The Sun. — London, England, 1848-09-06 00:00:00

B ANKRUPTCY. —(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Commissioner IloLnoyD.) IN RE PRY AND CHAPMAN. th An audit meeting was held to-day under the estate of bldrupts, who were described as bankers in S'. Mild Court, Poultry. The meeting was pro forma, kid nothing transpired as to any further dividend. IN RE G. W. X. REYNOLDS. This bankrupt, the well known author, came up for c ertificate which had been adjourned for evidence, ~.t0 the di sposal of bankrupt's property by bill of sale. no sat PARRY (with whom was Mr. Duncan) said he th oPosed behalf of a Mr. Wil ton, ut revious to e _ casep on beinone into, he desired that the names of the witnessesg s hould be called over. Of eight only four towered. Mr, PARRY said that some of them would, perhaps, a . ; TA, but with regar d t o M r . C u thbertson, one of the to -a l c ees, he must apply for a warrant. Mr. Cutlibe rt itn-a a person to whom a bill of sale had be , n given al "u no: attend a n the last ce , azion slth Jugh sum Sts • tioNorrn said that he must h ove an affidavit of t j v ice made, and he would then do what Has 12, cefszry ,7,?Enpd the witnesses' attendance. "e case was t h en procee d e d w ith, and W a3 likely to s o Co a c onsiderable time, and in the absence of Cuthbert a, will be adjourned again. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. WARWICK RACES.—TuEsDAy. Match 50, h ft. One mile. Idr " • 1), • ScJtt s Tit-bit received forfeit from Mr. Alcott's Tinier. fir. Tri a l S ta k es of 5 sovs. eac h , an d 25 a dd e d. O ne m il e . Poa le r ' s Rib a ld ry , 3 yrs , 7 s t 21b... ...(Fenn) 1 'tr. G. L or d' s Cl a i rvoyance, 3 yrs, 7 st 21b ... 2 *Ltr. Sktrratt's Egret, 3 yrs, 7st 21b ••• ••• 3 the Even on Ribaldry. Won by a length. 40 a1 Slakes of 10 sovs. each, and 25 added. Once k r round and a distance. (10 Subs.) un.gley's Bird of Paradise, Sit ... (Crouch) 1 r• tristow's Fernhill, Bst Glb 2 1 9 , 5t02 on Fernhill. Won by a length. T he Leamington Stakes of 25 soya. each, 15 ft, and 5 i S f declared, with 100 added; the second to re - Ceive 0&c. Two miles. (49 Subs., 28 of whom u deelared.) i t lr• Steph (nson ' s D oc t r i ne , 4 y rs , Est lib (Pearl) 1 Green's Sylvan, 3 yrs, 6st (51b extra) ... 2 The following also ran:— e l4 r. Crauf ur d' s The Cur, 6 yrs, 7st 131 b (10lb extra) 0 I ° kit B at h yany ' s E gremont, 3 yrs , 4st 121 b 0 kasr4 Warwick's Yardley, aged, 7st 91b 0 y 6 to 4 agst Doctrine, 7 to 2 each agst The Cur and 11 441 . 1 e3 7 , and 5 to 1 agst Sylvan. Won by a length. 1 11 3 min. 48 secs. e Castle Park Stakes of 10 sovs. each, and 50 added; ti for two yrs olds. T.Y.C. (8 Subs.) sip v. Cockei ell's Thibault, Sst 71b (11. Darling) 1 k r : B. Green's The Arab, Bst 91b ... 2 u" J. Lillie' s The Iron Duke, Bst 9lb 3 Fowler's Cingara, Bst 21b... . 4 4 netting -7 to 4 sgst Iron Duke, sto 2 agst Cingara, th t° ll 1 agst Thibault. A splendid race between the first ei and won by a head; the same between second and T r ik . Run in 1 min. 37 arcs. e c ,Queen's Plate of 100 guineas. Heats, two miles. la,okarrat's Egret, 3 yrs, Bst 21b (Whitehouse) 1 1 r ' New Forest Deer, aged, lOst 31b.. 2 dr •hay' s Dimanche, 3 yrs, Bst 21b ••• 3 dr Won - by a length. ai The Maiden Plate of 50/. Heats, two miles. ~ /1 - '''t!lgg's Marlow, 4 yrs ... (Owner) 3 1 1 k r. Mu aor ' s H aw k estone , 4 yr s ... 12 dr r• Prat t ' s D r . Philli more , age d ... 2 dis. BE FTING ON THE COURSE. GREAT YORKSHIRE HANDICAP. 9 t o 2 agst Executor 12 to 1 sgst Maid of Mo -1 agst 43 Vampyre therwell 1 agst Keleshea The others as before. No change in the St. Leger. Th k t o a weather favourable up to three o'clock, but now c a Z e rY and very unpromising. Owing to one of the ti e Z l l4es having caught fire near Watford, and a long tr rl tion near Leighton, caused by the accident to the tre"eastle niht :mail, the nine o'clock train did not Leamington until near two o'clock, by which some gatlteds lost the two first races. SOCTIIAMPI ON RACES.—TUESDAY. "e Southampton Stakes of 10 sovs. each, 5 ft, &c., with 50 added. Two miles. (6 Subs.) kr •Lartl e y' s G r i st . 3 y rs ... (Hornsby) u _ 1 Richard's Landrail, 3 yrs... ..• ••• ••• 2 Itt '• Par r ' s M r . C au dl e , 3 yrs... ... • • ••• 3 t ‘ l 4lis's Self-defence, 3 3 rs... ... 4 A good race. or a e Maiden Plate of 20 sovs., added to a Sweepstakes b a k "PM each, the second to receive 51. and save his tt 11 , onc e round and a cis. (4 Subs.), was won in two is by Mr. Bray's Prospect, 5 yrs (Donaldson), beat- V iper, 3 yrs, Madge Grey, 4 yrs, and Strife, 6 yrs. it,t u e County Members' Plate of 25 1 ., added to a Sweep "ef (of 3 sovs. each, T.Y.C. (5 Subs.), was won by t a il !.• Sadl er ' s M oo dk e e, 4 yrs (Donaldson), beating Land - Cerberus, Tell, and Royalty. she Borough Members' Plate of 251., added to a ~,"eepstakes ot 2 soya. each, once round and a dis., was b e ". in tw o h ea t s by Mr. Caffill's Bohemienne, 4 yrs, all ,ng Mr. Dorrien's Triton, 6 yrs, and two others. BETTING AT NIANCHESTER—TUESDAY. t c ,':UMINGTON STAKES.-2 to 1 agst Doctrine (t) -3 4 : agstThe Cur (t)- 4 to 1 agst Yardley (t) -5 t o 1 Sylv3n 3no)-10 to agst Ulysses (t). ot a bet laid on any other event. -TUE WORCESTER MUSICAL FESTIVAL. f or T i l le festival, annually held at either Worcester , Here to'', nr Gloucester, commenced yesterday at Worces- Land judging from appearance , it i s likel y that the !gate proceeds will be considerable. We need ltp e i"'Y remark , that the profits arising from the periodi e,Uniereof the three choirs are devoted t o the benefit t he widows and orphans of the poor clergymen con ed with the respective dioceses. Jenny Lind was i t i r eeted at the commencement of t he p re p arations, but 11;"ligh the nightingale, in the first instance, promised r services, her subsequent arrangements with Mr. Lum tf;Y compelled her to abandon her intention, much to the o rPpointment of the committee and th e p robabilit y influence upon the subscriptions. However, the le llity has been got over as well as circumstances 1 4 ?ttld admit o f, anti Alboni has been engaged instea d . irides this exquisite contralto, Madame Caste llan, t ` t l ! eld er Lablache, Mr. Sims Reeves, and Mr. Lock e y , and in the list of vocalists, as well as Miss Dolby 4 eft t he Misses Williams. The band, a very large and l i 7Vient one, has been selected from the chief metropo en orchestras; and the chorus singers are gathered the 42 the local societies, in conjunction with the elite of , London professionals. The leaders are Messrs. th:lY and Blagrove, and the conductor Mr. W. Done, th e erganist of the cathedral, upon whom has devolved the general management of the festival. The nave of fitted cathedral has been appropriately and conveniently up for the sacred performances; and the College Ne for the evening concerts. The musical service of ate rday consisted of Handel's; Dettingen Te Dean, Jubiate in D, and Mendelssohn's 66 As pants the the sermon being preached by the Dean of the T or ,_"sei after which a collection was made at the doors benefit of the charity. OLYMPIC THEATRE. 6_ 4 little sen ti men t a l piece, called Time tries all, bas e — o Zt brought ou t a t this theatre, with a success not in tev nlensurate with its merits. The subject is a hack ti'de" one—th a t of a young lady who rejects an honest ofhet "ell-meaning lover through the impulses of coquetry, h er at length brought to a conviction of the real state ads mind by the remorse she experiences when she i s ek t el h i e youth she has insulted and discarded on the eve eii tt.Arriag e with another. In depicting the vicissitudes ng involved in h contrasts as these, Mrs. Stir s e a "a 8 no equal, and s her vivacious frivolity in the pre -404 e ase, coupled with the bitter agonies of retribution v er , Pentance, are but fresh proofs of her histrionic kr4atility and power over the sympathies of an audience. h ia • Leigh Murray aids her with equal cleverness, and th e n eat, -manly elocution is well suited to unfold v.. etufferings of neglected and abused affection. A e 4 i Zning exquisite and a priggish clerk are amusingly dby Mr. F. Vining and Mr. Cowell. The ti;: e, We need hardly add, has been quite successful, and t o - ,... e ath4 we believe a Mr. Courtnay—a name new "uttrop,ilitan fame--was called before the curtain on a, °n titty when the piece was first produced, to be f PO ' uded by the spebtators. Besides this drama a new W hat h as h' e on added to the list of novelties, entitled v i ," 4l to Eat, _Drink,' and Avoid, turning upon the ner- d -118 terror of An old gentleman who fancies he is in an. Fez' of being poisoned by a servant who has left his 4, - „P` e Y• The inejdithts are broad and improbable, but are made divier Ling by the tact of Compton, Emery, - " lv a Cowell, enforcud by a Mrs. Tellett, who pro eLltes to become an available actress in bag atelles of ' 4B class. • V iscount and 'Viscountess Palmerston entertained 14 dinner last e vetting, at their residence in Carlton.. gardens, a select circle, including his Excellency the tkurkish Minister a ,:id Princess Callimaki, his Excellency i'Le Prussian Minis • and Madame Bunsen, his Excel -I.llleY the Belgian / riisister and Madame Van de Weyer, Sa lver, Sir and La ‘dy Mary Wood, Sir Henry Lytton OPiver, Sir August us Clifford and Miss Clifford, Mr. tridieus Banks, M r. T. Wyre, &c. On Monday the Viscount and Viscountes s had a party, when the ra mi:roan..er circle compris, ?.d her liighness the . Princess B 1 "Oc his Exceller,:cy Baron d'Andrian, his Excel /113eY Count Ludolf, ;be Marquis of Clanricarde, Lord ° ldea. Lord and Lady Holland, Lord de Manley, Ma ndeville. Seaford and AI; ts Hardy, Baron Koller, and Mr. .111adeville. A small it, - trty assembled after the banquet, tits Excellency Cheval tier Bunsen, his Excellency M. Van rVeyer, his Excelle tacy M. Gustave de Beaumont, his viscountess Count R4ir eel, Count Phalen, Viscount and .i.soountess Ebringti al, the Earl Granville, Lord Foley, "r Henry L. Bulwtrri the Hon. Miss Eden, &c., being ltralilog the visit ors . s F ATAL ACCIDE ST ON THE CITIZEN C., RI VER i ta ' rt AIIER.