The Sun. — London, England, 1841-10-20 00:00:00

MORNING SUN SPORTING 'INTELLIGENCE. lour MAR INTEL LIGENCE EXTRA. DAY KE T HOUGHTON MEETING, 1841. • Goodrnan's Isab e ll a , 9 s t 71b, asrst Mr. s th' Colchicum, 9st ' • last three mil es o f B. C. 50/. mac L'a ' Gardnor's Athon, Bst 12Th, apt Mr. Ys Viol a , Bst 71b. T. Y. C. 100/, h ft. /oro-,ll,TErtius STAKES.— Be The following. have paid.:— 0 St rap, All-nlv-eye, Lord Lichfi e ld' s t wo , L or d ntinck's three, and the Duke of Grafton's two. ~ ti rs, Est El 7b A. CIAV EN MEETING, 1842. ;Y'—Duke of' Bedford' s J o h n o ' G aun t, 4 -in. 200 1 , h against L or d O rford ' s Bridal, 3 yrs, 6st. ft 0,1\.-° day 4n tio . neci.---Lo r d Exete r ' s Albi on, agst L or d 2°o/ d t; ft c by Jerry, out of Petulance, Bst 71b each. D.M. 4 FIR ST SPRING MEETING , 1842. Z er "I'Ad Orfo h ft. Lord Alh emarle ' s Nuncio, Bst 71b, agst rd's cby J erry, out of Petulance, Bst 41b. D.M. • e HUN TING APPOINTMENTS. Carlisle hounds will meet on Thursday, at Armath watte—at ten, . on harriers, Wednesday, at Oulton ; Friday, an llouse—nine. • igton harriers, Wednesday, at Brackenthwaite ; It 4161Fria1);)0,1ait 11:arson Bridge t. .arriers, Wednesday, Oakshaw Hill ; Friday, talsnulah3 —half-past eigh t. dt .ont harriers, Wednesday, at Kettleside ; Satur at Cul gaith—half-past ten. H., Wednesday, at Plaitford Church ; Thurs. , 3' , at Rockbourn ; Saturday, at King's Copse—half ' tinit te n. iagtlitefield harriers, Friday, at Treddington Vil ten. P arouha-son's hounds, Wednesday, at Chettle 11 1 .ttle . yir ood , ridgy,at Up hounds ; Saturday, at Coker ° r ad s - halt-past ten. IL, Fiday, at Winfrith—eleven. 'Armarthen hounds, Friday. at Abergwlly--ten. 4il ti - lrd iv yside hou n d s , W e d nes d ay, at Cenarth Bridge ; 3r et, at Ln"heye h—ten (14reeon hounds, Wednesday,. at 'Court Gilbert ; 1, at Taliven—ten. a Co wbrid ge barriers, Thursday, at Wick—half-p as t t en . i) Earl "d-Forest harriers Wedr.esday, Fawside ; Satur side—half , past ten. GREAT OARS' WAGER. Go contest between the Maynards and Coombes and th -c4 `tga, fur s€l, came off on Monday, and was ono of un c finest specimens of rowing on record. However kl eas onable a match during the prevalence of October Prov 111 V appear, a reference to th e aquat i c c h rono l ogy f ad e th a t some o f t h e gran d est efforts have been .. it tp c after w h at i s termed the close of the season. The ;"t on Monday was hetWeen James Maynard, of Lam the s and Henry Maynard, his cousin, who hails from gteb me stairs, And Thomas Coombes, the brother of Ar e „ et , r t Coomb es , an d Th omas Goodrum, both plying at 14;1"Q-bridge. Th e mer i ts an d performances of the for half a ds are w e ll k nown. T he whole family, almost 11 ' a century, h ave b een fi rst - rate wagermen. Is heir "vo oppon ents are mere lads in age and stature 1 1 , 5 c rilPared with thorn. Coombes until this season l'i, e l:)% ved no wager of importance, nor has his partner. th e A a r rl d six to four were freely laid out in large sums on I)uth'aYnards. The distance was from Westminster to 16 -a ,Y , and the men came to their stations at half-past 3. and, hea vy gale of the preceding night had gone down, tl5l ce°llllPared with the few hours before it, was a par exe, 4 2,n 1 ; still there was enough wind out to produce five s 've left-handed labour. The choice for station the "11 an he Maynards, and surrounded by cutters we itembats moved to the bridge: Maynards in Mr. a ce's oars' boat, and their adversaries in a beautiful iivt , t ery Air. Crockford's. The start was dashing in rowr ve3Pect, and as even as the greatest admirers of wereoz,wl, but off and 1) C could.wish. To the Horseferry they were oar 134411, right Chandler's Coombes and his partner ti ler : IF a length a-head. It was desperate work from up to the Red House, but Coombes and his iu,,, k r went through Vauxhall-bridge length a-head, Pf-8:4:41 their advantage, and won by nearly a quarter hi s b olt henry lienry Maynard took the labour forward in 4ei,htt,pand Coombes did th% same in the other. The are or the 3.,laynards exceeds twenty stone, and they wore not P ow erful -looking fellows. Their adversaries Pact c•ighteen stone, and presented a striking con , • to their opponents. ..,,, RIVALRY IN BUSINESS. 'Re riv . ! m the manufletu -44 of 4.l•Y ' a few Yen" ago, amon g that two or thre matchless blacking was so greet, littu_,,r the leading houses in that depa , tneent of trade hr4""Y. retained poets of high reputation to sing the d r e ZeB of their paste and liquid. It has been confi th, , Y,.stated that even Byron himself', before he attained Poeticaltlight of his fame, receiv4d enormous sums for his I) lati tl t at r i6 gi4ms on the shce polish of a well-knolln tr ue 0 otrer of that commodity. I) r ot erw i s , , I .lThetber ars be I am wit in a condition to say ; but 4.otne in the practice of reading the public journals ee str ut - f t .' e a ar twenty years ago, could fail to have be si oo :', wit the rapid succession of brilliant poetic effu gr,eT i)raise of the commodity in queetion, which than 'e l i te e ' the advertising columns of the newspapers. I n _ tak ot et uese the jet-blacking proprietors monopolized tl e for ti:.°f Particular poets, paying them. an annual sum 04 Ys 'Ir " rse," just as the proprietor of a magazine iztiert4tgetuerieitroirel the ed expressly stipulating that no rival paste or liquid should have the lal.. v ote , tir their abilitie!,. In other instances, it was pr h i e - Oet r Y I"ilatited to most of the literary men then in t telvtrlise that poetical pieces would be gladly r: e lib 'l' ti that those which were approved should era 11Y re trit e of treunerated.—the remuneration being at the tnii n ;.), "e guines for every twenty lines. A gentle salmi ..,,e°Q)Petent taste was duly appointee, and duly tleci,?"' to Thee judgment on the pieces submitted for e thiiii". e were hosts of competitors, and th _ ex ee e of the pieces ranged from the highest order have We pt e .!.ce to the veriest trail,. The muses must li Itio N j 11 their ladyships resign thrqnsc , lves to the melting 61 th't° think t.. 11 t such discreditable effusions as some Pea t'al we e, shou'd ev .r have p ro ce e d e d f r om this feuletr W ° °' wh o but a ' few mome nts b e f or e h a d pro -6.,/ z on t ' ) PaY th e i r court to them.—Lights and Shadows I .rop o ii: ' , ° , 4 Life, b y t h e Author of " The Great Me • flu": Lo )11k. LITERATURE. 411 E 31 0112 S OF MADAME LAFARGE. 2 Vol. Th ese Memoi rs Co MA London, 1841. , which are dat e d f rom a F rench Neir gate, are from the pen of Madame Lafarge, 'who i 3 her own biorapher, and speaks leading events of her'brief but chequered career, vitla a frankness that is at times quite amusing from its simplicity. Her marria...e, in particular, with 'M. Lafarge, and all the circumstances that i mmediately preceded. and followed it, she de hert ails with singular naivete, making no secret of dislike for the man who has exercised such in infiuence an her fortunes, Her Memoirs will be read wit 4 interest at the present period, when tl.ie re ad it name is 6011 fresh in public recollec tip4 ; is ull.:i. otherwisP, they are not calculated to eoxfcits, attentiott,lor the incidents they relate are ail ordiaary character; and there is a vein of _ dentimeatality pervading the work, and a love of Crie dtscription, that give it more the appearance . "pr vtion than of fact.. The most entertaining re*pters are those wherein the bio2;rapher details We parti culars of h er marriage with M. Lafarge, xv during hich, Ind the journey m iinediately consequent on it, travelling by way of proving himself a lively Stantly- companion, her husband was con calling her " a duck," and, what seems to ave annoyed her still more, "he clasped my i t ra, ” she ~,says,still " pinched my nose, and elin lrated rne Arrived at her journey's end, sae .'fes, olutely refused to allow M. Lafarge to avail iiauriself of his privileges as a husband, observing, liarat that. moment I should have sickened if lie kissed in b pe r i s h edl „ ,y , h and—in his arms I should have lensed. • one appears, however, to have re afterwards, but never to have been wholly recon6led to him ; and they must have led a very at-aud-dog sort of life, as is almost always the ease where there i s an ndue disparity of years between husband and wife. Her account of the lin_ ysterions death of M. Lafarge is full and cir jusTfcruointfautial. According to her statement, he died fo .I,rtrearited natural causes; and she has been most.un 'she adds, in bei n 0‘ consigned to prison a c large of having poisoned ca l se l i f :°- 1 • t. '• him. The alto a most extraordinary one ; the l t e ° a ll , ,,e adopted.by `a one to An the biographer would certainly - -PPose that she was innocent; but as ah e 1, en u n as be per ea foanally condemn 'd by a jury of --n trY, after one .of the unst searching there investigations ever known, we fear that Lucre can be little doubt of her guilt. . _ COMOTIVE ENGINES. s TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. ~ , dilt,""rne discussio n on the subject of four-wheeinu 4411- s'l-wheeled engines, which has been hitherto con , h n ed to the profession, having been recently taken up uhlita public press, it appears desirable to place the bc e ject in a More b ust point of view than it has hitherto f vhilnlegarded in e pub?ic in furtherance o 1..4_4.# leave to o¢r the follov‘ing remarks But 4 f our-wheeled engine (as constructed . by Mr. ow / P I Of the London and ariningliam Railway, the this tinlialter of eminence in England wh h o now i adopts e r t . e .. t ned of construction) the engine L i is.aplnled inside-framings ; that is to say, tas eheyengine 4,, 't A li, 2_ , lrel y au Pported by resting on the axles at points 1-1 4 ;1,4,..."" the wheel s ; iti a six-wheeled engine the prin -11 . .1, 1 —Pal points of support are outEi lc the wheels. 