The Sun. — London, England, 1849-10-04 00:00:00

NEW - WORK BY MR. COCHRANE. ERNEST VANE. 2 Vols. By Alexander Baillie Cochrane, M.P. Encouraged by the sucee-s of " Lucille a_lmont," his first adventure in literature, Mr. liaiilie Cochrane has already produced a second fiction, which in many respects may be called a sequel to its predecessor. Several of the characters introduced into the former narrative will be recognized in the novel just pub lished : developed, however, as remarkably as the butterfly from the chrysalis. Whatever merits there may be in " Ernest Vane," we cannot but feel satis fied that it evidences rather too much precipitation to last beyond its season, or to acquire anything like enduring popularity. Beyond which the author appear-3 to have followed somewhat too obsequiously in the footsteps of Mr. Disreali the Younger, in re gard to the pencilling under assume _1 names of several of the most conspicuous members of the world of fashion. In itself the practice of pourtraying the individualities of contemporary society is calcu lated not only to degenerate into mere caricature, but also to render the composition, no matter whether it he play, poem, or novel, singularly ephemeral. Mr. Disraeli redeems his political romances in a great measure from this excessive evanescence by his bril liant wit, his pungent sarcasms, and his gorgeous and ornate rhetoric. Mr. Cochrane, on the contrary, is possessed neither of a faculty for witticisms, nor of power as a satirist, nor of any very splendid or copious vocabulary. In the absence of these gifts, however, he hes the art of sketching scenes and incidents with the pencil of a keen observer; and of throwing, moreover, an air of fascination over his fictitious annals which will not fail to secure him a large meed of approval. What we regret in his delineations of living men and women, well known in the more aristocratic circles, is, that he renders these delineations by far too pro minent a feature in his production, instead of making them altogether subordinate to the plot and the cir cumstances of its development. How this extraneous adornment .may be introduced without marring the general effect of an effusion of the fancy has been shown vary skilfully of late by Sir Bulwer Lytton, both in the " Caxtons," were Trevanion represents a statesman of considerable renown, and Beau lesert, a nobleman of no inconsiderable reputation, and in his epic romance of " King Arthur," where the Bishop of Exeter, Peel, Russell, Stanley, and Palmerston are most felicitously calotyped among the subordinate figures surrounding the darling hero of chivalry. Generally speaking, nevertheless, we are averse to the custom now becoming more and more prevalent with the literati of our generation, that of dressing up a public personage in some fantastic costume and dig nifying it with the title of a creation. Even George Coleman the Younger, one of the most fruitful origi nators of character in the drama, and altogether one of the best playwrights that has appeared since the Elizabethan epoch, became infected by this endemic of caricature, introducing his late Majesty King George the Third as Sir David Dunder, in his comedy of Ways and Means. Aware of the infection of such examples as those already enumerated, we must, we presume, at any rate allow some licEnse in the same particular to Mr. Baillie Cochrane. And, cer tainly, as far as the skill of the performances m ty go in eat-nuation of the attempt, he must he acknow ledged to have proved himself, in more than one in stance, strangely successful. In the profligate cha racter of the handsome Luttrell—in the haughty diplomatist, Lord Elversfoot—in the ambitious com moner, Mr. Leslie—in the " manceuvering mamma," Lady Mary Maxwell— in the brilliant fribble, George Percy—and in several other of the dramatis persona will be recognised at once individuals familiar to the bow-windows of St. James's-street, or to the drawing rooms of Belgravia. Mr. Cochrane has this unde niable advantage, that he himself has watched the prototypes with no unobservant eye in the midst of the frivolities of May-fair, or in the random conversa tions of the loungers at Brookes' or Whites'. Nor are the nobles and gentles of Old England the only persons who are made to pass across the disc of his camera obscura. Michel, the Hebrew money-lender, is a transcript " from the life," and might be identi fied. What to us, however, is the most excellent portion of " Ernest Vane," in regard to the por traiture-of character, is that in which are sketched the vraisemblance of the hero of the tale (a high-souled dreamer, sensitive and brave), and the three principal females introduced into the narrative—Marie, the child of Switzerland,lda Leslie (the heroine) the daughter of the millionnaire, and Algitha Vane, the sister of Ernest. How far the fortunes of the sensual but fascinating Luttrell, afterwards Lord Linton, are mingled with the interest of the narrative, may be tolerably well imagined when we observe that love passages pass between him and the three beautiful women just mentioned, Marie, Ida, and Algitha. Marie's history is the episode of the novel, and is gracefully and touchingly written. Ernest is the lover of Ida, and the champion as well as brother of Algitha. The scene principally alternates between Mr. Leslie's estate, called Castle Melvvood, and the metropolis. As to the structure and purpose of the plot, seeing that we are not solicitous to destroy their attraction by a premature explanation, we shall con tent ourselves with observing that the story, like Dickens's " Old Curiosity Shop," and Scott's " Bride of Lammermoor," has a mournful termination. Here and there, throughout the two volumes, are touches which cannot fail to strike different classes of readers. A parent, for example, will be arrested by that men tion of a " kind, warm smile breaking into the perfect beauty of a father's love ;" while the journalist will be amused sans doute by the acknowledgment made by Ida Leslie, that with the news paper in her hand she had just commenced (and no more) " one of those long, iota; articles which she cannot imagine how people have the patience to write, and which she has never the patience to read through." Sometimes Mr. Cochrane, when he lists, can be as sententious as Rochefoucauldt, as where he says (I. 30) " give me the trifles of life in my favour and you shall have the great events." Occasionally, too, he can be sardonically sarcastic, as where he terms the county orator—" a most terrible infliction to civilized society, a plague beneath which even Pha roah's heart must have broken." At times, moreover, he is very felicitous in his mode of expression, as where he calls the charity-school children, decked out for village entertainments—" those perennial frontis pieces to all country festivities, the vignettes of human nature." (I. 46 ) In his political predilections he remains of course true to the " antecedents" of his Parliamentary career—calling Cromwell an usur per, and eulogizing Charles I. as the Martyr King. One of the most delightfully emphe sised sentences in the work is that in which the novelist, referring to Lady Mary Maxwell's letter to Ernest, describes it as written in " that stilted, heavy-morality style which virtuous and very middle-aged ladies affect." Inadvertently perchance, but to us most glaringly, Mr. Cochrane is guilty of some egregiously transparent plagiarisms. In one instance hie says that Luttrell " loved Marie as he would a favourite horse or hound,"—a very manifest copy from Tennyson's " Locksley Hall," " Something better than his dog, and something worthier than his horse." Another, while Mr. Cochrane describes " the dead leaves which not winter's frost could entirely shake off, falling around pushed from time twigs by the new buds" —a barefaced suggestion tr.ken from Lamartine's " Raphael," cap. 87, where the poet says, so exqui sitely, " there was no other sound than that of the fall of some dry leaves of the preceding winter, -which, as the sap rose and throbbed, fell at the foot of the tree to make room for the new and tender foliage." But the most monstrous plagiarism of all is where Mr. Cochrane observes, as though the idea were his own original property, that Marie knelt before the little wooden cross of her oratory—" - remembering that the cross was made of wood, the cross that saved the world l" Why, what reader of French history does not know that that was a portion of the finest sentence ever uttered in the Hall of the States