The Sun. — London, England, 1849-10-08 00:00:00

L=imbs ... 1,124 2 178 Pigs • 554 1,027 We understand the the future receipts of stock from Spain, unless, indeed, prices should materially improve here, will be very small, as the importers have sutf,red heavy losses from the whole of those as yet at hand this year. With foreign Beasts and Sheep we were well sup plied to-day, but the number of Calvos from abroad was very moderate. The arrivals of home-fed Beasts fresh to this morning's market were again seasonably large; but at least three-fourths of them were of very middling quality. The weather being favourable for slaughtering, and the attendance of both town and country buyers good, the primest ScoU, home-breds, &c., moved off steadily, at fully Friday's advance in the quotations, the top figure for Beef being as 103 per 81bs. In all other breeds a moderate business was transacted, at last week's prices. From Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, Northamp tonshire, &c., we received about 2,000 Short-horns ; from the Eastern, Western, and Midland Districts, 800 Scots, Short-horns, Herefords, Runts, &c.; and from other parts of England, 400 of various breeds. The remainder of the Bullock supply was derived from abroad and the neighbourhood of the metropolis. There .was a further slight falling off in the supply of Sheep, yet it proved extensive, the time of year consi dered. For roost breeds, especially the finest Downs, which were very scarce, the demand was steady, though not to say brisk, at 2d per Blbs above the currencies paid on this day se'nnight. The . highest figures for Mutton were from 4s to 4s 2d per Sibs. The quality of the Sheep was by no means first-rate. There was a slight improvement in the Veal trade, and prices ruled from 2d to 4d per 81bs higher than on Monday last, and at which a good clearance was effected. We were but mo derately supplied with Pigs, which were mostly held at very full prices. BOROUGH AND SPITALSIELDS. Notwithstanding that thesuppli7sahomegrown Potatoea on offer are very moderate for the time of year, the demand for them continues in a sluggish state, on somewhat lower terms. It is worthy of remark, that scarcely any diseased samples have made their appear ance during the whole of the season; indeed, the quality of the samples now on show is unexceptionably good. Regents are selling at from 31 5s to 41; Shaws, 31 5s to 31 15s; and Red Kentish Kidneys, 31 5s to 3/ 15s per ton. Last week's imports into London were 460 baskets from Rotterdam; 2 bags from Bremen; 60 tons from Roufn; 216 bags from Antwerp, 108 ditto from Ham• burgh; 141 tons from St. Valery; 763 bags from Ghent: 281 sacks from Dunkirk; and 60 sacks from Havre. Very large supplies are expectel from the continent during this and the ensuing month. Daring the eight months ending on the sth ult., the total importations amounted to 747,076 cwts, against 260,405 ditto in the same period in 1848. WOOL. The public sales held since our last have been well attended by buyers. About 10,000 bales have changed hands, at fully previous rates. The auctions are ex pected to be brought to a close this week. In the pri vate market there is a full average business doing in British Wools, at,full:prices. Last week's imports amounted to 1,631 bales from Algca Bay; 498 ditto from Ham burgh; 75 from Mogadore; 630 from Port Philip; 62 from St. Petersburgh; 128 from Odessa; 726 from Eu patoria; and 107 bags from Lisbon. From the official returns, it appears that the total importations into the United Kingdom during the eight months ending on the 6th ult., were 48,470,0641b5, against 42,563,8111bs during the same period last year. Per 81bs. to si Ink the offal. Inferior Beasts..... 2 10 to 3 0 Second quality -• 3 2 3 4 Prime large Oxen.. 3 6 3 8 Prime Scots • • • • .• 3 8 3 10 Large coarse Calves 3 2 3 4 Prime small ditto .. 3 6 3 10 Suckling Calves ..18 0 26 0 Inferior Sheep •• . 3 2 3 4 s. d. to s. d. Second val. Sheep 3 6 3 8 Coarse-woolled ditto 310 4 0 Southdown Pr ether 4 0 4 2 Ditto out of the woo] 0 0 0 0 Large Hogs ... •• • 3 2 3 6 Small Porkers .... 3 8 4 2 Quarter old Pigs ..16 0 21 0 Lambs 0 0 0 0 - TOTAL SUPPLY AT MARKET. Beasts. I 527 hee 740 p. I Calves. I Pigs. 4,621 , 234 180 FOREIGN SUPPLY. Beasts. I Sheep. Calves. I Pigs. 1,213 4,300 NE V.TGAT23 AND LEA 37 D ENEALL. The seasonabl e c h ange i n t h e wealt h r has been pro ductive of considerably increased supplies of both town and country. Killed meat for these markets during the plat week, ani three baskets of Beef have come to hand from Hamburgh. Generally speaking, the demand has ruled steady, and, in most snstances, the quotations have had an upward tendency. About 1,600 caresses of foreign meat have been disposed of. At per stone by the Carcase. s. d. to s. d. I s. d. to s. d. Bee f,inferlor...... 2 4 2 6 Mutton, inferior .. 210 3 2 "-- middling .. •. 2 8 2le I middling.. 3 4 3 6 --- primelarge .. 3 0 3 2 - prime .... 3 8 310 •--- prime small •• 3 4 3 6 I Pork, large .... •... 3 4 3 8 Yea 1........ • ..... 3 2 3 8I - small •• ••••• • 3 10 4 4 11012.017G11 HOP maxims*. The supply of new Hops on sale here is somewhat larger, and of excellent quality. The best samples com mand a steady inquiry at full prices, but most other kinds of Hops are neglected. The duty is called 80,0001 to 85,000 L—New mid and East Kent pockets 6/ 10 to 10/ los,- New Weald of Kent ditto, 6/ 105 to 818 s; New Sussex ditto, 61 6s to 71 7 s; New Fs.rnhams, 101 lOs to 111 1 ls; Yearling Kent, 3/ lOs to 51 10; Yearling Sussex, 2/ 16 to 51 10s; Old Hops, 11 to 413 x. TALLOW. At length, something like au improvement has taken place in our market. Notwithstanding the delivery, last week, was only 2,192 casks, prices to-day, are from 3d to 6d per cwt higher than on Monday last. P.Y.C. on the spot, is selling at 36s 9d to 37s ; and fur delivery up to Christmas, 36s 6cl. From January to March, the quotation is 37s Ed per cwt. Town Tallow 36s 6d to 37s per cwt nett cash ; rough fat 2s Id per 81bs. The shipments at St. Petersburgh, as will be seen by our annexed list, have slightly fallen off. 1845. 1846. 1847. 1848. 1849. --- Stock this day 8,656 6,492 11,455 20,434 41.860 Price of Y. C. • • 42s 3d 47s Od 46s Od 45s Gd to 36s 9d .. to Os Od to Os Od to Os Od 46s Od 807 s Od Delivery last week. .. 2,566 2 ; 219 2,841. 2,343 2,192 Ditto from June 1... • 31,793 23,149 27,788 32,664 25,355 Arrivals last week • 218 2,181 I 857 4,055 5,315 Ditto from June 1 ... 24,477 19,018 31,141 45,571 41,742 Price of Town ...... 43s 6d 475 6d 509 6d 47s 6d 398 6d sTATimENT OF TALLOW SHIPPING AT ST. PETERsutmon. 1849. 1848. 1847. 1846. 1845. Tallow dispatched Casks. Casks. Casks. Casks. Casks. from Cronstadt to the sth Sept., 0.9. 69,137 78,003 74,720 48,728 74,213 In ships loading and. 1ighter5.......... 23,175 22,182 22,426 25,718 13,397 Total from St.Pe ters burgh, Sept.l4, O.S. 92,612 100,185 97,146 74,446 87,610 Loaded afterwards • . •• • • 29,319 34,718 38,777 25,398 Total at the close of -- the navigation.... •• • • 129,504 131,864 113,223 113,008 .• • • 25,923 40,991 31,371 17,993 35,678 Liverpool ........ 10,790 10,136 10,217 8,2.40 12,271 Bristol ....... •.. 2,803 4,231 2,920 1,795 2,429 Other English ports 8,292 8,529 7,638 6,912 6,081 Ireland .......• .. 4,005 3,544 6,220 4,690 4,915 Scotland 3,051 5,541 5,105 3,907 2,669 Germany 8,008 4,977 6,128 4,296 3,929 France .•.....,.. 6,265 54 5,129 855 5,941 69,137 78,003 74,720 48,728 74,213 Vaitton - - NEWMARKET RACES. (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) Ilindicap of 20 sus. each. T.Y.C. Wallflower ... Fuoco Produce Match. Quinine beat Canada colt. La Belle pays in both her matches. Plate of 501. Collingwood The Moor ... ... ... ... Sweepshkes of 10 sous. each. Memento Jest . Plate (First Class). Falcon ... - General Seyalitz Plate (Second Class). Regina Estafette ... ... ... ... ... Sweepstakes of 50 sou. each. D.M. Clarissa Irish Jig ••• 1 ••• 2 ••• 1 ... 1 ... 