The Sun. — London, England, 1848-10-19 00:00:00

ording ;ulated require ig the irrence to me, idence, le new nt that with e ani- always , s me to W 3 for ninish should cies of )f your to us, aid of to sur- soil of ansions intact mfided i with of the ons of inISTY snuch Ised as )tified. ed - flat. Ltinued idedly 'ement ?.pt the desire been troops n, and , E IMO(' should at 150 n from kY.) 4 but a Wall The ration. *) point ikrupt him or the nder, the Y.) well eet al arged e was MO 7N E 1 a. i n i r‘l ‘ VI i': (;1A L IN ENV . CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 4,000 bales, including 500 American for exportation, but .prices were rather lower.-Railway Shares were firm, at about previous rates. The foreign accounts are still perplexing and difficult to comprehend, and much anxiety is manifested for later news from Vienna. The fishery off Holland is Mated to have resulted in the " take " of 14,500 tons of k rring s, &c. The French paper Corsaire states, that the father of Messrs. Louis Blanc and Charles Blanc, the latter chief clerk in the office of the Fine Arts, connected with the Ministry of the Interior, died a week since in the greatest distress, at the Hotel Dieu. The Detroit Advertiser has some remarks upon the difficulties interposed to the circulation of British North American paper currency that are interesting. It is stated that " The Act to prohibit the circulation of the bills of the Canada banks, within this state, takes effect on the 2d day of December next, after which no person may 'in any manner circulate as money any Canada bill, on pain of forfeiting three times the nominal amount of such bill, to be recovered in the name and for the use of any person who shall sue for the same.' We have a word to say respecting this singular and unjust enact ment. And, firstly, the disposition of the fine to the in former is clearly iu violation of the State Constitution (Art. 10, sec. 4), which devotes all fines for any breach of the penal laws of the State to the ex clusive use of the town libraries. Secondly, the Act itself is incontestably prohibited by the Constitution of the Uaited States. Canada bills are as much an article of traffic as Canada lumber or cattle. Can the potent Locofocos prevent the sale or delivery of these last articles? Can they impose restrictions and prohibitions which pertain exclusively to Congress, by virtue of the commercial power? Wby was the silly and mischievous Act passed ? Why set one neigh bour as a spy upon another, and tempt him by the hope of gain to become an informer under the unconstitutional law? What interest have the people of Michigan in expelling the Canada money? Is it: not as good at least as the Locofoco-Wild-Cat Cur rency of 1838 and 1839? But the law is void, mani festly void, and we hesitate not to assure our readers that it will be so determined by the Courts." A table, published in the Herald, shows that in the years 1841 to 1847, 2,690 buildings were erected in Montreal, of which were of wood-1 story, 1,071; 1i story, 6; 2 story, 558; 25 story, 3; 3 story, 2-ot brick, 1 story, 72; 2 story, 381; three story, 21; 4 story, 1- of stone, 1 story, 22; 2 story, 359; 3 story, 145; 4 story, 32-of brick and wood, 1 story, 3; 2 story, 10-of stone and wood, 2 story, 4-erected in 1841, 147; in 1842, 471; in 1843, 454; in 1844, 587; in 1845, 460; in 1846, 375; in 1847, 196. The value of money in the Stock Exchange has been very low since the dividends were paid, say 14 to 2 per emit., where the loans are for short periods, bit it is evident that in the face of ex ' rating political difficulties abroad, very few invest ments have recently been made in the Public Securities; and yet events rather favour the impression that higher values will obtain. The Vienna insurrection is a great drawback, certainly, but against this we may place the strength of the French Ministry, the large specie arrivals, the last revenue statement &c., allowing even for the admitted decay in our ex p or t trae. The indisposition lately evinced to invest in Shares should also throw surplus capital upon the Stock Market. Consols have been 844 to 85 ; the New Three and-a- Quarter per Cents. 844 to t- ; and the Three per Cents. 83i to 834. Bank Stock has been at 180 to 183. Exchequer. bills are 375. to 38s. premium for those of March. The Foreign Stock Market is very dull again. Mexi can Bonds are 194 to 4, Spanish Three per Cents. 214, and Brazilian 71. Equador Stock is marked 2. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. have been 44 to 444. Por tuguese Four per Cents. have been 22i to 235. The Railway Share Market is very dull, but prices continue about the same except in the instance of York and North Midland, and the other York lines and North British, which are affected by the report that no arrange. ment has been come to with Mr. Hudson for leasing the latter. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Bank St' ok 1.801 182 1 4 180 183 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities.-- ..... 834% 3 per Cent. Consols Anna . 84% Si New 3!4 per Cent. Arms 84%% Long Annuities, Exp. Jan. sth, 1860 ... 6 5-16 7-16 Do. 30 Years, Expire Oct. 10,1859... 8 3-16 % Do. 30 Years, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 8 9-16 Vonsols for Account ... Exchequer Bille. 2%d. 2d. March. June. 1,000/. 500/. 3B p Small 34 38 - 32 36 p PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent Ditto New Bonds, 1829 and 1839 70 Equador Bonds 2 Grenada, 1 per Cent. ...... ..... - Ditto Deferred Mexican Bomb, 1846, 5 per Cent 19 % 14 Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent 2l3i Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch 21 % per Cent.,l2 Guild 44 44 1 4 Ditto 4 Der Cent. Certificates 9118INESS DoNt IN RAILWAY SHARES AT 01LU't,LOCK RAILWAYS. PAID. PSI SHARI. Aberdeen - ...... to - Amber., Notting., Boston, &c 44 - ...... to - AN rshire and Galloway Belfast and County Down - - to - liirmingnain & O x f ord Junct., calls duly pd, or with guar. 20 . - Do., without a guarantee... 20 .- - Birmingham,Wol.,& Dudley, calls duly pd, or with guar. 10 .- • - to - Do., without a guarantee... 10 - to - Diming., Wol., & Stour Val. 13/.145.... - ..... to - Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction... lO - to - Heston. Stamf., & Birming... 5 - to - Bristol and Exeter - - Do., Thirds ... ..... ... 25 - to- B uckinghamshire.. - to - Caledonian Ditto, Half Shares - •-•- - Ditto, New 101. Preference 21% % - Litt.. Clydesdale Junction 50 - to - Cheater and Holyhead..-..... 47 1 4 ..... - ....- to - Ditto Preference -- 15 . ...... - - Clarence. - ...,.. to - Do., Ist Class, 6 per Cent... 10 - Do., 2d Class, 5 per Cent... 10 - - Do., Goy. Loan, 4 per Cent. 10 Direct London & Portsmouth 514 - ...... to - to - ....- .. .. t t o o = - Dublin and Belfast Junction.. 35 Dundalk and Enniskillen ... 20 East Anglia, 251. L. & E , 12 4 3 4 ...... to - aid L. & D ... .......... • 25 Ditto, 18/. E. &11 . ~.... 18 Ditto,3l. 10a.,E. & H... 3% Eastern Counties ..... ....... 20 - -7" DDoo..pNeerwpaGt.u,oarpagrct.GLer.l%. - 1 7 3 ;i s ...... .. 8 - 11 ?s Do., d 0....... ......... N 0.2,6/. L 3 5..4d...: -- •.. ...... e ° -- ..... - - Do., Northern & Eastern... au Do., 5 per cent. ......... ... 50 Do., Quarter .... ... 12IA ..... 49 - Do., New .......................... 34 -.... E.Eastern Union, Class A. (late ..... -- - U. Shares) ...... ..... 25 ...... - - Ditto, do, Class B (I. &B) 20 ............ -- - Ditto, do, •Class C, ditto... 20 Ditto Scrip (gua. 6per ct. 18 ...... - Ditto, ditto ....... ) ...... 51,-41A.., to -- te - EDitto (C. & E.), 5 per ct 2% ast Lancashire .............. : 25 .--- - - to - Ditto, New II - ...- to - Q Do., N ew - Do., 6 per Cent. uarters Preference 6 to -' Quarter Shares 4 !i -....- . .to - ..... ast Lincolnshire 23 ...... 20 to - E dinburgh and Glasg ow to 37% Ditto, Half Shares - t Edinburgh and Northern ...... o - - •••••• to Ditto, Now port.... ..... - ...... to - Exeter,....- Yeovil, & Dorchester 2% ( Rug., Dumfries, & Carlisle..B4 6s.Bd - •••••• Glasgow, Kilmarnock, Ss Ayr 50 .. - -•-* I: -- Do. Preference Consolidated - *- •- -*". Great Northern l7 - Do. % A Deferred ...... ... 12% 2% ...... to 3 Do. 1 ,4 B 6 per Cent. Guar. 4% . ..... to - Do. Extension .....•... ..... 2%.. - t Gt. South. & West. (Ireland) 421 - .::: ... toe - Great North of England 100 - • ...... to - Ditto,Ditto, New 40/. 4O - ...... to - ditto Ditto, New 301. ...... 30 - - ...... to - to - Ditto, New lit.-- ... ..... 14 - • ... to - Great Western 9O - Ditto, Half Shares bo - Ditto, Quarter Share s 2l Ditto, Fifths 2O - Do. New 171 - .. - Huddersfield and Manchester 30 .....,, -... ............ to e = Ditto, Thirds ... 10 ...... - ...... to Rail and Selby • 60 .... -- to Ditto, Ralf Shares .. ... 25 .. ...... - Ditto, Quarter Shares - 1VA ...". - ...... t4 te -- - L a•leaster and Carlisle.... - ... 50 Do.,Thirds lO -- ...... to -- ... Lancashire and Yorkshire • ~, 93 ... - ...... - ...... to to - Ditto, ditto - - Ditto Half Shares .. -43 - •to - Ditto Quarters 17% ...... 