The Sun. — London, England, 1841-09-03 00:00:00

EVENING SUN PALACE COLIKT—(THIS DAY). Woan v. GAMBIER.—This was an action to recover a sum of 431. odd, due by the defendant, a barrister, to the plaintiff, who was formerly proprietor of an house in Portugal street, Lincoln's Inn-fields. It appeared that the defendant had offices in Crown-office-row, and living en garcon, was in the habit of sending to the plaintiff's house for several years for his dinners, and occasionally a bottle of wine. Several witnesses were examined, who proved the de livery of the " eatables and drinkables," and payments at various times were admitted, which brought the ba lance due to the sum claimed by the plaintiff. The Jury returned a verdict for the pfaintiff for the sum claimed. BOW-STREET—(THIS DAY.) John Hood was charged, before Mr. Jardine, with stealing a copper scale, the property of Mr. James Evans, of Hungerford Market. It appeared that the prisoner walked deliberately up to the shop of the prosecutor, and took down the scale in question, with which he was about to make off, but being observed by a policeman he was taken into custody. The prisoner said in his defence that he was in a very destitute condition, and that was the reason he had com mitted the offence. He Was committed for trial. SPORTING' INTELLIGENCE. (RECEIVED THIS 'DAY.) WESTERN MEETING AT AYR.—WEDNESDAY. The Three-yrs-old Produce Stakes of 50 sous. each 20 ft. Two :miles. Mr. Alexander's Archer, Bst fib' (Cartwright) 1 Lord Eglinton's Teflis, 7st 91b 2 • Won by a length. The Ayr Gold Cup of 100 guineas. Two miles. Lord Eglinton's Dr. Caius, 4 yrs, Bst 51b (Lye) 1 Mr. Ramsay' s Th e Doctor, aged, 9st 21b Won y. Sweepstak es o f 5 sovs. each eas , with 20 added. One mile. Mr. Merry's Patriot, aged. walked over Plate of 50/. Two-mile heats. Mr. narnsay's Sunbeam, aged, 9st 41b(Holmes) 1 1 Lord Eglinton's Potentate, ao-ed 9st , 2 2 Won easily. ECCLES RACES—(CoNcLuDED). WEDNESDAY.—The Hurdle Stakes, of 3 sovs. each, and 20 added, the second .saves his stake, thrice round, were won in two heats by Mr. Hollinshead's Mischief (owner), beating Mr. Hepple's Sambo Sutton, aged, and Mr. Entwistle's Maid of Kent, 5 yrs (fell), after a good race. Sambo the favourite. The Ladies' Purse, and a Handicap of 2 sovs. each, the second saves his stake, twice round and a dis., were won in two heats by Mr. Lamb's Lady Flora, 3 yrs, Bst 51b (Livesly), beating Mr. Pratt's Mary Anne, 4 yrs 9st, easily. OLDBURY RACES. TUESDAY.—The first race was won in two heats by /sff.Flintoff 's Pruchince, beating Frailty, F rank, and Lillie. The second race was won in two heats, by Mr. Tay lor's f by Ishmael, out of Charity, beating Lady Caro and four others. And The third ,rie ... by Mr. Williams's Anvil, beating Frailty Ml' WEnNEspsy.v 7 The first race was won by Prudence ; the 'second by Lady Caroline ; and the third by Little Bess. TATTERSALL'S-YE 3TERDAY. The St. Leger, as far as betting. is concerned, is settled as a certainty for the winner of the Derby. The offers yesterday were to bet 11 to 8 on him, but we have no doubt that 6 to 4 might have been obtained without the least difficulty, had any one been disposed to back the field. 7 to 2 was taken once to a small sum about Van Amburgh, 9to 1 offered agst The Squire, 15 to 1 agst Tearaway (no friends), and 25 to 1 laid to a triflle agst Galaor. Offers to bet 6 to 4 that The Squire beats anything bar two, and 2 to 1 that he beats Mid dleham. It was reported that Tearaway is arrived in England. THE GREAT ST. LEGER. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) As you have of late devoted a corner in your valuable paper to the Turf, a few lines on the coming St. Le b er may not be unacceptable. With the betting world it excites very little interest, the invulnerable superiority of the Oxfordshire nag having been so clearly established at Epsom, that with health, condition, and fair play, the St. Leger; for the second time since its establishment, must follow the - Derby. You may forewarn your readers, therefore, that Pegasus and Judex will name him as the winner, and that Van Amburgh, who will run-a, stone better horse than he did at Epsom, will be their -second. The Squire is a very moderate horse, and Iliddlehara and Tearaway are gone to the right about-. The field will be small and the race much faster than the Derby. • Vates will also take Coronation, but for a second will dip his hand in the lucky-bag, take the first That comes, and trust to the chapter of acci dents, 'as he did with Theon, Gibraltar, and Ralph ! The meeting itself will be bad, thanks to bad management, extravagant charges, and the impoverished state of the country. WOOLWICH, SEPT. 2. (CIRCULAR.) . • Royal Marine-office, Aug. 31, 1841. Commissions, dated this day, will be laid before the Queen, appointing the following gentlemen to be Second Lieutenants in the Royal Marines, and they'are attached to the divisions as stated against their names, viz.:— Digby Isaac Sloggett, Plymouth; Henry Bates Leonard, W oolwich ; William Mansel Mansel, Plymouth; Walter Barrett Abertield, Portsmouth. Captain Layton, First Lieutenant Leheux, Second Lieutenant Goold, two sergeants, two corporals. one drummer. and sixty privates, of the 'Woolwich Livision of Royal Marines, are under orders to hold themselves in readiness to embark in a steam-vessel at Woolwich, and proceed to join the Formidable, 84 guns, commis sioned last week by Captain Sir Thomas Troubridge, at Sheerness. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. The Heroine, 10-gun brig, was commissioned yester day in this dock-yard. Lieutenant Stuart is appointed Commander, and she is to have a crew of 55 men. The Rhadamanthus, steam-vessel, which has been fit ting for a troop-ship at Sheerness, arrived yesterday from that port, to have her boilers and engines put in order. The Syren, 18-gun brig, is in the basin, fitting out for the coast of Africa. The Volcano, steam-vessel, is having her masts, &c., put in. Several chains, for first•rate vessels, were tried in the chain-cable proving-house yesterday and to• day. The links are 2.* inches diameter, and are proved at a pres sure of 814 tons, which they all stood. DUTCH MAIL. AMSTERDAM, AUGUST 31.—Mr. William liindekoper, lately chosen Deputy for North Holland, having been absent from the sittings of the Second Chamber, it was hoped that 'the indisposition which was the cause of it would be shortly removed, but we are sorry to learn to day. the melancholy death of this excellent representa tive, in Whom the country loses an upright citizen and one of its• brightest ornaments. ;The 4nisAlclum Cinerant contradicts the intelligence of the arrival of the Countess of Oultremont, which was sent by a correspondent 'in that town. Though we have nb ,reason In- doubt the accuracy of our correspondent, we'have taken other measures to ascertain the truth. - AMESFOORT, AUGUST 30.—Lord Montague and family arrived here to-day, and set out again on their journey after dinner. .TIM HAGUE, AUGUST 31.—His Majesty the King arrived here yesterday morning, on his return from the province of Zealand. • - A letter from Warsaw of the 20th August says : " General. Rudyer and Vice-Admiral Kolsck have arrived in this city. The day before yesterday the first stone of a new Roman Catholic church, dedicated to St. Charles Boromeo, was laid in this city. It is to be built by order fuf the G overnment, and the expense will be defrayed rinn a fund assi"ned by his Majesty, and a considerable donation from Countess Melachowska. The Prince Go vernor, with a numerous suite, and all the members of the Government, were present. The Prince laid the first stone, and the Bishop. pronounced the benediction. This church is who built. in the form of a Latin cross, in the Italian style of Bramante, and will be completed in tw o yeam"—Th ! tch./"izpers ... , September 1. BELGIAN 1. UNDS—Bauseu.s. Sam 1. Actual Dent, 42% per Cent. Rothschild's Loan. 5 per Cent lOl Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. 93 -- 3per Cent. _ . Thirty-seven• .• 000000 71 ;1840) lal Loan of City, 1'412,4 per Cent 9 O. - Society et Commerce, 4 yi per Cent 93 flank of Belgium, 5 per Cent... ........... '74% National Society Exchange on London pnt) ll 95 • —Brussels Papers, Sept. 1. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, Atm. 21. fire per Coats. Metalliques Four per Cent 5........ ............ ..... Three per Cents. Bank Shares Zeilurg. Aug. •29 HAMBURG BORSENHALLE, Atm. 31. Bills. Money 107 Austrian 5 per Cents. Rank Shares l6lO Analo-Itussian Loan 10.54 ,108 X Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate Inscription, Ist Set t,s lO2 101% Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co. :3d and 4th Series ... 9Bk, 98 Ditto in Certificates * Ncw 4 per Cent. (1810) 86% bti Dutch Actual Debt, 2 pee Cent t.o% 50% ' Ditto 3 per Cent....... _..... . Polish Bonds New ficket Angla.Dattish Loan, 3 per Cert 7554 '75% . Nmwegian Loan, 1834, 4 per Cent .. Spanish, New 5 per Cents. 153 EXCHANGES ON LONDON. ,HAstauao, AUG. 31.-13 654.—Tw0 months, 13 4% PRUSSIAN FUN DS.— ButtLus, Aua. iB. I ills Money. i 14. liebukt. Sch., 4 1 , 9 percent. 114% iO4l. Prussian English Loan, 18311, 4 per cent 102 101}, 2 bachange on London, three months 6 183 i —Prussian Stale Gazette. Aug. 29 LORD CONGLETON.—As few people in this quarter are aware of the origin of the title which Lord Congleton has taken, we give an extract from Dr. Gold smith's life of the poet Parnell, an ancestor of his Lord ship :—"Thomas Parnell, D.D., was descended from an ancient family, that . had for centuries been settled at Congleton, in Cheshire. His father, Thomas Parnell, Who had been attached to the Commonwealth party, upon the restoration went over to Ireland ; thither he carried %large personal fortune, which he laid out in lands ill that kingdom. The estates he purchased there, as also that of which he was possessed in Cheshire, descended our Poet, who w is his eldest son, and still remain in the family."