The Sun. — London, England, 1849-08-30 00:00:00

With Two Illustrations by Nicholson. The SEPTEMBER Number, price Half-a-crown, of BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY, CONTAINS: The Note-Book of a Coroner's Clerk. By the Author of "Experi ences of a Gaol Chaplain."—Chap. 26, " Reap as you have sowed." — Chap. 27. Clearly a Cale of W,tchcraft. Dion'sius O'Dogherty, Esq. With a few extracts from his Diary, By the Author of " Stories of Waterloo," &c. Gossip about the City of London. By Alfred Crowquill. Para: or Scenes and Adventures on the Banks of the Amazon. By I. E. Warren. Chap. 19. A Night Scene in the Harbour of Para —Cribbage—The " this" and Taaou— A Yew Acquaintance—Captain Hayden—Present of a Boa Constrictor—A Walk to Mr. Campbell's Boscenia—Travellers' Tales—A Fourth of July Dinner. Spring-tide ; or, the Angler and his Friends. By Paul Pindar. The Brook. By Alfred B. Street. The Decisive Battles of the World. By Professor Creasy. No. 8. The Battle of Chalons, A.D. 451. An Adventure in the Great Cavern of Serk. By Robert Postans. The Bje-lanes and Downs of England, with Turf Scenes and Characters. By Sylvanus. Chap. 12. Departure for the Derby— The Coupe —The Platform at Rugby—Mr. Hope Johnstone: his horse, the " Era"—The Loo Party—The Athol Canteen—" Hell in Harness"—Premature Deaths of Racing Men—Arrival in Town. Chap. 13. The early Morning-watch—The Second Sleep—Season is Town—Launcelot's Year—Cotherstone—The West End in May and November—The Duke of Limbs in " the Garden" —Prowling in Town—London Tradesmen—The City—The Tower—A wide step. A True Poet. From the German of Jean Paul Richter. The Irish Lochinvar. With an Illustration. Memoirs of Chateaubriand. Written by Himself. Literature of the Month. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS' SCHOOLS For Orphan and Necessitous Children. PATRON. His Royal Highness the Duke of CAMBRIDGE. &l. PRESIDENT. JOHN MASTERM &N, Esq., M.P. TRUSTEES. James Peek, Esq., Eastcheap. Hananiah Teape, Esq., Aldgate. Robert Clarke, Jun., Esq., Cheapside. TREASURER. George Moore, Esq„ Bow Churchyard. HONORARY SECRETARY. George Lawrence, Esq. SECRETARY. Mr. A. L. Saul, 60, Bread-street. On SUNDAY MORNING, September 9, ISO, a SERMON will be preached in aid of the funds of the above charity, before the Right Hon. the LORD MAYOR and SHERIFFS, at the Parish Church of ST. MARY-LE-BOW, CHEAPSIDE, by the Rev. DANIEL MOORE, M.A., Minister of Camden Chapel. Divine service to commence at II o'clock precisely. TTIEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. M., B. Webster, Sale Lessee and Manager, Old Brompton. THIS EVENING, Will be performed the celebrated Comedy of PAUL PRY. Frank Hardy, Mr. Stoker; Witherton, Mr. Cullenford ; Somers, Mr. Wor yell ; Colonel Hardy, Mr. Lambert ; Mr. Stanley, Mr. Thomas; Harry Stanley, Mr. Boyce ; Paul Pry, Mr. Wright ; Grasp, Mr. 0. Smith ; Eliza, Miss M. Taylor ; Marian, Miss Emma Harding ; Mrs. Subtle, Mrs Yates ; Phoebe, Misi Woolgar. To be followed by a novelty in the shape of A MOST UNWAR BANTABLE INTRUSION, which will be committed by Mr. Wright to the annoyance of Mr. Paul Bedford. ._ . To conclude with a new piece, entitled WEBSTER'S ROYAL RED BOOK. AtiaL EY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. lg ad, r the Patronage of her Majesty the Queen, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, &c. Last Six Nights of the present attractive Spectacle. THIS EVENING, T performance will commence with a Grand Military Equestrian Spectacle, entitled MOOLTAN and GOOJERAT ; or, the Conquest of the Seikhs. To be followed by an Inimitable display of SCENES IN T drstlLE CIRCLE. in which Marie Macart e will a pp ear, supported by the .11cgtestrian talent of the daY. To conclude with the Farce of THE SECRET. In compliance with numerous requests at the Box-office, the po pular Spectacle of MAZEPPA. will be produced with great splendour Monday next, September 3. ox-otlice open from Eleven till Four. , tage Manager, Mr. W. West. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. IMMENSE AND UNPARALLELED SUCCESS. Under the patronage of her Mos Gracious Majesty, her Majesty the Queen Dowager, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, &c. The Puhlic Press has unanimously pronounced the Storming of Isp.da:oz to be the most perfect and life-like exhibition. Grand Musical Melange, composed on the occasion of her Majesty's Visit to Inland, introducing the most popular National Melodies. Herr Bermans, the Celebrated Bass Singer. Herr Fer,linand Som:ner will execute a Solo on the Euphonion. THE SEA SERPENT AT LENGTH.- This celebrated but hi therto apocryphal monster is no longer a doubt - he will make his appearance THIS EVENING in a grams Pyrotechnic Representation. Mr. Southby will not vouch for the accuracy of the Portrait, but the effect will be prodigious. l'he N.)bility, Gentry, and the Public are respectfully informed that this favourite place of fashionable resort is open every MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, AND THURSDAY. Danson's gigantic modelled Panorama of the TOWN AND FORT OF BADAJOZ, pronounced by the voice of public opin:on to be the most perfect and life-like exhibition ever preSeii tC. I—Splendid Wnagerie—Vozal and Instrumental Con cert, Conductor Mr. Godfrey—Several Favourite Songs and Ballads by the Misses Wells and Mr. George Tedder— Solos by Richardson (Flute)—Violin and Violoncello by Viotti and George Collins, varied alternately—and other at tractions, concluding with a vivid representation of the Storming of Badatoz pourtraying the advance of the British army—bombard ment and attack—gallant defence—rush to the breach by real troops —and final. tableaux in honour of the " Hero of a hundred fights." REFRESHMENTS.—The frequenters of these Gardens have long complained that Refreshments from the Confectionary-rooms only could be procured. Arrangements itave been effected, and a distinct portion of the Gardens set apart, where Refreshments may be had of the first quality, and at the usual Prices. Door. open at Nine o'Clock, A.m ' . • feeding of the animals at Five ; Pelicans and White Bears half-past Five ; Concert at Six ; Storming of Badajoz, at Dusk.—Admission One Shilling. On Monday, September 12, the Royal South London Floricultural Society will hold their Fourth Grand Miscellaneous Flower Show. WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, AUG. 30. THEIIMOMETER, Lowest, 60; Highest, 71; Noon, 69, BAROMETER, 29.07. Wind S.W.—dull weather. !11011 WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tine Dev °ming, 45 min. 11 Evening, 0 after rain. after 0 To-Nioanow—Moraing, 13 min. after 12 Evening, 37 min. after 11 .; I, „ ....1 , 0 13-. ' fr' R GP, ~,,, y <oo• ao • MAC. , •- , ta,„ l e 4 t/ , i ./-- ' ---I' ' 41 1 1 k '•" .;.. rikb, :1-, ..-.• •,- ,-, / 0 1' 1k , 1 -.. ' • - r''''l 4 Z, • q.47/iiit, " ' • Ili .. '- ' , I , N .; • ii n , 4r , 4 , -- 4 4,it A r ,',....1 ,•• ~t'.. `‘' ,-;, •.0 2, .0. , 0, , L.I Eu , , ~, ‘ „ ,,t , ,,,, :..• 1 . 5",: , ,, .o• r ,'.. -/to •,... 41, -,,- ,_ eititning LoNDON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 1849. Our readers, and especially the subscribers to the Hungarian Testimonial originated by ourselves, will be gratified to learn that intelligence has been this morning received, via Southampton, announcing the arrival of the Hussars (lately sojourning near Folk stone), at Constantinople. So far our endeavours have been in this instance eminently successful, though unhappily, in consequence of recent occur rences, the unfortunate men, recently refugees in Eng land, will only reach their native country in time to lee her delivered over to the ruthless domination of her Austrian and Russian invaders. Neverthe less, there still remains a possibility that this interesting band of patriots may be enabled to cross Roan eli t and j in the 10,000 of their heroic fellow countrymen now fighting, under the orders of Guiron, against those foes to Hungarian independence to whose mandate GEORGEY has yielded up the fortunes of the Magyars unconditionally. Nor is it a circum stance altogether unworthy of consideration, or even of self-gra'ulation, that the General under whose banners these emissaries and witnesses of British ' sympathy for the Hungarians may alone have the opportunity of rallying, is one who, although a natu ralised Magyar, is by birth a Briton. An absurd rumour appears to have somehow become prevalent in Con stantinople immediately on the disembarkation of the severity Hussars from the Oriental Steam Company's ship which had just reached the Bosphorus—namely that those patriotic soldiers had been furnished with means to enable them to reach their native land by traversing the Mediterranean and subsequently crossing the Turkish dominions, by the members of the English Government. Unfortunately there was anything but complicity on the part of her MAJESTY'S advisers in this transaction. Unfortunately