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BLYTH. AUG. 26. Wind W.N.W.— Arrd. Bells, Ea) S. gi - b, C. LEITH, AUG. 26, SW. Warrior, Melbourne, Port Phih p, LONDONDERRY, AUG. 25.—S1d.Vermont, QUk.ENSTuWN, AUG. 26.—Arrd. Herald, Baltimore. LIVERPOOL, AUG. 28. Wind W.S.W. to N.N.W.— Arrd. 27th, William Gilli s, Bombay; Clifton, Calvert, Bonny, tld. sth June, and from Fernando Yo on ere 16 th Cicely, Sedgely, sld. 10th ult; Albion, briscoll, St. Domingo; Ottawa, Urquhart, Laguna; Bolton Abbey, Packer, Quebec; 28th, Tryphena, Rio TyGrande; Kate, Scott, Porto Rico; Elizabet h Moore, JutiF,hes, Jamaica; Houghton, Doane, New Orleans; Etaidee, Russell, St. John's, New Brunswick; Elizabeth, Gr een, Tripoli. Sid. 28th, G. Dean, Sierra Leone; Francis Barclay, Valparaiso; Belie, Tampico; William P enn, Philadelphia; Sir H. Pottinger, St. John's, New Brunswick; Standard, Tatmagouche; Higginson, Quebec. Off Port, Mary Spencer, .JE.dus. „PorunicAwL, AUG. 26.—The Surprise smack, of Car 'Pm, from Cardiff to Cork, put in here this day, with Are feet water in her hold. YARMOUTH, AUG 27.—The Brigand, Newcastle to Dover, which got upon the Barber sands yesterday, came off this morning. BERWICK, AUG. 27.—The Damoel, of Maldon, sank Ye.sterday off the Humber, after being in contact the Nymph, of Portsmouth; crew saved, and lauded hero. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN-EXCHANGE-W EDNESDAY The quantity of English Wheat received fresh up to °tit market, this morning, was small; but we had a llarge number of Monday's unsold samples on offer. Really Bn°° parcels moved off slowly, at previous rates; but the Middling and inferior kinds were somewhat lower to purchase. The top price of the best White Essex new heat was 51s per quarter. The imports of foreign Wheat have been confined to 2,390 quarters. For that article, the demand was in a very depressed state, and Monday', quotations were with difficulty supported. ttcarcely any English Barley was on kale; but the quan y of Foreign was tolerably good. All kinds met a very slow inquiry, at barely stationary prices. In Malt , so. little wa s d o i ng th a t the currencies were almost no minal. The inquiry for Oats was mostly confined to retail parcels, at previous quotations. Beans, Peas, Indian. Corn, and Flour were excessively dull. ARRIVALS THIS WEER. Wheat. Barley. Oats, English Scotch... Irish ........ For e i gn ..... • Qrs. I Qrs. 1,210 160 Qrs. 1 Qrs. $0 2,100 2,390 1 1,370 5,290 noacnIGEL NOP INTLLIMET. Sacks 220 The accounts received from the plantations to day being considered somewhat favourable, the demand for all kinds of Hops is heavy, at drooping prices. The duty is called 80,0001. Yearlings—SussPx pockets, 31 lOs to 4110 s; Weald of Kent ditto, 31 lOs to 41 10s; Mid and East Kent ditto, 31 105 to 71 5s per cwt. wurrzcziaPzir.. The general demand was heavy to-day on the follow mg terms:—Beef, from 2s 41 to 3s 4d; Mutton, 3s to 3s 10d; Lamb, 4s to 4i 10d; Veal, 3* 04 to 3s 6d; and Pork, 3s Od to 3s 10d per Blbs, by the carcass. SUPPOSED APPREHENSION OF MANNING. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIRI—I believe that Manning is apprehended. The Police at Landils took up a man who answered to the description given of him in the Hue and Cry. I s topped IR at the White Hart, Taunton, twice whilst au anning kept it. I saw this man, and I firmly believe that it is Manning. I could not swear to him. Yours respectfully, A COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER. Brecon, Aug. 28, 1849. M ETROPOLITAN COURT OF SEWERS.—(THIS DAY.) At h a l f aped , 'past ten o'clock this morning an adjourned a' Court of Sewers was held at the Court House, _ er Gr ee k-street , Soho, when the following Commissioners ;141.1-I;e:rPPayre,s m en .A t: . — , The Rev. Mr. Stone ( in the chair), G. 1, 611 , Bullar, C. W. Johnston, A. Bane, Rev. John ~E E . s q. Chadwick, Thomas Hawes, J. Bedwell, flum e m p The SECRETARY having read the requisition calling the f ormer Court, BULLAR stated that he had received a nom- Munication from Sir J. Burgoyne, in which that centlernan stated that he thought it injudicious to mix up with the business of the Commission any per sonal altercations which might have arisen amongst the Members; and as, in the requisition calling the Court, personal allusions of an unpleasant nature were made to Mr. Chadwick, he (Sir John Burgoyne) suggested that the Court should not entertain the subject contained in the requisition, but that a fresh Court should be called to inquire into the expense of flushing without reference to individuals, and he therefore would propose a reso lution to that effect. _ _ Mr. LESLIE objected to the resolution, and stated, to say the least of it, that it was not very good taste on the part of Sir John Burgoyne, an absent member of the Commission, to dictate the course which the members Present should pursue. The Court had been sum moned for a specific purpose—that purpose being to consider the expenses of removing the soil by means of flushing, under the new Commission, as compared with that under the old Westminster Commission, and he was prepared at once to discuss the whole subject. Mr. HU ME o b serve d th a t th e Court was called to take into co nsideration the expenses of flushing, but before that could b e done be thought that the returns of the ex penses which both of the Commissions cost ought to be In the hands of every member. They had not these returns, and he would therefore suggest that the returns order e d, and that the matter b e di scusse d a t a f u t ure meeting of the Court. !k_fter some discussion, the resolution was agreed to. re limslE then proposed a resolution to the effect the officers of the Commission be requested to make tur n ot the rel a tive expenses of the two systems, to bef orwarded to each member of the Commission. 1 1r- LESLIE said he bad sufficient returns in his pos Sessioni_ to enable him to proceed at once. Mr. Hume, • Bedwell Mr. Byng, and himself; represented pro- Va tY to th e amount of two millions and a quarter that rit , a a nnually rated, and it was their duty to protect the e , :Payers. He was ready, and could prove, that the ' ea aee under the present Commission, as compared with that of the late, w ere most extravagant; that the 8 ( 7,7t committee had been, and were; spending the money rate-payers in a grossly extravagant manner. a Rev. CHAIRMAN rose to order. hi t ,r• LESLIE said there was no objection to his bein g 4 "ci, but when he attempted to return the blow , he Was called c aued to order. ." MEMB ER observed that not a shilling of the rate- Vera' mon e y was ex p e nded without the accounts going under th e scrutiny of the finance committee. th Mr. LESLIE would call the attention of the Court to Compa penture of 757/. on behalf of the Sewers Manure anY, the return of which would only be 15s.— (Cr.ea of "No, no.") Here Mr. Jonissort rose and said such was not the fact. r• Hum E an d ot h er m e mbers suggested that the 11 °.leet had better be dropped. Mr. L ESLIE was surpr i se d that Mr. Johnson should make such an assertion. The money had been grossly a nd improperly expended. the a l ong an d angry di scuss i on o f a personal nature, ,ce resolution of Mr. Hume was adopted, and the Court adjourned. liILKENN Y and GREAT SOUTHERN RAILWAY.—(THIS DAY.) The half-yearly general meeting of the proprietors of this railway was advertised to take place to , day at the Company's offices, Delahay-street, Westmin ster, but there not being a sufficient number of share holders present at one o'clock, the meeting adjourned sine die. CRICKET. ELEVEN OF ENGLAND v. TWENTY OF DERBYSHIRE. This match was resumed at Derby yesterday morning. The following is the score at the close of the second day's play: — ENGLAND—FIRST INNINGS. A. Mynn, Esq.—run out ... ..• ••• Clarke—b Tinley Plrr—c Potter, b Paxton ... F. Pilch—b Tinley ... ..• ••• ••• )x—b Paxton . . ••• N. Felix, Esq.—c Hunt, b Paxton . . 2 3 Y—c Horsley, b Paxton Captain White—c Paxton, b Tinley Atirtingell—b Paxton ... ••• ••• ••• ertptain Lautour—b Clark ... ..• ..• nillyer—not out ..• ..• •.• •• B 25, w 3 ... 19 ... 16 ... 3 ... o ... o ... 2 Total ... DERBYSHIRE-FIRST INNINGS. byelie—e Box, b Clarke ••• ••• ••• Bacon—b Clarke Gregory—st Box , b Hillyer •..• ••• R. C. Clarke, Esq•—e Lautour, bllyer C. Tinley —b Clarke ••• Hunt—b Cl ar k e ••• ••• ••• ..• Horsley —at B ox , b Clarke ••• „•• ••• J. Clifford Esq.—l b w, b M ar ti nge ll . ,. l)akin—st Box, b ('hrke Paxton-1 bw, b Iliflyer •.• Atter, borough —b Clark H. Earle, I],q•—e White, b hilly er ••• - . A. Bass, Esq.—b Clarke S. Putter, E-q.—b Clarke S. Nlsllaby, Martingell Morris—b Clarke E. Smith—b Martingell S. Blanc., Esq.