The Sun. — London, England, 1849-09-11 00:00:00

—Arrd. John Lf 11—th. •11 , „ . .bo :ca:; on . r.—Arrd. 9 bf 10th. 7tb, Crcolp treal; Marquia !r, St. JJon )vrnie, Qtlebrci ~oti~. 3 DAY) Oa to 3! 1 21 " , 1 04 to 41159 ; to 11 12s pa I. os to 31 1 54 / Os to 41 011 to 11 13s pet ish demand. Os to 311 5 e! 03 to 41 1 53 : S to 11 1 23 Pe' %don contiutiell prices in 03096 '• 1,790 bop er rates, Al! auritius ki Ld of 6i 031 ' e witbdra, w° Elative sold at 383 station )ocks Was 'ere taken NI. 'F, 821 barrels' 2,362 tierce. Itation Li ri eY lo ! it at extre o3 ; ;ht 39s 6c l t a further ad; Of 100 httl . S were dispos'" in garbled. : at the E i ' 9 9 hhds ; ti r o, mns 20 qc in the sow half sold , 14 . ?s establis .his day w eh; ‘, 6d, being Er' cwt 00 the ,-, 010 sound vonv,i,, ikay 7d b egs )ut any c L, SETT• S .' t this morDloo ack, attcnd°l o on a visit to I include L' 3ll)r I Mrs. gaoler sun. ;tit r.—it is 147 ',," d ea th of I", st, [lured ay la a short OIL; g estion of 1 1 `',f Sir . nil in 17 79 ' ; e ducated a__ ,rmorly rect o Norwich loff lso a Clerlg s o cieo mean I , in 18 t° ,18, iseuen• )ve d and re. D ose quenc o and in It e cription. _A the Hever!' large fannlif; ory of nriti b tensive circtl# CEATINO- Ir. Keatillg e 4 under se e evening s; 1 9 eturned fr om some of 1,1 7, )g his ladipo year. !ay, the 514 kn himself an limest ol3 o tween $ 011t „ in flarornalll e interred her and 113() ; GatesheaP :tiros of t, ll „ ° rec tor of P I : ad- square,:; lan, Wb CP ry %1,1$ I aqsjoiti— tie, the p u b and w'¢9 r, in•law, Dig Greig (b he dia rrh Si co. % hint at of CollAted. irgeen B f •oTt. Peel )wing enfe._ ht li" rs C For the r! lth ratifiedllr Virs. Re s " Bligh, LeEb, Lsnd reF peels 9,, rt and idn i , l. of L o " ° i. I3iillie ea , down We a is t e l l ice omparl' o . orbett, and did 13° a the e had bagg' , inrsble .orisiu. v, d, and w . a able to rh o acery at t" Chron iCie so, and al° 'ga in t t r l o Ise, ren recel he ools in t' 10.-7T ri be f approve - 11e held at t )t Serg e for mince, him. beirt; the Four i rade Cool: al Mar ine : 18, 5 01 ) (urt 184 „ ov a the ; or ?5 ,Dt..4- 0 4,r le Friscl • a . ! . asidevitiOlh defer tfoth which her 11 Le is°, °to 7TY r i t 1 THE Cod' dot M arl. di F gus t oi 30 ylt s P. ° It . 'd nd e; nt out, ° e nits of th d of t e°l : o ° :early, to wed; 1911 d re' ly ha to return _ Nliddletee 'able COO' o bCatel ; the 6 g !a supP°' o , „ of r 0 n be w h I A d int° iccaPsw" : h he 1: 'ord - r° a it nrr if° corpse'''. wir p . 09- ,di c critlf and Ibg • s tated arc" sok. el.l d U crop . 0 : Dve © of SPITING INTELLIGENCE. i A F1E1,10, , ,, if we may form au opinion from prese tit appear -Laces, the ensuing meeting is not likely to be remarkable either for the int. rest or quantity of the racing; very few horses have arrived, the fields for all the standing engagements will be small, and tho entries made this aternoon for the Plates, we., :how n great falling cif. Scarcely any lodgirgs have as yet found tenants, but as none of the special tr.ins have arrived, it is impossible to lay what effect the next half-dcz n hours may have on The prospee sof the town; the indiceticns all lead to the conclusion that the attendance will be cons:derably b elow the rive rage. The large sum contributed to the rec.,- fuud by the town-council, and their unreserved tib andonment of the management of the meeting to the auckey Club, entitled the inhabitants to expect better things; if they are disappointed on the present necesien, we have no doubt, from the alterations Which will be made ia the appropriation of the public money, and in the conditions and arrangement of the principal stakes, that the future progress of the meet ings will be upward ; albeit from the great number of rich two and three year old stakes previously run fur at the Spring meptinv, and at Goodwood, Liverpool, York, a Lee the fi. Ids for engagements of a similar class at Doncaster must ba materially affected. The Subscription-room, newly painted and re-deco rated, in a style creditable to the liberality and taste of the proprietors, was opened on Saturday, but up to the present hoar not a blow has been struck. The Flying Dutchman, who arrived on Saturday, is looking remark ably well, and never went better in his life. The " field" will be much smaller than was calculated on last week, Ito one here believing that it will exceed nine or ten. Chatterer is not coming, and Uricl, Volcano, Loup gareu, ar.d Vatican, are looked upon as " doubtful." The following list of the hones now in the town will Dear out our remark as to the prospect of sport : /ionF.yeorebP, Castanette, William the Conqueror, Flying Dutchman, Keleshea, Manifold, Etthiron, Xllerdale, St. George, Knight of Avenel, Letitia, ~htel eine, Ellen Middleton, Herbert, Little Cassino, Maid of Team Valley, Westow, the Cantab (3 yrs), Sviss Boy, Gleam, Swift, Lammermoor Confede r acy, S teppings: one, Lady Superior , Leonidas, Lady e '''P e edY , Witchcraft, Fellow - com moner, Cockermoutb, ' , tidy Evelyn, Pheasant, Old Dan Tucker, Penthe ilea, Mrs. Taft, Ferule, Humphrey ; T. Denson's, J. Dawson's licsseltine's, Scott's, Dilly's, Ford's Dochexa)'s, and A. Tbyloet, and some other lots have not yet arrived. ENTRIES. MESDAY.—Fitzwilliam Stakes. No race. _ Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each, for two yrs old:—Step- Pingstone, Lfghorn, Manifold, St. George, Rhed)cine, and Witchcraft. Selling Stakes—The Little Q Hen, Little Cassinc. Pheasan., Confederacy, and Lammermoor. WEDNEzDAY.—Sweeratakes of 10 soya each, for two and three yrs old:—Lady Bountiful, the Recluse, Step pingstone, Italian, St. George, Rhedycina, Humphrey, Potentia filly, ard Goldfinch. Queen's Plate—Ellerdale and Swiss Boy. PRIDAY.—The Cup :—Ellerdale, Snowstorm, Canczou, Swiss Boy, Westow, and Maid of Team Valley. DONCASTER, TOESDLY MORNING. LATEST BETTING (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH). ST. LEGER. 2 to 1 on The Flying Dutchman 9 to 1 agst Old Dan Tucker 14 to 1 agst Nunnykirk 20 to 1 agst Herbert THE CHAMPAGNE STAKES. 6 to 4 on William the Conqueror SPORTING NOTES. No. XII. " I'll go for the Field, My last cast, by the gods." VATES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUS. SlR,—Upon information received by telegraph this 441 ttling, I hear that the field for the St. Leger will act exceed ten, and they are the following :-0:d Dan Tucker, Saucy Dick, Flying Dutchman, Honeycomb, atlthiron, llerbert, Westow, Nunnykirk, Volcano, an? *Vatican; the starting of Uriel and Loup-prou is extronely dubious. Old Dan, Volcano, Saucy Dick, and Nunnykirk are in splendid con dition--quite up to the mark ; and it strikes me the Dutchman, although in superb fettle, Will have more to do than he can accomplish, when he tackles the D.'s both " old" and " saucy," for the finish ing struggle to-morrow, without taking into considera tion the volcano that Scott is preparing. I am, Sir, yours, &c., THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF. Sept. 11, 1849. CRICICA:T. ELEVEN OF _ ENGLAND V. EIGHTEEN OF LEAMINGTON. Thi© match commenced yesterday morning at L,a mington. 'The following was the mere at the end of the first day's play : ENGLAND—FIRST INNINGS. Chatterton—e Parr, b Armitage ... ..• 5 Clarke—b Wisden ... 9 , 1 , 3 . 0 X—c Leigh, b Armitage . . 12 Z. Pilch —C Rode, b Armitage Sampson—c Leigh, b Armitage . . I Myon,Esq.—e Selby, b Wird( n 0 N. Felix, Et-q.—e Guernsey, b At mitoge 3 Guy__c Selby, b Wisden ••• ... 9 Atartingell—e Wisden, b Armitage ... •.. ••• 5 Pickford, Es not out ... ..• ... 12 13111 yer—c Armitage, b Wisden ••• ..• 1 B 6, w 0, nb 0 6 Total ... ..• ..• LEAMINGTON-FIRST INNINGS. A irs Raygartb, E..q —b Hillyer ... ... nev. lt. H. Anderson—run out ... ... kr. Davis—not out ... ••• ••• Palethorpe—not out ... ••• •• • 82, wo,nb 0 „, ... ••• Total ... 'THE ARMY. ~ 69 ~ 20 ... 33 ROYA L ARTILLEItY.—WOOLWICII, SEPT. 10.