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C o lumbus,Cireen, Muceio; Success, Maori ,, . Std. Isabel!: , Buenos A) re.“ Elepeth, Trinidad; Martha J. Ward, New YGrk. SHOREHAM, Nov. I.—The Oswy, of Litti, harupt,n, got on shore on the main this morning,, abreast of Lancing, and rt to sins. PORT.iMOUTH, OCT. 31.—Arrd. Ma) fldwer, Cochrane, Parsbrough, N.va Snail, for London. Oil' Port, Georg,- Washingt ,- ,n, Probst, Batavia, fur Br, :nun; Ontario, Wilner, New Orleans. YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT, Nov. I.—Wind S.— Arrd. hail, Que,ec, for Lyroingt ,, n. OFF DARTMOUTH, OCT. 31.—ilebe, Janeiro, or Copenhagen. C.:tante:lN, OcT. 31.—Arrd. Grace, 1 . e...r0n, Queb c. BEAumaufs. Nov. 1 .—Wiad E.S.E.—Pte. back, Oct. 3lst, Bess Grant, for Buenos Ayros. RYE, Nov. I.—The Richard, Ald:sr.ey to Newcastle. came on shore this morning wnteriot_!ged, and on float ing to run for the harbour itt,shipped tier rudder, hk came untninagoable, and is nkiw at the bock of tile east pier. WHITBY, Nov. I.—The F.ainb.;w, tld,,, port, wt on shore near the Sister Church: s, en the lloldertie,s coast on the 30th of September; has been g:rt off and brought into the harbour with little apparent damage. PRASERBURGH, OCT. 30.—The Mentor, from bucto, for Hull, arrived in our bay this day leaky, with loud one man, part of deck load and bulwark, having experienced heavy gales during her passage. limitusu, OCT. 31.—The Conservator, Odessa t - .) Limerick, which wrist on shore 18th inst. at Querin, has got off, after discharging part of her cargo, and pro ceeded. SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. I.—Wind N.W.—Arrd. 21, Clyde steamer, West Indies. PILL, Nov. I.—Wind S.S.E.—Sid. Triumvirate, New foundland. _ _ ----- BRISTOL, Nov. I.—Wind S.S.E —Arrd. Enesley, Qiebt c; Margaret Pollock, ditto. BRISTOL CIIANNEL.—Arrd. Chatham, Qtl("be. SCATTERY ROAD.-Arrd. Sophia. Sierra Leon-. SUNDERLAND, Nov. I. Wind S.— Arrd. Oct 31st, Arie', Bailes, Quebec. SHIELDS, Nov. I.—Wind S.S.E.—Arrd. Oct. 31st, Undaunted, Pearson, Quebec; Mary Young, Pictou. LAW INTELLIGENCE (THIS DAY.) This being the first day of Miciaelaris Term, the die ferent law and equity courts in Westminster hall were opened with the usual formalities. There was as usual a great crowd in the Ball, and the courts were crowded, long before the ar rival of the judges, with elegantly-dressed ladies, anxious to obtain a sight of her Majesty's liege judges, and the more prominent members of the Bar. The Court of Common Pleas was a poit,t of great attrac• tion—all parties, old and young, being anxious to see the illustrious author of lon once an ornament to the Bar, but now an ornament to the Bench, take his seat for the first time as one of her Majesty's judges. CHANCERY.—(THIS DAY.) The LORD CHANCELLOR, after giving her Msjcsty's approbation to the choice of the city of London of their Lord Mayor for the ensuing year, enter tained the Judges, 'Masters in Chancery, and Queen's Counsel at breakfast, at his private residence, this being the first day of Michaelmas Term. Ills Lordship took his seat in his court at 'Westminster shortly More two o'clock. He wore his robes of state, as is usual on the first cliy of Michaelmas Term. His Lordship, on coming into court, was accompanied by the Master of the Rolls, the Vice-Chancellor of England and the Vice• Chancellor Wigratn; the Vice• Chancellor Knight Bruce was absent. After the usual cer;?aionials bad been gone through, his Lordship proccedLd to hear appeal notices. ANDREWS V. WALTON. This case, on the application of Mr. WOOD, was or dered to stand over till Tuesday next. UNDERWOOD V. JONES. The arguments is this case occupied the Court the remainder of the day. ROLLS' CO URT.--('PHIS DAY.) His Lordship the Master of the Rolls sat to-day in his Court at Westminster, and heard motions, none of which possessed any point of interest. VICE-CHANCERY.---(THIS DAY.) (Before the VICE CHANCELLOR Of ENGLAND ) His Honour the Vice-Chancellor of England sat to day in his Court at Westminster, it being the first day of Michaelmas Term. His Honour did not take his seat till nearly two o'clock, in consequence of having to attend the Lord Chancellor at his private residence, together with the other Judg , s, Queen's Counsel, and Masters in Chancery, as usual on the first day of Michaelmas Term. his HONOUR proceeded to hear motions, but no case of the slightest intmest came before the Court during the whole day. (Before the Vice-Chincellor Wion.A.m.) His HONOUR sat to-day at two u'el.,(k, and heard motions; but no case calling . for a spccisl rep rt carne before the Court during• the whole day. The Vice Chancellor Knight Bruce did not sit. QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.) (Sittings in Banco.) Th e Court was crowded to excess sumo time before the Judges took their seats. Among the Queen's Counsel earliest in their places we noticed the Attorney-General, Sir Frederick Thesiger, Mr. Butt, Mr Knowles Mr. Watson, Mr. Crowder, and Mr. Stuart Wortley. Mr. Justice Coleridge, Mr. Justice Wightman, and Mr. Justice Erlo took their seats on the bench at ten minutes to two, Lord Chief Justice Denman was ab sent from indisposition. TEIE IV UHLI" DISPATCH -THE DUKE CF BRUNSWICK V. HARDIER. In this case, which it will be recollected was an actio n against the proprietor of the Weekly Dispatch for the publication of a libel on the 19th of September, 1830, nineteen years ago, and in which the plaintiff obtained a verdict for 5004 Sir Frederick Thesiger obtained a rule nisi for a new trial. (We shall give a full report in our Third Edition.) EXCHEQUER.—(THIS DAY.) (Before the LORD CHIEF BARON, Mr. Baron ROLFE, anci Mr. Baron ALDERSON.) Their lordships talc their seats in court a few nal !lutes before two o'clock, and proCeeded immediately to hear the case of THE HAMMERSMITH RENT-CHARGE ALLOTMENTS. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL was addressing the Court when we went to press. By 6 and 7 Will. IV., if a rent- Charge be in arrear for 40 days, and there be no sufficient distress on the premises, it shall be lawful for a judge, °R n aplication, to summo a ury to asess the arrears chargepable with the reni-char j gs; and , the question in this case was, whether the costs of opposing an unsuc cessful, application before the taxing Master were not costs of the inquisition. The Court granted a summons to review the Master's taxation. BAIL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) This being the first day of term Mr. Justice Patte- Son took his seat on the bench at two o'clock, and heard several motions, most of which merely related to points of practice, and involved no point of public interest. The business before the Court this term is exceedingly light, there being only five cases in arrear. The Cuurt did not sit more than ten minutes. COMMON PLEAS.-(7I1 IS DAY. This court was more numerously attended, both k barristers and spectators, than any of the others, owing to the expectation that the new judge (Mr. Justice Tal fourd), whose late elevation has given such general sa tisfaction, would take his seat upon the bench for the first time to-day. Both the galleries were filled with ladies, among whom were some of Mr. Justice Talfourd's family, and they laughed and seemed'to be much amused at the odd and formidable appearance presented by tLe large assem blage of full-bottomed wigs below. The long release of the gentlemen of the long robe from the dry and tedious study of the law seemed to have had a very salutary effect upon their bodily con dition; all looked in excellent health and spirits, and ready to enter upon the toils of the term. During the long vacation, no doubt, " karnewall and Cresswelt" and "Chitty" have been shelved, to accumulate dust in the musty chambers of the Temple, while their possessors have been indulging in those sports and enjoyments which even members of the grave profession of the law do not altogether discard. Their Lordships breakfasted this morningwith the Lord Chancellor, at his residence in Park-lane, and came to Westminster in procession, with the other law and equ ity j u d ges . According to custom, e tZr a l n rothips o n a li g hti ng f rom th e i r carr i a ges walked through Westm inster -hall, which was crowded wi t h company to their court, and at once procei did with the robes, and of the day - They were attired in their black full dress wigs, and looked remarkably well. Vs entered the Hall about halt-past one, and as Atr. Justice Talfourd passed through the entrance to the court, he shook hands in a very friendly manner with several of the barristers who assembled at the door. a., 1 , 1t two o'clock, Chief-Justice Mr. Justice Mr. Justice Williams, and Mr. Justice Tslteurd took their sees on the bench. They all looked rem a • Ikably well. The Learned new Judge bowed re peatedly to the bar before he sat diwn, and his face was beaming with smiles. The Court then heard several " motions of coltrse," and some other motions, but none possessed any feature of interest. CR IMINAL COURT.