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

I Pettingall, New York ; Mary Lyoa (barque). Arrd. from the River, 20th, Britsn, Miller, Mauritius; Sultana, Grisley, Cape of Good Hope ; Van g uard, Robinson, Barbadoes. 21st, Agenoria, Newby, Sydney, New Wales ; Susannah, Lukey, Adelaide, South Aus tralia; Dispatch, Owen, Algoa Bay; Ada, Constance, Mogalor; Franklin, Baston. Sld. 20th, Emma, Eugenia, Sydriy, New South Wrces; Margaret Evans, New York; Marshall Bennett, Constantinople. 21st. The Arrnia, Neath to Hamburgh, sprung a leak in the Downs last night, and was abandoned. A boat's crew from hence endeavoured to Aet her into Ramsgate, but were obliged to put her on the Main, near Sandown Castle, but is expected off this morning; cargo dis charging. ABERDEEN, JAN. 19.—Winl S.W.—Arrd. Rose, Gibb, DUNDEE, JAN. 20.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrd. 19th, Czar, Moore, St. John's, New Brunswick. NEWRY, JAN. 17.—Arai. James, Hidden, New York. CORK, JAN. 18.—Arrd. Ada Mary, 'Whitehead, Laguna; industry, Holman, New York; Sophia, Jolly, Pugwash; Charles, Deaca, St. Jolla's, N.wfoandlan.l. 19, Reliance, Burgoyne, Mauritius; Atalanta, M-Coag, Matanzas, with loss of masts, &C. WEXFoRD, JAN. 19.—The Britannia, Vincent, from Bristul to litarbad. , es, came on shore at this place la , t night, and is full of water; crew saved; part of carg o may be saved. _ _ _ NVESTPORT, JAN. 19 —The Gem, Murray. of and for Galway, th. , in New York, drove on shore ye,,terday in I-hrbour during a gale; crew saved; asii4 tar:ce has bee:• enc MARKET NE THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE—(MONDAY). During last week the arrivals of all kinds of Grain as well as Flour for our maiket coastwise were on a very limited scale. By land carriage they were somewhat on the increase. From Scotland very little corn reached us, but the supply of Oats from Ireland was one of the largest received in any week since the close of 1847—it having exceeded 26 000 quarters. The foreign imports were good. viz . 15,93 9 quarters of Wheat; 5,168 ditto of Barley; 2,447 ditto of Oats; 970 ditto of 13, , ans; 874 ditto of Peas; 530 ditto of Tares; 2,907 ditto of Linseed; 819 ditto of Rapeseed; 2.200 ditto of Indian Corn; 15 ditto of sundry Seeds; 2,396 sacks, and 1,837 barrels of Flour. Th e arrivals from the Baltic and Black Seas during the present week are expected to be very small. The quantity of Wheat received fresh up to-day from Essex and Kent was very moderate, and in but middling condition—that from Cambridgeshire, &c., was trifling in the extreme. The stands were scantily supplied with samples of both Red and White. As the millers almost generally are waiting the new order of things—viz., the decline in the duties on and after the Ist proximo —the business transacted in Wheat of home growth was again small. Still, however, the bulk of the English Wheats sold at prices equal to those paid on this day se'nnight. The market closed free from animation. With free Fo reign Wheat we were tolerably well, but not to say heavily, supplied. The best descriptions sold to a fair extent, at full rates of currency ; but the middling and out of condition sorts were a very slow inquiry, at barely stationary prices. Wheat under lock was de cidedly slow in sale, yet it is held at prices within two or three shillings per quarter of free parcels. It is cal culated th a t a b out 200 ,000 quarters h ave c h ange d h an d s during the last month. This will materially lessen the quantity to be thrown upon our market during February. Although the supply of Barley, both English and Fo. rei gn, was tolerably good, Malting samples were in t.rady request, at lull prices. Grinding and Die sorts moved off slowly, at late rates. '- 'he large influx of Irish Oats had a depressing effect u P° l l the Oat trade. The best English and Scotch Oats sol d on form er t erms , b u t Irish qualities receded quite vu Per quarter. In Beans—the supply of which was but , ruu derate—n e xt to nothing was doing, and prices had a I"cillward tendency. All kinds of Peas were a dul -n q ui rY, at barely late rates. Indian Corn and Meal we re ~ easier to purchase. The top price of English Fluor was 44s per 2801bs. CITRUENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASU E. sVheat—Essex & Kent, Malt—Chevalier • • • 593 to 60s Red. 40s to 48s Oats—Yorkshire and D itto,White, New 455 565 Lincolnsh., Feed. 17s 20e Norfolk and Lin- Potato coin, Red..... 40s 478 Youghal and Cork, Ditto, White...... 448 548 81ack....... 155 193 Irish, Red...... —8 —s Cork, White ..• 158 20 Di tto,White. • •• —s —8 Scotch, Feed. • • 21s 253 'Ys—Old ........... s Beans—Tick 278 31 5 N ew. •• •• •....... 28s 308 Pigeons ....•••••• 36s 38s barl ey —Grinding. .... 24s 265 Peas—Grey .... ••• • • • 325 345 Malting ........ 295 30s Maple ..•••• • • • • • 348 35s Chevalier .... 30$ 32s White. ••••• • • • • • 288 305 Walt—Suffolk and Nor- Boilers ••••• • • • • 32s 34s f01k...... • ..... 478 588 Flour—Town-made... 398 44s Brown •• • • 46s 55s Suffolk ••••• • • • • • 338 36 Kingston and ware 588 595 Stockta & Norfolk 33s 368 SMITHFIELD. Since this day se'nnight, the imports of foreign stock into London have been as nada:— From Beasts. Sheep. Nordwyek..... 40 18 Harlingen ..... 500 Antwerp ... Katwyk .. 67 Ostend.— Diep . .. 70 Calves. Piga. - ... _ 46 . - 3 ... - Total /77 ... 1,122 Corresponding week in 1848.. 136 ... 107 .•• - 800 ... 29 ... .-- Difference ... 41 more. 322 more. 78 more. At th e northern outports, only about 400 head of stock h ave bet. n landed, ard those in very middling conditi on . was exhibited for sale in t o -d a y' s mar k e t a very a nttd supply col foreign stock. As has been the case for So me week s past, the Beasts were in very inferior con dition, and the quality of the Sheep and Calves was no iff, .rent. All b ree d s were a slow sale; but we have 1a a ctual d, cline to notice in the quotations. From our th r .e grazing districts the arrivals of Beasts fresh up morning by " drift" and railway conveyance were sineVterately - extensive, the time of year considered. The di t, 3 and short h orns came to hand in tull average con but the quality of all other breeds was by no dec." first-rate. The prirnest Scots were in mo rel L ite request at Friday's decline in the cur ti(l,„ecs of 23 per Sibs, the rates of that descrip. 440' stock varying from only 3s 10d to 4s per 81b. th ei t uer breeds Beasts were dull in the extreme, and tthorte fall in value was with difficulty supported. The r es; e °I the Beasts were not disposed of. The bullock h ' et , - Pis from the north consisted of about 850 short shirr?' From Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridge the We received 1.600 Stets, short-horns, &c.; from SZ ‘ , -e 'tern and midland countie s 400 Herefords, runts, t ° s las i B ce.; and tr.,m Scotland 190 horned and polled eous-,i -N otwithstanding there was a further somewhat no i i :lereb!e d ec li ne i n t h e number of Sheep, we h ave bes t (i t riveinent. to report in the mutton trade. Tht equ a f t " Downs m a y b e considered stea dy, a t prices kiwis o those paid on this day se'nnight. All odic, cl!tot„,? . Sheep we re i n mo d era t e request , at l a st week's tjal ve . ;n t is• Most of the Sheep were disposed of. In littl e b' t he supply o f w hi c h w as sm a ll, comparativel) w as i4 -80 aess was doing, at late rates. The Pork trade The st, a very slu , gish stat,, at barely stationary prices.. tw ent ) :ek dispose,'of today was at an average fall of ket d4.),Pi'r t y cent. c mpared with the corresponding mar 'taear. rnk the offal. Per Sibs. to si a. d. to s. o. tafe r , B. d. to s. d. 38 4 0 !,*•,„-ir Leash..• .. 3 0 3 4 second qual. Sheep Priii,-"qulity :.. 3 6 3 8 Coarse-woolled ditto 4 4 2 8 4 6 4 10 Pri„ l e e 11 %,:e ox en.. 3 s 3 10 couthdown Nether ) 0 0 0 Lug cots ...... 310 4 0 Ditto .9ut of the woo 2 6 „ 4 4 rin,B:o4.e Calve s 3 6 4 0 Large Hogs •. • • ••• 6 4 8 klekli,,Lna,,!'i Calves •• 4 2 4 6 •:mall Porkers •• •• 4 Illfe r i ' selves .18 0 25 0 smarter old Pigs ..15 0 21 0 :" eels •• . 3 4 3 6 Lambs .... ...... 0 0 0 0 il e 4 sts. T OTAL AuPPLY AT .51_ 1 1 , t1i 0 E . pigs. 1 '. 3,126 I Sheep.l3 I c 67 1 160 FOREIGN SUPPLY. R easts. 1 Pigs. Calves. 134 I Sheep. I _ 18 280 PuIIII7GATILI 11. ND LEADEN: I H , bee average supplies 01 c,,untiY 'ki k , ci AL mtat have vi z ll I.e,,eeir asp to these ms,rkets since our last 190 ditto of V", ear.s of Beef, 800 ditto of Mutton, Blau L ', end 4 ,400 ditto of Pork. Those l o 9 n . offer Set -gu t ,. r , d in t.i.:, , t , etroPolis have nut been to say large, th e 0 LI r , arriz d s e , r t!ie ra q 3. 3" i ns , g,neria deman.i has ruled heavy, and, "u some otatiuns have had a downward tendency. i t s e r i ) o cc w i c i ly perk. ih.e.asvotim i c , lt i s ua -r e v it e s d e t l h li a n t g country-killed meat. t , Mind that .. great difference almost invariably exits ill those I:4'"d i n our reports; a b t u p t r th e e e y s 'i m o u m s e t v b;a a r t oqweeri the value of . . 1. ~l ,tered meat and that ktllea in Loudon, provincial s au,. At per stone by the Carcase. litet .i . S. d to i d ; A. d. to ---.. ...„.... it l i de.i-r,liorrig . • ... 26 , . 2 8 . : Mutton, infe r io r .. 2 6 3 2 .•••• 210 3 0 ____ prone larg e .. 3 2 3 4 -_,- prime, •• • • - 0 3 8 middling.. 4 3 0 4 310 ve-Z.P.tirne,inan .. 3 4 3 6- Pork, lain .. •• • 3 ... 310 4 6 The II_ 1.0"t.i0/3.G3Ec 4AN4D4spiT:AraX.laPstlEweTief:,s. were on a v er .. 4 Inds of potAtues,. coastwise, i tim J. moderate sale, and in middling condition. The it.,,v.s?rts consisted of 75 bags from Antwerp, 3,000 tons 4;1 H° consisted 40 sacks from Havre, and 60 tonsbest sain tfromPier"" A steady business is doing in the . s heavy. r () ;,i,a k t full prices. Otherwise, the demand ,„ , :i tilre eupsltte, 50s to ditto Regents. 