—Mr. held an inquest yesterday at th e gltratn Cheyne-wa! tk, Chelsea, on the body of William Howard, age ;d 23, helmsman of the Citizen C, - w ki „ .. _aro-boat, who me t with a singular accident whilst that on William 1 Ilitehell, the mate of the vessel, said the 01 1 Saturday a vetting last when the boat reached .140 Ladogan Pier, :Jhelsea, the word was given to "put tier astern," to gel t alongside the pier and land pas sengers. At such times it requires great force to hold the tiller and whil a the deceased and a boy were en deavouring to govt rn it, the wheel flew from their grasp, end one of the ham dies catching the deceased under tto Vaistcoast, and wb irling him up, flung him completely overboard. His body was not found for an hour. Wit ness attributed the a.zcident entirely to the great pressure of the water. He h: ad himself sometimes been unable to pvern the wheel wt ten the vessel was put astern. Ver ots "Accidental j hag)." Trip] WEDNRSDAY RE PTE MB ER O, /848, DEFENCE OF EA-MARTINE BY HIMSELF. [Now that Lamartine has condescended to rebut the calumnies by which his great acts of patriotism have been repaid, we are resolved to enable our readers to judge for themselves whether our estimation of biz, character has been or has not been erroneous. To this end we shall from day to day publish fragments of the " Defence"— translating our selves from the original as we proceed—giving in all their simplicity one of the slanders accompanied by its particular refutation. It is a satisfaction to know that the whole of the first edition of this important and remarkable brochure was bought up within the space L f a quarter of an hour. Such was the avidity evinced by the Parisians to peruse it, that the pamphlet su.ddenly became the rage' of the-French capital. All the interest previously felt as to the probability of an Italian invasion and a general war in Europe was for gotten—men spoke only, thought only, and talked only about the last production of the pen of this wonderful publicist., The pamphlet, it will be observed, appears in the form of a letter addressed to the electors of the ten departments, who chose Lamartine as their represen tative:— 1. Bouches-du-Rhone. 2. Cote-d'Or. 3. Dordogne. 4. Enlist are. 5. Gironde. 6. Ille•et-Vilaine. 7. Nord. 8. Soane-et-Loire. 9. Seine. 10. Seine-Inferieure. Nevertheless it must not be forgotten that this " Letter" is nothing more than an extract from a much larger publication, by M. de Lamartine, called "Three Months in Power"—a publication which will contain his Mani festo to the Departments, his Circular, and his Re ports, together with all his remarks and orations delivered since the 24th of February, both in the Cham ber and at the Hotel de Ville. We may observe that the introduction of the subject-matter in the corn" mencement of the letter comprises, among others, the following beautiful and significant pas sages:—" Citizens, the popularity which surrounded me without cause has retired from me without motive. . . . I have preserved silence for a long while, and should have done so always had my own re putation been alone concerned ; but you adopted me i❑ a moment of extraordinary imminence in token of the conformity of our opinions. I belong to you, therefore. It is necessary that you should not have reason to blush when they mention my name in your presence." It is thus that the illustrious writer ad dresses himself to the electors of the departments who proclaimed him the representative of the French people with the voci:erations of two million voices. Gold passing through the furnace is purified. Thus is it with Lamartine now that he has passed through the terrible furnace of calumnies—of those calumnies which he has himself scornfully called " the ordinary salaries of revolutions." The joy with which we now witness the complete vindication of the character of Alphonse de Lamartine is only surpassed by the satisfaction we experience in thinking that we have always (even in those moments when every eye regarded him either with suspicion as an administrator, or with abhorrence as a conspirator) recognised the glorious and incorruptible honesty of the hero-patriot and the poet-statesman.—ED, Sun.] FIRST ACCUSATION :—That I have been ardent in ambition, and feeble in the exercise of power during the interregnum and the dictatorship. I reply : The revolution of February surprised me, as it did the whole world. The Republican system, the Government of pure reason, was, in my opinion, an ideal more or less distant from the claims, from the reign, from the progress of the people. It was not a conjuration (the result of a conspiracy). I had no immediate aversion to constitu tional monarchy, no personal antipathy to the dynasty. I held myself apart from its favours—l simply witnessed its administration—behold ! that is all. Had its supremacy—some of the principles of which I held in estimation, such, for example, as its pre dilection in favour of peace—neither diminished nor corrupted freedom, I should not have hesitated to have afforded it my allegiance. When, however, the monarchy and the dynasty were abandoned by the People, by the National Guard, by the Chamber, and by the army, both of them fell at once from their own weakness in the course of a single moiety of a sitting. The days of royalty had disappeared, and it became only possible to pity it, and to fill up the place which it had left vacant. The people themselves first dis played the tokens of this honourable commiseration. They fought—they allowed royalty to escape—they did not condescend to one act of insolence. I remained isolated, pensive, silent, upon my bench (in the Chamber of Deputies), contemplating that abrupt catastrophe which did not leave one time enough to measure its profundity. Moved even to sadness by this calamity, and this new birth over helming a throne in a revolution, my heart strug gled within me against my reason. Several of the people and of the Deputies—though they may now have forgotten the circumstance—ap proached me, and, seizing my arm in order to rouse me from my abstraction, summoned me energetically to throw myself between anarchy and my mother land, calling me by name and impelling me to wards the tribune. From that tribune M. Odillon Barrot had just descended, from the exhaustion produced by his efforts to save the monarchy from destruction. A musket was levelled at my head from one of the gal leries, but an unknown hand struck up the muzzle. In a few syllables I proclaimed myself to be in favour of a Provisional Government—a Government which should grasp the crisis on the instant, so as to bring it under control. This Government gave augury, it is true, of a Republic, but it reserved to the Na tional Assembly that which I had expressed in my first words—that of which it could never be deprived, whether by faction, by seduction, or by acclamation —the full and sovereign sanction of the definitive form of government, such as might be suitable for the acceptance of the nation. The voices of the people and of those Deputies who still remained in the Chamber summoned me to designate myself the members of the Provisional Government. I refused. M. Dupont (de l'Eure), the natural dictator of public esteem, was carried, in spite of his modesty, to the chair of the presidency. He read the names which a tumultuous sitting had selected for the formation of the Government. We could not recognise in this sitting any other authority besides the authority of danger and devotion. This danger and this devotion formed our only title. They prevented us from resigning power, irregular though it was, into the hands of anarchy. "I ac cept this power by reason of the blood which flows, and which must be staunched at all price. , Those were my words : I find them recorded in the Moniteur. We marched at once to the Hotel de Ville, at the head of a procession of the people. We were carried under the shelter of sabres, and pikes, and bayonets, into the rooms stained with blood, encumbered with the dead and the wounded, even to the little table where the Government was organized. Even at that hour the great struggle commenced outside between the two republics; the one violent, inexorable, dictatorial, terrorist—in word, in act, and in colour ; the other, moderate, pacific, legal, unani mous, constitutional; between the Republic which you wish, and that which you do not wish. The first act of this terrorist republic, wrong both in manner and in time, was to wish to hoist its colours—the colours of blood. During two - days and two nights some of the armed advocates of this faction inundated from time to time the squares, the courts, and the halls of the Hotel de - Ville. They summoned us to give, on the instant, to the young republic the character, the attitude, and the insignia of the first revolution. My colleagues and myself resisted then, though we were in danger of our lives. Twenty times during those seventy-two hours I was roused, dragged, and carried to the doors, to the windows, to the railing of the stair cases, in the courts, upon the Place, to speak to those men of another epoch who interpreted so badly the wishes of the people, and to repulse those symbols of terrorism with which they desired to dishonour the Republic. You will call to mind those last words which decided the victory of the tricoloured ban ner ; they were thoughts which were already upon the lips of my colleagues, and in pro nouncing those words, I only gave to those thoughts utterance—" Citizens, the red flag which you offer to us has only made the tour of the Champs de Mars, trailed in the blood of the people ; the tri coloured flag, the flag which we wish to preserve to the Republic, has made the tour of the world with our courage, with our glory, and with cur libertie s !" Is there in all this, I ask, anything like the premedi tated ambition of a past whose peril had thrown us all (like the forlorn hope of the Revolution) into the very breach of society ? Is there in all this a token of feebleness ? Is there in it the evidence of a compli city with terrorism ? Answer me! ASIITON.