The Sun. — London, England, 1849-10-16 00:00:00

.. _~,. E BEI N i LONDON, MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) nay =art= - oar's. SMITHFIELD.—bIeadow Hay, 21 53 to 3/ 123; (;Iv,r ditto, 31 04 to 4/ 1031 and Straw, 1/ 43 io 1/ lOs F ,. r load. A full average supply, and a dull trade. CUMUERLAND.—Meadow Hay, 2/ 8, fl, 8/ 15i- Clover ditto, 31 5s to 41 10s; and Straw, 1/ Gs to li lOs per load. Supply rather limited, and trade (lull. WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow Hay, 2/ 55 to 31 15; Clover, ditto, 315 s to 4/ 123; and Straw, 1 / 4 3 to 1/ lOs per load. Trade heavy, at the above quotations. CZLOPTIAL. SUGAR. — The market for British Plantation centinues heavy, at 6d decline since this day week. Sales 520 hhds, including 133 hhds. Barbadoes, by auction, from 36s 6d to 395, and 16 casks cry stalizad Demerara at 423 to 44s 6d; 620 bags Mauritius sold at a reduction of 6d; very low to good brown, 293 6d to 335; grey, 35s t )365; and mid to good yellow, 35s 6d to 38s. 7,180 bags Bengal chiefly found buyers at a further decline of 6d per cwt Becares descriptions, but at full prices for Wier sorts, mid to tine white chrystalized 43s to 475 63, low to good white Benares 37s 6d to 403, and good to fine yellow date 37s to 38s 63; 900 boxes yellow Havannah, viz., 500 (duty paid) sold privately at 40, to 41s, and 400 (in bond) at 2ls to 22s 6d. The quantity of British Plantation landed last week at the East and West India Docks was 1,405 hhds 126 tierces 299 barrels; there were taken for home consumption 1,491 hhds 225 tierces 830 barrels. The stock in the same places was 19,712 hhds 2,826 tierces 5,013 barrels. COFFEE.—Privately 1,000 bags Rio sold at a reduction of 21s to 22s 6d. BUm.—The quantity of British Plantation landed last week at the East and West India Docks was 750 puns 59 Mule, there were taken for home consumption 214 puns 2.5 hhds, and exported 123 puns 106 hhds. The stock in the same places was 23,408 puns 2,028 hhds. Rice:. -375 bags Bengal sold steadily at 94 to lls for low to good white. SALTPETRE.-300 bags Bengal realised 263 to 26s 6d for 12 and 11; per cent. refraction. SPICES.-486 bags Malabar Pepper were withdrawn above the value. TALLow.—P.Y.C. is 378 6:1 per cwt on the spot, and Town 39s 6d. COTTON.—Speculation continues active in this article, and at very full prices. TEA.—The public sales are going off very flatly to day, but about 1,200 chests of Old Common Congcu sold freely, at a reduction of id to id per lb. TH E DREADFUL EXPLOSION IN BERMONDSEY. —(THIS DAY.) The inquest on the four unfortunate individuals who fell Tiatims to the awfal eiplo3ioni that occurred a few days bine; in Brook-street, Bermondsey, took place to-day at one o'clock, before Mr. Carter, the coroner for East Surrey, at the King John's Head, Abbey street, Bermondsey. The four unfortunate individuals are George Barlow, 46; William Barling, 20; James Barling, 4 ; and Thomas .Barling, 18 months; a n d t h e cause of the death, our readers will recollect, was the explosion of a large quantity of fire-works in Brook•sfreet, Ber mondsey, where the father of three of the deceased carried on the business of a fire-work maker. The accident took place on Friday last, and the elder Mr. Barling and his wife,:with two other persons, are now lying dangerously ill of the injuries they have received at Guy's Hospital. The Beadle, in answer to the questions of the Coroner, said that it would be impossible to identify the bodies of the deceased, and that with respect to three of the persons in the hospital, it might be months before they were sufficiently recovered, if they ever did recover, to give their evidence. Mr. Burling might or might not recover in a few days. Two of the children of Mr. Barling might give some account of how many individuals were in the house at the time of the accident, but that was uncertain. The jury having been sworn, and shortly addressed by the Coroner on their duties, proceeded to view the bodies, and on their return PRINCESS'S THEATRE. A sparkling little novelty, in the shape of a one act farce, entitled The Major's Daughter, was brought out for the - first time last night at this theatre. The author is evidently no novice in the art of dramatic literature, and, whilst avoiding the old stage conventionalities for the production of effect, he has relied upon his dialogue and incident ; the result has been a merited success. Mr. Blushley (Mr. Forman) is an original character ; and in these days of French translation it is agreeable to find a thoroughly English piece upon our stage. The cha racter of Lydia (Miss Louisa Howard) is light and spiritual ; she is made to come out of very embar rassing circumstances indeed in a manner far re moved from the gross or vulgar. In all this the author's powers were well tested. We cannot con elude this notice without rendering a just tribute to Mr. IVigan's development of the free and easy Mr. Septimus Offhand. 'the piece was deservedly sue. cessful, and the author was loudly called for. The other entertainments were Don Giovanni and The First Night. itichard Henderson, the foreman of the London Fire Brigade, was examined—On Friday last he was called to a fire in New Brook-street, Bermondsey, about ten o'clock at night. On arriving with his engine, he found the dwelling-house No. 4, in that street, nearly burnt out. There were two engines there before him. About half an hour after he arrived the fire was extinguished. Witness then went into the ruins with his lamp, and after ordering the engine to be made up, he looked about among tte ruins again, and found the remains of a full-grown person lying with, his head to the parlour window ; he was in a perfect state of nudity, his clothes having been burnt off. Such was the state of mutilation that witness could not dis cover the sex. The body was removed, and in the act of doing so another was discovered on the left hand side of the parlour. This body was laying on its back and was as much mutilated as: the other ; th e features w ere en ti re l y destroyed. Witness put the bodies under the care of the parochial authorities. Another search was made among the ruins, to see if any other bodies could be found, but that night no further bodies were found. Witness had no doubt death arose from the fire, but he had seen bodies worse burnt. [The inquiry was proceeding when our report left.] SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S —YESTERDAY. CAMBRIDGESHIRE STARES. 8 to 1 agst Lord Clildea's Rathmines, 5 yrs, 6st 71b 10 to 1 agst Mr.Fowler'sßibaldry, 4 yrs, Est 101 b—t 12 to 1 agst Mr. Meiklam's Raby, 3 yrs, sst 10113 13 to 1 agst Mr. Fowler's Woolwich, 3 yrs, 6st 121 b 14 to 1 agst Mr. Payne's Crucible, 3 yrs, sst 121 b—t 16 to 1 agst Mr. Roles Collingwood, 6 yrs, 9st 41b 20 to 1 agst Lord Stanley's Legerdemain, 3 yrs, sst 51b—taken 25 to 1 agst Mr. B. Green's Malton, 4 yrs, 7st 21b—t 25 to 1 agst Sir C. Monck's Vanguard, 3 yrs, 6st 101 b 25 to 1 agst Mr. Osbaldeston's Joe o' Sot, 5 yrs, 6st 10Ib 25 to 1 agst Mr. Drew na Minimum, 3 yrs, 4st 101 b —taken and afterwards offered 33 to 1 agst Mr. Campbell's Robe r t de Brus, 3 yrs, sst 1016 50 to 1 agst Sir J. Gerard's Fitzpatrick, 3 yrs, sst 716 —3,000 to 30 laid once 1,000 t o 15 agst Mr. Osbaldeston's Fugleman 4 yrs, 7st 101 b 2 00 even on the field agst Ratbmmes, Raby, Wool 'wich, Ir on Duke, Mahon, Crucibl e , Ri enz i , and Ribaldry. The odds quoted agst Rathmines were currently offered ; the only bet, we believe, was 100 to 10. Ribaldry, on the other hand, was in high favour, a con siderable sum having been laid out at 10 and 12 to 1. Legerdemain was backed for two or three hundred Pounds, at 15 and 20 to 1; Fugleman for about the same amount, at 50 to 1 and 1,000 to 15, The betting in other respects was unimportant. DERBY. 15 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton'a Knight of Avenel 18 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Ghillie Callum—t 20 to 1 agst Mr. Jaques's Mildew —takes and afterwards offered 20 to 1 agst Mr. Wadlow's Clincher 30 to 1 agst Sir R. Pigot's Moultan—taken 33 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Brother to Epirote—taken 33 to 1 agst Mr. Henry's Pitsford 40 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Penang--taken The backers of Ghillie Callum and Moultan offere I to go on. Offers to lay 1,000 to 30, or to take 40 to 1 about Pitsford. DINNER TO SIR JAMES CARNEGIE, BART.