The Sun. — London, England, 1849-11-14 00:00:00

DAY OF GENERAL THANKSGIVING. The following is the Form of Prayer and Thanks giving to Almighty God, to be used in all Churches 'and Chapels in England and Wales, and in the town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, to-morrow, the 15th day of November, 1849, being the day appointed for a General Thanksgiving to Almighty God, to acknowledge his great goodness and mercy in remo►ing from us that grievous disease with which Many parts of this King dom have been lately visited:— BY HER MAJESTY'S SPECIAL COMMAND. The service of the day shall be the same with the usual cffice, except where it is in this office otherwise appointed. THE 0 1 :tDER FOR MORNING PRAYER. Let him that rninistereth read wish a loud voice these sentences of Scripture ; and after them the Exhorts- , ti gin, " lleatly beloved Brethren," &c. Rijoice in the Lord, 0 ye righteous ; for it becometh well the just to be thankful. 0 let us magnify the Lord our God, and fall down before his footstool, for lie is holy. The Lord bath done great things for U 3, whereof we rejoice. Instead of the Venice exultemus. 0 give thanks unto the Lord, and call upon His name: tell the people what things He bath done. 0 let your songs be of Him, and praise Him; and let your talking be of all His wondrous works. Rejoice in His holy name; let the heart of them re oice that seek the Lord. For His mercy is greater than the Heavens; and His truth reacheth unto the clouds. In the time of our tro.ible, we called upon the Lord; and He heard us. The Lord heard cur petition; the Lord received our prayer. When fearfulness and trembling came upon us, and a horrible dread overwhelmel us, He delivered our souls from death, and our feet from falling; that we might walk before the Lord in the land of the living. Therefore will we give thanks unto The e, 0 Lord, among the people; wo will sing unto Thee among the nazi• us. Unto Thee, our strength, will we sing: for Thou, 0 God, art our refuge and our merciful God. Glory be to the Father, &c. As it was iu the beginning, &c. Proper Psalms, xci. viii. First Lesson, Jonah, iii. Te Dellin laudamus. Second Lesson. St. John, v. to ver. 15. Benedictuc. The Creed, &c., to the end of the Lord's Prayer. Instead of the Cullect for the My, the following shall - be uses. - Accept, we beseech Thee, 0 merciful God, the praises and thanksgivings of Thy people, whom Thou has gra ciously relieved from the sore judgment of grievous sick ness and mortality which has lately afflicted our land. Incline us to devote to Thy service the lives which Thou hest spared; and so enlighten our understandings and purify our affections by Thy Holy Spirit, that we may learn from Thy judgments to fear Thy wrath above all things, and may be led by Thy goodness to love Theo with our whole heart, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Then shall follow the Second and Third Collects for Morning Prayer, and the Litany. After the Prayer "Ve humbly beseech Thee, 0 Father," shall the following be added. Almighty God, our Father and Judge, whose power no creature is able to resist; who hast in Thy displea sure brought us down to the gates of death, and in Thy mercy hast stayed the course of that pestilence, for which there was no help in man; to Thee alone we ascribe our deliverance; in Thee only do we trust, to preserve us both in body and soul. And now, 0 Lord, we entreat Thee to make the chastisement which Thou has sent effectual to produce in us a more lively faith in Thy word, and a more entire obedience to Thy command ments. Make us so duly sensible of Thy mercies to this nation, in maintaining our domestic tranquillity, and in granting a plentiful return ,to the labours of our has bandmen, that we may slio4 our thankfulness by an earnest endeavour to conform to Thy will, and to ad vance Thy gory. And may the frequent instances of mortality which we have beheld remind us all of the nearness of death, and dispose us so to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom ; that, who• ther living or dying, we may be found faithful disciples of Him who has taken away the sting of death, and opened the gato of everlasting life to all believers. Hear us, 0 Lord, for Thy goodness is great; and ac cording to the multitude of Thy mercies receive these our petitions, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Then the general Thanksgiving, to the end of Morn ing Prayer. THE COMMUNION SERVICE. After the Collect for the Queen, " Almighty God, whose kingdom," &c., shall be read the Collect used in the Morning Prayer, " Accept, we beseech Thee," &c., and then shall follow, For the Epistle. Numbers, xvi., v. 42 to 48. And it came to pass, when the congregation was ga thered against Moses and against Aaron, that they looked toward the tabernacle of the congregation; and, behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory of the Lord appeared. And Moses and Aaron came before the tabernacle of the congregation. And the Lord spake unto Moss, saying, Get you up from among this con gregation, that I may consume them as in a moment, and they fell upon their faces. And Moses said unto Aaron, 'Pike a censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out fitom the Lord; the plague has begun. And Aaron took as Moses commanded, and ran into the midst of the congregation; and, behold the plague was begun among the people: and he put on incense, and made an atonement for the people. And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed. The Gospel. St. Luke, xvii., v. 11 to 19. And it came to pass, as he went to Jerusalem, that he passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee. And as he entered into a certain village, there met him ten men that were lepers, which stood afar off : and they lifted up their voices, and said, Jesus, Master, hav,e mercy on us. And when he saw them, he said unto them, Go show yourselves unto the priests. And it came to pass, that, as they went, they were cleansed. And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, and with a loud voice glorified God, and fell down on his face at his feet, giving him thanks ; and he was a Samaritan. And Jesus answering said, Were there not ten cleansed ? But where are the nine ? There are not found that re turned to give glory to God, save the stranger, And he said unto him, Arise, go thy way, thy faith hath made thee whole. Then the Nicene Creed, and after that the Sermon. Then shall be read the following sentences: Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, even so do unto them, for this is the law and the prophets. Blessed be the man that provideth for the sick and needy; the Lord shall deliver him in the time of trouble. After the Prayer the whole State of Christ's Church Militant, &c., the following shall be used. A Prayer for this Church and Kingdom. 0 Gracious God, who art kind to the ungrateful and the evil, we humbly acknowledge that we have not manifested a due sense of the numberless blessings, both spiritual and temporal, which we and our fathers have received at Thy hands, and of the mighty deliverances which thy power hath wrought for this Church and Kingdom. Through our neglect of Thy ordinances, and misuse of Tby bounties, offences have been multiplied in the land; and in our prosperity we have not sufficiently honoured Thee, the Author and Giver of our blessings. Yet forsake us not utterly, ()Lord, our Redeemer, but continue Thy loving. kindness to thy servants as in the days of old. Send Thy heavenly blessing on our Sovereign Lady the Queen, and on all that are in authority under her, and direct their proceedings to the advancement of true religion and piety, and to the peace and prosperity of the realm. Pour forth the gifts of Thy Spirit on all pastors and teachers of Thy flock, that they may be clothed,with righteousness, and that Thy word spoken by their mouths may never be spoken in vain. And to all orders and degrees of men amongst us vouchsafe such a mea eure of Thy grace, that righteousness may flourish in our land, with abundance of peace; and that, being re conciled to Thee through Thy Son Jesus Christ, and united with each other in charity, we may be an accept able people in Thy sight, and make known to the ends of the earth the riches of Thy mercy in Christ; to whom, with Thee and the Holy Ghost, be all honour and gl )ry for ever and ever. Amen. Almighty God, who has promised to hear the petitions of them that ask in Thy Son's name, we beseech Thee mercifully to incline Thine ear to us that have made now our prayers and supplications unto Thee; and grant that those things which we have faithfully asked according to Thy will may effectually be obtained, to the relief of our necessity, and to the setting forth of Thy glory, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. The peace of God, which passeth all understanding, keep your hearts and minds in the knowledge and love of God, and of His Son Jesus Christ our Lord; and the blessing of God Almighty, the Father, the Son, and the -11 0 1 y Ghost, be amongst you and remain with you always. Amen. THE ORDER FOR EVENING PRAYER, Let him that ministereth read with a loud voice these sentences of Scripture ; and after them the Exhortation, " Dearly beloved Brethren," &c. Rejoice in the Lord, 0 ye righteous; for it becometh well the just to be thankful. O let us magnify tho Lord our God; and fall down before His footstool; for He is holy. The Lird hath done great things for us, whereof we ro:oice. The H ymn appointed to be used at Morning Prayer, in stead of Venite exultemus, shall here also be use d before the proper the proper Psalms. 