—The Master-General has been pleased to approve, by general order, of the following transfer of officers : Second Lieutenant L. B. Higgins, from Major Turner's company, 6th battalion, to Captain . Sinythe's company, 6th battalion. Second Lieutenant T. L. Danes, from Captain Poole's company, 2d battalion, to Captain Berefol d's company, 10th battalion. Second Lieutenant C. Carpenter, from Captain Col hngton's company, Ist battalion, to Captain Hamilton's company, 12th battalion. Second Lieutenant F. Luard, from Captain Young's company, 7th battalion, to Captain Crawford's company, Will battalion. Second Lieutenant A. 11. Murray, from Captain Bing ham's company, Bth battalion, to Captain M'Coy's com- Pally, sth battalion. Second Lieutenant J. A. P. Adam', from Major Thorndiko's company, 4th battalion, to Captain St. George's company, 10 battalion. Second Lieutenant R. Mackenzie, from Captain Ken. , nedy's company, 7th battalion, to Captain Townsenct's Company, 12th battalion. Second Lieutenant W. G. Lo Mesurier, from Captain Morris's company, 2d battalion, to Captain Cockburn's COMpQny, 12th battalion. Second Lieutenant T. C. Molony, from Captain nacre's company, sth battalion, to Major Rowan's com pany, 12th battalion. Second Lieutenant G. B. Garvey, from Captain Fi. z - gerald's company, sth battalion, to Captain Wodehouse's Company, 10;11 battal:on. Second Lieutenant A. Noble, from Captain lill's company, Bth battalion, to Captain Marriott's company, 10th battalion. Sconi Lieutenant G. K. Taylor , fro m Captain Gam bier's company, 2d battalion, to Captain Mhcheli's company, loth battalion. _ Assistant. S urgeon Alli nson has been appointed to the it)yal Horse Artillery, Assistant-Surgeon Howard being on duty at Dublin. CHEAP OMNIBUS TRAVELLING.—LaSt night a highly respectable meeting of the inhabitants ot Ken sington took place at the King's Arms, for the purpose of forming au association to start some omnibuses which will give the inhabitants of K-nsington the came cheap travelling which is now enjoyed by all the other eelirons of the metropolis. This being only a preliminary meet• j eg, the business was confined to the appointment of a committee of 13 of the inhabitants of Kensington, %die are to endeavour to carry cut the intentions, and who gill call an early meeting o the inhabitants, and lay before them the plan they may decade upon. It is a bingular tact that the old fares of 61. and Is. are now charged from Kensington, whereas to any other part of the suburbs the fares are only 3J. This must act very Prejudicially upon the interests of the town of Kensingtou. THE LONDON NEW FEVER llosetTAre—Yester day the new hospital, erected in the Liverpool-toad, Is lington, was opened for the reception of patients. The building contains accommodation for 200 persons, and its cost, together with furnishing, amounts to about 20 ,000/. METROPOLITAN WATER SUPPLY.—Bast evening, a meeting of the inhabitants of St. Pancras was held, to consider the present supply of water, and the means of promoting a more abundant increase of pure soft water to all classes of the metropolitan community " Churchwarden Francis Healy, Esq., was called to the chair. M. Taberrer explained the objects of the Me tropolitan Water Supply Association. As the pro- Peatus has been already before the public, it will per haps be sufficient to state that the general principle is to incorporate the whole water service of London into one establishment, under the control of a respensible public thirty 7 0 mtnissio n; t o be self-supporting, and the necessary , I , l _l l ds to be raised upon rates to be levied for a te r m of years, for which purpose it is proposed to apply to Parliament next session for an Act. A parochial 4%)tietnittee was appointed to support the project, and th e eeting then dissolved. The colonelcy of the 19th Foot, vacant by the (.Tl2:ise of Si r W arren P eacoc k e , h as been conferred oa ior-General Charles Turner, commanding at Cork. g.,el.lesterday, on the report of Dr. Gavin Milroy, the -i rou eral Board o f H ea l t h or d erer . t h e Spat - kids burial and also the burial grounds at St. Botolph, B inho „ nsgate, and the St. Thomas's turiabground, Qold St. Luke's, to be closed. TH 1 SU N, LONDON% THE CHOLERA. RPTUPIN: C SFrr. 9 AND 10. TIIE SUPERINTENDING REGISTRAR'S DISTRICT. Deaths. Attaels. Cholera. Diarrh. 8 3 25 2 10 0 16 1 25 2 15 - 2 3 0 60 0 60 5 9 2 2 1 4 2 24 1 20 0 13 3 13 1 7 1 5 1 4 0 4 0 6 3 35 5 12 1 7 1 14 1 7 2 10 1 1 7 3 21 4 5 1 15 1 3 0 5 0 7 1 6 1 4 4 0 0 Holborn Union St. Giles and St. George West London ••• St. George, Southwatk Greenwich Bethnal green St. Olave Bermondsey (Sep!. 3to Sept. 7) Lambeth ... • • Whitechapel Stepney St. George-in-the-Er st Newington, Surrey, ... Marylebono St. Pancras Poplar ... ... ... St. George, Hanoser•square St. James, Wtstmloster Clerkenwelt St. Luke ... ... Camberwell ... St. Saviour, Southwark Hackney ... ... Islington Kensington ... Wandsworth ... ... Lewitham East London ,`Thereditch Rotherbithe Chelsea••• ... ~. City of London ••• St. Martin in• the-Fields Westminster Edmonton ... Tottenham (Aug. 22 to Sept. 7) Hampstead ... ••• ."'"" . • • -- ••• "-''' ••• .....'. ••• ''''' ••• ''''''' ••• .-'. ••• ..-. • • • .--. ••• "'''' ••• ...". ••• .." •• • ''' ••• '''' ••• """ ••• "". ••• '''''' .• • ..--. ••• '''"' ••• '-' ••• '''''. • • • "--* • • • ''''' •• • -- •• • .... ••• ....a. Total • • • ''''-' THE COUNTRY. Deaths. Cholera. Diarih. 27 3 6 0 13 2 8 1 3 0 7 0 6 3 2 1 8 34 4 2 0 7 7 6 0 2 0 28 1 38 2 12 1 6 0 0 1 8 0 4 0 38 0 4 2 0 1 3 0 Attacks. Liverpool . Merthyr Tydvil Clifton Cardiff ... Carmarthen ... Swansea Portsea Warrington ... Newcastle-under-Lynn Tynemouth Lancaster ... Brighton Neath West Ham Bradford and North Bierley Sculcoates Bristol ... Gravesend and Milton Maidstone ... St. Germans . Rochford Dewsbury (up to Sept. 8) . . York ... Derby ... Dover . Anglesey .. . Leeds (Sept. 7,8, and 9) . flunslet ••• ••• • Wolverhampton and Siesdon Nantwich Holy well ... Bridgwater ... Barnstaple ... East Stonehouse South Shields ... Shepton Mallet ••• .."'" •---. 4 0 - 150 9 - 34 2 --- 73 4 - 1 0 - 0 1 - 0 2 - 2 0 - 2 0 4 4 -_ 2 1 - 0 1 --. 66 7 - 1 0 - 9 2 - 1 0 - 8 0 - 3 0 - 11 0 - 0 1 - 0 4 - 4 0 - 1 0 .--. 34 20 - 2 1 - 1 0 - 0 1 -. 1 1 - 1 0 5 0 2 0 - 0 1 ••• ••• - 4 0 ••• ••• --- 2 0 ••• ..• - 10 0 ••• ••• ••• - 20 0 Halifax Wilton Salford... Penkridge Bolton Pontypool Tavistock Bury ... Preston Madeley Wolstanton Manchester ... Gainsborough Ashton-under-Lyne ... Abergavenny Abingdon Alverstoke Alnwick ••• ••• Great Broughton (Chester) ... Birmingham ... I3edminster Barnet ... Chorlton Coventry Chertsey ••• Croydon and Mitcham Dudley Dartford Ecclesfield Eton ... Goole ... Hertford Ramsgate Margate ••• Loughborough Gateshead ... Glanford Brigg Leigh ... Liskeard Leicester Lincoln Llandillo faur... Mansfield (up to Sept. 9) ... Macclesfield Mailing (Kent) ••• St. Austell (Cornwall) Aston ... Axminster ... Altrincham Bangor and Beaumaris Billericay Belper Bedford ••• ••• Blearn Bedale Bromley ••• ••• Beverley Bicester ••• ••• Chorley Chester-le-Street ... Canterbury ... Droxford •• ••• Dorchester and Cerne Downham Market ... Doncaiter Eeclesall, Bierlou Etcham ••• Epping... Grantham Hollingbourne... Holsworth Haverfordwest Hoo Hitchin Hay ... Keighley Krlnsham Stamford Kidderminster 1 0 7 0 7 - 0 ._. 6 0 ••• - - 9 0 •• 0 •• ••• 3 • 2 0 ••• ••• --- 1 0 - 2 0 .•• --- 4 0 O 1 .•• • • --- 5 0 ••• -- 1 0 ... ••• - 1 0 ••• ••• - 2 0 O 1 ••• ••• ••• -- O 1 ••• .•• -. 1 0 3 0 2 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 O 1 O 1 2 0 - 1 0 - 0 2 - 6 4 - 0 1 - 0 2 - 6 0 - 1 0 - 1 0 - 21 1 - 0 1 - 0 1 - 1 0 - 1 0 _ 8 0 - 2 2 - 0 1 - 1 0 - 1 0 - 3 0 - 2 0 _ I 0 _ 2 1 - 1 0 1 0 1 2 1 0 1 0 Total ... • ... 856 136 ••• - SCOTLAND. Dundee ••• 14 0 Auchinithe (Arbroatb) ••• 3 0 Dunbar ••• ••• ••• 8 0 Kerriercuir .. ••• 1 0 Mores ... 1 0 ••• ... ••• I'erih ... 5 0 ... Arbroath ••• ••• ••• --- 1 0 B. ith ••• ..• ••• ••• 2 0 1)z - nboltu ... •• •.• --- 4 0 ll4wick ... •.