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guru :tiers, [arch, Jane, Laton, ohn's, J. G., ditto; ohn's, Mb, Phil- Crop :wick; Prince ,uebcc. found- Fran- Barba- LY.) etablea f y ear, ite, at Os per =bora, to 28; Id to S I to Bs, !d Cab dozen; Horse -6d to Is 6d inches ; o, 4d to s to 7s; to 85 ; 4s Gd to Brecon, 5, 32 to to 2s 6d, Grouse; Pigeons, lbs. to 7 ; gs, 2d to 1; Soles, rge Had lried, 2d goon, 4d awns, 2s ied Ling, r dcsen ; 3d to id; ; Smelts, 1; Scotch 64s per lounders, 33 10d; r 81bs. ; 3s 10a; volis are per 4lbs o, 641 b to id ; ditto, 2id to 3d; ,alf Skins, )d Hors°, fients aria s Id. 2s; Clover 1l los per ly, at late 35; Clover 1/ lls per errand. to 3/ 123; D 11 106 Per AY.) and a gi r l ing c rests.' d an officer early hour hers, were iouse in the ted theo t, lowever, Ithy s trabh • °nor ° o pris . ping hue F 7 silo the gtr 'o it, Joel" Cy wanagt issistance f t they 0 . 01 1 :r exhibit eo ad the g lO hink of re' runk? The d sober. to say i t) * ving me t had taken ' d either 0 The gunge. ugh manv" bance. 'filth in 'tb i t s on e rs we r t , female le guise 0 1 A fitly obser w r o s thieves thing to 02; ,hing to !,.' 0 r comP 031 ;1 0 to persus yeas itori. 3. A tbe ing, an— Xet 11 110 10' i$ 1 ?. r fOliOg' 111 , ; „e breSs';'? `yo 9111 8SpiV h0 0 , 8 1 3 Of t ile c ;ll 9ev whic h .„ n oof: f the c b ., l " - tre tr j k Li c ' or oor e 'was° ti tre Mai' s ' her ° rota t he of g,ted reported first r e r tbi / t 1 0 ,' d. 0 : 113311 4, 00 0 . e tholi As oag A )f th e 09" Weds- e man. LITERATURE --- TALES of the PEERAGE and PEASANTRY. By Lady Ducre. The Stand..rd Novels lit.v.; already furnished the reading world will' reprints of no less than one hundred and sixet.fn of the chef dceuvres of modern fiction. Yet, however attractive the catalogue may have been hitherto, this new edition is hardly inferior to any of its predecessors, while it is superior to very many of them. Rightly does Lady nacre, in her preface, observe, that all she writes bears the stamp of femini ne aut h ors hi p, b ut t h at c h aracteri stic is, in her works, a most exquisite attraction. Rightly, again, does she remind us that, "in the human heart the same passions and the same emotions are found in all ages," and, she might have added, in all ranks, for in the three beautiful tales in this volume, of which it is difficult to say which is the most beautiful, she has portrayed to us three heroines, dissimilar and totally unlike in position, but all three possessed of such truly womanly characteristics, so naturally and heartily depi c t e d, as at once to betray her woman's pen, and do honour to her womm's heart. The name of the first " Winifred, Countess of Nithsdale," is sufficient to indicate its interesting nature. The escape of Lord Nithsdale, through the instrumen tality of his wife, is a matter of history. We all of us have, ere this, admired the heroic wife, it has been left for Lady Dacre to make us love the gentle woman. The character of Winifred, as here portrayed, so childlike in her simplicity and submissiveness, so pure and passionless in her tenderness and devotion, so scrupulously vigilant to preserve her husband's royal honour, and yet so exquisitely anxious to avert the terrible consequences of that loyalty, cannot but win the admiration and love of all who follow the narrative of her eventful fortunes. The second tale in this collection, " The Hampshire," is of an entirely different character, and yet so true is it that— " Three truths unite the children of the sod, All love, all suffer, and all feel a God." Here again in this narrative of humble life, we find, under most dissimilar circumstances, a similar record of love and sorrow, and womanly devotion. A few words will reveal the nature of the story, but no words can describe the natural pathos with which it is conveyed—pathos which irresistibly draws tears from the reader's eyes. Susan Foster, a village girl, the daughter of poor and invalid parents, is betrothed to a young farm labourer, George Wells ; they have almost engaged a vacant cottage, and are about to be asked in church, when Susan takes a cold, and not withstanding, or perhaps in consequence of, the doc toring of an old village dame, loses her eye-sight. Had such a calamity befallen the lover, she who was appointed a helpmeet for him would have recognised in it only another link to the chain which bound her to him; but the same feelings whi c h wou ld prompt her,to succour him in his sorrow, prevent her from bur thening him with her own. Susan releases George from his engagement ; her parents sadly admit that she is no longer qualified to be a labourer's wife, and her lover reluctantly acquiesces in their arguments. For a time he continues to visit the blind girl, and wait on her with the tenderness of a brother. The following extract, so heart-touching because so na tural, will exhibit better than any comment how much genuine pathos cows from Lady Deere's pen : " It was rather more than two years from Alice Mow bray's wedding-day, when George Wells lifted the latch of Master Foster's door, and, closing it after him, walked into the house, s ea t e d hi mself on the polished wooden chair opposite old Sarah's, and said in a hurried voice 'I am come, n e i g hb ours—l am CO3lO to tell you a piece of news which I should be loth you should hear from anybody but myself.' " Susan's heart died away within her—her head drooped more than ever over her knitting; Dame Foster took off her s p ectac l es, and, wiping them, laid them within the sacred book from which she had been reading some texts to her husband and her child; old Nicholas half turned himself upon his settle; but none spoke. Susan felt that the silence m us t b e di stress i ng to George; and exerting herself the first, she replied, If it is any news, George, that concerns yourself, you may be sure there are no friends who will be more rejoiced to hear of any good likely to befal you, or more grieved to hear of any misfortune. You have scarce any older friends than father, and mother, and myself; so you need not be afraid to speak.' " Thank you, Susan, thank you; that's just like you. I was sure you would take it so. And yet, after all that has passed between us, I felt—l don't know bow I felt. But it seems strange I should marry any body else.' "' I gave you back your word, George, and this is what I have long expected; and long tried to make up my mind to,' she added, with some effort. 'I could not expect you to go on always.tending upon a poor blind girl like me. 'Tis better, much better, than getting any ways unsteady. God knows I have not a word to say against your marrying Jane Dixon.' " Thank you, Susan, thank you,' he repeated; ' I feel easier now I Susan, this has been a great trouble to me; for I could not bear deceiving you like, and yet I did not know how to tell you, there was any courting going on between me and Jane.' " You know, George, I gave you back your word from the first: " Yes, yes, so you did; but for a long time I did not believe I should ever think of any girl but you : but I do not know how it is, a man wants a home—does he not, Master Foster?—and he wants a wife to see to him. And then, Jane Dixon, she's a tight lass; and Hon% know how it was, I never came home from work without meet ing her going of any errand somewhere; and then she is a bustling girl, and one who will keep things nice and tidy in a poor man's house.' " Her mother was a thrifty, bustling body, and I hope she will make you a good wife, George,' said Dame Foster, in a tone which she meant should ba very kind; but her thoughts were so much occupied with Susan, that she had no feeling to spare for any one else. "' I wish you happiness, George, said Nicholas; you have behaved very well by my poor girl; and, if it had not been for her afla ction, you would have married her, and made her a good husband, I warrant. It is the will 0 1 God it should all be as it is.' " ' Thank you kindly, Master Foster.' " Meanwhile Susan had been feeling upon the little shelf on the wall close to where she sat, for a small book, which at length she found. • George,' she said, have a book here which I ought to give you back. 