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

With Two Illustrations by Nicholson. The SEPTEMBER Number, price Half-a-crown, of IptENTLEY'S MISCELLANY,' CONTAINS: _ _ The Note-Book of a Coroner's Clerk. By the Author of " Experi ences of a Gaol Chaplain."—Chap. 26, " Reap as you have sowed." — Chap. 27. Clearly a Case of WAchcraft. Dionysius O'Dogherty, Esq. With a few extracts from his Diary, By the Author of " Stories of Waterloo," &c. Gossip about the City of London. By Alfred Crowquill. Para; or Scenes and Adventures on the Banks of the Amazon. By I. E. Warren. Chap. 19. A Night Scene in the Harbour of Para — Cribbage—The" Un a" and Taaou— Alv ew Acquaintance—Captain Hayden—Present of a Boa Constrictor—A Walk to Mr. Campbell's ROscenia—Travellers' Tales—A Fourth of July Dinner. Spring-tide ; or, the Angler and his Friends. By Paul Pindar. The Brook. By Alfred B. Street. The Decisive Battles of the World. By Professor Creasy. No. 8. The Battle of Chalons, A.D. 451. An Adventure in the Great Cavern of Scrk. By Robert Postans. The Bye-lanes and Downs of England, with Turf Scenes and Characters. By Sylvanus. Chap. 12. Departure for the Derby— The Coupe —The Platform at Rugby —Mr. Hope Johnstone: his horse, the " Era"—The Loo Party—The Athol Canteen—" Hell in Harness"—Premature Deaths of Racing Men—Arrival in Town. Chap. 13. The early Morning-watch—The Second Sleep—Season in Town—Launcelot's Year —Cotherstone —The West End in May and November—The Duke of Limbs in " the Garden"—Prowling in Town—London Tradesmen—The City—The rower—A wide step. A True Poet. From the German of Jean Paul Richter. The Irish Lochiuvar. With an Illustration. Memoirs of Chateaubriand. Written by Himself. Literature of the Month. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS' SCHOOLS For Orphan and Necessitous Children. PATRON. His Royal Highness the Duke of CAMBRIDGE, K.G., &c., &l. paustaaNT. JOHN MASTER M kN, Esq., M.P. TRUSTEES. James Peek, Esq., Eastcheap. Hananiah Teape, Esq., Aldgate. Robert Clarke, jun., Esq., Cheapside. George MooretEsq,,; Churchyard. ECONORARY SECRETARY. George Lawrence, Esq. SECRETARY. Mr. A. L. Saul, 60, Bread-street. On SUNDAY MORNING, September 9, 1849, a SERMON will be preached in aid of the funds of the above charity, before the Right lion. the LORD MAYOR and SHERIFFS, at the Parish Church of NT. MARY-LE-BOW, CHEAPSIDE, by the Rev. DANIEL MOORE, M.A., Minister of Camden Chapel. Divine service to commence at 11 o'clock precisely. T F. A.TRg ItOYA.L, HAYMARIKE r. M-. u. A-•bater, Self) Lessee and Manager, Old Brompton. Fills EVENI N(2, Will be performed the celebrated Comedy of PAUL PRY. Frank Hardy, lir. Stoker; Witherton, Mr. Cullenford ; Somers, Mr. Wor rell ; Colonel Hardy, Mr. Lambert ; Mr. Stanley, Mr. Thomas ; Harry Stanley, Mr. Boyce ; Paul Pry, Mr. Wright ; Grasp, Mr. 0. Smith ; Eliza, Miss M. Taylor ; Marian, Miss Emma Harding ; Mrs. Subtle, Mrs Yates ; Phozbe, Mist Woolgar. To be followed by a novelty in the shape of A MOST UNWAR RINTABLE INTRUSION, which will be committed by Mr. Wright to the annoyance of Mr. Paul Bedford. To conclude with a yew piece, entitled WEBSTER'S ROYAL FED BOOK. a>TLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. * Cudel :he Patronage of her Majesty the Queen, his Royal Highnass Prince Albert, &c. Last Six Nights of the present attractive Spectacle THIS EVENING, The pertormanee will commence with a Grand Military Equestrian Spectacle, entitled -MOOLTAN and GOOJERAT ; or, the Conquest of the Seikhs. followed by an inimitable display of SCENES IN THE CIRCLE. in which Marie Macarte will appear, supported by the drat F.questrian talent of the day. To conclude with the Farce of THE SECRET. In compliance with numerous requests at the Box-office, the po puts r Spectacle of MAZEPPA will be produced with great splendour Monday next, September 3. t.ox-utnee open from Eleven till Four, -Awe Manager, Mr. W. West. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. IMMENSE AND UNPARALLELED SUCCESS. tinder the patronage of her Most Gracious Majesty, her Majesty the Queen Dowager, his Royal 'Highness Prince Albert, &c. The Public Press has unanimously pronounced the Storming of Itadatoz to be the most perfect and life-like exhibition. Grand Musical Melange, composed on the occasion of her Majesty's Vi.it to Irt land, introducing the most popular National Melodies. llerr Hermans, the Celeorated Bass Singer. _ . Herr Ferdinand Sommer will execute a Solo on the Euphonion. TILE SEA SERPENT AT LENGTH.— This celebrated but hi therto apocryphal monster is no longer a doubt - be will make his appearance THIS EVENING in a gran I Pyrotechnic Representation. Air. Southby will not vouch for the accuracy of the Portrait, but the effect will be prodigious. Tne Nobility. Gentry, sal the Public are respectfully informed that this favourite place of fashionable resort is open every NIONDAY, TUESDAY WEDNESDAY, AND THURSDAY. Danson's gigantic modelled Panorama of the TOWN AND FORT OF BADAJOZ, pronounced by the voice of public opinion to be the most perfect and life-like exhibition ever prennted—Splendid`Menagerie—Vo,ml and Instrumental Con cert, Conductor Mr. Godfrey—Several Favourite Songs and Ballads by the Misses Wells and Mr. George Tedder— Solos by Richardson (Flute)—Violin and Violoncello by Viotti and George Collins, varied alternately—and other at tractions, concluding with a vivid representation of the Storming of Badajoz, pourtraying thet advance of the British army—bombard ment and attack—gallantdefence—rush to the breach by real troops —and final tableaux in honour of the " hero of a hundred flghty." REFRESHMENTS.—The frequenters of these Gardens have long complained that Refreshments from the Confectionary-rooms only could ba procured. Arrangements have been effected, and a distinet portion of the Gardens set apart, where Refreshments may be had of the first quality, and at the usual Prices. Doors open at Nine o'Clock, ; feeding of the animals at Five ; Pelicans and White Bears half-past Five ; Concert at Six ; Storming of Bad ttoz. at Dusk.—Admission One Shilling. On Monday, September 12, the Royal South London Floricultural Society will hold their Fourth Grand Miscellaneous Flower Show. WEATHER.--Surt OFFICE, AUG. 30. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 60, Highest, 71; Noon, 69. BAROMETER, 29.07. Wind S.W.—dull weather. GIOLI WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tara DAT + . •*n+ng, 45 min. 11 1 Evening, 0 after min. after 0 To- Nfokausf —Morning, 13 min. after 12 1 Evening. 37 min. niter 12 v. k 4-1? 0 ,1,01 M 44 •#-, • el . a - 1.-, ' A 2- r i E T. -•- T • Nl O% ii 0 1)lit Oa_ titling 41nt LONDON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 1849. Our readers, and especially the subscribers to the Hungarian Testimonial originated by ourselves, will be gratified to learn that intelligence has been this morning received, via Southampton, announcing the arrival of the Hussars (lately sojourning near Folk stone), at Constantinople. So far our endeavours have been in this instance eminently successful, though unhappily, in consequence of recent occur rences, the unfortunate men, recently refugees in Eng land, will only reach their native country in time to see her delivered over to the ruthless domination of her Austrian and Russian invaders. Neverthe less, there still remains a possibility that this interesting band of patriots may be enabled to cross Rouir elii and j in the 10,000 of their heroic fellow countrymen now fighting, under the orders of GuYoN, against these foes to Hungarian independence to whose mandate GEORGEY has yielded up the fortunes ' of the Magyars unconditionally. Nor is it a circum stance altogether unworthy of consideration, or even of self-gratulation, that the General under whose banners these emissaries and witnesses of British sympathy fur the Hungarians may alone have the opportunity of rallying, is one who, although a natu ralised Magyar, is by birth a Briton. An absurd rumour appears to have smnehow become prevalent in Con stantinople immediately on the disembarkation of the seventy Hussars from the Oriental Steam Company's ship which had just reached the Bosphorus— namely that those patriotic soldiers had been furnished with means to enable them to reach their native land by traversing the Mediterranean and subsequently cros.ing the Turkish do:billions, by the members of the English Government. Unfortunately there was anything but complicity on the part of her MAJESTY'S advis.rs in this transaction. Unfortunately there was only visible a reluctance in the Cabinet of St. James's to f raiard in any way the wishes of the English people in regard to the cause of Hungary. Through the moseys ac-zutuultted in the fund styled the Hun gsrian Testimonial, and through those moneys alone, have these seventy fellow-countrymen of KossuT u b-en enabled