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A t 8 I A G E. One half the world are desolately single, and the ether supposing them married, questionably contented. Diffidence, or a sense of right determine the former, and mbJealculated hopes em bitter the latter. The solitary one may shield himself tinder the plea of caution and worldly prudence, and the indissoluble, regret un comprosing berry; but the truth lies deeper. Physical incapacity, and broken health, are the groat hindrances to domestic happiness gni social content. The dowry should not he tho only marriage set tlement. Honour and justice demand that health should fonn an item ln the compact; It alone dignifies the alliance. Blighted hopes sr neglect wound more sorely than poverty or misfortune. Reader, if these sunnivs concern you, procure Dr. CIILVERWELL'S little MEMOIRS "On Single and Married Life, " pub. in 2 vols., Is. ea c h (b y rod, is stamps, is. 6d. each). Let no imaginatively refined, or prudish feeling deter you, by their titles, nor be hindered by misinterpretation of their supposed contents, from obtaining then. They are not intended certainly for mere idle cariesity, but for the closet perusal of those mere deeply interested, to whom fifty are offered as antagonistic to the empyrical trash put forth on the above subjects, by unqualified authors, which alone or together, are a disgrace to the age. Furthermore, two other little publications claim your attention (same price Is. each, by cost Is. 6d.) called " What to Eat, Drink, and Avoid," and " How to be Happy." They are not merely pamptlets, bat equal in quantity a library valume, nor are they the mere ephemeral scribbling, of the hour, but the study of the author's lifts who owes his present existence, health, and position to this ob llereanCit of the maxims he would inculcate—to do unto others as he wend he done unto—to live after nature's laws—and to keep always en the "sunny side of the way." The above works may be had of Sherwood, 23, Paternoster-row Carvallio, 14?, Fleet-street • Mann, 39, Cornbill; Ralson, 467, West Strand; or direct (by post or other wi.s) ilea the anther (who may be conferred with personally, Mornings 6144 any 11.141411 ilsgent,strest; an all POOlillelletV ii. 1.1.1.111 GUILDHALL, SErrannEa 2G, 1849. THE COMMITTEE for LETTING the CITY'S LANDS will MEET at GUILDHALL on WEDNESDAT, the 10th day of October next, at One o'clock precisely, to receive TENDERS for LET I'LNG on LEASES, for twenty-one years from Michaelmas 1849, a House, No. 14, on the nes th side. of Broad-street -buildings; a House. No. 28, on the south side of Broad-street -buildings ; and from Christmas 1819, a House No. 37, on the south side of Upper Thames-street. Also, to receive TENDERS for LETTING on LEASE, for 181{ years (less three days), from Michaelmas 1849, a House, No. 9, Ar tlllery-i.lace, on the west side of the City-road ; and also, in one lot, the following premises, via.: Nos. 1,2, 3,4, 4A, and G, on the west aide of Phipps-street, Finsbury ; Nos. 1 and 2, in Phipps-place ; and a Warehouse on the east side of New North-place. Further particulars And plans may he seen, and forms of tender Obtained, at the Office of Works,TH Guildhall. THOMAS SAUNDERS, Comptroller. 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X s. d. £ s. d. 1837 276 14 3,128 14 3 21 7 2.593 6 8 1838 251 18 10 115 14 8 18 12 8 543 17 9 X A s.d. 1839 226 6 0 102 15 1 16 2 9 194 810 1840 178 0 0 32 14 2 12 14 11 145 0 0 00 1000 74 3 4 1841 174 0 078 3 412 3 0 395 11 1 1842 147 4 2 1 G 5 15 10 10 2 4 346 2 3 I ` 1 1843 99 18 4; 44 8 4 615 11 196 13 4 i 1844 62 6 8: 27 13 4 4 4 0 , 147 4 5 DEFERRED ANNUITIES, By the operation of the same principles, the Society is enabled to afford to the public a plan of Deferred Annuities far more advanta geous than any hitherto offered, whereby an individual, by the con tribution of a very small annual, monthlY, or weekly saving, may se cure either a comfortable provision for himself in advanced age, or, at his option, a large sum of money, or a policy to his family at his death ; while by giving to the purchaser, at any time, the power of borrowing two-thirds of all previous payments, it removes all risk of forfeiture from inability to continue premiums, besides affording an ample resource during sickness and want o f em pl o y men t ; an d should the purchasdr die before arriving at the stipulated period, two thirds of his payments will be returned to his representatives. 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The Annual Report, with Tables of Rates, Esc.. may be had at the Office, or any of its Branches in the Country; or, on application, will be forwarded post free. W. S. B. WOOLUOUSE, Actuary. T LIE FIRST OF OCTOBER. TO SPORTSMEN. While the Autumn dew-drops glisten On the grass and fading tree, Listen, fellow-sportsmen, listen, To a word or two from me. Nature now is calm and sober ; Autumn's beauties are revealed— 'Tis the month of pale October, When the sportsman seeks the field. New delights are now presented To the man that loves his gun; Other favourite game is scented, Other sporting havoc done. But, I pray you tell me, brothers, Whether you're prepared or not? Have you changed your coats for others, Like the one which I have got ? If you've ne'er been to MOSES' For a stylish coat, and strong : By your pointers' tails or noses, I declare you've acted wrong. MOSES' for a moderate figure, Far outrival all the trade And I'd never touch a trigger In a coat by others nude. o one in his senses sober Messrs. MOSES could condemn, Therefore, since 'tis now October, Buy your shooting-coats of them. LIST OF PRICES. BEADY MADE. Autumn and Winter Over Coats, in every styl.! .... ••••• • • • ** The ltulwer, handsomely and warmly trimmed 0 18 The Paletot, ditto.. • • Chesterfield, ditto.. •........ 1 0 The Albert Wrapper, a very handsome style of Ov,r Coat .... .......... • • Shooting Coats ................ •• •. 0 8 Lounging or Morning Coats 0 4 Autumn and Winter Trohsers, • in Tweed • ; • 0 4 6 Ditto ditto DoeQkin .. 0 7 6 Ditto Vests Black Silk Velvet Vests ............... ..... 0 13 6 D - ess Coats •.• • • . .• • ............ • 017 0 Frock Ditto .......... ••• • • • ...• 0 19 0 Youths and Boys' Over Coats, in every style, Hussar and Tunic Suits .................. 0 14 G Boys' Autumn and Winter Vests • • •••••••• 0 0 8 MADE TO MEASURE. Men's Autumn and Winter Over Coats • 'from 1 1 () The Chesterfield Wrapper, in a warm ma terial, lined .... •• • • .• . • ••••..• • • • • • 1 8 0 The l'aletot, handsomely and warmly trimmed 1 16 0 The Eglintou Wrapper, a very eizgant style of The St,ratinnore Witney Over Coat, • newest style. lined throughout •• ••• • . ••••• • • • • • 2 10 0 Autumn and Winter Trowsers, in Tweed and Best Black Cassimere ditto .. ••••••.. • • .. • • 1 6 0 Autumn and Winter Vests ....... ..... 0 8 6 Best Likack Cloax ditto . 0 13 6 Black Silk Vaxet ditto ...• •• • „ Diress C0at5............ • . from Sts. to 2 15 n „ Frock .• •• • •• . •.•• • • • • from 355. to 3 3 0 Hussar and Tunic Suits • ....• • . from 1 5 0 Superfine 1 15 0 Men's Shooling Coat .......... ••..• • • • .. 015 0 Elegant Dressing Robes,in great variety, from .. . A Large Stock of Fur Coats, in every shape, from 60s. to 201. Naval and Military Uniforms, Liveries, &c. Mourning to any extent at Five Minutes' notice. A Suit of Mourning complete for 11. 10s. The new book, entitled the " Great Fact," with fhll directions for Self-measurement, can be had ex application, or forwarded, post free, to any part of the kingdom. Notice— the Shawl and Parasol Department are new replete with every novelty of the season. Observe—Any article purchased, either ready made, or made to measure, if not approved of will be exchanged, or the money returned. E. MOSES and S(BN, Tailors, Woollendrapers, Clothiers, Ratters, Hosiers, Farriers, Boot and Shoemakers, and General Outfitters, 154, 155, 156, and 157 !anodes, and 82, 81. 85, and 86 Aldgate, City, Loudon; all communicating with evh other, and forming one vast Zstablishment. Caution.—E. Moses and Son regret having to guard the public against imposition; but keying heard that the untradesmanlike falsehood of being connected with them, or " It is the same concern," has been resorted to in many instances, and for obvious reasons, they beg to state that they have no connexion with any other hours In er out of London, except their Branch Establishments, 36, Fer rite, Sheffield; and 19, Thornton's-buildings, Bradford, Yorkshire; sad toose who require cheap and genuine clothing, 80., should call at or send to the Minories and Aldgate, City, London ; or either of - be Branch Establishments. as above. Tate Notice,—This Itstablislemeat is (dosed (rem sunset Friday. sunset Saturday. when business is resumed till twelve o'clock. ) (Th ~.. ! - .