The Sun. — London, England, 1849-09-25 00:00:00

- Ditto Quarters 224 —' I to Ditto Fifths ...... lO 3 3 / 4 )' 5 , , i x.d. to 4% DittEi.Thirils l5 ...... 0 2 ...... to D New Guar. 6_per cent. 10 Do. Liverpool and Bury... 46 Do. (liudderi. and Sheff.) 50 Do., West Riding Union... 9 .... . x.d to Do., Preston and Wyre ... 25 ...... Do., do., Half Shares (A) 10 Leeds and Bradford 5O ..... 97% to Leeds and Thirsk ........ ...... 50 D0.,c10., Prefer., 6 per Cent. 5 . Do. Pref. Quarters, 1848... 9 Liverpool, Crosby, aud South port. London k Blackwall ......11/. 6s. 3d Lond., Bright., & South Coast 100 Do., New 51, gua. 6 pr Ct.loo Do. Guaranteed 5 per Cent. 9 De. Preferential, 5 per Ct., 50 Ditto, ditto 1852 50 .. ... L utdon and Greenwich... 121.155. 4d... Ditto Preference London a North We5tern.....100...111 1 ,4 112 111 to 112 Do. New Quarters. Do. Fifths Do. 40,. Shares.....L. & M L 5 ...... Do. 101. ... M. and B. (C.) 1 London and S. Western...—. 50 Ditto, New 504......... ..... 421 r 4...,.. Ditto. New 401. 34 Do., New Scrip,lB4B, Pref. 7 per Cent ....... ... ... 5 6 34 %.. to Londonderry and Coleraine... 25 Do. Half Shares Londonderry and Enniskillen 25 Do., Half Shares lawestoff, guar. 4 per ct Ditto (guar. 6 per cent. ... 13 Manch, Buxton, & Matlock 5 Manchr, Sheffield, and Linc.100 Ditto IA Shares( No. 1) ... 23 Ditto, ditto (No. 2) 25 No. 3). 12 1 ,4,...... to Ditto, 'si 4 Shares (No. ~.. . — Do., New 101. Preference.. 10 ... l O l4 A... to Ditto, Grimsby &.Sheffield 50 Ditto, ditto. - Ditto, ditto Ditto Sheffield and Line. 22 1 / 4 ...... Ditto, Grimsby Dock ...... 25 Ditto, Man. & Lin. Union 41. 25.... Mid1and........ , .... ........ ...100 ...52 10 1 / 2 ex.d to 51 1 / Ditto, Consol. Preference...100 Ditto.:so/. Shares ....• ...... 80 ...... 11 3 / 4 1 4 to Midland, Birm., and Derby...loo ... .. 28 ex.div to Midland, Consol. Bristol and Birmingham. 6 per cent.... 100 ..... 125 1 ,4 ..... to Midland, Bristol and Glouc. 42 ... .. Ditto ditto °2l. Ts. ... .. -: Ditto,ErewashVal., Pref... 50 Midland, Leices. and Swan nington (8 per ct. gna.)....100 .... . hi idld. Great Western (Irish) 50 Middlesbro' and Redcar. 6 per cent. guar. Newcastle and Carlisle lOO ..-.. Ditto Quarter Shares . .... 25 ... .. Newmarket ...... ... ..... ••• « 23 Ditto Extension Scrip... 21. 325. — Newport Abergy., and Heret. 6 Newry and Enniskillen ...... 7 - Newry, Warrenpoint, and Rostrevor .......... ........ 20 Norfolk Ditto New 20/. l5 Ditto Guaranteed 5 per et. 20 Do. Do. 51/ per cent Do. do. Waveney Valley... 2 No them Counties Union ... 4 North British •• .. ......... .. 25 ..... 11 3 4 to Ditto Pelf Shares...... ..... 12% 5 % 14- to D. Quarters 6% — to D,tto Thirds 6% ....• 334...... to Ditto. Preference ...... 3% 8 1i,..... to North "Staffordshire... .. ...... 1716 North Wales 3% ..••. -- • •••• to North Western ....« 13% Oxford, Worcester, and Wol verhampton Reading, Guildfd., & Reigate 15 Royston and Hitchin Scottish Central Scottish Midland .... ....... Ditto,New 2 2 1 /z — to Shrewsbury and Binningisam 11 ...... to Ditto, ditto. Class B. 7 Ditto, New Guaranteed 8 Shrewsbury and Hereford .. 4 Shrewsbury and Chester (Nor. W. lain. ) Ditto Halves, Ditto... 9 ... .. Ditto, Oswestry 18%...... Ditto ,New )... Ditto 8 per Cent. Pre6...... 10 Shropshire Union . .. 5%.« .. ...... to south Devon 5O ..... Ditto, Preference ...... « ... 25 South Staffordshire B% ex.int to South Eastern Ditto, No. 1. 32 - - to Ditto, No. 2.: Ditto, No. 3. 3O Ditto, Registered No. 4.... 10 ..... 57i i to 6 Ditto. Scrip No. 4.. ...... .. 10 ..... South Wales South Yorkshire, Doncaster __ __ , and Goole Sheffield, Rotherham, and Goole (N.D) Gua. 5 perct. 14% ...... ... Do. do. (South Div.) I - Swans. and Loughor and Ca meron's Stm. Coal ..... .... . 7 Taw Vale Extension Thames Haven Dock and Railway 17% to Vale of Neath Waterford and Kilkenny 2O ...... Waterford and Limerick ... .. 47%..... Waterford, Wexford,Waeklw, and Dublin .. 3 Wear Valley 6 per Cent. _ . Guaranteed Do. do. do. Do. do. do. West Cornwall 6 ... Whitehavpn and Furness l6 ... ..... to Windsor, Staines, and South Western.... Wilts, Somerset,&Wev mouth 45 ork, Newcastle, and Berwick 25 Do. and Newcastle Exten. 20 — i.in .. to Do. G. N. E. Pur. or Pref. 8 York and North Midland .. 50 Ditto, Preference lO FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Anglo Italian (late Italian and Austrian) 5 1% — to Boulogne and Amiens 2O vs ••• .. Central of France ( Orleans and Vierzon) Demerara. - Dutch Rhenish 8 ...... . ..... to East Indian .lll 31 !‘ - Great Indian Peninsular 5 ...... Do. D 0..... .... ....... ... 1os. Louvain ala Sambre ....,.... 7% — to Luxembourg Ditto bladrid and Valenti& Namur and Liege........ Northern of France 14185..... d's... to Qrleani and Bordeaux ... 7 ... x.div to Paris and Orleans... Paris and Rouen 20 Paris & Strasbourg .... ..... 11 Rouen and Havre Sambre and Mouse 2O - to Strasburg and Bale ..... ..-- 14 Tours & Nantes ... . .. 11 Tournay, Jurbise, Landen, and Hassell .. .. 20 .••••• • ..... to West Flanders 8 34 — ........ to Ditto JOINT STOCK BANKS. - --.- - _ Australasia - 4O • ••• • British North American .... 50 ...... Colonial .... .. .. .- n ••••• - • •• to -- Commercial of London 2O - London Joint Stock ..... London and Westminster... 20 National Provincial of Engid. 85 Ditto, New National of Ireland ...... ..... 22%..... ... .. to Provincial of Ireland Ditto, New - ..... to - Union of Australia 25 - Ditto, New Union of London ...... 10 Union of Madrid ............... 40 ”•••• MINES. Anglo tlexican lOO ...... Asturian - Australiani... Barrossa Range...... Blaenarron Iron and Coal ... 50 BoJanos Scrio - British Iron • Brazilian Imperial .... •• ...• 21%...... Ditto Cocaes and Cuiaba... 30 - Ditto St. John Del Rey ... 15 Cobre Copper General Real del Monte. Unregistered . Do. Black Debentures...... - Do. Red Debentures...—. Santiago de Cuba. United Mexican LLOYD'S SHIPPING--(THIS DAY.) DEAL, SEPT. 24.—Wind N.W. to S.W.—Arrd. Duo Fraties, New York; Theoxena, Virginia; Roman Em peror, Sydney; Adelaide, Hobart Town; Fanny, Port Philip, South Australia; Maitland, ditto; North Star, Bahia; Cesar, Demerara; Mary Hay, Honduras; Swit zerland, New York; Eclipse, Madeira. SOUTHAMPTON, SEPT. 24. Wind S.E. Arrd. Jupiter, Gibraltar. LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 24.—Wind E.-23d, Emilia, Rio Janeiro; Cheshire, Havannah ; Oxenbridge, Philadel phia; 24th, Warrior, Jamaica; Zanoni, Africa; Joseph Badyer, New Orleans; Ben Nevis, Havannah; Ivanhoe, New York; Sardinia, ditto. JERSEY, SEPT. 23.—Wind S.W.-21st, Arrd. Bolina, Labrador. OFF BRISTOL.—John Hullett, Havannah. NEWPORT.—SId. Henriette, St. Thomas's; Eliza, New London, United States. Hum., SEPT. 24.—Wind E.-22d, Sld. Miramichi, St. John's, New Brunswick. BRISTOL, SEPT. 24.—Wind S.E.—Seppings, Cardiff and Calloa. CLYDE.—Peggy, Antigua and St. Kitt's. GRANGEMOUTH, SEPT. 22.—Arrd. Cove, Quebec. • LEITH.—Arrd. Ann, Elliot, St. John's, New Bruns wick. LITTLEHAMPTON, SEPT. 23.—The Fanny and Jane, from Sines to London, struck on the 21st instant to the Westward of Selsea Bill, but was got off yesterday and proceeded. .SALCOMBE, SEPT. 22.—The Clio, Rundle, in proceed ing to Newport, missed stays and went ashore below Gazewood, where she remains in a dangerous position; Crew saved. itt.Rwrca, SEPT. 24.—The wind being from the W., the whole of the weather-bound vessels have sailed. Arrd. Charles and Thomas, with loss of main boom, &c., h aving been in contact with the Ann, Ford, of London. UI tOOKHAVEN, SEPT. 21—The Conservator, from Odessa, for Queenstown or Falmouth, put in here to- - day with two boats stove in, sails carried away, and cargo shifted, having been struck by a heavy sea on the 13th instant, in lat. 45 N., long. BW. The hull of a vessel with white sides and false ports was passed on the Bth instant., lat. 41 N., foLg. 11 W., by the Con tervator, arrived here. _ BELFAST, SEPT. 22.