100 s to 150 s; Newcastle an l o d .. S oek -100s• Scotch ditto, 6 04 t ' n 6 ,, 0 „ 4 to 80s• ditto ' Reds, 60s to 803; ditto . 90s to . 11 6, Whites, to 63-s,; French ditto, 80s to 105 s; Dutch ditto, 40 ) lieigtan ditto, 70s to 90s per ton. itatli s 3o a o trG3l HOP MARKET. I l n. Pr r eere money has been paid for the . finest_ r,,,c - °F last year's growth the demand for which is Well 14 the middling and inferior kinds of . new,. as , as old flops 'A.ew ii„ p5.....8 , exceedingly little business is doing. Aent ditto 2/ ditto, a/ Ss to 6 1 ' - "sex Pockets, 21 4s to 31; Weald of 12s to 31 10s; Mid and East, Kent per c wt . The arrival Z.-T:l7l7ocm. bas:s from Bae i . eel In , . L, ndon lest week were 248 fr om ma i . "'I A ' rea, 18 ditto fr nil Ostend, 13 ditto 1 ,., 1 . ra,t 259 ditto from the Cape, 1.794 ditto from i' , r. 6 d tto from Sydney, an 1 175 .iitto from Kertche. (I)tpeivaate contract very little business is doing, owing po rt, , ,PProaching public sales; yet glees are well sup (-ti in every instance. ' Taxxour. h: f air delivery has taken lace since our last report, yet 1:,. Zitiotations have further P receded 3d per cwt. To-day T tio. C on the spot is selling at 41s to 41s 3d per cwt. 'l , , iii tea for forward delivery are trifling. Town ge °w, 41s to 423 percwt. Ro ug h Fat has fallen to 23 per Blbs ILI: COURT. —(THIS DAY.) _ t h e i;"- !Jlltice Erle, after going through the bar, too e k . ni, r1 4 , 4 _ 4 ! 1 Court peremptory p tper, and heard the arg e (1 la in two or thrte cases, whi:h presenLed no featur kblie interest. j4411,e Prize of 100 guineas and a service of plate has 11 4 !'e en awarded by the Society of Arts to Dr. Paris, sident of the Colleg e of Physicians, and Mr. Fon g4cltte, for theirjoiat work ou 4'oreqpio Medicine. SIR BULWER LYTTON'S EPIC. KING ARTHUIf. Prior to our criticism upon the eight concluding. books of " King Arthur"—now formally acknow ledged to be the production of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton—we hasten to lay before the public some of those inimitable portraitures of contemporary States men, Warriors, and Orators, in the limning of which the author of the " New Timon" has already displayed such a felicitous capacity. Although there is, of course, no express allusion to the origi nals in the text of the poem, it is next to impossible to mistake the identity ; and we make no doubt that the application of each sketch would be sufficiently apparent to the discerning, even without the help of the names which we have presumed to prefix to the different stanzas. The portraitures occur in the course of a superb delineation of the twelve Knights of the Round Table, the deathless twelve— " Girding with subject stars the starry King." First come the three counselling knights, Cynon, Aron, and Llywarcb, called for the sake of euphony by his father's name Elidir; next the three knights of battle, Cadwr, Lancelot du Lac (Geraint being sub stituted for him, for reasons explained by Sir Edward, Vol. 1., page 207, note), and Oisaine; and lastly, the three golden-tongued knights, Gwalchmai (Gawaine), Drudwas (Drydas in the text), and Eliwlod (Lolod). The remaining three ere subsequently portrayed, but, of course, without any personal reference ' • we mean " the three ardent lovers of the island of Bri tain, Caswallawn, Tristan, and Cynon (for the last, already placed amongst the counselling knights, Cara doc is substituted)." The homage paid to the genius and patriotism of her Majesty's Principal Secretary for Foreign Affairs in the lines which we have printed in italics, is as nobly expressed as it is eminently de served. LORD JOHN RUSSELL. Of these was Cynon of the high• born race, A cold but dauntless—calm but earnest man; With deep eyes shining from a thoughtful face, And spare slight form, fer ever in the van When ripening victories crown'd laborious deeds; Reaper of harvests—sower not of seeds; For scarcely his the quick far-darting soul Which, like Apollo's shaft, strikes lifeless things Into divine creation; but, the whole Once rife, the skill which into concord brings The jarring parts; shapes out the rudely wrought, And calls the action living from the thought. LORD PALMERSTON. Next Aron see—not rash, yet gaily bold, With the frank polish of chi - Valric courts ; Him from the right, no fear of wrong controul'd, And toil he deem'd the sprightliest of his sports ; O'er War's dry chart, or Wisdom's mystic page, Alike as smiling, and alike as sage ; With the warm instincts of the knightly heart That rose at once if insult touch'd the realm, He spurn'd each state-craft, each deceiving art, And rode to war, no vizor to his helm ; This proved his worth, this line his tomb may boast— ho hated Cymri, hated Aron most !' THE LATE LORD DURHAM. But who with eastern hues and haughty brow, Stern with dark beauty, sits apart from all ? Ah, couldat thou shun thy friends, Elidir !—thou Scorning all foes, before no foe shall fall ! On thy wronged grave one hand appeasing lays The humble flower—oh, could it yield the bays ! Courts may have known than thee a readier tool, States may have found than thine a subtler brain, But states shall honour many a formal fool, And many a tawdry fawner courts may gain, Ere King or People in their need shall see A soul as grand as that which fled with thee ! For thou wert more than true ; thou wert a Truth ! Open as Truth, and yet as Truth profound ; Thy fault was genius—that eternal youth Whose weeds but prove the richness of the ground, And dull men envied thee, and false men fear'd, And where soared genius, there convention sneer'd. Ah, happy hadst thou fallen foe to foe, The bright race run—the laurel o'er thy grave ! But hands perfidious strung the ambush bow, And the friend's shaft the rankling torture gave— The last proud wish its agony to hide, The stricken deer to covert crept, and died. 'THE SUN, LONDON, MON DAY EVENING-, JAN UAR Y 22, 1849, THE MARQUIS ON ANGLESEA. Next came the Warrior Three. Of glory's charms, (Glory, the bride of heroes) nobly vain Dark blona's Owaine shines with golden arms, The Roland of the Cymrian Charlemain, Scathed by the storm the holy chief survives, For Fame makes holy all its lightning rives., LORD JI•RDINGE. Beside, with simplest gars and sober mien, Solid as iron not yet wrought to steel, In his plain manhood Cornwall's chief is seen, Who (if wild tales some glimpse of truth reveal) Gave Northern standards to the Indian sun, And wreaths from palms that shaded Evian won. THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON. Lo, he whose fame outshines the Fabulous! Sublime with eagle front, and that grey crown Which Age, the arch-priest, sets on laurell'd brows ; Lo, Geriant, bending with a world's renown 1 Yet those grub hairs one ribald scoffer found; — The moon sways oceans and provokes the hound. MACAULAY. As from the Mount of Gold auriferous flows The Lydian wave, thy pomp of period shines Resplendant Drydas—glittering as it goes High from the mount, but labouring thro' the mines, And thence the tides, enriching as they run, Glass every truit that ripens to the sun. LORD STANLEY. But, like the vigour of a Celtic stream, Comes Lolod's rush of manly sense along, Fresh with the sparkles of a healthful beam, And quick with impulse like a poet's song. How listening crowds that knightly voice delights It from those crowds are banished all but knights ! DIBRAELI. The third, though young, well worthy of his place, Was Gawaine, courteous, blithe, and debonnair, Arch Mercury's wit, with careless Cupid's face; Frank as the sun, yet searching as the air; Who with bland parlance prefaced doughtiest blows, And Kildly arguing—arguing brain'd his foes. those who bear in recollection the poetic profiles of Lord Stanley, of the Duke of Wellington, and of Lord John Russell, already pencilled in the "New rimon," by the same master hand, will derive a peculiar interest from instituting a comparison be tween the two delineations. A SONG FOP. THE WORKERS. (WRITTEN FOR THE EARLY CLOSING MOTEMENT.) Let Man toil to win his living, Work is not a task to spurn ; Poor is gold of others' giving, To the silver that we earn. Let Man proudly take his station At the smithy, loom, or plough ; The richest crown-pearls in a nation Hang from Labour's reeking brow. Though her hand grows hard with duty, Filling up the common Fate, Let fair Woman's cheek of beauty Never blush to own its state. Let fond Woman's heart of feeling Never be ashamed to spread Industry and honest dealing, As a barter for her bread. Work on bravely, God's own daughters! Work on staunchly, God's own sons! But when Life has too rough waters, Truth must fire her minute guns. Shall ye be unceasing drudges? Shall the cry upon your lips Never make your selfish judges Less severe with golden whips? Shall the mercy that we cherish, As old England's primest boast, See no slaves but those who perish On a far anu foreign coast? When we reckon hives of money, Owned by Luxury and Ease, Is it just to grasp the honey While Oppression chokes the bees? Is it just the poor and lowly Should be held as soulless things? Have they not a claim as holy, As rich men, to angels' wings? Shall we burthen Boyhood's muscle? Shall the yo ung gir l mo p e an d l ean Till we hear the dead leaves rustle On a tree that should be green? Shall we bar the brain from thinking Of aught else than work or woe? Shall we keep parched lips from drinking Where refreshing waters flow? Shall we strive to shut out Reason, Knowledge, Liberty and Health? Shall all Spirit-light be treason To the de,pot King of Wealth? Shall we stint with niggard measure Human joy and human rest? Leave no profit—give no pleasure, To the toiler's human breast? Shall our Men, fatigued to loathing, Plod on sickly, worn, and bowed? Shall our Maidens sew fine clothing, Dreaming of their own white shroud? No! for Right is up and asking Loudly for a fairer lot, And Commerce must not let her tasking Form a nation's canker spot. Work on bravely, God's own daughters! Work on staunchly, God's own sons! But till ye have smoother waters, Let Truth fire her minute guns! -Weekly Dispatch. ELIZA COOK. ADMISSION OF SOLICITORS IN CHANCERY.