---.Sir James Carnegie', of Southesk, Bart., was on Thursday entertained ut dinner in the Mill Inn, Stonehaven, by the Lieutenantcy of the county, as a mark of respect to the Honourable Baronet on his appointment to the high offic e of Lord-Lieutenant of Kincardineshire. R. Bar clay Allardice, Esq., of Ury, the senior Deputy-Lieu tenant, presided—and the duties of the Vice-Chair were performed by William lanes, Eq., of Raemoir. Up wards of thirty gentlemen sat down to dinner, among whom were tf.e Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P.; Sir John Stuart Forbes, of Pitsligo, Bart.; Sir Alexander Burnet, of Leys, Bart.; C a p ta i n C arneg i e, Ki m a i r d Castle; Mr. Irvine Bosw e ll, o f Kincaus4e; Mr. Grant, of Eclesgreig ; M a j or M'lnroy of The Burn ; Mr. Thomson, of 13 anchory; Mr. Ki n l och, of Park; Mr. Gordon, of Avochie; M r. Mactier, of Durris; Mr. Car- Christie, d Mr. El ora Burnett, of Tillyboy; Capt. Eastland Cottage; Mr. Lines, of Cowie House; Mr. Gibbon, of Johnston; Mr. Dickson, Brotherton; Mr. Hepburn, of Ric carton; Mr. Stewart, of Hilton; Captain Burnett Ramsay; Captain Taylor R.N., &c. The chair was supported on the right by Sir John Stuart 'orbes, and on the left by the Right lion. W. E. Glad stone.—Cakdonian Mercury, CLIFTON.—We ought to record with thankfulness that our beautiful village of Clifton still remains exempt from the dire disease which has so fatally prevailed in other places; its pure air and p ure springs of water from the surrounding hills rtnder it ono of the most attractive of residences. We cannot but:admire the (forts tnade to beautify and adorn it iu all quarttrs; but our attention has been particularly directed to the renova li3", of Richmond -terrace, which seems to have restored m . ic'as d 1 pristine attractions to th a t excellent row of cumin° . wellings; and when the small part of the ter race l e f t untouched has been put into proper it R Jill vie with i ts j uven i le competitors on thebill.—Bl istol ourn a i A NEW D ODGE .—Th e Y or h shireman states that ,r-Ine r -lane. havin g fs been sons t o di ztra i n at a house in Wltte found the tena n t su ff er i ng under a dr(adtul at ate of kodiately ocholera, and flAi in alarm. He r e c overe d im n their departure. thought it my duty to state its existence to you, an d AD. E,PHI THEATRE: hope that you will take my communication into due Mrs. Banbury's Spaims, a slippery, tr;ppery, consideratio n . A ny further exp!anation you might v.ia , On . „Rack written by Mr. Sti r l: ng C ouie — r h e princ i pi l upon the subj ec t I s h a ll b e g l a d to g i ve, i f ou w i ll charact rs by Mr. W r i g h t, M r. P , , til Bs - Word, Mr. apply to Messrs. G ronsun d, ship agents, of your • piece. 0. Smith, and Mrs. Frank Mathews ; such was the I am, Sir, your obedient s , . , rvalit, " LAI:RITZ M. GrIT z s.w. announcement in the Ad e lphi bills, an announcement which everybody who knows the Adelphi also knows " Formerly C .aanander or tae Skjold. "To Cantain G. A. Halstead, Esq., li.N., S ecretar y a t denotes a foregone conclusion of a regular Adelphi Lloyd's, London. screamer, overflowing with Adelphi fun, and con• POSITION OF THE REEF IN THE. RIVER LA PLATA. clodirg with a regular Adelphi triumph. No one is " The Mount with Monte Video W. :1 N. by ' COM- more au fait than Stirling Coyne at seizing any pass.' prevailing novelty and devoting it to Adelphi Fur " The Capitanis, at Ber'co, in en-f with the Windmill poses; and Mrs. Banbury's Spoons is neither more at Oribes encampment—bearing N. by W. per C,rapass. nor less than the Pas des Patineurs which last " Latitude 34 deg. 57 min. 30 sec. south. " Longitude 56 d eg . 5 m i n . west G reenw i c h. season created su c h a furore at her Majesty's Theatre Coined into an Adelphi f arce . We have Wright " The ch a rt I h ave b een us i ng was pub li s h e d b y Norte, London, 1846." masquerading first in a Hungarian c)stume, and then as a Bavarian broom girl, and committing all sorts of ludicrous extravagances; Paul Bedford polling on the ice as a harlequin, with Mrs. F. Mat , thows attired as a Hungarian lady, and 0. Smith appearing, first as a baker, and then as the devil. The scene of the skate dancing is the lake at the Surrey Zoological Gardens, and the Pus des Frdel;rs aril the Pas des Patineurs were admirably danced by the ladies and gentlemen of the Adelphi corps de bullet. There was a Pierrot whose activity aui agility is worthy of especial commendation. The piece con doles with a snow storm, and Wright speaks the tig standing under an umbrella with Paul Bedford. The announcement of its repetition was received with shouts of applause. The house was, as usual, crammed to the ceiling. LYCEUM THEATRE. A two act adaptation of the vaudeville Le Cheva lier d'.Essonne, which the acting of Mademoiselle Nathalie rendered so popular a short time since at the St. James's Theatre, was produced here last evening under the title of A Lady in .Difficulties. The adap tation is from the pen of Planche, who has transferred the scene of action from France to Prussia, and has very judiciously condensed the three acts of the ori ginal into two. The lady in difficulties of the Eng lish version is a certain Madame Denhoff (Miss 11. Gilbert), and her difficulties arise from the exceeding friendship of Count Hutzmar (Mr. C. Mathews), the son of the friend of her father. It ap pears that the brother of Madame Denhoff having engaged in some political intrigues, fancies he has cause to fear the vengeance of Frederick of Prussia, and, in order to facilitate his escape, his sister disguises herself in male attire, and passes herself as her brother. This lady, thus dis guised, meets Count Hutzmar, and, believing her to be the son of his father's old friend, declares that he takes the young cavalier under his protection, presents him vvi!li a commission in his own cavalry regiment, and makes him a present of a handsome charger, varying these most annoying kindnesses by prolessicns of love for the, as he thinks, absent sister of his friend. She is relieved at length from these em barrassments by the receipt of the intelligence of her brother's safety, when she is enabled to explain the real state of the case. In order to keep up her assumed character, the lady has been obliged to make but love to a poor village girl, the ward of a grasping old hunx Puffengruntz, who is desirous of turning her musical abilities to account for his own behoof. The village girl was admirably performed by Miss Kathleen Fitzwilliam, who introduced several new ballads, which she sung deliciously; and the old guardian was played with great humour by Mr. Frank Matthews. The great weight of the piece, however, fell upon Mr. Charles Mathews, who acted in Count nutznaar not only with that rattling volu bility in which he stands unrivalled, but also with a warmth of feeling which made it a piece of genuine comedy. He was admirably supported by Miss H. Gilbert, who has added greatly to her fame by her excellent impersonation of The Lady in Difficulties. The success of the piece was complete, and there were a loud calls for the author at the fall of the curtain. COURT CIRCULAR. WINSOR, ONDAY. The Queen a n d P r i nce Albert, walked M this morn ing in the Slopes. The Royal Family took their usual &rings. His Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar is expected to join' the royal dinner circle at the Castle this evening. Her Majesty's private band will attend this even ing in the Castle. The Hon, Miss Cavendish arrived on Saturday to take her duty as Maid of llonour in Waiting. Lord C: mot's (Lord in Waiting), and Sir Edward Bowater (Groom in Waiting), also arrived at the Castle. Her Majesty the Queen -Dowager continues very poorly. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, at tended by Lady Anna Maria Dawson, went yester day to Richmond and visited her Royal Highness the D uchess of Gloucester. The American Minister had an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday at his official residence in Downing -street. The Mayor of Liverpool and Mr. Cardwell, M.P., had an interview yesterday with Lord John Russell. Dispatches from the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands was received yesterday at the Colonial-office. Dispatches were sent off last evening from the Colonial office for the Governor of Malta. The Right lion. H. Labouchere left Stoke yester day for his seat, Overstoway, Somersetshire. Earl Fortescue had an interview with Lord John Russell. Sir James Clark had also an interview yesterday with his Lordship. MR. BEDFORD, JUN.