The Sun. — London, England, 1849-09-18 00:00:00

ou ing haPPY a fte' • 181• lea lo I Miss -Per' bl in, L thout great )liver it the Lie len f th• , add d two .at all all is In the Par- `, S` - AO. a :dt~r.cb :uric. lot oit Jouge 0.-74 ,s. CHOLERA AND DIARRHCEA. RETURN OF CASES, SEPT. 15.. THE METROPOLIS. SUPERINTENDING REGISTRAR'S DISTRICT. Deaths. Cholera. Diarrh Attacks. WEST DISTRICTS. Rer.drigton ..• St. GPorge, Hanover-square oemin••• St. &rutin-ill- the-Fields St. James, Wtstalinster ... - NORTH DISTRICTS. .. -- ••• ''''' • • • "--* .• • -- Marylebone Hampstead Sr. Pancras Hackney .. • -- • •• ......... ... -- • • • ."'"' , . . ---"' CENTRAL DISTRICTS. St. Giles —• Strand ..• %Abort' Union Clerkenwell St. Luke East London ..• West London City of London ..• - ... ."-- . . • ..--* ••• ..'".... ... -'''' ... --' EA ST DISTRICTS. shoredi tch • • • Bethnal. green Whitechapel • ••• St. G, urge-ia• the•Eas Stepn e y ..• ••• Poplar ... "' ••• '''' - • . • '''''' .• . --' • • • '''' SOUTH DISTRICTS. St. Saviour, Southwark St. Olave Bermondsey ••• •*" St. George, Southwark lie,Airigtuu, Surrey ..• Lambeth ••• • • Wandsworth ••• Camberwell ••• 11,3 therhithe •'• Greenwich ••• Levvisbum ••• ..• .--. • • • ..'. ••• "-* 10 10 22 25 ••• ''''' ... ""' ••• '-''' • • • .'.. ••• '''" ••• ''''''.. ••• .."'. .• • - Total ... ••• '''''''' THE COUNTW. The following is the Return of Des. , hs from Cholera and Diarrl.cea reported to the Gene.!al Board of Health the 17th day of September, 1849 : Deatha. Attacks.. Cholera. Diarrh• 3 0 1 0 O 1 1 1 O 1 O 1 2 0 2 0 O 2 O 2 3 1 O 1 O 1 O 1 4 0 O 1 1 0 O 2 1 3 1 1 2 8 1 0 19 6 62 5 9 0 6 0 7 3 Abergavenny Abicgdon Aiderbury Alnwick ••• Alverstoke Amersham ... • Anglesey Ashton-under-Lyne ... Aston ••• Barnet ••• ••• Bunbtaple •• ••• Barrow- upon•SJar •• • Basford ••• ••• Battle ••• ••• Bedminster ..• ••• B ,elper ••• ••• Bir m i ng h am ••• zietnin g l ia m ••• ••• Bolton ••• ••• Broughton, Great • Bradford a nd North Bierl. , y 4 ridgend and Cowbridge 1 3reoti or d (from Sept. 5) ... zridgnorth (July 24 to Sept.ls) tridrwater ••• •'• bright n ••• Bristnl P n rotnsgrove ••• zrotaley ••• •.• turnle v ••• tortou- on -T r ent ••• Caiston ••• Cardiff ... "' ••• Carlisle ..• ••• Carruarthen ••• Castlew a rd •.. ••• Cheltenham (Chariton Kings) Chester-le-Street (Harrison)... CiiiPpenham (Castle Combe) Charlton 0,0 ••• Clitheroe ••• Clift on ••• • • Croydon and Mitcham C ockermouth ••• Conway ••• ••• Coventry ..• Crickhowell ••• ••• Darlington ••• •'• Dartford ••• ••• Derby Devizes ••• ••• Dewsbury ••• "' Dover •• Dorche ster an d Cern° Droitwich ••• ••• Dudley ••• ••• East Stonehouse Xecieshall Bierlow Etolesfield Edmonton ••• Xpping ••• ••• Falmouth " . ai , laborough Gateshead ••• "' Gloucester ••• ••• Goole ..• Gravesend and Milton Hatfield and Welwyn Havertordwest ••• Hendon (Willesden) Ilexham •••• •• Hitchin••• • 1100 Horncaatie Tetford 110 wden Huntingdon ••• „ ••• ••• Hull ..• 'lpswich ••• ..• ••• Isle of Thanet (Ramsgate) IP (Ltargate) Lie of Wight (Newport) (Cowes) IKeynsham, Old Land... ~.Ring's Norton... ••• 4 - 4 unpeter ••• Lancaqer ••• ••• L 'ed g ••• ••• '• • • Leicester ••• •••• 1 4. r eigh, near Manchester •• •L' • ew,e, Chailey, Westhill, and Newhaven •.• ••• Liverpool ••• Llandovery ••• Llanelly ••• •. Macclesfield ••• ••• Madeley ••• ••• ••• Maidstone, Yalding, and Loose Mailing, Wrotham Manchester ••• Mansfield ••• ••• Market Drayton ••• Medway (Gillingham and Ro chester) ••• ••• Merthyr Tydvil •.• Monmouth (Coletord) 'Montgomery Morpe th Nantwich ••• •• Neath ••• .• Newcastle-upon - Tyne Newcastle-under - Lyne New Forest ••• ••• • Newport, M onm outhshire ... ~ M ynyddyslinii (from July 1) Newton Abbott ••• Northwich ••• ••• ••• Northampton (from Sept. 5) ... Oldham (11th to 13th Sept) Pontypo o l ••• Portsea, ••• ••• Prescot ••• Preston ••• Reigate (Surrey) Richmond, Yolk Catterick Ruchford ••• ••• Salford... ••- Salisbury Seulcoates ••• Shepton Mallet South Shields St. Germans ... St. Ives, Cornwall wansea, ••• ••• Tavistock •.• ••• Teesdale (Barnard Castle) ... Tynemouth Wakefield Warrington Wellington, Shropshire Witch' urd, North ... Wolstanton and Burslem Wolverhampton :led Siesdon Wycombe - • • • '''''' ... -. • • • ...''' ... - ••• ..". • • • "'"'"' • • • .....' • • • ''''' ••• '''' • • • '''''. •N • ''-' •• . - ••• • • • ''''''' ••• '"''' •• • ''''.. ••• '''''' .• • - ••• ....''' ••• ....". ... - ... -..- • • • ''''... • • • ''''' • • • •• • ....' • • • ""''. ... -"' ••• ''''''' . • • "'-'" . • • "--' • • • .....". .• • '''''". • • • .... ... "-' ••• .-"` .. • -- .• • ""'" ... - .. • ""-- .. . ..-^'' • • • ....... ... m-. ••• "-'" ... "--. ••• ''''' ... ...° ... '-' • • . "'"' • • ''' • • • ....." •• • a''..... 0 0 • ."'.'"' • • • ....". . • • •""" ••• .. • • • ""'" .• • ''''' ••• .--. . . . .'"' • • • • • "'"'" •• • ...... •• • ....... ••• '''' ••• .'"" .. • "--' ••• ''''' ... -- ... - ••• • • • ''''''' ... "-- ..• "-"' •0 • ''''''' 0 0 • ''.'"' ••• '''''' ••• • • • ""'" • • • '''''' ... -- • • • ....'. • • • ••• ..."' ••• ... - ••• .... ••• ....'. ..• -- ... - .• • ''''''' ... - ••• ....." ••• ''''' • • • '''''' • • • ''''' ... '-'" • • '''' • • York (July 24 to Sept. 6) ... Total ... ••• ...''' SCOTLAND. •• • ''.... ... - ... -- •c • ......° •• • .....''' 1.• • ....'' ... -- ... -- ... --- ... --- ... -- ... -- ••• .." ••• General fetdl 1,010 234 number of attavla reported by the -111url officers are—for the metropolis 346, and for the country 796 ; but their returns do not, in ge neral, c omprehend :. the cases that are treated by medical men 614 Private practice. Dundee ••• ••• Perth ... ' ••• Auchmithie (Arbroath) Aberdeen ••• Kerrie mu ir ••• liinno u ll, Perth • ••• Invernos ..• ••• Rawiek ..• ••• St. Andrew's ... Exmouth (Berwickshire) Abernethy ••• ••• Total ... General total:— . Metropolis Country Scotlttni 730 176 11 0 4 0 2 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 2 0 1 0 3 0 3 0 1 0 1 0 249 58 730 176 31 0 15 4 5 0 2 0 3 0 6 3 1 1 36 7 0 1 ..• ... '" ••• ''..... ..• -- • • • ........ ••• '''''' ••• ''''. •• • "''''' ... - • • • .''''' •• • ''.... ••• '..... ... ''''' 4 0 1 0 4 0 6 2 8 0 5 2 THE SON, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 18, 1849, CTIOLERA.. Fri. S , tt• bvP . t. 14th. 150 i. 22 25 14 24 36 36 44 57 121 106 DIAREWEA. bat. Sopt. Sept. 14:h. 15:h. 7 7 10 6 4 10 6 16 26 19 TELE UNITED STATES. LONDON. ARRIVAL OF THE CANADA. LIVERPOOL, MONDAY NIG.2T• The royal mail ',team-ship Canada, Captain Jud ltins, which passed Holyhead at noon to-day, reached the north-west Lght -ship about six o'clock this evening, where she was obliged to stop for water, the state of toe tide at that time not permitting her to cross the Bar. The steam• tender Satellite, Captain Parry, met the Canada below the light ship, and took up the mails sod papers on board the Canada. She reports that the Niagara at Halifax had arrived out, and that the Caledonia was met at Boston on the 31st ult. The Washington, from Southampton, had, after a passage of fifteen days, reached New York. The Canada brings 112 passengers, and details of the cause why the Hibernia has not made her passage in the regular time, gd is yet on the other side of the Atlantic. One of the Halifax papers of the ith inst. says : " The Hibernia, on entering the harbour, slruck on the rocks at Chebucto Head, and knocked a hole in her bottom. She was grounded in the dock immediately after her arrival, and the pumps have been incessantly worked to keep her free of water. Efforts were made to stop the leak by building over it. They must have succeeded, as she sail( d again on Saturday afternoon. "From one of the Admiralty agents, Lieutenant Ray mond, we have received the following report : " The Hibernia was proceeding at slow speed, the weather being foggy ; she had a sea pilot on board in whose charge the ship was then placed, and she c.,n -tintn:cl to proceed at the same reduced speed. " At 6 30 A. m. (August 31) she struck on Chebucto Head Rocks, and sp'rang a leak forward. " The engines were immediately reversed and trimmed by the stern. At 6.55 the port anchor and fifteen fathoms of chain cable were dropped under foot, and she was backed off and proceeded up the harbour to her West Districts North Districts Central Districts Eist Districts South Districts Total 237 249 53 58 HOP I.IN TE LLI GEN CE. MAIDSTONE.