually sold. Col. Cradock's Jinglepot, 4 yrs SALTPETRE.-To-day there-was a good demand for Rough, Mr. Robinson's Morpeth, 5 yrs ... 3 and the parcels offered at auction, amounting to 3,073 bags of Won by a neck. Calcutta, were all sold at full former rates. Plate of 501., three yrs old, 7st 101 b; four, Bst 81b; five, Bst OILS.-Although there are sellers of Linseed Oil at a re- 121 b; six and aged, 9st. Mares and geldings allowed 21bs. duction on former prices of 3d to 6d per cwt, still the home Heats, two miles. trade have operated with caution on the spot, and few parcels Mr. A. Johnston's Sis. to Calypso, (Winteringham) 1 3 1 were taken for exportation ; 333 3d to 24s Gd per cwt have Mr. Yea's Little Jack Horner, 3 yrs ... ... 0 1 2 been the rates accepted. For forward delivery there has been Mr. Smith's Charley, 3 yrs ... 0 2 .0 little passing, and prices have fallen to 24s 9d to 25s per Mr. H, Stebbing's The Lamb, 3 yrs ..... . 2 dr cwt. The Crushers are evidently inclined to sell as the sup- Mr. Bowes's Hoorrah, 3 yrs ply is large; the consumption, however, continues to be good, and greater than last year, whilst ,the article is cheaper than at that time. Rape Seed Oil has been only in limited request, and prices are not so firm. Olive has been in ex cellent request, and holders manifest firmness. Cocoa Nut is still in short supply, and, being much in request, prices are rising. Palm has been in excellent request, and is held firmly. The arrivals of Fish Oils have been to a small ex tent only during the week, whereas the deliveries are still improving. Prices are lower than at this time last season by 40s or 50s for Cod, but - higher by 103 to 30s for Seal. For Southern they are much about the same as that time, but are lower for Sperm. Southern is wanted, and previous advanced rates are fully supported. TALLow.-There is still a strong desire evinced by the home trade to get supplied with Russian Tallow, the supply continuing to be small, and the deliveries increasing ; fur ther advanced rates have been compelled to be paid on the spot by chandlers and soap makers; indeed, the market has been nearly cleared, and 47s 9d to 48s per cwt are the prices paid for new Petersburgh Yellow Candle. Of old there is scarcely any remaining unsold. For forward delivery large contracts have been entered into at advanced rates. Of Town Tallow there is not much to be had-it is greatly wanted at the advanced rates of 46s 6d to 47s nett cash; it is, however, still cheaper than any other sort, and the consumption the greatest. The parcels of other kinds of Tallow on offer have met with eager purchasers at Further advanced rates. THE MANIAC TRAVELLER. The following are somo additional particulars re specting the *subject of a paragraph which appeared in The Sun yesterday. The paragraph detailed the circum stances of an attack made by an insane person on a gentleman named Parker, in a carriage of the Derby mail train, on the North-Western Railway:— On the morning of Tuesday last, the 13th inst., about half-past eight o'clock, a horse and cart having on it the name of Charles Higgenbottom, Stone-bridge, Wiles don, drew up at the entrance-gates of the workhouse of the parish of St. Mary Abbott's, Kensington, situate in the Gloucester-road, Kensington. The cart contained, in addition to the driver, police-constables 101 and 115 of the D division, who had with them a wretched looking object covered with dirt and blood, and who was securely bound down with strong cords. On their being admitted into the workhouse-yard, the policemen stated to Mr. Blackwell, the master of the workhouse, that the person they had brought with them was a lunatic who had been found early that morning at Kensal green, in the parish of Kensington, under the following circumstances :—At an early hour, as some labourers in the employ of Mr. Edward. Salter, farmer, of Notting Barns Farm, situated about midway between Notting hill and the General Cemetery at Kensal-green, were going to their work in the fields, they saw a man in a state of nudity with the exception of a pair of trousers and a.pair of fine cotton socks, covered with mud, dirt, and blood, come over a hedge into one of Mr. Salter's fields, from a swamp through which he had crawled, near the Great Western Railway. The labourers told him he was trespassing, and that he must go back, upon which he became_ much excited, and on their attempting BANK OF ENGLAND. (From last Night's Gazette.) An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth of Victoria, cap. 32, for the Weeleendlng on Saturday, the 10th dayof October, 1846. ISSUE DEPARTMENT. totes issued •• . • .... 