41 4 ,; I ' , t., The distince betwcel the points of support is thus )11tri brit ¢h grocater in a six than in a f,-.11 r•wheoied engine. with the theory of 41,4ei1a. one at all acquainted either . ~ nr i mey, or the practical construction or worki.og ini keeines, can • !at rt the ee between the bearings or points of support be ignorant that the greater the chs giteater the steadineis of a shaft, be it driv n in a r n t r . eu a in ,er whatever. Ts observation is more Poaoth no i e re ll a ti 4 t t i l : Wean r ay disturbance of the smooth theexternal motion is to be sought for, not in o the4tnnatances, but in the nature of the forces acting . 0 It ifi/l,aellble- Tlais is Ure case in thelocomotiveeng i me. tint 6ehernnY assumed that the oscillatinc , and u n P e,a ,,,duac.iontion of a the engine, and which is toe ness a t i t': gLit.tmg th: ra , h, is c.4t.:1;,..1 by the uneven rue; d bad repair canth road. h rue ; t he real n exists in the engine its e lf. This is Were the cranks of the driving axle placed on a line with the axis of the engine, the engine would have co tendency to move otherwise than in a straight line; as this is not the case, and the cranks are placed one on each side, and the engine does not act on each with equal force at the same instant, the engine is dragged alternately from one side of the road to the other; it, in fact, progresses sideways. Owing to the reason just mentioned this motion is much less in a six-wheeled than in a four-wheeled engine ; of this fact any one can convince themselves by a five minutes' ride on two engines of different construc tions. There is another point in the construc tion of four-wheeled engines with inside framings, which renders them somewhat objectionable. Owing to the narrowness of the distance between the bearings, the eccentric gear is obliged to be tiaced more in the centre than is requisite in an engine with outside framings. To give room for the eccentric gear in the centre, the boiler has to be raised higher above the axle, tend er i ng t h e eng i ne w h at i s termed groggy, in common parlance, top-heavy. These engines are thus more liable to upset than the six -wheeled, as was shown to be the case on the Brighten, and also in an unfortu nate and fet it accident that happened some months back on the London and Birmingham Railway, and which will doubtless be in the recollection of your readers, from the deep excitement it caused at the time in the public mind. The greatest argument against four-wheeled engines with inside framings is to be found in the fact, that al though this was the original form of engine, on:y one maker of eminence (Bury) in this country continues to construct this sort of engine. In the United States only one firm, that of Messrs. Norris and Eastrick, adopt this plan, the first makers in that country, in cluding Baldwin and Co., of Ph ladtlphia, adopting the other form of engine. It may then be asked, what are the inducements to employ such enginns? The principal one undoubtedly is, their greater cheapness. An engine of Mr. Bury's build costs about 1,350/., while a :ix-wheeled engine, constructed by Sharp and Roberts, of Manchester, costs from 1,800/. upwards. On the London and Birmingham line, where .100 engines are employed, a saving is thus affected of from 40,000/. to 50,000/. ; an inducement not to be readily overlooked by a commer cial company. In conclusion, although I acknowledge that, as Sir Roger de Coverley would say, much may be said on both sides with respect to the merits of four and stx wheeled engines, yet I must observe that there is but one opinion in the profession concerning engines with inside framings--v z , that they arc decidedly objec tionable, and even unsafe I might, p rhaps, have beggei the insertion of these obierrations before, had I not only just now returned 'rem a profess.onal visit abroad ; should you consider em worth inserting you will greaey oblige Your obedient servant, EDWARD A. SEAWARD Bidcbtall, Oct. 17. MARYLEBONE AN Et-CORN-LAW ASSOCIATION. A. public meeting of the inhabitants of St. Mary's dis trict, Maryicbone, was held on Monday, at Mr. Harring ton's, Portr.lan Arms, Great Quebec-street, for the pur pose of forming an Anti-Corn-law Association for that district. The large room of the tavern was densely crowded. Mr. Potter was unanimously called to the Chair. Sidney Smith, Esq., on entering the room, was re ceived with loud cheers. The CHAIRMAN said they were pretty well aware of the object for which they were assembled. It was to combine for the purpose of forwarding the movement now going on to obtain a repeal of a law both obnoxious and unjust.—(Hear, hear.) He meant the Corn-laws.— (Cheers.) He was confident that they would agree with him in opinion that it was only by union, by union assisted by kindness and good will, that they could look for sucetss.— (Cheers.) They had met for the carrying out of a very great measure, and if they acted peaceably but firmly, their work would be successful.— (Hear, hear.) Their opponents were indeed powerful, but he recollected no instance in which the people of England had firmly and nniteclly expressed their opi nion, that it had not had its due influence. The aristo cracy must be worked upon through their fears, and then, as on former occasions, they would succumb.—(Hear.) - lie had now the pleasure of introducing to their notice Mr. Sidney Smith—(Loud cheers)—a gentleman who had done much to assist and enlighten the public mind on this important question, and to do away with the mys tification in which it had been so long involved. Mr. SMITH then came forward amidst loud - cheers, and, in the course of a powerful address, ably expatiated on the advantages which England would derive from a free trade in corn. He had that day met with an extract from M'Culloch's Commercial Dictionary, of the deepest importance, and which could not be too (Alen impressed on the public mind. Holland . was the only country in the world in which the rulers had the wisdom to leave the trade in corn entirely free, and what had been the result ? They should hear, in Mr. M'Culloch's words. —(He then read an extract from the work, to the effect that in Holland, where there were no Corn -laws, a scarcity was unknown.) The only country which was depend ent upon the whole world for its supplies WAS the only one in which there had never been a scarcity of corn. — (Cheers.) And, not only had they never had's' seer eity themselves, - but • they actually profiteal by the occurrence. of a scarcity in other -- countries—Cßenewed cheers)—and that even to the extent of enriching them for seven years.—(Cheers.) If such were the advan tages that had accrued to Holland, what would be the gain to England if we had a free trade in corn ?. For every port that Holland had, England could point to a dozen. For every article of barter that the Dutch pos sessed, England could point to a hundred. For' every quarter of .corn that the Dutch could store up, England had capital large enough-to store up a thousand. There was no advantage which the Dutch possessed in which this country was not immeasurably supe rior, and the beneficial consequences which would result if we pursued the same line of enlight ened policy would be incalculable.—(Loud cheers.) London would be the granary of. England. For every one vessel of grain that now appeared in the Thames, we should have ten, and for every ton of shipping now employed in that traffic, we should have a hundred (Cheers.) But the blessings would not be confined to the metropolis ; they would be extended throughout the kingdom, and England would quickly become the gra nary of the world.—(Cheers.) We should then have corn seldom or ever above 30s. a quarter, whereas now, when it was at that price in the market of the world, there was a tax on it of 555. Bd., or 180. per cent.— (Hear, hear Mr. Smith concluded an energetic lecture amidst great applause. Mr. linrenixo rose to move the first resolution, and in doing so he felt it unnecessary to enter into detail in consequence of the able manner in which the subject had already been treated by the able Lecturer.—(Hear.) The resolution was, " That the present Corn-laws are oppres sive and unjust, and therefore ought to be wholly and forthwith repealed." Mr. WALKER St conded the resolution. It was then put from the Chair, and carried unanimously. Mr. FRAMPTON moved the next resolution. The landed aristocracy, and those who opposed the repeal of the Corn-laws, were answerable for the misery which was so prevalent in the country.—(Hear.) He was one who thought that the. poor man should have cheap bread. - (Hear.) As he was coming to the meeting he called at a poor man's to leave a pair of shoes to be mended. He went to that man because he had a large family. On entering the kitchen, he found three of the young children crying, and on inquiring what was the matter, the mother said that they had had only one slice of bread, and were crying and unwilling to go to bed without another, which she had not to give.—(Hear, hear). He thought that the children would be able to get another slice if the Corn-laws were repealed, and therefore he begged to move the following resolution : " That should the landowning aristocracy continue their opposition to the repeal of the Corn• laws, a measure both reasonable and just, this meeting earnestly recom mend to their fellow-countrymen to adopt every practi cal measure to obtain compensation from the estates of the landowners in conjunction with the repeal of the law." Mr. .AnsTre seconded the resolution. It was then put and carried with only four dissentients. Mr. COOK moved the next resolution, that au Asso ciation be now formed for this district to act in conjunc tion with those already , formed in other districts of this parish, and also with the Anti-Corn-law Associations throughout the kingdom. He felt convinced that the inhabitants of that district would do their duty.