0 give thanks unto the Lord, &c. Proper Psalms, xxxiv., cxvi. First Lesson, 2 Ssmuel xxiv., v. 15 to the end. 0 sing unto the Lord a new song, &c. Second Lesson, Romans xii. God be merciful to us and bless us, &c. Then the Creed, &c. to the end of the Lord ' s P ra y er. Instead of the Collect ' for the Day, the Collect used in the Morning Prayer shall be read. Then the two Collects for Evening Prayer, Sce., t end of the Prayer for the Clergy and People. Then the Prayer used in the Morning Service, " At mighty God, our Father and Judge," &c., and the Prayer for this Church and Kingdom, "0 Gracious God, who art kind," &c., as in the Communion Service Then shall follow the Prayer for all Conditions of Men THE SUN, LONDON., WEDNESDAY' __. EVENING, NOVEMBER 14, 1849. NTELLIGENCE. SHREWSBURY AND RAILWAY i t BIRKENHEAD RAIL • FRACAS CHESTER B E T ANDWEE N T B WAY COMPANIES. A dispute, which has occasioned considerable i n terest in railway circles, 'has just occurred between the two companies above-mentioned. In order to understand what follows, it will be necessary to ex plain how it originated. It apyears that the Shrews bury and Birmingham line is to open this day (Monday), from whence the Shrewsbury and Chester Company always contem p lated receiving some portion of the traffic between Liverpool and Birmingham, as the distance between these two towns is the same by the route of the London and North-Western and that via Birkenhead, Chester, and Shrewsbury. The latter route having the disadvantage of crossing the Mer sey, it is proposed by the Shrewsbury companies to make a reduction of charge in order to place the two routes on an equal footing, and for this purpose a mileage rate for the three companies interested in the Shrewsbury and Birmingham route should be agreed upon. This arrangement the Birkenhead Com pany declined to accede to, and it was therefore resolved by the other two companies competing for the passenger traffic with the London and North- Western to sableesh omnibuses from Ch es ter to Birkenhead, less charge than the railway fare, so as to accommodate passengers who preferred a saving of money to a saving of time. These omnibuses have now continued to run from Chester to Birkenhead for several days, no doubt considerably diminishing thereby the amount of pas senger traffic on the Birkenhead line. The contract for the omnibuses is taken by Mr. Smith, an extensive omnibus proprietor in Chester, and it has been the practice of his drivers to take the omnibus direct to the booking offices at the Chester general station, and thence to carry such passengers from Shrewsbury and elsewhere as preferred omnibus to railway accommodation. T hursday last an intimation was given by the manag or at the station to the driver of one of the om nibuses, th,:q he would not permit him again to enter the station premises, for the purpose of decoying passengers from using the Birkenhead line. No at tention, however, wig paid to the prohibition, and in the afternoon the driver attended with his omnibus as usual, upon which the s tation-manager called in a policeman and gave him into custody. Immediately after the driver was conveyed to the lock-up a train, filled with "navvies," armed with clubs, was driven into the station, prepared for any work that might have ,been apportioned to them , As the prisoner, h ow ever, had been removed , no disturbance took place. On the following day (Friday) the driver was brought up at the Chester Police Court, charged by Mr. Jones, the station -manager, with wilfully im peding and obstructing the business of the station. Mr. C. W. Potts appeared for the complainant, and Mr. Kelsall, the law clerk of the Shrewsbury and Chester Railway Company, for the defendant. It appeared from the statement of Mr. Potts that the s Lation was built at the joint expense of the L on ,'on and North- Western, the Shrewsbury an d Chester, the Chester and Holyhead, and the Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction Iti.'l"3l Companies ; that its regu lation was comm. ;tted to a committee consisting of two directors from lath of the railway boards, who had appointed Mr. Jon, 'IS as a . gene ral manager. By the regulations of the cOtninittee parties were ex cludee from plying from the station with omnibuses in the direction taken by the converging railways. Mr. Potts, therefore, contended that Mr. Jones was justified in ordering the driver off the station, and and that the latter, by refusing to go, had impeded obstructed the business of the station, aild rendered him self liable to a penalty not exceeding .51., and in default two months' imprisonment under the Act 4th and sth Tic., chap. 97, sec. 16, commonly known as Lord Sey mour's Act. Mr. KELSALL argued that the omnibuses really belonged to the Shrewsbury and Chester Railway Company during the continuance of the contract with Mr. Smith; that the Shrewsbury and Chester Com pany were part owners of the station, and as such had a right to authorise, and did authorise the defendant to enter upon and use the premises, and that Mr. Jones had never consulted the station committee before he ordered the defendant to be taken into custody. He stated these facts for the information of the magistrates, but denied at the s, me time their jurisdiction in the matter, as the queson of right must necessarily be tried elsewhere. The Court consulted for a shore time, and Mr. POTTS, the presiding magistrate, then gave its decision, to the effect that no " wilful impeding or obstructing" had been proved ; that the defendant believed that he had a right to act as he had done, in consequence of his instructions from the Shrews bury and Chester Company ; and that they must therefore decline to adjudicate. and. leave the parties to seek a remedy in the superior courts. The dispute between the railway companies seems likely to furnish some employment to the gentlemen of the long robe ; in fact, we understand proceedings 'lave actually already been commenced, lIIRIIINGFIAM AND OXFORD. It is rumoured in certain quarters that negotia tions are pending between the London and North- Western and Great Western directors for the sale of the Birmingham and Oxford Railway to the former company, who, it is said, are likely to obtain posses sion of it. We believe we are correct in stating that negotiations have been carried on for such a purpose, but that they have had an unsatisfactory termination. One of the eonditions of the negotiations was, that the London and North-Western Company should advance 1,500,0001. on account of the purchase. There were other conditions respecting the limits of the bread and narrow gauges. We can, however, state that negotiations are being carried on between the two companies in the most friendly spirit for working the traffic of the Birmingham and Oxford, Birmingham, Dudley, and Wolverhampton, and some other connecting lines, with the greatest pos -1 Bible economy. CALEDONIAN. We mentioned a few days since that the directors of the Caledonian Railway had applied to the London and North-Western Company for pecuniary assist ance; On Saturday the application—viz., for an advance of some 200,0001. or 300,0001. upon the rolling stock of the Caledonian Railway—was brough under dsscussion at the monthly meeting of the Lont don and North-Western board, and, after a very animated debate, it was resolved not to advance the sum required. NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE. Some serious differences have arisen between the directors of the North Staffordshire and the directors of the London and North-Western Railways re specting the agreement entered into in 1845—that is, previous to the amalgamation of the old London and Birmingham and Grand Junction —for taking the Manchester traffic over a portion of the North Staf fordshire line. To carry out the agreement would necessarily injure the amalgamated companies, who are now called upon to fulfil the terms of the agree ment. Their objection to do so arises, it seems, from the fact that a canal in connexion w ith the North Staffordshire Company is competing with the London and North-Western for the goods traffic. It is stated that the latter company require this competition to be put an end to before they will consent to negotiate upon the basis of the agreement of 1845. SOUTH YORKSHIRE, DONCASTER, AND GOOLE. The portion of this _line ,extending about nine miles in length, from Doncaster to the Swinton station, on the Midland Railway, was opened for traffic on Saturday. Four trains now run daily each way between Doncaster and Sheffield. ABERDEEN. The directors of this company have given notice of their intention to