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

~,,,.....-...m Re was then remand e d t - i Wednesday. . ---pb. MARe pILBRO'-STREET.—(II-IIS DAY.) George L ove j oy and James crane, two chimney- sweeps, weraced er at the bar, charged with getting into Sir t C ampbell's house, e, early this morning, for felo nious purposes. 5' Aromas Tho Gr e y, b utler to Sir Robert Campbell, Bart, Yll-place, sa id he was aroused this morning about there half -pest five o' c l oc k b y the housekef per, who called out the were thi eves i n the house. lie went up and found this:;two men in the front hall. They had gut in by the _ltchen under a false retence• of coming from Jerome's, ehi_ py.. b eel sweeper!) hs etichard Jerome, Cross -court, Carnaby-street, said the l o n g ve r were in his empi yment, and had no orders to tSi Robert Campbell's. selLf,°svaejid°Y' on being asked what he had to say for him he went last Light and rung the kitchen bell, and asked the kitchen maid who came to the door Whether she wanted her chimreys done. The maid asked it he catne f rota Jerome's and he said no. 1, 0 8 ,, u5 . 14 Sag;rers the servant maid, said she asked fpn.e.Pl. last night where he came from, and he said i Jerotne's, and she had, by order of the house ,,eir3e,r, appointed him to come this morning at five m ° cl e''. She was ssnt afterwards to Jerome's to counter andan the order, and found there that Jerome had not posthanY of his men to the house. Jerome further told i - at a parcel of vagabonds were in the habit of i u ecieg on peopl e, and without doubt the men who had two d ere of that character. In consequence of this, at th e "icemen were engaged to be in attendance when house by the appointed hour in the morning, wh , p sh e had let the sweeps in, took them into custody. ii -r ane laid it was not usual for him to adept this prae ree42/11 in the tresent instance the other man had air niin at four o'clock, to help him with a job. (1 4 r• at said he would remand them till Mon 3', that inquiry might be made. p S,°l-/T HVVARK.—(THIS DAY.) ie a a :rick Rin ggland and Samuel John, two young men tlq 4 „" t ate of destitution, were charged with breaking a W o ; e cif glass in the ;hop window of a baker named Co dvvard, residing in the Dover-road. Lia?nle IPlainant said about six o'clock last evening the ers entered his shop and demanded some bread. ~,,,,!(,V there that he had none to give away, and re °ns'o" Et thern to leave his shop. They did so, and as elbo ws as t t i, h eY got outside both of them pushed their Mitted ti; rQu gh a square of glass. After they had Fo.m -e dar ea to g 0 tO n r ; ge they told him they were quite willing Cold. an * s° n, as thewere starving with hunger and Poli em , "eY ac cordingly waited until the arrival of a i „ -a lt when they were taken into custody. the ,:,,P;ris°ners, who made the same statement before I /4 Y . '' str ate, were committed for 14 days in default of Hell 141414125: d. naag e , a decision with which they seemed , Cl - ? , ,, A 4, ,'nIi. ENIVELL.—(THIS DAY.) stor e 6 ; 41 , named Andrew Ryan, who keeps a marine- Il lost O' er 's shop in Peter -street, was charged with . a dlty ee tutal and viol tassault upon his wife' Catherine anger which her e li n fe a w s as at one time in considerable It „ eolnie'Peared that the parties had been in the habit . of lapb.all quarreling, and upon the last occasion h e in g r-ted to be rather ' excited from the eff.cts of drink tri4,4lll be knocked her down, and whilst on the tiole,„i4icked h er and beat her with a heavy stick so 111, - "l o Y as to render her insensible for several hours. tb° ted;,"lnE, af ter hearing very lengthened evidence 5 anen - " . ? c ommitted the prisoner for trial, but, upon sureties of his solicitor, consented to take two .41 ''!e e s for his appearance at the sessions. L i k4 r to b s,il had been received the prisoner again re .4lnt sod t ne Court in a state of great apparent excite thtte,l,, aPplied for a warrant against his wife, He excite rs `utttkirnmediately after his liberation upon bail, he l ee r iled h ''') witi s - wne, when his wife followed him up stairs, ! IP ith .rilt his sa3ing a word to her, rushed at him ag l raq - 4 ; 11 , 1 'p carving knife, with which she made a edh 'TR which,-only for having been fortunately it himY nis Son, who was standing near, must have e a tere k f shine with great force on the side of the neck. 4h: difficulty the knife was wrenched from her, 4 Pon h s '• again recovered it, and made a second attack h h i t • et thr eat ' and such was the violence of her conduct and make his to take his life, that he was compelled to „VI, 0„ e scape over the wall of the back yard. the eo11:3,111% ordered Bingham, the warrant officer of !l''''e wi f - '' to go to the house in Peter-street, and desire ire he e s attendance in Court; but upon the officer's re ill'e.eo4idsa•nid that although he had made a strict search eighb not find her. He was informed by some of the I}l 4t Z I P that the opinion generally entertained was wife ' P us at made the application in order that his a PPel e 'Rt be in prison, and therefore be unable to Trjktainst him at the k r Y Ilext. sessions, which com m ences on - esl3i4gl;4C2llll3E declined issuing a warrant, but desired t"inor."'owt° endeavour to bare the wife in attendance 1, 41) /f t , PRIER OF BREAD Ii — t . -eBttr,,ir —"II ADVANC E IN THE every loca lity of t h e may morning the bakers half Metropolis loaf, making about made a still nearlyi f n urt n her advance -of e t the lefatlY ill the Price of the quarter si r , th rise in price during the presents reltalar too demanded in di - r et I bserve the variousmonth. It . i f s th e ti . oealities for the 41b. of "household"ower Marsh, Lam beth:lghbourhood of the New sum bread. In Cut, to e on t l tt ld its immediate vicinity, the l p n ei e e inst () 4(1 So abee3, and Bd. in others. and the other parts of the ee B i 8 1 a n c n k l 3 f r . i 7 a 1 s d : thqu ethwark, the Borough, clettleierltei , idt , of the river, the . latter su ‘eitece‘ e", except for full-priced bread. l 9i . 81-d. and al islnthetheutCrniotyst, Ocl. i,:"tkeect peon the price is 81d. and st, e eee e , ed i 7 . . . th eet, e hii , n the vicinity of C la h r ti e- t in l ai d l . ei e de tnaliBddl.'iicsket. 4t aded f .'t for a similar article ith field, &c. ie se re - e „IL; Whitechapel, 1 Sm pop.ar, ---- j t . ,-.- har_ee per 41b. jo"Afehbourhoods no less than 9 2 n. Is es e t or E ., full Pieei,' The amount charged for between b Sid. to 10i‘l. 411(1 1 Idbread averages from 's eetliellE LATE CASE OF DROWNING _ ,teeet...ey, te d ~, the inquiry Whithorn nes intolN Tll t E he nE e o i r e e N n T m ances attendings ra- the death of Sarah the Sportsman, Mar eeicluded, bef e Mr. Baker, at t ge Phesent, 2, Victoria gatet street, Roaggerstone. at e L eet, eieraerten, deposed Geor g e t r- deceased and her bus-. e , ll d passed him near the Cat t and Mutton-bridge, about High word passed be- , - "e o'clock on Sunday morning. `‘" he m , and they turned into the path leading to g e e g e g n e t rston e bridge. In answer to questions, the witness 4 tated that deceased breathed for a period of twentyl m inutes after her recovery from the water. The medical ;evidence adduced on Tuesday was then read, from which re:tltia,, eared that deceased was stated to have died w o i t t_hin r minutes after her recovery from the water. he ttaeleertaiatevidenee having been given, the Coroner ad men, to the melancholy facts of the case, and coin eft'Led upon the material portions. of the evidence; and, ile . je r a lengthened deliberation within closed doors, the ed(i' returned a verdict of " Temporary Insanity ;" and dee:Ll, that gross recklessness had been exhibited by lieee''ed's husband, Alfred Withorn,_ neglecting to i t ,, ( ', 11t deceased throwing herself into in th Regent's It 4 tit e ":" and in endeavouring to leave the spot after the ei,,without offering assistance in re.schumgher; and the him fur his in- etee;'ret that the law cannot punish . - 1 1 et) n d t ,, oftli , ue . Irs '4A ST PEEVERSION.--We r ecently copied a r°44llh from a London paper, stating ree that a Member t) 1 11° Ilse of Commons, with his family, had con i ' 4 :e t° the Church of Rome. The gentleman referred l'asih-e'ee.nßight Hon. Charles Tennyson D'Eyncou , (1 ' 61 ;`,1 r the metropolitan borough of Lambeth.— Ttle eever,ing Post. OnT 20 PRINCE tle „11 -RMY --- NENAGU, •••••• • • ticisharipels:ilt:: rtieen-det;lGn l e l o p r George 7f °n M onday Cambridge, l w as h t o h h i a s s l i t a o t y e ' l a y l of the military district): 1.4 „46,ghbouZ thei commandndwho.e head quarters are i troop-s'e`t, eonimenceil his tour of inspection of the di ce- " It .1%41a01, and at ten o'clock arrived in this town, 116* qikttle'raapi be Colonel Mansell, adjutant -general of the et. l o yal 4iB Highness proceeded to the barracks 1 , 1 -e il°ll,Pied y hetdepot of the 72d Highlanders, and, Iv 'e a t .. 4l4 i : o' r ,„, i _ ri g very wet, inspected the men in their Be th ! 'bee t ': We understand that . his Roy ter Inlnute his inquiries as to al highness e.. ent e r and particular in hte4Peel, 4 t ! and their having any complaints plaints to make e a l t o si ! with much condescension to them, and and urging aggrieved. fertlal.l.o t : tt a 4 k (la freely, if they were any Ol e M th e e I nquiry as to their food, and being in andee lxi t the bread was generall good . , 13 11 3's b . s t aid sn it th e je er ed „ e. good, as they paid for its n eel ig , in de i sPeetiotl'Qat It should be minutely_ . looked_ to. After iv ere ll the 111 4 4 dejenne, about two o'clock, of the set ved b y Pret'ent.'s l 'ootn, at which the officers ann f om th p e an 7 i 2 ed d ter,rtoeeel 4 l'rince George left Nenagh, 1, 0.: to ins,,ansell, at half -past two o'clock, for Temple-. the krs v'et the troops there, and was to take up his riot the tpa mansion 'of Sir Henry Carden, Bart., of le el, et' from thence he was to proceed to Thurles, I tirickZikgeel, Casher, &c., en route to head quarters, 4y t l lit s 4 "Yh Guardia?. —Yester tlicee le te ed e , 131 .' or LONDO N 8 VISITATIONS: 4 r .° Polit a " 4-''shop of London concluded his course of i'i t ill t'll x ,„ 4 visitations at St. Paul's Cathedral. The leltir, 18,Preaehed by the Venerable Archdeacon John yy ehf;,Niitto '., archdeacon of Middlesex and vicar _of "ret'e „„erl.; after which the Bishop delivered the ie' t' , ll li';01ll aPPeared in The Sun of Tuesday last. lei.vtc,erea. ',Utz/Pate oe SODOIt AND MAN.