—The Master of the Rolls has appointed Tuesday, January 30, at the Rolls' Court, Chancery-lane, at three o'clock in the afternoon, for sw ear i ng so li c it ors . E ver y p erson desirous of being sworn on the above day must leave his common law admission, or his certificate of practice fur the current year, at the Secretary's-office, Rolls'-yard, Chanaery-lane, eu ur Wow lo4dpy, 29th January. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DIY. TIMES.—The Financial Reform Association have at length hit upon a topic on which they will carry with them public sympathy. With whatever hesitation we may admit the policy of adopting speculative reforms which must have as their first and necessary Effect to denude the country of those means of safety on which we have hitherto relied, when no such considerations are involved the Financial Reformer has an easy task before him. Man is not a tax-paying animal by nature, but by necessity. We receive no abstract pleasure from con tributing even to the maintenance of army, navy, and ordnance. Our wish to guard the country from the danger of foreign attack, and to keep the sea inviolate for the traffic of our mercantile marine, is the result of reflection, not of impulse. " There be land rats and water rats." It is no use carrying their non-existence by acclamation. There they are, and we are not yet convinced that it would be prudent to drop the in surance, although no doubt the annual payments may be lessened in amount. To-day we publish a return upon a different branch of the Administration—the Woods and Forests. The royal revenues arising from forests, chases, waters, parks, manors, lands, estates, houses, &c., have, as is well known, been long commuted for the grant of a fixed civil list on the accession of the Sovereign. The nation has taken these possessions into its own hands, and may fairly look to them as a source of profit. They now make up a part of the nation's estates. We are entitled to expect that the same care shall be displayed in their management as a private individual would be stow upon his own possessions. So far from this being the case, it would be, we verily believe, impossible to conceive a more utter or wanton waste of property than takes place under the administration of the board which is known as the Woods and Forests. The history of this board we find in brief to be this:—The land reve nues of the Crown were originally collected by the sheriffs of counties, who paid their rents into the Ex chequer. In 1535'a court was erected, called the Court of Augmentations, for the management of the lands of the suppressed monasteries not having more than 2001. t a n y e e K ar i , ng a . ll ofu hi er c thish had been court,and h given t e Court o by Parliament General to Surveyors of Crown Lands, and a Board of Works, Under the royal property continued for centuries. In 1781 the Board of Works was abolished, and the Royal build ings, which had until then been under its management, were placed under the direction of a surveyor or comptroller. This office was united with that of the Commissioners of Woods and Forests in 1832, saving so far as the royal gardens are concerned. In 1828 the management of the Irish land revenue was given to the Commissioners. These, together with some minor changes, scarcely affecting the subject matter on which it had to operate, have brought the Commission to its present form. The report, of which we publish an ex tract to-day, deals mainly with one of the many classes of property which are under the control of the Board. There are, it appears, four forests, each with its Lord Warden—the New Forest, warden the Duke of Cam bridge; Waltham, Lord Mornington; Whittlewood, Duke of Grafton; Whychwood, Lord Churchill. It appears that the salaries attached to these merely honorary posts are of no account, and would, in fact, scarcely suffice to pay the salary of any one of the footmen of any one of the noblemen in question. But the perquisites are valu able. Lord Churchill, for example, is entitled to deer and game to his own use out of Whychwood Forest to an unlimited extent, to make no mention of heath, furze, fern, bushes, and shrubs. The Duke of Grafton has all the underwood in Whistlewood Forest, which is cut every twenty-one years. He enjoys besides "the use of Wakefield Lodge"—so it is stated in the report—"and the pasturage of Wakefield Lawn, consisting of 200 or 300 acres, besides venison and game ad libitum ' and claims all the deer as his own." We would refer, how ever, to the report itself for fuller particulars, in order to arrive at a point in comparison with which the pecu lations of Lords Wardens are but of trifling concern. In these days of railroads, most persons, either called by business or attracted by pleasure, have visited the neigh bourhood of Southampton, Few would have so little curiosity as not to devote any hours they could spare to a ride through the New Forest. Take it all in all, there is no timber district in England, not even Wind sor Forest, which can compare for picturesque beauty with this. In the neighbourhood of Lyndhurst the long savannahs and groups of old trees are so beautiful, that a lover of sylvan scenery would weep over their destruction. The Liverpool ;men are not open to con siderations of this sort. Their view is bald, prosaic, and disagreeable, but it has its element of truth. " Here we are," say they, " with a good landed property, it is true, but heavily encumbered. Embarrassed men must rather seek to satisfy their creditors than gratify their taste. We must clear. We must cut down our timber, and break up the soil into arable and pasture land. We are not entitled to waste a shilling upon our love for the picturesque until all our obliga tions shall have been honestly discharged." Now the income derived from the New Forest in six years-1835-6 to 1840-1—was 59,5431., and the expenditure during the same period 54,824/. ; something, in fact, very con siderably under 1,0001. per annum was derived from this enormous property. During the next six years-1841-2 to 1846-7—the case was infinitely worse. The income had fallen to 53,2961, and the expenditure had risen to 66,472/, showing an actual loss by the propertyof 2,2001. yearly. In 1847 matters had got from worse to still worse. The New Forest cost the country in that year 3,266/. We take these figures as we find them from the report, and if faith can be placed in the statement of Mr. Downes, the property is in reality of the most valuable nature. The timber and plantations alone ho values at 942,0001.. equal, at three and a half per cent., to 32,9701. per annum. Fur further particulars with regard to Whittlewood, which paid last year 1/. 3s. old., and to Whychwood, which produced 1231. Is. 7d., and Waltham, which contributed 352/. 75.6 d. to the national Exchequer, we must refer to the report. Now, it is evident that here is a source from which a large revenue may be derived which has been wholly neglected. When we find individuals coming forward and offering to pay a large sum in the shape of rent for a district which at present returns nothing, no reason able man can entertain a doubt that there is gross mis management. Either the bid should be accepted,, or the property should be made to return more in its present hands. Without adopting wholly the views of the Financial Reformers, we are satisfied that no one can have passed through such a tract of woodland country as that which is called the New Forest without perceiv ing that a great portion of it might with great advantage be cleared and devoted to agricultural purposes. More thau eight centuries ago, when the surface of England was but thinly populated, this district was covered with smiling hamlets and homesteads. The second William and his successors ruthlessly swept these habitations away in order to make room for a vast forest in which they might take their pastime. What the tyranny of one race accomplished the cupidity and mismanagement of others have continued. It is time that much of the land should return to the plough and to the harrow. Where corn has grown corn will grow again, and the nation would thus possess a thriving district instead of an unproductive waste, CHRONICLE.