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•••••••/. 6.... 37 S.d. . 25;4, :•`' *.. l• 4% di& ... 9r die. 1... • IN WWI • •• .... r•• 4 di~ ~. ow , •• 1 • • .... . • es.• • • ..••• •• r •• ar. i I • - 11 :.634x.1 115 so. • •••• • ...... • II • so. • a. • as. • ... . ///.. . . 2 x.d v.. I 20 ••••• I 25 %*i -- 34 %.4 -;% % x.d 27 xxl 15X BOW -STREET.—(THIS DAY.) John Freterey, was placed at the bar before Mr. Jardine, charged with being drunk, and having a horse and cab in hi , possession, of whiz ► he was not the owner or the driver. At twelve o'clock last night, a constable of the A division found a horse and cab in Whitehall, moving slowly towards Charing-cross. The reins were trailing along the street, and the prisoner was lying drunk across the footboard with a cab-driver's badge in his pocket. 2n being taken to the station, he said he was not a eensed man, and that he was entrusted with the cab by the regular driver, who was suddenly taken ill. He was then locked up, and in a few minutes the driver arrived, o ur unk, demanding hi s ca b, w hi c h had been taken to the "'Teen-yard. Mr. JARDINE said he could not punish the prisoner as 48 a cab-driver, as he possessed no license, nor did it appear he e as plying for hire. The proprietor wished to know what remedy 1 e had, as he had bad to pay 4s. 6d. at the Green-yard for the recovery of the vehicle? Mr. JARDINE said the only redress he could afford, to grant summonses against both the driver and the prisoner, who should pay a fine of ss. for being drunk. MAGAZINES, s c.—(CONTINUED.) TAIT. Those who merely familiarize themselves with magazine literature through the medium of the u a dvertisements, will have been rather puzzled as to the meanin g o f an ar ti c l e in Tait for September, headed "Nautical Blunders and Manslaughters." Strang e as the title may appear, the article itself is the article of the month, full of wisdom and worthy 'of more than a merely passing attention. Among other things it s ugg ests greater precautions on the erring fisheries, where there is periodically a terrible .se of life from the mad practice of the fishermen trusting themselves to the perils of the deep-sea fishery in open boats. The ignorance of the fisher ;Ten. of Scotland is also a subject of lamentation. Aranda" is continued, and so likewise is " The Tale of Communism." In the introduction to the number for September there are some judicious ob servations on recent attempts at "sedition." THE BANKERS'. There is no lack of subjews coming within the pe culiar sphere of our talented contemporary. In fact, tt present it may be supposed to labour under the ernbarras des richeses, there are so many points which f all within its peculiar province, which it is compelled to overl oo k f or the present. The first paper—" Mone tary and Commercial Prospects," is deserving of an B ank perusal ; it alludes to the late debate on the •uank Charter Act, and exposes the fallacy of the ar tornents brought forward in its defence by Sir R. P eel, its legislative parent. All classes will, we are sure, c ordially concur in its concluding aspiration ; it says , We sincerely trust that there may be no coin- Inercial pressures to demonstrate again the impolitic character of the measure which Sir Robert Peel and t he Government are so determined to enforce. We trust that the harvest will turn out better than is generally expected. But, should the worst happen, l i ve hope that the country will insist on the Ministry producethey the havoc which resulted from them last ex ea r." " Letters to a Branch Manager" are continued. k e impolicy of p e rmitting a habitual resort to over drawn",; accounts is forcibly depicted. A general re of the savings' banks system is given, together th the report of John Tidd Pratt, Esq., on Irish s aving s ' banks. There is also an article "On the haritable Loan Funds in Ireland," a system which Prevailed to a great extent in that country, with mixed results of good and evil. The case against the Bank Charter Act of 1844, as stated in the report of t he Lord s ' C o mmittee, is extracted from that able do cument. There is an analysis of the accounts at t the principal railway companies presented their meetings during the past month, and also the rep or t s o f joint-stock banks, and a variety of v aluable information on various commercial subjects. A e supplement contains the remainder of the evi dence taken before the Committee of the House of e citntnons on the Commercial Distress, including that the Governor and Deputy-Governor of the Bank of E ngland, and of Messrs. Cotton, Pease , Gardner , cues Loyd, Tooke, Taylor, and Birkbeck. w THE UNITED SERVICE. This number will be peculiarly acceptable to the 1t is of the gallant professions to whose interests is especially directed ; it will also be well received t ; }! the general reader. We have a dissertation "On Jelence of Mind," " A Chapter upon Anchors" (ccn elude u), and an able paper " On Regimental Schools." k e pt." Henry Curling gives a " Summer Ramble in : 1 7,'"t," written in his best style. " The Ol d Six h ave continues his shots. We trust he m a y ever a good one remaining in his locker. " The S mugglers'. League" is a well wr itten narrative m 1 t :, much interest. Major L. Smyt h O'Connor con .cues his " Leaves from the Tropics" in the style so "II known to the readers of the United Service Maga zine ; and Tristram still exposes with equal vigour and heartiness, the boastings and fallacies of La lnarche's Algeria. The " Story of a Spanish Nun , " "Souther n Peru," "Early Voyage to the Gulf of St. Lawrence," and the " Reminiscences of a Subaltern," are all well worth of perusal, and, with the general correspondence on the usual topics, constitute on the Whole an excellent number. THE SPORTING REVIEW. "The Regatta in the Solent," by the editor, gives ns a graphic account of the yatching proceedings during the week, which will be received with much Pleasure by the lovers of aquatic pursuits. Craven describes the "Racing in August" with his usual Power and fidelity. Linton continues his " E n g lish Sports and Sporting Quarters." The manner in which the sober and sedate quaker becomes a lover of the f'onting-field—a p ur suer of hounds, will provoke a hearty laugh. " Fox-hunting in the S o u th of France;' " Sporting Incidents at H ome and Abroad," " A Day's Sport in South Africa," Summer Sports," " Wild Sports in t he F ar West,' " Angling in the Lakes of Scotland , " !The Steeple-chase by Castor," with the usual mount of sporting information on every subject con nected with our national amusements, will help to guile many a weary hour when more active enjoy gent is deni e d. We were agreeably surprised to find h e our old favourite Maxwell has resumed the work e commenced so ably, and which we feared had be en t r °opt to a premature conclusion. "Two Years in t he }sir West" is continued, and a third part in the author's best style is given. " The Colonel , " for w hom every reader of " Wild Sports of the We s t" h ad conceived an affection, is again introduce d. The t umber is exceedingly good in all its parts. FARMERS' MAGAZINE. v The article on the small - pox in s hee p in this num er of the Farmers' Magazine is worthy t he attention o D f every possessor of flocks. It seems that inoculation re nders the disease almost harmless. The article on re eding horses, by Mr. Cherry, is also well worth y consider a ti on . He v says— " The s kill s h ow n, by the founders of the breed o f ovaes which _have exclusively obtained the name of til °rPogh-bred,' produced stoutness as well as s p eed ; and 80 long as races were contested in heats of four hoe, the horse carrying twelve stones, both these !panties wete indispensable, and the character of tho rough-bred' horses was raised to the highest pitch of eminence. But a chan g e has taken p lace, and it is easily •L ft eeable to later supporters of the turf, who estab lished `LI° custom of running ridiculously short distances with Zer°°k' light weights. Indeed, the facilities tor ©n me a appears, with few exceptions, to have beco the p a ramount object." G overnment, is a subject well worthy the consi deration of the "overnment, for it is known that during the last war th e success of our cavalry operations was in many in -Btilnoca owing to the superior " bottom" of our horses. The illustrations to this number ar e a p ortrait, b y Davie, of Mr. Carpenter's Prize Hereford Bull, and Portrait, by Strafford, of Mr. Large's Prize Oxford Rums. THE ETHNOLOGICAL MAGAZINE . This remarkable publication progresses with so many evidences of power, of enterprise, and of eru dition, that we are f a i n ,t o b e li eve that it is prosper ing. The paper depictin g th e or i g i n o f Mythology is more than curious, it is profound and beautiful. With such an organ, the new science of Ethnology Cannot fail to multiply its votaries. THE LAND WE LIVE IN. Part XIV. of this brilliant periodical is delinea tive of " The Isle of Wight." Both the letter-press descriptions and the pictorial embellishments are ad rairable. THE MIRROR. Mr. Percy St. John finishes his vindication of the character of Robespierre in the Mirror for this