apply to Parliament in the ensuing session for power to increase the capital ; to make alterations in the authorised line and stations in the vicinity of Aberdeen ; to repeal the Act amalgamating the Aberdeerr:Companywith the Great North of Scotland Company ; to authorise the directors to guarantee interest on the now shares which may be created by the company for paying off any mortgagees or bonds, and to guarantee in terest on any stock into which any new shares may be censolidated. It is intended to apply for powers to raise additional capital to the amount of 150,000/., but it is expected that 120,0001. will be sufficient to provide the necessary stock for working the line. SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY. The Sacred !Harmonic Society commenced their season last night at Exeter Hall. The band and chorus are in all essential respects the same as during last season ; and the whole- of the musical arrange ments are under the direction of Mr. Costa. If we may judge from the admirable style in which the whole performance, vocal and instrumental, went off last night, there is no reason to doubt that this so ciety will continue to deserve the high reputation which it has enjoyed, alike with the musical world and the regular frequenters of sacred performances at Exeter-hall, since the improved management. The oratorio selected for last evening was Handel's Solo mon, one motive for opening the season with it being that, with the exception of a few months, one century has elapsed since its first production. It was com menced on the 11th July, 1748, and finished on the 9th of August ; and it was first performed (at Covent-garden Theatre) on the 17th March, 1749.- One of the latest, it is by no means one of the best of Handel's oratorios; but its beauties, which lie chiefly in the choruses, received full justice from the enor mous orchestra. All the choruses are fine ; but among the most effective last night were, " Through out the Land," and the final chorus of the first part, " May no rash intruder." This last, especially, was Admirably rendered, so much so that, in spite of the the General Thanksgiving, &c., to the end of the Even- ing Prayer. ....---_. The Bishop of London has issued the following circular to the clergy of the metropolis : " F u lham, Nov. 3, 1819. " Reverend and dear Sir,—ln the pastoral letter which I addressed to the clergy of this diocese in December, 1847, with reference to the expected ap pearance of the cholera, I pointed out certain special duties as proper to be undertaken by them at that anxious crisis, in addition to the more peculiar func tions of their sacred office. I said that, while their first object should be to impress upon the minds of their people the necessity of an implicit trust in God, of an entire submission to his will, of increased degrees of seriousness, vigilance, and self-restraint, and of frequency and fervour in prayer, it would also be an office of real piety and charity to urge upon them the importance of endeavouring to remove all those physical causes which m i g ht invite the approach of clip ease, and aggravate its malignity. e i suggested, as a motive to such endeavours, that while we may not look for a ble ssin g upon the re sources anal appliances of human skill if they are not employed in ii"umble reliance upon the power and goodness of God, so neither, if we neglect to use all probable and practl;cable means of prevention and preservation, have we . m onths. withs awful .'any reason to expec t that He will specially interfere i` o rescue us from the conse quences of our own negligence. " The importance of this c.. Nution has been painftr e proved by the events of the last' twelve expected seourge has fallen 1.1% ) °, 11 .hui: vas t metro severity, and has swept away.from t -nts. Judging polis at least 15 , 000 o f its inhabi t, • made by the from the unvarying tenor o f the re p orts medical inspectors, and o f other p ersons ,I do not wa tched the progress of that fatal disease, who have hesitate to declare my belief that by far the rester r the n umber of those who have fallen victims io pes til e nce might, under God's blessing, h ave been saved from death bad timely and effectual measures been taken for cleansing an d ventilating their ll ings, preventing their overcrowded state, and draining the courts and alleys in which they are situate. " We shall be chargeable with great folly and want of foresight as political economists, and guilty, I v,,rily believe, of great sinfulness as a Christian people, if we neglect to profit by the dearly-bought expe rience of the past, and to take prompt and energetic measures ibr improving the condition of the labouring classes, by re:uoving the worst at least of those evils, which at once render them an easy prey to disease and death, and place them at a hopeless distance from the Church's teaching and ministry. I remarked in my former letter, that persons immersed in misery and filth are for the most part inaccessible to the motives and consolations of the Gospel. " Much, no doubt, there is which can be effected only by means of legislative measures ; but much may be done by the charitable efforts of associated Christians, which in the present state of thin the law could accomplish only by very slow degr:es- Let us not wait, while under the pressure of extreme necessity, for the operations of a machinery which will require a considerable time to put it in motion ; but let us at once take the work in hand, and show that the desired improvement is practicable, to a great ex tent, by the exertions of an active and well-directed charity. " We are about to perform, as a Christian people, a public and solemn act of thanksgiving to Him, who holds in his hands the issues of life and death, for his great mercy vouchsafed to us in answer to our prayers, in removing from us the plague and grievous sickness which of late afflicted us, and restoring the voice of joy and health to our dwellings. God grant that it may be the expression of a real, heartfelt thankfulness ' • and that it may be followe d b y its pro per results of increased self-denial and charity ! You will, I am persuaded, see the propriety of calling upon your congregation to contribute liberally of their worldly substance on that occasion, as a thank offering to Almighty God for their preservation from that pestilence which has hurried so many thousands to their last account; and I venture to recommend 1 that the alms then collected should be applied to the promotion of some well-considered plan for improving the dwellings of the labouring classes. " I would not be understood to prescribe the channel through which the collections should be so applied; but I would suggest that where the funds so raised are not sufficient for carrying out a local scheme for that purpose, they may he safely entrusted to `The Society for Improving the Condition of the Labouring Classes,' without fear of misapplication or waste. Much good has been already effected by that society, in setting an example of what may be done towards providing the poor with decent and commo dious habitations, by an outlay which will ultimately , be repaid with interest, both in a social and a pecu niary point of view. It is a remarkable and encou raging fact, that in the dwellings and lodging-houses belonging to the society there was not one case of cholera, and two only of diarrlacsa, which speedily yielded to medical treatment.* " I cannot conclude this letter without expressing my deep sense of the exemplary manner in which the clergy of this diocese have discharged their duties during the late most trying season, in visiting with unwearied assiduity and kindness the sick and dying, and in ministering, to the utmost of their power, both to the bodily and spiritual comfort of the sufferers. Two only of their number have fallen victims to that deadly disease which has carried off so many members of their flocks. Let us, who have been mercifully spared, show forth our thankfulness by increased dili gence in every work of piety and charity, that the Lord, when he cometh, may find us so doing. Com mending you to his holy keeping. "I remain, Reverend and dear Sir, your affectionate friend, " C. J. LONDON." * The reports of the society may be had of the secretary, John Wood, Esq., 21, Exeter Hall, Strand. The Lord Mayor gave directions on Monday that the following notice should be extensively circulated in the city of London : " FARNCOMIt, MAYOR. "Mansion-house, Nov. 12, 1849. " Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen having by her royal proclamation appointed and commanded that a General Thanksgiving to Almighty God for the abatement of the grievous disease with which many places in this kingdom have been lately visited shall be observed throughout England and Ireland on Thursday, the 15th day of November instant, "The Lord Mayor requests that his fellow citizens will close their shops and abstain from all business on that day, in order that it may be devoutly and reve rently observed by all classes. " By order of the Lord Mayor, " S. R. GOODMAN." On Monday the Rev. Dr. Adler, the Chief Rabbi, issued the following Form of Thanksgiving for the cessation of cholera, to be used in all the British syna gogues on Thursday next. The Thanksgiving is to be preceded by psalms, and by the ordinary prayers for the Queen and the Royal Family : " God of the spirits of all flesh I—before thee we come this day, in the place of Thy holiness, to glorify, to praise, and to thank Thee that, although Thou hest been angry with us, Thine anger is turned away, and Thou bast com forted us : and that, though Thou hast chastised us sorely, Thou hast again become our salvation. Thy chastening hand had lain heavily upon the inhabitants of this land. The mysterious and irremediable sickness had stricken down many—many beloved and lamented victims : the stoutest heart trembled at the voice of death sounding at the threshold ; and the boldest among the mighty were seized with terror and anguish. But gracious and merciful art Thou, 0 Lord! Thy wrath endureth not long; nor is thine anger everlasting! Thou makest sore and healest; Thou woundest, but it is Thy hand which prepareth the balm. In the depths of our terror and affliction Thou didet send forth Thy Spirit and there was a pause. Thou commandedst, and the Plague ceased. " Mighty and all-powerful Lord ! our Rock and our Shelter ! who can tell all Thy goodness ?