The Sun. — London, England, 1849-09-11 00:00:00

—A rtd. trehrl it.:l C ICtik 0. a° AT.-ArrO. 9 h, 1 Och. 'or t, 7 ch, Creol? Areal; Yr 41115 Dill. er, St. J-I•D" 'ownie, Qua" ; 'cotia. S DAY.) Oi to 31 1 25 ; 41 Os to 41 155; to 11 12 , Fel e. 03 to 31 15►; 03 to 4/1 33 ; Ss to 1/ 13 6 P ot fish demand. 3/ Os to 31 155 ! ,/ Os to 41 159; Ss to 1/ 12s F at 101. tation c ontintle: prices in 0 3 ° 6 , k. 1,790 bog' aer rates, o°°l 1 . dauritias ad of simila r ?re witbdrovill relative val ue ' t sold at 383 6c l j ,ntation laud Docks Was 8 ,9 6 , Rere taken w' .es, 821 barrelSt ly, 2,362 tierceo• intatiun CeY l° , in at extra . fight 39s 6cl to a further s 3 ' Of 100 bales were dispoic a an garbled. k at the El ls ' 7 hhds ; there puns 20 hh d i, )Ck in the 30 t half sold, at ces et MOO !. this da3.7_ weei.o s 6d, bung th per cwt on the sound Co O i l 6nkay 7d p er ; lout any chilli° ttos CES. RAPK•) R. LL, SEPT. 8 :..e it this want" )acir, attend(d ►e of a visi t 1° 11 include td Mrs. MO lison. x.— lt 15 • Wit h e death of Thursday w itt 6 .' s-shire. "-" r a short tiOi g ' egestion o f lb': n of Sir T. d' )rn in 1779, 50 i is educated Ormerly rect% of Norwich also a Clerk ° nnean SocieT, d, in 1848, to .useum. 1/ „„ loved and r`,,f quence in SSP and scription. the Rester e .,',„ large fan33.'ii ory o , ctensive Na g ' ECEATI Jr. Ke tillf . e L u nder se" t ", evening 00 returned I l e I some Dili ng hie fa"' year. day, the 7 w n h im sel f ian 1ir0 0 , 55 ", t h etween 070 j, inflarnrO t a t re interred 0., they an d ad Gateshe Se ictirns of rector of t sq se e u ar, 1 " - nan, who irly assido°oc, lg the pig, and was a n•in law, phis Greig the diarrli c %! him at 51- e of coll0P5:i urgeons, ioft. Peel ente r ; owing 1 0 ,c 1 '` ; for the ;ratified Mrs. Buss e " Bligh, Fit • b Bhg , . Legh, respcets dy art and 1 41 ,, • 0 " o er of Lf a. Baillie, W e down "..5 acc onwsvie r , or bett. P; . . t and lod e Du n the e v c i ; had bge appr at (1)0 held L'ut of Serg e ! o r fat fees, :if ) him, be t ri the Fe ur ni . t rade Ce - eo cal t ;48 5 1 ' d 11° 9 gust, t he lt o s ): r eanb • Tile r b e pris . 00 )n sidera ti th I defe r s 'eh b fl , o er a pls.; to rryit 1° )n sider Bb ., j t, land W i , , re' able ''" t be cerY at : le Clir° 44 : c ~ ~,clt-) keg gain ta e se, g il pe ir en r t " ,be )08 10 05' their r• ti ,, dediucv ,0 d th a , ego_ 0 0 tis S la .tureS 0.0, ueh (i n e oil ti- of ;e crop • , 1 ove sat' s tte of c%' SPo l >Tlvr r<Tri T,TnENCE. iiACES. DONCASTIOZ, MONDAY AFTEROON, FOUR °TLC:CZ.— If we may form an opinion from present appearances, the ens u i ng meeting is not likely to be remarkable °Aber for the iti.erest or quantity of the racing; very few horses have arrived, the fivlels for all the standing engage mews will be small, and the entries made this afternoon for the Cup, Plates, &c., show a great ailing cif. :3et.reely any lodgings have as yet found tenants, but as none of the spec ial trAins have arrived, it is impossible to lay what effect the next half-doz .n hours may hare ou the prospects of the town; the indications all lead to the co: elusion that the attendance will be consie:erably bel,ew the av rage. Tha large sum contributed to the race-fund by the town-council, and their u-ireserved abandonment of the manage meat of the meeting to the Jockey Club, entitled the inhabitants to expect better things ; if they are disappoint( d on the present wash n, we have no doubt, from the alterations Which will be made is the appropriation of the public Money, and in the conditions and arrangement of the principal stakes, that the future progress of the meet ings will be upward ; albeit from the great number of rich two and three year old stakes previously run for at the Spring meetings, and at Goodwood, Liverpool, York, .tk s e-, the fields for engagements of a similar class at aioncaster must be materially affacted. The Subscription-room, newly painted and re-deco rated, in a style creditable to the liberality and taste of the proprietors, was opened on Saturday, but up to the present hour not a blow has been struck. The Flying •Dutehman, who arrived on Saturday, is looking remark ably well, and never went better in his life. The " field" will be much smaller than was calculated on last week, no one here believing that it will exceed nine or ten. Chatterer is not coming, and Uriel, Volcano, Loup- Mon, and Vatican, are looked upon as " doubtful." The following list of the horses now in the town will bear out our remade as to the prospect of sport : Ifoneycombe, Castanette, William the Conqueror, Flying Dutchman, Keleshm, Manifold, Elthiron, Ellerdale, St. George, Knight of Avenel, L-titia, Ehe dycina, Ellen Middleton, Ili rbert, Little Cassino, Maid of Team Valley, Westow, the Cantab (3 Yrs), Swiss Boy, Gleam, Swift, Lammermoor, Confede I.4 eYe Steppingstone, Lady Superior, Leonidas, Lady Speedy, ‘Vitcheralt, Fellow-commoner, Cockermouth, Lady Evelyn, Pheesant, Old Dan Tucker, Penthe ilea, Sirs. Taft, Ferule, Humphrey ; T. I)ansott's, J. Dawson's liesseltine's, Scott's, Dilly's, Ford's Dockeray's, and A. Taylor's, and some other lots have not yet arrived. ENTRIES. TUEBDAF.—Bitzw•illiam Stakes. No race. - _ Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each, for two yrs old:—Step- Pingston e, Leghorn, Manifold, St. George, Rhedycina, and Witchcraft. Selling Stakes—The Little Queen, Little Cassino. Pheasant, Confederacy, and Lammermoor. WEDNE,DAT.—Sweepstakes of 10 sous each, for two and three yrs old:—Lady Bountiful, the Recluse, Step- Pingstone, Italian, St. George, Rhedycina, Humphrey, Potentia filly, and Goldfinch. Queen's Plate—Ellerdale and Swiss Boy. FRIDAY.—The Cup : —Ellerdale, Snow storm, Canezou, Swiss Boy, Westow, and Maid of Team Valley. DONCASTER, TUESDAY MORNING. LATEST BETTING (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH). ST. LEGER. 2 to 1 on The Flying Dutchman 9 to 1 agst Old Dan Tucker 14 to 1 agst Nunnykitk 20 to 1 agst Herbert THE CHAMPAGNE STARES. 6 to 4 on William the Conqueror SPORTING NOTES. No. XII. " I'll go for the Field, My lut cast, by tho gods." YATES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Srn,—Upon information received by telegraph this Morning, I hear that the field for the St. Legtr not exceed ten, and they are the folluwing:—Oid Dan Tucker, Saucy Dick, Flying Dutchman, Honeycomb, Elthiron, Herbert, Westow, Nunnykirk, Volcano, an 1 Vatican; the starting of Uriul and Loup-pron is extremely dubious. Old Dan, Volcano, Saucy Dick, and Nunnykirk are in splendid con dition—quite up to the mark ; and it strikes ate the Dutchman, although in superb fettle, will have more to do than he can accomplish, when he tackles the D.'s both " old" and " saucy," for the finish ing struggle to-morrow, without taking into considera tion the volcano that Scott is preparing. I am, Sir, yours, &c., THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF. Sept. 11, 1849. CRICKET. ELEVEN OF ENGLAND v. EIGHTEEN OF LEAMINGToN. Thia match commenced yesterday morning at . Lea mington. The following was the score at the end of the first day's play : ENGLAND-FIRST INNINGS. Chatterton—c Parr, b Armitage ... ••• Clarke—b Wisden ... Box—c Leigh, b Armitage ... F. Pilch—c Rose, b Armitage ... ••• Sampson—c Leigh, b Armitage ... D.q.—c Selby, b W istlin N. Felix, E , q.—c Guernsey, b Armitage ... Guy — c Selby, b Wisden ... ... Martingell—c Wisden, b Armitage ... fl. Pickford, Esq.—not out ... ..• ••• Rillyer—c Armitage, b Wisden B 6, w 0, nb 0 Total ••• LEAMINGTON.--FIRST INNINGS. A llaygartb, --b Hillyer Rev. H. H. Anderson—run out ••• fir. Davis—not out ... Ps.lethorpe—not out ... ..• 82,w0, nb 0 ... ... 7 ... 20 ... 5 ... 5 ... 2 Total ... 39 THE ARMY. ROYAL ARTILLERY.—WOOLWICH, SEPT. 10.