The Sun. — London, England, 1849-01-05 00:00:00

• :,_• Herefordshire, — Griffiths, Malta; Amaranth, Walker, ditto; Eghein, W:tt,rs, PORTSMOUTH. JAN. E lien riette, Aubin, Nantes. Sid 1V Gustave, Lund, Cette; Gibraltar. PLYMOUTH, JAN. 4.—Wind E.—Arrd. 3d, Annie Morrice, Barrel!, St. Michael's; Vcrtroun, Moller, Car diff, for lianahurgli, with lo , s of jib-boom, sail. &c. HULL, JAN. 3. Wind N.E.—Arrd. 3d, Restless, Dick, Duhkirk ; Fourney, Antwerp; Dania, Ove. Aar hurls; Ootssee, Fa is, I)4.tdzie; I mill., Glaser, Memel. Dovou, JAN. 4.—Wind E.—Sid. 3d, Ariel, Griffith, Bremen. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAI.) CORN EXCHANGE-FRIDAY. The quantity of Wheat received up to our market, sinc e Saturday last, has not exceeded 2,410 quarters. By land carriage the receipts have been equally limited. To-day, the stands were scantily filled wilt samples of both red and white. Picked qualities sold steadily at full prices; but all other kinds of English Wheat were dull in sale, at barely late rates. Upwards of 41,000 quarters of Foreign Wheat have come in, and been placed in bond. On the whole, the demand for free parcels was tolerably steady, at prices at about equal to those paid on Monday last. In bonded qualities no sales. An immense supply of Foreign Barley (50,210 quarters) has come to hand, and the supply of English was good. The trade was excessively (lull, at a decline in the quotations of from is to 2s per quar ter, at which no progress could lac made. Malt—the supply of which was moderately extensive—was very dull in sale, and prices had a downward tendency. The best parcels of Oats were held at full currencies; but the middling and out•of-condition sorts were 6d to is per quarter lower. All other articles were dull in the ex treme, and easier to purchase. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Wheat. Barley. Oats. I Flour. I 2,410 qrs. 7,040 qrs. 1 7 , 570 qrs. 3,020 skr. 50 I - 30,399 f -- English .. •• • • Irish. •• • • •• • • Foreign ...... 41,230 i 50,210 Malt, 5,960 qrs. SIVLITHrIELD. The supply of Beasts on sale in to day's market was very moderate, even the time of year considered, and of middling quality. The few prime Scots on offer sold at prices quite equal to those paid on Monday last. All other breeds were a very dull inquiry, at barely late 'rates. There were on show 191 Beasts from Scotland, 20 ditto from Holland, and 70 ditto from Spain. With Sheep we were scantily supplied, nevertheless the demand for that description of stock was its a sluggish state, and in some Instances the quotations had a downward tendency, with out effecting a clearance. Calves, the supply of which was small, moved off steadily at full currencies. The Pork trade was heavy ; in prices, however, we have no change to notice. Milch Cows were quoted at from 141. to 18/. each, including their small Calf. Per 81bs. to si s. d. to s. d. Inferior Beasts..... 3 0 3 4 Second quality •• .. 3 6 3 8 Prime large Oxen.. 3 8 310 Prime Scots •. • 4 0 4 2 Large coarse Calves 3 6 4 0 Prime small ditto .. 4 2 4 6 ink the offal. s. d. to s. d. Second qual. Sheep 3 8 4 0 Coarse-Is-coiled ditto 4 2 4 6 Southdown Wether 4 8 4 10 Ditto out of the wool 0 0 0 0 Large Hogs • . •••• 3 10 4 4 Small Porkers • • .. 4 6 4 $ Ruckling Calves ..20 0 25 Inferior Sheep .. . 3 2 3 Quarter old Pigs • .17 0 22 0 Lambs •• ••••• • • • 0 0 0 0 TOTAL SUPPLY AT MARKET. I Sheep. I Calves. Pi vi 4,220 150 160 FOREIGN SUPPLY. I Sheep. Calves. I rigs. 150 23 SCOTCH —Beasts, 190 ; Sheep, 460. NEIVCr GAT 13 AND LiklAD ES 2611.1811.3... These markets were very dull, at drooping prices. At per stone by the Carcase. s. d. to s. d. s. d. to s. d. Reet,lnferlor •• •• 2 6 2 8 Mutton, inferior 2 8 3 2 "-- middling • • 210 3 0 middling.. 3 4 310 primelarge •• 3 2 3 4 prime ••.. 4 0 4 4 prime small 3 4 3 6 Pork, large ••••• • • • 3 6 4 0 v eal•• ••••••• • .• • • 3 4 4 4 small •• •••• • • 4 2 4 6 Beasts. BS4 Beasts. 90 BOROUGH HOP MARKET. We continueto be but moderately supplied with most kinds of Hops. Selected samples are in moderate re quest, at last week's quotations. Otherwise, the demand is heavy, at barely stationary prices:—Sussex pockets, 21 53 to 21 18s ; Weald of Kent ditto, 21 8s to 31 5s ; Mid and East ditto, 2/ 12s to 51 17a,per cwt. COLONIAL. SUGAR.—The market for most descriptions has been very firm this week, but not particularly active. The Sales may be said to have been very fair, and in all cases at fuller prices. West India has been higher by Gd to is Per cwt; low to fine descriptions have realised 33s 6d to 35 5; end grey, 34s 6d to 38s 6d. Barbadoes has been at 418 for fine, at 35s 6d to 36s for low. Demerara brown has realised 34s 6d to 36s for brown, and 48s 6d to 51s for white. Refined Standard Lumps have been 49s to 49s 6d per cwt. EAST INDlA.—Privately Mauritius was 6d to is higher, good and fine yellow 37s 6d to 40s, mid to fine brown 32s to 34s 6d, and ord to fine grey 34s to 38s 6d per cwt. Bengal has sold steadily by private contract, and at auction, 2,747 bags realised 42s to 44s for fine grainy yellow, 36s to 37s for mid, and 35s for ord. Ma dras, 10,359 bags, about three foutba sold, good and fine at 40s 6d to 41s, mid brown 295, and low yellow 30s 6d to 31s. A few lots were bought in at 43s for fine. F OREIGN.—Brown Havannah in bond brought 17s to 18s, and Brazil yellow, 18s to 20s per cwt. Bahia, low to mid brown, 34s to 365, and good and fine yellow 40s 6d to 425. COFFEE.—The market has been good for all descrip tions and fuller prices have been obtained. Ceylon has been sold at 45s 6d to 46a for fine ord. greyish, at 37s 6d to 38s for good ord, and at 48s to 49s Gd for pea-berry fine ord, grey was h-ld for 50s, and some parcels of fine aohl at 63s to 84s 6d. Mocha has been firm. Mysore fine yellow 603 Gd to 61s being very full rates. Good ord Native Ceylon has been at 31s 6d to 32s 6tl per cwt. SPlCES.—Pimento has had a good sale, but rather lower rates; good coarse 4-,1 to aid. Pepper has a steady sale at firm prices. Cocoa.—Trinidad has been sold at 36s to 42s per cwt. TEA.—This article has rather a readier sale, and com mon at Ad per lb advance. is 41s 9d to 42s per cwt. on the spot, being very dull. For delivery in the next three months the prices have been 41s 3d per cwt. COTTON.—There has been an active inquiry with an improvement in prices. RUM.—A slight advance has been realised, and more business has been done. Proof Leewards Is 41d to is sd; Demerara, 30 to 38 over, 2s to 2s 4d; and Jamaica 28 to 33 over, 2s lad to 3s 10d per gallon. RlCE.—Very little has been doing, and the quotations have drooped. Mid. white Bengal, 9s 6d; and Madras is 6d to 8s per cwt. SALTPETRE.—CaIcutta has been rather low; middling grey, 9i to per cent; refraction, 25s 6d to 265 6d per cwt. TOBACCO.—There was an extensive business trans acted last month, sales bengal, 900 hhds. The market assumed a slightly improved tone. and several purchases were made at full rates, for spinning descriptions, of fine quality, and for first class Kentucky strips, an advance ' by 'some holders has been. named. The market is firm. Last advises from New Orleans speak favourably of the market. Sales had been made to some extent, and for ord sorts at a fractional advance. Imports, 65 hhds, deliveries 1,285 hhds,against 817 hhds in the correspond ing month of 1847. .Stock 27,730 hhds'against 29,569 hhds in 1848. In Virginia sales have been 200 hhds. equal quantities of Leaf and Strips. Leaf at aid to 5d and Strips at 4i-d to kid. Kentucky Leaf and S trips have constituted the chief sales of the month, to gether being nearly '1.700 hhds, of which 1,126 were Strips. Manufacturers have in some instances sup plied themselves more freely than for some months past. ~h e importation up to the present period shows a small diminution in Strips, compared with that of 1847, and an 'increase in Leaf of 1,618 hhds. For exportation sales were limited, but holders appear to look forwa r d c i With confidence to a good continental em .,T lll - In Maryl a nd sales were 23 hhds at sd, c - In Havannah Leaf a moderate business has d one, and the limited sales effected have been nearfi n :q Confined to ord and mid sorts, at low prices ; of st l e k is almost bare. The general character of last years 'importations caused a considerable decrease in,the "stimption, but which was more than replaced by f ° - t _ her growths. Latest accounts from Havannah speak tt7ura.bly of the last crop, both as respects quantity fair quality. Havannah Cigars have been in demand, and for ordinary dried sorts a f_?