General ? when M. de Montlozier, in defending the constitu tion of clerical property, exclaimed, in a moment of Sublime eloquence (alluding to the bishops whose c ause he espoused), " By taking away their palaces you will force them to seek refuge in the cottages of the poor, built by their beneficence; by tearing from their breast the golden cross they wear on it you will force them to wear new ones made of wood ; but remember it was a wooden cross that saved the world!" Surely, after these quotations, we shall not be accused of rashness in taxing Mr. Cochrane with plagiarism. As a specimen of our novelist's style we will give his flippant but not wholly erroneous definition of WHIG. " Lord Elversfoot spoke with vehemence, for it was a theme on which he felt deeply, and upon which he de lighted to dwell; now, at least, he believed all that he said—the old Whig is never tired of talking about the people, and imagining himself liberal. He had long been a member of that party, who, possessing the strongest aristocratic tendencies, march in cloth of gold, with the people' inscribed on their banners. The thorough aristocratic Whig—the party of hereditary principles of freedom, both in trade and institutions— the class that would do everything for the people, and nothing by the people—at once haughty and conde scending—universal and exclusive—who would desire to see ever y t poor man's table well supplied, but take equal care that he should never trespass above the salt—who bow very low, extend forefingers to the middle class, shake hands with the peop le, but always with their gloves on—. who will tell you that the middle class, the bourgeoisi e , is essential to the we ll-being of thecountry, but draw themselves up very hi g h if the middle cl class ever the smallest position iu their presence a party composed ro ished in general of men o f high illustration se rite?, who view their society with the same reverence as the Jews were wont to regard the inner circle of the Temple—who have an undeviating a ttachment to the t a l e s of family interests and family claims, and the tradi tions of their history , as written by their own party, with whom it is a faith to worship the memory of the traitors William Lord Russ ell and Algernon Sidney, and to repudiate Dalrymple's Memoirs—who prsctioo in re- THE SUN ligion an universal toleration—who, in rare instances, as Lord Elversfoot said, are willing to admit a select few of the middle class into their society, but would at the same time keep back the crowd which is treading on their heels—who !Teak of commerce and manufactures with all reverence, and honour those who have attained pre-eminence in life through their own industry, but who would be greatly astonished if any of those persons approached them with familiarity, and did not aprly to their .manners ouch terms as condescending ' and 'affable.'" One of the most charming passages in the whole of " Ernest Vane" is that descriptive of the hero's sojourn for a few days at the Cistercian Monastery, near Loughborough. If the present c {fusion has not materially enhanced, it has in no degree deteriorated from Mr. Baillie Cochrane's reputation as a novelist. On the contrary, it gives yet larger promise that, with less precipitation in the printing from his manuscripts, he may ultimately obtain a secure footing in the light literature of his country. MAGAZINES, &c.—(CONTINUED.) DAVID COPPEII_FIELD. No. VI. By Charles Dickens. Several new characters are introduced in this, the sixth, number of " Copperfield," best and most beau tiful of which is thet of dear old Doctor Strong, David's new schoolmaster—the gentlest, wisest, oddest cf schoolmasters —the worthy antithesis of Squeers, and Blimber, and Creakle. Foremost among the peculiarities of old Dr. Strong is his habit of looking out for Greek roots (a sort of " botanical furor," according to the apprehension of poor Trot), towards the compilation of a new Dictionary. And, certainly, in what Stern calls his hobbyhorsical notion ; most wonderful of all most wonderful Lexicons would this same Dictionary prove on its termination — eclipsing the efforts of all preceding lexicographers, and threatening even to surpass dear old Austin Cax ton's Great Work on Human Errors. " Adams (says little David with the delightrullest symplicity) Adams, our head-boy, who had a turn for mathematics, had mada a calculation, I was informed, of the time this Dictionary would take in completing, on the Doctor's plan, and at the Doctor's rate of going. He considered that it might be done in one thousand six hundred and forty-nine years, counting from the Doctor's last, or sixty-second birth-day." Dr. Strong's school establishment must assuredly be the most charmingly monastic place in all Canter bury—with the stray rooks and jackdaws sailing down from the Cathedral towers "to walk with a clerkly bearing on the grass plot," and with great stone urns " set up on the top of the red brick wall, at regular distances all round the court, like sublimated skittles, for Time to play at." Dr. Strong's young wife, moreover, must be the most bewitching little body who ever gave cherry-coloured ribbons to strip ing cousins on their way to India, and went into fainting fits in the passage. Phiz has sketched her very cleverly and gracefully; and, in the other illus tration, has bit off to the very life the immortal Mr. Wilkins Micawber—his bald head with no more hair on it than an egg, his shirt-collar, his eyeglass, his jaunty carriage, and all complete. For Mr. Mi cawber" turns up" again in the most charmingly un expected manner imaginable, walking in suddenly from the street while David is taking tea with the umble Uriah Heap, and the umble Mrs. Veep, his mother, and that umble dwelling which is in every respect a kind of visible acknowledgment of their umbleness. The character of Uriah is refreshingly original, with his ejaculatory remarks—" Oh, thank you, Master Copperfield, oh thank you ! Oh yes, indeed, Master Copperfield, oh, cer tainly !" and the like. The Micawbers too "come out" with remarkable effect on the occasion of their re-appearance, especially where Mr. Micawber ob serves of the beloved partner of his existence, " She is tolerably convalescent; the twins no longer derive their sustenance from Nature's founts—in short" (in one of his bursts of confidence) " they are weaned." Great, super-eminently great too are the Micawbers on the conclusion of their banquet in honour of their friend Copperfield, when (during the digestion of the elegant dish of fish, the kidney end of a loin of veal roasted, fried sausage meat, the partridge, and the pudding, under the generous influence of wine, strong ale, nod hot punch), they sing " Auld lang syne." " When we came," says little David, "to Here's a hand my trusty frere,' we all joined hands round the table ; and when we declared we would take a right gude Willie Naught,' and hadn't the least idea what it meant, we were really affected." Little David, how ever, we must call him no longer, for by the end of the present number he has become the head boy in Dr. Strong's school, his age being seventeen. Of all his retrospects up to the attainment of those years of discretion, commend us to his love passages in regard to: Miss Shepherd, a little chit of a boarding-school Miss, and subsequently to Miss Larkins, a young lady, average about thirty. The Brazil nuts—the thrill going up the right arm of his jacket and coming out at his hair—the sentimentality which makes him lose his appetite and wear his best silk neckerchief continually the waltz, the bear's-grease, and the boots—are all expressive of the metamorphosis from the child into the hobble dehoy. Worthiest of all of remembrance, neverthe less, is his warlike rencontre with the young butcher, of whom it is said—" There is a vague belief abroad, that the beef-suet with which he anoints his head gives him unnatural strength." " It is a summer evening, down in a green hollow, at the corner of a well. I meet the butcher by ap pointment. I am attended by a select body of our boys ; the butcher, by two other butchers, a young pub lican, and a sweep. The preliminaries aro adjusted, and the butcher and myself stand face to face. In a moment the butcher lights ten thousand candles out of my left eyebrow. In another moment I don't know where the wall is, or where I am, or where anybody is. I hardly know which is myself and which the butcher, we are always in such a tangle and tustle, knocking about upon the trodden grass. Sometimes I see the