The Sun. — London, England, 1852-09-29 00:00:00

IMPROVEMENTS IN PARIS The materials which encumber the passage of the new portion of the Rue de Rivuli, between the Rues St. Martha and St. Denie, are being removed, and in a few days the road will be given up to the engineers for levelling. At present the garden of the Hotel d'Argevilliers and the lightning-rods of the Tuileries can be seen from the Hotel de Ville. The pats of the street opened for traffic attract considerable crowds every day, who watch the progress of the new build ings and other works with marked interest. The prolongation of the Rue de Itivoli was decreed by the I.IW of the 4'h of October, 1849. It is 2,500 metres in a straight line from the Ministry of Marine in the Place de la. Concorde to the Hotel de Ville, and about 22 yards in width. The demolitions commenced on the 16th of January, 1852, a d n the contractors undertook to complete them b y the 18th of Septem ber. They have succeeded in completely clearing the street, with the exception of the small por tion just mentioned. The demolitions were divided into seven sections :—The first comprised 37 houses between the Rue des Poulies and the Rue de la Monnaie ; the second, 29 houses from the Rue de la Monnaie to the Rue des Bourdonnais ; the third, 26 houses from the Rue des Bourdennais to the Rue des Lavendieres ; the fourth, 18 houses from the Rue des Lavandieres to the Rue St. Denis; the fifth, 55 houses from the Rue St. Denis to the Rue St. Mar tin ; the sixth, 20 houses from the Rue St. Martin to the Rue de la Coutellerie; and the seventh, 43 houses from the Rue de la Coutellere to the Hotel de Ville. If to this be added the dependencies of the houses, the total number of edifices which have disappeared is 240, and their demolition has obliged not fewer than 12,000 persons to seek new lodgings. This number is greater than the entire population of the chief places of several departments—such as Evreux, Tulle, Aucb, Quimper, &c. The new street will cause the names of the Rues Be thisy, des Mauvaises Paroles, des Deux Boules, du Chevalier-du-Guet, de la Vielle-Harengerie, des Lavandieres, d'Avignon, Trognon, St. Benoit, Jean de-l'Epine, de la Tixeraudierie, de la Petite-Bou teille, and others, to disappear from the list of Pari sian streets. The surface of the ground cleared is about 35,450 yards, of which 21,662 will be taken by the street, and the rest will be sold. The sum of 17,895,749 f. has been awarded to the owners of the demolished houses, and 3,218,137 f. 85c. to the occu piers. Ths demolitions and other operations have cost 200,000 E, so that the total sum paid by the mu nicipality is 21,318,886 f. 85c. In diminution of this amount the city has recei ved 724,116 f. for materials of the demolished houses, 755,966 f. 75c. for 2,118 yards of ground sold. The remainder of the ground to be sold will, it is expected, produce 2,477,259 f. Deducting these items, the total expense of the street will be 17,356,5451.100., but the expense will be increased by about 7,000,000 f. by the prolongation of the arcades to the Rue des Poulies. _— PUBLIC DEBT. A Parliamentary return in relation to the public debt gives the following particulars of its variations during the last 30 years, both as regards the amount of principal and the annu al cost for the payment o interest. It will be seen that the reduction in the principal effected during that period has been only 50,000,0001., or 6 per cent., but that as regards the annual charge for interest it has been 3,326,4241., or nearly 11 per cent. The lowest point at which the national debt ever stood of late years was in 1834, when it had declined to 772,196,8491., or to ten millions below the sum at which it now stands, the Emancipation loan in 1835 and the Irish famine loan in 1847 having far more than coun terbalanced all subsequent reductions. It is to be re marked, however, that, owing to the conversion of the Three-and-a• Half per Cents., and the low rates paid upon the unfunded debt, &c., the actual cost of these obligations is now smaller than at that period. Dur ing the next seven or eight years this charge will experience a further diminution of 3,207,500/., of which 600,0001. will take place by the Threeents-and-a in Quarter per Cents. becomi n g Three per C. October, 1854, while the cessation of the remainder will occur through the expiry of the Long Annuities in January, 1860, for 1,293,5001,, and of other an nuities, amounting to 1 , 314,0001., during the inter vening time. The annuity held by the Bank for 585,7001. does not terminate till 1867. The un funded debt, which is included in the subjoined totals, was less in 1851 than in an y other year of the series, its amount being 17,742,8001. In 1822 it was as high as 36,281,150/. : Total Debt. Cost Year. Amouut. X. 1822 ... 832,81 1 , 295 ... 31,343,551 1823 ... 826,443 364 ... 29,978,454 84 ... 813,521,672 ... 30,166,421 1825 1826 • 806,122,467 ... 29,197.187 182 808,367.590 ... 29,228,967 1828 805,023,742 ... 29 417,543 ••• 799,979,540 ... 29,309,052 18 9 9 796,742,482 ... 29,156,611 1830 783,096,646 ... 29,118,859 1831 ... 781,095,234 28,341,416 1832 ... 77 9 796,549 ... 28,323 752 1833 ... 779,565,783 ... 28,522,5 0 7 1834 ... 77 2,196,849 28,504,094,6106 1835 ,„ 787,526, 466 ... 28,5 243,599 1 1836 788,398,570 ... 29, 1837 786,319,738 ... 29,489,571 1838 785,373,740 ... 29,260 238 1839 „.. 786,512,7 34 29,454 062 1840 ... 78 7,448,075 ... 29,381,718 1841 ... 790,874, 608 ... 29,450,145 18 4 2 791,25 0 , 440 ... 29,423,120 160 1843 ... 790 576,392 ... 269, 29, 1844 ... 787,598,145 ... 30,495,459 1 84 5 785,053,022 ... 28,253,872 1846 _ 782,918,984 ... 28,077,987 1847 _ 790,348,351 ... 28,141,531 IS4B _ 791,809,338 ... 28,563,517 1849 790,927,017 ... 28,323,961 90 1850 787,029,162 ... 28,091,5127 1851 782 ,1612`.....18,017, A.......••••••••••••• STATE OF TRADE. (From the Manchester Guardian of this ica day. ) MA N CHETER, TIIESDAL—By the Amer learn e that, for a few days prior to her sailing from New York on the 15th instant there was a renewal of those reports of injury to the cotton crop in which h Carolina, Georgia, Alaba ma, and Florida, had previously come to be regarded as greatly exag gerated ; that, on the 4th instant there were heavy taloa in South Carolina; and that the consequence •was a renewed demand for cotton at New York, New "deans, and Charleston, with an upward ten , deon in prices ; the before lost at New York being recovered. The expectation of another crop of ?,000000 was daily becoming f.tinter. The crop had been made up, shoring a total of 3,015,029 • baps, against 2,355,257 last year, being an increase of 659,772 over the crop of 1850-51, and 918,323 over that of 1849-50. These accounts have imparted some fresh life to the Liverpo ol market, where prices nave r eg ained 1-161 to per lb. Here, the eff of ects are simply an increase of fir mness on the part selle rs in maintaining th e q uotations of last week, and rather more disposition among buy ers to operate at those prices. A ge neral feeling of caution, how ever, prevails, which restricts the aggregate business of the day to a very moderate amount. The Germans are still giving ou t but few orders ; and that small decline h a d taken place in 16 ' s to 24's water twist is therefore still unrecover ed. But the demand for common mule yarns which followed the arrival of the overland mail has rather increased to-day the up ward tendency of 30's, 40's, and 50's. And the accounts then re ce i ve d from Calcutta ha ve g iven rise to purchases of li g ht 40 and 4 5- inch shirtings and low 6-4th jacconets, which have slightly added to their value. HALIFAX, SATIIRDAY.—The amount of business transacted in our Piece-hall to• day has been very ',malted ; but there is , w e understand, rather more uoing in the warehouses, and to order, both in plain and fancy goods. Prices, however, do not improve. Pith respect to yarn, every spindle is running full tune ; but the mer chants are becoming a little more Chary of giving out their orders at the present rates, 11 % there seems to be some u ncertainty,as to the future Price of the raw material. There is not a great deal titling in wool ; b u t the quota tions are firm, and a trifling advance has been, in some instances, obtained for som e favourite sorts. thisnartsFlELD, TUESDAT.--There has been a ge rniieral heaviness in the market to -day, and goods have ored off more slowly than usual. A few parcels tr beaver and pilot , cloths have been the principalcia h ansactions in fi nished goods. amongst . I °`ivever, rather more has been doing. Black doe fancy tweeds of dark pattern, and grey mixtures F. : l e been the prevailing articles inquir ed for, an d a number of those have changed hands ; but, takin g the market altogether, there has not been as uilich doing in seasonable goods as was to hav e been e xpected. ROCHDALE, 113. MONDAY.—We have had a very brisk been e flannels, and more bus i ness would have .."n ti n transacted if the manufactu rer s could have a ccepted the prices, as they consider t hem selves bu t Poorly remunerated with oil and wool a t their present V.. There is no change in t he wool market worth notice, - - At GREAT FREE.TRADE BANQUET AT itLANCHEBTER.