—The prompt and energetic measures lately adopted by the authorities to suppress sedition in this place have happily been most successful. All at tempts to carry on the Chartist agitation have been abandoned; and even those who, immediately after the late arrests, kept up the public alarm by meeting during the night in the fields, through the unwearied vigilance of the police have been completely put down. There pro rumours that the nightly meetings are secretly held, but they must he without foundation, as the fields and moors are constantly watched, and no trace whatever has been seen. We are sorry to learn that as yet no trace has been obtained to the murderers of Bright, the police man, John Hudson, Morpeth-bridge-eni, Northumberland, farmer. James Cornelius Houghton, Great Yarmouth, Norfo:k. IVilliArn Stanly, Dark-lane, Shropshire, railway exca vator. John \Vhicker, Southleigh, Devonshire, er-house keeper. Samuel Freeman, Lowestoft, Suffolk, tailor. John Rice, Woolpit, Suffolk, labourer. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION. J. Auckland,.Elgin, horse dealer, to meet within the Gordon Arms Hotel, Elgin, Sept. 12 and Oct. 4, at two. most disastrous. The dread of being removed to a cholera hospital causes the majority of the poor to con ceal their illness till they are be end the reach of cure. As the object of the Health Committee is to save lire, and not to destroy it, I am sure they will I meet the difficulties of the case in the way most effec tual for the former purpose, and doing least violence to the feelings or even prejudices of the p0..,r. I have also already stated, in my pamphlet, that the precautionary measures to be adopted, and the necessary remedies and appliances to be employed in the cure of cholera, must be provided for, with a view to their applicability to patients in their own houses. I have also given ample directions to guide the mil authorities in this matter: The preparations there recommended are absolutely necessary. A malignant case of cholera could not, by possibility, be cured without the external application of heat to the bodies of the patients by solid substances such as I have there recommended ; and in the majority of cases, there would be no opportunity of procuring these in the houses of the poor. The necessity, therefore, of being plovided with such materials, ready prepared, at the different dispensaries, is too obvious to require comment. As it is admitted that the disease is not contagious, why not be prepared to admit a casual vagrant, destitute pauper into the ho,pitals already Cxisting i❑ towns., as in the case of accidents? I may here explain, for the information of the ge neral reader, that the advantagee derived from the external heat applied to the body of a patient in cholera, is not merely its effect in exciting perspira tion, but it has the effect of restoring the electro producing functions of the body in a remarkable de gree. The instantaneous relief and improvement of strength experienced by the patient on the heat being applied, even before any perspiration has flowed, the electric effect (if I may eo speak) could not Le satisfactorily- accounted for on any other principle. I again repeat it, and I beg the medical profession to bear it in mind, that a malignant case of cholera could not, by possibility, be cured without the external applica tion of such hot substances as I have described. This fact I have proved, in the presence of medical witnesses, in above a hundred instances. This, then, is the grand distinguishing feature of my mode of treatment. This leads me to remark, that the editor of the Economist is in error when he alleges that my mode of treatment differs from others only in the larger dose of opium, for, says he, others recommend the horizontal posture and perspiration too. Had the editor of the Economist been a medical man he would not have said so. I wish the editor to understand that the ordinary sudorific medicines which are prescribed with a view to produce perspiration in other diseases, when their use appears to be indicated, would be altogether inadmissible in cholera; and they have never been employed in the early stages of cholera by any sensible or skilful practitioner. Neither has perspiration itself been ever, as such, recommended as a meane of cure in cholera. The fact is, spontaueous profuse perspiration is one of the characteristic features of a malignant case of the disease. On the first watery diEcharge from the bowels, a profuse perspiration breaks out over the body ; it is not, therefore, likely that the profession, unacquainted with the true nature of the disease, would recommend perspiration as a means of cure. Now, the peculiar feature of my mode of treat ment is the immediate application of hot substances round different parts of the body, and one of its e fli.cts is a warm perspiration; another of its effects, of equal, if not of greater importance, is the restoration of the electro , producing functions of the body. This latter effect is indicated and proved by the suddenness of its action, by the instantaneous relief from the painful sense of weakness and sinking felt about the heart and stomach, and from the suddenness with which the feelings of horror and despair give place to those of the most cheeringconfidence. Ano ther distinguishing feature of my mode of cure is, that I order these hot applications in the earliest stage of the disease—the moment the first symptoms matsifest them selves, no matter, as I have stated in my pamphl-t, in what state the practitioner may find his patient. If the temperature of the body be higher than natural, the perspiration will equalise it ; if lower than natural, the hot applications will raise it to that point ; and if the body be covered with a cold, clammy perspiration, the heat will change it to a warm one. True, in the collapse stage, when the body becomes as cold as a mass of ice, all practitioners, more or less, instinctively order heat, in various ways to be ap plied to their cold patients; but this is altogether another affair; it is not applied, even hero, by them as a cure, but merely as a means of alleviating painful 5) mptoms. From a work on cholera before me, I quote an extract, from which the reader will be able to form au opinion of the extent of the views with which medical writers on cholera have recommended the application of heat to patients in the collapse stage. Atter having described the icy coldness of patients in that stage, the writer recommends the spirit vapour apparatus to be placed over the patient's body in that cold stage, and then pro ceeds to give his reasons for doing so. " Every one knows that without a certain degree of heat we must surely die; the absence of this alone then would prove the certain cause of death in cholera. No other reason need be ur k !ed for employing it." The editor of the Economist is also greatly in error if he supposes that I published my pamphlet with a view to encourage the people to quack themselves. The observations in my pamphlet were primarily intended For the medical profession; but, in addressing myself to the profession, I took special care, as every one in writing on such a subject should do, to express myself in such language as should make my views and reasoning intelligible to the lowest capacity. How could this encourage "self-quackery ?" it should have directly an opposite effect. I did not conceal the danger from the patient, neither did I exaggerate it, for this I could not do. If I told him that an attack might be so malignant as; to prove fatal in half an hour, was this calculated to encourage him to dispense with medical attendance ? %Then I pledged my professional character on the infallibility of the mods of treat ment I have described, I did so only on the condition that the mode of cure should be sufficiently early, actively, vigorously, and skilfully carried into opera tion. This could be accomplished only by a skilful medical practitioner. I need scarcely soy, for mysel', that there is no man living more opposed to " self quackery" than I am, and am sure that no medical man doubts me on that score. I feel confident, how ever, that the editor of the Economist will agree with me, that every family in the kingdom should be possessed of a copy of my pamphlet; that they should read it over, medical even v a e l n advice,wn sent e u n t t fort will i sann a ysoe l p s cnoe o eoanst i kesnbii instruct r i:lultote bhfh t eoe t mri h lneoy e e.fs m :t and study it, till they make themselves perfectly ac quainted with all the symptoms and characters of the disease, so that they may become able to detect even the first symptoms of it, when they should then instantly send for their medical attendant; and, also, that they may be able to know what to take in the meantime, to check the progress of the symptoms till the medical at tendant arrives. The fact is, the safety of the lives of the people depends on their, without one week's delay, possessing themselves of a copy of my pamphlet, so that they may have time to become thoroughly ac quainted with the nature and character of the dis ease before it arrives. The pamphlet will not only inform them when it will be necessary to send for ownwwetwi hdnh of o a apf t nrmb t oh o aec u d nuec o grs. till their medical attendant arrives. The medical attend may elapse be!bre he come; the patient may be dead in the interval, it he know not what steps he should take tb and,r h ai withms ownawGa aware ead thates tyb• blessing, e s ns T i tr h i hg e u, timely instructed by the pamphlet requires no argu ment. Using this precaution not one life need be lost, himself' master of, and vigorously adopts, the directions I I tio h n a , ve l shall, given ' with the illiberal and narrow-minded, expose myself to the imputation of being actuated solely by a desire to puff and sell it. lam content to be so accused, having a heartfelt consciousness that I have no such motive, and a thorough conviction, on which I am willing to pledge reputation and life itself, that by the general adoption of the measures and treatment I have recom mended, this terrible disease will be divested of half its horrors, and thousands of lives will be saved. Should the editors of the public press believe that the public interest would be served while the country is menaced with such a calumny, by copying this letter from your columns and republishing it, I feel confident they will do so.