—The Master-General has been pleased to approve, by general order, of the following transfer of officers: — Second Lieutenant L. B. Higgins, from Major Turner's company, 6th battalion, to Captain . Stnythe's company, 6th battalion. Second Lieutenant T. L. Danes, from Captain Poole's company, 2d battalion, to Captain Bereford's company, 10th battalion. Second Lieutenant C. Carpenter, from Captain Col lington's company, Ist battalion, to Captain Hamilton's company, 12th battalion. Second Lieutenant F. Luard, from Captain Young's company, 7th battalion, to Captain Crawford's company, 10th battali o n. Second Lieutenant A. H. Murray, from Captain Bing ham's company, Bth battalion, to Captain M'Coy's com pany, sth battalion. Second Lieutenant J'. A. P. Adams, from Major Thorndike's company, 4th battalion, to Captain St. George's company, 10 battalion. Second Lieutenant R. Mackenzie, from Captain Ken nedy's company, 7th battalion, to Captain Townsenn's company, 12th battalion. Second Lieutenant W. G. Lo Mesurier, from Captain Morris's company, 2d battalion, to Captain Cockburn's company, 12th battalion. Second Lieutenant T. C. Molony, from Captain bacre's company, sth battalion, to Major Rowan's com pany, 12th battalion. Second Lieutenant G. B. Garvey. from Captain Fitz gei ald's company, sth battalion, to Captain Wodehouse's company, 10th battalion. Second Lieutenant A. Noble, from Capta'n Hill's company, Bth battalion, to Captain Ntarriott's company, 10th battalion. &Toad Lieutenant G. K. Taylor, from Captain Gam bier's company, 2d battalion, to Captain Mitchell's company, 10th battalion. Assistant. Surgeon Allinson has been appointed to the Royal Horse Artillery, Assistant-Surgeon 110 ward being on duty at Dublin. CHEAP OMNIBUS TRAVELLING.—Last night Z. highly respectable meeting of the inhabitants of Ken sington took place at the King's Arms, for the purpose of forming an association to start some omnibuses which will give the inhabitants of K. , nsington the same cheap travelliog which is now enjoyed by all the other environs of the metropolis. This being only a preliminary meet ing, the business was confined to the appointment of a committee of 13 of the inhabitants of Kensington, who aro to endeavour to carry out the intentions, and who will call an early meeting of the inhabitants, and lay before them the plan they may decide upon. It is a singular fact that the old fares of 61. and ls. are now charged from Kensington, whereas to any other part of the suburbs the fares are only 3J. This must act very prejudicially upon the intere4s of the town of Kensington. THE LONDON NEW FEVER HOSPlTAL.—Yester day the new hospital, erected iu the Liverpool-road, Is lington, was opened for the reception of patients. The building contains accommodation for 200 persons, and its cost, together with furnishing, amounts to about 20,000/. METROPOLITAN WATER SUPPLY.—Last evening, a meeting of the inhabitants of St. Pancras was held, to consider the present supply of water, and the means of promoting a more abundant increase of pure soft Water to all classes of the metropolitan community " Churchwarden Francis Healy, Esq., was called to the chair. Mr. Taberrer explained the objects of the Me tropolitan Water Supply Association. As the pro- Pectus has been already before the public, it will per haps be sufficient to state that the general principle is to incorporate the whole water service of London into one establishmnt, under the control of a responsible public c ommission; to be self-supporting, and the necessary funds to be raised upon rates to be levied for a term of thirty years, for which purpose it is proposed to apply to Parliament next session for an Act. A parochial committee was appointed to support the project, and the meeting then dissolved. The colonelcy of the 19th Foot, vacant by the demise of Sir Warren Peacocke, has been conferred on a ltir-General Charles Turner, commanding at Cork. sterday on the report of Dr. Gavin Milroy, the General Board of Health ordered the Spafielda burial gyounds and also the buritil-grounds at St. Butolph, Bishopsgate, and tho St. Thomas's burial- ground, o ideu-lane, S. Luke's, to be cloted. . 69 THE CHOLERA. RETUIiN t.-E1'1. , 0 AND 10. Holborn Union ... St. Giles and St. George West London St. George, Sout'maik Greenwich Bethnal• green ... St. Olave Bermondsey (Sep - . 3to S 7) Lambeth ... • • W hitechapel Stepney .. ... St. George-in- the-ast Newington, Surrey . ... Marylebone ... St. Pancras ... Poplar ... ... Strand ... St. George, Hanover-square ... St. James, Westminster Clerkenwell St. Luke ••• ... Camberwell ... St. Saviour, Southwark Hackney ... ... Islington ... ... Kensington ... Wandsworth ... Lewisham East London ... Shoredi►ch Rotherhithe Chelsea... City of London St. Martin in.the-Fields Westminster ... Edmonton .. ••• Tottenham (Aug. 22 to Sept. 7) Hampstead ... • • • ....... • • • '''' . • • ''' - ..• "-- .. • --- • • • '''''' ••• .'". ... - • • • "''' ... - ••• ""'' ••• ... •• • ....". • • • ''''" ••• ...'''... ... ''... . • • "--" •• • ...'. • • • ..."."' ••• ."'"' ••• .....'. ••• ''''' .• • -- •• • ...... •• • ''''" ••• .... Total ... ..• --' THE COUNTRY. Attacks. Liverpool . Merthyr Tydvil Clifton Cardiff ... Carmarthen Swansea ... Portsea ... ... ... Warrington ... Newcastle-under-Lyne ... Tynemouth Lancaster Brighton Ne at h ... •. • West Barn ... Bradford and North Bierlcy Sculcoates ... Bristol ... ... Gravesend and Milton ... Maidstone ... ... St. Germans ... ... Hoch ford Dewsbury (up to Sept. 8) . . York ... Derby ... Dover ... Anglesey ••• Leeds (Sept. 7,8, and 9) Hunslet ••• ••• Wolverhampton and Siesdon Nantwich Holy well ••• ••• • Bridgwater ... . Barn..taplo • East Stonehouse ••• South Shields ... ••• . Shepton Mallet ... • Halif ax ••• ••• I Hull ... Wilton ••• ••• I Salford... ••• ••• Penkridge Bolton ••. ••• Pontypool Tavistock . Bury ... . Preston ••• ••• . Madeley ••• • Wolstanton . Manchester ... . Gainsborough Ashton-under-Lyne ... Abergavenny Abingdon . Alverstoke Alnwick . Great Broughton (Chester) ... Birmingham ... Bedminster ... Barnet ... Chorlton Coventry ••• Chertsey ar Croydon and Mitcham Dudley Dartibrd ••• Eeclesfield Eton ..• ..• Goole ... Hertford Ramsgate Margate ••• Loughborough Gateshead ... Glanford Brigg Leigh . Liskeard Leicester Lincoln Llaudillo faur... ..• Mansfield (up to Sept. 9) ... Macclesfield ... Mailing (Kent) ••. St. Austell (Cornwall) Aston Axminster Altrinchsm Bangor and Beaumaris Billericay ... Belper ••• ••• Bedford ••• ••• Bleam ••• ••• Bedale Bromley ••• ••• Beverley ••• ••• Bicester ••• ••• Chorley ••• ••• Chester-le-Street ... Canterbury ... Droxford Dorchester and Cerne Downham Market ... Doncaster ••• Eeclesall, Bierlou Eltham Epping... Gt anthem Hollingbourne... Holsworth Haverrordwest Hoo ..• Hitehin ••• Hay.•• ••• Keighley ••• Keyusham Stamford Kidderminster Total ... ... THE METROPOLIS. SUPERINTENDING REGISTRAR'S DISTRICT. Dcaths. Attacas. Cholera. Diarrh. 8 3 25 2 10 0 16 1 25 2 15 2 3 0 60 60 5 9 2 2 1 4 2 24 1 20 0 13 3 13 1 7 1 5 1 4 0 4 0 6 3 35 5 12 1 7 1 14 1 7 2 10 3 1 1 7 3 21 4 5 1 15 1 3 0 5 0 7 1 6 1 4 4 0 0 Deaths. Cholera. D larrh 27 3 6 0 13 2 8 1 3 0 7 0 6 3 2 1 8 34 4 2 0 7 7 6 0 2 0 28 1 38 2 12 1 6 O ' 1 8 0 4 0 .33 0 4 2 0 1 3 0 4 0 - 150 9 - 34 2 - 73 4 1 0 0 1 O 2 2 0 2 0 4 4 2 1 0 1 - 66 1 0 9 2 1 0 8 0 3 0 - 11 0 0 1 0 4 4 0 1 0 - 34 20 2 1 1 0 O 1 1 1 1 0 5 0 2 0 0 1 4 0 2 0 - 10 0 - 20 0 1 0 7 0 7 0 6 0 - 9 0 - 3 0 - 2 0 - 1 0 - 2 0 - 4 0 - 0 1 - 5 0 - 1 0 - 1 0 2 0 ... ... ... -- 0 1 ••• ••• ••• '''''' 0 1 - 1 0 3 0 - 2 0 - 1 0 1 0 1 0 O 1 O 1 2 0 - 1 0 - 0 2 6 4 - 0 2 - 6 0 - 1 0 - 1 0 - 21 1 - 1 0 - 1 0 -• 8 0 - 2 2 - 0 1 - 1 0 - 1 0 - 3 0 - 2 . 0 - 1 0 - 2 1 - 1 0 1 0 1 2 1 0 1 0 THE SUN, 856 136 SCOTLAND. Dundee ... ... ••• --14 0 Auchtnithe (Arbroath) ••• 3 0 Dunbar ••• ••• ••• 8 0 Kerriemuir .. ••• ••• 1 0 Dores ... ... ••• ••• --1 0 Perth ... .., ..