—The Warren, Bulkeley, Ar drossan to Fleetwood, put in here last night, having sprung a leak, and must discharge to repair. RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN, SEPT. 24.—The William, from Liverpool to Newcastle, sprung a leak on the 22c1 instant, and in running for this harbour took the ground outside, but aft( r discharging part of her cargo was as sisted in, and must discharge to repair. LISBON, SEPT. 18.—The Opgaende Soel, Gyesten, from St. Übes to Bergen, put in here 13th inst., very leaky, and has discharged her cargo. The Venus, from London to Genoa, put in here, 13th inst., withloss of foretopmast, main topgallnntmast, sails, rigging, &c. GIBRALTAR, SEPT. 15.—The Lady Newborough, from Ibrada to Limerick, got on shore to the westward of Ceuta Bay, 13th inst , but came off after throwing part of her cargo overboard, and arrived in this Bay the following day. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) na:sr 1105.31.1E.1.a S. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow Hay, 2/ 5s to 31 12s; Clover ditto, 31 Os to 4/ 153; and Straw, 11 6s to 1/ 12s per load. Sipply moda-ste, and trade rather dull. CUMBERLAND.—Meadow Hay, 2i 8s to 3/ 153; Clover ditto, 3/ 5s to 41 12s ; and Straw, 1/ is to I/ 13s per oad. A full average supply, and a sluggish demand. WHITECEIAPEL.—Meadow Hay, 2/ 5s to 31123; Clover, ditto, Si Os to 4/ 153; and Straw, 11 63 to 1/ 12s per load. Trade dull, at last week's prices. CC,MONXILT... SCGAR.—The market for British Plantation continues steady; sales 405 hhds, without utleration iu prices. 365 casks 1,200 bags Mauritius offered by auction were chiefly withdrawn above the value; 3,980 bags Bengal sold with more animation at full prices, from 38s 6d to 42s for low to fine white Benares, and at 37s 61 to 40s 6d for low to fine yellow; 156 hogsheads and 165 barrels St. Croix partially found buyers at 40s to 40s 6d for mid to good yellow, but 1,000 boxes white and 4,340 boxes yellow Havannah were withdrawn for want of buyers at their previous relative value. The quantity of British Plantation landed last week at the East and West India Docks was 3,929 hhds, 893 tierces, 897 barrels, and there were taken for home consumption 1,618 hhds, 111 tierces, 885 barrels. The stock in the same places is 19,609 hhds, 2,578 tierces, 6,004 barrels. COFFEE.-680 bags 160 casks Plantation Ceylon at public sale found buyers at steady rates; viz., 50s to 58s for fine fine ord to mid coloury. Privately 600 bags ord pale Batavia soli at 37s 6d. Rum.—The quantity landed last week at the East and West India Docks was 576 puns 30 hhds; there were taken for home consumption, IS4 puns 49 l►hds, and exported 116 puns 150 hhds. The stock in the same place is 21,501 puns, 2,100 hhds. TALLOW.—P.Y.C. is 37s 6d to 37s per cwt on the spot, and Town 40s. TEA.—The market has been steady, and the deliveries have rather increased within the list few days. The excess of the deliveries in London this year has been nearly 3,000,0001b5, and the stock is 1,400,0001bs less than at this time last year. The current values are about these:—Congou, o:d to good ord, 9d to 9d; Scu chong, good ord to but mid, 9d to is; Twankay, good ord to but mid, 7d; ditto, mid to Hyson kind, 8d to Is; Hyson, good ord, is to is Id; ditto, mid to good mid, Is 9d to 3s 6d; Imperial, is Id to 3s; and Gunpowder, Is 4d to 4s per lb. NEWMARKET RACES. (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) Handicap. T.Y.C. Jest Sagacity .. Match—Muff filly beat Sultana. Hopeful Stakes. Bolingbroke ... ... Penang ... ... ... WEST SURREY ELECTION. (THIS DAY.) (FROM OUR OWN REPORTER.) G IJILDFORD, HALF-PAST ONE. Owing to the wide separation of the polling places (seven in number), and the absence of any telegraphic communication between them, it is impossible to ascer tain accurately the state of the poll. The committee of Mr. Evelyn state, that on the returns from Godalming, Guildford, Farnham, and Chobham, that gentleman is in a majority of 50 over Mr. Edgill. These polling places, it should be remembered, are in the heart of an agricultural district. BANKRUPTCY.-(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Commissioner SHEPHERD.) THE PETERSFIELD DANK-IN RE CHARLES COTTON BUTTERFIELD. `Tux ro TY thri LONDON, CHOLERA AND DIARRMEA. RETURN OF CASES, SEPT. 22. THE METROPOLIS. SUPERINTENDING REGISTRAR'S DISTRICT. Deaths. Attacks. Cholera. Dlarrh WEST DISTRICTS. Kensington ... ... ... 2 2 Chelsea... .... ... ... 1 0 St. George, Hanover-square ... 0 1. Westminster ... ... ... 1 0 St. Martin-in-the-Fields ... 1 0 St. James, Westminster ... 2 0 NORTH DISTRICTS. Marylebone ... ... ... 4 4 Hampstead ... ~. ... 0 0 * St. Pancras ... ... ... *4 I Islington ... ... .•• 5 1 0 1 Hackney CENTRAL DISTRICTS. St. Giles 1 u Strand ... ... ... ... 0 0 Holborn Union ... ... 2 0 Clerkenwell ... ... ... 4 1 St. Luke ... ... ... 1 1 East London ... ... ... 1 0 West London ... ... -- * 2 *0 City of London ... ... 3 0 To-day was appointed for the last examination of this bankrupt. who bad cartied on business as a banker at Petersfield under the firm of Butterfield and Co. The bankrupt did not surrender at the last meeting, and it was stated that he had gone abroad to avoid his creditors, and he has not since been heard of. Proofs to a considerable amount were tendered or claimed against the late firm, in which Mr. Currie, a solicitor of Lincoln's Inn, was a partner; the partnership, however, was dissolved. An objection was taken to the claims being admitted against the separate estate of the present bankrupt, as there were large assets of the joint estate, and Mr. Currie was also a solvent partner. His HONOUR hell that the proof could not be admitted, but the remedy was against the joint estate or the solvent partner. No accounts have been filed, but the debts are esti mated at from 10,0001. to 12,000/., and the assets, in round numbers, at 8,0001., but subject to a decree in Chancery for a heavy sum. The assignees are Samuel Seward, of Weston, gent., Charles :Parr, of Sheet, gent., and, Richard Gale, of Horndean, merchant. The bankrupt, should he not surrender, will he pro• claimed outlawed in the usual . manner at the rising of the Court. THE SALMON FISHING IN TH E NORTH.—The salmon fishings in the north closed on Friday last (14th instant). The season, though not very successful, has yet been better than the preceding one. The Doveron has been moderately good, and the principal catch has been grilse, which infallibly indicate a good salmon fishing for next year. The Spey river fishing has been much below the average ; and, indeed, it has been de creasing for several years, owing, it is supposed, in some measure, to the great number of bag nets around it, the produce of which has been pretty fair. The Ness fishings have been considerably below an average, caused chiefly by the ravages of the late flood. Such, indeed, is the state of most of our Scottish rivers, that it may become a matter worthy of the consideration of the pro prietors whether they might not profitably follow the example of the Duke of Sutherland, and grant the fish a year of jubilee.—Banffshire Journal. ELEGANCIES OF YANKEE JO UENALISM.—We quote the following elegant paragraph from the New York Tribune:—" The mnskitoes are bigger and plentier this year than ever before. Our Southern friends say it gives them quite a home feeling every time they go to bed. We believe all parts of the city are more or less infested with the little scamps, although they are the worst in the lower wards, but bad enough anywhere." Two MEN SUFFOCATED IN A COAL PIT.