• 4 0 Total 43 0 General total:— 432 59 Metropolis Country ••• 856 136 Scotland ••• ••• 43 0 General total ... 1,331 195 Note.—The number of attacks reported ly the union officers are—for the metropolis ,1,069, and for Inc country 1,195; but their returns do not, in general, comprehend the cases that are treated by medical men in private practice. PLYMOUTH AND DEVONPORT.—The cholera at Plymouth and Devonport, we regret to learn is nothing better in either town. The total loss in ea c h is—Myron port, about 500; Plymouth. about 350; Stonehouse, about 135. At Stonehouse the mortality is a b o ut one death daily; and in the Royal Naval Hospital there is not now even one case of cholera, and only about fifteen of diarrheel. The total cases with us have been 111 of chop ra and diarrheas between the 12th of J u ly an d th e Bth of September. Of these thirty-five were cases of con firmed cholera when they . were brought in, and many of the diarrheaa casee, likewise, advanced to cholera; and yet only twenty - five altog ether have died, twenty-two of whom were in collapse when they were brought in, one of whom, most strange to tell, recovered, and is now nea isrly,not ofa t have hei r b ediedn being that were brought Outrought o f these l l in withint l caseses hours attacked; thus proving that everything depends on early application, added, of course, to skilful practice , such as has been evinced in the Royal Naval Hospital by Dr. Rae, the inspector, whose indefatigable exertions have b, en beyond all praise. Indeed, the medical staff' gene rally deserve ev e ry comm e ndation. The two assistant surgeons that have been doing duty at Torpoint. Messrs. Bowden and M'Clare—the former of whom had been so usefully employed at Ness, tt \ 4 well as the two now at CoNsann—Messrs. Gruggen and Harnley, have received the most grateful acknowledgements of the inhabitants of these 'laces for their valuable and unceasing labours. THE SURREY SESSlONS.—Yesterday morning, on the list of tradesmen being called over to servo on the jury at the adjourned sessions, every other name was excused on the plea of suffering under attacks of diorama and cholera. Four cf them had died since' Friday. They were all summoned from the neighbourhood of Kennington-lue and the Kennington-rood, where the disease rages in a frightful manter. Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office, from the Governor of St. Helens. .; - r 1 -7 ' F . 41 - Tr .----- Tr "i ; • 4 . pE _if , I;:9 , Erifiettl.fctilo2 , ol:DitZ 7 : ,l l Ctitdcfolol7/ickec, ail"•Qp& 71, 1 L q . • • '/ ~~ ~~: ~~~i. ,qtzvoiz. / ~ 1 ~-. t~ , "; i. ~h,, ~~; ~~ L . • tl k , , r t ...1. ' - `: . l C) r, i - —' k i "•,. •1 . i 1 L' 1 1 1, '‘. 6 1. '1 ' ci T:t t . . 1. 2 ' l. ‘ it 1. 0 ~j .5 ~ C~ ~ 4 • • 1 11 • Q I(IIlil I 1 i- 1 7 1.1,t 1. II .1 1„i 1 (.1 iiiJ U.l LI I I I 'll & rpenwarenwrezjelb-7,7,, , h Jet. owpturcr prwurzyor,ro,,vg/ - :,_ r A T .zur_4...b- C Bac acar - ,e l hiz . z i n)t.A6 l r ij adtn i che l ez i ck. L ;'e l . 11 1( 1111 1 1 1 11111 ( I ) 1 1 -11 . 1)Hd ti ) Till OF THE SUN. " The country people are not very practicable, but they are still practical. They like a a good princi pally because they have not instruments to draw hori zontal lines on irregular ground: they well know that to lay a spot dry on a slope the drain must be above that spot, their rolion being that a nearly hosizantal drain cuts off the water,' and even if th.s should be theoretically inaccurate, they can demonstrate to any bystander that drains leading right down the hill as now directed can have scarcely always that the hilly field any proper effect: rememberieg is what requires some sort of relief th 3 most imperiously as there the washing essay of soil by rain and plough leaves the insufferable clay almost bare, except towards the foot of the hill. The labourers also know that a flat field is more easily laid dry,' partly because there is less difficulty in setting out the drains. The axiom—Water finds its level, ap plies not only to the course of dreiug but also to the trenverse motion or filtration of the moisture into the drains through pores and veins, gradually formed in the soil—but never in the clay Below. Mr. Smith hopes to make the subsoil friable, and brings as a sign that cracks an eigth of an inch wide appear—in summer it mast be presumed—which cracks are merely a natural pro vision for re-admitting rain when winter soaks the fields,' and again swamping the whole mass. It seems hard to urge the formation of such deep large drains ss hich can never ameliorate the clay excluded from sun and air—if the drains are quite out of reach of the plough, and if as deep as the surface soil, it is enough. The lecturer seernell aware that the under clay will not materially improve, for in addition to expensive drainage, he recommended yearly subsoil plaughing, with an ap paratus, pnventus tt commeatus mere fit for a Cswbool army than for a small farm—yet by stuell farms Tus cany and Belgium are fertilized, and, by large farms the Roman Campegua was originally desolated. "Experie Lee shess that drafting fails in some situ ations and will not secure a continued percolation under every part of the ground. For brevity's sake, I suppose two simple cases. "Case .—A square field of three acres, each side measuring about 120 yards—the ground sloping from the upper side to the lower at a rate of one in seven— depth of pervious, percolable soil ten inches—below that, the usual viscid, tenacious clay of e.yery colour, tinged with iron. Snppose a drain cut horizontally, as it ought to be, along the top side of the field, and filled Kith pipes, tiles, stones, alder faggots, or what you please. Now at the assumed dope of one in seven, which is a moderate declivity even for roads, the bottom of the porous, permeable soil will be horizoirally level with a point, in the field's surface, less than two yards from the drain;—beyond that point it positively cannot operate except a foot or two by caeillary suction, so that to lay dry the sloping field of three acres will re quire GO drains, each 120 . yarde, and a larger down one side to receive their contents—total 7,320 yards. Cise 2.—A field of three acres, 120 yards square, as in the first case, but on level ground. Founded on experience I assert that a level field will be better drained with a trench (upon or not) round the four sides and one along the middle total six hundred yards, than the sloping field of same contents with 7,320. Every part of the level field is acted on by every part of each drain; and it' we suppose the shape oblong—say 144 yards by 100—still better, for then no point in the field will be more than 25 yards from a drain.”—(7lte Sun, 10;h April, 1843.) The subject of draining has been confused by lecturers leaving so much to the discretion of cate choumeeoi in laying out drains " properly," or " according to circumstances," or convenablenzent. There are at least five species of draining which have but little affinity to each other, and these distinctions are necessary to a clear idea of the matter. 1. The arterial or main draining so essential for Ireland.—These canals receiving the mouths of drains do more than half the farmer's work, which can not fail to be acceptable in reclaiming his bit o' bog. Here the fallacy meets you again. Sup posing the arterial canal a mile long, the " good fall" cannot well be less than one yard per mile. Eh Neu! in many cases it is impossible to lower the embouchure that much, so that the upper end will be three feet too high—enough to drown the whole bog paradise. The arterial drains only apply to level strata, as in Pontine Marshes, and since flat ground is more ew.ily drained than hills, or indeed almost drains itself, their utility is immense. 