—b Martingell ••• R. Wilson—not out ... ..• Calladine—c Pilch, b Clarke B 9, w 2 ••• Total ..• ••• ENGLAND- SECOND INNINGS. N. Felix, Esq.—not out Guy Hunt, b Paxton ..• ••• Captain White—not out ..• ••• Martingell—b Paxton ... ... B 1, w 0 ... .•• Total ... Where the world rebuketh, there look thou for the excellent.—Eliza Cook's Journal. o pp o iloyia ,s lo e, vAl' ~, .lbesa V ideo, dlal id : for 3s, , 1,4 Veil Q UO' THE SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. GREAT YARN , ' OUTII RACES.-7- TUESDAY. The A eleotne Stakes of 3 aovs. each, and 20 added, one mile (5 Subs), were won by Mr. Goff's Present, agc.d. Sit 31b (Hatdriek), beating Mr. Wilson's I3erna• dotte. 3 yrs, 76t (Dockeisty), and two others, by two lengths. The Norfolk and Suffolk Stak, , s of 20 sove. cach, h ft, with 100 added. Tao Mr. T. B. Charlton's Kissaway, 3 yrs (Dockeray) 1 Mr. Drinkald's Amazement, aged, Bst 71b (Ford) 2 Mr. St. Aubyn's Julia, 6 yes, 7st 71b (Pettit) 3 Sir E. Lacon na Genuine, 4 yrs, 7st 111b...(Baldrick) 4 Won by a head. The Theatre Stakes of 3 soya. each, and 20 added. Once round, (6 Subs.), were won by Captain Warriner's Squire of Walton, aged, list 71b (Captain Broadley); beating Present, list 81b; Daddy Longlegs, lOst 91b (Keble); and three others, by a length. The Borough Plate of 50/. Heats. Once round. Mr. Marson's Pious IX., 4 yrs, Bst 71b(Bartholomew) 1 1 Mr. Webster's Pillage, 5 yrs, 9st (S. Rogers) 2 2 Sir E. Lacon's Genuine, 4 yrs, Bst ilb...(Baldrick) 3 3 Captain Brockolske's Baskire, aged, Bst 131b:(Wade) dis. Won by a neck. The Consolation Stakes of 2 sous. each, and 15 added. One mile. Were won in two heats by Present, aged, 9st 131 b (Baldrick); beating Little Red Riding Hood, 4 yrs, Sat 121 b (Tey); and two others, by a neck. BETTING AT MANCHESTER.—TUESDAY. THE LEAMINGTON bTAKE3.-2 to 1 agst Fernbill (t) -8 to 1 agst Collingwood (t)-8 to 1 agst Wanota-10 ,o 1 agst .Dart-15 to 1 agst Grief (t). ST. LEGER.-2 to 1 OD the Flying Dutchman (offers to take)-8 to 1 agst Uriel-15 to 1 agst Oid Dan Tucker-20 to 1 agst Volcano-30 to 1 agst Herbert (offers to take)-30 to 1 agst Saucy Dick (offers to take) —3O to 1 agst Nunnykirk (offers to take). NEWMARKET SECOND OCTOBER MEETING, 1849. The Cesarewitch Stakes, of 25 sovs. each, 15 ft. Ac ceptances to be declared on or before Tuesday week, the 11th of September— Canezou, 4 yrs—Bon Mot, 3 yrs— Retail, 3 yrs—Quasimodo, 3 yrs—St. Rosalie, 3 yrs— gr c by Veralam, out of Whim, 3 yrs—ch fby Magpie, out of Spray, 3 yrs—Repletion, 3 yrs--Fugleman, 4 yrs —Kissaway, 3 yrs—Grasshopper, 3 yrs—Bonny Robin, aged—Glutton, 4 yrs—lron Rail, 5 yrs—Watchdog, 5 yrs—Cymba, 4 yrs—Wyke, 5 yrs—Trouncer, 5 yrs— Keratin, 4 yrs—F by Harkaway, out of Coranna's dam, 3 yrs—Second Sight, 3 yrs—Diplomatist, 5 yrs— Tophana, 4 yrs—Tisiphone, 4 yrs—Gardenia, 4 yrs— Glenalvon, 3 yrs—Grace, 3 yrs—Midia, 3 yrs—Thi bault, 3 yrs Miss Bunney, 3 yrs Remembrance, 4 yrs—Sylvia, 3 yrs—Herbert, 3 yrs—Volcano, 3 yrs --Clatterbox, 6 y rs—Fernhill, 4 yrs—Montpensier, 5 yrs—Bacchanalian, 4 yrs—Vatican, 3 yrs—Van Die. man, 3 yrs—Whitley, 3 yrs—Ballinafad, 5 yrs—Chanti cleer, 6 yrs—Miss Ann, 3 yrs—Rhesus, 3 yrs—Chan trey, 3 yrs—Nunnykirk, 3 yrs—Smuggler Bill, 6 yrs— Ellen Loraine, 4 yrs— Plebeia, 3 yrs—John Cosser, 4 yrs—Cockermoutb, 4 yrs—Old Dan Tucker, , 3 yrs—Bingham, 5 yrs—Backbiter, 4 yrs—Oddity, 3 yrs—lrish Jig, 3 yrs—General Sale, 6 yrs—Mantle, 3 yrs—Lady Evelyn, 3 yrs—Mrs. Taft, 4 yrs—Chicot, 3 y rs—Eagle's Plume, 4 yrs—Colocynthus, 4 yrs—Wa nce a, 5 yrs—Surplice, 4 yrs—Rathmines, 5 yrs—Tire some, 3 yrs—St. Antonio, 4 yrs—Loadstone, 4 yrs— Planet, 5 yrs—Hone) comb, 3 yrs—Fire eater, 3 yrs— Carthageman, 3 yrs—Flatcatcher, 4 yrs—Shy lock,' 4 3 n--Pelham, 3 yrs—Swiss Boy, 4 yrs—Lady Superior, 3 yrs—Westow, 3 yrs—Malton, 4 yrs—Present, 3 yrs— Legerdemain, 3 yrs—Vanguard, 3 yrs—Ths Flapper, 3 yrs—Thrlngath, 3 yrs—The Knout, 3 yrs—Blucher, 4 yrs—Mongrel, aged—Amazement, aged—Dulcet, aged —Fern, 4 yrs—Juggler, 3 yrs—Sauter la Coupe, 3 yrs —Thornhill, 3 yrs — Grief, 3 yrs—Over-fork-over, 3 yrs—Susan Lovell, 3 yrs—The Dart, aged—Pity the Blind, 3 yrs—Horn of Chive 5 yrs—Dough, 4 yrs— Chorister, 4 yrs—c by Don john, out of Impertinence, 4 yrs—Maynooth, aged—Strychnine, 3 yrs—Morpetb, aged—Hagley, 4 yrs—Golden Pippin-3 yrs—f by Piccaroon, out of Bonny Bonnet, 3 yrs—D, ceptive, 4 yrs—Glen Saddel, 4 yrs—Belus, 3 yrs—Elthiron, 3 yrs— Testator, 3 yrs—Peep-o 'day. Boy, 5 yrs—Essedarius, 3 yrs—Chatterer, 3 yrs—The Hero, 6 yrs—Black Eagle, 3 yrs—Vampyre, 5 yrs—Halo, 5 yrs—Helter Skelter, 4 yrs—Borneo, 3 yrs—Rattrap, 6 yrs—Montague, 3 yrs— Eva, 3 yrs—CEpidus, 3 yrs—Osterly, 3 yrs—Bride of Lammermoor, 5 yrs—Collingwood, 5 yrs—Pius IX., 4 yrs—The Admiral, 5 yrs—Dacia, 4 yrs—Sesostris, 4 yrs—Vasa, 3 yrs—Quinine, 3 yrs—Tadmor, 3 yrs— Indus, 3 yrs—Nautila, 5 yrs—Sotterly, 4 yrs—Doctrine, 5 yrs—Trap, 4 yrs—The Mercer, 3 yrs—Loupgarou, 3 yrs—The Old Fox, 3 yrs—Sir Tatton Sykes, 6 yrs— Giselle, 6 yrs—Rodney, 3 yrs—Croagh, Patrick, 3 yrs— The Highwayman, 6 yrs—Prior of St. Margaret's, 6 yrs—The Sheriff, 4 yrs—f by Muley Moloch, out of Guzman's dam, 4 yrs—Saucy Dick, 3 yrs—Landlord, 3 yrs—c by Colwick, out of St. Winifred, 3 yrs—Puffy, 3 yrs—Roland, 3 yrs—Snowstorm, 3 yes—Baby, 3 yrs— Wensleydale, 3 yrs—lnheritress, aged—Ellerdale, 5 yrs —Alp, 3 yrs—Defaulter, 4 yrs—Priestress, 3 yrs— Robert de Brus, 3 yrs. _ BOUGHTON MEETING, 1849. The Cambridgeshire Stakes of 25 Soya. each, 10 ft, and 5 ft only if declared on or before Tuesday, Sept. 11, —Strongbow, 3 yrs—Canerni, 4 yrs—Legerdemain, 3 yrs—Bon mot, 3 yrs—St. Rosalie, 3 yrs—Newport, 3 yrs—Minto, 4 yrs— gr c by Vernlam out of Whim, 3 yrs—ch f by Magpie out of Spray, 3 yrs—Woolwich, 3 yrs—Comet, 4 yrs—Repletion, 3 yrs—Minimum, 3 yrs —Joc-o'• Sot, 5 yrs—Fugleman, 4 yrs—New Forest Deer, aged—Fitzpatrick, 3 yrs—Radulphus, 6 yrs—g by Epirus, 3 yrs—Grasshopper, 3 yrs—Diplomatist, 5 yrs— Whitstone, 4 yrs—The Moor, 4 yrs—Glutton, 4 yrs—lron Rail, 5 yrs —Cymba, 4 yrs—Trouncer, 4 yrs —Keraun, 4 yrs—b f by Harkaway, 3 yrs—Second Sight, 3 yrs—Tophana, 4 yrs—Tisiphone, 4 yrs—Glen alvon, 3 yrs—Grace, 3 yrs—Slashing Alice, 3 yrs— Midis, 3 yrs—Conde, 3 yrs—Sylvia, 3 yrs—Sidney, 3 yrs—Volcano, 3 yrs—Keleshea, 5 yrs—Rienzi, 3 yrs—Young Ireland, 4 yrs—Sponge, 4 yrs— Bacchanalian, 4 yrs—Montpensier, 5 yrs—Whitley, 3 yrs—Ballinafad, 5 yrs—Chanticleer, 6 yrs—Miss Ann, 3 yrs—Kissaway, 3 yrs—Chantrey, 3 yrs—Nunnykirk, 3 yrs—Rhesus, 3 yrs—Cockermouth, 4 yrs—Old Dan Tucker, 3 yrs—Bingham, 5 yrs—Backbiter, 4 yrs— Oddity, 3 yrs—lrish Jig, 3 yrs—General Sale, 6 yrs— Lady Evelyn, 3 yrs—Mrs. Taft, 4 yrs—Penthesilea, 3 yrs—Newcourt, aged— Wanota, 4 yrs—Surplice, 4 yrs —Loadstone, 4 yrs—Planet, 5 yrs—Tiresome, 3 yrs— Cotton Lord, 3 yrs—Wallflower, 3 yrs—Rathmines, 5 yrs—Honeycomb, 3 yrs—Sagacity, 5 yrs—Ribaldry, 4 yrs—Carthagenian, 3 yrs—FlAtcatcher, 4 yrs—Shylock, 4 yrs—Swiss Boy, 4 yrs—Lady Superior, 3 yrs—Mal ton, 4 yrs—Present, 3 yrs—Vanguard, 3 yrs—Thrin garth, 3 yrs—Spithead, 6 yrs—lron Duke, 3 yrs— Blucher, 4 yrs—Mongrel, aged—Amazement, aged— Grief, 3 yrs—Dulcet, aged—Thornhill, 3 yrs—Over fork-over, 3 yrs—Susan Lovell, 3 yrs—Horn of Chase, 5 yrs.—ch f by the Provost, dam by Actaeon, 3 yrs— Impertinence colt, 4 yrs—Strychnine, 3 yrs—Bonny Bonnet filly, 3 yrs—Swift, 3 yrs—Deceptive, 4 yrs— Belus, 3 yrs—Elthiron, 3 yrs—Peep-o'-day-Boy, 5 yrs—Essedarius, 3 yrs—Conyngham, 5 yrs— Dacia, 4 yrs—Chatterer, 3 yrs—Lady Jersey, 3 yrs— Borneo, 3 yrs—Halo, 5 yrs—Vampyre. 5 yrs—High land Fling. 3 yrs—Philosopher, 5 yrs—CEdipus, 3 yrs— Sir Launcelot, 3 yrs-o:terley, 3 yrs—Collingwood, 6 yrs—Gaffer Green, aged—Telegraph, 4 yrs—Fiddler, 4 yrs—Nina, 3 yrs—Pius IX, 4 yrs—Seostris, 4 yrs— Tadmore, 3 yrs—lndus, 3 yrs—Vasa, 3 yrs—Quinine, 3 yrs—lone, 3 yrs—the Seraph, 3 yrs—Beauclerk, 4 yrs—Chicaneur, 4 yrs—Trap, 4 yrs—Aldgate, 3 yrs— The Old Fox, 3 yrs—Chorister, 4 yrs— Sir Tatton Sykes, 6 yrs—Coronet, 3 yrs—Highwayman, 6 yrs— Prior of St. Margaret's, 6 yrs—Walkington, 4 yrs—The Sheriff, 4 yrs—Maid of Team Valley, 3 yrs—b c by Verulam out of the Bride, 3 yrs—Glendower, 3 yrs— Blackcoek, 5 yrs—Saucy Dick, 3 yrs—Landlord, 3 yrs —Crucible, 3 yrs—Glenlyon, 3 yrs—Glauca, 3 yrs— Rosalyn, 4 yrs—Wansleydale, 3 yrs—Raby, 3 yrs— Maid of Masham, 4 yrs—Alp, 3 yrs—Robert de Brus, 3 yrs—Cocktail, 3 yrs—Ellerdale, 5 yrs—Sobersides, aged—Crocodile, aged. DONCASTER, 1549. It is at length decided that the Doncaster Cup shall be a " weight for age" race, the winner of the St. Leger to carry 51b, and the second 21b extra. The Maid of Lyme has been scratched for all her pre sent engagements. ECCLES RACES—MONDAY. The Sweepstakes of 3 sovs. each, with 15 added, ono mile and a distance, 11 Subs., were won easily, by a length, by Mr. J. Parrott's Selina, 3 yrs (Evans), beat ing Chilvvorth, 5 yrs; Amosins, 5 yrs; Sister to Charl ton, 3 yrs; Tity, 3 yrs, and several others. The Gentlemen's Purse of 20 sovs., added to a handi cap of 3 sovs. each, one mile and three quarters, 8 Subs, were won in two heats by Mr. J. Parrott's Selina, 3 yrs, 6st 51b (Evans), beating Lanercosta, 3 yrs, 6st 21b; G utta Percha, 4 yrs, Bst; Premier, 5 yrs, Bst 51b; and Little Wonder. 