The Sun. — London, England, 1848-10-05 00:00:00

.-,~'; `hie MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.' MEAT m.A.RnzTs. SOUTHALL, OCT. 4.—Prime Beasts and Sheep c. m• manded a steady sale at very low prices. In other kip ds of fat stock only a limited business was transacted. I3e, t, from 3s 4d to 4s; Mutton, 4s to ss; Veal, 3s 6d to 4s 2(1; and Pork, 4s to 4s 8d per Sibs, to sink the offal. =7 — ROMFORD, OCT. 4.—Our market was tolerably steady this morning, and last week's currencies were well sup ported. Beef, from 3s 4.1 to 4s ; Mutton, 4s to 5s 2d; Veal, 3s 6d to 4s; and Pork, 4s to 4s 8d per Sibs ; Suckling Calves, 17s to 235; and quarter old store Pigs, 16s to 225; and Mich COSVF, with their small calf, 141 to 171 5s each. LuwEs, OCT. 3. Beef, from 3s 4d to 4s 2d ; Mutton, 4s 4d to 5s 21; Veal, 3s 6d to 4s ; and Pork, 45:4d to 4s 8d per Sibs. A mode rate supply, and a steady trade. IifEWGILTE AND LEADEN/IAM M. Our markets were rather heavy to-day, yet prices were fa•rly supported. Beef, from 2* 8d to 34 6(1; Mutton, 3s 6d to 4s 6d; Veal, 3s 4d to 4s; and Pork, as 10d to 3s 2d per Blbs, by the carcase. HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD.—OId Meadow Hay, 313 s to 31 14s; New ditto, 218 s to 3/ 8s; Old Clover, 4/ 4s to 51 Os; New ditto, 31 158 to 41 lOs ; and Straw, 11 6s to 11 lOs per load. A fair average supply, and a sluggish demand. CUMUERLAND.—OId Meadow Hay, 315 s to 31 15s; New ditto, 2/ lOs to 31 9s ; Old Clover, 41 to 41 15s; and Straw, 11 6s to 11 lOs per load. Supply but mo derate, and trade dull. WHITECHAPEL.—OId Meadow Hay, 31 3s to 31 15s ; New ditto, 21 8s to 31 84; Old Clover, 41 4s to 5/ Os; New ditto, 31 lOs to 41 lOs ; and Straw, 1/ 6s to 1/ lOs Tv load. Trade rather dull, at the above quotations. COAL MARKET.—TYSTERDAT. Bate's West Hartley... 16s 6d Castle Eden ... ..... lss Od Dean's Primrose ...... 133 3d Hetton Holywell Main ... ..... 14s 6(1 Haswell l7s 3d Townley Wall's End, &c. Shotten Acorn Close Brown's l3s 9d South Hartlepool Bensham ...... ........ 145 Od Trimdon . lss Od Gibson Gosforth .. . .. Percy Bensham l4s 6d Powell's Duffryn Stm. 19s Od Eden Main Bell CORN AVERAGES. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN For the Week ended Oct. S, 1845, made up from the Returns of the Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in England and Wales Per Imperial Quarter. I EAT. I BAILEY.' OATS. RTE. I BEANS. I PEAS. PRICE .• I 511 9d 33s 3d 21s Id 131 s 9d 1365 id 395 8d DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN. WHEAT. I BAILEE. I OATS. I RYE' I BEANS. I PEAS. {• Od 2s Id Is Gd 2s Od 2s Od 2s Od SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. On Tuesday next the Jockey Club will take into con sideration a proposal for moving the weighing-stand, saddling stables, and betting-post, from their present position to the other side of the flat, adjoining the ploughed lands, and forming a carriage road from the town of Newmarket to this part of the ground. YORK UNION HUNT MEETING.—WEDNESDAY. The Gold Cup Stakes of 10 sovs. each, h ft. Two Sir John Gerard' s Panta sa , 6 miles. (3 y Subs.) rs 1 ... walked over The Di nner Stakes of 10 soya. each, h ft. One mile and a haf. Sir J. Gerard's Blackie,l 5 yrs Subs.)... ... walked over The York and Ainsty Handicap of 20 sovs. each, 10 ft, end only sif declared, with 50 added. One mile and a half. Mr. Jaques's Sir Martin, 4 yrs (Captain Broadley) 1 W. Hobson's Billy from Brigg, 4 yrs ..• 2 Mr. ••• Peart's E nnu i , 5 yrs ~, •••• , 3 1 Sir J. Gerard's Pant asa , 6 yrs Th e Knavesmir e S ta k es of 5 sovs. each, and 25 added. One mil e . (6 S u b s .) Mr. Ellis's Acomb, 3 yrs .. . (Mr. T. T. Parker 1 Mr. T. D agg ' s Isabella Noel, 4 Yre 2 Sir J. G erard ' s Blackie, syr ' s • 3 ..• ••• •• Major Wil mot ' s Baron Edrick, 6 yrs ••• ••• 4 MONMOUTH RAC ES.—TUESDAY. The Monmouthshire Stakes were walked over for by Mr. Griffiths's Apple Blossom. The Wye Stakes were won i n t wo h ea t s by M r . Evans 'e Vixen. WEDNESDAY. T he Chippenha m Stakes were won in three heats by the Morsel, beating Apple Blossom and Miss Nipper. The Hendre Hurdle Race was won in two heats by the Vixen. • PEDESTRIANISM. J. SMITH AND H. Boos.—These two men met last week at Cranford-bridge, and after remaining three hours and a half at the scratch, were obliged to put off fill yesterday. They met at four o'clock, at the sprint ground attached to the Old Hat, Ealing. At this meet ing Book it seemed had made up his mind not to go, for after nearly two hours in absurd feints and offers Smith offered to give him one yard start and go off by report of a pistol. This was declined, and da) light, as well as the patience of the spectators, being worn out, the men live to humbug the public on another day. STEVENS AND HERTEL—These men ran one hundred yards for 5 sous. aside, Hervey giving two yards start and beating his opponent, after a severe race, by a yard. W. PAYNE ♦ND QUINTON.—A ten mile race between these men for 50 soya. aside came off on Tuesday, on the Epping -road. Payne went off with the lead at a rattling pace, and at the end of two miles was 200 yards in advance, this he continued to improve, winning just as he pleased. The winners time was fifty-nine minutes fifty-eight seconds. AMERICAN AFFAIRS. Nsw YORK, SEPT. 16.—In:rny letter of the 28th of June I referred to the approaching Presidential election as likely to be the absorbing topic among the American statesmen and politicians. The signs of the times, as they then were presented, have since been more fully developed, and what was then anti cipation is now reality. Both the great political parties into which the people of this country are divided are convulsed and distracted, insomuch that all, or nearly all, is doubt and uncertainty. Mr. Clay has been nominated by a section of his friends, but without a hope of his success at this late hour. The candidates for the Presidency between whom the great battle is to be fought are— First—General Z. Taylor. Second—General Cass. Third—Martin Van Buren. General Taylor at this time is the strongest, but losing; General Cass next, but losing ground; and M. Van Buren, though weakest, is evidently increas ing in strength. The nomination of Mr. Clay, 'if he be not with drawn, will injure General Taylor more than either of the other candidates. I know, from my corres pondence with him, that he disapproves of the use made of his name; but whether he will give publicity to this fact is matter of uncertainty, The great mass of the people are strongly im pressed with the opinion, that the election of Ge neral Cass would involve the United States in a war with Great Britain. Now, whether this opi nion be well or ill founded, it will operate against the General at the election with the friends of peace. The schooner Pacific, from Jeremie, has arrived at this port. She brings dates up to the 23d of Au gust. At the date of her departure there was an apparent tranquillity. The President was at Port au-Prince. All communication was stopped be tween Jeremie and the capital. This interruption ot intercourse caused str ong appre h ens i on that new difficultie s were about to ensue. Other and more interesting information is hourly anticipated. The French Consul has written a letter to the President, forbidding all political executions, and notifying to him, that if not complied with, the French would commence hostilities. A French frigate has been ordered from Martinique to Port-au-Prince. A severe drought for several weeks past has pre vailed in various districts of the United States. It has proved highly injurious to the Indian corn, in somuch that in many districts the yield will not ex ceed half a crop, but the planting during the past year has been so extensive that we shall have a large surplus for exportation. The potato rot is said to be developing itself ex !enswely i n th e western region of this country, but appear, unlike anything which we have heretofore seen. Its operation is slow and unequal. In some fields .rows will b e f oun d ent i re l y d estroyed, while the ad 3ya:t beent rows are untouched. No calculation can as made as to the extent of damage that may be sustained. Upon the whole, however, notwithstand ing the unfavourable accounts from European agri cultual districts, breadstuffs in this quarter are on !he decline, and will so continue unless more alarming British accounts be received. A GENEVESE TRAVELLER. THE COMMITTEE OF EDUCATION AND THE NA TIONAL SOCIETY.