butcher, bloody but confident ; sometimes I see nothing, and sit gasping on my second's knee ; sometimes I go in at the butcher madly, and cut my knuckles open against his face, with out appearing to discompose him at all. At last I awake, very queor about the head, as from a giddy sleep, and see the butcher walking off; congratulated by the two other butchers and the sweep and publican, and putting on his coat as ho goes; from which I augur, justly, that the victory is his." It is with a sort of revengeful satisfaction that we learn, at the end of the eighteenth chapter, that David Copperfield, smarting under some new provo cation from the butcher, goes out with him once more and gloriously defeats him. Our anxieties are at rest after the avowal. We have a confidence in his destinies. THE BANKERS'. That portion of the mystery of stock-jobbing which consists in dealings in shares, whether for money or for the account, is clearly developed, for the informa tion of the uninitiated in such matters, in the first half-dozen pages of the present number. Among the other articles is one on the " Practical Effects of the Repeal of the Navigation Laws," concluding with these sensible remarks " When we look to the long list of restrictions which that Act hes removed from the commerce of the country we are struck with amazement that, under such an in cubus, our trade and navigation have expanded in the way they have. It is impossible, however, not to feel that, in spite of all the efforts and ingenuity of our mer chants to avoid the difficulties and losses to which such an intricate system of prohibitions and restrictions has exposed them, an extent of loss must have been entailed upon the country which cannot possibly be estimated." Attention is drawn in another paper to the cheering circumstance of the large increase in both our exports and our imports as compared with last year, amount ing in the respective Augusts to no less than 2,012,5001. as to the former, more than one-half of which has arisen from the activity of our cotton, linen, silk, and woollen manufactures. The article of machinery exhibited a decrease, furnishing conti nued evidence that from the neglect of mechanical improvements in foreign manufactories, caused by the disturbances of the past eighteen months, a start has been given to our own , productions which will pro bably not be recovered by our competitors for many years. The remaining articles, and the usual statis tical information touching monetary matters, are characterised by the wonted accuracy and clearness of this useful periodical. THE DUBLIN UNIVERSITY. The September number of this able magazine fully maintains its high position in the periodical literature of the day. The opening paper, entitled " Agri cultural and Commercial Condition of Ireland—the Bank Returns," is one of vast importance, and de serves the serious attention of all interested in the present condition of that country. It affords a very melancholy illustration of its prostrate state by indi cating the immense decline in the circulating medium within the last three years. It shows from the most undoubted sources that the circulating medium of that country—gold, silver, and their paper representatives —.s now less by one-half than it was thirty mo n th s ago. The next is a very ably written commentary on a well-conceived and useful book, " Scenes where the Tempter has Triumphed," by the author cingesaoif‘e‘;Tbhye Gaol Chaplain." " Ceylon and the author of " China and the Chin li ese h , h its fourteenth chapter without the slightest falling reached allingoff' in interest, instruction, or amusement. the T he lif c e orti oi mentary on the principal features in Tassoni, the author of "La Secehia Rapita," is full of acuteness and learning. " The Commeragb Mountains, their Lakes and Legends," this is a graphic and interesting description of the beautiful scenery of a wild range of mountains in the county of Waterford. The able criticisms of the national magazine of Ireland have frequently won our warmest commendations, but neither in this nor in any other periodical has it been our good fortune to read a more stirring, spirited, or eloquent criticism than that of the learned commentator on the important and in teresting " Memoirs and Correspondence of Viscount Castlereagh, second Marquis of Londonderry, edited LONDON, by his brother, Charles Vane, Marquis of London derry ;" and we are not the less disposed to pay a just tribute to the genius of the erudite and accomplished critic because we differ from his reasoning and his deductions : the heartiness and sincerity of his style, the captivating gracefulness of his language, is calculated to win admiration where it cannot secure conviction. The sweet and simple little poem by the llev. George hill we cannot avoid extracting : SONG OF THE BADMAN PEASANTRY ON MAY-EYE. Silently the evening shadows Fall around our muirland home, And the mists o'er fields and meadows From their secret chambers come. Brothers! though our limbs are weary — Sisters! though cur cares increase— Yet our hearts are light and cheery, Yet our suns descend in peace. Now the lark has ceased his singing, Wearied, since tht dawn of day— But the primrose-haunts are ringing With the blackbird's softest isy. Now we feel the inspiration Breathed by twilight's magic hour, More than they of loftiest station, More than they of lordliest power! Oft wo meet on green Coulkeeny Wheu the toilsome da'aik was o'er— And by thy lone walls, Dun-einey, Have we heard the Atlantic roar. Oft, when Autumn's brec zy weather Called to life the reaper train, Have we stood and toiled together On Moyarget's corn-clad plain. Pleasant ware the days of childhood \VII.II we roamed o'er bill and glen— Primroses in Cousl's wikl wood Not fresher than our hopes were then! Why, in foreign climes to wander, Shall we leave our native streams? Would not their beloved Meander Still reproach us in our dreams? Ohl Rathmohan, still we love thee, Through all times of hope or fear — For the heaven; are bright above thee, And our fathers' graves are here. " Philip Marsden; or the Experiment," is continued, and contains many touches of deep feeling and pathos. " The Undergraduate" is also continued. The last paper of the series fur this month would demand more time and space than we can afford at present to bestow upon it—it is a review of " Lord Cloncurry's Memoirs." This patriotic and high-minded noble man has favoured the public with a volume entitled " Personal Recollections of the Life and Times, with _ _ Extracts from the Correspondence of, Valentine Lord Cloncurry," a work likely to prove of great value to the future historian of Ireland. We fully concur in the well-merited tribute to the memory of the late Dr. Cooke Taylor. Few men contributed more extensively to the science and literature of his age and than the lamented Dr. Taylor. countr THE BRITISH GAZETTEER. Part the sixth well maintains the reputation which the preceding numbers have fairly won. The county maps are those of Warwickshire and Cheshire, and the illustrations consist of engravings of the Univer sity Gallery and Tai lees Buildings, Oxford, and of Queen Elizabeth's Hospital, Brandon-hill, Clifton, the latter, especially, being a beautiful print. The diligent editors of this work have a deserved claim upon public approbation and support for their supply of varied and useful matter, both statistical and histo rical. On completion it will doubtless be the Gazetteer of Great Britain. ZADKIEL'S ALMANAC for 1850. Zadkiel is early in the field as an almanac writer. The fearful scourge under which we are still suffering was expressly predicted by him in his almanac for the present year; and in the number for 1850 we find foretold a revMtation of the cholera in the ensuing summer. May the seer prove to be mistaken ; but, unfortunately, his predictions generally turn out correct. There are some very curious vaticinations in the new number relating to the French President, the Czar, &c., and an interesting essay on chrono logy. The author's sincere and indefatigable exer tions to dispel the prejudices of the worldly-wise against stellar influence have rendered the sale of this work so extensive, that a particular notice of the superior manner in which it is got up is uncalled for. May we hint to him that a republication (perhaps in an abridged form) of Ramesey's work, and an en larged edition of his own Grammar, might not unworthily occupy Lis leisure ? FRASER. Fraser this month opens with a defence of the existing Laws of