there was only visible a reluctance in the Cabinet of St. James's to forward in any way the wishes of the English people in regard to the cause of Hungary. Through the moneys accumulated in the fund styled the Hun garian Testimonial, and through those moneys alone, have these seventy fellow•countrymen of KossuT H been enahl. dto proc e ed to the frontiers of Roumelia. And the knowledge of this circumstance is a supreme consolation to our hearts, now that we wittiness the calamities that have befallen the valiant soldiers of DEMBINSKI. Before we close our present allusions to the Testimonial of England's sympathy for the Hungarians, we must be permitted to express an intention on our parts, as the originators of the subscription—and we are satisfied that it is an intention that will neither meet with the objec'ion of the contributors nor with the opposition of the committee, but that it will be hailed as one consonant with the views originally entertained by all parties who have in any way participated in raising that Testimonial. Seeing that a thunderbolt of misfor tune has descended upon the Hungarians, and scattered to the winds at least for the present all their dearest hopes and aspirations —we prop ose that after the liquidation of all the e x p ense s in curredone t in the trans mission of the refugees fr om F o lk s t Constan tinople, and thence across Roum e li a , that the residue of the Testimonial shall be placed in : th e o hands of the Great Louis KOSSUTH to be employ ed as he think proper for t he good of that glori ous caus m ay think e e 5 with: which his illustr ious name has become syncsaymous A nobler or a more direct evidence of the sywpa thy with which England has watched the late ztruggle of the Magyars for the vindi cation of their nationality, and for the preser vation of their independence, could not by any pos sibility be contrived. As to the practicability of carrying our intention into effect, it is only necessary to bear in recollection the fact that England is the refuge of all the victims either of the Absolutism or of the Revolutions of the European co ntinent. Ac cording to the last accounts from Turkey, it would appear that KOSSUTH was a fugitive through the Wallachian provinces. Rumours were, of course, not THE SUN wanting to the effect that that great man had been I arrested by the clouds of Cossacks now infesting and ravaging those dominions. Yet, in spite of these sinister reports, which stand in need of every possible corroboration, we are still sanguine that the Chief of the Hungarians will evade the grasp of his bitter and unrelenting enemies, and that before many weeks have elapsed he may stand upon the shores of this land of freedom—the guest as well •as the admiration of England. Then into his hands we may pour the guerdon of an heroic and unsullied patriotism, the spontaneous evidence of the homage and sympathy of Great Britain. While day by day we are receiving the most mournful corroboration of the disastrous intelligence recently obtained from Hungary, we can point with the most elevated satisfaction to a document pub lished in another column, a document the existence of which we have more than once intimated—we mean the Memorial addressed to the Prime Minister and to the Foreign Secretary, by several members of the Imperial Legislature. That memorial, the pro duction of the Noble Lord, the Earl FITZWILLIAM, ex presses to her Majesty's Government in eloquent terms, and with befitting distinctness, the feelings prevalent throughout these islands in regard to the treatment of Hungary—feelings of horror at the atrocious violation of so many sacred rights by the Austro- Russian Coalition, and of mingled pain and indigna tion at the culpable indolence of the British Cabinet. Elsewhere, also, in this evening's impression of our journal, will ibe found a very simple and logical exposure of one of the greatest humbugs in this age of delusion—to wit, the well•known squad of Utopians who are at present disporting themselves in the French capital, under the conciliatory title of the Peace Congress. The frivolity of their arguments, the utter and preposterous _ _ impracticability of their schemes, and the monstrous and evil consequences which have followed, from a recent experiment of their principles, are therein clearly and honestly particularise& In truth, it requires no very elaborate effort at persuasion to demonstrate to the comprehension of any sane man that the much eulogised non-intervention system (the nostrum or panacea of these benevolent, but very short sighted enthusiasts) has recently tarnished the repu tation of England, while it has desolated Hungary with carnage, and rapine, and arson, and murder, and bombardment, leaving its fields to be ravaged by bar barians, its fairest cities to be given up to pillage and conflagration, its women to be deflowered, its men to be butchered, and its holiest rights to be trampled down under the heel of an accursed Despotism. Such are the infamous results of that mawkish sentimentality whose predictions are nothing less than the ravings of a delirium arising out of the fever of a diseased phi lanthropy. The report of the Registrar-General on the state of the health of London during the week states that 7,470 lives have been destroyed in London alone fro.n cholera since the commencement of the epidemic, and the _Registrar very justly adds, that while the present epedemic has excited some talk and terror, the efforts which have hitherto been employed to combat it look feeble and insignificant when con trasted with the vast means and agency which are brought to bear by the nation in other fields for the protection of life and property. We have Sanitary Commissioners and Commis sioners of Sewers, each with a well-paid staff of officials at their command, and when we endeavour to ascertain what they have done to arrest the progress of cholera by removing its causes, we find that with the exception of the adoption of that very ques tionable measure, the flushing of the sewers, by which their filthy and putrid contents have been disturbed and diffused, and the Thames polluted and rendered a medium for the propagation of contagion, as any one who travels on it may satisfy himself, by the evidence of his own nostrils, these two Boards of Commis- i sioners have done nothing. The Commissioners of Sewers have indeed stated their readiness to receive any plans which may be sent in for the effec tual drainage of London, but they are too much occupied with the squabbles of Mr. CIIADWICK and Mr. LEslaz to do more than " receive" plans which appear to be treated by them some what after the fashion in which petitions are treated by Parliament. Among the various plans which have been thus ordered to be laid on the table, two have more especially excited the attention of en gineers, scientific men, and the public, viz., that of Mr. W. YATES FREEBOBY and that of Mr. RICHARD DOVER. Mr. FREERODY, in his letter to the Com missioners, thus proceeds to state the objects which he proppses to effect. He says— " The first plan is to obtain an efficient supply of water—sufficient to cleanse at any given time all the sewers under your control, and constantly afterwards to flow in sufficient volume to prevent accumulations therein of noisome materials or other obstructions. " The other design is to flush that part of the channel of the River Thames between Batters , a and Greenwich, so as to obviate along its course the deposit of offensive matter—a measure, I presume, necessary to be- adopted, in the event of your arriving at the determination that the River Thames is still the best practicable out-tall for the drainage of so vast a system as the one now under your care and control." - - - - - - - Having explained the method which he proposes to adopt for the purpose of obtaining an efficient supply of water, Mr. FREBBODY proceeds as follows : " Should you, after mature consideration, elect to con tinue the drainage of the metropolitan sewers to the valley of the Thames, I have next to direct your atten tion to the second proposal I desire to bring under your notice, viz , to flush that part of the channel of the M!. AN Thames between Battersea and Greenwich.. I purpose to effect this by placing across the river, at a point be tween Battersea and Wandsworth, a solid dam of masonry, pierced by seven locks. The lock-gates may, very generally, be kept open, and the tidal and downfal currents allowed to pass unobstructed ; but in process of time, or more especially in dry seasons, the river throughout its populous vicinity —from Battersea to Greenwich—may, trom its continuing to be the out-fall of above 140 sewers, have a considerable quantity of soft foetid matter deposited in its course that would need re moval ; and, at present, there is no agency under your control that will effectively perform that duty. To in- quire your power to erect such a work is unimportant here ; the