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

- - • • - - SI d. Bien • Id. Avun "oundland h cusie. liddlesbo• cs, got off, ur. n't, Jong° 'va t Stair .011 ES. coulTrio -9w evil box a" e of th e of th ° ry 1., wag' n StalV ! rtt ll2 no t r ill he dUCti °ll ,vent 10 ,rations so that It, as ' 5 The s 110 81 Idieoee, !nruivg haPP9 CHOLERA AND DIARMICEI. RElliii.N CA:q>, SEPT. 15. TILE METROPOLIS. SUPERINTENDING REGISTRAR'S DISTRICT. D.aths. Attacks. CMolcra. Diarrh WEST DISTRICTS. St. (ifzurge. Ilanover-tquurtt estuainster St. Mat.iurin thy- Fields bt , James, W‘stuainslvr ... -- ... '--- ..• -- ••• ."..' ilaryiebone ktiop6tvad bc. Patierus I lip, ton ILekuey St. Giles Str ou d liolb lu Union Ch-riken,s ell Si. Luke East London West Lohdon City u i Loudon Phnrediteh 13 echnal green ..• WhitechapelS • • t. ,,p G n e e o y rge-in• the East t Poplin' • - - 249 58 249 730 31 NORTH DISTRICTS ... --. ..• .-". • • • ••• -'-' ... -. CENTRAL DISTRICTS. ... '-"- • • • ..... . • • -* ••• ...... ••• ..... • • • ..... ••• '''' •• • -- EAST DISTRICTS. ••• ''-' .. • ."--' • .• --' •• • .'... • • • ..... SOUTH DISTRICTS. St. Saviour, Southwark St. Olave 13ermondsey ••• St. George, Suuthwark Nuwington, Surrey Lambeth \ Vaudsworth _ C amberwell i tutherhithe Greenwich Lewisham ••• ..... • • • "'... . • • -* ••• ."" • • • "'''' ..• -- • • • '.''' ••• ''''' ... '-' ••• ••• '-' Total ... ..• "-- 10 10 22 25 2 7 2 1 4 0 THE COUNTRY. The following is the Return of Deaths from Cholera and Diarriice l reported to the General Board of Health the 17th day of September, 1849 : Attacks. • • • '''" Abergavenny Abicgdon A•iderbury Aluwick ••• Alverstoke Anaersham ••• Anglesey ... Ashton-under- Lyne Ast on „„, „„ Barnet Barnstaple ••• Barrow upon-S.. - tar Basford ••• Battle ••• • Bedminster Belpe r ••• ~,1 3i g.leswade irmin ham ••• B o lton ••• ••• Brot4,hton, Great . ••• B radford and N.,rth Bierley flidgc.nd and Cowbridge l irenttord (rem Sept. 5) ..• B ridgnorth (July 24 to Sept.ls) Bridgwater •• • •• • ••• ••• ••• , t sr OallSgrOVO .•• ••• Qtoml e Burnleyy ••• B urton-on• Trent tUry ••, Calston ••• • •• , Cardiff „ Carlisl e Carmarthen ••• •••• • Castleward •• ••• ••• Cheltenham (Charlton Kings) Ch ester-le-Street (Harrison)... e4 iPPenham (Castle Cumbe) Charlton "' ••• Clitheroe Clifton C r oydon and Mitcham ckermouth ••• C o nway ••• ••• Cove ntry Crickhowell Darlington Dartfo r d ••• Derb y ••• ..• Devizes ••• ••• ••• Dewsbu r y Dover ••• Dorchester and„ Cerne bruitwich Dudley ••• *** ••• ••• test Stonehouse ccle.hall Bierlow tuclesfield ••• •• Edmonton ••• g. Falmouth Gaiusborough ••• Gateshead ... Gloucester ••• Goole , ••• Gravesebd and Milton Batfield and Welwyn LlavertOrdwest ••• Jatt.ndon (Willesden) ... liezham ••• ••• Bit chin .• •••• B orncai:tle Tetford l lovfden ••• • Buntingdon ••• Bun 4 l et •• Ilull IPasvich••• ••• ..• Isl e of Thanet (Ramsgate) (Margate) ... Isl e of Wight (Newport) (C. omes) I C b .l'ynsi:am, Old Laud... Norton... ••• inpeter ••• *" •Littuesinter ••• I ..„.veds - „,. Leicester ••• near Manchester ... Lewes, chalky, Westhill, and Newhaven ••• Liverpool ••• •'" I.landovery .. Macclesf ield• Madeley •• ••• ••• Maidstone, Yalding, and Loose Mailing, Wrotham Manchester ••• Mansfield ••• ••• Market Drayton •••• kedway (Gillingham and Ro chester) ••• "' Merthy r Tyd v il Monmouth (Culeford) Mon,gomery ••• korprth „. ••• Nantwich ••• ••• Heath ••• •• Newcastle•upon-Tyne ‘ ,Nawcastle-uuder-Lyne Forest ••• Newport, Monmouthshire ... mynyddyslwyn (from July 1) ... - ••• "" ••• ....''. ••• .... • • • •• • .'. ••• • • • '''' ••• ''' • • • `'" ••• '''' ••• '-'' ••• "" • • • '''''' ••• ""' •• • ....... .. • "'". ••• "'' • • • ...... • 0 • '''.." ... '-' ••• '''''. • • • ''''... • • • ... • • • '''''' ••• • • • ..". ••• .''... ••• "''' ••• '''' ••• ''''''' • • • '''''' ••• ''''' • • • ...''. • • • '''''" • • • '"" ••• .".• ... -" ••• ''''' ••. .--. ••• .'....... ••• ''''''' ••• '''' ••• ."'''. ••• '--" • • • '''''. ••• '''' ••• """ • • • '''' • • • ''''' • • ...... • • • ^''" ••• "''' ••• '''''' .• • "- • • • '''''' .. • ."" ••• "'' • • • "'''''' ••• """ •e• ""'" t • .'"' ••• ..... ••• ."" ••• ''''''' ••• ... • 0 • ..... ..• '''' ••• ''''''' • • • '''''' • • • ..... ••• "'''' ••• ....." ... '''' • • • ''''' ... ''''' •• • '' " ••• ''''' ••• '''' ••• •''' .• • -- ... "" ... -- ••• '''" • • • •"' ••• • • • "''" ••• ''''" ••• ''''' ••• •• • • ••• '.... ••• ''''... newton Abbott ••• Northwich ••• '•• North am pt on (f ro m Sept. 5) ... Oldham (11th to 13th Sept) ... Pontypool ••• Portsea ••• ••• Prescot ••• ••• Preston ••• Reigate (Surrey) ... Richmond, York Catterick hochford ••• --- Salf or d... Salisbury Seulcoates ••• Shelton Mallet South Shields St. Germans ... St. Ives, Cornwall Swansea ••• •• Tavistock ••• ••• Teesdale (Barnard Castle) ..• Tynemuut h ..• ••• Wakefield ... Warrington ... ••• Wellington, Shropshire Witchf urd, North ... Wolstanton and Burslem Wolverhampton and Siesdon NYycombe X ork (July 24 to Sept. 6) ... ••• .."' ••• ...'. •• • "'• ••• ."'. ... .'". ••• ..'" • • ••• '''' • •• ........ • • • ""' ••• "''' ••• '''' . .. .--* ••• •"'' ••• "".. ••• '''' ••• '''" • • • ..". • • • ""'"' • • • ..". ••• .....' • • ...... Total ... • . • ......" Dundee Perth Auchulithie (Arbroath) Abtrdet n lierriemuir I clnnoull, Perth ••• ••• Inverne,s .." %wick _St. Andr e w' s ... t;xinuuth (Berwiekbhire) Abernethy Total ... General total:— Metropolis ... Country ... Scotland • e• •• • ..... Deaths. Cholera. Dlarrh. 3 0 1 0 O 1 1 1 O 1 O 1 2 0 2 0 O 2 O 2 3 1 O 1 O 1 O 1 4 0 O 1 1 0 O 2 1 3 1 1 2 8 1 0 19 6 62 5 9 0 6 0 7 3 O 1 1 0 2 1 • 1 , 1 0 O 1 6 0 1 0 3 0 4 0 O 1 18 0 0 11 7 1 0 8 1 4 1 3 0 O 1 8 2 2 0 O 8 3 2 O 3 1 0 4 1 3 3 1 0 1 0 14 3 4 0 1 2 9 1 1 0 2 0 2 0 1 0 11 1 O 1 2 0 2 0 O 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 2 0 1 0 3 0 2 1 O 1 35 0 40 10 O 2 1 2 3 0 O 2 1 0 2 1 3 0 1 1 3 0 45 5 O 3 O 1 730 176 SCOILAND. ••• .... ••• ... .• • .... •.• '''.. • • • ''''' • • • "'.."' ... - • • • '''''' ••• ....'' ••• ..'." ... -- ..• -- • • • '''''' ••• ''''. ••• ... ••• ...'". 31 General total ... 1,010 234 Note.—The number of attacks reported by the union (Akers are—for the metropolis 3 4 6, and for the country 796; but their returns do not, in general, comprehend the cases that are treated by medical men 41 Private practise. TDB SUN, CitoLLEA. DIARKIREA, 'Fri SEA. F. , :!: , ,E• • LONDON. S. p'. - E.;.Ep.'. SE.pt. SeFL 14h. 15;i1. 14 ei. 15:11. Wl's( DIS . T...e' 5 ... 22 26 7 7 N44r.h I)Lsticts ... 14 24 10 6 Cet4i,r.l Dl,Lliets ... 36 36 4 10 F.-,t, liscriet, ... 44 57 6 16 South Districts ... 121 106 26 19 Total ... 237 249 53 58 HOP 11N7i..LLIGLNCE. MAIDSTONE.—The hop, seem to come down short of expectation in every ground that we have heard ot, in this neighbourhood. Ooe of the best (Nlr. Gur ney - s) will tall short ciee-thind. The quality, where the hops have grown Out ot the blight, is generally very foie, but many other grounds are much damaged by the mould. Indeed it is the opinion of some old planters that in some of the first-mentioned grounds the sainpli s will be better than they have been for years. It is not expected here that the duty will reach 90,0001. W A TERINGBURY, TESTON, MEREWORTLI, AND NET TLESTEAD.—Ihe hops in these parishes are far from good as to quality and also far from great as to quantity, as the pickings will show ; although there may be instances to the contrary, yet the result will prove that we are far from an average crop. WEST MALLING.—This week will nearly finish the picking, which will be made short work of his year. Ail come down much short of expectation. The duty is supposed to be much over-rated. EAST MALLING.—NearIy all the planters have be gun to pick, and some have left off again owing to the bighted hops not being sufficiently ripe to take the fire. It is a general complaint that they come down Lull one. third short of expectation. But few pockets have as yet passed the excise scale. BRENCHLEY.—Picking is now in full operation. The crop is evidently very much short of what many have set them at on the poles, arid the opinion of ex perienced planters is that we shall not average 4 cwt. per acre in this parish, the Lumber of acres in plant being nearly 500. YALDING AND HUNTON.—Picking has become general. The hops come down generally far short of what before was anticipated, but there are many fine samples procured. ROLVENDEN.