—l have the honour to be, gentlemen, your obedient and obliged servant, s t c l i A a n W o T f e 0 Belfast ßNE, M.D., General Hospital. GEOlratEe Senior A P R h T y 61, St. Anne-street, Liverpool, Aug. 14, 1848. THE HARVEST. With the drawback of a few showers, the weather during the week has been favourable for the work of the reaper, and the cheering work of harvest ie now going on vigorously around Inverness. Barley and oats are falling all round about, and the harvest will now go on uninterruptedly to its close, should the weather continue favourable.— Inverness Cout ier. From all that we can learn from others, and deter mine by personal observations, says the Perth Advertiser, the potato disease upon the whole is making little or no progress. In some places, where a month or six weeks ago, the " spot on the leaf" and partial black ening of the haulm, pointed out, as was thought, the certainty of the murrain, a renovation of the crop has succeeded, and dissipated or moderated every fear as to an uufavourable result. We frequently hear that matters this year, as regards the potatoes, are worse than in 1847. We have no reason to think so, as regards this part of the country. The same paper thus notices the progress of the harvest in the Highlands : In bulk, the crops will be an average, especially oats, peas, and beans. The fine weather which has prevailed for the last few days has done much to benefit the crops in the upland parts of the country. Harvest in the neighbourhood of Kelso is fast coming to a termination, and much of the grain brought under the sickle has been caned to tho barn-yards in excellent condition, Although the yield cannot as yet be correctly ascertained, it is generally ad mitted that the white crops will be under an average. The potatoes in this locality are strong and healthy, and of first rate quality.—Kelso Chronicle. BERWICKSIIIRE.—The work of the harvest is now general in this district. The report of the crops almost universally is, that in quantity they are fair, nei ther to be complained nor boasted of, while in qua lity they aro faultless. Barley is decidedly the best crop ; oats ere generally good, and in some cases are decidedly a great crop; while respecting wheat it is still reported to be light, and short in produce, though in some parts of Berwickshir e the crop is in every spect good. The turnips, for which the weather has been very favourable, are a splendid crop. The disease in the potatoes, which we announced. a few weeks ago as then observed, has not made any serious pr ogress, ne does the alarm appear to be g eneral in this glabour r hood.— Be 7 wick Advei tiser. Since our last the weather, to which s) much conse quence is now attached, has been exceedingly broken till yesterday, when there was an excellent harvest day. Little progress hes consequently been made, but there is a good deal of corn ready for the sickle. We are glad to state that, upon the whole the potatoes are standing out better than was anticipated. This time laA year, every field almost was blackened, but at present few indeed show much of it, and if the potatees continue as they are, there will be no dearth of this valuable esculent. In Inverness-shire harvest operations are proceeding, and were it not for the broken weather this week, would have been general.—Ross-shire Towards the close of the present week the weather has improved considerably, so that harvest operations, which were greatly retarded by the heavy rains that prevailed for some time, are now being prosecuted with vigour. Thursday, Friday, and to-day, we have had excellent harvest weather, and a great deal of reaping has conse quently been going on. In the low-lands the crops are tally one half cut, and in the west country, of both wheat and oats, there will be an average yield as compared with previous years. Wheat, however, is likely to be a little inferior in quality, from the b ngth of time it has been in ear before becoming fully ripe, but the quantity, it is expected, will be consider able. Of beans there is a fair crop, and a considerable breadth grown. With respect to the potato, we may state that the latest accounts from different quarters of the country confirm the remarks we have elsewhere inserted, as to the partial nature of the disease. One geotletran in this neighbourhood has in formed us that, having lifted nine bags of early potatoes, he had only from two to three pecks of diseased in addi tion, and in these the disease was so slight that it would not injure the tubers for the use of cattle. Itidepe ndent of the disease, he remarked the crop of ,ound tubers was more than an average for the breadth of ground they were lifted from. This, we believe, has been the general result of the examinations of farce, rs around this quarter of the country. In travelling over a large prtion of :Scotland lately, we remarked that there is not such a breadth of the potato planted anywhere else as in the west country. The farmers in other districts seem not to have entered into potato growing with the same spirit as those in this neighbourhood.— Glasgow Saturday Post. Wednesday was alternately wet and dry, some of the showers being very heavy, and, we believe, accompanied by thunder. Thursday was fine, but yesterday was dull and lowering. As the barometer, however, is rather tending upward, we would hope harvest operations will not be impeded. The recent rains have done no in jury beyond retarding the progress of cutting ; while turnips and pastures have been greatly benefited by the moisture. The grain crop generally is not so buikly as anticipated, the general opinion being that it will prove below an average. In some particular districts we are informed the produce will be greatly beyond an average, while in others it will be as much below, both in quantity and quality. The potato disease is not in creasing in this quarter. In fact, there is so little of it that had not the failure in 1846 naturally made growers anxious and easily excited by the slightest indication of a return of that visitation, all that has appeared this season in this quarter would in other circumstances have been treated as unworthy of notice.—Seoisnian. Since Monday last we have been favoured with unin terrupted fine weather, which has had a most beneficial , effect upon the wheat crops. The harvest is in a forward state in this district ; a considerable quantity of wheat has been cut, some has been housed, and all is fit or nearly so for the sickle. We repeat what we formerly stated respecting the potato crop. The plant every where appears healthy and vigorous, and we greatly doubt whether there has been in this country any in stance of disease to cause the slightest anxiety.—Dur ham Chronicle. It is with no little satisfaction that we have to an nounce the all but completion of the harvest in this dis trict, and, upon the whole, we may add, as propitious as we could have reasonably desired. The crops generally have cut up well, and we have now secured the benefit of a good and cheap loaf for the ensuing year.—Derby shire Courier. Though a good deal of rain has fallen in the course of the present week, chiefly at night, the weather, on the whole, has not been very unfavourable to the cutting of corn, and fully one-half of the crops, in the best parts of the county, have fallen before the sickle. There are signs of improvement, and a fortnight's tine warm dry weather would place the crops of all sorts of grain out of the reach of danger. We are still able to report fa vourably as regards the potato crop in this part of Cum berland.—Carlisle Patriot. We have to be thankful fcr a wctk of remarkably fine weather, and it is gratifying to find that it has been nearly general throughout the country, and has also ex tended to Ireland. Reaping is now quite general, and in some parts considerable quantities bave been secured in good condition, and if the present weather continue, of w hick there is every prospect, in another week the bulk of the fields in this neighbourhood will be cleared. —Newcastle Chronicle. It is with extreme reluctance and regret that we state, from personal examination, that a considerable portion of the wheat crop has been irretrievably damaged in this part of the kingdom. Up to Tuesday, many tanners in this part of the country had been unable to carry a single sheaf; but there it stood, on such a wet warm day as Sunday, exposed to the constant rain. Others have got in large quantities of corn, and set the threshing machines at work as hard and as rapidly as possible. The grain is released without much difficulty from the chaff; but it is so full and wet thA it has been found necessary to kiln-dry all that has been threshed.