• s ~. . . ' 4 '1111111111 ‘ ....- . . 14 :1 4 ) 1 ,;I \:.-.7-:::.,.t...,.: l ' . ~, . 5 „ 44 . - t r 4- it 1 ' . , ...,„..- - .44;: ,, , -. .:: - , , ,, 7. H • . ' i,..'' 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I' " , ''' ' t -.....,_.....—• \ 7*..1,1•:A^ :- •Y 1 /.• '' . ..7 V " ---- Males Females cring Tars Report.) further abatement the first week of which the fatality from cholera was greatest, and 3,183 persons died from all causes, the total number fell in the second week to 2,865, then to 1,981, and in the week ending last Saturday the total deaths registered were 1,611. During the same period the weekly numbers of lives destroyed by cholera have been 2,026, 1,682, 839, and in the last week 434. Diarrhoea was fatal successively to 272, 280, 238, and last week to 163. In comparing the returns for the last two weeks, the decline of mor tality is most obvious in the south districts, where the deaths from cholera have fallen from 422 in the week ending September 22 to 161 in the last ; and, to take the most striking examples of particular dis tricts, in St. George's, Southwark they declined from 58 to 10, in Newington from 66 to 15, and in Lambeth from 117 to 50. In the north and central districts the improvement is also remarkable, in the former the deaths from cholera in the two weeks having been consecutively 71 and 37, and in the central having been 95 and 51. The improve ment in the east districts is not so great, the 183 deaths of the previous week having fallen to 113 in the last; but in the west districts the public health has recently been stationary, the weekly deaths caused by the epidemic having been 68 and 72, though here, too, a great change has taken place for the better in the latter half of September as compared with the former. In the whole metropolis the daily number of deaths from cholera last week has fluctuated between 102 and 53, but showing an almost constant tendency to fall. The mortality from smallpox, measles, and scarlatina, is much less than the average ; from hoop ing cough it is near the average ; typhus has recently shown a slight increase. The mean height of the barometer in the week was 29 680. The highest temperature occurred on Tues day, when it was 72.7 ; the highest mean tempera ture on Thursday, when it was 62.2. The mean temperature of the week was 58.4, and was higher than the average of the same week in seven years by 5.4. MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS. NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN THE WREN ENDING SATURDAY, SEI'T. 29, 1549. Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Dimas )s *782 Diseases of Uncertain Seat ... -... ... 46 Tubercular Diseases 167 Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses... ... 1.14 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 43 Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of Respiration ... ... ... ... ... ... 128 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion... • 5 s Diseases of the Kidneys, &c. Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, SC% 11 Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Musch a ... 9 Diseases of the Skin, &c. ... Malformations... ... $ _,_ ... Premature Birth ••• ••• •• ••• Atrophy ••• ..• ..• .G• ••• Old Age •.• ••• ••• ••• ..• Sudden ... . ..• ••• "ID Violence, Privation, Cold, or intemperance Causes not specified ... ••• ••• ••• DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES ... Population Enumerated, 1841 1 West Districts... 300,711 .. North Du ;ricts.. 375,971 .. Central Districts 373,653 ... East Districts ... 392,444 ... South Districts .. 501,190 ... ... 26 ... 36 ... 57 ... 39 ... 76 Totals... ..... 1,948,369 Average weekly Death! Deaths, 1844-S in the Five Summers. Week. . 147 ... 224 . 191 ... 2.57 . 183 ... 260 . 227 ... 375 , 260 ... .495 ... 1,008 -. 1,611 -. 825 -. 786 r the .1-BE1( N 0 .17,792.] LONDON, WEDNESDAY EV E XNG S 'I": 7 OCTOBER 3, 1849. NEW WORK BY SIR E. BUI.WER LYTTON, BART.: On October 8 will be published, T E CAXT•ONS; A FAMILY PICTURE. By the Author of " Rienzi," &c., &c. In Three Volumes, post 8 vo. Price 31s Gd. William Bhickwood and Suns, Edinburgh and London. 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Perry's Purifying Specific Pills, 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d., and I Is. per box., a semis: remedy for gonorrhoea , gleet, st ricture. and chronic inflamma tion of the bladder. Consultation fee, if by letter, 11. A minute retail of the case is required : age, habits, and position in society. 51. Packets, with advice, to be had at the Establishment only, by which the fee,ll., is saved. Messrs. Perry, Surgeons, are in atten lance daily at 19, Berners-street, Oxford-street, London, from Fle ♦en till Two. and Five to Eleht: on ciondsvr from W.leven SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. TIMES.—Her Majesty's Ministers, suddenly and specially convoked from their various pursuits or re tirement in different parts of the kingdom, held a Cabinet Council yesterday, at the Foreign-office, which was numerously attended. At this unwonted season of the year, the fact that a Cabinet Council has been summoned by direction of Lord Palmerston for the dispatch of serious business is a sufficient indica tion of the importance attached by that Minister to the late occurrences at Constantinople • for we believe that the threatening state .of the relations between Russia and the Porte, and the last dispatches received from Sir Stratford Canning, are the sole cause for this deliberation of the Government. The promptitude with which this call on the responsible advisers of the Crown has been made and obeyed augurs well for the spirit which ought to govern their resolutions in such an emergency, and we trust that the next few hours will send forth to Constantinople the fullest assurances that if these menacing and unjust demands of Russia are to be enforced by more menacing and injurious acts on the part of the Northern Power, they will have awakened in the Government, as well as in the people of England, a determination to show that such pretexts are ill chosen to cover an aggression on the Sultan's independence. That independence has been placed by repeated acts of the diplomacy of Europe under the joint protection and recognition of all the Powers, and if ever there was a moment when it could not be assailed without peculiar ignominy, it is when the Porte invokes the rights and usages of nations for the protection of defeated fugitives, intent only on escape from the scene of an unsuccessful contest. To intimidate and degrade the Sultan and his Ministers into the commission of a mean action at the command of a Russian Aide-de-Camp, is an outrage which might have been spared by the Sovereign of one empire to that of another ; and in this instance Europe will acknowledge that the principles of honour, humanity, and civilization claim her support for Turkey against pretensions dictated either by the cruelty of revenge or the designs of a still- darker policy. It is most fortunate that at such a crisis the British Ambassador at Conitantinople should be a man whose sedate character, unshaken firmness, and long experience command the profound respect, not only of all parties in this country, but of all nations abroad. Sir Stratford Canning is not an envoy to be moved to rash or inconsiderate actions ; he represents with the greatest authority the stable and dignified policy of this country; and if he is ever led to take a great resolution, it is by some positive interest and some great emergency. It becomes the country, therefore, to give its unreserved support to an Ambassador who enjoys our unreserved confidence; and though Sir Stratford Canning has carefully ab stained from implicating the Home Government di rectly in a foreign dispute, he has given his opinion and his counsel in a manner which claims the entire sanction of his Sovereign and of Britain. It is stated that the Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs addresse d to the English and French Ambassadors several mo mentous