—(THIS DAY.) OLD COURT. The Judges met today at toll' . -past eleven o'clock, in this court, fur the purpose of appointing the sessions for th e ensuing year. The Judges present were Mr. Baron Aldersun, Mr. Justice Matteson, Mr. Justice Coleridge, Baron •lfe, Mr. Justice Creswell, Mr. Justice P.rle, Mr. Baron Platt, Mr. Justioe Williams, and Mr. Justine Talfourd. The L,rd Mayor was also present, 411 4 Aldermen Wilson and Gibbs. The following are a e: u a fi i THE SUN. LON DON r _ FRIDAY EVENING NOVEMBER 2 1849 the days appointed ` - .oiling the sesr:ions for th...• pre saat ttlad cii ye-;r : Mond4y, N , Verl2l7,r. ff ISSO, !? fr . 6th :y. rf 10th JUL:. 59 Bth July. 19th August. „ 16th September, and „ 21st October. 'rho Court then wljourned to Mi , nday the 26:1! inst. SIR JOHN FRANKLIN. [Prom the sul - joined ci.mirnunication—addressed to us be a rirty eminently qualified to form an opin . ion up;,:) the sultj -!ct—it will b's seen that reflection o nly io irrea•ic the conviction tirlt tire nee brought to this eouiltry by the True!ove is less The detail of facts than the eifu,i,n of fancy. And as hip "la nity, at the very least, requires that no effort shou' ,d be overlooked which could possibly tend to diniinis h the perils of the isolated expedition, the project of ( balloon ought, to our thinking, to be attempted as a means of communicating assistraice. Every da3 r the matter is becoming more and more serious, a ad it behoves the Admiralty to direct every available energy towards the succour of the heroic but otherwise doomed navigators.—ED. San.] TO THE MEMBERS OF THE BIR MINGHAM TOWN COUNCIL. Gentlemen,—You have t...kc ri an ho:,ourable lead in resisting the iinp.;sure, by which it wz:s a.tcniptcd to limit your freedom of comrcereial intcrcoursr. tk, four d.tys in the weds, on pr:Atuces based on the 1 falsineation of documents a7d the abuse of the trust confided in the religi , ms servants of the public. The case is not a new one; and it might by possi bility have been repeated under the old form. Sup pose then the statement made to you by bizhops and presbyters had been, that the New Testament declares the Pope to possess the power of deposing kings, and measures must in consquence take place, deeply affecting your interests in various ways. I put the case thus, that there may be no semblance of seeking quarrel with the followers of an ancient church, some of whom are probably among the esteemed members of your body. Suppose then the question had been put to you as thus,—.' Are you Christians, or infidels ? Do you or do you nut believe, that . the Pope has the power to &pose kings ?" Would you have consented to shuffle about under this charge of being infidels, by which the assailant always moans do g s; or would you have answered by saying, " Luckily two can play at that game. The New Testament is not a rare hook chained in our churches, but thtre is none among us but has it :n his hand. It is as easy to know whether the fraud is with us or you, as to settle a suspected account. Bring us the bond, and let us see who is ri g ht. If you have called U 3 names with a view to blink what you knew to be a false account, a penal colony would be the proper place to send you." Pass over the ignorant, who bawl as they are told to do; but fasten on some who are responsible for their acts. And ask them whether they do not per fectly know, and whether they are in any manner prepared to deny, that the Apostle from whom the Christian church universal takes nearly the whole of the details of its duties and its avoidances, includes the sabbatical observances of the Jews in the most sweeping terms amon g w h a t h e h as di rec t e d t o b e resisted. Put the question in its simplicity, or if you go further, ask why they d o no t d es i re you t o b e cir cumcised, seeing that the liberation from that burthen depends upon similar words, in the same places, from the same authority. And then watch how your antagonists will wriggle and glose, to try to twist a set falsehood into truth, and what specimens you will have of that faculty of perverting plain words, which has made the name of theologian at a discount from Milton's day to ours. May I assume that every one of you is aware of the following facts : That the Great Apostle, the Apostle of the Gen tiles, as he is sometimes called, in laying down rules for his Christian converts, prohibits in distinct words the keeping of the Jewish sabbaths of all kinds (See Coloss. ii. 16). That to maintain that the Apostles substituted the First day of the week for the Seventh, is as totally and disgracefully false as it would be to say they sub stituted the cutting off a joint of the little finger for circumcision. They authorised meetings for public worship on the First day, and collections for chari table purposes, and they called it the Lord's, or Christ's day, in commemoration of the resurrection. But all the rest is forgery. That the Protestant Reformers included the attempt to transfer the restrictions of the Jewish Seventh day to the First day of the week, among the grievances they complained of (See the Confession of Augsburg). That the Church of England in her Catechism and Articles ignores the Fourth Commandment; thereby declaring it to belong to the " Ceremonies, Rites, and Civil precepts, which do not bind Christian men," and not to the " Commandments which are called Moral." Of which if any wants to be convinced, let him revert to his youthful memories, and repeat the various answers consequent upon the question," What dost thou chiefly learn from these Commandments ?" That the Dissenting sects without exception, ac knowledge the authority of the Apostles to direct what shall and shall not be kept of the Jewish law ; though they have not the virtue to speak the trill], under the temptation of getting power over the bodies and souls of men, by preserving what they think too good to be parted with at the Apostles' bidding. The tyranny you have so manfully opposed, has its branches everywhere. A principal object in view, when it is convenient to acknowledge it, is to cut off your working classes from those opportunities of mental improvement, which the day of relaxation from toil which custom gives and Christianity does not oppose, would place within their reach. Does any man believe that kindness was meant to the working classes ? The next step would have been to shut them up like slaves on the priests' Jewish prison-day. And another evil of scarcely less importance, is the mischief attendant on setting up a false scale of mo rality, and thus tempting men by the commission of imaginary sins. The man executed in Scotland the other day for a complication of crime it is not agree• able to allude to, was of course made to say he began with sabbath-breaking. In a Catholic country he would have said he began with absence from con fession, and eating meat in Lent ; and in a Moham medan one, with not keeping the fast of Itainezan. Set up any test and standard of morality, and you are responsible for leading men to the gallows, if it is a false one. Lastly, you would have had other political and commercial tyrannies in rapid course. If you had given way without resistance on this point, you would next have had a demand for a tax upon post letters, and another upon the exchange of your Birmingham goods for foreign produce. You see what you have (seeped for the present. 