—The long-pending discussion between the Committ ee o f t h e P r i vy C oun cil and the Archb ishop of Canterb ury , on the part of the National Society, on the questi on o f education, has been brought to a close Dy . a perempt ory refusal on t h e part o f the Committee of Pricy Council to make any further concessions to thV Church. This refusal on the part of the Committee will probably lead to a rupture between the two parties, and perhaps to a c omp l ete w ithdrawal of the National Society from a participation in the Government grants. The correspondence between his Grace and the Lords of the Committee of the Privy Council is of considerable length, and in it are set out the views and wishes of the respective parties. It appears by a paper drawn up by the Committee of the National Society, and put into the hands of the Archbishop, with a request that he would submit it to the Lord President of the Council, that since the adoption of the Committee of Council on Education of the existing management clauses, the Com mittee of the National Society have received strong re monstrances from the clergy and laity in various parts of the country, which convince them that much dissatis faction has arisen among the promoters of schools in connexion with the Church. A general meeting of the Bishops and the other members of the National Society will be called in November, to decide what course shall, under all the circumstances of the case, be adopted. His Grace the Archbishop of York has presented the Rev. Thomas Myers, M.A., late Scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge, to the Vicarage of Sheriff Hutton, otar York, TH:E SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY r.VENING, MAGAZINES—(CONTINUED). COLBUJ?A'S NE IV iIIONTHLY. Among the " continuations" are " Frenel Governess"—" A Visit to the Battlefields - oaf Cressl and Agincciurt"—" A few Months in Southern Africa''—"'lick"—and the concluding chapters of "Philip and his Poodle" and " The Richest Com moner in England." As if to disabuse the imagina tion of the reader of any conjecture that the richest commoner in England means his Majesty George the Fifth, otherwise Mr. Hudson, otherwise the Railwpy King, the author states that Mrs. Dovey is ambitious of seeing Charles Surnmerley fixed on the other side of the " Rock of Gibraltar"—meaning the tall house near Albert-gate vis-a-vis to the residence of the ex- Lord Mayor of York. In a note the uninitiated are informed that " the tall houses on either side c f Albert-gate were christened the Rock of Gibraltar. because it was prophesied they would never be taken.'' Captain Medwin's jeu d'esprit on the Germanic tri colour is not so good by half as the one which was already familiar to the million, to the effect that Allemania had appropriately selected as its colours in the gambling game of revolutions the mixture of gold with rouge et noir. A sensible and seasonable paper on Vancouver's Island " explains the numerous advantages possessed by that remarkable colony. " Brighton in the Autumn " is an amusing trifle from which we obtain the following veracious information respecting the personal appearance and peculiarities of three cele brated authors of the present day,—the writers of " Dombey," of " Harold," and of the " Lancashire Witches :" " Mr. said Mrs. Endor, herself, in this respect, an undoubted witch, Mr. D— is a very sin gular old man.' An old man?' we i nqu i re d, innocently, believing him as well as the other two to be in the prime of life. " 'Yes, sir,—very old,— seventy at the least; I am sixty •five myself. He has bong white hair which reaches half-way down his back, and what is more extraordinary, he has not eaten animal food ever since he was a boy of fifteen (they do say in consequence of a vow); and I can tell you another thing : to my certain knowledge he never goes to bed, but passes his nights in the streets of London picking up materials for his stories.' " This was information certainly, and of the kind to make us anxious for more. " What kind of person,' we asked, 'is Sir Edward?' " Altogether ditferelit,' replied Mrs. Endor; he never gets up at all—except just to have his bed made, and even then he always remains in a horizontal po sition,—l may say, quite flat; of course he doesn't write his own Looks,—l mean with his own hands, — but keeps four young men constantly employed, day and night, taking down to his dictation till the work he is engaged upon is finished. He then covers the clothes over his head, and, perhaps, doesn't speak to any body for a month ; some say he sleeps all that time, but my private opinion is that he hasn't had a wink for years!' " Marvelling greatly at Sir Edward's pertinacious vitality,—for, by Mrs. Endor's account, it appeared as if he abstained, not only from animal food, but from food altogether,—we ventured a request as to the pur suits of the third novelist. " ' That gentleman,' said our old lady, is the most extraordinary of them all. He lives on board his yacht almost all the year round, and writes best in a gale of wind. Whenever he comes down to Brighton, and lie is often here, —though I must say I have never seen him,—he at once goes on board of his vessel, no matter what the weather is, and as soon as a storm comes on he begins to write. Where he goes to I don't pretend to know,' and here Mrs. Endue nodded her head in a very mysterious manner; I have heard to the coast of Afriky, for there it was he met with the loss of his right hand in an engagement with'the slave drivers; but one thing I do know, and that is, that he has always a drawn sword on the table beside him; and never,' she added emphatically, 'never sleeps in a night-cap.'" J. E. Carpenter contributes a poetic scrap called " It cannot be so long ago," and Mrs. Acton Tindal ano ther addressed to her " Guardian Angel." The frag mentary article on the " Pyrenees " is amusing; it reads like a mixture of Oviedo and Baron Mun chausen. Charles Hervey has a few droll jottings by the way from " The Habitas Note-book." " ran slavism and the Slavonians " is a resume of the in formation contained in the important effusion by the Count Valerian Krasinski, already noticed by ourselves; and another contributor unfolds the mysteries involved in the intricacies of " The New Zealand Question." Besides the foregoing articles there are an abundance of miscellaneous criticisms. the portions of the October number. When we read the tine dote abaut the first reli anal of the Nozze Figaro we are fain to call out with the orchestra, the auditors, and the very performers themselves (from a mere r2collection of the enchantitg strains of the great comroser), Bravo, bravo,:maestro ! Viva, viva, grande Mozart! As to the incidnt recorded ( f Handel in the 111arylehone Garden,:, we must he for given if we are sceptical of its authenticity. The rest of the number is of the usually miscellaneous character. JOURNAL OF AG UICH LTURE, AND TRANSACTIONS OF IHE HIGHLAND AND AGRICULTUI:AL SOCIETY OF SCOTLA.A D. This quarterly journal contains much useful in• formation on the subject of agriculture. Every farmer who aspires to the character of a scientific agricul turist should make himself acquainted wi:h its contents. NAVAL CO URT-MAR Mil L. PLYMOUTH, OCT. 3.—This morning a court-martial was held on board her Majesty's ship San Josef; 1 10, now lying in Hamoaze, on two men, named Thomas Keane, an ordinary seaman belonging to the Cale donia, 120, Captain Carter, and Thomas 'Murphy, a private o f th e thi r d c l ass o f th e 19th co mpany of the Plymouth division of the Royal Marines, on the four following charges :-Ist, With having deserted from the Caledonia 4n the night of the 14th of September last; 2d, With having stolen 215., a blue cloth pea coat, one blue cloth round jacket, and one red figured silk handkerchief; the property of John Ellenborough, of the Caledonia; 3d, With having stolen a blue cloth ruuul jacket, a handkerchief, a pair of boots, and a pair of stocking?, belonging to Robert Kempt Philp, ordinary seaman ; and 4th, With having stolen a black cloth cap belonging to John Lampier, all ordi nary seaman. _ rn consequence of the fleet being now in the Sound there was a very large court, and an unusually large attendbnce of naval officers on board. Rear- Ar!iniral of the Red Sir John Louis, Bart., the port admiral, presided; end the other members of the court were Rear-Admiral Sir Charles Napier, K.C.8., of the St. Vincent, 120; Captain Mends, of the Agincourt, 72 ; Captain W. P. Martin, of the Prince Regent, 32; Captain Chads, C. 8., of the Amphion steamer; Captain Ilgynes, C. 8., of the Blenheim, 56; Captain Sir 'Thomas Maitland, C. 8., of the San Josef, 110; and Captain Dacres. William Eastlake, Esq., offi ciated ;Is judge advocate. The prisoners were un defended. h n e oi s s a e w , The facts of the case are th es e : On the night of the 14th of S eptem b er a private t heard e t a er ma rine, who was on the w'.:.ch about twelve o after giving an alarm, h e an d o th ers were sent in men pursuit of the men to B or i san d , on the eastern shore a t n w d o i t n o a t he bo side , of e and of the Sound, where th ey p i c k e d up the boat that had been taken away from the Caledonia, which sh;p was at that time lying in the Sound. The'men that were sent in pursuit went over the hills, and searched about for an hour and a h a lf; b u t we re unable to find