8 .. .. .... : . to - D l) D i i ir t t o o S T I I x ' hi Fifths trhedess (Reg.) 9 - to - 13 Do , o ”New Guar. 6 per cent. 5 1 ,-. • Liverpool and Bury... 43 .'l.;°. (Rudders. and Sheff.) 43 "'IL Wakefield, Pontefract, an d Goole 5O - Do., - t o Do , eat Riding Union... 7 .... . - N to - D :: P re ston and Wyre ... 25 - - L lO l 3 t io, Half Sh ares (A) 9% - to - and Br adford 5O .. ... - to - 14)(181bowsbur& blanches. 50 De, Half Shares ............ 25 - to - „ _Ditt o , - - ".isall Blue (scrip) .....».. 2% 50 - ...... to - Ditto,dNTewhirsk .... ..... .. 35 . _ 151 ... ***: .. • t t a ° 1 - ~ .b o. , d o.,Prister., G per Cent. 3 1 % - .••••• to - sdver p eol .Cresby,andSouth- Port. ............. ... ......... 3% -„_to -- moterPool. Manchestr, and Aewcastle Junction. .... 2% - ...... to - London 41c Blackwell ... . ..... .. - ...... to - , Do. Extension... Adon(l., Bright., &South Coast 50/2 2 5 5 /6 %... .% to - De. Guaranteed 5 per Cent. 9 .... ...... to - RiDe, Prot. Conv 5 per Cent. 50 - tt,.„ditto .... ..1852 50 - to - ... u ,, _xt.,uoi; n iN an ew d , tr e a e r i . l : i p e e h r: .. c . en i t. l. 1 4 55. 4d... .... 4% • . :: tto t: =4 London & North Western. Ditto Prefere nce ..,......181 17s 2d... - to - 1 ib)o): Ntleuwarters (Le.stanernd..B...)l2o2o ...... 103 104 to 103 ...... - - Do. Fifths' ..................... 7 ...... - - Do. 40,.6b, ..................... 2 ..... - to Do. toi Awes- L. &hi 25 .... - Do. 10i, ... M. and 9 . .. - - Do 10 " ii,e M ' an d It (IL ) 9 ••• • - - -. * 1 •••• ~... and B. (C,) 1 •--; t tO -. THI4I SUN, LONDON: London and S. Western...-. 50 - Ditto, New 504......-..... 42%...,.. - - Ditto, New 404 .. ...... . - 34 - to - Do. Tenths (Consolidated) 50 ...... - - Do. Tenths (Consolidated) 40 - - Ditto, Thirds ... ....... .13/. 6s. 8d ... - - Do., New Scrip, 1848, Pref. 7 per Ct. on Deposit and 5 per Ct. on Calls. 1/. 13s. 4d.... % 3 / 4 die. to - London, Salisbury, & Yeovil 1 1 ,4 - - Londonderry and Coleraine... 27 1 ,4 - ... to - ... to - Londonderry and Enniskillen 27% - -L. westoft (guar. 4 per cent.) 20 - - Ditto (guar. 6 per cent. ... 8 ...... - - Manch, Buxton, & Matlock 4 - to - Manchr, Sheffield, and Linc.loo - Ditto IA Shares (No. 1) ... 18 ...... - Ditto, ditto (No. 2) 25 - to - Ditto, 1 / s Shares (No. 3 )... 10 ...... - - Do., New 10.. Prefere nce .. 10 ..... - - Ditto Grimsby ... 35 - - Ditto, ditto. ......... Ditto, ditto ... ..... - - Ditto Sheffield and Line. 12%...... - Ditto, Grimsby Dock ...... 17% - to - Ditto. Man. & Lin. Union 41. 28.... - - Midland. . Ditto, Consol. Preierence...loo - to - Ditto, 50/. 5hare5........... 20 - Midland, Birm., and Derby...loo ... - - Midland, Consol. Bristol and Birmingham. 6 per cent.... 100 - - Midland, Bristol and Glouc. 38 ..... - - Ditto ditto 141.185... - - Midland, Leices. and Swan mingtor. (8 per ct. gua. )....100 .... . - - Vid Id. Great Western (Irish) 42 1 / 2 • -. - 51iddlesbro and Redcar. 6 per cent. guar. ..........., so - to - Newcastfe and Carlisle ~,,,100 . ..... - - Ditto Quarter Shares ...... 25 ... •• - - Newmarket ...... .... ........ .. 20 ...... - - Ditto Extension Scrip... 21. 12s. ._ to - Newport Abergy., and Heref. 6 Newry and Enniskillen .... 7 - .... to - - .. Newry, Warre npo i nt, and Rostrevor .......... .....,.... 20 - ... .. to Norfolk - .........................100 - Ditto New 204... 10 - ............ ••••.• Ditto Extension 5 per ct... 20 - - ...... to -- Do. Guaranteed 5 1 ,4 per ct. 5 - Do. do. W aveney V alley... 2 - ... - Northern Counties Union.... 4 - - North British - .......... 25 .... Ditto Half 5ha re5........... 12% 6 34 ... -to - Do. Quarters: ................. 6 1 4 3k to - Ditto, Extensi on 4B - - Ditto Thirds .- ........ -.... 8k ..... 37/ 4 % to - North and South-Western... 2 .. .. - .. - North Staffordshire-. - ...... 15 ...... 7k. to 7 North Wales North Western lO - .... to - Oxford, Worcest er , an d Wol verhampton Reading, Guildtd., & R e i gate 10 - - •'»" - Royston and Hitchin ..... .. 2 to - Scottish Central 23 Scottish Midland .... ....... .... 25 ... - ... to - Ditto, New.. - - Sheffield, Rotherh am , and Goole 7% - ..... to - Do. do. (South Di v .) 5 ..... - ...... to - Shrewsbury and Birmingham 9 - ...... to - Ditto, ditto, Cla ss B. 5 - ..... to -- Shrewsbury and Hereford .. 2 - ”. .. to - Shrewsbury and Cheater (Nor. NY. Min.) - ...... to - Ditto Halves, Ditto... 8 .... - . ... to - Ditto, Uswestry l6 ...... - - Ditto ,New) 1 - ..... to - Ditto 8 per Cent. Pref..-- 10 - - Shropshire Union 4 ... .. Nth... to - South Devon .. - ...... to - Ditto, Preference 25 South Staflordahire 5% -- .. .. to -. South Eastern - ...... to - Ditto, No. I.; 24 - t o - Ditto, No. ,2. 22 - ...... to - Ditto,;;No. 3. - Ditto New, No. 4. Thi r d s 10 South Wales - ..... to -- South Yorkshire, Doncaster and Goole S - ..... . to -- Swans. and Loughor and Ca meron's Stm. Coal ...... ... . 6 - Taw Vale Extension ... 8 Thames Haven Dock and Railway 1 7 1,E --- ...... to - Vale of Neath - - ••• to -- Waterford and Kilkenny 17 1...... --- ...... to ..... Waterford and Limerick ... - Waterford, W oxford, Wicklw, and Dublin - .... • to -- Wear Valley 6 per Cent - Guaranteed ..... 4234...,.• - ...... to Do. do. do. - Do. do. do. ...... .. 9 - ...... to -- West Cornwall 6 ...... - ...... to - . West London ..... - ..... to - Ditto, First Class 2O ..... _ Ditto, Second Class to - to - Whitehaven and Furness lB ..... -- ..... to --. • Windsor, Staines, and South Western 9% ...... 9% ...... to -- Wilts,Somerset,&Weymouth 40 ..... _ . . • MI to York, Newcastle, and Berwick 25 .. .. 22 3 / 4 4... - Do. Original New & Ber'ck 25 ...... 22% 4;. 1 ,4 to - Do. Exton. No.l (Y. & N.) 15 ..... -. • - Do. do. No. 2, New &B . 15 .... . to - . , - ...... - to - Do. G. N. E. Pur. or Pref. 8 ...... 4%... to fork and North Midland .. 50 ...... 47 .-to 44 Ditto, Preference ............ 10 • ...... 6 1 4 . A .. . '- Extension ... .. ...... 25 Anglo Italian (late Italian and Austrian 44 to - Boulogne and:Amiens 2O ...... - - Central of Fran c e ( O r l eans and Vierzon) ... - to - Ceylon ...... 1 / 4 - ...... to - Demerara. ....-....- ........... 15 . - - Dendro Valley .. to - Direct Bombay and Madras se. .... . - - Dutch Rhenish 7% -- ...... to - East Indian - - Great Indian Peninsular Louvain ii la Sambre . ..... ... 7% - ...... to - t uxembourg - to - Madrid and Valentia - . to - Namur and Liege - Northern of France l2 ...... -- - Orleans and Bordeaux ... .. 7 l 5 / 1A x.d. to - Paris and Lyons - - Do. Do. - ... .. to - Paris and Orleans... 2O Paris and Rouen 2O - to - Paris & Strasbourg ..... ..... 8 ...... - - Rouen and Havre 20 - to - Sambre and Meuse Strasburg and Bale ..... ...... 14 - to - Tours & Nantes ... . .. 9 :-- .....• to ..... Tournay, Jurbise, Landon, and Hasselt - to -- .... .11 •• OD 411 ....•• West Flanders B S it '''' - JOINT STOCK BANKS. Australasia - British North American .... SO - to - Colonial .... .. .. .... - . .. to - Commercial of London - - London Joint Stock ..... ..... 10 - - Loudon and Westminster... 20 - National Provincial of Engld. 86 - - Ditto, New - ..... to - National of Ireland ....... ..... 22% - ..... to - Provineial of Ireland Ditto, New lO ..... - .•..•• to --- Union of Australia ....... - ..... to - Ditto, New..... 2% - to - Union of London .. 10 - Union of Madrid 4O - ...... to - MINES. Anglo ilexican lOO ...... Asturian Mining Company... 13 ...... Australian Blaenarvon Iron sua d Coal ... 50 Bolattos Scrip British Iron Brazilian Imperial ..... ..... 24%...... Ditto Cocaes and Cuiaba... 30 - Ditto St. John Del R e y ... 15 ...... to Cobra Copper 4l - •••••• to ..... General Mining ... ......... ... 20 Real del Monte, Unregistered ~ .. .. ... to Do. Black Debentures .. Do. Red Debentures .. Santiago de Cuba. United Mexican LLOYD'S SHIPPIN G—(THIS DAY.) LORDON, OCT. 19.—Wind N.N.W., moderate breeee and fine. LOCHMADDY, NORTH MST, OCT. 13.—The Specu lator, Sutherland, of Pictou, from Dantaic to Dublin, has put in here leaky, and with keel very much injured, having struck on a sunken rock in passing through Pentland Firth, but, as the weather is moderate, she can proceed on her voyage. YARMOUTH, OCT. 16.—The Ann and Elizabeth, which got ashore on the South Scroby sand yesterday, drifted off during the night, on her broadside, and has since been abandoned; crew saved. HARWICH ' OCT. 17.—A vessel painted bla c k, die masted, with bowsprit and jib-boom standing, was seen, 11th inst., about 50 miles N.W. of the Texel, by the Margaret Littlejohn, arrived at this port. 18th, The Cottingham, Rutherford, of and from Shields to London, proves to be the vessel reported yesterday as having been on shore on the Shipwash sand; she afterwards got off and sunk to-day; crew saved. NEWPORT, OCT. 18.—S1d. Sally, Sierra Leone; Nord, St. Paulo de Lovado. LIMERICK OCT. 17.—Arrd. John Murray, N ew York; Lincoln, Boston. PLYMOUTH, OCT. 18.—Wind E.N.E.—Arrd. Kitty Jane, Bell, Rotterdam. Off port, 17th, Lady Fitzher bert, Webster, Hudson's Bay. TROON, OCT. 1 6.—Sid. Francis, Gillies, Demerara. OcT. 18.—Wind N.N.E. to N.E., strong.— Arrd. from the river and aid. Amy, Constantinople. FALMOUTH, OCT. 18.—Wind E.N.E.