The Sun. — London, England, 1849-01-22 00:00:00

Z'ettingall, New Yor ; Ma j ) to from the River, 20th, 13ritsn, Miner, Maur, tien,; Grisley, ,Cape of Good ; Vat:gumd, Robinson, Earbadoes. 21st, Agenoria, Newby, - Sydney, Nest/ South Wales ; Susannah, L'ikey, South Ans tralia; Dispatch, Owen, Algoa Bay; Ada. Conßtzne, Mogador; Franklin, Smith, Blston. Sld. 20th, Emma, Eugenia, Sydney, New South Wa?es; Margaret Ev:lne., New York; Marshall Bennett, Constantinople, 21st. The Arwia, Neath to Hamburgh, sprung a leak ia tile Downs last night, and was abandoned. A boat's crt w from hence endeavoured to Let her into Ramsgate, but were obliged to put her on the near Sandown Castle, but is expected cif this miming; cargo dis charging. ABERDEEN, JAN. 19.—Win I S. ‘V.—Arrd. Rose, Gibb, Callao. DUNDEE, JAN. O.—W W.N.W.—Acrd. 19 th, Czar, Moore, St. John's, New Brunswick. NEWRY, JAN. 17.—Arcti. James, Hidden, New York. CORK, JAN. 18.—Arrcl. Ada Mary, Whitehea , l, Laguna; Industry, Holmin, New York; Sophia, Jolly, l'ugwash; Charles, Deac' - i, St. Johia's, N. wfo.ind;and. 19 , Reliance, Burgoyne, Mauritius; Atalanta, M.Coag, Matanzas, with loss of rn,sts, &c. WEXFORD, JAN. 19.—The Britannia, Vincent, from Bristol to Barbadoes, came on shore at this place la,t Light, and is full of water; crew saved; part of carat, may be saved. : WESTPORT JAN. 19.—The Gem, Murray, of and for Galway, trom New York, drove on shore yesterday in Killezics Harbour during a gale; crew saved; assis. tauce has been sent. 'MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE—(MONDAY). Daring last week the arrivals of all kinds of Grain as well as Flour for our market coastwise were on a very limited scale. By land carriage they were somewhat on the increase. From Scotland very little corn reached Us, but the supply of Oats from Ireland was one of the largest received in any week since the close of 1847—it baying exceeded 26 000 quarters. The foreign imports were good, viz , 15,932 quarters of Wheat; 5,168 ditto of Barley; 2,447 ditto of Oats; 970 ditto of Beans; 874 ditto of Peas; 530 ditto of Tares; 2,907 ditto of Linseed; 819 ditto of Rapeseed; 2,200 ditto of Indian Corn; 15 ditto of sundry Seeds; 2,396 sacks, and 1,837 barrels ot Flour. The arrivals from the Baltic and Black Seas during the present week are expected to be very small. The quantity of Wheat received fresh up to-day from Essex and Kent was very moderate, and in but middling eonuition—that from Cambridgeshire, &c., was trifling in the extreme. The stands were scantily supplied witi, samples of both Red and White. As the millers almost generally are waiting the new order of things—viz., the decline in the duties on and after the Ist proximo—the business transacted in Wheat of home growth was again Still, however, the bulk of the English Wheats told at prices equal to those paid on this day se'nnight. The market closed free from animation. With free Fo reign Wheat we were tolerably well, but not to say heavily, supplied. The best descriptions cold to a fail extent, at full rates of currency ; but the middling and out of condition sorts were a very slow inquiry, at barely stationary prices. Wheat under lock was de cidedly slow in sale, yet it is held at prices within two or three shillings per quarter of free parcels. It is cal culated that about 200,000 quarters have changed hands during th e l ast month. This will materially lessen the quantity to be thrown upon our market during February. Although the supply of Barley, both English and Fe re ign, was tolerably good, Malting samples were in steady request, at lull prices. Grinding and Dis tilling sorts moved off slowly, at late rates. The large influx of Irish Oats had a depressing effect upon the Oat trade. The best English and Scotch Oats Sold on former terms, but Irish qualities receded quite 6d per quarter. In Beans—the supply of which was but moderate--next to nothing was doing, and prices had a : do wnward tendency. All kinds of Peas were a dull .fi q u irY, at barely late rates. Indian Corn and Meal Flour easier to purchase. The top price of Englii,h was 443 per 2801bs. e el CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. eat—Essex & Kent. Malt—Chevalier...... 593 to 60s Red. ........ ' 4os to 48s Oats— Yorkshire and l aitto,lVhite, New 45s 56s Lincolnsh., Feed. 17s 20. -Norfolk and Lin- Potato coin, Red..... 40s 473 Youghal and Cork, Ditto, White...... 44s 54s Black . ...... 15s 19s Irish, Red • • • • • • • • —B W —a Cork, White . •• 15 s 20. , D itto,hite...... —s —s Scotch, Feed. •• .. 21s 25. .9e —Old ........ ...—s a Beans—Tick . e 1 -cow• •• •• ........ 28s 308 Pigeons .•. 36s 38s arley—Grinding . .... 24s 26s Peas—Grey .. •••• • • • • 33 $ 34 s 3 lalting .•••• • • • • 29' 30s Maple. ••••• . • • • • 348 353 ._ Chevalier ... 30s 32s White .•••• • • • . 28s 30, Kalt—Suffolk and Nor- Boilers •••.• • • • • 32s 34s folk .. .... •• —57 s Flour—Town-made... 39s 44 5 Brown .——..— —46 s Suffolk .......... 338 36 s Kingston and Ware 58s 59s 1 Stocktn &Norfolk 338 36 2 SMITHFIELD. Since thi s d ay se ' nnight, the i mports of fore i gn stock 140 London have been as under:— From Beasts. Sheep. Nordwyck.. .. 4u 18 Harlingen ..... ". Antwerp ••• ...... 500 I Catwyk ..... 67 . ••• 'Ostend... NieU Diep Calvet. Piga. 58 ... es• ...• - .. 98 ... ... 46 ... 3 ... -- Total 177 ... 1,122 Corresponding Week in 1848.. 136 ... SOO ... 107 ... - ~,,,, 29 ... 1•1.7."'. Difference ... 41 more. 322 more. 78 more. At the northern outports, only about 400 head of stock iThave been landed, and those in very middling condition. here was ex hibi te d f or sa l e i n to-day ' s market a very li nsitcd supply of foreign stock. As has been the case f el' some weeks past, the Beasts were in very inferior "adition and the quality of the Sheep and Calves was 4h different. All breeds were a slow sale; but we have L l l l° actual d ec li ne t o not i ce i n th e quo t a ti ons . F rom our r ge grazing districts the arrivals of Beasts fresh up "Is morning by " drift" and railway conveyance were d mo derately extens i ve, t h e t i me o f year cons id ere d . Th e hts short horns came to hand in full average con -1 . eh, but the quality of all other breeds was by no moans' first-rate. The primest Scots were in mo sex,. rt ".‘a requsst at Friday's decline in the cur tiolleles of 93 per Sibs, the rates of that descrip -4 of stock varying from only 3s 10d to 4s per 81b. hater breeds uf Beasts were dull in the extreme, and the la te fall i n va l ue was w i t h difficulty sal ported. The ,e of th e B easts were not disposed o f. Th e b u ll oc k hos'ePfs fro m the nsrth consisted of about 850 short otj,,na• From N or f o lk , S u ff o lk , E ssex, an d Cambridge th ` e, We received 1.600 Scots, short-horns, &c.; from b e e western and midland counties 400 Herefords, runts, S co B , &c. ; an d i rons S cot l an d 190 h orne d an d p o ll e d ec n `!' ot% ithstanding there was a further Sheep, somewhat 130 siderable declin e in the number of we have 4stinaprovetnent to report in the mutton trade. Th( equalld Downs may be considered steady, at prices I,to those paid on this day se'nnight. All other ilact s ,? f Sheep were in moderate re quest, at last week's (41, 1 ` 10 aS. Most of the Sheep were disposed of. In hi p te Sul of wch was small, comrativel Iva'ate.busils ness p was y doing, at late rates. The P p or a k trade Th o l h a very sluggish state, at barely stationary prices. tweilat"ck disposed of to .day was at an average fall of Its t ci t Y Per cent. compared with the corresponding mar aY last year. • Per albs. to sink the offal. 5. d. to S. A. %fen °, 5. d. to 8. d• cori, Beasts..... 3 0 3 4 al Sheep 3 8 4 0 Irb aie t?,uality •• • 3 6 3 8 Co a secondr se-w q o u o 11. e Netherddi tto 4 4 2 8 44 106 Mi me -,.rge Oxen.. 3 8 310 Southdown Liq: Scots ...... 310 4 0 Dittoeutofthewool 0 0 0 0 Pritzecearse Calves 3 6 4 0 Large hogs ......3 6 4 4 Rue,— shl all ditto .. 4 2 4 6 Small Porkers ....,. 15 2 46 4 8 0 1 0 1111 fer; Calvpes . 18 4 0 23 6 Lumber 0 Quarter old Ii gs••• s 3 0 0 0 "r Bhee .. ••• •• •• • TOTAL ;CPPLY AT MARKET. _ ix.. Sheep. I Calves. I 160 r I 17,430 67 FOREIGN SUPPLY. la; I 'least '. Sheep. I Calves. I - 280 18 pub 17 ZWGELTI2 AND LEADENHALL. b, e -.. average supplies of country • v i 4 received up to these markets since our last report, kilted meat have ofzV3_Bo carcases of Beef, 800 ditto of Mutton, 190 ditto O a 'al, and 4,400 ditto of Pork. Those on offer ughtered i n Jet t h,„ - the metropolis have not been a to nd s , ay in l s a n rg m e e , in sto. „' general demand has ruledheavy, 04r oces, the tendency. quotations have had a downward . be P io re t r k"a r aY have ot.st rved that country-killedme, k, is sometimes selling at prices somewhat in mina th ? h s e quoted in our reports; but they must bear ts bet w 4 great difference almost invariably ex a k nd t. , ee . n the v a l ue th at killed in Lontloufn. provincial slaughtered meat II At Per stone by the Carcase. . 5. d. to s. d. i s. d.tos. 8. ..........o,lnifdearilOinr...... 2 6 2 8 Mutton, inferior .. 2 6 3 2 ......"---- prnuela g rge .• :: 210 3 0 1 middling.. 3 4 310 prime ••.. 4 0 4 8 Veal.P.rune Mall .• 3 4 3 6 Pork,large•• •• •• •• 3 ., 0 3 4 6 * 3 1 . ** ** ••• • 3 4 4 4' small .- •• —••., 10 The --46017G711 AND SPITALFIELDS. on a ver arrivals of potatoes, coastwise, last week, were The iaa,.,__Y moderate sale, and in middling condition. s fr om vorts consisted of 75 bags from Antwerp, 3,000 f ton , Ro .11 ord e . n en, 40 sacks from Havre, and 60 tonsbt saw ton a ll 'c. A steady business is doing in the . es heavy. Yes' at prices. Otherwise, tbe demand t oe chtutive Regents, 100 s to 150 s; Newcastle anlosdS:oek 9ups, 6 ° ,' sto 100 s; Scotch ditto, 90s to . 11 ditto aO3 t o ~'„s to 80s; ditto Reds, 60s to 803; ditto . 