—Young Bedford the nephew of the glorious Paul, is, we perceive from the Dublin journals, winning golden opinions in the Irish metro polis, and the opinions of the playgoers of Dublin is an opinion of great weiht and importance. The Dublin Theatre has always been the feeder of London; it was from Dublin that John Kemble came to us, and Dublin also sent us the most accomplished of actors, Farren. In speaking of the acting of Mr. Bedford, .jun. one of the Dublin journ a l s says, " Bedford as Von ,jun., in ' Twould Puzzle a Conjuror, as is his wont, kept the au dience in a continued roar of laughter, and as each sen tence of the quaintest drollery escaped his lips the re peated cheers of his audience announced their apprecia tion of his exceeding ability ; whilst an o th er o f th em de scribes him as h av i ng a istonian and laughter-pro voking oddity in the manner he looks around, especially in his bye-play, that would excite feelings of mirth even in the most ascetic. We should advise some London comedians to look out warily lest some day they find that younger blood and patient industry, combined with innate talent, should slide the old fellows from the boards they have lorded it over so long. We hope soon to see Mr. Bedford on the boards of some metropolitan theatre. Zeal without judgment is an evil, though it be zeal unto good.—Eliza Coole's Journal. TUE GENERAL LYING-IN LIOSPITAL.—The quar terly general court of the governors was held yesterday at the Hospital, Yolk -road, Lambeth ; Thomas S. Cox, Esq , jun., in the chair. The balance sheet for the past three months showed the total receipts to have been 9 if/ Mier defraying all expenses there remained a sum of 4031. A committee, appointed some time since to inquire into the " whole affairs of the hospital," now brought up its report, of which the following are the principal features. The revenue of 1848 was less than the expenditure in a sum exceeding. 1001, and the anti cipated deficiency for the year 1849 is upwards of 2001. For the last three years the average number of in-pa tients each year was 283—namely, of married women 267, single 16; the averaga number of patients attended at their own houses in the same period was 448. For tne thrie years last past the applicants admitted amounted to 849, mid the out patients to 1,344. The average cost for each in patient (exclusive of rent, &c.) was 21 9s. 6d. The re port recommended that the number of letters of recommendation be curtailed, and suggested, as a means of increasing the funds of the charity, that there should be an anniversary dinner, and likewise that an occasional charity sermon should be preached. The report was re ceiv‘d, and, in accordance with the rules, was referred for confirmation to a future court. TUE KEY. GEORGE WILKIN'S WHEAT.—We have received from the Rev. G. Wilkins, of Wix, and have c'eposited in our office, as he requests, for the in : pction of agriculturists, a sample of Egyptian wheat in the ear. To grow it he states he put in only single grains, and he had root after root of from 20 to 30 full ears, and some of 35 and more. The Rev. Gentleman adds—" I am about to put in on my small domain 6i or 7 acres, and I shall put in half that quantity of land with so many pecks of seed, and I would do the whole so were I to follow my own inclinations, but according to my practice I s h a ll put i n some t hi c k er, merely to convince others, were it possible to do so, of the folly of wasting seed and exhausting the land."—Essex Herald. FANNY REMBLE.—It is rum6urcd that Mrs. / Butler is a b out to marry Theodore Sedg w i ck, Eq., of Stockbridge. CHOLERA ARRHEA. WEST DISTRICTS. Kensington Chelsea... ... ... ••• St. George, Hanover-square ... Westminster ... ••• ••• St. Marti n -i n . the-Fields ... St. James, Westminster ... NORTH DISTRICTS. Marylebono ... ••• .•. Hampstead ... ••• ••• St. Pancras ... ••• ••• Liington ••• ... .•. Hackney ... ... ••• CENTRAL DISTRICTS. St. Giles ••• ••• ••• Strand ... •• Holbor n U n i on ••• ••. --- Clerkenwell ... ••• ••• St. Luk e ... ••• .„ East Lond o n ... •• ••• West London ••• ••• -- City of London ••• ••• EAST DISTRICTS. Rhoreditch ... ••• ••• 0 Bethnal-green ••• ... 1 Whitechapel ... ••• ••• 2 St. George-in-the-East ••• 0 Stepeey ••• ••• -- 0 Poplar ... ... ••• ••• 0 SOUTH DISTRICTS. St. Saviour, Southwark ••• --- 0 St. Olave ... ••• ••• -- 2 Bermondsey ... ••• ••• 0 St. George, Southwark Newington ••• Lambeth Wandsworth Camberwell Rother hithe Greenwich Lewikham ••• ..... Total ... ••• ....• ... 13,415 THE COUNTRY. The followi ng is the Return of Deaths from Cholera and Diarrhoea reported to the General Board of Health the 15th day of October, 1849 : Deaths. Cholera. Diarrh 1 ( Alnwick ••• ••• Anglesey (Holyhead)... .. Ashton-under-Lyn e (A s ht on ) Ay!sham (Cottishall)... Barnstaple Barrow-upon-Soar (Sillby) ... Bedminster ... ••• Berwick- upon-Tweed (Norham) Birmingha m ... ••• Bodmin (Longstone, St. Mabyn) Bradford and Jale ... Bridgwater ... Bridge (Beaksbourne) Brighton ... Bristol ••• Chapel-en-lc-Frith ... Chester-le-Street (Horroton) - Chorlton (Barton-upon-Irwell) Clifton Union (parish of Clifton, and St. Philip and Jacob) .. Cockvrmouth (Seaton and I.llaryport) • Creditors ••• ••• ••• Crickhowell (Brynmawr) Darlington "' Derby ... ••• ••• Droitwich (Claimes) ... Dudley (Rowley Regis and Sedgley) •.. Eccleshall (Bierlow) Exeter ... ••• Falmouth and Penryn Gateshead and Dunston Glanford Brigg (Horkstow)... Halifax (Sowerby) Haltwhistle ..• llardingstone (Piddington) ... Hastings (Sore) ... Hereford (Tupsley) ..• Hitchin ••• ••• ••• Ilolbeach •.• ... Huddersfield (Underbank in Wooldale) ••• Hull ... Hunslct (Holbeck,Rothwell, and Whitkirk) Isle of Thanet (Ramsgate) Kidderminster ••• •.- 14( ed 3 ..• Leicester ... Lowrs Leaden (Donylani East) ... Liskeard ••• ••• L•ehfidd Liverpool ... Llanelly • • ••• Lutterworth (Welford) • Manchester . Merthyr Tydvil (Gellygare)... Nantwich Newcastle-on-Tyne ... Newton Abbott (Torquay) ... Northwich and Weaverham . . Nottingham Oldham ••• ••• Peterborough ... .„ Pontefract and Castleford Reading ••• ••• Rochford Romford St. Albans St. Austell (Mevagissey) St. Germans (Anthony) St. Thomas ... Salford (Greengate) Seulcoates and Drypool Sheffield Shepton Mallet ••• Sleaford (Cranwell) South Shields (Westoe) Stockport (Heaton Norris) Stourbridge (Kingswinford) Tavistock and Horrabridge ... Teesdale (Barnard Castle) ... Thir.sk (Sowerby) Totnes (Brixhaw) Truro (Kenwyn) ... Ty nemouth and Callercoats village: Wakefield (Alverthorpe, Stanley, and Ardaley) ••• ••• Walsall and Darlaston ••• Warwick ... ... West Bromwich (Wednesbury) West Derby and Evertor). -- Whitehaven (Harrington) Wigan ... Wisbeach Witney (Swinbrook and Fulbrook) Wolverhampton and Bast.= ... Woodbridge (Witnesham) Worcester ... Yarmouth, Great (Northern) ••• ..... ••• ..... ••• ••••• ••• ..... •• • •".'" ••• .... ••• ••• ...• 11.. -- ... ..'i Total ... RETURN OF CASES, Ocr. 13. THE METROPOLIS. SUPERINTENDING REGISTRAR'S DISTRICT. Maths. Cholera. Diarrh 1 2 O 0 O 0 O 1 O 0 O 0 1 0 o 0 o 1 o 1 1 1 o o o o o o o o 1 0 o 0 o o o 0 Total deaths from cholera, registered from Sept. 17, 1848, to Oct. 13, 1849 ... 14,506 Total deaths from cholera, registered from June 17, 1849, to Oct. 13, 1849 NOTE. —The district of Kensington comprises the parishes of Kensington, Hammersmith, Fulham, and Paddington. Westminster district comprises the parishes of St. Margaret and St. John the Evan gelist, with Privy Gardens and Whitehall, and the close of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter. St. Giles's district comprises the parishes of St. Giles-in-the. Fields and St. George, Bloomsbury. The following are co extensive with the unions of the same name:—Hackney, Strand, Holborn, East London, West London, City of London, Whitechapel, Stepney, Poplar, St. Saviour, St. Olave, Wandsworth (Wandsworth and Clapham), Greenwich, and Lewisham. The remaining districts are co-extensive with the respective parishes of the same name. t 4 '` ' -: - -4 3 qfdll 11i .. DAV, N.E., 80. ITI Ifoper verbcard , gNi ach, vri d staten t of kee , 7 shore f l ; low al!' Goodo 1 Londog' ew save' we nt Don beat very ; 69 or 7 ,," mg mu' I arriv ed the fish _.; 2,000 Co' ver • Nore, .ted to Isi nills. , th, Ar ru " kraerj os° .. is of A a m °' ~ f nne been lis .rpoo l to 15tb prowt Dn. 14e 7 )ff porio :s. -erred to d,, upon - and two ecavie I 11011 Of ned ree 107 1 4 113/4 294 244 45 1 4 1. 8L 4 23 28% 10 3 4 214 8 1 4 •.-",, IPA 16 - 5 1 0 174 IHi 234 - 1 - 9% 5% 24 1 4 ..- 17% Total 243 - 1849, '''assing through London. At the s_arne time, In all tb country post offices, Sunday work is to be diminished i Thz-rc are some persons who wish 'to brirg on the question of dozing every post- office in Ergl.nd on Sundays, but this species of tyranny is not likely to find much favour. Several gentlemen of the Congregational Union at Sheffield protested against it. Mr. Bevan, the rich banker, refers those who would be aggr i eve d to the electric telegraph, as , if it were an easy thing for a poor man to pay 158. 