The Sun. — London, England, 1849-09-20 00:00:00

erring to hoard up their money in preference to sending it out upon hazardous venture s. Mr. De WIeT ,N--Teke tee elve months, or duri g the last three years. Mr. CLARK said, it was now three years ago since the discussion of this subject was commenced, namely, the propriety of capitalising any portion of the annual prefi7.s beyond the maintenance of a rest of 3,000,000/. Having glanced at the course which the previous discuisions upon the matter had taken, he proceeded to say, that the directors, in Sep tember, 1843, proposed a dividend of 3k. An amendment was moved upon that occasion, with the view to an increase of the dividend and the reduc tion of the rest, but it was lost, which he understood terminated the discussion of the question. The pro prietors then pressed the directors to state the amount of rest which they conceived necessary. On the next Meeting Mr. Morris, the Governor, stated that they conceived a rent of 3,000,000/. sufficient for the working of the Bank, proposing at Th e same tine to divide a large sum, reducing the rest to that amount, among the pro prietors, which was acceded to. The matter being thus settled, after a prolonged discussion, he thought the proprietors had a right to complain that it had been again re-opened.— (Hear, hear.) Having agreed, after much discussion, to a principle, they were asked this day to stultify it, which seemed to his Mind a most unreasonable request, since they were bound to maintain a rest at an amount N hich would enable the Bank in all seasons to occupy the proud position which it at present enjoyed.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. DE WINTON explained—lf they looked at the business of the Bank during the last three years, they would find that the reserve had not been used. Besides, they now required a smaller rest than ever, as a dead-weight of 7,000,0001. was in the course of payment to them. Capital might not be in much demand in London, but in the country it was. All he wanted was to reduce the rest to 2,000,0001., which he believed amply sufficient for all the purposes of the Bank. The GovERNoR then put the amendment, but only two hands—those of the mover and seconder—were held up in its favour. Mr. FIELDER then moved that the dividend be in creased to four per cent., and entered into a long and diffuse explanation to show that this was prac ticable. Mr. DE WINTON seconded the amendment, which, after a few words from Sir Peter Laurie and Mr. Clark, was put and lost, ten hands only being held up in its favour. The original motion was then put and carried by a large majority. The GOVERNOR stated, in reply to a question, that the value of the branch banks was included in the rest. Thanks having been voted to the Governor, Deputy-Governor, and Directors, the meeting separated. BANKRUPTCY.-(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Commission,r 6HEPIZERD.) IN RE CRISP. The bankrupt had carried on business as a corn fac.or at Beccles, Suffolk, and now applied for his certi ficate, which had been adjourned to this day. An application was made on behalf of the assignees for further adjournment under the following circumstancis: It appeared that an action was pending between the as signees and a third party, and the assignees had ob tained a verdict for 1,2001., but the assignees thought it Possible that the defendant might taae some steps to disturb the verdict. The bankrupt's solicitor considered that as the verdict had been given in favour of the assignees, the certificate ought to be now granted. Mr. PLEWS, for the assignees, said that the verdict Would probably be considered to bear against the bank rupt, as it involved a question of fraudulent preference, rated his Honour (Evans) had adjourned the case to know the result of the trial. His HoNouu said the matter bad been adjourned kr Consideration of the certificate, and he could not decide on th e case unless the whole facts were before him, the case therefore bad better be adjourned until the return of Mr. Commissioner Evans. The bankrupt considered it a hard case to be brought up again. Mr. PLEWB said bankrupt's expenses had been paid, and the assignees would undertake to pay for the next journey it Mr. Commissioner Evans thought fit. His Hotioun said there was nothing shown to entitle the bankrupt to his certificate on the mere asking; but if the bankrupt pressed, he (the Commissioner) would decide on what now appeared, but perhaps it would be better for bankrupt that he should not. The case was then adjourned to the 2d of October. CRIMINAL COUR f.-(THIS DAY.) OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Baron PLATT and Mr. Justice WILLIAMS.) MURDER —Caroline Cock, described as a widow, aged 28, was indicted for the wilful murder of John Cock, her husband. The prisoner, who had a child in her arms, and was accommodated with a chair during the trial, pleaded Not Guilty. Mr. Bodkin, with whom was Mr. Clarke, appeared for the prosecution; and Mr. Cooper defended the pri- toner. Mr. BODKIN, in opening the case, stated that the deceased was the prisoner's husband, and up to the time of his death filled the situation of butler in a gen tleman's family at Enfield. A few weeks ago, on the Ist of July, the prisoner, who had not been upsn good terms with the deceased, went to see her husband, and on the day in question, which was a Sunday, she re mained to dinner with him. The family was from home at the time, and besides the deceased and the p r i soner, there were only the cook and the housemaid in the house. The two latter were upstairs dressing 'when the murder was supposed to have been committed, but on one of them coming down the found the prisoner in the deceased's pantry standing over husband, who was lying on his back on the floor. The prisoner said, "See what I have done; for God's sake, go and fetch a:doctor." Upun which the servant ob aerved, " Good God, he has been stabbed ; why there is blood coming from his heart. Had he any disease of the heart?" The prisoner replied, " No;" and immediately afterwards medical assistance was called in, when it was discovered that the deceased had been stabbed in the side, and was quite dead. A steel and large carving knife, the last covered with blood, were found in the Pantry; and the observation of the prisoner, coupled with the opinion of the medical man, that the wound could not have been inflicted by the deceased himself, led to her being given into the custody of a police-officer, when she protested in emphatic terms, that when she first en tered the pantry the deceased stabbed himself, and she at once gave the alarm, which brought the nurse to the Spot. Certainly letters were found upon the deceased in the prisoner's handwriting, and written no later than June, which induced an impression that the prisoner Was jealous of the deceased, and contained demands for Money, and threats of vengeance if they were refused. Charlotte Brown, a nurse in the service of :Mr. John Edward Bailer, of the Parsonage Grange, Enfield, was the first witness examined. She said she remembered the prisoner coming to dine with the deceased at her master's house, on the Ist of July last. After dinner she went up stairs with the cook to dress for church, and while she was there the deceased came up and asked her to step down stairs and see his child. Soon afterwards she went down, and tound the prisoner standing over the deceased, who was lying on his back in the pantry. The prisoner said " See what I have done; for God's sake go and fetch a doctor." Witness observed blood running tre m the side of the deceased. He had no coat on. She then hastened to a neighbour's and got him to go for a doctor. The prisoner was holding her child in her arms when she came down stairs, and had her bonnet and shawl on. Mr. Buller, the master of the deceased, stated that the deceased had been in his service two or three years, but he had known him previously for many years. He was a man of religious teeing and principle. lie was out of town at the time this occurrence took place, but just before he lett he saw the deceased, when be appeared ite his usual good spirits and health. For reasons which it Was not necessary