—The hops seem to come down short of expectation in every ground that we have heard of, in this neighbourhood. One of the best (Mr. Gur ney's) will full short one-third. The quality, where the hol:s have grown out of the blight, is generally very fine, but many other grounds are much damaged by the mould. Indeed it is the opinion of some old planters that in some of the first•mentioncd grounds the samples will be better than they have been for years. It is not expected here that the duty will reach 90,0001. WATERINGBURY, TESTON, MEREWORTII, AND NET TLESTEAD.—The hops in these parishes are far from good as to quality and also far from great as to quantity, as the pickings w ill show ; although there may be instances to the contrary, yet the result will prove that we are far from an average crop. WEST DIALLING.---This week will nearly finish the picking, which will be made short work of this year. All come down much short of expectation. The duty is supposed to be much over-rated. EAST MALLING.—NearIy all the planters have be gun to pick, and some have left of i ag ain owin g to the blighted hops not being bufliciently ripe to take the fire. It is a general complaint that they come down full one third short of expectation. But few pockets have as yet passed the exc ise scale. B ILENCU LEY.—Picking is now in full operation. The crop is evidently very much short of what many have set them at on the poles, and the opinion of ex perienced planters is that we shall not average 4 cwt. per acre in this parish, the number of acres in plant being nearly 500. YARDING AND HUNTON.—Picking has become general. The hops come down generally far short of what before was anticipated, but there are many fine samples procured. ROLVENDEN.—Picking became general yesterday. Some planters who began last week cleared the ground quite as fast as expected. A few pockets have been weighed, which required about sixty-three bushels to the cwt. According to our parish we think the duty overrated. HORSMONDEN.—The picking in this parish will very soon be over as we fall shorter and shorter, from the slackness of bine ; the hops having the advantage of sun and air, are excellent in condition. Every planter in the parish has overrated his growth; in fact, there was but one person who had any accurate idea of the growth, and that was the wile of one of our largest planters. The very best garden in the parish was laid at 5- tons ; it came down at 3 tons 12 cwt. ; so on in every instance and shorter still. C RA NBROOK.—Picking is proceeding rapidly, the complaints of short returns are universal. EDENBRIDGE. ricking has commenced in this parish, hut the hops come down very light, under one cwt. per acre as yet. CANTERBURY. —Picking is now in general opera tion in this neighbourhood, and in most instances the produce falls below the estimated quantity. It is generally thought that this district will not contribute more than one-third of the amount of last year's duty, and hence the cs!imate for Canterbury which has ap peared is overrated. The duty meets supporters at 90,0001. to 95,000/., to reach which some districts ) ' must prove more favoured than East Kent promises. ORPINGTON.—We commenced picking on Thurday ) last, in the only ground that will have a bin in it, ) and to give you as correct an idea of the crop this ) year, compared with last, in this particular ground, ) we have picked off the best two acres 369 bushels (of which last year we picked 1,381 bushels). The rest off the ground will come down shorter than this, and we cannot reckon on more than 11 cwt. per acre. 7 TICEHURST.—Some good samples have been ga thered in this parish, hut the quantity per acre in most places comes short of expectation, and the general opinion is that the present estimated duty is s too high. 2 HURSTGREEN.—Picking has become general, and 0 many come down short of expectation, about 75 8 bushels to the cwt. 2 FARNLIAM, ALTON, AND COUNTRY DISTRICTS, 3 SEPT. 17.—The hop-picking at Farnham is progress ° ing very favourably both as to quantity and quality. 1 We wish we could say as much of the " country; the quantity falls short, but the quality is very good. —Maidstone Gazette of this day. station. " After undergoing repairs she resumed her voyage with her passengers and the mails. On the 4th she experienced unfavourable weather, which caused her to labour heavily, and the leak to in • crease to three feet an hour by 9 A.M., up to which time her four bilge pumps, with the aid of an injection every hour for eight minutes, kept her free. The leak had now increased nice inches in fifteen minutes upon the four bilge pumps, being at the rate of three feet per hour, as above stated. These circumstances rendered it neces sary to use the injection for ten minutes every quarter of an hour. An attempt was made to place a foresail over the leak, but it was unsuccessful. A consultation was then held between the Admiralty agent, the com mander, and the chief engineer, who, after maturely considering the imminent risk of continuing her on her course, agreed upon the urgent necessity of bearing up for Halifax_, r. here she arrived at 5.20 All. On the 7th. "On the Bth, at 3 20 A.M., the Canada arrived from New York, and having taken on boat(' her own mails and passengers, and those of the Hibernia, proceeded on her voyage to England at six o'clock the same morning." Captain Stone, of the Hibernia, thus writes to the agents:— " So far as I am able to form an opinion, I think the injury the ship has sustained is entirely confined to her fore foot or, in other words, she only touched the rock forward. " Hibernia proceeds to New York for repairs." On considering this unfortunate accident, it is pleasing to find that the captain and his officers are entirely without blatne in the matter, and that in the trying emergency in which the ship was placed they have manifested that skill and coolness which is so eminently requisite in persons having such an important charge in hand, and for which, moreover, the captains and crews of the British and North American royal mail steam-ships are justly celebrated. This opinion was very strongly expressed by the passengers, who met on board the Hibernia on the Gth inst„ and passed the following resolutions, the Hon. Joseph Balestier in the chair : " Resolved—That this meeting is of opinion that Capt. James Stone is in no manner whatever blameable for the grounding of the ship Hibernia on the morning of the 31st of August on Chebucto Head Rocks, as he had at the time two experienced pilots iu charge of the ship, and was himself on duty. ‘*Re.c.dved—That Captain Stone acted strictly in ae cordance WI his duty in returning towards Halifax on Tuesday, the 4th inst., as, in the disabled condition of the ship, the lives, mails, and property on board, would have been put in imminent danger had the vessel pro ceeded on her voyage to England, and they cordially ap prove of the conduct adopted by Captain Stone. " Resolved—That this meeting is of opinion that Captain Stone, his officers, engineers, and crew generally, have ever shown great skill and zeal in craning out the duties of the ship, when placed in danger, as well as at all other timss, and that Captain Stone, his officers, engi neers, and crew generally are entitled to the best thanks of the meeting. " Resolved—That the chairman be requested to com municate the above resolutions to Captain Stone." These resolutions were signed by all the male passengers on board the Hibernia. We regret to learn that the splendid packet ship Henry Clay, which formerly used to bring us late intelligence from New York has been wholly destroyed by fire. A communication from New York, written just before the steamer sailed, thus alludes to the CORONEIcS' INQUESTS. ALLEGED MAN SLAtiGHIER OF A MARRIED WOMAN BY HER lIUSBAND.