00 163. for a message. Lord John Russell, at the interview with the deputation which waited upon him on Thursday, rebuked Mr. Bevan for his inconside rateness. The report of this interview will probably tend -to calm the fears of those who imagined that very different measures were in contemplation. C HEMS STR 1 7 IN RELA TION TO THE EXCISE. TO THR EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—It is a singular and somewhat melancholy fact, that in an age of progress like the present, the interests of science should be so often prejudiced its value compromised in popular estimatio:!, by exhibiting the absurd spectacle of contrad'xtury, and occasionally the most confrcting results. Truth being always the sanir, this apparent anomaly can only be explained by the want of sufficient accuracy on the part of tl - e investigator, and an error resulting from such a cause is tke more inexcusat.le when its consequences have a wide and baneful sphere of action. These remarks apply more especially to analytical chemistry, a science which is daily becoming more important and with which the interests of numerous and influential classes of the community are essentially interwoven. The records of criminal trials furnish numberless instances in which the lives of individuals have depnded on the statement of the toxicologist, whose infallibility could only be guaranteed by the minutest accuracy in his operations, and it is but too true that in many cases innocence has been victimized, or the ends of justice otherwise fruitrated by inaccurate and unscientific manipu lation. SCOTLAND. Hawick ••• ••• Edinburgh (from Oct. 7) Craig, Montrose ... Arbroath ... Kelso (Aug. 9to Oct. 10) ... Perth Dundee ••• ...." ••• .... •••1 ...... Total ... ... General total:— Metropolis ... Country ... Scotland ... •* • ..." ••• ..... i 13 NOTE.—The deaths are returned according 'to the superintendent registrars' districts, as it is found ina : practicable to distinguish every place separately. CHOLERA. DIARR i ' " Fri.' Sat. Fri. at. , Oct. Oct. Oct. Oct. 12th. 13th. 12th. 13th. 1 1 0 3 0 2 2 3 1 1 1 0 6 3 4 6 10 5 6 LONDON. West Districts ... North Districts ... Central Districts ... East Districts ... South Districts ... Total 12 13 19 SEX OF EGG s.—A correspondent of the Agricultural Gazette says—" I am induced to tell you that, without pretending to any knowledge of abstruse mysteries, I have learned to discover which eggs will produce pullets, and have pursued the practice through this season with unitorm success. I met with the hint either in your own periodical or some ot h er. I t cons i sts s i m pl y i n t hi s: To avoid setti ng th e l ong - s h ape d eggs ( w hi c h a l ways produce cocks), choosing the rounder and plumper ones. Generally, too, I have found that the very largest eggs produce male birds. I select therefore the most promis ing rounder-shaped eggs, without taking the very largest. It is certainly an important matter to suc ceed in this department, having myself often had the mortification to have a whole brood of cocks, or nearly so; the avoidance of this inconvenience is truly a desi deratum." -. 2 0 i _ ~? TUP,SDAY _EVENING, OCTOBER 18 LITERATURE. THE BEAUTIES OF THE BOYNE AND BLACK - WATER By William R. Wilde. Ireland generally, but especially the fair and fer tile lend of Meath, has reason to feel grateful to the erudite author of this most interesting volume. Pew tcurists will henceforward omit visiting a district rich in historic monuments and natural beauty, though hitherto not even its easy distance from the metropolis was able to tempt any of the modern sys tematic writers upcn Ireland, who one and all neglected the scenery of the Boyne. Inglis mad e th e circuit of th e island, but merely crossed the river at Drogheda. Barrow t.nd the " Angler in Ireland" seem ignorant of its existence, and the Halls notice only its appearance at Trim. Mr. Wilde has now collected and enlarged the sketches which have already appeared in the Dublin University Magazine among the series of " Irish Rivers," and, including the tri butary fb,od of the Blackwater, has produced en illustrated Handbook fur these charming but hitherto neglected streams. Ile has carefully noted every object of interest along the banks of these placid waters ; the scenes of Sylvan beauty, the Pagan relics, feudal remains, and monastic monuments, hick stud their margins. Commencing at the source of the Boyne, at the loot of the castle-Browned hill of Carbury, he first follows its windings to Clonard, thence through Trim to Navan, from which town a day's excursion is presumed to be taken along the Blackwater to its head, and from Navan to the town of Drogheda. The entire is a region of rare interest. Fertile meadows hanging woods--localities memorable in history and in song-- the palaces of Heathen kings—the raths of warriors —the pillar -stones of Druids—the footprints of early Christian saints, their oratories, round towers, and churches, their wells and crosses—and the battle fields, fortresses, and castellated mansions of more modern times—all these, treated of with a master's hand, present a strong attraction to the traveller who is not wholly devoid of taste. The antiquarian will revel in these pages, and derive additional enlighten ment from the numerous woodcuts, which are the best in artistic skill that we remember to have seen, and bear the unmistakeable impress of fidelity. The chapter on the celebrated tumulus at New Grange, with that on the Ethnology of the Ancient Irish, is worth the entire price of the book. There is like wise a great deal of historic information to be gleaned on various matters, even so modern as the birth of the Hero of Waterloo, whom we always considered to have been born in the county of Meath, at Dungan Castle (which, by the way, is Feargus O'Connor's birthplace), and in the immediate neighbourhood d Laracor, long the residence of Swift and Stella. It appears, however, that the Duke first saw the light in Dublin, in the mansion now known as the Royal Irish Academy House, and originally Chichester House. There has also been a misunderstanding as to his day of birth, wherefore, for the edification of genealo gists, we give the entry thereof from the registry of St. Peter's parish in Dublin :—" Arthur, son of the Earl and Countess Mornington, born 30th April, 1769." Casting the view backwards for three hun dred years, justice to Ireland appears to have been administered in a notable manner, and some idea of the state of the country in the middle of the six teenth century, and of the mode taken by its gover nors to suppress crime, and to gain the affections of the Irish chiefs and people, may be had from the following, among similar instances, from authentic history : "So late as 1546, we read that the plains of Cairbre and Castle Carbury were plundered and burned' by some of the Irish insurgents, particularly the Olitllys, the O'Maddens, and ,O'Connors. The mode in which this outrage was punished by the high legal functionary of the Government is highly characteristic of the time. When,' say the annals, the Lord Justice, Anthony St. Ledger, heard of this, he came into Offaly and plun dered and burned the country as far as the Togher of Cruoghan ;' and again, the Lord Justice came a second time into Offaly, and remained fifteen days in the coun try, plundering and spoiling it, burning churches and monasteries, and destroying crops and corn.'" Standing on the summit of the Hill of Tara a glori ous view is obtained of the great plain of Meath, constituting the richest portion of what was once the appanage of the Monarch of Ireland, for it is gene rally thought that, of the fine provinces, Meath was always allotted to the King Paramount in addition to his peculiar dominions, for the support of the Imperial dignity. Nevertheless it appears to have had its peculiar rulers, and, as the O'Conors ruled in Con naught, the Mac Murroughs (afterwards called Cavanaghs) in Leinster, the O'Neils in Ulster, and the O'Briens in Munster, so the O'ltlelaghlins were potentates in Meath. They were kings therein at the time of the English invasion, when a daughter of that royal line, Dearvorgail, the faithless bride of Brefney, and the Helen of the Irish Iliad, was reduced by the ill-fated Dermot Mac Murrough, King of Leinster. The English Monarch deposed the rightful O'Melaghlin, and mace a grant of the fair province of Meath to Hugh de Lacy, one of the fiercest of the soldiers of Strongbow. Tara was the grand palatial residence in the ancient heroic days of Ireland. " Here sat in days of yore Kings with golden crowns upon their heads; warriors with brazen swords in their hands ; bards and m i nstre l s w i th the i r harps; grey headed ollamhs; Druids with their oak leaf crowns; learned historians; wise brehons and subtle lawyers; the physicians, the smiths, artificers, charioteers, hunts • men, architects; the chess-players and cup bearers, to gether with crowds of servants and retainers, whose places are all specified in the ancient annals relating to Tara. Snetr not at the Irishman's veneration for this spot ; the history of its long-!aded glories' is still pre served ; the memories of Tara have remained a