The Sun. — London, England, 1846-02-26 00:00:00

FLANDERS MAIL. b to SSEIA th FEB. 12.—Th e S enate continued to-day the W e e project of law explanatory of Article 442 of tfi'tte of Commerce. The general debate on the project 1i,..0v relative to the vote of -credit, 153,000 francs, for ; 0 :7 works, was opened and closed immediately, and the `of.the articles fixed for to-morrow. 24.—The Moniteur publishes . the royal ° ,of the budget of the Department of Foreign . Affai i r„ t e the Ma ripe; also a royal ordinance app9inti t ng e 4 r °f Justice to act as Minister of War during h . b"' i tion of the Minister; also a royal ordinance, offering . 4tieB on the potatoes imported for the purpose of planta- BELGIAN FUNDS.—BausiEts, FEB. 24. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent •••• • • • • " • Itothschild's Loan, Five per Cent ..... •• • Lean of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent -• • • Ditto Three per Cent •• • ..... •••• • • • • Ditto Thirty-seven Millions, ditto ••• • • • '0074 • Ditto, ditto, 1849 1021 4 Ditto, ditto, 1842 • Ditto, 1844. •• • "•••••• • • • • • • 99% Ditto, 1836 •• 1. •• • • 1 - 011 A Ditto, 1838 :••••••••• • • • . • • • • :: 10704144 bitto, 1843 Ditto of the City, .1832 ••• • • • 880 ‘llrustisuank of Belgium. • • • • •• • • • • • • •• l'4Ders. Feb. 25. 141.111311RGH BORSENIIALLE, FEB. 20. Bills. Money . 113 1600 ........ • • • • • • • • • • ................ klistrisui 5 per Cents Bank Shares 3:t: eWrpe Cent C e n t . It4tlittOjaitSit'an,Loan ••• • ** .* * • • • • 103 — per Cent., Ilamb. Certificate. bl tt series Inscription . . - - ..... - 101 bi t ,;, , t. 1 . 0134 and Co., 3d and 4th series.. .IN-087:,In C ertificate.... Ditto,.Per Cent., Hope and Co. ...... 91. 441 17: 11 11 1. 1 ) 10.. Lt5 t °1 1,,t,; New 4 s k , i . Veght z .. . . .... e p t e it r C .. e ! f . t.... 3 19 1 Z, __191,4 b,,,, ortuguesc Loan, 2% per Cent • • '''',OAc Actual Debt, 2i/ 2 per Cent .....60 Per Cent. Joan, 1844.. • • 82 - li, ti°nal Bank Shar a , • • • Shares 3 per Cent ••• 8 7 86 % _ • is Pet FUNDS.—VIENNA, FEB. 18. • ba tner 4 : r tic e oe e : n l t ts .. 3 M di9 t e t t o a . lll . q .. u . e . 5 . .. .. .. .... .• . .... .. 1 7 1 7 2% a v`r Cent. ditto...-. • • •• •• • • • • - .... - 101% 4 t'ank,shares • .. 122 . 1580 Bt44l taZY'a Loan •• •••• •• • •••••• • • • • • h e li , RAILWAYS. 41 "I•Luern, or Ferdinand ---•• • • • • 185 P est l4l gli° ra - .............. 115% titin h • •• •• •• " •• •• ....... - - • • - • ••- • • ...... .. 105 ot a agett o "••••"• • " - • - - - - 'enb ••••• " • " " Pe stoi al'g .... .. ... Nt hix 1 ,.......... 144 --i tatig. Feb. 2L . . Pitu Q ,, nt.s., •)zIAI!T FUNDS.—BERLIN, FEB. 20. P r .;•:eul d s_, Bills. t 4 t Z'th gli ' , 3% per Cent • t e , tut x ".h Bonds, 1830,4 per Cent.. •• • • o n London, £1 Sterling, 3 Months. 6 951 / 6 Ilbarnburgh, 300 Marks, 2 Months. 150% . P te, 300 fr., 2 Months ••• • • ', NI On Paris s trku p. m . Two months. ••••••• • • • • • • • 1 b *Man Gazette, Feb. 20. • 01t,,„__—. "•i'tt ~,,,, toLy SUIT in CHANCERY. ''A t I ."' Years ago an old lady died near Aylesbury, I ' l4 ' l Of 60. gentleman who is. a prominent member of the ;Itti b t°l )td i ,lll .,°n Council, executor to her will. Her effects NiL e Alle w l yted equally between her husband's and her Nki and nieces, which was done immediately. t 'irk I).„ at small farm of thirty-five acres near Harrow litivltiititlleathed to her for life by her husband, who t litt ~. Ita l „!Y Years before, and was upon her death to be I 'va h kill'. ahead, the same parties. The executors named in c. ivi, P fek .. -ead, and left behind them no legal repre ,7kl4,g aim, "'rite of the parties, twenty-three in number, Net ii.: 4 44 d their representatives having accumulated thi t ,.to k i,":l, and some being minors, no one could be N lC. t ilin e a lawyer's title to the estate. In this state of t he ErNi. a PPeared to be but one way of getting over the L t fter w - qtt o i ll e ,t , and that was by a friendly application to 7 NINA th.'hancery upon the subject. About two years g 'ilii t 7 4 ( I, f ‘• C ommon-Councilman alluded to consented . to Z23,lLeeliu"endant, with a view of settling the point with IV pie s° as possible for the legatees. After five or ~Ne Lt. ilra-s, tination in that Court the result of the cause '4 - Z,', l h ad . " ',!:_was as follows: -", kid be e n sold for £2,580 interest were 426 they .......... 98( . ...... . 100% Money. 97% 149% r , kttp h ;Y 8 bill amounted to £1,470 bC.eys , I'Llt C l l . , title. themselves with not ts ,, '``q to b: to protect their jute- Lp ths oth er a Penses of the e lord of 3,006 2,407 0 0 205 6 4 44 Iti f , 1 1 h., 14141. 4 e, a share, and received 1e,4 14 , Delp o4, 8 a 23d share of the 'men amounting to ,11, t liaLktto , £3,006 0 0 `44;t t-e Y Who p ro t ec t e d the interest of a person who 5 4 .511., - Part of a twenty-third share, amounting to less ilk,, l PPli s.e , ilt in a bill amounting to 3151. , 1 14-4,1 4 , 41 g at th e Master's office to see the bills, I found lo l ,„! th - e lunt balanced, as near as could be, the whole tikic,itivi ri trid, and the sum taxed off was of course the 5i:,1341.,, -"en amongst the legatees. tllitiktitipeti-tveoncluded his statement of the particulars of Ott tly robbery by saying, " I now think myself ‘ti, Pig:l sr , t uriaie, after all, to have escaped without 'I.( thi, f ,:.'° Pay, out of my own property, some of the Itittiltk_tilis silt suit in Chancery." bo atit l e b, t I', a 3 only very . lately been concludedupon, 'Q pl ace. ' ' Provements in the Chancery proceedings , 4 -p uke ... -______ -- 1 l------------- ' interview esh y °W ellington bad a lengthened hism at the nth, Lord Fitzroy Somerset, Grace's ilitary ' Noble Lord's private residence in Great Stanhope kia:: k ar k4 klels. 4 W C111 ,.. 18 and Marchioness of Douglas, who are A to rs i l , ,,,, er at Rome with the infant Earl of An are not A: co u 4r n t o England until the advance of the spring. V ie nte sa of Lincoln continues to improve in Vet arl itt.l4lrabitzn°f nesborough's son, the Hon. and Rev. Nroas 4. - ', l 'enSonby has been presented by Lord de Manley i i l tt lt ' lien Grahare, Esq., to the rectory of Canford, Dor- INk ll'et„, Ilitil .l -41 % 38 DEATH of A GENTLEMAN'S BUTLER.— ki‘42,l , at. nedford, Coroner for Westminster, held an adjourned n a 46,4 i t g e b,7,aorge's Hospital, on the body of James alar t ryo , ea bl „ w eer t ri the service of Sanderson, Esq., M. Y., of tl i, s e fent'inare. The deceased had been upwards of ten 18, 'll -- "Yt and Was a sober steady man, and in excellent 114 hoi; l 4 :eb_ at tan te 4 ,. 43 ' night last he left the house for an hour, after i lt 7t c h • Ile called upon Mr. Mason, the landlord of d t o ll , : t e ri , h 'eft atT i t:',°,t, in Pembroke-mews, Grosvenor-place, Nothing 14 , 10 ...orth eiii : neard of him until half-past six o'clock on Saturday N 47,11 , 441 was found lying insensible on the pavement oppo is;,!iik7es 1 _ ed hollee in Grosvenor-crescent, Belgrave-square. -55,,.4.111e af t e - tediately to St. George's Hospital, where he ex li'mia;alcli nit erwards, from the rupture of a blood-vessel on the , 5k,1444.z . let, 011,,,,,t,,_eglatahtave resulted naturally or otherwise. The case i i 7 lt g ler, Mer c ed Wh en mystery arising from the lower part of his he was discovered, and his watch and a 41S e lik lr iftic g; o ° ,; I n , ° neY, which he was known to have about him, * ea -° W8, 8 4 „ - ,, - ,;‘ , was further stated by police-constable Moore, Otit a ttasee ',' untY in Belgrave-square on the night iii que t sti t o s n l , zi l, e B b tfor e e e ?tot where, the deceased was found,. a d s l t a ho e • de ,_ o'clock on Saturday f m f o dr u h in e g r , li t el: s t eci lle n not 't 'llbi tiltql s4 t v ile fl4111 "ln . g ve n rd t i h et e a D bs i e e n d e f e ro e m opopmt e a y v n . idence, the I , s,rtieB l4 d 4 b Y I n t ... r s- , T he house No. 32, Blackfriars -road, hrtt - ; 3- night - "'cull, hatters and jewellers, was broken into ~,,"•trile,d vas, carried 4741 a quantity of jewellery and other valuable and e belie:Loa without the slightest interruption from the t t hlrt 7 ist n r eY brok e r: traces of the burglars have yet been keZrst Ga ret ' a ° that It 0 00 of the windows of the first floor, ~, .c h -- "g Maim, e robbery must have been committed . in i a 7 , 1 4% .,. enll are Preneh' and apparently with perfect security. at , or ... me years, 4, 1 :"; and have carried on business in that :! '4200/, and their one have lost property, it is said, to the (~,.;" mYrnp a te - - " eg Peeted misfortune has excited very ' l 4l l‘llBl Y. Ice a th o zi op Vet . e Mail bad R A ILw Ar TrtAms. —On Saturday iLe, n ear , . n did not arrive in this city (Exeter) until near taNiee'ccnilled Y b alx hours after overtakin g The delay was occasioned, 0 Lmep er4 v ar Y the mail train overtakin F 4 eStro e. 4,4i0:: t2O much damaged,g the luggage train, near .4 A collision was the consequenc e ; a truck or itb,,_ Ye. and so me pigs killed. The engine of the i near that the . delay took place ;L e. .. r mere a % s lu , il a and getting another engine. None . of the p Western ifr .." 4 Of the company sustained any injury. W Vile k t ra it 'claSs fa re from London to Birm i ng h am i s o r thie ,,, olt .., the second-class in 1844. tllijtjathen,VAßlL—Ou account of the propitious state tP,ly 1 ,7,000 ; i :.° Planting has been carried on very actively, and N e,s elet atioli ees are planted in the grounds. Nearly half of the 14: 1 1: i :elat e : h ave been laid down, and an equal extent of the a k (lash Paper mentions the case of a sick man at 3, '''-` , 1 ., 4 ar, e „ , ,,,. 4 . in k le :rtZ t ter i Srilith a fit of delirium, got up and ate several bank .44 nit - ' l3a PPointinent to his expectant heirs.t Police-court on Wednesday, Mr. w ' "as ' andlord of the King's Head public-house, Walham -4 ' y in 'l'ar ed b t l it lee 4 ,, ell i t _ _ e ore Mr. Clive with havin sparrow-shooting shotacarrier 4tl t 'Stlt ri llt4 ^ in o v .w e hi r t o h b e t younds whe t re a asay. to de s f e e t n t d lo an the le t les, kle a , nd s,,,, e4 t ile Parties e w matter p w ar i t thout T c h all e limunagliocahn s.aa • m-ae all arrangement was ultimately effected. it, et 'll le t,,,., 81 'Y ' S BUCKHOUNDS.—THE STAG IM to, ette numerous -.. of heffield Messrs Worley, Ward, 'Wyse, and a Sitsfol',,letotit were ' at the Meet on Monday, at Thorpe- S'qee r a ' A t ig 0 s e 41 e s tag, which had been hunted but once before, i'lle'' ', , -110 1.1 n e -,°' the best day'a sport of the season : upon being 5y,,11, ero3;!-Park, near Chobham-common, took . away over l ite‘e, h,,., , clop, „wig Wellington -bridge, up Chapel-hill to Eng e ','a or p r Y the union workhouse at Old Windsor, makingt 1,0,z,,ae r .