—An accident of a melancholy nature occurred at the Garallan coal-works, parish of Cumnock, on Tuesday, by which John Miller and William Hastings lost their lives. They were engaged, along with several others, in drawing the pumps out of a coal-pit. Miller was lowered down the pit on a scaffold suspended by a rope, for the purpose of screwing off a joint. He was heard to give a heavy groan, and one of the men asked if anything was the matter? He received no answer, and Hastings, on the impulse of the moment, slid himself down by the rope to see if anything was wrong. He reached the scaffold in safety, but did not return any answer to the inquiries of those on the pit head regarding Miller, and immediately after Hastings was observed to fall powerless from off the scaffold into the water below. It was then observed, for the first time, that the pit was charged heavily with carbonic acid gas, or, as the colliers term it, " choke-damp," and this tact at once accounted for the accident. They then commenced to pull the scaffold (with Miller on it) cau tiously up the pit, and dispatched a messenger to Cum nock for medical assistance. Mr. Sharpe was in attend ance at the pit mouth before Miller was got out, but human skill was of no avail. There being at the time about 50 feet of water in the pit, the body of Hastings was not got out till the following morning, after mae sures had been taken to clear the pit of gas. Both of thei deceased were married, and have left wives and families to lament their untimely fate.--AyrObserver. EXTENSION OF THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—The Electric Telegraph Company, Lothbury, having now completed their arrangements with the Postmaster- General, and the different lines of railway, for a further extension of the transmission of messages, or expresses, from their branch office at the General Post-office, St. Martin's-le Grand, the public can, by this facility, send any information to the following places at the rate of ld. per mile for the first 50 miles, id. for the second fifty, and id. per mile for any distance beyond 100 miles (for 20 words) :—Alnwick, Attleborough, Ambergate, Brox bourne, Birmingham, Burtcrn on-Trent, Ba.rnesley, Be verley, Bridlington, Bradford, Berwick-upon•-Tweed, Bishopstile, Chelmsford, Colchester, Cambridge, Chel tenham, Chesterfield, Derby, Durham, Dunbar, Dar lington, Ely, Edinburgh, Gloucester, Gosport, Glasgow, Hertford, Hull, Halifax, Ipswich. Lincoln, Loughbo rough, Leicester, Lowestoffe, Leeds, Liverpool, Leith, March, Melton, Manchester, Mahon, Morpeth, New castle, Newmarket, Newark, Nottingham, Norwich, Northallerton, Normanton, Peterborough, Romford, Rugby, Rotherham, Rochdale, Slough, Stortford, St. Ives, Stamford, Sheffield, Selby, Skipton, Scarborough, Sunderland, South Shields, Southampton, Thetford, Tamworth, Tedmorden, 'fhirsk, Witbam, Wisbeach, Worcester, Wakefield, Ware, York and Yarmputh. The establishidg a branch office at St. Martin's-le• Grand is a great facility to that department, in receiving intelligence of the arrivals and departures of the foreign and colonial mails from Dover, Southampton, Liverpool, and Fal mouth, and for the transmission of orders to the post maaters and others throughout the country, and other official purposes. The Earl of Egmont has considerately made a reduction of 20 per cent. on his rents at his recent half yearly audit, EAST DISTRICTS. ------ horeditch ... .. .- -- ••• fl 3 f 3 Bethnal-green 7 8 Whitechapel ... ... ... 11 1 St. George-in-the-East ••• -- 2 0 Stepney •• • •• • •• • .... 3 0 Poplar ••• ••• --- 0 0 SOUTH DISTRICTS. St. Saviour, Southwark 7 1 St. Olave 4 0 ••• ••• .•••' Bermondsey ••• ... ... ' -- 2 0 St. George, Southwark •.• -- 7 5 9 4 Newington ••• ••• ••• --- Lambeth • • ~. -- 11 3 Wandsworth ... ... .., 0 0 Camberwell ... ... ... 2 0 Rotherhithe ... ... ... 4 0 Greenwich ... ... ... ----- 5 4 LEwilham ... ... ... --- 1 2 Total ... 122 43 Total deaths from cholera, registered from Sept. 17, 1848, to Sept. 22, 1849 ... 13,675 Total deaths from cholera, registered from June 17, 1849, to Sept. 22, 1849 12,584 NOTE.—The district of Kensington, Hammersmith, Fulham, and Paddington. Westminster district com prises the parishes of Sr. Margaret and St. John the Evangelist, with Privy Gardens and Whitehall, and the close of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter. St. Giles district comprises the parishes of St. Giles-in- thee 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. Returns of Saturday have not been received from Mr. C. IL Spong, registrar of the Regent's Park district of St. Pancras ; and Mr. W. Fortescue, registrar of the north district of West London. Tho previous days are now complete. f Includes three deaths from cholera and ono from diarrhou, which occurred in St. Luke's workhouse, situated in Shoreditch. THE COUNTRY. The following is the Return of Deaths from Cholera and Diarrhoea reported to the General Board of Health the 24th day of September, 1849 : - - De Atha. Attacks. Cholera. Diarrh. A 1 vers toke • • • •• • • . • 2 0 Ashton-under-Lyne ... ... 2 1 Aylsham ••• ••• ••• -- 4 0 Banbury ••• ••• • • --- 0 2 Barnstaple ... ... ... 3 1 Basford... ... ... ••• 2 0 Bedminster ... ... ... 3 0 Berwick-upon-Tweed... ... 3 0 Biggleswade ... „, „„ 5 0 Birmingham ... ... ... , 0 6 Blackburn ... ... ... 2 1 Blean ••• ••• ••• --- 1 0 Bolton ••• ••• ••• 3 4 Bosmere and Claydon ••• 0 1 Bradford and North Bierley .. 8 3 Boughton, Great .. ... 1 0 Bridgwater ... ... ... 1 0 Brighton ••• ••• ••• 2 0 Bristol .. ••• ••• ••• 5 2 Bury ••• ••• ••• ••• ..... 2 0 Cambridge .., „, ... _ 0 1 Carmarthen ..„ ~„ ~, 3 0 Chippenham ••• ••• 2 0 \Volstanton ... ... 1 1 Wolverhampton and Sicsdon 33 4 IVorc,ster ... ... •.• 2 2 Wyccmbe ... ••• . • 2 0 Total - 533 173 SCOTLAND. Perth ... Dundee ... ... Stirling ... •• • Arbroath ... ... 5 0 2 0 3 0 3 0 Old`Machar (Ab.ndeen) ... 1 0 Wilton (Hawiek) .. ... 2 0 Kerriemuir .. ... ... 1 0 Kinghcrn 1 0 Dunfermline ... ... ... 2 0 Total ... Genf ral total:— Metropolis Country Scotland - 21 0 - 122 41 - 533 173 - 21 0 Total ... Note.—The deaths are returned according to the superintendent ret;istrars' di6triets, as it found itn. practicable to dihtineuish every /dace separately. CHOLERA. DIARRECE.I. Fri. Sit. Fri. Sat. LONDON. Sept. Sept. Sept. Sept. 21st. 22. d. 21st. 22d, West Districts .., 8 7 2 3 North Districts ... 8 13 6 7 Central Districts ... 10 14 4 2 East Districts ... 18 36 8 12 South Districts ... 66 52 IS 19 T,UI4t4TIAY NV T -411411'e4.. 1 4 / 4 PTEMBPIn 1/4 ) 14401 SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERS ALL'S —YESTERDAY. Moat of the subsetibers basing left for Newmarket, little or nothing was done;-cue have, therefore, only the following briet quotations to return: — NEWMARKET THREE YEARS OLD TRIENNIAL. 7 to 4 agst Colonel Peel's Tadmor 5 to 2 agat Sir J. Hawley's Vatican 1,000 to 10 agst Mr. Farrance's The OM Fox NEWMARKET TWO YEARS OLD TRIENNIAL. 2 to 1 agst Lord Eglintou's Knight of Avenel 3 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's Hardinge GRAND DUKE MICHAEL STAKES. 5 to 2 on Sir J. Hawley's Vatican—taken 4 to 1 agst Lord Clifden's Honeycomb—taken 100 to 10 agst Tadmor and Ghillie Callum both win ning—taken CHESTER AUTUMN HANDICAP. 4 to 1 agst Mr. Pedley's Chatterer—taken CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES. 15 to 1 agst Mr. Niehulls's WoolEieh 16 to I agst Mr. Fowler's Ribaldry 20 to 1 agst Mr. S:ebLings's Mslton 20 to 1 agst Capt.dei Arciedall's Rhesus CESAREWITCIL STAKES. 12 to 1 tgst Lord Exeter's Glenalvon—taken 20 to 1 asst Mr. Meilelam's Raby 20 to 1 apt Lord Chesterfield's Lady Evel) n 30 to 1 agst Lord Stanley's Legerdemain DERBY, 1850. 