The Sun. — London, England, 1849-10-22 00:00:00

THE SUN, week had the effect of producing very large arrivals of that she could not be so indicted according to the evidence country kided meats for these markets. The total qusa- produced, but if it should appear to the grand jury tity rt ceived, since Monday last, has been little short of that she was au accessory before the fact, they might 10,000 carcases, chiefly of Sheep sad Pigs. With I know what course they could pursue. Now, upon this Londot-slaughtercd meat we have been seasonably well subject a most important statute bad been passed--he supplied. All kinds have met a very dull sale, and in alluded to the 11th and 12 of Victoria—by which it was some instances prices have further declined, without enacted that an accessory before the fact to anv felony efficting a clearance. From llemburgh 12 baskets of ought to be tried and convict.d, and punishe - d in all moat have come to hand, arid about 1,800 carcases of respects as if he was the principal felon. It would, foreign meat, killed in the metropolis, have been on offer. therefore, be for the grand jury to say whether there At par stone by the Carcase. was any contrivance to commit this murder, and whether s. d. to a. d. s. d. to S. C. it appeared that the fema'e was a party in that deed. Another important question that might arise was Be ef,'nferlor...... 2 2 2 4 Mutton, inferior .. 2 8 3 0 middling 2 6 210 reiddling•• 3 2 3 4 prime large .. 3 0 3 2 prima.. •• 6 3 8 the declaration of eith e r p ar ty t o the p re j u di ce o f th e - -- prime small .. 3 4 3 6 York, ..... 3 0 3 6 other. On such a subject he could only sey that the 210 3 6 -- small •••• •• •• 3 8 4 2 husband and wife c ou ld no t b e w i tness f or eac h ot h er, neither could they be witness against each other, and the grand jury must not, therefore, take any such decla ration into their consideration. If there was evidence of having procured the committal of the felony, or the committal of the felony by either or both parties, that would be a sufficient ground for the grand jury finding a true bill. It a party invited another to a given spot in order that a murder might be committed, and that murder was committed by other hands, that party would be guilty of being an accessory before the fact, and it would not be necessary to show that the party was in sight while the deed was done; it would bo suffi • cient that the party was near enough to lead in any manner to the committal of the offence, such as keeping watch or so on. The grand jury would be greatly re lieved in their duties if they got the witnesses in this case to detail the occurrences that had taken place in the order of time. It was not his purpose to enter into the facts disclosed in the case; the crime of murder was generally com mitted in secret, and everything generally connected with it dependent on circumstantial evidence. The grand jury would carefully weigh all the circumstances that were presented before them; it would be important for them to inquire whether the deceased being on the spot was devised or purely accidental. It would be important alto to consider what had been done with his property;' how and by whom, and under what circumstances the parties charged left the place of their supposed crime, where they went to, whether they both went together, or whether the one went to one part, and the other to another; whether they were going under their own or fictitious names, and how they were ultimately discovered; it would in short be for the grand jury to determine after the evi dence was brought before them whether the case did not demand further and more full investigation. In conclusion, he would say that the functions of a grand jury had had seldom to be exercised in a more important case; and, in the words of an eminent judge, he trusted that they would conduct the inquiry with minds per fectly free from prejudice against the individuals charged; that they would allow nothing they might have heard or read against them, to mix itself up with and colour their clear judgment; that, in short, they would begin and close the inquiry with eyes and ears shut to everything except the evidence before them. The Learned Recorder then remitted the grad jury to the discharge of their duties. The Court then proceeded with the swearing in of the petty jury. 13013.017G2E1 UOP IVIELUMET. The quantity of 11 . 4 is en offer in our market is still good, and of excellent quality. For the finest qualities the demand is steady, at fully last week's quotations. The inquiry for yearling and old Hops is trifling. Duty, 80,0001. About 120 baits of American and Belgian Hops have come to hand in the past week. some of them are off:ring duty paid. New Mid. and East Kent Pockets, 165 s to 210 s; NewWeald of Kent ditto, 120 s to 160 s ditto; New Sussex ditto, 115 s to 135); Fern hams, 210 s to 2315; Yearling Kents, 70s to 955; Year ling Sussex, 56s to 908; Old Hops, 20s to 80.3. BOROUGH AND SPITALPIELDS. Notwithstanding that the fresh arrivals of Potatoes, coastwise, during the last week, have been confined to about 1,000 tons, and that the receipts by land carriage are very moderate fur the time of year, the supplies on offer here are fully equal to the demand. The foreign imports have comprised 106 tons from Calais; 130 tons, 235 bags, from Antwerp; 145 tons, 120 bags, 3 baskets, from Rotterdam; 32 tens from Rouen; 98 tons from Ostend; 60 tons from Dunkirk; 20 tons from Hamburgh ; and 75 tons from Harlingen—forming a tott.l supply from abroad of 761 tons, mostly in good condition, and almost wholly free from disease. For most kinds of good Potatoes the demand is tolerably steady, at full prices, but all other qualities are a very slow sale. Present rates as under:— Per Ton. Per Ton. York Regents ...... 70s to 85s Shaws 6os to 75s Wisbeach ditto 6ss to 75s Scotch Reds 6ss to 75s Red Kentish Kidn.. 66s to 80s Foreign sss to as TALLOW. Although the delivery of Tallow last week was toter ably good, 2,849 casks, the demand, as most of the chandlers are well in sto ck, has ruled heavy, and prices have needed quite 6d per cwt. To-day P.Y.C. on the spot is selling at 37s per cwt for prime, For forward delivery very little is doing at 36s 6d per cwt. Town Tallow 37s per cwt. net cash; Rough Fat, 2s Id per 81bs. The home-make continues large. Our St. Peters burgh letter states that only a limited business was pass ing there, at the previous decline. 1845. 1846. I 1847. 1848. 1849. Stock this day • . • • • • 4 2 1 1 5 ,4 6 8 d 0 50 4 5 ,8 0 8 d 8 ' 4245;2n 3 1 ,93145 s O d o 0 t 3 4 ';; 4 0 8 d 8 Price of Y. C. .• .. to 41s 3d to Os Od to 45s Od Os Od to Os Od Delivery last week: • • 3,297 2,201 2,897 2,508 2,849 Ditto from Jane 1.••• 37,508 29,052 38,030 37,738 31,753 Arrivals last week • . 13,516 100 1,836 6,150 775 Ditto from June 1 ... 49,016 22,817 59,219 62,131 47,768 Price of Town 44s 3d 523 6d 48s Od 47s 6d 39s 60 STATEMENT OF TALLOW SHIPPING AT ST. PETERSHURGH. 1849. 1848. I 1847. 1846. I 1845.1 Tallow dispatched Casks. Casks. Casks. Casks. Casks. from Cronstadt to Sept. 26, O.S. .... 83,150 99,759 95,485 70,394 89,351 In ships loading and lighters •••••••• .. 14,913 12,432 17,740 19,822 9,922 Total loaded eft .... 1' 3,063 112,191 113,225 90,216 p 9,273 Loaded afterwards.. . • 17,313 18,639 23,007 13,735 Total at the close of -- the navigation.... • • • . 129,504 131,864 113,223 113,008 London... .• .• 33,311 45,406 41,250 31,699 40,652 Liverpool .....• .. 15,871 12,103 12,167 9,722• 17,980 Bristol ....... • 3,255 4,231 3,329 2,745 2,429 Other Englishports 10,698 11,008 9,320 8,711 7,077 Ireland .. ... • • . • 4,267 4,174 6,615 6,060 5,426 Scotland Germany • 4,171 6,472 6,043 5,073 4,074 • • • .•• .. 9,602 6,076 6,865 5,419 4,758 France • • • • • • • • • • 6,975 291 6,916 965 6,955 88,150 99,759 95,485 170,394 89,351 KARLBRO'-STREET—(THIS DAY) Ann Brady, a determined vagrant, was brought be fore Mr. Bingham, charged with begging in the public streets. Jones, an cffieer belonging to the D division, stated that he was on duty in Oxford-street on Saturday even ing, when he saw the prisoner go up to several persons and importune them for money, stating that she was in a starving and destitute condition. Knowing her to be a confirmed beggar, he took her into custody. Horsford informed the magistrate that the prisoner had been convicted no less than fifty times; in fact, nice months out of the twelve she was in prison. Mr. EINGUAM committed her for 10 days. John Kitson, a well-known thief, was charged with stealing from the shop of Mr. Wm. Needham, gunsmith, 26, Piccadilly, a gun-case and fittings, value 61. Burnett, 20 E, deposed that about half•past six o'clock on Saturday evening he saw the prisoner run out of com plainant's chop with the gun-case produced under his arm. Suspecting the prisoner had stolen it, he went into the shop, and, on making inquiry, found such to be the fact.