silver thread in the garment of sackcloth he has worn for centuries." We will now take leave, at least for the present, of Mr. Wilde and his delightful and instructive guide book, with the quotation of a passage which will afford a fair specimen of his descriptive powers. lie thus depicts the view from the Hill of Slane, near the noble castle of the Marquis of Conyngham : " Here, pilgrim, stop ; rest on yonder monumental slab, beneath the shadow of that tall, ivy-mantled tower, the belfry of the cathedral—it once was gorgeous with the shrines of Fathers, and illumed by many . a flicker ing taper, though now the hemlock fills its aisles, and (he purple foxglove waves its lonely banneret. The ground whereon we stand is sacred—consecrated by the toot prints of our patron saint, hallowed by the dust of kings. Look abroad, over the wide, undulating plains of Meath, or to the green hills of Louth—where, in the broad landscapes of Britain, find we a scene more fruitful and varied, or one more full of interesting, heart-stirring associations? Climb this tower and cast your eye along the river. Look from the tall, pillar-like form of the Yellow Steeple at Trim, which rises in the distance, to where yon bright line marks the meeting of the sea and sky below the Maiden Tower at Drogheda, and trace the clear blue waters of the Boyne, winding through this lovely, highly cultivated landscape, so rich in all that can charm the eye and awaken the imagination ; take into view the hills of Skreen and Tara; pass in review the woods of Hayes, Ardmulchan, Beauparc; look down into the green mounds and broad pastures of Slane; follow the Boyne below you, as it dances by each ford and rapid, to where the great pyramids of Western Europe, Knowth, New Grange, and Dowth, rise on its left bank; see yen not the groves of Townley Hall and Old Bridge, marking the battle-field of 1690, with the ill-fated hill of Donore, where the sceptre passed for ever from the royal line of Stuart, obtruding its long-remem bered tale of civil strife upon us? Duleck stands in the distance. Beyond those hills that border Louth lie Monaster-boice and Mellifont, the last resting-place of the faithless Bride of Brefney. Those steeples and turrets which rise in the lower distance were shattered by the balls of Cromwell, and that knoll which juts above them is the Mill Mount of Drogheda. What a picture hare we here, from:this Richmond-hill, of Irish scenery! What eu extensive page Qf our country's his tory does it unfold to us! What recollections gush upon us as we staad on the abbey walls of Slane, and take in this noble prospect at a glance! The records and the footprints of two thousand years are all before us; the - Pagan procession of the s i m pl e s h epherd to the early Pagan mound; the rude clinger standing on the earthen circle; the Druid fires, paling before the bright sun of Christianity; the cadence of the round tower's bell; the matin and the vesper hymn swelling from the hermit's cell, or early missionary church; the proud galleys and glancing swords of fierce northern hordes; the smoking ruins of church and tower; the shout of r i va l clans iu civil feuds; th e l ances and banners of Norman soldiers; the most, and fosse,: and drawbridge of the keep, still echoing-back the strife of hostile ranks—the native for his soil, the stranger for his hire; the ford defended, and the castle-won; the pilgrim's cross, the stately abbey, and the baron's hall; in church, the stole ejected for the surplice; the town besieged, the city sacked; and then the rattle, and the roar, and smoke of recent` battle— have, one and all, their epochs, ruins, sites, or history, legibly inscribed upon this picture." -ROYAL NAVAL BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.--Yester day morning a quarterly general court of the subscribers -to this institution was held at the Thatched House Tavern, St. James's-street, Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Briggs, G.C.M.G., in the chair. Commander Dickson, the secretary, read a brief report. The receipts for the quarter, from subscriptions and donations, added to stock purchased, gave a total of 1,858/. 175., and the ex penditure amounted to 593/. 6s. 10d., leaving a balance of 1,265/ 10J. 21 to the credit of the society. The in. terest on capitil stock invested in the Three per Cents. had amounted to 524/. The report hating been adopted the secretary directed the attention of the court to the distressing case of the orphan children of the late Lieu tenant Id•Renzie, who had been upwards of forty years in the service, and died a few weeks ago from au attack of cholera, followed almost immediately by his wife, who fell a victim to the same disease, leaving a family of six children in utter destitution. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager had been graciously pleased to subscribe 201. towards the maintenance of one of the children, and the society would at once perform its duty to such members of the family as were entitled to assistance. The family now memorialised the society to exert its influence to wards procuring the admission of one of the children into the female school at Richmond. On the motion of Captain P. Clark, seconded by Captain Bague, a resolu tion to that eff€ct was agreed to, and after a private dis cussion relative to Mr. Spicer's bequest of 1,000/., the court proceeded to distribute a sum of money amongst the most deserving of the applicants for the society's bounty. The CHURCH and the POST-OFFICE. (From the Weedy DiTatch.) Mr. Editor,—The two great national institutions above•named are, at this time, in collision ; the au thorities of the Post office having proposed some mitigation of a public inconvenience, `iz., that of the detention in London for twenty-four hours of letters so transitu from one part of the country to pother; and the episcopal heads of the other institution, the Church, having instituted active proceedings to pre vent such mitigation, and for not only the preserva tion but the extension of the existing inconvenience. Nothing less than the complete stoppage of any Post. office work, however serviceable and necessary, will satisfy the leaders of the Sabbatarian movement. In this collision, I confess myself to have some leaning towards the secu:ar institution in preference to the sacred. There are many points of contrast between the rival institutions. The Post-office is the cheapest establishment in Europe, and the Church is the dearest. The Post-office benefits the e ntire com munity, and the Church only a sectarian section. The advantages of the Post office are distinct, posi tive, tangible, obvious to common sense ; the ad vantages promripromised by the Church are invi-ible, on: of time, beyond sense, and only estimated by those who vvoi k so hard at the work of faith that they properly call themselves believers. The active spirit of the Post-office, Mr. Rowland Hill, was forced into his present position by public opinion ; the Bishops and Archbishops of the Church are raise.: into their position by the political influences of the aristocracy. The Post office allows and enables every one to express his thought freely to others—the Church prescribes to the present and all future generations what they shall think and believe ; or, at any rate, what they shall say that they think and believe. Robberies in the Post-office are perpetrated to the annual amount of thousands—those of the Church tell up to millions. The Post-office tax, when much higher than at present, was proverbially the most willingly paid of all taxes—Church-rates and other ecclesiastical impositions are as proverbially the most unwillingly paid, often subjecting the conscientious objector to the seizure of his goods and the incarcera tion of his person. Many more particulars might be enumerated ; but I have doubtless said enough to show that my superior respect for the Post office is by no means capricious, but a reasonable and well grounded preference. I will, therefore, only add that the agitation w hi c h won f or us the penny postage was conducted by fair reasoning and argument, employed no gross falsehoods, prevailed not by censures and fulminations, but calmly pleaded the commercial, intellectual, and moral good to be gained by the change ; in all which respects it is, as 1 shall show, very unlike the present clerical agitation. At the head of that agitation is the Bishop of London, hurrying from platform to platform, haranguing meetings, memorializing the Prime Minister, working himself and his hearers into a perfect fume and fury ; and all, as he professes, for the honour of Christianity. Now, Sir, the present crisis is one at which the friends of Christianity might well have other things to think about, than just such as the Apostles of us Gentiles treated as the " beg garly elements" of an obsolete ceremonial law. The character of Christianity has been perilled all over Europe. Has the Bishop never heard of Haynau's hangings ? Of Radetzky's flogging of women ? Of More O'Ferrall's anti- Christian conduct to the Italian fugitives ? Of the demoniacal demands of the Rus sian Czar? Is his Episcopal Christian blood so un moved by these atrocities, these blood-red stains upon the Christian name, that he has time and feeling to bestow upon the heinous sin of forwarding a letter ? It is recorded that there were Roman Catholics who shrunk with abhorrence from the thought of picking a chicken-bone on a Friday, but who saw nothing to move them in the massacre of St. Bartholomew's day. Will theologians always be the same? Always immersed in the importance of the pettiest cere monial observances, and insensible to the great cause of God, man, goodness, and freedom —whose martyrs, to the disgrace of nominal Christianity, gain more show of sympathy from the turbaned Turk than from Christian potentates and prelates ? The Bishop speaks of the Post-office clerks as vested with an " indefeasible right" to the " full en• joyment of the Sabbath." Does he respect that "in defeasible right" in his own cook and coachman ? 