—Brigh , ton Herald. The wtnther has been this week gloriously fine and genial, with the exception of the afternoon and night of Thursday, when the air was cold, and several rather heavy showers fell. The process of housing the wheat has gone on vigorously throughout the district. Save in the high and bleak localities border lug Breconshire and Radnorshire, where the harvest is just beginning, there is very little wheat now in the field. The other groin crops arc in excellent condition, barley especially. ' The rotat , a crop continues to decay slowly. Turnips look exceedingly well. The hop does not make much progress, notwithstanding the fine weather of the pre sent week. The previous cold rain, and the storm of last week, seem to have effectually checked the burr. However fine the weather may be now, the burr is al most certain to be small. The duty for the district has not advanced beyond 14,0001., to which it tell last week from 20,0001., the sum previously named.-11cre- Aril limes. ZIT t)Vo ' 6 '4171/btttO it FRANCE. It was resolved in the Twelfth Standing Com mittee of the National Assembly, on Monday, that the palters found in the Palace of the Tuileries should be separated into two classes, that all family docu ments shall be respected, and that all writings of a political character shall be published. SWITZERLAND. The Augsburg Gdzette has letters from Berne, stating that, according to the information hitherto received, the acceptance of the new Federal Consti tution by 12 cantons may be assumed as certain — viz , by Zurich, St. Gall, Schaffhausen, Glaris, the Grisons, Thurgau, Anargau, Lucerne, Berne, So leure, Basle, and Geneva. Valais is still doubtful. Zug has rejected it. It. is expected that Schwyz, Uri, and Unterwalden will also reject it. Traldt and Tessino will accept it. The result in Neuf chatel is doubtful. The Grand Council of Frei burg has resolve d not to submit the Federal Constitution to the people, but had itself declared in favour of it "in the name of the people." The number of acceptors already amount to upwards of 120,000 against some 40,000 dissentients. The authorities of Berne have given instructions for the economical support of the Italian refugees at the expense of the State whenever private charity shall be found insufficient. General THIARD, the French Ambassador, has intimated to the President of the Vorort that in future the Lombard refugees will not be refused admission into France. The Government of Uri has stationed a watch on Mount St. Gothard for the purpose of repelling the Italian fugitives, un less provided with passports and one louis-d'or for travelling expenses. RUSSIA. The Independence Beige says:—" We have received, via Germany, the confirmation of an important piece of intelligence. It is to the effect that the Government of Russia has really addressed to the Cabinet of London a note, in which it declares that it recognizes Austria as the sole and legitimate possessor of Lombardy. The Russian Government consequently expresses a hope that it cannot be the object of a mediation, if it is to take place, to despoil Austria of her possession, and that the result of the negotiations, on the contrary, will be the preservation to that power, if not of the whole, at all events the major portion of the territories appertaining to it in Italy. The importance of this note need not be insisted on. Austria finds in it a support which cannot but render her more repugnant to the idea of the Angle-Gallican intervention, or which, if she accept the offered mediation, will induce her to be very exacting in her terms." HESSE-DARMSTADT. --- A serious disturbance broke out on the 31st ult. at Giessen, between the students and the Burgher Guard. It VMS provoked by the arrest of a drunken student. The collegians, after having severely wounded the Guard with stones, &c., and broke their rattles, were repulsed at the point of the bayonet. They afterwards raised a barricade, which was taken by the citizens. They were eventually dispersed, but not before one of their number was mortally wounded. STATE OF TRADE. MANCHESTER, TUESDAY.—The market to. day was firmer and more cheerful, although it did not exhibit that marked improvement which many persons had anticipated from the more favourable prospects of the harvest, and from the settlement of the Schleswig- Holstein question, respecting which little doubt ap pears to be now entertained. The non-arrival, during the hours of business, of the Hamburgh mail, and the again unsettled state of the weather, would have some influence in checking business. The demand for yarn was more active than for some time past; and on low counts a slight advance on the prices of Tuesday last was, in some instances, obtained. For goods, also, there was more inquiry, and a steady business was done. Although no actual advance took place in prices, there was a decided ten dency to improvement, the prices asked by manufac turers a week ago being pretty easily obtained. ROCHDALE, MONDAY. We have had a brisk market to-day, and flannels were eagerly bought up at last week's prices. The wool market remains in active, the manufacturers purchasing as if they expected the raw material to be obtainable at yet lower prices. HUDDERSFIELD, TUESDAY.—The market to-day has been well attended by buyers, and goods of the best qualities have been freely purchased. The ware houses have been also busily engaged during the week, and there is everything to justify the hope that we shall have a good autumn trade. Haurax, SATURDAY.—AIthough the weather has become more cheering, and the price of corn is re ceding, yet we cannot note any improvement in the demand for worsted goods, either plain or figured. Neither have we to record any alteration in the yarn trade, NN Well remains much the same as stated in our last report. Wool continues to sell rather more freely, and the staplers are asking a trifling advance on some of the sorts that are most in request. LEEDS, TUESDAY.—The state of our market con tinues satisfactory. The fine weather improves the prospects for a very good home trade in the autumn, and other causes of a political tendency infuse a better spirit into our commercial community generally. — Manchester Guardian of this day. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE OF TUESDAY. DIVIDENES. At the Court, Basinghall-street. R. Harmer, Spital. square, silk-manufacturer, Sept. 26, at half-past one—R. Parker, Anderton, Cheshire, wharfinger, Sept. 27, at one—W. West, London-terrace, Hackney road, linendraper, Sept. 27, at one. In the Country. J. White, Exeter, decorative painter, Sept. 28, at one, at the Court, Exeter—R. Bosustew, Redruth, Cornwall, grocer, Sept. 28, at one, at the Court, Exeter—W . Dingley, Bridgwater, Somersetshire, victualler, Sept. 28, at one, at the Court, Exeter—W. Carter, Exeter, innkeeper, Sept. 28, at one, at the Court, Exeter—H. A. Stewart, Liverpool, shipbroker, Sept. 29, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool—W. Turnbull, Newcastle-upon- Tyne, victualler, Sept. 28, at eleven, at the Court, New castle• upon-Tyne. NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES. At the Court, Basingball-street. T. Kent, Great Bringham, Northamptonshire, timber merchant, Sept. 30, at half-past eleven—S. Carroll, Mincing-lane, broker, Sept. 30, at eleven—T. Partridge and J. Jordan, Luton, Bedfordshire, wine merchants, Sept. 27, at eleven. In the Country. G. Pringle, Gateshead, Durham, letter press printer, 1 , Sept. 27, at eleven , at t he Court, Newcastle-upon-'ryne— ' T. Jobling, High Conside, Durham, grocer, Sept. 28, at half-past ten, at the Court, Newcastle-upon-Tyne--J. Mitchell, Feock, Cornwall, merchant, Sept. 27, at eleven, at the Court, Exeter—J. Wynn, Falmouth, coal mer chant, Sept. 27, at eleven, at the Court, Exeter—W. Drinkwater, Liverpool, draper, Sept. 29, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool—H. W. Lowry and J. B. Brown, Liver pool, brokers, Sept. 29, at eleven, at the Court, Liver pool—W. Henderson, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, tin plate manufacturer, Sept. 28, at half-past ten, at the Court, Birmingham. At the Court of Review, Sept. 26. J. S. Whittaker, Salford, Lancashire, wine dealer— W. Wheatley, Burted, Sussex, wheelwright—Martha Serle, Aberavon, Glamorganshire, licensed victualler — C. L. Jones and R. Cole, Oxford-street, cheesemongers —J. Boyce, Birmingham, umbrella furniture manu facturer—W. Howitt, Strand, bookseller—R. J. Day, Halstead, Essex, wine merchant—W. Mayle, Liverpool, clerk—L. S. Butler, Ludgate-hill, and City-road-basin, stationer. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. 