— (Cheers.) They had been late in the field. but that was only a reason for acting with greater energy.—(Cheers.) The time was Come for every man to take this great question to himself. Such a time, he was satisfied, never was seen, and greater distress never existed in the country.—(Hear, hear.) There were strong indications that a scarcity. of bread would be soon felt in the country, as well as a scarcity of employment. He had been told lately, by a friend of his engaged in tit 3 'corn trade, that a vast quantity of corn was now ; imported, on speculation, into this country, althow h th e duty was now so high as 16s. Bd. per quarter. They might judge for themselves at what price corn mi st be before they let it out of their hands again.—(Hear.) Mr. CARR seconded the resolution. Some opposition was attempted by a few Chartists, an an amendment was moved to the effect, that to extend the suffrage was the best way of obtaining a repeal of the Corn-laws. The original resolution was carried by an immense majority. e ,i A vote of thanks wa s then p assed to the Chairman for his able conduct in t he Chair. Several t cametheir r n forward ames a a s n d me paid mb e their rs of the s ubscriptions,: Association.getal en ii n ie enteredmeeting then then broke up. BELGIAN RAILROAD,-Ihe southern line will be further opened, on the Ist of November, to Jurbise ; and en the 16th of December (the King's birthday-) to Mons. Important changes in the service of the other t7reat lines are announced by a Liege journal, the Tribu:.c, as intended to take place neNt month. Two fait trains are to run daily between Liege and and wh will Brussels, in which there will be no carriages but dili gences, which will net stop at any intermediate stations, hours. 'j'o other trains will stop at all the usual 11 consequently make the journey' in two stations. It is also said that the carriage of small parcels will be charged much higher than at present ; but . we hope that statement is incorrect.—Brussel Paper. The net fishing for salmon in Tweed closes this bnt co , nsistr . cl prinoirally day (Friday). The take during the week has been good, out oi se. ,- on as a. wh.:lc has., -.; we have of tr,,uts, which are now getting stated en &Muer occasions, been considerably abOYe an average.—eßerwick Advertiser. THE SUN, -LON OVERFLOW OF THE THAMES. On Monday afternoon, the buildings on each side of the river were visited with one of the most destructive inundations within the memory of the oldest of their occupiers or owners. The extraordinary spring-tide of March, 1828, which did so much damage to the contiguous wharfs and forced down embankments and walls was at least 18 inches lower than that of yesterday, and was much less disas trous in its effects. It was not exceeded, even by the inundation of the year 1821, when a most frightful loss of property occurred. RISING OF THE WATERS.—In the morning, at about half-past eleven o'clock, the time of low water, the river- had ebbed so low that at parts it was nearly ford able, and some of the smaller steamers above bridge were actually for a time prevented from proceeding up the river by getting aground. At about half-past one o'clock the tide was observed to rise in the most rapid manner. Al three o'clock the river had flowed above' its common level, and the water began to rush into the cellars and underground apartments. _ _ _ WAPPING.—Ai four o'clock the whole of the High-. street, Wapping, from Wapping Old-stairs, opposite the Rectory-house, to New-lane Shadwell, presented the appearance of a canal, and the water flowed along the numerous courts and alleys. Several boats commenced plying for hire, and the watermen conveyed a number of passengers to and from various houses. ' BANKSIDE.—AII the approaches to the Thames Police-office Court were cut off, and Mr. Broderip, the Magistrate, directed wherries to be put in requisition to convey suitors and witnesses to and from the Court, and several boatloads were brought from different places and taken back again in the same way after their cases were disposed of. The whole of the cellars, parlours, and shops inWapping-street, Great Hermitage-street, Gravel lane, and about 100 other streets and alleys leading oat of the main street, were under water soon after four o'clock and merchandise of the most valuable de scription, ships' stores, furniture, and other property, floating about, involved in one common disaster. At Harrison's wharf, St. Katharine's, the inundation has made sad havoc, and washed away much of the new work, and injured the buildings lately erected on this fine property. The Leith and Glasgow wharf was for the first tine for 41 Sears inundated, and property to a largeamount damaged and washed away. The houses which have suffered most in Wapping are the Town of Ramsgate Tavern, at Wapping Ofd-stairs ; the Water men's Arms, Wapping New-stairs ; the Black Boy, kept by A*. Brown, opposite, whose gas-meter was destroyed ; the Ship, Execution Dock, where Mr. Johnson, the landlord, nnd,hia„-family were obliged to retreat to the lead roof over the parlour ; the White Swan opposite, and. numerous others. The ship biscuit bakers and granary-keepers in this quarter are also great sufferers. .The water extended to the house of Mr. Pel ham, the solicitor, in Old G rave l-l ane , 400 yar d s f rom the river ; and it appears that an infant child of Mr. Pel ham, which was lefein a cradle in one of the parlours, had a very narrow escape. The mother saved it. Com ing down stairs about half-past four o'clock, she found the water had entered the parlour, and the cradle was afloat, with the child in it asleep, and quite uncon scious of its danger. A poor woman was drowned in Plough-alley, Wapping. She was bed-ridden, and the inmates of the house where she lived forgetti nee her in the confusion which pie:railed, the water rushed in, filled the. apartment where she was confined, and she was drowned. It was reported that another female and her child were drowned in a house near the same place. A young woman, named Caroline Hurter, living on the ground floor of No. 9, Plough-alley, had a narrow escape. She remained so long in the house that retreat by the door was rendered impracticable, and she clung to the upper sash of the window for upwards of half an hour screaming most piteously, the tide being rapidly gaining on her. At length a lad named John Brander, aged fifteen years, with a humanity that does him great credit, stripped himself and instantly entered the water, and speedily broke open the window and got out the poor girl. At high water the depth at the entrance of the St. Katharine's Dock was 31 feet 3 8-10 in,les. The following wharfs were more or less flooded : Aberdeen, Beal's, Black Lion, Carron, Chamberlain's, Cotton's, Downe's, Dublin, Penning's, Griffin's, Gan and Shot, Harrison's, Hartshorn (Excise), Hay's, Here's, Leith and Glasgow, Leith and Berwick, Sco yell's, St. George's, Stanton's, Stanton's Lower, and Topping's. Owing to the flood, Tyrrell, the general postman, was unable to collect letters in Wapping in the evening. BLACK WALL RAILWAY.-At four o'clock in the after noon the trains discontinued running on the Blackwall Railway, in consequence of the railway being overflowed at the Rlackwall terminus, and this circumstance gave rise to many vague and unfounded rumours. The neigh bourhood of Blackwall and the adjoining marshes were under water to a groat extent. The ship-buildity , yards of Messrs. Ditchburn and Mare, Wigrain aneGreen, and others, were overflowed, and everything was soon afloat. The water flowed over the Blackwall wharf on to the railway, and it was impossible to run the trains With any degree of safety. .The Tower and Custom house wharfs were under water. Darkhouse-kne,. Bil linsgate, and Nicholson's-wharf were also overflowed. ROCHESTER AND STROUD.—At Rochester and Strond the coast appeared like a fair, crowds of people being employed in bailing water out of their houses by pail fulls. Several fields were entirely under water. At Gravesend one of the streets was knee deep, boats being able to- be rowed along ; and in this state were the dif ferent villages on the banks all the way up the river. Bromley and some of the adjoining parishes were flooded. GREENWICH.—The extensive rope grounds of Enderby, at East Greenwich, were completely under water, which had forced the embankment.- The Greenwich marshes, in the occupation of ,Messrs. J. and T. Wheatley, the extensive coach proprietors, were covered with one sheet of water. The borough of Greenwich, from the Water man's-pier towards the church, a distance of 400 feet and upwards, presented a stream deep enough to float a large boat, and many of the arches of the Greenwich Railway might be passed throngh in boats. Deptford-creek, Deptford-bridge, and the houses on the south side of Blackheath-road were inundated. On Sunday, soon after 12 o'clock, a lighter, from Grays, Essex, the property of Mr. Robinson, of Kew, was run into by the British Rose schooner, belonging to Wisbeach. The wind was blowing a hurricane from the N.E at the time. She sank in deep water, with a cargo of 63 tons of chalk. On Monday, at 12 o'clock, as four men in a boat were weighing a kedge anchor, the boat upset, and one man immediately sank to rise no more. SOUTH SIDE OF THE THAMES.—On the south side of the Thames, every house, warehouse, and wharf, from the Platform, Lower-road, Deptford, up to Nine-elms, Battersea, was inundated ; and in several places the water extended to very little less than a quarter of a mile in shore from low water mark. From the Custom-house to Blackfriars-bridge about 20 bargee were sunk, and one loaded with 28 tons of coal was actually blown over just below London-bridge. ROTHERHITHE.