• ... 5 0 Arbroath ... ... ..• 1 0 13 , ith ... ... ... ... 2 0 Denholm ... .• ••• 4 0 4 0 Hatt , ink •• • •• • •• • Total ... ... ... 43 0 General total:— Metropolis ... ... 432 59 Country ••• ••• 856 136 Scotland 43 0 General total ... 1,331 195 Note.—The number of attacks reported 11 the union officers are—for the metropolis .1,069, and for the country 1,195; but their returns do not, in general, comprehend the cases that are treated by medical men in private practiee. PLYMOUTH AM) DEVONPORT.—The cholera at Plymouth and Devonport, we regret to learn, is nothing better in either town. The total loss in each is—Devon port, about 500; Plymouth, about 350; Stonehouse, about 135. At Stonehouse the mortality is about one death daily; and in the Royal Naval Hospital there is not now even one case of cholera, and only about fifteen of diarrhoea. The total cases with us have been 111 of cholera and diarrhoea between the 12th of July and the Sth of September. Of these thirty-five were cases of con firmed cholera when they were brought in, and many of the diarrhoea cases, likewise, advanced to cholera; and yet only twenty - five altogether have died, twenty-two of whom were in collapse when they were brought in, one of whom, most strange to tel l, recovered, and is now nearly well. Out of these 111 cases not any have died that were brought in within three ho urs of their being attacked; thus proving that everything depends on early application, added, of course, to skilful practice, such as has been evinced in the Royal Naval Hosp ital by Dr. Rae, the inspector, whose indefatigable exertions have been beyond all praise. Indeed, the medical staff gene rally deserve every commendation. The two assistant surgeons that have been doing duty at Torpoint, Messrs. Bowdon and M'Clare—the former of whom had been so usefully employed at Ness, as well as the two now at Cawsann—Mcasrs. Gruggen and Harnley, have received the most grateful acknowledgements of the inhabitants of these places for their valuable and unceasing labours. THE SURREY SessioNs.—Yesterday morning, on the list of tradesmen being called over to serve on the jury at the adjourned sessions, every other name was excused on the plea of suffering under attacks of diarrhoea and cholera. Four cf them had tied sincei Friday. They were all summoned from the neightourhood of Kennington-lane and the Kennington-road, where the disease rages in a frightful manrer. Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial , office, tram the Governor of St. Helena. DPAINS SHOULD BE HORIZo.A jr.pleca LfetiCA. ciDiaLr4.." ctilet4 11 7. , ,- )//// "77,?%i;, ~'", --,,,, ,;, , ; ~,-;-: ~ . - 142:e, ; - -,-,,,, j/,, ,-,-;,- -,.::-..- ---:: std, L , "...-•,,,,7//////77 1.1._/.. //////, M , . _Th, C I \ I . . M q f l ',1 4 o I , .".".n 1 ••• r' --- •• •f, 7 ;1 , , '.t b 1 .,,.. i ~,, .•.: '), ti C r :~~'( g~1,!~ ,~ ►ail OF THE SUN. , ,- ~ LI t .4 " The country people are not very practicable, but theY are still practical. They like a a good fall,' princi pally because they have not instruments to draw hori z mtal lines on irregular ground: they well know that to lay a spot dry on a slope the drain must be above that spot, their notion being that a nearly horizontal drain cuts off the water,' and even if this should be theoretically inaccurate, they can demonstrate to any bystander that drains leading right down the hill as now directed can have scarcely any proper effect : remembering always that the hilly field is what requires some sort of relief the most imperiously us there the washing away of roil by rain and plough leaves the insufferable clay almost bare, except towards the foot of the hill. The labourers also know that a flat field is more easily laid dry,' partly because there is less difficulty in setting out the drains. The axiom—Water finds its level, ap plies not only to the course of drains but also to the tranverse motion or filtration of the moisture into the drains through pores and veins, gradually formed in the soil—but never in the clay below. Mr. Smith hopes to make the subsoil friable, and brings as a sign that cracks an eigth of an inch wide appear—in summer it must be presumed—which cracks are merely a natural pro vision for re-admitting rain when winter soaks the fields,' and again swamping the whole mass. It seems hard to urge the formation of such deep large drains which can never ameliorate the clay excluded from sun and air—if the drains are quite out of reach of the f lough, and if as deep as the surface soil, it is enough. The h cturer seemed aware that the under clay will not materially implove, for in addition to expensive drainage, he recommended yearly subsoil ploughing, with an ap paratus, proventus et commeatus more fit for a Cawbool army than for a small farm—yet by small farms Tus cany and Belgium are fertilized, and, by large farms the Roman Carnpagna was originally desolated. "Experience shews that draining fails in some situ ations and will not secure a continued percolation under every part of the ground. For brevity's sake, I suppose two simple cases. "Case I.—A square field of three acres, each side measuring about 120 yards—the ground sloping from the upper side to the lower at a rate of one in seven— depth of pervious, percolable soil ten inches—below that, the usual viscid, tenacious clay of every colour, tinged with iron. Suppose a drain cut horizontally, as it ought to be, along the top side of the field, and filled with pipes, tiles, stones, alder faggots, or what you please. Now at the assumed slope of one in seven, which is a moderate declivity even for roads, the bottom of the porous, permeable soil will be horizontally level with a point, in the field's surface, less than two yards from the drain;—'ueyond that point it positively cannot operate except a foot or two by capillary suction, so that to lay dry the sloping field of three acres will re quire GO drains, each 120 'yards, and a larger down one side to receive their contents—total 7,320 yards. Case 2.—A field of three acres, 120 yards square, as in the first case, but on level ground. Founded on experience I assert that a level field will be better drained with a trench (opt n or not) round the four sides and one along the middle total six hundred yards, than the sloping field of same contents with 7,320. Every part of the level field is acted on by every part of each drain; and if we suppose the shape oblong—say 144 yards by 100 —still better, for then no point in the field will be more than 25 yards from a drain."—(The Sun, 10:h April, 1843.) The subject of draining has been confused by lecturers leaving so much to the discretion of cate choumenoi in laying out drains " properly," or " according to circumstances," or convenablement. There are at least five species of draining which have but little affinity to each other, and these distinctions are necessary to a clear idea of the matter. 1. The arterial or main draining so essential for Ireland.—These canals receivins the mouths of drains do more than half the farmer s work, which can not fail to be acceptable in reclaiming his bit o' bog. Here the fallacy meets you again. Sup posing the arterial canal a mile long, the " good fall" cannot well be less than one yard per mile. Eh bien! in many cases it is impossible to lower the embouchure that much, so that the upper end will he three feet too high—enough to drown the whole bog-paradise. The arterial drains only apply to level strata, as in Pontine Marshes, and since flat ground is more easily drained than hills, or indeed almost drains itself, their utility is immense. 