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" To Captain G. A. Halstead, Esq., R.N., Secretary a Lloyri's, London. " POSITION OF THE REEF IN THE RIVER LA PLATA. " The Mount with Monte Video W. N. by 'Com pass.' " The Capitania, at Ber:co, in ona with the Windm at Oribes encampment—bearing N. by W. per Cc mpass, " Latitude 34 deg. 57 min. 30 sec. south. " Longitude 56 deg. 5 min. west Greenwich. " The chart I have been using was published by Norie, London, 1842." MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY RAY IIZAIiMEWS. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow Hay, 2/ 5s to 3/ 12s; Clover ditto, 31 Os to 4/ 101; and Straw, 1/ 4s to 11 103 per load. A full average supply, and a dull trade. CUMBERLAND.—Meadow Hay, 21 8• to 31 15s; Clover ditto, 3/ 53 to 4/ lOs ; and Straw, 1/ 6s to 1/ 103 per load. Supply rather limited, and trade dull. WIIITECHAPEL.—Meadow Hay, 21 5s to 3/ 153; Clover, ditto, 31 5s to 41 12 3; an d S traw, 1 / 4s to 1 1 lOs per load. Trade heavy, at the above quotations. COLONIAL. ST:MAR.—The market for British Plantation continues heavy, at 6d decline since this day week. Sales 520 hhds, including 133 hhds. Barbadoes, by auction, from 363 6d to 395, and 16 casks crystalized Demerara at 424 to 443 6d; 620 bags Mauritius sold at a reduction of 6d; very low togood brown, 29s 6d to 33s ; grey, 353 to 363; and mid to good yellow, 35s 6d to 38s. 7,180 bags Bengal chiefly found buyers at a further decline of 6d per cwt cn Bemires descriptions, but at full prices for other sorts, mid to fine white chrystalized 43s to 471 6d, low to good white Benares 37s 6d to 40s, and good to fine )ellovr date 37s to 38s 6d; 900 boxes yellow Havatmah, viz., 500 (duty paid) sold privately at 404 to 41s, and 400 (in bond) at 21s to 223 6d. The quantity of British Plantation landed last week at the East and West India Docks was 1,405 hhds 126 tierces 299 barrels; there were taken for home consumption 1,491 hhds 225 tierces 830 barrels. The stock in the same places was 19,712 hhds 2,826 tierces 5,013 barrels. COFFEE.—Privately 1,000 bags Rio sold at a reduction of 21s to 22s 6d. RIM.--The quantity of British Plantation landed last week at the East and West India Docks was 750 puns 59 hhds, there were taken for home consumption 214 puns 25 hhds, and exported 123 puns 106 hhds. The stock in the same places was 23,408 puns 2,028 hhds. Rica.-375 bags Bengal sold steadily at 9s to I Is for low to good white. SALTPETRE.-300 bags Bengal realised 263 to 263 6d for 12 and 11/ per cent. refraction. SPICES.-486 bags Malabar Pepper were withdrawn above the value. TALLow.—P.Y.C. is 378 6d per cwt on the spot, and Town 39s 6d. COTTON.—Speculation continues active in this article, and at very full prices. TuA.--The public sales are going cff very flatly to day, but about 1,200 chests of Old Common Congcu sold freely, at a re d uct i on of i d to id per lb. THE DREAD FUL IN BERMONDSEY. —(THIS DAY.) The inquest on the four unfortunate individuals who fell victims to the meal explosion', that occurred a few days sine in Brook-street, Bermondsey, took place to-day at one o'clock, before Mr. Carter, the coroner for East Surrey, at the King John's Head, Abbey.street, Bermondsey. The four unfortunate individuals are George Barlow, 46 ; William Barling, 20; James Barling, 4 ; and Thomas Barling, 18 months; and the cause of the death, our readers will recollect, was the explosion of a large quantity of fire-works in Brook-street, Ber mondsey, where the father of three of the deceased carried on the business of a fire -work maker. The accident took place on Friday last, and the elder Mr. Barling and his wife ,!with two o th er persons, are now lying dangerously ill of the injuries they hare received at Guy's Hospital. The Beadle, in answer to the questions of the Coroner, said that it would be impossible to identify the bodies of the deceased, and that with respect to three of the persons in the hospital, it might be months before they were sufficiently recovered, if they ever did recover, to give their evidence. Mr. Barling might or might not recover in a few days. Two of the children of Mr. Barling might give some account of how many individuals were in the house at the time of the accident, but that was uncertain. The jury having been sworn, and shortly addressed by the Coroner on their duties, proceeded to view the bodies, and on their return Richard Henderson, the foreman of the London Fire Brigade, was examined—On Friday last he was called to a fire in New Brook-street, Bermondsey, about ten o'clock at night. On arriving with his engine, he found the dwelling-house No. 4, in that street, nearly burnt out. There were two engines there befure him. About half an hour after he arrived the fire was extinguished. Witness then went into the ruins with his lamp, and after ordering the engine to be made up, he looked about among the ruins again, and found the remains of a full-grown person lying with, his head to the parlour window ; he was in a perfect state of nudity, his clothes having been burnt off. Such was the state of mutilation that witness could not dis cover the sex. The body was removed, and in the act of doing so another was discovered on the left hand side of the parlour. This body was laying on its back and was as much mutilated as: the other ; th e features were en ti re l y destroyed. Witness put the bodies under the care of the parochial authorities. Another search was made among the ruins, to see if any other bodies could be found, but that night no further bodies were found. Witness had no doubt death arose from the fire, but he had seen bodies worse burnt. [The inquiry was proceeding when our report left.] SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S --YESTERDAY. CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES. 8 to 1 agst Lord Clilden's Rathmines, 5 yrs, Est 71b 10 to 1 agst Mr.Fowler'sßibaldry, 4 yrs, Est 10Ib—t 12 to 1 agst Mr. Meiklam's Raby, 3 yrs, sst 101 b 13 to 1 agst Mr. Fowler's Woolwich, 3 yrs, 6st 121 b 14 to 1 agst Mr. Payne's Crucible, 3 yrs, sst 121 b—t 16 to 1 agst Mr. Rolt's Collingwood, 6 yrs, 9st 41b 20 to 1 agst Lord Stanley's Legerdemain, 3 yrs, sst 51b—taken 25 to 1 agst Mr. B. Green's Melton, 4 yrs, 7st 2'b—t 25 to 1 agst Sir C. Monck's Vanguard, 3 yrs, Est 101 b 25 to 1 agst Mr. Osbaldeston's Joe o' Sot, 5 yrs, 6st 101 b 25 to 1 agst Mr. Drew na Minimum, 3 yrs, 4st 101 b . —taken and afterwards offered 33 to I.,agst Mr. Campbell's Robert de Bros, 3 yrs, sst 101 b 50 to 1 agst Sir J. Gerard's Fitzpatrick, 3 yrs, sst 71b —3,000 to 30 laid once 1,000 to 15 agst Mr. Osbaldeston's Fugleman, 4 yrs, 7st 101 b 1200 even on the field agst Rathmines Baby, Wool *Cell, Iron Duke, Mahon, Crucible, Rienzi, and Ribaldry. The odds quoted agst Rathmines were currently offered ; the only bet, we believe, was 100 to 10. Ribaldry, on the other hand, was in high favour, a con siderable sum having been laid out at 10 and 12 to 1. Legerdemain was backed for two or three hundred pounds, at 15 and 20 to 1; Fugleman for about the same amount, at 50 to 1 and 1,000 to 15. The betting in other respects was unimportant. DERBY. 15 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Knight of Avenel 18 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Ghillie Callum—t 20 to 1 agst Mr. Jaques's Mildew—taken and afterwards offered 20 to 1 agst Mr. Wadlow's Clincher 30 to 1 agst Sir R. Pigot's Moultan—taken _33 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Brother to Epirote—taken 33 to 1 agst Mr. Henry's Pitsford 40 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Penang—taken The backers of Ghillie Callum and Moultan offere I to go on. Offers to lay 1,000 to 30, or to take 40 to 1 about Pitsford. DINNER TO SIR JAMES CARNEGIE, BART..--Sir James Carnegie, of Southeak, Bart., was on Thursday entertained at dinner in the Mill Inn, Stonehaven, by the Lieutenantcy of the county, as a mark of respect to the Honourable Baronet on his appointment to the high Ace of Lord-Lieutenant of Kincardineshire. R. Bar clay Allardice, Esq., of Ury, the senior Deputy-Lieu tenant, presided—aud the duties of the Vice-Chair were performed by William Innes, Esq., of Raemoir. Up wards of thirty gentlemen sat down to dinner, among whom were tLe Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P.; Sir John Stuart Forbes, of Pitsligo, Bart.; Sir Alexander Burnet, of Leys, Bart.; Captain Carnegie, Kinnaird Castle; Mr. Irvi ne B oswe ll , o f Ki ncauss i e; M r. G rant, of Eclesgreig; Major M'lnroy, of The Burn; Mr. Thomson, of Banchory; Mr. Kinloch, of Park; Mr. Gordon, of Avochie; Mr. Mactier, of Durris; Mr. Car negie of Redhall; Mr. flora Burnett, of Tillyboy; Capt. Christie, Eastland Cottage; Mr. Innas, of Cowie House; Mr. Gibbon, of Johnston; Mr. Dickson, Brotherton; Mr. Hepburn, of Riccarton; Mr. Stewart, of Hilton; Captain Burnett Ramsay; Captain Taylor, RN., &c. The chair was supported on the right by Sir John Stuart the Right H on . W . E. Glad stone.