—Picking became general yesterday. Some planters who began last week cleared the ground quite as fast as expected. A few pockets have been weighed, which required about sixty-three bushels to the cwt. According to our parish we think the duty overrated. lioasktoisnEst.—The picking in this parish will very soon be over as we tall shorter and shorter, from the slackness of bine ; the hops having the advantage of sun and air, are excellent in condition. Every planter in the parish has overrated his growth; in fact, there sas but one person who had any accurate idea of the growth, and that was the wife of one of our largest planters. The very best garden in the parish was laid at 5f tons ; it came down at 3 tons 12 cwt. ; so on in every instance and shorter still. CRANBROOK.—Picking is proceeding .rapidly, the complaints of short returns are universal. EDENBIUDGE Picking has commenced in this parish, but the hops coa.e down very light, under one cwt. per acre as yet. CANTERBURY —Picking is now in general opera- tion in this neighbourhood, and in most instances the produce falls below the estimated quantity. It is generally thought that this district will nut contribute more than one-third of the amount of last year's duty, and hence the estimate for Canterbury which has ap peared is overrated. The duty meets supporters at 90,0001. to 95 0001., to reach which some districts must prove more favoured than East Kent promises. ORPINGTON.—We commenced picking on Thurday last, in the only ground that will have a bin in it, and to give you as correct an idea of the crop this year, compared with last, in this particular ground, we have picked off the best two acres 369 bushels (of which last year we picked 1,381 bushels). The rest off the ground will come down shorter than this, and we cannot reckon on more than 1i cwt. per acre. TICEHURST.—Sotne good samples have been ga • thered in this parish, but the quantity per acre in most places comes short of expectation, and the general opinion is that the present estimated duty is too high. HURSTGREEN.—Picking has become general, and many come down short of expectation, about 75 bushels to the cwt. FARNHAM, ALTON, AND COUNTRY DISTRICTS, SEPT. 17.—The hop-picking at Farnham is progress ing very favourably both as to quantity and quality. We wish we could say as much of the " country ; the quantity falls short, but the quality is very good. —Maidstone Gazette of this day. CORoNLItS' lIQUESTS. ALLEGED MArSLAUGHIER OF A MARRIED WOMAN BY HER IIUSBAND.—Before Mr. H. M. %Vakley, at the Perseverance, Weston-street, King's cross, on the body of Mary Anne Porter, aged 34. Mary Casey, a midwife from the workhouse, who was on Thursday lust sent to attend deceased, said that she had then all the symptoms of Asiatic cholera. In the evening the husband came home in a state of drunkenness. He kissed her and said, " Tell the nurse did I ill-use y,,u." She replied, " Leave off—don't kill me altogether." She bad been delivered of a child the previous Monday, and it died of cholera on Wednesday. Elizabeth Randon saw the husband, on the day before the child was born, throw his wife on the bed, and dreadfully beat her; after which, he and his son (deceased's step child) went out. Deceased's cheek and lips were frightfully swollen by the beating. Matilda Maddow stated, that on the Sunday men tioned by the previous witness, deceased came into her room, and said that her husband had stabbed her in the arm. Her lips were dreadfully swollen. Mr. Popham, surgeon, accompanied by Mr. Eastell, another district surgeon, visited deceased on the Wednesday before her death. The husband and her sister were in the room, and attempted to force her from the c bed, when he (Mr. Popham) said, " Fellow, what are you doing ? You will kill the woman." She gradually sunk until Friday, when she died. He performed a post mor tern examination. The body was one mass of bruises. Her upper lip was swollen and cut inside. On the top of the head was a wound which reached the brain, causing congestion of the brain. There was a wound behind the ear. The left side along the ribs was also bruised. She died of Asiatic cholera, and the injurie, might have been moving causes to the disease. Had she not died of cholera, the injuries in course of time wou'..d have caused death. Verdict—Deceased died of Asiatic cholera, after having been cruelly and disgracefully treated by her husband. At the close of the inquiry the police arrested the husband to charge him with his wife's death before the divisional magistrate. DEATH OF MR. W. WALKER, STOCKBROKER, FROM CH,L, RA.—Before Mr. Baker, at the Horns, Hackney road, on view of the body of Mr. W. Walker, aged sixty, who died of Asiatic cholera, at No. 45, Curtain-road. Deceased was by profession a stockbroker, and was a trt quenter of the Stock Exchange. lie was of the most penurious habits, and lived with his brother, who was also of eccentric disposition. They would never allow visits from any one, and the room which they occupied had not be..n entered for months by any one except themselves. It was in a most filthy state, and there were boxes in it piled one above another. Deceased was in the course of the last fortnight twice , attacked with Asiatic cholera. He was attended by Mr. Bowen, who stated that the room occupied by the deceased was in such a revolting condition as was quite suffiLunt to lead to an attack of the disease. Deceased was stated to be in possession of property. Verdict—" Death from Asiatic cholera." SOUTHAMPTON, TUESDAY MORNING..---The steamer trom llavre which arrived here this morning brings but a repetition of our last advices respect ing the cotton market. Yesterday's sales were 144 bales for imint.diate consumption, without any change in prices. The Narraganset, fur New Orleans, and the Elizabeth, for Constantinople, sailed from Havre yes terday. PORT AND HARBOUR OF CHESTER, RIVER DEE --- A must impoi tent inquiry took place at the Town-hall, Chester, during the last week, before two Admiralty Commissioners. The object of the inquiry was to ascer tain how far the River Dee Company had carried out its engagements respecting the maintenance of a depth of water for vessels drawing fifteen feet at high water of a moderate spring tide in this important and once flourishing navigation. It is contended by its opponents that the company has embanked large estates from the estuary of the Dee at the sacrifice of the navigation. The meetings were numerously and respectably attended, and among those present were Sir A. Dalrymple, Mr. Nankin, Mr. W. A. Provis, C.E , on the part of the company, Mr. Henry Robertson, C4l, Mr. Robert Ray, and Mr. Martin, Parliamentary agent, representing the Chester and Shrewsbury . Railway Company, and Mr. L. Martiutt and Mr. Hamilton Fulton, C. E , on the part of the shipping end manufac turing interests. The report of the A.:miralty is looked fur with much interest by all parties concerned, and the citizens of Chester are sanguine as to the Dee Company being compelled to restore the navigation to its former efficiency, The mortal remains of the late Bishop of Norwich, who died on the 6th instant, while on a visit at Bruhen Castle, Inverness-shire, the seat of the Honourable Mrs. Stewart Mackenzie, will be interred in Norwich Cathe dral, on Friday next. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE IN HYDE PASS.--A French gentleman attempted to commit suicide on Sunday afternoon, near the Magazine in Hyde park, by shooting himself threugh the budy with a pistol. The report was beard by some boys passing, who gave the alarm to the police, and the unhappy man was conveyed 00 a stretcher to S. George'a Hospital. He was severely wounded in the rild, and the ail, gerl cause of the rash at t e iept was that he had been plundered of 30 000 f. the preceding evening in the Ha) market. Cherish your best hopes as a faith, and abide by them in action.