‘" limited sales were made for exportation. Delive ries f or home consumption in 1848 were 929 cases 1 2 g i a ;-, nst 9 19 cases in 1847 ; stock 2,127 cases, against , eases in 1848. In Manilla Cheroots a limited business has b een d one , b ot h f or home trade and for ex trtation; stock is comparatively small. Sales of Manilla sf have been confined to selections by the trade for miraediate consumption. In Cuba there has been a ste ady demand f or goo d , qua lity both f or h ome t ra d e and exportation at previous prices. Yara has. con tinued in request. In C o l um bi an . th ere h as b een e" anim ation, the trade being indisposed to Purchase except f or i mm edi ate wa nts, but holders have floivn no disposition to press sales, and previous rates nave bee n maintained. The introduction of German t o a considerable extent has materially interfered with the c onsumption of Columbian, and is likely to do so as long as• the great difference in prices exist. Brazil has been at fuller prices, and also 'German. The accounts of the crop being unfavourable Negro Head and Cavendish have been firm. GR EEN FRUIT. —The co ld weat h er h as c h ec ked the e onsumption.of Fruit, but as th e s t oc k o f Oranges is reduced to a limited quantity, the price is well sup ported., • Two cargoes,. ex " Galatea" and " Pearl," from t S t: , lichael, sold a t pu bli c sa l e b y K ee li ng an d 32s to' 3 fir st 3 quali ty , rea li sed 35s to 38s, second qual i ty dull of s , per box ; Lisbon, 22s 6d per box. Lemons Bal6-for what few are _selling 18s to 19s per case is obtains bag. Bla c k s • Barcelona nuts 43s to 44s per freely. FrenehPahna6h 55s per barrel. Chesnuts sell without alterati on ve s adv anced 58 per barrel. Spanish se ezi l lle sours era likely to be scarce this season ; and proved price compared to t sweet are selling at an im ______ormer seasons. BANKRUPTCY—(TFLIS DAY .\ (Before Mr. Commissioner FANE.) IN RR coLticuTT. This bankrupt had carried on business as a baker at rortsea, and to -day applied for his certificate. His HONOUR said this was a case in Which he cer tainly should not grant the cet tificate immediately; the bankrupt h a d a ll owe d j u d gme nt to g o b y default in an action for which there was not the slightest ground, but the object in that was to get a judg. went to , the prejudice of all the other creditors. The bankrupt had also given a bill of sale, b by which a considi.rible property would have been l ost had it not b-en fur the activity of the assignees, who had sticceedettin upsetting the claim, and rescued the property. .Thia;iniachiel had partly arisen through the forms and fiotOna of the commo n l aw , w hi c h g ave rights to 'persons under documents basid on falsehood. He ( ~ : 49 P citir) w 91114 *ram ;Alma the ccraglite _ THE SUN, LONDON, for eighteen months from 111'3 date of the fiat, without prott•uuiul, unless the bankrupt h•.d been imprisoned for It least three months. SURREY SESSItJNS-(THIS DAY.) John Rogers, for stealing a looking-glass, 'the pro vet ty of Sarah Re.ynolds, was sentenced to three months at Brixton. James Willis, an old offender, was tried upon two in dictments—the first charging him with stealing a pair of boors, the property of lsa,c Hunt, and the second with sti-aling a pair or boots, the property of Samuel Reddick. The jury found him Guity, and it being proved that he had been several times summarily convicted, the Court senterced him to seven years' transportation. 7'homas Braden, 17, and Charles Banes, 18, were in dicted for stealing, at Bermondsey, a tarpaulin and a number of ropes, the property of John Elmore. The prosecutor is a lig,hterman at Bermondsey, and the property in question was left on board a barge for a short time by one of his men. On his return it was missed, and on the same evening the prisoners were stopped in Gravel-lane, Southwark, while attempting to dtspi s of the property. The jury found them Guilty, and The COURT sentenced each to six months' imprison ment at Brixton. Robert Carter, who bad been twenty times in custody, was convicted of picking pockets, and sentenced to ten' years' transportation. BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.) Robert Boyll and Augustus Schinzdt were brought up for final examination before Mr. Henry, on the charge of stealing a great quantity of schedules from the Insolvent Debtors' Court. It appeared from the evidence that on the Bth of De cember last, between three and four o'clock in the after noon, the prisoners were observed upon a staircase leading to the room in which the records of the court were kept, and to which the public had no right of access. The prisoners upon being observed ran away, and the housekeeper, suspecting ;there was something wrong, went up to the room and found that a great many schedules and other documents had been abstracted from one of the presses. Upon searching the room he discovered a blue bag, containing no less than thirty-nine schedules. As other schedules had been, on former occasions, stolen from the room, he gave information to the police ; and Schmidt was taken into custody on Wednesday week last. It appeared that on that same night Boyll went to Schmidt's lodgings and burnt a great many papers there. Boyll was afterwards apprehended and brought up for examination, when he was remanded to this day. Mr. HENRY inquired in whom the property was vested and what was the value. Mr. Lewis, of Ely-place, who prosecuted by direction of the Commissioners of the Insolvent Debtors' . Court, said that the documents were not the property of any person, and by the; Act of Parliament it was not necessary to state to whom the schedules belonged, or what the value was—it was enough that they were public documents. The prisoners were fully committed for trial. As they were being taken out of court, Schmidt leaned over the partition which separated the passage from thetbody of the court, and struck a woman named Robinson (whose husband was mentioned in the course of the evidence as being suspected of having given information) a violent blow on the head. MA RLBRO'-ST REET—(THIS DAY). Albert Williams, a well-known associate of thieves, was brought before Mr. llardwick, charged with having stolen four live fowls, the property of Mr. George Blake, wire worker, No. 88, John-street, Tottenhain court-road. The prosecutor Stated that on Wednesday morning last, on opening his shop, he found that the lower part of the shop front had been broken open, and four live fowls stolen from a case inside. From information he subsequently received, be went yesterday to Mr. Green's, in Pancas• street, and found the three fowls in his pos session. In answer to his inquiries, Mr. Green informed him that he bought them of the prisoner for 2s. 3,1. The fowls produced were the same as those stolen from his shop. Mr. William Green, cowlieeper, 4, Pancras-street, Tottenham-court-road, said he knew the prisoner by sight. On Wednesday morning last the prisoner came into the shop and asked him to buy a 'owl. Witness asked him what he wanted for it ? The prisoner re plied he would sell it for one shilling, but, as he had two more at home, he would sell the lot cheaper if wit ness would purchase them. Knowing ,the prisoner's family bred fowls he consented to purchase them, and gave the prisoner 2s. 3d. for the three. Sergeant Fryer, 15 E, said he took the prisoner into custody about six o'clock this morning. On being told the nature of the charge against him, the prisoner said, he purchased them of a boy in Tottenham-court-road. He then took him to the station. Constable E 44, having proved seeing the prisoner close by prosecutor's house on the morning of the rub bery, he (the prisoner) was committed for trial. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE. One of the most destructive conflagrations that has occurred in Edinburgh for a considerable period took place early on Wednesday morning, at the station of the Caledonian Railway, in Lothian• road. The 'sta tion consists of a range of three buildings, the one to the north being the temporary passenger shed, and the one to the south being the passenger shed of the new station, which has been for some time in the course of construction. The fire originated in one of the trucks attached to the goods train from Carlisle, which reached the Edinburgh station shortly after two o'clock in the morning. The work of destruction was so rapid that it could not, we believe, be properly ascertained whether the ignition of the truck arose from friction or from a spark from the engine ; but it it, is conjectured that the latter was the more probable cause. The goods in the truck were of a light des cription and easily consumed, and as the truck was situated in the midst of others similarly loaded, ,the fire extended with such alarming rapidity that it speedily communicated to the goods ehed. As this erection was composed almost entirely of wood, and as it was filled with a large quantity of goods of an inflammable nature, it was soon in a complete blaze, lighting the horizon for miles around. Information having been sent to the head police. office immediately after the fire was discovered, Mr. Wood, superintendent of the fire brigade, accompanied by a large number of the men under his charge, was present in a short time, with four engines, all of which were set to work without a moment's delay. The fire, however, had got such a control over, the goods' shed that the efforts of the fire brigade were, for a considerable period, of very little avail; and, eventually, the flames came in contact with the pas senger shed to the northward, between which and the goods shed there was only a slight partition. The fire next extended to the passenger shed to the south ward, and the air entering below the sheds acted just like so many pairs of bellows in fanning the flames that the station appeared as if one entire sheet of fire. The burning was ultimately got under between six and seven o'clock, but not until almost the whole of the goods shed was destroyed, a great portion of the southern passenger one, and about 100 feet of the north ern one. As the last of these sheds was composed almost entirely of iron, the injury done to it con sisted only of the destruction of the boarding along the roof; and the displacement of a number of the iron rods and beams by which the roof was suspended. A detachment of the 21st regiment from Edinburgh Castle were present, and aided materially the fire brigade in working the engines, as well as in pre serving order. The damage done must be enormous, owing to the large quantity of goods destroyed, consisting among, other thing of a great number of boxes of tea, several packages of Manchester manufactured goods, bales of provisions, &c.. Nine third-class passenger car. riages have also been burned, and six trucks. 