2 Matches. Minto beat Queensberry. Crucible beat Newport. Slang received forfeit from Treacherous. Sweepstakes of 1,000 SOTS. each. A.F . Surplice ... ...walked over TESTIMONIAL TO THE HUNGARIAN REFUGEES " THE HUNGARIAN NATION COUNTS ON THE SYMPATHY OF EVERY NATION WHICH LOVES RIGHT AND Ll- BERT Y. "— .Kossuth's Protest against Russian Interven. Lion. Subs ' iseriptions may be sent to the following Messrs. C outts and Co. Messrs. D rummond. bankers:— Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smith ; or to any one of the members of the committee formed to carry out the Testimonial. * * *All further Post -office orders to be made payable toMurdo Young, Esq., at the Money Order Office, Strand. Subscriptions already received ... £1,106 19 1} ISCIPLES or FATHER .MATHEW.—In many country towns, on market days, the chemists prepare a l arge pitcher of laudanum and water, which they dole out in pennyworths or more, and which is swallowed ny their customers with the same gusto as in former days, when they were undtr no temperance pledge, they would have drank off a dram.—Newcastle Journal. Great souls are always loyally submissive and reve rent to what is over them; only small mean souls are oth - rwise.—Eliza Cook's Journal. THE LATE COURT-MARTIAL AT DEVONPORT.—It hiving been stated that the late Commander of her Ma Psty's ship Childers was about to appeal to the Court of Queen's Bench against the sentence of the recent court ritrtial held on him at Devonport, we have direct nth°. ti ll for ogutradioting the report.---Morning Herald, t from lathy. ly was uyers aglish ected, The t full Id, at ) hare uns of from prices. )reign much ' rin, At prove . All The laving y few ey we p was ed in tilling iupply quite dull, f Oats lir re- I were r was The very al fall )ffored teady; Is tO GCS is 18s Is 23i Is ICI is 14m )8 Uls Fs 30m is 34m Fs 281 Is 301 53 27m rs 304 53 403 Ls 331 is 33. I sub ine to pota ;lover 5 345 g 25s 3 35s 3 56s a 425 a 425 i 42s 101 Os 71 10s 41 10a 2910 s kg, as 1847 mdon tho upply 1848, THE SU N LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 8. 1849. CHOLERA AND DIARRIICEA. RETURN OF CASES, OCT. 5. THE METROPOLIS. SUPERINTENDING REGISTRAR'S DISTRICT. Doaths. Cholera. Dlarrh WEST DISTRICTS. Kensington ... ... ... *1 0 Chelsea... ... ... ... 0 1 St. George, Hanover-square ... 1 0 Westminster ... ••• ... 1 0 St. Martin-in the-Fields ... * 0 0 SL James, Westminster ... 0 0 NORTH DISTRICTS. Marylebone Hampstead ... St. Pancras ... Islington ... Hackney St. Giles ••• Strand ... Holborn Union Cleritenwell St. Luk© ••• O 3 •• ..• - 0 0 ••• ..• - 0 1 ••• - 1 0 ••• •.• - 0 0 CENTRAL DISTRICTS. ••• .... - . 0 0 O 0 ••• O 0 ... ..r, 1 3 0 1 East London 0 0 West London *1 o City of London o 1 THE UNITED STATES ARRIVAL OF TrIE EUROPA. LIVERPOOL, OCT. 7. After another rapid passage across the Atlantic, the British and North American royal mail steam-ship Europa has arrived in the Mersey. She left Boston on the 26th ult., and Halifax on the 29th, at which port she called to receive the mails and passengers from Nova Scotia, the Canadas, and the other British colonies in North America. Her advices extend down one week later than those received here by the Niagara last Tuesday, and six days later than those received by way of South ampton per the Washington. _ _ The Cambria, which left this port on the Bth ultimo, had arrived at New York, and the America, which sailed hence the week following for Boston, had arrived at Halifax previous to the Europa's de parture fur that port, landed the mails and passen gers for the British possessions, and proceeded onwards to her destination. The Hibernia steam-ships which has been repairing at New York, was reported all fit for sea, and was expected to leave on the 29th ult., three days after the Europa, and would likely arrive here with later dispatches previous to the next ship, the Cumbria. The Europa, on this occasion, brings over 53 pas sengers, among whom are th e American Ambassador, to this country. The news by this arrival is not of serious importance. Misunderstandings have arisen between the Ameri can and the English Governments, and a sharp cor respondence had t a k en pl ace between the British Ambassador and the Cabinet at Washington. The subject was understood to be that upon which a con test was apprehended some time ago—the claims of this country on the Mosquito territory—and which involved some advantageous means of transit for com mercial purposes. The " squabble" between the principal republics of the Old and New World, which at the outset bad affected the money market in the leading cities of the Union had, after all the storm raised about it, proved to be a mere personal quarrel between the French Ambassador and the American authorities. The United States Ambassador to Turkey had left for Constantinople. The fine steam-ship Ohio made her first trip with dispatches for California, via Chagres, on the 20th instant. A large mail has been dispatched during the week to the gold regions, and the emigration thereto was continuing very large. The state of political parties in America does not present much change since our last advices. The Whig Convention for New York was to com , mence at Syracuse on the day the steamer left Boston. No advices have therefore reached, but it was expected that it would exhibit more unanimity than had been displayed by the Democrats at Rome and Utica. Amongst the matters to come before the extra session of the Illinois Legislature, are the amending of the revenue laws, the providing for settlement of claims against the state, and the redemption of hypo thecated bonds. A special meeting of the heads of the University of New York State had been held at Albany on the 20tb, to select academies for the instruction of school teachers. The fall term of the university opened on the 9th ult. A considerable portion of the Hudson River Rail road was expected to be opened on the Ist October. Some trips had already been made as far as Peekskill. A great agricultural fair was to have been held at Norfolk County, Virginia, on the 26th ult. Messrs. Webster and Winthrop, th mayors of Boston and Roxbury, the Hon. G. Lunt, and other celebrities, were expected to be present. The Convention to be held at St. Louis for a railway and telegraph to the Pacific will be very largely attended. The city authorities were making great preparations to receive strangers with liberality and hospitality. There are very few reports published of cholera cases in the New York or provincial papers, and the accounts from all parts of th e St a t es o f th e general health of the population are very gratifying. Amongst the deaths reported by this arrival is that of the cele brated magician Signor Blitz. The accounts regarding the iron trade are about the gloomiest from the Union. Throughout Penn sylvania a large number of ironmasters have stopped their furnaces; the consequent turning out of nume rous hands from employment would, it was thought, damage the Whig party in the forthcoming election of that state. Several additional removals and appointments are notified in the Washington official journals. The immigration from Germany and Ireland, the former especially, is reported to be immense. At some ports as many as 8,000 Germans have arrived in one month from the ports cf Havre and Bremen alone. Serious complaints have been made about their seaboard treatment, and the authorities at the landing ports have several cases under investigation. Philanthropic societies, to aid emigrants on arrival, are being established in several localities. The Oregon missions were about to be abandoned, in consequence of the hostile feeling exhibited by the Indians. Investigations were going forward relative to serious rioting at Lowell, Massachusetts, and other places, by Irish emigrants, who had divided them selves into factions, and were seriously disturbing the peace. Professor Johnston ' with other celebrated agricul turists, are expected soon to return to New York to fulfil engagements. Professor Johnston has ex pressed warm praise of the American system of farm ing, particularly in New York State. Additional gold and lead mines are said to have been discovered ; the former in Arkansas territory ; the latter in lowa. Large numbers of individuals have left for the gold mines. Our accounts of the state of the crops generally throughout thee Union do not vary much from those hitherto received. In some places, where, owing to early frost, replanting of cotton took place, the weed grew too rank, and the worm has now set in. In Texas the crop would not yield one-third of the average. The corn crops are also unsatisfactorily reported of COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. MONEY MAR ET.