—" It has pleased Almighty God to vouchsafe to the British arms the most successful issue to the extensive combinations rendered necessary for the purpose of effecting the passage of the Chenaub "—such is the pious and politic exordium of a dispatch intended to apprise the people of India, that the Seikhs had effected a safe retreat on their hill country, in the face of an overpowering British force. In England, we may venture, without indiscretion, to doubt whether that " issue" was commensurate, in point of real value, either with the magnitude of the 'preliminary prepara tions, or with the elevation of language observable in the official announcement. Possibly, we may be apt to undervalue a military success which has been purchased at so severe a cost ; and the lamented names of Cureton, Havelock, and Fitzgerald, almost unavoidably compel a sober and measured estimate of the fruits of a victory so bought. Yet, even irrespectively of this melancholy list of casualties, there appears too much reason for thinking that the extensive preparations, and the well-laid plans, of the Commander-in-Chief, have, to some extent, been frustrated —partly, by the irrepressible ardour and eagerness of our troops, when in sight of the enemy, and partly by incidental errors of detail in the execution of the operations. Amidst a crowd of confused state ments, the following facts stand prominent : For twelve days, 18,000 regular Seikh troops, with a mob of about as many more irregulars, and 28 guns, were encamped opposite the " Army of the Punjaub," which mustered 23,000 strong, and was supported by a magnificent park of artillery. During that interval, on the only two oc casions on which our men were engaged with the enemy they were compelled to retire—in the one case, with the loss of a gun, in the other, after a severe conilict. When, at length, a general plan of attack was resolved on, it was marred by a blunder at the fords. The de tachment destined to take the enemy in Rank made a needless detour, by which they were so greatly fatigued, that, after bravely repelling an assault, they stood in ab solute need of rest. An invaluable day was thus lost. On the next, the rebel forces were out of reach having " concealed," writes hi s L or d s hi p, "or carried with them, their artillery." A safe alternative, by which we fear his Excellency merely means us to understand, that he had neither got their guns himself, nor knew anything about them. It is not improbable that, by this time, they aro crowning some ravine to the west of the Hydaspes, where a harassing guerilla warfare may, for a while, postpone the final triumph of our arms. Of some other portions of our present Indian intelligence, we are, happily, able to speak with fewer qualifications and reserves. It is our pleasing duty to notice that Attock still holds out, that Moolraj is less defiant, and that Cashmere continues faithful. In all probability, therefore, Shere Singh has but deferred his defeat. He leads a tribe—a dominant tribe, it is true, and diame trically opposed, in all its interests, to ourselves—still, it is only a tribe ; and in that fact lies the moral certainty of his final failure. The population around him, to say the least, stand neuter in the struggle. They can feel no reluctance to be brought back from under the novel and galling yoke of a sect of persecuting fanatics, to an an cient empire, which, under all its dynasties—Persian, Affghan, Mogul, and British—has extended an equal tolerance to the voteries of its multiform creeds. With the passive assistance of the Punjaub peasantry, it can hardly be long before Lord Dalhousie is called upon to decide whether the Seikhs are to be treated with, or go verned—whether he will put up with dangerous neigh bours, or with unruly subjects. This is an old dilemma —as old as British India itself ; yet, for that very rea son, the difficulty of making a choice is comparatively inconsiderable. Encouraged by the results of past ex perience, we confess that it does not appear to us that any grievous risk will be incurred by choosing what has been repeatedly found to be the least of two evils. There are, however, a large class ofpersons in this country, who, inno cent of the slightest curiosity respecting Indian affairs in general, will yet pronounce very positively upon this question, without any such retrospective glance. It is enough for them, that the area of our Eastern dominions is vast, considered with reference to European analo gies; and they conclude that it is, therefore, unwieldy. The very term, " territorial aggrandizement" conjures up in their minds a vague train of unwelcome and odious images —or, perhaps, we should rather say, of mere phrases, which have acquired all the power of a spell. A legitimate ground of caution has, in fact, degenerated into a sort of bugbear, in the presence of which it is not easy to obtain a hearing for arguments founded only on the actual specialities of the case. To such per sons, of course, our previous treatment of this ques tion must have failed to carry conviction. On vari • ous occasions we have examined the probable re sults—fiscal, commercial, and political—of annexa tion, as indicated by the territorial position and natural features of thePunjaub. In deciding on the claims of the Seikhs to the character of safe neighbours, we have ex pressed a distrust founded upon all that is known of Seikh habits and Seikh traditions. We have pointed to the provocations by which the Indian Government has become entitled, on every principle of international law, to look singly to its own dignity and safety in deciding on the nature and extent of its reprisals. But is there any colour in the assumption that an extension of terri tory is, in itself, the greatest evil that can befal British India? Since when, and by what indications, internal or external, has our Eastern Empire shown itself to be thus overgrown, unwieldly, and barely capable of hold ing its own? Are its subjects more restive, its neigh bours haughtier, than in periods when its area lay within a narrower bound, and its pretensions were less imperial? The simple enunciation of such questions is a sufficient reply. There are, indeed, certain sensible dicta in the Duke of Wellington's Dispatches, which, stretched beyond their original application, and without taking into account the vast changes that have occurred since they were written, are often quoted in order to justify these disparaging views of our Eastern Government, and of its present capacities for conquest. " Bengal," wrote his Grace, in 1804, " the paradise of nations— enjoys the advantage of a civil Government, and re quires its military force only for its protection against foreign enemies. All the other barbarous establish ments, called Governments, without excepting that of Fort St. George, have no power beyond that of the sword. Take from them the exercise of that power, and they have no other ; and can collect no revenue, can give no protection, and can exercise no government." Elsewhere he thus concludes a similar passage :—" In order to carry on their foreign wars, they have been obliged to weaken the means of their internal government, that is . to . say, t.he Thepow earoonl f a t a h s e ion swo o r f d t , he in mosttneir souwenaaasral provinces. . fo reign war in India, if it gives an excess of territory, must bring with the territory a necessity to increase the army; because the Government must be established in the new territory, and supported, as well as in the old, by the power of the sword." Now, if British India be still in the predicament in which it was when these warnings were given, we will admit their present appli cability. If Bengal alone, of our eastern possessions, " enjoys the advantage of a civil Government "—if Madras and Bombay still merit the designation of " barbarous establishments"—if the north-west provinces are no better organized than when Lake laid siege to Agra, and Burn defended Delhi—if, in short, half a century's civil administration, wiser, milder, and more just than ever blessed the Indian peasant, has done nothing to quell the spirit of revolt in our dominions—why, cadet questio ; we admit that it were unwise to thin our garrisons—Mr. Cobden will not let them be multiplied. The present state of India, however, teaches a far different lesson from that which the facts, or appearances, of forty-five years ago, pre sented to the Duke's sagacious mind. We are justified now in allowing a little less for the influence of the sword—a little more for the effects of good govern ment. With the salient fact before us, that 60,000 troops have been draughted from the provincial. garrisons to serve in the Punjaub, without causing the slightest apprehension for the stability of the civil authority, we feel warranted in assuming that the question of an nexation or no annexation will be decided by the Governer-General, without its entering into his Lordship's counsels to allow for disaffection on the part of of a his native We vefellow-seuzbleercltasi,n afirmconviction or for insolence onthat that Lord Dalhousie will exercise, with equal prudence and courage, that right of choice which, in all human probability, the complete and final success of our arms will, at no distant date, place in his hands. For, as we need scarcely say, we view this Seikh retreat—unsatis factory and disappointing as it confessedly is—as a merely temporary postponement of that issue which has invariably attended the determined and vigorous exer tion of British power in India. The history of that guerilla struggle, which appears at present likely to be the proximate result of our passage of the Chenaub, may be regarded as already written, by anticipation, in those pages of the Anglo-Indian annals which record the progress and the termination of the Deccan and Mah ratta wars. TIMES.