month. It is an ingenious piece of special pleading, nothing 'tore, as throughout Mr. St. John takes for granted all the matters in dispute, without tendering one % tom of proof in support of his assumptions. St. Just and Robespierre are mutually the compurgators of each other's character; St. Just is called to prove that Robespierre was the mildest, the most humane, ?aid the most religious of men; while Robespierre , in his turn, i s call e d to prove that St. Just was the most ;upright of human beings. Certainly Mr. St. John has not succeeded in his attempt at whitewashing the characters of the victims of the 9th Thermidor. We ia t ave in this number a continuation of the " Biogra - PnriictainSketches of the Kings of England ;" a well- Wte paper on " Communism and Socialism ;" slashing review of Maxwell's pamphlet on Ireland ; and several other articles of merit. TAE NEW MONTHLY BELLE ASSEMBLEE. Edited by Mrs. Newton Crosland, late Camilla The legend of "Bleeding Heart-yard," by Dr. Shelton Mackenzie, with which this number opens, it Just the sort of tale to be told over a sea coal fire of a "fflutetes evening. It is admirably wrought up by Dr. Mackenzie, who narrates this legend of diablerie with all the gusto of a true believer. There is also in the present number a graceful notice of that true poet of the people, Robert Nicol, and the commencement of a translation by the fair editress herself, of Alfred de.s Essart's novel of " A zzoli the Goat-herd." In addi tion to the fashions, this number is illustratel by a beautiful engraving by Austin of Hayter's fancy portrait of Julia Mannering, and by a well-executed wood-cut of Thaxted church. A DESCRIPTIVE ATLAS of ASTRONOMY and of PHYSICAL and POLITICAL GEO GRAPHY; with Descriptive Letter press. By the Rev. Thomas Milner, M.A. Part V. This, the fifth part of this valuable work, contains a beautifully engraved and accurate map of the British Islands, and a hydrographical map of the world. The description of the sidereal heavens is completed in this part, and that of the physical geography of the earth commenced. GA VARNA IN Lul‘ DUN. Putt VI. ' The Coulisses," by Shirley Brookes, and "The Barrm:id," by Stirling Coyne, are the subjects illus rated by the pencil of Gavarni this month ; NT-aux in v.as promised, and albeit Albert Smith furrdsl:ei e description, the sketch by Gavarni is postponed in xt month, and instead we have a sketch of a masquerade group. SIMMOIVDS'S COLONIAL. We strongly recommend the attentive perusal of the article on Vancouver's Island in this magezine to all those (if any such there be) who entertain any doubt as to the crass ignorance, combined with love of jobbing, which characterises those to whose bands are unfertunately entrusted the destinies of the Co lonial Empire of Great Britain. THE MAN IN THE MOON. We regret to see an announcement that the folding sheet of wood-cuts, which has hitherto been a prin cipal feature of the Man in the Moon, is to be discon tinued. This number is full of fun, pun, and juke. As a specimen we give a " TRIBUTE OF RESPECT. " A meeting was summoned the other day to take place at the City of London Tavern, with the view of presenting Mr. Urquhart with a splendid Britannia metal tea-pot, and Mr. Chisholm Anstey with a superb copper coal scuttle, as testimonials of gratitude for their exertions during the session, now happily concluding. " At the appointed hour the two gi.-ntlemen arrived, and after waiting in vain for somebody else to come, proceeded to business. " Mr. Urquhart moved that Mr. Anstey do take the chair. " Mr. C. Anstey then explained to Mr. Urquhart the object of the meeting. "Mr. Urquhart, in a speech of three hours' duration, presented Mr. Anstey with the copper coal scuttle. " Mr. C. Anstey returned thanks. " The waiter was here ordered out of the room for laughing. Mr. C. Anstey then, in a speech of four hours' du ration, presented Mr. Urquhart with the Britannia metal tea pot. " Mr. Urquhart returned thanks. " The business being thus concluded, the meeting went away in a cab." d 862 G • THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 7, 1949. WORCESTER MUSICAL FESTIVAL. WORCESTER, WEDNESDAY EVENING.—The success which has up to this evening attended the festival, has been fur be) and the most sanguine expectations of the committee of management. The attendance at the Ca• thedral on the first morning exceeded that of the corre sponding morning of the last Worcester Festival (1845) by about 600 or 700, and last night the first concert in the College Ilan was patronised to a similar extent. The number of visitors at that concert reached 600, being upwards of 200 more than on the first night, in 1845. _ _ This morning, although there had been some rain during the night, the weather was exceedingly fine, and though it afterwards became cloudy, no rain fell to mar the enjoyment of the Festival keepers, or diminish the attendance. In consequence of this, the company was again most numerous at the Cathedral, and highly dis tinguished. The nave of the Cathedral was more closely packed than yesterday, and additional ac commodation had to be provided for the visitors. The , estern gallery and aisles, however, were not so well filled as yesterday. There were about 700 persons in the nave, and 450 or 500 in the western gallery and aisles, making a total of 1,150 or 1,200. Mcndelssohn's sacred oratorio of Elijah was selected for this morning, and it was acknowledged on all hands that never did this famed o ratorio g o oft so well as upon the present occasion. As f ar as human perfection can be arrived at. it was attained to-day. and the most in tense gratification was expressed by all parties at the performance. The principal solo parts were taken by Madame Castellan, Miss Dolby, the Misses Williams, Mr. Robinson, Air. Sims Reeves, and Mr. Lockey. Mr. Machin had but little to do. The concluding chorus in the first part, " Thanks be to God," and the trio by Miss A. Williams, Miss M. Williams, and Miss Dolby —" Let thine eyes"—were repeated by general desire, expressed in an unmistakeable murmur of approbation. The last-named piece may be called the gem of the morning's performance, it amongst so many brilliants any one could outshine the rest. The morning's performance closed, in a most gratify ing manner, shortly before three o'clock. Yesterday afternoon, between three and four o'clock, a fire of a somewhat serious character occurred at the rear of the Salutation Tavern, Princes-street, Stamford-street, Lambeth, by which a man was so severely injured as to be obliged to be removed to the hospital. It appears that a party had been engaged pitching a large wooden tank, which was placed in the yard adjoining the back of the house. From acme cause which could not be ascertained, the inflammable substance took fire, and burnt with such fury that the wooden balcony and the roof of the bagatelle-room be came ignited ; the back windows at the same time were demolished, and the unfortunate man who had been re-. pairing the tank was frightfully burnt. The West of England and brigade engines promptly attended, and, owing to the exertions of the firemen the flames were speedily extinguishe d . Mr. White was fortunately in sured. EMBARKATION OF TROOPS AT GRAVESEND, SEPT. 6.—This morning the following detachments from Chatham Garrison arrived here by the Gravesend and Rochester Railway , and immediately embarked in boats at the Custom Quay , o n board the ship Minerva, 1,310 tons, Charles Clinch, commander, viz :—of the Bth Foot (King's Own) 17 privates, with 5 women and 7 children; 23d Regiment (Cheshire), 90 men, with 6 women ; 60eh Royal Rifles, 54 men, with 5 women and 5 children ; 78th Highlanders, 35 men, 2 women and 2 children; 86 th (Royal County Down) 30 men, with 6 women and children; 94th Regiment, 17 men, with 3 women and 3 children. A detachment of the 10th Hussars from Maid stone, consisting of 30 men, also embarked with an officer, Cornet John R. Cuthbert ; and the following officers also joined their detachments on board—viz., Ensign Alexander R. Bayly, of the Bth Foot; Brevet-Major T. S. Conway and Ensign D. P. Bouverie, 22d Regiment; Captain Hon. H. L. Powys, Lieutenant C. Jones, Lieu tenant W. Tidlie, and Assistant-Surgeon John F. Payne, of the 60th Rifles; Captain G. Henry Hunt and Ensign H. 13. H. Rocke, 78th llighlanders ; Lieutenant John Spier, Ensign Maxwell Lepper, Ensign 11. 13. Scott, En sign Edward Lees, and Dr. James Kellie, of the 86th; end Lieutenant James Buchanan, with Ensign Charles T. Seale and Ensign W. D. H. Day, of the 94th, making a t >Lai of 18 officers, 273 men, 27 women, and 23 chit ( re 3. These troops are for Bombay, to join their re spective regiments serving in that Presidency. BARTHOLOMEW FAlR.—Yesterday evening Bar tholomew Fair terminated. The proprietors of the five ginger• bread stalls comprising the fair had packed up and gone away long before the police, in obedience to the Lord Mayor's proclamation, went round at ten o'clock, to close the booths and stalls, and cause all amusements to terminate. DEATH or ANOTHER FLAG OFFICER.