—The prisoner was fully committed for trial. CRIMINAL COURT = (THIS DAY.) OLD COURT The last session of this court during the present Mayoralty commenced this morning in the Old Court, before the Lord Mayor, the Recorder, Aldermen Gibbs, Musgrove, Sidney, Finnis, and the new Sheriffs, Messrs. Lawrence and Ni c h o l, a tt en d e d b y the Under-Sheriff4, Messrs. Wire and Miller. The grand jury having been empannelled and sworn, The RECORDER proceeded to deliver his charge to them. He observed that the calendar contained a list of 208 prisoners, and that that number would be pro bably augmented to some considerable extent, by various commitments, before the termination of the session. The calendar contained an enumeration of the various of fences for which prisoners were ordinarily committed for trial to that court, and he lamented to say that it presented several cases of the perpetration of those higher crimes which required the most particular inves tigation. He was sorry to see that there were no less than five persons charged with the crime of wilful murder, under circumstances greatly different one from the other, but still presenting facts for the attention of the grand jury that would pro bably compel them in each instance to put the charge in course of further inquiry before a petty jury. He Would beg very shortly to call the attention of the grand jury to the nature of the charges in addition to the five cases of murder he had adverted to. There was one charge of rape, where, in another count of the indict ment, the same party was charged with a criminal assault on a child under eleven years of age. He would dismiss that case by stating that there was no necessity for the grand jury to have evidence of consent in such a case, the law being that between ten and twelve no consent could be given. There were three persons charged with assisting another to rob, and there were no less than nine cases of cutting and wounding with intent either to murder or do grievous bodily harm; and he lamented to see that one of those cases was a charge of cutting and wounding a constable, to pre vent the lawful apprehension of an individual. That was one of the cases that the law, as it at present existed, constituted a felony of the most serious nature. There were eight cases of forgery and uttering forged i nstruments, and in one case a party was charged with forging bank-notes. There were no less than three charges of bigamy, 11 of burglary, and 9 cases of uttering counter feit coin. There were several cases of horse-stealing and Manslaughter, and several cases also of most serious mis demeanour. There were a great number of cases of larceny, 10 cases of house-breaking and larceny, 13 larcenies in dwelling-houses, 16 cases of larcenies from the person, and 41 cases of larceny of other descrip tions. Now, having put the grand jury in possession of the state of the calendar generally, it would be his duty to Call their attention more in detail to some of the more pro m i nent charges i t conta i ned. He alluded ° the charges of manslaughter and murder. There Th were two charges of murder; one against a father for murdering his child by drowning, and another against a man for murdering his wife and child. And there was also another case, where death was caused by brutal violence —caused by the party charged kicking a female with whom he cohabited; and there was a case 4160 in whi c h i t was in vain for him to say the attention of me grand jury had not been called by some means or °Ther—where two persons, man and wife, were charged With the c r i me o f murder. With respect to the case ihere death occurred from personal violence—from ` .. king—if t h e j ury found there was great bru tint)? and severity on th e p art o f t h e i nd i v i dual, and no disposition of relenting, that would be a case, in his opinion, in which the grand jury would be justified t in puttin g t h e case into a state of further inquiry before _he petty j ury as a charge of murder, and it would be tor the grand jury carefully to inquire whether mischief was not intended. The two cases he would next allude to were in one instance where a father was charged with the murder of his own offspring, and in the other where the father was charged with murdering his child and elf o his wife. Perhaps the grand jury, in their kindly feeling, might, in looking to these cases, be inclined to think that the parties committing the offence were Under some delusions; but he mentioned this by way of caution, and not in order that it might sway the grand jury either one way or the other. The law had made certain provisions with respect to presumed insanity; the grand jury had nothing to do with insanity, because it was for a jury expressly charged to determine that point. If it appeared that the act of the party was such that murder was intended, the grand jury were bound to put the case, in a further stage of inquiry, before a Petty jury. It now remained for him to refer to the case where a man and his Wife were charged with the heinous crime 0 murder, but before he proceeded to consider that case it would perhaps be better that he should call the attention of the grand jury shortly to a case of man ajanghter of which he had only just received the deposi 14°fis, in which the charge was made against the brother Of the deceased, who, by the application of the homceo- Pathic syatem in a case of cholera, it was charged, h a d Caused his death. Now, in a case like this, if there was evidence of a criminal disregard of human life on the part of an i nd i v i dual who presume d to act as a medical man, there could be no doubt that a charge of man a'aughter might be maintained, or at least brought against him ; but if a man was a regular practitioner, and w ith the best arty intent, and with the hope of doing the tettth • good, had a d m i n i s t ere d me di c i nes th a t en d e d i n , in s uc h a case t h e c h arge o f mans l aug h ter cou ld 1 1(4 be maintained. Having made these observations, he came to the case to which he desired to call the par i-i_er4.lar attention of the grand jury; he alluded to that ~_"los case in which two persons were charged with ,11iul murder, the parties charged standing in the rela lirt°ll to each other of husband and wife. He would not °n writtenbl the grand jury with constant refer -13 to what the early text writers had on this subject, as he had endeavoured to collect well as he could, what was the result of the law upon i°24 subject ,and as it touched this question in particular. 4; gener, it seemed that the wife might be indited for i 01 1 3 7, even with her husband, according to the c autho- Y of Lord Hale; but if it appeared on an indictment, v :c,ept for murder, that the husband was present, the ruderll!h to be acquitted, on the presumption of acting etraatthtehe control and coercion of her husband. In the theof murder it was different. The authorities stated exception did not exist in cases of murder, or % € ' ll .tc'e, or manslaughter, or assault and battery. Where la 'wife committed an act, though in the presence of her t , ° • eb ,and, she might be convicted of it, and the husband A l _gnt also be convicted as an accessory before the fact. - 6' 4 a proof of that in the State Trials, the Earl and O r less of Somerset were convicted of the murder of r Thames Overbury. It was also laid down in nwkin's Pl eas o f the C rown, that where a wife had 'e. , 4 her h us b and to commit murder she might be con ne tad t as an accessory before the fact. He had gone ° this cas e th us f ar b ecause it might appear to the grand ' ma y that the wife was au accessory after the fact, and HEALTH OF HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN DOWAGER. STANMORE, MONDAY, 11 A.M. Her Majesty, the Queen Dowager, we regret to learn, continues in a very critical state, surrounded by the Duchess Ida of Saxe Weimar, and the Princes Edward and Hermann, and the Princesses. The Earl Howe, Sir David Davies, Sir Horace Seymour, and Lady Clinton (Lady in Waiting), are among the members of Queen Adelaide's household staying at Bentley Priory. The following bulletin was issued at ten o clock this (Monday) morning, from which it will be perceived there is no improvement in the distressing condition of the illustrious invalid : "Her Majesty the Queen Dowager has bad a bad night, and is not quite so well this morning." The inquiries at her Majesty's temporary residence, from the neighbouring nobility, clergy, and gentry are exceedingly numerous, and much public anxiety exists as regards that estimable lady's illness. . 1 4,4_ WO ' Mbitton NEWMARKET RACES. (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) Plate of 501. Defaulter Wanota . Matches. ... 1 ... 2 Antonio received from CEdipus—Sagacity beat New. port—Le Beau beat Sultana—Damask received from Lords Glasgow's filly, Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. for two yrs old. Filly out of Thug's dam Remnant Wren •. • ... .•• ... Handicap for throe yrs old. Abd• el• Kader Telegraph ... 1 ... 2 ... 3 ... 1 Match—Rosalia beat Cockermouth. Sweepstakes of 100 sovs. each. Paquita and Laundry Maid ran a dead heat, and divided. THE CRITERION. The Nigger ..• Piteford ~, Nutshell... ... .. 1 ... 2 ... 3 WOLVERHAMPTON NEW EXCHANGE.