Lunacy, to which we shall hereafter refer at greater length; we must, however, be per• mitted, en passant, to express our delight at finding Fraser taking up the cudgels for these most iniquitous laws. We cannot but remember that in 1828 lie violently opposed Catholic Emancipation, which was carried in the then next session of Parliament ; that in 1831 he came out in immense force against the Reform Bill, which became the law of the land in 1832 ; that he undertook the defence of the Corn Laws in 1845, which were repealed in the following year ; and that in 1849 i :the Navigation Laws were repealed, notwithstanding the indignant pro tests recorded in Fraser during the whole of the year 1 848. We hail the omen, and feel convinced that the Lunacy Laws will be reformed in 1850, since the regular attendant on dying laws has taken them under his especial protection. The literary articles in Fraser are, as usual, of high merit. His review of Baron Haxthausen's work on "Russia" h replete with valuable information on the state of the Russian people and the internal polity of the Russian Empire. The "Wars of the:Communiades" is a graceful narrative of the last struggle of free Spain in 1520, under Don Juan de Padilla, against the despotic tyranny of the House of Hapsburg. The adventure of the eccentric Baron Thierry, who set up as a king in New Zealand, and who was literally roasted by his subjects and afterwards eaten, form the subject of the paper entitled " King and No King," and we have a thorough knouting (richly deserved and well laid on) of Messrs. Pitman and Ellis, of Fonetic Nuz no• toriety, in the article entitled " Phonetics." " Fami liar Letters from Ireland " is the commencement of a series which] promises well. We have likewise some curious extractsfrom the " Gesta Romanorum," the continuance of "The Peace Campaign of Ensign Faunce," and the " Current History of the Month." THE MIRROR. In the " Adventures of a French Republican' we have a spirit- stirring description of the first day's fight at the barricade of St. Mery, in 1832. This promises to be one of the most interesting works that hag yet proceeded from the prolific pen of Mr. Percy St. John. Great praise is due to the author of the " Biographical Sketches of the Kings of England" for the impartial manner in which he has described the character of Charles I.; he bath extenuated nothing, neither bath he set aught down in malice ; and while he reprobates the crimes of the King, be does full justice to the virtues of the man. The " History of Music" is „ continued, and from the commencement of the 15th chapter we extract the following excellent plea for vocalists : " That the vocalist is of the highest importance to the musical art cannot be doubted ; he is the interpreter of an unknown tongue, and even when singing in a foreign language renders its meaning to uninstructed ears, and fills the soul with emotions and ideas both new and delightful. his power is to song what elocution is to prose, it developes the beauties of composition to others, without imposing upon them the lengthened and painful studies by which the singer has himself attained his art. Moreover, singing is a natural gift, and not an ac quisition; hence the professor is a rarity, and one selected by bountiful nature expressly to charm and im prove the human race. At an expenditure of time and money any person of moderate comprehension can learn to play a timple tune; but without voice he must iv main unbenefitted by the divine powers of song, unless an interpreter steps to his assistance. Such an interpre ter is the vocalist: his brain has been imbued with the requisite knowledge, and his lips warble forth to hearers what in the volume of the book had been written." lie thus keeps alive the art of composition, which must speedily expire without interpretation; he adds fame to the poet, gives reputation to the composer, and supports the musician. Meanwhile he developes the bounty of the Creator in his gifts, and assists in rendering the cares of life supportable. Let not, then, the vulgar rail at the high remuneration of vocal talents; they stand second in value to the intellectual powers of genius, and without them the world would be a workshop, in which the strains that give us a foretaste of a hereafter would re main voiceless and unheard." MISCELLANEOUS. Shares London Magazine, illustrated with a view of Powerscourt Waterfall, contains, among many articles of sterling merit, an interest in g resume of the recent events in Rome, and a continuation of the "Story of a Family," of "Lewis Arundel," and of Mary Cowden Clarke's excellent ",Considerations on Shak spere's Individuality in his Characters."—The Journal of Design is conspicuous for the taste displayed in its numerous and well-executed illustrations.— Chambers' Edinburgh Journal is too well and widely known to ask for the smallest comment. In the Quarterly Journal of Agriculture will be found a variety of useful information, and we recommend a perusal of its valuable contents to all those interested in agricultural affairs.—The same remark applies to the monthly part of the Family Herald as to Chambers's Journal. Of all the cheap publications, this is our especial favourite. Nothing but a circu lation of enormous extent can repay the proprietors for the mass of entertaining and instructive matter which uninterruptedly occupies the pages of this admirable periodical. We cannot, indeed, conceive a domestic table in the empire unsupplied with the current number of the Family Herald.—The Farmers' Magazine, an old established favourite, is graced with two excellent portraits, one of the invincible champion of gglintoo, the " Flyiug Putehulau ;" THURSDAY EVENING, the other of a noble Devon bull, for which the first prize was awarded at the recent meeting at IN orwich of the Royal Agricultural Society of England.—The Church of England Magazine and the Evangelical Magazine afford a plenteous supply for serious and devout consideration.—ln the former is a short article from the pen of that excellent man, and genuine ornament of the Irish Church, the Rev. Henry Wood ward, of Fethard.—The Cyclopadia of Moral and Religious Anecdotes, of which the second number appears this month, embodies many anecdotes of interest, well arranged and classified by the Rev. K. Arvine, of New York.—We have also received Newton's London Journal of Arts, Sciences, and Manufactures, and the Colonial Magazine. In the latter, the considerations on the policy in the Punjaub in 1848 are continued. On a previous occasion we called attention to the views ro ably put forth en this subject by the writer, who is evidently well acquainted with the full particulars of the cam paign. The remainder of its pages bear as usual the impress of sound sense and accurate information. — The Patent Journal offers a large quantity of matter relating to recent improvements in the Arts and Manufactures.—ln addition to the foregoing we may observe that Maephail's Edinburgh Ecclesiastical Journal contains a pithy article on " The Present State and Prospects of Britain."—The Metropolitan, as usual, abounds with amusing stories, one, entitled the " Eagle's Nest," in the present number, being of a most enthralling character.—A neat publication has recently made its appearance under the title of the Home Circle, comprising among its contributors Miss Agnes Strickland, Mr. Oxenford, Mrs. Crosland, and other of their clever conternporaries.—The Mer chant Taylors' Magazine for October, a periodical of smart and sparkling ability, is more than hitherto remarkable for the excellence and sprightliness of the different contributions. Mr. Smith is an amusing vega bend ; and the " Rules for Re-writing History" are wittily sententious.—ln the Belle Assemblee, as an embellishment, we have a beautiful engraving of the " White Lady," from Scott's " Monastery."—Le Follet is still the Queen of Wantons, fickle in its cha racter as the fashions it represents but unvarying in its grace of drawing and elegance of colouring. The present number is one of the best that has yet appeared.—The monthly part of the People's and Howitt's Journal is replete with information useful and entertaining. It is illustrated by four excellent engravings, among which are portraits of Henry Vincent and of benvenuto Cellini.—The October number of the Sport:ng Review is excellent—its embellishments consisting of portraits of Sarah Bate and Seidlitz. two beautiful greyhounds, the property of H. Parkinson, Esq., and of a shooting scene entitled the Preserve ; the former are engraved by E. Hacker, from a painting by W. Bannand, and the latter is from a painting by Fussell, engraved by W. H. Smitb.