—Money affairs at New York con tinue to improve, and business generally is in a more flourishing condition. The fall trade is somewhat pro mising, and the influx of customers into New York, Philadelphia, and the leading cities and ports, was considered larger than usual, attributable to the fear of cholera having held back country purchasers till the present time. Bretdstuffs—The market for breadstuffs was quiet, and prices were without change. Western Canal flour, was quoted 5 dolls. to 5 dolls. 12ic. per barrel, and transactions were steady. Genessee prime wheat ruled at 1 doll. 20c. to 1 doll. 22c. per 601bs. Indian corn, round yellow, 60c. to 62c.; market steady. Ditto, flat, 62c. per bushel. Cotton.—The cotton market at New York is reported as brisk, with a good average amount of business doing. Prices have slightly advanced, as will be seen from the following quotations:—New Orleans and Mobile mid dling fair to fair kinds, Ilic. to 12c. per lb. Uplands middling fair to fair, 10ic. to llic. per lb., being a rise of above ic. Exchange on London, 1091 to 1091, with an upward tendency. Ditto on Paris, 5.25, and the demand was fair. Ditto on Hamburgh, 35 to 35k. Ditto Bremen, 7,1 to if. Provisions have been without any particular interest, the demand being mostly for home consumption, and neither buyers nor sellers seem disposed to act. Freights continue to be quoted very low, and the bu siness done was trifling. DREADFUL FIRES. The premisls in which this disaster occurred be longed to Messrs. Gooch and Cousins, the well known wool-brokers, who have depots at Dowgate-hill, Seething-lane, and London• wall. About ten mi nutes after ten o'clock on Saturday night some of the inhabitants residing in Sadler's-place discovered smoke pouring forth from the warehouses at the rear, which extend in one direction from the house num bered 65, London-wall to the gardens in front of Draper's Hall. On the eastern extremity was a wing almost as large as the other portion of the warehouse, which stretched as far as Carpenter's Hall, which building escaped destruction when the great fire of London occurred in 1666. Nearest to the houses in London-wall was another wing of warehouses, the same size as the latter, the whole communicating with each other, and forming a range of premises probably as large as any in the city of London. At a moderate calculation they must have been about 300 feet long, and each wing nearly 100 feet wide. They were, including the ground warehouse, three floors in height; but each story was so lofty that the premises extended considerably above the house-tops in the surrounding thoroughfares, which at once placed the whole in great jeopardy, from the fact of the flames being wafted over the several roofs. The whole of Messrs. Gooch and Cousins's men had left the warehouse some time before the fire was discovered. The persons who first perceived the smoke issuing forth describe it as coming from that part of the building used by the workpeople for changing their clothes; but, before any one had time to enter the property, a huge sheet of flame shot upwards, and being fanned by a strong easterly wind, it was sent into the middle of the building, and then taking a southerly turn, the whole of the lower part of the premises was fired nearly simultaneously. At this time there were from 3,500 to 4,000 bales of wool on the different floors, the value of which it is stated was about 80,0001. The coverings of the different parcels being exceedingly dry the flames extended almost with the swiftness of lightning, so that before suffi cient time had elapsed to convey intelligence to the engine -stations the fire had seized upon the whole of the floors and had penetrated the roofs. The reflection of the flames being seen from a great distance caused the inhabitants and others to rush by thousands to the scene of conflagration, and had it not 'nen for the timely arrival of a powerful body of the city police, under the command of Inspectors Joy and Fosberry, it is very likely that a fearful loss of life would have taken place, so eager were the people to enter the premises. By a great effort the police succeeded in getting a space clear for the engines to come up. In a brief period the Whitecross-street engine arrived, followed by others from Watling street, Jeffreys and Wellclose-squares, Farringdon. street, and other stations, bringing with them Mr. Braidwood, the superintendent of the London Esta blishment, Mr. Fogo, the district foreman, and powerful bodies of firemen. The West of England engine and firemen, with Mr. Connorton, were also remarkably early in arriving, as well as the Royal Society's escapes, under the direction of Mr. Bad deley. When the firemen arrived the whole of the im mense premises were in a general blaze—the floorings of the various stories were cracking and making a noise like the continued discharge of firearms ; the tiles from the roof were flying about in all directions, striking the people in the open streets, and severely injuring five persons, three men and two women, who were removing their furniture from Draper's-build ings. At the same time the flames as they shot from the top of the warehouses completely covered the roofs of eight or nine houses in Sadler's-place. These houses contained about six families in each, and to witness the poor creatures throwing their furniture into the street, and even jumping from the upper windows, was truly pitiable. To grapple effectually , with so great a body of flame required some considera tion, it being quite clear if the firemen were sent into the burning premises they must lose their lives on ac count of the continued falling of the heavy floors and bales of wool. The men were therefore placed upon the roofs of the contiguous premises, or sent into the court-yards of Drapers' and Carpenters' Halls, whilst others were stationed at the entrance of Messrs. Gooch and Cousins's warehouses. The supply of water being most abundant, copious streams were thrown upon and into the burning mass, but, not withstanding, the work of destruction continued with even greater violence, and the flames mounted so high into the air as to light up the whole of the city, the river, and the eastern portion of London. The flames still continuing to spread, much uneasi ness prevailed for the safety of Carpenters' Hall, and the numerous double houses in Sadler's-place. The firemen were therefore sent round with their hose, in order to pr even t, if possible, the fi re ex t en di ng . in fortunately, they were unable to accomplish their object, and, in spite of their exertions, the flames entered the several windows of the hall on the western side, and fired the side wall of this ancient structure, and the fire was rapidly travelling up the staircase, threatening the whole place with destruction. A large number of firemen having been sent into the building, they eventually succeeded in mastering the fire in this direction, but not until past four o'clock yesterday morning, six hours after the commence ment of the misfortune, the main body of flame in the warehouses still continuing to rage as fearfully as before. One of the inhabitants, who bad gone upon the roof of one of the houses in Sadler's•place to render assist ance, fell to the bottom, and was so severely injured as to be obliged to be carried to the hospital. Birch, one of the engineers at Farringdon-street station, was struck over the face by a policeman's truncheon during the time the officer was engaged in removing the crowd, which laid the flesh bare, and compelled him to procure surgical assistance. Although the firemen laboured so indefatigably, nine of the houses in Sadler's-place were fired in the roofs, but the men fortunately succeeded in preventing their total destruction. The property destroyed by this disastrous event, unless a great amount of salvage be collected, must reach, including the buildings, to nearly 100,0001. Fortunately Messss. Gooch and Cousins were fully insured, and it is understood that nearly the whole of the persons who had wool deposited in their premises were protected from the loss by what are technically termed floating policies. Respecting the origin of the fire nothing can at present be ascertained. One thing is quite certain, that it was not caused by an escape of gas, the only gas•burners being in the counting-house, and, singu larly enough, that portion of the property escaped destruction, although at one period surrounded by flames. The following is a copy of the OFFICIAL REPORT. " Saturday, October 6, 1849, a fire broke out at 65, London-wall, belonging to Messrs. Gooch and Cousins, wool-merchants and brokers. Called by stranger at a quarter-past 10 o'clock, r.M. The cause of fire unknown. The buildings were insured in the Royal Exchange Fire-office. "Engines that attended—Six belonging to the A. district of the London Establishment, one of the parish, .and one of tie West of England Insurance Company. " The whole of the warehouses burnt down. " Carpenter's hall, No. 68, London-wall.