—Dundee Advertiser. ,The Earl de Grey and Lord Eliot had a long miterview with the Marquis of Normanby at the Noble ILarquis s. residence in Hill-street, Berkeley-square. PROPOSED -- PUBLIC DINNER TO THE DIRECTORS OF THE LONDON AND BRIGHTON RAILWAY. (From the Brighton Gazette.) A most respectable meeting, convened by the High Constable in pursuance of a requisition, was held on Monday at the Town Hall, for the purpose of taking into consideration the propriety of manifesting some pub lic token of attention and respect to the Directors of the London and Brighton Railway Company by inviting them to a public dinner, or otherwise, on the important occasion of opening the said Railway from London to Brighton. Mr. E. H. Creasy, in the absence of the High, Consta ble, who was too unwell to attend, having been called to the Chair, said he had great pleasure in taking part at a meeting for the purpose of celebrating an event which, in his humble opinion, was of the greatest importance to this highly-favoured town.—(Cheers.) Mr. SEYMOUR then rose to move the first resolution, and said—The object is to present some testimonial of kindness and regard, and attention to those who have taken the leading part in that which, I believe, we shall all consider to be, in the most essential degree, condu cive to .the future prosperity of this town. It may be said that when persons adventure upon speculations, they adventure for their own interests, and therefore are entitled to nothing beyond what those speculations may bring them ; but I, for one, am quite of a different opinion, and all experience runs the other way. When our great Captain returned to this country from the wars, covered with laurels, we did not say to him, " You are paid, and we give you no thanks," but we said, " We will give you wealth and dignity, as a testimony that you have done that which, although only your duty, has aggrandised the country to the greatest possible extent."—(Cheers and an expression of disapprobation from one or two persons in the meeting.) The same thing has occurred with re gard to other persons. We are at this moment, through.. out Great Britain, erecting monuments to the memory of Sir Walter Scott • yet that man, by his works, made more than a hundred thousand pounds, and persons who were niggardly would say that was an enormous sum. The fact is, that when you call in a physician who cures the patient, you do not say, "You are paid for what you have done, and that is sufficient," but the recovered patient and his family almost bow down and worship the person who has saved him, to be the joy and honour of his family, and perhaps an ornament to his country. I consider, therefore, that nothing could be more nig gardly or more discouraging to those who make great attempts, than to tell them that they are engaged in a speculation, and that they must therefore expect no praise,_ ito thanks, whoever may be benefited by that speculation that run no risk. I consider that the pre sent work is one that we ought to admire, as a victory of mind over matter.—(Cheers.) It is one that, I think, we may fairly say will be known and estimated by the whole world ; for there is nothing of this description but must connect itself with every part of civilized Europe.—(Hear, hear.) With regard to ourselves, it might be comprised in a single sentence—the benefit which it confers on Brighton. It has made us a part of London—(Hear, hear)—a part of the great metropolis of the world, and its increasing prosperity must be pro portioned accordingly. The fact is, that London, that great metropolis, abounding in wealth, and intellect, and rank, and station, wanted only one thing, and that thing which we have to give them,—namely, health,—the sea coast, the nearest to the metropolis. It is not• a benefit conferred upon Brighton, merely by the transit of pas sengers ; a benefit will be found from the railway bring ing to us permanent inhabitants. People cannot help coming to reside here.—(Hear, and continued cheers.) I said so from the beginning; when my opinion was asked as to what was likely to be the. consequence to Brighton of the formation of the railway. I stated then, as I state now, that the advantages which' the town offered were so great that a large portion of Lon don must come and permanently reside here. The, fact is, that there is no blessing without health, and the me tropolis is so large, the population so dense, the fogs so great, and the smoke so intense, that it is utterly impos sible for persons to dwell there, for a length of time, par ticularly the female part of the creation and their chil dren, without incurring disease. If they come to Brighton, they need not wait till they are sick; let them come when they are well, in order to preserve their health. And it is to be remembered that when I say health, I do not mean the mere muscular power of moving the limbs, but a sound mind in a sound body. Now Brighton would not have been in a situation to receive all the benefits of the railway, if like, Eastbourne, . it were a mere terminus or a means of proceeding to the Continent; but the fact is, that we are in a situation to receive London, for we are as like London as two peas are to each other. We have a resident aristocracy, we have an abundance of the three learned professions, we have great capitalists as contractors, bankers, merchants, and tradesmen of all descriptions ; our beautiful shops rival those of the Palais Royal, and as for Vanity Fair, we have shops which beat even Howell and James's. These things are to us comparatively trivial, but to the wealthy they are necessaries. For if you make a railway to a desert, you will not carry inhabitants to the ,terminus. We have also all the improve ments that have been made in London ; we have the town lighted with gas, we have the water laid on, which is hardly the case in any other maritime town in the kingdom, so that, in all respects, we are prepared to receive the benefits likely to arise from the enormous influx of persons residing in. London, who will use the railway ; and it is my firm belief that large families will come to reside here per manently, because the heads of those families will be enabled, by means of the railway, to go to London to transact those concerns that may be necessary, without being alienated from their families, as is now the case, while their families are at Brighton, owing to the transit between this town and London by coach not being suffi ciently rapid. These are some of my reasons for think ing that Brighton will be greatly benefited by the rail way. In order to close this part of my case, I will re mark, that although we may give health, we cannot give life eternal; and if our visitors die here, we are prepared with the prettiest burial-ground in all the kingdom.— (Laughter.) All this I have been saying about ourselves; but the object for which we are met is to say something about the Railway Company, and I assure you that I entertain the warmest approbation and admiration of their great efforts. When they first proposed to bring a railroad to Brighton, no man said, " Don't come ;" but it became a matter of competition who should come, and how they should come, and in the course of that competition there was no objection upon the face of the plan, or that could be raked out or imagined, that was not raised up in evidence against the possibility of carrying it out. Nature, it was said, presented such obstacles, that it was impossible : so that, in point of fact, we are met, not to congratulate the Company for having conquered great difficulties, but for having accomplished impossibilities. There are many in this room who heard testimony, upon oath, in the House of Lords, that the line was impos sible. Well, they succeeded at last in obtaining their Bill. They set about their work, and then their difficul ties may be said to have been begun. Every step they took . they were obliged to buy with gold ; avarice was against them; there was blame attached to them upon alloecasions for what they began, and what they did not begin, they were slandered, they were blamed, they were intimidated; they had law against him; they had every affliction almost . 1 that can attach to mortal man, they had enemies amongst themselves; but, notwithstanding all this, by the opera tion of science, by' ceura,ge,'"hy judgment, discretion, 'zeal, and' perseverance, 'llll tare' arrived at the town of Brighton.—(Cheers.). Are riOl such. Men to 'be praised and encouraged ? •Are . .we s tO be so stoical as to say, ." It is all for your own benefit that yOu have done this, 'and we don't thank you?" If so, we should have a right to say, " 'Would You praise a man for doing his duty ?" It becomes every man to do his duty; but when a man has done his duty .through life, and he is assembled amongst his fellow men, will you not praise him for what he has done? If not, you, withhold. that meed of praise which forms the motive for many a noble action, and incites to unwearied and beneficial exertion. We are all deeply interested in the progress of mind. There are in nature many things which may be said to stand still ; there are the blue sky, the vivid lightning, the majestic thunder, there is the sea. All these may be said to be still ; but the mind of man is ad vancing, and we should endeavour to promote its pro gress in every way in our power.—(Cheers.) It may be said, how are you to show this kindness to the Directors of the Company ? They don't seek money ; but they would be less than men if they did not wish for the ap probation of their fellow men; and, therefore, it was pro posed that we should meet them in the old English way, and give them an English dinner. I believe this plan will be universally approved throughout the town, and the only difficulty Nvi 11 be (which may be left to a Com mittee) how to do this in th e b e st manner ; and although t h ere m i ght be a wish that the dinner should b e ' e t x e r p eanss very popular and extensive, th a t w ill b e utterly impossibl e if y ou g i ve th e Di rec t ors suc h a din b e You respectful c u t s f t u not l to them, as the dinner must b e you must not invite the Dir g e i e v t e or them t e o m a a cold cold din r n e e c r e . pt T io h n at ; would be throwi n g Director water upon their steam, and to nollaihvay I think D ie in moving the resolution hav e now said sufficient to justify t,tiwlisould that be acceptable.