'Tis those Watt's Hymns which you gave to me a few day s before Miss Alice's wedding;' she could not repress a sigh. If you remember, you wrote both our Christian names upon it—and then said you would add the sur name when cue name would do for both. I don't think it is right I should keep that book, and you the husband of another; and yet I could never find it in my heart to destroy it. Besides, I can't read all the beautiful hymns that are in it; but you c in, and sometimes it may do you good perhaps to read them.' " George indeed remembered giving Susan the little book: he had that day obtained the promise of Master htualtord's hause, and he bad that day gained her con sent to their being speedily tidied in church. They had then written their names in the manner described by Susan, and had talked over their future prospects, with the assurance of soon being indissolubly united. " As George took the book from Susan's hands, he felt theta tremble. He was scarcely more composed himself. The appearance of the little volume, the sight of the writing, annihilated for a moment the intervening two years; and he saw Susan as she then stood beside him, radiant with health, joy, and tenderness. " Jane Dixon would not have been pleased had she know with what pain he received this present, with what regret he looked back upon the image thus conjured up to his mind. The tears were in his eyes as he hold it. ' If it is not right for you to keep the book, Susan, I do not think it is right I should; for I am sure I shall never look upon it without wishing, without remember ing Oh! Susan, how happy we were when I gave you that book ;' his voice broke, and he passed the back of his hands several times over his eyes. " Strong emotion in a stout and sturdy peasant, whose feelings we are sure are thorougly genuine, and in which we are satisfied there is no touch of sickly, morbid, son • 'Ability, is always an affecting subject of contemplation. It was almost too much for old Sarah, who now wept like a child; while Susan experienced among the poignant regrets which overpowered her, a mixture of satisfac tion to find she was so tenderly recollected. ' I did not think you would have minded it, George ; but if it makes you think too much of bygone days, why, per haps, 'twill be best you s h ou ld give t h e b oo k to mother to keep. I would not wish you to think any more about me now; it would be no ways right.' But it was a comfort to Susan, though she was not aware of it, that she had to tell him not to think about her." In order not to damp the curiosity of our readers let us add that this quotation is not taken from the conclusion of the tale. " Blanche," the last is by no means the least interesting of- the three stories relating to the Peerage and the Peasantry. It is of a character very dissimilar to either of its predecessors. Lady Blanche, the elegant and romantic, yet withal warm-hearted daughter of a not wealthy earl, has given her heart to Captain de Molton, the almost penniless son of a Lord Cumberworth. The commencement of the tale is the ordinary history of lovers hopes and difficulties a nd parental opposition. Finally, the self-willed zianche h as h er own way, and becomes, as she glories in calling herself, " a poor man's wife." Her hus band, wiser in the ways of the world, trembles with apprehension as he listens to the protestations of his delicate bride, that wealth is odious in her eyes and poverty charming. De Molton's fears are gradually realised. Reality is found by poor Blanche to be very different from romance. Her little difficulties and dilemmas, by no means little to her, are detailed with all Lady Dacre's wonted skill and discrimina tion. This story is well worth those fi ne l a di es w h o, disdainin perusal by the house wifely examp l es o f their grandmothers, conde scend to no work but fancy work, and consider otium a nd dignitas to be synonimous. Poor Blanche, anxious t o ex hibi t h er i n d ustry, attempts to make her I'4V-clothes. " I shall show you what a good poor m a't's wife I am," she exclaims to her husband, and t .She took out of her ivory work box a small cap of dimensions, which she was beginning to em roider of the most intricate pattern." her great ex "tions after this fashion only enable her to complete a Cap and the body of a dress, and the wardrobe is tarnished by other means. Let us mention another ... (4 Poor Bl anc h e ' s difficulties, and then we will corn 'Mil her to the attention of our fair readers, who THE SUN, cannot fail to be interested in her interesiing perplex ities, and may be benefited by her wartiog example. A dexterity in performing household duties is not among the least important of a wife's qualifications, be she a Mrs. Jones or a Lady Blanche : " Unfortunately, the last remnant cf Blanche's trous st au was growing very shabby, and her wardrobe needed recruiting. Green was gone ; the girl l'hcebe was no milliner; Blanche could embroider beautiludy, and she could now accomplish children's frocks with considerable success, but she could not make her own clothes. How should she? She was obliged, therefore, to have her wants supplied by the country milliners, and both she and De Melton were appalled at the bills which were the inevitable consequence. " Blanche wished exceedingly not to be expensive, bat she knew not how to avoid being so. She had never had any allowance when a girl : she had been so amply supplied with every article of dress upon her marriage, and had since led so retired a life, that little occasion to spend money had occurred until now ; and she was ignorant how miraculously, When once the purse•strings are °pried, the contents vanish as it were of them selves. " It is a great fault in the education of girls, to omit teaching thew, in some measure, the value of money. 'They suddenly find themselves at the bead of an esta blishment, in which, if large, consilerable sums pass through thh it hands ; if small, on them depends the comfort, or discomfort of the menage; and they are not aware, (except from theory, which has little to say to practice) that twenty shillings make a pound. " The loss of Green was an annoyance of daily recur , rence. Blanche could not dress her own hair; and the awkward attempts of the shy and frightened red-fisted maid to brush and to curl, to braid and to crdper, made her every morning come down to breakfast in a ruffhd and uncomfortable state. She found it necessary now and then to buy herself a cap, and unluckily the bill for these caps came in at a time when De Molton's finances were at a very low ebb. Blanche had no pin money, and she applied to him for the requisite sum. " What nonsense, Blanche,;t•) buy tawdry caps, when you have all that beautiful brown hair, which is so much prettier and more becoming than any cap that can be made.' " I never learned to dress hair; and sitce Green is gone, I find it impossible to do without a cap. I have not quite made up my mind to go about a perfect figure yet; but I dare say I suon shall. It is impossible to be well-dressed without a maid.' " But surely you could soon learn to arrange your hair. You told me Mrs. Jones always dressed her own, and lam sure it is very smart—in bows, and all kinds of things.' "This was too much for Blanche to endure. To have been forced to part with her maid ! To be refused a cap ! To be twitted with Mrs. Jones ! To have Mrs. Jones set up as a pattern ! • Indeed I should be ♦ery sorry to look like Mrs. Jones !' she exclaimed, with a heightened colour, and an eye which was very beautiful in its increased brilliancy; • if you wished to have a wife who should look and dress like Mrs. Jones, you should not have selected me ! I hope I may never arrive at such a pitch of vulgarity as that ! I had rather look lite any body in the whole world than Mrs. Jones ;' and in her anger and petulance, she spoke, as she would not have done in a cooler moment, of a person whom she both respected and liked. " Mrs Jones is a most excellent and exemplary woman,' replied De Molton, with some solemnity of manner; one who performs the duties of her situation in life c heerfully and admirably. I have a very great regard for Mrs. Jones. Where is that bill?' he added, with an awful calmness: I am sorry to say you must buy no more caps. I have not the means of paying for them 1' He gave her the money, which she took with pain and indignation." LAMARTINE'S NEW JOURNAL. No VIII. The subject of the current number of Lamartine's Conseiller du Peuple, is addressed to the majority of his countrytmn, and has reference to the rumour of a change of Ministry. ,The theme of the next advice, we understand, will be Atheism. From the number before us we translate the following sentences : "Political Reactions? They are the recoil of ideas!" • • • • • • • • • • "The Republic (February, 1848) arose like the rain bow of peace over an immense deluge of anarchy and bloodshed." • • • • • • • • • " The Republic firmly proposed to Europe the alter native of Revolutionary War or Democratic Peace. Europe, troubled, comprehended and respected it." Further on, M. de Lamartine asserts very beauti fully, that a series of beneficent reactions commenced immediately after February. He says ; " The withdrawal of the army from Paris was the reaction against the effusion of blood 1 " The organization of the Guard Mobile was the re action against Sedition! " The re-opening of the — churches was the reaction against Atheism! The abolition of the punishment of death was the reaction against Terrorism/ " The convocation of the National Assembly was the reaction against Dictatorship 1 " The 16th of April was the reaction against the Club* ! " The 15th of May was the reaction against Demago gic Usurpation! " The • 23d end 24th of June constituted the reaction against the Sovereignty of the Faubourgs and the sedi tiun of the'prolet a i res 1" The sole crime against Liberty under a Republic is— an= ch) I" " The Reactions of the Republic are the reaction of re against the decomposition of death." . . . . . Ridicule in France is the detonation of opinion." . . . . " Good sense is nothing but the circulating medium or specie of genius." 