2. The next case is exceptional and the remedy a curious one. On hilly ground the rain or surface water in some places trickles down and collects in a hollow. Where this happens, the drain trenches drawn as already described, on a dead level, should be filled with stones up to the top, and the grass will grow over ; but on arable ground where the plough would disturb the drains, the hollow must he opened out or levelled. In this case only, the drain ob viouily receives the water from the area above it. 3. Where considerable springs are found in the land, on which point there is much traditional lore among the labourers, the best plan is to dig a hole or short ditch above the place where the spring comes I out (for these springs are usually on the side of a hill) till the workman's head cannot be seen; then throw the earth in again, and it is found that the spring disappears. 4. The extreme case of springs in disastrous con junction with viscid, tenacious clay of every queer colour protruding through a shallow mould. Such fields, formed in scalenes and trapezia, rejoice in de nominations like "rushy bottom," or " road field." They must be trenched as well as drained with the utmost care. So that in general it is better to plant alder and willow whose prodigious vitality enables them to live in despite of stagnation ; while they are reputed to flourish because of that infernal power ! 5. The case which forms the subject of this epistle —called thorough-draining ; but on ground much sloped trenching best deserves the name of thorough draining, for it makes the whole field one drain thorougly and throughout. " It was shown above in the supposed case of a slop ing field, that the upper drain lays dry only two yards of surface, but the closest hitherto adopted have been five yards asunder: what then becomes of the three yards remaining, en which the lower drain has indisputably no power?—The rain (to ray nothing of springs) fills every hollow of that remaining space, more particularly the footmarks poached by cows, not let out merely by a sort of ha/scus corpus in May, but kept out during the humid autumn and deep into the winter. In all such cavities the water lies soaking, stagnant, and dead, poi soning the liberal' plants and nourishing every creature that can defraud the land, till a storm of rain drives some of it down the hill beyond the five yards, when it is quietly drawn back into the second drain. Whenever a silent level transpiration is established in deep soil, we so far banish the great enemy of all that lives—obstruc tiveness—and substitute a peaceable agitation identical in some sort with vitality itself. Virgil in the Georgics dwells much on these spiracles, and gives them a living genial warmth. Sea plures calor ille visa et caeca relaxat Spiratnenta, TIOVR3 veniat qua succus in herbas... Uncle caves tepido sudant humore lacunae'... And elsewhere, —'Exudat inutilis humor... venas adstrirgit hiantes. . fervetque fretis spirantibus To effect this internal circulation is the purpose of all tillage—from the steam plough to the garden rake: but when the shallowness of porous working soil and the unctuous clay below keep the surface in a perpetual alter nation of swamp and baking, curative means should be taken. In the ancient mythus of a father commanding his sons to dig for treasure, the original Greek implies, Dig two spits d ee p'—so at least a learned friend in forms me. Trenching cautiously managed is altogether superior to drains or subsoil ploughing, while, ou billy ground, every other method is either ruinously expen sive or totally vain. The upper soil must be thrown into the provisional trench, the sinister, malignant clay dragged into light, and the whole field turned wrong side up to the depth of twenty inches. A year will convert all this into very choice humus provided a first crop is secured by copious, not extraordinary manure—but then, the surface soil must be buried—impito,yablement, to act LONDON, TUES DAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 11, 1849, as a drain throughout. Let the village sage stand by, and shrke his hoary locks and stern kwspeale—raver mind him—for once he is wrong ! Tile ground is used up, of ycnomous Aveids and more useful b,tow. Nor is a rel,p,,e to be apprehended—no time can change anou!d into clay, as on the other hand no subsoil plough can chtug. clay into mould—but trenching will."—( ('he Sun, April lOtb, 1543.) Why then recommend draining v, hen trenc . aing is better ? Because the latter is much inure expen-ive but with a great declivity so many drains are required as to come near the cost of trenching.—l have the honour to te, &c , Sedt. 10, 1849. 11. C. ARGENT. P.S.—Sir R. Peel is comparing Mr. Smith of Deansfon with Mr. Josiah Parkes on his farms at Tatnworth. "To read Jeremy Taylor and to ccm pare him with Cicero" would be as useful. Akan while, the inutilis humor of Ireland finds its level, percolating the foundations of empires and rolling them away, as soon as O'Connell dies. A subtle fire, quenched in tears, purifies the nations—destra bile shakes them—a tribula or threshing car driven round and round by Messrs. Guizot and Limlrtine vis ci-vis, sifts out the mystic wheat—the deluge in voked by Metternich, "apris woi le deluge," is come—the leaves of whole forests are shaken by a mighty wind. A very intelligent German observed in Sir It. Peel "a peculiar douceur when approlching lords and ladies," and Mr. Disraeli confessed the same weakness, or pity ; but alas ! the age of douceurs is past, and gratifications of that sort will become rare. No more protection of rich and patron age of nobles ! That picturesque situation, alms taking wealth, alms-giving poverty, is placed among the dissolving views. No more differential exemption of turbot and lobster sauce, diseriminatiog admission of silk and gloves, as in 1824, before Hu s ki sson walked the plank. No future bread-tax, sinless clearly paid by foreigners, will be justified as "patent sinecure" or " extending the pension-list to the whole nobility," or " necessary to effect mar riage settlements and maintain mortgages." Never more will Sir Robert go so far as to say that " the majority of Lords ' (which may be two peers or one peer with proxies, and in O'Connell's case was little more) that " the majority of Lords being agreed, the constitutional instrument was in harmony." The Lords may think themselves lucky that he has never swerved into treachery, or corruption, or imprudence, or immorality—never taken place or party to enhance any species of pro perty. For even Lord Morpeth spoke of " his tenure of holding offices under the Crown," as if, like Lord Castleton in " The Caxton," he must needs protect his various tenures by legislating a serits of privilegia or bye-laws at Counc I-board with Tn. vanion !