to explain he had previous to this occurrence forbidden the prisoner, whom he had know slightly, from entering his home. • Mary Captain, the cook, stated that previous to the day of the alleged murder she had seen the prisoner once. On that day the deceased, the coachman, and herself sat down to dinner, and whilst they were so en gaged the prisoner came in with her child. She ap peared to be in au excited state, and witness remark, d to her, " Oh, dear, what a heat you are in," and took the child from her and invited her to sit down to dinner, but she declined doing so. The deceased then walked round the table and asked the prisoner, " What brought you here ?" The prisoner replied, " Ycu know what I have come for." She then sat down to dinner, and it was not till then that the deceased asked her the question she had just mentioned. After dinner the prisoner and deceased appeared to have become friendly, and witness went up stairs to dress, while the coachman retired to his stables, and the deceased and the prisoner were left in the kitchen together. Whilst witness was dressing the nurse called her from the b _Atom of the stairs,observieg that " John was very ill." She went down imme diately, and found the deceased lying in the pantry, and the prisoner ceying in the kitchen. She noticed a steel lying by the side 01 one of the deceased's • legs, and a knife-tray with knifes in it on the pantry table. Witness got some vittegar and water, and having bathed the deceased's face, she observed WO on his left breast, and asked the prisoner if she knew if John ever had any affection of the heart. She said, " No, never." Witness then said to the deceased, " John, here is your wife," and he replied, " Well, what does she want ?" Ile never more spoke alter !hat. Soc n afterwards the • medical man came in, and found that the deceased was dead. Just before the medical man arrived she observed a wound in the deceased's side, and exclaimed, in the presence of the prisoner, " Why, good God, he is stabbed;" but the prisoner made no reply to the remark, and stood looking over the deceased, Thomas Smith, the coachman, corroborated the testi• mony of the last witness so far as it re rated to the pri soner coming into the kitchen and dining, adding, that just before going to church he entered the kitchen and saw the prisoner and deceased sitting together very comfortable. (The trial was proceeding when our report left.) Every earnest glance we give to the realities around us, with intent to learn, proceeds from a holy impulse, and is a song of praise.—Eliza Cook's Journal. T IT It g T 7 LITERATURE. 111URRAY'S 11 - 0.31 E AND COLONIAL LI BRARY. Nos. LXXII , LXXIII, and LXXIV Anotner valuable biographical pr,duction has been reprinted in a cheaper and cost quently more acces sible f=arm by Mr. Murray, constituting the last three numbers of his Home and Colonial Library. The biography in question is the popular " Memoir of the Life of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, Bart." The nar rative of the career of this distinguished politician, whose name has acquired an enduring celebrity as a,sociated with the labours of Wilberforce, Clarkson, and Brougham, in effecting the emancipation of the negroes in our West Indian possessions, and ultimately the general abolition of slavery, must always be re garded with peculiar attention. For ourselves, as members of the next generation to his, the work pos sesses a particular a ttraction, relating as it does to public men still living—such men as Denman, Lushington, and Macaulay. Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton had the advantage of representing large constituencies in the House of Commons during a period when British legislation was marked by a series of very extraordinary reforms, such reforms as that of the Parliament itself, as that of manumitting the African race, and that also of emancipating the Catholics. Ills share in these trans actions must ever excite the respect of those who can at all appreciate the character of a conscientious statesman. THE MERCHANT TAYLOI?S' MAGAZINE. A second portion of this amusing little periodical justifies all we said respecting it on the occasion of its first appearance. There is a bon-hommie about its tone which cannot fail to propitiate favour, and the majority of the contributions are jeux d esprit of un forced and spontaneous fascetiousness. Commend us to the "Philosophy of Picnics" for a good laugh ; the writer is evidently one of keen observation. The " Life of Alcuin," too, is a paper of singular excel lence, notwithstanding its extreme brevity. So is it, in most cases, with the remainder of the publication. PRACTICE IN GERMAN. By Falck Lebahn. It does not remain for us to assert that Falck Lebahn is to German literature what De Porquet is to French literature. As an elementary writer upon the German language he has been long known and deservedly popular. His " German in One Volume," for example, has, to our thinking, entirely superseded all other grammars in the same tongue. A com panion work has just been issued upon a new prin ciple, or rather upon an elaboration of the new prin ciple of lingual tuition, " adapted to self-instruction." The book before us comprises three chapters of the charming tale by De La Motte Fouque, " Undine," with copious notes, and a literal interlinear translation. As it would be hopeless to attempt to give any expla nation of the simplicity and clearness of this mode of imparting a knowledge of the language, we must con tent ourselves with asserting, that whoever fails to learn the German language with this help must have an intellect irredeemably dull and obfuscated. CYCLOPZDIA OF MORAL AND RE• LIGIOUS ANECDOTES. A very singular compilation or stories and inci dents having a moral and religious tendency. The plan has evidently been suggested by the " Percy Anecdotes," and by the sequel at present publishing in London. With all respect for the intention of the compiler, we cannot but think that be occasionally sinks into an atmosphere of intolerable twaddle, as, for example, when he lays it down as an axiom in ethics that Balls are incompatible with prayer. Some of the illustrative tales are good, such as those about "Robert Hall as an Agent," about " Frederic the Great and his Pomeranian servant," or about "Socrates and his reply to Alcibiades." But when the ad visability of total abstinence from alcoholic liquors is enforced by an account of a sagacious goat, or of the freaks of a monkey, we are disposed to regard our very sober monitor as guilty of a little puerility. MACPHAIL'S EDINBURGH ECCLESIAS- TICAL JOURNAL. In the September number of this publication— received long after the appearance of our notices of the current periodicals—there are two ,contributions to which we would particularly draw attention. One is the commencement of an ingenious analysis of Milton's masterpiece ; the other is a singular per formance, entitled " The Buffooneries of Modern Education." A cluster of home truths will be found in the latter well deserving► of consideration. THE DREAM OF HUMAN LIFE. As a sequel to " Social Distinctions; or Hearts and Homes," by Mrs. Ellis , a narrative with the above title has just been commenced by the author of " The Lollards." H. Warren still continues to be the illustrator ; and the " Peasant's Welcome" is one of the most graceful sketches that has yet emanated from his pencil. Seeing that scarcely eight pages of the " Dream of Human Life" have yet appeared, we can do nothing more, yet awhile, than simply announce the fact of its publication. TESTIMONIAL TO THE HUNGARIAN REFUGEES THE HUNGARIAN NATION COUNTS ON THE SYMPATIII OF EVERY NATION WHICH LOVES RIGHT AND Ll- BERTY."—Kossuth's Protest against Russian Inte yen 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 11, FRANCE. The Provisional Council convoked by the Arch bishop of Paris opened its sittings in the chapel of the seminery of Saint Sulpice on Monday morning. After having assisted at the mass of the Holy Ghost, the members of the council formed themselves into se veral congregations, to aonsider the serious questions to be decided by the general congregation. It is be lieved that the deliberations of the Council will last ten clays. A letter from Pau mentions that the Pyrenees are already covered with snow. A letter from Dax (Landes) states that the entire vintage has been destroyed in the communes of Cler mont, Ozaurt, Castetuan, Douzucy, Bajts, Lahasse, and Gibut, by a hail-storm. Accounts from Montpellier state that the health of the celebrated Father Ventura, who has fixed his residence in that town, is completely re-established. 