1 shall never cease from censuring the cant and hypocrisy of Sabbataniarism till 1 find its advocates practising what they preach. They have full power over their own households. Is there a single Bishop on the Bench for whom neither man, woman, nor beast ever does one stroke of work upon the Sabbath? If so, let his name be gazetted, and I, with thousands more, will do him homage ; not, indeed, as either the best or wisest of mankind, but as a person, in this particular, of unimpeachable and singular consistency. " Indefeasible right" is the theme of scoff and scorn when applied to what is most worth having. The phrase is proscribed. There are many indefeasible rights, to may apprehension :—that of the people con stituting a nation to self-government ; that of a ra tional being to exercise his reason on dogmas propounded to his faith; and that of paying only for the religion in which we believe, and not for that from which we dissent. On these indefeasible rights, so deeply momentous to human hap piness, dignity and progress, our Right Reverend Fathers in God, the ; Lord Bishops, are not accustomed to descant, or only for their reprobation. All are swallowed up in the preposterous indefeasible right of not accommodating our neighbour by devoting a Sunday hour, occasionally, to sorting the contents of a letter bag. Those contents may affect not only the pecuniary interests of the industrious, perhaps saving honesty from bankruptcy; but also the troubled in mind or body, the anxious, the suffering, the sick, the dying, end their dearer t friends. Heaven forgive the assertion of an indefeasible right of not doing to others that which certainly we would have them do unto us. It comes with an ill grace from those who are "set for the defence of the Gospel," but who by no means champion the rights of man. In rushing, last Monday, from the meeting at Willis's Rooms to the meeting at Freemasons' Tavern, the Bishop seems to have dropped his consistency by the way. He is reported, at the former, to have ap pealed in confirmation of his Sabbatarianism to " the almost unanimous voice of the metropolis, and of Protestant Christendom." At the other meeting, his language was somewhat different. "The observance of the Christian Sabbath, imperfect as it was in this country, had always distinguished it from continental nations, and any step from our high supremacy," &c. Both appeals told; as what will not tell from a Bishop on a platform upon Church- going hearers; but how do they hold together? The vanity ofmultitudinous support, and the vanity of " high supremacy" by distinction, are keys not to be fairly played upon the same hand. An honest agitator, to say nothing of a mitred one, should look, not only to what will tell, but to what is true. Protestant Christendom is not Sabbatarian, after the Scotch and English fashion. Protestant Christendom, on Sundays, keeps open shop at P ar i s , plays cards at G eneva , and dances in Germany. The Bishop must at least strike off that head of his Janus logic. The other head will scarcely escape being broken. Ask Protestant Christendom of our "high supre macy," and the response will be that it is nothing better than a pragmatical peculiarity of Anglican Puritanism. One disgusting feature of this agitation is the pro minence of direct falsehood as to fact. Advertise ment after advertisement has the capitalized heading of " Commencement of Sunday Labour in the Post office." At most the plan is only a slight extension of what is done already, and always has been done. Really the tendency is, if we take the country gene rally, to a considerable diminution. Any how, there is no novelty, no question of principle, between the existing custom and that which is proposed. What class, except the Church, with the platform faction of religionists at its back, would be capable of this shameless iteration ? The " Lord's Day Observance Society" has ad dressed a circular to all the parsonry of London, in hich this fib is incorporated, with others in addition. It states that the ettention (treated as a novelty in the sentence immediately preceding) of the desecration of the Lord's Day in the Post-office department, is sure to lead to an increase of the demoralization already prevailing therein, as appears from the evidence of Colonel Maberley, the Secretary to the Post-office, before the Select Committee of the House of Corn moos on Postage, in the year 1843, in which he says, at p. 188, No. 1,174: "That the department has become thoroughly de moralized, and that the number of applications for missing letters, containing property made at the Ge neral Post office, from January sth, 1837, to January sth, 1842, was 32,369, in 22,368 of which the property was not found. The amount of property contained in the letters not found was 322,0331." Now mark the equzvoque. Colonel Maberley does not ascribe this truly lamentable demoralization to Sunday sorting. The connexion between the two, and the consequent bearing of an increase of the one upon an increase of the other, is altogether fudge ! a pious fraud. It is foisted in by the " Lord's Day Observ ance Society," which, it is much to be regretted, is not also a" Truth Observance Society." Such an asso ciation seems to be much needed. The circular goes on to threaten us with more cholera, unless the General Post-office be c hecked in its intended impr ovemen t s . 'This falsifying society wields the thu n d er b o lt an d announce s judgments. t From the infant days of Christianity to our own; indeed, indeed, from th e bi r th o f p r i e stcraft to its last syl lable of recorded time," has cant thus dared to ascend into the regions of impiety. The Board of Health has traced the ravages of cholera to our criminal ne glect of obvious sanitary precautions, to which we were morally bound to attend. Mr. Joseph Wil son, honorary secretary, and the Rev. J. T. Baylee, clerical secretary, know better; it all comes of what they call Sabbath-breaking. The wisdom of the Gwyder House Physicians must yield to the Divine inspiration of No. 14, Chatham place, Blackfriars. That is the Mount Sinai of the metropolis. 1 I have chiefly considered this as a Church question, because although many Dissenters juin in it, yet the ' Church authorities take the lead ; and there is an advertised Dissenting memorial to Lord (Lim Russell (from the Spa-•fields congregation), which draws a distinction such as I have not met with elsewhere, which deserved to be imitated. It says, " that whilst your memorialists i would not wish the Legislature to interfere to induce the people to keep the Sabbath-day holy, they very seriously protest against any national arrangement that would make them break it." Here is a glimpse of good sense and true Christianity. But it is strange that those who saw so much should not have seen a little more. Observances of a religious character should always depend on moral means, and not on legislative enactment. But who interferes to enforce any violation of conscience on the Sabbatarian ? who " makes him" do anything on the i - iuuday ? Tne temptation is only a pecuniary one. He has only to take his choice in the eternal dilemma b?taeen God and 111r.rnmon. No class is t xempt from that delemma. Why, then, the Post office clerk ? He endures the perpetual test of sincere conscientious ness, that is all. Let him do his duty. Let him also allow those mho think the Sabbath not dis honoured by rendering useful service towards others, to do their duty also. Heaven will judge. I say nothing against a man's having a conscience which I deem mistaken, so