—Arrd. Felix, Ludvigsen, Longsound. Off, 17th, Manchester, Callao arid Cork. LIVERPOOL, OCT. 18.—Wind N.N.E.—SId. Tigris, Calcutta ; Thornhill, New Orleans ; Margaret, Harring ton, Virginia ; Pioneer, ditto ' • Unicorn, New Y or k . 18th. The Margaret Mary, ofllumfries, for this port, is al rou d on West Hayle Bank. SI IiDERLAND, OCT. 18.—The Maria, Thomson, of Pertt , fro n Portsoy, drove behind the South Pier 17th inst., ;nd has become a wreck; crew, materials, and part of cargo saved. CITY 1111 1 10YEMENTS. — On Tuesday the Commis sioners for carrying out the contemplated improvements within the city of London gave notice that on the 25th inst. they would commence the removal of the houses on the east side of Cannon-street, next Dowgate-hill and Walbrook, for the formation of a new street from King William•street, London-bridge, to Queen-street, Southwark-bridge. The thoroughfare of Little Bell alley, Gracechurch-street, is to be widened by p u lli ng down the houses on the north side. _ --- LORD GEORGE BENTlNCK.—Yesterday, at a meet ing of the Liverpool Constitutional Association, an ad dress of condolence to the Duke of Portland, on the death of Lord George Beutinek, was utianimously adopted. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY. The Royal Family took their accustomed walking and pony exercise. His Royal Highness Prince Albert enjoyed the sport of shooting this morning. His Royal Highness was attended by the Earl of Listowel, Captain the Hon. Joseph Denman, Colonel the Hon. C. Grey, and Colonel Seymour. Lord John Russell arrived at the Castle this after noon, on a visit to the Queen. Lord Edward Howard is also expected to-day. The Earl of Listowel has succeeded Lord Elphin stone as the Lord in Waiting to the Queen, and Cap tain the Hon. Joseph Denman, R.N., has succeeded Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. A. N. Hood, as the Groom in Waiting to her Majesty. The Queen's private band attended in the Castle yesterday evening. The royal dinner party at the Castle this eveninz will include her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, their Serene Highnesses the Princess of Hohenlohe Langenburg and the Princess Eliza, Lord John Rus sell, Lady Anna Maria Dawson, Baroness de Speth, Lord Edward Howard, and General and Lady Isabella W em y ss . Her Majesty's private band will attend after dinner in the Castle. The Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch arrived at the Priory, Stanmore, yesterday, on a visit to her Majesty the Queen Dowager. Their Graces had the honour of dining with her Majesty. Lord John Russell left his residence in Richmond Park yesterday afternoon for Windsor Castle. SONNETS. BY HENRY FRANK LOTT. MORNING — (BIIOOTER'S HILL, KENT.) God of the universe ! the humblest lyre That at creation's charms e'er woke a string Vibrates before thee, now the sable wing Of night folds up, as yon pale gleam of fire Shoots up the orient : and the woodland choir, From off their plumes the night-dew fluttering, Full in the ear of new-born morning sing ; But only sing ;—I warble and admire, And deem ms happy that mine early toil Leads me to gaze on the magnificence Of such an hour as this—impressed the while That I'm more blest than he whom indolence Lulls on a bed of down—where morning's smile In vain might seek to pierce his curtained sense. EVENING.-030XLEY ABBEY, KENT.) 'Tis June's most tranquil eve, the far off west Is gorgeous with the day-god's slow decline; And beautifully his bright beams fringe and line The heaped•up clouds that pillow him to rest. Now wakes the poet-feeling in nay breast. Freed from the smoky city's dull confine ; Renewing fealty to the sacred Nine, At sight of landscape in such glory drest. Spirit of Beauty ! that, enthroned around, Pour'st thy warm influence to the inmost heart, Behold me worship on this holy ground, That thou createst by thy potent art ; Transfixed in wonder, in enchantment bound, I'll linger here until thou dost depart. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. THE WILTSHIRE (AMESBURY) CHAMPION COURSING MEETING.—TIIESDAY. The Great Western Cup for puppies of 1847. Mr. Sharpe's Mersey beat Sir George Gore's Dream Mr. Miller's Mahomet beat Mr. Morant's Madge Mr. A. Graham's Greenwich Time beat Mr. Bowles's Moonlight Mr. Gordon's Leeway beat Mr. F. Parkinson's Red Rose Mr. F. Parkinson's Pliable beat Mr. A. Graham's Lugar Mr. Wyndham's Widgeon beat Mr. Noyes's Hermitage Mr. Cottrell's Steam Engine beat Mr. Raavvorthy's Con- traband Sir J. Boswell's Venus beat Mr. Bigg's Be Noble Mr. W. Etwall's Lace beat Sir J. Boswell's Javelin Mr. Jones's Old Joe beat Mr. Gillett's Glory Mr. Long's Cobea Scandems beat Mr. Etwall's Elite Mr. Chitty's Ellick beat Mr. Gillett's Gulliver Mr. F. Parkinson's The Vicar beat Mr. L. Brewer's Brilliant Mr. Miller's Minerva beat Mr. Lawrence's Landgravine Mr. Parkinson's Sable beat Mr. Langtry's Avondhu Captain Wyndham's Wilbelmina beat Mr. Jebb's Latitat The Druid Cup. Mr. Long's Cactus beat Mr. A. Graham's Currency Mr. F. King's The Eunuch beat Mr. Morant's The Monk Mr. Temple's Tom Bowling beat Mr. Paxley's Bran Captain Wyndham's Wildfire beat Mr. A. Graham's Education Mr. L. Brewer's Babylon beat Mr. Clowes's Coronet Mr. Chitty's Edith beat Mr. Langtry's Glendarragh Captain Wyndham's Wu!sten beat Mr. Hole's Celerity Mr. Fyson's Fancy Boy beat Mr. F. King's Alice Sir St. George Gore's Olympia Peruvia beat Sir J. Bos • well's Buckler Mr. R. Loder's Czar beat Mr. Gillett's Gratuity (Banish) Mr. Rendall's Royalist beat Mr. Ettwall's Elf Mr, W. Ettwall's Royal George beat Mr. F. King's Albert Mr. Miller's Miracle beat Mr. Fyson's Field Marshal Sir St. George Gore's Shade beat Mr. Lintell's Lot Mr. Jones's Jubilee beat Mr. Simkin's Sherwood Mr. Miller's Merry Lad beat Mr. Gillett's Great Western The hares were stout and the sport good. MASTER BOOT AND SHOEIKAIL.ERS' PROVIDENT INSTITUTION.—Yesterday evening a meeting of the members and committee of the above society was held at the Freemasons' Tavern, for general business. The report congratulated the members on the steady progress which was being made. The funds for the purpose of affording relief, by way of annuity, to aged and decayed members, their widows, and orphans, amount to 2,200 L, and a building fund for the erection of an asylum, to 3,100/. There are at present six annuitants on the funds—the males receive 20/. and the females 15/. per annum. THE ROYAL FREE HOSPlTAL.—Yesterday evening a meeting of the governors and committee of manage ment of the above hospital, was held in the Board-room, Gray's Inn-l ane roa d ; th e R ev. D r. Ri ce i n the chair. The report stated that during the past week mar 700 new cases of diseased and utterly destitute persons had been received as in and out patients. Two large wards are at present c l ose d f rom want of funds, the institution having been long encumbered with a heavy debt, gradu ally in the course of liquidation. The resources of the hospital compel the committee daily to refuse admission to many deserving cases. The number admitted during the past year was 21,393 out and 628 in patients. BATHS AND WASHHOUSES FOR TUE Poon.—The committee of the above excellent charity, situate in Glasshouse-yard, East Smithfield, yesterday made their third annual report, which states that the establishment is highly valued by the poor, as proved by the ardour and anxiety with which its gratuitous benefits are sought, it having been found that amongst the numbers who continually flock to the establishment, many have purposely journeyed the distance of five, six, and s, ven miles. During the past year the bathers were 33,655, and 34,843 poor women had washed and dried the clothes of themselves and families, and 12,610 had ironed. The institution had also gratuitously furnished many hundreds of the poor in the crowded and wretched localities in the neighbourhood of East Smithfield with whitewashes, chlorides, &c., for the purpose of cleansing and purifying their abodes, together with loans of pails and brushes, which to a great extent had prevented the spread of fever. The receipts of the year (367/. ss. lld ) have been considerably exceeded by the expenditure. NARROW ESCAPE OF LORD JoHN RUSSELL.