—ShortIy after three o'clock the water at the Platform and Paradise-row, Rotherhithe, passed the marks of any previous high tide. Eotherhithe, up to Tooley-street, presented the singular spectacle of a deep and rapid stream, and boats rowed about to give as sistance. The whole line of wharfs in Tooley-street xt one time looked more like wet-docks and basins of water than places for the deposit of dry goods, n hich were to be seen floating about and coming in contact with each other, to the horror of the wharfingers. The same spec tacle presented itself on the west side of London-bridge, and in a short time - the extensive wharfs of AU. Hum phery, the granaries in Montague-close, the flour wharfs, and the premises of Messrs. Barclay and Perkins were approached by the water, so as to • cause the sacks of flour and pockets of hops to float about. BOROUGH MARKET.—At one period a considerable portion of the Borough-market was covered with water, while every house along Benkside and the numerous courts, all of which are inhabited by working men, were literally filled with - water: In. Union-street the water filled the cellars and shops of about eight houses situate opposite the Monument public-house. The houses in Prince's-court, amounting . to about thirty in number, suffered very severely. The Belvidere-road, Edward-street, Vine-street, and the York-road, were from 18 inches to two feet in depth. Great injury was sustained in Prince's-place, a new neighbourhood, con taining about 20 houses. Here the beds, bedding, &e., were completely saturated ; and the houses in the York road had their kitchens and areas half filled with water. The Commercial-road to Stamford-street did not escape. Great apprehensions were created for the safety of the Thames Tunnel. The shaft by which visitors descend was surrounded with water.- WESTMINSTER.—The whole of the lower part of Westminster was inundated. If Parliament had been sitting the Members could only have reached the two Houses in boats. Palace-yard and the adjacent streets were under water, and the floor of Westininsier-hall was also overflowed. It is recorded that the Thames rose so high at Westminster in the year 1235 that the lawyers were brought out bf the Law Courts in boats. A similar occurrence happened in 1736. HUNGERFORD.—The wharfs. at Hungerford were under water. Cannon-row had beCome a brook or river. Along Milbank-row the road and footpath were impas sable ; the river made its way through the iron gate fronting the entrance to the Milbank Penitentiary, end the water reached under the prison-gates, and rushed down to the stone wharfs and market-gardens surround ing the Penitentiary: • VAUXHALL AND LAMBETH.—On the apposite bank of this part of the river, namely, at Lambeth and up' to Vauxhall, the effects were equally disastrous. The Wandsworth-road from Vauxhall turnpike was flooded, and only passable by carriages, &c. ; and the like was the case in front of the station near the London and South-western Railway terminus. Kennington-oval and Old Vauxhall suffered extensively. At the gardens at Brunswick-house, formerly the re of the river was wash e d away sidence.of the Duke o f B runsw i c k , the wall by the side at the ebbing of the tide. The water overflowed the gardens, and when returning into its natural channel pressed so heavily against the wall that it gave way, and the whole fell into the Thames. The houses in Fore-street, Lambeth, which are chiefly occupied by fishermen and their families, were flooded from two to three feet deep, as were also those in Church-street. The churchyard was also inundated. At Stangate the flood commenced at Messrs. Searle'g, and flowed thence to Crosier- s t ree t , P a l ace New-road' , the Bishop's-walk, and thence along to Vauxhall. BATTERSEA.—At Battersea-bridge no craft larger than a small fishing-boat co u ld p ass un d er either arch. The Red-house suffered severely. TEMPLE GARDENS.—The Temple gardens were over flowed, and a boat might be seen rowed over them. The Duke of Buceleueh's gardens were wholly under water. The enormous coffer-dam at Westminster-brid ge was full of water, and all labour was suspended. An old man, employed as a watchman on boaed a barge rnooretl on t he vr•crat Eitlz: of 11.2.(1 a very narrow escape of being drowned. The barge had been driven by the wind and tide, about fottr O'clock in the morning; ON, 'WEDNESDAY, OC' against one of the buttresses of the bridge, , and almost immediately san k . A boat was put off at great ris'c to his rescue. On Monday evening a man, named John Davis, was taken to Guy's Hospital in a very exhausted state, having been picked out of the water near Park-street, Southwark. THE PooL.--A great deal of damage was done to the shipping in the Pool, by being forced from their moor ings, and al so t o t h e coal barges moored at the different wharfs. The Messrs. Horne, coal-merchants, of Bank side, are c ons id era b le losers, by three barges, coal-laden,. having got adrift, :and sunk. Messrs. Capel and Co. had no less than seven heavily laden barges adrift at one time, four of which have been recovered ; the rest are, no doubt, sunken. SUBSIDING OF THE IVATERS.—On the subsiding of the waters in the evening a deposit of mud and filth was left in the streets and 'houses which was very offensive. People in all directions were busily employed pumping water out of their cellars and warehouses. 'Many, how ever, deferred this operation, in the expectation that the wind which was from the north-west would keep the water up Channel, and. with the spring tides cause another and more lofty rising of the water yesterday. On the Surrey shore myriacla of rats, driven up the sewers by the flow of the tide, were seen running • about the• streets to sa ve th emse l ve s from drowning ; men and dogs killed num b ers. The Gazelle steamer, Captain Hurst, from Hull, ar rived •on Saturday afternoon, at half-pest two o'clock, with one hundred passengers on board. During the voyage the G aze ll e fell in with the Wreck of the brig Elizabeth, and another vessel, name unknown, which afterwards went down. Captain Hurst reports that he met with several other vessels in the Swin with topmasts gone, and considerable other damage, occasioned by the late gales, whi c h have caused great damage to the ship ping . The damage done between London and Putneybridets alone, is estimated at several thousand pounds. The Market, is said t o b e so coffer-damat the int en d ed - new chain-pier of Hungerford completely destroyed, that the whole of the wo r k must b e done over again. The cellars and rooms of almo s t eve r y house on die Surrey side of the Thames, from the Vauxhall-road to Waterloo e bridge, are. still fill e d w i th water ; and yesterday an extraordinary scene was witnessed, hundreds of persons being employed in b a li ng and puMping out the water. At one time the water opposite the entrance of the" South Western Railway was six feet deep. It is an extraordinary fact, that t wo watermen named Ander eon, who ply at-Waterloo -bridge, and who took up two gentlemen to witness the great oars match, actually rowed their fare to the door of a public-house in Ful some refreshment. A large qtraiti ty - o f l a nd at Green wich, ham.(a quarter of it mile _from the shore), and obtained Woolwich, Erith, and . other places on the Kent and Essex shores, are still underwater, and it will be many days before anything like a correct statement of the damage can be obtained. LATEST PARTICULARS LAST NIGHT. Those living in the neighbourhood of Bankside ap pear to be the greatest sufferers. The waters entered the factory of Mr. A. Pellatt, and rose to a height of two feet upon the ground floor, overwhelming that part in which the old furnace for melting glass was placed, and rising to within a short distance of the mouth of the new one. Had the flooding continued much longer, or had it entered the furnace, the loss of property and life would have been terrific, for an explosion would have in evitably taken place. With the exception of the alarm occasioned by this danger, Mr. Pellatt does not consider his'los will be very great. It is impossible to form an opinion, as the lower warehouses aro still inundatek - but which was being got rid of by an engine similar to the small ones formerly used by parishes in cases of fire. Messrs. Doherty and Co., tUrHers, adjoining Mr. Pel latt's, have suffered much more severely than their neigh bours, having between 2,0001. and- 3,0001. of furs and skins 'damaged ; and, had it not . been for th e exer tions used, the damage would have been much greater. Upon finding that the water was forcing its way in, they began to remove the most valuable furs from the under rooms. Mr. Dowes, baker, of Great Guildford -street, bad his oven ,filled with water; just after he had put in a batch of bread, besides a large quantity of flour damaged. A similar occurrence happened to Mr. llawgood, baker, of Park-street, who, with his neighbour, has sustained considerable damage. - Along the whole line of Bankside the landlords of the Compasses, Rose and Crown, the George, Welsh Trooper, as well as every other inhabitant, have been severe sufferers. In some of the Public-houses the in mates were obliged to stand upon the bar. Below bridge the greatest:damage has been sus tained by Messrs. Brown and Young, whose granaries are loaded with bonded corn, of which about 2,500 - quarters got wetted, and which will deteriorate it in value about 20s. per quarter. The loss .or damage done at the various granaries of Mr. Dudin, Shad Thames, is equally as great. Our informant heard that the loss amongst the bonded holders of foreign corn exceeded 20,00 q, the truth of which it was impossible to ascertain. The tide of yesterday morning, although exceedingly high, was fortunately unattended with any disastrous consequences, and during the day several of the barges which had been sunk by the violence of the gale of Sun day night, were raised. EXTRAORDINARY TIDES IN THE 1;11 7 111 THAMES. The extraordinary swellings of the waters of the Thames, though understood in the present an as the result of certain natural causes, were, in the early pe riods of our history, and by our superstitious ancestors, regarded as prodigies, or punishments for offences against the Chit reh. 3ti er ersheleas, titteir - 4.nzu t - rene-: lux, always been looked upon with fear and dismay ; .and it will be seen by the following list, 'drawn up front early chroni clers and historians, as well as from the registers of later times, that these high fi teds have neither been few nor undestructive. The first mention of one of these dis asterS is in the reign of William 11., and it closely iden tifies itself in its details with the effects of the recent ravages. We give them in chronological order, together with some of the remarkable ebb tides. 