31. de Lamartine closes his preseflt number with a declaration of his own voluntary ostracism and that of his colleagues of February. RAILWAY RETURNS RittwAT TRAFFIC.—The following are the Total Receipts of Rail ways for the past week—that is to say, up to the date to which the respective returns are made, together with the receipts of the same week in the previous year:— Week ending Last week. MII 4I a 01, P.v. t/0?-% t . 1.))..9 NAME OF RAILWAY. Aberdeen Amiens and Boulogne. • • •• • • Belfast and Ballymena • • • • •• • • • • • • • • Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Bolton, Blackburn, Clitheroc, and W. Y. Bristol and Exeter ............ • • • Caledonian.— Chester and Holyhead.. ...... ....... Dublin and Drogheda.. ......... Dublin and Kingstown .. • • Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen East Anglian.... • • •••••• • • • • Edinburgh and Glasgow . ........ Edinburgh and Pisan _.•••••.•••.. Eastern Counties and North Eastern.. East Lancashire • • • . Eastern Union.. ••••• • • • • • • • Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr ...... Glasgow and Greenock.• •••• • • • • ... Great Northern and E. Great Southern and Western ........ Great Western, &c • • • • • • • • • • • • • ..... Lancashire and Yorkshire ..... ....... Lancaster and Carlisle • • ............ Leeds and Think ••• • • • •••••• .• • • • • Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport.• Londonderry and Enniskillen-- London and North Western, &c. ..... London and 81ackwa11.............. London and Brighton ............... London and South Western . ........ Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Midland, Bristol, and Birmingham.... Midland Great Western (Irish) .• •• Monklands North British • ••• • • • • • • • Paris and Rouen Rouen and Havre ...... •• • Scottish Central Shrewsbury and Birmingham...—. Shrewsbury and Chester Shropshire Union . ........ South Eastern and Branches ........ South Devon • • • • • • • . • •••• • • • • • • • • Taff Yale •• •• .• .• . ..... •• .• •••• •• •• Ulster . . . Waterford and Limerick............. Whitehaven Junction ............... York and Newcastle . .............. York and North Midland . 14 13 13 14 523 1,537 4tii 1,045 434 4,145 6,705 1,870 741 708 129 45,079 691 11,002 10,392 4,920 23,243 1,270 435 1444 409 927 267 3,180 7,258 2.642 1,721 1,262 5,031 1,879 863 1,216 865 4,137 2,1)77 17,172 1,566 1,402 2,721 989 420 13,002 1,35 2,222 715 3,487 21,201 11,537 2,285 129 44,153 SO4 10,506 10,943 2,927 23,857 1,291 2,642 6,608 2,828 1,254 869 11,301 1,569 2,059 Bi 2 211 12,89 i 6,859 11 , 3 13,953 10,003 THE NOTTINGHAM TRADE.—Lace: We have no change to note since our last report. Plain goods still sell pretty well, whilst for fancy ones there is but a very moderate sale. Silk and cotton are each selling at high prices. hosiery: We continue to have a good demand for most of our productions, especially for the cheaper kinds of hose, which are selling nearly as fast as they can be made. Some of the glove hands have given notice to their employers that they shall " turn out," unless they will give them an advance on the, present rate of workmanship. We doubt their success. Front the ape pearance of the cotton trade in Liverpool, :we fear that spinners will be compelled to ask a higher price for their yarns. Should this unfortunately be the case, it will check our demand very seriously, especially for heavy goads for the export trade. Hosiery and Lace Trades (by another hand): The wrought cotton hose branch is cull, and some of the principal houses are stopping their fine frames. The cut-up branches are, however, in a fair state. The drawer and pantaloon ranch is still in a tolerable state, but the shirt branch, which has much extended in the villages, is rather dull for the best manu factured articles. Cotton gloves are brisk. The silk glove manufacture has not as yet obtained any amend ment. The season of the 3 ear is, however, much against it. The bobbin net lace trade, whether of silk or cotton, is very dull. The warp lace trade still lingers on, the frames being principally employed on silk and coarse s:rong laces.—Nottingham Journal. Leicester trade remains much the same as at our last report, the demand continuing brisk, though of course how long that shall remain so must depend a good deal upon the weather that may intervene between now and Christmas. Prices of woollens remain the same. In cottons there have been indications of the failure of the crops; consequently markets have been firm, with a tendency to rise.—Nottinglwm Journal. CLOSE OF THE SALMoN FISHING.—The salmon fishing with net closed in the Tweed on Monday last. For many years we have had to record a gradual de cline in the prodUctiveness of the fishing waters—from what cause ee are not aware—the present season has, Liken on the whole, been as unsuccessful as preceding years. With the exception of a few fisheries on the sea coast and one or two at For ham, which occasionally had some extraordinary takes, the season has been below an average.—Berwick Warder. LONDON, SATURDAY WVVNING, OCTOBER 2O, 1849 COURT CIRCULAR. W tiDSUIT, FRIDAY. The Queen and his Royal Highness Prince Albert walked this morning in the grounds around the Castle. The Royal Family took their accustomed airings. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent d►ned with the Queen and his Royal Highness. The Earl of Carlisle and Colonel the llon. C. B. and Mrs. Phipps had the honour of joining the royal party at dinrer. The Hon. Miss Stanley and the Hon. Miss Mac donald have relieved the Hon. Miss Cavendish and the lion. Miss Kerr in their duties as Maids of Honour in Waiting to the Queen. Mr. W. A. Wilkinson, chairman, and Sir William Hylton Jolliffe, M.P., deputy chairman, of the Direct London and Portsmouth Railway Company, accom panied by Mr. Burchell, the solicitor of the company, had an interview with the Commissioners of Railways yesterday at their office in the Board of ade. Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from the Colonial-oflice for the Governors of the North American colonies. Dispatches were also sent off last evening from the Colonial office for the Governors of Ilong-Kong and Ceylon. BEALTII of the QUEEN DOWAGER. (From the Court Circular) Her Majesty the Queen Dowager passed an in different night oa Thursday. Dr. Bright attended her Majesty at Bentley Priory, Stanmore, on Thurs day, and afterwards left for town, Sir David Davies continuing in attendance on her Majesty. Yesterday the Queen Dowager remained in the same state of indisposition. Dr. Bright returned yesterday to the Priory from London, and remained in attendance on ner Majesty last evening. THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO THE CITY. Yesterday the Chairman and other members of the committee appointed by the Corporation to make the arrangements for her Majesty's reception upon the occasion of the opening of the Coal-Exchange assem bled in the Guildhall, for the purpose of commencing their labours. The Lord Mayor continued with the committee during the day. His Lordship and the committee, attended by Mr. Bunning, the City ar chitect, took a view of the new building and the approaches to it from the Custom-house quay, where it is proposed her Majesty and the members of the Royal Family shall land from the Admiralty barge on the 30th inst. The moment it was understood that it was the Royal wish to go by water, the au thorities at the Custom-house placed the building at the disposal of the committee, to enable them to carry out all the details of their operations in a manner calcu lated to do honour to the city of London. The com mittee came to the determination that an ornamental and extensive covered way should be erected directly opposite to the centre of the Custom-house, and ex tending to the entrance of the Coal Exchange, suffi ciently capacious, after all due preparations shall have been made for her Majesty's progress to the new building, to accommodate a considerable number of their fellow-citizens to witness the procession by water and the Queen's landing. They instructed Mr. Bunning, the architect of the new Coal-Ex change, to provide all the suitable decorations and fittings in such a manner as would be calculated to have the most magnificent effect upon the occasion. This day the committee of the Court of Aldermen will meet for the purpose of making such regulations as nay be necessary to be observed in the ceremonial, as far as their authority as magistrates extend, con nected with the streets and the river. We have reason to believe that the following arrangement, copied from the report of the proceed ings of the London