sewers, as at present constituted, have a ten dency to pollute the river, and to cause obstructions in its channel that may become insalubrious. I will, there fore, assume that the required authority to ameliorate the conditions of those evils will be intrusted to your Commission when found requisite. " Were these locks constructed, their action when em pl.)yed would be as follows: —During the flow of the tid) the gates would all remain cpen until high water, and the tidal waters would, as usual, run up to Tedding ton Lock, with the varied heights due to ordinary causes. From the time of high water the gates (except for pass ing vessels) would remain closed for about four hours of the six and a half hours (which is about the duration) of an ordinary ebb tide. By this means the channel of the river, for a length of twelve miles five furlongs, would be come one vast lock-poo!, of an average width of 154 yards, and assuming a medium tidal lift of only 6 feet over the entire distance, it would give 185,081,520 cubic feet of water, to be passed along the river from Battersea to Greenwich, and probably below, in a given time, and with a controllable velocity. The water so conserved would by this means be brought into use at a period when most needed fur purposes of salubrity, viz., during the two hours preceding the time of low water, and any inconvenience caused thereby to navigation could not exceed what is now often experienced in rainy seasons (when the whole valley of the river between Oxford and Teddington is flooded) the sluice area so governing the rate of current as never to permit it to exceed the velo city generally consequent on ordinary freshes. "in order to preserve the sides of the river from de posits of filthy material, principally those sites varied almost diurnally, between high and low water marks, many of the minor sewer out-falls should be united into one common channel, and conducted downwards to a con venient discharge point, by drains of the usual construc tion, or by cast-iron tubes. It is also very important that greater care should be taken with that part of the various out-fall sewers necessarily left open on the site nearest to low-water marks. These outlets should all be properly graduated and proportioned, so as to avoid deposit near that spot, and to retain the full benefit of the relative gravity due to the force of flush obtainable, the desideratum being to carry the sewer contents as far into mid-stream as possible." There is one great and to our minds insuperable objection to this plan, it still makes the Thames the receptacle for all the filthy and corrupted sewage of the metropolis, thus turning it into a Purveyor of infection to all who live upon its banks. The plan of Mr. DOVER, as explained in his recently pub lished pamphlet,* and in his letter to the Commis sioners of Sewers, is not open to this objection, and while it maintains the Thames in a state of compara tive purity, it turns the sewage to profitable account, and that by a simpl e la and plan in he the, pamphlet process . t Mr. whichD oavl allu sion a o thus explains his p has tis pa already rctabic been for h enm tadee t-- "It hames to carry w ith it health instead of sickness! and in doing so to combine with vast national pecuniary gains repeal of the sewer rates!! This is by intercepting the sewage at the exit * " The Public Health, with National Pecuniary Gain , ver sus Pestilential Disease and Increased Taxation." ' of each sewer, and, with anti-contagions and innoxions de•putrefying chemical agents, fixing and precipitating the awmuniacal and other valuable pr , )pertit.s th,rsie, and then converting the residuum into a cheap portable guano or manure, of extremely fertilizing powers, for agricultural and horticultural purposes, when spread upon or drilled into the ground. It was also repre sented that my system of operation does not require the lowest of any of the present levels [at low water mark] to be raised; on the contrary, it will be more advanta geous to me to have the wells ten or even twenty feet below the lowest of the present levels of sewers in Londcn. . _ . "It is proved beyond all doubt that a disinfecting agent is known, by which sewage can be converted into guana, to ' be employed for the production of food,' and that by the aid of this agent all sewage can be rendered a source of profit to the Government, the manufacturers of guana, the farmers, the agricultural population, and, in tact, to the whole community. Also that the sewage of London (and every other city and town) can be con verted into guana, with sanitary as well as pecuniary advantage. " A very large revenue and gain can accrue to the Government, and this city in particular, and to the community in general, by the conversion of the sewage of this vast metropolis into guana; and the millions sterling per annum of value [in sewage] now wasted so uselessly down the Thames, it has been proved practi cally need be wasted no longer. " The agent will de-putrify the sewage, or any mat ters commonly passing through the sewers, emitting putrid or rotten smell or scent, by fixing and precipi tating the valuable fertilizing properties, whereby they are preserved and rendered available for agriculture or horticulture when spread upon or drilled into the ground. By itself, the residuum, or solid of the sewage, will net pay; whereas, by being disinfected and converted into guana, it can produce a very large revenue to the Go vernment, besides a very large profit to the manufac turers, and be sold to the agricultural community at little more than half the price of the Peruvian." But this is not all the advantage which Mr. Dovait proposes to accomplish : " After the sewage is disinfected, and the solid preci pitated, ' the supernatant water' is available and of value tor sundry purposes [bleaching, washing, and purifying floors and rooms in houses, or linen and clothes, used in cases of typhus or other fevers, or where cholera is, or may have been raging; also for washing slaughter houses, Stc.]" Nay, this supernatant water becomes a most power. ful agent for the cleansing and disinfecting of sewers during the remainder of its course, for on being returned into the sewer it deprives completely the contents of the sewer of smell, de-putrefying them in fact, and rendering them innocuous. Mr. DovEz thus continues : " The works requisite for taking up and disinfecting the sewage are neither complex nor large, and can be established at the exit of each sewer into the Thames, or in any other part of London more convenient! The sewage to be pumped up by steam-power into tanks or vats averaging from one to three thousand gallons each, and disinfecting progressively whilst filling, as the agent fixes and precipitates all the matters that will putrefy (and valuable therefore as fertilizers), leaving the super natant water clear, and free from offensive smell. By the time the tank is full, its contents will be ready for filtering a r Egyptien. The residuum is then removed for draining upon the premises [if there is sufficient space], or run into barges for transport to other pre mises, up or down the river. Thus all the offensive and putrid or putrefying matters now running disadvanta geously and wastefully, out of London into the Thames, would be made available for agricultural and horticul tural purposes, and to national profit." We were present a few days ago at some experi ments which were performed for the purpose of testing the merits of Mr. DOVER'S plan, and the result of those experiments was most satisfactory. A bucket full of sewage was taken from the mouth of one of the common sewers as it was emptying itself into the Thames at low water. The effluvia proceeding from this was, as may be imagined, most offensive. The sewage having been placed in a glass receptacle, had poured into it the disinfecting agent ; in the space of a few minutes the process of de-putrefaction had taken place—the manna had been precipitated and the supernatant fluid was perfectly clear and quite free from any disagreeable smell. It exhaled a slightly acid odour, arising from the fact of its retaining a sufficient portion of the disinfecting agent in solution to enable it in its turn to act to a certain extent as a deodoriser and deputrefier. The proposal of Mr. DOVER appears to us worthy of every attention; it is cheap, simple, efficacious, and will preserve the Thames from pollution. But these plans only go to remedy one portion, and that the smallest, of the evil under which we are la bouring. What is to be done in cases where there are no sewers P Neither of these plans would be of any avail in such cases as the following, which we quote from the Registrar-General's report as-- " On the 9th August a stockbroker died at No. 12, Albion-terrace, Wandsworth-road; a widow lady and an old dementia servant at No. 6; in the five preceding days in the same terrace the daughter of a grocer, a child of five years of age, had died at No. 1; the widow of a coach proprietor and a commercial clerk, at No. 2; a gentleman's widow at No. 3; a surgeon's daughter at No. 4; a spinster of 41 at No. 5; the wife of a Dissent ing minister, his mother, a widow lady, and a servant at No. 6; a young woman of 21 at No. 10; a gentleman at No. 12, where the stockbroker died; a commercial clerk and a young woman of 19 at No. 13, where a young woman also died on July 28th; a gentleman's wife at No. 14, who had seen her daughter die there the day before. The nineteen persons died of cholera; many of the in habitants of the terrace were dispersed; and the deaths of several have been registered elsewhere. 