long as he only makes it his own rule; the fault begins when he uses it as the rod to beat his neighbour into Lis own narrow faith. Then his private conscience becomes a public nuisance. Lord Ashley acted as bottle-holder to the Bishop of London at the Marylebone and Westminster meet ing. He is a zealous second, and in one thing outdid his principal. Proud of the Bishop as a tower of strength in the cause, he ventured to promise help of an infinitely higher order. His Lordship is reported to have said—" If they persevered in spite of difficul ties and defeat, they might rely upon it they could not fail to prosper; they might depend upon human support, and, if they acted in a right spirit upon the support of the Almighty." The authority of Lord Ashley for promising that support was not called for, as it ought to have been, by the meeting. It is in cumbent on him to produce bis credentials. PUBLIC°. (From the Scotsman.) The change in the Sunday arrangements of the Post-office, which has been the cause of some ig norant and some dishonest denunciations, is to be adhered to by the Government, and will come into operation to-morrow. Lord John Russell and the Postmaster- General are entitled to the very highest credit for refusing to be driven from a well-considered beneficial arrangement by a clamour got up first in London, partly by misconception and partly from selfishness, and then taken up in the provinces by parties in manifekt and often avowed ignorance of the whole facts of the case. In justification of this state ment, we point with confidence to the complete and crushing testimony now afforded by the " Original Minute for the Change in the Duties of the Office,' drawn by Mr. Rowland hill, of date Feb. 3, and now given to the public. There are two points in this document, the simple mention of which alone should be sufficient to set the matter at rest, and to touch with shame the honest portion of those who have been talking so non sensically and vituperatively. In tee first place, the document was written and in the hands of the authorities more than eight months ago, consequently must be held as the true exponent of the intentions of the change, and could not have been drawn with any reference to the present agitation, every one of the misrepresentations engendered by which it utterly extinguishes. In the second place, it shows that, from the first, the sole object of the change was to reduce Sunday labour. The document begins—" In obedience to your Lordship's instructions, I beg to submit my views as to further measures for reducing the Sunday duties of the Post- office." Again, "-The importance of affording to all connected with the Post office the utmost amount of rest on the Sunday that is consistent with a due regard to public convenience having led to measures for the total suspension of money order business on , that day throughout England and Wales, it is very satisfactory," &c. And then, " There can be no doubt that a further very important relief, as relates to Sunday work, may be effected in all the provincia • l offices." The document then goes on to tell that the change proposed had been repeatedly re commended by Parliamentary Committees, and enters into details showing how the change will operate a reduction of work, mentioning also among other points the additional pay to the London clerks and the avoidance of the hours of worship —arrange ments which the agitators are mendaciously asserting were brought about by their clamours. Nor is it only the ietention of the Post-office authorities that is thus seen to be the reverse of what has been repre ' sented—their intentions are already in operation, an order being at this moment in the hands of all the 2,000 postmasters of England "that on and from the 14th instant, every provincial office, of whatever description, in England and Wales, shall be closed on Sunday, from ten A.M. to five rau., for all pur poses except for the necessary receipt and dispatch of mails." Now, what have we here ? Absolute proofs that the change was devised for the express purpose of reducing Sunday labour, being the next in series to the change regarding the money orders, which very greatly served that end ; and that this intention will to morrow be realised by enabling hundreds of men to attend public worship, which has hitherto been beyond their reach. And the officials actuated by these intentions and achieving these re sults have been denounced through the country as "infidels engaged in a design to break down the Sabbath 1" That these follies and slanders disgrace their authors is not much matter (we speak, of course, of the designing and not of the purely simple), but it is impossible to over-estimate or too much deplore the injury done to the priceless institution profaned by their advocacy. Perhaps the strangest little incident connected with the affair is the mistake into which the Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce was yesterday led, blindfold. A requisition was got up for a meeting on the subject, and when the day came, it was found that the "Alliance" party had made a great " whip," while but few of the attenders of the ordinary meetings were present, trusting, it is presumed, that the motion would easily be thrown out, as all such motions have been before. But this was not the only ally the Alliers had—owing to the prevailing ignorance on the sub ject, they managed to entrap some respectable Members, such as Baili e St o tt, w h o s h owe d he knew nothing whatever of the facts, and took excellent care to guard himself against being supposed to share in the general views and tactics of the patty. It is certainly the oddest thing ever done by the Chamber of Commerce ; and it will be as odd if some of those who voted in the majority do not confess their mistake when they have taken means to learn the truth. In pleasing contrast with this strange and in some degree accidental vote, we have a discussion in the United Presbytery of Perth, who refused, almost unanimously, to support a motion against the proposed change till they should learn the facts. We think that, after reading Mr. Hill's minute, the members may we ll congratulate themselves that, they did not act in haste and igno rance. Some sound and cheering remarks, it will be seen, were made by reverend members of the Pres bytery, as to the great mischief done by this per petual agitation about " Sabbath desecration," con ducted as it is with a peculiar and painful want of sense and veracity. (From the Scotch Reformers' Gazette.) " AN INFAMOUS PROPOSITION."—O UT meek and pious friend the Guardian affects to be in a terrible rage against Mr. Rowland Hill's plan of Post-office reformation on Sunday. It calls it (vide Guardian of yesterday) " an intamous proposition." Now, the time has been, and that not l ong ago , w h en t h e Guardian itself regularly for its own letters and papers to the Post-office on Sunday; and there are good divines at this moment in Glasgow who think it no shame and no sin to open their own notes on that day—received through the Post-office. If they ars sinners, we also are 'very great sinners, and it was the Guardian itself that set " the pernicious example" to us. Do our very particular friends, Messrs. John, James, and Robert, not read from their own written notes on Sunday f Have they not coned these over perhaps from a late hour on Saturday night to a very early hour withon Sabbath mornin g ? S o f ar f rom fi n di ng fault them, we would say th a t th ey were only a ttheir duty t `own heit when they did so. B u t if they write notes, and correct th e i r own epistles r onir: ge to others ? S te unday what right have they t o d en y the same p iv We will stand up for the sanctitytaii of the Sabbath as much as any of them. No n can say that we e ver wrought for f i lthy lucre on t at day. That is mor e than many or the Guardian's very choicest friend s can say. But we best respect the Sabbath w h en we denounce in this place the arrant cant and gross hypo crisy a ppertaining to it, and we regret to see that this cant and that hpyocrisy are at..this moment the order of the day in Glasgow : and really the game thrives amazingly with those that can put on the very longest faces about it. (prom the Sheffield Times.) The agitation on the subject of effecting some alterations in the London Post-office has extended to the provinces, but many of those who take part in it appear to labour under gross misconceptions. The object of the Government is to diminish the aggregate amount of Sunday duty throughout the country; and to effect this it is necessary, not to commence Sunday labour in the London Post-office, but to make some slight additions to it. Hitherto from twenty-five to fifty or sixty clerks have been employed on Sunday, and twenty-five additional clerks are