bridge Committee, on the occasion of the visit of William IV., will be strictly adhered to on the 30th inst., so far as the city will be concerned : " To facilitate their Majesties' passage down the river, and to prevent confusion and inconvenience, two parallel lines of vessels were formed into a passage of about 150 feet wide, consisting of a double, and in many cases a triple line of barges, steamers, yachts, and craft of every description, which extended from the upper water-gate of Somerset House, next Waterloo-bridge, to about half way between Southwark-bridge and the new bridge, when the line became more open, and gradually spread to the stairs of the new bridge on each side, so as to afford ample space for the boats in the procession to land their inmates and retire. The termination of the linos at these points was formed by the eight city barges, with the Navigation barge and shallops. Each barge had its appointed station—those of the Lord Mayor (the Right lion. John Key) and the Stationers' Company , were rather in advance of the bridge, and all were pro vided with bands of music. Flags and colours of all descriptions were brought into requisition, and even the vessels below bridge all appeared in their holiday deco rations." Amongst the members assembled yesterday in the Guildhall there was one predominant feeling, ♦iz., tlut her Most Gracious Majesty would be pleased to introduce his Royal Highness the Prince of \Vales to her grateful citizens of London on the auspicious occasion. The Fairy screw steamer, and the Elfin paddle wheel vessel, are ordered from Portsmouth to London, to assist on the above occusion. The funnel of the former vessel has been made to fall down to admit of shooting the bridges, and the latter is having a joint made in hers to enable her to do likewise. Captain Crispin, the second in command of the Royal yacht, arrived at the Admiralty yesterday, to receive instruc tions from the Board relative to the Royal navigation on the 30th. The steam yacht of the Lords of the Admiralty (the Black Eagle) has also been ordered from Portsmouth, probably to assist at the Royal ceremony, and arrived in the river yesterday evening. THE TRAGEDY OF RUSKBY. BY ANGELUS. [The following charming verses will be perused by our readers with pleasure—the first an earnest lamentation over the sufferings of Madame Maders pach—the second an impassioned specimen of erratic poetry. They promise largely for the writer, as a literary aspirant.—ED. Sun.] See where in pallid beauty stands The trembling wife, in wounded shame: Tearless, and with uplifted hands From pitying God, support to claim: Frum God—for Man has none to give, Nor pity, nor remorse, But only the fell curse, The tiger's slakeless will, that she shall tortur'd live! IL 0! twofold pang of stripe and sneer; And worse—as stung to self-sought death, Her husband on his blood-stain'd bier A silent rcquiem saith I And still her wrongs dilated grow— Her Son from honour's path Is torn by Tyrant-wrath To make more hopeless still, a WOMAN'S matchless wi SUNSHINE. BY ♦NGELUS. What tho' lira may have its anguish— Hopes, that all too brit fly stay; Faith, and Joy, that droop to languish, Dying with the pulse of day: Shull we, while the breeze is laughing, Bid the glee-birds sing the less? Dash the cup, Delight is quaffing. Scared by shadow'd bitterness? Oh, nol Child of beauty! Summer hours Coming Winter cannot harm: Let the primrose path be ours While the sun shines out to charm. 0! se) pure and bright our gladness— Rapture's kiss, or smile, or tear— Thu' they call it " Love's sweet madness," Shall I heed, if thou be near? Oh, no! TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sia,—Why do not the Post-office authorities en gage clerks of the Jewish persuasion, sufficient to carry on the duties on the Sunday, without infringing on the feelings of persons, if such there are, who think it matter of conscience to impugn the direction of the Christian Apostle ? The Jews, great sticklers for the observance of the Sabbath, make no scruple of employing a Christian servant to stir their fires on the Saturday. ONE WHO BELIEVES SABBATICAL OBSERVANCE PROHIBITED TO CHRISTIANS.—See Coloas.2. 16. DEATH OF MA OR. GENERAL MUNRO, or THE ROYAL A RTILLE ra.— Major- General Munro, K.H., died at liathmines on the 16th instant. He had been up wards of half a century in the army, having entered it in 1795. He served in the Egyptian campaign under Sir Ralph Abercrombie, and was present at the actions of the 21st of March, and the siege of Aboukir. He afterwards was engaged in the expedition to Walcheren, and was at the siege of Flushing. He subsequently served in America, during the campaign in 1814 and 1815. DEATH OF SIR. THOMAS LETHBRIDGE, BART.— This venerable Baronet, who was for many years a prominent Member of t h e L ower House, died on the 17th inst., at the Royal Crescent, Bath. Sir Thomas was Colonel of the 2d Somerset Militia, and represented the county of Somerset in Parliament for many years on Conservative principles. He held a large property in that county as well as in Devonshire. The deceased was twice married, first in 1796, to the daughter of Sir Thomas Dalrymple Hesketh ; and secondly, in 1823, to the daughter of Ambrose Goddard, Esq., of Swindon, in the county of Wilts. lie succeeded his father in 1815. Sir Thomas has issue two children by his first marriage, and six by his second. lie is succeeded by his eldest son John. The family claims descent from an eminent legni functionary of the reign of Queen Elizabeth. It is not difficult to content one's self with solitude, when it is known that society may be had, if wished for. —Eliza Cook's Journal. NAVAL INTELLIGEN'CE. DEATH OF VICE-ADMIRAL MATHEW W Ogicial intelligence was received at the Arniraity yesterday of the death of Vice-Admiral of ti :e Whitt: Mathew Godwin, at the advanced ege of nearly 83 years. The gailaet deceased was what is termed a " dotted admiral," not having served since he was posted. He entered the navy, in 1780 as a volunteer on board the Fewiroyant, 84, Captain John Jervis, and on April 21, 1782, assisted as midshipman at the capture, after a gallant action of nearly an hour, attended, however, with no casualty to the British, of the French 74-gun ship Pegase, whose loss, besides being seriously damaged, amounted, out of a crew of 700 men, to 80 killed and wounded. From May in the same year until the receipt of his first commission, August 1, 1794, Mr. Godwin, with intervals, served on the West India and home stations in the Pigmy brig, Captain Wm. Mitchel ; Triumph, 74, Captain Richard Onslow ; Flirt brig, Captain James Norman ; Prudente, 38, Captain Henry Trol lope ; Active frigate, Captain Edmund Nagle ; and Royal George, 100, flag-ship of 1..( Bridport. He then joined the Bellerophon, 74, Captains Williams Hope and Lord Cranstoun, and was afterwards i:p. pointed to the Commerce de Marseilles, Captain Child, and to the Prince George, Glory, Tounde.rer, and Tremendous, flag-ships, latterly at the Cape of Good Hope and in the East Indies, of Sir Hugh Clo berry Christian. In the capacity of commander, a rank he attained Jan. 1.5, 1102, Captain Godwin next, on June 23, 1803, joined the Trompeuze sloop, in which he cruised off the south-west coast of Ire land until Sept. 30, 1804. Having been promoted to post rank on the Bth of the preceding May, he was then superseded. The Gazette of last night announces the promo tions in consequence of the death of Vice-Admiral Godwin. Sir Josiah Coghill Coghill, Bart., is now the senior Rear-Admiral on the list, and Captain Maurice F. Fitzhardinge Berkeley, C. 8., M.P., A.D.C., of the Board of Admiralty, is now the senior on the list. Captain Edward Le Cras Thorn borough (1827) has succeeded to the 14s. Gd. a day half-pay ; and Captain Edward A. Frankland (1835) has succeeded to the 12s. Gd. a day half-pay list. THE BREVET PROMOTION. The promotions of the officers of the navy are such as were previously due, and must, in justice, have been made in the course of a few months, without the auxiliary prompting of a Royal visit to Ireland. Captain Robert Harris entered the navy, Jan. 26, 1822, and from that time to the present has served afloat nearly 21 years. His first ship was the Fury alus, 42, Captain (now Rear-Admiral) W. W. J. Clifford, and served in her at the blockade of Algiers; and after a few months in the Algerine, 10, served in the Cambria, 46, at Navarino, and shared in the ser vice of capturing numerous pirates in the Grecian Archipelago, ultimately suffering shipwreck during an attack on a nest of these marauders, at Carabusa, January, 18 9 8. He was next mate of the Ferret, 10, and was afterwards appointed to the Royal George yacht, and served in the tenders Onyx and Pantaloon, in charge of a watch in their various cruises to South America, the West Indies, the coast of Spain and Portugal, and in surveying the coast of Ireland. He was made a Lieutenant in May, 1833, and after serving in the