6' Whites, to 6 3 . 5. ",,a; French ditto, 80s to 105 s; Dutch ditto, 403 ) Belgian ditto, 70s to 905 per ton. 8 Rathe r ttOUOITOU HOP MARKET. P 4 of nler e money h as b een pa id f or the finest rre la st year's growth, the demand for which is Well 14 the Middling and inferior kinds of new,. as ii- eer ta o old Tr , 1 „,, -.`'-)Ps, exceedingly little business is doing._ Ixont di,-.''''.lB3ex Pockets, 2/ 4s to 3/; Weald . of .„ .. ..0 2/ „ "` as to 6/ ~,,, ..s to 3110 s; Mid and East Kent ditto, 1.• i• c wt. The arrival Zr..ka„.. „. ,-, 4 - sirOOL. bah s from 13 °' 0 01 inr , I, ndon Fri, 1 • ll Matirtv q la Y, 16 d ueli°' A ' res, 18 ditto &Jai Ostend, 13 ditto ito, f....rso9inditto from the Cape, 1,794 ditto from y_perivate contract -. . s v Y e r r l y ne l y tt , tl a e ni bu l s 7 t s ne d s i s tto is f d ro o m in K e n r l% tc i h n e g . Ported 7p proac 11 !ug public sales; yet prices are well sup -4 "ell' instance. TALLOW. theA f air delivery has taken pl a e since our last report, yet ...lueotations hav e f urther receded 3d per cwt. To-day l'i 'o "tra O n the spot is se lli ng at 41s to 41a 3d per cwt. 7,511_w trans for f orwar d d e :i very are trifling. Town 4d4dPer sibs. , ,ti, 8 p er cwt. to 42 Rough Fat has fall en t o 2s BA f east s ~126. Pigs. IL COURT. —(THIS DAY.) fir, Justice Erie, after going through the bar, took 15 ai 1 Court peremptory paper, and heard the argu eint' in two or three cases, presented no feature Nblic interest. ..ne prize of 100 guineas and a service of plate has Just been awarded by the Society of Arts to Dr. Paris, Iresident of the College of Physicians, and Mr. Fon -4144q4e, for theirAnc 911 Eorea4c THE SIR BULWER LYTTON'S EPIC. KING ARTHU Prior to our criticism upon the eight concluding books of " King Arthur"—now formally acknow ledged to be the production of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton—we hasten to lay before the public come of those inimitable portraitures of contemporary States. men, Warriors ' and Onitors, in the limning of which the author of the "New ninon" has already displayed such a felicitous capat.:ity. Although there is, of course, no express allusion to the origi nals in the text of the poem, it is next to impossible to mistake the identity ; and we make no doubt that the application of each sketch would be sufficiently apparent to the discerning, even without the help of the names which we have presumed to prefix to the different stanzas. The portraitures occur in the course of a superb delineation of the twelve Knights of the Round Table, the deathless twelve— " Girding with subject stars the starry King." First come the three counselling knights, Cynon, Aron, and Llywarch, called for the bake of euphony by his father's name Elidir; next the three knights of battle, Cadi,vr, Lancelot du Lac (Geraint being sub stituted for him, for reasons explained by Sir Edward, Vol. 1., page 207, note), and Dwaine; and lastly, the three golden-tongued knights, Gwalchmai (G-awaine), Drudwas (Drydas in the text), and Eliwlod (Lolod). The remaining three are subsequently portrayed, but, of course, without any personal reference ' • we mean " the three ardent lovers of the island of Bri tain, Caswallawn, Tristan, and Cynon (for the last, already placed amongst the counselling knights, Cara doc is substituted)." The homage paid to the genius and patriotism of her Majesty's Principal Secretary for Foreign Affairs in the lines which we have printed in italics, is as nobly expressed as it is eminently de served. LORD JOHN RUSSELL. Of these was Cynon of the high. born race, A cold but dauntless—calm but earnest man; With deep eyes shining from a thoughtful face, And spare slight form, for ever in the van When ripening victories crown'd laborious deeds; Reaper of harvests—sower not of seeds; For scarcely his the quick far-darting: soul Which, like Apollo's shaft, strikes lifeless things Into divine creation; but, the whole Once rife, the skill which into concord brings The jarring parts; shapes out the rudely wrought, And calls the action living from the thought. LORD PALMERSTON. Next Aron see—not rash, yet gaily bold, With the frank polish of chivalric courts ; Him from the right, no fear of wrong controul'd, And toil he deem'd the sprightliest of his sports ; O'er War's dry chart, or Wisdom's mystic page, Alike as smiling, and alike as sage ; With the warm instincts of the knightly heart That rose at once if insult touch'd the realm, He spurn'd each state-craft, each deceiving art, And rode to war, no vizor to his helm ; This proved his worth, this line his tomb may boast— . Who hated Cymri, hated Aron most THE LATE LORD DURHAM. But who with eastern hues and haughty brow, Stern with dark beauty, sits apart from all ? Ah, couldst thou shun thy friends, Elidir I—thou Scorning all foes, before no foe shall fall I On thy wronged grave one hand appeasing lays The humble flower—oh, could it yield the bays Courts may have known than thee a readier tool, States may have found than thine a subtler brain, But states shall honour many a formal fool, Aud many a tawdry fawner courts may gain, Ere King or People in their need shall see A soul as grand as that which fled with thee ! For thou wert more than true ; thou wert a Truth Open as Truth, and yet as Truth profound ; Thy fault was genius—that eternal youth Whose weeds but prove the richness of the ground And dull men envied thee, and false men fear'd, And where soared genius, there convention sneer'd. Ah, happy hadst thou fallen foe to foe, The bright race run—the laurel o'er thy grave I But hands perfidious strung the ambush bow, And the friend's shaft the rankling torture gave— The last proud wish its agony to hide, The stricken deer to ccvei t crept, and died. THE MARQUIS OF ANGLESEA. Next came the Warrior Three. Of glory's charms, (Glory, the bride of heroes) nobly vain Dark Mona's Owaine shines with golden arms, The Roland of the Cymrian Charlemain, Scathed by the storm the holy chief survives, For Fame makes holy all its lightning rives.. LORD IIdRDINGE. Beside, with simplest garb and sober mien, Solid as iron not yet wrought to steel, In his plain manhood Cornwall's chief is seen, Who (if wild tales some glimpse of truth reveal) Gave Northern standards to the Indian sun, And wreaths from palms that shaded Evian won. THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON. Lo, he whose fame outshines the Fabulous! Sublime with eagle front, and that grey crown Which Age, the arch-priest, sets on laurell'd brows ; Geriant, bending with a world's renown ! Yet those grey hairs one ribald scoffer found; — The moon sways oceans and provokes the hound. 3IACIULAY. As from the Mount of Gold auriferous flows The Lydian wave, thy pomp of period shines Resplendant Drydas—glittering as it goes High from the mount, but labouring thro' the mines, And thence the tides, enriching as they run, Glass every fruit that ripens to the sun. LORD STANLEY. But, like the vigour of a Celtic stream, Comes Lolod's rush of manly sense along, Fresh with the sparkles of a healthful beam, And quick with impulse like a poet's song. How listening crowds that knightly voice delights— It . from those crowds are banished all but knights I DISRAELI. The third, though young, well worthy of his place, Was Gawaine, courteous, blithe, and debonnair, Arch Mercury's wit, with careless Cupid's face; Frank as the sun, yet searching as the air; Who with bland parlance prefaced doughtiest blows, And wildly arguing—arguing brain'd his foes. Those who bear in recollection the poetic profiles of Lord Stanley, of the Duke of Wellington, and of Lord John Russell, already pencilled in the "New Timon," by the same master hand, will derive a peculiar interest from instituting a comparison be tween the two delineations. A SONG FOR THE WORKERS. (WRITTEN FOR THE EARLY CLOSING MOVEMENT.) Let Man toil to win his living, Work is not a task to spurn ; Poor is gold of others' giving, To the silver that we earn. Let Man proudly take his station At the smithy, loom, or plough ; The richest crown-pearls in a nation Hang from Labour's reeking brow. Though her hand grows hard with duty, Filling up the common Fate, Let fair Woman's cheek of beauty Never blush to own its state. Let fond Woman's heart of feeling Never be ashamed to spread Industry and honest dealing, As a barter for her bread. Work on bravely, God's own daughters! Work on staunchly, God's own sons! But when Life has too rough waters, Truth must fire her minute guns. Shall ye be unceasing drudges? Shall the cry upon your lips Never make your selfish judges Less severe with golden whips? Shall the mercy that we cherish, As old England's primest boast, See no slaves but those who perish On a far and foreign coast? When we reckon hives of money, Owned by Luxury and Ease, Is it just to grasp the honey While Oppression chokes the bees? Is it just the poor and lowly Should be held as soulless things? Have they not a claim as holy, As rich men, to angels' wings? Shall we burthen Boyhood's muscle? Shall the young girl mope and lean Till we hear the dead leaves rustle On a tree that should be green? Shall we bar the brain from thinking Of aught else than work or woe? Shall we keep parched lips from drinking Where refreshing waters flow? Shall we strive to shut out Reason, Knowledge, Liberty and Health? Shall all Spirit-light be treason To the despot King of Wealth? Shall we stint with niggard measure Human joy and human rest? Leave no profit—give no pleasure, To the toiler's human breast? Shall our Men, fatigued to loathing, Plod on sickly, worn, and bowed? • Shall our Maidens sew fine clothing, Dreaming of their own white shroud? No! for Right is up and asking Loudly for a fairer lot, And Commerce must not let her tasking Form a nation's canker spot. Work on bravely, God's own daughters! Work on staunchly, God's own sons! But till ye have smoother waters, Let Truth fire her minute guns! -Weekly Dispatch. ELIZA COOK. ADMISSION OF SOLICITORS IN CIIANCERY.