'Whether the ignorant, and those who are of small skill in the ways of fraud, stand by you in future or not, the recollection of what you have done will be cherished by your country, and unless the country is to retrograde, will look better daily in the eyes of a growing posterity. ONE WHO BELIEVES SABBATICAL OBSERV ANCE PROHIBITED TO CHRISTIANS. P.S. Since the above was in type, accounts have been received of the Public Meeting at Birmingham. Mr. Weston made a slight verbal error, as reported in the Morning Herald. Instead of saying "As a Christian people we .have no command to ' keep , the seventh day of the week," he should have said As a Christian people we are commanded not to keep a seventh day of the week." There will be no good done, till we have the courage to stand on the whole truth like our fathers. The first words uttered on the part of the requisi tionists, were to the effect that every person regar din g the law of God must concur in the object of the requisition (Report of J. Taylor, Esq., in the Morn ing Post). And when Alderman Weston proceeds to raise the . question whether it is according to the law of God or not, he is stopped by a Reverend, who tells him that entry on the theological part of the question has been prohibited. Bishop Bonner dared not have so committed him self. He would never have called a meeting to determine whether the Pope was authorised in the New Testament to burn heretics, and then have declared the question prohibited whether there was such an authority or not. You see where the shoe pinches. The adversary knows the assertion that it is according to the Christian law, to be a falsehood ; and therefore he prohibits the question whether it is according to the Christian law. Mark them that do thus ; and never trust them with either soul or body. If you do, you will be back to Church and King mobs before you know of it. What simpletons must be your working men, if they allow themselves to be led by the nose through the falsification of a printed document. Is there no man who has got a New Testament and can read, and can read it to his neighbours ? I wonder whether they would resist if they were told they must be circumcised. And yet almost the same passage which releases us from circumcision, releases us from the Jewish observation of sabbaths. But their teachers have a different interest. LITERATURE. LAzIfiII?TINES NEW JO t71?.1 7 .A.L. No. IX. Li the currcut ntirabQr of the Cmlseiter du Potpie, M. d.. Lainartine l.uris thlithblow at the Fon,hre uLd hut; a!izli,g Colossus of Ath;:i,:n. The fohowing are few of his mon: strihing !iel:tenee:3 " I loTe the p.ople because I he'ieve in a G d." "I have been accused of Pantheism in my philosophy and my poetry—l IN ho regard Pantheism as a blasphemy.", " Gad is not a nation, He is a government. God is not a sentience, He is a law—the living 19w, the supreme law, the universal law, the eternal law." " The laws of God are visible in three piincipll duties. Divine duties, which imuke religion. Private duties, which constitute family. Public duties, which signify ,ociety." " The government of brute twee, the government of the strongest, the dcsp)Litzm of the sabre, the divinity of the CL:lllier: is the consummation of that anarchy which is ( nee the remedy and the death of the nations without a God." Some demagogues impel the masscs to Atheism by the utterance of assphenices such as the world has never heard before, aid which are now only cuiplwytd as a Eteans of acquiring pcpularity," "Others drive the tea , so3 to Atheism by science— hlindirg the eye of the spirit cultivating and de veloping the eye of the body—losing in their material philosophy that sense which alone recognises divinity, the supreme sense, the sense above all other senses, the sense which is imponderable and impalpable, the scnso which, itself invisible, nevertheless D'eholds all—intelli gence!" " Others drive the masses to Atheism by means of a false political economy —making traffic their civilization, and money their God." " The infidel philosophy of the eighteenth century, drove the masses from b 1 utalisation into impiety, smo thered impiety in Atheism, and Atheism in blood." " God revealed from age to age, another letter of his divine Lame." Speaking of the Fourierists, the Pantheists, the Socialists, the Communists, the Industrialists, the Economists, and the Terrorists, M. de Lamartine says, that they wish man to barter his soul for a loaf of bread, to resign his hopes of immortality for a mess of pottage. "Their fanaticism," he says, "is the fanaticism of hunger and thirst." " Their philosophy and their daydreams, are the philosophy and the day dreams of the belly." " The people," he exclaims, "will not allow themselves to be changed into swine by these Circes of Atheism." M. de. Lamartine commits the gross absurdity of sneering at Napoleon as the restorer of religion in France. The glory of the Concordat will survive in the history of the Emperor, notwithstanding the indecent gibes and rhetorical Billingsgate even of M. de Lamartine. . . . . The address to the people against Atheism closes with these noble words :—" Seek then God, for it is your end and your prerogative, and seek him not in materialisms ! for God is not below, he is on high!" mutely raisng his arms horizontally upwards, or in like muiner slow:y chprvssing the n, he should communicate to them his d sire .hat the speil ruig;lit be icc:eased or diminiAcd." The ri-xt, quotation, relating two Lueedo'cs of the spectators presfrnt un th of the fleatilg of the tubular b:idgo will te perud with some amuse ment:— " Dear me!' said an old gentleman, as the tube when it first swung across the Straits was in perspective seen approaching tha platform on which he sat, and which was immediately in front of the awful chasm between B►itannia and Anglesey Towers, they have surely been and made it too short; they must put a bit on!' As soon, however, as, veering round, it approached bins broadside foremost, he v:hi,pered, I'm quite sure as too long; they'll have to cut a piece off!' " A lady said to her companion, ' Mr. Stephenson appeared dreadfully excited during the passage! Daht:t you observe how ho kept continuatly str..tching out la, arms, raissrg them up a►.d then sinking them dow❑ in this way?' (suitirg b, r wordg to the actions by which the speed or the voyage► had calmly been regulated.) But no words-r he Was so agitated!' " Altogether, both in regard to the amount of vJuable information condensed into the contribution, and in reference to the agreeable sty le of its compo sition, the paper cn the last miracle of engineering science may vie with the popular article by the same writer, since republished under the title of "Stokers and Pokers." We heartily congratulate Mr. Fairbairn upon the castigation received in him from this brilliant writer, a castigation which he (Mr. Fait bairn) Las richly merited. The contents will eminently repay perusal. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, THURSDAY. The Queen and Prince Albert took their usual early walk this morning in the Slopes and Windsor Park. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the younger members of the Royal Family talk walking and pony exercise. The royal dinner party this day included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent and her Royal High ness's Ladies in Waiting. Baron de Brunnow, the Russian Minister, bad an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday at his official residence in Downing-street. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had a general meeting yesterday at their office in White hall•place. . . The Archbishop of Canterbury bad an interview yesterday with Lord John Russell. Mr. Under- Sheriff Wire had also an interview yesterday with the Noble Lord. Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from the Colonial-office for the Governors of the West India Colonies. Dispatches were also sent off last evening for the Governor of New South Wales. HEALTH of the QUEEN DOWAGER. (From the Court Circular.) The following bulletin of the Queen Dowager's health was issued yesterday : " The Priory, Thursday, Nov. 1, 1849. "The Queen Dowager was occasionally disturbed by her cough hut night, bnt her Majesty does not feel herself less strong this morning. " DAVID DAVIES, M.D.," SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTE RS ALL'S —YESTERDAY. The only bets laid yesterday were 2,200 to 200 agst Ghillie Callum, 200 to 100 agst Deicoon, and 1,000 to 15 agat Nutshell. Offers to take 20 to 1 about The Italian, and 30 to 1 about Voltigeur, who is stated to have won his race at Richmond by two or three lengths. Deicoon is sold to Lord Airlie. The death of Lord. Albemarle does not disqualify Bolingbroke either for the Derby or St. Leger. RICHMOND RACES.—WEDNESDAY. Her Majesty's Plate of 100 gs. Three miles. Mr. Walter's Maid of Team Valiry, 3 yrs, 7st 21b 1 Captain Harcourt's Ellerdale, 5 yrs, 9st llb 2 Lord Z -stand's Castanette, 3 yrs, 7st 21b 3 Betting-2 to 1 one on Ellerdale. Won cleverley by a length. The Wright Stakes of 10 sore, each, h ft, for two yrs olds. Grey Stone in. (II Subs.) Mr. Williamson's Voltigeur, Bst 71b (Bumby) 1 Mr. T. Dawson's Mark Tapley, Bst 51b (Cartwright) 2 Mr. R. H. Jones's Stepping-Stone, Bst 71b (Holmes) 3 Mr. B. Green's Cadger, Bst 91b (Wintringham) 4 Betting-6 to 4on Voltigeur, sto 2 agat Stepping- Stone. Won very cleverly. The Gold Cup of 100 guineas value, by subscribers of 10 guineas each. Once round and a dis. (10 Subs.) Mr. Meiklain's Raby, 3 yrs, 7st 51b (Arnold) 1 Mr. Wrather's Maid of Masham, 4 yrs, Bst Illb 2 Mr. Arrowsmith's Lady Ilylda, 5 yrs, Bst 2lb 3 The following also ran :—Mr. Jaques's Chantrey, 3 yrs, 7st 131 b (G. Simpson)— Lord Zetland's Ellen Mid dleton, 3 yrs, ist 101 b (Ilawksworth)—Mr. Cookson na Maid of Team Valley, 3 yrs, fist 131 b (Charlton). Even on Baby, 2 to 1 agat Maid of Masham, 3 to 1 agst Maid of Team Valley, and 4 to 1 agst Ellen Mid dleton. Won cleverly by half a length. The Finishing Scramble Handicap of 3 toys. each, 1 ft, and 20 added. Grey Stone in. (11 Subs.) Mr. Weather's Maid of Masham, 9st ... (Cartwright) 1 Mr. Gill's lE:culapius, 2 yrs, fist 81b Mr. IValter's Mary Turner, 3 yrs, ist 121 b (Abdah ) 3 The following also started but were not placed : Mr. 11. Stebbiug's Imperatrix, 3 yrs, 7st 101 b (Simpson) —Mr..l&ques's Semitranc, 3 yrs, 7st 31b (Charlton) — Mr Bumby's Harlestine, 3 yrs, 7st (G. Oates)—Sir C. Slingsby's hr f by Theon, d by Beagle, 2 yrs, sst 121 b (Gillmkn). 