'less doing to-day than we had on the previous Mon day. The merchants have purchased freely at former prices. Kerseys and heavy goods have been rome difficult of sale than they were last fortnight. In the wool market there is little or nu change to report. HUDDERSFIELD, SEPT. 18.—Not many buyers in attendance today, and but little business doing, either in the Cloth Hall or warehouses. Many orders con tinue to come to hand, and keep our manufacturers well employed. HALIFAX, SEPT. 15.—There is no noticeable varia tion in the amount of business done, either in plain or fancy goods, nor is there any change in the quota tions. The same may be said of yarns, both as regards demand and prices. The wool trade is, perhaps rather more quiet, and the slight advance spoken of in our last seems to be generally conceded, but the growers are asking higher rates than the staplers are able to obtain from the spinners. LEEDS, SEPT. 18.—The stocks at present in the hands of the makers are very light, and prices are steady. In the warehouses, with one or two excep tions, business is slacker than for some weeks past, and trade altogether is rather quiet. To-day business in the cloth halls has been dull. The general gloom occasioned by the rapid spread of cholera is the cause assigned for this change. Southampton ... .. St. Germans (Antony) St. Thomas ... .. Swant.iea, 1 0 49 2 1 0 8 1 3 0 2 0 0 1 . • • .-". Tavistock t sdaN (Barnard Cest le) ... T• ntc Men (Rolvenden) Shrewsbury (from July 28 to Sept. 12) ••• ••• 1 1) nemuuth W arriogton Wolstanton and Burslt-m Wolverhampton and Siesdon Worcester ... Wycombe York ... Barnet ... Total ... ••• 498 SCOTLAND. - 4 0 2 0 - 1 0 2 0 6 0 Dundee Perth Bu'ness Presvn Kirk ... .•. ••• Hawick (from 17th inst.) Total ... General total: — Metropolis Country Scotland 158 39 4'..38 116 TREATMEN T OF CHOLERA. Yesterday the Roy al College of Physicians issued the following circular to the members of the pro fession : Royal College of Physicians, Pall- mall East. " Sir,—The opinions of the profession are divided on many points relating to the pathology and treat ment of cholera; and it is not to be expected that the doubts and discrepancies existing will be finally settled by the evidence which any individual member of the profession may adduce. But the committee have a confident hope that valuable and conclusive results, in regard to at least some of the disputed points, might be obtained by collecting and comparing the observations of hospital physicians and the many "other members of the college who have practical expe ence in the present epidemic. " Such a method of inquiry appears to be especially applicable, and indeed indispensable, in any endea vour to estimate the relative values of the various modes of treating cholera, respecting which the evi dence is at present so conflicting. With the co operation of the members of the college, the committee may, it is hoped, in some cases, be able to fix the kind and amount of benefit derivable from particular remedies or plans of treatment, and establish the superiority of some remedies, and with regard to others, they may show that their use ought to be at once abandoned. " The following list includes the principal modes of treatment hitherto recommended. It seems desi rable that every member of the college, who has the necessary opportunity, should submit one or more of these to a systematic trial, in a series of cases ; but the committee request that you will communicate to them any observations you may have made on the effects of other remedial means, not included in this list :---Calomel in large doses, in smaller and frequent doses, calomel with opium, opium in large doses, ammonia, alcoholic liquids, essential oils and aromatics, camphor and musk, acetate of lead, sulphate of copper, the vegetable astrin gents, quinine, arsenic, iron, the saline plan, as recom mended by Pr. Stevens, the tartarized antimony plan, as recommended by Dr. Billing, emetics, the free administration of cold water and ice, the cold bath, and cold douche, the application of the wet sheet,' injection of saline or other fluids into the veins, bleedings, and electricity. " With regard to the form in which your observa tions on the results of treatment may be communi cated, the committee would merely suggest, that with a view to the subsequent comparison of the facts contributed by different observers, a statement, not merely of the number of cases treated with each re medy and the main results, but also of some particulars of the cases, is desirable. The following points appear the most important with reference to the object in view :—The age and sex of each patient; the period of the attack at which the treatment was commenced; the severity of the attack, as indicated by-1, the pulse ; 2, the state of the surface, especially of the face and extremities, as to temperature, moisture, and colour ; 3, the appearance and amount of the intes tinal evacuations ; 4, the existence and degree of urgency of the vomiting and cn.mps ; and, 5, the state of the urinary secretion ; the apparent imme diate effect of the remedy on the symptoms; the duration of the state of collapse, whether fatal or not, after the commencement of the treatment, and, in cases of recovery, the supervention or not of the state called the consecutive fever.' "The preceding observations have reference more especially to the treatment of the disease in the stages of impending and complete collapse. But the committee would gladly learn the results of your ex perience relative to the means of arresting the diar rheas, which in many instances precedes the state of collapse, and of restoring the healthy action of the kidneys when collapse has been recovered from. (See the queries No. 6 and 10.) "Lastly, the committee request that you will com municate to them the results of any inquiries you may have instituted into the morbid anatomy of cholera, or into the chymical and microscopic ana lysis Of the blood and secretions in the different stages of the disease, and any general observations on the pathology of cholera. The series of queries appended to this letter embraces some of the more important questions which might be elucidated by the combined e xperience of the members of the college. B ut it is not desired by the committee that in any communica on with which you may favour them you should mit your remarks to the subjects of those queries. " QUERIES. General total ... Note.—The number of attacks reported by the union officers are—for the metropolis 239, and for the country 502; but their return: , do sot, in general, comprehend the cases that are treated by medical tnen in private practice. The deaths are returned according to superintendent registrar's districts, as it is found im• practicable to distinguish any place separately. CHOLERA. Mon. Tues. Sep'. Sept. 17th. 18th. 19 13 20 10 17 17 44 34 116 84 DIARRIICEA. Mon. Tues. Sept. Sept. 17th. 18th. 6 5 9 6 5 4 16 8 20 16 LONDON. West Districts ••• North Districts Central Districts ... Rat Districts ... South Districts ... Total ~, 216 158 56 39 CHOLERA. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIB„—As almost every kind of medical treatment has been adopted of the most opposite nature for the removal of Asiatic cholera, with apparently little beneficial effect, it becomes every one, under such extraordinary ravages as the disease is now making, to record his views. I avail myself of the extensive circulation of your paper to state some circumstances which may be of use at this crisis. I hitd considerable opportunity in 1832 of trying several plans of treatment for cholera, one of which I made known in the Lancet of the 29th of January, 1848, which it is unnecessary again to record. Suf ficient to state that success was greet by that mode of treatment, which embraced different preparations of capsicum and veratria, as embrocations to restore the balance of circulation which in cases of . cholera becomes entirelyßoverthrown. I have since used the same preparation of capsicum in the form of pills, instead of its being used as an embrocation. Almost all stimulants, such as brandy, &c., produce temporary stimulating power, but if re peated, often, these cause greater depression, and in stead of being attended with advantage the reverse takes place, stupor ensues, and nervous influence is exhausted. Thee great law which ought, in my opinion, to guide us in finding out a plan of treatment likely to be attended with general good, is, by adopting such means. as will produce a safe, speedy, and permanent effect upon the system, and which can be repeated frequently, to increase the action of the heart and general circulation, and to prevent congestion. lam confident that no two excitements of equal power can exist :st the same time in the human frame, but the greater will overcome the less. The powerful stimu lating effect which is induced by the alcoholic extract of capsicum has a decided influence upon the nerves and circulation, superior to any other stimulant with which I am acquainted ; and one of its greatest ad vantages is, that it is attended with no risk by its repetition. As the disease has properly been divided into pre monitory and collapse, I am in the habit of mixing opium and mercury, so that the tendency to diarrhoea may be checked, while the action arising from the capsreum is producing its powerful and immediate infline nce over the nerves and circulation, and pre ventii.ng the second stage of the disease. The formula that I generally have given is alco holic extract of capsicum 5 grains, extract of opium 10 g rains, calomel 8 grains, 4 drops of the essential oil of almonds. To be inaCe into 15 pills. One pill to be taken after every motion. WI the disease attacks the system, and there is neithe r vomiting nor purging, one pill ought to be taken every quarter of an hour until the balance of the circulation is restored. It is a singular fact that the first attack of the dis ease bappens generally during the night. In these cases,, before medical aid can possibly be procured, the pills tray be taken with instant advantage, and with perfect safety. I have the honour to be, your obedient servant, A. TURN BULL, M.D. 16, :Manchester square, Sept. 18, 1849. TO THE _EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sig ) -4 have seen several letters in your univer sally read journal, on the subject of throwing solution of chloride of lime into the water-closets, with a view to purify them and the sewers; allow me to off; lr a suggestion. I propose that the inhabi tants should, on a given day at a given hour, throw a certain quantity of the concentrated essence of the chloride into the water-tanks which supply the closets, tlhe quantity to be regulated by the Board of Health, tir some competent authority. Then if all the water -closets in the metropolis were to be simul taneously cleansed at, say ten o'clock, in the forenoon, and the in.eire quantity of water in the tanks let run (which, as before stated, would be impregnated with chloride of ',lime), the good effect on the sewers of the metropolis vvould be incalculable. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, Sept. 17,. .1849. M. D. " I. Can you communicate to the committee any facts observed or investigated by yourse lf which appear to you demonstrative of the con tagious or infectious nature of cholera, or of its communi cabilit y in any way ? " 2. Can you detail any facts illustrative of the in fluence of deficient ventilation, damp, and foul air respectively, or of other external circumstances, in determining or favouring the production of cholera ? "3. W hat are the particular states of body or mind which, according to your experience, have most frequently predisposed individuals to be attacked by the disease ? " 4. What are the groups of symptoms which have preceded the full development of the attack of cholera? " 5. liave you observed any distinctive marks by which diarrhoea about to pass into developed cholera, may be recognized? "6. Does it accord with your experience that cho lera in the stage of serous diarrhoea may with certainty he checked ? What means have you found most effectual in attaining this object ? "7. Have you any facts come under your notice which, independently of the theoretical views, would elucidate the question, whether the affection of the intestinal mucous membrane in cholera is the primary disease or one of its secondary effects? "8. Can you furnish the committee with the par ticulars of cases in which the rapidity of the fatal collapse has borne no relation to the amount of fluid discharged from the blood-vessels either through the intestinal mucous membrane or through the skin ? "9. What are the pathological conditions which you have observed in the consecutive fever ? "10. What means have you found most successful in exciting the functions of the kidneys after the stage of collapse has passed ?" TIIE MARGATE BOATS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUE. Siu,—l am desired by the directors of this company to request that you wilt be good enough to correct a paragraph in yesterday's Sun, headed Margate, 18th September, stating " that none of the boats from London had been able to land their passengers there that day, but had been obliged to carry them on to Rarnsgate, and from thence in omnibuses to Mar gate,' which statement, if uncontradicted, might be injurious to the well-known character of this company's vessels, as regards their Efficiency. The Herne steam er, belonging to this company, left Lon don at eleven o'clock on the day in question , and, notwithstanding a strong wind from the ar rived at Margate at twenty minutes past five, and landed her pat;sengers without difficulty. With that exception your statement is correct, as I believe the Herne was the only steamer that arrived at Margate from London that day. I ail), Sir, your obedient servant, G. W. ROHRS, Secretary. Herne Bay Steam-packet Company, Office, 113, FenchuVeh-street, London, Sept. 20, 1849. [The paragraph in question was sent to us by our correspondent at Margate.—ED. Sun.] DAY OF PRAYER.—THE SCOTTISH CHURCHES IN LONDON.—It was resolved by the Church of Scotland Presbytery in London:—" That this Presbytery, believ ing that national sins draw down national judgments, and that the wide-spread and fatal epidemic which now destroys so many of our fellow-subjects is a visitation from God, under which it becomes all ranks and degrees of men in our country to humble themselves, and to acknowledge God's hand in it, and the greatness of our sins, who seek forgiveness through the blood of Christ, do express their deep regret and sorrow that our rulers have not felt it their duty to appoint a day for national humiliation and prayer. This Presbytery, therefore, hereby appoint Friday, Sept. 21, for special prayer in all the churches under its jurisdiction, that it may please God, the Father of Mercies, to forgive the sins of our nation and people, and to mitigate or re move from us our present sore affliction, and sanctify it to all ranks of our people. And the ministers and elders are hereby enjoined to meet for this special object in their respective churches at such an hour on the said Friday as may be felt by them most convenient; and every minister of the Presbytery is hereby enjoined to read this paper from the pulpit on Sabbath next, Sept. 16, and to report to next meeting of Presbytery." LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 19.—VIsir or THE DUKE OY CANIBRIDGF..—Hts Royal Highness the Duke of Cam bridge, who, with other guests, has been staying with the Marquis of Angles( a, at Phis Newydd, North Wales, paid a visit to Liverpool 3 esterday. His Royal High ness was politely receivtd by the Mayor, J. B. Moore, Esq., whose, carriage, servants, &c., were placed at his disposal. The N! ayor accompanied his Royal Highness in a survey of the docks, warehouses, &c., of Liverpool. In the afternoon his Royal Highness visited the Blue Coat School Hospital, an institution analogous to that of Christ Church, London, with which his Royal Highness expressed himself highly pleased. Ile afterwards visited Mr. Ilausburg's establishment in Church-street, St. James's Cemetery, and some other places. We un derstand his Royal Highness has waived his intention of leaving town this evening, and will dine with the Mayor at the Town Hall. A select party hes been invited to meet him. MRS. IiEALD.