- ,an influential meeting fa it he Anti-Corn Law League, p iquet at Manchester yesterday was resolved that a great mi m e qu ,. et shall be held in the Free-trade Hall on Tuesday, , "a of November next, to which Mr. Cobden, Mr. Sil,sht, and all the leading Free-trade Members of the House gi Commons shall he invited. The meeting was attended by tz r r Elkan a h Armitage, Mr. Crook, M.P., Mr. T. Bazley, kw ; N. Buckley, Mr. R. M. Philips, and most of the leading most active members of the council of the League were !:!eaeat at the meeting. Mr. George Wils on presided. The the t ests are t o i nc l u d e English, Irish, and Scotch M e m bers of th e - ""vie, and the object is to mark the deter mination of fully to carry out the free-trade policy which they mi 8 ° far advanced in the commercial legislation o f the trr D ope 3 hurt e itn: l it t l3 " 6 01 10 0 CO S UN, LITERAT EIRE. CAT HAL MORE; SELF. LOVE and SELF CONTROL. 2 Vuls Shoberl. This work is riot one of the ordinary class of novels, it is more cAlculo. ted to interest the thoughtful and philosophical than to Attract the admirers of start ling incidents or romantic tales. The hero, as may be supposed, is MAI, and the events described take place ... in Ireland. Led away by a prospect of imme diate benevolence, he consents to allow a Unitarian chapel to be built on his grounds, and even superin tends the progress of the building and its opening ceremonial. These mistaken ideas of tolerance he afterwards regrets, but they involve him in many trials, and cause great sfiliction to his mother, Mrs, More. This lady is, in luet, the heroine of the tale, the chief part of the first volume being devoted to her conversations with her friends on moral, and even theological subjects ; her idea of self-love is not that which is generally meant as selfishness, but an exalted standard of personal duty, which she believes should be considered before any advantage to others. There is much depth of thought in her arguments, and real piety, which contrasts fcrcihly with the infi delity and nvilignity of Mr. Schelting, the Unitarian, who is Cathal More's evil genius. The description of the fearful sufferings of the poor during the time of the potato disease is awful from its reality. The following extract is from a conversation between Mrs. More and her son : And is it nut better to be of use to men than to spend one's days in idle dreams about the nature of things?' " There is a cant now-a-days, about benefiting man kind, which Ido not at all admire. We are apt to tor get that each man is born to look after himself, and not after other people.' " ' And would you have selfishness govern the world?' " Not selfishness, but self-love, which is often opposed to selfishness. Selfishness is, I think, to our animal nature what self•love is to that part of us which is im mortal; the one considers the interest of the soul, the other grasps at a momentary gratification of the body.' " But it is the interest of the soul to be virtuous; it is virtuous to assist others, therefore sell-love leads us to philanthropy.' " And so it does, as long as philanthropy is a virtue; but when the desire to be of use to others jars with any duty of our own it ceases to be so.' " ' I do not understand you, mother; you say ono is to help others in one breath, and in the next that it is wrong. flow can benevolence be wrong?' " I mean that it is right to do good to others when it does good to ourselves, and wrong when it injures ourselves.' " But, do you know, notwithstanding what you have said, that sounds very selfish?' " No! because by ourselves I mean our whole selves, our future as well as our present interests.' "' And so you think we may overlook our own duties to ourselves from excessive philanthropy?' " Exactly.' " Then you place our duty to ourselves above our duty to others.' "'Yes; every gift, every faculty we possess, is given to us to help ourselves, and each man's occupation is solely to advance his real interests. Our duty to others is contained iu our duty to ourselves, but it is secondary, though the two always harmonix?.' " NEWPORT, ISLE OF WIGHT. FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) SEPT. 27. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.—Soon after one o'clock on Saturday morning a destructive fire broke out at the upper end of Pile-street. The two borough engines were soon on the spot, but it was some time before they could be effectively worked for want of water, as the turncock could not be found, and when he came considerable further delay occurred in finding the fireplug. Fortunately there was very little wind, and a good supply of water for one engine was obtained from one of the town pumps. The powerful barrack engine was brought by the troops, and as soon as the water was laid on an immense quantity was thrown on the burning buildings, three houses being by that time in flames, all of which were even tually destroyed with their stock and furniture. The sufferers are Mr. Reason, of the " Brown Jug," and Messrs. Cole and Jolliffe, cabinet makers and up holsterers, the whole of whose vast and valuable stock fell a prey to the devouring element; and it is stated that they were only insured to a trifling amount (5001.). FALL OF PART OF THE CLIFF NEAR ST. LAW RENCE, ISLE OF WIGHT.—On Sunday morning a part of the cliff at Old Park fell ; blocking up the road along the undercliff between Ventnor and Sandrock. The four-horse coach that runs from Cowes to Blackchine and Ventnor was obliged yes terday to make a road through the meadows, the main and oply road along the undercliff being blocked up by the stone and chalk which had fallen. A number of men are employed removing the debris, but it will be some time before the road will be again passable for carriages. These landslips often take place in the winter, but we:have no recollection of any former one of this extent occurring at this season of the year. Cowes and the island generally were never known to be so full of company at this period of the year as it is now. The corn harvest is at length finished, much of the wheat having been carried in a very bad condition. The farmers have been paying their men such low wages that they could not get their work done ; a little more liberality and all would have been well saved. A STORY Ton TEM Cuaious.—On Saturday night, the 18th instant, Solomon Danford, a labouring man, in the employ of W. M. Dansey, Esq., of Egypt House, was at Williams's beer-shop. Just before eleven o'clock he went out, leaving his basket behind, and did not return. On the following day search was made for him to no purpose, fears being enter tained that he had walked overboard; the steam-boat docks at the Fountain. wharf were dragged for the body, but without success. The brother's faith led him in another direction, and he went to Portsmouth to a certain cunning man, to consult him as to what had become of his lost brother, when he was told that " he had been dragged away by three men, and that he was then on the sea, but not in the sea, and that he would hear from him in seven days, if he was not on an island." The stupid fellow returned perfectly satisfied, but could not so easily satisfy others ; the woods round the town were searched, and the harbour dragged. A man in the Preventive service, stationed on the Fountain-wharf, declared that if the body was to be found that he could find it in a very short time if he had a loaf of bread baked in a tin. The loaf was procured hot, a hole cut in it, and three ounces of quicksilver put into it, it was then put in a small raft, and so placed on the water that the wind would blow it into the dock, the man declaring that if the body was in the dock the loaf would be attracted to it, and where the loaf stopped there the body would be found. The loaf stopped at the head of the stage, but the tide was then too high to touch the bottom with the boat's oar ; this was between ten and eleven o'clock, at tweve the tide had fallen considerably, and he tried to find the body with his boat's oar. Some say he lifted the body up, others that it rose on the loaf's stopping ; but others that the Medina steam-vessel arrived at the stage at twelve o'clock, and the motion of her paddles caused the body to float. Certain it is, that it was near where the loaf stopped against the stage, which is a very curious coincidence. The cir cumstance has caused no trifling comment. COURT CIRCULAR. BALMORAL, MONDAY. The inclemency of the weather prevented her Ma esty from attending Divine service yesterday, The Earl of Beverley had an interview with Mr. Secretary Walpole yesterday, at the Home-office. Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colo nial,office from the Governor of St. Helena. SYDNEY. The following extract of a letter of the latest date, from a merchant at Sydney, indicates the expectation entertained by the people at that place that their own mines will not be totally eclipsed even by the extra ordinary yield at Mount Alexander. The writer also refers to the abovementioned invention of Sir Thomas Mitchell : "Sydney, June 22, 1852. " I think we shall have some great diggings ere soon. You will see that we shall have our Mount Alexander yet as well as the Victorians. Thero are:deposits to the northward, on the Peel river, called the Hanging-rock Diggings, which are being developed very quietly. The parties there are doing wonderfully well. We hear of, and see weekly, large nuggets of 10oz. to 20oz. and up wards from that quarter. They are doing as well—the few that are there—as those at Victoria. " Sir Thomas Mitchell has been testing his new in vention—the Bomerang propeller for steamers in lieu of the s crew. He has tried it on a steamer here, and it has answered very well. Sir Thomas says he will be able to get 20 knots an hour out of it. It will bo the very thing for ocean steam-ships. He:ha taken out a patent, and wishes to go home to bring it out." were accompanied from the y hustings by the Lord Mayor SWEARING IN OF THE NEW SHERIFFS.--Yester day Alderman Carter and Mr. Croll, the new Sheriffs, were tT w h i he r e . Swift, and Mr. Cotterell (the ' late Sheriffs), and attended by the principal City officers. sworn s C e o v r r t a several onf of Aldermenat t he Gui G ui aldermen,i dh a 1 t l 0 . Several of the members of the companies to which the new Sheriffs respectively belong attended upon the occasion. The new carriages and liveries were greatly admired. THE SHOTTISHAaI CASE. —On Monday, at noon, the fourteen days' watch over Elizabeth Squirrell terminated. One of the committee assures us that every means was taken to ascertain whether she had possession of her sight and hearing, but she gave no indication that she had the use of these faculties. He also says that during the entire term of fourteen days she neither ate nor drank, and that the linen was unsoiled. At th e c l ose o f the watch her p arents were allowed to see her. After them she became embracing . . powerfully affected, and forsome minutes it was feared that she was dead. The committeeunanimously ' have signed a declaration that they acquit the girl and her parents of fraud. Many hundred sof persons visited her during the watch ; on Sunday seventy were present, and at the close of the term the cottage WEN crowded.—fpwich .ExPress' THE` LONDON, NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. The navy will he gratified to learn that the Admi ralty, appreciating the distinguished services of Commander Tarleton, at Burrnah, have promoted him to the rank of captain, and have further evinced their sense of this officer's eligibility by appointing comahi [ p n t d a e i i o n f the hie F C ox o , mm 4 o 2 dor t e he Lambert.ilag-shil3 of f T t h h i e s officer entered the navy in September, 1803, as first class volunteer on hoard the Leander, 50 ; as mid shipman of the Pallas, 32, Captain Lord Cochrane, he assisted in that frigate, while cruizing off the Azores, at the capture of four valuable Spanish vessel., one of the richest of which, laden with treasure, he car ried as prizetnaster to Plymouth. On April 6, 1806, while her boats with all but 40 of the crew were absent on an expedition up the Garonne, the Pallas gave chase to, and drove on shore, two corvettes and a large armed frigate-built store ship, mounting in the whole 64 guns; and on this occasion Mr. Tattnall was the only quarter-deck petty officer left on board. In the course of the following month he witnessed the destruction of the semaphores along the French coast, and was present when the Pallas, having singly at tacked the French 40-gun frigate La Minerve, in company with three 18-gun brigs, ran foul of the former in an attempt to board, and by the tremend ous shock was reduced to a complete wreck. In December, 1806, shortly after he had been removed with Lord Cochrane to the- Imperieuse, 38, he was placed in charge of a prize in the Bay of Biscay, and sent to England. On his passage, however, the vessel he was in was driven by stress of weather in a sinking state under the island of Belleisle, and was there taken possession of by a force sent for that pur pose from the shore. On the following day he was sent over to Quiberon Bay, and thence marched to the depot at Verdun, a distance of 500 miles. At the end of eighteen months he was deprived, with all the midshipmen then in France, of his parole, and taken to Givet. Here he was placed with 1,200 British seamen in close confinement in the barracks; and it wes not until December 1809, that, having failed in two attempts, he at length succeeded in effecting his escape in the disguise of a female, and reaching Ostend; whence, through the agency of a smuggler, he was conveyed on board the British fleet. In the ensuing January he passed his examination; and in May, 1810, he joined on promo tion the Neptune, 98, flag-ship, in the West Indies, of Sir Alexander Cochrane, who immediately nominated him Acting Lieutenant of the St. Pierre, 18, Captains Flinn and Houston. In this sloop be returned to Portsmouth in July of the same year; and on the 10th of the next December he was again ordered to act as Lieutenant in the Racehorse, 18 ; in which (the appointment being confirmed April 18 following) we find him present, May 20, 1811, when in company, off Madagascar, with the 36-gun frigates Astrwa, Phoebe, and Galatea, at the capture (after a long and warmly contested action with the French 40-gun frigate Re nommee, Clorine, and Nereide) of the Renommee, and on the 26th of the same month, of the Nereide, and the settlement of Tamatave. Invaliding from the Racehorse about May, 1812, he was next ap pointed-Jan. 5, 1813, to the Portia, 14. He com maded the boats of the President, 38, at the capture, during the siege of St. Sebastian, of the island of Santa Clara-and, whilst in the Tonnant, 80, com manded the Tounant's boats at the destruction of Commodore Barney's flotilla up the Patuxent; had charge of a gunboat in the attack upon Baltimore, and again commanded the boats of the Tonnant in company with those of a squadron under Captain Lockyer, of the Sophie, 18, at the capture, on Lake Borgne, of five American gunboats, under Commo dore Jones, which did not surrender until the British in the course of a desperate conflict, had been occa sioned a loss of 17 men killed, and 77 wounded. In narrating the details of the latter very gallant affair, Captain Lockyer, in his dispatch says-"I cannot omit to mention the conduct of Lieutenants Tattnall and Roberts, of the Tonnant, particularly the former, who, after having his boat sunk alongside, got into another, and gallantly pushed on to the attack of the remainder 'of the flotilla." We may add, that the launch, the boat alluded to, had 16 of her crew killed and wounded. On the promotion of Captain Lockyer, Mr. Tattnall, having been the senior lieutenant engaged, was ordered by Sir A. Cochrane to succeed him in the command of the Sophie. From February to May, 1815, he acted as captain of the Dictator, 64, and Carron, 20; he was then placed on half pay, without his promotion, how ever, being confirmed. At length, in March, 1819, on a partial change taking pla ce a t th e Ad m i ra l ty Board, his case, without application on his part, was laid, by Sir Edward Codrington, before Sir George Cockburn, who at once placed him in acting command of the Spey, 20, then on the eve of her departure for the Mediterranean. He was officially promoted April 14 following, and has not been since afloat.-Herald. Commander Nepean, whose death we announced yesterday, was son of the late Lieutenant-General Nepean and brother of Captain Nepean, R.N. He entered the navy March 3, 1798, as first-class volun teer on board the Caton ; was promoted to the rank of lieutenant, Sup'. 25, 1806 ; and next in succession appointed, 29th of the same month, to the Raven, sloop, Captain James Grant, stationed off Lisbon and Oporto ; Dec. 21, 1806, to the Bellerophon, 74, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Albemarle Bartle, in the Channel ; April 8, 1808, to the Humber, Captains John Hill and Robert England, employed between Falmouth and the Downs ; about July, 1809, to the Imperieuse, 38, Captains Lord Coch rane, Thomas Gould, and Hon. Henry Duncan, attached to the force in the North Sea and Mediter ranean ; and, in 1811, to the regular service, which he left in 1814. While belonging to the Raven he was wounded in her boats in an attack upon a privateer ; and when in the Imperieuse, in 1809, he assisted at the destruction of a fort in the River Scheldt, took part in the operations connected with the siege of Flushing, and was a second time wounded in an affair with five Dutch schuyts near South Beveland. His last appointments were April 25, 1823, to the water guard, in which service he continued, we believe, but a short period ; October 28, 1841, to the post (which he retained until the close of 1843) of Admiralty agent on board a contract mail steam-vessel ; and January 4 and May 22, 1845, to the San Josef, 110, and Caledonia, 120, both commanded by Captain Manley Hall Dixon, at Devonport. Sept. 29. APPOINTMENTS. Captain—Sir Thomas Maitland, C.B. (1837), to command the Agamemnon, 90, screw-steamship, com missioned this day at Woolwich. Commander—Robert Hall (1852),recent]y Acting- Commander of the Hound brig, 8, on the west coast of Africa station, to the Agamemnon. Lieutenants—William R. Rolland (1841), First- Lieutenant of the Hogue screw steamship, to the Agamemnon ; John E. Parish (1846), recently First- Lieutenant of the Conflict steam-sloop, on the south east coast of America station, to command the Sharpshooter, commissioned this day at Portsmouth ; and John Bythesea (1849), to the Arrogant steam frigate at Portsmouth. Paymaster—Edward D. Back (1846), to the Ca lypso, 18, on the North America and West India station. Clerk in Charge—John Donald (1845), to the Sharpshooter. Second Masters—John Thompson (1848), from the Arrogant to the Sharpshooter; John R. Richards (1852), to the Arrogant, vice Thompson. Master's Assistant—John P. Grant, to the Sharp shooter. Midshipmen—L. Dent, to the Hogue, and the Hon. J. Fitzmaurice, to the Arrogant. Gunner—William Betinson, to the Sharpshooter. WooLwicti, SEPT. 28.