6 to 4 apt Maid of Masham, 5 to 2 agst Imperatrix. Won cleverly by a length. The Rubbish Pluto of 25 sovs., added to a handicap of 5 soya, each, 3 It; the winner to be sold for 60 sovs. One mile and a quarter. (6 Subs ) Lord Zatlard's Polonaise, 3 yrs, 7st 71b... (G. Oates) 1 Mr. Dawson's Billy Brown, 3 yrs, 7st Mr. Dawson's Magnet, aged, Bst 3lb ... (Cartwright) 3 Mr. Bumby's Harlestone, 3 yrs, 6st 61b ... (Charlton) 4 Mr. Walter's Mary Noble, aged, Bst 71b (G. Abdale) 5 6to 4 agst Magnet. Won by a neck. WORCESTER RACES.—TnuusDAY. The Selling Stakes of 5 sovs, each, and 20 added. Heats, one mile and a quarter. Mr. Nicoll's Comet, 4 yrs, 7st 21b (Hiett) 0 0 1 1 Mr. Drinkald's Amazement, aged Mr. Neviu's Diana, 3 yrs ... 1 2 3 dr Mr. Green's Clara, 5 yrs ... 0 3 4 dr Mr. Whitehouse's Reception, 3 yrs Mr. Hurlstone's Baronet, 6 yes Mr. Waller's Dimanche, 4 yrs ... Mr. Clark's Brother to Fernhill, 3 yrs 3 0 dr Mr. Griffiths' Apple Blossom, 5 yrs 0 0 dr Mr. Lister's Hind of the Forest, 4 yrs 0 0 dr The Worcestershire Hunt Stakes of 25 sovs. each; three yrs old, 9st 51b; four yrs, 10st 121 b; five yrs, Ilst 71b six yrs and aged, 12st. One mile and a quarter. Mr. Featherstonhaugh's Knaresdale, 3 yrs (A. Day) General Lygon na Spot, 3 yrs ••• ••• •• Mr. Dixon's Chloroform, 6 yrs ... Mr. Taylor's Volunteer, aged ••• ••• •• Match-1001., h ft, list 71b each. Two milt - s. Mr. Giles's Retire (owner) beat Mr. Oberton's Miller. Sweeps of 5 sovs. each, with 20 added. Heats—One mile and a quarter. (7 Subs.) Mr. Merritt's Buscot, 3 yrs (Crickmere) 1 1 Mr. Smith's The Streamer, 4 yrs 1 2 Mr. Nicoll's Theodore Hook, 3 yrs 2 0 Mr. Wadlow's Gratis, 4 yrs 3 0 Morsel, Vetitas, and Ellen the Fair also ran. The Handicap of 3 sovs each, and 20 added, 2 miles, was won by a head, after a fine race, by 'Mr. Gulliver's Fazeley, aged (Sabin), beating Mr. Isaac Day's Milliner, 6 yrs, Mr. Marratt's Egret, 4 yrs, and nine others. NEWMARKET COURSING MEETING. THURSDAY. Four-mile Stables. THE DERRY. Second Ties.—Merchant beat Othello—Damion ran a bye. dis THE CUP. Second Ties.—Desperate beat Bessie Bell—Olicda beat Forerunner. BOw-STREET.-(ThIS DAY.) A NEW FARCE AT THE ADELPRI —Two y ountf, bargemen, named I'ocock and Ramsey, were charged with having assaulted Mr. William Marling, a tailor, residing in Forc-:.erect, Finsbury. Tne complainant stated that last night he was in tlic gallery of tee Adelphi The sere, sitting on the accrue row of seats. 'Tee were four pers'tns to front of him, who went out in the course of tlio first piece, and brought in two more, hut as the lattc.r cou'd not SieUre Siat,, they were obliged to stand up, wh.cii cceasi , )ned Sipee I:We annoyance, ani ultimately led to the police being cAled in to restore ord , r, and find seats for the two per sins who were causing the disturbance. The two pri• s._mets, wl,o w, re of the party, feeling tlispleat.cd with the complainant for having called for the police, aroused them elves during the evening with pass'.rig sarcastic re marks upon bin person and dres , , threcting attention to the fact that be wore a" white chuhe:," and towards the close of the performances they seated themselves behind him. The complainant, suspecting that they wanted to get up a row, said to a friend, " These men mean some thing, let us get out More the piece in over;" and he accordingly left the theatre, followed by his friend. Scarcely, however, had he reached the bottom of the stairs in the Strand before Ramsey came up and struck him in the face. Not knowing what to do at the moment, he struck him again, and then ran away into a public•house. Pocock followed him; Lull while at the bar, which was in charge of only one female, Pocock repeated the assault, and succeeded in extracting his watch from his waistcoat pocket, when a policeman entered, and put a stop to the fray. Pocock—Do you think I wanted to steal your watch? Complainant—l don't know. You had got it in your 113.1A1. Poe.)ek—Weli, I deny that. It might have dropped out of your pocket in the scAll Mr. James Lea, carpenter, if Great Russell-street, Gresvernor• place, confirmed the statement of the comrn phinant. Pocock did not deny that some confusion was occa sioned by his friend Ramsey being introduced into a front seat during the performances, nor did iie di s pute hating followed' the complainant into the public•house, but the complainant brought all the annoyance upon himself by being insolent in the theatre, and afterward* knocking Ramsey down against a cab-wheel, and cutting his head open. Ramsey said the moment he entered the theatre he stood up to look for a seat, when the complainant roared out, " Sit down, you fat looking hound, do ;" and until some gentleman was good enough to make rootn for him, the complainant kept up a constant cry of " Sit down, broadshoulders ; now, then, spooney ; turn him out." When, therefore, he got outside, he asked the corn p!ainant what he meant by insulting him in that manner; whereupon the complainant up with his fiat and knocked him down, and his head coming in contact with a cab wheel it was cut open, and seriously wounded. Two witnesses spoke to the irritating nature of the cmplainatit's observations. Mr. JARDINE, however, was of op'nion that the pri soners were the aggressors in Ihe first instance, and he tined them 10s. each, or ten days' imprisonment. The fine was paid. THE WRECK OF THE ST. JOHN. The American mail has brought further particulars of this disastrous wreck. It will be recollected that the St. John struck on Grampus Rock, on the American coast, on the morning of Sunday, the ith ult. A letter, dated Cuhasset, Monday, seven o'clock, r save : " When Captain Oliver left the brig he passed within hailing distance of a life-boat, in charge of Captain Prouty, which had put out to the assistance of another vessel at anchor in the cove ; but he did not give information of the peril in which he left his vessel, and the life-boat proceeded on her way, the bold hearts who manned her not knowing that so many human beings in their immediate vicinity were about to be swallowed in the raging waters. It is, we understand, the unanimous opinion of the men i❑ the life-boat that, had not Captain Oliver been criminally negligent, or actuated by selfishness or fear, a large proportion of the ill-fated passengers would have been saved. " The beach is strewed with fragments of the wreck, and the sight of dead bodies, as one by one they are dashed upon the shore by the foam-capped waves, forms a heartrending and most fearful picture. We have no time to enlarge upon this most melan choly subject, but roust leave it to the imegieation of our readers. A large portion of the ho washed ashore were females, and among them several bau tiul children, who in death retained the sweet, innocent, and confiding expression which knocks so forcibly at the heart. " Patrick Swany, whose body was. reovered, lest eleven children, washed from the wreck by the same wave which carried him into the. surge. Being a good swimmer, he attempted to save his youngest child, whom he held in his arm as the timbers parted, and struck out for the boat in which Captain Oliver and the crew were making for the shore ; but no ear was open to his cries fbr succour, arid the strong man and his helpless child went to join those who had gone but a few minutes before. " One remarkable incident, however, I will men tion. A fine looking, bright boy, whom I have just been conversing with, not more than fourteen years old, sprang from the wreck into the boiling sea, struck out boldly and manfully in pursuit of the boat containing the captain and crew, and after swimming !or some time in the wake of the boat was picked up and saved ! His two sisters met a watery grave. Mr. Sarsfield O'Gorman has proceeded to Boston, for the purpose of inviting Bishop Fitzpatrick to assist at the obsequies of the dead. The last rites will be performed to-morrow (Tuesday) afternoon, at two o'clock, the Rev. Messrs. Osgood and Reed, of this town, also being present, and taking part in the solemn exercises." ADDITIONAL PAATICULARS.