The Sun. — London, England, 1852-10-29 00:00:00

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FORGERY. _ The two prisoners, C o l e man and Gurney, who were found guilty yesterday of concurring in the forgery of a hill of exchange, were brought up this morning to re ceive the judgment of the Court. Mr. Justice Cresswell, in passing sentence, stated that One of the jury had this morning intimated that it was the intention of the whole jury to recommend the pri soners to mercy, on the ground of the evidence not being se conclusive as it might have been ; but they were all satisfied of their guilt, and though no money was ob tained by means of the forgery in question, yet there eetild be no doubt that it was only one part of an Exton :lye system of fraud which they had in contemplation. It therefore became necessary, for the protection of traders in the my of London, to make a severe example of the prisoners, and the sentence of the Court upon them was that they be transported beyond the seas for a period of 15 years. The prisoners wera then removed from the dock. MANSLAUGHTER. Susan Kale surrendered to take her trial on an in dietment charging her with the " manslaughter" of a Married woman named Margaret Ellen Jones. Mr. Robinson conducted the prosecution, and Mr. Clarkson appeared for the prisoner. it appeared from the evidence for the prosecution, that the prisoner, who resided at Stoke Newington, had a servant, named Sophia Williams, whom she suddenly discharged for some alleged misconduct. A few days afterwards, the mother of the girl went to the prisoner's house, in company with the deceased Mrs. Jones, to inquire the reason for her dismissal, and to fetch away her clothes. The deceased knocked at the door, which Was opened by the prisoner, who, on ascertaining their errand, threw out a bundle of clothes, and then gave the deceased a push, which sent her into the area, a few feet below, and the injuries she received were of such a serious description that she died a few days afterwards in the hospital. Mrs. Williams admitted, on cross-examination, that she and the deceased had been drinking some gin, but she denied that they were intoxicated. Witness broke some windows in order to induce the people to come out, and render some assistance, and she was given into custody, and fined for the damage done. The policeman said that both Mrs. Williams and the deceased were drunk when he was called to the spot. Mr. Clarkson having addressed the jury, and the learned Judge having summed up, the jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty. MARKET NEWS-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE.-FRIDAY. Coastwise, the arrivals of English Wheat have been slightly on the increase this week, but the receipts fresh IT) to-day, were very moderate. The show of samp les Of both Red and White was comparatively small. The "ttendanc o o f t own an d coun t r y buyers was by no mean! , l arge, yet the sale for home-grown Wheats was steady, at Monday's prices. About 1,000 quarters changed hands for forward delivery. Upwards of 18,000 quarters of Foreign Wheat have i °ll3° in ; nevertheless, most kinds changed hands to a air, extent, at late currencies. Several floating cargoes sold, chiefly on Irish account, at full prices. Foreign had a very small supply of both English and „ Barley on show. Really fine malting parcels ere the turn dearer. Grinding and Distilling sorts Were firm. steadily,Malt—.the show of w hich was small—moved off at very full prices. tio T here w as an i mprove d i nqu i ry f or O a t s , the quota of which wore fully supported. ' je an', Peas, end Flour moved off steadily, at extreme rates, ARRIVALS THIS 'WEEK. Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flom ZllOl O . . Qrs, Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Sacks Irlsp ••.... 3,260 2,220 1,260 1,830 1,170 13,910 loreiga•• •• ••1 18,280 1 , 110 6,960 26,400b1 SMITHFIELD. To day ' s market was well supplied with Beasts as to 1 11 :Inbe r , b ut their general quality was i nt e r i or . Middli ng d,eeds moved off steadily, at, in some instances , a s li g ht at 'Toe in the quo t a ti on s. Otherwise, the trade was b ti e ,"Y at full p r i ces . Sh ee p, the arrivals of which were the ' moderate, were in fair request at full curre n ci es— Bibo Primest Old Downs selling freely at 4 a. 4 d. per or • We had an improved sale for Calves, the supply 81,which was on the decrease at an advance of 21 per k u s e • There was more doing in Pigs at late rates. ea o h h C OWS were very dull at from 141. 10s. to 19/. , including their small calf. Per Sibs. to s s. . s. d. !Me tter ne asti ..... 2 d to 0 2 2 ..,?_ oll (lqualit y .... 2 4 3 0 . Lane large 3 2 s Lar g e Scots • O xen.. 8 3 10 arnlnes4ra"4‘lBledletatolv•°: 88 43 06 eeltilalt Caves ..19 0 22 0 00 0 0 'Mk the offal. s. d. to s. d Inferior Skeop •• •• 3 0 3 4 Second gush Sheep 3 6 3 t Coarse-woolledditt( 310 4 0 Southdown Wether 4 2 4 4 Ditto out of the wool 0 0 0 0 Large Hogs •.••.. 3 10 3 6 Small Porkers .... 3 8 310 Quarter old Pigs ..17 0 21 I TOTAL SUPPLY AT MARSZT. Beasts . 1,040 Sheep. 1 Calves. I rigs. 6,100 300 315 Bea s t s FOREIGN SUPPLY. a4O I Sheep. Calves. 1 Pigs. 1,600 210 NEWGITE AND LEADENIIALL. We h d ry full pr at a au improved demand for each kind of Meat c ices. At per stone by the Caroms. I. d. to s. O. ••••-- middling sef. inferior.. s. d. to s. d. I :.• •• 2 0 2 4 , Miatton,imiBfearcinforg:: 3 2 8 0 3 3 0 6 ...-"'" Prinlelarge ... 2 2 1 8 0 2 3 8 0 prime •• •• 3 8 4 0 Feat .P.rim e small .• 8 2 3 4 Pork, large •••..• .. 2 6 3 8 •••••••••• 2 8 210 -- small.• •••• •• 3 8 4 The demand conti nn BOROUGHes ra t h e r ii a l. itt full rat eslar voti ve for all now Hopis or currency. The supplies on offer are t li Re ' p utY,255,000/. to 260,0001. Midland and Eas __ant Goldings, 120 s to 150 s per cwt ; Weald of Kent, 7 4 5 3 to 8 . 4 a ; do. choice, 003 to 908; Sussex, 72s to 78s; c hoice, 130 3 803 to 84s; Farnhams, 1004 to 1203; .do 1 4 ", 1303 to 140 s; country do, 90s to lO0s; do choice, 1103 to 120 a. COLONIAL eugar--The market for British Plantation has been bi tt.dY this week, with a fair demand and a somewhat 'P i ked supply. The consumption continues steady. arbadoes sold briskly at an advanco of 6d per cwt fine yellow, 39 3 to 40s; mid to good, 363 to 38s 6d; an . d . colli mon, 35s to 35s 6d. Jamaica realized 35s for mid to l l o w; and 33 s to 34s f or low. D emerara brought 32e low 3s for good to fine brown, and 33s 6d to 34s for yel• "e Toba go common yellow sold at 33s to 33 s 6d. fillcd Was in fair demand at full rates, fair to fine grocery lumps bringing 45s to 48s. For East India there has boon a steady inquiry at about the previous rates. Bengal sold at 378 6d to 395; for Benares mid 27 good White an d so f t yellow, 28s to 32; b row n, 26 5 . to , and ord to mid-like Mauritius, 32s to 355. Madras 1 4 0 °Id at 28a to 32s for soft yellow, and at 348 to 378 for Iv to raid grocery. Mauritius has been firm, but none bas been offered publicly. Manilla was taken in at 33s to 35 s for o r d to good °hued, and Java at 36s 6d to 37, 6 c l for mid to good. Foreign —Pernambuco sold at 34s 6d to 38s for low to good white. Havannah was bought in at 36s to 38e for ord to mid yellow, and at 34s to 36s 6d for brown low to good. Privately full rates have been paid. C°ffee—The demand f or most sorts was s l ugg i s h in the early part of the week, but it has increased since, and a rise of is to 2s per cwt has occurred in plantation Ceylon, with a tendency to a further advance, low mid and mid bringing 52s to 595, good, 60s to 678 6d, triage 375 64 to 48s, and peaberry, 56s to 595. Mocha has been sold at 61s to 655, for greenish, partly garbled, and has been tak e n i n at 40s, for good ord brownish Bahia brought 37a to 445, for ord to fine and good ord Malabar sold at 48s. Costa Rica went at stilt' prices, ord grey, 47s to 49s 6d, fine ord and low mid colony, 50s to 56s 6d, and peaberry at 50s. Cocoa—There has been a brisk demand at full rates. Grenada ord to good grey has been sold at 30s to 335, and mid to good red, at 33s to 355. Trinidad went al 32s to 36s for ord dark to mid grey, and at 32s to 39g for low and good red. Rico—The demand has been limited, but full prices have been obtained. Arrow-root—Bermuda has been taken in at is 2d for fine, and Jamaica at 83 per lb. Spic. , s—Ptmento has been at previous rates, g ood ord to good, re a li s ing 5d to 5,1 41. Pepper was at f u ll er rates, Batavia 30 to 3id for mid and goo d, white advanced 3d to 44d urn to mid, realizing 6id to lid for Singapore., and 9kcl to qi for fine. Cloves sold at 6iclmtid. c o6idf m o u r . ord dark P enang , an d s:id to 60 for ord to minion is 2d to 3d dearer. Saltpetre —Prices have been supported, ord to good o 15 0 to 74d per c en t., re f ra ction Bengal sold at 24 to 27s per cwt. Rum —This article has been dull. Cotton —There has been a good demand at higher Prices. Surat sold at 4ii to 5d per lb. Cochineal —The market is steady but quiet. Tea —At the public sales a large proportion found buyers, but b a r e ly 9,000 p k gs were o ff ere d. rlyson Young ditto and Gunpowder, sold at full prices, but Can - Rou rather heavily. Since then, the market privately firmer, at 9d to Sid for common Congou. T allow—P.Y.C., is firm at 3s 6d per cat. Green Fruit-1 favolarab'e change of wind bas brought several arrivals. Some new Messina Lemon , have been received by steamer vid Liverpool, a portion of Which were sent to London, but are in too green b State for immediate use. A parcel of 400 boxes, Naples, received yid Antwerp, sold by Keeling and Hunt at Publi c sale, realizes a good price, being in good condi it'd'. New black Spanish Nuts are dull of sale, the crice b e i ng tno high for consumption. A parcel of 100 arrels of Alaimo% Grapes has been sold from 295. to 301 Per bsrrel. A cargo of Fara Oranges has arrived, being the first this season. A FLOCK OF LAWYERS —As many as " one hundred an d eighty-thre e " p ersons h ave given notice of their in tention to upply to be admitted a tornoys of the Court of Queen's Bench in the ensuing Michaelmas Term, corn reencing on Tuesday next. BEDLAM.