to proceed to the frontiers of Roumelia. And the knowledge of this circumstance is a supreme consolation to our hearts, now that we wit..ess the calamities that have befallen the valiant soldiers of DEMBINSKI. Before we close our present allusions to the Testimonial of England's eympthy for the Hungarians, we must be permitted to express an intention on our parts, as the originators of the subscription—and we are satisfied that it is an intention that will neither meet with the objection of the contributors nor with the opposition of the committee, but that it will be hailed as one consonant with the views originally entertained by all parties who have in any way participated in raising that Testimonial. Seeing that a thunderbolt of misfor tune ha% descended upon the Hungarians, and scattered to thin winds at least for the present all their d ea r es t hop s and aspiration , — we propose that after the liquidation of all the expenses incurred in the trans.. mission of the refugees from Folkstone to Constan tinople, and thence across Roumelia, that th e r es id ue T of the u -Pimlnial shall be placed in the hands cf the Great Louts Kossuau to be employed as he may think pr.sper for the good of that gl or i ous cause with which Ith illustriou s name has become synonymous. A nobler or a mote direct evidence of the spepathy v.irb %%Inch England has watched the heo rtrcgg=le of the Magyars for the vindi cation of their nationality, and for the preser vation of their independence, could not by any pos sibility be contrived. As to the practicability of our) ing our intention into effect, it is only necessary to bear aVV l :htZtion the fact that England is the rd4ON , f , lc,' s either of the Absolutism or of t e lalio*:( , ' - le European continent. Ac cor.',4l4-io.the last it i c,3nts front Turkey, it wou ld appear that' KoStrr4 4 ) was a fugitive through the 'Wallachiataprovinces: : Rumours were, of course, not $ r THE SUN LONDON, THURSDAY EVEN ING-, AUGUST 30, 1849 wanting to the effect that that great man had been arrested by the clouds of Cossacks now infesting and ravaging those dominions. Yet, in spite of these tvS ss. sinister reports, which sta . in need of every possible corroboration, we are still sa uine that the Chief of the Hungarians will evade the grasp of his bitter and unrelenting enemies, and that before many weeks have elapsed he may stand upon the shores of this land of freedom—the guest as well as the admiration of England. Then into his hands we may pour the guerdon of an heroic and unsullied patriotism, the spontaneous evidence of the homage and sympathy of Great Britain. While day by day we are receiving the most mournful corroboration of the disastrous intelligence recently obtained from Hungary, we can point with the most elevated satisfaction to a document pub lished in another column, a document the existence of which we have more than once intimated—we mean the Memorial addressed to the Prime Minister and to the Foreign Secretary, by several members of the Imperial Legislature. That memorial, the pro duction of the Noble Lord, the Earl FITZWILLIAM, ex. presses to her Majesty's Government in eloquent terms, and with befitting distinctness, the feelings prevalent throughout these islands in regard to the treatment of Hungary—feelings of horror at the atrocious violation of so many sacred rights by the Austro. Russian Coalition, and of mingled pain and indigna tion at the culpable indolence of the British Cabinet. Elsewhere, also, in this evening's impression of our journal, will ,be found a very simple and logical exposure of one of the greatest humbugs in this age of delusion—to wit, the well known squad of Utopians who are at present disporting themselves in the French capital, under the conciliatory title of the Peace Congress. The frivolity of their arguments, the utter and preposterous impracticability of their schemes, and the monstrous and evil consequences which have followed, from a recent experiment of their principles, are therein clearly and honestly particularised. In truth, it requires no very elaborate effort at persuasion to demonstrate to the comprehension of any sane man that the much eulogised non-intervention system (the nostrum or panacea of these benevolent, but very short sighted enthusiasts) has recently tarnished the repu tation of England, while it has desolated Hungary with carnage, and rapine, and arson, and murder, and bombardment, leaving its fields to be ravaged by bar barians, its fairest cities to be given up to pillage and conflagration, its women to be deflowered, its men to be butchered, and its holiest rights to be trampled down under the heel of an accursed Despotism. Such are the infamous results of that mawkish sentimentality whose predictions are nothing less than the ravings of a delirium arising out of the fever of a diseased phi lanthropy. The report of the Registrar-General on the state of the health of London during the week states that 7,470 lives have been destroyed in London alone from cholera since the commencement of the epidemic, and the Registrar very justly adds, that while the present epedemic has excited some talk and terror, the efforts which have hitherto been employed to combat it look feeble and insignificant when con trasted with the vast means and agency which are brought to bear by the nation in other fields for the protection of life and property. We have Sanitary Commissioners and Commis sioners of Sewers, each with a well-paid staff of officials at their command, and when we endeavour to ascertain what they have done to arrest the progress of cholera by removing its causes, we find that with the exception of the adoption of that very ques tionable measure, the flushing of the sewers, by which their filthy and putrid contents have bee❑ disturbed and diffused, and the Thames polluted and rendered a medium for the propagation of contagion, as any one who travels on it may satisfy himself, by the evidence of his own nostrils, these two Boards of Commis sioners have done nothing. The Commissioners of Sewers have indeed stated their readiness to receive any plans which may be sent in for the effec tual drainage of London, but they are too much occupied with the squabbles of Mr. CHADWICK and Mr. LESLIE to do more than " receive" plans which appear to be treated by them some what after the fashion in which petitions are treated by Parliament. Among the various plans which have been thus ordered to be laid on the table, two have more especially excited the attention of en gineers, scientific men, and the public, viz., that of Mr. W. YATES FEEEBOBY and that of Mr. RICHARD DOVER. Mr. FREEBODY, in his letter to the Com missioners, thus proceeds to state the objects which he proposes to effect. He says— " The first plan is to obtain an efficient supply of water—sufficient to cleanse at any given time all the sewers under your control, and constantly afterwards to flow in sufficient volume to prevent accumulations therein of noisome materials or other obstructions. " The other design is to flush that part of the channel of the River Thames between Batters a and Greenwich, so as to obviate along its course the deposit of offensive matter—a measure, I presume, necessary to be adopted, in the event of your arriving at the determination that the River Thames is still the best practicable out-fall for the drainage of so vast a system as the one now under your care and control." Having explained the method which he proposes to adopt for the purpose of obtaining an efficient supply of water, Mr. FEEBBODY proceeds as follows : " Should you, after mature consideration, elect to con tinue the drainage of the metropolitan sewers to the valley of the Thames, I have next to direct your atten tion to the second proposal I desire to bring under your notice, viz., to flush that part of the channel of the River Themes between Battersea and Greenwich. I purpose to effect this by placing across the river, at a point be tween Battersea and Wandsworth, a solid dam of masonry, pierced by seven locks. The lock-gates may, very generally, be kept open, and tho tidal and downfal currents allowed to pass unobstructed ; but in process of time, or more especially in dry seasons, the river throughout its populous vicinity —from Battersea to Greenwich—may, from its continuing to be the out-fall of above 140 sewers, have a considerable quantity of soft foetid matter deposited in its course that would need re moval ; and, at present, there is no agency under your control that will effectively perform that duty. To in quire your power to erect such a work is unimportant hero ; the sewers, as at present constituted, have a ten decoy to pollute the river, and to cause obstructions in its channel that may become insalubrious. I will, there fore, assume that the required authority to ameliorate the conditions of those