—The Sharpshooter, com missioned this day at Portsmouth, is an iron steam vessel of 202 horse power. The baggage of Captain Innes's and Captain Marston's companies of the Royal Artillery was put on board the Megtera steam-frigate, Commander John 0. Johnson, at Woolwich Dockyard, to-day, and the companies are to embark to-morrow for a passage to Barbadoes. G ex ß c E el ti le T nt r ß o o w W ing lN m G atc M he A s T to C o H k . place AQUATICS. Two very yester day over the usual reg atta course, from Putney to Mort lake. The first of thse was for 501., between Williams, a waterman of the Tower-stairs, and R. Power, of Whitehall, and rowed up. The second was between Sinclair and Perry, and was rowed down. Both matches created considerable sporting interest, and the Curlew steamer, which had been chartered to accompany the races, was crowded with sporting men, who speculated freely upon the results. In the first match betting was 5 to 4 on Power, whc, losing the chance of station, took the Patney side of Fulham bridge, his opponent being on the Middlesex side of the centre arch. It was a very capital start, the pace being extremely good, and the men continaed almost scull and scull up to Finch's, where Williams began to draw away from his opponent, who, however, struggled very manfully, although unsuccessfully, Wil liams ultimately winning by several lengths. Perry and Sinclair, both landsmen of considerable re nown, shortly afterwards started from Mortlake to Putney for 301. They had before contended, when Sin clair was th e conqueror . B e tti ng was even, but in some eases sto 4 was invested on Sinclair. Both men were in capital condition, and rowed in old-fashioned boats — a novelty now-a-days. Perry had the best station, but his opponent took the lead, and kept it to Barnes Rail way-bridge, where they became scull and scull, and a most exciting race followed all the way down. Perry, in the course of a smart spurt, drew slightly in advance of his opponent, and came in first by a length and a half only. Pot Laureate, a The Queen, by her warrant of the Gth of Au g ust last, has gran t e d to Caro li ne Southey, the widow of the late as in the warra n t i s set f o rt h , " of her late husban d' s eminent yearly pension of 2001 . , " in consideration," literary merits." A lik e warrant of the 9th of the same month confers a pension of 751. a year on Miss Louisa Stuart Costello, '$ in consideration of her merits as an authoress, and her inability, from the state of h er health, to continue her ex ertions for a 4Yelihotl." WEDNESDAY EVENING, SPORTING NOTES. No. CCCXVII. THE FIELDS FOR TO.MORROW'S RACES AT XiAMKET , &c. TO THE EDITOE, OF THE SUN. SIR,--The racing at head-quarters yesterday was un usually interesting; the appiarance of so many notable quadrupeds having giv en it a zest rarely met with on the first day of the First 03tober Meeting. The race for the Buckenham Stakes, to all intents and purposes, settled the pretensio ns o f Vanderdecken, as he abso lutely finished a bad third to Estrella and the Touch stone filly. The Duke of Bedford's Petrel—s , useful two years old—carried off the 10 sous. Stakes so very cleverly that he found a new owner at the telling price of 50 sovs. The Hopeful Stakes was won, rather strange to say, by a horse from Day's stable 'yclept Brocket, who was not backed for a single fartaing in the ring. lie won by a neck from his stable companion Vaultress, Noisette being a bad third. The crack Sylphine—about whom they took 5 and 6 to 4—wis beaten from the distance. She ought not to have beenstarted, for she was evidently dead amiss. — The race for the Grand Duke Michael Stakes proved that Stockwell had not damaged himself by twisting his shoe, as he took the lead, made all the running, and won by several lengths. Mu scov it e —who will be heard of hereafter in connexion with tome handicaps—beat Filius by nearly two lengths for second place. Ilex—who finished a bad fourth and last—was more than bait* distanced. _ _ The last heat of the Third Triennial Produce Stakes in its result seriously aff ecte d t h e betting for the Cesare witch: Ariosto, who m a d e a wa iti n g race of it, coming when required, and wi nn i ng ver y e asily by two lengths. He was immediately aft erwar d s e l ev ated to the rank of second favourite for the H an ii ca p a t 15 to 1. Phlegra also received promotion f or that rac e, having finished second to Ariosto. Hernandez broke down badly, but finished third. La.martine— R ho cut out the work to the Duke's stand—was a bad fourth, and Aaron Smith, lame before starting, finished 3fth and last, beaten all the way. Consequent upo n th e dec i s i on o f thisrace, besides backing Ariosto at 15 to 1, any advance upon 10 to 1 would have been taken about his stable companion, the K ni g ht of the Shire; and 25 to 1 was ta k en tw o or three times about Phlegra, whose chan ce f or t h e C e sarewitch seems to be a little better than wa s at fi rst su pposed. The field for the Fourth Triennial Produce Stakes to morrow will consist of Hobble Noble, Daniel O'Rourke, Adine, Dollond, Father Thanes, Ma id sto ne, and per haps Poodle, and one from General ARBOR'S and Lord Ribblesdale's stables. HOBBLE NOBLE and DANIEL 11 . O'ROURKE will occupy the first and second places. The Rutland Stakes—Elesathorpe, Pharold, Vest or Noisette, and perhaps Glenavon and colt by Verulam. ELMSTHORPE and Pharold will undoubtedly be first and second. The Match for 1001., T. Y. C., between Jupiter Tonans, Bst 91b, and Diomedia, Bst 41k, will, I think, be won by the latter. I also expect Nathan will beat Jack the Giant Killer, and Glenluce Nabob, in their respective matches. The Queen's and Town Plate? and 5 sovs. Sweep stakes do not close and name ultzl this evening. I am. Si r , 8 0. THE SPIRIT OF iHE TURF. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE • NEWMARKET FIRST WTOBEIiMEETING. TUESDAY. The Buckenham Stakes of 3W sous. each, h ft, for two yrs old; colts, Bst 71b; fillies, Bst 41b. One to the post. (3 Subs.) Mr. Payne's Estrella , ............... (F l atma n) 1 Mr. Mare's Kitty of Coleraine f ...,.,.,,..(Charlton) 2 Lord Eglinton's Vanderdeckes ............ (C. Marlow) 3 Betting—Even on Estrella, and 2 to 1 agat each of the others. Estrella waited upon the Kitty of Coleraine filly until half-way up the cords, and won easily by a length; a length and a half between second and third. Run in 1 min. 27 sec. Sweepstakes of 10 sous. each, for two yrs old, Gst 71b; and three, Bst 71b; four and upwards, 9st; the winner to be sold for 50 sous. if demanded. &c. T.Y.C. Duke of Bedford's Petrel, 2 yrs, Est 71b (S. Steggles) 1 Mr. J. D. Shafto's The Moor, aged, 9st ...(Ro g ers) 2 Mr. Stephenson's Ravenswing, Bst 71b ...(F. Butler) 3 Mr. Morris's Youthful Days, 2 yrs, 6st 71b ...(Hiett) 4 Mr. Armstrong's Sis. to Agis f, 6st 71b (T. Osborne) 5 Betting-6 to 4 agst The Moor, and 3to 1 agst Ravenswing. The race was entirely between Petrel and The Moor, Petrel obtaining the lead at the cords, and winning cleverly by a length, and was claimed. The race was not timed. Match, 200, h ft. T.Y.C. Duke of Bedford's Flirt, 3 yrs, 7st 71b (Pettit) 1 Mr. Payne's Catalpa, 4 yrs, Bst 71b (Flatman) 2 Betting-6 to 4on Flirt, who won cleverly by half a length. Run in 1 min. 19 sec. The Hopeful Stakes of 40 sous. each, h ft, for two yrs old; colts, Bst 71b; fillies, Bst 51b; winners extra. Last half of Ab. M. Mr. B. Way's Brocket, Bst ..... (Bartholomew) 1 Mr. Howard's Vaultress, Bst 51b ...............(A. Day) 2 Lord Exeter's Noisette, Bst 51b ...............(Norman) 3 Mr. Bowes's Auld Acquaintance, Bst Sib ...(Marlow) 0 Mr. Morris's Margaret of Anion, Bst 51b...(Basham) 0 Mr. Osbaldeston's Sylphine, Sat I llb (Hiett) 0 Lord Ribblesdale's Bounty, Bst Sib (Rogers) 0 Duke of Richmond's Cuckoo filly, Bst 51b...(Flatman) 0 Mr. Wauchope's Bridget, Bst 51b (Pettit) 0 Betting-5 to 4 agst Sylphine, sto 1 agst Vaultress, and 8 to 1 agst any other. Vaultress with Brocket, Sylphine, and two or three others in waiting, made play until half way down the bushes hill; she was then joined by Bracket, and they ran homo singled out, the horse winning by a neck; Noisette a bad third. Run in 55 sec. The Grand Duke Michael Stakes of 50 sous. each, for three yrs old; colts, Bst 71b; fillies, Bst 31b; the se cond to save his stake. A.F. Lord Exeter's Stockwell (Norman) 1 Mr. Greville's Muscovite ... (Dockeray) 2 Sir R. Pigot's Filius Lord Exeter's Ilex (J. Mann) 4 Betting -4 to lon Stockwell, who made all the run ning, and won in a canter by three lengths. Run in 2 min. 28 sec. Third year of the Third Triennial Produce Stakes of 10 soya each ; for four yre old; colts Bst 71b; fillies, Bst 41b. D.I. Mr. Greville's Ariosto (Flatman) 1 Lord Exeter's Phlegra (Norman) 2 General Anson's Hernandez ...............