—We have to record the death of another distinguished veteran flag officer, Rear-Admiral De Sturck, who expir. d on the 4th inst., at Kensington-crescent, aged 84, and after a service in the . navy of close upon 70 years. Having gone through the probationary service of midshipman, he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant in 1790, In 1804 he received the rank of commander; in 1806 that of post captain; and in 1841 that of rear admiral. In 178, while midshipman of the Latino, he serv e d a t th e re li e f - of Gibraltar. From the latter period he was engaged for some years in the coasting and cruising service, and rendered considerable advantage to the British fleet by his activity and skill in naval tactics. In 1803 he had the honour of being gszetted. LONDON COACHMAKERS' BENEVOLENT INSTITU TION.—Yesterday evening a meeting of the memb ers an d subscribers to t he above institution was held at the Red Lion Tavern, King-street, Golden-square ; Mr. W, Sa vage (president) in the chair. The report for the past year congratulated the members on the steady increase the society was making, although the last twelve months had been one of unpre cedented monetary difficulty, the additional members had e nabled the committee to invest a further sum of 100/., making the funded capital amount to 4501., leaving, after all expenditure, a balance in hand of about 251. The report concluded by calling upon the trade to support the institution, to enable the committee to commence the relief fund. ENLARGING SMITHFIELD.—This market is about to be enlarged by the removal of the entire clump of buildings extending along the north-east side of Barbican to Charter-house-lane, including Fox and Knot-court, and the entire of Cole's-buildings. Of the Bell Tavern, and the extensive premises attached, the 'Markets Coin n3ittee have already obtain possession, and the demoli tion of the houses will commence early next week- This is the second addition to the space within the lasi two years. A water-spout was seen at Woodbridge, on Thurs. day noon, passing from a long cloud along the surface o the land towards Hollesley and Bawdsey. It expended itself in the river, near Mr. I'retyman's, Rawsholt, carrying away part of an embankment. The fall of large pieces of ice and water at Bavidsey was prodigious. —Bury Post. FACT.—The O'Brien —namely, . s r Lucius o grandfather, BriO'Brien, n ot then e Smith it leading counsel on the Munster circuit, of which Clonmel at the time formed part—was the advocate for Father Sheehy on his trial for the murder of John of the Bridge, of which murder the rev. gentleman was found guilty , though the said John of the Bridge was living 30 y ears afterwards in good health in Newfoundland.—Tippe r a r y Vindicator. IRELAND. DUBLIN, SEPT. 6,—Last evening their Ex•.7el'er the Lord Lieutenant and the Countess of Clarond ,, n re euivt d the following personages at dinner at the Vice regal LoAge: —His Royal Highness Prince - George of Camtnid , re, and Colonel Furiter, A.D.C.; Lord and Lady John - Russell, the Earl and Countess of Clancarty, the Lord Chancellor and Mrs. Brady, the Archbishop of Dublin and Mrs. Whately, the Earl of Charlemont, Lieutenant-General Sir Edward and Lady Blakeney, and the Hon. Captain Foley, A.D.C.; Colonel and Mrs. White, the Recorder and Mrs. Shaw, the Attorney- General and Mrs. Monahan, the Solicitor-General, Mr. and Mrs. M'Donnell, Mr. Robert Shaw, Mr. Ennis, Mr. Corry Connellau, the Hon. Gerald Ponsonhy, Mr. Grey, Lord John Russell's private secretary, and Cap tarn Henry Ponsonby, A.D.C., in Waiting. This evening their Excellencies the Lord Lieutenant and the Countess of Clarendon, Lord and Lady John Russell, Mr. Corry Conellon, and Mr. Grey will be en tertained at dinner by the Chief Secretary, at his Lodge, in the Phoenix-park. On Monday Lord John Russell drove in one of the Lord-Lieutenant's private carriages to an estate of the Duke of Bedford's, at Ardsallsgh, in the county of Meath. The Noble Lord was accompanied by Lady John Revell and Sir William Somerville, with rth3m his Lordship returned in the evening to join their Excellen cies the Lord-Lieutenant and the Countess of Clarendon, at a select party at the Viceregal Lodge. The Freeman's Journal of this morning gives the fol lowing as what purports to be a speech delivered by Lord Clarendon yesterday, to a deputation which waited upon him, or rather, as it was intended, upon the Prime Minister : " Mr. Beasley, of the county Tipperary, a gentleman who some time since published a pamphlet, suggesting a plan for converting poor-rate into capital,' and who had formed an agricultural association, comprising 17 parishes, iu the county where be resides, having requested an in terview with Lad John Russell, fur the purpose of ex plaining his project generally, and requt st some advance from the public funds, for the purpose of carrying out the experiment in bis own lociihiy, half past twelve o'clock yesterday was appointed for the purpose Accordlnly Mr. Beazley attended at the Viceregal Lodge ; but the Pri mien being occupied with some otht r public business, the Lord-Lieutenant received Mr. Beasley, who was introduced by Alderman T. O'Brien, M.P. Having explained his views at some length, to which his Excellency listened attentively, Mr. Beaz!ey presented a written abstract of fis plan, which the Lordt Lieutenant said he would read attentively. His Excel lency did not hold out any hope of a loan or advance being made fur the purpose referred to. He said the state of the public revenue precluded that mode of proceeding, and commented in strong. and indeed severe, terms on the was e, plunder, jobbing, and misapplication of public funds, recently it. Ire-laid, when advanced from the cof fers of the State. Public liberality and private benevo lence were alike, in most cases, grossly abused or wholly perverted in their application. Landlords had applied for and obtained immense sums fur the alleged purpose of im proving their lands and affording employment, neither of which they did: and thus the intention of the Legislature was not carried into effect, nor the condition of the agri cultural population in any ch gree improved. Then, with respect to boards of guardians, they had not, in most cases, administered the poor-law with such efficiency as was desirable; and under the system which, in many cases, prevailed, the most flagitious abuses had sprung up. Thus, for instance, within the last few days the Government had ascertained that in one district there were some hundreds more persons chargeable for out door-relief than the whole numerical population of the district. his Excellency, we understand, expressed his marked reprehension of this state of things, and ob served how difficult it was to meet the necessities of the country or advance its material prosperity when, instead of actual and sincere co-operation trom those most in terested, there was, generally speaking, so much to cen sure in their proceedings. " The deputation having thanked his Excellency for the great courtesy and patient attention with which he had favoured them, then withdrew. Yesterday morning the Birkenhead war-steamer ar rived in Kingston harbour from Cork, with 179 con victs on board._ The prisoners were guarded by a body of constabulary; and, on the arrival of the steamer in the harbour, the convicts were put on boerd the Pea tanjee 13onsanjee transport ship, which lies at anchor, al the east pier. The vessel will sail in a few days for New South Wales. Yesterday Mr. M`Manus was brought by steamer from Cork, and lodged in Richmond Bridewell. It is said the charge against the prisoner is high treason. Joseph Gatfcey, a tailor, from Manchester, who had been arrested and confined in Newgate since Saturday, was yesterday discharged. The prisoner was taken up as one of the " suspected persons," but on inquiry it was ascertained ho was all right, and therefore he was set at liberty. Informations have been returned by the magistrates of Thurles against Captain Scully, James Scully, and others, for firing at, and wounding a keeper named Carroll, who, in guarding a disputed farm, refused to allow the Captain and his assistants to drive cattle upon it. This occurred on the 30th ultimo. The keeper is dangerously wounded by shot in the back. The weather and harvest reports from the country this morning are not so favourable. The accounts of the potato rot are certainly serious; but, nevertheless, the late fine weather has redeemed a vast deal of the other crops. In Dublin the weather has been variable for the last day or so. _ _ _ Owing to the high wind of last night, the mail from the mher side has not arrived. The market reporter of a morning paper gives the following very gloomy account of the potato crop:—"To those who question the extent of the potato rot, we wish they would, as we do, visit the several markets of Dublin, where prices ere from sd. to 6d. per cwt. Yes terday morning—almost the beginning of the week— one farina dealer bought fifty tons at 7d. per cwt., or 291. 