„%fillore u • -.olise and gardens, over Shaw Farm W ad e, K4.7,1.1;.'t,Ween the double gates and the Frogmore-ro , 'Oi i ltie,,' , 4U e y i‘ th e Pack. The stag then, made uthe walk to tNeer-", by rt ' ~n arriving at the gates in the Frogmore-road, it % t i t e iL'a ett„_fliall standing close to the Long . Walk entrance. h„ th,:e Paled Ping t o Cl ear th e high railing, jumped short, and itMor a.. - 1r a4 Pon the iron spikes. The hounds being close at its l iVeat erri N , na i Was dreadfully ' bitten and lacerated before the N N W th e e llt, to was tbe spot. The deer was then extricated the F 1 , 4 k ettle _ it out of further misery. The run, up t il e taf el t ,„ 4 . lit, occupied about three-quarters of an hour, a Loa 017914 1 4 signalli LAN CASHIRE.—We are glad to see that N estatCf thorough and systematic draining on another of k ee k kee tt aeet :r.Senth Lancashire-that of Mr. Bold, Houghton. 'et. iti . am 11 4 , trited proprietor came into possession, that estate lkZeh;o t eth L aPeeimen of a bed of rushes as any that . was to be 1 1 • 1, 1,N111. h e esa e cc „, h il'e. Great improvements are now in progress, NI ai • do ne 4 7, ,, a1 one of draining ; and when that has been the' r vea,,, b still done, real value of the * estate will be nearly doubled. l it,:. Der l T ef laoq in specimens of most scandalous neglect by ‘le, , a °I fil e n this Part of Lancashire, but we have no doubt te le tot bd e core e l , q o ther taws, and the admission of foreign butter, l iri a „ Pia;„alid to.t r° dllce, duty free, will open the eyes of these e r , lt "e. / 44 —e thella look after their interests as well as those h ittea r o aost heia`ullm. respect the estates of the Earl of Derby now 1 44 mee„ le lree ni. 04!1,able contrast to those of most failof our L.anca eld self on the c ommonest observer cannot to notice the r ttt 4,,,, g , t lar giog uriti, Which has resulted from the draining of the le t .„Qtly „ li iilec y h- Iloilo. —Liverpool Times. , t4 t L'*e - r P ., l) °lnted ""rhe first accounts of Mr. Clarke, the "al - "tot t , i - iest era "ccountant in bankruptcy, presented to Perna er Zi t we t transeY Printed. They give an explicit statement of t he I, Ree o c art an ofd and Paid out as dividends, amount paid by : 14 4h 7 .4 7 kr il aa. : In t b c : t r h t e o f c Ju dges, and balance standing to the credit ii,o 4 ta to co Feud Ate January last. On the Ist of January, ,l'eAT e _ coteon,,ount amounted to 1,517,716/. 19s. 2d. The tiers, registrars, and clerks, made from the Z 4 otie ',, t i• Th e _The_ . st et Januery last commissioners ea, were t oSsat io u n e lath late to the lute London Theruid Ibis:eee r , b e la 2 to January, 1845, amounted to 11,92 eer t . 7. w er cettnte el 7 4 .. Y commissioners due the 12th of 4 , 4404 4 1 n ita dni _ . e 3/., of which 2,4551. had not been paid in i ptr,' t ltea Unp aid ;di to which there was in December, 1844, a :44:er8 e \': 41 . citio'r:inlotataeia:plied for) which was due in November, t.,, , . 0 t oxi /st ove .. persons of the same class (late country com lekkigat”at tberecTher last, which remained unpaid in December; N oe Th 4'4 i'l the ed last month upwards of 6,0001. due as et ar t h country commissioners, which was not litaide the. in the e commissioners who are entitled to the a4l). Ik e 4b .. p e , r. ret urn , to forty-six of which the words " not l iN kr a ,, 4 Y Or o f . T ., hZiltzB' Carryi n ‘ g r- a‘ _lteter has ordered the police to arrest N 1 , /„ . ,,,,,_ oout children afflicted with the small-pox. l 'ettb a l ' e ltr,ttllloa, ;: t r i - Robert C' aunwell, yesterday, over keklati, - ell he ao` mr "'d his ii•atelt, to run tea nines within 4 e ""e tee of 4 ," with great ease in 59 minutes 10 seconds, '''' firth nukt for three minutes, as a " bellows- £2,612 6 4 393 13 8 ----• LTION 5. the Bank L mense in here does amount of amount of particular; l an d, but fiblo for it leposit ac• paid--11°t i n respect )apera that loos draw!' ! s on their don banker , and zalw B ccount, eIY acted to be i such, c 5 ;ngland for Y P I Y t o .er into kccountSl )f Eng l2lll t_ or paY ine ... l l edit acoot!- oes not gl of EDO ° rtnge fe'F__,4 he the rail l ad o f Eng— a account, Int-Gene_Th fool. a 3 cpb— f the wb°ll3th of. ans wer lent ivit it '° ° , so the elle , nor a s _,„ il3g o f the paw' simple wile° monaL fir many to ler furt her io mae )een _sop the "" of the Rana hel bi cities 1.1119 amoun t )sit" a e k ot the Ba n AC' I by th e Vi SY 'Ale in the we t% rities nofil 1 0 other 70 c onP yOU they or ta t or I than ° ete than 6° tbn ,ueli being eso Id I ° l o 1 woo au ties, a h tint edit" ti.`' Joey t > ll on t 10 ._ .40 0. PP v ir;r 111 4 03 ur )r ef. ja 1 for 5' der. 0 06 ip • 15 60 10 ,011 Ice ° • l erdtroquiel.lo In ati 0 0 0 6 • eaeln►lo j8 , ! 2 for 114,t Aer; 21, yo u, ; 2 f °r fii iird et il for,„ - d ing ir ° ` - for ° 1 9 1 4 ► 52; tut if 'for Pi t lo t ' 1 0- bOl r t.- n t; - c ar , .0 131°- A r ",. e rl JO° 1 6 P at , 8 2 6 5, 35; fro s 3; :rito eB rde r ' o r 1 53 ; , 9 34, o itt g er DO 9 rder !der;. 7,)r T j tAl o t 04 THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY ETENING, FEBRUARY 26, 1046. A BILL TO REGULATE JOINT STOCK BANKS IN SCOTLAND AND IRE LAND. (Note.—The words printed in Italics are proposed to be in serted in the Committee.) Whereas, an Act was passed in the sixth year of the reign of Her Majesty, intituled, "An Act to regulate Joint Stock Banks in England;" and it is expedient to extend the pro visions of the said Act to Scotland and Ireland; Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that all the provisions of the said (except as hereinafter excepted) shall extend to Scotland and Ireland, and to every Company or more than Six persons, who shall carry on the trade or business of Bankers in Scotland or Ire land after the passing of this Act, as if the first recited Act were herein re-enacted, with the substitution of the words "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland," instead of the word " England," wherever the same is found in the said Act : Provided always, that nothing herein contained shall extend to apply to Scotland or Ireland so much of the said recited Act es declares what Companies shall be trading Companies within the provisions of an Act passed in the eighth 3 ear of the reign of Her Majesty, intituled, " An Act for facilitating the winding up the Affairs of Joint Stock Companies to meet their Pecuniary Engagements :" Provided also, that where, by the first-recited Act certain enactments are wade with reference to agreements or covenants of co partnership entered into on or before the sixth day of May next, before the passing of the said Act, and Companies car rying on or established for the purpose of carrying on the trade or business of bankers in England, on or before the said sixth day of May, the same enactments shall be ex tended and deemed to apply to Scotland and Ireland, to agreements or covenants of co-partnership, entered into on cr before the eighteenth day of July, last past. and Companies carrying on or established fur the purpose of carrying on the trade or business of bankers in Scotland or Ireland on or be fore the said eighteenth day of July. And be it declared and enacted, that nothing herein, or in the first recited Act contained, shall be held to preclude any creditor of any such Company in Scotland from any remedy or proceeding now competent to such creditor by the law of Scotland against such Company or the partners thereof, or the property, funds or effects •of such Company or of the partners thereof, or to preclude any partner of any such Company in Scotland from any remedy or proceeding now competent to such partner by the law of Scotland against such Company or any of the other partners thereof, or against the property, funds or effects of such Company or partners. And be it enacted, that the following words and expressions in the first-recited Act shall have in Scotland the several meanings hereby assigned to them, unless there be something in the subject-matter or context repugnant to such construc tion ; (that is to say) the expression " Copy of the Register of such marriage or other particulars of the celebration there of," shall be held to include all legal evidence of such mar siege; the expression "Probate of the will or letters of ad ministration, or an official extract therefrom," shall be held to include the will itself, or an official extract therefrom, or confirmation of an official extract therefrom; the expression "Committee of such idiot or lunatic" shall be held to include any curator or other person having by lawful authority the right to receive the funds of such idiot or lunatic. And be it enacted, that this Act may be amended or repealed by any Act to be passed during this session of Parliament. SOUTH NOTTINGHAM ELECTION NZWARK-VPON-TRENT, WEDNESDAY NIGHT. GROSS POLL AT THE CLOSE. MR. HILDYARD'S COMMITTEE REPORT. SUTTON-UPON-TRENT. Hildyard ... Lincoln ... SOUTIIWELL. liildyard Lincoln ... LOWDIIAM. Iliklvard ... ... Lincoln ... ... NEWARK. llildyard ... ... Lincoln ... ••• BINGHAM. Ilildyard ••• Lincoln ... ••• ... 309 ... 159 ... ... 233 ... ... 277 ... ... 102 ... ... 481 LITERATURE. SIR ROBERT PEEL AS STATESMAN AND ORA 7 OR. _ This is a reprint of a clever sketch which appeared some months since in the English Gentleman newspaper, and ita republication at the present moment is well timed. The author indignantly repudiates the idea that Sir Robert Peel is a man of mediocrity, and triumph antly- asks, . . . " Does mediocrity raise itself to the highest station, in de fiance of social obstacles, leaving men of ' genius' dwarfed in the distance or toiling at the base ? Does mediocrity grapple with rampant and powerful prejudices, subduing them to the rein and whip ? Does it convert the servant into the master ?" He considers Sir Robert to be a statesman of a very high order, although he admits that "as to the morality of his system the less said the better." The following extract conveys, we think, a very correct idea of the present position and prospects of Sir R. Peel:— " Since 1840 his public life has been a series of progressive developments. He began by laying down the principle, that his du.y to the public was superior to any obligations to his party. He recognised the ration as his only master. To the nation, in the aggregate, he is proudly humble ; to all sections of it, humbly proud. He has been gradually making his peace with the people of England. He has used craft and dissimula tion to cloak great designs : his disinterestedness must be the guarantee of his good faith. If he has been a traitor to his party, he has made amends to his Sovereign and his country. After having trained the House of Commons, by every refine ment of piffle:4 and Parliamentary art, to be the obedient slaves of his will, he has compelled the greatest men of his day —the greatest warrior and the most distinguished lawyer of the age—to abandon their most cherished convictions, and to take from him the laws of their mind. Thus it is that