—The affairs of this hospital seem to have beau conducted in quite a congenial spirit ; for if we !oak at the lavish expenditure of the funds, or the brutal 111-treatment of the poor patients, we are bound to con• fess that the governors and directors have been regularly Aoing it like mad."—Punch. FRANCE. The ilioniteur has the following with regard to the Turkish loan—" Letters from Constantinople, of the 15th of October, announce that the Porte has decidedly refused the ratification of the loan nego tiated some weeks ago in London and in Paris. This news is alone exact of all that has been brought forward on the subject of this loan affair." The official journal contains a good many appoint ments in different branches of the magistracy. There ia a batch of decorations of the Legion of Honour, and the military medal is confered on several marines. ro a rlfeB p e4t r hdB o ei, o s ep f wmr o ea f essni t dt h e the tgt. mostiA r a e l y e :e t osi change nr n do t)u p h, u i es public which,a ph o o p D i e n aoe i tn o c , n e 13h w in ee. the emr A ,e a s L a n r o r w e e fi d n i) d s e t tn h a e t n t o out o e f le the o 5 1 e 5 ,1 3 , communes d demanded theth the m f whichand e d re-establishment of the Empire. The number of communes in the Meu.e, which have sent petitions to the Senate t o th e same e ff ect, amount to 586, having 57,470 signatures; 198 o f the recantly-renewed etlunicipal Councils of the Loire Inferieure, have sent addresses prayi n g for the Empire. In the Maine -et-L o i re fresh addresses arrive at the Pre fecture every day; the number already amounts to 200. We read in the Constitutionnel :—" Since the Go vernment has determined to extirpate bandittism in Corsica, the local administration has redoubled its activity and energy. Important results have been already obtained. It is known that tw o formidable bandits, named Padovana and Framoni, have been, the first, killed in an encounter with the gendarmes, and the second, arrested. Framoni, in particular, was one of the most dangerous offenders that could be met with. He is shortly to be tried by the Court of Assizes. We learn that two other bandits, Domi nique Cesari, surnamed Sperato, and Cesar Bartoli, have been lately killed by the gendarmes. Sperato was a man of extreme audacity and almost superhu man strength, who had succeeded in terrifying the neighbourhood of Spartena, his principal haunt. He was the type of the bandit who hired out his carbine to the vengeance of others. Bartell explored the ar rondissement of Corta, and they were together when surprised by the gendarmerie. They made a despe rate resistance, and some of the men attacking them were wounded. The letters, which inform us of these results, state that in consequence of the determination of the authorities to punish severely whatever persons harbour bandits in Corsica, these latter are left com paratively defenceless, and can in consequence be more easily laid hands on. Several of them, in de spair of being able to continue their odious occupation, nave asked leave to be allowed to proceed to Sardinia. l'he news of the death of Sperato, who passed for being almost invincible, will produce the greatest consternation amongst them. The event was greeted with the greatest joy in the arrondissements of Corte and Sartena." Government securities again declined at the Bourse. Railway shares were more firm. The Four-and-a- Half per Cents. opened at 106 f. 50c., and closed at 106 f. for the end of the mouth; the Three per Cents. dosed at 81f. 80c.; Orleans Railway Shares, 1,710 f.; Rouen, 9801.; Havre, 473 f. 75c. ; Great Northern, 852 f. 50c.; Avignon, 605 f. ; Basle, 365 f. ; Paris and Strasburg, 835. ; Paris and Lyons, 995 f. ; Lyons Ind Avignon, 737 f. 50c. ; Western of France, 725 f. ; St. Divier to Gray, 5801. ; Caen to Cherbourg, 612 f. ' 50c. ; Bordeaux to Cette, 6421. 50c. ; the Turkish Loan, 1,015 f. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Ocr. 28. Charleroi and Erquelines, 15i—Grand Junction of France, 7%—Namur and Liege, 8 1 h— Northern of France, 33 3 / 4 -- Paris and Lyons, 29i—Paris and Strasbourg, 32 5 ,4—Paris, Caen. and Cnerbourg, 8 1 4—Rouen and Havre, 18—Sambre and Meuse, 10% —Western of France, 17%. THE CONTINENT. BELGIUM. The King of the Belgians, with his family, left Brussels on Wednesday morning by a special train tor :Tirlemont, to meet Queen Marie Amelie, the Prince de Joinville, and the Duchess of Orleans aoming from Germany, en route for England. From Cirlemont his Majesty was to accompany his august relatives as far as the station of Weckeren, whence he special train would proceed to Ostend. We read in the Emancipation of Brussels of Wed nesday :—" At the close of the sitting of the Chamber, a courier was dispatched to M. Henri de Brouckere, at Andergbem. He is sent for by the King. The ministry which he has been charged to form will ap pear in the Moniteur to-morrow, or the day after." The Pays has the following on the ministerial cri sis in Belgium : " We are now in possession of more details relative to the different incidents of the vote, which led to the election of M. Delfosse, as President of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives. It was not until the ,econd ballot that he was elected. We yesterday re marked that this feeble numerical majority was evidently insufficient to serve as the ba,is of an homogeneous and curable ministry. In fact, after the first success this uncertain majority dissolved itself, and the Chamber came to different contradictory votes. It was thus that Vilain XIV., member of the Catholic party, was immediately elected first Vice President, by a majority of 57 to 44, and afterwards by a fresh charge tho vote , were given to M. Veidt, the liberal candidate, who was elected second Vice-President by 53 to 48, The Secre taries comprise two liberals, MM. Martens and Ansisux; one Catholic, M. Vermeire, and one of the neutral party. M. Dumont ; and the two Questors are M. Baillet, a moderate liberal, and M. Sectisos pure Catholic. Evidently :here are in these facts symptoms of political dissolution in the Belgian parliament, which appear tons of the greatest gravity. Public opinion ;knows not on what to fix ; it waves between men and parties at the hazard of vents, and at the caprice of ballots. We know not with what resolution this difficult situation will inspire the Sovereign of Belgium ; but in truth with the elements of which the parliament is now composed it is almost .mpossible to foresee how this long crisis will terminate. Delfosse, in taking possession of the Presidential chair, invited parties to ucion and concord ; it is diffi cult to believe that this wish can be realised. M. de Brouckere at least thinks so. It is in fact announced that he has been again sent for by the King, and that he nas formally declined the mission of forming a Cabinet. The late ballot, he said, proved that the cld majority was broken up. But, if that be true, the fluctuations cf the parliamentary votes equally prove that there has not yet been formed a compact majority capable of support ing a new administration. Thus, for three months Bel gium has been delivered up to an insoluble crisis, without a ministry since the old one has resigned, and without a parliament, for there exists no rea l majority, in face of chat irresponsible fiction called Constitutional Royalty. We leave this afflicting state of affairs to the meditation of all the partisans of Parliamentary regime." GERMANY. The Emancipation of Brussels says :—" It is stated that the negotiations which have just been opened at Vienna on the custom's question will in principle be only confidential. The Austrian cabinet, before making any proposition, wishes to be sure of the ac ceptance of all the plenipotentiaries. A first prepa ratory meeting took place on the 22d, at the ministry of foreign affairs." The primary elections for the second chamber are terminated in Prussia. At Berlin they are such as was anticipated. The democratic party abstained, and the other electors showed but little eagerness to vote. We do not yet know the result of the elections in the provinces, but it is more than probable that they are like those of the capital. A journal announces the death of Baron Jean de Gagern, who played an important part at the Con gress of Vienna, and made himself remarkable for his determination in claiming Alsace for Germany. Count App on y, w h o was a long time Austrian ambassador T at Paris, has just died in Hungary. The Voss Ga ze tt e says , un d e r date of Vienna : It is positively madeelyat atedthat . not only Austria, but also Bavaria,Pes has propositions of te h f or 2 2 d says arrangement to t he Cabinet of B er li n. " The Pr esse of Vienna t Nego tiations f or a concordath with the Pope have been opened, by desire of v Emperor ea s atsatisfactory f o a f e t ory Austria, result. and it is hoped that th ey will ha v e „ STAINED wid e. the the word Canada is curiousiTtesnolsTuAgmh, How CANAD A n —The origin of French, and made particular searches for gold visited that country previous The Spaniards they often said among themselves, ver ' an d finding none is nothing here). The Indians, w. ” "Ica