— (Laughter. ) which I hold in my hands— nleintghaot of nhteeLt‘i inhabitants o n such of an ßr i i g m h p t impor tant " That in the opinion of London and Brighton t i a ta n i t li t v v a e y n , t i a t s is tly esi o r p a e h np g no r ne e r a t t ,h, bee tow n t in order to show their high sense s which that that splendid work will confetrhdeil should invite the Directors to a Public Gentlemen, I conclude with what I b egan. I feel greatly obliged to my fellow -townsmen for having selectedm me to make this proposition, because it w as demo ns t rate d to me, not that they eltected I should do it wi t h sufficient ability, but that theyisave had sufficient experience of me in this town to knoil th i at I am ever anxious for its prosperity.—(Cheers.) Mr. F. COOPER said the ho 4 n d enr of seconding the re solution had been entrusted to him ; and had it not bee n for the eloquent speech which had beendelivered to the meeting by the Honourable mover, lie should have found great difficulty in presenting it in such,4i as y i % its merits deserved. He was relieved ofthatcl to difficulty by tth'C by the very able manner in which the advantages town from the formation of the railwaycehepader)befeelnt, pointed out by Mr. Seymour. He (Mr. that the opening of this railway would be one of the most important events that had ever occurr ed to the town of Brighton. It must necessarily increase its pros perity, and produce advantages to every individual lo cated amongst them. He agreed in almost every thing that had been said by Mr. Seymour, who, however, went a little too far when he said the Directors had overcome impossibilities. The fact was, that al though Mr. Rastrick knew it could be done, it was stated upon honour and upon owl, in the Houses of Parliament , that hi s p ro j ec t wa s not (nig impracticable, but that the idea amounted to an absta "ty. They had now the re port of the Government cugineer that that which was stated, upon oath and declaration, to be almost an ab surdity and an impossibility, had not only been effected, but that it had been completed in the most masterly style, so much so that the railroad to Brighton was re presented to be one of the most perfect in the kingdom. THE SUN - , LONDON, FRIpAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1841. —(Cheers.) He (Mr. Cooper) had perhaps had greater opportunities than the Honourable Mover of the r,so lution, of intercourse with the Directors who had the management of the concern, and he could say with safety, and he said it with pleasure, that in his life he had' never met with more honourable and straightforward men, men of greater ability and as suidity, men whose assiduity and ability had enabled them to overcome all the difficulties of the undertaking. The Honourable Mover was perfectly correct in stating that obstacles were presented in every stage of the work, for not only the natural obstacles of the country through which the line passed hai to be overcome, but the ob stacles of interested parties in endeavouring to prevent the raising of the necessary funds to carry out this stu pendous work. From the day when the Bill passed up to the present time, the shares of the Company had been invariably at a discount : but, independently of that, ir respective of their overcoming all the difficulties which that circumstance necessarily produced, the Directors proceeded with a straightforward determination to dis charge their duty, and nothing but that determination and the activity with which they proceeded to execute it, had enabled them, in the depression under which the con- , cern was attempted to be kepi, to complete it the manner they had done. There were no means so well calculated to express the English manly feeling of the town towards these gentlemen as to invite them to a public dinner. He felt confident that the inhabitants of Brighton would lieirtily concur in the proposition; that. they would, one and all, concur in making it a recep tion worthy of the occasion, and an honour to those who had so much benefited the town.—(Cheers.) He there fore had the greatest pleasure in seconding the, motion, which he was sure would.be unanimously carried. Mr. AIaTTHEws had always been so strong an admirer of this line, that he had been called an enthusiast. He differed with Mr. Seymour with regard to the dinner ; for he would rather see a thousand men enjoying them selves on the occasion, than a hundred sitting in a hot room drinkinr, champagne and complimenting each other. He knew the pride of the Brighton people was to do everything better than others ; and he should like the resolution to go the extent of inviting the share holders. They might . say he was interested in that, because he was himself a shareholder—(A laugh) —but lie would waive that by taking his own ticket. Besides, it should not be forgotten that it was by the voice of the people, the working people of Brighton, that the Bill was obtained ; and he should like to see them enjoying a holiday on the occasion, with plenty to eat and drink. He could see around him many who had partaken of the Directors' champagne ; and he should like to see them give a subscription dinner in return. He once lived upon the great Bath-road, when he used to see the invalids bundling down from town on a Mon day, and it was then thought pretty well if they got back on Thursdty. This was four days. Brighton could then be reached in six hours, and that made the town. Comparing Bath and Brighton, Mr. Matthews nientioned that he had told a party at Bath that they would never beat us till they could get our " herring pond" in their neighbourhood. The railroad would, he thought, be of incalculable advantage to the town. Now was there any objection to inviting the shareholders ? A Gentleman, whose name we could not learn, said— I should like to second that, and to invite the Engineer as well as the Directors. CHAIRMAN—The requisition is very explicit ; I think we cannot go beyond the Directors. Mr. MATTHEW;;—Not if the meeting is unanimous ? Mr. SEYMOUR—Let us begin with the Directors, and have half-a-dozen more dinners, if we can. CHAIRMAN—Perhaps, Mr. Matthews may be antici pated with regard to the shareholders. I merely wish now to say that I have had the pleasure of dining at the expence of the Directors, when my friend, Mr. Mat thews, sat opposite to me.—(Laughter.) Mr. MATTHEWS—That was before the Bill passed ; but don't suppose I want to throw anything like dissen sion in the meeting. I will agree to any thing ; but I want to do the thing handsome, and I should like to see the shareholders at the dinner. Mr. IIOLTUAM remarked that the question must, after all, be left to a Committee, who, if they found it desi rable, could call the inhabitants together, and take their opinion upon Mr. Matthews's suggestion. But it would be indiscreet for ; the present meeting, without funds, to resolve on a very large expenditure. Mr. SEYMOUR, in reply, said he was no shareholder, nor had he ever tasted any of the Threctors' turtle or venison —no, nor even their bread and cheese.— (Laughter.) He should like to see a feast as extensive as Mr. Matthews suggested ; but that was impossible. After passing this resolution they would, of course, ap point a Committee, and these gentlemen would consider the best opssible manner of carrying out the object of the meeting, and, if practicable, of enlarging that object. He wished now to mention one circumstance which he had forgotten when he before addressed them, but which reflected great honour on the Company. Among the advantages of Brighton were its charities, at the head of which stood the Sussex County Hospital. That Insti tution had assisted the poor men who were injured in the progress of the railway, several of whom had been at the Hospital, and most of them had been cured ; and the Directors had -- shown that science and benevolence went together like two cherries upon one stalk, for they had sent to the Hospital donations to the amount of 1501. Mr. Seymour then mentioned that a letter was a short time ago sent to them, stating the .number of railway cases that had been received at the Hospital, in response to which came, in forty-eight hours, a further gift of 100 guineas. - The resolution was then put and carried with only two dissentients, Mr. Bowdidge and another. Mr. C. WIGNEY proposed a resolution that a Com mittee be appointed to carry the foregoing resolution into effect, with full power to make every arrangement which can render the dinner agreeable and the Directors sensible of the feelings of the inhabitants of the town of Brighton for their exertions. Mr. H. SMITHERS had great pleasure in seconding that resolution. He was sure that they would all join heart and hand; the Committee would be anxious to do their utmost, and let the town see whether, by subscribing li berally, they could not do more than give the Directors a dinner.—(Hear, hear.) 'He hoped that they would make it a high day and a holiday, and shut up their shops and enjoy themselves. kr. B. W - 00 . 13 remarked that an era was claiming upon them which would, in his, opinion, make Brighton more prosperous than ever she had been before. With the ex perience of the effect produced by the starting of the six hour coaches by Mr. Whitchurch, twenty years ago, he had no doubt that the increased rapidity of travelling by means of the railway would be beneficial in proportion to the increase of speed. On the motion of Mr. F. COOPER, seoonded by Mr. FOLKARD, thanks were vot e d t o th e Chairman ; and the meeting broke up. THE WESTMINSTER REFORM SOCIETY On Wednesday a numerous meeting of the Westminster Reform Society was held at Stannard's Hotel, Charles street, Covent-garden, to receive the Report of the Election Committee. Among the members present were Major-General Purlby, Sir F. Knowles, Knt., Mr. Prout, &c. Major-General Purlby was called upon to preside, when Mr. Prout read the Report of the Com mittee. appointed by the Society to conduct the late election against the Tory candidate, and in doing so he observed that it was a matter of great moment that the Society should be put in possession of the causes which led to the return of a Tory, and their defeat at the late election, as they would thereby be better prepared upon another occasion. They had been busy in attending to the registration, or they would have presented the Re port earlier, and he was able to say, that in consequence of the exertions used, there were above 2,000 new claims this year.