(F. Butler) 3 Mr. Powney's Lamartine (A. Day) 4 Lord Caledon's Aaron Smith ............. (Marlow) 5 Betting -13 to 8 eget Ariosto and 7 to 4 agst Her nandez. Lamartine took the lead, and, with Ariosto in his track, made play until half w ay between the Duke's Stand and home, Ariosto then taking up the running, and winning in a canter by two lengths. Hernandez broke down in the race, and Aaron Smith was lame before starting. Run in 4 rain. 7 sec. The weather from a n ear l y hour i n the morning until after the m a t c h was wretched the ne vertheless, w as t h e rain falling heavily and witho u t cessation ; the at tendances quite up to th e average , and the rac i ng full of interest. BETTING AFTER THE RACES. TWO YRS OLD TR IENNIAL. 2 to 1 off ere d on Pelion. cEsAitEwiTcs. 10 to 1. agst Knight of the 20 to 1 agst Candlewick Shire 20 to 1 egst Bird on the 15 to 1 eget Ariosto (t) Wing. 100 to 6 agst Weathergag© 25 to 1 eget Phlegra (t) cAmtiam;EsniftE. 100 to 6 agst Knight of the Shire (take 20 to 1.) DERRY. 20 to 1 agst Umbriel (taken to 400!) NEWMARKET, TUESDAY NIGHT. ENTRIES FOR WEDNESDAY. Handicap. T.Y.C. Stockbridge Lass (filly out of Sister to lEgis), Bst 71b; —Cuckoo filly, Bst 31b—Molasses, T a t 31b. Handicap • for three yrs old, 84c. D.M. Exeter, 4 yrs, Bst 71b—Runnymede, 4 yrs, 7st 101 b Beanolerc, aged, Tat 31b. 501. Plate. Garfortb, 5 yrs—Hesse Homburg, 4 ra—Pan, 3 yrs. The Bedford case has been decided in favour of Azael. NEWMARKET, WEDNESDAY. TEN o'CLocK. LATEST BETTING. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) ST. LEG ER. 6 to 4 on Fran tic. TWO YRS OLD TRIENNIAL 3 to 1 on Polio. Catherine Hayes and Sittingbourne are scratched. CESAREWITCH. 6 to 1 agst Knight of the Shire. THE rt t L a r o; e p l LONDON nANi inquest nest CRO YDONat tthe ---=-----_ last,d r dressmaker, a k shortlyer, R A I F t A w T A A y L . .....yest er ACCIDENTdaRA I LWAY.—Yes t erd a y g 0 rf r. ca Greyhound Inn, Sydenham, respecting the death of Eliza rbeesthidiTnghoamtass,yaendbfaorort.y- after eight o'clock, she alighted with seine other passengers Or SuDnde.aeyeaseedvenwiasnga oa the platform of the Sydenham stl . n. She was ob sarved to stagger, from some unexplained cause, towards the train, which at that moment was set in motion, and her dress having caught by the steps of one of the carriages, she was in a moment whirled beneath, and before the train could be stopped, no less than four carriages had passed over her body. On b e ing e xtricated, It was found that the poor woman's left leg and right thigh were crushed in a most frightful manner; the shoulder on the same side was also severely injured, with an evident dislocation of the spine, near the nape of the neck. There being signs of life, it was presumed she might be restored, and accordingly she was with all promptitude placed in an up-train, in order to be conveyed to one of the Borough hospitals; but prior to fever iemen f ' o s r Land a reaching - the New-cross station, it was found she had e x pi re d, and her body was accordingly returned to Sydenham, and placed in the Greyhound I nn. The jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death." il Pills s iilrheumatic Van n [ADvEßTlHKENT.]—Extraorrlinary Cure Of Rh en - Margaret Al‘Connigan, 19 years of age, residing in New Town,.r—ds h m a a d t i Fever been suffering Holloway's from a violent P of two months, which had entirely depriv e d h er of theupw- u her limbs. During this period she was und er th e care of three of ee 'of the most eminent medical men in Hobart Town, and r them her case was considered hopeless. A friend prevailedby upon her parents to try Holloway's celebrated Pills, which they consented to do, and in an incredibly short space of time a perfect cure was effected. The particulars of this copied from the Hobart Town Courier.—Sold by case are Drug gists, and at Professor Holloway's Establishment 244, , London. Strand, PRAISEWORTHY CONDUCT OF THE ORANGEMEN AT LivzurooL.— On Sunday last, information having b een laid before the head constable (Captain Greig) that a funeral was to proceed from Eldon-place, Vauxh a ll- roa d, attended by a procession wearing Orange favours, that officer, with Chief Superintendent Ride, proceeded to the spot, with a view to prevent such a display. We are glad t o l earn that the party, on being informed that a disturbance might be created by their wearing favours, at once desisted, and fol lowed the body of their deceased brother to the grave in their oaliary attic ins PIQUI4ors. SEPTEMBER 29, 1852. FRIENDLY SOCIETIES. The report of the Select Committee " appointed to inquire into the operation of the laws relating to Friendly Societies" has been issued. It is as follows Your Committee appointed to inquire into the operation of the' laws relating to friendly societies have examined witnesses thereon, whose evidence they have agreed to report to the House. They proceeded first to inquire into the particulars of those cases of alleged hardship or injustice which have been brought under the notice of the House during the present session by petitions from different parties. 1. The Act of 1850, which is the existing law re gulating f r i en d ly societies, conta i ns a proviso that it shall n o t b e l awful for any society established under this Act to assure the payment of any sum exceeding 1001., nor any annuity exceeding 301. per annum, nor a sum in sickness exceeding 20s. per week. It also prohibits nom i neeship to others than widowers, widows, or children of members, and it reduces the interest payable on future deposits made with the Na tional Debt Commissioners to 31. per annum instead of 31. 16s. Oid. One operation of these clauses has been to oblige certain benevolent and useful societies at Dublin, Cork, and Limerick, and certain other societies esta blished nearly a century ago in the north of Ireland for providing an income for the ,ovvidovvs of Presby terian ministers, to suspend their transactions, because, Ist. Those societies grant annuities to an extent exceeding the limits of this Act. 2d. They grant them to nominees, such as sisters and brothers, nephews and nieces, c ous i ns, and strangers in blood. 3d: They are reluctant to reduce their benefits to suit the lower rate of interest. Dr. Cooke and Dr. Montgomery appeared before your Committee, and their evidence shows that their society is the main dependence of the members of their ministry, as a provision for their widows, and that it bas existed nearly a century, was recognised by the Irish Parliament, 36 George III.; was en rolled in 1809 under the 49 George III.; and that they had been formally placed within the Friendly Societies Act by 2 William IV., c. 37. They complain, be sides, that the Act requires tables, a bond from the treasurer, that a member may not belong to two societies, that societies should be forced to make re turns to the registrar, and that they should not be allowed to lay out their money in land. Your Committee see no good reason why the limi tation as to the amount of annuity on sickness may not be withdrawn in the next Bill, if only care be taken to require that the tables for such annuities, where the amount of such annuity is certain, be cal culated by a competent actuary, and the contributions be kept distinct. On the other heads of complaint your Committee think that the case of these long-established societies is deserving of a special Act, and that it is not ad visable to alter the general law in order to accommo date their requirements, however unobjectionable or praiseworthy they may be. 2. A petition has been presented from 83 assurance companies, complaining that certain five friendly so cieties, established under the 10 Geo. IV., c. 56, be fore the year 1840—[Clergy Mutual, Friends Provi dent, Provident Clerks, National Benevolent, United Kingdom Temperance]—claim to have the power to make their policies, by a clause in the policy, pay able to widow or widower, or child of a member, to any amount, and that such policies are exempt from legacy and probate duty ; that these so cieties have ceased to possess the character for which Parliament granted privileges; that they have an unfair advantage, from being constituted under the Friendly Societies' Act, which is equivalent to a charter, being in reality trading life assurance com panies ; and they ask to have such societies confined in their transactions to the limits prescribed by the Act—namely, of 100 i., or compelled to be reconsti tuted in the same manner as other life companies. Your Committee examined several witnesses in support of this view, as well as other witnesses on the part of the societies against whom the complaint was laid, and they refer the House to the evidence, which is of an interesting and curious nature. It ought also to be borne in mind that the security and good management of a society depend in no small degree upon the amount of