—The design submitted by Mr. T. Robinson, architect, has been ulti mately selected by the committee. The design is in the Italian style, of a bold and simple character, and com prises a large hall, 100 feet long and 50 feet high, lighted at the top by a dome, upwards of 30 feet in diameter. At the north end of the hall is a large alcoved space (also lighted from the top by a semidome), for the purpose of a settling room, and in connexion therewith is a large private room for the corn inspector and for other purposes. At the south end of the hall is a large and spacious area for the use of the ironmasters, having private rooms for business, and other conveniences ad joining it. The principal entrance to the hall and to the adjoining rooms is on the west side, through a bold and lofty archway in the centre of the building, and from this archway is an ascent by broad and easy steps which lead up on either side to a vestibule and entrance to the hall at each end. Taking advantage of the differ ence of level in the ground, and for the convenience of those to whom a flight of steps would be objectionable, the architect has provided two other entrances from the churchyard, at the level of the floor. These entrances have also vestibules, to prevent the inconvenience of doors opening directly into the hall. In the basement of the building will be provided large, dry, light, and airy vaults, with spacious passages entered without steps at the level of the lower streets.-- Wolverhampton Chronicle. BURNS AND SCALDS.—If the injury be superficial, a little creosote may be applied to the part; end if it Le a scald, the vesicle may be first pierced with a needle, and the aqueous fluid squeezed out. When creosote is not procurable, a liniment of soft soap, basilicon oint ment, oil of turpentine, and water may be used instead. When the part is very hot and painful, a poultice may be applied, on the surface of which a few drops of creosote or the liniment should be spread with a knife. It the poultice be applied it is advisable to keep it on until the next day, when a little spermaceti ointment, spread on linen, may be used instead. Plunging the part into cold water immediately on the receipt of the injury, will frequently prevent any further remedy being ne cessary. LUNATIC ASYLUMS.—In a statement presented to the Glcuceater Court of Quarter Sessions, on Tuesday, a great increase of lunacy was shown. The number of pauper lunatics in the county asylum in 1824 was sixty; in the present year it is nearly three hundred. The chairman (P. B. Purnell, Esq.) presented a voluminous report on the management of the Gloucestershire private lunatic asylums, reviewing many cases of great cruelty which had been brought to light within the last eighteen months. since these asylums had been more closely looked into. In one case, which has already been before the pubic, two gentlemen had been confined in the Fishponds paying 1102 for each pe r annum , while annum had been left by their dec ease d As lu m 35 , 0 1 . 1 e per relatives ive s father for the purpose of providing them with every com fort which their deplorable condition could permit of; and the relatives had appropriated accumulations of the lunatics' allowance to the amount of 8,4001. among them selves. The Court of Chancery had marked its opinion of that case by ordering that an allowance of 5501. per annum be made for the benefit of the unfortunate gentle men, instead of 2201., as allowed by the relatives. Other cases were alluded to, such as chaining up patients until sores were caused on their limbs by the manacles, con finement in rooms under six feet wide and seven feet high, stripping patients and washing them in a yard with a mop, &c. An application intended to be made for a renewal of a licence for the Ridgway. house Asylum, and which the chairman intended to oppose on grounds enumcran d, was withdrawn. The thanks of the Court were given to the chairman for his exertions in this matter. PIMPLES ON THE FACE.—TOUCII them with spirits of turpentine once in kia hours, and they will soon take themselves away. To bring them on again, all that is necessary is to touch a little " spirits and water": l were The Vheat, ny e, , 4,580 A sun- Flour. d fresh londay lk, ar.d arriago of fair by DO for all I state. without Ma day inferior :h a fair ad frcm ruling Jerately tll rates V little were in it week. s afloat; the turn Berkey . Mali run cur ly any of Malt !erne, at wn Oats , derately week's loing, at for Tick The ate rates nd Meal trifling• ies ruled 590 tO 60 153 18! 1133 231 , . 14$ 16 . . 165 160 . 195 31 . . 251 31 . ▪ 365 314 27s 3°.. 285 31. ~ 25s 270, ~ 27s 0 3 5 0 v.. 31s 3 !! k 311 3'. 3f Cana"' from 70 0 ceedingif . 283 $4O ▪ 165 25° r 32s 5 4 : 545 5 " - ~ 403 43° . 3es 4 " . 403 44° rOs 101 OA /Os V 101 5s 411 00 St os 291,10 of f0r44 0 asive, of Sheep ' falling - o" being 'tt 4 me time ? n e week 1 11 d that the ral quality K. ev. Pig 3. 0. t 0 i• 4 32 3 6 03 0 6 4 0 3 10 0 1 0 0 3 6 32 4 2 3 8 20 ° 16 0 0 0 0 I JES• 321 rio• 38 week, we froln 10 ,00 cone, hos , ems" • e s , Ton el cul Thee )in g• botI C only sera" , slit 3arG 134 LONDON, MONDAY TO THE EDITOR OF TILE SUN. SIR,—As you have had the goodness to insert my short letter, proposing the employment of clerhs of the Jewish persuaqian for the Sunday dutifs in the Post Office if it will be the means of liberating any conscientious dissenters from the faith given to Christians, you will perhaps not be unwilling to add some elucidations and corroborations on the subject. Is it or is it not the creed of Christians in general, and of the Church of England and most of the Dis senting sects in particular, that the Apostles are our last and final authority for what is and is not the Christian rule and law, so far as sincere though im perfect judgment can interpret their decisions? Is it not, for instance, notorious and palpable, that the great head and fountain of Christianity left many points undetermined and untouched, which the Apostles who succeeded him, undertook both to touch and to determine f For example, is it not plain that Christ never forbade the observance of the Jewish rites and ceremonies, circumcision included ; but on the contrary submitted to them all himself ? And is not the reason why we are not at this moment cir cumcised, and do not submit to the Jewish law in matters of meats and drinks and other observances, simply and nakedly because the Apostles, upon authority they doubtless believed sufficient, undertook afterwards to prohibit what their leader had not for• bidden ? Is it then, or is it not, a simple matter of record, and to be settled by reference to documents in the same manner as if the dispute were whether the read ing of "thou shalt" or "thou shalt not" commit adultery was the right one—that the Apostle who is sometimes called the Great Apostle, as having taken the lead in settling all points relating to the part of the church which was not of Jewish origin, has dis tinctly enumerated the keeping " the Sabbaths," or as our version has it, " the Sabbath-days," along with restrictions in " meat or in drink, or in respect of an holiday, or of the new moon," as what the Christians he addresses were not to allow man to enforce upon them, and they refused to allow accordingly ? But perhaps it was only a transfer. Perhaps the Apostles have said, " What you are not to be judged in on the last day of the week, allow yourselves to b 3 judged in on the next. Abstain from your worldly callings on the first day of the week. Do no manner of work, thou and thy son, and thy daughter; and go no more than a Sabbath•day's journey upon it." If they did, where is it ? Every man knows in his heart that there is no such direction in any part of the Apostolic writings; that though minute to the utmost on almost every point of Christian doctrine and deportment, they never attempted to instil this modern great commandment ; that all which is to be collected is, enat they called the first day of the week " the Lord's" or Christ's Day, in commemoration of the Resurrection, and assembled and made charitable collections on it ; and that all the rest is forgery. I wait for a reply, from that dignitary of the Church of England who has chosen to put himself forward most prominently on the present occasion, to tell us why and on what authority he undertakes to abrogate the authority of St. Paul, and intimate that Divine judgments will fall upon us unless we con• sent to put the authority of James of London in its place. Does the Church, of which he professes to be a member, acknowledge anything like his tenets ? Examine her Catechism and Articles, and see. The Church of England in its Catechism gives the Ten Commandments of Moses, and then proceeds to com ment upon and impress such of them as it conceived to be binding on those under its instruction. No body can charge the composers of the Church Cate chism with being averse to impress anything which tended to parochial discipline and rural order; and their work was clearly executed under an enlightened consciousness, that it would come to