now intended to be employed, but not during the hours of Divine service, and these twenty-five are to be volunteers. The additional service is to be given only for letters , In its eivil relations, however, the consequences of error on the part of the commercial tester are scarcely less important or detrimental, inasmuch as the fortunes and reputation of individuals are placed at the mercy of a soi disant chemist. My attention has been at tracted to thin subject in consequence of the recent trials for the supposed infraction of the laws regu lating the manufacture of tobacco, a question which a leading metropolitan journal emphatically desig nates as affecting "the honour of Government, the interests of trade, and the credit of science." Most persons are aware that the manufacture of tobacco is regulated by the Excise, and that a strict surveil lance is kept with a view to prevent adulteration. One of the chief substances employed for this pur pose being sugar, the presence of the smallest quan tity of this article on the premises of the manufacturer has been deemed sufficient ground for seizure. The chen ists to the Excise (nien of hitherto unques tioned infallibility in this department) having posi tively stated that genuine tobacco contains no ap. preciakle quantity of sugar, the most trivial amount thereof has Leen accordingly regarded as a proof of adulteration. On this hypothesis numerous convic tions have been obtained. In 1845, a Committee of the House of Commons was appointed to inquire into the operation of the tobacco duties. In reply to a question from the Chairman (Mr. Hume) Professor Graham and the other Excise chemists, Mr. G. and R. Phillips declared that there was no appreciable sugar in tobacco; and having further stated that the only test employed was fermentation and the produce tion of alcohol, Mr. Hume remarked that " this was a sorry account of chemistry." Mr. Hume was pro bably aware of the utter inadequacy of such a test. and that the German chemists had long before dim )- vered one, by means of which the hundredth-thousa id part of indigenous sugar may be readily detected in a plant. The committee, in consequence, ordered an investigation by other chemists, which soon led to. most important results. Pendi ng thi s ana lytical in quiry, the Excise continued their prosecutions; seizures were made, and convictions obtained against large and influential houses at Leeds, Norwich, and Devizes, all on the evidence afforded by the Excise chemists. In the mean time the chemists employed by the House of Commons' Committee published the results of their investigations, which were made on samples of leaf tobacco procured from different casks of leaf tobacco in the Queen's warehouse, at the London Docks. They, one and all, ascertained the presence of fermentable sugar, both in different hogshead] and in different samples taken from the same hogshead. Such was the utter discomfiture of the Excise chemists; but already a vast amount of mischief had been done, and some of the first houses in the trade hail been un justly fined on a false assumption. The question then may naturally be asked—Will the Government com pensate those firms for the injury sustained ? and it they do not feel themselves called on to perform an act of retrospective justice (of which, doubtless, they have no intention), will they at least guard against prospective ev il, b y appointing men possessing adequate scientific acquirements ? It is well known to those acquainted with the state of science in this country that or gan i c c h em i stry is comparatively in itsinfancy, whi!e in the chemical schools of the con tinent investigations of this nature are commenced by students of the first year. My memory especially , recall to me this fact in the case of the Roy-al Labo ratory at Munich, so far back as 1839, over which Professor Vogel, the elder, then presided. It is further well known that all the more recent dis coveries, with very few exceptions, have originated in either France or Germany. There is at the present moment, wasting his energies in an obscure town in a petty principality of the latter country, a man, whose researches in this walk of science, accurate as profound, and successful as they have been accurate, have gained for him immortal fame—Baron Liebig. Would it not be to the interest of the Government to employ the intellect of such a man in the fiscal de ' partment of the country at some pecuniary sacrifice ? Or, if the national prejudice would be opcosed to the introduction of foreigners, are there not some native professors who have acquired their knowledge of this seience according to the accurate system of investi- . gation pursued in the German laboratories ? Amongst others, I may select Sir Robert Kane, Drs. Blyth and Muspratt, and Sir Benjamin Brodie's son. The antagonism so often exhibited in the opinions of medical men has long since passed into a proverb, proving, as it does, that :medicine is as yet a very imperfect science.. Let chemistry redeem itself from a similar reproach, and instead of the conflicting statements hitherto advanced in medico. legal inquiries, let the uniformity of truth mark the results of analysis. The accomplishment of such an object rests mainly with the Government, by employing men whose industry and science qualify them for the duties they are called upon to discharge. I have the honour to be, Sir, yours, &c., T. M. O'DWYER, M.D., M.R.C.S., Eng. 31, Hope-street, Liverpool. CHOLERA. --THE DWELLINGS OF THE LABOURING CLASSES. The following requisition, signed by 287 bankers, merchants, and traders, was left with the Lord Mayor, at the Mansion-house, on Saturday : " TO THE RIGHT HON. THE LORD MAYOR. "My Lord,—Tho undersigned householders, mer chants, bankers, and traders of or belonging to the city of London, beg to express to your Lordship how deeply they feel impressed with a sense of awe at the frightful ravages of cholera in this metropolis. " Whilst the undersigned are anxious to declare their recognition of the hand of the Almighty in the visitation with which He has deemed it expedient to alil.ct the metropolis and the entire nation, they feel deeply grate ful, through his infinite goodness and mercy, that the pestilence, which has been so fatal among the poorer classes, is now arrested in its direful career. " The undersigned cannot but regard this visitation as a warning of th e i r l ong - neg l ected d ut y toward s their humble fellow-c rea t ures , an d earnes tly beseech o f v the ur Lordship to cause a p u bli c meet i ng t o be convened Guildhall, or any other fitting edifice, order that the undersigned may give utterance to their a 't gratitude of for which has been shown them t the mercy their tribulation; at the same time to devise such mea sures as will improve the dwellings of the labouring classes, shall be better enabled to resi st , in rav a ges of sickness and disease—to asfsuetse, be comewhereby, a healthful, happy, and orderly peopl e , an d be surro unded by influences favourable to morality and religion." BRITANNIA TUBULAR BRIDGE. --Last week we informed our maders of the progress of the lifting opera tions, whicli, have since b een f avourable carried on at the rate of six feet per twelve hours, when the hydraulic presses are worked —and we have now to state that there remains only about twelve feet before the tube will have reached its permanent elevation. with respect to the floating of tube No. 2, which cannot to all appear ances be tar distant, we have no positive accounts. It will interest our readers to know that on Saturday morning last the steamer Fairy, on her passage frau Beaumaris to Carnarvon, sailed under the tube. Mr. Stephenson, Mr. Forster, the Messrs. Clark, and the other principal managers, with a great number of work men, who stood on the top of the tube, greeted the Fairy with three most hearty cheers, as she glided be neath—the first vessel to pass under the stupendous structure. The passengers and crew returned the com pliment, and fired a salute. At two o'clock in the afternoon she took the same course, on her return from Carnarvon to Beaumaris, when a gun was fired from off the tube—which was acknowledged cn board by the lowering of the flags, &e. The Fairy's must-head is about fitty-eight feet above the level of the water, and at the time she passed unch-r the tube, which had then been lifted about 98 feet, there was nearly 40 feet to spare. The passengers on the occasion were numerous, comprising several distinguished strangers now staying at Carnarvon, Bangor, and Beaurnaris.—Carnarvon and Denbigh Herald, Oct. 13. DEATu OF TILE REV. WILLIAM AULD, GREENOCK. —This venerable minister died on Tuesday night, a Jew hours after Mr. Morton, his a.sistunt and successor, was ordained to the co-pastorate with him.—Caledonian Mercury.