1029. Shortly after R u f us b eca me. King, Fabian has recorded, in hip Chro n i c l e , t h at s o high a tide happened that the River Tha mes over fl owe d it s banks in a multi tude of places, " whereby," sa y s he, " several towns and villages were laid under water, and many of their inha bitants. with an infinite number of sheep and oxen,•were drowned," It was at this exact time that part of the nds belonging to Godwin Earl of Kent, called the Good win Sands, were swallowed up. - 1114. In this year there was so great a deficiency of water in the Thames, that the people passed by London bridge with dry feet. 1150. In the summer of this year, the people were able to pass over dry-shod again, through the sluggishness of the titles. 1242: Matthew Paris, the historian, mentions at this period one of the greatest inundations of the Thames on record. In this instance it broke over its banks at Lam beth, and laid the country under water for the space of six miles, to the great los s o f the inhabitants. 1411, Oct. 20. Within the space of twenty-four hours, three tides of flood happened in the river Thames, which, says Fabian in his Chronicle, greatly amazed the citizens, and occazioned many to look upon the same as portentous. - 1437. A very uncommon low neap-tide occurred this year, b y which the London ers 'could pass over th e r i ver dry -sho'd. 1550, Sept. 17. Strype, in his edition of Stowe's Survey, mentions that on this day the [Thames ebbed and flowed three times within the space of nine hours. 1564. On the 26th of January at night, the Thames was greatly agitated by preternatural fluxes, which obliged the natural tide twice to recoil five hours before its time ; the next - day these were repeated twice in the morning and twice at night. 1564, Nov. 6. An exceedingly high tide, says Stow in his English Annals, happened on this day in the river Thames," and after high water, having ebbed about an hour, a preternatural reflux returned with such an amazing impetuosity, that it soon overflowed its banks, and all the marshes of Lambeth, beside filling .rill the neighbouring cellars, and subterranean warehouses, and occasioning incredible damage. 1608, Feb. 19. On this day, in King James's tim - A e at an hour whiff it should have been low water at the bridge, it was high, and then again in a short time it ebbed to a foot in depth ; it then again, on a sudd en , flowed almost two ;'eet higher then it did before, and then ebbed again until it came near to the proper height, so that the next flood was in its proper manner. All this happened be fore twelve o'clock at noon, the weather being inditfer , ently calm. . . 1609. A preternatural tide happened in this year, which flowed and ebbed four times in the space of four hours. 1622. In the morning the Thames shifted four tides in five hours, two floods and -two ebbs, and then •kept its right course. 1652, Feb. 2. The Thames ebbed and flowed thrice in six hours, and the like shifting of-tides was observed in Thames.e ebbed and the maritime places in Kent, at the same time, and llowed to a sur prising occa sioned great overflowings. 1654, Oct. 3. The bb clock at d n s i o g f ht pe a o n p d le five the next height of water, and subsequent decreaSe, twice • of the Thames was reduced so low in three hours. ile7slbo7oa.tshoTnal,lbeto!lsvtaerteand below London-bridge 1660, Nov. 1. The Thames ebbed and flowed three morning ; the convulsion of its waters was very .great. times between toot,t ii passed it on , and through most of the arches. 1730, Dec. - 3. On this day happened, says Maitland, the highest - tide in the River Thames that had been known in the memory of map. It overflowed Wapping, Tooley-street, and many other places, doing incredible damage, by filling „liars, .iy.arehonses, and subterranean places with floods, and spoiling vast quantities of goods t e : a n rim a n O . : and merchandise. 1791, Feb. %. 011 • this , clay there was t h e hi g h est flood tide on the iLiver 'a hanu.‘s that vas ever remem bered. Above Westminster Bridge it overflowed the banks of- the river on both sides. In Palace-yard it was near two feet deep. It ran into Westminster Hall, and . beats • were rowed up to Westminster Hall-gate. The two Scotherl-yards, and Privy -gardens, White hall, were entirely under water. Several poor people in Seotiand-yard had:four feet of water in their shops, and their, beds floating in their rooms. At Westminster Hall the water ran .in for nearly an hour, and below bridge the meadows and marshes were one continued sheet of water. At Leasa.ter the sea-walls and banks ' i were broken known and washed away. At -Whitstable the storehouses on the beach were whirled down, 'and at;Deal the sea-bank was washed away. Not an island hut severe' , suffered Potten, Wallace, and New Eng .land, were entirely overflowed, and 400 sheep were swept off the latter. The coasts of Essex, as also those of Suffolk, suffered more terribly than all. . -. 1822. The tide milk so low that valuable articles which L had lain in the Tb?bqe.s. for a l ong pealed were picked ' ep, while about /2 0 d0,..k the tide returned with addi- L tional impetuosity, and rose to a great height, doing I I great damage to t h e shores and craft. . OBER 20, 1841. 1828. The high-spring tide which occurred in the March of this year, did much damage ashore, and over flowed extensive grounds and houses. 1841, Oct. 18. This last visitation of the London River- God, is likely to prove, by the accounts which are com ing in, as disastrous as any on record. The venerable Stowe, after announcing the preterna tural tide which occurred in 1564, thus ventures to phi losophise upon the causes of the phenomena, and assigns the following reasons:— The Thames overflowing its banks proceeds from se veral causes. First—From great rains, by which the fresh waters raise up the river, and going down to the sea are stopped by the floods, whence they must needs swell above their height. There was a notable example of this in the year 1555, when, by reason of excessive rains that had fallen, all St. George's-fields, in Southwark, the Palace-yard, and even Westminster-hall, were overflowed. Secondly,—lnundations of the Thames may be occa sioned by boisterous north-west winds, which generally not only cause very high tides at the mouth of the Thames, but on the coasts of Holland, Flanders, Picardy, and the shores of Eng!a.nd oppo4te to them, and for this reason, that this wind blows with equal force in the tide of float], at each end of this island, both westwards and north Nards. Thirdly,—There is another cause of greater tides and inundations in the Thames, not commonly taken notice of, which is the moon's being in her Perigee, or in that part of her orb which is nearest to the earth; for, if the spring tides are made by her coming nearer the earth at her full and change, and her withdrawing farther from the earth at her quarters occasion the neap tides, it must follow, that if to the proximity which the moon has to the earth, by moving in her ellipsis, there is added that proximity which she has in her eccentric or opposite angles, she should operate so much the more extraordi narily upon the sea, and make the higher spring tides at such full and change. THE WEATHER AND CROPS. The weather, fur some time past, has been exceed ingly disastrous—continual and heavy rains, accompa nied by adverse winds. As a very large portion of the crop is yet out in staok, and in some backward districts not a little reatans to be cut, the injury sustained must be great. Yesterday was one of the stormiest days we have experienced this season. The re in fell heavily, occasionally in torrents, and act wind was exceedingly boisterous, sometimes almost amounting to a hurricane. About four o'clock, the force of tllo wind and rain, as they scoured the streets, Itecally cleared the navementa, by driving the inhabitants into places of abetter ; and the gutters saa like swelled rivulets. For a time the storm was irresista ; and we much fear that, in country situations, its effects will be severely felt on the state of the crops.— Gfasgolv Arhus. The weather still continues unsettled, and from the frequent rains must be very prejudicial to the outstand ing crops. Yesterday was cold and stormy, with a strong gale from the south-we:t, accompanied with heavy showers of rain and sleet. We understand that in many parts of East Lothian and Fife a great deal of grain is still in stook, and, from the backwardness of the wra!her, very little has been cut in the higher districts of the country.—Edinburgh Courant. During the last ten days the weather has been of the most unfavourable kind, and yesterday was the worst day of all. The rain fell in torrents, and the Clyde, which has been more or less swollen for a week, came doem in full flood. The cons luence is that nothing can be done to save the rernaming portions of crop which are still exposed, particularly in the elevated districts, and almost as little can be done to forward potato harvest. We are informed that a considerable breadth of this root is in a very critical state, being is danger of rotting, from the surface water with which the furrows have in many cases been covered for a con siderable length of time.