—Caledonian Mercury. CLIFTON.—We ought to record with thankfulness that our beautiful village of Clifton still remains exempt from the diro disease which has so fatally prevailed in other places; its pure air and pure springs of water from the surrounding hills render it one of the most attractive of residences. We cannot but:admire the efforts Made to beautify and; adorn it in all quarters; but our attention has been particularly directed to the renova tions of Richmond -terrace, which seems to have restored its pristi ne attract i ons to that excellent row of commo dious dwelli ngs; an d when t h e small part of the ter race left untouched has been put into proper uniform, it w ill vie with it s j uven il e compet i tors on the hill.—B, iAtol J ournal. NSW DODGE.—The Yorkshireman states that Dater -l ane , bailiffs having been sen t t o di stra i n at a house in Vater-lane, found the tenant suffering under a dreadful attack of cholera, and fled in alarm. He recovered im -11110141. tely on their departure. •—• 16 7's 510 174 , 11% 234 19% 24 1 4 17 1 4 TnE S N", Mrs. Bunbury's Spoons, a slippery, trippry, sketch, written by Mr. Stirling Coyne—the princip,l charact rs by Al r. IVright, Mr. Pbul Bedford, Mr. 0. Smith, and Mrs. Prank Mathews ; such was the announcement in the Adelphi bills, an announcement which everybody who knows the Adelphi also knows denotes a foregone conclusion of a regular Adelphi screamer, overflowing with Adelphi fun, and con cluding with a regular Adelphi triumph. No one is more au fait than Stirling Coyne at seizing any prevailing novelty and devoting it to Adelphi pur poses ; and Mrs. Bunbury's Spoons is neither more nor less than the Pas des Patineurs which last season created such a furore at her Majesty's Theatre Coyne'd into an Adelphi farce. We have Wright masquerading first in a Hungarian costume, and then as a Bavarian broom girl, and committing all sorts of ludicrous extravagances; Paul Bedford polking on the ice as a harlequin, with Mrs. P. Mat thews attired as a Hungarian lady, and 0. Smith appearing, first as a baker, and then as the devil. The scene of the skate dancing is the lake at the Surrey Zoological Gardens, and the Pas des Frileurs and the Pus des Patineurs were admirably danced by the ladies and gentlemen of the Adelphi corps de ballet. There was a Pierrot whose activity awl agility is worthy of especial commendation. The piece con cludes with a snow storm, and Wright speaks the tag standing under an umbrella w ith Paul Bedford. The announcement of its repetition was received with shouts of applause. The house was, as usual, crammed to the ceiling. LYCEUM THEATRE. A two act adaptation of the vaudeville Le Cheva 7er d'Essonne, which the acting of Mademoiselle Nathalie rendered so popular a short time since at the St. Jame-s's Theatre, was produced here last evening under the title of A Lady in Difficulties. The adap tation is from the pen of Planet* who has transferred the scene of action from France to Prussia, and has very judiciously condensed the three acts of the ori ginal into two. The lady in difficulties of the Eng lish version is a certain Madame Denhoff (Miss H. Gilbert), and her difficulties arise from the exceeding friendship of Count Hutzmar (Mr. C. Mathews), the son of the friend of her father. It ap pears that the brother of Madame Denhoff having engaged in some political intrigues, fancies he has cause to fear the vengeance of Frederick of Prussia, and, in order to facilitate his escape, his sister disguises herself in male attire, and passes herself as her brother. This lady, thus dis guised, meets Count Hutzmar, and, believing her to be the son of his father's old friend, declares that he takes the young cavalier under his protection, presents him with a commission in his own cavalry regiment, and makes him a present of a handsome charger, varying these most annoying kindnesses by professicns of love for the, as he thinks, absent sister of his fri en d. Sh e i s re li eved at length from these em barrassments by the receipt of the intelligence of her brother's safety, when she is enabled to explain the real state of the case. In order to keep up her assumed character, the lady has been obliged to make hot love to a poor village girl, the ward of a grasping old hunx Puffengruntz, who is desirous of turning her musical abilities to account for his own behoof. The village girl was admirably performed by Miss Kathleen Fitzwilliam, who introduced several new ballads, which she sung deliciously ; and the old guardian was played with great humour by Mr. Frank Matthews. The great weight of the piece, however, fell upon Mr. Charles Mathews, who acted in Count Hutzmar not only with that rattling volu bility in which he stands unrivalled, but also with a warmth of feeling which made it a piece of genuine comedy. He was admirably supported by Miss H. Gilbert, who has added greatly to her fame by her excellent impersonation of The Lady in Difficulties. the success of the piece was complete, and there were cloud calls for the author at the fall of the curtain. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. A sparkling _little novelty,• in the shape of a one act farce, entitled The Major's Daughter, was brought out for the first time last night at this theatre. The author is evidently no novice in the art of dramatic literature, and, whilst avoiding the old stage conventionalities for the production of effect, he has relied upon his dialogue and incident ; the result has been a merited success. Mr. Blushley (Mr. Furman) is an original character ; and in these days of French translation it is agreeable to find a thoroughly English piece upon our stage. The cha racter of Lydia (Miss Louisa Howard) is light and spiritual; she is made to come out of very embar rassing circumstances indeed in a manner far re moved from the gross or vulgar. In all this the author's powers were well tested. We 'cannot con clude this notice without rendering a just tribute to Mr. Wigan's development of the free and easy Mr. Septimus Offhand. The piece was deservedly suc ces4ul, and the author was loudly called for. The other entertainments were Don Giovanni and The First Night. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, MONDAY. The Queen and Prince Albert, walked this morn ing in the Slopes. The Royal Family took their usual airings. His Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar is expected to join the royal dinner circle at the Castle this evening. Her Majesty's private bandwill attend this even ing in the C as tl e . The Hon. Miss Cavenlist arrived on Saturday to take her duty as Maid of Honour in Waiting. Lord Camoys (Lord in Waiting), and Sir Edward Bowater (Groom in Waiting), also arrived at the Castle. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager continues very poorly. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, at tended by Lady Anna Maria Dawson, went yester day to Richmond and visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester. The American Minister had an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday at his official residence in Downing -street. The Mayor of Liverpool and Mr. Cardwell, M.P., had an interview yesterday with Lord John Russell. Dispatches from the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands was received yesterday at the Colonial-office. Dispatches were sent off last evening from the Colonial office for the Governor of Malta. The Right Hon. H. Labouchere left Stoke yester day for his seat, Overstoway, Somersetshire. Earl Fortescue had an interview with Lord John Russell. Sir James Clark had also an interview yesterday with his Lordship. MR. BiDFORD, JUN.—Young Bedford the nephew of the glorious Paul, is, we perceive from the Dublin journals, winning golden opinions in the Irish metro polis, and the opinions of the playgoers of Dublin is an opinion of great weight and importance. The Dublin Theatre has always been the feeder of London • it was from Dublin that J o h n K em bl e came to us, and Dublin also sent us the most accomplished of actors, Farren. In speaking of the acting of Mr. Bedford, jun., one of the Dublin journ a l s says , "B edford as Von Dander, in 'Twould Puzzle a Conjuror, as is his wont, kept the au dience in a continued roar of laughter, and as each sen tence of the quaintest drollery escaped his lips the re peated cheers of his audience announced their apprecia tion of his exceeding ability; whilst another of them de scribes him as having a Listonian and laughter-pro voking oddity in the manner he looks around, especially in his bye-play, that would excite feelings of mirth even in the most ascetic. We should advise some London comedians to look out warily lest some day they find that younger blood and patient industry, combined with innate talent, should slide the old fellows from the boards they have lorded it over so long. We hope soon to see Mr. Bedford on the boards of some metropolitan theatre. Zeal without judgment is an evil, though it be zeal unto good.