—Fiat sacrificulus, pagum decipiat—populus vult decipi—decipiatur. But what, 0 Peel, si Populus vult un-decipi? THE BERMONDSEY MURDER. fIIPORTANT PARTICULARS. Yesterday another important link in the evidence connecting the Meanings with the murder of O'Con nor was discovered. It is well known that on SaturLy, the 11th of August, Airs. Manning hired a woman to clean the lower part of the house No. 3, MinverThue, but although every exertion has been made by the police to discover this person, they were unsuccessful until yesterday, when. Burton, after con siderable difficulty, ascertained that a young girl was in the habit of attending several of the houses in the vicinity for the purpose of washing the steps and assisting the servants. He also heard from a neighbour that she was seen to enter Alanning's house at an early hour on Saturday morning. He accord ingly made active inquires about her, and yesterday succeeded in finding her residing with her relatives in Bermondsey. Her name is Hannah Former, and she informed the authorities that about nine o'clock on Saturday morning, the 11th of August, Mrs. Manning called her into No. 3, Minver-place, and engaged her to clean the house. She c!eancl the upper part, and found several spots like blood on the wall of the passage leading to the kitchens, which she endeavoured to wash off. After she had cleaned that portion of the place she proceeded to the back kitchen, and was about to clean it, when Mrs. Manning came up to her and pulled her away, exclaiming " I cleaned this place yesterday, and it don't want scrubbing any more." The girl said that she saw a square basket in the back kitchen covered with lime, which Mrs. Manning told her to wash. While she was performing that office she found there was not water sufficient, conse quently she left it as discovered by Burton. During the time she was in the house that day Mrs. Manning went out two or three times, and about twelve o'clock at noon Manning came down stairs and stamped with his foot, as if in a passion. He called out to his wife, " Give it me directly." Mrs. Manning replied, " Yes, I will directly," and she went upstairs; but she could not tell what afterwards passed. Manning remained in the house while his wife returned to the back kitchen and fried some beefsteaks for dinner. The girl said that the back kitchen was extremely wet, and that the stones in the passage appeared to have been recently rubbed with a brick or stone. She also found that the dust-hole was full of mould, dirt, and some mortar mixed with it. The girl was taken to the Home-office last evening by the police, to make her statement to the solicitor of the Treasury. Her evidence will be given at the next examination on Saturday. The cholera has attacked some of the witnesses since the last examination. Mr. Bassett, eerk to Messrs. Killick, sharebrokers, Bank-buildings, to whom Man ning disposed of O'Connor's Eastern Counties shares, was suddenly attacked on Friday night with cholera, and expired on Saturday morning. His corpse was • interred on Sunday. Mr. Hammond was also at tacked on Sunday, and is not expected to live. Both were in good health and spirits on Friday afternoon when at the Police Court. ARRIVAL of CAPT. HINRICIISON. We announced in The Sun of yesterday, the ar rival of the ship Duncan, from Calcutta, at Liver pool on Sunday morning, but the following particu lars respecting Captain Hinrichson will be read with interest : Early on Saturday morning the telegraph revealed that at six o'clock on the previous night the Duncan had been off Holyhead ; and about noun it was learned that she had arrived off Point Lynas, and that a pilot had just been got on board. A steam tug was soon afterwards signaled for, and the vessel entered the river. Mr. James Aikin, the owner of the Duncan, who has throughout exhibited the liveliest interest in the captain's welfare, had a boat waiting to enable his friends at the first possible moment to board the vessel; and as soon as the ship had entered the river, Mr. Parsons, surgeon, of 100, Mill - street, a friend more than professionally interested, Captain Coikhill (an old acquaintance of Captain Ilinrichson's), and Mr. Williams, book• keeper, to Messrs. Aikin, em barked and boarded the Duncan when between Near Brighton and Egremont. The duty of conveying to the commander of the Duncan the announcement of his appalling losses, happily, however, for these gentlemen, did not require to be fulfilled. The sad catastrophe, it would appear, had been made known to Captain Ilinrichson on touch • ing for water, &c., at St. Helena. The messenger of ill news is ever fleet; anti the vessel had scarcely anchored before a person, usually the purveyor, made his way to the ship. He told Captain Hinrichson that lie had news, sad news for him. " Well," an swered the unfortunate master, " these are my mates, I have no secrets; tell me before them." The pur veyor, however, beckoned him to his own cabin, and there acquainted him, perhaps abruptly, that his wife and two children had fallen by a murderer's hand. Mr. Hinrichson stared at first incredulously, even smiled; but staggered by the serious deportment of his informant, and being assured that the intelligence was, alas, but too true, fell upon the floor in a fit. The mournful tidings were conveyed to St. Helena by the ship Success, from London ; and so strong was the sympathetic feeling evinced towards Captain Henrichson by the respectable portien of the inhabi tants of the island that every means were used to prevent the sad news becoming known to the unfor tunate man during his stoppage at that place. The Government medical officer, in his official capacity, was the first person who boarded the Duncan on her arrival in that harbour, and although asked if there was any news, on reflection, he hesitated to communi cate the harrowing intelligence. Captain Hinrichson is a man of great physical vigour, of strong natural feelings, and it requires a delicate pen to add subsequent details. The Duncan occupied 53 days in coming from St. Helena to Liverpool, and during the voyage the esteemed cap tain was subject to paroxysms of the deepest grief, inducing close supervision, certainly not restraint. When the party arrived here and the boat had come alongside, his more immediate friends first ad vanced to the cabin. On witnessing them, he wrung his hands and cried, "My wife where is my wife ?" He also referred in the most affecting terms to his children, and exclaimed that their father had come and would see them wherever they were laid. "Is there not one left ?" he eagerly in quired. "Where is my Ann (his wife), where my little Harry, and where my Alfred ?" He was urged to go home. The word grated on his ears and aroused recollection. Ile cried „ I have no home." Only after much persuasion did lie leave the ship. We ought perhaps before to have stated that Mrs. Harri• son (the mother of Mrs. Hinrichson) and other mediate relatives had engaged suitable accoulmodation for him at a house in Upper Pitt street, the number of which, for obvious reasons, we do not supply. It being about high water on her arrival, the Duncan was taken direct into the Prince's Dock, and a coach conveyed the unhappy sufferer and his friends to the lodgings prepared. On reaching the house, Captain Hinrichson threw himself into the arms of hie mother-in law, and passionately cried," Where is my wife ?" He afterwards calmed down and retired to rest. It is asserted that he scarcely slept twenty four hours on the whole voyage from St. HO( na, and that he kept constantly pacing the deck. That a man with such great and heavy griefs should be deeply affected was a natural consequence; but, although , reason had been shaken on her throne, she yet retains her seat. " Tell Mr. Aikin," cried the poor sufferer, in the height of his sorrow, on seeing Mr. Williams, " that I have brought the Duncan safe home." He is rational ; but the memory of his mournful less, on recurring, naturally distracts. It is, perhaps, worthy of remark, as shorting his superior nature, that, much as he has lamented the loss of his dead partner and family, Captain Hin richson has never yet referred, vindictively or other wise, to their munlerer. He did not leave his lodg ings yesterday. It is, perhaps, not generally known that the servant, Mary Parr, he a son on board the Duncan. The news at St. Helena bore sadness to him also, for he had lust a mother, and his only friend. Yesterday morning the Rev. Mr. Pollock, the respected incumbent of St. Mark's, referred at the opening of his sermon to the event of Captain Hinrichson's arrival. He was extremely sorry, he said, that he had misled his audience on the Sunday evening previous. He owned that, in common with the excellent clergyman who was h:s informant, he had been deceived, although he had taken every pains to test the accuracy of the information which they received. If, however, what he had said had been the means of inducing some of the audience to pray on behalf of the afflicted man, he did not regret the mistake. That afflicted man had at length arrived, and he was, indeed, in such a state both of body and of mind as to need all their sympathy. MAGAZINES, &c.