a great many more apprentices than Princes of the blood. Yet the Church of England in its Catechism as utterly ignores the whole Fourth Commandment, as it does the pro hibition of the arts of statuary and design delivered in the First. A man must be mad, who in his waking moments would maintain that this is not a distinct declaration that the Church of England denies the obligation of Sabbatical observance. If it believed in a transfer of the day, why did it never say so ? Why did it so utterly omit and re fuse to utter, upon a point which a sec tion of its professing followers would persuade us was at the root of all morality and civil discipline ? In the Articles it is all the same. The only Article at all bearing on the subject is the Seventh ; where it is laid down that neither the Ceremonies and Rites nor the Civil precepts of the Law given to Moses are binding on Christian men, " yet notwithstanding no Christian man whatsoever is free from the obedience of the Commandments which are called Moral." Which taken in conjunction with the Church's refusal to impress the duty of obedience to the Fourth Commandment in her Catechism, is declaring as plainly as honest words can do it, that she considers this Commandment as making part of the " Ceremonies and Rights or Civil precepts," and not of " the Com man d men t s w hi c h are called Moral." As I have not the Homilies before me, I can only say that there is no Homily on Sabbath breaking in the list. Her Table of Feasts she heads with " All the Sundays in the Year," which is as decidedly hostile to the notion of ascetic restric tions on those days, as" All the Fridays in the Year, except Christmas Day, in the Table of Feasts, is indicative of something like the opposite. And what said the early Protestant Reformers on this point ? The men who drew up and signed the Confession of Augsburg, the earliest declaration of Protestanism in a public or political form, enume rates the attempt to enforce the observation of the Sabbath on the first day of the week, among the Anti-Christian corruptions they were prepared to resist with their lives. If any doubt this, let him consult the copy in the British Museum, printed at the period. Luther, too, whose example would be brought heavily to bear against us if it had been the other way, made a point of purchasing some article or other on the Sunday, to prove his Christian liberty, on the same principle that the Spaniards and Portuguese to this hour make a point of eating pork. Such at least is the account given, but as I have not the means of reference at the time of writing, I shall dwell on that no further. To descend from the Reformers and the Fathers of the Church of England to our own times. It is noto rious that men of the highest character in the Church, whose position placed them above the fear of mobbish outcry, have given their undisguised adherence to the Apostolic prohibition of Sabbatical observance, though they readily admitted the uses which might be derived from the examples of devotional and charitable exer cises on the first day of the week, bequeathed to us by the early Christians. Paley, Arnold, Whately, will occur to the recollection of your readers. While on the other side will be found only a collection of what it is no uncharity to call quibblers and time servers, who would have quibbled and time served just as well in support of the Pope's right to depose kings, if it had been set before them. I should like to know what proportion of those against whom the fulminations of the Anti• Christian party in the Church of England have been directed— Ministers of State and Members of Parliament in• eluded—know or have any idea of these three facts : " That the last and greatest Apostle of Christianity prohibits the enforcement of Sabbatical observance. " That the early Protestant Reformers included it in their list of grievances. " That the Church of England officially ignores the existence of any such duty, and refuses so much as to intimate to a parish-boy, that there is such a thing as Sabbath-breaking in the list of juvenile temp tations." And now for the motives which have operated to Iroduce the present storm against the Christian rule. It is not etiquette to impute — motives to individuals; but no man with a touch of philosophy will give up the right of sa3ing that motives are in the world. " First, then, the desire:of ecclesiastical domination, and the never-to be neglected pleasure of enforcing opinions on others. " Secondly, the wish to embarrass a Ministry, which has already earned the thanks of the honest followers of Jesus of Nazareth, by refusing to recog nize those on whom the cholera fell ; as sinners above all the inhabitants of our Galilee. "Thirdly, a desire to obstruct the system of im. provement in the Post Office, and, if possible, to re turn to the old ways of darkness, if that eye of the public can be wholly or partially closed. And here I happen to have knowledges which some have not ; but which many will be able and ready to confirm. I happened to represent in Parliament a town of some standing in a commercial view; and it came to light that there had been great contests going on upon the questions of cheap postage and acceleration of the mails. The leading men were found saying, "Two things we licg of the Government;—that our letters may be dear, and that they may be long in coming to us." And how, on examination, did this aversion solve itself ? The leading men, on the occurrence of a sharp turn in the course of trade, the safe arrival of a fleet which they might otherwise have been tempted to insure, and other cases which may be conceived, thought nothing of twenty pounds, which was the cost of a chaise and four, with an express from London, so long as it gave them the advantage of the little men being kept in ignorance. Another still more naked reason was assigned for another q uar t er . C e rtain commercial establishments had been in the habit of charging ten pence each for letters supposed to be written for their numerous customers ; the substance of which they finally communicated by perhaps making one letter serve for all, and the difference of course went into their pockets. Exactly the same feeling is at work in London. To a leading house it is as nothing, to have to pay for the transmission of an important piece of news on the Sunday. The very fact of its being withheld from the little men, pays for it over and over at the yea r 's end. There is no use in blus• tering; this is the reason why the great helms in EVENING, OCTOBER 22 1819 London, or so many of them, are found saying," For heaven and earth's sake let us have no information of any kind upon the Sunday." And to this they have the hardihood to add a request; that because they cherish this source cf dishonest gain in London, the honest trader in Liverpool may not be allowed to stand on a better footing by not having his own Deal or Dover letter .stopped in its progress through the metropolis. And so fatuous are the, small men every where, and so afraid of lifting up their voices for Christ's Apostle against a sectarian Bishop, that they submit in silence to his spoiling of their goods. " Fourthly, which is perhaps the -strongest of all, there is the dread of what might come of the rational employment of a First Day's leisure _ by the Working Classes. And to this it is impossible to deny that the Working Classes themselves have been partly accessory. There can be no doubt that if the clergy in Spain or Portugal were to set themselves to procure recla - mations from the Working Classes for the maintenance of a fish diet two days a week, or any other of the restrictions which the majority of Protestants think unchristian or needless, they would have no difficulty in carrying their point to a certain extent. It remains to be seen whether a Ministry to whom these things can hardly be unknown, will damage the cause of Christianity and general progress, by giving way before the bubblyjock of a sacer d o t a l falsehood, supported by so many other malevolent designs and palpable after-blows. If they are to give way on this question in the Post Office, they must make the amende for their opposition on the cholera demand ; a revenue from the Post Office, and -a Fixed Duty on Corn--things well known to go together in the Rouse of Commons—will be the next to which the adversary will stretch his hand. It is impossible to deny to any man the right to push his advantage; when his oppo nents have built a wall to run their own heads against, as the Ministers will have done, if, after bring ing on this question by their own choice as to time, they yield. Pinally, I return to my suggestion, of the employ ment of Jewish clerks. They would, of course, ex pect to be released from duty on the Saturday ; which is a composition not difficult to arrange, if the rebellion in the P os t Offi ce can be got over. The employes in the Post Office have notoriously been in rebellion ever since the cheap postage was introduced by Rowland Hill. A true.bred British clerk there, cannot conceive, to this hour, how two sheets of paper should be allowed to go for less than twenty pence. There is no saying to what pitch a meeting, with so many supporters in broadcloth and lawn, may go. The cry of "No Jews, no Wooden Shoes," may be raised again in St. Martin's-le-Grand. Perhaps, if you could contrive to let the Ministers know that there are Christians to back them, it might help to make them keep up their courage to the quelling point. ONE WHO BELIEVES SABBATICAL OBSERV ANCE PROHIBITED TO CHRISTIANS. CHOLERA AND DIARRHCEA. RETURN OF CASES, OCT. iS. THE METROPOLIS. Deaths. Cholera. Diarrh St. James, Westminster khoreditch ... ... Bethnal-green ... St. George-in-the-E a st Stepney •.