—Eliza Cook's Jourrol. THE GENERAL LYING-IN HOSPITAL.—The quar terly general court of the governors was held yesterday at the Hospital, York-road, Lambeth ; Thomas S. Cox, Esq., jun., in the chair. The balance sheet for the past three months showed the total receipts to have been 9161. After defraying all expenses there remained a sum of 403/. A committee, appointed some time since to inquire into the " whole affairs of the hospital," now brought up its report, of which the following are the principal features. The revenue of 1848 was less than the expenditure in a sum exceeding 1001., and the anti cipated deficiency for the year 1849 is upwards of 2001. For the last three years the average number of in-pa iientseach year w as 28 3 — namely, of married women 267, single 16; the average number of patients attended at their own houses in the same period was 448. For tno three years last past the applicant s a d m i tted amounted to 849, and the out patients to 1,344. Th e average cost for euch in patient (exclusive of rent, &c.) was 2/ 9s. 6d. The report recommended that the number of letters of recommendation be curtailed, and suggested, as a means of increasing the funds of the charity, that th ere s h ould be an anniversary dinner, and likewise that an occasional charity sermon should be preached. The report was re ceived, and, in accordance with the rules, was referred for confirmation to a future court. THE REV. GEORGE WILKIN'S WHEAT.—We have received from the Rev. G. Wilkins, of Wix, and have eeposited in our office, as he requests, for the in spoction of agriculturists, a sample of Egyptian wheat in the ear. To grow it he states he put in only single grains, and he had root after root of from 20 to 30 full ears, and some of 35 and more. The Rev. Gentleman adds—" I am about to put in on my small domain 6i or 7 acres, and I shall put in half that quantity of land with so many pecks of seed, and I would do the whole so were I to follow my own inclinations, but according to my practice I shall put in some thicker, merely to convince others, were it possible to do so, of the folly of wasting seed and exhausting the land."—Essex Herald.' FANNY KEMBLE.—it is rumoured that Mrs. Butler is about to marry Theodore Sedgwick, Esq., of sWckbridge, ADELPHI THEATRE ••• - EAST DISTRICTS. LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 1a iB4O CHOLERA. AND DIARRMEA. RETURN OF CASES, Ocr. 13. THE METROPOLIS. SUPERINTENDING REGISTRAR'S DISTRICT. Daaths. Cholera. Diarrh WEST DISTRICTS. Kensington Chelsea... St. George, Hanover-square ... Westminster ..• St. Martin-in-the-Fields ... St. James, Westminster ... NORTH DISTRICTS. Marylebone Hampstead St. Pancras Islington Hackney 1 2 O 0 O 0 O 1 O 0 O 0 1 0 o 0 o 1 o 1 1 1 • • • ''...." CENTRAL DISTRICTS. St. Giles ... Strand ... Holborn Union Clerkenwell St. Luke .. East London ... %Vest London City of London o 0 O 0 o 0 o o 1 0 O 0 o 0 O 0 Ehoreditch ... ----------- ••• ••• Bethnal-green ... ... Whitechapel ... ... ... St. George-in•the•East ~, Stepney ... ... ... Poplar ... ... ... 2 0 O 2 O 2 O 0 SOUTH DISTRICTS. St. Saviour, Southwark ••• --- St. Olave ••• ••• ••• Bermondsey ... ••• ••• ••••• St. George, Southwark ••• Newington ... ••• ••• Lambeth ••• • • ••• Wandsworth ... ••• ••• Camberwell ... ••• ••• Rltherbithe ••• ••• ••• Greenwich ... ••• ••• Lewisham ... ••• ••• o o 2 2 0 0 O o 1 2 O 0 O 0 O 0 1 2 O 0 Total ... ••• .... 12 19 Total deaths from cholera, registered from Sept. 17, 1848, to Oct. 13, 1849 ... 14,506 Total deaths from cholera, registered from June 17, 1849, to Oct. 13, 1849 ... 13,415 NOTE.—The district of Kensington comprises the parishes of Kensington, Hammersmith, Fulham, and Paddington. Westminster district comprises the parishes of St. Margaret and St. John the Evan gelist, with Privy Gardens and Whitehall, and the close of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter. St. Giles's district comprises the parishes of St. Giles-in. the-Fields and St. George, Bloomsbury. The following are co. extensive with the unions of the same name :—Hackney, Strand, Holborn, East London, West London, City o London, Whitechapel, Stepney, Poplar, St. Saviour, St. Olave, Wandsworth (Wandsworth and Clapham), Greenwich, and Lewisham. The remaining districts are co •extensive with the respective parishes of the same name. THE COUNTRY. The following is the Return of Deaths from Cholera and Diarrhoea reported to the General Board of Health the 15th day of October, 1849 : Deaths. Cholera. Diarrh. ... -- 1 0 3 0 1 0 0 Alnwick Anglesey (Holyhead)... .. Ashton-under-Lyn e (A s ht on ) Aylsham (Cottishall)... Barnstaple ... Barrow-upon-Soar (Sillby) ... Bedminster ... ••• ••• Berwick- upon-Tweed (Norham) Birmingham ••• Bodmin (Longstone, St. Mabyn) Bradford and Jale Bridgwater ... Bridge (Beakabourne) Brighton ... Bristol ••• ••• Chapel-en-le-Frith ... Chester-le-Street (Horrotony Chorlton (Barton. upon-Irwell) Clifton Union (parish of Clifton, and St. Philip and Jacob) Cockermouth (Seaton and Maryport) • Creditors • Crickhowell (Brynmawr) ... Darlington ... Derby ... ••• Droitwich (Claimes) ... Dudley (Rowley Regis and Sedgley) -- Eccleshall (Bierlow) ... Exeter •• ••• Falmouth and Penryn ••• Gateshead and Dunston Glanford Brigg (Horkstow)... Halifax (Sowerby) Haltwhistle Hardingstone (Piddington) Hastings (Sore) ... Hereford (Tupsley) Hitchin •• • Holbeach • • ..• Huddersfield . (Underbank in Wooldale) ... Hull Hunsle t ( Holbeck, Rothwell, a▪ nd Whitkirk) Isle of Thanet (Ramsgate) ... Kidderminster Leeds ... Leicester Lewes ••• .... • • • ..m• ••• ... ••• ..-. •• • "". Lexden (Donyland East) ... Liskeard ••• •• • Lichfield ... Liverpool ... Llanelly • • ••• Lutterworth (Welford) Manchester Merthyr Tydvil (Gellygare)... Nantwich ..• Newcastle-on-Tyne ... Newton Abbott (Torquay) ... Northwich and Weaverham . . Nottingham Oldham ••• ••• Peterborough ... Pontefract and Castleford Reading ••• ••• Rochford Romford ••• ••• St. Albans St. Austell (Mevagissey) St. Germans (Anthony) St. Thomas Salford (Greengate) Sculcoates and Drypool Sheffield Shepton Mallet ••• Sleaford (Crauwell) South Shields (Westoe) ... Stockport (Heaton Norris) Stourbridge (Kingswinford) Tavistock and Horrabridge ... Teesdale (Barnard Castle) ... Thirsk (Sowerby) Totnes (Brixham) Truro (Kenwyn) Tynemouth and Callercoats village: ... Wakefield (Alverthorpe, Stanley, and Ardsley) •• Walsall and Darlaston Warwick ... ... West Bromwich (Wednesbury) West Derby and Everton Whitehaven (Harrington) Wigan ... ••• Wis beach ... ..• Witney (Swinbrook and Fulbrook) Wolverhampton and Bilston ... Woodbridge ( Witnesham) Worcester ... Yarmouth, Great (Northern) ••• ..-. ••• ..'... ••• ....... ••• """ ••• '''''. • • • ... ••• .... ••• Total ... LITERATURE. THE BEAUTIES OF THE BOYNE AND BLACKWATER By William R. Wl:cle. Ireland generally, but especially the fair end r tile land of Alea:le has reason to feel grateful to the erudite author of this most interesting volume. Few tourists will henceforward omit visiting a district rich in historic monuments and natural beauty, though hitherto not even its easy distance from the metropolis was able to tempt any of the modern sys tematic writers upon Ireland, who one and all neglected the scenery of the Boyne. Inglis made the circuit of the isl an d, ✓ but merely crossed the river at Drogheda. Barrow and the " Angler in Ireland" seem ignorant of its existence, and the Halls notice only its appearance at Trim. Mr. Wilde has now collected and enlarged the sketches which have already appeared in the Dublin University Magazine among the series of " Irish Rivers," and, including the tri butary- fLod of the Black water, has produced an illustrated Handbook for these charming but hitherto neglec:cd streams. He has carefully noted every olject of interest along the banks of these placid waters; the scenes of Sylvan beauty, the Pagan 'elks, feudal remains, and monastic monuments, hicif stud their margins. Commencing at the source of the Boyne, at the toot of the castle-crowned hill of Carburg, he first follows its windings to Clonard, thence through Trim to Navan, from which town