—The second number of the Sporting Guide and Betting Book contains the usual monthly review of racing, steeplechasing, &c., and is illus trated with portraits of Flying Dutchman and of his sire Bay Middleton. . . On Tuesday last, the day of the agricultural exhi bition which took place in this town, the morning train to Whitehaven on the Furness Junction Railway was so heavily }idea with stock sent to the show, and with passengers attracted thereto, that it did not reach the terminus till an hour, after the ordinary time. The return train in the evening was so densely thronged, that it was found necessary to attach two engines to the " monster load," in order to propel it to its destination; This train, we understand, was the largest that has ever taken its departure at one time from Whitehaven.— Cumberland Packet. SUDDEN DEATH.—Mr. Payne held an inquest on Tuesday at the King's Arms Tavern, Queenhithe, on the body of Mr. H. Waight, a timber dealer, residing at Hurstbourne, near the New forest, Hampshire. Mr. Phillips, the landlord of th'e King's Arms, said that de. ceived had been in the habit of using his house for the last twenty-three years. He came to the house as usual on Thursday last, and said that he should want to remain until Sunday. He was then perfectly well. On Sunday he ordered a cab to convey him to the railway station. Lie had directed his carpet-bag and valise, when he suddenly staggered, and falling into an easy chair, was found to be a corpse. A medical gentleman stated that deceased died a natural death from disease of the heart. Verdict accordingly. SCOTTISH liosrrrAL.—The quarterly general court of this corporation was held yesterday, at their chambers, Crane-court, Fleet-street, Dr. Webster in the chair. The minutes of the last quarterly court were read and confirmed. Major Adair, the secretary, then reported from the general committee, that iu the month of July last 1571. 4s. 6d. had been paid to 377 re cipients for tho various purposes of relief and educa tion ; in the month of August, 1551. 3s. 2d. to 370 re cipients ; and in September, 1581. 10. to 378 recipients. The minutes of the committee during these three months were then confirmed. The secretary again re ported, on the part of the building committee, that nothing bad yet been done by Government in regard to the premises occupied by the corporation ; and that, as co the site spoken of in Westminster as suitable for the pnrpoees of the hospital, they had not been able to make sufficient inquiry, and, therefore, had no report to lay before the Court. A vote of thanks to the chair man was then unanimously passed. and the Court ad journed. FORGERY ON THE YORK UNION BANS.--It was discovered on Tuesday that a forgery had been com mitted on the 5/. notes of the York Union Banking Com pany, Of date, " York, 17th April, 1847," purporting to be signed by B. T. Wilkinson, ned entered Geo. Wade. The forgery may be readily detected by observing that A halo (or sun's rays) is strikingly placed around the royal arms at the top of the forged note, and which is only faintly visible in the genuine note ; the date and signatures in the forged note are ',all lithographed, and the paper has an oily appearance. A reward of 1251. is offered for the conviction of the offenders. ACCIDENT TO THE EARL OF MamitEsnunr.—The Earl and Countess of Malmesbury .have lately received, at their Highland residence (Aebnacarry) the Earl and Countess of Granville, Lord Ossulston, Viscount and Viscountess Canning, Lord and Lady Manners, the Right Hon. Henry:Corry, &c. The Noble Earl met with a serious accident on Saturday week in his forest. Having dismissed his forester, his Lordship, on his re turn home, wounded a red deer, and, in attempting to secure the animal, was struck down, and received severe cuts in the forehead and face, which, however, promise no worse results than a few scars. Although stunned at first and with mach loss of blood, his Lordship, with the help of his gilly lad, despatched the wounded animal and walked home to Auchnacarry.—Edinburgh Ad- vertiser. SINGULAR ESCAPE FROM DROWNIRG.—On Wed nesday, Anthony Brown was passing with his wherry Tyne-bridge, when the craft catching one of the piers, she " whommeled over," and all her cargo of water pipes and chain bolts went to the bottom—all but one pipe, which had got entangled, and by its weight caused the vessel to lie with one side in alb Water and the other out. The skipper and his son were cast to some dis tance, and were rescued from drowning by a watchman stationed on the High Level Bridge. Their comrade, Henry Gray, was nowhere to be seen—most probably drowned. A steam-boat was procured to tow the cap sized wherry (whose destination was the Gateshead sta tion of the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway) to Stour bridge, and lay her aground. Oa the passage up, a voice was beard issuing from under the craft ; and it was then found that Henry was still alive. She was got up as quickly as possible to the paper-mill shore (a distance of three or four hundred yards, and an oar thrust under her, of which Harry got hold. It was then drawn down but he stuck against the side of tbsi War, and could get no further ; he was evidently drowning. The boat hook was pushed in to him; he seized hold of it; it was pressed down and drawn up, and he was fished through the water, and brought up beneath the gunwale to the surface. A stimulant and a bed (at the Brandling Arms close by) restored him from his state of exhaustion. He then explained that, favoured by the position of the boat in the water, be had been enabled to keep his head above the surface; but his air space was gradually narrowing, and the water had got up to his mouth when he was saved, he was from one to two ,hours in his strange prison, and never expected to get out alive.—Gateshead Observe:. 1 1 E TMUNDER-STORM ON SUNDAY LAST.-011 Sunday last Derby was visited with a thunder-storm of consids rata violence. The rain fell in torrents the greater part of the afternoon. At about half-past one o'clock the electric fluid struck a fine large ash tree nearly opposite to the residence of Mr,' Radford, on the Uttoxeter New-road, shivering it to pieces. It also struck down Mr. Radford's cook-maid and two of that gentleman's tenants who reside in Dog-kennel-lane, but without serious consequences ensuing to any of the parties. —Derby M ercury. THREE LIVES. LOST ON THE RIVER.—An accident by which three persons lost their lives, happened on the river Thames yesterday, off the Commercial Dock buoy at Limehouse. Shortly before two o'clock, the Thordens kiold, a Norwegian brig, arrived at the before mentioned part of the river, for the purpose of being taken into the Clyde Dock for repairs. In order to get the vessel through the dock entrance, Waterson, a waterman, and two of the crew, were engaged in a small boat alongside of the brig. The pilot having some apprehensions that the kedge was not sufficiently strong to keep the brig safe, gave orders for the men on deck to lower the large anchor; the men, not knowing that the small boat was immediately under the bows, let go the anchor, which fell upon the three unfortunate men, crushing them, it is be lieved, and sending the boat to the bottom of the river. After the lapse or a few minutes the boat came to the surface of the water, but the three poor fellows never rose again. It is considered that they were so seriously injured by the anchor falling on them,- as to have been unable to do anything towards saving their lives. Tho drags of the Royal Humane Society were instantly pro cured, and search was made for the parties, but at six o'clock last evening neither of the bodies had been found. Waterson has left a large family totaly unprovided for; his widow, being a cripple is unable to do anything towards the support of her children. The other two men belonged to the vessel, and were Norwegians. SESPECTED MURDER OF A WEALTHY FARMER BY POISON.—The remains of Mr. J. Winnall, of Elmley Lovett, Worcestershire, who died and was buried at that place about thrae months ago, have been disinterred for examination, it being suspected that he came to his end by foul play—the administration of arsenic. Mr. Win nall was worth about 10,0001., and his property was loft by will, not to his relatives, but to strangers. MAGDALEN HOSPITAL.