29,078,135 Government debt • • 11,01 . 5,100 Other securities .... Z 984,900 Gold coin and bullion 12,400,634 Silver bullioa .... • • 2,677,501 £29,078,135 1 X 29,078,135 11. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier. 1846. to enforce their directions, he 'became so violent that it took 12 of the labourers to secure him ; and so oonvincd were they that he was an escaped lunatic that they bound his arms securely with strong cords to prevent him doing himself or others further mischief, and then handed him over to the police. Upon hearing that statement Mr. Blackwell directed the unfortunate man to be taken out of the cart, and conveyed into the in sane ward of the workhouse, which was done. When Dated the 15th day of October, BANKING 3 Z. Proprietors' capital.. 14,553,000 EPAB.TNEN T. Government marl- _ . . . Rest .. .. .. .... .. .. 3,383,158 Public deposits (in cluding Exchequer, Commissioners of National Debt, Sav- ties (including Dead Weight Annuity) • • 12,961,360 Other securities • • • • 15,227,665 Notes • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 8,305,785 Gold and silver coin.. 504,099 ings-banks, and Di vidend accounts)•• 9,801,402 Dther deposits -. •• .. 8,322,626 Seven day and other bills • there, the cords by which he was bound were re moved and a straitwaistcoat put on. Mr. Guaszaroni, surgeon, of the terrace, Kensington, who is medical officer of the workhouse, was then sent for to examine his state and con dition, and in the interim efforts were made to cleanse - him rom the dirt and mud with which be was covered, which was found to be a most difficult task, as while doing so it was discovered that his arms and other parts of his body had numerous lacerated wounds, into which the mud, &c., was so grouted, that they could with great difficulty be cleansed. He gave no account as to how he got into the wretched plight into which he was, but on being questioned as to his name and where he had come from, he stated that his name was Osborne Markham, and that his apart ments were at No. 94, Mount-street, Berkeley-square. A messenger was immediately dispatched to Mount street to ascertain the truth of that statement, and on his going to No. 94, Mount-street, he found that Mr. Markham Osborne lived there, and that that gentleman had been expected home on the previous evening from a shooting excursion at the Marquis of Bute's ; that he had come up on the previous evening in a first-class carriage of the mail train on the North-Western Railway, his man servant being in a second-class carriage; and that on the arrivalof the train at the terminus, the servant, on going to the carriage in which his master had sat, found it empty, and his master's clothes, with the exception of his trousers and socks, with his gold watch, &c., lying on the seat; that in consequence it was thought that the unfortunate gentleman had cast himself from the train during its progress, and his friends-had been in active search after him during the night. Mr. Guassaroni on making a minuter examination of the wounds, found there was one at the back of the head of rather a serious character, and also two severely lacerated cuts on the t h l e ftee on him and in from Mount street, bone.ar m just so numerous t the elbow, were one n tr e h of e which wotind e s t t e h n a d t e d 3s t r o . Guazzaroni was engaged in atten d an ce dsrhreosrsti,lnymgartf.ht after catruhrteissroeuntnustrufnlrgofeofountrh(ewo o'clock 1 believe), se c sl k ieenv i g n ee)r, t o h ffr e the Albw, Piceceatdilly, came to the workhouse on the part of Mr. Osborne's friends, and again visited him in the evening, w hen, appearing more quiet and collected, he was re moved in a fly from the workhouse to his lodgings in Mount-street. The strictest secresy has been maintained by all parties connected with the case as to who Mr. Osborne is, and the motives and causes which led to his extraordinary conduct, but there is every reason to be lieve that he is highly connected, that he is related to a Noble Duke, uncle to a Marquiss, and the brother of a titled lady. He is stated to be, in appearance, about 40 years of age, and about five feet nine inches high. 4 36,998,909 X3G,M,949 LC MARSHALL, Chief Cashier. ,846. Dated the 15th day of October, 1 RAILWAY RETURNS. RAILWAY - TRAFFIC.