—Glasgow Herald. ELGIN, OCT. 15.—The weather throughout the past week has been rather more favourable for expe diting harvest work than it was during the preced ing fortnight. We have had several dry and sunny days ; but they have generally been fol lowed by cold and rainy nights. There is still a great deal of grain exposed in the fields ; and in close, damp situations it has suffered very considerably from the humidity of the season. Every favourable hour is now eagerly mts:'e available for the gathering in of the crops, and, should the weather continue dry, a general clearance of the fields will be effected in the early part of next week.—Edinburgh Courant. MURDER AT SYDNEY. From Port ,Philip accounts of the 2d of June had arrived at Sydney, and gave the horrifying particulars of the murder of Mr. Morton and his servar.t by the b!aeks in the interior in the month of May last. The Port Philip Gazette of that date contains a letter from the party who disec.vered the bodies. Describing the discovery he sa:.l-.." A little on the right of the - track I observed what I considered at first was a white log, with a large eagle-hawk perch ing upon it ; upon my nearer approach the bird rose slowly and heavily from the mangled re mains of poor Mr. Morton. He was stripped quite naked, and lying on his face, the greater part of which was actually cut away ; his head is one mass of fright ful wounds, end many bruises on different parts of the arms .and body, which is torn . by hirds of _prey. About. fifty yards off lay the remains or skeleton of Larry, from whose bones the flesh 41 been completely cut off. The skin was cut a I,t 1.0 aboie the wrists and anefes with a sharp knife or instrument , from all other parts the fl:-sh was cut, and nothing left but bare bones. God only knows whether they did not this be fore life was extinct, as - the struggle with him had been long and dreadful ; his arms were extended, and were speared through the wrists to the ground." The scene of this horrible narrative was a place called Mustharn. BLACKWALL RAILWAY.—Some portions of the line were flooded by the overflow of the Thames on Monday, and the trains were stopped for a time. No damage, however, was done, and as a proof of the excel !Nit manner iu which the line has been constructed we can state that the trains now go as usual, and that the numb sr of passengers is as great as ever. THE MOH TlDE.—During the extraordinary high tide which was experienced yesterday afternoon, much alarm was fylt by the emigrants, in the Emigration Depot, Grove-street, Deptford, three hundred of whom arc now waiting fl.r shipment to New Zealand) for the safety of their property. Owing, however, to the admir able exertions of Mr. E. 11. Mears, the proprietor, and his assistants, it appears that the water was prevented from snaking its way either into the house or the build ings appropriated for the baggage, although the Dock yard in front was completely flooded and damaged to a considerable extent, as well as the adjoining houses. On the night of Thursday last a man, wha ap peared to be under the influence of liquor, went into the Cricketers public-hou se' on the Staines road, near Houn s l ow , an d inquired of the landlord if he could be accommodated with a bed for the night. lie was an swered in the affirmative, and while there, the landlord observing soizething very odd in his behaviour, from his declaring that his name was Julius Cscsar, that he was related to the lloyal and had been present at the marriage of the Queen and Prince Albert, and was going to Windsor to be in attendance at the accouche- anent of her Majesty ; and seeing that be was accom panied by two or three persons of very suspicious ap pearance, requested him, before going to bed, as he had money about him, to place it in his care until the morning, the landlord at the same time adopt inc, the caution of calling in a police constable to witness what he received. The man then placed in Mr. Strange's hands three sovereigns, three shillings in sil ver, a book, and some papers tied up in a canvas hag, The next morning the man got up and took breakfast, after which he asked the landlady for his money, which she gave him, and told him she would go up stairs and get his papers ; but he said," Oh, never mind, I will make you a present of them ;" and before she could return down stairs with them the man bad left the house and has not been since heard of, although every search has been made for him. Upon examining the papers they were found to consist of vouchers for monies in the Bank of England, in the name of " Julius Ceaser." One of them for a life annuity of 381. odd, which had been purchased for 67T/. Three per Cent. Consuls, was dated the "14th of October, 1841," (Thursday last); the brokers' names are "Kitchen and Harrison, No. 18, Threadneedle-street." Among the papers was also a certificate to be signed by a magistrate in case the party entitled to the money should be unable personally to attend to receive his dividends, and was filled up with the name of" Julius Ceaser, coach .maker, Eghant, Surrey." PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 18.—During the whole of last night it blew a heavy gale of wind from S.W., the few outward-bound ships at Spithead and the Mother bank rode the gale out in safety. A melancholy and fatal accident occurred between the hours of 11 and 12 last night, u hich has thrown a perfect gloom over this place :—Ensign Rushbrooke, attended by . a corporal I named Williams of the 32d Regiment (to which they both belonged) were on the detached guard in the Dock yard, and in going the usual night-rounds, both these poor fellows, owing to the darkness of the night, fell into the dock and were drowned ; the bodies were dragged for at any early hour this morning and found. Ensign Rushbrooke was a very young man, and I un dentand but a short time in the army ; he is a son of Colonel Rushbrooke, M.P. for Suffolk. The Styx, steam-frigate, Captain Vidal, arrived yesterday for the pnrpose of embarking Sir Charles Bagot for Canada. The Britannia, 120, Captain Mansell, is hourly expected at Spithead from the Mediterranean. THE NORTHERN WHALE SHIPS.—DUNDEE, OCT. 16.—8 y the arrival of the Princess Charlotte at thi s port to-day, the success of the fishery 15 r e p or t e d as having been extremely deficient. The above vessel left the ice on the 21st of September last, bringing a carp of four fish and sixty tuns of oil. The condition of the ling other ships tI intliose seas is r e p orte d b y the sCom mander to be as fUilirNS—viz., Alexander, three fish, thirty-eight tuns of oil ; Caledonia, clean ; Truelove, four fish, ninety butts; Abram, one ditto; Lord Gambier, one ditto; Lady Jane, clean; Chieftain, three fish. ACCIDENT ON TIIE GIIENT AND BLIUS4BLEI It.mnoAD. . _w e h ave o f ten noticed with uneasiness a dangerous practise of the railway conductors—that of passteg from ono carria ge to another while the trains are in rapid movement. A fatal accident happened on Saturday in consequence o f t hi s fool-hardy habit. One o f th e conductors in a train travelling from Ghent to Brussels fell on while passing along the side of the car riages and had both his legs cut off by the wheels, which well y over him.--Brussels Paper, HOLBORN BRIDGE VIADUCT TO THE EDITOR 0.? THE SUN. SIR—I read with much pleasure, and perfect appro bation, your objection to a toll in t h e heart of the city. It would be a greater nuisance than I.,ennington-gate on a Derby day, and that all the year yetn :d. But be under no apprehension ; the plan requires AO Act of use of Parliament, and I shall demonstrate to the .tli. Commons that it is a piracy, and a BAD one, of if pert of plans I have had before Government, the Par!is mew, and the City authorities for several years, for ti,e improvement of Railways, to prevent the possibility of engines and carriages running off the rails, and for the erection of Colonnade Railways in London, to clear the streets of the omnibus nuisance, and other evils. Therefore, whatever may be the ultimate fate of my plans, I rely on the justice and common sense of Par liament not to let Mr. J. A. Galloway's pira:Y Pass into a law.—l am, Sir, your obliged servant, and On stant admiring reader, IL T. WEBB TURGIN. 18, Wyndam-street, Bryanston.square, Oct. 17. DISTRESS AT LEEDS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Stn—The transcript you gave in The Sun, on the 11 th inst., from the Leeds Times, is indeed heart stirring. It diaressed me, as one would suppose it could scarcely fail to do any breast of common hu manity, deeply; and an immediate contribution for warded to the place was a token of the sincerity of the feeling. But, wide and indisputable as the suffering is, must we not, on a little calm consideration (and, truly, such is the magnitude and momentousness of the sub ject, that it demands consideration equally patient and intense), come to the painful conviction that the cause has not been wholly in external circumstances ? That the parties, if they will look home, must admit they have themselves more or less to blame. However work may have become short, provisions become dear, and wages been reduced, must not multitudes of fami lies confess that, when in the receipt of ample earnings, a large part was squandered that would now form a reserve ?