—who can show forth all Thy glory ?—who can expound thy ways in the sanctuary ? But the living, whom Thy mercy hath spared—the living it behoveth to thank Thee with their whole heart. The father to his children shall make known Thy truth, and declare Thy goodness—how Thou hast dealt wondrously with U 3 !—how Thou hast called to mind Thy cove nant with our forefathers and has shielded us with the sun of Thy mercy which beareth healing and consolation on its wings. " Fountain of all blessings! open our eyes to know the benefits which the days of distress bring forth when the scourge has ceased. Grant that we may understand how full of blessings are the chas tisements of Thy hand : that we may learn thereby Thy statutes, and cease to sin against Thy holy laws. Glorious are the powers and faculties with which Thou hast bounteously endowed us ; which cease lessly follow out their true destination, but when we destroy their harmony it is we who produce conflict between them and act against Thy will : 0, let us therefore ponder our ways so that we may ever re member the past affliction and provoke not its return. Grant that no uncleanness may pollute us, and that wrong and unrighteousness be not found among us. Send sorth the blessed light of Thy truth to guide and lead us in Thy h o ly p a th. Deign to imbue us with the spirit of true charity, that we may strengthen the feeble knees and assist with compassion those who are i a n re the . sa crifices . which Thou d affitchon—for such deeds Thy d ' " 0 continue to be merciful ' countenance still shine upon us, our days as of old ! Amen." arest not desp ise. dolt untono t us. Let Thy 0 Lord, and render h e IF THE BEAM CAP FITS , WEAR Ir. Haynau has !wen called " The Jack Ketch of Hungary." By-the bye whenever a King or an Emperor, or any fi ne d espot, . has a pe t executioner, would . not be amiss to add ress him by the significant title of " 4118 Royal Haynauto..... Punch. rule to the contrary, the (Wire of the audience for a I repetition was irreprcssi - d). Again, the opening chorus of the second part 'From the censer," was magnificently given. The solo parts were sustained by Miss M. and Miss A. Williams, Miss Stewart Mr. Lockey, and Mr. Lawler. Miss M. William' particularly distinguished herself by her execution os the music assigned to Solomon ; and Miss A. Wil liams imparted much pathos to her delivery of the air, " Can I see my infant gored." The hall was crowded, and the whole performance went off so satisfactorily as to imply a very auspicious commence ment of the season. ESTABLISHMENT OF A LAW SCHOOL. . A general meeting of the Society for Promoting the Amendment of the Law was held last night, at the rooms in Regent-street, when, Mr. James Stewart submitted a project for the establishment of a Law School; Mr. Spence, Q C., was called to the chair. Mr. STEWART, in his address, said the teaching of law by means of oral instruction appeared to have been almost coexistent with its being taught at all as a science. Lectures or professorships had been established in most civilized countries, and it was difficult to show why, as one means of impart ing legal knowledge, they should not be useful. Of late years, however, but little favour had been shown for this means of instruction in some departments of the profession. On the one hand, it was said that professors accessible to all students were not appointed; and on the other, that students would not attend the lectures of those who were appointed. There was perhaps truth in both complaints. But it could not be disputed that under certain circumstances, and in some departments, lectures had been successfully delivered, both at the Universities and in London ; and the Inns of Court bad recently revived, upon the suggestion of Mr. Bethell, a course of lectures exclusively confined to students. These would seem, however, not to have been generally successful. Indeed, so little prospect of success had appeared as to induce the Society of Lincoln's Inn, the first in number if not in rank and importance, to discontinue after a short trial the lectures that society had established, and it was pos sible that the example might be followed by some or all the other societies. He attached no blame to the benchers of the Inns of Court for this result, but he showed from documents that the original intentions with regard to examinations and prizes had not been acted upon. Mr. Stewart went into this part of the question with some minuteness. There was then no institution in London for the purpose of de livering lectures on all the branches of the law; and it seemed open to any one, more especially to a scientific society, to provide for the teaching of the law in this manner to all who were willing to be taught. He therefore submitted that this would be an appropriate and fitting duty for the society to undertake. There could be no better method of amending the law than first to ascertain briefly and clearly how the law stood which it was proposed to :mend. No better means could be taken for this purpose than fully to investigate what it was, and then to declare it publicly before those competent to listen to it; and he believed that no better mode could be found of obtaining a correct and accurate idea of the law than by lectures followed by repeated examinations, the lecturer and the class working together. On these grounds he invited the society to use its influence and authority to found a law school fur the purpose of teaching the law in all its departments, and to afford the means to every one of acquiring a knowledge of those rules which govern his property and his liberty, his own rights and the rights of others. He would let in not only students but the public. The school should be entirely of a practical kind. It should consist of classes in which the main object should be to teach particular branches, not by fixed rules, or in any prescribed mode, but by such means as might seem best to the particular lecturer ; by oral or written communications, by examination, and free conversa tion between the lecturer and the classes. All that he had consulted upon the subject cordially approved of the plan ; and he read a letter from Lord Brougham in which the Noble and Learned Lord offered 25/. as his contribution towards the prizes, and further inti mated his willingness to volunteer a course of lectures upon Constitutional Law. Mr. Stewart concluded his very interesting paper by moving that it be re ferred toa committee to consider the subject. The motion was seconded by Mr. PULLING. The CHAIRMAN said that having been appointed Professor of Equity in Lincoln's Inn, under the reso lution to which his Learned Friend had referred, he would state the result of his experience in that office. He commenced his lectures in the Hall. The system was to deliver written lectures in term, and after term he instituted examinations upon them. The society had made it compulsory upon students who desired to be called to attend these lectures; but the examinations were entirely voluntary. The number of students who originally attendedthe lectures was about 18 or 19. Some of them evidently attended because they were compelled; but he found that those who attended the voluntary examination after term made great progress. This went on for about a year. At the end of the year the society came to a resolution that it should no longer be compulsory for students to attend the lectures ; on which those who had attended only to qualify themselves to be called ceased their attendance ; but those who attended the voluntary examination, to the number of eight or nine, continued. Finding the numbers thus reduced, and thinking they could be much more effectually taught round a table, he gave up the Hall lectures and invited the students to meet him in the Chancellor's private