nand," (there learned the sentence and its meaning, no watched closely , ture of the Spaniards, the French a' After the &par: In dians, who wanted none of their company, ; and the they also were Spaniards come on th( 3 :l' and supposed were anxious to inform them that their labou r errand, by tarrying in that country, and incessantly u r : was lost them the Spanish sentence, " Aca nada." The Pe l! ted t° who knew as little of Spanish us the Indians, rench, this incessantly rfcurring sound was the nam su e P o P f c's tl d country, and gave it the name of Canada, which it has e borne ever since. THE MADIAI FAMILY, --The following letter was re ceived in Edinburgh on Friday :—" Foreign-office, Oct. 20, 1852. Sir—l am directed by the Earl of Malmes. bury to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 16th insi,. ; forwarding a memorial adopted at a public meeting of the inhabitants of Edin bur g h, and pro) ing that her Majesty would interpose in the behalf of the Madiai fa mily, now suffering imprisonment in Tuscany on account of their religious opinions; and I am to state to you in reply, that the parties in question not being British sub jects, her Majesty's Minister at the Court of Tuscany cannot interfere officially in their behalf. Sir henry Bulwer has, however, been instructed to give every as sistance that he can unofficially afford to the deputation which has proceeded to Florence with the view of inter ceding with the Grand Dacal Government in favour of the Madiai famil —I Esq y . an), &c ., Stanley. James Nichol, ~ 2 , NMb Dou4 - street, Edinburgh." - THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, , OCTOBER 29 , 1862. COURT CIRCULAR. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. SPO.II7ING NOTES. WINDSOR, OcT. 28. The followint: hod the honour of diring with Majesty yestorclay:—Tbe Prince r:nd Piincet.s of Do hemotie, L'i.:genbezg, the Priact , as Adel 4(ie and Prince Terre no of Hobenlohe, the Earl of Maircesbury, and the Viscount Hardinv. Prince Albert, a:•corapanied by Prince lieratann of wofit out hunting , tills afternoon, e.tt , ..:ul.:d by Lieut.-Colonel F. H. Seymour, The Earl of Malmesbury left the Castle this morning for London. A five-act ple.y, by Mr. Westland Marston, bearing the medsst title of " Anne Melee," rag produced at this theetre last eight, a ilia most eigteel and deserved success. The intrinsic merits of the drams are of the highest order, and it is impossible to spunk in too favourz.ble terms of the admirable (G.:jenny of the performers. A play better celculeted to hold possession c the siege, land one more deseevieg of being seen by all who entertain any appreciation of dratiaie and histrionic exce!lence, we cannot specify. It is not the mere production of a play wrieht's ingenuity—popular for a season, and des tined, after fulfilling a brilliant transitory existence, to quiet interment arid speedy oblivion, but a valuable addi tion to the storehouse of our dramatic literature, rife with a sound vitality. The plot is artistically and lucidly constructed and evolved. The characters are distinctive, prominent, and unexaggerated. Thu dialogue is nurvt.us, elegant, and natural. We find no "purple paelies" stitched on, no ear-tickling surplusage, but all griurme to the netter. No tinsel or clap-trap, but a sterling end polished sub stantiality. " Anne Blake" is, we repeat it, the work of a legitimate dramatist, not of a pretentious playnionger. Five nets, and but seven characters—the uuities of time and place preserved—and yet not a moment of tedium or flagging of interest. Such, in brief; is this master piece of the contemporary stage. The story, simple in its framework, and harmonious in its details, may be narrated in a few words. The action lies in the mansion of Sir Joshua Toppington, the vulgar-mouled, ungentle, and sordid uncle of the orphan girl, whose father died in poverty, and left her dependent on the bounty of his coarse brother-in law, and the heartless and wily Lady Toppington, Sir Joshua's property is fully mortgaged to Mr. Lanniston, a neighbouring gentleman of station and fortune, who would gladly make the poor but spirited dependent his wife, which, when discovered by the worthy couple, they change their harsh demeanour towards her into a semblance of the greatest affection. The noble-minded Anne, who feels bitterly her situation, has, however, given her affections and troth to Thorold, a wandering artist, and stands firm to her faith At spite their instiga tions. Llaniston perseveres in his suit. 7 horold looks confidently and calmly at the proceedings of his rival; and, strange to say, the rivals are friends. At length, however, Lady Toppington, by dint of wile, and treacherous interpretation of motive, begins to insinuate doubts in Anne's pure breast; and at length she finds a golden opportunity—not less than Thorold alone, and rapturously kissing the miniature of a beautiful woman. An accidental summons causes him to leave the trinket on the table—Lady Toppington eagerly secures it, nar rates to Anne the history of what she has seen, and finishes by triumphantly exhibiting to her the cherished picture of another. In the third act, some in. geniously•contrived recitations of speeches—in a re• hearsal for private theatricals, in which both lovers, Anne, and her aunt, take part—are brought to bear upon the situation of Thorold and his betrothed; the latter of whom, after gradually surprising and then agonizing her lover by her altered manner and cutting words, tells him that he is free, almost at the moment that news is brought that the poor artist is a distinguished Indian officer of great wealth and consideration, and Anne's guardian. Upon this the lady, with deeper and deeper feeling, takes an oath before her aunt that the poor dependent girl will never marry the rich betrayer, and then promises her hand to Llaniston. The fourth act contains the grand scene of the play, in the parting interview of Thorold with Anne—when he gives her the fatal miniature, with the terrible intimation that it is the I portrait of her own mother, and in nobly written language details the unbroken love of her father, who died in India, for the wile from whom death, occasioned by poverty and want, had parted him. In breathless words poor Anne shrieks out her agony and her love for , 7 humid; but the fatal vow interposes, and she falls fran tically on her knees, utterly prostrate and undone. Anne had aiready refused for the second time, Mr. Lanniston , and she only scruples to fulfill her troth to 'Thyroid upon account of her oath—when the sudden revealed fact, at the end of the play, that cer tain Indian mine shares held by her father, and after wards by Thyroid fur the daughter's benefit, have e to o f h t a h r e a o final ter. hap The filth be come worth treasures, so as to relieve her from her own technical descript ion of herself—as a p oor d ependent made en int hat ou ern n pinesa of the lo vers, and the g enerous liberalit y of th e self-sacrificing Lanniston, who actuall y still makes ove r to the bride what he had intended for her p ortion— the mo rtgage of the Toppington property —and t h us turns rees sot he i r s devoted ote t d he to vow w he d hich'sinne Blake has risen. The sounds of the respectable former prop rie t o rs i nto the de p end ency f ro m w . con gratulatory rejoicing are heard from ;the approaching and the curtain falls on the happiness of the lovers, and the discomfiture of the baffled Baronet and his lady. Level and Bourcicault have written plays, in which the interest is centred in the characters originally sus tained, by Mr. and Al, s. Charles Kean, but even in respect of the co-performance of these pre eminent artists—to say nothing of 'Westland Marstoe'a more exalted rank (as a dramatist— commend us to the play under consideration. At the conclusion of the fourth act the whole house rose at them in an irresistible impulse of enthusiasm, and they had to appear before the root-lights in obedience to the universal and vehement demand. Were it but for this portion - alone, we say—Go see "Anne Blake." Mr s . Kean's - personation of the heroine is a veritable triumph of art. Nothing can exceed her exquisite delineation of ' the nature "ardent and galled by wrung, "of tee spiritee ' and loyal girl. The part is one requiring great acting, ability to do it adequate justice ; and to what hands could it so felicitously be committed as to those of our most finished and delightful actress? Thorold is one of those characters of serious comedy in which Mr. Kean is incomparable, from his characteristic blending of expres sive energy and accomplished ease. Mr. W alter Lacy as Llaniston, looked and played in his usual gentlemanly manner. Mr. Addison was admirable both in make up and acting, as the detestable Sir Joshua, and we must give an especial commendation to Mrs. Winstanloy, who makes her appearance but too seldom, for her assumption of the plotting traitress, Lady Toppington Jillot, the but ler of the household, a rare coxcomb in his way, was capitally done by Mr. Chester, who drew the first of the countless rounds of applause that abounded throughout the play; and Lloyd, the housekeeper, was done as well as possible by Mrs. Daly. Better acted on the whole no play could by possibility be. The scenery is, it need hardly be said, painted and set in the invariable first-rate style of the Princess's Theatre. The applause at the conclusion was unanimous and cordial, and a general recall was awarded to the artists en masse. A most genuine gratulation fell to the lot of the author, as he appeared, pursuant to custom, in the front of his box ; and he may indeed feel proud