questions after the receipt of the Russo-Aus trian ultimatum. These questions were answered by a collective note, in which Sir S. Canning andGen.Aupick affirmed that the treaties of Kutshuk-Kaimarji and of Passarowitch do not justify the demands for the sur render of the Polish and Hungarian fugitives; that the refusal of the Porte would, therefore, not amount to a breach of these treaties, or to a lawful cause of war; that the assistance of the armed forces of France and England, in the event of war, could not be promised without special instructions, but that these states would readily proffer their mediation to avert a rupture between the Porte and the two Emperors. At this stage the matter rests. Prince Radzivil immediately set out for St. Petersburgh, and will be followed thither by Fuad Effendi, charged to explain to the Emperor Nicholas the scruples of the Divan; so that at the very moment when the British Government is called upon to decide upon the course it may hereafter have to pursue in the East, the Russian Cabinet is resolving the question of peace or war. It is impossible not to be struck by the extreme inadequacy of the cause which has given rise to this turmoil. A few enthusiastic Magyar patriots, who have outlived a struggle which has been more fatal to their country than to themselves, and who appear to have ended in plunder what began in imposture, have taken refuge under the guns of the fortress of Widdin, accompanied by certain Polish soldiers of fortune who have participated freely in every civil broil of the last 18 months. These men have obviously no object but to effect their escape through Turkey to the West of Europe, where their delusions and their conspiracies may ferment at a vast distance from their native scenes of action. To in tercept such fugitives would seem more embarrassing than useful even to their enemies, for we cannot credit Prince Rsdzivil's brutal threat of a wholesale execution of the band. Turkey may be bound not to harbour the mortal enemies of Russia or Austria on their respective frontiers, but all that is asked for these persons is leave to depart; in fact, their removal from the Ottoman dominions would terminate the quarrel, just as the departure of Louis Na poleon from a Swiss canton put an end, some years ago to the menacing requisition of the French for his immediate expulsion. But when we consider how paltry and unreal the cause is for which so much wrath has been put on ; when we observe that instead of having recourse to the more subtle influences of Russia, which are not unknown at Constantinople, Prince Radzivil delivered his message in the tone of a bully and the terms of a challenge, and thereby rendered it impossible for the Porte to comply with such demands without grievous humilia tion, we cannot entirely divest ourselves of the appre hension that the Russian Government has taken this opportunity and these means to fasten a quarrel on the Turkish empire for its own purposes. The nature of the assistance given by Russia to Austria in the Hun garian war has effectually paralysed the opposition she would heretofore have encountered in that quarter; France is too much engrossed at home and in Italy to embark on a very bold and energetic course of foreign policy; and Mr. Cobden's late absurdities, added to many fruitless and feeble passages in our own foreign policy, have raised doubts abroad as to the efficacy and sin cerity of Britain. These temptations to re-enter upon the favourite scene of Russian aggression had long ago been pointed out ; we know not even now to what extent the Emperor of Russia is disposed to follow them ; but certainly the tenour of Prince Radzivil's commission, and the subsequent ultimatum lead to no other conclusion than that a course of policy adverse and insulting to Turkey may be pursued to actual hostility. If these intentions have been entertained at St. Petersburgh, and if this quarrel has been sought for a more ,sinister purpose than even the sacrifice of a few poor refugees, the moment is come when the vigorous and united action of England and France is the best chance of averting war. On a less striking occasion Lord Palmerston proposed that the combined fleets should take up their position within the Dardanelles; and the rejection of that scheme by France was held to be the source of her subsequent miscarriage in 1840. Louis Napoleon is bound in an especial manner to let no such opportunity slip again. He has lived the life of an exile under the protection of those very usages which are now violated by despotism on the track of revenge; and Switzerland did for him what Turkey is still proud enough and strong enough to do for other victims of political agitation. Whatever, then, the mature resolutions of the Court of St. Peters burgh may be on the receipt of the refusal of the Porte, the resolutions of the faithful allies of the Sultan will not, we hope ) be less firm or less effective. To abandon the Turkish Divan, would be to abandon our own principles, our own Envoy, and the future integrity of the Ottoman empire; but if this cause be maintained with the spirit and dignity which it re quires, there is great reason to believe that the pre tensions of the Emperor of Rusaia will subside, and an affair which has had a formidable commencement may still be brought to a pacific termination. CHRONICLE.—Great Britain will occupy in the coming crisis (if it should come) very , nearly the same attitude in which Mr.-Canning painted her on , the occasion of the Spanish aggression against Portu gal in 1826, when his metaphor of the giant elicited an indignant protest from Chateaubriand. Her moral influence, for good or evil, is immense. " Our situa tion," said Mr. Canning, " amidst the struggle of political opinions which agitates more or less sensibly different countries of the world, may be compared to that of the Ruler of the Winds, as described by the poet : " Celsa sedet Eolus arcs Sceptra tenens; mollitque animos et temperat iras; Ni faciat, maria Etc terms ccelumque profundum Quippe ferant rapidi serum, verrantque per auras." " The consequence of letting 100 the passions at present chained and confined would be to produce a scene of desolation which nu man can contemplate without horror; and I should not sleep easy on my couch if I were conscious that I had contributed to precipitate it by a single hour." It is to be hoped that the concluding sentiment will be cordially reci procated by Lord Palmerston, and that a tone of tem• pered firmness will characterise every document emanating, under existing circumstances, from the Foreign-office. As to the French Government, we felt no great degree of alarm, from the first, lest the extradition question should hurry them into any rash demonstration against the Emperors. If their Roman Crusade (in which the part of Peter the Hermit is popularly assigned to M. de Falloux) has been productive of no other good, it has at least thrown light on the value of republican professions ; and all concerned in it must, for common consistency's sake, eschew exciting appeals to democratic passions against sovereigns holding their power by as good a title as his Holiness. Still we wai'ed with some anxiety for the new session of the National Assembly, which began on Monday last. The discontinuance of the old practice of opening each session with a Ministerial programme (in the shape of a speech from the Throne or Presidential Message), which commonly led to an animated .debate, gives an air of flatness to the first day's proceedings, and ren ders it extremely difficult to divine either the policy of the Government, or the leaning of the majority. So soon as the members in attendance (486) had been counted, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, M. de Tocqueville, ascended the tribune, amidst "marks of curiosity." He rose, however, simply to de mand a supplementary vote of credit to meet the probable costs of keeping the French army in Rome a little longer—the precise hour for its recal, he said, had not yes struck—as well as the extra expenses of the expedition, which he boldly pronounced " glorious." General Rulhieres, Minister of War, and M. de Tracy, Minister ef Marine, followed, for the purpose of explaining that their respective departments had incurred extra liabi lities - upon the same account. The Minister of Finance presented some money Bills. The Minister of the Interior answered an unimportant question, and