either of the prisoners. They then returned to the ship, and on the morning of the iith, a sergeant and some other men were sent on shore to Plymouth, to endeavour to find the prisoners, who, it was ascer tained, had left the ship. The prisoners could not be found in Plymouth, but, en the sergeant making inquiry at the station of the South Devon Railway, it was found that two persons, of a similar description, had that morning gone to Exeter. Thither the sergeant went, and after some inquiry the prisoners were found, with most of the property that had been stolen in their possession. They were then taken to the Guildhall, at Exeter, and on the next (lay brought down to the Caledonia in custody. On their return to the ship the property that had been stolen, with the exception of the money, was claimed by three seamen, to whom it belonged, who now also identi fied it. On the investigation of the case it appeared that the boat was not taken till two minutes after the clock had struck twelve at midnight on the 14th, and this led to a great deal of inquiry, the Court appa rently thinking that the prisoners could not be found guilty upon that charge. If that was their opinion, the difficulty was got over, for after the court had been closed a short time it was re-opened, and the Judge-Advocate said he was authorised by the prisoners to state that they acknowledged the deser tion and threw themselves on the mercy of the Court, but denied the robbery. The court was again cleared,. and, after an hour and-a-half's deliberaticn, on being re•opened the Judge Advocate read the decision. The COURT was of opinion that the first and fourth charges had been proved, and that the second and third charges had been partially proved; and the Court, in consequence, adjudged that the prisoners should each receive fifty lashes with a cat-o'nine-tails on their bare backs, on board her Majesty's ship Caledonia, to which they . belong, at such time or times, and in such proportions, as the C omman d er • in-Chief of her Majesty's ships . at Plymouth shall direct; and the Court further adjudged that the pri soners shall be imprisoned in the gaol at Exeter for twelve calendar months, to be kept to hard labour, to be mulcted of all pay due to them in the service, and to lose all the time which they have resp ec ti ve ly served in the Royal Navy and in the Royal Marines. The Board of Trade have appointed E. E. Smith, R.N., shipwright surveyor, and T. Stuart, Esq., engineer, under the 9:h and 10th Vic., c. 100, and the 11th and 12:h Vie., c. SI, to examine and report on th e h u ll an d machinery of all steam-vessels in the Port o f L on d on . Vessels are liable to survey twice a year, viz., in October and April. BELGIAN PRODUCE.—The steam-ship Triton, from Ostend, brought the large quantity of seventy-four ham pers and boxes of poultry, the produce of B e l g i um , in cluding, as may be supposed, considerable quantities of geese for the supply of the markets at this particular season. The same vessel also brought seventy sheep of Belgian production, which is a large increase on former supplies. DISASTROUS FLOOD.—WORCESTER, WEDNESDAY. —ln cons. quence of the extraordinary fall of rain in this and the neighbouring counties durin g the last ten days, all the rivers and smaller streams have been swollen to an alarming height, and much destruction of , property has consequently taken place. The flood upon the Avon, throughout its course from Stratford, through Evesham, Bershore, Tewkesbury, &c., has been unpre cedented, and flocks of sheep and other animals have been destroyed. At Stratford. on-Avon many of the roads are four and five feet deep in water, and traffic has been suspended. In the town the warehouses and dwellings near the river have also been flooded. At Evesham the inhabitants of the houses in the lower part of the town, near the river, have been either driven out altogether or have been obliged to take refuge in the upper stories of their houses, where provisions are brought to them in boats. The Northwick Arms, the principal inn in Bingworth, is inaccessible. The river is swollen into a rolling torrent, and bears upon it the wrecks of furniture, sheds, hay ricks, &c., carried off by the flood. The flood was at its height yesterday, when several serious accidents happened, but as yet we have heard of no loss of human lite. A subscription is being raised in Evesham for the relief of the poor sufferers in the town. At Pershore the toll-gate near the river has been locked up for two days, the passage over the bridge and adjacent parts being too dangerous to attempt. Many persons have lost sheep and cattle. The flood on the Severn has not been so disastrous. The waters are subsiding to-day. EXPERIMENT BY THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY.—An experimen t was mado at Manchester, yesterday, by Mr. Cox, t su perintendent c of the Electric Telegraph Company, and assista n t s , as to the practica bility of passing electric urr s ents along covered wires under water. The wire was that ordinarily used, of copper, wrapped with cott on, and then passed through shellac and coated outsid e with India-rubber (cold naphtha being used to cement the latter), One end of the wire was in com mun ication with the Telegraph the Company's instruments atoffice near the Exchange, and the other cad with an instrument of Mr. W. Gas kell's mill, on the Salford s ide o f the river, at about 500 of yards distance. A portionthe wire, includinc, a coil of about half a mile in length, was submerged' in the river Irwell. Communications wire with the o rdinar y facility, and the experiment ap pears, so far , to ha v e answered. E MI GRATION PLYMOUTH, O.T. S.—The Man chester, 600 tons, Captain Forsayth, s ailed on Thursday last, with 236 emi g rants, for Port i h .P. i; The Thomas Arbuthnot, 621 tons, Ca ptain Heat on, sailed to-day, with 263 m i g rants, for S y dney. The S Bedding ton, Captain Buish, is now i n the Sou nd to take emi grants for Port Adelaide. All the above • ships are under engag emen t to the Colonial Land and Emigration Com missi„ers. Besides these ships, Messrs. Marshall and Edridge have dispatched the Candahar from London, and will call here for emigrants. The date to leave Plymouth is the ith inst. She will have 150 adults on board. The Candahar will be succeeded by the Glenelg, a fine vessel of 1,500 tons register, which is bound to Adelaide and Port Philip, and will leave here on the 25th inst. These ships, like those sent out by the Com missioners, carry experienced surgeons, and are vic tualled, fitted, &c., under the inspection of the Govern ment emigration agent. A MOTHER STABBED IT HER OWN SON.—A few eve reported the examination of days, ago 1 a young m an named Edward Corbe tt, a joiner, on a charge of having stabbed his own mother, and also a man named Plumb'. As we then stated, the charge was not gone into, both the wounded parties being so seriously injured as to pre vent their appearance in court. The prison er was con sequently remanded, in expectation that they would be sufficiently recovered to appear and prosecute, but the female's life has since been in such jeopardy that it has been found necessary to take her deposition at the Royal Infirmary,. in the presence of a magistrate. As she still continues in a dangerous state, it has been deemed expe dient that only one case should be taken against the pri soner, that for stabbing the man, and on Monday he was brought up and evidence was gone into, when he was committed for trial at the assizes. As we h ave previ ously stated, the prison er went to his mother's house in toxicated, and finding her in bed with the man Plumb, with whom she lived in adultery, he was so exasperated, that he pulled out a knife from his pocket and s t a bb e d them both.—Munch es t e r Courier. QUEEN'S COLLEGE, BIRMINGHAM.--Th e _ Rev. Dr. Warm_ford has presented to Queen's College, through Mr. W. S. Cox, the munificent donation of 1,0001., to b e applied to such purposes and uses as may b e considered by the Rev. Chancellor Law, the Rev. Vaughan Thomas, and Mr. Sands Cox, mo st beneficial to the i nstitution . ' The Principal, Vice-Princip al, Dean of the Faculty, and Council, inkpected the new buildings at Queen's College on Friday morning- Th e y consist of a lecture theatre, a chemical laboratory, an anatomical room, and addi tional apartments for the students. The chapel has also had a recess made for an organ. The buildings com prise two sides of the inten ded quadrangle.__B• , . ag , urn:leam Gazette. ENCLOSURE AND CULTIVATION OF ALE WICK MOOR, on AYDON FOREST.