—Eliza Cook's Journal. THE UNITED STATES. ARRIVAL OF 'IIIE CANADA. LIVERPOOL, MONDAY IGAT. The royal mail steam-ship Canada, Captain Jud kins, which passtd Holyhead at noon to-t'ay, reached the north west light ship about six o'clock this evening, where she was obliged to stop for water, the state of the tide at that time not permitting her to cross the Bar. The steam-tender Satellite, Cuplain Parry, met the Canada below the light -ship, and took up the mails and papers on board the Canada. She reports that the Niagara at Halifax had arrived out, and that the Caledonia was met at Boston on the 31st ult. The Washington, from Southarnron, had, after a passage of fifteen days, rvached New York. The Canada bril,gs 112 passengers, and details of the cause why the Hibernia has not made her passage in the regular time, 4,1.nd is yet on the other side of the Atlantic. One of the Halifax papers of the 7th inst. says : " The Hibernia, on entering the harbour, struck en the rocks at Chebucto Head, and knocked a hole in her bottom. She was grounded in the dock immediately utter her arrival, and the pumps have been incessantly woz ked to keep her free of water. Efforts were made to stop the leak by building over it. They must have succeeded. as she sailed again on Saturday afternoon. " From one of the Admiralty agents, Lieutt naut Ray mond, we have received the following report : " The Hibernia was proceeding at slow speed, the weather being foggy ; she had a sea pilot on board in whose charge the ship was then placed, and she con• tinned to proceed at the same reduced speed. " At 6 30 A.M. (August 31) she struck on Chebucto Head Rocks, and sprang a leak forward. " The engines were immediately reversed and trimmed by the stern. At 6.55 the port anchor and fifteen lati , oms of chain cable were dropped under foot, and she was backed ofd;' and proceeded up the harbour to her station. " After undergoing repairs she resumed her voyage with her passengers and the mails. On the 4th she experienced unfavourable weather, which caused her to labour heavi.y, and the leak to in crease to three feet an hour by 9 A.M., up to which time her tour bilge pumps, with the aid of an injection every hour tor eight minutes, kept her free. The leak had now increased nine inches in fifteen minutes upon the four bilge pumps, being at the rate of three feet per hour, as above stated. These circumstances rendered it neces sary to use the injection for ten minutes every quarter of an hour. An attempt was made to place a foresail over the leak, but it was unsuccessful. A consultation was then held between the Admiralty agent, the com mander, and the chief engineer, who, after maturely considering the imminent risk of continuing her on her course, agreed upon the urgent necessity of bearing up for Halifax, %here she arrived at 5.20 A.M. on the 7th. "On the 81h, at 3.20 A m., the Canada arrived from New York, and having tat:en on board her own mails and passengers, and those of the Hibernia, proceeded on her voyage to England at six o'clock the same morning." Captain Stone, of the Hibernia, thus writes to the agents:— - - - - So far as I am able to form an opinion, I think the injury the ship has sustained is entirely confined to her ore foot ; or, iu other words, she only touched the rock forward. " The Hibernia proceeds to New York for repairs." On considering this unfortunate accident, it is pleasing to find that the captain and his officers are entirely without blame in the matter, and that in the trying emergency in which the ship was placed they have manifests d that skill and coolness which is so eminently requisite in persons having such an important charge in hand, and for which, moreover, the captains and crews of the British and North American royal mail steam .ships are justly celebrated. This opinion was very strongly expressed by the passengers, who met on board the Hibernia on the 6th inst„ and passed the following resolutions, the Hon. Joseph Balestier in the chair : " Resolved—That this meeting is of opinion that Capt. James Stone is in no manner whatever blameable for the grounding of the ship Hibernia on the morning of the 31st of August on Chebucto Head Rocks, as he had at the time two experienced pilots iu charge of the ship, and was himself on duty. "Resolved—That Captain Stone acted strictly in ac cordance with his duty in returning towards Halifax on Tuesday, the 4th inst., as, in the disabled condition of the ship, the lives, mails, anti property on board, would have been put in imminent danger had the veisel pro ceeded on her voyage to England, and they cordially ap prove of the conduct adopted by Captain Stone. " Resolved—That this meeting is of opinion that Captain Stone, his officers, engineers, and crew generally, have ever shown great skit and zeal in carrying out the duties of the ship, when placed in danger, as well as at all other times, and that Captain Stone, his officers, engi neers, and crew generally are entitled to the best thanks of the meeting. " Resolved—That the chairman be requested to com municate the above resolutions to Captain Stone." These resolutions were signed by all the male passengers on board the Hibernia. , We regret to learn that the splendid packet ship Henry Clay, which formerly used to bring us late intelligence from New York has been wholly destroyed by fire. A communication from New York, written just before the steamer sailed, thus alludes to the disaster : Tne N. w York and Liverpool packet-ship Henry Clay, took fire at her wharf, foot of Marden-lane, East River, at three A.M. to day, September 5. She was loaded with cotton and turpentine. It is expected she will be a total loss. She was scuttled, with the view to save her, but the water at the wharf was not deep enough, and the effort }ailed. She was to have sailed for Liverpool to-morrow, September 6. She is still burning, and is now nearly destroyed to the water's edge. All hopes of putting out the fire have of course bten given up. The cause of the fire is unknown. One reason that has been assigned is the heating of the damp cotton on board." The United States sloop of war Dale arrived at New York on the 30th ult. from San Francisco, with 65,000 dollars in specie ; no freight. The Empire City was expected in a few days from Chagres. It is probable she will bring two or three weeks later intelligence from California. General Taylor was at Niagara Falls. The cholera was decreasing. Colonel Benton had been arrested for a libel. A meeting of Northern and Southern delegates, with regard to a revision of the tariff, had been held at Newport; about fifty delegates were present. Nothing was finally agreed on but the policy of changing the basis of duties from ad valorem to specific. A slight increase of duty on iron, coal, wool, woollen and cotton goods was recommended. The annual report of the State Treasurer of Penn sylvania gives a most gratifying exhibit of the condi tion of the finances of that state. From Mexico we learn that the Mexican Government on the 11th ult. was in difficulty with Mr. C. M'lntosh in regard to a contract for the railroad across the isthmus of Tehuantepec. The Government intend to back out from the agrement; while .11.1.‘Intosh insists on its fulfilment. The Chamber of Deputies authorised the Government to raise half a million on the pledge of the imports, but the measure would probably be defeated in the Senate. . Die late Financial Minister, Senor Arranjeuz, has been appointed Minister to France. It was rumoured that Herreira intended to resign the Pre sidency in favour of Gutierrez, the present Minister of Finance. _ _ The municipal elections, which have just closed, give a large majority to the monarchical party Con gress was still in session, but was doing nothing of importance. The cholera was prevailing in the state of Durango to r. frightful extent. The Traite d' Union of Mexico, of the 11th ult., says, " As to the regulation of the debt, it is postponed to a more propitious epoch. Two new projects have been presented. Mr. Robertson, the agent of the English creditors, published in a lengthy article do cumen►s relating to the recent negotiations with the Minister of Finance. The press is earnestly discuss ing the pro and con, but nothing has been done, and we do not hesitate to say that nothing will be likely to take place. Advices from Havanuah to the 27th of August have been received. The stock of rice was large and the sales small, at 10i reals. There were four cargoes afloat. _ _ Itespeetir4r the general news by this arrival, the Courier and Inquirer says:— " in pditical matters we have nothing of moment to communicate. " The journey undertaken by the President is likely to