a day's excursion is presumed to be taken along the Black water to its head, and from Navan to the town of Drogheda. The entire is a region of rare interest. Fertile meadows hanging woods—localities memorable in history and in song— the palaces of Heathen kings—the raths of warriors —the pillar- stones of Druids—the footprints of early Christian saints, their oratories, round towers, and churches, their wells and crosses—and the battle. fields, fortresses, and castellated mansions of more modern times—all these, treated of with a master's hand, present a strong attraction to the traveller who is not wholly devoid of taste. The antiquarian will revel in these pages, and derive additional enlighten. ment from the numerous woodcuts, which are the best in artistic skill that we remember to have seen, and bear the unmistakeable impress of fidelity. The chapter on the celebrated tumulus at New Grange, with that on the Ethnology of the Ancient Irish, is worth the entire price of the book. There is like. wise a great deal of historic information to be gleaned on various matters, even so modern as the birth of the Hero of Waterloo, whom We always considered to have bean born in the county of Meath, at Dungan Castle (which, by the way, is Feargus O'Connor's birthplace), and in the immediate neighbourhood of Laracor, long the residence of Swift and Stella. It appears, however, that the Duke first saw the light in Dublin, in the mansion now known as the Royal Irish Academy House, and originally Chichester House. There has also been a misunderstanding as to his day of birth, wherefore, for the edification of genealo gists, we give the entry thereof from the registry of St. Peter's parish in Dublin :—" Arthur, son of the Earl and Countess Mornington, born 30th April, 1769." Casting the view backwards for three hun dred years, justice to Ireland appears to have been administered in a notable manner, and some idea of the state of the country in the middle of the six teenth century, and of the mode taken by its gover nors to suppress crime, and to gain the affections of the Irish chiefs and people, may be had from the following, among similar instances, from authentic history : "So late as 1546, we read that the plains of Cairbre and Castle Carbury were plun - dered and burned' by some of the Irish insurgents, particularly the O'Kellys, the O'Maddens, and O'Connors. The mode in which this outrage was punished by the high legal functionary of the Government is highly characteristic of the time. When,' say the annals, the Lord Justice, Anthony St. Ledger, heard of this, he came into Offaly and plun dered and burned the country as far as the Togher of Cruoghan ;' and again, 'the Lord Justice came a second time into Offaly, and remained fifteen days in the coun try, plundering and spoiling it, burning churches and monasteries, and destroying crops and corn.'" Standing on the summit of the Hill of Tara a glori ous view is obtained of the great plain of Meath, constituting the richest portion,of what was once the appanage of the Monarch of Ireland, for it is gene rally thought that, of the fine provinces, Meath was always allotted to the King Paramount in addition to his peculiar dominions, for the support of the Imperial dignity. Nevertheless it appears to have had its peculiar rulers, and, as the O'Conors ruled in Con naught, the Mac Murroughs (afterwards called Cavanaghs) in Leinster, the O'Neils in Ulster, and the O'Briens in Munster, so the O'Melaghlins were potentates in Meath. They were kings therein at the time of the English invasion, when a daughter of that royal line, Dearvorgail, the faithless bride of Brefney, and the Helen of the Irish Iliad, was seduced by the ill-fated Dermot Mac Murrough, King of Leinster. The English Monarch deposed the rightful O'Melaghlin, and made a grant of the fair province of Meath to Hugh de Lacy, one of the fiercest of the soldiers of Strongbow. Tara was the grand palatial residence in the ancient heroic days of Ireland. "Here sat in days of yore Kings with golden crowns upon their heads; warriors with 'Brazen swords in their hands ; bards and minstrels with th e i r h arps; grey headed ollamhs; Druids with their oak leaf crowns; burned historians; wise brehons and subtle lawyers; the physicians, the smiths, artificers, charioteers, hunts men, architects; the chess-players and cup bearers, to gether with crowds of servants and retainers, whose places are all specified in the ancient annals relating to Tars. Sneer not at the Irishman's veneration for this spot ; the history of its long-faded glories' is still pre served ; the memories of Tara have remained a silver thread in the garment of sackcloth he has worn for centuries." We will now take leave, at least for the present, Of Mr. Wilde and his delightful and instructive guide book, with the quotation of a passage which will afford a fair specimen of his descriptive powers. He thus depicts the view from the Hill of Slane, near the noble castle of the Marquis of Conyngham : " Here, pilgrim, stop ; rest on yonder monumental slab, beneath the shadow of that tall, ivy-mantled tower, the belfry of the cathedral—it once was gorgeous with the shrines of Fathers, and illt f med by many a flicker. ing taper, though now the hemlock fills its aisles, and the purple foxglove waves its lonely hanneret. The ground whereon we stand is sacred—consecrated by the foot prints of our patron saint, hallowed by the dust of kings. Look abroad, over th e w id e , un d u l a ting plains of Meath, or to the green hills of Louth—where, in the broad landscapes of Britain, fi n d we a scene more fruitful and varied, or one more full of i n t eres ting, heart-stirring associations? Climb this tower and cast your eye along the river. Look from the tall, pillar-like form of the Yellow Steeple at Trim, whi c h r i ses i n the distance, to where yon bright line marks the meeting of the sea and sky below the Maiden Tower at Drogheda, and trace the clear blue waters of th e B oyne, w i n di ng th roug h this lovely, highly cultivated landscape, so rich in all that can charm the eye and awaken the imagination ; take into view the hills of Sk reen an d T ara; pass in review the woods of Hayes, Ardmulchan, Beauparc; lock down into the green mounds and broad pastures of Slane; follow the Boyne below you, as it dances by each ford and rapid, to where the great pyramids of Western Europe, Knowth, New Grange, and Dowth, rise on its left bank; see yeti not the groves of Townley Hall and Old Bridge, marking the battle-field of 1690, with the ill-fated hill of Donore, where the sceptre passed for ever from the royal line of Stuart, obtruding its long-remem bered tale of civil strife upon us? Duleek stands in the distance. Beyond those hills that border Louth lie Monaster-hoice and Mellifont, the last resting-place of the faithless Bride of Brefney. These steeples and turrets which rise in the lower distance were shattered by the balls of Cr.mwell; and that knoll which juts above them is the Mill Mount of Drogheda. What a picture have we here, from:this Richmond-hill, of Irish scenery! What an extensive page of our country's his tory does it unfold to usi What recollections gush upon us as we stand on the abbey wells of Slane, and take in this noble prospect at a glance! The records and the footprints of two thousand years are all before tts; the solemn procession of the simple shepherd to the early Pagan mound; the rude clinger standing on the earthen circle; the Druid fires, paling before the bright sun of Christianity; the cadence of the round tower's bell; the matin and the vesper hymn swelling from the hermit's cell, or early missionary church; the proud galleys and glancing swords of fierce northern hordes; the smoking ruins of church and tower; the shout of rival clans in civil feuds; the lances and banners of Norman soldiers-, the mon', and fosse, and drawbridge of the keep, still echoing back the strife of hostile ranks —the native for his soil, the stranger for his hire; the ford defended, and the castle won; the pilgrim's cross, the stately abbey, and the baron's hall; in church, the stole ejected for the surplice; the town besieged, the city sacked ; and then the rattle, and the roar, and smoke of recent battle— have, one and all, their epochs, ruins, sites, or history, legibly inscribed upon this picture." OVAL NAVAL BENEVOLENT SOClETY.—Yester day morning a quarterly general court of the subscribers to this institution was held at the Thatched House Tavern, St. James's street, Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Briggs, G.C.M.G., in the chair. Commander Dickson, the secretary, read a brief report. The receipts for the quarter, from subscriptions and donations, added to stock purchased, gave a total of 1,8581. 