evils will be intrusted to your Commission when found requisite. " Were these locks constructed, their action when em pl )yed would be as follewl:—During the flow of the tid: the gates would all remain (pen until high water, and the tidal watere would, as usual, run up to Tedding ton Lock, with the varied heights due to ordinary causes. From the time of high water the gates (except for pass ing vessels) would remain closed for about four hours of the six and a half hours (which is about the duration) of an ordinary ebb tide. By this means the channel of the river, fur a length of twelve miles five furlongs, would be come one vast lock-pool, of an average width of 154 yards, and assuming a medium tidal lift of only 6 feet over t.:is entire distanc:., it would give 185,081,520 cubic feet of water, to be passed along the river from Battersea to Greenwich, and probably below, in a given time, and wi!li a controllable velocity. The water so conserved would by this means be brought into use at a period when most needed for purposes of salubrity, viz., during the two hours preceding the time of low water, and any inconvenience caused thereby to navigation could not exceed what is now often experienced in redly seasons (wi,en the whole valley of the lit er between Oxford and Teddington is flooded) the sluice area so governing the rate of current as never to permit it to exceed the velo city generally cells , quent on ordinary freshes. "in order to preserve the sides of the river from de posits of filthy material, principally those sites varied almost diurnally, between high and low water marks, many of the minor sewer out-falls should be united into one common channel, and conducted downwards to a con venient discharge point, by drains of the usual construc tion, or by cast-iron tubes. It is also very important that greater care should be taken with that part of the various out-fall sewers necessarily left open on the site nearest to low-water marks. These outlets should all be properly graduated and proportioned, so as to avoid deposit near that spot, and to retain the full benefit of the relative gravity due to the force of flush obtainable, the desideratum being to carry the sewer contents as far into mid-stream as possible. There is one great and to our minds insuperable objection to this plan, it still makes the Thames the receptacle for all the filthy and corrupted sewage of the metropolis, thus turning it into a purveyor of infection to all who live upon its banks. The plan of Mr. DOVER, as explained in his recently pub lished pamphlet,* and in his letter to the Commis sioners of Sewers, is not open to this objection, and while it maintains the Thames in a state of compara tive purity, it turns the sewage to profitable account, at by i s l i is m p p l l a e n an in d t c h h e ea p p am pr p o i c d e e s t s. to o ari e t : a th u n d s which sioa has already been made : "It is practicable for the Thames to carry with it health instead of sickness! a n d i n d o i ng so to combine vviCa vast national pecuniary gains repeal of t h e sewer . rates!! This is by intercepting the sewage at the exit * " The Public Health, with National Pecuniary Gain, verses Pestilential Disease and Increased Taxation." of each sewer, and, with anti-contagious and innoxious de. putrefying chemical agents, fixing and precipitating the ammoniacal and other valuable properties therein, and then converting the residuum into a cheap portable guana or manure, of extremely fertilizing powers, for agricultural and horticultural purposes, when spread upon or drilled into the ground. It was also repre sented that my system of operation does not require the lowest of any of the present levels [at low water mark] to be raised; on the contrary, it will be more advanta geous to me to have the wells ten or even twenty feet below the lowest of the present levels of sewers in London. "It is proved beyond all doubt that a disinfecting agent is known, by which sewage can be converted into guano, to 'be employed for the production of food,' and that by the aid of this agent all sewage can be rendered a source of profit to the Government, the manufacturers of gnaws, the farmers, the agricultural population, and, in tact, to the whole community. Also that the sewage of London (and every other city and town) can be con verted into guana, with sanitary as well as pecuniary advantage. A very large revenue and gain can accrue to the Government, and this city in particular, and to the community in general, by the conversion of the sewage of this vast metropolis into guana; and the millions sterling per annum of value [in sewage] now wasted so uselessly down the Thames, it has been proved practi cally need be wastel no longer. " The agent will de-putri-y the sewage, or any mat ters commonly passing through the sewers, emitting putrid or rotten smell or scent, by fixing and precipi tating the valuable fertilizing properties, whereby they era preserved and rendered available for agriculture or horticulture when spread upon or drilled into the ground. By itself, the residuum, or solid of the sewage, will net pay; whereas, by being disinfected and converted into guana, it can produce a very large revenue to the Go %ernment, besides a very large profit to the manufac turers, and be sold to the agricultural community at little more than half the price of the Peruvian." But this is not all the advantage which Mr. Dovaie proposes to accomplish " After the sewage is disinfected, and the solid preci pitated, the supernatant water' is available and of value tor sundry purposes [bleaching, washing, and purifying floors and rooms in houses, or linen and clothes, used in cases of typhus or other fevers, or where cholera is, or may have been raging; also for washing slaughter houses, &c.]" Nay, this supernatant water becomes a most power ful agent for the cleansing and disinfecting of sewers during the remainder of its course, for on being returned into the sewer it deprives completely the contents of the sewer of smell, de putrefying them in fact, and rendering them innocuous. Mr. DOVER thus continues : " The works requisite for taking up and disinfecting the sewage are neither complex nor large, and can be established at the exit of each sewer into the Thames, or in any other part of London more-convenient! The sewage to be pumped up by steam-power into tanks or vats averaging from one to three thousand gallons each, and disinfecting progressively whilst filling, as the agent fixes and precipitates all the matters that will putrefy (and valuable therefore as fertilizers), leaving the super natant water clear, and free from offensive smell. By the time the tank is full, its contents will be ready for filtering a rEgyptien. The residuum is then removed for draining upon the premises [if there is sufficient space], or run into barges for transport to other pre mises, up or down the river. Thus all the offensive and putrid or putrefying matters now running disadvanta geously and wastefully, out of London into the Thames, a auld be made available fur agricultural and horticul tural purposes, and to national profit." We were present a few days ago at some experi ments which were performed for the purpose of testing the merits of Mr. DOVER'S plan, and the result of those experiments was most satisfactory. A bucket full of sewage was taken from the mouth of one of the common sewers as it was emptying itself into the Thames at low water. The effluvia proceeding from this was, as may be imagined, most offensive. The sewage having been placed in a glass receptacle, had poured into it the disinfecting agent ; in the space of a few minutes the process of de•putrefaction had taken place—the guana had been precipitated and the supernatant fluid was perfectly clear and quite free from any disagreeable smell. It exhaled a slightly acid odour, arising from the fact of its retaining a sufficient portion of the disinfecting agent in solution to enable it in its turn to act to a certain extent as a deodoriser and deputrefier. The proposal of Mr. DOVER appears to us worthy of every attention; it is cheap, simple, efficacious, and will preserve the Thames from pollution. But these plans only go to remedy one portion, and that the smallest, of the evil under which we are la bouring. What is to be done in cases where there are no sewers ? Neither of these plans would be of any avail in such cases as the following, which we quote from the Registrar-General's report ea-- " On the 9th August a stockbroker died at No. 12, Albion-terrace, Wandsworth-road; a widow lady and an old domestic servant at No. 6; in the five preceding days in the same terrace the daughter of a grocer, a child of five years of ago, had died at No. 1; the widow of a coach proprietor and a commercial clerk, at No. 2; a gentleman's widow at No. 3; a surgeon's daughter at No. 4; a spinster of 41 at No. 5; the wife of a Dissent ing minister, his mother, a widow lady, and a servant at No. 6; a young woman of 21 at No. 10; a gentleman at No. 12, where the stockbroker died; a commercial clerk and a young woman of 19 at No. 13, where a young woman also died on Jaly 28th; a gentleman's wife at No. 14, who had seen her daughter die there the day before. The nineteen persons died of cholera, many of the in habitants of the terrace were dispersed; and the deaths of several have been registered elsewhere. 