be circumscribed by his illness, induced by over exertion, end the chclera atmosphere. He will probably go back from Niagara, where he now is, to Washington, without visiting the Eastern States, er delaying for the great agricultural fair at Syracuse, in this state, to be held next week. " From Canada we have no news of special interest. A new paper is about to be undertaken there for the ex press purpose of advocating the independence of the British North American colonies ' with a view to ulti mate aunitxation to the United States. We presume such a paper will be abundantly sustained on both sides of the line. e. With respect to the movement against Cuba, which the Pre: dent in his proclamation denounced—very vi gorous measures are taken by the authorities for its sup pression. A stuern-boat cleared at this port with elms and ammunition fur Curacoa, has been seized on suspi cion, and st me arrests, it is rumoured, were made to-day of persona connected with the enterprize against Cuba. " While thus observing good faith towards other na tions, the Administration at Washington are not un mindful of the rights of their own flee, and hence upon a peremptory demand upon the Governor of Cuba for the but render of Rey, a Spanish subject forcibly ab ducted, or repro sensing hitn,,elt to be. from New Orleans and carried to Havant - lab, that individual was promptly surrendered to the American Consul and restored to the United States. Iu Mexico all goes on, or rather stands still, as usual. From Calitornia'no very late news." Our correTondent, writing on the sth, say : "I nay: ittst hebrd irom Wathingtun to the following eiTec : " The Cabinet hive held a riveting, and the impres sion prevaqs that, tl.ey cidco to receive au Ut'C'f'•• diced Minitel' ft °in Hungary, to recognise its iudepcnd euce, and to cuter into tre•uttes_' " This, h , ,we ver, is nothing but a rumour; yet I have heard frutn another quarter that the affeirs of Hungary have been actually discussed at a meeting of the Cabinet Coueecil. Thus far the United States House or Reprc.sentatives shows 109 V, logs and 104 Democrats. A few more Members are yet to be elected." The crops of provisions bid fair to be very large this season, and buyers are holding back ✓ before making their purchases. Sugars remain the same as last quoted. There was not a hogshead fur shipment to France. The market was almost entirely bare. Exchange on London was quoted at 13 to 15, and on New York 5 per cent. t:reiniuni. LONDON:* TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 18, 1849. CONINIER( lAI4 IN I'ELLIGENCE. NEW Yonx.—Since the last steamer business has re vived to a great extent, and all thpariaients ate now very active. The disappetrance of the cholera had brought a large accession of visitors from all parts of the country, and goods are going ell freely. The payments trom the interior are prompt, and the trade of the sea• son promises to be as large and safe as that of any pre vious one since 1836. The money market remains abundantly supplied %kith capital, and there is no chance in the rites on bills. Ott good collaterals loans are made at 4 to 8 per cent., amid even lower in si.me cases. Business pap• r sells at sto 7 per cent. for short time, anti 8 to 10 per cent. for long time. The banks are full of specie. and are disc •unting all the good paper offered. The amount of coin in tie State Treasury at this point has accumulated to 3,200,000. The exchange market has been inactive fur this ste.imer, with a good supply of bills. First class sterling cloged dull, at 9/ ; but good natm.s could be had at 84 94. Francs, 527 to 25. CANADA. The news from Cam:tie:T s not important. We make the following extracts : " MONTREAL, AUG. 25.—The long and arduous labours of the coroner's jury over the body of Mason, shot during a recent eintute, have at length come to a close. They rendered a verdict that the dec , ased (Mason) came to his death by. haviPg been shot by some person or persons unknown to them; and that such person or persons were firing in defence the life and property of M. Lafontaine. The jury, at the same time, expressed their opinion that, had the corporation used timely and necessary precaution, the calamity would have been avoids d; end that said corporation were very much to blame for such neglect. " MONTREAL, AUG. 27.—At a meeting of the Exe cutive Council it was said to be determined to retain the seat of government here, and to keep the horse police out of the city. MM. Lafontaine and Merritt have left for Halifax, supposed on business of the Custom-house League. " MONTREAL, AUG. 29.—Everything here now is quiet, and judging from the general feeling of the people, is likely to remain so. Special constables patrol the streets all night, to prevent the occurrence of fires, which are feared from depredators. "Five hundred houees are vacant at Montreal, and rents have fallen considerably. Many labouring people are finding their way to the United States, not being able to get employment in Canada. " MONTREAL, AUG. 31.—The opinion is becoming general that differential duties will be imposed on Ame rican goods, unless the Government of the United States will consent to reciprocity in navigation-laws.', " MONTREAL, SEPT. I.—To-day Government Ex change on L.Judon for 25,000 sold, by tender, for 10 to 10i. The Governor is expected to arrive in town to morrow. " MONTREAL, SEPT. 3.—Governor-General expected and he will attend the church.--26,0001. in Goverment, Exchange sold at 10k per cent.—Wheather fine, cholera bad." COUlti' CIRCULAR. BALMORAL, SEPT. 15. There has been no interruption to the usual even enour of the life of her Majesty and her Majesty's Family at Balmoral for the last two days. Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governors of the Cape of Good Hope, the Mauritius, and St. ilelena. "BETTER FED THAN TAUGHT." (From Elira Cook's Journal.) Let him look about who wanders, And he'll surely find, When he notes where Fortune squanders, That she must be blied. Gilded ignorance will jostle Poor Wit from the wall; While brute Wealth pursues its wassail, Worth waits in the hall; And when such strange things confound us Well may come the thought, Oh! how many are there round us " Better fed than taught!" When we see a stately madam, In some lofty place, Proud as any child of Adam, 01 her worldly grace,— When we hear her lips inveighing, Bitterly and long, Against some lowly sister straying In the path of wrong,— When she breathes the loud decrying, As no Christian ought,— Charity keeps gently sighing, " Better fed than taught." Whea we find a Priest, who groweth Greater every year, Taking corn that labour soweth, When 'tis in the ear,— When we see his heart get thinner As his tithes increase, Snatching from the helpless sinner All he can of fleece,— When we find such saints defaming Creeds with mercy fraught,— Tell me, who can help exclaiming, " Better fed than taught!" When we see a young man leaning Idly on his gold, Large in speech, but small in meaning, Out of danger, bold, — When we see him rude to Weakness, Insolent to Age, Trampling on the words of Meekness, With a braggart's rage,— When we note the revel vision Of his brain distraught,— Wisdom sneers, in cool derision, " Better fed than taught!" When some little miss or master, Fresh from desk and form, Manages to spread disaster In a household storm, — When they cry for " moons" above them, And for " chimney bricks," — When they cling to these who love them, With most filial kicks, — Let us brand such olive blossoms As wise people ought, And hang this label on their bosoms, "Better fed than taught." Go , d sooth! we must mind our manners, One and all and each, Or Shame will leap and plant her banners In some moral breach. When Prosperity's broad table Yields us all H e ask , _ _ _ 'Tis to make us strong ard able For some Duty-task; Let us feast, but let us render Goodly deed and thought, Lest our lives bear this addenda, " Better fed than taught." ELIZA COOl6 CURE OP THE POTATO DISEASE —The following' letter from Capt. Elliot. It. N., inspector-general of High land destitution, will be round deserving of attention : Lochalsh, Aug. 29, 1849. The existence of the potato blight in Wester Ross and Skye is certain. It is ge neral, but it is not, as yet, so universal or destructive as hitherto. its ravages are