—This immense wilderness, contain ing upwards of three thousand acres of land, a large portion of which is capable of cultivation, is about to be reclaimed. Proposals having that object in view have been made by the Alnwick freemen to the Duke of Northumberland, and his Grace has a returned ' favour able answer. Scarlet fever is at present very prevalent in this town. Last week one-fourth of the entire deaths within the borough were from thie dizesteeo—Liverpool Courier, DOLMAA'S. One paper in the October number of Dolman deserves our warmest commendation, we mean the contribution respecting " Our Artillery." It is a repository of very useful information upon a subject of paramount importance. We cannot by any means say that the editorial article on " The Wesleyan Missions at Otaheite" is to our taste. Ridicule is not argument; and travesty is the very antithesis of the species of controversy, which is alone seemly upon religious subjects. ." The Monk and the Little Bird" is a rather feeble legend in hobbling verse. The conclusion, however, of Mr. I'aley's criticisms upon Mr. Soames' work on the Anglo-Saxon Church is a con tribution worthy of Dolman's Magazine, and, coupled with the paper already referred to, renders the num ber commendable. AINSWORTH'S. In the continuation of the corrected edition of the editor's romance of " Crichton" there are the lyrical poems of the sorcerer and the hag, which will be re membered by the readers of Harrison Ainsworth as being characterized by so much spirit and enthu siasm. " The Sorcerer's Sabbath" is, perhaps, the most remarkable instance of our novelist's powers as a lyrist, reminding one of the poetic fragments which adorn his celebrated romance of "Rookwood. A brief, but entertaining, paper, entitled " Incidents in the Early Life of Haydn," contains the following, which will be read with interest:— his c A ir n cu o m p s p t o a r n t c u e n s i , ty fo a r t b ylascthan c e presented the p i r t i s n e c l e f of E improving a passionate amateur of music, was present at a concert , which very opportunely commenced with one of llaydns pieces. The delight of the Prince was unbounded, and he immediately appointed the composer sub-director of his own orchestra, and demanded who he was. Haydn, in fear and trembling, advanced, when the Prince ex " Whatl is that the music of this little Moor?' (al luding to his complexion.) Then addressing him, added, Go and dress yourself as my chapel master. You must never appear again in my presence in the plight you are now. You aro too little, and have a pitiful looking face. Get a new coat and high-heeled shoes, that your stature may correspond with your mind.' " Haydn was too happy at his appointment to feel much chagrin at this equivocal style of compliment." It is singular enough that in a brilliant article on Music, in the current number of the Quarterly, pub lished simultaneously with Ainsworth, the same anecdote of the great composer's piety in composition is recorded, almost in the very same words, where Haydn remarks—" When I was working at the Creation I felt myself so penetrated with devotion, that before I sat down to my piano I prayed confi dently to God for the talent to praise him worthily." Like u true Catholic, as he was, Haydn used, ac cording to the Quarterly reviewer, to rise from his instrument whenever his powers of invention seemed to fail him, and tell over the beads of his rosary." "It was a method," continues the reviewer, " which he never found to fail." E. P. Rowsell writes a fan ciful chapter on " Waterloo-bridge;" and Thomas Roscoe contributes an amusing story about " The Merchant of Ferrara and his Clerk." " Another Hour with the Old Masters" is a critical paper, from the ingenious hand of Mrs. Acton Tindal. Three other serials are continued, one by W. 11. G., Kingston, called "The Black Slaver;" another by Mr. Hugt,es called " The Homesteads of Lower Brittany;" and another by Mr. H. Hays, call e d "Th e C ountess de Rudolstadt. ' Besides these there are poetical contributions by Emily Varndell, J. E. Carpenter, and Caroline De Crespigny—the most pretentions of which is that by the last-mentioned, entitled " The Masque of Death," a ballad in flowing metre. THE METROPOLITAN. " Swissiana" is penned pleasantly and discursively; as are also " Marmaduke Hutton," " Clarendon," and Mrs. Tinsly's tale of "The Storm and the Conflict." The oddest and certainly the most entertaining of all the contributions, however, is the story of " The Man who Eloped with his own Wife." The conceit is quaint enough to wile away a tedious evening, and keep the reader's attention on the qui vine throughout. Among the specimens of American poetry, many will have to thank the editor for a scrap from the noble oems of Longfellow —" The Oc cu lt at i on o f Orion.' But that Shelley had already depicted the beautiful moon pacing through the skies "like a dying lady," the following verses would be surpris ingly graceful : " The moon was pallid, but not faint, Yet beautiful as some fair saint, Serenely moving on her way In hours of trial and dismay. As if she heard the voice of God, Unharmed with naked feet she trod Upon the hot and burning stars, As on the glowing coals and bars That were to prove her strength, and try her holiness and her purity." Other papers make up a goodly collection for October, one of the most sensible being the " History and Prospects of the Tea Trade." THE _BELLE ASSEMBLEE. Miss Camilla Toulmin, or, as we must now desig nate her, by her matrimonial title, Mrs. Newton Crosland, flourishes in the editorial department of this miscellany. Nor are her labours merely editorial: she is also industrious as a contributor; witness het Pisan Chronicle of " Azzoli the Goatherd." Wt thank Mr. Allmann heartily for his delightful "Leaves from the Note Book of a Musician --the best of FINE ARTS. REVERIE. Drawn and Engraved by G. R. Hall. " The silver orb of Heaven, with waning light, Beams with soft splendour on the silent night ; And the fair maiden, musing 'neath its ray. Forgets the festive scene and maskers gay." The subject of this exquisite engraving—poeti cally indicated by the prefixed verses—has revealed at once the graceful fancy and the artistic ability of Mr. G. R. Hall. Although in his extreme youth, the artist has given evidence of powers which cannot fail ultimately to lead him to some eminence in his profession. With a continuance of industry and a proper cultivation of his'powers, we anticipate a successful career to Mr. Hall, if only from the elegance of his present production. The figure of the young masker, blooming through the twilight, is daintily conceived, and the hand of the engraver has well expressed the thought of the draughtsman. Nor is the theme itself unattractive—Reverie in the midst of Revelry ! A thousand pensive recollections and fascinating reflections are evoked by a glance at the picture; the mind reverts instinctively to the moonlit scene in the gardens of Portia, where Jessica muses over her elopement from the Venetian home of Shylock. The impression before us is in every respect beautiful. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Miss Julia Harland, a new aspirant for histrionic and lyrical honours, made her first appearance before a metropolitan audience at this theatre last evening. 'lids young lady is a pupil of Mr. Allen, and she pos sesses many natural advantages for success in the career which she has chosen. Her features are pleasing and expressive, and her figure is very fine. Her voice is a soprano of much sweetness, but rather thin in quality. She was suffering dreadfully from nervousness, which in the first act prevented her from doing justice to her powers. She acquired confidence, however, as she proceeded, and the remainder of the opera was very finely given. She exhibited great power and intensity in the scene in which she signs the contract, and in the mad scene she was really great. She was loudly applauded throughout, and was called for at the conclusion of the opera. Allen was the Edgardo, and sung the music in the most finished style imaginable. The choruses were well riven, and the orchestra, under the able direction of Mr. Loder was everything that could be desired. The house was well filled. The scenery was new and very beautiful; the last scena by Mr. Henry Cuth bert was a chef d'auvre. COURT CIRCULAR. OSBORNE, WEDNESDAY. The inclemency of the weather prevented her Ma jesty and the Royal Children from taking their usual early walk this morning. Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. Anson arrived at Osborne yesterday afternoon, and remain. There was no other addition to the royal dinner party. his Royal Highness Prince George has left town for Dublin. Sir Robert 11. Inglis had an interview with Sir George Grey yesterday, at the Home-office. Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening, from the Colonial-office, for the Governor of the Falkland Islands. Ih. WEBSTER AND MADAME CELESTE.