—(CONTINUED.) d ST. JAMES'S MAGAZINE, and Heraldic an Historical Register. Ea'ited by J. .Thrnard Burke' Esq. Ko. 1. At the time that Mr. Bernard Burke in 1011. C. quence of the death of his father, announcA the dis continuance of the Patrician, we, in expressing our regret, at the same time urged him t o s t art some ne - w magazine, in which should he embodied the I.iading features of the Patrician, and here we have the St. James's Magazine devott=d to the same sub jects, got up with the same care and taste, and pub. fished at the same price. The " Heraldic Register," containing engravings and th , scriptions of arms, in completion of Guillim, Edmondson, and Nisbett, is so arranged and numbered as to admit of its being bound at the end of the year as a separate volume, illustrated with the armorial engravings. The present number is also illustrated by a beautiful lithograph of Broughton Castle. COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS' ooLs • On Sunday , the 9th instant, a sermon on behalf of the above named excellent institution , wa s preached before the Right Hon. the Lord Mayo r and Sheriffs , in St. Mary-le-Bow, Cheapside. Th e t reasurer and other officers of the in stitution, with a very large number of the members of the board of management, were in attendar ce to receive his Lordship, who arrived at the church door at a few mintrtea before eleven o'clock, and was conducted in great ceremony to his seat, preceded by one of the Under-Sheriffs, Mr. Sheriff Finnic, &c. Amongst the officers and supporttrs of the institution who preceded his Lordship as he entered the church, and was con ducted to his pew, we noticed Richard Groucock, Esq., John Mail., Esq., George M oore, Esq. (the treasurer), Robert Clarke, jun., Esq., R. M. Phillipps, Esq, John Baguallay, jun., E-q., George Lawrence, Esq., &c. The preacher for the occasion was the Rev. Daniel Moore, incumbent of Camden Church. The collection at the close of the service amounted to GU, the largest sum collected in Bow Church for any purpose for many curs. Mr. James Farrell, of the London press, died on Saturday evening, at hi 3 lodginge in Lambeth, of cholera, after a low hoard' illness. TO THE EDITO. SlR,—The following remarks on the not uninte- I resting subject of Draining may find a place in The Sun during the lull which precedes and follows our animated Parliamentary debates. A glance of inspec tion at the scheme or diagram prefixed might serve to convince your readers that all primary or working drains should be drawn horizontally or nearly so ; but my object is rather to give the testimony of a village I sage speaking from personal and hereditary experience. The immense damage of the system every where adopted is our apology for so unusual a frontispiece, necessarily on a small scale to suit the columns of a newspaper. Here you have the provisam rem which you may translate into verba non improvisa— "Picee out our imperfectiions by your thoughts Minding true things by what their mockeries are." As the ground which requires draining is com monly on a slope, the connecting or receiving drains, as Q, which empty the primary ones, must of course run down-hill, but they should be few—so that, form ing part of the boundary fence if possible, they may be left open and rot filled up. The primary drains which exhaust the moisture frcm the ground should be absolutely horizontal, if a spirit level or dumpy can be found, and nearly so if laid out by a six feet mason's level fitted with short legs to stilt up the straight edge above the inequalities of the ground. Nec nseus hic serino, sed quern, preecepit Ofellus. DECLARATION.—I, John Casselden, of Southborough, county of Kent, land-drainer, do solemnly and sincerely declare I have made forty thousand rod of drain in my time. I have had as much experience as any man round these parts and I know [as my father did before me and my grandmother too] that drains running straight down the hill can never lay the ground dry : they should be drawn cateru'ise and as near level as possible just to let the water off. Each drain cuts off the water from the ground below it, and does no good to the ground higher up the slope. I will bring fifty men to make a declaration like this, and I think it a great pity so much money should be thrown away on drains leading down the hills round here, and I make this solemn declaration conscientiously, believing the same to be true.—[Not made and subscribed before one of 11. M. Justices of the Peace: 5 and 6 W. IV. forbidding all declarations in which the magistrate 4 bare no statutable jurisdiction. As yet we bare not legislated on down-hill draining.] Thus far the excellent Casselden. The moisture which clings to the subsoil (see diagram) being de rived into the horizontal drain higher up the slope of the bill, is not affected by drain Q however useful the said Q in his way—and still less if possible is the moisture of any area exhausted by the drain lower down. The Casseldenian theory, übi supra, goes no further. I venture to add. The surface or rain water falling on the area below each drain also finds its way—nwdis minis, incertis moribus, by some hydraulic paradox, into that same drain, ex post facto. A given time after a given shower, walking with a foot each side the drain, you find the upper foot give the unmistakeable inkling of swamp—the lower, not. Here the drying of the ground lower than the drain must be ascribed to the surface water being sucked back into the drain, besides the grand principle of cutting of the water before it comes to the surface. — See J. C. loc. citut. The horizontal drain can be almost of any length— the water does not run out, but merely " weeps," and ' it is a great satisfaction after rain to see the nymphs gently weeping at their fountains. See arrow-headed characters in diagram. The man of letters may expect the water to find its way into the down-hill drain, Q. I doubt it. Labitur et labetur in omne volubilis avum, and will never march up along the side of the hill unless incul cated by drains to that effect. Your reporter is betrayed into quoting Latin—facit indignatio versus —but let him not be misunderstood—" his raptures are not conjured up to serve occasions of poetic pomp." Before he took to Claypatch here in the weald, he had been tenant-farmer several years in Ireland, piteous Ireland, dulcifying the odium agreste, odium Novercale, theologicum AND vatinianum re spectively, pacifying a cloud of taxgatherers, with much experience of landlordism, he lifted the chains they wore and found them heavy, he tasted the bitter mess set before them—total a dozen years toil and moil, cark and care, wear and tear of mind and body, making a few specks of earth greener, so that his short and simple annals may be found on parish books in connexion with the mysteries of rating: the opinions offered are practical, and, what is more, practicable ; they are not, like much advice offered to patient farmers, admirable—and impossible. It appears that Mr. Smith, of Deanston, never held land till 1843, and possibly has not found it answer. The reader, tired perhaps of exhaustive methods, may demur, and ask if your correspondent can lay the ground as dry as the subject ? Surely, a person may understand underdraining without being able to " read and write well." Lever is not Lorrequer, nor even Nimrod--the man who thinks is seldom the very same man that rides—he that makes books will not have time to make love. To imagine Quixute or even Sancho compiling biography, is to believe that Cer vantes could take windmills for giants, or le;ss good Dapple. In a double return of this sort the choice of Hercules was for hard work and delving—he left the Muses to their own Apollo, and so far one may imitate him without presumption. MEMORANDUM.