10 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's lot—taken 14 to 1 agst Mr. Henry's Pitsford—taken 45 to 1 agat Mr. W. Edwards's Bolingbroke—taken NEWMARKET FIRST OCTOBER MEETING. NEWMARKET, MONDAY NIGHT. ENTRIES &C., FOR TO-MORROW. Handicap. T.Y.C.—The Fiddler, 4 yrs, Bst 81b— Sagacity, 5 yrs, 7st 91b—Highland Fling, 3 yrs, 7st 2:b —Jest, 4 yrs, 7st—Cigarette, 3 yrs, Est 101b—Iene, 3 yrs, Est 7M—Condek 3 yrs, Est 41b. Six others paid. The Hopeful Stakes.—The following are scratched:— Irish Birdcatcher colt, Castasido filly, Sergius, Dego, Gosling, Maria colt, Rebecca filly. Grand Duke Michael.—Only Champion, Vatican, and Honeycomb left in. Match. T.Y.C. 200.—Bishop of Romford's Cob receives forfeit. 100, h ft. D.M.—Beauvale pays. 100, h ft. Suffolk Stakes Course. Goodwood pays. WEDNESDAY. Two yrs old Triennial.—Rybinska, Total Eclipse filly, Compass, and Bastilia are struck out, and it is do- Glared doubtful if Ghillie Callum will start for this race. CRICKET. ELEYEN OF ENGLAND V. TWENTY•TWO OF STOCKTON AND DISTRICT. Thia grand match was resume ci On Saturday at Stock ton-on-Tees, and at the departure of the post on that afternoon the game stood as the subjoined score indi cates:— ENGLAND.---FIRST INNINGS. F. Pilch—b Joy ..,. 26 Clarke—st Morton, b Anderson ... ... 7 G. Parr—not out ... 59 Guy—st Morton, b Anderson N. Felix, Esq.—c Baldwinson, b Anderson... ... A. Mynn, Esq,—b Joy Hillyer—b Anderson Martingell—c Scartb, b Anderson... Letby—c Joy, b Rapley ... 16 G. F. Cooke, esq.—b Rapley... .., 0 llinkly—b Rapley ... 0 131, w 23, nb 0 24 Total ... . . 161 STOCKTON—FIRST INNINGS. J. Baker-1 bw, b Clarke ••• 2 R. Scarth—bßyer „, „, „.. 1 P. Stockdale—b Clarke ... ... 9 J. W. Coates, jun., Esq —b Hillyer „, „.. 11 W. Thompson, Esq.—b Hillyer ..• 4 Baldwinson—c Martingell, b Mynn,„ 43 Joy—b Hillyer Lambert—b Hillyer ••• ... 1 H. Beresford, Esq.—c Hillyer, b Hinkly 3 Anderson—b Mynn 36 Morton— b Mynn 0 Lancaster—b Thompson—b Martingell ... 3 Rev. H. Maister—b Mynn „, 0 Shepherd—b Hillyer ... ... 3 Rapley—b Hillyer „, ... 3 M. Pilkington, Esq.—not out A. H. Faber, Esq.—b Hinkley 0 C. Trotter, Esq,—b Hinkley F. Thompson, Esq.—c Guy, b HiLkley ... 2 Salmon—run out ... ... 7 Hornby—b Clark ... 2 Byes, SECOND EDITION OF "KING AB,THUR." ___ ... ChOriton ••• ••• ••• ---- 5 5 Clifton ••• ... ••• 11 2 Clitheroe ... ••• ••• 1 0 Cockermouth . ••• ••• 4 0 Cookham ••• ••• ••• 1 0 Coventry ••• ••• ••• 5 3 Darlington ... ••• 0 6 Dartford ••• ••• ••• 1 0 Derby ... ••• ••• ••• 0 1 Dewsbury ... ••• ••• ---• 2 0 Devizes ... ... ••• 2 0 Dorking ... ••• ••• 0 1 Dover ••• ••• ••• ••• 2 0 Dudley ••• 11 4 Eastry ••• ••• ••• --0 1 . East Stonehouse ••• ••• 2 0 Eccleshall Bierlow ... ••• --- 2 2 Ecclesfield ... •• ••• 3 0 Epping... ... ••• ••• 6 0 • • L., 0 2 Exeter ... ... ••• ... Falmouth ... ... ... 2 0 Flegg (Norfolk) 1 0 Gaiesborough ... ... ... 10 6 Gateshead ... ... . • 1 0 Goole ... ... ... ... 1 0 Gravesend and Milton ••• 1 0 Halstead 0 1 Hastings ••• ••• ••• --- 3 0 Havertordwest ... ••• -- 0 1 Hayfield and Glossop... ..• 0 1 Hemel Hempstead ... ... 0 1 Hitchin ..• ..: ••• 3 1 ... ... ... lollingbourne... ... ... 0 1 Jowden 0 1 luddersfield ... ... ..• 3 3 lull ... ••• ••• ••• 21 2 Junslet ••• ••• •.• 13 2 Isle of Wight ••• ••• --- 1 1 Kingsbridge ... ... ... --- 3 0 King's Norton... ... ... 0 1 Knaresborough ••• ••• 1 0 Lancaster ••• ••• ••• 1 0 Leeds ••• ••• ••• ••• •''... 47 6 Lexden ••• ••• 0 1 Lichfield ••• ••• ••• -- 1 0 Liskeard ••• ••• ••• 1 0 Liverpool ... ... ... 8 1 Llanelly ••• ••• ••• --- 3 0 Llandillo Fawr ••• ••• 1 0 Louth ... ••• ••• ••• 0 1 Macclesfield ••• ••• ••• - , -0 4 Madeley ••• ••• ••• 1 0 Maidstone ••• ••• ••• --- 1 2 Manchester ... ... ... 41 17 Mansfield ••• .... •• 6 - 0 1 Medway ••• ••• ••• - 1 1 Neath ... ••• ••• ••• 10 1 Newark ••• ••• ••• --- 0 1 Newcastle-upon-Tyne ••• 3 0 Newton Abbott ••• ••• 2 1 North Witchford ... ... 3 0 Norwich . ••• ••• ••• 1 0 Nottingham ••• ••• ••• ."'". 0 1 Okehampton ... ... ... -- 1 0 Oldham ••• ••• ••• 4 0 Ormskirk ••• ••• ••• --- 1 0 Pembroke ••• ••• ••• ••• 1 2 Pershore ••• ••• ••• -- 0 1 Peterborough ... •• ••• 0 1 Pocklington • • • ••• ••• "'". 3 0 Pontypool ••• ••• ••• --- 1 0 Portsea Island ••• ••• --- 2 0 Prescot ••• ••• ••• 2 0 Preston ••• ••• ••• 1 1 Radford ••• •..• ..• --- 0 2 Redruth ••• ••• • •• 8 0 Rochdale ..• ••• ••• 1 0 Roch ford ••• ••• ••• 5 2 Romford ••• ••• ••• 2 0 Rotherham ••• ••• ••• 0 1 Runcorn "• ••• ••• —. 0 1 Salford ••• ••• ••• 6 3 Sculcoates ••• ••• ••• --- 17 2 Sheffield •• 6 ••• ••• ....... 4 5 Shelston ••• ••• ..• 1 0 Sheppey ••• .•• ••• --- 0 2 Shepton Mallet ••• ••• 1 0 Shrewsbury ••• ••• •• • •••• 2 2 South Shields ••• ••• ••• --- 3 2 St. Neots ••• ••• ••• 0 1 Steyning ••• ••• ••• ..... 2 0 Stockport ••• ••• ••• ---- 5 7 Stockton ... .. ••• --- 10 0 St. Thomas (Devon) ... . . 0 1 Stoke Damarel ••• ••• 6 2 Stoke-upon-Trent ••• ••• --- 1 1 Stourbridge ••• ••• ••• 5 0 Stowe ••• ••• ••• ••• 0 1 Stroud ... ... ... ... 0 1 Sunderland ... ... ... 6 1 Swansea ••• ••• ••• ..... 5 0 Tavistock ... ... ... 1 0 Teesdale (Barnard Castle) ... 9 1 Tenterden ... ... ' ... 0 1 Thorne ••• ••• ••• 1 0 Tieehurst ••• ••• ••• • • --- 0 1 Tiverton 0 1 ••• ..• Todmorden :... ... ... 1 0 Totnes ••• ••• •••' 2 0 Truro 1 0 Tynemouth ... ... ... 22 1 Uxbridge ••• ••• ••• 1 ,1 Wakefield ... ~. ... 4 4 Withal' 4 2 Warrington „,, ... ... 1 0 Warwick 1 0 Wellington, Shropshire ... 2 0 West Bromwich ... •• 7 1 West Derby ... ... ... 3 1 Weymouth .. ... ... 3 0 Wheatenhurst .. ... ... 0 1 Whitehaven ••• ••• *Ol. .... 1 0 Wigan ••• "• ••• --- 17 0 Wirral ••• ••• ••• 3 0 Wisbeach ... ... ... 3 0 Witiley,.. eta ..• ••• .n . 1 0 She leaves when Autumn, wearie, Bids Winter waste the plain-- She looks on lands mair cheerio, Till our's are green again. Oh! would SHE dwell amarg us, When dales are deep i❑ snaw, Dour winter couldna wrang us, Nor Simmer seem awa'. However your correspondent may sympathise with, and admire these beautiful lines, there can be no doubt that even the talismanic effect of her Msjesty's presence, and the halo of joy and happiness which accompanies her, would be too dearly bought at the expense of her making a winter residence of Balmoral. Already are the days creeping in and beauming chilly, while the frost -covered moors intimate fre quently to the early riser that "dour winter" is ap proaching with no tardy strides. It seems now to be definitely fixed that her Majesty will leave Balmoral on the 26th instant. (Wednesday, next week), proceeding by the same route to Perth which she followed in coming north, viz., Spittal of Glenshee and Blaergowrie to Perth, where she will remain during Wednesday at the Royal George Hotel. A special train on the Scottish Central has been ordered for Thursday morning, by which her Majesty will proceed to the junction at Greenhill, and thence by the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, through Edinburgh, and by the North British, York and Newcastle, and Midland Railways to Derby, where her Majesty will pass Thursday evening, resuming her journey en route for the Isle of Wight, on the following day. I have, as usual, little to chronicle in the proceed ings of her Majesty—not, I need hardly assure you, because there is nothing interesting to report, but simply because we must not encroach on the retire ment which it is so well known her Majesty desires. Still, there is a certain limit, beyond which the anxiety of a loyal and affectionate people cannot be kept—a limit which I feel assured her Majesty fully recognises._ As I informed you in •my last, the weather was very bad during the earlier part of the past week, and her Majesty was more than usual kept within doors. On Thursday, however, the face of the heavens brightened, and the royal excursions were resumed. On that day his Royal Highness Prince Albert had splendid sport in Ballochbuie Forest, where he killed no fewer than five splendid stags. Her Majesty, as usual, showed her subjects a good and pious example on the last Sabbath-day, by attending the parish church, when a sprinkling of ' strangers augmented the usual congregation. The clergyman—who is a very uncouth looking gentle man—seems to be acquiring greater confidence in the royal presence than he was wont to exhibit.