--The end wall and windows burnt out. Staircase leading to Court-room and offices, also the roo►r., damaged by fire. The furniture damaged by fire and water. The building is the property of the Carpenters' Company, and is insured in the Sun and Hand-in-Hand Fire offices. The furniture, &c., were insured in the Union Fire-office. " Sadler's-place, London-wall—Nos. 1 to 18, all let out in tenen3cnts. Roofs and back walls damaged by fire and breakage, and the furniture injured by hasty removal, and the buildings, which belonged to the Sadlers' Company, were insured in the Royal Exchange-office, but the furniture was not insured." Whilst the above fire was raging two other fires occurred. One was at No. 12, Shouldham-street, Bryanstone-square, belonging to Mr. S. Box, a beer shopkeeper. The inmates having retired to rest, had great difficulty in escaping. The Royal Society's escape and brigade engines attended, but the flames could not be subdued until the fire had damaged the whole of the premises. The other fire was at No. 29, Bedford- street, Covent,garden, in the tenure of Mr. A. Benyon, jeweller, and which burned one of the detached workshops out, in spite of the early arrival of the parish and brigade engines. Both persons were insured. RESIGNATION OF THE BISHOP OF MADRAS.—The Right Rev. Dr. G. T. Spence, one of our oldest colonial Bishops, has intimated his intention of no longer pre siding over the diocese of Madras, in consequence of his impaired health. The duties connected with the admi nistration of the spiritual affairs of this diocese are of a laborious character, converts to Christianity having been made by thousands, more especially at Tinnevelly and Tanjore. The venerable Archdeacon Dealtry, who his spent a large portion of his life as a missionary in In dia, and who for some years held the Archdeaconry of Calcutta, has been nominated as the successor to Dr. Spencer in the Bishopric of Madras, and will proceed to his distant diocese in the course of a few weeks. Archdeacon Dea ltry has been preaching lately at the Hon. and Rev. Baptist Noel's Church in Bedford• row, but will resign this charge, on the second Sunday in November, to the Rev. Thomas Nolan, M.A., incum bent of St. Barnabas, Liverpool. EVENING CLASSES FOU YOUNG MEN.—A meeting was held on Friday evening last, at the School room, Swallow -street, Piccadilly—the Rector of St. James's, the Rev. J. Jackson, M.A., in the chair—for the pur pose of forming classes in Greek and Natural Philoso phy, under the superintendence of the Rev. T. Stooks, the Rev. W. Burrows, and the Rev. J. Jackson. COMMUNICATION BETWEEN GLASGOW AND DUM FRIES.—The railway to Dumfries has been so far ad vanced as to enable the directors to announce an open ing between Dumfries and Closeburn Station, a di,- tance of about twelvo miles , nest week. —Glasgow Da il y AGA NEWMARKET RACES. NEWMARKET, SUNDAY NIGHT. ENTRIES FOR MONDAY. 50/. for two yr 2 old, T.Y.C. (First class) General Seydlitz—Merope colt—Earl of Strathmore Rabelais—Lampoon filly—Rdeon—Rubina (Rebecca filly)—Fernande—Shamrock, by Napier--Bee Hunter. (50/ (second elas;.) Regina—Nutmeg—Egali 4—Estafette—Sllng—llabet Impression—Remnant—Officious. Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, winner to be sold for 2001 Sce. Jest, 4 yrs—Memento, 3 yrs—Slashing Alice, 3 yrs— Highland Fling, 3 yrs—Chatterer, 3 yrs—Maid of my Soul, 4 yrs—Rochester, 3 yrs—Eugenie, 3 yrs—Liston, 4 yrs. 501. Plate. A.P. Tisiphone, 4 yrs—The Count, 3 yrs—Swiss Boy, 4 yrs—The Moor, 4 yrs—Lodola filly, 3 yrs—Backbiter, 4 yrs—Sotterley, 4 yrs—Ellerdale, 5 yrs—Collingwood, 6 yrs. Handicap for three yrs old, &c. T.Y.C. Bishop of RAnford's Cob, aged, Bst 91b—Sagacity, 5 yrs. Bst 41b—Osterley, 3 yrs, Sst 41b—Sultana, 5 yrs, 7st 111b—Liston, 4 yrs, 7st 81b— Oquetos, 3 yrs, 7st 41b —Rearguard, 3 yrs, %t 41b—Sesostris, 4 yrs, 7st 81b— Wallflower, 3 yrs, Est 101b—Fuoco, 3 yrs, Est Bib—Colt out of Deeralaycr's dam, 3 yrs, 6st 41b. SPORTING NOTES. No. XIII. " Say from whence You owe this strange intelligence ? Or why, Upon this heath, you stop our way, With such prophetic greeting ?" Macbeth, Act 1, geene " I and my fQ;lows Are ministers of Fate." Tempest, Act 3, Scene 3. " We have our eyes upon them, and their deeds Come to us on the wind." W. " This, with the history of the times deceased : The which observed, a man may prophecy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life; which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasured. Such things become the hatch and brood of time; And, by the necessary form of this, I might create a perfect guess." King Henry I V., Act 3, Scene 1. " And if Dame Fortune fails us now the winner, Oh, all ye gods above! the devil's in her." HARRY CAREY. " Morn opes her eye; rock, valley, mount, and stream With smile of gladness Mail the welcome beam. Ms strength renew'd, to run life's measured span, Again from slumber bounds exhulting man." MITCHELL. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,-" Morn opes her eye " with every prospect of fine, but cold weather for the 'visitants of Newmarket Heath, which will be much to the satisfaction of that per severing and enterprising community—Republic--Club, yclept, The Ring; but not much so to the sporting portion of that many-headed monster—the public! who no doubt prefer the warmer attractions of " the village," to the braving the bleak winds of the Heath; the programme is not quite up to the mark, therefore, with the exception of to-morrow, I presume the attendance will be small. Before this " note" appears in print to-day's races will be recorded in the annals of the past; Clarissa will have won the 50 sovs. stakes, beating Midia and the Nob filly; Sobraon the 300 sovs. stakes; Lord Orford's Fire King, or Mandan® colt, the 300 sovs. stakes, A.F.; Tadmor or Quinine, the Triennial Post Match (this match of Col. Peel's is the sire of the numerous Triennial Stakes now in existence); and Surplice the 1,000 sovs. stakes. To-morrow, big with the fate of thousands (of pounds), and the gift of the Grand Duke Cesarewitch, as well as of the richest stake of the meeting, well named the Roy al Stakes, will, of course, be the " field day" of the week. The Royal Stakes, value clear to the winner, about 1,4201., will, I fancy, be contested for by Fire- King, Champion, or the Flapper, Tancred or Macaw, Stanton, and the Hinda colt. I should place them in the following order:— Fire King Stanton ... Champion ... Hinds colt ... Tancred or Macaw ... (Rogers) 1 ... (Marlow) 2 ... (Butler) 3 ... (Nat) 4 The Cesarewitch Stakes, a free handicap of 25 sous. each, 15 ft., with 300 added, will, I opine, attract a field of from twenty to two dozen to the post, to be selected from the following.— st lb Mallon, 4 yrs *Prior of St. Marga ret's, 6 yrs 7 7 1 °Lady Evelyn, 3 yrs 7 7 Dacia, 4 yrs 7 4 *Rathmines, 5 yrs 7 2 Old Dan Tucker, 3yrs 7 2 Smuggler Bill, 6 yrs 7 0 Bonny Robin, aged Bride of Lammermoor, .5 yrs st lb 'Vanguard, 3 yrs Grief, 3 yrs Westow, 3 yrs 6 6 l * * Snowstorm, 3 yrs Fire-Eater, 3 yrs 6 5 *St. Antonio, 4 yrs St. Bosons, 3 yrs Glenslvon, 3 yrs °Rodney, 3 yrs 6 3 5 9 Itaby,3 yrs _ 5 7 Legerdemain, 3 yrs ... 