'lt appears,' says the registrar, Mr. Frost, that at No. 13, inhabited by Mr. Biddle, where the first death occurred, and where two deaths were afterwards registered, the refuse of the house had been allowed to accumulate in one of the vaults (which is a very large one) for about two years, and when removed last week the stench was almost intolerable, there being about two feet of wet soil filled with maggots. The drains had also burst, overflowed into the tank, and impregnated the water with which the houses were supplied. On the back ground, in the distance, was an open ditch, into which nearly the whole of the soil of Clapham runs.' " We cordially concur in the eloquent denunciations of the Registrar-General against the murderous carelessness with which the contents of Mr. BIDDLE'a cellars were suffered to accumulate; but how can it be expected that private individuals will go to the expense of erecting sewers and drains, when the Government of the country sets them the example of leaving thi refuse and drainage water of one of the largest public establishments in the neighbourhood of the metropolis to accumulate in cesspools, forming centres for tie diffusion of poisonous miasma, becoming, in short, hot beds for cholera.? Our readers will scarcely believe that Woolwich, with its enormous Government esta blishments, and its densely crowded population, is the greater pirtion of it undrained to this very Lour, and that for the draining of the small portion of it, in which sewers have been recently built, the public is indebted not to the Government, not to the exertions of the inhabitants of Woolwich themselves, but to the North Kent Railway Company, at whose expense the sewers have been erected, and more es ' ecially to Mr. M‘Gneeioß, the excellent and able Chairman of the company, who has added to the many obligations which he has conferred on thi public by his indefatigable and praiseworthy exer tions in this matter of the Woolwich drainage. The company, in carrying on the works of their line in the neighbourhood of Woolwich, found that they were constantly breaking into the cess pools, in which the filth of 'Woolwich was collected, and the overflow from which at one time appeared likely to drown their works in a sea of corruption. Mr. ArGREGOB, with his wonted energy and decision, immediately undertook the substitution of a proper system of drainage, and the people of Woolwich are indebted for the removal of these re servoirs of pestilence, not to the Government, not to the Sanitary Commissioners, not to the Sewers Com missioners, but to the extension of the railway system. It is one, and that not the least of the advantages of the extension of railways, that they are invariably accompanied by the introduction of an efficient system of drainage ; and the public will find that, probably after all, the only really effective sanitary board is a board of railway directors. And this case proves how much better it is to trust to private enterprise for the accomplishment of great useful public works, than to that most inefficient, most expensive, and most ob structive of all contrivances—a public board of paid Commissioners. Is there never to be an end to clerical vagaries ? Scarcely has the public mind recovered from the shock occasioned by the outrage upon decency per petrated by the torturer of the unfortunate MARY BALL, when a Reverend Ge n tl eman , i n th e c e n tr e of the metropolis, exhibits the most heartless features of intolerance by refusing to administer the rites of Christian burial to a youth who met his death by falling from a housetop whilst engaged, as it is sup posed, in a burglarious attempt. In the case of the chaplain of the Coventry gaol the revolting conduct of that functionary was followed by his virtual dis missal from his situation by the visiting jus tices, and Sir GEORGE GREY has very properly signified to those gentlemen his entire concurrence in the course pursued by them, namely, the immediate LONDON, THURSDAY.EVENING, AUGUST 30, 1849 suspension of Mr. CHAPMAN, with a view to his ultimate removal from the office which he so vilely desecrated. Whether his fienzied conduct iesulted from brutish ignorance, from coarse cruelty, or from any other assignable motive, he is manifestly unfit to be permitted the further exercise of any influence or authority. By way of bringing the wretched woman to a fitting sense of her awful situation, he enters her cell with a lighted candle, and seizing her hand, deliberately holds it over the scorching flame, despite her agonized struggles to get free, not, we are willing to believe, in order to gloat over her writhings, but, forsooth, to give her a foretaste of the torments of hell-fire. An act of more astounding fatuity and fanaticism could hardly have been committed in the darkest days of monastic superstition and intolerance. It is truly grievous to have to record in the middle of the nine teenth century a piece of conduct, on the part of a pastor of the Established Church of England, which would, have entitled him to rank as a zealous and approved familiar of the Holy Inquisi tion. Perhaps the Reverend Gentleman conceived t h a t as St. DUNSTAN most effectually routed the Devil by griping his nose with a pair of red-hot tongs, so he might exorcise the Spirit of Evil from the condemned creature by the application of the fiery tortur e . Th e ques ti on i n proportion which he propounded to her was truly edifying : if such was the pain endured by the burn ing of a s i ng le member at a taper's flame, for the space of two minutes, what must be the torments of hell, where her whole frame would be in combustion for hundreds of years. It may be that in speaking thus he meant to convey a lively sense of the pleasures of purgatory, and, indeed, the mind of the sacerdotal tyrant strikes us as being one likely to be obscured by the pitchy clouds of Puseyism and defiled by the impure monstrosities of that mongrel heresy. Fortunately, however, the days of the faggot and the pile are passed away. Auto-dafes are obso lete in England, and even the cry of the victim of a minor torture is not suffered to sound unheeded in the dungeon walls. Of all species of tyranny, the priestly is the most abhorrent to the British mind, and any attempt at its revival serves but to provoke the unanimous and unqualified indignation of honest and independent men, and to call down crushing con demnation on the head of him who is wicked or weak enough to introduce its hideous form anew upon the scene. In the present case the civil authorities have acted promptly and efficiently, and we trust that the ec clesiastical powers will record their approval of the wholesome example set by the visiting justices of Warwickshire, and, by a marked admonition and re buke, prevent any recurrence of such a violation of public decency. We need scarcely say that we are far from being influenced by the slightest feeeling of personal towards the Reverend RICHARD CHAPMAN ; our observations are elicited solely by considerations of the public good, and we sincerely trust that in the discharge of our duties as impartial journalists, we shall never again be called upon to animadvert on a case of similar notoriety. With regard to the Reverend Mr. JONES, the curate of the parish of St. Paul's, Covent-garden, to which we have previously alluded, we feel equally shocked, surprised, and disgusted. What were the grounds upon which he dared to deny the decent ceremonials of sepulture—rites which are for the edification of the living, and not for the benefit of the insensible corpse ? The Rubric of his Church enjoins that those rites shall not be extended to " any that die unbaptized, or excommunicate, or have laid violent hands upon themselves," but there is no other exception. Nevertheless, it seemed meet to the diseased conscience of this strait-laced curate to extend the penalty. He first sought to drag his Bishop into the mire, but his endeavours were in effectual, his Lordship being out of town. He then took upon _himself the detestable responsibility of refusing to read tlie ordinary service over the body. The expostulations of the churchwarden were set at nought. That functionary, in order, if possible, to obviate the unpleasant consequences which appeared imminent for the family of the deceased were very properly deter mined to bury their unfortunate relative in their own Plivate grave—proceeded to a congregation of divines, who held their sittings somewhere in I Southampton-street, and one of their body had the good sense to bring the proceedings to a close, and performed the funeral service, feeling convinced that no minister, when duly called upon, had a right to refuse executing the duties of his office in this respect. Can it be a matter of wonder that the ranks of Dissent are copiously recruited when such fantastic tricks are played by the parsons of the Church of England ? If the heads of that Establish ment are bent upon accomplishing its ruin, they can adopt no more efficacious course than to countenance the freaks of the Rev. Messrs. CuersEs N and JONES, and they will, ere long, have the satisfaction of finding the edifice tumble about their ears. There is, they may depend upon it, a strength of public opinion which will sternly repel the encroachments of fanatic domi nation, and whose warning voice should put a sum mary end to the exhibition of such lugubrious far cicalities. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have received the Paris papers of yesterday. The Moniteur publishes the following : " Several Italian journals paint u.ader the most false colours the attitude assumed by the :French Government, in the negotiations which have led to the peace between Austria and Piedmont. In reply to these calumnious accusations the Government confine& itself to publishing the following document; it is the only reply which it becomes it to give:— " ToriTn, 21st August. " Monsieur le Ministre—The friendly interest which the Government of the Republic !aa.s testified for us . during ne go tiati ons o f P eace w i t h. A us t r i a , ma k es it a duty for us at the mew ent when these negotiations have happily been concluded, to ex pre*s to the French Cabinet our sincere gratitude forits rood offices in our favour, which we are pleased to admit 'lave so powerfully contributed to obtain for us conditions to which our honour will allow us to sub scribe. I, i n consequence, f u l f i l a p l eas i ng d u ty i n making myself to you, Monsieur le tlinistre, the inter preter of the sentiments of my c olleagues, the other Ministers of his Majesty, who, e,ll like myself, have warmly appreciated the support which has been given to cs by France in this difficult circumstance, and which has so well justified the confidence which we have placed in the efficacy of her word. [ hope that you will accept these expressions of our sin cere gratitude, and at the same time the assurances of t he high consideration with which I have the honour to bi " MASS. D'AZEGLIO." The Assemblee Nationale pubitishes the following account of the reception of General LAMORIIIIERE by the Emperor of R U SSIA.— " Accounts ha ve been received in. "Paris by the friends of General Lamoriciere, of the rec eption of the Ambas sador of France by the Emperor Nicholas, and of his residence in W arsa w. The foll , awins is th e correct version:—' The General, and what is more, we will even say the Ambassador, was very well received; all that has been said of the whisperings which were excited by the rough soldier-like manner of General Laraoriciere is completely incorrect; the General is a man of too much sense and too well bred not to have corrected, in the midst of a military and polished covet, all revolutionary habits. The Ambassador was everywhere feted; the Emperor invited him to his table, but every ti me t h at the General wi s h e d t o open a political conversation as to the future prospects of Russia, and the object of h er immense armaments, the Emperor abstained from rep l y , without, however, d e parting from his usual courtesy. It appears, however, that one evening, being very much pressed for an answer by a certain def;ree of persistence on the part of General Lamoriciere, the Emperor said— ' My project, General, with the kelp of God, i s t o i suppress revolution wherever t may show itself. We think that this was meant laierely as a menace against the spirit of revolution,. and not agai▪ nst nation alities ; for, w ith th e es teem with which the person of the Empero r i nsp i res us , we will remark is not a good means o f i n spiring no, to him that it ole ideas i▪ n a nation like ours to proceed by threats. The revolutionary spirit, howe ver , exten d s itself by that deplorable a g it a • lion in th e p u bli c m i n d, t h a t sanguinary fever, which has precipitated Europe into all kinds of excesses since the 24th of February, and it is to that which the Em peror alluded in his remark.' The Legitimatist pilgrims have returned from their visit to the Due DE BORDEAUX, at Ems. The Opinion Publique publishes a long account of the sayings and d o i ngs o f the various parties concerned, from which it appears, that M. VERON, the proprietor of the Constitutionnel, had the most narked attention paid to him by both the Count and the Countess of CHAMBORD. Itis said that M. GUIZOT is a candidate for the re presentation of the Department of the Lower Seine, vacant by the death of M. VICTOR GRANDIN. The Grand Duke of BADEN has written to the PRESIDENT of the Republic to thank him for the kind reception he met in France during the insu rrec ti on which drov e hi m f ro m his dominions. The PRESIDENT of the Republic intends to visit in September the principal dockyards and arsenals of France. 1,1,_ ..s-, clone on yes tt.-rd ay. The Five per Cents. cloed bt 89t. 70c., and the Three per Cents. at 55'. 50c. BUSINLS6 DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TUE LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE. AUGUST 29. Anglo Italian (late Italian and Austrian), I—Boulogne and Amiens, 6%—Last Indian, 334. SPAIN. Madrid papers of the 24th have arrived. The Cla s rnor Publico states that the Duke DB So- TOMAYOR had refused the Ministry of Finance. It was consequently said that M. BRAVO MURILLO would definitively remain in the department, and that M. DE QUINT° would take the Ministry of Public Instruction. A letter says that the Minister of Fi nance had obtained an advance from some capitalists. MADRID BOLSA, AUG. 24.—The Three per Cents. were done at 26k; the Five per Cents. at 1.14. Ex change, 70. GERMANY AND THE NORTHERN STATES. AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY. There is little news from Hungary. The "Vienna Gazette of the 24th publishes a bulletin of General HAYNAU, announcing that, on the 18th, the number of Hungarian deserters in his camp was 18,000, and that the Magyar infantry was in complete disso lution. The corps of insurgents, who were flying before the Imperial troops, buried the cannon which they could not take away. " The san guinary drama," says General HAYNAU, in one of his last proclamations, " has arrived at its denouement." The Pesth Gazette mentions a report that KOSSUTH had been arrested on the Wallachian frontier ; but this requires confirmation. On the 18th, however, it is said that he was seen at Lippa. The Constitutional Journal of Bohemia states that before General LUDERS and GROTENHJELM (Russians) effected their junction in Transylvania, General BEM fell unexpectedly on Hermanstadt, and massacred the garrison of two thousand men ; therefore LUDEES marched on the town, and sur rounded the Magyars ; the latter attempted to cut their way through, but they were completely de feated. The Russian soldiers were so exasperated at the sight of their slaughtered comrades, that they slew without mercy, and the officers could not stop the carnage ; 4,000 dead, chiefly Poles, were it said left on the field. BEM himself only escaped with great difficulty across the corn fields. This, it should be remembered, is a Russian account of what took place in Transylvania, and cannot therefore, be implicitly relied on. The Hungarian General GUYON, who has under his orders 10,000 men, has fefused to submit. Gene rals Scams. and BECHTOLD have been sent in pursuit of him. The German Reform says that the Austrian Minis ters are perfectly agreed with respect to the pacifica tion of Hungary, and are resolved to support the Constitution of the 4th of March. A recent decree of the Emperor of AUSTRIA regu lates the abolition of land charges for Gallicia and Lodomeria, and the suppression of seignorial dues. The .Agram Gazette announces that M. LEMUR, formerly a major in the Austrian service, and in the receipt of a pension, was shot on the 12th, in execu tion of the sentence of a court-martial, for high treason, in having taken part in the insurrection of Pancsova, and occupied an official situation under the Magyar Government, on the frontiers of the Banat. A letter from Temeswar of the 16th says that Baron JELLACRICU had arrived at that place, and been received with enthusiasm by the people. FRANKFORT. The Frankfort Gazette says that the Central Government of Frankfort has made propositions to the Prussian Ministry relative to the es tablishment on a new basis of the Central Provisional Government, and that these were favourably received. It adds, that it was expected that the Austrian Cabinet would also receive them favourably. All this, however, is not exactly in accord with the recent declarations of the Prussian Ministry in the Chambers. BREMEN. On the 23rd the Assembly of Citizens of Bremen confirmed, by 108 votes to 79, its formal refusal to accede to the Constitution of the three Kings. HOLLAND. Tins HAGUE, AUG. 21.