--(Hear, hear.) He hoped, there fore, that the Reformers would exert themselves in order to place Westminster in that position it has main tained for many years. He, had for thirty ycars la boured for the Liberal cause, and he regretted that, after so long a period, it should happen that they were represented by a Tory. He then presented the Report, from which it appeased that 666 electors voted for Captain Rous beyond the number who voted for Sir James Murray in 1137, and 500 electors less voted for Sir De Lacy Evans and Mr. Leader. The Committee attributed the loss of the election to over-confidence, and observed, that if the plumpers given to the Reform candidates, which were 99 for Mr. Leader, and 59 for Sir De Lacy Evans were divided, that the latter would have had nineteen, and the former two votes , more than Captain llous. The Committee then proceeded to regret the loss of Sir De Lacy Evans as their representative, observing that he had always faith fully discharged his duty in support of the interests of his constituents.—(Hear.) Mr. Scaif then moved, and Mr. Child seconded the motion, that the Report be re ceived and entered in the minutes, which was unani mously agreed to. Thanks were voted to the Chairman, several other members having addressed the Chair, when the Chairman, in reply, suggested the propriety of for Ming local Committees, so that they may be prepared for another election. Mr. Huggett informed the meet ing that there would be 716 objections against the Tories at the Registration Court, and 198 claims made on their part. About twenty members were added to the Society. PRICES OF FOOD AT HOME AND ABROAD. —The price of white wheaten bread of the first quality at Paris, on Saturday last, was 66 centimes the loaf of 2 kilogrammes, which is less than 51d. the loaf of 4lbs. English weight • and the price of b rea d o f th e first qua lity in London being 10d. the loaf of 41bs., it follows that bread is 81 9-11 ths per cent. dearer in London than in Paris. The highest quotation of wheat of the first qua lity on the Same day was 33f. the hectolitre, which is equal to 50s. sd. the quarter. In London, on Mon day, the highest quotation for the best wheat was 80s. a quarter ; consequently, wheat was 58 4-6ths per cent. dearer in London than in Paris, and a man could have bought in Paris for five shillings as much wheat as would have cost• him eight shillings in London. The highest quotation of flour of the first quality was 61f. the 159 kilogrammes, which answers to 38s. 4d. the t s i a o c of 8 n k of flour bs . of the l English rs t weight, quality ainnd Londont e highest being qu o 6 t s a s - . the sack, it follows that flour is about 71 per cent. dearer in4oondon than in Paris, and that, with 19s. 2d. a man i s equal to 41s . ifliolder: t3:oEef:d:gBouitesbrh.tleetrrah: would be,.able to purchase as much flour in Paris as he would have to pay 11. 12s. 6d. for in London. In other parts of France the prices were, for the most part,' somewhat lower than in Paris. At Bayonne the best l u ; r iw e s se andqt hu A aaa At quality of wheat was quoted at 21f. the hectolitre, which measure. I st nut hectolitreelti.rshectolitre, measure. h e fio as cl Dole, the highest quotation of wheat was 23f. 50c. the ltEioeleb4te7ousl Elbeuf, r 64 e dl. f ; a saot quarter,eL. , wheat is 67 7-19ths per cent. dearer in London than at Elbeuf, where a man may buy for I Is. 101 d. as much wheat as would cost him 30s. in London. The General Steam Navigation Company's packet the Ocean, J. Fife, from Rotterdam, arrived off the Custom-house at eleven o'clock yesterday morning with the Dutch mail, after a favourable passage of twenty-four hours. RAILWAY MEETINGS. MANCHESTER AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY, The half-yearly meeting of the shareholders in this undertaking was held in the large room of the York Hotel, on Thursday last. Mr. Thomas Ashton, Chair- Man of the Beard of Directors, occupied the Chair ; and, after he had read the advertisement convening the met ing, and the seal of the Company had been affixed•to the register of proprietors produced, Mr. LYONS one of the Directors, read the Report, which stated, that the Directors did not entertain any doubt as. to . the completion of the various works at the specified time—namely, the 12th of March next ; and they confidently looked forward to the opening of the linu.to Crewe before the close of that month. The re sult of the negotiation with the Manchester, Sheffield, and Ashton-under-Lyme Railway Company, had been an arrangement, which the Directors believed would prove beneficial to both CoMpanies. The joint station is to be erected at the cost of this Company ; and the ' Sheffield Company are to pay an adequate annual rent for such portion as they may occupy ; this payment will be altogether independent of the tolls to be levied, for the use of the line, between Chancery-lane, Ardwiek, and the Manchester station. The amount of loans re ceived up to the 31st of July, was 352,3291. 9s. 6d., and, after satisfying all current demands upon the Company, there was then a balance in hand of £158,800 35. 10d. Since that time a considerable amlnt had been received, and several large sums had been engaged, and the Di rectors continued to receive tenders of. loans weekly. They had therefore no hesitation in again stating their decided conviction that'it will not be necessary to n ake any further call upon the proprietors. Mr. Bulkeley Price, Mr. Henry S. Chadwick, and Mr. Henry T. Wor ley, had been elected Directors, in the room of Mr. John Brooks, Mr. Henry. Tootal, and M. Robert C. Sharp, who had resigned since the last half yearly meet ing. In compliance with the provisions -of the Act - of Parliament, the following five Directors retire from office by rotation :—Mr. Robt: Ogden, Mr. Henry T. Worley, Mr. Leo Schuster, Mr. Bulkeley Price, and Mr. Joshua P. Westhead. From the statement of accounts from the Ist Feb. to '• the 31q July appended to the report, but which was not read, it appeared that the amount received from passen gers and parcels was 8,6661. 13s. 4d.; and that the coach . ing disbursements amounted to 4,5361. 12:i. Bd. The amount received on deposits was 150,0001; on calls, 963,184/.; . mortage, 352,329/. 9s. 6d. ; and that the total of the receipts was 1,515,045/. 2s. ld. The dis bursements included items for expenditure in 1835-6-7, ,157,745L75.5d.; landand compensation, 479,601/. 55.11 d.; works, 461,629/. 17s. 3d. ; permanent way, 121,770/.145. 7d. ; stock, 85,131/. 15s. 3d.; and other items, making alto gether, 1,376,2441. 18s. 3d.; leaving a balance in favour of the company of 138,800/. 3s. Bd. Mr. BUCK, the engineer, then read the Report, giving an account of the Various contracts, all of which are in a forward state, except the Wilmslow contract ; and he said that, since the Report was drawn up, much greater energy had been'displayed by the contractor, and such arrangements' made as would leave no doubt of the works being completed within the period specified. The Re port also stated, that the experience of the past six months had tended to confirm him in the opinion ad vanced in his Report of February last, that there would not be any excess upon the contracts then stated, name ly, about two per cent. upon the lettings. RicnAnn 'BIRLEIC moved, " That the Report cf the Directors be received, and, with the statement of ac counts, printed for circulation amongst the Share holders.' Dr. LYON, in seconding the motion, said he trusted they might now say that the prospects before them were clear and promising. —Carried. unanimously. NORTH MIDLAND RAILWAY. The tenth half-yearly meeting of proprietors in this railway was held at the Derby Station on Thursday last. About 150 Shareholders were present. George Carr Glynn, Esq., Chairman to the Board of Directors, presided. The Chairman having noticed certain charges of unfairness made against the Directors, the Report was read ; from a hich it appeared, that, after the ne cessary expenditure incurred, there was a sufficieLt surplus on hand to warrant the Directors in recoil':- mending a dividend of 21. per share on the hundred pound shares, and 1/. on those of fifty. The traf fic, as compared with last year, had increased 64 per cent., without occasioning any additional outlay to the Company. " All the works on the line, including the tunnels, are (nays the report) in the most efficient state ; and, when the station at Nor manton (now erecting at the joint expence of this and the Manchester and Leeds, and York and North Mid land Companies) is completed, little more will .remain to be done." The Board determined forthwith to close the offices in London, and to concentrate the whole estab lishment in Derby. The receipts for the half-year end ing 30th June, 1841, with the balance in hand from last year, amounted to 125,8691. 19s. 6d. leaving, after de fraying all expenses, a surplus of 47,8251. 