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‘ ••••-..... ITETI.AT ETRE. 2 71_ ESO C/A I. C 0 NDITIOI.T AND 11' DUCA :I'ION OF THE PLOPLE. B Joseph y J. Ka y , M.A. Longmans. work on so imnortant subject must always be of the to the public. The first chapt e r treats . th l ,, the soci a l condition of the poor in foreign countries, Frlv d of th e aw f u l state of demo ralisation, I , Y, and c r i me wh i ch i s but too common among ti OY+ poor of E ng l and and Wales. The accounts . Ththdr destitutiOn and suffering are most appalling. chapterst describe the education . of the Poor • f . : u .oreign countries, an. the float one is de aod the prk'sent state of education in England \ . V ales, and considerations of the best plarl to provide sufficient instruction for the people. Ighl9 interesting worksubject demanding itn -14,d, on a It is a • late attention, and those desirous of ohteiniog nuts of amp halls and dwellings of the poor will u ere find e' information. EE NEEDLE. &mpkin and Marshall. tent is t h e first number of de a magazine of orna la 13 a' Work, under the direction of Mdlie. Riego t t Ear rem ellardiere. At a time when so much a,- R , z P is devoted to the art of embroidery, a ma: uti li t t tle like the present, which combines beauty and Et ert l'i and gives the opportunity to its readers of tirtiel log thei r i ngenuity in the product i on o f useful the is a great acquisition. Toe chief subjects in tm rese nt numb er are a very elegant parasol cover litut; l l3ai nt lace g il e t. Th ere are ill u strations given, f"tare e ar and di s ti nc t directions for their manu- CLOR y FOR JUNIOR 4s , OF ENGL AND Poo . 'ES. Edited by Henry Wlate. Oliver and to • elms, concise and simple history intended for juniorirorn the landing of Caesar to 1850.. It is Fier 3 : written and well suited for beginners. cues are Lffixed to every chapter. TA COL D COLONIES OF AUSTRALIA. This EY G. Butt er E ar p. Routledge. ti e , t 2 ' 4l3 rit comprises the history of the gold colo: liti2: 4 eir t err i torial divisions, produce, and capa.b,i "e; The re are also notices of the gold mines, h "Ij ad A vic e to emigra n t s . The present edition . is °e `' "4 corrected, w ith the useful addition of a 71-t e 44GGED SCHOOL UNION MAGA- This ZINP. Partridge and Oakey. bei u ,„ 's the third volume of this magazine, which blhhlescriptive of the various Ragged Schools est tuld t e h thro u Omit England, and even in America Itho h: - "Dies, must possess much interest to those e Izaa t ,„" ve , Watched their progress. Those who ar tad i" fti nted with the sad details of poverty, crime, 84 (ir rt nees which this work presents, may here uch information. tan2;ll4 TRAVELLER'S LIBRARY. T h . ana Biu By Hope. .I.o,l,clV,l9omattiral History of e Creation.. By T. Lindley Kemp. Abes 49 Brown, Green, and Lonymans. 'sty t WO volumes of this excellent series . are upon \l'retet.uifferent subjects. The first describes a t n he . "ed condition of the people of Brittany, d e sec int eregt () . ion la chiefly scientific and anatomical. Manny 4oen"ng works by well-known authors are a ced to follow the present numbers. Jo u , t y N ti lt , A SUMMER I TOUR. Part II °og;jot, Autho r of " Amy Herbert." Lonymans. for tina 1 ( by the author of Amy Herbert, thougheven th` reten ding as the present, which was p red let trE e children of a village school, must alw - e; ll, s ‘ be a g The second part of the journal i 3 frompart _ c "4 f cf Constance to the Simplon. A map o ..ceirope from the Isle of Wight to Lake Con .°ranee is prefixed. o e, " L 8-EL F - GOVERNMENT. By J. Toulniin 1 131- Smith John Chapman. 1 44 1: : W°ll c treats of the characteristics cf . each Go ttt°to ent a 4 d its practical tendencies, and it includes .,.en l e a l : t i r ti:t eiacie i d ",, outlines of the English Constant' . for the general reader, and to those e in a Rte,tt &Vile science of politics it will pro l y .n. tacq.sition. The Representative System__ !ta A n l_ . NA: 45 W l‘talting, Trial by Jury, Education, teate d d, and Taxation are among the subjects r e u c ombine the theoretical and the practical. I,PO-BTRY OF CHILDHOOD. A Pcm'm Goodwyn Barmby. William Tweedie. te ti s a !l l 3 )ple dh P -C asing little poem on the poetica l .subjectro ltieursptroaettnio 411 4ti t ' —° ". A variety of other subjects are int ti n of the theme. There are also fall o at the end, from one of which ‘,/, is ,ing verses are extracted : not life which some call life, / I !_,?r love is one with iivirg le p is eord and th shroudf strife, Lot Death its is weaving. Life is in the soul of thought, hat i t i . ,t l !l in the breath of feeling, la th e d eed of good unbought Ye "-no heart of love resealing. Who lives not for the true, -Exi at ,,f good no life doth give, Nor `a only to the view, T h c an be said to live. loveT' l i; °God to light called forth The eat th—tlie ever-givins - 1_ north, 80 4th, t h o eas t, the wesb. rho For lop, is God of living. And .Lr iyears, s love-life than c ount by Wets cal endar super nal ; A nd love7life is eterna l." sm il e s and joyous tears, iI4IA Nip WICEI ISLANDS. 2---- Sandwich Islandsthe reach to the Itt tl i t l i. eslB fr om the lath alay, Parliamentin had been opened on the tNlEttitlf April, and the 's speech stated that x.. ep t ,i et 's of the islands with g all foreign friendlywith be of the most ~Iltir:,a, Prance, continued to powers, e • timated ID h ~k*re a- , 'Ler. The conclusion of the . new treaty 14 aC l ' i ritain was referred to, and i‘ i i t r w . as hi)r antnority hal been given t country, to 'leg'''. acy, t e thtteaeatative cf the islands in this _ ith regard to llitr," similar one with Belgium. With made of the hot:cr,eatlY;threatened invasion of private adventurers tromp 'alifornia, an acknowledgment was Commissioner it t 1.,?. measures of the American tiv:lonolalu, who caused Vendalia. The protection to be N tit i bY rhe United States' ship was recom kktaala of a rnilitary force, however, arms. Finally, Ili t t e t d to guard against future al the desire of the te ed t o announced that it w as that no one so - i• • l ttulitiver9naent to carry on affairs any political t i ha aa "Peet to benefit himself by mended reCoM Oy 4 5 e, arid that the new Constitution recommended t h e original ty, r_eolnniittee last year in place 0 his sanction if it arclevanted in 1 840, would receivee„ representatives. iiia des expedient by the been rP the chiet tabiee,clistitution had subi.equently to be adopted ai ttl of discussion, and was likely wished to aril a°tee arnencla:ents. The Government of Eng iitto,tnilate it ea much as possible to that erocratives. Ille tiPn4rtietilarly as regarded the King's Pr had be en lith.- - null re tofthe 'lout Ministers , tilted per s pro f of tne tras % of ' "1 gave satisfactory evidence the Minhter the ,The islands. In the report of number of tarsi Interior it . stated that the nu to foers aa, 1 "" 'had was the oath of allegian ce l3o : of V , hc rt , %during the past year had been 3l of qrelt t ' were TIM. of the United States, ,11.1 Britain various 1,.. Ives . , and 18 of . tk i er conotrie's•i' °E Chios:, and returns showed 45 total of f '.- The Post-office dispatched t e hoe b,„letters , ~, received and were to and train .a 44)74, of which 15;287 domestic train '''•° tnittai States. Th e total of s ha i bet't-3 Passirig hat tha sever"l islands 4 Pani'"°' ( - )1 ' tlrnsubject o f steam navigation,las, year loit} P i '• ` PP ears that a contract was made . ter-island tt eaZ ri es at San Francisco for a line of in iin- NIA - i` r, but that the vessel first sent was found since been Rrasayl* and that ~h extension of time hadi,ebruarY '414 4 . P riviteg'"e3 avere also conceded in San /'rat,ittell last for 0113 line of steamers between the themeLia r ca and the islands, and another betweenotection of kin arlti China. In relation to the Prwar shows t hat ac ll l, the report of the Secretary 3t Call for4c• toe time of the apprehended attackfromwas pros rh ,_ ll l'aisi og o f a m ili t i a o f 6,100 men 1 ;4. 4 '314 that a smaller, although more expensivenowre (.%o.'arti%N%,aa ultimately adopted. It was sit mended that the force should be continued. 4 all In tlae midst bf the Pacific, in the highway , mote f d yet re totti th e Most important traffic, an I, i.,, e , islands, is -qaadrons of friendly n:Aion!, the tack, eceatended, aresingularly exposed to the a t " l'iatin,°' pirates , lind to predatory expeditions, eon lam 1:1 8' af th e p cum of all nationa, such as that which s con the d eell b s crganizad at San Francisco. As rega . rd tinl l' ' li ` e with 1 -, Minister of Foreign Mit,ranee, the . - -4 Point out that, in con ormi f . t with Oot; . s N it 'ee given by the Hawaiian Government, the on til e 15 Th i al treaty with that country expired .0., tiot - Lii nf blarch last. Until some communi ..-. 1114(141,4114d be received, however, it was_ The o ot pro q th `.° net upon that circumstanc e ' .I: reportoer of fr eo 5 nlinister of Instruction showe d the number P uit testant ttc,(7110018 to be 53i, ' of which 431 wa r e of scholars 14 51 L ,,, °4 Itoman Catholic, the n gn il g nihe The nurriber tif Ll' '6sPectively P ) ,976 and 2 '"""* o f which ,2843111'1CQ3 during the year lad. been 1,771, Catholics, and 6 N or ' were Protestants, 381 Roman Ca ß tho deaths were 'tt p,11„,9'9. The returns of births and „, the ,„ s h ow 1, c(3l;,.ect, but, so far as they are presented lative race ',lll,,tiirlaance of that gradual decay of the 1 _:...