—Before Mr. H. M. Wakley, at the Perseverance, Weston-street, King's cross, on the body of Nary Anne Porter, aged 846 Mary Casey, a midwife from the workhouse, who was on Thursday last sent to attend deceased, said that she had then all the symptoms of Asiatic cholera. In the evening the husband came home in a state of drunkenness. He kissed her and said, " Tell the nurse did I ill-use you." She replied, " Leave off—don't kill me altogether." She had been delivered of a child the previous Monday, and it died of cholera on Wednesday. Elizabeth Randon saw the husband, on the day before the child was born, throw his wife on the bed, and dreadfully beat her; after which, he and his son (deceased's stepchild) went out. Deceasea's che4 and lips were frightfully swollen by the beating. Matilda Maddow stated, that on the Sunday men tioned by the previous witness, deceased came into her room, and said that her husband had stabbed her in the arm. Her lips were dreadfully swollen. Mr. Popham, surgeon, accompanied by Mr. Eastell, another district surgeon, visited deceased on the Wednesday before her death. The husband and her sister were in the room, and attempted to force her from the ,bed, when he (Mr. .Popham) said, " Fellow, what are you doing ? You will kill the woman." She gradually sunk until Fridpy, when she died. lie performed a post sear tea examination. The body was one mass of bruises. Her upper lip was swollen and cut inside. On the top of the head was a wound which reached the brain, causing congestion of the brain. There was a wound behind the ear. The left side along the ribs was also bruised. She died of Asiatic cholera, and the injuries might have been moving causes to the disease. Had she not died of cholera, the injuries in course of time wote_cl have caused death. Verdict—Deceased died of Asiatic cholera, after having been cruelly and disgracefully treated by her husband. At the close of the inquiry the police arrested the husband to charge him with his wife's death before the divisional magistrate. DEATH OF MR. W. WALKER, STOCKBROKER, /ROM CH , L,Ra.—Before Mr. Baker, at the Horns, Hackney road, on view of the body of Mr. W. Walker, aged sixty, who died of Asiatic cholera, at No. 45, CultaM-road. Deceased was by profession a stockbroker, and was a trrquenter of the Si.ock Exchange. He was of the most penurious habits, and lived with his brother, who was also of an eccentric disposition. They would never allow visits from any one, and the room which they occupied had not bc, n entered for months by any one except themselves. It was in a most filthy state, and there were boxes in it piled one above another. Deceased was in the course of the last fortnight twice attacked with Asiatic cholera. He was attended by Mr. Bowen, who stated that the room occupied by the deceased was in such a revolting condition as was quite sufficient to lead to an attack of the disease. Deceased was stated to be in possession of property. Verdict — " Death from Asiatic cholera." disaster : " The New York and Liverpool packet-ship Henry Clay, took fire at her wharf, foot of Marden-lane, East River, at three A.M. to day, September 5. She was loaded eith cotton and turpentine. It is expected she will be a total loss. She was scuttled, with the view to save her, but the water at the wharf was not deep enough, and the effort tailed. She was to have sailed for Liverpool to- morrow, September 6. She is still burning, and is now nearly destroyed to the water's edge. All hopes of putting out the fire have of course titer' given up. The cause of the fire is unknown. One reason that has been assigned is the heating of the damp cotton on board." The United States sloop of war Dale arrived at New York on the 80th ult. from San Francisco, with 65,000 dollars in specie ; no freight. The Empire City was expected in a few days from Chagres. It is probable she will bring two or three weeks' later intelligence from California. General Taylor was at Niagara Falls. The cholera was decreasing. Colonel Benton had been arrested for a libel. A meeting of Northern and Southern delegates, with regard to a revision of the tariff, had been held at Noe port; about fifty delegates were present. Nothing was finally agreed on but the policy of changing the basis of duties from ad valorem to specific. A slight increase of duty on iron, coal, wool, woollen and cotton goods was recommended. The annual report of the State Treasurer of Penn sylvania gives a most gratifying exhibit of the condi tion of the finances of that state. From Mexico we learn that the Mexican Government on the 11th ult. was in difficulty with Mr. C. Wintosh in regard to a contract for the railroad across the isthmus of Tehuantepec. The Government intend to back out from the agretnent; while li‘lntosh insists on its fulfilment. The Chamber of Deputies authorised the Government to raise half a million on the pledge of the imports, but the measure would probably be defeated in the Senate. The late Financial Minister, Senor Arranjeus, has been appointed Minister to France. It was rumoured that Herreira intended to resign the Pre sidency in favour of Gutierres, the present Minister of Finance. The municipal elections, which have just closed, give a large majority to the monarchical party Con gress was still in session, but was doing nothing of importance. The cholera was prevailing in the state of Durango to a frightful extent. The Traite d' Union of Mexico, of the 11th ult., says, " As to the regulation of the debt, it is postponed to a more propitious epoch. Two new projects have been presented. Mr. Robertson, the agent of the English creditors, published in a lengthy article do cuments relating to the recent negotiations with the Minister of Finance. The press is earnestly discuss ing the pro and con, but nothing has been done, and we do eot hesitate to say that nothing will be likely to take place. Advices from I - lavannah to the 27th of August have been received. The stock of rice was large and ,he sales small, at 10i- reels. There were four cargoes SOUTHAMPTON, TUESDAY MORNING,—The steamer from llavre which arrived here this morning brings but a repetition of our last advices respect ing the cotton market. Yesterday's sales were 144 bales for immediate consumption, without any change in prices. The Narraganset, for New Orleans, and the Elizabeth, for Constantinople, sailed from Havre yes terday. PORT AND HARBOUR OE CHESTER, RIVER DEE A most important inquiry took place at the Town-hall, Chester, during the last week, before two Admiralty C o mmissioners. The object of the inquiry was to ascer tain how tar the River Dee Company had carried out its engagements respecting the maintenance of a depth of water for vessels drawing fifteen feet at high water of a moderate spring tide in this important and once flourishing navigation. It is contended by its opponents that the company has embanked large estates from the estuary of the Dee at the sacrifice of • the navigation. The meetings were numerously and respectably attended, and among those present were Sir A. Dalrymple, Mr. Rabitie, Mr. W. A. Provis, C.E., on the part of the company, Mr. Henry Robertson, C.E., Mr. Hobert Ray, and Mr. Martin, Parliamentary agent, representing the Chestor aed Shrewsbury Railway Company, and Mr. 1. L. Marriott and Mr. .11,miltee Fulton, C. E., on the part of the shipping end manufac turing interests. The report of the Admiralty is looked for with much interest by all parties concerned, and the citizens of Chester are sanguine as to the Dee Company being compelled to restore the navigation to its lormer efficiency, The mortal remains of the late Bishop of Norwich, who died on the 6th instant, while on a visit at Bra,htln Castle, Inverness-shire, the seat of the Honourable Mrs. Stewart Maekenze, will be interred in Norwich Cathe dral, on Friday next. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE IN HYDE PARS.