— Court Journal. COURT CIRCULAR. BALMORAL, SEPT. 22. Her Majesty drove out yesterday afternoon, accom panied by the Princess Royal, Princess Alice, and Prince Alfred. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince of Wales, rode out on horseback. The Roy al dinner party this evening will include Lady Portman, Mr. and. Mrs. Farquharson, of Invercauld, and Dr. Robertson. Her Majesty will leave Balmoral on Wednesday next, the 26th. Sir David Davies left town yesterday afternoon for the Priory, Stanmore, the residence of her Majesty the Queen Dowager. Dispatches from the Governors of the West India Colonies, and also from the Governor of Bermuda, were received yesterday at the Colonial-office. CRICKET.—A match came off on Sparkes's ground, Edinburgh, on Saturday, between eleven gentlemen of Edinburgh and the Edinburgh garrison, for 200/. aside, which, notwithstanding the unpropitious stateof the wea ther, attracted a vast concourse of spectators. It having been agreed that it the match was not finished in one day,l the first innings should decide it, it will be seen from the numbers offixed that the gentlemen gained the victory, they having scored 125 to their opponents 58. The game stood thus at the end of the day's play :—Gen tlemen, first innings, 125; second, 70; military, first innings, 58; second, 60. DEATH OF CAPTAIN ITKELLAR.—This highly respected officer was a native of Greenock, where he died on the 17th inst., and is a fine instance of what may be done by steady exertion and uniform good conduct. He entered the navy without any patron, and advanced himself rapidly to the rank of master, which he obtained in 1796, more than half a century ago. On the return of the Stadtholder to Holland, in 1813, he served in the Warrior, under Lord Torrington, and on the termination of hostilities in Europe, returned to pursue an active and successful life in the mercantile marine, from which he had retired some years to a real state of "otium cunt dignitate," and, as the promoter of everything rational, ' social, and good, showed a bright example to his fellow. men. His memory will long be cherished. Rhode Island has within her limited territory 163 cotton mills, consuming annually 56,0000 bales of cotton, and manufacturing 70,000,000 yards of cloth.—New York Courier. AMERICAN PROVISIONS. — The Lords of the Trea sury have authorised the admission, duty free, of pig's tongue►. A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to thiuk,—,Eliza Coh's Atrmal. 110 122 38 43 Total TESTIMONIAL TO THE HUNGARIAN REFUGEES. " THE HUNGARIAN NATION COUNTS ON THE SYMPATHY OF EVERY NATION WHICH LOVES RIGHT AND Ll- BERTY."—Kossuth's Protest against Russian Interven tion. Subscriptions may be sent to the following bankers:— Messrs. Coutts and Co. Messrs. Drummond. Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smith ; or to any one of the members of the committee formed to carry out the Testimonial. * * *All further Post-office orders to be made payable toMurdo Young, Esq., at the Money Order Office, Strand. Subscriptions already received ... £1,096 1 Further Subscriptions from Friends of Hungary at Leicester, per the Editor of the Leicester shire Mercury 4 0 0 Total ... ... ... £I,ICO 1 li The BLIND BUY'S BEEN at PLAY, MOTHER. The Blind Boy's been at play, mother, And merry games we had; We led him on our way, mother, And every step was glad. But when we found a starry flower, And praised its varied hue, A tear came trembling down his cheek, Just like a drop of dew. We took him to the mill, mother, Where falling waters made A rainbow o'er the rill, mother, As golden sun-rays played; Eut when we shouted at the scene, And hailed the clear blue sky, He stood quite still upon the bank, And breathed a long, long, sigh. • We asked him why he wept, mother, Whene'er we found the spots Where periwinkle crept, mother, O'er wild Forget•me•nots: " Ah, me!" he said, while tears ran down As fast as summer showers, " It is because I cannot see The sunshine and t'ie flowers." Oh, that poor sightless boy, mother, Has taught me I am blest, For I can look with joy, mother, On all I love the best, And when I see the dancing stream, And daisies red and white, I kneel upon the meadow sod, And thank my God for sight. —Weekly Dispatch. ELIZA COOK. HER MAJESTY'S DEPARTURE FROM BALMORAL. WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 19, 1849. As the period of her Majesty's departure approaches, the inhabitants of Deeside—particularly of its upper districts—appear to be feeling, in all its intensity, the sentiment so poetically expressed by the unfortunate deceased poet, Thom : 184 Total ENGLAND.-SECuND INNINGS. Pilch—not out ... ... ... . Clark—b Anderson ... . Parr—b Rapley ... ... ... . Guy—b Lambert ... • N. Felix, Esq.—s Morton, b Anderson ... ... A. Mynn, Esq.—c Faber, b Joy ... ... Elillyer—s Morton, b Anderson ... Martingell—c Baldwinson, b Anderson ... ... 2 Letby—s Morton, b Anderson ... ... 9 G. F. Cooke, E,:q.—b Anderson ... 4 Ilir.kley—c Faber, b Anderson 0 Byes, 2; wide, 14; no balls, 1 ... 17 Total ... 77 ELEVEN OF ALL ENGLAND V TWENTY-TWO OF DIR• NINGIIAM. On Monday the grand cricket-match between the Eleven of all England and Twenty-two of Birmingham commenced in the &id adjoining the Reservoir at Edg baston, about a mile-and-a-half from the town. The pla3 ing continued until five o'clock, when the following result of the day's play was declared:— BIRMINGHAM-FIRST INNINGS. Norton, E.A.—b Hillyer ... 11 Jordan—run out ... 5 Edwards, Esq.—c Felix, b Clarke Taylor, Esq.—b Hillyer 0 Baker, Esq.—b Clarke 4 Nixon—c Felix, b Hillyer ... 5 F. Tinley--c Felix, b Clarke, ... ... ... 9 Sopp—b Hillyer Roby—c Martingeli, b Hillyer 12 C. Butt, Esq.—c Parr, b Clarke ... 10 Langley—b Clarke ••• ••• ••• ••• ••• 2 S. Mallaby, Esq.—b Clarke ... 0 Deacon—hit w, b Clarke 0 Eades—b Hillyer ... ... ... ... ... 6 R. Fulford, Esq.—b Hillyer ... 1 B. Gilpin, Esq.—run out ... ... 0 R. Wigley, Esq.—b Hillyer 2 J. Mousley, Esq.—b Clarke ... ... 0 T. H, Gem, Esq.—b Clark ... 0 Bensom, Esq.—b Hillyer 0 Goddard, Esq.—b Clarke ... ... 0 J. Evans, Esq.—not out ... ••• 1 ENGLAND-FIRST INNING S. F. Pilch—not out •.• ••• ••• ••• 0 G. F. Cooke, Esq.—c Sopp, b Tinley ••• ••• 2 H. Vernon, Esq.—b Nixon ... ••• 1 Martingell—not out ... •.• ••• ••• ..• 1 G. Parr ... ••• ••• •" ••• •• • 0 Guy ••• ..... ••• ••• •.• ••• ••• 0 N. Felix, Esq. .„ •• • ••• A. Mynn, Esq.... ••• ••• .•• • • 0 ••• ••• ••• ••• o Chatterton ••• ••• ••• ••• ••• ••• 0 Hillyer ... ••• ••• ••• ••• ••• •••. 