‘‘,- tki 4ed I I" care seems able to arrcst, the birth s p ''',,y 9 ` .2. be ing only 2,424, while the deaths Wer '-) ' Clow _ be e t' , rr t, tra, c l egitirnai e „ Matthew 3, the cel,:bratcid a successor of Joe Grimaldi, has rec;'ntlY 141:11 br ur !Dinned into 9m , f , ace. At the Roe and Crown, 14 0 3 of (1 -a llet the „ nt Old Toil" tttiou. 44ing lig . 3' 4 1 , s Here we are!" and in those la to be met with in T Lif E S U N, TilE GRE AT SIN ECU RI ST. TO THE EDITOR t F THE TIMES. Sir,—You ave done :he Rev. ii ;best Moore injustice. The stonigch 0:: the greet sir verist, like the ttunls, the great elepiunt, bas caist,c:ty fur the largest acquisi- Cone, but does not socro the smallest. The rev. gep.tio nyln ccodescendy, in addition to bio e t her responsibili ties, to encumber himself T ,, ,ith the rectory of Rolling bourn, in Kent, value 551. per annuin—h mere crumb d ro pping into the gorged hip of this clerical Dives. Again, Bishop Porieus left years ego—you know hoer long the bishop has been dead-1.0001. Consols towards the ioandation of a school in the parish of Ilunton. A few extra hundred pounds subscribed by the incumbent the Rev. Robert Moore, at ones (and the contribution would hardly have been missed from his plethoric pure), would have furnished the children of "Linton with need ful instruction in a becoming dwelling. The 1,000/. not being sufficient for the endowment, a generation actually passed away, while the Rev. Roberc, Moore prudently allowed the bishop's bequest to accumulate at compound interest. After 30 years' delay—l believe I epeuk under the mark—she school-house is built, time having quietly added to the 1,000/. the needful amount which this Ca lifornian pester refund to grant to the children out cf the abundance of his wealth and the charity of his heart. The itev.Robert Moore likes to do his work by deputy. Your faithful servant, MEMENTO. JUSTICE TO MR. MOORE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir,—You and your correspondents have (I am sure quite unintentionally) done an injustice to the Rev. Mr. Moore, in tailing to give him the honour duo to him as rector of two more livings than you have enumerated. You have rightly described him as Registrar of the Pre rogative Court of Canterbury, Canon of Canterbury, rector of Bunten, Kent. and rector of Latchingdov, Essex, all in the gift of the Archbiahop of Canterbury, and presented to Mr. Moore by his father, the late Arch bishop Moore. But Mr. Moore rejoices in the possession of two more rectories, proceeding from the same source. He has had ever since 1802 the sineenre rectory of Eynesford, Kent, which though put down at the moderate sum of 1501. annually, has annexed to it the very substantial benefit of the patronage of the vicarage of Eynesford (value 410/. a year), to which the said Mr. Moore presented in 1807, and may therefore not improbably be able to pre sent again. Moreover, since 1801 he has had the sine cure rectory of iollingbouro, Kent, valued, it is true, at the very moderate sum of 55/. annually; and at first sight it might appear strarge that it could have been worth his while to have enclosed such a minnow in his net. But the report of the Commis sioners on Ecclesiastical Revenues, published in 1835, will probably be considered as affording a glimmering of light on the subject. for the following important ad dition to the 551. will be found there :—" Income 551., and fines on renewals, but none received for 28 years." Everybody, I am sure, will sympathize with Mr. Moore for his not having received a fine for so many years ; but es2B years from 1835 brings us to the year 1807, and Mr. Moore was appointed (according to the Clergy List for 1851) in 1801 (the " report" says 1802), no doubt there was something to comfort him at that more interesting period of his incumbency, and, as the fines are generally large in proportion to the smallness of the income, we may hope the best, though Mr. Moore did not favour the Commissioners with any further informa tion on this point ; and, as 17 years more have now elapsed, there is every probe,biiity that the patience that was so sadly tried by a delay of 28 years in receivirg a fine has been abundantly rewarded. In future, therefore, Sir, justice to Mr. Moore will require that you should give him all the honours due to the holder of tho following six offices:— 1. The Registrar of the Prerogative Court of Can terbury (worth, say, 10.000/. a-year). 2. A Canon-of Canterbury (1,0001. a-year, and a share of the patronage of 34 livings). 3. The Rector of Bunton, Kent (783 Z, and a suitable house). 4. The Rector of Latchingdon, Essex, (6801., and a suitable house). 5. The Rector of Eynesford, Kent (1501., and patron age of living of 4101.). 6. The Rector of Hollingbourao, Kent, (55/. and fines). rive interest felt in Mr. Moore is perhaps enhanced by the recollection that his . brother, the Rev. George Moore, was till 1846 ; b y gilt from the same quarter,— Canon of Canterbury (value as above), held since 1795. Rector and Vicar of Wrotham (value till his death 2,0614, with suitable house) held since 1800. Vic ix of asst Peckham (value 7501, with suitable house), held since 1805. But here I stop, lest I should exhaust your patience. I must leave it to the Clergy Lists of this and past years to do further justice to the Moore family. One question in all seriousness, and I conclude. Is there anything but an Act of Parliament, providing some cheek similar to what the bishops themselves placed in a recent Act upon the exercise of their patronage by men equally, I suppose, trustworthy—namely, deans and chapters— that will bring the bishops to their senses, or suffice to teach them that the patronage intrusted to their disposal, especially that more valuable part which they almost in variably appropriate, is not their own, nor intended to enrich the families of those already so munificently pro vided for, but a solemn trust placed in their hands for distribution to those whom in their consciences they be lieve to be the most deserving of it, and likely to make it yield the most benefit :to the great object for which ' alone the clerical office exists? Many think there is not, and their own legislation for the case of deans and chapters may be fairly taken as their own testimony on the subject. A FRIEND TO THE CHURCH. FILTHY WATER.—The Directors of the Wenbam Lake Ice Company, in the Strand, are wags after a fashion, and mix much of practical philosophy with their humour. Looking about for some positive contrast to the huge trans parent blocks of crystal, which have added so much of luxury to our summer's comfort, what could be mor e t r it e t h an a few glass tanks of Thames abomination l And there i n th e i r windows, in tangible evidence of the inertness of metropoli tan conservators, and supine legislators, stands in undi sgu i se d impurity, the veritable compound which gives an extra shade of richness to the colour of our tea and coffee, " body" to our London porter, and an additional unctio usness to City turtle. Our Transatlantic friends of the Strand do not, however, stop at this lesson, but they go on to t eac h us what our river ought to be, by a rapid restoration to its unsophisti cated country state, through the agency of a most simple and perfect contrivance, termed an Hydrostatic Syphon Purifier, the invention of Mr. Alfred Bird, the ingenious analytical chemist of Birmingham. THE YORK AND NORTH MIDLAND RA LW On Saturday evening the 4 P.M. train from York, i c A ra Y— t . her borough more heavily All loaded t r t ; h u t o u r n d t i l ary i t „ s p r a o r c r e i e v d a e l d ntowardsr Scar when, owing to some accident to the tires of the eknhgaimne wheels, not satisfactorily explained yet, the train thrown cff the line, and with rather a serious shock. was For tunately, with the exception of the stoker , whose name we could not ascertain, and who was severely bruised about the body, and had several ribs broken, no injuries accrued to any of the passengers, although all were necessarily very much alarmed. The train remained on the line until near 11 o'clock P.M., at which hour a heavily laden excursion train from Wakefield and Normanton arrived at the spot. It being impossible to proceed on the up line in consequence of the disabled engine and tender lying across the rails, the ex cursion train was obliged to be shunted on the down line, on which side it proceeded towards Scarborough for some time. This reprehensible step happily took place without any mishap, and the train, in which was our correspondent, shortly afterwards passed again on to the up line, about ten minutes before the last train from Scarborough to York came quickly forward. Had the excursion train been a few minutes later on the down line a terrible concussion would have been the necessary result. By the delay from the ac cident on the line, the excursion train due at Scarborough at 8.30 r.ar n did not reach that place until 12.20 A.m. (Sun day morning), and at that late, or rather early hour, pas sengers, wearied and disgusted, had to seek lodgings as they best might. DEATH OF AN OLD PROFESSIONAL SINGER.