their transactions and of their revenue ; and it is desirable, therefore, to induce the poorer classes to insure in societies in which the richer also insure ; and these five societies have beyond question conduced in a very material degree to extend downwards in the scale of society a knowledge of the principle of mutual assurance and a disposition to embrace the advantage of it. The other alternative your Committee incline to recommend to the attention of Parliament—namely, to allow the privilege of exemption from stamps and from probate and legacy duty to the policies of all life assurance offices, as well as friendly societies, to the amount of 500/. This amount is taken because whatever limit may be fixed upon that will virtually be the limit of the provision made for their families amongst the great mass of those parties whose interest is intended to be advanced by any Legislative measure on this subject. Your Committee refer to the very explicit evidence of the chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue and of Mr. Trevor to show that, in their opinion, the loss to the public purse would be inconsiderable if put in comparison with the national benefit which they be lieved would be achieved. If Parliament should adopt this proposal, it will of course be necessary to guard the privilege from abuse, by annexing conditions to all societies or as surance companies, which may avail themselves of it ; amongst which the most prominent should be, that a minute and strict return of the pecuniary condition, and annual accounts of each should be made, to be laid before Parliament. It may also be found that, irrespective of any pe cuniary advantage, such a plan may be the means of checking the formation of delusive and ill-founded schemes for establishing life assurance companies ; and this is a subject of so important and critical a nature, that although your Committee do not feel justified by the terms of their reference to enter upon it in detail, they yet think it right to press it upon the notice of the House. Your Committee examined Mr. Pratt, the registrar of Friendly Societies,'about the tenure of his office, and the constitution of it. He states that he is the sole depository of all the various mass of miscellaneous matter which in the last twenty years has been poured in from above 10,000 societies ; and he suggests that a board should be formed, for the pur pose of superintending the management of friendly societies, and of affording advice and information when applied to; of furnishing correct rules and tables at a mall expense, for which they would em ploy eminent actuaries, or the Institute of Actuaries, and of requiring societies which are possessed of le gislative privileges to act up to the rules on which they were established. The last witness who gave evidence before your Committee was Sir Alexander Spearman, the Comp troller-General of the National Debt Office. His evidence is particularly deserving of the serious at tention of the House. He states that his office has at present no means of checking or verifying any sums transmitted by any society to him for investment, beyond a simple decla ration, tendered at the same time with the money ; that the interest payable is higher than that which the Government receives ; that the risk is great in case the funds were to go down, that the societies might draw out their money, and .the difference be tween the price when sold and when it is invested, would be so much loss to the country; that sums have seldom been drawn out when once invested with the National Debt Commissioners, and it is open to surmise that the claims which ought to be met from that money so invested, have been liquidated from other means, and so the capital which bears a very high in terest has remained untouched, to the prejudice of the public revenue; that the total amount of capital be longing to Friendly Societies so invested is 2,393,0001. at an interest, part of 4/. lls. 3d. and part of 3/. 165., whereas the average rate of interest realised during the last 12 years has been only 3/. 4s. 9d., and that the total loss, if the whole were sold out and paid off at the present price of stocks, would be 127,0001. That, in the case of the Clergy Mutual Society, if the accounts with them were closed at p resent, the revenue, on the contrary, would have ga i ne d a profit of 5,900/. Sir A. Spearman agrees with Mr. Tidd Pratt in his suggestion of a board, so far as to desire that a larger number of persons should have cognizance of the he thinks th at it is the management of his office; interest of friendly societies that they should be placed under greater control than at present ; and that the existing state of things as regards the registering merely of the name and rules, is unsatisfactory in 8 public point of view. In the opinion of your committee the subject o f in vestments and of interest to be maturely considered , payabl e upon them r e q uires so as on the one side to protect the revenue , ha and on with parties who the other to keetpiofait of Acts of Parliament.ve A acted u .s n e d v ef de t o h t e ly sa n wanted n to obtain a more full investigation o w er 1 of the accounts of all societies investing through the National Debt Office, and of requiring that such investments shall be sub ject to reduction in proportion to the just demands which ought to be payable from them. All these subjects ought to be examined and settled whenever a Bill shall be brought in for render ing permanent the law relating to friendly societies, which at present has a limited duration. 1 It does not appear to your Committee that these five societies have been acting contrary to law. The Act under which they are enrolled declares in its preamble that it is expedient to give protection and ' encouragement to the formation of friendly so cieties, and enacts that any number of persons, with out distinguishing any particular class or condition, may form themselves into a society. To soc i e ti es so I es t a bli s hed that Act gave privileges of in —West at 3/, 16s. Old. per annum, exemption from stamp duties, priority of payment from executors of persons dying in their debt, and exemption from probate duty to the amount of 201. The Act 3 and 4 Viet., c. 73, took away all ex emption from stamp duty, and power to invest in savings' banks or with National Debt Commissioners, from the societies granting an assurance above 2001., and as a compensation for these privileges, it allowed in direct terms a power of assuring to any party a life policy by nomination. The existing Act, which passed in 1850, restricted this:last remaining privilege of nomination to the case of a widow, widower, or child, but imposed no re striction of amount in their case. The Clergy Alutual Society seems to have been the first which undertook a large description of insurance under the Act of 1829, by issuing policies to the ex tent, first of 1,000/., afterwards of 5,0001. The pre sent number of their policies is above 2,000, and the average amount is about 9501. Their capital is 525,0001., cf which 315,0001. is invested with the National Debt Commissioners. The expense of ma nagement is four per cent., nothing is paid for agency. Annual income, 60,0001. per annum. The Friends' Provident Association, at Bradford, has a capital of 350,000/., of which 96,0001. is in vested with the National Debt Commissioners. Mem bers, 2,079. Average amount of policies, 700. Ex tent of life assurance, 2,0001. The Provident Clerks' Society was established in 1840. Has a benevolent fund attached for granting loans, annuities, and gratuities, raised by 10 per tentage on all profits, and a small subscription from each member. Capital, 84,0001. in Three per Cents. stock, and 6,4501. on mortgage. Average amount of policies, 1921. Number of members, 2,735. The National Benevolent Institution was esta blished in 1835. The annual income arising from interest on capital, prie;io7. s is 167,000/. ; the 9 3 3 3 ' 0004 ; the capital is about 800,000/„ of which Com missioners. average a il' invested with the National Debt Com- The number of members 9,300, and the extent of w li o f u e nt of the policies is about 5001. The assurance is 5, 0 001. The United established eleve n their policies is 1307,ars ; ago the average amount of Kingdom Temperance Society was Although it appeara that these societies possess and exercise privileges and can allege specific statutes , passed for the encourage merit and protection of f; ptions for which they they societies, it appears to your Committee, that as outgrown the particular class ofeybjp* have manifestly in the contemplation of Parliament° totes were passed, and have become w hen a e lac ts ead w ct hi l c i h fe we a r s e . those eta surance offices, they ought to be equal footin g , i n respect o f such exemption s, an other assurance comp an i es ; e ith er b y being wde prived of those privileges, or by extending them t o all alike. There are grave considerations which should make Parliament hesitate before it proceeds to adopt the former alternative. To make provision for a wife or family out of the savings of a salary, or wages, or small income, is an object which ought unquestionably to be fostered