—It was le4)I. 11. 'Ttrataeltred in clerical circles that the Hon, and tisetat,c4ltague 'Villiers, M.A., rector of St : George's,. ' ()t* 3. ' will succeed Dr. Short in the bishopric of 'We i L sled 1 ,,,. tilei.ua eoteaa, and that the rectory of Bloomsbury. et eeeter e rred on the Rey. James Barrie, M.A., in _ 1\ nee, 1121 Saints-Church, Stepney, and lecturer of 40' kr At ' irltnehouse. W;Ph Pa, DRAY ACCIDENT. •-•- Last evening Mr. c • J ' lloi e 4e, beputy Cite Coroner, held an inquest at ae, e . e e • . lArnee , ~,, ;despite], relative to the death of Alfred atio t l i t i 4e e ru 34, late a drayman in the employ ofMesers. te beer e dream Co. The deceased, with John Hall, liejth, tqt.,.an, went on Tuesday last with two drays i t aes „',,P,rtn• On their return they each rode on Wee'ltnl'eiC" when they had arrived near the George, I ) , eel of 1 ! deceased was found lying on the road, the Ilei:access Thilsts dray havin evidently passed over his eaN wesllas about six o'cicck in the evening, acf.l 'irl th I t Was funnstantlY conveyed to the above hospit.al, It tt , ) e left sid e,end that he had fractured four or five ribs p r, ilI. the 8 a portion of ono had penetrated the left eietu,iiN dead and liver were ruptured, which injuries l‘e.. Aee:e‘te at:twelve o'clock the same night. Ver to-Uoo.,,,:ental death." e•it l)43 ,', detyl l'Alane.E.--.The question of liability a ' .alt hoe !' those sporting vehicles called " Doge e,i4teetee'fen the original cost of which did not ex ee,„,nera 07 .teineas, was determined by the Corn ek'',4i' ate , 0 the Assessed Taxes at liensington a few 2elfe 48 t th e 11 44 a PPeal by a Colonel in the Guards ve er ee e.sseesese_ ~ - y , "L i h e :1 , 4 7 ne The Commissioners decided in For le 4 1 1(4 to "Peen% on the ground that the Act At p q I'Poitep,"B°l2z ill " trade orb usiness" using it LITERATURE. THE .EDIANBURGH RE VIE IV. No CLXX. So singularly and inexplicably eetiquated is tl:e opening article in this number—" Proposals for Ex tending the Irish Poor-law "—that any examination of its character at this moment would he entirely superfluous. The pressing necessities of Ireland, the destitute, and in many particulars the insubordinate, condition of its inhabitants, the famine with which they are not merely threatened, but from the effects ofwhich they are at present perishing, render any frigid consideration of the insufficiency of past measures for the diminution of pauperism in the sister eountry, little less than an intended cruelty. This is not the time to examine the merits of different schemes for the organisation of society in Ireland—it is the time to act in behalf of a starving population—it is the time to adjure the Executive to be bountiful in their efforts to alleviate.the sorrows of a helpless and pa tient peasantry—to call upon the resident and ab sentee landlords of that island to strive heart and soul for the salvation of the very lives of their de pendants —to implore with the earnestness of sympa thising men for work fur the unemployed, for bread for the hunger-stricken. We cannot, indeed, but think that, this contribution to the Edinburgh Review is the most misplaced, as it is very possibly one of the best-intentioned, within our recollection. Ireland is at this juncture, from Malin Head to Cape Clear, and from Broad Haven to Carn,ore Point, one spectacle of desolation and wretchedness :—lts potato-grounds soddened with decomposition ; i:s streets filled with bands of emaciated labourers; its provision-ware houses threatened with destruction; meal-bags torn open on the highroads ; peaceable men pistokd on their hearth=, or bludgeoned in their gardens ! That is the present condition of that doomed country, ar.d, such being the case, anything like a deliberate ana lysis of the cause of failure in the modes of internal government, hitherto adopted for the amelioration ofitt distresses, would be both inappropriate and ungene rous. For this reason we discard the article in ques tion without any further observation. Very dif ferent in all respects is the paper entitled " State and Prospects of British Agriculture." The writer might, however, more accurately have designated it the State and Prospects of Scottish Agriculture, seeing that the condition of the Lothians is the prominent object of his consideration. This article is most practical, most interesting, most encouraging. It is, in effect, the journal of an observant agriculturist during a pilgrimage through the northern provinces of this island. B e f ore hi s j ourney is commenced, however, he asks, and answers, three questions, of the highest importance. 177;4. "What has British agriculture done ?" He maintains that its progres sive improvement during the last fifty years has im measurably outstripped that of all other countries, whether American or European ; and that, notwith standing the increase of population, the average im portation of foreign corn up to the appearance of the potato murrain was very little more than it was twenty years since. Secondly, " What is it at present doing ?" In responding to this inquiry, the reviewer is very naturally more detailed, and (if we may say so) more discursive. In order to satisfy his own mind upon this particular, he has recently made an elaborate tour of the island, and for the purpose of satisfying the minds of his readers, he specifies the result of his investigation. We recommend every one to examine this portion of the Edinburgh Review. It presents a panorama worthy of the most laborious study. It carries us in ima gination from the bleak acclivities and green bottoms of Caithness (where the spirit of agri cultural improvement h as wor k e d suc h m i racles, that last year a long lease of a farm at 1341. having just expire 1, it has been since renewed at 8001. a year!) to the red gravelly soil of Sutherland. It takes us to a valley in Ross, where more than five quarters of wheat and seven quarters of oats, per imperial acre, are produced. It tells us how the writer encountered cartloads of guano travelling across Strath Glass, and how, in a village school in that wild district, he lis tened to a class of barefooted urchins creditably ex amined in agricultural chemistry It would be un just, however, to deteriorate from the interest of the original narrative by extracting its skeleton. The paper does the Reviewer infinite credit, both for the perspicuity with which he has grouped so much information together, and the labour that must have been expended in its collection. It is impossible after examining the veritable position of our agriculturists, as the writer has done, after having recog n i se d th e manner in which they avail themselves of all the assistances of science, whether chemical or mechanical, whether in artificial manures or novel implements of husbandry ; it is impossible after observing their almost universal enterprise and, the success which invariably attends that enterprise, not to feel a most,implicit confidence in the resources of British agriculture. We might well exclaim with this Edinburgh reviewer, " we feel a species of indi vidual gratitude towards those who reclaim the bleak moss and the wild moor—who plant their feet firmly on the quaking bog.—who give us the green hill-side, in place of the purple heath, and, for the moorfowls' cry, introduce the bleating of sheep ;" for all these things have our farmers repeatedly accomplished with the assistance of subsoil-ploughs, of liquid manures, of lime, of drainage by tiles, and a hundred other ingenious contrivances. Of the importance of ' a good system of drainage the reviewer is so thoroughly convinced, that he declares himself satis fied that, within a single millions ; year of its adoption, suPPesing, of fo course anverage season, "five quarter of a the population has been grain m ore th an consuming w ou ld be raised ye in this estimate is somewhat ex- • the habit of To our thinking g: re e oo ri n teg i , er b e u c t a s l u c b u t l r a a te c d t : ing one-half from the surplu: consumers. England would, even then be country, after having satisfied her hom ee n Thirdly, then, inquires the writer—" Of what further progress is agriculture capable ?" That he conceives it to be capable of yet greater improvement, and that to an extraordinary extent, will be obvious when we quote his observation, " that the produce of the whole island in corn may be doubled, by methods now known, and in some districts profitably practised." But the following passages will demonstrate yet more clearly the opportunities for agricultural im provement, which he believes to exist in England, notwithstanding all that has been hitherto accom plished. " In Northumberland, if we cross the country from Wooler to Morpeth, what an extent of improvable moor asks to b e rec l a i me d— o f poor grass t o b e nourished—of stiff clay to be subdued What sorrowful tales the craps tell as we approach Newcastle ! flow spiritless and de pressed does all the land look which accompanies the railway from Newcastle to York ! Is it the alleged over shadowing influence of clerical supremacy, or the sup posed readier road to wealth through its mines of coal, that has rendered Durham an opprobium to English agriculture ? The latter influence is unknown, the former only in a less degree, in Yorkshire ; and yet the water stagnates and sours in her flats and marshes, and her moors are untouched by the drain and the subsoil plough, and can scarely tell from experience how they should look under the influence of lime and abundant manure. The natives calumniate the soil ; yet how strongly does the return it makes for any unusual labour and skill speak for its willing capabilities, if the cultiva tor faithfully performed his part. " Lincoln has much merit ; but she has more still to do. Her stock-feeding will be improved—her manuring will be cheapened and bettered—the drain will yet tra verse the country where its use has hitherto been un thought of ; and, both in Lincoln and in Norfolk a deeper ploughing will hereafter, we think, be beneficially introduced. " In Northampton, Gloucester, and Somerset, the lies clays are all, with isolated exceptions, still to drain ; the same is true of the Oxford clays of