—We believe we may congratulate the more moderate and patient economists on the prospect of an early and considerable step in the right direction. After years of ascending expense and descending revenue, a return to the equilibrium, besides being a positive im provement, is an earnest of better things to come. From all that we can hear the Chancellor of the Exche quer will be in a condition to announce early in the ses sion a reduction in the army and navy estimates, suffi cient to bring them safe within the probable revenue of the year. The twelvemonth just ended has produced a considerable income on corn, the last that in this coun try will ever be levied from the staff of lire; but, on the other hand, it has net been a good year for malt. Taking therefore into account the evident and substan tial improvement of trade, we may fairly expect that the revenue, now for halt a year on the ascendant, will soon regain the level of 1846. Unless some unfore seen danger or calamity should derange the calcu lation, we expect that with the revenue of 1846 we shall soon combine the estimates of an earlier year, yet without injury to any of our civil establish ments, or measures for internal improvement. Should such a budget be announced, the common sense and gra titude of the nation would be exhibited by a hearty and unanimous support, and we have no doubt will be so exhibited. A mere balance of incomings and outgoings will, of course, be thought a flat affair by the financial millennarians, whose first step is a reduction of 10,000,000/. But with all our admiration of the prophet who has promised this miracle, we must still regard economy as a gradual process. Let the goal be in view if you please; but we cannot reach it with a hop, skip, and jump. The tortoise beat the hare, and perhaps a system of yearly reductions will answer our purpose better than an attempt to raze the national expenditure down to a lower deck all at once. When a gentleman of large nominal rent-roll, and larger real expenses, is brought to his senses by the failure of supplies, the best course he can take in the first instance is the adaptation of his establishment to his means. It is difficult of course. He cannot do without this or that servant, without such and such carriages and horses, without a house in town, or his annual tour, and sufficient allowances for his sons at college. Retrench ment by piecemeal is killing work. But the more it kills the more it cures. The greater the demand upon the nerves the more decided is the moral result. A year of well-balanced accounts is a glorious turning point in the life of a thriftless and thoughtless man. When he has been one year none the worse, he will soon be ano ther year much" the better. The financial condition of our nearest neighbour renders an early disarmament in that quarter an imperious necessity. France has staved off bankruptcy for the present, but with an expenditure for one year 20,000,0001. above the income she cannot hope to keep faith with the national creditor, unless she immediately stanch that frightful issue of her resources. Bankruptcy means revolution; and if things come to that pass, France will soon witness a new and more terrible variety of her national spectacle. She has seen the overthrow of a dynasty, of a court, of an aristocracy, and of a clergy; she has not lately seen the extermination of a large monied class. The short lived issue and rapid depreciation of a few million assig nets will be a very insignificant catastrophe compared with the application of the sponge to a national debt more than a third of our own. But either that sponge or new and intolerable taxation. Such are the alterna tives entailed by war, by the menace of war, or the bare thought of war. The present Government of France is not insensible to these grave considerations. It has shown a peaceful and economical tendency. It dreads in ternal ruin more than foreign invasion, and is more in tent on restoring the balance of its finances than on un dertaking the task of European regeneration. France being thus brought; to her senses,, and the military powers of central Europe being fully occupied at home, we have an opportunity of reducing our own arma ments, and thus showing a confidence in the amicable professions of our neighbours. This opportunity, we believe, is now fully recognized, and will not be neglected. A financial row of some sort or other of course there will be, and we have no wish to prevent it. We should imagine the Chancellor of the Exchequer himself would hardly desire to stop the mouths of the furious economists. If, however, they wish to give him as little trouble as possible, and to make his line of de fence easy and impregnable, they cannot do it more effectually than by striking at once for a standard of reduction absorutely incompatible with our present do mestic safety and colonial dominion. A single glance of the eye at certain points in the map of the world will silence a policy which would put us everywhere on that retrograde, so frequently the precursor of ruin. The question cannot be handled in the lump. It cannot be touched without leading into details. The mantle of Joseph Hume will fall on Mr. Cobden, and we shall soon see him descending from that grand argumentation which characterised his war with the corn laws, into petty details of contracts and repairs. Once in details, the 10,000,0001. of the economical paradise will soon vanish away. It has already been reduced to about 4000,0004, which is all the present increase upon the army, navy, and ordnance estimates of 1835, if we ex clude the novelties and changes rendered necessary by the progressive discoveries and peculiar circumstances of the day. The papers from Ceylon give little news of in terest. The loc a l au th orit i e s were revising various or dinances, and it was anticipated that these and other measures would be favourably received by the inhabi tants. The imports of the last quarter exhibited a con siderable decrease. The weather in the interior had become settled, and was adapted for the preparation of the coffee crop. Labour was not so plentiful as could be desired, and few estates had throughout the season been well supplied. Not much coffee bad yet arrived from the plantations, and the lateness of the crop had latterly materially interfered with the progress of ship ments. DOVER, JAN, 21.--FALL AT SHAKSPERE'S CLIFF.— This morning, about ten o'clock, an extensive fall of the chalk rock from Shakspere's Cliff took place. The fall occurred near No. 4 shaft of Shakspero's Tunnel, on the South -Eastern Railway, and left an indentation in the crown of this classic cliff of something like an acre. The quantity of chalk detached tiny be eatimated at a b out 100,000 tug, WOODS, FORESTS, AND LAND REVENUES. The following is an extract from a Report of the Liverpool Financial Association: Attached to each of the forests now under consider ation is an important personage called a Lord Warden, with a nominal salary of " 5/. a-year, and no perquisites except of venison." (Mr. A. Milne, 430.) What there duties ought to be the association do not find clearly de scribed in the evidence, and it is remarkable that not cne of the four was summoned to give any account of his stewardship. In the new forest the warden is his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge ; Waltham, Lord Mornington: Whittlewood, Duke of Grafton; Whychwood, Lord Churchill; the last three being all hereditary offices, and a very curious example they furnish of the peculiar ad vantages which the public derives from being saddled with offices of that description. "In Hainault Forest [Mr. Milne becomes ambiguous here; Waltham Forest comprehends Epping, which is common land, subject to rights (and wrongs also, we find) of lords of manors, freeholders,. &c., and Hain au lt, b e l ong i ng to t h e C rown in fee simple; surely, Mr. Milne cannot mean that Lord Mornington, or his steward, attempted to cut timber there?] the warden claimed to cut timber upon the wastes of the forest, but has been stopped recently by injunc tion." In Whychwood Forest, the late Lord Churchill, whose duties were " the preservation of the deer and game, and the royalties," not satisfied with " 621. lls. Bd., yearly payment," " deer and game, to an un limited extent " for his own use, " heath, firs (query furze?) ferns, bushes, and shrubs (not saplings), and timber fur certain specified repairs," set up a claim to all the timber in the forest, and put the public to an ex pense of 7,013/. in a lawsuit, which was another eleven years' affair, having been instituted by the diligent Mesrs. Pemberton, Crawley, and Gardiner, in April, 1834, and not brought to trial when Lord Churchill died in 1845; whereby the suit was abated, and the question is undecided to this hour. The present Lord Churchill, however, has made proposals for an amicable settle ment, which may possibly save further litigation and another of Messrs. Pemberton and Co's little bills. In this forest the warden appoints all the officers, so that the Commissioners have practically no control over the property which they nominally take care of. In Whittlewood Forest the Duke of Grafton re ceives 37/. 10s. salary, has all the underwood, which is cut every twenty-one years, Wakefield-lodge, and the pasturage of Wakefield lawn, consisting of 200 to 300 acres, besides venison and game ad libitum; but his Grace claims all the deer as his own, while the Com missioners say they belong to the Crown. The parties, fortunately, have ;not got to law yet, and if the deer were once killed off, possibly that catastrophe might yet be avoided. The revenue derived from the forests is precisely what might be expected, and is of itself a sufficient evidence of the kind of management which has afflicted these fine estates so long. In New Forest the income in six years-18356 to 1840-I—was 59,5431., and the expen diture in the same period 54,8241. ; in six years, 1841-2 to 1846.7, the income had fallen to 53,2961., and the expenditure had risen to 66,472/., showing an actual loss by the property of about 2,2001. yearly ; in 1804, the total expenditure was 3,1521., and the income 7,0691. ; in 1847 the expenditure was 10,2371., and the income 6,971/. Even the New-park Farm, on which no rent is charged, is carried on at a loss ; and Mr. Milne's attempt to explain this state of things will not have much weight with any one who has read the evidence, or even the foregoing short extracts. The total income from all the forests for the year ended sth of January, 1847, is stated in a return dated 17th of March, 1848, to have been 44,2451., and the ex penditure 35,8391., credit being taken for large sales of timber and bark, or equal to about 8,4001. per annum. Mr. Downes says of Whittlewood Forest, the net income from which, last year, was 11. 3s. o l d ., that, "in a pe cuniary sense, nothing can be worse than the manage ment; (1,592). Whittlewood Forest is at present paying literally nothing, and I should be very glad to give 5,0001. a year for it," and be at the cost of inclosing and Forest2o,o 001. cultivating it; or "allowing me 3f p e r cent . u p on t h e to 1,671.) 