—" It is not the evidence of truth," said Locke, " but some lazy anticipa tion, s.;me beloved presumption or unex amined supposition," from which men too often argue. Such is the notion that water requires a goad fall—incompatible moreover with the well known postulate—Water finds its level. On this principle depends the existence of Holland, where old Ocean, lifting his placid= caput, "Sees an amphibious world beneath him smile," and yet a very able reviewer lately spoke of Dutch men " economising the fall !" The Tuscan artist understands these things : yet Sismondi, a Swiss, in his beautiful Tableau de l' Agriculture toscane, at tributes the co/mate and other great works to economy of NW If any declivity were rcquil ed, Egypt would never have been metropolis or mother country of European and Asiatic civilization—Osiris, the Egyptian god, would never have prescribed bread and wine, nor the hero Sesostris carried the mysteries of Ceres and Bacchus to all nations. 110 - W can the Nile below the cataracts fall a single barleycorn when the Delta is continually rising ? " Oitia septem Pulverulenta vocat, septem sine fluorine vanes." The following sentences you were kind enough to print, several years ago : " Water will traverse a dead level with great rapidity; witness the current of an estuary, flowing equally fast in opposite directions, or observe a placid stream, Cum pace delabentis Etruscum in maze,' and again the same stream— • Cum fern diluvies quietus Irritat amnes.' A common flower-pot alio affords illustration: the fluid rises out of the saucer by capillary gravitation faster than it will descend from the surface: now, if it rises slowly and descends with difficulty, one may conclude it would prefer a level course. By wearing away of obsta • des, and filling of hollows, all channels have a tendency to obey the general law; and a navigable river, if not a series of levels, would necessarily be a torrent or rapid. So when the course chosen is much inclined, the sticks and stones (the lapides adesos stirpesquo raptas' of the poet in miniature) soon rise to the ceiling of the drain, unless the latter is far more capacious than economical,rc gard being had to carting of materials—but if the drain is horizontal the smallest thread of channel will suffice. air. Smith, of whom it is impossible to speak without gratitude, had frequently observed that 'the water wore away the earth and thd tiles fell in:' this he attributes to configuration of tiles, but the declivity is the cause. DESTRUCTIVE FIRES. CIIATDAM, SEPT. 10.—On Sunday a fire broke out on Sharsted Farm, a short distance from Chatham, in the occupation of Mr. James Edwards, of Rochester, which proved most destructive in its progress, and when at its height illuminated the country around for miles. The fire broke out about ten o'clock on Saturday night in a stable occupied by the horses of the fourth team, and soon spread to the stacks and surrounding buildings, including a large barn filled with wheat, a valuable thrashing machine, and an oast house which had been prepared for- use for the ensuing hopping, which Mr. Edwards purposed corn [miming this day. The property destroyed, besides the above, consistel of three ledges, five stables for twenty horses, six stacks of wheat, three of peas, and three of oats, all of this year's growth, together with several agricultural implements. By great exertion the granary and farmhouse were saved, as were the :Naggons, ploughs, and many other useful articles. The four horses in the stable were the fire originated were burnt, notwithstanding every effort was male to sate them ; they were brought to the door, but could not be moved beyond it, the poor animals all the while uttering the most piercing cries, which were heard half-a•mile from the spot. It was with the greatest difficulty the other horses, fif teen in number, were saved. They were re moved from their stables and turned into an ad joining field, but the crowd of persons hastening from Chatham alarmed the animals, and they came galloping back towards the flame, and were with difficulty prevented from rushing into the midst of them. The engines of the Kent and Sun offices were brought to the spot, but the supply of water was but scanty, the chief portion being obtained from a well on the premises, 190 feet deep. Fortunately the wind had shifted during the day, or nine other stacks must iaevitably have fallen a prey to the devouring element. It is pleasing to find that the labourers in the neighbourhood exerted themselves manfully in their endeavours to save the property ; but at the same time it must be observed, that from Chatham a law less gang appeared bent on plunder, who laid their hands on everything coming withi❑ their reach ; they entered the farmhouse also, and, after committing some depredations there, were, after great resistance, driven thence by the farm servants, who used the butt ends of their whips for the purpose of ejecting them. It is not improbable that among these fellows were several of the vagabonds brought hither by the races. The cause of the fire is unexplained, but there seems little doubt that it was accidental. Both the buildings and farming stock are insured in the Kent Fire-office. The loss will be heavy, as the stacks were large ones. It is estimated at about 4,0001. Whilst engaged in attempts to re duce the fire at Sharsted, the engines were required to suppress a fire which had broken out about twenty minutes past two o'clock on Sunday morning, in the house of Mr. Tucker, clothier and outfitter, No. 56, High street, Chatham. This fire was first discovered by the watchman, who with difficulty awoke the family, consisting of Mr. Tucker, his wife, and child, who at length escaped nearly in a state of nudity, the house, stock, and furniture being entirely destroyed. It was nearly two hours before the Sun and Dock yard engines arrived, at which time the adjoining house, No. 57, was entirely gutted, the fixtures and several sacks of potatoes, belonging to Mr. Grigg, fruiterer, who had just taken a lease of the premises, being destroyed. The house No. 55, occupied by Mr. Lynch, fruiterer, together with the stock, was also greatly damaged. This house is insured in the Atlas—Auk uninsured. The house N 0.56 is insured in the Sun. Unfortunately there was a short supply of water, and the engine from the barracks did not make its appearance. FIRE AID PROBABLE Loss OF LlFE.—About two o'clock yesterday morning a melancholy, and it is feared fatal, case occurred to Mrs. Storey, of I3rcmlcy street, St. George's-in-the-East. Mrs. Storey, who was fast asleep when the fire was dise%vered, was aroused just time enough to prevent her being entirely consumed. The bedding was burning around her, and while endea vouring to arrest the progress of the flames, she fell diwn in the room; by assistance she was rescued from her perilous state, but so dreadfully burnt that la( r life is despaired of. FEARFUL EXPLOSION OP A FIREWORK MANU FACTORY AT KENSINGTON.