7s. 7d. The net profit for the half-year amounted to 16,0001. The Chairman stated, that they had realized a very handsome per centage on the surplus revenue, and that a reduction in the expenditure had been resolved on, and was now being carried into effect, amounting to 14,0001. per an num,.without in any respect impairing the efficiency of the works. The Report stated that " The opening of the Great North of England line has undoubtedly proved very ad vantageous to the North Midland, but as the railway communication northwarh terminates at Darlington, the Directors have been extremely..anxious that tho accom modiition by coacheS should be improved, and they are happy to state that satisfactory arrangements are now made by which thepublic ate conveyed the whole dis tance from London to Edinburgh in twenty-seven hours. This, however, is not sufficient ; the completion of the line from Darlington to Newcastle is of the utmost im portance, and measures have been taken to promote this object in conjunction with the other Railway Companies interested in the extension, which the Directors trust will t).l seconded by the earnest and zealous co-operation of the Proprietors of the North Midland Railway." - The report having been adopted, a discussion took place as to the propriety of reducing the fares ; but the meeting separated without proposing any formal resolu tion on the subject. THE MAGAZINES. THE DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE. The portrait of Dr. Barrett, late Senior Fel low and Vice-Provost of the Dublin University— one of the most eccentric, and in many respects most remarkable men of moderrtimes—embel lishes the Picture Gallery of the Dublin Maga zine tbr this month. Dr. Barrett, better known I in the Irish University by the soubriquet of "Jacky Barrett," was a compound of oddities so heterogeneous, that the wonder is, how they ever came to co-exist in the character of the same individual. " Though acquainted," says his biographer, "with the abstrusest things of sci ence, he was so ignorant of the things of com mon life, that he absolutely did not know a live duck from a partridge ; and though he had dined at Commons on mutton fbr forty years, he actu ally did not know alive sheep the only time he ever saw one; though capable of speaking arid writing the dead languages with correctness and fluency, lie was so ignoran r t of his own, that his conversation was a tisv of blunders and gram matical abc3urdities. Though g enerally kind and good-natured, he was never known to give a penny in charity; and so narrow was his heart, that he suffered his nearest relatives to pine in poverty while he lived, and starve at his death, while he had accumulated useless thousands. Though a religious and „pious man, he indulged a habit of cursing and'sWearing to a frightful ex- . tent; and though moral and continent, he pur chased all sorts of books and pictures for his pri vate indulgence." The following anecdotes of Dr. Barrett's person are quite characteristic of the man His solitary habits prevented his having any asso ciates among his fellow-students, but he made compa nions of his scanty stock of furniture, and when reading for Fellowships used every day to go through the form of an examination with them. Having placed his chair, table, basin, and bolster, in a semicircle, ho gave them the names of the declared candidates, and propounded such questions as occurred in the part of the examination he was reading. To the first whom he supposed to an swer, he said " male," to the, next " minus recte," to another " die tu," and so on to the last which represented himself, to whose imagined answer he always replied " recte respondisti, domine Barrett." In this way with wonderful perseverance .he got through the whole course, and obtained a Fellowship with considerable credit in the year 1778, and was co-opted to a Senior Fellowship, A.D. 1791. As soon as he became a Fellow, all the eccentricities which his former mode of life had tended to conceal as well as to confirm, began to be better known, and every one who had any intercourse with him had numerous anecdotes of his blundering simplicity. The anecdote of the two cats, which has been told of many learned men, originated with him. His only pets were a cat and a kitten, its progeny. A friend seeing two holes in the bottom of his door, asked him for what purpose he made them there. Barrett said it was for his cats to go in and out. _ _ " Why," replied his friend, " would not one do for both ?" - - " You silly man," answered the Doctor, " how could the bin- cat get into the little hole ?" " But," said his friend, " could not the little one go through the big hole." " Egad," said Barrett, " and so she could, but I never thought of that.' . Equally ingenious was the plan he proposed at the Board for removing the rubbish after some buildings had been pulled down in the College courts. He considered it a very unnecessary expense to have it drawn away in carts, and said it would" be a more expeditious means of getting rid of it, to dig a. hole. and bury it ; when asked what was to be done with the clay taken out of the hole— " D'ye see me now," replied the philosophic Doctor, " can't you dig another hole and bury that ?" Nor can we omit the following : How completely this extraordinary passion for hoard ing money had counteracted the natural kindness of his disposition, was strongly exhibited in another instance, towards his poor old attendant, Catty. He had sent her out, as usual, one morning for a halfpenny-worth of milk ; he gave her a penny to pay for it, with strict in junctions to be correct in bringing back the change. The poor woman, whom old age and want had rendered in firm, slipped and fell in the College-court as she was re-• turning with the milk, hurting her leg so severely that she was immediately carried off to an hospital. She had for many years been the Doctor's only companion, and being sincerely grieved for the accident, he went at once to the hospital to see her. The unfortunate woman was lying on bed writhing with pain, and her old master was at first affected to tears, but hip habitual avarice was too strong to be suppressed, and after expressing his sorrow for her misfortune, he began, " D'ye hear, Catty, where's the jug ?" " Oh ! Doctor dear," groaned the poor woman, " sure the jug was broke, and I couldn't help it." • " Very good, Catty, that's true, it couldn't be helped; but d'ye see me now, where's my halfpenny change ?" " Charles O'Malley, the Irish Dragoon," is continued this month with much spirit. The remaining articles, especially those entitled " September Flowers," and " Sketches on the Coast _of Clare," are as clever as any that have lately appeared in this periodical. SMALL WOOD'S MAGAZINE. There is a pleasant variety in the pages of this Magazine, with much clever prose and verse. The " Diary of a Country Gentleman " lays events in a lovely region, the more strongly to contrast with it the crimes of its dwellers. The " History of Venice" compresses into small com pass every notable event connected with that Republic. " The Impenitent" records the feel ings of a Jewish Priest, who travels to Jerusa lem on the day of the Crucifixion, and is startled at the ominous signs in the country through which he passes, but of which he knows not the cause ; he arrives at Jerusalem at the moment when the'bursting of the tomb has filled the city with wonder. " The Old Farm House" presents the story of a disinherited son, who, by the in strumentality of two accomplices, murders his father, " rich Harden, the miser," and possesses himself, by force, of his estates; remorse, how ever, seizes the one, and justice the others. The chapter on " The Law of Progress in Mankind" is philosophical and erudite. " The Warrior of the Caucasus" is a pOetic legend, founded upon the betrayal of her country to the Russians by the maniac-bride of a chieftain of Circassia, who, in the moment of patriotic desperation, hurls him self, along with a mass of rock, upon the ap proaching enemy. • THE SPORTSMAN. The " Sportsman " this month contains, inter alia, a cleverish print, representing an Ameri can prairie, which fully realizes the descrip tions of Cooper, the American novelist. SPORTING REVIEW. This Magazine concentrates in itself all the " racing and chasing o'er Cannobie lea." Its first paper, " Hyde Marston," contains a spirited sketch of some College pranks. The Hon. Grantley Berkeley grows learned upon the reve r rend duty of destroying all vermin of the owl species. Sir. John Paul enacts the melodious over a coach and apothecary's horse. " Bear hunting" in Upper Canada, and " Sporting In telligence from the Disputed Territory," give instances of some superlative sport and crack rifles. THE ASIATIC JOURNAL. No. CXL. The bulk of this month's journal is almost en tirely made up of an elaborate, and, doubtless, careful report of the recent proceedings at the East India House, in the case of the Rajah of Sattara, a few editorial strictures upon which ap pear in another page. Of the trifling papers which remain, the " Diary of an Assistant- Surgeon" is written in a sunny humour, and hits off, in pleasant style, small accounts of Madras races and banquet-balls, with the paradisaical state of sitting in full summer costume amid the atmosphere and climate of India. The review of " Memoirs of Warren Hastings" is here concluded. Lines on " Happiness" are indited chastely and well. The " Memoirs of a Griffin" pleasantly pursue their way to a twelfth chap ter, and the paintings of every-day life in India appear to be happily coloured. The peculiar tribes of the Eusofzyes of Afl'ghanistan, which were first introduced to European notice in Mr. Elphinstone's account of Cabool, are, neverthe less, so little known, that the loose notes found among Dr. Lord's and Capt. Conolly's papers will be read with interest. LITERATURE. CAPTAIN MACHEATH. Part I. This is the first number of a work intended, as we gather from the Prospectus, to illustrate the character and social peculiarities of the highway man a century since. It is interspersed with numerous sketches of celebrated male and female characters, and is written in 4 very dashing, off hand style. The author is Pierce Egan, whose " Tom and Jerry" and " Boxiana " attained great notoriety in their day. SHEERNESS, AUG. 31.