11. Hudson and W. Gibson, Liverpool, ship brokers — W. Sims, H. Hudson, and W. Gibson, Liverpool, ship wrights—C. Peat, R. Peat, J. Peat, and A. Peat (so far as regards C. Peat), Manchester, engravers to calico printers —T. Every and J. Leatheby, Devonport, drapers and ha berdashers—E. Strutt, J. Strutt, A.R. Strutt, and J. Strutt, Belper, Milford, and Derby, Derbyshire, cotton manufac turers—H. Ward and A. Bullough, Eecleshill, Lanca shire, power loom cloth manufacturers—J. K. Blackwell and S. H. Blackwell, Dudley, Worcestershire, iron and coalmasters—C. Bryant and J. T. Simmons, Bristol, curriers and leather sellers—G. Houghton and H. Houghton, Birmin g h am , h a berdashers—Eleanor Davi s and J. Davis, Whitehaven, Cumberland, grocers a nd teadealers—R. c a a n s d h re . , A. cotton an s iord, spinners ß a F. Leach (so far J. Henderson, L. Baldwin, and as regards L. Baldwin), Enfield, Lan tha,ndattmoranneuyr a tu t r l e a r w s- - R W . .C B o ti t o u carpentersd s e T y . s t Rawson,r ee t H er or s c l a o s y n y e .r - q ß u e a r r me Shearer,, Bai ley and J. R. Keatley, Upper George-street, Bryan stone-square, oeJane np Shearerdor pork B butchers u t ch Lan ,(esr (so s far as regards W. Shearer), Sheffield, manufacturers of railway and coach springs—R. Melcirura, J. Meldrum, ' and J. Meldrum Kendal, Westmorl an d, n urser y m en and seedsmen — S. Marshall and W. Simpson, Bradford, Yorkshire, tea and coffee dealers—P. Hansen, E. S. Jobson, and H. Hansen, Ilartlepool and Newcastle upon-'ryne, merchants and ship brokers—E. Norwood and R. D. J. Evans, Hertford, surgeons and apothecaries —T. Smith and W. Parker, Leeds, engineers and white smiths—J. Leonard and D. Taylcr, Henbury, Glouces tershire, millers—T. Chandler and C. White, Liverpool, cart-owners —G. Batters, J. Stammers, and G. Morton (so far as regards J. Stammers), St. John's-wharf, Mill. bank- street, Westminster, coal merchants and w bartin gers—S. Stone and C. Stallard, Overbury, Worcester shire, silk-throwsters. INSOLVENT PETITIONERS. Thomas Clinch, Shinglewell, Kent, farmer. William James Bryant, Weston-super-Mare, Somerset shire, tailor. William Johnston, Wigton, Cumberland, innkeeper. William Jones, Margram, Glamorganshire, labourer. Henry Mowday, Folkestone, Kent. Thomas Walters, Honiton, Devonshire, boot and shoe maker. Richard Field, Redditch, Worcestershire, needle mann ' Abetting. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. TIMES.—It is now nearly ten months ago since the Sovereign of these realms addressed the assembled members of an infant Parliament. They met—several of them for the first time—under no ordinary circum stances. It was a time of pressure, of dejection, and gloom. It was a time pregnant with calamity to may a respectable family. with dishonour to many a respect able firm. In three months fell the fortunes and hopes of thousands. But it England was then sufferieg much, Ireland was suffering more. Rioandism had been con secrated by popular combination into Thuggee. Murder inspired the sympathies a the people, and too often en joyed the sanction of their priests. All was gloomy and foreboding then. But who could have predicted the more awful calamities of which all that was endured then was but a foreshadowing and an augury? To those xho yes terday saw the Sovereign meet the Assembly which she had convoked, and heard her thank them for a laborious attendance of unparalleled length, there was much in the ceremony that had a meaning beyond the splendour addrgenssiefidedth reproach Pnezls t o inhe i of a pageant and the brilliance of a raree-show. When last her Majesty alluded in terms of di with the King of the French. Yesterday there stood beside her Throne — distinguished from the glittering n s e ° ltio 13 ; she ns corps of Ministers and diplomatists by the comparative plainness of their attire—the exiled sons of that exiled Monarch, whose ruin was precipitated by the fatal am bition which had made him deaf not only to the precepts of strict honour, but to the promptings of true interest. Around her crowded the Ministers and Representatives of States and Governments whose existence now trem bles in the scale of destiny. And close to the Royal person, wielding with feeble arm the sword of State, and bowed by the weight of nearly eighty years, stooped the soldier who had helped to rear the crumbling edifice of continental monarchies, and had pui his seal and sign to treaties and nationalities which .he was destined to outlive! And if it were strange for the victor of Waterloo to contemplate the exiled occupants of that throne which his own right arm had rescued for another, but not less unprosperous, race, it fell not less strangely on the ears of the descendants of Capet when the Queen of a constitutional monarchy gave her fiat to the deliberate will of her English Commons in the tradi tionary language of the Norman William. Nor less curious is it that while France is "taking the lead in civilization" by enunciating the dogmas of her twentieth constitution, MM. Guizot and Louis Blanc, the authors and victims of two rival revolutions, by a curious coinci dence should attend at the sittings of a Parliament which has preserved its unwritten usages without the necessity of dogmas or the dictation of revolutions ! Who that looked upon that gorgeous ceremony could fail to moralize upon the text it supplied—upon the instability of fortune, the crash of nations, and the vanity of human wisdom? But what Englishman could suppress a self complacent thrill, as he saw the old forms and heard the old words in which his country has made her laws for eight hundred years repeated in the presence of a be dizened throng sent from every capital of Europe to sue for a generous neutrality or a peaceful intervention. The Queen's speech is always less pleasant in its retro spections than its promises. This year the inauguration of Parliament was melancholy enough. B ut i t cannot be forgotten that the promises of Ministers were also copious enough. There was Ireland to be looked to ; there was a sanitary reform to be proposed and enacted ; there were the navigation-laws to be overhauled ; there were the West India colonies to be relieved and reiressed ; then there were the usual vague " remedial measures" for Ireland to be considered. Well, Ireland has been looked to. An Arms Bill was passed in the early part of the session. At a later period a Coercion Bill was passed, with a unanimity which was itself no less effec tive than the powers which it committed to the Govern ment, and no less signal as a contradiction of the time honoured maxims of its authors. The Queen has con gratulated In r Parliament on the enactment of an In cumbered Estates Bill. But the Ball is not what its authors professed it ought to be, and promised that it should be. She has con gratulated them on their sanitary Bill. Is this any thing like the measure which at the commencement re ceive the approval of the Cabinet? The progress of this Act from the 10th of February, when it appeared labelled as " A Bill to promote the Public Health, price 8d.," to its final and full-grown development on the 27th of July, as " A Bill, as amended by the Lords, entitled An Act for Promoting the Public Health, price I s.," — with every possible change in the terms of its clauses, and every imaginable alteration in the constitution of its functionaries—displays an irresolution and a weak ness of purpose which the fourfold budget and the thrice altered West India scheme can neither extenuate nor efface. We have spoken of the administrative acts of the Ministry. They were acts of necessity and of cou rage. But in their conception, no less than their execu tion, they were animated, or rather they were antici pated, by the mind and spirit of the country. To quote Mr. Disraeli again, Parliament treats 'the Ministry as the villagers treated Don Quixote ; it is aware of their weakness, but it respects them. But Ministers should not presume on this. The English nation likes any Government better than no Govern ment at all ; but it infinitely prefers a strong Govern ment to a weak one. And it especially dislikes a Govern ment of infirm purposeand immature counsels—a Govern ment which takes five months to bring a measure from its introduction to its close—which interweaves twenty five arithmetical blunders with the first, and nine the last stage of a financial scheme—and which, being admitted to possess great talents and good intentions, gives no proof of the former and no scope to the latter, through its carelessness, its disunion, or its propensity to promise too much. " The strength of our instate tutions," in the words of the Queen's speech, " has been tried, and has not been found wanting." But, as the House of Commons has already been reminded, there are things more formidable than midnight clubs and secret societies; and that which no lawless confederation could accomplish a weak Government might earn the infamy of having done. POST.—It is impossible for us to congratulate the fascinating community of Cheltenham upon having elected Mr. Grenville Berkeley to represent them in the House of Commons; still, however, there is something upon which to congratulate them—we mean their escape from being represented by Mr. Bickham Escott. That would indeed have been a disgrace which all the waters of Cheltenham would have been insufficient to wash out. We admire the delicate ta s te of the 842 who gave him their votes. What happy conceptions they must h ave of the sort of honour , consistency, and modesty which entitle a man ambitious of public station to the The con fidence of an " enlightened constituency 1" course of Mr. Bickham Escott's public life has the b ee n remarkable for these two things first, rude violence with which he insisted on the sound ness and certainty of his own views as a Protectionist; and, secondly, the extravagance of his ser vile protesta tions in the very opposite direction , when Sir Robert Peel (at that time the dispenser of patronage) became a renegade' to the principles and the party of which he had been the advocate and the leader. Mr. Escott at one time affected to be a particularly zealous cham pion of the landed interest, but when Sir Robert Peel surrendered to Cobden, Mr. Escott showed no sympathy with the land, save in his eagerness toe eat dirt. In that 'particular his prowess is unqustionable. The lecture of this gentleman to the inhabitants of Cheltenham upon the propriety of choosing repre sentatives who would keep their promises must have been highly edifying. Perhaps the practical lesson taught him by the electors of Winchester on the subject of promise-breaking may have led him to think that he was qualified to impart