2. The next case is exceptional and the remedy a curious one. On hilly ground the rain or surface water in some places trickles down and collects in a hollow. Where this happens, the drain trenches drawn as already described, on a dead level, should be filled with stones up to the top, and the grass will grow over ; but on arable ground where the plough would disturb the drains, the hollow must he opened out or levelled. In this case only, the drain oh viouly receives the water from the area above it. 3. Where considerable springs are found in the land, on which point there i 3 much traditional lore among the labourers, the best plan is to dig a hole or short ditch ab3ve the place where the spring comes out (for these springs are usually on the side of a hill) ' till the workman's head cannot be seen ; then throw the earth in again, and it is found that the spring disappears. 4. The ex trelle case of springs in disastrous con junction with vi3cid, tenacious clay of every queer colour protruding through a shallow mould. Such fields, formed in scalenes and trapezia, rejoice in de nominations like "rushy bottom," or " road field." They must be trenched as well as drained with the utmost care. So that in general it is better to plant alder and willow whose prodigious vitality enables them to live in despite of stagnation ; while they are reputed to flourish because of that infernal power . 5. The case which forms the subject of this epistle —called thorough-drainir.g ; but on ground much sloped trenching best deserves the name of thorough , draining, for it makes the whole field one drain thoroughly and throughout. " It was shown ab.,ve in the supposed case of a slop ing field, that the upper drain lays dry only two yards of surface, but the closest hitherto adopted have been five yards asunder: whet then becomes of the three yards remaining, on which the lower drain has indisputably no power?—The rain (w say nothing 01 springs) fills every hollow of that remaining space, more particularly the footmarks poached by cow:, not let cut merely by a but kept out during the start of baheas corpus in M a y , humid autumn and deep into the winter. In all such cavities the water lies soaking, stagnant, and dead, poi soning the ' liberal' plants and nout idling every creature that can defraud the land, till a storm of rain drives some of it down the hill beyond the five y ards, when it is quietly drawn hack into the recond drain. Whenever a Aleut level transpiration is established in deep soil, we se far banish the great enemy of all that lives—obstruc tiveness— znd substitute a peaceable agitation identical in souse so: t with vitality itself. Virgil in the Geergics dwells much on these spiracles, and gives them a living genial warmth. Seu plates calor Me vias et creca relaxat Spiramenta, novas veniat qua mucus in herbas... Uncle clvas tepido sudant humore ---- —•-- - . And elsewlit re, ---‘ Exudat inutilis humor.... venas adatrirgit b harass. . fervet qua frytis spirsmihos Eequor 9 „. To effect this internal circulation is th o purpose of all tillage—from the steam pl,ugh to the garden rake: but when the shallowness of porous walking soil and the unctuous clay below keep the surface in a perpetual alter nation of rwartip. and baking, carasive means should bo taken. In the ancient mythus of a father commanding his sons to dig for treasure, tha original Greek implies, ' Dig, two spits deep'—s^ at least a learned friend in forms me. Trexehing eautiou , ly managed is altogether superior to &wins or subsoil piong4ing, whu ~e , on hilly . ground, every other method is either ruinously expen sive Cr totally vain. The upper soil rau6t be thrown into the provisional trench, ti,e sinister, malignant clay dragged into light, and the whole lid turned wrong side up to the depth of twenty inches. A year will convert - all this into very choice humus proviled - a first - crop is secured by Copious, not extraordinary manure—but then, the surface soil must be buried—inipito,yablement, to act TOESI3A EVENIN Cr, S P 141 M B 11 1849. as a drain throughout - . Let the village• by, und shakes hi 3 ky.-try I );:lis mini him-4r onee he is wror.,:r ! aivrac:i::::cd—.l - If.) time cni c mould into clay, as en the otbcr band no ~ absoil pleno can change clay luta inould—but trenching will."—( The Sun, April 1513,) Whs 7 thin recon;inzni.l (I:aii!ing when ft-enc..lig 15 better ? &cause. the,latter is much znort: ire : hut with a great deA:vity so many drains aro riciuired ai to come near the cost of trenching.—l are the honour to be, &c , Se,A. 10, 1849. IL C. ARGENT. P.S.—Sir R. Peel is comparing Mr. Smith of Deanston with Mr. Josiah Park-8 on his farms at Tamworth. "To read Jeremy Taylor and to com pare him with Cicero" would be as useful. 111e4n while, the inutilis humor of Ireland finds its: level, percolating the foundations of empires . ..and rolling them 'away, as soon as O'Connell dies. A sable fire, quenched in tears, purifies the nations--dcera ii vi i bile shakes them—a tribula ur threshing car driven round and round by Messrs. Guizot and L.inurCne vis a- vis, sifts out the mystic wheat—the deluge in . yoked by Metternich, "aprs thoi le diluge," ix come—the haves of whole forests are shaken by a mighty wind. A very intelligent German observed in Sir R. Peel "a peculiar douceur when approaching lords and ladies," and Mr. Disraeli confessed the same weakness, or pity ; but al s 1 the ege of douceurs is past, and gratifications of that sort will become rare. No more protection of rich and patron age of nobles! That picturesque sit ,, ation, alms taking wealth, almsgiving poverty, i s pl ace d among the dissolving views. No more differentialexemption of turbot and lobster sauce, discriminating admission of silk and gloves, as in 1824, before HuLhisson walked the plank. No future bread tax, unless clearly paid by foreigners, will be jus!ified as "patent sinecure' or " extending the pension list to the whole nobility," or " necessary to effect 'mar riage settlements and maintain mortgages." Never more will Sir Robert go so far as to say that " the majority of Lords" (which may be two peers or one peer with proxies, and in O'Conneles case was little more) that " the majority of Lords king agreed, the constitutional instrument wee in harmony." The Lords may think themselves lucky that he has never swerved into treachery, or corruption, or imprudence, or immorality—never taken place or party to enhance any species of pro perty. For' even Lord Morpeth spoke of " his tenure of holding offices under the Crown," as if, like Lord Castleton in " The Coxtons," be must needs protect his various tenures by legislating a series of privilegia er bye-laws at Council-board with Tu.- vanionl—Fiat saerificulusi mum decipiat—populus cult decipi--decipiatur. But what, 0 Peel, si Populus cult un-decipi? Eii THE BERMONDSEY MURDER. iHroIUnIN - r P.ARTICULAUS. Yesterday another important link in the e6l e eee eJnnecii;ig the Meeeiegs with the reur&r . of O'Con nor was d:seovered. It is well known that on S.,turfley, the 11th of August, Mrs. Manning hired a woman to clean the lower part of the bonne No. 3, Minver-plece, but although every exertion its been mei , : by the_ police to discover this person, they were. unseeceesful until yesterday, when Burton, after con siderable diffienity, ascertained that a young girl was. in the habit of attending several of the houses in, the vicinity fur the purse of washing the Steps and. assisting the servants. He also heard from a neighbour that she was seen to enter Manning's hearse .at an early hour on Saturday morning. Ile accord ingly neole active inquires about her, and yesterday succeeded in finding her residing with her relatives in B.:rmondsay. Her name is Hannah Fermor, and she informed the authorities that about. 