6 yrs, 6st 51b. The Pony Race, one mile and three quarters, was won in two heats, by Mischief, beating Maid of Ardwick and another. DRAINAGE OF THE METROPOLIS.--Up to last evening 74 plans for the drainage of the metropolis had been received at the Metropolitan Court of Sewers. Se veral of these have been much abridged in accordance with the late resolution of the court, but some of the candidates have intimated to the commissioners that it Ls impossible to make their statements shorter, and that if they are not to bo treated as sent they are to be re• turned to the writers entire. MYsTErtiots DISCOVERY OF HUMAN REMAINS.— Considerable sensation was produced yesterday morning, at Bristol, in consequence of its being rumoured that some human skeletons had been found under circum stances of a mysterious and an unaccountable nature, buried at a depth of some eight or nine feet beneath the floor of a warehouse in Thomas-street. It appears that the commissioners of pitching and paving are engaged in making new and enlarged sewers through the princi pal streets of the city, and, among others, through Thomas-street. A tradesman named Graham, who is the occupant of the warehouse in question, took advan tage of the occasion to make an improved drain from his premises into the sewer; and as the workmen were em• p'uyed in the act of carrying out this work they were surprised at coming upon a human skull embedded in the earthwork. In a few minutes they came upon other bones, and in a short time found two other skulls and the remains, in all, of three human bodies. How they came to be in the position in which they were found remains involved in mystery. There is no reason for believing that the spot had ever been the site of any place of sepulture; and, indeed, from the position in which the skeletons were found, they would nut appear to have been interred in the usual way, but rather to have been huddled in together without regard to order. Information of the discovery has been conveyed to the coroner and the police, and an inquest will be held upon the remains. CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAnwAY.—Traffic for the week ending August 26, 1849:—Coaching traffic, 2,050/. 4s. 5d.; parcels, &c., 511. 17s. Od.; goods, cattle, &c., 3421. 15s. 9d.; steam-boats, 2221. 18s: 2d.-- T 90,10,6674 15e, a Malt. I Flour. 4 4 6 ... 28 -104 ... 14 -. 9 ..• 5 ..• 9 .. 6 ... 0 ... 6 ... 11 ... 8 ... 3 ... 0 ... 13 ...185 SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 29, 1849. LITERATURE. MEMOIRS AND CORRESPONDENCE OF SIR R. MURRAY KED H. Edlted by Mrs. Gillespie Smyth. 2 Vols. " There are," says the editress of this work, " in the annals of every family, any of whose members have filled conspicuous places in the public service, some privileged epochs round which its own memories have been fondly taught to congregate, and w hich it would fain rescue from oblivion in those of others. Such, during the long diplomatic career of Sir Robert Murray Keith, was the episode of the revo lution in Denmark in 1772 ; and his spirited rescue, as representative of Great Britain, of a daughter of England,' and the sister of his Sovereign, from a fate, the least disastrous probable issue of which was imprisonment for life in a northern fortress. The omission—probably from prudential motives— of this most critical and important interposition, in a foreign work of fiction recently translated, naturally led to a search into those familiar archives where re posed the familiar letters and official correspondence penned during the events themselves, and so honour able alike to the character, the feelings, and the fame of him by whom they were written and received. To weave those valuable, and hitherto inedited documents, into a slight record of the charms, the sorrows, and the injuries of the British Princess—to whom (in his own striking words) it was a proud commencement for the Envoy's chivalry to convey, through the vaulted entrance of Hamlet's castle, the welcome tidings of fraternal affection and liberty restored — was felt to be alike a duty and a pleasure. To this the following sheets would have been exclusively limited, had not the reputation of Sir R. M. Keith for political sagacity, on the one hand, and wit and bonhommie on the other, suggested, on high literary authorities, the propriety of a more extensive selec tion from his twenty years' correspondence, while a resident at other foreign courts, than had been ori ginally designed." Such is the interesting nature of this work, which has evidently been a labour of love to Mrs. Smyth. Each volume is divided into three parts ; the first contains—" Correspondence from St. Petersburgh, Vienna, &c.;" " Memoirs of Caroline Matilda, Queen of Denmark," and " Familiar Cor• respondence with various Distinguished Writers." The second volume contains—" Familiar Correspon dence with Marshal Conway, &c. ;" " Official and Personal Correspondence from Vienna," and "Official and Familiar Correspondence from the Congress of Sistovo in Turkey, in 1791." These volumes con tains beautiful portraits of Queen Caroline Matilda and Sir R. Murray Keith. CROMWELL DOOLAN ; or, Life in the Army. By the Author of " Echoes in the Backwoods." 2 Vols. An amusing series of strange and laughable ad ventures, as may easily be supposed, when we say the hero is at once a soldier and an Irishman ; for whatever an Irishman may be on terra firma, in a book he is always the most adventurous of mortals. Cromwell Doolan is, however, a misnomer, for we find, at the conclusion of the strange eventful history, that Cromwell is not Cromwell after all, but another individual who has been exchanged for him. The real Simon Pure long since sleeps in his grave, and the O'Neil presumptuously sends forth his own ad ventures under the name of a history of Cromwell Doolan t EXPEDITION to DISCOVER the SOURCES of the WHITE NILE in the YEARS 1840-41. By Ferdinand Werne. From the German, by Charles W. O'Reilly. 2 Vols. This is a book of travels of that most interesting kind which, together with a picture of foreign scenes and customs, details the fortunes of an expedition of inquiry. The writer of the preface speaks of this work as presenting the liveliest views of the natural productions and people of regions hitherto entirely unvisited. "The surprising novelty," he adds, "of the phenomena is described by a writer of much ex perience, bold energy, and intense devotion to the land of the south. The discoverer of the sources of the White Nile under the vertical rays of the sun, in equatorial Inner Africa, will share the same fate as his illustrious predecessor, James Bruce, the discoverer of the sources of the Blue Nile, if many of his statements should be doubted, criticised, and misunderstood." Neverthe less, the writer of the above remark must be aware that such is almost the inevitable lot of all things human. This interesting work is illustrated by a beautiful map of the White Nile, laid down from the diary of Mr. Werne, and by many specimens of the arms, &c. of the natives. THE EMIGRANT FAMILY; or, THE STORY of an AUSTRALIAN SETTLER. By the Author of " Settlers and Convicts." 