5 7 Miss Ann, 3 yrs Vatican, 3 yrs Doctrine, 5 yrs 6 12 \Chieol, 3 yrs 5 3 Amazement, aged 6 9' 4, The Flapper, 3 yrs... 5 0 Glen Saddel, 4 yrs Those marked with an asterisk are doubtful starters. From the four years old and upward class, I should take the Bride of Lammermoor and Glen Saddel to beat T l h h e iw th e r b e u e t y l e it a t r le s o d l o d u t b h t i t s h y ey ear wi a l r l e t t o b r e c e , and rest . h i a n g i m t h m e e C n ese sarewitch; from this latter class I shall select Lady Eve lyn, Tatican, Pire-Eater, St. Rosolia, Glenalvon, Raby, and The Flapper as superior to the remainder; and if I throw out Lady Evelyn as being over weighted, The Flapper and St. Rosolia as dubious starters, and Fire- Eater as being, according to public running, at his pre. sent weight a pound or two inferior to 'Glenalron, with the remaining team of four, I think I may steer " the horses of The Sun victorious o'er the course," placing them, in my opinion, thus:— Glenalvon 1 Glen Saddel ... ... ... ... 2 Vatican ... ... ... ... 3 ..... 4 little Raby ..- --- ••• ••• . comment, The remaining races require but therefore I will sum up, a la Bunbury, with a table of their presumed destinies: — TUESDAY. Stakes. Probable winners. 500 sovs. A. F.... Sobraon, 1, Glenlyon, 2. Clearwell ... Odin or Clincher Match-1,000 BOYS. D. M. Flying Dutchman WEDNESDAY. ... Agnes for Don John f. ... Lady Evelyn. Officious. THURSDAY. ... Champion. ... Tingle I, Potentia Filly dustry Filly, 3. 200 son. T. Y. C. ... The Wren 1, Cora, 2. Match-1001. R. M. ... Queensberry. Match-100/. 'l'. Y. C.... Crucible, 1, Grace 2. Match-3001. T. M. M. Borneo, Bst7lb, 1, Tisiphone, Bst 11b, 2. FRIDAY. Prendergast ... Pitsford or Bolingbroke. 200 soya. T. Y. C. ... Bee Hunter. I am, Sir, yours, &c., THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF. Oat. 8, 1849. Bedford ••• .•• 200 sovs. T. Y. C. 50 sovs. ..• 300 sous. D. M.. Bretby ... COURT CIRCULAR. OSBORNE, SATURDAY. The Queen and Prince, accompanied by his Royal Highness the Duke Alexander of Wirtemberg, walked early this morning in the park and grounds of Osborne. The Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and younger members of the Royal Family, walked and rode as usual. Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps was included in the royal dinner party yesterday. His Royal Highness the Duke Alexander of Wirtem berg, and the Prince Philip of Wirtemberg, leave Os borne for London this day. SUNDAY. The Queen and Prince, accompanied by the younger members of the Royal Family, walked this morning in Osborne Park. Her Majesty, his Itos al Highness, and the ladies and gentlemen of the household, attended Divine servica at Osborne. The Hon. and RCP. G. Wellesley, Domestic Chaplain to her Majesty, officiated and preached the sermon. The Queen held a Council at Osborne yesterday, which was attended by his Royal Highness the Prince Albert, the Marquis of Lansdowne (President), Lord John Russell, Lord Grey, Lord Carlisle, Lord Campbell, Sir George Grey, Lord Palmer3ton, and Sir D. Dundas. The Hon W. Bathurst was the Clerk of the Council. The Bishop of Hong-Kong did homage and kissed hands on his appointment. After partaking of a dejeumer, the Ministers returned to London, crossing to Gosport in the Fairy Royal yacht. The royal dinner party yesterday included the Hon. and Rev. G. Wellesley and Sir James Clark. At the Queen's Privy Council, held on Saturday, Parliament was ordered to be further prorogued from Tuesday, the 9th October, until Tuesday, the 20th of November. Sir David Dundas, Judge-Advocate-General, had an audience of the Queen on Saturday at her Majesty's Court, and submitted to her Majesty the proceedings of some Courts•martial. Their Royal Llighnesses the Duchess of Cambridge, the Princess Mazy, and the Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg Strelitz, attended by Baron Knesebeek, arrived at Kew on Friday evening from Heaton House, Lancashire, the seat of the Earl of Wilton. Colonel Maberly and Mr. Rowland Hill had an inter view with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Saturday, at his official residence in Downing-street. The Earl of Carlisle had a dinner party on Friday, at his residence in Grosvenor-place. The company con sisted of Lord Campbell. Lord Ebrington, Sir George Grey, Sir Charles Wood, Sir David Dandav, and Mr. Campbell, M P. Mrs. Orger, who for many years was a member of the Drury-lane Company in its most palmy days, died at Brighton on Monday la st. She had retired from the stage, and was a recipient of the Drury-lane Fund to the amount of 1201. per annum. We hear that a favourite actress is ready to declare on the fund, and will be entitled to nearly the same amount. The PRUSSIAN Rimu.—The Earl of Arundel hav ing procured for the Board of Ordnanc e a rifle of a pecu liar construction, used in Prussia, an d required for the public service, orders have been given for its delivery duty free. BULWER LYTTON'S NEW WORK TIIE CARTONS : A Family Picture. 3 Vols. By Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton. Although our comm en t s upon t hi s singular fiction —during the period of its first appearance in eighteen monthly instalments in Blackwood a Magazine— would, if collected together, form a criticism of no inconsiderable length, we cannot allow its completion to pass by altogether unnoticed. Especially are we induced to make at least some slight additional obser vations upon a work so remarkable as w ihe Cartons," uow that its worth is the more appreciable in its present substantive republication. Reflection has only confirmed an opinion long entertained by ourselves—that the serial issue of a fictitious narra tive is the severest ordeal to which any production of the imagination can be subjected. A story that can enthrall the attention when told in fragments, a picture that can fasci na t e th e m i n d w h en seen in patches, a melody that can ravish the heart with its eloquence when heard in detached passages—can be a story, a picture, a melody of no ordinary excellence. Accumulate those dissevered parts, and blend them into one harmonious whole, and be sure the interest will not have become thereby diminished. It is a curious circumstance, that among the most admirable novels of our generation the majority have been printed in, and, what is more, written for, serial publication. That distinguished genius whose popu• larity is one of the most striking facts of the age, whose name is the object of so much earnest and even affectionate admiration, and of whom it has been said only very recently, by Professor Wilson, that his fame "is a proof of the goodness of the heart of the people," and that " the love of him and his writings does honour to that strength in the English character which is in destructible by any influences"—Charles Dickens—. was not merely the originator of serial literature, but in that shape he has produced most of his inimitable books. A writer of a very different intellect has, through the medium of periodical chapters in maga sines, given to the world his two most powerful effu sions—in all respects the masterpieces of his ability—we mean Samuel Warren, who thus permsd and thus had printed his "Ten Thousand a Year," and his "Diary of a Physician." Taking example from his gifted contemporaries, a similar adventure has recently been made by a writer who promises to acquire for himself no inconsiderable reputation. It will be recognised at once by all who have perused " Vanity Fair" and the commencement of ' Pen dennis,' that allusion is here, of course, made to William Makepeace Thackeray. Others there are, doubtless, among the lesser novelists of the day, among those authors for instance whose brilliant talents have been insufficient to lift them above the atmosphere of evanescense, who in serial literature have proved for the time singularly successful. Any mention of their names might possibly appear invi dious, and is moreover altogether unnecessary, seeing that they may be recognised on the instant as the delineators of military adventure, of naval exploit, of cockney life, and of almost every class of romantic narrative, from the romance drawn from English biography to that derivable from the legends of Corsica or Amsterdam. One splendid excep tion at least there has been among the novelists of our own generation one who has acquired a wide and permanent renown, according to the old system of collective publication. Conform ing to the laws which have been tacitly obeyed by all his predecessors, Sir _Edward Bulwer Lytton has risen to eminence, as a man of letters, by the issue of his works, one by one, in a complete form, three volumes, two volumes, or one