—A French gentleman attempted to commit suicide on Sunday afternoon, near the Magazine in Hydnpath, by shootit:g himself through the body with a pistol. The report se as heard by some boys passing, who gave the alarm to the police, and the unhappy man was conve) ei on a s t re tcher to S. George's Hospital. lie wus severely wounded in the rib;, and the all, ged cause of the rash att4lnlit was that he had been plundered cf 30,000 f. the preceding evening in the Haymarket. Cherish your best hopes as a faith, and abide by them jn action,—Eliza aoh's Journal. Our correspondent, writing on the sth, says : " I hay,' he,ird from Washington to the following effect:— " "rhe Cabinet have Ipld a meeting, and the impres si,in prevails that they have decided to rect ive an accre dited Minister from Hungary, to rccognise its independ ence, and to enler into treaties.' " This, however, is nothing but a rumour; yet I have heard from another quarter that the affairs of Hungary have been actually discussed at a meeting of the Cabinet Coumcil. " Thus far the United States House of Representatives shows 109 Whip and 104 Democrats. A few more Members are yet to be elected." The crops of provisions bid fair to be very large this season, and buyers are holding back before making their purchases. Suiars remain the same as last quoted. There was not a hogshead for shipment to France. The mazket was almost entirely bare. Exchange on London was quoted at 13 to 15, and on New York 5 per cent. premium. COMMERCIAL IN TELLIG ENCE. NEW YORlL—Since the last steamer busines: has re vived to a great extent, and all departments are now very active. The disappearance of the cholera had brought a large accession of visitors from all parts of the country, and goods are going off freely. The payments from the interior are prompt, and the trade of the sea son promises to be as large and safe as that of any pre vious one since 1836. The money market remains abundantly supplied with capital, and there is no change in the rates on bills. On good collaterals loans are made at 4 to 8 per cent., and even lower in some cases. Business paper sells at sto 7 per cent. for short time, and 8 to 10 per cent. for long time. The banks are full of specie, and are discounting all the good paper offered. The amount of coin in the State Treasury at this point has accumulated to 3,200,000. The exchange market has been inactive for this steamer, with a good supply of bills. First class sterling closed dull, at 9i ; but good nanr's could be had at 84 91. Frt.ncs, 5 27i to 25. CANADA. The news from Canada is not important. We make the following extracts : " MONTREAL, AUG. 25.—The long and arduous labours of the coroner's jury over the body of Mason, shct, during a recent enuute, have at length come to a cl se. They rendered a verdict that the deceased kMason) came to his death by having been shot by some person or persons unknown to them; and that such person or persons vs ere firing in defence oe the life and property of M. Lafontaine. The jury, at the same time, expressed their opinion that, had the corporation used timely and necessary precaution, the calamity would have been avoided; and that said corporation were very much to blame for such neglect. " MONTREAL, Aua. 27.—At a meeting of the Exe cutive Ccuncii it was said to be determined to retain the seat of government here, and to keep the horse police out of the city. MM. Lafontaine and Merritt have left for Halifax, supposed on business of the Custom-house - League. " MONTREAL, Ana. 29.—Everything here now is quiet, and judging from the general feeling of the people, is likely to remain so. Special constables patrol the streets all night, to prevent the occurrence of fires, which are feared from depredators. "Five huLdred houses are vacant at Montreal, and rents have fallen considerably. Many labouring people are finding their way to the United States, not being able to get employment in Canada. " MONTREAL, Aug. 31.—The opinion is becoming general that differential duties will be imposed on Ame rican good 3, unless the Government of the United Stales will consent to reciprocity in navigation-laws.: " MONTREAL, SEPT. I.—To-day Government Ex change on L Anion for 25,000 sold, by tender, for 10 to 101. The Grovernr , r is expected to arrive in town to morrow. " MONTREAL, SEPT. 3,—Governor-General expected and he will attend the church.--26,000L. in Government, Exchange sold at 10i per cent.—Wheather fine, cholera bad." COURT CIRCULAR. BALMORAL, SEPT. 15. There his been no interruption to the usual even tenour of the life of her Majesty and her Majesty's family at Balmoral for the last two days. Dispatches were received yesterd:y at the Colonial office from the Governors of the Cape of Good Hope, the Mauritius, and St. Helens. "BETTER FED THAN TAUGHT." (From Eliza Cook's Journal.) Let him look about who wanders, And he'll surely find, When he notes where Fortune squanders, That she must be blind. Gilded ignorance will jostle i'oor Wit from the wall; While brute Wealth pursues its wassail, Worth waits in the hall; , And when such strange things confound us Well may come the thought, Oh how many are there round us " Better fed than taught!" When we see a stately madam, In some lofty place, Proud as any child of Adam, Of her worldly grace, — When we hear her lips inveighing, Bitterly and long, Against some lowly sister straying In the path of wrong,— When she breathes the loud decrying, As no Christian ought,— Charity keeps gently sighing, "Better fed than taught." When we find a Priest, who groweth Greater every year, Taking corn that labour soweth, When %is in the ear, — When we see his heart get thinner As bis tithes increase, Snatching from the helpless %inner All he can of fleece, — When we find such saints defaming Creeds with mercy fraught,— Tell me, who can help exclaiming, " Better fed than taught!" When we see a young man leaning Idly on his gold, Large in speech, but small in meaning, Out of danger, bold, — When we see him rude to Weakness, Insolent to Age, Trampling on the words of Meekness, With a braggart's rage,— When we note the revel vision Of his brain distraught,— Wisdom sneers, in cool derision, " Better fed than taught!" When some little miss or master, Fresh from desk and form, Manages to spread disaster In a household storm, — When they cry for " moons" above them, And for " chimney bricks," — When they cling to those who love them, With most filial kicks, — Let us brand such olive blossoms As wise people ought, And hang this label on their bosoms, "Better fed than taught." Good sooty! we must mind our manners, One and all and each, Or Shame will leap and plant her banners In some moral breach. When Prosperity's broad table Yields us all we ask, 'Tis to make us strong and able For some Duty-task; Let us feast, but let us render Goodly deed and thought, Lest our lives bear this addenda, "Better fed than taught," ELIZA Coox CURE OF THE POTATO DISEASE.—The following letter from Capt. Elliot. RN., inspector-general of High land destitution, will be found deserving of attention:- 4 Lechilsh, Aug. 29, 1849. , The existence of the potato blight in Wester Ross and bkyo is certain. It is ge neral, but it is not, as yet, so universal or destructive as hitherto. its ravages are now, however, much more rapid than when I discovered its re-appearance in June, and gave so much unintentional offence by stating the fact in a waning tone. The season is now far advanced. The tuber is of some siv, and in some of th e ear ly va rieties near maturity. I think the poor p eo pl e m i g ht save some portion by attending to the following two ex p er i me nts, the result eca which . was also wit nessed by Mr. 0;d, of Muirhouselaw, Rox burghshire, a most extensive and intelligent agri culturist, and Mr. Macleod cf Kingsburgb, on whose farm the experiment wanedad. About the 4th of August the black spo t a pp on the leaf. It was spreading. After a few days, Mr. Maclecd selected two different situations for e xperiment. He teok three drills in each case; he let the s have remain on the middle one; he cut those on ono side of it, h and e pulose on the other. On the 28. h w? found the re led those in both cases exactly similar. In a given space the drill that had the shale , pulled was sound, without an exception that we could discover, and of a size scarcely less than ordi nary. On the middle drill, where the shaw had been left untouched, but w hich by that time w as almoet all FJ..tid away, we did not discover a single sound potato. I think the tubers were larger, but the difference was trifling. On the drill where the shares were cut, the potatoes were all sound, with a single, or at most two exceptions. I saw the sound potatoes cooked, and they were mealy, laughing fellows, more like the olden time." —Aberdeen Herald. ACCIDENT IN WATFORD . TUNNEL.--The train from the north due last nig ht at five minutes past nine o'clock did not arrive at Euston square station till half an hour after midnight. It appears that about the middle of Watford tunnel the axletree of the tender broke, and the train was immediately brought to a Uandstill, without, however, any further damage. After nearly three hours' detention the train was taken back to, King's Langley, and brought through the tunnel on the down line. From the same cause the later trams did not arrive till much atter their time. NORWICH, SEPT. 16.