— Yesterday an inquest was taken by Mr. W. Carter, the coroner, at the Tankerville Arms, Caroline-street, Lambeth,l as to the death of Mr. James Deverell Gibbon, aged 74, once a popular vocalist, who was killed in the Lambeth Workhouse on Saturday. The unfortunate gentleman was very feeble, and had for some time been an inmate of the workhouse. On Saturday he had had permission to go out, and, on his return, was d esce nding down a flight of eight or t h en stone steps into the yard of the house, when it is supposed is hand gavel way as be was leaning on the railing , and he fell over into the area below, a heigt of about sixte en feet. His head pitched first on the stones, and Mr. Brooks, the task-master, described the concussion es like " some one breaking a cocoa nut with a hammer." Assistance was immediately rendered by Mr. Duke, the surgeon, but he was wholly insensible, and died in about eight hours from concussion of the brain. The railings are three feet three high s which was cons idered too low for aged people. The jury returned a verdict of "Acci dental death," and also agreed to send a memorial to the board of guardians recommending the hand -railing, to be heightened at least six inches. MATRIMONY.—The advertiser, aged 40, of improv ing political connexions, and being as well known f o r his i n dependence of mind as he is for hie independence of for tune, is anxious to form a matrimonial alliance with a young lady, not older than himself, who might be able to command, uct an army, at least the means of procuring one in the h ou r of necessity. Temper is of no kind of object, as politi cal influence in the scale of Europe is the grand thing needed. If this influence in the scale can be further in creased by the weight of a fortune sufficiently large to turn the scale in the advertiser's favour, so much the better. Absence from England having somewhat limited the circle of his respectable acquaintance induces him to take this now not very unusual mode of making known his wishes. Has every reason to believe his name and position would, upon acquaintance, make any one happy who accepted his land, though it still might bear upon it the stains of recent political events. Any young lady answering this proposal must send with it medical certificates cf her having been vaccinated, as well as her portrait, the likeness of which must be atteAed by two cf ber dearest friends.—And ress , under the cover of secrecy, to L. N., Elysde, Paris, marked outside, " Tender.”—N.B. Young ladies of the House of Co burg may apply.— Punch. EXCURSION FROM SOUTHAMPTON TO PORTLAND Bay.—The members of the Southampton Polytechnic Insti tution and their friends, about five hundred in number, went on an excursion trip to Portland Bay on Monday last, in the accompanied the steamer Jupiter, kindly lent to them by Mr. illcox, the Member for the town, and mat:aging director of the Penin sular Company. Southampton, and T se h v e e l‘ ra ie l s b , u a r c n c , the pa r ty. A portion landed at Portland, and for several hours inspected the ingenious and magnificent works now in ygoeintlSenirleAnlaexnaClaocclile' progress for the Portland breakwater. The rest landed and enjoyed themselves at Weymouth. Any one willing to see e rr a h n e d u t t o n n l s os o t f c s a t u o r ra t e , i 3 s d mechanical skill operating on a great scale, should go and se e the progress of the Portland breakwater. About a thrownthou and every facility :afforded to enableei'l' isa daily 13 1 ' o wn to visitors into , Sir Alex. Cock iem to see the works. burn intended to the sea to form it. m Weymouth, pr f deeed to Loudon by rail fro to attend to his his portmanteau was ssional business, but from some accident steamer, and returned trom Weymouth to the and he was under the necess -, to Southampton by the Jupiter. 1.3 of returning The Water from their company arrived at Southampton n3l was as smooth as a excursion m yesterday morning. The Chan charming than the lll-pond, and nothing could be more to Portlaud is about voyag e, sixty miles, distance from Southampton LON DO N, STATE OF TRADE. (From the Illa-iichester Guardian of this day.) MAINCIUSTEII, TUESDAY.—The Europa's advices, received on Sunday, report an advance, to the 11 th jest., of s to per cent. per lb. in the New York cotton market. This has no Eines; on Liverpool, however, for it is seen so have been occasioned by intelli ; .terce of an upward courie in Liverpool to the 2 9sh July, and not by any circumstances sffectiug the prospects of suppl.Y. Tam, on the contrary, are of an increasingly propitious character ; the receipts of the past crop being 3,000,917 bales against 2,315,931 at the same period last year, and the ac counts of the growing crop being more favourable, with fewer drawbacks, than such as we usually re ceive at this season. These circumstances are evi dently felt by speculators on this side, as the sales in Liverpool were only 6,000 bales yesterday ; and, although prices were not quoted lower, yet here and there a trifling advantage was experienced by buyers. In our own market no further effect has been pro duced than that of a slight increase of caution amongst buyers. Bat any expectation of a turn in their favour, which they might entertain at the com mencement of the day, was found to be groundless as the forenoon advanced. The epinners of most descrip tions are too well supplied with orders to be at all anx ious about making further sales ; indeed, many of them are unable to undertake further contracts for delivery in any reasonable time. Under these circumstances, the market at large has been characterised by a gene ral firmness in prices ; while some of the scarcer articles, as for instance 28's to 32's warps, and certain numbers of cops, have shown a hardening tendency —imparting, indirectly a steadiness to those sorts which are somewhat dull, such as Indian qualities of mule. The cloth market has been inactive, but steady, indeed exceedingly firm in general prices. Under a fair demand from the home dealers and printers, the bias is still rather upward in some fabrics. Domestics are selling more readily, and the makers are therefore rather more independent in dealing with their customers. ROCHDALE, MONDAY. s —The demand for flannels has been good, and the manufacturers are asking higher prices. The late advance in the raw material has had the effect of clearing the market. In wools prices are at present stationary ; but low and middle quali ties are very scarce. MACCLESFIELD, TUESDAY. Our manufactured goods trade continues to maintain its position of last week, and with this continued impetus cer tain " makes" have become scarce; consequently, prices have attained a firmness for some time without parallel in this market. The demand for thrown silks in the home trade may be quoted about the same as last week. In the mean time the mills continue in full operation for foreign account, and a scarcity of hands is manifested in this department. Raw Silk—Chinas have experienced a further decline of 6d. per lb., but up to the present this has baen without reaction or resumption of business. HUDDERSFIELD, TUESDAY. —Business continues much the same in our market to-day as last week. There are more buyers in the town, but we cannot hear of any very large purchases baying been made. Trade is dull for this time of the season ; still more is being done to order than is usual of late. HALIFAX, SATURDAY.—There has been a little inquiry to-day for camlets for the East India trade, but not in large quantities. For other descriptions of worsted goods there is scarcely any demand. In the yarn market there is no noticeable change. The spinners are moderately employed, but at rates that are not wholly remunerative. Wool is firm, and not much doing. COURT CIRCULAR. OSBORNE, TUESDAY. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Al bert, accompanied by their Pioyal Highnesses the Princess Helena and Princess Loulia, thove out in an open carriage yesterday. Lord Colville was in attendance on horseback. The Earl and Countess of Derby arrived on a visit to the Lilian. The Royal dinner party included the Earl and Countess of Derby, the Earl and Countess of Wilton, Baroness Speth, the Hon. Colonel and Mrs. Phipps, and Mr. Gibbs. Mr. Newdegate had an interview with Mr. Secre tary Walpole yesterday at the Home-office. The Cambridge University , Commission had a meeting yesterday at the official reaidence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in Downing-street. Pre sent—the Bishop of Chester, the Dean of Ely, Sir John Herschel, Professor Sedgwick, and the Rev. W. H. Bateson (Secretary). Dispatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial office to the Governors of Hang-Kong and Ceylon, and to the Governor of Malta. TLIE PEERAGE. Sir,—The remarkable statement made in your valu able journal on Saturday last, under the above heading, has attracted attention. I have carefully checked it, and find it correct, save as to the earldom of Haddington and the baronies of Belhaven and Bayning. In the two former cases, upon the demise of the present peers, without mail issue, thsir British peerages respectively will become exdoct, but both Lords Haddington and Belhaven have heirs presumptive living who will inherit the Scottish honours. With regard to the barony of Bsyning, his Lordship is blessed with a eon and heir born in the year 1844. The baronies of Aston, Nugent, and Bancliffe, which your correspondent enumerates amongst those that will become extinct, have already become so, Lord Ashton having died in 1845, and Lords Nugent and RancliXe in 1850. However it is quite plain that within a very few years indeed thirty peer ages have become extinct, and that there are now n o less than fifty, for which there are no heirs, either ap parent or presumptive, the, groat majority, if not all, of which will also b lB5 ec become extinct. H. August 23, 2. ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON REGATTA. COWES, AUG. 24.