Excellent, gunnery-ship, for three years, obtained tie highest awardable certi ficate. He served in the Melville, 74, as gunnery lieutenant, in the West Indies, the Cape, and China coast, and was promoted to the rank of commander for his services at the capture of the forts of the Bocce Tigris, and for commanding a rocket boat in the operations in the Canton River. As a commander he most ably commanded the Flying Fish, 12, in the experimental brig trials, and subsequently on the coast of Africa, and since March, 1848, has served in the ship from which he has been promoted, having com manded the Virago steam-sloop pro tern. as the man of-war escort to the royal squadron last year, in her Majesty's cruise to Aberdeen. Captain Harris studied steam in 1842, at the college, and publi.,hed on his return from China some "Remarks on Heaving Down a 72. gun Ship" (Melville, at Chusan). Commander Protheroe, promoted from command of the Crocodile, receiving ship at Cork, has been in the navy since 1811, and has served afloat 19 years. He passed his examination in 1819, having served in the Swiftsure, 74, Mediterranean ; Stately, 64, off Cadiz ; Impetueu, 74, Lisbon ; Eridinas and Cerus, frigates, Chatham ; Orontes, 36, West Indies; Horatio, 38, East Indies. As mate be served in the latter ship on home station • Ferret and Helicon, s l oops , N or th America and West Indies ; and subsequently Doterel, Britannia, and Rattlesnake. He was acting lieute nant of Beaver, 10, West Indies, when he was con firmed, and paid off from her in 1826. Commander Bedford has been in constant employ since he first entered the navy in 1824, and proceeded on surveying service, at Newfoundland, in the Snap, 10, with Captain Bullock. He is the son of that dis tinguished veteran officer, Lieut. Bedford, of Green wich Hospital; was made a lieutenant in 1838 ; was engaged in the survey of the coast of England, and recently in surveying on the coast of Scotland, where he has frequently piloted the Royal yacht when her Majesty or Prince Albert has been on board. Commander Oliver Jones, son of the late Major General Oliver Jones, who commanded the 18th Hussars under Sir John Moore in the Peninsula, entered the navy September, 1826 ; passed his ex amination in 1832, and remained seven years as mate. As a lieutenant he served in the Southampton, 50, at the Cape; Calcutta, 84, Lisbon; as first of the Snake, 16, in the Mediterranean; additional of the Queen, 110, same station; and as senior of the Pilot, 16, in the East Indies ; and since May, 1848, as senior of the Ganges, to which he is now reappointed, APPOINTMENTS. Commander—Oliver J. Jones, promoted from First Lieutenant of the Ganges, 84, to be Commander of that ship, vice Harris, promoted. Lieutenants—J. B. Massie (1838) has been ap pointed to the command of the Crocodile, at Queens town, vice Prothero, promoted; George 0. Popple well (1642), to the Ganges. Master's Assistant—Robert Todd, to the Ganges. The Wolverine, 16, Commander M. Falcon, arrived at Sheerness from Chatham on Monday, and sailed on Tuesday, after adjusting her compasses, .for Spit head, where she arrived on Thursday evening. She saluted the Port-Admiral of Portsmouth yesterday morning, and sailed about ten o'clock for Plymouth. The Scourge steam sloop, Commander the Right Hon. Lord Frederick Kerr, was undocked at Ports mouth on Thursday, to make room for the new screw steam-ship Termagant, which is being advanced for commission, and receiving the model coaling galley of Thomas Grant, Esq., of the Clarence-yard. She has not yet received her ordnance ; the 13-inch mortar will not be put on board; she will be armed with the usual pivot guns, one forward, a 10-feet gun, 68- pounder of 94 cwt. for solid shot, and a 10-inch shell gun of 85 cwt. aft. She will have two broadside guns, 32 pounders, 42 cwt., and two 24 howitzers for her paddle-box boats. The mortar bed will remain ready in case of the mortar being required. THE ADMIRAL'S GOOD-SERVICK PENSION.—The vacant pension of 3001. per annum, by the death of Sir E. IV. C. R. Owen, G.C.8., G.C.H., will be con ferred upon Admiral of the Blue Sir Thomas Cape), K.C.8., Commander-in-Chi e f at Portsmouth, who was Nelson's lieutenant and signal officer in the Van. guard at the battle of the Nile, and who brought the iispatches of that memorable victory to England in the Mutine. He was captain of the Phcebe, 36, at Trafalgar ; captain of the Endymion at the forcing of the Dardanelles, in 1807; and of the Hogue, on the coast of North America, in 1812 and 1814. fo• morrow (the 44th anniversary of Trafalgar) will he a proud day for Sir Th omas C ape l an d t h e other , urviving veterans of that great and glorious victory. the gallant old ship in Portsmouth harbour, which bore the dead hero's flag in the strife, will be gar landed and festooned once more in honour of the auspicious day, long yet to be remembered by Englishmen. TIIE COURT' MARTIAL ON LIEUTENANT RICHARDS. —The sentence and finding of the court h av i ng b een confirmed by the L o rd s Commissioners of the Admi ralty, Lieutenant and Adjutant P. H. FeHowes, proceeded yesterday morning to Lieutenant Richards' quarters, and read over the proceedings and finding of the court, being an honourable acquittal of all the charges upon which Lieutenant Richards was tried. Owing to his still labouring under illness, that officer by desire of the medical officers, went into Melville hospital yesterday. CHATHAM, OCT. 19.—The following promotions have taken place consequent upon the decease of Mr. S. Vinell, first class clerk at this yard :—Mr. Charles Slade, from second to first class; Mr. H. Alms, from third to second jclass ; Mr. Finmore, extra clerk, to third class ; and Mr. Wood appointed extra clerk. The Pigmy steam-vessel sailed on the 17th inst., with a [number of men and boys from the ordinary ship Poictiers, to join ships in commission at Ports. mouth. The Poictiers, 72, depot ship of the ordinary, Captain Peter Richards, was paid wages on the 18th inst., down to six months ; and this day large placards were posted at the Dockyard gates, that a number of able seamen and artificers are wanted for the royal navy. All applications are to be made on board the said ship. The Cumberland, 70, the Warspite, 50, and the Terpsichore, 18 guns, were severally inspected yes terday by the rnapter shipwright and other officers. It is reported that these ships are to be prepared for commission. Woor.wicu, OCT. 19.—The Stromboli, steam sloop, Commander Lord Amelius Beauclerk, left this port at eleven A.M. today for Portsmouth. The Monkey, the Jasper, and the Advice steam ves,els left Woolwich this morning, for D ept f or d , to tow the St. Lawr ence , 4G-gun,frrgate, to Sh eerness ; Mr. Gosnaa n , mas t er o f the Irsgard, in charge of the frigate. The St. Lawrence was taken from Sheer ness to Deptford, to serve as a temporary hospital ship while the Dreadnought was undergoing a thorough repair at Woolwich. PLYMOUTH, OCT. 18 --The Ganges is ordered to be s#o:ed for foreign Fervice, but her destination is not yet made known. She is to have 68-pounders, instead of 32 pounders. Toe Octavia, new 50 gun frigate, in charge of Mr. Henderson, Master-Attendant of this dcckyard, left Pembroke la-t week, but the strong wind from the eastward prevented her from getting up Channel until yesterday, when the Confiance steamer towed her in. When of Scilly she fell in with a:strong wind from the east, will a heavy sea, which carried away her foreyard, and s h e p ut b ac k i nto Mount's Bay. 'the Conflict, on her way down the harbour, on Saturday, while under halt-steam, went aground on the mud accumulated in St. John's Lake. She re mained there for twelve hours and a half, during which time a party of shipwrights from the dockyard were using their exertions to get her off. They removed from on board of her water, shot, and guns, amounting to about 100 ton., ar.d on the tide 11,;wing, by the assistance of the Confiance steam-tug, they succeeded. The Piiilomd, 8, at DE.vonport, is to have Stirling's metal sheathing tried on her bottom, instead of copper. She will be taken out of d :vk on the 6 h of November. The Trident was paid wages yesterday by Admiral Sir John Louis, and went out of harbour. S!le sails to day for Liverpool, for men. While she has been in this, port she has b;-en payed over with 111r.,Ilay's composition, which has proved so successful. Mr. flay superintended the work, the Admiralty - having ordered him from Portsmouth foAhat purpose. The Hound brig is ordered to be got ready for com mission. The Spiteful steamer is to be taken into dcck, to Pave her bottom cleaned. SPORTING IN-;fEar6ENCE. CURRAG II OCTOBER MEETING.—THURSDAY. Sligo Stakes (renewed) of 25 sovs, 10 ft, for two yrs old; colts, 8.0 71b; fillies, Bst 31b. Anglesey Post. 31b allowed to untried stallions or mares, 51b to both. The Club will add 40 soya. The winner of the Angle sey Stakes to carry 51b extra. No produce no ft. Mr. Irwin's ch c Pio Nono, by R e t r i ever...