6 lt appears,' says the registrar, Mr. Frost, that at No. 13, inhabited by Mr. Biddle, where the first death occurred, and where two deaths were afterwards registered, the refuse of the house had been allowed to accumulate in one of the vaults (which is a very large one) for about two years, and when removed last week the stench was almost intolerable, there being about two feet of wet soil filled with maggots. The drains had also burst, overflowed into the tank, and impregnated the water with which the houses were supplied. On the back ground, in the distance, was an open ditch, into which nearly the whole of the soil of Clapham runs.' " We cordially concur in the eloquent denunciations of the Registrar-General against the murderous car elesseess with which the contents of Mr. BIDDLE'E cellars were suffered to accumulate; but how can it be expected that private individuals will go to the expense of erecting sewers and drains, when the Government of the country sets them the example of leaving the refuse and drainage water of one of the largest public establishments in the neighbourhood of the metropolis to accumulate in cesspools, forming centres for the diffusion of poisonous miasma, becoming, in short, hot beds for cholera.? Our readers will scarcely believe that Woolwich, with its enormous Government esta blishments, and its densely crowded population, is the greater portion of it undrained to this very hour, and that for the draining of the small portion of it, in which sewers have been recently built, the public is indebted not to the Government, not to the exertions of the inhabitants of Woolwich themselves, ',tit to the North Kent Railway Company, at whose expense the sewers have been erected, and More es ' cially to Mr. M‘GBrooß, the excellent and able Chairman et the company, who has added to the many obligations which he has conferred on the public by his incest'; stile and praiseworthy exer t:e ns in this matter of the Woolwich drainage. The company, in carrying un the works of their line in the neighbourhood of Woolwich, found that they were constantly breaking into the cess ',cols, in which the filth of Woolwich was collected, and the overflow from which at one time appeared likely to drown their works in a sea of corruption. Mr. M‘Gnrcos, with his wonted energy and decision, immediately undertook the substitution of a proper system of drainage, and the people of Woolwich are indebted for the removal of these re rervoirs of pestilence, not to the Government, not to the Sanitary Commissioners, not to the Sewers Corn missioners, but to the extension of the railway system. It is one, and that not the least of the advantages of the extension of railways, that they are invariably accompanied by the introduction of an efficient system of drainage ; and the public will find that, probably after all, the only really effective sanitary board is a board of railway directors. And this case proves how much better it is to trust to private enterprise for the accomplishment of great useful public works, than to that most inefficient, most expensive, and most ob structive of all contrivances—a public board of paid mmiasioners. Is there never to be an end to clerical vagaries ? Scarcely has the public mind recovered from the shock occasioned by the outrage upon decency per petrated by the torturer of the unfortunate MARY BALL, when a Reverend Gentleman, in the centre of the metropolis, exhibits the most heartless features of intolerance by refusing to administer the rites of Christian burial to a youth who met his death by failing from a housetop whilst engaged, as it is sup posed, in a burglarious attempt. In the case of the chaplain of the Coventry gaol the revolting conduct of that functionary was followed by his virtual dis missal from his situation by the visiting jus tices, and Sir GEORGE GREY has very properly signified to those gentlemen his entire concurrence in the course pursued by them, namely, the immediate suspension of Mr. CHAPMAN, with a view to his ultimate removal from the office which he so vilely desecrated. Whether his frenzied conduct resulted from brutish ignorance, from coarse cruelty, or from any other assignable motive, he is manifestly unfit to be permitted the further exercise of any influence or authority. By way of bringing the wretched woman to a fitting sense of her awful situation, he enters hercell a lighted candle, and seizing her hand, a nd, v deliberately holds it over sith the scorching flame, despite her agonized struggles to get free, not, we are willing to believe, in order to gloat over her writhings, but, forsooth, to give her a foretaste of the torments of hell-fire. An act of more astounding fatuity and fanaticism could hardly have been committed in the darkest days of monastic superstition and intolerance. It is truly grievous to have to record in the middle of the nine nth of tu the r Established piece of cond uc t, on th e par t o f a pastor tablished Church o f E ng l an d, w hi c h tee cen would have entitled him to rank as a zealous and approved familiar of the Holy Inquisi tion. Perhaps the Reverend Gentleman conceived that as St. DUNSTAN most effectually rou t e d the Devil by griping his nose with a pair of red-hot tongs, so he might exorcise the Spirit of Evil from the condemned creature by the application of the fiery torture. The question in proportion which he propounded to her was truly edifying : if such was the pain endured by the burn ing of a single member at a taper's flame, for the space of two minutes , wha t must be the torments of hell, where her whole frame vrouW be in combustion for hundreds of years. It may be that in speaking thus he meant to convey a lively sense of the pleasures of purgatory, and, indeed, the mind of the sacerdotal tyrant strikes us as being one likely to bdeefiolbesdeubrye the eb impure thepur estros pitchy o monstrosities of that mongrel clouds of P use yi sm an d heresy. Fortunately, however, the days of the faggot and the pile are passed away. Auto da-fes are obso lete in England, and even the cry of the victim of a minor torture is not suffered to sound unheeded in the dungeon walls. Of all species of tyranny, the priestly is the most abhorrent to the British mind, and any attempt at its revival serves but to provoke the unanimous and unqualified indignation of honest and independent men, and to call down crushing con demnation on the head of him why is wicked or weak enough to introduce its hideous form anew upon the scene. In the present case the civil aut;horities have acted promptly and efficiently, and we trust that the. ec clesiastical powers will record their approval of the wholesome example set by the visiting justices of Warwickshire, and, by a marked admonition and re buke, prevent any recurrence of s:uch a violation of public decency. We need scarcely say that we are far from being influenced by the slightest feeeling of personal towards the 11:.9verend RICHARD CHAPMAN ; our observations are elicited solely by considerations of the public good, and we sincerely trust that in the discharge of our ;duties as impartial journalists, we shall never again be called upon to animadvert on a case of similar notoriety. With regard to the Reverend Mr. JONES, the curate of the parish of St. Paul's, iCovent-garden, to which we have previously allude d, we feel equally shocked, surprised, and disgusted , . What were the grounds upon which he dared to' deny the decent ceremonials of sepulture—rites v srhich are for the edification of the living, and not fox the benefit of the insensible corpse ? The Rubric of his Church enjoins that those rites shall not be extended to "any that die unbaptized, or excommunit ate, or have laid violent hands upon themselves," but there is no other exception. Nevertheless, it seemed meet to the diseased conscience of this strai't-laced curate to Qxtend the penalty. He first s might to drag his Bishop into the mire, but his emcleavours were in effectual, his Lordship being out of town. He then took upon . himself the detests ble responsibility of refusing to read the ordinary service over the body. The expostulations of the churchwarden were set at nought. That functionary, in order, if possible, -to obviate. the unpleasant consequences which appeared lain ninent for the family of the deceased were ve r:y properly deter