volume at a time, as the case might be, like Scott, like Godwin, like Fielding, Smollett, and Richardson. After achieving the most brilliant triumphs in all the various depart ments of literature, jealous it may be of his being deemed incapable of passing through the severe or deal of a periodical publication—that ordeal which subjects a literary compoSition to an almost micros copic examination—Sir Bulwer Lytton has ad ventured upon the production of " The Caxtons" through successive numbers of Blackivood's Maga zine. Here, as elsewhere, our accomplished and most versatile writer—poet, historian, publicist, essayist, dramatist, novelist —has succeeded to admiration. So signal indeed has his success been in this instance that we do not think ourselves rash in asserting that, in many respects, the Family Ptcture of " The Caxtons " is the most brilliant and the most beautiful of all the effusions of Sir Bulwer Lytton's pen of fascination. It is the best of all his domestic fictions, better even than "Night and Morning." As a delineation of society it occupies the position assumed b ; y , " Harold," as an historical romance ;by " Zenon,' as an effort of pure imagination ; and by the " Last Days of Pompeii" as the creation of " a soul under the ribs of the death " of classic antiquity. In every particular it is unlike anything previously written by the Crichton of English literature. Some have ob jected that occasionally there is perceptible in " The Caxtons" a resemblance to the quaintness of the style of Sterne—true, but it is Sterne in a state of transfiguration, it is Sterne without his obscenity, without his extravagance, and without his shallow af fectations of sentiment. Of all the witty, graceful, and beastly writers in any language, Sterne, we are free to admit, is far and away the wittiest, the gracefullest, and the beastliest. That a mind like Sterne's should at some time or other exercise a visible influence over an author of the facile powers and eclectic tastes of Sir Bulwer Lytton, is surely a circumstance very far in deed from being surprising. The only astonishment is that Sir Edward's appreciation of the better cha racteristics of his great predecessor has never before manifested itself. In " The Caxtons," however, it must not be understood that there is visible anything at all approaching to a direct or serv il e i m i tat i on o f Sternism. There is a resemblance—nothing more. The hue is, at times, the same, but the texture and the woof are altogether different. If, moreover, with all its scintillas of humour, humour the most genial and innocent, the story of " The Caxtons " is without one atom of that diamond wit which glitters so resplen dently throughout " Tristam Shandy," the latter is equally devoid of that purifying and elevating pur pose which shines through every tint of this exquisite Family Picture. Most felicitously appropriate is the passage transcribed from the luminous pages of Lamartine, as a motto on the title-page of the work before us—" Every family is a history in itself; and even a poem to those who know how to search its pages." For a poem and a history has been revealed in the family of " The Caxtons," and in saying a history, we mean not only the famous History of Human Error, but the history moreover of " The Caxtons" themselves.' Almost equally felicitous is the second motto on the title page, taken from the Carmen Sitculare of Horace— " Di, probos mores docili juventse Di, senectuti placidze quietem Romu!co genti date remque, prolemque Et decus 'Dome." Very touching in its appropriateness is that supplica tory appeal as applied to the principal characters of the story, and to their mother-country : " Di, probos mores docili juventse," having reference to Pisistratus, to Herbert (other wise Vivian), and to Blanche ; " Di, senectuti placidx quietem," referring to Augustin and Roland ; while R083U193 gcnti date remqua, prolemque Et decus omno," has allusion to old England. Here and there through out the narrative are passages of the most unaffected and bewitching simplicity of sentiment, inculcative of the sweetest morality. Occasionally, as in the chapter upon " House-tops, and in the dissertation upon cr-r-cr-r I and all the abominable race of vermin, the author seems to allow his pen to wander off unre• strictedly into all sorts of vagaries and eccen tricities. These portions of the work, however, are more than pardonable from the quiet vein of humour running through them, and from the agreeable sarcasm glimmering at inter vals among the numerous and fantastic oddities of thought. As Sir Edward acknowledges in his preface that the tale will be found to contain few incidents, and to be otherwise divested of the usual attractions of a novel, its purpose is higher than that of striving to afford a means for whiling away thelidle hours of the searchers after mere amusement. Yet, even without the inten tion'of rendering the work a means of yielding enter tainment, it will not, as a novel, prove other wise than fascinating to the reader. It will do more than illustrate the importance of some great truths or than demonstrate the worth of lofty and generous principles—it will illustrate those truths and demonstrate those principles in a manner capti vating to the understanding. The lore of Pisistratus for Fanny Trevanion ; the evil ambition of the adventurer Gower, or Vivian, or, as he turns out to be, Herbert the son of Roland; the elevated fortunes of the statesman, Lord Ulverstone; the scholarly goodness of Austin; the chivalric nob i l i ty of his brother ; the suavity of Beaudesert, t h e grotesqueness of Mr. Peacock, the honesty of the humble Primmins, the speculations of Uncle Jack, the w ild ness of Guy Bolding, the professional mediocrity of Mr. Squills, and beyond all the development of the character of Pisistratus the hero and the historian—all add charms to the composition and envelope it in an atmosphere of fascination. One of the most conspicuous and de lightful among the aims of the bock is to show the beneficial influences of Home on the destinies of a true-hearted man, even if he be separated from that sanctuary of Family by the waters of the ocean, and secluded from the world in the bush re treats of Australia. At a period when Communism is striking such deadly blows at the triple roots of society, at order, family, and property, at a time when such dreamers as M. Proudbon are disseminating their baneful doctrines among the more discontented classes of the population, it is well to see an author like Sir Bulwer Lytton, one who, notwithstanding his ancient birth, his gentle blood, and his honourable title cannot be confounded among the champions of CANADA. A conflagration broke (jilt in Quebec, whereby 25 hous , s have been burned, and 25,0001. worth of property destroyed. We have no advices of further rioting later than those received on Saturday per the Washington. The election for Chambly,in the room of Dr. Beau bien, who has received a medical appointment, was to be held on the 25th ult. If two candidates were no minated, the poll would not be opened till the 2d of October. _ _ _ The mercantile and commercial interest of Upper Canada is said to be in a most healthy state. Tho agricultural produce of both the provinces bad shown a marked increase during the past year. The district councils in Canada West, for the pur pose of completing preliminary arrangements respect ing the township councils, are to be held on the 2d of October nest. _ _ _ Frost was said to be doing harm to the crops in some localities in the neighbourhood of Quebec. Fires are still reported from the woods in New Brunswick, &c. THE TUBULAR BRIDGE.—The process of raising the Britannia• bridge proceeds most successfully. The tube is lifted six feet at each and every morning, and during the day it is srcured in its new position by brick work in cement built up beneath it, the timber which is piled beneath it daring the actual process of lifting being removed for that purpose. There is now a clear height of 55 feet beneath the tube at high water, so that small vessels begin to pass under it, and in eight days it will, in all probability, be at its permanent level, which is 100 feet above high water. The operation is under the superintendence of Mr. Edwin Clark, the resident engineer. ANOTHER WALTER RALEIGIL—MT. Fisk, a young artist, a nephew of Mr. Fisk, a clergyman, of St. John's Wood, was sketching in the neighbourhood of Balmoral, and went to the church on a very fine Sunday morning. At the end of the service the rain came down in tor rents, and neither umbrella nor shelter was at band. The Queen had to approach her carriage through a mass of waters. Mr. Fisk, with great propriety, took th e plaid from his shoulders. and spread it on the ground; the Queen walked thereon, Rad thus roaohed her ear 0114PN EAST DISTRICTS. - Shoreditch ... ••• ••• 3 0 Bethnal-great 1 0 Whitechapel ... ... ... 