room, where he proceeded with them, taking care when he came to the end of every branch of a subject to inquire whether the principles he had endeavoured to expound were thoroughly un derstood ; and after term the voluntary examination was gone through, as usual, upon what had been treated during term. He must say he never met a set of young men more regular in their attend ance, or who devoted themselves more completely to the subject than his pupils. These lectures would terminate next term ; but from his own experience he could, in the mean time, state that the teaching of the law by this mode had been eminently successful. To show that it had not failed, he would mention that several gentlemen who attended the first course of lectures also attended the second, though the subject was the same ; and that, seeing the earnestness with which the pupils seemed to devote themselves to t he study, he had himself proposed that at the end of the course they should receive prizes. The numcboeurlsd, h s o o w a : e v e e i r y , not having been adequate , for he think it justifiable to es tablish a pro f esso rship to teach only eight or nine pup ils, the society was quite right in discontinuing the s y stem, but it could not be man who a w ould leave the course now in pr o g ress without bein g consequence offelatnsyurfaeiluthreereas w re a g s ar n d o e t d a those who more ndseed advanced state as regard ed knowled g e than if he had been at the bar for five y ears under the ordi iinnntatceeanoy course of study. The system of teaching by lectures, and the system of a legal school, would, he was satisfied, be effectual for teaching the law ; and the results of his own experience led him to concur heartily in the principle. Mr. ATECKETT described the success of the lectures at the Law Institution to articled clerks in the other branch of the profession, and said it was most de sirable that similar advantages of acquiring know ledge should be afforded to the students for the bar. The establishment of a law school would in this respect be a public benefit; and parties who distin guished themselves in it would, on that account, be very often selected for business. Mr. STEWART regarded the case of the Law In stitution as a most valuable one, because it was an instance of a successful law school having been estab lished by a private society. The motion was carried unanimously, and after the remaining business had b:en disiosed of the meeting adjourned. DRAINAGE OF TIDAL TOM NS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sru,—An original suggestion for the drainage of London has been just made by Mr. Goldsworthy Gurney, proposing to take advantage of the tide of the Thames, running down seven hours, and only up fire. The paper containing this suggestion has been. put into my hands to examine into the correctness of certain data and calculations necessarily connected with its practical application. I have maturely con sidered the subject, and have b een forcibly struck with its originality; and at this moment, when our attention is so closely drawn to sanitary considerations, deem it important to be put before the public. I have obtained permission to do so; and if you think so with me it is very much at your service. He says —" The current of the Thames, in round numbers, at London -bridge, runs down seven hours and u p five every tide—in wint er more, in summer less— depending on the amou nt of rain-water. It runs at a rate of almost from five to seven miles per hour—no matter the exact rate, if we suppose that it ebbs and flows at the same; it will be plain that anything thrown into, and forming part of the Thames at high water, would, in seven hours, be carried by the stream more than forty miles down the river, never to return. In order to make this more clear, let us suppose a portion of the sewage (or what is better, a sea-log) to be thrown into the Thames, and to become part of the current, precisely at the turn of tide at high water, at London-bridge ; in • seven hours, taking six miles per honr as the mean run of current, it would be carried forty-two miles down the river. On the return of the tide, even sup posing it to run up at the same rate, in five hours it will only have come up thirty miles ; and at the time of the next high water, at the turn of the tide, it would be full twelve miles below the bridge. It would now run down again for seven hours, and be carried 42 miles further, or 54 miles below London- bridge. On the turn of the next tide it would be left 24 miles down the river, and so on, de scending 24 miles in 24 hours until it went clear into the sea. If our numbers are correct — they are not far from the truth—it is self-evident that if the sewage of London was collected and allowed only to run into the Thames at high water, like the sea-log above stated, it would at low water be forty-two miles down the river, never to return ; for five hours flow would only bring it within twelve miles of the place from whence it started." He goes on to show that under such conditions the water of the Thames above London-bridge would be always pure ; that no pollution could affect it, and that the river below the bridge, instead of being, as now, constantly filled with filth, would only be fouled during the short period of the opening of the sluices—about an hour a day. His views are self-evidently true in principle; he follows them up by a detail of arrange ments to suit the conditions in practice, which need not be stated here; but at the end of the paper appears the following anecdote, which so clearly shows the principle, and is so naturally put, that I cannot help giving it as it originally stands. He says :—" When I was a boy, I was much amused to observe a dead pig to flow up and down a tidal river, every day; as regularly as the day came my friend the pig came also ; he grew bigger and bigger, and shortened his visit about a mile a day, until at last he went to sea, and, poor fellow, I never saw him more. He made me a phi losopher. What could make a dead pig grow bigger ? If he had been a living one the question never would have arisen—or why did he choose to shorten his visits so regularly a mile a day ?" Now it is evident, carrying out this anecdote in connexion with our subject, that if a " dead pig " were thrown over Waterloo-bridge at low water, he would go up with the tide for five hours, and he would in five hours more return, making ten hours. He would now only have two hours' ebb before he would meet the tide coming up ; consequently he would return again with it, and go up the river ; he might be seen every day for a week : but if he were thrown over at high water, he would float down for seven hours, and up only for five, consequently he never would be seen again within twelve miles of the bridge. The calculations of under-current, the fact of its being twelve and a half hours between tide and tide, difference in rate, &c., are all in favour of the prac .cability of its being carried out. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, King's College, Nov. 10. JAMES HANN. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PLYMOUTH, Nov. 11.—Orders were received here on Thursday for the fitting out of the Indefatigable, 50, with a crew of 500 men; and Lieutenant Joseph Edye, the son of her able constructor, being ap pointed to her, was especially ordered by the Lords of the Admiralty to commission her immediately. This officer was at Teignmouth when the order came, but the electric telegraph called him down, and in two hours and a half he was with the Commander in- Chief of the port to receive his instructions. The Indefatigable was commissioned on Friday by Lieutenant Joseph Edye (1849) for Captain Robert Smart, K.H. (1837). This gallant officer's expe rience extends over a period of twenty-three years, since his entry into the service in October, 1810. As a master's-mate he served in the Glasgow, at Algiers ; obtained his lieutenant's commission September, 1820; and, as lieutenant of the Cambria, was in the action at Navarino, and was subsequently wrecked in an attack upon a nest of pirates at Cara busa. He was made a commander April, 1828, and served in the Satellite three years ; and, since his elevation to the rank of captain, has commanded the Impregnable, 104, and Howe, 120, and has lately returned from serving as captain of the flag-ship Collingwood, 80, in the Pacific. Her Majesty's brig Hound, 8, was commissioned on Friday, by Commander F. Patten (1837), for service on the coast of Africa, and is to have a com plement of eighty officers and men. She will take out the December mails. Commander Pattern entered the navy in January, 1814, and has served twenty-five years on full pay, afloat and in the coast guard. He was a lieutenant of 1822, and was promoted from the command of the Rapid, 10, in South America. His last vessel was the Osprey, 12, wrecked at New Zealand, at a place called False Hokianga, which had never been surveyed. The Conflict, 12 (screw), Commander Blake, went out of harbour yesterday. The Ganges, 84, Captain Smith, C. 8., was paid wages yesterday. The Shearwater, Lieutenant-Commander E. Tur nour, sailed yesterday for Liverpool. The Royal Dockyard Female Orphan Fund pro ceeds well. There has been a large number of subscriptions entered into; and the patron Sir John Louis, Bart., has presented 1001. from the Bunkers' Hill fund. It has been proposed that a bazaar should be held the first week in January, and several ladies in the dockyard have kindly consented to receive contributions. There are seventy-six orphans, whose parents died in the course of the cholera visitation. Admiral-Superintendent Sir John Louis resigned the duties of the dockyard yesterday, and is succeeded by Captain Lord John Hay, at present one of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. The Leda hulk, stationed off Mutton Cove for convalescent persons during the prevalence of cho lera, has been towed by the Confiance steam-vessel to her moorings in Swanage, the cholera having entirely disappeared from these towns. The keel of the Narcissus, 50, will be laid down in No. 1 slip in the course of a few days. WOOLWICH, Nov. 12.