—The Master of the Rolls has appointed Tuesday, January 30, at the Roll s ' C ourt , Chancery'-lane, -lane, at three o'clock in the afternoon, for swearing solicitors. Every person desirous of being sworn on the above day must leave his common law admission, or his certificate of practice for the current year, at the Secretary's-office, Rolls'-yard, Chancery -I § 4 e, 94 94% bekro ktplulay, 29at Jguggry. SUN, LONDON, SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS PituM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. TINIES.--The Financial Reform Association have at length hit upon a topic on which they will carry with them public sympathy. With whatever hesitation we may admit 1110 policy of adopting speculative reforms which must have as their first and necessary effect to denude the country of those means of safety on which we have hitherto relied, when no such considerations are involved the Financial Reformer has an easy task before him. Man is not a tax-paying animal by nature, but by necessity. We receive no abstract pleasure from con tributing even to the maintenance of army, navy, and ordnance. Our wish to guard the country from the danger of foreign attack, and to keep the sea inviolate for the traffic of our mercantile marine, is the result of reflection, not of impulse. " There be land rats and water rats." It is no use carrying their non-existence by acclamation. There they are, and we are not yet convinced that it would be prudent to drop the in surance, although no doubt the annual payments may be lessened in amount. To-day we publish a return upon a different branch of the Administration—the Woods and Forests. The royal revenues arising from forests, chases, waters, parks, manors, lands, estates, houses, &c., have, as is well known, been long commuted for the grant of a fixed civil list on the accession of the Sovereign. The nation has taken these possessions into its own hands, and may fairly look to them as a source of profit. They now make up a part of the nation's estates. We are entitled to expect that the same care shall be displayed in their management as a private individual would be stow upon his own possessions. So far from this being the case, it would be, we verily believe, impossible to conceive a more utter or wanton waste of property than takes place under the administration of the board which is known as the Woods and Forests. The history of this board we find in brief to be this:—The land reve nues of the Crown were originally collected by the sheriffs of counties, who paid their rents into the Ex chequer. In 1535 a court was erected, called the Court of Augmentations, for the management of the lands of the suppressed monasteries not having more than 200/. a year, all of which had been given by Parliament to the King. Under this court, and the Court of General Surveyors of Crown Lands, and a Board of Works, the royal property continued for centuries. In 1781 the Board of Works was abolished, and the Royal build ings, which had until then been under its management, were placed under the direction of a surveyor or comptroller. This office was united with that of the Commissioners of Woods and Forests in 1832, saving so far as the royal gardens are concerned. In 1828 the management of the Irish land revenue was given to the Commissioners. These, together with some minor changes, scarcely affecting the subject matter on which it had to operate, have brought the Commission to its present form. The report, of which we publish an ex tract to-day, deals mainly with one of the many classes of property which are under the control of the Board. There are, it appears, four forests, each with its Lord Warden—the New Forest, warden the Duke of Cam bridge; Waltham, Lord Mornington; Whittlewood, Duke of Grafton; Whychwood, Lord Churchill. It appears that the salaries attached to these merely honorary posts are of no account, and would, in fact, scarcely suffice to pay the salary of any one of the footmen of any one of the noblemen in question. But the perquisites are valu able. Lord Churchill, for example, is entitled to deer and game to his own use out of Whychwood Forest to an unlimited extent, to make no mention of heath, furze, fern, bushes, and shrubs. The Duke of Grafton has all the underwood in Whistlewood Forest, which is cut every twenty-one years. He enjoys besides " the use of Wakefield Lodge"—so it is stated in the report—" and the pasturage of Wakefield Lawn, consisting of 200 or 300 acres, besides venison and game ad libitum, and claims all the deer as his own." We would refer, how ever, to the report itself for fuller particulars, in order to arrive at a point in comparison with which the pecu lations of Lords Wardens are but of trifling concern. In these days of railroads, most persons, either called by business or attracted by pleasure, have visited the neigh. bourhood of Southampton, Few would have so little curiosity as not to devote any hours they could spare to a ride through the New Forest. Take it all in all, there is no timber district in England, not even Wind sor Forest, which can compare for picturesque beauty with this. In the neighbourhood of Lyndhurst the long savannahs and groups of old trees are so beautiful, that a lover of sylvan scenery would weep over their destruction. The Liverpool ;men are not open to con siderations of this sort. Their view is bald, prosaic, and disagreeable, but it has its element of truth. " Here we are," say they, " with a good landed property, it is true, but heavily encumbered. Embarrassed men must rather seek to satisfy their creditors than gratify their taste. We must clear. We must cut down our timber, and break up the soil into arable and pasture land. We are not entitled to waste a shilling upon our love for the picturesque until all our obliga tions shall have been honestly discharged." Now the income derived from the New Forest in six years-1835-6 to 1840-I—was 59,5434, and the expenditure during the same period 54,8241 ; something, in fact, very con siderably under 1,0001. per annum was derived from this enormous property. During the next six years-1841-2 to 1846-7—the case was infinitely worse. The income had fallen to 53,2961, and the expenditure had risen to 66,4721, showing an actual loss by the property;of 2,2001. yearly. In 1847 matters bad got from worse to still worse. The New Forest cost the country in that year 3,266/. We take these figures as we find them from the report, and if faith can be placed in the statement of Mr. Downes, the property is in reality of the most valuable nature. The timber and plantations alone he values at 942,0001., equal, at three and a half per cent., to 32 ; 9701. par annum. For further particulars with regard to Whittlewood, which paid last year 11. 3s. 0-id., and to Whychwood, which produced 1231 ls. 7d., and Waltham, which contributed 352/. 75.6 d. to the national Exchequer, we must refer to the report. Now, it is evident that here is a source from which a large revenue may be derived which has been wholly neglected. When we find individuals coming forward and offering to pay a large sum in the shape of rent for a district which at present returns nothing, no reason able man can entertain a doubt that there is gross mis management. Either the bid should be accepted, or the property should be made to return more in its present hands. Without adopting wholly the views of the Financial Reformers, we are satisfied that no one can have passed through such a tract of woodland country as that which is called the New Forest without perceiv ing that a great portion of it might with great advantage be cleared and devoted to agricultural purposes. More than eight centuries ago, when the surface of England was but thinly populated, this district was covered with smiling hamlets and homesteads. The second William and his successors ruthlessly swept these habitations away in order to make room for a vast forest in which they might take their pastime. What the tyranny of one race accomplished the cupidity and mismanagement of others have continued. It is time that much of the land should return to the plough and to the harrow. Where corn has grown corn will grow again, and the nation would thus possess a thriving district instead of an unproductive waste, CHRONICLE.