—The Boston Mail, of the 11th ult., contains the following particulars of the loss of the brig St. John, at M►not's Lodge, on the 9th:— " The following list, comprising the crew and pas.. sengers on board the St. John when she was lost, has been prepared with care, and is principally obtained from Captain Oliver and others of the survivors. As there are some conflicting statements in regard to the number of passengers on board, J. B. Monroe, Esq., our commissioner of alien passengers, has taken steps to obtain from Ireland a duplicate list of the passengers shipped in the St. John, if any is in existence, and otherwise to obtain all information possible upon the subject. The following names make the whole number on board (including the crew), one hundred and twenty : " Crew Saved—Captain Oliver; sailors—Benjamin O'Brien, Thomas Walker, Michael Kennelly, James Flaherty, Ist Mate Henry Cummiford, John Larkin, Andrew Forest, Isaac Cummerford. " Crew Lost—Antonio McDonough, William An gers, William Thompson, Edward Kennelly, Michael Conners (apprentices). " Passengers Saved—Austin ICearn, Catherine Flannigan, Betsy Higgins, Mary Kane, Michael Fitzpatrick, Michael Gibbet), Barbary Kennelly, Mary Slattery, Michael Rootching, Honors Conlin (she lost three children, and is now lying very sick, and suffering from her injuries, at the house of Mr. Lo thorp, in Cohasset), Mary or Honore Burke (she also lost three children, and is at Mr. Lothorp's sick ; her husband is in Ireland). " Cabin Passengers Lost—Mary Flannigan, Nancy Flannigan, Margaret Flannigan, Bridget Quin, Eliza O'Brien. " Steerage Passengers Lost—Ann Slattery, Bridget Slattery, Bridget Kennelly or Counlin and three children, Patrick Sweeney, Mary Sweeney, Patrick Sweeney, jun., Miles Sweeney, Joseph Sweeney, Sally Sweeney, Thomas Sweeney, Cath. Sweeney, John Sweeney, Bridget Sweeney, Mary Sweeney, Peter Greally, James Greally, Patrick Cormorn, Miles Sweeney 2d, Michael Hannigan, Patrick Lahiff, Thomas Riley, Bridget Maddigan, Hugh Glyn, John Belton, Patrick McMahon, Bridget McMahon, Cath. McMahon, John Dolan, Mary Dolan, his wife, Thos. Fahey, Nappy Fahey, Bridget Fahey, Martha Fahey, Thomas Donnelly, Mary Freeman and child, Mrs. Michael Eagan, Mrs. Honora Eagan, Miss Bridget Eagan, Jeremiah Murphy, James Morgan, Margaret Keenan, Mrs. Brooks, Honors Mullen, Catherine Heniff, Heniff, sister to Catherine, Mary Cahill, Patrick Noonan, Martin Sexton, Daniel Byrnes, Michael Griffin, Catherine Byrnes, Peggy Malley, Mary Nolan, Ellen Hasset, Patrick McGrath, Janes McGrath, Minny Galvin, Mary Galvin, Margaret Kane, Mary McNatnara, Mary Landsky, Mary Frowley and chi's?, Bridget Doherty, Peggy Mullen and sister's chi4l, John Butler, Thomas Burk (mother saved), Eliza Bulk ditto, Patrick Buik ditto, McDerratt, Miss McDeratt, Mary Joyce and child, Catherine Fitzpatrick, Bridget Aluliigan, Bridget Burk, Peggy Purky, Martha Purky, Thomas Lahiff or Kwen, John Lahiff or Kwcu, Mary Curtain, three Mulkennan children. "Summary—Whole number of passengers, 106; crew, 14; total, 120 Saved of the passengers, 11 ; crew, 9; total, 20 : making the total number of souls lost by the wreck 100." POST- MICE NOTIC E.—Drein, in Haddingtonshire, N. 8., h:vip g been constituted a cost town, the Post otfiaa there will be orned for be issue and payment of money orders on and after the 6th November next. The grander art, whether of poet or painter, ever seeking for the true, abhors the real; you must seize nature as her master, not lackey her as her slave.— Eliza Cook's Journal. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Strt,—The Pacific is now in port; and, being d Dubt ful all along that the "news was too good to be true" that the natives had] se( n the v,ssels, from /hat I hear and know of the coast, I feel convinced th at the whole statement is not worth a rush, as the di stance overland from the two points, which is only 215 nines right across the land ; :o that if nativt's had been there, they could and would have beesi in clined to have gone again and brought some sort of intelligence of the parties. But what I now write is at the instance of Captain Reid, of the Pacific, who has his brother with bir John. He feels also as sured that the natives have not seen the vessels, and therefore those in high quarters, though com fortable and snug at their own firesides, should not forget that they, the explorers, who have thus im perilled their lives for the gratification of scientific clubs and coteries, that they may have something to chatter about, should be up and still doing what may yet bring us intelligence of these noble fellows. I feel assured that " Gale's" balloon might give a very good " bird's eye" view of the country, had it only been thought of in time; as, if the balloon were started at Ponds Bay it would give a very great range of view, and even might be seen by the explorers, as they have plenty of means in their power to raise a balloon from fire, rags, and tallow. At night a balloon would be seen a great way. Everything that can be done ought to be done, it' it were but tor one thing, that is, to sooth the heart of that noble lady who has shown the old women at the Admiralty how to be up and doing. I trust your powerful pen will be employed;in this matter. The provisions, &c., sent out by Lady Frank lin, were left there by Captain Reid of the Pacific. Yours, &c., "NEVER GIVE UP, For they may be saved yet." Persevere and use means. Aberdeen, Oct. 30, 1849. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Skating dances bid fair to be the order of the evening at all our theatres for some time to come. Les Putineurs was produced here last night, with, as might have been expected, the most decided suc cess. Mr. Flexmore and Dvladlle. Auriol sustained the principal characters, the lady dancing a pas seul in the most graceful manner imaginable, and bringing down the most enthusiastic applause ' • and the gentle man eliciting shouts of laughter, by his humorous performance of a slippery pas. They were admirably supported by the corps de ballet, who gave the Quadrille des Frileurs and the Valse des Patineurs admirably. The scene, which represented a frozen river, with a view of the city of Drontheim in the distance, was a chef d'oeuvre of art. The ballet was completely and deservedly successful. ASTLEY'S THEATRE. TI e gorgeous spectacle of The Prophet still con-, tinut s to draw crowded houses to this famous trans pontine place of amusement, and the dramatic John ut Leyden bids fair to hold possession of the stage at Astley's for a period quite as long as his prototype held possession of the city of Munster. We are not surprised at this, The Prophet is a well-constructed and carefully got up drama, and as a piece of gorgeous spectacle it surpasses anything that has been hitherto produced. The performances in the circle are of a high order of equestrianism, and so long as Mr. Batty provides such an excellent bill of rare, he cannot but secure crowded houses every evening. CHOLERA AND DIARRHCEA ENGLAND AND WALES. The following is the Return of Deaths from Cholera and Diarrhce.t reported to the General Board of Health November 1, 1849 : SUPERINTENDING REGISTRAR'S DISTRICT. Deaths. Cholera. Dlarrh. 0 Bedford and Cardington district Birmingham ... ..• Bridgewater and Middlezoy dis. Bromley (Foots Cray) ••• Carmarthen ... ••• ••• Darlington ••• ••• Dartford (Hartley) ..• ••• Dewsbury (Batley) ... ••• Dudley, Sedgley, and Rowley 0 1 1 0 1 4 Regis ... .. Huddersfield (Go !cit.) Hall ()Number) ... Huusict (Holbeck and Seacroft) Kuaresborough Lancaster ... ••• "'''' 2 1 I 0 1 1 0 5 0 4 1 4 0 1 2 O 1 2 0 1 0 1 0 O 1 O 2 2 0 O 1 1 1 O 1 4 0 1 0 2 1 1 0 7 0 ••• '''' • • • ..... • • • "''' Leeds Lewes Loughborough Manchester . Norwich (East Wymer district) Portsva Island (Southsea) ... Preston ••• ••• ••• Rotherham (Kiwberworth dis.) St. Albans (Wheathamstead) South Shields ... Thrapston Totnes (Brixhatn) Tynemouth (Seaton Delays]) Wakefield (Bretton and Sandal) Wahall (Broxwich) ... Wigan and Upholland ••• • • • ."" ••• '''' .. • ---". ••• .--• Total SCOTLAND. Dysart 1 o GENERAL TOTAL. England and Wales 55 18 Scotland ... ... 1 Total ... 56 18 NOTE.—The deaths are returned according to the superintendent registrars' districts, as it is found im practicable to distinguish every place separately. We have much pleasure in announcing that a Privy Council will be held at Windsor in the course of next week, at which a day will be appointed for a general thanksgiving to Almighty God upon the great decrease of cholera. We have no doubt that the day of thanksgiving thus announced will be every where observed in a grateful and becoming spirit. DEATH 01' THE EARL OF ALBEMARLE.