(Chifuey) 1 Col.Westenra's b Whisper Low ...(Doyle, jun.) 2 Mr. Watts's b > Marchioness D'Eu (Lilly)- 3 Won cleverly. His Excellency the Lord-Lieutenant's Plate of 100 gs; two yrs old, 6st 51b; three, 9st 21b; four, 10st; live, lost Sib; six and aged, 10st 61b. Red Post. ;3113;111- lowed to mares and geldings.. Mr. Armstrong's Doll Tearsheet, 2 yrs (Nfonaghtn) 1 Mr. Disney's Captain Grant, 2 yrs (L. Kwegan, juil.) 2 Mr. Irwin's ch g Pio Nono, 3 yrs (Lynch) 3 Mr. Wallace's br fby the Major, 3 yrs ...(Murphy)' 0 Mr. Farrar's bl c Visc,unt, 3 yrs (Farrell)' 0 Mr. G. Power's b c 13ullion, 2 yrs ...(James Wynne) 0 Mr. Newcomer ' s bc St John, 2 yrs (Fallon) 0 Won easy. Pio Nono a bad third. Curragh of Kildare Cesarewitch Stakes, a Free Handi cap of 20 sovs. each, 10 ft. 50 sovs. added. About two miles and a quarter; second horse to save his stake Mr. Murphy's ch c Dough, 4 yrs, Bst 61b (Magee) 1 Mr. J. Hyland's Allegrette, 4 yrs, Tat 21b ...(Foley) 2 Lord Waterford's Brother to Rattrap, 5 yrs, Bst 81b 3 Mr. Irwin's ch h Ballinafad, 5 yrs, Bst 61b (Chifney) 0 Won by a length. Selling Stakes—Sweepstakes of 5 soya, each, with 25 sovs. added, for all ages; three yrs old, ist 41b; four, Bst 71b; five, 9st; six and aged, 9st 41b. Waterford Post. All horses starting are subject to be sold for 200 sovs; entering to be sold for 150 sovs allowed 51b; 100 sovs, 91b; 50 soya, 141 b; 25 sovs, 211 b. 2 sovs each for entrance. Mr. Mangan's b f Portia, 3 yrs, 501 (E. Keegan) 1 Mr. Wynne's ch g Elemi, agd, 501.. (Wynne) 2 Mr. Irwin's b c Red Knight, 4 yrs, 251 (Ducie) 0 Mr. St. George's ch g Accident, 5 yrs, 50/ (Foley) 0 Mr. licegan's b c Maraschino, 4 yrs, 251 b (Miller) 0 Mr. Nolan's bl m by Friar—Dust, 6 yrs, 100/ 0 Mr. L. Byrne's b f Revoke, by Retriever, dam by Napoleon, 3 yrs, 501 (J. Wynne) 0 Lord Waterford's eh cby Birdcatcher, 3 yrs, 50/ ... 0 A good race. BETTING AT MANCHESTER.—FRIDAY. CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES.-7 to 1 agst Rathmines (take 8 to 1), 8 to 1 agst Baby (taken), 10 to 1 agst Ribaldry, 14 to 1 apt Woolwich (taken, and after wards &red), 15 to 1 agst Glauca, 15 to 1 apt Cruci ble, 15 to 1 agst Vanguard, 18 to 1 agst Collingwood, 20 to 1 agst Rienzi (taken), 30 to 1 agst Prior of St. Mar garet's (taken), 1,000 to 15 agst Malton, 1,000 to 15 agst .Bhylock (taken), 1,000 to 15 agst Legerdemain. CRITERION STAKES. 2to 1 agst The Nigger (t) sto I agst Pitsford (0 4 to 1 agst Nutshell (t) HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. Brighton harrs., Mon., Patcham; Wed., Race Course; Fri., llyke—loi. Brookside harrs., Mon., Newmarket-hill; Thurs., Telscombe Tye-101. F. B. hds., Mon., Ladock; Fri., Perran Wharf-10i. Mr. Littleton's hds., Tues, East Taphou9e-14. York and Ainsty hds., Tues., Ribstone Park; Thurs., Oulston; Sat., Crocity-hill-101. Bramham Moor hds., Mon., Harewood House; Wed., Bramham Park; Fri., Bickerton Bar; Sat., Keddle lane-101. Sir Tatton Sykes's hds., Mr,n., Settrington Rouse; Wed., %Mit:moor Build; Fri., Raisthorp—lot. Holdetness hds., Mon., Burton Constable; Tues., Everiugham Park; Thurs., Rise; Fri. Lund Village Captain Lewis's harrs., Tues., Morton Bridge; Fri., Mr. Coates's, Pasture House—n. Cleveland lids., Mon., Upleathatn; Thurs., Hutton Low Cross-14. Darhatn County hds., Elemore Hall; Wed , Plawsrvorth Bar; Fri.. Tunitall-10i. Harrogate harrs., Mon., Saltergate-hill ; Fri., Cross roads on Thornton Moor-10i, High Peak harrs., Mon., Brassington Wharf; Fri., Hurdlow House-11. Mr. Trelawuey's hds., Tues., Cadover Bridge; Fri., Kennell, 10i. Mr. Fursei' hds., Mon., Friar's Hall, near llattersly; Fri., Hunshaw Weed-101. Mr. Morgan's hds., Mon., Deer Parks; Thurs., Dun• terden. North Devon hds., Tues., Leworthy Post; Fri., North Melton-10k. Tiverton hd9. ' Mon., Spurway Miil, O a kf or d ; Th urs. , Hayne Moor, Bampton-10. Dulverton hrrs., Mon., Steeple Cross, near Hock. worthy; Fri., Bampton-101. Mr. Powell's hds., 'rues., Commercial Inn; Fri., Clegy frau Bridge -10. Dal:idly lids., Mon., Mansant; Fri., Biggin-10. Tivyside hds., Mon., Eglwyrsw Viltige; Thurs. Llan dytrimg Mill-10. Show hds., Tues., Dihewyd; FEL, the seventh milestone on the Cardigan road-11. SPORTING. Lord Lovat, the Master of Lovat, and Sir Philip Egerton have had splendid sport in the deer-forest during the past week. The deer were seen in great numbers; and the party succeeded in bringing down ten stags and a hind. The Deanie party—Mr. Wells and Mr. Leslie—have had excellent sport in deer stalking. During the season they have succeeded in stalking 21 stags and 7 hinds. At Langwell (Caith ness), on the SI inst., the sport of the season was concluded by beating the covers, when a fine young stag and three roe-deer fell by single bullets. At Castle Leod, Mr. R. Clinton and Capt. Bennett have had four and a half days—beginning on Tues day—of splendid sport, perhaps unsurpassed this season. The returns for those days were-1 fallow buck, 2 roe-deer, 170 grouse, 10 black-game, 11 ptarmigan, 98 partridges, 24 pheasants, 12 snipes, 5. woodcocks, GO hares, and 46 rabbits—in all, 438 head. The buck was a very large one, and was stalked on Wyvis on Friday. The head was very good. A head has been received by Mr. Snowie, from Sir IL Meux, evidently that of a stag of ex treme age. The horns have all the characteristics of very old age, being long, Thin, and almost clear of antlers, only the brow antlers being left. It is a curious instance of the careful provisions of nature, that the brow antlers, which alone are used in de fence by the deer, are the first to come, and the last to disappear before advancing years. Mr. Webb, at Lech Itosque, has sent three good heads—stalked last week. Mr. Fraser, Fort William, has also sent an excellent head to be preserved. We learn from the isla n d o f L ew i s th a t s i nce th e _ . Ist of September the weather has been highly favourable for all out door work, whether harvesting or sporting. Mr. Denys killed a good stag on the 6th ; on the 25th he killed two, right and left shots ; and on the 26th a full royal. On the 2,1 and 4th October he killed a stag each day, making in all six stags, and the number could easily have been doubled had the effort been made, for some times as many as seventy or eighty deer were seen in the course of the day's walk. Mr. Cornwall Leigh, on the Ist inst., shot a splendid royal stag of twelve points, and a yeld hind; and on the 3d he killed two stags. The grouse shooting averaged about twelve brace a day— the highest being twenty brace for one gun. In Harris the slaughter of deer has been immense. Mr. Campbell of Jura and party have killed thirty five stags and ten hinds I This excessive destruction of deer must surely be injurious ultimately to the fore s t.—lnverness Courier. The PacLz. of Egypt having entrusted an order for an English carriage, which should combine all the recent improvements of British wol kmanship, to some gentleman in this country, the selection has fallen upon Mr. Horne, of Long-acre, who, in a segmental Brcugham, has brought to bear most of his well-known and valuable patents. This carriage, which will leave for Egypt on Saturday, is most unique and handsomely ornamented, and bears the national crest of the crescent and stars. Woodcocks are coming in plenty in the coast of Devon. William Holland Bickford Coham, Esq , of Dunsland House, Icille.l one on the 15 . h, and two the following day. A fine woodcock, weighing nearly 16 ounces, was shot on the estate of John Stranger, Esq., Lower Sutton, South Brent, by the Rev. Mr. Owen, on Tuesday morning, the 16th. On Friday last a fine woodcock was shot on Hawkerland estate, the property of J. B. Cresawell, Esq,— Western Times. A generous man will, in his treatment to an enemy, resemble the sun, which pours light all aroand it—even upon the clouds that strive to dim its lustre.—Eliza Cook's Journal. . .. , CROWN PROPERTY IN NORTH WALES. (From the Carnarvon and Denbigh Herald) . .. A pamphlet is now in the course of publication, by Ridkway, Piccadilly, printed at the office of this paper, by Dr. 0. 