'We also understand that 'the splendid travelling carriage lately built for the company in Greenock, has suffered to some extent, the sides of it being blistered by the heat of the fire, and otherwise injured. The officials of the company estimate the damage done at between 6,0001. and 7,0001.; but it is said that this will not nearly cover it. COLLIGE or PRECEPTORS.—At the third annaul .meeting, of this body, held, yesterday, at their rooms, in Bloomsbury-square, Mr. Turrell, president in the chair, the report stated that on the 28th December, an official communication had been received from the Attorney- General's office; stating that the charter of the College of Preceptors, a draf t of which bad been submitted to the Board of Trade, had been referred to the attorney and solicitor-general by the Council office, and request ing that the usual fees of twelve and eleven guineas should be forwarded to ,them. Such was the actual po sition of the charter question. The efforts of the college were already known end acknowledged, not only in Scotland and Ireland, but in New Brunswick, Prince Ed ward's Island, and on the Rhine and Ganges, Eastand West Indies, as well as in the new world of Australia, The expenses of obtaining the charter would be 5001., and towards this sum the council had only to acknowledge 1501. 13s. 6d. .They had to regret that this.fundwas as'y et so inadequate, as without the charter they could give little of a national character to the institution, but with which they could imprint upon a well organised body of men that mark of genuine professional dignity which was long, both publicly and privately, due to those who, as well informed and conscientious teachers of youth, undertake the charge of rearing and training them for active life here and fur eternity hereafter.—The remainder of the . proceedings consisted of the election of officers and other routine business, and the Rev.: Dr. Wilson having been called to the chair, a special vote of thanks was passed to Mr. Turrel, who retires from the presidency of the council, which, he. held for, three years. A subscription for the Charter Fuud .was then entered into by the gentlemen present, and amounted to nearly 1001. , , IMPORTANT' DEClSlON.—Yesterday, at the West minster County Court; D. Cc Moylan, Esq. , ;. the Jtidge, decided that plaintiffs had no right to examine defen dants as witnesses against themselves. HOP INTELLIGENCE.—WORCESTER, JAN. 3.--We have nothing to report with regard to business'in-this market. Nothing doing. We are requested to correct the statement made in our last by inserting the follow ing, an error having taken place in casting up the books: —The number of pockets of hops weighed' from De etsil:6ourabQr 25, 1847, to December 25, 1848.—New, 13 : 799 ; coied42,2; sold by auction, 277. Total, 16,238,--;Wor . SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TAT TERSALL'S.—YESTERDAY. Business was confined to the following bets: — METROPOLITAN HANDICAP. 500 to 15 agst Mr. J. B. Day's The Tartar CHESTER CUP. 1,000 to 15 agst Mr. Gregory's Clermont DERBY 1,000 to 30 agst Lord Stanley s trongbow 1,000 to 15 agst Lord Exeter's Silistria colt 2,000 to 25 agst Lord Exeter's Velveteen colt ABERYSTWITH STEEPLECHASE. Acceptances—The Doctor, Bold Davy, Vengeance, The Painter, and Baptist. CHESTER CUP. The following official list of the entries shows a large increase over 1848, and 33 more than mentioned in our last:— 'Cawroush (11 b) Tuscan Snowdrop Ribaldry Clermont Loupgarou The Great Western Egret Vesta Eagle's Plume Reality The Premier • - Voyager . Lugar.... • Solon Rothersthorpe b)....i Auricula • Keleshea (h b) Primrose Sunnyside Rodney • Burghley Bedlam Sir Peter Laurie The Swallow Bon-mot . . Emily Ellen Loraine • t. New Forest-Deer • Avenger (h 6) Ch c by Harkaway, out of Diana General Sale Ada Mary ti c by Auckland, out of Yrs Executor Good Boy Wensleydale Bingham Lord Saltoun Conquest Parable 3 Windermere 3 The Baronet (h b) Swaledale Self-defence The Stinger Cigarette Shy lock Laundrymaid - 6 Athelstane Planet Surplice Cotton L0rd...... 3 C by Colsvick, out of Concertina Lammermoor Abbot of Meaux 3 Imperatrix Wyke (h b) Hector .•• Limestone' 5 Cast-off The Cur Joe o'Sot Bacchanalian • 4 The Tartar The Hero 6 King of Kildare Pillage Dulcet Amazement a Resolution 5 Sauter la Coupe ... 3 Thornhill Cossack 5 Cockermouth ,Foreclosure -Backbiter . Corsican Radulphus b c by Sir Hercules, out of Empress Sister to Satirist Idre Boy c by Vulcan . a Chanticleer - • 6 Geraldine .. •Sagacity 5 Tiresome Honeycomb Sylvan - 4 Garrick Pelham . Swiss Boy 4 A comb Va in pyre , Halo Do-the-Boys 3 Mrs. Tuft Lady Wildair Distuffina 4 c by Don John, out Delusion Impostor (late Lanesbo-` Blucher . • Dough • Whizgig • v. Ellerslie • • • Melford • Clifford Hagley Fugleeian Chat Pantomime Melody Lamb's-wool • The Swift • Montague Pavilion Rathmines Escape • • Jovial John, Cosser (late Het man Platoff colt) Peep o'Day Boy Lavender Fireaway Inheritress Rowland 1-aby . . . Ell;erdaie - Prince Charley - Ferryhill Tom-tit- Portrait Mail of Lyme ... War Eagle Teresa Chevreuil Da'heotah Chief Flatcatcher •• •• • Meal Slashing Alice 3 The Admiral ••• 6 Sesostris Lola Mentes ! !Dacia 4 llotline Taffrail • • ••• • • • • 4 Miss Nipper •• • 4 Ballinafad .• • 'Gvralior • • • • a Sponge Fernhill •4 IFeruvaragh ;Gratis • C heapside 5 Attraction 4 'Farewell Woodcraft 4 Do it- again • • • •• 4 I Clumsy ••• • • • a Troica Cymba • • • -4 'Deerstalker - - • ••• • • 4 !Projectile • • 5 'The Widow •a Wanota 5 Comet • 4 Jest . Maid of my Soul • 4 The . Conjuror Westow - 3 ;The Arab • • • • \Telex • • • .• •• Blaze .• Marlow ' " Mallon • " ". Didsbury •" Henry of Exeter B h by Jereed, dam'by Pantaloon Tom Tough Garendon • Gaffer Green Pius the Ninth Rhesus ' Andalusian • ' The Clothworket " Maynooth • " Orphan Boy Sheraton Caurire Giselle Mugador. Crazy Lad Glendower Cashier ► The Dart lir f by Sir • Hercules; out of Peeress .. Pyrland John Orridge Essedarius Fourteen hones are named for the Palatine Stakes; 15 for the Mostyn Stakes, 21 for the Chesterfield, 7 for the Stand Cup, 13 for Lord Westminster's Plate, 25 for the Cheshire, 6 for the Wirral, and 5 for the Eaton. *Cawroush, who had been backed for a considerable amount fur the Chester Cup, died at Newmarket on Wednesday. YORK RACES, 1849. 'The Prince of Wales's Plate closed with 32 subs., and the Gimcrack with 25. The Filly and 30 SOT. Stak©s did not fill. ' THE RECENT BOOK ROBBERY AT OXFORD.—On Monday last, at the Oxford City Sessions, Andreas Lock hart Belany pleaded guilty to two charges of stealing books—viz , one from the shop of Mr. H. Slatter, book seller, and fifty-nine from the University Reading•room. The prisoner, prey ions to being sentenced, expressed his deep contrition for the OM-flees he bad committed, and prayed the - merciful consideration of the court. The Recorder, James Manning, Esq., after referring to the systematic manner in which the robberies were com mitted, and the station of the 'prisoner in Society, sen tenced him to one week's imprisonment on the first indictment, and seven years' transportation' for the second. The prisoner was much affected on hearing the last sentence. THE LATE ROBBERY OF THE MAIL.—The legal advisers of the Great Western Railway. conjointly with the Post-office authorities, were closely engaged through out the whole of yesterday in gathering particulars with reference - to the extraordinary robbery of registered letters between Exeter and Bristol. Factsof a startling conic have already co out, but at present it would be imprudent to,disclose them. It cities not appear, how ever, that any persons either in the employ of the com pany or the Post-office had any share in the transaction. Poole, the discharged guard, upon whom some of the stolen property 'was found, will' be brought up on remand before the magistrates . at the Guildhall, Exeter, at the next sitting of the magistrates, but it it not thought' likely that the case will be gone into to any extent upon that occasion, as it is considered better, in consequence of recent information received' n town, to get up the case as completely as possible before a full examination takes place, which it is, therefore expected will not be before the middle of the ensuing week. In consequence of this robbery having incurred, the Postmaster-General gave immediate orders that an extra guard should be put on, to watch the mail from Bristol to Exeter and vice versa. MaßyicEstOii PAOYIDBNT *DisPiicsiitY:=The fif teenth annual meeting of this useful society was held. yesterday at the institution, hi CharlOtte.:istreet, kort- land-place, Captain Holland, R.N., in - tbe chair. Its object is to afford mediCal relief to small tradesinen, servants, and mechanics in the - vicinity, on the payment by the members of 4d. a month, the house expenses being ,met. by ,tbe, contributions of the honorary mem bers. Frcin the re port Teed by the hon. secretary, it appeared that the nuMber of ordinary members had in-: creased since the last 'amine meeting, oiielourth, the total number being ni4'79o. The Cases adminiStered to during the year have been 2,407, being an increase of 475 upon those of the prevfous year: The entire ex pense Of the honorary members has been under 1004 The report having been unanimously adopted, and thanks given to the chairman for, his conduct in the :chair, the meeting separated.. , : CALIFORNIAN EXPEDITION.