—This venerable Peer expired at his seat in Norfolk, Quidden ham Hall, on Tuesday last. His Lordship was born in 1772, and succeeded to the title in the same year on the death of his father. He held the office of Master of the Horse from April, 1835, to September, 1841, serving both our late and present Monarch in that capacity. The deceased will be succeeded in the earldom by bis eldest son, the Viscount Bury, who was born in the year 1794. FIRES IN LONDON.—The records kept by the fire brigade of the outbreaks in the metropolis and its suburbs, during the present year, commencing from the Ist of January, detail upwards of 700. The probable amount of property destroyed at these fires is about 150,0001. - ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE THE CHIEF CON STABLE OF SAFFRON WALDEN.— AIIDLEY• END, THURSDAY.—ShortIy after eleven o'clock on We dnesday night the inhabitants of the town of Saffron Walden were aroused by piercing cries of "Murder," which, upon inquiry, were found to emanate from the domestics in the service of Mr. Camplin, the chief constable of the town, who it was feared had been assassinated. Mr. Camplin, it appears, had been engaged in his ordinary duties in the course of the evening, and on returning about 11 o'clock he had scarcely crossed the threshold of his dwelling when he was shot at by some person con cealed near to the premises, the contents of the weapon lodging in the lower part of his body. The report of fire-arms alarming the inmates, they hastened out to ascertain the cause, when Mr. Camplin was met bleeding, and suffetieg much from his wounds. At that moment, however, nothing seems to have been noticed of the flight of the assassins. Suspicion fell upon a young man, Pellett, and the police were instructed to proceed and effect his immediate capture. In the course of an hour be was apprehended, and notwithstanding the lateness of the night, as once conveyed before the Mayor, who de tained him on the serious charge. Witnesses were called who deposed to the necessary facts, and the accused was accordingly remanded. Pellett, it is said, had been heard to threaten the officer before. Several medical gentlemen are in attendance upon Mr. Camplin, who, although seriously injured, is going on favourably. By degrading the female character, men most effectually degrade their own.—Eliza Cook's Journal. 'Would a man frequently calculate his income and expenditure, ho would escape many a bitter reflection; for he most be lost to every generous feeling of pride and honourable principle who wantonly incurs debts, which he knows be cannot dischar ge .—Eli za C oo k' s Journal. ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.—A numerously attended meeting of the felluws of this college took place yesterday afternoon, in the theatre of the institution, to elect from among themselves two gentlemen as members of the council in the vacancies occasioned by the resigna tion of Mr. Richard ‘Velbaiik, and the lamented death of Mr. Aston Koy. The candidates brough forward were Mr. George Pitcher, of Great George-street, Westmin ster, and Mr. John Bishop, of Bernard-street. The fel lows having balloted, the President declared these gentle men were duly elected members of the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons. THE QUARTERLIES. THE QUARTERLY RE VIEW. No. CLXX. Among the seven articles comprising the current number of the Quarterly, three of them are specially interesting and valuable. One of a scientific cha racter, evidently and admirably written by Sir Francis B. Head, is devoted to an explanation of the "Britannia and Conway Tubular Bridges." Another, of a political character, is descriptive of the late Roman Revolution, from the commencement of the present Pon►ificate up to the storming of the palace of Pio Nono by the mob; and coming down as recently as the occupation of the Eternal City by the French under Oudinot. Another, to us the most charming of all, is of a psychological and physiological charac ter, being, in fact, a dissertation respecting the views entertained by " Fontenelle on the Signs of Death." The opening sentences, being allusions to Addison and Montaigne, may be regarded as . affording the texts of the contribution : " It was the opinion of Addison that nothing in history was so imposing, nothing so pleasing and affecting, as the accounts of the behaviour of eminent persons in their dying hour. Montaigne before him had given expression to the same sentiment. Of all the passages in the annals of mankind, those, he said, which attracted and delighted him most were the words and gestures of departing men. 6 If,' he adds, I were a maker of books, I would compile a register, with comments, of various Deaths, for he who should teach men to die would teach them to live."' As an example of the interest which might be accu mulated together upon this enthralling subject, the paper before us is eminently deserving of perusal. It abounds with the most entertaining anecdotes. It gives very rapidly, but very eflectively and touchingly, accounts of the death of John Hunter, the great anatomist; of 'Mozart, the great musician ; of Foote, the actor ; of the only son of Burke, the great orator ; of Cardinal Wolsey, of Lord Collingwood, of Boileau, of Louis XIV., of Charles XII., of Sir Thomas Blount; and, besides numerous others, of " Francois do Civile—thrice dead, thrice buried, and, by the grace of God, thrice restored." Dr. Armstrong (says the essayist) departed delivering medical precepts ; Napoleon fuu zlit some battle o'er again, and the last words he mut tered were lite d'armee; Lord Tenterden, who passed straight from the judgment-scat to his death bed, fancied himself still presiding at a trial, and expired with, Gentlemen of the jury, yuu will now consider of your verdict;' Dr. Adam, the author of the Roman An tiquities,' imagined himself in school, distributing praise and censure among his pupils: But it grows dark,' he said; the boys may dismiss,' and instantly died." Of the death of John Hunter, that great man, who was to anatomy what Newton was to astronomy, and Bacon to philosophy, the Quarterly reviewer writes thus earnestly and reverently. He has been speaking in the previous sentence of the gloomy foreboding which frequently precedes death : " John Hunter has solved the mystery, if mystery it can be called, in a single sentence We sometimes,' he says, feel within ourselves that we shall not live, for the living powers become weak, and the nerves communicate the intelligence to the brain.' His own case has often been quoted among the marvels of which he afforded the rational explanation. He intimated on leaving home that if a discussion, which awaited him at the hospital, took an angry turn, it would prove his death. A col- League gave him the lie; the coarse word verified the ,r; - phee - y, and be expired almost immediately in an ad joining room. There was everything to lament in the circumstance, but nothing at which to wonder, except that any inc!ividual could show such disrespect to the great genius, a single year of whose existence was worth the united lives of his opponents. llunter, in uttering the prediction, had only to take counsel of his own ex perience without the intervention of invisible spirits. He had long laboured under a disease of the heart, and he felt the disorder had reached the point at which any sharp agitation would bring on the crisis. A memorable instance of the weakness wnich accompanies the great ness of man when an abusive appellation could extin guish one of the brightest lights that ever illumined science. No discoverer has left more varied titles to fame, and none has given more abundant evidence that he would have added to the number the longer he lived, for his mind teemed with original ideas, and fast as one crop was cleared away another sprang , up." The following incident, beautifullitold, has for us an air of affecting sublimity : " Burke's son, upon whom his father has conferred something of his own celebrity, heard his parents sobbing in another room at the prospect of an event they knew to be inevitable. Ile rose from his bed, joined his illus trious father, and endeavoured to engage him in a cheer ful conversation. Burke continued silent, choked with grief. His son again made an effort to console him. am unier no terror,' he said; I feel myself better and in spirits, and yet my heart flutters, I know not why. Pray talk to me, sir! talk of religion, talk of morality, talk, if you will, of indifferent subjects.' Here a noise attracted his no'ice, and he exclaimed, 'Does it rain?