knowledge on the subject. But let us do the gentlemen justice. In one thing he is almost 'sublime. His effrontery is transcen dental. When twitted with having voted against repeal of the corn-laws as well as in favour of their repeal, he begged to know whether, if he In in i office office by voting for the repeal of th e corn-laws in 1843, , t Sir o l R. Peel cut Sir R. Peel would have been a ble to carry the repeal in 1846 ? Who can approac h this ? Mr. Eseott was in 1843 a furious, red-hot Protectionist; but blame hi m thatHe was he e only acting not, ye gentlewater-quaffing Free-traders had put f Cheltenham. of 1846! Admirable Escott! But of s uch stuff are the m en made who think themselves entitle d to the favour of the new popular constituencies create d b Y the Refor m Act of 1832. carry a t p h s e rtt repealo keep oftl3. Sire eOlt . . I'eel w sn rn DR. HAWTHORNE ON CHOLERA. TO TAE EDITORS OF THE " LIVERPOOL MERCURY." Gentlemen,—lss it a time to linger in the path of d u ty when the destroying angel is winging its rapid fli g ht to o ur shores? Do not the exigencies of the occasion demand that the talents a nd energies of all s h ou ld b e p th u e t l i t n ve r s eq e u f is th it e io pe entooede?visisTeetehdel, beat means cans of preserving offer y an.. apology for solic itin g a space in your paper at this alarming crisis? I My attention has b een directed to a re port of the Cholera 1 Liverpool officer of health, entitled " The Precautions . providing of aExpedientpyearing i with n i, i ßeference verpooi tp tithe is h P e o d s s i i b n ili t y °[ to o the actually Your paper of 1 ju ln in : d t ati h o a n pp: n ni al is u a r ri e Yn and cure find that fnuorttherrecornenwdhatthe strict accord ance be merely Friday last, and 0 I cases home that the ta lented author has expressed an opinion that patients choleradit that r e e es treatment i t s t m s u ra e t er t n ,ylll 1 , to:siat:oniradtd:ol .the hos bef those impracticable, by their re sacmco maaffectednocytia with ittoh w with cholera shoousl3llidteasl w t. : Ti n e lhvidi views oo u fp s t t i h a n l ei n o disease. In any encouraging placardsissued by the Health Committee, such as have been wisely recommended by their excellent officer, I would respectfully suggest that an assurance be given that no one be sent to an hospital who can be possibly treated in his own house By doing this, they will easily persuade the poor to give timely notice of their illness, which will afford the medical attendants every facility o f treating their cases with success. In my pamphlet on cholera, lately published, to which I beg to refer the reader, I have already stated that hospitals for the reception of cholera patients are worse than useless; that to remove a patient affected with cholera from his own habitation, however humble, to an hospital, is utterly out of the question, such a step being totally incompatible with the ascertained proper method of cure. The evil, however, sloes not rest even here ; the moral effect produced by them - on the general community, is THE ARMY. SEPTEMBER s.—This morning, a detachment of the 4th Regiment (King's Own), consisting of three ser geants, four corporals, and two drummers, and eighty rank and file, with seven women and ten children, marched into Brompton Barracks, near Chatham, from Gravesend, at which place they disembarked from the ship Thetis, from India. This detachment is from Madras, and sailed for Englacd on the 12th of April last. Lieutenant A. Vaughan, D. Harris, and Lieut. J. Cowell Bartley, and two officers in charge of the troops. The head-quarters of this regiment are on board the ship London, it having embarked on the sth of April, and is expected daily. Thomas Goodfellow and henry Boot, two privates of the 4th Regiment belonging to the Def Ot, were com mitted yesterday by the county magistrates, at Rochester, fur stealing a silver watch, chain, and key, belonging to private Charles Burns, of the same corps. The prisoners were apprehended on Thursday last, at noon, by Ser geant John Brennan, of the 22d Regiment, who is the lock-out sergeant for deserters on the Rainham-road. They were both dressed as labourers. Ile took them to Chatham Barracks as deserters, and they were then charged with the robbery. The prisoners offered the watch for sale to Mr. Crittenden, at Chatham. The prisoners were removed to 'Maidstone gaol to take their trials. THE WEATHER.—The weather since our last has been unusually one; and the temperature has been much higher and more seasonable than for some time past, though it has net, even for the last few days. been at all high, considering the time of the year. Saturday, Sunday, and Monday were entirely without rain, and although some rain fell about noon yesterday, 0.0 afternoon and evening were clear and bright. The temperature, which on Friday last was only 61 deg., rose on Saturday to 69 deg.; and was on Sunday and Mon day, respectively. 65 deg. and 68 deg. It will be seen by the following return, by electric telegraph, from the places undermentioned, at seven o'clock yesterday morn ing, that the fine weather has been general throughout the country :—Glasgow, S. fine; Edinburgh, S.S.E. fine; Newcastle, N.E. very fine; York, S.E. by E. fine; Hull, E.S.E. very fine; Normanton, S.W. fine; Leeds, S.E. very fine; Manchester. S.S.W. fine; Liverpool, S.S.W. very fine ; Lincoln, S.E. fine ; Norwich, S.W. fine ; Peterborough , S.S .W. _ fine ; Brandon, S.E. fine; Yarmouth, S. fine; Lowestoffe, S. fine; Not tingham, N. fine; Derby, N.W. very fine; Leicester, S. very fine; Birmingham, S. by E. moderately fine; Rugby, S.E. very fine; London, S.W. very fine; Chelmsford, S. fine; Gosport, S. fine; Poole, E. very fine; Southampton, S.E. fine; Gloucester, S. fine; Cambridge, S.W. fine; Chesterfield, W. fine; Spetchley, W. very fine; New market, S. fine; Wisbeach, S.W. very fine; Dereham, S.S.W. very fine; St. Ines, S. fine ; Ely, S.W. very fine; Dorchester, S.E.. fine.— Al unchester Guardian of this day. DESPERATE ATTEM[T AT SELF-MURDER.--CUAT HAM, SEPT. s.—Last evening John Burns, a private of the 58th Regiment, and who is servant to Captain W. Temple Parrett, of the same corps, entered the shop of Mr. Dunks, army outfitter and gunsmith, Iligh-street, Chatham, and informed Mr. Henn eker (Mr. Dunks' nephew) that he had been sent for a pair of small per cussion-lock pistols by his master, who was alarmed about thieves, and wished Mr. Ilenneker to load the pistols. Mr. Ilenneker, knowing that Captain Parrott resided in the New-road, loaded the pistols with ball, and placed caps on the nipples. On the man receiving them, ho took one in each hand, and instantly raising them to his head, discharged them both at himself. He immediately fell apparently dead on the floor, the blood issuing from both sides of the head, above the ears. It being about eight o'clock, the streets were thronged with people, and the circumstance caused great e xcitement. Just at the time of the occurrence Mr. John 'l'. Cadd assistant-surgeon of the Royal Navy, was passing, arttl fo en t e red the shop to render assistance. He" lowed by Dr. Bell, of Rochester, Dr. Robertson, of Chatham, and Assistant-Surgeon Dartnell, military doctor from Fort Pitt. About two inches above the ears, on the left side, there was a compression of the bone of the skull ; and on the right side, over the region of the parietal bone, was a hole sufficient to admit the little finger. One of the bullets was extracted, and the other was found in the middle of the shop. After some time the unfortunate man recovered from collapse, and was bled. He was then removed on a shutter to the Military Hospital, Fort Pitt, by a party of soldiers. No hopes whatever are entertained of his recovery. He has a v i o n u rt the, t s h e r e v last ice t or and ii a *.t happeared . strange sevenn his y years has home. Another on board Ca A pt n ai o n th i e 'a r r d ra e t a t t i i s l f a r t o p m re e s h en o t le f r r lyingese way a t E t e a —brothtleierscolTo tl e e r laeslttenr.The vieiim , ‘ in es t s h e i l s a Flockart ; and he has left a widow and seven young ie Review. REVIEW OF THE BRIT - IS CORN TRADE. The thunder-storm with which the neighbourhood of the metropolis was visited on Thursday evening appears to have extended some distance into the- country, but the rain having been succeeded by drying winds and warm sunshine, no great mischief is likely to result. Harvest operations have, however, been temporarily suspended by the wet in those locali ties over which the storm passed, but, on the whole, the weather has been favourable during the week. From Monday to Thursday hardly any rain appears to have fallen in any part of the kingdom, and a considerable quantity of corn was cons( quently carried, in tolerably good order. In tl e south there is now comparatively little remaining abroad, and as the weather has lately as ' sumed a more settled aspect, we trust that wbat is still abroad may be got in without sustaining further injury. The reports as to the yield of Wheat are still very various; the quality of a large proportion of this ,year's growth will inept( stionably be inferior, and there is reason to believe that the produce to the acre will prose short of an average. Whether the d tici,ecy how ever, be so great as to csuse a high reap e prices, we still question ; and if the month of September should prov e tolerably propitious for securing the northern harvest, some reaction in the trade w ould, in our opinion. most likely take place. Mich less has been Laid lately about the spread of the potato disease than was the case a few weeks ago; whether this arises from apathy on the subject, or whether upon digging the later sorts they are found to turn up better than the appearance of the haulm had led