—The Rev. J. Soper, M.A., curate of St. Peters's Church, Hackney. has been ap pointed morning preacher of the Magdalen hospital, Diackfriars-rood, CHOLER A ND DIARRHEA. RETURN OF CASES, OCT. 2. THE METROPOLIS. SUPERINTEND! IW REGISTRAR'S DISTRICT. Deaths. Cholera. Diarrh. WE6 T DISTRICTS. Kensington ... Chelsea... ... St. George, Hanover-square ... Westminster ... Martin-in-the-Fields St. James, Wcatminsten. - NO.ITH DISTRICTS. ••• ..-.. ••• .". ••• .... ••• ..." Marylebone Hampstead ... St. Pancras ... Islington Hackney ••• ".'" ••• ."''' •••• ••• CEN'. CRAL DISTRICTS. St. Gil©s Strand ... Holborn Union Clerkenwell St. Luke ... East London ... West London ••• .... ••• ''''". • • • "''" City of Loudon ••• "''''' Whoreditch Bethnal-green Whiteehapel St. George-in-the-East; Stepney Poplar ... Ei IST DISTRICTS. ••• .'". ••• ...'". ••• .... ••• •-•••• SOL DISTRICTS. St. Saviour, Southwark St. Olave Bermondsey St. George, Southwark: Newington ... Lambeth ... W audsworth Camberwell ... Rotherhitho Greenwich Lewisham ••• ... ••• ..... ••• ..... ••• ..... ••• ... • • • "... ••• ..... ••• .... ••• ''' ••• .... Total ... Total deaths from el iolera, registered from Sept. 17, 1848, t o Oct. 2,.1849... ... 14,234 Total deaths from ekolera, registered from June 17, 1849, t o Oct. 2, 1849... 64 21 ... 13,161 Returns for Tues.lsy have not been received from Mr. J. Verrall, the rep,ir4trar of St. John, sub-district of St. George-in the-Eait; and Mr. J. Belcham, the re• giitrar of Lewisham yillt.-nge, sub-district of Lewisham. THE COUNTRY. The following is the Return of Deaths from Cholera and Disrrhcel reported to the General Board of Health the 31 day of October, 1849 : Deaths. Cholera. Diarrh. 12 0 2 0 0 1 5 0 Alnwick ••• •••• Anglesey (Holyhead)... Barnstaple (Ilfracombe)) Bedford ••• ••f. ••• Berwick-upon-Tweed (Nor- ... ""' ••• ...... ••• ..'.. hamshire) ..f Biggleswade and Pottom Birmingham ... ..4 ••• ..... ••• ..'". ••• "''' Bolton• Bradford and North Bierley and Bowling .•• Brampton (Hayton ••• ••'. • •• "''' Bridgwater Bridport (Burton Bradstock) Bristol ••• ••.. Bury (Heywood) Cardiff (Caerphilly) ... Carmarthen • ... Canterbury ... Chester-le-Street ... Chippenham Cherley and Croston Chorlton and Ilu'me (Milton (Westbury and Ilenbury)— Cockermouth:(Workington and Maryport) Cookhaw (Bray) Coventry ... Darlington ... Dewsbury and Gomez's(' ... Doncaster ••• .^.. • • • ..". ••• ''' ••• ''''' ••• ''''• ••• ...." ••• .....• ••• ••• • • • "". ••• ..." ••• ".. ••• `. Dover ... Driffield ••• ••• Dudley, cholera 4, diarrhoea 2; Sed g ley, cholera 10; Bo wley, diarrha 1 ; and Tipton, cholera 8 ... East Stonehouse ..• ••• Eastry (Weimer, Deal district) Eccles fi el d ( Barnsley, cholera 3 ; and Worsborougb, cholera 2) Eccleshall (Bierlow) Gateshead ... . • Great Boughton and,llawarden Halifax and Brighouse Headington Hemel Hempstead Hexliam (Bymoll) Holbeach (Long Sutton) Hollingbourne (Headcorn) ••• ..'.. ••• ." ••• .... • • '''.... ••• ...'.. ••• ..... ••• "'" ••• ." lioo• Holy well (Flint) Huddersfield ... Hull ( My ttor) Hungerford Hunslet (Bothwell and Kirkstall) Isle of 'lb anet (Ramsgate) Kingsbridge (Modbury) Leeds • • • Li sk card .• • ... Liverpool (St. Martin and Dale street, 27th to 28th Sept.)... ... Llanelly ••• ••• Manchester Market Drayton Medway Gillingham ... Mutford (Kessingland) Neath (Ystradgunlais) Newcastle-upon - Tyne Newcastle-under-Lyne ••• ....." ••• •... ••• .". ••• .... ••• .• ••• ..... • • • ..m. .e• ..'". ••• '''. •O • .°'' ••• .''''''' ••• .."'" ••• ''''' Newtown ••• ••• ••• North Aylesford (Northfleet) Oldham ••• ••• Penkridge (Cannock)... Penzance ••• ••• Peterborough ... •• Pontefract and Nottingley ... ••• ..". • • • "'" • r • `.. ••• ..... Portsea Island ••• Prescot (Much Woolton) Preston ••• ••• ••• Redruth (Gwennap and St. Stithians) Rotherham (Path) Rugby ... • St. Austle and Mevagissey ... St. Germans (Anthony) Sr. Neots ... • • Salford (Greengate and Re gent-road ••• ••• Sculcoates (Sutton and Dry Pool) ••• Sheffield •• South Shields (Westoe) Stockport and Heaton Norris... Stockton (Hartlepool) ••• Stoke-upon-Trent and Shelton S tourbridge (Kings winford) -- Sunderland and Bishop Wear mouth North Tam worth ..• ••• Teesdale (Barnard Castle) ... Tendring (Harwich) ... Tonbridge ..• Totnes (Brixham) Truro (Kepwyn) ••• ..`.. • • • "'. ••• ..... ••• .""' ••• .'' ••• ..... ••• ...... ••• .. ••• .". ••• .'... ••• "''• ••• ••• .". ••• .... Tynemouth (E - arsden Lyth, North Shields, and Long bentun) Walsall and Darlaston Ware ... •• Warwick •.. - Watford (Rickmansworth) ... West Bromwich, Wednesbury, and Oldbury ••• ••• West Derby and Toxteth-park Whitby ••• Whitehaven and Harrington... Wigan Windsor (Clewer) Wirral (Birkenhead) ... Wisboach (Leverington) Wolverhampton and Bilston... Wycombe (High Wycombe)... ..• •-'" - ••• "... • • • ........ ••• "''''' ••• '''' ••• ..'" • • • •""" ••• ..'. Total ... ... "..• SCOTLAND. Dundee ••• '''''' Hawick ••• ••• ••• Edinburgh (from Sept. 22 to 29) Perth ..• •• ••• Inverness ... Ilanston (Paisley) ... Abbotahall (Kirkaldy) ••• '''' ••• "'" •1111 '''''''. ... ..". Total ... General total: — Metropolis Country Scotland ••• ..'• ••• "'''' ••• "•'• ••• ''''' Total ••• ''' 370 64 370 50 NOTE.—The deaths are returned according to the superintendent registrars' districts, as it is found im. practicable to distinguish every place separately. CHOLERA. DIARRHCEA. Mon. Tue. Mon. Tue. Oct. Oct. Oct. Oct. let. 2d. Ist 21 11 4 1 2 6 10 7 1 2 9 6 4 19 19 8 6 22 22 12 8 1...... 4.. 1/........ 6o 64 34 2 LONDON. West Districts ... North Districts ... Central Districts ... East Districts ... South Districts Total THE NORTH AgERICAN MAILs.--L IVERPOOL wvDNE , DA y.—The Europa is appointed to take out the mails for Halifax and Boston on the 13th inst., in place of the Hibernia; and the Hibernia will take out the mails for Halifax and New York on the 20th inst., in place of the Europa. The Hibernia MN to leave New pork for Liverpool on the 294 tilt% THE AUSTRIAN LOAN. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,—Austria wants a loan ! The accounts are coming in, and Kaiser Franz finds h:nrelf indebted to Czar Nicholas to a large amount. If the bill was honestly worded, it would be a curiosity, well worth preserving in Satan's archives. It would run in the following fashion : " Kaiser Franz, Dr. to Czar Nicholas, general dealer in Tyranny and Oppression. N.B. foreign despots supplied with cut throats on the shortest notice. To murdering 20,000 Hungarians in cold blood, because they wished to live ac cording to the laws of God, and be free £ To robbing and burning towns and vil lages, at per dozen ... ... OGG £ To handing the women over to the bru tality of the soldiers, and driving the inhabitants generally to starve in the fields, except a few thousands who were killed for amusement . . .. ... £ To decorating the brute Haynau for flogging women, and assassinating his prisoners ... ... £ To bribing and rewarding traitors (Georgey to wit) ... ... ... £ To offering blasphemous thanksgivings to Heaven for having successfully done Hell's work ... ... .. ... £ These would he a few of the items of this precious account. We have left the sums blank, as we do not prcfsss to know the Autocrat's scale of charges for his choice commodities. We know the articles are as bad as possible and wish we could assert that there " was no connexion with any house ;" but to say nothing of indications elsewhere, the British Islands in the Mediterranean, and even Lord Johnny himself, would make us hesitate in thinking that Nicholas was quite alone in his glory. But be the firm of Nicholas and Co. comprehensive or not, there is the bill and it must be paid. Moreover, Kaiser Franz has other creditors, having equally creditable charges against him for " work done" by various tools, from Windischgratz to Ilaynau, and all want their money. Poor Kaiser ! what is he to do ? He has had crimes enough for the money, but he cannot pawn them and raise the wind that way. So he asks for a loan. Of course all the Jews will help him, in grateful remembrance of how he treated their brethren at Pesth. Of course" all the Christians will assist him, because their religion delights in carrying "fire, famine, and slaughter," amongst an innocent people. Ac cording to this view, Kaiser Franz will get the money ; but there are some folks who entertain peculiar moral and religious sentiments, and think that for righteousness' sake no one will lend it to him. As for this supposition, there is some truth in it, but it is to be feared that if the security is considered good, what might not be done for righteousness