he has individualised himself and consolidated his power. He can stand up in the face of Parliament, and defy all the viler in sinuations of party spirit—the petty opprobrium heaped on in consistency. The proof of his rectitude, of his possession of that wisdom and that higher morality which supersede the minor and temporary obligation of consistency, lies in the ne cessity his countrymen are under of adopting his policy ; and of calling on him alone, of all his contemporaries, to carry it out. He is able to stand up in his place in Parliament, and declare that he desires not to be Minister—that he even prays to be relieved from office. But the country calls loudly on him to remain. He may be hated, despised, undervalued ; but he is wanted. For near a century, no Minister has held so proudly independent a position. Abroad, a policy of manly concilia tion ; at heme, an easy victory over party obstructions to the attainment of the public good; an united Government and a prosperous people • attest the ascendancy of his powerful and well•regulated mind." As an orator, he does not accord to Sir R. Peel the first rank ; and although the Right lion. Baronet's voice is perhaps ono of the most harmoniously-tuned of speak ing instruments, yet it would be almost impossible for any man of Sir R. Peel's personal appearance (a very graphic description of which is given in this brocheur) to become a graceful orator. ORIGIN OF THE SEIKHS. (From the Church and State Gazette.) The origin of this warlike sect " is to be traced back to the time of the Emperor Baber, when a celebrated dervish being captivated with the beauty of the son of a grain-merchant of the Cshatrya, caste, by name Nannuk, brought him to reside in his house, and instructed him in the sublime doctrines and duties of Islamism. Nan nuk aspired beyond the merit of a learner. From theo logical writings which he perused, he selected, as he went on, such doctrines, expressions, and sentiments as captivated his fancy. At length, his selections ap proached to the size of a book ; and being written (it is said with elegance) in the Punjabee dialect, the language of the country, were read by various persons, and ad mired. The fame of Nannuk's book was diffused. He gave it a name, Kirrunt ; and by degrees, the votaries of Kirrunt became a sect. They distinguished them elves by a peculiar garb and manners, which resembled those of the Moslem fakirs. They united so as to live by themselves apart from the other inhabitants; and formed villages or communities, call sedangats, in which some one, as head of the community, always presiesed over the rest. Nannuk was followed by nine successors in the office of chief or patriarch of the whole sect; during whose time the Seikhs led peaceable and inoffen sive lives. Teeg Bahadur, the tenth in order, was perpetually followed by a large multitude of the enthu siasts of the sect; and united himself with a mussulman fakir, oho had followers approaching in number to his own. To subsist so numerous a body of idle religionists, the la ighbouring districts were laid under contribution, and the saints, having tasted the sweets of a hfe of plunder and idleness, pushed their depredations, and became the scourge of the provinces. Aurungzebe, who was then upon the throne, commanded the Governor of Lahore to seize the two leaders of the banditti ; to banish the Mussulman beyond the Indus, and to conduct the Hindoo to the fort of Gwalior, where he was put to death. The loss of their patriarch was far from sufficient to extinguish the religious flame of the Seikhs. A son of Teeg Bahadur, whose family name was Govind, was raised to the vacant supremacy, and was distinguished by the name of Gooroo Govind ; Gooroo being the title bestowed by a Hindoo on his religious instructor. The fate of his father taught him audacity ; he in structed his followers, hitherto unarmed, to provide themselves with weapons and horses ; divided them into troops ; placed them under the command of those of his friends in whose conduct and fidelity he confided ; and plundered the country by force of arms. He was not, however, able to withstand the troops of the pro vince, which were collected to oppose him ; his two eons were taken prisoners, and he himself fled among the Afghans. After a time he came back, disguised as an Afghan devotee ' • but falling into mental derangement, was succeeded by Banda, one of his followers, wno as sumed the name of Gooroo Govind, and resolved to take vengeance on the Moslems for the slaughter of the father and sons of his predecessor. To the robbery and plunder which had become the business of the Seiks, he added cruelty and murder. The Moslem historians of these events are filled with horror as well as indignation at the cruelties which he exercised upon the faithful, (to them alone, it seems, did they extend), and describe as one of the most sanguinary of of monsters the man whose actions, had infidels been the sufferers, and a mussulman the actor, they might not, perhaps, have thougnt unworthy of applause. It was this Banda whose enormities Shah Allum hurried from the Deccan to interrupt and chastise. The rebels (so they were now denominated) deserted Sirhind upon the approach of the Emperor, and retired to Daher, a place of strength at the entrance of the mountains, and the principal resi dence of the Gooroo. When Daher was reduced to the last extremity, Banda, with his principal followers, retired to the mountains during the night. The pre sence of the Emperor suspended, bnt did not extinguish the depredations of the Seikhs. To the narrative given by Mills it is not necessary for us to add much. We may, however, mention of the Seikhs what he has omitted, that they are almost exclu sively composed ofhusbandmen and soldiers. The doctrines preached by their founder they still follow, though the niginal revelation has not been allowed to exist without indergoing a few amendments. The Seikh religion now is a pure Deism, based on the precepts of Brahma, but rejecting the worship of idols, which Brahma allows. rho Seikhs were a tolerant race till they were exposed to the tyranny of the Moslems, as briefly alluded to by Mills. Oppression compelled them to renounce charity ; and Gooroo Govind Singh, their tenth spiritual chief, persuaded his followers that the pacific maxims of their founder compromised the very existence of the sect. In obedience to him, they accordingly vowed a never-dying hatred to bloslemism. It is then that we hear of the first distinctive divisions of the tribe. The warriors became distinctively Singhs, or " lions;" the Sikhs, or " followers," were the cultivators of the soil. The latter name now, however, implies the entire wild soldiery of the nation, while the Singhs are its royalty and aristo cracy, par excellence. With a slender degree of subjection acknowledged to the Afghans, the Seikhs maintained a savage sort of in dependence within the territory of " the five rivers,' until a few years ago, when Afghanistan's adversity was seized upon as the Punjaub's opportunity, and Runjeet Singh, within the memory of the present generation, seized upon Lahore and proclaimed himself king. The state, he maintained, the authority he exercised, and the capacity he displayed, in defiance of the most horrible debauchery, that would have slain capability in any rains but those of the "old lion of the Punjaub," are natters upon which we need not rest further than to mention them. It was the demise of this monarch that emotely brought about the late bard-fought field of Ferozepore, and it is to the explanation of this that we !oust confine ourselves. Runjeet left, at his death, in 1839, a half idiotic son, named Karrack, to succeed him. His cause, as the direct heir, was espoused by the East India Company ; but Dhyan, the famous and able Minister of the late Maharajah, saw destruction to the liberty of the Pun ;aub in acknowledging an idiot, who would be the mere tool of the Company. He consequently placed himself it the head of a great dissident party, and conducted to the perils and privileges of the Punjaub diadem an adopted son of one of the dead " lion's " wives, who became known as the Maharajoh Shere. Karrack immediately died, suddenly and significantly ; and, as there was still an heir in the direct line, in the person of Karrack's son, Nao-Nebal, one of the happy accidents of eastern policy speedily removed him to the paradise of the Seikh founder. Ile was making his solemn entry into Lahore, to attend his father's funeral, when, as lie was passing under the principal gate, a heavy beam accidentally " fell upon his head and killed him on the spot. This double murder opened a series which has since been continued in the Punjaub with frightful rapidity. the English Government manifested an inclination to protect one of the wives of Runjeet, whose condition promised an heir to Runjeet's glories. The manifesta tion was fatal to the object of it ; for Shere, raised to the throne by the influence of the ex-Minister Dhyan, murdered her in her harem, and reigned with nothing to trouble him but his conscience. To Dhyan and his brothers, Goolaub (who still exists) end Soucheyt, the new monarch, in grateful indolence, abandoned the entire administrative and executive powers of the Government. They governed in his name, but for themselves ; till increase of appetite for Government so grew by what it fed upon, that Shere found himself a mere magnificent prisoner in the hands ,f the wily Dhyan and his brothers. An attempt made by the unfortunate usurper to put himself under the protection of the English ensured his doom. Dhyan, who was the Warwick of the Punjaub, and "king maker" to opposing Singhs and Seikhs, under promise of raising a cousin of Runjeet to the perilous height yet occupied by Shere, induced the ready instrument, whose appellation was Ajit, to enter into a conspiracy, the desired fruits of which he destined for another. This other was the too-famous boy-king Dhulip, the adopted son of one of Runjeet's wives, the Punjaub Messalina, who resides with him at Lahore. This child was secretly brought into the capi tal ; and shortly after, as Share was reviewing his troops, and was passing before the body of cavalry commanded by Ajit, the latter advanced, and, under pre tence of presenting him with a superb English carbine, shot him dead on the spot. So far successful, Ajit, with his followers, galloped to the fort of Lahore. On his way he encountered a young son of Shere, named Per tab, whose throat he cut with bis own band ; and, en tering the fort, he massacred the whole of Shore's wives. The last murder committed was that done on the infant son'of Shere, who was only one day old ; the monsters dashed it on the- ground, and jumped upon it till life was extinct. The same day, and the eve succeeding to that day, witnessed the violent deaths of the old ex-minister and