3 Vols. This work contains " hints to emigrants " of a more practical nature than those contained in the facetious brochure of Percy Cruikshank. This Australian handbook appears under the novel form of a novel. " The main design in the composition of these volumes," says the author," was the delineation of the actual life of an emigrant family in the middle of the nineteenth century..... With the single excep tion of the introduction of a character necessary to furnish the tale with sufficient of plot to interest the lovers of romance, everything exhibited is a simple copy from actual daily life." MEMOIRS of the HOUSE of ORLEANS By W. Cooke Taylor, LL.D. 3 Vols. These-three volumes, which contain " sketches and anecdotes of the most distinguished characters in France during the seventeenth and eighteenth centu ries," are of a character which needs little commen dation to ensure them a favourable reception with the general reader. They contain a mass of anec dotes, accounts of historic importance or mournful interest, but fcr the most part of a light, gossiping, and amusing nature. It is a work, perhaps, little calcu lated to benefit its readers, unless, perhaps, by making them content with an humble station. They may read in these records of royalty, as for example, in the sad story of Maria Louisa, of Spain, how many are the trials and temptations which beset the path of the so-called great. One important object with the writer in composing this work was to throw some light upon Louis XIV. " secret," and also to inquire whether Henrietta, of England (Madame) and her daughter, Maria Louisa, Queen of Spain, really met with their deaths by poison, as IA been suspected. The CHURCH of ENGLAND QUARTERLY REVIEW. The nine articles in the last number of this Quar terly are of as varied and interesting topics, as "Jewel and the Reformation," " Religious Doubters," " Sterling's Life," " Brampton Rectory," " Horatio Nelson and Emma Hamilton," " Romanism and Civi lization," " Prince Rupert and the Cavaliers, " The Religion of Architecture," " Puritans and Pilgrim Fathers," " Southey's Common-place Book," " Man Primeval." A MEMOIR of the COUNTESS DE ROSSI (MADAME SONTAG). Published by Mr. Mitchell, Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street. The career of Madame Sontag has been one of the most brilliant, and, at the same time, one of the most romantic ever recorded. It is in itself a drama, a drama of intense and singularly varied inte rest. The pleasures and the pains of every station of life, from the very highest to the very lowest, from the garret of the struggling artist to the magnificent salons of royalty, have been personally experienced by Madame Sontag. She has by turns occupied every step of the social ladder, and has been the orna ment of every station which she has occupied, and after having retired from the stage, hailed by the unanimous suffrages of the dilettanti of Europe as the most perfect soprano singer the world ever saw, she, after the lapse of twenty years, returns and resumes her place, nemine contradicente, with powers improved rather than impaired, and at once creates a greater furore, and achieves a greater triumph than she had done twenty years before. Her biographer thus accounts for this surprising preservation of her vocal powers:— " The Countess Rossi's voice is a pure and perfect soprano of the highest register, from the first settlement of her voice—it is 'to the manner born.' Thus she has never been comptlled to superadd to her studies of vocal science those efforts by which most of the greatest vo calists have been obliged to transmute their contralto or mezzo soprano tones, to polish their guttural or husky tones, and—almost all of them—extend artificially their register. On the other band, during their long seces sion from the stage, the love of musical art has always remained predominant, and its science been constantly cultivated, without necessity of taxing her powers, with out the exhausting exertions of other singers; whilst her style of a aging is that of the high classical Italian school, the only one that nurses the voice, whilst it dis plays all its melodic power. Had not the Countess Rossi yielded up the German school—had she not re sorted to the Italian school to modify her singing, as her great countryman Mozart did, to modify the form his inpirations assumed—her voice would no doubt have been injured, and she would have lost that marvellous power of overflowing richness of embellishment, requir ing purity of tone, agility, and elegance, in which she is unquestionably unrivalled." Henriette Sontag was born at Coblentz, on the 3d of January, 1809. Her parents were artistes of limited means. At seven years of age she became celebrated for her exquisite voice, and at that age, placed on a table, she has been heard to sing the grand aria of " The Queen of Night" in the Zaubojiiite, in a style that would have made many a prinia donna burst with envy. At eleven years of age she made her first appearance on the stage at the theatre at Darmstadt, in a piece written expressly for her, and entitled The Little Daughter of the Danube, but, although her success was extra ordinary, her parents knowing the fate of infant prodigies, withdrew her from the theatre and sent her as a pupil to the Conservatoire of Prague. " Scarce three years had elapsed since her matricula tion at the Conservatoire, and she had hardly attained the op of fourtm, when she sawed the fortunes of that great Imperial Opera of Prague, associated with so many glorious memories of music, and which would be immor talised by the lict alone of having been the state where the Clemenza di Tito and the Marriage of Figaro were first produced by Mozart. The favourite prima donna of this noble theatre was suddenly taken ill, and so se riously, that there was little hope left of her re-appear ing tor some time. The manager, in despair, and at a loss which way to turn, could think of no other resource to retain his audiences than the appearance of the young prodigy of the Conservatoire—little Heuriette Sontag. Such was her proficiency in her art, that her parents no longer saw the same danger in allowing their offspring to tread the fictive scene. " It nothing were wanting in courage, natural gifts of voice, and intellectual power, on the part of the child as regards the height of her person there was a manca mento of several inches. As the French proverb says, le temps corrige cela but, in the mean time, the stage manager, a learned Hellenist, was not oblivious of the means by which the Greeks gave altitudes to their scenic heroes and heroines, and the little prima donna, to whom was assigned for her debut the part of the heroine in a translation of the favourite French opera, Jean de Paris, was supplied with enormous cork heels. There was a time, at the Court of Louis XV., when an inch and a half of red heel was the distinctive characteristic of a Marquis, or of a lady of sufficient quality to be allowed to sit in the presence of royalty. On the occasion of the debut of Henriette Sontag, four inches of vermillion coloured cork foreshadowed the rank of the little lady, destined to become one of the most absolute mimic queens of the lyrical world, and afterwards a real and much respected countess. When the singer who enacted the pompous seneschal in the opera of Jean de Paris came forward, and announced, It is no less a personage than the Princess of Navarre whose arrival I announce!' the applause and laughter were universal. When the little prodigy appeared on her cork pedestal, the house was filled with cheers and acclamations. As the busi ness of the stage proceeded, the auditors found that there was no longer any indulgence necessary on the score of age, but that there were claims on their admi ration for a voice which, for its purity, its peculiar flute like tone, and its agility, has never been surpass. The celebrated tenor, Gerstener, who enacted Jean de Paris, that night sang better than ever, finding that he had to cope with the attraction of a new melodic power. Many nights successively did she thus sing the Princess of Navarre with increasing success to crowded houses. Her next part was one far more difficult—that of the heroine in Paer's fine opera, Sargin. " The capital of Bohemia was not destined long to retain its chief ornament. Long before the conclusion of the season, the Imperial Court had heard of her ex • traordinary success, and Henriette Sontag was sum moned to Vienna, where she appeared, the very next season, at the German Opera." From this time her career was one series of triumphs —Berlin, Paris, London, St. Petersburgh in turn hailed her as the greatest of living artists ; and on her marriage with Count Rossi, a young Sardinian nobleman, and her consequent retirement from the stage, the dilettanti of Europe were inconsolable, as they felt they " ne'er should look upon her like again." Count Rossi became the representative of his Sove reign at the Courts of the Netherlands, St. Peters burgh, Vienna, and Berlin successively, and the Countess of Rossi was the admired and the beloved of all. " But at last came the fatal year 1848, when a politic cal eruption, unprecedented for magnitude and extent, fell upon the whole fabric of human happiness on the ' Continent, as unforeseen and as destructive as the vol• canic outburst which, in a past age, buried Pompeii. Madame de Rossi's fortune, when the revolution broke out at Berlin, was placed partly with bankers, partly in commercial securities; commerce ceased, public credit was shaken, and private credit lost, and with the latter the fortune of Madame de Rossi. Shortly afterwards followed the events in Sardinia, in its turn deeply affect ing the fortunes of her husband, and threatening the Count Rossi with the loss of that office which he