—1 t is confidently stated here that Id: rd Auckland, the present Bishop of Sodor and Man, will be translated to the see of Norwich. Several gentlemen, two or tht ee of whom are connected with the diocese of Norwich, have been spoken of as successors of Lord Auckland, but it would be invidious to particularise newer. afloat. Respecting the general news by this arrival, the Courier and Inquirer says " lii political /natters we have nothing of moment to communicate. " The journey undertaken by the President is likely to be circumscribed by his illness, induced by over exertion, and the cholera atmosphere. He will probably go back from Niagara, where he now is, to Washington, without visiting the Eastern States, cr delaying for the great agricultural fair at Syracuse, in this state, to be held next week. " From Canada we have no news of special interest. A new paper is about to be undertaken there for the ex press purpose of advocating the independence of the British North American colonies, with a view to ulti mate annexation to the United States. We presume such P. paper will be abundantly sustained on both sides of the line. With respect to the movement against Cubs, which the Preident in his proclamation denounced—very vi gorous measures are taken by the authorities for its sup pretsion. A cream-boat cleared at this port with arms and tunnauniti ,, n for Curecoa, has been seized on suspi cion, and acme arrests, it is rumoured, were made to-day of persons connected with the entiaprize against Cuba. " While aus observing good faith towards other na tions, the Administration at Washington aro not un mindful of the rights of their own flag, and hence upon a peremptory demand upon the Governer of Cuba for the surrench r ef Bey, a Spanish subject forcibly ab ducted, or representing Linitelf to be, from New Orleans and :.!arlied to I-I ..zse.neah, that individual was promptly surr, - .ndcred to the American Consul and restored to the 151. i ,d Stat , s. Iu Mexico all goes on, or rather stands still, as , usual. From California no very late news." SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. —that they had broken no law. They had not weak- FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. ened a good cause by one unseemly act of intern- TIMES.—The resolute attack of the Board of perance. When they said that " they loved their Health on the dangerous and revolting practice of country—they loved their Queen"—that" there is not intramural sepulture meets, as was to be expected, in t he wide circle of her Majesty's dominions a people with an equally determined ' opposition on the part of more grateful for benefits, or more patient under the local authorities, whose,traditional jealousy of ten- ordinary errors incidental to all human institutions," tralized control is enhanced in the present case by we felt that they uttered no more than the truth. their anticipation of direct pecuniary loss from the Their past conduct had entitled them to be heard, and closure of the obnoxious graveyards. At a recent we believed that all their future movements would be meeting of the St. Saviour's vestry, when it was re- governed by the same love of peace and order. Our solved by a large majority to keep open the Cross-bones last intelligence, however, from the disturbed colony burying-ground, notwithstanding the prohibition of proves that we have somewhat overestimated the the Board of Health, the chief arguments employed patience and forbearance of the inhabitants of Cape were, that the rich would lose the sums paid f o r 'Coven. We regret that even one blow should have family vaults, and the poor find their burial fees been struck—that the slightest act of violence should doubled if, yielding to a " meddlesome and itnperti- have been committed, under any kind of provocation. Dent" interference, they gave up a burial-place Up to a certain point nothing could have been more which they had enjoyed for 200 years, before an- dignified and decorous than the conduct of the Cape other equally cheap and accessible should be pointed colonists. The means to which they resorted in out. As fur the complaints of offensive effluvium the first instance, to enforce the withdrawal of the preferred by persons residing in the vicinity of the noxious order, which had so excited their incligna ground, they were stigmatized by the chairman as tion, were likely to be far more effectual than any exaggerated and false, ',seeing that the coffins were demonstrations of physical force. They petitioned of lead and airtight; and the smell, even in the the Crown, and they petitioned the Parliament of public vault, not offensive, but only " close, damp, Great Britain. Tne Governor, like an old soldier, declared his fixed resolution to obey orders. A s they and earthy." Setting aside the average intermixture of prejudice and passion in all discussions which in- had nothing, therefore, to look for in that direction, volve conflicting interests, . Saviour's are the objectionsassape urged by the they determined, ED long as the offensive order re - Warden of St . mained in force, t o co - operate i n var i ous ways to pearance of weight, and are such as plain men of render it inoperativ e . Th ey b oun d th ems elves to business, accustomed to compute their own interests, employ no convict labour; and to taboo any man who and to manage their own local affairs, on rigorously did. He who lent himself directly or indirectly to economical principles, might, at the first blush of the furtherance of the great iniquity was thenceforth the proposition, very reasonably maintain. Much, to be a marked man. He was to be avoided as a moral therefore, as we deplore the spectacle of an acrimo leper—as one who had contracted a noisome disease nious conflict between rival sanitary authorities, in —a ho was to be printed at as a foul thing with which the midst of a pestilence, requiring for its effectual no clean and healthy man would come in contact. encounter the heartiest and most energetic co-opera- Evitandus est! lie was to be placed beyond the tion, we shall, on the present occasion, refrain from reach of human sympathy. Buyers and sellers would pronouncing a censure which would probably but have nothing to do with him. The banks closed their aggravate existing animosities, and address ourselv es coffers against him. The insurance offices agreed to to the practical elucidation of the questions at issue. regard him as one tainted, and to deny their policies The first point to be decided is, whether deleterious to him. Employment of convict labour was thus pub licly declared th e one unpar d ona bl e soc i a l o ff en ce of ffluvia really escape from graveyards, or whether, as the chairman of the St. Saviour's vestry alleges, the the colony, and all classes of men combined to shoot gases resulting from the decomposition of the dead their arrows at the offender. In this crisis Govern arement came forward to thr ow th e aegis of its protec this retained in the "leaden, airtight" coffi ns? U p on sUbject it is first to be observed that the bodies of tion over the social culprit. It promised aid to those the poorer classes are not buried in lead, hut in who could get no aid from their knows. The public coffins made of boards, often very slightly nailed to. treasury was opened to those to whom the banks gether. Moreover, even in the leaden coffins it is denied accommodation. Provision contractors were customary to make a number of holes • underneath the encouraged to supply food to the convicts by advances coffin-plate, to give egress to the gases, which would from the Colonial, Treasury. The war was thus else, by their accumulation, first bulge and then burst commenced in earnest, and there could have been no the coffin. When this precaution is neglected con- doubt of the issue of the contest. The Cape Govern siderable danger ensues to the gravediggers, w h o ment could not gain a victory over such a combine have on many occasions been seized with asphyxia,l tion as that to which it was opposed. Already, in or even killed on the spot, by the poisonous