—On Thursday the 6th instant, Lord and Lady John Russell and two of their children left Campbell's (late Gibb's), Golden Lion Hotel, Stirling, for Edinburgh. Short as the distance to the railway station is (not above 300 yards), .Mr. Gibb , to show respect to his Lordship, drove him tthither f rom t h e hotel in a four-horse car riage. Al , hen at the station, his Lordship had a very narrow escape, which was not referred to by the local papers. The up trains, or those going south, travel upon the line furthest from the station-house, and as his Lord ship had arrived j ust at the time advertised, he lifted his youngest child, and proceeded in a t h oughtful mood to cross io the side for the up train passengers. But it THE QUEEN AT PRESTON. It is to be feared that during her Majesty's brief sojourn at Preston, on Saturday week, no , very favourable impression was made upon the royal mind by such specimens of the manners of the populace as ' were there offered her. According to the Preston Guardian, the assembled Prestonians gave her Majesty such an idea of Lancashire decency, as she might have expected from even the roughest shod boors in her dominions. It was her Majesty's intention, during her journey from Perth to London, to have partaken of some slight re freshment at the Preston station, and preparations were made accordingly. Our contemporary shall show us why this intention was abandoned; and how her Majesty was driven from Preston, and denied that peaceful and respectful accommodation, from which no other lady in the kingdom would any where else have been debarred :—" The carriage containing her Majesty," says our contemporary " drew up a few yards before reaching the open space, and though this afforded many of her loyal subjects a very close view of herself, the Prince, and children, the circumstance proved fatal to the arrangement which had previously been made. The people were standing on forms where the royal carriage stopped, and some of them must have had their heads nearly through the window. This state of affairs was soon remedied, by drawing the train on a little, but in the meantime the assemblage on the other side of the station became somewhat clamorous, and many, unable to bear the idea of not ' seeing the Queen,' whilst she was so near, even commenced climbing over the carriages. These cir cumstances combined, appeared to alarm her Majesty, and after ordering that the people should be removed from the tops of the carriages (for some of them had actually attempted to lean over, and so peep into the compartment occupied by royalty), she signified that she would not get out, on account of the crowded state of the station. However, it must not be supposed that her Majesty was not well re ceived; on the contrary, she was greeted with much warmth from first to last, and it was only those who could not get to see her that were at all riotous." "At all riotous !" The description is at least in keeping with the scene ; and the two together cannot, we venture to say, be paralleled in the whole history of her Majesty's progresses.--Lancaster Guardian. THURS DAY EVENING, OCTOBER 19, 1848. so happened that the train arrived rice minutes befol o its time, and his Lordship not observing its approach, had just reached the intervening space between the lines, when the engine was not above its own length from him, moving at a quicker rate than usual when at a station, in consequence of the extreme wetness of the day, which prevented the breaks from catching. Mr. Cuck son, the supnintendant, with admirable self-possession, instantly darted from the platform, and seizing his Lord ship, drew him back, just as the priderous engine passed, and thus prevented an accident which, in all probability, would have been fatal.—Scotsman. THE WRONG SID E OF THE STREET, Ott A CASE OF ABSENCE OF MIND.—In a town of Oxfordshire, favoured with the existence of one of those systematic structures for the relief of the poor generally yclept " Unions," and sometimes " Bastiles," not many years ago the f o ll ow i ng rather singular mistake happened:— The chaplain of the union the Rev. —, having been called to a distance on business, engaged his friend, the Rev. —, to perform Divine service in the chapel of the union on a certain Sunday. The latter is an excellent mathematician, but a singularly "absent" man; and the latter failirg or faculty frequently brings him into queer situations, not the least embarrassing of which arose out of this very union engagement. Mr. was punctual to the hour in his visit to the town on the mottling in question; it happens that the union chapel is faced by a Roman Catholic chapel, into the vestry of which, about the hour for commencing service, walked a gentleman, a stranger to the sexton, but showing enough of the "points" of the profession to satisfy the latter that it was some strange " holy father come to officiate at mass for the priest, then in charge of the Mission." The stranger being apparently chary of words, intimated by familiar gestures his wish to be robed, and accordingly the priestly paraphernalia was speedily displayed upon his person. Apparently it struck him that he had donned rather more than the usual vestments for the reading desk. He was absorbed in wondering at his fin ery, and busily engaged in feeling the stiff embroidery of his cope, and regarding with wonder the silky texture of his other flowing robes, when another gentleman entered the vestry-room, and the following colloquy took place:— Second Comer --May I inquire who it is that I have the pleasure to address ? First Cotner—By all means ;my name is --, and I have come here this morning to officiate for Mr. --. Second Comer—But, my dear sir, Mr. is a clergyman of the Church of Eng land, and this is a Catholic chapel ! First Comer—A what ! Catholic chapel I So so. I beg a thousand pardons. I have made a very singular mistake. I thought it was the union over the way Worcester Herald. FATAL ACCIDENT.--OH Tuesday night a gentleman named Fearn was accidently killed while returning home to Kiln:lore, from Armagh market. He bad been sitting on a jaunting car, on the opposits seat of which clergyman of the Roman Catholic Church, and unfortunate wastheunateilea vehicle was proceeding, it is supposed the nf deceased fell asleep and dropped off the car. The driver and the clergyman .went on their way, never missing their fellow-traveller, who lay on the road until a cart which was coming in the direction passed over his skull causing instantaneous death.—Armagh Guardian. TIIE -JEWS IN ROME.—On the Ist of this month the decree for the complete emancipation of the Jews of the Roman States came into force, They are thereby declared fit for the exercise of all civil rights. The year 1848 is an amazing one. The changes of the f o rm s o f government are, however, less surprising than the aban donment of the Ghetto by the Jews of Rome.—Jewish Chronicle. FIRE AT DERWENTWATER. -011 Sunday morning one wing (containing the library, with the valuable col lection of books, paintings, &c.) of the beautiful mansion of 11. C. Marshall, Esq., Vicker's Island, Derwent Lake, was destroyed by fire. The remainder of the building, as well as the splendid timber trees by which the mansion is surrounded, had a narrow escape. T. S. DUNCOMBE, ESQ., ALP.—We understand that the health of this lion. Gentleman is improving, though slowly, and that it is hoped, notwithstanding his severe and protracted indisposition, time and patience will enable him to resume his public duties. DEATH OF SIR JOHN KENNEDY, BART.—This baronet, for many years so distinguished in England and Ireland by his patronage of the sports of the field, died on the 13th instant at his residence near Rathcool, Dublin, aged 63. He was one of the baronets created during the Viceroyalty of the Earl of Mulgrave, now the Marquis of Nornaanby, in 1836. He was the son of Edward Kennedy, Esq., and married in 1819 the daughter of William Beaumon, Esq., by whom he has had issue five sons and one daughter. lie is succeeded by his son Edward. Sir John was a magistrate and a Deputy-Lieutenant for the county of Kildare. MIDDLESEX REGISTRATION.—Yesterday the lists for the parishes of Christchurch, Hackney, Shoreditch, Bethnal-green, Norton-folgate, and the old Artillery ground, were revised by L. Shadwell, Esq., at the Green Man, Bethnal green. No point of public interest arose, and the whole proceedings occupied little more than an hour. The court sits to-day at White Conduit House, Islington. MONEY MARKET.—The premium on gold at Paris is 15 per mine, which, at the English Mint price of 31 17s. 101 d. per ounce for standard gold, gives an ex• change of 25.52; and the exchange at P ar i s on L ondon at short being 25.42 k. it follows that gold is 0.37 per cent. dearer in Paris than in London. By ad vices from Hamburgh the price of gold is 437 per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 10p. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13.11; and the exchange at Hamburgh on London at short being 13.10, it follows that go ld i s 1.46 per cent. d earer in Hamburgh than in London. FRATERNISATION EXTRAORDINARY.--A deputation of riotous Silesian peasants came in April to the seat of a nobleman, making unheard-of demand s , an d threaten ing to kill, burn, and destroy, if those demands were not complied with. They were shown into the baron's study, who immediately locked the door, throwing the key out of the window, told the astonished mob that, unless they immediately ask e d hi s par d on on their knees, ' he would cause the cigar he was smoking to fraternise with a barrel of gunpowder which stood on a sofa by his side. The effect was ma g i ca l. Th e knees of the peasantsfraternised with the carpet ; th ey craved in humble tone his forgive ness, and were at length . allowed t o ma k e th e i r ex i t through the window, for the baron lamented that he, alas! had lost his key. JENNY LIND'S VISIT TO A Y FARMER.