had so long and so honourably held. On the first news of the losses experienced by Madame de Rossi, knowing bow perfectly she had preserved her voice, the Direction of Her Majesty's Theatre made, in the most delicate man ner that could be devised, ample offers to the unfortu nate lady, iu case she should deem it necessary to return to the scene of her former triumphs. The Count and Countess Rossi did not contemplate then the necessity of so great a sacrifice. Later offers of u n li m ited temp tation were made by other parties, and emissaries sent to Berlin secretly to treat with the great vocalist of the golden age of the opera. But they were at once refused. As events assumed a darker complexion, Madame de Rossi, the most affectionate of mothers, grew more and more anxious for her children, and used every endea vour to prevail on her noble husband to sacrifice the privileges and prejudices of rank, and the sweets of high office, to the future welfare of their children. An ar tist of European fame, who not only . commands admi ration by his talents, his c onversational powers, hie elegant and amiable manners, and his noble and elevated character—M. Thalberg, happened some months since to be in Berlin, and he is said to have seconded Madame de Rossi's efforts to persuade her husband. Communications were resumed with the Direction of Her Majesty's Theatre, although still in a problematical and conditional form, and the Count Rossi repaired to Turin to endeavour to release himself from his duties. After some delay, the Count obtained permission from his Sovereign to retire for a time from his career. When it was known later at Turin what was the cause of his re tirement, and that it was definitive, letters were written, by order of the Sovereign, in the highest degree cordial and flattering, both to M. and Madame de Rossi. From Turin the Count returned to Berlin; there Mr. Lumley had suddenly arrived—every arrangement was made, and a week after be had left Berlin, the Count and Countess Rossi arrived in London in a manner totally untOreseen. In a week more she appeared on the stage, and although, unlike other great singers, she bad not, owing to the necessity of secrecy, been preceded by those announcements which habitually long beforehand herald forth a prima donna, and work upon public ex pectation, her reception was one never surpassed in enthusiasm. " When the circumstances in which Madame Sontag has once more appeared on the horizon with undimi nished glory are considered4a feeling of something more than admiration takes possession of the observer. To behold beings, of which there are not one in so many millions, whose existence has scarcely been thought ot, come in a critical hour, interpose their power, uphold a noble establishment, and at once defeat all the work ings of intrigue, envy, and ingratitude, partakes of that providential character of events to which all others are secondary. This is the second time that such an inter position has occurred as regards the greatest theatrical institution of the country. If there existed in reality such a random power as chance, such events could scarcely be reckoned amongst its casualties. " If there could be any one so devoid of love for what is really good and really great, as not to be inspired by interest in the eventful life we have so very superficially sketched, they need only to repair to the theatre where our heroine appears, for them to change their disposi tion. Nothing ever could resist, off the stage or on it, the sterling merit either of Countess Rossi, or of Madame Sontag." CO Lilt f CIRCULAR. BALMORAL, Aua. 26. This morning her Majesty tlal the Prince, attended by Viscountess Jocelyn, Hon. Miss Dawson, Lord John Russell, Colonel the Hon. Alexander Gordon, Mr. An son, and Mr. Birch, attended Divine service at the parish church at Crathie. Service was performed by the,Rev. Mr. Anderson. ROYAL GARDENS, VAUXHALL. Monday was the commencement of a new season at Vauxhall. After so successful an opening, and an attendance so aristocratic, the startling announce ment of the reduction of price to one shilling seemed to us to require some notice. On entering the gardens, we turned into the beau tiful Italian walk, which is now hung above with festoons of coloured lamps, forming an arcade of light at once brilliant and imposing. The lighting alto gether is vastly improved, and announces at once increased spirit in the establishment. In the circus we found a new troupe, and were astonished by the daring and novelty of their ex traordinary feats, whi c h threw their French predecess ors far into the shade. An Arab, who is announced as the most extraordinary vaulter in the world, fully sustained his reputation by a series of summersaults and leaps, which w e r e al mos t frightful, clearing at a bound eighteen men with up lifted swords. 'lhe most . wonderful thing in his feats is that he uses no s pring-board, but leaps from a solid block of stone on the ground. The riding of Hernandez, matchless,. graceful, rapid, unique and sufficient in itself as it is, received a very interesting addition in a group of two, who rode in almost every possible and classic posture, the boy actually stand ing on the shoulder of the horseman whilst galloping round the circle. Standing on a series of bottles, one above another, and at . the same time ballancing a variety of things, vas trick so . strange and difficult, and performed so adroitly, that it is utterly impossible to describe it. The rolling globe was admirably per formed by a boy, who, not only walked on it, but at the same time executed a set of ju gg li ng an d ba lancing tricks, as well as i f he were on the surest footing. But not the least astonishing was the per formance of the clo wn and his son. Th e b oy stoo d on his head, and in that position was balanced on the hand, and after being tossed about, t um bli ng i n t h e air like a ball, concluded his performance by standing on his head on the end of a pole, balan ce d on t h e c hi n of the clown, and carried about the circus. The whole performance was of surpassing excel lence, and we are proud, in saying so, that we are at the same time bearing our testimony t o g e n uine merit, and our appla use to native talent, which of late it has been too much the fashion to overlook. DEATH OF COOMBES, THE PRIZE WATERMAN.— Yesterday morning, David Coombes, who, with his brothers, are well known as the first watermen on the River Thames, was engaged in preparing the platform at Chandler's, Milbank, for the approaching contest for the silver sculls. About eight o'clock ho retired home to breakfast, when he was seized with violent pains in his stomach. Medical aid was instantly resorted to, and every attention paid to his sufferings, but he died of cholera yesterday afternoon. The deceased was 35 years of age, withou t family, and, with his thr ee b ro th ers , had been he successful competitor for many hard earned prizes. Lie was a man much respected by all who knew him. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man L rich, so knowledge which he cannot apply will make no CooA's Journe. TO THE RIGHT HON. LORD DUDLEY STUART. My Lord,—During my service in company with the Polish Legion in Lombardy, under Mantua, by the Lego di Guarda on the Tyrol, your Lordship's name was so often the motto for a " brinoisi ;" and even in the " Citta Eterna," Rome, such cordial responses rang out when your Lordship's name was proposed, that I am emboldened to address your Lordship the following lines, trusting to your Lordship's patience for a perusal, and to your Lordship's generosity for the rest. In the first days of March, 1848, I found myself in Turin, on my road for England, with about I,ooof. in my pocket, the fruits of a twelvemonth's labour in Italy. I had in that time traversed nearly the whole peninsula of Italy, and had seen and sympathised with the wrongs under which the Italians generally had suffered, and were suffering, and determined, in case of a struggle,;to aid them to the last. I became ac quainted with several students of the University of Turin, among whom was George Kohinsky, a Pole; and informed of the forthcoming outbreak, we went to Milan, when in the revolution which commenced on the 17th we fought. Pour Kohinsky fell on the 19th at the attack on the Palazzo del Genio. My com panions returned to Turin, and I went off and joined the Piedmontese, with whom I was present at the first battle of Goito, in April. Being an engineer by profession, in May I was sent to Pescheira, the fortress on the Lago di Guarda, to assist in directing the works which were being thrown up round the place ; and on the 21st I quitted that place and joined the