3s. 4d. for the whole. Potatoes are now examined, same as eggs, and classed accordingly in two, three, or four kinds; what, therefore, is carefully selected and charged high fur table use, is not a fair criterion to judge a crop by. We say that more than a third, probably one-half, of the crops are infected—that, from the close ness of the weather, and great lightning at night, the disease is beyond doubt progressing, and that the amount will be far greater than 1846-7." NATIONAL GALLERY.— VERNON COLLECTION. — Yesterday the following was issued:—The Gallery will be closed on Saturday, the 9th inst., for the vacation, and will be re-opened on Monday, the 23d of October. The Vernon Gallery will be closed for the same period; the previous arrangement by which it was proposed to he closed till the Ist of May having, by the wish of Mr. Vernon, been abandoned, in order to afford the public greater facilities. THE PREVENTION Or RAILWAY ACCIDENTS. — A correspondent of the Reporter suggests the follow ing plan for the prevention of accidents upon railroads: — If a dial plate (to show by day and night), with hour and minute hands, without the going part, were to be placed at each station, simply for the purpose of indicating the time that the preceding train had passed, it would in form the engine -driver and guard when caution was ne cessary. For instance, suppose the dial plate were fixed at twenty minutes past one, and the engine-driver and guard's watches were then half-past one, they would know that they were within ten minutes of the preceding train, and so on. A person at the station should alter the hands as each train passes. Had this plan been adopted, the late accident on the Lancaster and Preston line, and perhaps other accidents, might have been pre vented. [ADVERTISEMENT.] —The incalculable advantages to ne derived by keepiog faith with the public has been most powerfully illustrated in the case of Messrs. Drummond, Greville, and Co., Sporting Printsellers and Publishers, 72, Princess-street, Leicester -square, London. These gentlemen have met with such extraordinary patronage from all parts of the British dominions, that, notwithstanding the numerous competitors whom their late successes have brought into the field, they have to the very letter of their theyh in the same eld out to the me s p t a tc h c l e ie e , d e prospectus,dani in accompli s hing r' e c v a c e:r i m y Pi ihs personshoping o interested will receive a post-paid letter containing every information they require in a few days; and they beg leave to apprise their sporting friends they have engaged a first-rate artist to make a drawing of the Doncaster Race Course at the moment of the coming in for the Great Doncaster St. Leger Race, from which a plate will be engraved by that celebrated artist Mr. Charles Hunt, exhibiting correct likenesses of the three first Horses and their Riders, and proof impressions from the same, 30 inches by 24, beautifully coloured, will be ready for distribution as speedily as possible after the race, at half the usual cost.—N.B. They re spectfully invite their friends to an intellectual feast, at the Parthenium Assembly Rooms, St. Martin's-lane, on Friday and Saturday, the Bth and 9th inst., at eleven o'clock in the forenoon and three o'clock in the after noon of each day ; also on Monday, the 11th inst., at three o'clock in the afternoon. When they promise to every one present a mental gratification. CUSTOM-HOUSE SALES.—Among the voluminous returns called for previously to the prorogation of Par liament, is one of the sales which periodically take place at the Custom-house, of such goods us have been de tained for having been entered on importation from abroad, at a lesser amount of value than was considered u taken swiffil will c o i ebbntyat obtain by at Crown the fiw coniffia as s e s r sa s el z o s u. f r tehTs and s e n v dr e e n s to u ul e dr , a o n irs d wt tnt ctlhu thereforethey o rthei ar various itcoadrino: ‘pfsasntrltmv eae. lbritseihsaws nots twe cin r mr e up s we p rdio e t cbhdtaurbretliosenpgttehi respect n e at te p tei r otr o ttw fi ah t ii enl o lr r bepe l se : fe s oli s tufi letoi specified ill such sales during the early portion of the year, which will not be surprising, when it is considered that during ' the time trade was in a most depressed and uncertain state, that the amount of fancy articles of merehandize imported was great bey and precedent, and that when such articles as were detained tor undervalue were brought to sale, there was such a glut already in the market, and unwillingness to purchase, that it was all but impossible that any other result than a trifling loss and deprecia tion of the real value of the goods in the market could have occurred. THE ROYAL FREE HOSPlTAL.—Yesterday even ing a meeting of governors of the above charity was held in the board-room of the institution, in Gray's Inn road ; the Rev. Dr. Rice in the chair. The report stated, that during the past week, there had been received near 700 new cases of diseased and totally destitute per- sons, as in and out patients, and during last quarter, 7,272 had been relieved, making a total number since the foundation, twenty years, of 260,000 who have had unrestricted admission, on the sole ground of disease and destitution. Two large wards, completely fitted and furnished, are at present closed for want of funds. The report concluded by an energetic appeal for assis tance. PROGRESS OF* THE ROYAL SQUADRON. (From the Herald.) The Royal squadron, on lca%ing Wcolwich on Tuesday, proceeded at half ept el down the River. The Victoria and Albert, Calf ain Lord AdoVius Fitzclarence, carried the Royal standard at the main, and the Admiralty flag at the fore ; and as she ma jestically swept past the numerous craft was cheered most enthusiastically by the crews. She had the start of the Black Eagle, steam-yacht, and Vivid steam-packet, for several minutes; but the Vivid soon came up with the Royal yacht, and took up her station at about half-a-cable's length on the port quarter. The Black Eagle was to have followed at a similar distance on the starboard quarter, but the Victoria and Albert very soon put on full speed, and the Black Eagle could not come up to her station. The position, however, which was assigned to the Black Eagle, was most ably and gracefully occupied by a remarkably handsome private steam yacht, and being of smilar rig to the Vivid the progress of the trio down the river produced a beautiful effect. Of course the two smaller vessels wera much faster than the Victoria and Albert, and had to work expan sively, and to ease almost every five minutes to keep at a respectful distance. _ _ As the squadron proceeded numerou steam-ves sels, crowded with passengers, cheered heartily as they swept hy. A royal salute greeted the Royal yacht at Erith, and a salute from the grounds of Alderman Harmer at Greenhithe brought the Queen and Prince Albert on the paddle-box gallery of the Victoria and Albert, where they remained until the arrival of the squadron off Gravesend, when another salute was fired from the Rosherville-pier, and the cannon from Tilbury Fort thundered forth its homage. Several ships, too, manned yards and cheered, and the Queen and the Prince both repeatedly acknow ledged with many bows the repeated enthusiastic ac clamations which burst forth from the numerous ves sels which were passed. On arriving at the Nore, the Virago, steam sloop, Commander Harris, was found to be under weigh, rockets shot up from the shore, and signal-lights issued from the flag-ship, the Ocean. These were answered from the Royal yacht, and the signal was, instead of anchoring, as at first intended, to proceed —the fineness of the night, which was very beautiful indeed, the moon having risen and the stars twink- ling in great brilliancy, no wind and a clear course, tempted those who had charge of,the navigation to make the most of these providential circum stances, and to push on without stopping, so that they might be able to get into real blue water in good time. The Virago now took the place of the private yacht before mentioned, and away sped the royal squadron ; but such was the pace, that it was very avident if they carried on full swing, the escort of the Royal yacht would consist only of the Vivid, Master Commander Smithett. At eight P.M., as the Victoria and Albert was get ting pretty near the Mouse Light, the Virago wac4 dropping astern fast, and the Black Eagle was at least four miles behind. _ _ _ We should have said that the Dryad, Woolwich Company's fast steamboat, kept up with the R o y a l squadron all the way down the river, notwithstanding she was crowded with a pleasure party, and at a couple of miles below Gravesend ranged alongside, and the people on board gave her Majesty three hearty farewell cheers. (From the Times.) The passage of the Victoria and Albert steam-yacht, with her Majesty and the Royal Family, down the Thames, after their embarkation on Tuesday afternoon at Woolwich, for Scotland, was somewhat intricate, in consequence of the large number of colliers and other vessels that were beating up with the tide. No mishap, however, occurred. The Royal yacht, with the Royal standard flying at the main, took the lead, and her beau tiful and stately appearance as she steamed along, al though at a moderate pace, excited much admiration. At Erith, Purfleet, Greenhithe, &c., crowds