of his noble contribution (and mark I original, not French stolen) to the stage, and, we must add, grateful to the management for the pains, above all praise, bestowed on its representation.. No. OCCXXXVII. YIC3TEIIDNY'S RAGING AT NEWISARKET, &c. OF the rams decided yesterday, only two--the Glas fh.OVV, and 50 Sovs Stab • - s—are worthy of comment. Peet A ustraliip, in the race for the former, reversA the Cnterion, running wit Spced the Plon , :h bun Filbert. The Ic3t namcd cut out tho work to the bushes,. where West Australian tcok up the running, and finished a very easy winner by a couple of lengths. Speed the Plough was a bad third, and the Putentia colt a very in ferior fourth. The running of the winner immediately elevated him to thousands to sixty in the betting for the Derby ; his chance for that race, however, I consider to be but a so-and-so one. A deputation from the Lccal Board of Health of Dewsbury had an interview yesterday with the General Boat d of Health, at their office, Whitehall, with respect to the supply of water to the above-named district The deputation (which were attended by the Engineer to the Local Board, Mr. Ranger) consisted of Mr John Tweedale (the Caairman of the Local Board), Mr. Thomas Cook, Mr. James Howes, and Mr. Benjamin Clay. Mr. Henry Clive, M.P., had an interview with Mr. Secretary Walpola yesterday at the Home aline. General Campbell had an interview with Sir John Pakiogron yesterday at the Colonial-office. The Finance Committee of the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 met at the Palace of West minster at four o'clock yesterday afternoon, Sir William Cubist in the chair; Mr. T. F. Gibson, Sir Alexander Spearman, and Mr. Bowring (Secretary), attended. Dispatches from the Governor of Malta were re ceived yesterday at the Colonial-cffice. The 50 Sovs. Stakes brought out Pharold at last. lie has bean prepared for three stakes ; for the first he was drawn ut the last moment for some unexplained reason, or the second he was actually saddled and got come way to the post, but arrived there too late to start : the third time, however, things came (fl' more favouraoly, for in his spin yesterday he not only touk the lead at starting, hut made all the running, and won, with some seven or eight pounds in hand, by a length. Nicotine heat Glen avon (the favourite at 6 to 5 against the field) by a head, for second place. Cubnut was stalled off I cannot imagine what the ring could have been dreaming about, considering the reputation Pharold is held in at Newmarket, when they laid 10 to 1 against his winning. I fancy he will find his way into the Derby betting; and I am confident he stands quite as much chance of taking the great event next year as many of the present favour • ices; by which, however, I do not mean to say that he will win. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at the Foreign-office. The Ministers present were—The Earl of Derby, the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Lons dale, the Marquis of Salisbury, Mr. Secretary Walpole, the Earl of Malmesbury, Sir John Pakington, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Northum berland, the Right Hon. J. W. Henley, the Earl of Hardwick°, the Right Hon. J. C. Berries, and Lord John Manners. The Council sat three hours. Wo hear that the address will be moved in the House of Lords by the Marquis of Bath, and will be seconded by the Earl of Donou 4 hmore.—Morning Herald. All the Stakes to-morrow are at present skeletons. The Matches, I have but little doubt, will be decided as follow—Pelion, Bst 81b, will beat lonic, Bst 21b, T.Y.C. Doublethong. Bst 81b, wilt dispose of Feramorz, Bst 61b, A.F. The Knight of the Garter, Bst 71b, will beat Ilex, 7st 111 b, a mile and three-quarters. Miss Sarah, ally, I think, will dispose of Ernestine; and a close race may be expected between Caracara, Bst 71b, and Sackbut, Bst 51b, D.M.— the former, not improbably, just obtain ing the beat of it. THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. FUNERAL OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON. NEWMARKET HOUGHTON MEETING. WEDNESDAY. The authorities are making very slow progress with the arrangements for the Duke's funeral. With the exception of the interior of St. Nuns Cathedral, which Messrs. Cubitt and Company are rapidly transforming into a vast and magnificent amphitheatre, little has been done, and it is a remarkable fact, that little is known as yet as to what will really be done by those appointed to carry out the operations. Whether the remains of the Duke will remain under the roof of Chelsea Hospital on the night preceding the funeral, or whether they will be deposited in the Audience Chamber of the Horse Guards, as originally arranged, was not known :at a late Ihour last evening by the present Duke himself. It can hardly, therefore, be expected that the public should have accurate infor mation on the point. _ _ . . The last race to-day, of which we barely had time to send off the result, was one of the most disgraceful affairs ever concocted. The Moor and Trinket had beea pur chased in the morning by a Mr. Mytton, and a Mr. Hughes (of Worcester), the two names, beyond ell doubt, representing one interest. At the commencement of the betting 5 to 2 and 2 to 1 was laid on the Moor, and a good deal of money got on Euphony, and against Trinket, at about 3 to 1 each, the majority of the bets, it is strongly uspected, having been made for Messrs. M . and H., and parties connected with them. On its oozing out that the Moor was not likely to have anything to do with the race, he went out of the betting, and oven money, and 5 to 4 was laid on Euphony, Trinket closing at 2 to 1. The Moor, instead of going to the post, galloped another way; only Euphony and Trinket started, and the latter, to the infinite horror of the plotters, won easily. Mad dened by his disappointment, Mr. Hughes rushed into tnto the weighing stand, snatched the saddle cloth out of Crouch's hand, and declared that he should not weigh. The jockey, and the clerk of the scales, however, were resolute—the former was weighed, end the latter kicked Sir. H. out of the room. It was said after the race that that the three horses were the property of Mr. S. Merry. ['his fe positively denied, and a written declaration to t j h n at r e e E ta e r c n t in w g as in room, i , m th i e n c t l h er e k su o b f s t c h r e i p s t e i o a n l e s r , o o m m. r. Manning, made a representation of the attempts to dis qualify Trinket to the stewards, who have ordered .witnesses to be in attendance to•morrow at eleven o'clock It seems to be a great pity that some definitive plan is not at once determined on, and officially published. The public have a right to expect information upon a matter in which so deep an interest is felt through out the length and breadth of the land, and it is more over, desirable that the parties upon whom the carrying nut of the arrangements devolves should have a more clear and defined notice of their duties than they have as yet received. _ _ The design for the funeral car upon which the body will be conveyed to St. Paul's, was finally approved yes terday. This is a step in the right direction at any rate, and the country will be glad to learn that it is proposed to construct the car, not merely for the temporary pur pose, but rather as a national heir-loom to be handed down to posterity, With this view it will be built in the strongest possible manner, and of the most substantial materials. The design, which has emanated from the national establishment at Marlb )rough house—the Department of Practical Art—is described to be very appropriate and magnificent. The stage or platform upon which the superstructure is to be raised will be nearly 30 feet long, and its width may be imagined, when it is stated that there will be but one foot to spare on each side, as it passes through Temple-bar. The upper portion will present something of the appearance of a military tent, and the stage will be decorated with massive ornaments of solid bronze. It is understood that eight or ten horses will be required to draw the car. One other feature already settled is the trappings to be worn by these animals. The period of the middle ages has been selected to afford precedents for the occasion. The horses will be enveloped in black velvet, touched with silver from the shoulder to the hock, after the manner of the chargers in the tournaments of the fifteenth cen tury. These caparisons aro now being prepared, and it is understood they will be extremely magnificent. Altogether, from the little known relative to the cere monial, it certainly promises to be a most imposing spectacle. The play was followed by " Sweethearts and Wives." Wright's Billy Lackaday kept the audience in repeatec peels of laughter, and the unique ditty of his disasters was hilariously encored. Miss Carlotta Le Clercq looked most charming as Laura, and played with delightful spirit and expression. Mr. Addison as the gouty amo rous old admiral, and the other performers in their re spective parts acquitted themselves very well. The house was most fughinnably and fully attended. BUL.WEB LyTTew ON KAYO TVLR.DGE The following oration upTe Kee, ledge was delivered by Sir Edward Baker Lytton, Bart., M.P., on Thurs day, the 21st inst., before a numerous end distinguished audience, itooli the oceaision of a Literary Sob (re held at the Town-hall at Het ttOrd:— Sir ED7ARD in rising was received with homey and lora coroinued cheerieg: when this had subsided he said Ladies and Gentlemen,—When my worthy friend the Mayor kindly aceampanied we through yonder ad joinieg room, and informed me that it was your Muni cipal Council; when I beheld on its table, amidst so many objects of interest and art, the mace and charters of your Corporation; when I called to mind that that chamber was devoted to the practic 11 business of your town, and saw it now filled for the purpose of embellish ing; our ordinary work-day existence with the charms of literature, and the graceful h fluenees of art, I felt that I the selection of our place ef meeting was a recognition of this important truth; that no ebjem can snore worthily engage the practical atten•iou of a cononuttoy of fe, men— no purpose can more dignify the it council-tall than the noble endeavour to cement the union between political liberty and intellectual improvement. (Cheers.) I am not going to inflict on you a long harangue on the advantages of knowledge. those advantages are too oh vious end the subject too hackniod. Indeed, I think it is the fault of our age amongst men of all parties and all sects, net to underrate the value of diffusing information through the medium of popular libraries and institutes, but rather to anticipate too exaggerated results from the mere appetite for knowledge; forgetting that it is not the eagerness of the appetite, but the soundness of the digestion which conduces to health and vigour. (Hear, hear.) And if I might presume to offer an admonitory suggestion to those for whose benefit popular libraries and institutes are chiefly designed, it would be to remind them that knowledge is infinite, while all that the most assiduous can acquire is so limited, that the true student finds his humility increase in proportion as his informa tion expands. (Cheers.) Well, then, you go with me thus far; go with me further still—when I add that if there be anything which may occasion anxiety or appre hension to a sober judgment, in that demand for general intellectual culture which makes the remarkable attri bu e of our times; it is not the fear of knowledge itself, but it is that pompous and inflated boast of our own au• pi rior enlightenment, which is too often addressed to our vanity by those who find is an easier and more popular task to flatter us than to counsel. (clear, hear.) Know ledge and liberty are alike in this, and they, in them selves, are never formidable except to their enemies, but that the nonsense which has been talked about them, is often very alarming and very discouraging to their best friends. Knowledge and liberty are designed to be the safeguards and the directors of our social system— (hear, hear)—yon approve that definition? Pardon then, a very homely illustration. We do not fear the watch dog while he guards the fold and directs the flock, but we look at him with very great suspicion when we meet him foaming at the mouth, and rattled out of his wits by the noise of a tin canister tied to his tail. (Cheers and laughter.) Look for instance to our neighbours the French —for the last eighty years they have made such a clat ter about all the grand results to be expected from liberty and enlightenment, that enlightenment and liberty have been frightened away by the din (cheers), and men in that country now seem rather disposed to get rid of the watchdogs altogether, than to run the risk of having them driven into madness by the hollow clang of that everlasting canister. (Much laughter and applause). Let us, then, take knowledge as our own great Newton took it, with a profound conviction that we are humble mor tals, of the same size and stature as our ancestors, and if we appear taller, it is because we climb upon their shoul ders. (Rear). Let ns gratefully heed every clue which their resources have bequeathed to us, and let us modestly confess that much which we now claim as certainty, our children may detect as an error (hear). You remember, perhaps, those beautiful words which Newton uttered at the close of a life, illustrious for the most splendid triumphs in the sublimeet sphere of phi losophy—" I feel (raid he) like a child by the seashore, who has picked up a few stray shells anti curious peb bles on the sand, while the great ocean of Truth lay all undiscovered around." And indeed Nets ton himself is a striking example how finite a man is, and how infinite knowledge, for Newton estimated the fixed stars at 3 000, stud when Dr. Herschell had completed his great telescope, how many fixed stars do you think passed across its field in one short qaarter of an hour ? Two hundred and fifty thousand! (Hear, hear). It is the same in all things. We of this generation cannot conjecture the number of lights which the Creator may vouchsafe to the next. (Hear, hear). Now from what I have said in caution against presumption, and too overweening a conceit in what we of to-day call knowledge, and what they of to- morrow may call but partial ignorance,—do not consider that I desire to damp your generous ardour, or that I deny, I will not boldly say the advantages, but the moral duty and the social wisdom of bringing within the reach of all classes of our countrymen that world of books which teaches us that there are other enjoy ments hesides those of the senses. (Applause). For if we regard books in their offact upon the individual, the soul can scarcely be said to feel its own diviner nature until it is made aware how thought can exist independently of the body. (Cheers). The moment we enter that world of books the body rests, thought awakens. The soul can then traverse swifter than light from pole to pole, bring before it all the ages of the past, and unfettered by time anti space, strengthen and develope the powers which prove its own essence to bo immaterial and immortal (Applause). And if we regard the utiact of ktiowle lawt in a social point of view, why the wealth of a nation does not depend upon the fertility of its soil, the treasures of its mines, the extent of its dominions, but on the ag gregate of the intelligence possessed by its people. It is intelligence that tills the soil, works the mine, directs the ship, invents the machine, and suggests those laws which unit , the harmony of order with the energies of fro.-dorn. (Much cheering). And as the material wealth of a nation is always greatest where wealth is least hoarded by the few—so that capital of in telligence from which material wealth is produced, expands in proportion to the width of the surface over which it is diffused (Applause). It is, there fore, our duty as individuals, to afford, as fur we can, as to every human soul facilities for its own developement; and it is our interest, as a community, to increase and circulate that fund of ideas from which even our physi cal comforts are derived, and by which this small island of ours silently maintains an empire immeasurably more vast than the mines of Peru could assure to the kings of Spain, or their myriads of unlettered serfs can bestow on the autocrats of Russia. (Loud cheers ) And it is the oonsciousness how much the history of the human mind is, in modern times, identified with the history of England that induces mo earnestly to advise all those who intend to profit by the facilities for instruction af forded by this town of Hertford, to make the history of their own country a fundamental part of their studies. History is, indeed, a study which well becomes the men of our own times. For these times are embroiled by the perpetual strife between ancient forms and novel ideas ; sod history, calmly and impartially read, is the safest arbiter between wise experiments and hazardous innova tions. (Applause.) We can scarcely judge soundly of any of the questions upon which we are divided, by dry maxims and positive assertions picked up from the jour nals of the day, and which would reduce the complicated art of statesmanship to abstract propositions of Euclid. It is only by a careful examination of the past that we can estimate the influence of events on the destinies of the future But of all history, that of our own coun try is obviously the most useful to Englishmen. And I am happy to recommend to your notice a work recently published, which comprises all that can give in terest and profit to a mere chronicle of events. I speak of the Pictorial History of England, published by Mr. Charles Knight. Have you got it in your library ? I - Mr. Crawley: Yes.] Well, in this work you will find chapters devoted in each groat era to the progressive state of arts, literature, science, commerce, manners, laws aid religion; and in short, all that completes the recurs of British civilization. I should say that the leaning of this history is to what is called the popular side of the question, but all histories lean to one side or the other, and this (at least as far as I have examined it) is seldom grossly partial, and never wilfully distorts facts or misquotes authorities in support of its views. Still it is one-sided—and a manly understanding in s earch of truth will not be contented to f o rm its judgment upon partial evidence. Therefor e in the more disputable political eras, I advise you to turn to the page of Hume, and see what can be said by a philosophical reasoner on the other side of the question; and even where you differ from Hume most, and with most justice, you will be in company with a writer who will increase and refine your know a dge of your own language, by the charms of a style perfectly matchless for nervous simplicity and lucid precision. If the recommendation 1 thus adventure should find favour in your eyes, I shall be very happy to offer a pt a to such student, belonging to one of your literary societies, who shall pass the best examination in some selected period of our history, comprising views of the progressive triumphs of those glorious forefathers, whose legacies have been a literature more splendid than that of Greece; an empire more colossal than that of Rome ; and a political constitution which still towers aloft in majestic se mmetry, because the depth of its foundation has allowed for additions to its structure. (" Bravo," and enthusiastic and long continued applause.) I shall detain you no longer, for I do not consider that we are met here to listen to long speeches, but rather to mix with each other in social and friendly intercourae: to forget for awhile the local contests that have lately egitated both town and county, and to enjoyesittliiintegr: ture what pelitics has not yet succ..eded indb fraternity. the polished commonwealth of equality (Much cheering.) I must, however, conag_arlEtcualpattievaytoeuthoen the various objects that please the taste which you have got togetheFeanl opular late you especially on the brightest a .niumsatatcopngratu ornament of all, the presence oktasoan est in whatever aianyrladies. (Cheers.) Indeed they do wisely to t j a itimste influence over our tends to secure their own ruder sex. Nothing more domesticates man—nothing more endears the firesriedmeotuhnanotohothheaobritigsianndoftasiittetsraot. literature. And if ture in all countries, we we must ascribe it to that sentiment which woman inspires and refines ; for l r ite at rature has withpoet, nd a g ever c ommenced e German o that the earliest poet must wr iter has happily said, e have been t he earliest lover.(Cheers.) Gentlemen, I shall now conclude by reading to you the discrimi nating words by which Bacon has prefaced and enforced the sen timent, which I have undertaken to convey. The greatest error of all is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge, as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terrace for a wander ing and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect ; or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon ; or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention, or a shop for profit or sale. And not (mark the words that follow and define the true end of knowledge, and as such 1 recommend it to you)—a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of men's estate." (Prulongued and enthusiastic cheering.) PREPARATIONS AT ST. PAUL'S. The preparations in connexion with the funeral ob sequies of the late Duke are proceeding with great ra pidity, and on the most extensive scale, under the di rection of Her Msjeaty's Commissioners of Woods and Works, she Lord Chamberlain, and other authorities. Yesterday the workmen, in number amounting to be tween three and four hundred, were engaged in com pleting the vast amphitheatre of seats, on either aide of the great central aisle, leading from the western end of the cathedral, and which are constructed to contain 5,000 persons on each side, rise tier upon tier, com pletely to the roof, a height of some hundred feet from the ground. It has been determined by the Government authori ties that all the seats shall be free, and that no gra tuities shall be taken by the representatives of the Dean and Chapter. The steps at the western por tico are to be covered with black cloth, and a plat form, also black, is being erected to receive the bier, with its illustrious remains, after ascending Ludgate-hill. On entering the Cathedral yard, where the funeral car and equipage will be drawn up, the procession will have to diverge slightly from the straight line, in consequence of the interposition of the statue of Queen Anne. Machinery, in connexion with the platform, is being specially constructed for the pur pose of conveying the bier, on a moveable stage, along the centre aisle to its place of deposition, under the dome; and its; slow solemn transit will be accompanied by the Dead March, or other requiem. It is stated that in con sequence of the limited height and width of Temple-bar, the proportions of the funeral car will have to be mate rially curtailed as regards their originally meditated dimensions. The proprietors of one of the houses front ing the cathedral is reported to have let his house for 1,0001. for the occasion, and the purchase money for seats to view runs enormously high, both in the neigh bourhood of St. Paul's, and over the whole route. During the progress of the works the usual daily ser vices are announced, with the exception of those on Sundays, to be suspended. The cost of carrying out the arrangements is estimated at 10,000/. EXPERIMENT WITH THE GAS IN ST. PAUL ' S, FOR THE FUNERAL. List evening the first general experiment was made in St. Paul's, at the instance of Lord John Manners, Commissioner of Woods and Works, of the effect of the gas arrangements within the edifice. The gas is thrown downward from near the roof, throughout the entire length of the cathedral, springing in one con tinuous chain from the cornices on both sides of the centre aisle, around the base of the whispering gallery, and along the choir. The appearance is that of a beau tiful beading, lending that " dim religious light" so appropriate to the cathedral and the solemnity of a grand funeral. Mains and pipes have been laid on in the edifice to supply many thousands of small burners. A specimen pipe, with its burners, was shown in action, by Mr. Goulding, the manager of the gas department under Messrs. W. Cubitt, who pointed out the necessity of regulating the supply of gas so es to cause an equal play of the gas from every jet. THE LONDON CITY Missunc—Last night the sixth annual meeting of the Holborn-hill Association in connexion with this organization was held in the Inquest-room, St. Andrews's court, Holborn. Admital Vernon Harcourt, RN., occupied the chair, and was surrounded by several clergymen. He referred to the great work going on in Ireland, where between 30,000 and 40,000 conversions from Roman Catho licism hal taken place within the past year.—The Secretary then read the report, which stated that during the past year the missionary had made 2,579 calls add visits; of these 192 had been to the sick and dying. He bad read the Bible to 552 persons, distributed 2,340 tracts. The domiciliary visi tations had occupied 1,109 hours, and 107 meetings had been held for devotional exercises. It appears that the sphere of the City Mission Society embraces 2,528,000 persons, which is a larger population than that in ten English counties, viz., Bedford, Berks, Bucks, Cambridge, Chester, Cornwall, Cum berland, Dorset, Durham, and Rutland. Of the 3,428 adults who died last pear, 1,047 were visited exclusively by the mis sionaries. The number of persons in the metropolis regularly neglecting public worship was as large as the entire popula tion of Edinburgh, Bristol, Manchester, Birminghanm, Ox ford, and Wolverhampton I There were 275 missionaries, all of whom visited 500 families per month, or 2,000 persons. Since the mission was reamed, 8,309,197 visits had been paid, of which 864,970 were to the sick and dying; 204,504 devotional meetings had been held, and 11,324,949 tracts and 77,761 Bibles had been distributed. There were mis sionaries to the police, to cabmen, to soldiers, to Germans. to Italians, to Jews, to Irish, and to the Welsh residing in the metropolis. The report was adopted. GOVERNMENT FMlGRATlON.—Southampton, Thurs day, Oct. 28.—1 t has this morning been officially an nounced by telegraph that the Emigration Commis sioners have fixed upon Southampton as a Government depot fur emigrants to the British colonies, and of depar ture for ships employed in this service. We under stand that the terms on which the Commissioners have L ondon Pa t e o sa th b e g . accepted the tender of the London and South-Western Railway Company for constituting Southampton an emigrant station are, that a depot cap Able of accom modating 2,000 emigrants is to be built at the London from thisp me on the yoya e as . tnahien" and in the Southampton docks ; and, vessels, and additionalg e s r h a ip l a re s i d t e o a bee c o L Southampton,v eye d b y railway lw ay from departure sengers and crew attenodstanotf port will be, practicaly, a starting from the of ships of metropolisti without the dangers, delay, expense, loss of increased premiums of insurance on dispatch r izo rov a is n ion i n il c f i o d r e n b t ot t h o ptaahe of the new sear cargo . in the London river. freight of passengers large activity to shipping at size taking on board their 3ear is expected to give great The opening Southampton, hc and many ships, it is anticipated, will be dispatched —lt is stated that t t h h a e t the water. d to .4 terms a the new regulati on : ' Ustralia under the THE 31ST REGIMENT. to o f this Inreegniknoetn. t, Q vv in h e o nbt a u r w e a stationed ief.tl t a o t Il Spike Island , d n L 9 o r from the iehiud in their boats.—Coric Constitution. THUUSDAY. handicap Sweepstakes of 15 soya. each, 10 ft, for two year-olds. P.M. Lord Clifden's Molasses, Est 21b (Toyer) Walked over. Match-100, h ft. First half of Ab.M. Duke of Bedford's Hesperus, Bst 7lb (F. Butler) 1 Hr. Hughes's Sophistry, 7st 111 b (Flatman) 2 Betting-3 to lon Hesperus. Won by half a length. Run in 51 sec. Match-200, b ft; Bst 71b each. T.Y.C. Duke of Bedford's Pensioner... (F. Butler) 1 Lord Chesterfield's Angelo (Flatman) 2 Betting -7 to 2on Angelo. Won by three parts of a length. Run in 1 min. 21 sec, iwoepstakes of 50 soya. each, h ft,:for two-year-olds ; colts, Bst 7lb ; and fillies, Bst 41b. Ab. M. Hr. Mare's Pharold (Charlton) 1 Hr. Howard's Nicotine (A. Day) 2 Hr. Payne's Glenavon (Flatman) 3 Lord Exeter's Cobnut (Norman) 4 Betting-6 to son Glenavon, 5t02 on Nicotine, sto 1 agst Cobnut, and 10 to 1 ages Pbarold. Pharold took the lead, made all the running, and won by a length; a head between second and third. Run in 1 min. 5 sec. Sweepstakes of 10 sous. each, for two-year-olds ; colts, 83t 71b; fillies, Bst 41b. The winner to be sold for 40 sous., if demanded. Last of db. M. Nir. Lister's Plunkett (Kendall) 1 Lord Clifden's Molasses Mr. R. E. Oliver's f by Birdcatcher out of Grace Darling (Flatman) 3 Hr. Jaques's Pitfall Kr. Morris's Margaret of Anjou (Basham) 0 Ylr. Meiklam's Ada, by Poynton (Templeman) 0 Bolting-2 to 1 agat Grace Darling f, 4 to 1 apt Aargaret of Anjou, 4 to 1 agat Ada, and 4.t0 1 apt Pit fall. Plunkett, who was not mentioned in the betting, took the lead immediately after starting, and won easily by 4 length; half a length between second and third. The race was not timed. £he Glasgow Stakes of 100 son. each, h ft, for two year old colts; Bst 71b each. Last three quarters of R.M. _ \lr. Bowes's West Australian (F. Butler) 1 Lord Exeter's Filbort (Norman) 2 vlr. Psyno's Speed the Plough (Flatman) 3 General Anson's o by Don John, out of Potentia (Rogers) 4 Betting—Even on West Australian, and 6 to 4 agst Speed the Plough. West Australian and Filbert had the race to them selves, the former waiting to the top of the busby hill ind winning in a canter by two lengths, Run in 1 min 18 sec. Matoh-200, h ft. A.F. Lord Glasgow's Knight of the Garter, 4 yrg, 7st 71b (Flatman) I Lord Clifden'a Hotborpe, 4 yrs, Bst 31b.... ....(Sly) 2 Betting-5 to 2 and 3tol on the the Knight of the Garter. Won by forty lengths. subscription Handicap Plate of 501. for three-year-olds and upwards. D.I. Mr. J. M. Sauley's Cariboo, 5 yrs, Bst 71b (J. Marson) 1 Mr. Phillips's Le Juif, 4 yrs, 7st Gib. 2 11r. Saxon's Black Doctor, 4 yrs, Sst 31b (Abrahams) 0 vir. Elwes's Azael, 3 yrs, 7st Glb 0 \lr. E. Parr's Sanita, 3 yrs, 6st 91b 0 Ur. Walker's Treasurer, 3 yrs, Gst 51b 0 11r. E. B. Claike's Lady in Waiting, 3 yrb, sst 121 b 0 Betting-5 to 2 agst Lady in Waiting, and 4to 1 each agst Azzel, Le Juif, and Sanitc. A fine race between the first two. Won by hulf a length. Sanita a bad third. Tho rain prevented our timing this race. • . The weather, favourable as could be wished yesterday, was unpropitious this afternoon, everything in the shape of enjoyment being destroyed by frequent and heavy howerr. Match-100, h ft. T.Y.C.—Lord Glasgow's fby Don John, out of Conspiracy, ist 71b, received forfeit from Duke of Bedford's Thorned* Bst 71b. Match-200, h ft, Bst 71b each. T.YC.—Duke of Bedford's Sittiugbourno received forfeit from Lord Rib blosdale's Talfourd. TILE TRINKET AFFAIR.—Tho investigation into the case was commenced this morning; it, utter the exami ',,tt ion of several witnesges, was adjourned until the even ing. LATEST BETTING LAST NIGHT. FIRST CLASS NURSERY STAKES. 4 to 1 apt Anteverta (t) 4 to 1 agst Exact (t) 8 to 1 agst Bello Sauvage filly (t) 10 to 1 agst Tuifourd (t) 10 to 1 agst Game Tommy (t) 12 to 1 rigs' Winter SECOND CLASS NURSERY STAKES. 7 to 1 agst King David (t) 7 to 1 agst Michaelmas Maid 8 to l agst Treacherous filly DERBY. 15 to 1 agst West Australian (0 20 to 1 agst Umbriel (t) 20 to 1 agst Cineas RACING FIXTURES FOR 1852. NOVEMBER. Worcester Autumn ... 2 Stretford Epsom 4 Warwick Liverpool Autumn 9 Abcrystwith Cow bridge Hunt Northallerton ll I IRISH RACES TO COME. NOVEMBER. Kilkenny ............... ... 23 COMMERCE OF THE NETIIERLANDS. — The Dutch Go vernment has just published statistical returns, from which it appears that in 1851 the imports exceeded those of the preceding year by 31,000,000 florins, the exports by 18,000,000 florins, and transit by 6,000,000 florins. Amongst the imports, coffee presented an increase of 7.000,000 kilogrammes, rice 6,000,000 kilog., and sugar 8,000 000 kilog., and gold in ingots and silver in bars 12,000.000 florins. In exports there was an increase of 700,000 kilog., in butter, 8,000,000 kilog. in cotton, 10,000,000 kilog. in coffee, and 8,000,000 kilog. in rice; whilst in oxen there was an increase of 8,807, in calves of 5,512, in pigs 3,916, in sheep 20,000, and in lambs 6,000, In the commerce of transit there was an increase of 8,000 laats in rye, 1,500,000 kilog. in rice, 5,000,000 kilog. in sugar. In navigation there was an increase of 103 ships, and in burden of 60,311 tons. In ships in ballast there was a diminution of 104, but the tonnage was greater by 4,158. The number of vessels which sailed was less by 403, and the but - len by 18,002 tons; but of those that left in ballast there was an increase of 549 in number, and 97,908 in tonnage. In steamers entered there was an increase of 82 with freights, and of 74 in ballast; and of those tbait sailed 183 loaded and 17 in ballast. LATEST DRAMATIC INTELLIGENCE! An ingenious critic in the Daily IVews of this morn ing, while alluding to the brilliant success achieved last night by the first performance of " Anne Blake" at the Princess's, seriously informs the public that "it is written by Mr. Westland Marston, a gentleman who has gained a name in our dramatic literature by ' The Wife's Secret,' and other pieces of acknowledged merit.' What will the ingenious Mr. Lovol say to this? It reminds us el a dramatic reviewer in another of our morning confetn• poraries, who, souse months back, commended the talent displayed in one of the old plays" reproduced at Sadists' Wells, under the management of Mr Phelps, observing that it augured admirably for the author's future productions —the author being, in fact, one of the contemporaries of Shaltspeare! Or, still more, it recalls to our recollection the ardour with which a Dublin audi ence, some years back, shouted for the author of " Antigone and, like Rachel, would not he comforted, until Mr Calciaft appeared before the footlightso and took courego to inform them that the dramatist had heel, dead some two thousand years, and that, therefore, it was in vain to look to the stage•box for the appearance of the honourable Mr. Sophoeles. DEATH OF A METHODISTIC CELEBRITY,—Last welt M. Ilugh Bourne died, in S:alTurdshire, at the advanced age of 81. He was the founder of that large and in creasingly useful branch of the Methejistic bo ly, known as the " Primitive Methodists." This body originates only some thirty-three years back, Mr. Bourne and some few others being expelled, or having withdrawn, from the " Wesleyeiny," on account of their not being per mitted to held what are known as " camp m ee tin gs ," and for some other similar reasons. They wished to restore Methodism to its primitive simplicity, and were accordingly designated " Primitive," that is, original Methodists. The first little band, thirty-three years ago, was a "class" of about twenty, of whom llugh Bourne was the " leader ;" but now they have 600 rekular travelling preachers, about 10,000 lay preachers; 5,255 chapels, aid 109,000 members, with an increase of between 4,000 and 5,000 members every year. The ministers are a very earnest, pious, and extremely labo rious class of men; for the most part they are but indif ferently educated, iu a literary point of view, though possessing an extensive acquaintance with the Set iptures. Their rough eloquence and vehement appeals to the con science of their heaters—who aro largely of the lower orders, whom more polished speakers would fail to move —are oftlimes highly e&ctive. They are ill paid, but as a whole contented, and characterized by a laudable prudence, arid notwithstanding their small revenues, are rarely involved in pecuniary embarrassments. In the Conference, which is always open, the lay element holds a proportion of 2 to 1. EALLY RISING.—Spits the distinguished Lord Chatham to his son, " I would have inscribed on the curtains of your bed, and the walls of your chambers, If you do not rise early you can make progress in nothing. If you do not set apart your hours of reading, if you suffer yourself or any one else to break in upon them, your days will slip through your hands unprofitable and fri volus, and unenjoyed by yourself." STATISTICS 01' THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPIL—The total extent of telegraph in England is nearly 4,000 miles, representing an outlay of about 300,0001. The total amount of wire laid down for the purpose is up wards of 4,000,000 yards, and the total number of tele graph posts somewhere about 100,000. Th e s taff of emplo,l6s niaT taco at upwards of 800 parsons. a IT "N' NAVAL INT 147LLIGI,;'NCE.,101,1 t DEATH OF ADNIIRAL MUDGE:,,tri Aim Zichary Mudge, one of the ill-ciffieerA An received halt'. pay, and i.l receipt of a ECi Viet pension, died at his residence, n ear Ply mou th, on the 26J1 nmt., at a good old age. The death of Admiral Mudg,e gives the Dike of Northumn , .-rland the opportunity of conferring the relin quished pension of 1501 on another cfficer s•.,f the grade of deeas,d, when the following promoti,es will ensue . Viee-Adiral Sir Samuel Pym, K.C.13., to be admiral of the bine. Vice-Aiirniral of the White Thomas Brown, to be vice admiral of the red. Vice -Admiral of the Blue the Hon. Josceline Percy, C.B. (commander in-chief at Sheerness) to be vice-ad miral of the white. Rear -Admiral of the Red J. W. Deans Dundas, C.B. (aommatider..iu-oltief of the MediterraLean), to be rive t, .inir a l of the hhie. Rear- zteltntral of the White Pt ter John Douglas, to be rear-admiral of the red. R ar A - lmiral of the Bhp, Sir Edmund Lyons, Bart., G.C. 8., K O.IL, , 0 be rear-admiral of the white. Captain Sir George Tyler, K.H , A.D.C. (Oct 10, 1822), to ba re*r-admiral on the reserval half-pay list. • Captain Sir John Franklin, K.C.H. (Nay. 20, 1822), of the missialg Arctic ExpediLion, to be rear -admiral of the blue. Retired Captain William Hendry (July 19, 1822), to be retired r , ar-admiral, but without any increase of pay. The Hon. Gorge Elliot, C. 8., will then become the senior vice admiral On the list; Sir William H. Dillon, will be the senior rear admiral fur promotion and Sir Thomas Herbert, K C.B. (one of th e L or d s of the Admiralty), will be the senior captain (Nov. 25, 1822). Captain Sir Charles R. D Bethune, C.B. (1830), and Charles Graham, C.B. (1830), succeed to the senior list ; and Captains F. D. Hastings and George Hathorn (1840), will rise up to the, 12s. 63. per diem half-pay Another good-service, pension and an appointment of naval A.D.C. to the Queen, will tall in band by the above promotions. RETI REMENTS. Captains George C. Blake (1838), and William P. Stanley (1838) have accepted the retirement tinder the ' Order in Council of 1846. APPOINTMENTS. Surgeon.—Thomas Somerville, to b© in charge of the convict ship St. Vincent. Second Maiter.—Charles J. Puller, to the Hydra, 6, steam-sloop, at the Cape. Master's Asbistant.—C. B. 14(111, to the Linnett, 6, at Devomport. THE ROYAL ALBERT.—This noble ship is to have her stern taken down, and a new one built with R run of some 10 feet longer than her present stern, io obtain the fine lines necessary for the good working of the pro peller. She is to have screw machinery of 400-horse power, and not I,ooo—the exaggerated amount given to her by rumour. PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 28. The Lords of the Admiralty continued their tour of inspection this morning. At 10 o'clock they crossed the harbour in the floating bridge, and proceeded to the Royal Clarence victualling establishment at Gosport, where Captain-Superintendent Johnstone, Mr. Davies, R.N., Master-Attendant, and Mr. Pinhorn, R.N., Store keeper, were in waiting to receive and escort them over the establishment. From the Clarence yard the Board, attended by Captain Johnstone, proceeded in the gig of the latter, to the Naval Hospital at Ha,ilar, where they remained until two o'clock ; they then drove to the Royal Marine Barracks, at Forton, where Colonel-Com mandant Menzies, K H., and staff, with the whole divi ,ion, were on parade ready to receive them. While the other members of the 13oard were thus employed : Captain Sir Baldwin Walker, K.C.8., Surveyor of the Navy, was i❑ the dockyard, inspecting the ships in dock, fitang, &c., accompanied by Captain-Superin tendent Henderson, C.B. Yesterday his Grace the Duke of Northumoerland and the gentlemen from the Admiralty dined with the Port-Admiral, Sir Thomas Brings ; and at ten o clock the party proceeded to the King's rooms, and attended the ball, where they met the elite of the county. Amongst the company present were the following:— His Grace the First lArd, Captain Sir Thomas Herbert, K.C.8., Mr. Secretary Staff ird, M.P., the lion. Captain Pelham, R.N., Sir B. W. Walker, K.C.8., Colonel Green, C. 13., Admiral Sir T. Briggs, Rear-Admiral the lion. 1). Byng. Captain Henry Byng. R.N., the Hon. Miss Bestriczi Byng; Captain Martin, R N., and family; Cap tain Henderson, R.N., and family; Sir Angus Campbell, 93d Regiment; Captain Hope Johnstone, R.N., Colonel Menzies, H.H., Mrs., and Miss Menzies; Colonel Phi lips, R.M. A. ; Captain Savage, R.M.A., and Mrs. Savage; Captain Crispin, R.N.; Captain Chads, R N., Mrs. Chada and family; Colonel Haultain, fir. A., and family; Colonel Gibsone and Mrs. Gibsone; Sir W. Wiseman, R.N.; officers of the 93d, 49th, and 7th Regiments. From the number of uniforms the ball was an unusually brilliant one. As Mr. Holinaswerth with his usual liberality gave the us© of his rooms gratuitously, the ball will realize a considerable sum in aid of the funds of the Seamen's and Marines' Orphan School. The Admiralty left the George Hotel this morning, and proceeded by the half past e Olt train to London. Mercury, cutter, sailed this afternoon for the Channel Islands, to protect the fisheries, in the place of the Sea flower. Archer, 14, screw steam-sloop, Commander Strange, will he out of the hands of the shipwright by the Bth of Nuv*mber, and the engineers by the 20th. Iler mainmast as well as the foremast is rotten, and has been taken out to be replaced by a new one. Menai, old 26, receiving hulk, has been brought along ,ide the siaith jetty this afternoon, to be cleared out, and placed up Porcheater Lake as a target for the Ex cel lent, gunnery-ship. . . Arrogant, 46, screw steam-frigate, Captain Free mantle, has haulud off to tho Malabar to take in coals. DEVON PORT, WEDNESDAY. Termagant, screw-frigate, Captain Gifford, arrived last night, and now remains in the Sound, so that the Sound presents a formidable appearance once more. Prince Regent, 92; Queen, 116; Rodney, 92; Indefati gable, 50; and Termagant, 28. These ships are being restored and victualled. Tao Prince Regent and Rodney will will be ready for sea on Saturday, but the Indefatigable requires some considerable repairs, and as her time is nearly expired, it is not improbable that she may be ordered to be paid off. Termagant, although recently been docked, is found to be in an extremely leaky state, particularly her decks, and will, it is ex pected, have to undergo a general caulking. Dee, steamer, Lieut.• Commander Smith, waits the arrival of 11r. Roberts, the newly-appointed governor of Liberia, and family, who are expected here this evening. After landing the governor, the Dee is to be stationed at the Cape, for the conveyance of troops. Sans Pareil, 81, screw-ship, Captain Decree, will be completed on Friday evening, and is expected to be taken out for the trial of her engines on Saturday or Monday next, weather permitting. A VERY OLD MULE.—We noticed some months ago that an old mule, the property of the Earl of Ellesmere, had been stolen from Worsley village, and after a few weeks' absence had boon fortunately recovered. This aged creature, believed to be between 90 and 100 years old, has, after *corking almost a ce ntur y , been at length " turned out to g rass" ova the moss, and is described by those who have seen it to be " as lively as a cricket." rho mule's great age is well authenticated, for Mr. Joseph Brotherton , M.P., can remember some fifty years o to have seen i t on the Bridgewater estate, and it was their known as the " old mule ;" and a curter who died some months ago, aged 80 years, could remember working the animal above sixty years since. It is of a e 00.m ni now il t a, o nfco e iri n e j atert o h y e remainderg. er e r y en d p im a intuuroteti and s sd i z fresh re o a s n thr d ac w t e e d water,hope existence. it xrfreed (5 dte nf i cr s Guardian. A NEW SYSTEM OF MUTUAL INSURANCE.—Last night a meeting of officers in the several services, con vened by public noti c e, was h e ld a t Willis's R at o t o n ol _ King street, Westminster, to take into consieferia proposal for a s y s t em o f mutua l insurance. The read to the The lr was occupi, d by M r . J o h n W. Brown, w meeting the proceedings of meetings held at Woolw ich d system met with and at Chatham, where the proposed system military, naval, the full approval of the efficers of and marine services. Mr. Lordtuerxplei system; the distinguishingfec,t, rifles, n ot on the contin gency of the death of the ofnzdtiethhe p wa r s o , po t s h t a •d t the claim would arise on the tii insurer , as in other offices, pm respect re° npt o, s a 1 ; The his being placed upon' that the system bo approved of, bbt upon the contin.enhcuyifopfeyh.is sTur,pecreahnaniurmataionn,haovrinogf civil service, moved as an amend that thowci°intihtgilel°nst vice should be excluded from the submittedmr.xtatotrot Martin, nos: look 0 finally that in the present discussion, with showing that superannuation, it would bo im politicsupport elsewhere than from Govern ment.promoter agreed to the amendment, upon which the civil officers retired, and the appr ova l of the ;project :was left to the members of the other ser vices present. CURIOUS ADVERTISEMENTS. —The following two curious advertisements appear in the Times of Saturday. —.‘ Medora is entreated to send Conrad back to his friends." "I.frb' Whol !—To the pearl of the great eastern sea, the blue-eyed maid of Israel, who keeps watch mar the impassable gate of dreary Scandinavia; you cost one great man his place, and will also cost a great many more their place—Leb' Whol!—E. J. W." EARLY CLOSING MOVEMENT.—An important step in this matter has been taken by the Great Northern, London and North-Western, Midland, Lancashire, Yorkshire, and Leeds Northern Railway Companie s. They have resolved to cease collecting or goodsreceivi e l ng, lit for the goods' trains, at seven o'clock every u e d v i Leeds, Bradford, Wakefield, Dewsbury, 11l in the mer arid Halifax, so as to " curtail, within reasonabdleerlaileiltds, the hours of attendance of the employedat.e same time it chandise department cn railways ;" the will ensure a punctual dispatch l trust to the energies of the employed e e day time. of todth e meet trains. th i s T o h o e n y . cession by increased exertion ' T a y._ The usual monthly THE CATHOLIC UNIVERN the Catholic University meeting of the committee of the Catholic University was held yesterday at the committee rooms, Lower was held yesterday e iv a ed ino s u in n c t e of th 2 e 2 l 6 al ' 1 °werrmecinadniaqouulLed to Subscriptions h a ve t be been n torecthe meeting. `t HEATRICALS IN CALIFORNIA. - 111 music and thee— tricals the Californians are not wanting. Mr. Booth and his two sons, Mr. and Mrs. Baker, Signor and Signora Biscaccianti, Miss Goodenow, and others, are all in San. Francisco. Some talk has been made concerning the) b ui lding of a magnificent new theatre, but we fear Of, project will not be carried out this season. , - Val II