—that pounds have been thrown away in drink, and others, perhaps (by the wife, perhaps), in foolish dress or ineulgences, that they now vainly look for in the shape of food and necessary clothing Do not the palpable habits of artizans almost everywhere show us how fearfully they are agents of their own woes ? If it be grievous on any one occasion to see God's means prostituted thus to the mischief of the body, disquiet of the mind, and general distress, what must be the accu melaeod sin and misery, where it is the practice, week after week, by hundreds of parents, in n_ thousand places ? And the consequences are inevitable. And among the many lessons of the present crisis, there is none more imperative the working classes can draw for themselves than that, henceforth, intemperance, lavish ness, and folly, shall not, by their system of acting, lay the foundation for overpon oring want and distracting misery. With the truest commiseration for them, and a pa tient eye of attention to the continuance of their embar rassments, I am, Sir, your frequent reader. S. A very extraordinary and interesting circumstance occurred during the last week in connection with the operation now going on upon the Royal George, at Spit head, under the directions of Colonel Pasley. Amongst other relics brought up from " the deep waters," from the wreck of that unfortunate ship, was the collar of a dog, with the name of the owner, Thomas Little, as well as that of the animal, " Victory," engraved on it. It ap pears that this collar has been recognized by one of the oldest inhabitants of the town as the property of his father, who was one of the many on board the vessel at the tine she went down, but who, more fortunate than a number of his ill-fated companions, was saved from a watery grave, although his faithful animal perished. The party in question is named John Little, who has been long known as the owner of a passage-boat which plies between Portsmouth and Wootton- bridge, in the Isle of W r ight, and whose brother was during the long period of 30 years in the Customs at this Port, but is now in Liverpool. The aunt of Little, Mrs. Harding, is also a resident in this town, and knew the dog well from its being a constant visitor at her mother's house. A sister of Captain Little is also living, who is named after the three wives of the father—viz., Mary Ann Eleanor, one of whom was on board the Royal George with her husband, and was picked up dead a few days after that melancholy event. Thomas had 23 children, three only of whom are now in existence. He sailed with the pre sent Captain Burford, Hydrographer to the Admiralty, in the Phaeton frigate, then commanded by Captain Stopford, now Admiral Stopford, the hero of Acre. Lit tle was then a boatswain, and was present in the action of Admiral Cornwallis, as well as in several other en gagements, and died in the Phaeton during the command of Captain Stopford. We are informed that the present John Little has applied to Colonel Pasley for the collar, as an interesting relic, and a reminiscence of the extra ordinary and providential escape which his father expe rienced from sharing the melancholy fate so many met with in that ship ; and we are happy to hear that the application has been complied with in a manner which does infinite credit to the feeling heart of Colonel Pas ley, inasmuch as thousands would be proud in possessing the slightest material which might be recovered from the wrech at any price.—Hampshire Standard. ETON COLLEGE, OCT. 18.—The Duke of Buckingham has just made a present of a splendid bust of the late Lord Grenville, executed by Nollekins, to Eton College. Lord Canning has also presented the Conks, with a bust of . his father, which is likewise to be placed in the type, -school; made a present of a bust of his uncle—the Minister, Lord North. Almost all the Prime Ministers of the last century were Eton men. Sir Robert Walpole and Lord B , lingbroice commenced their animosities, as boys tog-e -ther, at Eton, where, it is recorded, they had " more than one good stand-up fight." Lord Chatham, Lord North, and Charles James Fox•were all distinguished as scholars at this ancient seat of Jearning. Bishop Pearson and the poet Waller, Fielding, the poet Gray, the scholar Purson, and Bishop Sherlock, were also Eton men. At a later period Eton can boast of having produced the Duke of Wellington, Mr. Canning, Lord Wellesley, Lord Grenville, Lord Grey, and Mr. Hallam. Lord Ellenborough, dovernor-General of India, intends to proceed to the seat of his government by the overland mail, and not by her Majesty's ship Cambrian, Captain Chads, as was originally intended. Last night, an Irishman was brought to the Polic2-office on a charge of being drunk' and disorderly in the street. The poor fellow, on being brought to the office, supplied sufficient evidence of the charge ; and was, of course, ordered to be confined fur the night. Oa searching his person, one of !Father Mathew's tem • prance medals was found suspended round his neck.— Edinburgh Paper. We rejoice to be enabled to announce that the great hardship of the regulation by which privates of the Royal Marines have hitherto been required to serve two years at head-quarters for one year's time for pension, has been fully recognised by the Board of Admiralty, and that it will be forthwith abolished. Anothr crying injustice and fruitful source of heart burning to these gallant, steady, and well-conducted fellows, will also be removed at the same time. They are in future, in common with every regiment of the line, to be supplied with great coats. The Board of Admiralty is understood to have offered the Board of Ordnance 1,0001. a-year for this purpose ; but it re quires 1,506/. There can, however, be no doubt that this necessary portion of their attire will in future be provided them.—United Service Gazette. FORTIFYING HONG KONG.—It is stated in the Indian Papers, that the engineer's estimate for for tifying- Hong Kong amounts to the enormous sum of 5,000,0004 The disposal of a highly-valuable property at Tredegar Iron Works, Monmouthshire, is announced, and the mode proposed is a species of lottery, the price fixed • of each share being at la The property is j divided into lots. One prize is no less value than 4,000 guineas, this being the Tredegar Arms Inn, Tredegar.— . Cambric/71. THE GARRISON OF PARIS.--The commerce states, that the garrison of Paris is composed of 25,000 men, which, added to the troops employed at the forti fications, raises the number to 50,000. "With such a force," observes the Commerce, " Paris ought to be well guarded." SUICIDE.--Yesterday the neighbourhood of High-street, St. Giles, was painfully excited in con sequence of the report that Mr. Ramsay, a licensed victualler, who for above thirty years was proprietor of the Angel, High-street, had committed self-destruc tion. The report proved but too true. About ten o'clock the previous evening Mr. Ramsay, who had been previously serving at the bar, left to go into his bed room. As he was there a considerable time one of the servants proceeded to the room, the door of which he found locked inside ; a. smith was sent for, when on fore nig the door Mr. Ramsay was found laying on the floor, with his head nearly separated from his body. A razor was laying by his side. Mr. Bartlenaore, a medical gen tleman, was sent for, who stated that life had been ex tinct some minutes. Mr. Ramsay has for some weeks past appeared very melancholy, and a late law-suit, it is said, added to his despondency. In his room were found nearly 3001. in gold, and a cheque for above 4001. In formation of the distressing occurrence has been for warded to the Coroner. CENTENARY OF GARRICK'S FIRST AP PEARANCE ON THE STAGE, YESTERDAY.—Yesterday, in the year 1741, the " British Roscius," as he was em phatically termed, made his first appearance as " a gen tleman who had never b e f ore appeared on any stage .' From the copy of the play-bill that announced his first appearance at Goodman's Fields, Oct. 19, 1741, he was advertised to enact the part of King Richard 111. in that play of Shakspeare's. The following clever ruse is related by the t o b s e . Droit :—" A f ew - d ays ago a B e lgi a n smuggler, lz byer, horse and it s con t ra b an d l a di n g had been s aCustom-housend proposed, fora o officers ofe r r e s wa r r , of es he was d e' for t i o s- l e e n a - d A t r h t ; is' they to bacco,wou makingld be it able a c t o o n e d ff i t e i c o t n nh however, extensive er seizu re at his personal se known to the smugglers, he sh . ou to w a en .s t po t t o w t h h e e r m e The precaution ap curity, go with them in disguise. pearing to bo a proper him, and he was mounted on a house officer was lent to officers, also on horseback, the seizure. horse to accompany On arriving at an inn in who were to make the seiz e u s r aid he was afraid to go one, . the the u niform of a Custom , the village of Hermies, h said but pointed out a barn 'the tobacco was lying, wait for theta. They all aa t ti nt e a r s , otm l o e l s ed t d h thi e set s man h should be t h e eer r ew ec oh o u r l dsai is thatea in the stable of the inn, and the two horses on foot to make their capture. Dur ingthe smuggler saddled the best horse of er i o ie f4 : ese h er: c. e rode a with it.. It is needless to state p o t fi u e t c u tt e hh p r : e proceeded r oe a n e d e thatth loot a horse without finding any tobacco." MORNING SIThT STRIKE AT THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT.-THE LAW OF COMBI NATION. The very outrageous conduct of the masons lately employed in the erection of the Houses of Parliament, followed as it has been by the turn-out of the masons engaged in Messrs. Grissell and Peto's other works, naturally directs public attention to the necessity of th e to the defective st a t e otfetglieslaltanwreodfenoinrng m combinations, and ing to release wo r k-p eop l e frn:;;,!l,l,esatyysrtahnenyof Reportthosef thele agues. Hand-loom Weavers Com aaissione►. " the ruli ng p ower o f any community a llo w rities to f rame ru l es a ff ect i ng, arg ployments, and their propiearttihees, their daily other autho' habits, their t,7 13 bodies of men ; to affix to ele breach o f these rules penalties rising through everc gradation of suffer ing, from si:nple insult to mayLaern and d eat h , cad to proceed in organised bodies, a'ad in the f aze o f ob ., to inflict these puni s hme n t s ; that ruling p ower his a ..'slicated its functions so f a r as respects those among it s :übjects whom it h as surren d er Cd to its self constituted rivZls. When we are t o ld th a t in Glasgow the power of the c0..