—" It has pleased Almighty God to vouchsafe to the British arms the most successful issue to the extensive combinations rendered necessary for the purpose of effecting the passage of the Chenaub "—such is the pious and politic exordium of a dispatch intended to apprise the people of India, that the Seikhs had effected a safe retreat on their hill country, in the face of an overpowering British force. In England, we may venture, without indiscretion, to doubt whether that " issue " was commensurate, in point of real value, either with the magnitude of the 'preliminary prepara tions, or with the elevation of language observable in the official announcement. Possibly, we may be apt to undervalue a military success which has been purchased at so severe a cost ; and the lamented names of Cureton, Havelock, and Fitzgerald, almost unavoidably compel a sober and measured estimate of the fruits of a victory so bought. Yet, even irrespectively of this melancholy list of casualties, there appears too much reason for thinking that the extensive preparations, and the well-laid plans, of the Commander-in-Chief, have, to some extent, been frustrated—partly, by the irrepressible ardour and eagerness of our troops, when in sight of the enemy, and partly by incidental errors of detail in the execution of the operations. Amidst a crowd of confused state ments, the following facts stand prominent : For twelve days, 18,000 regular Seikh troops, with a mob of about as many more irregular s , an d 28 guns, were encampe d opposite the " Army of the Punjaub," which mustered 23,000 strong, and was supported by a magnificent park of artillery. During that interval, on the only two oc casions on which our men were engaged with the enemy they were compelled to retire—in the one case, with the loss of a gun, in the other, after a severe conflict. When, at len g th, a genera l plan of attack was resolved on, it was marred by a blunder at the fords. The de tachment destined to take the enemy in flank made a that, s o tu t •afterneed bravely r A e p oh e l Asn i n v Le g s aloo a frea n db needless det our , b y w hi c h they were so greatly fatigued, assault, ayw t e h s ey th s e t s oo l d os i t n . n o b n -1 e d the next, the reb e l f orces were out of reach, having concealed, writes a l ship, teroe ' t ' ir o e r , c b a y rr w ie h d ieh wi w th e fear his Excellency merely means us to understand, that he had neither got their guns himself, nor knew anything about them. It is not improbable that, by this time, they are crowning some ravine to the west of the Hydaspes, where a harassing guerilla warfare may, for a while, postpone the fin a l t r i ump h of our arms. Of some other portions of our pr esen t I n di an i ntelligence, we are, happily, able to speak with fewer qualifications and reserves. It is our pleasing duty to notice that Attock still holds out, that Moolr a j i s l ess defiant, and that Cashmere continues faithful. In all probability, therefore, Shere Singh has but deferred his defeat. He leads a tribe—a dominant tribe, it is tr ue , an d diame trically opposed, in all its interests, to ourselves—still, it is only a tribe ; and in that fact lies the moral certainty of his final failure. The population around him, to say the least, stand neuter in the struggle. They can feel no reluctance to be brought back from under the novel and galling yoke of a sect of persecuting fanatics, to an an cient empi re , w hi c h, under all its dynasties—Persian, Affghan, Mogul, and British—has extended an equal tolerance to the voteries of its multiform creeds. With the passive assistance of the Punjaub peasantry, it can hardly be long before Lord Dalhousie is called upon to decide whether the Seikhs are to be treated with, or go verned—whether he will put up with dangerous neigh bours, or with unruly subjects. This is an old dilemma —as old as British India itself ; yet, for that very rea son, the difficulty of making a choice is comparatively inconsiderable. Encouraged by the results of past ex perience, Nve confess th a t i t d oes not appear to us th a t any grievous risk will be incurred by choosing what has been repeatedly found to be the least of two evils. There are, however, a large class ofpersons in this country, who, inno cent of the slightest curiosity respecting Indian affairs in general, will yet pronounce very positively upon this question, without any such retrospective glance. It is enough for them, that the area of our Eastern dominions is vast, considered with reference to European analo gies; and they conclude that it is, therefore, unwieldy. The very term, " territorial aggrandizement" conjures up in their minds a vague train of unwelcome and odious images —or, perhaps, we should rather say, of mere phrases, which have acquired all the power of a spell. A legitimate ground of caution has, in fact, degenerated into a sort of bugbear, in the pres ence o f w hich it i s not easy to obtain a hearing for arguments founded only on the actual specialities of the case. To such per sons, of course, our previous treatment of this ques tion must have failed to carry conviction. On van - ous occasions we have examined the probable re sults—fiscal, commercial, and political—of anneca tion, as indicated by the territorial position and natural features of thePuniaub. In deciding on the claims of the Seikhs to the character of safe neighbours, we have ex pressed a distrust founded upon all that is known of Seikh habits and Seikh traditions. We have pointed to the provocations by which the Indian Government has become entitled, on every principle of international law, to look singly to its own di gn it y an d sa f ety i n 'deciding on the nature and extent of its reprisals. But is there any colour in the assumption that an extension of tern tory is, in itself, the great es t ev il t h at can b e f a l British India? Since when, and by what indications, internal or external, has our Eastern Empire shown itself to be thus overgrown, unwieldly, and barely capable of hold ing its own? Are its subjects more restive, its neigh bours haughtier, than in periods when its area lay within a narrower bound, and its pretensions were less imperial? The simple enunciation of such questions is a sufficient reply. There are, indeed, certain sensible dicta in the Duke of Wellington's Dispatches, which, stretched beyond their original application, and without taking into account the vast changes that have occurred since they were written, are often quoted in order to justify these disparaging views of our Eastern Government, and of its present capacities for conquest. " Bengal," wrote his Grace, in 1804, " the paradise of nations— enjoys the advantage of a c i v il G overnment, an d re quiresits military force only for its protection against foreign enemies. All the other barbarous establish ments, called Governments, without excepting that of Fort St. George, have no power beyond that of the sword. Take from them the exercise of that power, and they have no other ; and can collect no revenue, can give no protection, and can exercise no government." Elsewhere he thus concludes a similar passage :—" In order to carry on their foreign wars, they have been obliged to weaken the means of their internal government, that is to say, the power of the sword, in their own provinces. • • • • The conclusion of the most successful fo reign war in India, if it gives an excess of territory, must bring with the territory a necessity to increase the army; because the Government must be established in the new territory, and supported, as well as in the old, by the power of the sword." Now, if British India be still in the predicament in which it was when these warnings were given, we will admit their present appli cability. If Bengal alone, of our eastern possessions, " enjoys the advantage of a civil Government "—if Madras and Bombay still merit the designation of " barbarous establishments"—if the north. west provinces are no better organized than when Lake laid siege to Agra, and Burn defended Delhi—if, in short, half a century's civil administration, wiser, milder, and more just than ever blessed the Indian peasant, has done nothing to quell the spirit of revolt in our dominions—why, cadet questio ; we admit that it were unwise to thin our garrisons —Mr. Cobden will not let them be multiplied. The present state of India, however, teaches a far different lesson from that which the facts, or appearances, of forty-five years ago, pre sented to the Duke's sagacious mind. We are justified now in allowing a little less for the influence of the sword—a little more for the effects of good govern ment. With the salient fact before us, that 60,000 troops have been dranghted from the provi nc i a l, garr i sons to serve in the Punjaub, without causing the slightest apprehension for the stability of the civil authority, we feel warranted in assuming that the question of an nexation or no annexation will be decided by the Governer-General, without its entering into his Lordship's counsels to allow for disaffection on the part of his native fellow-subjects, or for insolence on that of our allies. We entertain a firm conviction that Lord Dalhousie will exercise, with equal prudence and courage, that right of choice which, in all human probability, the complete and final success of our arms will, at no distant date, place in his hands. For, as we need scarcely say, we view this Seikh retreat—unsatis factory and disappointing as it confessedly is—as a merely temporary postponement of that issue which has invariably attended the determined and vigorous exer tion of British power in India. The history of that guerilla struggle, which appears at present likely to be the proximate result of our passage of the Chenaub, may be regarded as already written, by anticipation, in those pages of the Anglo-Indian annals which record the progress and the termination of the Deccan and Mah ratta wars. TIMES.