will be effected for profit. Now, who can doubt the secu rity ? Cannot old men remember that Austria has been twice bankrupt, and cheated her creditors ; and is it not plain that she is now doing as fraudulent tenders do, giving a good order to be ready for another smash if it looks profitable and convenient ? These are handsome recommendations, and will mightily prevail. As to the morality of lending the money, opinions will differ ; but many will consider that money and morality have nothing to do with each other. If Maria Manning should come into the market at the same time it might prove a rich attraction, but she is not tried yet, is only suspected of murdering an exciseman, and we know not that she would lay claim to having previ ously cheated her creditors. This is consolation for Kaiser Franz, so he must not fear that a " Manning Loan" will take the shine out of him, for although it offered better security it would be deficient in atro city. This is a fine time for criminals who feel inclined to let " I dare not wait upon I would," and who are deterred from gratifying their villanous propensities by fear of transportation or the gallows. By lending money to Austria any one may become an accessory after the fact to thousands of the most revolting crimes—may participate in rape, murder, assassination, torture, pillage, perjury, and blasphemy, all at once, with less chance of being overtaken by justice than the prime movers in their execrable deeds. It is a rare opportunity, not to be lightly lost, as the like may not occur again in our days. It was thought some wonder that Mathews or Yates could enact a play, impersonating all the cha racters without assistance, but that was as nothing to this. Lend but a sixpence to Austria, and a man is converted into a whole Newgate Calendar of crime, and may boast of being a greater scourge than the cholera, meriting at once the approbation of the Times newspaper and the measureless scorn of all honest hearts.—Yours, &c., 11. J. S. OCTOBER 4. 1849, TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,—Having read in your paper of last evening, a report of an application to the Worship-street magis trate, by W. Allen, a gunmalcer, respecting what appears to me, under the circumstances of the case, a most heart less proceeding on the part of the secretary of a loan society, it occurred to me, that on being solicited, you would wield your most powerful pen towards raising a subscription in behalf of the above unfortunate family. Presuming on your kindness, I have left at your office, 2s. 6d. towards the above object. = I am, yours, tkc, London, Oct. 3, 1849. W. D., (A Labourer.) [Any further assistance had better be forwarded immediately to the worthy Magistrate, at Worship street. The case to which our humane correspondent refers is really one of peculiar and distressing hard ship, and such Las calls for the aid of the benovolent. —ED. Sun.] TESTIMONIAL TO THE HUNGARIAN REFUGEES THE HUNGARIAN NATION COUNTS ON THE SYMPATHY OF EVERY NATION 'WHICH LOVES RIGHT AND Ll- BERTY."—Kosszah's Protest against Russian Interven tion. Subscriptions may be sent to the following bankers:— 1 Messrs. Coutts and Co. Messrs. Drummond. Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smith ; or to any one of the members of the committee formed to carry out the Testimonial. * * *All further Post-office orders to be made payable toMurdo Young, Esq., at the Money Order Office, Strand. Subscriptions already received ... £l,lOO 1 1; From a Few Friends, for Freedom and Hungary, per A. A., Glasgow—through Lord Dudley Coutts Stuart, MP. 5 0 0 H. Pickering, Mahon, Yorkshire 0 5 0 Thirteen Friends of Hungary, Rose-hill, Brigh ton, per Richard Ridley, printer ... 0 13 0 Total ... £1,10519 1} COURT CIRCULAR. OSBORNE, WEDNESDAY. The inclemency of the weather prevented the Queen and Prince and the Royal Family from taking their usual walks and rides this morning. The Hon. Miss Kerr arrived at Osborne yesterday afternoon. There was no addition to the royal dinner party yes terday. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge arrived in town on Tuesday afterncon from Heaton House, Lan cashire, the seat of the Earl of Wilton. His Royal Highness afterwards proceeded to pay a visit to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, at her resi dence in Richmond Park. _ _ Mr. Higham, Secretary and Comptroller-General to the Commissioners tor the Reduction of the National Debt, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Ex chequer on Tuesday. Mr. Christian, from Malta, had an interview with Earl Grey yesterday, at the Colonial•office. The Rev. Mr. Steele had also an interview with the Noble Earl yester- day. Lord John Russell and the Chancellor of the Exche. quer returned to Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire, on Tues , day evening. DEATH OF CAPTAIN THE HON. CHARLES AUGUsTUB BUTLER.—We regret to learn that the above Hon. and Gallant Gentleman died of cholera at Jaulnab, in the East Indies, early in the last month. He was Captain in the 21st Madras Native Infantry. The deceased was brother of the Earl of Lanesborough, and born October 13, 1808, and married July 21, 1838, Miss Letitia Freese, youngest daughter of the late Colonel Freese, of the Madras Artillery. A WORD FOR MR. WALYER.—It is the common remark of churchwardens, poor-law guardians, and people of that sort, that the movement for the abolitionno one of intramural interment is all Walker. and sense, is quite true. Mr. G. A. Walker, a r s rlfr, is the author of " Gatherings from Grarejr,a originator, and has been the chief fome nte r , eceatmosphere is of to ho th at ld corpses mostol d laudable agitation. If ever t he London a purified of volatilised de ad men, corpses in solution; 1 s hall be enabled to walk th e . wo remains s tr e ets without inbalinghuman in 0 state of neighbours church without taking our d e f unct r elations and vapour, and go into our lun gs; an d i f, as may be expected , throug h thi s desirable change of air, we oh o get rid of cholera and typhus; for all these benefits we shall have, humanly speaking, 'to thank Mr. Walker. Already he may be said to have saved all the lives that have been preserved by the partial closure of church yards. Now, Mr. Walker, being a public benefactor, we suppose will not fail to be rewarded as such; that is, to be utterly neglected as long as he lives, and perhapi to have a caricature of his person, under the name of a monument, erected to his memory after his death. But should the Government be of opinion that any truly useful man can possibly deserve to be recompensed like a soldier or a lawyer, we would suggest that the more prompt and solid species of requital might judiciously be allotted to Mr. Walker.— Punch. LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY.—We understand that the Admiralty have directed an inquiry to be made as to the number of unemployed seamen in this port, and also what proportion of them have been in her Majesty's , service. COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL. Yesterday a Court was held for the dispatch of public business. SMITHFIELD MARKET. A petition, signed by eight or nine hundred gra ziers' butchers, and traders transacting business in Smithfield Market, was presented to the Court by Mr. Deputy Hicks, in favour of retaining the market in its present locality. THE SHERIFFS' COURT. Mr. H. L. TAYLOR (the chairman of the Officers and Clerks Committee) brought up a report recom mending that various alterations and improvements in the premises (late the Court of Requests) for the Sheriff's Court should be made, at an expense esti mated by Mr. Bunning, the City architect, at 2,4601. Mr. H. L. TAYLOR stated that the present size of the court was by no means adapted to the increase of business which had taken place since the conversion of the Court of Requests into a tribunal of greater importance and utility. Alderman LAWRENCE condemned the appropriation of money which had been wrung in fines from the pockets of persons too poor to pay their debts to such a purpose. Already a sum amounting to 3,0001. had been accumulated, as the Court House Fund, from that source. The question which the Court were bound to entertain was rather that of reducing the expense of those who happened to come under the operation of the law. All, in his opinion, that was required, was to keep the present building in repair. The report was then agreed to by a very large majority. A discussion arose upon a motion by Mr. T. WHITE, that it be refe'rred