-abination s i s i rres i s tibl e , ti. at no o ne thinks of resisting it Any more than they would re sist the Queen's Guards t when we are told that in Dublin no one who violates their rules can e,lnsider his life safe for one day ; it is obvious that in ;hese cities, so far as the manufacturing population is concerned, the ruling power is not the state, the pre— valent law is not the law of the land ; and the punish ments most to be feared are not those inflicted by the legal executive. To edmit that there is no remedy for such evils would be to despair of the institntions and prospects of the country ; to admit that they may be remediable and not to endeavour to suggest the means, would be a failure in the duties imposed upon us by your Majesty's Commission?' The Act now in force respecting combinations is the 6th Gco. IV., c. 129. The priunipal section of the Ace, is the third, which enacts that— " If any person shall by violence to the person or property, or by threats or intimidation, or by molesting or in any way obstructing another, force or endeavour to force any person to depart from his hiring, eropit.'Y' inement, or work ; or to return his work before lila same shall be finished, or prevent or endeivour to pre'- vent any person not being hired or employed from ac cepting work or employment ; or if any person shall use or employ violence to the person or property of another, or threats or intimidation, or shall molest or in any way obstruct another for the purpose of forc ing or inducing such person. to belong to any dub or association, or to contribute to any common fund, or to pay any line or penalty, or on account of his not belong ing to any particular club or association, or not having contributed or having refused to contribute to aoy com mon fund, or to pay any fine or penalty, or on account of his not having complied or of his refusing to comply with any rulss or regulations made to obtain an advance of wages, or to alter the hours of working, or to alter the quantity of work, or to regd.- late the mode of carrying on any business, or the' management thereof ; or if any pet son shall by vio lence to the person or property of another, or by threats or intimid4tioe, or by molesting or in any way ob structing another, force or endeavour to force any manufacturer or person carrying on any business, to make any alteration in his mode of regulating, managing, conducting, or carrying on such manufacture or busioesq, or to limit the number of his apprentices, or the number or description of his journeymen, work men, or servants ; every person so offending, or aiding, abetting, or assisting therein, being convicted thereof in manner hereinafter mentioned, shall be imprisoned only, or shall and may be imprisoned and kept to hard labour, for any time not excee:ingthree calendar months." This Act revivel the common-law against combias tiozn, with ore exception, it exempts from punishment persons meeting to determine the wages or hours of la bour which the persons present at the meeting shall give or require, or entering into an agreement among them selves for such purposes. " All other combinations or agreements," says the Report before quoted, " to the prejudice of third per sons, are still conspiracies, and on indictment, punish able at the discretion of the Court by fine and imprisonment, to which, in case of an assault in fur therance of a combination to raise wages, the Court can, under the 9th Geo. IV., cap. 31, sec. 2.5, add: hard labour for any term not exceeding two years. " We are inclined to believe that the state of the law in this respect is not generally known. It seems to be supposed that combinations are not punishable unless accompanied by violence, intimi dation, or molestation. This is true as respecta the statutory punishment, but not as respects the far heavier punishment awarded by the common kw, All meetings or agreements whatever, for the purpose of affecting the wages or hours of work of persons not; prctent at the meeting, or parties to the agreement, are conspiracies. So are all agreements for con troging a master in the management of his busi ness, in the persons whom be shall employ, or the machinery which he shall use. So, of coune, are all agreements not to work in company with any given person, or to persuade other persons to leave their employment, or not to engage themselves. In fact nenc frscarcely act- v..f...ned by any workman, as member of a trades union, which is not an act of conspiracy or a misdemeanor." The Hand-loom Weavers Commission, in stating the existing law, attribute much of its defects as proceeding from an " attempt to legislate by one act for countries S 3 different in their common law, and in their form of procedure, as England and Scotland, and so different in their habits as England and Ireland," and recom. mend that, after due inquiry, three Acts should be passed in accordance with law, procedure, and habits of the three countries. The Commissioners themselves suggest several ansendmeLti in the law, which we may arrange under the following numbers : " I. \V recommend that the statutory process and renaltics be extended to some acts new subject only to the se% ere punishment, but inconvenient process of com mon law. Suck are agreements by workmen to strike lor the purpose of forcing a master to discharge a given peeson, cc to disuse a given sort of machinery, or gene rally to chance his mode of managing his business. Suell, again, are acts on the part of !rasters far the pur pose cf occasioning or promoting strikes on the part of the workpcople of other masters. We believe this con duct on the part of the masters to be so common, and so mischievous, that we recommend the penalty to be distinct and severe ; and that, sa far as it is pecuniary it be recoverable by any party aggrieved, or by a com mon informer. We further recommend that some acts be declared punishable, the criminal character of which has not yet been distinctly recognised. . We further recommend that, for the purpose o f fa u c i i l l t i ; of o atin the apprehension and conviction o f persons g g utra3e or intimidation, any master, workman, or other person aggrieved, or any persons assisting him, including, of course, the police, be authorised to seize any persons so offending, without summons or warrant, to carry them before a justice, and th ere compe l them to give their names and addr esses . W e recommend name address or rl e further, giving that a th f e als r e e f o u n s e in , gbe a giveto distinct a and o r cumulative offence. .. 3. We further recommend that the justices have power to convict and punish without naming the con vict, identifying him by description or otherwise. "4. We a l so recommend that any serious in jury inflicted on the persons or property of masters or workmen, in consequence of their resistance to a com bination, or of witnesses, be repaid by the hundred or other similar district. Those who have had sufficient moral and physical courage to make such a resistance. or to give testimony against a combination, and have suffered for so doing, are martyrs in the cause of liberty. The community whi-th has profited by their firmness is hound, as f ar as i s possible, to make good their looser. "5. The last amendment in the 6thG eorge IV. E a Act which we have to recommend is, the return to the of the sth George IV., by repealing the j2 appeal to of the 6th George IV., that. by s o recognisance Quarter Sessions is given on judgment is suspended on the parle y s . believe that t hi s and that of two sureties in 10/. o f t he other de clause has contributed more than BPt Tbe 101.' security fects in the Act to its utter failure. The the funds of the can of course always be obtained eewebvicho-coriction, and period of appeal has need fear punishment before bw muc h, even among edu cases which we erabe.c.considerinitclyel conv ict ed i. u a n l d m e o r s t t he ow A a c y: a mong the uneducated, combination, arrived. A n d s o we t that know more 0 0 0r nf e s cued persons, and still oPrnes more distant. But in th. its terrors as it Punishment , even if certain, lose s every evil and fow e: weeks; an accomo impunity. treaty for an accommodation, generally lotion, or a the Quarter Sessions are held, and of before takes place d or understood that the prosecu tions's arrange course It 1 d from shall be discontinued." appealed ________ e tr r i Y kes last r an artilleryman, tavl:eoi.nwia.nahinis COrlgriht fine T ni t i r , e t e i d ni a e t . i t s lr e o a ) b g , ft i o l r im ac s l e i l s f of by Douai openingfor m i sconduct , at _ him fir s ,t manbu but tempted to c arm. Some his knife, endeavoured threatened d tot t n restrainthe brandishing •,,lin s hould touch him. The guard having b een called he was overpowered and laid upon a bed, apparently in the avnies of death, and the guard went fur a sur geon. On the return of the guard the man, to their great astonishment was no longer to be seen. He had escaped to the ramparts, an d t h ence to the opening fields. On the following morning he returned to the barracks, covered with blood and dirt, and with his feet naked sav ing,—" I am come to surrender myself, because I am Iningry."—Memorial de Douai. BRIGHTON RAILWAY. --- Professor Barlow, who was specially deputed by the Board of Trade to in quire into the causes o f t h e recent accident on this line, has not yet made his report; we trust that it will be ex pedited, and that full and extensive publicity will be given to it. This is absolutely indispensable after the painful excitement which has been created in the publie mind. It is stated that Professor Barlow, so far from impugning the opinions ex pressed by Sir F. Smith, fully confirms them, and pays a just tribute to the a b i li ty an d energy of the engineer,Bistrick.