—The match for the Royal Yacht Squadron Cup, so unfortunately interruptedas b on Satur day, was started afresh yesterday, but, will e seen, with a r e sult no lees unsatisfactory than would have been the case had the yachts continued their course on the day of the first attempt. Yesterday morning, before the hour o f starting, ten o'clock, there was a tolerable breeze from N.N.E., but it died away soon before the hour fixed on arrived. The vessels which were destined astern, , the to take part were, ho wever, started at ten, westward. Egypt the They were the same 93 on Saturday, with the exception of the Gloriana; she did not start the second time. As soon o a s t h k a e d ) a ' ae s l h i g t s h g t o l a dwell t t under e w lArrow f f Claymore and Mesquite lying abreast at the distance of a quarter of a mile; these two shortly afterwards stand ing over to the north shore. The Lavrock and Alarm were at this time the two sternnaost. Off Leap-bank, the Musquito bade adieu to the Claymore, and drew on the Arrow, the latter showing si g ns of wishing to get into clecer company with her little rival. All the ya c ht s now got well over to the nor th shore, to shun the nice tide. There the Aurora got a bre eze, and again a lead. The Mnoquito and Arrow, now in close company, were followed by the Claymore about a mile astern. Thera was no great change in their positions for upwards of an hour, and on passing Hurst Castle the time for the four leading yachts stood thus:— „, 12h. 10m. 45 2. Aurora Arrow „. 12 13 0 Mosquito • ..„ „, 12 15 50 Caymore ... 12 19 55 A beecz . here sprung up, and the two leading yachts first catching it, they etood over to the Needles in good style, mending about one o'clock. The Arrow here took the lead, which she kept all along the beck of the Wight, till off White Nose, +share the lqucquito, then about three miles astern, having passed the Aurora, got a-head of the Arrow, the latter vessel, however, first got round the Nab, end kept the leal till off Osborne, where She was becalmed, and the Musquito, running up with what wind there was, passed her, and rounded the flag boat at Cowes at 10.11, the second gun greeting the Ar row six minutes later. So unsatisfac:ory a regatta as regards sailing has seldom been known hero. With the exception of the first day, Tuesday, not one ves sel has bad any thing like a wind to try her. The Arrow, as will be remembered, on that day got a =hied to herself, which enabled her to get over the course a long time a-head of either of her opponents. In ta' other two matches it has been little better than drifting all the distance. -------„ THE CHARGE OF rORGFRY A GAINST A HULL SOT,lClTOR.—Yesterday William Cooper Robinson, the soli citor charged with having forged the signature of a respect able inhabitant of that town to an I. 0. U. for 1,0001 an d w ho was remanded on Saturday last, was again brought be fore the magistrate at the Mansion -house. It was proved in evidence that Mr. Fricke% whose name has been, w ith_ out his knowledge, attached to the U., had, as mort gagee, given the prisoner authority to sell the property, the deeds of which the prisoner had proposed to deposit as secu rity for the loan of 1,0001., the I. 0. U. being in the shape of a temporary guarantee until the deeds could be obtained from London. Mr. Hindes, who appeared for Robinson, hav- I f ing argued at considerable length that abut I. o only permitted as. U. was a do cument not acknowledged b y the law, evidence of a debt upon an actual transaction having b een corroboratively proved, and therefore, as no money had been obtained in this case, that the charge would not lie, the ma gistrates decided to commit the prisoner to the borough ses. sions, arid stated that they would allow bail, himself in 2001., and tw o sureties in 501. each. TH E CROPS IN THE EAST BIDING AND NORTH LINCOLN._A personal inspection of nearly the whole of this been that, without any doubt, district during some days travelling on its highways and by lways, backed by information obtained from the best sources in c all quarters, brings us, we are happy to say, to the con ex expectationsthe complaints that have con al di r . fe in many other parts of the kingdom of the bad to this range and scanty promises of the grain crop do not apply quarters an recent changes, Theb barrister, harvest te, of country. Exaggerated and over-sanguine qualified d rs have in many instances, it is true, been much cases seven well and promising. acre have ',e •estimated,the growers are now content to reckon five;;,eon CITY OF LONDON bet, on the whole, the present will be a good and heavyand where in some sorts of grain look crop , and other , . rapidly. rearistie, the revising R -Mr. T. Y. PGISTRATION. • • - notice that he will commence his registration i hers to serve in Parliament for Mem this year of voters - day, the 16th ot next month. ish,asgeguievreallY, progressing or the city of London on Thurs- EVENING-, THE INCOME AND PROPERTY TAX. There is no doubt that the cornet principle of taxation is, that every one should contribute to the y early expenditure of the country in a fixed propor tion to the amount of property in his possession during that year. That is the position very correctly laid down by Mr. William Farr, in his tvidenco, .just published, before the Select Committee on the Income and Property Tax. A moment's refi , ction will be sufficient to show that it is is the highest degree unjust to exact th e same sum i n t h e way of taxation from tw o men , one o f w h om d er ives an income from an est a te i n f ee or f rom mone y in the funds, and the oth er w h ose i ncome i s a profes sional one or a short annu i ty. L et t h e tax b e l e vied on the value of th e p roperty, no ma tter what that property may be—la n d i n f ee or for a term o f years, houses, a post in Som erse t-h ouse or in the T reasu ry, skill in healing huma n di sor d ers, or in play i ng on the fiddle. We care not fr om w h at source the va l ue may proceed, EO it is value. L e t eac h man contr ib ute i n pro portion to the amou n t o f th at value in his possess i on . Now, what better test o f th e value of property can be taken than the pri ce it w ill fetch in market over t ? It is easy enough to as c er t a i n the value of eac h man ' s interest in real a nd p ersona l estate ; it is also a Earn ciently simple task to determine the capitalised value of any income derived from skill or industry. As the best illustration of our meaning, and at the same tons method of levying th e i ncome-tax, we would time as the severest com men t upon the present iniqui submit the following fi gures to the considerat i on o f our readers. They will serve to show the sums f or which such annuities rent s , estates, and securit i es as are there set forth would se ll. It is really dif f icu lt to see, with such calculatio ns as the following b e f ore us, why we should not all be t axed according to our real, and not ou r i mag i nary means. We copy proceedings of the assessment from the reported the Select Committee on th e I ncome and Property Tax : S. " A has 10001. a year in Long Annuities 6,875 B has 1,0001. a year in Consol s at par 33,333 C has 1,000/. a year from land worth 30 years' purchase ••• ". .. 30,000 of 1,000/. a " 1) has 1,0001. a year from land, during his 'Life • • • *'• • ... 16,667 year, 16,666 " F has houses returning, in current rents, " E has a t f l t ! e e r re ti v l e ers d i e o a n th o f ofp rents,... 1,0001. a year... •••• ,„ 16,000" A professional income is, probably, much inferior in value even to the lowest interest in the above assess ment. As is very properly stated in the report of the Committee, the highest possible point at which en income of this sort can be estimated is to place it among life annuities. As we all know it is, in point of fact, something much inferior. There are the contingencies of ill health and fashion. The fashion able physician of to-day is the nobody of to-morrow. The barrister who has sunk a considerable capital in subsistence, education, and protracted preparation for his profession, and had already begun to realize some fruits from all his anxieties, toil, and self-denial, finds himself suddenly thrown back upon the world, not from any fault of his own, but because changes have been introduced into the administration of the law. Then there must be taken into account the deductions made for life insurance, and other similar provisions against sickness a n d d ea th. H ow can any assessment be fair and equitabl e w hich not o n l y str i kes at the realized property o f t wo men, but then p rocee d s to levy a further toll upon the transitory income of one, while the other goes free for the simple reason that he has none which can be affected by such an impost ? Dr. Chambers or Sir Benjamin Brodie buy lands and estates like their neigh bours, and are subjected to similar taxation in every respect. The same thing happens if they invest in the funds. Their investments are realized values. Any 11. they receive from their patients is a simple 11. ; nothing more. Any 11. from their landed es tate or from the funds represents 301. besides itself, and yet seven-pence in the pound is deducted from each. Seven-pence is deducted from the 311, and seven-pence from the 11. ; and this is justice ! What we have said of course apples strictly to professional incomes, but it will also bear upon all incomes derived from trade, manufactures; and com merce. First, the capital invested must make a suit able return ; then in good years an insurance must be paid against bad years ; then the merchant or manufacturer is entitled to wages for his own solici tude and superintendence ; then he must insure against the dropping in of his own life ; finally, there is the net profit from the