—The Enterprise, Captain Sir James Clark Ross, and the Investigator, Captain E. J. Bird, were inspected to-day at eleven o'clock A .m., by Commodore Henry Eden, accompanied by Flag-Lieutenant Gore and 'Mr. Dyer, private secre tary. The gallant Commodore, on going on board the Investigator, was received by Captain Bird and the officers, and inspected the whole of the crew and Royal Marines as they passed singly from the port to the starboard side of the vessel. The Commodore then went below, and examined the state of the vessel, which was very good, considering the nature and length of the voyage, and the great quantity of spare stores with which she was supplied. From the Investigator the Commodore went on board the Enterprise, and was received by Lieutenant M'Clure and the officers of that vessel. The crew were then passed singly from the port to the starboard side of the vessel. The saws with which the ice was cut to make channels for the vessels to go through were shown. They are about 14 feet in length, without the handles, and the iron of which they are made is of considerable thickness. The shape of the teeth was considerably improved by the men, the original form being found to retain pieces of the ice. Immediately on the Com modore coming on shore the crews of the Enterprise and Investigator went aloft, unfurled the sails, and struck the topgallant mast, preparatory to their being paid off. Captain Sir James Clark Ross arrived in the afternoon, and went on board the Enterprise. The Enterprise and Investigator entered Port Leo• pold on the 11th of September, 1848, and remained locked up in the ice until the early part of September of the present year. When these vessels arrived in the extreme northern regions they burned blue lights and sent rockets up every morning and evening, the Enterprise firing at ten P.M., at twelve at night, a: two o'clock A.M., the Investigator using her rockets at nine and eleven P.M., and one o'clock A.M., and both burnt their blue lights at about five minutes before the rockets were sent up. During the long and tedious days of winter the officers and crews amusedthemselves by catching foxes, and secured upwards of a hundred of these animals, which are nearly the size of the common foxes of this country, only the fur of the former is white in winter and of a grey colour in summer. The whole of the foxes were liberated after each had a collar put round his neck, made of bear skin, and having the names of the vessels and the captains commanding them, with the latitude and longitude of the places where the ships were at the time, written upon them. Several of the foxes were taken a second time, with their collars upom them. The traps used for taking the foxes were empty casks, and some times three or four of the foxes would be taken in one day. The carpenters have finished their work to-day on board the Terrible, steam frigate, and she is expected to be commissioned on Wednesday next by Captain Hope. The Styx steam-sloop, when she left Woolwich on Thursday last, under the charge of Lieutenant Robertson, remained at Greenhithe during the night, and on the following day made two runs up and two runs down the distance between the Nore and Mouse lights, and was ascertained to have an average speed of 9+ knots per hour. That result proving satisfactory, and her engines working well, she pro ceeded for Devonport, and landed Mr. Stuart, the Government pilot at Woolwich, at Dover. PORTSMOUTH, TUESDAY.—The Termagant steam frigate, 1,556 tons, 24 guns, 620-horse power, went out of this harbour under Commander J. A. Stevens, of the Blenheim, this morning to make a trial of her speed and sea-worthiness under steam at the measured mile in Stokes-bay, and to test the working of Mr. Grant's cooking and distilling apparatus. There was enough sea on to try the vessel well under every phase of tide, if not of wind, of which element there was a stiff breeze blowing all the time, but the vessel's speed was insignificant for her power corapared with the performance of steamers of only auxiliary power by steam—viz., 6 : 1- knots, making 25 revolu tions. She lay over from 3f to 5 degrees. Mr. Murray, C.E., superintending engineer of this dock yard ; Captains Sulivan and Hayes, Mr. T. T. Grant, and other officers, were on board during her trial, which is considered a fair one. Her cooking and dis tilling apparatus was set in operation the whole of tin time, and prepared various condiments for the visitors on board, showing the excellences of the invention and adaptation to the manifold necessities of a ship's officers and crew. It distilled one gallon of fresh water from that taken out of the sea in one minute and ten seconds, and performed all its work in a most satisfactory manner. The Stromboli steam-sloop, Commander Lord Amelius Beauclerk, arrived this morning from the Channel, and was dispatched this afternoon to the vicinity of Whitecliff, to offer assistance to a ship in distress, reported to be a steamer on her way from Cork to London, with a cargo of turpentine and pas sengers on board, which had been run aground on the island to save the lives of the passengers. No parti culars have yet (6 r.ii.) come from the scene of the disaster. The Leander, 50, Captain Dacres, was inspected at Spithead yesterday, by the Hon. Sir Bladen Capel, K.C.8., the Commander-in• Chief, and her crew exercised in gunnery by Captain Chads, C. 8., of the Excellent. The Hecate, steam-sloop, Commander Shadwell, was also inspected yesterday by the same authorities, and lies ready to embark his Excellency Sir H. L. Bulwer, for America, whenever he may appear. The Sidon steam-frigate was undocked yesterday, and returned to the steam-basin, for completion for trial. A sad accident happened yesterday on board the Excellent to a boy whose name we have not ascer tained, whilst engaged in the gunnery practice con stituting the education on board that ship. Some portion of the ship's company were exercising with a couple of small guns on the forecastle, about ten A.M., and the boy in question, who was stationed outside of the port, mistook the report of one of the guns for the discharge of the other, and while in the act of inserting his rammer into the muzzle of the wrong gun, those on board, not seeing him in the smoke, fired off the charge, which carried the boy off the ship's side into the water, and blew his right arm off above the elbow. Several of those who witnessed the catastrophe plunged overboard after the boy, who was speedily conveyed to Haslar Hospital. The Sprightly steam-tender was undocked yester day, and the Bloodhound taken in, when her iron showed another most signal triumph for the chemical officer of the dockyard, whose composition had been on six months and was quite clean, whereas the side of her bottom coated with the preparation of an op posing agent was covered thickly with grass, presenting the appearance, in the words of an officer looking on, of " a garden of young leeks." A Board of Admiralty, comprising Rear-Admiral Dundas, C. 8., M P., Captain Lord John Hay, C. 8., M.P., Captain Milne, and Mr. Parker, secretary, arrived this afternoon from London, via Brighton, to pay Captain Dacres, of the Leander, a complimentary visit before his sailing for Lisbon. Their Lordships were accompanied by Captain Charles Eden, Private Secretary to Sir Francis Baring; Captain Sir B. Walker, Surveyor of the Navy; and by Rear-Ad miral Prescott, C. 8., Superintendent of this Dockyard, and were received at the Landport station by Flag- Lieutenant Cochran, Mr. Superintendent Sutton, &c. Sir Bladen Capel's carriage was in attendance to bring their Lordships into this town, their barge being in waiting at the old Sallyport-stairs, and the Myrtle port tender. Master-Commander Braddon, moored off the Victoria- pier in readiness to embark them for Spithead. Sir Bladen Capel and Commander Lord F. H. Kerr met the Board at the Sallyport, and his Lordship formed one of the party for Spithead. The weather was very forbidding, the rain pouring heavily, and the wind blowing with considerable violence, coupled with anything