—The Cork Constitution says:— TO TI-LE ELI fOR OF THE SYN. Sia,—lt was stated a day or two ago in your journal, that the allowance for the sale of postage stamps, which had hitherto been at the rate:of 74 per cent., w ould in future be reduced to 4 per c en t ., therby effecting a considerable saving to the coun try. No doubt this saving is very desirable, and may thus easily be brought about; but I would urge that, as the commission is thus greatly reduced, and it may cause some parties authorised to deal in stamps to discontinue keeping them, that all post-masters be required by the Post-master General to keep them always on hand; as I have at times, and no doubt many persons be sides, been inconvenienced by the post-masters, at country places, especially, not caring to keep them, and being frequently out of stock. This enforced on all " offices" would tend much to save the expense of even 1 4 per cent. I remain, Sir, yours, &c., PRO BON 0 PUBLICO. Sheffield, Sept. 19, 1849. ADJOUntil D INQUEST ON THE. CHARTIST CONVICT, ,SHARPS.—UL Tuesday afternoon Mr. Lingham, the deputy-corona r for Westminster, resumed and concluded the inquiry, w hich was commenced on Monday, into the circumstanc es attendant upon the death of Alexander Sharpe. Mr. Lavies, the surgeon of the Tothill- fields Prison, detailed the symptoms under which the deceased had laboured \, and they left no doubt on his mind that the death arc , ec from cholera. He did not think that the solitary incar ,eration and restriction of diet had has tened death, a she had watched the prisoner during the whole period and percei ved no change in him. Mr. Pickers, a mer% limit gentleman selected by the relatives of the deceased , -was then sworn. He agreed Lavies' stater neat as to the appearances presented by the body being I - *lathy. As a general rule, any reduction of diet durir gbe previa:nee ot cholera was injudicious. He had hear d the evidence in the present case, bat it was impossi Igo for him to trace the cause of death to the confinement ; and dietary restriction. The Coroner hav ing charge A the • jury, the room was then cleared, and atter cor Au lting for a quarter of an hour, the jury re corded a simple verdict ot t , Died of cholera.. The.. Fifesleire Journal states that Miss Agnes Strie . td,,the .authoress of " The . Queens of England," h as IReq visiting M St. Andrews. "Lola Montes is the daughter of a Cork lady. Her mother was a member of a millinery establishment in this city, the partners in which were the mother of the Countess of Landsfeldt, her sister, and two step-sisters. The moth( r was married in this city to Lieutenant Gilbert, the father of Lola, who was an officer in the army, and shortly after sailed from this port with his wife to join his regimtnt, the 21st Bengal Native In fantry. Lola's mother, who is in declining health, paid La visit to her sister in this city at the close of last year." Lom - no w THURSDAY _EVP,NIN'G SEPTEMBER 20, lea Males Females ... MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS. NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED 11 , THE WEEK ENDING S.ATURDAY, SEPT. 15, 1549. Epidemic, Endemic, mid (A.ntagious Diseases ...*2159 Diseases of Uncertain Seat ... 40 Tubercular Diseases ... 170 Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses... ... 115 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels ... 20 Diseases of tho Lungs, and other Organs of Respiration ••• ' •• • ••• .. • •. • •.• 76 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs "" of Digestion... Diseases of the Kidne) s, &c. Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, 87. ... Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles Diseases of the Skin, Bcc. Malformations... ... •.. Premature Birth ... •• ••• Atrophy Old Age Sudden ... ••• ••• ••• ••• Violence, Privation, Cold, or Interel crance Causes not specified ... ••• ••• DEATHS mom ALL CAUSES ... Population Average weekly Death: Enumerated, Deaths, lirr-ti in the 1841 Five Summers. w 4.4• 1, Wet Districts... 300,711 . . 147 ... 347 North D—tricts.. 375,971 .. 191 ... 345 Contr:4A Listricts 373,653 ... 183 ••• 373 East D,stricts ... 392,144 ... 227 ... 600 South Districts.. 501,190 ... 260 ... 1,200 T0ta15........ 1,948,369 ... 1,008 ..• 2,863 ... 1,351 ... 1,514 AUSTRIA. The Pesth Gazette publishes the sentence of a court-martial on one Joseph Ringsmuth, an assistant in a school at Olen. He is condemned to eight years' imprisonment, " in heavy irons :"-Ist. For having di,tributed amongst his pupils several copies of an edict of the revolutionary Minister of Public Instruc tion after the storming of Ofen by the insurgents ; secondly, for having trained the scholars to the use of arms and the practice of military tactics ; and thirdly, for having caused a " Hymn to Kossuth," by himself composed, to be sung in the school at the termination of the daily studies. STATE OF TRADE. (From the Manehester Guardian.) MANCIIE,,TER, SEPT. 18.—The yarn market has exhibited to-day a continuance of the inactivity and heaviness which prevailed last week. There has, indeed, been some inquiry for Indian qualities; but it appears to have had no other object for the present than to ascer tain the state of the market in respect to such articles, just before the arrival of the overland mail, for it has led to hardly any actual business. The German and other continental houses are still compelled by the limits they receive to confine themselves to purchases of comparatively small amount, for the purpose of making up assortments ; and the home consumers find an inducement in the less satisfactory condition of their own business, to diminish their present stocks of yarns before giving out fresh orders. Still, inanimate and, to some extent, irregular as the market has been, the general quotations show little change in prices, as compared with those of this day week. The concessions that have taken place have been partial, and rather in water twist than in mule. In goods exceedingly few trarsactions have taken place, and the general bias of prices has been rather against the manufacturers. To go a little more into parti culars, we may state that domestics certainly do not improve. Long cloths and T cloths are rather more difficult of sale. All descriptions of 40 inch shirtings continue flat, especially the lower qualities, in which there is some giving way of price. The contracts for jacconets are gradually coming to a close, and there is no longer the same facility of renewal as of late. 36-insh continues in diminished demand. In mada tollams prices scarcely show the firmness they lately did, though there is still a demand for them. Even in printing cloths there is less doing; their value is, however, sustained by the orders in hand. Such is the loss attending some departments of the trade of this district, such as the spinning of water twist for exportation, and the manfacture of heavy goods, that several millowners in Rochdale, Manchester, and the vicinity of Oldham have resorted to short time, and at least one or t wo fi rms h a ve a ltogether stopped their works. And a sort of vague rumour of an in tention on the part of the operatives in this immediate neighbourhood, to turn out for an advance of wages, has been almost hailed as a p ros p ec ti v e relief from long-continued loss. The turn-outs at Bolton have not vet generally returned to work, though we under stand several mills are again in motion. ROCHDALE ) SEPT. 17.—We have had more busi- CHOLER The following is the Registrar-General's Return of reaths from Cholera and from Diarrhoea, registered in London on Tuesday, We'ne!ay, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Monday, the 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, lbth, and 17th of September, 1849: Population.