Tuscans—among whom were several Englishmen— encamped under Mantua. I remained with the Tus cans until the 29th May, when our camp—a camp ex tending over nearly seven miles—and defended only by about 6,800 men, was attacked at Montanara, Curtatone, and St. Sylvestro, by an overwhelming Austrian force, and almost annihilated. I made good my retreat to the Grazia and Goito, where I was we e de featede leg, and present t the the e t A us t r b i a a t e t s l e the .Her d e ar w af a t s e w r, o i u n n w de h d ic i h n twh and remained in the hospital of St. Lucia, at Brescia, until the 23d of June. In the month of. July we left Brescia for Caffaro, near the Lago d'ldro, on the Italian Tyrol, in company with the Polish Legion, and in the latter end of that month we marched rapidly down to the Lego di Guards, and fought the Austrians two days successively at Lonato and De senzano. We again marched into the Italian Tyrol, to Storo, where we encamped, and the out post duty was confided to me. Having ex tended one day our excursions too far, five of us were surprised by a body of armed peasants. We got into a house, and held these at bay until the arrival of a party of Kaiser-Yager, or Tyrolese Riflemen, when, our ammunition being ex pended, we were obliged to surrender. With an escort double our number, we were marched off to wards Innsbruck. Arrived at Castel-Dublino, our guard became intoxicated, and, bayoneting the sen tinel, we escaped, carrying with us five rifles, ammu nition, &c., &c. Seizing a peasant, he became, under pain of death, our guide. We crossed the mountain Tonale, swam the Adda in Val Camonica, and then, taking the mountain again, we crossed into Val Tel lina, where we joined General Griffini, and with him retreated into Canton Gregioni, in Switzerland, Piemonte-Genoa, &c., and from thence I went to Genoa, to Leghorn, and to Venice. I remained in Venice until December, when our regiment, the Roman Volunteers, parted for Rome. I entered the Roman service in the Bth Regiment of the Line. I was present at Palestrina, and Velletri, against the Neapolitans ; at Rome, on the 30th April, against the French; and during the whole siege of Rome. We were for the most part stationed under the orders of General Garibaldi, at St. Pancrazio; and here my company, from 125 men, became reduced, from killed and wounded, to 52 ! I received on the 13th the g or ra L de ie o u f Sergeant-Major, t,enant.o and on On the29th the t F he re 2 n 2 e d of T h commenced, at 3 A. 111., a tremendous cannonade against the bastion No. 3, to the right of St. Pancrazio, which was con fided to me. In half-an hour my little band was re ' duced to 29 men. I received no reinforcement. The French stormed the bastion with an entire battalion, and, after a desperate resistance, gained a footing. I was knocked down by a blow from a Chasseur, and taken prisoner, and conducted first to Palo and after- wards to Civita Vecchia. On the Bth July I was liberated, and, in company with a Pole, named Faus tenberge, set out to Bologna, in the Roman States, with the intention of passing, if possible, Venice, Trieste, Illyria, and so into Hungary. We crossed the Po at night, and reached Rovigo; here we were arrested, and cautioned that a similar attempt would be punished with death. We reached Milan, turned again towards Tyrol, with the intention, if possible, of reaching Hungary?, were arrested in Val Engadin ; we resisted, and in the struggle poor Faustenberge received a ball in the stomach. I got away to Bel linzona, and here I read the account of the meeting in favour of heroic Hungary, held at Marylebone, and presided over by your Lordship. I determined at once to gain England, hoping that from your Lordship's acquaintance of the Hungarian leaders to find some means of reaching Hungary, perhaps with Colonel Reid. My Lord, there is many a mile between this and Rome, and with the zigzag way I have taken many more 9 - yet I have done the whole way on foot. Neither the Po, nor the Alps, nor hardship, nor many a night's bivouac by the road, has checked me; but now, my Lord, I have received a check which I can not surmount. My poor fund, which I hoarded and have expended so carefully, has decreased to a shadow ; my habiliments, torn by many a mountain scramble, are in tatters ; and now, my Lord, I turn to you. I have yet twelve francs left me, and with this I hope to reach Dijon, which is about 150 miles from Paris. Your Lordship is generous, and I have no hope but in your Lordship, and in such of my countrymen as may pity an Italian crusader. Your Lordship will not, I am sure, allow me to die by the road-side. Write me, I pray, at least to Dijon, were I await your Lordship's letter, and, with every wish ad interim for your Lordship's well.being, and for the well-being of Hungary, believe me, Your Lordship's very obedient servant, CHARLES SIDNEY. Geneva, Switzerland, Aug. 20, 1849. THE llt AYER. OF 'KOSSUTH. Lord God of Arpad's warriors Look, from thy throne of stars, Upon afflicted Hungary, Her children's wrongs and scars. To thee, a million earnest prayers From patriot hearts ascend; Rise God! and fight their battles—thou, Creator, Guardian, Friend. Thy sun, the torch of Liberty, irradiates the skies, As lighting to a glorious grave Each corpse that round me lies. Thy heaven is blue—the carpet fair Beneath thy footsteps spread— But the green earth of thy making With hallowed blood is red. Send, God, upon these fallen ones Thy spirit's genial ray, That not one lifeless image here May perish in decay; But that from these rude scattered seeds Immortal flowers may bloom, And shed a spirit grandeur round The martyr hero's tomb. God of the nations, far and wide! God of my ancient sires! Peserve, on this blood altar scene, The light of Frt edom's fires. Oh! let the murd'rous tyrant's arm powerless 'Heath of ea our thth belts thine own, And nFI p e al e very de answered in thy tone. 'Tis sacrifices such as these That sanctify the earth— That purge it from corrupting sin, And give thy glory birth. This sacred soil must never hold A captive nation's slaves, Nor fierce barbarians trample down And riot o'er its graves. Father, Almighty! Father, God! Of Heaven, of earth, and sea, Make all the nations of the earth High-minded, noble, free. Blast with the lightning of thy glance, And lay them in the dust, The savage hordes whose conquests are But intamy and lust. Lo! a light, prophetic, rising From the bodies of the slain, Illumines far the battle front, And lights the battle plain; The outward robe and veil it is Of spirits soaring high, As, marching from the fatal field, They travel to the sky. God! in thy mercy, bless their dust, And cherish long their fame, By blotting out the despot race, The Despot's power and name. Our sword, our shield, our fortress be— To victory lead the way, Or bury in ono bloody grave The war-wolf and his prey, Harrogate, Aug. 24. G. LINN/VETS BANKS. INDISPOSITION Or DR. SOUTIIWOOD &M.TH.—Yes terday information was received at the office of the Metropolitan Commission of Sewers, Greek-street , Soho, that Dr. Southwood Smith had been taken so suddenly ill, at his residence, at Highgate, as not to be able to attend to the business of the finance committee, appointed to sit at ten o'clock, of which he was a very punctual attendant. T U NBRIDGE WELLS.—Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent directed that meat and bread should be given to upwards of 500 poor families residing in th e Wells and its neighbourhood for their Sunday's dinner, that being Prince Albert's rth-day; adults receiving one pound of meat each, wi bi thout b one, and one pound of bread; and children half a pound of meat each, and without ound of bread. It was given to all parti es distinction es to religious sentiments. THE HEALTH OF LONDON COLLISION BETWEEN the BOARD DURING THE WEEK. OF HEALTH AND THE MARYLEBONE (From the Registrar-General's Return.) BOARD OF GUARDIANS. In the week ending Saturday, August 25, the Yesterday, a special meeting of the Vestry of St. de a ths in London were 2,457; of which 1,276 were Marylebone took place at the Court-hous e , f or th e by cholera, 238 by diarrhoea. The deaths from all purpose of receiving a communication which had been causes in each of the last seven weeks were 1,070, received from the Board of Health by the board of 1,369, 1,741, 1,931, 1,967, 1,909, 2,229,' - 2,457; the guardians, with reference to the alleged outbreak of deaths from cholera, 152, 339, 678, 783, 926, 823, cholera in Marylebone. 