175., end the ex penditure amounted to 593/. 6s. 10d., leaving a balance of 1,265/. HU. 2d. to the credit of the society. The in. terest on capital stock invested in the Three per Cents. had amounted to 524/. The report having been adopted the secretary directed the attention of the court to the distressing case of the orphan children of the late Lieu tenant Mlienzie, who had been upwards of forty years in the service, and died a few weeks ago from an attack of cholera, followed almost immediately by his wife, who fell a victim to the same disease, leaving a family of six children in utter destitution. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager had been graciously pleased to subscribe 20/. towards the maintenance of one of the children, and the society would at once perform its duty to such members of the family as were entitled to assistance. The family now memorialised the society to exert its influence to wards procuring the admission of one of the children into the femcsle school at Richmond. On the motion of Captain P. Clark, seconded by Captain Bague, a resolu tion to that effect was agreed to, and after a private dis cussion relative to Mr. Spicer's bequest of 1,0001., the court proceeded to distribute a sum of money amongst the most deserving of the applicants for the society's bounty. The CHURCH and the POST-OFFICE. (Prom the Maly Dispatch.) Mr. Editor,—The too great national institutions alove-namcd are, at this time, in collision ; the au thorities of the Post office having proposed some mitigation of a public inconvenience, viz., that of the detention in London for twenty-four hours of letters in transitu from one part of the country to another; and the episcopal heads of the other institution, the Church, having instituted active proceedings to pre vent such mitigation, and for not only the preserva tion but the extension of the existing inconvenience. Nothing less than the complete stoppage of any Post. office work, however serviceable and necessary, will satisfy the loaders of the Sabbatarian movement. In this collision, I confess myself to have some leaning towards the secular institution in preference to the sacred. There are many points of contrast between the rival institutions. The Post-office is the cheapest establishment in Europe , and the Ch urc h i s the dearest. The P os t- o ffi ce b ene fits the c ntire com munity, and the Church only a sectarian section, The advantages of the Post office are distinct, posi tive, tangible, obvious to common sense; the ad vantages promised by the Church are invisible, out of time, beyond tense, and only estimated by those v.ho work so hard at the work of faith that they properly call themselves believers. The active spirit of the Post-office, Mr. Rowland Bill, was forced into his present position by public opinion ; the Bishops and Archbishops of the Church are raised into their position by the political influences of the aristocracy. The Post office allows and enabes every one to express his thought freely to others—the Church prescribes to the present and all future generations what they shall think and believe; or, at any rate, what they s h a ll say t h at t h ey think and believe. Robberies in the Post-office are perpetrated to the annual amount of thousands—those of the Church tell up to millions. The Post-office tax, when much higher than at present, was proverbially the most willingly paid of all taxes—Church-rates and other ecclesiastical impositions are as proverbially the most unwillingly paid, often subjecting the conscientious objector to the seizure of his goods and the incarcera tion of his person. Many more particulars might be enumerated ; but I have doubtless said enough to show that my superior respect for the Post" office is by no means capricious, but a reasonable and well grounded preference. I will, therefore, only add that the agitation which won for us the penny postage was conducted by fair reasoning and argument, employed no gross falsehoods, prevailed not by censures and fulminations, but calmly pleaded the commercial, intellectual, and moral good to be gained by the change ; in all which respects it is," as I shall show, very unlike the present clerical agitation. At the head of that agitation is the Bishop of London, hurrying from platform to platform, haranguing meetings, memorializing the Prime Minister, working himself and his hearers into a perfect fume and fury ; and all, as he professes, for the honour of Christianity. Now, Sir, the present crisis is one at which the friends of Christianity might well have other things to think about, than just such as the Apostles of us, Gentiles treated as the " beg garly elements" of an obsolete ceremonial law. The character of Christianity has been perilled all over Europe. Has the Bishop never heard of Haynau's hangings? Of Radetzky s flogging of women ? Of More O'Ferrall's anti-Christian conduct to the Italian fugitives ? Of the demoniacal demands of the Rus sian Czar? Is his Episcopal Christian blood so un moved by these atrocities, these blood-red stains upon the Christian name, that he has time and feeling to bestow upon the heinous sin of forwarding a letter ? It is recorded that there were Roman Catholics who shrunk with abhorrence from the thought of picking a chicken-bone on a Friday; but who saw nothing to move them in the massacre of St. Bartholomew's day. Will theologians always be the same ? Always immersed in the importance of the pettiest cere monial observances, and insensible to the great cause of God, man, goodness, and freedom—whose martyrs, to the disgrace of nominal Christianity, gain more show of sympathy from the turbaned Turk than from Christian potentates and prelates ? The Bishop speaks of the Post-office clerks as vested with an " indefeasible right" to the " full en joyment of the Sabbath." Does he respect that " in defeasible right" in his own cook and coachman ? I shall never cease from censuring the cant and hypocrisy of Sabbataniarism till I find its advocates practising what they preach. They have full power over their own households. Is there a single Bishop on the Bench for whom neither man, woman, nor beast ever does one stroke of work upon the Sabbath? If so, let his name be gazetted, and I, with thousands more, will do him homage ; not, indeed, as either the best or wisest of mankind, but as a person, in this particular, of unimpeachable and singular consistency. "Indefeasible right" is the theme of scoff and scorn when applied to what is most worth having. The phrase is proscribed. There are many indefeasible rights, to my apprehension :—that of the people con stituting a nation to self-government ; that of a ra tional being to exercise his reason on dogmas propounded to his faith ; and that of paying only for the religion in which we believe, and not for that from , which we dissent. On these indefeasible rights, so deeply momentous to human hap piness, dignity and progress, our Right Reverend Fathers in God, the, Lord Bishops, are not accustomed to descant, or only for their reprobation. All are swallowed up in the preposterous indefeasible right of not accommodating our neighbour by devoting a Sunday hour, occasionally, to sorting the contents of a letter bag. Those contents may affect not only the pecuniary interests of the industrious, perhaps saving honesty from bankruptcy; but also the troubled in mind or body, the anxious, the suffering, the sick, the dying, and their dearest friends. Heaven forgive the assertion of an indefeasible right of not doing to others that which certainly we would have them do unto us. It comes with an ill grace from those who are "set for the defence of the Gospel," but who by no means champion the rights of man. In rushing, last Monday, from the meeting at Willis's Rooms to the meeting at Freemasons' Tavern, the Bishop seems to have dropped his consistency by the way. He is reported, at the former, to have ap pealed in confirmation of his Sabbatarianism to " the almost unanimous voice of the metropolis, and of Protestant Christendom." At the other meeting, his language was somewhat different. "The observance of the Christian Sabbath, imperfect as it was in this country, had always distinguished it from continental nations, and any step from our high supremacy," &c. Both appeals told; as what will not tell from a Bishop on a platform upon Church-going hearers; but how dothey hold together? The vanity ofmultitudinous support, and the vanity of " high supremacy" by distinction, are keys not to be fairly played upon the same hand. An honest agitator, to say nothing of a mitred one, should look, not only to what will