of spectators lined the shores to view the progress of the Royal steam fleet, and although it was nearly dark when the squadron passed Gravesend, the Terrace and Town Piers, as also the river wall, were crowded with visitors, who experi enced little difficulty in picking out her Majesty's yacht from the fleet of steamers that accompanied her by the brilliant lights shining from her suite of cabins. Her squadron, the Black Eagle, Vivid, and the Undine, fol lowed in her wake, with. the Trinity yacht. Contrdairryeettotogseenae,rnalotexapnecchtoartiinog in the Swin, as was n , the squadron pro ceeded anticipated, for the night. The outer course was taken, probably to insure the greatest possible security. The General Steam Navigation Company's steam-ship Vivid reports passing a squadron of steamers off Yar mouth at half-past two o'clock yesterday morning, which, from the lights was believed to be the Royal squadron. It being exceedingly dark, how ever, their trim could not be easily discerned, but the Vivid not meeting with the squadron in her trip up the river, it is supposed that that must have been the yacht and squadron seen in Yarmouth-roads. They were outside the long ridge of sands, some distance from the beach. At the speed they were going it is very probable that her Majesty will reach Aberdeen this (Thursday) morning. COURT CIRCULAR. _ His Royal Highness Prince Leopold of Naples, ac companied by his Excellency Prince Castefemale, the Neapolitan Minister, and Cnevalier Coloans, was pre sent at the House of Lords, on Tuesday, to see the close of the session of Parliament. His Serene Highness the Prince of Hesse left town on Tuesday afternoon, for Kew. A meeting of the School of Design was held yesterday at the Office of the Board of Trade. Persons having the Lord Chamberlain's orders to view the interior of Buckingham Palace, are requested to postpone their visit for a few days, as the apartments aro undergoing the necessary dusting and cleaning. The Marquis of Lansdowne (Lord President of the Council) left town yesterday for his seat, Bowood-park, Wilts. Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from the Colonial-office for the Governor of Gibraltar. General G. Wright, of the Roy a l Engin , ors, who has just arrived from France, paid a visit to the Count and Countess do Neuilly at Claremont on Tuesday last. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE . WARWICK RACES.—WEDNESDAY. The Town Plate (Handicap) of 5 soya each, and 50 added for 3-yr olds, &c. Two miles. Four sub?. Mr. Baternan's Bacchanalian, 3 y rs , 7st slb ••• 1 Mr. J. Allcott's the Alderman's Daughter, 4 yrs ... 2 Mr. Cartwright's Tit-bit, 5 yrs, Bst 71b ••• "' 3 2 to 1 on Bacchanalian. Won in a canter. Run in 3 min 35 sec. The Great Warwickshire Stakes of 10 sovs each, and 100 added. One mile and three-quarters. Twelve subs. M. Fowler's Ribaldry, Bst 21b (Denman) 1 •••I Mr. J. Evans's Never Mind, Bst 21b ... ••• '" ! 2 1 Mr. Minor's Shropshire Witch, Bst 21b ••• "' '; Mr. J. Day's Dimanche, Bst 21b ... ••• 5 to 4 on Ribaldry, who won, hard held, by a length. Run in 3 min 35 sec. The County Handicap of 10 soya each, and 50 added. The mile course. Gentlem en r id ers . Fifteen subs. Mr. Edward's New Forest Dee r , age d, list 2lb ... I Lord Strathmore's Brocardo, 5 y rs . I lst ••• "• 2 Mr. Ongley's Bird of Paradise, 3 y rs , 9 s t 21b ••• 3 Mr. Waller's Pottinger, 4 yrs, lOst • 4lb ••• "• ! Mr. Waller's Cavendish, aged , lOst 121 b • • "' " Betting-7 to 4on Forest D eer -3 to 1 each agst Brocardo and Bird of Paradise. Won by two lengths. Run in 1 min 5 sec. The Warwick Cup (in specie), by subs of 10 soya each. Four miles. Thirteen subs. Mr. Crauford's The Cur, 6 yrs, Bst 10lb (Rogers) 1 Mr. J. Day's Dimanche, 3 yrs, sst 81b ••• ••• 2 Betting-5 to 4on The Cur, who won in a canter by two lengths. Run in 8 min 20 sec. The belling Stakes of 5 soya. each, and 25 added. Heats; one mile. Mr. Allcott's The Premier, 4 yra . (Wakefield) 1 1 Mr. Cartwright's Tit-bit, 5 yrs ••• ••• ••• 2 2 ... .. Mr. Walter's BETTING Cavendish, ... 3 d r aged _ ON THE COURSE. ST. LEGER. Offers to take 5 to 2 about Canezou, and to lay 7 to 2 agst Surplice, but no business done. THE CESAREWITER. 40 to 1 each taken about Meaux, S y l van, Executor, and Surplice, and 30 to 1 about Cawrou s h. e KNUTSFORD RACES. The Knutsford Cup (handicap) Stake s of 10 sovs. each, 5 ft, with 60 added. T wo mi les_ and a dis. Mr. Leigh's Maid of Lyme, 5 Y 1 .;:liewe 31b. Two (Oates) 1 Mr. Osborne's Braudyface, 4 yrs „, Sweepstakes of 3 Sovs. each, and 20 added;d .... three yrs old, 7st 41b; four yrs, Bst 81 b; yrs, B s t 121 b; s i x five yrs and and aged, 9st; mares, &c., 1 Mr. NV hitworth's Ellen Loraine, 3 yrs (Simpson) 1 Mr. Harrison's Spectator , aged ... 2 Mr. Thec Osborne's aval ry B s r t a a n k d e f s a coef, yrs34oGuineas, with 20 added . . 3 for the first, and 10 for the second hor se , Two miles and a : d : dis, was won in three heats , by Mr. Burges s ' s b h, syrs (Oates), beating Mr. Shelmerdine's Crucifix, 5 yrs, and f o ur others. Marq u i s o f Water ford SEPTEMBER MEETING—S EPT . 5. Stewards—John This meeting comm enced y esterda y , and was but thinly attended. The r acin g was bu t indifferent. The ford, ,Maher,and Sir ETsq.., Burke,the Bart. principal event (the Anglesey Stakes) was won cleverly by the favourite, Chatterer, Lord Ilowth's Wallflower running a good second. Scurry Stakes, _5 sovs. each, with 25 sovs. added. A ng l e sey Post. 2 sovs. each for entrance. Lord Waterford's b f by Touchstone, 3 yrs, 7st 21b... Mr. Vv atts's br c Mogador, 4 yrs, 3$ 121 b ... Four others ran, but were not placed. Sweepstakes for 15 soya., 5 ft. Waterford Post. 20 sovs. added from the Trainers' Fund, ar.d 20 sovs. from the Gate Fund; 2 sovs. each entrance. Mr. Keegan's b e Tallyho, 4 yrs, 7st 121 b (Foley) 1 Mr. Irwiti's b c King of Kildare, 3 yrs, 7st 111 b ... 2 Mr. Willington's b m All's-Well, aged, Bst 51b ~, 3 Tallyho led about two lengths, followed by All's-Well, the King in waiting about the same distance. This order was maintained to the bank, where the latter headed All's-Well, and tried to reach the leader, but failed; Tallyho winning with difficulty by half a length. Anglesey Stakes, 10 soya. pp, for two yrs old; colts, Bst 41b; fillies, Bst. Anglesey Post. The Club will add 100 soya. Second horse to me his stake. The ... 2 winner of the race to give three doz.n- of chfunpagne to the club on the day of the race. ;kir. Watts's ch c Chatterer, by Magpie out of Clary 1 Lord Clanricarde's b f War, by Magpie, Rem- nan t Mr. Bateman's b c Strychnine, by Magpie, out of Sur prise, by Rough Robin ... Nine others ran, hilt were not placed. Betting-6 to 4 agst Chatterer, 4to 1 agst agst Cla rinda, 5 to 1 apt Tara, 5 to 1 agst Strychnine, 5 tc 1 st Wallflower. Chatterer got off in front, and made all the running for a short distance, when it was taken up by Wallflower, and the other two ran together to the judge's chair—the favourite winning by half a length. Sweepstakes of 10 sovs., h ft, for hunters, rsce•.horses admitted; 30 sovs. added. One mile and aha he os, ... 3 on the Pcel course. Two sovs. entrance. Lord Howth's The Best of Three, aged (501.) 0 1 1 Lord Waterford's b c Postillion, 3 yrs ... 1 2 0 Four others ran, but were not placed. INTELLIGENCE EXTRA. NEWMARKET SECOND OCTOBER MEETING, 1848. The Cesarewitch Stakes (Handicap) of 25 sovs. each,ls ft, with 300 added. Acceptances to be signified on or before Tuesday next:— st lb at lb Van Tromp, 4 yrs 9 8 Doctrine, 4 yrs 6 7 Chanticleer, 5 yrs 9 7 Lady Lift, 4 yrs 6 7 Cossack, 4 yrs 9 1 Teresa, aged 6 7 Inheritress, aged 8 8 Sponge, 3 yrs 6 5 Planet, 4 yrs 8 7 Geraldine, 5 yrs 6 5 Ederdalc, 4 yrs 8 5 Cosachia, 4 yrs 6 5 Peep o'-day • Boy, 4 yrs 8 4 Turella, 4 yrs 6 5 Wood Pigeon, 6 yrs... 8 4 Resolution, 4 yrs 6 5 The Cur, 6y rs 8 3 Pell Mel!, 4 yrs 6 5 Cull rousli, 5 yrs 8 3,S'. Oswald, 4 yrs 6 4 Collingwood, 5 yrs .... 8 3 1 Gr cby Theon, out of halo, 4 yrs 8 3 Ferneley's dam, 4 Winesour, aged 8 2 yrs 6 4 Dulcet, 6 yrs 8 2 Ellerslie, 3 yrs 6 4 Fireaway, aged 8 0 Gaiety, 4 yrs 6 3 The Dart, 6 yrs 7 12 Gardenia, 3 yrs 6 3 Poynton, 5 yrs 7 12 Mrs. Taft, 3 yrs 6 3 Giselle, 5 yrs 7 11 Sylvan, 3 yrs 6 3 Executor, 4 yrs 7 10 Hornpipe, 3 yrs 6 2 Diplomatist, 4 yrs 710 Blaze, 3 yrs Nlorpt th, aged 7 9 Circassian Maid, 4 yrs 6 2 Meaux, 4 yrs - 7 9 Enchanter, 4 yrs 6 2 Newcourt, aged 7 9 Pillage, 4 yrs 6 2 Bantam, 5 yrs. 7 9 Helter Skelter, 3 yrs 6 2 L2.nesborough, 4 yrs... 7 9 Glen Saddel, 3 yrs 6 1 The Tartar, 4 yrs 7 8 Watchdog, 4 yrs 6 0 Ballinafad, 4 yrs 7 8 Valentinia, 3 yrs. 6 0 Surplice, 3 yrs 7 .7 F by Touchstone, out Justice to Ireland, 3 yrs 7 7 of Wadrasta, 3 yrs... 6 0 Pam pyre, 4 yrs 7 7 Tormentor, aged 5 13 St. Demetri, 5 yrs 7 7 Cockermouth, 3 yrs ... 5 12 Vesta, 4 yrs 7 7 Camphine, 3 yrs 5 12 Farewell, 3 yrs 7 7 Luminous, 4 yrs 5 11 Plaudit, 6 yrs 7 6 Corsican, 3 yrs 5 10 Mathematician, 4 yrs.. 7 5 lodine, 3 yrs 5 9 Rowena, aged .... ..... 