Oxford, Berks, and other counties ; and of the Weald clays of Sussex and Kent. We might speak of the much-neglected hus bandry of Lancashire—of the comparative infancy still of boneing in Cheshire—of the gaulting yet to be pro fitably performed in Huntingdon and lower Lincoln—of the shallow draining of Essex, which does not admit of the use of the subsoil plough —of the limited extension of the turnip culture in Sussex—of the shallow plough ing so justly praised and practised in the moorlands of Berkshire and Gloucester—of the undeveloped and as yet little understood capabilities of the chalk soil of Surrey and other southern counties ; and of the youth ful state of rural industry in the Devonian and Cornish peninsula." To those who are impressed with mournful antici pations in regard to the Possibilities of our native agriculture, we commend this admirable article, con fident that it will prove a most salutary corrective. It will testify, that the lovers of free trade are filled with hopefulness, as much for the futurity of British agri culture as for that of British manufactures ; and that the wonderful eminence already acquired by the latter is, in the estimation of those despised political economists eclipsed, if that be possible, by the former. " The Go vernment of British India" is a paper addressed parti cularly to our neighbours across the Channel, with the intention of disabusing them of their many erroneous impressions with regard to our dominions in Asia, and especially of those promulgated by recent work of the Chevslier de Warren. The paper is sensible and independent. "Railways at Home and Abroad," is a contribution that was much wanted ; it accumu lates together a vast bulk of information previously scattered in all sorts of directions, and presents a clear bird's-eye view of that gigantic system which promises to transform the whole character of society. " Lives of Eminent Lawyers," is a review of two biographi ca l wor k s, b y W. N. Wesley, and W. C. Townshend, already so familiar to the reading public. " Grote's History of Greece," or at least the pre liminary portion of that history, has elicited from the Edinburgh an article which will be devoured with avidity by every classical student, par ticularly the passages in which the Re viewer maintains the individuality of Homer, and not only his individuality, but the uniqueness of the Iliad. The arguments of Mr. Grote to prove that the original of that stupendous epic was an Achilleis and not an Iliad are hero triumphantly re futed, and his extraordinary depreciation of the ninth book indignantly contemned. With t tribute to the memory of the late Lord King, in a retrospective criticism of his speeches and writings, the _Edin burgh Review is composed of six papers of eminent ability and one of most venerable antiquity. BRADSHAW'S RAILWAY GUIDE. This useful little manual is greatly improved by the substitution of a new railway and steam travel ling map, for the confused and intricate affair which ' has hitherto been attached to it, and which, however, useful it might have been to the railway speculator, was worse than useless to the railway traveller. In the new map all the projected and abortive schemes are left out, so that a traveler, on referring to it, will at a glance understand how far he will be enabled to travel by railway. Numerical references are also given to each railway, so that the difficulty of not having any means of distinguishing particular lines will be completely obviated. We understand, it is the intention of the proprietors to correct the map monthly, adding or extending any line as opened for traffic. GOVERNORSHIP OF BOMBAY. TO THE' EDI roR OF THE SUN. Pray, Sir, can you inform the public what is the hitch about the nomination of a successor to Sir George Arthur, in the government of Bombay? This estim able, peaceable, well-intentioned public functionary, has drept in amongst us without our having any notion of his resignation. The government has passed quietly into the hands of Mr. Lestuck Reid, the senior civil member of the Council ; and here are the Minis ters and the Court of Directors, coquetting first with one person and then with another for the last mcnth, and they have not yet settled who is to have the appointment. For the- administration of an Indian Government at this time of day the public naturally expect a man of effi ciency, a statesman with enlarged views, of a cool and dispa-sionato judgment, possessing firmness, integrity, and weighty personal character ; but what is most re quired is a thorough political economist. Never was there such a set of drivellers in finance as our Indian statesmen. In the first place, we have a salt monopoly in Bengal, realising, it is true, a revenue of about two millions, but starving and demoralising the people by all serts of shifts to evade it. Falling most heavily on the poorer classes, while among the rich it is hardly telt, or known to exist. I say, Sir, any tax operating in this manner is a bad tax, whatever be the amount; it is vicious in principle and is, as was the lete bread tax, a monstrously unjust and defective method of realising a revenue. In Madras they have still heavy internal transit duties; they have enormous export an import duties on the pro• duce of their own country passing, coastwise, from one port to another, if it be only the distance of ten or twenty miles. I know of an instance of a Governor, within the last ten years, who was obliged to pay into his own exchequer 16 per cent. duty before he could procure a carpet, made within his own jurisdiction and transmitted coastwise, to be laid down in the drawing room of the Governor's house ; and till within the last six or eight years, as much as 30 per cent., ad valcrent duty, was levied on rice, the common food of the people, brought for sale to Bombay, coastwise, within two hours' sail of that city. For several years attempts have been made by the local Governments to construct roads. These have been, here and there, made; it is true, but in the cheapest possible manner, so that they require frequent repairs, that are seldom executed. There are, however, no bridges to connect the different portions of these roads, avowedly on account of the ex pense, and thus the very roads themselves are rendered all but useless. The Chairs of the Court of Directors, guided entirely by their officials, are the sole movers of the gigantic mach:ne of the Government of India, but, like their brother directors, are too busily engaged in the just distribution of patronage to be able to pay sufficient attention to S ate affairs. The ordinary directors, with their single patronage, have scarcely time to dis charge the small share of responsibility imposed upon them. How much less, then, can the Chairs and the President of the Board of Control be expected to con duct all the affairs of the Indian Government, while overburdened with the whole of the patronage of Gover nors, Commanders. in• chief; Judges, Bishops, Generals on the Staff, as also with a double portion of writer ships, cadetships, assistant-surgeons, and military chap lains ? It is this excessive load of patronage which is now preventing their deciding on the fittest person to succeed Governor Arthur, of Bombay. The appoint ment is full of difficulties we know. The Court of Di rectors and the Ministers are pulling different ways. It is not the best man for the office that they want—it is the man whom both parties are most willing to secure. Half-a-dozen person s h ave b een spo k en of, but there is no one who at present suits both parties. We believe the Court of Directors would have liked Sir Henry Pot tinger, but there were strong objections on account of certain opinions which he holds on certain points con nected with Sinde, which stood in his way, besides which the Ministry wanted him themselves for a business of their own, and he was appointed Governor, for a special purpose, to the Cape of Good Hope. The name of the Hon. Charles Pelham Villiers was then mentioned. A more proper man could not have been selected. He has all the requisites which I hold a ruler ought to have fur an Indian Government. Mr. Villiers is deservedlyconsidered one of the first political economists of the age. Ile pos sesses an excellent judgment, quick discrimination, great firmness of purpose and deliberv.tion, an untiring at tention to business, making himself thoroughly master of every branch of a subject before he commits himself on it, and never has reason to retract or qualify what he has once advanced. Moreover, though acted on by a strong sense of the moral injustice inflicted by the corn laws—a law against which he was the first to wage war, and to hunt down till its late was doomed—he has al ways lamented in public and in private the necessity of popular agitation, and was one of the most strenuous of the party which advocated the dissolution of the League, even th, ugh the total abolition of the law was only promised at the end of three 3 cars. lam sorry to per ceive from a letter of his, in one of the papers, a few day's since, that there is so little chance of his nomination, because I feel certain that none of those who have been mentioned possess higher qualities. Among those named we may mention Lord Dal housie, a younger man, with less Parliamentary ex perience. He has been spoken of for Bombay, as a stepping-stone to the supreme Government. Then there is Lord Joclyn, younger still, and with a shorter public career, and of whose qualifications the public certainly know nothing. Sir George Clerk, the able diplomatist of the Punjab, has also beer: spoken of. Ire is, however, a company's servant, and the appointment is wanted for one of the Ministerial party, so he will not do. But another remove is current !ately, that Sir James Graham -has been invited to succeed Lord Hardinge as Governor- General, in case he should persist in coming home. What can the Whigs be driving at ? Among the names above-mentioned, with the exception of Mr. Villiers, all were members of Sir Robert Peel's Government, and is it possible that Lord John Russell's Administration is going to suffer such a man as Mr. Villiers —one so emi nently qualified, who has worked so hard for his party, who by his family connexion and position is virtually one of themselves—to be set aside in order to conciliate that Conservative