— During the r ecan t v i s i t of this distinguished °RlinlßE vocalist to this part of the country, she had expressed a great desire to see an English farm-house, and the domestic arrange ment and internal mana gement oe generally. Mr. George Simpson's, of Grafit Howe, near Ilunmanby, was fixed upon to gratify h er w i shes. stantial English farmer's hat her ideas of a sub tle say ; b ut her dwelling may have been, it is not easy astonishment was almost un bounded as sh e was successively to another; th e shown from one room kitchens, sitting-rooms, bed-rooms, lard creaseer,d and dairies, each seemed equally to excite in surprise, —being so unlike the inconvenient one ' her roomed buildings appropri ate d to the same purposes in own y. S, her h sec w r e etaras attended by a trav e lli ng female compani on The different out-buildings y , and another individ ua l. were also visited, and afforded as many su • ht Jeets of wonder. Being the day on which Mr. Simpson had number of sheep killed an d others injured on the railer: passing train, the a ccident se( mad to interest he r much.— flub h a .— flail Packet. THE WEATHER.---YeStOrd in the northern wh ich was the metropolis, a slight fallaaon3frdsnow took place, which was accompanied by a cold piercing wind. Last night the cold continued very intense for the time of ' year. ROYAL MUNIFICENCE. —Ile Majesty the Q ueen Dowager has been pleased to forward to the Rev. Robert Joym s, rector of Gravesend, thesutnof2ol. towards the erec tion of a new church i n the parish of Gravesend ESCAPE OF EDWARD Ilouyw D.o ln ae writer. letter ° by h received in town yesterday, i t is stated t h a t Edward Hollywood, silk weaver, and whothadbeen one of the deputation to France, had effected his escape to Boulogne.—Freeman. SHOT IN A QUARREL.—On Monday night a sur geon na med Addison was in comp any w i t h M r . Th omas on llartnoll, a painter, drinking at a public-house i n South ampton. They left ocV about two o'cl asTuesday mom. ing, quarrelling with each other. When they arrived at the Houndwell, a large open space in the centre of the town, Addison took a pistol from his pocket, and shot Hannon in the groin. The report of the pistol was heard by some policemen, who immediately rushed to Addison was immediately a pp re h en d e d . the spot. llartnoll, after walk in g a few paces fell, an d was con veyed to the infirmary, where be now lies dangerously ill, and is not expected to recover. The ball has not yet been extracted. A magistrate has attended at th e infir mary to take his deposition. uS EscArE.—On Tues- E AS TBOURNE.—MIRACU LO day se'nnight, as Mr. Stevenson, jun., was walking on the cliffs at Meads, in sea rch of fossils and o ther geolo gical specimens, he fancied he saw a path leading to the beach, and essayed to walk down; but he had not pro ceeded many steps ere his foot slipped, and he was pre cipitated to the bottom, a clistanceof2lo4oos feet. it appears, between two rockssome on was a most providential circumstance. As soon as ho recovered sensibility, be cra wled a little way and called out for help. A gentleman seeing his situation, ran and obtained the necessary assistance , and he was conveyed to a public-house at Meads, whence Mrs. Wm. R ae " kindly had him conveyed to Mrs. Holland's boarding house, where he is staying. On his arrival he was visited by Mr. Williams, surgeon, w ho found that, notwithstand ing the gentleman had received severe contusions, no vital injury was sustained, or any bone broken, and we are happy to s ay that be is fast recovering th e effects of Guardian. TRIBUTE perilous descent. —Bright on TRIBUTE OF RESPECT _Messrs. Frederi c k an d Edmund Hinde, Commoners o f Q ueen ' s College, Oxford, and the two youngest sons of the late Mr. William Ilinde, many years a successful solicitor in Liverpool, have honoured their tutor and guardian, the Reverend Thomas Stanley Bowstead, M.A., Vicar of Tervin, near Chester, and Prebendary of Lichfield, with a small silver font, of an octagonal form, on which is inscribed the fol lowing grateful acknowledgment:—" Presented to the llev. T. S. Bowstead, M.A., Vicar of Tervin, from Frederick and Edmund Hinde, in token of their esteem, and in remembrance of his kindness during the two years they were under his care, reading for college."— Chester Courant. SINK AND THE DEUCE. —A seal engraver, hearing that the Thames so poisoned the atmosphere that it was dangerous to live near it, called it " a first-rate sink for a die I"—Punch. THE MERRY Cuunon BBLIs.—In the Stafford shire Advertiser of last week there is an account of the chimes newly fitted up in the venerable tower of St. Mary's, Stafford, and a list is given of the tunes adapted to each day. On Sunday, a psa lm tune; Monday, "Life let us cherish ; " T ues day, "MY lodging is on the cold ground;" Wednesday, " There is nae luck about the house;" Thursday, " The Harmonious Blacksmith;" Friday, ore won't go home till morning!" Saturday (being market day), Oh dear, what can the matter be?" LITERATURE. THE POCKET AND THE STUD. 1 Vol., pp. 215. By Harry Hiecver. A jovial and pleasant writer is Harry Hieover, and a right knowing one in all matters pertainine. to the stable or the kennel, the hunt or the race, the stud and its relation, in all respects, to the pocket. Since Apperley disappeared from the sporting maga zines, we know no more delightful name to meet with among the contributors than Harry Hieover. And that is saying a vast deal, with all the rol licking scribes who adorn that section of our periodical literature with their lucubrations. In the hilarious tone of his effusions, and in the bonhommie which beams forth in almost every page, "Harry Hieover" is akin to " Nimrod," and not only in bonhommie brid hilarity, but in shrewdness and in a perfect familiarity with his subject. These qualities have not only been conspicuous in his miscellaneous papers as a magazine writer, they have been also particularly manifested in his capital work called " Stable Talk and Table Talk ; or Spectacles for Young Sportsmen" —a work in two goodly volumes, tilled to repletion with the nuts of amusement and the wine of information. Those who ar.,reciate John Dlills's" Old English Gentleman" will have wiled away many an agreeable hour over the chapters of " Stable Talk and Table Talk." The volumes are imbued with the same gusto ir. everything relating to the rural scenes and field sports of old Albion. Here however, is a book of a very different character; not that it has less vivacity of manner, hut that it con veys a much greater abundance of "facts and figures" in a very portable and compacted form. Those who are habitual readers of the principal sporting periodi cals may fancy from the mere title-page of the pre sent volume that it is chiefly a reprint of contribu tions which have already appeared. Their conjecture will have been nevertheless in a considerable degree erroneous. Nearly four-fifths of " The Pocket and the Stud" being in reality here printed for the first time—three chapters alone having been previously published. In as far as the economy of private horse dealing —not the wholesale horse-dealing of Tatter sall's, but that moderate speculation in horseflesh in which so many thousands of our population are in the habit of indulging —are concerned, the book is a very encyclopaedia. Its advice is not merely elementary, it goes to the heart of a hundred difficulties and establishes beacons and buoys in all directions. Scarcely a quicksand or a sunken breaker is left un marked. Yorkshire jockeying is gibbetted. The cunning sharpers against whom the late lamented Lord George Bentinck waged such an unrelenting and successful warfare, meet with no sympathy and get no mercy, no not even the smallest, from our author. He flays them in an allusion and goes on in his droll and unflagging way along the path of pleasantness. He exposes their tricks and subterfuges in a sentence and proceeds in his accustomed vein of pleasantry. After apologizing for his apparent "impertinence" in giving his advice unasked—a course which he trusts will not lay him under any " imputation of conceit or arrogance"—he enters boldly upon his task ; first of all treating of "stable management" and afterwards of "stable economy; first telling us how we may be best enabled to purchase a horse and then explaining the different modes of keeping him. in the chapter on stable management we have sections on ventila tion, on dryness, on wide doors, on stall •posts, on racks, on windows, on balls, on mangers, on head collars, on collar shanks, on muzzles, on lofts, on boxes, on stoves, and on all the multifarious requisites of a stable, including chamois, sponges, dressing tools, water-brushes, mane-combs, and bandages. In the chapter, again, on stable economy he explains to us the ordinary cost of keep, the occasion upon which veterinary surgeons should be consulted, the choice of grooms, the ingenuity of servants, and the like subjects of importance. The following extract will be read with interest and deserves the widest circula tion : "To show the difference between practically knowing the expenses of a stable, and listening to being told by interested persons what they ' must be, at least,' I Rill just take a pair of sixteen-hands carriage -horses, and see what their expense, not ' must be,' but should be; and here I show no presumption in saying I care not what all the grooms or coachmen in London may say — I know I am right: not from any talent, ingenuity, or peculiar mode of treatment; not reasoning upon even the best theoretical principles, but on the broad, plain, homely facts of experience and practice—that not arising from having had the management of any one or two classes of horses, or those under one or two different situations or circumstances, but from having had the direction of all sorts of race-horses, hunters, carriage• horses, hacks, machiners, and cart-horses, and at one period all at the same time ; what I say, therefore, on the subject reflects about as much credit on me in point of intellect as we should attach to the man who had been all his life emptying coal-waggons telling us how many sacks went to the chaldron, and the chance of our being in error would be about equal. It w ill b e re membered I am now taking a pair of horses that are more expensive to keep than any others used for private purposes, for I allow each six quarterns of corn per day. No two hunters living eat as much, take the year throughout ; for though the name of a hunter to some persons conveys an idea of great expense—though hunting is expensive, it is not the keep of tho hor:o that makes it so—a good well-worked 401. cover hack costs quite as much, and more, than you can get sows hunters to cost you. Two horses, 6 quarterns a day each, at 1/. 4s. per qr., say 14lbs. of hay per day each, at 41. 103. per ton, say ....... „ Supposing straw to be scarce, 1 cwt. of straw per week, 1/. los , per ton, say „ Shoeing both, 10s. per month, 28 days „ Wear and tear of chamois, spon ges, brushes, &c. 6d. per week 1 6 0 „ Wear and tear of clothing and head collars, 6d. each 6 10 0 2 12 0 £ When our a u th or i s previously enterin 75 10 0 g into a more detailed a ccoun t o f t h e cost of keeping a horse, he describes the advantages and disadvantages of the various kinds of food from bran to carrots, from barley to chaff, from beans to oats, and from malt to all other sorts and descriptions of horse nutriment. We must observe that the work is embellished with a portrait of Harry Ilieover on his favourite horse Harlequin, engraved by Hacker, from a painting by the author. Besides the useful information contained in the volume, there are an abundance of illustrative anecdotes such as impart piquancy to the recom mendations. Speal-ing of his success in matters which some regard as subordinate, Harry Hieover facetiously saith :—" We should have been sorry to see John Kemble sing a comic song between the acts of Hamlet. Now, I certainly could not play Hamlet, but I fancy I could manage Jim along Josey.' Well it is better to be encored in that than hissed in hamlet." Heartily coinciding in this we say encore to works as pleasant and as much to the purpose as " The Pocket and the Stud," by Harry Ilieover. CLARE.NDON ; a Tale of Recent Times. By Eliza Smith. " Clar en d on " i s an interesting addition to that al ready popular class of works—" Religious Novels." To the Roman Catholics this little tale will be pecu liarly acceptable, the writer being evidently an enthusiastic and zealous member cf their faith ; while, to the dispassionate and inquiring general reader, it will be hardly less so, inasmuch as that the arguments are carried on in all fairness, are untarnished by the least acerbity, and place in candid juxtaposition the chief grounds upon which the contending churches base their respective creeds. In the opening and closing chapters there are aome exquisite touches of nature. The incidents are well conceived, arid re lated with a pleasing and earnest simplicity. Claren don, the leading character in the tale, is the very beau ideal of Christian perfection. The moral of his life appears to be the memorable injunction of the Great Teacher,—" Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you." HECATOMBS OF PORTRAITS.-Our next-door neigh bour over the water, the Charivari, informs us that portraits of the French Members swarm all over Paris. One house, it says, is quite blockaded with them—the exterior is covered all over. The house may well hide its face for putting on so bold a front! It seems there are no less than three editions of these endless portraits. Now, there are upwards of 900 Members, which only makes the pretty number of 2,700 heads. The most Dantonian Red Republican could not wish to take off a greater number. Never did such a number of patriots put their heads upon the block before! Imagine having them all hung about your room! What an ugly view it would give of Universal Suffrage ! The portraits, we are told, are so diversified, that there aro not two alike. This makes the collection all the richer, and is only an - other proof that no politician is himself for two days together. However, it must be a festering epingle to every Frenchman's vanity, that his belle France should possess such a cabbage-garden of portraits, and scarcely one good head amongst them. We would r. commend vigorous weeding. At all events, France cannot com plain of being badly represented—in the shop windows. —Punch. Notices have been issued by the commissioners of the metropolitan police to the superintendent of each division of the police force, i that the men should ma k e reports of the various nuisances n existence in their respective "beats," and that the sa me s h ould be for warded to the commissioners every M on d ay morning. Upon a complaint being made,. the part y o ff ending is cautioned ; but should the evil not b e removed, it is stated that the commissioners intend to tak e l egal steps, in order that as iar as possible, und er the present cir cumstances of the visitation of th e c h o l era, nothing may exist to cause a malari a in any locality. PRINCESS'S THEATRE,—W e are requested to state that there is no truth whatever in the reports that this theatre was damaged by the a l arm i ng fire which took place yesterday in Winsley-street, Oxford -street. By the exertions of the numerous persons employed on the establishment, who were at rehears a l at the time, the flames were kept from injuring the theatre, and the usual entertainments were represented last evening. VISIT OF LORD ASHLEY TO TIL E RAGGED SCHOOLS, DUMFRIES. Lord Ashley, on his return from Edinburgh, where he has been on a commission in connexion with the General Board of Health, examined the Industrial School, Burns-street, on Friday morning last, in pre sence of a number of its supporters. The meeting was opened with prayer by the Rev. Dr. Wallace. The children sung a hymn at the commencement of the proceedings with great accuracy and spirit, and two classes were afterwards examined in reading. The senior one read a chapter of the New Testament as correctly, if not more so, as the classes similarly advanced at any of the ordinary schools of the town, , although th ey h ave on l y b een un d er M r. Ramsay 's training for some seven months, and the majority scarcely able to read previously. Questions in con nexion with their lessons were ans%sered also with promptitude and correctness ; end altogether, al though they did not seem the most favourable subjects, their appearance was highly satisfactory. Lord Ashley expressed himself as highly gratified. When the children were dismissed Baillie Nichol. son was called to the chair, and Mr. STEWART, the secretary, read a report of the progress and condition of the society. Baillie NICHOLSON then called upon Mr. Hender son, convener of the work committee, who stated that some months ago it was deemed necessary to depute one of the committee to visit the industrial schools in Aberdeen and elsewhere, that some method might be adopted for the industrial occupation of the children. Having entered into a number of details regarding that deputation, Mr. Henderson mentioned that there was a division of opinion in the society on the ques tion whether the children should be taught trades, or whether they should confine themselves to giving them industrious habits; and concluded by requesting his Lordship's opinion on these points. Lord ASHLEY then rose, and said that it appeared to him the society had every reason to be satisfied, and might heartily thank God for their success. When he came there he was prepared to find some. thing very inferior; but the children seemed to have made great progress not only i n th ose matters bene ficial to th e i r condition here, but their more Un important hereafter. They had got a very suitable building too, and with a little ventilation it would do much better for their purpose than one the supe rior architecture and adornments of which might raise the taste of the pupils above what must be their condition in life. This he believed to be a great er ror in modern arrangements. Their great difficulty would be the maintenance of the funds for their annual expenses. They must take the children the whole day if they wished effectually to benefit them ; and if they did so, they must sup ply them with food. The most of these children had no way of getting food but by begging or steal ing, and, therefore, unless they fed them they could have them only in the evenings, and it was difficult to teach them to any purpose in three hours each day. It was, therefore, ab so l u t e l y necessary t h at t h e chil dren should be fed, which added very mach to the expense. In London they were unable to do it under a cost of 41. 