tell, but to what is true. Protestant Christendom is not Sabbatarian, after the Scotch and English fashion. Protestant Christendom, on Sundays, keeps open shop at Paris, plays cards at Gene v a, an d dances in Germany. The Bishop must at least strike off that head of his Janus logic. The other head will scarcely escape being broken. Ask Protestant Christendom of our "high supre macy," and the response will be that it is nothing better than a pragmatical peculiarity of Anglican Puritanism. One disgusting feature of this agitation is the pro minence of direct falsehood as to fact. Advertise ment after advertisement has the capitalized heading of " Commencement of Sunday Labour in the Post office." At most the plan is only a slight extension of what is done already, and always has been done. Really the tendency is, if we take the country gene rally, to a considerable diminution. Any how, there is no novelty, no question of principle, between the existing custom and that which is proposed. What class, except the Church, with the platform faction of religionists at its back, would be capable of this shameless iteration ? The " Lord's Day Observance Society" has ad dressed a circular to all the parsonry of London, in which this fib is incorporated, with others in addition. It states that the extension (treated as a novelty in the sentence immediately preceding) of the desecration of the Lord's Day in the Post-office department, is sure to lead to an increase of the demoralization already prevailing therein, as appears from the evidence of Colonel Maberley, the Secretary to the Post-office, before the Select Committee of the House of Cora mor.s on Postage, in the year 1843, in which he says, at p. 188, No. 1,174: r‘ That the department has become thoroughly de moralized, and that the number of applications for missing letters, containing property made at the Ge neral Post office, from January sth, 1837, to January sth, 1842, was 32,369, in 22,368 of which the property was not found. The amount of property contained in the letters not found was 322,0331." Now mark the equivoque. Colonel Maberley does not ascribe this truly lamentable demoralization to Sunday sorting. The connexion between the two, and the consequent bearing of an increase of the one upon an increase of the other, is altogether fudge ! a pious fraud. It is foisted in by the "Lord's Day Observ ance Society," which, it is much to be regretted, is not also a " Truth Observance Society."_. Such an asso ciation seems to be much needed. The circular goes on to threaten us with more cholera, unless the General Post-office be checked in its intended improvements. This falsifying society wields the thunderbolt and announces judgments. From the infant days of Christianity to our own ; indeed, from the birth of priestcraft to its " last syl lable of recorded time," has cant thus dared to ascend into the regions of impiety. The Board of Health has traced the ravages of cholera to our criminal ne glect of obvious sanitary precautions, to which we were morally bound to attend. Air. Joseph Wilson, honorary secretary, and the Rev. J. T. Baylee, clerical secretary, know better ; it all conies of what they call Sabbath-breaking. The wisdom of the Gwyder House Physicians must yield to the Divine inspiration of No. 14, Chatham place, i Bla° kfrars. That h the Mount Sinai of the metropolis. I have chiefly considered this as a Church question, because although many Dissenters join in it, yet the Church authorities take the lead and there is an advertised Dissentirg memorial to Lord John Russell (from the Spa-flelds congregation), which draws a distinction such as I have not met with elsewhere, which deserved to be imitated. It says, " that whilst your memorialists I would not wish the Legislature to interfere to induce the people to keep the Sabbath•day holy, they very seriously protest against any national arrangement that would make them break it." Here is a glimpse of good sense and true Christianity. But it is strange that those who saw so much should not have seen a little more. Observances of a religious character should always depend on moral means, and not on legislative enactment. But who interferes to enforce any violation of conscience on the Sabbatarian ? who " Makes him" do anything on the Sunday ? The temptation is only a pecuniary one. He has only to take his choice in the eternal dilemma between God and .IThanmon. No class is exempt from that delenima. Why, then, the Post office clerk ? He endures the perpetual test of sincere conscientious ness, that is all. Let him do bis duty. Let h:rn also allow those who think the Sabbath not dis- honoured by rendering useful service towards others, to do their duty also. Heaven will judge. I say nothing against a man's having a conscience which I deem mistaken, so long as he only makes it his own rule; the fault begins when he uses it as the rod to beat his neighbour into his own narrow faith. Then his private conscience becomes a public nuisance. Lord Ashley acted as bottle-holder to the Bishop of London at the Marylebone and Westminster meet ing. He is a zealous second, and in one thing outdid his principal. Proud of ,the Bishop as a tower of strength in the cause, he ventured to promise help of an infinitely higher order. His Lordship is reported to have said—" If they persevered in spite of difficul ties and defeat, they might rely upon it they could not fail to prosper; they might depend upon human support, and, if they acted in a right spirit upon the support of the Almighty." The authority of Lord Ashley for promising that support was not called for, as it ought to have been, by the meeting. It is in cumbent on him to produce his credentials. PUBLICOLA. (From the Scotsman.) The change in the Sunday arrangements of the Post-office, which has been the cause of some ig norant and some dishonest denunciations, is to be adhered to by the Government, and will come into operation to-morrow. Lord John Russell and the Postmaster- General are entitled to the very highest credit for refusing to be driven from a well-considered beneficial arrangement by a clamour got up first in London, partly by misconception and partly from selfishness, and then taken up in the provinces by parties in manifest and often avowed ignorance of the whole facts of the case. In justification of this state ment, we point with confidence to the complete and crushing testimony now afforded by the " Original Minute for the Change in the Duties of the Office," drawn by Mr. Rowland Hill, of date Feb. 3, and now given to the public. There are two points in this document, the simple mention of which alone should be sufficient to set the matter at rest, and to touch with shame the honest portion of those who have been talking so non sensically and vituperatively. In the first place, the document was written and in the hands of the authorities more than eight months ago, consequently must be held as the true exponent of the intentions of the change, and could not have been drawn with any reference to the present agitation, every one of the misrepresentations engendered by which it utterly extinguishes. In the second place, it shows that, from the first, the sole object of the change was to reduce Sunday labour. The document begins—" In obedience to your Lordship's instructions, I beg to submit my views as to further measures for reducing the Sunday duties of the Post-office." Again, " The importance of affording to all connected with the Post-office the utmost amount of rest on the Sunday that is consistent with a due regard to public convenience having led to measures for the total suspension of money order business on that day throughout England and Wales, it is very satisfactory," &c. And then, " There can be no doubt that a further very important relief, as relates to Sunday work, may be effected in all the provincial offices." The document then goes on to tell that the change proposed had been repeatedly re commended by Parliamentary Committees, and enters into details showing how the change will operate a reduction of work, mentioning also among other points the additional pay to the London clerks and the avoidance of the hours of worship —arrange ments which the agitators are mendaciously asserting were brought about by their clamours. Nor is it only the intention of the Post-office authorities that is thus seen to be the reverse of what has been repre sented—their intentions are already in operation, an order being at this motnent in the hands of all the 2,000 postmasters of England " that on and from the 14th instant, every provincial office, of whatever description, in England and Wales, shall be closed on Sunday, from ten A.M. to five 