the new monarch, Ajit. The latter shot Dhyan dead, on his declaring that the boy Dhulip was the rightful heir to the throne. But Hira, the son of Dhyan, aided by the whole of the troops under the orders of the French General Ventura, immediately attacked Ajit in the citadel, captured him, and slew him, with a vast number of his adherents. The boy-king Dhulip, under the management of his mother, the Ranee, and the governorship of Hira, was forthwith acknowledged by our Government, whose only object was to see a tranquil and friendly power established in the Punjaub. But tranquillity and amity were des tined to be strangers to the banks of the five rivers. The soldiery, who had been bribed by all sides, and who were gratified in proportion as usurpers increased. and their services were the more eagerly sought after and remunerated, grew mutinous for want of occu pation. Hira, who would fain have tamed the monster whose savageness he had encouraged while it could be useful to him, was their first victim :1 he was shot before the eyes of the King, while passing down their ranks on the back of an ele phant. From that period the wildest anarchy reigned uncontrolled : the Seikh soldiery exercised the most licentious military despotism ; and it was when they could exact nothing more from the exhausted treasury of the Punjaub that they began to raise their lances in the direction of the British frontier on the Sutlej. But our Government had long been watching the course of events, and providing for their consequences. The Seikhs, well-disciplined and led by French officers, have flung themselves, only to meet destruction, against the adamantine barrier that opposed them at Ferozepore. Their last wild " Hurrah !" was the death-song of their • I dynasty. SIR ROGER DE COVERLEL—lndependently of the famous " Beauties" who figure so prominently in the pages of this lively tale of the Court of Charles 11., the list of per sonages of the other sex is equally numerous and at tractive. It comprises the Merry Monarch and all his witty courtiers and boon companions, including Prince Rupert and the Dukes of York and Monmouth ; but with the reckless Rochesters and Buckinghams, and the shallow Jermyns and and Sydneys, there are the more sterling names of Milton, Dryden, Evelyn, Pepy's, Lely, and Marvel. In short the story of " Sir Roger de Coverley' —himself a personage of sin gular interest—seems written with a yew of introducing the reader to the most remarkable characters of that extremely interesting period. PRIN CE WALDEMAR. The following letter has been received by the Chevalier Bunsen from Sir Henry Hardinge respecting the noble and brave conduct of this prince at the battles on the Sutlej. The Prince is son of Prince William, the late King's brother, and had assumed the name of Count Ravensberg as a tra velling title : " Camp, Ferozepore, Jan. 1, 1846. My dear Chevalier,—l wish your Excellency a very happy new year, and many congratulations on the personal safety of Prince Waldemar, who, with the characteristic gallantry of his illustrious race, and the national love of en terprise of his countrymen, was present with me in the re cent action of Moodkee, on the 18th of December, and at Ferozeshab, on the 21st and 22d of December. " His Royal Highaess intended to proceed to Bombay by Sinde, and left Ferozepore on the 23d of December last quite well. " It was impossible for any soldier to show more coolness, intrepidity, and energy than did his Royal Highness and the noblemen of his suite on these occasions. " The Prince's surgeon was struck off his horse by a grape shot, when I saw his Royal Highness instantly alight to his assistance. The humanity of this act was of no avail. The unfortunate gentleman had already ceased to exist. " In the morning of the 22d I felt it to be my duty to re quest his Royal Highness to retire. The action threatened to be very severe, and I could not reconcile it with the re spect I bear towards the Prussian royal family, that one of its Princes, having already witnessed an Asiatic battle, and greatly distinguished himself, should run a risk to which there was no necessity that his Royal Highness should be exposed. " With great reluctance his Royal Highness consented to proceed to Ferozepore. " I beg further to observe, that his Royal Highness has, by the amiability of his demeanour, won the respect and admiration of all the officers, civil and military, of the East India Company's service, and that our most respectful good wishes attend his Royal Highness wherever he may direct his steps. " These sentiments towards his Royal Highness, so uni versally entertained, are grateful to me; for, from old recol lections and attachment, I take a deep interest in all that concerns the military officers of your nation. " I have the honour to remain yours very sincerely, " H. HARDIIiGE, Governor-General. " His Excellency the Chevalier Bunsen." THE LATE BATTLES IN INDIA. The following letter is from a young officer personally en gaged in the actions of the 19th, and 21st and 22d of December : _ _ _ " Camp Ferozepore, Dec. 29, 1845. " I take up my pen just to give you a short account of the most splendid victory we have just gained over the La horians. We met them first on the 19th of this month, after marching twenty-four miles, and commenced action about three o'clock in the afternoon, which, without inter mission, lasted till eight in the evening. Two days previous to this the Governor-General rode in one day sixty miles, the next (the 17th) 45 miles, and halted ready for the action against a fort ; but finding nothing worth taking, the Go vernor-General ordered us not to molest them. After the battle on the 18th we continued on the field for a couple of days, when we again moved (21st) at eight in the morning. After a march of sixteen miles we met the enemy, and about two r.m. we commenced an attack, which continued all night and the greater part of next day, when we achieved a splendid triumph, and drove the enemy back across the Sutlej. You are aware that the Sutlej is a river which partly separates the Punjaub from our territory. The army of Lahore came over the river 80,000 strong. They are, generally speaking, brave soldiers, and their artillery is equal to our own, besides being of larger calibre. We had not more than 30,000 to meet them, and these not together, poor fellows ! Some marched upwards of 200 miles with but very scanty fare, at the rate of 20, 30, 40, and 50 miles a day, amidst clouds of sand and a broiling heat, and no water to be found. " Sir Henry himself slept on the field of the last battle without anything but his cloak around him, his two sons at his side, and your humble servant close to them, with many another brave fellow. " We have three aides-de-camp killed and two wounded, Colonel Wood among them, shot through the thigh, but in excellent spirits and doing well. Sir Henry, Mr. C., and Mr. A. are all safe, and also poor me,:who never saw war's alarms before. I think we have given them enough for the present, although perhaps it is not yet all over. The Go vernor-General is an "out-and-outer," as the soldiers have it. He is first and last in the field, and the soldiers idolize him for his bravery and kind attention to their wants. He himself now visits the hospitals every day, and when in the field deprives himself of every comfort, marching at the head of the troops without a tent, a change of clothes, or even a day's food." ROSSINI AND DUPREZ. We extract from the France Musicale a correspondence between these great artists : DUPREZ TO ROSSINI. "My dear and illustrious Master,—To you am I indebted for my earliest and deepest musical impressions ; to you also do I owe a part of my success, owing to the powerful in afidunienieraetejny, oaunrdwoofrmksy. gratitude, r l a V t o i t u u l d d e i t i h f e l t b a e k g e g n ed as y a a p a ro t o a f o a f ee l 1 accept the the dedication of a Treatise that'l have just finished on The Art of Singing ?' My claims to publish suc h a work, and to offer it to you, are :—ten years of vocal and musical study, pursued pursued at the school of my excellent master , Chomp; twenty years' exercise of my profession at the principal lyrical theatres of Europe, and the constant observation of the various talents that I have heard during my career. My work is doubtless stil l very imperfect; I may be only a singer, and, perhaps, little or nothing as a composer. If you wish it, then, I will forward you what may interest you, perhaps, in my work, and I should reg ard as the highest favour, my der. r master, any observations or corrections that you might be so kind as to make. Honour rne, I beg, with a reply, and believe in all my sentiments of admiration. " Paris, Dec. 26, 1845." " Gr. DUPREZ. " ROSSINI TO DITPREZ. " Dear Friend,—l accept with delight the dedication that you have been kind enough to offer me of your new method of singing; a method which will be worthy of its author. When one sings as you sing, good lessons are unavoidable. You have undertaken a great work. I am sure that your efforts will be rewarded by the unanimity with which your new doctrines will be received. Accept the sentiments of gratitude of him who loves to call himself your admirer and friend, " G. ROSSINI. " Bologna, Feb. 5, 1846." BLOOD BOUNDS.—The following feat was performed on Wednesday morning :—Mr. Bellow, of Adderbury, had a sheep at turnips doing amiss, so he ordered a butcher and a labourer to!kill it in the field at midnight, and each take a clean shoulder in baskets, (leaving all the rest), and start for a round of three miles of most intricate ground, Mr. Bellow not knowing one foot of the track. The men started with the clean mutton at half-past one in the morning. Mr. Bellow at half-past eight took his blood hounds to the carcase, at which they smelt, but did not attempt to eat, instantly throwing up their noses, giving tongue, and away they went, running through a lot of men who were planting trees, across a turnip field, through a pen of sheep, and then through a herd of cattle ; they now mended their pace, until it became smart running, and ran into the mutton at half-past nine, when the hounds were rewarded with the meat, and they then showed great eagerness to be off again. Mr. Bellow, at the moment, not knowing what it meant, called them in. The fact turned out that the butcher they had beea hunting• having left the meat, had gone a mile elsewhere to kill a pig, and th e hounds were on the trail. It will be seen that the hounds were not put on till eight hours after the meat was removed, and yet they made a splendid and sure run. Is sheep steal ing a safe speculation ?-Banbury Guardian. THREATENED FAMINE ON THE WESTERN COAST.