—Yesterday afternoon, about four o'clock, the town of Kensington was thrown into great alarm by a fearful explosion of gunpowder. It appears that for some time past a man named Jones bad been in the habit of manufacturing fireworks upon a very small scale, but within the last few days he had received an order to prepare fireworless to the extent of 50/. for one of the tea-gardens at Bayswat...r, where a a was to be given last evening, and it is supposed that the ac cident occurred while packing these combustibles. The police were immediately upon the spot, and rendered the most efficient assistance in extricating the unfortu nate inmates from beneath the ruins. The wife of the man was discovered burned in a most horrible manner, and immediately conveyed to the hospital, where she lies without the slightest chance of recovery, the flesh bang ing from many parts of her body. The man Jones is also frightfully burnt about the face and arms, but no serious apprehensions are entertained of his recovery. The house in which the explosion took place, also the one adjoining., are totally destroy ed, and the fire extended to some workshops in the rear, which are also burnt down; and had it not been for the prompt attendance of the firemen and the police the damage would have been much greater, from the very confined space where the accident took place—a small court, named Market passage, situate immediately opposite Kensington Old Church. EXCURSION TRIP TO THE ISLE OF WIG HT.-- Londoner, to the number of 2,000, or more, availed themselves yesterday of the chesp excursion trip to the Isle of Wight, which, we are happy to say, turned out to be entirely successful. They were conveyed, in two long trains, from the Waterloo station to Southampton, where three of the splendid boats of the South-Western Company were in readiness to take them across to Cowes. Although a considerable quantity of rain fell during the journey to Southampton, it ceased before the company got on board the boats, and the sky having brightened up, they were enabled to enjoy a very delightful sail, and to gladden their eyes with a magnificent view of the sea and the surrounding coast. On arriving at Cowes they soon dispersed themselves over different parts of the the island, which, for grandeur of scenery and salubrity of air, is excelled by but few places. Many were disap pointed at not being allowed to approach nearer Osborne House than the outer gates, but this was in some degree compensated for by their having an opportunity, for a very trifling sum, to ascend the turret of an occupied house in the vicinity, from which not only an excellent view of Osborne, but of the whole island, could be ob tained. Unfortunately a heavy shower of rain fell about four o'clock, which not only damped the spirits but ac tually wetted to the skin a considerable number who were far from places of shelter. The whole excurs ionists got back by seven o'clock to Southampton, and, after the lapse of au hour or more, returned to town, evi dently highly gratified. MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE AT LITTLEHA Captain W. P. Hamilton, R.N., father of the Rev. Adolphus Hamilton, arrived la st week on a visit to his friends at the above watering plae ! ,, and took up his residence on the beach. He was missed by his family, and search being forth with made, his body was disco vered in a field adjacent to the town, but with no marks of violence. It is surmised the unfortunate getrierran expired in a fit of apoplexy. CON CREGAN. No. IX. Our hero in the present number goes through a series of surprising adventures among the gold washers on the bank of the Sacramento—is detained in a state of slavery for some time at a Mexican con vict settlement, from which he at length effects his escape, and arrives at Chuapuha, with " clothes on his back and money in his purse," a gallant Caballero. The spirit of this waiter never for en instant flags. HISTORY OF ENGLAND DURING THE THIRTY YEARS PEACE. Part VIII. Second Half. Miss Martineau bas herein continued her perspicu ous narrative down to the year 1840, pourtraying the condition of Ireland under the government of Lord Normality, tha most popular of all the Lord-Lieute nants. The letter-press is accompanied by an admi rable map of Australia. THE ART JOURNAL. No. CXXXV. As the embellishments to the September number we have an engraving of Creswick's exquisite painting " The Way to Church," together with representa tions of Wyatt's " Girl at the Bath," and of Gibson's " Aurora." The most elaborate and commendable paper in the number is the one explanatory and illustrative of the National Exposition of Industry in France. CHAMBERS' S EDINBURGH JOURNAL. Among the entertaining and instructive pipers usually contained in this excellent publication, there will be found one espcially deserving of perusal in the number for September. The paper to which we allude is a vivid, detailed, and, in many respects, accurate account of the working of a London daily newspaper. Those wh o are i gnorant as 3et upon t h e subject will find the description entertaining. REAL CIVILIZATION. Par I. The editor, or author, or revise r o f thi s wor k , h as a profound conviction in the perfectability of human nature. Hence he dreams of !fleeting himself its complete regeneration. To which purpose he ad dresses a " Call" to emperors, kings, princes, nobles, gentlemen, merchants, agriculturists, &c. &c. &c.; in fact, to everybody. His " Call" threatens to extend to ninety-six chapters ; and the writer is sanguine of the result proving effectual. At the outset he ap pears to warn away from the perusal of his pages all those timid persons who shrink from the idea of turning everything topsy-turvy. We do so too, and earnestly. THE NATIONAL LIBRARY. Port VIII. Mr. Knight has kere issued a second portion of Pr. Ditto's well-known " Mble History," at a price suitable even to means moderate and straitened. lIAYMARKET THEATRE. A one•act farce called A Bird of Passage, being (a some %%hat rare thing for the little Haymarket !) an adaptation from the French vaudeville, L'Oiseau de Passage, was produced with the most complete suc cess. A meddlesome gentleman, me Mr. Carry Chick (Mr. Wright), is the principal charact( r, the mainspring of the whole plot. Ile is a mixture of Paul Pry, Dicky Gossip, and Marplot. Coming to a country ian, he finds the landlady (Mrs. P. Matthews) on the point of marriage with a horse dealer (Mr. Bedford), the village lawyer (Mr. Lam bert) occupied with the settlement, the mancook (Mr. Munyard), engaged to the chambermaid (Miss Turner), and, in short, everybody happy after his and her own fashion. Though a perfect stranger to all parties, he tontrives to drop a warning here and a suggestion there, till every one's happiness is completely destroyed—the landlady deserting her horse-dealer to fall in love with the lawyer, the cook boiling with jealousy on account of the chamber• maid, and so on down to the less impor tant personages. When the confusion is at its height, and all have discovered the author of their woes, he runs considerable risk of being torn to pieces for his interference. Throughout the piece was extravagantly amusing, and Mr. Wright especially seems to have emulated the success of M. Grassot, who took the same part in the original. All the other impersonations, from the Mr. Chaunt Ginger of Mr. Bedford to the Earnest Hopeful of that clever actor Mr. Worrell, were ex cellent. The curtain fell amidst general and genuine applause. On Monday next we observe that the Adelphi company return to their own theatre. TESTIMONIAL TO THE HUNGARIAN REFUGEES. ' 6 THE lIIINGARIAN NATION COUNTS ON THE SYMPATHY OF EVERY NATION WHICH LOVES RIGHT AND Ll- BERTY."—Kossuih ' s Protest against Russian Interven tion. Subscriptions may be sent to the following bankers:— Messrs. Courts 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 Per the Editor of Examiner : Friends at Kelvedon 1 0 0 The Compositors at Messrs. lleynell & Weight's 1 10 6 Mr. Wm. A. 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Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out a wholesome ingrance; but reverie is the same flower, when rank, and running to seed.—Eliza Cooh's Journal ,-.