now, however, much more rapid than when I discovered its re-appearance in June, and gave so much unintentional offence by stating the fact in a warning tone. The season is now tar advanced. The tuber is of some size, and in some of the early va rieties near maturity. I think the poor people might save some portion by attending to the following two experiments, the result of which was also wit. uessed by Mr. Ord, of Muirhouselaw, burghshire, a most extensive and intelligent agri culturist, and Mr. Macleod of Kingsburgh, on whose farm the experiment was made. About the 4th of August the black spot appeared on the leat. It was spreading. After a few days, Mr. Macleod selected two different situations for experiment. He took three drills in each case; he let the shaw remain on the middle one ; he cut those on one side of it, and he pulled those on the other. On the 281 r we found the result in both cases exactly similar. In a given space the drill that bad the shaw pulled was sound, without an exception that we could discover, and of a size scarcely less than ordi nary. On the middle drill, where the shaw bad been left untouched, but which by that time was almost all rotted away, we did not discover a single sound potato. I think the tutors were larger, but the difference was trifling. On the drill where the shawl were cut, the potatoes were all sound, with a single, or at most two exceptions. I saw the sound potatoes cooked, and trey were mealy, laughing fellows, more like the olden time. —Ab,rdeeid Herald. ACCIDENT IN WATFORD TUNNEL.—The train from the north due,last night at five minutes past nine o'clock did not arrive at Euston-square station till half an hour alter midnight. It appears that about the middle of Watford tunnel the axletree of the tender broke, and the train was immediately brought to a eandstill, without, however, any further damage. After nearly three hours' detention the train was taken back to King's Langley, tnd brought through the tunnel on the down line. From Lire same cause the later trains did not arrive till much atter their time. Nottwicli, SEPT. 16.-It is confidently stated here chat Lord Auckland, the present Bishop of Sodor and w a n, will be translated to the see of Norwich. Several gentlemen, two or three of whom are connected with the atiOcese of N orwich, have been spoken of as successors of t Lord Auckland, but it would be invidious to particularise saws. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE M9II2 , HNG PAPERS OF Tills .DAY. TIMES.—The resolute attack of the' Board of Health on the dangerous and revolting practice of , intramural sepulture meets, as was to be expected, with an equally determined opposition on the part of the local authorities, whose traditional jealousy of cen tralized control is enhanced in the present case by , their anticipation of direct pecuniary loss from the • closure of the obnoxious graveyards. At a recent meeting of the St. Saviour's vestry, when it was re solved by a large majority to keep open the Cross-bones burying-ground, notwithstanding the prohibition of the Board of Health, the chief arguments employed were, that the rich would lose the sums paid for family vaults, and the poor find their burial fees doubled if, yielding to a " meddlesome and imperti neat" interference, they gave up a burial-place which they had enjoyed for 200 years, before an other equ Illy cheap and accessible should be pointed out. As for the complaints of offensive tffluvium preferred by persons residing in the vicinity of the ground, they were stigmatized by the chairman as exaggerated and false, seeing that the coffins were of It-ad and airtight; and the smell, even in the public vault, not offensive, but only " close, damp, and earthy." Setting .aside the average intermixture of prejudice and passion in all discussions which in volve conflicting interests, the objectixis urged by the Warden of St. Saviour's are not without au ap pea ance of weight, and are such as plain men of business, accustomed to compute their OA n interests, and to manage their own local affairs, on rigorously economical principles, might, at the first blush of the proposition, very reasonably maintain. _Much, therefore, as we deplore the spectacle of an acrimo nious conflict between rival sanitary authorities, in the midst of a pestilence, requiring for its effectual encounter the heartiest and must energetic co-opera tion, we shall, on the present occasion, refrain from pronouncing a censure which would probably but aggravate existing animosities, and address ourselves to the practical elucidation of the questions at issue. 'The first point to be decided is, whether deleterious effluvia really escape from graveyards, or whether, as the chairman of the St. Saviour's vestry alleges, the gases resulting from the decomposition of the dead are retained in the "leaden, airtight" coffins? Upon this subject it is first to be observed that the bodies of the pot.rer classes are not buried in lead, hut in ' coffins made of boards, often very slightly nailed to gether. Moreover, even in the leaden coffins it is customary to make a number of holes underneath the coffin-plate, to give egress to the pees, which would else, by their accumulation, first bulge and then burst the coffin. When this precaution is neglected con siderable danger ensues to the gravediggers who have on many occasions been seized with asphyxia, or even killed on the spot, by the poisonous gases emitted from a suddenly burst coffin. To escape these hazards they not unfre quently "tap" the coffins, and let out a jet of gas, which, being ignited, burns from ten minutes to half an hour. These are perfectly well-known facts, as any man may convince himself by inquiry amongst the undertakers and sextons. The gases which thus escape are partly absorbed into the earth which surrounds the coffins, and partly ascend into the air above the graveyard, from which, by the law of the diffusion of gases, they rapidly spread through the entire mass of the air of London. ;In old graveyards the earth becomes so saturated that it can take up no more gas ; the whole of which, therefore, is emitted into the atmosphere, and may, indeed, in hot, close weather, be observed rising in a sort of steam out of the ground. Thus, during the last century, have the two millions and a quarter of corpses buried in the merropolis within that period ascended into the air, and been inhaled by the sur vivors ; a species of gaseous anthropophagy, or aerial cannibalism, hardly less loathsome to our sense than the consumption of the same fl.sh, in its solid form, as practised by the bowling savages. The next question raised by the advocates of intra mural burial is, whether these effluvia, admitting them to be evolved, are in reality the cause of epi demic disease. In Paris tl - ey argue there are neither graveyards nor slaughterhouses, yet the cholera at each visitation has raysged Paris with greater severity than London. What reason, then, is there for anticipating any sanitary advantage from the establishment of extramural cemeteries and abattoirs, like those of Paris, around our metropolis ? This argument is plausible, but founded partly on igno rance, partly on misrepresentation of facts. In Paris, though there are no graveyards, there are large cess pools under all the houses. Each of these cesspools is made of sufficient dimensions to contain the whole ordures of the establishment beneath which it is placed for twelve months ; the object being to avoid paying the vidangeur's char b e (100 francs) more than once a year. Now, the gas which accumulates in these cesspools is identical in its nature and proper ties with that which accumulates in our learlen coffins. So deadly is it that the vidangeur whose duty it is to raise the stone covering of the t4nk with his crowbar rushes back the moment he perceives a chink, in order to escape the first outgush of gas, which, if inhaled, causes a man to fall dead, as if shot with a musket-ball. The Parisians, therefore, are in this repect nearly as ill-off as the inhabit ants of those Eastern towns where they bury 'their dead underneath their houses; for it is ob viously unimportant, so far as the production of dis ease is concerned, whether the putrescent g..is be generated from one kind ofanitnal remains or another. If we add to