7 5 Lola Montez, 3 yrs 5 9 Pic Nic, 6 yrs 7 5 Tisiphone, 3 yrs 5 9 Radulphus, 5 yrs 7 5 Fern, 3 yrs 5 9 The Widow, aged 7 4 Remembrance, 3 yra... 5 9 Wanota, 4 yrs. 7 4 Apple Blossom, 4 3 rs... 5 8 Tufthunter, 4 yrs 7 4 Laaarillo, 4 yrs 5 7 Foreclosure, 4 yrs 7 4 Rainbow, 3 yrs 5 7 Godfrey, aged 7 2 Backbiter, 3 yrs 5 7 Springy Jack, 3 yrs... 7 2 Sesostris, 3 yrs 5 7 Fby Don John, out of Cracow, 3 yrs 5 7 Miss Lydia, 3 yes... 7 2 Sorceress, 3 yrs 5 7 Quicksai.d, 4 yrs 7 2 Sister to Satirist, 3 yrs 5 6 King of Morven, 4 yrs 7 2 Dover, 3 yrs . 5 5 Bridle, 4 yrs 7 2 Paladin, 3 yrs 5 5 Maid of Motherwell, 4 Oscar, 3 yrs 5 5 yrs 7 0 Fernhill, 3 yrs 5 5 Attraction, 3 yrs 7 0 Sister to Ridiculous Cymba, 3 yrs 7 0 Mus, 6 yrs 5 4 Montpensier, 4 yrs .... 7 0 Keraun, 3 yrs.— 5 4 Keleshea, 4 yrs 7 0 Good Boy, 3 yrs 5 4 New Forest Deer, aged 7 0 Passion Flower, 3 yrs 5 4 Wild Deer, 3 yrs 7 0 Snuff-box, 3 yrs 5 4 Bro. to Rat-trap, 4 yrs 7 0 Prince Charlie, 3 yrs— 5 2 Joc o'Sot 4 yrs 7 0 Minto, 3 yrs 5 2 'rhe Fiddler, 3 yrs .... 613 Miss Orbell, 3 yrs. 5 2 Loadstone, 3 yrs 6 12 Otterburn, 3 yrs 5 2 Alliance, 5 vrs 6 12 Palma, 4 yrs 5 0 Jonathan Wild, 5 yrs.. 6 12 Tophana, 3 yrs 5 0 Sir Peter Laurie, 4 yrs 6 12 Black Doe, 3 yrs 5 0 Antagonist, 4 yrs 6 12 Hagley, 3 yrs 5 0 Philosopher, 4 yrs 6 12 Wilmot, 3 yrs 5 0 Bourton, 5 yrs 6 12 Reflection, 3 yrs... 5 0 Christopher, 4 yrs 6 12 Ellen Loraine, 3 yrs ... 5 0 Mirmillo, 4 yrs 6 10 Dacia, 3 yrs 4 13 Panic, 5 yrs 6 10 St. Antonio, 3 yrs 4 12 Dough, 3 yrs 6 10 Sampson, 3 yrs .... .... 4 12 Ulysses, 4 yrs 6 10 C by Lanercost, out of Bibury, 6 yrs 6 10 L'Hirondelle, 3 yrs .. 4 12 Amazement, 6 yrs 6 9 Hollow, 3 yrs 4 10 King of Kildare, 3 yrs 6 9 Duplicity, 3 yrs 4 8 Br f by the Provost, F by Muley Moloch, out of Miss Whip, out of Guzman's dam, 4 yrs 6 7 3 yrs 4 7 Chat, 4 yrs 6 7 Contessa, 3 yrs 4 6 Swiss Boy, 3 yra 6 7Ch fby Martin Chuz- Voyager, 3 yrs 6 7 zlew it, dam by Beloro, Athelstane, 3 yrs 6 7 3 yrs 4 4 Administrator, 4 yrs... 6 71Egremont, 3 yrs 4 4 NEW MARKET HOUGHTON MEETING, 1848. The Cambridgeshire Stakes of 25 sovs. each, 10 ft, and 5 only if declared on or before Tuesday next. at lb Chanticleer, 5 yrs 9 5 Cossack, 4 yrs Conyngham, 4 yrs 9 2 Sir Tutton Sykes,s yrs 8 12 Planet, 4 yrs 8 12 Collingwood, 5 yrs The Cur, 6 yrs 8 8 Limestone, 4 yrs Lady \Vild,or, 6 yrs 8 7 l'eep o'-day Boy, 4 yrs 8 6 Miss Sarah, 6 yrs 8 6 _ _ at. lb. Sagacity, 4 yrs 6 12 Fistiana, 4 yrs Psalmsinger, 6 yrs Circassian Muid, 4 yrs 6 12 Adsniral, 4 yrs - 612 _ __ s !oitchia, 4 yrs 6 12 - - Telegraph , 5 yrs Mrs. Taft, 3 yrs 6 10 Big Jerry, 3 yrs Doctrine, 4 yrs.. Voyager, 3 yrs 6 10 Admihistrator,4 yrs 6 10 Ulysses, 4 yrs Marianne, 4 yrs Blunderduss, 6 yrs Gaffer Green, aged Athelstane, 3 yrs 6 10 Distaffina, 3 yrs Sunnyside, 3 yrs Clarendon, 4 yrs 6 7 Geraldine, 5 yrs 6 7 Legislator, 4 yrs 6 7 13ibury, 6 yrs Woodcraft, 3 yrs _ _ Dulcet, 6 yrs 8 6 Wood Pigeon, 6 yrs 8 4 Ellerdale, 4 yrs 8 4 Cawroush, 5 yrs lt ,, scius, aged Newcourt, aged 8 0 Buscot Buck, aged Lightning, aged Halo, 4 yrs Diplomatist, 4 yrs Poy ti ton, 5 yrs 8 0 The Dart, 6 yrs Saddle, 4 yrs 7 12 The Tartar, 4 yrs 7 12 Surplice, 3 yrs Giselle, 5 yrs 7 10 Executor, 4 yrs 7 10 The Widow, aged 7 10 Lanesborough,4 yrs 7 10 Winesour, aged Wanota, 4 yrs St. D , rnetri, 5 yrs Meaux, 4 yrs 7 9 Vampyte, 4 yrs 7 8 Pic Nic, 6 yrs 7 8 Yardley, aged Itadulphus, 5 yrs 7 8 Godfrey, aged Vesta, 4 yrs 7 7 The Fiddler, 3 yrs Glendower, 3 yrs 7 7 Terrier, 5 yrs Kite, 4 yrs 7 6 New Forest Deer, aged 7 6 Philosopher, 4 yrs Maid of Motherwell, 4 Sponge, 3 yrs Dulesmars, 3 yrs 6 7 Serenade, 3 yrs Corbican, 3 yrs _ _ Deloraine, 4 - yrs Fern, 3 yrs Primrose, 3 yrs Camphine, 3 yrs 6 5 lodine, 3 yrs Hope, 3 yrs 6 5 Valentinia, 3 yrs 6 5 Pell Mell, 4 yrs St. Oswald, 4 yrs c. by Theoc, out of Ferneley's dam, 4 yrs 6 4 Gardenia, 3 yrs Wiasuaa, 3 yrs 6 3 Tisiphone, 3 yrs Lola Muntez, 3 yrs Luminous, 4 yrs Sister to Satirist,3 yrs 6 1 Paladin, 3 yrs 5 Keratin, 3 yrs 5 Backbiter, 3 yrs ') \laid of my Soul, 3 yrs 5 13 5 Fernhill, 3 yrs 5 12 Rincbinbrook (late I Man in the Moon, 3 3 yrs 3 Dover, 3 yrs 5 12 3 Aliss Orbell, 3 yrs 3 Alpheia, 3 yrs ...... 510 Nlalmesbury, 3 yra 3 Good Boy, 3 yrs 5 10 3 Dacia. 3 yrs ... 5 9 3 l'atfrail, 3 yrs ! Reflection. 3 yrs 1 Wilmot, 3 yrs 2 ilagley, 3 yrs 1 Acanthis, 3 yrs • 1 Slug, 3 yrs ... 5 3 1 Hallos, 3 yrs... 0 Prince Charlie, 3 yrs 5 3 , yrs Ziska, 4 yrs Bridle, 4 yrs 7 Loadstone, 3 yrs ... Joe o'S o t, 4 yrs 7 Foreclosure, 4 yrs Christopher, 4 yrs Vanish, 5 yrs Epirote, 4 yrs . ...... The Moor, 3 yrs Ch f by Don John, out of Miss Lydia, 3 yrs 7 Cymba,3 yrs 7 Attraction, 3 yrs 7 King of Morven, 4 yrs 7 1 Quicksand, 4 yrs Nlonipensier, 4 yrs Black I)warf, 4 yrs Blaze, 3 yrs King of Kildare, 3 yrs 7 Lady Lift, 4 yrs 7 Dough, 3 yrs 7 Chat, 4 yrs 7 Keleshea, 4 yrs 7 Amazement, 6 yrs Blucher, 3 yrs Fogleman, 3 yrs Sotterley, 3 yrs 6 Ellerslie, 3 yrs ... , ... 5 ... 5 Snuff-box, 3 yrs Tophana, 3 yrs tianripwn, 3 yrs .4t. Antonio, 3 yrs ... 5 Reality, 3 yrs ... 5 i Confederacy, 3 yrs .„ 4 i Egremont, 3 yrs 4 TO THE EDITOR OF TliE SUN. San,— It must be highly gratifying to those of your readers who, like yourself; remained the friends and ad vocates of the deeply-injured Lamartine amidst the fury of the storm that set in against him, to know that you have commenced publishing his able defence in the co lumns of Tie Sun. Lamsrtine will yet triumph over his calumniators. He is already avenged. France needs repentance, for she has injured the man who saved her in the hour of peril. The pages of her history are stained with in gratitude. Let the tears of repentance cleanse them. France must acknowledge her error, retract her calum nies, and make reparation for the injury she has in flicted on her honest and illustrious son. I hope, Sir, that every portion of the pamphlet you publish in the columns of your paper will be accom paniedlby your own comments, and thus complete a work which reflects on your journal the highest praise, and which must also yield the sweetest satisfaction.—l am Sir, yours respectfully. G. 11. Westminster-road, Sept. 6, 1848. TUE LATE ACCIDENT AT LEIGIITON.—The direc tors of the London and North-Western line have re ported to the Commissioners of Railways the particulars of the accident at Leighton. It is expected, from the peculiarity of the case, that an official inquiry will be instituted. The information received from the sufferers lying at Leighton is that they are in a favourable con dition. It is not true that Ross, the engine-driver, is worse than be was yesterday. LIE " PRIVILEGED" CLASS.— In the small county of Nottingham there are no less than four " extra paro chial" noblemen, namely, the Dukes of Portland and N e wcastle, and Earls Sca rborou g h and Manners. The extra parochial favours in that county is on a par with the game preserving; high time both were altered. — From a Correspondent. iEvb'E•tittion TATTERSALL'S-THIS EVENING. Six &CLOCK. GREAT TORKHIRE HANDICAP. 4 to 1 agst Executor 7 to 1 agst Vampyr3 9 to 1 agst Keleshea 25 to 1 agst Maid of Motherwell DONCASTER C 6 to 4 on Van Tromp ST. LEGER. 2 t) 1 apt Canez. u 4 to 1 agst Surplice' 4 to 1 P gst Justice to Ire 7 ariel 4 t) 1 agqt Flateateor CESAREWITCH. 30 to 1 agst Aleut x 30 to 1 agst Exeet tor 40 to l z gst s:prf Fce 40 to 1 agst Palma 50 to 1 agst Gard( nia FRAN CE. At the close of the sitting of the National Assem bly !yesterday, the proposition of M. FRESNEAU for the suppression of the preamble to the Constitution was negatived by a majority of 491 to 225. In the course of the discussion the objections to the preamble were most eloquently answered by M. LAMARTINE, who vindicated the right of the Assembly to place a declaration of principles in front of the Constitution. He admitted the difficulty of fixing the limit of equality and the real interpretation of fraternity amidst the different systems advanced of late by the different social sects, several of them with no other view than the subversion of society itself. He then attacked the agrarian system preached by M. PROUD HON, which, he maintained, would be the sterilization of the land, and denounced in indignant terms the insane doctrines of that individual, who declared property to be a robbery and denied the existence of GOD. M. LAMARTINE then justified the revolution of February, which had overturned an oligarchy and extended the political rights hitherto enjoyed by 250,000 persons to the universality of citizens, and the day after the revolution had abolished the penalty of death. This was an act of sublime fra ternity, which gave it a right to inscribe that principle in front of its Constitution. He had been, he said, accused of Communism, and yet no man was penetrated with a greater respect for property, which he considered the remuneration of all labour. He had travelled much, and found everywhere property to be the exact scale of civilization and degradation of na tions. He was a partizan of the right to labour, but he understood it in a manner widely different from certain visionaries, whose doctrines amounted to the annihilation of all capital, and consequently of all labour. He and his colleagues, assembled at the Hotel de Ville, thought that the proletarians placed in exceptionable circumstances, in times of calamity, incapable to provide for a numerous family, from want of labour, illness, or any other justified cause, had a right to be relieved by the Republic, in the name of the divine principle of fraternity, and they thought so, both for the sake of the proletarians and property itself, which was defended by laws, but was still better protected by benefits. This was what they understood by the right of labour, which the people had moreover conquered by the blood it had shed for the establishment of the Republic. A SHOAL or WHOLES.