but a Lords-of-the-Admiralty sea, rendered the aquatic fete a rather nauseous trial. No salutes were fired, no flag hoisted, there fore it may be presumed this visit was a private one. They remained on board the Leander about two hours. Commander Jerningham is concentrating the broadside of the Leander. The object of this is to insure the certainty of delivering the first broadside with the most deadly effect ; the whole of the guns should be fired simultaneously, or the smoke from a single gun would obscure the object at the moment the others are to fire; and after the smoke has ren dered everything invisible from between decks, the only chance of getting a sight of the enemy is from the upper-deck, or aloft as long as the masts are left standing. Captain Jerningham's plan, therefore, which was satisfactorily proved on board the Wel lesley in India and China, in 1837, and on board the Excellent in 1847, is one that may be adopted in every ship without any additional fittings, and that in a few hours. The guns may be brought into position to cover a horizontal line varying in length from 1 inch to 50 feet, at any distance up to 600 yards within the angle of training of the guns in the ports, and the fire repeated with the same precision and rapidity as is now done with single guns. The Board of Admiralty returned to town this afternoon by the 6 30 train. APPOINTMENTS. WOOLWICH, Nov. 13.—Midshipmen—William G. England, to the Scourge, at Portsmouth; Edwin S. D'Arcy, and C. H. Stainforth, to the Hound, at Devonport. Naval Cadet—W. A. Welch, to the Indefatigable, at Devonport. The Devonshire, 72 guns, was towed down the river to-day from Deptford by the Monkey, African, and Adder steam-vessels, and is to be taken to Chatham. The Retribution steam•frigate has had her engines of 800 horse power taken out, and she was taken out of the basin to-day into the river, to have her masts taken out to-morrow. The Minx steam•vessel, fitted with a screw pro peller, has been fitted with a 10 horse power disc engine. The steam was got up yesterday to try the working of the disc engine of the Minx, in the basin, and it made 106 revolutions per minute. The vessel is to be tried down the river in the course of the week. The diameter of the screw is 4 feet 6 inches, the ball of the engine 10 inches, and the drum in which the ball works 27 inches. The shaft of the screw descends to the stern of the vessel at an apparent angle of 35 degrees from the engine. His Royal Highness Prince Albert having caused an order to be forwarded to Captain the Hon. W. E Fitztnaurice to bring his model of his rotary en gine and the engine itself and pinnace to Windsor Castle for his Royal Highness's inspection, the gallant Captain attended on the 6th instant at Windsor Castle, and caused the pinnace, with the engine on board, to be conveyed to Datchet-reach. His Royal Highness went up the reach in the pinnace, and ex pressed himself highly pleased with all he had wit nessed. The Enterprise, Captain Sir James Clarke Ross, has commenced unloading her stores into lighters for the purpose of their being taken on shore. Captain Sir John Ross, accompanied by Mr. Lang, master shipwright, visited the Enterprise yesterday after noon, shortly after the return of Capt. Sir J. C. ROES to town. Sir John Ross speaks with great confidence of the safety of Captain Sir John Franklin's expe dition, and says he will suggest to the Lords of the Admiralty to offer a reward of 50,0001. for the recovery of the whole or a part of the officers and crews, leaving the whole further exertions to private enterprise, and he, for one, will proceed to the Arctic regions next season. Sir John Ross also asked and obtained the promise of some of his former associates in his perilous North Polar voyage to accompany him again to the Arctic regions. nd RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. BRISTOL, Nov. 13. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The transactions to-day were as fol. low :—Great Western, 62—Ditto, Quarters, 11% dis.—Ditto, New Shares, 71. 13s. 9d. dis. LIVERPOOL, Nov. 13. STOCK EXCIIAIME.—The share market was dull to-day at the quotations, which were rather lower than yesterday. The transactions were as follow :—Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire, (late C. and B.), 6 per cent. till 1850, 13— Caledonian, 113 M—Great Northern, 13 dis. Lancashire and Yorkshire, Consol. Fifths, 6% dis. —London and North- Western, 1134—Ditto, New Quarters, Bs. 9d. p.—Man chester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, Quarters (No. 1), guaranteed 7 1 ,4 till 1853, 1314 dis.—Midland, Halves, 21% dis.—South- Eastern and Dover (so. 4), 6/. 6s. 3d. MANCHESTER, Nov. 13. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The transactions to-day were as follow :—Manchester and Leeds, 32/, Shares, 10% dia.— Ditto, Fifths, 6% dis.—Bolton and Bury, 40 dis.—Edin burgh and Glasgow, 30 dis.— Sheffield, Preference, 9 1 A North Staffordshire, 9 1 4 dis.—Dover (No. 4), Scrip, 614-- Grimsby Docks, 434—Ditto, Quarters, 10 1 A dis. BIRMINGHAM, Nov. 13. STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The only transactions to-day were— Great Western, 62 South Staffordshire, 4 dis. YORK, Nov. 12. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The transactions to-day were as follow :—York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 17 1 A Great North ern, 7%—York and North Midland, 1911. GLASGOW, Nov. 12. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The transactions to-day were as follow :—Clydesdale Junction, 51— Glisgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 41—Glasgow and Greenock, 14—North British, Preference, 5. DEATH FROM A KICK ON THE LEG.—It has remarked, on the highest authority, that the body is not one member but many; and whether one member Buffer, all the members suffer with it. Of this a re markable example has occurred at Chapel of Lochore, five miles south of Kin , oss. A healthy boy, eight years of age, received from a schoolfellow a kick on the calf of the left leg, which caused considerable pain, though there was no perceptible scar or discolouration This happened about noon on Wednesday. In the afternoon, the boy reached home from the school at Mary burgh, a distance of rather more than two and a half miles, having walked with some difficulty. On Thursday he was observed occa sionally to wander in his mind, and had two fits, each lasting about half an hour. On Friday there seereq, from the account given, to have been difficulty ct swallowing, but to which no importance was at the time attached. On Saturdly be had Income neatly in sensible, but after medical means had been re sorted to, he recovered so far as to be sensible to the pain of the leg, which was still, however, neither much swollen nor discoloured. In this state he remained with little change till the morning of Sabbath, at four o'clock, when he expired—being eight hours less than four days from the reception of this apparently trivial injury.—Caledonian Mercury. THE COUNTRY MARKETS. IPSWICH, NOT. 13. Our !millers bought wheat more freely to-day, and prices iwpioved is per quarter. Good malting barley supports its price; other qualities neglected. Oats and h,ons no variation. Peas a dull sale. Malt scarcely so good. Flour steady. rEn QUARTER Wheat 37s to 46s Beans Barley 22s to 29. Peas Oats e.. ....... PER QUARTER. 26s to 305 25s to 30s 4Th to 53s 35s to 40s AVERAGES FOR THE WEEK ENDING NOV. 10. Wheat 1,420 quarters at 42s 10d. Barley Oats Beans ... 74 „ 27s 2d. Peas 62 111 28s 11d. Rye .. OO „ 008 Od. HULL, Nov. 13. Messrs. Taylor and Bright's circular states:—Arti vals during the past week have been moderate, and although actual business not extensive, more firmness exhibited on the part of importers, some of whom are going to granary with the better runs of wheat, under the impression that during winter months better prices may be obtained, as the result of diminished large sup plies, or deteriorated condition of the new English. Spring corn generally has been very fist, with the single exception of the better class of old beans, which are not now plentiful on the market. We are fairly supplied with English wheat for this day's market, and an attempt by farmers to obtain yesterday's advance on Mark lane, but our millers being shy buyers, it was only picked samples that commanded fully last week's prices. Mere money was demanded for best runs of foreign, but owing to the still excellent condition of new English, the sale for this is for the present merely of a retail character. Inferior samples, whether foreign or home-growth, con tinue bad to quit. Transactions in barley, either for malting c r grinding purposes, are only limited, and con cession is made in sales from ship. The demand for old beans is still good, but limited to first quality. New beans, unless vary dry or kiln-dried, are more difficult to s , 11, though their present price seems tempting. White peas for feeding are more in request; for boilers the demand has not yet commenced. Several fine samples of blue, English and foreign, are on the market, at about 30s to 325. In linseed the business passing is very limited, owing chiefly to the lack of supplies, except for account a the crushers; there is rather more inquiry for cakes of first quality, and our quotation is paid for such. The import of rapeseed quoted above goes direct to the crushers, and the market remains without stock; of rape cakes, the supply is in excess of demand,Kand lower rates are again taken. Bones are sold at our quo tations as they arrive. The following are the present prices of grain : s. S. B. s• Wheat, English, red 37 to 401 Peas, white and yel. 25 27 Do. white ...... Dant sic and Ko- Linseed, Black Sea 43 —45 nigsberg 46 48 Do. Petersburgh ... 