'lire o clock on Saturday morning, the llth of August, Mrs.Maneing called her into No. 3, Minver-place, and engaged her to clean the hotie. She cleaned the upper part, aed found several spots' like blood on the wall of the passage leading to the kitchens, which she endeavoure•.l to wash otf. After she had cleaned that portion of the place she proacuded to the back kitchen, and was about to clean it, when Mrs. Manning came up to her and pulled her away, exclaiming "I cleaned this place yesterday, and it don't want scrubbing any more." The girl said that she saw a square basket in the back kitchen covered with lime, which Mrs. Manning told her to wash. While she was performing that office she found there was not water sufficient, conse 7 . quently she left it as discovered by Burton. During the time she was in the house that clay Mrs. Manning went out two or three times, and about twelve o'clock at neon Manning came down stairs and stamped with his foot, as if in a passion. He called out to his wife, " Give it me directly." Mrs. Manning replied, " Yes, I will directly," and she went upstairs; but she could not tell what afterwards passed. Manning remained in the house while his wife returned to the back kitchen and fried some beefsteaks for dinner. The girl said that the back kitchen was extremely wet, and that the stones in the passage appeared to have been recently rubbed with a brick or stone. She also found that the dust-hole was full of mould, dirt, and some mortar mixed with it. The girl was taken to the Home•office list, evening by the p o li ce , t o make her statement to the solicitor of the Treasury. lier evidence will be given at the next examination on Saturday. The cholera has attacked some of the witnesses since the last examination. Mr. Bassett, &elk to Messrs. Killick, sharebrokers, Bank-buildings, to whom Man ning disposed of O'Connor's Eastern - Counties shares, was suddenly attacked on Friday night with cholera, and expired on Saturday morning. His corpse was interred on Sunday. Mr. Hammond was also at tacked on Sunday, and is not expected to live. Both were in - good health and spirits on Friday afternoon when at the Police Court. ARRIVAL of CAPT. HINRICHSON. We announced in The Sun of yesterday, the ar rival of the ship Duncan, from Calcutta, at Liver pool on Sunday morning, but the following particu lars respecting Captain Hinrichson will be read with interest : Early on Saturday morning the telegraph. revealed that at six o'clock an the previous night the Duncan had been off Holyhead; and about noon it was learned that she had arrived off Point Lynas, and that a pilot had just been got on board. A steam tug was soon afterwards signaled for, and the vessel entered the river. Mr. James Aikin, the owner of the Duncan, who has throughout exhibited the liveliest interest in the captain's welfare, had a boat waiting to enable his friends at the first pessible moment to board the vessel ; lied as goon as the ship had entered the river, Mr. Parsons, surgeon, of 100,.. Mill-street, a friend more than professionally. interested, Captain Colkhill (an old acquaintance of Captain Ilinrichson's), and Mr. Williams, book keeper, to Messrs. Aikin, em bathed and hoarded. the Duncan when between New Brighton and :Egremont. The duty of - -conveying to the commander of the Duncan the announcement of his appalling losses, happily, however, for these gentlemen, did not require to be fulfilled. The sad catastrophe, it would appear, had been made known to Captain Hiorichson on touch ing for water, &c.. at St. Helena. The messenger of ill news is ever fleet; and the vessel had scarcely anchored before. a person, usually the purveyor, made his way to the ship. Ile told Captain Hinrichson that he had news, sad news for him. " Well," an swered the unfortunate muter, " these are my mates, I have no secrets; tell me before them." The pur veyor, however, beckoned him to his own cabin, and there acquainted him, perhaps abruptly, that his wife and two children had fallen by a murderer's hand. Mr. Hinrichson stared at first incredulously, even smiled; but staggered by the serious deportment of his informant, and being assured that the intelligence was, alas, but too true, fell upon the floor in a fit. The mournful tidings were conveyed to St. Helena by the ship Success, from London; and so strong was the sympathetic feeling evinced towards Captain llenrichson by the respectable portion of the inhabi tants of the island that every means were used to prevent the sad news becoming known to the unfor tunate man during his stoppage at that place. The Government medical officer, in his official capacity, was the first person who boarded the Duncan on her arrival in that harbour, and although asked if there was any news, on reflection, he hesitated to communi cate the harrowing intelligence. Captain Hinrichson is a man of great physical vigour, of strong natural feelings, - and it, requires a delicate pen to add subsequent details. The Duncan occupied 53, days in coming from St. Helena to Liverpool, and during the voyage the esteemed cap tain was subject to paroxysms of the deepest grief, inducing close supervision, certainly not restraint. When the party arrived here and the boat had come alongeide e his more immediate friends first ad vanced to the cabin. On witnessing them, he wrung his hands and cried, "My wife ! where is my wife ?" Ile also referred in the most affecting terms to his children, and exclaimed that their father had come and would see them wherever they were laid. "Is there not one left ?" he eagerly in quired. " Where is my Ann (his _wife), where my title Harry, and where my Alfred ?" lie was urged to go home. The word grated on his ears and aroused recollection. He cried " I have no home." Only after much yersuasiou did he leave the ship. We ought perhaps before to have stated that Mrs. Harri• son (the mother of Mrs. Hinrichson) and other ime mediate relatives had engaged suitable accommodation for him at a house in Upper Pitt street, the number. of which, for obvious reasons, we do not supply. It being about high water on ier arrival, the Duncan was taken direct into the Prince's Dock, and a coach conveyed the unhappy suffeeer and . his friends to the lodgings prepared.. On reaching the hotise, Captain liierichson -- threw himself into the arms of his mother-in - latv, and passionately cried," Where is my wife ?" He afterwards calmed down and retired to rest. It is asserted that he scarcely slept Aweety fear hotns,on the NTI) Ole voyage 4,9wa, St. Helena, and i 4.4 that ha kepeec e e 4 ly pacing the deck., That,aman with such great puff heavy. griefs should -be deeply affected , wag a utt:ura 1 consequence ;. but, although reason had been shaken on her throne, she yet retains her seat. Tell 21r.-,Aikin," cried the pour sufferer, in the height-of his sorrow, on seeing Mr. Williams, " that I have brought the Duncan safe home." He is rational ; hut the memory of his mournful loss, on recursing, naturally distracts. It is, rerlups, worthy of remark, as shoNing his superior .nature, filet, much as he has htnented the loss of his dead partner and family, Captain ilin richson has never yet referred, vindictively or other wise, to their murderer. He did not leave his lodg ings yesterday. It is, perhaps, not generally known that the servant, Mary Parr, hue a son on _board the Duncan. The teas at St. Helena bore sadness to him also, for he had lest a mother, and his only friend. Yesterday morning the Rev. Mr. Pollock, the respected incumbent of St. Mark's, referred at the opening of his sermon to the event of Captain Ilinrichson's arrival. He -was extremely sorry, he said, that he had misled his audience on the Sunday evening previous. He owned that, in common with the excellent clergyman who was his informant, he had been deceived, although he had taken every pains to test the accuracy of the information which they received. If, however, what he had said had been the means of inducing some of the audience to pray on behalf of the afflicted man, he did not regr et the mietake. That afflicted man 'had at length , and be was, indeed, in such a state o f body and arrived both of mind as to need all their sympathy. --- :scuooLs.