body, the Court of Directors, or to truckle to the adherents of Sir Robert Peel. If this be the game of the present Ministry, they must feel them. selves weak indeed, and Ged help them in the next ses sion of larliament, and-at the ensuing election. AN OLD INDIAN. FIRE REWARDS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUIV SlR,—Knowing your disposition to give every man praise where due, I have taken the liberty of forwarding to you the folliwing case, which is well deserving notice, because, I submit to you respectfully, if once fire rewards are done away with, very great alteration I am perfectly convinced, will take place among the body of our present preservers of lives and property—the firemen of the metropolis. The case heard yesterday before Mr. Elliott, at Lambeth-street, I witnessed myself, an d much surprised was I to hear the opposition made by Mr. Churchwarden Boxer, of St. George's parish, against the rewards claimed for the attendance of engines and firemen on the occasion alluded to. With your permis sion I will place the case before your notice :_ LAMBETH-STREET POLICE-OFFICE. Yesterday the firemen of the London Establishment and West of England Company applied to the sitting magistrate, to compel payment of the fire rewards due to them on the occasion of the destruction of the fire work factory of Mr. Drewell, on the Ist of August last, the memorable storm day. Mr. Wolf, solicitor, attended to prosecute the claim, and Mr. Churchwarden Boxer to resist payment. It appeared that the premises took fire about eleven o'clock on the day in question, and only five minutes had elapsed before the engines and firemen concerned, as well as Mr. Inspector Arnold, of the L division, with constables, were in attendance. From the quan'ity of gunpowder and other inflammable materials on the pre !James, the adjoining houses were placed in great Jeopardy ; but to the praise of the firemen be it spoken, they procured the necessary supply of water, and Mr. Drewell's shop only was destroyed, as also its dangerous contents. The fire was not denied, but Mr. Boxer cont”clid that the firemen vsere in duty bound to attend without reward. The worthy magistrate thought different, and, con sidering an Act of Parliament was the law of the land— to say nothing of the dangers to which this most useful class of men were exposed—erdered the rewards to be paid forthwith, as under :-30s. for the first engine, 20s. for the second, and 10s. for the third, with 10s. for the first turneock. Now, Sir, thus ends the case, and I assure you lam not any way interested, but on the morning of the fire little expected that through the exertions of those men the neighbourhood would have been saved as it was. Apologising for the liberty I take, I am, Sir, yours obediently, Oct. 20, 1846. A READER OP THE SUN. Queen Mary's Bowor arid Spring. Gardens, at the Haymarket, are nightly increasing in attraction. The Duchess of Cambridge and Princess Hesse visit the theatre this evening, when, in addition to the above new and popular pieces, they have expressly desired the per formance of Used up, by Mr. Webster. EAST INDIAN FLOUR. --A ship, just arrived at Liverpool, from Calcutta, had on board, in addition to the usual of flo desc urription of car go f rom the place named, 10bags .We believe this to be rather a novel description of importation from the East Indies, amongst th e almost numberle-s productions of that rich and fer tile soil ; at least, a similar one does not recur to our me mory, and therefore we d eem i t our duty to make this the subject of especial mention for the information of tho numerous parties who will necessarily feel interested in the matter. THE RIPON STEAM-SHIP. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Com pany, 51, St. Mary-axe, Oct. 22, 1846. am desired to request that you will have the goodness to give immediate insertion in your journal to the enclosed circular, which has been addressed, as far as their addresses are known, to the friends of the pas sengers by the Ripon. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, JAMES ALLAN, Secretary. " Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Com pany, 51, St. Mary-axe, Oct. 22, 1846. " Sir,—l am desired by the managing directors, with a view to relieve any anxiety which may be felt by the friends of the passengers on board of the company's steamer Ripon, to inform you, that in consequence o f an accident to h er ru dd er, which' happened in the late gale, that vessel has put into Torbay, where sho is in safety, and the company's steam-ship Oriental will proceed to morrow (Friday) to Torbay, to embark the passengers and mails, and convey them to Alexandria. " I am, Sir, your most obedient servant, "JAMES ALLAN, Secretary. " P.S. Mr. Lane, the purser of the Ripon, who brought up the intelligence, returns to Torbay, by special train, to night, to announce the above-mentioned arrangement to the passengers." THE GREAT WESTERN. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—The Great Western steam-ship appears to have had a very narrow escape ; she was in imminent danger of foundering as did, some years since, the President, and under c rcumstances very similar ; for there is reason to believe the President was in so helpless a con dition, from the violence of the storm she encour.tered, that she fell off into the trough of the sea, which making a complete sweep over her she became water-loggeel, and finally sunk. Such a catastrophe may, it is known, be prevented by keeping the vessel's bow to the sea : this can be accom plished by the simple contrivance of a float anchor. The float -anchor is admirably adapted to keep a vessel of great length in the position desired. A steam-vessel, for instance, overtaken by a storm, where there is plenty of sea room, might extinguish her fires, batten down, and out with a float-anchor, by which she could ride in comparative ease and with safety. There is nothing novel in the use of a float-anchor, or of expedients of a like nature, to enable a vessel, when dismasted or unmanageable, to bow the sea ; and, as there are many instances upon record of vessels being so saved from foundering by a means of preservation so easily atailable, it may be well to recommend its con sideration to ship-owners and navigators. A NAVAL OFFICER. October 22, 1846. LYCEUM THEATRE, Mrs. Harris that hitherto mysterious lady, about. whose existence so many doubts have been entertained, the universal referee of Mrs. Sairy Gamp, who has been hitherto classed by naturalists with mermaids and unicorns, as an entity heard of but never seen, made her appearance at the Lyceum last evening. We went there in the expectation of having our doubts as to the existence of Mrs. Harris cleared up, but we are scep tical—we still have our doubts. True, we saw Mrs. Harris, but we did not see Mrs. Gamp ; and so like is Mrs. Harris to Mrs. Gamp, that until we see the two together, enjoying separate existences, we shall not believe in the separate personal entity of the two individuals. If they have separate existences, then must Mrs. Harris be the twin sister of Mrs. Gamp ; Mrs. Harris refers to Mrs. Gamp for her character, much after the same manner that Mrs. Gamp refers to Mrs. Harris, and Mrs. Gamp does not appear upon the scene, so that we may be pardoned if we still maintain our old opinion that Mrs. Camp and Mrs. Harris are identical. Certes, Mr. Keeley's Mrs. Harris was marvellously like his Mrs. Gamp. Like Mrs. Gamp, Mrs. Harris attends upon invaliges, and, like Mrs. Camp, she has a bottle of gin upon the chimney-piece to put her mouth to it whenever she is so dispodged. She is in attendance upon a cataleptic patient, and as cataleptics can't speak, she beats her patient after the approved Gamp method ; moreover she has the approved Gamp taste for cow himbers, pickled salmon, Brighton tipper, and shilling glasses of gin-and-water; and she suffers from the Gamp complaint, of a constant sinking, which requir4 s fre quent supplies of sustenance. Her patient, Henry Masker (Mr. A. Wigan), is however only shamming. He is the nephew of an opulent Birmingham manufacturer, Mr. Mugbolt (Mr. Turner), who has received informa tion from a certain Mr. Slickey (Mr. F. Matthews) that the juvenile is going the pace in London, and is about to contract matrimony with Fanny Platt (Miss Arden) a pretty milliner ; whereupon the old uncle deter mines to take Slickey into partnership, and to send his nephew down to Birmingham by a third-class train. The nephew, thereupon, shams cataleptic, and is attended by Dr. Biliary Shivers (Mr. Meadows), and by Mrs. Harris, the nurse. Fanny Platt brings a cap for Mrs. Harris, newly trimmed, a favourite cap, one which she had worn on the day when she took the late desieged Mr. Harris to Guidge Hospital, and at the same time brings a note from Mrs. Gamp, inviting Mrs. Harris to supper elf a goose and sausage:. Tempted by the goose and sausages, Mrs. Harris resigns her post of watcher to Fanny, but in the meantime Slickey has entered and dis covered the supposed invalid busy with Mrs. Harris's ie eputs curedth the abdominal o b s e y d supper. Slick e y p ro p oses to c h ange clothes with him and take hi s pl ace , so as to afford him an opportunity of escape , w hi c h M as k er gladly embraces, and Slickey, t a ki ng th e p l ace o f the cataleptic, is pur suing his designs u p on th e f a i r F anny, when Maskerreturns, returns, having found in th e poc k ets o f S l i ckey ' s coat convincing proofs of his vill a i ny . Di sgu i sed i n Slickey ' s coat, wig, and spectacles, h e i s secure from discovery, arid having made himself kn own t o F anny, h e arouses the household, announces him se lf as t h e f ar- f ame d d octor who has been sent for to cure t h e catalept i c patient, in a powerful ele c t r i ca l machine, and so shocks Slickey, that he is glad to di scover himself to escape further torture—of cou rse t h e uncle consents to his ' marriage, and all end s h app i ly. Mrs. Harris returns just at this moment rather t os ti ca t e d w i t h li quor , an d seating herself upon th e machine, gets a severe shock, which as she says, dishi tgates her entirely. However, as her invalidge has recover e d , she distributes her cards about the house, and announ ces , amidst the vociferous cheers, of a crowded house, th at she will resume her ogerous duties every evening unt i l further notice. Spasms are cured by shaking the midriff —liver complaints are cured by putting the abdomi na l muscles into violent action— si n is laught er , ni us cies which in to slakes violentthe mid ri ff, and) motion. Therefore, let all th ose who labour under spasms, liver I c ,ii )m ie p h la a in re ts, comp spleen, course of the Harris couof r rethao n ts e e r t v h o eu Lyceum, snes s—o a r diseases—taken b iliousness, they will i a l n io u h s o n ui es i, s lsl , be made whole. --- COURT CIRCULAR. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester left town at three o'clock yesterday afternoon, for Cashio bury-park, Herts, on a visit to her Majesty the Queen Dowager. Her Royal Highness travelled from the Euston-square terminus of the London and North-Wes tern Railway, to Watford, and proceeded from that station to Cashiobury-park. Lord John Russell arrived at his residence, in Che!- ham-pl:me, yesterd ay morning, from Wimbledon. His Lordship left to wn i n the afternoon, on a visit to the Marquis of S a li s b ury, at his seat, Hatfield House, Herts, to have the ho nour of meeting her Maest. Lord Campb e ll arrived in town yeste j rda y y, from Hart rigge House, R ox b urghshire, and transacted business at the office of the D uc h y of Lancaster. of her Majesty and il LD, ..DURSDAY N Prince ELD Consort HOUSE. to A tb T P F . HER MAJESTY'S - - . : G V Th I e S a IT TO HATFIELD, i r anticipated visit there to honour the Marquis of Salisbury by their august presence for two days,Hatfield House, gave occasion to a most loyal dis play at the small town of Hatfield. At an early hour the town was rife • with a busy population, anxiously d - corating the exterior their in . e of houses various fashions, to publicly testify the devotion loyal andregard they entertained towards th • Sovereign. en- The same busy preparations was as going forwa r d w ithi n the mansion of the Marquis o Salisbury, hu n d re d s o f persons bein g actively employed in the completion of the arrangements for the due t" rece short notice the N o bl e Marquisp t on of her M a j es ty. Th e honour to be conferr e d on himhad of th e p ro posed a great I metture, the cause of the backwardness everything "•as' i t e and the utmost exertions were requisite toaico r r e d e anythin g like a suitable welcome to the Queen. The Duke of Wellington arrived from town before eleven o'clock ; Lord and Lady Charles Wellesley, M r . A. B. and Lady Mildred Hope, and Mr. J. M. and Lady Blanche Balfour had previously arrived. The Duke of Rutland, the Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter, the Earl and Countess Brownlow, the Earl and Countess Spencer, Lord John Russell, Lord and Lady Cowley, Lord and Lady Bray brook°, and Hon. Miss Neville, Lord Sandys, and Lord Marcus • Hill arrived in the course of the day, and formed the circle staying at the house, as guests of the Noble Marquis, on this occasion. As the day advanced crowds of people from all parts of the county, both near and remote, congregated in the town, and by three o'clock some thousands of expectant spectators collected along the road and line of route of the royal cortege, manifesting the greatest patience to obtain a sight of the cavalcade. The Marquis of Salisbury, accompanied by the Duke of Wellington, Lord Charles Wellesley, Lord Robert Cecil, and Mr. James M. Balfour passed through Hat field about three o'clock, on horseback, on his way to meet the Queen in the St. Alban's•road. and to escort the cortege to his Lordship's house. We must here slightly digress to explain the route of her Maj esty. At three o'clock yesterday afternoon the Queen and his Royal Highness Prince Albert closed their visit to Queen Adelaide at Cashiobury Park, and after taking an affectionate farewell of the Dowager Queen and the Princess of Hesse, her Majesty departed for Hatfield House. i The route was by St. Alba n ' s, where the Marquis of Salisbury's own horses forme d the rela y f or the Queen's carriage, and thence to Hatfield, and through t h e town to the park entrance on the Lon don-road. Marquis port Salisbury's iortotheQtiroconp reaching .f .theSouth St.ut Alban's, the Hefts m Yeo rnanry Cavalry,who were in waiting to escort h er M a j esty to Hatfield, mustered at the I own-hall, w here the royal carriages changed horses. The royal party arrived at St. Alban's shortly before four o'clock, and after a brief delay resumed the jour ney. At about four miles from Hatfield the Marquis of Salisbury and the Duke of Wellington met the royal cortege, when her Majesty's carriage was stopped, and the noble and gatlant Duke advanced to con gra t u l ate the Queen, and the Marquis to offer his attentions. At a quarter past four the royal cortege arrived 4t fie bottom of the High-street; and by the triumphal arch erected there a band was stationed, ►wen the National Anthem was played as the royal carriages passed. On reaching the market-place the royal standard was hoisted on the tower of the ancient parish church, and the bells rang a lively peal. The royal cortege having gone through the town, proceeded by the London-road to the south entrance to the park. The Marquis of Salisbury having conducted the Queen to the park gates, preceded the cavalcade, and arrived at the mansion in sufficient time to personally receive his august visitors. • The troops of the South Herts Yeomanry Cavalry, and the band of that regiment, were drawn up in squad rons on each side of the gateway to the court-yard. The cavalcade passed along the avenue, and entered the court amidst the cheering of a highly respectable assemblage, and the royal carriage immediately drove up to the grand porch in the south front. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, on alighting from the I royal carriage, were received by the Noble Marquis and his daught.rs, the Lady Mildred Hope, and Lady Blanche Balfour. The Queen having saluted their Ladyships, was conducted by the Marquis if Salisbury to King James's room, n here the distinguished person ages honoured by invitations to meet her Majesty were introduced. The Duke of Wellington was loudly cheered by the people w herever he appearvd. His Grace looked re markably well, and to all appearances was highly grati fied at the recvption given to the Queen. Immediately after her Majesty had entered the man sion, the Yeomanry Cavalry retired from the park. A troop is stationed on duty at the mansion during the royal visit. 'Viscount Melbourne and Lord and Lady Beau sale came over from Brocket Hall, to have the honour of joining the dinner circle. The banquet was served up in the great hall in a princely style of splendour. The dinner circle was as follows, in addition to the Noble Marquis and his august visitors:—The Duke of Wellington, the Duke of Rutland, the Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter, the Earl and Countess Brown low, the Earl and Countess Spencer, Lord and Lady Cowley, Lord Sandys, Lord and Lady Bray brooke and Honourable Miss Neville, Lord John Russell, Viscount Melbourne, Lord and Lady Beauvale, Lord and Lady Charles Welesley, Lord Marcus Hill, Mr. Alexander B. and Lady Mildred Hope, Mr. James M. and Lady Blanche Balfour, and the Earl of Morton, Lord in Wait ing ; the Countess of Gainsborough, Lady in Waiting ; the Honourable Miss Dawson, Maid of Honour ; and Colonel Buckley, Equerry in Waiting to her Majesty ; and Mr. George E. Anson, Private Secretary, and Cul. Seymour, Equerry in attendance on the Prince Consort, &c. Covers were laid for forty guests. ROYAL VISIT TO ARUNDEL. We have received the following communication from our Arundel correspondent : " The visit of her Majesty and Royal Consort to the Duke and Duchess of Norfolk, at Arundel Castle, will, it is confidently expected, take place next week, for which happy event all the necessary preparations are in a forward state. We believe that up to the evening of Tuesday her Majesty had not communicated to his Grace her intentions as to the day oa which she will arrive; but, according to present arrangements, the du ration of the visit will be four days, including those of the arrival and departure. During the Royal stay, her Majesty will pay a visit to the Duke of Richmond, at Goodwood, calling on the way upon the Countess of Newburgh, at Slindon House, and will also honour Colonel Wyndham with a visit, at Petworth House. " The arrangements in anticipation of the royal visit include new dresses for the boys and girls of the na tional schools, the laying down of gas pipes for illumi natirg the exterior and approaches of the Castle, and the planting of cannon for firing royal salutes. Artists sr rived last week to sketch the rooms, &c., of the Castle, for the pictorial newspapers. " The royal party will arrive by special train via the London and Brighton Railway, quitting and taking the train at the Arundel Station of the Chichester Branc:b." It has been stated in some of the London papers that her Majesty will male a brief sojourn at the Pavilion, after her visit to Arundel Castle. We can only state that no preparations have been made at the Pavilion, such as to induce the belief that we are to be honoured with a royal visit at so early a period ; and, even so late as yesterday, no less than 57 large hampers of wine were taken from the Pavilion, and conveyed by railway to London.—Brighton Gazette. TIIE MEXICAN BONDHOLDERS. Whatever opinion may be entertained of Mr. Mur phy's answer to the Mexican Minister of Finance, and its sufficiency in justification of the late conversion, there is one fact which makes a strong impression on even the most sanguine holders of stock, and that is, that there is no doubt that the dispatch, be its reasonings good, bad, or indifferent, expresses the feelings of the Mexican Go vernment,such as it was, at the date of the latest advices. It is perfectly evident that the people who have to pay make a formal objectioa to the document on which pay ment is claimed. Whether they are justifiable or not, there is the fact, and the bondholders cannot be perfectly easy, however logical or equitable their position. Indeed, Mr. Murphy's letter has confirmed this fact. When first we gave the substance of the Gout( z Farias dispatch there was nothing more common than to hear that we had been hoaxed, and that no such document ex isted as the one described. The assertions thus recklessly uttered were put to silence by the publication of the op; rative part of the dispatch, which had been forwarded for that purpose by Senor Gomez Farias the younger. Then came a .series of doubts whether that gentleman was peoperly authorised, and whether Mr. Murphy was bound to take any notice of his document. All these doubts are dispelled iu ther turn by Mr Murphy's letter, in which he examines and criticises the charge made age in‘t him in the. dispatch, and officially publishes it. 'I he discussion now becomes merely one on the late con version, and the authority to make it, the great fact that the pre sent Mexican Government protest a;;ainst it being incontrovertibly proved. S o m e p ersons , we h ave h eard, i are so sensitive, that they attribute the pains we took to set forth this fact in a strong light, ut a time win n doubts were so freely uttered, to a feeling inimical to the bondholders. Such a charge as this is too absurd to merit a reply. If it was an injury to the bondholders to put them in possession of a fact most important for them to know long before there was any other source for the information but that of mere rumour, such an injury we committed. We gave the material part of the dispatch, and from Mr. Murphy's first letter to the Spanish American committee, it is not too much to infer that to the publication of that part the bond holders are in some measure indebted for the official publication of the whole. While it is clear that the feeling of the existing Go vernment is against the converted bonds, and in favour of a re-conversion of these into their original shape, some of the dealers are beginning to inquire what would be the result of s uc h a re - c onversion. The TiCIV bonds do not all represent the same original stock, but some re present the old Active, some the old Deferred or Deben tures, and some a mixture of both. If the old bonds had remained unconverted, it is very clear that, the time for the Deferred becoming Active drawing nearer every day, the difference between the two descriptions would be getting less than at the beginning of the year. The relative values of Active and Deferred stock would have changed; and thus, if a re-conversion takes place; the holder of a new bond for 100 L may find himself in a different position from another holder to the same amount, according to the nature of the old bonds given in exchange, one being entitled to take so much Active, another so much Deferred, in various proportions. Hence a correspondent suggests that on every new bond should be marked the description of old stock for which it was changed, that people may know what they are buying, in case of are conversion. We hope that the present storm will blow over, and that there will be no occasion for a process so difficult and troublesome that Mr. Murphy pronounces it a "physical impossibility;" but, in the meanwhile, the point started by our cor respondent is too curious not to merit a moment's at tention. The neat• Mexican bonds issued under the late con version amount, we are told, to 7,300,0001., being about two-thirds of the amount stipulated.— 7 inus. - - THE GREAT WESTERN STEAMER. LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY AFTERNOON.—The ship Sea has arrived ; she sailed from New York on the 30th ult., the same day as the Cambria's mails were dispatched to Boston, consequently her news is not any later. We are now hcurly expecting the Great Western. THE NAILORS' STRIEE.—The nailors about Broms grove have partially resumed work again, and the re mainder are expected to go to work in a day or two, though it is not yet settled whether an advance in the wages will take place or not. THE EARL OF LINCOLN AND THE REPRESENTA TION OF LANARKSHIRM—II is rumoured that whenever a dissolution of Parliament takes place Lord Lincoln will be brought forward to contest the important county of Lanark, against the present Protection member, Mr. Lockhart. As he will have nearly the unanimous sup port of the manufacturing and commercial interests of the lower and middle wards, as well as the powerful support of his noble father-in-law, the Duke of Hamil ton, and the Whig gentry, success is almost certain. SUDDEN DEATH OF T. BATE, ESQ.—We regret to have to announce another instance cf sudden death in this county. Thomas Bate, Esq., for many years a banker of Dudley, and a magistrate of Worcestershire, and who has always taken an active part in the magis terial business of the neighbourhood, died on Tuesday se'nnight. He had in the evening complained of a pain in the chest, and retired early to bed ; .in half an hour afterwards he was a corpse.— Worcester Journal. LARGE IMPORTATIONS OF BREAD STUFFS.—III the Sheridan, from New York, arrived at Liverpool on Tuesday, there are 1,678 barrels of flour, 335 of corn meal, 10,400 bushels of Indian corn, 9,000 bushels of wheat. In the Wyoming, from Philadelphia, arrived same time, there are 1,000 barrels of flour, 14,700 bushels of Indian corn, 6,400 bushels of wh ea t, 563 b arre l s o f corn meal. As the wind is now blowing strong from the south-west, there will be many arrivals this week of flour and corn from the United States. INCENDIARISM.—An extensive fire broke out be tween seven and eight o'clock on Tuesday night at Bat's green farm, in tho parish of Hurley, Berks, on the road from Henley to Maidenhead, The fire, which was to be seen many miles round for Feveral hours after the out break, was observed at Reading, a distance of ten miles, from the eminence of the spot. Owing to a gentle breeze at the time of the conflagration, and the want of engines at hand, it was a long time before it could be subdued. Considerable property was destroyed, and the firo is generally supposed to have been the act of an incendiary. IVo have not heard whether the property was insured. The utmost altirm was created in many parts where the fire was viewed. DUDLEY OLD BANK.—A dividend of 2s. Gd. was paid by Edward Dixon, Esq., on Tuesday week, making a total of 20s. in the pound on all claims on account of this bank. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. ing the laws for facilitating the payment of debts out of FR set TILE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY, real estate—for a men di ng the laws respecting convey- CIIIIONICLE.—" I de c l are t o t h e H ouse t h at t h at ances and tran s f ers —f or consolidating and amending day in m y p o li tica l li`e on which I look back with most the laws relating to fcmes- cevert, idiots, lunatics, and satisfaction a n d p r id e , was that on which I was ready persons of unsound m i n d—f or altering and amending and prepared to take on myself the responsibility of the laws relating to illusory appointments—oral for issuin g an O r d er i n C ouncil fur the opening of the ports, making better provisions for the disposal of the un disposed residue of the effe c t s o f testators. But though and trustin g t o you for an Act of Indemnity. " The events and experience of the year that has elapsed since we admit the full value of these improvements, and the late Premier arrived at the ever-memorable decision readily concede to Lord Campbell also the praise which to which he thus alluded on the 16th of February last, is his due for the great improvements he introduced into have so completely authenticated the soundness of that the law of real property,—and freely allow to Lord decision, and legitimated the " satisfaction and pride" Brougham, also, his full share of merit for his reforms with which it was retrospectively regarded by its author, accomplished, and, in a still greater degree, for those that it is difficult to comprehend the apparent reluctance intended by him, and in the prosecution of which he has of his successors to adopt, under circumstances gene- been thwarted—yet we still think that much remains to rically identical, but of incalculably greater urgency, be accomplished,—and feel perfectly perivaded that the a precedent which time and opinion have thus em- statesman—be he Protectionist, Tory, Whig, or Radical phatically sanctioned. Why is it that the Queen's present Ministere, wh o h ave not usually been reputed —will immortalise hi irse lf, un d er w h ose ausp i ces Mr. Stewart's principal recommendations,—to use the vulgar less impressible than Sir Robert Peel by obvious con- est of all Parli amentary and newspaper phrases— shall be tideration s of policy and humanity, continue to deny "carried cut." Th e simplification of the l aw of r ea l themselves that honourable "satisfaction and pride" Property presents a fine field for a great statesman or which a recent and most instructive experience indicate s great legal reformer, on a ground totally irrespective cf es the u:eed of bold and pressch nt statesmanship ? party. 'I hat branch of the law of England, which relates Whence this strange pertinacity with which Lord John to the acquisition, transmission, and eneumbrancing of Russell and his colleagues refuse themselves the right to real property, conies home to the business and bosom indulge hereafter in a retrospect, which they are i n of every considerable man and family in the kingdom. fallible pre-assured will be freely accorded to them by The expenses and delays which now embarrass all deal the voice of an approving people, the verdict of rival ings in land are great and ere ing. If free trade in corn stateemeo, and the more formal concurrence of both be a good thing, why should not free trade in land? houses of Parliament ? This question is now coming The buying and se lli ng of land is now anything but to be very generally asked, e ven b y t h e most friendly free, and the expense and delay which embarrass ell critics of Lord John Russell's public conduct, in dealings in it, are serious evil,. The state of the law as tone in which surprise is largely and increasingly to land, as Mr. Stewart states, is anything but clear, , qualified by regret. F u r ou r own p ar t, we cannot un d er - simp'e, or eas il y un d erstood. In truth, it is the most take to meet it with an y answer t h a t w ill b e f u ll y sat i s - difficult b ranc h of out jurisprudence: so difficult that foumil factory .either to ours e l ves or t o our rea d ers . Yet perhaps, the re are not more than a dozen lawyers in we have always b ee n accus t ome d to t a k e f or grante d, Englaiid—if th ere really be so many —pro skilled in it. Th a t t hi s i s not as it should be, perhapys of the less int e lli g ibl e ac t s or om i ss i ons o f t h e N o bl e Lord's public car eer , th a t th ey were groun d e d on reasons there is not even more t h an one sergeant who would of sufficient p r i m a f ac i e f orce, at l east, to j ust if y t h em to now contend. The l aws re l at i ng to property should be his own mind ; and we are not di spose d to re li nqu i s h i n few and simple. E ven th e ear li est conveyance of which the present in s t ance a pl eas i ng an d respect f u l assumption we have any account—" the field of Eph ron , w hi ch was in Macpelah, which was before Mamre, the field an d which has rar e ly d ece i ve d us . I n t h e a b sence of any other intelligibl e or conce i va bl e groun d s f or t h e pro- the cave which was th ere i n "— was needlessly tracted hesitation o f G overnment i n meet i ng t h e d e- verbose, though th e r e may b e one sergeant—the mends of the p resent cr i s i s, b y t h e prompt application of man of Calipee and C a lip as h— an d t h ree conveyancers the simple, ratio na l, an d tra di t i ona ll y - recognised policy now living. who would ma i n t a i n t h e contrary. The length of "open po r t s ," we are constraiued to believe that it i s of legal instruments i n E ng l an d h as i n d ee d b ecome in some respectable "constitutional" scruple that stops the tolerable. They are spun out by repetition, and involu way. Lord John Russell must see as clearly, and feel tion, and circumlocution; and the men who so spin them as strongly, as any capitalist or operative in Lancashire, out, and who are the only beings who profit by it, an the monstrous impolicy, the almost indecency, of the nounce to their dupes, that they follow the good old State's artifi c i a lly o b struct i ng the ingress of the very practice. But th e f act i s ot h erw i se—for this abuse of food for which i t as k s t h e Ch urch to pray. It cannot verbose draughting, an d d raw i ng, and diffuse pleading, is an evil o f scarcely more tha n F i f ty or seventy years ' but be painf u lly repugnant, b oth to his convictions and feelings, to t o l erate , i n t h e present circumstances of the growth. The o ld er an d b etter—and, for want of a more united British an d I r i s h people, the continued action of expressive ter m , we must say th e more c l assic draughts a system whi c h o p erates as a b ounty on the re- men and pleader s —did not set their clients afloat in a exportation o f th e corn that commerce has sea of provisos, o r l aunc h t h em into a wide waste of housed and garnere d, an d g i ves foreigners an words. Mr. Stewart as k s , i s i t necessary that the pur an unfair adva n t age over us i n our own market, chase and mortgag e o f l an d s h ou l d b e so difficult as they Nor can his L or d s hi p enterta i n the smallest shadow now are ? To w hi c h we, though mere laymen, of a doubt as t o th e cor di a l w illi ngness of Parliament to answer unhesitatingly, no. R a il an d steam have ratify, on its first day of meeting, the measure by which fortunately brought us into closer contact with con he is now on all hands implored to anticipate its formal tinental countries, and in that France, Belgium, and vote. That which Parliament has repeatedly done, or Prussia, which we can reach in a few h ours , t h e approved of th e E xecut i ve d o i ng, -throughout a series of trans f er o f land is nearly as easy as the transfer of precedents reaching over the last three-quarters of a stock. The result of this increased facility is—that century ; that which the very protectionists blamed Sir land is more valuable in those countries than in Robert Peel for having left undone twelve months ago— England—fetches more in the market—and money can will indubitably receive Parliamentary approval now, be borrowed at an easier rate than here. It is monstrous when the w h o l e system of policy whose last miserable that at the very cl ose o f t h e n i neteenth, and we may say remnant it is prop ose d summar il y to extinguish has been bordering on the t went i et h century, the first rules of English property l aw s h ou ld , in a civilised count r y like deliberately d ec l are d an egregious injustice and folly. All this Lord John Russell perfectly well knows, a England, be founded on the feudal system. At a time course. That hi s L or d s hi p h as not ere this acted on when there was ne i t h er d omest i c nor foreign trade, and what must be his undoubting conviction of the right and when property seldom changed hands, the policy of expedient, w e are di spose d to attr i bute to a misplaced that system w as t o restr i ct, i f not to prohibit, alienation. and exaggerated deference for the formalities of that It was only by degrees, and then fraudulently and in a constitution with whose preservation and improvement cunning and clumsy fashion, that the rules prohibiting his public life is so honourably identified. Lord John the transfer of land were evaded. But even in 1846 the Russell —so, at least, we find ourselves constrained to doctrines of feudality must be treasured in one particular infer—declines o p en i ng t h e ports, suspending the navi- corner of a conveyancer's brain, and in th e a li ena ti on o f gation laws, and permitting the use of sugar in our copyholds, Cragius, and Spelman, and Glanville, and the breweries and distill er i es , b y O r d er i n Council, be- Regiam Majestatem—and Sk een an d B racton an d S ta i r cause he thinks it would be " unconstitutional." -and iu s and th nl e d ß D u Burgundian-laws—and n m d i ar e - 1 a a w s s —waenl weep as a S s t a u t h n e - That there would be anything really and truly t English Stat i u rn t:s s— at Large and dhan p cery Reports, must "unconstitutional" in the course which public opinion and necess ity now i mpose on her Majesty ' s be sometimes con: abed by the bewilder e d p ract i t i oner. Ministers, we mu s t t a k e l eave a l toget h er to d eny. S uch Some of the most eminent men in ancient as well as in among the former we need mer e ly c i te t h e name of. Lord a reading of th e const it ut i on o f t hi s country as woul d modern times have been in f avour o f a reg i stry, and preclude the Executiv e f rom t em p orar il y suspen di ng legislative measures that are found, from unf oreseen c i r - Keeper North, as appe ars by a passage in that amusing cumstances, to be working count e r t o th e Legislature's book "His Life." wr i tten b y hi s kinsman Roger. In much that is said . by . Mr..Stewart as to the mischief of entails of . excessive duration, we cordially agree. Most known intent and expectation, we pronounce without hesitation to be not merely narrow and pedantic, but tic, of the . continental jurists and publicists have urged strong objections against them, and none more than Muratori, wally false. Should Lord John Russell and his col leagues continue to hold themselves constitutionally and that great insgistrete the Chancellor D'Agueeseau, disabled from anticipating the known intent and purpose of the Legislat ure i n regar d to t h ose statutory checks on who in 1731 d rew u p an or d onnance which received the superabund a nc e o f f oo d, w hi c h have unexpectedly be. royal sanction i n 1747, b y which they were limited to come operative\as aggrava ti ons o f a horrible famine two degrees b e t ween t h e creator of an entail and the there is only oneihi ng to b e sa id . Let Lord John Rus , heir; these degrees being counted per capita, and not per sell forthwith su mmon t h e L eg i slature to re consider sti•pes. We beli eve th e l an d e d i nterest will oppose no and undo its own mos t p a l pa bl e b lunder, and put its acts obstacle to s uc h re f orms as Mr. Stewart propo-es, nrel into conformity w i t h i ts l enown intentions. As it is the lawyers ce r t a i n ly w ill not t h wart measures which will quite certain that this Parliament—the free. trade Par- multiply dealings in land tenfold. liament—would gladly do, in the present tremendous emergency, that which many previous Parliaments have unhesitatingly done in far less serious emergencies, there would be obvious constieutlonal pr , priety in giving it the opportunity of promptly arresting the conse • i voices of its own error. ADVERTISEII.—AIthough the alliance between Fiance arid Spain —now become matter of history—is almost wear threadbare in discussion, there is yet one point of view, from which it has been but little consi tiered by the parties engaged in the controversy, but which is, in fact, the most important to this country. We mesa the degree in which the material interests of England are concerned, in preventing the union of the young Infanta Luisa with the i)trice de Montpensier. It is, in fact, from a want of knowledge of the pounds shillings-aed-peece part of the argument, that many persons in this country maintain that we are not justi fied in interfering with a mere family arrangement. They assert that E ng l an d h as already lost enough by her interference in the domestic quarrels of other na tions, and that she ought by this time to have learned experience, and should quietly stand by, and let other nations do as they like with their own. Such principles are, it must be owned, very good in theory; needless and uncalled-for interference with the transactions of foreign states is certainly to be deprecated; and it is allowed that past expe rience shows that we have not always reaped the benefits from our benevolent interposition which we more immediately proposed to ourselves. But the ques tion is, can a great commercial state like England exist without in seine degree interfering in the affairs, internal and external, not only of her neighbours, but of all the world ? A small inland state like Anhalt, or Lippe- Detmold, may not, perhaps, be much affected by a few islands at the Antipodes being taken possession of by France, or by the Dutch dethroning a petty Sultan in the Indian Ocean ; England, however, with her com merce extending to the remotest corners of the earth, her ships in every sea, and her possessions on which the sun never sets, is concerned in every event that can occur, even of the most insignificant nature. His Serenity of An.alt, or his