the Assembly adjourned. Not a word was uttered on either side respecting the affairs of Turkey, nor do the French papers treat the topic as one of pressing interest, although each successive rumour has produced a perceptible effect upon the Bourse. The calm in the Assembly and the press may prove deceptive and short-lived ; but it is a sign of good augury ; for if the public mind had been highly excited, the Reforrne and the National would have boiled over, and there would have been no lack either of interruptions whilst M. de Too queville was speaking, nor of interpellations when he sat down. Moreover, it has been stated in an official note addressed to the Sultan on the part of the Czar, that France herself had established a prece dent by expelling some Polish refugees at the desire of Russia ; upon which the Journal dee Debats de clares its disbelief " that of all the Governments which have ever existed in France, the worst would have been capable of any such shameful weakness." Yet we should not be at all surprised to learn that this alleged calumny is founded upon fact; for it is pos sible that some plotting Poles might have received a hint to leave off intriguing or quit the country. Whether the statement be well or ill-founded, it can have,ne application to the case before us ; for the de mand is, that the refugees be delivered up (if Prince Radzivil has not been sadly misunderstood) to be shot; and the joint answer of the English and French Ambassadors to one of the questions so judiciously pro posed to them by the Sultan runs thus :—" It is possible that some of the refugees may be Russian subjects; but, in general, it is incontestible that alb refugees of whom the extradition is claimed are not Russian subjects." Assuming that the Emperors were to modify their claim in such a manner as to demand only their own subjects, still the law of nations is clearly against them, and the rule in question, ; we deliberately repeat, is essential to the p rogress '-of civilization and the well-being of society. We need not dwell again on the considerations so eloquently amplified by Mackintosh ; but can any one, living in these transition times, doubt the propriety of continuing the prescriptive rights of hospitality to political exiles of all kinds ? Is it not good, when the proscriber and the proscribed are daily changing places, that men should be protected against themselves, and that delays should be created during Which their heated passions may cool down ? How many instances crowd upon us, in which exiles whom sovereigns or republics would have shot or hanged had they been able to indulge the first im pulse, have been recalled with acclamations ! One ef the most popular passages in the forensic speeches of M. Dupin, now President of the Chamber (the French Erskine), occurs in his defence of Sir Robert Wilson and Mr. Bruce, for assisting the escape of Lavalette— " How manners change with times ! At Athens a young man was condemned to death for having killed a dove which, pursued by a sparrowhawk, flew to take refuge in his bosom. They thought that he who was without pity would never prove a good citizen. And amongst us, in the nineteenth century, men are not to be condemned for not having betrayed another man who placed his fate in their hands!" And amongst us, in the nineteenth century (he may exclaim now), an independent nation is to be erased from the map of Europe for refusing to betray men who placed implicit reliance in its hospitality ! But, as we said before, there is little reason to fear the result of remonstrances addressed in terms befitting the occasion to the Emperors— " Tuque prior, to parce, genus qui ducts Olympo." There are chivalrous passages enough in the Czar's career to show that he is very far exalted above the influence of personal or petty feelings ; and now that ample time has been given for reflection, as well as for the public opinion of Europe to declare itself, we, hold it morally impossible for a demand so unprece dented to be pressed. HERALD.—We are, as it is well known, no disciples of Cobden, or the Peace Seciety so lately congregated in Paris. Without going the length of the clear, the ingenious, and the subtle Hobbes in maintaining that warfare is the state most natural to man—we are, nevertheless of opinion that war, if not necessary, is, at least in our imperfect state, in evitable ; and sure we are, if there were not a last arbitrament in war, worse evils might be .entailed on the human race than it has ever suffered from war, or the causes of war. War, though a terrible, is yet a necessary evil. Terrible and desolating though it be, however, it sometimes calls forth the noblest and the most generous sentiments of the hu man heart—it sometimes calls forth the loftiest na tional and individual patriotism. We are not, there fore, about to declaim about the right of making war. That right we take to be conceded by every sane human being, always accepting the " unadorned Cobden " and those collarless and buttonless ad mirers of his, who would roar very lustily for armed protection, all peaceful and anti-warlike though they be now, if there were the least chance of an invasion of Great Britain. But this we willingly say, that no war ought to be entered on that is not just—and where the war is just, those who are waging it have an undoubted right to carry on hos tilities by every lawful means necessary to the accomplishment of their object or objects. To obtain justice by force when not obtainable by any other method—to compel an unjust adversary to repair an injury already done—or to give securities against any menaced outrage, is clearly lawful to any inde pendent nation. Was Austria in this position in reference to Hungary ? Clearly not. Hungary claimed but the full complement of her rights, according to treaty, usage, and prescription. In denying these rights, and in resorting to the sharp arbitrament of the sword to crush, and not to satisfy the kingdom of Hungary, the Emperor of Austria waged an unjust quarrel, for the only end of a just war is to avenge or prevent an injury. The Hunga rians, however, were from the first the injured party, and the war waged against them was unjust in its origin, conduct, and objects. Waiving, how ever, this cardinal objection, and supposing the Austrian war declared against Hungary to have been just in its inception, Russia, as the ally of Austria, had no right superior to—no right not de rived from the Austrians. The lawfulness of the end in war does not give to the party waging a just war a real right to anything further than the means necessary for the attainment of his end. Whatever goes beyond that is reprobated by the law of nature, is faulty, is unjust, is arraigned at the tribunal of conscience. What did Austria seek in the Hunga rian war ? The submission of the Hungarians; and that object might be declared achieved from the very day Georgy laid down his arms to the Russian Field-Marshal Paskewitch. Supposing, there fore the Austrians and Russians t o ha ve h a d right on their side in waging war against the Hungarians, there were clearly limit% to that right. For the moment the principal corps d'arnose of the Hungarians submitted, justice and equity demanded a cessation of cruelty and carnage on the part of Austrians and Russians. When an enemy submits and lays down his arms, there is no justice, there is cruelty, in taking away his life. In the heat of action and in the fury of the death-struggle a victorious general or a triumphant soldier may re fuse quarter. But what are we to think of an Imperial strategist, who, because of a lodged hate of eighteen years' standing—who, because two Poles battled his armies and baffled his wrath in 1531, would seek now, in 1849, to violate a neutral territory, and to call for their blood after an interval of nearly twenty years ? Even in the horrors of a prolonged siege, a garrison offering to capitulate are never refused their pursue the But after the capitulation, to seek to pues tn the they ar purposefl.Yin cannibals and - h only canni sa dead, is a ferocity of which only The ransom of flying and hfaalelgenie,gto themdem demand the their n eo _ k delivery—for till sa vages were hitherto deemed _cap s ; ,ors, ond mamy of L prisoners —the right* of limo II" the milder usages established among Christians, were not formerly adopted by the Turks. But although the Ottomans are not generally considered civilized —although