2 1 St. George-in-the-East ••• 0 1 Stepney 4 3 2 0 Poplar ... ... ••• ••• -- SOUTH DISTRICTS. St. Saviour, Southwark ... --- 2 0 St. Olave ... ... ... 1 0 Bermondsey ... •• ... 1 0 St. George, Southwark ... 3 3 Newington ... •• 1 ... .'. 4 1 Lambeth ... • • ... 2 0 Wandsworth ... ... ... 1 0 Camberwell ... ... ... 1 1 Rotherhithe ... ... ... 0 0 Greenwich ... ... ... 2 1 Lewisham ... ... ... --- 0 0 Total ... 35 21 Total deaths from c holera, registered from Sept. 17, 1848, to Oct. 5, 1849. ... 14,351 Total deaths from cholera, registered from June 17, 1849, to Oct. 5, 1849... ... 13,260 * Returns for Friday have not been received from Mr. J. Leonard, Registrar of Charing-cross, sub-district of St. Martin-in-the-Fields • Mr. J. Pursey, registrar of Paddington St. Mary, sub district of Kensington; and Mr. W. Nilson, registrar of the southern sub-district of West London. NOTE. —The distri c t o f K ens i ng t on com p r i se s the parishes. of Kensingto n , H ammersm i t h, F u lh am , and Paddington. West m in s t er di s t r i c t com prises the parishes of St. Margaret and St. John the Evan gelist, with Privy Gardens and Whitehall, and the close of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter. St. Giles's district comprises the parishes of St. Giles-in-the-Fields and St. George, Bloomsbury. The following are co extensive with the unions of the same name:—Hackneyf Strand, Holborn, East London, West London, City o, London, Whitechapel, Stepney, Poplar, S t. Saviour, St. Olave, Wandsworth (Wandsworth and Clapham), Greenwich, and Lewisham. The remaining districts are co -extensive with the respective parishes of the same name. THE COUNTRY. The following is the Return of Deaths from Cholera and Diarrhoea reported to the General Board of Health the 6th day of October, 1849 : _ Deaths. Cholera. Dlarrh. Abingdon (Nuneham, Courtney, Littlemore) Alnwick ••• ••• Basford... Bedford and Cardington Bedminster ... Beverley ... Birmingham ... Bolton ••• ••• Bridport (Allington) Bristol ••• Bromsgrovo Burnley Union (Cheapside, Habergham, Eaves) Canterbury ... Chorley and Croston ••• Chorlton (Chorlton-upon-Med lock atd Hulme) Clutton (Midsummer Norton) Clifton (St. Philip and Jacob) Coekernaouth (Workington) ..• Crediton (Newton St. Cyres) Darlington Dartford ( I ?arningham and Horton Kirby) Devizes (Lavi9gton) Dewsbury (BristolandDlirfield) Dover ••• Downham (Denier) Driffield (Baniton) Droitwieh ••• ... Dudley (Tipton and Sedgley)... East Stonehouse Eccle.hall (Bierlew) Eeclesfield (Worsbrough and Barnsley) Edmonton ... Eiham (Folkestone) ... Exeter (St. Sidwell) ..„ Falmouth (Penryn) Faversham (Boughton) Halifax (Northouram) Headington (St. Clement) . . Hemel Hempstead (Crouchfield) Hitchin ••• ••• Hollingbourn (Lanham) Holywell (Flint) ..„ Hull (My ton) ... , Hunslet (B.olbech, Kirkstall, Bothwell, and Worsley) ... Kidderminster Lancaster Leeds ... Liverpool Iladeley (Much Wonlock) Maidstone Manchester ... Medway (Rochester) ... ••• Midhurst (Harling, Rogate)... Neath (Ystradgunlais) ••• Newcastle -on-Tyne and Byker Newport (Monmouth) Newport Pagnel Newtown ••• Norwich (Coslany) Nottingham ... Oxford .. „,, Pembroke Pontefract and Castleford Portsea Island (Landport and Southsea) Preston.— Rochford Rotherham (oath) St. Austell (Mevagissey) ... Salford (Greengato and Re gent-road) ... Sculcoates Scarborough ... Sheffield (Brightside)... South Shields (Westoe) Stock port and Heaton Norris... Stockton and Sedgefield (Hartlepool) ••• ••• Sleaford ••• ••• ••• Stoke-upon-Trent (Shelton and llanley) ..• Stourbridge (liingswinford) ... Swansea (Liangaselack) Ticehuret (Wadhurst) Totnes Ty nemonth (Earsdon and Long bcnton) Wakefield (Stanley) ... Walsall and Darlaston Ware ... Watford (Rickmansworth,West Hyde) ••• ••• ••• Wellington (Wombridge) ... Wells (Glastonbury) ... West Bromwich (Wednesbury, and Oldbury) ... West Ham (East Ham) Whitehaven (St. Bees, Preston Quarter) ... Wigan and Pemberton ... Wineanton (Kington Magna) Wirral (Birkenhead) ... Wisbeach (Cutwell) Woodbridge (Colneiss)" ... Wolverhampton and Bilston... Wycombe Union (New Land and Princes Risborough) - 0 2 - 12 0 - 1 0 - 1 0 - 2 0 - 0 1 - 0 5 - 2 0 - 2 0 3 2 1 o ..: - 0 ••• ... ---- 3 0 0 1 2 4 0 1 3 1 6 0 - 0 1 1 2 ... -- o 1 2 0 7 0 ... 3 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 11 0 —, 1 0 0 2 ... - 3 0 •• • - . 1 1 • . -- 0 1 ~, ..... 0 2 ... - 2 0 ... '-'" 1 0 ... -- 1 0 2 0 1 0 ... - 2 0 .., .-- 0 1 1 0 5 1 16 0 ••• - 2 0 1 0 ... ... ... --- 11 3 11 3 1 0 1 0 ... -- 11 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 6 1 1 ... 1 0 2 0 3 - 0 1 - 0 1 - 2 1 - 1 0 1 0 ... - 5 0 .. • - 3 3 •.• -- 0 1 ... -- 4 0 .• • --- 4 1 2 4 - 5 3 - 0 1 2 1 5 o ~. - 2 0 ... - 0 1 I 0 - 5 0 0 1 ... -- 5 1 ... .-- 1 0 _ 1 0 1 0 1 0 • 4 • _• 11 2 1 0 •• • '''' 1 - 1 1 11 2 O 1 - 1 0 - 1 0 O 1 6 2 Total Arbroath SCOTLAND. 3 0 St. Vigens, Arbroath Perth ... ~ 4 0 . ... Hawiek . 3 0 1 0 Aberdeen 3 0 Inverkeithing ... ... ... __ 1 0 Ferryden (Craig Montrose) ... 1 0 Total ... ... ... General total:— Metropolis ... ... 16 0 35 21 242 75 ••• ••• -- 16 0 Scotland Total ... -- 293 NOTE —The deaths are returned according to . the superintendent registrars' districts, as it is found war practicable to distinguish every place separately. CHOLERA. DIARSHCEA. Thu. Fri. Thu. Fri. LONDON', Oct. Oct. Oct. Oct. 4th. sth. 4th. sth. West Districts ... 4 3 2 1 North Districts ... 2 1 4 4 Central Districts ... 5 2 2 5 East Districts ... 14 12 3 5 South Districts ... 18 17 2 6 P.... , ....'. l 11 , .. , •..6 • ..• Total 43 85 13 21 ='~~~; , Aristocracy, among the enemi es of Democracy, e ,..4 o I among the advocates of au oligarchical gcverurnepti '-' it is well, we say, to see such a man .at sal4,-tirnel teaching such blessed lessons as these 0, th e : J y ttl ifild ,- . g tude. By infusing ideas of this hufaanizingliscriti:- / tiou into a work like " The Caxtone k , work kos tined to obtain for itself a large and incrtmaluepoi - - larity, the author is best declaring the earnestness of his civism, his loyalty, and his goodwill towards his fellow-creatures. We hail the appearance of a fiction like this as a counterblow to the poisonous feuilletons of some of our Parisian contemporaries. And we are satisfied that the people of England will not overlook the circumstance that these indirect, but not the less powerful arguments, against the would-be subjectors of civilization appeared in the pages of Blackwood's Magazine, any more than they will forget the bold and admirable defence of the cause of the Hungarians which adorned a short time since the same eminent publication. Perhaps one of the hap piest passages in the work under review is its con cluding chapter, where the peculiarities of the princi pal characters are brought out in admirable contrast. Austin's defence of war against the Arcadian notions of peace entertained by Mr. Squills, and Especially the reception of the arguments by the latter, affords an admirable specimen of the humorous powers of the novelist ; while the closing scene, with the group formed round the grandson of Roland, brings the narrative to an eloquent and pathetic termination. Of the exquisite touches of nature which mark the account of Pisistratus on his return Home, we could say much in expression of our full and complete ad miration. Having, however, already exceeded our intended limits in this final notice of "The Cartons," we must content ourselves with felicitating Sir Ed ward Bulwer Lytton upon the production of a work which has been another means of embellishing the high reputation of Blackwood's Magazine. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTLI, SUNDAY. PROMOTIONS. Clerks—J.W. P. Foord, of the Fisgard, late acting purser of the Collingwood, 80, and S. W. Sadler (in charge) of the Janus, to the rank of Paymaster and Purser. APPOINTMENTS. Surgeon—John H. Patteson to the Spiteful. Assistant•Surgeons—George M'Donagh to the Spiteful, D. H. Wright to the Firebrand. Clerk—Richard Curgenven to the Excellent. Midshipmen—E. A. Pearson to the Serpent, A. Aston to the Leander, H. Montagu to the Wolverine. Naval Cadet—C. Madden to the Leander. Captain Slade, RN., has been sent by the Admi ralty to Constantinople; from his intimate knowledge of the Turkish and Russian localities in the Black Sea, we presume as an useful assistant to our Ambas sador at that port.—Hants Telegraph. The Leander, 50, Captain S. C. Dacres, the Scourge, 6, Command e r L or d F. H. K err , and the Serpent, 16, Commander C. Barker, are all equipping with dispatch in this harbo u r, w hi c h makes the place assume a little of its wonted importance. Men, how ever, are shy in coming forward. WOOLWICH, OCT. 7.—Captain Thomas Owen Knox (1842), appointed to command the Firebrand steam frigate arrived at Woolwich yesterday and hoisted his pendant on that vessel, at present in the harbour at this port fitting for sea. Captain Knox recently studied steam at the Woolwich Factory. The following officers have been appointed to the Firebrand, and ordered to join immediately : Lieutenants—F. J. D'Aguilar (1847) and P. C. C. M'Dougall (1849). Master—E. H. Gurwood (1845). Paymaster and Purser—W. D. Bateman (1842). Second Master—C. F. Tapril (1849). Clerks—A. S. Brnnett and G. M. Blyth. Midshipmen—George Proser and Arthur Traherne. Naval Cadets—James Mure, F. D. F. Saunders, A. R. Tinkler. Master's Assistant—Frederick Kirkham. Gunner—William Ring. Boatswain—William Richards. Carpenter—Joseph Jarvis. Chief Engineer—Maurice Johnson. Commander Thomas Carmichael (1847), appointed to command the Spiteful, recently studied steam at the factory at Woolwich. The Styx steam sloop, of 280-horse power, had her steam up yesterday in the basin to test her engines and boilers, the latter being remarkably low under deck, on a plan by Mr. Humphries, chief engineer at this dockard, an equal surface being pre sented to the furnaces by having the pipes of the boilers of greater length to allow of a less number in depth. The Confiance steam-tug, Mr. William Martin, master, went up the River to Deptford yesterday afternoon. A melancholy and fatal accident occurred on board this vessel on her passage round from Ports mouth, an engineer of the name of Goodman having fallen on the engine and been killed. The Confiance returned from Deptford to Woolwich the same even ing and towed down the Rennie tender, belonging to the Sheerness station. PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT. (From the Supplement to the London Gazette of Friday, the sth of October.) SATURDAY, OCT. 6, 1840. At the Court at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, the 6th day of October, 1849. Present, the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council. It is this day ordered by her Majesty in Council that the Parliament, which stands prorogued to Tuesday, the 9th day of October instant, be further prorogued to Tuesday, the 20th day of No vember next. MARYLEBONE VESTRY. THE BOARD OF HEALTH AND THIS BOARD OF GUARDIAN,. Captain HOLLAND, R.N., drew the attention of the vestry to the sanitary report furnished to the Board of Health by the district registrar of All Souls, which threw a slur upon the parochial authorities, and which contained many statements at variance with facts, and all extremely exaggerated. After some observations by several speakers, the con sideration of the question was adjourned, to enable Mr. Skase and the other parochial officers to reply to the district registrar's charge. A MAN OF PROPERTY A PAUPER. Mr. FLOOD, in reply to a question from Mr. Garratt, said that although Mr. - had a nominal rental of 7004 a year, he could not pay the bill against him for paving. Ho was assured by the defaulter that he much feared being compelled to become a recipient of parish relief. The vestry then adjourned. We are in a position to announce that Captain Adolphus Slade, Royal Navy, has been ordered to pro ceed immediately to Constantinople, and place himself in communication with the British Ambassador, relative to the question pending between the Porte and other nations.— Weekly Chronicle. EXTENSIVE RUBBERY.--On Saturday information was received by the Metropolitan Police that Master man's Branch Bank, Liverpool, had been plundered of 4,7701. in gold and notes—some of the Bank of England, and some foreign. The robbery is supposed to have been committed by a man and his wife, who have ab sconded, and who were employed at the bank. MR. BRAIIAM.—The veteran vocalist Braham has been engaged by Mr. Stammers for a series of farewell performances, upon which occasion it is his intention to deliver a valedictory address. lle gill appear for a limited number of nights at the approaching London Wednesday Concerts, and then make a tour of the pro vinces. Seventy years have passed since Braham first sang in public ! There are many who mistake the love of life for a fear of deatb.—Eliza Cook's Journal. Lord J. Russell has presented a donation of 1001. to the Association for the Relief of those who have suf fered from Cholera in the Metropolis. Lord Brougham arrived at his mansion, in Grafton street, on Saturday evening. His Lordship leaves in a few days for his chateau at Canny, in the south of France. Lady Brougham will remain at Brougham Hall. ACCIDENT TO LORD ELCIIO.—We regret to learn that this nobleman is suffering from the effects of an accident, which will prevent him joining in the sports of the field for some weeks. His Lordship has a tame fox, and on passing its kennel one day last week with a dog, the two animals began to fight. His Lordship seized the dog, and placing his foot on the chain by which the fox was secured, the animal turned r ound an d gave his Lordship a severe bite above the heel. fi lt ll a pis the vrumour edvacancy tahtatthiet Southwark been roa eedeterminedcour court, not to occa sioned by the death of Mr. Cottiegham , ttb aced to that and that Mr. Seeker, the solo magistrate now ..h. will, in the discha r g e of the duties a wt.,his district, be o a ssisted by the mag istrates at each o f the sevaral police- CORrtsisiGlsrotcaott.—GESu HOSPITAL: K TH E C HOLERA .— On Friday afternoon a meeting of the committee of this institution was , held in the b oar d- room, i n P ortuga l • s street, Lincoln' Inn-fields. The usual routine business having passed, it was stated that since the outbreak of the terrible epidemic which had recently presented itself, the utmost energies of the hospital authorities had been called into requisition, and, as far as the present limited accommodation of the hospital would permit, patients were at all times admitted without any letters of recom mendation. It was further mentioned that this sudden, though not wholly unexpected visitation, bad rendered every exertion necessary on the part of the friends of the hospital, and it was hoped that the good services of such an institution, in a time of pressing emergency, "would not long want the countenance and co-operation of the public at large. ALLEGED DEFALCATION OF A LATE CLERK I 1 THE SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.—Mr. W ilson, who held the office of cashier at the Waterloo station of this railway, died suddenly a few days ago, and it is said his accounts show that he is a debtor to the company to some extent, but it is also reported that the directors hold the usual security for Mr. Wilson's in tromissions. . . . -- - DISAPPEARANCE OF & RAILWAY CLERK•—A ticket clerk, lately engaged at the St. David's station of the South Devon Railway, has, it is said, absconded, beings defaulter, though not to a considerable amount. He has been traced to Dorchester, and is supposed to have sailed from some neighbouring seaport to Australia.—Exeter Gazette. The mighty sounds of truth wander eternal over land and sea.—Eliza Cook's Journal ui iro n ild. in- Tto low eth, axe- ing- aISO ma- :ate, cne ?avy plor, rth- Pro the ilars roue ifted ing a come cund Lbout 7hich been ;gow, -aOlll from , and I' the amp- eaky, iaikd Eirrd. Ma r Or- ervin, Y.) 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