1, 1 6 8. 17. 7d.; ) Mr,Whyc h Downesw o o d value of the timber, I would g i ve f rom 18 ,00 0/. to produced a year2' last ( l;e a6 9r values it at 4,6254 a year, besides 280,0001. to 300,0001. worth of timber. (1,643 and 1,653.) The New Forest cost the country last year 3,2661.; Mr. Downes estimates the land of the forest " in its present state" to be worth 21,3921., after allowing for rights of commonage, feed ing, &c.; the timber and plantations he values at 942,000/., equal, at 3i per cent., to 32,9701. per annum. (3,318 et seq,) Waltham Forest produced last year 3521. 7s. 6d., but unfortunately the evidence does not contain any estimate of its real value. LABUAN. From this new settlement we have accounts to the 9th Nov. The visit of ceremony to the Sultan by Sir James Brooke was undertaken on Oct. 26, when the final ar rangements for the treaty obligations of the two nations were carried into effect. On Oct. 24 his Excellency Governor Brooke left Labuan in the Jolly Bachelor, fol lowed by the small steamer Ranee. Having passed up the Bruni river the party halted near the town, and a royal salute was fired from the Sultan's fort. Raja Brooke and suite were accommodated with temporary lodgings erected on the site of the battery which first opened fire on the steamer Phlegethon. On the 26th, accompanied by the small number of Europeans present, and attended by his suite and a party of the Mmander's marines from Labuan, Sir James Brooke presented the Sultan with a ratified copy of the treaty with the Queen of England, enclosed within a handsome silver box; the latter was eyed by his Highness with visible marks of satisfaction, but the treaty be did not take the trouble to examine. Sir James then, in the name of the Queen, informed his Highness that eternal friendship having been sworn between them, her Majesty had di rected him to present his Highness with 3,000 Spanish dollars, as a mark of respect for the free cession of the island of Labuan. Sir James then presented Pangeeran Moormein with 1,000 dollars, and other sums to the members of the Court at which they were delighted; the presentation in each case being accompanied by some appropriate remarks from the Raja of Sarawak. The party returned to Labuan on the 31st. The accounts from Labuan itself are very unsatisfactory. Sickness was general among the small number of persons on the island. The colonial surgeon had happily recovered, but Sir Jas. Brooke was laid up with fever at the date of our last advices. The site selected for the town appears to be an unhappy one, being in the centre of a swamp, part of which is below high water mark. The Chinese and Kling coolies had almost deserted the place or died of lever, and such was the scarcity of labourers that the wooden houses of the governor and others, which were constructed at Singapore, and carried over in the Wil liam Shand, were not set up. The local authorities were living in rude huts built on the mud, but were about to remove to some higher ground, as fever had laid nearly every one prostrate. Three more of the Masanders's marines died, and every one of them were on the sick list. The admiral had ordered their immediate relief by Madras sepoys from Singapore. Where so much fever prevailed, the clear ing of the jungle was of course proceeding very slowly, and the public works were comparatively at a stand. Colonisation is out of the question, for until the island is drained and its salubrity established, it would not be prudent or safe to embark life or capital in the venture. The barqne William Shand left for Singapore on Nov. 5, and brought away from the island the whole of the assistants to the Lieutenant-Governor, postmaster and surveyor, who had severely suffered from fever, and quitted the island with a firm resolve not to return to it on any rate of salary. About fifteen coolies left by the same vessel. The whole of the artificers also essayed to leave, but were prevented by the marines, and forced to labour, although reduced to mere skeletons. ANNIVERSARY OF THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO STOWE. —On Tuesday last, the Royal Bucks Yeomanry Cavalry, who composed the guard of honour to her Majesty and Prince Albert, on the occasion of their visit to Stowe, Jan. 15th, 1845, dined together at Mr. Bacon's, the Woolpack Inn, to celebrate the anniversary of the visit. The chair was occupied by Captain Smith, and amongst the company were Captain Wells, Lieut. F. E. Bartlett, surgeon; J. Denne, Esq., Thomas Bartlett, Esq., and a number of non-oommissioned officers and privates of the regiment. After the usual loyal toasts, Thomas Bart lett, Esq., proposed the health of the chairman, which was drunk with honours. The band of the regiment added much to the enjoyment of the feast, and a most pleasant afternoon was spent.—Northampten Herald. THE LATE ACCIDENT TO MR. W. S. DUODALE.— In The Sun of Friday we stated that Mr. Dugdale, the late Member for North Warwickshire, while out upon a shooting excursion in the neighbourhood of his estate at Merivale-hall, near Atherstone, had been accidently shot by his son. We are happy to say that, although the consequence of this accident has been the total depriva tion of the sight of one eye, the Hon. Gentleman, ac cording to the latest accounts, was going on favourably. SUICIDE OF CAPTAIN BOWMAN.—AII inquest was held on Friday night, at Brighton, before Mr. Gell, the coroner, on the body of Captain David Bowman, of the East India Company's service, whose death took place on the previous day, under the most afflicting circum stances. The deceased, who was upwards of 77 years of age, resided with his son-in-law, at Claremont Cottage, in the London-road. He was a naval captain in the ser vice of the East India Company, and enjoyed an excel lent pension. For the last four or five days he exhibited some degree of excitement, being attacked with a severe cold and hoarseness, but nothing to excite the least alarm of his friends. About nine o'clock on the morn ing in question, while the domestics were preparing the breakfast, a loud report of fire-arms was heard to pro ceed from the deceased's bed-room. Two of them im mediately ran up to ascertain the cause, when, on enter ing the apartment, they discovered that the deceased had shot himself whilst lying in bed. He had placed the muzzle of a pistol in his mouth, and its contents had passed through the skull, the ball lodging in the ceiling of the apartment. Death must have taken place instan taneously. The jury returned a verdict of " Temporary insanity." THE FIRE AT IRON-GATE WHARr.—LATEST PARTICULARS.--The fire which broke out uponti:!e iad. pre mises of Mr. William Buddle, at Iron-gate Whar f, dington, on Friday night, was not wholly ex ting uished estr yed is until late the next day. The prope rt y 100 feet by 60 wide. down covered an area of nearly es done as greater than at first anticipated. Mr. Braidwood returns thends_asmit n ag g of steam sawing and follows: — Buildings, 90 feet by 60, co ts, i The roof of marble burned down. The premises burned by fire, and the contents by show-rooms damaged engine-house , and marble re moval. The contents, polishing planing s h 0 p or u l m oulding-lofts , i n g t i he t4 machanery, and stock in trade epro Westm inster perty o E F Fire-office. o Grandffice . The Junction n b c u t i i l oda ings, wine Canal Company, are supposed to be insured in the Sun Fire-office. were insu . r h ed airneththe THE TOOTING CHOLERA CASES. TOOTING, SATURDAY EVENING.—The frightful out break of cholera at Mr. Drouet's Juvenile Poor Estab lishment at Tooting, is, we are happy to inform our readers, now on the decrease. Indeed it appears that the epidemic has almost entirely left the Tooting estab lishment, and, under the management of the medical gentlemen connected with the various parishes to which the poor children belonged who were farmed out there, since their rernoral the disease has almost ceased to exist. Many doubts have arisen, and various statements have been made, as to the actual number of children whom the cholera attacked at the Tooting establishment, and the number also on whose constitution the malignant disorder exercised its baneful influence with fatal eff,ct. In order, therefore, that the minds of the public may be set at rest upon this very important point connected with the terrible affair, we are enabled to lay before our readers the following official statement:— " Surrey Hall, Lower Tooting, Jan. 20, 1849. " Return of the number of cases of cholera, with death and recoveries, up to this day— Total number attacked .. Deaths from cholera and its complications Now under treatment ... ... Convalescent ... ... • . 360 ... 150 ••• 43 ... 