mined to bury their unfortunate reilative in their own private grave—proceeded to a congregation of divines, who held their sitting, somewhere in Southampton-street, and one o f their body had the good sense to bring the proceedings to a close, and performed the fune n.l service, feeling convinced that no minister, when duly called upon, had a right to refuse execuVen g the duties of his office in this respect. Can it be •a matter of wonder that the ranks of Dissent are copiously recruited when such fantastic tricks are played by the parsons of the Church of England ? If the heada of that Establish ment are bent upon accomplishing • its ruin, they can adopt no more efficacious course I .ti ian to countenance the freaks of the Rev. Messrs. CHAPA lAN and JONES, and they will, ere long, have the satisfaK•tion of finding the edifice tumble about their ears. '2,Chere is, they may depend upon it, a strength of put die opinion which will sternly repel the encroachmen:Ps of fanatic domi nation, and whose warning voice ahould put a sum mary end to the exhibition of sultth lugubrious far cicalities. ruE FRENCH R IUBLIC. We have received the Paris pap e) rs of yesterday. The Moniteur publishes the folio! wing :-- " Several Italian journals paint u.i ,der the most fulse colours the attitude assumed by the. French Government, in the negotiations which have led t e the peace between Austria and Piedmont. In reply tip these calumnious ccusaticns the Government confines itself to publishing the following document; it is the omy reply which it becomes it to give:— " T a. rin, 21st August. " Monsieur le Ministre—The frie n dly interest which the Government of the Republic h as testified for us during negotiations of Peace wit h Austria, makes it a duty for us at the moo tent when these negotiations have happily been concluded, to ex press to the French Cabinet our sincere gratitude for its good offices in our favour, w 6. ich we are pleased to admit have so powerfully contribu t' 3cl to obtain for us conditions to which our honour I. allow us to sub ,cribe. I,' in consequence, fulfil a , pleasing duty in making myself to you, Monsieur le "S 4 'inistre, the inter preter of the sentiments of my co ti eagues, the other Ministers of his Majesty, who, all like myself, have warmly appreciated the support which has been given to cs by France in this difficult circum tance, and which has so well justified the confidence wh we have placed in the efficacy of her word. I h ope that you will accept these expressions of our since rf gratitude, and at the same time the assurances of the high consideration with which I have the honour to be, & c., "M. ss. D'AZEGLIO." The Aseeniblee Nationale publis b es the following account of the reception of General. LAMORIGIERE by the Emperor of RUSSIA " Accounts have been received in 1?1 iris by tho friends of General Lamoriciere, of the recep t Lon of the Ambas sador of France by th e Emperor Ni t ,holes, and of his residence in Warsaw. The follow ing is the correct version:—' The General, and what is more, we will even say the Ambassador, was very well received; all that has been said of the whisperings vr hich were excited by the rough soldier-like manner ot Gte neral La.moriciere is completely incorrect ; the General is la man of too much sense and too well bred not to have corrected, in the midst of a military•and polished court,. all revolutionary habits. The Ambassador was ever/ where liited; the Emperor invited him to his table, I3u t every time that cite General wished to open a politiic al conversation as to the future prospects of Russia, an d the object of her immense armaments, the Emperor at 't tamed from reply, without, however, departing from his usual courtesy. It appears, however, that one evening,,• being very much pressed for an answer by a c ertain de; p ree of persistence theon pilt of General General ,w L a a ws m i tm o h r e i catinhet noi r r e e , h t ~be i e pof God, is to ely as a menace Emperor said .... • My project , suppress revolutio n w h erever it ti lay show itself. We think thatthis agair.st the spirit of revolution, and not against nation alities ; for, with the esteem with whi ich the person of the Emperor inspire s us , we w ill rem rk to him that it is not a good mea ns o f i nsp i r i ng no ble- ideas in a nation like ours to pro cee d b y t h reats . Iho revolutionary ,piiit, however, ext en d s i tse lf b y th e t deplorable agita• Lion in the public mind, that tamp ti nary fever, which has precipitated Europe into all kin( is of excesses since the 24th of February, and it is to tl sat which the Em peror alluded in his remark.' " The Legitimati s t p il gr i ms h ave 1 * turned from their visit to the D ue DE BORDEAUX :, at Ems. The Opinion Publiq ue p u bli s h es a lou t.:-4 account of the ayings and doin gs o f t h e var i ous p arties concerned, •. from which it appears, that M. YE tt ON, the proprietor of the Constit u ti onne l , h ad t h e mos ti: marked attention paid to him by both the Count a of 1 the Countess of CHAMBORD. Itis said that M. GUIZOT is a ca»d idate for the re presentation of the Department of ti e Lower Seine, vacant by the death of M. VICTOR G RANDIN. The Grand Duke of BADEN i lal ; written to the PRESIDENT of the Republic to thank him for the kind reception he met in France duri DI . ; the insurrection which drove him from his doniink I. The PRESIDENT of the Republic: intends to visit in September the principal dockyards and arEenals of 1-France. There was little business done on the Paris B6urse yesterday. The Five per Cents. eloied at 89f. 70c., and the Three per Cents. at 55f. 50e. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE. AUGUST 29. Anglo Italian (late Italian and Austrian), I—Boulogne and Amiens, CM—East Indian, SPAIN. Madrid papers of the 24th have arrived. The Cla . inLr Publico states that the Duke DB So- TOMAYOR had refused the Ministry of Finance. It was consequently said that M. BRAVO MURILLO would definitively remain in the department, and that M. DE QUINTO would take the Ministry of Public Instruction. A letter says that the Minister of Fi nance had obtained en advance from some capitalists. MADRID BOLSA, AUG. 24.—The Three per Cents. were done at 261; the Five per Cents. at 114. Ex change, 70. GERMANY AND THE NORTHERN STATES. AUSTRIA AND lIUNGARY. There is little news from Hungary. The - Vienna Gazette of the 24th publishes a bulletin of General HAYNAU, announcing that, on the 18th, the number of Hungarian deserters in lais camp was 18,000, and that the Magyar infantry was in complete disso lution. The corps of insurgents, who were flying before the Imperial troops, buried the cannon which they could not take away. " The san guinary drama," says General HAYNAU, in one of his last proclamations, " has arrived at its denouement." The Pesth Gazette mentions a report that KosSUTH had been arrested on the Wallachian frontier; but this requires confirmation. On the 18th, however, it is said that he was seen at Lippa. The Constitutional Journal of Bohemia states that before General Lu DEES and GROTENHJELIK (Russians) effected their junction in Transylvania, Gener 1 BEM fell unexpectedly on Hermanstadt, and massacred the garrison of two thousand men ; therefore LUDERS marched on the town, and sur rounded the Magyars ; the latter attempted to cut their way through, but they were completely de feated. The Russian soldiers were so exasperated at the sight of their slaughtered comrades, that they slew without mercy, and the officers could not stop the carnage ; 4,000 dead, chiefly Poles, were it said left on the field. BEM himself only escaped with great difficulty across the corn fields. This, it should be remembered, is a Russian account of what took place in Transylvania, and cannot therefore, be implicitly relied on. The Hungarian General GUYON, who has under his orders 10,000 men, has refused to submit. Gene rals SCHLIK and BECHTOLD have been sent in pursuit of him. The German Reform says that the Austrian Minis ters are perfectly agreed with respect to the pacifica tion of Hungary, and are resolved to support the Constitution of the 4th of March. A recent decree of the Emperor of AUSTRIA regu lates the abolition of land charges for Gallicia and Lodomeria, and the suppression of seignorial dues. The Agram Gazette announces that M. LEPIER, formerly a major in the Austrian service, and in the receipt of a pension, was shot on the 12th, in execu tion of the sentence of a court-martial, for high treason, in having taken part in the insurrection of Pancsova, and occupied an official situation under the Magyar Government, on the frontiers of the Banat. A letter from Temeswar of the 16th says that Baron JELLACHICH had arrived at that place, and been received with enthusiasm by the people. FRANKFORT. The Frankfort Gazette says that the Central Government of Frankfort has made propositions to the Prussian Ministry relative to the es tablishment on a new basis of the Central Provisional Government, and that these were favourably received. It adds, that it was expected that the Austrian Cabinet would also receive them favourably. All this, however, is not exactly in accord with the recent declarations of the Prussian Ministry in the Chambers. Galateo on the 28th; dissolution of the two regi ments. 