0 Clarke ... ••• ••• ••• •• • ••• .; o Bye ••• ••• ••• •• • ••• •••‘ 1 MARY LEBONE THEATRE. Mrs. Mowatt made her debd for the season here last evening, as Beatrice in Much Ado about Nothing. This is one of the most perfect of Mrs. Mowatt's Shaksperian impersonations. Vivacious and witty, yet lady-like withal, her representation of Beatrice is at the same tinie spirited and graceful, pointed and polished. She was admirably supported by Mr. Davenport, whose Benedict is one of the best on the stage. They were called for at the conclusion of the ccmedy, and Mrs. Mowatt was nearly overwhelmed beneath a shower of bouquets. The theatre was crowded to the ceiling. MEETING OF MASTER BAKERS IN ST. PANCRAS. —Yesterday evening a numerous meeting of master and journeymen bakers was held at the Argyle Tavern, Liverpool•street, King's-cross, to establish a district House of Call and Benefit Society, fur the mutual co operation and support of the masters and journeymen bakers in the district of King's cross, Somers -town, Tottenham Court-road, and Camden-town, with a coffee, reading-room, and library for the use of the members; to establish a Trade Protection Society for the master bakers of the district; and also to establish a District Branch Association, in connexion with the Operative Bakers' Society, to obtain a diminution of the hours of labour, and the abolition of night-work in the baking trade, Mr. H. M. Nevill, of Sidmouth-street, in the chair. Resolutions were adopted to the effect, that a legislative enactment was necessary to remove the evils consequent on the undue amount of labour exacted from the men; Ind that the meeting pledge itself to support the Opera tive Bakers' Society in that object; also that for the better organization and improvement of the members of the trade in that district, an institution be established for their accommodation, convenience, &c., and that a committee of masters and men be appointed to carry the object into effect. THE MURDER IN LAMBETH.—Yesterday afternoon an inquest was held at the George Tavern, Lambeth, by Mr. Carter, the Coroner fur Surrey, on the body of Louisa Charlotte Watson, an infant, who was drowned by her father in the water butt on Thursday evening last. The facts of the case, as already stated, were clearly proved, and, under the direction of the Coroner, the jury returned a verdict of " Wilful murder" against Henry Watson, the father. There is, however, no doubt that the unfortunate man was insane at the time that he committed the act, though that question is, of course, re served for another tribunal. NIGHT GLEANING.—A novel mode of plunder has been practised in bouth Devon during the harvest. In the wheat fields, after it has been cut and stood in stitches, some night marauders have, with a sharp in strument, by handfuls cut the flush of the ears and carried them away. Mr. Adams, of .Woodleigh Farm, lost in one night about one bag of wheat, and Mr. King, of Cross Farm, Loddiswell, a similar quantity, and one farmer of Kingbridge from three to four bags.—Sher borne Mercury. AN EPIC POEM IN TWELVE BOOKS. By Sir Edward Buizeer Lytton Our admiration of this splendid tffusion of genius —the masterpiece of one of the most remarkable minds of this generation—has been nobly verified. lts popularity has already commenced; and that popu larity, we are satisfied, is not ephemeral, but VS i ll prove, on the contrary, of an elevated and enduring character. On the occasion of its first appearance we endeavoured to subject the poem of "King Arthur" to such a severe and scrutinizing analysis that we find but little left fur us to say now, beyond the simple announcement of its republication. It is due, never theless, to the illustrious author to remark that the present edition has undergone a very careful and laborious supervision ; and that wl.erever any reason able objections have been entered in the way of cri ticism, there the text has been submitted to einenda ti on. We are proud to know that we ourselves may be numbered among st those reviewers whom Sir Ed ward 1;u1 ever Lytton Las thus 1 nioured with his coinci dence. The plenary with which the literary journalist revereetlV proffered his suggestioes has been shar e d b y t h e poet in tl.e collation of his original manuscript. "King Arthur" must now win for itself the admiration to which it is entitled by its numerous and exquisite beauties. henceforth its fame must rest upon i s own intrinsic excellence. All that its creator could effect in its regard has been accomplished—the last touches of his pencil, still glowing with the warmth of novelty, and still bloom ing with the freshness of adolescence, have been im parted—whatever was crude or jejune has been ripened by correction—the work, so far as the capacities of the writer are concerned, has attained the period of its completion. Conscious of this, we do not consider ourselves premature when we tender, as we do, our most earnest felicitations to Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton on the fulfilment of his des tiny, on the achievement of his highest success, and the attainment of his loftiest ambition. In him the future critic cannot fail to recognize a brilliant evi dence that the most extreme versatility is not incom patible with the most felicitous adventure. Yearning, as he has undeniably done throughout his career, to acquire celebrity as a man of letters, our author has obtained the most signal triumphs not in one alone, but in all the various and, until now, apparently incongruous departments of literature. In prose and poetry, in romance and biography, in fictitious and historical narrative, as a lyrist and as an essayist, as a bard and as a dramatist, in comedy and in tragedy, he has successively advanced andsuccessfully retreated. Unlike Sir 'Walter Scott, he has commenced with prose fiction and terminated with heroic and chivalric poetry. And his last production has surpassed all its predecessors. In the preface to " King Arthur," Sir Edward very judiciously exclaims—" On this foun dation I rest the least perishable monument of those thoughts and those labours which have made the life of my life." Each perusal of a poem which we have read more than once assures us that in so speaking he has formed a correct estimate of his powers and of their performances. It were well fur his renown, as a novelist, if the same pure and rarified atmosphere had been always re spired by his imagination, during the intervals of the composition of his earlier writings, as that atmosphere which he has breathed in his poetical and of late also in his prose productions. It were well if the sensual genius of French romance had never exercised over his fine, but occasionally distorted, in tellect its pernicious fascination. It were well if some of the more youthful novels of Bulwer had been cha racterised by the sweet and wholesome morality of the last two novels of Lytton—by the unsullied merits of " Harold," and the gentle and humanizing tone of the " Caxtons." Now that the collected works of this distinguished man are being re-issued in a form such as will extend their popularity by scattering them mere widely throughout the population, we would most earnestly suggest to him the increase of his labours of emendation. Five of his admirable fic tions have already been completed in the cheap edi• tion ; and yet our respectful suggestion comes not too late, seeing that in none of those five do we recog nise the necessity for corrections such as those to which we are alluding. In saying this, Sir Bulwer Lytton will perceive that we are not among the hypercritics whom he has so very logically refuted in the mas terly pamphlet penned by him as a vindication from their aspersions. Our hint at emendation is directed along a very different channel. For, with him, we are satisfied that the delineation of great and tragic crimes, such as those committed by Lucretia, and such as those wrongfully imputed to Aram is strictly within the province of a literary moralist; and that, if handled as he has endeavoured to handle them, they are calculated to exercise a bitter but salutary influence over the community of readers. What we cannot, however, regard as bene ficial in this or in any other analogous walk of lite rature is that roseate and impassioned delineation of vice which ravishes the heart and intoxicates the brain with its voluptuousness. Tell