— We regret to have to state that we have received various com munications from parties in whose veracity every confidence can be placed, representing that there exist the most appalling prospects of a famine in a few weeks, at farthest, with regard to a large portion of the population of the Western Coast of Galway, particularly in the district of Garomna, extending from Costello Lodge to Lettermullen. All hope of a productive herring fishery on the Connemara coast has, thr the present season, passed away, and the expectations formed that by the winter's fishery the people would have, in some measure, been enabled to bear the ex tensive loss which they have incurred by the potato disease, have been completely disappointed.—Galway Vindicator. PRICE OF CORN ABROAD.—At Hamburgh, the receipt of the news of the intended alteration in the corn-laws ad vanced wheat 2s. to 3s. per quarter. At Dantzic, the most sanguine expectations are entertained about the future price of wheat; and no offers made under 535. to 555. per quarter, free on board, in Spring. At Stettin, the free trade pro posals of Sir Robert Peel were considered as indications of impending scarcity in Great Britain; 51s. to 525. 6d. free on board, is the lowest quotation.—Leeds Mercury. The sum allotted by the Commissioners of Woods and Forests to the Earl of Haddington for the loss of his interest in the park of Holyrood is 30,6741. Is. Bd. EAST LEAKE. Hildvard ••• Lincoln ••• Total numbers polled for Mr. Hiltlyard 1,728 Total numbers polled for Lord Lincoln 1,033 Majority for Mr. Hildyard ... 695 LORD LINCOLN'S COMMITTEE REPORT. SUTTON-UPON-TRENT. Lincoln ilildyard, Lincoln llildyard ... Lincoln ... ... Ilildyard ... ... WATER CRESS. Most persons are acquainted with the water-cress and its salutary properties ; they know generally that it grows in brooks, and on the borders of fresh and run ning streams. Few, however, of those who, in the busy thoroughfares or quiet suburbs of London, hear the cry of " water cre-e-ses," or see in their daily walks the old, red-cloaked women sorting the little bundles at the cor ners of streets, have any idea that the cultivation of this esculent now forms an important branch of horticultural and commercial industry, which, from the increasing consumption, and use made of the plant in pharmacy, is gradually rising into consequence. In the present day, the water-cress may be found on almost every table, from the highest to the lowest. It is one of the most powerful antiscorbutics with which we are ac quainted, and is said to possess the property of exciting the appetite and fortifying the stomach . . We have no certain information that it is cookedm any part of Eng land, as is occasionally the case in France ; but in the north of Germany, to which country we owe its original cultivation, it is boiled and eaten as spinach. In an old botanical work, we are told that the watery part of Tothill-fields, Westminster, was overrun with water cress, and that it grew on the banks of the Thames in several places. The same work also enumerates many places in England where this refreshing vegetable was abundant ; and it is known that, like many other of the simple but useful productions of nature, which, in their natural varieties, abound wherever they may be benficial to man, it is to he found in most parts of the world. It is of the cruciferous family, which comprehends about twenty species, all possessing high antiscorbutic properties, and of the genus nasturtium, said to have been so called from the effect its acrimony produces on the muscles of the nose—nasus tort us— sig nifying a convulse nose." The common cress is known as nasturtium officulak, and presents two varieties, the green and the blue, which, by cultivation, have been rendered far superior to what they were in their wild state, being less acrid, and not so liable to contract the taste of slime and mud as those found in ditches and marshes. Fifty years ago, a considerable proportion of the supply that found its way to the metro politan market was gathered from the numerous little streams which intersect the meadows near the towns of New bury and Hungerford, in the county of Berkshire, from which places it was brought in sacks by the stage coachmen of the day, who shared in the profits of the sale. The first attempts at regular cultivation in the neighbourhood of London, appears to have been made in the year 1808, at Springhead, a village near Gravesend. This plantation still exists, and is sometimes visited by the frequenters of the wellsknown semi-watering-place just mentioned, for the purpose of regaling themselves with a fresh-plucked salad and bread and butter. Another plantation was afterwards commenced in Surrey, but subsequently abandoned. The culture, however, con tinued to spread, particularly in localities favourably situated with regard to springs of water. Near Rick mansworth, in Hertfordshire, where there is a fine stream running over a chalky bottom, there are now about fifteen acres under cultivation. The Springhead plantation consists of four acres, while on the opposite side of the Thames, at Waltham Abbey, in Essex, is another of six acres. These, though extensive, are in sufficient to meet the demand of the huge metropolis. Other supplies are obtained from greater distances. From Uxbridge and Salisbury great quantities are for warded to London, packed in hampers, every day in the year excepting Sundays; and some idea may be formed of the enormous consumption from the sum total of the annual sales, which amounts to more than 10,000/. — Chambers. ➢Lr. J. C. Colphoun has been defending his consis tency on the corn-laws, by informing the House of Com mons that, notwithstanding his vote for Mr. Villiers' mo- tion, his present opinions are identically the same as those he expressed to the electors of Kilmarnock in 1837. In 1837, Mr. Colquhoun declared himself in favour of a fixed duty, to be afterwards removed altogether. This is sub stantially the very proposal of Sir Robert Peel, which Mr. Colquhoun is now so bitterly resisting ! We may return to the subject on the next opportunity, but: are in some doubt whether it would not be mere waste to throw water on a rat so irrecoverably drowned.—Kilmarnock Herald. THE LEAGUE QUARTER OF A MILLION FUND. — Some of the London papers have a long advertisement of the subscriptions to the great League Fund, which is in continua tion of a former one containing subscriptions to the amount of 72,7381. 16s. This advertisement, exclusively of these amounts, and putting in a single line all subscriptions under 6/. each, the total of which is 7 8541., yet extends to six columns in length, and the total of all the subscriptions thus advertised is stated to be 168,0871. From many places no list of subscriptions has been transmitted, or will be, till the local committees transmit the collection of the first instal- ment thereon ; so that probably the total amount really sub. scribed exceeds 180 , 000 /.—Manchester Guardian. FACTORY INFORMATION AT HASLINGDEN.—At Has• lingden petty sessions, on Friday, before William Turner, Esq. and the Rev. Mr. Grey, Mr. Beal, one of her Majesty's sub-inspectors of factories, brought an information against John Knowles, the manager of Mr. Richard Ashworth's mill, at Hall Carr, for not sending a notice to the certifying surgeon, of a worker in the factory having received a bodily injury, as required by the Act ; he was convicted in 2/. and costs.—The firm of Messrs. George and John Ashworth, of Bridge Mill, was also convicted in 21. and costs, for employing two children without proper school attendance.—John Hays was fined ss. and costs, for gross neglect in his son's not attending school, the father receiv ing a benefit in the child's wages. Peggy Warburton was committed to gaol for one week, for using a false baptismal register, to obtain employment for her child for the long hours, and thereby depriving the child of attending the school. And Richard Barnes was committed to gaol for a fortnight, for falsifying a certificate of baptism for the same purpose.—Manchester Guardian. INDIAN CORN BREAD.—This forenoon at half-past one o'clock, a large party of influential merchants and other principal citizens assembled in the Assembly Rooms, Ingram street, on the invitation of Mr. Cowdin, the United States Consul, in Glasgow, for the purpose of hearing him explain, and illustrate by specimens, the various forms in which maize or Indian corn can be made available for human food. The fittings used at the Bachelor's ball on the preceeding evening had been l e ft s tanding, and an elegant cold collation was set out on the tables. On the motion of Mr. Henry Brock, Bailie B ro di e was ca ll e d to the chair, and opened the proceedings in a few brief but appropriate remarks. Mr. Cowdin then p rocee d e d to a dd ress the company assembled, explaining the prodigious capacities l e r i6 Z ea T l le an o d therNva of America to supply food not only to her own citizens,but for o a 3.f rticle, but seemed to be those of other countries. Specimens of two forms of bread were then produced, hot from the oven of Mr. Forares:ejr.ohTnhneyfircsatkwest2s, and heavy. The weigh ing,aT h l eo whenr inbakeder itv was a from ea f threerompalatable, considered by the compaly Johnny cake was much lighter, and was generally • ferred to the other, and pronounced an what is commonly called in r4 A: r er d i aan 9, p greatly pre excellent species of bread. A specimen of Indian corn the oven, s n o d l s id pudding was also exhibited. It 18,. we believe, prepared with molasses, and is extremely palat able. In the course of the proceedings the health of the Quee n w as proposed by the chairman, and that o f President P( ) 1 -k, by Mr. Alexander Graham of Lancefield. . The health of Mr. Cowdin having been drunk, and good wishes express ed th at the benevolent object contemplated by h im might be pr omoted, the meeting broke up.—Glasgow S a turday Post. HOURS OF FACTORY LABOUR.—]' ATEETING OF MASTER SPINNERS, YESTERDAY.—The master spinners held another meeting yesterday afternoon, at thFe().o'clock, at the offices of Messrs. J. and W. Heron, solicitors; to the association. The meeting was a tolerably nom; :row one. Mr. R. J. Greg presided. The subject of sh ertening the hours of labour to eleven daily was discussed at considerable length, and opinions were very m uch divided, as to its practicability and expediency. The general iml rression ultimately ap peared to be, that it was desirable to wait till the fate of the ministerial measures, now under al a consideration of the Legislature, should be known; and the meeting at length adjourned, about a quarter before fiN re o'clock, to Tuesda: next. —Manchester Guardian, IMPORTS OF LIVE CATTLE IN 1845. By the Par liamentary return, No. 68, dated 19t . h instant, we find that during the year ended the sth of . J a ouary, 1846, the follow ing were the numbers and description of live cattle and other animals imported into the United Kingdom:—Oxen and bulls, 9,782 ; cows, 6,502 ; calves, 586 ; sheep, 15,847 ; lambs, 112 ; swine and hogs, 1 , 598 ; total head of all kinds, 34,426. On Wednesday evening last tb. Rev. Joseph Brown, minister of one of the Bethnal-green chuff. ( hes, gave an explanation In the National school, Harc-street, of a ti ansparent painting repre senting Mr. Morgan's design of a Sel(-supii, )rting Village Association for 300 poor families. The meeting Waq umerously attended, and great interest was excited. SOUTIIWELL. LOWDIT NEWARK. Lincoln ... ... ... Hildyard ... ... ... BINGHAM. Lincoln ... liildyard EAST LEAKE. Lincoln ... ... Ilildyard ... ... Total numbers polled for Lord Lincoln 1,048 Total numbers polled for Mr. Hildyard 1,735 Majority for Mr. Hildyard ... 