6. Occupation of Chioggin, Burano, and rospective districts en the 99th. 7. Departure, on the 30th of the Neapolitans by sea ; occupation of St. .Niccolo and the coast. 8. Departure on the 31st of the officers, and surrender of the fort of the Lido. Accounts have been received from Rome of the 21st. General OUDINOT was to leave for France on that day at the head of 10,000 men. The official journal says that General ROSTOLAN would replace General OUDINOT in the command of the French troops left at Rome. Ihe free corps and the mobilised civic guard have been dissolved by order of the Governmental Commission. There is a report that Cardinal DELLA GENGA is seriously and that he will resign his position in the Commission. fhe tw o other Cardinals have declared that they also will resign. A letter from Rome, of the 20th, which appears in the French Journal des _Wats, says : " The march of negotiations at Gaeta has never been easy. A few days since it appeared to assume a satis factory turn ; at present it appears suspended, and, according to all appearances, both parties are far from understanding each other. France, it is said, meets with the ;greatest difficulty in getting her counsels at tended to. It would appear that at one of the last sit tings the question of secularisation was decided in the negative, so that the Roman administration, it is said, is to remain purely and simply in the bands of the clergy. This decision, if definitive, prepares for a Papal Govern ment, if restored on such bases, a fall more sudden, more violent, and more irreparable tha❑ the first. On that point the provisions and apprehensions of all mode rate men are unanimous. Count Ludolf, Ambassador of Naples to the Holy See, and who represents his S.)ve reign at the conference, displays a blind obstinacy, which, decorated as it is with the appearance of real political firmness, is not without influence on M. Marti nez de la Rosa. The representatives of France find a support for the liberal policy which they recommend only in M. d'Esterhazy, Minister of Austria, whose demeanour and language are altogether in unison with the moderatio❑ of the Austrian generals for the last two months in the legations. Rumour declares, not only that the question of secularisation has been rejected at Gaeta, but that Cardinal Antonelli bas caused to be re jected the deliberative vote with respect to taxes, which it was proposed to accord to the new Chamber of Depu ties, when ulteriorly formed. It is stated that MM. Corcelles and De Rayneval have just received instruc tions charging them to address ju the name of the French Republic a solemn and pressing warning to the Govern ment of the Holy Father. A note was to have been re mitted the day before yesterday by the two French Ministers to Cardinal Antonelli. M. de Corcelles, whose health is improving, is at Castellansara. lie intends re• turning in a few days to Gaeta " THE PEACE CONGRESS. FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) The Peace Congress at Paris, and the success of brutal and unprincipled military power in Hungary, are contemporary events which mutually illustrate each other. One dogma of the Congress is non-interven tion; one effect of non-intervention is the wholesale slaughter of thousands of innocent people, the sack and burning of itowns, the flogging of women, and the hanging of worthy men, to gratify the criminal and insatiate thirst for dominion which possesses a couple of despots and their abettors. The Congress may reply, that had Russia acted upon their prin ciples Hungary would not have been invaded by its hordes of savage troops ; but this argument must not pass without a little scrutiny. No sane or well disposed person ever thought intervention necessary, unless a previous interference had taken place. In common parlance invasion does not mean interven tion. The nonintervention scheme would deserve universal admiration if its leaders could effectually convert not the lambs but the wolves to a millennial course of action. Now intervention fully carried out would be allowing every man to sit under his own vine or his own tree, or in his own parlour and in his own easy chair, none making him afraid; but it is a curious way of bringing about this happy state to promise unrestricted license to all evil-disposed and predatory powers. If the Peace Congress was corn • posed entirely of persons prepared to deny that man is entitled to use force in self-defence, but should literally turn one cheek to receive a blow to match one previously bestowed upon the other, it would be consistent enough, but many of its members consider defensive war allowable. According to this view we may defend ourselves, but by no means help our neigh bours. If a man witnesses an attempt to murder a fel low-creature, and quietly looks on, proclaiming the doc trine of non-intervention, but telling the murderer that although he feels it his duty to trust his neighbour's life to the protection of the peace principle and a special Providence, he should put his own faith in gunpowder, and has a pistol ready primed and loaded to defend himself, what should we say of him ? But this, in fact, is what the so-called friends of peace wish one nation to do to another. If giving a free course to violence and murder on a grand scale will prove the best means of promoting universal liberty and felicity, why should it not succeed on a small scale ? Why , not as good for Rush as for Russia ? Miserable fal lacy ! cries the Congress, nations are not like individuals, nor are their duties an aggre gate of individual duties. To answer this, let it be remembered that when the commercial dogma of buying in the cheapest and selling in the dearest market is to be enforced, that members of the Congress find rations very much like individuals, and on many similar occasions. If A sees B try to cut C's throat, or looks on in a spirit of love and univer sal brotherhood, and makes no effort to prevent the crime, he is morally guilty of being an accessory to it ; but if several million A's see several thousand B's trying to murder as many thousand C's, the non-intervention principle comes in, and they may be content with talking of the Mil lennium, and make themselves cheaply vir tuous during the present by holy contemplations, concerning the future; all of which must be very satisfactory to the wretched victims who might have been saved if their friends had lent them the aid of a strong arm, instead of preaching a weak sermon. No doubt the Peace Congress would say war very seldom answers, and then add—when our brethren are being murdered, let us love them and leave them alone. This is very cheap, and very peaceable, and answers admirably at the time in point of economy ; but its morality may be questioned. By all means let people talk as much peace as they like, and let the idea become familiar with nations that arbitration must supersede war, but when a rapacious brute force power revels in successful iniquity that surely is not the time for honourable and mighty nations to proclaim non-in tervention, a free course for crime. Let those who abjure physical force be consistent, and make it un derstood that they have pockets full of gold and eyes of brotherly love for any ruffian who thinks proper to attack them, let them not only eschew cannon and the tented fields, but also the constable's staff and the police-court, for they too are things of force. 11 'hen prepared to do this they would indeed be qualified to preach non-intervention, but not before. It does not follow that because the non-interven tion theory is repudiated, that nations are bound to send fleets and armies careering over the globe in search of worthy adventure, like knight-errants of old, or that they must always be ready to rush into war in defence of any just cause; but there is a wide difference between broadly declaring that they will witness any amount of atrocity without interfering, and reserving the right of a prudent consideration as to when and how intervention shall take place. Let every effort be made to hasten the time when war shall be no more, but let us beware how we cry peace when there is no peace, and, in the selfish enjoyment of our own security, hand over weaker nations to the unbridled ferocity of any barbarian power that is ever seeking to build up a monstrous edifice of tyranny upon foundations of blood and crime. S. THE LORD MAYOR OF LONDON AND THE MAYORS OF LIVERPOOL AND MANCMESTER.