their empire was not represented at the Congress of Vienna, nor included in the system of public law established by that Congress—yet the sons of Osmanli—the un• Christian followers of Moham med—have exhibited all through recent occurrences an innate sense of honour—of hospitality—and of justice—which ought to put the unscrupulous mem bers of the Greek Church, who call themselves Chris tians, to the blush. When the crescent was an object of dread to the nations, and exhibited a disregard of national comity, the world regarded the Sublime Porte oftentimes with ill-disguised disrclish, and not seldom with disgust. But now that Turkey has become Europeanised, and exhibits tolerant and benevolent feelings, the integrity and independence of the Ottoman nation becomes positively more precious to Eurol ,Engle 1d cannot, however, under any circumstances, permit the Sublime Porte to become the footstool and slave of Russia—cannot permit the Sultan to be dragooned by Cossacks, whose principles of public law are derived from the Emperor Paul. England too well remembers— nor, indeed, can she ever forget—that the principle of sequestrating British vessels and laying an embargo on British bottoms originated with that irresponsible autocratic Government which would, to-day or to morrow, pursue an individual to the death for no better motive than mere absolute, sanguinary, unreasoning, undying, inextinguishable vengeance. In Western Europe, since the middle ages, civilized European nations have settled disputes and controversies like reasonable beings—by discussion and diplomacy—by mutual concession and forbearance. But if hyperborean doctrines are allowed to prevail, the law of the stron gest must have sway, and the customary law of na tions will henceforth be, not a law of Christians, of gentlemen, of men, but of brute b eas t s — o f savages— unredeemed by a single virtue and stained by a thou sand crimes. Cicero's theory of the rules of justice, though so very old, are wonderfully applicable be tween independent societies of even moderate men. In all Greek—in all Roman time—victory spared the conquered, unless they had forfeited their title to for bearance by first violating the laws of war in prae• ticising cruelty. This has also been in modern times French, Swedish, Dutch, German, Spanish, and is, and ever has been, the invariable British practice. Civilized nations feel that national animosity ought to be tempered with nobleness and generosity, and Europe never will tolerate within its bosom a savage state that seeks to maintain its empire by inextinguishable rancour and implacable animosities. Russia, in this Hungarian war, is not merely stained with the injustice of her victory, but her Czar is still further stained with the deeper in justice of a vengeance and malevolence happily un known to ordinary men—happily unknown to consti tutional Princes and to civilized Kings. It is the idlest special pleading—the most disgusting, and at the same time the most preposterous Puseyism of public law, to invoke, as certain Russo-English pub licists do, the treaty of Kutshuk-Kaimarji. This treaty has only reference to subjects of Russia having committed some capital crime, or who are guilty of some disobedience or treason. Such " malefactor?' are undoubtedly to be given up. But we should like to see the bearded Russian Puffendorf, Grotius, Vattel, Wicque fort, Lushington, Adams, or Harding, who would make out Beni or Dembinski capital criminals, trai tors, or malefactors for having combatted in favour of the ancient constitution of Hungary. To cite treaties in poi, materia, it may be mentioned that by special convention between England and the United States, murderers, persons assaulting with intent to commit murder or piracy, forgers, and utterers of forged paper are deliverable and ought to be delivered up by either of the respective English or American Governments, after such evidence of criminality has been adduced as would justify appre hension and commitment. But even this necessary arrangement is not by the general law of nations, but by special convention between two Govern ments. From a base and craven Administra tion, represented by the smallest public man that bas ever been Premier of England—represented by a man who complimented Mr. More O'Ferrall for a proceeding as detestable and cowardly as that of the Emperor of Russia—we expect nothing great, or noble, or good. We verily believe, with the excep tion of one man—the only man of true spirit, and al most the only man of talent among them—they would, wretched incompetents, gladly disavow to day—if they dared to do so—their able and spirited Minister. But the people of England will force the imbecile crew to sustain the majesty of England, and even though the people were dumb and silent as the lamb, there is that gracious Sovereign, whom we all love and honour, who will not allow a feeble ally to be trampled on and overborne by a barbarian power, glorying in the fancied potency of that mere brute force, which, undirected by wisdom and jus tice, is no longer strength. THE PORTE AND THE HUNGA- MAN GENERALS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—AII honour to the Grand Council of Turkey, in refusing to surrender Generals Kossuth and Bern to the despotism and relentless cruelties of Austria and Russia! All honour to the Sultan, in approving and confirm ing their resolution, and we hope he will adhere to it ! All honour to Sheik-ul-Islaem, in affirming that to give up these unfortunate but noble-minded refugees, would be a violation of one of the first principles of the Mussulman religion, which ordains that the followers of Mahomet shall give hospitality and protection to all who are in misfortune, without distinction of creed or country—a truly valuable maxim to carry out. It must, we are persuaded, be the one feeling, the one wish, the one fervid prayer, of every true patriot, of every enlightened and humane person, of every sincere Christian, in a word, of every person possess ing a heart, that Kossuth and Bem may be shielded by Turkey, and be protected also by the powers of England and France. No act can be more just, pa triotic, and noble. And should Generals Kossuth and Bern visit our hospitable shores, we hope they will have from the people of this kingdom that reception to which, after all their sacrifices and struggles, they are so richly entitled, one full of cordiality, generosity, and noble ness ; the frank and enthusiastic reception given by an enlightened and straightforward community to truly great and honourably-minded men. Though they have not been successful in their recent extraordinary struggles, their heroic spirit we all appreciate—their efforts to liberate and elevate their country we can never cease to admire. I remain, Sir, yours, kc., Bridport. CHOLERA REPORTS.—A public meeti.ent,:islge. 110, up epr t the Leamington Commissioners was held on Tuesday last, at which allusions were made to some fabricated state ments that had appeared in a London paper, represent ing that cholera has made its appearance in Leamington. The attempt to raise such a cry was condemned as an effort to put money into the pockets of certain pro• fessioaal men, from the local section of whom the War wick poor-law guardians had been induced to appoint " house-to house visitors," who are to receive the sweet pickings of fi ve guineas per week each. Mr. Hitchman, a surgeon in most extensive practice, stated that one of the parochial clergymen had assured him that there had been in Leamington no case of Asiatic cholera; and he (Mr. Richman) added, that in two cases, erroneously reported, one, a man named Adams, had been ill twelve months, and another, a younger man, had been in a consumption long before his death. Mr. Rachman said, the town of Leamington was never in so healthy a state as now, nor had the number of deaths ever been less. He was clearly of opinion there existed not the least cause for alarm—that there had been no cholera cases, nor any approach to it, except some in stances of looseness of bowels (and these not of an alarming character) so usual at this season. It was also stated by Mr. Jefferey, in corroboration of Mr. Hitchman'a statement as to a decrease in the mortality of Leamington, that the returns within the last three months would show a diminution in the number of deaths in Leamington compared with those of the last three or four years. Sixty-six persons only had died av and ee t ti e h nor within sai onvtdhe was si a,s districts, last n uibtpea between sawne.pdei three nvt e81:0t h months, whereasand had btheeenoradsihnaigryh even as 120. It will be seen from these statements that be there is no ground whatever fur the reports which have crept into the London print, owing knowledge, or to the loose opinions of thriving in the e lo t m o w th n e i r s e naortoorstohma that weight. True it is that as a attempted guard against the consequences ;town by trampsor other i h t o in u e s r e a o n f ts re c f o u m g disease being imported inti Leamington which ea m b i et n i e g a P t v r o ei vi unfortunately d o fferent characterich who se e in w g a r s roni I, is the only approach to those other parts of the country; but m anu to fa a c a t n w e d r a i n n o t g bl o . o e f r at e l t o p u s e n na o g . i f of includes the neccasity• To . this moment , ton' anyhdeedonilsit.oatgohaisaolu:Yos PANlES.