• ••• Poplar ... ... ••• • • • ..'. ••• "'"" • • • "..." .. • -- . • • -* 2 0 1 0 ••• '"'"' Total • •• ..... ENGLAND AND WALES. The following is the Return of Deaths from Cholera and Diarrhoea reported to the 'General Board of Health October 20, 1849 : SUPERINTENDING REGISTRAR ' S DISTRICT. Deaths. Cholera. Dlarrh. 2 1 O 1 4 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 O 1 O 2 3 0 O 1 O 1 1 0 O 1 O 4 2 0 O 1 O 1 1 0 O 1 O 1 2 0 5 1 O 2 O 2 2 3 O 1 Alnwick ••• Aston (Deritend) ... • • Aylsbain (Cottish all and Belaugh)— Bedminster ... Birmingham Bridgewater .. Bristol ..• Buckingham ... Bury (Bilkington) Chorley (Leyland) ... ••• Chorlton (Burton-upon-Newell) Darlington ... ••• "• Dartford (Bexley district) Dewsbury (Batley) .. Dudley ••• ••• ••• Ilardingstone (Piddington) ••• Ilitchin... Holbeach (Whaplode) Hunslet (Seacroft) ... • • King's Norton (EdgLaston) ••• Knaresborough (Bondend) ••• Lancaster Leeds Liverpool Maidstone ... Manchester ... Nantwich North Witchford (March dis trict), Oct. 16 Norwich ••• ••• ••• Nottingham ... Ormskirk (Southport) ••• Pontefract (Egbrough) ... • Portsea (Southsea) - Prescot (Rainford) ... - Rochdale (Bridgemill) • ... Runcorn (Frodsham district) St. Colum (Padstow district)... St. Germans (Anthony) Salford (Regent-road) Sheffield ••• ••• South Shields (Westoe) Stourbridge (Kingswinford) Todmorden Tynemouth (Seghill, Earsdon district) - West Bromwich Wigan ••• •••• ••• Witney (Burford) Wolverhampton and Bilston Wycombe (Wendover) • • • '''''' •• • ...' • • • '..... •* • ''''''' • • • ''''''' .•• '--. s • • ''''. • • • ."" ••• '''''' ••• '-''' • • • " • • • ‘.. ••• .... ••• ... ••• ."." ••• .... • • • .... Total SCOTLAND. Fraserbargh ... ... .., GENERAL TOTAL. 67 SPORTING NOTES. No. XI V. REMINISCENCES OF THE NEWMARKET FIRST AND SECOND OCTOBER MEETINGS, win.' ANTICIPATIONS OF THE HOUGHTON. "Will you go see the order of the course? Where the place? Upon the heath." SHABSPERE. "The heath, the heath—the upland heath, With the pine ridge on the height; And all Mow the purple wreath, Gleaming in rich sunlight." "'Tway in October, when fiae days are few, And the far mountains wax a little hoary, And clap a white cape on their mantles blue; And the sea dashes round the promontory, And the loud breaker boils against the rock, And sober suns must set at five o'cicck." BYRON. " Well, come what will, I'll tempt my fortune once." BEN JONSON. " He either fears his fate too much Or his deserts are small, Who dares not put it to the touch To win or lose it all." MONTROSE. " 'Tis sweet to win, no matter how, one's laurels By blood or iuk, or judgment." •• I've got a deal of judgment, Though heaven knows how it ever found a lodgment.' BYRON. " What should it be? that thus their faith can bind? The power of Thought—the magic l bf the Mind!" The Corsair. " Let Reason guide me with resistless ray, And pour on misty doubt resistless day." JonNsoN's Vanity of Human Wishes. " ' Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it." ADDISON'S Cato, Act I. Scene 1. " Oh ! Heaven, oh ! Earth, bear witness to this sound, And crown what I propose with kind event, If I speak true; if hollowly, invert What best is boded me, to mischief." Tempest, Act 111. Scene 3. " There's pen and ink for you, Sir, when you need— Let everything be noted with precision." Don Juan, Canto I. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—The First October Meeting furnished a few facts worth recording, to wit, the defeat of the once in vincible Tadmor, not able, I am afraid, to stand another preparation, for " Legs are not steel. and steel is bent, Legs are not rock, and rock is rent ;" the victory of Bolingbroke by John O'Gaunt out of Spangle, over Penang, and Nutshell, for the Hopeful Stakes ; the very clever win of the Knight of Avenel by the Doctor, out of Blue Bonnet, in the race fir the second Triennial Stakes, but mask ! not without the strong inducements of whip and spur could the defeat of the Epirus colt be accomplished, and then only by half a length, the latter having but a neck the advantage of William the Conqueror, who in turn only just beat Liardinge. A few pounds would bring the lot together, but neither among these, or those that contested the Hopeful Stakes, can I discover the winner of the Derby; and the bungling triumph of the Goodwood Derby nag Ghillie Callum, who blundered before starting, and was nearly down on his head at the finial' of the race for the Rutland Stakes, but however recovered himself, and won easily by a length, beating Nutshell, Fernando, and the Lover. The pretensions of the son of Gladiator and 11.2e1, to Derby honours, are by no means despicable, for notwithstanding his blundering performance in the race for the Rutland Stakes, "You takers of tobacco and strong waters, Mark this!' he is the flower of the Goodwood flock, and for speed, this year's debutantes cannot produce his equal/ whether he can stay a distance or not has yet to be proved. The running of the two years'-old in the Second October Meeting, if anything, was more important than that in the first ; the Clearvvell Stakes brought out Clincher, by Turcoman, out of CI nker's dam, another candidate for Derby honours; he cut down his horses, in cluding Nutshell, in the first furlong, and won in a canter by a length; but notwithstanding this rather gocd performance, he did not find favour in the eyes of the " knowing ones," who peppered hico. at 20 an d 25 t o 1 a t Newmarket, and in town was in such little force, that as a specimen of many bets, I actually saw a florin taken to lay 501. to 30s. against him, and offers to go on to an indefinite amount at the same figure; he shall not run the Derby course for my money. The Bretby Stakes were remarkable only for the defeat of Tingle by Lord Chesterfield's Satire, the former suc cumbing to the daughter of Don John and Lampoon by a neck, beating however the Potentia filly and Kathleen. For the Bedford Stakes 6 to 5 was betted agst Sisy phus, Bst 101 b (3d), and 5 to 4 agat the filly by Nut with out of Agnes, Sst llb (2d); the majority of the ring little dreaming that their field lay in a nutshell, went cautiously to work, but a select few stood everything on Lord Exeter's nag, who, carrying Bst 71b, won cleverly by a length; this race, together with the other four that Nutshell has run within three weeks, has made him very stale; his chance for the Criterion must be " small, demned small," and if he gets the third place in that race, I think it will be as much as he can accomplish or anybody expect. Mr. Henry's Pitsford, backed heavily for the Derby, made a most inglorious debiit is the Pren dergast Stakes, running absolutely, third and last to Bulingbroke (61bs extra) and Nutshell (31bs extra); the figure he eut in the race was too absurd to make me believe it was his true running; the stable containing so many cognoscenti in horse-flesh, could never make so great a blunder—the Criterion will decide his fate and pretensions. We have now arrived at the last post-house of the racing season of 1849, the Houghton Meeting, which commences this day under very favourable auspices, the weather being fair, the attendance likely to be great, and the number of quadrupeds arrived beyond all prece• dent immense. The only important stake to be run this day is the Criterion, for which I presume The Nigger, Pitaford, Nutshell, The Swindler, Hope. Sisyphus, Paul, Cali fornia, Windhound, and Tordesillas will be found at the post. William the Conqueror's appearance being very dubious, I cannot see anything likely to interfere with The Nigger's chance, perhaps with the exception of Pitaford, who, if not first, will play second fiddle to The Nigger only, Nutshell, The Swindler (a fine, large horse), and Sisyphus heading the ruck. To-morrow the game begins with a sweepstakes of 300 sovs. each, &c., which the Duke of Bedford's Sobraon ought to win; after which the comedy to some, tragedy to others, of the Cambridgeshire Stakes, for which there were 162 horses handicapped,lo2 accepting, and probably the tremendous field of forty will await the starter's orders thirty hours hence, to be selected from the following:— , yrs. st. lb. Collingwood Conybgham *Diplomatist Sh) lock *Dulcet *Glendower The Moor *Spithead yrs. st. lb. Ribaldry 4 6 10 Voc-o'-Sot 5 6 10 Amazement Ile Old Fox 3 6 8 ltathmines St. Rosalie 3 6 7 Backbiter Comet .... ..... Vasa Bacchanalian 4 6 3 I"Tbe Seraph Glenalvon 'Kissaway Crucible 3 5 12 * Quinine 5 5 12 Legerdemain 3 5 12 Crocodile "Grasshopper 3 5 10 Over fork Over Baby "Lady Jersey 3 5 8 Fitzpatrick 3 5 7 Fby Harkaway 3 5 7 3 5 7 Cocktail 4 5 0 Cnrthagenian 3 4 10 *Minimum 3 4 10 Fugleman Prior of St. Mar garet's 6 7 10 *The Sheriff Beauclerc *Old Dan Tucker 3 7 7 *Dacia .... 