—To-morrow the Right Hon. Sir James Duke, Bart., M.P., the Lord Mayor, and one of the Parliamentary Representatives of the city of London, is to he the guest of the Mayor of Liverpool, at an entertainment given in his honour in the Town•hall of that borough. The Mayor of Man chester is to be one of the guests on the occasion. We have already stated that Sir James Duke is to bo the guest of John Potter, Lg., Mayor of Manchester, at the Town-hall of this borough, at an entertainment to be given in his honour in the course of next month. We may add that the day is now fixed for Friday, the 21st September. This entertainment Kill be given in the large room of the Town-hall, which is at present under going the process of repainting, &c. Amongst the guests who am pted the invitation to meet the Lord Mayor of London, is the Mayor of Liverpool.—Manchester Paper of yesterday. THE NEW CHAPEL AT BROMPTON.—This beauti fully designed structure, in connexion with thy• hospital for consumption at Brompton, is already sufficiently in progress for the laying of the foundation stone; which in teresting ceremony will be performed by the Rev. Henry Foulis this day (Thursday) at three o'clock in the af ternoon. A mountain is made up of atoms, and friendship of little matters, and if the atoms hold nut together, the mountain is crumbled into dust.—Eliza Cook's Journal. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. EGHAM RACES.—WEDNESDAY. The card yesterday was not very imposing, either in the number or importance of the peiz)s, but it premised a fair amount of sport, and the " special trains," being started at convenient intervals from the Waterloo-bridge station, bringing the course within an hour's ride of town, it drew the largest, if not the most fashionable at tendance we have seen on Runnymede for the last six or eight years; the weather was due, but oppressively close. The racing, from the number of heats, and the closeness with which many of them were contested, was considerably fibove the average; that it will be as good this day we will not take upon ourselves to say, but that it will surpass it in interest may be gathered from the engagements, an outline of which, including the entries made on Tuesday night, is given underneath. The events of yesterday call for no remeiks in addition to those &lied to the return. The Prince of Wales's Stakes or 5 sovs. each, with 20 added; for three yrs old, 7st 71b; four, Bst 71b; five, 9st; six and aged, 9st 21b. Mares and geldings allowed 31b; winners, extra. The winner to be sold for 80 soya. Heats, three-quarters of a mile. Duke of Richmond's Mirror, 3 yrs, 7st 81b 0 1 1 Mr. W. Sadler's Master Murray, aged, 9st 31b 1 2 2 Sir S. Spry's Bastilion, 3 yrs, 7st I lib Mr. Death's Plebeia, 3 yrs, 7st 41b Mr. Nieholl's Theodore Hook, 3 yrs, ist 71b 0 5 5 First Heat-6 to 4on Mirror and Bastilion Won by 15 lengths, the winner only going for the heat. Second Heat-2 to 1 agst Master Murray, and 2to 1 agst Mirror. Won by a neck. Bastilion a bad third. Third Heat-5 to 4on Mirror, who won by a head. The King John Stakes of 25 soya. each, 10 ft, with 50 added; for two yrs old colts Bst 71b, and fillies Bst 41b; winners extra. The winner to pay 10 soya. towards expenses. T.Y.U., (9 Subs.) Duke of Richmond's Officious, Bst 111 b... (Flatman) 1 Mr. Dixon's Blarney, Bst lob (W. Day) 2 Major Martyn's Fernande, Bst 41b (Kitchener) 3 Sir J. hawley's Slang, Bst 4lb (A. Day) 4 Betting-6 to 4on Officious, and 2to 1 agst Blarney. Fernande made the running to the distance, followed by Blarney; Officious, who was restive at the post, getting into the third place at the gap; the lead was then taken by Blarney, and held by him until halfway up, where he was headed by the favourite, who won cleverly by hal a length. The Gold Cup of 70 sovs. value, by subscription of 10 soya. each, three yrs old, 7st; four, Bst 71b; five, 9st; six and aged, 9st 31b; mares and geldings allowed 31b, &e. Two miles. Lord Exeter's Gardenia, 4 yrs, Bst 41b (Flatman) 1 Sir G. Ileathcote's Companion, Est 9ib. .(Sherwood) 2 Betting-5 to 2on Gardenia, who made all the run ning and won in a canter by six lengths. Plate of 40 soya. added to a Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each, three yrs old, Est 121 b; four, Bst 71b; five, 9st; six and aged, Sit 31b; mares and geldings allowed 31b; the winner to be sold for 200 soya. if demanded, &c., and allowances if to be sold for less. Heats, one mile and a half. Mr. West's Otterburn, 4 yrs, 7st ...(J. Mann) 3 1 1 Mr. Drewett's His Excellency, 3 yrs, sst 1 llb 1 2 2 Mr. Stephenson's Ziska, 5 yrs,7st 41b...(Pearl) 4 dis Mr. Dorrien's Self-Detence, 4 yrs, 6st I Ilb ... 2 dr Duke of Richmond's Buffalo Gal, 3 yrs, sst 81b dis First Heat-10 to 6 agst Buffalo Gal-5 to 3 agst Ziska —and 4to 1 agst His Excellency. Won by a length. Buffalo Gal and Ziska both bolted early in the race, and the former was distanced. Second Heat-11 to 8 on His Excellency, and 7 to 4 agst Ziska. Won by half a length. Ziska again bolted, and was distanced. Third Heat-5 to 2 on Otterburn, who won by a length. BETTING ON THE COURSE. THE SURREY AED MIDDLESEX STAKES. 3to 1 agst Gardenia I 4to 1 agst Ambaisadreit ST. LEGER. 12 to 1 agst Uriel (t) I 20 to 1 agt Nunnykirk 20 to 1 agst Chatterer I No change in the Leamington Stakes. The following is the order of running for this The Amateur Stakes—Cosaohia, Besborough, Spec tator, Lady Frances, Sir Peter Laurie, and Hippona. Tt:e Surrey and Middlesex Stakes—*Antagonist, *Gardenia, *Remembrancer, Quiver, Buekstone, CE3I - *'Landgrave, *Miss Wilfred filly, *The Countess colt, 'Syrup, and *Ambassadress. (*Expected to start.) The Railway Plate—lndiana, Nectar, Greenwich, Mirror, Damson, Leidy Sarah filly, Highwayman, Bas tion, Hind of the Forest, Fisticuff, Coronet, Rochester, Second Baud, Marquis of Conyngham, Bon-bon. The Queen's Plate—Remembrancer, The Hero, Midis, Gardenia, Compassion, Buffalo Gal, Landgrave, b h by Kremlin, Prior of St. Margaret's, Black Eagle. Egham Stakes—The Probe, Alpheia, Bun-bon, Ziska, Highwayman, Self-defence, Countess colt, Master Blur- ' ray, Syrup, Fisticuff. The races commence at two o'clock. RADCLIFFE RACES.—WEDNESDAY. The Heaton Park Stakes of 5 sovs. each, and 25 added ; two yrs old, sst; three, 7st 41b ; four, Bst 6lb ; five, Bst 121 b; six and aged, 9st . 21b; mares, &c., allowed 3lbs; winners extra; the second saves his stake. One mile. Mr. Lane's The Moose, 5 yrs (Evans) 1 Mr. Baker's Pheasant, 3 yrs Mr. H. S.ebbing's Athelstan e , 4 y rs 34 Mr. Phillip's br g, by Cha r l es 111., 4 y rs 7 to 4 on Athelstane, 5 to 2 agst Pheasant, and 3 to 1 agst Mease. Won easy. l'he Wilton Cup. of 100 soya., added to a Handicap of 15 sovs. each, 10 ft, and 5 only if declared. Two miles and a dis. Mr. Dawson's Defaulter, 4 yrs, 6st Illb ... (Arnold) 1 Mr. Arrowsmith's Lady Hy da, 5 yrs, 6st 10lb 2 Mr. Gies's Gaffer Green, aged, 7st Mr. B. Green's Abbot of Meaux, 3 yrs, sst 10Ib 4 Mr. G. Barton's Ellen Loraine, 4 yrs, Est 51b The Two-yrs old Stakes of 10 sovs. each, with 40 added, colts, Bst 71b; fillies, Bst 41b; winners extra. Three quarters of a mile. Mr. Osborne's Achyranthes (Osborne, jun.) 1 Mr. Barton's Leonidas 2 Mr. Green's Osbaltleston ... 3 4 Mr. Jamieson's Taby HEREFORD RACES.—WEDNESDAY. The Herefordshire Stakes of 15 sous. each, 10 ft, an d 5 only if declared, with 50 added. About two miles and a third. (18 Subs). Mr. Griffith's na Golden Pepper, 6st 101 b ...(Thrift) 1 Mr. Johns's New Forest Deer, aged, Bst 121 b 2 Sir V. Cornewall na Miss Bunney, 3 yrs, 7st 31b Won by a head after a fine race. GREAT YARMOUTH RACES—WEDNESDAY. .. ----- The Military Stakes of 3 sovs, each, with a Purse of 30i added. Heats, one mile. (4 Subs.) Captain Warriner's Squire of Walton, aged, 12st 1 1 Col. Smyth's The Rejected, 5 yrs, lltt Mr. Barclay's Belzebub, aged, list Won by three lengths. The County Members' Stakes of 3 sous. each, and 25 added. Once round. (3 Subs.) Captain Broadley's Maid of Erin, 63 rs (S. Rogers) 1 Mr. Wilson's Bernadotte, 3 yrs, 6st 51b Sir E. B. Lacon's Genuine, 4 yrs, 7st 21b Won by a head. The Tradesmen's Handicap of 10 sovs. each, 5 it, and 60 added, the second to save his stake. One mile and a quarter. (G Subs.) Mr. Drinkald's Amazement, aged, 7st 7lb (Rodney) 1 Mr. T. B. Charlton's Kissaway, 3 yrs, 6st 41b 2 Mr. Gurney's Cantley, 6 yrs, 7st 71b.....,, 3 Won by three lengths. The City of Norwich Stakes of 2 sovs. each, and 30 added; winner to be sold for 1501., &c. One round. (6 Subs.) Mr. Webster's Pillage, 5 yrs, lOst 131b...