1,229, and 1,276. Although the number of deaths Mr. Churchwarden MALLALIII3 having. been called last week is greater than any number yet recorded, to the chair, the document from the Board of Health it is gratifying to learn that active measures are now was read. It was addressed—" To the Select Vestry in actual operation, or commencing in every district, of St. Marylebone," and peremptorily ordereds. the to combat the great epidemic which has already appointment of two medical officers in addition to the destroyed 7,470 lives in London. The mortality present staff, to pursue the system of house to house stands in favourable contrast to that which has been visitation; and that buildings should be provided for felt in other cities, where the visitation has recalled the removal of the inhabitants in proximity with the ravages of the middle ages. But if the general places where the cholera existed. It also ordered sanitary state a n d arrangements are superior to those that the vestry should be assembled to consider the of the other civilized countries of Europe, it is quite matter and carry out the said order,and it also ordered certain that while the present epidemic has excited that not only a copy of the minute of the vestry, but some talk and terror, the efforts which have hitherto a l so the names of the vestr y men p resent and those ab been employed to combat it look feeble and insignia- sent, be forwarded to the:Board of Health. This do cant when contrasted with the vast means and agency cument was signed "Ashley, E. Chadwick, and T. which are brought to bear by the nation in other Southwood Smith." fields fol• the protection of life and property. Mr. Menu, in bringing forward a resolution on The energy with which parts of our institutions the subject, denied the existence of cholera in Mary work makes the defects of the rest more evident. On lebone, and declared that the conduct of the Board of August 9 last, a man was murdered in Bermondsey, Health was calculated to frighten the public into the and before his death, reported by the coroner, will disease. He moved a resolution to the effect — appear in these returns, one, and it is probable both " That, in the opinion of the vestry, there was no the persons charged with the murder will be in necessity for the a pp ointment of an y additional me custody. Steam-ship s , t h e electric telegraph, the di cal gentlemen, I inasmuch as the board of guardians, heads of the police, and professional agents, specially re chosen, were all employed to arrest the destroyers on Friday, the 10th of August, instructed their of this life; the columns of the newspapers sident physician to engage any assistance he might with the details of the were ' '' death. On the same require,. at any time when he perceived such a ne filledday ' (August 9) a stockbroker died at No. 12, cessity. proof that Albion-terrace, Wandsworthroad ; widow Mr. LOWE seconded the motion. Asa • and an old d omes ti c se r v a n t at No. 6; in the five fallacious, there had not been so few patients a preceding d a y s i n t h e same terrace the daughter ofamongst he poor for sixteen years as at this moment , grocer, a child o f fi ve years of age, had died at No. and there was medical staff enough to meet any 1 ; the widow of a coach p roprietor, a . and a commer- emergency.—(Hear, hear.) cial clerk, at N o . 2 ; a gentl em..d ow at No. 3; Mr. JosErn proposed an amendment — a surgeon's daughter a t N o . spinster of 41 at " That, in acknowledging the receipt of the com- No. 5 ; the wife of a Dissenting minister, his mother, munication from the Board of Health, the vestry have a widow lady, and a servant a t N o . 6 ; a young to state that the entire medical charge of the sick poor woman of 21 at No. 10; a gentleman at No. 12, thatis by law under the control of the guardians; and where the stockbroker died ; a commercial cl er k andthis vestry desires to express its warm confidence a young woman of 19 at No. 13, where a y oung that the guardians will adopt every means calculated woman also died on July 28 ; a gentleman's wife at to meet any necessity ' which cholera or any other No. 14, who had seen her daughter die there the day epidemic may create ; and that, in so doing, the before. The 19 persons died of cholera, many of the guardians and directors will meet with the ready co inhabitants of the terrace were dispersed ; and the operation and support of this vestry." deaths of several have been registered elsewhere. "It Dr. GRAY sec on d e d th e amen d ment . appears," says the registrar, Mr. Frost, " that at No. Mr. 11. C. WILS ON , w hil s t h e d epreca t e d th e inter -13, inhabited by Mr. Biddle, where the first death oc - ference of the Board of Health, thought that th e b oar d curred, and where two deaths were afterwards regis - of guardians had not sufficiently done their duty in tered, the refuse of the house had been allowed to ac - not having appointed district medical men to attend cumulate in one of the vaults (which is a very large the poor in their own localities during the present one), for about two years, and when removed last prevailing epidemic. week, the stench was almost intolerable, there being Mr. BROUGIITON, the magistrate , at some length about two feet of wet soil filled with maggots. The deprecated the attack which had been made on the drains also had burst, overflowed into the tank, an d private character of the members of the Board of impregnated the water with which the houses were Health. He believed that the suggestions of the Board supplied. On the back ground in the distance, was of Health were excellent , an d that the vestr y would an open ditch, into which nearly the whole of th e soil be doing their duty to cooperate. of Clapham runs." As turpentine to flames, so is the Mr. Nicholas, Mr. Lowe, Mr. M'Evil, Captain exhalation of such cellars, tanks, and sewers to cho- Holland, and other gentlemen a ddressed the meeting, lera ; it diffused it se lf rapidly, attacked many, and some of them contending that the Board of Health 19 inhabitants, after some hours of suffering, sickness had themselves admitted that they had no power to and spasms, expired. enforce these orders ; but it was contradicted by Mr. The effects of decomposing refuse and water on Kirby, the magistrate, who said they had the power health were well known—their fatal subsidies to by the 11 and 12 Vict. , passed during the last session. cholera had been heard of every day ; yet no s t e p s The amendment was carried by a large majority, had been taken for their removal from Albion- and the meeting separated. terrace in July, no medical police had interfered to disturb the contents of Mr. Biddle's cellar; and now the nineteen masters, servants, parents, children rest in their graves, it appears to be taken for granted that blame attaches to nobody—to nothing —to the householders themselves—to the guardians of the district—to the institutions of the country ! Such mean intangible instruments of death can be invested with no dramatic interest; but fixing our eyes on the victims, it is well worth considering whether sub stantially it is not as much a part of the sound policy of the country that lives like those in Albion-terrace should be saved, as that the murderers of the man in Bermondsey should be banged. The revelations of the state of their districts in the registrars' notes of this and last week prove that it will be no easy task—l say, not to stay the plague of cholera, for it will subside, but to remove the evils which make cholera and all epidemics fatal. The vast task of the physical amelioration of the population demands the energies of the best men . n her Ma jesty's dominions. 'When, in the country from which Asiatic cholera came, our armies seemed for a moment worsted, and the empire threatened, the great captain of the age is reported to have addressed to another the memorable words, "If you do not go, I must." That enemy was distant. We have one very near, in our streets, of which cholera, a servile minister, has destroyed already 7,470 lives in London, and thou. sands more in the rest of the kingdom. Who will go out against this enemy ? Is it too powerful or too feeble for the arm of the greatest? Will no glory crown its conquest ? Is the country insensible to its magnitude ? Will not all the national strength and resources be put forth to improve the hygyenic condi tion of the people, and to rid England of the causes of the fatality of epidimics ? This may yet be done by the Government, aided by the force of facts and of enlightened public opinion. MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, AUG. 18, 1849. Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases ...*1714 Diseases of Uncertain Seat ... 52 Tubercular Diseases ... ••• ••• ••• ••• 182 Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses... ... 108 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels ... 