—Last night the Rus sian Finland ship Solide, Captain Batlund, at present dis charging in the basin here, got so imbedded in the mud that, on the flood tide, she did not float, and the raft port having been left open, the water rushed in and al most filled her. When the circumstance was discovered, an alarm was immediately giVen to the police, and in a few minutes Lieutenant Wise, R.N. (director of the po lice), with all his men, and the assistance of the mili tary guard, and Mr. Easto, assistant-master, attended. The deck load of the Solide, and her victualling stores having been speedily removed, she rose from her bed in the mud, but immediately on her floating, owing to the great quantity of water in her hold, and having a flotsom cargo, she fell over on her larboard broadside, but was fortunately prevented from capsizing by coming against the wall of the basin. As it was, however, the water flowed over her lee-rail, and up to her main-hatch comings. The principal part of her victualling stores being of a perishable nature, are quite destroyed. The crew were engaged on Tuesday in pumping her out. BIRMINGHAM AND DERBY RAILWAY. The general meeting of the Proprietors of the Birming ham and Derby Railway was held on Thursday last, the 26th ult. at the Waterloo-rooms, Birmingham, having been adjourned from the 10th ult. for the purpose of re ceiving the Report of a Committee appointed to investi• gate the accounts and the financial conditiOn of the Com pany. From this Report which was presented and read to the meeting, it appeared that a considerable discre pancy had existed between the amount of traffic as pub lished weakly, and the aggregate amount ascertained at the close of the half-year ; the latter having fallen short of the former by no less than 1,989/. 18s. 3d. . This error the Report stated to have arisen from errors in keeping the accounts of the merchandise and mineral traffic, and to have shown considerable negligence in the principal servant of the Com pany. With respect to the general financial con dition of the Company, the Report stated, that, in ad dition to the sum of 800,0001. raised by shares, and 256,666/. by debentures, a further sum of 80,0001. would be required to complete the line. With regard to the revenue, it appeared that the gross proceeds of the traffic for the past year had been 58,350/., which, after paying the charges of working the line and the interest upon the borrowed money, left a balance of profit for the year of 6,361/. 2s. 51, equal to about 13s. 4d. on each share of 1001. The Committee, however, expressed a confident expectation that the traffic will ultimately be greatly in creased ; and they presented a series of calculations to show, that a gross annual income of 113,4381. might be fairly expected, which, if realized, will probably pay about four per cent. to the Shareholders. After hearing this Report read, the Meeting resolved that no dividend should be made, and that the surplus of 6,361/. 2s. sd. should be carried to the credit of the revenue account. DUBLIN AND DROGHEDA RAILWAY COM- MANY. The usual. half-yearly meeting of this Company was held in Dublin on Thursday last ; George A. Hamilton, Esq., in the Chair. From the Report of the Directors, it appeared that the works are rapidly progressing, and that the expenditure will not exceed 14,00(1. per mile, including the purchase of land. The finance Report of last year stated, that, after the payment of expenditures to the amount of 10,5841. 1%. sd. the Company had a balance on hand of 13,571/. Os. 7d. The accounts pur ported to have been audited on 31st July last. The whole line between Dublin and Balbriggan will be soon in operation, and the remaining portion of the line will not be commenced till next summer, as the work on that division is very light, and will be completed in about twelve months from its commencement. The Report being approved of, it was resolved to form a friendly Society for the purpose of ensuring, in cases of accident, relief to the labourers employed by the Company. The usual vote of thanks was then given to the Chairman, and the meeting separated. SHABBY TRlCK.—Amongst the novel expe dients daily contrived by those who " live by their wits," for the purpose of gratifying their passions or their ne cessities at the expense of the industrious, the following is perhaps not unworthy of notice. The other day a fellow entered a respectable public-house in this vicinity, and, calling for a gill of whisky, said lie intended wait ing the arrival of a companion whom he expected to fol low immediately. After - some time, he rang the bell and told the girl that his friend did not appear to be coming and that she might take back t h e w hi s k ey, as he did not require it. The girl, without suspicion, al lowed him to depart, but on going to th e b ar i t was f oun d that he had drank th e whisky and filled up the stoup with ter. The fellow was speedily brought back by the landlord, but he stoutly denied having tasted the whisky, and refused to pay the value of it, for one of the most cogent reasons imaginable, that he had no money. Finding it impossible to obtain satisfaction, " mine host permitted him to depart, after bestowing an admonitory kick or two on his breach.—Ayr Observer THE PAST.—When the art of reflection takes place in the mind, when we look at ourselves in the light of thought, we discover that our life is embosomed in beauty. Behind us, as we go, all things assume pleasing forms, as clouds do far off, Not only things f.tmiliar and stale, but even the tragic and terrible are comely, as they take their plat cin the pictures of memory. The river -bank, the weed at the water-side, the old house, the foolish person, however neglected in the passing, have a grace in the past. Even the corpse that has lain in the chamber has added a solemn ornament to the house. The soul will not know either deformity or pain.—Essay zin Spirituel Laws. It is singular that whilst so much has been said about the humidity of the weather, there were fewer wet days at Presteign last month than in the three preceding Julys ; in July, 1838, it rained on 15 days • in 1839, 20 days ; in 1840, 17 d a y s ; an d i n 1841 only 13 days.— Worcestershire Cirronid MESMERISM, BY DR. ELLIOTSON. We attended yesterday, by the invitation of Dr. El liotson with a select company of literary men, barristers, and physicians, to witness a series of mesmeric experi ments, which took place at - his residence in Conduit street. The manifestations of the magnetic influence which were produced•were decided and obvious, and in the highest degree curious and interesting, although it is by no means an easy task to describe them satisfactorily in writing. The•first subject was a young lady, about twenty-four or 0-vent) -five years of age, who, having been for several years subject to epileptic fits, without expe riencing any relief from the • constant and costly assist ance of the most eminent physicians, to whom her parents were from time to time recommended, was cured by the magnetic operations of Dupotet, and has not had a fit since the first time (four years ago),- when the pe culiar sleep called mesmeric was induced by the Baron's manipulations. We have heard of several well-attested cases in which, by the application of the same means, she has lately afforded to others the same relief which she herself derived from magnetism. The object of her introduction upon this occasion Was to show, by contrast with the next subject, the very different effects of mes- meristn on different constitutions. On this oc casion she was sent to sleep in twenty seconds. Her limbs were rigid, and she was in a state of absolute and unquestionable insensibility. Yet she followed every motion of 1)r. Elliotson's hands precisely as a needle v ill follow the magnet ; and when he caused her to stop in her extraordinary progress after him across the room, she stood fur twenty minutes fixed and motionless as a marble statue, in a position in which the most vigorous and adroit posture-master in the world could not sustain himselt for a minute. The rigidity of her muscles was extreme, as in the case of the young man who has been the principal subject of M. Lafon , taine's experiments at the Queen's Rooms. In this re spect the next subject was very differently affected ; for in her there was not only no rigidity of the muscles, but no power to raise the body from the reclining position, or to hold a limb for many seconds in the position to which the .movements of the magnetizer attracted it. She was between fifteen and sixteen years of age, .and with a countenance so sweetly expressive of ingeniousness and good-nature, that if the allegations that mesmeric exhibitions are all fraud and collusion have any truth in her case, the " human face divine " is a most villainous and unpardonable liar. Her story has some traits of painful interest. She is one of a family of nine daughters, of whom (we believe, three years ago) seven were at the same time attacked with scarlet fever. Upon the subsidence of that specific plague, she became subject to epileptic fits of the most clisixessing character % suffering no less than fifteen a day ! Her father obtained for her, at vast expense, the continual aid of the most distinguished medical men; but without any mitigation et her sufferings. He says he cared nothing for the cost, but he was heart broken to Ivitness the condition of his child ; and although he had .little faith in mesmerism ; he determined to try it as a forlorn hope. Under 1)r. Elliotson's care, with the application of that remedy alone, she has ob tained such complete relief, that there is reason to hope that she will never have another fit ; and this is her own opinion. In the experiments of yesterday, we had some extraordinary proofs of the mysterious sympathy between the magnetiser and the patient, which we de spair of making intelligible by any exertion of our powers of description. When she was in a state of ap parent catalepsy, and insensible to all that passed around her, she manifested in the most unequivocal manner, a consciousness of, and pleasure in, the Doc tor's being near her—inquietude and distress when he moved away—and annoyance and disgust when any one else approached her. Notwithstanding this, how ever, several experiments were tried by every gentleman present as to the subjection of her insensible limbs to their mesmeric attraction ; and her hands and feet, her head and eyelids, were moved to and fro, up and down, as the experimenters thought proper, but with strong and evident expressions of displeasure on her part. We were also informed of several extraordinary cases of mesmeric cure, upou the authority of tradesmen of high respectability, and far removed from all suspicion of deceit ; but we do not think that a detail of them comes properly Within ,the scope of this notice. THE TIMBER TRADE.