* Districts. 1831 fil,00;) 306,000 3:. 6,000 331,000 410,000 53,000 32,( 00 58,000 4,000 2 J,OOO 37,000 122,00 9,C00 104,000 3',0.0 35,000 h 3,000 42,000 44,000 48,000 47,000 38,000 28,000 57,000 69,000 62,0: 0 64,000 39,000 72,000 25,000 32,000 20,000 30,000 40,000 45,000 &',OOO 33,000 28,000 13,000 64,000 18,000 1841. 1,948,000 301,000 376,000 874,00 92,000 503,000 75,000 40,000 67,0(0 57,000 25,000 87,000 138.000 10,100 110,000 56,000 42,000 54,000 44,000 44,000 57,000 50,000 40,000 29,000 56,000 83,000 74,000 72,000 41,000 91,000 31,000 33,000 20,000 35,000 47,000 55,000 110,00 0 40,000 40,000 14,000 81,000 `z3,000 13,211 -. 12,120 London ... West Districts ... North Districts Central Districts East Districts ... South Districts .. West Districts— Kensington ... Chelsea ... St. George, Hanover-square ... Westminster St. Alartin.in•the•Fiel3s St. James, Westminster ... North Districts— Marylebone ... Hampstead Pancras ... Islington Hackney Central Distries— St. Giles ... ... Strand ... Ilolborn... Cie, kenwell .•. St. Luke ... ••• East London ... .. West London London, City ... East Districts Sh ored itch .. ... Bethnal. green ... -- • Whitechapel ... ... St. George-in-the-East Stepney Poplar ... ... „„. South Districts St. Saviour ... St. Olave ... Bermondsey ... St. George, Southwark" Newington ... Lambeth ... ••• Wandsworth ... Camberwell ... Rotherhithe Greenwich ... Lewisham ... 1,655,000 • See Appendix to Registrar-General's Ninth Annual Rep rt for information respecting the population of the dis tricts and sub-districts of London at the several censuses. Estimated population of London at the middle of the year 1849 —2,206,076. RETURN OF CASES. SEPT. 18. THE METROPOLIS. SUPERINTENDING REGISTRAR'S DISTRICT. Deaths. Cholera. Dlarrh Attacks. WEST DISTRICTS. ••• ''"' Kensington ... Chelsea... St. George, Hanover-square ... Westminster ... St. Martin-in-the-Fields St. James, Westminster ... - NORTH DISTRICTS. ••• ... ••• Marylebone Hampstead ... St. Pancras Islington ... Hackney ... ••• ..... ••• "". . • • '-'" .• • .--. ••• ."" St. Giles ... Strand ... Llolb,,rn Union Clerkenwell St. Luke East London ... West London City of London* ..• •• • - CENTRAL DISTRICTS. ••• '.."' ••• .... ••• .... ••• ."" • • • "'... •• • ...' • • • ."". EAST DISTRICTS. horeditch Bethnal•green ... Whitechapel SL George-in-the•East ~ Stepney Poplar ... ••• "'''''.. ••• ''''' • • • ''''''' ••• '''.' ••• '''''' SOUTH DISTRICTS. St. Saviour, Southwark St. Olave Bermondsey ... St. George, Southwark Newington, Surrey ... Lambeth ... Wandsworth ... Camberwell Rotherbithe . Greenwich* Lewisham ••• -. •• • '''''' ••• ''' • • • '''' ••• ''' ••• ''''. ••• ''''. ••• ''''' ••• ... ••• ''' ••• ....'. Total ... 158 Total deaths from cholera, registered from Sept.lB, 1848, to Sept. 18, 1849 ... Total deaths from cholera, registered from Juno 17, 1849, to Sept. 18, 1849 * Returns of Tuesday have not been received from Mr. R. Cranch, Registrar of the south-east sub-district of City of London ; and Mr. W. T. Nokes, Registrar of Woolwich Dockyard, sub-district of Greenwich. THE COUNTRY. The following is the Return of Deaths from Cholera and Diarrhoea reported to the General Board of Health the 19th day of September, 1849 : Deaths. Attacks. Cholera. Diarrh. ••• ...... Alcester Anglesey ... Ashton-under-Lyne Aston ... Barnstaple Barrow-upon-Soar Bedminster Berwick-upon-Tweed... Birmingham Blaby ..• ~, B..dmin... . o . Bolton ... ... ... Bradford and North Bierley Brecknock Bridgnorth Bridgwater Brighton Bristol ... Burnley ••• ...... ••• '''' ••• ."'• ••• ''' ••• ........ ••• ''.... ••• "". ••• .-". ••• """ ••• .'"" ••• .-'' ••• "". • • • ...."'. Bury .• ... ... Cardiff .•• ••• Carmarthen Chester-le-Street ... Chesterfield ... • 6 , , Chichester ... Chorlton ••• ••• Clifton ... • • Colchester ... Cosford ••• ... Coventry ... ••• Darlington ... Dartford (Bexley) ... Dewsbury Doncaster Dorchester and Cerne • .. .--' ••• "'" ••• "'" ••• ."' • • • ...".. •• • """ ••• '''" ... --" • • • ''''' ••• ...'" • • • ....-'. •• • ..".' ••• --.. ••• "''' ••• '''.. ••• ''''" ••• ''''' • • • """'" Dover Dudley East Stonehouse Eeclesfield Eton ... Faversham .. Fylde, Lytham (July 11) Gainsborough Gateshead (Winlaton) Goole (Swinefleet) Halifax ••• ••• Hastings ••• ••• Havertordwest (Milford) Haverfordwest Headington ..• Helmsley Hemel Hempstead ... Hitchin Holyw ell (Flint) ... Huddersfield (Golcar) Hull ... Hunslet Ipswich „„ ••• Isle of Thanet (Ramsgate) ... Lancaster ••• Leeds ... ••• Leicester Lexden ••• ••• Liverpool ... ••• Llandovery Llandillo Fawr ••• Llanelly (Pembry) ••• Kingsbridge (Modbury) Macclesfield ••• Maidstone (Loose) ••• Maidstone ••• Mailing, East Peckham, and Wrotham ••• ••• Manchester ... •.• ••• Medway (Gillingham) Mevagissey ••• Milton next Sittingbourne Morpeth .. •.• ••• Nantwich Neath ... Newcastle-upon-Tyne ••• Newcastle•under-Lyrae ... Newton Abbott ••• ••• North Witchford (March) ... Nottingham Okehampton ••• Oldham ••• ••• Ormskirk (North Meols) Oxford ..• Penzance (St. Ives) ... Portsea Island Preston ••• Reading ••• Ripon . Romford .•• Salford... Salisbury Sculcoatea ••• ''' • • • ''''' ••• ."''" 4 • • .".. • • • '"''' • • • ...." ••• '''''' • • ""' •• • '... •• • ..... ••• .... ••• ..."'" ••• ......" • • • ..... ••• •••••• ••• •••-• • • • ...., ••• ...... • • • ••••• ARRIICEA BIRTHS IN THE WEEK. * In this number are included 1,682 cases of death by Cholera, 24 by Scarlatina, 66 by Typhus Fever, and 260 by Diarrhoea. --- - BURIALS IN TOWNS. THE CITY BOARD OF HEALTH. The Lord Mayor attended the committee, and after reading the reports, Mr. Barkley, the chairman, in formed the committee that he had been himself wit ness, on the previous day, of the overcrowded condi tion of one of the burying- g r oun d s o f tl. e City. Al derman Finnis, who was likewise present at the interment of the late Deputy Silson, had desired him to call the attention of the Lord Mai or and the committee to the fact, in order that some steps might be immediately taken to redress the evil. When the corpse had arrived at the place of interment the grave was found too small, and although they were kept waiting upwards of twenty minutes, to the outrage of the feelings of the mourner s, the y were obliged to leave the ground, and, as he afterwards heard, they could not deposit the coffin without disturbing the body in the adjoining grave. The Loan MAYOR observed he was quite certain that, unless rigorous means were immediately taken to prevent intramural interments, the Government and the Legislature would, as soon as Parliament as sembled, bring in some sweeping measure to effect an object which had now excited the greatest public interest. It was quite evident, now public feeling had been excited, that the practice would not be permitted to continue. Mr. C. PEARSON said that the feeling against inter ments in the City was as strong in 1832 as at present. There were two great difficulties in the way of sub urban places of interment for the ninety-seven City parishes—one was, the vested interests of the parochial clergy and the inhabitants ; the other was the great cost to the poor which the removal of the dead to a distance would occasion to the parish or to their families and friends. The first of these difficulties he saw his way through in 1832 ; but the last was a stumbling-block which subsequent events had now removed. He had proposed that the board of health at that time should take advantage of the prevalence of the epidemic to provide a place of general interment, and that the corporation should obtain an Act of Parliament to confer upon the inhabitants of the City parishes and all the parochial functionaries the same rights, privileges, and fees, in respect of the interment of parishioners in the corporation cemetery, as at tached to them in their several parish grounds. He had many conferences with influential individuals, both clergy and laity, who approved of the project, and with the authority of the committee he at that time purchased twenty-two acres of land for the pur pose of a corporation cemetery at Holloway ; but the cholera happily departed, and when the excite meat had subsided, the other objection was held suffi cient to prevail, particularly