—These accomplished artistes are :on a provincial tour, which has hitherto proved most successful. They are at present at Liverpool, playing to very excellent busi ness. Last week they were at Birmingham, where they drew overflowing houses, and to which place they re turn for a few nights at the conclusion of their Liver pool engagement. They commence their re-engage ment at Birmingham on Monday, and after playing a few nights Mr. Webster returns to town to open the Haymarket cm the 11th instant, which theatre is being entirely new decorated by Sang, and in which various alterations and improvements, which will conduce greatly to the comfort of the audience, are making under the judicious superintendence of Mr. C. Manby. ADOPTION OF THE NUISANCES REMOVAL ACT Dr TUE PARISH OS ST. PANCRAS.—Yesterday, at a meeting of the vestry of the above parish, held at the new Vestry-rooms, King's-road, Camden-town, for dis patch of business. the following resolution was carried;— "That a committee be appointed forthwith to inquire into the powers given to parochial authorities under the Nuisances Removal Act, and to report the same to the vestry, that immediate steps may be taken for the re • moval of nuisances, and improving the sanitary condi tion of those parts of the parish which require attention." DEATH BY FIRE.—An inquest was held yesterday before Mr. W. Carter, at the King's Arms, Hickman's folley, Bermondsey, on the body of Michael Cogan, aged 66 years. The deceased was a corn-porter, but for several years he had been unable to follow his occupa tion. On Friday evening the deceased was retiring to rest when he was seised with a fit, and by some means his shirt caught fire. His groans aroused tho lodgers, who discovered the deceased lying on the ground in a state of nudity and most awfully burned. Mr. Martin, a surgeon, was called, but the deceased expired soon afterwards from the effects of the injuries ho had E us tained. Verdict, " Accidental death." SSORM IN STAINORDSHIRE.—A terrific storm of thunder, lightning, wind, and rain, passod over King's Bromley, on the afternoon of Saturday last, leaving, along the course it took, many awful remains of its desolating ravages, though happily no personal injury was sustained. A little before three o'clock thunder was heard in the distance, and presently the gathering clouds indicated a corning storm. In a short time the thunder and lightning became terrific, the rain fell in torrents, and the v.ind blew a perfect hurricane. For twenty minutes the light ning was fearfully vivid, and Oath succeeded flash with out intermission; whilst the pealing thunder resembled the continuous rolling of heavy artillery. Some of the inhabitants were dreadfully alarmed, and thought the day of judgment had come. In its fury it tore up some of the finest trees, shivering others to atoms; and strip ping some of their branches, it left the naked trunks as standing monuments of its destructive power. In a field occupied by Miss Rochford four patriarchal oaks were completely torn up by the roots. In an orchard, in the occupation of Mr. Bannister, every fruit tree, with one solitary exception, was blown down; as was a large and ancient elm, near the mill, and several trees of different kinds in the plantations belonging to Bromley Hall. The storm, after raging twenty minutes over Bromley, crossed the Trent, and swept along the valley, in the direction of Hamstall Ridware, where it effected consi derable damage. Two fine ornamental poplars, near the mill dam, were broken off just above the ground. A heavy weight of lead was displaced from the roof of the parish church, breaking down the parapet wall. Indeed, altogether, a storm so fearful, for the time it lasted, is not remembered by the oldest inhabitants, either of Bromley or Hamstall Ridware.—Staffordshire Adver tiser. Yesterday intelligence was received at Lloyd's, that on the 29th ult. Capt. Christopher Foster, of the ship Sitley, bound from Alexandria to Hull, had de stroyed himself twenty-five miles to the S.W. of Scilly. From t he evidence taken before the coroner at St. Mray's, Scilly, for which place the crew instantly bore up, and the testimony of William Lawrenson and James Duffield, first and second mates, it appeared that during the voy age the deceased indulged immoderately in the use of spirits, and was the three days preceding his death (from having manifested insanity) closely watched; he, how ever, contrived to elude them, and running forward, ex claimed, "I am going to leave you!" instantly jumped overboard. A boat was lowered, and in ten minutes the body was recovered, but all the efforts made to restore animation were futile. The jury, in accordance with the medical evidence, returned a verdict " That the deceased destroyed himself whilst labouring under tem porary insanity, produced by the excessive use of ardent spirits." SHOCKING ACCIDENT.--Yesterday forenoon a workman, at the General Railway Station, Perth, had both his legs broken between the knee and hip-joints, by three trucks and an engine passing over them. As might be expected, he was dreadfully mangled, and died in the course of last night. The accident was occasioned by his attempting to climb upon a carriage while it was in motion .—North British Mail THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT.—Since the proro gation of Parliament additional buildings have been erected in front of the Members' lobby in Old Palace-yard, as it became necessary, in consequence of the erection of the new buildings at the back of Bellamy's kitchens, to get up temporary premises for the " victualling depart ment," set aside for the benefit and convenience of lion. Members. The housekeeper, who had apartments as signed to him under the archway leading to the Old Star Chamber, in New Palace• yard, has been obliged to remove, and temporary apartments have been found for him near the entrance to the House of Lords, and next door to the cellar—the former resting place of Smith O'Brien. SMUGGLING. —At the Liverpool Police-court, a Irma named Jacob Smith was charged, before Mr. Rushton, with smuggling a quantity of unmanufactured tobacco. James Luke Lee, a landing waiter in her Majesty's Customs, deposed that on Saturday last a number of bales of cotton were landed from the barque Nrchelaus, from Charlestown, and conveyed to the ex cise depot. On examination, four of the bales were 'band. to contain 1,2061 b. of unmanufactured leaf to bacco, which was ascertained to be the property of the prisoner. Smith, however, denied being the owner, rand the case was ajourned until Friday next, for further inquiry. OCTOBER 5, 1818. 44,30 f t A tar' "iri 14 I N r ;. ; fj 54 %ma' - LONDON, BRIGHTON, and SOUTH COAST RAILWAY.—(THIS DAY.) An extraordinary meeting of the shareholders of the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway Company jock place to-day, at: the Bridge-house Hotel, London-bridge, for the purpose of authorising the directors to affix the seal of the company to an agreement with the London and South-Western Railway Company for the sale of a joint property in a portion of the Portsmouth extension of the Brighton and Chichester Railway; and for the purpose of con sidering the expediency of exercising the powers of the Company's Act, 10 and 11 Viet., c. 276, for re ducing the number of directors, and determining the order of rotation in which such reduced number shall go out of office, and what number shall be a quorum at their meetings. Samuel Laing, Eq., the Chairman of the Com pany, took the chair at one o'clock. The routine business having been disposed of, The Summon of the company read the heads of the agreement with the London and South-Western Company. General CORRIE wished to know what benefit would be derived from the arrangement to the Brighton shareholders. The CHAIRMAN said that he was able to state what the benefits would be. He was happy, on the first occasion of appearing before the proprietors as their chairman, to be the announcer of a message of peace with the South-Western Company.—(llear.) When he became a director of the Brighton Com pany, his first attempt was to remove, if possible, :he unsatisfactory state of things that existed between the company and the South-Western, and he was happy to say that, with the assistance of his friends in the direction, they had made an arrangement which had been met in an amicable spirit by the South-Western Company, the result of which would be that instead of the South-Western making an in•- dependent line to Portsmouth, the line would be made by both companies jointly, the South-Western paying to the Brighton Company 60,0001. for the line as it at present stood.—(Hear, hear.) The Brighton Company would be benefited by the arrangement to the extent of between 60,0001. and 70,0001., and the South-Western Company would be equally benefited. He believed sincerely that the practical result of the agreement would be to benefit both companies to the extent of 76,0001.—( - fear, hear, and cheers.) Another benefit would be that there would be only one station at Portsmouth instead of two, and they, he considered, would effect a saving to the company of no less a sum than 2,0001. Added to this, the agreement would bring about a proper spirit between the two companies, and give far better accommodation to the public than it had before.