—We believe we may congratulate the more moderate and patient economists on the prospect of an early and considerable step in the right direction. After years of ascending expense and descending revenue, a return to the equilibrium, besides being a positive im provement, is an earnest of better things to come. From all that we can hear the Chancellor of the Exche quer will be in a condition to announce early in the ses sion a reduction in the army and navy estimates, suffi cient to bring them safe within the probable revenue of the year. The twelvemonth just ended has produced a considerable income on corn, the last that in this coun try will ever be levied from the staff of life; but, on the other hand, it has net been a good year for malt. Taking therefore into account the evident and substan tial improvement of trade, we may fairly expect that the revenue, now for halt a year on the ascendant, will soon regain the level of 1846. Unless some unfore seen danger or calamity should derange the calcu lation, we expect that with the revenue of 1846 we shall soon combine the estimates of an earlier year, yet without injury to any of cur civil establish ments, or measures for internal improvement. Should such a budget be announced, the common sense and gra titude of the nation would be exhibited by a hearty and unanimous support, and we have no doubt will be so exhibited. A mere balance of incomings and outgoings will, of course, be thought a fiat affair by the financial millennarians, whose first step is a reduction of 10,000,0001. But with all our admiration of the prophet who has promised this miracle, we must still regard economy as a gradual proc ess . L c t th e goa l be in view if you please; but we cannot reach it with a hop, skip, and jump. The tortoise beat the hare, and perhaps a system of yearly reductions will answer our purpose better than an attempt to raze the national expenditure down to a lower deck all at once. When a gentleman of large nominal rent--roll, and larger real expenses, is brought to his senses by the failure of supplies, the best course he can take in the first instance is the adaptation of his establishment to his means. It is difficult of course. He cannot do without this or that servant, without such and such carriages and horses, without a house in town, or his annual tour, and sufficient allowances for his sons at college. Retrench ment by piecemeal is killing work. But the more it kills the more it cures. The greater the demand upon the nerves the more decided is the moral result. A year of well-balanced accounts is a glorious turning point in the life of a thriftless and thoughtless man. When he has been one year none the worse, he will soon be ano ther year much . the better. Th e fi nanc i a l con diti on o f our nearest neighbour renders an early disarmament in that quarter an imperious necessity. France has staved off bankruptcy for the present, but with an expenditure for one year 20,000,000/. above the income she cannot hope to keep faith with the national creditor, unless she immediately stanch that frightful issue of her resources. Bankruptcy means revolution; and if things come to that pass, France will soon witness a new and more terrible variety of her national spectacle. She has seen the overthrow of a dynasty, of a court, of an aristocracy, and of a clergy; she has not lately seen the extermination of a large monied class. The short lived issue and rapid depreciation of a few million assig nets will be a very insignificant catastrophe compared with the application of the sponge to a national debt' more than a third of our own. But either that sponge or new and intolerable taxation. Such are the alterna tives entailed by war, by the menace of war, or the bare thought of war. The present Government of France is not insensible to these grave considerations. It has shown a peaceful and economical tendency. It dreads in ternal ruin more than foreign invasion, and is more in tent on restoring the balance of its finances than on un dertaking the task of European regeneration. France being thus brought: to her senses, , and the military powers of central Europe being fully occupied at borne, we have an opportunity of reducing our own arma ments, and thus showing a confidence in the amicable professions of our neighbours. This opportunity, we believe, is now fully recognized, and will not be neglected. A financial row of some sort or other of course there will be, and we have no wish to prevent it. We should imagine the Chancellor of the Exchequer himself would hardly desire to atop the months of the furious economists. If, however, they wish to give him as little trouble as possible, and to make his line of de fence easy and impregnable, they cannot do it more effectually than by striking at once for a standard of reduction absolutely incompatible with our present do mestic safety and colonial dominion. A single glance of the eye at certain points in the map of the world will silence a policy which would put us everywhere on that retrograde, so frequently the precursor of ru i n . Th e question cannot be handled in the lump. It canno t b e touched without leading into details. The mantle of Joseph Hume will fall on Mr. Cobden, and we shall soon see him descending from that grand argumentation which characterised his war with the cor n -l aws , i nto petty details of contracts and repairs. Once in details, the 10,000,0001. of the economical paradise will soon vanish away. It has already been reduced to about 4000,0001., which is all the present increase upon the army, navy, and ordnance estimates of 1835, if we ex clude the novelties and changes rendered necessary by the progressive discoveries and peculiar circumstances of the day. The papers from Ceylon give little new s o f in terest. The local authorities were revising various or dinances, and it was anticipated that these and other measures would be favourably received by the inhabi tants. The imports of the last quarter exhibited a con siderable decrease. The weather in the interior had become settled, and was adapted for the preparation of the coffee crop. Labour was not so plentiful as could be desired, and few estates had throughout the season been well supplied. Not much coffee had yet arrived from the plantations, and the lateness of the crop had latterly materially interfered with the progress of ship ments. DOVER, JAN. 21.—FALL AT SHAKSPERE'S This morning, about ten o'clock, an extensive fall of the chalk rock from Sbakspere's Cliff took place. The fall occurred near No. 4 shaft of Sbakspere's Tunnel, on the South -Eastern Railway, and left an indentation in the crown of this classic cliff of something like an acre. The quantity of chalk detached way be estimated at a b out 100 ; 000 MA MONDAY EVENING, JAN tJAR Y 22, 1849. WOODS, FORESTS, AND LAND REVENUES. The following is an extract from a Report of the Liverpool Financial Association: — Attached to each of the forests now under consider ation is en important personage called a Lord Warden, with a nominal salary of " 5/. a-year, and no perquisites . freeholders, rights warden s ,o;ar or his egrnaes incydlaisl i ll s tA i i except of venison." (Mr. A. Milne, 430.) What there duties ought to be the association do not find clearly de scribed in the evidence, and it is remarkable that not one of the four was summoned to give any account of his stewardship. In the new forest the warden is his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge ; Waltham, Lord Mornington: Whittlewood, Duke of Grafton; Whychwood, Lord Churchill; the last three being all hereditary offices, and a very curious example they furnish of the peculiar ad vantages which the public derives from being saddled with offices of that description. "In Hainault Forest [Mr. Mike becomes ambiguous here; Waltham Forest comprehends Epping, which is common land, subject to belongingr cannot tre l d o mu r pe d ttoao s onn o ct thtfuhhetema Crown wastesa timberLrn 000rrsdn, steward, di n w mr a t e d u oi, l l t i M n h e o fee r r e n ;ni s of the forest, but has been stopped recently by injunc tion." In Whychwood Forest, the late Lord Churchill, whose duties were " the preservation of the deer and game, and the royalties," not satisfied with " 621. 1 ls. Bd., yearly payment," " deer and game, to an un limited extent " for his own use, " heath, firs (query furze?) ferns, bushes, and shrubs (not saplings), and timber for certain specified repairs," set up a claim to all the timber in the forest, and put the public to an ex pense of 7,0131. in a lawsuit, which was another eleven years' affair, having been instituted by the diligent Mesrs. Pemberton, Crawley, and Gardiner, in April, 1834, and not brought to trial when Lord Churchill died in 1845; whereby the suit was abated, and the question is undecided to this hour. The present Lord Churchill, however, has made proposals for an amicable settle ment, which may possibly save further litigation and another of Messrs. Pemberton and Co's little bills. In this forest the warden appoints all the officers, so that the Commissioners have practically no control over the property which they nominally take care of. In Whittlewood Forest the Duke of Grafton re ceives 371. 10s. salary, has all the underwood, which is cut every twenty-one years, Wakefield-lodge, and the pasturage of Wakefield lawn, consisting of 200 to 300 acres, besides venison and game ad libitum; but his Grace claims all the deer as his own, while the Com missioners say they belong to the Crown. The parties, fortunately, have ,not got to law yet, and if the deer were once killed off, possibly that catastrophe might yet be avoided. Tho rovenuo derived from the forests is precisely what might be expected, and is of itself a sufficient evidence of the kind of management which has afflicted these fine estates so long. In New Forest the income in six years-1835-6 to 1840-1--was 59,5431., and the expen diture in the same period 54,8241. ; in six years, 1841-2 to 1846-7, the income had fallen to 53,2961., and the expenditure had risen to 66,4721., showing an actual loss by the property of about 2,2001. yearly ; in 1804, the total expenditure was 3,1521., and the income 7,069/. ; in 1847 the expenditure was 10,2371., and the income 6,9714 Even the New-park Farm, on which no rent is charged, is carried on at a loss ; and Mr. Milne's attempt to explain this state of things will not have much weight with any one who has read the evidence, or even the foregoing short extracts. The total income from all the forests for the year ended sth of January, 1847, is stated in a return dated 17th of March, 1846, to have been 44,2451., and the ex penditure 35,8394, credit being taken for large sales of timber and bark, or equal to about 8,4001. per annum. Mr. Downes says of Whittlewood Forest, the net income from which, last year, was 11. 