— No ; it is the rustling of the wind through the trees.' The whistling of the wind and the waving of the trees brought Milton's majestic lines to his mind, and he re peated them with uncommon grace and effect:- 4 His praise, ye winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and wave your tops, ye pines; With every plant, in sign of worship, wave!' A second time he took up the sublime and melodious strain, and, accompanying the action to the word, waved his own hand in token of worship, and sunk into the arms of his father—a corpse. Not a sensation told him that in an instant he would stand in the presence of the Creator to whom his body was bent in homage, and whose praises still resounded from his lips." Altogether the paper is admirably written, and replete with the mention of many strange and touching occurrences. From Sir Francis Head's masterly paper on the Britannia and Conway Tubu lar Bridges we transcribe the subjoined most inte resting paragraph. It has reference to the floating of one of the tubes to its appointed place, and is alike honourable to each of the three great engineers of the day, Mr. Brunel, Mr. Locke, and Mr. Ste phenson : " On arriving at Position No. 2, it became necessary to exchange tho mechanical power by which the tube had been forced forwards, for that of the tide, which was to carry it end foremost down the stream to its goal. As, however, this latter power—to say nothing of a strong breeze of wind which drove the same way—would have propelled the lengthy mass more than twice as fast as it had been declared prudent it should proceed, a very strong power, by means of a small capstan, was exerted in each set of pontoons, to compress between wooden concentric clamps the guide hawsers, by which con trivance the pace was regulated with the greatest pos sible precision. This most important duty was confided to, and executed by, two volunteer assistants, Mr. Bru nel and Mr. Locke (we conk them alphabetically); and, although the whole scene of the flotation was one of the most interesting it has ever been our chequered fortune to witness, there was no part of it on which we gazed, and have since reflected with such unmixed pleasure as the zc,al and almost over-anxiety with which Mr. Ste phenson's two competitors in fame, stood, during the whole operation, intently watching him, until by either TO THE 13).1f0R OF 7'llE SUN. Sia,—l observe, in your paper of Monday list, a strange anachronism, under the heading " Th e H o ly Well " (from Eliza Cook's Journal). It is there stated as follows :—" Fitzstephen mentions this well in 1660, as being famous, and frequented by the scholars and youths of the City when they walked forth to take the air,' &c." Fitzstephen wrote in the reign of Henry 11. ; and this mistake arises probably from the fact of Fitzstephen being found quoted in an edition of Stow's " Survey of London," of about the date of 1660. I am, Sir, yours obediently, F. W. H. DEATH OP LORD TALBOT DR MALaninE —This venerable nobleman, whose name has been associated with some moat eventful periods of Irish history, died on Monday last, at the family seat, Malahide Castle, near Dublin, at the advanced age of eighty- three. The deceased succeeded to the title in 1834, on the demise of his mother, the late Baroness Talbot and Malahide, who died in 1834, having married the late Richard Talbot, of Malahide Castle, by whom, who died in 1788, she had issue, in addition to the immediate subject of this notice, twelve children. The deceased nobleman was a member of the Privy Council in Ireland, and was always a strong supporter of the Whig party. He re presented the county of Dublin in Parliament from 1820 to 1830. His Lordship was for many years in the army, from which he retired with the rank of colonel. Lord Talbot married first, in 1789, Catherine, daughter and heir of John Malpas, Esq , of Rochestown, county of Dublin, and Lady Margaret, daughter of Andrew Sayers, Esq., who survives him. 114 Lordship had issue by the first marriage two children, viz., John Malpas, who died in 1828, and Catherine Frances, who died in 1816, having married in 1809 Lieutenant- General Sir W. C. Eustace, of Sandford llall, Essex, C.B. and K.C.11. The llon. James Talbot, eldest surviving brother of the deceased, succeeds to the title and estates. The Talbots have been settled at Malahide for more than six centu ries, and are of the same origin as the Earls of Shrews & bury, whose progenitor, Richard de Talbot, came over with William the Conqueror. TUE OIKS. Second 710 F. —Crenoliue beat Glauca—Manto bea Rosebud. THE PORT STAKES. Second Ties.—Mary beat Ilebe—Field-Marshal bea Diamond. LEAMINGTON THEATRE ROYAL AND ELLISTON Rooms.—This elegant establishment was crowded in every part on Saturday last, to witness the first appearance here of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean in the Wije's Secret. They were enthusiastically received throughout, and at the termination of the play were called before the curtain amidst vehement and prolonged cheering. The Wife's Secret was followed by th© Spectre Bride groom, which was very cleverly played by the Lea mington company. Mr. and Mrs. Kean are announced to take their benefit at this theatre on Saturday, Nov. 3, in the Housekeeper and The Wonder, when there will, doubtless, again bo a crowded audience, as the Royal Spa is filling with company very fast. Among the more recent arrivals were the Duke of Bedford, Lord 11. Bentinck, Lord Cosmo Russell, Earl and Countess of Denbigh, &c. &c. FIRE IN THE ClTY.—Last night, at a few minutes before nine o'clock, a fire broke out in the premises be longingd to Mr. William Smee, cabinet-maker an upholsterer, in Little Moorfields, Finsbury-pall:l:neut. The flames commenced in the top floor of the ca inet- Mr. Inspector Joy, of the City maker's workshop. po li ce - s t a tion in Moor. lane, sent o ff a powerful body of cons tables to guard the pr emises. The brigade engines from Whitecross-street, Watling-street, Jeffrey-square, and other stations soon arrived, followed by that of the West of England office, and by dint of great exertion, succeeded, after little more than an hour, in extinguish- . j u g the fire, which having ran up a wooden spout at the' side of the fire-plat.', had extended to the timber drying under the roti'. REMOVAL OF TUE WOOD PAVING IN PICCADILLY. —The wood paving in Piccadilly, from St. James's• street to Berkeley- street, has been removed, and re placed by granite blocks of a substantial character, and the works having been completed; the inconvenience caused by the necessity of the immense_ traffic of this important thoroughfare being obliged to take s circuit ous route through Hay-hill and Berkeley-square, has been removed by the opening of the road throughout the entire distance. M. Francis Pulszky, late Envoy from the Hunga rian Government under Kossuth, is now, with Mrs. Pulnky, ou a visit to the Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowns, at their seat, Bowood Park, Wilts. z ts; OLD TUNES. BY ELIZA COOK. We love music dearly : love it with deep and fer vent adoration that amounts, we suspect, to " blind idolatry;" for though the warm impulses of our soul are ever ready to rush into sublime ecstasy at the sound of " Handel's Coronation Anthem," they betray an equal susceptibility at the jingling of 1 ° Fisher's Hornpipe" on a demi-piano, with which a little Italian boy occasionally refreshes our narrow street. Nay, we even plead guilty to being touched by the mouth-organ and drum that, time out of mind, have drowned the groans of the dying in the matrimonial battle-field of Punch and Judy. The reeds may be sharp and the sheep skin fiat; but we have a happy knack of reconciling the difference by some mysterious tuning-fork of Benevolence in our auricular faculties, and often have we put on a dawdling pace and lingered on our errand in order to hear the conclusion of a " favourite and popular air" played in this national style. Let us observe, that ours is not a solitary taste for this particular specie; of instrumentation. It is our fortune now and then to breathe the perfumed a:r of Belgravia, and enjoy the society of certain juvenile hot- house plants, who have at th it command golden strings and ivory keys, with the fascinating services of Buclisa and Muscheles ; but we have been present when, by chance, the vulgar " Row-de dow," and I'andean treble of uncertain cader.ce, ventured in that elite neighbourhood. We only wish we e,:uld convey to our readers the actual scene that ever ensure. Noble mammas may chide with dignified astonishment, go vernesses may endeavour to exert the authority of place, and aristocratic indifference to such " low noise" be insisted on—but in vain! We have seen the Hon. Master Adolphus in a state of quivering