partie s to expect, is not c asily de termined; we are ii.daced to hope the latter, as the growers are not generally in the habit of observing silence when they have reason to complain of their crops. The disposition to enter into specu'ative investments of grain, which was becoming somewhat prevalent, has certainly re ceived a check this wed:, and the Wheat trade has been much less excited than for some time past. Atsome of the principal provincial markets held in the early part of the week enhanced terms were demanded, but these were paid with great reluctance, and the ad vance temporarily established was not long maintained, lower rates having been accepted towards the close than would have been taken in the commencement of the week. At Liverpool, for instance, holders of Wheat and Flour were firm on Tuesday, but afterwards they mani fested more anxiety to realise, and on Friday the former article was offered 4d. to 6d. per 'Abs., and the latter Is. per sack and barrel lower. Indian Corn was also dull of sale at that port on the last-named day, the Irish demand having fallen off materially ; yellow was freely offered at a reduction of Is. per 4801bs. At the other large consuming towns in the north the trade has felt the influence of the comparatively fine weather, with which we have this week been favoured, and unless eircumstances.shall occur to give rise to re newed apprehension respecting the harvest in the back ward districts, Wheat is likely to recede more or less in value. The advices from Scotland generally agree in stating that the mischief likely to result from the late wet wea ther will Lot be very great, if September should prove a fine month. Harvest work had, however, been much retarded, and several weeks must still elapse before the crops in the north can be placed out of danger. The potato disease appears to be less serious in Scotland, then with us, and if prices of the article should rise later in the year, we should probably receive supplies from the north. The accounts from Ireland, though sufficiently bad, are not of quite so melancholy a character this week as be fore, and we are inclined to think that the extent of the potato failure has been somewhat exaggerated as well on that as on this side of the Channel. Supplies of Pota toes were coming freely forward in the Irish markets, and the demand for Indian Corn had consequently fallen off so greatly as to affect its value materially. The arrivals of Wheat coastwise into London have been moderate since our last, 7,182 qrs. having been reported up to this (Saturday) evening. The quantity brought forward at Mark-lane by land-carriage samples. trim the neighbouring counties, has not been large,--indeed, hardly anything has bee❑ shown on the Essex and lieut stands since Monday, beyond the few lois then left un sold. The millers have, however, acted with extreme caution throughout the week, and the tendency of price has been rather downwards. ..._,........._. On Wednesday scarcely a bargain was closed, factors being then still unwilling to make the slightest conces sion; but on Friday rather more anxiety was manifested to realise, and in partial instances sales were made at prices which would not have been accepted in the begin ning of the week. That the inferiority of the quality of a large proportion of the Wheat of this year's growth will have the effect of causing an extensive use of old for mixing is certain; and holders of foreign have conse quently manifested no particular anxiety to press busi ness; but as, on the other hand, there has been a decided unwillingness on the part of the millers to add much to their stocks, the transactions have been far from impor tant. Meanwhile little is being entered for home con sumption at present, and the quantity in granary is re duced into a very narrow compass, which renders any material decline iu prices rather improbable. The tri fling sales made on Wednesday and Friday were atmuch the same rates as those previously current. The arrivals from abroad have nut been large, only 9,993 qrs. having been been reported this week; consi derable supplies tray, however, be calculated upon later in the year, as large orders were sent out curing last month. The duty fell to 7s. per quarter on Thursday, and will recede another step almost directly; but it has become somewhat doubtful whether the very b,:d quality of the English Wheat may not keep the averages too low to admit of the duty fJling to the point at one time ex pected. Bonded Wheat has certainly excited little attention this week, and even floating cargoes have met less in quiry than of late; full price.; were nevertheless insisted on by sellers till Friday; but on that occasion consider ably lower terms were in some cases accepted, as well for parcels on the spot as cargoes to arrive. The recent rise in the value of Flour has certainly had the effect of checking the demand, and the sale among the bakers has been exceedingly slow throughout the week. The nominal top price has not undkrgone any change, and ship samples have also been held pretty firmly at last Monday's currency. For foreign Flour (free as well as bonded) the demand has fallen off, but high prices have been asked for the few small lots of really fine quality remaining on the market.--111ark lane Express. TO THE SECRETARY OF THE BRADFORD REFORM ASSOCIATION. Sir, —Monday, the 4th, wound up a number of fragmental businesses, such as are always found at the conclusion of a term ; and Tuesday brought us to the Queen's Speech and Prorogation. The feeling on the occasion will very generally be, that if all things have not gone on so well as could have been wished, many have ended better than could have been expected. No great misfortune has come near us ; and we are left to do better another time, in respect of the removal of the chronic evils, towards which a little, if nut much, has been done in the ses sion which is past. It is gratifying to me to reflect, that there has been no occasion where the various interests of your friends were concerned, on which I have not been able to forward to you the best account my knowledge would permit. I shall have pleasure in forwarding to you from time to time such further remarks as passing events may suggest ; though not at stated periods as during the sitting of Parliament. And the first sub ject to which I shall be tempted to invite your atten itting,alxthink r w t illbethis m s o o n m t observationsit wasin B ilialya chance to say in the House of Commons in support of the trade of Bradford. It is an opportunity too good to be lost. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, T. PERRONET THOMPSON. Blackheath, London, Sept. 6, 1848. THE OCEAN MONARCH AND THIS FIRE ANNIIID. LATOR.—A correspondent of the Builder says—"l am sorry to find on inquiry, that, although this useful and desirable object has been patented several years it is not yet to be purchased at any price. At a public meeting in St. Pancras, we were informed that four or five annihi lators, thrown down between decks into the Ocean Mo. much, would have at once converted the deauly vapours of the fire into innocent steam—would have saved 173 lives, and have preserved as many more human beings from utter ruin and wretchedness, besides the preserva tion of 50,000/. worth of property. But, Mr. Editor, whose fault is it that Si. have not been expended to so good a purpose? Does the law allow any one to tie up by patent that which is essential to the wellbeing of man kind? With the highest respect for ability, I cannot bring myself to think that it should b, so, and I would press - upon the gentleman who has made so great a dis covery, that to disseminate health and happiness is far more meritorious than to make ingenious discoveries, and like Paracelsus, deny them to his fellow-creatures: I would even put it to him, how far may rest upon him the responsibility of every disaster from fire that, through his negligence or arbitrary proceeding, occurs nightly in t hi s kingdom." Mosmr MAxxvr.—The premium on gold at Paris price of 31. 17s.g of 13 13 51; and the is 10i per raffle, which, at the English Mint price o f 3/. 175. lOid. per ounce for standard gold, gives an ex change of 25.41; and the exchange at Paris on London at gold n follows 3 n 2 d that i on pl . gold is 0 i'orl3a3: mark, ad l v which,oieue4ferP()ef for an exchange at short a t short bdue r agrhe r t hi being ne p 2 rsi Pariseprice of 35, et fh i cent.llana 111 .2 I per cent. dearer in litszaburglt standardt ei h x e tu.uhial English ouwges gtahtn that gold a it i nigt gives uTirssg 01 than in London. The course of and the at New York being 13.51, b t e h i e n ci e n en L t„ on it do i n oll i ( s m l .s o9-i th p a e t r the eent exchange is 0.33 per cent. between England and America ., York being for bills at GO days' against England; but the quoted exchange at New the interest must be deducted from the above difference. THE ACCIDENT ON THE LONDON AND NORTH. WESTERN RAILWAY .— BIRMINGHAM , TUESDAY: Colo nel Baird, the gallant officer who was injured. at the sight, the 2e3x-c4h:Dpgeor recent accident on the London and North-Western Rail way at Newton-bridge, expired this morning, about three o'clock, at Mr. Bacon's, the Queen's Hotel, in this town. At the time of his decease Colonel Baird was attended by Colonel Nicols, his sister, and several other attached friends. Dr. Evans, Mr. Davis, and Mr. Blake, surgeon, were exceedingly assiduous in the performance of their protessional duties, and too much credit cannot be given to Mr. Bacon and his household. The inquest will be held to-morrow. Mr. Shuard is apparently pro gressing towards recovery. In the midst of pain he is in great spirits. We forbear to give tit proms any opinion as to the cause of the accident. 1 1 41 c.d. 5% I'