687 ELECTION MOVEMENTS. NORTH .NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. NOTTINGHAM, - WEDNESDAY, FOUR O'CLOCK.—Up to this hour no candidate has been announced by the free- trade party, and, according to the best formed opinions, it is pro blematical whether any opposition will be made to the elec tion of Lord H. Bentinck. Should the Earl of Lincoln be induced to come forward as a candidate, he will receive sup port, it is generally understood, from the Conservative party in Nottingham, many of whom are electors for the north division. The register is considered to be in favour of a Liberal candidate, but there is not much reliance to be placed upon the calculation. The populous villages in the neighbourhood of the town contain a large number of voters, who are principally de pendent upon manufactures for support. We have been informed that an offer of support was made a few hours ago, but whether Lord Lincoln will comply with the wishes of his friends in this division of the county is not yet known. An active canvass, however, has been com menced in favour of his Lordship. REPRESENTATION OF SOUTH LANCASHIRE. A meeting of the principal free-trade electors for South Lancashire, residing in Oldham, was held on Monday even ing, at Oldham, to promote the requisition to the Hon. C. P. Villiers, M.P., and Wm. Brown, Esq., to become candi dates for this division of the county at the next election. Mr. Henry Lyons, of the Anti• Corn-law League, said that, in Lancashire, since the last contested election, nearly 300,0001. had been expended by free-traders, in purchasing freehold qualifications for that county alone ; and this showed a determination to return none others than supporters of a liberal commercial policy.—Manchester Guardian. REPRESENTATION OF GUILDFORD. Mr. Robert Austen, eldest son of Sir 11. E. Austen, has issued an address to the electors of Guildford, in which he expresses his intention of offering himself as a candidate for the representation of that borough, in the event of a vacancy. Mr. Austen is a Liberal, but orposes Sir Robert Peel. lle unsuccessfully contested the borough in 1835. REPRESENTATION OF WIGAN. We may look for the issue of a writ for a new election on or shortly after the 13th proximo. Notwithstanding the fact, that a number of Tories in the borough are, to some ex tent, pledged to invite Thomas Bright Crosse; Esq. (late the High Sheriff), to offer himself as a candidate, we understand that the only step taken by the Conservatives, so far, is the origination of a requisition (which is now in course of signa ture) to a brother of the retiring candidate, Captain Charles Hugh Lindsay, the third son cf the Earl of Balcarres, who is in his thirtieth year. No public steps have yet been taken by the free-traders to supply the vacancy; but there is no doubt that Ralph Thicknesse, Esq., will again be brought for ward.—Manchester Guardian. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, TUESDAY.—The Janus steam-sloop, on the design of Vice-Admiral the Earl of Dundonald, went out yesterday morning with her noble designer on board, also Commander Caffin, of the Scourge, and Mr. Taplin, machinist of this dockyard, to make another trial of her engines upon the rotatory principle. She left the jetty at a quarter before ten o'clock, and proceeded slowly out of harbour under steam, but not with her full power on. The Rattler, screw steam sloop, Commander Smith, followa soon after, to attend upon her in case of accident. The Janus was lightened of every thing which could safely be dispensed with, consequently her draught of water was so reduced, that she was enabled to cut across the Spit bank, which shortened the distance considerably in making out; whereas the Rattler, although going at but little more than half speed, and compelled to round the anchorage of Spithead, gained so quickly upon the Janus, that she gave her the go-by at the Lazaretto off the Motherbank, where ;soon after the Janus was com pelled to lie to to screw up some of her machinery, which had become deranged. Both vessels then steamed on for Southampton, where they moored for a short time, and then started on their return. The Janus, however, met with her usual luck, and broke the chain of her starboard wheel on coming down the Southampton: Water, which compelled her to relinquish working the engine on that side the vessel, and hoist sail to assist her on her way home. She came into harbour about six o'clock, and the Rattler about half-an hour before her. On this trip the greatest speed made by the .;anus was 6 and 6 knots. She started with M I revolutions, which increased to 16 per minute. Her speed under steam alone was 6 and 6. The result of the trial has proved that the Janus cannot be worked upon the rotatory principle safely at present, nor long without disarrangement of the machinery. She is, of course, now hors du conibat. The Retribution steam-frigate, Captain Lushington, is being fitted with a connecting-beam to strengthen her paddle boxes. She will be ready for sea in a few days. She has 520 tons of coal in her bunkers. The Alarm, 26, Captain Frankland, arrived at Madeira, from Spithead, on the 31st of December, en route to join the squadron under Vice-Admiral Sir F. Austen, Commander • in-Chief on the West India and North American station. A private letter, dated " Madeira, Jan. 4," says, "We arrived here on the 31st of December. We experienced a most awful gale in the Boy of Biscay, which lasted three days, which we weathered in most unprecedented style, not strain ing a timber, nor carrying away any portion of our gear, which, considering this is the first trip of our craft, is very much to the credit of that much maligned officer, the Sur veyor of the Navy, on whose design I believe we were constructed. No casualty of any kind happened, which is more than astonishing, considering the terrific weather we encountered. We are very easy in a sea, and in all other respects a most excellent ship. We sail to-morrow, the sth, for Bermuda, to relieve, it is said, the Eurydice, 26, Captain G. Elliot, whose time expired in February. We are all well on board." The Lizard steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander Tylden, arrived at Madeira from this port on the 15th of January, and sailed again on the 20th for Rio, en route to the Pacific. The Daring, 12, Commander Matson, arrived at Madeira on the 26th ult., and sailed on the 29th for Bermuda. The Alecto steam-sloop, Commander Austen, on her way to join the squadron in the River Plate, under Rear-Admiral Englefield, was spoken on the 11th ult., in lat. 12 51 S., long. 32 W. The Fanny, yacht of the Commander-in-Chief Admiral Sir Charles Ogle, But., is in the Camber, fitting with a new deck. _ _ WEDNESDAY.—The Janus, having adjusted her " wrongs," left the harbour this morning about nine o'clock to make another trial, it being asserted, that if she can make 20 revo lutions per minute she will succeed. The Rattler again at tended her. went out this morning and down to C owes to try the o v e e s r s t e s 1 , The Fairy, royal yacht, Master-C omman d er R . W. R b and screw. The whole of the arrangements for her Majesty's re ception on Friday have been made by Master-Commander Roberts, and the Admiralty have been pleased to express, through Admiral Sir Charles Ogle, Bart., Commander-in- Chief, their unqualified ipprobation. The Samarang, 26, Captain S,r Edward Belcher, arrived at Manilla on the sth of December from China. She brought the crew and part of the treasure (80,000 dollars) of the Bremen brig Expi ess, bound from Mazatlan for China, but wrecked at the port of Mauanivy in a gale on October 9. The Sapphire troop-ship, Master• Commander Fittock, arrived at Singapore from Calcutta on the 29th of December, and sailed on the 31st for Hong-Kong. The Serpent, 16, Commander Neville, arrived at Singapore from Moulmein on the 29th of December, and sailed on the 6th ult. for England, to be paid off. The Vixen steam-sloop, Commander Gifford, arrived at Hong-Kong from Macao on the 6th of December. STATE OF TRADE. MANCHESTER, TUESDAY, FEs. 24.—There is not the slightest change to notice in the state of our market this week. The continued, and indeed increased, pressure for money prevents all purchases but those which are absolutely necessary to supply existing wants, and the demand, both for goods and yarn, is exceedingly limited. At the same time, though some few spinners and manufacturers have made slight concessions, prices are generally pretty firm—a fact which, in the existing state of the money market, says much for the generally sound and healthy condition of the trade. ROCHDALE, MONDAY, FEB. 23.—We have had another dull market, and few buyers have attended. Prices of flan nels remain much the same. In wool there is no change to report either as regards price or amount of business. LEEDS, TUESDAY, FEB. 24.—There has been a little more doing in light tweeds, but upon the whole our markets remain as yet without animation. Wool keeps firm. HUDDERSFIELD, TUESDAY, FEB. 24.—There has been de cidedly a flat market this day, and great complaints are made •in the warehouses. It is hoped, however, that this unfavour able state of business proceeds only from the uncertainty in which the measures at present before Parliament are kept regarding the reduction of duties, and that another week may produce a healthy trade. BLETSOE.— CAUTION ARMORIAL BEARINGS.— On Tuesday last, at Bletsoe, the Rev. John Wing, of Stevington, appealed against a surcharge for using armorial bearings. Williams, the surveyor of the district, laid the information, in consequence of the rev. gentleman having stamped a letter sent to the surveyor, for a charitable purpose, with the insignia of a swan. Mr. Wing d en i e d th a t t h e seal used had any heraldic style about it, or that he had intended to use it as such; he characterised the information as a violation of csnfidence, and an oppressive exaction not contemplated by the legislature. As the infermation was persisted in, there was no alternative but to inflict a fine amounting to 21. Bs. Bury Herald. MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS.—The number of deaths during the week ending Saturday, Feb. 21, was 951, being 129 less than the average of five winters. Bronchitis is almost the only Disease that appears more WWI than usual. Tlie average num bsr is 31, while the deaths last week were 72. The violent deaths wKe 33, of which 14 were from barns and scalds, and 6 suicides. FRUITS OF PUSEYISM. The Dublin Evening Post gives the following list of persons of note who nave lately embraced the Roman Catholic faith : MINISTERS OF THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH. A.D. 1841 AND 1842. A. D. Wackerbarth, B.A. Received into the Church at Grace Dieu Manor, Dec. 2, 1841. _ _ _ Bernard Smith, 4—A., Rector of Leadenbam, Lincoln shire, and late Wow of Magdalen College, Oxford. Received at Oscott, Dec. 15, 1842. A.D. 1843. George Talbot, MA., Vicar of Evercreech, and Chesterblade, Somersetshire. Received at Oscott, June 10. Daniel Parsons, M.A. Received at Prior Park, July 31. Charles Seager, M.A., Formerly Scholar of Worcester College, Oxford. Author of several works, and As stant Hebrew Lecturer. Received at Oscott, Oct. 12. (Married.) 9.D 1844. Thomas Burton, M.A., Curate to Trinity Church, Brompton. Received at St. Edmund's College, July 13. William Goodenough Peany, M.A., Student of Christ Church, Oxford. Perpetual Curate of Dorton and Ashendon, Bucks. Received at Oxford, Oct. 18. A.D. 1845. John Campbell Stnit M.A. Received at Ose March 27. (Married.) John Moore Capes, M.A., Incumbent of St. John Baptist's Church, Bridgwater. Received at Oscott, June 27. (Marrie.l.) George Montgomery, 8.A., Curate of Castleknwit, county Dubl n. Received at Oscott, Juce 27. Wm. George Ward, M.A., Fellow of Balliul College. Oxford. Author of " The Ideal of a Christian Church," and other controversial tracts, &c., &c. Received in London, Sept. 3. Brook Cliarles Bridges, 8.A., Deacon. Received i❑ London, Sept. 55. Ambrose St. Jahn, AI.A., Christ Church College, Oxford, late Curate of Widmer, Kent. Received at Prior Park, Oct. 2. John 11. Newman, 8.D., Fellow, and formerly Tutor of Oriel College, Oxford. Late Vicar of St. Mary the Virgin's with Littlemore. Author of " The Church of the Fathers," "The Arians of the Fourth Century," " The Prophetical Office of the Church," " Newman on Justification," eight Volumes of Sermons, an " Essay on Ecclesiastical Miracles," " A Translation of the Select Treatises of St. Athanasius,". Tract "No. 90," " An Essay on Developement in Christian Doctrine," some of the lives of the English Saints, &c., Stc. Re ceived at Littlemore, Oct. 9. • Fred. S. Bowles, 8.A., Deacon. Received at Little more, Oct. 9. Richard Stanton, 8.A., Deacon. Received at Little more, Oct. 9. John Walker, ALA., author of the " Life of St. Ger man." one of the Lives of the English Saints. Received at Oxford, Oct. 21. Fred. Robert Neve, M.A., Rector of Poole-Keynes, Wilts. Received at Prior Park, Oct. 27. Fred. Oakley, M.A. Senior Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, Prebendary of Lichfield Cathedral, late Preacher at Whitehall Chapel, and Minister of Margaret Chapel, London. Author of one Volume of Sermons, a Life of St. Augustine, being one of the Lives of the English Saints, some Controversial Tracts, and books of devo tion, &c. &c. Received at Oxford, Oct. 29. Charles H. Collyns, M.A., Student of Christ Church College, Oxford, and late Curate of St. Mary Magdalen's Parish, Oxford. Received at Priar Park, Oct. 29. William F. Wingfield, M.A., author of a book of de votion, called " Prayers for the Dead." Received at Stonyhurst College, Nov. 1. (Married.) Fred. W, Faber, M.A., late Fellow of University Col lege, Oxford, Rector of Elton, H un ti ng d ons hi re , au th or of the " Cherwell Water-Lily," " The Styrian Lake," " Sir Launcelot," " The Rosary," " Sights and Thoughts in Foreign Churches," " Life of St. Wilfrid," and other Lives of the Bcglish Saints, &c. &c. Received at North ampton, Nov. 17. J. . Marshall, 8.A., Incumbent of Swallow Chile and Anstey, Wilts, author of " Notes on the Catholic Episcopate," &c. Received at Oscott, Nov. 26. (Married.) John Melville Glenie, 8.A., Perpetual Curate of Mark, Somersetshire, Received at Oscott, Nov. 26. (Married.) Henry George Coope, MA., Deacon. Received at Oscott, Nov. 26. B. Henry Birks, 8.A., Curate of Arley, Northwich, Cheshire. Received at Oscott, Nov. 28. Michael W. Russell, M.A., Rector of Benefield, Northamptonshire. Received at Northampton, Nov. 28. (Married.) Robert Aston Coffin, M.A., Student of Christ Church College, Oxford, and Vicar of St. Mary Magdalen's Parish, Oxford, author of the "Life of St. William," one of the Lives of the English Saints. Received at Prior Park, Dec. 3. Henry Johnson Marshall, 8.A., Curate to Archdeacon Robert Wilberforce. Received Dec. 7. Edgar Edward Estcourt, M.A. Received at Prior Park, Dec. 19. Edward Browne. Received at St. Malo on Christmas Day. A.D. 1846. James Spencer Northcote, M.A., First Class Litteris lltimanioribus, late Scholar of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, Curate of Ilfracombe, Devonshire. Received at Prior Park, Jan. 17. (Married.) John B. Morris, M.A., Fellow of Exeter College, Ox ford, author of " Nature, a Parable," a translation of St. Chrysostem on the Romans, and the " Rhythms of St. Ephraem," &c. &c. Gained the Indian Prize in 1842. Assistant Hebrew Lecturer, and Lecturer in Syriac. Received in Birmingham, Jan. 16. Henry Formby, M.A., Vicar of Ruarddean, Glonces• tershire, author of a work called " Visit to the East." Received at Oscott, Jan. 24. George birder, M.A. Received at Oscott, Jan. 24. MEMBERS OF THE TWO UNIVERSITIES. 1.-LAY MEMBERS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD. Johnson Grant, St. John's College, Under-graduate. Received at the Epi,spopal Seminary at Brups, Dec., 1841. Edward Douglas, 8.A., Christ Church College. Re ceived at Rome, Easter, ..1842. Peter Le Page Renouf, Scholar at Pembroke College. Received at Oscott, Easter, 1842. William Lockhart, 8.A., Exeter College. Received at Loughborough, August, 1843. Thomas H. King, Under-graduate, Exeter College. Received at Birmingham, Jan., 1844. Charles R. Scott Murray, 8.A., Christ Church College M.P. Received at Rome, 1844. William Leigh, Drasennosa College, Oxford. Re• ceived at Leamington, March, 1844. George Tickell, M.A., Fellow cf University College. Ist Class in Litteris Humanioribus. Received at Bruges in the Autumn, 1844. Thomas Meyrick, 8.A., Scholar of Corpus Christi College. Ist Class in Litteris Humanioribus. Author of the Life of the Family of St. Richard, one of the Lives of the English Saints. Received at Hendred during Lent, 1845. John Dobree Dalgairns, M.A., Exeter College, late Scholar. Author of the Life of St. Stephen Harding, St. Helier, St. Gilbert, St. Aelred, and other Lives of the English Saints. Received at Aston Hall, Septem ber, 1845. Albany Christie., M.A., Fellow of Oriel College. First Class, Litteris Humanioribus. Author of several works of devotion, Holy Virginity, &c. Received in London, Oct. 1840. John T. Calman, 8.A., Worcester College. Received at Prior Park, November, 1845. Robert Simpson,_Under-graduate of St. John's Col- lege. Received at Oscott, January, 1846. 11.-LAY MEMBERS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE. Wm. Simpson, Trinity College. Received at Oscott, 1843. Jas. Aug. Stothert, Trinity College, Cambridge, and Edinburgh University. Author of "Justorum Semite," &c. &c. Received at Edinburgh, July, 1844. Benjamin Jos. Butland, Trinity College. -Under-gra duate. Received at Oscott, September, 1844. James Boone Rowe, St. John's College. Under-gra duate. Received at Birmingham, November, 1845. E. Fortescue Wells, Trinity College. Under-graduate. Received at Birmingham, November, 1845. J. A. Knox, 8.A., Trinity College, Scholar. Received at Northampton, November, 1845. Scott N. Stokes, 8.A., Trinity College, Scholar. Secretary to the Camden Society. Received at Birming ham, December,lB4s. Wm. Hutchisof, Trinity College. Under-graduate. Received at Birgham, December, 1845. Henry Mills, Trinity College, Under-graduate. Re ceived at Birmingham, January, 1846. J . B. Walford, Under-graduate, St. John's College. Received in London, January, 1846. Henry Bachus, 8.A., Corpus Christi College. R e . ceived in London, January, 1846. 1845. OTHER PERSONS OF NOTE. The Countess of Clare. Received 1842. Miss Eliot. Received 1842. Miss Gladstone, sister to the Minester of State. Re c e and her sister, Mi ss I sa b e ll a Y ou ng, i 3al y d s s 1 8 Young,42. Received 1842. Captain Lawrence. Received 1842. Mr. Sankey, of Trinity College, Dublin. Leader of a Religious Sect in Edinburgh, with his wife, four chil dren, and many of his followers. Received 1842. Mr. William Turnbull, Advocate. Secretary to the Antiquarian Society of Scotland. Received 1843. Mr. Charles De Barry and his wife. Received 1843. Mr. Charles ilemans, son of the celebrated Poetess. Received 1843. Miss Emily Bowles. Receivedlat Rome, 1843. Miss Warner, daughter of an Anglican Minister. Re ceived 1843. Mr. Bosanquet, Barrister. Received 1843. Miss Townshend, daughter of an Anglican Minister. Received 1843. Mrs. Seeger ' wife of the Anglican Minister, who has become a Catholic. Received 1844. Mrs. Parsons, wife of the Anglican Minister, who has become a Catholic. Received 1844. Miss Marriott, daughter of an Anglican Minister. Received 1844. Miss Hext. Received 1844. Miss Harriette Pigott. Received 1844. Mr. Isaac Twycross, M.D., of Oxford. Received 1845. Hon. Mrs. Heneage, and daughter. Received at Paris, 11845. - Mr. Clements. Received at Rome, 1845. Mrs. J. Campbell Smith, wife of the Anglican Minister, who has become a Catholic. Received 1845. Mrs. Ward, wife of the Anglican Minister, who has become a Catholic. Received 1b45- Mr. J. Ruscombe Poole. Lawyer. His wife and two unmarried daughters. Received 1845. Mrs. Anstice, daughter of Mr. J. Ruscombe Poole. Authoress of several works. Received 1845. Mrs. Spencer Northcote, daughter of Mr. J. R. Poole, and wife of the Anglicun Minister who htts become a Catholic. Received 1845. S T - ---_ • Ur. Mathias Woodmason, wife, two - 4syglatea, ar,ll_,, a son. Received 1845. ;......'„ ' k i ! -• •••,N Mr. F. W. Tarleton, Lawyer. iXi,a 'wife- anti herv.... sister. Received 1845. 1,!" 7. --, -- Mr. Geo., Talbot Bridges, BarriAteii.-; : 11,6 - *vea i SB4A. ;* •/: Lady Annabella Acheson and np,ay-,oAlCh'esol),l .._„.. 1 daughters of the Eard of Gosford. Vtedeivkd , lB‘.s: = Mr. Edward T. Hood, Barrister. ittzeived.lB4s.,' - '• " Mrs. and Miss Wood, the wife atia:4l44 . 