trepidation and nervous flutter from top to toe, and the Hon. Miss Emily a degree worse. We have seen them rush to the plate-glass windows with such rude " physical force " power, that we have trembled for the consequences, and there they have stood pressing their rounded cheeks, and snubbing their pretty little noses against the bar rier panes with feverish anxiety and expectation, praying that the" music" may come before the house; and if it really and positively does approach with all the magic thereunto belonging, the jumping and clapping of hands in hysterical delight are rather without the pale of " gentility." So we have disco vered, to our great satisfaction, that the drum and mouth-organ hold the same primitive influence over the darlings of a duke as over the plauges of a pauper. Thus, we flatter ourselves, that ours is an orthodox taste and experience, nor blush in confessing our partiality for the simple melodies of our country, illustrated by our wandering minstrels. We again declare that we love music dearly; from the "tun, turn" of the Ojibbeway Indians to the " Lydian measure" poured forth by the gifted Lind ; yet we have a lurking affection for a peculiar order of harmony that clings to us with religious strength, and despite our general Apollonian free-thinking, we do homage at a certain style of melody with a fervour exceeding all that we render up to others. There is a character of music which has an indispu table power to lead us by our long ears into the very Charybdis of Enthusiasm ; and what think ye, gentle reader, may this character of music be? Why, it is our grandmothers' jig tunes and our grandmothers' fireside ditties. Yes, we instinctively worship the blithe triplets of "Sir Roger de Coverly," and vene rate the silvery sadness about " Crazy Jane." There is something in the spirit of " olden tunes" that haunts our heart with sacred witchery. Be it in mirth, or be it in melancholy, there is nothing operates so intensely on our nature as the melodies long familiar to us. Our feet never suffer so much from imposed restraint when a modern waltz or fashionable polka is played, as when " The Campbells are Conlin', " or " Haste to the Wedding," is struck up with tantalizing brilliancy. We feel no thickness in the throat over the sentiment of " Casta Diva," as we do while the simple pathos of " John Anderson my Jo," or " Poor Mary Anne," arrests our bosom. Yes ! Goth like as it may appear, we confess our passion for all the vulgar, common-place tunes extant, be they English, Irish, or Scotch. We believe we could dance with the gout to " St. Patrick's Day," and sing with the toothache if " We won't go home till Morning" were chorused around us. As for " Roy's Wife," despite of her celebrity for jilting, we are ever ready to be off with her on her slightest whisper • and " We're a Noddin" has kept us out of our bed many an extra ten minutes, when some " little" or big " warbler" has volunteered it just as the chamber candles were lighted. When have we tripped so joyously through the " festive maze," as in the free and easy time of " Christ mas jollity" after supper, when young and old, grave and gay, are enlisted "nolens miens" into "hands across, down the middle, and up again," while " Katt) , O'Lynch," " The young May Moon," or " Speed the Plough," was inspiring our ecstatic antics ; and then, shall we reveal cur foolish ( motions of plaintive sym pathy awakened by the " Robin's Petition," or " Savourneen Dheelish," when a dreamy dimness has gathered before our eyes, until the very blaze of the cheerful fire has lost its distinctive form, and we have seen nothing but the poor varying little bird shivering in the snow storm, and the exiled wanderer in his mournful solitude. Oh ! we do love these old tunes and ditties, and hope we ever shall lore them ; and how many more are there in this hard-grinding world who snatch glimpses of happiness from these anti , quated sources. How the children of the poor will cluster round some ragged servitor of Apollo, who scrapes away at one of these " vulgar tunes," and how they involuntarily assume attitudes and steps of most animated though grotesque arrangement. These steps always appear to us the identical ones mentioned so often by philosophers, as being between the sublime and the ridieu lous, yet we scarcely dare to smile at the approach of Ignorance to the altar of Spiritual Beauty, uncouth as the advance may be. Let them shuffle and twist, and sidle arid jump, in their own uncivilized way, it is an opportunity for their getting nigher to God through the medium of an "old tune." And would the mother do without these" old tunes" to hush her infant to rest, or arouse it into chuckling joy ? Who ever heard a mother or nurse attempt to soothe her young one with a scientific bravura, or a ballad from the latest opera ? Why, the thing is not to be imagined I No, it is the " old tunes," the quaint and ancient morsels of common melody, that are naturally uppermost on the nursery tongue, and pass from generation to generation with undiminished charms. We once tried to get a refractory infant to sleep under the influence of the polacca in I Puritani. We laboured unceasingly for one long hour, and seemed as nigh gaining our point as ever. The imp was still grizzling and cooing, and stretching and kicking with most unequivocal evidence of being " wide awake," and we found we were rolling the stone of Sisyphus. We betook ourselves to " Auld Lang Syne ;" the kicking subsided, the grizzling died away in a confused murmur between a -faint snore and a deep sigh, and in ten minutes the young rebel was as fast as the pyramids. The " old tune" had done the work, and we never intend to experimentalize any more with new-fangled lullabies. There are few hearts but what have a grey stone or two erected in them to the memory of some de parted loved ones. These consecrated tablets are mercifully shadowed by Time into a soft oblivion, and we are spared the pang of continually tracing their mournful inscription, until a ray of light is thrown by some thought-star, and we con over the sad words with renewed devotion. All poets and philosophers have discovered how slight a cause will bring back our warmest recollections, and per haps among the strongest links which hold us to the dead there is none stronger than the " old tune" which they liked to listen to or used to sing. What a gush of gentle sorrow will spring in the father's breast, when by chance he hears the self-same air that his fair girl learnt years ago, to please him. The child is missing in his home—her place is vacant —she is gone from his warm hearth-stone to the cold sepulchre, but the " old tune" lives on, and has the power to thrust the world and its allurements from his mind, to take him back to scenes of bygone hap piness, and lead him onwa rd to the future in ho p e and faith. The son never forgets the melody that his mother used to sing to him in his early years, simply and imperfectly as it might be rendered by her; yet he was gladdened and excited by it, and he will recongise it when his own hair is white, and his limbs tottering, with a tender respect, as the " old tune" which he loved when he was a boy. Oh ! " old tunes" are blessed things ; and come where and when they may, the one who is akin to heaven as well as earth will bow to their influence. Never let us be ashamed of finding ourselves laid hold of by Toro Bowling" or " Black-eyed Susan." Let us not deem it a weakness to detect our feet in an inci pient vertigo, at the bidding of " Mrs. M'Leod" or " Nancy Dawson ;" fee we have little reverence for the man or woman who is never to be warped from the frigid proprieties of artificial existence, by the vulgar interference of " old tunes."—From Eliza Cook's Journal. INTERESTING TO LADIES.—An eccentric old ba chelor, who lately died at Madras, has left a sum of one thousand pounds, the interest of which is to be divided annually into five portions, to be distributed at the discretion of the minister of St. Cyrus, Kincardine shire. Oce portio❑ to be given to the tallest woman that has been married in the parish during the year, and one to the shortest. A third portion goes to the eldest woman married during the year, and the fourth to the youngest. Will any young lady remain unmarried St. Cyrus after this ? The strange old bachelor showed that his intentions were kind, for be directed the firth snm to be distributed in groceries amongst the poor.— Lustfries Courier. CAUNT IN TROUBLE.—The ex• Champion has been convicted, both at Nottingham and Mansfield, within the last few days, for trespass in pursuit of game. Consta bles paid him a visit in town with summonses. 7 7 1,11 63 1 ,4 11% 11J;, 6 72i 116 1 ,4 1,-, /