1.. m., for all pur poses except for the necessary receipt and dispatch of mails." - Now, what have we here ? Absolute proofs that the change was devised for the express purpose of reducing Sunday labour, being the next in series to the change regarding the money orders, which very greatly served that end; and that this intention will to morrow be realised by enabling hundreds of men to attend public worship, which has hitherto been beyond their reach. And the officials actuated by these intentions and achieving these re sults have been denounced through the country as "infidels engaged in a design to break down the Sabbath !" That these follies and slanders disgrace their authors is not much matter (we speak, of course, of the designing and not of the purely simple), but it is impossible to over-estimate or too much deplore the injury done to the priceless institution profaned by their advocacy. Perhaps the strangest little incident connected with the affair is the mistake into which the Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce was yesterday led, blindfold. A requisition was got up for a meeting on the subject, and when the day came, it was found that the "Alliance" party had made a great " whip," while but few of the attenders of the ordinary meetings were present, trusting, it is presumed, that the motion would easily be thrown out, as all such motions have been before. But this was not the only ally the Alliers had—owing to the prevailing ignorance on the sub• ject, they managed to entrap some respectable Members, such as Bailie Stott, who showed he knew nothing whatever of the facts, and took excellent care to guard himself against being supposed to share in the general views and tactics of the party. It is certainly the oddest thing ever done by the Chamber of Commerce ; and it will be as odd if some of those who voted in the majority do not confess their mistake when they have taken means to learn the truth. In pleasing contrast with this strange and in some degree accidental vote, we have a discussion in the United Presbytery of Perth, who refused, almost unanimously, to support a motion against the proposed change till they should learn the facts. ,We think that, after reading Mr. Hill's minute, the members may well congratulate themselves that they did not act in haste and igno rance. Some sound and cheering remarks, it wil] be seen, were made by reverend members of the Pres. . - bytery, as to the great mischief done by this per petual agitation about "Sabbath desecration," con ducted as it is with a peculiar and painful want of sense and veracity. (From the Scotch Reformers' Gazette.) " AN INFAMOUS PROPOSITION."-Our meek and pious friend the Guardian affects to be in a terrible rage against Mr. Rowland Hill's plan of Post-office reformation on Sunday. It calls it (vide Guardiax of yesterday) "an infamous proposition." Now, the time has been, and that not long ago, when the Guardian itself sent regularly for its own letters and papers to the Post-office on Sunday; and there are good divines at this moment in Glasgow whe think it no shame and no sin to open their own notes on that day—received through the Post-office. If they are sinners, we also are very great sinners, and it was the Guardian itself that set " the pernicious example" to us. Do our very particular friends, Messrs. John, James, and Robert, not read from their own written notes on Sunday ? Have they not coned these over perhaps from a late hour on Saturday night to a very early hour on Sabbath morning ? So far from finding fault with them, we would say that they were only at their duty when they did so. But if they write their own notes, and correct their own epistles on Sunday, right have they to deny the same privilege to others what iers ? We will stand up for the sanctity of the Sabbath as much as any of them. No man can say that we ever wrought for filthy lucre on that day. That is more than many of the Guardia n ' s ver y choicest friends can say. But we best respect the Sabbath when we denounce in this place the arrant cant and gross hypo. crisy appertaining to it, and we regret to see that this cant and that hpyocrisy are at this moment the order of the day in Glasgow : and really the g ame longest faces thrives amaz i ab n gouly t it with those th a t can pu t on theveiy- (From the Sheffield Times.) The agitation on the subject of effecting some alterations in the London Post -office has extended to the provinces, but many of those who take ain it appear to l a b our under gross misconception p s. rt The object of the Government is to diminish the aggregate amount of Sunday duty throughout the country; and to effect this it is necessary, not to commence Sunday labour in the London Post-office, but to make some slight additions to it. Hitherto from twenty-five to fifty or sixty clerks have been employed on Sunday, and twenty-five a dditi ona l c l er k s are now intendedteo be empl oye d, b ut not d ur i ng the hours of Divin service, and these twenty-five are to be volunteers. The additional service is to be given only for letters SCOTLAND. Ilawiek Edinburgh (from Oct. 7) Craig, Montrose ... Arbroath ... ... Kelso (Aug. 9to Oct. 10) ... Perth .... ... Dundee ••• •• ••• ...... ••• "''' Total ... General total:— Metropolis Country Scotland moo ."..... ••• .... Total 12 19 -- 153 73 78 0 243 NOTE --The deaths are returned according to the superintendent registrars' districts, as it is found im• practicable to distinguish every place separately. CHOLERA. Fri., Sat. Oct. Oct. 12th. 13th. 1 1 0 1 1 6 ;3 10 5 D/ARREICESA. Fri. Sat. Oct. Oct. 12th. 13th. 0 3 2 3 1 0 4 6 6 7 12 13 19 Srx OF E GGS. — AcorrespOndentWtlie Agricultural Gazette says---" I am induced to tell you that, without pretending to any knowledge of abstruse mysteries, I have learned to discover which eggs will produce pullets, and have pursued the practice through this season with unitorm success. I met with the hint either in your own periodical or some other. It consists simply in this: To avoid setting the long-shaped eggs (which always produce cocks), choosing the rounder and plumper ones. Generally, too, I have found that the very largest eggs produce male birds. I select therefore the most promis ing rounder-shaped eggs, without taking the very largest. It is certainly an important matter to suc ceed in this department, having myself often had the mortification to have a whole brood of cocks, or nearly so; the avoidance of this inconvenience is truly a desi deratum." LONDON. West Districts ... North Districts ... Central Districts ... East Districts ... South Districts ... Total ... 18 CHEMISTRY IN RELATION TO THE EXCISE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,-.lt is a singular and somewhat melancholy fact, that in an age of progress like the present, the interests of science should be so often prejudiced and its value compromised in popular estimation, , by exhibiting the absurd spectacle of contradictory, and occasionally the most conflicting results. Truth being always the same, this apparent anomaly can only be explained by the want of sufficient accuracy on the part of tl - e investigator, and an error resulting from such a cause is the more inexcusable when its consequences have a wide and baneful sphere of action. These remarks apply more especially to analytical chemistry, a science which is daily becoming more important and with v►hich the interests of numerous and influential classes of the community are essentially interwoven. The records of criminal trials furnish numberless instances in which the lives of individuals have depended on the statement of the toxicologist, whose infallibility could only be guaranteed by the minutest accuracy in his operations, and it is but too true that in many cases innocence has been victimized, or the ends of justice otherwise frustrated by inaccurate and unscientific manipu lation. In its civil relations, however, the consequences of error on the part of the commercial tester are scarcely less important or detrimental, inasmuch as the fortunes and reputation of individuals are placed at the mercy of a soi disant chemist. My attention has been at tracted to this subject in consequence of the recent trials for the supposed infraction of the laws regu lating the manufacture of tobacco, a question which a leading metropolitan journal emphatically desig nates as affecting "the honour of Government, the interests of trade, and the credit of science." Most persons are aware that the manufacture of tobacco is regulated by the Excise, and that a strict surveil lance is kept with a view to prevent adulteration. One of the chief substances employed for this pur pose being sugar, the