(5. Rogers) 1 Mr. Wilson's Bernadotte, 3 yrs, bat 131 b 2 Mr. R. Goff 'a Present, aged, lOst 131 b 3 Won by a length. ECCLES RACES—TUESDAY. The Irwell Stakes of 2 sovs. each, with 15 added, were won in three heats, by Mr. Parrot's Selina, 3 yrs, (Hughes) beating Dies Faustus, 4 yrs—Tity, 3 yrs- - Tots•up, 3 yrs—and two others The Trafford Park Handicap of 2 soya. each, and 2: added; one mile and three-quarters; (6 Subs.); were won in four heats by Mr. Bedford's Gutta Percba, 4 yrs, Bat 21b (Brandwood), beating Good Girl, 4 yrs, ist 121b—Mischief, agal, 6st 101 b—and two others. The Garrison Stakes of 3 sovs. each, with a whip added; one mile and a distance; (5 Saks.); were won in two heats by Captain Scott's Treasure, 3 yrs (Francis), beating three others. MA lILBRO'-ST HEFT— (THIS DAY.) A DRUNKEN PAUPER.—Bridget Staunton , an inmate of St. James's Workhouse, Has placed before Mr. Hardwick, charged with breaking three squares of glass in the dining-had of the workhouse. Thomas Oughton, the porter at the workhouse, stated that on the previous night he heard the breaking of glass, and on procteding to the dining-hall, from whence the sound came, he saw the prisoner, who was in s beastly state of intoxication, in the act of breaking the windows. Ile immediately put a stop to her drunken pranks by calling in a constable and giving her in charge. _ _ The Master of the Workhouse informed Mr. Bard' wick that the defendant a nd all her f am il y h a d b een in the house for years, and that the defendant was one of the most lazy and drunken paupers in the house. Mr. HARDwwit said defendant had made a bad return for the kindness she had received in the house; and, as * warning to others, committed her to the House of Cor— rection for ten days, with hard labour. DINNER TO THE DIRECTORS OF THE SOUTII" EASTERN RAILWAY AT GRAYESEND.—Last evening a sumptuous entertainment was given by the mayor, cor poration, and inhabitants of Gravesend, to the directors of the South-Eastern Railway, to celebrate the opening of that company's North Kent line to Gravesend. About one hundred gentlemen sat down to dinner at the Clif ton Hotel, at half-past six, a special train having shortly before that time brought the directors from London bridge. The mayor, Dr. Ridge, presided, and there were present—Mr. Macgregor, the chairman of the South-Eastern Railway; Captain Warren, Captai o Daniel, Mr. Lewis Small, Mr. Kinnaird (late sheriff), Mr. Barlow, Mr. Herbert (the secretary), and several officers of the railway. Amongst the principal inhabi tants and members of the corporation were—Aldermau Saddingten, Dr. Saunders, Mr. Masters Smith (the high sheriff), Mr. Espanage (judge of the county court), Bev bin Joyner, Alderman l'lane,Captain Baker; Messrs. Smith, Ditchhourhe, tibarland (town clerk), Macrae, Barker, Coombs•, Dobson, A'Beckett, and others , Several toasts were drank, and the directors returned by special train which reached the London-bridge terminus soon after twelve o'clock. WEST INDIA PINES.--.A further arrival of West India pines has taken place. The vessel Leonidas, ar rived from Nassau and Eleutheria, has brought a larg quantity from the latter place, in addition to thirty head of turtle. BREMEN. On the 23rd the Assembly of Citizens of Bremen confirmed, by 108 votes to 79, its formal refusal to accede to the Constitution of the three Kings. HOLLAND. TUB HAGUE, AUG. 21.—His MAJESTY has granted an indefinite leave of absence to the Minister of Justice, H. L. MICHERS, for the restoration of his health, and has delegated the duties of the Minister of Justice to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, L. A. LEGHTENWETZ, during the interim.—Staats ourant. TURKEY. Accounts have been received from Constantinople of the 13th. The Magyar patriots who left England by the Peninsular and Oriental Company's packet have arrived at Constantinople, but have not been per mitted to disembark, in consequence of the inter ference of the Russian and Austrian Ambassadors. The meetings which have taken place in England in supports of the Hungarian cause have produced an immense effect in Turkey. The Turks, as well as their Government, are inclined to an English alliance, and all their sympathies are with the Hun garians. The Princes of WALLACHIA and MOLDAVIA have left Constantinople. ITALY. SURRENDER OF VENICE. The Milan Gazette of the 24th contains the follow ing official document:— " Minutes of the conference held at the Villa Pappa dopoli, near Mestre, the head-quarters of the second corps d'armee of reserve, on the 22d of August.—Pre sent: His Excellency the Cavalry General Chevalier Gorzkoa ski, commanding the second corps d'armee of reserve ; his Excellency the Artillery General Baron de Hess, Quarter-master of the Imperial army; Count Marzeni, attached to his Excellency the Cavalry General for Civil Affairs. There appeared Messrs. Nicole Friuli, Count Datario Media, and Advocate Calucci, all three representing the municipality ; Engineer Cave dabs, representing the army; and Sig. Antonini, repre senting the merchants, who, having explained the de termination of their constituents and of the population of Venice to make their submission to his Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty, and to come to an under standing concerning the surrender of the city and its dependencies, the following has been mutually agreed upon:-Ist. The submission shall take place accord ing to the precise terms of the proclamation of his Excellency Field• Marshal Count Radetzky, dated the 14th of August inst. 2d. The surrender of all that is mentioned in the said proclamation of the 14th inst. shb,ll be effected in the course of four days, Irom the day alter to morrow, in the manner to be agreed upon by a military commission, composed of their Excel lencies the Cavalry General Chevalier Gorz kowsla and the Artillery General Baron de Hess, Colonels Schlitter, Adjutant-General of his Excellency Field-Marshal Count Radetzky, and Chevalier Schiller, chief of the staff of the 2d corps d'armece of reserve, on one side, and Engineer Cavedalis on the otheir, assisted by a superior officer of marine. And whereas the gentlemen deputed by Venice have pointed to the necessity of some explanations concerning the measures contemplated by articles four and five of the above-mentioned proclamation, it is declared that the persons who ere to leave Venice are, in the fist place, all imperial and royal officers who have borne arms against their legitimate sovereign; in the second place, all foreign military of whatever grade; and in the third place, the civil persons named in the list, which will be given to the Venetian deputies. With respect to the circumstance that there is at present exclusively in circulatio❑ at Venice a large quantity of paper-money, of which the poorer class of the numerous population could not be deprived without serious consequences for their subsistence, and owing to the necessity of regulating this point before the entrance of the imperial and royal troops, it is agreed that the paper-money in circulation under the name of • communal paper,' shall be reduced to half its nomi nal value, and shall have a forced currency only in Venice, Chioggia, and the other places of the estuary for the said diminished amount, till it shall have been withdrawn and another substituted in its stead, in con• sequence of measures to be agreed upon with the Vene tian municipality, which operation shall take place in a short time. The city of Venice and the estuary shall bear the whole charge of redeeming the said new paper money by the annual tax of twenty-five centimes for every livre, and with other subsidiary measures, which may be calculated to hasten the operation. In consideration of this charge, no war contribution shall be imposed, and those already inflicted upon the continental possessions of some inhabitants of Venice shall be re considered. A 3 to the paper called patriotic, which is to be entirely withdrawn from circulation, and other certificates of the public debt, they shall be taken under consideration at a future period. Done in duplicate, end signed mane propria, on the day and in the place hereinbelore-mentioned. GORZKOWSKI, m. p., Cavalry-General ; Hee, m. p., Artillery-General and Quartermaster ; MARZANI, m. p.; i ICOLO FRIULI, m. p. ; I)ATANIo MEDIA, m. p ; GIUSEPPE CALUCCI,M.p.; ANDREA ANTONINI, ID. p. ; E. CAVEDALIS, m.p. The Milan Gazette adds :—" On the 24th and fol lowing days, the surrender of the place and estuary ill take place as follows :-1. Departure from Venice of the Venetian and Lombard battalions, commanded by MENEGHETTI by land, vitt Fusina. 2. Occupation of the forts on the 25th, namely—S. Second°, Piazzale, S. Giorgio, S. Angelo, and the one on the railroad sta tion. 3. Departure of the corps of the Euganei:and the Sile on the 26th, via Fusina. 4. Occupation of the city, surrender of the arsenal and fleet on the 27t1; ; assembly of the officers at the fort of the Lido, 5. Departure of the corps of the Friuli, Brenta, and AloN kik e t a Per 6" 11 8 Per 0: 1 orw 3h Lot g bitto 4dia Dit to 1418° ebe gi 1,0( hutch NM I), p .tiat„, b o . ] Ditti ,Di Di Lac Live Liv , L S ( n!oll