—A Californian eipe dition.,has left ; Greenock, a number of navvies-",ac companying it, armed. with a ,due supply of .srades and smelting-pots. ST, ,MARY'S, eating of the rate-payerapf this parish, held, yesterday, the„report of the committee on the defalcations of , the late collector,; was r ead . The ,deficiencY On the poor's rate amounted . to 1,1474 14s 0a.,. of which 7501. had been received by the sureties. The deficiency on the church building rate was 7504, of - which only about 4501. would, be recovered. The- deficiency on the high- way rate was covered by . securities. :•The total defalca tions of. Woodward (who absconded some months since) were 1,9474 14s. 9d, The,committee recointnended cer7 lain chtcks on the collectors for the future, and advised that the seeuritY,of the Guarantee ,Society. be taken in all new appointments. The report was agreed SWORD OF A. DUGALD DALGITTX.AIDOng a number of old swords in the possession of Mr. Hugh Munro, draper, here, is a sabre, once the property of Sir Robert Munro, of Fowlis. This weapon must baits come into the Baronet's' possession when in Germany, • serving under Gustavus Adolphus, as it is of German manufacture, with an. inscription engraved upon it in the language of, that country.,--,Hoss shire. Advertiser. Atv EAGLE.—A .prodigious. sea eagle (lialimtus), measuring seven feet from wing to,.wing,, and,weighnfg upwards of nine pound s , was killed with an ordinary gun, .a few days since, at . Lanspg;, I)orspt.-4.e4orne Journal. - EMIGRATION. -- A youth from Nottingham Was found in the streets of Plymouth, ' a few days , ago, asking the road to Australia. CONVICTS AT PoaTLAND.--There has been - another importation of convicts during the week; and the build 7 ings ate now as crowded us their present state will admii v€.—Sherborne /wool. . FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 5, I 849: . _ MAGAZINES, &c.—(CONTINUED). FRASER. The present number of Fraser will be greedily sought for, if only on account of the contents of one page, one single page, in which we find three un published songs by the late Thomas Hood, and beautiful songs they fire too, bearing internal evi dence of their own authenticity. As an example we give • Christendom; but unquestionably his faith in a species of supernatural interposition, not usunlly, now-a-days, received even by rigid Catholics, can only be traced to the singular event recorded in his youth, to; which he himself attributes his present position and his present preservation. " In the year 1794 the young Mastai Ferretti, then but a tender infant of the tender age of two, was re posing in his cradle in one of the vast salons of the ancient pallazzio of the family, at Senegallia, where he first saw the light, at a period when Italy was dis tracted by the outburst of the great French Revolution. The chamber was deserted; the attendant nurse had stolen out, to enjoy the society of some favourite ciciabeo, and naught resemblinghumanity remained in the apart ment save the slumbering child and the figure of a sacred abbess, Notre Donna de la Scella, which frowned in awful sanctity from the walls. Suddenly a boar of enocinous size entered the chamber, having made its way either wild from the adjacent hills, or from a recess adjoining, in which it had been detained by some mem bers of the family, to afford the pleasure of a hunt on the subsequent day. The animal was naturally ferocious, and hunger had made it savage. It approached the cradle, and was on the point of seizing the child, awak ened by its noise. The snout of the brute, it is said, was in contact with the cheek of the infant, and in another moment the child would have been borne off in its tusks, when suddenly a noise was heard, and the tapestry on which Notre Donna was emblazoned shook. Rumour, and probably truth, ascribed this to the romps of the nurse and her lover in the adjoining apartment, when a vase or statue was accidentally overturned against the wall ' • but the pious, and amongst others the. Pope himself, as well as his mother, _devoutly attri buted it to the sainted interposition of the abbess; and the child raising a cry, the attendant hurried to the chamber, but a moment before the young hope of the house would have been devoured or borne off. . " How much of truth, or how much of imagination there is in this legend, it is not for us to say; but the incident certainly is still believed by the peasantry of thedistrict, and, what is more, by the present Pope him self. It had the immediate effect of causing the infant thus rescued to•be devoted to the church, instead of the profession of arms, for which he had previously been designed, and for which all Italy at that moment panted; and by those who are unable otherwise to account for credulity so uncommon in our age, especially in. one so cities and sagacious as his present Holiness, it has been considered the origin of that faith which Pius so lately placed on the miraculous agency of the Polish abbess, Notre Donna de la Scella being, by a singular coincid ence, the presiding .saint of both." The writer is evidently well acquainted with Italian politics, and, although a great ad mirer of the Pope,. he is by no means iplind' to the short-comings . of certainly ." one of ' the most amiable' men that ever filled the 'Pontifical throne." The following account • of the eauses syhich led to : - the ,recent revolution ' at Rome, and of the objects'of those engaged in it, 'is, we, believe, more trustworthy than any of the nu merous accounts which have hitherto appeared from the Jesuit and obscurantist •Italian correspondents of the daily papers Those unacquainted with the circumstances are apt to attribute the Pope's recent unpopularity solely to the proverbial vaccillation of the people's opinion; but the fact is for the last six months Pius IX. - has been pur suing• a system of policy decidedly reactionary. He re fused his subjects a constitution in the 'first instance; he withheld from them a popular administration in the second. Ever since February•last Rossi has been his ruling star, and under this fatal ascendancy all his for mer popularity gave way. It was in vain that in April last ho dismissed the Jesuits. Father Roothmss, with the whole of the fraternity, was nominally expelled from the Roman States, and it was even fur a moment sup polled that the Fleming would be driven to the country from which he sprang: Rossi, said to be a member of the order, was surmised to maintain secret relations with them; and the act was considered : to he a temporary concession to popular opinion rather than a renunciation of Austrian policy,:with the latter of which the ci-devant Freneh•Ambassador was now held to be completely identified. Though the society was thus ordered to quit The Roman States, and doomed to see its colleges sup ;pressed, its head-quarters taken up, and even Roothman himself, with the whole of- his staff marched out of the capital, the.movement inspired no confidence. Cardinal' Vizardelli, •one of the most devoted adherents, was en trusted with •the control of their vast funds, nominally for the benefit of the State, but in secret, it was well understood, for the exclusive' advantage of the order.. An event such as this—the suppression of a society the most formidable perhaps which the world ever saw, and which, in ono manner or another has embroiled Europe for centuries, would at any other period have excited a profound sensation, and perhaps have filled a memorable space in the . page of contemporanean his tory. But it may be considered as some proof of the ex traordinary magnitude of the scenes at present passing under our eyes, that it'produced not the slightest sensa tioseon the Continent, and, 'indeed, bat for the dissatis faction that subsequently arose, would have been almost unknown to ninety-nine out of every hundred indivi dtials in England. But the dissatisfaction arising out of the imperfect manner in which it was 'accomplished, affords the true clue to most of the events that followed. The Prince of Canino, long the deadly foe of the order, immediately seized the opportunity for promoting his own ambitious designs on the sovereignty of Rome, or at least, the Presidency of a Roman Republic; and blazzini and others who viewed the institution with equal en mity, from feelings of greater disinterestedness, not only denounced its partial suppression, but accused the Ponti fical Cabinet of still retaining secret relations with the repudiated body, and eventually, on finding Rossi or Pius persist in the policy, raised the cry of national in dependence. In their own emphatic words, boldly ut tered by the chief of them in this country six years ago, The a tome of the Caesars had passed, the Rome of the Popes was passing, .and that of the Italian people was now about to arise.' Those who a few years ago treated this prophetic declaration with ridicule or scorn, as the ebullition of a fierce enthusiast, may be surprised to find how nearly it is on the point of being at present realised; and assuredly they, who shortly afterwards laughed in derision of the exiled Italian's complaint of the violation of his letters by Sir James Graham, could not surmise that he Was to prove one of the principal instruments in effecting the mighty change." !This is an excellent number of the Mirror.. property. In every other respect the number is worthy - of the highest commendation. THE ZOIST. The Zoist, a journal of cerebral physiology and mesmerism, and their application to human welfare, is almost wholly devoted to the subject of mesmerism, and contains an account of many wonderful cures effected by its instrumentality. Among it contri butors The Zoist numbers Dr. Elliotson. JOURNAL OF, THE. ROYAL AGRICUL• TUI?AL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND. Vol. IX. " Mr. Spooner : on Farm-houses--Mr. Loft :. on Varieties - of Wheat—Mr. Charnock :on the Farming of the West Riding—Earl Lovelace : on Agrieultural Meteorology—Mr. Hutchinson : on the Air-drainage of Land—Mr. Waters : Pleuro-Pneumonia—Mr. Evelyn Denison, -M.P.: on the Duke of Portland's Plantations—Sir J. P. Monteath : on Preserving Wood --Mr. Thomason : Report on the Exhibition of Im plements at the York lieeting, 1848 —Mr. Pusey, M.P.: oh Paring and Burning Grass-land--Mr. Keary : on the Management of Cattle—Lord Port man : on Draining with Fir-bough—Mr. Wolfe : on Thick and Thin Sowing—Mr. Tanner : on the Farming .of Devonshire—Mr. Milhorne.: .on the Farming of the North Riding—Mr. Chandler : on a Water Drill—Mr. Pusey, M.P.: on the Putrefaction of Bones—Mr. Rutley : on the Culture of Hops." Such is a summary of the contents of this valuable number of a very important work, •to which is appended an account of the proceedings of the Royal Society during thd past year. A TOAST. " Come ! a health ! and it's not to be slighted with sips, A cold pulse, or a spirit supine; All the blood in my heart seems to rush to my lips, To commingle its flow with the wine ! Bring a cup, of the purest and solidest ware,. But a little antique in its shape ; And the juice it shall be the most racy and rare, All the bloom with the age of the grape ! Even such is the love I would celebrate now, At once young, and mature, and in prime,— Like the tree of the orange that bears on its bough The bud, blossom, and fruit at one time ! Then with three, as is due, let the honours be paid, Whilst I give with my hand, heart, and head; — Here's to her, the fond mother, dear partner, kind friend, Who first taught me to love, woo, and wed !' " There are some excellent papers in this number of Fraser. The " Review of Macaulay's History of England" is admirable, and some of the schemes pro pounded in the "Loose Leaves from the Note-book of a Schumer" are not unworthy of consideration. His proposed scheme of colonisation seems perfectly feasible ' • it turns entir e ly on th e c onstruction of roads. The territory proposed to be colonised is to be surveyed, and a complete system of main roads laid down. The emigrants are to be employed in the construction of these roads ; they will be fed, clothed, and their children instructed ; their money wages will be 10s. per week, and they will be' required to bind themselves to serve until such time" as they shrill have repaid their passage money, or until that sum shall have been paid down for them by colonists willing to engage their services for a term of years. Thus, when there was a great demand for labour in the colony men would be drafted from the roads, and their passage money having been refunded, Government would be enabled to' send out fresh emigrants from the mother country. In like manner road-making in the colonies might go on more' or less briskly as the demand for labour at home fell . or rose. " If," says the writer, " the Government would do this it might immediately refuse every form of assistance, to the able.bodied bibotirer at home, and save at once all ex penditure on him ; and it might proceed to put down vagrancy with a high ancl s firm hand." The lover of field sports will read with greatgusto, " Snow Pictures by Lieut. Michael South." This paper is a lively narra tive of a month's adventures among the snows in•the backwoods of Canada,during the Winter of 1846, hunting moose deer. tis as interesting 'as Robinson Crusoe. " The Swedenborgian" is a novel "of core troversial disvinity—good Of its kind, but the kind itself is detestable. We have then an admiiably written paper on " New Zealand, and its Recent Pr-o gress under Governor grey," who, by a rare combi nation of heroism and patience, has rescued that fine colony from the destruction which seemed to threaten it in consequence of the impolicy and injustice of ' Governor Fitzroy, "whose appointment," observes" this writer, "to an office •requiring qualities the re verse of all with which he appears in his • pfiblie correspondence and conduct 0 have been endowed is perfectly unaccountable." Would be per fectly unaccountable, we' are inclined , add, were it not • borne in mind that at the time the appointment took _place Lord Stanley was Colonial Secretary. There, is a passagein this paper to which we would fain direct- the attention •or the subscribers to the Church Missionary:Society, a society in 'favour of which some prejudice' !night' naturally be supposed to exist on the 'part of the con- , ductors of such a magazine as Fraser's, but- truth compels them to say— me membersimprudently yielded ttiourthe h of e WeEn rde tMissionary t bbody s temptations of their position by exercising an improper' influence over the natives. One reverend gentleman claimed 9,276 acres of land, under seven different con tracts. The commissioners appointed for deciding.on the justice of these transactions very properly reduced the' amount to 3,638 acres. " These culpable transactions have been but faintly condemned by the'parent society. They cannot be ex cused by the natural desire of making a provision for the large and healthy families with which God has blessed them in the climate of New Zealand ;' nor can they be defended on the pretext of ' encouraging the natives to cultivate land atter a better method, and of establishing for their instruction exemplary little COM • munities.' _ . . " The language of the Colonial Secretary is more appropriate : • I would not hesitate,' ho writes, ' to dispossess the whole body of the missionaries of the pro perty which they have acquired in this manner, if the law would enable me to proceed to so extreme a mea sure. For the sake of our national character and of our common faith, I contemplate with deep regret the use which has been thus made of an influence which ought to hare been devoted exclusiveiy to the highest and most steered objects.' It . is the duty of the managing body of the Church Missionary Society* to institute a §earchiag inquiry into this case, and (unless that society is intended for the future to be merely a land-jobbing scheme) to dis miss with ignerniny from their service all those who have acquired property in this manner, and made this use of au influence " which ought to havebeen devoted exclusively to the highest and most sacred objects." The writer of this article also feels compelled to admit that the conduct of Bishop Selwyn cannot be defended. • In that opinon - we agree with him ; but such conduct might have been expected, and when, some seven years since, the proposition of appointing' colonial - bishops' was' first mooted we strenuously' oOposed the - scheme, and as one of our reasons for such opposition we stated; by anticipation the very case of Bishop Selwyn and the NeW Zealand authorities. The case of Bishop Selwyn, 'however, will not; it" is hoped, be without its effect on the Government. We hope we shall hear no more of any colonial episcopal appointments. The expense is enormous, and the office is useless ; an' infant colony has about as much , need of a. bishop as it has of an opera.-house - ; it is' not until population has increased and cities and cburches have been built, and there is a body of resident clergy permanently located each in his own district, that episcopal superintendence can become necessary, and such is not likely to be the case in any of our Oceanic colonies for half a century at least. Besides a variety. of excellent light reading, we have as usual the current history of the month and a retrospect of the past, and programme for the future of Fraser's Magazine. • , -MIRROR. The first article in the'llfirror is entitled " The President of the Young' Republic," and is an indig ntremonsttorance Lamartine,wit hth a e n p d e( c )p a le va o ig f F vt r e a,ncoe.4°Lear n for their ingratitude Rollin, to whom they i have' - preferred "a' you n g in Iriguing adventnrer," who has " enjoyed the support ,of such individuals . as Emile de Girardin ,and M. Thiers, which ought alone to have eXclUded him rrOM the confidence of his country, since a cause supported by such agency must be bad." The ingratitude with which Lamarthie and Cavaignac have beeir treated is worthy of every reprobation, but ere' long France will -recover her senses, when she will do Justice 'to tier truly eminent • Men', and visit With 'condign punishinent, the Emile de G-irardins, ' the drainer de Gassaignaes,'et hop genus omne, who ha've fpr 4' time misled her. "Wbo s that o l‘noeiting et the Door" ikan essay, moral,pelifical, philanthropical, and philosophical, on the various persons who knock at, the door during the course of the day... The sketches of character are admirable. The lucifer= thatch man, the traveller on commission, the can. vasaer, the rate-collector, the scheifler, ' the 'borrower' the governess; arndescribed in the true La Briiyere spirit. Mr., Percy St: John` commences a new manCe; entitled:" AdientUres of a" French Itiptib- . licia.": His opening ',chapter ,presents, us with ' exact portraiture, for the 'accuracy of which we can vouch froni our own persenal knowledge, of the French capital in the month . of July, 1830, just before the " three glorious days," when the parti pretre, strong in the protection of that infatuated old bigot -Charles X., and belieVing that Heaven itself would work miracles, if such.were required, in sup'. port 'a Polignac and the Jesuits, were' boasting everywhere that in three weeks the King would reign and govern; and that the Members of the 'Chamfer of Deputies h tie t s e? we who ou wouldld.b pay ri be imprisoned hi"'Vin c e n d e a, all except unexpected visit ''to the colonies, and When the Liberals of all 'shade's we're silently preparing ,for t he ppn4st .with . arbitrary power, which all parties felt must soon i nevitably The hero occur, . and the advent of . which, all par talesY ouwnegreouhoiaseteenthineg., daughter of an desirousvrier the ohter old noble; the hero is a Carbonaro, the father i)f the herOine an intimate associate of the Prince Polignac. The brother of the heroine also in love with the sister of the ;So that we already hive materials, in the first chapter, kor a Most interestin g story. Hargrave jenpings gives u s a paper on "Pantomimes," which woUld ,havq delighted the heart of ,Charles Lamb; and -W. H. Maxwell gives , us an Irish story, " kitty. Comiurie Wake '" * told as he only can tell, such stories. From a biographical sketch of Pope Pius IX. we extract the following curious anecdote of the infancy of Mastai• Ferretti:— " The credit attached to miracles by the Present bblde'r of the Holy. See has excited astonishment; and it may be remembered that no small ridicule, as welfas-sur prise, was Caused by his implicitlelief in the miractildlis sure which Mother Mmirina, the abbess of Minsk, was said to have effected On the young Frenchman, Baupin. The brutality of which that holy lady wits the victim at the bands of the Czar. Nicholas, or his still mere barba tons satellites, doubtless excited a deep sympathy in the breast of Pius IX., as, even beyond the pale of the Roman Church, •it aroused indignation thronghout . _.*,Coirespoudenee on. the AffaArs of New Zealand, page .48. - • . „ ; -UNITED- SERVICE MAGAZINE. The " Requiem iipOrr - Difelling" is concluded this month. The writer, considering the courts of law utterly inefficient to discuss affairs of honour, pro poses the establishment of Courts' of Honour to pronounce upon all ciseg that 'touch upon that - " lex non seripta comprehended under the Significant.desig nation of Good Breeding." ." The Regeneration of the Army.'-' ,and "The Military System" form the .subjects of- two articles in the United Service, dedicated to the advocacy of . military reform, ."f Conquests and Encroachments of the Dutch in the Indian Archipelago," " The Indian Armpfor Thirty )ears;" .".The l as t Cfirrlpaip of • llofer,". t: Biography of Ibrahim Pacha," and several , fictitiotts narratives ; fOrth . the remaining contents of the United 'Service Mdi • .• • azzne. .„. . DUBLIN UNIVERSITY. The agreeable, anticipationi ith" 'which we closed our last notice of .number of this very able periodi cal for the past eventful yeir, have been fully: realised 'by the .first - . number • • for the new - year, - `hare • found it a most 'pleasing • conabination , of the instriictiire and Lthe , ibeautiful. It opens with a . well-written- tale, entitled " LOve and .Mesrnerisin ; some pas Sages froth` the Life 'Of "the Ceiinteas Of 80- 1 RIAU. ;" the next is an interesting paper on the '" Life, and Literary Remains' of jOhn Keats," edited 4oncirtOn Icillrus. M.P. The continuation of ,` Ceylon and the Cyngalese ". is, as usual, light and amusing.• The " Fairfax Correspondence" will be read - with" deep interest. •It contains some quaint and graphic accounts. of ' 4 stenea . and characters ) - tt 'very' stirring- period of .England's - histeryj Thelioeti3r' i& thelweSent''humber is ticellent, , and we,scaroeiy,,know 9n.. which to bistoW the palm—the . original or • the translations.' A L ProvisiOn for the Roman Catholic Clergy, considered in a Letter to the Editor of the Quarterly Review" is a cleverly written paper, but . our space will; not allow us at preseht to mums 'the opinions 'Of the author. • The other ;papers are ." Ireland's' Industry and Ireland's Benefactors," 'and - "France, a 'Retroipettdf , the 'Year 1848"—alto= "getter,, the first number - for 1849 has opened well, and' We have no doubt . the genius and talent of 'otir - aiiter isle, ,will continue to sustain this magizine in the lrigh pOsitiOn Which' it. his attained in the periodical literature of the day, SIMMONDS' .COLONIAL MAGAZINE. The, Cp/o4i9i, Afpgaxing for January ,contains cies on " Our Colonial Relations," " The Cultivation of Tea in British Indiar" The Establishment of Central Sugar Works in:the British-'Sugar Colonies," " The Laws Of 'the Winds," , " Coral Reefs, a Cause' of the Fev i er of the Islandifiear,Singapore," and an indig nant protest . agaitist 'the annexation of Cuba to' the SlaV9 Statei of Ainerica, together with colonial 'in telligeno 'and a" variety;of matter of colonial inttrest. "BANKERS'. The opening numher for the new year is enriched with ,an excellent likeness of James William Gilbart, Esq., the respected general manager of the London and Westminster - Bank. • It also contains an interest ing Memoir of the London and Westminster Bunk, the first 'of' the joint-stock hanks established in the metropOlis. 'We like happy to find that it is theinL tention of_the 'Proprietors to give similar notices' of the prineipal joint-stock banks throughout the king dom. The series cannot fail to prove both interesting and, instructive The monetary review of the past year, with which the number opens, points 'out the fluctuations that have taken place in the value'Of stock and shareS* of every description, and proves, the Signal failure of the. Act of 1844 iin'one, at " leait, of the 'objects contemplated:by its framerS. I,,etters to Bratidh Manager " are continued with the same ability that has.' been sio—eonspiclious. in the former ortant point contribtitionsof the author. The all - present of"Alisemints"'.ford6 the subj ect . iteresting, papirs epistle: There are many c9n t fk ining, : tho usual, in am an t 4 b n o t of e ei v aluable r, mercantile regret, e 'to 'find that the yo given currency to One of a Se .'es editors ha , mischievous articles the object of which is manLestly to oithe "i3earis4" guae, And to depreciate railway - . • FRANK FAIRLEIGII. No. I. This serial tale , which •excited so much interest in the readers of Sliarp's 1114azine, is now appearing in monthly numbers for the benefit of those persons only acquainted with its merits by hearsay. This first number, which is adorned with two of Cruik shank's spirited illustrations, relates the scrapes and Misadventures which befell the hero on his first entry on his scholastic career.. THE'iQUARTERLIES. THE EDINBURbrI BETIEW. No.CLXXIX. Variety of theme and solidity of thought are the_ principal 'Characteristic's of the .current number of the Edinburgh for January. One, reviewer weighs a history in the balance of criticism—Kemble's " Saxons in England"—and takes occasion to write, in so doing, a paper abounding with - evidence of great antiquarian erudition. , Another places the merit* and demerits of a novel in the scales—Senior's " CharleS Vernon -arid while analysing the con struction of • a single fiction, defines what may be called the true physiology of ' romance. For the Satisfaction 'of certain members Of the Church of England there is a severe article condemnatory of the ecclesiastical dogma of the " Indelibility of Holy Orders" as recently discussed in reference to the treatment of Mr. Shore by the Right Reverend Father in God, Henry of Exeter; while for the delectation of the upholders of Roman Catholicism there is -an elaborate review, of Valery's Correspon dence ineditO de Mabillon et de Montfauconi in which the writer pens it most 'eulogistic narrative of the celebrated order of'the Benedictines, - Several -of the parliamentary :decuments published during the course of last session have suggested to one contri butor an essay On that inexhaustible topic, " The Relief of Irish