deed, had it given way. Sir Harry Smith had gases emitted from a suddenly - burst coffin. determined that when the convicts arrived they should To escape these hazards they not unfre- not come ashore upon the main land, but be unshipped quently " tap" the coffins, and let out a jet at Robbers Island, or placed on board a hulk in of gas, which, being ignited, burns from ten Simon's Bay, and remain there until the pleasure of minutes to half an hour. These are perfectly her Majesty should be known. In this position we well-known facts, as any man may convince himself hoped that affairs would continue pending the by inquiry amongst the undertakers and sextons. rescission of the noxious order. So far the colonists The gases which thus escape are partly absorbed into had defended their rights without resorting to one the earth which surrounds the coffins, and partly act of physical violence. But the last accounts ascend into the air above the graveyard, from which, exhibit a different state of things. The movement by the law of the diffusion of gases, they rapidly has assumed a more dangerous and less dignified spread through the entire mass of the air of London. aspect. The new Members of Council, who had been In old graveyards the earth becomes so saturated called in by the Governor upon the resignation of his that it can take up no more gas ; the whole of which, old colleagues, have been mobbed, outraged, and therefore, is emitted into the atmosphere, and may, assaulted. The property of one of them has been indeed, in hot, close weather, be observed rising in a violently d, stroyed ; another has been reduced by sort of steam out of the ground. Thus, during the the combination of his townsmen to the very verge last century, have the two millions and a quarter of of starvation ; and it was at one time in contempla corpses buried in the merropolis within that period tion to cut off the supplies of the Governor himself. ascended into the air, and been inhaled by the sur- Thus threatened, Sir Harry Smith has issued a pro- vivors ; a species of gaseous anthropophagy, or demotion of no very conciliatory character. He has aerial cannibalism, hardly less loathsome to our sense declared his determination—and situated as he is we than the consumption of the same flesh, in its solid may pity, but cannot blame him—to uphold the ' form, as practised by the howling savages. The majesty of the law ; and so the case stands at present, next question raised by the advocates of intra- or so it stood when the last advices left the Cape. mural burial is, whether these effluvia, admitting Heaven knows to what extremities, in the interim, them to be evolved, are in reality the cause of epi- the contending parties may have proceeded. We demic disease. In Paris they argue there are regret that matters should have reached this pass—we neither graveyards nor slaughterhouses, yet the cholera regret that the smallest act of violence should have at each visitation has ravaged Paris with greater weakened the cause of the Cape colonists. still, we severity than London. What reason, then, is there cannot wonder at—we are scarcely prepared to blame for anticipating any sanitary advantage from the their conduct. There has been nothing of factious establishment of extramural cemeteries and abattoirs, opposition in the present movement. None of those like those of Paris, around our metropolis ? This lower motives which impel men to place themselves argument is plausible, but founded partly on igno- in an attitude of antagonism with constituted autho. ranee, partly on misrepresentation of facts. In Paris, rities have been at work among them. The Cape though there are no graveyards, there are large cess- cclonists are lovers of peace and order. pools under all the houses. Each of these cesspools They would fain have preserved all the re is made of sufficient dimensions to contain the whole lations of society in their most settled and ordures of the establishment beneath which it is organized condition, and maintained the political placed for twelve months ; the object being to avoid institution of their country vi ith all loyalty and paying the vidangeur's charge (100 francs) more respect. But there was a point beyond which their than once a year. Now, the gas which accumulates forbearance could not carry them. All they de in these cesspools is identical in its nature and proper- speeded was, that the convicted crime of Great Britain ties with that which accumulates in our leaden coffins. should not be poured out upon their hitherto urpol- So deadly is it that the eidangeur whose duty it is to luted colony. This they have asked in vain, and now raise the stone covering of the tank with his crowbar they are enforcing the compliance which it would rushes back the moment he perceives a chink, in order have been wisdom to have granted in the first . instance to escape the first outgush of gas, which, if inhaled, under the influence of something nobler than fear. causes a man to fall dead, as if shot with a What her Majesty will be pleased to decree under musket-ball. The Parisians, therefore, are in such circumstances no person can seriously doubt. this respect nearly as ill-off as the inhabit- However disagreeable such retractation may be, the ants of those Eastern towns where they bury responsible advisers of the Crown have now nothin g their dead underneath their houses; for it is ob- in the world to do but to slide out of their present viously unimportant, so far as the production of dis- difficulty with what grace they may, and bow to the ease is concerned, whether the putrescent gas be force of public opinion as it exists alike in the colony generated from one kind of animal remains or another. and in the mother country. It is very plain the Cape If we add to this the fact that the lower class of will have nothing to do with convict labour— Parisians drink a thin sour wine, in itself deleterious, that it will not suffer itself, without a desperate and rendered still more so by the adulterations prat- struggle, to be converted into a penal settle tised in consequence of the heavy octroi duties levied meat. The condition of our colonies all over the at the city gates, we shall be at no loss to understand world is not such as to encourage Ministers to why Paris is more fatally ravaged by cholera than trifle with, or to attempt forcibly to suppress, such London. Gases distilled from coffins in the church- a state of public feeling as now exists at the Cape. yard, and entering through our windows, reach us is Wherever we turn our eyes, if we have no recent a more diluted form than when they are generated outburst to contemplate, there are symptoms of under the house itself, as a chemist generates gas feverish unrest—of latent disorder, which may, we under a bell-glass. Every other pretended exception know not how soon, develope itself in fierce and to the established law, that putrescent effiuvia are alarming paroxysms, which must be suffered to take deleterious to man, and promote the spread of pesti- their course. There is no other path open to lential epidemics, will be found to disappear in like Ministers but concession. The convict experiment manner before an attentive examination. Science, must be manfully declared a blunder ; and the crimi therefore, concurs with humanity in dictating the nals intended for the Cape must find an asylum else removal from among us of animal residua, where. It is well that the present difficulty should whether contained in coffins or cesspools, and be got over without any loss of time—that an attempt whether lying beneath or beside our dwellings. should be made to conciliate the Cape before new But the Warden of St. Saviour's raises a question dangers threaten us more alarmingly from all guar of pounds, shillings, and peace. He reminds the ters. It is to be feared that this outburst in South parishioners that those who have paid from sto 10 Africa will prove in the sequel but a faint reflection guineas for a family vault in the Cross-bones grave- of a far mor e portentous storm in some of the Austra. yard will require their money to be refunded if the lien colonies. We have been threatened with such a ground should be closed, whilst the poor, whcsonly tempest for some time; the next arrivals may report pay a burial