—On Monday last (says he Rossshire Advert;ser) the peaceful village of Saltburn, near Invergordon, was thrown into considerable excite ment by the sudden appearance of a large shoal of bottle nosed whales peperforming their gambols at a shost dis tance from the shore. One of the villagers who was fortunate enough to have all his wits about him in this unlooked-for visitation, having hastily mustered a strong force well armed with muskets, hatchets, and pitchforks, boldly rowed into the heart of the assemblage, and in a few hours succeeded in bringing 29 of them to land. A few of the multitude of spectators, stimulated by this hero's example, and encouraged by his success, wisely judging the occasion no time for idly looking on, eagerly joined in the sport, and after many "hair breadth %capes" and a world of trouble, contrived to secure as mach of the spoil as made the entire number captured 45. Some of them measured 18 feet in length. On Tuesday morning, what with the tossing and heaving of the dying monsters, the bustling activity of the blubber cutters, and the crowds of visitors from the surrounding country, the shore presented an unusual scene of ani mation. Being divested of all their fat, the carcases were carted off by the farmers in the neighbourhood for manure. About 60 large casks containing the blubber are to be shipped for the south, and it is hoped the pro ceeds will be such as to remunerate the owners for their labour and risk. These whales do not contain much oil, but still the capture on this occasion is of considerable value. 'We understand that seven of them were left ashore on the Sands of Nigg, but none on the Cromarty side of the firth. On the succeeding evening several of these monsters passed up the firth, and were stranded on the bank of the south channel at Fowlis Point, when a number of persons set to work and seven were brought to land. On Wednesday evening another shoal came up to Ardullie Point, and 12 were secured in the small haven to the westward, measuring from 11 to 16 feet in length. These, the last of the shoal, occasioned a regular turn out of the people of Dingwall and the neighbour hood, who hied in all modes of conveyance to see those wonders of the deep—a similar sight never having been witnessed in this quarter. The bottle-nose whale is fre quently seen at Cromarty, but never further up, or in such numbers as on the present occasion. I'he shoal must have consisted of hundreds, for while about 70 were taken in all, large numbers escaped. THE COAST PRECAUTIONS.—The Barbary, Mackey, from this port to New York, with emigrants, had to put into Valencia harbour from stress of weather. She was at once boarded by the coastguards and the police, who made close search, lest any of the insurgents flying from justice should have been on board. Immediately after the Dragon steam-frigate made her appearance, and fired a gun; in a few minutes she was alongside the emigrant ship. The first Lieutenant, accompanied by a party of marines, went on board the Barbara, called over the ship's list, and then made a searching examination through the vessel without finding anything suspicious. —Galway Vindicator. ORIGIN OF TRUE BLUE.—Everybody has heard and made use of the phrase " true blue;" but everybody does not know that its first assumption was by the Cove nanters, in opposition to the scarlet badge of Charles I.; and hence it was taken by the troops of Le s ley an d Mo trose, in 1639. The adoption of the colour was one of those religious pedantries in which the Covenanters affected a pharisaical observance of the Scriptural letter, and the usages of the Hebrews; and thus, as they named their children Habakkuk and Zerubbabel, and their chapels Zion and Ebenezer, they decorated their persons with blue rib bons, because the following sumptuary precept was given in the law of Moses :—" Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them to make to themselies fringes on the bor ders of their garments, putting in them ribbons of blue." Numb. xv., 38.—Scotch Reformers' Gazttle. TIIE LAw or BANKRUPTCY.—The new Act of Parliament, to empower the Commissioners of the Court of Bankrutcy to order the release of batikrapts from prison in certain cases, which took effect on the 31st ult, has just been printed, 11 and 12 Vice, cap. 86. By this Act it is provided, that where any person has been adjudged bankrupt, and has surrendered to the fiat and obtained his protection from arrest pursuant to the practice in Bankruptcy, if such person shall be in prison at the time of his obtaining such protection, any Com missioner acting under such fiat may order his imme diate release, either absolutely or upon such condition as such Commissioner shall think fit, which release is not lati se is if a n n v ) e . r bankrupt, to affect the rights of creditors detaining him in prison. important vvho o s n e e la s st ix.''And The i e t enacted, second e that examina tion shall have been adjourned sine die, or whose certifi cate shall have been suspended or refused, shall be in execution or be taken in execution under a capias ad sa tisfaciendum, at the suit of any creditor who might have proved under the fiat, and detained in prison, any Com missioner acting under his fiat may order his release after he shall have undergone such term of imprisonment not exceeding two years as to such Commissioner may seem a sufficient punishment for such offence as he may appear to such Commissioner to have been guilty of." THE SANITARY CONDITION OF WHITECHATEL.— Yesterday an inquest was held before Mr. Baker, at the London Hospital, on view of the body of James Barter, aged thirteen years, who died from the effects of fever produced by impure atmosphere, in the neighbourhood of Whitechapel. Mr. James Brown, inspector of nui sances to Whitechapel, stated that on the 24th of July last the mother of the deceased called his attention to her back kitchen, No. 17, Princess-street. The room was overflowed with filthy water, and the effluvia was STEAM ON COMMON ROADS. most dreadful. Witness - was directed to call the atten- TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. tion of Mr. Liddle, surgeon for the district, by the _ Sin,—lt would not have been necessary for me to churc h wa rdens ; and after examining tre premises, he say more on this subject, if Mr. Motley (in his certified that t he water flowed throutehlotngin%g. to No. 8, communication appearing in The Sun of the 23 d ult.) kitchen, from an offensiveuousto drain, rPrlinncess-street. Several had not placed a construction on my first letter it Moss-bu n ildi g the n s s a'na c e ont st 'g ieet were also in a bad con di t i on , does not bear. If my meaning was not then sufficiently d a r n a d m t s ha l air was very impure. The jury returned the precise, I may amend it now, by stating that the following verdict—•' That the deceased died from fever details desired were not the mere details of the con- caused by noxious effluvia from a privy draining intothe struction of the engine (for this can concern the public back part of the house in which he resided; and the at large but little), but of its performance; for pre- jurors strongly recommended that prompt and speedy suming the engine perfect as a pice of mechanism, it measures be adopted by the parochial authorities for the does not follow it should be successful in a commercial ahatemerat o r t e nuisance so caused, to prevent further mischief." The coroner said he would write to the point of view. son churchwardens of theparish, and acquaint them with The improvements proposed by Sir James Ander . the sentiments of the jury. were known to me ; it was, there- ifnrehisconnelwectaenrrtiafogre me to form a judgment how far BROMPTON HOSPITAL iron CONSUMPTION --Flogs it was likely p to fulfill those conditions, which I con- the t report j Is e t r p e a u s b e l i s o h f e d t t alpla: i . ears that t v, hlt ic t i t i ae t T is is c a ha m r la t s y t sidereal and stated as essential to the practical a t seeks to arrest. The number of out-door patients introduction of steam on common road=, and already exceeds a hundred daily; the in-door upwards Mr. Motley has not yet shown those difficulties to be of seventy. Indeed, there are eighty-six at present on overcome ; the first and chief one, which is the fric- the books, but whose admission is necessarily deferred. tion from the road surface, still remains in full force, The medical staff has been increased proportionably. and it is impossible that Sir James Anderson's, or and the recent appointment of assistant physicians (John • any other invention (where the dri vin g wheels are in J. Bowie, Esq., It. Quain, Esq., and R. B , Cotton , Es q . ) efforts of the institution. It contact with the level surface), can, within