4 7 7 Blucher *Keleslult ..... 4 7_ 7 *ltadulphus *Malton *Tbringarth *Miss Ann 3 7 2 GI auca •Telegraph 4 ? 0 _ ._ .IlomYycOmb _ _ _ Woolwich , Cockermouth *Whitstone 4 6 101 The Iron Duke ... 3 6 10 Vanguard ...... ...3 6 10 Those naarkLd with aster runners. As are the most uncertain For this race " I Proclaim an open field, and there shall be, I trow, no lack of champions." It would be too tedious to go through the merits of every individual horse, therefore take a batch against the field, and endeavour to select the winner therefrom— " Fortune I fair, but fickle goddess Befriend me but a moment, but one Huila moment, And I shall be the happiest of men." Collingwood, Shylock, and The Prior of St. Margaret's, shall represent the top-weights; Glance, Vanguard, Ribaldry, Amazement, and Rathmines, the middle weights; and Legerdemain, Raby, and Rienzi, the light weights. Collingwood will run up, so will Shylock; Glauca has Vanguard and Ribaldry saf,-; Annzemcnt and Rath mines being let loose, cannot well help being in the front; I am afraid we shall not be gratified by another trick of legerdemain this year, but if Lord Stanley's filly lioks well at the post, I certainly would take ber against any thing in the race. Raby, I think, will be found too Flow for this course; and Rienzi will not be first, although not the " last of the Romans;" in conclusion, despite the favour shrown to the R's, I must place the first five is my opinion thus:--. Glauca 1 Sbylock Collingwood 3 Rathmines ... 4 Raby ... 5 Amazement (my cock boat), Vanguard, Woolwich, Ribaldry, The Prior of St. Margaret's, and Rienzi, forming the first flight of the ruck. My opinion on the remaining races I will give in the following tabular form: Stake. 300 sous. A.F. Match, 200. D.U. • TUESDAY. Probable winners. Sobraon. Escalade, Bst 71b, Ist; Ca nada filly, 7st 121 b, 2d. Clarissa, Bst 3ib, Ist; So• brim, Bst 71b, 2d. WEDNESDAY. Bee Hunter or The Nigger. Glauca, Bst 71b, Ist; St. H o . salia, Bst 41b, 2d. Post Match. R.M. 50 sovs. D.M. Match, 300. D.M. THURSDAY. Brother to Epirote. Glasgow 50 sole-. M'!tch, 2eo. T.Y.C. Pitsford. Ike Hunter, Bst 7F, ; Clir.eher, Bst, 21 Match, 200. First half of Sergius, Est 71b,ls;;Fpo.ILe, ALM. Bst 111 b, 2d. Match, 100. A.P. FRIDAY. Watchdog, Bst 7.b, Ist ; (E lipus, Bst, 2d. SATURDAY. Bc:voir Stakes. D.I. Flying Dutchman, Ist; Va ticau, 2d. Surplice, BA, Ist ; Coiling. wood, 9A 21b, 2d. Match, 200. A.F. My final observations this year, on the 2,000 Guineas, Derby, &e., will appear with my comments on the Nur sery Stakes on Thursday next. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF. October 22, 1849. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET HOUGHTON MEETING. NEWMARKET, SATURDAY AFTERNOON.—AIthough there are fewer matches than usual in the list for the ensuing meeting, the number of horses now congregated in the town is so unprecedentedly great that nearly the whole of the proposed handicaps, plates, and selling stakes, are certain to fill, and, with the aid of the stand ing engagements, to make up a brilliant week's racing. The asterisk prefixed to the Cambridgeshire warrants the expectation of an immense field. MONDAY. Handicap Plate of bOl., for three years old and up wards, Cambridgeshire Course. Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, for two years old; colts, Sat 71b; fillies, Bst 51b; the winner to be sold for 250 sovs., if demanded, tec.; first half of Ab. M. Handicap Sweepstakes of 25 sovs. each, for three years old and upwards; D.M. Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each; for three years old, ist alb; four, Bst 41b; five, Bst 81b; six and aged, Bst 101 b; the winner to be sold for CO says. if demanded; D.M. Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each; for three years old, 7st 71b; four, Bst 31b; five and upwards, Bst 81b; the winner to be sold for 350 soya. if demanded, &c.; Criterion Course. The Criterion Stakes, of 30 sovs. each, 20 ft, for 2 yrs old; colts Bst 71b; fillies, Sat 51b; winners extra. From the turn of the Lands in.—Col. Anson's c by Birdcatcher dam by Dr. Syntax—*Mr. Barne's Daughter of the Sea —*Air. Bouverie's Hardingstone—•Mr. Bulkeley's Hope—L , ,rd Chesterfield's Garforth—Lord Chester field's f by Pantaloon, out of Industry—*Lord Clifden's Sidus—*Lord Clifden's Narbonne—*Lord Clifden's Le Beau—Mr. Douglas's St. Luke—*Lord Exeter's Vieste—*Lord Exeter's Preslaw—*Lord Exe ter's Nutmeg—• Lord Exeter's Nutshell—*Mr. tFord's Eunuch—Mr. Fuller's the Swindler—• Mr. Gordon's William the Conqueror—',Mr. Gratwicke's The Nigger, Mr. Green's Cadger—Mr. B. Green's Witchcraft—Mr. Greville's Brington —*Mr.Hunry's Pitsford—*Col. Peel's S a rpent--• Col. Peel's Sisyph us—*Sir R. Pigot's Cali fornia—'Duke of Rutland's Paul—*Duke of Rutland's Ondine—*Lord J. Scott's Windhound—•Sir S. Spry's Bastiha—Lord Stanley's Flash—*Mr. Watt's Torde sillas—Duke of Bedford's Odin, paid—Duke ofßedferd's La Belle, paid—Mr. Greville's Ellen Middleton (dead), paid—Mr. Neville's Thackeray, paid—Mr. Neville's c by Gladiator, out of Revival, paid. Match, 100, h ft. T.Y.C.—*Lord Clifden's Sagacity, Bst 101 b, agst *Duke of Bedford's Newport, Bst 41b. Match, 200, h ft. Last mile and a half of T.M.M.— ''Lord Clifden's St. Antonio, Bst 71b, agst *Lord Strath more's iEdipus, 7st 131 b. Match, 200, h ft. T.Y.C.--*Mr. Gregory's Damask, Bst 71b, agst Lord Glasgow's f (dead), by Jerry, d by Actmon, Bst 31b. Match, 200, h ft. D.M.—Duke of Bedford's Rosalia, Bst 71b, agst Mr. Pedley's Cockermouth, Bst 41b. TUESDAY. Handicap Plate of 1004 for three years old and up. wards. D.I. Fifty Pounds, for two yrs old, a feather; three, 7st 51b; four, Bst 91b; five, 9.3 t 31b; si and aged, 9st 71b. The winner, with his engagements, to be sold for 300 gs,&e. Last three miles of B.C. Sweepstakes of 10 sows., for three yrs old, 7st 101 b; four, Bst 41b; five and upwards, Sst 81b. The winner to be sold for 80 sows., &c. Last half of Ab. M. Sweepstakes of 10 sous. each, for two yrs olds, colts, Bst 71b, fillies, Bst 41b. The winner to be sold for 200, D.ll. Sweepstakes of 10 sacs. each, for two yrs old; coftF, 83t 71b; fillies, Sst 41b. The winner to be sold fur 200, &;?. D.M. Sailing Handicap Sweepstakes of 15 sovs. each, 10 ft, for three yrs old and upwards. The winner to be sold for 200 sovs, &c. D.M. Handicap Sweepstakes of 15 sovs. each, 10 ft, for two and three yrs old. T.Y.C. The Cambridgeshire Stakes of 25 SOTS. each, 10 ft, and only 5 if declared to Messrs. Weatherby, in London, on or before the Tuesday in Doncaster race-week, with 100 added from the Town ltace-fund ; the winner of the Doncaster St. Leger to carry 121 b extra • the second horse in the St. Leger, or the winner of the Doncaster Cup, Great Yorkshire handicap, or Epsom Autumn handicap, to carry 61b extra ; these extra weights not to be accumulative, but the winner of the Cesarew itch to carry 71b over and above any other extra weight to which ho may be liable ; Cambridgeshire Course ; the owner of the second horse to receive 50 601 s. out of the stakes, and the winner to pay 30 Bove. to the judge. Chanticleer, 6 yrs, 94t 71b-*Collingwood, 6 yrs, 9st 41b-Peep 'o -day Boy, 5 yrs, 9st-'Conyngham, 5 yrs, 9st-Surplice, 4 yrs, Bst 13113-" Planet, 5 yrs, Bst 121b -4 Diplomatist, 5 yrs, Bst 81b-Horn of Chase, 5 yrs, Bst 71b-*Shylock, 4 yrs, Bst--*The Fiddler, 4 yrs. Bst-- *Dulcet, aged, Bst-*Glendower, 4 yrs, Bst-*lsTunny kirk (including 61b extra), 3 yrs, 7st 131b-"The Moor, 4 yrs, 7st 121b-*Spitlaead, 6 yrs, 7st 1116-" Prior of St. Margaret's, 6 yrs, 7st 1 11b-*Fugleman, 4 yrs, 7st 101b-*The Sheriff, 4 3 rs, ist 101b-*Beauclerc, 4 yrs, 7st 81b-*Old DAII Tucker, 3 yrs, 7st 71b-*Dacia, 4 yrs, 7st 71b-New Forest Deer, aged, 7st 71b-*Blucher, 4 yrs, 7st 71b-*Chatterer, 3 yrs. 7st 71b *Keleshea, 5 yrs, lit 71b-Saucy Dick, 3 yrs, 7st 71b-*Redulphus, 6 yrs, 7st 4113-*Multon, 4 yrs, 7st 21b-Volcano, 3 yrs, 7st 21b-*Thringarth, 3 yrs, 7st 21b-'Miss Ann, 3 y rs , 7st 21b-'Glauca, 3 yrs, 7st 11b-*Telegraph, 4 yrs, 7st-Gaffer Green, aged, ist-*Sesostris, 4 yrs, 7st- 4 1Ioneycomb, 3 yrs, Est 121 b -*Woolwich, 3 yrs, 6st 121b- * Cockerrnouth, 4 yrs, 6st 101h-* hitstone, 4 yrs, Est 101b- * Kersuu, 4 yrs, 6st 101b- * The Iron Duke, 3 yrs, 6st 101b-Chantrey, 3 yrs, 6st 1 01b-*Vanguard, 3 yrs, Gst 101b- * Ribaldry, 4 yrs, 6st 101b-*Joc o' Sot, 5 yrs, 6st 131b-Sponge, 4 yrs, Gst 81b- * Amazement, aged, 6st 81b-'The Old Fox, 3 yrs, Est Sib-Lady Superior, 3 yrs, 6st 71b- Second Sight, 3 yrs, 6st 71b-*ltathroines, 5 yrs, Est 71b *St. Rosalia, 3 yrs, Est 71b-*Backbiter, 4 yrs, Est 71b -Strychnine, 3 yrs Est 61b-*Comet, 4 yrs, Ent 41b- Binghsm, 5 yrs, 6it 41b-*Vasa, 3 yrs, 6st 41b-*Sid ney, 3 yrs, Est 41b-'lndus, 3 yrs, 6st 41b-Bacchanalian, 4 yrs, 6st 31b-Maid of Team Valley, 3 yrs, Est 31b * Thornhill, 3 yrs, 6st 31b-*The Seraph, 3 yrs, 6st 21b-*Glenalvon, 3 yrs, 6st-c by Verulam, out of Ihe Bridle, 3 yrs, Gst-General Sale, 3 yrs, 6st-*Kissa way (including 6lb extra), 3 yrs, 6 st-*Rosslyn, 4 yrs, sst 121b-Present, 3 yrs, sst 121b-*Crucible, 3 yrs, sst 121b *Slashing Alice, 3 yrs, sst 121b-*Quinine, 3 yrs, sst 12Ib -Susan Lovell, 3 yrs, sst 121b-Wensleydale, 3 yrs, sst 121b-*Legerdemain, (including 71b extra), 3 yrs, sst 121b-*Grasshopper, 3 yrs, sst 101b-*Trap, 4 yrs, sst 1 01b-*Crceodile b), aged, sst 101b-Alp, 3 yrs, sst 1 °lb-Robert de Bruce, 3 yrs, sst 101b-*Sylvia, 3 yrs, sst 101b-*Over-fork•over, 3 yrs, Sit 101b--*Rhesu, 3 yrs, sst 101b-*Baby, 3 yrs, sst 1016-Lady Jersey, 3 yrs, sst 81b-Coronet, 3 yrs, sst 71b-*Fitzpatrick, 3 yrs, sst 71b-f by Harkaway, out of Coranna's dam, 3 yrs, sst 71b-*Rienzi, 3 yrs, sst 71b-*lone, 3 yrs, sst 51b - 0 Whitley,3 yrs, sst 51b-*Coektail, 3 yrs, sst-*Minto, 4 yrs, sst- 4 Carthaginian, 3 yrs,4st 101b-*Minimum, 3 yrs, 4st 1 01b--*Condo, 3 y rs, 4st 10Ib- Borneo, 3 yrs, 7st 101 b, paid-Bon-mot, 3 yrs, ist 41b, paid-Highland Fling, 3 yrs, 6st 51b, paid-c by Don John, 4 yrs, Est 1!b, paid-Aldgate, 3 yrs, sst 121 b, paid-Sir Launcelot, 3 yrs, sst 10. b, paid-I by the Provost, 3 yrs, sst, paid. Sweepstakes of 300 soya. each, h ft, one to the post. A.F.