—On Sunday, COMMEUCIAL TIIAVELLr behalf of the above named the 9:h instant, r. sermon s o preached before the Right eilxocne.litetl;:LtlitMut;o'r was Sheriffs, in Sr. Mary-le-Bow The treasurer and other officers of the in: Cheapsu.e.. Er•ution, with a very large nnmbcr of the members of the l board of management, wore in attendarce to receive his Lordship, who arrived at the church d oor at a f ew minutel before eleven o'clock, and was conducted in great ceremony to his seat, preceded by one of the Under-Sheriffs, Mr. Sheiiff Finnis, &c. Amongst the officers and supporters of the institution who preceded his Lordship as he entered the church, and was con ducted to his pew, we noticed Richard Groucocle, Esq., John Mail-, Esq., George Moore, Eeq. (the treasurer), Robert Clarhe, jun., Esq., R. M. rhillipps, Esq, John liagnallay, jun., Esq., George Lawrence, Esq., &e. The ['rather for the occasion vvas the Rev. Daniel Moore, incumbent of Camden Church. The collection at the close of the service amounted to 601., the largest sum collected in Bow Church for any purposa for many Mr. James Farrell, - of the London 'press, died on Saturdsy evening, at his lodgings in Lambetb;of cholas, aftur a few bona illness. TO THE EDIT°. Sin,—The following remarks on the not uninte resting subject of Draining may find a place in The Sun during the lull which precedes and follows cur animated Parliamentary debates. A glance of inspec tion at the scheme or diagram prefixed might serve to convince your readers that all primary or working drains should be drawn horizontally or nearly so ; but my object is rather to give the testimony of a vilkge sage speaking from personal and hereditary experience. The immense damage of the system everywhere adopted is our apology for so unusual a frontispiece, necessarily on a small scale to suit the columns of a newspaper. Here you have the provisam rem which you may translate into rerba non improvisa— " Piece out our imperfcedions by your thoughts Minding true things by what their mockeries are." As the ground which requires draining is com monly on a slope, the connecting or receiving drains, as Q, which empty the primary ones, must of course run down-hill, but they should be few—so that, form ing part of the boundary fence if possible, they may be left open and not filled up. The primary drains which exhaust the moisture frcm the ground should be absolutely horizontal, if a spirit level or dumpy can.be found, and nearly so if hid out by a six feet mason's level fitted with short legs to stilt up the straight edge above the inequalities of the ground. Nee mews hie sermo, sect quern precepit Ofellus. DECLARATION.—T, John Casselden, of Southborough, county of Kent, land-drainer, do solemnly and sincerely declare I have made forty thousaad rod of drain in my time. I have had as much experience as any man round these parts and I know [as my father did before me and my grandmother too] that drains running straight down the hill can never lay the ground dry : they should be drawn caterwise and as near level as possible just to let the water cif. Each drain cuts off the water from the ground below it, and does no good to the ground higher up the slope. I will bring fifty men to make a declaration like this, and I think it a great pity so much money should be thrown away on drains leading down the hills round here and I make this solemn declaration conscientiously, believing the same to be true.— [Not made and subscribed before one of 11. M. Justices of the Peace: 5 and 6 W. IV. forbidding all declarations in which the magistrates have no statutable jurisdiction. As yet we have not legislated on down-hill draining ] Thus far the excellent Casselden. The moisture which clings to the subsoil (see diagram) being de rived into tile horizontal drain higher up the slope of the hill, is not affected by drain Q however useful the said Q, in his way—and still less if possible is the moisture of any area exhausted by the drain lower down. The Casseldenian theory, übi supra, goes no further. I venture to add. The surface or rain water falling on the area below each drain also finds its way—m9dis miris, incertis moribus, by some hydraulic paradox, into that same drain, ex post facto. A given time after a given shower, walking with a foot each side the drain, you find the upper foot give the unmistakeable inkling of swamp—the lower, not. Here the drying of the ground lower than the drain must be ascribed to the surface water being sucked back into the drain, besides the grand principle of cutting of the water before it comes to the surface.— See J. C'. loc. citat. The horizontal drain can be almost of any length— the water does not run out, but merely " weeps,'' and it is a great satisfaction after rain to see the nymphs gently weeping at their fountains. See arrow-headed characters in diagram. The man of letters may expect the water to find its way into the doss n-hill drain, Q. I doubt it. Labitur et labetur in onzne volubilis cevum, and will never march up along the side of the hill unless incul cated by drains to that effect. Your reporter is betrayed into quoting Latin—facit indignatio versus —but let him not be misunderstood—" his raptures are not conjured up to serve occasions of . Emetic pomp." Before he took to Claypatch here an the weald, he had been tenant-farmer several years in Ireland, piteous Ireland, dulcifying the odium agrcste, odium Novercale, theologicum AND vatinianum re spectively, pacifying a cloud of taxgathererr, with much experience of landlordism, he lifted the chains they wore and found them heavy, he tasted the bitter mess set before them—total a dozen years toil and moil, cark and care, wear and tear of mind and body, making a few specks of earth greener, so that his short and simple annals may be found on parish books in connexion with the mysteries of rating: the opinions offered are practical, and, what is more, practicable ; they are nut, like much advice offered to patient farmers, admirable—and impossible. It appears that Mr. Smith, of Deanston, never held land till 1843, possibly has not found it answer. The reader, tired perhaps of exhaustive methods, may demur, and ask if your correspondent.'can lay the ground as dry as the subject ? Surely, a p9rsc,n may understand underdraining without being able to " read and write well." Lever is not Lorrcquer, nor even Nimrod--the man who thinks is seldom the very same man that. rides—he that makes books will not have time to make love. To imagine Quixote or even Sancho compiling biography, is to believe that Cer vantes could take windmills for giants, or kiss good Dapple. In a double return of this sort the choice of Hercules was for hard work and delving—he left the Muses to their own Apollo, and so far one may imitate him without presumption. MEMORANDUM.—." It is not the evidence of truth," said Locke, " but some lazy anticipa tion, sine beloved presumption or um x amined supposition," from which men too often argue. Such is the notion that water requires a good fall—incompatible moreover with the well known potulate—Water finds its level. On this principle depends the existence of Holland, where old Ocean, lifting his placidunt caput, ‘• es un amphibious world beneath him smile," and yet a very able reviewer lately spoke of Dutch men " economising the full !" The Tuscan artist understands these things : .1, et Sismondi, a Swis2, in his beautiful Tableau de l'Ar,riculture toscanc, at tributes the colmate and other great works to economy of fall !! If any declivity were rtqui: ed, Egypt would never have been metropolis or mother country of European and Asiatic civilization—Osiris, the Egyptian god, would never have prescribed bread and wine, nor the hero Sesostris carried tl.e mysteric:; of Ceres and Bacchus to all nations. 