—The extremely de pressed state of the timber trade, at the present moment, furnishes a convincing proof of the insufficiency even of the highest protecting duties to preserve particular interests in a state of prosperity, whilst the country generally is suffering. The decline in the price of most descriptions of timber has been . from 20 to 25 per cent. - This, we believe, is entirely owing to the ces sation of building throughout the kingdom, which is always a certain and immediate consequence of public distress. There have been seldom fewer houses build ing in Liverpool than at present. In the manufacturing districts it is too difficult to find employment for the mills which are already erected for any new ones to be built. *The present miserably low rates of freights to all parts of the world, besides depreciating the value of ship property already in existence, also act:: most injuriously on the timber trade and on ship building. We have already alluded to the depressed state of shipping: and we may add, that although there is no interest in' the kingdom of more importance than this, there is none which is more heavily pressed upon by impolitic legislation. The duties on all descriptions of timber greatly enhance the cost of. building British ships ; the duties on corn and provisions add greatly to the expense of navigating them ; and - the exclusion of foreign corn, except by fits and starts, deprives the Bri tish shipowner of the carriage of the bulky article, greatly needed in this country, and to be obtained in greater or smaller quantities in all those ports from which there is at present the greatest difficulty in procuring cargoes. Under these circumstances, there can be no wonder that the timber trade is depressed, and that the protecting duties on colonial timber, high as they are, have altogether failed to keep it in a state of prosperity. —Liverpool It will be remeinered that the Lord Chancellor; on Monday night, just before the House of Peers ad journed, presented a Bill to relieve " a Noble Lord " (the name was not mentioned at the time) from the dis abilities and penalties he had incurred in consequence of having taken his seat and voted before taking the oaths and going through the other prescribed and requisite forms. It now appears that the Noble Lord then alluded to was the Earl of Scarborough, and the Bill in question bears this title :—" A Bill to relieve the Right Hon. John Savile Lumley Savile, Earl of Scarborough, from certain disabilities, in consequence of his having sat and voted in the House of Peers without being duly qualified by taking the oaths and making the declaration prescribed by law, and subscribing the same respec tively." It was presented by the Lord Chancellor by her Majesty's command, and read the first time. The Stand ing Orders, Nos. 26 and 155 (that Bills should not be read twice in a day, &c.), are to be taken into considera tion on Monday next, with a view to this Bill going through all its stages on that day ; and the Lords have been summoned to attend on that occasion. The dis abilities incurred (according to' the 30th Charles 11., stat. 2, cap. 1) are very numerous and serious ; and the accidental omission to comply with that, statute in the present case has brought the Noble Earl into a curious position in relation to the severe enactments of that Actl A BRIDAL BLUNDER.—At Walcot, last week, a dashing carriage drove up to the church from Box, and a bride, attended by her bridesmaid, was handed out by her papa. The parson and the whole party were soon in readiness for the important ceremony, with the ex ception that a chief performer in the drama was unac countably absent. The bride trembled as the minutes moved away, and—" He cometh not, she said, she said : he cometh not, she said." Her father waxed wrrth at the bridegroom's unpardonable non-appearance, and, taking horse, gallopped in search of his intended son in-law. On arriving at the sinner's house, he found him quietly pursuing his wonted avocations, unconscious of the presence of his dulcinea at Hymen's altar. An ex planation ensued. He had left the lady and her brides maid to fix the day—Ahe important day :—and they had sent him a note—a sort of warrant—announcing to him his loss of batchelor-life on the 10th of August, 1841 : but, unfortunately, they committed the blunder of ne glecting to ascertain if the intimation was received as well as sent. The fact was, it was not received—and hence the disappointment. The bride thanked her stars . it was no worse. and the wedding took place on the fol lowing day.—Tyne Mercury. DEATH FROM WANT OF MEDICAL AID.-- Yesterday evening, Mr. Payne held an inquest at the Bell public-house, Poppin's-court, Fleet-street, on view of the body of Elizabeth Biggs, aged 28. Deceased had been subject to fits of epilepsy during the last three years, and on Tuesday last, she was suddenly seized with a renewal of her former attacks. She continued in fits all that night, and died in consequence on the following morning. Just before her death a medical man was called in, but it was too late. In giving his evidence, this gentleman stated deceased's life would undoubtedly have been saved if she had had proper and timely medical aid. Verdict —" Died from the effect of fits." SUDDEN DEATH OF E. J. SNIYTI4 E, Esq.— We have to announce the melancholy and sudden death of E. J. Smythe, Esq., eldest son of Sir E. J. Smythe, Bart., of Acton Burnell Hall, in this county. On Satur day last, whilst riding with the respected Baronet and others after a buck in the park, he was suddenly seized with illness, and fell senseless from his horse ; and so violent was the attack, that before surgical aid (Mr. John It. Durnell, of Pitchford, who lost no time in being on the spot) could reach Acton Burnell, life had fled. It is supposed that from exertion a ruptured vessel caused his death.—Salvian Journal. RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—An aged man, named James Chorley, employed on the Bristol and Exeter Railway, on Thursday night fell asleep, and the deceased. who had unfortunately sat close to the line, must have fallen across the rail. The mail train came clown at its usual hour, and being undisturbed by its noise, it passed over him, severed his head froin his .body, carrying it to a considerable distance, and divided his trunk at a little below his chest. So little alteration in the motion of the engine and carriages did the accident occasion, that the engineers, guards, and passengers were, on their arrival at Bridgewater, unconscious of the occurrence of any thin; unusual.—Bristol Standard. AN AUTHENTIC JOE MILLER.—As if to re deem the habitual dullness of Joe Miller, one solitary, joke of his stands on respectable authority. Joe, sit tingeure must; at the window of the Sun Tavern, in Clare-street,a. while a fish-woman was crying, y m o y u ar maids not I" content exclaim t e o d ' s l Ah your ly ctu :: own‘Bv wicked !buy Pueld,y m old y soles y r o e uat b sell your maid's too."—Bentley's lifisce lany. A GAME PIKE.--A gentleman, fishing in the neighbourhood of Fochabers, a few days ago, caught a pike, upwards of two feet long, from the stomach of which he extracted a well-grown leveret. or young hare —the head, shoulders, and fore-paws being as fresh and entire as if' newly coursed down. The presumption is, not that the pike had gone a-poaching, but that pussy had unwittingly trespassed upon the watery domain of this sharkish gourmand.—Aberdeen Journal. EVENING S Vic LORD COTT LNHAIII. i itt It was impossible for us to publish, as we id yester day, th e or d ers j ust i ssue d b y L or d C otten b q i f or th e better regulation of the business of the Court f Chan cery, cery, and ';hick may be regarded as his partinitencr to the profe ss i on over which he has so usefully of, without feeling that some pUblic expression of the sense universally entertained of is services was due to the Noble and Learned Lord. It is usual, when an eminent Judge retires from the Bench, for the leaders of the bar to deliver, in the name of their brethren, a parting ad dress in acknowledgment of his claims upon their respect and esteem, and we may be very sure that such a com pliment would not have been omitt e d i n t h e presen t case , bad the Courts of Equity been sitting at the time of Lord Cottenham's retirement. • We think it highly pro bable, from our knowledge of the opinion which prevails on the subject of his merits, that the bar will even .now find for- themselves some opportunity of performing this pleasing duty, • notwithstanding the acci dent which pro-cuts them from doing it in...the customary manner. In the mean time, we 'trust we shall pot be considered to be intruding improperly upon their province, if we take advantage of the delay which must intervene to anticipate, in some degree, the senti ments which they may be dxpected to express. • It has been the peculiar good fortune, or ra f ther merit, of Lord Cottenham, to have sustained with universal ap plause an elevation for - which his qualifications were not, at the beginning, appreciated by the public. To a per fect familiarity with the practice, and acquaintance with the recorded decisions of those Courts, he brought an enlarged common' sense, and a mind disposed to recur to the fundamental principles of equitable jurisdiction. Few Judges have approached more closely to the true medium lietween a slavish adherence to furies and prece dents, and a carelessness about tampering with established principles of action. There has been nothing technical in Lord Cottenham's judgments, and yet he has never departed from the settled artificial system of his