10s. for each child per annum ; although he believed, from the difference of habits, it could be done in Scotland for about half that sum. Again, in all these ragged schools it was necessary to have in dustrial classes—in all schools for the children of the working classes these were necessary, but more espe- ' cially in ragged schools. The children attending these institutions must be shown that labour is honour able. The character of the employment given was of no great importance, if it was of such a nature that the children could understand it as a useful and profitable one. In the Edinburgh school they employed them in picking oakum, but the children, looking upon that merely as employment to keep them out of mischief, did not enter upon it with the ardour with which they applied themselves to work of which they could see the benefit. They ought to confine the children to one or two very simple occu pations, preferring those suited to the district, as net making was to Aberdeen ; but tailoring and shoemaking were the best generally. After re marking that the children were much superior in appearance to those of the London schools, he mentioned that at the schools in Westminster the managers took all that offered themselves ; and ex cept where they had to burn their clothes the chil dren received nothing. They were put into classes and given what they earned ; and, after making clothes for themselves and their schoolmates, they were allowed to make for their friends ; and seven or eight who were sent out as free emigrants to Australia, conducted themselves so well on their passage, that a gentleman had informed him the captain said that he had never seen such well-behaved passengers. Such persons would not be a week in that colony before they would obtain an engagement of 103. a week and their rations. All they could look to here would be to give the children industrious habits, and the reforma tion of their moral character. There was a very im portant question, whether they ought to make the labour of the boys profitable. That raised the question whether they had a right to bring the labour of these children, whom they partly supported, against those who cannot meet them upon equal terms. He believed the wretched condition of the sempstresses of London was mainly caused by bringing the labour of the inmates of gaols and asylums into competition with them—pitting what he might term slave against free labour. In a short time also they would come intoicollision with the parents and guardians of the children, who would think they were making a profit out of the labour of the boys and demand a share in it. And only when they could make the impression upon the boys and their guardians that they were teaching and sup porting them from charitable motives alone would they come out freely. As for the expense they must con sider what they could do in the way of exciting their neighbours to contribute. They had nothing to complain of as far as they had gone; for in ten months to do what they had done was extremely creditable to the burgh of Dumfries; but if they relaxed their efforts for one instant they would fall back. They must show the people that this question is not only one of humanity, but one on which depends the material advantage of Dumfries. In London they had ap prenticed out a number of boys, and their condu c t had been very go o d. B u t i n all places there was a great pressure on the market of labour, so that if they got ten of their boys out to trades they would have excluded some other ten. With the view of obviating this he had proposed a resolution in the House of Commons for the purpose of getting a certain number of these boys transplanted to some of her Majesty's colonies. That motion was lost, bet the Government had volunteered to send out 150 children yearly ; and this had been attended with the best effects. If they followed that system they would relieve of Dumfries a great body of children, and if they could raise 1001. that would pay for the transplantation of ten to fifteen. They would thus at once relieve the labour market and transport those children out of mischief to where they would consume much more of the manufactures of this country, and thus give a stimulus to its trade; and if he could render them any service he should be most happy to do so. In conclusion, he would impress upon them his conviction, that if ten years longer were to pass with the same inattention to the condition of the lower orders, it would be beyond the power of any statesman or combination of statesmen to maintain this empire in its present condition. He thought the lessons they had lately from Europe might teach them that when the people were disaffected and determined to rise in mass, the finest standing army in the world, under the most able officers, must fall before them ; and if those who possessed property and station did not look to it, the people would rise some day against them or their children, when regret that the present opportunity had been lost would be unavailing. The Rev. Mr. MANN, after stating how much the meeting had been delighted by the able and instruc tive speech of Lord Ashley, and offering him its thanks, on the part of the committee, requested an other conference with his Lordship before his depar ture. And as they had never yet laid their , scheme before a meeting of the inhabitants, perhaps his Lord ship might be induced to give his countenance to such an undertaking. His LORDSHIP requested time to consider, and would answer the committee from Cumloden, to which he was about to proceed. The meeting then separated.—Dumfries Courier. DISCOVERING TUE LONGITUDE.—The Sea Serpent has been seen ag a i n; persons declaring it was several i miles n length. We should not at all wonder if it was a stray column of one of Mr. Anstey's speeches, for we know as a fact that that gentleman has been at sea for a long time.—Punch. SINGULAR FATALITY.—On Friday an investigation took place at the Guildhall, Falmouth, relative to a young man, a steward of an English vessel, unders orders for Antwerp. It appears that, about half-past ten o clock on Wednesday night, the captain, steward, and a lad, left the pier in a boat, to return to the vessel in the harbour. It is reported that the captain and steward were drunk, and that a quarrel took place, and a fight ensued in the boat, and, in the struggle, both captain and steward fell overboard. The captain succeeded in regaining the boat, but the steward after much struggling to do so, sunk to rise no more. It appears the poor steward came on shore to post letters to his parents and sweetheart in London. The body bas not yet been re covered.— Western Luminary. DUNFERMLINE.—We rejoice to state that the deep gloom which has so long enveloped our commercial , hemisphere seems to be dispersing, and the dawn of prosperity again breaking on our half-famished commu nity. Mr. Erskine Beveridge cn Friday last employed nearly a hundred men, who had been without work, and it is understood more will find employment from him. We also learn that Mr. Robertson of London and Dun fermline, who had failed for a vast amount, and who has lately obtained a settlement, has given an offer to re purchase the extensive factories and works which he for merly possessed, and it is expected that he will com mence manufacturing immediately on an extensive scale. —Fifeshire Journal. LA RGE SHOALS OF HERRINGS. l Weeks have now elapsed since the most multitu dinous of all the finny tribes appeared in unwonted shoals in the Solway Frith; and, should the weather continue calm and settled, an opinion prevails among residents on the coas t th at t h ey bid fair to people their present h a bit a t s per h aps a month longer. In the olden ti me mar i ne industry rewarded well continued exerti on; a l though, even then, from all m e can l earn , h errings, in any great num bers, were ne ver exactly annual visitants, as they are in L oc hfi ne, an d many other estuaries and arms of the sea. But, from whatever cause— neglect on the land, or desertion from the waters— there was little to boast of in this branch of service for a period of more than forty years. Octogenarians and others, however partial to the past, in recounting with glee the splendid hauls taken in their young days, at the same time admit that they remember nothing at all to be compared with the present extraordinary season. 