—(Hear, hear.) For his own part, he felt bound to confess that he had never seen an arrangement more honest or beneficial for all the contracting parties. He thought it would be a subject of congratulation to both companies that such an arrangement had been effected. It was the intention of the directors also to bring the capital account to a close as speedily as possible, and that at the smallest figure—(Hear, hear)—and in do ing so he could assure the proprietors that the sum of 7,280,000/. would not be exceeded.— (Hear.) He was happy to say, that whilst other companies were showing a decreased return in their accounts, the Brighton Company was showing an increase, though a small one. By the arrangement with the South-Western Company, the Brighton Company would effect a great saving, not only in the working of trains, but in the capital accounts. The worthy Chairman concluded by moving a resolu tion adopting the agreement. Mr. SCHULSTER seconded the motion. The resolution, after a short discussion, was carried unanimously. The CHAIRMAN then proposed a resolution, the object of which was to reduce the number of directors from sixteen to nine. In doing so he stated that the directors had balloted among themselves for the purpose of ascertaining the nine directors who should remain in office, and the result of that ballot was the retaining in the direction the following gentlemen :—Mr. Laing, the present chairman, Mr. Cash, Mr. Charles Crowley, Mr. Edward Crowley, the Hon. Captain Hotham, Mr. Laurie, Mr. Schuls ter, Mr. James Wishaw, and Mr. John Nix. A PROPRIETOR regretted that the directors had adopted that course, considering that it would have been far better that the proprietors should have balloted for the nine directors that were to remain. Mr. WILSON addressed the meeting at some length, complaining of the management and the course that had been adopted by the directors, and moved, as an amendment, that Captain Kelly and Mr. Whisker should be restored to the direction as two of the nine directors. • The amendment having no seconder, fell to the ground. Captain KELLY said that nothing under heaven should induce him to go back to the board again, as there had been an influence pervading the board that he had an utter want of confidence—ire. --The Hon. Gentleman went at considerable length into the occurrences that took place while he was in the direction of which he complained, and detailed circumstances to show how greatly the af fairs of the company had been mismanaged, and how the repairs of the line and the engines had been neglected, in order that the expense might be spared to bolster up a dividend. Mr. LovE was of opinion that the proposition for reducing the number of directors to nine was a most excellent one, and would give it his support, but he thought the proprietors ought to elect those nine directors, and not the di rectors themselves. (Hear, hear.) The Hon. Proprietor moved an amendment to that effect. Mr. WILSON seconded the amendment. The CHAIRMAN then put the amendment, when Mr. LOVE said he would withdraw it. Mr. WILSON would not consent to the withdrawal of the amendment. The CHAIRMAN then put the amendment, and only two hands being held up in its favour, declared it to be lost. Mr. WILSON then moved another amendment to the effect, that the names of the nine directors should be put seriatim. The CHAIRMAN also declared this amendment to be lost. The original motion was then put, and declared to be carried. Thanks were then voted to the Chairman and direc tors, and the meeting separated. o a single wor d o f What! he beheld six months ag peace, contained in a line of the manifesto, shake Europe more profoundly than the long cannonade of the Empire ; and he wants after that great victory not of our armies, but of our doctrines, to commence an experiment of a different character—to substitute cannon balls for principles, and to send our regiments against Europe! But Europe would re-organise herself against our aggression; what is destroyed would be re-formed; the spirit of democracy would give place to the spirit of nationality, and the monar chies would re enter by victories into all their former power. Is that what you want ? No certainly. Well then, why flourish a sound of trumpets in the tribune ? Is it to please by sounding periods the military spirit of our country ? But beware of rousing it by a new policy of complaint, for it would not be you, but others, that would profit of the anachronism." The Corseire says—" There is still a good deal of talk of the retirement of M. Senard, Minister of the Interior. It is no longer said that M. Armand Mar rast will succeed him. M. Ducoux is spoken of, and it is said that he would be replaced as Prefect of Police by M. Berger or M. Taschereau." " Several journals," says the Moniteur, " have spoken of a strike among the journeymen bakers. These statements are incorrect. Their does ex ist, it is true, in this corporation, some difficulties arising out of the different modes of hiring now in practice ; but these difficul ties have not given rise to any act bearing the character of coalition, or the appearance of a strike. The citizen prefect of police is engaged in endeavour ing to reconcile the interests of the masters and jour neymen bakers. A meeting of the delegates and syndics was held yesterday in the cabinet of the pre fect. M. Jules Favre attended as counsel for the journeymen. It appears that other meetings will be necessary, but there is every reason to hope that an equitable conclusion of this affair will, ere long, be come to." The Gazette des Tribunaux says :—" It appears, from information which we have reason to believe correct, that the project of creating a Ministry of Police is about to be carried into excution, and that already the bureaux of the Ministers Fouche, Rovigo, and Duke Decazes, No. 13, Rue des St. Frees, have been arranged for assuming their old destination. The new Minstry of Police is, it is said, to centralise all information, all investigating action, at present divided into three services :—The division of General Police, directed by M. Panisse, in the Ministry of the Interior; the bureau of Political Police, managed by the Prefect, M. Ducoux ; and the General Surveil- lance, ascribed by the National Assembly to its special Commissary." In accordance With a decision of the Minister of War, the first departure of colonists for Algeria will take place on Sunday next, when eight hundred will be embarked from Marseilles, under the direction of M. Chapelier, who has already made a long sojourn in Algeria, and who will be accompanied by an agent of the administration and a medical man be longing to the army. Of these eight hundred, one eighth will be composed of ten lime-burners, ten quarrymen, thirty-six stonecutters and masons, ten carpenters, five joiners, ten tile and brick-makers, ten tilers, five locksmiths, two edge-tool makers, and two wheelwrights. The follow ing are the points of the province of Oran, at which these 800 persons will be located, viz., Goudiel (St. Cloud), 5,400 hectares (the hectare being equal to about two acres and a half English measure), on which will be settled 300 families ; St. Louis, 1,777 hectares, 60 families; Joinville, 2,950 hectares, 150 families; lljebb Bow Alem, 900 hectares, 50 fami lies; Bow Ajmi, 900 hectares, 50 families; Garaba (right bank), 3,300 hectares, 150 families ; Oued el Hammen, 1,200 to 1,500 hectares, 60 families; Assi Mamacha, 1,000 hectares, 60 families ; Mefra, 1,325 hectares, 40 families. The lands of Chartres have not yet been surveyed. As to Sidi el Abbes 3,900 hectares have been surveyed and will be allotted. FRANCE. The following, which may be considered as a proof that M. de Lamartine has now completely separated himself from the party and policy of M. Ledru Rollin, appears in the Bien Public:-- " What are the dangers which have appeared all at once on our frontiers, that France should secure some advantages against the ancient monarchies by some great battles ? To all appearance there are none. All the artificial structure of the treaties of 1815 so laboriously built up is completely destroyed. Austria is in a complete break-up. Hungary, Croatia, Bohemia, and Lombardy are falling off from the empire. Prussia, which had reserved to itself the suzerainty of Germany, sees Germany escape from her, and hold its sittings at Frankfort. The work of the whole diplomacy is carried away by the breath of revolurions. Europe is decomposed; the map of the Holy Alliance is half-torn up ; no earthly power can connect together the pieces. Could England do so? But England has never weighed against France, except when taking its point d'appui in Germany. That point d'appui is now broken. The King of Prussia only thinks of saving the crown, and the Emperor of