0. Roberts, of Bangor, entitled " Crown Property in North Wales; its Manag,rnent and Appropriation: with a Reply to Mr. James Slryatt's (the Penrbyn agent) Letter to the Times, touching the Hundred of Haat:" The work is addressed by its author, to the Council of the - Liverpool Financial Reform Association, in his capacity of deputy ranger of the Forest of Snowdon; and is well deserving of attention, not only by that influential body, but by the people of these kingdoms generally, no less than by the inhabitants of North %Vales in particular. had it not been that the quarterly sessions business in the several counties over which we range, together with an important public meeting in furtherance of fLancial and political reform, combined with some delayed correspondence, to. pre-occupy our columns, some little space mould , have been devoted in our pre_ent Herald in order to illustrate amply, both by extracts and analysis, the nature of the pamphlet alluded to. As it is, we must be content with promising a digest of its contents in a future number : simply recommending its statements in the mean time to the most careful and dispassionate perusal. As far as we have seen, from the brief glance bestowed upon its contents, they are of the utmost importance in a national point of view, and such as ought not to be lost sight of, in any meeting or pub lication, intended to promote th e grea t a i ms of finan cial reform, inasmuch as they demonstrate the fact that vast sums of public or crown property are an nually usurped by private individuals, which, if duly accounted for, and paid over to the Crown, would go far to render the yearly outlay, under the head of civil list, less burthensome to the people, without in the least intrenching upon the actual enjoyments, dig nity, or expenditure, however lavish, of the Sovereign. This is of the highest national importance. If a certain amount of income be necessary in order to support the Regnant Family in that style of luxuri ous enjoyment, and sovereign dignity, which is felt to be due to royalty,and if, at the same time, the amount of taxation necessary to procure this income be felt to press heavily on the people, it is surely manifest that the hereditary and p e r sona l revenues of the Crown should be duly conservated and accounted for, so as to aid alike in maintaining the cost of royalty, and in mitigation of the heavy taxes now imposed upon the community, or rather upon the industrial classes. What must then be the feeling of honest, candid men, when they are credibly informed, upon the solid testimony of undeniable facts, not only that the greater portion of the Crown revenues arising from woods, forests, shores, estuaries, mines, minerals, Sac , are alienated, or in the course of being alienated but that the perpetrators of these systematic and in creasing frauds are the very parties in whom is lodged the legal and moral trust of looking after them on behalf of the Crown, as bailiffs, agents, collectors, or trustees ? Whenever a robbery is perpetrated by a servant, or other agent trusted with the management of pro perty, the judges of assiite or chairmen at sessions visit the delinquent with a heavier penalty than would be incurred by a common untrusted thief; and if the statements in these pages be borne out by facts, a similar sentence of augmented infamy ought to attach to the felonies which they disclose. THE WEATHER IN THE NORTH. Since our last the weather has been dry, and on the whole very favourable for the leading of the yet out standing grain. Nearly all the active farmers whose lands lie low have completed the work of carrying several days ago; but a few have not taken advantage of the weather, or have been delayed by other causes, and have still some work before them ere they can consider the crops secure. We have heard of nothing of the least interest respecting the crop in addition to what has already been reported; but the potato disease seems to be slowly and surely proceeding with its fell work. We learn from Tait) that in that neigh bourhood evi a the cups have suffered to some extent. The kinds known as "London Blues" and "Lady Mary's" are rapidly decomposing. Our correspondent at Fort William writes that the weather continues fine ; there has been only one day's rain for eight weeks, a thing almost unprecedented. The crops have all been secured a week since. Part of the potatoes are lifted. On the Ardgour side of the country the,disease will only affect about a fifth of the crop, while about Fort 'William it will cause the loss of from one-half to three-fourths. The poor people, however, will be better off than they were last year, owing to the quantity sown, and also because the corn and pests were never housed in better condition. We are favoured with the following note from Kirkwall, dated October 12 :—" The weather since 1 formerly wrote you has been very unfavourable fur harvest work, so that very little corn has yet been stacked. The greater part, however, is now cut, and as the last two days have b.-en somewhat frosty, with a fine clear sky and sunshine, a great proportion of the crop will be secured if it continues dry for a day or two longer. Lady Franklin left Orkney last week by the Lighthouse steamer for the south. A salute of sixteen guns was fired as her Ladyship went on board." In Argyleshire—a correspondent writes us on the 12th—the harvest is not yet over, but a few fine days more will see it fairly at an end. Thu potatoes are very much diseased all over this district. Herrings (which form a large portion of the food of the labour. ing class) are scarce just now ; but it is drawing near the time when they are usually taken in great quan tities.—km7ness Courier. SHIPWRECKS AND LOSS OF LIFE ON THE EASTERN COAST. It is with regret we announce that as many as sixty wrecks are reported to have happened on the eastern coast during the raging of the recent equinoc tial gales. They scarcely moderated from their com mencement until Tuesday or \Vednesday, and many very deplorable losses have become known, accom panied by several most disgraceful acts of plunder by wreckers. On Sunday morning, while the gale was raging with tremendous violence, a large barque was seen on the Gunfleet sands, on the outside ridge nearest the channel known as the Swin. She was encompassed by a terrific sea, which now and then swept over her masthead, first pitching her one side on the sands and then on the other with a force that speedily dashed her to pieces. There were four or five smacks outside the sands, the crews of which deplored the impracti cability of saving the unfortunate persons on board the barque, who were doomed to a watery grave. The smacks got in as close to the sands as was deemed prudent, in order to render assistance to any of the crew who might be attempting an escape from the vessel over the breakers. Suddenly the helpless vessel was carried by a sea over one of the sands into deep water, when the next moment she heeled over, and instantly dis appeared. There were, it is supposed, between six teen and twenty persons in the rigging, not one of whom escaped. It was evident, from the rapid manner in which she went down, that the bottom of her hull had been driven in, and she was otherwise in pieces, for shortly after she had foundered, her cargo —articles of every description—floated out of her. ' For miles the sea was literally studded with portions of her freight, but, strange to say, although a consi• derable quantity was picked up, no trace could be found of her name, or the place to which she be longed, till Thursday morning last, when the ship's papers were picked up, and placed in the hands of Lloyd's agent at Wivenhoe, by which it was ascer tained that she was the Conqueror, of Glasgow, 300 tons burthen. As soon as the wreck became known, the wreckers—and it is now a notorious fact that a large gang of these depredators infest the Essex coast—bore down to the spot where the vessel went down, and, notwithstanding the vigilance of some of the revenue cutters, they managed to get away with a considerable quantity of her cargo. The depredations of these wretches of late have been such as to , excite general indignation along the coast. In the case of the wreck of the German emigrant ship Floridian, with the loss of nearly 200 emigrants, on the Long-sands, some months since, the bodies were plundered of the gold which many were known to have about them, and afterwards cast adrift again to escape detection. An other instance of their daring character happened OD Tuesday, when they made an attack on the wreck of a vessel from St. Petersburgh, which the Scout revenue-cutter, Captain Saxby, had got off the Gun ', fleet, and in a few minutes cut away her ri gging, were captured succeeded in escaping with the plunder. So me captured on the following day, .and are imprisoned in Ilarwich gaol. Through this infamous conduct, the sailors of the cutter were unable to preserve the vessel ; she was got into . afloat to be brought this port, and had her rigging been left, there is no doubt it would have been accomplished. The gale, however, drove her on the stone beach near Walton, and not a vestige of her remains. Two other vessels we re lost near the spot where the Conqu eror went down; one is supposed to have belonged t o Chatham, laden with timber, and all on board perished. The other unfortunate ship was the lloyen, a barque, from Gefle for London. The crew, providentially, were more fortunate ; they were taken off the wreck by some Wiveaoe smacks, which landed them safely at that place. The mass of wreckage that has been picked up along the coast belonging to different vessels is enormous. The accounts from Lowestoffe, Yar mouth, and even from different points on the Lin colnshire and more northern portion of the coast, communicate a very sad list of the amount of life and property lost by the continuance of the gales. Steamboats put in at the different ports, either