us not that cur feelings in this particular are the feelings of a prude, and that our objections are the objections of a fribbler in morality. Talk not of the lessons of virtue incul cated through the medium of these bewitching por traitures of depravity. We are neither blind to the truths of common sense nor deaf to the arguments of right reason—we know, and feel, and see that the effects of this fictitious licentiousness, especially when accompanied by the seductive tones of eloquence and clothed with the resplendent decorations of genius, are not to ba counteracted by an ejaculation of re morse, or by a sentence expressive of awe for reli gion, however cleverly turned or sententiously arti culated, We are conscious, moreover, that the noble intellect of a man like this stands in no need of any such meretricious assistance. That a writer with a corruptible reputation, as for example Charles Paul de Kock, should have recourse to such tricks of passion to win his way to the darker nerves and pulses of humanity, to make them thrill and throb at his bid ding, is not surprising. But that a man gifted with such extraordinary and diversified faculties should condescend to the emulation of minds so inferior; that he who can at pleasure place his hand upon the noblest chords of our nature and make them vibrate to the measure of his inspirations, should ever, even for a moment, interrupt the melodies of a lyre dropt from heaven for " the lascivious breathings of a lute " picked up from the kennel, has been to us matter of earnest regret and deep astonishment. Hence we have spoken. Our regard, or rather we should say, our admiration for the genius of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton prompts the suggestion. We would see his collected works, fraught as they are with beauties, purified from those casual blemishes. IVithout making any invidious catalogue of the passages we yearn to know have passed under his own generous emendation, we may refer as examples to an incident befalling Ernest Maltravers and another occurring to Lumley Ferrers. Our anxiety to wit ness this expurgation has been enhanced by the con trast afforded by the two latest of the prose, and poeti cal productions of the poet-novelist of England—the pure and beautiful story of the " Caxtons " and the. untarnished splendour of " King Arthur." Of the latter, as a superb national epic, we do not hesitate to predict that its appearance will hereafter be ranked among the most memorable literary events of our generation—an anticipation which is fully justified when we reiterate that it is the masterpiece of Sir Edward Bulvrer Lytton. THE TOWER-WATER. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—The Tower of London, which, prier to the draining of its moat, was notoriously one of the most unhealthy garrisons in the country, has since taken a much higher position in a sanitary point of view, still it has had to contend against a disadvantage of no ordinary kind, namely, a deficiency of water. Through the columns of The Sun the proposal for the removal of the moat (or ditch, more correctly speaking) first emanated—and through the same medium let it be known that the latter evil no longer exists. A communication has, during the present week, been made between the fortress and the Ar tesian well at the lloynl Mint, by which means a bounteous supply of pure spring-water will be con stantly available to the troops therein stationed. I need not expatiate on the value of such a blessing at such a time, and am persuaded that you will be deeply gratified to hear such news. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, Sept. 22, 1849. AQWEIUS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—Can England do nothing to testify her ad miration of the heroic Garibaldi, who is described, in a letter written by a lady at Rome, as being " as good as he is brave, and more of a French cavalier than all the French army put together." I would suggest that a penny, or sixpenny subscription be got up throughout the kingdom, and that with the proceeds (which I have no doubt will be considerable) a sword, designed after the old .Rman fashion, be purchased and presented to the General, with this, or a similar inscription : THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND TO GARIBALDI, THE DEFENDER OF ROME. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, LIBERTAS. Ilfracombe, Sept. 24th, 1849. THE SILK TRADE OF CHESHIRE.-It is gratifying to state that the staple trade of Macclesfield and Congle ton; the two great seats of the silk trade . in Cheshire, continues in a thriving and healthy condition. Weavers are in demand, and all the dye-houses are in full and constant employment. The silk trade, up to a late period, had been in a drooping state, and the working classes engaged in it had suffered much and severe pry. vation. At present the labouring population aro in com paratively easy circumstances, and the cheapness of food adds much to their domestic comforts. SANITARY COMMITTEE. Last evening a meeting of emergency of the Sani tary Committee, convened by Mr. Corder, the clerk to the Guardians, by direction of Mr. Poolton, the Chairman of the Committee, was held in the Board room at the Workhouse. At the hour of meeting (half-past five o'clock) there was a numerous attend ance of the committee, consisting of Mr. Poolton, their zealous chairman; Mr. Dee, the Chairman, and Mr. Allday, the Vice-Chairman of the Board of Guardians; Messrs. Hebbert, Mason, Beale, Jchn Rinks, Joseph Rinks, Mills, Collins, Heaton, J. W. Lloyd, Maiden, and others. The CHAIRMAN reported that he had received a letter that morning, the contents of which he would submit to the committee ; and he further stated that, considering the serious nature of such communication, he lost not a moment in directing Mr. Corder to convene that meeting ; and he trusted, when they heard the letter read, they would deem its importance a sufficient apology for calling the committee to gether on the Sabbath-day.—(Bear, hear.) Mr. Poolton then read the communication as follows : Birmingham, 233 September, 1849. " Sir,--I have been informed that the Cavalry have been removed from the Barracks at Coventry in conse qucrc.% of several deaths from el:elem. At the present time the re are four or five soldiers not fit to be removed. I understand that the barracks there are to be taken charge of by a guard: from the Infantry Barracks here, and to be relieved every seven or ten days by a fresh party from here—the others returning to the quarters at Ifeardworth'. In my humble opinion I don't think that is fair fur the inhabitants. If 3ou agree with me, Colonel Arbuthnot is the gentleman to see, at his office, Vauxhall, about eleven All -I am, &c." The name of the writer of the letter did not transpire. Mr. ALLDAY stated that he had seen the captain of the infantry at the barracks in Cheapside that morn ing, on the subject of the communication received by their chairman, who had communicated the same to him, and that the gallant captain admitted the truth of such statement, and informed him that he had, by order of the commandant, sent some of his men from Birmingham to take charge of the barracks at Co ventry, where the cholera was now raging, and that such men were to be relieved on Saturday next. These communications created quite a sensation in the meeting; and Mr. DEE strongly protested against the introduc tion of any of the military from Coventry into the town under the circumstances ; and if driven to such an alternative he, for one, would join his brother townsmen in opposing their entrance.