business, whatever that may be. The Chancellors of the Exchequer, however from Mr. Pitt's time downwards, have refused to take notice of this analysis of an income. They consider the unstable and transitory income we have just described to be precisely identical with that of the landowner or fundholder. No allowance is made for the vicissitudes of commerce in the case of the mercantile man, any more than the changes of fashion or the failure of health in the case of his professional fellow taxpayer. All must dance according to the same tune, and march in the same step, whether Mr. Pitt or Sir Robert Peel, Sir Chas. Wood or Mr. Disraeli, be the fiscal fugleman. As it was in the year 1798, so it is in the year 1852 ; but so will it not be much longer. The anomalies we have named, which constitute indeed the gross and crying iniquity of the tax according to its present method of assessment, are not the only ones which might be signalised. We see it set forth in the very interesting evidence given before this Committee, that the whole of the tax is paid by about 350,000 persons, and that if the operation of the tax descended to annual incomes of 501., there would be four times as many taxpayers. Thus, every taxpayer d during the sharp pinch pays not only for himself b a t for three ot h ers , which er a i arrangement of of much the same cha racter of the Irish famine namely, t h at every E ng lish family should be required to r ece i ve—gratu i tous ly, ra 1 : t a h n e of course—two Irishmen as pa r l our boarders. It is bad enough to have to pay taxes for oneself, but it is cruel to have to pay for others. The minority is fleeced that the majority may go free. We will venture, at this point, to quote a few lines from the report :—" The farmers occupying large farms PaY their own tax and also the tax that the farmers on rents of 2991. a-year or less in England, and 4 191 . a-year or less in Scotland, ought to pay. The person who has 1501. a-year from a trade or profession is taxed, while the owner of 1491. l an d or a-year from money in the funds is exempt , the landowners of England and Scotland, in fact, pay for the protection of the property of the landowners of Ireland, w ho are resident there or on the continent." If there be any thing which could add to our aggravation in the midst of this injustice, it is the full conviction that to wish sincerely for the remedy is to discover it. We find that a very simple method of assessment has been proposed by a number of competent actuaries, and has re ceived the approbation of the committee. It is, that the tax should be assessed "at one uniform rate upon all kinds of property—that is, upon the present capitalized value of indu s t r i a l i ncom es, w hich are called inherent property, as well as on all exter nal property, whether personal or real. Even .r . John Mil!, who takes a somewhat more discursive view of the question, inasmuch as he admits intolal. account not only the comparative means of the contri butors, but also their comparative wants, and w." holds that equalit- , of taxation consists in demanding from • all contributors an equal sacrifice of their enjoy; meats, is driven to admit that he would tax perm 9nen i and temporary incomes according t o a different s cale. Ther e • , s nut, in point of fact, a s ingle argu ment is a moment~ au equalization of the assessment which worth ernent's attention, except the difficulty of f this sort, providing a suitable remedy. In a matter o stood we care not if all the philosopher's in Enropt to against us. It needs no great stretch of intellect perceive that the income tax as at present rst class, Under stood, is a graduated t t -of the w or st property- ax word and -. n ther a graduated property-tax is but a-o for gpoli t. 'is a ton—it the last resort of revolutionary finance whenen revolutio n is on the eva of bankruptcy. i —Tinges. laAden tinsucfaulle Tuesday h y Bx tract fro m MONT BLANC. Yesterday by a party of five travellers. miserable e l ) morning. T_ i_l e o wea therd atttetre,mdpatt to Cahsacmenoduni, August ntoiane l Se w : — a 8 and ' as b°en generally very unfavourable, but M n ay night, andpre crestfallenraln . chin fur the ascent. he guide's prognosticated a about a adviceThuo'clock, bu insisted on starting about ten o'clock yestt r- Tp precession, s 5 io crossed t h i : a t ha t e h r e as n a l ad t t es e i u r n r i i ou, desnie t 13 on to • t 6 O veral of torrents, reg Boisson abo u t s in B t . . etY, and reached _ • h,all-past five o'clock. Sere they passed a que s n o c v e er u t f u t r h n u ed ro re peatedly d p l u y i; ratherhi the v'll re ac mg i age noon, Chamouni is crowded with vwtors, and the g a rat est difficulty is experienced in getting anything like thi bed. The weather has been, at the 6811° time, any thing but Pleasant. The road between the village and returned this morning in tlnenehes has become very daogeroug from the storms. tho broken brid" , es have been carried away by the tw it Isaorracta)r:r.eiargye:orimoamsutriaaist.innAhaeshabre.46enbarnec shop-ed, P and the nerves of the lady tourists have l u a d s t h a w l, i . 0 ( I I beennear ebLatitsutphOebuypcehuoeptslu,erirsnutincl torrent, and e n ao s nu e di one Youn g lady was much g hurt; L o i r n ie . t 0 pour A in and the Sardinian Government has re -1 1 in 1848." • g - ''''''d all the guides under the old regulations, principalrito7 i .:entions Sift a the giraili"Y subscriptions for the Purchase of a suitable testi- R ris G in tlllellcEol-o;t7vrroft3Se orwthUrmliilonegrlanmdeanreicnollect their to he Presented to Sir George Grey, as a mark of t , . t regard L e, tr r d i Y ; l'il Right Hon. Baronet is at present upon a visit to to his high personal character, and political in .r. ! anmure in the north ; and we believe that his present rusntary honours, but to seek the quiet of the country, and in all likelihood to tour on the Continent, for the establishment of make a a re, not to offer himself as a candidate for Parlia ,. Mercury. his health, which is not strong.— Leeds WEDNES y AUGUST 25, EUROPEAN RACES IN THE UNITED STATES. (FROM AN AM:iraCAN CORRESP3NDENT.) The predorninance of the Anglo-Saxon race in nurut•rioal, As well as in intelloctual capacit:s-, in that pert of North America comprised wi!bin the area of the Ii; ipublie of the United States has ben generally admitted, or, in deed, scarcely denied, tritii within a very recent period. It now seems to ll4ve become important to political demagogues, in their anxiety to wield an influence with the numerous classes of the American population, principally from Ireland and Ger many, who have swelled the ranks of emigrants to those shores within the last quarter of a century, to misrepresent and exaggerate the proportion of the Celtic and modern German element in the aggregate numbers of the American nation. An Irish-Ameri can writer of this stamp, I observe, is quoted as an authority in the last January number of the London Quarterly Review, and on thi.t account deserves at tention, for the purpose of correcting his gross mis representations. In the article referred to (on " Highland Destitu tion and Irish Emigration") the Quartfirly says : " But what will be the influence of the Irish ex o d us upon the destinies of the great American Republic? The population of the United States is probably the most mixed and heterogcnons on the faco of the earth. The Slavonic element, which is entirely antipathic, is almost the only European one unrepresented there. The native German, the Anglo-Saxon, the Milesian, and the Gaelic sub-varieties of the Celtio race—to say nothing of the African—have all contri buted largely to the composition of that strange people. But, if any reliance can be placed on the accuracy of the following table, which seems to have been con structed with great care by a Mr. William E. Robinson, and read before a learned and statistical assemblage at Clinton, in New York, the Celtic blood even now predo minates. The gross population of the Union was, in 1850, a little above 23,000,000, which (says litr. Robin son) may be thus appropriated : Irish born 3,000,000 Irish by blood „,. 4,500,000 German by blood or birth ... 5,500,000 Anglo-Saxon by blood or birth ... ... 3,500,000 French, or other Celts, by blood or birth 3,000,000 Coloured, free or slave ... ... 3,500,000 Total... .. 23,000,000 " According to t his table (the Quarterly gravely re marks), more than half the white population in the United States are Celts; more than a third Irish Celts; more than a seventh actually of Irish birth. This increasing predominance of a race of so strongly marked a character, and of qualities so opposed to those of the Anglo-Saxo n, ma y well give rise to consider able anxiety on the other side of the Atlantic, and to interesting speculation here. It tho Irish, enabled by their numbers to congregate together there as in the old country, and thus to withdraw themselves in a great measure from the influences of a new scene and a supe rior race, shall retain their national features unchanged or only slightly modified, they may affect greatly the aggregate character and the political and sccial proceed ings of the Union. The stern and resistless energies of the Anglo-Saxon may, and probably will, still enable him but even then the destinies and to retain the suprem ac y , the nature of the American people, as a whole, must be affected by this inordinate infusion of Irish blood." As I shall be able to show that the reviewer reasons upon false premises, founded upon the misrepresenta tions of the Irish lecturer " before a learned and statistical assernWage, at Clinton, in New York " (which assemblage, by the way, was principally composed of young men and plain country people at the commencement of Hamilton College, a minor institution in central New York), I think he may dismiss his apprehensions as to the effects which an Irish Celtic emigration in large numbers may produce on the character of this Anglo-Saxon Republic in its social or political relations. If I were, however, t o admit the facts stated, such is my confidence in the ' predominance of the Anglo- Saxon intellect, and governing powers and influence over the other races with which the people of this vigo rous stock comes in contact, that I should still believe in the permanency, of Anglo-Saxon insti tutions, government, and social superiority, as much in America as in Great Britain. All experience ou both sides of the Atlantic serves to confirm the soundness of this opinion. In the United States it is wall known that the only influence the Celtic race, when banded together, has exercised upon our poli tics has been in the use which has been made of them by demagogues (generally of other races, and most frequently Anglo- Saxon) to hold the balance of power between contending parties, and thus to elevate aspiring individuals to office and power. A transfer to the American continent of the entire Celtic population of Ireland need not, therefore, create any feelings of apprehension among those who are anxious for the perpetuity of Anglo-Saxon rule and predominance. Indeed, most of the Irish and other emigrants who settle among us seem to consider this result as a necessary consequence, and to acquiesce in it with a readiness which shows that they appreciate Anglo-American institutions, man ners, and customs, as the best calculated for the adoption and use of a free and republican people. I propose, however, to show the erroneous cha racter of the statement respecting the elements of the population of the United States, as quoted by the Quarterly Review. This I shall do very briefly, but I trust satisfactorily, by two statements ; first, by answering the inquiry which may be made, what was the character, as to races, of the population which composed the thirteen British colonies which declared their independence in 1776 ; and, secondly, in giving the numbers and character cf the emigrants from Europe to the United States since the Ameri can Revolution, with an estimate of the probable numbers of the descendants of those emigrants, thus added to the population. The British colonies in America, forming the original 13 Stat es , it i s well known, were ' settled by emigrants, a large - proportion of whom were natives of Great Britain. No considerable rab e emigration of Celtic Irish, or other people of Celtic origin, took place until after the commencement of the pre sent century. The New England States, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland Vir ginia, North Car o li na , South Carolina and Georgia, were mainly settl e d b y Englishmen. , New York, the only Dutch col on y, passe d under British domi nion, with a small population, partly Dutch and partly English, i n 1674. The Dutch records of 1673 say ;nen They, and as many of the Dutch nation as are yet residing under tbis Government, are calculated to amount, women and children in cluded, to about 6,000." In 1698 the total number of inhabitants in the colony was 18,067, and in 1723, the whites had increased to 34,393, and the blacks to 6,171 :—total, 40,564. This was under the English Government. A few Dutch, Germans, and Poles, settled in New Jersey ; a few Swedes in Delaware, many Germans in Pennsylvania, where they afterwards became one-third of the popula tion ; and some French Protestants, called Hugue nots, in New York, New Jersey, and South Caro lina. Besides the small Polish colony in New Jersey, referred to above, another branch of the Slavonic race was represented by a colony of a few Moravians and Bohemian s i n P ennsy l van i a . With the exception of a few Scotch Highlanders who settled in North and South Carolina and Geor gia, I believe no Celtic colony is to he fonnd among the settlernents in the British North American colonies of either the 17th or 18th centuries. Settle ments of Lowland Scotch and Scotch- Irish from the north of Ireland were made in Pennsylvania and tne Carolinas, and a small number of Irish Protes tants settled in the town of Londonderry in New Hampshire. The very considerable numbers of Irish Protestants from Ulster and other parts of Ireland (of Lowland Scotch and not of Celtic origin) who have, from time to time, emigrated to the United States, have led to much confusion and error in investigating the elements of American population. But minute inquiries into the progress of the colonies will satisfy impartial observers that no considerable Celtic element existed in the population of America previous to the United States census of 1790. The Welch, considered by some as Celts, but who, in truth, are the descend ants of the Cymri, furnished a small proportion of the early emigrants to British America. They have doubt less mixed more with their English neighbours on their native island than have the Scotch and Irish ; and of the emigrants to America, particularly to New England. it was often difficult to distinguish between the 'Welch end English who came over together in the early colonial history. There wer e , however, a few 'Welch colonies in the United States in the last century, where the emigrants retained their language, manners, and customs. Such is the county of Cambria, in Pennsylvania, and some smaller settlements in New York and other States. It is pro bably fair to estimate the Welch element in the pre sent population of the United States at 500,000. In giving a view to the various races who contri buted to form the population of the colonies, I should mention that a few Jews wero among the number, principally commercial adventurers in the Atlantic cities and towns ; but the greatek t proportion of the Jewish race now found there is of recent emigration. We see, then, that the following European races made up the population of the British Colonies pre vious to the American Revolution—viz., Anglo- Saxon, Lowland Scotch, Scotch-Irish, Welch, High land Scotch, Germans, Dutch, French (Ilugtrn° t 'i' Moravians, Poles, Swedes, and Jews. To these may be added a few Flemish or Belgians who cause over t with the Dutch to New York end New Jergalt . the commencement of the revolutionary bevefille, in sti. 1775, the population of the 13 colonies 1' 97000 black'. mated at 2,000,000 of whites, and 6fot;eltic origin There were a few Irish gentlemen 0- es of who accompanied the English Catholics of failal - colony to Maryland, like origin are to he found amo n g Stftte% • but "dthae old families of New England and some of the other their numbers Were too general non like the prtsent. inCO.D.Siderable to affect a inquiry and caleula 1852. The same remark will apply to the Irish Celtic ser vants end lubcurer3 who bccompanicd the Arglo- Szxon, .ad Scotch euligfatits in the 17th and 18th centuries to the middle and southern col7nies. • _ I nor: prec - ,A to examine, very 6riEfly, the eiit:et of emigration from Europe to the Uni:ed States, for a period of GO ycws—viz:, from 1790 to 1850, upon the present population of Ame,rieiJ. The following is the result of estimges and returns made up at the J .C: e n t s o u f s e - m oli g e r e a a ti t on Vv;_ashington bearing upon this sub * IMMIGRANT - 8 FROM FOREIGN COUNTRIES INTO TILE UNITED STATES. From 1790 to 1810 From 1810 to 1820 From 1820 to 1830 From 1830 to 1840 From 1840 to 1850 120,000 114,000 203,979 778,500 1,543,850 Total number of immigrants for 60 years ... 2,760,329 Natural increase in periods of ten years ... 1,590,605 Total number of immigrants since 1790 and their descendants in 1850 ... 4,350,934 Th e aggregate number of whites, as shown by the census of 1850, was 19,631,799 ; so that, if we allow half a million for the gain of white population by the accession of Louisiana, Florida, Texas, California, and New Mexico to the territories of the United States, with a further allowance for other accessions by immigration previous to 1790, it appears that about three fourths, or more than 14,000,000 of the present population, are descendants of European co lonists previous to the American Revolution. Twenty years since, when the white population of the United States was 10,537,378, and the number of coloured people 2,328,642 (viz., slaves 2,009,043, free 319,599), according to the census of 1830, Pro fessor Tucker, of Virginia, who has written much on the subj ec t of population, made the following esti mate of the division of the people of the United States, according to races and descent, viz.:— Census of 1830. English and their descendants ... 6,000,000 Scotch ~. *** 500,000 Irish • • ••• ••• "• ••• 2,000,0 00 German *** *** ••• ... 1,000,000 Dutch ••• **• ••• ... 500,000 French Swedish, Spanish, Bwiss, - /Le. ...*: 300.000 200,000 Total whites 10,500,000 Africans and their descendants ... 2,328,642 Total white and coloured 12,828,642 On the above basis, slightly varied, I give the fola lowing estimate of the approximate proportions of the different races forming the population of the United States in 1850 Anglo-S,xons ••• ••• 11,000,000 Lowland Scotch 700,000 Scotch and Anglo-Saxon Irish ... ,1500000 Celtic Irish Welch 2,000,000 German ... 300000 Dutch •.. . 2,000,000 ... ... 800,000 French (including Huguenots) ... 1,000,000 Danes and Norwegians ... 100,000 Swedes 100,000 Swish • • • 50,000 Spaniards, Italians, Jews, &c. 100,000 Total whites ... ... 19,650.000 Africans, slaves and free ... ... 3,600,000 Total ... 23,250,000 With regard to the Irish Celtic population in the United States, it may be remarked that, compared with the inhabitants of the Anglo-Saxon stock, it is a short-lived race, and the average rate of mortality among these recelit immigrants to America is much greater than among other portions of the population. --Times. IRELAND. Dontax, TITESDAY.—At the recent annual cattle-show in Galway, it was arranged that the exhibition of the Royal Agricultural Society for 1853 should be held in Killarney. This was effected through the intervention of M:. P.orce ttlahony and Mr. Dargan, the eminent rail way contractor, the latter of whom volunteered to give t h e necessar y indemnity, on his own account, for 500/. The landed proprietors of Kerry will, however, gladly subscribe that amount amongst them, whilst gratefully declining the liberal offer of Mr. Dargan. It is stated that tte Queen end Royal Family contemplate a visit to this country during the Great Industrial Exhibition of 1853 iu Dublin, for which the preparations are already in a forward state. It is considered probable that her Majesty and her illustrious Consort will avail themselves of the opportunity of proceeding from Dublin to Killar ney by railway, and the agricultural show will take place in that town about the period mentioned for the Royal visit. The railway communication with Killarney is likely to be completed long before that time, and it is hoped that her Majesty will visit the far-famed scenery of " the Lakes." THE lIARVEST.—In all parts of this country the busi ness of the harvest is now in active operation; and so great is the demand for labourers, that wages have risen considerably beyond the rates in previous years. In the county of Dublin reapers are obtaining half-a-crown a day. The reports of the cereal crops are most satisfac tory, and there is the fairest prospect of an unusually abundant harvest. There are renewed assurances of the stoppage of the potato blight. Although there is a con siderable loss in that crop, it is calculated that the resi due will be nearly adequate to the ordinary supply of the markets, in moat districts. Potatoes are again ad vancing in price in Dublin. IMPRISONMENT OF MR. DEL.MEGE. — The following letter from Mr. Delmege, J.F., now in the gaol of Ennis, appears in the Dublin Evening Mail. That journal states that an application for the admission of Mr. Del mege and the eight soldiers to bail will be mado in the Court of Queen's Bench Chamber on Wednesday next:— " TO THE EDITOR OF THE EVENING HAIL " County Gaol, Ennis, Aug. 22, 1852. " Sir,—l shall feel much obliged if you insert this letter in your next post. " The infor ma ti on w hi c h has been sapplied you by the editor of the W ee kly T e l e graph, and which you have published in the Mail of the 20th, as far as I am con cerned, is incorrect. The correspondent of the Telegraph states that his (Mr. Delmeee's) house was searched last night (Wednesday), arid the constabulary are searching for him in all directions. It is said the un fortunate gentleman has left for the Continent, and will not surrender himself until the assizes. The facts are —My house was not searched on Wednesday or any other day. I did not leave my house at all. " My father apprised me of the verdict at about five o'clock on Wednesday evening, and I was arrested at my house on Friday morning ut ten o'clock. " Many of my friends earnestly urged me to go away, and, if I was so inclined, I had ample time to do so, but I was determined to await the result. " However wanton and unjust the verdict against me may have been, I determined not to evade the law, or shrink frem the position which circumstances and my duty have placed me in. " I am, Sir, your obedient servant, Ste., " JOHN C. DELMEGE." ARCII.XOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. NEWCASTLE-01-TYNE.—The members of the Ar chreological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland assembled yesterday in this town, under the patronage of his Grace the Duke of Northumberland, and under the presidency of Lord Talbot de Malabide, M.R.I.A. An apartment at the Central Railway station ha s been fitted up as " the reception room," where the names of the members are recorded, and information r,fforded as to the movements of the party during their visit. Yesterday was to be devoted to the examinatio n o f the antiquities of the town. To - day the Eecti o t rp A e l t n h - , meet, and the public dinner of the Institute takess place to-morrow. On Friday the mernhersd will be a entertained by the Duke of Northutnberl a n m Halle Alnwi.: - k and wick Custle, after having visited on that day Winkworth Castle, the Hermita ge' Hae Abbey antiquity , End other pl aces o f and in terest tu in rd t a l y ie i d a u to ca b l e do d n e r v a o in te . d i h t o o e m Ca Roman s Durham ; and on Monday them milers will make an n l e to a P t er Prudhoe o eic excursion i c o e wall. Dearing Hexham, and a porzion During the week there will • of the Literary and Philosophical Assembly-rooms, afancy fair for a ballv hautretir, a concert of the Philharroo.oirio Society,orSt. Pet a er b s o S avica n i and horticultural exhibition and dramatic perform acne by the members of the Guilda • ure a nd of Literature Art ,under the direction of Mr. Charles Dickens, 9 .° that dew is a season of extraordinary interest and g anticipated. ROYAL ITALIAN or7E __ l,A. ___ ----- a t i ii i d e Paskowich and the Count anielohaentressrivee Theodore there the performances at the Royal fashion p a r b es l Worognhzaowm and - Italian Opera with o a f ls Le o a in m s o te n r g e e n e c o e m l r a a s n t y e p y r e e s n i e n n g t . t b r e hne chesse Lord Gerald Fitzfferald, the Marchioness of Conyn party , the Marchioness Brancaleoni and Madlle. Aurelia party, Mr. and Brancaleoni, the Countess of Westmoreland and the Hon. Julian Fane, the Earl of Clarendon and the Countess Lady Douglas, Craven, the Earl of Cardigan, Viscount Exmouth, Viscount Anson. M.P., Lord Ernest Bruce, Lord Fitzroy Somerset an ß d ur L g Sir G a M n r d s. 'A ß l iastses!osmi re rsCharles y S. Russell, George and Lady Armitage, lion. E. Major the Hon. Needham, Lady Prescot and party, Sir William Fraser, H. M.P., Mr. Seniord, Mr. Bedwell, Mr. Charles B Sir Alexander Cockburn , M.P., Sir Henry Webb Barrington, Mr• A. h., Baron de Sternberg, Upton,• • 00 m, Sir John Harrington, the flop. A. u Hon. G. W. i\i, ille Colonel Mrs. Francis, Mr. Webster, Mr. A. K. s, Captain Hotham, a Webster, Mr. Culling Smith,Thistlethwayte, M r Colonel Major Pole, Colonel Brownl Steele, Mr. Elliman] . Strickland, Mr. J. W. Clayton, ow Knox, M.P., Mr ' Mrs. Wilson, &c. . Halter GREENWICH PARK ----We have frequently called attention to the shameful state of Greenwich Park. About a month since notice was taken of the falling of a dead branch from one of the trees, and ore especially Was thEn mentioned, which was in a most dangerous state; no attention was paid to that, ner will there be, until a similar fatal result its l life. Ato that of l as t y ear t a k es p l ace , w hen a child losttf A few days since r. Moore, the churchwarden o Green wich, whil e i n th e par k w ith his children, had moved from under one but a few seconds, when a dead bough fell on the spot he had just left. At the time there was no wind, so the state of the tree must have been evident. Any person walking round may perceive hundreds of such cam that would not be tolerated in a private gentl eman ' s estate; yet lowed. here, in a public places —Kentish Alercury. visited daily by thousands, this is al- S u SPORTING IN INTELLIGEre .. I , - EG ETA AT RACES. 2 The ca , ci ycst,:rdev, altho ug h it promise n /- quantum of sport - , rffored little to invite &veil ‘fif..) cirtte any gernr..l intor , sr, ar.d in c , irisritir Only tt rut:of:rats, nut ndet,ce; the result, in f • MaNT !lava greatly dis a pp o i nted those who have 60 FtMeZIS exerted thtros , ive to iirprove tha character 61 the meet ing and to make it more popular with the public than it has proved of late years. The weather was dull in the early part of the afernoon, and wet and misty from events h yte r al e vk : te i ess s t ;, : u :c etbh l jr o eoe c i k gnroaa u ti n n do tevi then hur a iwn f o r i e fich r itechau t er h t,s e out linei of the engage men t s o f th e second day of 3 sov s . eac h , w i t h 20 ipdnotSrectuti f. u:ap:nit' jedorr l a d an and an e s ß u l e i c d e d e l d es iv e: The Prince of W a l es ' St a k es, added; three yrs old, 7st; four, Bst 71b; five, Bst 12lb; six aged, 9st. The winner to be sold for 100 sovs. it demanded, &c., and allowances if to be sold for less. Heats. One mile. Mr. Wilkins's Forest Deer, ist 91b (501) (Sabin) 1 1 Mr. Daily's Miss Goldsmidt, Est 21b(50/) (Arthur) dr Betting-7 to 4on Forest Deer, who won as she liked. The King John Stakes of 25 sovs. each, 10 ft, with 50 added, for two yrs old; colts, ist 71b; fillies, Bst 31b; w inners extra; 31b and 51b allow e d, & c. The winner to pay 10 sovs, towards expenses. T.Y.C. Duke of Bedford's Gossip, Bst 41b (Pettit) walked over. Surreytwo hn i el n Winner to pay an d Middlesex Stakes of 25 Boys. eac h , 15 ft, and if declared, with 1 00 added; three t o s t art or only 5 money will not be added; winners extra. Th e 20 slava, towards expenses. T wo m il es and a distance. Mr. W. Hale's Bilberry, 3 yrs , 6 st 31 b (G. Palmer) a Duke of Bedford's Hesse Homburg, 4 yrs, Bst 131 b (including 71b extra) Betting—Even and 4 to 1 agst on Constantine.B Mr. Parkinson's Constantine, 7st 31b11... (F. Marson) 3 ilberry,sto 4 agst Hesse Hom burg,The two favourites made play alternately until round the last tur n , w h en Bilb e rry took up the running and won cleverly by three parts of a length. Ran in 4 min. 14 sec. The Runnymed e St a k es andft, only 3if declared, &c., with 50 added. The second to save his stake. Winners extra. One mile. Sir W. Booth's A.Rael, (Barker) 1 (Handicap) of 10 soya. each, 5 3 yrs, 7st 41b Mr. W. Hale's Merry Peal, 4 yrs, Bst 51b(W.Abdale) 2 Mr. Endsbargh's Ilambletonian, 7st 51b (aling) 3 Mr. B. Parr's Sanita, 3 yrs, Bst 31b ... (liiett) 0 Mr. E. R. Clarke's Lady in Waiting, Tat 61b (J.Mann) 0 Mr. Rayner's Dame Tattle, 3 yrs, 7st...(Hammond) 0 Mr. A. Sait's Ventre-a-Terre. 4 yrs, 7st......(Sabin) 0 Betting- 2 to 4 agst Lady in Waiting, agst Merry Peal and Sanita, and 5 t o 1 ags t Hamble tonian. Azael made all the running, and won very eas ily by two lengths. 4 to 1 each The Railway Stakes of 5 sovs. each, with 25 added; two years old, 6it 41b; three, Bst 41b; four, 9st 31b; five, six, and aged, 9st 61b; mares and geldings allowed 31bs; winners extra. The winner to be sold for 100 soya., and allowances if to be sold for loss. Three-quarters of a mile. Mr. Lawrence's Heroine, 6 yrs, 7st 131b...(Flatman) 1 Mr. Sherring's Woodlark, 6 yrs, 7st 101b......(Hiett) 2 Mr. Cox's Repletion, 6 yrs, 7st 131 b ..(W. Abdale) 3 Mr. Darling's Rage, 2 yrs, 6st llb (Kendall) 0 Mr. Mason's Haresfoot, 4 yrs, 7st 101 b Mann) 0 ds Prince ' Rup, y Mr. Daily's Freestone 3 yrs, 6st 111 b .........Sab in( rthur) 0 ) 0 Mr. Ch an dlers ert 3 rs, 6st 81b ( Arthur) Betting -7 to 4 agst Heroine, 3to 1 agst Rage, and 7 to 2 agst W oo dl ark. Won easily by two lengths. H a lf a length b e t ween second and third; the others beaten off. Th e w i nner was sold for 75 guineas. 1111teilys h s rap, 5 y rs, 10it 101 b (Mr o so sons a . r , h i o ft s . „. 3 T i b . ( Y e . p C t . .. Rowley) 2 Mr. s E t oam ar a t r ,B 's m a Fi L. Fox) 1 Betting -2 to lon Flytrap. Won by a neck. The Amateur Sashes of 10 soya. each: THIS DAY (W EDNESDAY) M 165 NV001,,,,ar, 4 , rs (1000 n l , l3ft ;rs w ( i 2 tll so 2 l. s ) Bordeaux, 5 yardsd(el.lo.o/.M)—ilEle aamntlaethoanlifa. (1001.). f il l e y e t b r c c e p, B s ut ) u ' i r o s o ( . l s oo y / i ..) 8 The Magna Charta Stakes of 5 sovs. each, with 30 added for two and three yrs old, T.Y.C. Poetess, 3 yrs—f by Falstaff', out of Lily, 2 yrs it.riaCoty, 2 yrs—Pride, 2 yrs—Tobalski, 2 yrs—Tavis took, 2 yrs. Queea'e Plate of 100 guineas. Two miles and a distance. Conster.tiee, 3 yrs—Hambletenian, 3 yrs--Sanita, 3 yrs—Frantic, 3 yrs—Lc:A:olll, 3 yrs—Woolwich, 6 yrs 3 yr:3—Dame Tattle, 3 yrs—Az 1,1 , 3 yrs — Butterfly, —Ventre-a-Terre, 4 yrs —Fly trap, 5 yrs. Egham Stakes of 5 sora each, with 25 added. Heats, :*. one mile. Amber Witch, 5 yrs (501.)—Dame Tattle, 3 yrs (500 —Wuodlark,'6 yrs (801.)—f by Kremlin, out of Gaiety, 4 yrs (500—Miss Goldsmidt, 3 yrs (501.) Innkeepers' Plate (Handicap). Three (porters of a mile. Heroine, 6 yrs, Bst 1215—Royal Harr, 5 yrs, Bst 41b— Woodlark, 6 yrs, Bst 41b—Amber Witch, 5 yrs, Bst 41b —Butterfly, 3 yrs, Bst 21b—f by Kremlin, out of Gaiety, 4 yrs, 7st 131b—Ilaresfoot, 4 yre, 7st 101b—Blood Royal, 3 yrs, ist 71b—Carbuncle, 6 yrs, ist 41b—Forest Deer, 4 yrs, 7st 415—Ventre-a-Terre, 4 yrs, 7st--Lady Isabel, 3 yrs, 7st—Prince Rupert, 3 yrs, 7st—Freestone, 3 yrs, Est 101b—Isabella, 3 yrs, Est 71b—Rage,,2 yrs, sst 915—Michaelmas Maid, 2 yrs, sst 71b. RADCLIFFE RACES.-MONDA.Y. The Heaton Park Stakes of 5 toys. each, and 25, added, for two yrs old and upwards; tho second saves his stake. One mile. (4 Subs.) Mr. Chilton's h o Audubon, 2 yrs, sst 10Ib (Carroll) 1 Mr. R. Walker's Game Tommy, sst 101 b --(Veal) 2 Mr. J. H. Johnson's Lady Jersey, 9st ... (Hopwood) 3 Betting—Even on Game Tommy, 5 to 4 agat Auda bon, and sto 1 agat Lady Jersey. Won easy by two lengths. The Wilton Cup of 100 sm., added to a handicap sweep stakes of 15 sovs. each, 10 ft, and 5 only if declared; towardsvyo miles e x p a e n n d s e a s , d a i s n t d a n t c h e e : (s t 3e h c2 e 0 sla w du i in n go. e t s r la t9voe of p h a i y sw sh 2 t 0 5 a nik e o d. sus.edeclared.) T Mr. Phillips's Mary Nobbler, aged, 6st 61b ...(Wells) 2 Mr. Bothwell's Lerry Whent , 3 yrs, Est 91 b(Aldcroft) 3 Mr. J. Osborne's Little Davie, 3 yrs , 6 st (Carroll) 1 qtr. Walter's Maid of Team Valley, Bst 41b ...(Lye) 4 Mr. Jeffery's Gholab Singh, 4 yrs, Bst ... (Charlton) 5 Mr. Palmer's Doubt, 6 yrs, Bst 41b.... (Marlow) 6 Betting-5 to 2 agst Little Davie, Sto 1 agst Mary of 3 Sweepstakes e ths. one Nobbler, 7 to 2 agst Maid of Team Valley, 5 to 1 ag s t Doubt, and 6to 1 any other. A fi ne race, won by a neck, the same between second and third and b e t ween third and fourth. The Two Years Old Stakes of 5 so y a . eac h, an d 3 0 1 . added; the second to sav e hi s sta k e. T hree - quarters of a mile. (8 Subs.) Mr. John Osborne's f Exact, Bet 8113 ...(J. Osborne) 1 i Broughton, Exact. Won Bst t, in 1 2 a l s b aacdaedn canter e to by a t wo lengths. 4 4 Mr. Opmnshtsw's Young Norv a l, B st 3 1b (W . Sh arpe) 2 Mr. Walker's Game Tom my, Bst 10lb . . (Longstaff) 3 stake. n Heats, Mr. W ,a to i s e on The sous.M a id e e a n ch P ; l attheeosfe2c second sous., mile and a half. (6 Subs.) Mr. Martin's Queen of the Vale, Bst 11;b (Martin) 1 1 Captain Scott's Lady Hasketh, Est 1115 (Carroll) 2 2 Mr. Hesseltize's The Setter, Bst 51h...(Longsta ff ) 4 3 Mr. Grirner's Tho Sl uggard, 7st 3ib...(Charlton) 5 4 Mr. Ashton 's Waterwiteh, 4 yrs, Bst 21b (Livesey) 3 dr Tho first heat was wou by a head, and the second by a length. TUESDAY. The Stewards' Cup of 40 sous., added to a My ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) ieSP of gand and 5 soya. each; the winner pays 5 sews. exPeZ g a : ) the second saves his stake. One mile. ( 16 7 1 Mr. Hesseltine's Lough Bawn, 4 yrs, 7st 6 ,,1 t 4;"" ** .. ..... 2 Mr. W. E. Hobson's Barbet% 3 yrs, -Ist 1- I r _ mot 91 b 3 Mr. H. Walter'a Maid of Team Valley, 6 a . b v es 6 'l . Four others started. w i ngs, Bst 21b; The Radcliffe St. Leger Stakes W added; er:lt2, Sat 7lb; fillies d a bar. (7 Subs.) le, an 1 winners ;,Ile extra. One ini (30/) Mr. Dawson's pay and Martin e ( , 1 , 2 Captain Scott's Didy Flrsk it h a l l e: l 4, 33. Won bY hays. each, and 25 added. One 0 0 ° I ' d 1 5 ) : e o_ v_ s . ca c h and mile and a '''`,- 0 4 yrs, 531 813 , itzngi caJ° ' - Sib Sir H. Boynton s ,i3e, 3 yrB, 6 ,, Thu Flee Handicap c f. , ; . rance , (12 Subs.) 3 Mr. Mcildam's D,r,„ lche r.i 3 , 3 yrs, 5.1 t Blh Mr. Worthing" h '" The first heat was won by May Th© Salting Stakes' by Alma; the third heat was _ rya the see Rio seem, a c our report left. 110 t run " 4" 13AIINET er,s.ran. Won by a length. RACES. ~ of 20 sou:;., added to a sweep. The '".--- each, for two yrs old and upwards, 6 , k of 3 ' °vs' heats by Mr. S *th' II • • 6 * -- "„. re won in two utm., sat (J. Smi;h); beating Flora M'lvcr, Ilreba, " I ' -3t Girl, and two others. Fidge , ty lOst 71b; Green Man Handicap ! not fill. IcpmFbcourr6o,tvlat, did The a sweepstake of The Tallyho Stakes of 2 toys, each, and 15 added, 7 were won in two heats by Mr. Allen's Wee Subs., Mickel, Ilst (Mr. Fredericks); beating Gala, Victres, lOst 71b; Buscot, - 12 st; and th:ee others, The Ladies' Cup of 12 sore., added to'l 2 soya. each, were wen in three heats by :Fid g , tLy Gi r l , c ul, s or ad9d9etd. (H.B 7st (Bennett); beating Flora Mivor and th e Gift. • The Bareet Handicap did not fill. Su T 13 :1: w F a r s e i e w o ff n a i n n d i t c h a r p ee of h e2atsrbsy Flom. eh„ and 2 Sherwood) ; beati ng Bruba and fi ve others. ' Ttio Railroad Race was won by Critic. HOPE FOR CHANCERY SIJ I TORS.—The cause of Beckford v. Jasper,' begun above a hundred years ago, is `now in a fair way of being wound op. The original plain e t'_` . l . chant in Madeira, and was Thomas •i'leckford, executor of one James Pope, fialwar sward Jasper, also a merchan t,, s o py and the original defendant. Jasper owed Pope Pope died in 1743, and in 1748 Beckford, his executor,id put in an this bill against Jasper, who died before he could put answer. The suit wE.'s revived against Jasper's Lord Chancellor and in 17:53 the cau.,e was heard before ta e k accounts. In Ilardwicke, and referred to the M —aster to e taken, and 630/. 1764 a- d in 1772 Wither proceedings were the credit of the in Bank Stock and 5551. were lodged ben Mr. J. j D. Wadham cause, which then slept until 1851 ;1 1 w e original testator, and lW filed obtained administration to Poll' , by accumulation of dividends, to the credit of the cause hri o d, oo i. Wadharn had to take reserfiatires. The funds revived the bill against Jasper s o reP bonuses, &c., amounted case is now wound up by 7 th'termediate estates, and to pay The . o ; out l a , administration t u h i s e t r s a t t e i m o n p d t to t fi je t v:n o. f : m oulder according to the respective a ll parties cut of the funds in c a o n u o rt r , d e er nd to te p sights of the claimant reit BURlAL.—Duting the last HIGH C 11 A l' the last descendant of an ancient family, week Mr. Barker, Ilia, died, and the family vault being residing at liu t r Houghton le Spring, ;application was made in the church i,_ _ Hon• and Rev. tofT. Grey, t to inter his re the rector, the The rector, however, requiring the sum o the there. um being mains w m g the vault to be opened, and that . s . ashyatrileetiisit . for th considered churchyard of West R ainton.—Durham Chronicle. 811° far too much, Mr. Barker was buried m 0