3s. Old., that, "in a pe cuniary sense, nothing can be worse than the manage ment; (1,592). Whittlewood Forest is at present paying literally nothing, and I should be very glad to give 5,000/. a year for it," and be at the cost of inclosing and cultivating it; or "allowing me 3f per cent. upon the value of the timber, I would give from 18,000/. to 20,0004 a year." (1,669 to 1,671.) Whychwood Forest produced last year 1231, is. 7d.; Mr. Downes values it at 4,6254 a year, besides 280,0001. to 300,000!. worth of timber. (1,643 and 1,653.) The New Forest cost the country last year 3,2661.; Mr. Downes estimates the land of the forest " in its present state" to be worth 21,392/., after allowing for rights of commonage, feed ing, &c.; the timber and plantations he values at 942,000/., equal, at 3i per cent., to 32,970/. per annum. (3,318 et seq,) Waltham Forest produced last year 3521. 7s. 6d., but unfortunately the evidence does not contain any estimate of its real value. LABUAN. From this new settlement we have accounts to the 9th Nov. The visit of ceremony to the Sultan by Sir James Brooke was undertaken on Oct. 26, when the final ar rangements for the treaty obligations of the two nations were oarried into effect. On Oct. 24 his Excellency Governor Brooke left Labuan in the Jolly Bachelor, fol lowed by the small steamer Ranee. Having passed up the Bruni river the party halted near the town, and a royal salute was fired from the Sultan's fort. Raja Brooke and suite were accommodated with temporary lodgings erected on the site of the battery which first opened fire on the steamer Phlegethon. On the 26th, accompanied by the small number of Europeans present, and attended by his suite and a party of the Maeander's marines from Labuan, Sir James Brooke presented the Sultan with a ratified copy of the treaty with the Queen of England, enclosed within a handsome silver box; the latter was eyed by his Highness with visible marks of satisfaction, but the treaty he did not take the trouble to examine. Sir James then, in the name of the Queen, informed his Highness that eternal friendship having been sworn between them, her Majesty had di rected him to present his Highness with 3,000 Spanish dollars, as a mark of respect for the free cession of the island of Labuan. Sir James then presented Pangeeran Moormein with 1,000 dollars, and other sums to the members of the Court at which they were delighted; the presentation in each case being accompanied by some appropriate remarks from the Raja of Sarawak. The party returned to Labuan on the 31st. The accounts from Labuan itself are very unsatisfactory. Sickness was general among the small nnmber of persons on the island. The colonial surgeon had happily recovered, but Sir Jas. Brooke was laid up with fever at the date of our last advices. The site selected for the town appears to be an unhappy one, being in the centre of a swamp, part of which is below high water mark. The Chinese and Kling coolies had almost deserted the place or died of fever, and such was the scarcity of labourers that the wooden houses of the governor and others, which were constructed at Singapore, and carried over in the Wil liam Shand, were not set up. The local authorities were living in rude huts built on the mud, but were about to remove to some higher ground, as fever had laid nearly every one prostrate. Three more of the Maaanders's marines died, and every one of them were on the sick list. The admiral had ordered their immediate relief by Madras sepoys from Singapore. Where so much fever prevailed, the clear ing of the jungle was of course proceeding very slowly, and the public works were comparatively at a stand. Colonisation is out of the question, for until the island is drained and its salubrity established, it would not be prudent or safe to embark life or capital in the venture. The barque William Shand left for Singapore on Nov. 5, and brought away from the island the whole of the assistants to the Lieutenant-Governor, postmaster and surveyor, who had severely suffered from fever, and quitted the island with a firm resolve not to return to it on any rate of salary. About fifteen coolies left by the same vessel. The whole of the artificers also essayed to leave, but were prevented by the marines, and forced to labour, although reduced to mere skeletons. ANNIVERSARY OF THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO STOWE. —On Tuesday last, the Royal Bucks Yeomanry Cavalry, who composed the guard of honour to her Majesty and Prince Albert, on the occasion of their visit to Stowe, Jan. 15th, 1845, dined together at Mr. Bacon's, the Woolpack Inn, to celebrate the anniversary of the visit. The chair was occupied by Captain Smith, and amongst the company were Captain Wells, Lieut. F. E. Bartlett, surgeon; J. Denne, Esq., Thomas Bartlett, Esq., and a number of non-commissioned officers and privates of the regiment. After the usual loyal toasts, Thomas Bart let, Esq., proposed the health of the chairman, which was drunk with honours, The band of the regiment added much to the enjoyment of the feast, and a most pleasant afternoon was spent.—Northampton Herald. THE LATE ACCIDENT TO MR. W. S. DUGDALE.— In The Sun of Friday we stated that Mr. Dugdale, the late Member for North Warwickshire, while out upon ft shooting excursion in the neighbourhood of his estate at Merivale-hall, near Atherstone, had been accidently shot by his son. We are happy to say that, although the consequence of this accident has been the total depriva tion of the sight of one eye, the Hon. Gentleman, ac cording to the latest accounts, was going on favourably. SUICIDE OF CAPTAIN BOWMAN.—An inquest was held on Friday night, at Brighton, before Mr. Gell, the coroner, on the body of Captain David Bowman, of the East India Company's service, whose death took place on the previous day, under the most afflicting circum stances. The deceased, who was upwards of 77 years of age, resided with his son-in-law, at Claremont Cottage, in the London-road. He was a naval captain in the ser vice of the East India Company, and enjoyed an excel lent pension. For the last four or five days he exhibited some degree of excitement, being attacked with a severe cold and hoarseness, but nothing to excite the least alarm of his friends. About nine o'clock on the morn ing in question, while the domestics were preparing the breakfast, a loud report of fire-arms was heard to pro ceed from the deceased's bed-room. Two of them im mediately ran up to ascertain the cause, when, on enter ing the apartment, they discovered that the deceased had shot himself whilst lying in bed. Ho had placed the muzzle of a pistol in his mouth, and its contents had passed through the skull, the bull lodging in the ceiling of the apartment. Death must have taken placo instan taneously. Thu jury returned a verdict of " Temporary insanity." THE FIRE AT IRON-GATE WHARF.--LATEST PARTICULARS.—The fire which broke out upon the pre• mises of Mr. William Buddle, at Iron-gate Wharf; Pad dington, on Friday night, was not wholly extinguished is until late the next day. The property destroye d greater than a t fi rs t a nticipated. The premises burn e d down covered an area of nearly 100 feet by 60 wide. Mr. Braidwood returns the damages done as follows: Buildings, 90 feet by 60, con sistin g of steam sawing an d planing mills, moulding - lo fts, en g ine-house, and marble polishing shops burned down. The roof of marble show-rooms damaged by fire, and the contents by re moval. Th e contents, the machinery, and stock in trade were i nsu red in the Westminster Fire - office. The build ings, , which are the property of the Grand Junction Canal Company, are supposed to be insured in the Sun Fire-office. THE TOOTING CHOLERA CASES. TOOTING, SATURDAY EVENING.— The frightful out break of cholera at Mr. Drouct's Juvenile Poor Estab lishment at Toeting, is, we are harpy to inform cur readers, now on the decrease. Indeed it appears that the epidemic has almost entirely left the Tooting estab lishment, and, under the management of the medical gentlemen connected with the various parishes to which the poor children belonged who were farmed out there, since their removal the disease has almost ceased to exist. Many doubts have arisen, and various statements have been made, as to the actual number of children whom the cholera attacked at the Tooting establishment, and the number also on whose constitution the malignant disorder exercised its baneful influence with fatal etrtct. In order, therefore, that the minds of the public may be set at rest upon this very important point connected with the terrible affair, we are enabled to lay before our readers the following official statement:— " Surrey Hall, Lower Tooting, Jan. 20, 1849. " Return of the number of cases of cholera, with death and recoveries, up to this day— Total number attackf2d . 360 Deaths from cholera and its complications ... 150 Now under treatment ... ... 