—Yesterday was published a return of the names, places of busin ess , all assurance companies completely registered , from the passing of the Act of 7 and 8 Victoria, of life and property, with some 60 new assurance companies for the protection tfbhreiojisemidstao:o... Arc:lcuzhisecloolmiisnt the receipts, expenditure , assets, and liabilities of each company specified in detail , e r n a ° e r 3 et s ory i °cocnfanfrapetipi r cau,ion a [PRICE OD. THE HOP DUTY OF 1848. (From the Second Edition of the Sussex Advertiser of yesterday.) We hasten to announce to the hop-growers of Sus sex the answer of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to the memorials of the hop-planters and others, pre sented to the Right lion. Baronet by the deputation on Friday last. This answer was received by Thomas Law Hodges, Esq., M.P., at his residence, Hemsted-park, Kent, by post this (Tuesday) morning, and through the cour tesy of that gentleman a copy was forwarded by ex press messenger, in compliance with the arrangement announced in our last night's impression. The &Rowing is the Chancellor's letter : " Downing-street, Oct. 1, 1849. " Sir,—Since I had the honour of seeing you in Downing-street, on Friday last, with the deputation from the hop-planters and others, from the counties of Kent, Sussex, Hereford, and Worcester, the statements made by gentlemen who formed part of that deputation, and their request for a postponement of the collection of hop duty of 1848 have been carefully considered by her Ma jesty's Government. " - We have learnt with great regret that apprehen sions are entertained of the prevalence of distress during the ensuing winter in the hop-growing districts and other parts of the country ; but we trust that the dimi. nished price of food and other necessaries will especially contribute towards the comfort of all classes, especially of the labourers and of their families. With regard to the further postponement of that instalment of the hop duty of 1848, the payment of which was due in May last, and has already been delayed till the middle of this month, it is my duty to inform you that her Majesty's Government do not feel themselves justified in acceding to any further postponement; and the neces sary orders will be given for its collection at the ap pointed time. " I lose no time in making this communication to you, as it is for the interest of all parties that the decision on this point should be immediately known. " With regard to the instalment due in November, I am not indisposed to allow further time for its pay ment—l have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant, " CHARLES WOOD. " T. L. Hodges, Esq." The Maidstone Gazette contains the following let ter which Mr. T. L. Hodges has addressed to the Chancellor of the Exchequer since the deputation of Friday last : _ _ " Hemsted, Sept. 30. " My dear Sir, —Not having any communication from you by the post f this morning, which indeed I scarcely expected, I feel convinced that the subject brought be fore you last Friday is receiving that consideration which you promised to bestow upon it, and to which it is so well entitled. "The only two remarks you made when the evidence of the memorialists was closed were, that the hop planters' situation was materially improved by the fact, shown by returns to Parliament, of the amount of poor rate in Kent and Sussex having been reduced to full 50 per cent. in the last few years, and that the distress in parts of Hampshire was also very great, and that, there fore, relief ought not to be granted to the hop-planters, at the common expense of other sufferers. lam afraid that the inference really to be drawn from the reduced charges for maintaining the poor will turn out very dif ferent from that which occurred to your mind. In the first place, it would indeed be a subject of most cheering nature, could we feel conscious that this reduction in the amount of charge of maintaining the poor, was caused by or accompanied with a corresponding improve ment of the condition of the poor. The reverse, I fear, is the case. So far, moreover, from the reduced amount of the poor-rate being evidence of the greater ease with which the rates. can be collected, the testimony of almost every person who had the honour of address ing you proved that if the amount of the poor-rate may have been reduced, the reduction of the farming capital throughout the hop-planting districts was in a far greater proportion. The evidence of the Hastings banker (Mr. George Serivens) was decisive on that other t h p o e i I n ( looked ke an oedu d n at rr when y o u banksudh e t o inmade thosetho t hs those that t statement cou n representatives tes w w h o observed oI of f et he re v a r it present,ohua and added that he had reason to know that he was also expressing the opinions of those of Herefordshire and Worcestershire, where hops were planted, feeling him self authorised to speak their sentiments as well as his own), and also that the amount of the poor-rate is well known to be less than formerly, the evidence of the Rev. Edward Nares, rector of Wittersham, in Kent, ama gistrate of that county, chairman of the board of guardians of the Tenterden Union, and entrusted with memorials from six different benches of magis trates in Kent (those from Sussex being presented by Mr. Fuller), proved beyond all contradiction, that even the reduced rates, to which you alluded, could not be raised; and that not only was his union, but it was also in evi dence that other unions also were in debt to their respec tive treason rs by over-drawn accounts; thus proving that if the rates be less than formerly, the means of raising even those reduced rates are so diminished, that even these rates cannot now in very many parishes be collected without legal force. " With reference to the distress in Hampshire, no one in that room, witnessing the distress of his own neighbours, could feel insensible to the distress of others; but if the Hampshire men were called upon to pay such a charge upon part of their agricultural produce as we have, their distress would be grievously aggravated, and the crowded deputation from Worcestershire, Hereford shire, Sussex, and Kent would have been further in creased by sufferers from Hampshire; for the land agents and many others, who were present at that meeting, could prove that the loss sustained on the crops of hops in 1848 and 1849, by an immense number of hop-planters, ex ceeded the value of the fee-simple of the land on which they were grown. With respect to any hardship towards the rest of the nation, and that the amount due to Government for hop-duty should be transferred from the hop• grower to the nation at large, we cannot but feel very acutely that for many years the amount of revenue raised from hop-planters in four or five counties in Eng land, and which from various circumstances has been rapidly impoverishing those counties, should have been drawn exclusively from their industry by a tax so par tial, anomalous, and oppressive. " My only apology for this letter is, that it was agreed before we waited on you that no one should address you except those persons whose names were entered upon the paper placed in my hands, or I have no doubt that some persons would have observed upon the only two objections you hinted at to our memorial. I saw at the time the insufficiency as I thought of your objections; but I thought it better to refrain from making any ob servations on them until I had fully considered the bearing they had upon the case set forth in the memorial presented to you.