—His MAJESTY has granted an indefinite leave of absence to the Minister of Justice, H. L. IVlicuEas, for the restoration of his health, and has delegated the duties of the Minister of Justice to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, L. A. LEGHTENWETZ, during t r he interim.—Staats Courant. .7 . TIJRKE Accounts have been received from Constantinople of the 13th. The Magyar patriots who left England by the Peninsular and Oriental Company's packet have arrived at Constantinople, but have not been per mitted to disembark, in consequence of the inter ference of the Russian and Austrian Ambassadors. The meetings which have taken place in England in supports of the Hungarian cause have produced an immense effect in Turkey. The Turks, as well as their Government, are inclined to an English alliance, and all their sympathies are with the Hun garians. The Princes of WALLACHIA and MOLDAVIA have left Constantinople. ITALY. SURRENDER OF VENICE. The Milan Gazette of the 24th contains the follow ing official document:— Minutes of the conference held at the Villa Pappa dopoli, near Mestre, the head-quarters of the second corps d'arrcie of reserve, on the 22d of August.—Pre sent: His Excellency the Cavalry General Chevalier Gox zkow ski, commanding the second corps d'armee of reserve ; his Excellency the Artillery General Baron de Hess, Quarter-master of the Imperial army; Count Marzani, attached to his Excellency the Cavalry General for Civil Affairs. There appeared Messrs. Nicolo Priuli, Count Datario Medin, and Advocate Calucci, all three representing the municipality ; Engineer Cave delis, representing the army; and Sig. Antonini, repre senting the merchants, who, having explained the de termination of their constituents and of the population of Venice to make their submission to his Imperial and, Royal Apostolic Majesty, and to come to an under standing concerning the surrender of the city and its dependencies, the following has been mutually agreed upon:-Ist. The submission shall take place accord ing to the precise terms of the proclamation of his Excellency Field-Marshal Count Radetzky, dated the 14th of August inst. 2d. The surrender of all that is mentioned in the said proclamation of the 14th inst. shall be effected in the course of four days, from the day after tomorrow, in the manner to be agreed upon, by a military commission, composed of their Excel lencies the Cavalry General Chevalier Gorz kowski and the Artillery General Baron de Hess, Colonels Schlitter, Adjutant-General of his Excellency Field-Marshal Count Radetzky, and Chevalier Schiller, chief of the staff of the 2d corps d'armie of reserve, on one side, and Engineer Cuvedalis on the otheir, assisted by a superior officer of marine. And whereas the gentlemen deputed by Venice have pointed to the necessity of some explanations concerning the measures contemplated by articles four and five of the above-mentioned proclamation, it is declared that the persons who are to leave Venice are, in the first place, all imperial and royal officers who have borne arms against their legitimate sovereign; in the second place, all foreign military of whatever grade; and in the third place, the civil persons named in the list, which will be given to the Venetian deputies. With respect to the circumstance that there is at present exclusively in circulation at Venice a large quantity of paper-money, of which the poorer class of the numerous population could not be, deprived without serious consequences for their subsistence, and owing to the necessity of regulating this point before the entrance of the imperial and royal troops, it is agreed that the paper-money in circulation under the name of • communal paper,' shall be reduced to half its nomi nal value, and shall have a forced currency only in Venice, Chioggia, and the other places of the estuary for the said diminished amount, till it shall have been withdrawn and another substituted in its stead, in con sequence of measures to be agreed upon with the Vene tian municipality, which operation shall take pl ace i n a short time. The city of Venice and the . estuary shall bear the whole charge of redeeming the sa id new paper money by the annual tax of twenty-five centimes for every livre, and with other subsidiary measures, which m a y be calculated to hasten the operation. In consid era ti on of this charge, no war contribution shall be imposed, and those already inflicted upon the continental possessions of some inhabitants of Venice shall bo re considered. As to the paper called patriotic, which is to be entirely withdrawn from circulation, and other certificates of the public debt, they shall be taken under consideration at a future period. Done in duplicate, and signed mane propria, on the day and in the place herembefore-mentioned. GORZKOWSKI, in. p., Cavalry-General ; B EL >, p., Artillery-General an d Q uartermaster ; Martzaiii, in. p.; NICOLD PRIIILI , m. p. ; DATANIO MEDIA, m. p ; GIUSEPPE CALUCCI,M.p.; ANDREA ANTONINI, W. p. ; E. CAVEDALIS, m.p. The Milan Gazette adds :—" On the 24th and fol lowing days, the . surrender of the place and estuary will take place as follows :-1. Departure from Venice of the Venetian and Lombard battalions, commanded by MENEGHETTI by land, via Fusina. 2. Occupation of the forts on the 25th, namely—S. Secondo, Piazzale, S. Giorgio, S. Angelo, and the one on the railroad sta tion. 3. Departure of the corps of the Euganei."and the Sile on the 26th, via Fusina. 4. Occupation of the city, surrender of the arsenal and fleet on ~ he 27th ; assembly of the officers at the fort of the Lido. 5. Departure of the corps of the Friuli, Brenta, and Galateo on the 28th; dissolution of the two regi ments. 6. Occupation of Chioggia, Buranc, A lid 7, Di-p.,! 1 ar, Udi ii i. 30th of the .Neapolitans by sea; occupation of St. iNiiccolo and the coast. 8. Departure on the 31st of the officers, and surrender of the fort of the Lido. Accounts have been received from Rome of the 21st. General OuDINoT was to leave for France on that day at the head of 10,000 men. The official journal says that General ROSTOLAN would replace General OUDINOT in the command of the French troops left at Rome. The free corps and the mobilised civic guard have been dissolved by order of the Governmental Commission. There is a report that Cardinal DELLA GENGA is seriously ill, and that he will resign his position in the Commission. The two other Cardinals have declared that they also will resign. A letter from Rome, of the 20th, which appears in the French Journal des Debats, says : " The march of negotiations at Gaeta has never been easy. A few days since it appeared to assume a satis factory turn ; at present it appears suspended, and, according to all appearances, both parties are far from understanding each other. France, it is said, meets with the ;greatest difficulty in getting her counsels at tended to. It would appear that at one of the last sit tings the question of secularisation was decided in the negative, so that the Roman administration, it is said, is to remain purely and simply in the hands of the clergy. This decision, if definitive, prepares for a Papal Govern- , ment, if restored on such bases, a fall more sudden, more violent, and more irreparable than the first. On that point the provisions and apprehensions of all mode. rate men are unanimous. Count Ludolf, Ambassador of Naples to the Holy See, and who represents his Sove reign at the conference, displays a blind obstinacy, which, decorated as it is with the appearance of real political firmness, is not without influence on M. Marti -1 nez de la Rosa. The representatives of France find a support for the liberal policy which they recommend only in M. d'Esterhazy, Minister of Austria, whose demeanour and language are altogether in unison with the moderation of the Austrian generals for the last two months in the legations. Rumour declares, not only that the question of secularisation has been rejected at Gaeta, but that Cardinal Antonelli has caused to be re jected the deliberative vote with respect to taxes, which it was proposed to accord to the new Chamber of Depu . . . ties, when ulteriorly formed. It is stated that MM. Corcelles and De Rayneval have just received instruc tions charging them to address in the name of the French Republic a solemn and pressing warning to the Govern ment of the Holy Father. A