fee of 13s. at the Cross-bones ground, that it has burst over us. will, if driven to the parish churchyard, be charged 265. for interment. To this we reply, • that it is the declared intention of the Legislature to deal tenderly with all vested interests with which the proposed changes may interfere, and the bona fide proprietors of family vaults in intramural graveyards need not fear uncompensated expropriation. With respect to the burial fee charged to the poor, it forms but a small peat of the cost of interment, which amounts on an average, to from 41. to 51. for a person of the labouring class. It is, moreover, in the power of the clergy and the parochial authorities to reduce the parish burial fees to a level with the means of the poor; and, for the price now exacted from working men for intramural sepul ture they might procure equally decent transmission, and far more decent and undisturbed repose, in either of the suburban cemeteries. Indeed the pecuniary side of the argument tells greatly against the advocates of the intramural system. The diseases promoted by graveyard gas cuts short many lives at a period when they are profitable to the com munity ! and prevent the repayment, in reproductive labour, of the social debt incurred during helpless infancy. The workmen destroyed in their prime by the present epidemic have left many thousands of widows and orphans, of whom a considerable pro portion will become chargeable on the funds of their respective parishes. And the parochial expenditure necessitated by the fever cases which are promoted by the putrescent effluvia in question is immense. In the Bethnal-green and Whitechapel Unions alone the charge for the relief of fever cases during the first quarter of 1838 was 6161. 195., or at the rate of 2,4671. 16s. per annum ! We invite the attention of the ratepayers of London to these simple but signifi cant computations, which, we think, go far to prove that intramural sepulture is as inconsistent with sound parochial economy as it is dangerous to the public elfare, and repugnant to the general sense of the community. HERALD.—The intelligence received from the Cape colony will be read with much interest. 'We were quite prepared for the news which we received last week from this dependency. We knew that it must soon come; and it came in the very shape that all our knowledge of the Cape colonists led us con fidently to expect. We knew that they were a very loyal people; and we knew that they had been grossly injured. We had the utmost faith in their attachment to the Crown. We believed that, strong in the justice of their cause, they would not suffer themselves to be betrayed into any violent, unconsti tutional excesses. But we were equally certain that moral force would be exerted to the utmost for the resistance of the Ministerial attempt to force o n an u nwilling and protesting peop le a polluting curse, from which they shrink with horror and dismay. We w ere equally certain that t he Ca p e colonists, whilst true to their Sovereign, would be true to themselves — that they would not endure in patience the mighty wrong which had been done to them vio of b their most cherished political rights, and h e lation su ver- The Cape colony sion of their best social interests. threatene d with ruin and disg race ; and almost, it would would seem, as one man, the colonists have risen up in resistance of the injuries and in dignities which were about to overwhelm them. The tidings which we received last week assured us that they had resorted to no violence DEATH OF ANOTHER CHARTIST Yesterday an inquest was held before Mr. Lang ham, deputy-coroner for Westminster, upon the body of Alexander Sharpe, one of the Chartist leaders, who died of cholera in Tuthill-fields Prison, on Friday last, under circumstances similar to those attendant upon the death of Williams, the Chartist convict, whose death from cholera we recently announced. Sharpe was concerned with Williams, Fussell, and other Chartist leaders, and was sentenced to two years' imprisonment; at the end of that time to enter into his own recognizances in 1001. and to find two sure ties in 501. each to keep the peace fcr three years. The deceased was in good health when he entered the gaol on the 12th of July, 1848, and, as in the case of his friend Williams, a sum of ss. per week was paid by his relatives to the governor of the prison for his exemption from doing any work, such as picking oakum. The money was paid regularly until the 11th ult., when it was stopped, and work was offered to Sharpe, who re• fused to do any. On the 20th ult. Mr. T. Cue, the deputy-governor, gave the deceased some oakum, and ordered him to pick the usual quantity. The de ceased declined doing so. On the 20th of August he was taken before the visiting magistrates, who ordered him to suffer six days' solitary confinement, and to receive bread and water; the amount of bread allowed him being lilb. 'per diem. On the evening of the Bth inst. the deceased was taken ill, having been seized with bowel complaint. He was attended in his cell that night, and the next morning removed to the infirmary, but pain in the bowels and purging came on occasionally, with cramps, until Friday evening, when he died. He was generally restless, and impatient of being kept in bed, saying that the doctor wanted to try his constitution, and that it was an infernal shame. Before his death he told his wife that he had never been well since he had been locked up and kept on bread and water.. Mr. Atkinson, the barrister, attended on behalf of the relatives of the deceased, who expressed great dissatisfaction at the treatment he had received. Several of the warders and sub warder s of the prison were examined, and afterwards cross-examined, by Mr. Atkinson, with a view to show _ that the sudden change fr om full diet and plenty of exercise to solitary confinement and bread and w ater, whilst cholera exist ed in the prison, had caused the death of the dec eased. One of the jurors wished to know how it happened that the deceased had either to work or pay for his exemption, when his sentence did not include hard labour, and also that he had been confined to his cell and put upon bread and water upon the authority of the governor only, unsupported by that of the visiting magistrates? Captain Williams, one of the in , pectors of prisons, referred to the Act 4th George IV., chap. 64, section 38, to show that even where no sentence of hard labour was passed, the country was not to maintain the prisoner unless he was either incapable of labour or of paying for his exemption. The 42d section of the same Act specified certam breaches of discipline for which the Governor might, of his own authority, commit any prisoner, not exceeding three days, to solitary confinement and bread and water. The inquiry having lasted three hours, Mr. Atkinson suggested an adjournment, which was ultimately agreed to; and the inquiry was Adjourned to this day. 1 31 LITERATURE. SLATER' S SHILLING SERIES. Another excellent publication in the form of monthly volumes has recently been issued from the establishment of Mr. Slattr, to which we cordially offer our meed of commendation. Four of the latest volumes are peculiarly deserving of at tention. Or.e of them is the commence- went of a cheap translation of the admirable fictions of Frederika Brewer, the Swedish novelist—a lady who is, as a writer, what Mademoiselle Jenny Lind is, as a songstress. Within a portable compass we have here her "Minor Tales," a book which has tended not the least to spread her celebrity. These "Minor Tales" consist of six stories or sketches—the `'Twins," "Axel and Anna," the "Solitary One," the "Con soler," " Stockholm Suppers," and " Hopes." These graceful little compositions are already so generally known, and their merits so ge nerally appreciated,that nothing remains for us to do beyond the mere announcement of their re-publication. Another of the present series comprises, within a similar space, the " Orations, Lectures, and Addresses" of Ralph Waldo Emerson, the Carlyle of America. " Man Thinking ;" "An Address ;" " Literary Ethics ;" the "Method of Nature ;" " Man the Reformer;" the " Young American ;" and a speech delivered on the anniversary of the " Emancipation of the Negroes ;" are contained in this remarkable