itself, has greatly facilitat e e ed t with the building of the chapel modify this friction. An effort to overcome the is intended to . pro as c speedily as possible, and when the second and third difficulty has been made by Sir ardeasitserneewmapn completed, accommodation will be afforded James, in proposing to drive by belts, which enables whole within the walls to upwards of two hundred patients, the cranks, &c., to be independent of the drivin g f r om every part of the k in g dom. wheels, and consequently free from those severe His Excellency Chevalier Bunsen gave an elegant strains which they would other,vise be subject to from entertainment last evening at the Prussian Legation, on the inequalities of the road surface; so far these essen- Carlton-house -terrace, in compliment of his Excellency tial conditions are accomplished, provided the gutta Baron Andrian, the Amba w ss e a r d o oT the Extraordinary hdukeß t e o an percha belts do not slip or become elongated, where the nounce the accreessseinotn t 0 0 0 power his Excellency his Se g r e e n n t. resistance to motion is materially increased, eith th e e r iTherehnewsserre present rince Lowenstein, Viscount Palmerston, hi e from ascending steep inclines, or overcoming Excellency Count Kielmansegge, Baron Koller, Count friction arising from an imperfect road suerrtaacinet— y Sumnski, Mr. Syndicus Banks, M. Sieveking, AL Dumm y result which may be looked for almost wzt c reicker, Dr. Meyer, Professor Samwer, Archdeacon Si JatriZes . My assertion, then, is strictly true, that the diffi- Hare, Mr. C. Bunsen, &c. Anderson's invention does not overcome THE WEATHER.—The weather since our last has sullies which I considered were in the way. in direct been unusually fine; and the temperature has been much Mr. Motley reads my last communication higher and more seasonable than for some time past, for he makes opposition to that which I clearly mean,.is im. though it has net, even for the last few days, been at me to say that the friction of the engine morethroad, all high, considering the time of the year. Saturday, portant to decrease than that arising from e Sunday, and Monday were entirely without rain, whereas the latter is what I state inventors should and although some rain fell about noon yesterday, the endeavour to decrease, and not to create a power to afternoon and evening were clear and bright. The it. It is on this point I consider the excel- temperature, which on Friday last was only 61 d overcome deg., rose n y of Mr. Wrigg's invention consists, as it accom- on Saturday to 69 due. a ; an was on Sunday and Mon ipelisclies, within itself, that which at a great outlay Mr. day, respectively, 65 6 de- . g and 68 deg. It will be seen Motley proposes by wood pavement—the preparation by the following return, by electric telegraph, from the of a road. While on this subject I should state my places undermentioned, at seven o'clock yesterday morn observations on the difficulties overcome by Mr. ing, that the fine weather has been general throughout the Wrigg's patent were the results of prsonal examina- fine; country :—Glasgow, S. fine; Edinburgh, S.S.E. times ;I do not, therefore, think Mr. Motley has been Newcastle, N.E. very fine; York, S.E. by E. fine; Hull, E.S.E. very fine; Normanton, S.W. fine; Leeds, consistent, without assigning any reason, to pronounce \ upon the efficacy of an invention of which he cannot s s • wi le ry ve fine ; fine Manchester, Liii c ol n S.S.W. s. V . fi fi n n e e .; Liverpool,Norwich, possibly have had any opportunity of framing an , Silk. fine ; ry Peterb ; orough, g.S.W. fine ; Brandon, opinion; so that he a pp ears to have falle n into the S.E. fine; Yarmouth, S. fine; Lowestoffe, S . fine; Not very same error of which he improperly accuses 1113. \ tingham, N. fine; Derby, N.W. very fine; Lei cester, S. The plan proposed of laying a timber way very fine; Birmingham, S. by E. m oderately fine; Rugby, did not escape my attention, but as I am not aware S.E. very fine; London, S.W. very fine; Chelmsford, S. of this forming any part of Sir James Anderson's i fine; Gosport, S. fine; Poole, E. very , fine• Southampton. Cambridge, S.W. fine; plans (to which my observations were confined), I ' s•E• fine; Gloucester, S. fin.? W. very fine; New did not notice it, for that would, in fact, be dealing i hesterfield, W. fiNS7steSale3heteNT very fine• Dereham, , with a road for a carriage, and not a carriage for a rtiarkt, v S. fine; ito . St. Ives, S. fine ;Ely, S.W. very fine; road, which is the subject under consideration. S .S.W. w ery s E ati Ae ter Guardian ofyeaterday. ne.— anc s Dorchester, . . PIEDMON T. Letters from Turin of the 2d instant state that the Austrians still retained the materiel of war which the Piedmontese had left at Peschiera, in violation of the express stipulations of the armistice of the 9th August. The Austrians made a similar charge against the Piedmontese for not withdrawing their troops and fleet from Venice, although they had them selves conveyed an open order to that effect from King CHARLES ALBERT to the Sardinian Ad ►viral ALBIN', and that they well knew that his MAJESTY was most anxious for the return of those troops. The Austrians also insisted on the evacua tion of Osopo, a small fortress of the province of Udina, which was totally independent of Piedmont. The Sardinian Cabinet vainly objected that it could exercise no control over the garrison. Marshal RADETZKY continued to make it a pretext for not executing the clause of the armistice respecting Peschiera. WEST LONDON RAILWAY. (THIS DAY.) The half-yearly general meeting of the proprietors and shareholders of this company took place to day, at the London Tavern. H. H. Grounds, Esq., the chairman of the com pany, took the chair at one o'clock, and the usual for malities having been grone through, The SECRETARY read the report, from which it appeared that the directors, although their efforts had been unceasing, had not been successful in prevailing upon the London and North-Western and Great Western Railway Companies to carry into effect the power they had obtained from Parliament, to alter and enlarge the line, although both companies had expressed their intention to carry them fully into effect, but stated that they were prevented from doing so in consequence of the present position of railway property. From the statements of the receipts and disbursements it appeared that the total receipts amounted to 279,285/. 13s. 91, those of the last half year being 2,4171. 12s. ld. The total disbursements 277,8681. 3s. sid., and those of the last half-year being 1,547/. 165., leaving a balance of cash in hand amounting to 1,417/. 10s. 3id. After some discussion, in the course of which the SECRETARY stated that he felt convinced, from the interviews he had had with Mr. Creed, Mr. Saunders, and Mr. Parker, that both the London and North- Western and the Great Western Companies were sin cere ; and after some observations from Mr. Gunter, Mr. Campion, and Mr. Kirby, the report was adopted. Thanks were voted and unanimously carried to the chairman and directors, and the meeting separated. • The real object of my reply to Mr. Motley's former communication was, to get an account of the income and expenditure upon any length of average road in England, upon which Sir James Anderson.may be supposed to ply his steam carriage. These ire the details which I consider necessary the public shcula....._ have, before they will be convinced there is any? _ chance of success. I need not say this hask not yet' been given, notwithstanding the display in Egiiies.at - the end ot Mr. .Alotiey'. coitimuiiieo4lll'for to d .3w conclusions of the profits to arise from,* of that supposed to accrue on the road from kW& Pink to Hounslow, is far, very far, from being fikir. know on this road the traffic is great, alit:inclines very moderate, and the surface good. If Mr. Motley wishes to make a good impression on the public mind, let time deal with the subject as it is likely to exist, by taking any length of road having reasonable traffic, the average inclinations which are to be met with on our main roads, and the imperfections of surface which will be met with on this road show us in detal the work the engine will have to perform with a giv n load, the cost of performing it, not forgetting u• and tear, and the income from passengers and oth resources. Such a statement, if fairly made in ch will convey to the public mind conviction of the commercial success or failure of Sir Jams At der son's plans. In conclusion, I would request Mr. Motley not to rank me as an opponent to the introduction al stum on common roads ; on the contrary, I am a vk arm advocate of it, when wisely attempted; but I am not an advocate for the introduction of plans that cannot succeed, which I believe to be the case with Sir James Anderson's, because every failure adds to the difficulty of convincing the public that any plan for introducing steam on common roads can succeed, so great is the prejudice against it.—l have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant, ROBERT WEEKES. London, Aug. 29, 1848. ~r~~ 244 7% 59 43' n 4 •••••• V.) Bud Da eee Off s;