to the Com - mittee for General Purposes to consider and report to the Court the best means of testifying the admiration and tho deep sense entertained by the citizens of London of the disinterested and heroic conduct of Lieutenant Molesvvorth, R.N , of her Majesty's ship Wellesley, in saving the lives of his fellow passengers on board the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's ship the Forth, on the 14th day of January last. Mr. White's argument was principally founded upon a letter signed by all the passengers in testimony of the extraordinary exertions of Lieutenant Moles worth. It was contended by several members that any peculiar notice taken by the Court of conduct which, after all, might not have exceeded in daring or skill the duty of a gallant seaman, would operate as a censure upon the captain and the rest of the crew, and Mr. White was advised to withdraw his motion. HP, however, persevered in taking the sense of the Court, and the previous question having been moved as an amendment, was carried by a considerable majority. THE IRISH ESTATES COMMITTEE. Upon the motion, which was carried, that the name of a member should be placed on the Irish Estates Committee, Mr. R. TAYLOR, said he had observed a paragraph in some of the papers to the effect that the committee had abandoned the suggested plan relative to the pur chase of Irish estates. He believed the statement had first appeared iu an Irish paper. It had, however, been industriously circulated by those journals which were notoriously opposed to Sir Robert Peel, and he took that opportunity to state that there was no foun dation whatever for the report, and that the com mittee were only waiting for information, upon receiving which they would immediately proceed to the consideration of the subject. THE SMITHFIELD MARKET QUESTION. The following are the notices of motions relative to Smithfield Market, to be discussed at the Special Cuurt, together with the contents of the petitions of the graziers and butchers : By Mr. Deputy Hicks—That it be referred to a committee to consider and report on the best means of giving further accommodation for cattle in Smith field Market, provided it should appear to the com mittee to be necessary or desirable. By Mr. R. G. Pead—That it be referred to the General Purposes Committee to consider and report whether any (and if any, what) breach was made in the privileges of the corporation, and whether any (and if any, what) damage or injury has been done in this court, by certain of its members giving evidence before Parliamentary Committees in 1847, and in the present year, on the subject of Smithfield Market, strict reference being made to the fact that Mr. Deputy Hick, one of the members so giving evidence, was for many years chairman of the Markets Com mittee, and that another witness, Mr. George Pead, is chairman of the said committee for the present year. By William Henry Lowman Taylor—That it be referred to a committee to inquire and report to this Court the area of the several market places within the city, namely, Smithfield, •N ewgate, and Leadenhall markets; and that the committee do likewise inquire and report whether, in their opinion, any addition of space, or other increased accommodation, is required in either of these markets, together with an estimate of the expense of making such additions or alterations ; and that the committee do further inquire and report whether it is expedient to make application to Parlia ment to raise the whole, or any portion, of the funds that may be required for the purpose, either by in crease of toll or otherwise, for the requisite powers to effect these objects. The subject of Smithfield will thus be completely opened on the special day. The discussion will pro bably last two days. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. MONMOUTH RACES.—TUESDAY. The Hack Stakes of 3 soya. each and 15 added, for three yrs old, Bst 41b,;; four, 9st .61b; :five, 109 t; ,six and aged, lOst 41b; winners extra, &c. Heats, twice round and a distance. (7 Subs.) Mr. Southey's Streamer, 4 yrs (Wakefield) 2 0 1 1 Mr. Kirby's Rosa, aged 3 1 2 2 Mr. Powell's Gwenuy, 4 yrs 1 0 3 3 Mr. Russell's Madge Grey, 5 yrs 0 3 dr Mr. Gorden's br g, by the Cardinal, out of Mantrap's dam, 6 yrs 0 2 dr Mr. Holman's Vixen, 6 yrs The Monmouthshire Stakes of 10 sovs. each, 5 ft, and 3ft only if declared,,with 401. added. Thrice round. (23 Subs, 13 of whom declared ) Mr. Isaac Day's Mignon, 5 yrs, Est 131 b (Wakefield) 1 Mr. Davis's Chorister, 4 yrs, 7st 31b 2 Mr. R. Humphries' Carbuncle, 3 yrs, sst 101 b 3 The following also started, but were not placed:— Mr. Johns' New Forest Deer, aged, 9,t—Mr. Steven son's Old English Gentleman, 3 yrs, Est lib—Captain. Steward na Landscer, 3 yrs. sst 31b—aad Mr. Howlett's Luminous, 5 yrs, 7st 81b. The Wye Stakes of 5 sm. each, and 20 added. Heats, twice round. (5 Subs.) Mr. G. Drew's Kennett, 3 yrs 0 0 1 2 1 Mr. rower's Mr. Toots, 3 yrs 0 3 4 1 2 Mr. Brewer's Bravissimo, 6 yrs Mr. Stephenson's Old English Gentle man, 3 yrs 0 0 2 3 dr Mr. Webb's Peggy Meldrum, 6 yrs 0 2 dr WEDNESDAY. The Chippenham Stakes of 10 save. each, 5 ft, and only 3if declared. Heats, twice round and a dis. (1? Subs., 6 of whom declared.) Mr. Davis's Chorister, 7st 5113 ...(W. Butler) 0 1 1 Mr. I. Day's Mignon, 5 yrs, Est 131 b Mr. Johns' New Forest Deer, aged, 9st Mr. Griffith? Hagley, 4 yrs, 7st 71b. • The Hendre Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. and 20 added. Heats, one mile and a half. (7 Subs.) Mr. Southby's Streamer, 4 yrs, lOst Mr. Wilkin's Ima, aged, lOst 91b Mr. Hinton's Lahore, 4 yrs, lOst . Mr. Webb's Vulture, aged, lOst 91b 3 0 0 Mr. Le Brewer's Bravissimo, 6 yrs, lOst 91b 1 die. THE Csuncia IN CIIINA.—The Bishop of Victoria has, through his agents, Messrs. Phillips, Shaw, and Lowther, arranged for the passage of himself and suite to his diocese in China in the ship Sir George Pollock, and will leave this country about the end of the present month. CHEAP Sairs.—The new Swedish brig Duo, which we mentioned as having arrived here some weeks since to be fitted out at this port, sailed again on Friday last for the Cape of Good Hope. We understand she laid out nearly 1,000/. here, in having her wood sheathing taken off, in being recaulked all over, and resheathed with the wood, and Muntz's patent metal over it. She was also supplied with a new rudder, with metal pintles and braces, anchors, chain cables, an iro n w inch___ and pumps, several sails, hawser, bl ocks, sh ip chandleyy, &c., of British manufacture. That a newg f r What ein will vessel th of e 2o o say to t his ? a f te r being built and ri gge d a b road, tonswell fitted des out,h here and spends nearly 51 . per ton in being when we have been told that foreigners can both build and equip vessels themselves for this very sum.-11p- AND Journal. N O RTH EAST LONDON BENEvoLENTIINsTITU .E—sAci.,mEeIti,nsg., of this charity was held on Monday last, of a highly satisfactory nature; Henry F. Richard son,l" occupied the chair. The chairman expressed a hope that decayed manufacturers, trades men, artizans, and mechanics, and their widows, would forthwith apply for letters of recommendation. It was then finally arranged that the second festival should be holden in May, and the meeting adjourned. WATER FOR THE DIRTRoPoLis.—In answer to a correspondent, who says he does not see how an outcry for water is to aid in obtaining a good supply of it, the editor of the Builder says—" He may depend on it that without an outcry it will never be procured. The outcry must be for sufficient water, pure water, and cheap water; and when this is to be had, and the vital im portance of it is brought to the minds of all, landlords will feel made, or be made to afford it, to those not sufficiently strong to claim it for themselves. Can th e existing water companies comply with the requirement? That they do not is certain. If they cannot, or will not, those who will undertake to do so should he supported on all hands. A continuous and abundant supply of pure water is imperatively demanded." MR. BALLiNGALL.—It gives us pleasure to notice that Mr. Ballingall's writings, in the Anti ship-wreck and Emigration Cause, are receiving much publicity from the home journals. On locking over the Dublix ll'eeAly Register, of the 30th December (a journal of ex tensive circulation), we find a re-publication of a letter of Mr. Ballingall's, originally printed in the P. P. Herald, from which paper it is duly acknowledged.—M. eikurne Morning Herald, May 17, 1149.