43 Convalescent 167 "No fresh case oF cholera has occurred since Satur day last, and no deaths during the last forty-eight hours. " The cases under treatment are those suffering prin cipally from the consecutive fever, and these are pro ceeding towards convalescence. " Our medical staff was reductd on Tuesday by the removal of Messrs. Popham and Bailey, IN ho were in at tendance on the St. Pancras children. "From the withdrawal of the healthy children from the establishment the disease has left us suddenly as it came upon us. (Signed) "WILLIAM JAMES KITE, Resident Surgeon." In addition to the numbers actually attacked and treated in the Tooting Asylum, it appears that amongst the children removed there have been attacked with the disease:—At St. Pancras 180 children, 10 terminating fatally ; at Holborn about 30 attacked, and four deaths ; at the Strand Union 25 attacked, and two deaths; at Hackney, the_lslington children, 30 or 40 at tacked, and four or five deaths ; at Kensington about 20 attacked, and one death. At the Wandsworth and Clapham Union a very large number have been attacked, and the deaths have amounted to ten or twelve. At St. Mary, Newington, a similar state of things has existed. And thus it appears that, in the aggregate, from 700 to 800 children, or more than one-half the entire number placed under the care of Mr. Drouet, have been attacked with the disorder, and in about 200 instances it has ter minated Totally-. Since the melancholy calamity nothing can be more praiseworthy than the course of conduct which has been pursued by the St. Pancras board of directors. On Friday the following reports from Mr. Bird, the medical gentleman specially appointed to attend the children since their return from Tooting, were received:— " St. Pancras Temporary Hospital, Jan. 18. " There have been no new caves since my last report. The nurse Blake (attacked with cholera) is better. The other nurse (Matsell) is merely suffering from ptyalism, the effect of the medicine she has taken. The two girls still continue in a precarious state. The remainder, I am happy to say, are going on well. " I have examined all the children that were returned yesterday from Tooting as convalescent, and found them in good health. (Signed) " HENRY BIRD, Surgeon." " Temporary Hospital, St. Pancras, Jan. 19th. " I have to report much the same as yesterday. It is necessary to mention that occasionally one or two of the children become affected with a low kind of fever (no thing whatever to do with cholera), sometimes checked in a few hours, but at others assuming a typhoid cha racter. A boy named Forkett was taken this way in the night, and one girl yesterday, both of whom had been at Tooting. (Signed) " HENRY BIRD, surgeon." The report of Mr. Bird yesterday was to the effect that there had been no new cases, but that the two chil dren referred to in the previous reports were much in the same condition. It appears that the General Board of Health have de termined not to c,nfine their inquiries merely to the Tooting establishment, but are about to extend them to every workhouse or place to which the children have been removed from the asylum at Tooting. With this view the Board of Health held a special meeting on Friday, when the following order was issued to Mr. Grainger and to Dr. Arthur Farre, the medical superin tendents of the Board of Health. " General Board of Health, Gwydyr House, Jan. 19. " Gentlemen,—l am directed by the General Board of Health to inform you that the board have resolved that an examination shall be made of the present condition of the children that have been removed from Tooting, and they accordingly request that you will visit all the places where any portion it them now reside, and report the result of your inspection to the board. " The board also require that the medical officers of the several unions shall attend at the examinations of the children belonging to their respective unions.—l aw, gentlemen, your obedient servant, "HENRY AUSTIN, Secretary. " To H. D. Grainger, Esq., and Dr. Arthur Farre.' In pursuance of this older of the Board of Health, Mr. Grainger and Dr. Arthur Furre last night visited St. Pancras Workhouse, and minutel- in spected the whole of the children removed fruit' Tooting, and paid particular attention to those still inmates of the cholera wards. Air. Bird, the medi cal gentleman who has been appointed specially by the board of directors to attend the children, was examined, particularly as to his mode of treatment, especially that part which related to his watching of the supposed con valescent children on their arrival from Tooting. The medicml inspectors went through the whole of the workhouse, and were pleased to express their approba tion of all the arratriments ; at the same time they strongly recommended that every inmate should be ex. unlined daily, in order to detect at the very outset the slightest premonitory symptom of cholera. It was to this precaution they attributed the success of Mr. Bird in alla) ing the virulence of the disease, there being out of the 180 cases of attack but nine or ten terminating fatally. The reports from the Holborn Union, the Strand Union, and the other places to which the children have been removed from Tooting up to last night, were highly favourable. ROYAL SAPPERS AND MINERS.—The 18th Corn• pang of the Royal Sappers and Miners, under Captain Barry, R.E., at Woolwich, will proceed on the 25th instant to Portsmouth, for employment on the works of that garrison. THE LATE MURDER NEAR EXETER.—EXETER, JAN. 20.—The magistrates of this city have been en gaged in hearing further evidence against James Lan dick and James Mills, the two men who were appre hended on suspicion of having murdered Mrs. Holman, at Tedburn St. Mary's. The particulars connected with this diabolical case appeared in the journals at the time. The chief evidence against the prisoners was that given by their accomplice, a person nicknamed Cockney Harry. He stated that he was engaged by Landick and Mills on the night the murder was committed; and at nine o'clock they all left Moreton, and arrived at Wcstwater, in Tedburn St. Nary, at half-past eleven, when Landick entered the house of the deceased by means of a prop found in the orchard; he then admitted the others. They blackened their faces at the foot of the stairs. They entered the deceased's bed-room, and were there some time before she awoke and became con scious of their presence. The witness further stated that Mills held the deceased down in the bed while Landick rifled ier boxes and drawers of their contents, and that the latter ultimately threw a heavy box of clothes on her body, exclaiming, " That will stop the old woman from howling." They shared the money of which they plundered the deceased. The prisoners were fully com mitted for trial. MELANCHOLY ACCIDENTS...—. TLIE MATOR Or HARTLEPOOL DROWNED.—Often as it has been Our painful duty to publish the deaths from accidental drown ing in the Docks at Hartlepool, yet upon no previous occasion have we felt so acutely as in this of the hight) respected Mayor of that town, W. J. Vollum, Esq., who, in the prime of life, in the full enjoyment of health, station, wealth, and honour, presiding for the second time over that corporation, has been so suddenly removed from amongst them. After enjoying the society of a few select friends at his own house on Thursday evening last, Mr. Vollum took a walk down to the Docks, when it is supposed he had fallen over the quay, within a quarter of an hour of leaving his own dwelling, as his hat was picked up floating in the Victoria Dock, about half-past ten o'clock, half an hour after he had left home. The person who found the hat, not having any idea of any person having fallen into the water, took no particular notice of the circumstance that night, but on the following day named it to several captains in the harbour, thinking they were the most likely parties to have lost it, but without learning any tidings of the owner of it. The household of the Mayor did not say anything about his absence, expecting he would reach his own home in safety, as he had on some previous occasions been from home for a day. Howevner, after six o'clock on Friday their fears were excited, a of no means were left untried to learn what had become at him. In their inquiries, the account of th o e ry b 'clock, communicated to them, which led to the dis t co te v n 0 body of the unfortunate gentleman about floating, near to the place where the hat of the The deceased was in his 38th year,iament his untimely and has left a widowed mother to m was s a widower himself; manager of Messrs. end. He has been for many years nk, at Hartlepool, and Backhouse and Co.'s Branch hßa eiold property in the town, f —Extract of Dock and Railway in a letter and ds shareholder the owner o f largete Hartlepoolhous Company. to his relative in B T s r from an off icer Plumper, AhGeArlNm.aie„ty,s ship dated at sea, Jan. , Bath morning I was at the mast head, looking TilE SEASE o n iu' l b E o N a l out for the squadron, when what should I see ut a long black thing in the water. I hastened on deck and told the capta2u. He looked at it, and found it was the great sea serpent. lie immediately called the officers and men aft to see it. It came close to us, holding its head about two feet out of water, and we could see about fifteen to twenty feet a little out of water. It had a kind of mane on its back, and a white breast—a very ugly-looking beast, very much resembling the picture in the Illus trated London N ews , only the head was sharper. Two artists have taken sketches of it, and I will bring one with me when I come home. I dare say you will think this all a hoax, but wait with patience, and you will see an account of it i n t h e papers. We are second Captain M'Quheas."—Keene's Bath Journal. BUNN V. JENNY LIND.