in the case of the poor who, it is well known, would feel as sensibly and acutely as the rich, if they were prevented by the expenses attendant upon distant burying from paying the same tokens of honour totheirdeparte d relatives as were bestowed upon them by those to whom fortune had been more kind. The advantage of cheap and expeditious locomotion which railroads had intro duced would now remove this objection to suburban interments. One or two hundred acres of ground might be purchased in a suitable situation upon one of the metropolitan railroads, say within ten or fifteen miles of the City, where a proper receiving house could be erected, to which all bodies might be con veyed by the undertakers during the night, and at the hour fixed for the interment the mourners, poor or rich, at a small expenditure of time or money, might assemble to pay their last tribute of respect to their departed friends. A report was then read from Mr. Simon, detailing the plan of procedure adopted by him for carrying out the system of house to house visitation in the City. Mrs. Signol, wife of Bernard Signol, of 47, Monkwell street, appeared before the committee in a very distressed state. She stated that she had seven children residing at home; on Sunday last a grave was dug in St. Olave's churchyard for the interment of a female who had died of cholera in Winchester court close by ; they had commenced digging the grave before six o'clock in the morning ; the grave was not sunk sufficiently deep, and in consequence of the interference of Police-constable 186, the sexton was obliged to dig it deeper, and did not finish it till half-past four r.m. ;at about two o'clock Mrs. Signol was called by the servant to look on ; she then saw four human heads, which had been disinterred ; they were "in a green state with the hair visible," and other parts of human bodies had been thrown up. In consequence of some remarks from a gentleman who came in the ground, these remains were covered up with earth. Mrs. Signol said the smell arising from the church yard when graves were being dug was most offen sive and compelled the inhabitants of the neigh bourhood on those occasions to keep their windows closed. The CITY SOLICITOR recommended that Mrs. Sig nol should be sent to the Commissioners of Sewers, who were then sitting. The committee could not legally interfere, beyond making a further representation to the General Board of Health. Mr. YOUNG—Are you willing to make a depo sition of the facts you have stated to be verified by oath ? Mrs. Signol said she was, and left the room for that purpose. A brief conversation having taken place on the subject, a resolution was unanimously passed, calling upon the City Solicitor and the officer of health to report their opinions as to th e interments in the City. —Adjourned. LARGE EARLY CABBAGE..--ALNWICR, SEPT. 18. — On the 17th inst. a cabbage was cut in the allotment 01 Mr. Brankston, ironmonger, Alnwick, weighing 321b5., all usable, the stalk having been left in the ground to produce seed; the kind is Ilarrison's Imperial. This beautiful cabbage when growing measured nearly 5 feet across from tip to tip of the leaves. his Grace the Duke of Northumberland having caused a quantity of land to be divided into small allotments for the accom modation of the inhabitants, has conferred a great benefit upon them, as they prove to be exceedingly usetul to families, and by raising a spirit of emulation amongst the parties, are going on rapidly improving.—From Correspondent. We understand that Mr. Sheriff Gordon has ad dressed a communication to M. D'Estremont de Mocroix, commanding the French ship of war Psevoyant, express ing, in strong terms, his deep sense of the services ren dered by the party of officers and seamen belonging to the corvette, on the occasion of the fire at Gaonton Mains. His Grace the Duke of Buccleucb, through his agents, also transmitted the handsome sum of 101. for distribution among the men who rendered such effective service, as some acknowledgment of their promptitude and activity. This sum, however, it appears by a letter from the commander of the corvette to Mr. List, the superintendent of the county police, has been placed by the French seamen, in the moat generous ma nner, at the disposal of Mr. List, for distribution among the poor. Edinburgh Evening P 0.4. PUNISHMENT OF A THIMBLE RIGGER..—On Thurs day a noted thimble-rigger, named Satnuel Main, ws brought to the police•effice upon a charge of disorder ly conduct, and on being searched previous to his being locked up for the night in one of the cells, there w. re found upon him two pieces of board, and two sets of thimbles. Yesterday tie was brought before Bailie Tait in the police-court, at the inbtance of Mr. Moxey, on a charge of being a well-keown thimble-rigger, and of having in his possession, in contravention of the New Police Act, the articles mentioned above, being " imple ments or articles for practising games 01 hazard." The charge having been fully substantiated, be was sentenced to sixty days imprisonment. It is rare indeed that punishment reaches swindlers of this description, as they always contrive to carry en their nefarious transactions without the bounds of the city, where, owing to the defective state of the law, they enjoy a complete immu nity.—Edinburgh Witness. CIRCUIT COURT OF JUSTICIARY.—At Glasgow, on Friday last, sentence was pronounced on A exander Holmes anti Dugald Walker, convicted of stealing notes from the Union Bank under circumstances detailed in our last—the former to eighteen and the latter to twelve months' imprisonment. There were no other cases of any interest.—Scotsman. Males ... Females ... ... 663 ... 639 Total ... ... 1,302 THE SUNSHINE 'OF (From Eliza Cook's Journal.) " The Wind and the Beam loved the Rose, But the Rose loved one'; Who reeks where the wild Wind blows, Or loves not the Sun ?" Last Days of Pompeii. " Who loves not the Sun ?" asked the blind girl of Pompeii—painful question on the lips of one who had never beheld the light ! " Who loves not the Sun ?" sung Nydia, and the question admits of only one answer. We all (could it be otherwise ?) love the Sun, the dispenser of light and heat ; and we all (can we help it ?) love the Sunshine which elethes the world with beauty, the Sunshine which almost pos sesses the impossible power of perfecting perfection ; it e gilds refined gold" and " paints the lily," it adds a charm to the beautiful and lends attraction to the homely. Beautiful is the Sunshine! Beautiful as it glitters in golden sheets of glory on the bosom of the ocean, as it dances on the rippling waters of the brook, as it plays in the rain-drops by the wayside. Beautiful as it faintly glimmers over the mountain cops at early dawn, as it streams forth at noon day, clothing nature in her galaehess, as it lovingly lingers upon earth when " summer's lay decliaes along the hills." Beautiful is the Sunshine ! But let us suppose now, that in this :ge of wonderful contrivances, some marvellous che ideal or scientific process were suggested, by means ff which (without at all interfering with the indispensable light and heat) the Sunshine, with its beauty and gladness, should be for ever extinguished. the idea is preposterous; but prithee, good friends, let us consider it quietly for one moment. TVhit, we ask, would consent to annihilate the Sunshine ? Not a voice replies. Who, again, would not join with us in condemning the execrable proposition ? At once, every voice breaks forth, every hand is raised in indignation. Every soul, young and old, rich and poor, man and woman, unites in vehement condemna tion of the atrocious thought, "Extinguish the Sun shine ! What monster has suggested it ?" Softly, softly, dear friends! Hear us out, and ye shall, many of you, be self condemned. There is another Sun shine besides that which glads the material world. There is a Sunshine which suffuses with joy and beauty our spiritual life. The Sunshine of the moral world is Love ; not that Love in which novel writers and novel-readers delight, but Leese itself in its most holy and universal application. We have eulogised the beauty of the Sun's beams as they stream on mountain and