32 Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of Respiration ... 93 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion... Diseases of the Kidneys, &c. •.• •.• Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &I. ... Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles Diseases of the Skin, &c. Malformations... •• Premature Birth ... •• Atrophy Old Ago Sudden ... ••• ••• ••• •• Violence, Privation, Cold, or Intemperance Causes not specified ... .., 0 ... 34 ... 48 ... 39 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- Subscriptions may be sent to the following bankers:— Messrs. Coutte and Co. Messrs. Drummond. Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smith ; or to any one of the members of the committee recently formed to carry out the Testimonial. • * *All further Post-office orders to be made payable to Murdo Young, Esq., at the Money Order Office, Strand. Subscriptions already received ... Per the Editor oft, Examiner : ...963 10 4* _ . Friends at Kelvedon ... 1 0 0 The Compositors at Messrs. Reynell & Weight's 1 10 6 ➢lr. Wm. A. Long, jun., Wotton-under -Edge 1 0 0 Second Subscription of Working Jewellers' Work- men ... ... ... ... .. 3 15 9 A. Few Chartists, per Samuel Boonham ... 0 3 6 Per K. L. J., Limerick, second remittance ... 0 18 0 H. B. P., per ➢lr. Dunford, Notting-hill ... 0 2 6 Penny Subscriptions by the Frequenters of the Sun Cofee•house, 118, Long-acre . A. Liberal Englishwoman, Warwickshire 9 0 0 5 0 Total ... £972 15 ii REPRESENTATION OF WEST SURREY NENT OF ONE OF THE CANDIDATES.—GUILDFORD, AUG. 28.—Considerable surprise has been excited throughout the western division of the county by the sudden retire ment of Mr. J. Ivatt Briscoe, the Liberal candidate, who has recently completed one of the most successful canvasses ever known here. A meeting of Mr. Briscoe's friends has been held, and Mr. Briscoe being present, gave in his formal resignation. lie complained that the Reform Club, the source from which he had been ltd to expect the expenses of the election would be provided, had attempted to exercise an undue dictation over him, but this charge the Hon. Gentleman's friends distinctly repudiated. Mr. Briscoe stated that, when he started, he had been informed that there was great apathy in the minds of the electors as to the choice of a candidate to represent them, but he could assure them that such was not the fact, as he had met with a hearty reception wherever he had been. Mr. Nicholson assured the meet ing that the electors were ready to fight the battle of civil and religious liberty, and would never let a Pro tectionist walk over the course. He proposed that Mr. R. W. Edgell, a magistrate of the county, should be solicited to stand for the county. This was seconded by Mr. G. Best, and carried neni. dis. Mr. Edgell said it was impossible to give vent to his feelings, the matter had come upon him so suddenly. In consenting to stand the contest, he might state that he was for civil and re ligious liberty in its most extended form; he was for an extended suffrage, when the vote would be considered not as a privilege, but as a right, and men might not be tempted to buy and sell it. lie was a free trader in all respects, yet he meant no mischief to the agricultural interest. Several questions, all of which were satisfac torily answered, having been put to Mr. Edgell, a com mittee was appointed to take the necessary measures for securing his return to Parliament for the western divi sion of the county of Surrey. FEES ON PATENTS.—Extract from a return to the House of Commons, from the Lord Chancellor's office, of fees on patents, paid over to the Clerk of the Hanaper (a sinecure office held by the Rev. Mr. Thurlow):- 1838 £3,120 6 8 1839 3,158 13 4 3,386 6 .5 1841 .•• ••• ••• ••• 3,378 13 4 1842 ... 2,859 6 8 1843 .•• •.• • • 3,220 0 0 1844 ..• ••• •• ... 3,447 13 4 1845 .•• ..• ••• 4,273 0 4 1846 ... ... 3,895 13 4 1847 ... ... 3,954 6 8 Total ten years' income (exclusive of church livings) ... —Patent Journal. £34,694 0 4 REFUSAL OF GOVERNMENT TO ABANDON PAT-. MENT Or THE HOP DUTY.—An answer has been received from the Lords of the Treasury to the memorial from a meeting of the hop planters of Sussex, praying that the collection of the hop duty of 1848, falling due in October and November, might not be enforced. To this prayer their Lordships state they cannot accede. The day fixed for the payment of the first instalment of the postponed duty is the 15th of October. The second instalment is payable on the 15th of November.—Maid btone Journal. LIBERAL LANDLORDS.—Lord Harris returned 16 per cent. and the Right Honourable Pemberton Ltgh 20 per cent. at their last rent days.—Maidstone he J ournal. OrriciAL SUPPLIES OF STATIONERY.--be madelinto Cus toms Board having caused an inquiry rece ipt and deli very to the system of control exercised on t he very of articles of stationery required for the use of the . Customs department, for minutes enforcing the necessity sneement of the present year giving fTegcrteatteerth economy, Treasury appears that since of commencement which had been whole bound t h h a e v g S e ffiblaou c t u en7dteirnYfov. for the many descriptions t b under the direction of the inspector of thathalf-pbaopuenrdosecondf c loth, 'b p ae u ne r dn pose, however, used, in vellum, the e d b i a ng at quhaelrierYbey'ksabbudetiinmiuinution of expenditure, under the head of books and binding, will be effected. Certain articles which have been heretofore allowed, but considered not requisite, have been disallowed, and directions issued that upon the receipt of demands for stationery, the ex aminer of such demands is not only to ascertain that the allowance is not exceeded, but that the demand is not made up of articles unnecessary for the conduct of the public business. The most brilliant victory is only the light of a ring conflagration, which the t ears o f suffering humanity slakes into a smo k e , th e f a i t hf u l emblem ue of its mis called glory.—Eliza Cook's Journal. CHARING•CROSS HOSPITAL—CHOLERA IVAiins.— Yesterday a meeting of governors and committee of management of this hospital was held in the board-room of the institution. The report for the past year stated that there had been 1,153 in and 14,347 out patients. Of the latter class a largenumber were poor married women who had been attended during their c onfinement attheir own homes. The total number of patients during th e year was near 16,000 person s, being an increase over the preceding year of 3,000. During the prevalence of the present epidemic, two wards have been devoted to the reception of cholera patients. Half the noblest passages in poetry are truisms ; but these truisms are the great truths of humanity; and he is the true poet who dr . aws them from their fountains in elemental purity end gives us to drink.—Eliza Cook's Journal. DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES ... Population Enumerated, 1841 West Districts... 300,711 North D—tricts.. 375,971 Central Districts 373,653 East Districts ... 392,444 South Districts.. 501,190 Totals... ..... 1,948,369 Malea . ... Females ... ... 2,417 Average weekly Deaths Deaths, 1844-8 in the live Summers. Week. 147 ... 282 . 191 ... 363 183 ... 365 • 227 ... 651 ~ 260 ... 796 - 1,008 ... 2,457 ... 1,172 ... 1,285 BIRTHS IN THE WEEK. Males ... Females ... Total ... ... 664 ... 653 ... 1,317 * In this number are included 1,276 cases of death by Cholera, 18 by Scarlatina, 77 by Typhus Fever, and 238 by Diarrhoea. _ . THI CHOLERA. EETUuN OF CASES, AUG. 28. Attacks. In London and vicinity, viz.:— Lambeth ... . . ... Bermondsey ... ... Southwark Rotherhithe ... „ Bethnal-green ... Camberwell GOO .. Shureditch ... .. W hitechapel Chelsea ... ... .. ... 57 ... 22 ... 41 West London Union ... G reenwich Limehouse Poplar ... ..• ••• Islington ... St. Pancras Kensington City of London Union ... East London Union St. Giles in the Fields Other localities ... In England and Wales, viz. : Liverpool ... Merthyr Tydvil Dowlais Cardiff Os. OOP. *6O Plymouth ... ... Clifton Union .. • . . Bristol ... Newcastle-under-Lyme .. • Leeds North Shields ••• ••• Bradford, Yorkshire ••• Portsmouth ..• ••• Portsea ••• ' ••• Mortlake •.• "• "• Weymouth... ... ••• ••• Derby ... ... Other towns In Scotland, viz.:— Dundee ... •.• Beith ,„ Haw ick Wilton-by-Bavrielr Crail • • • Arbroath Aberdeen ... ... 12 ... 21 ... 19 ... 15 . . 4 ... 6 ... 19 ... 14 ... 1$ ... 12 ... 7 ... 112 ... 205 ... 14 ... 11 ~. 26 ... 10 ... 10 ... 87 17 ... 5 ... 3 ••• 9 Total ... ... 3 •. • 1 ... 1 ... 963 Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much .--Eliza Cook's Journal. ... 52 05i 1A 2 .... 3VS 1 5 4 .. 13 54 3 3$ i~