note was to have been re mitted the day before yesterday by the two French Ministers to Cardinal Antonelli. M. de Corcelles, whose health is improving, is at Castellasaara. Ile intends re• turning in a few days to Gaeta " THE PEACE CONGRESS. FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) The Peace Congress at Paris, and the success brutal and unprincipled military power in Hungary, are contemporary events which mutually illustrate each other. One dogma of the Congress is non-interven tion; one effect of non-intervention is the wholesale slaughter of thousands of innocent people, the sack and burning of (towns, the flogging of women, and the hanging of worthy men, to gratify the criminal and insatiate thirst for dominion which possesses a couple of despots and their abettors. The Congress may reply, that had Russia acted upon their prin ciples Hungary would not have been invaded by its hordes of savage troops ; but this argument must not pass without a little scrutiny. No sane or well disposed person ever thought intervention necessary, unless a previous interference had taken place. In common parlance invasion does not mean interven tion. The non-intervention scheme would deserve universal admiration if its leaders could effectually convert not the lambs but the wolves to a millennial course of action. Now intervention fully carried out would be allowing every man to sit under his own vine or his own kg-tree, or in his own parlour and in his own easy chair, none making him afraid; but it is a curious way of bringing about this happy state to promise unrestricted license to all evil-disposed and predatory powers. If the Peace Congress was com • posed entirely of persons prepared to deny that man is entitled to use force in self-defence, but should literally turn one cheek to receive a blow to match one previously bestowed upon the other, it would be consistent enough, but many of its members consider defensive war allowable. According to this view we may defend ourselves, but by no means help our neigh bours. If a man witnesses an attempt to murder a fel low-creature, and quietly looks on, proclaiming the doc trine of non-intervention, but telling the murderer that although he feels it his duty to trust his neighbour's life to the protection of the peace principle and a special Providence, he should put his own faith in gunpowder, and has u pistol ready primed and loaded to defend himself, what should we say of him ? But this, in fact, is what the so-called friends of peace wish one nation to do to another. If giving a free course to violence and murder on a grand scale will prove the best means of promoting universal liberty and felicity, wby should it not succeed on a small scale ? Why not as good for Rush as for Russia ? Miserable fal lacy ! cries the Congress, nations are not like individuals, nor are their duties an aggre gate of individual duties. To answer this, let it be remembered that when the commercial dogma of buying in the cheapest and selling in the dearest market is to be enforced, that members of the Congress find rations very much like individuals, and on many similar occasions. If A sees B try to cut C's throat, or looks on in a spirit of love and univer sal brotherhood, and makes no effort to prevent the crime, he is morally guilty of being an accessory to it; but if several million A's see several thousand B's trying to murder as many thousand C's, the non-intervention principle comes in, and they may be content with talking of the Mil lennium, and make themselves cheaply vir tuous during the present by holy contemplations, concerning the future ; all of which must be very satisfactory to the wretched victims who might have been saved if their friends had lent them the aid of a strong arm, instead of preaching a weak sermon. No doubt the Peace Congress would say war very seldom answers, and then add—when our brethren are being murdered, let us love them and leave them alone. This is very cheap, and very peaceable, and answers admirably at the time in point of economy ; but its morality may be questioned. By all means let people talk as much peace as they like, and let the idea become familiar with nations that arbitration must supersede war, but when a rapacious brute force power revels in successful iniquity that surely is not the time for honourable and mighty nations to proclaim non-in tervention, a free course for crime. Let those who abjure physical force be consistent, and make it un derstood that they have pockets full of gold and eyes of brotherly love for any ruffian who thinks proper to attack them, let them not only eschew cannon and the tented fields, but also the constable's staff and the police- court, for they too are things of force. ‘V hen prepared to do this they would indeed be qualified to preach non-intervention, but not before. It does not follow that because the non-interven tion theory is repudiated, that nations are bound to send fleets and armies careering over the globe in search of worthy adventure, like knight-errants of old, or that they must always be ready to rush into war in defence of any just cause; but there is a wide difference between broadly declaring that they will witness any amount of atrocity without interfering, and reserving the right of a prudent consideration as to when and how intervention shall take place. Let every effort be made to hasten the time when war shall be no more, but let us beware how we cry peace when there is no peace, and, in the selfish enjoyment of our own security, hand over weaker nations to the unbridled ferocity of any barbarian power that is ever seeking to build up a monstrous edifice of tyranny upon foundations of blood and crime. S. THE LORD MAYOR OF LONDON AND THE MAYORS OF LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER.—To-morrow the Right Hon. Sir James Duke, Bart., M.P., the Lord Mayor, and one of the Parliamentary Representatives of the city of London, is to be the guest of the Mayor of Liverpool, at an entertainment given in his honour in the Town•hall of that borough. The Mayor of Man chester is to be one of the guests on the occasion. We have already stated that Sir James Duke is to be the guest of John Putter, Esq., Mayor of Manchester, at the Town-hall of this borough, at an entertainment to be given in his honour in the course of next month. We may add that the day is now fixed for Friday, the 21st September. This entertainment will be given in the large room of the Town-hall, which is at present under going the process of repainting. &c. Amongst the guests who ace. pted the invitation to meet the Lord Mayor of London, is the Mayor of Liverpool.—Manchester Paper of yesterday. THE NEW CHAPEL AT BROMPTON.—This beauti fully designed structure, in connexion with the hospital for consumption at Brompton, is already sufficiently in progress for the laying of the foundation stone; which in teresting ceremony will be performed by the Hey. Henry Foulis this day (Thursday) at three o'clock in the at ternoon. A mountain is made up of atoms, and friendship of little matte's, and if' the atoms hold not together, the mountain L crunablcd into dust.—Eliza Cook's Journal. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. EGH AM. RACES.—WEDNESS/Y. - • • I very Imposing, either in Lite number or importance of the primes, but it promised a fair amount of sport, and the " special trains," being started at convenient intervals from the Waterloo -bridg e station, bringing the course within an hour's ride of town, it drew the largest, if not the most fashionable at tendance we have seen on Runnymede for the last sis or eight years; the weather was tine, but oppressivelY close. The racing, from the number of heats, and the closeness with which many of them were contested, vies considerably above the average; that it will be as good this day we will not take upon ourselves to say, but that it will surpass it in interest may be gathered from the tnc-agements, an outline of which, including the entrie s made' on Tut sday night, is given underneath. The events of yesterday call for no remarks in addition to those al'ed to the return. The Prince of Wales's Stakes of fi sovs. each, a ith 20 added; for three yrs old, 7st lib; four, Bst 71b; five , 9st; six and aged, 9st 21b. Mares and eldings allowed 31b; winners, extra. The winner t o g be sold for 80 sovs. Heats, three• quarters of a mile. Duke of Richmond's Mirror, 3 yrs, 7st Blb Ol 1 Mr. W. Sadler's Master Murray, aged, 9st 31b 1 2 2 Sir S. Spry's Bastilion, 3 yrs, 7st 1 llb Mr. Death's Plebeia, 3 yrs, 7st 41b Mr. Nicholl's Theodore Hook, 3 yrs, 7st 71b 0 5 First Heat-6 to 4on Mirror and Bastilion Won by 15 lengths, the winner only going for the heat. Second Heat-2 to 1 agst Master Murray, aad 2to 1 agst Mirror. Won by a neck. Bastilion a bad third. Third Heat-5 to 4on Mirror, who won by a head. The King John Stakes of 25 sovs. each, 10 ft, with 50 added; for two yrs old colts Bst 71b, and fillies Bst 41b; winners extra. The winner to pay 10 sovs. toward s expenses. T.Y.C. (9 Subs.) Duke of Richmond's Of fi cious, gst 111 b... (Flatman) Mr. Dixon's Blarney, Bst 101 b (W. Day) Major Martyn's Fernande, Bst 41b (Kitchener) ' 4 Sir J. Hawley's Slang, Bst 41b (A. Day) Betting-6 to 4on Officious, and 2to 1 agst Blarney' Fernande made the running to the distance, t o llowed bi Blarney; Officious, who was restive at the post, getti n g into the third place at the gap; the lead was then taken by Blarney, and held by him until halfway up, where 13 , e was headed by the favourite, who won cleverly by ha' a length. The Gold Cup of 70 sovs. value, by subscription of 10 sovs. each, three yrs old, 7st; four, Bst 71b; five, 9 5 ! . ! six and aged, 9st 31b ; mares and geldi ngs a ll owe d 31in &c. Two miles. Lord Exeter's Gardenia, 4 yrs, Bst 41b (Flatman) Sir G. Heathcote's Companion, Est 91b...