moor, forest, field, and fell ; but more glorious is the light of this spiritual Sunshine. It beams upon the human countenance with as soft and pure a radiance as the Sun's rays kindle on the fair face of nature, and it cheers human hearts with a warmer glow than was ever occasioned by material heat. This soul's Sunshine sparkles in the first con scious glance which lights up the infant's face as he smiles upon his mother. It feebly flickers on the trembling lip and fading eye as the loving soul, reluct ustly turning from its dear ones, " Quits the warm precincts of the cheerful day, And casts a lunging, lingering look behind." It beams in the father's proud smile, as the little group gladly rush "to greet their sire's return." It lights up the joyous faces of long-parted friends, when their hands are once again clasped in sympathy. It shines forth in the wife's fond look of anxious tender ness, and the bashful maiden's timid glance. It gleams in the upturned eye of devotion and the sorrowing vaze of pity. It flushes the cheek of gratitude, and quivers in the lip of sympathy. Thrice holy, thrice beautiful Sunshine of the soul ! And you, lovers of earth's sunshine, would extinguish this! It is of you we speak. We allude not to the dogmatic philosopher (so-called) who sneers at romantic sentimentality (for which, perhaps, we have as little sympathy as himself); but we speak of you who, extolling the beauty of the Sunshine which gladdens your gardens and delights your eyes, roughly and carelessly extin guish that brighter light which should illumine your hearths and warm your hearts. How many partici pate in the sinful folly they just now joined us in condemning ?—how many of you are extinguishers of Sunshine ? You extinguish it—you, whose cold looks, and harsh tones, and unkindly words repel the sympathy of those who love you. You extinguish it —you, whom egotism and selfishness render blind to the feelings and indifferent to the troubles of those around you. You extinguish it—you, whose paltry pride scorns to ask pardon when you have offended; and you, whose still meaner spirit refuses nobly to forgive what is generously repented of. She extin -1 guishes this Sunshine—the wife and mother who nightly leaves her domestic hearth to seek happiness in the revel ; no gentle beams illumine her children's faces; no heart's sunshine lights up her husband's eye ; no ray of it sparkles in her own. He extinguishes this Sunshine—the miser, the " Scrooge," whose gold is his god. No light of love cheers his life; his heart is desolate and dark : and he also, the avaricious man, who would scorn the companionship of the professed " miser," he also extinguishes the Sunshine that might beam upon his path, who flies the domestic circle to bury himself in the counting house ; who can never spore a word for his wife or a smile for his children; whose whole heart, like Solo• mon Jericho's, is full of bank notes and nothing else. She extinguishes the Sunshine—the Coquette, who prefers the false glare of adulaticn to the sunny light of love; who cares more for the empty flattery of a hundred false lips than for the true devotion of one honest heart. How often do brothers and sisters, whose cold looks or angry words, as they gather round the well-spread board, daily verify the proverb, "Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith !" And in such cases it is so difficult to say who is wrong. A trifle—one of those " trifles which crake the sum of human things" —may have done all the mischief. And how shall it be undone? If friends and relatives would only preserve, in their mutual intercourse, the outward courtesy of stran gers, and if strangers would but cherish a little of the cordiality of relatives, how much happier would the world be! How much of life's sunshine would then delight us! As it is, however, distant acquaintances greet one another kindly, while their hearts too often belie their words; and friend s and brothers turn from I each other coldly, or speak harshly, while their hearts too belie their words. When the beggar's hand is rudely repulsed, and the passer by boastfully tells us he "caenot en courage vagrancy," can we refrain from surmising that if' his parsimony has spared his purse it has also deprived his heart of a gleam of happiness ? But ss e will not _blame him, perhaps he is right in re fusing to support the idler, (whether an idler from choice or compulsion he has not asked). Is he, how ever, more ready to grant the prayer of honest poverty ? Do the needy find in him a willing helper? Does his hand ever snatch the drowning from de struction ? Not so. He never heard—we beg his pardon ! he is too good a Christian never to have heard, but he never heeds, the injunction "Give to him that asketh of thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not away." Some may censure this worldly-wise one, for our part we pity him—he shuts up his heart from the sweetest Sunshine that ever was—the delight of conscious happiness—the true Sunshine of Love. But the extinguishers of Sunshine are too nume rous to catalogue. Let us leave them to the dm. lation of their choice, and think of ourselves. We have no right to chide; we have no right to blame the taskmaster, whose cruelty " presses" not the Sunshine only, but "the life from out young hearts ;" we have no right to blame the legislators who seemed to forget that in their hands (under Heaven) is the happiness of the poor; we have no right to blame till we ourselves are blameless. "He that is without sin among you let him cast the first stone." Let us forbear from chiding the wholesale extinguishers of Sunshine until we ourselves have proved our love for it by cherishing its beams in our own hearts, and by our own firesides. Gentle reader, remember this!—When harsh words fall from your lips, when an angry frown furrows your brow, when a cold smile curls your lip, when you turn a deaf ear to the voice of sorrow, when your hand refuses the grasp of sympathy or the token of forgiveness, when your steps continually turn from home in search of foreign pleasures—then, and in a thousand other in stances, too trivial almost to notice, but, alas, not trivial in their consequence—you too, even you are an extinguisher of Sunshine —of the joyous and beauti 'ul sunshine of the soul. __-----.---.--------' In the recent alterations in the executive of the Midland Railway, we observe that Mr. Joseph San ders, late secret ar y of the Bristol and Birmingham, is appointed general manager over the whole of the Midland and its numer ous branches. This must be most gratifying to him, as a proof of the high esti mation in which his business habits and gentlemanly conduct are held by the directors. RETURN OF THE COURT VIA EDIABLIRGH.--We are enabled on the be st authority to state the time of her Ma jesty's &Tarture from Balmoral, and the route to be fol lowed by the royal party. Her Majesty will leave Bal moral on the 26th, and proceed by ca rr i age t o Perth, where she will stay during the night. N ex t mor ning her Majesty will proceed on the Scottish Central to the Green hill Junction station, and along the Edinburgh and Glasgow line to. Edinburgh. We presume it is not intended, according to present arrangements, to make any stay at this city, but to proceed along the North British, the York, Newcastle, and Berwick, and the Mid land Railways to Derby, where the Royal party will sojourn for the night at the Midland Hotel, and resume their journey next morning. The directors of the North British Railway have received official intimation that a special train will be required for her Majesty and suite on the 27th ; and we understand. the directors on the other lines have receiv ed a similar notice.—Edinbnrgla Advertiser. ago the bodies of a young man and woman f ere ew e days foun d bound together i n the River Loing, near Montargis. On the bank of the river was a note, calling on the passers-by to pray to God for them, and intimating that they had committed suicide in conse quence of the refusal of the father of the young man to a llow their marriage.—Paris Paper. 2,865 ~~: ~_ old mall 1 the ttoe, 0 40 o r as vaio "S. e Id Y•) WO ;e of u sr- The :ott, )eerl the s of on Df will ate- Oa, :_.. ‘ i