167 "No fresh case of cholera has occurred since Satur. day last, and no deaths during the last forty-eight boars. " The cases under treatment are those suffering prin cipally from the consecutive fever, and these are pro , ceeding towards convalescence. " Our medical staff was reduced on Tuesday by the removal of Messrs. Popham and Bailey, who were in at tendance on the St. Pancras children. "From the withdrawal of the healthy children from the establishment the disease has left us suddenly as it came upon us. (Signed) " WILLIAM JAMES KITE, Resident Surgeon." In addition to the numbers actually attacked and treated in the Tooting Asylum, it appears that amongst the children removed there have been attacked with the disease:—At St. Pancras 180 children, 10 terminating fatally ; at Holborn about 30 attacked, and four deaths ; at the Strand Union 25 attacked, and two deaths; at Hackney, the Islington children, 30 or 40 at tacked, and four or five deaths ; at Kensington about 20 attacked, and one death. At the Wandsworth and Clapham Union a very large number have been attacked, and the deaths have amounted to ten or twelve. At St. Mary, Newington, a similar state of things has existed. And thus it appears that, in the aggregate, from 700 to 800 children, or more than one-half the entire number placed under the care of Mr. Drouet, have been attacked with the disorder, and in about 200 instances it has ter minated fatally. Since the melancholy calamity nothing can be more praiseworthy than the course of conduct which has been pursued by the St. Pancras board of directors. On Friday the following reports from Mr. Bird, the medical gentlema❑ specially appointed to attend the children since their return from Tooting, were received:— " St. Pancras Temporary Hospital, Jan. 18. " There have been no new ca: es since my last report. The nurse Blake (attacked with cholera) is better. The other nurse (Matsell) is merely suffering from ptyalism, the effect of the medicine she has thken. The two girls still continue in a precarious state. The remainder, I am happy to say, are going on well. " I have examined all the children that were returned yesterday from Tooting as convalescent, and found them in good health. (Signed) " HENRY BIRD, Surgeon." " Temporary Hospital, St. Pancras, Jan. 19th. " I have to report much the same as yesterday. It is necessary to mention that occasionally one or two of the children become affected with a low kind of fever (no thing whatever to do with cholera), sometimes cheek( d in a few hours, but at others assuming a typhoid cha racter. A boy named Forkett was taken this way in the night, and one girl yesterday, both of whom had been at Tooting. (Signed) " HENRY BIRD, Surgeon." The report of Mr. Bird yesterday was to the effect that there had been no new cases, but that the two chil dren referred to in the previous reports were much in the same condition. It appears that the General Board of Health have de termined not to confine their Inquiries merely to the Tooting establishment, but are about to extend them to every workhouse or place to which the children have been removed from the asylum at Tooting. With this view the Board of Health held a special meeting on Friday, when the following order was issued to Mr. Grainger and to Dr. Arthur Farre, the medical superin tendents of the Board of Health. " General Board of Health, Gwydyr House, Jan. 19. " Gentlemen,—l am directed by the General Board of Health to inform you that the board have resolved that an examination shall be made of the present condition of the children that have been removed from Tooting, and they accordingly request that you will visit all the places where any portion it them now reside, and report the result of your inspection to the board. " The board also require that the medical officers of the several unions shall attend at the examinations of the children belonging to their respective unions.—l am, gentlemen, your obedient servant, " HENRY AUSTIN, Secretary. " To R. D. Grainger, Esq., and Dr. Arthur Farre:" In pursuance of this older of the Board of Health, Mr. Grainger and Dr. Arthur Ferro last night visited St. Pancras Workhouse, and minutely in apected the whole of the children removed from Tooting, and paid particular attention to those still inmates of the cholera wards. Mr. Bird, the medi cal gentleman who has been appointed specially by the board of directors to attend the children, was examined, particularly as to his mode of treatment, especially that part which related to his watching of the supposed con valescent children on their arrival from Tooting. The medical inspectors went through the whole of the workhouse, and were pleased to express their approba tion of all the arrangements ; at the same time they strongly recommended that every inmate should be cx unlined daily, in order to detect at the very outset the slightest premonitory symptom of cholera. It was to this precaution they attributed the success of Mr. Bird in alla) ing the virulence of the disease, there being out of the 180 cases of attack but nine or ten terminating fatally. The reports from the Holborn Union, the Strand Union, and the other places to which the children have been removed from Tooting up to last night, were highly favourable. ROYAL SAPPERS AND AIINERS.—The 18th Corn pany of the Royal Sappers and Miners, under Captain Barry, R.E., at Woolwich, will proceed on the 25tt , instant to Portsmouth, for employment on the works of that garrison. THE LATE MURDER NEAR EXETER.—EXETER 7 JAN. 20.—The magistrates of this city have been en gaged in hearing further evidence against James Lan dick and James Mills, the two men who were appre hended on suspicion of having murdered Mrs. Holman, at Tedburn Sr. Mary's. The particulars connected with this diabolical case appeared in the journals at the time. The chief evidence against the prisoners was that given by their accomplice, a person nicknamed Cockney Harry. He stated that he was engaged by Landick and Mills on the night the murder was committed; and at nine o'clock they all left Moreton, and arrived at Westwater, in Tedburn St. Mary, at half-past eleven, when Landick entered the house of the deceased by means of a prop found in the orchard; he then admitted the others. They blackened their faces ai the foot of the stairs. They entered the deceased's bed-room, and were thare some time before she awoke and became con scious of their presence. The witness further stated that Mills held the deceased down in the bed while Landick rifled - r er boxes and drawers of their contents, and that the latter ultimately threw a heavy box of clothes on her body, exclaiming, " That will stop the old woman from howling." They shared the money of which they plundered the deceased. The prisoners were fully com mitted for trial. MELANCHOLY ACCIDENTS. THE MAYOR OP HARTLEPOOL DROWNED.—Often as it has been our painful duty to publish the deaths from accidental drown ing in the Docks at Hartlepool, yet upon no previous occasion have we felt so acutely as in this of the highly respected Mayor of that town, W. J. Vollum, Esq., who, in the prime of life, in the full enjoyment of health, station, wealth, and honour, presiding for the second time over that corporation, has been so suddenly removed from amongst them. After enjoying the society of a few select friends at his own house on Thursday evening last, Mr. Vollum took a walk down to the Docks, where it is supposed he had fallen over the quay, within a quarter of an hour of leaving his own dwelling, as his hat was picked up floating in the Victoria Dock, about half-past ten o'clock, half an hour after he had left home. The person who found the hat, not having any idea of any person having fallen into the water, took no particular notice of the circumstance that night, but on the following day named it to several captains in the harbour, thinking they were the most likely parties to have lost it, but without learning any tidings of the owner of it. The household of the Mayor did not say anything about his absence, expecting be would reach his own home in safety, as he had on some previous occasions been from home for a day. However, after six o'clock on Friday their fears were excited, and no means were left untried to learn what had become was him. In their inquiries, the account of the r communicated to them, which led to the discotevna o'clock, body of the unfortunate gentleman yof the near to the place where the bat w as fir st himself, The deceased was in his 38th year, firbLurfeen floating. o M o le: andsrs. ta a a ment his _un_ _timely and has left a widowed mother to He has been for many tl o e l p Backhouse and Co.'s Branch Ban I - D kand was the owner of large household property in the town, Duck Railwa) and shareholder in the Llartlepou Company. • t- - a` s r THE SEA SERPEN T AGAIN . r,ract, o f a letter 3 a ' t s i iipn Plumper Bath from an officer on bo j a B rd 49 he t r o Majesty ;ell je dated at sea, Jan. 1, a y es t er day morning 1 I% as at the mast h ead, kokin out for the squadron , wh en what should I see b ut a long black hastened on deck and t o ld black thing in the water. the captain. He looked at it, an d found it tr was the great sea serpent. lie immediately called th aft to see it. It came clos e t o us, holding i i t c s: 'r h s ea tn l d ab in o e tl: two feet out of water, and we could see about fifteen to twenty feet a little out of water. It had a kind of mane on its back, and a white breast—a very ugly•looking beast, very much resembling the picture in the Illus trated London News, only the head iil sharper. Two artists have t a k en sketches of it, was andlwbring ons with me when I come home. I dare say you will think this all a hoax, but wait with patience, and you will see an account of it in the papers. We are second Captain Mi guheas."—Kcene's Bath J ourna l. BuNN v. JENNY LIND.