1 low can the Nile below the cataracts fall a. single barleycorn hen the Delta is continually rising ? " Ostia scptcm Pulverulenta vocat, scptcm sine &amine miles." The following sentences you were kind enough to print, several years ago:— " Water will traverse a deal level with great rapidity; witness the eurront of an etAztary, flowipg (qually fa,t in oppcsi!e directions, er ebi.ert - e a placid stream, Cum pace delsbentis Etruscum iu rna• é,' and again the same stream— Cum fera dilurie-s quietus Irritut tames.' A common flowcr-pot also affirdi the flaid rises out of the saucer by capillaty gravitation faster than it will descend from the sus face: now, if it rises .lovely and descends with difficufiy, one may co: clude it would prefer a level course. By wearing away of &,sta• Iles, and filling of hollows, ci i chwint Is have a tendency to obey the gene rZi law; and a navigable river, if not a series of levels, would necessarily h^ a torrent or rapid. So when the course chosso is much inclined, the .stirles and stones (the 'lspides adesos stirsque raptes' of the poet in miniature) soon rise to the ceiling of the drain, unless the latter is far ni:;re capacisE, than cconemical,re gard being had to cartirg materials—hut if the drain is hor=izontal the smallest thread of channel will infiice. Mr. Smith, of whom it is impossiLlo to speak V.: i:hout gratitude, had frequently obsrved that 'the watc7r wore away the earth and the tiles fell in:' this he attributes ;,9 confizuration us tiles, but the declivity is the cause. , "7 %~~/~ 7/ , / ' ft, :!4_!;_t." • V /,--; A ' / /tie DESTRUCTIVE FIRES. CITATIIAIVI 7 SEPT. 10.—On Sunday a fire broke out on Sharsted Farm, a short distance from Chatham, in the occupation of Mr. James Edwards, of Rochester, whiCh proved most destructive iu its progress, and when at its height illuminated the country around for miles. The fire broke out about ten o'clock on Saturday night in a stable occupied by the horses of the fourth team, anti soon spread to the stacks and surrounding buildings, including a large barn filled With wheat, a valuable thrashing machine, and en cast house which had been prepared for use for the ensuing hopping, which Mr. Edwards purposed com mencing this day. The property destroyed, besides the above, consisted of three ledges, five stables for twenty horses, six stacks of wheat, three of peas, and three of oats, all of this year's growth, together with several agricultural implements. By great exertion the .granary and farmhouse were saved, as were the waggons, ploughs, and many other useful articles. The four horses in the stable were the fire originated were burnt, notwithstanding every effort was node to save 'them; they were brought to the door, but could not he moved beyond it, the poor animals all the while uttering the most piercing cries, which were heard half-a•mile from the spot. It was with the greatest difficulty the other horses, ,fif teeh in number, were saved. They were . re moved from their stab!es and turned into an ad joining field, but the crowd of persons hastening from- Chatham alarmed the . animals, and they came galloping back towards the flame, and were with difficulty prevented from rushing into the midst of them. The-engines of the Kent and Sun offices ..v - ere brought to the spot, but the supply of water was but scanty, the chief portion being obtained 'from a well on, the premises, 190 feet deep. Fortunately • the wind had shifted during the day, or nine other stacks must inevitably have fallen a prey to the devouring element. It is pleasing to find that the labourers in the neighbourhood exerted themselves manfully in their endeavours to save the property ' • but at the same time it must be observed, that from Chatham a law less gang appeared bent on plunder, who laid their hands on everything coming within their reach; they entered the farmhouse also, and, after committing some depredationi there, were, after great resistance, driven thence by the farm servants, who used the butt ends of their whips for the purpose of ejecting them. It is not improbable that among these fellows were several of the vagabonds brought hither by the races. The cause of the fire is unexplained, but there seems little doubt that it was accidental. Both the buildings and farming stock are insured in the Kent Fire-office. The loss will be heavy, as the stacks were large ones. It is estimated at about 4,000/. Whilst engaged in attempts to re duce the fire at- Sharsted, the engines were required to suppress a fire which had broken out about twenty minutes past two o'clock on Sunday morning, in the house of Mr. Tucker, clothier and outfitter, No. 56, High street, Chatham. This fire was first discovered by the watchman, who with difficulty awoke the family, consisting of Mr. Tucker, his wife, and child, who at length escaped nearly in a state of nudity, the house, stock, and furniture being entirely destroyed. It was nearly two hours before the Sun and Dock yard engines arrived, at which time the adjoining house, No 57, was entirely gutted, the fixtures and several sacks of potatoes, belonging to Mr. Grigg, fruiterer, who had just taken a lease of the premises, being destroyed. The house No. 55, occupied by MjLynch, fruiterer, together with the stock, was also greatly datnaged. This house i; insured in•the Atlas--stock uninsured. The house N 0.56 is i....sured in the Sun. Unfortunately there was a short supply of water, and the engine from the barracks did not make its appearance. FIRE AND PROBABLE Loss OF LlFE.—About two o'clock yesterday mornieg a inflancholy, rnd it is feared fatal, case occurred to Mrs. Storuy, of Bromley street, Sr. Georges-in-the-Er t. Mrs. Storey, ;sho was fast asleep when the fire was disc vexed, was aroused just time enough to prevent her being entirely Consumed. The bedding was burning around her, and while c ndea voaring to arrest the progress of the flaineF, the fell down in the room; by assistance she was 'rescued from her perilous state, but so dreadfully burnt that In r life is despaired of._ _ _ FEARFUL EXPLOSION OF A FIREWORK MANU FACTORY AT KENSINGTON.—Yesterday afvritoon, about four o'clock, the town of Kensington was thrown into great alarm by a ferful explosion of gunpowder. It appears that for some time pair a man named Jones had been in the habit of manufacturing fireworks unon'a very small scale, but within the last few days he hse t l received an order to prepare firetvoi . lcss to the cxtent of fia for one of the a gardens at Bayswatr.T, wilt re a o was and it is supposed that the Se te be giron last vcnit ,g, cident occurred while packing these cernhuseit , lce. The polio? wvre immediately upon the spot, and rend„ , red the most effl..dent assistance in extticatin4 the unger:u ryve inmates ti cm beneath the ruins. The wif of the man was diicevercd burned in a must horrible manner, and immediately conveyed to the hos[it;l, win re the lies without the slightest chance of recevery r the 112.3 h barg ing from many parts of her body. The man Jones is also frightfully burnt about the face and arms, hut no serious apprehensions are entertaaned of his rel , ,very. The house in which the explosion took place, also the one aeljeining, are totally dettroyed, and the fire extended to acme Workshops in the rear, which are ulso blunt down; and had it not been for the prompr, attendmee of the firemen and the police the darnßge wouli h.ve boa much greater, from the very confined space where the accident took place—a small court, named Market paisaie, situate, immediately opposite Kensington Old Church. ExcunsioN 'fair TO THE ISLE OF WIGHT.— LOlldOuer2, to the numb:lr of 2,000, or more, availed themselves yesterday of the ele::p excursion trip to the I le of Wight, which, we . are happy to say, turned cut to ba entirely successful. They were conveye.l, in two long trains, frcm the Waterloo station to Southampton, wbete three of the splendid boats of the South-Western Company were in readiness to. take them across to Cowes. Although a considerable quantity of rain fell during the journey to Southampton, it ceased before the company got on beard the boats, and the sky having brightened up, they were enabled to enjey a very delightful sail, and to gladden their eyes with a magnificent view of the sea and the surrounding coast. On arriving at Cowes they soon dispersed themselves over different parts of the the island, which, for grandeur of scenery and salubrity of air, is excelled by but :ew places. Many were disap pointed at not king allowed to approach nearer Osborne House than the cuter gates, but this was in some degree compens ited for by their having an opportunity, for a very trifling sum, to ascend the turret of an occupied house in the vicinity, from wLich not only an excellent view of o,bortie, but of the whole island, c.