(Sherwood) Betting-5 to 2on Gardenia, who made all the VW' ning and won in a canter by six lengths. Plate of 40 sovs. added to a Sweepstakes of 5 soya. each' three yrs old, bat 121 b; four, Bst 71b; five, 9st; sii l< and aged, 9st 31b; mares and geldings allowed 31P; the winner to be sold for 200 soya. if demanded, and allowances if to be sold for less. Heats, one Oa' and a half. Mr. West's Otterburn, 4 yrs, 7st ...(J. Mann) 3 1 ; Mr. Drewett's His Excellency, 3 yrs , sst 1 llb 1 2 , Mr. Stephenson's Ziska, 5 yrs,7st 411...(Pear1) 4 (I' s Mr. Dorrien's Self-Defence, 4 yrs, Est 11Ib 2 dr Duke of Richmond's Buffalo Gal, 3 yrs, sst Blb dig„ First Heat-10 to 6 agst Buffalo Gal-5 t o 3 a gst Zis k a —and 4to 1 agst His Excellency. Won by a lengim c i Buffalo Gal and Ziska both bolted early in the race, an the former was distanced. Second Heat-11 to Bon His Excellency, and 7 tol agst giska. Won by half a length. Ziska again boll°`" and was distanced. Third Heat-5 to 2on Otterburn, who won by II ength. BETTING ON THE COURSE. THE SURREY ARD MIDDLESEX STARES. , s 3to 1 agst Gardenia I 4to 1 agst Ambassadre ° ST. LEGER. 12 to 1 agst Uriel (t) I 20 to 1 egt Nunnykirk 20 to 1 agst Chatterer No change in the Leamington Stakes. The following is the order of running for this day. The Amateur Stakes—Cosachia, Besborough, SP e " .. tator, Lady Frances, Sir Peter Laurie, and HippODS.. t The Surrey and Middlese x St a k es —*A n tagoll' *Gardenia, 'Remetnbraneer, Quiver, Buckstone, 0 pus, 'Lsndgrave, 'Miss Wilfred filly, °The Coutite' colt, * syrup, and *Ambassadress. ('Expected to start.) The Railway Plate—lndiana, Nectar, Greenviit Mirror, Damson, Lady Sarah filly, Highwayman, Lion, Hind of the Forest, Fisticuff, Coronet, Roche s " - Second Hand, Marquis of Conyngham, Bon-bon. ~A fh The Queen's Plate—Remembrancer, The Hero, Jui`l,,f Gardenia, Compassion, Buffalo Gal. Land g rave, b ' Kremlin, Prior of St. Margaret's, Black Eagle. „, t o, Egham btakes—The Probe, Alph e ia, B on -bon, It i t r , Highwayman, Self-defence, Countess colt, Master " ray, Syrup, Fisticuff. The races commence at two o'clock. RADCLIFFE RACES.—WEDNESDAY. „ p p The Heaton Park Stakes of 5 sovs. each, and 25 acl u ;a: two yrs old, sst; three, 7st 41b ; four, Bst 61b ; ed Bst 121 b; six and aged, 9st 21b; mares, &c., 0 1° 6 0 e 31bs; winners extra; the second saves his stake. mile. 1 Mr. Lane's The Mease, 5 yrs ( Eon, 2 Mr. Baker's Pheasant, 3 yrs .................. 3 Mr. H. Stebbing's Athelstane, 4 yrs .................... Mr. Phillip's br g, by Charles XII., 4 yrs .............. tp 7 to 4 on Athelstane, 5 to 2 agst Pheasant, and 1 agst Mease. Won easy. Of The Wilton Cup, of 100 soya., added to a Handicap 15 sovs. each, 10 ft, and 5 only if d ec l are d. T wo alu e. and a dis. Mr. Dawson's Defaulter, 4 yrs, 6st I llb ... (A rn old) 1 , Mr. Arrowsmith's Lady Hyda, 5 yrs, 6st 101 b ...... 3 Mr. Giles's Gaffer Green, aged, 7st " 4 Mr. B. Green's Abbot of Meaux, 3 yrs, sst 101 b —• 5 Mr. G. Barton's Ellen Loraine, 4 yrs, 6st 51b The Two-yrs old Stakes of 10 soya. each, with 40 ad ded ' e , colts, Bst 71b; fillies, Bst 41b; winners extra. T b quarters of a mile. 1 Mr. Osborne's Achyranthes (Osborne, jurh) g Mr. Barton's Leonidas 3 Mr. Green's Osbaldeston Mr. Jamieson's Taby ............................... ••• HEREFORD RACES.—WEDNESDAY. n a The Herefordshire Stak es o f 15 sovs . eac h, 10 ft, 5 only if declared, with 50 added. About two in and a third. (18 Subs). , 1 Mr. Griffith's na Golden P e pp er , 6 s t 1 0 1 b .. .( Thrift) g Mr. Johns's New Forest Deer, aged, Bst 121 b.....•••• Sir V. Cornewall na Miss Bunney, 3 yrs, 7st 3 1 b Won by a head after a fine race. GREAT YARMOUTH RACES—W EDNE sDAY• OO j, The Military Stakes of 3 sovs. each, w ith a Purse of added. Heats, one mile. (4 Subs.) Captain Warriner's Squire of Walton, age d, 12st 1 Col. Smyth's The Rejected, 5 yrs, llst ............ 2 ,ag Mr. Barclay's Belzebub, aged, llst ............ 3 Won by three lengths. . 0 The County Members' Stakes of 3 sovs. each, ob - J - added. Once round. (3 Subs.) 1 Captain Broadley's Maid of Erin, 6 yrs (S. Rogers) Mr. Wilson's Bernadotte, 3 yrs, Est nib 5 Sir E. B. Lacon's Genuine, 4 yrs, 7st 21b Won by a head. AO ° The Tradesmen's Handicap of 10 SON'S. each, 5 ft,• 60 added, the second to save his stake. One mile a quarter. (6 Subs.) 1 Mr. lirinkald's Amazement, aged, 7st 71b (Rodney) / Mr. T. B. Charlton's Kissaway, 3 yrs, 6st 41b ........ . g Mr. Gurney's Cantley, 6 yrs, 7st 71b • Won by three lengths. SO The City of Norwich St a k es o f 2 soya. each, an‘• A added; winner to be sold for 1504 &c. O ne rou - (6 Subs.) 1 Mr. Webster's Pillage, 5 yrs, lOst 131b...(5. Rogers)' ry Mr. Wilson's Bernadotte, 3 yrs, 9st 131 b .......... Mr. R. Goff 's Present, aged, lOst 131 b Won by a length. ECCLES RACES—TIIESDIY. 4,1e 1 The Irwell Stak es o f 2 soya, each, with 15 01,101 were won in thre e h ea t s, b y Mr. Parrot ' s Selina, S‘." (Hughes) beating Di es F austus, 4 yrs—Tity, 3 :Y' Toss-up, 3 yrs—and two others The Trafford Park H an di cap of 2 sous. eacb, e; 25 added; one mile and t h ree - quarters; ( 6 Su b he were won in four heats by M r . B ed f ord ' s Gutta refe r* 4 yrs, Bst 21b (Brandwood), beating Good Girl, 4 I 7st 121b—Mischief, aged, 6st 101 b—and two others. iP The Garrison Stakes of 3 says. each, with a !" added; one mile and a distance; (5 Subs.); were 14 /",), two heats by Captain Scott's T r e asure , 3 yrs (Fran beating three others. MA RLBRCY-STREET—(THIS DA- t o A DRUNKEN PAUPER.—Brid ge t Staunton, an inl l3l , f. of St. James's Workhouse, Has placed before 1; 1 0 4 Hardwick, charged with breaking three squares of gl in the dining-hall of the workhouse. „, t 0 1 , Thomas Oughton, the p or t er at t h e workhouse, stet that on the previous night he heard the breaking: c o glass, and on proceeding to the dining-hall, from wh en ,# the sound came, he saw th e pr i soner, w h o was 11# beastly state of intoxication, in the act of breaking 0 1 windows. He immediately put a stop to her drub pranks by calling in a constable and giving her'" charge. d' The Master of the Workhouse informed Mr. •P"' .. 10, wick that the defendant and all h er f am il y h a d been`'of the house for years, and that the defendant was no e ', the most lazy and drunken paupers in the house. r# Mr. HARDWICK said defendant had made a bad re; for the kindness she had re ce i ve d i n t h e house; en,doriai warning to others, com m i tte d h er to the House of rection for ten days, with hard labour. DINNER TO THE IDIRECTORS OF TEI So ya EASTERN RAILWAY AT GRATESEND.—Last even -7i t' sumptuous entertainment was given by the mayor , C . L . poration, and inhabitants of Gravesend, to the diree7, o% of the South-Eastern Railway, to celebrate the 0Pe1: . ' 4 ,, ut of that company's North Kent line to Gravesend. - 1 / 1 ;;I t one hundred gentlemen sat down to dinner at the ton Hotel, at half-past six, a special train having sil o .3' before that time brought the directors from 1-inhu,_ 1 4 bridge. The mayor, Dr. Rid ge , pres id e d, and tu 03 8 were present—Mr. Macgregor, the chairman Of Ai° South-Eastern Railway ; C a pt a i n W ar ren, CO. A), Daniel, Mr. Lewis Small, Mr. Kinnaird (late skier 0 1 Mr. Barlow, Mr. Herbert (the secretary), and sel":01° officers of the railway. Amongst the principal inh b y tants and members of the corporation were—Alde r '' 13 Saddington, Dr. Saunders, Mr. Masters Smith (the 1n sheriff), Mr. Espanage (judge of th e county court) , Ar t 0. Robert Joynes, Alderman Plane,Captain Baker; MC Of Smith, Ditchbourne, Sharland (town clerk), Ma c Os Barker, Coombe, Dobson, A'Beckett, and other Several toasts were drank, and the directors returned special train which reached the London-bridge ter mini soon after twelve o'clock. • ,f Wei .t WEST INDIA PINES.--A further arrival O. India pines has taken place. The vessel Leonidas, la rived from Nassau and Eleutheria, has brought a 1 , quantity frcm the latter place, in addition to thirty )4 of AM* ..---- .- Al( has the fact Um En; me the 1B: