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The manner► ce, h in thief urs were Rate cam' uise of obseired 'hires to If; to sal g• to 151 mpar doa persuade s' and th° nuniVer erday, rd 30 LO dderl2l4o under . ), in PO: e citizelr .ess their ,ion they an i°l' in oUs- o t 5 ling, 0 cing t . b h tar , g bons c l enlis t s , himn e . s tr''' n ee fe d „Iron We f , le bur l 7 w na,d 0 .„1, e corL. , t" : his C hlvel; th 1031 4,1 dell A' LITERATURE. TALES of the PEERAGE and PEASANTRY. By Lady DCICIV. The Standard Novels hi.va already furnished the reading world with reps Tuts of no less than one hundred and sixeten of tire chef dczurres of modern fiction. Yet, however attractive the catalogue may have been hitherto, this new edition is hardly ieferior to any of its predecessors, while it is superior to very many of them. Rightly does Lady Dacre, in her preface, observe, that all she writes bears the stamp of feminine authorship, but that characteristic is, in her works, a most exquisite attraction. Rightly, again, does she remind us that, "in the human heart the same passions and the same emotions are found in all ages," and, she might have added, in all ranks, for in the three beautiful tales in this volume, of which it is difficult to say which is the most beautiful, sha has portrayed to us three heroines, dissimilar and totally unlike in position, but all three possessed of such truly womanly characteristics, so naturally and heartily d ep i cte d, as at once to betray her woman ' s pen, and Flo honour to her woman's heart. The name of the first " Winifred, Countess of Nithsdale," is sufficient to indicate its interesting nature. The escape of Lord Nithsdale, through the instrumen tality of his wife, is a matter of history. We all of us have, ere this, admired the heroic wife, it has been left for Lady Deere to make us love the gentle woman. The character of Winifred, as here portrayed, so childlike in her simplicity and suimissiveness, so pure and passionless in her tenderness and devotion, so scrupulously vigilant to preserve her husband's royal honour, and yet so exquisitely anxious to avert the terrible consequences of that loyalty, cannot but win the admiration and love of all who follow the narrative of her eventful fortunes. The second tale in this collection, " The Hampshire," is of an entirely different character, and yet so true is it that— "'Three truths unite the children of the sod, All love, all suffer, and all feel a God." Here again in this narrative of humble life, we find, under most dissimilar circumstances, a similar record of love and sorrow, and womanly devotion. A few words will reveal the nature of the story, but no words can describe the natural pathos with which it is conveyed—pathos which irresistibly draws tears from the reader's eyes. Susan Foster, a village girl, the daughter of poor and invalid parents, is betrothed to a young farm labourer, George Wells ; they have almost engaged a vacant cottage, and are about to be asked in church, when Susan takes a cold, and not withstanding, or perhaps in consequence of, the doc toring of an old village dame, loses her eye. sight. Had such a calamity befallen the lover, she who was appointed a helpmeet for him would have recognised in it only another link to the chain which bound her to him; but the same feelings which would prompt her,to succour him in his sorrow, prevent her from bur thening him vtith her own. Susan releases George from his engPgement ; her parenta sadly admit that she is no longer qualified to be a labourer's wife, and her lover reluctantly acquiesces in their arguments. For a time he continues to visit the blind girl, and wait on her with the tenderness of a brother. The following extract, so heart-touching because so na tural, will exhibit better than any comment how much genuine pathos flows from Lady Deere's pen : " It was rather more than two years from Alice Mow bray's wedding-day, when George Wells lifted the latch of Master Foster's door, and, closing it after him, walked into the house, seated himself on the polished wooden chair opposite old Sarah's, and said in a hurried voice, 'I am come, neighbours—l am come to tell you a piece of news which I should be loth you should hear from anybody but myself.' d " Susan's heart died a way within her—her head rooped more than ever over her knitting; Dame Foster took off her spectacles, and, wiping them, hid them within the sacred book from which she had been reading some texts to her husband and her child; old Nicholas half turned himself upon his settle; but none spoke. Suran felt that the silence must be distressing to George; and exerting herself the first, she replied, If it is any news, George, that concerns yourself, you may be sure there are no friends who will be more rejoiced to hear of any good likely to befit' you, or more grieved to hear of any misfortune. You have scarce any older friends than father, and mother, and myself; so you need not be afraid to speak.' " Thank you, Susan, thank you; that's just like you. I was sure you would take it so. And yet, after all' that has passed between us, I felt—l don't know how I felt. But it seems strange I should marry any body else.' I gave you back your word, George, and this is what I have long expected; and long tried to make up my mind to,' she added, with some effort. 'I could not expect you to go on always . tending upon a poor blind girl like mr. 'Tis better, much better, than getting any ways unsteady. God knows I have not a word to say against your marrying Jane Dixon.' Thank you, Susan, thank you,' he repeated; I feel easier now ! Susan, this has been a great trouble to tee; for I could not bear deceiving you like, and yet I did not know how to tell you there was any courting going on between me and Jane.' " You know, George, I gave you back your word from the first." " Yes, yes, so you did; but for a long time I did not believe I should ever think of any girl but you : but Ido not know how it is, a man wants a home—dues he not, Master Foster?—and he wants a wife to see to him. And then,Jane Dixon, she's a tight lass; and Idon't know how it was, I never came home trom work without meet ing her going of any errand somewhere; and then she is a bustling girl, and one who will keep things nice and tidy in a poor man's house.' Her mother was a thrifty, bustling body, and I hope she will make you a good wife, George,' said Dame Foster, in a tone which she meant should be very kind; but her thoughts were so much occupied with Susan, that she had no feeling to spare for any one else. " I wish you happiness, George, said Nicholas; you have behaved very well by my poor girl; and, if it had not been for her afillction, you would have married her, and made her a good husband, I warrant. It is the will 01 God it should all be as it is.' " Thank you kindly, Master Foster.' " Meanwhile Susan had been feeling upon the little shelf on the wall close to where she sat, for a small book, which at length she found. • George,' she said, have a book here which I ought to give you back. 'Tim ose Watt' s H ymns wh i ch you gave to me a few dais before Miss Alice's wedding;' she could not repress a si gh- If you remember, you wrote both our Christian names upon it—and then said you would add the sur name when one name would do for both. I don't think it is ri g h t I should keep that book, end you the husband of another; and yet I could never find it in my heart to de stroy it. Besides, I can't read all the beautiful hymns that are in it; but you cm, and sometimes it may do You good perhaps to read them.' George indeed remembered giving Susan the little ,Tok: he h a d that day obtained the promise of Master at ureford's house, and he had that d a y ga i ne d h er con tent t o their being speedily asked in church. They had then written their nam es i n t h e manner described by 43 a0, and h a d ta lk e d over their future prospects, with the assurance of soon being indissolubly united. felt " the s George to o k th e b oo k f rom Susan ' s hands, he m tremble. He was scar ce ly more composed himself. The appearance . of the little volume, the sight of Ithe writing, a nn ihil ate d f or a moment the intervening :70 years; and he saw Susan as she then stood beside oa, radiaut with health, joy, and tende rness . , " Jan e Di xon would noc have been pl ease d h a d s h e n ow with what pain he received this present, with what regret he looked back upon the image thus conjured up to his mind. The tears were in his eyes as he held it. 'lf it is not right for you to keep the book, Susan, I do not think it is right I should; for I am sure I shall never look upon it without wishing, without remember ing Oh! Susan, how happy we were when I gave you that book ;' His voice broke, and he passed the pack of his hands several times over his eyes. " Strong emotion in a stout and sturdy peasant, whose feelings eve are sure are tsorougly genuine, and in which we are satisfied there is no touch of sickly, morbid, sen • aibility, is always an affecting subject of contemplation. It 'Was almost too much for old Sarah, who now wept like Is Child; while Susan experienced among the poignant regrets which overpowered her, a mixture of satisfac tion to find she was so tenderly recollected. I did not think you would have minded it, George ; but if it makes you think too much of bygone days, why, per haps, 'twill be best you should give the book to mother to keep. I would not wish you to think any more ;bout me now; it would be no ways right.' But it was a couarort to Susan, though she was not aware of it, that she bad to tell him not to think about her." In order not to damp the curiosity of our readers Le t us add that this quotation is not taken from the "eolusion of the tale. " Blanche," the laat is by no me ans the least i n t eres ti ng o f th e t h ree stor i es elating to the P e er age an d th e P easantry. either • of its predecessors. Lady Blanche, the elegant and romantic, yet withal warm-hearted daughter of a n o t wea l t h y ear l , h as g i ven h er heart Captain de Molten, the almost penniless son of a Lord Cumberworth. The commencement of the tale is the ordinary history of lovers' hopes anti difficulties Blanche And parental e ha nt ih e l e ro t N i v o a n y . , Finally, the self-willed in calling herself, " a and becomes, as she glories poor man's wife." her hus band, wiser in the ways of the world, trembles with apprehension as he listens to the protestations of his delicate bride, that wealth is odious in her eyes and poverty charming. De Molton's fears are gradually realised. Reality is found by poor Blanche to be very different from romance. Her little difficulties and dilemmas, by no means little t o h er, are detailed with all Lady Dacr e s wonted skill and discrimina tion. This story is well worth those fi ne l a di es who, disdaining the house 'Wifely examples of their grandmothers, comic acend to no work but fancy work, and consider otium and dignitas to be synonimous. Poor Blanche, anxiou s to exhibit her industry, attempts to make her ,_ b abY•cloth es . " I s h a ll s h ow you w h at a good poor man' s wife I am ," s h e exc l a i ms to h er h usband, and ;.sne took out of her ivory work box a sm a ll cap of :11 diolensions, which she was beginning to em- Zoide r of the most intricate pattern." ller great ex rti"os alter this fashion only enable her to complete faro and the body of a dress, and men vvardrohe is r ished by other means. Let us tion another :Poor Blanche's difficulties, and then we will corn , her to ,the attention of our fair readers, who THE " It is a great fault in the education of girls, to omit teaching thew, in some measure, the value of money. 1 hey suddenly find themselves at the head of an esta blishment, in which, if large, consi lerable sums pass through thtir hands ; if email, on them depends the comfort, or discomfort of the menage; and they are not aware, (except from theory, which has little to lay to practice) that twenty shillings make a pound. " The loss of. Green was an annoyance of daily recur rence. Blanche could not dress her own hair; and the awkward attempts of the shy and frightened red•fisted maid to brush and to curl, to braid and to creper,made her every morning come down to breakfast in a rufll arid uncomfortable state. She found it necessary now and then to buy herself a cap, and unluckily the bill for these caps came in at a time when De Molton's finances were at a very low ebb. Blanche had no pin -money, I and she applied to him for the requisite sum. " What nonsense, Blanche,.t.) buy tawdry caps, when you have all that beautiful brown hair, which is so much prettier and more becoming than any cap that can be made.' " a I never learned to dress hair; and sir.ce Green is gone, I 6ed it impossible to do without a cap. I have not quite made up my mind to go about a perfect figure Jet; but I dare say I soon shall. It is impossible to be well-dressed without a maid.' " But surely you could soon learn to arrange your hair. You told me Mrs. Jones always dressed her own, aad lam sure it is very smart—in bows, and all kinds of things.' " - This was too much for Blanche to endure. To have been forced to part with her maid ! To bo refused a cap ! Tu be twitted with Mrs. Jones ! To have Mrs. Jones set up as a pattern ! Indeed I should be rely sorry to look like Mrs. Jones !' she exclaimed, with a heightened colour, and an eye which was very beautiful in its increased brilliancy; if you wished to have a wife who should look and dress like• Mrs. Jones, you should not have selected me ! I hope I may never arrive at such a pitch of vulgarity as that ! I had rather look like any body in the whole world than Mrs. Jones ;' and in her anger and petulance, she spoke, as she would not have done in a cooler moment, of a person whom she both respected and liked. Mrs Jones is a most excellent and exemplary woman,' replicd De Molton, with some solemnity of manner; one who performs the duties of her situation in life cheerfully and admirably. I have a very great regard for Mrs. Jones. Where is that bill?' he added, with an awful calmness: 6 I am sorry to say you must buy no more caps. I have not the means of paying for them l' He gave her th© money, which she took with pain and indignation." LAMARTINE'S NEW JOURNAL. No VIII. The subject of the current number of Lamartine's Conseiller du Peuple, is addressed to the majority of his countrymen, and has reference to the rumour of a change of Ministry. The theme of the next advice, we understand, will be Atheism. From the number before us we translate the following sentences : "Political Reactions? They are the recoil of ideas!" • • • • • • • • • • " The Republic (February, 1843) arose like the rain bow of peace over an immense deluge of anarchy and bloodshed." • • • • • • • • • • " The Republic firmly proposed to Europe the alter native of Revolutionary War or Democratic Peace. Europe, troubled, comprehended and respected it." Further on, M. de Lamartine asserts very beauti fully, that a series of beneficent reactions commenced immediately after February. He says : " The withdrawal of the army from Paris was the reaction against the effusion of blood ! " The organization of the Guard Mobile was the re action against Sedition! " The re-opening of the' churches was the reaction against Atheism! "The abolition of the punishment of death was the reaction against Terrorism! " The convocation of the National Assembly was the reaction against Dictatorship ! " The 16th of April was the reaction against the Clubs ! " The 15th of May was the reaction against Demago gic Usurpation! " The 231 and 24th of June constituted the reaction against the Sovereignty of the Faubourgs and the sedi tion of the proletaires " The sole crime against Liberty under a Republic is— anal ell) 1" . . . . • " The Reactions of the Republic arc the reaction of re against the decomposition of death." " ridicule in France is the detonation of opinion." " Good sense is nothing but the circulating medium or specie of genius." M. de Lamartine closes his presezt number with a declaration of his own voluntary ostracism and that of his colleagues of February. cannot fail to be interested in her interesting perplex ities, and may be benefited by her warring example. A dexterity in performing household duties is not among the least important of a wife's qualifications, be she a Mrs. Jones or a Lady Blanche : " Unfortunately, the last remnant of Blanche's trous si au was growing very shabby, and her wardrobe needed recruiting. Green was gone ; the girl Phoebe was no milliner; Blanche could embroider beautifuly, and she could now accomplish children's flocks with considerable success, but she could not make her own clothes. how should she? She was obliged, therefore, to have her wants supplied by the country milliners, and both she and De Molton were appalled at the bills which were the inevitable consequence. " Blanche wished exceedingly nct to be expensive, boi:, she knew not how to avoid being so. She had never had any allowance when a girl : she had been so amply supplied with every article of dress upon her marriage, and had since led so retired a life, that little occasion to tri end money had occurred until now ; and she was ignorant how miraculotkly, when once the purse-strings are ()pact], the c o ntents vanish as it were of them selves. RAILWAY RETURNS RAILWAY TRAFFIC.—The following are the Total Receipts of Rail ways for the past week—that is to say, up to the date to which the respective returns are made, together with the receipts of the same week in the previous year:— Week ending b~ x o d oe P~uv m m 3 -- o ~~ Last week. NAME OF RAILWAY. Oct. 13 14 13 14 14 14 7 14 11 16 13 14 13 Aberdeen ......... •• •• • • Amiens and Boulogne. •• Belfast and Ballymena •• .. • • • • •• • • •• Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Bolton, Blackburn, Clltheroe, and W. Y. Bristol and Exeter .• • .... • • • Caledonian........ •• •• .. Chester and Holyhead... .. • • .... • ... Dublin and Drogheda.... • • ......... Dublin and Kingstown ............ • • Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen.— .... East Anglian—. • • • •• • • • • ........ Edinburgh and Glasgow .... •• Edinburgh and Perth Eastern Counties and North Eastern.. East Lancashire • • • • Eastern Union • • ...• • • Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr ...... Glasgow and Greenock• • •••• • • • .... Great Northern and E. L Great Southern and Western • • •..... Great Western, &c • • • • • ..... • • •• •• •• Lancashire and Yorkshire.. • • ........ Lancaster and Carlisle.. Leeds and Thirsk ••..•••••• • • • • •• • • Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport• • • • Londonderry and Enniskillen. • • ..... London and North Western, &c. ..... London and 81ackwa11.............. London and Brighton ..... • London and South We5tern......... Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Midland, Bristol, and Birmingham.... Midland Great Western (Irish) ...... North British .. •• ••• Paris and Rouen. • • •• •• •• •• Rouen and Havre .......... • • • • •• • • Scottish Central Shrewsbury and Birmingham......... Shrewsbury and Chester Shropshire Union .. • South Eastern and Branches South Devon... ••• .. •. ••••.•• • • . •• Ulster. •••• .. Waterford and Limerick............. Whitehaven Junction ............... York and Newcastle . .............. York and North Midland... 523 1,537 464 1,045 434 4,145 6,705 1,870 741 708 129 45,079 691 11,002 10,392 4,920 23,243 1;270 3,180 7,258 2,642 1,721 1,2E2 435 1,544 409 927 267 5,031 1,879 863 1,216 865 4,137 2,c.77 17,172 1,564 1,402 2,721 989 420 13,002 1,345 2,222 715 3,987 21,201 11,537 2,285 129 41,153 804 10,506 10,943 2,927 23,857 1,291 2,643 6,608 2,828 1,254 869 11,301 1,569 2,059 1542 211 12,894 6,859 183 13,953 10,003 THE NOTTINGHAM TRADE.—Lace : We have no change to note since our last report. Plain goods still sell pretty well, whilst for fancy,ones there is but a very moderate sale. Silk and cotton are each selling at high prices. Hosiery: We continue to have a good demand for most of our productions, especially for the cheaper kinds of hose, which are selling nearly as fast as they can be made. Som e of t h e glove hands have given notice to their employer s t h at they shall •'turn out," unless they will give them an advance on the present rate of woi kmansnip. We doubt their success. From the op perance of the cott on trade in Liverpool, 'we fear that spinners will be compelled to ask a higher price for their yarns. Should this untortunately be the case, it will check our demand very seriously, especially for heavy goods for the export trade. Hosiery and Lace Trades (by another hand): Tho wrought cotton hose branch is cull, and some of the principal houses are stopping their fine frames. The cut-up blanches are, hawever, in a fair state. The drawer and pantaloon branch is still in a tolerable state, but tho shirt branch, which has much extended in the villages, is rather dull for the best manu factured articles. Cotton gloves are brisk. The silk glove manufacture has not as yet obtained any amend ment. The season of the year is, however, much against it. The bobbin-net lace trade, whether of silk or cott on , is very dull. The warp lace trade still lingers on, the frames being principally employed on silk and coarse a rong laces.—Nottingham Journal. Leicester trade remains much the same as at our last report, the demand continuing brisk, though of course how long that shall remain so must depend a good deal upon the weather that may intervene between now and Christmas. Prices of woollens remain the same. In cottons there have been indications of the failure of the crops; consequently markets have been firm, with a tendency to rise.—Nottingham Journal. CLOSE OF THE SALMON FISIIING.—The salmon fishing with net closed in the Tweed on Monday lust. For many years we have had to record a gradual de cline in the productiveness of the fishing waters—from what cause we are nut aware—the pies . , nt seaso n h as, tikes on t h e whole, been as unsuccessful as prec,ding years. With the excepti,n of a few fi.therics on the sea coast and one or two at Forham, which occasionally had some extraordinary takes, the season has been below an sToragc—,Birwick Warder. SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOIII4III 2O, 1849. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, FRIDAY. The Qacen and his Royal Highness Prince Albert walked this morning in the grounds around the Castle. The Royal Family took their cccustomed airings. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent dined with the Queen and his Royal Highness. The Earl of Carlisle and Colonel the Hon. C. B. and Mrs. Phipps had the honour of joining the royal party at dinner. The Hon. Miss Stanley and the Hon. Miss Mac donald have relieved the lion. Miss Cavendish and the Ilon. Miss Kerr in their duties as Maids of Honour in Waiting to the Queen. Mr. W. A. Wilkinson, chairman, and Sir William Hylton Jolliffe, M.P., deputy chairman, of the Direct London and Portsmouth Railway Company, accom panied by Mr. Burchell, the solicitor of the company, had an interview with the Commissioners of Railways yesterday at their office in the Board of Tiade. Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from the Colonial-office for the Governors of the North American colonies. Dispatches were also sent off last evening from the Colonial office for the Governors of Hong-Kong and Ceylon. HEALTH of the QUEEN DOWAGER. (From the Court Circular) Her Majesty the Queen Dowager passed an in different night on Thursday. Dr. Bright attended her Majesty at Bentley Priory, Stanmore, on Thurs day, and afterwards left for town, Sir David Davies continuing in attendance on her Majesty. Yesterday the Queen Dowager remained in the same state of indisposition. Dr. Bright returned yesterday to the Priory from London, and remained in attendance on her Majesty last evening. TH _E QUEEN'S VISIT TO THE CITY. Yesterday the Chairman and other members of the committee appointed by the Corporation to make the arrangements for her Majesty's reception upon the occasion of the opening of the Coal-Exchange assem bled in the Guildhall, for the purpose of commencing their labours. The Lord Mayor continued with the committee during the day. His Lordship and the committee, attended by Mr. Bunning, the City ar ichitect, took a view of the new building and the approaches to it from the Custom-house quay, where it is proposed her Majesty and the members of the Royal Fami►y shall land from the Admiralty barge on the 30th inst. The moment it was understood that it was the Royal wish to go by water, the au thorities at the Custom-house placed the building at the disposal of the committee, to enable them to carry out all the details of their operations in a manner calcu lated to do honour to the city of London. The com mittee came to the determination that an ornamental and extensive covered way should be erected directly opposite to the centre of the Custom-house, and ex tending to the entrance of the Coal Exchange, suffi ciently capacious, after all due preparations shall have been made for her Majesty's progress to the new building, to accommodate a considerable number of their fellow-citizens to witness the procession by water and the Queen's landing. They instructed Mr. Bunning, the architect of the new Coal-Ex change, to provide all the suitable decorations and fittings in such a manner as would be calculated to have the most magnificent effect upon the occasion. This day the committee of the Court of Aldermen will meet for the purpose of making such regulations as may be necessary to be observed in the ceremonial, as far as their authority as magistrates extend, con nected with the streets and the river. We have reason to believe that the following arrangement, copied from the report of the proceed ings of the London bridge. Committee, on the occasion of the visit of William IV., will be strictly adhered to on the 30th inst., so far as the city will be concerned : " To facilitate their Majesties' passage down the river, and to prevent confusion and inconvenience, two parallel lines of vessels were formed into a passage of about 150 feet wide, consisting of a double, and in many cases a trip!e line of barges, steamers, yachts, and craft of every description, which extended from the upper water-gate of Somerset House, next Waterloo-bridge, to about half way between Southwark-bridge and the new bridge, when the line became more open, and gradually spread to the stairs of the new bridge on each side, so as to afford ample space for the boats in the procession to land their inmates and retire. The termination of the lines at these points was formed by the eight city barges, with the Navigation barge and shallops. Each barge had its appointed station—those of the Lord Mayor (the Right Hon. John Key) and the Stationers' dompany were rather in advance of the bridge, and all were pro vided with bands of music. Flags and colours of all descriptions were brought into requisition, and even the vessels below bridge all appeared in their holiday deco rations." Amongst the members assembled yesterday in the Guildhall there was one predominant feeling, viz., that her Most Gracious Majesty would be pleased to introduce his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales to her grateful citizens of London on the auspicious occasion. The Fairy screw steamer, and the Elfin paddle wheel vessel, are ordered from Portsmouth to London, to assist on the above occusion. The funnel of the former vessel has been made to fall down to admit of shooting the bridges, and the latter is having a joint made in hers to enable her to do likewise. Captain Crispin, the second in command of the Royal yacht, arrived at the Admiralty yesterday, to receive instruc tions from the Board relative to the Royal navigation on the 30th. The steam yacht of the Lords of the Admiralty (the Black Eagle) has also been ordered from Portsmouth, probably to assist at the Royal ceremony, and arrived in the river yesterday evening. THE TRAGEDY OF RUSKBY. 13Y ANGELUS. [The following charming verses will be perused by our readers with pleasure—the first an earnest lamentation over the sufferings of Madame Maders pach—the second an impassioned specimen of erratic poe►try. They promise largely for the writer, as a literary azpirant.—ED. Sun.] I. Sea s% hero in pallid beauty stands The trembling wife, in wounded shame: Tearless, and with uplifted hands From pitying God, support to claim: From God—for Man has none to give, Nor pity, nor remorse, But only the fell curse, The tiger's slakeless will, that she shall tortur'd live! 0! twofold pang of stripe and sneer; And worse—as stung to self-sought death, Her husband on his blood-stain'd bier A silent requiem saith! And stall her wrongs dilated grow— Her Son from honour's path Is torn by Tyrant-wrath To make more hopeless still, a WOMAN'S matchless woe•! SUNSH INE. BY ♦NGELUS. What tho' lire may have its anguish— Hopes, that all too briefly stay; Faith, and Joy, that droop to languish, Dying wnh the pulse of day : Shall we, while the breeze is laughing, Bid the glee-birds sing the less? Dash the cup, Delight is quaffing, Scared by shadow'd bitterness? Oh, no! Child of beauty! Summer hours Coaling Winter cannot harm: Let the primrose path be ours While the sun shines out to charm. 0! so pure and bright our glatkess— Rapture's kiss, or smile, or tear— Thu' they call it " Love's sweet madness," Shall I had, if thou be near? Oh, no! TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,—Why do not the Post-office authorities en gage clerks of the Jewish persuasion, sufficient to carry on the duties on the Sunday s without infringing on the feelings of persons, if smil there are, who think it matter of conscience to impugn the direction of the Christian Apostle ? The Jews, great sticklers for the observance of the Sabbath, make no scruple of employing a Christian servant to stir their fires on the Saturday. ONE WHO BELIEVES SABBATICAL OBSERVANCE PROHIBITED TO CHRIS'I lANS.—See Coloss. 2. 16. DEATH OF MAdOrt-GENERAL MUNRO, OF THE ROYAL ARTILLERY, —Major- General Munro, K. H., died at Ratbmines on the 16th instant. He had been up wards of half a century in the army, having entered it in 1795. He served in the Egyptian campaign under Sir Ralph Abercrombie, and was present at the actions of the 21st of March, and the siege of Aboukir. He afterwards was engaged in the expedition to Wulcheren, and was at the siege of Flushing. He subscquen►tly served in America, during the campaign in 1814 and 1815. DEATH OF SIR THOMAS LEITIBRIDGE, BART.— This venerable Baronet, who was for many years a prominent Member of the Lower House, died on the 17th inst., at the Royal Crescent, Bath. Sir Thomas was Colonel of the 2d Somerset Militia, and represented the county . of Somerset in Parliament for many years on Conservative principles. He held a large property in that county as well as in Devonshire. The deceased was twice married, first in 1796, to the daughter of Sir Thomas Dalrymple Heslieth; and secondly, in 1823, to the daughter of Ambrose Goddard, Esq., of Swindon, in the county of lie succeeded his father in 1815. Sir '1 homes has issue two children by his first marriage, and six by his second. He is succeeded by his eldest son John. The family claims descent from an eminent legal functionary of the reign of 'Queen Elizabeth. It is not difficult to content one's self with solitude, when it is known that society may be bad, if wished for. —Eliza Cook's Journal. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. DEATII or VICE ADMIRAL MAT HEW GODWIN, Official intelligence was received at the Amiralty yesterday of the death of Vic., Admiral of the White Mathew Godwin, at the advanced age of nearly 83 years. The gallant deceased was what is termed a " dotted admiral," not having served since be was posted. Ile entered the navy in 1780 as a volunteer on board the Foulroyant, 84, Captain John Jervis, and on April 21, 1782, assisted as midshipman at the capture, after a gallant action of nearly an hour, attended, however, with no casualty to the British, of the French 74-gun ship Pegase, whose loss, besides being seriously damaged, amounted, out of a crew of 700 men, to 80 killed and wounded. From May in the same year until the receipt of his first commission, August 1, 1794, Mr. Godwin ' la ith intervals, served on the %V es t I n di a an d home stations in the Pigmy brig, Captain Wm. Mitchel ; Triumph, 74, Captain Richard Onslow ; Flirt brig, Captain James Norman ; Prudente, 38, Captain Henry Trol lepe ; Active frigate, Captain Edmund Nagle ; and Royal George, 100, flag-ship of Lord 13ridport. He then joined the 13,11erophon, 74, Captains Williams Hope and Lord Cranstoun, and was afterwards ap pointed to the Commerce de Marseilles, Captain Child, and to the Prince George, Glory, Thunderer, and Tremendous, flag-ships, latterly at the Cape of Good Hope and in the East Indies, of Sir Hugh Clo berry Christian. In the capacity of commander, a rank he attained Jan. 15, 1802, Captain Godwin Lest, on June 23, 1803, joined the Trompeuse sloop, in which he cruised off the south-west coast of Ire land until Sept. 30, 1804 Having been promoted to post rank cn the Bth of the preceding May, he was then superseded. The Gazette of last night announces the promo tions in consequence of the death of Vice• Admiral Godwin. Sir Josiah Coghill Coghill, Bart., is now the senior Rear-Admiral on the list, and Captain Maurice F. Fitzhardinge Berkeley, C. 8., M.P., A.D.C., of the Board of Admiralty, is now the senior on the list. Captain Edward Le Cras Thorn borough (1827) has succeeded to the 14s. 6d. a day half-pay ; and Captain Edward A. Frankland (1835) has succeeded to the 12s. 6d. a day half-pay list. THE BREVET PROMOTION. The promotions of the officers of the navy are such as were previously due, and must, in justice, have been made in the course of a few months, without the auxiliary prompting of a Royal visit to Ireland. Captain Robert Harris entered the. navy, Jan. 2G, 1822, and from that time to the present has served afloat nearly 21 years. His first ship was the Eury alus, 42, Captain (now Rear-Admiral) W. W. J. Clifford, and served in her at the blockade of Algiers; and after a few months in the Algerine, 10, served in the Cambria, 46, at Navarino, and shared in the ser vice of capturing numerous pirates in the Grecian Archipelago, ultimately suffering shipwreck during an attack on a nest of these marauders, at Carebusa, January, 1828. He was next mate of the Ferret, 10, and was afterwards appointed to the Royal George yacht, and served in the tenders Onyx and Pantaloon, in charge of a watch in their various cruises to South America, the IVest Indies, the coast of Sp a i n an d Portugal, and in surveying the coast of Ireland. He was made a Lieutenant in May, 1833, and after serving in the Excellent, gunnery-ship, for three years, obtained tl e highest awardable certi ficate. He served in the Melville, 74, as gunnery lieutenant, in the West Indies, the Cape, and China coast, and was promoted to the rank of, commander for his services at the capture of the forts of the Bocca Tigris, and for commanding a rocket boat in the operations in the Canton River. , As a commander he most ably commanded the Flying Fish, 12, in the experimental brig trials, and subsequently on the coast of Africa, and since March, 1848, has served in the ship from which he bas been promoted, having com manded the Virago steam sloop pro tem. as the man of-war escort to the royal squadron last year, in her Majesty's cruise to Aberdeen. Captain Harris studied steam in 1842, at the college, and published on his return from China some "Remarks on Heaving Down a 72 gun Ship" (Melville, at Chusan). Commander Protheroe, promoted from command of the Crocodile, receiving ship at Cork, has been in the navy since 1811, and has served afloat 19 years. He passed his examination in 1819, having served in the Swiftsure, 74, Mediterranean ; Stately, 64, off Cadiz ; Itnpetueu, 74, Lisbon ; Eridinas and Cerus, frigates, Chatham ; Orontes, 36, West Indies; Horatio, 38, East Indies: As mate he served in the latter ship on home station ; Ferret and Helicon, sloops, North America and West Indies ; and subsequently Doterel, Britannia, and Rattlesnake. He was acting lieute nant of Beaver, 10, West Indies, when he was con firmed, and paid off from her in 1826. Commander Bedford has been in constant employ since he first entered the navy in 1824, and proceeded on surveying service, at Newfoundland, in the Snap, 10, with Captain Bullock. He is the son of that dis tinguished veteran officer, Lieut. Bedford, of Green wich Hospital; was made a lieutenant in 1838; was engaged in the survey of the coast of England, and recently in surveying on the coast of Scotland, where he has frequently piloted the Royal yacht when her ;Majesty or Prince Albert has been on board. Commander Oliver Jones, son of the late Major General Oliver Jones, who commanded the 18th Hussars under Sir John Moore in the Peninsula, entered the navy September, 1826; passed his ex amination in 1832, and remained seven years as mate. As a lieutenant he served in the Southampton 50, at the Cape ; Calcutt a , 84 , Lisbon • as first of the Snake, 16, in the Medit erranean; additional of the Queen, 110, same station; and as senior of the Pilot, 16, in the East Indies; and since May, 1848, as senior of the Ganges, to which he is now re appointed. ship while the Dread :ought was - undergoing a thorough repair at Woolwich. PLyrstru, Ocr. 18 —The Gang :8 is ordered to be stored for foreign service, but her destination is not yet made known. She is to have 68-pou riders, instead of 32. pounders. The Octavia, new .50 gun frigate, in charge of Mr. • Henderson, Master-. Attendant of this (lock-yard, left Pembroke last week, but the strong v , ind from the eastward prevented her from getting up Channel until yesterday, when the Con!lime() steamer towed her in. When off' Scilly she fell in with :`strop g wind from the east, wi h a heavy sea, which carrit:i away her foreyard, and she put back into Mount's Bay. The Conflict, on her way down the harbour, on Saturday, while under half-steam, werit aground on the mud accumulated in St. John's Lake. She re mained there for twelve hours and a half, durirg which time a party of shipwrights from the dockyard were using their exertions to get her otE They . removed from on board of her water,, shot, and guns, amounting to about 100 tons, aid on the tide flawing, by the ass:stance of the Confiince steam-tug, they succeeded. The Philomel, 8, at Devaaport, is to have Stirling's metal sheathing tried on her bottom, instead of copper. She will be taken out of dick on the sth of November. The Trident was paid wages yesterday by Admiral Sir Juhn Louis, and went out of harbour. She sails to day for Liverpool, for man. While she haA been in this pLrt she has been payed over with Mr. Hay's composition, which has proved so suecessfnl. Hay superiaended the work, the Admiralty having ordered him from Portsmouth for that purpose. The Hound brig is ordered to be got ready fur com mission. The Spiteful steamer is to be taken into duck, to lave her bottom cluaned. SPORTIN G iN INTELLIGENCE CURRAGII OCTOBER, MEETING. —THURSDAY. Sligo Stakes (renewed) of 25 sous, 10 ft, for two yrs old; colts, Bst 71b; fillies, Bst 31b. Anglesey Post. 3lb allowed to untried stallions or mares, slb to both. The Club will add 40 sovs. The winner of the Angle sey Stakes to carry 51b extra. No produce no ft. Mr. Irwin's eh cPM Nono, by Retriever...(Chif ney ) 1 Cul.Westenra's b f Whisper Lo w ...... ...(lloyle, jun.) 2 Mr. Watts's b f Marchioness D'Eu (Lilly) 3 Won cleverly. His Excellency the Lord - Lieutenant's Plate of 100 gs; two yrs old, 6st 51b; three, 9st 21b; four, lOst; five, 10A 51b; six and aged, lOst 61b. Red Post. 31b al lowed to mares and geldings. Mr. Armstrong's Doll Tearsheet, 2 yrs (Monaghan) 1 Mr. Disney's Captain Grant, 2 yrs (L. Keegan, jun.) 2 Mr. Irwin's eh g Pio Nom), 3 yrs (Lynch) 3 Mr. Wallace's br fby the Major, 3 yrs ...(Murphy) 0 Mr. Farrar's bl c Viscount, 3 yrs (Farrell) 0 Mr. G. l'ower's b c Bullion, 2 yrs ...(James Wynne) 0 Mr. Newcomer's bc St John, 2 yrs (Fallon) 0 Won easy. P o Nono a bad third. Curragh of Kildare Cesurcuitch Stakes, a Free Handi cap of 20 soya. each, 10 ft. 50 sovs. added. About two miles and a quarter; second horse to save his stake Mr. Murphy's ch c Dough, 4 yrs, Bst 61b (Magee) 1 Mr. J. Hyland's Allogrette, 4 yrs, 7st 21b ...(Foley) 2 Lord Waterford's Brother to Rattrap, 5 yrs, Bst 81b 3 Mr. Irwin's ch h 5 yrs, Bst 61b (Cnifney) 0 Won by a length. Selling Stakes—Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each, with 25 sovs. added, for all ages; three yrs old, 7st 41b; four, Bst 71b; five, 9st; six and aged, 9.;t 41b. Waterford Post. A!l horses starting are subject to be sold for 200 sovs; entering to be sold for 150 sous allowed 51b; 100 soya, 91b; 50 soya, 141 b; 25 soya, 211 b. 2 sues each for entrance. Mr. Alingan's b f Portia, 3 yra, .50/ (E. Keegan) 1 Mr. IVynne's ch g Eemi, agd, 50/ - (Wynne) 2 Mr. Irwin's b c Red Knight, 4 yrs, 251 (Ducie) 0 Mr. S!. George's ch g Accident, 5 yrs, 50/ (Fol,y) 0 Mr. Ks egan's b c Maraschino, 4 yrs, 251 b (Miller) 0 Mr. Nolan's bl ca by Friar—Dust, 6 yrs, 100/ 0 Mr. L. Byrne's b f Revoke, by Retriever, dam by Napoleon, 3 yrs, 50/ (J. Wynne) 0 Lord Waterford's ch cby Birdcatcher, 3 yrs, 50/ ... 0 A good race. BETTING AT MANCIIESTER.—FRIDAY. CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES.-7 t o 1 agst Rathmines (take 8 to 1), 8 to 1 agst Baby (taken), 10 to 1 agst Ribaldry, 14 to 1 agst Woolwich (tt,ken, and after wards offered), 15 to 1 agst Glauea, 15 to 1 apt Cruci ble, 15 to 1 agst Vanguard, 18 to 1 agst Cullingwood, 20 to 1 agst Rienzi (taken), 30 to 1 agst Prior of St. Mar. garet's (taken), 1,000 to 15 agst Malton, 1,000 to 15 egst Shylock (taken). 1,000 to 1:5 agst Legerdemain. CRITERION STAKES. 2 to 1 agst The Nigger (t) I I 5 to 1 egst Pit s f or d 4 to 1 agst Nutshell 0) HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. Brighton harrs., Mon., Patcham; Wed., Race Course; Fri., llyke-101-. Brookside harrs., Mon., Newmarket-hill; Thurs., Telscombe Tye-10f. F. B. hds., Mon. Ladock; Fri., Perran Wharf-101. Mr. Littleton' s I:ds., Tues, East Taphouse-101. York and Ainsty hds., Tues., Ribstone Park; Thurs., Oalston; Sat., Crucky-hill-10i. Brambam Moor has., Mon., liarewood House; Wed., Bramham Park; Fri., Bickerton Bar; Sat., Keddle lane—loi. Sir Tatton S3lteu's hds., Mon., Soarington House; We]., Whimour Build; Fri., Riiisthorp-101. llc,l ]erne ss hds., Mon., Burton Constable; Tues., Everingharn Park; Thurs., Rise; Fri. Lund Village C:Ttain harrs., Tues., Morton Bridge; Fri., Mr. Coates's, Pasture House -11. Cl. veland hds., Mon., Upleat barn; Thurs., Hutton Low Cross-10i. Durham County hds., Mon., Elenvire Hall; Wed , Plawsworth Bar; Fri., Tunstall-101. Ilatrog:de. harrs., Mon., Saltergat-hill ; Fri., Cross roads on Thornton Moor-10i. High Peak harra., Mon., firassington Wharf; Fri., Hurdlow house-11. Mr. Trelawney 's hds., Tues., Cadover Bridge; Fri., Kpnnell, Mr. Furseh' hds., Mon., Friar's Hall, near llattersly; Fri., llunshaw Wood-101. Mr. Morgan's hds., Mon., Deer Parks; rours., Dun. terdtn. North Devon hds., Tues., Lewortby Post; Fri., North Molton-10f. Tiverton lids., Mon., Spurway Mill, O a kf or d ; Th urs., 'Jayne Moor, lampton-10A. Dulv,rton hrrs., Mon., Steeple Cross, near Hock. worthy; Fri., 13anipton-104-. Mr. Powell's Ws., Tues., Commercial Inn; Fri., Clegyfran Bridge -10. Llanelly lids., Mon., Mansant; Fri., Biggin-10. Tivyside lids., Mon., Eglwyrsw VilLige; Thurs. Llan dylri,,g Show Quilt lids., Tues., Diliewyd; Psi., the seventh milestone on the Cardigan road-11. SPORTING. Lord Lovat, the Master of Lovat, and Sir Philip Egerton have had splendid sport in the deer-forest during the past week. The deer were seen in great numbers; and the party succeeded in bringing down ten stags and a hind: The Deanie party—Mr. IVells and Mr. Leslie—have had excellent sport in deer stalking. During the season they have succeeded in stalking 21 stags and 7 hinds. At Langwcll (Caith ness), on the 31 inst., the sport of the season was concluded by beating the covers, when a fine young stag and three roe•deer fell by single bullets. At Castle Leod, Mr. R. Clinton and Capt. Bennett have had four and a half days—beginning on Tues day—of splendid sport, perhaps unsurpassed this season. The returns for those days were-1 fallow buck, 2 roe-deer, 170 grouse, 10 black-game, 11 ptarmigan, 98 partridges, 24 pheasants, 12 snipes, 5 woodcocks, 60 hares, and 45 rabbits—in all, 438 head. The buck was a very large one, and was stalked on Wyvis on Friday. The bead was very good. A head has been received by Mr. Snowie, from Sir H. 'Vieux, evidently that of a stag of ex treme age. The horns have all the characteristics of very old age, being long, thin, and almost clear of antlers, only the brow antlers being left. It is a curious instance of the careful provisions of nature, that the brow antlers, which alone are used in de fence by the deer, are the first to come, and the last to disappear before advancing years. Mr. Webb, at Loch Itosque, has sent three good heads—stalked last week. Mr. Fraser, Fort William, has also sent an excellent head to be preserved. We learn from the island of Lewis that since the Ist of September the weather has been highly favourable for all out door work, whether harvesting or sporting. Mr. Denys killed a good stag on the 6th ; on the 25th he killed two, right and left shots ; and on the 26th a full royal. On the 2d and 4th October he killed a stag each day, making in all six stags, and the number could easily have been doubled had the effort been made, for some times as many as seventy or eighty deer were seen in the course of the day's walk. Mr. Cornwall Leigh, on the Ist inst., shot a splendid royal stag of twelve points, and a geld hind; and on the Zd he killed two stags. The grouse shooting averaged about twelve brace a day— the highest being twenty brace for one gun. In Harris the slaughter of deer has been immense. Mr. Campbell of Jura and party have killed thirty five stags and ten hinds I This excessive destruction of deer must surely be injurious ultimately to the forest. —lnverness Courier. The Pacha of Egypt having entrusted an order for an English carriage, which Elaculd combine all the recent improvements of British woi kmanship, to some gentleman in this country, the selection has fallen upon Mr. Horne, of Long-acre, who, i❑ a segmental Brougham, has brought to bear most of his well•known and valuable patents. This carriage, which gill leave for Egypt on Saturday, is most unique and handsomely ornamented, and bears the national crest of the crescent and s:at s. Woodcocks are corning in plenty in the coast of Devon. William Holland Bickford Coham, Esq, of Dunsland House, killed one on the 15 h, and two the following day. A fine woodcock, weighing nearly 16 ounces, was shot on the estate of John Stranger, Esq., Lower Sutton, S:)uth Brent, by the Rev. Mr. Owen, on Tuesday morning, the 16th. On Friday last a fine woodcock was shot on Hawkerland estate, the property of J. 13. Cresswell, Esq.— Western 7imes. A generous man will, in his treatment to an enemy, resemble the sun, which pours light all around it—even upon the clouds that E trive to dim its lustre.—Eliza cook's Journal. CROWN PROPERTY IN NORTH WALES. (From the Carizarvon and Denbigh Herald) A pamphlet is now in the course of publication, by Ridgway, Pi2cadilly, printed at the office of this paper, by Dr. 0. 0. Roberts, of Bangor, entitled " Crown Property in North Wales; its Management and Appropriation: with a Reply to Mr. James Wyatt's (the Penrhyn agent) Letter to the Times touching the Hundred of Uchaf." , The work is addressed by its author, to the Council of the Liverpool Financial Reform Association, in his capacity of deputy ranger of the Forest of Snowdon; and is well deserving of attention, not only by that influen=:ial body, but by the people of these kingdoms generally, no less than by the inhabitants of North \Vales in particuktr. Had it not been that the quarterly sessions business in the several counties over which we range, together with an important public meeting in furtherance of financial and political reform, combined with some delased corre..spondence, to pre-occupy our columns, some little spLee s ()nid have been devoted in our pre:ult herald in order to illustrate amply, both by extracts and analysis, the nature of the pamphlet cllu+ied to. As it is, we must be content with promising a digest of its contents in a future number : shnply recommending its statements in the mean time to the most careful as d dispassie n.tte perussl. As far as we hove seen, from ,the brief glance 6:stowed upon its contents, they are of the utmost importance in a national point of view, and such as ought not to be lost sight of, in any meeting or pub lication, intended to promote the great aims of finan cial reform, inasmuch as they demonstrate the fact that vast sums of public or crown property are an nually usurped by private individuals, which, if duly accounted for, and paid over to the Crown, would go far to render the yearly outlay, under the head of civil list, less burthensome to the people, without in the least intrenching upon the actual enjoyments, dig nity, or expenditure, however lavish, of the Sovereign. This is of the highest national importance. If a certain amount of income be necessary in order to support the Regnant Family in that style of luxuri ous enjoyment, and sovereign dignity, which is felt to be due to royalty,and if, at the same time, the amount of taxation necessary to procure this income be felt to press heavily on the people, it is surely m an if es t th at the heredit a ry an d personal revenue:. of the Crown should be duly conservated and accounted for, so as to aid alike in maintaining the cost of royalty, and in mitigation of the heavy taxes now impoNed upon the community, or rather upon the industrial classes. What must then be the feeling of honest, candid men, when they are credibly informed, upon the solid testimony of undeniable facts, not only that the greater portion of the Crown revenues arising from woods, forests, shores, estuaries, mines, minerals, &c, are alienated, or in the course of being alienated ; but that the perpetrators of these systematic and in creasing frauds are the very parties in whom is lodged the legal and moral trust of looking after them on behalf of the Crown, as bailiff's, agents, collectors, or trustees ? Whenever a robbery is perpetrated by a servant, or other agent trusted with the management of pro perty, the judges of assize or chairmen at sessions visit the delinquent with a heavier penalty than would be incurred by a common untrusted thief; and if the statements in these pages be borne out by facts, a similar sentence of augmented infamy ought to attach to the frlonies which they disclose. THE WEATHER IN THE NORTH. Since our last the weather has been dry, and on the whole very favourable for the leading of the yet out standing grain. Nearly all the active farmers whose lands lie low have completed the work of carrying several days ago; but a few have not taken advantage of the weather, or have been delayed by other causes, and have still some work before theth ere they can consider the crops secure. We have heard of nothing of the least interest respecting the crop in addition to what has already been reported; but the potato disease seems to be slowly and surely proceeding with its fell work. We learn from Tain that in that neigh bourhood evt n the cups have suffered to some extent. The kinds known as "London Blues" and " Lady Mary's" are rapidly decomposing. Our correspondent at Fort William writes that the weather continues fine ; there has been only one day's rain for eight weeks, a thing almost unprecedented. The crops have all been secured a week since. Part of the potatoes are lifted. On the Ardgour side of the country the disease will only affect about a fifth of the crop, while about Fort William it will cause the loss of from one-half to three-fourths. The poor people, however, will be better off than they were last year, owing to the quantity sown, and also because the corn and peaty were never housed in better condition. We are favoured with the following note from dated October 12 :—" The weather since 1 formerly wrote you has been very unfavourable for harvest work, so that very litle corn has yet been stacked. The greater part, hoc % ever, is now cut, and as the last two days have ben somewhat frosty, with a fine clear sky and sunshine, a great proportion of the crop will be secured if it continues dry for a day or two longer. Lady Franklin left Orkney last week by the Lighthouse steamer for the south. A salute of sixteen guns was fired as her Ladyship went on board." In A rg . % leshire—a correspondent writes us on the l2,h—the harve,t is not yet over, but a few fine days more will see it fairly at an end. The potatoes are very much diseased all over this district. herrings (which form a large portion of the fbod of the labour. ing class) are scarce just now ; but it is drawing near the time when they are usually taken in great quan tities.—lnverness Courier. SHIPWRECKS AND LOSS OF LIFE ON THE EASTERN COAST. It is with regret we announce that as many as sixty wrecks are reported to have happened on the eaitern coast during the raging of the recent equinoc tial gales. They scarcely moderated from their com mencement until 'Tuesday or Wednesday, and many very deplorable losses have become known, accom panied by several most disgraceful acts of plunder by wreckers. On Sunday morning, while the gale was raging with tremendous violence, a large barque was seen on the Guiifleet sands, on the outside ridge nearest the channel known as the Sw•ia. She was encompassed by a terrific sea, which now and then swept over her masthead, first pitching her one side on the sands and then on the other with a force that speedily dashed her to pieces. Theie were four or five smacks outside the sands, the crews of which deplored the impracti cability of saving the unfortunate persons on board the barque, who were doomed to a watery grave. The smacks got in as close to the sands as was deemed prudent, in order to render assistance to any of the crew who might be attempting an escape from the vessel over the breakers. Suddenly the helpless vessel was carried by a sea over one of the sands into deep water, when the next moment she heeled over, and instantly dis appeared. There were, it is supposed, between six teen and twenty persons in the rigging, not one of hom escaped. It was evident, from the rapid manner in which she went down, that the bottom of her hull had been driven in, and she was otherwise in pieces, for shortly after she had foundered, her cargo —artieles'of every description—floated out of her. For miles the sea was literally studded with portions of her freight, but, “range to say, although a consi derable quantity was picked up, no trace could be found of her name, or the place to which she be longed, till Thursday morning last, when the ship's papers were picked up, and placed in the hands of Lloyd's agent at Wivenhoe, by whioh it was ascer tained that she was the Conqueror, of Glasgow, 300 tons burthen. As soon as the wreck became known, the wreckers—and it is now a notorious fact that a large gang of these depredators infest the Essex coast—bore down to the spot where the vessel went down, and, notwithstanding the vigilance of some of the revenue cutters, they managed to get away with a considerable quantity of her cargo. The depredations of these wretches of late have been such as to extite general indignation along the coast. In the case of the wreck of the German emigrant ship Floridian, with the loss of nearly 200 emigrants, on the Long-sands, some months since, the bodies were plundered of the gold which many were known to have about them, and afterwards cast adrift again to escape detection. An other instance of their daring character happened on Tuesday, when they made an attack on the wreck of a vessel from St. Petersburgh, which the Scout revenue-cutter, Captain Saxby, had got off the Gun fleet, and in a few minutes cu t a way her rigging, and succeeded in escaping with the plunder. Some were captured on the following da . y, .and are impri▪ so d Harwich gaol. Through this infamous conduct, the sailors of the cutter were unable to preserve the vessel; she was got afloat tc be brought i▪ nto this port, and had her rigging been left, there is no doubt it would have been ac c omplished. The gale, however, drove her on the stone beach near Walton, and not a vestige of her remains. Two other vessels were lost near the spot where the C onqueror went down; one is supposed to h ave belonged to Chatham, laden with timber, and all on board perished. The other unfortunate ship was the lloyen, a barque, from Gefle for London. The crew, providentially, were more fortunate ; they were ta k en o ff the wreck by some W iverihee smacks, which landed them safely at that place. Th e mass of wreckage that has been picked up along the coast belonging to different vessels is enormous. The accounts from Lowestuffe, Yar mouth, and even' from different points . on the Lin colnshire and more northern portion of the coast, communicate a very sad list of the amount of life and property lost by the continuance of the gales. Steamboats put in at the different ports, either from being disabled or to seek shelter from the fury of the gale. The Dutch and Belgian mails describe the gales to have been very destructive on their respective APPOINTMENTS. • Commander—Oliver J. Jones, promoted from Firs, Lieutenant of the Ganges, S 4, to ba Commander a that ship, vice Harris, promoted. Lieutenants—J. B. Massie (1838) has been ap pointed to the command of the Crocodile, at Queens town, vice Prothero, promoted ; George 0. Fopple well (1842), to the Ganges. Master's Assistant—Robert Todd, to the Ganges. The Wolverine, 16, Commander M. Falcon, arrived at Sheerness from Chatham on Monday, and sailed on Tuesday, after adjusting her compasses, for Spit head, where she arrived on Thursday evening. She saluted the Port-Admiral of Portsmouth yesterday morning, and sailed about ten o'clock for Plymouth. The Scourge steam sloop, Commander the Right [lon. Lord Frederick Kerr, was undocked at Ports mouth on Thursday, to make room for the new screw steam-ship Termagant, which is being advanced for commission, and receiving the model coaling galley of Thomas Grant, Esq., of the Clarence-yard. She has not yet received her ordnance ; the 13 inch mortar will not be put on board ; she will be armed with the usual pivot guns, one forward, a 10-feet gun, 68- pounder of 95 cwt. for solid shot, and a 10-inch shell gun of 85 cwt. aft. She will have two broadside guns, 32 pounders, 42 cwt., and two 24 howitzers for her paddle-box boats. The mortar bed will remain ready in case of the mortar being required. THE ADMIRAL'S GOOD -SERVICE PENSION.--The vacant pension of 3001. per annum, by the death of Sir E. W. C. R. Owen, G.C.8., will be con ferred upon Admiral of the Blue Sir Thomas Cape!, K.C.B , Commander-in-Chief at Portsmouth, who was Nelson's lieutenant and signal officer in the Van. guard at the battle of the Nile, and who brought the .iispatches of that memorable victory to England in -he Mutine. Ile was captain of the Phcebe, 36, at Trafalgar; captain of the Endvinion at the forcing .f the Dardanelles, in 1807; and of the Hogue, on the coast of North America, In 1812 and 1814. ro- morrow (the 44th anniversary of Trafalgar) will be a proud day fur Sir Thomas Capel and the other surviving veterans of that great and glorious victory.- Ile gallant old ship in Portsmouth harbour, which bore the dyad hero's flag i n th e s t r if e, will be gar landed and festooned once more in honour of the auspicious day, long yet to be remembered by Englishmen. TIIE COURT•MARTIAL ON LIEUTENANT RICHARDS. —The sentence and finding of the court h av i ng b een confirmed by th e L or d s Commissioners of the Admi ralty, Lieutenant and Adjutant P. H. Fellowes, proceeded yesterday morning to Lieutenant Richards' quarters, and read over the proceedings and finding of the court, being an honourable acquittal of all the charges upon which Lieutenant Richards was tried. Owing to his still labouring under illness, that officer by desire of the medical officers, went into Melville hospital yesterday. CHATHAM, OCT. 19.—The following promotions have taken place consequent upon the decease of Mr. S. Vinall, first class clerk at this yard :—Mr. Charles Slade, from second to first class; Mr. H. Alms, from third to second iclass ; Mr. Finmore, extra clerk, to third class ; and Mr. Wood appointed e x t ra c l er k . The Pigmy steam vessel sailed on- the 17th inst., with a mumber of men and boys from the ordinary ship Poictiers, to juin ships in commission at Ports• mouth. The Poictiers, 72, depot-ship of the ordinary, Captain Peter Richards, was paid wages on the 18th inst., down to six months ; and this day large placards were posted at the Dockyard gates, that a number of able seamen and artificers are wanted for the royal navy. All applications are to be made on board the said ship. The Cumberiand, 70, the Warspite, 50, and the Terpsichore, 18 guns, were severally inspected yes terday by the master shipwright and other officers. It is reported that these ships are to be prepared for commission. WOOLWICH, OCT. 19.—The Strotnboli, steam sloop, Commander Lord Amelius Beauclerk, left this port at eleven A.M. to day for Portsmouth. The Monkey, the Jasper, and the Advice steam ves-els left Woolwich this morning, for Deptford, to tow the St. Lawrence, 46 gun frigate, to sheerness ; Mr. Gosman, master of the Fisgard, in charge of the frigate. The St. Lawrence was taken from Sheer ness to Deptford, to serve as a temporary hospital S U N N coasts. Numerous v se•sAvf•re Est, km - t i the Li o n • steamer, which reaklied the Thafnes_inlhoi middle of the week, brought o,'lrx the - iciewittiwii,yfssel s which Lad been lost. The"Fipiilalsletiin-ilirp report s a most fearful hurri cane Visiting Cronstadt on the 6 It and 7th inst., and a consequent serious damage to the shipping. ROGRESS OF' MANNERS. (From Eliza Cook's Journal) The progress of temperate habits among the bulk of the working classes is now very decided. So general had become the habit of drunkenness among the English people in 1606, that it was found neces sary to pass a law, constituting it a criminal offence against society. Drunken ness, nevertheless, went on steadily increasing in the face of this law, and about the middle of last century the vice had grown to a hideous magnitude. Some idea of the low state of the national morality may be formed .from a fact stated by Smollett, and repeated by the Bishop of Salisbury during a debate in the House of Lords, that on some of the publicans' Ogns in Lond on i t was announced to thc public, " You nary here get drunk for one penny, dead drunk fur twopence. and lace clean straw for nothng.'". They accordingly" say a Smollett, in his " History of England," " provided cellars and places strewed with straw, to which they conveyed those wretches who were over whelmed with intoxication. In these dismal ca• verns they lay until they had recovered some use of their faculties, and then they had recourse to the same mischievous potion ; thus consuming their health, and ruining their families, in hideous receptacles of the most filthy vice, resounding with riot, execra tion, and blasphemy." Although at that time the population of London was not one-third of what it it now, there were computed to be no less than 20,000 houses and shops in which spirituous liquors were sold, besides those in which fermented liquors only were kept. Whereas at present, the total number of public-houses, spirit-shops, beer-shops, and hotels in Loudon, is stated not to exceed 7,000. If other evid ence were needed, we should find it in the moral and orderly aspect of the London population of the work ing orders on all days of the week—in their improved tastes and habits, which now lead them to frequent reading-rooms and news-agents to buy their weekly paper or family journal, in preference to wasting their means on debasing self-indulgence. Much drunken ness there yet assuredly is; it is still the daily vice 'of the degraded, the outcast, and the ignorant; we thick, however, it must be admitted, that although formerly the most conspicuous and prevailing vice among the working classes, as it was among the middle and upper classes, it is so no longer, but has given way in a great measure before the progress of public morality and intelligence. The progress of temperance has been equally decided amongst the Scotch people. One could scarcely suppose that in the following description by Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun, he could have been speaking of a people now considered so moral, orderly, and intelligent. And yet here was the moral condition of the Scotch at the early part of last century. "At country weddings, markets, burials, and other the like public occasions, both men and women are to be seen perpetually drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting together." Thanks to the Scotch parish schools, such fearful abominations have been to an immense extent abated. Drunk enness was at the same time frightfully prevalent among the Irish people; and to such an extent did the rage for usquebaugh proceed in Ireland in the I reign of Philip and Mary, that the people converted so much of their grain into spirit as to cause great famine and privation throughout the country from time to time. Deplorable though the condition of the mass of the Irish people still is, they are no longer chargeable with the national vice of drunkenness, Father Mathew having succeeded in nearly bani , hing it from amongst the poorer classes of the people. But the steady decrease is best proved by the go vernment returns of the quantities of British and foreign spirits entered for home consumption at dif ferent periods. Thus we find that while the con• gumption of coffee has increased from 7,593,0011b5. in 1821, to 34,293,1901b5. in 1845, and the consumption of tea has increased from 20,358,7021b5. in 1800, to 44,193,4331b5. in 1845, the consumption of spirits is now, in the whole of the United Kingdom very little more than it was in England alone in 1742 ! The amount consumed in England in the year last named, or about a hundred years ago, by a population only one-third of that of England now, was about 20,000,000 gallons. The quantities consumed have very much varied according to the tax on spirits-- the lower the tax, the greater the consumption. But if we take the last few years, during which the duty has been stationary, we find that the increase in the consumption of British spirits has not at all kept pace with the increase of the population, but the contrary. Thus in 1831, the consumption of British spirits was 21,845,408 gallons, and in 1841, 20660847 gallons, and in 1845, 23,122588 gallons, The consumption of malt also is stationary, if not on the decline. The (paucity of hops charged with duty in 1835 was 49,08 G 7091y3.; in 1 45, the quantity charged was only 32,974 7501b5. The consul.ptioa of brandy, rum, and other foreign spirits had also declined from 4,883,596 gallons in 1831, to 3 464,074 gallons in 1841, and 3,549,589 gallons in 1845. The qu tntity of wine consumed remains also as nearly as possible stationary. These results are, we think, of a very satisfactory character; and they prove a remarkable progress in the manners and habits of the people. The marked diminution of intemperance must be attributed in no small degree to the efforts of the Teetotallers, of whom there are estimated to be no fewer than 1,360,000 in England, Scotland, and Wales ; but it is also to be attributed to the improvement in the moral tone of society, and the advance of intelligence, of which indeed the Temperance movement itself may be regarded as one of the indications. There are nume rous other proofs of this. Our elections are not now the scenes of debauchery that they formerly were. The Eatanswill boroughs have now shrunk into a very small number; and the finger of public reprobation is generally pointed at them. Funerals are now con ducti d decorously. Workmen are gradually giving up their system of " footings." Commercial tra vellers no longer think it necessary to coax an order out of a customer by i nv i t i ng hi m to a drinking bout. The friendly societies and clubs of the labouring classes are more and more discountenancing the practice of meeting in public houses for the transac tion of their business; and before many years are over, we look to still greater improvements in all these respects. CHOLERA AND DiAIiRHCEA. ENGLAND AND WALES. The following is the Return of Deaths from Cholera and Diarrhoea reported to the General Board of Health 'he 19th day or October, 1849 : SUPERINTENDING REGISTRAR'S DISTRICT. Deaths. Cholera. Diarrh. 1 0 O 2 2 2 O 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 O 1 Alnwick Birmingham ... Bradford and Pudsey . Brecknock fr— Burton-on-Trtnt (Hornington) Carmarthen . . Chester-le-Street (Harraton) Chorley (Rivington district) Clifton Union (St. Philip and Jacob, St. George districts) Dewsbury (Batley) ••• Dudley, Sedgley, and Rowley Regis ••• ••• ••• Ecclesfield (Barnsley) ••• Huddersfield (Almoudbury dis.) Hunslet (Holbeck) Isle of Wight (Cowes) Kidderminster, Leeds ... Llanelly ••• "• Manchester ... Newark ••• ••• • • Newcastle-on-Tyne (Byker)... Newmarket (Cleveley distract) Pershore (Pinyin) Peterborough ... Redruth (Megan) ••• Ripon (Kirkby Malatiad die.). Salford (Regent-road) Saffron Walden Sculcoatt s • . • South Shields (Westoe) Stourbriclge (Kingswintord) ..• Teesdale (Barnard i3ro rdCa m st i l e3 e) TndringG ,) Totnes (Brigham) Truro . Wakefield Walsall (Borough) Wigan Windsor (Clever) With.. m (Cor , b agesh 11) 44 Witney ••• ••• • Wolverhampton and Bilston ••• ...0 - • ••• ..... ••• .... ••• ."''" ... - ••• ...." • • • "'''' Total SCOTLAND. Perth .... Arbroath Total ... GENERAL TOTAL Metropolis England and Wales ... Seutl:And • • • '''''. Total ••• ."" NOTE —The deaths are returned according to the superintendent registrars' districts, as it is found im• practicable to di.tinguish every place separately. The Right lion, the Earl and Countesss of Stair have left Uuthorn, for Barguny, en route for Oxenford Castle, county of Riinburi;b. Mr. Hill, the well known delineator of Yankee characters, died at Saratoga Springs on Thursday, Sep t 3003.—Boston Pos.