'The shoals, it is said, extend to miles on miles ; and from beyond Whitehaven, as far as Sarkfoot, every tide that flows is instinct with myriads of sca l y lif e. i n repeated instances the nets have been torn by the weight of their loads ; and vt hen the tide recedes they present not a glimmering, but an opaque sur face, with no daylight visible through the tiny count less meshes, every on? of which contains its herring. Nor is this remark confined to one; for it is equally applicable to several border parishes—such as Ruth well, Cummertrees, Annan, Dornock, and even por tions of Gretna. Along the coast of Cumberland, as far as the sea flows from west to east, the fishermen are equally busy, and, we believe, still more success ful; for in place of relying altogether on stake nets, many piscators push boldly to the Scottish side, and often fill their boats between the flow and reflux of a single tide. From the difficulty of disposing of so many cargoes in a fresh state, salting is resorted to by all. On Saturday last we rounded the well known peninsula, of which Dumfries is the handle and Caerlaverock the blade; and at every little distance were at no loss for ocular demonstration of the teeming abundance of the herring harvest. In a former article under this head we stated that from forty to fifty persons, young and old; were engaged in taking, gutting, and salting herrings; but their numbers have increased greatly since, and Mr. Anderson now estimates them at fully 200, including all the farmers and cotters in the parish. Many of the latter are profiting day after day by the great windfall ; and our informant doubts whether there will be any necessity for imposing a poor•rate in Caerlaverock during the approaching winter! Would that the Irish were similarly situated, although many of them, it is to be feared, are too lazy to avail themselves of the blessing, were it placed within their reach. Up to Saturday, the tenant of Sher rington had consumed a ton of salt, and cured 25 barrels in all, apart from the quantities he was importuned to sell fresh; in fact, he had run short of cooper's gearing, and accordingly ordered a fresh supply. That they will keep well in salt he has no doubt; and, as regards quality, he considers them preferable to the Orkney herrings which are sold at 225. per barrel. That herrings visited the Sol way in no inconsiderable quantities, last year, is a fact no longer doubted in Caerlaverock. Fair warn ing was given at the time by the veteran Mr. Grier son and others ; but from the lengthened suspension of use and wont, the disappearance and impaired con dition of nets, no exertion was made in the slightest degree commensurate with the opportunities offered. But no similar mistake will he committed hereafter, now that fishing material has been amply provided, but on the contrary, herring statistics, diligently watched, and advantage taken of appearances so long as they continue favourable, and promise rewards worthy of the labourer's trouble.—Durnfries Courier. ~~ ARRIVALS OF SPECIE. The following numerous arrivals of specie have taken place at the metropolis from the places men tioned :—The American line-of-packet-ship American Eagle, arrived from New York, has brought 3 packages of specie, consigned to two different firms in the metropolis; the Oriental Queen, from the Mauritius, 1 case of bullion, individually addressed ; the Tourist, from Calais, 1 bag of gold, addressed to a firm in London ; the vessel Inchinman, from Calcutta, 4 cases of specie, consigned to a firm in London ; the Crusader, from Bahia, 1 bag of silver coin, similarly consigned ; the Pauline Houghton, from Bahia, 2 cases of specie, consigned to order ; the Denis, from the Mauritius and the Cape of Good Hope respectively, 1 box of silver coin individually addressed, and 5 cases of specie, consigned to order; the Athenian, from Madras and the Cape of Good Hope respectively, 1 case of specie, individually addressed; the Anglo-Saxon, from the Havannah, 1 box of silver ; the American line-of-packet ship Sir Robert Peel, from New York, 1 keg of specie, indi vidually addressed, and 20 packages of specie, con signed to a firm in the metropolis; the Mary Nixon, from Madras, 1 case of treasure, similarly addressed; the Lucinda, from Bombay, 1 box of specie, con signed to order ; the Greyhound, from the Cape of Good Hope, 2 boxes of specie, consigned to two houses in the metropolis; the Scottish Maid from Valparaiso, 4 mats of bar silver, consigned to a metropolitan firm, and 2 mats of bar silver consigned to order; the Wilton Wood, from Monte Video, 1 box of specie, consigned to a firm in London; the London, from Madras, 6 kegs of specie, individually addressed; the Daphne, from Bordeaux, 1 case of specie, consigned to order ; the Benah, from Whampoa, a quantity of copper coin, consigned to order; the Carlista, from ,Belize, Hon duras, 1 package of coin, individually addressed ; the John Brewer, from Bombay, 1 box of specie, simi larly addressed; the American line-of-packet ship Prince Albert, from New York, 3 packages of specie, consigned to the Bank of British North America ; the Circassian, from Cadiz, 9 packages and 2 bags of specie, consigned to a house in the metropolis; the American line-of-packet ship West minster, from New York, 1 case of gold ore, consigned to one firm, and 1 package of specie, consigned to another in London ; the Belfast, from Calais, 1 bag of money, addressed to a house in the metropolis; the Samuel Enderby, from the Mauritius, 2 cases of bullion, addressed to individual houses, and 4 packages, consigned to order ; the Nautilus, from the Mauritius and the Cape of Good Hope, 1 box of specie, consigned to a firm of eminence in the metropolis ; the Standerings, from Algoa Bay, Cape of Good Hope, 1 case of specie, individually addressed, and 1 case, consigned to a firm in London; and the William and Sarah, from Oporto, 11 cases of specie, consigned to the Bank of England. MR. BLOKE AND WESTMINSTER ABBEY. Really it is high time that Mr. Blore should cease to be allowed to do what he likes in Westminster Abbey. If deans and chapters cannot do without him, let him go to Chester, or Carlisle, or even York —to some place, in short, with ver y few or no asso ciations to remove. Why detain him in Westminster amid monuments and recollections which he cannot understand—and can destroy ? Dean Ireland (Gif• ford's Dean Ireland, by the way) permitted him to destroy the identical small square stone, with " 0 rare Ben Jonson" upon it, which Jack Young put over Jonson in the north side of the nave of West minster Abbey. The man who smashed the Port• land Vase; the cook at Mr. West's, who singed geese at Michaelmas with Massinger's unpublished plays ; and Malone, who painted Bhakspere's bust at Strat ford-upon-Avon, were deatructives of the same kind. But this is not all that Mr. Blore has done or is doing. He induced the Dean and Chapter not to repair the monument to Chaucer, because it was not a monument of Chaucer's age, and therefore could not and did not (which it does) contain the ashes of the father of English poetry. The same Mr. Blore actually took up the blue flagstone covering Cow ley's grave, and bearing Cowley's name, and packed it away as a stone of so many square feet and no thing more. A primrose by a river's brim A yellow primrose was to him, And it was nothing more. And now this identical Mr. Blore, by permission of Dean Buckland, Mr. Milman the poet, and others, has destroyed one-half of glorious John Dryden's monument, and removed Sir Godfrey Kneller's bust and Pope's ennobling epitaph to where the bust can not be seen, and the verses cannot be read. Poor Lady Kneller I Have all her activity and desire for a lasting perpetuation at Twickenham and West minster Abbey been to no purpose ? She was busy enough to get Pope's monument to his father and mother removed from the place in which it is still to be seen (unless Mr. Blore has been recently called in) ; and the poet, who opposed her at every turn, paid her with a kind of epigram epitaph— One day I mean to fill Sir Godfrey's tomb, If for my body all this church has room. Down with more monuments; more room (she cried), For I am very large and very wide. If " Down with more monuments ! " be Mr. Blore's cry, then "Down with Mr. Blare!" must be ours.— .Athenceurn. DEATH OF PROFESSOR TENNANT.—It iS with MD. treme regret that we have to announce the death of Mr William Tennant, Professor of Oriental Languages in the College of St. Mary, St. Andrew's, but more exten sively and enduringly known as the author of " Anster Fair," and various other works in general literature, which took place at his house, Devon Grove, Dollar, on Sunday last.—Scotsman. INFANT ORPHAN ASYLUM.—At the forthcoming November election, among the number of candidates is the child of John Charles Frederick Piercy, two years and nine months old, whose father was one of the un fortunate London Fire Establishment, who peri s h e d i n the execution of his duty at a fire in New Crane, Shad. well, on the 28th of July last. The deceased's widow was left with two children. The case is strongly recom. mended, and it is hoped will prove a successful one on the day of election. Bills 14 62 68 ed at n she i not as it able, meat full d to par )lied was ls; Pigs the 4s; , 45 and this ton, 8d TeW Tor 8. 51; Of /~