Distress ;" and another has, in no ticing the voluminous productions of Mignet and Grimblot, taken a rapid survey of the diplomatic tactics •of -" William and Louis XIV." Those - NV hcf - feel in a particular manner sinterested.in • the fate of the superb territories enrreunding the cities of Lahore and Moult= Will peruse with• avidity the historical chapter devoted to the consideration Of " The Punjaub ;" while those who sympathise; in the panegyrics'deservedly pronounded•over the tombs of renowned statesmen' will derive - a particular but me lancholy_ gratification from the etilogiurri of the Edinburgh upon the memory of "Lord Melbourne." Varied and striking as are the articles alresidy enu merated, there is yet another and one of a very novel and attractive character, which we have abstained from mentioning until th e last, because, to our mind, it appears to be the most deserving of a serious and prolonged attention. -This remarkable contribution is entitled " The Progress of Alechanicel-Invention," and has emanated from the reflections excited in the imagination of the reviewer by the casual perusal of the last few volumes of the Patent Yourical 'and the Mechanics' Magazine. It will prove, no doubt, a subject of curiosity not only 'it; Mr. Robertson and Mr: Carpmeal, but to the vast majority of the. reflecting portion of the population; and this because, although we may not all be inventors or- patentees, we have each, of 6- an interest, more or less, in the development 'of mechanical science, and in the successful or non-successful issue of mechanical ingenuity. It is so deplorably true,. moreover, that the passion of gambling has penetrated even into the temples of philosophy, that it were well for a very considerable number of the more speculative members of the community if some restriction could be put upon the reckless expenditure' resulting from the game of hazard practised in the chambers of the patent agent. So much valuable money is squandered upon inventions not worth a single snap of the fingers, and so many persons are reduced to' beggary by the extravagance flowing from the sanguine temperament of the inventors, that it bee comes a question of public importance to inquire whether the pitfalls cannot be filled up otherwise than by " the fortunes and the minds of those who have fallen into them and been ruined:" Humanity should prompt the Legislature to see if it would not be possible to preient the daily recurrence of the dismal catastrophes bewailed so many years ago by Jeremy Bentham. Towards the attainment of this most, desirable object, the reviewer makes the 'fol lowing proposition: —That certain boards. of examiners should be appointed, " whose• ap proval should -be secured-first before any invention, purporting to be novel, should be admitted to the expensive hettours of 'a- patent P—in England the first , expenses of a patent fur the three kingdoms being 3451, in fees almid; thoie 'fees being required to be 'paid down in hard cash " befbrehande' While peopoundirig this remedy, hoks'ever,' the ieeieWer him .self acknowledges that its introduction into our sys tem of - affairs is , opposed by several insuperable ob *rue-tit:les, foremost amongst which are the tyrannical blunders that might result from such precautions, ,and the inconquerable repugnance of inventorsethem selves to submit their ideas to the decision of members of their own profession: As to.the popular sugges tion" mentioned by the -Edinburgh (p. 55), to• the effect that ' every - patentee shotild' be required to deposit in Soinelniblic rnuseittn " an eteeurate model or specimen of his invention;" the' revib 4 iveiescems - to be ignorant of the fact that this arrangemett has been long adopted iii the - French capitar s and that - amongst the most interesting and Certainly amongst the most eccentric of all the exhibitions of Paris, is that in which are alcumulated an extraordinary number of the most beautiful models of patent inventions. .The adoption of such a scheme by' the -English Govern - - meat would be productive, according- to our thinking, of a twofold advantage-L•firet, that of warning Mons tors and patentees' from - seine disastrous - undertaking before they'haVe adventured too far into' it for with drawal ; and, secondly, the addition of another depart meht to the noble establishment in Great Riissell-street: When We' hear Mr.l3abbage relating " - that- the .construction of his catcUlating machine; not one -single portion-of the works, although these were of extraordinary 'complication, required any alteration after it was once made, owing to the admirable care which had been besteswed upon the drawings," we may calculate the advantages • which would result -front a system which would , rendar the 'preliminary construetiOn of a ntedeLtoinpuisory. In , the very act Of producing the model 'the inventor would dis cover hairnet whether Or not his ideas were practi cable. HO* profound -is the infatuation - of some of the 'many thousands who imagine themselves capable of achieving what have been hitherto found by men of indisputable genius to be impossibilities, may be conjectured-'frotn the fact that many who have seen or heard of the suspension tunnel and the electric telegraph, are still wasting years tin a search for -the perpetual Motion!' " One such machine, at least," nays the Edinburgh Review' (p. 47), '"may even now be seen in London, by those who have more faith than knowledge, pUrsuing itt - eternal • revolu 'dohs." - The accuracy of this assertion we can oure selves, in a manner, corroborate—for we Well remelts her, that scarcely eight months ago, while walkiirg..]:, the moonlight along one of the suburban reael e s metropolis, we were accosted by another. pthis s who mingled his description. of a his kind (which he had fabricated with _rise, and •eja with blasphemies- to the memory of own hands), at" Thomas' Paine.: Atheism' its culations - of 'homage to the gli o u ns and Philosophy has its hallueina,leven in' the Middle Of k the existence of the superstition. There are men, the nineteenth century, y''h i o the paltry joints, and Divinity, and yet sv r of sir some b, It i l ei NN is e e r r l y pis tons Lytton e ure ia of cogswheels, and ght, their own construction. o truth; Ave deline a t e d A dam without any vio a .contemporary, not , only of, the Kin . Warner as 111 r ,Maker, but also of . ) IVerass, or of Sir Beaudesert. ' Seciley"' ,Buritays are stall striving, to concoct the elixir rites; and Sir Epicure mammals arc still sunguine of discovering the aurum pot,abik.' AS 'a clear and cbtoprelitt?sive treatise upta. tho progress which has been made in mechanical: in vention, this admirabl e pa per will amply repay pe rusal. 'Upon the biographical contribution respecting Lord MelhOurne, we have' already commented in . ra' ceding , article ; yet we cannot but seize the present opportunity for the purpose of- commending one in cidental portion of the memoir—an estimate of , the genius and character -of Daniel O'Connell, which appears to us singularly felicitous. In ecornisient- Mg ourselves 2 ispOn the 'Ministerial career. of' 1.40V1 lAellscattat4 ) Ot the period. o£ his , decesse, We' • - . - - --•.- maintained that his principal claim upon the recol lection and respect of posterity consisted in the cir cumstance of his having been the one who instructed Queen Victoria in the art of government. The views of the Edinburgh upon this point are so entirely coinci dent with our.own, that we should have a peculiar sa tisfaction in reproducing the remarks of our contempo rary, but that we are unfortunate restricted by the length to which our own observations have here already extended. But for the same reason we should, in like manner, have transferred to our columns a para graph extracted-from the article on the " French Benedictines"—beingl an impassioned and eloquent apostrophe of admiration to the memories of Alcuin, of Lanfranc, of Anselm, of Thomas A'Beckett, and of other renowned men amongst the ancient ecclesi astics of the Roman Catholic religion. Most of the other papers, already mentioned by name, are worthy of simultaneous publication with the three to which we have here particularly directed public attention. THE JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE. The important merits of the Quarterly Journal of Agricultuiv, and the Transactions of the highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, will be best described by an enumeration of its valuable contents. The new number of this journal contains an article "On the Use of Lime in Agriculture," by Professor Johnston ; " Decisions in the Supreme Courts connected with Raral Economy," " The Farmer's Note-book," containing a variety of sub jects of agricultural information " Annual Agri- . cultural Repo r t," T a bl es o f the Revenue, Prices of Grain, Foreign Markets," &c. The latter half: of the joanal is deiroted to an account of the trans actions of the highland and Agricultural Society, and contains a " Digest of Experiments with. Special Manures," " Report on lately introduced Coniferm," " Report on Plantations in the exposed District of Buchan," and " Report of the Directors on the ap pointment of a •Chemist?' - THE FREEMASONS' QUAR T ERLY' REVIEW. This periodical is, of course,' chiefly. called..with articles of Freemasonic interest..." With a joyous and grateful satisfaction," it announces " the great stride that Irish fraternity has made in advoaing the meg• nificent principles of the order." An article on "The Solar Spots," poetry, and literary criticism, occupy those pages of the Freemasons' Journal not . devoted to Freemasonry. ALMANACKS FOR 1849. LETTS' S DIARIES for - 11349..--LETT INDISPENSABLE ALMANAGK,• • &waling Everyiiidy fo secureU:Hiniself a Faithful• Record • of the Pact, Preieht,''aivi the Future. Letts's Diaries have long been considered by every gentleman, every 'merchant, 'every hanker, every shopkeeper, every one in short . , . who has any appoint ments to keep, indispensable to the proper carrying on of business, and, here we have. them of various sizes, and all containing an immense mass of useful informatiOn. It- 'appears that many. persons .have at different periods applied _to . Messrs. Letts to publish the printed information .attached to the Diary :apart from thatwOrk, and this year they have yielded to these requests, • and have published the Indispensable Almanack, in which== " The Past is considered in the 'Shape or a Mercantile- Digest' of the' season intervening between the Ist Sep tember, 1847 and 1848, which, containing many valuable, . tables of monthly fluctuations in Produce, Stocks} and so forth, and edited by a ,gentleman of high literary stand. 7 `ing, in possession of extragrdipary,facilities for obtaining such class pfinformatien„ will no doubt be appreciated. The Present is provided for by numerous tables of Information and Calculation in daily requisition by all classes of the aommunity-also (in immediate_ connexion , with an Almanack printed in unusually large and dis tinct type) a ! , series,of Anus and columns . for registering any remarkable fact, the state of the barometer, ther niometer (for which especially separate, tables are com piled to compare the several scales of Reaunaur, Celsiusi, and Fahrenheit), and any feature in meteorology, flori-, culture, agriculture, horticalture„ ‘meahanics, chemiatry, 'surgery, or other science, of interest to the purchaser. ' " And the Future by a variety of notices and tables !calculated to put one in possession of what . will occur, or "what will be required of us, in the ordinary course of events, and discharge of our duty as members of the highest and most civilized nation on the globe.", • • This Almanack is admirably got up, and is one of the most generally useful ever published. B'IZITI,SII~ ;A~TANACI~~ ~a~~d.~ (~'O~IPANION, 1849. To Mr.-Cherie:v. Knight, the , proprietor; -or the British Almanach, is due the honour of having been the first man' ho -published an almanack of .common sense in opposition to the nonsensical astrological publications,' which up to that'period the publio had ,been content to accept as their only year books. The present edition of the British still retains -all those • features by which it has ever been favourably dis :tinguished from its contemporaries, and which render it worthy of its national title. THE LATE INQUEST at LAMBETH TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. • SIR,—My ncitine haiing been directed only last even.. ing to a lengthy paragraph iti'yohr paper of the 2dinst., pUrportine to be a report of an inquest held by Mr. Carter, the coroner, at the "Angel," Lambeth-walk, the day previously. .I have no doubt yOu will, from the ,liberal character of your journal, allow me space in your columns, to contradict statements eontsined in that paragraph,nt variance with truth, and calculated, if un noticed, to injure my professional character. The real facts of the case were these:—A man, whose name it appears is" Meredew," residing at 25, Union-street, came, his true, to my surgery, on Tuesday, the 26th ult., at about 6 o'clock, rat., representing a lodger of his tohays been taken suddenly ill in labour, and to be in want of a doctor's assittance. After a few inquiries as to whether she had engaged any one to attend her, &c., I mentioned the fee I usually expected in such cases, wheal Was answered "She . was• a very poor .woman." . The woman not residing in -my district, • I accordingly referred -Mr.- Meredew • to , Mr. .Wagstaffe,‘ the surgeon of . the , district ie.. " whichq she „resided, adding, that I had no doubt he would attend directly. Upon this, the man left: myhouse in compliance, appa rently, with'- , my idirectionse• and ..I have: authOrity for stating that Mr. Wagstaffe's assistant ,was ,tile,,(second surgeon in attendance. —As regards the inquest,, the me dical testimony was to the effect,that.even if the woman had been seen directly after the occurrence,(for ,it seems premature labour had, been. indnced ,by an anciclena),, no means. would have been of any avail to• save.- the life of ' the women.. Mr. Merredew did attempt to siitik..e: 10 -, founded charges against me, which the aarener, of course, repressed,, and thee -verdict o f t h e jury not even i ' alluded to. in the paragraph referred to, was ,I. )eceased died from baomerehexe s from.accideetally Katiing ; herielf,, en a man's i hate.", So.anuch •, for. , `t:4; char .of inhu-,, inanity against a Pariah Surgeen.' ; .• ,- ... , ~ 1 ,L , remaiu, Sir, Tour Nory. obedient servant, , J, E. SMIWII, ItI.R.C.'S., Sic: . Jan. 4, 1849. • ..'. :'z -. .. -• ii• -- :. P i ! , .. [The report was copied , from th_e_Plorning POst.l7-- . ' ED. Sun. . ~ , . . . - . .... . SACIIRti HARMONIC SOClETY.—Handel's Judas Maccabees is to be revived by this society on Monday next, the.Bth rust: The spirited - martial strains of this, fine oratorio will nfford ample scope-for .the display of Costa's energetic style of conducting. - .‘ ~. .. THE LANCASHIRS WITCHES.—BY W.. HARRISON , AINSWORTH, EsQ.—" Silent for seine time, Mr. Ains worth has :again appeared. in the realms' ofl fiction, giving satisfactory proof, • in the - freshness and vigourtot the present work, that nothing _of. his former skill is abated. We find, on -the - contrary, in' The Lasteisbire_, , Witches,' the same •stirring interest, .the same powerfu' delineation of character, and, the"aame Of description, with which,we have been charinedin_.,,re best productions. , ' Rookwood' contains notikiPg la startling; ,* Crichton' nothing. more. pistur"1 : 1 0 11e; co o f . 'the sub• glowing beauty Sheppard' nothing more dramatic, than this Pendle Forest. Mr. Ainsworth's•trest o ra fit is bad and triTumjnbaGnAtlYu:illifssoine._sA°:Tr' h.leßrigEsuatiredh°th ject is as masterly, as his coneepti,_ . " the. great dilEelllty . Original. He grapples at ()Doe wit h ou ld choose euch ,ft which presented itself to __ L wirev o s s r . theme, and unfalteringly sou figm eadey o 's_iiiisce/kiny e . . agency is ,of all tasks fill employment of .preterna of fiction; but.that . his end.. The : success, e d. ..TheWancashire Witches' Ainsworth • has sweet the most di ffi cult . to tbe writer ttlieal- VJANTRA.I CRIMINAL . • esApirie prices 5 of of the a COUR T.-4 WYCSII° thegalle ri es • press, that at • letting ostler lure o f lathe Central• C i. ...., r ial'Courti tG6 pe rson thisei° n has' beent - r often brought before the notioa ot length, the •Sheriffs of Loudon a nd Midd lesex have abolished , theoldsystem, . and intro duced regulations which ' are calculated so gxve , the publi''' b f seine satisfaction', considering the feelings the old. plan had excited. The person who has Litherto,resited . the galleries from th e s h er i ffs a t the c r o a n te t i n o u f e 2 to lL pa y r , sea the lt, refused, At. the 'last session, to any longer, a ll eg i ng that it exceeded the receipts, but he offered, at 'the- sam e ti me , to con ti nu e .to ~hold. the galleries. - and- I pay .151. , per , session for , them. ; Thu sh eriffs, for some time past,' have been, anxious to have the control of the galleries in their own hands, and they , took the - opportunity , thus , ,offered to break the engagement • ,with • , the 'lessee,' , who bas not at this time anything whatever to do vvith,them. The new regulations came into operation ou Monday last, the first day of the January session, and now , a ,uniform charge of .I.s. each for admission to the galleriesis esta blislitil. , It will be recollected that there have beers oc casions when half-a-guinea and even a guinea has ,been demanded ; and on the late trial .of, tiro. 13aroness S? Mart the,price was 55.-,and 7a. 6d. . The moneyntakers have been appointed by. the sheriffs, into, whosehands, ' the receipts are paid every night. The practice OPP" sons being employed in the streets, and in, thevvottes of the court to : " tout '.' for, customers, for, Ille,ffs4eries has been .40ne away with.. The receipts in the ; Old Court gallery on Monday a 41 mounted t 0,25 . ,; 40 Never Court gallery to 95.; the Old Court g all e r y on ueselay yielded 18s.; and yesterday, 2 1. 10 s , ;S_,WP- S A I ',4 that if the price•t• were .1-4adneed- to 6d,.(tl3o.:reCeiptia would . 4 doubled. ..These regulations w ill .be applied also. ,t94fie new Third Court ,.. wbicb tis nowt .rapidly. appr 9ao hi n , completion. . The money-takemfeceiveil-0.,•R-Oytj i : 7 !), , The Duke. and Ducbess of Beaufort are W§i,Vltlg a limited-circle at, Badminton, ,where kthe , ,usuel, hospi. tality willhadisplayed,during, thit festive seasoik.,. ,; • . •''' ... , r :t.-