and encouraged. This would be checked and damped if an advantage hitherto offered should now be with held. But it is said, confine these exemptions to societies which do not issue policies above 1001. or 2001. If this were done, so far as these five societies com plained of are concerned, they would indeed lose the privilege which they hold under the specific authority of Acts of Parliament; but they would still continue their transactions, and would be in the anomalous posi tion of being constituted under friendly societies Acts, but destitute of all the benefits conferred by such Acts. STATUE of the DUKE of WELLINGTON at MANCHESTER. A meeting called by circular by the Mayor, Mr. Robert Barnes, was held yesterday afternoon at the Town-hall, in anchester, for the purpose of consi dering the propriety of erecting a permanent memo rial of the late Duke of Wellington. The meeting was attended by many of the most influential people in the town. The Earl of Ellesmere and the Earl of Wilton arrived before the commencement of the pro ceedings, and the Bishop of Manchester arrived shortly after. The Mayor of Manchester was unable to be present, illness obliging him to go to Harro gate ; Sir John Potter, therefore, officiated for him. In opening the proceedings, Sir Joliet said they were brought tog e th er by the demise of England's greatest son—of a man alike distinguished by the wisdom of his counsels in the field and his counsels in the senate—a man who, by his brilliant victories, raised the name of England to a height it had never before attained—and who by his victories had secured to us more than thirty years of continuous and com plete peace.—(Cheers.) Whether as a statesman or a general, all must feel that the Duke of Wellington would ever rank foremost amongst the heroes of Europe. It was felt two years ago that something should be done to testify the gratitude of the commu nity for the services Sir Robert Peel conferred upon us, and surely it was a duty now to make equal, nay greater, efforts to commemorate in Manchester, the centre of the peaceful industry of England, the memory of the man to whose achievements we owed the peace upon which every domestic and commercial blessing had rested.—(Cheers.) Mr. THOMAS BAZLET proposed the following reso lution :—" That in order to testify the high admiration entertained by this community for the exalted talents and distinguished public services of the late lamented Duke of Wellington (as a soldier and as a statesman), it is, in the opinion of this meeting, desirable that a statue should be erected in Manchester, by public subscription, to his memory; in grateful recognition, as we ll o f his transcendent genius and undoubted c ourage , w hich, under Providence, secured to himself the reputation of the greatest general of the age, and to his country the enjoyment of prosperity and liberty, as of the deliberative wisdom, disinte rested judgment, and noble spirit of patriotism which ever directed his endeavours to perpetuate and extend the invaluable blessings of peace."—(Cheers.) He remarked that of the loss which the nation had sus tained in the death of the Duke of Wellington, hap pily there only prevailed in the vast community one opinion, and that was well embodied in the sentiment of regret, and of desire that the glorious deeds of the great Duke should be had in memory, and that a permanent record should be raised to remind posterity of the deeds he had done, and to perpetuate the grati tude of the age and generation in which he had ex isted. Having quoted the words of Lord John Rus sell at Stirling, Mr. Bazley proposed the resolution. The Mayor of SALFORD (Mr. Ashton) seconded the resolution, and expressed on behalf of the inhabitants of that borough the pleasure they had in joining in the testimonial to one who had benefited both boroughs alike. He was happy to find it was in tended to place the statue in front of the Royal in firmary, in company with that of Sir Robert Peel, and (he had been further delighted to learn from a private source) in company with a statue of the Duke of Bridgewater, another of the great benefactors of Manchester. It seemed to him that the site w as chosen well for placing the memorials of th ree of the greatest benefactors of the land in front of the mos t noble institution they had for the amelioration of the suffering of the poor. A short discussion then ensued as to whether the unequivocal feelinge.on character of the memorial should be decided by tbe meeting. There was an mani fested that it should he a s tatue —whether ethe e r eq° 51 • The resolution was carried m una c n o or otherwise, to be left with The Rev. Canon CLIFTON;ernes of a number of gentlemen to act as committee. He stated that it was to be understood that it was not de sired to confine the subscription o the districts, it er was w right town of Man. chester. As Manchestt:e centre of the ma dimmm° the uits t ef nufacturing manufacturing districts be erected should be the joint contribution of all the that the statue to of all the neighbouring boroughs had been summoned to with it. The mayors d to the meetin that gon seconding the resolution, M r. J. C. Hunlz , in Pour firms and individuals who read a list of twentr each. Several would have given had contributed 100/. 1 ground. thought that 100 . was a very fair more, but limit. The peered in it. Mr. Hunter expressed intaawrnsess of the Earl of Wilton, and the Earl of Ellesmere his danc e that with a good canvassing committee w coo 1 d s hould be raised. Arr. M. Ross moved t hat the names of several fo ° o n 6 . m ight an reig • nere, Germans, Portuguese, and Spaniards, resi dent in the town, should be added to the committee. He knew that they were anxious to join with their English friends in testifying their respect to the me mory of the great deceased. The resolution was then put and carried. Another resolution of .a formal character was passed, and the business of the meeting concluded with a vote of thanks to Sir John Potter, moved and seconded by the Earls of WILTON and ELLESMERE. Some subscriptions were banded in, and at the close of the business the subscription list stood at 2,5501. THE INFERNAL MACHINE.—The 111oniteur de l'Armee says—" It has been reported that the conspiracy against the life of the President was hatched at T ou l on, where the machine is said to have been constructed. It was calculated to make 800 victims. According to the same version, arrests are said to have been made simultaneously at Marseilles and Toulon, and it is added that the authors of the plot form part of a secret society called Le s Ven geurs.' QUEENSToWN, SIINDAY.—Within the last week no fewer than 150 vessels, corn-laden, have arrived; some have left for other ports, but about 80 still remain. A vessel is also l y i n g here, the Lord Auckland transport, havi n g on board 260 convicts, taken from the Spike Island convict de pot, about to sail for Van Diemen's Land. These me n have b e en presented with tickets of l eave for good charac ter, and on arrival in that colony are to b e permitted to tur n their at tention to any pursuit they please. The expense of sending out these men will fall little short of 20,000/. home or colonial Government ig to p a y for their trausit aevilaitiO ;9 Ph Whether the (imm • 1. * .-- t lk D 411 17 Dillb i •y - - ' HEALTH OF LON „ . , AVE,R (From the Reg ..,.....et #, „•:.. ,i. t.) Last week 1,077 415ir 03tprfit rftudilrad in the metropolitan districts. ' fkos,wide.Foorti4on the return of the preceding • - Ivo: . ,' i tOer was 213; but this is chiefly . o ....: :. .. *4.many it of which occurred at p •7. ` , - 4 .;g : ..' 4 ere not registered till the end of t , '''''Oe.'-', I t t i 10 cor responding weeks of the r . •:42 1 51 e average number of deaths was 1,042, which, with a correcticn for the increase ofApopulation, becomes 1,146. Patel cases prodUced by epidemic diseases amount in the present return to 271, nearly the same as in the previous week. The mortality arising from measles at the present time is unusually low, only two and five cases respectively having been registered in the last two wee k s. Scarlatina, however, makes progress, as is shown by the steady increase of deaths referred to since July ; the numbers during the last eight weeks were, 38, 47, 49, 51, 53, 58, 67, and :83. In a case that occurred at 14, Dean's place, Vauxhall-bridge-road, the cause of death is entered thus—" Malignant scarlatina (3 days) ; im perfect drainage. Diarrhoea, which continues to de cline, was fatal last week to 61 children and 11 adults; cholera, to 7 persons; typhus, remittent fever, B:c., to 45. The following are the seven deaths from cholera registered in the week : In Fulham, at 9, North-row, North-end, on Sep tember 22, the daughter of a labourer, aged 2 years, " summer cholera (4 days ); serous efrusion on brain (one day)." . .. _ At Bishopsgate, on the 19th of S e p. teniber, the son of a musiCian, aged 2 years," cholera infantum (11 days)." Mr. Spencer, the registrar of St. Botolph, says that " this is a close and crowded place, with little ventilation, and occupied by very poor persons ' • a drain is in the middle of it, which i s frequently choked up and emits offensive effluvia." In Haggerstone West, at 14, Whitmore-road, on the 18th of September, the son of a baker, aged one year, " infantile cholera (10 weeks)." In Mile-end Old Town, Upper, at 11, Bedford place, on the 13th September, the daughter of a cheesemonger, aged 4 years, " cholera (12 hours.)" In Lambeth, in first part of Waterloo sub-district, at 8, Bond-place, on the 19th of September, a general dealer, aged 56 years, " bilious cholera." In Peckham, at 2, Batten's-yard, High-street, on the 23d of September, the widow of an organist, aged 64 years " cholera (16 days)." At Queen-street, Lewisham, on the 19th of Sep tember, the son of a labourer, aged 17 days, "cholera infantum" (one week). ' On the 25th of September, at 4, Wood's-yard, South. Hackney, the daughter of a labourer, aged six months, died of " diarrhcea" (30 days). The medical attendant and parish surgeon writes on the certificate—" There is a most offensive smell from a pig and cow yard in this court; there is no drainage or proper water; there is one pump , f or gill the houses, b u t th e water is so bad that the inhabitants c annot use it." At 10, Brunswick-street, Homerton, an the 2 4th of Sept em b er, a printer, aged 20 ,•.ears, " typhus (17 days), streets adjoi n i ng observ es —A, The houses in Brunswick-street and bmmorrhag e from the bowels." Mr. Steib back of the h ouse in which this man died is in a most are badly drained. The yard at the filthy state from the refuse water not being able to pass away. A c onstant stench assails your nostrils as you enter th e p assage, occupied by two and three fanaiSs." and m os t o f the houses are At 4, Harrow-alley, Aldgate, on the 25th of Sept, the son of a butler, aged 2i years, died of " encepha litis; serous effusion (4 days)." The medical at tendant states on his certificate that " this house is surrounded by slaughter-houses, and is unfit for human habitation. The Irish p oor persist In residing in these filthy localities, although f orewarned of the consequences, of which they are ind ee d qu i te regard less. The blood is always found vitiated, owing t o t h e want of proper ventilation and food." On the 23d of September, at 13, Upper Cornwell_ street, St. George's-in-the-East, a painter, aged 42, died of "inflammation and enlargement of the muscles of the neck (one week), vomiting of blood." The me dical attendant in this case writes as follows on his certificate :—" Three months ago this man received Burt under the chin, from which time he had fre quently complained. A week ago he came to our surgery, complaining of something like a crumb of bread in the windpipe. Nothing could be discovered ; inflammation around the muscles of the neck, with some difficulty of breathing, came on, and resisted all treatment. On Thursday morning early he was found dead in the yard of his residence, having brought up a large quantity of blood. No post mortem inquiry took place." The following is an extract from Mr. Bensted'a re turn for the sub-district of St. John, in the district of St. Olave :—" On September 27, at 4, College-street, the daughter of a mariner, aged 1 year, died of pneu monia (one week): On September 22, at 8, Horse lydown-lane, the daughter of a printer, aged 10 years, died of pneumonia (one week)! On the 22d of September, at 1, Potter's-fields, a mercantile clerk, aged 53 years, pneumonia (one week).' Thesree persons were seiz-d with the came complaint within a few hours, all lived near each other, and all died at the end of one week's illness." A gentleman, aged 74 year., died of " stone in the bladder (several years) ; lithotrity and effects of chlo roform; disease of prostrate." Two persons died of car buncle, viz., a whitesmitb, aged 63, who was brought from Cow-cross-streets, and died on the 22d Sep tember in St. Bartholomew's Hospital ; and the widow of a master mariner, aged 71 years, who died on the 21st of September, at 25, Grosvenor-street, of " car buncle (3 weeks), cerebral congestion (3 days)." A sign and label writer died on the 15th of September, at 6, Green-street, Leicester-square, of " general de bility, with diarrheres (2 months)," at the remarkable' age (as stated) of 102 years and 7 months. STATE OF THE W EATtlEtt ausixo THE PAST WBEK SUNDAY.—The sky was overcaqs throughout the day; cirrostratus. Rain fell heavily during the earlier portion of the morning. MONDAY.—The sky was one-third pact covered till 10h. A.M., three-fourths covered till after noon, and during the re mainder of the day the amount of cloud was variable; cumuli, cumulostrati, and cirrostrati. Frequent showers of rain fell. TIMSDAY.—The sky was overcast till noon, three-fourths were covered till 7h. P.m., a n d c l ear afterwar ds; cumuli, cumulostrati, and cirostrati. noon, one half covered till 6h. P.M., T ,l till near WEDNESDAY.—The sky Wag free from c‘ou afterwards; cumuli, cumulostrati, and cirrostrati. a very thick Tlluttsnay.--During the whole of this day at short dis mist was prevalent, obscuring obects from s v t T r 5 i i v e tsible. tances. At night the moon's place wa—g the horizon thick FRIDAY. —A dense fog till lob. A. tvards noon the day during the greater tof the day. - par y - fr om cloud, and wholly so and generally overcast became fine, the sky partially free tatl)Av.—The morning was at night. ; „ i „. as misty. a thin fog was pre- SAT valent. The sky was free fr omliitad near the horizon. The cloud from 10h. A.m., with the exception of a few enT u fog began to collect before mid night was clear, but a thin night. ELECTRICITY:—Sept. 2d Positive, with moderate ten 2, sion during the in d - " f ng. The mean or a thermometer placed on the Dreadnoughtmain reain Hospital Ship. and read each day at mast of the g. 2 0; an d the mean reading at 9h. P.m. was 9h. ex. w as - readings at the Royal Observatory for the . mean ~ 7 the 5 " o t 'i m es were 53.1° and 51.-6° respectively. na,l l „ B , r - , d' gof the barometer increased from 29.14 in. at "" - a in- of the week to 29.51 in. by 9h. P.M. on the beginning the 19t h ; decreased to 29.39 in. by 3h. P.M. on the 20th; in 29ed 90 ito n..by the end 30.35 in. by 9 of the h. A.M week. . on the 24th; and decreased cr eas to ' CAPTURE OF RAILWAY THIEVES. BRISTOL, SEPT. 28.—Three notorious characters, named George Taylor, Elizabeth Barnes, and Mary Cal laway, who have for a lengthened period infested the railway termini of this city of the Great Western, Bristol and Exeter, and Midland Companies, committing extensive depredations on persons travelling by the trains, bat who had hitherto by their adroitness suc ceeded in eluding justice, have just been captured, a n d, after a very lengthened inquiry before the magistrates yesterday, they were all three fully committed for trial. They were charged by the railway authorities under the following circumstances:—lt appears that for some time they have pursued the plan of forcing themselves into the crowded booking-offices, and upon the arrival and departure platforms, where, by pretending to be in a great hurry, and pushing about, they managed to create a great deal of confusion, which they took advantage of to steal watches, po c ket -books, purses, They have been al so k uowu for so me time to have been in the h a bi t of travell i ng by various trains, principally in tirst-class carriages , with a view of committing d epredations on the journey, and such was their skill t h at, althoug h carefully watched, they contrived t o escape detection till a day or two since, when they were captured in the following man nor, which sh ows one of their most successful plans of operation:-_A. l a d y named Lewis and her niece having occasion to pr ocee d to Wotton-under - Edge , went to the booking- o ff ice f or t h e p u rpose of obtaining their tickets. The thre e p r i soners were observed to come on the pre mises at th e s umo time in com p an y to g ether, a ppa r ently conversing eagerly. Mrs. Lewis was closely observed by them, and when she took out her purse to pay for the ticket s h e r niece saw Barnes call the prisoner Taylor, and, touching ber own dress in front, where Mrs. Lewit's pocket was, point to that lady. Taylor and Barnes then closed in upon her, as ;if for the purpose of obtaining tickets, but in a minute they left. The niece immedi ately i n quired of her aunt if she had been robbed, and having been answered in the affirmative, she followed the man , a nd observed him pa's the pur se to C a ll away , who wr apped it in a corner of her shawl, leaving a point banging out. The niece at once accused them of the t h e ft, when Callaway struck at her, and while she stooped to avoid her, passed the purse into her reticule basket. The magistrates committed them all three for trial. DEATH OF Mn. RousE.—Tbie gentleman, for many years well known to numbers as the proprietor of the Eagle Tavern, in the City-road, died on Saturday last, at Boulogne sur-Mer, in the 69th year of his age. MIND YOUR PRoNouNs.—A notice of a recent steam-boat explosion closes as follows :—" The captain swam ashore, so did the chatnbermaitr. She was insurtd far 16,000 (1911410, and lodeci with iron." 6. fun& 67 P 67 P 67 P ri g is l ons duty ,fined r ketr . for t P re• Ivan' g ,i,': 1 will coo :eta ll 4 S. -4 1 "' g tares' ~ 11+ 1 ''' 5