Highness of Lippe, cannot lay an ad ditional thaler on the cotton nightcaps of his subjects, without perhaps throwing a hundred or two English workmen out of employ, and causing the ruin of one or more manufacturers and merchants. The lass accruing to England by the union of France and Spain, is by no means to be measured by the amount of diminution of poli tical influence sustained by this country at the Court of Madrid. France is lunging to become a manufacturing and commercial country. Two things, however, pre vent the attainment of her wishes—she has no market fur her manufactures --she has not adequate ports for her commerce. In the open market she is undersold by England; Germany (or at least the ,Zollverein :States) is herself a m anu f actur i ng country, and as eager as France to become a commercial power. With the excep tion of Marseilles on the Mediterranean, and Havre and Bordeaux on the Atlantic coast, France dors not pos sess a single port equal to a third-rate English port. Her manufactures cannot flourish for want of commerce; her commerce is declining owing to the deficiency of manufactures. The fruits of the Montpensier alliance are expected to supply all these wants. Spain possesses numerous splendid ports on a long line of coast ; Barcelona, Carthagena, Seville, ' Cadiz, Malaga, and numerous others present un rivalled facilities for again creating an extensive commerce, such as once made Spain the greatest nation in Europe. The immense trade of England with these 1 ports is naturally regarded by France with the utmost envy, and were the influence of that power once predo minant at Madrid, there can be little doubt that special commercial treaties, differential duties, and exclusive privileges to French commerce would soon reduce the trade between England and Spain to a mere name. The cottons now exported from England to Spain and her colonies, to the amount of several hundred thousand pounds, would have to give way to the productions of Rouen, Mulhausen, Lyons, and other would-be " Man chesters " of France, while the grain and other natural productions of Spain, the sugar, coffee, and tobacco of Cuba, and the spices of the Philippines, re ceived in exchange, would contribute to raise French shipping at the expense of England. HERALD.—A most sensible—and, we may add, a most seasonable, letter—appeared in the columns of a Contemporary, headed " A Few Words to the Members of Agricultural Societies and others interested in Land," and signed " James Stewart, Lincoln's Inn." At the first blush we were under the impression that this letter was the production of Mr. J. Stewart, the Queen's Coun sel, who has recently been elected M.P. for Newark, by the protectionists of Notts, and who is a gentleman of some seven-and-twenty years' standing at the bar ; but on closer inspection we find it is the production of Mr. i James Stewart, of Stone-buildings, the conveyancer and equity draughtsman—a gentleman who, though without a silk gown, is of some twenty years' standing in the profession--and who, as a legal author, has incorporated the alterations in the law of real property down to the present time—or at least down to 1837—with the text of Blackstone. Though Mr. Stewart comes before the pub lic with the disrepute of having been made a Whig com missioner, fur some years cf assiduous Whig Radical voting in the House of Commons, and on Committees —and though we believe he hiss had no very large practical experience in his profession —we nevertheless conceive that his letter is well worthy of attention, em bodying, as it does, many valuable and really practical suggestions. Wo are by e o means insensible to the ad vantage conferred on the community by the Ist William IV., c. 27, which extended the remedies provided by the 3d and 4th William and Mary, c. 14, for the relief of creditors against fraudulent devises, and enabled courts of equity to carry their decrees on this subject into exe cation. N e ith er would we undervalue the Acts of Ist William IV,, cc. 47, 65, 60, 36, and 40, known to the profession under the style and title of Sir E. Sugden's Acts—and which provided for consolidating. and amend- SPORTING INTELLIGKNCE TATTERSALL'S.—TII CRS AY. , CAMB RIDG ESH IRE STA K ES. Sting is reported to have had a favourable trial on Wed nesday, ar,d on the strength was backed yesterday fur a large sum at odds, fluctuating between 16 and 13 to I ; the layers, albeit, were nuinerou., and at the close 14 to 1 might have been got. The .•7:i.iter to Joanna Colt was also fancied rather strongly in the early part of the day, but was "peppered" towards the evenito , , and re ce d e d to 10 to 1 . Alarm was steady at 3 t o 1, and lied Robin improved on Monday's market ; but excei.t A lexa and Lady Wildair, who gave way, the genrtal quotations showed bat very little al:era t ion. 3 to 1 ag't Mr. Grevi;le's Alarm—(take 7 to 2) 10 to 1 agst Mr. Nann's Sister to Joanna Colt—taken 11 to 1 ags! Colonel Anson's logo 14 to 1 agst Lord E. Russell's Sting—taken 15 to 1 agst Lord Glasgow's Conspiracy—taken 16 to 1 agst Major Yarborough's Red !robin—taken 20 to 1 agst Mr. Pemberton 's Best Bower—taken 25 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's Garry Owen 25 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Refraction 30 to 1 agst Mr. P. P. Rolt's Alexa—taken 30 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Lady Wildair 33 to 1 agst Mr. Wyatt's Laundrymaid 33 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Sis to Pergularia 35 to 1 agst Mr. Forth's Falsell,port 40 to I agst Mr. Rult's Evenus—taken 40 to 1 agst Mr. Crockford's Terrier—taken 50 to 1 agst Mr. Wigrain'i Kesheng—taken 50 to 1 aget Mr. Mytton's Sorella 1,000 to 10 agst Lord Chesterfield's Cherry—taken LOCO to 10 sgst Lord Stanley's Tour de Force—taken 300 to 300 on Alarm agst Sorella —taken THE CRITERR N STAKES. 7 to 4 agst Mr. Mostyn's Ilanet—taken DERBY. 8 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Van Tromp—taken 50 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Miss Iris colt—taken 66 to 1 apt Mr. Mostyn's West India Planter. W ELSIIPOOL RACES.—TUESDAY. The Tradesmen's Purse of 201. added, to a Sweepstakes of 2 soya. each, one mile and a half. Mr. Edward's Knife and Steal, 3 yrs, 9st (Arthur) 2 1 1 Mr. Griffiths' Robin Rough, 5 yrs, lOst 7119 The Borough Plate, of ill. added to a Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each. Heats, 2 miles. Mr. Tempest's, T'Ould Squire, 5 yrs, Bst 111 b Captain Knight's Jolly Beggar, 5 yrs, Bst 91b Mr. W. Smith's Foxwhelp, 4 yrs, Bst The Selling Stakes of 3 sous. each, and 15 added, heats, twice round, were won by Mr. Stsgg's Hector, 4 yrs, 6st 416, (Jones), beating three others. WELSHPOOL" RACES.—WEDNESDAY. The Tally-ho Stakes of 5 soy& each, and 20 added. Heats. Twice round and a distance. Mr. Hance's bg by Young Cadland, Bst 121 b .l 4 1 Mr. Smith's Foxwhelp, 4 yrs, 9st 12Ib Mr. Walmslev's Heir-at-Law, 4 yrs, 9st 1216 Mr. Davis's Kitty Wee, 4 yrs, Bst 91b 2 2 dr The Hurdle Stakes of 3 sovs. each, and 10 added, one mile and a half, were won in two heats by Captain Knight's Raymond Lally, 4 yrs, lOst 81b (Wooman), beating Totten ham, llst 81b, and Heir-at-Law, list 81b. The Beaten Stakes of 2 sovs. each, and 10 added, once round and a distance, were won in two heats by Mr. Tem pest's The Stranger, beating Jolly Beggar and Tottenham. A.IIESBURY (WILTSHIRE) CHAMPION COURSING MEETING —WEDNESDAY. The Great Western Cup—First Ties. Magog beat Sempstress Saringa beat Lucy Neele Winter beat Burgomaster Walbertha bt Forest Flower Wildfire beat Jack Sheppard Juverna beat Opinion Auchinleck beat Jessamine Jupiter beat Perhaps The Druid Cup—First Ties. Bessie Belle beat Probity SWallow beat Winnibald Reserve beat Smuggler Bill Spinster beat Goddess Ettonian beat Fleetwood Fancy beat Enford Lass Magic beat Gaslight The Stonehenge Stakes for Puppies. Mr. Miller's Furlong beat Mr. Chase's Charlie. Mr. Miller's Beau beat Mr. Etwall's Sir Edmund. Mr. Lawrance's Lightning beat Mr. Parkinson's Ponsonby. Mr. Clowes's Cascade beat Lord Eglinton's Old England. Mr. W. Etwall's Windfall boat Mr. Edleston's Rio Santa. Mr. Long's Centurion beat Mr. Wyndbam's Waggerwolf. Mr. Parkinson's Stockton beat Mr. Wyndham's Plunder. lS r M l s r cia ß l. . Smyth'sShacabac agst Mr. A. a WILTSHIRE CHAMPION COURSING MEETING. THURSDAY. Wilbertha beat Winter Second Tie s for Druid Cup. Wildfire Second bea t Magog TieT ie s f r Great ; I V jA e Western i C al a u bc p eka o tb f se 3 a3 2 .t soya. r O ijnlpl. .te r p F e i n a s . Bean beat Lightning.ns Spinster. 31 Reserve agicb e b a e t a s t Ties. Bean BrgaellesbetboaentaeStiwileantolglnoeilavp.nu. Puppy Stakes—First l I Knight Marshal beat Thunder Windfall beat Furlong. J Cascade beat Centurion. The Elstone Stakes for Bitch Puppies. Mr. Etwall's Windlass ran a bye. Mr. Fowle's Judy beat Mr. A. Graham's Queen Bess. Captain Wyndham's Willa bt. Mr. Lawrence's Lady Roe. Lord Eglinton's Frolic but Mr. Etwall's Element. Mr. Inskipp's Jessie beat Mr. Lawrence's Caprice. Mr. Fowle's Flattery beat Mr. Parkinson's Polka. Mr. Clowes's Coy beat Mr. Parkinson's Position. Captain Wyndliam'S'Wease bt. Mr. Long's Confederation. The Beacon hill Stakes. 1 1 DI r. I L n a s n k p t rse Jumpingy ' s Baronet cperjcoertn b c je luel Jenny t bbb A ete . l aa A r tt . lAA G r Cordon's d i Pl : taa n hr l ek s , C nepss o : c )Be k n:s f3 us su g hE h r t toa e ttn r ilag: ioenor.: Mr. A. Graham's Curry Powder beat Mr. Rake's Rapid. Cl3l‘lllarrrrp.... F. Atain din n' l o h srtol i c ias - nn ino i s n, o s i b l ‘ t e - Nay b itn e Ak - beat beat t, t );Lr l‘ e Mr. B. Cataract. ti S a ri myth's Science. Eglinton's Rufus. 44•••••••••Ma1eam.....- DETENTION OF THE EDINBURGH MAIL.—The Lon don mail (conveyed by the North British Railway) is very irregular in its arrival. It did not arrive on Satur day evening till eleven o'clock, three hours, and on Sunday forenoon it was almost four hours beyond its usual time. The cause of the detention of the train, we have learned, was owing to the engine on the York and Newcastle Railway having run off the line at York—for tunately without the occurrence of any casualty. The mail was delayed yesterday forenoon a couple of hours, from the heavy ra:Ls which have fallen.—Edinburgh itness, Oct. 21. THE SCTN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 23, ISi