—l am, my dear Sir, most truly yours, "THOMAS LAW HODGES. " The Right Hon. Sir C. Wood, &c., &c." ROYAL GARDENS, VAUXHALL.—The final bal masque of the season took place last night. It was most nume rously attended—it may be almost said by every different nation upon earth; for if some of the inhabi tants were not bodily present, their costumes, at least, were represented with more or less fidelity. Nor were the characters merely national. There were many capital individualizations of peculiarity belonging to our own age and place, in which the grotesque predominated, and in other respects it was observed that our great dramatists supplied a liberal share of the diversions of the mimic scene. Dancing was kept u p w ith muc h spirit: not a single instance of disorder occurred so far as we are aware. The management are entitled to much credit for the precautions taken to render this class of amusement at once proper and unexceptionable, and it is due to say, that as far as the present season is concerned they have eminently succeeded in both. for ta them e T amA H re teEtoc receipt PRINTERS' t a r t o N a rriT receiptsEmß m a k e ' ePENSlONasnhya l c ha r ge hma r ag S ke o e C I E T I' . —Yesterday evening a meeting of the committee of the Printers' Pen sion Society was held at the London Tavern, Bishops gate-street, on the general business of the charity. Mr. Henry Fley, chairman of the committee, presided. The report showed that since the society was established, in 1827, nearly 160 pensioners have received its benefits, and that at the last election there were 55 pensioners on the funds. The receipts amounted to 1,213/. 103. I Id., and the expenditure to 1,147/. ls. 7d. The annual sub scriptions had fallen to an amount of 50/. below the sum of the previous year, which it was hoped would be made up previous to the next anniversary. Since the last elec tion there have been no deaths, notwithstanding the mor tality occasioned by the prevailing epidemic. The busi ness having been gone through, a vote of thanks was passed to the chairman, and the meeting separated —'BY the new e b. i v e e c r t , CAUTION TO SELLERS Or STAMP of which reduction :h ie :: are ti ~,., a ej e__ cent. Stamp next, t to Act,the stwhicha per m cent., p e n allowances t. , wilt i in consequence c o o i n n m t c s i e e e u cl o iwr e si t n r hhi l ' rt o e c ,. tire gratis ee vfa d i forced ooepnfurrtyc, receipts I e cidi 1 chsaeeebtit-amri paper vy(prso) demand ne tnelc i d s : fe, 7 t oo t! Crlr m i per op t p mt h) a n: it has been suggested charge bill for every such o ff ence. The shouldimpressed, p k ae e sn a a m_ade fourth section of endertnisCom missioners n a e n r y s e f l o S u t r a m o p , p pretence e that any paper wher eo n vendor e or s ' am e p sa le th ereof, k the following words :—‘_,‘ A st n am d w s he f reas it i . s highly improper that the per upon which such stamps are impressed, seeing i s by this Act directed to he :;iipplird i gvi a h g mo o ris 9 t'e t h d o that " G il ° co p rg ap e e l r V o . n , paper bfoilltatanws. There for unrepealed whi c c w a h p h . ic : r enacted that if any person or persons upon the sale of any stamp or stamps shall be impressed, or shall, re ceive a greate • r price or sum than the amount of the stamp duty denoted by such stamp or stamps, every such person so off, tiding shall for every such ,o ff ence forfeit and pay the sum of 10/., to be sued for and recovered; levied, and applied in such and the same manner as any penalties under any other Act or Acts relating to stamp duties may be sued for, recovered, and applied." The loss sustained by the Colonial Treasury during the 10 months and 8 days ending August Bth, by the tax ordinance of 1847, had been about 706,000 dollars. ----I;w:silll::u'esdaY Lieutenant Holman, the celebrated blind traveller, has arrived in this island from Guernsey, and we under stand, intends remaining some time among us,—Jersey paper. APPETITE AND DIGESTION IMPROVED EA and PERRINS' WORCESTERSHIRB SAUCE imparts the most exquisite relish to Steaks, Chops, and all Roast Meat Gravies, Fish, Game, Soup, Curries, and Salad, and by its tonic and invigorating properties enables the stomach to perfectly digest the food. The daily use of this aromatic and delicious Sauce is the best safe guard to health. Sold by the proprietors, Lea and Perrin, 6, Verc-street, Oxford street, London, and 68, Broad-street, Worcester; also by Messrs. Rarelay and Sons, Messrs. Crosse and Blackwell, and other Oilmen and Merchants, London ; and generally by the principal dealers in sauce. N.B. To guard against imitations, see that the names of " LEA and PERRINS" are upon the label aid patent cap of the bottle. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, TRMSDAY.—The Leander was masted yesterday and commissioned by Captain Dacres. The Serpent was taken into the sea-basin this morning. She has not yet hoisted the p3ndant. The Myrtle steam-tender arrived this morning from Plymouth, and the Falmouth lighter sailed for that port with stores The Victory flag ship has been moved over to the west shore to have her moorings inspected. Wind—N.E., light breezes and cloudy. PLYMOUTH, OCT. I.—Her Majesty's ship Ganges, 84, Captain Henry Smith, and the Trident steamer, Lieutenant-Commander Richard H. Risk, came in this afternoon from Cork. A survey was held on Saturday on board the dis masted schooner Eliza, in Barnpool. The master and the carpenter of her Majesty's ship Impregnable, and a gentleman officially connected with the Admiralty office, on the part of the Government, were met by Mr. W. B. Cuming, Lloyd's surveyor, and Mr. Cundy, master mariner, on the part of the owners, and drew up a joint report. This afternoon 25 seamen from the Impregnable went on board the Eliza to clear away the wreck preparatory to the repairs of the damage done by the collision with her Majesty's steam•vessel "Volcano. The emigrant-ship Maitland, Captain Henry, ar rived here on Friday last, with loss of four emigrants during her passage from London. One man died on Friday, and a woman and child on Saturday. Is consequence of the sickness, application was made to the Admiralty, and permission given to transfer the people to the hulk Tyne, now moored in the Sound. 'The rain fell heavily on Saturday, and the wind was very high yesterday (Sunday), which prevented the intended transfer. In the meantime the sickness totally disappeared on board the Maitland, and she will probably sail for Port Philip to-morrow. She brought 112 passengers from London, and will ship about 130 at this port. In connexion with emigration from Plymouth, it may be stated, that although cholera has prevailed here for the last three months, no case has occurred among the Government emi grants on shore. The number of persons received at the depot from May 31 to September 16 is 3,688 souls, equal to 3,108 statute adults, who came from various parts of England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. During that period there has been no caso of illness, with the exception of two or three confine ments. ind—S.S.W., with showers. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—The extensive publication of The Observer commences at four o'clock Sunday morn ings. Newspaper agents can have any number of copies before five o'clock on Sunday morning in time to supply passengers going by all the railway trains, as well as by early steam-vessels. Price of The Observer, 40 folio columns, 6d. Published by Mr. Clement, junior, 170, Strand. Monday Edition of The Observer is regularly Published at four o'clock Monday afternoons. ENGLISH PICKFOCKETS IN PARIS.