-Lord Exeter's brother to Weodpigeon (dead)- *Lord Exeter's c by Voltaire, Marmera-*Lord Exeter's c Macaw-Lord Exeter's c Turban-Lord Chesterfield's Ferule-Lord Chesterfield's c by Don John, Meal- Lord Chesterfield's Desdichada-Lord Chesterfield's Chicot-*Dutio of Bedford's Sobraon-Duke of Bed- ford'. Quasimodo-Duke of Bedford's Mahratta, paid- Duke of Bedford's Narva, raid. Post Match; colts, Bst 71b; fillies, Bst 31b. R.M. 300 h ft.-*Dulce of Bedford's Sohraon agst Grcville's Chrissa-*Duke Bedford's Quasimodo agst *Mr. Gre• ville's Paquita-Duke of Bedford's Mahratta agst Mr. Greville's Damson. Match, 200, h ft. D.M.—Lord Stanley's Escalade, Sst 71b, agst Lord Glasgow's Canada f, 7st 121 b. WEDNESDAY. Handicap Plate of 501, for thrce years old and up wards. A.F. Subscription Plate of 501., for two years old, 6st 71b; and three years, Bst 101 b. The winner to be sold for 350 soya. if demanded. T.Y.C. Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each; for three yrs old, 7st 71b; tour, 8,7 t 21b; five and upwards, B.it 71b. The win. ner to he sold for 150, if demanded, &c. T.Y.C. Handicap Sweepstakes of 30 sovs. each, 10 ft, if de clared, &c., for three yrs old. Last mile and a distance of 13. C. Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, for two yrs old; colts, Bit 71b; fillies, Bst 41b. The winner to be sold for 70 sovs. First half of Ab. M. Selling Handicap Sweepstakes of 15 sovs. each, 10 ft, for three yra old and upwards. The winner to be sold for 100 soya., it demanded, &c. D.M. Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each; for three yrs old, 7 . st 71b; four, Bst 41b; live and upwards , B st 81b. The win ner to be sold for 40 sous., if demanded, &e. T.Y.C. Sweepstakes of 10 sovs , each; for two yrs old, 6 t9lb; three, Bst 71b; four, Bst 121 b; five and upwards. 9st lib. The winner to be sold for 250 soya., if demanded, &c. Last half of Ab. M. Sweepstakes of 50 sovs. each, h ft; for two years old colts, sst 71b; fillies, Bst Mb; not engaged in the July Chesterfield, Rutland, Clearwell, or Prendergast Stakes. A winner of 200 soya. or upwards to carry 51b extra. D.M. : —*Duke of Bedford's Bordeaux—*Mr. Combo's f, by the Nob, out of Sister to Canada—*Lord Lennox's Beehunter—*Mr, Greatwicke's The Nigger— Lord Orfcrd's e, by Arundel out of Memima—*Lord Exeter's Preslaw—*L or d Clifden's Sicyon. Match -300 D.M.:—Mr. Payne's Glance, Bst 71b, against * Duke of Bedford's St. Rosalie, Bst 41b. THURSDAY. Subscription Handicap Plate of 501., for three years old and upwards. D. I. Sweepstakes of 10 soya, each; for three years old, 7st 41b ; four, Bst 41b; five and upwards, Bst lib; mares and geldings allowed 31b. The winnyr to be sold for 2501., &c. A. F. Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each for two years old, 7st; and threes, Bst 121 b; fillies allowed 21b. The winner to be sold for $0 sous., &e. T. Y. 0. Metropolis ... England and Wales ... Scotland ••• ...... Total NOTE.—The deaths are returned according to . the superintendent registrars' districts, as it is found im, practicable to distinguish every place separately. TOTAL CASES WIRING THE WEEK ENDING OCTOBER 20, 1849. Cholera. Diarr. ... 565 264 —lt 109 England and Wales .. Scotland.— —.— Total ... ... 674 264 DEATH OF MR. DAVID CROAL.—It is with extreme regret we announce the death of Mr. Croal, of the Cale donian Mercury, at the age of 67. He was seized on Wednesday last with an attack of severe diarrheen, which terminated fatally at a late hour last night. Mr. Croal may be said, we believe, to have been the oldest member of the Scottish press. He was a native of Montrose, in which town he served his apprenticeship as a letterpress printer. Ho came to Edinburgh in 1804, and was connected for several years with a newspaper long since extinct. He then went to the Caledonian Mercury, on which paper he held the office of reporter, and subsequently of sub-editor, from the year 1808 down to his death. In his professional capacity Mr. Croal evinced much good taste and discretion; and among the very wide circle of acquaintances he possessed in Edin burgh, he was highly respected for his unobtrusive worth, cheerFul disposition, and warmth of heart. Among his professional brethren, of all grades and parties, he was long known and highly esteemed as a man of un impeachable uprightness in all his transactions, of unfail ing goodnature, and genuine simplicity of character ; and we know that the announcement of the death of the veteran will be received by our brethren in almost every newspaper office in Scotland with the same pain with which it is here made.—Scotsman. COMMITTAL OF A WOMAN FOR POISONING HER HUSBAND. CHELMSFORD, SATURDAY. -- Yesterday, Ann Hayward, charged last week on suspicion of poi soning her husband, a shoemaker, at Springfield, Essex, was b, ought up for re-examination, and fully committed to take her trial at the next assizes. The prisoner sobbed aloud, and appeared to be deeply affected while the evidence was proceeded with, which went to show that she had administered on two separate occasions cubebs, white precipitate powder, and calomel, in broth and mixed up i n an app l e dumpling, to the prosecutor, which caused violent vomiting, and created suspicion, which It dto her apprehension. She at first denied all knowledge of the transaction, but afterwards admitted that she had bought the poison at the shop of Mr. Charles Baker, for the children's heads. She upbraided her husband with inconstancy, and with sending her out to obtain her living in an improper manner. Dr. Bird, Mr, Seaton, and other medical men were examined, who had analysed the contents of a paper found in the prisoner's cupboard, and which clearly turned out to be poison sufficient to destroy human life. Bail was offered for the prisoner and refused. The prosecutor is considered out of danger. THE ALLEGED FLOGGING OF FEMALES ON BOARD THE EMIGRANT SHIP.—At the meeting of the guardians of Marylebone, on Friday, an answer from the Colonial and Land Emigration Commissioners to the queries of the guardians respecting the alleged flogging by order of thel surgeon on board the Ramifies, an emigrant vessel, was read. The answer stated that as soon as th e c h arge appeared in the p u bli c press, they instituted a seat ching inquiry respecting its correctness. They had also re ceived the captain's and surgeon's report, which, although it spoke of the insubordination of the emigrants, never alluded to the flogging. It was, therefore, their opinion and their hope that it had not occurred. They did not allow the matter to rest there, but requested Government to institute the most rigid inquiry respecting it, as flog ging on board emigrant ships was strictly prohibited.— Weekly Dispatch. 4 1; 141 Irandicap Sweepstakes of 15 sovs. each; for tw old. aM. Sweepstakes of 10 s s. each; for tv o-yes.old, Bst 71b; fillies, Bst 41b. Tho wince: to be sold foratH soya. Last half of Ab. M. Sweepstakes of 1 J Sol a. ea , h; fo • two y s c 'd, coifs, Bst 71b; fillies, Bst 41b. Tha minne: to be sold soya. T.Y.C. The Prospect Stakes of 10 sovs. each; fur three yrs old, Bst; four, 9st lib; five, 9st 81b; six and aged, 9st lolb. The winner to be sold for 200 sovs., if demanded, &c. (optional selling weights.) D. I. The Glasgow Stakes of 100 SOTS. each, h ft, for two )rs old colts, Bst 71b. Last three-quarters of Ab. M.:— *Mr. Bowes's Brother to Epirote---*Lord Exeter's c by Scutari, Merope—Lord Exeter's c by Scutari,Jet-- . *Mr. Greville's Cariboo —Sir J. Hawley's Stirabout—Mr. J. Moore's Flare•up—Mr. J. Moon's Lord George Ben tinek—*Mr. Mostyn's Pontifex—*3lr, Mostyn's Sidus —*Mr. Payne's Sergius—Mr. Payne's Bender. Sweepstakes of 50 soya. each, h ft, for two yrs 'old colts, Sat 71b; fillies, Bst 41b. Ab. Gregory's Damask—Duke of Bedford's Birdeaux—*Mr. Bul keley's Hope—*Mr. Henry's Pitsford—Mr. Nicoll's Greenwich—Mr. Nevill's Thackeray (paid)—Mr. Barne's Cajoler (dead). Match 2001., h ft, A.F. Lord Exeter's Grace, Bat 31b, receives 50 It from Lord Strat'amore's Eva, Bst 71b. Match, 200, 50 ft, T.Y.C. *Lord 11. Lennox's the Bee-hunter, Bst 71b, agst Lord 'Airlie's Clincher, Bst. Match, 200, h ft, First half of:Ab. M. *Sir J. Haw ley's Sponge, Bst llb, against °Mr. Payne's Sergius, 6st 71b. Match, 100, h ft, T.Y.C. *Mr. Osbaldesfen's Joe o' Sot, Sat 71b, agst *Lord Stanley's Strongbow, Tat 121 b. FRIDAY. years The Audley End Stakes of 30 sovs. each, fcr all ale=, two years old excepted. A.E.C. Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, for two years old colts, Bst 71b, fillies, Bst 51b, the winner to be sold fLr 50. First half of Ab. M. Handicap Sweepstakes of 20 sovs. etch, and only 5 ft if declared, ticc , to go to the second horse, forjthreejyears old and upwards. T.Y.C. Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, for three years old 7st 91b, four Bst 31b, five and upwards Bst 81b, the winner to be sold for 400 sovs., &c. First half of Ab. Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each ; for two years old 7st 7lb; three, Ost 4lb ; the winner to be sold for 200; if entered to be sold for 150, 51b ; 100, 10Ib; and 50, 151 b. T.Y.C. Fifty Pounds—Three years old, 7st 61b; four, Bst 51b; five and upwards, Bst 10Ib ; the winner to be suld for 100. A.F. The Nursery Stakes of 25 sm. each, for two yrs old. Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each; for three yrs old colts, Set 71b ; fillies, Bst ,41b ; the winner to be sold for 60. T. Y. C. Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each ; for two yrs old, 7st ; three, Bst l llb ; the winner t• be sold for 300. First half of Ab. M. Match, 200, h ft, Bst slb each. T. Y. C.—• Lord Clifldee's La Beau agst 'Duke of Bedford's St. Sophia. Match, 100, h ft. A. F.—*Captain L >wther's Watch dog, Bst 7th, agst Lurd Strathmore's GE lipus, Bst. SATURDAY. The Houghton Handicap of 15 soya. each. and only 5 ft if declared, &e., to go to the second, for three yrs old and upwards. T. Y. C. Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each ; two yrs old, 6st 71b ; three, Bst 71b ; four, 9st ; five and upwards, 9st 41b ; winner to he sold for 200. T. Y. C. Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each; two yrs old, bit 71b; :hree, Bst 51b; four, Bst 101 b; five and upwards, Bst 121 b; the winner to be sold for 25. First half of Ab. M. Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each; three yrs old, 7st 91b; four, Bit 71b; five, Bit 121 b; six and aged, 9st; the winner to be sold for 120. Ab. M. Soiling Handicap Sweepstakes of 15 sovs. each, and only 5 ft if declared, &c.; the winner to be sold for 120; three to remain in, or no race. A. E. C. The Bolvoir Ste,kes of 200 so►s. each, h ft, for three yrs old cults, Bst 7lb; fillies, Bst 3113; each subscriber ❑amed two horses, cne to the post; winners of the Derby, Oaks, or Doncaster St. Leger, 71b extra. D. I. —*Lord Eglinton's Flying Dutchman—Lord Eglintun's Solon—Duke of Richmond's c by Sir Hercules, out of Wkilfrana—Duke of Richmond's Mirror— Colonel Anson's Don Juan—Colonel Auson's Raillery—Mr. Mostyn's Pyrland—*Sir J. Hawley's Vatican—*Sir J. Ilawley's Queensberry—*Lord Exeter's Cone6—Lord Exeter's brother to Woodpigeou (dead)—Mr. Mostyn's Cucullus (dead). Match—:2oo h ft. Roles Coliingwood, 9st 21b, against *Lord Clifden's Surplice, Sit. No day mentioned—Post match, 300 each, 100 ft, colts, Bst 71b; fillies, Bst 41b; one to the post. A.F.— Lord Strathmore's the Old English Gentleman, Sir Launcelot and St. Leger, received 70 sots. forfeit from Mr. P. P. Roles brother to Besborough—the White Lady and Eggleston°, The following horses are expected here this evening: —Minimum, Juc-o'• Sot, Fugleman, Hornpipe, First Chance, Ploughboy, Helter-skelter, Mirror, Highland Fling, Little Jack, Tho Bee-hunter, The Nigger, Wil liam the Conqueror, Shylock, Amazement, Thornhill, Flare up, Over-fork-over, The Secret, The Creole, Esperance colt, Rhesus, Strongbow, Skudar, Paquita, Rose, Pompin, Sponge, Bacchanalian. LATEST BETTING. CAMBRIDGESIIIRE.. 25 to 1 agst Over-fork. over 25 to 1 agst Bacchanalian 30 to 1 agst Cocktail 30 to 1 agst Backbiter 1000 to 15 ngst Alalton. 4 to 1 agst Rathmines 8 to 1 agst Raby .2 to 1 agst Ribaldry [2 to 1 agst Woolwich 12 to 1 agst Glauca .2 to 1 agst Vanguard 2 to 1 agst Co]liugwood THE CRITERION STAKES. 2to 1 agst Tho Nigger I sto 1 agst Nut s h e ll 5 to 2 sgst Pitsford 15 to 1 agst Swindler NEWMARKET HOUGHTON MEETING. NEWMARKET, SUNDAY NICHT. ENTRIES FOR MONDAY. Sweepstakes of 10 sous. each, for 3_yr . olds and upwards; winner to be sold for 350/., Bce. Newport, 3 yrs—Telegraph, 4 yrs—Bishop of Rom. ford's Cob, aged—Stroogbow, 3 yrs—Helter Shelter, yrs—Defaulter, 4 yrs. Sweepstakes of 10 sot's. each, for 2 yr olds; the winner to be sold for 230/., &c. The Wren—Rosa Pompon—f by Sir Hercules, out of Thug's dam—Remnant. Sweepstakes of 10 sous. each. P.M. Paquita, 3 yrs—Laundry Maid, 6 yrs—Grimston, yrs—Nectar, 4 yrs—Dark Lady, 3 yrs. Handicap Plate of 501. Carnbriageshire Course. Wanota, 5 yrs, 9st 21b-Blucher, 4 yrs, ist 6th— Thornhill, 3 yrs, Est 121b—Flatcatcher, 4 yrs, Bst 12th —Kelshes, 5 yrs, 7st 51b—St. Oswald, 5 yrs, Est sth Dulcet, aged, 83t—Amazement, aged, 7st Sib—lune, 3 yrs, Est 11b—Tophatia, 4 yrs, 7st 101b—Blackcock, 5 yrs, 7st 41b—Mounseer, 3 yrs, sst 121b—Defaulter, 4 yrs, 7st 10113—Culocynthis, 4 yrs, 7st 21b—Nautila, 5 yrs, sst 101 b. llatidicap, fur 3yr olds and upwards. D.M. Telegraph, 4 yrs, Bst—Blackcock, 5 yrs, 7st 101 b Ab d-el-Kader, 3 yrs, sst 121 b. Two paid; the weights were raised to Sst 71b. LATEST BETTING. THE CRITERION.-7 to 4 agst Pitsford, 9 to 4 agst the Nigger, sto 1 apt any other. All are scratched but the following :—Sidus, Narbonne, Le Beau, St. Luke, Visite, Preslaw, Nutmeg, Nutshell, Eunuch, The Swindler, William the Corqueror, the Nigger, Brington, Pitsford, Peeress filly, Sisyphus, California, and Torde sillits. CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES. 11 to 2 agst Rathmices Ilsto 1 agst Vanguard 7 to 1 agst Raby I 25 to lagst Over-fork-over 10 to 1 agst Ribaldry I 30 to 1 agst Backbiter 11 to 1 agst Glauca I 30 to 1 agst Cocktail Tho following have been scratched:—The Fiddler, Malton, Lady Superior, Legerdemain, Trap, Minto, Bingham, Grasshopper, Sir Launcelot, Aldgate, Borneo, Highland Fling, Impertinence colt, Provost filly, and Bun Mot. WEIGHTS FOR THE METROPOLITAN STEEPLE CHASE. st 11, British Yeoman ll 12 Proceed Farnham... ll C Commoner The Young One lO 8 Outcast Hope Young Lottery THE AMESBURY COURSING MEETING. st lb [ (teeter lO 0 LanEquenette lO 0 Liberty Alexander Bayonet Vain Hope 9 10 Sarah Sykes SATURDAY. The Great Western Cup was won by Achilles; the Druid Cup by Fan; the Stonehenge Stakes were di vided by Master of the Mint and Racer; theEston Stakes were won by Ebb; the B e acon Hill altes by Rocket, and the Everley Stakes were divided between Crenoline and Sincerity. : 1 111 i ~-~ INt S LYCEUM THEATRE. - A bustling farce ' from the pen of Mr. Bayle Ber nard, vtas produced here on Saturday under the title of A Practical Man, with great success. The Prac tical Man is a certain Mr. Cloudesley (admirably acted by Mr. Charles Mathews), who is a sort of juvenile bustling, rollicking, chattering, volatile Sir Abel Handy, in a perpetual fidget himself, and a sore torment to all with whom he comes in contact,' an English Alnaschar. Plot there is none, the imaginative vivacity of the hero does the whole bu s i ness , and mr. does Charlesit Mathews well.will be We to the doubt not full as buttb apopulart in Cloudesley as he is in Captain Patter. The farce went briskly oil', and at the conclusion Charles Mathews was called for and loudly applauded. FLAX COTTON—It perhaps may not be generally known, even by those engaged in flax, that by com pletely robbing the fibre of all its gum, we get imme diately a fine downy material like raw cotton, only rather stronger. The strength of the flax is rather diminished by this process, but still the fibre is superior to cotton; and it may be passed through all the present cotton machinery in the subsequent processes. This cannot tail to be highly interesting, now that we are threatened with a scarce and consequently dear and inferior supply of cotton; and since much flax stalk is thrown away, both at home and in India, the plant being cultivated for the seed, it follows that we have here, prima facie, a much less expensive raw material than cotton. ERIZATUIIL—In the report of the county meeting of Middlesex magistrates, on Saturday, the name of Von Orloff Brink should have been printed " Carl (Charles) Olof (Olave) Brink," that gentleman being a Swedish barrister-at-law, and Secretary to the Royal Board of Prisons in Sweden. Mr. Brink is at present in this country on a special mission ,relating to the examina• tion of the system of police and prison discipline in England. `~'~=-~ fiver me- ous, in a mer i. of LW., Port, 20th, wson, Y.)