from being disabled or to seek shelter from, the fury of the gale. The Dutch and Belgian mails describe the gales to have been very destructive on their respective •=, : : - , coasts. Numerous vessels Were lost ; and the Licn stea►ner, which reschel the Thames in the middle of the week, brought over th..?, crews of two vessels which had ban lost. The F team-ship reports a most fearful hurricane visiting Cronstadt on the 6 h and ith inst., and a consequent serious damage to the shipping. PROGItiSS OF MANNERS. (From Eliza C oo k' s J ourna l) The progress of temperate habits among the bulk of the working classes is now very decided. So general had become the habit of drunkenness among the English people in 1606, that it was found neces sary to pass a law,_ constituting it a cr i m i na l o ff ence against society. Drunkenness, nevertheless, went on steadily increasing in the face of this law, and about the middle of last century the vice had grown to a hideous magnitude. Some idea of the low state of the national morality may be formed from a fact stated by Smollett, and repeated by the Bishop of Salisbury during a debate in the House of Lords, that on some of the publicans' signs in London it was announced to the public, " Ern may here get drunk for one perm', dead drunk for twopence, and hare clean straw for nothing." " They accordingly" says Sinolett, in his "History of England," "provided cellars and places strewed with straw, to which they conveyed those wretches who were over whelmed with intoxication. In these dismal ca• verns they lay until they had recovered some use of their faculties, and then they had recourse to the same mischievous potion ; thus consuming their health, and ruining their families, in hideous receptacles of the most filthy vice, resounding with riot, execra tion, and blasphemy." Although at that time the populatien of London was not one-third of what it is now, there were computed to be no less than 20,000 houses and shops in which spirituous liquors were sold, besides those in which fermented liquors only were kept. Whereas at present, the total number of public-houses, spirit-shops, beer-shops, and hotels in London, is stated not to exceed 7,000. If other evid- ence were needed, we should find it in the moral and orderly aspect of the London population of the work ing orders on all days of the week—in their improved tastes and habits, which now lead them to frequent reading-rooms and news-agents to buy their weekly paper or family journal, in preference to wasting their means on debasing self-indulgence. Much drunken ness there yet assuredly is; it is still the daily vice of the degraded, the outcast, and the ignorant; we think, however, it must be admitted, that although formerly the most conspicuous and prevailing vice among the working classes, as it was among the middle and upper classes, it is so no longer, but has given way in a great measure before the progress of public morality and intelligence. The progress of temperance has been equally decided amongst the Scotch people. One could scarcely suppose that in the following description by Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun, he could have been speaking of a people new considered so moral, orderly, and intelligent. And yet here was the moral condition of the Scotch at the early part of last century. "At country weddings, markets, burials, and other the like public occasions, both men and women are to be seen perpetually drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting together." Thanks tee the Scotch parish schools, such fearful abominations have been to an immense extent abated. Drunk enness was at the same time frightfully prevalent among the Irish people; and to such an extent did the rage for usquebaugh proceed in Ireland in the reign of Philip and Mary, that the people converted so much of their grain into spirit as to cause great famine and privation throughout the country from time to time. Deplorable though the condition of the mass of the Irish people still is, they are no longer chargeable with the national vice of drunkenness, Father Mathew having succeeded in nearly banishing it from amongst the poorer classes of the people. But the steady decrease is best proved by the g v ernment returns of the quantities of British and foreign spirits entered for home consumption at dif ferent periods. Thus we find that while the con sumption of coffee has increased from 7,593,0011b5. in 1821, to 34,293,1901b5. in 1845, and the consumption of tea has increased from 20,358,7021b5. in 1800, to 44,193 4331b5. in 1845, the consumption of spirits is now, in the whole of the United Kingdom very little more than it was in Englan alone in 1742 ! The amount consumed in England in the year last named, or about a hundred years ago, by a population cnly one-third of that of England now, was about 20,000,000 gallons. The quantities consumed have very much varied according to the tax on spirits— the lower the tax, the greater the consumption. But if we take the last few years, during which ttee duty has been stationary, we find that the increase i❑ the consumption of British spirits has not at all kept pace with the increase of the population, but the contrary. Thus in 1831, the consumption of British spirits was 21,845,408 gallons, and in 1841, 20,660,847 gallons, and in 1845, 23,122,588 gallons. The consumption of malt also is stationary, if not on the decline. The quantity of hops charged with duty in 1835 was 49,08 G 709;b3. ; in 1 45, the quantity charge) was of.ly 32,974 750313. The consumption of brandy, rum, and other foreign spirits hadl P. also declined from 4,883,596 gallons in 1831, to 3.464,074 gallons in 1841, and 3,549,589 gallons in 1845. The quantity of wine consumed remains also as nearly as possible stationary. These results are, we think, of a very satisfactory character; and they prove a remarkable progress in the manners and habits of the people. The marked diminution of intemperance must be attributed in no small degree to the efforts of the Teetotallers, of whom there are estimated to be no fewer than 1,360,000 in England, Scotland, and Wales; but it is also to be attributed to the improvement in the moral tone of society, and the advance of intelligence, of which indeed the Temperance movement itself may be regarded as one of the indications. There are nume rous other proofs of this. Our elections are not now the scenes of debauchery that they formerly were. The Eatanswill boroughs have now shrunk into a very small number; and the finger of public reprobation is generally pointed at them. Funerals are now con ducted decorously. Workmen are gradually giving up their system of " footings." Commercial tra vellers no longer think it necessary to coax an order out of a customer by inviting him to a drinking bout. The friendly societies and clubs of the labouring classes are more and more discountenancing the practice of meeting in public-houses for the transac tion of their business ; and before many years are over, we look to still greater improvements in all these respects. CHOLERA AND DIARRHCEA. ENGLAND AND WALES. The following is the Return of Deaths from Cholera and Diurrhce.l reported to the General Board of Health the 19th day or October, 1849 : SUPERINTENDING REGISTRAR'S DISTRICT. Deaths. Cholera. Diarrh. 1 0 O 2 2 2 O 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 O 1 Alnwick •e• ••• se• Birmingham ... Bradford and Pudsey Breeknock Burton-on-Trcnt (Hornington) Carmarthen . . Chester-le-Street (Harraton) Chorley (Rivington district) Clifton Union (St. Philip and Jacob, St. George districts) Dewsbury (Batley) ... — Dudley, Sedgley, and Rowley Regis ••• •• ••• Ecclesfield (Barnsley) ••• Huddersfield (Almondbury dis.) Hunslet (Holbeck) Isle of Wight (Cowes) Kidderminster, .. Leeds Llanelly ••• Manchester ... Newark ••• ••• • • Newcastle•on-Tyne (Byker)... Newmarket (Cleveley district) Pershore (Pinyin) Peterborough ... Redruth (Illogun) Ripon (Kirkby Malsead•dis.) ; -- Salford (Regent-road) Saffron Walden ... Seulcoates • •„ South Shields (Westoe) ••• Stourbridge (Kingswintord) Teesdale (Barnard Castle) Tendring (Great Bromley) Totnes (Brixham) ••• ..... ... "''' • • • ''''' ••• ''''' • • • ''''''' ••• ..". Truro . . Wakefield Walsall (Borough) ... Wigan ... • 411 • Winded r (Cleaver) WiLham (Coggeahall) Witney Wolverhampton and Bilston Total ... • • • •••• SCOTLAND. Perth ... Arbroath Total ••• ........ GENERAL TOTAL Metropolis ... ... England and Wales ... Scotland ••• .. Total NOTE.—The deaths are returned according to the superintendent registrars' districts, as it ia found im practicable to distinguish every place separately. The Right non. the Earl and Countesss of Stair have left Culhorn, for Bargany, en route for Oxentord Castle, county of Edinburgh. Mr. Hill, the well known delineator of Yankee characters, died at Saratoga Springs on Thursday, Sep- Umber 31:AIL—Boston Post. der, ;e in one r, is Win, hull o the a the Jerk, nued safe. D the rning