Court, but has left it developed in clearer, more consistent, and . . more legitimate proportions than when it began to re ceive modification under his hands. He has alway s ap peared to feel the importance of checking undue hap.; Pon, not by delays and harassing costs, which yemier justice inaccessible, but by throwing a steady light up on the principles of the law, and marking out as clearly as possible the rules which ought to govern the practical intercourse of mankind. Great industry, and an intellect apprehensive of principles, and quick to detect and dis cLd secondary and irrevalent matter, have enabled him to despatch the business of his Court With comparative speed, without withholding from the most trifling case that full attention and con. sideration which was its due. His decision.; ip se given an unusual degree of general satisfacti on ; and it has been a remarkale merit, that instead of shrinking from making precedents, amd endeavour' mg ( as Lord Eldon was apt to do) to confine the tr'nciple, and there fore the public utility, as well as the personal responsi bility of his' judgments, vvitltin the narrowest possible' limits, he has always manifested a desire to exhaust, as far as possible, the questions at issue between par ties, and to take every fair opportunity of settling the future law of the Court. Lord Cottenham's demeanour towards counsel, and all other parties concerned before him, has been uniformly, and without exception, and in an equal degree to all, courteous and attentive. No Judge was ever more free from the weakness of lending his ear with an undue bias to particular individuals. The youngest member of the bar, when arguing before him, was under no apprehen sion that the effect of his case or of his arguments would suffer on account of his personal obscurity, or the eminence of those who might be retained on the oppo site side. Lord Cottenham was in every respect the master of his own Court. The services of Lord Cottenham to the country linve not been confined to his excellent administration of jus. tice. He has introduced several useful measure's into Parliament, for the purpose of facilitating justice ; and, had he met with the support which *as due both to his.• character. and to his measures themselves from his col-' leagues in the late Government, the public would, ere. this, have had the benefit of the chief of those improve ments. As it is, he has succeeded in procuring the enactment of a statute by which new powers have been conferred on the Lord Chancellor, with a view to changes in the practice of the Co u rt s o f E qu i ty . Th e first points of that enactment we yesterday laid before our readers, in a series of judicious regulations, which, although they do not carry the work of simplification by any means so far as may hereafter be found advantageous, are an exceedingly valuable step in a right direction, .. As a politician, we have differed from Lord Cor..eti ham. We believe him to be a very decided Whig par tisan, and to have exhibited that partisanship in the use of the influence and patronage of his office. It may fairly, however, be inferred from the circumstance that his official conduct has never been impeached with suc cess in any point of detail, that it has not been possible to lay to his charge, .as a Minister of the Crown, any action unworthy of his high character as-a . Judge and as' a private gentleman. There has been for some years an increasing opinion in the legal profession of the unreasonableness and pub lic mischief of uniting with the office of Chief .Judge in Equity political functions which make it neces sary to remove that officer upon every change of Ad ministratiun. In that opinion we coincide : we can see no more ground, in ,reason or practical conve nience, for making the Lord 'Chancellor a member of the Cabinet, than for making the tenure of the ' Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench' equally preca rious. On the present occasipn the . public will probably be less impressed with these considerations than might otherwise have been expected, 'on account of the vast capacity and long judicial experience of Lord: Cottenham's successor—the first Englishman, we be lieve, who has ever received the great seal the ce different times from the hands of his Sovereign. But on that very account, and because under such circumstances there can be nothing invidious in the suggestion, we would now urge upon the Conservative Ministry that the prinr . ciple of arrangements which might have deprived the country of Lord Cottenhanes services at the present mo, ment, even had there been no man competent to succeed; him, cannot be good. Ono word more and we have done. If there is any mark of Royal favour and distinction which Lord Cot tenham, on leaving office, would be willing to accept, it would be universally felt to be a tribnte due to his ser vices, and we are sure that it must be an equal satisfac-, tion to Sir Robert Peel to advise, to her Majesty to' be- ! , stow, and to the nation to witness, it.—Times. BARTHOLOMEW FAIR.—The preparations for holding the fair, which will be opened to-day at noon by the Lord Mayor, were being actively made last night, where the different stall-keepers obtained their locations. These, at the head of which is the large travelling me nagerie of Mr. Wombwell, will be nearly on the „Same scale of extent of those of last year. Yesterday the usual proclamation was issued from the Pie-poWder court., at the Band and Shears, public-house, Cloth-fair, calling on all who take part in the fair. to pay their " stallage, piccage, customs, tolls and duties, to s uc h Court, and to all freemen of the City who trade there to produce their licenses." With the fair this very ancient, and the most expeditious as well as cheapest Court of law in the country will expire, as the Fair of St. Bartho lomew is now nearly the only place in the kingdom where any vestige remains of its former powers. It now merely collects the revenues of the fair for.the Lord of the Ma nor, who is Lord Kensington, and whose steward pre sides, who was, until the last few years, a Judge of all the civil cases, and of many important criminal ones re lative to the said Fair. This Court was estal/lishedlin the reign of Edward the Third, for the summary redress of all grievances at fairs, its original name, Pied-pouktre,. being derived, according to antiquarians, from the dusty. feet of the suitors, or because justice was administered there as speedily as it was possible to wipe the dust frcial the shoes.—Moruing Paper. PRINCE ALBERT.—It is currently, and we believe correctly, reported that his Royal Highness Prince Albert has expressed to the gentlemen of his suite who have seats in Parliamant, the deep regret he would feel in being deprived of their services, and has intimated, at the same time, his Royal Highness's very decided opinion that such of them as wish to retain their offices near his person ought either to retire from politi cal life or to atibrd their Parliamentary support to her Majesty's Government.-11forning Post. . [Surely kis . 1 Royal Highn ess cannot h ave so spee dil y g i ven i n his ad hersion to the ma s t ers o f th e Q ueen . H e can not h ate entered into a conspiracy with the Tories to deprive her Majesty of liberty. This must be a calumny.—En• S un. THE WEATHER.—On Saturday and Sun day it to we had excellent weather, but its effect, we of rain on say, vas considerably marred by a heavy fa_l_lteorday, but. Monday. The weather again cleared UP es it is so changeable that there is no c aleniwhile the far continuance for any length of time. 31 that do occur, mers are not idle during the sunny blinksd 'weather to ren and we only want a week of really g°° u ntrv.—Scotsman.. der harvest general throughout the n c E o Y ating upon to. Last eVellihe DEATH OF A CHILD BY Fi at St. Bartholomew‘s; an inquest was held by Mr. Payn e e n Robinson, aged tent • Hospital on the body of Mary d, r was occupied ill frying it appear e d dinner, when a piece of grate and set the child's years. The child, to the bed l h some potatoes for her brothe e extending. -c ot es, the e w lo oo tl d ies fe o l n i probablity, been burned down house *would have, in all -arrived. She lingered till Wed had not timely assistanc she fire, lih which tof died of the burns. Verdict, nesday evening, when Accidental death. CAUTION a guano To THE PUBLlC.—Yesterday 'af ternoon t v of Lucifer-matche s , i n b oxes , ex p ose d . i for sale in t he window of a tobacconist's shop, in Upper Th ame s-street, were ignited by th e h ea t o f t h e sun , ar.d exploded one aft er the othe r , setting fire to various r_rt,i_ i n the window. The flames a t one ti m e prese' . , te d a ra ther a larming appearance, b u t were ex ti ng uishe'l l bef ore the fire extended farther than the shop - windoY: by the police a nd others who cam e to t h e spot . 146", er-matches • a nd Congreve-lights ought not on any aced unt to be de posited in a warm place or exposed to the 'heat of the sun. SHOCKING ACCIDENT.—CAUTI ON TO PA. nnvrs.—Between seven and eight o'clock on Wednesday evening, a shocking accident happe . aed to a little boy, residing in the Queen's Bench-walk., It appears that the poor little fellow had got up behiritl n. cab, unperceived by the driver, till he stopped in, the Borough-road, to put down a lady, when he was ',Alarmed by seeing the feet of the unfortunate boy 4tanding upwards, and his body entangled in the wheel, from which perilous situa tion he could not be extricated without the wheel, being taken otf. He was conveyed to a surgeon's in an alinost lifeless state, when his injuries were discovered to be. of the most serious nature ; he was subsequently conveyed to St. Thomas's Hospital. . - - Dr. Lizars has been appointed to t he Ifr*s 7 sorship of Anatomy in Marischal College, vacant by thei resignation of Dr. Allen 'Thomson.—A b erdeen Herna Mr. Charles Ketnble has arrived in Paris, his numerous friends will be gratified to learn, in a state of convalescence, after his long and severe illuesi. 142 : 4 be , 11)i 0.1 r her at. otilu` I