—(Hear.) It was then moved by Mr. ALLDAY, seconded by Mr. BEALE, and resolved—" That Mr. Dee and the Chairman be requested to wait on Colonel Arbuthnot this (Monday) morning, for the purpose of remon strating, on the part of tha Sanitary Committee and the inhabitants of Birmingham, against the proposed removal of any of the troops from Coventry into this town." After the transaction of some other business the committee adjourned. We are happy to add that no further case of cho• lera was reported to the committee. As cleanliness and pure water are strongly recom mtnded-by the Board of Health, it is satisfactory to know that the authorities of the Birmingham Water Works Company have, at the suggestion of the sani tary committee, resolved to furnish the town daily with a copious supply of water.. It is a remarkable fact, and one that ought to form a subject for deep and reverent thankfulness to the Almighty disposer of events, that whilst the prevail ing pestilence is committing its awful ravages, and daily sweeping off its numerous victims in so many other districts, including the metropolis itself, the borough of Birmingham, with a population exceeding 200,000 souls, has had but one indigenous case of cholera.—Aris's Birmingham Gazette, Sept. 24. THE PREMIER AND THE CIRCU- LATING SOCIETY OF REVOLUTIONISTS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SU.N. SlR,—The Governor of Malta could not allow the Roman refugees to land, as they might possibly belong to that formidable society—a society evidently omnipotent, and also omnipresent. They first inflamed all Sicily, then Paris, Berlin, Naples, Vienna, Milan, Prague, Venice, Rome, Frankfort, Florence, Baden and Hungary. Why, they even attempted a revolu tion amongst us on the 10th of April ; but, meeting ith such bad success, I question whether they did not open their travelling bag to let out the cholera upon us. They are well provided with gold, they speak the language of every country, and they have only to present themselves in any metropolis, and immediately the throne is upset. Seeing, however, that thrones still maintain themselves, some by fair and some by foul means, they are now all gone off to California to collect a new supply of gold. 'Why, surely Mr. More O'Ferrall must be almost as great a statesman as Lord John Russell himself, and quite as penetrating and humane. C. S. THE Rum TO CALIFORNIA.—Somebody has fur nisbed us with the following dialogue, which occurred in this town a few days since between a shipowner and a stranger:—Strarger—" How much do you ask Mr. — 2 for a cabin passage to California?" Shipowner— " One hundred dollars, cash down, in advance; but I crn't take you; all full in the cabin." Stranger— Well, suppose I go in the hold; how much du you ask then?" Shipowner—" Eighty dollars; but I can't take you—hold is full." Stranger—" But can't Igo in the tore peak ? What is the price of a passage there?" Shipowner—Bilety dollars; but I can't take you. Full fore and aft." Stranger—" Well, can't Igo aloft some where—and suppose I do, what will you charge?" Ship owner—" Wo charge eighty dollars to go anywhere; but can't carry you aloft; got to carry provisions there. Stranger—lt's a hard case, isn't it. But I want to go tolerably bad! what will you charge to tow me? " The shipowner retreated suddenly,:and didn't make his ap pearance again till the vessel bad sailed.—Sandwich Island Polynesian. SUDDEN DEITII.--011 Saturday last an inquest was held by Mr. James Lewis, coroner for Rochester, on board her Llajesty's ship Royal George, lying in Salt pan Reacb, between Chatham and Sheerness, to inquire into the cause of death of George Brown, a lad nine years of age, son of Mr. Hudson Brown, a warrant officer in charge of the above ship, whose death was oc casioned in the following singular mermen—Deceased, whilst walking from the ward-room to the cabin for the purpose of cutting a candle, carr)ing with him a pair of scissors, tripped and fell, when the point of the scissors pierced the jugular vein just under the jawbone, which caused almost instantaneous death. Verdict—" Acci dental death. NAVAL TN TELLIGINCE: PORTSMOUTH, MONDA Y .—Seme highly interestin: l ,. experiments in fortification were made this mornin .''' Ifiya on Rat Isllnd, in thia harbour, und er th e di rec tion : - ' 4 " lip Captain Chads, C. 8., of the Excellent gunnery•ship'aj/ for the instruction of the officers and marine cadets of_:-... ' the above ship, and the students of the Royal Naval '.5., Ai.., a .. ; ., College. The experiments were on a stockade, made '_"4:tt - ila:-1-';'-,0 of some of the oak timber:, of her Majesty"s brig Curlew, lately broken up in this doeby - lard, which a charge of 51b. of gunpowder in a flafthel i Csr-7 -4 ' ../ tridge was placed on the ground, close to the bottAili of the defence, which was fired by four feet of Bide- .7 AZ ford's match. The stockade stood the shock, and was not in the least injured. A charge of 101 b. of pow der, similarly enveloped, was next hung about three feet from the ground and fired in like manner, and with a similar result. A third trial was then made with 1511). of powder, in a flannel cartridge, over which a larp-e Leg of sand, weighing about 19.01 b., was put, which was fired in the same manner as the fig.:ner. This blew down three'planks of the stockade, and threw the franient:t is oil directions, souk oldie splinters being blown a (o::siderable distance. We re g; et to say the experiments were brought to a ("h&c , by an accident happening to Commander Hewlett, of the Excellent, who was struck en the left leg by one of the splinters, and knocked down. Much alarm was excited, and surgical aid instantly sent for, and was immediately rendered from her Majesty's ships Illus trious and Excellent, and Dr. Nutt, of the latter ship, conveyed the sufferer on board her, where every attention that skill and judgment could render was paid. As far as we can glean, and as far as may be judged from the very swollen state of the limb, we believe we are correct in stating no bones are broken, but the patient is suffering great pain. We trust the experiments will be continued to a satisfactory close, as we know of no point in an officer's education of more importance than practical instruction in the approach to and attack of stockades, which the dis astrous results of the Held pah warfare in New Zea land, in 1846, most amply proved. Captain Gordon, of the Cormorant, has arrived in London from Germany, and is expected here to morrow to take up his appointment to the Encounter steam. corvette. The Myrtle steam-tender, Master-Commander Bradden, returned from Plymouth this morning with marines and seamen paid off from the Scout. The seaman Bunday, who fell from the masthead of the Tartar yacht, at Spithead, during the contest between that vessel and the Drift for 1001. aside, expired of the injuries received at five o'clock lest night, leaving a wife and child to mourn his premature loss. Wind—S.S. W. ; li g ht b reezes an d fi ne weather. 1% oomvicir, SEPT. 24.—The Monkey steam vessel, Master Commander W. Bryant, embirked Captain Flude's company, 7th battalion Royal Artillery, with detachments of the 2d, 3d, 7th, Bth, and 9th battalions, at the dockyard, at six o'clock, A.M., and conveyed them to Greenhithe, where they were transferred to the Hercules store-ship for a passage to Gibraltar, and the detachments to fill up the companies at the stations on the Mediterranean. The Terrible steam -frigate, Captain Ramsey, is ordered to retain her guns on board, and will be paid off without being dismantled, and all that will be required to render her again fit for service will soon be (fleeted. Several of the articles have been recovered from the Bee lighter, which sank along side of her, but the vessel has not been raised. IMPORTANT MEETING OF THE i(/ _ ~_