37 42 Pomeranian and Do. Riga & Arehngl. 36 38 Hamburgh . 3B 42 Do. Konigsberg .... 35 37 anish, Holstein, & Per ton. Friesland 3l —37 Linseed cakes, Hull 71 5s Od Muslim and Odessa 32 36 Do. fine foreign Oats, English. Do. 13 15 Rapeseed dt Do. Friesland . l6 18 Rape cakes...7ss Od to OOs Od Do. Russ. & Odessa 14 16 Tares, English OOs —00 s Barley,malting '24 26 Do. foreign 20s —24 s Do. grinding........ 20 22 Guano 6l to 91 lOs Beans 2B 34 Bones, do ...... 003 Od to 8786 Do. foreign ...... 26 —3 0 1 Rye meal 610 s LIVERPOOL, Nov. 13.—At this morning's market there was a fair attendance of the trade. The small im provement noted on Friday of ld to 2d per bushel in Wheat was maintained to-day, but the business was only moderate. Choice brands of Flour supported late rates; the secondary sorts of American and Irish are still difficult to move. Oats sold readily at an advance of id to ld per bushel on the price of last Tuesday. There was no amendment in oatmeal. Barley, beans, and peas, were each in fair request at fully late rates. Indian corn is still neglected; white is quoted is and yellow 6d per quarter under this day se'nnight. The following is the official statement of the quantiti corn, &c., received in the port of London from the po Essex, from the sth Nov., 1849, to the 10th Nov., both inclusive : ies of Its in 1849, • .3 1 t 4. 1 O 4' Colchester 35 746 127 101 730 Harwich Leigh 32t; 9 10 21 Maldon 448 123 105 60, 126 113 1030 CHELMSFORD, Nov 9.—There was a tolerably brisk sale tor wheat to-day at last week's prices, which were fully maintained. All else without variation. Wheat, white, old 43s to 48s; new 44s to 495; red, old 38s to 43s ; new, 39s to 45s ; barley, 28s to 30s ; chevalier 28s to 32s ; grinding 20s to 24s ; oats 17s to 23s ; malt 54s to 568; chevalier 54s to 58s ; peas, partridge, new 28s to 30s ; old, —s to ; white, new, 28s to 30s ; old, —s to ; dun, new, 27s to 29s ; beans, tick, new 25s to 27s ; old, 288 to 30s ; harrow ticks, new 263 to 28s ; old 29. to 31s ; ma zagan, new 241 to 26s ; old 25s to 27s per qr. COLCHESTER, Nov. 10.—Wheat, white 44s to 48s ; red 40s to 443; barley 28s to 32s ; beans, mazagan 24s to 28s; middls and small 28s to 30s ; peas 26s to 30s per qr. HADDINGTON, Nov. 9.—The following are the prices of grain at our market to-day:— Wheat. I Barley. Oats. Bean*. First „„. 53s tid I 25s ed 1 2 0 s 01, 32s Od _ _ _ _ Second Third ... 36s 2d 223 7d I 17s 7d :93 8d .. 27s Od 143 Od 14t 6d 283 Od Total quantity of Wheat in market 590 qrs.,' 534 sold Do. Barley do. 535 qrs., 483 sold Do. Oats do. 402 qrs., 353 sold Do. Beans do. 27 qrs., 26 sold KIIIKALDY, Nov. 10.—The following are the quotations up to this date : Wheat. :Barley. Oats. Beans. 1 Peas. First 463 Od 24s Od 21s Od —s Od I—a Od Second 42s Od 194 65 183 rd —s Od I—s Od Third 353 Od 17s Od 153 05 —s Od i—s Od _ . Oatmeal, per Cag of 2801 )s. imp., 27s to 00s Od. GLASGOW, Nov. B.—Provisions—Cheese, 46s to 50s Od per cwt - retail, 5d to 6d per lb. Skim milk, 18s to 00s per cwt. &wary fresh butter, 9d to lld per lb ; Irish pow dered, in lumps, 9d to 10d; country powdered, wholesale, 70 to Bd. Country eggs, 9d per dozen ; carried hen ditto, 55 6d per hundred, or 7d per dozen. Hens, 2s od per pair; ducks, 2s Od. STIRLING, Nov. 9.—Wheat, foreign, 21s to 25. Od ; ditto home, 21s Od to Os Od ; ditto ditto new, 16s to 20s, barley, per boll of 6 bushels, 00s Od to OOs Od ; ditto new, 11s to 17s 6d ; oats, common, 12s Od to 13s Od ; ditto new, 9s Od to 10s Od ; ditto, Flemish, Os Od to Os Od ; ditto ditto new, Os Od; malt distillers, 33s to 35s ; ditto brewers, 35s Od to 38s ; beans, per boll, Os Od to Os Od; ditto new, 16s Od to 17s 6d; peal. 14s 6d to Os Od ; flour, new, per sack, 34. to 35s ; ditto common ditto, 24s Od to 25s 6d ; oatmeal, per load, Os Od to Os Od; ditto new 26s Od to 28s ; ditto per peck of 71bs, 84d to Os Od; fresh butter, per lb, 8d to 10d; eggs per dozen, fid to 7d; hay per ton, 44s to 475. KELso, Nov. 9.—Wheat, old, 34s to 36s ; ditto, new, 210 to 34s t ; barley, new, 12s to 17s od ; ditto old, 00s Od to 00s ; potato oats, 00s to 00s ; ditto new, lls to 13s Od ; com mon oats, OOs to 00s Od ; ditto new, 9s to 111 Od ' • peas, 001 to 00s Od; beans, 20s to 22s per boll of six imperial bushels. PERTH, Nov. B.—Wheat, 32s Od to 44s Od ; barley, 18s to 23s Od ; oats, 14s to 16s ; peas and beans, 25s Od to 28s Od per quarter. Oatmeal, per sack, 26s to 28s. FALKIRK, Nov. 8. —The supply of grain in this day's market was 734 bolls; wheat at 16s Od to 21s 6d per boll ; barley, 15s 6d to 18s Od ; oats, lls 6d to 13s 9d; beans, 125 Od to 15s Od per boll ; oatmeal, Os to Os per load. HAWICK, Nov. B.—Wheat, new, 33s Od to 37s Od; barley , new, 16s to lEs Od ; ditto old, 170 to 205 ; potato oats, 13s Od to 15s Od ; common oats, Ils to 14s Od ; peas, 23s Od to 25s Od ; beans, 23s Od to 25s Od per boll of six imperial bushels. BERWICK, Nov. B.—Wheat, 38s lid ; barley, 20s 44; oats, 17s 4d ; rye, OOs Od ; beans, Os Od ; peas, 00s Od ase' rage per imperial quarter. CORK, Nov. 12. - Flour—First 12s 6d to 13s 6d; extra 14s 6d; seconds, Ils Od to 12s 6d ; households 9s to Its; thirds, 7s to 8! per cwt. Oatmeal 12s to 13s 6d; Indian meal 6s lid to 7s; wheat" meal, 9s 6d to 10s per cwt. Indian corn 125 s Od to'l3osod per toe. Bran 3110 s to 3115 s per ton. Hay—Farmers 25s Od to 325; averag e 30s ; dealers 32s to 36s Od; average 34s per ton. St! aw— Farm,. 18s Od to 26s Od ; average 20s ; deale rs 26s Od to 00$ Oa; average 00s Od per ton. Bread—Wheaten loaf 6d to household loaf 5d to 5d per 41b. Fresh butter, 8d W 9d per lb. Eggs-5s 5d to 5s 7d per hundred. Coale . " Newport 14s; Lydney 16s; Landore 14s; Best Neat ir Culm 13s per ton. Tallow 39s Od to 00s per cysts Whisky, 25 o. p., 5s 9d per imperial gallon. M eat —Beef 4d to 7d; mutton 4d to sd; veal 4d to Od; pork 4id to sd; bacon 7 d to 8d; sausages 5d p er lb. Hops 9/ Os per cwt. Bangor slates 312 s 6d to 31 As Pe r ton. Bark—Barbary 715 s to 815 s; Valonia 141 to ot; French 71 sa; English 01 per ton. Fleece Wool 10s to 12s per stone. Hemp 34/ to 35/ per ton. Fish— Scotch herrings 21s to 001; red ditto 25s to 26. per barrel ; Newfoundland 00/ 00s to 00/ pet ton. Timber—Memel, 85/ per ton ; deals, first quality, 1801 second quality, 16s per 100. Hides—Market 12s to 180; salted 13s to 18s per cwt ; calf skins 2d to 244 per lb* Potatoes, white bid to 8d; Minions lld to 00d ; Guano' Peruvian, 111 10s; Ichaboe 91 per ton ; Tar—Archang el 190 per barrel. BIRTHS. On the I 1 th inst., at Moray-place, Edinburgh, Da Blantyre, of a daughter. On the 10th inst., at Avonhurst, Warwickshire, the HO. Mrs. Woodmass, of a son. On the 10th inst., at Abbey. place, St. John's-wood, th e wife of George H. Taylor, Esq., of a son. of On the 11th inst. , at C raven-hill, Mrs. Thomas Gribble , a daughter. On the 11th inst., at Church-fields, Cheshunt, Herts, 0° wife of Edgar Crispin, EN, of a son. On the I.lth inst., at Gloucester-square, Hyde-park, 3 1114 G. Marshall, of a daughter. On the 11th inst., at Hamilton-terrace, St. John's-Wood' the lady of H. Darby, Esq., of a daughter. On the 12th inst., the wife of A. N. Cherrill, Esq., Le e. road, Blackheath, of a daughter. en MARRIE - I Ott the 6th inst., at Holme, D. Inverness-shire, Bernar d Brocts, Esq., of Beaurepaire-park, Hants, late Carabinier.°' to Jane Lilly, yo unges t d aug hter of Lieutenant-General Sir John Rose, 1i.(3.8., of Hohne. _..----" DIED. On the Bth inst., Charles Lyell, Esq., of Kinnordy, For' farshire, aged 81. On the B,h inst., at Beaupr6, Glamorganshire, Ciptain 14 ' Basset, Royal Artillery, lieputy Lieutenant of the counft On the 9th inst., at'Wateringbury, near Maidstone, Waite Smith, Esq., of Canton-place, Poplar, aged 38. Co p On the 10th inst., at Summer-hill, Birmingham , J . v°. Esq., aged 77. On e lOtla inst., aged SO, Charles Henry Last, P CI4 Hadleigh, Suffolk. of On the lOth inst., at Brighton, aged 78, Elizabeth, Wi fe Thomas Dyke, Esq., of Doctors'-commons. DortO n the I ith inst., at Ilerston-h use, Swanage, Susanna, the wife of J. Mowlem, Esq., Paddington, aged " r d On the 11th inst., at Eltofts, near Leeds, aged 44, Edw il ' Jowett, Esq., a justice of peace for the West Riding. , A( 0 , On the 11th inst., at York-place, Walworth, late of Uxbridge, aged 65 - - - London t Printed and Published by MURDO YOLSIi; No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, ~„ oi Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy. in the collav Middlesex, Wednesday, November 14, 1849. * .~• I