—Some time ago we gave an account of the arrest of a noted English pickpocket at the station of the Rouen railway. Oa Saturday this man, named Joseph Wood, was brought to trial before the tribunal of Correctional Police. Dr. Itizamier stated that on the 23d of August last, as he, his family, and domestics, were about to enter the waiting-room of the station of the Havre railway, he was pressed upon, and pushed by two individuals, one in front, the other behind, and almost at the same mo ment his man servant seized by the collar one of the men, the prisoner at the bar, who had plunged his hand into the Doctor's pocket. There was no crowd at the time. The prisoner, who did not speak a word of French, appeared indignant at the accusation, and, to to prove his respectability, produced papers and a hand full of gold. He was, however, secured by the police. At the trial the Doctor's man-servant, Angraud, said that, seeing the prisoner and another man press close on his master, he entertained some suspicion, nod, having drawn closer, he positively saw the former plunge his hand into the Doctor's pocket, and ho seized him whilst the hand was still there. Mr. Pickford, English Consul at Paris, stated, that when the prisoner was arrested, two superior officers of the English police, who hal come over to look after the Man ning, told him that he was well-known to them as one of the most celebrated and dangerous pickpockets of London, and they added that, having met him in Paris, he sneeringly told them that they had not done their duty, since they had not arrested him, Mr. Pickford further said that the police could not positively state to him whether the prisoner had undergone any condem nation in England, but they believed he had been arrested in some county. Mr. Pickford concluded by saying that he had ascertained that the prisoner belonged to a re spectable family, and that one of his brothers is a rich tradesman established at Boulogne. The prisoner, who was questioned through an interpreter, denied his guilt, and said ho was the chief of an omnibus establishment in London, and that if he had been dishonest it would have been madness for him to have accosted the police in the manner described. The prisoner's advocate contended that he was the victim of a deplorable error, and he earnestly insisted on the improbality of a man like the prisoner, proprietor of an establishment in London which produced large profits, and for which he paid 13,000 f, rent, committing a robbery. The tribunal, however, condemned Wood to a year's imprisonment. The Turkish Ambassador transacted business yester day afternoon at the Foreign-office. BIRTHS IN THE WEEK. Males Females ... Total .. ... 787 ... 739 ... 1,526 * In this number are .included 434 cases of death by Cholera, :_;0 by Scarlatina, 72 by Typhus Fever, and 163 by Diarrhoea. SIR JOHN FRANKLIN. The following letter from Lloyd's agent at Kirk wall, respecting news of Sir John Franklin, will be read with interest:— " Kirkwall, Sept. 28, 1849. " Sir,—Captain Lees, of the Prince. of Wales, of Hull, wrecked at Davis's Straits, and landed with his crew at Papa Westray, brings dispatches from her Majesty's ship North Star, in ilh lville Bay. The North Star seems to have made very little progress, and it is appre hended cannot join Sir James " Captain Paterson, of the Lady Jane, of Newcastle, also wrecked and hnded with his crew here, brings one of Sir John Franklin's cylinders, which had been picked up and delivered to him by the resident Governor of a DAnish settlement. The cylinder and dispatches sro forwarded by this post to the Admiralty. Lady Frank lin saw the cylinder, which Captain Paterson was in formed was of an eld date-1845. " I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant, (signed) 6" I.LoYD'S AGENT. " Captain Halsted, R.N., Secretary, Lloyd's." CALIFORNIA. Extract of a letter from Lloyd's agent, dated San Francisco, 30th July : "I beg to call your particular notice to the fact, that almost all the ships arriving at this port are immediately deserted by thtir crews, and that seamen's wages vary from 100 dolls. to 200 dolls. per month; in consequence of which many vessels remain in port, without any caro being taken of them. Many vessels will, in consequence, be condemned as unfit to go to sea, and the expense of repairing vessels will, in most cases, be more than they are worth. As a proof of this fact, I may mention that carpenters' wages are at present 12 dolls, and 14 dolls. per day, and that lumber is selling at 300 dolls. per 1,000 feet. The expense of landing cargo from vessels in this bay is not less than from 5 dolls. to 8 dolls. per ton, and the cost of carting goods from the wharf to the stores is almost as much more. The weather on this coast during the present season is very boisterous and foggy. Our harbour, however, is well protected from the high winds which blow regularly from the west, and which usually last from one or two o'clock r.m. until evening. Even the steamers now running between this and Panama find the greatest difficulty in procuring efficient crews and firemen, so that they can hardly be considered in a sea worthy state." SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BETTING AT MANCHESTER .-TIIESDA Y. CBSAREWITCII STAKES.-9 to 2 agst Vatican (taken and afterwards offered), 7 to 1 agst Glenalvon (t), 12 to 1 agat Glen Saddel, 12 to 1 agst Baby (t), 14 to 1 agst St. Rosalia (taken freely), 25 to 1 agst Cat thagenian, 25 to 1 agst Amazement (taken freely), 1,000 to 20 agst Mahon (t). CAMBRIDGESIIIRE STAKES. -15 to 1 agat Woolwich (t), 15 to 1 agst Joc o'Sot (t), 1,000 to 50 agst Mahon (t), 20 to 1 agst Sponge (t). DERBY.-1,000 to 35 agst Bolingbroke (t), 1,000 to 20 agst Seneca (t), 1,000 to 20 agst Voltigeur (t). PUGILISIII. GEORGE CROCKETT AND IL COOPER, FOR 501. The fistic tourney of these rivals took place yesterday, at Woking-common. The first-named athlete is well known, having defeated Branch, Ilazelti ne, and several minor men, although compelled to strike his colours to Hayes, in a recent encounter. Cooper, as a hardy and powerful young fellow, not without skill in the use of his digits, was fancied by many of his friends; and although he also had been obliged to play second fiddle to Hayes's style of leading off, was thought to possess qualities which might shine in the presence of an inferior professor of the art. At half-past twelve o'clock seve ral hundreds were assembled around the roped arena, and a few minutes after Cooper sent his challenge into the enclosure, which was promptly answered by Crockett. Their toilette was quickly made, and umpires morn referee being agreed on, the men shook ha l nds. e. majorem, and threw themselves into attitude, o V attendinglna Mallett esquired Crockett, Martin and S . Tb on Cooper. The fight needs little u d sh es e e_r a ip, description - op C p o o o n P e e n r t . , relying on his physical strength , rushed d artistic taps in his boring at him and receiving of his ill-judged baste. Almost frontispiece us the reward of to the 20th ended in Crockett left on his man as he d c e az every round i f th ro p m re t e h ib _ deliverin cunningly b y stop, parry, or slippin g the his f his T a n d e ve se rsa c r o y nt t i o nu b a u and lstiperohpismiooldr avoidieg the attempts ung Ment and weakening of Cooper, to In-di.: force him h disfigure w th h e i i l r e ta e le ro i Crockett kept kept his remarkably fair and almost feminine skin without an abrasion. In the 21st, Cooper did manage, in a sort of " scrimma ' to get his right band, which ho scores of times thr g o e ; ' Crockett's lip, but it was away, home on " for that time only." The Member for Southwark" returned on him so heavily in the seven followin minutes, androunds, that at the end of 48 calls g of " time," the sponge was pro perly thrown up for Cooper, and Crockett proclaimed victor,dthaenagaeto almost without a mark, literally with ou t a his profile. Five to four was offered on Cooper at the opening of thc,affair. A second match for 10/., between two aspirants named Rutty and 'h) lock, followed—a laughable, rough, and tumble affair, in which both men fought with right good will, but little judgment. Sliylock, however, stood upon the " ienalty of his bond," and, obtaining judgment thereon from the referee, will receive his " pounds" of cash. '1 he " court awards it, and the law allows," inas much as Mister Rutty, when called upon for an " ap pearance," allowed judgment to go by default. Time, 55 minutes; rounds, 28, several of which were, from jumpinp-up and raiewals, two or three rounds rolled into one. DUNCAN AND ParrcitAnD FOR 251. A-SlDE.—Theso men, the former of London, the latter of Coventry, met yesterday in battle array, near Erith, Kent. After a one sided affair, in which, to the general surprise of the Londoners, Duncan (who was once proposed as a match fur Keene) was always second best, Pritchard was bailed as winner, but not till more than two hours had Nom worn out. The men were limited to 9st 91135., and were both nearly that weight. The Lord Mayor Elect bas appointed the Rev. Charles Marshall, of Sydenhain, as Lis Chaplain ibr the ensuing Mayoralty. 1,611