presence of the smallest quan tity of this article on the premises of the manufacturer has been deemed sufficient ground for seizure. The chemists to the Excise (men of hitherto unques tioned infallibility in this department) having posi tively stated that genuine tobacco contains no ap preciable quantity of sugar, the most trivial amount thereof has teen accordingly regarded as a proof of adulteration. On this hypothesis numerous convic tions have been obtained. In 1845, a Committee of the House of Commons was appointed to inquire into the operation of the tobacco duties. In reply to a question from the Chairman (Mr. Hume) Professor Graham and the other Excise chemists, Mr. G. and R. Phillips declared that there was no appreciable sugar in tobacco • and having further stated that the only test employ ed was fermentation and the produc tion of alcohol, Mr. Hume remarked that " this was a sorry account of chemistry." Mr. Hume was pro bably aware of the utter inadequacy of such a test, and that the German chemists had long before din :- vexed one, by means of which the hundredth-thoufs id part of indigenous sugar may be readily detected in a plant. The committee, in consequence, ordered an investigation by other chemists, which soon led to most important results. Pending this analytical in quiry, the Excise continued their prosecutions ; seizures were made, and convictions obtained against large and influential houses at Leeds, Norwich, and Devizes, all on the evidence affbrded by the Excise chemists. In the mean time the chemists employed by the House of Commons' Committee published the results of their investigations, which were made on samples of leaf tobacco procured from different casks of leaf tobacco in the Queen's warehouse, at the London Docks. They, one and all, ascertained the presence of fermentable sugar, both in different hogsheads and in different samples taken from the same hogshead. Such was the utter discomfiture of the Excise chemists; but already a vast amount of mischief had been done, and some of the first houses in the trade had been un justly fined on a false assumption. The question then may naturally be asked—Will the Government com pensate those firms for the injury sustained ? and if they do not feel themselves called on to perform an act of retrospective justice (of which, doubtless, they have no intention), will they at least guard against prospective evil, by appointing men possessing adequate scientific acquirements ? It is well known to those acquainted with the state of science in this country that organic chemistry is comparatively in its infancy, white in the chemical schools of the con tinent investigations of this nature are commenced by students of the first year. My memory especially recals to me this fact in the case of the Royal Labo ratory at Munich, so far back as 1839, over which Professor Vogel, the elder, then presided. It is further well known that all the more recent dis coveries, with very few exceptions, have originated in either France or Germany.. There is at the present moment, wasting his energies in an obscure town in a petty principality of the latter country, a man, whose researches in this walk of science, accurate as profound, and successful as they have, been accurate, have gained for him immortal fame—Baron Liebig. Would it not be to the interest of the Government to . ._ employ the intellect of such a man in the fiscal de- paitment of the country at some pecuniary sacrifice ? Or, if the national prejudice would be opposed to the introduction of foreigners, are there not some native , professors who have acquired their knowledge of this seience according to the accurate system of investi gation pursued in the German laboratories ? Amongst others, I may select Sir Robert Kane, Drs. Blyth and Muspratt, and Sir Benjamin Brodie's son. The antagonism so often exhibited in the opinions of medical men has long since passed into a proverb, proving, as it does, that :medicine is as yet a very imperfect science. Let chemistry redeem itself from a similar reproach, and instead of the conflicting statements hitherto advanced in medico-legal inquiries, let the uniformity of truth mark the results of analysis. The accomplishment of such an object rests mainly with the Government, by employing men whose industry and science qualify them for the duties they are called upon to discharge. I have the honour to be, Sir, yours, &c., T. M. O'DWYER, M.D., M.R.C.S., Eng. 31, Hope-street, Liverpool. CHOLERA.-THE _DWELLINGS OF THE LABOURING CLASSES. The following requisition, signed by 287 bankers, merchants, and traders, was left with the Lord Mayor, at the Mansion-house, on Saturday : " TO THE RIGHT HON. THE LORD MAYOR. "My Lord,—The undersigned householders, mer chants, bankers, and traders of or belonging to the city of London, beg to express to your Lordship how deeply they feel impressed with a sense of awe at the frightful ravages of cholera in this metropolis. " Whilst the undersigned are anxious to declare their recognition of the hand of the Almighty in the visitation with which Ile has deemed it expedient to OH ct the metropolis and the entire nation, they feel deeply grate ful, through His infinite goodness and mercy, that the pestilence, which has been so fatal among the poorer classes, is now arrested in its direful career. " The undersigned cannot but regard this visitation as a warning of their long neglected duty towards their humble fellow-creatures, and earnestly beseech of your Lordship to cause a public meeting to be convened at the Guildhall, or any other fitting edifice, in order that the undersigned may give utterance to their gratitude for the mercy which has been shown them in the depth of their tribulation; at the same time to devise such mea sures as will improve the dwellings of the labouring classes, whereby they shall be better enabled to resist, is future, the ravages of sickness and disease —to be come a healthful, happy , and orderly people, and b © surrounded by influences favourable to Inor '• aaty and religion." BRITANNIA TUBULAR BRIDGE.. —.F as t NN • eek we informed our readers of the progress of the lifting opera tions, which have since been favourable carried on at the rate of six feet per twelve hours, h our a s, ve when th e h y d raulic presses are work e d — and there remains only a b out twelve feet bueofworetothest tub b e that e will have reached it s permanent elevation. With respect to the floating of t u b e No. 2, which cannot to a ll appear ances be far di stant, we have no will int erest our readers to kno‘ l v )°s t i li ti a T t e o a n cco S u a la t t u s. rda l y t morning lust the steamer Fairy, on her passage from Beaumari s t o C arnarvon, sailed ' under the t übe Mr. Stephenson, Mr. Forster, the Messrs. Clark, and the other principal managers, with a great number of work men, who stood on the top of the tube, greeted the Fairy with three most hearty cheers, as she glided be neath—the first vessel to pass under the stupendous structure. The passengers and crew returned the com pliment, and fired a salute. At two o'clock in the afternoon she took the same course, on her return from Carnarvon to Beaumaris, when a gun was fired from off the tube—which was acknowledged on board by the lowering of the flags, &c. The Fairy's mast-head is about fifty-eight feet above the level of the water, and at the time she passed under the tube, which had then been lifted about 98 feet, there was nearly 40 feet to spare. The passengers on the occasion were numerous, comprising several distinguished strangers now t , ta3ing at Carnarvon, Bangor, and Beaumaris.—Carnarvon and Denbigh Herald, Oct. 13. DEATH OF THE REY. WILLIAM AULD, GREENOCK. —This venerable minister died on Tuesday night, a few hours after Mr. Morton, his assistant and successor, was ordained to the co-pastorate with hiw.—Caledonian Morcury. s"..assing througb London. At the same time, in all tb country post offices, Sunday work is to be diminished' There are some persons who wish to bring on the question of closing every post-office in England on Sundays, but this species of tyranny is not likely to find much favour. Several gentlemen of the Congregational Union at Sheffield protested against it. Mr. Bevan, the rich banker, refers those who would be aggrieved to the electric telegraph, rs if it were an easy thing for a poor man to pay IN. 00 16s. for a message. Lord John Russell, at the interview with the deputation which waited upon him on Thursday, rebuked Mr. Bevan for his inconside rateness. The report of this interview will probably tend to calm the fears of those who imagined that very different measures were in contemplation. 19flt 1.00 107 1 4 11% 29% 24%