volume. No one who has ever perused them need be informed how bold are the arguments, how quaint is the style, how inimitable are the illustrations, or how generous is the philosophy of this extu.ordinary and original author. Mr. Emerson has secured for himself the attention of every reflec tive mind even though he may provoke against him self the opposition of the majority of Chthtians by the audacity of his logio. The gis tof his ethical belief is this am God; you are God; the intelligence of every man is a portion of the Divinity ! He himself has never expressed this view so explicitly, but that we maintain, and nothing less than that, is the gist of his creed. Hence we are diametrically opposed to him; yet, antagonistic though we be, we listen to him respectfully, because of the earnestness with which he evidently searches after the truth, 2nl the rever ence with which he speaks of the Omnipotent God. To learn the boldness of his articulations we need only listen to him when he says that " the natural philosophy that now is, is only the first gropings of its gigantic hand." His independence of tnought is sufficiently shown in that declaration—" I had botter,never see a hook than to (?) be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made satellite instead of a system. If it be asked what are the feelings of Emerson in reference to Religion— hear him talk of the " religious sentiment" in the abstract—" It is a mountain air. It is the embalmer of the world. It is myrrh and storax, and chlorine and rosemary. It makes the sky and the hills sublime; and the silent song of the stars is it." Here again is an indication of the current of his philosophy —" In the divine order intellect is primary • nature, secondary—it is the memory of the mind. That which once existed as pure law, has now taken body as nature. It existed already in the mind in solution : now it has been precipitated, and the bright sediment is the world." To us that is an odd but beautiful definition of creation. Of the dignity of human nature in his consideration, here is a token :—" An individual man is a fruit ich it cost all the fore• going ages to form and ripen. He is strong not to do, but to live ; not in his arms, but in his heart ; not as an agent, but as a fact." Of the duties of manhood he speaks thus:—" What are the thoughts we utter but the reason of our inear• nation; to utter these thoughts we took flesh, mis sionaries of the everlasting word which will be spoken." Do we wish to give an instance of the felicity of his metaphors or illustrative expressions P Here is one, where he speaks of " the locomotive and steamboat, like enormous shuttles, shooting every day across the thousand various threads of national descent and employment, and binding them fast in one web." Again, referring to the necessity of the agricultural cultivation of the American continent, he says " This great savage country should be furrowed by the plough and combed by the harrow." Without transcribing one other sentence, we feel satisfied we have quoted enough to demonstiate the singularly original and powerful character of the intellect of Mr. Emerson. Another distinguished American is the author of the two remaining volumes now under consideration—the poet and novelist, Professor Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Besides the tale called "Kavanagh," we have before us a reprint of his well-known poetical romance of "Evangeline." Written in exquisite hexameters, this story cannot fail to charm the mind by its grace, and to move the heart by its inculcation of the principles of love and gentleness. Faultless the poem is not, but fraught with beauty it is. The hero is admirably depicted—with a face, " like the face of the morning, Gladdening the earth with its light and ripening thought into action." Noble is his lamentation over the miseries of the world, as it exists at present, where "Daily injustice is done, and might is the right of the strongest !" What an exquisite picture is that sketched by him in five lines, where he depicts Evangeline and her be" ,rothed in the twilight gloom of a window's embrasure, Sat the lovers, and whispered together, heho!ding the moon rise Over the pallid sea, and the Silvery mist of the meadow - e. Silently one by ene, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossom' d the lovely stars, the forget-me-noisy' the angels." here are two golden verses. One on affection— " Talk not of wasted affection ; aff.ctiou never ws,s waited." The other as follows : " Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike." Another thought of subtle meaning runs thus— " Feeling is deep and still ; and the word that floats on the surface Is as the tossing buoy, that betrays where the anchor is hidden." Speaking of Evangeline as she wandered in the dark through a garden, he says very daintily— " Nearer and round about her, the manifold flowers of the garden 1 ) , ur'd cut their souls in odours, that were their prayers and confessions Unto the night, as it went its way, a silent Carthusian." Another of Longfellow's strange and fantastic de lineations is that of the forest, where— " Over them vast and high extended the cope of a cedar, Swinging from its great brms the trumpet-flower and the grape-vine, Hung their ladder of ropes aloft like the ladder of Jacob, On whose pendulous stairs the angels ascending, de scending, Were the swift humming-birds that flitted from blossom to blossom." So odd, singular, and occasionally grotesque is " Evangeline —a poem sometimes charmingly rhythmical, at others deplorably common-place and prosaic—but throughout marred by its careless and uncertain volubility. 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 Inte? ten- tion. Subscriptions may be sent to the Widowing bankers:— Messrs. Coutts and Co. Messrs. Drummond. Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smith ; or to any one of the members of tho committee formed to carry out the Testimonial. * * *All further Post-office orders to be made payable toMurdo Young, Esq., at the Money Order Office, Strand. Subscriptions already received ... g1,09i MANsION-EOUSE.—Yesterday. evening the Lord Mayor had the honour of entertaining at dinner a party of private friends connec ted with the City of London. Covers were laid for 50. NEWPORT, ISLE or WIGHT.—CGINS FOUND, A most curious and interesting discovery of coins of the 14th century was made on Saturday morning last, by the workmen employed in erecting some buildings at the back of the premises of Messrs. Perress and Dallimore, drapers, of Iligh-street. They consist principally of the pennics of the reigns of Edward 1., 11. and 111., of t h e mints of London, Canterbury , York, 11., Ber wick, Newcastle, Lincoln, St Edmund's, Bristol, Dublin, and Waterford, intermixed with many of the reign of Alexander of Scotland. About 2,500 are in the pos session of Mr. Perress, and it is known that very many more were taken by the workmen, previously to his be coming aware of the discovery. So large a hoard o f coin, of one period, has not before b een discovered in the island, and is equalled only by that brought to light some few years since at Buritor, in this county, and which consisted exclusively of pennies of the Conqueror. From the circumstance that all the coins now found are immediately anterior to the time of King Richard 11., the period of the deposit may not unreasonably be referred to the burning of Newport by the French in the second year of the reign of that monarch.-11ampshire A dvertiser. SHOCKING SUICIDE nT A CLERGYMAN.—COnai derable excitement has prevailed in the village of Mal vern during the past wee k, in consequence of the Rev. Peter Ball, a visitor, lodging at .11tr. Nash's, Castle house, havin,, cu t his throat. The rev. gentleman, who Ras about fifty years of age, and had been visiting Mal vern for some months past, committed the rash act in his bed-room on Tuesday week, in the presence of his lady, who, in endeavouring t 9 prevent him, had her hands cut. lie was immediately e.ttendefl by Mr. 'West, surgeon, under whose care ho lingered until Monday morning, when he expired. At the time of his committing the rash act Mr. Hall was under medical treatment.—Bristot j Journal. San" 1 rketa rdaui rides§ value. Igiaa fit a the drid, 'bred Add ;id° eti. 1