Austria of saving his states from the rush of the democracy. Could Russia do so ? But Russia cannot enter on a campaign against France, but on condition of having Prussia for its right wing and Austria for its left. And now what would that power find, if it attempted to cross the Vistula? A Germany compact and hea vin g with the spirit of liberty, which would oppose to it the recruits of her revolutions. Who besides is ig norant that in the question of Schleswig, Germany and Russia have clashed together in a struggle of influence. United before by a common sympathy against revolutions, they are about to become hostile by their realities of territory. France gains the in fluence which Russia has lost. The quarrel of Schles wig, by compromising Russia against all Germany, has therefore been eminently_ advantageous to our policy, and we have a right to be thank till to the providence of the Republic for it. If M. Bastide has lent a hand to the armi s ti ce, we can only congratulate hi m on his sentiments of good Christian. But, whatever may be th e s t ate of the relations of Russia and Denmark, Russia is for ever in an impossibility to raise up by cannon shots the, pretensions of the Holy Alliance. Thus, therefore, in no quarter does a shadow of d anger fl oat in the air. The Republic may proceed in a ll secur i ty to the internal labour o f voting its constitution, for it will not be disturbed by the sound of m us k e t- s h o t s on its frontier. And yet it is at this moment of utter dislocation for Europe, of the falling back of all the monarchies in themselves, for they feel their au thority melting away under the sun of liberty—it is at this moment of concentration for all nations, since ell nations have need to reorganize their insti tutions, that M. Ledru-Rollin thinks fit to advise to beat the drum, and throw fourteen armies on our frontiers. And why ? To guard oneself by war against wars to come. Up to the present time there has been no example, except that of Louis XIV., of a person taking remedies in full h ea lth t o k eep o ff b y an , ticipation maladies that might possibly come. We cannot comprehend the error of U. Ledru-Rollin. BADEN. The insurgents of Baden, who seemed completely crushed, made another attempt on the 28th ult., when some hundreds of partisans assembled in the environs of Hunninguen, passed the Rhine, and attacked Leopoldshoche. They were, however, driven away by the custom-house officers and armed peasantry. If the correspondents of the German journals can be believed, the troops display great irritation, and even shoot any one they suppose to be a leader in the movement the moment they arrest him. On the 27th ult. they, according to the Friburg Gazette, shot five in this manner. PRUSSIA. A letter from Berlin of the 30th ult. says:—" The Government of the United States has offered to take on board of the American frigate, the St. Laurence, in quality of midshipmen, four pupils of the Royal Marine School of Stettin, and to make them good officers. This offer has been accepted with gratitude by the Prussian Government. TATTERSALL'S—THIS EVENING. - CZITAIITER TO Six O'CLOCK. CESAREWITCu. 5 to 1 agst The Cur 6 to 1 agst Lanesborough 12 to 1 agst Fern 14 to 1 agst Backbiter 14 to 1 agst Surplice 20 to 1 agst Palma 25 to 1 agst Panic 33 to 1 agst Ulysses 40 to 1 agst Ellerdale CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 20 to 1 agst Lanesborough 30 to 1 agst Loadstono STATE OF TRADE. MANCHESTER, OCT. 3.—Our market has exhibited a drooping tendency today, in a large proportion of yarns, and in many kinds of goods. The acceptance of rather lower prices, as the preferable alternative to that of any accumulation of stock, has, however, led to some increase of operations in twist, and still more in cloth. This may be taken as a pretty accurate statement of the general course of bu siness ; taking into account the discrepancies that are found between the reports of different parties, according to the channels in which they happen to move, and the greater or less facility with which they yield to circumstances. The Ger man houses are giving out limited orders for yarns ; and the Greek merchants are doing rather more than they were. There is some purchasing in prints and printing cloths, as well as certain other articles, for the United States; and operations are still going on for Gibraltar, particularly for printed calicoes. For Bombay there has been a little inquiry ; the letters by the present mail, however, did not come to hand until this evening, after the close of business. The di rection which prices are manifestly taking produces a more widely spread disposition to diminish the sup ply by a resort to short time. The continued de cline in the value of cotton tends, however, to pre vent the adoption of that measure. ROCHDALE, OCT. 2.—There has been another good market to-day, and a fair quantity of business trans acted, at last week's prices. The wool market has been heavy, and the sales effected very limited. There is no change in price to report. HALIFAX, SEPT. 30.—A few job lots of fancy goods have been purchased to-day for the American market, at several shillings per piece below the cost at which they could be manufactured, even at the pre sent low price of wool ; but, with this exception, there was scarcely any business transacted in the hall to day. In yarns and wools we can notice no alteration since our last report. LEEDS, OCT. 3.—Our cloth halls to-day have been well attended, but owing to the trifling show of suitable winter goods, the actual tr ansac ti ons prove d insignificant. This scanty supply of goods speaks . in favour of the general well-doing of our clothiers, who have to work to orders, which at all times is more remunerative than speculative productions.— Manchester Guardian. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. MANCHESTER AND SOUTHPORT. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held yesterday at Manchester; Mr. George Wilson in the chair. The report stated that the directors deemed it ad visable to proceed in the first instance with that sec tion of the line which will form the connecting link through Wigan between the east and west portion of the Liverpool and Bury Railway, and the opening of which for traffic prior to the 31st of December next will, under the terms of the arrangement with the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, co•entitle the shareholders to dividends from that date on the capital expended upon the works. The directors are aware that the entire completion of the line can alone make it fully remunerative to its projectors, and they look with confidence to their being enabled steadily to ad vance towards this desirable result without unduly pressing upon the resources of the shareholders. The accounts to the 30th of June showed that 189,9121. had been received, and 110,0101. expended, including 64,2341. on Parliamentary proceedings, leaving a balance of 78,9021. The engineer's report stated that the portion of the line at Wigan, three miles in length, including the most expensive part of the undertaking, would be completed next month. The remainder of the line between Manchester and Southport was staked out, and the plans and sections were prepared. The CHAIRMAN intimated that the directors had procured an extension of the time for purchasing the land on that portion of the line yet to be made. The extension was for two years, but the policy of the company must, in a great measure, depend upon that of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Company, which SUN ,' had the largest number of shares in the unde — r•Litr).4:.. f: it.... - The expense of the line at the other end woU K-....., : f....., but little, and no doubt that portion would be I\i s giAT ,,, 4Ssik_ .V . 4. remunerative. C, .