—The long contested suit of Bunn v. Lind has at last been settled, it is said, for the cum offered before litigatiQa corareefact)d, noaely, ,jOO9/. SACRED HARIVIONIC SOCIETY. EXETER HALL-HANDEL'S JUDAS MACCA• BEUS. Handers magnificent oratorio of Judas Mactabeus was repeated at Exeter Hall, on Friday evening last, by the members of the Sacred liarrnonic Society. The leading parts were distributed as on t h e former evening, being supported by Miss Bi rc h' and the Misses A. and M. Williams, and Messrs. Sims, Reeves, Phillips, and T. Williams. These several artistes very ably sang the portions allotted to them, and equal praise is due to the well-trained b an d and chorus, consisting of nearly 700 performers. M. Costa was the conductor, and never has this. superb oratorio been more effectively given than it was on Friday evening by the members of the Sacred Harmonic Society. Great credit is due to this society for having popularized the works of Handel, which before its institution were caviare to the vulgar; now, however, on the contrary we have excellent and cheap editions of Handers works constantly published, and as constantly finding a steady and a remunerative sale. We have recently seen this very oratorio of Judas .2lfaccabeus, for instance, arranged for the organ and pianoforte by Mr. W. Foster, the talented organist of Tooting, pub lished at an astonishingly low price. Mr.' Foster's edition of Judas Maccabees is a marvel of musical literature. It is admirably edited (the alto and tenor parts being given in their original and proper clefs), most. correctly printed, and excellently got up. It is to the Sacred Harmonic Society, however, that we are indebted for having so revived the taste for sacred music as to render the publication of new edi tions of Handel not only safe, but profitable. ASTLEY'S AMPHITHEATRE. The magnificent equestrian spectacle, ent i t l e d The TVars of the Jews, still continues to att rac t crowded audiences. The scenes in the circle are unsur passed and unsurpassable as exhibitions of the sc ien ce of horsemanship, and as examples of the highest train lag. Miss Woolford's performances on the tight r ope are as graceful as they are astonishing, and br ing down nightly the most enthusiastic applause, while the pantomime (an equestrian one, and therefore a perfect novelty of its sort), is the best in London. The title is a happy one—Bold Robin Hood. Whore is to be found the child who has not heard of " Bold Robin Hood," and of " Little John," and of "Friar Tuck," and of " Maid Marian," and who would not prefer seeing a pantomime, sup ported by all Its old nursery favourites, to any panto mime with the personages of which it was unac quainted ? Accordingly we are not surprised to hear that this is the pet pantomime of the children, and as in all pantomimic matters children are the best critics, we bow to their decision, and congratu late Mr. Batty on the result. PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS. The tide of prosperity, if the present flourishing state ' of affairs can be taken as an indication, has fairly set in, to the great benefit of the treasuries of all the metropo litan theatres. Success like the present is the more cheer ing after the stagnation that prevailed during the eventful year just terminated, in the theatrical as well as in nearly every other profession or vocation. That dramatic enter tainment has received a fresh, and we trust a lasting impetus from the gracious patronage and support be stowed upon it by her most gracious Majesty cannot be denied, and that they will continue in their present prosperous condition we have not the slightest doubt. This is the more to be rejoiced at after the very great exertions that have been made by the managers of the different theatres to emulate each other in the production of a novelty to welcome the generally prophesied prosperous year 1849. Although pantomime has coma forth with unusual force, it has encoantered such oppo sition from young and vigorous burlesque, that we fear is a short time we shall have to number it among the things that were. However, it is possible for old panto mime to recover his lost laurels, such as he possessed at the time when Mother Goose was produced—he may, we say, dare then, but not till then, burlesque even to the encounter. At the little theatre in the Haymarket, Mr. Webster, we see, has announced for to-morrow evening The Stranger, and one of the most laughable farces in the language, Twice Killed, for representation, with nearly the same cast as they were produced at Windsor Castle on Thursday last, when the royal and distinguished audience were " delighted." We have nu doubt that they will draw crowded houses for some time. The only novelty produced at the Lyceum since the Christmas tribute is a petite comedy entitled TM Speaks First?—in which Mrs. Yates and Charles Ma thews, appear. Planchifs extravaganza, The King of the Peacocks, supported by Madame Vestris, Miss K. ritzy 'ilium, .Miss J. Coleman, Miss Marshall, Mr. Harley, and John Reeve, drawing overflowing houses. At the Princess's the new opera by Harold, called. Marie, has proved a card, Miss Poole sweetly sustaining the principal part. At Shakespere's home—Sadler .' W(lls—henry VIII. has been admirably produced, and draws a bumper every evening it is played. At the Mar)lebene Mrs. Mowatt and Mr. Davenport appear every evenit.g in a new piece, of which the former is the authoress; it is 2, , 1 excellently constructed play, and will have a run. At the Adelphi nothing new has been prod, c,d since Christmas; Dickens's flaunted Mae and the Enchanted Isle being sufficient for some time to come to draw crowds to this very favourite theatre. A. new drama by Mr. Roberts, entitled Brigands in the Bud, is c o be produced this evening at the Olympic Theatre, Mrs. Stirling sustaining the principal part, supported by Compton: report speaks very favourably of this well sounding petite drama. All the other theatres are doing, as we have said before, as well as the mana gers of them could wish. STEAM-BOATS ON THE THAMES. TO THE LDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,—On returning yesterday to Blackwall from Gravesend, with my lady and daughter, in the boat called the Brunswick, a shameful race took place be• tween that boat and a small one called the Emmet, which I understand is to be placed on the halfpenny trade above bridge. It is all very well for a set of men to try the speed of their boats, but when ladies are present, and nervous person like myself, I think such a contest. disgraceful. The boats were thrust paddle-box against paddle box, giving now and then violent shocks, each trying their utmost to beat the other. This was continued for five or six miles without one or the other gaining an inch, excepting by a species of jockeying, which when,the boats came together the shock gave first one and then the other a few feet. Surely such conduct on board a boat opened fur the accommodation of passengers ought not to be allowed. Hoping, you will favour me by putting this note into y o ur widely circulating paper, where it will meet with the eye of the proprietor of these boats, I have the honour to be Sir, Sic., Jan. 20, 1849. G. H. NAMES OF STREETS AND SQUARES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,—lt is really a disgrace to the cities of Londot and Westminster, the negligence exhibited in the matter of having the names of the streets and square►` properly designated and marked at the different cor ners of the same. It is absolutely impossible for ti stranger to find his way, and even those who arta well acquainted with the different localities, like myself, are often greatly at a loss to find their way. A few evenings since, in the neighbourhood of Bed Lion-square and Holborn, I could not discern the name of a single street ; and it is exceedingly annoy ing to be obliged to call in at a dozen shops, as . !Y r s: the case with me, to know where I was, thlis w in.te__ rupting people in their business. Only a te. n nar: since, while in one of the numerous squareso .2 mate neighbourhood of Bedford-square, a n bl_ cl _ p r ar a Z accosted me, and said he knew he was 1 a ' but could not tell which,• vain in all directions, without being d tbere being," shops a single name anywhere; which h oc curred boasts oitn.:inp and time, in ilk there, I was obliged to wait I could procure the heavy shower of rain, from and asked mahele to recognise rec look ogn ed ise ja A passenger. I w ill necessary information could venture to say' t h h i i i s o Europe, as there is scarcely t in other city the names of the but has streets pro• the continent perly marked, w city in Europe, is shamefullyde fi cient the best regulate d t. in this respec t. A PEDESTRIAN. last p acket, etl,6l:mll Is¢g Eton _ g d lai y sil et ve 2 s 4 s i el d s . h to ave 24 e d ft , .—Our Exchange business has been done freights, nothing doing dolls. 3.00 _-our quotation is 30s. h as .R t i a ° llen jA s N int i o ß( l ) ; dolls. still about twen ty doll fo ro: first t e g r o p o o d r , ts, but we ha:: unemployed in port. Coffee —supe rior dolls. 2.700"t43 500 to 520 to Coals dolls. 11.500 to dolls. 13.000. S alt, refs. Letters from Buenos Ayres to 24th 06 November, at which date all was quiet. Air. Sotheron s our Minister, had landed his furniture, and was furuish.. ing a residence he had taken. STATE OF TRIDE.—BIRMINGIIAM, SATURDA.Y.me The trades of this town generally, as compared with the corresponding period of last year, continue brisk. At the concluding meeting of ironmasters held at Dudley, a still stronger opinion prevailed than previously ex pressed as to the firmness of existing prices. Commer cial travellers, now Christmas has closed, are resuming their journeys, and the home trade in a few weeks is expected to make a further advance. From America, so far as Birmingham manufactures are concerned, the latest intelligence is favourable. Important arrivals tney be looked for next week. r On Saturday morning an accident happened to a boy of the Lame of R. Radford. while e ngaged cleaning upon examine e the back parlour windows of the house, 79, Cromer street, Gray's Inn•road. It appears that while so en• gaged ho missed his hold and fell into the area beneath. Ile, was immediately picked up, whe n, tion, we are happy bruises. that ho escaped with a f ew The commercialtiontsealyligence by the India mail is again regarded as itisfactory, the demand for cotton manufactured goods being especially active both at Cal cutta and Bombay. The report of the Chinese markets is not so favourable, but there appears to be no grog apprehension of a continued decline.