this the fact that the lower class of Parisians drink a thin sour wine, in itself deleterious, and rendered still more so by the adulterations prac tised in consequence of the heavy octroi duties levied at the city gates, we shell be at no loss to understand why Paris is more fatally ravaged by cholera than London. Gases distilled from coffins in the church yard, and entering through our windows, reach us in a more diluted form than when they are generated under the house itself, as a chemist generates gas under a bell-glass. Every other pretended exception to the established law, that putrescent effluvia are deleterious to man, and promote the spread of pesti lential epidemics, will be found to disappear in like ;nanner before an attentive examination. Science, therefore, concurs with humanity in dictating the removal from among us of animal residua, whether contained in coffins or cesspools, and whether 1) ing beneath or beside our dwellings. But the Warden of St. Saviour's raises a question of pounds, shillings, and pence. He reminds the parishioners that those who have paid from 5 to 10 guineas for a family vault in the Cross-bones grave yard will require their money to be refunded if the ground should be closed, whilst the poor, who only pay a burial fee of 13s. at the Cross-bones ground, will, if driven to the parish churchyard, be charged 265. for interment. To this we reply, ,that it is the declared intention of the Legislature to deal tenderly with all vested interests with which the proposed changes may interfere, and the bona fide proprietors of family vaults in intramural graveyards need not tear uncompensated expropriation. With respect to the burial fee charged to the poor, it forms hut a small part of the cost of interment, which amounts on an average, to from 4/. to 51. for a person of the labJuring class. It is, moreover, in the power of the clergy and the parochial authorities to reduce the parish burial fees to a level with the means of the poor; and, for the price now exacted from working men for intramural sepul ture they , might procure equally decent transmission, and far more decent and undisturbed repose, in either of the suburban cemeteries. Indeed the pecuniary side of the argument tells greatly against the advocates of the intramural system. The diseases promoted by graveyard gas cuts short many lives at a period when they are profitable to the com munity I and prevent the repayment, in reproductive labour, of the social debt incurred during helpless infancy. The workmen destroyed in their prime by the present epidemic have left many thousands of w iJows and orphans, of whom a considerable pro pOrt:on will become chargeable on the funds of tht it respec.`ive parishes. And the parochial expenditure necessitated by the fever cases which are promoted by the putrescent effluvia in question is immense. In the Bethnal-green and Whitechapel Unions alone the charge for the relief of fever cases during the first quarter of 1838 was 6161. 195., or at the rate of 2,4671. 16s. per annum ! We invite the attention of the ratepayers of London to these simple but signifi cant computations, which, we think, go tar to prove that intramural sepulture is as inconsistent with sound parochial economy as it is dangerous to the public welfare, and repugnant to the general sense of the community. HERALD.—The intelligence received from the Cape colony will be read with much interest. We were quite prepared for the news which we received last week from this dependency. We knew that it must soon come; and it came in the very shape that all our knowledge of the Cape colonists led us con fidently to expect. We knew that they were a very loyal people; and we knew that they had been grossly injured. We had the utmost faith in their attachment to the Crown. We believed that, strong in the justice of their cause, they would not suffer themselves to be betrayed into any violent, unconsti tutional excesses. But we were equally certain that moral force would be exerted to the utmost for the resistance of the Ministerial attempt to force ocurse, n an unwilling and protesting people a p g from which they shrink with ho rror and dismay. We ollutin were equally certain that the Cape colonists, whilst true to their Sovereign, would be true to themselves — that they would not endure in patience the mighty wrong which had been done to them—the violation of their most cherished p olitical ri g hts, and the subver sion of their best social interests. The Cape colony NM threatened with ruin and disgrace ; and almost, it would seem, as one man, the colonists have risen up in resistance of the injuries and in dignities which were about to overwhelm them. The tidings which we received last week assured us that they had resorted to no violence —that they had broken no law. They had not weak ened a good cause by one unseemly act of intem perance. When they said that " they loved their country—they loved tbeir Queen"—that " there is not in the wide circle of her Maji,sty'sdominions a people more grateful for benefit:, or more patient under ordinary errors incidental to all human institutions," we telt that they uttered no more than the truth. Their past conduct had entitled them to be heard, and we believed that all their future movements would be governed by the same love of peace and order. Our lest intelligence, however, from the disturbed colony proves that we have somewhat overestimated the patience and forbearance of the inhabitants of Cape Town. We regret that even one blow should have been struck—that the slightest act of violence should have been committed, under any kind of provocation. Up to a certain point nothing could have been more dignified and decorous than the conflict of the Cape colonists. The means to which they resorted in the first instance, to enforce the withdrawal of the noxious order, whch had so excitfd tla•ir indigna• tion, were likely to be far more effectual than any demonstrations of physical force. They petitioned the Crown, and they petitioned the Parliament of Gra at Britain. The Governor, Eke an old soldier, declared his fixed resolution to obey orders. e a they had nothing, therefore, to look fur in th:.t direction, they determined, so long as the offensive order re mained in fo rce , to co-operate in various ways to render it inop , rative. They bound themselves to employ no convict labour; and to taboo any man who did. lie who lent himself directly or indirectly to the furtherance of the great iniquity was thencetorth to be a marked man. He was to be avoided as a moral leper—as one who had contracted a noisome disease —who was to be pointed at as a f ul thing with which no clean and healthy man would come in contact, Evitundus eat! He was to be placed beyond the reach of human sympathy. Buyers and sellers would have nothing to do with him. The banks closed their coffers against him. The insurance offices agreed to regard him as one tainted, and to deny their policies to him. Employment of convict labour was thus pub licly declared the one unpardonable social offence of the colony, and all classes of men combined to shoot their arrows at the offender. In this crisis Govern mt,nt came forward to throw the wgis of its protec tion over the social culprit. It promised aid to those who could get no aid from their fellows. The public treasury was opened to those to whom the banks denied accotninodation. Provision contractors were encounged to supply food to the convicts by advances from the Colonial. Treasury. The war was thus c'::mmenced in earnest, and there could have been no doubt of the issue of the contest. The Cape Govern ment could not gain a victory over such a combina tion as that to which it was opposed. Already, in deed, had it given way. Sir Harry Smith had determined that when the convicts arrived they should not come ashore upon the main land, but be unshipped at Robben Island, or placed on board a hulk in Simon's Bay, and remain there until the pleasure of her Majesty should be known. In this position we hoped that affairs would continue pending the rescission of the noxious order. So far the colonists had defended their rights without resorting to one act of physical violence. But the last accounts exhibit a different state of things. The movement has assumed a more dangerous and less dignified aspect. The