—The long contested suit of Bunu v. Lind has at last been settled, it is said, for the sum offered before litigation commenced, uarnelY, ;00Q4 SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY: EXETER HALL—HANDEL'S JUDAS MACCA.. I3EUS. Handel's magnificent oratorio of Judas Afacsabesse was repeated at Exeter Hall, on Friday evening last, by the members of the Sacred Harmonic Society. The leading parts were distributed as on the former evening, being supported by Miss Birch and the Misses A. and M. Williams, and Messrs. Sinn, Reeves, Phillips, and T. Williams. These several artistes very ably sang the portions allotted to them, and equal praise is due to the well-trained band and chorus, consisting of nearly 700 performer,. M. Costa was the conductor, and never has this superb oratorio been more effectively given than it was on Friday evening by the members of the Sacred Harmonic Society. Great credit is due to this society for having popularized the works of Handel, which before its institution were caviare to the vulgar ; now, however, on the contrary we have excellent and cheap editions of Handel's works constantly published, and as constantly finding s steady and a remunerative sale. We have recently seen this very oratorio of Judas Maccabeus, for instance, arranged for the organ and pianoforte by Mr. W. Foster, the talented organist of Tooting, pub.. lished at an astonishingly low price. Mr. Footer's edition of Judas Afaccabeus is a marvel of musical literature. It is admirably edited (the alto and tenor parts being given in their original and proper clefs), most, correctly printed, and excellently got up. It is to the Sacred Harmonic Society, however, that we are indebted for having so revived the taste for sacred music as to render the publication of new edi• Lions of Handel not only safe, but profitable. ASTLEY'S AMPHITHEATRE. The magnificent equestrian spectacle, ent i t ud The Wars of the Jews, still continues to attract crowded audiences. The scenes in the circle are unsur— passed and unsurpassable as exhibitions of the science of horsemanship, and as examples of the highest train.. Miss Woolford's performances on the tight rope are as graceful as they are astonishing, and bring down nightly the most enthusiastic applause, while. the pantomime (an equestrian one, and therefore s perfect novelty of its sort), is the best in London. The title is a happy one—Bold Robin Hood. Where is to be found the child who has not heard of " Bold Robin Hood," and of " Little John," an& of " Friar Tuck," and of " Maid Marian," and who would not prefer seeing a pantomime, super ported by all its old nursery favourites, to any panto.. mime with the personages of which it was unae• quainted ? Accordingly we are not surprised to hear that this is the pet pantomime of the children, anti as in all pantomimic matters children are the best critics, we bow to their decision, and congrats.. late Mr. Batty on the result. PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS. The tide of prosperity, it the present flourishing did* of affairs can be taken as an indication, has fairly set in, to the great benefit of the treasuries of all the metropo litan theatres. Success like the present is the more cheer.. ing after the stagnation that prevailed during the eventful year just terminated, in the theatrical as well as in nearly every other profession or vocation. That dramatic enter• tainment has received a fresh, and we trust a lasting impetus from the gracious patronage and support be• stowed upon it by her most gracious Majesty cannot be denied, and that they will continue in their present prosperous condition we have not the slightest doubt. This is the more to be rejoiced at after the very great exertions that have been made by the managers of the different theatres to emulate each other in the production of a novelty to welcome the generally prophesied prosperous year 1849. Although pantomime has come forth with unusual force, it has encountered such oppo• sition from young and vigorous burlesque, that we fear in a short time we shall have to number it among the things that were. However, it is possible for old panto mime to recover his lost laurels, such as he possessed at the time when Mother Goose was produced—he may, we say, dare then, but not till then, burlesque even to the encounter. At the little theatre in the Haymarket, Mr. Webster, we see, has announced for to-morrow evening The Stranger, and one of the most laughable farces in the language, Twice Killed, for representation,. with nearly the same cast as they were produced at Windsor Castle on Thursday last, when the royal and distinguished audience were " delighted." We have doubt that they will draw crowded houses for some time. The only novelty produced at the Lyceum since the Christmas tribute is a petite comedy entitled Whet Speaks First?—in which Mrs. Yates and Charles Ma thews, appear. Planch6's extravaganza, The King of liia Peacocks, supported by Madame Vestris, Miss Fitzwilliam, Miss J. Coleman, Miss Marshall, Mr. Harley, and John Reeve, drawing overflowing houses. At the Princess's the new opera by Harold, called Marie, has proved a card, Miss Poole sweetly sustaining the principal part. At Shakespere's home--Sadler e Wells—henry VIII. has been admirably produced, and draws a bumper every evening it is played. At the Marylebone Mrs. Mowatt and Mr. Davenport appear every evening in a new piece, of which the former is the authoress; it is a❑ excellently constructed play, and will have a run. At the Adelphi nothing new has been produced since Christmas; Dickens's flaunted Masa and the Enchanted Isle being sufficient for some time to come to draw crowds to this very favourite theatre. A new drama by Mr. Roberts, entitled Brigands in the Bud, is to he produced this evening at the Olympic Theatre, Mrs. Stilling sustaining the principal part, supported by Compton: report speaks very favourably of this well sounding petite drama. All the other theatres are doing, as we have said before, as well as the mana gers of them could wish. STEAM-BOATS ON THE THAMES. TO THE LDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—On returning yesterday to Blackwall from Gravesend, with my lady and daughter, in the boat called the Brunswick, a shameful race took place be tweet; that boat and a small one called the Emmet, which I understand is to be placed on the halfpenny trade above bridge. It is all very well for a set of men to try the speed of their boats, but when ladies are present, and a nervous person like myself, I think such a contest disgraceful. 'he boats were thrust paddle-box against paddled. box, giving now and then violent shocks, each trying their utmost to beat the other. This was continued for five or six miles without one or the other gaining an inch, excepting by a species of jockeying, which when the boats carte together the shock gave first one and then the other a few ieet. Surely such conduct on board a boat opened for the accommodation of passengers ought not to be allowed. Hoping you will favour me by putting this note into your widely circulating paper, where it will meet with the eye of the proprietor of these boats, I have the honour to be Sir, &c., Jan. 20, 1849. G. H. NAMES OF STREETS AND SQUARES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—It is really a disgrace to the cities of London. and Westminster, the negligence exhibited in the matter of having the names of the streets and squares properly designated and marked at the different cor ners of the same. It is absolutely impossible for a stranger to find his way, and even those who ar • well acquainted with the different localities, like myself, are often greatly at a loss to find their way. A few evenings since, in the neighbourhood of Red Lion-square and Holborn, I could not discern the name of a single street; and it is exceedingly annoy ing to be obliged to call in at a dozen shops, as . wits_ . the case with me, to know where I was, thi2swindtears rupting people in their business. Only a s le._ d e since, while in one of the numerous: squat:lnm= say,thihstiocnLotuohnj neighbourhood of Bedford-square, a blindn_ q, accosted me, and said he knew he was " 1 1 looked in but could not tell which, and asked beingl e time, procure in th s a vain in all directions, without d bei t a single name anywhere; In a able t o r n e o co s gn ho i;e 4 there, I was obliged . to nnoatmhesavoefocthcuersrterdeeitns parnoys heavy shower of rain,. from a passenger. I will necessary informs ed don, which boasts of being wait be fo a r a: c o I nnbscgei could l r d a b venture to as there is scarcely a town on in I, urop a e s , other city the continent but has perly city in Europe, is shamefully the best regulat ed . defi• cient in this respect. A PEDESTRIAN. marked, w - Rio JAIi.EIRO, DEC. 16, 1848 Our Exchange et f'a~lea since last pack e t , and business has been donetoday at 24}d. to 240. In fr e i g ht s, not hi ng d o i ng i —our quotation s 30s. in the Channel for coffee; man/ English 'vessels have left for other ports, but we hero still about twenty nor unemployed in port. Coffee—ouPe dolls. 2.900 to dolls. 3.000; fi rst good, dolls. 2.700:10 dolls. 2.800. Coals, dolls. 11 .500 to dolls. 13.000. Salt, 500 to 520 rein. Letters from Buenos Ayres to 24th of November, at which date all was quiet. Mr. Bothe!on e our Minister, h a d l an d e d hi s f urn i ture , and was furnish. ing a residence he had taken. STATE ON T RIDE .—B IR MINGLIAM, SATITRD•If..• The trades of this town generally, as compared with the corresponding period of last year, continue brisk. At the concluding meeting of ironmasters held at Dudley, a still stronger opinion prevailed than preciously ex• pressed as to the firmness (e.f existing prices. Commer cial travellers, now Ciirismas has closed, are resuming their journeys, and the home trade in a few weeks is expected to make a further advance. From America, su far as Birmingham manufactures are concerned, the latest intelligence is favourable. Important arrivals may be looked for next week. On Saturday morning an accident happened to a boy of the name of R. Radford. while engag ed cleanin g the back parlour windows of the house, 79, Cromer btreet, Bray's ku-road. It appears that while so en gaged he missed his hold and fell into the area beneath. tie, was ithruediatelv picked up, when, up on twit, we are happy to say that he escape d with a f ew cruises. The commercial intelligence by the India m a il i s agdiu regarded es :.etislactoryt demand f or cotton OA Iliactured goods being especial ly active both at Cal.. cutta and Bombay. The report of the Chi nese mar k ets is not so favourable, but there appears to be no graft apprehension of a continued &elm%