‘‘ - 4--' ----7: 4 On the motion of the CHAIRMAN, seconded by Jur-- BARNES, the reports were adopted. Mr. TAYLOR made some inquiries as :to the 4"-14114-1147 pur chasing up of the shares by the Lancashire and York shire Company. The CHAIRMAN said he eould not enter upon any question of that kind, as the board of the Manchester and Southport Company had nothing to do with it. They had neither bought nor sold shares, and the matter was altogether a private arrangement by in dividual shareholders with the other company. • A SHAREHOLDER said, half the capital of the company having been expended on the line at Wigan, he wanted to see how !ar the other half would go towards making the re s t. .. . Several of the directors assured him that the rest of the line would be easily and cheaply made. At South port there was a dead level. The accounts were then passed, Mr. Agnew and Mr. Firth appointed the auditors, and Messrs. T. Broadbent, H. Smith, and R. A. Thicknesse, retiring directors, re-elected. The meeting then broke up. CITY COMMISSION OF SEWERS. On Tuesday the Court sat in the Guildhall ; De puty Peacock in the chair. FOUL AIR IN THE COMMON SEWERS. Mr. George Elliott, Zf Chandos-street, Covent garden, sent in a plan for disposing of the foul air from the common sewers. He premised in his plan that the sewers be constructed upon the best prin ciple, regularly flushed, having proper receptacles for their discharges, and all gully holes and surface drain age adequately trapped. He then proposed that chim neys be erected at necessary and convenient distances, their interiors hollow, and of the inverted funnel shape ; their height to be regulated by circumstances ; at their tops or other apertures a jet of ignited burn ing gas to be constantly directed against their open ings. Attached to the interior and upper parts of the sewers a ccntiuous line of iron pipes to be kept con stantly charged with hot water, to propel more effec tually, safely, and evenly the foul air to the flues of the chimneys. As the requisite supply of hot water would be very small, and its play would be on the principle of " water finds its level," one engine-house would be sufficient for a very large district. The letter of the projector was referred to a committee. Deputy BRITTEN applied to Mr. Daw to know what reply had been given by the freeholders of Sambrook court, Basinghall-street, respecting the nuisance so much complained of in that locality in consequence of an imperfect sewer, which was very obnoxious to the inhabitants P The CHAIRMAN said it was proposed that the owners should be called upon to cleanse the same im mediately, and the clerk was directed to issue the ne cessary directions. SMITHFIELD MARKET. Mr. DAw (the chief clerk) read two letters, one from the office of the treasurer of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, and the other from the office of the Com missioner of Police, complaining of the filthy state of the market on a particular day. The Inspector of the Smithfield district said he had made particular inquiries into the cause of com plaint, and found that it was extremely difficult for the contractor to remove the soil on the morning al luded to, in consequence of the heavy and thick weather which prevailed. It was, however, subse quently removed. Mr. BLAKE said if such excuses were admitted by the Court, they might be used as precedents for a continuance of negligent conduct. Mr. L. TAYLOR said it was very customary to re present Smithfield-market as a disgusting nuisance. He was convinced that it was a nuisance to none but to those who had a particular interest in getting rid of it. It was a market of great importance, and he be lieved that it was much better cleansed than it used to be. He believed, too, that advantage was taken of the outcry raised elsewhere to serve peculiar objects. It was certainly necessary that the inspectors should closely attend to the condition of the place ; but he believed it to be impossible at some periods to keep it in a state of cleanliness. Mr. BLARE moved that the parties be summoned to attend the Court. Mr. KEMP seconded the motion. The motion was negatived ; but it was agreed to, on the motion of Mr. WILLIAMS, that the contractor should be summoned to attend and answer. VENTILATION OF SEWERS. Mr. DAW read the following communication, which had been received by the Lord Mayor, and trans mitted to the Court by his Lordship : " London, Sept. 28, 1848. "My Lord,—l beg leave to address your Lordship with the view of informing you that I have invented a method of sewerage by which the formation and dispersion of poisonous exhalations from the fthcal matter of our sewers and cesspools will be entirely prevented, the whole being gathered in an undiluted form at extra-mural stations, and treated by a chemical process, to obviate the loss of the volatile and invaluable ammonia, and so rendering it present able to the agriculturists as a dry transportable manure, at the same time freeing our atmosphere and the waters of our rivers from contamination, and be stowing a hitherto unattained degree of fertility upon our land, an equal distribution of fruitful agents, and the realisation of an immense revenue from the refuse which has been hitherto known only as a source of misery, disease, and death. " The enormous expense of erecting high-shaft chimneys for the purpose of carrying the effluvia from the sewers to high altitudes will be dispensed with ; as also that of excavating deep canals for manure ducts ; the united cost of which plans could construct, according to my system, a thoroughly efficient sewerage, that would be at once a complete sanitary measure, and a lucrative opportunity for in vestment. " The object of my application to your Lordship is permission to lay my designs before you and the City Commissioners of Sewers.' "Awaiting the honour of a reply, I beg to remain you Lordship's most obedient and humble servant, " CHARLES EGINTON." Mr. STACEY moved that Mr. Eginton be permitted to ]ay his design before the Court. To this proposition an objection was started by a member. Mr. BLALE said the time had arrived at which comparisons were likely to be instituted between the activity of the Metropolitan and the City Commis sioners of Sewers. It was quite absurd under such circumstances to think of allowing a continuance of the old system. The Court could not, in his opinion, do better than follow the example of the Metroplitan Commissioners, in trying experiments for the removal of foul air from the sewers, and the destruc tion of the noxious tualities of the contents. Ho wholly disapproved of any course calculated to throw cold water upon the projects and suggestions of scien tific men.—(Hear.) Deputy BRIDGE agreed with Mr. Blake in the disapprobation of any course likely to discounte nance the exertions of scientific men in such a cause as the preservation of the public health. He sug gested the appointment of a select committee for the examination of all documents such as had been just presented. The motion of Mr. Stacey was then agreed to. THE SCOTTISH HOSPITAL.--Yesterday, at One o'clock, a quarterly court of the Scottish Hospital was held in the hall of the corporation, Crane -court, Fleet street, to receive the report for the quarter ending the 29th September; Dr. Webster in the chair. Major Adair, the secretary, produced the report, which showed that the sum of 4671. ls. 10d. had been given to 645 pensioners, and that by transferring the stock of the charity from the Three to the Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Reduced Consols 501. had been saved. There had been received 743/. 155., including 3701. 14s. donations, 1 231/. 6s. from the Caledonian Ball, 451. 3s. annual sub• scriptions, &e., and after discharging the necessary ex• penses there was a balance in hand of 1421. 16s. 4d. The secretary then read a letter received by him from Sir James Duke, Knight, Alderman of the ward in which the hospital is situated, accepting the office of chairman at the annual festival on St. Andrew's-day, and a com mittee was appointed to promote the objects of that day. The report was received and adopted, and the letter of the worthy Alderman was ordered to be entered on the minutes. The report of the building committee was next presented, which recommended the erection of an asylum for one hundred pensioners, which it was stated wculd cost about 6,0001., including the purchase of the land. After some remarks from the Chisholm (chair man of the committee), Professor Donaldson, &c., the report was received, and ordered to be printed and cir culated by the committee, to which, and the chairman of it, respectively, thanks were voted. The court then broke up. THE ROY AL MERSEY YACHT CLUB.—At the monthly meeting of this flourishing club, held at their rooms, Liverpool, on the 3d, Mr. Councillor Parker, after some highly complimentary remarks, proposed that a dinner should be given to the commodore (T. Little dale, Esq.), at the club-room, on which occasion a sub stantial token of their esteem should be presented, in the shape of a piece of plate, for the gallantry and hu manity he displayed in saving, while out in his yacht, a number of the lives of those on board the Ocean Mo narch when that ship took fire; and also for the warm interest he has taken in the prosperity of the club. This motion was unanimously and enthusiastically agreed to, and a subscription for the testimonial was instantly and handsomely commenced. The,dinner was fixed to take place on Wednesday, the 25th instant. CURTIS, THE SALFORD RATE COLLECTOR.-011 Monday Thomas Curtis, the ex-collector of poor rates in Salford, was committed for trial, and, on Tuesday, having failed in obtaining bail, was conveyed to Kirk dale, the county gaol, to await his trial at the next assizes. It is generally supposed, however, that he has still friends left, who will undertake to be bound for his appearance, and that bail will be forthcoming ere the end of the week. 3 1 / 4 et,4 t 6% '41,4 6,i )n. In. n's to; )n, pen .Ic og ii- Z so