-.uld be ob t,iue. Unfortunately a heavy shower of rain fell about fear o'clock, which not only damped the spirits but ac tually wetted to the skin a considerable number who were far from places of shelter. The whole excursionists got htck by seven o 'clock to Southampton, and, after the lapse of an hour or more, returned to town, evi dently highly graticd. EL,I2,CIICLY OCCURRENCE AT LITTLEHAMPION.-- Ceptain W. P. Hamilton, R.N., father of the Rev. Adolphus Hamilton, arrived last wade on a visit to his friends at the above watering place, and took up his residence on the beach. lie was missed by his family, avenrde•a in felt: o seare a h j f( a ir c tft ; i t t o h thmeadtoeN‘ but with no marks, his body was disco of viohnce. It is surmised the un:briunate gentleman expired in a fit of apoplexy, • MAGAZINT:S, &c.—(CONTINUED.) d ST. JANE S'S MAGAZINE, and Heraldic ; an Regith.r. Edited by J. Bernard Burke' No. 1. . At the time that Air. Bernard Burke, iu come 'quence of the death of his father, announcd the dis • continuance of the Patrician, we, in expressing our regret, at the same time urged him to start some new magazine, in which should be embodied the .leading features of the Patrician, and here we. have the St. James's . Magazine devottd to the same sub jects, get up with the same care and taste, and pub liwhed at the same price. The " Herahlic Register," containing engravings arid descriptions of arms, in completion of Guillim Edmondson, and Nisbett, i s so - arranged and nunittr,d as to ada:it of its being hound at the end of the year as a separate volume, illustrated with the trmorial engravings. The present number is also illustrated by a Leautitul lithograph of Broughton Castle. CON CREGAN. No. IX. Our hero i.l the present number goes through a series of surprising adventures among the gold washers on the bank of the, Sacramento—is detained in a state of slavery for some time at a Mexican_ con vict srttlement, from which he at length effects his escupr, and arrives at Chuapuha, with " clothes on his back and money in bis purse," a gallant Caballero. The spirit of this writer never for rn instant flogs. HISTORY OF ENGLAND DURING THE THIRTY YEARS PEACE. Part VIII. Second Half. Miss Martineau has herein continued her perspicu ous narrative down to the year 1840, pourtraying the condition of Ireland under the government of Lord Normanby, the most popular of all the Lord-Lieute nants. The letter-press is accompanied by an admi rable map of Australia. THE ART JOURNAL. No. CXXX-V. As the embellishments to the September number we have an engraving of Creswick's exquisite painting " The Way to Church," together with representa tions of Wyatt's " Girl at the Bath," and of Gibson's " Aurora." The most elaborate and ccmmendable paper in the number is the one explanatory and illustrative of the National Exposition of Industry in France. CHAMBERS'S EDIYB URGH JO URNAL. Among the entertaining and instructive papers usually contained in this excellent publication, there will be found one especially deserving of perusal is the number for September. The paper to which we allude is a vivid, detailed, and, in many respects, accurate account of the working of a London daily newspaper. Those who are ignorant as yet upon the subject will find the description entertaining. REAL CIVILIZATION. Par I. The editor, or author, or reviser of this work, has a profound conviction in the perfectibility of human nature. Hence he drams of effecting himself its complete regeneration. To which purpose he ad dresses a "Call" to emperors, kings, princes, nobles, gentlemen, merchants, agriculturists, &c. &c. &c.; in fact, to everybody. His " Call" threatens to extend to ninety-six chapters ; and the writer is sanguine of the result proving elle& ual. At the outset he ap pears to warn away from the perusal of his pages those timid persons who shrink from the idea of turning everything top3y-turvy. We do so too, and earnestly. THE NATIONAL LIBRARY. Part VIII. Mr. Knight has here issued a second portion - of Er. Kitto's well-known " Bible History," at a price suitable even to means modera'n and straitened. • HAYMARKEI"fHEUTRE. A one act farce called A Bird of Passage, being (a somewhat rare thing for the little Haymarket!) an aLptation from the French vaudeville, L' Oiseau de PaSsage, was produced with the most complete suc cess. A meddlesome gentleman, one Mr. Carry Chick (Mr. Wright), is the principal cbaracta, the main spring of the whole plot. lie is a mixture of Paul Pry, Dicky Gossip, and Marplot. Coming to a country inn, he finds the landlady (Mrs. P. Matthews) on the point of marri2ge with a horse dealer (Mr. Bedford), the village lawyer (Mr. Lam bert) occupied with the settlement, the mancook (Mr. Munyard), eng..ged to the chambermaid (Miss Turner), and, in short, everybody happy after his and her own fashion. Though a perfect stranger to all parties, he contrives to drop a warning here and a suggestion there, till every one's happiness is completely destroyed—the landlady deserting her horse •clealer to fall in love with the lawyer, the cook boiling with jealousy on account of the chambermaid, and so on down to the less impor tant personages. When the confusion is at its height, and all have discovered the author of their woes, he rum considerable risk of being torn to pieces for his interference. Throughout the piece was extravagantly amusing, and Mr. Wright especially seems to have emulated the success of M. Grassot, who took the same part in the original. All the other impersonations, from the Mr. Chaunt Ginger of Mr. Bedford to the Earnest Hopeful of that clever actor Mr. Worrell, were ex cellent. The curtain fell amidst general and genuine applause. Oa Monday nest we observe that the Adelphi company return to their own theatre. TESTIMONIAL TO THE HUNGARIAN REFUGEES. " THE HUNGARIAN NATION COUNTS ON THE SYMPATHY OF EVERY NATION WHICH LOVES RIGHT AND Ll- BERTY."—Kossuth ' s Protest against Russian Interven tion. Subscriptions may be sent to the following bankers:— Messrs. Coutts and Co. Messrs. Drummond. Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smith ; or to any one of the members of the committee formed to carry out the Testimonial. *.*All further Post-office orders to be made payable to Murdo Young, Esq., at the Money Order Office, Strand. Subscriptions already received ... 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A Few Chartists, Cripplegate John Turner, Langton-green .. G. Walker, Drury-lane From Mr. Rogers Leake, of York, Upper Rath bone-place 9 0 0 6 0 ... 1 5 6 ... 0 15 0 ... 0 3 1 ... 0 5 0 0 2 0 0 5 7 Tot al £1,017 S Si Mr. Wood, chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue, who with his family and a party have been making an extensive tour amongst the western and northern islands of Scotland, passed through the Cale donian Canal a few days ago in the Government steamer Warrior. The party bave visited the outer He bride s, including that far distant part of Inverness-shire—S4 Kilda; and on their return they passed round the ninth coast of Scotland, stean.ing slun g the Caithness coast in the bustle of that strang e and busy scene, the herring fishery .—lnvernesi Courier. The Archbishop of Citn;erhury has appointed the Rey. J. F. Lingh am, M. A., to the Vicarage of North bourn. ICE nt. Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out a wholesome fragrarce; but reverie is the same flower, Alien rank, and running to aced.—Eliza Cook's Journal. ORP, '3 _,,_. -~.