4t?er. : of tbe, Rev. Mr. Wood, the Author. Received 1845. Mr. Leicester Buckingham, Secretary t o t h e B r i t i s h andForeignlnßu sell,sti:ute and Miss Watts Institute. Received 1845' Mrs. Watts Russell, wif e an d sister of the Anglic l a B. nMini_ste_r, who has b ecome a Catholic. Received 1845. Miss Munro, daughter of La Doherty. Received Mrs. Marshall, wife of the Anglican Minister of Swnllow Cline, who has become a Catholic. Received 1845. Mr. J. Capes, Prcetor of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. Rece'.vr.'d 1845. Mr. James Robert Judge, Lawyer. Received 1345. Mrs. Cape, wife of the Apglican Minister, who has become a Catholic. Received 1845. Mr. Grenvrlle Wocd, Received at Antwerp, 1846. Mr. Ilenry LA ye-r. Re:xived 1346. Mr. Gilbe.-t Ploiner, Lawyor. Received 1846. SOUTH LANCASHIRE ONCE A LAKE. On a clear day, a p,rson standing on the highest part of Barton Moss, perceive that the vall , y watered by the rivers Irwc 11 and horses is completely encircled by an amphitheatre el hills, except at the point where the united waters of those two rivers discharge themselves into the estuary of the Mersey at Runcorn Gap. The opening through which they flow into that arm of the sea, is not more than two or three miles in width, and if it was closed up, the greater part of South Lancashire and of the northern part of Cheshire, would be turned into a vast lake, bounded by the Yorkshire and Derby shire hills on the east, by the high land, which extend from this great chain across Delamere Forest, aixl as far as Halton Castle on the south,by a corresponding range of which Rivington Pike and Haigh and Billinge hills are the most conspicuous objects on the north, and by the range of high land crossed by the two inclined planes on the other latter high Liverpo o l an d M anc h ester R a i lway, on t h e west. Th i s rangeis grounds,continued _ to by within a wa), couple o o of P ex f Bill, iles oafndßothne. Run corn Gap, and the Cheshire hills. At some very remote period, the waters flowing from the high grounds which surround this valley, and which aro now carried off by the channels of the Irwell and the Mersey, and the Sankey Brook, were probably thus collected in a lake is this great natural basin. It was at this time, prebably, that the vast deposits of marl, rich in limo and beds of sand and gravel, the latter containing stones altogether different from the red sand stone rock of South Lancashire, were deposited on the great Lancashire plain. Here they are still found in every direction, altering the natural features of the country, and entirely changing the constitution of: the soil. It is only at few spots that the red sand stone rises to the surface of the ground, whilst the coal strata, in which the northern part of this district is so rich, are nearly all buried at great depths below thick beds of clay. * * * The only part of the township of Barton in which the marl does not form the principal constituent of the soil, is in the rich meadows on the banks of the river, which appear to have been covered by the waters of a much smaller lake, at a comparatively recent period. The ancient banks of this lake eau be clearly traced, on both sides of the river, from its higher extremity, which is close by a ledge of sandstone rock, at the point where the Duke of Bridgewater's canal is carried across the river Irwell, , by means of an aqueduct, to a point about two miles lower, where the stream appears formerly to have been again blocked up by a ridge of red sandstone rock, through which, however, it has gradually worked its way. After heavy rains, this valley still resumes its former appearance of a lake, the waters covering it on both sides of the stream, and leaving behind, on retiring, a rich deposit of slime, resembling marl in some respects, but not containing any portion of lime, owing to the circumstance of there being no limestone in any part of the district watered and drained by the river Irwell, which produces these floods. Still, notwith standing the absence of this fertilising substance, the meadows are preserved in a state of perpetual fertility by these deposits alone. They are never touched by the plough or mmured, and yet they have yielded heavy crops of hay in snmmer, and abundance of grass in the winter, as long as the memory of man, without either labour or care. In the midst of this rich valley is an orchard of thirty or forty acres, which is generally flooded, as well as the surrounding meadows, and which bears fruit of all kinds in abundance.---Liverpool Times. MACCLESFIELD AND LICHFIELD OR CHURNET AND BLYTHE JUNCTION RAILWAY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR—In your paper of Thursday last, in the Parlia mentary proceedings, under the head of Manchester end Lichfield Railway, it is stated that Mr. Muntz withdrew a petition in favour of the Macclesfield and Lichfield Railway, and presented one in favour of the North Staffordshiro (Churnet Valley line). Now, I beg to inform you, that the facts were just the reverse, as the petitions really presented were from two individuals withdrawing their opposition on standing orders to the Macclesfield and Lichfield ; and another from the inhabitants of Cheadle, against the North Staffordshire (Churnet Valley line.) 1 shall feel obliged by your correcting this misstate ment in your next paper.—l am, &c. C. T. RATTENBURY, Secretary. 11, New Palace-yard, Feb. 25. 1846. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen held a Court and Privy Council yesterday afternoon at Buckingham Palace. At the Court, Sarin.) Effendi, Ottoman Ambassador, had an audience of the Queen to take leave. Baron Dedel, Netherlands Minister, hal an audi ence of her Majesty on his return from the Continent. Their Excellencies were resp. ctively introduced by the Right Honourable Sir James Graham, Baronet fliciating for the Earl of Aberdeen) one of her Ma jesty's principal Secreterks of State, and conducted by Sir Robert Chester, Ma' ter of the Ceremonies. . Sir Thomas Cattwrighi, G.C.11., was presented to the Queen, at an audience, by the Eight Eon. Sir James Graham, on his return, on leave of absence, from his mission. _ _ . Mr. Manderille.was presented to her Mojesty, at an audience, ky the Right Hon. Sir James Graham, en the return from his mission to Buenos Ayres. The Privy Council was attended by his Royal High ness Prince Albert, the Lord President, the Lord Privy Seal, the Commander-in-Chi , f, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Secretaries of State for the Howe and Colonial Departments, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, the President of the Board of Trade, the Postmaster- General, the Secretary-at-War, the Lord Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, the Master of the Horse, and the Groom of the Stole to Prince Albert. At the Council, the Most Honourable James Marquis of Abercorn, and the Honourable James Archibald Stuart Wortley were, by command of the Queen, sworn of her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, and tooli their respective places at the Board. The Honourable William Bathurst was the Clerk of the Council in waiting. The Queen gave audiences to the Lord Chamberlain, Sir James Graham, the Duke of Wellington, the Duke of Buccleuch, and Sir Robert Peel. The Court was attended by the Marquis of London derry, Gold Stick in Waiting ; the Vice-Chamberlain, sel uenhlonl3do,ndLioGrdroGolmenilnyown,aiLtionrgd. o t he lo n Yesterday (Ash Wednesday), Divine service was i t n he v j ai r ti e n a g, r a e n r d suo c f performed in the private chapel, Buckingham Palace. the Hon. Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay officiated. Divine service was performed yesterday in the Chapel Royal St. James's. _ _ The Queen and Prince Albert promenaded in the garden yesterday morning. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her Majesty yesterday. The Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, were taken their accustomed exercise yesterday in the pleasure-grounds of the Palace. His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on horse back yesterday, attended by Colonel Wylde, Equerry in Waiting. The royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace, yester. , day evening, included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, the Duke and Duchess of Norfolk, the Marquis of Abercorn, Lady Fanny Howard, Baroness de Speth, the Earl Delawarr, the Right Hon. T. Pemberton Leigh, Colonel the Right Hon. Cr. L. Dawson Darner, and the Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and the Princess Mary, returned to Kew, on Tuesday evening. COMPENSATION FOR THE CORN LAWS. Sir Grahame Montgomery, Bart., has intimated to his numerous tenantry in Peeblesshire that although he feels confident that Sir Ro bert Peel's measure, when once fairly carried into effect, will produce a result highly beneficial to society at large, still with an anxious wish to satisfy the minds of his tenantry, he begs to assure them, should any reduction take place on farm produce in consequence of these measures, a reduction will be made upon their rents.—Edinburgh Witness. NEW ANCHOR. —A few days ago we were favoured with the sight of a newly invented and ingeniously con structed anchor, made under the direction of Captain Jer ningham, with stock and flukes, to be fired from Captain e Manby's mortar. The peculiarity of its construction coren Moveable, in terminating in a ball to fit tic mortar so :1 . : P windage. For this purpose the flukes are ; n en the mortar. doubling on the shank, but expanding I As far as one may judge from had no answer the desired end, but at present we have appeaTapeceitis likely to i s it ix a p e c h n ie c r e. em A en i ts io i n u oppor tunity of witnessing a trial of it. • 169, STRAND.—With a view to OBSERVER-OFFICE, furnish p IX 'ling a gratuitous half-sheet Sup plementlndia, the Observer P nrix'ses l n u ns is on Sunday next, March 1. The of twenty folio co ttl price of the Observer (inc l u din g server is regularly published full particulars of the Mon day afternoon Edition of the for the the highly Supplement) imr l at Four which edition is best adapted o'clock, . abroad. The Obserter was the journal that first announced the in tended alteration in the corn-laws, and which paper has in its subse quent numbers anticipated all the official movemcnts in progress, connec t e d with that highly important measure. COSTOBI-HOUSE DESTRUCTION OF DAMAGED WHEAT. .—This week a quantity of foreign wheat, which had been imparted b y Messrs. Phillpotts and Co., of this port, but which had since be come damaged, so as not to he worth paying 17s. duty upon, was destroyed under the supervision of a very vigilant Custom-house officer, by throwing it into the river Severn, and by keeping a very close official watch till it was carried away by the stream, or so inter mixed with the mud. that it could not be in any way used. The wheat thus destroyed was not of course fit to make bread, but it would have done very well to feed pigs, 1 &e. ' and the wasteful official ceremony of total destruction is anything but calculated to impress the spectators of such a scene with the wisdom of our laws. — Gloucester Journal. ~~