—The following are the Total Receipts of Rail ways for the past week—that is to say, up to the date to which the respective returns are made, together with the receipts of the same week in the previous year : CREMORNE GARDENS.—Active preparations are already in progress for the opening, next season, of this popular place of public amusement, in a style of splen dour hitherto unequaled in this country. The principal feature will be a monstre saloon, capable of allowing three or four thousand " votaries of Terpsichore" to ': trip it on the light fantastic toe" at one time, without interfering with the promenade of the spectators.. DOMESTIC YEAST.—Persons who are in the habit of making their own bread, can easily manufacture their own yeast, by attending to the following directions; — Boil one pound of goad flour, a quarter of a pound of brown sugar, and a little salt, in two gallons of water, for an hour ; when milkwarm, bottle it, and cork it close, and it will be fit for use in twenty-four hours. One pound of this yeast will make eighteen pounds of bread. NAME OF RAILWAY. Week ending Oct. 10 9 8 13 11 10 10 11 10 11 10 1, Arbroath and Forfar ............. Chester and Birkenhead .. .......• Dublin and Drogheda.. •• • • ..•• • • • Dublin and Kingstown • . • . • • • • • • • • Dundee and Arbroath . . Durham and Sunderland .•• •• • ..... Edinburgh and Glasgow . •• • •••• •• • • Eastern Counties and North Eastern. East Lancasihre (six days) .. • • •• • • • • Eastern Union • . • • • • •• • ..... • • • ..... Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and. Ayr • • • • • • Glasgow and Greenock.• • • • • • • • • • • • Gravesend and Rochester.. • • Great Southern and Western ..... Great Western, &e• • • • • • • • •• • • •• •• •• Hartlepool London and North Western, &e. ..... London and 81ackwai1.......... ..•. London and Brighton .• • ••..•• • • • • London and Croydon : . 7 .......... London and South Western ......... Manehester, Bolton, and Bury ...... Manchester, Leeds, and Hull Assoc.. Maryport and Carlisle Midland, Bristol, and Birmingham.... Newcastle and Carlisle .............. Newcastle and North 5hie1d5........ Newcastle and Berwick •• .......... Norfolk•• • • •• •• .. • .. . North British .. • ••• • • • • Paris, Corbeil, and Orleans • • • • • • • • Paris and Rouen . • . • Preston and Wyre • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Sheffield and Manchester.• • • •• • • • • • South Eastern and Branches .. • • ... South Devon.. •••• .. . •.•••• • • • • • Taff Vale • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • .. Last week. 254 674 763 878 322 647 4,017 9,526 405 2,314 959 865 19,668 929 41,129 900 10,071 - • 6,909 9,278 494 19,959 2,015 569 1,558 1,261 7,647 • p. L", c 7. 2,8i3 6,384 763 1,808 10,402 1,947 862 '939 19,230 1,225 39,589 859 7,020 7,160 Ulster . • •.! • • • • '789 6,698 6,856 1,015 7,340 1,208 8,364 - 686 5,310 5,881 York and Newcastle . .... •• •....... York and North Midland. •• •• • • •• •• THE EQUINOCTIAL GALEs.-:-The recent equinoc tial gales, we regret to hear, have exceeded in violence the deplorable storm in 1739. Such, however, are the reports received at Lloyd's, from the masters of the nu merous merchantmen who were fortunate enough to escape the dreadful fury of the hurricane. They ap pear to have commenced from the S.W. on the 9th ult., and continued with increased force till the morning of the 22d. The effect on the broad expanse of the Atlan tic is described to have been of the most fearful de scription, the loss both of life and property being exceedingly great. Numerous other casualties at sea have also occurred. DEAN OF THE CHAPEL ROYAL, EDINBURGH.—It iS rumoured in Edinburgh that the vacancy in this office, caused by the death of Dr. &Janie will not be fill e d u p ; is fact, that the office is to be abolished, and the salary appropriated to the endowment of a chair for Biblical Criticism in the University of Edinburgh. - 18,250 1,872 7,616 6,643 •