new Members of Council, who hid been called in by the Governor upon the resignation of his old colleagues, have been mobbed, outraged, and assaulted. The property of one of them has been violently destroyed ; another has been reduced by the combination of his townsmen to the very verge of starvation ; and it was at one time in contempla tion to cut off the supplies of .the Governor himself. Thus threatened, Sir Harry Smith has issued a pro clamation of no very conciliatory character. He bas declared his determination—and situated as he is we may pity, but cannot blame him—to uphold the majesty of the law ; and so the case stands at present, or so it stood when the last advices left the Cape. Heaven knows to what extremities, in the interim, • the contending parties may have proceeded. We regret that mutters should have reached this pass—we regret that the smallest act of violence should have weakened the cause of the Cape colonists. Still, we cannot wonder at—we are scarcely preFared to blame their conduct. There has been nothing of factious opposition in the present movement. None of those lower motives which impel men to place themselves in an attitude of antagonism with constituted autho rities have been at work among them. The Cape c , _lonists are lovers of peace and order. They would fain have preserved all the re lations of society in th=eir most settled and organized condition, and maintained the political institution of their country with all loyalty and re-pect. But there was a point beyond which their forbearance could not carry them. All they df manded was, that the convicted crime of Great Britain should not be poured out upon their hitherto unpol luted colony. This they have asked in vain, and now they are enforcing the compliance which it would have been wisdom to have granted in the first instance under the influence of something nobler than fear. What her 111.jesty will be pleased to decree under such circumstances no person can seriously doubt. However disagreeable such retractation may be, the responsible advisers of the Crown have now nothing in the world to do but to slide out of their present difficulty with what grace they may, and bow to the force of public opinion as it exists alike in the colons and in the mother country. It is very plain the Cape will have nothing to do with convict labour— that it will not suffer itself, without a desperate struggle, to be converted into a penal settle ment. The condition of our colonies all over the world is not such as to encourage Ministers to trifle with, or to attempt forcibly to suppress, such a state of public feeling as now exists at the Cape. Wherever we turn our eyes, it we have no recent outburst to contemplate, there are symptoms of feverish unrest—of latent disorder, which may, we know not how soon, develope itself in fierce and alarming paroxysms, which must be suffered to take their course. There is no other path open to Ministers but concession. The convict experiment must be manfully declared a blunder; and the crimi nals intended for the Cape must find an asylum else where. It is well that the present difficulty should be got over without any loss of time—that an attempt should be made to conciliate the Cape before new dangers threaten us more alarmingly from all quar ters. It is to be feared that this outburst in South Africa will prove in the sequel but a faint reflection of a far more portentous storm in some of the Austra •lian colonies. We have been threatened with such a tempest for some time; the next arrivals may report that it has burst over us. DEATH OF AN CHARTIST Yesterday an inquest was held before Mr. Lang ham, deputy-coroner for Westminster, upon the body , of Alexander Sharpe, one ref the Chartist leaders, who died of cholera in Tothill- fields Prison, on Friday last, under circumstances similar to those attendant upon the death of Williams, the Chartist convict, ss hose death from cholera we recently announced. Sharpe was concerned with 'Williams, Fussell, and other Chartist leaders, and was sentenced to two years' imprisonment; at the end of that time to enter into his own recognizances in 1001. and to find two sure ties in 501. each to keep the peace fi r three years. The de ceased was in good health w hen he entered the gaol on the 12th of July, 1848, and, as in the ease of his friend Williams, a sum of ss. per week was paid by his relatives to the governor of the prison for his exemption from doing any work, such as picking oakum. The money was paid regularly until the 11th ulr., when it was stopped, and work was offered to Sharpe, who re fused to do any. On the 20th ult. Mr. T. Cue, the deputy governor, gave the deceased some oakum, and ordered him to pick the usual quantity. The de ceased declined doing so. On the 20th of August he was taken before the visiting magistrates, who ordered him to suffer six days' solitary confinement, and to receive bread and water; the amount of bread allowed him being 141 b. per diem. On the evening of the Bth inst. the deceased was taken ill, having been seized with bowel complaint. He was attended in his cell that night, and the next morning removed to the infirmary, but pain in the bowels and purging came on occasionally, with cramps, until Friday evening, when he died. He was generally restless, and impatient of being kept in bed, saying that the doctor wanted to try his constitution, and that it was an infernal shame. Before his death he told his wife that he had never been well since he had been locked up and kept on bread and water. Mr. Atkinson, the barrister, attended on behalf of the relatives of the deceased, who expressed great dissatisfaction at the treatment he had received. Several of the warders and sub warders of the prison were examined, and afterwards cross-examined, by Mr. Atkinson, with a view to show that the sudden change from full diet and plenty of exercise to solitary confinement and bread and water, whilst cholera existed in the prison, had caused the death of the deceased. One of the jurors wished to know how it happened that the deceased had either to work or pay for his exemption, when his sentence did not include hard labour, and also that he had been confined to his cell and put upon bread and water upon the authority of the governor only, unsupported by that of the visiting magistrates? Captain Williams, one of the inspectors of prisons, referred to the Act 4th George IV., chap. 64, section 38, to show that even where no sentence of hard labour was passed, the country was not to maintain the prisoner unless he was either incapable of labour or of paying for his exemption. The 42d section of the same Act specified certain breaches of discipline for which the Governor might, of his own authority, commit any prisoner, not exceeding three days, to solitary confinement and bread and water. The inquiry having lasted three hours, Mr. Atkinson suggested an adjournment, which was ultimately agreed to and the inquiry was adjourned to this day. LITERATURE. SLATER'S SHILLING, 4 SE RIZAg• Another excellent publicationtsjin V IA of monthly volumes has recently,stfeeirfis the establishment of Mr. Slaterisito*ltick_: offer our meed of commer(dritiones4 o 47„p rstlpf latest volumes are peculiiiiri t s,' tention. One of thesiK i lii thits:c:otnnienc'ea: silent of a cheap translati6:Mk'JYS ;admi r able: fictions of Frederika 13?0.ee ) ;;;A k iL s ...Si ms t iss a • - novelist—a lady who is, al ..a,, writ tr ,, \ Mademoiselle Jenny Lind It — scingii 4 ress. Within a portable compass we have here her "Minor Tales," a book which has tended not the least to spread her celebrity. These "Minor Tales" consist of six stories or sketches—the 'Twins," "Axel • and Anna," the " Solitary One," the "Con soler," " Stockholm Suppers," and " Hopes." These graceful little compositions are already so generally known, and their merits so ge nerally appreciated, that nothing remains for us tb do beyond the mere announcement of their re-publication. Another of the present series compri,es, within a similar space. the " Orations, Lectures, and Addresses" of Ralph Waldo Emerson, the Carlyle of America. " Man Thinking ;" "An Address ;" " Literary Ethics;" the "Method of Nature ;" " Man the lielormer;" the " Young American ;" and a speech delivered on the anniversary of the " Emancipation of the Negroes ;" are contained in this remarkable volume. No one who has ever perused them need be intormed how bold are tl:e arguments, how quaint is the style, how inimitable are the illustrations, or how generous is the philosophy of this extraordinary and original author. Mr. Emerson has secured for himself the attention of every rsflec tive mind even though he may provoke against him self the oppo,ition of the majority ot. Christians by the audacity of his logic. The gis tof his ethical belief is this :—./ am God; you are God ; the intelligence of every man is a portion of the Divinity ! He himself has never expressed this view so explicitly, but that we maintain, and nothing less than that, is the gist of his creed. Hence we are diametrically opposed to him; yet, antegonisti.c though we be, we listen to him respectfully, because of the earnestness with which he evidently searches atter the truth, end the rever ence with which he steaks of the Omnipotent God. To learn the boldness of his articulations we need only listen to him when he says that "'the natural philosophy that now is, is only the first gropings r f its gigantic hand." His independence of thought is sufficiently shown in that declaration''=" I had better never see a book than to (?) be warded by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system." If it be asked what are the feelings of Emerson in reference to Religion— hear him talk of the " religious sentiment" in the abstract—" It is a mountain air. It is the embalmer of the world. It is myrrh and storax, and chlorine and rosemary. It makes the sky and the hills sublime; and the silent song of the stars is it." Here again is an indication of toe current of his philosophy In the divine order intellect is primary; nature, secondary—it is the memory of the mind. That which once existed as pure law, has now taken body as nature. It existed already in the mind in solution now it has been precipitated, and the bright sediriient is the world." To us that is an odd but beautifill definition of creation. Of the dignity of human nature in his consideration, here is a token :—"_An • individual man-is a fruit which it cost all the fore going ages to form and ripen. He is strong not to do, but to live; not in his arms, but in his heart ; not as an agent, but as a fact." Of the duties of manhood he speaks thus:—" What are the thoughts we utter but the reason of our incar nation; to utter these thoughts we took flesh, mis sionaries of the everlasting word which will be spoken." Do we wish to give an instance of the felicity of his metaphors or illustrative expressions ? Here is one, where he speaks of " the locomotive and steam-boat, like enormous shuttles, shooting every (lay across the thousand various threadS of national descent and employment, and binding them fast in one web." Again, referring to the necessity of the agricultural cultivation of the AmeriCan continent, he says " This great savage country 'should be furrowed by the plough and combed by the harrow." Without transcribing one other sentence, we feel satisfied we have quoted enough to demonstrate the singularly original and powerful character of the intellect of Mr. Emerson. Another distinguished American is the author of the two remaining volumes now under consideration—the poet and novelist, Professor v Wadsworth Longfellow. Besides the tale called Henry "Kavanagh," we have before us a reprint of his well known poeiical romance of Evangeline." Written in exquisite hexameters, this story cannot fail to charm the mind by its grace, and to move the heart by its inculcation of the principles of love and gentleness. Faultless the poem is not, but fraught with beauty it is. The hero is admirably depicted—with a face, " like the fsce of the morning, Gladdening the earth with its light and ripening though! into action." Noble is his lamentation over the miseries of the world, as it exists at present, where "Daily itiju.tice is done, and might is the right of the strongest !" What an exquisite picture is that sketched by him in five lines, where he depicts Evangeline and her be trothed : 6. Sat the km rs, and whispered together, I:khuldang the moo❑ rise Over the pdllid sea, and the silvery Inist of the meadows. Silently vne by one, in the ihfinite meadows" 'of heaven, Blossom'd the lovely stars, the Arget-me-notsof the angels." Here are two golden verses. One on affection-- " Talk not of wasted affection ; affection never was wasted." The other as follows :-- " Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike." Another thought of subtle meaning runs thus— " Feeling is deep and still ; and the word that floats on the surface Is as the tossing buoy, that betrays where the anchor is hidden." Speaking of Evangeline as she wandered. in the dark through a garden, he says very daintily— " Nearer and round about her, the manifold flowers of the garden Pour'd out their souls in odours, that were their prayers and confessions Unto the night, as it went its way, a silent Carthusian." Another of Longfellow's strange and fantastic de lineations is that of the forest, where— " Over them vast and high extended the cope of a cedar, Swinging from its groat arms the trumpet. flower and the grape-vine, Hung their ladder of ropes aloft like the ladder of Jacob, On whose pendulous stairs the angels ascending, de scending, Were the swift humming-birds that flitted from blossom to blossom." So odd, singular, and occasionally grotesque is " Evangeline' —a poem sometimes charmingly rhythemical, at others deplorably common-place and prosaic—but tfroughout marred by its careless and uncertain volubility. TESTIMONIAL TO THE HUNGARIAN REFUGEES. THE HUNGARIAN NATION COUNTS ON THE SYMPATHY OF EVERY NATION WHICH LOVES RIGHT ♦ND LI.. BERTY."—Kosauth's Protest against Russian Interven tion. Subscriptions may be scut to the following bankers:—. Messrs. Cousts and Co. Mtbers. Drummond. Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smith ; or to any one of the members of the committee formed to carry out the Testimonint. • .*All further Post• office orders to be made payable toMurdo Young, Esq., at the Money Order Office, - Strand. Subscriptions already received ... Z 1,096 1 11 MANSION-UOUSE.—Yesterday evening the Lord Mayor had the honour ot eetertainieg at owner a party of private friends connected with the City of London. Covers were laid or 50. NEWPORT, ISLE OF WIGHT.—COINS FOUND.— A mosreurious and interistieg discovery of coins of the 14th century was made on Saturday morning last, by the workmen employed in erecting some buildings at the back of the premises of Messrs. Perress and Dallimore, drapers, ot High-street. Th.-y consist principally of the pennies of th e rei g ns of Edward 1., 11., and 111. of sh e mints of London, Canterbury , York , Durham , Ber wick, Newcastle, Lincoln, St Edmund's, Bristol, Dublin, and Waterford, intermixed with many ot the reign of Alexander of Scotland. About 2,500 ate in the pos session of Mr. Perress, and it is known that very many more were taken by the workmen, previously to his be coming aware of the discovery. So large a hoard of coin, ut one period, has not before been discovered its the island, and is ( quailed only by that brought to light some few years since at Buritoo, in this county, and which consisted exclusively of pennies of the Conqueror. From the circumstance that all the coins now found are immediately anterior to the time of King Richard 11., the period of the deposit mny not unreasonably be referred to the burning of Newport by the French in the second year of the reign of that monarch.—Hampshire Advertiser. SHOCKING SUICIDE BY A C L ERGIMAN.—CODSi .- derable excitement has prevailed in the village of Mel vern during the past week, in consequence of the Rey. Peter Hall, a visitor, lodging at 10r. Nash s, Castle House, having cut his throat. The rev. gentleman, wl.o was about fifty years of age, and had been visiting Mal vern for some months past, committed the rash act in his bed-room on Tuesday week, in the presence of his lady. who, in endeavouring to prevent him, had her hands cut. He was immediately attended by Mr. West, surgeon, under whose care he lingered until M on day morn i ng , when he expired. At the time of. his committing the rash act Mr. Hall was under medical treatm . eiit.—"Bristoi Journal. `s• rer he lea be